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Musical chairs anyone? In some classes students outnumber seats Jeremy Taylor IMPRINT STAFF

Anna Fagyas has a problem. In four of the five classes she's takmg this term, there are more students than chars. "It definitelymakes it uncomfortable to learn," she explains. "It's pretty bad when there are people sitting on the heaters, the windowsills, or the floor." In one of her classes, an upper-year course that's required for all planning majors, she describes some 70 plat-g students crammed into a class that "might be comfortable for 35." "There's no way you're doing a presentation with an overhead, for example, in some of those rooms," she continues. "I've noticed it more this year, for some reason." 'You shouldbe able to at least get a seat," she says. "It's like having to show up early to the momes, except at least at the movies youknow you'll get a seat. They would never oversell the tickets. Instead of $12, though, here you're paylng senous cash." "It's not easy talung notes on the floor." Fagyas is not the only student who has nonced problemswith overcrowded classrooms. Meredith Kenzie, a thud-year drama major, has found s d a r situations in some of her lecture courses. 'With all those people crammed into those small Hagey Hall brickwallrooms,itgets really hot," Kenzie explains, "and uncomfortable."

"I always thought of those rooms as tutorial rooms, not lecture halls," agrees Fagyas, who has an overcrowded sociology class in Hagey Hall. "There are usually bigger lecture halls that you would think we could switch into. One of my profs dtd switch rooms, surprisingly." Charlene Schumm, assistant registrar, scheduling, points out that it's not always that simple. "Professors often switch classrooms, but it only works if there are rooms available. It's always tight, especially in the Fall terms.'' One ofthe &st steps in the scheduling process, Schumm explains, is to pre-determine classrooms for the large classes, "like the Psych 101s and the Management Science 261s. From there, room assignmentis done by a software program that we have, based on class sues." So the bigger lecture halls are allocated almost nght away. There is then a penod in which faculties can change theproposed class schedules, and then student enrolment starts. If a course gets an unusually hgh enrolment, extra sections can then be added "If you've got the prof to teach it, addmga secuonis no problem at all." Addmg a secaon to a professor's often heavy schedule 1s not always easy. Just like their students, they face serioustime constraints andmust balance their research activities against time spent in the classroom. See SPACE, page 7

Textbook worries dispelled Jesse Helmer IMPRINT STAFF

Contrary to rumours that have been circulating on campus this term, the UW Bookstore is not ordering fewer books. While students taking political science and English have reported someproblems obtainingbooksfrom the bookstore, only one book is a major problem.

"The bookstore orders nine books for every ten students enrolled in a given course." The bookstore determines the number ofbooks to order by looking at various factors, such as class enrolment, hlstoncal sales levels and the inventory of the Feds' Used Bookstore. In general, the bookstore orders nine books for every ten students enrolledin agiven course. T h s number is adjusted upwards if the The bookstore remains well stocked. book 1s new to UW, and may be adj~~teddownwardsaccordmgtohs-uon, has been pamcularly difficult toncalsaleslevelsand theused book- for the bookstore to obtiun Two store's mventory. weeks into classes, a number of stuThe book for Foreign Pohcy dents are stdl without the textbook (PSCI 282), Poliacs and Culture in See BOOKS, page 7 Internaaonal Htstory Seccond E d -

Questions surround first-year transition survev Melissa Graham IMPRINT STAFF

A first-year survey intended to improve student life programming may return invalid results. If students &d not perceive the survey to be anonymous, they may have chosen to either ignore the questions or not answer them honestly. According to Heather Fitzgerald, first year student life project coordinator, the purpose of the survey is to improve the programmmg for &st-year students by analyzing their transinon and their expenences. 'What they'dlike to see, what they wouldn't like to see, just so we can make improvements for the future." Catharine Scott, associate provost human resources and student issues, refused repeated oppoaunities to respond to Imprint's questions. Although it is highly unlikely that student identitieswere compromised, there may have been damage to the integnty of the results if students dld in fact have that impression. Victoria Marsh, a don in McKenzie King Village residence, told Imprint that she does not know of anyone who had any concerns about the survey.

Imprint contacted two experts in the field of polling and surveys from Ipso-Reid.DarreUBricker,president and Chief Operational Officer of Ipso-Reid Public Affairs ORPA), commented that with the information contained in the survey it is unlikely that anyone could be traced.

"It's not a particularly clever way to determine illegal drug use." Darrell Bricker

The probability of isolating the individual person depends in part on the number of people surveyed. "Perception is the key factor, not how probable it is that a person could be traced. Because of social desirability bias, which is the desire or expectation to report socially acceptable or preferred behaviour, illegal drug use may have been under reported. It's not a particularlyclever way to deter-

mine illegal drug use." Steve Mossop, senior vice-president and managmg director of the Vancouver branchofIRPA, said that the questions are standard demographic variables that are often used in surveys, and that the intention would not have been to make it possible to reveal an identity; however, he also admitted some discomfort with the questions regarding date of birth. "If it were a client we would 'recommend against that; if it were a customer group and a customer's group of representatives came to us and said the same thmg, we would have suggested that they don't have any variables h a t in combination would be able to determine who it was." According to Mossop a standard survey would only inquire about the year of birth and would not ask for the actual birthdate ofthe participant. Accordtng to Fitzgerald, detailed results of the su&ey will not be released to the general public; however, someinformationwillbeposted on the &st-year student life e-zine which can be viewed at www.firstyearstudents.uwaterloo.ca.

What is your gender? What is your birth date? Where are you from? In which faculty are you currently enrolled? Where are you l~vingthis year? residences were listed along with the option of off campus living at home and off campus living on own. Did you have any alcoholic drinks during orientation week? On average how many did you consume a day during orientation? On how many days did you consume alcohol during orientation week? Did you consume any of the following during Orientation Week? Please check all that apply. Tobacco, PotIMari juana, Cocaine, Ampheta mines, Sedatives, Hallucino gens (LSD, PCP, mushrooms), Designer Drugs (ecstacy, MDMA)

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With theFederationof Studentselection only a month away, today is the final day for prospective candidates to declare their intentions.From early observations,this year's slate of election caddates looks to inject renewed vigour into a contest that has met with very h t e d student interest over the past several years. In last year's election, a paltry seven per cent of students voted. AsImprintwent topressonThursday, 12 candidates were known to have thrown their hats into the ring and threecomp1ete"tickets" hadbeen formed, representing a broad swath of UW's student leaders. Ryan O'Connor, a candidate for VP education, feels that this election will spark renewed student interest. 'With the number of rumoured can&dates being higher than previous years, one can only discern that thls will translate into higher voter tumout, since a greater number of students have the potential to know candidates.A greater number ofcan&dates also fosters a more competitive atmosphere,whichrnayincrease turnout," he stated. O'Connor feels that it is entirely possible to double last year's voter turnout. O'Connor declined to comment

on his election platform because the official campagn penod has pet to begin. He is running on the same ticket as presidential candidate Brenda Slomka, VP student issues candidate hlike Kerrigan, and VP adrmnistration and h a n c e candtdate Rob Robson. Albert Nazareth, a candtdate for Feds president, confirmed that he is running on a ticket that includes Melissa Alvares, candidate for VP student issues; Chris Dildo, candidate for VP administration and finance; and Liam McHugh-Russel, candidate for VP education. Nazareth also believes that t u r n o u t d be higher. "The student body is becoming more aware of the issues surrounding post-secondary education, and are more willing to take time to get involved," he said. When asked to describe his election platform, Nazareth expressed a strong desire to maintain the universality of education. He wants it to be "acdessible to all students by keeping students informed andinvolvedwith what is done with their tuition." He would also hke to see "scholarships, the co-op building and the student life space expansion as priorities for the upcoming UW fundraisingcampaign." Other priorities for the Nazareth

ticket include: advocating the rights of student tenants, raising awareness of UW student resources and the constantly reappearing issue of giving Ground Zero a make-over. Juhan Ichim, aprominent student activist who many students likely remember for dousing Stockwell Day with chocolate milk during the last federal election and the legal battle which followed, is a declared can&date for the position of VP student issues. Ichim confirmed that he is runingaspart ofa ticket,but didnot want to comment further on his partners or his platform before the commencement of the official campaign period on February 1. Strict rules govern the conduct of the campaign, and candidates risk fines and possible disqualification if they contravene the rules. With three full tickets currently running, all positions will be contested and no one will have the luxuty of talungofficeunopposed, as current VP education Ryan Stammers did last February. UW students will be offered genuine choice this time around. The candidates all believe they can buck the long-running trend of student non-participation. A worthy goal to be sure, but recent history is not on their side.

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university city, property managers fad to maintain their student houses at acceptable levels, and as lodging conditions go down, rent curiously goes up. It's not the lack of housing available to students that is fuelling students' sob stories, it's the lack of.affordable, livable housing in Waterloo. Last summer, university and city taskmasters recommended in a report that student unions, hke Feds, should rank off-campus housing and post the results on the Web. And why not? Students are customers, and property managers and should be held accountable for their housing. This project should not only focus on Waterloo lodgmgs, but also out-of-town houses for co-op students. Surely neglectful housing is not a problem specific to Waterloo, as I'm sure many co-op students can attest to. There's no doubt that we need more housing by 2003, but we must also clamp down on property managers who are abusing a cash rich student housing market. Property managers must be held accountable. This can be done by sharing information about the quality of rental housiing in Waterloo and popular co-op cities. It's true that some students are content with just having a bed and a toilet. They might as well put bars on the window and call it a luxurious cell. What this all boils down to is one simple question: are you getting what you're paying for? '-

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'RIDAY, JANUARY 18,2002

Chris Edey and Kourtney Short IMPRINT STAFF Task force addresses impediments t o female faculty recruitment Until February 8, the task force on female faculty d be soliciting opinions and suggestions from faculty concerning the problem of hinng female faculty. The provost formed the task force, composed of faculty members Gail Cuthbert Brandt, Alan George, Wendy Mitchinson and Mary Thomson, in December to address under-representation of women in faculty huing. The task force will report to Provost Amit Chakma. with files from The Dailv Bulletin

Deregulation protest at Queen's Queen's University students Robin Hartiey, Megan Senese, Stephanie Mayor, Sarah Mdler andPaul Quick are occupying PrincipalWilliam Legg6tt's office.Leggett has dismissedthe protesters call to withdraw Queen's proposal to deregulate undergraduate ruition fees. Students say the proposed deregulation has the potential to make the tuition increase of the past decade pale by comparison. The current crisishas been brewing since a December 11 decision by the Ontario government to consider the proposal from Queen's. The students cite recent polls that indicate that 80 per cent of Ontarians want a freeze or reduction of tuition fees. The Canadian Federation of Students has declared February 6 to be a national day of action in support of tuition freezes and reductions. with files from the Canadian Federation of Students

Civics Research Group t o address Bills C-36 and C-40 The civics research group, a recently formed initiative drawing upon work done at the Heritage Resources Centre and the University of Waterloo, is holding a civic dialogue on monitoring the use of the new federal laws C- 36 and C-40 on securiqinterest. The group says that "this legislation raises questions about the bal-

ance between security and freedom,which has been the object of a growing amount of civic discussion in the last several months. The issues and legislationare complex and involved." The group also hopes to hold ddogues upon smart growth, pollution hazards and municipal restructuring.Gordon Nelson, former dean of the faculty of environmental studies is one of the principal founders of this initiative. Working fromits newofficeindowntownKitchener, the group will play an important role in debating the major issues that the Region of Waterloo d face in the upcoming years. with files from the Civics Research Group

Court upholds university's right t o sanction students On January 11, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Divisional Court) upheld the University ofToronto's right to take action to protect the integrity of academic results. Last spring, U ofT's faculty oflaw sanctioned 17 students for misrepresenting their grades to prospective employers. One of the students who admitted to such an offense, Roxanne Shank, instigated the judcial review after she was suspended for one year. with files from news@UoF

Environmental sustainability on campus On January 22, in the Great Hall of the Student Life Centre, the University of Waterloo SustainabilityProject will have its grand opening ceremony. The group began when the University of Waterloo signed the Intemational Youth Summit on SustainableDevelopment Charter in Hong Konglast summer. uw was represented by Environment Commission representatives SandyKiang, Suzanne van Der Leeuw and Justin Kinney. They returned with a dedication to improvinguw's "environmental literacy," which has now taken form in the founding of the sustainabilityproject. UW president David Johnston, Feds presiPattiCook dent YaacovIland and WATereen's " are all scheduled to speak at the ceremony, which begins at noon. With a recently established office across the hall from CIBC in the SLC basement, this young organization is always l o o h g for new volunteers. Some of the project's initiatives include creating an environmental report card for the university, community environmental awareness initiatives and the transformation of several units at Columbia Lake Townhouses to an ecopod. with files from UWSP

Student housing in downtown Kitchener? Lisa Johnson IMPRINTSTAFF

How would University of Waterloo students feel about takmg up accommodationsrn downtown fitchener or Waterloo? That's the question that part-tune Master's student m the School of Plannmg, Pam Charbonneau, hopes to answer m an onlme surveyofrandomly-chosenstudents.Shewants to get a feel for students' housmg experiences and what qualitieswould draw students to h e such a distance away from school: lower cost? more spacious housing? Free bus passes? Within thenext couple ofweeks, acomputer will randomly choose 2,000 to 3,000 students at both the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. These students will receive an e-mail inviting them to visit a Web site and take pan in the survey. The survey d contam questions about students' current and past housing experiences, such as how they found their current housing and what they pay m rent; the latter half of the survey will ask what students would prjr in terms of housing and what factors would attract them to housing in downtown Kitchener or Waterloo. That's the first phase of Charbomeau's study.The second phase willlikely take placein March and will include more in-depth input from those students who, in phase one, agreed to participate in phase two. This study seems timely, considering the housing overdraftin the areas surroundingUW and WLU. The two universities are notorious for accepting and promising housing to more students than they can rightly accommodate.

In fact, in the past there has been the threat of students en masse having to hnd housing in Kitchener, but to date it has not yet become a reahty. Charbonneau is also interested in downtown revitahzation. Kitchener and Waterloo both have downtown cores that are less than thriving. That is to say that they are slowly deteriorating on par with H a d t o n . The concept of student dorms and private housing developments for students could help provide the downtown areas with just the economic and social boost they need. It's not a new concept - many cities in North America have taken this idea and given it life, thereby also restoring life to their fledgling downtown cores. It remains to be seen, though, whether current downtown residents and businesses would welcome throngs of students with open atms. Students not randomly chosen to participate in the survey are welcome to visit the Web site and read supporting information and the results of the survey, as well as view links to various housingsites. The site addressis not yet conhrmed, but expect to see posters advertising it on campus in the next couple of weeks. Alternately, students can e-mail Pam Charbonneauwith questions about the survey: pkcharbo@uwaterloo.ca.

Columnist Jon Willing looks for quality housing in Waterloo: News, page 4

Po/ling Clerks Wanted The Federation of Students needs polling clerks to operate polling stations for the upcoming student elections. The polling sfations will be open during the week of Febvuary I 1 - 1 5 during business hours at various locarions around campus.

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Mike Kerrigan SPECIAL TO IMPFWT

It's a very common misconceptionthat you have to be loud and crazy to be an orientation leader. As Knstina Jazvac, an arts leader, exT h ~ past s fall, about 800 students dedicated a plains, "You don't have to be really. outgoing. - - , week of their lives to help first-year students There are so many different types of people feel welcome, comfortable and excited to be at c o m g here that you need p e t e r leaders who the University of Waterloo. In doing so, they connect better with shyer types." The most got the o p p o ~ t to y work with tons of fun, important quahues to have are strong team- j souable people ulth a shared passion for t h ~ s work skdls and a genume desire to be a leader. 1 school. "Everyone says it. It's even more fun to Once you've decided that you'd like to join be a leader during the week than a frosh and it the proud ranks of orientationleaders, you can was totally true," offers Chris Newar, a Village inquire about how to become one at the resileader. dence office or faculty society of the respective If you care about people and this school, committee in which you're interested. Also, if becoming an orientation leader is a fantastic you're interested in being a Village leader, the way to get involved in our community. Cur- best way to apply is online at www.uwvoc.com. rently all of the faculty and residence orientaOff-campus don John Trinh sums up the tion committees as well as the off-campus dons experience best when he reminisces, "There's are l o o h g for next year's leaders. Fqt those nothing like the feeling when at the end of the interested in a greater cpmmitment &an just week a frosh comes up you and tells youthat he the orientation week, as an off-campus don or she had one of the best times ever because you'll also offer support s e ~ c e sand plan you were their leader." events throughout the year for first-year stuThe leadership experience is also very atdents living off-campus. tractive to potential employers.

The selected applicants will be required ro attend a paid training session. Polling clerksLwill be paid S T/hou r .

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information or ro arrange t o pick u p an application. Positions are offered on a firsr come, first serve basis.

Fed Elections Feb 8 - 15 All candidates meetings There wiN be all-candidates meetings for the 2002 elections to be held at Ground Zero in the SLC at 4:30PN: FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 EXEC CANDIDATES MONDAY, JANUARY 2 7 STUDENTS' COUNClL/SENATE CANDIDATES

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Residence life recruitment Adina Gillian IMPRINT STAFF

Don applications for Fall 2002 and Winter 2003 are due February 1. There are 76 don positions available, but about 40 per cent of dons (30 dons) are expected to re-apply for a second term, so competition wdl be fierce. Will Pascoe, residence life coordmator for UW Place and Minota Hagey residences, said that the don hiring committee looks for, "People with some leadership skills and an ability to relate to people as a whole." Pascoe also noted that successful applicants generally possess core characteristics such as, "a general balance between academics, life experience and solid people skills. "Obviously a positive attitude and a wdhgness to work with a wide range of people are assets, " she said. Previous experience living in residence is useful, but not required. "Often, slrmlar experiences (travelmg, exchange programs abroad, or community service) can offer some of the same experiences and perspective on people and how they interact in a community as living in residence can," Pascoe explained. "If you want an increlble experience, the opportunity to work with every kind of person imaginable and to dscover more about yourself and people in general, then being a don is the perfect way to do that." W e donningresponsibhties require alarge time commitment, Pascoe stressed that "every

don is a student tirst.. . academics are a priority." Prospective dons must judge if they will have enough time to combine both academic requirements and donning responsibilties. T h e r e d be two don informationnights on January 28 and 29. The sessions will run from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and will be held in the Village 1 Great Hall. Pascoe noted that current dons willbe at the information sessions. "Anyone interested in applyingnow or in the future should check out these information sessions. We'll have current dons there so interested applicants can ask questions to those who actually do the job. "Often questions revolve around such things as the time commitment the job entails, how the job affects a don's academics, and what their personal experience has been like as a don." Applications are available at the UW Housing Office, located in the upper-levelof Village 1, and online at www.housing.uwaterloo.ca. Students are responsible for submitting the application form, a current resumt and two completed reference forms. s be held on Saturday, Group i n t e ~ e wwill February 9, three sessions WLU run throughout the day. Interview times will be posted on the Web site after the application deadhe. Individuals who have made the short list wdl be conducted in late February for interviews. Successful applicants will be notified in March.

PART TWO: QUALITY ASSURANCE It's about chaos, selling soap and a new metric. While seemingly bizarre, this encapsulates the debate around quality in post-secondary education. Qu&ty has proved to be an elusive concept withm the sphere of education, used but illdefined by almost all stakeholders. Amit Chakma, UWs vice-president academic and provost, is rooting his growth agenda for the universityin spheresof "quality", while student groups appeal to Senate to keep growth in check due to its impact on the very same concept. It seems that there is little to definitively explain or measure quality within the university, however, it is certainly something that has and will be greatly affected by changes in the university system. Sujeet Chaudhuri, dean of enpeering, is well-versed in the debates over quality within post-secondaryeducation and has felt a "lot of stress to maintain quality." For Chaudhuri, quality is the ability to attract top students, not judgedas excellent by "looktng at strictly marks" but by assessinga student's fullpotential.These students are then taught by faculty who have also proven their excellence and the quality is completed when these student gain the skills and knowledge to go on to noteworthy academic and community achevements. This definitionisbecomingincreasingly difficult to maintain within the context of a growing university. "As we expand, we are very mindful of these qualities," added Dean Chaudhuri. The breadth of quality at the institution is beingc~mpromisedb~ increaseddemographics and chronic underfundha. Provincial and federa1 governments have cut back central revenue programs which have carved 25 per cent out of the university's budget since 1993.This has threatened our ability to retain excellent professors (somethmg the next installment in the series will talk about) and also the ability to keep good students and prepare them for excellent careers. Some faculties are better prepared for the growing quality gap. Basic Income Unit funding and the corridor system (which regulates growth), the means by which the university is funded, is not prepared for the increased demographic growth facing the university sector. Technical programs, however, can make up some of this gap through increased deregulated tuition and through special envelope funds such as the Access to Opportunities program and the classroom components of SuperBuild. Bob Kerton, dean of arts, is mindful of the consistent market-based and techfilcalversion of quality initiated by government policy. Despite a strident attempt by university administration here at Waterloo to maintain balance, it becomes increasingly hard to not be affected by the growing quality gap when there are no new funds avadable. "A small dtfference [in funding] year after year amounts to something significant." Kerton relates this market-basedversion of soap' a metaeducation to phor. - ~ f t h ~ ~ ~ ~ v i n ~ i ~ l to favour a ufiiversitythat a soap that will make your shut whiter than white because it's a highly market-based outcome.. . This is an abject fdure of the university because the training for how to sell the soap should have been done by the soap manufacturer."

Resource Efficient Agricultural Production (REAP-Canada) invites you for a day on

Organic Agriculture and International Development At the Guelph Organic Agriculture Conference University of Guelph $10 conference fee for students $50 general public

Workshop on International Sustainable Agriculture Saturday, January 26th,2002 1 1:00 a.m. - 12:OO Youth opportunities in international organic agriculture Agro-ecological villages as a development strategy 1:30-3:00 p.m. Restoring the landscape using analog forestry and organic certification 3:30- 5:00 p.m.

Learn about CIDA$unded development initiatives in the Philippines and the Agroecological Village development model. The beneficiaries of the project are small farmers and agrarian reform beneficiaries in the Visayas region of the Philippines. The agroecological development strategy integrates food security, community organizing, improved energy self-reliance, on-farm propagation of seeds, crop diversification and organic production. Two of REAP'S Philippine partners will give presentations during the afternoon session: Georie Pitong, director of MASIPAG-Visayas (Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development) has worked extensively on agrarian reform in Negros and 110 110 for the past 14 years. She has helped facilitate research on organic rice production and breeding throughout the Visayas. Leopoldo Guilaran is a farmer and the acting chairman of MASIPAG. Mr. Guilaran maintains a variety trial on his farm and maintains a collection of over 108 traditional rice varieties and crosses. Come and learn how you can be involved! The 21'' Annual Guelph Organic Agriculture Conference (January 25" - 27th) offers a variety of workshops on organic farming and an organic trade show. See: http://guelph2002.organicfarrns.ca or call the conference response line: (5 19)-824-4 120, Ext. 2558

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P The growing university is a seven part series written by Mark Schaan. A former VP education with the Federation of Students, Schaan has been accepted as a Rhodes scholar and will be exploring issues related to the continuing expansion of the University of Waterloo.

However, this is the plight - - of the humanities in a market-based education system. The humanities further "characteristics that pay off society in general and its not in the interests of the soap manufacturer to train people in important questions facing society. "In that case, you have public under-investment. If you go down t h s route very far, you have widely recognized economic problems of under-investment in truly public goods." So if you only use the economic measure to see the wealth of the student afterwards, you can be using a measure of a private payoff and pretending that the university is related to the public interest, when in fact all you're really trying to do is run a very elementary version of a business school." This path has largely been avoided simply by the sheer goodwill of UW staff, faculty and students to do more. Dean Chaudhuri takes a verypersonalview ofhow close to the breaking point we have come. "I do not know too many staff and faculty members, in this faculty or other places in the University of Waterloo who are working 35 or 37 hours a week. I know typical people worktng 60 hours a week. So, where is that 20 hours of work salary coming from?Nowhere. And that's howwe are managing it because we have that sense of social accouatabdity. Chaudhuri fears that this can not continue. When d governments recognizethis growing gap? "Government is not going to listen, government is going to see the effect.This is where our catch-22 is. In order to get government's attention, we have to be k~a position where the effect is visible. And you know.. . as I sit in the trenches, I'm be-g to see a shifting mentality. I'm beginning to see a shifting mentality that worries me, that's not very far away. People are going to say 'enough is enough."' Chaudhuri worries that "chaos will set in," which compromises the whole system. "That downward trend can acceleratevery fast,where that upward trend takes years and years ofhard work on the part of many people." A new metric of quality is prescribed. As Dean Kerton observes, "we're in a temporary phase, of two or three decades, of obsessive worship ofreally triviallstinctions when really what we need is a different metric. Right now, we're asking ourselves 'what economic value is that? when really, all we put down there is the fmancial part of the economic value. We never really get to the part where it's 'to what extent was t h s a life well lived?" It is this fundamental flaw in our metric for quality which allows for underfunding, for an inability to recruit and retain excellent students and to maintain the breadth of faculty research and study indicative of the university concept. Perhaps thts seems idealistic, but one can hope that something in the lexicon or in the metric of quality can change before the gap is too wide. As Dean Chaudhuri concluded when dpeeringinto ~ d ~ i thenear ~ ~ ~ future ~ k ~of the ~ ~university, d ~ d "I d ~ hope the policy makers are not looking in the past and present but that some of them start lookinginto the future in a serious way." In the meantime UW continues to grow.

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Space: W d UW move to an extended school week? SPACE, from page 3

But studentsarenot theonlymembers of theclass affected b;acramped environment. "I've even heard [the instructor] complain about the size of the room," Kenzie recalls. Professor Jacqui Smyth, of the English department, would agree. She teaches a third-year creative writing course, with an enrolment of 25, in a 25-seat classroom. "On the one hand, it contributes to the intimacy of the class," she smiles, "but physically, wheredo youput stuff? ,There's no room for anything extra. I had to bring in a VCR the other day, and there was hardly any room." Smyth explains that her requirements include a seminar table. "I like to work in a round-table environment. But there are students sitting all around the outside of the classroom, too. The two layers make it

hard to get a 'round' &scussion going." "It makes for a weird dynamic. On the other hand," she concedes, "being in a classroom that's too large would present other problems." Schumm says that the looming double-cohort year vvlll offer ad&tional obstacles, and that the Registrar's Office is currentlyholdingmeetingsin anticipationof schedulingdifficulties. 'We'regoing to have to use existing rooms in a smarter way. We're going to have to encourage more distance education classes, more evening classes." Another solution that may be in the works would involve expanding the school-week to seven days, but Schumm says she hasn't been mformedof anything specific. "There's been talk ofholdmg classes on Saturdays for along time, but I don't know anything about Sundays. I haven't

heard anything official." She identifies the construction in Ron Coutts Hall as the most likely cause ofincreased overcrowdingthis term. "That's probably the only reason this term differs from others. Many classes have been moved from RCH because of the construction. We've basically lost an entire building." When RCH is complete, she says, they'll have seven new classrooms, totalling 778 new seats. How soon will they be ready? 'We'vegot classes bookedin there for the Springterm." In the short-term however, crowded classrooms will simply continue to be another daily fact of life at UW. The arrival of the double cohort in Fall 2003 threatens further stress on U W s already cramped classes and overtaxed facilities.

ChrCtien removes three scandal-plagued ministers Chris Edey IMPRINT STAFF

Prime MinisterJean Chritien's cabinet shuffle took most observers by surprise on Wednesday morning, as several long standing members suddenly found themselves on the outside looking in. Clearly, the biggest losers were Alfonso Gagliano, Hedy Fry and Maria Mmna. All three had been dogged by allegations of scandal. Gagliano was particulalry hounded by the media after it was discovered that many of his associates regularly received large contracts from government agencies under his control. Fry was widely ridtculed after her bizarre and completely unfounded allegationsof cross burnings in British Columbia. Minna's friends also managed to appear frequently on the

government payroll, not to mention her lacklustureperformance as minister for international co-operation. Fry and Minna were banished to the backbenches. Gagliano was booted across the Atlantic and will now be Canada's ambassador to Denmark. Chrktien obviouslyhopes &IS will keep whatever skeletons remaining in his closet far from the eyes of the Canadian media. The big winner in the shuffle was John Manley. He was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister, and given a wide range of authorities and responsibhties. Former Industry Minister Brian Tobin quit politics entirely, and 40-year Parliament Hill veteran Herb Grey was shown the door by the Prime Minister.

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According to bookstore staffer Iain Dmitrienko, the problem is twofold: "The original order that we placed, back in December, wasn't received [by the publisher, Transaction Publishers] so we asked them how long it would take to get a new order in. Oripally they said that they had some stock, but that they would be reprinting more. Then they called back and said that they didn't have the stock, so it's basically a case of waiting for their new reprint, but

that was going to be too late for the prof, probably not untd February sometime " Suty-five unfortunate students are currently without textbooks for the course untd Graphlcs Semces produces courseware copies of the textbook. "After some hagglmg, we were able to convince them [the publisher] to let us print courseware versions," said Dmnnenko. The courseware textbooks should be ready today, and should be approxlmately the same puce as the standard textbook would have been.

Transaction Publishers, based m New Jersey, currently offers the &fficult-to-find textbook on its online store for $29.95 US. Students enrolled m Prof. Stan Fogel's Modem Amencan Literature (ENGL 344) had fewer problems obtaining three of the seven books for the course. "I'm sure that happened here, at S t Jerome's probably because I overlooked submitting them rather than at the bookstore end," Fogel commented.

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I felt a little conflicted when choosing a topic for this edttonal. The new Opinion editor at Imprinthadthought that perhaps t h ~ issue s could discuss the Canadian government's decision to follow the Americans into war m Afghanistan. However, our editorial board also discussed the looming Federation of Students' elections. Both seemed like worthy topics, and both are things I feel strongly about. After reflection. I realized that these two topics may not be as different as they seem. Both come down to a question of leading or following. Looking at both, we see far-reaching implications for our campus, community, country and world. A term those of us in social policy use to describe a continued course of action built out of tradition, historical tendency or simple continuity is called path dependency. It refers to theconstant repetition ofestablished patterns or modes of operation Concerning the war in Afghanistan, a number of historical patterns come to view. There is a path dependency within U.S. foreign policy. It continues to ensure reasonable security in areas in which they have economic or politicalinterest. This is why they helped support Saddam Hussein's early rise to government and why they attacked Hussem in his attempt to punish Kuwait. So US. foreign policy has dictated a response to the political insecurity invoked by the actions against Americans on their home soil. Path dependency required a quick response to the Taliban government (which the U.S. government helped install) to ensure that reasonable economic and political security was reestablished both in Afghanistan and in the US. itself. Canada is following alongwith thts foreignpolicy project. This path dependency has created a foreign policy where the US. props up unsavoury governments which they destruct only years later. Canada's attachment to this project is a further historicalpattern ofinternational acquiescence into US. foreign policy aims.

Feds is also an example of path dependency. Stating my bias, I'm a former Feds exec. However, each year the same events occur. Potential new leaders emerge from the very same,smallcircles at election time to tout their marvellous set of newideas. Most are unlikely to be implemented often due, not to lack of desire, but a lack of understanding for the complexity of the organization itself. Each year, an executive continues to attempt to do too much in 365 days, following through on a path createdyears back. Patterns continue, often with little value for history or an understanding of where they fit into a greater scheme or phn. I can't offer an easy prescription to the problem of path dependency. I can't create an easy way for the U.S. to belong-termin their foreignpolicy. Domestic and economic factors d~ctate quick action which does not easily make for more democratic or less vislent solutions. So too is the miming of the university and the needs of students require fast thinking and it is easier to reinvent the wheel than to see if that model had already been tested. The predicament of the present moment is to see it as fullof potential while placing it in its proper historical and future context. Not easy, however, it can only be escaped by leadership,not 'followership,'knowing both where we have come from and where we are headed.

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REMEMBER EARTH CLEARLY It's been a rough ride for Queen's University president William Leggett, who's been forced to take his executive lunches (and all of his other work) out of the office since students decided to occupy it to protest tuition deregulation earlier this week. But jockeying with his secretary for elbow room on her desk isn't the biggest of Leggett's problems: he's been widely criticized by students and student organizations for his recommendations on tuition deregulation. Leggett offered a proposal to the provincial government earlier this year to deregulate all university programs, despite the results of a recent student referendum at Queen's where over 90 per cent of students who voted opposed tuition deregulation. His plan would see tuition at Queen's increase up to 60 per cent by 2006, leaving many asking how long it will be before university is

limited to the power and cash elite, if it isn't already. Should we be worried about rising tuition at UW? President David Johnston and Leggett are old friends from McGill, and they're of similar minds on the topic of deregulation. Leggett is not a rogue president on a solo mission; he's got support from several university presidents. Should tuition go up at a deregulated rate? You're askmg the wrong person: Of course I'm going to say no: I'm one of those students that will be paying the inflated rates. If you believe that education is a commodity - or at least an investment - then you should ask yourself this: in what other industry does the consumer get to regulate prices? Supply and demand, coupled with cost of production, regulate prices. Leggett makes a pretty good argument about the increasing cost of production, but hasn't offered a lot to help the less privileged get in the door. In a recent interview, Leggett told the Canadian Press that Queen's would allocate 30 per cent of all tuition increases to relief for less fortunate students. That's a nice gesture - one that all Ontario universities are required to make as part of provincial deregu-

lation agreements. It's a good piece of spin doctoring to make that look hke charity. The rising cost of education raises questions about what we're entitled to as Canadians. In our rights-based society, is education one of them? Do we have a right to be educated? I'm willing to suggest that we don't. That's not to say that we shouldn't be educated; everyone should aspire to achieve the hlghest level of education they can manage. With that in mind, is it the government's job to provide them with education? I don't think so. I'm glad that our society values education enough to subsidize it at all. I'm equally glad that our society chooses to support other nonrights like welfare and universal health care. These contribute to our high quality of life and productivity. Some suggest that as taxpayers we should have a say as to how our money is allocated towards the improvement of our society; and an election every four years or so gives us all an opportunity to address that issue. Does that argument reveal a strong case for electoral reform in Canada? It certainly does, but that's a whole other column.

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America: the root of all evil To the editor,

To the editor,

In Mr. Lee-Wudrick's last column, it would have been worthwhile if he had explained who he was aiming at specifi&ly, instead of making some vague reference to "the' hate/fear mongering lefties among us." o f ' course, I do not doubt that theremay be some individuals out there who thtfik that America is the root of all evil. I am equally certain, however, that these people make up a very small portion of the population and so I am interested in knowing what hk.~ee-Wudnckbelieves to be the composition of his readership. Declaring that America has provided us with "airplanes, computers and TVs" and that most Americans are "not soulless robots or diabolical villains" is most sterile. Moreover, the assertion that the "big guy" (America) alwaysgetsthe blame, "not because he's worse, but because he's an easier target" is incorrect. Has Canada fired a few dozen cruise missiles at a much-needed pharmaceuticalsplant in a poorAfrican country? Did Canada place its spies in the UN weapons inspection team in Iraq, causing the group to lose integrity? Has Canada not paid its dues to the UN? The list of contempt goes on., I am not arguing that the big guy is worse than Mr. Hussein or Mr. Omar And I agree that we all have our shortcommgs.But I do tlunkthat mlts comportment towardsits counterparts -which 1s what largely determines outsiders' mews of ~t America is worse than Canada. And so perhaps defining ourselves by "what we are not" is to some extent a very good thing.

I have to thank everyone at Imprint for puttmg together an excellent student newspaper. I am a &st-year student and Impnnt has helped me get informed about what is happening on campus, like the referendum on expanding student faches. My hometown paper, The Burlmgton Post, is full of empty words; it's mce to be able to sit down for breakfast and actually read somethmgulth content for once. Thank you!

-Almy Fonseca 2B economics QpoLcalscience

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-Eric Duemtein 'Waterloo resident who looksfonvard to reading Imprint every week."

The tragic truth of the matter is that environmentahsts and the media have whipped opportunistic politicians, special interest groups, and now, apparently, Imprint, into a furor over a phenomenon whose existence is sketchy at best. So relax, and keep pumping that '87 octane into your car. The polar ice caps won't spontaneouslymelt. I promise.

-Stephen W. Young 4B computer science To the editor,

Move to the right

I would like to suggest another remedy to Chris Edey's feature in last week's Imprint regarding "meaningDo it yourself ful action on climate change." Do nothing. Ignore it. Won't that mean To the editor, the certain destruction of the Earth as we know it? Far from it. The It is always good to see that the science of the matter is that there has "hardcore" genre of music is appre- not been a single, credible scientific ciated. However, poor Broadcaster study that has proven humans gudty Wendell has gotten old before h s of increased CO, levels, or that intime. He uses his review of the book creased temperatures are the result American Hara'core:A Triba/Histoty to of increased CO, levels. look back with fond memories to a In fact, Arthur Robinson and time when music didn't revolve Zachary Robinson of the Oregon around platinum sales and boy-band Institute of Science and Medicine fluff. But thatis howitwas backthen, have shown quite conclusively that too. That is why hardcore meant so there is a much stronger correlation much and still does. between the earth's temperature and There have been more superb solar activity (which, curiously, has hardcore albums released in the last been increasing steaddyover the past five years than ever before. Many century) than there is between earth bands are on their fifth or sixth al- temperature and CO, levels. Solar bums, conveying their messages of activity has been responsible for anger at injustice,temperedwithhope much of the climate changes that the that change can, and will, occur ~ f w e earth has experienced in its lifetime. begin to tlunk for ourselves. Check Moreover, there exists evidence out victoryrecords.com and to suggest that CO, levels increase nitrorecords.com for a start. when global warming happens, not In the past few years there have the other way around. In any case, been numerous hardcore shows at Sient$cAmerican (September'89) has the Button Factory and the Registry noted that human activity contribTheatre. These shows have been fa- utes, at best, three per cent of the ulitated by the bands themselves m earth's total greenhouse emissions. thetmeD.1.Y. (DoItYourself) spint. (The rest is due to nature.)

To the editor, When I graduated from UW last year, I was saddened by the thought that I would no longerannoy theLeft forceson campus. But I was happy to learn that, while1 may live in Texas, I still manage to shock them. A friend passed on to me Greg Macdougall's last column, because I had told him a story about being on a train while back home for the holidays and sitting next to an anti-tobacco activist. By some strange twist of fate, this activist turned out to be Macdougall's friend,who related the story in his column. Sadly, he displayed the arrogance that is the calling card of the true socialist.They find it difficult to tolerate the fact that others disagree with them or make different decisions about how to live their lives. I'm sorry, k.Macdougall, that there are people out there crass enough to refuseto live their lives the way you tell them to. But such is life. Luckily for the rest of us, there are those on the UW campus fightingto preserve the freedoms that the Left would deny us all. Thanks to them, the fight for freedom continues.

- Dan Mader

Someone important to meet...

Last year, dunng my co-op term at Research In hfouon, co-workers would often mate me to go out for h e r after work. I would always come along, but say that I had someone "unportant to meet" at 8:30 and couldn't stay any longer. The funny thmg 1s that I was really lust ashamed to say that I had to pray at sunset. I guess you could say that my "unportant meetmg" was ulth God. Even at that tune, I wasn't quite sure why I was afraid to say that I had to pray every day at sunset. I guess I just ddn't want people to

stereotype me as "the rehgious guy." It Is my own cowardice that was to blame. As a M u s h , I should not be ashamed of my own behefs Nevertheless, I sometmes get the feelmg that people generally look down upon prayer. What is behmd prayer? And why do people pray? Prayer, at least to me, is an intimate conversation with true reality. Prayer comes in so many forms. It can be inward or outward, silent or chanted, fsed in time or spontaneous. Behind every prayer is sincerity of heart, and a longing for connection to the Divine. Prayer is an integral part of the rehgion of Islam. Muhammad sad that "prayer is the best of deeds." In fact, Muhammad's last words were: "Prayer, prayer, prayer.. .." Of all the lessons he taught, prayer was his parting advice to humanity. Whether you pray through meditation or by reading ftom a

holy book, it is important to set aside a consistent time to connect, with the things that have tnie meaning in life. And the wise ones know that every breath and every movement can be a prayer, if done with pure intention. Note also the words of Muhammad when he said, "An hour of contemplation is better than a year of [regular] prayer." There is so much more to be said about the beauty of prayer, and so much more for us to learn. I should say that prayer is like love -it is something to be experienced, not explained. Embraced, not defined. Regardless of what others may think of me because I pray every day, I don't know where I might be without it. Every time I felt too alone, too afraid, or too overwhelmed, I called upon the Light, the Truth, and the Love. And God came rushing to my aid. So I d leave you with one of

my favounte quotes from the Koran "Call on me, and I d answer you " I tell people about tb~sverse when they ask me to prove to them that there really IS an absolute truth behmd all thmgs I look at lt as a sort of acid-test for God's emstence, call on it, and lf lt answers back, it's there You don't have anythmg to lose And hey, whde you're chamng ulth God, throw m a good word about me too Peace

WPRIG's regularly appearing column, In Your Interest, will return in next week's edition of Imprint.

I want my $4.10 To the editor, Last week, Mr. Edey sarcastically describes how students who choose to retrieve their money have no reason for domg so. I apologize on behalf of those students, who, I beheve, don't need a reason to take back what is theirs, on their lack of articulation in iheu comments. Not all of us have the "skill" of expressjng our emotions like you do. Next, Edey attacks other organizations that appear on tuition fee statements, such as CKMS and WPIRG. Did it occur to him that the peoplewho choose toget their money back have no igterest in our school paper, and may have interests in the other organuations on campus? He then compares his $4.10 to the $30 ES students are charged every semester. I am an ES student. The money from the ES endowment fund is paid for and used by ES students. I could understand if someone who wasn't in ES was charged the $30 and was angry about it, but they aren't. The same reasoning applies here. If I'm not readmg or in support ofyow paper then why should I have to pay for it? In the last half of Mr. Edey's articlehe cleverly tries to cover up his "self-righteous rant by a wannabe journalist who wants everyone to chip in for the paper he writes for," as he calls it, by saying the increase of studentswho come to get their money back is adding to the lack of sense of community on campus. I ask you this one question Mr. Edey: How are you adding to the sense of community by scrutinizing the people who stand up for what they thmk is right and fair?

-MartinQuarcoopome 1B honours envimnmertta/studies

RIDAY, JANUARY 18,2002

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vly esteemed colleague, Greg Macdougall, astutely ~otedonce that people are more inclined to write bout thmgs with whtch they are particularly con:erned. I couldn't agree more, which is why thts veek's column will deal with none other than the vritings of Greg Macdougall. For the uninitiated, Ganja Greg - as I hke to call lim -is a daring, unapologetic writer with a ,enchant for both sticking it to the "corporate vorld" and sticking his foot in h s mouth. Take his September 11 analysis, for example. ifter insinuating that the destruction of the World rrade Center was the U.S. getting its just desserts, he lackpedaled two weeks later and clarified that what le really meant was that the U.S. didn't "deserve" it, )ut rather had "brought the attacks upon itself." Vhich is to say that 1) if B has a grievance against A, i is to blame for any action taken by B, regardless of vhether or not the grievance is legitimate, and 2) if B las a legitimate grievance, any action they take as a ,esult is legitimate. Wonderful. But that's old news. Last week, after squandering lis entire column explaining why he changed its lame -with several free plugs for OutKast thrown n for good measure - we were treated to even nore Macdougallian epiphanies, thts time in the pise of a features article on conspiracies regardmg he events of September 11. Now, it has been pointed out to me that this 'feature" is really only musing about "possibilities." ;air enough. Then can someone please explain to me vhy there is a clear implication throughout the article hat these conspiracies are more than mere "possixhties," and are in fact worthy of serious - and I ;tress the word seriow - consideration? I say this because they are not. This isn't about lot being open to alternatives. It is about dismissing he ludicrously far-fetched and overwhelmingly ;peculative,especially when it repudiates common ;ense. And what is offered to us as proof? Mostly ndependent media sources, which is another longunning theme with good ol' Greg. Intuitively, it sounds reasonable: with independent nedia, anyone can express their point of view. This is 1 great thing, for sure. Except for one small catch: merely having an >pinion on something does not an expert make. Far from serving as a guarantor of truth-proliferation, ndependent media ensures even more dubious zommentary from God-knows-who, on God-knowswhat. As if it wasn't difficult enough trying to s o a 3ut truth with the corporate spin doctors. Does this mean that people should be censored? Absolutely not! But it is absurd to suggest that every person knows just as much as every other person about a given issue. Why should I put any faith in Mr./Ms. Anonymous on some online forum? At least with corporate media, someone can be held accountable -if the Globe reported something false, for example, you can bet your behind other medta outlets would really let them have it. If an indie media writer lies, or even embellishes "facts," what does (s)he have to lose? In spite of all our differences, I do agree with Mr. Macdougall that what we are exposed to in the mainstream news isn't pristine truth. I just find it silly for him to turn around and suggest that independent news is any better. Most importantly, unlike Mr. Macdougall, I don't ever relieve people of the responsibility of t h i n h g for themselves - and if they wish to simply accept everythmg as blind truth, they have no one to blame but themselves.

SECONDHAND SMOKE Two weeks ago, in one of the community edttorials, Brian Code wrote about porn. It seemed to me he was pushing a proporn message, or at least, acceptance over denial. Well, I've thought that way too, but then I've also thought I'm not willing to accept it as it is. You see, we learn through everything we do. Viewing porn teaches us things think about what they might be. "Liberating moral dtscourse about sexuality must ask how racism, sexism and other forms of oppression misshape human loving and diminish the desire for community. Sexuality is a relationalstructural issue, not private but rather personal and political. We live in a web of social relationships and develop our sexualities only w i h institutions and systems. A social ethic of sexuality must examine how these social structures and belief systems affect our sexualities for

good and ill." I think that porn instills and reinforces certain values, beliefs and ways of dunking in us. But it's also something of a mirror that reflects the values and beliefs that we already hold. I t h d that h s is reflected in what, or who, we celebrate in our society. The other day, I saw a bdlboard ad for Omega watches, featuring a picture of Anna Koumikova. I'll bet you probably know who Anna Koumikova is. Which is kind of funny, 'cause she's definitely not the most talented female tennis player in the game. Yet, she's probably the most recognizable -probably the most famous woman athlete in the world today. How come? As I said, it's not because of her athletic talent. I think that, above all else, porn, and specifically Internet porn, has made her the celebrity she is. I think that this mirrors what our culture values most highly. At the same time, it teaches us what to value. It's not one or the other; it's both at the same time. "Human desire is in trouble in this culture. The dominant sexual code, rather than promoting the humanly good desire for intimacy and community, deforms and corrupts our desire for love. This cultural code expresses contempt for the body; devalues race, gender and sexual diffeer-

ence; and is futated on ownership and control. Because our moral power to give and receive love is misshapen at such a fundamental level, literally 'next to our skins,' few people learn how to be genuiely at home in their bodies or to connect respectfully with others. Instead, they are taught to eroticize power in equalities as something that feels good and right." The quotes I've used here are from the book EmticJustice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuali& by Marvin M. Ellison, available from the UW library. I'll end off with something on porn from the book: "Heterosexual pornography discloses the essential element of a patriarchal society: male ownership of women and chddren. Patriarchal ideology naturalizes these relations and asserts that women need men, as children need adults, to discipline and manage theit lives - for their own good. "As writer and profeminist activist John Stoltenberg explains, patriarchal culture "romanticizes, spiritualizes, emotionalizes and psychologizes the right of men to own women.. . as property." "At the same time, it "tends to obscure the violence in those structures of human relationship that are essentially structures of possession, as of inanimate objects." What do you think?

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OUTLOOK It's always been a dream of mine to have a perfect wedding. I've been thinking about this a lot lately as three of my straght friends plan their weddmgs this summer. I'm not sure if I'm in the minority for wantmg to have a big gay weddmg. I expect I am. I know there are others out there like me, based on a quick search of the Internet (see www.rainbowunions.com or www.gayweddings.com).But for the most part, homophobia explains why most of us haven't been invited to a gay wedding yet. Homophobia occurs on so many levels that it much kills any thoughts of having a wedding. From a political perspective, gay marriage isn't allowed. From a religious perspective, most

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theu fnends, fanuly, m i s t e r and parents The dsincentives abound and, ironically, the strongest ones are due to internalized homophobia. It's no wonder, then, that I haven't seen any gay weddings on TLC's A Wedding Stay. Time and money are further disincentives. If anyone is going to show up to your gay wedding, you need to come out to them. This process can take years, especially when considering parents. (I am reminded of a friend's advice: "Don't make the wedding invitation the coming out letter!") Even if your parents do decide to attend the wedding, there is no guarantee they will offer to pay for it. The time it takes to come out, plus the cost of a wedding restricts the gay wedding to the 30-plus, affluent, gay demographic. When a couple does decide to have a

symbolic wedding, it's usually small. Family involvement is minimal. Religious involvement is minimal. There may not be a justice of the peace or a wedding party; just the couple in front of their friends. For some, the ceremony should in no way resemble a heterosexual wedding; in particular, they opt to call the gathering a "commitment ceremony." Of course, the gay weddmg need not be low-key. It can resemble a straight wedding in all its opulence, with some important additions. There needs to be a rainbow motif. There needs to be a samesex couple on top of the cake. There needs to be a really good party afterwards. I think hiring a drag queen would also be a nice touch. Ultimately, the planning of a gay wedding can be largely left to personal taste, and is surprisingly similar to planning a straight weddmg. But as I have noticed from my friends, it's a lot of work to plan. Call me stubborn for not bowing to homophobia, but I wdhave that perfect gay wedding. It will be big. It will involve my family. And it d have a drag queen.

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& m e ,our beloved odd duck,is missing. Well, sort of. If you haven't heard about the magnificent Mihe, then you're missing out. UW staff and students first felt Millie's enduring presence last summer when she turned up unexpectedly on North Campus. With bright white feathers and a bright orange beakwith orange markings framing her face she was like an African tribal leader- most appropriate since she quickly established herself as aleader ofher fellow ducks. Her looks made her stand out, to say the least, and yet mystery stdl surrounds Millie. No one knows exactly who she is, or where she came from. W e , a Muscovy, is native to South America, so how she made her way to Canada is unknown. A local resident has taken on the position ofadoptive owner andlooks after her during the winter, allowing her to be just another duck on campus in the warmer seasons. Millieimmediatelyadjusted to her first campus home near Columbia Lake, but someone couldn't resist Millie's allure and ludnapped her. A reward was offered soon after her abduction. Only a short period later, she returned to her home and no one claimed the reward; what they wanted with her, no one knows. Millie's adopted owner then moved her to a more conspicuous location: thelushgrounds in front of Health Services. Here. Mihe's warm personalitywon the attention of staff and students alike. Sheila Hurley, of the Health Services security office, said she and Millie "had a bond" , notingthat she even received a Christmas card from Millie h s year. In spite of herurlld roots, Millie is as tame as a house cat. She often

invites herself to sit with students immersed in conversation or homework. It didn't take long for the wbte duck to receive the attention she longed for. If someone calls her name, she runs to greet them. Millie will eat from the hands of students and allows everyoneto pet her. She is intelligent and full of personality. AlthoughMilliehasplenty offans at UW, she wasn't so popular at her previous home in St. Jacob's. Various UW employees have repoaed that m e was considereda nuisance by residents there because of her constant pecking at patio doors. The UW community, however, without warning of her arrival,welcomed her with open arms. Millie was a nice change from the territorial honking geese. "She looked like a swan and acted like a dog, but she was a duck," says Virginia Mdellan, a UW graduate. Millie is so loved by her anonymousguardim that duringfroshweek he or she made sure the charismatic duck was amply fed and looked after off-campus for fear that the new students would corrupt Millie. After frosh week, W e returned to her home in front of Health Services. Last October, Millie's life was threatened when a squirrel tried to steal her wild bird seeds. This ferocious squirrelattackedinnocentMillie as she attempted to protect her food. Thanks to a passing student who kicked the squirrel off i U e ' s head, she suffered from only a couple of cuts and lost the feathers on the back of her head. No one has seen W e since the attack. Speculationshave been made that she was taken to the Humane Society for treatment and returned to her adopted owner, but nothing has been confirmed. A mysterious unsigned note

posted by W e ' s food station m front of Health Services, reveals that W e is recovering safely at home and enjoying her 'wmter condom u m ' m a heated doghouse where she receives a 'hot bath every morning.' W e requires special care because she does not have the body fat to keep warm m our wmters. There 1s stdl speculation about W e ' s return to campus. Though her mystenous guardtan wntes that the white duck, loved by all, d return once 'the ice melts on the pond,' no one really knows for sure. Tom Galloway,headofUWPlant Operations, said she "dtdn't create any major problems. Students kmd of took to W e . She's a bit of a character." And so the mystery of Millie contmues. Well known and well-loved across campus, staff and students hope to see her return happy and healthy next spnng.

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Racing through fierce winds and 57OC weather, facing angry temtorial moose and the constant danger of falling through ice into frigid water is not everyone's idea of a fun way to spend 10 days. But for Frank Turnerit has been for 18years. That's how long he has been competing in what is called the toughest dog sled race in the world, the Yukon Quest. The 1000mile race follows routes from Fairbanks, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon used by prospectors duringthe Klondike gold rush. What started as an idea among friends at a saloon in Fairbanks has grown into one of the biggest dogsled races in theworld, attractingpaaicipants and spectators from around the world. A Toronto native, Turner has a sociology degree from the University of Guelph and a master's degree in social work from Wilfrid Laurier. What made him move up to the Yukon? "I lost a coin toss in 1973in my parent's driveway in Toronto. A friendofmine wanted to go up north, I wanted to go to Mexico. We went north." Althoughitwasn'this &st choice, after spending time in the Yukon Turner felt itwas where he belonged. He bought his first husky soon after and his love for dogsledding began. Turner stresses having a close relationship with the dogs & order to help them reach theit. peak ability. "The dogs are definitely the athletes," said Turner. Extensive care goes along with owning a team of Alaskan Huskies, a mix of so many different breeds that Turner calls

Frank Turner with one of his sled dogs. them a northern Heinz 57 Variety. Turner's dogs are treated just as any athlete would be. They receive regular vet check-ups, chiropractic massages, homeopathtc treatments, nutritionist visits and, most importantly, their emotional and psychological needs are always looked after. While racing, the dogs wear specialwater resistant booties, andwhen it gets extremely cold the males wear penis protectors to prevent freezing. The cost in food alone for dogs is approximately $2,000 per month. Trust is a critical element in the relationship between musher and dog; Turner begins forming a close bond with the puppies at only two days old. He gets to know each dog's individualpersonality. The body language and facial expressions of the dogs match those of humans. 'You can tell when something is wrong

with them," he said, "the quality of my relationship [with the dogs] determines what kind of performance standard we achieve." The Hollywoodimageof sled dogs baring sharp teeth at one another and fighting for raw meat is not the dynamicTurner describesamong his dogs: "All our dogs are friendly and nice, they don't fight and they eat all oftheir treats right out ofour hands." Turner has competed in Quest since it started in 1984, is the only Canadian to ever have won, and currently holds the record for fastest winning time at 10 days, 16 hours, and 18 minutes in 1995. During Quest the mushers face brutal conditions on the trail; the temperature, Turner says, is the least troublesome. They must be able to make good decisions in guidmg the team, and with a maximum of two to three hours of sleep each day, many mushers suffer from severe sleep deprivation, often resulting in failed concentration and hallucinations. Although Turner said he doesn't experience any visual hallucinations, he has learned to doze while on the sled, during which time he said his eyes close and he dreams. "For me it's more audio than visual, I hear conversations and then a bump will wake me up, my eyes close again and it starts over. One of the challenges is how well you function in sleep deprivation." Quest will be run on February 5; it is expected that one thrd of the entrants d not finish the grueling race. The prize forwinningis $30,000 each for the first 15 fmishers.

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climate change, governance, sustainable forestry, biological diversity, equity and issues concerning international environmental policy making. The Government of Canada has not finalized the themes it wishes to put forth at the conference; however, the following are a list of themes that Canada will likely bring to the table: health and environment, international environmental governance, sustainable communities, as well as stewardship and conservation. As is customary, the summit will not only feature government officials. Much like the Rio conference, there will be a strong industry and NGO presence involved in parallel conferences and lobbying. Youth Canada will also be sending a delegation to participate in the summit. It is hoped that the summit will produce a strengthening of global commitments on sustainable development. Included in this is the hope that the majority of states who have signed the Rio conventions will ratify them under domestic law. Also that governments make significant progress to

set targets and act on issues such as water quality, poverty, education, gender equality and children's issues by 2015. The Feds Environment Commission encourages our govemment to make real progress on the issues presented at the summit in September and to reaffirm their efforts to ensure that Canada will become a sustainable nation. I would encourage our government to also make a strong showing and adopt strong commitments in Johannesburg so that our country can once again take its place as a world leader in innovation and environmental policy. In our little comer of the globe, the Environment Commission is undertaking many projects to ensure that Waterloo is doing its share to contribute to the increase of sustainability if only on our campus. We have ongoing initiatives to raise awareness of environmental issues, so that all may partake in increasing the sustainability of our community. For more information e-mail myself or Kirk Schmidt at kbschmidt @uwaterloo.ca or lonjsteeta@ hotmail.com.

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o Ward Churchill is involved in the American Indian ~ o i e m e n t ,has written numerous books and won awards for them, and is a professor of American Indian studies at the University ofcolorado at Boulder. He visited UW on January 16 to deliver a talk and teach us all some things about globalization, and the genocide of native North Americans, among other topics. In h s talk he outlined the internationally-accepted definition of geonocide,. composed of five Kenotidal actions. First was the outright killing of members of the targeted group. Second was the implementation of policies that cause severe physicalor psychologicalharm.Thud was to attack the condtions that allow the group to maintain their lifestyle. Fourth was the forced preventionofblahs. Fifthwasthe forced transfer of children. According to Churchill, Canada adopted a modified definitionof this in 1952, not including the second or fifth actions as genocide. In 1986, a change was made to remove the four& as well. Churchill noted this probably means that the forced prevention of births is currently happening in our country.

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Even so, the majority of people don't recognize the genocide that has occured. In an interview he said, "There's an incredble wall of denial about it. It's rather straightfonvard on the facts ... from that acknowledgementyou can begm to work out theways and means of affecting some constructiveresolution to things.You can'tundo whathas been done, that's obvious, but on the other hand vou can alter the outcomes of it."

"YOUcan't undo what has been done.. but on the other hand you can alter the outcomes of it."

- Ward Churchill Churchill also talked of the realization that came to hun during the Vietnam war. He was enhsted and told that it was America's duty under

international treaty to fight in this war. Yet he came to see that other treaties that the US. were signatory to, notably ones with his own people, were being dsregarded by the American government. While on duty, he was known as "Chef' and he was his division's pointman patrolling what was called "Indian territory." . He described a paper written in 1968by Jean-Paul Sartre, entitled On Genocide, that pointed out the genocidal nature of US. involvement in Southeast Asia. Out of this paper came the equation, "colonialism equals genocide" - unequivocally plain and simple. Also discussed was how the decolonialization movement of North America's indigineouspeople was an inevitable armed struggle, as one side (the government, in the form of the police and rmlitary) is always unabashedly, unrestrictedly armed. In this context, he argued that armed struggle on the other side may beinevitable, and defined what armed struggle means: a "consciousness proposition" that includes the understandmg of the necessity for the use of force, and the lendmg of unconditional support to thoseinvolved in the armed struggle.

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Through the combined efforts of UW, the Canadian government and CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency, yet another step towards a cleaner enwonment has been taken. T h ~ sproject, though funded by CIDA, was created and developed by the University of Waterloo's faculty of enwonmental studies, together with the D&an Universtty of Technology,NanpgUmversity, and the Haman Department of Lands, Environment and Resources. The Canadian government is contnbuung to the project by provdng 93.9 million to UW and its partners. This joint collaboration exemphfies that development is a long- term process that involves all of theworld's people, governments and organizations at all levels On January 15, at the enwonmental studies butldtng, member of parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo Andrew Telegdi announced this CIDA-UW project that auns to support enwonmental management in China's coastal areas "The program will strengthen links among the Canadian and Chinese partners, provide stgmficant opportuniues for the C a n a h partners to benefit from shared expenences with their Chinese counter-

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Antarctic find boosts prospects for Mars life The unexpected discovery of organ_,

isms buried underneath a dreary stretch of Antarctic desert has bolstered hopes that life could exlst in similarconditions onMars, scientists announced this week. Canadian and New Zealand researchers were d i w g in extremely cold, rocky and dry soils dating back millions of years when they chanced upon hardy colonies of b g i and bacteria.The microorganisms thrived in soil with salt concentrations as high as 3,000 parts per million, according to Wilham Mahaney of York University. "That's like vodka. That's so much salt that temperatures can drop to minus 56 degrees Celsius before there's frostbite," he said. Usually,

pans, and encourage Canadian faculty and graduate students to become involved with international development issues," explained Telegdi. This gtiative will help provincial and municipal administrations, academicinstitutions,and China's growing private sector improve environmental planning and management in coastal regions that are experiencing substantial development pressure. The coastal fisheries and the region's forests and wildlife are particularly vulnerable. David Johnston, president of the University of Waterloo, added that the designation of the province of Hainan as the first eco-province in China, and the desire of the city of Dalian to achieve an eco-city designation, provide the reasoning behind the proposed program. The desire and will to achieve and maintain a healthy environment now requires action. "The programwillestabhsh a 'centre of excellence' in environmental management at the Dalian University of Technology and the Hainan Department of Lands, Environment and Resources," said Johnston. "It will also develop an institutional framework for a Canada-China Centre for the Environment at Nanjing University."

life avoids such briny salts, but in the dry valleys of Antarctica, where conditionsmost resemble those ofMars, the conditions actually can prove advantageous to biological organisms. The salts considerably lower the freezingpoint, meaning that, despite the big chill, water can remain in liquid form, which all known life forms require. Like Antarctica, the,availabihty of liquid water would prove a challenge for critters on Mars. But geologic conditions over the eons could have produced similar salty brines on the red planet, according to the research team. "Although these [super-cooling] processes are not fully understood on Earth, the fact that they occur in Antarctica shows the possibility that they also might occur on Mars," said Victor Baker, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson who collaborated on the study. The findings were reported in Icams, an international journal of solar system studies published by the American Astronomical Society.

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Until a refrigerator stops working, spoiling milk and thawing meat, few of us ever think about how it works. Brent Cameron, a former refrigeration repair man, explained to me how refrigerators keep food cool. The cooling system of a household refrigerator consists of a compressor, a metering device and two heat exchange coils, one each on the outside and inside of the refrigerator. A refrigerant, commonlyknown by the brand name of Freon, circulates through the system. Before chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were banned in North America because of their damaging effects on the ozone layer, the most common refngerant for household refngerators was dichlorodifluoro methane (C12F2CHJ, known as R12, which boils at -41째C. Since the ban, several replacement gases have become available. Thereplacementgas for usein householdrefngerators1stetrafluoroethane (CH,F CFJ, known as R134a, which boils at -26째C. The process of cooling a refrigerator begins with the compressor (located at the back of a refrigerator near the floor).Thecompressorpressurizes the refrigerant to 220 psi. Under this pressure, the gas is forced to become a liquid. As the refrigerant condenses, it gives off heat in the condenser/heat graph machine has been approved for use in the United States. It's touted as providing easier, faster heart measurements. It's also the first hand-held computer-based medical device, Associated Press reports. Electrocardiograms,also called EKGs or ECGs, are recordmgs of the heart's electrical signals, used to diagnose heart attacks,irregularheanbeats and other cardiac problems. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined that the new PocketView ECG works just as well as U-size electrocardiograph machmes. It's made by MicroMedtcal Industries Ltd. Smaller means more portable, and "whenit comes to heart patients, the ability to transmit an electrocardiogram quickly can be valuable," says Dr. Sidney Smith of the American Heart Association.

Pale green universe Believe it or not, we are living in a pale green universe. Not plain green, though, according to Ivan Baldry, an astronomer who worked to find the average colour of all the light in the universe. "It's pale turquoise," Baldry said on Thursday at the meeting of the

A refrigerator repairman's twist on open heart surgery. exchanger (the black pipes on the back of your refrigerator) This IS because condensingis an exothermic process, meaning that the condens ing gas loses energy as heat. The hqud refngerant then passes through a capillary tube, which has a very small diameter. The capillary tube acts as a metenng device to restrict the flow of refngerant There is a large pressure drop across the capillary tube Moving to the low pressure side, the refngerant enters the evaporator (locatedinsidethe refrigerator)where the pressure is close to atmospheric. Evaporationis an endothermicprocess, so the heat inside the refrigerator is absorbed by the coil and the refrigerator is cooled. From the evaporator/heat ex-

changer, the gas returns to the compressor and the cycle continues. There are several reasons for a refrigerator to stop working. A broken seal in the system can cause the refrigerant to leak. The fan inside the refrigerator can stop w o r h g , so the evaporator/heat exchanger will ice up. Since ice is an insulator, this will cause even more ice to form. The compressor can also stop working. If this happens, the refrigerator will be whisper quiet and there will be no cooling effect. Most refrigerators today are frost-free, meaning that they turn off periodically to get rid of ice buildup in the freezer. If the defrost timer fails, the freezer can ice up and stop cooling properly.

American Astronomical Society m Washmgton. "Turquoise, of course, is green-blue. It's slightly greener. It's between these two,pale turquoise and medium aquamarine. I'd say just slightly greener than turquoise." Baldry and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University have settled on. calling tb~suniversal shade "cosmic spectrum green." Finding the colour was a byproduct of an examination of some 200,000 galaxies to determine the rate of star birth as theuniverse aged. "This colour's a whimsical intellectual exercise, but the star formation history is astronomical research," Baldry said. By giving a numeric value to the colours ofthedifferent galaxies, adding them together and then averaging them, they came up with their light green colour. Baldry and his coauthor, Karl Glazebrook, have both joked about possible marketing opportunities for the new colour, such as colour-of-the-universeT-shirts or coffee mugs. But Baldry allowed, "I don't know if you can patent a colour, that's not our business.. .. We haven't actually been to a paint shop yet to see if they have any fancy names for this colour."

Mornings aren't for everyone New research conhrms that themost common type of strokeis morelikely to occur in the morning. In a study of approximately1,600 people who had an ischemic stroke, strokes occurred most frequently around 8:30a.m. and least frequently around 11:30 p.m. A second peak in stroke symptoms occurred around 8:15 p.m., but it was much smaller than the m o h g peak. Based on the findings, the study's authors suggest that medications targeting the natural morning rise in blood pressure might reduce stroke risk. Ischemic strokes, which occur when a clot or narrowed artery cuts off the brain's blood supply, account for about 80 per cent of all strokes. The other 20 per cent are due to broken blood vessels in the brain. Previous research has shown that ischemic strokes, like heart attacks, are more likely to occur in the moming, but few studies have examined whether the pattern may vary in some groups of patients. A team at the University of Ferrara in Italy did just that in a study published in the January issue of the journal Archives of Neundogv.

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Western 11 Warriors 0 Next: at Ottawa, F e b r u a d - 3 , 10 a.m. Men's basketball Lakehead 82 Warriors 68 Lakehead 79 Warriors 68 Next: vs. Western, January 19.2 p.m. Women's basketball Warriors 67 Lakehead 57 Warriors 81 Lakehead 69 Next: vs. Western. January 19.12 p.m. Men's hockey Lakehead 4 Warriors 3 Warriors 4 Lakehead 4 Next: vs. Windsor, January l9,2 p.m.. at Windsor, January 20,3:30 p.m. Men's volleyball Warriors 3 Guelph 0 (27-25, 25-23. 25-22) Warriors 3 Windsor 1 (20-25. 25-16, 25-23, 29-27) Warriors 3 Windsor 0 (25-22, 25-18, 25-22) Next: at Guelph, January 23,8 p.m Women's volleyball Guelph 3 Warriors 0 (25-20, 25-13.25-151 Windsor 3 Warriors 0 (25-14, 25-13, 25-13) Next: vs. Brock. January 18.6 p.m. Upcoming events: Curling at Windsor, West Sectional January 1&20,8:30 a.m. Figum skating at Toronto, Invitational #2, January 18-19 Swimming at Western, January 18, 7:30 p.m., at WLU, January 19.2 p.m. Track and field at Windsor. Can A m Classic, January 18-19 Nordic skiing at North Bay, North Bay Invitational, January 26-27

The women's Warriorvolleyballteam notched its 12th consecutive loss of the season last Wednesday, losing to third-placeMcMasterin three straight games (25-12,25-9,25-21). The loss keeps the Warriors four points behtnd sixth-place Brock and eight points out of the f & t h and final playoff spot in the OUA West division. d Despite playing a gritty t h ~ set, led by solid attacks by rookie Laura Pearson, the Warriors couldnot overcome McMaster's powerful net play. The women's next game will be against sixth-place Brock, January 18, at 6 p.m.

Preparing for next season If there's any way to put a positive face on a winless season, Jennifer Henoggets marks for tryingto come up with the right words to do it. Herzog, W s women's volleyball coach, is trying to break her team's losmg streak of 12 games, but with a young team and few returning players, the task of overcoming the . . threat of an winless season seems to be a momentous undertaking. "This is definitely a building year for us," said Herzog before the McMastergame, arookie head coach herself. Browsiing down this year's roster, second-year players are among the team's veterans. Left-side Lori Brubacher and right side Kimberley Hargrove are the only fouah-year players, with power hitter Kristina Kowalski and middle Rebecca Austin roundmg off the elder teammates in second-year. The rest of the team is chalked with first-year players, with three rookies at any given b e playing on the floor. Austin, a kinesiology student from Acton, is one of the team's shining

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lights this season, ranking ninth in the OUA in blocking average at 0.76 blocks per set. With only six games left in the season, the team is looking past the end of,the season to October when the 2002-2003 season wdl start with a team with more experience, coupled with a fresh batch of first-year players. "It's not going to take us long

once [the players] get over the mindhurdle that we'll be having more success than we are now," said Herzog. An advantage of a young team wiU be the luxury of pulling the team together over the next four years to build stronger on-court chemistry. Part of the problem of having a younger team is players keeping the mentality of a senior high school player. When players get to the miversity level, they are inexperienced in answering to the intensity in team selection processes and varsity game situations. 'They have to leave the mentality behind that they can just put the ball over the net and that's done with it," said Herzog. "They have to realize that every

shot they make counts more." Nanonally, the OU.4 1s struggling to keep its teams m the top 10 of Canada. York, the only team from the OUA in CanadianInteruniversity Sports' top 10, is ranked seventh. Even Laurier's perfect 11-0 record wasn't enough to crack last week's rankings. Team captains have been trying to keep things as enjoyable as possible and the coaching staff has been focussing on individual improvements. Stlll, going three-quarters of the seasonwithawinlessrecord tends to be a burdening weight, said Herzog. "Having been 0-11, it does grate on the nerves a little bit." jwilling@irnprint.uwaterloo.ca

Olympic hockey team should keep youth in its line-up

Cory Bluhm SPORTS COMMENTARY

Anyone who's tuned into Coach's Comer on Hocky Night in Canada over the past two weeks would be well aware of Don Cherry's desire to have Joe Thomton added to Team Canada's active roster at the upcoming Olympics. Even though Grapes is known for hyping any player who dons a Boston Bruins jersey, this time he

may actually be on to something legit. Not only is he singingthepraise of Joe Thomton - a 22-year old who is currently second in NHL scoring-but heis singingthepraises ofall younghockey players who have been seemingly snubbed from the Canadian Olympic hockey team. When selecting the team, Wayne Gretzky noted that he wanted to add some youth and energy to the team by selectingplayers like Ryan Smyth, Eric Brewer and Simon Gagne. Grapes's argument, however, is that more of these players should have been added in place of the older members who were selected based reputation alone -and justifiably SO. For instance, Joe Nieuwendyk

may be a future hall-of-famer, but he has managed only 24 points this year and has a horrific -9 plus/minus rating (my guess is the good old legs aren't moving like they used to). Meanwhile, Thomton i s second in league scoring (51 points) and is a +13. Stats alone, you have to give Thomton the edge. Sunilarly,Theo Fleury is having a decent season, but Eric Daze has better numbers and 60 pounds of weight to hls advantage. Although the comparisons can go on and on, the argument must be made that the next-generation of great Canadianhockeyplayersishere and the players are in the primes of their careers. Players such as Alex Tanguay,

Dany Heatley and Anson Carter can not only hll the net like their older counterparts, but they also have the ability to play the game with total disregard for their own physical well being. Anyone who remembers the past Olympics may recall that the team didn't play the game the way we are accustomed. We're used to seeing the world junior teams every Christmas, who skate around like pitbulls on speed, wearing their hearts on their sleeves and leaving their brains in the dressing room, caring more about putting the opposition through the glass than avoidmg personal in-

iuru. The 1998 Olympic team, on the other hand, clearly lacked the youth-

fd exuberanceand bitter determination we expected. And in just over a month, I'd be surprised to see Steve Yzerman or Joe Nieuwendyk sacnfice their bodies to flatten an opponent, the way Mike Ricci did at the 1990 World Junior Tournament, or the way Anson Carter did at the 1994 tourney. I, for one, agree with Cherry let the younggunsloose. Win or lose, at least we'll see a Canadian hockey team play the way we're accustomed --with their hearts, rather than their pension plans. Listen to Grapes, just don't let him coach. The Ice Dogs are proof of that. Cory BMm, a Etchener native, is a recent UWphnninggraduate.

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The Waterloo Warnors women's basketball team endured the long tnp to Thunder Bay to sweep aweekend doubleheader agamst Lakehead Last Fnday,Julie Devenny led the women Warnors with 19pomts, aght rebounds and three steals. She teamedwithveteranMeghann Clancy to shut down Lakehead's strong - mside game. Rookie guard Annabelle Manalo also provlded a real spark off the bench wlth 10 potnts and s t l h g defence. Devenny contmued to make a persuasive case for OUA Rookie of the Year honours with a monstrous game on Saturday, mcludmg a rare "double-double": 30 pomts and 10 rebounds. Veteran point guard

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Kristin Eisner had her best scoriq effort of the year with 14points. Tht two victories vush the Warrior league record to six wins and thret losses,includmgaperfect 5-0 agains OUA West competition. Next action for the women is 01 Wednesday, Januaiy 16 at 6 p.m when they travel down Highway 7 ti take on the Guelph Gryphons.

CAMPUS REC Cross Canada Challenge is a program that encourages physical activity in the University of Waterloo community. It promotes a change in lifestyle to include physical activity at least three times a week and to participate in a variety of activities. Students can sign up in the PAC athletic office and regster for free. Points are awarded for each hour that they participate in any physical activity. Once a week, the points will be tabulated and their markers will be moved appropriately along the route. The route this term is the Trans CanadaTrail.The Trans CanadaTrad is a shared-use t r d that weaves its way through every province and territory, creating the longest recrea'tional trail on*Earth. It links hun-

dreds ofcommunities alongits route, connecting people, land and oceans. When completed, this great t r d will span over 17,000 kilometres. The tiail d l accommodate five core activities: walking, cycling, horseback riding, cross-country s h n g , and snowmobiling (where possible or desired). The Trans Canada Trail is being built on existing tratls wherever possible, assuming they accommodate the shared-use principle, provincial and federal parks, and Crown lands, abandoned i d w a y lines, rails with t r d s (trds along rail lines) and private land. There are both functional and emotional benefits to buildmg the trail. Some functional benefits are preservation,education,andpromotion of physical activity. Some emotional reasons are to help b d d the nation, to fulfill a common vision, and to create a physical symbol of Canadian unity. ThiswintertheTrans CanadaTrail is predicted to be used more than in previous years by hikers, cross country skiers, dogsledders, snowshoers and snowmobilers. As it continues

to grow, more than 70 per cent of Canadians will live near, or have easy access to, the trail. The increase in health awareness and provision of outdoor winter activities and events by communities and outdoor leisure companies wdl also help add to the number of users on the trail. Tratl organizations have also increased their activities and offerings. For example, the total length of trails operated and maintained by the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs now exceeds 49,000 kilometres in the province. Canadians can help build the trail in any province or territory by making a donation of $40 per metre of trail. Donors dreceive their names, or the name of the designate, permanently inscribed in a Trail Pavilion; a personalized certificatethat acknowledges the inscription and province or territory where it will appear; and, an annual update on the progress of the tratl. This term's UW Cross Canada Challenge takes place until Friday, March 28.

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heats by storm in a blazing time of 7.64 seconds. Carrington later won the open final and co-captain Alison Brazier placed second in the university fmal. The men's 60m was also dominated by UW athletes. Ian Forde, the UW record holder in the Men's hockey: make run 60m, placed first. First-year athlete for playoff birth Jose Carvalho impressed his The Warriors hosted Lakehead last teammates with a b d place finish weekend for two crucial games. On in the 60Om. In the women's boom, Friday, the Warriors scored an early co-captain Allison Salter placed secgoal but could not keep the momen- ond only to the defending 600m CIS champion and ran a life time pertum as Lakehead nipped the Warriors 4-3. On Sunday, the desperate sonal best of l:35.59. Cross-country Warriors were able to tie the visiting AU-Canadtan Alastair Lawrence had Thundenvolves 4-4. The Warriors a personal best in the 1500m, finishinched closer to the Windsor Lanc- ing third. Carrington rounded up her stellar day by winning the women's ers for third place in the division and 300m in a speedy time of 39.9 secthe final playoff spot. onds. Veteran Geoff Thiessen brought his springs to the meet finSwimming: fill the podium ishing third in the triple jump. The This past Saturdaythe Warrior swim- amazing rookie shot put duo, Justin mers returned to the competition Lutchin andLuis Mendez, shot their waters for the waterloo/~uelph ways into first and third place respectively. Invitational. The Warrior women with top three placings were: Christy Men's volleyball: sweep Bell,KristenBrawley,LeslieDowson, Carrie Kilpatrick, Courtney Mitchell, weekend matches Alltson Salter, Julie Steinberg, and Jen Sweny. The Warrior women re- In Windsor last weekend, the Warrilay teams also &dwell winning the 4 ors tookthefloorledby GeoffWhite. x lO0m medley and 4 x lOOm free- Steve hlousseau contributed to the style relays. The men with top three offence and had numerous blocks. placings were: Dominic Chow,Dave The Warriors were victorious with Clarke, Carlo Distefano, h u e Good- the score of 3-1 (20-25,25-16,25-23, win, GrahameJastrebski,MattMains, 29-27). With White and Mousseau Kurt Rohmann, David Rose. The unable to play on Sunday, the WarriWarrior men's relay teams won the 4 ors used a different startingline up to face the Lancers. Jeremy Fabian led x lOOm and 4 x 50m medley relays. the Warriors with 15 kills and no hitting errors and Hani Fadali conTrack and field: place high tributed with many blocks and kills At the U of T Sharon Anderson helping to achieve a 3-0 win (25-22, 25-18,25-22). Memorial Track Meet, veteran with files from UW Athletics Daniella Carrington took the 6Om exceptionally well, scoring 27 points and h a h g down five rebounds. Both Mike Sovran and Graham Jarman added 10 points and seven rebounds each for the Warriors.

Rookies Patnck Farrell and Allison Lee picked up wins against Brock last weekend as the team cruised to a 9-2 victory. Next, the Warriors faced McMaster. Stephen Docking had his biggest singles win of the year, eaming a come-from-behmd three game match win. Lindsay Anderson and Michelle Li each won singles games. Doubles Ricky Luk andVictor Quan won, as well as Michelle Li and Ellen Wong. In the end, the Warriors' pair of Chris E ~ e nand Ellen Wong, pulled out an exciting 6-5 win. The final opponent of the day was the undefeated Western. Western remained undefeated with a 11-0 win over the Warriors

Men's basketball: drop two games to Lakehead Last Friday night, the Warriors fell behind early and trailed at the half, 39-31.Waterloo closed the gap to six with a minute and a half to go, but fell to Lakehead, 82-68.m e Sovran led the Warriors with 14 points and four rebounds,whileShaneCooney added 12points and four reboundson Saturday, in a similar type game, the Wamors got behmd early. The Warriors made a valiant effort to get in the game but their efforts fell short losing 79-68. Shane Cooney played

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A music room of one's own Mark A. Schaan IMPRINT STAFF

Just a few short blocks away from the university lies a smallenclave or laboratory for the production and generation of fine chamber music. The word laboratory applies because this special space, known as the Music Room, is a brilliant experiment in bnngmg music to the masses. Located m the house of UW philosophy professorJanNa~eson,this untque space hosts dozens of concerts annually, treatmg hsteners new and old to the beauty of chamber music. The Music Room, t h s excellent amsac venue, will feature both the dynanusmofpimst SydneyBulmanFlemtng and the Waterloo Chamber Players, an organization which continues to grow in both capacity and reputation, this Sunday. Bulman-Flemingis one on those individuals who seems to be able to share genius between two very diverse fields. A professor of mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier University for over 25 years, Bulman-Fleming makes a hobby ofhis second passion,

playingas a semi-amateurpianist fairly regularly in the region. Asked about the connections between his two interests, BulmanFleming, who has "never studied the connections formally," feels that there is "not so much as you would think." However, despite their differences, Bulman-Fleming seems to have found some ablltty to increase excellence in both of these areas. Music Room director Jan Nameson says that Bulman-Fleming "is a truly wonderful pianist, equal to most any professional,really, despite being a professor of mathematics." It seems that this diversity of talents will apply to the overall concert. Karl ~ a i & rWIU make his concert debut on the viola in thts weekend's show while furthering a 30-year performance hstory on the violin in the same concert. Asked about the leap to the new instrument, Rainer saiditwas amove he made "not reluctantly." Rainer was encouraged to make the switch by his girlfriend who is also the cellist for the Waterloo Chamber Players. The Waterloo Chamber Players, of which Rainer is a part, is a string

Feminine spirituality Rachel E. Beattie IMPRINT STAFF

Accordingto authorlucindavardey, "The language of words is a masculine, left-brain way of approachmg God." She says, "Relying on words canlimit our experienceof the divine mystery." Vardey believes a more feminine, right-brained approach to religion, one based on "image, intuition and ecstasy," is a worthy alternative, for men and women, to the traditional words and dogma that fill much of organized religion. Vardey, author of several books on the subject of feminine spirituality,dgivethe Joint WaterlooCatholic District School Board Lecture on "Beyond Words: The Language of the Feminine Spirit." Thts free lecture takes place at St. Jerome's Siegfned Hall, on January 25 at 7:30 p.m. Vardey was not always a professionalspiritualthinker;she firstmade a name for herself as a businesswoman who owned her own literary agency. She gained fame when she negotiated the fust million-dollar advance in Canadan publishing h s tory. A short tknelater,Vardey gaveup her company as she turned her talents to more divine projects and began to write and speak about spirituality. Vardey made numerous best-sellers lists in Canada as well as the U.S., including the New York T i m list,

with her 1995 novel A Simple Path, about MotherTeresa's spiritualteachings. Vardey has also written Belonging: A Book for theQue~tioningCathokc Today and edited two anthologies of spiritual writing. Vardey is a founding member of the Catherine Collective, (www.catherinecoll.com). This notfor-profit organization, named for St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th century critic of the Church, aims to "promote an understanding of Anima, 'the emerging life-giving force of feminine divine energy,' which exists in a l l human beings, both male and female, and its potential role in bringinghumankind closer to God." Vardeybelieves the feminine spirits "essential ingrechents are to unite instead of separate and compete, to shareinsteadofhoard, to live through our hearts." She argues this spiritd1"bring to focus what we've lost sight of, to come together as concerned andcompassionate people and make a difference by putting love into action, by promoting and practising generosity and trying to make things and people better." The lecture is part of the 20012002 season of the St.Jerome's Centre for Catholic Experience. For more information about the St. Jerome's Centre for Catholic Experience,. contact Dr. David Seljak, Director (ext. 232), or Ms. Carol Persin, Centre Assistant (ext. 259).

ensemble that was formed in 1994. Smce t h w mception, they have played with a number oflocal arts organizations and have contmued to mcrease their pubhc concert commtments Inthe process of selectmga music &rector, the Players have made a concert at the Music Room an annual feature of their season The concert this Sunday d feature anumber of"standards for the genre" asBulman Flemmg phrases it. He d be especially featured m Brahms Piano Quartet m A In reflecting on h s approach to the piece, and to playing in general, Fleming suggests We're all in the mood for a melody, daddy-o. that "Each piece has its own m&- second movements respec~velyand vldual character I try and approach so thts marks a bit of a closmg to it m the spint it was written m " hsteners who are regulars at the MuR a t n e r d play m the h a l e from sic Room. the Gneg v i o h sonata In the past When &scussmg his personal two years he has played the first and mouvauon towards music, Rainer

&scussed the "practical considerations" involved "You try and find something moving and passionate limited to where you can do thts technically and arusucally " Trying to encapsulate thts better, Rainer suggests that "it's music that we love, so we choose to try and play it " Rainer and the Waterloo Chamber Players feel lucky to be playingm a city that is as amsacally gvmg as Kitchener-Waterloo Thtnking about opportuniues lke the Music Room, Ramer commented that "KW is about the best place anywhere for classical music " The concert t h ~Ss m day d also feature the Paganm Caprices #6 and the Haydn Quartet Op. 20/3. The Music Room is located at 57 Young Street Tickets to the concert are avadable at the door. Student ackets are $8, semors $ 10, and $15 for all others mschaan@~mprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Lately, going to the movies hasn't been as appealing as it was at the age of 13. Back then,-romanticcomedies starring Meg Ryan or Juha Roberts seemed h e r and Disney flicks seemed worthwhile. Now when attending the movie theatre, I am often in search of a film that is enlightening and ingenious. Kandahar is one such film. Directed by prolific Iranian tilmmaker Mohsen Makhrnalbaf, Knnhhar is the story of an Afghani refugee woman living in Canada who makes a joumey back to her homeland on a very important mission. Nafas,

(NeloferPazira, whose reallife-story was the inspiration for this movie) fled to Canada as a teenager with her family, but now returns to Afghanistan to rescue her sister, who, after being maimed by a landmine, has decided to commit suicide. The challenge for Nafas is made much greater by the fact that she has only three days from the time she arrives in neighbouring Iran to reach Kandahar. Nafas needs to reach Kandahar before the solar eclipse, the time at which her sister has chosen to commit suicide. Moreover, it is forbidden for a woman to walk alone; therefore,Nafas requires male guides to assist her on her journey to Kandahar. During her journey she meets several people from whom she learns of horrific tragedies occurring under Taliban rule, imprinting horrifying I

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from the performances in Toronto and Buffalo. The live disc contains a decent sampling of the band's classic songs such as "Black Monday," "Rosy and Grey," "Bleed a Little W e Tonight," "Dogs of February" and "Eternal Fatalist." There is an even split of songs from both of the Low CDs. It also contains the song "The Unbearable Likeness ofJean" which wasn't previously released on an album. The studio disc has three songs, "Lives and Tunes," the incredibly catchy "New Westminster Taxi Squad," and "Kerosene" a pretty competent cover of the Bad Religion song. Thelive disc is a great memento for those who weren't able to attend the reunion shows, or a great memory aid for those lucky bastards who were. The band is in great form despite the nearly 10years between their performances. As with many live albums, many of the songs like "Rosy and Grey" and "Dogs of February" soundmore emotional and more energy-fdled than the original versions. Rachel E. Beattie, Imprint staff

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The mix of rock and rap has been largely a defLnition of popular music in the last few years. Little do people know that a quiet So-Cal band has been pumping out that exact type of music -and r e b g it -for nearly a decade. \While people have been swallowing up Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit albums, a true talent has survived through their big rise and even bigger drop: 3 11. 31 1is composedof fiveNebraska boys who moved to California to develop their music and careers. Their most recent album,Fmm Cham, was released h s past summer. The band's initialpopularity came with their self-titled 1995 release that containedthepopulartracks "Down" and "All hiked Up." For years it was easy to pick out a 311 song,they had a distmcttve sound of hard rock muted w t h some rapreggae. "Transistor," "Down", and "Come Ongmal" from prevlous albums all encompassed that type of sound. 31 1 takes a bit ofa different route with several ofthe tracks on this CD. Some uncharacteristically mellow tracks on here are "Champange," "Amber" and the semi-radio popular "I'll Be Here a While." For a band that has largely focused on a heavy type of music, the fact that they can put together good slower songs shows that they are maturing well. Their distinguishingsoundis back, on songs such as 'You Wouldn't Believe" and "WakeYour Mind Up." 311 is one of the most underrated bands today; their ability to combine several genres of music and have them mesh so flawlessly is a rare talent. Matt Patterson, special to Imprint

With six Grammy nominations, including Song of the Year, Album of theyear and Best New Artist, it is no surprise that Alicia Keys.is easy to spot on the covers at every magazine stand. Her first CD, released ths past year, songsinA minor, has already won an award for her hit single ''Fah." "Fallin" is a song that describes how one person is tormented by their feelings towards their partner, and is inevitably in some type of love cycle. Keys has said that this song not only describes relationships between partners, but also depicts her feehgs towards her mother (at times). Other songs on the CD with popularitypotentialifidude"A Woman's Worth," "Goodbye" and "Girlfriend," which features Jermaine Dupri. Though the album is quite upbeat, the emotionally-riveting "Butterfly" is reminscent of Alicia's intensity on " F M . " As a new young artist, the excitement Keys generates IS due paraally to her soulfd ingenuity and knack forground brealunginstrwnentalarrangement- she Introducesa umque blend of classicalandhip-hopsound. Since many new artists are manufactured or hail from the MickyMouse Club, it's refreshing to hear songs wntten by the artist. Unfortunately,Alicia's songwriting lacks the ingenuity needed to sustain a long-term favourable CD, since most ofher songs arewrittenin reference to relationships. She discusses how a man should respect "his woman" and the difficulties a woman has in letting go when "her man" doesn't respect her. Christina Ghanem, special to Imprint

The soundtrack for The Fellowship of the Rzng from composer Howard Shore highlights several different themes: hard and militaristic for the orcs, light and airy for the hobbits, ominous for the forces of Mordor, and inspiring and driven for the fellowship itself. The tone is set from the start, as most of the pieces are quite brooding. Fortunately, the second piece, "Concerning Hobbits," is quite cheery and playful, featuring a harpsichord,which gives it a feel of antiquity. "A Knife in the Dark," "The Black Rider" and "Bridge ofKhazad Dum" all bring aninjectionofenergy to an otherwise subdued set ofpieces. In Enya's solo, "May It Be," the full'strinRssection of the orchestra is a nice change from her usual sharply defined musical accompaniment.At tunes her lyncal blendmg does make it difficult to understand what she is singmg, though. Dav~dDev~ne,spectal to lrnprmt

Fans of the early'90s bandLowest of the Low will want to ad this gem of a disc to their CD collections. Not only does Nothing Short of a Bullet contain 17 live tracks recorded at several of the legendaryband's reunion shows in late 1999, but it also contains a three-song studio disc of new songs. For the uninitiated, the Low was an excellentToronto band that broke up in the early 1990s after releasing only two albums; the brilliant Shakepeare My Butt and Hallucegenia. In 1999 the Low delighted fans with a reunion tour. The live portion of Nothing Short of a Bullet was culled

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Kristen Hersh: near-whisper to full-tilt in 60 seconds

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K n s t e n Hersh is t h e s o a o f artist w h o hovers around t h e h e o f obscurity mth occasional flashes o f m d e r recogmuon H e r four bnlhant and heartbreaking solo albums are stdl memtably prefaced m press talk mth the words "formerly o f T h r o w m g Muses," even though that b a n d has been defunct for five years a n d the music they played is very d f f e r e n t f r o m what H e r s h produces now. T h r o w m g Muses was Hersh's source o f notoriety, since she formed t h e b a n d m 1983 w h e n she was lust 14 a n d kept it gomg for twelve years a n d seven albums. T h e actual h e - u p changed a couple times, even at o n e p o m t mcludmg h e r half-sister Tanya Donelly (who went o n t o form the m o r e commercially successful Belly), b u t throughout it was clear that T h r o w m g Muses was essen-

TOEFLPreparation Course -The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) course begins January 15 and ends March 21. Classes are held every Tuesday and Thursday from 2-4:30 p.m. This 10week course is designed for people taking the TOEFL exam. The course fee 1s $91 and includes the course book. Register at the International Student Office, NH 2080, @ or call ext. 2814 for more details. Nominations are requested for the following undergraduate student seats on Senate*: ELECTIONS (terms from May 1, 2002 to Aprd 30, 2004) * One student elected bylfrom the full-tme undergraduate students ~neach of the followmg Faculties: Applied Health Sciences, Arts, Env~ronmentalStudieslhdependent Stud~es,and SCIence. * One student elected bylfrom the full-t~meundergraduate students. BYELECTION (term from May 1,2002 to Aprd 30, 2003) ' One student elected bylfrom the full-time Engmeering undergraduatestudents. Nominauon forms are available from the Secretar~atand the Federat~onof Students Office, and at: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.cal 1 n f o s e c l e 1 e c t i o n s / undergradelection.html and http:/l www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/~nfosec/electlons/undergradbyelect~on.html. At least five nommators are requ~red in each case. Nominations should be sent to the Ch~efReturnmg Officer, Secretar~at, Needles Hall, room 3060, no later than 3:00 p.m., Friday, January 18, 2002. The Elect~onComm~tteeshall hold a meetmg w ~ t hall candidates at 4:30 p.m. on the day of !he close of nomlnatlons. Student Senators complet~ngtheirterms1

ually K n s t e n Hersh. W h a t small fame the band gamed over the years, mostly m college r a d o circles and for being t h e first Amencans t o b e signed t o the B n u s h label 4AD, focused mostly o n Hersh and the bipolar disease s h e contmues t o fight But thts wasn't simply a f a s u n a a o n with her mental illness; the music H e r s h produced was s o raw and unhmged that it promded an explananon for her strange l y n a s m and extreme musical highs and lows.

A fully-formed song would appear in her head and demand to be let out.

the unstable female artist that has repeatedly anisen in history, made into a stereotype through examples o f artists such a s Sylvia Plath. Perhaps for such reasons, Hersh has recently focused m o r e o n talking about t h e music itself, letting her songs reveal their nature after close 'listens rather than explaining away their histories. O n their own, the songs are surrounded with a bit o f mystery and her albums become even m o r e powerful. H e r first solo release in 1994, H@ andMakers, was striking because it was acoustic and bare while the listening public was used t o t h e arty rock o f Throwing Muses. Hersh herself was extremely

cognizant o f this change; she has explained that t h e songs were onginally demos meant t o b e dressed u p with a full band. She had to b e persuaded t o leave t h e m as-is. because she was t o o "shv" t o release acoustic songs, feeling they were too naked t o play live. T h e acoustic approach seemed t o work with t h e buying public, however. Hips and Makers sold m o r e than any Muses album ever had. H e r subsequent solo release, Strange Angels, was equally bare, b u t recently Hersh has m o v e d towards fuller instrumentation, thts time playing all t h e parts herself. Sky Motel, inspired by a year-long stay in the desert, is considerably m o r e

upbeat b u t n o less powerful Last year's S u n y Border Blue seems t o c o m b m e t h e best elements o f all o f Hersh's music shunmenng layers, crashing tambounnes, hauntmg organ, and, best o f all, a n i n c r e d ~ b l voice e that stretches f r o m a husky and soft near-whisper t o a MI-tilt belt that she uses spanngly enough t o keep i t potent each a m e Hersh makes t h e sort o f devastaung-mth-atmge-of-hope music that demands careful attenaon t o really feel where it's comtng f r o m But, as with t h e very best kinds o f music, your attenaon is duly rewarded

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Hersh herself even admowledges that h e r illness often drove her t o w n t e songs, c l m g that a fully-formed s o n g would appear m her head and demand to b e let o u t She descnbed thts process as pamful b u t necessary for creatmg her art. A t the same time, she spoke o f bemg frustrated m t h the image o f

stepping down as of April 30,2002: Rob Robson, Applied Health Sciences; Brenda Slomka, Arts; Alex Matan, Engineering; Nayan Gandhi, Environmental Studieslhdependent Studies; Albert Nazareth, Science; and Stephen Lockwood, at large. Elections will be conducted electronically; the polls will be open from 8:00 am., Monday, February 11 to 4:00 p.m., Friday, February 15. 'Refer to the following Web site for information re Senate and its Commithttp:/l tees and Councils: www.adm.uwaterloo.calinfosec/uwac~. uwactindex.htm1. Attention Undergraduate Students - interested in applying for undergraduate scholarships, awards or bursaries? Check out the Bulletin Board on the Student Awards Office home page at: http:// www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoawards/for a detailed list of awards open for application this term. Further information is available at the Student Awards Office, 2nd floor, Needles Hall. Heidi Thiessen Memorial Scholarships ($500 & $1,000) are available to third and fourth year students at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. February 1 deadline. For details, see www.stc.waterloo.ca. Advocating for Wellness -an interactive health fair w t h women who promote health and wellness in our community. Sunday, March 3, 2002 from 12:OO to 4:00 p.m. at the WaterlooMemorialRec Complex. For more info call Dianne at (76-11447

Like music? Got school spirit? Join the Warrior's Band. No experience required, just a little spare time and a friendly attitude.Thursdays 5:30p.m. BlueNorth PAC. E-mail Tim Windsor at tpwindso@yahoo.com or 880-0265.

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Volunteer tutors are needed to tur students on a one-to-one basis written and oral English. Tutors meet students on campus for one term, usually once a week for two hours. If you have a good working knowledge of English, are patient, friendly, dependable, and wodd like to volunteer, register at the hternational Student Office, NH2080. For more information about the program, please call extension 2814 or e-mail darlene@admmail.uwaterloo.ca. Study Hall Program: needed immediately: January 2002-April 2002. University students to tutor our new Canadian children at community based study hall. Students range from grade 3 to 12 needing support in English, French, highschool sciences and maths. Own transportation is preferred. Training and screening is required. Call Big Sisters at 743-5206 to sign up for training session on January 14; 2002. Big Sister Match Program: needed immediately: Big Sister volunteers. Over 60 children waiting for a friend. Help make a difference by spending 3 hours a week with a child. Inquire re: our short term match program. Car an asset. Next training session on February 2, 2002 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m, Call 7435206 to reeister. Volunteers required - are you able to volunteer a few hours weekly during the school day? The Friends Service at CMHA matches volunteers with chlldren who need additional support in their school setting. Please call 7447645, ext. 31701 www.cmhawrb.on.ca Children's International Summer Villages (CISV) has an immediate opening for a mature adult male to travel to

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Scandinavia this coming Summer with a delegation of 11 year old children. If you are interested and haveexperience workingwith children, please call LindaTurek at 632-9319 or info@cisvwaterloo.org by January 18. You must be available for weekly meetings beginning in March. Your time is valuable. At the Distress Centre you can volunteer providing confidential supportive listening to individuals in distress. We provide complete training. Call today. 744-7645, ext. 317 or www.cmhawrb.on.ca. Help kids succeed with homework! The Kitchener Public Library is opening a Homework Centre and needs volunteers to be tutors and provide homework assistance. Two hours per week, evenings and weekends. Interested? Call 743-0271, ext. 275 For more information about anv of these volunteer opportunmes, please call the Volunter Action Centre at 742-8610. TECH SECTORVOLUNTERSWORKING WITH STUDENTS #3529 - 1s what Pnch-a-Plan is all about. Many opportunltles avadable: organizmg h ~ g h school presentations, securing summer job interviews for students, takmg and mstributing meeting mlnutes and maintaming a small maling list or workmg with the President to generate donations. BE A KID, AGAIN, BECOME A BIG BROTHER #1006-1027 - Big Brothers get to do fun " k ~ dstuff" as they share a few hours a week w ~ t ha boy from a father-absent home. Volunteers must be 19 years of age or older; tralning and support are prov~ded. CUSTOMER SERVICE VOLUNTEERS AT THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY .. #1074-1518 - Sh~ftsare

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available mornings or afternoons during the week. Duties would include reception duties, telephone skills, processing health care equipment loans and excepting donations. HEY! BULLIES ARE NOT COOL! #1074-3212 - If you agree, the Canadian Red Cross Society is looking for youth volunteers to become involved in this innovative anti-bullying program for elementary school children. Presentations are held mid-afternoons. LOVE PLANNING A PARTY? #1102-1392 - the second annual "Auction for Action" to support the work of the Volunteer Action Centre, needs enthusiastic volunteers to plan an evening tht will feature silent and live auctions, great food, music and lots of fun. PLAN A RELAY FOR HEART AND STROKE! #1052-10617-"LateNight Relay" will be on April 26 and will feature teams of participants who will walk, run or in-line skate around the track at Resurrection Catholic Secondary School. I' you are interested in recruiting, dealing with logistics or marketing and brochure distribution, come and join in on the planning! GIVE THE GIFT OF READING AND WRITING ... #1048-1110 - two to three hours a week is all it takes to help adults improve their reading, writing and basicmathskills. The Literacy Group is looking for patient, flexible volunteers in the Elmira and Linwood areas.

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