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Where will all the students go?

First-war students could outnumber available residenc&eds this fall CHRIS

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or the first time in its history, the Universityof Waterloo has decided to guarantee a residence bed for all full-time first-year students admitted to UW programs of study. The UW Web site confidently asserts that "all first-year students are guaranteed residence." As reassuring as this may be for all prospective UW students, the fact remains that the University of Waterloo has an admission target of 4,322 students and currently has 3,550 residence beds dedicated to first-year students. Although the gap between students to be admitted and available residence spaces now stands at 772, Bud Walker, director of business operations,is still confident that all firstyear students can be accommodated. Walker explained that the original admissionstarget (4,067) contained "a cushion" and that "the increase will be absorbed by the cushion." Furthermore, he stated, "We'll have to see how the numbers play out before any serious measures are taken." Walker said that approximately 8Oper cent of students admitted into first-year programs request residence rooms, and the remainder choose to live at home, off-campus, or are distance education students. If the 80 per cent rule holds true for Fall 2001, all first-yearstudents who wish to live in residence will be able to; however, an upwards change of only three percentage points would leave some students out of luck, and, out of a room. While the administration remains confident that all the students can be accommodated, there is no concrete plan in place to deal with a situation where the residence seekers outnumber the beds. Housing and residences representative Cheryl Skingley said, "We're working on [alternative arrangements] right now, but we're not really sure what that would entail." Walker sug-

gested that in the event of an overflow, "There's alwaysa fewno-shows" and that it can be dealt with in some way, perhaps temporary accommodations. Other universities have found themselves in similar situations over the years; recently, Wilfrid Laurier University was forced to house first-year students in apartment buildingswhen it faced a housing crunch. Recent fundingconstraintshave left the university in the position of having to increase enrolment by255 from the previously projected figure of 4,067. This action was taken to avoid any further budget reductions beyond the 3.5 per cent in cuts that were announced last month. It also appears that the funding situa~onis

unlikely to improve in the near future. According to former provost Alan George, UW will have to keep boosting student enrolment and mition fees, which will further worsen the housing issue. On the horizon is the looming issue of the double cohort, and it is yet unclear what type of housing situation they will face. Federation of Students president Yaacov Iland for one, commented, "Waterloo is not currently in a position to accept .all these students." Regarding the present housing situation, Iland stated "The provincial governmentleft the universityin an untenable situation" because it gave the universities "no notice" before its budget announcement that

Chakma appointed ,as VP academic and provost SUSAN

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he University of Waterloo has appointed Amit Chakma, vice-president research and international liaison officer at the University of Regina, to serve a fiveyear term as UW'svice-president academic and provost starting August 1. UW's senate and board of governors approved Chakrna's appointment on May 22.

"I look forward to meeting with people, faculty, staff, students and learningfrom them,"said Chakmain a telephone interview with Imprint. "The biggest excitement for me is to be able to meet with colleagues and students." At first, Chakma was reluctant about being nominated for the position of UW's vice-presidentacademic and provost. "With this sort of thing, when somebody consults you, you don't necessarilyjump because there

are so many issues [to consider]," he explained. "In my particular case, the dming was a little bit awkward because I tookover this job [asvicepresident research at the University of Regina] two years ago, and it's a five-year term. As a result of that, my initial reaction was that the timing was not right, but W s ] consultant kept calling me, and eventually I overcame my initial inhibitions." please see page 4

led to both the enrolment increase and the clawback in the operating .budget. However, even in the tight financial situation that UW finds itself, Iland commented, "I would be very unhappy if [the university administration] made commitmentsto studenti that it could not keep." In the event that the demand for residence beds exceeds the supply, Iland stated that the Feds "will be part of the solution," but he cautioned that the Feds "are not landlords" and only have limited resources at their disposal. Off-campus, students are currently experiencinga rise in rents, as well as very tight rental markets in both the fall and winter semesters. However, an upcoming report on

the state of student housing in Waterloo is expected to contain several important recommendations that have the potential to improve the current situation. 1land-commented that "[The Feds] are very happy with the report" and that it is "wide ranging, andgives consideration to zoning, upkeep and transportation issues." The report was to be released on Tuesday, May 28, but it is undergoing a few minor updates, and will be made public in the near future. Only time and a certain degree of luck will tell whether UW can successfully uphold its residenceguarantee to first-years, or if they will be forced to seek alternative arrangements for housing.

This is the price of learning REENA D E V A N l special to Imprint

tudents, as if they don't have enough to contend with, will soon be anticipating student fee increases. This year, in addition to the annual tuition increases, student fees will likely be increasing as well. The U W board of governors is being asked to raise the Federation of Students fee, up from $25.40 to $27.3 1; the student-coordinated

plan (topay for the 1992 improvements to the SLCand Columbiarec 'complex), up from $27.56 to $28.44; the Grad House is asking for an inccease from $11.00 t o $12.00 and the Graduate Student Association is askingfor a raise from $12.00 to $12.40. Imprint has requested to increase their fee from $4.10 ($3.84 plus $0.26 GST) to $4.10 without GST. The campus please see page 5

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s anyone else boggled by what has gone on at UW in the past month? Beyond the haze of dust and over the horizon of bulldozers lies a university co-op system that's going through mini-turmoil. For me, this realization started last week in Needles Hall (where most turmoil usually starts) while checking the fifth co-op posting. Orange signsabove the postingboards delivered a message that not too many people were surprised to read. The signsbasically said that the sixth postingwas goingto be skimpy (which it was) and that students should be aware of that when they applied to jobs in the fifth posting. In the four years I've been at UW, I haven't witnessed a similar warning by CECS. The reason for this trickle of postings seems obvious, but you won't hear anyone from CECS admittingit: UW co-op is getting knocked out from-the blows dished out by the tech industry. On the contrary, according to the numbers released by CECS, placement rates are at an all-time high. Less than 50 students didn't

find work in the winter term. Placement rates reached as high as 97 per cent last term. Also, the faculty with . the lowest placement rate was architecture, employing 94 per cent, with science right behind, employing 95 per cent.

My heart goes out for all you students in computerrelated disciplines. I've always been a little suspicious of the numbers. For example, do the statisticsinclude studentswho have found their own jobs? Co-op statisticsshould be based on the students who got a job through the coop process. Those are the numbers that tell us if our CO-OP fee is paying off. My heart goes out to all you ,

students in computer-related disciplines. It may very well be that your faculties will strip architecture of its lowest-placement-of-the-yearhonour. The safety nets of Nortel and tech startup jobs around the provinces are falling hard. But the posting depletion is a macro problem. We can't forget that the non-mathies and non-engineers are also feeling the burn of the tech industry. Englishstudentsare seeing less technical writing jobs offeredand arts business students are watching marketing jobs fall from the postings. It's a true indicationofhow much coop relies on tech employersto scoop up its students. Some brave co-ordinators will give you the real insight, skipping over higher-ups' euphemisticglosses on the problem. In the last issue of Imprint, CECS taskmaster, Bruce Lumsden, said students shouldn't panic. Hopefully students will remember these words of optimism on June 19. If the sixth posting was slim pickings, what can students expect from the continuous phase? I can see the orange signs now: "Warning, continuous postings will be slender. Please find your own jobs."

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As W s vice-presidentacademic and provost, Chakmawill be responsible for the university's academic and research activitiesas well as budgetary matters. He will replace Alan George, dean of mathematics, who Kas been serving as vice-president academic and provost since Jim Kalbfleischretired from the position last December. George will resume his position as dean of mathematics and professor of computer science when Chakrnatakes office in August. Chakma joined the University of Regina in 1996, serving as dean of engineering until 1999 when he became vice-president of research. He began his academic career as an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Calgary in 1988, and became a full professor in 1994. His research interests include gas engineering, petroleum waste management and greenhouse gas control technology. After graduating from the Algerian Petroleum Institute in 1982, Chakma continued his studies at the Universityof British Columbia, earning an MA.Sc. in 1984 and aPh.D. in chemical engineering in 1987. According to Chakma, the biggest challenge facing Canada's post-

UW'snewVP,Amit Chakma.

secondary institutions is inadequate funding. "We have many more good ideas than fundingwill allow us to go for," explained Chakma. He added that the funding shortage will continue to plague universities as long as the demand for funding exceeds the SUPP~Y.

In the wake of a 3.5 per cent budget cut at UW, Chakma remains optimistic. "It will take us some time to resolve the issues," he admitted. "I believe that they can be resolved, and we can move ahead and maintain Waterloo's edge as the most innovative university, not only in this country, but we can make it the most innovativeuniversity in the world."

JOHN SWAN

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UW Architecture Alumni honoured The University of Waterloo's Architecture program possesses a fine reputation on campus. Through their long hours in studios and their attitude, it is not all surprising ,that Waterloo architectsare leaders in today's society. And naturally, the OntarioAssociation of Architects has recognized this fact by presenting six awards to firms led by Waterloo graduates. Presented by OAKS president Randy Dhar as part of the closing ceremonies for this year's conference, "Convergence: Practice in the 21st century," these six graduates were honoured for "exemplifying the expertise and leadershipnin provincial architecture today. Chosen by a jury from 109 submissions, the winners of these awards are Martin Kohn and John Shnier of Kohn ShnierArchitects, the Ian McDonald Architect Incorporated; Steven Teeple of Teeple Architects Incorporated and Vic Jaunkalns of MacLellan Jaunkalns Miller Architects Limited. Kohn and Shnier won two awards for their work.

Terry Stepien wins medal It wasUW's innovative spiritthat appealed to Chakma. He believes that universitiesmustbe ableto change with the tjmes in order to succeed. "The roles of universities have changed over the years," he explained. "In the past, all we had to do is produce good, educated citizenry. As we move into aglobalized, howledge-based economy, universities now have to do more than what we did in the past. We need to contribute to the social, economical and other aspects of society, and we need to do that in a global context." Chakma's global perspective stems from his worldly academic experience. He has taught in Bangladesh, his country of origin, as well as China, Colombia,Japan, New Zealand, Peru and Thailand. Chakma has a global vision for UW. "I would really like Waterloo to look beyond Canada and to look internationally,"he explained. "The challenge for us is how to live within the context of the global village not only from a technologicalsense, but from a social perspective.I would like our students to be educated in such a way that they are able to operate in any kind of circumstances and operate in different cultures. I would really like them to come out of Waterloo as true global citizens."

Duringconvocation,when thousands of eager students will be receiving their degrees, Terry Stepien will be acceptingan honour of his own. This honour is known as the J.W. Graham

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Medal. As president'of iAnywhere Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sybase, Stepien has experienced rapid growth in the technology industry, which has recently fallen on hard times. WithSybaseYsMobile and Embedded Computing division, iAnywhere Solutions has been the recipient of many accolades and industry awards. The J.W. Graham medal is awarded to a graduate from the Faculty of Mathematics who "embodies the qualitiesshown by the late Professor Wes Graham." As many Mathiesknow, Graham was an influential part of University of Waterloo's Mathematics faculty, particularly in computer science. Graham's contributions to the field of computer science is well known not only regionally, but also nationally.

Genealogical papers now in UW library On May 25, there was another addition made to the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room in the Dana Porter Library. As a kick-off for the Ontario Genealogical Society's 40th annual seminar (whichtook place from May 25 to May 27), the university was honoured to accept the Petworth papers, a historical account of a settlement scheme to place immigrants from Sussex to Upper Canada (Ontario) during the 19th century. Part of the area where people were to be resettled from England included the Region of Waterloo.

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hanks to a 3.5 per cent university-wide budget cut, students will return this fall to largerclasssizesand cancelledcourses, says Bob Kerton, dean of arts. "Per student funding is going down for everybody," says Kerton, citing the province's failure to provide adequate funding to UW, despite attempts in 1999 that were made by the university to increase acceptancenumbers. "Nearby universities got a small raise last year. We didn't," said Kerton. Inadequatefunding, he sgys, has forced many department heads to cancel several coursesoffered by the arts faculty,includingsomelawclasses in political science, coursesin drama and economics, and Spanish 101and 102,two of the most popular courses in arts. Spanishdepartment chair, Prof. Mariela A. GutiQrezis disappointed having to cancel the popular courses. "We hope it is aone-time thing," she said. "Spanish is very structured - there aren't many courses, and we're very popular." So popular, in fact, that the department had to turn away 167 students for Spanish 101 last fall, and

Prof. Cutierrezquieraespaiiol. 199 students for Spanish 102 in the winter term. GutiCrrez was able to squeeze in a few extra students, but expects many had hoped to take the course this year. GutiCrrez proudly adds that the . department has grown dramatically in past years to over 1,000 students. The cancellations have left some wondering if Spanish is so popular, why cancel the first-yearcourses? "That'sagood question. I would love far you to ask that to the Dean," . says Gutiirrez. Kerton explained that although he hates to see any coursescancelled, the Spanish department was far from the only one to receive cutbacks. "There are going to be more disappointed economics students than Spanish students," he said. UW president David Johnston called the cancellations"awful," and was,not aware of any cancellationsin other faculties. He did add that "one doesn't cut 3 1/2 per cent [from the budget] without further cutbacks."

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More tuition woes ahead continued from page 3

paper has opted out of paying the GST this year. Imprint has not raised its fee in five years. There is one decrease: g;aduate students will stop paying the $0.67 fee for the Canadian Graduate Cound, as UW's GSAiswithdrawing from membership in the Canadian Graduate Council. UW has a fulltime enrolment of about 18,500 students. The additional 255 frosh next fall equals an increase of more than six per cent in first-year classrooms. Waterloo plans to squeeze more students into fewer classes and cut courses in every faculty to avoid a $5.5-million deficit in the next academic year. A larger student body will mean more revenue from tuition, as well as from the provincial grants that universities receive when enrolment goes up, UW provost Alan George said. In the provincialbudget released May 9, the government boosted

funding for post-secondary education by $293 million on top of the $1.7 billion spent each year for college and university operating grants. According to George, the only way

The additional 255 frosh next fall equals an increase of more than six per cent in first-year classrooms. to maintain a balanced budget is by adding 266 first-year students and cuttingthe university's $2 10-million budget by 3.5 per cent. This doesn't even take into considerationthe situ-

ation we'll be in come 2003 when enrolment will grow by approximately40 per cent because students now in Grades 10 and 11will graduate together when Ontario eliminates the fifth-year of high school. The issue at hand is increasing class size, limitingprofessor-student interaction. Students are understanding of the increases, but don't want their academic opportunities hindered. U W student Kristian Khan says, "I can appreciate some of the increases in fees that I pay for (in addition to tuition) as the school offers a lot of amenities to the students. What is outrageous is how they expect us to put up with lowering standards that are accompanying these increases." Many are disappointedthat students and professors will not have the opportunities they once had a few years ago. Perhaps, just as agood student should be able to learn from a poor teacher, so should a good university learn from its "financiallyconstrainedn students.

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ver the next few years, the housing shortage for students may ease. The cities, the region and the institutions, including the University of Waterloo, have recommended action to solve the worsening problem of student housing. The StudentHousing TaskForce has recently released its final report. In 1999, there was a shortage of rental housing for students, mostly due to a low vacancy rate and unexpectedly-high enrolment. In December, stakeholdersheld a meetingfrom which the task force was formed. Feds president Yaacov Iland characterized the report as "very good" and while he was not part of the final revising, "Chris parley] participated in the drafting of the report and writing of the recommendations." In the report, the task force articulates 40 recommendationson developing ways to achieve five goals: increasingstudent housing; increasing its quality; reducing its negative impact; improving related services; and improving interaction. The most important consequencesof the recommendationsare possible changesto the lodging house bylaw, improved transit service and the measuring and ranking of housing quality. Increasing enrolment numbers will put a greater strain on housing. Enrolment at UW is expected to increase by 1,237 in 2005, compared to last year's numbers. The task force set a goal of accommodating 35 per cent of students who are from out of the region which, at UW,is estimated at 89 per cent of enrollment.

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS MONDAY, JULY I6 FedspresidentYaacov Ilandsupportsthe report. UW plans to add 488 beds by September 2002 and will meet the 35 per cent target that year, but will fall back again if enrolment continues to rise as expected. A large proportion of students stilllive off-campusand the availability of rental spaces is low. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which produces the rental market survey, listed the city of Waterloo's vacancy rate for 2000 at 0.3 per cent. Currently, there are over 800 lodging houses, of which most are near the universities.The report cites that "approximately50 new lodging house licenses have been issued per year from 1997 to 2001" but the supply of rental houses is limited by a spacing restriction in the lodging house bylaw. The lodging house bylaw states that no new lodging house property can be within 75m of an existing lodging house property. The recommendation to "initiate a policy and zoning study to

evaluate existing land use options for increasing student housing near the institutions" and "explore land use options to protect existingneighbourhoods by revisiting and studying the present policies and regulations on lodging houses and lodging units near the institutions,"may mean a change in how the bylaw applies to rental housing near both universities. In order to address quality, the report recommends that after the development of ranking measurements, the Federation of Students should rankoff-campus housing and post results on the Web. With the goal of improvingservices, most recommendations apply to transit,whilesuggestingexpanded hours of operations,more promotion of vacancies to students and a greater discount for students. With the release of the report, different stakeholders in student housing will need to take action to prevent the student housing situation from getting any worse.

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aoist monks are often known to simply sit and meditate for long periods of time on a particular koan, or ancient riddle. These monks will sit in deep so1i.tude attempting to understand something as complex as "If a tree falls in the forest, will anyone hear it?" -although probably something even more obfuscatious and interesting. They will meditate on this until the head monk rings a bell, ending their time on that particular question. I often wonder if university administrators perform a similar exercise. Instead of trees and forests, I wonder if they increasingly spend their philosophizing time on the question of "Do we choose to educate a few people well or educate everyone poorly?" This seems to be the big debate that we now face in Ontario, if not Canada. Looking ar a snapshot of education in Ontario isn't pretty. Reading the recent reports of every education stakeholder group is like reading the details of an autopsy. Our businessofficers are tellingus that our buildings are crumbling and require amassive cash injection to ensure they don't fall on students and risk lives. Our faculty members tell us they're rushing to retire; leaving a massive gap that, without an injectionof cash, will mean students won?thave teachers and research will go undone. Our administrators are telling us that their budgets are in a stranglehold and that growing student demographics, as well as the double cohort, will only mean further cuts to quality. Yet, what does that mean for us as students?It means that insome programs, certain courses can only be offered in selective terms, making it increasingly difficult to meet your

unch the words "print" and "dead" into a simple Google search and you'll get nearly a million results, most of them predicting the imminent demise of print media. Granted, not everyone is predicting the end of the printed word, but it appears a large contingent of outspoken netizens are. Those of us at Imprint have not been exempt from the debate. The knee-jerk response from most dyed-in-the-wool journalists is to reject the apparent death of their favourite medium; but we can't all work at the 8-track factory forever, can we? Recent discussionson UW-based Web log uwstudent.org have revealed that many would like to see Imprint shed its tree-killing tendencies and shift to a Web-only existence. The reality is that print- and Imprint will eventually experience a massive paradigm shift as costs and consumer demands change. But not yet. ArecentZDnet article predicts the end of print media as we know it: "We may see a time when reading a printed magazine has a stigma similar to smoking a cigarette today. We'll allow it, but most people will agree it's harmful. And, quite frankly, it is." The easy argument from many proponents of the old media is online publications' inability to turn a profit. As National Post columnist Robert Fulford said in a lecture last year at UW, "online journalism is like solar power-it works, but it doesn't turn a profit." But Imprint's role as a campus media organization and journalistic educator has little to do with profits. Although more than half of our operating budget is derived from advertis-

growth -never mind the old growth, which wasn't already funded. The new debate in post-secondary education in Canada is one of accessibility and of quality. It is almost guaranteed that your class sizes at Waterloo will go up next year. Even in faculties that sought to minimize the damage of less-than-inflationary funding by cutting other costs,the latestdecision to meet shortfallthrough increased enrolment will likely force increases. In addition, new studies show there has been a dramatic decrease in analytic content within courses that are taught. Professors are dealing with massive classes by cutting projects, essay requirements, and moving to easier and more manageable mechanisms of testing. Essentially, the university is risking becoming less rigorous. Yet we have seen large investments in recent years. These investments have targeted very specific programs to grow, have built new buildings for new students and have created a

ingrevenue, the remainder comes from a $4.10 refundable student fee. o each week The reason we still g o ~ press is so obviously plain that it has been thoroughly overlooked. The Web is cheaper, more efficient and faster, but it isn't all that students want. Don't forget, Imprint has an online edition; it features every single story that appears in the print edition and is usually up the same day. The site has over 6,000 readers a week. In the summer term, we also print about 6,000

Reading print can cause cancer? copies, and over 90 per cent of them are picked up by avid readers. Out in front of our office in the SLC, there's a distribution box that's been empty for almost a week. The digital e-lite too often dismissthose of us who like our newspaper on newsprint as a group of backward luddites, romanticizing our typeset pages by candlelight. I have to say that the business of desktop publishing is not one for the technologically-reclined; some of the people I work with are more technologically adept than your average engineer. Many of them are, in fact, engineers. If print is so dead, why do the tech-sawy publications still bother with it? Wired?Shift? Macwld? Advertisingis one reason, and a strong one

new funding mechanismaimed at growth. Looking at the history of funding announcements in Ontario in the last five years, we have seen funding fall far behind inflation -making it increasingly difficult to increase quality, or even maintain quality, for current students.; The great debate now becomes one of whether to let in all the students, or to let in few students and spread thin dollars over fewer people. This limits accessibility and makes the university an ivory tower, as opposed to a nodal point of learning and innovation. Yet, maybe the decision is already made. Perhaps the government's bell-ringer has already declared that time is up and universities havegone too far to change things back. Now we can only wait in anticipation for the next koan. -MarkA. Schaan 4NPolitical Science

at that. But to be honest, no one has been able to simulate the unique features and benefits of print media -yet. Their task is not simple. Create a digital page that I can read for hours on end without stressing my eyes; make it portable so that I can read it on apark bench in direct sunlight, under a bedside lamp at night or in the washroom; and finally: make it cheap. The only thing that has had a more oftdebated mortality than the printed word is the success of paid Internet content delivery. Salon.com and others like it have worked hard at it, and to no avail. Imprint's mission statement says that our goals are twofold: 1)To publish a newspaper for the purpose' of providing the University of Waterloo community with information, entertainment and a forum for the discussion of issues that affect the community; and 2) To provide the University of Waterloo students with the opportunity to learn andgain practical experience in an <$penand rewarding journalistic environment. Thus far, Imprint has succeeded in the above mission for almost 25 years, and the last five of those years have included the Web. I can't speak for the dozens of Imprint volunteers who work here every term, but it seems apparent that Imprint is still alive and well in print, and will continue to be so until those who own it -the fee-paying students at UW -determine its future. -RyanMatthewMerkley editor-in-cbief

Will democracy survive? To the editor, fter Wednesday's overthrow of A, ritish Columbia's NDP government, many may be tempted to say that democracyis alive and well. Unfortunately, upon closer examination of the results, nothing can be further from the case. Twenty per cent of British Columbians voted for parties that will not be represented at all in the legislature. When the NDP vote is added in, 42 per cent of voters are represented by just four per cent of the seats. The facts are, in a first-pastthe-post system, voters are not encouraged to speak their minds, but rather to vote strategically, as a failure to do so will result in a loss of whatever limited voice they do have under the current system. The Ontario Coalition has long called for a change to a mixed proportionalsystem.This would increase voter turnout and provide results that more accurately reflect the views of the people. After all, isn't that what democracyis supposed to be all about? -Alex Cassar 2BArtsAccounting

Fair trade feud To the editor,

egarding Mr. Suresh Naidu's response to my earlier letter on Cambodian sweatshops, I have to admit I was impressed with his seamless enumeration of many points

which, as an admitted non-expert, struck me as both credible and informative. The point I was trying to make, however, was that all too often the anti-capitalist (sorry, I mean "globalization-from-below")movement seems to conveniently omit the positive examples, such as Cambodia, while condemning the unfortunate situations in other countries. In fact, most of his letter seemed to be an attempt not to discredit what I was saying, but rather to reduce my particular experience as "maybe so, but it's an exception." Are there any other exceptions that the protectionist (sorry, I mean, "fair trade") lobby are selectively omitting? Similarly, the demonization of all large corporations that have the gall to actually make money is an unfair and unproductive approach to improving the lot of the poorest people in the world. Mr.Naidu points out that "the much-maligned GAP has been a pioneer in mediating with the unions in Cambodia, treating them as legitimate, even when the government does not." Imagine that-agood corporate citizen.And as much as Mr.Naidu may wish to tout the successesof Cambodia's independent labour movement, without an employer, they wouldn't have much to organize against. With respect to self-monitoring by a corporation being suspect; this may be true, but I would contend that the real problem in Asia is not self-monitoringby a corporation but rampant corruption- especiallyin government - and how the antisweatshopforces intend to solve that major obstacle is not known to me! Finally, might I just say that I find it ironic that Mr. Naidu appeals to

statistics and facts over anecdotes. The ideological left (him), makes appealsto numbers and figures, while the ideologicalright (me)gives a rhetorical, emotional written account? (What planet are we on, eh!) Perhaps he has forgotten that it is usually his comrades who are the ones screaming at the top of their lungs that this is really about people and justice and human rights, and not about facts or figuresor statistics. Or perhaps he means selectivestatistics, and not the myriad of numbers I could produce in support of globalization and free trade. Whatever the case, the hypocrisy is there. -Aaron Lee-Wudrick 3AEconomics&Political Science

U W must ex and use of Mac Tab To the editor,

xford dictionary defines "macking" as the process required to obtain a male or female partner for arelationship. It is averb with the infinitive: to mack. If you don't believe me, it's found between "mackdaddy" and "macklicious". Students at Waterloo are darn good at programming the snot out of Java or finding the nthderivative of functions like n(e) + r(d). They can design nuclear submarinesin Autocad while debating the merits of Jungian philosophy. This tremendous academic proficiency can be attributed to their extensive schooling, however, when it comes to the art of macking- there appearsto be great deficiency. Macking has been with us since

the days of yore. How else can you explain the fact that20 Neanderthals became six billion homo sapiens?Believe me, there was a whole lotta mackin' goin' on. Even today, there is an ongoing debate as to which human specieswere the bestmackers. ~ustralopithecusrobustusand homo erectus are the top contenders for this title. Clearly macking is integral to nature, thus I make the following proposition: a new university course be created, Macking 101,where students are exposed to various techniques of this fine art. At the end of the term, students should be able to get their mack on at any time in the presence of a potential target. The actual structure of the course would not deviate much from the traditional, except for the heavy emphasis on booty. Typical assignments would include memorizingthe Beach Boy's favorite "I Get Around" and weekly readings from the course bible, "The Fundamental Principles of Macking," translated from the Latin classic "Principia Mackia." The first half of the course is pickup lines. Now, the mathies need the most help in this department. The days of "let's get perpendicular" or "you make me concave upward" are over. More mackensian dialogue is desired. Science students are no Casanovas either: "What do youget when you mix a little U and I?Nothing, 'cuz Uranium and Iodine are incompatible, hahaha!" A vocabulary of effectivemacking lines will be stressed in this course to avoid such embarrassments. The final half of the course will be on mack-essentials like clubbing,

posture and appropriate attire. This half will be held in the Mac(k) lab. So, for all those suffering from mackophobia, join this new and exciting program. The phone number is 1-622-594-8463 (MACK WITH ME) -operators are standing by to take your calls.

-Heramb Ramachandran 1B ComputerScience

The Forum Section enables members of the University of Waterloocornmunitytopresent views on various issues through letters to the editor andlonger comment pieces. Letters shouldnot exceed 350 words in length. Letters must be signed, including a phone number. Letterswill not be printed ifthe Editor-in-Chief cannot identify the author. They can be submitted to: ktters@impnnt,uwaterloo.ca. Letters received in electronic form (e.g. fax & email) d n o t be printedunlek aphone number for verification is included. All material is subject to editing for brevity and clarity. The editor reserves the right to refuse to publishletters or articles which are judged to be libellous or discriminatoryon the basis ofgender, race, religionor sexualorientation. The opinions expressed through columns, comment pieces,letters andother articles are strictlythose of the authors, not the opinions of Imprint.

Paper or plastic: How do Imprint readers want their media?

you were t o log o n to uwstudent.org/story/2948, you would find yourself amidst one of the longest-running threads on the site. It centres around a debate over print mediums versus online mediums: specifically, whether the print versionofImprint is obsolete in light of the dominance of the Internet on campus. Here's a sample of some comments that can be found on the site. Wherever possible, real names have been used, but uwstudent.orgis a public Web log, and as such, users can opt to post under pseudonyms.

haps you sidewith MarshallMcLuhan and believe that the medium is the message, but seeing as Imprint does cover both mediums, I cannotagree." -RetardedMonkey "You got so much vested interest in the old way of doing things that the people with incentive to change the situation don't want to. It's too difficult in their views, and even if it was a possibility they wouldn't want to go through the perceived troubles of going through with the change." -Mad Hughagi

"Well I have no interest in helping out Imprint. I would very much like to see the print version go away'and go totally online. Then I would help out.. .All Waterloo students would be better served by this, save some trees." -Mr. Pink

"Some people prefer print, some people prefer online . . . Print provides wider availability to students without Web access, while Imprint Online provides students out on coop a link back to campus." -Kerry 0'Brien

"I cannot see how putting Imprint online will make it any better. The content will stay the same. If you ask me, if Imprint has any problems it's the message not the medium. Per-

"The problem is that most people view things in terms of advertising revenues -and here is where paper wins. Paper inherently needs advertising to exist! The Internet does not. Sure it is nice to make money, but

with a student newspaper I don't think it should be high up on the list." -Mad Hughagi "What happens to those who don't have Web access if we go online?" -Kerry O'Brien "They are online. The online version usually comes up a day after the paper version. There's a link on the right sideof uwstudent.org. The online version contains everything in Imprint, except the ads. What else do

you want?" -Giant SpaceHamster

online book bombed big time." -Kate Schwass

"Imprint is scrounging for money and instead of looking at viable solutions people are more concerned with maintaining the status quo for the sake of their comfort." -Mad Hughagi

"We live in asociety that prides itself on technological advancement . . . sooner or later things are going to change. It can't hurt to consider them sooner rather than later." -Mad Hughagi

"Look at Stephen King and his online book that he tried to promote. Everyonewas screaming 'shut down the printers' and all that crap, but his

"Imprint has a crazy amount OF money, put Linux workstations in the SLC." -Mr. Pink

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Road rage, nevermore?

m a pretty passive guy, For instance, if youcut in front ofme in the line to buy textbooks, I won't confront you. I'll just laugh at you because now your life is as bad as mine. But when I'm behind the wheel of a car and someone cuts in front of me, I'm laughing for a different reason: I'm slowly descending into the kindof madnesswhere there's araven perched atop my vanity mirror. Furiow, I ask him, "When will all this road rage go away?"I'm sure you can guess his one-word reply. All my aggression on the road is based on the fact that I think there are good ways and bad ways to drive. Here are a few of my rules: Rqle #1: No matter how angry - you are, never take your eves off the road to give someone the finger. Giving someone the finger isn't worth dying for, unless that someone is driving a souped-up Honda Accord. Rule #2: When your car radio is so loud it shakes the cars around you, it's too 1oud.You couldset someone off. Remember: The volume of a bad song is directly proportionate to how much it makes someone want to stab you in the kneecap with their car keys. Rule #3: University stickers in rear windows are not impressive. A university sticker on your car is only impressive if it means your dog went there. Rule #4: Start trying to change lanes the instant you see the "lane ending" sign. If you drive super-fast right until the ending of your lane (savingyourself about three seconds on your drive) and then force yourself into my lane, you're basically a Nazi. You think you're too good to drive behind me just because your dog went to Queen's? Rule #5: When it's evident that someone's lane is ending, and they've signaled and are trying to get over, please let them. It's okay if that puts them ahead of you. Try to remember: It's not a race. Stop acting like your lane is a net, the other car is a puck, and you're Cujo. Rule #6: Don't tailgate. If you

must endanger the lives of everyone on the road, try to finda lessirritating way. These rules seem pretty simple to me. Yet trying to drive on the 401 in a good mood is more futile than Middle East peace talks. The only other place on Earth that consistently has this many unhappy people is Needles Hall. I hate to admit it, but when I feel I've been wronged, 1break my own rules just SO I can piss off the other driver. That's what road rage is all about-bringing out the Hulk within our Dr. Banner. So please, don't make me drive.. youwouldn't like mewhen17mdriving. A big part of the road rage problem is that Out when faced with this anger, there's no way to vent it. We often turn to our horns, but this doesn't really work. YOU can't have one generic honk for all situations; car horns need different degrees of honkage. There could be low honkage for "Excuse me,'' medium honkage for "Please, you're starting to piss me off," and high honkage for "Okay, get the hell off my planet before I use your face to make both of our cars a write-off." (By the way, "High Honkage" is a great action flick.) I guess it's safe to say that the raven, still perched atop my vanity mirror, isn't going to leave me alone anytime soon. But there is one positive thing about all this anger and frustration. The next time you find yourself in an argument with someone who's against gun control, you have an argument that's irrefutable: Remind them that mixingguns with driving is riskier than eating at the Ron Eydt Village cafeteria. So the raven is still perched atop my vanity mirror, likelyto leave nevermore. And when someone carelessly cuts in front of me, the raven turns his head toward the car and screams 'You're goin' down, biatch!" He turns back to me and. yells "Tailgatin' time!" And I get right behind the bastard, so close that Gillette's Mach3 is jealous.

That's what rage is about

bringing

the Hulk within our Dr* Banner

-Edan Tasca

UW challenged to "green commu e" for clean air 0

h, ye unsuspectingstudentswho came to UW for a great education-only to discover that you have by default chosen to live in the city that has recorded some of the worst air quality in Canada! You would think a bunch of high-tech companies and acouple of universities don't create much air pollution -but between all the local cars, some nasty emissions floatingup from the Ohio Valley and drawing a bad card on local topography - we have achieved this dubious distinction. With the summer sun heating up and reacting with air pollutantsto create photochemicalsmog, K-W has already experienced two air quality warnings this year. These are days when people are advised to stay indoors and not do any unnecessary (read "fun") physical activity.I don't know about you, but on sunny days I like nothing better than to be outside enjoying the weather, riding my bike, playing volleyball near the Bomber - the opportunities are endless. On the other hand, if I do go outside to enjoy these things, I run the risk of having trouble breathing,

itchy eyes, long-term damage to my lungs and immune system -the list of negative health effects continues. Obviouslynot an ideal state of affairs . . . so here is YOUR chance to do something about it! In the first week of June, Canada will celebrate Clean Air Day and in honour of this, we are going to try to make the air a little cleaner by not driving so much. The University of Waterloo is participatinginthe2ndAnnualCommuter Challenge in Waterloo Region -an event where local companies and institutionscompete against one another in an attempt to have the highest ratio of people travelling to work by low-polluting transport modes. Thisincludes walking, biking, in-lineskating,transit, working from home or even carpooling.Seeingthe number of crowded bike racks on campus (and the many students and staff who already walk), it looks like UW is in a great position to smoke the competition! For many people, this will not involve doing anything different for others it means a bit of travel planning-but the important part is

that you have to tell us that you did it. So from June 5 to 7, record your "green commute'' by logging into www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infowast/ commuterchallenge.html each day to report how you traveled to campus that day. Each person who participates by registering their trip will have their name entered into a draw for fabulous prizes like gift certificates to local bike shops and transit passes. And hey, maybe you'll like it and try green commuting every day!

Panel discussion on firee trade On Tuesday, June 5, ~0InmunitJ members andstudents will be leadi& a panel discussion on free trade issues (such as the environment, labour, and social rights), the Quebec City demonstrations, and ongoing antiFTAA campaigns, such as lobbying MPs and city council. The discussion begins at 5 p.m. in the SLC multi-purposeroom, next to the Great Hall.

-Jen Niece

orldwide pride celebrations the first time. The United States mili- Mattachine members were military culminate on the last week- tary scieened their recruits for "ho- veterans. The organizations took a end in June in observance of the mosexual tendencies" and discharged moderate stance, preferring to raise Stonewall Riot in 1969: a turning anyone they suspected of being gay. consciousnesswithin the community point in queer history. rather than actively seeking change. In the first of two articleson the The US and Canada were at this time gay liberation movement, the events persecuting gays and lesbians in a leading up to Stonewall will be discommunist witch hunt known as the cussed. McCarthy Era. At the turn of the 20th century By the 1960s, groups were eathere was very little evidence of queer ger to take a more radical stance. In culture in North America. Large cit1964, Vancouver became the first iesgenerally had at least one location Canadian city with a "homophile - usually a bar or a bathhouse association." As the decade prowhere gay people could feel relagressed, a major victory for the gay. tively comfortable. Such milieus recommunity was the repeal of sodmained exceptionallysecretiveso as omy laws in half of the American to avoid unwanted police attention. states and across Canada. A convicIndeed, the first-ever documented tion of sodomy usually carried apenraid by police of agay bathhousewas alty of imprisonment between 5 and in New York City in 1903. 25 years. It wasn't until the 1920s that a By 1969, queer people were no sense of community began to de- Queer people who did end up fight- longer willing to tolerate a homovelop inNewYork City's Greenwich ing in the war had much better chances phobic and heterocentric society. In Village. By comparison, the queer at meeting similar others than if they 'particular, the community wasn't community was visible and thriving had stayedin their home towns. When going to stand for continued police in northern Europe, particularly in the war was over, thousands of gay bullying. The Stonewall Riot wasn't Germany, as far back as the 1800s. and lesbian veterans Settled in urban the first time that queers retaliated But by 1933, the last place queer centers where queer culture was al- against police. But it marked the enpeople wanted to be was Germany. ready established. try into a new and vocal era for queer World War I1had an organizing In the 19.50s, early civil rights people. . effect on thegay subcultureinNorth organizations formed, the most faAmerica in several important ways. mous of which were the Mattachine Pride Weekend in Waterloo is onJune In particular, the war forced many Society (for men) and the Daughters 8, 9 and 10. Watch far events on people to consider their sexuality for of Bilitis (for women). Most of the campus and in the community.

A history: from the turn of the last century to the Stonewall Riot in 1969

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What UW class would you permanently cancel and why? Jeff Bueckert & Ryan Matthew Merkley

"Get rid of Stat courses, because they are boring. " Adam Byrne 3A computer science

"Cancel all computer classes; because life's better outside." Renee & Katherine 2B environmental science

"WHMIS. They give you the answers to the test." Daniel Avramov 4B geographylES

"Stat 230 - it's extremely hard." Kristy McGowan 2B mathlteaching option

"Management science. Because it sucks." Lee Brooks 1B computer engineering

"ChE 102. Useless if you're not in Chem." Simon Lee 2B mechanical engineering

"Econ 402. It is evil."

"German 4-anything, it has an enrolment of about two." Chris Marks 2A math

"They're all good. We can sleep in all of them." Yang & Mary 2B computer engineering

"My old Law 333. It can be most easily dispensed with." Dr. David Johnston UW president

Erin Tiley 3B economics

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The Luminous Veil: 1 RYAN T. P O R T E R Imprint staff

top Toronto's Prince Edward viaduct, a billboard reads "Distress Centre -We Listen 24 Hours a Day.'' The message seems out of place on a bright summer day. The viaduct appears innocent in its functionality, sturdy and secure in its 490-metre-stretchacross the Don Valley. But peering over the structure's edge, the stone rail levellingjust above one's hip, a powerful feeling erupts; what UW's famous architecture professor Dereck Revington calls "the pull of the fall." Hundreds have leapt from this historic monument. Onlythe Golden Gatebridge in San Franciscois marked by more frequent suicides. With a constant swarmof traffic through an urban labyrinth a jaw-dropping 40 metres below, survivors of this location have been desperately few. This jump is almost a sure thing. Torontonians have long awaited preventative measures to stop the string of suicides, each drawing more publicity to the site and feeding the bridge's grisly reputation. Through the efforts of the Schizophrenic Society of Ontario, the city councilwas persuaded in 1998 to hold an architecture competition to create a barrier that was not only functional, but that preserved the esthetic appeal and historical heritage of the 1918 structure. Michael McCamus, spokesperson for the SSO bridge committee said, "The bridge is already a work of art. Adding something is like adding to the Mona Lisa." All concerns for both safetyand the preservation of heritage were realized by U W architecture professor Dereck Revington, the unanimous winnel His Luminous Veil barrier, an undisputed work of architecturalartistry, went on to capture the 1999 CanadianhchitectAward of Excellence. Uponits completion, it will be

amongthe largestworks of public art in North America, alongside the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore. The Veil holds the added valour of performing a lifesaving function. And yet, despite accolades for Revington's design, the Veil project has been shelved for over three years while council has debated the practicality of the Veil's price tag. Revingtondefends the cost of theveil as the only practical solution to a site that is so desperately exposed to the elements. He also points towards the dual benefits of the Veil as bothan artisticstructure and a life-saving device. "If this was built in Paris or London, it would be built in stainless steel because they wodd recognize the importanceof this not only asasuicidedeterrent but

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The PrinceEdwardViaduct:Hundreds haveleaptfrom this historic monument. assorted disasters, Revingt should begin construction in the Spring of 2002. Revington's struggleto erect the Veil has resulted in a positive message. "What was really inspiring for me was that you have to have a lot of courage and a lot of faith. If a small group of people are really committed to something really important, if they stick with it, they can overcome enormous resistance. A group of four or five people that have been working on this consistently have pulled the whole city behind them." Ifyou want sonreone to talk with

versity'scotir~~llings&areavailableMonday to Friday from 8:3Oam to 5:OOpm. CounsellingS-ces: 8884567 ext. 2655 Also, health services has recently hiredarnpsychiatrist, SivaAppavoo, rvhowillalso beavailableduringbusinesshours.HealthServices:888-4567 ext. 3544 lfyou would likean ear outsideof this time frame, Kitchener-Waterloo hasseveral24 hour hotlines: GrandRiverHospital CrisisCentre; 742-3611, theKWDistressLine; 745-1 166 and the Telecare Distress Line; 658-6805

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An artist'sconceptionofwhatthecompletedLuminousVeilwill look like. as a major, major civic space. It is not a luxury item." As council debated the cost of the Veil, the viaduct continued to be

the host for suicides ,as 32 victims fell from the edge. Today, the project finally lies on the verge of its realization. An independent company has offered the $3.5 million needed for its completion - in exchange for permission to buildagiant electronicscreen, LumatronX, that would broadcast a rotation of advertisements. The city has offered the company two sites -one along the advertisement-saturatedGardiner Expressway, the other near the airport, along the Alan Expressway. Barring protests from local citizen groups, rival mediacorporationsbit. . . . ter over mlssing the deal or other

What the LuminousVeilmay looklikeat night.

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n an effort to get some of those pale-skinned mathies out of the soul-sucking math building, and to keep the rest of you busy for that extra week between issues, we've devised a contest. The nice people over at Federation Hall have given us five pair of tickets to Summerfest; three pair for Friday and two pair for Saturday. Did we mention that it's sold out?

So here's your chance to win. Identify clearly the locations in the photos below. Be specific. In the case of a tie, accuracy will win you tickets. Entries can be e-rnailed t o features@imprint.uwaterloo.ca, or dropped off at our office; room 1116 The deadline for con test entries is Wednesday, June 6. The an,, swers will appear in FefmMmmcpour next issue.

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What does an Ombudsperson do?

include academicpetitions and appeals, housing concerns, legal questions, ethical behaviour, as well as a myriad of personal problems. The Ombudsperson either has the expertise on a matter or will refer you to someone who does. Again, the service is independent, impartial and confidential.The Ombudsperson does not act as a lawyer or an advocate,but will work with clients and members of the University of Waterloo to ensure that resolution occurs and grievances are heard and addressed. You can contact your Ombudsperson by phone at 885-12 1 1 ext. 2402, by e-mail at ornbuds@uwaterloo.cu or by attendingtheoffice in the StudentLife Center,Room 2 I28 (abovethe Imprintoffice).

At the University of Waterloo, the Ombudspersonis authorizedto confidentially receive complaints,concernsor inquiries about alleged acts, omissions, improprieties andlor broader systemicproblems and to listen, offer options, facilitate resolutions, informally investigate or otherwise examine these issues independently and impartially. The Ombudsperson does not advocate for any party but does advocate for fairness. The Ombuds office serves the entire university community of students, staff and faculty. Some of the issues handled by the office

KOURTNEY S H O R T special to Imprint

Potatoes and Onions on the Barbecue Aluminium foil 4-5 large potatoes 1large onion 5 cloves garlic (optional) 2-3 Tbsp. oil or butter, melted salt and pepper Scrub or peel and slice the potatoes into slices about 1cm thick. Slice the onion thinly. Tear off a piece of foil about 4 feet long. Fold it in half lengthwise so you'll have a double thickness of foil. Place the onions and potatoes on one side of the foil, drizzle with oil or butter and salt and pepper generously. If you're using the garlic, toss it in whole. Fold the foil over the potatoes and roll the three sides closed securely. Place on a pre-heated barbecue and allow to cook for 40 minutes or until the potatoes are very tender. You can also put the foil package on a bakingsheet and bake in a375 degree oven for about 40 minutes. The onions andgarlic taste very sweet because of the cooking method. Tip: Potatoes (and sweet potatoes) are also great cooked whole on the barbecue. Just wash the potato, pierce the skin in several places, wrap it in foil and place it on the barbecue. It should take 45 minutes to an hour to

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cook and should be turned at least once during the cooking process. To check if it's done, squeeze it with tongs. If it feels soft, it's done. Serves three to four.

Potato Salad 6 Tbsp. Miracle Whip or mayo (light or regular) 6 Tbsp. sour cream (light or regular) 1tsp. lemon juice or vinegar 1 tsp. Dijon mustard or other mustard (optional) salt and pepper 5-6 medium potatoes 3-4 green onions, chopped 2 eggs (optional) Scrub or peel and dice the potatoes into 1 cm cubes. Put the potatoes in a pot and add water to cover. Add 95tsp. salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-lowand cook about 15 minutes or until very tender. Drain, return to the pot and allow to cool, uncovered, in order to let any remaining water evaporate. Place the eggs in a pot, cover with cold water and bring to a boil. Leaving the lid on, remove from the heat and allow the eggs to stand for 20 minutes. Peel and chop the eggs. Combine sour cream, mayo, lemon juice and mustard. Toss with the potatoes, green onions and eggs. Add salt and pepper to taste. Refrigerate for at least 1hour before serving. Serves four to six. Tip: If youdon't have sour cream, you can simply omit it and double the amount of mayo.

A veritable horoscopia Aries (Mar. 21-Apr. 19):Throw caution to the wind and spend $150 on the special letterbox edition of Kurosawa's latest epic. Let's face it, you're not going to spend it on social occasions, Dr. Von Nerdly.

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Taurus (Apr. 20 - May 20): Your heart is singing today, but it's horribly off-key and would really be a better trombonist. Gemini (May 21 -June 21): There's a tear in your beer but it's not yours and no one knows where it came from.

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Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22): Living in your fridge would be easier if the pizza didn't stay up late playing loud music.

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Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): Death is upon you. Sure, you think these things are a joke. To be honest, this one only appliesto Alicia Matthews in 2AEconomics. Sucks.

Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 23): You look funny and your shoe's untied. And your Momma never loved you. She said she did but she's ugly and she lied. Scorpio (Oct. 24 - Nov. 21): Don't leave your house today. In fact, don't leave your base-. ment. Hide under a blanket until Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury are in alignment with the CN Tower. Don't ask, just do. Sagitarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21):Ever wondered how come you never felt quite at home sitting on a public toilet? Today, thingsare going to be different. Capricoin (Dec. 22 -Jan. 19):Today is not a good day to suck the floor, especiallysince your pet chameleon escaped again. Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): How many times do you need to be told? Look both ways before you cross the street. Psych. Pisces (Feb. 19 -Mar. 20): How tall were you when you were six?That's how tall you've got to act today. Trust us.

Apple flexes its computational muscle Imprintalumnus Paul Schreiberspent a weekin SanJosi, California atApple's WorldwideDeveloperconference.Here's his firsthand account of the event. PAUL SCHREIBER special to Imprint

The Future is Now Every May, for the past three years, Apple has been talking about their future modern operating system. First, there were technology previews of their future 0s. Then, the future was given a code n a m e : Rhapsody. Apple explained how life would be so much easier for developers in the future. Last year, the future officially became Mac OS X, and developer previews were handed out. Now, just over three years after Apple bought NeXT, the fruits of their labours have finally ripened, Apple shipped Mac OS X on March 24. The future is here. That's exactly what Apple CEO

SteveJobs had to say in his keynote to an overflowcrowd on Monday morning. With the largest hall in SanJose's McEnery Convention Center packed to capacity, late arrivers had to be ushered into another room to watch the black turtleneck and blue-jeansclad Jobs deliver the good news. Jobs spent an hour discussing Apple's new retail stores (which did US$600,000 in businessduringtheir first weekend), their new 17"LCD display (Apple no longer sells traditional CRT monitors), the bundling of Mac OS X on all Macs sold starting that day (Mac OS 9 is also included) and a Macworld magazine survey showingthat users are eager for Mac OS X applications. Mac OS X is a fully buzzwordcompliant modern operatingsystem. It has protectedmemory, preemptive multitasking, symmetric multiprocessing and open source BSD-based core, Darwin.The Darwin core means by the end of the year, Apple will be the world's largest supplier of Unix.

Cocoa Developers were excited about Cocoa, "Apple's new application frame-

works. Cocoais based on the Objective C language and technology inherited from,OPENSTEP.The technology makes building softwaresignificantlyeasier with tools like interface builder, which allows user interfaces to be constructedwithout writing a line of code. Many companieshave built applicationsusing this newtechnology, including FileMaker and Omni. The next version of CE Software's macro utility, QuickKeys, will be built on the Cocoa framework. While there's some resistance to using -the technology among developers who have a lot of old code lying around, the overall mood was upbeat. One student summed up Cocoa's power during a feedback session, "thank you so much for Cocoa -it feels like cheating."

up the best new Mac OS X product award.

Beer bash Thursday night, Apple bused the attendees to the company's Cupertino campus for the annual beer bash. Developers had the opportunity - when they weren't munching sushi, grilled veggies or roast beef sandwiches - to meet with members of Apple's hardware and softwaredevelopmentteams and pick their brains. In between the live band, the bottles of Beck's and the pitchers of Moosehead, questions were answered and the occasional job offer was extended.

cost, thanks to Apple's little known student scholarship program. The programgave free admission to what would have beenaUS$1600 conference. The week started a day early withstudent Sunday, which featured sessions on Cocoa and Webobjects as a rousing speech from C.K. Haun of Apple's Worldwide Developer Relations group. After ssssions ended, students shmoozed with companyrepresentatives from Apple, Adobe, Symantec, FileMaker and others at the mini job fair. Tuesday night they shippedstudent developers down to the Santa Cruz boardwalk for pizza, video games and bumper cars.

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Apple Design Awards Wednesday night was the awards ceremony for the Apple Design Awards, an annual event featuring the best in Mac software. Winners took home high-end Power Mac G4 computers and the right to include the awards' logo on their packaging. This year's winners were REAL Software's REALBasic, a software construction kit, Micromat's Drive 10, a disk repair utility and MYOB AccountEdge, a business software package. The Omni Group's new web browser, 0mniWeb4.0, picked

Student party Three hundred students, myself included, got to attend WWDC at no

WWDC provides you an opportunity to bend Apple's ear, all the way up to Senior VP of hardware Jon Rubenstein and worldwide operations veep Tim Cook. The "Meet the VPs" feedback forum was a rowdy affair,with Apple being told off on mishandling Canada, not providing adequate documentation and not shipping a rackmount server. Other feedback forums covered wireless technology, the Aqua user interface, game technologies, Java and OpenGL.

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ship, a move, a new job or a new partner). The goal is not to eliminate stress from our lives because: a) that's impossible; b) stressfuleventscan add agreat deal to our experience of life. Instead, the focus with stress management is to learn how to cope with what stressesus and how to deal with our perception of our stressors. It is important to find the optimal level of stress that will motivate you as an individual, but not be overwhelming. Just being aware of the stress in your life usually is not enough to feel

anxiety often avoid situationswhere they feelthey may become verynervous. They also may worry excessively, be frightenedthat they may be having a heart attack or are afraid that they are going crazy. People who strugglewith anxiety often breathe quickly, their breathing being high and shallow in their chest. Their brain signals them to breathe faster and faster because they are not getting enough oxygen. In some situations, the person can begin to hyperventilate. One of the best things that you can do if you are feelingvery anxious is to ask yourself, "How am I breathing right now?" please see page 15

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double entendres nor innuendoes, you sick, degenerate and debased perverts). As well, the WNBAis helping out with a "Take our Daughters to Work" event in the NBA store and helped get people active in Orlando and Washington DC. Of course, this is only asmall sample of what the WNBA does and hopefully, the league will continue its excellent work. As for television, more games will be covered by the cameras. NBC will continue to broadcast WNBA games on Saturday afternoon, while ESPN and ESPN2 will cover even more. Hopefully, TSN uiii followsuitand show at least five games,evenifthey must take the feed fromtheirherican counterparts. Alas, 1 fear that the Canadian networkmaybemore interested in the misogynous and violent shenani-

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f you've never heard of Ron Hawkins, chances are you have heard one of his songs. Hawkins' old band, Lowest of the Low, broke onto the scene in the early '90s with the album ShakespeareMyButt, which included classic songs like "Eternal Fata1ist"and "Rosy and Grey."

After he disbanded Lowest of the Low, Hawkins continued to write stellar songs and is slowly building a devoted followingwith his new band the Rusty Nails. This past year has been incredibly busy for Hawkins, with both a Rusty Nails tour and the Lowest of the Low reunion tour happening. Hawkins was nice enough to take time out of his busy schedule and talk to Imprint.

Hawkins has some interesting insightsinto the musicindustryafter spending almost 20 years in it. "I've seen it go in waves," he says. "I've seen peaks and valleys as far as everything from live concertvenues shutting down en masse and then five years later you've got a big boom of new places opening up." However, Hawkins is pessimistic about the current scene. "I think we're in a really bad state right now. I mean, if you just look at the rise of all these boy bands, it just seems really segregated and really lowest common denominator.I don't think that takes away from people finding indie music like ;he ~eakerthansor stuff like that -I think people . . are always going to find that stuff because they want it and because they needit,butitiustwouldbe , nice if it was a little easier than it is." Hawkins' latest album, Crackstatic,radiates with the frustrationof problems like trying to find good music on the radio. However, he does see solutions to these problems. "Cutting out the middle men has always been an exciting idea for me," he explains. "Bands are more independent with their Web sites and are startingto market that way and starting to cut out record companies altogether. I think that kinda terrifies the majors right now." Hawkinsadmitsthat sometimes he's tempted to quit the scene and move on to other creative outlets like painting and a novel he is working on. Regardingthe novel, Hawkins says, "It's been a fascinating experience. I love doing music and I hope to never really stop doing it. But there's kind of a terror that comes from not knowing exactly what you're doing, and the excitement of stretching new muscles. I actually have butterflies from doing it, which ,

Ron Hawkins shares someof thewisdom he has acquiredafter nearly 20 years in the music business. But he insistsit'sstill fun.

doesn't happen these days with music. So it makes ita little more vital in a way, like I feel a bit more alive." Hawkins often uses his own life as inspiration for songs; Shakespeare My Butt was intensely personal. "I was at a point where I thought, 'You know, I'm going to be a straight shooter, I'mgoing to saywhat I mean.' I was having a romance with the city and with the fact that I was lost, but at the same time very optimistic, and I was using the city as ametaphor for myself, And I was also having a very tumultuous love affair with somebody that half of that record is about."

was saying to her, 'Not until you mentioned it.' "But it is a little bit strange because when I'm singing a song from ShakespeareMyButt that I long since have gotten over - it's still sort of important to me to get on stage and feel those emotions and try to put the song across. I start to feel a lot of the same emotions and I know that they are an illusion because I'm not there. Like somehow I am able to conjure those feelings up again; I remember what it was like." Not all of Hawkins' songs are directlyfrom hislife: "Sometimes I'm walking around and an idea for a song or a phra"cOmesup~" The very

"If it ever felt like a job to me, I think I would definitely leave*If it's not a love, then it's a terrible job." Hawkins sayshe has learned that telling the whole truth is not always fair to those involved: "I've learned to not use proper names so often because people say, 'Just becauseyou want to write asongabout me, doesn't mean I want to be in it.' So I started to fictionalize names, but pretty much everythingis from my life." Ripping pages from your diary for asong can make things a little weird if you are still singing those songs 10years later. "I have a very super-amazing partner, andshe is really understanding and really a strong, confident person. Like, I did the Lowest of the Low reunion show, and she's in the crowd, and the person that Iwrote so many songs for ShakespeareMyButt about was there, too. [My partner] said, 'Is it ever weird for you that I'm there and that these people are there, and you're singing these songs that are old, but are very emotive and were very important to you?' And I

unpredict-abilityof inspiration is one of the things that keeps Hawkinsinthemusk industry. "I'm always saying that the one thing that always kept me in it for so long is that it's not a science. It doesn't feel like a job because there is some kind of magicstill about it. If it ever felt like a job to me, I think1 would definitely leave. Song writing is 10 per cent really euphoric and inspired and about creation, and 80 or 90 per cent of the time it's just about rehashing, administration and driving in a van. So if any of that 10per cent of joy and inspiration gets chipped away at, it just becomes like, 'What the fuck am I doing this for?' If it's nota love, then it's a terrible job." Many of Hawkins' songs have a complex web of allusions to movies, books or places around the world. Hawkins admits he has drawn criticismby writing allusionsinto his songs. "Once in a while I've written the name of astreet in Argentina or some book or some actor that most people

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Music and fun in the summer sun LISA J O H N S O N Imprint staff

or most people, summer is a welcome time of year because of warm weather and patios. For music fans, summer is a welcome time of year because of music festivals. SouthwesternOntario is blessed because it has its share of outdoor (and some indoor) festivals to offer. Festivalsare a great way to tastetest many different bands and genres of music, without having to pay full concertprices. For $20 to $60, people can see a kaleidoscope of anywhere from one to twenty bands. Festivals also offer different themes - from hard-rock to folk to jazz music. Here is a quick guide to some

of the major festivals taking place this summer. This is by no means a comprehensiveguide,so check your local listings or surf the net to find out about some of the other offerings.

ing festivalsto hit-you never know what you'll find around the corner. All-access wristbands are $ 1 8. Visitwww.nxne.comfor more details.

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This is a music.festiva1 and industry conference held annually at over 30 venues in Toronto. Four hundred bands are showcased,with an industry conference, panels, a trade show, workshops and more. This year the organizers have added a film festival to the event. The Soundvision 01 festivalwill focus on the use of music and sound design in moving media. This is one of the best and most excit-

Edgefest has been a yearly event since 1987. It was originally mostly Canadian acts, but has become more and more Americanized through the years. However, enough people must have shown their disdain, because this year, again, the majorityof the artists are Canadian. Featuring over 20 bands on three stages, this year's line-upincludesTool, theTea Party, Big Wreck, Finger Eleven, Bif

Naked, 3 Doors Down, Gob and others. You'll find plenty of youthoriented marketing at Edgefest. Tickets are $32 early bird and $45 regular (through TicketMaster). Visitw.edgelO2.comledgefest.htm.

AREA: ONE July 22, The Docks in Toronto This festival was the brainchild of Moby, and the Tofonto show features the artist himself, along with OutKast, Incubus, The Innovators, Rinocerose, Carl Cox and a local DJ. Moby felt that a lot ofgreat music was not getting enough exposure and decided to bring it to the world in the form of a festival. Maybe the festival

would be more accessible if tickets weren't $55.50 to $65.50 each (throughTicketMaster). Visit www.tbedocks.comlnav/ index.htm for moredetails.

Ozzfest July 24, The Docks in Toronto This is probably the loudest and hardest of the summer festivals. Ozzfest features 'Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Papa Roach, Crazytown, and Disturbed. Yeeowza -tickets are available through~ i c k e t ~ a s t e r$79.00 at each! Visitwww.ozzfest.comfor the skinny. please see page 17

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lious teen girl who refuses to meet the American ambassador because she says he is a "cultural imperialist." at the Princess Cinema The actors do a fine job with their little cut-out-character roles, RACHEL E. BEATTIE Imprint staff but they aren't able to rise above the stereotypes to create real people. Despite the contrived writing, n 1969, the Americanssent a space mission to the moon. Most of us in TheDish is enjoyable to watch. There North America have seen the footare some funny lines and cute sceage of Neil Armstrong narios, such as when taking his historicfirst the dish has lost consteps on the moon. tact with Apollo 11 However, what a lot and the scientists have of us haven't thought to scrambleto hide this about is who actually from the American brought us those imambassador. Similarly ages. The charming funny is ascenewhere new film, The Dish, Cliff is being interstrives to rectify that viewed by a reporter situation. and Mitch makes Two different smart-ass comments satellite dishes were to Glenn in the backneeded to maintain ground. contact with the space One thing shuttleApollo 11.The that I couldn't help first satellite was in thinking while watchCalifornia, but the ingthis movie was that Southern Hemitoday, over 30 years sphere satellite was in after the first walk on the middle of a sheep the moon, the footfield just outside the age of that moon walk small town of Parkes, still has an incredible Australia. power. The Dish follows Somehow the story of the group those grainy black and of quirky Australian white images of astroscientistsas theyscramnauts partially ble to get the dish up clouded in shadow to par for broadcastand Neil Armstrong's - u ing the historic event. (L-R)TomLong, PatrickWarburton, Sam Nielland Kevin famous "One small Apparently The Harrington star in the Rob Sitch film, TheDish. step for man . . ." Dish is one of the topspeech are just as grossing films in Australian history. It NASArepresentativehelpingout and moving to me now as I'm sure they is easy to see why: The Dish is one of whines about not getting enough were to those watching them in the those charming, inoffensive "feel respect from him. '60s. However, these images can be good" movies that allow us to feel all In charge of the dish is the distin- seen in numerous documentaries, warm and squishy about the past. guishedscientistcliff (SarnNeil),who and you don't really need to see The There is nothing too objectionable acts as mentor, referee and father Dish tosee them. here, but there is also nothing all that figure to the other scientists. The TheDishis perfect light summer groundbreaking, either. townspeople are no more original fare. It won't make you think excesThe scriptwriters - Santo -there is the ambitious mayor, his sively, and it won't haunt your Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane social-climbingwife and their chil- thoughts. It is great entertainment Kennedy and Rob Sitch -have de- dren: a know-it-all boy and a rebel- for a summer's night.

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Beaches Internatianal Jazz Festival July 26-29, Queen Street East in Toronto This festivalbrings jazz to the streets. Although the complete line-up is not yet known, the following have been confirmed: Big Joe and the Dynaflows, Michael Kaeshammer, Dave Restivo Quintet, Susan Arioli Swing Band, Tab Benoit, Kollage, The Barlow Group, Cimarron, Joey DeFrancesco and Bill King's Saturday Nite Fish Fry. These are the main-stage performers, and hundreds of other bands will take to the streets for this four-day festival. The wonderful thing about this festival is that it takes place outdoors in the beautiful beaches. Stroll down the street and enjoy the music wafting from various locations. The very best part about it is that it's free! Visit ww.beachesjazz.com for more information.

Hillside Festival July 27-29, Guelph Lake Hillside has a reputation for harkening back to the days of the family folk festival. The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly, with plenty of music, food, activities,showcases, workshops and shopping. Camping is also available on Guelph Lake for

the weekend, but must be booked early.The musical line-ups at Hillside are usually stellar. Many of the performers tend to be folk-rock artists, but some harder rock and world music is often also showcased. This year's line-up won't be announced until about the second week of June, but a few of the artists reportedly performing include Ron Hawkins, Ferron and Stacey Earle. Ticketsare $60 ($50 until June 30) and $70 at the gate. Single-day tickets are also available. Visit ww.hillside.on.cafor moredetails.

Vans Warped Tour August 11, Skydome The Warped Tour is known for artists that are . . .well, a little warped. Some of this year's many, many performers include the Rollins Band, Rancid, Blink 182,3 11,Pennywise, The Vandals, Less Than Jake, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Alien Ant Farm, Distillers, the DropKick Murphys, AFI, the Living End, H20, Guttermouth and Sum41.The skaterock musicis conduciveto what makes this festival different from others: it features professional athletes in the areas of skateboarding, BMXing, roller and inline skating, and motoXing. Catch some very talented people doing wicked tricks to cool music. A limited number o f early bjrd tickets are available for $29.50, and regularpriced ticketsare $34.50 each. Visitwww.warpedtour.comfmdetails.

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CAITLIN CROCKARD in the same house. They made music special to Imprint by recording rehearsals and cutting and pasting the results. A drunken hat a bunch of weirdos! That conversation one night about hick tends to be the first thought armchair philosophersled to the band on people's minds after hearing the name, which they adopted supposwondrously strange music of San edly for their first show only. Francisco's Thinking Fellers Union TFUL282 put out albums fairly Local 282 (THUL282).Actually,most regularlyuntil 1996, when they quit people have their suspicions after touring due to financialreasons. Free merely hearing the band's name, or from the pressure to churnout records perhaps song titles such as "Mr. Tu- to support at live shows, they took na's Big Old Place." TFUL282 seem nearly five years to produce their to take on this persona gleefully, new album, Bob Dinners and Larry even naming one album Strangers NoodlesPresent Tubby Turdner's Cefiom the Universe. lebrity Avalanche. The band insists Indeed, nothing about this that a ridiculous title is a necessary band's approach to music suggests an point in a band's careet. They point attempt to hit the big time, and per- to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club haps that's just as well. Eight albums Band as evidence. and three EPs into their career, the On any,onealbum, you're likely band -consisting of Mark Davies, to be met with a blast of screeching Jay Paget, Anne Eickelberg, Brian guitar, some post-rock noodling, a Hageman and Hugh Swarts - re- variety of vocal styles and general main as true to their vision as ever. riffs that make people scratch their And what exactly is this vision? Er, heads and say, "Whatever made well, that's alittle difficult to describe them think of putting that right in words. there?" "Lamb's Lullaby," for examFirst, a history: the band was ple, features the eerily high vocals of born in 1986 after all five members, Eickelberg countered with a guitar originally from Iowa, moved in to- that soundslikeit's having occasional gether, formed a band and practised spastic fits in the background. "Liz-

ard's Dream" could be summed up loosely as a twisted form of bluegrass. And "My Pal the Tortoise" is reminiscent of a children's song gone horribly wrong. But throughout the inspired madness, the rhythm section skips merrily along, as if it thinks it's in a pop band, but somehowstill blends in perfectly. It's this inherent catchiness that makes TFUL282 irresistible. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 is not just out to amuse the masses. The band's collectivetongue often seems firmly planted in cheek, but for every lyric like, "Fear brains! / The terror! The terror!" there's sarcastic and bang-on send-ups of popular culture such as: "This beer will make you live/Thissoapis gonna sparkle up your marriage." And the music, while odd by many standards, is adventurous and full of new ideas. TFUL282 seems to simply want to make memorable and interesting songs. Is that really so strange?

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'Okay, well there you go -now you won't have to make videos.' "The frustrating thing about VideoFACT for me is that every time they announce who got one, you'll hear names like Blue Rodeo and you're thinking, 'If they can't make their own videos, then I don't know who can.' "I really think it should be more for bands that are either indie or legitimately struggling, or a band like us who, if they get turned down say, 'Okay, well then we can't make a video because it costs 15 grand."' Slightly frustrated by the video situation,Hawkins says, "It is astruggle, it's definitely a worthwhile struggle, but it's like anything else independent -making records on your own or making videos on your own -it all just means you have to scream that much louder to get heard." Hawkins has lots planned for the future. The Lowest of the Low will release a live album of the reunion show that happened last December inToronto. The Rusty Nails will release an EP, which will include si+ new songs and a few remixes. It will possiblybe an enhanced CD with the "Bite Down Hard" video and some behind-the-scenes tidbits. As for touring, Ron Hawkins and the Rusty Nails will play amainstage show at Hillside Festival this July, with Hawkinsdoingsome acoustic workshop sets. They will also be at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern on June 1.The show will be Web cast at www.digitalnetworks.com.

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he Open Stage is back at the Bombshelter for the month 'of June and will continue in July if attendance is good. Jon Orazietti is organizing the event to try and offer variety to the student body. There will be a running competition in June for all of the performers. The best performer, as judged by a panel, will be offered the "Friday Nooners" live musicslot at the Bomber in July.

The hosting performers include Tim Lee (June 7), Explosian Girl (June 14) and Relative Zero (June 21). The June 28 host is vet to be announced. The evenings will get started at 9:30 p.m. Any kind of performer is welcome, but get there early to get on the play list. Musicians should bring guitarsand amps. Basses can be accommodated, and there will be a drum kit available after June 14. If you require any more information, feel free t o contact saultboy@hotmail.com.

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The Queer as FolklUS soundtrack is highly uneven, but then again, so is the TVshow. Queer as Folk - in case you haven't caught it yet -tells the stories of a group of young, gay men as they search for true love, or at least some good sex. The original series made waves in Britain for its explicitness and use of taboo subjects (likeunderagedsex). Kardinal Offishall Firestarter Vol. 1 Quest While the American version is perhaps even more explicit, it doesn't for Fire have any of the passion, dramatic Figure N Records intensity or even joie de vivre of the GREG MACDOUGALL original. The opening theme music for lmprint staff the two different series is a brilliant Canadian hip-hop is still on the move. metaphor for their inequality. Murray Gold's catchy theme for the Kardinal Offishall (and please don't say "cardinal official") has finally got British series was full of lifeand fun. By contrast, "Spunk," by Green Buck, an album out. It's not all new. Do you remem- (theAmerican theme music) reminds ber the track "Husslin" from lastyear? me of an ad for toothpaste. When it comes down to it, the That's on here. There's the re-mix for "Money Jane" and "On Wit ~ a 'Queeras FolklUS soundtrack stands Sho" from way back. So you know apart from the show -it is an okay already that there's some good lis- collection of fun, dancey songs. "Do Ya" by Love Inc. is a fun, boppy song, tening on here. The new joints aren't a let down and "Cryin' at the Discotheque" by either. Listeningto "Man By Choice," Alcazar makes me want to put on my where Kardi breaks it down on the dancing shoes. Carole Pope's "High use of the term "nigga,"took me back School Confidential" rocks in a to Tribe Called Quest's "SuckaNiggaY' dancey sort of way, and 'You Think ("I throw the sucka in the front for You're a Man" (which also appeared the ones that front"). If something on the Queeras FolklUK soundtrack) reminds me of classicTCQ, well, you is quickly becoming one of my facan take that as a recommendation vourite songs. However, there are some boron my part. This album was truly a pleasure ing spots like the aforementioned to listen to. Intelligent lyrics, music theme music and a rather weak cover of "Let's Hear it For the Boys" by that moves, and to top it off, he's representing the T-dot and Canada Katty B. As well, there are great songs as a whole. What more could you that appeared on the show that did want? not make it to thesoundtrack, such as the New Pornographer's "Mass Romantic," which was on the show a couple of weeks ago. But, oh well, maybe they will copy the UKversion and release asecond soundtrack disc. The Queer as FolklUS soundtrack, like the show, isnot perfect, but it is a pretty good listen. And, if youare a fanof the show, there are lots of nice pictures of Brian, Michael, Justin and the rest of the Queer as Folk/US gang in the booklet. Soundtrack

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It was inevitable -just like the success of Britishgay serial Queer as Folk spawned a rather lacklustre American series, the success of that series has prompted the makers of the show to copy the British version again and release a soundtrack. However, unlike the Britiih Queeras Folk soundtrack, which was two double CDs, the Queeras Folk/ US soundtrackis a 15-track CD. Perhaps that is agood thing, because alot of the songs on the original soundtrack were pretty much filler. One CD allows the soundtrack people to sift through all of the songs that appeared on the show and pufl out the good ones. Well, at least that's what they should have done.

The Dirtmitts Self-titled

Sonic Unyon Records GREG MOREY special to Imprint

Right from the first track oftheir selftitled debut, the Dirtmitts pound out funky, gutsy guitar-based rockon all four cylinders. Well, three-and-a-half

cylinders. BassistJen Deon provides beautiful harmonies to Natasha Thirsk's lead vocals, but can't seem to do anything interesting or unique with her instrument. The other members of the band, however, manage to create enough interesting musicalitythat you barely notice Deon's lack of the same. In particular, Dallas Kruszelnicki's percussion never fails to get the head nodding or the toe tapping, while providing most of the musical dynamism in the band. Thirsk, besides providing lead vocals and guitar, is the songwriter of the. group, and her lyrics are catchy and off-beat, not only in the quirky sense, but also in her predilection for emphasizing odd syllables. She also has astrong ability to craft a disturbing but upbeat tune, which makes a powerful initial impression. But the novelty starts to wear a little thin after ten tracks. Possibly the best thing about the Dirtmitts is their musical courage. They aren't afraid, for example, to include three instrumental tracks on their debut CD. The instrumentals, which close out the album, are philosophical, emotional and the most musically exciting compositions on the disc. Even if youdon't snap up the album, check out the Dirtmitts at Toronto'sNorth by Northeast music festival in June.

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This is Wes Borland's (Limp Bizkit) band; I know this because the CD had a large yellow sticker with the name in bold letters. The only way this album can garner attention is by trying to affiliateitself with a well-known band such as Limp Bizkit. There is absolutely no consistency in Duke Lion Fights the Terror. One track is extremely heavy, while the following track seemsas if it were sung by the munchkins from the Wizard of Oz (track 5).The lyrics are almost as weak as the vocals - and that's pretty bad. As far as I can tell, the album has no purpose. It has no real memorable tracks, aside from the freaky munchkin song. It's just plain bad. BIG dumb FACE is a big dumb band that has made an atrocity of an album. The CD has one possible use - signalling a plane if one is ever injured in the wilderness. But even then it would be a questionable choice.

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