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OF IT? Jesus Christ died a horrific death-beaten, whipped with bone or metal pieces fixed in a nine-lash whip, mocked with a crown of two-inch thorns pressed into his head, wrists and feet nailed to a cross where he hung until he died of slow suffocation. What was it all for? For nothing? On the contrary, Jesus had many reasons for going through this and all of those reasons centre around you: 1) This was Jesus, who had healed people from lifelong diseases, from physical disabilities like blindness, paralysis, even demon-possession. He stopped a violent storm at sea, miraculously fed crowds of over 5,000. So when they nailed him to a cross, it was not those nails keeping him there--it

was his love for us. 2) He had clearly identified himself as God. That's why the religious authorities were having him tortured and killed. But on five different occasions, before his arrest, Jesus declared that he would be crucified and three days later come back to life. He wanted people to publicly see him killed and buried, so that when he rose from the dead, they would know that everything he said about his identity was true. Three days later, his burial tomb was empty. People spoke with him and saw him physically alive (more than 500 people)--he wanted us to know he

really was God in the flesh, just as he said. 3) His death on the cross was to allow us to have a relationship with him, which he obviously desires. There is only one thing that keeps us from having a close relationship with God-"Your iniquity [sin] has made a separation between you and your God." And there is a penalty, a price to be paid, for our sin. Going to church? No. Being a good person? No. The penalty for our sin is death. Death?! So that we would not have to die for our sin, Jesus died in our place. As the prophet Isaiah stated nearly 600 years before Jesus was born, "All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned his own way; but the Lord has caused the iniquity [sin] of us all to fall on him." He paid (fully)

for our sin and now offers us complete forgiveness. 4)We don't expect God to offer us forgiveness and eternal life, but he does. But such a gift only belongs to those who take it. Instead of trying to perform for God, look what he has done for you. How many of us are trying to get close to God, not realizing that he already desires to come into our lives? Jesus said, "Behold I stand at the door and knock, if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into hi11 111111.

If you're like many people, you sense God's desire to know you and have a personal relationship with you. But he won't force you into a relationship with him, which you've probably already discovered. It's simply a matter of wanting him to come into your life, and then you making the decision to invite him in. If you need help knowing how to ask him, here you go: "Jesus, thank you for paying for my sins. I open the door of my life right now, and ask you to come in. Do with my life what you would like. Thank you for your forgiveness and for coming into my life right now." If you asked him into your life just now, your sins are forgiven, he really came into your life and he will never leave you nor forsake you. You can learn more about knowing God by reading the section called "John" in the Bible. You can also learn more about Jesus' life, death and facts supporting his resurrection in the feature article BEYOND BLIND FAITH by emailing ccc-~ o t r n a i l . c o m for your free copy." Did he die for the hell of it? That's really up to you.

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Students are divided over fee increase K A T E SCHWASS. Imprint staff

0-op students are showingmixed reattionsto the increase of the co-op keby $25 for 25 years that Federation of Students President Chris Farley proposed with an open letter to students in last week's Imprint. Farley admits his first reaction to the proposal was to say no. "This happens all the time. Atone pointin time, they wanted to have orientation on the student services fee and I said no to that. But the Board of Governors asked me to think about it, so I did. What happened then is that I talked ir over with the executive." In the letter, Farley stated that "while I have not yet given them a final answer, I have indicated my personal belief that Co-op students, if presented with all of the information, wouldbewilling to help finance this building. The informalfeedback I have receivedso farwould indicate this to be correct, but it's time that all of you were made aware of the situation." According to Farley, students have contacredhimand "the e-mails are still largely negative. I've gotten about 125 e-mails." Fariey added that "reactions are tense on both sides. Up until recently,itwaslargely negative, but that's sort of changing around. The survey resuhs we got in on-line are more supportive." In a second open letter to stu-

MSA avoids probation

Student diagnosed with TB ALLISON FLEMING special to lmprinf

teriaisinyourbody,notthatitis active. Over 90 per cent of those who become infected remain round 50 students have healthy and never develop active beengivenpreliminarytests TB. A smaH percentage may defor tuberculosisafter a stu- velop active TB disease in the first dent in the West four house of two yeak after infection or much Village One was diagnosedwith an later in life when their immune isolated case of active tuberculosis system ages or weakens from other medical conditions. earlier this week. TBoccurs most commonlyin According to UW's Daily Bulletin, the student has moved out of developing countries where drug residence, says Barbara treatments for TB are nor readily Schumacher; medical director of available.Typically, the bacteriafirst UW's health services, and is being reaches and attacks the lungs, and neared with antibiotics. "This per- then may spread to various other 1 son will be kept isolated until they're parts and systems of the body no longer contagious," she said. through the blood. Symptoms of Thattypicallytakesabouttwoweeks, tuberculosis in the lungsmay cause with treatment lastingfrom 9 to 12 . a bad cough that lasts longer than months. two weeks, chest pain andor make Others that may have come id the patient cough up blood and close contact with the patient have phlegm. Other symptomsinclude been briefed and given a prelimi- weight loss, fatigue, alackof appe.. nary skintest, to be repeated in two tite, chills, and fever. months when may begin to test Each year, between 8 to 22 positive. The air-borne disease, cases of active tubercul~sisare recontagious through coughing o r . ported in Waterloo Region. Resneezing from someonewith active searchers in Canada now hove to tubercu?osis,is curablewithantibi- eliminate the disease by 2010. otics. Students with any concerns Even if someone tests positive may contict Health Setvicesat ext. for TB.it onlv means that the bac- 3543.

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ontrary to predictionsfrom clubs committee members, the MSA left a March 12 meeting with a warning instead of probation. The MSAhad beencalled intoa special meeting with the clubs committee in order to address several issues, from budgetary concerns to w o r meeting attendance. . Prior to the meeting, two clubs committee members suggested that probation would be the expected outcome.Whenaskedwhy the group did notreceive probation, Clubs Director RyanEaglescited weaknesses in the clubspolicy,explainingthat as the meeting progressed, it became clear that there were problems on bothsides. "The thing that we felt was negligent in the clubs policy is that there needs to be more flow of information from the club to the group that is putting them on probation," he said "Itwasalittletoo.. .itwasalmost authoritarian. So we just felt that needed to be modified." Eagles suggested that the clubs policy should

allow for a warning before moving When asked to identify the directly to probation. MSA's violations, Eagles replied: Despite the committee's deci: "I don't want to bring it up besion, Eagles admitted that the MSA cause there are other clubs that do would have qualified for probation the same types of things, so I have to according to the current Feds clubs saythatthe MSAis unfortunatelythe policy. one that has been doing it the most, ' The club:s responsibilities inand the other clubs havedonesimilar clude takingdetailed minutes at each things. meeting, ensuring that at1 material "If I wanted to be a heavy from contains the club?s logo, fbllowing the beginning, there are many clubs Feds clubfinancinguolidesandsendI cauld have dissolved or put on -ing arepresentativeto all club presi- probation, but I'm not about trying. dents'meezings. Breach of anvof the to run around policingpeople when responsibilities outlined in the clubs in fact I know that a lot of these clubs policy is consideredgrounds for the arevolunteer clubs." Eagles wenton club to be placed on probation. to say that the violations, although Once placedonprobation, clubs numerous, were not major. policy must be followedto the letter "Any of the things that theMSA or else the group could be dissolved. has done have not been that bad," Also, aclub on probation loses "any said Eagles. "But when you put them and all privileges conferred on the all together it says 'Woah, wait a clubby the~ederationofstudents," second.Yoltguys have to shape up.' accordingtosection 9.2 of the clubs And that's where they felt that they policy. had reservationsbecause they knew Eagles insiststhat "We were fol- oth& clubs that had done similar lowingclubs policy directly," but re- t h i ibut justnotwith the frequency fused to outline the exact violations that they have." despite repeated questioning. If that is the case, then why did Wheri Eagles was asked if the the MSA escape probation? Eagles MSAqualify for probation for their explains that the group is important violations? "The answer would be please see page 6 yes," he said.

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New UW home page up and running SUSAN BUBAK Imprint staff

July 2000. "We putup this [Website] as aninterim page," explainedAvvey Peters, who serves on the UWinfo operations team, which developed thenewhome page. "We justwanted to give the existing site a bit of a facelift, get people thinking about it and talking about it. Now, we're beginningourconsultationprocess." The UWinfo operations team will host a series of open meetings with members of the campus community to get feedback on the strengthsandweaknessesofthehome page. "One of the thingswe're hoping todo at these openmeetings is firstof

heuniversity ofwaterloo has a new and improved home page at www.uwaterloo.ca. Launched o n March 8 the Web site contains more links, and features a visuallyappealinglayoutwithdropdown menus, photos of the campus and a red, gold and black colour scheme. "I like it a lot," said first-year computer engineering student Conor O'Neil. "It's alot more professional-lookingthan the old one. I thought the old one was ugly." Third-yearpolitical science student Matt Wood also gave the new home page rave reviews. "It looks better already," he said as he I %nnL+lrrrrmr&*~dWIbm i hne=Ikrh0~mW4"iw r a n t a n w b m r r*rai**.d "- virtmwr,a* logged onto the new i 1uad.r. M n h I:, Ir%,dn. n m k 14 Web site for the first time. Wood had not seen the updated version of the home page until he was approached by Imprint to give it a test drive. "It's generally a lot more userfriendly," he said, adding that he was notfond ItdOesn'tsuck. Really. of the old home page. "I never liked the other Web site," he all identify who our users are," said said. "Itwasthe worstwebsite of all Peters. "We expect anybody and the universities. You'd thmk we'd everybody on campus [to use the have the best one because we're a home page] plus a great number of computer science school." differenttypes of people off campus, The old home page was intro- prospective students, researchers at ducedinoctober 1998. Theprocess other instituhons, potential co-op of redesigning the Web site began in employers, there's a really broad

spectrum."There are more changes to come as the home page takesshape over the next few months. "I'm hoping that there will be a new home page next fal1,"said ChrisRedmond, another member of the UWinfo operations team. "Within a year or so, there'sgoing to bean on-line system for registration, pre-registration, course changes, that kind of thing. It's important for students to have easy access to that, and there will be othersystemscomingalong." During the process of developing the new home page, the UWinfo operations team consulted anumber of departments on campus, including Co-operative Education and Career Services, UndergraduateRecruitment,Learning and Teaching Through Technology, the Library, and Distanceand Continuing Education. The UWinfo operations team welcomes feedback on the new home page. "There's a link on the home page that goes to the 'About UWinfo' page, and that in turn tells howpeople can comment on what they're seeing and what theywouldliketosee,"saidRedmond. There are also plans to introduce an on-line user survey to solic~tfeedback. You can send your questions and comments about the home page to the UWinfo operations team at uwinfofb@adrnmail.uwaterloo.ca.

Imprint, Friday, March 1 6, 200 1

Hard at work: renovations all over KATe S c n w ~ s s Imprint staff

t's rare that a day goes by on campus and no one sees a construction truckof some kind. According to Hans Knepper of Plant Operations,there is usually anywhere from 8-10 contractors on campus working on improvingthe buildings. "Sometimes we're a bit more hidden," Knepper laughed. Currently, there are several projects taking place on campus. Work is being done in the Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology building, Carl PollackHall, Math and Computers, Biology 1, Biology 2, ColumbiaLake Townhouses, Modern Languages (ML)and the Student Life Centre (SLC). "Sometimes it'seasier toremember the buildings we are not working on," Knepper joked. The Biology buildings are getting a few new labs, as is Math and Computers. A Community Centre is being built at the Columbia Lake Townhouses. There isalso, of course,

the new Mackenzie King residence that is being built. Two of the bigger projects on campus include those taking place in the ML building and the SLC. Construction at ML, which has disrupted a few classes since the new year, will result in an elevator in the building. The elevator willensure that there is proper wheelchair accessin the building. There are several renovations taking place in the SLC Downstairs, the Cove has been renovated and and have even closed early some nights for renovations. Accordingto Knepper, the Used Bookstore is being expanded as well. At the Ring Road entrance of the SLC, a small office is being erected outside the Federation of Students' office. According to Feds President Chris Farley, the new office will house a volunteer centre. Students can expect to continue seeing construction trucks on campus, as renovations are far from over, and campus buildings are constantly being renovated.

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Building architecture's future MELANIE STUPARK Imprint staff

ay goodbye to the architects. On Thursday March 1 5 the university officially signed an greement to go ahead with prepaations for theschool's move to Camrridge. RickHaldenbv. .,Director of the ,chool of Architecture since 1988. ealized early )n that in his esearch of ar:hitecture progamsthatitwas acking com,ared to others n Canada. 'What became ~ainfullyobvi3us is that we weregrossly under-provided.. .Warerlooprovides thesmallestamount 3f studio spqce per student of any ~choolin Canada. It was lacking in certain basic facilities, model constructionspaces, labs, research space, we had no proper exhibit galleries, every other school in the country has these things and we don't." Withminimal funding, there was little the university could do to improvethefac&ties.Thefundmgfrom vindal government goes to ects whereenrollmentneeds hadto be met, (The Centre for Environmental EngineeringTechnology, the Co-op building, and the addition to the engineering building). Hdden$l;~rganized a Professional Advisory Committee that included representatives from several industries to try and come up with

solutions as to how to proceed academically and to find ways to raise money to deal with the problems with space. Jim Castle, a businessman from Cambridge approached Haldenby after the first meeting to consider moving theschool to Cambridge, where he was confident there would be amplesupport for a project of that kind. Although he thought the idea

bridge. They hope to have the building open and ready for students as of September, 2003. Throughout the process many concernshave been raised from both staff, faculty, and architecture students as to the school's move. A student questionnaire was handed out to all architecture students in' order to gainmore constructive feedback about their concerns.They weren't concerned with enrollment dropping as a result of a satellite campus. "I think it's quite clear that if YOU have an excellent facility and an

Hopefully the building - will be open and ready for students in Sentember., 2003.

was ~nrealisticatfirst~aftertwo years of exhausting all available avenues oncampusHaldenby came to realize that the opportunity to move to Cambridge was unique and ideal. The Cambridge consortium, made up of several private business people,isnowresponsible for ensuring that all of the terms of the singed agreement are met. This includes providingthesite,a3.1 acre pieceof riverfront land being donated by Austrian architect and investor 0scar Ganhal. remediation of the site. funding for the building, equipment and furnishings, aswell as an endowment for the maintenance and operations of the building. There will be an inter&tional design cornpetidon for the building which will not only enhance the reputation of the school, but also of the City of Cam-

excellentschool of architecture the students who want to be architects are going to come to it." Haldenby stated. Overall the student reaction ispositive.Whenaskedtheirfeelings on the move, third year architecture students Olivia Keung and Natalie Soranno commented that "The cramped facilitieschallengeour potential to become great architects. This isour chance to inhabit a building whose architecture represents the integrity of such a reputable school. This move is serious, unlike some other Dromams we don't iust go to lectures in scheduled time slots - this building will be our second home and its important that it be conducivenot only to learningbut to designing. We look at other schools of architecture andtheir facilitiesare

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N e w lrn p r i n t Board elected HALA KHALAP Imprint staff

espite a few problems, stu dents elected the new Imprint Board of Directors in a specialgeneral meeting last Friday. On Friday, February 16, Imprint held its Annual General Meeting, with the intention of elFcting a new Board of Directors. The board is responsible for ensuring the longterm viability of the corporation. Twenty eligible voters students who have paid their $4.10 I m ~ r i nfee t -were in attendance at the beginning of the meeting. Adina Gillianwas re-elected as staff liaison. but after some students left, the meeting lost quorum (the number of voting members required by Imprint's bylaws to conduct business) and the

meeting had to be adjourned. ASpecial General Meeting was then rescheduled for Friday, March 9 in order to complete the election.

returning for another year as President. "Working with the old board taught me a lot about how Imprint Thistime,RobSchmidt,Impkt's runs, and through the experience SystemAdministrator andsecretary that I have had with the old board, I of the Corporation, acted as Chief feel I am better able to servehprint Returning Officer and took precau- in a second term," commented tions to ensure that the voting was Schwass. "I am looking forward to workorganized and regulated. Eligible voters were registered ing with my new board." on a voting list and had-their name Vice-presidentJaniceJimwill be checked off after they had handed in replaced by Jesse Helmer, Imprint's their ballots. lead proofreader and a second-year Finally, after a meeting that ran English student. Melanie Stuparyk, for an hour anda half, the new Board Imprint's Features editor and thirdof Directors that would commence year Englishstudent, was voted in as its term on May 1,2001, was estab- Secretary and Andrt Cousineau, regular Imprint coatributor and lished. Kate Schwass, Imprint's news fourth-year mathstudent, is the new editor, current Board President and Treasurer. The new boardlooks forthird-year English student, will be ward to starting their term.

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lyers bearing the phrase, "Too white tobe hate crimes" along with photographs of four young murdered white people were found by Scoops in the SLC on Monday. The West ViginiabasedNational Alliance (NA),a fiercelyactivewhite supremacistgroup, is in the midst of an ongoing campaign that has echoed its way to the UW campus. "I wouldn't want to think that it's a student," commented assistant to the SLC manager Nancy O'Neill when asked who she thought might be dropping the flyers in the SLC. This is the second incident of hate literaturedistributiononcampus this term. The lasttime,supportersof the. Heritage Front placed hate literature into books in the Used Bookstore and into newspapers outside the Imprint office. O'Neill admitted that, in her four years working in the SLC, she has never seen thismuch activitywith the distribution of hate literature. "We try to monitor the building, and what's going on. The turnkeys do walk-abouts ,"but despite their bestefforts, O'Neill admits that "something like thisis so hard to keep tabs on." It is beleived that the flyers were dropped off during the night on Sunday for students to findMonday morning. A janitor found the flyers and turned them into the Turnkey Desk. Some UW students are not impressed with this latest campaign. Undergraduate student Sarah Pequegnant noted that, "I support free speech, but I can't support hate literature." UW Pollce have been made aware of the situation. Officer Binns said that "I don't know who's doing

it. We have no reason to believe at this time that it is one of our own students. A number of posters were IeftintheSLC andMC."Theposters have since been forwarded to Wa-

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rganizers blamed poor weather for a low turn out at Campus Day this year. Rain and less than ideal driving conditions meant that only 3,000 people came to check out the campus on Tuesday, 1,000fewer than last year. Many of the groups - including the Feds, CECS and Food Services -who set up tables and displays in the SLC's Great Hall, disappointed with the turnout, packed it in early. Director of undergraduate student recruitment Tina Roberts felt the day was still worthwhile, despite the lower than expected turnout. "Cold, rainy, muddy, but Campus Day was still a success," she told the Dady Bulletin. The day is meant togive the high school students who've decided to attend UW in the fall a sneak peak at what should expect come Septem-

ing to figure out where it's coming from." Negent also noted that neither Laurier or Conestoga College are experiencing any incidents with hate literature. For over two decades now, the NA has been active in ~romoting their racist message internationally, intent on alertinz- students of their plight. Unfortunately their mission has proven successful,and thanks to the Internet, the NA has expanded 30fold since 1990. Hate literature has not been targeted exclusivelyattheUWCampus. The University of Calgary recently reported a flyer drive featuring propaganda about biological and racial evolution. UW Police urges anyone with any more information or if you find literature, to contact them immediatly.

ber. Included as part of the day were tours andsessions on financing your university education and on how the co-op program works. While Tuesday was the day the university set aside to welcome potential students, people were welcome to check out the facilities on their own all week, at their convenience. Those involved with first year recruitment hope that the weather will be more conducive to visitingthe campus. "We anticipate that the rest of the week will be busy with students and parents visiting on days where there will be better driving conditions and hopefully no rain," Roberts said in memo on Tuesday. "We expectthe busiestday to beonFriday." Propsective students can take tours year round. The next big event for first-year students will bestudent Life 101 which is held in August. Students who know they are coming to UW for sure are able to tour the campus and get to know the area.

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Im~rint.Friday. March 16, 2001

thought it was a joke e-mail. You know, one of the messages with the infinite number of "fwd's" tacked onto the front of the subject. I was waiting for the punch-lineat the end, or a humourous cheap shot at the soon to be outgoingFeds administration. But after verifyingits validity, I was stunned. ChrisFarley's open letter to students, whichwasprintedinlastweek's Imprint was no joke. The letter explained his plan to help the university fund the remainingmomey needed to complete the new co-op building project. A lot of this debate comes down to image. The Feds want to go outwitha banganddo somethingfor the university that's incredibly significant, like raising $4.5 million to support UW's marquee program. In some ways, if students turn down the proposal, they look like they have little care for the viability of co-op at Waterloo. What would the headlines read in a local daily? "Students against supporting world-renowned program" or "Students outraged at administration's panhandling." At one time this project featured plenty of beauties, now it features too many potential beasts de-

Architecture on the move continued from page 5

amazing. We, on the other hand, have such an outstanding reputation that it's about time our facilities reflected that." The main concern among students is about the access they will have to recreation facilities, library and information resources, electives inother programs,and theculture of campus life that will exist away from main campus. Haldenby explained that these issues are being addressed by the committee and that ttiere are excellent people working on solutions. They are currently working out details with the YMCA in Cambridge, and Haldenby stresses that access to the river and the city's recreational resources (piaymnghelds, rowingdub) is in the works. They are also looking into offering electivesonthe Cambridge cam-

pus depending on needs expressed further down the road. Isolation from the rest of the campus is not a concern of Haldenby's as he doesn't feel that relocating to the centre of a large, culturallyalive city is isolating. The line for the new light rail transit program that runs from Cambridge to Waterloo and on to Elmira, starts right at the site for the new satellite campus and until that is built the committee intends on having some k i d of transportation between the two campuses. "The whole issue of life and ~ d and ~what kind e of place it's goingtobe is up to us to construct it, to make ita wonderful dace to be to provide connections to the main campus" Haldenby explained, "I'm very 'optimistic I think it's a wonderful thing, it's amazing to find agroup as supportive, enthusiastic, and genuine as we have, it's very exciting for us as a school and as a profession."

pending from whichsideyou're looking in. Theuniversitywas once abeauty for acknowledging the need for a new co-op building. But now students are seeing them in a beastly shadow after learning about its $4.5 million shortfall, for which they hope students will pick up the tab. Moreover, the university led everyone to believe that this projectwaswithout major financialproblems. The Feds, like the university, supported the co-op building development and have since been aproached by the university to help pay for the remaining costs. But because of their insistence of not fully involving their councillors and constituentsfrom the beginning, t h e ~ e d s have shared someof theuniversity's shadow. It's always hard to blame students whenit comes to asking money from them. After all., eve^ student is a starving student, right? But, how will outsiders view students if they refuse to support a program that gives them such high marketability after graduation? The problem may seem to be a lose lose lose situation. However, I

think two of the parties can walkout of the situation without much criticism. Students can't be expected to pay for a building that's essentiat to the educational component of the UW experience. Isay "educational" because students will have to make this distinction when they're asked to support a SLC and North Campus athletics expansion later this year. Farley openly admitted at last Sunday's co-op students council meeting that he made a mistake by not involving students earlier in the funding discussions. Fine, he apologized, which is sometimesmore than what some politicians are willing to do. Remember, the Feds are asking for the money on behalf of the m i versity and but not volunteering to pony up the cash. That being said, the university should receive the most heckles from our community for not coming clean at the beginning. Sorry to be the firstto break the news to you members of the Board, but unless you find other donators and change the attitudes of the majority of co-op students, you'll stillbe $4.5 millionshort in May.

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Louie's files for protection R O B I N STEWART Imprint staff

oose Change Louie's, amainstay in Waterloo nightlife, may soon be closing its doors. Its owners filed notice that they have made a proposal to their creditors on February 29. 1021320 Ontario Inc., which owns both Loose Change Louie's and Jose's NoodleFactory submitted thenotice, claiming that it was insolvent, as described by section 50.4(1) of the Bankruptcy and InsolvencyAct. Totals debts for the corporation include almost $160,000 in debt to various unsecured creditors, $120,000 to its secured creditors and almost an additional $100,000 to itspreferred creditors, including $35,000 in back wages to its employees. The company has one month from the date of filing to restructure its debtor close up shop. Regulations also allow them to apply for an extension to this period in order to wrap up any ongoing discussions. uwstudent.org reported that Ted Michalos, President of Hoyes, k c h a l o s &Associates ~ n chas , agreed to act as trustee for the corporation under the prooosal, that an extensionis not likely and thatthe

business is likely to be sold. Student reacted to the news withsurprise. "I grew up in this town," said first year arts studentDan Horgan, "it's always been there." The students Imprint spoke to who are customers at Louie's noted that Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights were still well-attended. However, second-year Political Science student SteveWatts felt that attendance may have dropped in recent months. As to why business had dropped off, the students we spoke to had a variety of theories ranging from the opening of Johnny Fiasco's to a changing demographic at Louie's. "If you go to Louie's enough," said Horgan, a self-proclaimed Louie's 'semi-regular', "youget sick of it." He added, "the younger crowd is looking for a new place to go." For other students, of course, the demise of Louie's just isn't a concern. "I don't go there often enough to care," noted first-year applied studies student Jill Hughes. When asked for their thoughts on the situation, management at~ouie'stold imprint that"Loose Change Louie's has no comment at this time."

Is it possiblethatthe"skankiestbar in town" isgoingdown?

JANICEIIM

Imprint, Friday, March 16, 2001

Bring on democracy GREG MACDOUQALL Imprint staff

emocracy is coming to UW. Being screened on Tuesday, March 20 in the Davis Centre room 1304 is the movie Thisis WhatDemocracyLooksLike. The film coversthe protests againstthe World Trade Organization in Seattlein 1999. It is set in the streets of Seattle betweenTuesday, November 30 through December 4, and features interviews with different people connected to the protests. The mesh of real live footage and the featured analysis frorn some key players combine to provide insight into what happened in Seattle and what it all means. And the soundtrack, led by Rage Against the Machine and DJ Shadow, only adds to the film's mood of revolution. The film is aproduction of Big Noise Films and the Seattle Independent Media Center and the footage is a combined effort of over 100 mediaactivists. The film tells thestory of people from across the planet, frorn allwalksof life, coming together to make their voices heard in opposition to the World Trade Organization and all that it represents. The people united in Seattle to exercise their democratic rights to free speech and freedom of assembly. They then had those rights taken away. The police response to the protestorsisoneof the most interestingaspects of this movie. You can see a police commander telling the peaceful demonstrators, "If we are not in danger, we have no intentions of making any move on you. I haven't hurt anybody in 30 years and I don't plan to start now." Soon after, he is heard delivering another message: "I would like to not hurt anyone.

However, we will clear this intersection. We will clear itwithchemical and pain compliance. If you do not move, you will be the subject of pain." Sometimes,movies containgratuitousviolence to attract audiences. Thismovie contains violence, but there's a different motivation behind it. Basically, this movie gives you a chance to see through the lies, the deceit, the oppression of opinion, and the shaping of reality perpetrated by both the media and by the police. It lets you know what the people were fighting for. In addressing a 50,000 strong labour rally, Leroy Trotman of the Barbados Workers' Union remarked, "This demonstration is not a demonstration of Americans, its a demonstration of all working class people all over the world-rich country, poor country, white country, black country, all country. "They have said to us, if you want jobs, yob have to forget union rights. If you want jobs, you have to forget labour law. If you want jobs, you have to forget decentwages.We have said, to hell with you!" The timing of the release andscreenings of This Is What Democracy Is coincides with the build-up happening for the FTAAmeetings being held in Quebec City April 20-22. The moviegives aglimpseofwhat might happen in Quesbec-already plans have been made to cordon off an area of the city with a three metre high 4.5 kilometre long fence. The movie is also being shown on Monday the 19 at 7:OOp.m. at WLU'sScience Building room 1042 and Wednesday, March 21, at 7:00 p.m. at the Kitchener PublicLibrary. Admission to the movie screening is five to ten dollars, depending on financialcircumstances, although no one will be turnedaway for lackof funds.

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Finding success at the Junos American influence on the Canadian music industry

he Juno awardshav; alwaysperplexed me. On one hand, I'm skeptical about awards shows - I don't watch the Oscars, the Grammys, the Blockbuster awards or whatever. Butthe Junosare, after all, Canadian, and that's a good thing, right? Maybe. I wasn'tborn yesterday, andwhen I thinkofthe musicindustry, I think of people that Douglas Adams described in the same sentence as thugs and pimps and that the Los Angeks BusinessJounial called "just above serial killers." But still, this is Canada, right? Wrong. We're no better than our neighbours to the south. In fact. we're often worse. We don't recognizegreat Canadian talent 'ti1 after thev've done well south of the border. ~arah~c~a'chlandidn'twina Junountil1998, -after Surfacingand her success in the US with Lilith Fair, despitethe platinumsalesand critical acclaim she received for 1994's Fumbling TowardsEcstasy. At least 2000 was a decent year: Diana Krallgot along-overdue best jazz vocal album award for WhenlLook in YourEyes. As in way long overdue. This was her fifth full-length album. (Her first was in 1993.) But wait a minute: isn't 2000 the year Krall also received not one, but two Grammy nominations?One of them was Album of the Year, which pitted her against the Backstreet Boys, Santana,Dixie ChicksandTLC.Andnorthof49?Oh yeah, we stuck her in the jazzcategory. UunoBestAlbum nominees were Celine, Alanis, Bryan Adams, Amanda Marshall and Prow;ik.) SoI wasn'tsurprised when Nelly Furtado picked up four Juno awards this year. Disappointed, yes, but surprised,no. I mean, what do you expectwhen youpour that kindof money into an artist? Dreamworks has cash to spare, and put Furtado on late-night TV,in heavy rotationon radio, on MuchMusicand MTV. I realize Furtado's no ChristinaAgulera-she writes her own songs, for one -but with that much hype you can'thelp but be justalittle bit sispicious.

Everyone's favourite misogynisticrapper With that kind of exposure, what's a gal like,say, SarahHarmer,to do?She releases You wound up with the award. Wooo. Now there's Were Here, which has "a dozen killer songs" asurprise. SomeonecanreadSoundScanchirts. Do we really need to reward bubblegum (Rolling Stone) and was named "debut of the year" by Time. After selling the record indie- pop - - and sensationalisticrap on the basis of how style atshows, shegets *distribution deal with many teenage girls' allowanceswent towards a Universal statesideand Rounder up here. The disc?Music awardsshouldbe aljiout music, not about whatever HMV has in the window disalbum fliesoff shelves. Sarah scored two Juno nominations: best play this week. Maybe I'm a hopeless idealist, but I'dlike new solo artist and best popalbum. She lost the to think awards named after someone who first one to -guess who? -Furtado -and the second to Scarborough's Barenaked La- pushed Cancon would go to the Canadians dies. Someoneplease tell me how she didn't get with themosttalent, notthose with the biggest marketing budget. the nod for best songwriter. I'm reminded of 1999. Then-Mercury artistEmmGrynergetsnominatedfor bestnew -PaulSchreiber artist. So did Sony's Melanie Doane. Guess who had postSANTA MONICA By: Billy Gun! ers all over Toronto's subway system? Guess who won? So where's Dome now? Who knows. And Gryner ? She released Science Fan in 2000, which was praised as her best work. Then she went on to tour with some guy named DavidBowie. Maybe you've heard of him. + I'yegotanether question for the CARAS folks: just ' what the heck is the point ofthe 'kitselling album (foreign or domestic)" category?Really. Look at who was nominated for this: Britney Spears, N +THAT% IT ~ T S Y I'MSICL! OF wwt QUANTUM PHY~ICS r WANT E ~ G SNOT ANSWERS* SYNC and Eminem.

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Self-serving -. politics fter reading Chris Farley's to findsomeoneto act as alightning rod for the letters regarding his sup- backlash. And who better than the President of the port of the $25.00 co-op fee increase,Ican'thelpbutwonder Federation of Students?He's only got another what job he's gunning for over fewweeks in office: he's as goodas disposable. a t ~ e e d l e s ~ aIlmean, l. he'sgot Make him the point man, students will blame to want something, right? Why him, but then thenew execs can distance themelse would he agree to take the selves from the decisionand not have to worry fall for something that is so about it tainting their administration. I alsoget the feelingthat Farley wasall too clearly the fault of the university's administration and Board eager to play along. After all, he's been President for almost a year now with very little to of Governors (BOG)? As I understand it, the BOG show for it. Even with the understanding that can increase tlfe co-op fee with much ofwhatthe Presidentaccomplishesgoes or withoutFarley's-or, forthat on behindthe srenesandthework t k y dogoes matter, the students' support. If they unnoticed, for themosfipart, Faclefs termin were really interested in knowing what office has been largely ineffectual. It's hard to students thought about this proposal to point to a single differencehe's made over the pay for half of the new co-op buildingwith past year. Maybe he saw this as his chance to increased student fees, they could have make his mark, I don't know. Whatever the reasons, Farley appears to gone about it in a more effective way. The truth is, they knew from the out- - have completely lost sight of the democratic set &at it was going to be unpopular. -I pracess, Whether you agree or disagree that mean, really, does anyone expect there to students should be footing half the bill for this be gleeful excitementover paying more to new building is beside the point (although,for go to school? Even those who support it the record, it does seem like conveniently only do so onlygrudgingly. So the mck was shoddy planning on the part of the university

to give the go-ahead on a building that it didn't know how it was going to pay for). He's obviouslygoing to have anopinionon thesubject, but surely he knows he's got to balance that with what his constituents want. Coming out right off the bat and tellingpeoplewhat'sgood for themdoesn't fill me with confidencethat he's interested inlistening to their concerns.Andaccepting the administration's ridiculously short timeline to deal with this matter is another indicationofwhoseinterestsheh&atheart. Consulting with the sixdents should be something that was part of the plan all abng,notsomethirigthat wasalast minute measure to appease the outragcd masses, It's been almost a year since Farley was elected to office, during which time he seems to have forgottenwho fie'ssupposed to represent. "Hey Chris, unlike the BOG, you're supposed to Iisten to students." Of course, listeningtostudents in this casemightmeanalienatingtheadmiriistration and having togive up that cushy office in Needles Hall he's angling for. -Scott

Gonfon, Editor-in-chief

N o time to debate

n Thursday, March 8, I was forwarded Chris Farley's open letter to all co-op students. Chris wants to raise the co-op fee by $25 to pay for the $4.5million shortfall in the budget for the new co-op building. The Feds' decision will be given to the university administration March 19. The keenstudent might askwhy hemustpay moreinaworldof RIMS, Nortels and Novapharms. Well, it seems corporations that give already have, cannot be asked to give again and are to be left alone in thisseason of fallingstocks. The observant student might notice that 2,400 employers benefit from co-op and ask why not collect from thislargeand affluent pool? An option apparently unconsidered. The patient student might ask: Why not wait until large corporate donors are willing to give again? Until the market turns around? Or until application can be made to the $200M development fund that is coming t o Waterloo? Also unconsidered. The problems with Chris' letter are that it was dishonestly timed to limit student debate, itwas written to persuade rather than inform and it acted contrary to Waterloo's long term good. How did it d o this? The letter shows UW's preference for squeezing students instead of planning for the long term use of corporate and public money. Waterloo has a poor record of widespread alumni support due to a failure to create student loyalty. In 20 years, when the market is down, and the drive is on to make up the shortfall for a new SLC, I'm sure my phone will ring. Then, as now, the university will find itself short of cash.

Show me the service To the Editor,

would like to take this opportunitv to make a fewcommentsabout the proposed co-op fee increase

broughtupin aletter by Chris Farley in the March 9 Imprint. I was rather shocked to here the latestnews about the possible co-op fee increase to fund the new co-op building. I and many, if not most, of my classmatesbelieve that the co-op fees already outweigh the poor service provided by the co-op office. The service is, in fact, so poor that most students in my class do not even go through the co-op process whenlooking for employment. Those who do are often left waiting until the last possible moment to find out thestatus of their applications. We have to play our co-op advisors off of one another in order to findoutthe status of our applications and are often being left in the dark. Many companiesthatpostjobsatthe beginning of the process end up cancelling their positions halfway through the process. Many students in my class have been trying to figure out a way to avoid paying co-op fees and taking care of finding and keeping track of our own jobs. The money we pay towards co-op would be more efficiently used if each student put that money towards searching for their own jobs. In short, dealing with the co-op office is a hassle that many of us would like to avoid at all costs. We would like to see the money that is taken from us each term for co-op fees put back in the hands of people who actually care about us getting jobs, the students. In closing, I would like to state my strong opposition to any co-op fee increase either now or in the future.

Co-op service unsatisfactory

do not support a co-op fee increase. The services rendered by the co-operative education departmentdo not accommodatemy needs currently, and are not justified presently by the already high cost I am paying for them.

The presentstate of their building has nothing to do with this fact. I know many students who are not pleased with the services rendered by co-op. In fact, I wouldsay it is far more challenging to find a student who is pleased with the service they're receiving, than one who isn't. It is viewed as more of a burden to be endured for participation in a co-op degree than anything else. If there is an intention to increase the quality of services rendered they should be investigating the problem internally, rather than simply moving the problem into a prettier package. Tuitioncostsare far higher than they should be in the firstplace, especially ina country where education is much lauded as "accessibleto everyone" regardless of their income. If the government is not funding education, then the university should be approaching the problem at its source, the government. I'msure the studentswouldsupport auniversity fighting for funding from thesocietyit serves. This makes more sense than the paliative measure of trying to pull money from an already cash-strapped student body.

smiles, and it takes very little to go over the edge. Andy was teased at school, but that by no means is the predicating factor in his assault at school. I believe that when teens are depressed there is very little help, people assume its just teens being teens, and emotional problems are attributed to hormones, when in realitywe experience real emotions, real pain and problems. The teasing was just the spark to light the fire of rage, a rage that has left two dead and 13 wounded. The shooting has made Andy a celebrity of sorts, giving him the attention he once lacked. Before Andy was nobody, a loser. Now that's changed, he's a killer broadcast on CNN, and he's a someone, more than just a forgettable loser. Does he care he will probablyspendthe rest of his life in prison? Probably not. Andy probably feels the way I do sometimes, that the future is bleak and that there is no point in trying anymore. Ittakes little to go over the edge, and when the power of a gun is only a drawer away, more shootings are bound to occur. Its just the way it is; at least that's the way I see it.

-&bin Singh Arcbitectwe

-Name witheld upon request

GMOs aren't a bad thing

Masking the rage To the Editor. To the Editor,

he overriding question in both the Columbine, and most recently, the Santee school shooting~ has been why. To me the question isn't that hard to answer. I think I speak for a lot of disenchanted youth when Isay thatwe've all feltlike we have hitrock bottom. For some, rock bottom is just a phase but for others it can become a black hole that's hard to get out of. Rockbottomis aplace where friends, family andschool add toamounting stress and sadness, a feeling of helplessness. No matter what goes right, it doesn't help the grief one feels. I act happy and nobody knows how I really feel. That is why it comes as no surprisethat friendsofPhilip Andrew Charles say he seemed to be normal and couldn't imagine that he did what he did. Anger and pain simmer under

felt compelled to respond to an articlethat appeared in lastweek's issue of Imprint. Theviews expressed by the two people interviewed in "Acloser look at GMOsn demonstrate the closeminded attitude many environmentalists have toward the whole issue of geneticallymodified foods. - " ~ e n & x l lmodified" ~ doesnot mean bad. It doesn't even mean unnatural or evil, contrary to what you may think. Most of the crops grown in farmers' fields these days are modified from their original genetic makeup. Selectivecrossingof the hardiest strains of wheat or rye or oator whatever grain youchoose is genetic engineering. It may notoccur in alab, but the results are the same. Do you consider this bad? One direct benefit is increased crop yields, and crops more resistant to frost or drought. One "modifiedn crop feeds more people than an unmodified crop would.

Let's look at one example. I'm sure everyone has eaten corn on the cob at a familypicnic at least once in their lives. How big is a corn cob? Eight inches? Nine? The cob on the plant fromwhichmodern corn originates was about one or two inches long. "Genetic engineering" strikes again. Are you going to stop eating corn now? Do you think it's unsafe? Lockwood stated that "most farmers do not want this [biol . .technology."Is hesure?Has hespoken to them himself? Perhaas it is simalv ..a case of ignorance, where the farmers just haven't been educatedabout the benefits of genetically modified foods. Have no doubt, there are benefits. Gettingsome vitaminA from a bowl of rice is better than getting no vitamin A at all, if you ask me. And maybe in the future, with more research, a crop of golden rice will be developed whichiives 100 per cent of the daily recommended intake of vitamin A in one bowl. Should we curtail any future benefits simply because we need more testing? I agree that more testing needs to be done on the crops. There is a lack of knowledge of the long-term effects. However, I do not think that itisaconfliaof interestfor the biotech companies producing the products to be testingthem aswell. Would you consider it a conflict of interest if a drug company tested a new drug before releasing it on the market? I think not. People need to be educated on the issue of genetically modified foods.They need to see bothsides of the story. Last week's article presented only one. I hope I have been able to present the other.

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Imprint, Friday, March I 6, 200 I Melanie rocks To theEditor,

often enjoy Melanie Stuparyk's articles and look forward to her insightful reports. Given this, I was disappointed to see her perpetuating the protein myth in her recent article "animal or vegetable." I am refering to her statement regarding protein being stored as fat. It is highly unlikely that excess protein will be stored as fat for severa1reasons. First, protein is amiserable source of food energy as i t pro-

videsonly one caloriepergram. Compared to carbohydrates at four calories per gramand fat, which provides nine calories per gram, protein is an unlikely culpribfor my expanded waistline. Second, protein hasaminiscule glycemic index rating and isunlikely tostimulateinsulinproduction,which inturnleadstocaloriesbeingstored as fat. Simple carbs, like those found in whitepotatoes, will drive up your insulin and y o k waistline. Dietary fat, such as vegetable oils used for fryingis muchmorelikely toshowup onmy hipsthana bitofextraprotein.

Super plants can - save the world

Fat is easy to store and has an enormous food value. Finally, protein is very useful. Not only are nitrogen group proteins the firstthing your body willuse as asourceofenergy, (poor asit may be, it's easy to use,) it's also used in tissue repair. You need only a little protein for daily maintenance, but muscle growth for a stronger heart andlungsor bigger limbs or justsomething to help you carry that load of textbooks requires protein. I agree that most of us eat too much protein for a sedentary lifestyle, but if you are looking for a leaner, stronger body, then skip the french fries and have something lean and healthy like chicken or fish in; stead.

While I recognise the fact that there is the need in certain instances for a method of classifying people into different categories, I find the presentsystemto be apoor substitute for the ones that preceded it. The thing I find most ironic is that the term "people of colour" is being used in classes that deal with the issues of race relations and racism. If we are to make any serious headwayin changingattitudes, I find it odd that a classificationsystemthat differentiates people on the basis of their skin colour and not their cultural heritage is in use. I am leftwondering if this is an issue for only myself or do other members of the student body have any opinions on the matter? :

-]ason Arts

-LloydPinsent

Rochon

MSA issues

Colour rocks

To the Editor, J E F P BUECKERT Imprint staff

nrespo&e to the comrnentsmade by Tamara Levine and Steve Lockwood in the article entitled "A closer look at GMOs," I believe their comments may have been biased, and did not deliver the completestory on this controversialtopic First, I would like to mention that not all research concerning the safety of geneticallymodifiedorganisms (GMOs) is being conducted by megacorporations,unlikeMs. k i n e and Mr. Lockwood suggest. Just weeks ago, independent British researchers completed a 10-year study *o-determine the survival, r a t e s f untended geneticallymodifiedcrops. They concluded thatgeneticmodifia t i o n does not necessitate the occurreqce of uncontrollable crops. At the end of the study, it yas found that the longest-living of the crops was a control group of un-. modified potatoes. Of course, the researchers admit that this research is only reliable for the traits thatwere tested. The researchers suggest that simila~studies skpuld be conducted when new traits are beingindoduced into crops, especially traits such as drought or pest resistance. Second, to discount GMOs because they are not able to offer anything beneficial is open to debate. Mr. Lockwoodsays that sincegolden rice deliversonly eight per cent of the daily-recommended intake of vitamin A, it is a waste. Even though it does not offer the full portion of vitamin A, it is a start, and it shows GMOs have the potential to deliver nutrients to the under-nourished. Also, it might be possible to vaccinate both people and animals through GMOs by havingthe GMO produce the vaccine. It would be much easier to administer vaccinesin this fashion. Moreover, there would be no need for needles, which can spread disease if not handled properly. Vaccines are currently being distributed to wild animals bv encasing them in blocks of suet, whose effectiveness has been proven. If vaccines could be produced in plants that are apart of an animal's diet and then distribut,e";n the wild, thesame effect could be achieved. Furthermore, research is currently being conducted to develop

crops that are resistant to drought and pests. This development would am writing to express my concern be very beneficial to third-world over the new and often used term countries where crops are prone to "people of colour" which is used to being lost to such forces of nature. describe people of non-caucasian his would also cut down on the use origins. Myself, being a person of of harsh pesticidesthat cancontami- East Indian originsandvery proud of nate the drinking water. that fact, find it rather offensivethat T b i d , genetic modification is my country of origin and cultural nothing new. Humans have been heritage is being ignored. This new modifylngplantsandanimalsfor cen- classification is being seton the basis turies to better suit their needs. For of the colour of my skin. instance, breeding dogs to accentuate a certain trait is a form of genetic modification; The dogs that exhibit a desired trait are forced to breed with other dogs that exhibit that same trait ip hopes that the de trait will be even more pronou in. their offspring. Soybeans also been altered. Soybeans are n h tive to Soqtheast Asia and could not NADIA L. HOHN spenal to lmpnnf have grown in Ontario's climate. They were bred to be able to survive in North Ameria, and are now a Racism in Canada major crop for many farming regions. It would seemgcnetic modificaassure you that this is not just tion has only recently received such another racism/ann-racism artlnegative press. Before, genetic modi- cle. I also warn you that I am not fication was alengthy process, rely- goingtotakethis timetoventonhow ing heavily on theelement of chance. many times I have been calledblank Therefore, it would take breeders orblank or had suspicionsabout not generations to obtain the desired getting a job that I was highly qualitrait. Now that scientists are able to fied for. bypass this periodof transition,many We have been told sincewe were are concernedwithitssafety-even kids that racism is wrong. That in though the same result would have referring to group X, we should not been obtained through more tradi- call them nor refer to them as blank. tional methods, just over a longer That group X can just as likely do well period of time. in blank as in blank. That making I understand Mr. Lockwood friends with blank because helshe is and Ms. Levine's fears, as they are _blank is okay, we're really all the not unfounded. If geneticmsdifica- same. Becauseof the way that Cmation went on without being regu- dian society has developed, these lated by an independent governing idiomslproverbs have become part body, there could be serious reper- of our experience. We areable to fill cussions..However, togoso far as to in these blanks without much diffisay all genetic modification must culty. We live in a nationwhere it is come to an end is extreme: okay to celebrate oilr cultural differMr. Lockwood and Ms. Levine ences. After all, "We're the tossed claim to have the interest of develop- salad." ing countries in mind, stating that While having bubble tea with GMOs will not help solve the prob- friends, we hadone ofthose converlem of the world's food shortage. sationsthatcausedme tothinkhard However, as mentioned before, about Canadian multiculturalism. I GMOs exhibit the potential to end alwaysthoughtthatCanadahasdone famine and malnutrition by increas- a great job of promoting ing the success rate of crops and the multiculturalismthrough itsvarious nutritional value bf food. I am con- actions-morediversityinadvertiscemed that their comments are fueled ing, equal opportunity~mployment, by paranoia and not tempered with and promoting anti-racism in the reason. schoolcurricula.However, there was

n the last few weeks the Muslim Students' Association (MSA) has been mentioned in campus media numeroustimes. I would like to speak tosome of these issues.The MSAand the Clubs Committee met Monday evening for a meeting that lasted around an hour. Nuherous MSA members and executives were in attendance. The Clubs Committeepresentedthe MSA

one crucial point brought up by my friends, that I never really considered. Canadahasgoneiogreat lengths to make the appreciation of "multiculturalism"gbriority. Butthis strategy blinds us to the greater fact that power, or at least power to influence Canadianlawsandsociety, has not been multicultural. Thus, racism in Canada persists. Since 1966, the UnitedNations has designated March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Ricial Discrimination. It commemorates the peaceful demonstratorsinSharpeville,SouthAfrica,who were killed and wounded in 1960 duringademonstrationagainstapartheid. Racism is defined as the belief that one's own ethnicgroup is superior to another. Does Canada perpetuate this by allowingfor itsdiversity to be expressed only in certain contexts? Why does our Canadian refle'ctionof diversityrestonly in the multiculturalshows andexpositions . but not beyond that? A large step of overcoming racism is t o recognize that it does exist within Canada. Historically, there has been slavery and segregation in this nation. Thedistribution of hate literatureandracially-motivatedviolence are some of its most modem serious forms. On a large-scale systemiclevel,Canadahasalongwayto go for allowing people of colour to enter a position i n which they can, influence the nation as a whole. Atrulymulticulturalanti-racist society listens to all of its voices and

with the responsibilities that they as . a club have not been meeting. The MSA was accepting and has given their word to meet their responsibilities. However it has become evident fromvarious MSAmembers that the ClubsPolicy needs to be reworked. Specifically, clubs will now receive warnings before they are putonprobation, thendissolved. The MSA is an integral part of the UW community. As are all of the clubs. StudentschooseUWover other universitie~becausecertain clubs are at this institution. In asociety inwhich mediaportrays various groups with unfortunate stereotypes (or even as the"enemym)groups that unite to try and breakthesestereotypes are vital. Muslims are one of these groups. This is not to say that the MSAis not responsible for itsactions just simply that is understandable that the MSA would try and protect its brcthers and sisters. Relationsbetween the MSAand the Federation of Students are better that at any time during my term here as Clubs Director. It goes to show that a little honest dialogue between all members involvedin any disagreement or conflict can serve immeasurably. -Ryan W. E. Eagles Federation ofstudents ClubsDirector

allows themto be expressednotonly in certain contexts but all contexts. .

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re the worlds of Islam and the West on an inevitable collision course on every continent? Will the growing dominance and arrogance of western-style consumptive economics fuel mutual misunderstanding?Or, in fact, do these civilizations share more in common than differences, and will the continued blurring of civilizational divisions with the shrinking of global distances inevitably strengthen a global culture of respect and understanding? Islam is as m u ~ ah fact of life in Canada as Christianity or Judaism. How do we go about nurturing a Canadian culture that can accommodate many world views? The next speaker in WPIRG's 2020 Building the Future diitin-

guishedleaureseries,ProfessorAzim Nanji, Director of England's Instituteof~smaili~tudies-(~.iis,ac.uk) will be discussing "Beyondthe Clash ofCivilizations"onThursday,March 22, at 8:00 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre. . Professor Nanji will examine threeissuesinhisdk,"Civilizational Dialogue," as a pre-requisite for building for the future at a national and global level, the role of Islam in the overall dialogue in a Canadian andinternational context, and,building imiversally shared values as a foundation for time pluralism.

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ow do you feel when you have been pigeonholed? Or when people expect you to like string beans when you really like lentils? Or because of the way you look, your language, or your culture of origin, you act one way and not the other? Recently, I had an encounter like that. I was in a department on campus whenastaff member recognized me as I stepped into her office. She greeted me and wanted to find out how Iced In Black, the film festival that I had helped to plan, had gone. Then she took the talk in another direction. "1 don't consider myself racist, but. . ." uh-oh, the onset of a racist comment. "I have a probIemwithJamaicans," she continued. "ever ~ w h e r et h e ' ~ go, thev all wind uo on welfare." I couldn't believe my ears. It was as if every racial slur that1 hadbeen called as a child had welled up and been hurled at me, all at once. Or that every kid that did not want to be my friend because I wasBlack withdrew fromme. Like thestones and names that were thrown at my sister as she walked home from school had been now thrown at me. I hurt. She went on. They end up costing Canada. And she made other negative comments about the conduct and lifestyle of Jamaicans. My reaction? I had two options. First, Icould "tell her off'and "school her" about how racist she was and how her comments hurt me. If I did this, would I have reinforced her negative stereotype of Jamaicans? Another option was to have adiscussion about it. The unfortunate thing about being a visible minority is that you have the burden of always considering how your actions reflect on your entiregroup. I tookthesecondcourse of action. I stood there listening to

her monologue and thinking, "Where does all of this bitterness towards Jamaicans come from?" "Why doesshefeelsostronglyagainst them?" Why is she telling me this? I asked, "Why do you feel this way?" Sheexplainedtomeaspecific incident that led to a confrontation with a "Jamaican" woman who spit in her face. It's as if she were asking me toexplain why this womanacted the way she did, or at least listen. My reply came finally. "My parents come from Jamaica." "Oh,"shereplied,somehownot changed in her point of view. I wanted to tell her everything. Of how my mother came to Canada aloneattheageoftwentytwo. How she worked so hard to remain selfsufficient. How my parents never relied on welfare. How they put

shefelt. Iwonderedifothersfeltthis way, but never openly said it. I tried to give reasons as to why she interpreted what she saw, "Maybe that woman was not 'Jamaican'." The largest proportion of Blacks in Canada are of Jamaican ancestry. Often other Blacks get mistaken for belongingtothisnation. Ifthey have an island accent, sometimes they are called Jamaican. Maybe where you live has only allowed you to interact with"certainn Jamaicans. ButthenI stoppedmyself. Why was I required to give an explanation for the action of awomanorindividuals who1 have never met for the sole reason thatwe share the same ethnic group? Howmany other visible minorities are asked to explain the actions of members of their own group and are ashamed when scandalsare publicized in the media of members of their commur w ~ o often w do individuals put, for exam~le,wGtecanadians on the spot by asking them to explain the actions of other White Canadians, as I have been made to explain those of Black Canadians? Our conversation ended with some positive notes. We talked and I told her that in order to overcome racism we, that is everyone, need to talk and work together to do something about it. Dialoguesdiscussingthese issues are a form of healing on both sides. She told me that for her own personal change, she wants to work on taking each person as an individual and not as a member of a group. She later suggested that we should talk more about it. I thought again. How could I sit directly in front of someone who just insulted my culture (which is beautiful and I love very much) and talklike nothing she said mattered? Afew days later, I came to realize that our dialogue just opened up anewavenue of communication that could benefit us both. We are continuing the dialogue.

In order to overcome racism we, that is everyone, need to talk and work together to do something about it. themselves through college while raisinga young family away from the support of relatives who were not in Canada. Howtheyoftenhadtowork multiple jobs to afford the musiclessons, the house, the two kids in university. How my relatives in the United States have similar immigration success stories of starting from scratch. In my family there are professors, surgeons, doctors, lawyers, accountants, journalists for 60 minutes, nurses. . . Did that shake her stereotypedview of welfare-sucking Jamaicans? "We have a strongwork ethic." "That's a family value," she replied. Then it hit me. This woman had a stereotyped idea that she would not change her mind whether I was a "good" Jamaican or a "bad" Jamaican. The fact is in her mind's eye, she had a problem with all Jamaicans. I was disturbed thatthis was how

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1s past weekend I went for a long walk, to increase my environmental knowledge. Thereisnothing quite like an outdoor experience. It's definitely something you have to try for yourself. But it is even better to share. So here goes! My journey began on a steep hill. As I wandered down the hill, I noticed how the wind, the sun, and a unique blade of grass had collaborated to produce a glittering, swaying, golden hair on the ground. Not willing touproot the living plant, I found a small twig similar to the living grass. It reminded me of a gift a friend had once given me, and so I named it after her and watched it bend in the wind as well. ThenIstopped by asmallstream. The sound of thegurgling water was soothing. I noticedalittle bug crawling across the river's ice, which was cool because I never thought bugs could surviveon ice, but there it was! In fact, as I explored further, I found little bugs all over the snow-carpeted forest floor. I watched them scramble for survival, thousands of them, in a thousand directions. I headed for the river. I followed twisting roots to massive trees whose branchesstretchedoutto form a surprisingly large circle. Near the river, I found the remains of a two foot salmon and realized that it must've been part of the bugs' feast. Searching further, I found a wine

bottle that1 wanted tocorkandsend downstream with a message (I send an SOS to the world!), but I decided to wait and save the bottle for future use. Inoticed howcolourful the forest was even in the early waking moments of the spring. I even found bright yellow hiding on the barkof a certain tree. I also found a beautiful and empty spiral snail shell. As I examined it, I stopped to feel the freshness of the earth, so warm and wet as it renewedlifewith the season of birth. Day gave way to night, and I watched the forest swallow and extinguish the sun in its eaves. Ismiled deeply as the windgave spirit and life to the trees so they could celebrate the rising of the red moon and the return of its reassuring light. Finally, Isat downwithmy guitar andsang about all that I had seen. I tried to play out all the intense feelings of appreciation, of understanding, and of the love I have for the earth. All living things are connected I realized, as I tried to express my day with my six-stringed translator. I felt that the earth was as much a part of me as I was a part of the earth. It's funny, but when I finally stopped and spent enough time outside really enjoying nature, I undeniably recognized that gettingin touch with the earth is a good feeling.

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e live in a sexually repressed society. All sexual activities which falloutside of marital relations are looked down upon to a certain degree. Masturbation, pre-marital sex, the use of erotica and pornography, and strip clubs all have some stigma attached to them. The strongeststigmas exist for deviant sexual behaviours: those which only a small percentage of the population partakein (or at least admit to). These include: homosexuality, trans-genderism, swinging, open relationships, fetishes, sadomasochism, prostitution and pederasty. The queer community tends to tolerate and accept more of these sexual behavioursthandoes societyat-large. That is nottosay that queer people believe things like rape and pedophiliaare acceptable, but some less harmful sexual practices definitely are. This likely occurs because queer people, once they have opened their mind to alternative sexualities, then find it easier to experiment in other sexual dimensions. Considerstrip clubs as an example. Stereotypically,it is inappropriate for straight men go to strip clubs. It undermines relationshipsbasedon

commitment and emotion, and it exploits women. Queer people often take a different perspective. Agay couple may go to a strip club (or to bath houses) because it is an activity they mutually enjoy. The exploitationisless apparent, and the couple may be more committed to each other after the experience. Strip clubs and bath houses, in fact, are an integral aspect of any queer ghetto. Straight society idealizes monogamous relationships. While this provides an optimal environment for childraising,monogamytakeson less importance if children aren'tinvolved. Some queer people prefer to have "open relationships" where it is alright for both partners to have side love interests so long as there is mutual consent to this activity. The queer community is also more open to threesomes andgroup sex (although less so in the era of AIDS). Enduring three-person relationships are not unheard of such as one between a husband, wife, and lover, or between three partners of the same sex. While such three-way relationships are generally more difficult to maintain, they can last years. The limits of acceptable devi-

ance in the queer community stops short of violent and exploitive behaviours. Groups like the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) are right at the fringe of gay culture. While pederasty has historical significance ingay culture (especially from Ancient Greece), many gay people have a hard time embracing an organization which is viewed by most as pedophilia. Sadomasochist organizations are less controversial, but the mainstreamusuallvdoesn't see the difference between consensual infliction of pain and unwanted violence and suffering. It is perhaps because of deviant activities that gay men are seen as promiscuous. It is oftenconjectured, though, that gay men are no more promiscuous than straight men. Family building is not a predominating concern in gay culture and t i a s gay men are allowed to be promiscuous, whereas straight men are not. In any event, most queer people choose to stick with the traditional model and stay serially monogamous or celibate like straight people do maybe we aren't so kinky after all.

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Long live The Simpsons It's not just a cartoon, it's the lifeblood of our generation ARUNACHAL SUERAMANIAN

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o you remember The Simpsons?Someonemight -someone will-ask you that question twentyyears fromnow. Well come on, its just a TV show. Don't all our parents talk about "I Dream of Jeannie" or "Welcome Back Kotter?" Hmmm, I guess they don't. Butwhy?For whatreason will we remember The Simpsons? I started thinking about this one nightwhen asilly question persisted in my head. I was wondering to myself whatwouldhappenif Homer Simpson died? Well, characters die in other shows, right? Or the people that play them eventually pass on, right? And you think about it for a second, you blink, and life goes on essentially uninterrupted.

Then it occurred tome how silly itwas. Imean, he's a bloody cartoon. But for some reason it made me oddly sad. Maybe even really sad. I mean, it's Homer! Who doesn't love Homer Simpson?! Hell,I wascreeped out when Maude died. You've heard it all a thousand times. Why TheSimpsons are so en-

dearing, why The Simpsons are so popular, so successful. . .so close to the hearts of our generation. We all seem to know why by now, or think we do anyway. We've debated over it oodles of times in conversations everywhere, with friends, family, even strangers. "It's because it was a cartoon. This allowed a certain degree of artisticlicenseunachievablewithanorma1 show starring real people." "It's their abilityto appeal to the entire spectrum of audience - no one is left out." "It's the fact that year after year, things change but the show is still relatively the same -albeit evolving in its own right -but still the same. I mean, Bartis still in the fourthgrade right?" I've heard all of this and much, much more from so many people, and I've spoken similarwords a thousand times myself. The truth is that the success of The Simpsonsis not due to one thing. Or two things. . .or even a hundred different things. We all know why the show is so special. Not unlike MarcAnthony, my intent here isnot to praise. Neither is my intent to analyze. Someday, someone will write an encyclopedia on The Simpsons giving detailed explanations on every character, insight on every instance of satire, and all six million references to pop culture, and much more. That's probably already happened. In fact, I'm sure there are several individuals right here at this university thatwouldn't dare let slip

an opportunity to regurgitate every Simpson fact. interpretation,. o ~ i n ion, andof courseimpression tosome unenlightened sod.

system,the courts, religion, science, law enforcement, crime, the media, the beer industry and alcoholism, ignorance, corruption, stereotypes,

For some odd reason any conversation can ultimately spawn a Simpsonsdiscussion. What did they ignore? What didn't they ridicule? There was the obvious: middle class America, the godless face of corporate America, crass consumerism,the ickiest scumof the earth, politicians, the other ickiest scum of the earth, lawyers, Hollywood, the education

our treatment of the elderly, television, the mob, even themselves. Everything! And then there were the smaller things: the "perfect" neighbor, sisters-in-law, nerds, the mafia, school lunches, stupid kids, stupid adults, FOX, soccer, and of course there is Cletus. What about gueststars? Includingsveryone from Gary Coleman to the Smashing Pumpkins to Tito Puente. Who hasn't made an appearance on the show? There are endless pop culture references too. From the hilariously obvious (the Shining) to the deliciously subtle (Bart's nails on the chalkboard reminiscent of Robert

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aboutBut Thethat's Simpsons. iust it. There really is seemingly nothing that they didn't throw their two cents in on. ~f Ernest Hemingway was to come back to life just to write "In Our Time" again with respect to our generation, he could watch every eplsode of The Stmpsons to see what he had missed. So whatamItalkmgabout?Well, simply sa~d,I'm going to mlss it. To say that I will be nostalgicabout The Smpsons more than any other show in the history of my TV-watching career would be a horrible understatement. This show shattered the boundaries of how a TV program might be endearing. For our generation, it seemed to have worked its way into every part of our day. 1t seem; so many 0.f us went through it a hundred times. Mastering impressions, reeling off quotes, downloading sound bites, defending our favorite characters; in class, at parties, at family reunions, at weddings (dare I say funerals?"change the channel Marge!"). The Simpsons was common ground! How many times must I have made friends with a complete stranger because we both learned

that the other was a Simpsons fan? So why did I feel sad at the thought of Homer Simpsondying? Is it because I've grown to adore him the same way so many people who I both know and don't know have done? Partly. But I also think its partly because the end of The Simpsonsfor us all will mark the end of an era. In alot of ways, our era. An era thatspannedour childhood, our teenage years, and evencreepedinto our roaring twenties. It's no secret that the show's most memorable moments are behindthem and thatTheSimpsonsare clearly approaching the end of an incredibly long road -what has it been, 13 . . .14 years? Yet, from the momentwewere introduced to them in the now famous Christmas special (yeah, yeah, I know they started in the Tracy Ullman show), a really weird bond emerged. Maybeitwas the instantHomer uttered the words "He's a loser. . . he's asimpson!" to welcomeSanta's LittleHelper into the family; hell, for kids and teens growing up in the early nineties like we did, "Loser" was like a continental movement!

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Nothing has come along before, after, or during, that even remotely deserves the accolades so cleverly earned by TheSimpsons. NotKingof theHi11, notTheFamily Guy,notBob and Margaret, not Futurama, even though someof thoseshows are quite good. TheSimpsons were funny,intelligent, andoverall, just plain brilliant. And somehow, in some remarkable way, they managed to touchthe lives of a generation in a way no show in the history of television has, in a way that quite possibly no show ever will. So 20 years from now when someone asks me, "Hey dude, remember The Simpsons?" I'll probably turn around and yell, "Are you kidding? Remember the episode when. . . "

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athematics at theUniversityofwaterloo hasavery proud tradition. From BillTutte to Scott Vanstone, this faculty has had plenty to crow about in fields like Combinatorics and Optimization, Statistics, and Computer Scienceboth nationally and internationally. The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM)International CollegiateProgramming Contest, featuring some of the most talented mathematicians and computer engineers that the univers~ties have to offer, has repeatedly shown that Waterloo deserves the number one ranking in reputation in Maclean's. This year, Waterloo managed to once again dazzle the competition by placing fourth in this year's contest, which was held on March 10,2001 in Vancouver. The contest, sponsored by IBM, brought 64 teams from across the globe. From Russia and Australia to the United States of America and Argentina, the finalists have had to go through gruellingregionalrounds where teams of three programmers must solve within a set amount of time a certain amount of problems. Once the time limit is up, whoever solves the most problems with the least amount of errors is declared the winner of that region. The University of Waterloo, set in the East Central region that encompasses Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Eastern Ontario and Western Pennsylvania,has domlnated this region for the past 10 years. In the international finals, the teams hadsix problems that had to be solvedin five hours. Under the rules of the ACM World finals, every time a team has a solution for a problem, the code is submitted for a run. The judges then compile the code to see if the run is acceptable. Run time errors, time limit exceeded errors, presentation errors and a program that presents a wrong answer will end up penalizing a team and furthermore contribute to an unsuccessful run. Teamsare notified of the result of their run.and remainssecret to the other teams. Once the five hours are over, the programming stops and the results are tabulated. A problem solution that is accepted by the judges of the competition is solved and counts towards the teams ranking. If twoor more teams solve the same amount of problems, then the judges will go to penalties for unsuccessfulruns and amount of time spent on the problems to determine a winner. The programs are written in C, C + + , Java, or Pascal. ' What are the problems hke at

All your ACM contests are belongtost. PetersburgState! the world championships? One such problem, taken directly from the ACM Web site, is as follows: 'Your brilliant but absent minded uncle believes he has solved a difficult crossword puzzle but has misplaced the solution. He needs you to reconstruct the solution from a list that contains all the words in the solution, plus one extra word that is not part of the solution. Your program must solve the puzzle and print the extra word."

Waterloo lost out on the Super Region championship to Virgina Tech. From there, the contestants are given the input and output requirements, and given a sample of what should occur. As well, the judges will clear up any ambiguities on a problem should the needarise. Full details of this problem can be read at http:/ /acm.baylor.edu/acmicpc/finalsl default.htm. Last year, the University of Waterloo placed third in the competition and Gordon Cormack, a longtime professor for the department of Computer Science, sought to win the title and beat St. Petersburg State University. Jeff Shute, fourth-year Computer Science; Donny Cheung, a graduate from the Combinatorics and Optimization program; and Graeme Kemkes, third-yearcomputer Science represented Waterloo at the finalsinvancouver. Of thesethree members, onIy Kemkes was not a member of last year's team, but that mattered not as Waterloo was set to

take onthe world yet again. Through the five hours, the three worked on all six problems and managed to solve them all. But so did Virginia Tech University, St. Petersburg State University (SPSU) and St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics (SPIFMO). When the judges went to the penalties, the winner, with a total of 728, was the SPSU team, consisting of Andrei Lopatine, Nikolai Dourov, Victor Petrov and coach Dmitri Lomov. Waterloo lost out on the Super Region champion of North America when Virginia Tech, whose mem- . bers are Alexander Kalita, Logan Hanks, Timothy Terriberry and coach Sallie Henry, beat out Waterloo 850-963 and as a result, took second place. Andrew Stankevich, DenisKouznetsov, GeorgiyKorneev and coach Matvey Kazakov of the SPIFMOtookthirdwith 935 points of penalties. Waterloo placed fourth of thls group and was issued a gold medal for their efforts. Rounding off the top five was the team of Alexander Neubeck. Christian Ehrhardt, ~ a l t e ; Guttmann and coach Marc Meister of Albert Einstein University inUlm, Germany. Positions sixth through tenth were covered by WarsawUniversity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, -. .Seoul National University, Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and Harvard University. Shute, Cheung, Kernkes and coach Cormack are to be congratulated on a job well done in representing the University of Waterloo in Vancouver. Once agaln, these three students and Professor Cormack have shown that when it comes to computing and mathematics, very few schools can even begin to compete with Waterloo. We at the science department of Imprint salute you, and we hope that next year we can take the t d e away from the Russians.

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Women fourth at Championships Five medals and one CIAU record bring Waterloo into the spotlight STEPHEN

D R E W AND ALLISON SALTER special to lmpnnt

he Warrior women posted a fourth. place finish at the CIAUTrackand Field Championships this past weekend in Sherbrooke, Quebec. With only nine female athletes, the Warriors captured three gold, one silver and one bronze medal. Many opposing squads, who finishedwellbackof the lady Warriors, brought upwards of 30 athletes. With their finish, the small but mighty squad of ladies equaled their OUA finish and continued to build upon a tradition of excellence. Bolsteredby the qualificationof all six relay squads, one of only five schoolsin Canada to accomplish the feat, Waterloo fieldedits largestcontingent of athletes ever at the championships. First-year pentathlete Kristy Heemskerk got the Warriors startedwitha lothplacefinishin the

five-discipline event. Heemskerk hur- hold off the team from Sherbrooke. tors had fouled out. Ellis quicklysurdled, put, jumped and ran to a total Carrington qualified for the 300m passed the old CIAUrecordof 3.82m of 3163 points with a PB in the high final with asolideffort in the prelimi- withavault of4.OOm. With the gold jump. In the 4x200m competition, nary rounds. Carrmgton would medal secure, Ellis attempted to imthe women's team of Angie Ross, eventually end up fifth in the final, prove upon her newly established Daniella Carrington, Alison Brazier running out of the tight corners in record with avault of 4.Ojm. Unsuccessful on her firsttwo attempts,Ellis andHeemskerkwasrankedfifthwhile lane one. Fellow speedster Paul Gill ran asked that the bar be raised to 4.10m the men's team was seventh. An exhausted Heemskerk relin- an impressive 35.19 seconds in the for one final attempt, but fell short. The war began when the quished her anchor position to the 300111 heats to finish ninth, 0.13 4x800m teams stepped onto the seconds out of a spot in the final. ever-capable Dana Ellis. Ellis, UW's DeborahBuhlerswastednotime track. Allison Salter got the ladies pole vault guru, was prepared to run started with asmartlyrun and filled in idmiiably. opening leg, but was Coach McFarlane's insistboxed in on numerous ence on experimenting occasions and hampered with differentrelay orders by the crowded condiwas essential in the womtions on the track. After en's qualification to the fian unusually rough first nal. exchange, Jill Patterson The men's team of powered her way to a PB Paul Gill, Jason Dockenand didn't suffer from ilorff, Neal Roberts, and the effects of the large Adrian Blair missed the fifield as Salter did. nal, running close to their season's best in 1:30.90 dePatterson handed off to spite the tight corners of Kim Neumayer, who the Sherbrooke facility continued to post reliable relay splits.Although which resulted in fallen she just missed a PB, athletes, dropped batons NeumayernaviWedher and of pushing and The Warriorfeetwere ingear to bringhomesometrophies. shoving. way around the track to 1;the 4x200111 final, the ladies in staking her claim to the women's giveAll-~anad;an~uhlersa0 opporran a near flawless race. taking- ad- 3000m title. From the gun, - Buhlers tumtyto chase downthefield.Buhlers d best, but feltthe effects of her vantage of an unfortunate trip by the blasted away from the start h e and d ~ her leading SaskatchewanHuskiesto cap- was on CIAU record pace before 3000m earlier In the evening and ture the bronze medal. Heemskerk, emng up and crulsing to an easy secured fifth spot for the Warr~ors. Stephen Drew, Pierre Labfresh from a good night's rest, came victory. The crowd and track anoff the final corner in fourth place to nouncer were in awe as Buhlers recque,Alasta~rLawrence and Chr~s find the Saskatchewanrunner on the lapped her compentlon. Row managed to Improve upon the~r ground. In astonishment at the prosOn the pole vault runway, vet- pre-race rank~ngIn the 4x800m by pects of capturing a medal, eran Ellis rewrote the CIAU record fin~shing11th overall. Drew, runHeemskerk found another gear to books. By the nme she entered the nlng h ~ sfmal race in the Warrior out-kicktheSaskatchewanathleteand competltlon, most of her competl- uniform, faced similar problems as

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Warmingup isessential. Salter, resulting in numerous near collisions and mass confusion at the first exchange. The extreme competitiveness and enormous size of the fieldresultedin 26 bodies trying to pass batons atthe sametime. Amazingly, notasingle batonwasdropped, although afewjerseys were rippedin the process. Labrecque ran solidly and kept the Warriors close. Lawrence then took the baton and continued to reel in the field, with the fastest leg of the night. Graduating athlete, Row, took the baton from Lawrence and proceeded to open up a considerable distance on the pursuing teams. Carrmgton ran an impressive 7.75 in the 60m semi-finals. After breezing through the early round and securing a posinon in the final, Carrlngton found another gear and cranked out a 7.68 performance to win the silver medal. please s e e page 20

Nutrition: we heard it's good for you GREG MACDOUGALL imprint staff

o, you made your New Year's resolution two-and-a-half months ago. You wanted to takesome of those extra pounds off. Or maybe you wanted to have more energy and just feel better.You knew that it ultimately came down to the food you put into your mouth. But, for whatever reason, your resolution faded as fast as the hangover from Newyear's Eve (or maybea bit quicker). Ifso, you'reprobably abitdown o n yourself. Why couldn'tyoustick with that new diet? Didn't you have the willpower to make a positive change in your life? Couldn't you control what you ate? What's so hard about laying off the grease and going with the greens? If you're thinking like that, well, there are acouple things tosay. First off, you aren't alone.

Second, don't be so hard on fourself eating well requires specific skillsthat youmight still need to learn, practise and develop. And it's pretty hard to do on your own. Health Services to the rescue. For four weeks, Linda Barton, nutritionist, Linda Brogden, nurse, and Kathy Winters, psychologist, jointly

"Imagine you've never heard the word diet." presented a series of seminars on eating for Energy. Here'ssomeof the stuff that was talked about. Theseminarscovereda number of aspects involved in developing healthy and consistent eating behaviour. Nutritionally, areasof focus in-

cluded balance at all meals andsnacks (protein, grains, fruits and veggies) as well as timing, fibre, and snacks. Other important areaswere understanding the process of change, semng goals, and dealing with and managing stress. The first seminar started off with a vision: "Imagine you've never heard the word diet." Profound words that have a profound impact. No diets. Ever. Just imagine. The point was, your approach to eating should not be a diet, because diets don't work. Restricting your food intake, restricting what you can and can't eat, becoming obsessive about what youeat, it doesn't work. Instead, choose choiceover control. There are no bad foods. There are good foods however. And good food combinations. It all comesdown to timing your please s e e page 19

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eating. The way each person metabolises their food is different, and as you reach and pass the age of 30, metabolismstartstoslowdown (about two per cent per decade). However, metabolism depends on genetics, physical activity and eating habits1 patterns. The key is to ear every three to four hours. That way your body has a constant, consistent stream of in coming fuel to use. That means that skippingbreakfast,or lunch, or both, isn't a great idea. And every time you eat, make sure you're taking in the righttype of fuels. Followthe '1-2-3 Energy' strategy to ensure that you're doing a good job. Eating in balance means eating fruits or vegetables, eating grains, andeatingprotein every time you sit down to eat. The 1-2-3 strategy represents the energy burst each foodgives you - one hour from fruits or vegetables, two hours worth from grains, and three hours from protein. And then it's time to eat again. So, in order to keep eating so often, you've got to knowwhatto eat in between meals. Snacks, or, in better words, 'mini-meals.' Remember, balance -1-2-3.

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Vegetable sources of proteinindude soy beans, lentils, and other such things. Eggs are also a good source of protein. For snacks, think easy and quick. Granola bars? Problemis, there isn't any protein. Go for the Power Bar type that offer the right balance.

Metabolism depends on genetics, physical activity and eating

Another quick snack solution thatwas providedwas apower shake (see recipe). Quickand easy isgood for regular meals too. To save time, one idea is to cooklarge amounts of a dish, so that you can freeze and then re-heat the leftovers without spending all the time to cook it from scratch. As well, spending one cooking evening a week to prepare multiple meals for the week, and then freezing them for later use, can concentrate the time spent in kitchen. The seminar delivered many strategies that are helpful in dealing withposiible roadblocks on yourway to better eating habits. One of these roadblocks can be t o o much stress. Behaviours, thoughts and feelings are the three components that combine to create stress. Through the seminars the approachwas tolookatthe actions and thoughts, with the idea that these will lead the feelings. The two keys to creating positive thoughts were to develop a positive attitude and to work on relaxation techniques. Become aware of your internal thinking. What messages do you unconciously sendyourself?Are they self-defeating?If so, get control over them. If you notice yourself in negative thinkingpatterns, 'thought stop' -stop the thinking, calm yourself, andswitchto amore positivethought. Instead of self-defeating thoughts, think self-encouragingly.

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s a certain loudmouth colour commentator for the American Broadcasting Corporation would say, "It's showtime, baby! Let the madnessbegin."Yes, it's that time of year again, when Spring is in the air, the Scotsmen can start wearing the kilts again, sheep get increasingly nervous land it's not from the latest disease to hit Great Britain, if youget my drift) andoverpaid baseball players endupgemnginjured from walking to the bullpen., The NCAA basketball tournament, which began on March 13

Ten tying the record for most teams sent to the big dance by one conference. Other conferences that have done well in sending teams to this tournament include the ACC, SEC and Big 12, each dispatching six teams. The ACC claims one top seed as the Duke Blue Devils were the top of the East. The Big East and the Pac10 were able to achieve five spots each. The Stanford Cardina1,ranked number one by the AP and CNN national polls, easily secured the top seed in the West.

Jayhawks in the first round in the Midwest. This year, there is a lot of balance and potential for upsets in the brackets. The first ten seeds in each divisionare evenly matchedand there definitelywill be one Cinderella team. Obviously,someteamslike the Georgia Bulldogs, who went 16-14, got there by being inavery toughconference, but may have warranted alower seed than eighth in the East. Another team that got a higher seed than thev deservedwas the University of Cincinnati Bearcats, who

teams. First of all, seven teams from the Big Ten have made the big dance and the lowest seed achievedby thisconference is seventh. Both the Nittany Lions of Penn State and the Iowa Hawkeyes were given the seventh seedinthesouth and theEast bracket respectively. Two Big Ten teams grabbed top seeds in their bracket. In the South, the defending champions Michigan State got the top seed, while Illinois achieved the first seed in the Midwest and will play Northwestern State. Indeed. this conferencehas seen some great basketball, and the quality of the teams have led up to the Big

The only other conferencesthat will send at least two teams to the show include the Atlantic 10, Conference USA (Go Cincinnati), Missouri Valley and the WAC. As for newcomers, there are five teams that will make their debuts. They are the Southern Utah Thunderbirds, the Alabama State Hornets, the Hampton Pirates, the California State Northridge Matadors and the Northwestern State Demons. Of course, these teams have as much chance of winning the tournament as the head of the Taleban governmentconvertingto Buddhism. However, the Matadors have the best chance of an upset as they play fourth seeded University of Kansas

petted, like-the ~ e m ~Owls l e and the Xavier Musketeers. As for the Alahamastate Hornets, the Monmouth Hawks, theuniversity ofNorth Carolina GreensboroSpartansandNorthwestern state, they're are just glad to be there. Also, the 1Sthseedsshould fall like dominoes,unless one of them decides to pull off a "Santa Clara" Stunt. Overall, this shapes up to be a very fascinating tournament. There will be some greatgames thatwill go down to the wire and there will be the usual blowouts. But either way, grab a pint of beer and watch the talent of tomorrow compete for the top title of the best US college team of 2001.

To relax, the participants were taken through some breathingexercises to learn to breath from the diaphragm. Try it right now. Sit comfortably in a quiet location. Breathe in and think 'calm.' Breatheout and think 'relax.' Breathe smoothly at your normal pace and depth. Repeatto become more calm and relaxed. Now place one hand on your chest and one on your diaphragm (just above the belly button). You

want to breathe from your diaphragm, so hopefully that hand is moving and your chest hand isn't as much. If not, then you're likely breathing shallowly. Managing stress was just one of the many skills learned through these seminars. Acquiring new skills is essential if you want to improve your eating. So is the desire to change. Ask yourself these two questions that were posed to the seminar participants. "How important is it to

me?" and "Howwill it make me feel afterwards?" If it is important, anditwillmake a difference,what's holdingyou back? By popular request, Healthsewices is hosting another nutritiodifestyleseminarthis Wednesday, March 21. It will run from 4:30 to 6:30 in the new meeting room at Health Se~ces. All students arewelcome. the event is free, and there will be complimentary refreshments available.

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Athletes of the week Warrior Track and Field

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After warming-upwiththe 60m, Carrington and the rest of the 4x400m women took to the track. The teamof Ross, Carrington, Salter and Heemskerk ran a season's PB of 4:03.19 with a PB from Salter. The Men's 4x400m of Blair, Gill, Roberts, and Labrecque followed suit to run a season's PB of 3:23.97 narrowly missing the school record the foursome established at last year's CIAU championships. Coach Brent McFarlane commented on the "incredible women's

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performance, placing fourth in the country." With a team of only nine women, no track and field facility, part-time coaching staff and limited resources,the women beat out teams that have world class indoor track facilities, world-class programs and full-timecoaches. With the additionof 12PBs this weekend, the total for the year exceeds 200. With the loss of only two team members, the Warriors look to repeat and better their performances next season. ..No track? Definitely no problem!

Deborah Buhlers

Dana Ellis

Paul Gill

Amasters student in Biology, originally from Kelowna, BC, Deborah had an impressive showing at the CIAU Championships held at SherbrookeUniversitythispastweekend. Deborah ranked number one in the CIAU in the 1500m and 3000m, met all of her expectations andwalked awaywith two gold medals, running 4:32.47 in the 1500m and 9:30.00 in the 3000m event.

Athird-year student in Kinesiology, originally from Kitchener, Dana soared tonew heights this pastweekend at the CIAU Championshipsheld at Sherbrooke University. Danasetanew CIAUPoleVault record with a 4.00m vault. She impressively broke the previous record of 3.82111, set by Rebecca Chambers from University of Toronto. We're proud of you, Dana!

A third-year Science student from Brampton, Paul had a great weekend at the CIAU Championships at Sherbrookeuniversity. He competed in the 300m, finishing in ninth place with a time of 35.19 seconds in an impressive field of athletes from across Canada. Paul was one of nine male athletes that Waterloo sent to the nationals this year.

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Don't miss out on all that Campus Rec has to offer. This is your opportunity to make new friends, learn a newskillandmost importantly, have a ton of fun.

Campus Rec is still looking for a number of students to fill some excitingpositions here at the PAC. Motivated leaders are wanted for teaching CPR and First Aid (must be a qualified instructor), refereeing, organizing leagues, life guarding and many other part-time jobs within CampusRec. This is agreatopportunity to meet new people, gain new skills and make some extra cash.

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nanerawhereguitar bapds aren'tcool, it's realty difficult to garner some attention from the record industry unless you're Brimey Spears, or built like 98"" said Tim Hicks of Round 4. I have to agree with him. It'sacandy-coatedmusicworld out there, and some bands don't seem to see that. Once in a while though, yousee a band who has their heads on straight and aren't willing

Having two lead singers (Brad Battle andHicks),surelydoeslead to beautifully harmonized tunes. ~ i u m m e~r n d r e w Gordonsaid the band has "been compared to the Waltons, Barenaked Ladies, Third Eye Blind and Matchbox 20. . Considering there are "The influences within the band only 365 daysinayear,Hicks are whatis aresultof that. Wechange sounds fromsong to song. It's avery versaFiks~md." , L Having played for so many audiences, they were bound to have seen some strange things. "I don't Hicks feels the think we've ever had any tomatoes band'ssoundis bestde- . thrown at the band or been booed scribed by a Niagara news- off the stage for that matter," Gordon paper who called Round 4's music recalled. "Weget flashedalot. Which sucks for me because I play with my "harmony-tinged power pop."

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eeting Kareem Gayle and Justin Lewis ona tipsy Bombshelterafternoon was atomical. One minute they discussed negative values of modernsociety and the next they explodedinto a freestyle on-the-s~otcollaboration of raw uoetrv. , The two, better known aroundcampus as Remecd and Othaman,have known each other for two decades straight, and have been freestylerapping for as long as they can remember. "It was difficult to take this hobby to a higher level inhigh school," they explained. 'Nobody tookusseriously." Now things are running much smoother. As third-year Uwstudents, they MCoccasional local house parties, including one at Wilfrid Laurierfhis past Monday. InMarch2000, they took part in a little concert for cultural awareness at Hagey Hall. If it wasn't for such outlets, they say that they wouldn't be able to cope with all of the school work andother frustrations in their lives; it's what keeps them going. Othaman's lyrics elaborate, "I depict po-

eyes closedmostof the time,soImiss out every time!" added Hicks. Althoughhaving fun is an essential aspeqt to aRound4 show, Hicks said. "We're a serious act. We pride ourselves in being totally pro, and pumng on the bestshow that we can possibly put o n . . .we're into it, it's high energy, it's exciting, and people always come back." Fans are clearly import& t b them, as Hicks explained "We write music and we're recording artists, and we prostitute outselves to generate an income so that we can put out CDs for the fans." Moving right along from nudity to trees. Hicks joked that. "Andrew would be an oak tree because he's

stubborn.Youcankickit andkick it, but it's notgonnamove. But, eventua&voushowu~withachainsawand yokchop it dod."~ordonlau&ed. "Then it moves!" Gordon views Hicks as, "the brains of the band, the creativemastermind -he would be a bonsai tree." Round 4 is a band clearly on the way to success.Justwaiting for their break. The band's solid sound and hardworkis sure to be seenat one of their shows. As Gordon put it: "Wheythe music hits, people realize the tightness of the band, they know the band is good, in the groove -we justget laid back into it and have a goodoid time with it."

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o you're a student in this university's famous engineering program (or any other program for that matter).You're feeling the pressure to limit your previously boundless mind into a tight, narrow, streamlined. one-tracked.. reaure;itating, employable machine. You have three electivesinvour four stress-filledyears and that's just not enough to satisfy your inner ar-

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tistic monster. What to do? Well, how about forming a good oldfashioned rock band? GuitaristDevin Hannan and vocalist Ron Subramanian both seem fully aware they are a small-time bandplaying small-timevenues while playing other people's songs. It sounds alittle negative when yousay it like that, but that's notthe attitude behind A Love Supreme. Both musicians treat each opportunity to perform as another chance to play the music they love,

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"We have a blast, we have a really good time, we wouldn't do it if we didn't," Subramanian explained. "Ron is quite an energetic performer. He's a catalyst, he creates a lot of energyonstagemaddsHannan. Subramanian sums it up a little more concisely: "I'm a buffoon. And when you're abuffoon onstage people look automatically to see this buffoon." What can you hope to hear at a A Love Supreme gig? "We play everything from Marvin Gay to Al Green to D'Angelo to B.B. King and then across the road to The Pixies, The Smths, and Radiohead.It's whatpeople want to hear and we enjoy playing it," noted Subramanian. Their sets also include original material which they write on four-track machines. Playing a broad spectrum of tunes fits this band well: "Ron loves to sing R&B, he loves to sing rock. I like to play rock, I like to play blues. It's really not a problem," said Hannan, who also shares that they try toplay something thatwill fit the taste of everyone in their audience. The evolving musical style of A Love Supremecan be partially traced to Hannan's lead guitar skills. Subramanian helps to elaborate: "Devinis avery creativeguitar player. The improvisation on his solos are incrediblesometimes. "He's very creativeand has very good technique. That's a big part of the sound."Hannan himself explains how hisguitarsoundwas constructed

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and how improvisation plays a big role in his style. "A lot of guitarists have trouble improvising. It's not that they have bad technique. They have good technique but they'renot listening to a medium that supports improvisation. I was fortunate to pick up blues at a really early age. And blues is on of the greatest formats,

I try not to play thesamesolo twice." Subramanian also strives for individualityfromtheartistshecovers. "I can't stand rock stars. I would never want to be one. By and large they're the most pigheaded, egocentric morons that think the world re-

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qualities. Accordingto When youlisten toall these guys improvise you borrow from them, but you develop your own technique. I think that's where I amnow. It took me many years. I think I developed my own technique when I was about 21." Improvisation and originality are ideals this band strives for each time they play. On guitar, Hannan places a "heavy influenceon the type of improvisation style found in jazz.

Love S u ~ r e m ethe new wave of rockmusicisin creating more intelligent music: "People got it from Radiohead, they got it from Pink Floyd, they got it from Miles Davis. They're just waiting for it," ventured Subramanian. While some local bands have a negative attitude aboutthe K-W musicscene,this band offersadifferent view. They emphisised that jam nights offer excellent opportunities for musicians to work on their chops.

rappin' ODs-tow be continued from page 21 don't want to offend anyone, just make them more aware," added Remecal. These two through-andthrough Jamaicans are used to takingit much more easy. Theygoon pointingout that life should be about being carefree and enjoying oneself, and not about all these western society pressures and forlorn, destructive moralities; they keep an open mind. As their lyrics set apart, "Float-

ing like a butterfly, stinging like a killer bee/In thisreality/Loss of moralities, leavingtragedies."They just don't stand for any of the BS society injects. Individualityis key, especially in self-expression,and life is the best form of that. Remecal added that it is we who live in this world and not the world that lives in us. "We shouldn't allow too much influence to get to us." Although their school work (preoptometry) keeps them totally occupied, theyconstantlymanagetocome

up with new material. Their rhymes range from aggressive hard-core to slower smooth liquid beatswith funky reggaish interludes. In fact, they enjoy the less serious, more easy-going Bob Marley sound at times. Presently, they're tryingout for studio time inToronto. By the summer they're sure to have something recorded, but for now you'll definitely hear some of their powerful, atomicrepertoire onwaterloo'sown CKMS.

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owshouldwemakemusic? (Not how "do we make musicrightnow,"but"how ought we to make music, now or in the futuren?) People who have created music - composers and improvisers have been asking themselves this question probably since music has been made. The answer, in practice, usually involvescombining the conventions of the time-whatever they happen to be - with some innovation or other: new instruments, new Kinds of texts, new simultaneities and successionsof sounds (often heard as being - strident or incomprehensible by the composer's contemporaries, and even listenersquite remote from the composer in time). Composers have always asked this question, and sometimes give pretty strange answers to it. Harmony, for instance, means in musical terms, the relation between pitches that happen at the same time -chords.

What we hear -in western art music, and most pop music are pleasant harmonies, and which successions of harmonies "make sensento us. These have been pretty stable for at least 500 years. They now seem almost inevitable (especially so in popular music), but they would have sounded very strange to an educated listener in 1500, and1 may do so again to a similar person in the year 2500. ~ i v &at e taste in these matters is not constant -however stable it may be, or appear to be, now shouldwe try to makemusicin other than the conventional way? Should we try different simultaneities,evenonesthatsound harsh or puzzling?Some composers probably always a minority of them, at any given time -think so, andwill try just about anything, or at least anything they can conceive of, as a way to make the soundsof music. The limits on imagination are surprisingly tight, even when one tries to be as adventurous as one can. From the middle of the 20th century onward, composers have been flying in the face of the har-

monic and other conventions of western art music. What sounds can occur together? Which sounds can fotlow which other sounds? Just about any you might want -or even any you might not want, if you're prepared to let sounds happenwithoutdecidingindetailwhich ones they might be. This can go beyond even improvasation to using chance carefully planned and executed chance procedures, for instance to determine how the music goes. Is that even making a piece of music? As previously and conventionally understood, no, but should that matter? Should we care about making"piecesofmusicn?Somecomposers, for philosophical or even political reasons, thinknot. If you want to hear some of the results of such composers' explorations, tuneintoTuesday'sNewHours on CKMS 100.3 FM. The show is hosted alternately by JesseDymond and Windsor Viney on Tuesdays from 6:OO-8:00 p.m. It's music that doesn't fit into neatcategories.Musicthatchallenges your ears. And your mind.

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Excerpts of Conscience St.Jacob's Schoolhouse Theatre March 26-18 Wife and husband team AmandaLowePal and Arun Pal have produced their second collaboration, with choreography by Lowe-Pal and music by Pal. Friday and Saturday'sperfomances combine dance and music. On Sunday, there is amatinie performance followed by four workshops featuringlectures on composition and drumming related to dance (led by Pal), Kudaliniyoga (ledby KatiaGrubisic),sacred dance (ledby Anne Marie Harrison) and choreography (led bv Lowe-Pal). Seeing Pal on piano, percussionand vocals at the same time should be worth the ticket price of $12 alone. -JGB

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He'll make you bark like a dog and like it K E R R Y O'BRIEN Imprint staff

aving never interviewed an X-Rated hypnotist before, I'm not quite sure what to expect from Tony Lee. I had visions of a potty-mouthed lunatic trying to convince me that1was asquirrel or something like that, so I'm quite surprised when the first thing Lee doesis question me about the weather in Waterloo. "Ah shitty," he replied when I describe the arctic cold that has swept through K-W in the last few days. "We've been missing the big storms out here," he said over a crackling cell

phone on the side of a Halifax highway. Pretty mundane stuff for aguy who spends his nights convincing people to hump chairs and act out orgasms in sold-out campus bars. Of course, Lee surprises many people on a daily basis. Lee's show involves the basic principles of hypnotism that have been in use for centuries, but the application of these principles is what makes his show different. "When people think of hypnotists they think of a guy with apocket watch in atuxedo making people cluck like chickens. But when they see the characteristics of the show, guys blowing beer bottles, turning them into dogs andmaking them fuckeachother, or phone sex

operators.. we turn it into a big house party where everybodydrinks and has agood time." Lee has been touring his show for 15years, but only in the last few has he been able to tap into the veritable goldmine that is campus bars. "Ten years ago there was not a university or college thatwould touch us because of the type of material that we do. Now it's funny because now we sell out more shows and venues than any recording artist on the circuit combined." onthe Lee boastsay 9 per campus circuit, the type of numbers that many "alternative entertainers" can only dream about. Lee recognizes that not everybody buys

these girls to go out and look for their puppy dog, and their puppy dog's name was Buttfuck Me. So they're screaming out 'come Buttfuck Me!' looking for the dog, and this girl wanders outsidelooking for her dog andwhatdrives by? Apolice canine unit with a dog in the backseat. She'slike Oh my God! Buttfuck Me'sin the back of the cop car!' so she starts running down the street after this cop car yelling 'ComeButtfuck Me! Come Buttfuck Me!' "The police laughed about it just because they know every time we're in townsome odd stuff is going to happen." Lee is glad to be backinK-W, where he has a "great follow in^ over the last six or seven

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Literary Pyper comes to campus SCOTT GORDON Imprint staff

iction writers are often asked how much of themselves turns up in their books. Is this based on something that happened to you? How much of what your main character thinks or does is what you think or do? While there are undoubtedly parts of Lost Girls that came out of author Andrew Pyper's own experiences, anyone going to hear him read next week and expecting to meet a real life version of Bartholomew Christian Crane, the immoral, hard-drinking, coke-snorting, stripper obsessed lawyer at the centre of Lost Girls, will be sorely disappointed. "My views aren't parallel to Barth's and he's not me &d I'm not him, thank God," he said, laughing over the phone from Toronto.

That'snottosay thattherearen't at least some superficial similarities between the two. Both call Toronto home and both are lawyers. Sort of. After earning a MA in English, Pyper thought to himself, "I need to get a job.

was not something he set out to do, but he concedes that it must have been in the backof his mind as he was writing it. "I guess I must have been subconsciously interested in combining or brewing what would be otherwise thought of as popdlar forms with literary forms some kind of convergence or hybrid of ideas," he said. "Those sort of things still interest me. I thinkit's really fascinatingto throw together unlikelyingredientsand see what comes out." The book's film rights have been optioned by Jersey films, producers of Erin Brokovitch, Get Shorty and defenda highschool teacher accused Pulp Fiction, among others. There's of killing two of his female students. apparently ascreenplayinthe works, Thestoryissomethidgofhybridcom- something that Pyper has chosennot bining elements of different genres, to involve himself with. "I don't really know anything from the conventional mystery and courtroom drama to the gothic and "about moviemaking or screenplay writing. I would have been faking it. supernatural. Challengingliteraryconvention Maybe everyone is faking it," he laughed. "From whatI've heard, the moviemaking business is about compromises, it's about boardrooms and committees and it just didn't sound very attractive." Pyper sayshe also took apass on being involved with the film version of Lost Girls because he was keen to get started on his next novel, which is nearing the end of phase one. "It's about four-fifthsof the way through a first draft," he said, "so hopefully by sometime this summer I'll show it to people and they'll get back to me and the long process of editing and fixing will start." While working full-time on his fiction, Pyper finds the time to fit in other projects here and there. He takes onsome freelancewritingwhen it piques his interest and recently he agreed to be a juror for this year's away to Peterborough." . And it was in Peterborough that he beganwritingLost Gtrls, astory of a sleazy Toronto defense attorney sent to Murdoch, a small, fictional town in northern Ontario (think Parry Sound or Gravenhurst), to

"I don't really know anything about moviemaking. I would have been faking it. Maybe everyone is faking it." "I was sort of gunning for PhD and I changed my mind. I thought this is getting too narrow and so I went to law school as a fallback." While he finished the degree, he has never actually practised law. "I was called to the bar in '96," Pyper explained, "but then I ran

Trillium Prize, awards thatrecognize the best in Ontario writing. Ajob that is demanding, to say the least. Judges have to read roughly 200 books from children's books and poetry to academic non-fiction and novels in about two and half months. "It's a tall order, but you do it because it's an honour andit's important. These things do make a difference so when the call comes you gotta go," he added. He also makes the time for public readings, an activity he really enjoys. For the time being, anyway. 'You gettogo to some strange places and meet people," he said. "I enjoy meeting people, or talking to people, or interviews or questions or readings because I work alone. I work at home and these are allexcuses to not work," he added, laughing. For Pyper, tvery reading is a surprise. He has yet to find apattern to the audience's response. "You never quite know what to expect at a reading," he explained. "You walkinto some situations, like a high school, and be expecting apathy and ill-education and you can often get some of the most intelligentresponses from a 14-year-old. "Conversely," he added, "you can get some of the lamest questions from a PhD candidate."

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Come down, join the club LAUREN8.

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ve Merriam, a renowned American poet, playwright, director, and lecturer, lived from 1916until 1992, duringwhich time she produced a wealth of works for both adults and children. One of her more celebrated achievements, leaning towards the sexy, the wicked, and the witty, is now k i n g remounted by UW Drama for an exciting four night engagement at the Modem LanguagesTheatre of the Arts. Wrinen in 1973 during the height of the Feminist movement, TheClubwasoriginally anoff-Broadway musical comedy which challenged early nineteenth century social values. In its original staging at

NewYork'sCircleintheSquareTheatre in the late '70s, the production quickly became a theatrical sensation. Theshow revolves around four men who frequent a gentlemen's social club. The irony? These tuxedo-laden, cigar-toting gin-sippers who spout off string after string of crudesexist quips are playedentirely by a female cast. Set amidst Victorian foppish extravagance, the show satirizes the preoccupations, sexism, and hypocrisies of the Victorian era. And even as gender distinctions become more and more blurred in contemporary cinema and theatre, these dashing(wo)men still represent the quintessentialemblems of malechauvinism. Thus, today, in a time when gender limits have been pushed and shovedbeyondrecognition, The Club addresses a wealth of significant issues touching on sexual politics, culture, and class. Indeed, the drama department is undertaking a number of challenges with this one. Revived throughout Canada and the States since its successfulopening in the late '70s, The Club has since been charged

with having a rather vintage script. Despite this, however, UW Drama has done linle if any tampering with the dialogue, and has thus opted not to change some of the notoriously clichCd jokes (i. e. "Women -you can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em") to suit the contemporary pallette. The dated material also threatens the impact of the show's conceptual themes because what may have once been considered biting social commentary may now seem somewhat passe. In addition to the text itself, with a cast featuring women masquerading as men, a question to ask might be, Will the performances be convincingly androgynous? The showstarsUW performersof old and new: EmilyBout&DaleBoyer,Kristin Heffner, Rachel Molnar, Mia Praught, and Erica Sedge. As well, it is being put together by an exceptionally skilled team of senior tech students including Stage Manager Melanie Klodt, Set Designer Jenna Pollard, and Musical Director Sharon Adams. Members of the crew have expressed their delight in working in an almost exclusively femaleproduction. The director, Robert More one of three males on the team -is an accomplished actor with over 25 years of theatrical experience. He is also a successful playwright whose hit, "Dads! The Musical" has been stagedin over thirty five professional productions across Canada. For the past several years, More has served as ArtisticDirector of the Lighthouse Festival Theatre in Port Dover, Ontario. On workine " with the UW cast and crew, More commented that "The technical standards of theUniversity of Waterloo Drama Department are excellent, and I'm very impressed by the dedication and enthusiasm of the drama students involved who are responsible for all production elements."

Onworking withsomeone who is described as a fun and laid back director, Stage Manager Melanie Klodt comments that, "we laughed all the way through this production." The students have been working on the show since January, and have amassed over 100 hours in rehearsal and preparation time. Apparently there haven't been any major setbacks along the way. Set designer Jenna Pollard said working for her first time with a thrust stageinwhichaudiencemembers on all sides must be accommo-

dated was a rewarding challenge. Indeed,the hard work and diverse talent of the crew responsible for sets, costumes, lighting, music, arid tech will resonate throughout the theatre come opening night. Having beenvasdywell-received in over 35 productions, only time will tell whether Waterloo's version of The Club will generate the same enthusiasm. But wait . . women boasting about tits and ass . . late Victorian song and dance.. it's too intriguingto pass up, no matter what the outcome.

uw drama the club march 21-24 theatre of the arts modern languages 8 p.m.

Canadian lmprov Games Waterloo Regional Tournament

Don't miss the non-stop action as local high-school teams improvise their way to the top in the region's first Improv Games tournament!

Preliminaries: April 4-6 2001 @ 7:30pm Finals: April 7 2001 @ 7:30pm University of Waterloo Theatre of the Atts Tickets: $5,00 To order tickets contact the UW box office at (519) 888-4908 For more information see www.golden,net/-improv

Elizabeth Anka Elizabeth Anka Editorial Avenue JAN GUENTHER BRAUN Imprint staff

smoothlywithsubtlepercussionand chunkydoublebass backingup voice and soft guitar. Anka sounds vocal P.J. Harvey andsomeof rawness also remind

the mystery of where each song is

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lizabeth Anka starts her hio off by writing, "It takes 15 years to reach Pluto -I wish I couldgo to space." From thesimple packagingof the CD, the meagre six songs on the CD, and rhe words about Pluto in her biography, I wasn't sure what -to expect from this MontrCal native. Expect the unexpected, that's what I'vecome up with in terms of Anka's music. The opening track starts out

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"The firstthingthatcomestomindis Sunday morning reading a bookand drinking a coffee. Really relaxing, but still fun. The kind of thing you want to listen to and not tune out completely."

"I like it. The lyrics are fun, not too heavy. I like the lead singer's deep, sexy,clearvoice.Soundskindoflike The Tragically Hip . . . but doesn't everything?"

"I really liked some of the slower songs. They can do more than recycle other groups' sound. The instrumentalsandlyricsofthesesongs demonstrate this band has potential. Enjoyable chill background music."

"If the turnkeys put this on the SLC playlist, people would get a lot more workdone. "Track 13isentitled'Ican'twhistle.' Sorry, Staggered Crossings, you have bigger problems than that."

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