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It's time for mid terms Imprint grades the Feds: Here are the results

Chris Farley President

Desiree Taric

Mark Schaan

VP Student Issues

VP Education

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s president of the Federation of Students, ChrisFarley's accomplishments can only be accurately measured by assessing his specificareas of successand failure. Indeed, as his is the voice that speaks on behalf of the UW student body, it is in everyone's interest to know just how effectively Farley performs his duties as president. Therefore, for a proper evaluation, the pertinent questions must be fair and straightforward.

he following is a mid term review of Desiree Taric, vice president of Student Issues for the UW Federation of Students. This articlediscusseshowwellDesiree has lived up to her campaign promises, her strategic plan and her job description thus far.

Campaign promises (2.25110) With regards to finding a private sector to improve the overall safety of the UW campus, which includes the Walksafe and Drivesafe services, Farley admits that the process has been rather problematic. In his defense, as the safety partnership at Laurier recently fell through, the market has become overcrowded. Farley iscurrently workingtowards refurbishing Groundzero toenhance its service and profit margin, but ~onfessesthatthere will not be one sweeping renovation, rather, it is an ongoing development. By his own admission, however, Ground Zero has been doing better financially. The president has not held monthly dialogueswith students to give them the opportunity to express their concerns. Reconsidering the Feds relationship with OUSA has been an ongoing initiative together with Mark Schann,but the accomplishmentsin this area are still unclear. Score: It seems that in the 'campaign promises' department, Farley ekes out at an embarrassingly low 2.25 out of 10 (we'll give him the Ground Zero profit margin increase). However, the fact isnot that Farley broke his promises, but rather, that he is gradually working towards them on an ongoing basis. Unfortunately, this progress report does not measure by degrees,but by concrete anddefinitive results.

Campaign promises (6110) Desiree had four major campaign promises during the Fedselections. She promised to hold awareness weeks outside of the SLC, Improve methods for student input on Fed issues, work with on-campus groups to improve the distribution of Feds messages and encourage collaboration among on-campus groups. In terms of holding Feds awarenessweeks inlocations outside of the SLC, Desiree hasnot succeeded. The awarenessweeks have continued to exist only in the SLC and not at other locations around campus. Desiree promised to create easier methods for student input on Fed issues. She has succeeded in this area by further developing the Feds web page, including on-line surveys and improving other avenues for student input. Desiree also promisedto workwithgroups like Women in Math and others to promote the Feds message innew ways. Desiree has encouragedgetting the Fedsmessageout in newways but more with external professional groups such as GLOW. Her final promise, encouragingmore collaboration between on-campus groups, has been somewhatsuccessful. Desiree hasencouraged collaboration between societiesand committees however this area could be further improved.

Strategic plan (9110) Desiree's strategic plan had four main areas:

Student Housingand Safety: The wheels are in motion regarding the improvement of campus safety. This includes the establishment of a safety audit and of a safety roundtable in consultation with the Personal Safety Comm~ttee. Also, Farley has lookedinto the efficiency of such securlty detads as campus lighting, barriers, etc. Farley has not held a forum on student

S&: In the service area, Desiree's goals were to increase transparency of service budgets, create a better reporting structure, ensure campletion of end-of-term report sand plan service awareness weeks for the beginning of each term. Des~reehas completed most of these goals. Transparency has improved through increased reporting and accountability of spendmg. In general, the reporting structure itself has improved under Desiree. For example, for the first time, all services submitted complete end-of-term reports to Student's Councll. Desiree does, however, need to

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Strategic Plan (6110)

Shannon Willis

VP Admin. and Finance

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P Education Mark Schaan is a busy man. He's the president of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA),workswith afederallobby group, the Canadian Alliance of Student Assoc~ations (CASA) and helps run a southern Ontario caucusof local universities.So how much time doesit leave him to dealwith UW's own flavour of acronym soup - CSS, CSAG and UCSA, among others?Schaan's been hit-and-misswhen it comes to his targets.

Campaign Promises (3110) 1. Lobby for a greater role in undergrad research. (011) Lobbyinghasbeendone, OUSAand CASA policies have been formed, but there hasn't been animpact on studentsyet. Mark'shad one student request grant information so far. 2. Work to get targeted funding for classroom space. (011) The government has committed to SuperBuild, and Rod Coutts donated $7 million, but no money hascome through the Feds. As Mark says, Ontario is 59th out of 60 in North American in per capita post-secondary education spending. 3. Ensure good student representation in coop (0.511) Mark has been working on this - he says 30 per cent of his time is devoted to co-op issues, but students still don't have an effective voice. Awareness and participation in CSS, CSAG and Co-op Council are "not as well as [he'd] like." 4. Campaign to highlight the human side of tuition increases (0.511) Marksaysthe campaignmaterials are done and ready to go, but put on hold because of the recent federalelection. He stillhas five months left; I'll give him part marks. 5. Improve quality of delivery of academic serviceson campus (0.511) This promise is vague and hard to measure. The Feds were able to get information on academicrights out to first-yearstudentsin the Student Life 101 handbook, but there hasn't been a lot going on for upper-year students.

Strategic plan (6.25110) Successstones: Election issues: the on-campus enumeration wentwell, with ''700 to 1000" studentsgetting registered to vote. Danny Michel played the bomber for a lightly attended "rock the vote" night; the all-candidates forum was well attended. please see page 5

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he Feds' Web site, in the Business section, reads: "If you are interested in finding out more about how Fed businessqs run, please contact Shannon Willis, VP Administration and Finance." Shannon promised several things when conducting her campaign. This evaluationwill measure whether or not she has lived up to our expectations.

Campaign Promises (8110) Shannon's first promise was to re-define the Fedsprogrammer position and combine it with other duties. This is an ongoing goal that she began tacklingin the spring term. Programming is seperate from special events and foundations have been set up and built upon. The Feds decision to be exempt from the no smoking bylaw has been addressed, andit is now final that there is a no smoking bylaw employed all over our campus. Harmonizing the banquet-cateringstructure with that of Fed Hall in order to eliminate duplicationhas been successful. Now, Fed Hall, the Bombshelter, and Ground Zero each have their own managers. The lack of efficiency apparent in prior terms has been eliminated. The attempt to improve the training of all banquet staff is underway. Tamara Collins, manager of Fed Hall, brings extensive experience in food and hospitality to improve staff training. Amy Ross, in charge of customer service, is working closely with Collins to produce a training package for the staff of students. Finally, with regards to addressing the turn-over of part-time staff, healthy lifestyle initiatives, and staff appreciation events have been initiated and are successful. Social spirit lifting activities have been enjoyed.

Strategic plan (6.5110) Financial Prudence and Stability: A budget has been prepared and abided by. Supervising sponsorship deals for the handbook and orientation has been taken care of. A consultant was hired and a committee conducted a survey on the Bombshelrer. The fall term renovation plans are behind. Aussies has been refurbished, and the Used Bookstore and the Bomber are next on the list. A carbonated beverage and a CD-ROM production contract was to be negotiated by June and July respectively.These contracts are signed and sealed. Efficiency: Performing inventory spot checks in please see page 5

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housing, but he has visited the houses, prepared a housing report to present to the student housing taskforce, and plans to have a student survey out by early next term. (213) Communiultion and StudentInvolvement: Farley completed a report on the history of Feds for the Board of Governor members, and hasalso metwithapproximately one-third of those members to discussthe report, inspite of their busy schedules. Although he did not hold aBoard Forum in the fall term, he managed to distribute various promotional materials about the Board of Governors, and boastsof being "good at transferring information." As of yet, Farley has not prepared areport on student volunteerism and charitable work, but he is in the midst of drafting letters, and plans to do it in January. (315) CampusBusinessand Food Service: Farley has performed a critical evaluation of Food Operations, and has also worked at least one shift in each campus business - with the exception of Fed Hall. (212) L o n g T m Planning: With regardstothe double cohort, surveysfor grades 10, 11, and 12 students are currently being distributed, and Farley will begin preparing strategies for campus businesses and services as well.

Some challenges have arisen with formulating an action plan towards standardizing course evaluations, and furthermore, Farley has not urged the senate to open a committee on this matter. (2 14)

Job descri tion (l0!10P As an acting and active president, Farley has succeeded in upholdingall of his duties: he has presided over "pretty much" all of the Fed meetings; he has represented the Feds at official functions: he has reviewed the various and sundry by-laws, policies, and procedures; he has acted as the liaison with the Municipal government; and he has hired an election officer, council secretary, and speaker. When asked why the Annual General Meeting (AGM) was postponed a month late into November, Farley remarkedvaguely that there were some initial difficultieswhichcaused it to be temporarily delayed. (10110)

What did student councillors have to say? How effective has Chris been in carrying out the day to day duties of his position? 7.7110 How effective a leader has Chris been for the executive and the corporation? 7.7110 How well do you think Chris has communicated hiswork to Student Council, the University, and the Student Body? 7.9110 Overall Rating for Chris: 7.8110

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anta Claus paid an early visit to UW this week, and put a $7 million gift under the tree. UW alumnus Rod Coutts donated $7 million worth of stock market shares to his a h a mater, the largest donation of its kind in theUW's history.The Cookstownnative graduated from UW in 1964 with a Bachelor of Applied Science in electrical engineering. He went on to found Teklogix International Inc.. a wireless data communications systemscompany, which specializesin mobile workforce solutions. "This is my way of saying thank you," said Coutts in a speech he made to a full house of UW students,alumniand faculty on November 28 in the Davis Centre's ICR Lounge. After retiring as chairman of Teklogix in September, Coutts wanted to "give something back" to the university to which he attributeshis success. "The basicreason for our gift to Waterloo is that my family has had a lot of good fortune over the years and the University of Waterloo had a lot to do with that," said Coutts. "Rod has chosen to share his success with the university, putting water back in the well from which he has drawn," saidUWpresident David Johnston. Coutts'sdonationisno drop in the bucket. In February, he pledged to donate 200,000 shares of Teklogix, valued at about $35 per share, for atotal contribution worth $7rnillion. There was much secrecy surrounding the donation because Coumwantedto remain anonymous, but President Johnston persuaded the mystery donor to come forward. Coutts also stipulated that his donation go towards "the university's area of greatest need."

Coutts's donatlon will support the Centre for Learning andTeachingThroughTechno1ogy (3T); provide scholarships and bursaries; and help fund the expansion of the Engineering Lecture (EL) Building, which will be renamed the Rod Coutts Engineering Lecture Building in honour of his contribution. As part of the expansion, another floor will be built on top of EL, providing an additional 22,000 square feet of desperatelyneeded classroom space. Hisdonation will also provide a $750,000 endowment fund for scholarships and bursaries. Theannual interest from the endowment fund will be used to support four awards of $2,500 per year to encourage studentsto work in developing countries; seven awards valued at $2,00Oper year for studentsin international workor study programs; and $11,000 per year in international experience bursaries for students in financial need who work or study abroad. The Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology will receive $500,000 in funding for projects that incorporate technology with academia. Couttsexplained that UW "suffers froma lack of financial resources" because it is arelatively young university, and as such, does not have as much alumni support as older postsecondaryinstitutions. He hopes thathisdonation will "encourage others to venture into philanthropic activities." In 1967, Coutts co-founded Teklogix International Incorporated, which is based in Mississauga. Universityofwaterloo graduate IanMcElroy isnow president andchief executive officer of the company. Psion PLC, the largest manufacturer of handheld computers in Europe, purchased Teklogix in September for $544 million.

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improve the delivery of service awareness weeks that take place at the beginning of each term as participation continues to be weak. (4/5)

Co-op: the co-op student handbook went out to all first-year students during frosh week (thanks largely to the hard work of a dozen student volunteers); students were consulted and a reportwas prepared on the new co-op building. Workingwithadministration:two of Mark'sideas-the academicrights pamphlet and the entrepreneurship seminar-gotmergedwiththe work of ~ssociate~ r o v b s t(Human Resources and Student Services) Catharine Scott and John Cullen of CECS,respectively. So they get marks for working well with others. Lobbygroups: Mark, alongwith reps from six other Ontario universities, founded the southern Ontario caucus. The group has met fivetimes since its inception this summer.

businesses and acting on the results are underway. Steps are being taken to improve all businesseson campus. Designing a customer service program was done in September. Structured training manualsfor part-time staff are not out yet. A general meeting for all parttime staff was held this term. Another one, resemblinga socialparty, will be heldin January. Itwill be considered one of the term's social events.

Student involvement: Desiree has livedup to all of her student involvement goalsin the strategic plan. She has helped maintain and improve a volunteer database and e-mail list, featured volunteers in flyers and continuesto send out thank you cards to all volunteers. (515) Relevance: In this area Desiree has been quite successful.Campaignssuch as Put-a-lid on it, Date Rape Awareness, and Discover Yourself (volunteer sign-up) were completed or are in the works. She also helped organize a volunteer fair at the beginning of this term. Furthermore, club and volunteer registration were incorporatedinto the Feds website as her strategic plan outlined. The only area that was not completed as planned was a Feds Open House. Initially planned for each term, this open house only took place during the previous summer term and not during each subsequent term. (415) Stability: Desiree has fully livedup to thisareaof her strategicplan. She has maintained communicationsand updates in relations to by-laws. (515)

Job description (8110) Desiree has met her job description in most categories thus far. She has supervised clubsand services, encouragedinteraction,andmaintainedlinks with community groups. She has also administered the Feds volunteer program making some significantimprovements such as better web access. Desiree has ensured that the Student Councillor liaiseswith the student societies. The only area of her job description that has been weak has been the oromotion of student-initiated xojects in the creativeam. Thisarea .equires amore pro-active approach. Desiree has done a reasonable ob so far as theVP of Student Issues. ihe has excelled at completing items n her strategic plan and her job lescription. Areas of improvement would be addressing more of her campaign ~romisessuch as awareness weeks ~utsideof the SLC andcontinuing to ind new ways to promote the Feds.

No-shows: Undergrad research: the "creating a culture" report on undergrad research has resultedin an incomplete principles document. The planned focus groups didn't materialize and there's been virtually no interest in grant applications. The archiving project is behind schedule; six of twenty-six boxes have been filed. The process has been set, but they're still waiting for a new system. Still underreview: The aforementioned "real students, real debt" campaign should appear in January. The entrepreneurship Web site is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.

Job description (6110) Making university "financially accessible" is pretty much out of the control of theVP Ed. He can lobby a bit and create awarenesscampaigns,but his hands are mostly tied. Mark's been supervisingCSAGandCSS,and reporting regularly to Co-op Council, but there are still numerousco-op issuesthat need to be addressed. He's certainly worked hard on the lobby front so he earns marks there. On the academicside, we really haven't seen alot of concrete results -course evaluations still vary widely by faculty and awareness of what constitutes cheating is perhaps at the midway point. Hegets the benefit of the doubt in terms of offering direction to students on appeals andpetitions, something that's hard to quan-

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Communicution: A qarketing survey has been conducted on the Feds' Web site, through the free tuition survey. Shannon aimed to conduct focus groups on all Feds businesses, but has only done the Bomber. A calender-scheduling system for the Feds full-time staff has not been completed yet.

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EmployeeRogramandDeveIopment: A golf tournament for the entire staff was held in July 2000. T-shirts for the staff have been designed, purchased and distributed in an assortmentof bright, eye-catchingcolours. A healthy lifestyles program is still not done. Shannon, however, has purchased a microwave to encourage employees to bring in their own healthy snacks. This term's large-scaleactivityis going to be the Feds' Christmasholiday celebration party

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Job description (8/10) As VP of Finance and Adminisaation, Shannon works in conjunction withseveral other managersto fulfill her duties. She supervisesbusinessmanagers by working closely with the GeneralManager, she supervisesfinances by ensuring accurate, up-to-date financial statements, she prepares an annual budget,she presents a financial report and an update on business to the Students' Council more than once per term, and she works closely with the marketing director to promote Feds' businessesto studentsand the community. However, recommending action on applications to the Students' Council for funds is facing some obstacles. She has ideas on providing discounts and finding alternative sources of funding, but hasn't acted upon them yet.

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How effective has Shannon been in carrying out the day to day duties of her position: 8/10 How effective has Shannon been in bringing new and innovative ideas about the businesses to the fore to make the businesses more profitable or better serve students: 7.2/10 How effective has Shannon been at communicatingher work to Student Council and student body: 7.6/10 Overall rating for Shannon:7.6/10

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Hath not Greenberg eyes? esn't seem to matter whether the verage we provide is positive or ve, someoneover at U W Drama omethine"to comolain about. When complaining is justified, I'm prepared to take the lumps- we're certainly not perfect down here. In this case, however, I think that Mr. Greenberg's angry missives ignore much of the larger picture to suit his own ends. Although the bad blood between Imprint and UW Drama goes back a fair ways (at least as far back as a certain infamous review of Romeo and Juliet), I can only speak to the instancesinwhich I have dealt with them myself. We're approached all the time by student groups wantingcoverage in the paper. This is to be expected and welcomedbecause we are, after all, the student paper and it is our mandate tocover student-relatedeventsandissues. But I must say, few (if any)are as demandingas UW Drama when they come to see us. When Joyce Hahn called last month she toldme that Imprintgenerallysetsasideacover a term for UW Drama's big production. As a rule, there is nothing more off-putting to an editor than being told what you should or should not feature in any part of the paper, let alone on the cover. But because I think that student drama is important, I said I would consideraccommodatingtheirrequests(acover shot and a preview a week before the curtain went up and then areview of the show itself to appear a week later). But even then the demands kept coming. Whenlsaidthatwe'dlike to sendover one of our photographers to take the pictures rather than use one of their publicity shots, I wastoldthedirectorwantedfinalsayinpicking the image for the cover. Once I made it clear that this was out of the question, they backed down, fearful, I guess, that they might lose their covetedfront page coverage. Regardless of the wrangling behind the scenes, everything came together for theNovember 17issue. F&Yip'sstrategichandcolouringof Brian Code's picture made for a stunning cover. We got a number of compliments on it fromvarious quarters - but alas, nothing from UW Drama except a request that we run over a contact sheet of our pictures for their records. Havinggotwhat they wanted, Iguess there was no need for even a quick thank-you. And then a weeklater came Kate Schwass's review. Thistime JoelGreenberghad plenty of time to share hisviewswithImprinttime enough, in fact, to write not one but two letters.

Some of Mr. Greenberg's concernsare not without merit. I too, foundit alittle strange to spendasmuchtime asMs. Schwassdiddiscussing the programme and 1agree that she could have.elaborated on certain points in order to give her critique a little more resonance. Having said that, I found most of Mr. Greenberg's comments to be at once baseless and over the top. At times I wasn't sure if we had read the same review. Whatever the piece's shortcomings,itwasstill an overallpositive review that certainlv did not deserve as vitriolic a response as Mr. Greenberg has seen fit to write. (I would refer him to a letter by Professors Daniel Scott, Ian Rowlands and Paul Parker in the Novemeber 3 issue for an example of a reasonable response to an article

arbiters like you who give criticisma bad name because youpontificate andoffer absolutely no suggestion for improvement. Again,let'slookatwhatMs. Schwasswrote. "There wasonly oneplayerivho didnot live up to the UW Drama standards, and that was one of the female servants who was unable to deliver asingle lineconvincingly." Inmy view, this hardly qualifies as being torn apart. But more than anything, it is the tone of Mr. Greenberg's letter that I find objectionable. He seems to think that he's eoine to win the debate by belittling his critics and twisting theirwordsaroundto suit his own purposes. If he wants a debate predicated on respect, Mr. Greenberg should lead by example, not try and drag everyone through the mud. Even if Ms. Schwass's review was rife with "mean-spiritednessmandshewas committed t o "her ownneed to damage others SO that she can appear clever and superior" (both ofwhichIcanfind no trace of in the with which they disagreed.) review), as a professor Mr. Greenberg should Mr. Greenberg signs his first letter "Pro- know better than to insult students he doesn't fessor, Director and, in spite of Ms. Schwass's like just to get his way. commentary,Actor" andcondudeshis second If Ithought that itwas just Imprintthat UW letterwith "Youlead off your review by saying Drama treated poorly, I might have held my the dual role of actor-director '. .puts a bad- tongue, but given treatment the science stutaste inmy mouth'." Mr. Greenberg, however, dentsandkho have receivedin therecentpast, seems to have misread the review's opening I'm of the belief that UW Drama has serious paragraph: difficultyco-operating with people who don't "When the director is playing one of the give them complete and unfettered control. leadcharactersinaplay, itputsa bad taste in my Organizations, like people, resent being mouth. LuckilyJoelGre~isnotonlyagood used andabused. Imprint bent over backwards director, he also pulled off playing a very to accommodate thewishesof UWDrama. And unlikeablecharacterwith his portrayal of Shy- in return for putting them on the cover, doing lock in UW Drama's production of William a preview of their show and writing a review Shakespeare'sTheMerchantofVenice." There thatwasoverall positive, we got berated by the seems to be little to take issue with here, as far man in charge. as I can see. Well, Ican tell you Imprint will be a lot less And1thinkthat Mr. Greenbergoverstates receptiveto being pushedaroundcome March the case slightly when he writes, "Finally, and when the curtain is set to open on UW Drama's most vilely, you have seen fit to tear apart one next big production. They have to learn that young actor because you found her work un- they are part of a student community - a satisfactory.. .the cast however skilled or un- community that doesn't appreciate bullies. [skilled], does its level best to solve problems that the text presents. . It is self-appointed -Scott Gordon, Editor-in-Chief

Whatever the piece's shortcomings, it was still an overall positive review that certainly did not deserve as vitriolic a response as Mr. Greenberg has seen fit to write.

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o offensive were some of the letters to the Editor in the November 1 7Imprint that Idiscoveredonly last week that a student, besldes myself, was trying to make an articulate comment on the US election. (My copy of the November 17 Imprint wasstomped on rather heavily by the time I got to about the third letter to the editor.) Respectfullyto the writer of the letter "Thanks a lot, Ralph", your arguments are not only weak, they are often invalid. Consider: "a vote for Nader was a vote for Bush."Yet according to both Mr. Nader and Mr. Bush, "a vote for Nader is avote for Nader." Frankly as an (amateur) student of US history and a "bleeding heart liberal" it strikes me that a vote for Gore is avote for Bush, more than a vote for Nader is avote for Bush. As that bastion of erudte thought, Lewis H. Lapham argued in the August 1996Harper'sMagazine, the difference in Democrats and the Republican's is now so insubstantial that the office of the presidency ought to be turned over to the operations of the Disney Company. In the United States, and every other republic style government on Earth, the major political parties are so beholden to the majo; corporations that there now exist two governments. Aprovisional elected government that makes moral statements anddrcriesvariously, the state of the environment, human rights abuses in Angola, violencein the media, and the price of gas at the Mobil station on the New Jersey turn pike. Along side this provisional government is the permanent government that dumps tons of sulphuricgas into the air, inflates the cost of oil, makes another "Die Hard" and ignores trade sanctions against Angola. Avote for Bush or Gore, was a vote for the status quo is, a continuation of the big money lobbyist setting the agenda in Washington. A vote for Nader was avote againstthe lobbyist,Nader didnot solicit money from major corporations or unions. Philosophy aside: "it's true that the two party system needs to be changed. Nader could run and start a third party, but it was irresponsible of him to give Bush the White House

in the process" I do not concede that Nader "gave Bush" the White House. Rather the Democrats abandonment of the working class, the young andthe rest of their traditional supporters, in favour of Wall Street and the promise of campaign contributions gave Bush the White House. That said, if it is true that the two party system needs to be changed, how should it be changed?Removal of one of the parties? Ignoring the fact that there has been at least three political partiesin almost every election sinceTomasJefferson beat John Adams in the Federalist vs Democrat-Republican election of 1800, it would be quite impossible for a third party to becomeviablewithout "vote splitting". If Nader had not run, would Gore have won? More than likely. But, if the US republic is to be reinvigorated with something other than the "Bloodof patriots" it is this student's opinion that someone like Nader must come out of the wood workand point out how truly unsafe US politicsis witheither Republican or Democrat victory. -Michael Cole 3B Computerscience

Pound of flesh required To the Editor,

et me begin by statingwe appreciate the coverage that Imprint gives to Dramaproductions, and we understand that reviews are what they are -subjectiveviews by writers whose experiences may vary. Kate Schwass, whoreviewed our current production of TheMerchant ofVenice is clearly awoman who does not go to the theatre, or if she does go, she wears blinders and plugs herself into a recording device playing nothing but dumdum melodies. Perhaps she might consider enrolling in Drama 409, a course that examineshow to write reviews, what spare writing is about and how to address issues rather than Ms. Schwass' rather paltry check list of items. I also take some exceptionto the placement of the review - can a campus production not get better placement than-fCSuperstar? . The advance piece for the play, written by Lauren Breslin, impressed

me and encouraged me to think that theatre reviewing in the paper had taken a huge step forward. Perhaps, this is a case of one step forward and many steps back. -Joel Greenberg, Professor, Directorand, inspiteofMs. Scwass'[sic]commentary, Actor p.s. Had she taken the time to read the programme fully, she would see that I replaced an actor due to a family death. I trust thisdoesn't add to the bad taste in her mouth.

But wait, there's more! To the Editor,

ate Schwass employs the craft of littlethought andmean-spiritednessin her recent review of UW Drama's TheMerchantofVenice. She lacksanyvalue asa critic,given as she is to connect-the-dots reportage acknowledging the color of the set and the lights, the names of a few actors, etc. Her comment that ". . . the play is set in the 1950s, but why this is done is unclear. . ."does not include any analysis on her part. Furthermore, her determined need for spiteful personal attacks demeansthe place of acritic, whose principal goal is to enliven debate and to provoke intellectual discussion. Schwassis deeply committedto her own lightweight ideas and her own need to damage others so that she can appear clever and superior. The production represents approximately 200 hours of rehearsal by more than forty students each and a large team of professionals. There is nowhere in evidence in the review any respect for the effort, the commitment and the seriousness withwhich the taskof producingthis masterwork was undertaken. Instead, Ms. Schwass spends about 20 per cent of the review reflecting on the programme layout, one dismissive sentence about the excellent work of several actors and her revelatory senseof the play's problems. Erringas she does in facts, she compounds her faulty information by adding this - "the famous speech by Shylockthat begins Hath not a Jew eyes,' is one that has been abusedby so many people.. ."Where are your sources drawn from, I wonder, and what range of experience leads you tocommentfromonhigh, as you seem to enjoy doing? Ms. Schwass, there are several excellent courses available on this campusin ShakespeareandTheatre Criticism. It appears you have elected

to register for none of them. Finally,and most vilely, you have seen fir [sic] to tear apart one young actor because you found her work unsatisfactory. Let me urge you to acceptthe responsibility you soclearly misapprehend -the cast, however skilled or un-, does its level best to solve problems that the text presents. There will alwaysbe actorswho dazzle us and others who are still growing and learning. It is self-appointed arbiterslike you who give criticisma bad name because you pontificate and offer absolutely no suggestion for improvement and, worse, you bring nothing to the discussion but smugness, uninformed observation and a personal agenda of self-promotion at the expense of others. You lead off your review by saying the dual role of actor-director ". . .puts a bad taste in my mouth." Let me conclude that as a director, actor, playwright, theatre critic and professor, I am left with a taste far worse from your review.You really ought to be deeply ashamed. -Joel Greenberg, Professor, DramaDepartment

He impresses himself To the Editor,

ertheless. She states that "Harvard, Princeton, etc have alimitednumber of spotsfor studentswithout $30,000 a year to pay for tuition." Curiously, Harvard'sFAQ statesthat "Harvard's admission process is entirely needblind. . . we meet the full demonstrated financial need of every admitted student." But we already know from Ms. Kerr that all they really care about is money,so I guess whoever wrote that Web page is lying. Finally, Ms. Kerr states that giving a tax cut to me is 'progressive', because it also benefits those who are less well off. Well so what? By this definition, giving a tax cut to everyone at any incomelevel is progressive . ..because it benefits those who are lesswell off. This also seems to be based on the notion that I am under the median income of males. ( Quite true. ) Again, so what? Icertainly make way less than $34,000 a year. But firstly, this is temporary. Secondly, I have only myself to support. What about, say, someone who makes $4550,000 and has to support a family or four or five?Apparently, though, since they are over the median income, they are not deserving of government largesse. But I am-despite the fact that I live quite comfortably already, and probably have more disposable income than they do. I remain unconvinced, and hopefully many other skeptical Imprint readers do too. Anyone else wanna take a shot?

am happy someone took the time to reply to my letter. Too bad they didn'temploy somebetter arguments. Ms. Kerr begins by stating that the reason we should have tuitioncutsis universality. -ChristopherPrice, Whichdoesn'tmakemuch sense. 4A Computer Science Given the fact that A) the government has limited resources and B) not everyone is in desperate financial straights, wouldn't it make far more sense to use those limited resources to help the people who do need it? Why should the government waste money giving it to me when they could be giving it someone who needs it a lot more? How does giving me extra money help The Forum Section enables universality? members of the Universitv of It doesn't. Conversely,wouldn't Waterloocommunitytopresent giving more aid to poorer students viewsonvarious issues through increase accessibility?I'm still conletters to the editor and longer fused here -no matter which way comment pieces. you shake it, there is no c~nvincing Letters should not exceed argument for giving me money when 350 words in length. Letters I don't really need it. must be signed, including a Ms. Kerr goes on to make a phonenumber. Letterswillnot comparison to the American system, be printed8the Editor-in-Chief always agood Canadian scare tactic. cannot identify the author. I'm not sure what this has to do with They can be submitted to: my argument, since I am talking about ktters@irnprint.uwaterloo.ca. dstributing limited moneywithinthe Letters received in elecCanadianeducation system,but nevtronic form (e.g. fax & email) willnotbeprintedunlessaphone number for verification is included. All material is subject to editing for brevity and clarity. The editor reserves the right to refuse to publishletters or articles which are judged to be libellous or discriminatowon the basis ofgender, race, religionor sexualorientation. The opinions expressed through columns, comment pieces, lettersandother articles arestrictly thoseofthe authors, not the opinions o f h p r i n t .

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Imprint, Friday, December I , 2000

CHRIS FARLEY Feds President

ince this is our last chancein 2000 to address students through Imprint, I thought it a great opportunity to highlight what you can look forward to in 2001, the real beginning of the new millennium. Right now, the Feds are reachingout to diverse groups of students to determine how to improve student l i e on campus. As theuniversity gears up for its next major capital fundraising campaign, we need to know how you want to fit in. There are two proposals on the table to improve our social and recreational facilities: an expansion to the Student Life Centre in preparation for the enrolmentincreasesforecast for the next decade, andamajor expansion to campus athletic facilities. If you have any questions about either of these proposals, an idea of your own, or justwant toletusknow how you feel, drop by the Fed Office or email fedpres@feds.uwaterloo.ca On another note, do you think you can do a better iob than me? My job'scoming open again soon, along withShannon's, Desiree'sand Mark's.

That's right, election nominations are just around the corner, and right after that comes elections. I encourage everyone to drop by our office, ask questions,and considerhanding in a nomination form. Nomination formswill be available for pickup in the Federation of Students office January 12, and will be due back the following Friday, January 19. It'sstillabit early for me to take advantage of this column to wax philosophical on how amazing this job has been forme,soinstead I'll just rdterate our open invitation to come by and chat about this or anything else. For those smdents heading off to work termsnextsemester,whether in Ottawa, California, or Hong Kong, thismay be thelast Imprintcolumn of mine you read. Thank you for the privilege of letting me serve as your president. Keep in touch with any concerns you may have as although you're gone, you are not forgotten. On behalf of the Fedsexecutive, I wish you the best of the holiday season. Enjoy yourselves,andrest up for a busy next semester. Bestwishes for a fabulous new year.

Not enough teachers P A U L SCH R E I 6 L R Imprint staff

ast week, during an all-candidatesmeetingforthe KitchenerWaterloo riding, Federation of Students VP Education Mark Schaan and Faculty Assocation rep Frank Reynolds took turns posing questionsto the candidateson the subject of education. . They talked about student debt, the need for infrastructure funding and the resource issues the University of Waterloo faces. Then the Faculty Association member explained the upcoming professor shortage. It seems that over the next decade,dueto retirement and growth, there will be a need for 30,000 new profess0rs.A~cording t o Reynolds, Canadaisonly producing 2,000 PhDs a year, leaving a projected shortage of 20,000 professors. What Canada needs, he explained, is 20,000 PhDs. How arrogant. The last thing Canada needs is 20,000 more PhDs. What we do need is 20,000 more teachers. The university system is filled with brilliant researchers who can't - or won't-teach. Whatitlackssorely is those who are here to educate. As an undergraduate, I don't need the world's foremost expert on sparse matricesto teachme thk basics of linear algebra. It's not important

C O L L E N LYLE special to Imprint

he international Open Schools Campaign advocatesfor the unconditional re-opening of universities and colleges in Burma. Burma's military dictatorship, which took power in a coup in 1962, has virtually destroyed Burma's once thriving educationsystem. Sincethe StateLaw and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) seized control in September 1988 after the military gunned down thousandsof non-violent prodemocracy demonstrators in the streets, the country's education system has declined dramatically. This tyrannical regime spends less than 7.7 per cent of the budget on education. Burma'suniversities and colleges have been open to students for only about30monthsinthe 12yearssince 1988. During that time the regime slashedspendingoneducation to 7.7 per cent of a national budget that devotes nearly 50 per cent to the military. It shortened the academic year. It tried to prevent smdents from congregating at the famous Rangoon Instituteof Technologyby buildingwallsaroundfaculties.What textbooks can be found are decades out of date. Students and faculty often forced to take an oath df

loyalty promising not to get involved in political activities. InJuly 2000, the regime claimed it was re-opening universities and post-secondary colleges. But undergraduate campuses have now been moved out of cities to the countryside, often near military barracks. A two-hour journey to class is not unusual. The student year for some studies has been comoressed into three months in some cases and there are very few text books. A class of 400 medical students had to rely on six manuals dating from the 1960s. Burma was once the most literatecountryinSoutheastAsia. Women attended its universities long before they were allowed into European universities. Studentsin Burma have always been at the forefront of its movements for political change. In the struggle for independence from Britain, a student leader Aung San (Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's father) spearheaded the movement and led the country into independence. The first leader to unite ethnic groups,Aung San is still revered today as a national hero. When GeneralNe Win stageda coup in 1962, the studentsheldGgescalenon-violent demonstrationsand demandedthe restoration of democracy. The military brutally crushed the uprising, killing at least 200 stu-

to me how many awards aprofessor has won, how many research grants he or she has been awarded or how many articlesthe prof has published RYAN MATTHEW at all, and no apparent professional in refereedjournals. What matters is courtesytoMs. Hahn'sprior arrangeMERKLEY whether or not they can teach. Editor-in-Chief, Echo Weekly ment with me. I couldn't care less if What Canadadesperatelyneeds UW Drama gets publicity for their are more people like Ruth woweeksago, I wasinvited to a events, and it appears that neither Malinowski, more people like Troy presentation of UW Drama's doesMr. Greenberg. In the media, it Vasiga, and more people like Richard Hoshino. I won't be surprised if new play, The Merchant of Venice. isoften said that there is no such thiig the names don't mean anything to Joyce Hahn, from the UW Drama as bad publicity. I believe the final insult goes not department, called me in order to you-afterall,asfarasIknow,none of them have won any Nobel prizes. get publicity for the play. I agreed to to my journalistic integrity,but to the And none hold PhDs. But all three go to adress rehearsal,in order to get hardworking members of The Merteach at UW. Teach. Say that again. a sense of the play and Hoshino, write a promotional piece ANTA MONICA who's still an for lastweek'sissue ofEcho. Upon arrivingandinundergrad, recently taught troducing ourselves, we C&O 3 8 6 a were escorted into the courseinprob- green room to wait for lem solving. directorJoel Greenbergto He obtained arrive. He questioned us, the highest sayingthat he didn't know scoreonaprof wewerecoming, and asked evaluation in if I could push back my r e c e n t deadline (which I had alm e m o r y . ready extended). He then Forty-two out asked if I would mind of forty-sixstu- faxing him a copy of the dents gave him a rating of excellent review before publication. under "overall effectiveness of the I responded flatly no, and instructor as a teacher." Forty-two. we were asked to leave, as That's 91 per cent. How many pro- two shocked members of the cast looked on. fessors did you rate as excellent? I understand that it Hoshino's performance is in stark contrast to his experience as a was only a dress rehearsal, student. In the introduction of his and would certainly have 17,000-word report, "Reforming taken that into account TheTeachingof Mathematicsatthe when writing my story. UndergraduateLeve1,"hewrote"rot- What bothers me about ten teaching has made me lose most this incidentis not so much that I wasn't allowed to see of my interest in math." ~anadariskslosii~awhole~en-the play, but that eration of brilliantmindsif thev don't Greenberg had so little confidence in it that he fix this problem. ~ e t ' ask s U%w ' hat refused to allowus to see it they plan to do about it.

It seems that over the next decade there will be need for 30,000 new professors.

dents and blowing up the historic Student Union building. In the spring of 1988, when KO Phone Maw, a student from Rangoon Institute of Technology, was killed by the militaryin adispute with authorities, the students protested that those responsible should be brought to justice. When the military ignored their demands, the students organized a large rally at Rangoon University on March 16,1988, and the military responded by killing more peaceful demonstrators. By August, the students had secretly organized nation-wide demonstrations of citizens from all walks to overthrow the dictatorship. These protestsculrninatedinthe military's massacres in August 1988 of thousands of its non-violent opponents. Hundreds of student and other pro-democracy activists were subsequently tortured and imprisoned. Thousands fled the country and some took up arms against the regime. M i KONaing, a third-year zoology student who stayed in Burma taking the resistance struggle underi ground was arrested in 1989, held without chargesuntil 1992when he received a 15-year sentence in solitaryconfinementwith forcedlabour. A postcard campaign calling for his release is currently underway.

Echo runs up against UW Drama

chant of Venice cast, who never had the opportunity to show their work to a member of the press who was committed to promoting their play. Mr. Greenberg, perhaps a course in media relations would be to your benefit. Although you run the risk of a bad review, most readers are intelligent enough to make up their own minds.

By: Billy Guns

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American democracy? I

WISSAM ALAME special to Imprint

f thereis one thing that the American electionsnever fail to teach us, it'sthatthe "strongest democracy" in the world's "richest"country isnot as democratic as a free mind would expect it to be. This election especially was a disgrace to democracy with the undemocratic behaviour that the media and some of the candidates practiced. If you go back to its base, you realise that the American electoral systemisextremely messy. The Electoral College system does not properly represent the people's choice for president. Throughout the world, nations are using a popular election system to choose their leaders. The Americans, although claiming to be amodern democratic nation, are stuck to the Electoral College system because it best suits their interests. Now, some people are talking about changing the electoral system, probably not because it ismore democratic but because it suits their interestsbetter (after all, Gore would prob ably have won under apopular electoralsystem). And above that, you have the big corporations. Big corporations have alwaysmanipulated t h e h e r i can public to get what they want. FrommarketingtheVietnamWarto getting a certain American into power, the big corporations have been behind alot of America'scritical pointsin history through apowerful tool called the media. My personal opinion is that a country where the publicisconstantly subjectedto pressure and brainwashing from the media and from the government does not have a real democracy. A real democracy is one in which people can have their own opinions and vote for their leaders without any pressure. Now, for the Nader factor. It is really disgustinghow RalphNader is being accused of spoiling the elec-

tions, when all he was doing was exercising his and his party's rights. People who blame Nader for Gore's loss are making immature, unintelligentand undemocraticcomments. How about if I said that if the Democratic and Republican parties didn't run for elections then Nader would have won, thus blaming the two partiesfor Nader'sloss? Would this be a just statement for an openminded person to make? Of course it wouldn't. Just like the Republicanand the Democratic Parties have the right to run for elections, so does the Green Party and so does any other party with a program for representing the Americanpeople. After all, thisis the whole point of democracy. If I was an American, I would probably have voted for Nader, and I would not have voted for Gore or Bush if Nader wasn't running. Nader has a distinct program for America. Unlike Bush or Gore, he truly cares about people when it comes to issues such as health care, the environment, the US foreign policy, taxes and other vital topics. People like Nader have great ideas in their minds, and the size of the two big parties should not influence their enthusiasm about those ideas. People should understand that they have a choice other than candidates with four-letter family names, and other than two parties that are practically the samewhen it comes to decency and honesty. Democracy isaboutchoice, without pressure. It is about choice of religious behefs, choice of political ideas, and choice of leaders, without any pressure. Talking about Nader spoiling the elections is definitely not democratic. Nader couldn't defend himself better by saying: 'You can't spoil a system spoiled to the core." But then again, Americans like Gore are resorting to the best talent in American Politics: blamingothers for their mistakes and their occasional incompetence.

Im~rint,Friday. December 1 . 2000

No really - thanks for the help M E L I S S A A N D TANYA special to Imprint

T"'

1s discussion is over. We are unable to provide you with Hagey Hall 180." Were we supposed to forget about the two months of rehearsals three timesaweek?Forget about our castwho foundtime tomemorize the pages of lines, or the crew who had invested time and money into makingpostersand tickets?Forgetabout the science students and faculty excited to see their own in the limelight? Forget about the assignments, classes and labs we jeopardized for this project? We had put our heart and soul into a production that we were doing for fun, not credit, because we loved it. We belleved it would expose our faculty to something new. But, we're only a bunch of Science students. Why would anyone think we could put on a play? When we first decided to approachthe Drama department about the production, we thought we would be greeted with enthusiasm. You'd think they'd want to help out UW students with a shared passion for theatre. The Universityof Waterloo calendar states that this school fosters "unity amid diversity," yet Sciencestudents become strangers if they try to experience something outside their faculty. When we applied to this university, we had to prove that we were well-rounded students, but now that we are here, are we supposed to limit ourselvesto whatwill be printedon our degrees? surprisingly, thislackof support didn't discourageus. RealizingDrama couldn't or wouldn't help-us, we ventured out alone. We wandered into the workshop of General Services. Once again we were in foreign territory, but this time we were greetedby smiles, jokesandvaluable advice on exactly where to go and who to see. The "who" was Donna Schell at Needles Hall, who made many phone calls on our behalf and got us everything we needed; free of

charge and within 20 minutes. She was also busy with "regular duties;" however, she saw us as two LJW studentsneeding help fromour school, and wasmore than willing to lend a ha+. So Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii wasonitsway. Weshouldhaveknown that booking H H 18Otwomonthsin advance wasn't sufficientnotice; we shouldhave questioneditwhen Joyce from the Drama office saidit was OK and wrote us in the calendar. Little did we know it was only "tentative" when she called one week before the show and told us we couldn't have the studio. Maybe Drama keepsperformances "tentative" aweek before the show, but us Science students were fully prepared to go on stage. We approached Peter Carret at the Box Office in a mad panic of tears and pleading, he fought on our behalf and H H 180 was again in our possession.Apparently this isn't the first time this has happened to other facultiesbooking HH 180,but maybe we're the only ones who weren't going to put up with it. "Maybe you can move it to the SLC Multi-Purpose Room" was the suggestion. The day Drama decides to put on aperformance in the SLC, we'll be there. We did everything Drama asked of us, yet apparently we went through the wrong channels. It would have been great to know whatthe right ones were. Getting to the top means starting at the bottom, and I guess it wasn't their responsibility or intention to point us in the right direction. "Is a rowdy crowd going to be coming to this show?. . .because we have upholstered chairs." "Wediddtthinkyoustillwanted the theatre. We haven't heard from you since you booked it." "I guess you're going to have to be let into the room. .now 1'11 have to write a letter to Security too." Listening to this, we wondered how it could have happened. We had been in to see the Drama department at least once a week since we

booked the theatre. We were even personally shown the studio just a few days before they called us to cancel it. We had written up an outline of our requirements like they asked, and every time we came by, no problems were ever mentioned. Maybe the real problem is the "rowdy" crowd of scientiststhat will be comingto see the show. We might show upinbloody lab coatsandwith corrosive chemicals that will eat up their upholstered chairs. Or maybe the time it takes to tell security that we'll be using the room might run into someone's lunch break. But the show must go on. No matter how much we had to go through, these Sciencestudents made it happen. Last Friday and Saturday in Hagey Hall 180, we played three shows, two of which were sold out. We, unfortunately, had to turn people away the secondnight. s he skuggleswiththosewho thoughtwe would fail are forgotten, as the spirit of those who fostered our efforts will fill the audience.Thanks to the amazing cast andcrew for helping out and putting up with all the confusion we may have put you through. Special thanks to Nancy and Anne at the Turnkey desk, Donna Schell, General Services, Central Stores, the Greenhouse, Peter Carret, and our friends who came out to support us. To UW Drama, we apologize for all the inconvenience we have caused you, and any time and effort you had to use when dealing withus asUoutsiders."We should have never expected or even believed that you would want to help us venture into your world. Maybe this university wasdivided into faculties so that depamnentslike Science andDrama are not expected to support each other. But in the spirit that we cheer about inFrosh week, we'dlike you to know that our doors arealwaysopen. If you ever wouldlike to learn about what we do, we would be more than happy to take some time out of our schedulesto show you, aslong as you promise not to break our beakers.

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his past July 12, activists,scientists, social workers and researchers met in Durban, South Africa for the 13th International AIDS Conference. This conference was the first of its kind that was held in the Third World, a cruel paradox considering that an estimated 90 percent of theworld's H N positive population livesin the Third World. As well, sub-SaharanAfricais the hardest hit, with new infections in 1999 numbering four million. It was, therefore, fitting that South Africa - the only country in that region that could afford to put on such a conference be the setting for this international event. The statisticsare horrifying. AccordingtoUNAIDS, theJoint United Nations' Programme on HNfAIDS, 35.8 per cent of adults in Botswana are infected with HN. In the last year, the percentage of the South African population living with HIV rose from 12.9 per cent to 19.9 per cent. In addition, 3.8 million children worldwide have died of AIDS. One wondershow people who have dedicated their lives to fighting this disease can carry on in the face of such overwhelming odds. However, not all of the news was devastating, and a few glimmers of hope were unveiled over the course of the s i i day conference. Verticaltransmissionisthe uansmission of any communicabledisease from parent to offspring, as opposed to horizontal transmission, which, for example with the HIVvirus, is the transmission betweensexualpartners. For years, physicians - . have warnedHIVpositive mothers against breast feeding an H N negative child to avoid vertical transmissionof virus. This poses a problemforwomenliving in impoverished areaswheredeanwater isimpossibleto find and formula istoo expensive to buy. Asmdy presented attheconference by South African researchers revealed the results of a cohort study in Durban, which suggestedthatexclusive breast feeding that is, the mother never used any alternative formula or food source actually reduced the risk of transmission of HIV frommother to chid. Although further cohorts should be studied to determine if the results can be duplicated,thisisverygoodnewsforHN

positive women of child-bearingage in Third World countries. Dr. David Ho, Time's Man Of The Year in 1996, had predicted at the InternationalAIDS Conference in Vancouver that the introduction of HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy)wouldspell acure for AIDS by the year 2000. At this year's conference he was forced to retract that statement, but as the keynote speaker at the plenary session on the third day, Dr. Ho explained an advance in treatment described as structured treatment interruptions,or STIs. Prior to the conference, patients on three-drug anti-retroviral therapy, commonly known as the "cocktail," had been told that if they missed taking even one dose of their medications, they risk the chance that the virus in their blood will evolve to become resistant to the drug. The threat isif thevirusdeveloped resistanceto one anti-retroviral, it will be resistant to all of them. A change of medication will not be sufficienttocombatthevirus.Many peoplelivingwith~ ~ c a r r ~ b e e ~ e r i withthem.anecessitvwhenthedrue. regimen is so strictand certain drugs must be takenwithmeals,while others must only be taken on an empty stomach. They run the riskof becoming prisoner to their medication. Dr. Ho has studied the therapy described as STI and has concluded Should this strategy prove helpful, that it is possible to allow patients thesestrucnlredvacadonsfromdrugs structuredrespitefromtheirregular will hopefully reduce some of the routinesof pills.Notonly isitbenefi- physical side effects and emotional cialmentallyandemotionally,butit wear and tear caused by rigid treatment. Markwainberg, aCanadian and former president of the International AIDS Society, commented that vaccines should be the focusof all AIDS research because it is impossible to change people,s behaviour. Although some delegates disaRreedwithhim,noting that a vaccine could take 20 years or longer may also be akey to fightingthevirus to develop and that social intervenwithin the patient'sbody. The virus tions have been shown to be effecseemstohide out inareasthat~ rHO . tive, the bulk of the pure science called "reservous,'tissuesinthebody research was focused on developing that will retain the virussothat even avaccine. The difficulty with develif the levels of virus in the blood are opingan HIVvaccine is thatthereare at an undetectable level, they can rise two main types: HIV-A and HIV-B. quickly again when released from Each of those types, whichseem to be these tissues. concentrated in different regions of STIs tend to "flush out* the the world, are subtypesanditcan be virus from these reservoirs so that argued that a different form of the the next round of anti-retroviral virus is present in eachpersonliving drugs attack those that have been withHN. baited from their hiding places. Vaginal microbicides were an-

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other focal point of research with many differentgroupsattemptingto ensure a form of protection against H N for women, that iscontrolled by women. Avaginalmicrobicidewould be in a gel or cream form that would actually killthevirusif it entered the genital tract before it couldcrossthe mucousmembrane of the vagina and enter the bloodstream. The importance of a womancontrolled mechanism of protection was emphasized by Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta of the International Centre for Research on Women. Dr. Gupta presented evidencethat society'snotions of gender and sexuality put bothmen and women at risk of HIV infection, and that violence against women and sexual abuse was a risk factor for increased chance of acquiringHN. The Canadian government announced at a luncheonfor Canadian delegates that, for this reason, they have been fundingthe development of an "invisible" female condom. The International AIDS Conference in Durban certainlywas not the hotbed of AIDS activism it once was. Perhaps it was the soberingreality that the delegates were faced with when it was stated that 50 per

centofSouthAfricanchildrenwillbe infected by H N at some point throughouttheir lifetimes if nothing is done to quench the infection rate. Perhaps it was the suggestion made by those viewed as the common enemy, new AIDS dissidents,that H N drugs are killing people andnot H N that lead people to be a little more forgivingof the drug companiesthat were present. Perhapsitwas the success stories of African countrieslike Uganda and Zambiathat led people, hushed and hopeful, to listen to NelsonMandela's speechat the closing ceremonies with tears in their eyes. Many parallels were drawn between the fight against AIDS and the continuing fight against racism and hate in the host country. Much has been accomplished, yet more is needed to be done, and we must never forget those that have alreadylost their livesin thisstruggle.

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n Friday, December 1, there will be a World AIDS Day Vigil from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Victoria School Centre, 25 Joseph Street, Kitchener. There will be candle lighting and music during the service.

Im~rint.Friday, December I , 2000

AIDS AWARENESS DAY - DECEMBER 1

Reality hits home HN-positive family loola to communities for support J I L L PARSONS special to Imprint

he final week in November was AIDS Awareness Week and December 1is International AIDS Awareness Day. Although it's never far from my mind, these few daysserveto remindme of the reason why I have so far dedicated much of my life to work with HIVIAIDS organizations. For somany people, AIDS is an abstract, albeit scary, concept. It was the reason that safersexbecamesuchabigdealinthe late 1980s and early 1990s - just another of the countless things wrong with our world. For me, it's personal. ' 1have three familv members who are HIV positive. AH three of them are hemophiliac's who contracted HIV through blood transfusions before . 1985, the year that Canada started heat-treatingdonatedblood. One of those family members is my older brother, David. By 1986, my brother had already suffered immeasurable pain, brain damage and social stigma as a result of his hemophilia, but it was not to end there. David was fifteen years old when he discoveredthat he was HIV positive. None of his health careproviders informed him of his statushe read it off a chart one day when a nurse left him alone in aroom with hls file. Considering the statistics on teen sexthesedays, he was lucky that he never passed it on to anyone else. The rest of his story reads pretty much the same as that of the other thousand Canadian hemophiliacs who contracted H N from blood products. My brother andmyparentslived in fear anddenialfor adecade. David's

life spiralled into despair and anger. Whilemyparentswatched helplessly, andmy sister andIlivedinignorance, my brother took a self-destructive route filled with alcohol anddrugsin an attempt to forget his pain and the fact that the doctor had given him two years to live. Indeed, I wasn't informed of my brother's condition until I was fifteen; he had dropped his unhealthy lifestyle seven years after his diagnosis. That horrible news started me on a path of anguish and activism that I continue on to this day. In becoming involved with AIDS organizations and in workingwith people who have been infected or affectedbythedk ease, I have been able to work throughmyown personal feelings. Through this work, I've met people fromallfacetsof life who, for one reason or another, have j o ~ t h r a f i g bHWandAIDS, ~~t In some .ways, my family was lueky. We were already membersof a community, the Canadian ~emo~hilia~&iety, whose members were deeplyaffectedby the tragedy, and where discussion of the disease was nottaboo.Religiousandpolitical leaders had already labelled the victims of tainted blood as the "innocent bystanders" of the AIDS crisis. AIDS isnotjust asign of immunological infirmity, it isa symptomof social infirmityas well. The epidemiology of AIDS in North America reveals that atthe beginning of the epidemic, H N targeted the homosexual, intravenous&ugusingandimpoverished communitiesaswellasthesick. These are groups that, in the early 1980s, were already marginalized Where could members of these communities turn when their H N status was

MY brother and parents lived in fear and denial for a decade. I lived in ignorance.

Remember who raised AIDS awareness in gay communtiy I

t is easy to forget just how devastating AIDS has been to the queer community. Looking over the longhistoryof GLOW, it is disturbing for me to know just how many students here at the University of Waterloo died of the disease in the mid-1980s to mid1990s. The diseaseeventuallyknown as AIDS began to appear in this area in the early 1980s. The gay communitywas more aware of the disease than most because many were beginning to get sick. At this time, no one knewwhat caused the disease or how to avoid getting infectedwithit. In 1983,TbeK-WRecorddida news serieson the disease with the column heading, "The Gay Plague." Many were disturbed by such apejorativetitle-onewhich marginalizedtheproblem of AIDS toasingle community,whenclearly it could affect anyone. By about 1985, it was finally cunfirmed that AIDS was a sexualIy-aansmitteddisease.For many gay students, this news was discov-

ered far too late. Indeed, many of the students who were involved with the Gay Liberation Movement between the mid-1970sandthe mid-1980swere already sick. It was this year a UW student spearheaded the formation of the AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area (ACCKWA). The student had been diagnosed as HIV-positive earlier that year. Once the cause of AIDS was determined, the issue of safer sex went to the forefront.Volunteers at GLOW put on an AIDS Awareness Night at the K-W Hospital. By 1986,regular dancesbecame fundraisersfor AIDS-relatedcauses. In 1987, the Campus AIDS-Awareness Groupwas formed throughUW Health Services. GLOW celebratedits2Oth anniversaryin 1991.Bythetimethe25th anniversary arrived, many former members had died. While it is true that the number of new AIDS cases has dropped dramatically in the last ten years, the people who lived through the epi-

demic in Canada are affected for life. Many people in this age group died - friends, partners, family. For those who survived, very few their ageare leftto formnew friendshipsand relationships. AIDS has killed many people who could have been role models for our generation. Instead of fighting for equality, the queer community has spent almost two decades fighting a disease that threatened its very existence. But in many ways, the AIDS epidemichas made the queer community stronger by uniting us under acommoncause. It also brought to the forefront need for recognition of same-sex~elationships,especially when hospitals and families refused to permit spousesto see their dying partners, and when courts refused to consider samesex partnerswhen arbitratingwills. It is often easy to downplay the effectsofAIDS,in particular at our university. The cold truth is that many U W studentsdiedof the disease. It's important not to forget.

determined? I believe that things have changed to some extent in North America since 1986. In 1995,when my father published a book entitled BidBlood,andmy familymembers' names and faces were ~lasteredall overthe~ttawacitizen aklMa~lea12's magazine, I expected to be ostracized at school. Most people, perhaps because they didn't read the paper or didn't have anythingto say, never mentionedit. One or two people offered their support. I heard nothingnegativefrommyclassmates, which\& a leap from five years earlier when people with H N positive relatives were being fired and their relatives were refused admit-

tance to schools or care facilities.The health care system and Canadian society at large have acquainted themselveswith the facts regarding HN, andwith knowledge comestolerance. However, one mustnot become complacent. In travelling to South Africa this summer, where the epidemic is estimated to affect 30 per cent of the population, I heard stories of mobs lynching people who had disclosed their HNstatus. In the hospital where I volunteered, four out of the six HIV positive children in the ward had been abandoned due to their parents' fear of their children's diagnosis. I was also reminded at the International AIDS

Conference of the epidemics developingparticularlyin IndiaandSoutheastAsia. North Americamust not be ignored, either. Young women are now the only sector of the population where the rate of new HIVinfectionsis stillrising. SowhatisAIDSAwarenessWeek all about?I think that it means something different for everyone. For me, it is time to reflect on those people whomwe have already lost to this terrible disease, a reminder that the cause still needs proponents. It's achance to thankmy creator for the hero that I have had the great fortune to be so close to -my brother -who igaliveand well and has been livingwithHIVforover fifteenyears.

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Imprint, Friday, December 1 , 2000 don't they'll let you know in the nicest possible way." I'd wander the city for a few hours, admire the buildings and the landscape. I'd look at my watch and realize it was already 6 p.m. I've never been to such a place where you could spend your entire day doing nothing and be proud of what you'd accomplished. At night it was the Clown and Bard. Abar at the base of a hostelwith acave-like atmosphere full of travellers and ex-pats all living the Bohemian lifestyle. Foreigners who lived in Prague for years still visited this place regularly.There was the American art student studyingthe Renaissance in Europe for the summer; the Canadiansteaching inTurkey; Wink, the forty-something En&shmanwith a braided beard, killing time. The writer, scribbling down a part of his novel on the back of a flyer. When I askedhim how he could write withall this distraction around him he replied, "If it wasn't easy for me, if I wasn't meant to do this, I wouldn't be." The nights lasted longer than the days. We'd always start at the hostel, payingS0cents for a half litre beer that would put most North American beers to shame. Conversations would arise, newcomerswould join in, you'd find yourself saying thingsthatwere so profound to these

Bohemian like you Prague and Czech lifestyles are like a drug KPNNY D P H R A B I C special to Imprint

think you start to feel it a few hours after arriving. Almost everyone starts a trip into the Czech Republic with a visit to Prague, the legendary city of 13th century buildings, Kafka,andpeacefulrevolutions. Maybe it startsafter your first taste of Czech beer. It's so silent you don't realize ituntilit'salready taken hold. But I'm getting ahead of myself. For me, it started with Charlie. I'd made contact with Charlie through e-mail via a mutual friend beforkarriving. He'dbeeninPrague for four months, partying, livingand working,inthat order. He'dfinished university in Canada, hung around for a vear for a girl and to work,.got crushed by the girl, became disillu-

sioned with Canadian women and a lack of challenges in Canada, so he left. Inever did findoutwhy hecame specificallyto Prague, but I suppose it doesn't matter. We had found each other easily enough at the station,andslowly got toknoweachother. It's always strange when you meet someone you've heardabout and try to findthe common ground beyond ;our friendship with someone else. But it flowed. There was lots of silence at times, but it wasn't uncomfortable. It was understood by both of us that there was nothing worth saying.

Charlie loved the lifestyle that he led. It wasn't because of the partying. It was the atmosphere, the spiritthat isPrague. It surrounds you and runs through you and even if you wanted to stop it you couldn't. Being in that place brings a calmness to your mind, body and soul. When he'd f i s t arrived, he spent his days walking the city for a few hours, and his nights drinking, relaxing, talking to other travellers and Czechs. The Czechs were described to me as friendly; simple, honest friendlinessthat we allcravein these people we meet everyday. I think it was the women he loved most. In the time he spent there he'd had a share of encounters that added up to a small international harem. But the Czech women were his favourite. "There's never any bullshit from them. If they like you they'll tell you, and if they

Everyone cared, no one worried, time was irrelevant.

strangers you wondered why that part of your soul was locked up for so long. Eventually we'd migrate to another bar, then maybe a disco. Everyone cared, no one worried, time wasonly relevant to the last call of the place where you were. Charlie and I spent a weekend in Cesky Kromlov, a small Czech town set up as a backpackers haven. The weekend has become a blur of mgesand feelings, withafewmemories. The long-haired beatniks inhabitingmost bars. Thelocal who wasso drunk he tried to eat his pint glass on a dare, ending up as a bloody mess. My best memory is Marika, a local girl withonly some Englishwordsin her vocabulary. We spent most of the night talkingwith single words, hand gestures, writingon the ground, whatever we had to communicate. I finished my stay with a few more days in Prague. By now I'd realized what I'd become, a true bohemian. Activity, experience, adventure, time, none of it held the same meanlng to me while I stayed there. That was the only danger. Prague and the Czech lifestyle are like a drug. Charlie told me about foreigners who came, got hooked on it, spent too much time and money there and couldn't afford to leave. So after enjoyingmy high, Igot out. But, I think I would have been happy to get hooked. --

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ews: In a shocking turn of events in the Feds office, John Vellinga resigns from the Presidency. Vellinga cites his reasons for leaving his post as health-related, feeling "burned-out." Vellinga proved to be instrumental in the "alt." newsgroup debate and the Student Life Building referendum. Paul Done reports thatvellinga, while speakingat his final Student's council, "related his opinion that battling student apathy would be the important issue.. .the next chapter in student administration." By a margin of almost two-to-one, UW students reject the Student Life Building expansion proposed by the Feds in a two-day referendum. Imprint calculates that, out of 15,847eligiblevoters,4,409 wentto the polls.

omm: Imprint Director-at-Large Dave Thomson asks why the Student Life Building referendum resulted in an overwhelming "no" answer. Thomson reports that students had easy access to information regarding the debate, but still, students didn't know enough about the issues. Thomson also finds that students looked primarily to Imprint for referendum information - a campus media outlet that provided the backbone of the unofficial N O campaign. Thomson adds, "most of Imprint staff was against the proposal.. .to what extent [did] this influence voting?"

cience: Bob Whitton introduces the University to the Waterloo Electron and Photon Impact Laboratory in the basement of the Chemistry2 building. Lab taskmasterDr. Tong Leung says, "[the equipment] is as good as anywhere in the world."

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eature story: Jon Hagey features War ainst . War, "avery powerful and dangerous book" written by Ernst Friedrich, "a German who was passionately opposed to violence." Friedrich includesshockingpictures of the atrocities of war, some of which Imprint prints, including starved soldiers, mauled corpses and an "almost whole blown away face."

Party on, but without noise Q

After finally finishing exams, my roommates and I had some friends over for a small party. Although I don't think wewerebeingthatnoisy, anofficialshowedup and gave us a warning. An hour later, he came back and gaveus a fine. Whatwill happenif we refuse to pay - . it?

ports: At the CIAU Cheerleading championships at SkyDome, the Warrior cheerleading team places second overall, and as a result, is the number two ranked team in Canada. Western places in first, 3 0points ahead of Waterloo, whichis the narrowest margin of victory for Western in years. Reporter Jill Wismer says, "since the team formed four years ago, it has had to overcome fights for practice space, expensesand respect as an athletic team, not a social club." In men's hockey, the Warriors finish the week ranked ninth in the CIAU Top Ten. The Warriormen'svolleyballteam boastsaneighthplace ranking in its respective CIAU Top Ten.

The official you are referring to was vrobablv, a bvlaw , officer.Youmaybefinished exams, but the people in your neighbourhood still have to get up for work in the morning. The City of waterloo has a noise bylaw~78-79),which stipulates that excessive noise from electronicdevices or equipment (i.e. loudspeakers) constitutes aviolation and if acomplaint is launched by one of your neighbours, a bylaw officer may investigate, issue a warning and subsequently, fine you. Restrictions on noise from stereos apply between 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. on Monday through Saturdayand 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sundays. You do have to pay the ticket unless you choose toappealit. If youdonothing, you will be summoned to Small Claims Court and if found guilty, you will not only have to pay the

ticket,butalso thecost of thecourt fees. Abylaw fineislike atrafficticket. If you lookon the back of your ticket, you will see the various sections to check off indicating whether you intend to pay it or appeal the fine. There are other noise violations in residential areas, which include: Yelling, shouting, or loud singing during restricted hours. Overation of vower tools other than for snowremoval. Continual barking or whiningby adomestic pet. Squealingthetiresof a motor vehicle. Operatingconstruction equipment during restricted times. T o check the times for these restrictions, visit the bylawssection of the LegalIssues Pamphlet Centre in the Student ServicesArea of the SLC. Allinformation in thisarticle wasobtained from The City ofWaterloo's "It's (Y)ourNeighbourhoodGuide." UW's Ombudsperson is Marianne Miller. You can contactMarianne byphoningheroffice a t 888-4567, extension 2402, e-mailing mrniller@uwaterloo.ca, orby visitingher office in thestudent Life Centre, room 2402.

You may be finished exams, but the people in your neighbourhood have to go to work in the morning. -

rts: Imprint gives some Christmas gift advice by 1abellingTheCure'sMixed-Up, Shriekback'sTheDancingYears and Lydon Pil's PublicImage Ltd. as students'best-bets. In record reviews, Peter Diaz "can't force [himself]to listen" to 1NXS'X"in one sittingn; RichNichol says that Van Morrison'sEnlightenment "is the kind of work that makes you want to cuddleup with your sweetheartn; and, John Hymers rages that Megadeth's Rust In Peace is "a pathetic albumn and the group has "totally screwed up."

Are you getting enough to eat? The food we eat may not be as healthy as you might think MELANIE

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re you healthy? Do you eat well-roundedmealswith lots of fruits and vegetables? Then chances are you're not as healthy as you may think.Consider this: what if all those fruits andvegetables you're eating to stay healthy aren't asgood for you as you've been led to believe?The nutritional value of our foods depend on the quality of the soil in which they are grown, a factor that we as individual consumershave virtuallyno control over. If the soil our veggies are grown in is lacking essential nutrients, then so are the vegetables, and so are we. The concern about soil qualityis not new. Scientists, doctorsand even dentists have done research since the 1930s on how humans are affected by malnutrition as a result of low soil quality. Even during WWII a soil scientist named William Albrecht pointed out that the United States was in danger in terms of producing vitamin and protein rich foods because it is done in bulkquantities, and it would slowly affect our plants, animals, and our health. His statement still applies to Canada today. Farmers andagriculture organizations are concerned more with the yield of the crops than with their quality. This quantity over quality decisionhas haddisastrouseffectson the nutritional value of crops by al-

lowing less nutrients for each plant. And while we're aware that our soil is of low quality, what have we done to fix the problem? Nothing. We use our technology to develop hybrid crops that maintain the flavour we love, while being able to grow in nutrient deficient soil. Consumers have no way of telling if their sweet cornislivingup toits potential just by eating it. And the figures we are given about the nutrients in our foodarebasedon averages, so without knowing, half the food we eat contains a below average amount of nutrients. Malnutrition is a contributing factor, if not the cause, of many of our illnesses. It can cause deformities, reproductive difficulties, and even affect our capacity to learn. Studies have been done on children who are undernourished. The studies show that when given the right fats and vitamins, achild's attention span and capacity to learn increases. Weston Price, a dentist, performed a dental study of isolated native people. He found that not only did they have perfectly aligned teeth, but they had a less than a one per cent rate of cavities, without

brushing their teeth, flossing, orregulady seeing a dentist. He went on to analyze their diets and discovered elements that North American diets were lacking. He returned home and tested the new found diet on children who hadnumerouscavities and health problems. He had them eat things like breads made with whole wheat flour instead of white, and

resilient to disease andinfection, and will be lesslikely to catch an infectious disease, like a cold or the flu. Before modern transportation, people's healthvaried by region, andcould be traced to varying soil qualities throughout the world. As a result of world travel, trade and colonization, low quality foods have been exported all over the world, affecting regions that used t o have a higher soil quality. After being exposed to our diet, previously isolated native people were no longer healthy, became susceptible to our diseases, and began showingsignsof the same teeth and health problems that still plague us today. The standard by whichwe measure our health could be one of the problems. With the information we have we can't begin to understand the potential for health that our bodies have, and even the healthiest among us (by our standards) may be undernourished compared to the healthfulness we could achieve. Andre Voisin,aFrenchveterinarian, said, "For all time the soil will remain the very basis of our life, in every sense of the word and from all points

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added a high vitamin butter oil to their diets. He discovered that with the new diet (especially the butter), the children's cavities mineralized over, and they were less prone to gettingmore cavities. The children's teachersnoticed they went from the bottom to the top of their classes in a short period of time. The children's overallhealth improvedas aresult of the new diet. This tells us that the processed, bleached, manufactured foods that we eat may be doing more harm than good. Atruly healthy body isalsomore

of view." Soil is the very basis of life, it is the bottom of the food chain. It affects all the food humans eat that grows from it and it affects the feed it produces as well. As long as it remains substandard in nutrients, our health will be affected in amultitude of ways. But nutrition seems to be nobody's responsibility.We can make sure that we eat all the right foods in the right amounts, but who'smaking sure that those foods aren't void of nutrients and minerals? Information about soil quality and its effects on our crops is not easily accessible, although it is available if you dig deep enough. These issues are ignored because to fix the problemit may mean decreasing crop yield. If a farmer decreases his yield, ;hen he's losing money. herd is no fast or easy solution to the problems thatstemfromthe issuesof soilquality, but we could start by asking for accurate information of what the food we eat contains, rather than averages. As we continue to eat empty foods our bodies are talung a beating, and witheach -generation that is born there are more health risksandcomplications. Couldwhat seems like an unnoticeable bit of undernourishment over hundreds and thousands of years mean our slow, steady extinction? It's hard to say, but if you stop and think about the endless effect something like soil has on our lives, anything'spossible.

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he end is near. With cssentially the entire human genome sequenced, biologists are now faced with an even tougher question: what does all this information mean? It's all well and good to knowthe sequence of base pairs that makes humans the way they are, but if you don't knowwhat the base pairs code for, the information is pretty much useless. This is where proteomics comesin. Every cell in the human body containsthe same DNA, and yet each cell is different. There are many different types of cells: liver cells, skin cells, cardiaccells,skeletal cells and many, many others (trillions, in fact). Why are they different? This is because the genes in your body code for different proteins, andit is the expression of these proteins that determines the type of cell each cell becomes. Proteomicsisinvolved with the study of all the proteins expressed in a cell at any given time. Cells have different stages in their lives, and determining the proteins expressed

at any particular stage may give researchers a clue as to how the cell works. They may also deduce novel ways to treat diseases such ascancer and AIDS. The human genome is roughly 3 x lo9base pairs long. At any time, there may be up to 7.9 x lo9protein molecules in a liver cell, to give one example. Qualitatively and quantitatively determining the proteinsin thecellcan be extremely time-consuming, particularly considering there are over 3 trillion cells in the human body. Several methods have bein developed over the years in the field of proteomics to help automate and speed up proteinidentification, similar to the way DNA sequencing is now automated. Since proteomics dealswith the proteins in ace11lysate (thegutsof the cell), the proteins must be separated before they are identified. This is done using 2-DE (two-dimensional gel electrophoresis). This is acombination of both SDS-PAGE (which separates molecules based on size)

and isoelectricfocusing(whichseparates proteins based on their pI isoelectricpoint,where they are electrically neutral). 2-DE is an important part of proteomics, because it hasahighresolvingcapacity-up to

Switzerland have developed several waysinwhichtodigesttheproteins. The first is one-step digestion transfer (OSDT), where the peptides are digested as they are transferred to the matrix. There is also parallel ingel digestion (PIGD),where the proteins are digested "ingeln and then transferred to the matrix. The third method combinesthe two, andisgood for high molecular weight and basic proteins, minimizing the lossof low molecular weight proteins. Once the ueutides . . are ready, they are analysed usine MALDI-TOF MIS . (mafl;Xassisted&r d e ~ r p t i o d ionization mass spectrometry). This is key t o proteomic research. It allows researchers to identify the proteins present in the sample, and estimate their quantity in the sample,to get peptide mass fingerprints(PMF).The proteins are then identified using PeptIdent, an onlinedatabaseof PMF data Using thisdata, annotatedmaps of the proteins can be made. These are 3-Q imqges y j t b p l and molecu-

Research in this area of bioinforrnatics continues every day, and new advances are Sure to help speed up already-quick methods 11,200 proteins from a single mixture in an experiment. It has one disadvantage, however, and that is that only highly abundant proteins will be visualisedwhen complete cell lysates are analysed. The proteins are then enzymaticallydigestedin avariety of ways, then transferredontoamatrix plate to be analysed. Researchers in

lar mass as the x and y coordinates, andthe intensity of the MS spectra as z, in agrayscale. The 3-D images can be considered to be graphical projections of an automatically generated proteomic database. Auser can then search the database by protein identifiers, such as name, or by protein mass. Research in this area of bioinformatics continues every day, and new advances are sure to help speed up already-quick methods. It is not far-fetched to believe that in the near future, automated protein identification and sequencing on a mass scale will be as common as DNA sequencing is right now.

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made a heavy guard attempt, allowing his opponent to execute a triple-takeout and score urling, like so many other sports, is a two. After this, the team never game that places a high priority on seemed to right itself and three what are often called the 'little things.' misses by Waterloo in the eighth To achieve success on a regular basis at the end gave the Western men's 'B' varsity level, it is necessary not only to have team a come-from-behind 8-7 great talent, but also to work as a team and to triumph. In their third game, execute the fundamentals.So when the Water- Waterloo once again started hot, loo Varsity Men's and Women's teams trav- getting solid play from lead elled to London this past Saturday to compete David Cerantola and second in an invitational aggregate-pointsbonspiel at Jeffrey Dungen. However, their theuniversitvof Western Ontario. CoachScott early three point lead didn't last M e n wasmore concerned with whether or not as Western men's 'A' team domithis year's teams would gel than with how they nated ends three through six, scoring a single point in each. would finish. As it turned out, he needn't have worried Waterloo countered with a that much. The men's team scored early and deuce in the seventh, and when often in their first game, bolstered greatly by Steve Hertzmade aperfect draw STEVE l l Mercer in the house. the excellent play of their skip, chiis Schell. around cover in the eighth, it Warriorskip~Jenn Waterloo led4-Oafter five ends, takingadvan- appeared as though Waterloo tage of their opponent's mistakes, and held on would come out on top; however, Western's time, they rallied from a four point deficit to for a6-5 victory. In their secondgame,vice-skip last rock foundits way off three stones to tie the finish the game with the scored tied at six. The Steve Hem, whose greateststrength ishiscalm game. Overall,their recordof one win, oneloss team showed exceptional poise during this demeanor, shook off his first game struggles and one tie gave Waterloo 57 points and a match; lead Tara Middlemiss and second Valerie Sloan were nothing short of spectacuand made his first six shots superbly helping second place finish in the tournament. Meanwhile,the Waterloowomen, having lar inthe secondhalf of the game. In their third Waterloo to an early 5-0 lead. Waterloo led 63 in the sixth when Schell uncharacteristically only one returning member from last year's and final game, Waterloo and Western WomOUA Championship team, en's Team 'A' traded the lead four times, evenis undergoing a rebuilding tually tying at five. Even though they didn't year. Duringlast Saturday's win, the team should be greatly encouraged by bonspiel, the team began to the manner in which they played their last two take strides toward mould- games. Specifically, strategy employed by skip ing their talent into formi- Jenn Mercer was markedly more veteran, and dable teamplay. In their first the front end of Valerie Sloan and Andrea game, the ladies, with the Bartlett dramatically reduced the number of exception of Andrea sweeping errors. Vice-skip Jerianne Montgomery's line calling, and her abilityto look for "Plan B" when the skip rocks took too much team didn't quit, and Mer- curl twice saved the team from certain doom. cer made four superb shots In the end, the Women's team finished fifth in the late ends to cut the with a total 52 points and a great deal more lead to a6-5 margin. In their confidence than they had going in. The men STEVE= second game, the team fell and women are now off until January20, when JohnTuerandSteve Hertzget setto 'Hurry, hard!' behind as before, but this the OUA season begins. S T E V E UTZ special to Imprint

rs back into the play-off race.

Basketball ballers did well against nderbirds, despite the two of their topplayers, ran the Thunderhawks

nded George Brown

Swimming The pool at the Physical Activities Complex was the place on November 25 as the York UniversityYeowomen came in for a visit. Strong performances by Kristen Brawley, Julie Steinberg, Jen Sweny and Natalie Boruvka helped the Warriors win the match 133-70.

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Warrior varsitv figure skaters capture silvir a? Queen's

Squash The weekend did not go well for the Warrior squash team, who hosted the secondsectionalof the season. In their first match, the Warriors were decimated by the University of Western Ontario Mustangs 6-0. ~ h warriors k did better against the McMaster University Marauders. defeating them5-1. ~ ut hte ~ r o c university k Badgers ruined the Warriors'weekend by stealing the match 4-2.

Badminton St. Catharines played host for the Warriorsin apartial crossover that ended up not going over too well for Waterloo. The first match saw the University of Ottawa GeeGees defeatthe proud Warriors 7-4.Things went from bad to worse for Waterloo when the Queen'sUniversity GoldenGaels won the second match 8-3.

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heraxelsandA-plus spinsin the freeskateevent of Intermediate singles, while Michelle Wong confidently took the ice and took third for her he Waterloo Warriors brought home excellent performance in Open Solo dance. silver from the Queen's University FigThe Waterloo Warriors were brought to ure Skating Invitational 2000 held on their feet cheering on Amanda Breen as she Friday, November 24. The day was packed won the Senior B Singles event through amazwith ten events and our Warriors skated with ing doubles and, in three words, an excellent confidence and style competing against nine program. Skatingin incredible co-ordination, other universities. Melissa Ens and Wity van Snellenbergfinished StephanieSchmidtandKristieVermeulen secondintheSeniorSimilarPairsevent.Melissa started out the day gracefully dancing their way into a second place finish in the Intermediate Similar Dance event. Senior Solo Dancer Kristy Bertrand mastered several dance patterns to take third placeandlater joined withMichelle Wong in the Senior Similar Dance event, skating together anintricateandamazing PasoandKiUian.KristieVenneulenshowed equal grace and determination through

Ens followedupin theshort Programwithone awesome double axel (and a series of other amazing doubles) to take first place. In the Senior A Singles event, Judith Tuck entertained the crowd, while the determined Wisty van Snellenberg, team captain, topped off the successfulday with a fourth place finish in the Open Singles event, bringing more points to the team's overall score. The support in the stands was amazing, and success came from the hard work and enthusiasm of coaches Dean Phillipsand KimberlyAldridge. unfortunately, many team members were not able to lace up their skates at Queen's because nor all events were skated at this competition. Waterloo Warrior fans will be able to see all of the Warrior Figure Skaters in action when we host the next competition January 20,2001 at the Columbia Ice Fields!

Amanda Breen won the Senior 'B' Singles event through amazing doubles and an excellent program.

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Christmas Shoot-Out far. The eight-teamtournament runs this year on December 2 8 , D and30, and the drama plays out in our very hat 1s the Christmas own PAC. The games run at 1 , 3 , 5 Shoot-Out? Is ~t a dys- and 7 p.m. on the first two days and functional family gath- then 9 a.m., 11, 1 p.m. and culmi-ring?Last minute shoppers fighting nates at 3 p.m. with the championor a parking spot? A John Wayne ship game. Waterloo's first game is versus Concordia at 7 p.m, Decem~icturegone horribly wrong? None of these are correct (I ber 28. The makeup of the tournament lope). Rather, the Chr~stmasShoot3 u t is an annual basketball is radically different thanin previous hrowdown that pits our women years. Laurier and Western, which Warriors agalnst some of the best have traditionally been mainstays, md baddest ballers from near and have declined their invitations this

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year. Rather than replace those teams with another pair of in-conference teams, Warrior Head Coach Tom O'Brien opted instead to bring in a number of teams from different places. With the exception of the east coast, every conference in Canadais represented.Not onlydoes this make for some unprecedented match ups, but different styles of play will be a major factor in determining how the tournament will end up. Each team will bring astyleunique toitsconference onto the floor, which should make for some interesting action.

Who's comrng? Bishop's

Saskatchewan

Concordia

Bishop's did well last year at the ;hoot-Out, coming in second. With he champion Western Mustangs not "eturningto defend their gold, Bish,p's could be considered a favourite or the tournament. But with the Salters barely keeping their heads ~ b o v e3 0 0 at 7-5, some people are -keptical about their chances. Blsh3ps lost a couple of key players to paduationafter last season, and their mtside game n not fantastic. Howwer, they are a physical team that oves to mix it up under the boards, md their post players eat rebounds -'or snacks. Any of the other teams zould find themselves on the wrong a d o f aten point lead should they let %shop's dominate underneath.

The Saskatchewan Huskies are a pretty big unknown at this point. Ranked23 out of 28 in the unofficial RPI rankings, the Huskiesareused to the rough-and-tumble playing style that dominates the Canada West conference. With a 4-8 win-loss record, many would dismiss them right off the bat. To their credit, the Huskies hold their own in a conference that includes six top 10 teams, including the number one Regina and number two Simon Fraser. The team's Web site does not contain so much as a roster of players or statistics, so it will be interesting to see which stars lead the team onward as they travel southwest.

Montreal's Concordia University Stingers lost an All-Canadian point guard to graduation last year. They do, however, feature one of the most innovative and unpredictable coaches in Canada, Keith Pruden. Pruden is well known for his implacable strategies and ability to clearly read the floor. Opposing coachesusuallyhave their hands full just trying to keep up with his constantly changing offensive and defensive strategies.

York Queen's

TheYork UniversityYeowomen The Queen's University Golden could be considered mid-carders in ,;aels are the only other team in the the tournament. A 6-11 win-loss ournament besides Waterloo who record coupled with a 0-7 record las played each andevery year. The against teams over 5 0 0 places them >aels are lead by fifth year guard below all theother tournamentteams acqueline Beaudoin and feature in the RPIs. York is a young team, hree local products on their roster: with almost nobody. past - their third h d r e a Hanson of Waterloo, Erin year of eligibility. One interesting lessman of Guelph and Mel~ssa addition to theYeowomenis former Mendicino of Cambridge. Queen's Warrior Jacalyn White, who some sride and joy is their pressure de- may remember asadorninatingforce ence, which has helped them to an under the boards for Waterloo. ~utstanding11-5 record so far this White has moved to York after year. The key to the Gaels is their graduation from U W and is playing lefence, so a team able to withstand out her last year of eligibility there. h e pressurehas amuch better chance The onlyway shewillmeet her former 3f beating them. Incidentally, the teammates on the courtisifYork and Gaels already dropped agame to the Waterloo both win, or if they both Warriors in the preseason, 62-53. lose in the first round.

McMaster McMaster has been a major powerhouse in Ontario for the last few years, running neck-and-neck with Western for top spot in the conference. Their pressure defence is headed up by veteran guard Dani Everitt, who is in her third year of eligibility. McMaster has gone 10-6 win-loss so far this year, one win having come at the expense of our Warriorslast week. Fifth year guards Tara Johnson and Taryn Stratten will be sure to make their impact felt from beyond the three-point arc as well.

Brandon The Brandon University Bobcats are the sole representatives of the Great Plains conference, which holds just four teams. The Bobcats are suffering this year under a 5-9 win-loss record. The Bobcatswillbe relying on their inside m e and their hid-noseddefence tipush through

the tournament. People should consider this team a work in progress. Also considerthe fact that they rarely have travelled this far to play other teams, and will be brimming with enthusiasm once they hit the court.

Waterloo The Warriors are on the verge of their best season ever, keeping consistently above 500 and knocking off some serious powerhouses. They have had an unholy rash of injuries and various ailments befallingsome of their bestplayers. Earlier this term star forward Meghann Clancy was sent home with mono, while assorted broken bones and concussionshave plaguedplayerslike

Casie Kergan, Nicole Consitt and others. The Warriors expect to be back in full health for the tournament. This should result in some exciting basketball. Clancy and her fellowpost ErinJaffray will be holding their own underneath the hoop. But since so many teams are stacked in the post position, the Waterloo backcourt will be key if the Warriors plan to advance in the tournament. Point guards Kristen Eisner and Nicole Consittwillhave toplay headsup basketball to break down the tenacious defences of teams like Queen's. The Warriors will also be relying on captain Leslie Mitchell to turn on the heat from bevond the three point arc.

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Changing your life

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ast week, we ran afeature on Wsnutritioneducationconsultant, LindaBarton, and the messages she's trying to get across to students. Well, we're not done yet. Barton's private practice is located across a parking lot from the Swiss Chalet on Weber Street. Most of her clients are active people athletes. She has worked with teams from both UW and Laurier, among others; however, it's not only athletesasdefined by their participation in competitive organized sports: "Someone who's made a daily commitment to activity, some of the fitness people, the people that swim, the people who join walkinggroups, to me they're athletes. "I deal with people that want to improve. They probably have had some trouble, although agood third of my clients come just to get better, there's nothing wrong with them. They just see this as a tool that they can use in their daily living to improve their well-being. The other crowd, though, have experienced some kind of issue with food -it's stoppedworkingredy well for them. There'sdifferentreasons they would come, just from an energy reasonup to afull-blown eatingdisorder, so my message is not the same for each client. Some people will come to her saying, "Iam just having arotten time -I am not eating well, I'm not sleeping well could you help me out?" Others are having more serious issueswith food and eating, such as the "athlete that's starving because they're a cross-country runner and they've just been eating carbs for so longand they justgo'off the wagon,' as they tell me, and they don't binge on protein, they binge on sugar. "Women and jujubes - it's a really big deal. Andthen they're upset because they wish that hadn't happened. . . all that negative energy." Barton describeswhat they'll be working towards with her help: "There's a kind of satisfaction and pleasant energy that comes from eatingwell. Some people have never experienced it and some people greatly rnissit, but they can'tputtheir finger on what's different." Trying to change the way you eat is an attempt to change your life. Change is often hard, but is often

worth it. Barton recommends potential clients call around before choosing her to help them. "Thisisa reallypersonalrelationship when you start wanting to change your life. You should find somebody that you connect with. It might not be me. If it'snot me, don't come in here to find out it's not me. Talk to me on the phone." "Between the two of us, we put together apatternof livingthatworks for them. We're going to look at stress, we're going to look at sleep, now, I don't deal specifically with those areas, but we look at them."

person who has a real serious issue goes to a dietician and is told, they shouldbe able to control themselves. There are some people that need specificskillsand they haven't learned them yet. They need help with that, so instead of control, I talk about choice, because most people I work with are not going to learn that, or they already would have." Another approach that Barton does not agree with is that used by somephysi&nsdealingwithan overweight - individual. "They believethat this population must lose weight quickly to feel good about themselves. I totally tackle that. I do not likeit." Barton describes diets such as the Zone and the Atkinsdiet as being "on the right track," because they do look to include protein and fat in each meal, which is important, but feels the insufficient amount of carbohydrates is where they fail. "The thing about the Zone for active people is that the carbohydrate intake is far too low. It causes damage. Peopleget hungry, they get off track, they lose body weight, and other things happen that are more serious your body changes, the To brine. - about change in an way you metabolize food changes. individual's eating patterns, Barton "I'maRD. [registereddietician], has foundsuccessin three main ~ r i n - which means I'm a member of the ciples. "This is my idea, born of my College of Dieticians of Ontario, and years witnessing people changing. I'malegislatedhealthprofessional.I When I look back on my practice I have to followcertain practicestandcame up with these three tips - ards. I cannot recommend a meal [people] change if they eat in bal- plan like that and keep my credenance, they change if they eat every tial." three to four hours, and if they pay Keep in mind thatthe "message seriousattention to snacks-I like to isnot the same for eachclient." Avisit call this a mini-meal." with Linda Barton, or another dietiBarton's strategy for dealing cian, is an individuiized thing. what with a person's compulsive eating is coveredin the sessionis deoendent problem is not the same as some on you and what you bring in. other food practitioners might recHealth Services nurses Linda ommend: "I do not thinkeverything Brogden and Sheila Wilson, while in moderation works for everybody. not offering all that Barton does, are If you have a known binge food, in both able to take a "very nice look at my practice I would ask you to stay [your] eating habits." away from that binge food for a "When astudent doescome into period of time. Definitely I don't see me, if they've gone through that think a compulsive eater can have route, then one appointment with everything in moderation. me isoften enough, because they can "If I have someone who's truly go backto thenurse. The nurseshave a compulsive eater, as they define given themall the basicinformation, themselves-they know -I'm not what I do is the very specificwork of going to waste their time on some- lookingat their fuel plan. But all the thing I have learned is not going to healthy eating stuff, that's not really create a result for them. my work. My workis the harder part "Igo back tosome of these basic -to get you to do it." principles of retrain your eating beLinda Barton can be reached at haviour. I really get upset when a (519) 578-8507.

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ast Saturday, York paid a visit to the PAC pool for the Warriors last competition until the new year. The women won by a score of 133 - 7Oby taking9 ofthe 11races and both relay events. The men did not compete as none of the four male York swimmers made an appearance in Waterloo. The highlight of the meet was Gennifer Sweny qualifyingfor CIAU competition in the 200m butterfly

inatime of 2:lZ.M. Thisbringsthe total up to four women (Sweny, Steinberg,BrawleyandBeavers)and two men (Mains, Rose) who have qualified so far this season. MelissaThomas,Julie Steinberg and Gennifer Sweny each had a pair of victories while Leslie Dowson, Natalie Boruvkaand KristenBrawley had a victory each. The winning Warrior relay teams were Brawley, Steinberg,Sweny andBoruvkain the 4x1OOm medley andsteinberg, Thomas, Sweny and Bomvka in the 4x100m freestyle relay.

Also this weekend was the Ontario Senior Provincial Championships, which were attended by Julie Steinberg,Dave Clarke, Lindsay Beavers, Mathie Mains and David Rose. Highlights were Beaverswinning two of her events, the 400m and 800m freestyle, and Mains winning the 100m breaststroke and finishingsecond in the 200m breaststroke. The swim team takes a break from competition until next term but will be training hard over exams and the holidays, bothin France and in Waterloo.

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Fitness exam schedule Yes, itisthat time ofthe year-when stress builds up as you scramble to learn a terms worth of material in the span of a few short days. Certainly a stress break is needed to get that blood flowingsoyour brain can function. Why not get outtoa fitnessclass duringexamtime-it'sfree, fun and just may make you a better student. The tentative schedule below is for the period between December 4 and 15: Mondays and Wednesdays: 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Energy Express; 2:30 p.m., Ak-wa-fit; 5:30 p.m., Step Live. TuesdaysandThursdays: 9:30a.m. and 12:30p.m.,StepLive;2:30p.m., Ak-wa-fit; 5:30p.m. Energy Express. Fridays: 9 a.m.,&-wa-fir; 9:30a.m., Step Live; 12:30 p.m., Energy Express. Checkin the PAC outside of the EquipmentDesk for instructorschedule. If there is not a fitnessinstructor listed, there will not be a class.

Competitive basketball

Another seasonwrappedupthisweek with the completion of the Spirit of competition-~ames.playoffs finished with great enthusiasmandsome amazing results. In the A1 division, BCBBIIThe New Breed defeated W by two points, taking the first place title for the A league. In the A2 division, Smoke Show defeated the MennoKnights and in the A3 division, Mad Cows edged out ahead of Run ENV. In the B1 division, Pacific Rim took the championship title in an upset victory over With Ourselves, the first place team going into the playoffs. For the B2 division, the501 50's beat Tommy Li in the final seconds of the game. For the B3 division, the Bus Drivers defeated the Pheasants. In B4, Rim Job defeated Suave's Beef Monkeys. In BS, Exit v won their final game against the A team and in the B6 division, St. Paul's defeated UPRS. In the C1 division, the Woolly BoyzdefeatedKaptain Kai, who had won an upset victory as the fourth place teamgoinginto the playoffs. In C2, the South Penguins defeatedthe Ball Hogs and in C3, Colo-Colo defeated North Three in a close game until the final minutes. In the C4 division,No Dunkerswonthe championship just ahead of the TWSA Whie Dragonz. Finally, in the D division, STEVE defeated the AHSSIES to take the D divisiontitle. Overall, the seasonwasfantastic and we look forward to having a great season next term. See you all on the courts.

Competitive volleyball The Campus Recreation season has been fun-filled and excinng. Thanks to all of the competitive volleyball teams for making it possible to have a successfulvolleyball league again.

Congratulations are in order for d~visionchampions. The Giants are thechampionsof the A1 &vision, Suave's Beef Monkeys prevailed to win the A2 title and Wa-Supwon the A3 division. In the B league, Strange Brew played excellent all season and won the B1 division. Mechscahbur won the B2 division, El Tappo succeeded in the B3 division, Secret Weapon took home the B4 division, the MennoKnights prevailed in division B5 and the champions of the B6 division are the Plumb-BOBS. The North A Acers won the C1 division and the winners of the C2 division are the Gold Diggers. In the D league, Chibougamaus are the championsof the D l division, Who Spiked the Punch won the D2 division and Lynx came away with the D3 d~visiontitle. A7, the MennoKnights were awarded the Rusty Whistle award and the captains chose the Flying Wonders for the Fair Play award. Good luck to everybody as this term winds down, I'll see you back on the courts next term!

Ice hockey The fall 2000competitiveice hockey term hasnow come to an end. There were 27 playoff games and eight spirit of competition games played. In the A1 division, the AHS Wizards took the championship and Full Force were the runners-up. In A2, XL7'swerethe champsandBlack Sheep were the runners up. Winners of the Adivisionspirit of competition games were Full Force and Black Sheep respectively. In the B1 division, the champs were the Worriers and runners up were SSBB. In the B2 division, the winners were the Ice Dawgs and secondplace went toTop Gun.In theB3

division,the Goldon Hawkstook first and Waterloggedcame in second. In the B4 division, top place went to the Individual B team and second went toThe Rock. Winners of the spirit of competition games were the Worriers, Individuals B and Ice Dawgs. Highest overallspirit of competition rating went to the Worriers, who also won the Rusty Whistle Award for the most number of penalty-free games. Thanks for setting such a wonderful example for the other teams to follow. In the C1 division the winners were BMR and the runners up were 1Tym. In the C2 division first place wentto Lordagand second to Fightinglris C. The winners of the spirit of competition games were MennoKnights C andLordag, as well Menno Knights C tied for second place with overall spirit of competition ratings for the season. The Fair Play Award was decided by the teams at the captains' playoff meeting and went to the Ice Dawgs. The captain s choice award for best refereeing went to Joe Hoyles. Congratulationson agreat season, and campus recreationhopes to see everyone come out and play again next term.

WV lifeguard team The U W LifeguardTeamwould like to thank all those people who supported them this term with chocolate bar sales, donations at the CPRa-thon and time at variousactivities. The money collectedwill go - towards equipment, competition entry fees, transportationand accommodations for guard competitions. Thank you once again for all the support the Lifeguard Team has received throughout this fall 2000 term. See you around the pool in 2001.

Leaders of the week

Chris Newar

Jason Rossiter

Chris(akaDwayneandDeputyDoug) was our squash instructor for fall 2000. Hewas extremely patient and alwaysofferedconstruaivecriticism. Above all, what made him a great instructor is that he made us want to play the game to the point of addiction. The point is, we always had fun each week and we always looked forward to improving our skills and beating him (althoughwe never did- Iguess we'll be back for intermediate squash lessons!).

Jason is in his last school term and should be recognized for his outstanding achievements in Campus Recreation. He hasofficiateddoseto 600 games in ice and ball hockey the most that any official has ever done at UW.Jason has held the position of assistant-ref-in-chief and referee-in-chief for ice hockey, and taught many referee clinics. As well, he has volunteered on the conduct reviewboard for over six terms. Ref on Jason!

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pionships. This time, the cheerleaders hope to vanquish McMaster and a few other pests. Coached by Paul Sachdev, the I heerleading. To some (especially in the redneckparts Warriors have been to the home of Texas), they take this sport games of the Warrior football and stuff very seriously.To others, calling basketball teams. At the Naismith it a sport is an insult that would earn Classic, the brave men and women your head on a pike, IaB~aveheart. cheered the Warriors on and made To The Sports Network, it's just an- sure the fans got into the spirit. But other programme to put in-between when they are not rooting for Wathe umpteenth showing of the West- terloo teams, they are refining their minster Dog Show and the National Tire 'Throwing Event for fat guys named Bubba, heldin beautiful downtown Biloxi. But whether or not you actually like cheerleading, there are a lot of athletic requirements to succeed in this sport. And on December 1, the W a t e r l o o cheerleading team will travel to McMaster University to compete in the University National OK, no-one move. Cheerleading ChamJOHN

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Matt Mains Warrior Swimming

Amanda Breen Warrior Figure Skating

A first-year Computer Science student from Kitchener, Matt competed in theswim OntarioSenior Championships this past weekend. Mattfinished first in the 100 breast and second in the 200 breast. The competition came from across Canada including swimmersfromNew Brunswick, Dalhousie, Toronto and Calgary. Next action for Matt and the Warriors is January 1 2 .

Afirst-year Recreatioestudent from Kitchener, Amanda was instrumental in leading the Warriors to asilver medal this past weekend at the Queen's Invitational.Amanda placed first in the Senior B Singlescategory, stunning the crowdwith an amazing performance. Amanda and the Warrior skaters are off until January 19, 2001 when they host the Waterloo Invitational.

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routines at the Physical Activities Complex. TheNationals, however, are the most important part of the season for the cheerleaders. For the Nationals, there are two rounds. The first round's routines are fundamental in order to determine the order for the second round. The team that finishes first after the first round will have the advantage of going last in the second round. There are certain requirements that teams must incorporate in their routines, at least in the first round. The second round is a freestyle routine. Last year's event, held at York University, was one of the best for the Warriors. Under Sachdev's guidance and the tenacity and fortitude of the Warriors, Waterloo placed sixth in the nation, a good result. But this year, the Warriors hope to rank in the top four. The Warriors will be performing around 8:05 p.m. in the first round.

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Writenby~urveryspecial~ter~Santaway above Fritz and the boys. Who knows, maybe one day you'll win the "Porn Star" Claus World Cup. Perhaps in 2002, say? To Jesse "The Body" Ventura, ello, ladies and gentlemen. As youknow,I'mgivingMr. John howaboutanicebookcalledHowto Swan a break from writing his usual CovemaStateforDt#nrniw!It'spretty column. This way, he can conserve obvious that you'd rather ham it up his bile and vitriol for next year, in front of a camera for the Xtreme recover from the Christmas parties he'll be going to and join Guido and Luigi Fericottiin"educating"peop1e about journalistic integrity with his violin case and his brass knuddes, if you know what I mean. Now, I've been monitoring who has been naughty and who has been nice. For those folks, I have plenty of gifts inside my sack.No, it'snotwhatyour thinking,yobsickperverts! Get your mind out of the gutter. And while you're there, get me a beer. It takes Football League than run Mimea lot of work to monitor the elves. Anyway, howtobegin.Let's.start W. Speaking about the XFL, how withLaLigain Espafia. To those folks about a partnership between Vince in this country, I hope to give you McMahon andLarryFlynt?I'dconsome seriouscompetitionnotonly in sider Bob Guccionne or Hugh Europe, but in the world. After all, Heffner,butIthinkthey're toodassy you have three teams in the Cham- for that son of stuff. Larry Flynt pions' League and five in the UEFA would be perfect for a league with

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To the British Columbia Lions and the Montreal Alouettes, thanks for a great Grey Cup. It wasexciting right up to the very end. And who wouldhavethoughtit,eh?TheLions two months ago appeared to be mentioned with the l i e s of the Toronto Argonauts and the San Diego I mean, Chargers. Now, Chick they are Canadiaqchampions. Let's give you a more vitalized CFL. You guys deserve it. To the game of cricket, I recommend shorter hours and better pay fpr the players. I mean, you haw a black eye the size of Guadalcanal thanks to Hansie Kmnje and other cricketers who have seen the dark side and have decided to fi games. As for Kronje, who brought the game into disrepute, I give thee a bunch of criketeers from Johannesburg to whap you over and over again with cricket bats covered in barbed wire. Thiscouldpossiblyteachyoualesson about being corrupt. What about SouthAfrican football? I will speak a good word for FIFA on behalf of South Africa to

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bitter taste in everyone's mouth. So I hope FIFArectifies this grave error by allowing the South Africans to host thisgrandevent.Afteral1,you've come a long way since apartheid, baby! To the Kitchener Rangers and the fans, Iadviseyou to hang in there. Sure, things aren't going well, Jason Speua would rather hang aroundin (the vacationspot for allthe rats from Detroit) than our fair city

Cricket shorter hours, better salaries. and there's been grumblings from your diehard fans. But hey, I know Jamie McDonald is trying his damnedestto createa winning team andthe boys put in 110per cent each game. Oneconsolation, at least your better than the MississaugaIce Dogs. Just do not repeat that performance you had in Toronto, okay? To Don Cherry, resident xenophobe of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, I have aspecialpresent

for you. For your constantbelittling of Europeans, I have personally, at qo cost, made you aphiatacostume. Of course, I have also had the Swedish bikini team and the Norwegian ice hockey teamblindfoldedtohave a go at bashing it open. To Mike Weir and Lorie Kane, congratulations. With this year'sglf performances,you've made Canada proudYou know,theCanadianfootball~eam,the Toronto Argonauts and the MontrEal Canadiens could all learn from these two. If only this was a perfect world. Finally, to the Montrtal Expos, I have one word for you. Virginia. Thinkabout it. Well, kiddies, this wraps upmy gift giving for the year. My sack is empty andmy elvesare now ready to bask in my glory. Also, my beer's startingtogetwarm, SO I'llleaveyou with these words. May your dinner turn out perfect, may your liquor cabinet never run dry and may your annoyingin-laws with the hellish little minions crash their plane into Mount Kilimanjaro. As for me, I'm going to get a bottle of wine, a nice dinner and spend some quality time with Mrs. Claus, you know?

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A great night of opera with pop Popera Centre in the Square November 24,2000 RACHEL E. B E A T T I E Imprint staff

nce again K-W Opera brought a great night of opera to the Centre in the Square with its annual selection of operatic arias, Popera. Apacked theatre was treated to operatic gems like Wagner's "Treulichgefiihrt" (more commonly known as "Here Comes the Bride") from Lohengrin, "Largo al factotum della cittl" from Rossini's Barber of Seville,"La Fleur quetu m'avais jette" ("the Flower song") from Carmen, as well as pieces from avariety of composers. This year K-W Opera added a combination of the Opera Ontario Chorus and the Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic Choir to the evening. The choir became the rousing chorus to songs like "Treulich gefiihrt" and the foot-stomping "Chi del gitano" or "the Anvil Chorusn from 11 trovatore. Overall, the 200 voices in the choir added resonance to the songs and gave the evening an epic feeling. The chorus and soloists were

cluded "Torna a accompanied by the Surriento," a tradialways proficient tionalNeapolitan song Kitchener-Waterloo about the tortures of Symphony,conductlove. ed by maestro Daniel Soprano Simona Lipton. Bertini gave an adThere were also equate performance, some stunning perespecially in "Heia, formances by the soHeia in dem Bergen ist loists. In "Je dis que mein Helmatland" rien ne mYCmpovante" from Die CzardasfromCama, soprano firstin. Kimilee Bryant conHowever, thestar veyed genuine fear of the eveningwasupand determination as and-comingbass-bariMicaela,who is about toneTimothy Blevins. to confront Carmen, Blevins made the who stole her lover roundsat local schools Don JosC. in the week before the Bryant gave a show, hopingto create beautiful and emoyoung opera lovers tional performance in all her solos. Bryant among the students. The much-hyped seems to have an inperformance by Blevstinctive fee1 for the emotions and nuins almost didn't happen, as the audience ances of opera, even though she has also was informed during appeared in musicals the first half of theproandclassical performgram that Blevins was ances. ill. Thisledto somelastItalian tenor minute rearranging of Francesco Grollo SingerKimilee Bryant wasa highlightofthe performance. the first act. started out weak, but However, Blevins did grew in intensity throughout the dire," adelightful duetwithTimothy manage to make it out for the second evening, ending off with "Voglio Blevins. Grollo's standout solos in- half of the performance, much to the

delight of the audience. Blevins was remarkably energetic for someone so recently sick. Blevins'swaggering rendition of "Largo al factotum" won over most of the audience immediately with its comic elements. It was nice to see Blevins actually move around on stage, as most of the other soloists simply sang and did not try and act out their songs. Blevins' deep bass-baritonevoice recalled deep-voiced greats like Paul Robeson in the stirring traditional song "Wade in the Water." It was mostly Blevins' anticscombinedwith extraordinary singing by the &her soloiststhat led to a standing ovation and demands for an encore. Popera is a great mix of arias from different operas. Although it lacks the unity of a narrative opera, it is enjoyable as a kind of supermarket food sample of opera: you get to try little morsels of great operas but never get enough to become full. Even those new to opera would no doubt recognizemanyof thesongs from cartoonsor commercials. Hopefully hearingthe realversionsof these great songs may turn skeptics into opera afficionados. The near-capacity turnout and multiple standingovationsthat Popera received showed once again that there is an enthusiastic audience for opera 1n K-W.

UW grads unveil Gorilla Cat Gorilla Cat Art Exhibition December 5 to 17,2000 Walper TerraceHotel

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ereissomething youwon't wanttomiss: from December 5 to 17, the Walper Terrace Hotel (1 King Street West) will host the unveiling of the rare species known as the Gorilla Cat. The organizers of the event are Marshall Wardand Charles Baker, two recent UW graduates of Fine Arts who also collaborated on the City of Kitchener's Millennium Thumbprints monument. The multidisciplinary art exhibition entitled Gorilla Cat will include photography, specializedmerchandise and on December 6 -the evening of the opening reception it will feature the Gorilla Cat itself, securely confinedwithinacagein the Walper Gallery space. The history of the Gorilla Cat as aspeciesisrather mysterious: itsoriginsare undocumented andits backgroundisuntraceable. For inquiring minds, however, scientific information about its nature,life expectancy, and biological makeup will be available for perusal at the exhibition.

With regards to their character traits and general habits, Ward and Baker have been able to make the following assessments: Gorilla Cats are entirely self-reliant, both physically and intellectually. Unlike humans, they are not consciouslyaware of their own thought processes but are able to express an array of emotions ranging from jealousy to anger to affection. Also, they exude an air of superiority as the self-proclaimed rulers of their domain. Marshall Ward comments that "the essentials of their existence are there for the taking: food, nest materials, catnip, companionship." More notably, Gorilla Cats display exceptional skillin the game of minigolf.The creature has the head of a gorilla, the body of ahuman, and the ears of a cat. And, no, it has not been geneticallyaltered. The Gorilla Cat is said to have apleasant disposition; it is very gentle but also very isolated, and tends to shy away from public attention or interaction. As a contemporary art expo, Gorilla Cat promises to be creative, interesting, insightful, and also the first of its kind. Thematically, the exhibition addresses the issue of exploitation or. in other words. the propensity of contemporary culture to transform anything and every-

thing into amarketable commodity. Both WardandBaker acknowledge exploitation as a by-product of the capitalisticrat race and comment on the way in which corporate weasels exhaust the marketable value of anything they canget their hands on. Nothing is sacred anymore, and therefore the purpose of this exhibition is to exploit, and in doing so, to educate. Indeed, this reveals the intended irony behind the show, as there will be an assortment of Gorilla Cat memorabiliafor sale: Gorilla Cat masks, T-shirts, mouse pads, snow globesand thelike. Additionally, there will be several 11x17 photographs of the Gorilla Cat baskingin the glow of summertime. Among the photographs are depictions of the animal running gaily through a park and playing mini-golf -you know, normal Gorilla Cat stuff. In the tradition of Robert Bateman, the renowned wildlife painter who centred his work on rare and unusual animals, Marshall Ward and Charles Baker have studied the Gorilla Cat extensively and have selected it as the focal point of their exhibition. Remember, thiswill be the world's first glimpse of the Gorilla Cat, so if you wanted to see any rare wildlife this year, don't pass up this opportunity.

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n stage, the elementsof farce seem haphazardly thrown together to create a sense )f confusion, lunacy, and silliness; iowever, in order to be communi:ated effectively, theatrical farce iemands a careful plan and a coheive structure. In this vein, the Scimce Committee of Revolutionary Jndergraduate Business Students' SCRUBS)production of NurseJane ;oes toHawaii, a farce by Canadian daywight Allan Stratton, emerged 1s a well-staged ~ieceof inspired ons sense. The perormance was lroduced by a roup of (mostly) cience and Busiless students. Jnpolished, yet elightfully entertaining, the show tarred seven actors who confessed hat "we couldn't net - cast in any ther plays on campus, [so] we deided to ~ uont our own."Two of the ctors - Tanya Vasey and Melissa hares-also assumed the roles of irectors. aconvoluted story unfolding rith unlikely situations and ~phomoricwit,the production was mateurish, but decidedly good. 2ven its slew of one-dimensional haracters and its incorporation of ich goofballanticsas pies in the face ~dgratultouspotsmoking, the show ,as nicely executed. Allan Stratton, who teaches rama at the Etobicoke School of rts,paved the way for this madcap, st-paced, farcicalperformancethat dudes mistaken identities, bizarre mances, and twisted family reunIns. For this play to work, not only 3es the audience have to willingly spend their disbelief, they have to \row their disbelief on the ground Idbludgeonit senseless.

The story beginswith Doris, an advice columnist, and her husband Edgar, a Geography teacher, who live in what is sup~osedto be a tidy, upper-middle-class home in Toronto. Within minutes, their lives become utter chaos when Edgar plans a clandestine rendezvouswith the flaky Harlequin Romancenovelist, Vivien (who, throughout the play, dramaticallyrecords notes for her next novel). Before Edgar and Vivien can consummate their tryst, however, they are discovered by Doris. Suddenly the house is full of people who are all loosely (or closely)connected, from the ex-lover who wears pantyhose on his head to concealhis identity to the estranged son who reduces every emotion to psychoanalytic categories. The show presents an absurd number of coincidences,

Jermaine directed and produced by Daisy Asquith and Oliver Morse December 13 at 10 p.m. December 17 at midnight TVOntario RACHEL

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he story of Jermaine starts off tragic: his mother repeatedly abused him, at times muzzling him like a dog. Once rescued by SocialSe~ices,Jermainewas put into foster care and ended up spending three happy years with Petra and Jeremy Campbell and their three children. When we meet Jermaine, he is an articulate and seemingly sweetnaturedyoungboy. However, Petra and Jeremy Campbell do not feel they can adopt Jermaine, and so a nation-wide campaignis launchedto find Jermaine, now 10 years old, a ~ ~ family. Ther documentary~explains at the door, dis- that Jermaine is not the most attractive candidate for adoption because asterwalksin. On the diffi- he is prone to violence and is also culty of per- racially mixed. Single mother Esme forming farce, playwright Allan Hussein steps forward and offers to Stratton writes, "No wonder farce welcome Jermaine into her family, has a auestionable reputation. Most whichindudes productions of it are appalling.Ihave two other ~ersonallvhad to flee performances adopted chilof NurseJane to throw up, distraught dren, J O S ~ U ~ , and ashamed that audiences might who is 11, and think what they saw was wha; I Samira, 14. Everywrote." Some of the humour in the play body conwas forced and some of the acting cerned is apwas awkward, however, in a way, prehensive at that heightened the play's sense of first because playfulness. Notable performances they are not were given by Tanya Vasey as the too sure how animakd,sickeninglyenergeticchar- Jermaine will acter of Vivien Bliss, and by Michelle respond, having come from a fairly Rorke as the contemptuous~ournal- wealthy family to live with a working-cla&sin&mother.~swe~, there ist from Ryerson. Sprinkled with Torontonian is concern as to how well lermaine references, Nurse Jane Goes to Ha- will fit in with Joshua and iamira. waii delighted the audience in spite Jermaine himself is somewhat of its absence of lighting design and of an enigma. Jeremy Campbell adelaborate set. The show succeededin mits that in the three years Jermaine conveying an overall sense of pande- lived in their house, Jeremy never momum, and although the story was knew if Jermaine actually liked the thoroughly implausible, the produc- Campbellsor not. tion was thoroughly enjoyable. Jermaine is an extremelybright

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and amazingly articulate child. T o hear him speak, one might think one was listening to an old man in a child's body. Directors Daisy Asquith and Oliver Morse slowly work their way into Jermaine's life, never interfering. It isimpossible not to like Jermaine, as he speaks with decorum and dignity not usually seen in a 10year-old. Jermaine raises some interestingissues. Why, forexample,~ do the Campbells, ~ who repeat, edly speak of how much they love Jermaine, want to give him up? Are theyperhaps slightlyracistandafraid to raise a racially mixed son alongside their white children? Added to thisisthe factthat Petraseemsmuch more reluctant than Jeremy t o with Jermaine.

I couldn't help but wonder if there will really be a happy ending to the story.

tioned as to his reasons for not wanting to adopt the boy, Jeremy can only say that it is for the bestthat Jermaine leaves. Jeremy seems to have little concern about the long-termeffectsof his abandonment of lermaine. Can we exvect a child wh;, has suffered horre'dous abuse and then finally come to trust a family to not be harmed when that family tells himthey don'twant him anymore? Petra, on the other hand, says she knew the day would come, but the news of Esme's interest in

Jermaine~was like a "punch in'the ~ stomach" for her. While the documentary ends happily enough with Jermaine fittinginwith hisnew-found family and expressing love for his adoptive mother, I couldn't help but wonder if there will really be a happy ending to the stow. The abusethat Termaine suffered in his early life was horrific -just how easyis it to recover from that? After he was rescued by social services, Jermaine was put with a family only to be yanked away from them three yearslater. WillJermaine really be able to trust that he is safe and loved with his new family?And will he tumintoawd-adjustedadult? These are questions the documentary cannot possibly answer. However, Daisy Asquith and Oliver Morse createdsuch acornpellingand personal portrait of Jermaine that I amsure I am notthe only viewer who hopes to see a sequel of some sort made when Jermaine is an adult just to see if everything turned out okay for this brave child. Jemraineis part of WOntario's Human Edgeseries Also featuredon Human Edge on December 6 is the Oscm-minateddocumentar y about boxing, On the Ropes

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Great Canadian talent Danny Michel November 19 and 21,2000 Jane Bond Cafkl Bombshelter

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itting at the front of the very crowded Jane Bond, my friend leaned over and asked me if I had ever heard Danny Michel'smusic. I shookmy headno,and he sort of smiled and said, "Then you have no idea what you're getting into." And he was right. I'll admit it. From the very first chords of "Souvenir," I became a Danny Michel fan'. Danny ran through many of the songs from his two albums, ClearandFibsville, and also added a few newtunes-some of which were so new that he wasstill reading the lyricsoff of the lined paper in front of him. Songs off his first album, Clear, included "Gloomy Sunday," "Bremen" and "Satellite." Danny's new album, Fibsville, is sure to be a favourite with fans. From this disc he performed "Coalmine," "Hartleyn and "Who Cares," among others. One of the standout new songs was "Beautiful Nothing," a song about Michel's daystouringwith the Canadian band Starling- a band that was on campus in September when they opened for Veruca Salt. Michel played a two-and-a-half-hour set at the Jane Bond, telling the occas~onalstory between songs. The first wasabout how he had picked up a guitar with the hopes of selling it down in the States,but he endedup keepingthe guitar and now, he said, it was "starting to grow on me." Another storywas about touring with

Blue Rodeo and how the band was letting Michel sleep ontheir bus. Halfway through the tour, the bus broke down and a replacement had to be sent. Lucky Danny Michel got to sleep on *NSYNC'stour bus. It didn't take much before Iwas hooked on the music of Danny Michel, although Icertainly wasn't like the doe-eyed girls who sat on the floor in front of the stagewishingMichel would write asongabout them. While someof Danny's songswere about love and relationships, others were about spending too much time in the Circus Room in Kitchener, and even one about the poor girl thatkeptbreakingintoBradPitt's house. Michel's humour and creative lyrics made the evening thoroughly enjoyable. On Tuesday, Michel visited campus to play at the Bombshelter for the Federation of Students event, Rock the Vote. After saying that he would be voting for the Canadian Alliance, andthen stating that Stockwell Day is the devil, Danny played much the same set as he played Sunday night at the Jane Bond, although shorter. Danny treated fans byplayinga few requests, aswellasTomWaits' "Christmas Card From a Hooker." A slightly smaller crowd, but still greatly appreciative,welcomed M~chel'smusic and enjoyed the evening of entertainment. If you missed these twogreat shows,you're an idiot, but there is stdl hope for you. Go to your local music store. Ask for a Danny Michel album. Purchase it. Take it home. Put it in your CD player. Hit play. Sit back andlisten toagreat Canadian talent. You can checkout Danny Michel when he perfmattheJaneBondCaft on December 10.

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The Donnellvs: voices from thb p s t Donnelly left Ireland, and all the grief that social factionalism had caused them there, to start a new life in Ontario. In 1847they moved n Monday, December 4, Brad to BiddulphTownship andestablisheda home Goddard's Drama 102 class will on the Roman Line, where they raised eight present their own interpretation of children- James, Will, John, Patrick, Michael, the final piece in James Reaney's Donnelly Robert, Thomas and Jenny. Biddulph was a popular place for Irish trilogy,Handcuffs. In 1880, the smallcommunityof Biddulph settlersin the mid-19th century, though, andit Township, located just outside of London, wasn't long before the same problems the Ontario witnessed what was then one of the Donnellvs had faced in Ireland resurfaced in Canada. The Donmost gruesome mass murders ~n the hisnelly family was tory of thecommonbranded Blackfoot wealth. Catholic-a derogatory term that reV~ctimsof a town-wide plot, ferred to the family's h~stor~cal tendency Jamesand Johannah Donnelly and their toremainon Protesson, Tom, and niece, tant land in the hopes of farming, Bridget, were beaten to death w ~ t hsticks despite the masslve and farm implements conflicts between and then burned in w ,y, Protestant landown. . their own home. ers and Catholic Thecast ofTheDonnellysfrom Drama 102. Two hours later, the farmers. vigilante mob that killed them made it to the Accompanying this stigma was the unhouse of another Donnelly, Will, where they pleasantness of a land dispute between the Donnellysand their neighbours, whichculmishot and killed his brother, John. Despite the eyewitness account of family nated in a drunken brawl between James friend, Johnny O'Connor, who hid under the Donnelly andPatrickFarrellin 1857. Goaded Donnellys'bed during the first set of murders, on by the crowd, the fight ended when James none of the townspeople who killed the Donnelly stabbed a wooden pike into Patrick Donnellys were ever found guilty of the mur- Farrell. Initially, Donnelly was sentenced to ders. The Donnellys did not find justice, but hang, but through the persistence of Johannah's their story became a Canadian legend. In the mid 1840s, James and Johannah please see page 28 DEVON

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ate mega music conglomerates.The blg money that was formerly availspecial to Imprint able to many artlsts is now shared was recently struck by the number among a select few superstars like of formerly "indie" or, at least, Celine Dion, *NSYNCand what have indie-spirited musicians who have you, while the cmmbsare spreadout allowed their music to be used on amongst the other arusts-the ones who actually sell albums, that is. television. The thousands of major label Commercials aside (Red House .Painters on a Gap ad? Sheesh!), a artists who don't "move unitsn can scan of recent TV theme songs will actually endup in debt to their record fiid Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo), label. If an artistlike Phair might not They Might Be Giants, and even Liz sell enoughrecordsto offsetthecost Phair writing or belting out catchy of producing her records, touring tunes for TV show themes. andproducingvideos, she couldeasAn examplethat iscloserto home ily end up in the hole or at least is Bob Wiseman, who has penned making cmddy money. Remember, musicians have no themes for the short-lived sitcom Mat&iafWorld, and more recently, retirement package or benefits. When they no longer sell records the awesome Twitch City. The Liz Phair thing especially and are cut loose from a contract, irks me, because I'm a huge fan. I that'sit. Game over. So, the residual monies that can found myself angry, wondering why an artist like Phair would stoop to be collected from a TV theme song such a blatantly commercial level. must be better than what these folks Well, the answer is crystal clear - are makingselling20,OOO or 30,000 records. It d t even mean the difthat's where the money is. Today's music industry hasfol- ferencebetween abjectpoverty and lowed in the footsteps of global capi- a fairly decent standard of living. talism at large -the wealth has be- Seenin thislight, it iseasierto undercomeconcentratedinveryfewhands, stand why an artist with an antias record companiesmerge and cre- corporateethicmight choose toswal-

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lowtheir pride andsell a song t o m . Record producer Steve Albini, in a widely circulated'essay called "The Problem WithMusic,"laysout some hard factsabout the economics of making a record. He takes the example of an actual up-and-coming band just signed tb amajor record label (he doesn't mention the name of the band) and summarizes their monetary situation. Here are some highlights: Advance to band for recording album -$250,000; Manager's cut -$37,SOO; Legal fees-$10,000; Recording budget - $150,000; Lodgingswhileinstudio-$10,000. You get the idea. The expenses go on and on. In this scenario, the band eventually sold 250,000 records, which is a lot compared to most artists. In the end, out of any profit from record sales, the record company got $700,000, the producer got $90,000, their manager got $50,000, andeachbandmember received $4,000.Yes, four thousand dollarseach. Think about this next time you download a song from the Internet for free-that band you thinkdoesn't need the money probably does.

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e Federation of Studentsis currentlyseekingsubmissions for the 2001 editlon of The Ph~k.%Phoenkisajournalcomprised of artwork, photography, poetry, short stories, prose and essays andis produced on campusonce a year. Itisgublishedin co-operation with the Federation of Studentsand

isdistributedandpromotedboth on and off campus. For those of us who actively crave and display acts of creativity, ~he~hemki~awonderful outlet that provides an opportunityfor campus and community exposure for upand-comingartists. The Federation of Studentsisnow acceptingsubmissions for this year's journal. Thedeadlinefor this year'ssubmissions is February 9, 2001. We

encourage anyoneinterestedincontributingtosubmittheir workboth in hard copy form and on disk; all materialswill bereturneduponrequest. 1n addition,if youare interkted in a volunteer position on the production team or if you have any general inquiresconcerningsubmissions, please contact Desiree Taric, Vice President Student Issues at extension 3780 or in the FedsOfficein the SLC, Room 1104.

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efforts, he had his sentence reduced to seven years in the Kingston Penitentiary. Despite a series of planned attempts to force the Donnellys out of Biddulph and ruin Will and John Donnelly's successfulstagecoach business, the family remained steadfast, refusing to leave their home or give up their dignity. The tenacity with which the Donnellysfaced hardship and their stubborn refusal to leave was used as a premise for their demonization both before and after their untimely murders. Unfairly dubbed the "Black Donnellys" by writer Thomas Kelley, a name which they had never been called while alive, the stigma of hatred has continued to haunt the Donnellys well beyond their deaths. Kelley is not the only historian to have been interested in the Donnellvs, andluckily. many. p- e o- ~ l e besides him have attempted to round out the story. Among them is dramatistJamesReaney, whoseclassicplay TheDonnellys hasearned himcritical approval and a lifelong seat in the hierarchy of Canadian drama. The Donnelly story, ararity in its time, is essentially a tale of jealousy, greed and the dangers of mob mentalityfacets of society with which we are nowadays all too familiar. To this day, The Donnellys has never actually been performed in Biddulph, as the descendants of the accusedmurdererscontinue to block its performance. The voices of the slain Donnellys cannot be silenced here, however, and at 1:30 p.m. in Hagey Hall 180,they willmake their spectral presence known.

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he controversy surrounding Napster and MP3s has been widely publicized, especially with such high profile bands as Metallica launching law suits in an effortto put astop to the pirating of their music. Some musiciansare just happy tomake their music accessible for people to listen to, freely choosing to upload their own music onto siteswhere it can be downloaded for free. I spoke to one such musician, RyanNewman,athird-yearmmath student from Guelph, who has his music available at www.mp3.com/ keld/. Newman's decision was based first on a desire to have his music heard, but he records his music "whether anyone hears [it] or not," and sees music as more of a hobby. Being aco-op student,Newman says, isn't conducive to getting a band together,gettingcohesive with the band and playinggigsdue to time restraints and geographical distance while on work terms. It's also difficult to play alonewhen muchof the songs' layering comes post-production and he doesn't have the hardware to perform live with those effects. Newman records his songs at home directly onto his PC, which gives him the freedom to have as many tracks as he wants, to do some sampling and to upload his music directly onto thelnternet. Economical practicality also led Newman to put his music on the net instead of making an album. Making a CD would cost in the neighbourhood of

three to four thousanddollars, which is a big bill to foot for a student. As well, it takes a significant time commitment, which also makes it adifficult venture. Newman said he loaded one song just to see how it worked, and after that he continued to load one song at a time. The process isn't instant-ittakesacouple of daysto see a song appear on the Internet because mp3 .corn has to do things like verify the coding. InNewman's opinion, analogue recording using conventional fouror eight-track recorders will soon be a thing of the past for low-fi recording. One of the advantages of using a PC instead of conventional recording is the ability to upload music quickly onto the Internet without having to make a CD. Computers bringtechnologicaladvantagesto the recording process because one has the ability to provide a countless number of tracks. Although there is the advantage to having one's music accessible to the world for free, Newman says there are some drawbacks: "Youcan't really change the way the site is set up, the way it looks.. . it's just to get people to hear stuff." On mp3.com, there is a programcalled "Payback for Playback," which gives the artists a share of the advertising revenue based on the number of people who listen to an artist's songs. Thus far, Newman's "paybacknhasbeenzero. But itknot something that's important to him anyway because he sees his recordings - as "documentation of a certain space and time," not something that will bring him rock stardom.

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DALIA AL-KURY special to Imprint If you are looking forupliftingfunky, tunes, this album is the answer. It offers a wide collection of 14 fast, beat-happy tunes by 14 different underground acid jazz artists who are not afraid to experiment. Each artist approaches acid jazz from a different -perspective: some mix it with house beats, some mix it with drum 'n' bass, and some with hand drumming. But one thing all the tracks have in common is that they all make you want to get up and dance. I cannottell you who thisalbum reminds me of, simply because this acid jazz dance series is the first of its kind to mix so many genres. Some artiststakeit alittle too far andbreak many musical boundaries by mixing :very genre imaginable. While this album might not be somethingyou wanttolisten towhile hiving or doing anything except :xclusively listeningto music, Totally Wired is an excellent treat if vou're ooking for good background music a hen studying, chillin' with freinds, )r doing whatever you like to do hen your stereo is on.

Giant Robot's only savinggrace is the tongue-in-cheek way that it is treated. Nearly every track has a little addition to it, like a conversation between a little boy and his father. As the father explains, "Buckethead's thisguythatwas raised by chickens in a chicken coop, and without the bucket on his head, he's helpless." That kind of phrasing is what generally passes for lyrics. And the liiesare deliveredwithsomuchmock honesty in the voices that most of them sound like characters in a bad monster movie or a poorly translated'animt. The whole concept of the album (the exploration of variations on a given theme) is encapsulated in the song "Post Office Buddy." The song follows aman as he stalks some poor woman he met at the post office. Between each message that you hear him leave on her machine, the particular variation given over for the song becomes increasingly complex, increasinglyurgent. There are mellower moments toward the end of the CD, which seem to be anod to'80sheavy metal ballads. There is also the somewhat surprising theme from Star Wars, which brings to mind Queen'srendition of "The Wedding March" from theFlash Gordon soundtrack.

true to the vibe of the record. Fresh off the success of his Streets Iz a Muthafucka, Kurupt calls out a few more names and adequately supplements Scarface's slow flow. And JayZ manages to keep his dick out of a song, for once. The charm of this album is that it effectively blends that hardcore gangsta shit with tracks like "Look Into My Eyesn and "In My Time," which are both powerful and offer worthwhile social observationsfrom the perspective of 13 yearsin the rap game. Chances are you're not going to hear much of TheLast ofaDying Breed on the radio, but it'll be apopular choice in my crib for a while. And the irony of a CD entitled The Last of a Dyrng Breed opening with an intro about birth and sportingacover photo of a baby only hails the prevailingsense thatthisis rather the beginning for a man who claims he's finishedmaking records.

special to Imprint Scarface'ssixth album, TheLast ofa Dying Breed is the type of disc that gives you the hankering for the days of thug music (ratherthan the shimmy shimmy cocoa party up in here flavour that has been popular in the genre for the past while). Scarface's Buckethead Giant Robot latest discis reality rap-one for the Virgin streets, not for the clubs. Still, The Last of a Dying Breed AUGUST C. B O U R R ~ isn't a disc that I would likely have special to Imprint purchased on my own, and that is only partly for financial reasons. leaped at the chance to review this However, the CD is a solid effort Ibum. Why? Because of control, from a rapper whose career alone bsolute control. Buckethead has demands respect. I wouldn'tgo so far lare control over aguitar than any- as to say that the album is going to ne I have ever heard. His instru- make me run out and buy every lent does not do a single thing that other CD Scarface has released, but e doesn't want it to. Every note is it is one that, when given a chance, ear, he never drops out of tempo, will llkely end up staying in heavy ld he cansomehow manage to make rotation for quite some time. le hardest, fastestriffs sound subtle. The beatsare wet (especiallyon The musicis~ghtand the backup extra juicy tracks such as "Sorry For ~usiciansareintop form. The album What?" and "Get Outn)andScarface very, very repetitive. What has organized an impressive, while uckethead doesis finda theme. He not overly smothering, lineup of len explores that theme for the guests for the album, including Daz, Itire album. Thealbumis 19tracks Kurupt, Jay-Z and Redman, all of whom come out swingin' and stay ng. As I said- repetitive.

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13 CloudsRecards 3espitethe fact that Howie Beckis ;portingacowboy hat in his picture In the CD case, those who would :xpect an alt-country sound will indit only in the conse~ative use of iteel and acoustic guitar. He reninds me of The Grapes of Wrath, ~ i t harrnoniesand&tat h riffwemiliscentof Sloan. There'ssomething ibout Beck's voice that brings to nind a cocktail sound fitting for a ~edtimesong. As my voice major louse-mate pointed out, Beck's voice is not supported enough, which gives a sort of whispering :ffect that I'm not particularlyfond 3f. All of this is not bad though, just mot what I expected.

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The album's title, Inhale, is very fittittlg considering only two of the twelve tracks do not include areference to smokingweed. Yeah, if popping pills, smokin' up and drinking too much are integral parts of your life, or if you want them to be, you should have no problem relating to the lyrics that Michael haspenned. Also fittingis Michael's physical resemblance toKurt Cobainandvocal resemblancetoacrossbetween Billy Corgan and Raine Maida. Michael seems to run into problems in the quiet, tender parts of the album where hisvoice gets to ascreech that just doesn'twork. Don't getmewrong though, all of this combinesto make an album that one can easily listento. The music has apop-rocksound that manages to be edgy and fresh.

OttawaresidentJon Bartlette, whc some might know from his work with SteamingToolie, has trekkec out independently with a rag-tag bunch collectivelyknown as Rhume The group's instrumentation in cludespercussion,korg, organ, gui tar, vielle, horn and excellent addec vocals fromJanice Hall. AU in all, this makes music tha~ brings together both ascaled-dm emo sound like Eric's Trip, a surf rock Wheezerish sound, and ont that is distinctively Rhume's owr thanksto theunrnistakablevoiceo Jon Bartlette. Rhume manages tc packa punchin their short, straight forward songs, trimmingoff all tht fat, while still using all of the banc but not making the listener over whelmed with too much texture.

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aren't taking this seriously. That's good, because then the listener doesn't have to take it seriously either. So, what thisalbumamounts to is catchy techno-pop tunes with clever,mostly meaningless lyrics,and sometimesthat'sexactly what Ineed. The album startswith an introductory dialoguefromthe band and then quickly gets into the two most pop-oriented tracks on the disc, "Pretty Girls" and "www.nevergetoveryou." After this flash of pure pop, the musical styles start to vary from a reworking of Tchaikovsky to a Latin-flavouredtrackcompletewith flamencoguitar. The title track and "Introduction to a Broken Heart" also incorporate string arrangements, which workvery well, the former alsohaving a melody reminiscent of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby." As with Hot Show, Saturday Aople has its overtly sexual pseudorap performed by Milo. "Feed the Night" is a comic highlight andis also the best dance-influenced track on the album. Every song on this album is instantly catchy due to the great instrumentation and the sly, accented vocals of Simon. There is no filler or fluff;it's just great music that doesn't make you read into subtle meanings and nuances to get the point. So if you're looking for some light electronicpop andmaybea few laughs at the expense of poor Milo, try Prozzak's Saturday People.

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