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Designing tomorrow today Erin L. Gilmer IMPRINT STAFF
If you happened to check out the fourth annual Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Projects Symposium, you’ve probably been lucky enough to meet some of Canada’s leading innovators. This year’s exhibits included engineering projects such as USB radio, robots, signal tracking systems, and an eye gaze detection system. Some of the particularly fascinating projects included the Robospider, Back on Track, the Human Robotics Input Device and Air Rockey. Robospider is a freaky-looking, sixlegged walking robot created by Wilson Chan, Tom Liu, Donny Chou and Ryan Leslie. The robot is designed to be used in hazardous environments where you cannot send people. Robospider runs on only three motors, making it lighter and easier to control. “We thought we’d do it completely differently,” said Leslie. “None of the other six-legged robots out there can run on so few motors.” Back on Track, the sophisticated tracking system engineered by Jiten Chauhan, Aman Thind, Nahid Harjee and Amit Sahasrabudhe can be used by anyone with a connection to the Internet. “Users can trace a bus by tracking its real-time position,” said Chauhan. The system detects devices placed on each bus and conveys it to the user through their cellular phone, PDA or any device that can connect to the Internet. See EXHIBITS, page 23
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Mike Brookfield shows off the Human Robotics Input Device at the fourth annual Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Project Symposium. The event was held in the Davis Centre on Wednesday, January 21.
Senate in favour of raising admission averages Kristina Jarvis IMPRINT STAFF
The UW Senate has agreed. “We are prepared to raise our admission standards,” making some senators and Feds executive members wary of the move. The announcement was made at a meeting on Monday, December 15. The proposition was brought to the table with three others in response to the Senate meeting on November 17 regarding the university’s standings in Maclean’s magazine. In the 2003 survey released last November, UW was ranked number two in the comprehensive category, behind the University of Guelph. It was reported that UW has dropped in standing since 1996.
During the November Senate meeting, vice president academic and provost, Amit Chakma presented a report stating the average grade of students accepted in 2002 was 85.5 per cent, with 250 students being under 75 per cent. His suggestion was to raise the average cutoff to 75 per cent, with a future raise of 80 per cent for later consideration. The Senate proposition is meeting with its fair share of criticism, including that of current Feds’ president, Chris Edey. “While I understand the reasoning behind this move, I don’t believe it will increase the quality of the university or the value of the education that our students receive,” said Edey. “Less students will get into the affected pro-
grams. That’s the main impact.” Emma Bardon, a senator for engineering, said that while the admissions process is different for engineers, raising the averages across the bar might not be the best thing for some faculties. “I personally think that it would be irresponsible of the university to unilaterally raise the admissions bar until the new high school curriculum has had a chance to settle,” said Bardon. “No one knows exactly how well this new curriculum will prepare students for university.” Senator Len Guelke said he believes other factors should be looked at in determining who is admitted to UW. “The fundamental criterion of ad-
mission should relate to a student’s commitment to learn and benefit from the program applied for. This criterion implies a minimum state of preparedness for the program in question,” said Guelke. Chakma also raised the possibility of offering admissions to students who had shown very strong grades in Grade 11, as well as scholarships. “I think merit-based scholarships are fantastic and play a huge role in attracting top students to UW,” said Edey. In the end, the three motions that passed were: (1) we are prepared to raise our admission standards, (2) we should change our traditional practices of relying on the complete applications packages and embrace the prac-
tice of offering “early admissions” along with scholarships based on Grade 11 standings (this was understood to be 10 per cent of students that apply to Waterloo, based initially on Grade 11 marks as reported to the university, not in every faculty, and where not every “early admit” student would be offered a scholarship), and (3) we should re-examine and, if warranted, re-design curricula in areas where we currently do not attract high quality students to make these programs attractive. The fourth amendment that was tabled dealt with re-evaluating undergraduate programs with “low student demand.” See ADMISSIONS, page 5
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Math Contest back in 2002, when he was ranked at the top of UW and in the top ten overall in Canada. His team placed seventh in North America. In the past, Lino has served on the executive for the pure math club and was also a frosh leader/ coordinator for the math faculty. Lino has been a CS tutor and an avid participant in campus rec curling. In his spare time, he enjoys shovelling snow, and occasionally he writes for mathNEWS. Following graduation, Lino wants to become a math professor. His words of wisdom? “Down with pants!!” — Lauren S. Breslin
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launch this summer Kristina Jarvis
is something we wanted to make from a customer service [perspective], for both students and employers.” After building a new system from the ground The teaching option students used a test run up, fixing bugs and running test pilots, the new of the system in the fall 2003 term, which allowed CECS.online project is almost up and ready to for feedback to help fix some of the glitches. go. However, Olaf Naese, communications and The new Web site’s final full launch date is public relations administrator, noted that the May 2004. Among some of the issues along the feedback was valuable and a helpful factor in way were the loss of the ensuring that the system original software comwas easy to use before it pany that was building is released to a wider authe program and staffing dience. “This is something changes. The system will be dewe wanted The program itself is signed to allow students based on the university’s to do almost everything to make from a operating system, they need to find co-op customer service PeopleSoft. From the jobs, from posting difbase they had, the project ferent resumé versions to [perspective], team designed the new creating their own cover for both students system for co-op from letters from templates, scratch, with the basic idea which have been deand employers.” to make the system both signed specifically for the — Rick Roach easy to use and helpful for project creating their own admin for science and AHS students and employers. cover letters from tem“We’re trying to make plates, which have been things accessible to peodesigned specifically for ple,” said Rick Roach, administrator for science the project. The new system will also allow and applied health science, who is also a manager employers to see which students match their on the project. profiles and submit their schedules for inter“We want students to be able to pick their viewing students. Work reports and rankings own time for interviews, we want employers to will also be available online, as well as student be able to pick their own days and times, so this evaluations. IMPRINT STAFF
SLC Tim Hortons Design Committee inches towards progress Robyn Steele IMPRINT INTERN
To prepare for the coming of a fourth campus Tim Hortons, Food Services, in conjunction with Feds and Tim Hortons, have formed a design committee to collaborate on ideas and generate a plan for the space. At this point, very little has been finalized, since the committee has only met once. However, some plans have been made, such as to exclude fixed seating; only fixed seating in various hard and soft styles. There will be café style seating and possibly tub chairs, sofas, love seats and tree seat couches. Also being considered is the possibility for an exterior exit in the south east corner, close to the Bomber patio. Included on this committee are several students from and appointed by Feds, a member of
residence council, a member of the grad association, Feds VP of administration and finance Dave Capper, the UW architect, representatives from both a design firm and Tim Hortons and Food Services director Mark Murdoch. The committee will be in charge of designing the 24-hour Tim Hortons, which was officially selected last November to replace Ground Zero in the Student Life Centre and is scheduled to begin construction in the spring term. The majority of the decisions have yet to be made, with Murdoch having cited six to eight weeks before anything concrete is ready to be shown. This project is costing Food Services an estimated $400,000 in renovation, with an annual guarantee of $20,000 in revenue, plus a sliding scale based on sales from there. rsteele@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
“The scope of the project is so huge,” said Roach. “This project has just been laced with co-op students all along the way.” This term, the system will run another test with several more students prior to launching. Roach is clear, though, that the project will be an ongoing task. “We’ve got to look at things from a maintenance point of view,” said Roach. “These are all the issues when [co-op] students build things. Who is going to maintain them?” kjarvis@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Feds midterm review: the trilogy ends Reflections on David Capper and John Fedy as their time in office winds down Durshan Ganthan IMPRINT STAFF
Concluding Imprint’s midterm review of the Feds executive, this week we take a look at VP administration and finance David Capper and VP internal John Fedy. David Capper, VP administration and finance
During his term in office, Capper implemented a plan to develop standardized rates for the rental of Federation Hall and The Bombshelter, which also saw the creation of a database of associated costs. He also planned professional development days and social events for full-time staff once per term. The other items in Capper’s strategic plan have been either slowed down or stopped completely due to unforeseen circumstances and technical difficulties. Capper wanted to increase the student use of Ground Zero space by implementing a Subway or Harvey’s franchise there. However, students’ council decided to instead transfer the space to UW Food Services, allowing them to build a Tim Hortons. “I feel that it is unfortunate that we were not able to implement two new food service businesses in the SLC,” Capper said. “My preference for the future of Ground Zero was duly noted during the council meeting that dealt with the issue.” Capper added that he “will work hard to ensure the success of council’s decision for the venture.”
A free-phone kiosk and internet café were also in Capper’s plans, but they are contingent on the completion of Ground Zero renovations. Capper explained that they will be located in the new Tim Hortons and the plan is for them to complement the existing internet access and wireless access in the SLC. The free-phone kiosk will be a standalone computer that allows students to make long-distance phone calls and use the internet for free. “The free-phone kiosks can be used as revenue generators by tying in marketing of local businesses while still allowing the Feds to offer the service for free,” Capper explained. Capper wanted to increase the use of Feds TV across campus, but technical difficulties curtailed those plans. “We have been receiving the signal on an intermittent basis and the system as a whole is not performing at the level we were led to believe that it would,” Capper stated. “The repairs had seemed to have fixed the problems we were experiencing. However, I have noticed today that a few more problems have developed.” Capper also wanted to streamline the Feds poster and advertising campaign, but was unable to complete this as that task relied on greater use of Feds TV. During the remainder of his term in office, Capper has plans to implement a set of customer service principles for Feds businesses and will work on creating an online survey regarding Feds businesses that will tie in to the opening of the internet café. Capper will also conduct research on improving the finances, business performance and budgeting of Feds businesses.
John Fedy, VP internal
Fedy managed to build UW pride by promoting cross-campus events, worked hard to improve the already-successful Warrior Weekends and helped first-year students get involved in clubs by getting as much information to them as possible. He also promoted student council by implementing a board outside the Feds office with information on the councillors and he let councillors order official student council clothing. Fedy also worked to improve campus safety by having a study completed on the math society C&D break-ins and offered Student Life Endowment Fund forms to the societies so that they could apply for funding for better security. “This project is one that has been in the works since I started my term in office and will be finished before it ends,” Fedy said of the Volunteer Information Booklet, which is meant to inform students on how they can get involved with the Feds through volunteering. “It is one of the lower priorities. Although the majority of the work is completed on this project, I am still working on the graphics and the layout to be finalized before our marketing department puts it online and prints it.” Fedy oversaw the implementation of an online volunteer database that made managing over 550 student volunteers much easier. “The best part is knowing that the list is always up-to-date and accurate,” Fedy said. The success of this initiative led Fedy to look into creating databases for club registration and applying for a Feds job. Once complete, the system “will almost eliminate any other type of application that we have, making it easier and more accessible to the entire student body,” Fedy stated. “With having over half of the services moving into new office spaces as a result of the SLC third floor expansion, it was seen as the perfect opportunity to update some of the office equipment and furniture,” Fedy explained. Clubs and services received new (or “new used”) items such as computers, desks, chairs, tables, etc. Fedy hopes to purchase more items with proper funding from places such as the Student Life Endowment Fund. One of Fedy’s completed tasks that has yet to be used is Feds Um-borrow-ellas. “This simple service is ready for the first sign of rain,” Fedy said. On rainy days, students can go to the Feds office and sign out an umbrella for free (users must pay a $20 deposit or leave their Watcard). “I hope that the umbrellas will be one form of advertising, with each umbrella having the Feds logo screened on to it; as well, these large black and white golf umbrellas are certaintly not hard to miss.” Fedy also initiated a “Feds on your Floor” program, where the Feds executive visit residences and interact with the students by attending floor events or meetings. “Of the floors we have visited, we have really been able to get information back from this year’s first-year class on things that they have and have not enjoyed,” said Fedy. “We have been able to generate new ideas and programs for the upcoming term through our visits.” During the remainder of his term in office, Fedy plans on improving the use of the Feds Web site by putting as much information as possible online and he wants to “focus on events to promote campus life and what UW and the Feds offer students.” He also plans on improving volunteer recruitment, retention and appreciation. He wants to improve the way the Feds communicate to the students by “coordinating the release of important and relevant information to the student body,” and integrating Feds TV with Feds Speaker’s Corner. dganthan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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The Queen’s women’s rugby team has participated in a calendar to raise money to fund a reading week trip to the Cayman Islands. Akin to similar firemen’s calendars, the calendar features strategically placed rugby balls, as well as team members posing in sports bras and spandex.
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Patch Adams, M.D. is to speak about wellness, laughter, humour and life at Trent University on February 10th. The director of the Gesundheit Institute had a movie about him made, Patch Adams, in which he was portrayed by actor Robin Williams.
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A straw bale building is being constructed at the University of Manitoba, a joint venture between the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences. Soil research will be conducted inside the building, as well as research about the actual straw structure.
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Canada’s two right-wing political parties have merged to form the new Conservative Party of Canada. The former parties, the Progressive Conservative party and the Canadian Alliance, combined in an effort to gain the total votes that they used to split. The new party will seek its new leader in the next couple of months.
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Supposed godfather Vito Rizzuto of Montreal’s Mafia was arrested January 21. Informants of the US police are willing to testify that Rizzuto was part of a hit squad that took down three Mafia heads in Montreal. Rizzuto has also been alleged to be involved with drug trafficking, tax evasion and money laundering.
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Planning on going to the U.S.? You better watch out for increased surveillance from the authorities as America targets Canadian pot laws. The heightened monitoring comes as a result of perceptions that marijuana is easier to access in Canada. US Ambassador Paul Cellucci commented that the surveillance will be lessened if Canada’s pending weed legislation includes tougher criminal penalties.
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The world’s biggest anti-globalization gathering closed in Mumbai, India amidst thousands of demonstrators and activists. The World Social Forum, in contrast to the World Economic Forum, focused mainly on discussions of the US-led war on terrorism, its occupation of Iraq and the World Trade Organization.
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After being given up for dead in November, 14 fishermen from Bangledesh have returned home. The men were rescued after a cyclone struck their ship. They had tied themselves to barrels, staying afloat for eight days after which they were rescued and taken to Sri Lanka. Language incompatibilities prevented them from returning home btong@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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There is a form of “cheating� that has been spreading around campus for years, and it has nothing to do with marks or academics. Rather, it refers to students who post documents on the corkboards all over campus without getting them authorized first. Students, perhaps not wanting to pay for personal advertising, will often staple up papers — usually sublet notices or ads for upcoming events — without getting them stamped by the likes of Feds or the corresponding faculty’s society, depending on where they are posting. It remains a concern to such authorities. Math student Doug Sibley summed up the problem in a post on uwstudent.org: “Posting through Feds is expensive. Posting through MathSoc takes time and subjects you to a very limited number of posters. If you want exposure all over campus, you need to go to all sorts of Socs and even then you don’t get good spots, only a few poster boards.� Sibley also points out that if you “cheat� — that is, put up posters anywhere you want without notification — some will get taken down but many others might go unnoticed and remain up in prime locations on campus. “If you want, you could do both (have some that are assured of staying up and some that might get taken down),� he added on uwstudent.org. “Since the only penalty for ‘cheating’ is the potential for the poster to come down, the system greatly favours cheaters.� Lino Demasi, Math Society president elect, is not too affected by cheaters since Math Soc corkboards — which include several in the Math & Computers Building and one in Davis
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An unchecked corkboard can become a bit of a mess. Centre — are checked daily and unstamped papers are removed. Still, he knows the problem exists. “There’s definitely incentive to cheat,� he said. “We restrict our number [of documents that can be posted] because there’s only so many we can put up. People cheat because that way they can put up as many as they want.� He adds that although Math Soc’s bylaws permit them to fine cheaters, it is extremely difficult to catch them in the act. Others suggest that a lack of proper maintenance may perpetuate the problem. In a post on uwgeneral.com, Prof. Prabhakar Ragde mentioned that he would personally maintain the board outside his office in the hallway that links DC with MC. When he moved out, no one took over, and it is now littered with “cheat� posters. Dave McDougall, Feds director of marketing and communications, sees the need for regulated poster monitoring, especially since Feds has boards in all the buildings, including the student villages. “We do poster runs
every Friday. That’s the only time they get policed,� said McDougall. “[Stamping is] how we defend ourselves against the accusations that we are spreading improper literature.� Furthermore, it may be the case that while cheaters think their posters get seen more without notification, the opposite is true, since the boards are very random and important messages may go unnoticed, and anything posted in other areas on campus, such as doors, windows or stairwells, are yanked immediately. “The point of the boards is to make sure that everybody knows about events that are going on around campus,� said McDougall. “This way, if the posters are all concentrated in one area, then somebody who is interested can just go there, as opposed to the poster pollution in areas that you would see if it weren’t regulated.� Guidelines on two-week stamped advertising on Feds corkboards is available at the Feds office in the SLC.
Maclean’s publishes the university rankings every year as a way to give students an idea of where universities stand within three different categories: Primarily Undergraduate, Comprehensive and Medical/Doctoral.
Guelke believes students put too much stock in the rankings. “I’m not sure they are [regarded so highly],� said Guelke. “Many people are skeptical of their value and question the methodology used in producing the rankings.� Edey also points out why the
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Students question co-op courses Ryan Chen-Wing UWRYAN . COM Students reacted with furrowed brows and a flood of questions when they found out about proposed work term courses at last week’s Eng Soc meeting. Jonathan Fishbein, Eng Soc-A VP Education, described the proposal while reporting, as he should, about academic issues. The proposal, which has passed through the necessary committees to go to senate, would require engineering students to take five professional development courses over five work terms. Students at the meeting reacted with dismay, probably largely because it was the first time they had heard of these courses and they didn’t have any details. Their concerns included the possibility of extra work, extra cost and the fear that the courses might be useless. Based on what I know of the proposal, I support it. It will help to enhance and direct learning on co-op work terms rather than let it happen haphazardly. Certainly there is a great variety of experiences, skills and knowledge for students to gain from work terms that could not be shoehorned into specific courses. These courses with their themes of leadership, professionalism, critical analysis and communica-
tion are themes common to most work terms. These themes are also a foundation necessary to becoming a productive engineer. Professor Wayne Loucks has said that the courses should not add significant work because much of the course experiences will occur naturally during the work term. The courses involve enrichment of the experience by preparing students with theory and then requiring a write-up to ensure that each student has learned from the experience. The proposal is based on the absence of extra costs to students; the courses would have no tuition fees. The use of the courses — in addition to helping students learn — is to quantify some of the value of co-op work terms. Now that engineering accreditation under the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board is based on absolute course work rather than proportion of course time, these courses can add additional value as measured by accreditation. This issue affects all students, because after this initiative by engineering, other faculties may introduce their own co-op courses. Also, if these courses are introduced, students on work term will have a normal course weight of two one-term courses bringing them that much closer to full-time status. If students have questions about these courses, I understand that there will be forums organized through EngSoc and Loucks will be invited to an EngSoc meeting. Loucks will be answering ten reader-submitted questions; people can submit questions at uwstudent.org. ryan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Contacts and falling trees Finally, O’Donovan, an honourary UW engineering graduate, is leading the initiative to move the school of architecture from Waterloo to Cambridge and to equip it as a state-of-the-art facility. UW students take first place in investment challenge
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Contact lenses are more popular than before, reports UW’s Centre for Contact Lens Research (CCLR). The increase in popularity is owed to the comfort, convenience and safety of today’s contacts. The CCLR, international leaders in their field and the only Canadian facility dedicated to contact lens research, has been bombarded with requests to conduct clinical trials. So, if you wear contacts, you are invited to participate in this innovative oncampus research. Registration details can be found on the CCLR Web site: www.cfclr.com .
Three UW students took home first place in the national University/College Investment Challenge. Henry Ho (Computer Science), Herman Leung (Science) and Daniel Reiter (English Lit) shared the $1000 prize for participating in the mock operations of an online brokerage firm. Over 650 student teams participated in the challenge, and played the markets as they would have in the real world. The competition, sponsored by the Canadian Securities Institute, took place from September 29 to November 28. Results were only announced recently. If a tree falls on Columbia Street, does it make a sound?
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Major funding gifts to the university made possible by former chancellor Val O’Donovan and his wife, Sheila, have launched three special initiatives. The couple has helped the university establish the O’Donovan Chair in Engineering, a focal point for research and teaching in emerging areas in engineering — specifically, wireless communications. The couple have also made generous gifts towards the creation of a new teaching and research chair in the faculty of arts.
Scores of mature trees on Columbia St. West started coming down on January 19 as part of the third phase of a $10.4 million project to widen the roadway to four lanes. Some 70 large maples, pines, oaks and silver birches between King St. North and Philip St. were scheduled to be felled, said Tim Anderson, Waterloo’s director of parks and works services. Phase 4 will widen Columbia St. from Westmount Rd. to Fischer-Hallman Rd., and is slated for completion in 2005. lbreslin@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Sizing up the competition: pre-election notes Andrew Dilts IMPRINT STAFF
The official start of this year’s campaign period for Federation of Students elections is January 28. For those uninitiated in Feds elections, here is a preview of the four hottest Feds jobs UW students will soon be vying for. Vice-president, internal
“I would have to say the most rewarding part of my job is being in the position to assist and help my fellow students achieve their goals,” said current Feds vice-president internal John Fedy. The VP internal is ultimately responsible for the eight services and scores of clubs overseen by the Federation of Students, including the Campus Response Team, the Food Bank and the Off-Campus Dons. Feds bylaws charge the VP internal with ensuring that the UW campus is an environment where students can “pursue personal and social growth as well as academic excellence.” Looking back on his year, Fedy commented on the numerous difficult issues he has had to face as the VP internal. “Coming into office with an $11 million lawsuit against the University, the Norman Finkelstein lecture and the controversy that it brought to our campus, and the decision to turn the Ground Zero space into a Tim Hortons,” were the top tricky issues listed by Fedy. Next year’s VP internal, noted Fedy, will have to deal with such issues as “continuing to build a better relationship with the University as we continue to develop new committees and structures in which we share a common ground and interest, continuing to generate more funding to put towards areas of student interest [and the] need to improve communication.” Vice-president, administration and finance
“The phrase ‘baptism by fire’ comes to mind,” noted Feds VP ad-
ministration and finance, David staff. I really appreciated the opportuCapper, remembering the issues he nity to work several shifts in each of our businesses. I have thoroughly faced as he took office. “Right off the bat we had the [is- enjoyed meeting all of these new peosue] of the bar closures, which was a ple.” great deal of work and caused stress Vice-president, education levels to soar.” The Feds vice-president, adminisGiving a first-hand perspective of tration and finance ultimately over- the position, current Feds VP educasees all financial aspects of the Federa- tion, Liam McHugh-Russell, comtion of Students, including expendi- mented on some of the issues that an tures, financial controls and account- incoming executive will have to face. ing. The VP administration and First and foremost, he noted, there is finance also oversees the managers of an “increasing need to focus on comthe Feds’ businesses, including Fed munication. Students are increasingly Hall, the Bombshelter, the Used Book- asking what value they’re getting for store, Ground Zero, Aussies and their Feds dollar.” Scoops. As such, Capper came into McHugh-Russell also commented office when the two campus bars were that a new VP education will need to still closed, and one of his first jobs continue “keeping a sharp eye on the was to work with his fellow executive province and admin. With a two year on re-opening the bars for UW stu- tuition freeze, and a good chance of dents. continued sub-standard funding, stuAnother of the most highlighted dents will have to be wary of what parts of the VP people are deciding administration about the end of and finance’s job the freeze.” “The phrase is preparing the The VP educaannual budget tion is the main ‘baptism by fire’ for approval at UW undergrad comes to mind.” the Federation of representative on — Dave Capper Students’ counco-op and acacil. demic issues, overFeds VP admin/finance “Specific to seeing such bodies the VP adminisas the Academics tration and finance portfolio, the is- Commission, Co-op Students’ Counsues surrounding the Feds operating cil and the Education Advisory Combudget presented quite a number of mittee. This VP represents students challenges for [me]. The work of the to UW’s Co-op Education and Career Structural Budget Review Committee Services (CECS), addresses issues retook some very important steps to- lating to academic quality and accessiward solving what students viewed as bility and offers direction for students problems with the budgeting proc- with questions about academic deciess. Dealing with the immense sions and appeals. amounts of data took quite a bit of The job of the vice-president edutime and effort to organize.” The Struc- cation isn’t limited by the boundaries tural Budget Review Committee was of UW’s campus, however. The VP struck in mid-2003 to deal with budget education also represents undergraduissues raised at a Federation of Stu- ate students externally, being charged dents’ council meeting. with promoting and maintaining reRegardless of the more difficult lationships with student representachallenges his job has presented him tives from other schools. with, Capper was able to find the silver The VP education is the key Feds lining in the occasional VP adminis- rep to the provincial and federal stutration and finance cloud. dent lobby groups that the Feds par“I have truly enjoyed working with ticipate in, notably the Canadian Alliboth the Feds full-time and part-time ance of Student Associations (CASA)
and the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA). Referring to the Feds’ relationship with individual student societies, such as the Engineering Society or the Arts Students Union, McHugh-Russell noted that the Feds need to end what he terms the “ghettoization” of Fedssociety relationships. “Over the years, society relations with the Feds have decreased in scope, so that now we have an almost solely supervisory capacity over the societies. We need to be proactive in getting societies involved in our advocacy and events, and vice versa.” As the VP education is a very involved position, McHugh-Russell noted that the biggest challenge during his term in office was that of prioritization. “Finding the time to get people interested in what I’m doing, convincing them to help, and sustaining their commitment through constructive criticism and considerate recognition and reward seems impossible, but in the long term, it means so much.” Despite the challenges to his position, McHugh-Russell was able to comment on a key positive aspect of serving as a student representative. “When someone says, ‘You’re doing a good job,’ especially someone who doesn’t spend time working with me, it’s the best reward I can get. A sense that what I’ve done is worthwhile.” President
One of the primary duties of the Feds president is representing undergraduate students, both on and off campus. The president is an official member of UW’s Senate and Board of Governors, the two highest decisionmaking bodies on campus, and speaks on students’ behalf at both. The Feds President also represents UW students to the City of Waterloo, at certain meetings of student lobby organiztions and other events. Within the Federation, the president is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Feds as a corporation. A key part of this role is reviewing and
suggesting changes to the by-laws and policies and procedures of the Federation of Students. Part leader and part lightning rod, the president is the spokesperson for many Feds issues, and as such is the first to receive criticism from students and others. Unfortunately, current Feds president Chris Edey was unavailable to comment for Imprint’s pre-election coverage. Parting words of advice
In addition to the personal glimpses into the jobs of our student executives, the Feds men offered a few words of advice to this year’s candidates. Capper, true to the logical perspective required of a vice-president finance, focused on the practical aspects of campaigning. “Try and get ahead in terms of course work. The campaigning and election period can be extremely timeconsuming, and often your studies can suffer. Also, I would recommend getting some serious sleep a few days prior to the start of the campaigning period; the candidates will definitely need it.” Fedy, who has dealt with hundreds of student volunteers throughout the course of his term, reminded campaigners to focus on each individual student. “Take full advantage of the opportunity you have while campaigning — and even more if elected — to talk to and listen to as many individuals [as you can] …you will find they all have an interest in each of your positions, and what you [can] do for them while in office.” McHugh-Russell offered words of support to those undertaking the trials and tribulations that is a Feds candidacy. “Don’t worry. As long as you’re running for the right reasons, getting fewer votes isn’t a failure. In fact, every vote you do get is a victory. Stay happy, stay focused on the issues that matter … and you’ll come out of the process thrilled and vitalized.” adilts@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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The left-brain right-brain divide
I would finally get a chunk off and load up my shovel only to realize that I had difficulty lifting what seemed like 37 pounds of dead weight hanging at the end of the handle and manoeuvering it over the ice and chunks to the snow bank. Damn levers. Damn ice. I soon realized that I was using Winter brings with it many challenges. muscles not commonly used in everySlick driving conditions, slippery day activities. And they did not like it. So, I tried switching sides to give sidewalks, getting from A to B withthem a break. I am clearly a right-handed out your exposed skin freezing. Of all the challenges that winter snows shoveller because trying to shovel with my left hand was like trying to shovel our way, I hate shovelling most of all. with a spoon — painful to watch. I am a bad shoveller. Maybe it’s the scraping noise or the Digging my way out of my house boredom that make shovelling seem is something that causes me great harder than it really is. Or maybe I just stress although as a Canadian, you would think that I would be good at don’t like working towards a sweat in it. Particularly here in Ontario where -25 degree weather. Whatever the reasnow is such a son, I went online to part of our search for shovelling landscape, how Trying to shovel techniques. is it that I have with my left hand Push snow— grown up to be don’t lift. Okay. Stand perfectly horriwas like trying to with feet hip width ble at it? How apart, hold shovel close shovel with a can this not be to body, hands apart second nature spoon. and bend from the to me? Shovelknees. Okay. One site ling should be a part of my national identity, like also recommended that I warm up first by walking or marching in place for maple syrup and beavers. After the deluge of snow that we several minutes before beginning. How received recently, I arrived at home to cool would that look. In my defence, I grew up in a family find that I had some shovelling to do. where it was standard procedure to avoid It was the worst kind of shovelling. It shovelling at all costs. Our theory was primarily involved that nasty pile of ice-filled, dirty, chunky snow at the that those piles of ice at the end of the end of the driveway, care of the snow- driveway were surmountable — as long as you just drove fast enough. And just plough type snow. I got myself ready and headed out a tip for those of you who share my to the end of my driveway. Best to inability/dislike for shovelling: if you start with the worst part and get it just drive back and forth over the snow over with. As I began chiselling away often enough, you’ll be fine. at the mound in front of me I realeditor@imprint.uwaterloo.ca ized that this was pretty hopeless.
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Christine Baker FACTS OF LIFE
Friday, January 23, 2004
“I hate all arts people,” an engineering major suddenly volunteered in one of my classes, out of nowhere. Questioning him revealed that he actually disliked only two arts people, and the reason for this hatred was not even faculty-related. While his reasoning was poor, the association remains clear — it seems some sciences people have a problem with us arts folk. If you’re an arts student, you’ve experienced it: that reaction you get from revealing your faculty to nonarts majors. All is revealed within a split second: an assumption that you’ve got it easy, that you’re not a serious student. And before it’s even begun, the conversation is over. Is this a problem, and if so, what can be done about it?
This inhumanity is balanced on the left side by the Hagey Hall of the Humanities, where people read books by other people, and sometimes get on stage in front of people and pretend to be other people. Both these sides of the campus being stuck together seems forced and unnatural, like some giant Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup: “Aw, sis! You got your arts in my sciences!” It’s physical on another level: guys, let’s talk ladies: What about the cliché that arts=hot girls, sciences=not girls? It’s true to a degree, as one engineering guy glumly told me: “My class is 296 guys, six girls.” Hey, we artsies may not be good at math, but it seems to me that those are not good figures. artsies are good at biology though: my psych class has about 400 girls, and they’re all good figures. I’m serious. Pavlov’s mutt ain’t the only dog thats salivating. Furthermore, a stroll around the campus offers a visual feast you don’t have to be a fine artist to appreciate. See ARTS, page 13
Becoming one with the bottle invade his throat with that fine mixture of hops and barley or vodka. Or tequila; any alcohol will do. If you are legally allowed to drink, that is. The double cohort definitely put a dent into alcohol’s social market share in schools, but realistically, how many of those kids are just itching to turn 19 and get in on the action (or for their Dons in residence to look the other way)? When I first got to university, I still had the bitter taste of being an alcoholicevent outcast from high school, because I didn’t drink. I persisted with my abstinence (of drinking, to be clear) throughout first year, to moderate success. I was getting more comfortable and actually
enjoying the bar scene, but still felt out of the loop at times. Then it dawned on me — I knew exactly what I had to do in order to have fun with my friends every time they drank: I had to think and (to an extent) act like them. I had to become one with the bottle. This is hard to do, of course, if the closest you’ve ever come to alcohol is mouthwash. But I watched my friends; how they interacted with each other in the bars when they were drunk. I noticed a basic pattern: when drunk, my friends naturally gravitated to other friends who were drunk.
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Arda Ocal OUR HOUSE Let’s face it. Social life at university and drinking go hand in hand. You have a get together with a few friends and you drink. You go out to the bars and you drink. You take a morning shower,and you drink. At the core of every university’s social atmosphere is a single bottle of beer, waiting for the moist lips of one lucky student to
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Oh, it’s a problem, peoples. It’s not just in your mind. A trip to the arts undergrad office yields a small pamphlet — its sole purpose to justify arts as a career choice. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to conclude that even mommy and daddy need to be convinced that you’re not just holding hands and praying for peace in your so-called “arts” classes. Do you think the CS or physics departments need such a pamphlet? Maybe these skeptical science students also think it’s foolish, not brave, to pursue a subject as general as arts. This division between the faculties is not only mental, it’s physical — the actual campus itself is broken up like some giant left brain/right brain divide: most of the artsies wander the left, while the science folk mainly navigate the right. Over on the right, computer science students study computer science on computers in a building that looks like a giant computer chip. Let me put this to you CS’s in terms you can understand: YOU HAVE BEEN ASSIMILATED!”
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The “g0y” phenomenon Aaron Cowan UNDEFEATED Their slogan is “G0ys take the ‘A’ out of ‘Gay’. They are men who have feelings of “real warmth and affection for other guys” but do not classify themselves as homosexual. Turned off by the idea of anal sex, g0ys enjoy being affectionate with other men, whether that means kissing, cuddling, hugging, drunken wrestling (according to http://g0ys.org) or oral stimulation. Furthermore, while they respect masculinity, they detest the ways in which homosexuality has been linked to effeminacy. Depending on the way you look at them, g0ys (spelled with a zero) could be characterized in a number of ways. Certainly there is the tendency for people to see the g0y movement as an excuse for some homosexual men to remain closeted. Also existent is the belief that g0ys are merely gay men
who want to stay true to their religious upbringing by swearing off anal sex with other men. In the same respect, g0ys seem to be classified as married men who possess a sexual attraction for other men. Despite the negative stigma that the g0y movement has been receiving, I found myself intrigued by their message. For this reason I wanted to keep an open mind upon surfing their Web site. To be honest, at first I was disturbed by some of the site’s content (especially their comparison of the term “gay” to the Nazi swastika), but for the most part I found that their desire to form a new facet of sexual orientation unsurprising. It seems to me that in our society we possess the need to classify or define ourselves under a specific headings or terms. Just as we like to call ourselves straight or gay or bisexual, we like people to see ourselves as Catholics or Presbyterians or nonpractising Jews. In essence, we feel that in our North American society there is room for black and white, but definitely not grey. In a society in which we reward
individuality, I find it ironic that we also possess such an insatiable need to belong to a group. In this respect I think that g0ys are an excellent example. Obviously there are men out there (probably reading this) who do not feel that they can define themselves under any of the existing terms that we possess for sexual orientation: gay, straight and bi. Feeling isolated and confused, they seek out others like themselves, thus forming a new group with an entirely new term to classify themselves: g0y. I can respect that. Heck, when I was coming out of the closet I was looking for anyone I could find with whom I could be gay. I just didn’t want to feel alone anymore. So, while this whole new g0y phenomenon may sound silly to both straights and gays alike, I think we should have an open mind and remember that we have all been frightened by our individuality at one point in our lives and respond to this fear by seeking out others like ourselves. While we may strive to be individuals, we find comfort in groups. acowan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Michelle Titus TOUCHED In class, a duo flaunt their gifts and readily compare their worth; “I think mine is bigger.” “Let me see, I don’t think so.” “Fine, let’s compare.” “I told you mine is bigger!” Others around try to peer inconspicuously at the merchandise; regardless of the size, all are envious. We are gathered here today to take note of the various students who have chosen to take the next step and join into a state of marital bliss. Ever since I returned from the break, engagement rings have been extremely prevalent on the fingers of female students. Obviously many took advantage of the holiday to pop the question and embrace the fact that we are getting older and should move forward in our lives.
I applaud these couples for taking this chance but, on the level, I am sceptical of the decision to intermingle two stages in life (school and marriage). During a period in life so chaotic why add more confusion? Especially taking into consideration the failure rate of marriage in our society one would think that waiting might be a safer bet. It seems (according to various sources) that approximately one in three marriages in Canada end in divorce. However, it is important to keep in mind that with the growing rate of cohabitation and common-law situations this number is debatable. Nonetheless, marriage is currently anything but stable. While a part of me frowns upon the soon-to-be blushing brides, another part is oh-so-envious. Sure, being engaged at this point in my life might complicate things more, but I am sure that the enjoyment would be momentous if I had the opportunity to show off that ring on campus. The truth is that regardless of how annoying these chittering chicks may be in class, at least a hint of jealously can be found in all of us. Whether it be
complete and utter devotion from another, financial stability, or simply just the rock on your finger, there is something within this tradition that we all crave (even those who may boycott marriage.) Being unable to avoid seeing and hearing of people taking the plunge lately has been daunting. Finally, I think that I have come to terms with the fact that I am getting older and (hopefully) soon that time will arrive for me. As for those of you still searching for love, I have one tidbit of advice it will come when you stop looking. So sit back and enjoy the ride; that’s when you’ll experience the most intense rush ever. For the fiancées around campus, remember: sharing excitement is one thing, gloating is another; be tactful or it might come back to bite you in the heiny! I wish you all the best of luck! And for you girls who enjoy flaunting your ice, all I have to say is that mine is going to be bigger — naah naah nah naah naah! mtitus@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Letters OSAP problems To the editor,
l letters@imprint.uwaterloo.ca youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to say UW isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t open to the idea, wait and see the reaction after you try it.
Students at the University of Waterloo are rightly concerned with the current student financial aid system (â&#x20AC;&#x153;OSAP: guilty until proven innocent,â&#x20AC;? January 9 and â&#x20AC;&#x153;OSAP needs fixing,â&#x20AC;? January 16.) The average university student in Ontario graduates with over $22,700 in debt. Although tuition fees have increased by over 130 per cent in the last decade, the maximum financial aid package available to students has not increased since 1994. Thirty per cent of university students in Ontario now have private loans. Twice as many young people from the wealthiest third of Canadian families participate in higher education as compared to the least wealthy third. As your editorials recognize, the time has come to reform Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s student financial aid system â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and there are many ways that students at Waterloo can get involved, get informed and lobby the government for change. In addition to making recommendations through our â&#x20AC;&#x153;Student Financial Aid System â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fixing a System in Needâ&#x20AC;? paper (available at www.ousa.on.ca), the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) has launched a new campaign called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Invest In Access.â&#x20AC;? Students can become better equipped with the information they need to lobby for change by utilizing the campaignâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interactive Web site (www.investinaccess.ca). In the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Got debt?â&#x20AC;? section, students can read profiles and stories of the challenges that debt places on thousands of students across the province, including students at Waterloo. They can then post their own story or profile to share with others, helping to put a human face to the issue of accessibility. OUSA believes that post-secondary education in Ontario should be accessible to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. By working together, we can encourage the Liberal government to implement educated solutions and ensure that this goal becomes a reality.
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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jeff La Porte President of OUSA
To the editor,
Do it yourself To the editor, With regards to Ryan Simâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we have a Caucasian Clubâ&#x20AC;? (Letters, Jan. 16). I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about what happened in the States, but I suggest that if you actually think a Caucasian club is something you want to do, then do it. Get six friends together and call yourself a club. Outline a purpose and a goal and see what happens. Before crying â&#x20AC;&#x153;discrimination!â&#x20AC;?, first see if you can get this club going at UW and then see what happens. UW clubs are made by the students. If Caucasians want a club, they need to get together and make one. If
Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all from Waterloo To the editor, A couple of weeks ago, I was standing outside the Feds office and the poster, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Racism is about ignorance. UW is about educationâ&#x20AC;? caught my eye. And it hit me. I am reminded of the tension that always arises between the ASA and the JSA whenever a â&#x20AC;&#x153;politicalâ&#x20AC;? event is organized by one of them. Do we really want our school to become another Middle East? Here we are, the brightest minds, students at one of the best universities, arguing. It makes no sense. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, our countries are at war right now. But why should we choose sides here in Waterloo? Why canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we be on the Waterloo side? We have a lot more in common than we think, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re too busy focusing on our differences to notice. As Arabs, for example, we cannot possibly be antiSemitic, because we are Semitic. On the other hand, Jews cannot possibly be anti-Arab, because many of them are Arabs. Why then, do we believe the opposite? We should learn from the Pakistani and Indians. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been at war for almost the same time, yet in UW, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a South Asian Student Association, with both Indian and Pakistani members. They are rebuilding the trust that war has destroyed and destroying the hate itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s built. Shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there be a Middle East club that includes Arabs and Jews? Instead of Palestine week and Pro-Israel Arabs giving speeches, I suggest a tolerance week this term, sponsored by the Feds, of course. I urge both these clubs to organize a social event involving the JSA and the ASA, aimed at spreading camaraderie rather than disapproval. One day the wars will end. But for that to happen, ignorance must end first.
parking facilities.That will run you $2.00/hour to a maximum of $15.00 a day. Owning a car is a luxury many students cannot afford. Many would argue that if people have enough money to own a car while they are in school then they should not complain about parking costs or location. Walking from the parking lot to class may be somewhat cold and snowy, but students without cars walk much further than that. Besides, there is always the bus. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Elizabeth Rogers 4B Arts Feds sexy clichĂŠ
with the words (inserted by us) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are women only seen as sexual objects?â&#x20AC;? The purpose of this ad was to demonstrate that this type of advertising is highly inappropriate and shocking in any form. The irony of the Womynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Centre using a half-naked woman is that people do not expect this from us . . . however why did a sexy naked body seem â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;naturalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for the Feds to use or, for that matter, for any other magazine to use? Maybe next time the Feds can come up with something more creative and less predictable. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; University of Waterloo Womynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Centre Mass e-mailing problems
To the editor, To the editor, Upon opening mprint to the Federation of Students ad page on January 9, an ad for the Birthday Bash at Fed Hall stuck out because of the blatant use of sex in advertising. Breasts atop a birthday cake: whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the connection? Is Feds trying to say that Fed Hall is nothing more than a meat market? As students at the University of Waterloo paying a substantial amount to the Feds each term, we were surprised to see the Feds use a form of advertising usually seen in magazines such as Maxim or Cosmo. The image chosen for this event does not parallel the quality and tact we know Feds is capable of displaying. Last week, the Womynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Centre had a poster submitted to Imprint via the Feds marketing team for our open house. It contained an ad, taken from Maxim magazine, displaying a woman in a bikini
Throughout my time at the University of Waterloo, one thing that consistently baffled me was why I kept receiving so many rather useless messages from the science society. This week, for instance, I was informed of a meeting where I could learn about international study options at Australian universities and of the fascinating goings-on of the science soccer and volleyball teams. I have always received such messages, regardless of whether I have been on campus or not. Receiving these messages has never been a matter of choice, since there has never been anything in these messages to suggest how I might remove myself from the mailing list to which these messages are sent. That I continue to receive such
messages is even more baffling, for I am not even a student anymore! I completed my degree last April, and yet the messages have continued to trickle in. Any mailing list should have some kind of â&#x20AC;&#x153;opt-outâ&#x20AC;? option clearly available in each message that is sent. I asked for this common courtesy over and over again during my undergraduate career and no one ever listened. Would someone please institute some change in the management of this mailing list? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kevin Anderson UW Alumni
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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Deema Saleh 2B Honours science and business Good parking
I was quite surprised at Marie Gaudetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s article on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;parking fiascoâ&#x20AC;? here at UW. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but wonder: is there a campus anywhere in Ontario that makes parking easy for students? Compared to other universities, I think UW students have it comparatively easy. If you were a Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s student, for example, permit parking is even more scarce and costs you more than $18.00 a week rather than UWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $23.00 - $25.00 a month. Your options are even less appealing if you are a visitor. You can park along the city streets and walk for 20 minutes in more treacherous conditions than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find in UW parking lots. You could also use the meter parking for $2.00 with a twohour time limit. The university also neighbours the hospital and shares
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Enough of reality television. Bring back the crude humour of Peter Griffin found in the hilarious short-lived animated series, Family Guy. Family Guy premiered to 22 million viewers after the 1999 Super Bowl and in my eyes became the next greatest show, right next to the dysfunctional family found in The Simpsons. Unfortunately,
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seller ever. Impressive. Reruns of the Griffin family of Quahog have also found their way onto the Cartoon Network. This resurrection of Family Guy was a blessing for fans, and they breathed a sigh of relief. But now, after dishing out about $80 for both DVD sets, fans like me are thirsty for more of Stewie’s plans for world domination. If Family Guy were revived, it would become the first TV show to do so. And why not? The fan base is obviously there. As the eloquent talking family dog Brian would likely say, “Whose leg do you have to hump around here for a new episode?”
Fat tax my ass
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the geniuses at Fox cancelled the show after ratings dropped when the show was constantly getting new times and was thrown around the TV schedule, without any consistency, making it difficult to establish the expected high ratings. Even an online petition of 130,000 people couldn’t save the beloved series. The show disappeared for a short while when no network wished to run what was at times, a racy and offensive series. But, like most great things, it fought its way back. The Family Guy series found its way onto DVD’s and has become, according to Video Store magazine, the fourth-best TV series
While the notion of suing restaurants for the obesity of some of their customers seemed absurd just a few years ago, the first test cases have recently been launched. The trial lawyers involved are likely simply looking for a big payout from the cases, but the special interest groups supporting the cases desire more than that: they want to create a legal environment in which it is impossible to sell foods that these groups deem unhealthy. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, an advocacy group for vegan diets that I mentioned last week, has gone so far as to sue a meat producer for its description of chicken as “heart healthy.” Another similarly minded group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, threatened major ice cream realtors with a lawsuit if they refused to post the nutritional labels that the group desired.
Dan Kim
Unfortunately these special interests are far from being a fringe social movement. If anything, their views are slowly gaining more popular support among politicians and the general public. Both the PCRM and the CSPI have long advocated that taxes be applied to foods they view as unhealthy to discourage their consumption. These ‘fat taxes’ are being seriously considered in some places in the U.S and in New York State legislators went so far as to propose that fat taxes be applied to video games. Politicians particularly like the idea of fat taxes because it allows them to bring in more money while being perceived as serving the public interest. If these groups have their way everything from pop and potato chips to butter and whole milk will be taxed out of people’s diets. In our own province, the government has begun the process of legislating what it believes we should be consuming. The Liberals promised to ban soft drinks in schools during the election, leading soft drink distributors to voluntarily withdraw them this fall. Although there are few strong defenders of soft drinks, their link to poor diets is tenuous at best. The US Department of Agriculture’s Continuing Survey of Food Intake by Individuals found no link between soft drink consumption and either quality of diet or the body mass indexes of adolescents. They even found that the thinnest children tend to drink the most pop. This type of evidence gets pushed aside when politicians and special interest groups try to project a scientific certainty that rarely exists. Individuals should be able to choose the type of diet they prefer rather than having courts and legislatures decide for them, even if they occasionally make the wrong choices. mkerrigan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
BAR FLIES
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Turnitin.com can go suckithard.now New website makes you feel guilty, one essay at a time
Mark Stratford BIG EARS BURNING “Always remember you’re unique — just like everyone else.” — Anonymous If the popular clothing store known as the Gap has given us anything — and it hasn’t — it was that wonderful commercial from a couple years ago where Missy Elliott claimed she was “bustin’ with original fit.” Sure, it was written to sell Khakis, but it affirmed both her individualized sense of originality (dropping killer rhymes while dressed exactly like ten million suburban white chicks) and ours, just by watching. So what’s the deal — or should I say, “what the dilly, yo?” — with turnitin.com, a new Web site designed for the sole purpose of analysing students’ assignments for acts of plagiarism? The Web site has now been used on thousands of assignments at an annual service cost to each university of $4,000 US. It scans your work, saves it in a database of thousands of assignments and gives an “originality report.” That’s some spiffy technology — call it Nineteen Eightyfour via 2004. Okay, maybe that’s presumptuous. But then maybe not, says Joel Duff, Ontario chairperson
of the Canadian Federation of Students, who leads the group’s pursuit against the site. He hopes that his group’s persistence “will give a lot of students […] a bit of a boost to know there are other students out there who have the same concerns.” Apparently this is true — a McGill student received a zero for refusing to hand in his work through turnitin.com (he was later assigned a grade). But the debate rages on, and so does the site’s clientele, from the University of Western Ontario, where 140 profs have used it, to our friends down the street at Laurier (it’s getting closer!). Here at UW, council has not yet discussed turnitin.com, although UW alum Jay Thompson was quoted on the news last week saying that UW does not use turnitin.com because of our academic policies. I’m opposed, but not for that reason (programming assignments are already reviewed by Stanford), or even because it seems so stern (would it have killed them to name it “turnitinpleaseandthankyou.com”?). In fact, I can’t even really identify any tangible reason as to why this is a bad idea, it just is. It feels dirty. It makes me feel like I’ve done something wrong when I haven’t. It makes me think that if I borrow something witty for my term paper that my cousin in Alberta said over the phone last week, a mixture of SWAT team members and “internet entrepreneurs” will bust down my door and cuff me. Furthermore, there are so many terrible implications in place here. Most obviously, it im-
Arts: a left-brained rant Continued from page 9
In fact, it occurred to me that this whole “Loo has uglies while Laurier has honies” myth may be based entirely on the sour grapes of the sciences: a combination of a (possible) lack of social skills and a definite lack of girls to use them on. I mean, why would the people look that much different across the street? I went to DC to get some thoughts: “I don’t have a problem with the arts people at all,” one girl told me, “ because I don’t know any.” Ooookay. “Those engineering people are weird, though,” she added. “I only hang out with physics people because they’re all as smart as me,” said one girl who couldn’t seem to make eye contact, or accept the idea that someone could be intelligent, yet not choose physics as a career. It’s weird: some CSies can write a program to output the nine billion names of God, yet are scared of writing an essay. One can’t help but think of that story of those mythical monkeys at a computer, randomly trying to generate Shakespeare. I headed over to Arts Central for a response. An artsy girl hanging out at the Bomber,
uh, I mean Hagey Hall responded thusly: “I came to learn, not to get a degree.” And so it went. Dunno if it’s jealousy over a (supposed) lack of work, luck with ladies, or what, but this feud must be gotten over. It’s not about either faculty being “better,” it’s about life. Some of us met during orientation yet never saw each other again, doomed to traverse different roads in the Ring, our paths never crossing . High school is over, yet it’s only a few months in and the divisions have already begun. It may be a truism, but it’s true: we all came here not only for academic purposes, but to meet new people, and have new experiences. Or any experiences, in the case of some. Luckily, there is a solution: though we can’t rebuild the campus, we can venture over to the other side. Artsies, if we’re so “open minded” to new ideas and people, let’s eat at the Davis Centre sometime and actually meet those new people. Science people, step away from the devil’s machine, come outside and remember what it’s all for. We’re all more or less equal: let the calculators do the dividing. If the campus is like a brain, we must realize that we need all our faculties for it to function.
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plies that we are dishonest; also, it implies that we must be none too smart, since every new term begins with recaps from our profs on the dangers of plagiarism, uncited references and double submissions. Professors of smaller classes should be upset, since the site implies that they are not dedicated enough to identify the original work of 20 or 30 students. Finally, turnitin.com implies that originality is synonymous with intelligence, when what you say and how you say it are two completely different things. Besides, any thought that has ever been conceived by anyone can never be original — consider that your daily dosage of stoner philosophy (or “bong mots,” if you will). By the way, I find it hilarious that this debate hits the table the same week that Dubya Bush made his State of the Union Address. First of all, he didn’t write it, as evidenced by the lack of colourful references to Jed, Elly May and Granny Moses. Second, it took him two days to rehearse
it even though the sentiments he expressed are as tightly attached to him as his father’s shadow. And third, it was a complete rehash of everything he has spent the past three years saying, sprinkled with lots of decorative non-issues (who wants to hear about teen drinking in a State of the Union Address?) and some “yay America, boo terrrorists” cheerleading. If I submitted this speech to turnitin.com with my name on it, I’d be doing all my future news reporting live from Sing Sing. Maybe turnitin.com is targeting the wrong country. I realize there are some bad eggs out there, but plagiarism really isn’t at the top of my list right now — the most powerful man in the world has never had an original thought in his life. And you borrowed your favourite line from Pride and Prejudice to top off your thesis paper, did you? Good for you. mstratford@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
Bars: more to do than just drink Continued from page 9
They feel more comfortable around people who are drunk (maybe they feel like us sober people will laugh at them since we’ll remember everything in the morning). Also remember that many drunk people, when in groups with other drunk people, lose many of their inhibitions and tend to agree more with what others are saying, no matter how outlandish (all of a sudden, “hey let’s have a wrestling match inside Pita Factory” becomes socially acceptable). Anybody who doesn’t agree with what one person says is no longer seen as pivotal in the group. So I stopped shaking my head and watching
from the outside, rolled up my sleeves, and joined in, putting liberties aside. From there, nights out just started getting much more fun. I felt like a part of the group and I didn’t have to act as crazy as them. Here I am, four years later, still without ever having consumed a drop of alcohol and enjoying the bar scene. To those who stay sober and feel lost at bars, study this phenomenon of “GroupDrink” and perfect the art of interacting with drunken folks. After all, this is only university; there’s a whole other realm of “booze and schmooze” that awaits you once you enter the business world. aocal@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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A taste from the tropics
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Welcome to the dark side of psych Dying to Psychopathology — hell, he even teaches the Dark Side of Sex. He’s a complicated man, and no one understands him but… we can always try.
Lauren S. Breslin IMPRINT STAFF
One way to describe psychology prof Chris Burris would be as a kind of reversed mullet: all party in the front, all business in the back. It’s like this. Get Dr. Burris in front of a classroom of students and he’s suddenly Dr. Charisma, an energetic dynamo whose lectures are so entrancing and wildly funny you’d swear he’d scripted them word for word. Ask anyone — a Burris class is more than just a lecture, it’s a performance. But get him outside the classroom and Dr. Burris is all business — a shy, soft-spoken, hard-working man who’s very protective of his solitude. Burris grew up outside of a small town near Indianapolis, Indiana, where he lived a mostly isolated childhood. After high school, he realized his interest in human behaviour and went on to pursue a degree in psychology. He graduated from Ball State University with a double major in social psychology and counselling and earned his PhD from the University of Kansas. After a short stint teaching at the Christian Brothers University in Memphis, he was hired onto the psychology department at St. Jerome’s in 1997. So where does his polarized persona come from? According to Dr. Burris, it comes mostly from his rural upbringing and from his introverted personality. For him, teaching is a release, an escape from his introversion, and at worst, a way of dealing with his dark side. For Dr. Burris’s psychology students, the notion of the “dark side” is a familiar one. Since joining the UW faculty, Burris has become well known for his interest in the darker elements of psychology. His classes range from the Psychology of Evil to Death and
Breslin: Why is it that you gravitate towards the darker, fringe subjects in psychology? Are you in your element there? Dr. Burris: Apparently so. I guess I’ve always been drawn towards things that capture people’s emotions, things that move people. And certainly I think the dark elements tend to move people more strongly. In my Psych of Evil class when we talk about propaganda, so much of what propaganda tries to evoke in people is the big three: anger, fear and disgust. It seems that’s where the real energy of life comes from. Certainly life is not all negative, but I read a quote from Thomas Hardy, and I know I’m butchering it, but he basically said that you can’t really hope to remedy the dark side of life until you first have looked at it. So there may be some point in my life where I’ll offer a class on the psychology of warm, fuzzy puppies or something. Has studying the dark side made you cynical? I don’t think it’s made me any more cynical than I’ve already been. I could think of a lot worse ways of dealing with whatever my darkness is than teaching a class on it. Stating it very grandiosely, it can be seen as a sort of Freudian sublimation. It’s like, okay, here’s this darkness, here’s this heavy emotion, here’s this sadness or this anger or whatever and that can be dealt with in a destructive way or it can be dealt with in a way that people might actually learn from. My special little niche as an academic is to take these people on a cheap little tour of the dark side. It’s like, ‘Here’s the precipice. Look over, stare at it for a minute, now back away. You don’t have to jump — I don’t plan on jumping. But isn’t it interesting?’ See Burris, page 15
Professor of psychology, Chris Burris: “I was mullet before mullet was cool.”
JULIAN APONG
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Burris: the dark side Continued from page 14
So teaching is therapeutic for you? Yeah, absolutely. In fact, there are times when I walk into a classroom and it’s the last place I want to be. And not because I don’t like the students, but maybe I’m having a bad day or having a bad time of my life and the idea of getting up and performing is the last thing I want to do. I want to go hide somewhere. But I find my dark place and go into performance mode. I feel better having done it — I feel energized. Speaking of “performance mode,” you seem to be an energetic, almost flamboyant lecturer, but on your own time you’re much more reserved. Is that true? Oh I think that’s very accurate. I think what’s difficult sometimes is that people interpret the contrast as indicative of hostility or coldness or that sort of thing. And certainly, when I’m feeling really overworked, I’m going to be stressed. If I have multiple, competing obligations, I can be shorter with people at times than I would be otherwise. I don’t hide this at all. The fact of the matter is I’m an introvert. I’m an introvert who’s found a way to be able to perform. I draw my energy from my inner world. I feel most comfortable in solitary or smallgroup situations. If you put me in a room of 200 people and call it a classroom, I’m fine. If you put me in a room of 200 people and call it a party, I’m going to be a lot more uncomfortable. That’s really the nature of it — it’s a kind of role-play. Tell me about your love of birds. Well, here’s where all these things start to fit together. We’ve got the
introversion; we’ve got a kid growing up in a very rural environment. So a lot of the time that I spent, I spent on my own and in the outdoors. I was an avid collector of a lot of things. You know, rocks and fossils, insects, butterflies. And I was always aware of birds. My parents always had feeders up, so I knew what all the common birds were when I was relatively small. I think right around the time I was 12 or so it occurred to me that this was an all year-round activity that didn’t involve killing anything. That really grabbed me at the time. I also used to write a fair amount of poetry. Sometimes I would paint — things of that sort. I mean, those are great activities, but I spend 60 hours a week sometimes working in my head and so when it comes to a pastime, something else in my head is probably not going to restore balance. The idea of, you know, tumbling down a muddy hillside in Central America somewhere, looking for an odd-coloured bill is much more interesting. I think it’s a great way to die. [laughs] So what advice would you give a student who’s thinking of growing a mullet? It’s really curious, actually, because the undergraduate institution that I attended actually discriminated against mullets. So I would say to check your school’s hair code. But I’m really concerned about that because there are all these Johnny-come-lately’s, you know? I think Barbara Mandrell had a song, “I was country before country was cool.” Well, I was mullet before mullet was cool. lbreslin@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
Hermits from the heart 1 1/4 cups raisins 2/3 cups coarsely chopped nuts
Tim Alamenciak IMPRINT STAFF
On those cold winter days, sitting at home with your housemates or a loved one, what is better than turning on the oven and baking some good stuff? Nothing, I tell you, nothing. These are some cookies that can be saved for lunch, a snack, or a good evening of solid movie watching. Hermits
Preheat your oven to 400° fahrenheit and lightly grease a baking sheet. Blend or sift the following together: 2 cups white pre-sifted flour 1/8 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg 3/4 cup shortening 1 1/4 cups lightly packed brown sugar 1 egg 1/4 cup cold coffee
Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Cream together shortening and brown sugar, then beat in one egg and the cold coffee. Beat until lightly fluffy, then stir in dry ingredients. Fold in raisins and nuts. Drop batter from a teaspoon about 2 inches apart on the baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Normal recipe makes 10-12 cookies. Double recipe for a good-sized batch. talamen@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
Correction Imprint apologizes for an error made in last week’s article entitled “UW urged to go green by leasing environmentally friendly cars.” Robin Sano was incorrectly identified as being an environmental engineering student. Robin is actually in environment and resource studies, under the faculty of environmental studies.
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This year goes to the apes Bianca Tong IMPRINT STAFF
Tonight as you go about your Friday night escapades and ponder the absence of the moon, know that it is the first new moon of the new lunar year and the second day of the year of the Monkey, according to the Asian zodiac. New Year’s is a yearly occasion observed in Asian culture and a time to be with family and friends, as it is practised in western culture. I personally do not follow the Chinese lunar calendar, but it is far more accurate than the Gregorian calendar. The system is based on the phases of the moon as well as the sun’s longitude (where it appears in the sky). Each month of the year starts on the advent of the new moon and has approximately 29.5 days. The Chinese calendar follows a zodiac originated from the movement of heavenly bodies such as constellations and planets, with each year being designated a characteristic animal. It is also important in the folklore and fortune-telling aspects of the Chinese culture. This is the year of the Monkey, so depending on when people were
born in the year, most people born during the year of the monkey (2004, 1992, 1980 etc.), are of the monkey zodiac. There is a cycle of 12 animals: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep (or goat), monkey, rooster, dog and pig. One legend my dad likes to tell every year is why the cat is not part of the zodiac. The animals were supposed to meet with Jade Emperor to be selected for zodiacs and at this time, the rat and cat were the best of friends. Wanting to be first in line, the rat promised to wake both of them up early. But being the way he was, the rat neglected to wake the fated feline. Being thus snubbed, the cat has been the enemy of the rat since. There are many traditions that are observed for the new year, including the giving of “licee” or lucky red pocket to children and unmarried friends, a thorough house cleaning and the honouring of ancestors. Many Chinese believe that certain events happening on New Year’s day are indicative of the way the rest of the year will turn out. For example, one should not talk of death, dying or misfortune and not
reminisce about the past year, as this is a new year and a new beginning. UW has a strong Asian population and will be celebrating in style this year with their second annual Lunar Fest in the Great Hall of the SLC on January 27-28. The event, run by a multitude of the Asian clubs on campus, will be a good opportunity to get a taste (literally) of the sort of celebrations that go on in Asian cultures this time of year. btong@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Downtown offers a taste of the Caribbean Kourtney Short RESTAURANT REVIEW Rainbow Caribbean Cuisine 29 King St. East, Kitchener 579-2618 Its colourful name belies Rainbow Caribbean Cuisine’s rather plain appearance: it seems a more likely spot for club sandwiches and senior citizens than spicy island food. The fragrant aromas that fill the restaurant push me to try everything, but cross-referencing the menu items with those keeping warm at the counter proves challenging. The lady at the counter, however, is happy to explain. Service is cafeteria-style: take a tray, place your order at the counter and pay before sitting down. Entrées come in two sizes: small ($6.95 or $7.95 for the more expensive fish dishes) includes soup or salad, while large entrées ($8.50 to $14) offer soup and salad, and larger portions of meat and rice. The small is more than enough for most appetites. Meat choices abound, but there are options for vegetarians and semi-vegetarians, including chickpea roti and calaloo, a green vegetable. There’s always “rice and peas,” which somehow transcends its modest ingredients — white
rice and kidney beans. Unfortunately for vegetarians, it may be the coating of gravy, the sauce in which the meat dishes are cooked, that makes rice and peas so addictive ($2.50 per bowl, or included with entrées). Salad options include green salad, creamy coleslaw, marinated vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower and carrots) and macaroni salad. All the ingredients tasted fresh, but the marinated vegetables were spoiled by an overly sweet dressing. The soup is a thick, brown broth with bits of fish and mushy vegetables. Alone, it would make a nice, light meal, but given the choice the salads make a better foil for the rich meat dishes. Oxtail and goat curries require you to navigate a number of bones, but slow cooking makes the meat meltingly tender and a knife superfluous. The jerk chicken was a bit of a disappointment in the taste department, but still good value — the small meal included a whole chicken breast that was unfortunately dry and under-seasoned. It also came squirted with what appeared to be ketchup. One night, my companions and I took our meals home. We tried the chicken and beef roti — the chicken stood up well to travel, but the beef was peeking through its wrapping by the time it arrived. The chicken curry, which also had potatoes in it, tasted rather overwhelmingly of turmeric. The beef was better, although both made a satisfying meal with their wrappings of tender flatbread. One problem with take-out is that you miss the scotch bonnet pepper sauce that graces each table. It provides a slightly sweet heat, with little of the vinegary kick of Tabasco. I found the sauce particularly nice with the fried plantains that
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kept us from eating our roti on the ride home. The sweet potato pudding ($3), which looks like a slice of pie, barely tastes like dessert: served warm, it had a toothsome texture and dominant ginger flavour, but little sweetness. At around $10 per person, including dessert or ginger beer, it’s no hardship to try something different at Rainbow Carribbean Cuisine. kshort@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Finding the right genre Daniel Saunders SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
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Billy Talent slated to rock sold out show Garick Stevenson IMPRINT STAFF
From the mighty burgh of Streetsville, Ontario comes the next band scheduled to rock the stage of Fed Hall. I’m talking about Billy Talent, the latest and greatest of the Canadian new punk/ emo bands. For those who don’t know new punk/emo or punk in general, I’m not talking about the Sex Pistols here. What I am talking about are bands with style: skater clothes, tattoos and emo haircuts. Billy Talent has exploded recently, mostly thanks to the single “Try Honesty,” which is played endlessly on Much Music but is a welcome change from garbage like Nickelback and Default (who I wish would fall off the face of Canadian music in general). The band originally formed in high school under the name PEZ, but by 1999 they had changed their name to Billy Talent (a salute to the rock “mockumentry” Hard Core Logo, released in 1996, about a Vancouver-based punk band and
their crazy antics). I find that Billy Talent fits into a middle ground of the new punk/emo scene. The band fits somewhere in between bands like Good Charlotte or Simple Plan (known for their catchy radio-friendly punklite) and harder new punk/ emo bands like Alexisonfire or Brand New. The band has three releases under its belt: a self released LP Watoosh and the Try Honesty EP. Billy Talent’s major label debut came with an eponymous freshman effort in 2003 that was well received in Canada and the States, peaking at number 6 on Top Canadian Albums chart and 194 on The Billboard 200. The word on the street is that these guys know how to rock and put on a kick ass show. You can catch the band this Saturday, January 24, at Fed Hall. Tickets are $14 for UW students and $20 at the door.
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Margaret Atwood’s new novel, Oryx and Crake, plays with the possibility that the best way to write science fiction may be to pretend that you aren’t writing science fiction. Atwood has continually denied in interviews that the book is science fiction, which in her mind is “people flying around on dragons, other worlds of strange life forms.” This would be an insult to the modern authors of challenging and sophisticated science fiction who, unlike her, remain ghettoized in scifi/fantasy sections, except that this book can sit as one of the greatest accomplishments of the genre. In the ruins of human civilization, overgrown by nature, there is a village of not-quite-humans who seem to have been created blessed. They live on grass and leaves, and mate only a few times a year when their genitals turn blue, in a system that precludes jealousy and unrequited lust. The males even have urine that acts as a predator repellant. Their prophet is Snowman, the one who holds the key to where they came from and he is the last human on earth. But rather than guiding them or working on his continued survival, he’s more interested in scavenging alcohol to drink himself into oblivion and reminiscing on the world that led to this. He remembers a world of the very near future, after advances in genetic engineering, currently on the horizon have hit like a tsunami. The most powerful entities on the planet are biotech companies because they control the technology of aging and life — for example, cloned human organs are grown inside bloated pig creatures called pigoons. The best and the brightest design new species for fun at universities that are indistinguishable from company R&D departments. The educated classes live in protected compounds, in gated communities, except they must also be gated against hostile engineered viruses — the
new life sciences have led to new domestic terrorism and paranoia. Snowman recalls a boyhood spent playing genocidal video games (including “Kwiktime Osama”) with his friend Crake and watching Web sites broadcasting public executions and animal torture. As they grow up, Snowman doesn’t question much, but the brilliant Crake begins to think the darkest thoughts about human nature, especially when he falls in love with a woman, Oryx. She tells the story of how her Third World village sold her into child prostitution. Working his way into the DNA-manipulating elite, Crake is eventually in a position to do something about it. Like all the best science fiction, Oryx and Crake is urgent about the present. All of us, whether we know it or not, have a line in our ethical thinking when it comes to genetic manipulation and its use for profit — and corporations like Monsanto will push hard on that line with PR and the media, for the rest of our lives. Snowman as a young man is shown a prototype chicken breast that grows without a chicken - just the minimum nerve centre required to control its circulation. He’s grossed out, but then a year later finds himself happily eating his bucket of “ChickieNobs” from the same source. Many of Atwood’s biotechnology predictions are not new to fiction and the bio-apocalypse scenario certainly isn’t, but what is exceptional is the care she takes in developing each of her extrapolations from the pages of nature and daily news headlines. Furthermore, as a novelist of emotions and characters, she fills the book with psychological insight rarely found in the genre. If Margaret Atwood had thought she was writing science fiction without having read Greg Egan, Ursula Leguin, or Octavia Butler she might have decided it meant she didn’t have to be rigorous in her invention, or morally serious that her characters could be cardboard cutouts and her prose flat. Instead she produced an important novel with wit and anger about what the new biotechnologies might do to us and worse, how we could get used to it.
Calling all musicians to the mic Garick Stevenson IMPRINT STAFF
This is the call people, the time has finally come. Remember when they told you that the long haired freaky people need not apply? Well, now it’s your turn, and the longer -haired and freakier the better; well maybe not that freaky. This is it though, seriously! Dust off that guitar that has been sitting in your closet since you moved here in first year (note: please put new strings on said ancient and dirty guitar) and get your multi-talented singer/songwriter ass out to the Bombshelter next Tuesday January 27. This night of open mic night is all ages for UW students, so even you young rockers who call Weezer old-school can come out and show your stuff. The night of music will be hosted by
local singer/songwriter Matt Antaya, well known for his work at local and surrounding area pubs. Matt will also double duty as performer, filling silent sections of the night with music. The goal of the evening is to give aspiring and regular artists a night to showcase their local talent in the form of music, played or sung. I strongly encourage new artists to take this opportunity to play in front of people and experience the thrill of sharing your music with others. Bombshelter plans to run this event on the last Tuesday of every month this term. For more information please contact Tim Sargeant, manager of the Bombshelter.
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Ben Franklin was a liar. There are not two but three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes and hangovers. Often at this time of deepest pain, you need relaxing sounds or perhaps a kind friend to lend an ear to. Instead, you get roommates trying to make you regurgitate while blasting Yoko Ono, Aphex Twin or Guitar Wolf at mindaltering volumes. I hope these songs make the taste of bile in your mouth a little less bothersome. The Beatles â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sun King Aching, hungover people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t usually respond very well to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;happyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Beatles songs. Ringo Starrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drumming alone has been known to drive even sober folk to murder and hysterics. But the sounds of Lennon & PMac singing Spanish gibberish sit very well with a twisted mind. Lou Reed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sad Song Some would say that Reedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Berlin was the first real good hangover album. Unfortunately, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tad too depressing for my taste. Playing the whole album might cause a hungover person to defenestrate themselves shortly after â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh Jimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. I say skip the whole album up to the last song. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still too depressing, go listen to Rock Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roll Animal. The Stooges â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dirt One day, a bunch of Broadway playwrights will go out, get bent on Cuervo Gold Tequila and come up with the idea of a musical based on the
hangover. Iggy Pop will be asked to play the leading role, so long as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not still hanging out with people 70 years younger than him. The climax of the musical will feature an eight minute monologue with this song as the backing. Miles Davis â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pharaohâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dance Jazz can play a major role in getting over a hangover. Long, meandering excursions take your mind off sickness without using much brainpower. Listening to jazz while watching unendurably long movies, such as Malcolm X or Gone with the Wind, will make the road to recovery seem about as long as the ride to Guelph. Sun Ra & His Outer Space Arkestra â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Nuclear War Sun Ra sings â&#x20AC;&#x153;nuclear war, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mother fuckerâ&#x20AC;? over a chill jazz backdrop with a twist of funk. Through your pain, you will sympathize with his. The Clash â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jimmy Jazz This is probably more due to personal taste than anything else, despite the fact that Joe Strummer sounds particularly drunk on this song. Speaking of being drunk... The Doors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) No hangover listening session should be complete without a word from Jim Morrison, the drunkest man in the history of rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll. Apparently, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real good hangover cure involving mango juice and Wild Turkey. I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been brave enough to try it out just yet, but when I do Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be
playing this song in the background. Johnny Cash â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ring of Fire There comes a time during every bad hangover when you feel almost as if death is approaching. Some people decide to start repenting their sins once they feel their soul leaving their body. These people have the wrong approach. Their soul will stay at home as soon as the mariachi trumpets kick in, preparing them for a testimonial from the Book of Cash. Tom Waits â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eggs and Sausage (In A Cadillac with Susan Michelson) For those brave, hungover souls who are strong enough to chance the drive to Melâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Angieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, or maybe even Country Boy, Tom Waits salutes you with a ballad about breakfast. The Rolling Stones â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sympathy for the Devil Nothing goes better with eggs benedict than a couple of G & Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. But if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really crazy, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get the jukebox at the restaurant to play this song five times in succession. Then order ten shots of Bacardi 151. Then take two shots at the beginning of each of the five Keith Richards guitar solos. You will then understand. To submit a theme or top 10 mixtape (10 song max), send submissions to mixtape@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Smokestacks get fired up at Gradstock Local rockers usher in a new term at the Grad House Matt Charters IMPRINT STAFF
On Friday night the Grad House kicked off another term of concerts with the second Gradstock event of the school year. This time the festivities were shortened to one day of music, but there was still plenty of local talent to go around. After early sets by Alan Pigguns and Sandy MacDonald, the evening portion of the show got under way. The Sintones, a three piece from Toronto were the first act up. Their upbeat set was a mix between surf rock and rockabilly (call it surfabilly, the Sintones did) that was all their own. Obviously having fun, the band played through original material as well as covers of the themes from Spiderman, Batman, Star Wars, and even some “Canadiana,”the theme from the CBC’s classic children’s program The Friendly Giant. Most of their songs clocked in at under two minutes, leaving lots of time for joking between the members of the band. A few enthusiastic individuals in the audience danced through the entire set and the rest tapped their toes attentively. Kitchener-Waterloo’s own Band From Planet X was next on the bill. They ripped through their garage-punk repertoire and didn’t stop until one guitarist was on the floor and the bassist’s pants were around his ankles. The only
break in the action was a brief pause to hand out “straight edge cookies,” complete with an X to mark the spot. The surf rock influence present in the Sintones’ tunes was also apparent in Planet X’s music, albeit in the way that Buddy Holly was apparent in the Ramones’ sound. The evening’s closing act was the Smokestacks, a band composed of University of Waterloo students. The core members of the Smokestacks, singer/guitarist Matt Perpick, bassist Aaron Livingstone and drummer Adam Biehler, have been together for a year now, with Liam Brown and Chris Fairles added in the fall on guitar and keyboard respectively. Despite being relatively new to the scene, the Smokestacks have already made a name for themselves and started to get some attention in the local media. They certainly drew the largest crowd of the night, although it was a crowd that remained docile until the last songs of the band’s encore (but let’s face it folks, it’s pretty much established that you’re not going to see movement in a crowd at a concert in Waterloo unless you invite the underagers from Kitchener). The Smokestacks play classic American rock ’n’ roll, there’s no other way to describe it. Each song was rife with blues-based guitar riffs and three-part vocal harmonies harkening back to the post-British invasion sounds of bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Eagles.
Lights, camera, audition Kristina Jarvis IMPRINT STAFF
I never thought I would actually audition for a movie in my life, but I guess I proved myself wrong. Back in December, I received an e-mail from someone I had interviewed last term regarding auditions for a movie. The short film was titled If I Die Before I Wake, which is being produced by a local production studio called Cutting Room Floor Pictures. I figured it would make a good article, so I emailed this person back, asking questions about the picture. He kindly directed my e-mail to the director of the movie. Here’s where my life gets a little weird. The director e-mailed me back with a brief description of the movie, and offered me an audition slot. What? I thought to myself. He can’t be serious! Didn’t he read the part about me being a reporter? I re-read the e-mail. He addressed my questions (somewhat) and there, at the bottom, was the offer to audition. I sat on it for a couple of minutes, then e-mailed him back: “I was actually inquiring because I am a staff reporter for Imprint, the University of Waterloo’s student newspaper. However, I’m willing to take a stab at auditioning for this movie.” So I spent the next month or so living my life, not thinking too much about the audition, until I realised it was a week away. I was working during my audition time, and I was supposed to be writing something about the experience. I e-mailed the director, asking for a later time, which he was willing to do. The day of the audition was a busy one for me. After some hassles with getting food and crummy weather, I finally got there. The auditions were held in the Arts Lecture Hall, in one of the lecture rooms. They were behind schedule, which was
fine by me. I needed time to read the audition piece anyway. This is how the basic audition works: you have to read something at the auditions so they can see what you look like on film talking. Oh yeah, they record the whole thing. Makes sense really, being a film audition and all. So I spent time reading over it, until I was called into the room. I met the director and five other people whose names I no longer remember. The director talked a bit about the shooting schedule for the movie and how it was actually a casting audition for two movies. He then asked me to introduce myself to the camera, then speak my audition piece. I took a deep breath, then went for it. I don’t think I did too badly. I saw a couple smiles when I did it, though I can’t help but wonder if they were laughing with me or at me. For me, it was just an odd feeling, acting for a camera. I did acting once, back when I was in high school. Back then I was acting for people. Several people. This time it was for the camera and only the camera. Strangely enough, I would rather act in front of an audience than a camera any day. I don’t know what the final vote was on my audition. I haven’t heard back from them, which I think safely means I didn’t get the part, seeing as they told me they would tell me by Monday. I don’t know if I would ever do this again, really. Nothing about my audition was bad; I enjoyed the chance to do this once in my life. However, I really don’t think I am cut out for acting. I’m much more of a writer, a behind-thescenes type person — not in front, taking the limelight. I think I’ll just stick to journalism, thanks. kjarvis@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
The Smokestacks rocking the Grad House stage. Lead singer Matt Perpick even took time in the middle of the set to tell the crowd that they were “living too far in the future” before launching into the band’s next piece. They played music off their self-titled EP and some from an upcoming full-length to be recorded at the end of this month. The band hopes they will be able to release the new album within two or three months. There’s no doubt that the Smokestacks are talented musicians. The band sounded tight and together throughout their set and no one part of the mix overpowered the other, even when band members started soloing. In fact, the self-indul-
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gent wankery of ’70s rock seemed to be the only element missing from their tribute to that era. Still, it was when the band left the trappings of the classic genre and explored their own creative avenues that they sounded their best. At the end of the night the crowd’s energy hit stride with the band’s, the last of the beer was consumed and everyone left with their ears ringing and their appetite for music sated. mcharters@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
The next show at the Grad House is Friday, January 23 at 9 p.m. with Dramaturg and the Charge.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2004
Art appreciation doesn’t cost a thing Andrea Kerswill UNHEARD OF I’m not sure if I wanted to find my own truth in experience, or have it told to me. There I stood with my friend, intrigued by a showcase of art that gave all it had and never asked for anything in return. Even the admission was free. I was poised like a kitten that had heard a noise for the very first time with my head cranked to the left, a world full of questions and a look of absolute awe. I’m sure that I annoyed my friend by asking so many questions. I was admittedly a witless individual when it came to the visual arts, so my friend
thankfully filled me in on the things I really didn’t know. We took a trip to the KitchenerWaterloo Art Gallery to visit their spring exhibition that included four presentations of art from artists like 19th century cubist Georges Braque to local contemporary artist Stu Oxley. Located at 101 Queen Street North in Kitchener, the K-W Art Gallery showcases some rather remarkable works. The studio alert series of the exhibition, “designed to acknowledge and showcase regional artistic activity,” caught the attention of both my friend and I. In fact, it is where we spent most of our time. Throughout, I was intently asking, “What’s this, what’s that?” and my friend was explaining common art terms such as abstract expressionism. This exhibition focuses around three local artists’ work, Wendy Morgan, Stu
Oxley and Mary Catherine Newcomb. After visiting each of the three displays I asked my friend to divulge his favourites on each of the three artists. This entirely evoked conversation about what we as individuals see when we look at art. My friend enjoyed the idea that art is what the viewer makes of it, while I liked the idea of attempting to understand the artist’s intent with the each piece. Nonetheless, it was interesting that we cranked our heads in different directions. In viewing Wendy Morgan’s photographed series Bon Voyage, which is based on the Victorian figure Lola Montez, I wanted to structurally follow what Morgan intended to do with it. There were nine photos in total and it seemed to me each photo was in a sequence for a reason, while my friend decided not to dabble in understand-
ing the reasons. Instead he turned to Stu Oxley’s work as an example of appreciating the art for what you see, or rather what it evokes in you. I found myself staring at Oxley’s work, a mesh of vibrant red palettes and an incredible use of textural effects, particularly in his monoprints. Yet, when I drove home later, I found myself still in amazement of the nine images in Morgans’ series. The last of the three in the series was the sculptural piece by Mary Catherine Newcomb. Based on the 1502 drawing of a young hare by the famous Albrecht Dürer, this piece is sculpted from plaster and sits approximately two feet high. Newcomb focused solely on the head of the hare, employing a marvellous use of plaster to generate the look of the rabbit itself. The texture was so full of life and
utilized shadows in a particularly interesting way. Attached was a device under the sculpture that produced a sighing noise, which brings out the artists interpretation of the hare itself. This was the one piece my friend and I agreed upon – for some reason the truth of this piece seemed simple. When leaving the gallery it hit me that both my friend and I were right. The truth in art is what you make of it, but there still are the underlying designs that the artist definitely wants each onlooker to understand. Admittedly, I felt entirely refreshed by the experience — and all I did was get myself there. It didn’t cost a thing, it didn’t tire me out and it certainly didn’t bore me. What it did do was leave me wanting more, like a kitten clumsily learning and waiting to be surprised. akerswill@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
The tao of Zack: trials of a young man at Bayside David Carey DIET COKE HEAD The story of Zack Morris begins on the Disney Channel in 1987. He first appeared on the show Good Morning, Miss Bliss, set in Indiana at JFK Junior High School. Zack was a mischievous 13 year-old who, along with his friends,
generally made life difficult for the teachers and principal of the school. After 13 episodes, Disney cancelled the series. But it was later bought by NBC and began airing as Saved By The Bell. Zack, who apparently had moved from Indianapolis to the Pacific Palisades, began high school with even more misadventures awaiting him. At Bayside, Zack met the girl of his dreams, cheerleader extraordinaire, Kelly Kapowski. Also thrown in the mix were Zack’s overachieving childhood friend Jessie Spanno and a rival in the form of jock A.C. Slater (that’s
Albert Clifford). Astonishingly, Zack’s friends from back home in Indiana, the nerdy but lovable Samuel “Screech” Powers and the fashion diva Lisa Turtle, seem to have followed him and his family to California. The same goes for Mr. Belding, who clearly welcomed the chance to follow his nemesis across 2000 miles and begin a new life with his wife. Attempting to cash in on the show’s popularity, in 1991 NBC chose to film a six episode “mini-season,” set during summer break. Zack and the gang worked at the Malibu Sands Beach
Club (except for Lisa — she was a member) and continued their zany antics with added flair. Also airing later that year was the Hawaii Style TV movie. While the characters were in Grade 12, Elizabeth Berkeley and Tiffany Amber Thiessen felt that they needed to move on and pursue other, mostly stripper-related projects. Throughout the Grade 12 season, Kelly and Jessie episodes aired simultaneously with the infamous “Tori Run”. Motorcycle-loving Tori Scott took centre stage, while Kelly and Jessie’s characters were mentioned now and again, allegedly “offscreen.” The show’s final episode aired in May of 1993. Although there were two subsequent spinoffs (The College Years and The New Class) and another TV movie (The Wedding), the graduation episode was really the end of the Bayside era. Zack Morris is somewhat of an idol to me — and, I’m sure, to many of you. The cynics out there are probably thinking: “What about the time Zack crashed Mrs. Turtle’s car? Or got jealous of Kelly’s boss at the Max? Or quit the gang’s band to pursue a solo career? Or betrayed his friends and macked on Jessie and Lisa? Not exactly idol-type behaviour is it, lunatic boy?” To you I say, did he not admit his mistake to Lisa’s mom, encouraging viewers not to drink and drive? Was Jeff not a seedy character later seen cheating on Kelly at an over-18 club? Was Zack’s arrogance and abandonment of the band not clearly an alternate really, just one of many possible futures? And as for the manwhore assertion, let’s look at the bigger picture. At various times Zack has been involved with Jessie, Lisa, Tori, even Slater’s sister and Stacey, the boss’ daughter at the beach club. I won’t even bother counting all the damesof-the-week that we never heard from again. But with all his girl-chasing, it’s not the pushy queen of slut town that Zack settles down with. He chooses Kelly — the nice girl-next-
door type. Lest we forget his other, nonromantic accomplishments. Some highlights: he delivers Mrs. Belding’s baby while trapped in an elevator (although, sure, it might seem odd that Bayside has an elevator or that the child had no umbilical cord). He adopts Becky, a baby duck and later cries after she is killed in an oil spill. He helps Jessie through her oneepisode drug problem. He gets in touch with his Native roots. He befriends a homeless girl, a disabled student and a young woman fighting sexism in high school athletics. Most amazingly, he makes frequent use of the classic “time-out” maneuver. It takes more than a nice tan, a good smile and some flashy tapered jeans to pull off the stopping of time to make asides to the audience. Zack Morris has the looks, the friends, the charms, the brains and the cash to make any boy jealous. But add in super-powers and a heart of gold and it’s enough to make all of us a little weak in the knees. Fall in love with him all over again. Saved By The Bell airs four times a day on TBS: weekdays from midnight to 1 a.m., and 7-8 a.m. dcarey@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Mad cow? She’s pissed Yet another thing to keep you up at night Robyn Steele SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
UW scientists brewing up trouble and kicking butt.
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Eighteen science students represented UW in the nation’s capital at the Canadian University Science Games in early January. This year’s competition, at the University of Ottawa, tested scientific and mathematical knowledge, teamwork, hands-on construction and provided an oppurtunity for all involved to cut loose. Despite having the smallest team, UW placed second out of 13 teams and received honorable mention for their success and determination. The team competed in various activities such as trivia, debate, keg tossing, scavenger hunt, photography and beer chugging. The focal point of the games was an event called the Cascade. A cascade is a complicated series of processes that ultimately achieves a final, cumulative effect. This year the Cascade involved biological and chemical components, with the ultimate goal to launch a small, stuffed version of the University of Ottawa’s mascot, the “Gee-Gee,” into the air. Points for the Cascade were awarded for functionality and creativity, as well as flashy science components such as forming a precipitate, undergoing a colour change, turning on a light, watering a plant, feeding a goldfish and peeling a banana. “Our school excelled at this event due to our strong crew of physics nerds building the biggest, baddest trebuchet that fired the Gee-Gee further and higher than any other school,” said UW team member Peter McLachlan. Their medieval design got the team featured on the Discovery Channel and earned them third place in the Cascade. The UW team managed to attain one of the trickiest items for the Science Scavenger Hunt: a ride home from Ottawa University Campus Police. A clever story was made up by two innocent looking Waterloo students about being lost and
frost-bitten in a strange city. It was enough to convince the officers and score the team some large points, helping them earn first place in the event. “We were the only team to get the ride, because they later figured out what we were up to,” said Becky Wroe, UW team captain. Other highlights, recall the UW scientists, included beating a Laval team in a pint chugging contest, freezing their asses off while running around Ottawa in the - 30 C weather and attempting to speak French to the Laval competitors. Some of the UW team members report getting stuck in over-packed elevators with other competitors for hours, an unexpected challenge requiring the fire department, an elevator rescue team and a sense of humour. The universities present at the games included UW, Windsor, Montreal, Laval, McGill, Ottawa and Western. Next year’s Science Games will be held in Montreal. Contact the UW Science Society for information on attending Science Games 2005.
How’d we do? Results:
Overall Academics 1st University of Montreal 2nd University of Waterloo 3rd Université Laval
The Cascade
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), more commonly called mad cow disease, has made a recent reappearance in the North American beef industry after having been dormant for nearly a decade. This disease, which cannot be tested on live animals, is caused by an abnormal form of protein, called a prion. It is commonly believed by scientists that the main transmitter of the brain-wasting illness is contaminated feed. That is, feed made with parts of infected cows. BSE attacks the central nervous system of cattle, essentially eating holes in their brains. Infected cows display symptoms such as aggression, a lack of co-ordination and unsteady movements, hence the name “mad cow.” In 1997, Canada placed a ban on cattle feed that contains animal parts, particularly those of cattle, sheep and other cud chewing animals. Of the two recent cases in North America, both cows were born before 1997 in Alberta. The first case was discovered in Alberta in May, 2003. Following this discovery Japan, the United States and Mexico banned Canadian beef and cattle imports, which has cost beef producers an estimated $1.9 billion in beef exports, essentially the beef has gone to waste. During an investigation of the source of the infection, 1,400 cows were slaughtered. No additional cases were found. Several months following the ban, US borders opened to some Canadian beef and beef products; however, live cattle were still banned. Cattle which ordinarily would be sold for $1,300 a head were going for $15. The ban was to be lifted in December of 2003, when a second case of BSE was found on a Washington state farm. Immediately following the report of this case, Japan placed a ban on all American beef, while Canada restricted imports on beef products. Investigation into the case revealed the cow had been imported from an Alberta farm and had been born before the 1997 feed ban. American borders are still closed to Canadian beef in light of this information. In addition to the limited import of beef products, in late December, the Canadian government banned all pet food imports, as pet food often contains nerve tissue from cows, which is the tissue that is thought to have the highest risk of transmitting BSE. The U.S. supplies a significant amount of pet food to Canada, including food for special dietary needs, creating a panic in pet owners, leading
to the stockpiling of pet food. The government has lately lifted the severity of this ban, stipulating that only food containing bovine parts cannot cross the border. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has recently called for greater screening for BSE, a measure that may prove unnecessary as well as a waste of time, resources and more importantly, money. Since Japan discovered its first case of BSE in 2000, they began testing every one of the 1.3 million cows they slaughter each year, spending $65 million US in the first two years equipping test centres with adequate inspection equipment. Even more alarming is the fact that this figure does not even include the cost of recalling suspected meat or slaughtering the cattle. The biggest concern however, is not economic, but for public health. Scientists believe that humans can contract a form of BSE called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) through the ingestion of infected beef. The disease has an incubation period of up to 30 years and displays symptoms of dementia, weakened muscles and loss of balance. The human form of mad cow, similar to BSE, cannot be accurately diagnosed until an autopsy has been performed and therefore is always fatal. It is suspected that the disease does survive the process of cooking, digestion and the human immune system; however, some scientists doubt this theory. From an estimated two million infected cattle that entered the market for human consumption in the United Kingdom in the late eighties to the early nineties, only 130 people were infected with vCJD. The North American cases have been so isolated and so swiftly dealt with that, in conjunction with the feed ban, human infection and indeed further animal infection is highly improbable. While both Alberta Agriculture Minister Shirley McClellan and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency are confident that no meat from infected cattle has entered the human food chain, the National Centre for Infectious Disease and Health Canada have issued information on how to avoid BSE. Included in that information is advice on the types of meat which are safe and those which are not. For instance, whole cuts of meat without the bone, such as steaks and roast are lower risk than processed products such as sausages, burgers and patés. They have also stated that dairy products such as milk and cheese are not believed to pose any risk for transmitting BSE.
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Now, for the first time, scientists say they have proved what creative minds have known all along: that our sleeping brains continue working on problems that baffle us during the day and that the right answer may come more easily after eight hours of rest. For example, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards said the riff in “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” came to him in his sleep, while 19th-century chemist Dmitri Mendeleev literally dreamed up the periodic table of elements. The German study is considered to be the first hard evidence supporting the common-sense notion that creativity and problem-solving appear to be directly linked to adequate sleep. Some researchers said the study provides a valuable reminder for overtired workers and students that sleep is often the best medicine. “A single study never settles an issue once and for all, but I would say this study does advance the field significantly,” said Dr. Carl E. Hunt, director of the National Centre on Sleep Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health. “It’s going to have potentially important results for children for school performance and for adults for work performance.” Scientists at the University of Luebeck found that volunteers taking a simple math test were three times more likely than sleep-deprived participants to figure out a hidden rule for converting the numbers into the right answer if they had had eight hours of sleep. The findings appear in Thursday’s issue of the journal nature. The researchers said the study should be considered a warning to schools, employers and government agencies that sleep makes a huge difference in mental performance. The results “give us good reason to fully respect our periods of sleep —
International health experts tried to trace the lines of transmission of a bird flu that has killed five people and millions of chickens across Asia, as China shut trade ports on Tuesday along its border with hard-hit Vietnam. The World Health Organization said Tuesday that because of “mounting concern” over the five deaths, it is working on a new vaccine to protect people from the bird flu. A prototype could be ready for vaccine manufacturers in about a month. Scientists are working with flu virus obtained from two of the victims in VietNam. The WHO also oversaw production of a similar vaccine during last February’s bird flu scare, which resulted in two cases and one death in Hong Kong. A total of 14 scientists, with expertise in epidemiology, disease surveillance and livestock and animal husbandry, will be involved in investigations, WHO spokesman Bob Dietz said in Hanoi. Vietnam, however, is the only country with confirmed cases of the bird flu in people; five have died. The scientists will try to determine exactly how the flu is being transmitted from bird to human. Among the puzzles they will need to solve is why the bulk of the bird infections have occurred in southern Vietnam, while all the human victims have been from the northern region around Hanoi. Saving the environment one giant balloon at a time
At a meeting this month top climate scientists and technologists from both sides of the Atlantic reached an extraordinary consensus: ideas for curing global warming that were once dismissed as screwball now need to be taken seriously. Technical fixes like filling the stratosphere with billions of silver balloons to reflect the sun’s rays, or spraying the oceans with iron to make them suck up the gases causing global warming, should be developed as a safety net, they said. “I fully expect that one or more of these technologies will be deployed in the near future,” said Ed Boyle of MIT, a coorganizer of the conference. “In the
event of an unanticipated climatic catastrophe, we may need a rapid fix.” Many of the two-dozen researchers concluded that they shouldn’t just sit back and wait for their governments to belatedly realize the earth is getting too hot. But others feared that developing a safety net would send the wrong signal to politicians. About to board a plane to discuss climate change with the Bush administration last week, Britain’s chief scientist, David King (who recently described global warming as a bigger threat than terrorism), said: “I am in favour of having every weapon at our disposal to fight climate change. My only reservation is that you might provide a fig leaf for those who say we don’t have to bother to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. That still has to be the first priority.” The technologies come in two types. The first aims to capture and bury pollution gases such as carbon dioxide (CO ) so that they do not build up in the atmosphere, where they trap heat and raise temperatures. The second shades the earth from solar radiation, keeping us cool. 2
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An experiment that tracks subtle motions of subatomic particles called muons (pronounced MEW-ahnz) has found tantalizing evidence for a vast shadow universe of normally unseen matter existing side by side with ours, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory said yesterday. The significance of the findings has been thrown into doubt by a series of mathematical errors and theoretical disagreements by physicists around the world who have been weighing the evidence for what would, if correct, rank as one of the greatest discoveries in science. The Brookhaven “g minus 2” experiment has produced extraordinarily minute observations of the gyrating muons. In a dispiriting turn for the experimenters, though, the theoretical predictions of how encounters with ordinary matter should affect the dance of the particles have come into doubt. Only through differences between the expected and observed behavior of the muons could the existence of new matter be inferred.
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A near capacity crowd was treated to another successful climate change campaign coffee house on January 20. The event outshone its impressive fall term success by presenting blowout performances from some of our best local talent. The Climate Change Education and Awareness Campaign is a student-run project which began in the fall term with $25,000 worth of funding from the Canadian government. The major focuses of the group are sustainable transport, energy efficiency and renewable energy. The group also makes an effort to raise public awareness on climate change issues and the effects of these changes. The event displayed a wide range of musical talents, from the opening performance with the UW Drum Club (with garbage can pop bottle accompaniment) to the bluesy stylings of Matt Osbourne. Headlining the event were electric Glory Fades and the soulful Jam Night Regulars. Contributing their own heat to climate change was Glory Fades, a hot, Simple Plan/Dashboard Confessional-like group with
confidence beyond their experience. After the intermission, the Jam Night Regulars rocked us through to the finalé men’s track and field teams competed at a meet held in the St. Denis Centre, home of the University of Windsor. with their unique, powerful sound. The attendance at the event was a real credit to the groups work for climate change awareness and a tip of the hat to our local performers. The UWSP hopes to continue their tradition of providing great entertainment, and being a campus resource. For more information on putting the reins on climate change right here at UW, check out the campaign’s Web site at climatechange.uwaterloo.ca.
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Chauhan showed me a demonstration of the technology at work. As we watched a map of the bus route 13 on his laptop, we could see the “bus” (actually a car) with the transmitter inside move down Ring Road in realtime as the screen constantly refreshed. Soon we were notified that the “bus” was approaching, eventually seeing it pass by the window. The human robot interface project was one of the projects that seems like it might have some real-world use. The group informed me that Telus is interested in having them meet with one of their American partners, who could help direct the movement of a
patient with a corresponding device. The technology could also be used for bomb defusing. “Theoretically, someone could be in an office 100 miles away from the bomb and deactivate it by watching through a camera,” said Brookfield. The device’s controls were built from scratch to be intuitive and easyto-learn. Air Rockey, one of the more entertainment-oriented innovations, was created by Illan Kramer, Andrew Akers, Andre Girard and Robin Wilson. Air Rockey is a device that will play a defensive game of air hockey against a human opponent. When the human player hits the puck it goes
through a grid of lasers. The lasers talk to the computer, which moves a blocking device to intercept the puck. It only blocks 60 per cent of the time. “The prediction is pretty basic,” said Kramer. Nevertheless, it looks like a fun time! So, now I’m waiting for the day I can put one of those Back on Track transmitters on my boyfriend, or lie in bed wearing a mechanical glove to prepare breakfast in the next room. This finally proves that engineers really are good for something other than making batch and playing havenger scunts! egilmer@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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While many students this past weekend may have gotten drunk and attempted to re-enact their favourite music videos at a local bar, the men’s basketball team took part in the greatest invention aside from Halle Berry: the weekend double header. Not only did the Warriors participate, they dominated, winning both games against Royal Military College, 54-49, and Queen’s, 77-59. On Friday night the Warriors were looking to get back on track after a difficult loss to the Carleton Ravens
the week before. Luckily the game was against RMC who, in the past, has not been the stiffest of challenges. However, Waterloo may have underestimated their competition and as a result, found themselves in a hard fought battle. Both struggled from the field with neither team managing to shoot over 40 per cent for the game. With as little offence as there was, there were still solid bursts of scoring that resulted in numerous lead changes. With only three minutes remaining, the Golden Gaels went on a 9-0 run that propelled them into the lead. Fortunately, the Warriors were able to come up with a run of their own and
take the lead for good. Leading the way for the Warriors was fourth year forward Chris Edwards, who provided strength on the glass collecting seven boards and added 10 points. Graham Jarman also contributed 13 points of his own. Less than 24 hours later, the Warriors found themselves back at the PAC getting ready for Queen’s. The output displayed against RMC was reversed and the Warriors won in a dominating fashion. Waterloo controlled both ends of the floor and were led by a total team effort. Also, Waterloo was able to force Queen’s into 18 turnovers, which helped spear-
head the offensive output that had gone missing the night before. Four Warriors were able to reach double figures in scoring including 10 points from dependable point guard Bryan Nichol, whose strong game spoke just as loudly as he does. Andrew Coatsworth continued to play strongly, almost obtaining a doubledouble, scoring 14 points and grabbing nine rebounds. With the weekend double header the Warriors were able to rack up two quick victories and bolster their season record to 9-4. Unfortunately, frontrunners Guelph and McMaster have played one less game and are
ahead of third place Waterloo. However, have no fear because the Warriors travel to McMaster on Wednesday for a possible first-place showdown. But before playing McMaster, the Warriors host hated Western tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. in the PAC to conclude their three game home stand. The season’s final stretch is now under way and it will be essential that the Warriors peak during these next few weeks if they are to have postseason success. The Warriors have put themselves in a situation where Halifax and the national championships are no longer just a goal, but a realistic possibility.
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Adam McGuire TWO-MINUTE WARNING This is what football fans have been waiting for. After months of high-octane play, bone-chilling action and Oakland Raiders legal troubles, the big game has finally arrived. thirty-two teams have finally been reduced to the best two, and the players on both sides are chomping at the bit to plant their flag atop the NFL heap. Yes, the Super Bowl is just around the corner. Well, 10 days around the corner. January 25, 2004 is the most hated day of the year for fans of the gridiron ballet, because this is the only Sunday during the NFL season when there is no football. In fact, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likely to find more action in a Salt Lake City casino than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find in football stadiums across America this Sunday. Welcome to the preSuper Bowl bye week, otherwise known as the worst vacation since
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Wayne, a third year Psychology student from Rodney, Ontario, led the Warriors to two big wins this past week in OUA play. Last Wednesday at Laurier, Wayne scored 11 points in a 3-1 victory over the Golden Hawks and Saturday afternoon had a career high 15 points (9 kills, 5 blocks, 1 ace) against #9 ranked Ryerson Rams.
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Kobe Bryantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visit to Colorado. The only idea in favour of the bye week that even flirts with logic is the desire to allow the combatants of each team time to heal and rest before the biggest game of their careers. But part of being a champion is playing through the pain and persevering through adversity. In a perfect world, and in a perfect Super Bowl, there would be no injuries to play through. But as the halftime show proves to us, the Super Bowl is far from perfect. If there is a player that is too hurt to play in a game this monumental, then the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;amputateâ&#x20AC;? better appear in his medical chart. The bye week also does little to discourage the sickening over-analysis of the Super Bowl. I know this may come as a shock to the NFL, but the secret is out â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big game, so stop trying to make it bigger. The game is enough of a spectacle already, without the collective efforts of a gajillion accredited media personnel. But thanks to the bye, the media has two whole weeks to inject a vomitinducing amount of hype into the Super Bowl, and they relish the opportunity to do so. Face it: nobody ever wants to see ESPNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official kickoff countdown clock, but they certainly
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to see it when it still reads 254 hours, 43 minutes and 16 seconds. But the NFL likes it like that. The bye week does nothing but give the league more time to plaster their logo on every television network this side of Al Jazeera. Sure, the bye does great things for the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pocketbooks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; now, if only it did great things for the fans. Oh yeah, the fans. What better way to show appreciation for the hoarde of people that keep your league in business than by sucking the momentum out of the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest game before it begins? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about you, but every time I read a feature story about Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backup long snapper, my interest in the Super Bowl dies a bit more. But no matter how bored we get of the sub-sub-plots, the bye week doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to be going anywhere soon. So as the players get enough rest to rival Rip Van Winkle and the league counts the money they make from a plethora of pre-game events, the fans will have to learn to grin and bear it. After all, kickoff is only 254 hours away. amcguire@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hockey team continued their quest for a playoff berth last weekend against the Western Mustangs and Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golden Gaels. On Friday, January 16 the Warriors first hosted the Western Mustangs, a team they look to distance themselves from in a tight race for the final playoff spot. The Warriors came out strong at the gate, getting a quick goal by Kaleena Yeung. However, the Mustangs were able to get the equalizer late in the third period, resulting in a 1-1 draw. On Sunday, January 18 the team travelled to face off against the sixth ranked team in the nation, Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. UW failed to score in a 3-0 defeat. Unfortunately the Warriors dropped another decision 3-0 to Western this past Wednesday night at the CIF. UWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bethany Stuart stopped 21 of 24 shots in the losing effort. The Warriors will next see action Saturday, January 24, when they host Windsor at the CIF at 2 p.m. Curling teams leave themselves in good position
The first of the 2003-2004 Varsity Curling Competitions were hosted by the University of Windsor on January 17. Expectations were high for both the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squads, as both teams performed well leaving
with 2-1 records. In the first game the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad was expecting a close game against the OUA defending champion Western. However, the Warriors came out very strong at the beginning and dominated the game cruising to an 8-1 victory. In the second game against local rivals Laurier, the Warriors were expecting to come out with an easy victory. However, their confident mentality caused them to lose focus and they dropped the game 8-7. In their third and final game the Warriors were hoping to forget about their previous loss and hoped Windsor would allow them to leave the tournament on a winning note. The only thing that slowed the Warriors from notching another huge win was the strong play of the Windsor skip. Eventually the Warriors were able to amount a 10-4 win. The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad came into Windsor without their fifth, Jeff Perry, as he was unable to make the trip due to illness. In their first game against Western, the men repeated the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success and won handily as the Warriors played an almost flawless game. In their second game against Laurier the Warriors looked for their second straight win. After a slow start, the Warriors settled down and regained control of the game resulting in an 118 victory. In their third and final game against the host Windsor Lancers, the Warriors did not fare as well. The tough UW squad was not able to gain any momentum and lacked the focus that they displayed in the previous two games. As both the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
team prepare for the upcoming crossovers at the end of the month, both teams are in good position to be in the OUA Finals. Tough schedule takes its toll
The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hockey team did not fare so well in their home-and-home series with their division leading rivals, Western Mustangs. The Warriors couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop the red light from flashing, losing 10-3 and 52, to the nationally ranked Mustangs. In their first game on Friday, January 16, the Warriors out shot the Mustangs, yet still suffered a 10-3 loss. Goal scorers for Waterloo were Marc Accardi, Kevin Hurley and Ryan MacGregor. Back at the Columbia Icefields on January 18, the Warriors were looking to even the mini-series. However, allowing three goals in 17 seconds did not help their chances. The Warriors were able to respond with goals by Adam Metherel and Eric Ebey, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough, as they lost 5-2. This weekend, on Friday, January 23 and Saturday January 24 the Warriors will be hosting the number two team in the nation, the Lakehead Thunderwolves. Both games will be at the Columbia Icefields at 7 p.m. Runners set several personal records
On Friday, January 16 and Saturday, January 17 the UW womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s track and field teams competed in the Can-Am invitational meet, as the Warriors travelled to the St. Denis Centre, home of the University of Windsor. See BRIEFS, page 27
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The Waterloo nordic ski team celebrated the return of warmer weather this weekend by competing in the first OUA qualifying meet of the season. As most of the province slowly came out of the deep freeze, the Warriors were burning up the trails in Deep River as fast as their skis would take them. This past weekend’s competition, as well as being an OUA qualifying meet, was also the Eastern Canadian Championships, and a stop on the Canada Cup tour. As such, not only the best university skiers, but also many of the best skiers from across the country made the trip for the weekend of racing. Saturday’s competition was the standard individual start format, where skiers start 30 seconds apart and race against the clock, trying to post the fastest time around the course. Both the men and women skied a 7.5km freestyle race. Setting the pace for the men was Stephen Hart of Trent University. The Warriors had a second place team finish on the day led by Charles Curtis in eighth place, Eerik Randsalu in 10th and Justin Faulkner in 12th place among the 60 university men. The team scoring was rounded out by Matt Strickland (30) and new Warrior Colin Rhodes (46). In the women’s race, Megan McTavish of Carleton University earned the top spot on the podium. Leading the way for the Warriors were Mary Ellen Wood in seventh and Andrea Dupont in eighth position. Completing the women’s team fifth place finish were Colleen Lynch (19), Meg Payne (37) and first year Waterloo athletes Toni Carlisle (38) and Tiffany Duncan (47). After a good meal, cold bath and some muchneeded sleep, the Warriors returned to the site on Sunday morning prepared for another day of competition. The second race was of the alwaysinteresting mass start format. This involves all of the athletes in one category lining up at the start and racing from the sound of the gun. The source of the challenge is that each athlete has six foot extensions on each hand and foot, thus taking up space and making it hard to avoid tripping another athlete or falling over the other skiers. To succeed in a mass start race, an athlete needs to find the delicate balance between skiing aggressively and skiing a smart race. Curtis commented at the finish line, “It was a good, aggressive race. I only got hit by one person.” This particular race course began with a long, narrow and twisting descent that was made exciting by the pack of 60 athletes entering the woods together. The Waterloo men proved themselves
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Warrior Colleen Lynch battles the frigid temperatures in competition last week at Deep River. worthy of the challenge, finishing third as a team over the 10km classical race. Curtis paced the Warriors in eighth followed by Faulkner, 10th, Randsalu, 13th, Strickland, 18th, and Rhodes, 43rd. The women had an added obstacle as one of the first athletes fell on the hill, causing a domino effect which saw more than half the field lying in the snow. Nevertheless, the warriors got back on their feet and raced to a fourth place team finish in the 5km classic event. Leading the way was Lynch in sixth place, as well as Dupont, eighth, Wood, 12th, Payne, 29th, Carlisle, 32nd, and Duncan, 41st. Following the race, Dupont admitted to being one of the first in the pile-up, saying, “In a race like this, you can’t afford to hold back. Even breathing or glancing in the wrong direction will lead to disaster.” After a successful weekend of racing, the nordic ski team will train and relax until they race in Orangeville on Saturday, January 24.
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South of the border visit for swim team
This is the same venue that the CIS track and field championship will be held at this year. The relatively inexperienced Warriors squad came into the meet with few expectations. However, key performances were turned in by many, including Katie Bickle, who placed fifth in the 60 m dash, eighth in the 300 m and also ran in the 4x200 m relay; Cindy Willits ran four different races and set lifetime bests for all of the events; Leanne Stanley placed fourth in shot put throwing a lifetime best 11.35 m; Colin Lawrence placed third in the 1000 m, and ran a lifetime best in the 4x800 m relay, able to make up time from an earlier collision in the race; Adrian Blair competed in the 60 m dash, the 300 m and also ran in the 4x400 m and 4x200 m relay. The team’s next meet is on Saturday, January 24 as they make the trek to Montreal to compete at McGill University.
The UW swimming team travelled to the United States for a meet against the Niagara Purple Eagles. The men won easily 132-57, while the women lost narrowly 114-89. Captain Matt Mains led the way, winning in the 200 m individual medley, 100 m free and 200 m breaststroke. Other winners included George Dimitrov, Danny Parsons, Ian Rutherford, and Kader El-Fityani. The 4 by 50 m relay team that claimed victory for the Warrior men included ElFityani, Rutherford, Jordan Krakower and Alex Bardelic. Winning events for the women Warriors were captain Jen Sweny and Kelsey Dodge. Although none of the other women were able to win an event, several swimmers set personal best times, including Laura Chalmers, Caroline Amyot and Kristie Henry.
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With the frenzy of the holidays long gone and now well into the first month of the new year, the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball team looked for a strong start in their quest for the final playoff spot in the West Division. The beginning of the year is like a season within a season, where teams replace the 2003 calendar and hopefully their faults with the clean slate of a 2004 calendar, hopefully one where the playoffs are etched in permanent marker. With the end of the regular season fast approaching and the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball team sitting near the bottom of the standings, the team hopes to keep its fading playoff hopes alive. On January 17, the Warriors looked to visiting Ryerson, a team much like the Warriors, except in the opposite division, to get a valuable two points. However Ryerson, â&#x20AC;&#x153;proved to be a black hole in the schedule,â&#x20AC;? said head coach Jason Grieve. The Ryerson Rams showed a desire to win that the Warriors were not able to match. The Rams walked out of Waterloo having earned the two points in a match that was error
filled. The Warriors made 35 errors in the match and in the fourth and final set the Warriors sealed their fate when their errors resulted in half of Ryersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s points. Not even Kelly MacFatarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season best offensive performance could save the Warriors. Losing 3-1 was certainly not the start to a four game home stand that the Warriors wanted. Wednesday, January 21 saw the Warriors go up against the second best team in their division, the Western Mustangs. A 12-point cushion separated the two teams before the start of the match. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Western is one of the better teams,â&#x20AC;? said Grieve, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have four girls on the team from London, essentially their home school. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll look to play a good game.â&#x20AC;? The Warriors came out with a good game plan against the unexpecting Mustangs, led by National B team player Kyla Simpson. Grieveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game plan caught the opposition off guard and allowed his team to win the first set 25-19. In the second set Western made changes to compensate and jumped to an early 19-9 lead. After a timeout, the Warriors were able to claw their way back, tying the game 20-20. From there it was a desperate fight between the two
teams, ending in an exciting long rally that the Mustangs were able to win. The second set ended 25-22 in Westernâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favour. In the third set, the Mustangs burst out of the gate, quickly building a lead of 12-5. The Warriors tried to fight back, but the Mustangs continued to dominate, paving the way to a 25-14 victory. In the fourth set the Warriors hoped to force a fifth, but as the game grew older, the Mustangs grew stronger. A very determined UW squad worked extremely hard and came close, but eventually lost the deciding fourth set 25-21, losing the match 3-1. The playoffs are now looking farther and farther away from the grasp of the lady Warriors. But, as a strong team with a solid core that includes eight first year players, the team hopes they can learn from their experiences. One promising player is Jenna Schroeder, who coach Grieves describes as, â&#x20AC;&#x153;fantastic [on the court], a good student, great work ethic and worked very hard in the off-season.â&#x20AC;? Unfortunately, libiero and off court captain Edith Buie will not be returning. The Warriors have five games remaining in the regular season. They will next see action next Wednesday, January 28, when they host McMaster at the PAC at 6 p.m.
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UW has jump in January Rod McLachlan IMPRINT STAFF
ROD MCLACHLAN
UW’s Travis Stone (#12) and Brock Pehar (#8) set up a kill in last week’s win over the Western Mustangs. The victory was UW’s fourth straight triumph.
He’s here to pump you up Rachel Shugart IMPRINT STAFF
Take an opportunity to lose some of that winter hibernation-induced pudge around your middle and come out to a series of nutritional seminars being held at the PAC this weekend. The speaker is fourth-year Kinesiology student Marc Demers, a certified fitness trainer and varsity strength and conditioning coach for the men’s basketball team. He proposed holding the seminars in November of last year after realizing the need to educate people about the fact that physical appearance is not only based on the training they are undergoing, but also on diet. The first seminar is focused on helping beginners learn some basic nutritional principles that
will help them lose weight. Demers says this seminar is directed at anyone who doesn’t feel confident about his or her figure and who would like some tips on safe and effective dieting. Because of the time constraints and other stresses of university, eating well can be especially difficult and learning how to make proper food choices is important. Demers hopes to help people with, “the right approach to goal setting and reaching those goals [in dieting].” Changes that he suggests making to the average student’s diet include eating smaller and more frequent meals, as well as cutting out regular carbonated beverages and other high calorie drinks (that means beer, too). See FITNESS, page 30
ADAM MCGUIRE
Personal trainer and UW student Marc Demers is bringing awareness to the Waterloo fitness scene with his seminars sponsored by Campus Recreation.
The men’s volleyball team is looking to land itself as high a seed as possible with the four remaining matches in their regular season. This past Wednesday the Warriors took a big step toward their goal with a comeback 3-2 win (25-19, 24-25, 22-25, 2520, 15-11) versus the Western Mustangs in the Physical Activities Complex. The victory was the fourth straight for UW and gives them a 4-1 record in 2004 to date. With little chance of catching the two teams who would get a first-round playoff bye, first-place Toronto or second-place York, Waterloo now has its sights set on the third seed, which plays the sixth seed. In the first set versus Western, the teams traded points in a close neck and neck battle before UW finally pulled away. In the second set Western pulled away from the Warriors and led 20-16, however UW’s attempt to comeback fell short with the set ended 25-24 for UWO. Waterloo dropped the third set 25-22 despite the strong play of UW’s Steve Mousseau and Taylor Hall. The third set also saw the insertion of second year leftside Greg Black into the match from the bench. The shake-up sparked the Warriors and immediately shifted the momentum in the fourth set. Black came up large during the fourth and fifth sets playing the game of his life by scoring and making crucial blocks when the Warriors needed it the most. “Sometimes you just need to change guys up and, you know, spark something,” said the Moncton native Black. “When we started playing with a lot more energy it made a big difference,” added Black, who
was the source of that energy. “…what they expect me to do [is come in and score] and that’s what I expect myself to do. It felt good to get a chance to go in there and score.” The victory against Western was preceded by a big 3-1 win (25-21,25-20,25-27,25-22) in a barnburner match over the Ryerson Rams (5-8-0, win-loss-tie) last Saturday afternoon at the PAC. In Saturday’s match the Rams and Warriors got off to a slow start in their matinée tilt, however both clubs played respectable side out volleyball. UW’s rookie left side hitter Dan Murray got things rolling eventually with some strong serving in the first game with a run of five points. His effort allowed UW to take the game lead 20-17, and gave Waterloo the momentum to win the set 25-21. The Warriors continued the trend with a late set charge to take the second set 25-20. In the third set, the struggling Rams made UW pay for complacency to finish and won the set 2725. The fourth set ended up being just as tight as the third. Nevertheless, Ryerson got burned on a few miscues, particularly Ryan Vandenburg’s game-point serve into the net, which led to UW taking the set 25-22 and winning the match 3-1. Defensively Wayne McIntyre, who had five blocks, led the Warriors. Murray ended up with 16 kills for UW and Ryerson’s Vanderburg led all players in the match with 17 kills. On Saturday, January 24 the U of T Varsity Blues visit Waterloo at 7 p.m. in the PAC. Wednesday, January 28 sees the Warriors host McMaster at 8 p.m. in a mid-week evening clash. — with files from UW Athletics rmclachlan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
Warriors split weekend pair
Fitness: nutrition is the key
Adam McGuire IMPRINT STAFF
For the UW womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team, it was a tale of two games. The Warriors earned a split in a pair of back-to-back home games on Friday, January 16 and Saturday, January 17 and although less than 24 hours separated the Warriorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; games against Royal Military College and Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, the team looked like an entirely different squad in the latter of the two matches. The Warriors kicked off the weekend with their most potent offensive outburst all year, as Waterloo dominated the winless RMC Paladins by a score of 86-31. However, the Warriors found themselves in tough against one of the OUAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top teams in Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the following day, as they dropped a 60-41 decision. While the Warriors may have been hosting the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weakest team in the first of two consecutive games, Waterlooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offense was clicking on all cylinders. The Warriors shot a whopping 55.7 per cent from the field, as they piled up points at a rate they had not yet seen in 2003-04. By the end of the game, the hapless Paladins had only managed 31 points and Waterloo had registered their largest margin of victory this season. The Warriors had five players in double figures in scoring, as Laura Strauss and Leslie Futter led the way with 14 points apiece. But the home team would be facing a much tougher challenge the day after their victory over RMC, as Waterloo welcomed the powerhouse Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golden Gaels to the PAC. The Warriors knew theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be in tough, as the contrast between their two opponents did not go unnoticed by UW head coach Tom Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like one end of the spectrum to the other,â&#x20AC;? said Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien of his backto-back opponents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is a strong team. They start three fourth-
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riorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; record 5-8 on the season, as they continue to drive towards the postseason. While UW finds themselves in the sixth and final playoff position, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien knows that anything can happen in the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remaining games and playoffs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the 34 years Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been coaching, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen a situation like in our conference,â&#x20AC;? said Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any team can beat any other team.â&#x20AC;? The Warriors continue their home stand this weekend when they host the Western Mustangs. Game time from the PAC is 12:00 p.m.
The second seminar contains some more advanced information and is directed at people who are already working out or at athletes looking to fine-tune their performance. Demers plans to talk about postworkout nutrition and techniques to reduce body fat and gain muscle. If you have been going to the gym frequently and feel like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going anywhere, this seminar will be particularly helpful. Another topic for both seminars will be a discussion on popular diets such as Atkins and the Zone, pointing out their good and bad points. Demers will recommend places to get good information and point out the importance of being critical of dieting information. In his own journey to better physical shape, Demers says he has failed many times and that his appearance was a big issue for him, especially in the later years of high school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know how hard it is to stick to a dietâ&#x20AC;Ś. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned that the only way to succeed it to never give up,â&#x20AC;? comments Demers. The seminars take place in the PAC on Sunday, January 25 at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. and cost $15, which is a small price to pay for the body youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always wanted, even if it will be covered up in a parka for the next three months. All the additional information pretaining to Demers and the seminars he is offering can be found in the Campus Recreation booklet.
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UWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nicole Tisdale (#10) keeps close guard on Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forward Claire Meadows during UWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loss at the hands of the Golden Gaels last week. year [players] and a fifth-year [player] and their experience really shows.â&#x20AC;? The Golden Gaels lived up to their reputation as one of the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top clubs, as they came out of the gates on fire. By the end of the first half, the visiting club had amassed a 32-23 lead, shooting an unconscious 68 per cent from the field. On the Warriors side of the coin, UWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s once-potent offense was held to only 23 points, which Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien contributes to a stingier Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense as opposed to UWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perceived offensive ineptness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were playing a better defensive team,â&#x20AC;? said Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were a more athletic team [than RMC].â&#x20AC;?
In the second half, UW was able to remain a factor in the game as they kept themselves within striking distance of the hot-shooting Gaels. In fact, the Warriors closed the lead to seven points with three minutes remaining before Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pulled away with an offensive fury to conclude the match. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just got lazy,â&#x20AC;? said Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien of the gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final few minutes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and they made some shots.â&#x20AC;? Leading the Warriors charge against Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s was Julie Devenny, who poured in 12 points. Strauss chipped in with a well-played game on the boards, pulling down seven rebounds. The weekend split made the War-
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PUBLISH YOUR "VALENTINE" IN IMPRINT THIS YEAR ... FEBRUARY 13 ... $3.21 for 20 words. Please submit your "words of love" by February 9, to the Imprint Office, Student Life Centre, room 1116 between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ANNOUNCE Need food or short of cash? The Feds Food Bank is a confidential student-run food bank that provides non-perishable goods to UW students in need. Visit us in the Student Life Centre, room 2108 or you can e-mail us at: uwfoodbank@hotmail.com. The Office for Persons with Disabilities launches awareness months and "Lunch and Learn" sessions for 2004. January is "Library Month." For more information, stop by our office, room 1132, Needles Hall. Are you Croatian? Are you dating? Are you between the ages of 18 and 32? University of Guelph master student would like to interview Croatians who are in a dating relationship with a Canadian or a Croatian. Both men and women are eligible. Please contact Marinela Braunstein for info at 519-496-6612 or mbraunst@uoguelph.ca. As prescribed by Policy 50, a Presidential Nominating Committee has been established, with a mandate to solicit opinion with respect to President Johnston's reappointment. Deadline is February 6, 2004. For info call ext 4012. Looking for career direction? Explore your options at Career Services, TC room 1214. CANEX Program – can't afford to study overseas? Study at another university in Canada. UW is one of 10 universities involved in the CANEX program. If your application is accepted you will receive a $1,000 scholarship from UW. Application deadline is March 1, 2004. For info contact Darlene Ryan at darlene@uwaterloolca. Exchanges for undergraduates and graduates – 2004-2005 academic years: Rhone-Alpes, France and BadenWurttemberg, Germany - internal deadline is February 13, 2004. Micefa Paris France - internal deadline March 12, 2004. For info and application forms contact Maria Lango, IPO, Needles Hall 1043, room 1001C, ext. 3999 or by email mlango@uwaterloo.ca. Winter 2004 – Student Skills Workshop and Personal Growth Workshops available. Call Counselling Services at ext. 2655. Nominations are requested for the following undergraduate student seats on Senate: Faculty Seats – one student elected by/from the full-time undergraduate student in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, term from May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2005. One student elected by/from full-time undergraduate student in the Faculty of Arts, term from May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2006. One student elected by/from the fulltime undergraduate student in the Faculty of Environmental Studies/Department of Independent Studies, term from May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2006. One student elected by/from the full-time undergraduate student in the Faculty of Mathematics, term from May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2005. One student elected by/from the full-time undergraduate student in the Faculty of Science, term from May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2006. At-Large Seat – one student elected by/from full-
time undergraduate students, term from May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2006. Nomination forms are available at http:// www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/elections/ugtosen.html or from the federation of students office. At least five nominators are required in each case. Completed nomination forms should be sent to the chief returning officer, secretariat, NH 3060 no later than 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 27, 2004. Elections, if necessary, will coincide with the annual Federation of students’ elections (February 10-12). Student senators who will be completing their terms of office on Senate as of April 30, 2004 are: Avi Caplan, environmental studies/independent studies; Adrian Chin, applied health studies; Yolanda Dorrington, mathematics; Jesse Helmer, arts; Alex Sloat, science; and Siyan Li, at large. Please refer to the following sites for information about Senate: the University of Waterloo Act, http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/ uwact/uwactindex.html and senate bylaws, http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/ infosec/Senate/senindex.html and committees and councils http:// www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/Committees/committees.html.
VOL UNTEER OLUNTEER Lutherwood is seeking volunteers for CradleLink, (three/four hours per week, in home) and Child and Parent Place (three to five hours bi-weekly). Building Better Futures...One Volunteer At A Time. www.lutherwoodcoda.org. Have fun tutoring children and youth for an hour or so once a week. Volunteer at UW Tutors. We are a Feds club and affiliated with Frontier College. Call 7478113 or e-mail Candace at chillier@frontiercollege.ca. Volunteer at the KW Volunteer Centre by calling 742-8610 or www.kwvolcentre.on.ca for info. Plan on attending the Volunteer Fair at Fairview Mall on Saturday, January 31.
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UPCOMING Friday, January 23, 2004 8th Annual Walk Skate for Memories, hosted by the Alzheimers Society from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. for info call 742-1422 or email alzkw@nonline.net. Wilfred Laurier leads – Glen Murray, Mayor of Winnipeg, will present a lecture entitled "Imagine a City: The Role of Culture in Urban Development," at 7 p.m. in Maureen Forrester Recital Hall. For more info call Deborah 8840710, ext 3800 or dcurrie@wlu.ca. Monday, January 26, 2004 Central Ontario Orchid Society general monthly meeting from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. at St. Joseph's Church, Courtland and Madison Streets in Kitchener. For info call 634-5540. Tuesday, January 27, 2004 Epilepsy Waterloo Wellington Parent Support Group discusses "Open Air" from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. RSVP to 745-2112. Saturday, January 31, 2004 Volunteer Fair 2004 and Auction for Volunteer Action will be presented at Fairview Park Mall from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For info contact Jane Hennig at 742-8610 or jh.kwvac@on.aibn.com. Monday, February 2-7, 2004 UW's 2nd Annual International Celebration Week is coming. This year there is a Literary contest to be awarded at the opening ceremonies on Feb. 2. Deadline is January 23, 2004. For info call Darlene Ryan at ext 2814 or darlene@uwaterloo.ca.
CECS Friday, January 23 Posting #5 available by 12 noon. Workshops: Interview Skills: The Basics, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., TCroom 2218A/B. Interview Skills: Preparing for Questions, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., TC2218A/B.
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Official-Language Monitor Program work for you! Looking for an opportunity to work in another province? Need to improve your French skills? Spend a year in Quebec or New Brunswick! Check out the OfficialLanguage Monitor Program. We promise an exciting and engaging experience. As a monitor of English you will work with a teacher in a classroom, part-time or full-time, to promote your language and culture. If you are a Canadian Citizen or permanent resident, have at least one year of postsecondary studies and you want to work with students, then the Monitor Program is for you! Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
For further information see your: Career Placement Centre; Financial Aid Office; French Department; Registrars’ Office; Graduate Studies Department. Or contact the Provincial Co-ordinator Official-Language Monitor Program Curriculum and Assessment Policy Branch 16th Floor, Rm 1622 Mowat Block, Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON M7A 1L2 Web Page: http://www.cmec.ca/olp/
Deadline: February 15, 2004 Canadian Heritage