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hip-hop event scheduled at Federation Hall has been postoned to make sure that adequate safety precautions are taken before the event occurs. The delay of the event, originally scheduled to take place on October 1, came after a concerned student submitted a letter to Al Macken-

crowds. Baba Kahn was working at Fed Hall on September 26,1998, when a number of violent acts occurred. Two UW students were hit in the head with beer bottles and required stitches; Johnny Megalos, Fed Hail manager, was struck in the head by a patron; and a police officer had his foot run over by a vehicle when he attempted to push through a large crowd.

A 14-year old girl was murdered shortly after ,a party at Shock Nightclub in Toronto. There is an obvious trend: where this guy goes, violence follows. zie, UW Police Chief, Dr. Jim Kalbfleisch, Vice Resident, Academic and Provost of UW, Catharine Scott, Associate Provost, Human Resources and Student Services and Bud Walker ,the License Holder for Federation Hall. The student raised concern based on the reputation of the scheduled DJ, Baba Kahn, to attract violent

violence follows.” The student who wrote the letter also said that one of the biggest problems for UW are the busloads of students from Toronto, Brampton and Scarborough that arrive and cause trouble. Joshua Doig, Federation of Students Vice President Administration and Finance, said this concern has been alleviated. “I think the letter presents valid concerns.”

everything mentioned in the letter are concerns that were raised a year ago, but the letter represented the first student to come forward with so much concern. “Inirially the plan was to have an event last Friday and then try one this week,” said Waiker. We were going to restrict the event this week to Laurier and UW students but

The concern of the student, who identified herself/himself as a.former Fed Hall employee, continues. She/ he writes, “When I graduate this year, I want to be able to proudly say that I went to Waterloo, a university notorious for its high academic standards, not its bloody parties. . . Are you waiting for someone to show up with a gun or knife be-

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ou’re late. Really late. “No time for breakfast this morning,” you think as you bolt out the door, “I’ll just grab something on campus.” Where you choose to satiate the morning munchie monster can mean the difference between paying a decent price and being taken to the cleaners. Case in point: a bagel with cream cheese and a small orange juice - a typical student breakfast. At Brubakers in the Student Life Centre you’ll pay $2.53; at the Davis Centre Food Court you’ll pay $2.23; at the Right Angle

the run and you are looking at a considerable sum by term’s end. Why does the same food cost more at one location on campus th another? The answer has to do with who’s doing the selling. All major stude societies run coffee shops on campus. These canteen-type stores are subsidis by the student society fees that you pay at the start of every term. They a non-profit outfits, staffed by part-time employees who are usually studen As such, they don’t have much overhead and can offer competitive price sometimes close to cost. For example, MathSoc’s Right Angle Cafe sells 6OOml bottles of Coke f $1 10 apiece. Elsewhere, prices range from $1.24 at the Feds’ Variety & PC to $1.48 at Starbucks and $1.50 from the vending machines. Even mo glaring is the discrepancy in Fruitopia prices: $1.10 at the Right Angle Ca l

Even more glaring is the discrepancy in Fruitopia prices.

The breakfastofchampions. Caf6 in the Math Building, you’ll pay $1.50. One dollar may not seem like much, but multiply that dollar by every morning that you grab breakfast on

and $1.75 from the vending machines. Eating a regular sit-down meal on campus can also be a varied experienc A special of the day and beverage at Brubakers costs almost as much as comparable meal at Groutid Zero. The difference in quality, however, marked: The Feds’ Ground Zero wins hands down:Get a sub at Village Or and scoop one up from the newly-opened Mr. Submarine and you’ll haI identical sandwiches. VI’s boat will come with a much higher price tag, thoug According to our research, students low on cash should stay away fro, Food Services. The student societies, Feds businesses and off-campus plac like Farahs, Pita Pit and Sunshine Express sell comparable food at better price However, that is not an option for residence students, who can only u! their WatCards at Food Services locations around campus and get a 50 pt cent discount on some purchases. For those without a meal plan, howeve Food Services is a major gouge. This is common knowledge among the! who’ve been here for a while, but to a record number of frosh living off carnpi and inundated with FoodServices propaganda, the choices sometimes aren apparent. Next week, Imprint takes a closer look at the ins and outs of eating a campus.

United Waykicks off campaign the opportunity to take action. Today is I thekickoffforthisyear’s UnitedWaycan - .toraisefundsandawareness forpeople inneed. a

United Way’s Kitchener-Waterloo is an umbrella organisation that contributes funds to over 80 w ;unS provided by SO agen&$ in the Waterloo reti&. Each year, University of Waterloo faculty, staff and graduate students have donated money during the fifteen day-long solicitation campaign in order to support the cause. Winston Cherry, professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science and Sharon Lamont, librarian in the Davis Centre library, have been co-chairpersons of the UWcampaign since last year, “It’s a wonderful way to make sure the communit has a safety net. People don’t ever know when they’ll be in need themselves,” Lamont said, stressing the meaning and importance of United Way. She also explained that United Way supports not just one but a wide range of

programs/If I have cancer and all of my money goes to that and I never gil it to anyone else, other agencies may not exist when I need them.” Undergrads first got involved when Romani Curtis, a first-year Accoun ing student, approached the co-chairs asking what she could do to help. Th Coin Drive was born out of her concern. All week, beginning October 4,ga.n - 4:3Op.m. in the Student Life Centre, students can donate their loose chant to United Way and have their name entered in a raffle. As well, students i the past who have wanted to assist in their own way , have starte raising activities such as barbecues, Those who want to volunteer can contac, :tIJn --lited Wa or individual member agencies. The goal of the m campaign is $140 000 and the overall Kitchener-W: terloo campaign $4.6 million. An allocation committe decides how the money raised is to be distribute among member agencies by accepting and reviewin proposals from them. Among others, United Way supports the followin organizations: ACCKWA (Aids Committee of Can bridge, Kitcher ler, Waterloo and Are; a),,BigBrothel and Sisters of Kitchener-Waterloo, C :anal iian Re F” Cross Society, ROOF (Reaching Our Outdoc Friends), St. John’s Ambulance. Call United Way ; 8886100 to make a tax-deductible donation or to find out how you ca volunteer.

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Friday, October I, 1999

UW staff vote to strike

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he Canadian Union of Public Employees local 793 have strongly endorsed a strike mandate with a vote of 90 per cent at a meeting held Friday, September 24, The meeting had an “exceptionally good turnout,” according to Neil Stewart, president of the union local. The strike vote is part of the contract negotiation process the local is in with UW, “It is the appropriate time for the union to take that vote,” said Neil Murray, director of Staff and Labour Relations. While the union has never walked out, they have voted in favour of striking in the past. Currently, the union and UW are working out the contract through a third party conciliator. Conciliation was requested by the union and a government appointed conciliator will meet with the parties November 25 and 26. The last negotiations were held in 1997. c’My expectation is that through conciliation, however long that takes, we will be able to resoIve whatever issues are left outstanding,” said Murray. There are other avenues available to both sides before a strike would happen. One option is mediation which wouid be similar, but with alittle more activity on the.part of the appointed officer, according to Murray. “This is the third contract in a row we have had to go to conciliation with” said Stewart. “It shouldn’t be [a standard procedure]. We should be able to iron this out ourselves, But once we come to an impasse, we have to bring in someone else.” A member of the union indicated his frustration with

administration, saying UW treats them like something you’d find on the bottom of your shoe. One argument in favour of striking which was brought to the membership on Friday was that of wages. “What the negotiating committee did was take a number of classifications, compare them to universities within the area and see where we

Nobody is getting any ~ younger and as we get older and the workload increases it is definitely going to have an effect on the health of our members. stood,” explained Stewart. “It wasn’t impressive . . . we are consistently low. n The union represents 300 Plant and Food operations employees. It began on campus in February 1960 with the tradespeople of Plant Ops and was later expanded to include Food Ops. Membership is mandatary for all employment classifications that are represented by the union.

To justify the wage increase, Stewart argued that, “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that the number of students has been increasing at Waterloo. . . and all indications are that they are going to continue to increase. Along with the increase in students, there is a large increase in our work.” He related the problems caused when early retirement was offered in 1996. Forty-four members took the-option, reducing the membership from around 350 to the current 300. When asked if one of the issues was new hiring Stewart stated, *We’ve always asked for more help . . . We have brought it to [the administration’s] attention that nobody is getting any younger and as we get older and the workload increases, it is definitely going to have an effect on the health of our members.” Stewart expressed optimism about resolving the issues without having to resort to a strike. “We really, in all honesty, have been getting along quite well with the administration at Waterloo. It’s just through time that, unfortunately, our wages have slipped and we are looking for an adjustment.” Stewart concluded, “I think the students should understand that we are the people that put in the toilet rolls, we fill the hand soap, we fill the paper towels, we fix the lights when they are burnt-out. We repair the toilets when they are not working. We do the cleanup . . . the maintenance on the grounds; we do everything. When its too hot, we fix it, when its too cold, we fix it. When there is snow, we clean it up. We repair the vehicles around here. There isn’t much we don’t have our hands on. Our favorite saying is: “‘the University works because we do.‘”

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another year before its arrival.” Wailer believes that the system “will be easier to use,” but admits that the switch would require “technical resources to

ilfrid Laurier University has moved towards a system of direct payment of tuition. The system allows students to pay their tuition throughany bank teller or bank machine at the majority of Canadian financial institutions. The system has reduced, if not ended, line-ups to pay tuition and has been utilized by the majority of WLU students. Deborah Decosta, Manager of the WLU Business Office, says they switched to the new system in an attempt “to be more efficient and more helpful to students.” She says the switch was not without itscomplications, including a redesign of the student fee invoice, butthat it has been a “very, very successful endeavor.” The banks had warned Decosta that the response from students would likely be slow; however, the university has seen more than 50 per cent of students payed via their bank. The system has only been in the works for a few months and was implemented in August to be set up for September. Decosta said the process really only tooka few calls to the financial institutions and a month on each end to complete the process. Despite the ease of implementing the new system, the University of Waterloo has been reluctant to engage in direct payment until the completion of the new Student Information System. UW Associate Provost, Academic and Student Affairs, a Gary Wailer says the new format for payment is ua part of our plan for our new system, ” however it will be ua minimum of

Laurier switched to the new system to be more efficient and more helpful to students.

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work with.our existing student and financial systems” that the University currently cannot spare. Wailer suggests that “the system is already easy now, as students can pay by mail” to avoid line-ups. Decosta says that the new system at WLU has been well worth it with “very good feedback from parents and students.” WLURegistrar John Metcalf agrees, stressing that “people were happy to avoid the hassle and had a great comfort level with the new process.” Decosta admitted surprise at Waterloo’s slowness to the new program citing 7 thought everyone was moving towards that end.” Wailer admits that Yt is coming,” but will give no target dates for implementation.

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Good clean sober fun another frosh week has passed into the memories of 1 thousands of first-year students who revelled in the six days of orientation and overall silliness that it had to offer. However, with more than 50 per cent of first-year students under 19, the frosh week of 1999 was shghtly different than those in years past. On this year’s agenda were severaf nights designated as alcohol-free. The faculty scavenger hunts and the Mike Mandel hypnotist show offered alternative entertainment, while the Monte Carlo Night served “mocktails” in place of the real thinp. To discourage fresh from drinking in residence, there was less time scheduled between events. This was also the second year in which Frosh leaders were not permitted to drink in an effort to send a positive message. For the first time, residence dons and fresh leaders were given criteria to follow regarding alcohol ccm-

of Human Resources and Student Services, says that the goal of orientation week should be to promote responsible attitudes while allowing students to become part of the Wa-

Drinking and biking: a bad combination. terloo community. She says the broad emphasis should not be on alcohol consumption, especially with 50 per cent of frosh under 19.

There were no serious injuries. sumption and awareness. Village dons chose to discuss alcohol awareness ina fun and informative quiz show fashion. Combined with this year’s performance of the annual Single & Sexy, the less entertaining alcohol awareness sessions found at other universitieswere avoided. Many within UW are confident that these changes will avoid the scaled-back fresh weeks that have come about at other schools. Catherine Scott, Associate Provost

commended the work of the 850 frosh leaders, who underwent eight hours of training to prepare for the week. Heather also noted that the stu-

For the most part, it seems that this goal was achieved. Preliminary totals say that bar sales were markedly down and that there were no fights or serious injuries. Heather Fawcett, FEDS Promotion/Orientation Manager, was extremely satisfied with the results of fresh week, calling it one of the best ever. She credits the staff of the Federation pubs, as well as UW bar services, who are all SmartServe trained, for making the week so successful. She also

Imprint, Friday, October

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or the past week, the talk of campus has been the car crash that occurred on University Avenue and Seagram Drive iast Wednesday, September 22, 1999. At about 750 a.m. Wednesday morning, two vehicles collided and two people, engineering student Michael Hermann and Sally Mazurek, a staff member at the UW bookstore, were injured. According to Waterloo Regional Police Constable, Al Dick of the traffic division, the accident occurred “when a vehicle was making a left turn and struck another vehicle as it was heading through an amber light.” Although the cause dents that Waterloo has attracted in ’ of the accident is recent years are more academically under infocused than in other years. The vestigation &there will probably be early results from evaluations filled charges laid” as the police interview out by frosh show that most thoreye-witnesses and examine the techoughly enjoyed their time, although nical evidence at the scene. many wanted more academic proMichael Hermann, one of the gramming during the week. Monmi victims, suffered from head injuries Gioswami echoed these sentiments and needed to be taken to St. Mary’s by saying that although she did enjoy Hospital. He was struck by a car her fresh week, she wished that she driven by Cam Pau Vong, 23, of could have learned more about her Kitchener, while he was walking program. along the intersection. He stayed in Both Fawcett and Scott agree the hospital overnight for observathat this year’s orientation reflects tion and was released the next day. both changing social values and the Keith Peck of Library Facilities desires of students. They also note Management was a witness to the that non-alcohol frosh events will accident and posted his views on a become a necessity after the doubleuw.general newsgroup. On the cohort year, when nearly all frosh newsgroup, Peck says that the pewill be under the age of 19.

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destrians “had no chance to get out of the way of (the) car accident” and that he “was very much in a state of shock.” Peck goes on to say that he enlisted his first-aid skills including CPR training to help the victim. The other victim, Sally Mazurek, was standing on the sidewalk when she was struck by Vong’s car. She was treated at hospital and released during the same day. Vong’s car was also reported to have hit the bus shelter located on the corner of the’intersection after the side-impact of the collision forced the car onto the sidewalk. Aygut Mehmet, 27, the driver of the other vehicle and a UW employee, also sustained minor injuries. Mehmet was treated at hospital and released on the same day. Her car was severely damaged

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EFiFk ‘,’ light standard. The University/ Seagram entrance to UW was blocked off for a couple of hours while an onsite investigation occurred. The cauSe of the accident is sti11 under investigation, but what is certain is that the accident occured when “there was a side-impact crash between two vehicles when one vehicle was making a left turn” said Dick. Although an accident of this nature in a high pedestrian area seems atypical, Dick comments that “the accident isn’t unusual. We have accidents that happen like this everyday.” More information relating to the cause of the crash and possible charges should be available by the end of the week.

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tario region have raised concerns over the safety of women in the Kitchener-Waterloo community. Regions around Scarborough have been victim to twelve breakins, often leading to assaults, since June 2. A twenty-year old suspect was arrested on Sunday, September 26, at his Cass Avenue home in the Warden and Sheppard Avenues Area. Two general assaults, three robberies and at least eight sexual assaults resulted from the incidents occurring in the Victoria Park, Midland, Sheppard and McNicoll Avenues. The man was charged onTuesday with two counts of sexual assault, break and enter and failure to comply with bail conditions and faces an additional count of wearing a disguise with intent to commit an indictable offence. He will return to

on Monday. An unnamed neighbour of the suspect commented, “We are shocked to hear this kind of thing happened here, it gives the community a bad name.” But recent claims of Rohypnol, the ‘date-rape drug,’ being used in Fed Hall has warned local residents that such assaults do occur locally. The Kitchener-Waterloo region had 153 sexual assaults that were not cleared in 199 8. A UW student commented, “Although I do hear the reports from around the city, I do fecti quite safe around campus. Going tc campus late at night seems to be pretty safe.” Coinciding with the recent Take Back the Night March, a K-W Sexual Assault Treatment Centre represenmtive warned residents to “use common sense, and take precautionary measures. ” K-W 24- hour Sexual Assault Hefp Line, 741-8633 Campus Security, 888-49 11 Waterloo Regional Police Victim Services, 653-7700, ext. 858,859

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t noon on Wednesday, there were more than 623 people A ‘n the Student Life Centre. How does this compare to the same day last year? No one knows exactly except that it is a whole lot more. Monster high enrollment combined with an insufficient supply of housing near campus leads people to linger at the centre of campus life. One reason that students have had to find accommmodation further off campus is because the supply of housing is limited by a City of Waterloo by-law which restricts the spacing between rental houses to 75 metres. Some houses may be closer if they were rental houses before the by-law was enacted in 1994. It essentially prevents any house near cam-

pus from getting B lodging houses lisence. “There’s nowhere to sit,” said, Kathryn Belcher, a third year Ret student, as she and her project group looked for a place to meet. Students are having trouble finding places to hang out or study in the SLC. During lunch, despite the dreariness following a morning of rain, some students ventured outside to

“We started out doing better business than last year, it’s starting to level off now,” commented Marc Villeneuve, Head Chef at Ground Zero. Joshua Doig, VPAF of the Feds s a i d ,

free gifts and collect mailing list fodder. “The vendors aren’t the students’ most favourite thing, but they

at the Turnkey desk. “We’re just really busy. We’ve had more booking and more activity.” Getting cookies is more popular too, “We need to order three times

year. Next Lookat all thosepeople. month we’ll know if there is a trend.” give usneeded revenue. Last year we Vendors in the SLC are also made about $25,000 from vendors,‘” taking up space and trying to take explained Ann Simpson, Manage1 advantage of the higher student of the SLC. population to make their pitch, hawk She also described ;he situation

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tor during the Heaven sent.” In a few weeks it will be better known what effect the crowds will have in the SLC.

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nightclub.” Harold felt the Turret ad was “in bad taste.” This isn’t the first time ads in Imprint have caused controversy.

noted that the advertising manager neglected to show the her the ad. Hillis described the ad as “of questionable taste.” Imprint ads, noted Hillis, ‘don’t have to actually promote the students’ best interests,”

It’s like , they think you show a naked woman and you expect guys to come to your bar or nightclub. Several years ago, students were upset about cigarette companies advertisements. In this year’s frosh issue, ads by the Metropolis and Lyric nightclubs in Kitchener resulted in several complaints to Imprint Editor-in-Chief (EIC) Tara Hillis and Advertising Manager Laurie Tigert-Dumas. Subsequent to the frosh issue ads, a policy was developed. Future advertisements would have to obtain clearance by both the advertising manager and the EIC. However, Hillis

but they “can’t be contrary to the students’ best interests.” According to Gradey, WLUSU’s mandate is to provide for the needs of students. He also believes that their adds should conform to their mandate. The Turret, he noted, had not received any complaints about the ad. The WLUSU President also stated that one of the reasons the ad appeared in Imprint is that WLU has an agreement with Waterloo, and

UW students are admitted to the Laurier bar with valid Waterloo student ID. Asked whether he though it is . the Students’ Union% job to resist sexism, he stated emphatically, “Oh yes, definitely. Obviously.”

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UBC considers legalizing marijuana

he University of British Co lumbia’s (UBC) Alma Mater Society (AMS) is giving its students the chance to vote on a new solution to Vancouver’s drug crisis, which includes their ’ opinion of whether marijuana should be legalized. “This question is related to an issue in the east side of downtown Vancouver, where a lot of people come from lowincome backgrounds and drug abuse is a problem,” said Ryan Marshall, the Alma Mater Society president. “It’s just a way to get people out there; get them talking. We wanted tb raise awareness of social issues.” On the referendum, which will be held between September 29 and October 8, students will be asked, among other things, “Do you

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port the Alma Mater Society of UBC adopting a stance that calls for a comprehensive harm reduction strategy that includes: the legalization of marijuana; an increase of health services,including detoxification centers and access to needle exchange pro-

medically monitored conditions.” Marshall said that the idea is no to try to legalize the use of marijuan; on campus, but to allow the studen organization to have an official stance so that they could lobby the govern ment on the issue if they feel that is ar appropriate’course of action. “The issue of hard drugsneed: immediate attention,” saic

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Each posting holds 240 jobs, meaning that several hundred jobs came in over Co-op estimates. It’s fortunate that the extra postings have appeared, since there are six hundred more coop students this term than in the previous term. However, the extra students will mean a critical shortage of

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CObi tsmwy ___ ufwhich I h;i;.c Itr.tlr.. arid E& price of air for 01) I!i-L‘- i< rsmarkablj, low. 1love nxg t4x, in: ir’ you prefer the sn?elly has K J,UUstuffy car, please feel .Cree fo e”ontnnue your habits, just do IKX maice fun of mine. Although I love 10 walk, I do not enjoy the 45 minute trek to school, daily. Walking in between classes can be good when I have the time, but mostly I have things that must get done, so I ride my bike on the shared pathways all over campus. Yeah, shared, whatever! Here is where I get the dirty ‘looks and the rude comments. People scattered all over the pathway, no one willing to move to let me pass. I see many cyclists going on the grass, but I prefer the bricked path. If people actually notice me and move I often get a dirty look as if wondering what the heck I think that I am doing riding my bike on campus. My question to ail of those people: where would you like me to ride my bike? There are no separate paths for bikes. There is no little yellow line to separate the cyclists from the walkers and there should be. The bricked paths are wide enough that it could be done - just

decided to ride their bik::s :t, jclli It ji So when you look at the railings ,:G, thing - can’t they find someu-hcrc else to park their bikes, IN? we con TKJF ‘*because all the bike racks are full wix:i: we want to lock them up. Of course, I also want to speak up for the rollerbladers! Poor , rollerbladers also have to put up with the people who feel they own the path--yes, walkers, I’m talking abou t a you again. Despite the on-campus ban of rolierblading, many people still choose to use the skates to get to and from class. The uneven paths are bad enough without the annoyance of people walking directly in front of them. 1.don’t see why we cannot share the pathways on campus. I will respect the crazy drivers of UW? Even if there was a + and be mindful of people walking if people separate lane for cyclists on Ring Road, the walking show me the same respect. If you don’t like people biking or rollerblading because they people in cars would just assume it was a passing lane and speed on by. No thanks, I’d like to live are annoying, I suggest you get a bike or pair of rollerblades of your own and join the many long enough to get my degree. students who rely on their bicycles as a form of Walk my bike? Hell no, the pathways are transportation. If you join us, you will see how supposed to be shared, otherwise there would be no bike racks on the inside of campus, racks annoying the people walking on campus really can be, would be all around Ring Road. I say the pathways are shared so get out of my way. I am -KateSchwuss

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ples which govern our behaviour. Christianity embodies these ideals in Jesus Christ, who lived a life of self-sacrifice, loving one’s neighbour as one loves oneself. Ghandi, perhaps the most positively influential man of the twentieth century, whose actions founded on the beliefs in non-violence and’ truth freed an entire nation, was deeply religious. We do not have to be 100 per cent certain that Jesus was the son of God to believe in the teachings of Christianity. Many people embrace religion.because it reinforces and embodies their natural positive inclination to do what is right and to live in a positive and meaningful manner. By understanding that this is what is good and beautiful about religion, non-religious people like myself, and perhaps one day Mr. Walle, can come to respect and understand those who are religious, instead of looking down on them as na’ive or ignorant. It is far easier to judge than it is to understand, or to believe. -Eric Paryas 2A E l&tricul Engineering

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wanted to express my thanks to the University of Waterloo for the way I have beentreated since coming from another school. I am in the process of completing my degree on a letter of permission from U of T and, for anyone who has ever been through this, you’ll know what I mean when I say it is a miserable process. The staff in the registrar’s and undergraduate offices have gone out of their way to help me find my way about and assist me, through advice and direction, in getting into the classes I needed. Thanks to Niki Klein, (Records/Admissions Assistant, Faqulty of Arts/Registrar’s Office), Prof. Ted McGee, (Director, Undergraduate Office), Eric Breugst, (Academic Counsellor, Arts) and several other

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ow that classes have begun and our first year students are settled into their homes and beginning their academic careers at UW I would like to take the opportunity to thank members of the JUW community for their support during Orientation week. We had the safest, most program-packed and fun week that any of us involved in Orientation can remember and its success came from hundreds of students and staff who worked tirelessly to make it happen. As part of the week, we held the World’s Biggest Toga Party (or so we say until proved wrong) on Saturday, September 10. Our best estimate is that this party entertained 4,000 first-year students and their upper year leaders. It was an amazing sight to see all ‘those happy, if slightly chilly, frosh dancing under the stars on the Village Green. It was a party that was special in a lot of ways.- moderate alcohol consumption, lots of innovative togas, good spirits, no accidents or injury and all frosh delivered home by an army of dedicated upper year volunteers. For those of’ you who live around campus, thanks for your patience and tolerance with the music which escaped our perimeter. Heartfelt and enthusiastic thank-yous to the following: UW Campus Response Team (UWCRT)our own St John’s Ambulance Brigade comprised entirely of advanced first-aid trained students who were at most events ready to help with any accidents or injuries. These students do this solely as volunteers and they were still at the

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Toga party at 2:3 0 making sure everyone was safe. Federation Hall Management and Staff who were responsible for much of the overali plan and execution of Toga night beginning with dra%ings and diagrams to security, bouncing, waitstaff, leader training, music, sound equipment and managing the 4,000 strong crowd of happy dancers. Federation of Students who tirelessly spent the week visiting every faculty, residence or college, rehearsed and delivered an air band number at the All College Bash and Air Band contest, endured the dunk tanks ofOvarious faculties and residences with good humour and generally made every new frosh aware of their presence and desire to serve in the coming year. . Residence Dons who made sure that the welcoming experience at UW was a warm and informed one and that every frosh in residence had someone to help and guide them through the first week. Our Residence Dons provide the highest quality care and experience to first-year students. Heath& Fawcett, the Orientation Coordinator in the Federation of Students, who by the end of the week had no voice left at all after advising frosh leaders and solving 40 hoursof problemson her cell phone. Heather makes it all happen and is the first line for help for everyone involved in Orientation-students, faculties, administration, residences and colleges. FOC (Federation Orientation Committee) is the committee of volunteers from the faculties, residences and colleges who plan, develop, organize and run Orientation. They are the

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and solve problems all day, every day and generally give everything they have in energy, enthusiasm, spirit and intellect to making every Frosh feel a part of Waterloo. They are, in every way, the leaders of tomorrow at the University of Waterloo. The Leaders, all 850 of them, who spend an entire week and part of their summer volunteering so that every new frosh spends a week of fun and education and feels that Waterloo is the right place for them. Their warmth, care and dedication make their Deans, Executive and Administrative Assistants, College and University Heads, Residence directors and Residence Life Advisors and all : the rest of the administration proud, every day. We are privileged to work. with them. Heartfelt thanks to these I upper year students for making UW; a great place for our frosh.

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fter reading the article titled “Ad vice from someone who knows” featured in the 99 Frosh Supplement, I became somewhat concerned. While much of the advice is certainly beneficial, other comments are questionable. For example, Frosh leaders are volunteers and do not deserve to be attacked as being deceitful. Though they may at first appear to be ideal citizens of the community, they are not pretending to be “sweet” nor “sober”. They strive to be energetic, informative and entertaining but are not attempting to hide anything by

being so. Furthermore, the article implies that anyone under the age of 19 may not enjoy all of Frosh week and should consider retrieving their Frosh kit fees. It is true that some events during Frosh week serve alcohol. The drinks, however, are not subsidized by Frosh kit fees. In addition, the majority of events are non-alcoholic and no event is ever based around alcohol consumption. Is discouraging underage Frosh from partaking in Frosh week truly good advice? Fro& week is an informative, fun and spirit building event. It is targeted to all Frosh, including those underage. The presence of discriminatory remarks in the article is also disturbing. -Stating that there are “those

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n 199 1, my family and I fled our hometown of Split, Croatia for good. We escaped all those sleepless nights, threatening I phone calls and verbal abuses from our neighbours. We left behind all our belongings, and most of all, fear. In another city, in a new school, we students had to write about our homeland. My essay made my teacher cry. I wished I could cry too. In 1993, my friend from Split was killed under mysterious circumstances. No investigation was conducted. She was 20 and she was Serbian. Her cousin from another citv, Rijeka, was killed by her Croatian friends. She was thrown off a balcony. Again, there was no investigation. She was 17 and Serbian. In 1994, my aunt was killed. Kosovo Albanians slaughtered most of the elderly Serbian men and women from her village in Slavonija (Croatia). My grandmother survived to tell about it. I saw the horror in her face and her eyes as I listened to her story. But seeing her blame herself for living when her daughter died totally broke my heart,. In 1995, the Croatian offensive with air support from NATO, left 200,000 to 250,000 Serbs homeless in a just couple of days. It also left 15,000 of them dead, mostly children, women and the elderly. My relatives, too old to flee, were killed in their houses. My best friend here in Canada has stories of her own: the .;tories of nt’ar death experiences on several occasions. As Serbs in Croatia, unable to flee, she and her family were exposed to indescribable terror. When they finally escaped to Canada, her little sister slept with her shoes on in fear of having to flee during the night. Both of them still shiver when they hear thunder. My neighbour from Mississauga also has a story of his own, He is Slovenian and married to a Serbian woman. When the war

broke out in Sarajevo, he was taken prisoner by Bosnian MUS lims. For a period of time, he was brutally beaten and forced to dig trenches. Then he and other Serbian prisoners were used as human shields in front of the Bosnian Muslim soldiers who tried to advance to the Serbian held positions around the city. In the crossfire, he finally lost consciousness after every part of his body except his left arm was shot. When Serbian soldiers realized what was happening, they dragged him to safety. It was a miracle that he survived despite all his wounds. For the past seven years, my family in Serbia has not been the first casualties able to make a decent living, due in part by UN imposed sanctions. FromMarch through June of this year, my little cousins spent their days and nights in shelters. They are unaware that they will have to live through winter with the country’s power plants destroyed. They do not know that our grandpa could not buy his heart medicine anywhere. They are not aware of the long line-ups for bread, milk and sugar. Or are they? Maybe they grew up too fast, too soon loosing their childhood innocence. Maybe, now, they are able to understand how NATO can say th,rt “humanitarian bombing” makes sense. My Internet pal from Kosovo recently fled his home, just like 18 0,000 other Serbs. During the NATO bombing campaign, Kosovo Liberation hrmy fighters killed his uncle. After the bombing, many of his relatives were also killed or forced to leave Kosovo even though they were under NATO protection. His grandmother was beaten and left lying on the street for dead, just because she spoke Serbian. He told me about a boy helping his father in the fields when they were attacked. The father was killed and the boy was badly wounded. He was rushed to a

hospital where he was late found strangled in his bed. No investigation was conducted. He was a 14-year-old boy who happened to be Serbian. My friend also told me about a six-month-old baby from Prizren. On September 2 I, she was kidnapped and burned alive. The baby’s only crime was that her mother did nbt want to leave Kosovo. “Serbs are getting what they deserve,” I overheard a man say to someone while reading news about Albanians taking revenge on Serbian women and children. of war IstillwonderifIcanblamehimfor his ignorance and prejudice. On one hand, his opinion is based on rather one-sided media reports. On the other hand, even if everything said about Serbs is true, how is he any better than those he judges? However, there are some open-minded people who are interested in the different aspects of politics and war in the Balkans. If it weren’t for them, our North American media would most likely convince me that with my Serbian background, I represent people who want to ethnically cleanse the world. Truth and civilians are the first casualties of war on all sides. Truth, like history, is determined by the winners. Civilians in most cases do not receive their justice. They live in the memories of those who loved them and maybe, on the conscienc:esof those who killed them. So much has been lost. Some have lost their childhood. Some have lost their loved ones and all their belongings. Some live with people who judge them without knowing anything about them. They, like me, have learned the value of life through all they have endured and survived. They also cover their scars and bury the pain somewhere deep inside.

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he owner of the narrowed blue eyes missed nothing as they slowly moved through the crowd. He did not miss the dying of laughter or the unnaturally strained silence that followed. He saw the slow inconspicuous movements away from him, as though the crowd was unwilling to touch the aberration he represented. As if somehow, through touch, his strangeness could transfer to them and they too would become feared. If he were raving mad and screaming curses into the street they would not look twice, except maybe in laughter. It was not that they were cruel, but because that impassioned behavior could be expected, could be placed, and to some extent predicted. It was the very awareness in his eyes that betrayed him. Where there should only be mindless emotion there existed a weary sort of resolve that shouted out across the crowd. In his eyes, they saw the mortar of their world’s walls crumbling and they could not help but hate what he represented. Those blue eyes accepted this hate as they had accepted the pain and the confusion before it. The man had known he was different from his first moment of consciousness. He did not feel either joy or rage as deeply as did his brethren and for that he suffered. He both envied what he could not be, could never become, but he also was thankful, Thankful for the reflection that made him

different. He knew he should not be able to reconcile both emotions, but he did it with long practice of acceptance in dealing with the pain they caused. He did learn to mimic the actions of others, to change so that no one would notice the differences that were inherent in him. He shielded as much to avoid causing pain in others as to save himself.

It was the very awareness in his eyes that betrayed him. That he was so disturbed that he abandoned his long held actions only served to deepen his unease. The pain he felt at the fear caused by his actions could not supplant the growing terror in his soul, but he could still feel their terror and he sighed a deep sigh of hopelessness and his pain drifted out over the crowd. Despite all that he represented, they understood his despair and quietly left him to it, not understanding that in that moment, they too had changed. This man, perhaps one of the few in the city that could, recognized their change and his pain deepened.

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e personal spaces that we occupy set our moods, so it makes sense that a few simple changes can have a huge impact on our outlook, Are your walls “landlord beige”and showing the marks from previous tenants? Painting is one option, but might not be practical or allowed. Quick-fix nicks and scratches in offwhite walls with little bits of masking tape,, which will be close to the paint colour. For, bigger holes, try spreading a little white toothpaste. Slightly abrasive powder cleanser works wonders at removing scuffs and rubs. To create a modern look on a small window you’ll need: three screw-in eyebolts, picture hanging wire a foot longer than the width of your window and a package of clothespins (be sure to get the kind with a second set of small holes above the main notches that would normally fit over the clothesline). Attach the wire to one eyebolt, looping it through the eye with a six-inch tail, then knotting it back onto itself and crimping the end to secure. Screw the bolts in at top corners and middle of the frame for extra support, leaving the wire dangling from the top left one. Run the wire through, but not wrapped around the eye of the middle bolt and attach it to the last bolt. Knot andcrimp as above and trim the tails. When the wire is firmly attached, give the last bolt a few turns clockwise, which will wrap the wire around the post of the eyebolt to tighten the wire, The curtains will sag

if the wire isn’t really taut. The loops on the bolts should all be vertical, Attach clothespins to the wire, which should fit in the little set of notches and still allow the pin to close tightly enough to hold fabric. Choose fabric lightweight enough (like sheets or old sheer curtain panels from a thrift shop) so the pins will slide easily and the fabric won’t pull out when you close the drapes. For a dramatic look with heavy fabric, centre a length of cloth on the window and hang the top seam from two big nails at each top corner. Adjust the lengths of fabric hanging down on the outside of the nails to suit the proportion of the window. To make the romantic swag effect, find the midpoint of the window and gather the bottom edge of the fabric with your hands diagonally up and out towards the nails. Hook your handfuls of fabric over the nails pulling and adjusting the slack back and forth over the nails to ensure the top seam lies straight across the window and the swag is full. Mount posters and photos onto bristol board to resemble gallery matting and hang with sticky putty. A bulletin board over your desk will allow you to contain clutter to a oneglance memo centre, Use shoeboxes, tin cans and flowerpots to hide and organize your life, all of which can be painted to brighten your day. Voila! An instant haven of peace and calm to balance your hectic life!

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416 Graffiti Expo RocksToronto

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I, 1999

raffiti writing, freestyling, DJing and h-boy/b-girling rucked a Toronto Queen Steet parking lot last weekend. The hoopla was part of the 4 16 Graffiti Expo, a hip-hop festival now in its fifth year. organized by local graffiti enthusiasts, the event showcased approximately twenty graffiti writers, who created pieces along the side of the attached wall. Past year’s events have been held at the Bamboo Club parking lot, where large murals decorate the club’s wall. Breakdancing and rapping were among the

Creating a piece requires experience and strong can control. Most writers at the Expo had been writing for at least two years experience, as developing clean lines with spray paint is harder than one would imagine. “Tagging,” the root of graffiti, is often used to perfect one’s ability to control the can before creating full pieces. Tags are essentially the writer’s signature written with a permanant marker or can. Tagging is the root of modern day graffiti, a method for writers to achieve fame in the local scene. Writers then usually begin creating “bombs”; large and usually bubbly versions of the writer’s signature. Sizes of bombs can range from a few

From theold-school to the new. many aspects of hip-hop culture showcased to those in attendance. Modern-day graffiti has a long but very misunderstood history. Starting on the streets of New York City as tags in the early seventies, it has spread to a near-worldwide phenomenon, gracing the subways from Moscow to

Zurich and Toronto, with their intricate designs and murals. The 4 16 Graffiti Expo showcased local artists’ skills in pieces, the most developed and specialized form of modern day graffiti. Pieces are large murals of any size and could require anywhere from ten to thirty cans for each piece. Pieces usually contain exaggerated letters forming a word or specific ch aracis heavily i nfluters and figures. The artwork enced by the works of comic artist Vaughn Bode, creator of the “cheech wizard;” popular cartoons and characters and more recently, Japanese Anime. Pieces can most often be found in alleys, back streets, subways and on trains.

feet long to the size of large train cars. Graffiti has predictably experienced trouble with both local citizens and the long arm of the law. Merchants and city officials, whose walls often become covered, call for new attempts to control the expanding popularity of graffiti. Many communities have created stiff

penalties, watchdog groups and special police units to deter the local vandals from defacing property. Despite its strong oppostition, graffiti has continued to spread worldwide, Through painted subway cars, magazines, videos and travelling writers, graffiti has become an international movement. Graffiti art has also grown older and developed into new territories. Many pioneers have been writing for over twenty years, like seminal New York writers Futura 2000 and Zephyr, who receive a Michelangelo-like respect in the community. Many writers have also showcased their work in modern art galleries,

often facing criticism from those believing it should remain a public art. Along side graffiti’s existence within hiphop culture, the other aspects of the culture were also strongly represented. Breakdancing was an exciting attraction throughout the afternoons. Local b-boyyb-girl clubs and amateurs ---I.I.’ 5. j + alike showcased their breakin’ skills. Guest DJs from local hip-hop radio shows, such as CKLN’s 8 8.1 Powermove show host DJ X, played from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays, played hip-hop joints to entertain the crowd. Later on in the afternoon, the mic yas left open for many of Toronto’s finest MCs to freestyle. The crowd was mad with hype. The event drew a massive amount of interest from the community, both hip-hop heads and curious onlookers helped make the Expo exceptionally popular. The numberof visitors to the event was estimated around 5,000 people. Quite a success considering the event had no large corporate sponsors. Saturday night witnessed a classic hip- hop concert, as part of the Expo, at the Reverb on Queen Street. Hieroglyphics members Del and Casual rocked the stage. Along with special guests High and Mighty and the Ugly Ducklings, the show was one of the most memorable hip-hop shows Toronto experienced in a while.

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Anyone concerned about the effects of culture on hip-hop need to look no further to see that the true hip-hop is very active and prosperous in Toronto. To learn more about graffiti and graffiti

culture, read William Upski Wimsatt’s “Bomb the Suburbs,” or try the Web at http:// www.graffiti.org.

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ational Coming Out week is nearly upon us. Like so many other gay celebrations, I look forward to recurring questions like, “So why do you guys have to celebrate the fact that you’re gay? I don’t celebrate the fact that I’m straight.” The question is largely rhetorical because no one has ever actually been forward enough to ask me. But it’s agood question to ask-and there are many potential answers, My first response might be: “Being openly gay is hard and it’s important that we celebrate it once in awhile. “I’ve been out for about two years (which is a long time at thisschool) and it can be frustrating at times - especially when I contemplate the fact that I am sometimes taunted by strangers, I’m ostracized by society, I can’t get married, and I can’t ever have children. Celebrations like gay pride can be therapeutic in the sense that it brings people together with similar experiences and frustrations? Many people will say that lLwe need to celebrate our distinctiveness and diversity. n The gay culture is unique. Queer people look at the world with a different perspective. We have different norms when it comes to dating and relationships, our gender roles are more

&id, we hav e an elaborate right-of-passage known as coming but, and during our celebrations, we often exaggerate the stereotypes that society places on us. You’ll never see more drag queens than on the last weekend in June. Probably the most depressing response might be “We need to keep c&r voices heard.” While it’s true that the gay community has had a number of recent successes in’legal fecognition, that hasn’t always be& the case, even during this century. Governments can easily change their mind. Gay culture was fully accepted during Ancient ,Greek and Medieval times, but in both cases this positive attitude quickly eroded into centuries of severe homophobic rule. Still yet,evetycountryinthe world discriminates against gays and lesbians in one way or another, It’s extremely . -1 important to maintain our vrs~bmty ana 1pusn 1 for positive changes. Celebrating pride doesn’t need to be an annual event. It should be something we celebrate every day. Every parking lot has a car with a rainbow decal, every classroom has a student wearing a pride necklace, and every neighborhood has at least one rainbow flag. Ultimately, I celebrate gay pride for a lot of reasons. It’s important and it’s also a lot of fun.

onsider, if you will, the concept of a ’ human soul. I am fairly safe in saying For Godso loved the world, that hegave his only that most people believe in some kind begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him of “soul” or “spirit” that somehow makes hushould not perish, bat have everlasting life. (/oha mans better than anything else. Dogs, for ex396) * ample. Now seriously, how arrogant can we get? It’s hard to get away from the obsessive ast week we looked at some of the back anthropocentrism that most harbour, but to ground of John 3: 16, relating to the attain the true objective perspective of an atheintroductory “For.” This week we will ist, you must see past your instilled and truly examine the second word of the verse: “God.” innate self-delusion. He is the great subject, the source of all good Where does the soul reside? Perhaps it is things (see James 1: 17). He is the originator, contained within the giver and keeper of life. heart, a romantic prosHere, as throughout the Bible, the existpect, or the mind, how ence of God is presumed. As for the skeptic, we prosaic. Maybe it floats read: “The fool hath said in his heart, ‘There is no God.“’ (Psalm 14: I) “For the invisible things freely nearby the body, or permeates each cell of [God] from the creation of the world are of our being. Of course, ceptsasequa.llyprepos-clearly seen, being understood by the things there is no realistic terous. If chemists study that are made, even his eternal power and larger and more comdivine nature; so that they are without exmodel or explanation IlO Sod Or Dlex molecular interaccuse.” (Romans 1:20) It is no surprise that the for the soul, but some a 1. e iions, while biologists verses immediately following the above quotaperceive it must be search for life and life tions refer to man’s sinfulness. The reason there; how else could processes on a smaller people don’t believe in God is not because of we maintain the fallacy and smaller scale, evenlogic or reason, but because they have turned that some part of us will tuallythetwowillmerge away from him into sin. To acknowledge that never die? there is a God would mean that you are ultiWhat does the soul do for us? Maybe it’s into a single science. We are nothing but a batch mately accountable for your actions, and a lot what separates us from the beasts, allows us to of chemicals, with the goal of preserving our of people just don’t want to think about that. love, laugh, cry, enjoy art and other things that own unique bond combinations. ConsciousTo understand the existence of God, one ness is an illusion. Avastly difficult, if not imposmere animals do not. Or perhaps everything only has to look around at creation, yet people sible concept to embrace, but ultimately rewe do is simply performed to renew a deepinstead search for explanations without God. warding. The pride (neurons firing in a particuseated belief that some integral part of us, our We would do well to listen to what the scientists lar pattern, perhaps) and intellectual integrity memory, our genes must live on. Otherwise, it have said. Sir Francis Crick states: “Biologists (social idea, chemistry on an even grander must be to ephemerally entertain ourselves, to must constantly keep in mind that what they see scale) that can be derived from such efforts make ourselves think that we are achieving that was not designed but rather evolved.” And must be experienced to be believed, goal. Richard Dawkins remarks: “Biology is the study Faith is no longer required in its age-old The sad truth of the matter is that there is of complicated things that appear to have been form; we can progress, as I shall later examine. no soul or spirit. Our most openly embraced

designed for a purpose.” It’s remarkable that these scientists, both atheists, acknowledge the fact that our world points to a designer. Let us hear more. Thegreatscientist Albert Einstein said: “The only incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” We also hear from Professor Polkinghorne of Cambridge: “Physics is powerless to explain its fundamental belief in the mathematical intelligibility of the universe. n One of the premises of scientific inquiry is that there is indeed a universe and that it is understandable, but a scientist has no basis for that premise unless the scientist acknowledge a creator. Indeed, most of the founding fathers of science, such men as Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Netwon, Pasteur, Faraday, Maxwell and many others believed in God. So why do so many scientists today believe in evolution and not in God? One of the world’s leading geneticists from Harvard gives the answer: “Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs . . . because we have a prior commitment to materialism.” It is not because science somehow disproves the existence of God, but because the scientists have decided ahead of time that God does not exist and proceed accordingly. There is much more that could he said, but I will simply close with a brief description of God. He is the “King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God,” (1 Timothy 1: 17) and as we shall see in the coming weeks, the God of love.

7 Hafenstragse Mannheim, my home for the coming year. Jungbusch is the name of the place, a place where the smell of chocolate greets you every afternoon as you walk home from the streetcar stop. A place where in the past two weeks since school started, at least five parties have taken place. Not only are the rooms here bigger than any of the single rooms of UW residences, there’s cleaning and repair service whenever we write a request to the Haicsmeister, literally the Hhousemaster.“The one drawbackis the lack of phones in our rooms. The cost of installation and maintenance of a phone is really high. Apart from the installation fee and the fixed monthly charge for the phone plan, we pay for each minute of local and international calls. Gott SeiDrrnk (Thank God for calling cards! There are six of us from Waterloo in the International Summer Course at the University of Mannheim. I love my class. One realizes that no matter where people are from, when they come together, there is always that same role they seem to play. This guy, Beau, from Alabama, is the weirdest. He wears a canopener around his neck because he “doesn’t know when [he] will need one.” He walks around with his pants tucked into his socks and

he likes to learn new words by putting the dictionary atop of his head. Yoshi, from Tokyo, is the ultimate party-machine. He gels his hair with egg whites and talks with his entire body. When he dances, the entire floor becomes his stage. John, from Norway, is according to my friend, the actual specimen from which the fairy-tale Prince Charming was modelled after. With his dark brown hair, blue eyes, square chin and six-foot frame, I think he definitely fits the bill. Being in Germany means that traditional German cuisine is readily available. However, I realized one thing: it is great only if you consume meat. That is the second thing I am trying to get used to being in Germany. Apart from the “phone inconvenience,” the excess of meat in all dishes is rather harsh on a vegetarian. People here have meat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The good thing is that every day, there are vegetarian selections at the university cafeteria for a fairly cheap price. The bad thing is that they emphasize the quantity, not the quality, of food, But this is just a minor detail compared to all the fun I’ve been having and the money I’ve been saving. So till next time, eat well.Atifwje&rsehen!

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prejudices, I believe, stem from the fact that we are the only beings our race has met that is capable of so many varied tasks, feelings and masterpieces. Suppose that the dolphin species had avast underwater civilization not yet studied, or perhaps more feasible, a race of obscure creatures from another planet suddenly made themselves known to us. Would these aliens also be children of God and would they possess a soul? Of course, the liberal reader will claim so, they should be embraced as our sentient brethren, but man has a history of prejudice against those even slightly dissimilar to his own group. Even in the far reaches of history, it is believed that our ancestors annihilated the Neanderthal species. But I digress. Some may think that possession df a soul does not necessitate religious practices or beliefs. I decry both con-

Is atheism

The sad truth of the matter is that there is spirit.

is hard and it’s important that we celebrate it.

*I’

’ If I could turn back time

advance in reproductive technology since the test-tube. The procedure, which has already turned back the clock for one woman, was developed by a British scientist named Roger Gosden, The GlobeandMaiZ reported in an article published September 24. According to both The GlobeandMail and CNN, the actual procedure was pereformed by Dr.Kutluk Oktay on 30 year old Margaret Lloyd-Hart Texas last February. Reversing menopause requires that the ovaries resume functioning. In a fertile woman the ovaries produce eggs as welt as the two sex

children if they beat cancer, Now 3 they may have asecond chance. There are also many women wfio experigain her fertility, The GZohcandMd ground-breatiig procedure. Older ence menopause prematurely and story continued, Dr. Oktay said the women experiencing menopause, others who suffer frtim’various disovarian tisse “must be rapidly thawed usually in th&4orties or fifties, might eases which might benefit, from the - at 100 degrees a minute -to stay want co&&T the procedure instead grafting procedure. Wo%~n. can viable.” Before Margaret Lloyd-Hart of.: @&g Hormone Replacement freeze an ovary and then )I$& ‘&:<.>,. : hacl the Procedure Currently some done her ovary ~,,<.,,X’he&$ ,,, :,:::..., (HRT). grafted back in later which is whac?&., ._:.. ’ ::;,.:. 1.v+s , reported to have been in 72.A...v&J+ :__. “:.“..+~men opt for HRT to lessen the _,L’,’ Lloyd-Hart - the first woman to ~ti&~,,&~: bd. s;c .b scwfi i&$%~&“’ negative side effects of menopause, ovarian. @&” &d. iip&$iif: ‘The have the procedure done - underhowever it does have risks. The artiwent. She “had one ovary excised as procedure took’ehree hours to comcle suggested that if menopause can a teenager because of a cyst and the plete. The arti&~@ed Dr. Oktay’s be reversed “women’s general health other one removed and frozen last reaction wheai;&j :,,&und that the and sense of well-being can be bolyear to treat a hormonal condition.” woman, assistka ,,e fertility drugs, stered.” The Globe and Mail reported had produced)hn . @g: “Colleages Reversed menopause would also . that Dr. Gosden spent ten years resaid I was screti& mean regained or extended fertility. .: jumping on a searching how to preserve fertiliv:(.:+@r:fut&&aki~ $& ~&s@~&? :._;; .The .. article suggests giving women

andoutlinedhisown aswell as&c; :‘I’[: ,&..:,,,&&’ &&& ,,:, .~~Q&&+ . .. :, ..,:..,..... ,.... ‘&&&?‘:I~:&e option to havechildrenmu&

Oktay’sdiscoveriesaboutovarygra.6 ing. The article said that Dr. Gosden effectively demonstrated in animals that ovaries could “be frozen, thawed and reimplanted.” The procedure requires that ovarian tissue, first cut into little pieces, must be “frozen

.. . 1.‘,whmher *he egg cotiid be fertilized~ ‘1: httx in life may “knock over the or produce ah+hybaby,:... the paper ultimate barrier holding women back noted in anoth@t?ptember 24 artion their struggle up the corporate :.:<:. <. .. : p.:.. ,., de. and professional ladder.“’ If it works $@.$$ications of the Some might argue, that older procedure - #j$: ability women should not have children :.:::,::::&+vfound pi’:‘. to delay and @+&&$everse menobecause they may not be able to care ~~~~~~~~.~~; .

Bad week for technology II5.

north and south of the border Houston, we bampbltm.

Itbought IwuspZrryingSonic tbeHedgebog, not controlling the mission toMars.

t has been a good week for television premiere junkies. The tube has been flooded with teen dramas only trying half heartedly to measure up to the mastery of the emotional juggernaut “Ready or Not.” On the other hand it has been

which was a blunder by the hosers. You probably got it right. The answer to the question, a question easier than the questions found in the early rounds of “Do you want to be a millionaire?” is of course - Canada’s planes couldn’t fly and the Americans misplaced their little space toy. How do these major errors occur and why? That is a -much tougher question. Last week, the Canadians dived head first (well maybe not head first, more like a stride jump) into the

a bad week

confhct

for technology;

the head-

lines filled with stories of dinosaur airplanes being grounded and NASA probes being lost on the other side of Mars. Both of these flight faux-pas’ were the actions of nations found in North America. Guess which one was the mistake of the Yankees and

occuriing

in East Timor-

Our

fearless leader, The Honourable Mr. Chretien devoted a few hundred troops to the peacekeeping cause. To get some of our brave young soldiers over to the remote Indonesia island, they had to take a ride on the C- 130 Hercules - a large, dec-

ades old aircraft mostly used for deploying troops into hostile areas or dropping off aid. Unfortunately for the army, they were a bit tardy for their date with the East Asian civil strife. The airplanes just couldn’t get out of the country. The army blamed the navigation equipment. It’s like telling your buddy, Wookie, that you are going to back him up in a fight and then not being able to steer your Hyundi Pony to the destination of the battle. How embarrassing. But not so fast. We can look south of the border for another case of crimson visage. The Americans seemed to have lost their $125 million “Mars Climate Orbiter,” a probe involved in the long term program of the exploration of Mars known as the “Mars Surveyor Program.”

NASA reported a navigation error, a steering problem as a result of bad computer commands. “Hey Lonny, I thought you said controlH made the flying saucer left! n IF Haven’t these cronies ever played logo? It is not the first time NASAhas had a problem with”Marsor bust” space satellites or probes. In 1993, they lost the “Mars Observer” just before it arrived to the fourth rock from the sun and “Mars Oops. 96”’ was destroyed during a launch accident. Both these incidents beg the question to be asked -should our progress be

h3wYd menopause would also mean regained or extended fertility Although the full outcome of the procedure is not yet known, and won’t be for some time, Canadian women can expect to have it available to them in the very near future. Dr. Gosden, the biologist who did much of the initial research, is preparing to take his post as “director of reproductive medicine at Montreal’s McGill University” next month, The GlobeandMail reported. “I think we are ready to see patients now,” Seang Lin Tan, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at McGill, told them.

measured on how much we screw up? Is the United States that far ahead if they lost a space machine worth millions of dollarsorisCanada better off because we can’t fly some old airplanes halfway around the world? It is bad enough that Chicago is in the process of con+tructing a building taller than the CN Tower. Can’t the Americans just get bad press off inexpensive screw ups, like blowing up the Astrodome? In the end, it was still a rough week for scientists. Score one for Felicity, Sabrina and the rest of the gang.

It is all about respect I

t has been said that the apathy on this campus may be one of the largest problems facing school spirit. However, if you have been out to a Warrior football game lately you’ll soon realize that the school apathy at a football game does not exist. Since the fall of 1995, the University of Waterloo has fielded a highly competitive and exciting brand of football. Whether you are in first or fourth year, this team has attracted a great deal of support of some of the most enthusiastic people

School apathy ‘at a football game does not exist. on campus. Once these folks are packed into buses for a road trip, or into Seagram stadium for a home game, the fans assembled became some of the greatest fans on the planet. In that respect the University of Waterloo is rather fortunate. Unlike many of our competing schools our fan support seems to dominate both in numbersand in enthusiasm. For the first time since 1995, Waterloo was forced to play away from home for their season opener in McMaster. In last week’s editorial section of the Imprint, there was a nice thank you letter

from a marketing official from McMaster university stating that ‘Your spirit and support for your team and the behavior of your students is a credit to your institution.” As someone who went to the game this is a very welcomed comment. However, what they should have said was, “Thanks for not getting involved in an all out strum with rowdy McMaster fans.” At the football game, Marauder fans, a group of approximately 50, came into the Waterloo fans section and began shouting profanities and telling us how we “suck.” Not only did the other teams fans show their disrespect, but also so too did the half-time show dancers. It was a rather bizarre occurrence in all. Waterloo fans seemed very supportive of the half-time act, only to hear the performers yell “Waterloo suck it!” at the end of their routine, with the somewhat popular wrestling Generation X gesture. It truly was a distasteful and poor showing on behalf of the home teams fans. The ironic part of the event was that we were louder, and had more people at McMaster’s frosh week home opener than they did. So the actions of the poorly behaved home fans was quickly drowned out by a Waterloo cheer that simply chanted “NO Class . . . No Class!” Unfortunately our football team lost the game, but they did not lose their fan support. In the last couple of years, this has been a common trend across the league. Either we have many more fans than the other team, and we dominate the building, or we have equal numbers and the other team shouts at us (Waterloo fans} and not their own team. Most Waterloo fans have seen this on several road trips to the University of Western Ontario and even in our own building against Laurier. It is true that some Waterloo fanatics enjoy the confrontation, but for the most part, Warrior fans find

this very distasteful. It really takes away from the enjoyment of a nice fall afternoon and watching a great football game. For the most part, Warrior fans have been very respectful of the other teams and their supporters. We are not confrontational and most of our focus is given to thegame being played. Warrior fans realize that we can act as the extra player. Although there are mixed opinions on how the fan support may effect the outcome of a game, the ideologies still only suggest that fan support is only positive when it is for the team that one supports. It is unlikely that a sports team draws from fans shouting at other fans.

We are a school that symbolizes respect. For the last two years we have wholeheartedly given our Warrior football team our support. In those two years we have seen them do exceptionally well only to come up short in two crushing defeats. Yet both times, seasons were ended with the fans doing our patented “Warriors . . , Warriors. . , Warriors! 3 cheer. Both times the players came over with tears in their eyes and saluted their fans. We are a school that symbolizes respect. In ord?r to maintain this level, we should continue to live up to our university standards, regardless of what other fans do. We should never lower ourselves to their level of disrespect.

Wurriors pound Murauders . PAUL

S~HR~IB~R

n their best effort of the season, the Warrior baseball team staged a dramatic come-from-behind extra-innings victory over the number-three-ranked McMaster Marauders. With Waterloo down 4-3 in the seventh, Marauder pitcher Doug Lunney walked Warrior CF Jeff McDonald. After Aaron Chu advanced McDonald to second, Tyler Wilson smacked the ball to right, scoring the CentrefieIder. The Warriors shut M&aster down in the bottom of the frame and it was off to extra innings for the first time this season. The Water100 bats sprung to life in the eighth. After Craig Beitz led off the inning with a single, Mike Fuchs and Sam Pate1 walked, loading the bases. Luke Potwarka’s ground ball was fielded, but mishandled by the third baseman, allowing Beitz to score. Next, McDonald knocked the ball toward the second baseman who threw Fuchs out at the plate. With one out, the bases were loaded. When a McMaster pitch went astray, all three runners took off, with Pate1 scoring. After Aaron Chu flew out to deep left, Matt Beelen smacked the ball to centre, scoring Potwarka and McDonald. The Warriors kept McMaster hitless and scoreless in the bottom half of the inning. Final score: Waterloo 8, McMaster 4. There’s more to this story than the dramatic victory: several Warriors made some amazing plays. There was Mike Fuchs’ highlight-reel inningSending diving catch in the third. And Fuchs was at it again in the fifth, running back towards the wall to rob Graham Holloway of what looked to be a sure hit.

Waterloo McMaster

8, McMaster 2, Waterloo

4 1

Matt Lindsay, in a performance that can only be described as heroic, came off the disabled list to take the mound in tht bottom of the sixth. He pitched two and one-third innings of shutout ball, overcoming an unforeseen adversary: the umpire. While last week’s umpire may have had a fluctuating strike zone, at least he had one, The Hamilton umpire assigned balls and strikes the same way the Math faculty assigns grades. In more than one case, Lindsay threw five or six strikes only to see the batter awarded a walk. In the words of one fan, the umpire was

“consistently terrible.” When Warrior Coach-Bill Martin questioned the man in blue’s logic, he was asked “Are you arguing balls and strikes, coach?” Martin’s retort: “The whole stadium is!” Fans on both side of the diamond heckled the ump through out the game. “In the real game,” chided a Waterloo supporter, “There’s two out and a runner on first.” Martin himself con-

Wilson gave up two runs as McMaster scattered seven hits over six innings. DI-I Mike Robertson picked up two of Waterloo’s four hits and scored the team’s only run. On Saturday, come out and watchrwaterloo as they look to make Chicken McNuggets out of the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks at Jack Couch Park (beside the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium). Wednesday night’s game in St. Catharines against the number-one ranked Brock Badgers was postponed until Monday due to rainy weather. Monday’s game against the Brock Badgers will be the final game of the season.

From the bunker ‘Causeit’sone.,.two...threestrikesyou’reout! fronted the ump after a particularly horrible call: Yan you throw me out for what I say ?” There was no response from the ump. “Can you throw me out for what I think?” Still noanswer. “Well,” stated Martin emphatically, “I think,” A particularly inflammatory play occurred in the bottom of the second. With one away, Warrior starter Pat Hill threw a 1-2 pitch to Scott Hughes. With no call from the plate umpire, Waterloo appealed to his partner. “Did he go?” asked that man with the mask. “Yes he did!” came the reply. The Marauder bench erupted in protest, with one particularly obnoxious fan making her opinion clear: “Where’d you go to umpiring school? Disneyland?” In a post-game interview, Martin expressed satisfaction with

the victory-

He told

Imprint

that the beating

a previous

national champion was “a big win for Waterloo.” “It’s a big step forward for the program, especially a come-from-behind victory in extra innings.” Game two was once again a pitchers’ duel, with both Tyler Wilson and McMaster’s Brent Gibson going the distance. Wilson’s stellar performance wasn’t enough, however, with the Marauders edging out Waterloo by a 2-l score.

fter five days of tryouts at Elmira Golf Course, the Warrior golf team competed in the Western Invitational A t the Sunningdale Golf Course on Friday, September 24. Perhaps not being fully ready to start the university season contributed to a poor showing. Waterloo finished 11 out of 11 competing schools with a 337 total, four scores counted. The team was only eight shots from being in the middle of the pack. The course played long (7,000 yards) and tough with wet, windy conditions. Waterloo scores were: Scott Desmarais 79, Ian MacDonald 85, Jeremy Begalke 86, Scott Cormier 87, and Brendan Collins 8 8. Waterloo showed a real improvement at the Guelph Invitational played at the Cutten Golf Club on Monday, September 2% The Warriors finished tied for third with a307 total. This was an impressive 30 strokes lower than the score at Western, The Warriors were only seven shots behind the winning score of 300 posted by the Guelph team. Waterloo scores were: Ian MacDonald 74 (he was also the fourth best individual score of the day), Brendan Collins 77, Scott Desmarais 78, Scott Cormier 78 and Jeremy Begalke 79. The next events for the golf team will be on Friday, October 1, at the Laurier Invitational at Craigowan Golf Course.and Monday, October, 4 at the Toronto Invitational at St. Andrew’s Golf Course.

Imprint, Friday, October

SPORTS

I, 1999

Crossing the line

Sweeping them away

First cross country meet excellent start to season

Hockey women earn 3 wins and 1 tie

FThe

twenty-fifth annual Western International Cross coun try meet was held last Friday on the demanding terrain of the Thames Valley Golf Course in London. Outstanding performances were turned in by all members of the women’s and men’s cross country teams. This was the first big event for the Waterloo Warriors after only two weeks of training as a team. The Western International provided an opportunity to compete against all of the top OUA scho&, McGill University and several‘ talented American university squads. The Warrior women were led to an eighth place team finish (fifth amongst OUA schools) by first year students Natasha Yaremczuk in 17 and Kristie Henry in 22 place. Natasha and Kristie were top 15 OUA finishers at this event, a fantastic performance for two rookies. The scoring team was completed by AmeLia Tamburrini in 5 1, Jill Patterson in 79, and Cristina Atance in 83. The Warrior team was completed by Emily Rimas in 90, Shauna Ellis in 95, Megan Goemans in 97, Roanne Sonesin 98, Caroline Amyot in 100, and Kim Neumayer in 102. The

Warriors are off to an excellent start. Last week they were ranked eigth in the CIAU cross country rankings. After this performance, they should hold on to a top ten ranking. The Warrior men also had an exceptional performance. They finished as the sixth place team, but most importantly fourth among UUA .schools. The Warriors first finisher was Daijiro Abe, a Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate from Japan, in 22 place (11 OUA performer).

Outstanding performances were L:iz vhi pushed the turned in by Warriors front ranks all members for most of the race finished 26 overall, and recorded a persona1 best for the course. Scoring team members Alastair Lawrence in 42, John Lofranco in58 and Michael Tripp in 8 &also had personal bests in the season so far. The Warriors’ team was completed by Sean Kirby in 89, David Harmsworth in 93, Will Gibbons in 100, Pete VanDriel in IO 1, Ryan Eagles in 107, and Chris Ingram in 110 place. Five more weeks of training will see the Warriors in better conditioning and ready to take on their OUAA competition once again. The next race will be held here at home at the Waterloo Open Cross Country meet on October 2 at the University North Campus Course.

KRISTA

GUENTHER

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to /mpm

he Warriors field hockey team played two away games two 1 weeks ago in Toronto and also played two games at home this past week. The first match in Toronto saw McGill taking on Waterloo. The Warriors took an early Iead on a goal from Joanne Fernandes, who shot on a pass from rookie Julia Morton. Laurie Good netted another quick goal on a pass from Robin Leslie. Fernandes added one more on a great pass from rookie Erin Morton, to bring the score to 3-O at the half. In the second half, Leslie banged one in after a nice play from rookie midfielder, Susan Kitto. Fernandes added another goal from a sweet stickstop by Erin Morton, laid off by rookie Beth Nordemann. As if that weren’t enough, Erin Morton left some McGill defenders in the dust to blast one by the goalie. To close out the match, Fernandes continued her flurry of goals by adding two. This brought the score for the Warriors eight, the Redmen, nil. Shutout honours were earned by Leslie Alexander. The second game matched the Waterloo women against the Carleton Ravens. In the first minute of play Fernandes knocked in a re-

bound off an initial shot form Lesl.ie. Moments later, the Warriors were awarded a stroke (for the field hockey illiterate, a stroke is the equivalent: to a penalty kick in soccer). Leslie capitalized On the scoring opportunity, shooting a rocket to the corner of the net. Before the half ended, Leslie added another to bring the score to 3-O. In the second half, Carleton tried to rally some offensive efforts, but they were stopped short by the stal-

ons retaliated, managing to knock one in to tie things up. (Note: The Warrior defense found it difficult to see the ball, as some of the lights at Laurier’s University Stadium were blown out). After many scoring opportunities, the women were finally able to capitalize on a penalty corner. Nordemann wailed a shot past the goalie to bring the final to 2- 1. This past Sunday the women hostedyork. York is typically a strong team and this yeAir is no exception. The game was evenly matched, with both teams getting their share of shots. The defense worked hard, getting solid play from Amy Adair, Irene McConville and goalie Alexander. Late in the first half, the Warriors earned a penalty corner on some nice work from Leslie and the both of the Morton sisters. Nordemmn again launched another one of her bullets past the York defense to bring the score to 1-O. The Yeowomen answered that goal with one of their own in the second half, tieing up the game. In spite of numerous opportunities, neither team was able to break through the defense. The game ended in a l-l draw. This weekend the Warriorscontinue action when they travel to Toronto for rematches against both York and Guelph. Good luck to the Waterloo Women.

Laurie Good almost sacrificed her body to the goalpost wart defensive efforts of Alexander. The women weren’t done scoring yet, as Good almost sacraficed her body to the goalpost, tipping in a pass from Leslie. The game ended with a score of 4-O for the Warriors. Alexander chalked up another well-deserved shutout. This past week the Warriors played at home, taking on somewhat more challenging opponents from Guelph and York. On Wednesday, the Warriors hosted Guelph. The Warriors earned their first goal late in the first half on a nice shot from Leslie. The Gryph-

Waterloo 67, Luncers 9 Ouch!

Furtlicking o, it’s not what you think it is. This is the word’s phoenetic spelling. Fartlicking is actually a Swedish training technique that can be applied to such things as Nordic skiing and running. Basically you run or ski easy, then when a hill comes you go as hard as you can. Fartlicking is one of the training methods that were used at the U of W Nordic Ski Team’s annual fall training camp this past weekend at the Highlands Nordic Ski area in Duntroou, just north of Collingwood. The camp was well planned by team coaches Kevin and Don. I don’t know how, but Kevin, who was the food coordinator, managed to work enormous amounts of cheese into every meal. Don was an inspiration to all of the athletes, probably doing more training than anybody else. Don is one tough cookie: he slept outside in a cold tent each night, while all of the athletes slept snugly in their warm beds in the house. This camp was unique experience because alumni were invited. This allowed us to spread out the costs a little more and all of the alumni

Freshrk; kll football field

brought a lot of fun to the group: Brent entertained us with his master story telling and Brain gave Randy someone to make fun of. At night we entertained ourselves with a wide variety of games, including Kyles heavy contact game called kbody. Nobody, including Kyle himself, knew what a kbody was. Ian entertained us all with his rocking fiddlin’ playing skills, representing the East Coast with style. The annual Mountain Mania pushed everyone to their limits. This is a 4 kti hill in which each person roller-skis up as fast as they can. Many personal records were dropped, indicating that the UWNordic Ski team may be in for one of their best seasons thiswinter, The camp was concluded with a two and a half hour hike along the scenic Bruce Trail. Again, Don was pushing the pace at the front of the group while most others took in the scenery and played around in the caves for a while. For me, the camp was a great

eek three of the OUA Football season saw the l-l Waterloo Warriors travel to face the O-2 Windsor Lancers Saturday afternoon. About 30 minutes before kickoff the stands we&“?!Il%g up with fans, Waterloo Warrior fans. Many Warrior fans made the three hour trip to out vocalize the Windsor fans. This seemed to set the tone for the rest of the afternoon. Waterloo trounced the Lancers 67-9, lead by Ryan Wilkinson’s arm and Mike Bradley’s nimble feet. Wilkinson completed 14 of 26 for 330 yards in the air, His favourite target was Chris Kreibich who had eight receptions for 218 yards. Bradley added 70 yards on the ground with only six carries (11.67 yards per carry!) Once the Warriors had established a substantial lead it was time to let some of the backups contribute. Waterloo used six other running backs in the game that con-

way

tributed

to become

introduced

to the

team and get away from residence for a bit. For most others the camp was the kickoff to another season of extra-fast racing and training. For everyone, it was a great experience that we won’t soon forget.

to the rtst of the Warriors’

260 yards on the ground. The Warrior offensive machine was clicking on all cylinders with 590 total yards and seven touchdowns, five of which were rushing. Tibbits decided to add six points

Readytocrush’em. of his own with

his second

punt re-

Special teams played extremely well, keeping the Lancers pinned deep in

deep in Warrior territory. The Warriors’ next two games are at home against the York Yeomen on October 2 and then playing

their

host again to the Western

turn for a touchdown in two weeks. own

zone.

The

Warriors

de-

fence also played well only allowing the Lancers 197 yards on the day. Tibbits also had one interception on a key drive with the Lancers threatening to score, Both of the Lancer scores were a result of turnovers

Mustangs

on October 9. Both games are at University Stadium at 2 p.m. University of Waterloo students get in free with a student ID cardAlso check out the Warriors on-line at www.warriorfootball.uwaterloo.ca

SPORTS

Imprint.

Friday, October

I, 1999

Leaders of the week

Black

Knight

Squash House

League

only $20.70 and you get $10 back if no games are defaulted!

ne of the best kept secrets at Waterloo is the Campus Recrearion Black Knight Squash House League. Along with the squash tournament happening this weekend, Black Knight showers the CR house league with prizes galore, including a free racquet for one lucky participant. The league starts with six round robin matches (about once per week) and culminates with a final tournament. Three levels of play (A,B,C) means that there is a level of competition perfect for players of all levels. To register, come to the Athletics office at PAC 2039 before this Tuesday, Oct. 5 at 4:30 p.m. The cost is

Cross Canada Challenge UW students have hit the road on their wapo fitness, fun and fabulous prizes. The Cross Canada Challenge, a free program designed to promote physical activity among UW students, began last Monday and is constantiy growing. Starting at Memrial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, participants advance to the next university stop along the route-with every hour of physical activity completed. After one week of action, Kathryn Russill leads the Cross Canada Challenge, having made it

to the University of New Brunswick at Fredericron heading west to the University of Victoria. Each participant who completes the route (located on the map in the display case in the PAC Red North foyer} is entered into a draw for a free set of rollerblades ar,d pads from Bauer. As well, incentive prizes (including a piece of clean laundry) can be picked up along the way. Don’t worry if you haven’t yet registered, there’s still time to enter yourself and your friends. To join the Cross Canada Challenge for free, simply drop by the Athletics office at PAC2039. Itonlytakesaminuteand the effects will last a lifetime. Until next time, stay fit and have fun!

Patty Fran

Mah

and

Justin

Fritz

Hannigan

Patty and Fran have been involved with the Rowing Club at UW for several years and this dynamic duo comprise the Rowing Club executive for the Fall 1999 term. They have been working hard to get the Club off to a gliding start this term, including running six erg training nights in the past two weeks. Their organization and devotion to their sport is a real asset to the members of WV’s rowing community. Keep up the great work!

Since joining the Campus Recreation leadership staff, Justin has consistently displayed a great deal of effort and enthusiasm in coordinating competitive and co-recreational leagues. This term, he holds several positions including convener of competitive ball hockey and co-ret broomball, ultimate and basketball along with being the referee-inchief for competitive broomball. Thank you for all your hard work, Justin!

Athletes of the Week

ustralian Rules Football is very hard to come by in the Amerias. Sure, there is a league in the United States and in Canada, but it is almost impossible to find coverage of Aussie Rules in this country. It seems that the only source for this game is from the Internet and from Channel Seven in Australia. And for the latter, one * must wait until the wee hours of the morning to watch the game and even then, by the time the game is finished, the next pro- gramme shown is “Breakfast Teh.~isiod’ This is perfect if you are a constant insomniac, but for the rest of us, one misses out on a great game. Such was the case with the Grand Final on September 25. On this date, the final game of the Australian Football League was held .at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, home of the North Melbourne Kangaroos. Second only behind the Essendon Bombers, the Kangaroos faced off against the sixthranked Carleton Blues. With over 92,000 people in attendance, this game promised to be the pinnacle of Au&e Rules Football. For Carleton, the game started off well, as Brett Ratten kicked the first goal of the

match, sending Carleton to the lead. However, North Melbourne would not be*outdone, as Shannon Grant would kick the Kangaroos first three spectacular goals to take the lead. Afier the first quarter, North Mel-

The third quarter demonstrated the utter dominance of the North Melbourne squad. North Melbourne managed to garner 15 goals and six behinds, whilst Carleton could only manage seven goals and I 11 behinds,

never seen a sport quite like this.

Hamill scored the last goal o; the Granb F&l with one minute remaining in the game. Unfortunately for the Blues, the damage was already done, as North MeIbourne soared to a 33 -point win. The final score was North Melbourne 124 (19 goals, ten behinds), Carleton 89 (I2 goals, 17 behinds). The statistics showed how the Kangaroos dominated the Blues, leading in marks, kicks and tackles. Two 50yard penalties for the Blues did not help either. For many people, Australian Rules Football is quite an odd creature. Most of the sport f&s in the Americas have never seen a sport quite like this. But after seeing the Grand Final, one does look forward to seeing more games from the land down under. Hopefully, they will put it on the telly at a decent hour, like midnight.

bourne scored three goals and three behinds (for 21 points), while Carleton accumulated only one goal and three behinds (for nine points). The second quarter wbuld show just how accurate the North Melbourne squad was, as the Kangaroos scored six more goals whilst missing only one kick (for a behind). Carleton clearly had more chances, but the inaccuracy of their kickers onljr yiqlded one point behinds for the Blues. Grant would score one more goal in this quarter, then fell silent for the rest of the game. At the half, North Melbourne had nine goals and four behinds (for 58 points). Carleton had four more behinds and four goals less than the Kangaroos.

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refreshing change. e During their stay in Toronto, members of the band met with Imprint in the lounge of a swanky hotel. While the interviewees smoked ciga-

silver disc or whatever, which is like 60,000 and we were like, cool. We got excited. And then it went platinum. I don’t know, we just keep level-headed about the situation.

omez, one of the many UK imports to attempt to break into the North American market, considered the move “starting over.” Despite the fact that they hail from Britain, Gomez was received at Toronto’s Opera I-Iouse last week by plenty of fans who all knew their songs. The group started their fantastic set off on a strong foot, leading with two of their best-known songs from their first album, Bring It On. Released only a year ago, the record was greeted with astonishing fan support and critical acclaim. One Mercury Music Prize (the equivalent of a Crammy) for “1998 Album of the Year,” three Brit Award nominations, and several other industry accolades later, the band has released their much-anticipated follow-up, Liquid Skin. Surprisingly, the Toronto fans were also quite familiar with the songs on this CD, even though it was only recently released. Gomez is the type of band whose sound defies classification; they are a hodge-podge of different musical styles. They should be admired for standing by their vision and making it all about the music, which is a really

We’rea bloody Brit band, not that Addamsguy rettes and drank Coke, this interviewer tried desperately to keep up with their fast-paced, monotone, unenthusiastic, inflection-lacking Britspeak. Imprint: All this success came very quickly, was it startling? Gomez: It was surprising at first. We weren’t expecting any sales, it was always just like, if we sell some then that’d be nice. And then we got the

I: You are really big in the UK, but were you expecting as strong a following here as jrou have found? G: I suppose we never really knew what to expect. I think we were very naive at the start, as anyone would be, because all we really did was record together in garages and lounges and bathrooms and wherever we could. We know that in the business bands can become really big

really quickly and that’s how a 1o;of it happens nowadays. But we just wanted a word-of-mouth growth kind of thing; a real natural, organic thing where people pass it on to their friends. And that kind of happened. We learned a lot really really quickly about how the business works - the shitty side of things and stuff. We still are learning loads, in terms of playing live and things. I: You produced the albums yourselves. Obviously you had just started out and didn’t know very much about it. How did you manage such a nice production? G: Fluke. Jumping in the deep end. We knew how we wanted things to sound and how things should be miked, et cetera. Some of those songs went into the studio from four track to’eight track and taken onto sixteen track and then extra things were added on. We just learned it fairly quickly and we had an engineer who helped us out. I: Did you feel a lot of pressure when you were recording the second album, coming off the success of the first one? G: No, not really. Because the way

we do things anyway is quite a bit different from how everybody else approaches things. What we did was record Bring It On and then carried on recording when we weren’t touring. We came up with about 30 songs and just picked the album. So wher you’ve got an album essentially five months before it’s got to go out, it’s really comforting. I: You released the two albums ver); close to one another. Is that some. thing you want to do, just continue tr? churn them out? G: Yeah, because we work very fast Some of the songs we record ge: polished off really quickly. If we re . ally released it when we wanted to, it probably would have come out earlier than this. But because of the industry, it slows you down. Which is a bit of a pisser, but you have to understand that stuff. The way we do things is just really fast; there’s a quick turnaround, which is cool. I: I imagine that a lot of people in the press try really hard to categorize your music - I’m not even going tc: attempt it. But how do you catego rize your music? G: Thank you! We don’t, I suppost We just like it. I mean, most people that havttried to categorize it, they have picket up on one particular thing and tried to explain our whole sound by that one thing. continued

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ilfred Laurier’s Theatre Auditorium was packed to the roof Tuesday night for Norman Nawrocki’s one-man sex comedy cabaretMy Dick &other M&y Tales. The audience, composed mainly of Laurier residence students, was alternately shocked and enthralled by this blunt and courageous performance piece. Tuesday and Wednesday nights performances joinMy D&‘s Fall 1999 Canada tour. Colleges and universities from Halifax to Vancouver will

in response to general ‘safety’ issues on campus. GLOBAL, Lauriet’s gay, lesbian, and bi-sexual association also sponsored the event. Apparently GLOW was involved in some way as ’ well, however there were no representatives present at Tuesday’s performance. My Dick grew out of Nawrocki’s last solo hit, I Don’t Understand Womett, which dealt mainly with the issues of sexual harassment and violence against women. Reviews were great, however Nawrocki’s main feedback from his largely ‘Dawn’s Creek generation’ audience was simple: We can do without the fag stuff. “They’d rather not hear about it’,“said Nawrocki. So instead of shying away from a controversial and sensitive topic, Norman decided to do something about it. The result is a 55 minute tour de force, confronting

Mrs. Robinson, addressing the audience as her class. She demonstrates the proper way to stimulate a clitoris. Though she didn’t say it, there would be’atestiater and two audience members (one of each sex), failed miserably. The show moves on to address sexual situations and. politics that would make most blush, or at least fidget nervously, The audience was warned at the outset that the show contains explicit, non-sexist, but sex-positive adult content. Touching on issues such as Gspots, penis size and other common maIe misconceptions, the mood of the audience shifted from reserved to giddy, but it remained clear that these were uncharted waters for many present. Extremely educational, but funny and entertaining, My Dick

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Various Soundtracks Volume OmZ

The album is just a collection of songs; really. It’s weird to be categorized and it’s nice that we haven’t really been pigeonholed or grouped together in a genre. We don’t fit into a category at all, because our music is so random. But it’s just nice that we’ve mostly avoided that kind of shit. Every time we see a description, we just usually laugh at it ‘cuz it’s like, “Gomez, the Mercury Prize-winners who play swamp-bluesrock-Americana-folk-rock-gravelly-voicedrhythm-oriented bongo music.” It’s like, stop wasting your words and the paper you’re writing on. I: Are you comfortable with or disconcerted by the fame you may experience in the future? G: I suppose the thing is to let the music go where it goes. I think we’ve got quite a nice situation at home where the music’s a lot more known about than we are, which is the best position to be in, Nobody in the band aspires to be famous. We just want as many people to get into the music as possible. That’s the main thing. It’s more about the longevity of things. If we can be creative and inspire people and inspire other bands to just be open and to do what they really want to do, then chat would be cool.

uried in CD stores full of corporate rock and prefab noise, perhaps in the New Age or Experimental sections, if you are lucky, you might be able to find an obscure Canadian CD that will blow apart your preconceived notions of what kind of music Canadians can create. Ozmoz Records has just released their fifth album of emotionally-charged instrumental music. Created to challenge the listener with music which brings about a catharsis, these songs in particular were written for and used in movies and television programs from Canadian programs. The opening track *‘Modern Love,” is a Pink Floyd-esque track which moves the listener through a wide range of emotions, After the first track, the rest of the album is completely original. Each of the seventeen tracks elicits an emotional and spiritual response. The order of the tracks also adds to the experience. The album was obviously arranged with great attention to detail. The mood of the albumchangessmoothly as the tracks progress, taking the listener on a journey through sound. To describe the music on this disc would be difficult since the styles change throughout. While all the songs are instrumental, they

It’sgood,andit’sCanadian! progress from ambient to heavier beac-intensive tracks. However, all of the songs can be neatly fit under the label of easy listening. If your head is starting to hurt from too

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much studying or music that is played 20decibelsbtooloudataclub,gooutandgetthisCD. Pop it in your player, light a candle, turn out the lights and curl up in bed and mellow out,

easy argument. Besides, some of the women who like Cosmo like Maxim more because it is funny and much more forward. The turnkey desk is now considering the additionofMaxim to itscollection of magazines available for students. A rough survey of readers found the magazine generally accepted as good. Male respondents were appreciative of the pictures, which is the only negative point from one female who said “highly offensive; on the edge of porn.” So back to Melissa Joan Hart’s appearance in Maxim. The publisher oftlrchie comics, who owns the Sabrina character, was less than happ,’ about her appearance in Maxim and wants an apology or resignation. Meanwhile, the phol tos have caused quite a positive stir with men who read the magazine and %ee her in a whole new light.” However, Maxim isn’t bound to a strict regimen of sex, Randomly inserted are pictures and stories about absolutely disgusting things like gout and modern crucifixions. However, one male student related reading articles on giving h&ad in Cosmo. Another student retorted that she had read articles in Maim on how to kill people. There is certainly no lack of revealing photos available for mass consumption, and no lack of debate, either. Victoria’s Secret catalogs are readily available and much more revealing than either Cosmo or Maxim. They are justified by selling sex, which is somehow more acceptable than selling stories and fantasies about sex. Regardless of what you believe, these magazines are well read and those who read them are often very vocal in their support for their favourite magazine. Do we have the right to read what we want? I believe so, even if I ‘,am the Yowest common denominator.”

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John Irving A Widow

For One Year

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Widow For One Year is probably the best book I’ve read all year. Since both TheNew York Times and The Globe and Mail have voted it Notable Book of the Year for 1998, it’s probably the best book anyone’s read all year. . John Irving’s rich narrative, centering on the Cole family’s saga of literary aspirations, death, grief, love and sex is certainly creepy and disturbing. Yet, Irving avoids the temptation to wallow in the surreal and morbid aspects of his tale by liberally spicing it with genuine humour, amusement, compassion and some excellent storytelling, The book is divided into three parts and is set in Long Island and .Amsterdamin I958,1991, and 19%. At the centre of all three periods is Ruth Cole, an intriguing blend of warm humanity and brasharrogance. Only four years old when the story begins in 1958, Ruth is about to be abandoned by her mother to be raised by her father. In 199 1, Ruth is an unmarried writer whose personal

life is not as successful as her literary career and in 1995, Ruth is a widow, a mother and about to fall in love for the first time. Ruth begins the action in part one by opening her parents’ bedroom door as a toddler to find her mother in mid-tryst with her busband’s l&year-old assistant, Titled “The Inadequate Lampshade” this

opening chapter lays the haunting foundations of the novel: two promising teenage boys dead in a horrific accident, their parents’ inadequate attempts to cope with their loss, a young man desperately in love with :.: .ji >._. . . . A‘_. : .‘. A.‘: . :)

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an older woman, and a daughter born to the impossible task of replacing Thomas and Timothy Cole. Although Thomas and Timothy never appear in the novel directly, their stories are told through the endless pictures that line the hallways of the Cole household - pictures Ruth Cole has memorized through her daily tours of this innocent, yet morbid gallery dedicated to her dead brothers. When the pictures are removed, empty hooks line the hallways like the memories of the boys themselves, haunting and unforgettable. Irving explores the limitations of memory and the power of narrative through Ruth’s repeated attempts to distinguish the real pictures from the images she remembers. Halfway through the book, your mental pictures of the photographs are so clear that you’re almost sure you’ve seen them as well. Irving contrasts the Coles’ dismtegrating marriage in the wake of the accident by skewering the couple’s relations with each other, Ruth and the assistant, through the lens of wickedly playful humour. The definite highlight of this section is Irving’s characterization of his protagonists’ sexuality. Hired on the premise of assistine successful children’s author Ted Ge with his work, Eddie O’Hare is drawn to the grieving and beautiful Marion and gradually becomes involved in what her husband hopes will be a character-damaging relationship. Following Eddie through his misguided attempts to seduce 37year-old Marion, the reader is treated to all the awkwardness of teenage love, complete with panty stealing, interrupted masturbation sessions and exuberant, puppy-like sex, At the same time, Irving presents a tormented mother who cannot allow herself to love her daughter, fearing another great loss and turning to a boy’s sexual attentions to bring herself out of depression. Ted Cole also uses sex to express his inner self, primarily through hi&discretions with “the mothers”

29 -the sad, lonely women who buy his books for their children and become involved in degrading modelling sessions with the illustrator/storyteller. In these relationships, Irving explores the darker threads of sexuality and perversion, a path Ruth herself experiments with as an adult after an illfated tennis match. In parts two and three of the novel, Irving explores the adult psythe of his protagonist and the relationship between the fictional and autobiography through Ruth’s friendship with Hannah Grant. AIter reading this section, one can’t help but wonder how much of A Widow For One Year is drawn from Irving’s own experience. Set jointly inNewYorkand Amsterdam, these sections also narrate Ruth’s decidedly hands-on research as she attempts to unveil the world of voyeurism through a tour of Amsterdam’s notorious red light district for her next book. Again, the parallels between Ruth and Irving are obvious but ultimately inconclusive. By far, the novel’s best chapter is “Ruth Remembers Learning to Drive,” where the grown writer recalls her final driving lesson with her father. This complex ride through New York’s congested streets is wrenching, brutal, and sor-

did in a way Stephen King can only salivate about. If Young Drivers of Canada used Ted Cole’s particular type of fear tactics, we would undoubtedly have safer roads. Overall, Irving’s command of the novel’s language is mind-blowing. Since four of his characters are also writers, Irving is free to create multiple subtexts within the novel, presenting teasing excerpts from their respective books. These passages showcase his talent for creating individual narratives with sharply distinctive tones and styles. Of special note are Ted’s macabre bedtime stories for children that make R. L. Stein look like a Sesame Street renegade. “The Mouse Between the Walls,” “The Sound Of Someone Trying Not To Make A Sound” and “The Door in the Floor” may make you . .

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lar style of music, her phrasing is awkward in places when read straight from the page. Since the lyrics/poems were written as songs, they include the choruses that grow irritatingly repetitious after the first few instances. For example, in “Ladies‘ Man,” the title phrase is repeated 10 times in three stanzas; while the repetition works musically, in print, it’s just frustrating. Unfortunately, reading poem after poem about thwarted love affairs, unrealised desire, and emotional isolation is arduous at best, particularly if you’re not familiar enough with the music to hear the melody in your head. Although there are a few stand-outs like “Jericho,” “The Dawntreader” and the majority of poems from Ladies ofthe Canyon, the rest of the collection is a hitand-miss affair. If you are a Joni Mitchell fan and identify with the lyrics to “Woodstock,” adding this book to your bookshelf would be a good idea. If you’re interested in Mitchell’s words themselves or learning more abdut her, pass on the book and reinvest that twenty bucks by picking up one of her CDs instead.

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live concertsvery often, and we don’t _ think their recordings are as good as ours! What is chamber music, and what is its special appeal? In short, chamber music is music written for performance in a “chamber,” as opposed to some large venue such as a church or concert hall. Nowadays, in fact, most chamber music concerts are performed in halls anyway, but the Chamber Music Society is a notable exception, for most of its concerts are held in the 85seat-capacity Music Room at the back of Jan Narveson’s home. That comes pretty close to appproximating the kind of sound that Haydn and Beethoven had in mind. . ._ What is the.appeal? For people who like classical.music, it’s easy to put one’s finger on this. Orchestral music is loud and colourful, with a wide range of instruments, and with many instruments (especially strings) playing each line of music. But with chamber music, each individual player is going to be heard, so he or she had better be pretty good!

This restriction in size and range of colour also means that the composer faces a challenge: to make those few, sparely coloured lines musically interesting in their own right, with no big noises or clanging cymbals to carry the interest. And composers have certainly responded to this challenge. From Mozart and Beethoven forward, great composers have devoted their very best skills to their chamber music, with proportional rewards for the listener. For the radio audience, there is an additional advantage: orchestral music doesn’t work too well in a small room through a loudspeaker. But with chamber music, the range of dynamics and colors is well suited to the home, both in the original and in reproduction. I If you like the Classics, you should tune in to CKMS 100.3 FM Tuesday nights and have*a listen. By the way, it’s not all classics by any means: the concerts almost always have at least one modern piece, and sometimes quite a few, or all, of the program is recent music,

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ing in holes in her arms. Each attack gives her another one of the five wounds inflicted on Christ on the cross. Enter Father Andrew Kiernan

(Gabriel Bryn& a priest/investigator for the Catholic Chruch who specialises in disproving claims of miracles. Father Kiernan is at first reluctant to investigate, but as the attacks on Frankie continue, he becomes obsessed with protecting her. There are many holes in the plot and a few inconsistencies, but Stigmata director Wainwright gets his message across more through imagery than plot. The fhn is visually stunning. The opening credit sequence is amazingly edited. It features scenes of Frankie partying spliced with scenes of religious paintings and imagery all set to pounding music. It’s all very slick. The film has taken a page from Seven and other such gritty films. Rareiy is the scene fully lit, water drips constantly in the houses. There is a feeling of impending doom running through the whole film. Ghostly voices and the exaggeratedly loud flapping of doves wings add incredible menace. The soundtrack is well put together and backs up the imagery. Some religious groups (particu-

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may be offended by shows a dark, negative side of religion. Stigmata is by no means anti-God, it is however antiorganised religion. The Catholic higher ups (especially the sinister Cardinal played by Jonathan Pryce) are portrayed as immoral thugs; they are more concerned with keeping their jobs than with spreading the word of God. One cliche in Stigmata really annoyed me. Gabriel Brynes charac-

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random sound effects, Gomez’s eclectic musical tastes gives this album a feeling which is sometimes earthy and sometimes spacey, often within the same song. &o&d vocals and rough vocal harmonies (courtesy of singer Ben Ottewell’s gravelly voice) fill out the mix. The songs on Liquid Skin lean towards the slow side, taking various detours into faster tempos. Often, the songs amble along at a leisurely

bars of music cycled over and over again before actually evolving into anything interesting (“Blue Moon Rising” and “California”). Since much of the appeal of Gomez is its eccentric musical detours, it isn’t to their credit to save these for the tail end of their songs. There are a couple of highlights on this album, though. The album closer, “Devil Will Ride,” is one of Gomez’s best. Complete with horns, hand claps and a “bye bye, baby, bye bye” chorus,itgrowsonyouwith each listen. As well, “Fill I My Cup,” “Rhythm & Blues Alibi” and the first single “Bring It On” (strangely absent from their debut album of the same name) find Gomez in fine form. The slow, string-laden “We Havk’t Turned Around” is also of merit,

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to be a little cliche. Overall, Gomez’sLiquid Skin is a good album, but more was expected. There is little progression from their first album and even the album artwork is in the same vein as Btiglt On’s.LiyuidS& isn’t so much a follow-up to Bring It On as an inferior sequel. If you’re thinking of

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cal style can be seen as coming from their lead singer and guitarist Travis Meeks who, with a classic rockstar’s,. unchecked ego, dumped hisold band mates and took over as the sole member of Days. The 20 year-old Meeks wrote and produced all 14 tracks of

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