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Sweatshops on film

Tall-men fall short

The Corporation takes over —page 16

Warriors’ disappointing loss —page 23

UW students craft the fine arts

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These works are on display at the Kitchener Public Library main branch as part of the Society for Fine Arts student exhibition which opened with a reception on March 3. From left, they are: Becky Wagler’s oil on canvas entitled, “Ruth and Heinz series rocking chair,” Dan Timmins’ oil on canvas entitled, “Down town #1” and Caroline Larson’s oil on chalkboard entitled, “Child on swing”. The exhibition ends March 28.

Gloves come off in CASA forum debate Bianca Tong IMPRINT STAFF

At a poorly attended media forum run in the SLC at noon on Monday amidst a backdrop of uninterested students, Feds VP education Liam McHughRussell and national director of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations James Kusie faced off against each other in an attempt to garner support for their respective stances in the upcoming CASA membership referendum. The forum was organized to inform students about the issues surrounding the upcoming vote happening March 10-11 on whether UW should continue its membership in the federal lobby group. The issue up for debate revolves around the usefulness of CASA as a federal voice for UW students and is an important matter for students to pay attention to, in order for them to realistically address their problems and concerns. CASA touts itself as “a very effective organization” which “presents realistic policy initiatives on post-secondary education to the federal government,” as stated on its Web site www.casa.ca. Representing the alliance, Kusie explained why UW should retain its membership.

“To pull yourself away from lobbying the federal government and silencing your voice from the table means that your voices are irrelevant at the federal level, and I think that’s something that flies in the face of basic philosophies of the student movement.” McHugh-Russell, a strong proponent for UW leaving CASA, stated several reasons that in his eyes devalue CASA as a viable voice for student issues. Among his grounds, he questions the value of CASA’s policies, and believes that the federal lobby group is “taking baby steps in the wrong direction. “I think there are a lot of students involved with CASA right now that want to see CASA head in a better direction for students. Fundamentally, I don’t believe that the people in the head office are going to be able to act against the inertia of the direction of the organization. The membership doesn’t know what it’s doing and if it doesn’t know what its doing, it’s the wrong thing to do.” The current VP education also believes that the roughly $30,000 membership fee and $5,000 in associated travel costs we pay to CASA annually could be better spent lobbying MPs, as opposed to creating a communica-

tions network to keep in contact with other student unions, citing that he believes “being out of CASA will not cut us out of the loop.” In response, Kusie disagreed with McHugh-Russell’s rationale: “If you pull your voice from a federal lobby organization, that’s it. Your voice will not be heard anywhere else. A single

The issue up for debate revolves around the usefulness of CASA as a federal voice for UW students student union in Canada cannot have the same clout, or resources as a group of student unions in Canada. It’s not going to happen.” CASA cites among its achievements the doubling of education tax credit, the ability to expense a computer under the Canada Student Loan program, and creation of the Millennium Scholarship Foundation among others. CASA successfully lobbied for the

last initiative to be changed from a mainly merit-based scholarship to a mainly needs-based scholarship. Kusie did admit to some faults in the running of the federal lobby organization, namely the lack of campus presence. It has been nearly two years since CASA ran a national campaign. “Members around CASA’s table want to sit with policy makers and decision makers, but [we] need to move toward mobilizing and engaging students on campuses as well.” This seemingly dismal representation was also echoed by the Prime Minister to McHugh-Russell: “One of the reasons that I decided to take the position that I did is that Paul Martin said quite explicitly to me that ‘there just isn’t public support for this.’” CASA’s national director also commented on the role student leaders play in the advancement of student interests. “The greatest threat to the student movement is the student leaders,” said Kusie, noting that many student leaders put their own agenda ahead of the student movement. The current VP education had established a committee in September 2003 to review the “efficacy, value and principles” of UW’s current lobby organizations — CASA, and at the

provincial level, the Ontario Undergraduate Student Association. He had promised as part of his election platform to ensure that the combined $60,000 in annual membership fees was spent effectively. On a final note, both student leaders had passionate words to impart: “At the end of the day, we’re still going to have a strong core group of schools fighting to make sure the student debt isn’t $30,000 at the end of your degree, that tuition isn’t skyrocketing at 135 per cent over the last 10 years,” said Kusie. To close the forum were McHughRussell’s last remarks. “My fundamental message in this referendum is that the voice at the table is only successful because our message is bad, and I’m not sure that we would have an effective voice at the table anymore if we changed our tune and went in favour of better representation.” Forums on this issue will be held Friday, March 5, and Monday, March 8, both in the Great Hall of the SLC, at noon. Vote next Wednesday, March 10 and Thursday, March 11 at www.feds.ca to decide the future of UW’s membership in the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. btong@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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What are you doing to relieve stress during this busy month? by Andrew Dilts and Dan Micak

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Humanity and will serve as the chair of the 2005 Ontario Engineering Competition. Laura also sat on the Federation Organization Committee. But Laura’s commitments do not stop there. As a thirdyear systems design major, she has been a frosh leader twice, sat on the Distinguished Teaching by a Registered Student Award Committee, sat on Feds Co-op student council, and is Councillor-elect for Feds for 2004. Considering all the sitting she does (on various committees), it is no surprise that Laura claims, “I now walk with a limp because of the ridiculous number of keys I have to carry around.” Laura has 24. — Fiona Hudgins

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Educating future drug dealers

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Belinda Stronach seeks Tory leadership, visits Waterloo Inn Candidate for leader brings vision to young K-W Conservatives

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A potential strike involving Ontario college professors has been averted, as they agreed to a tentative two-year settlement at the eleventh hour on Tuesday, March 2. The agreement gives teachers a pay raise of 7.3 per cent over the next two years and a special task force to handle the issue of heavy teacher workloads, which many teachers feel impedes their ability to adequately teach their students.

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Three oil paintings dating back to the 1800s were stolen from the Galbraith Building at University of Toronto last month. The three paintings include George Inness’ 1862 work “Light Triumphant” and an 1880 portrait of acclaimed artist William Picknell titled “Breton Soldier.” The combined value of the paintings is approximately $46,000; all three paintings were insured.

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Belinda Stronach wants to be the leader of the new Conservative Party of Canada and she’s been campaigning across Canada for the last month in an attempt to prove it. On Saturday, February 28, Stronach gave a keynote speech to young campus Conservatives from across Ontario as part of an Ontario PC Campus Association (OPCCA) convention held in Waterloo. In just under an hour, Stronach outlined many points in her leadership platform to the 100 or so young Tories in attendance. Some of the more prominent points include focusing on strengthening Canada’s economy, sharpening Canada’s international competitive edge and encouraging citizen engagement in politics. (For more information on Stronach’s campaign platform, check her well-touted Web site, www.belinda.ca.) Stronach stressed her private-sector business experience — she resigned as president and CEO of automotive giant Magna International in order to enter the leadership race — and her enthusiasm for the future of the newly-formed Conservative party as reasons to support her candidacy. Stronach is currently pitted against former Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper and former Ontario Health Minister Tony Clement for the leadership of the new Conservative party. Members of the right-wing party, a party formed by the merger of the former Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties, will choose their new leader in a vote on Saturday, March 20. Aaron Lee-Wudrick, the OPCCA convention’s chair and the individual responsible for bringing Stronach as a keynote speaker, is a proud supporter of her candidacy. When asked why he chose to support Stronach as a candidate, LeeWudrick commented. “Her experience is a big part of it — experience in business, which I think is a big asset to bring to government. She’s a very competent woman who sacrificed a lot to make the jump to politics, […] her policies are solid and she’s getting a lot

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Smokers in Manitoba may soon be unable to light up outside of their own homes. Healthy Living Minister Jim Rondeau has introduced the Non-Smokers Health Protection Act, which, as of October 1, would make Manitoba the first province where smoking is illegal in all public places and indoor workplaces. The plan has been formed to protect non-smokers from the ill effects of second-hand smoke. Bar owners are denouncing the plan, while it is being celebrated by health care workers and anti-smoking groups.

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A Senate committee in Ottawa has unanimously passed legislation banning human cloning, paid surrogate motherhood and the sale of human sperm and eggs. The bill was approved without amendments and will almost definitely become law. Canadian ethicists are largely thrilled, since many of them feel that human life should not be bought or sold. Meanwhile, fertility clinics have warned that a ban on sperm and egg sales could produce a shortage for infertile couples.

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Belinda Stronach has been termed by some to be a media darling, having gained considerable attention since she entered the conservative leadership race one month ago. Here, she answers questions for the K-W media. of people excited about politics again. All these things add up to great leadership material. “Some people would say her lack of political experience is a weakness but I count it as a big strength. She doesn’t have any [political] baggage, and as for policy familiarity, I’m something of a policy wonk and even I’m impressed with her learning curve,” added Lee-Wudrick. Stronach seems to be doing well in her candidacy — some polls list her as a second-place candidate behind the popular Harper — but she still has a way to go to win the hearts and votes of party members. Indeed, though Stronach’s speech gathered liberal applause from the young Conservatives, she by no means appeared even as popular as another keynote speaker, MPP Jim Flaherty, the very mention of whose name brought about a rousing, fist-pounding chant of “Jim! Jim! Jim!”

from the young Conservatives in attendance. Ryan O’Connor, 2003-04 OPCCA vice-president, made the following observation on Stronach’s candidacy: “I think Ms. Stronach will be an asset to our party as a Member of Parliament. However, I have reservations about her lack of political experience, especially given that a federal election could be called mere weeks after our leadership convention. “Given the recent sponsorship scandal plaguing the Liberal government, the Conservative Party has the opportunity to win enough seats to cause the Liberals to lose their majority. In this case, it is imperative that our new leader has the political experience necessary to lead our party through a minority Parliament — where the government could fall at any time.” adilts@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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In a move that echoes the social work his mother would often do, Prince Harry has travelled to the African nation of Lesotho to assist orphans living with HIV. Prince Harry hopes that his visit will bring some attention to the country, which, like South Africa, faces an overwhelming HIV epidemic and food shortages brought on by droughts.

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A previously unidentified terror group has been making threats to blow up railway tracks in France unless they are paid millions of US dollars and euros. According to France’s Interior Ministry, the group had sent several letters demanding payment in exchange for the neutralization of several bombs. Information ascertained from the group led to the retrieval of an explosive on February 21, which had been buried in the bed of a railway line and had enough power to break a track. mstratford@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Where have all the voters gone? It’s not just us! University students all over Canada can’t be bothered to vote in campus elections Lauren S. Breslin

student government ever seems to change. It’s the same thing, different year.�

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The ballots are in, the votes are counted and the results show a clear majority: UW students could care less about Feds elections. Low voter participation has been a recurring issue around these parts, but is by no means limited to the UW campus. Statistics show that so-called “voter apathy� is a problem that pervades campuses nationwide, suggesting widespread indifference to student politics and, by extension, the issues that drive them. The voting period for the 2004 Feds election gave students 60 continuous hours to cast their ballot. Students were also given the option of voting online at the Feds Web site or visiting one of the polling stations set up around campus. But even with the flexible time frame and the relative ease of the e-voting system, voter turnout reached a high of only 14.2 per cent for the executive race. Compare this with a similar high of 14.9 per cent in last year’s elections, and a pattern begins to unfold. “It doesn’t matter to me who wins or who loses,� said fourth-year psych major Stephanie Mackay. “I’ve been here for four years and nothing in the

“I’ve been here for four years and nothing in the student government ever seems to change. It’s the same thing, different year.� — Stephanie Mackay fourth-year psych major

Actually, when it comes to voting in student elections, some things change — but not by much. Feds elections 1985, for example, turned out just over 20 per cent of the electorate. More recently, however, UW has experienced a gradual decline in student involvement. What began as a participation rate of 23 per cent in the early ‘90s moved toward 17 per cent in 1995 and then down to 16 per cent in 1996.

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When the Feds introduced Waterloo’s first-ever campus-wide electronic vote in 2001, they billed it as a milestone that would increase voter turnout. Ironically, it turned up a dreadful 8 per cent of eligible voters that year — a marginal decline, in fact, from the previous year when online voting was used together with paper ballots. Come 2002, the voting numbers for the executive race jumped to 12.7 per cent, and then to 14.9 per cent in 2003. All in all, this means that less than two students out of ten cared enough to vote over the past few years. But UW is in no way unique when it comes to voter apathy. Statistics collected from universities across the country reflect a pervasive lack of interest in on-campus politics. “Historically, turnout at [Dalhousie Student Union] elections has been rather dismal,� said Will Szubielski, Dalhousie’s Chief Returning Officer. “Our turnout has fluctuated in the 1020 per cent range.� Dalhousie’s general election for 2003 saw roughly 10 per cent of the electorate cast their vote. “What we have found is that student participation is mainly a factor of the spirit of the campaign,� commented Szubielski. “If there are many interesting candidates, controversial issues, or highly contested campaigns, more students are engaged.� The University of Calgary did a little better last year at 11 per cent. Only ten per cent turned out for Ryerson’s student elections in 2004, while Brock turned up a more impressive figure of 20 per cent. At McGill, a recent presidential by-election drew 22 per cent of stu-

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dents out to the polls, while Western led the way with one of the largest voter turnouts of the year, at 25 per cent. The state of the university election is, significantly, a kind of microcosm to the state of government elections. Only 61.2 per cent of registered voters went to the polls in the 2000 federal race, marking the lowest voter turnout of any general election in Canada’s history. A big part of this

problem was a decline in the number of Canadians aged 18 to 24 who turned out to vote. Elections Canada estimated youth voters at 38.8 per cent — a substantial decline from the 1997 general election, when youth voter turnout was roughly 50 per cent. If past behaviour predicts future behaviour, what is to become of voter participation in this country? lbreslin@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

National Engineering Week, Conestoga Mall style Nick Fergusi SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

Engineering students from the University of Waterloo were at Conestoga Mall on Thursday, March 4 as part of National Engineering Week. Engineering students donned their pet projects as they spread the word to shoppers and passers-by about the importance of engineering and technology education. It is hoped that the excursion led people to consider studying one of these subjects at a school such as UW. “We want people to come out and take a look at our displays and see

what kind of things engineering students do,� explained Marc Joyce, codirector of National Engineering Week in the UW Engineering Society. It is also hoped that UW students will come out this weekend to the Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum to help run K’NEX Construction Workshops for local kids. Volunteers can help entertain and educate children either on Saturday, March 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or on Sunday, March 7 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. To volunteer, contact Joyce at mejoyce@engmail.uwaterloo.ca. For more info on Engineering Week, go to www.engineeringweek.on.ca.

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Rebuilding a wartorn country from home Former MP gives lecture at Humanities Theatre discussing the future of Afghanistan Allison Mullin

Afghanistan is 45 years, 21 per cent of women are illiterate and the country holds the highest number of land The images we are shown from the mines in the world (between 10 and 12 media of Afghanistan consistently il- million still remain). Over the past lustrate a country plagued by war, three decades at least five million peopoverty and recently, a resurgence of ple, mainly men, have been killed in Islamic fundamentalism. However, the wars, leaving their widows and as said by the Honourable Flora children behind. While there were MacDonald, behind those images is a many initial developments being made country of resilient people struggling after the war, Afghanistan has been to hold on to the shred of democracy pushed much further back on the international it has managed community’s to establish since agenda, in the the ousting of “The lack of wake of the war the Taliban reon Iraq. gime, and using international “The lack of it to rebuild funding for international again. funding for reMacDonald, reconstruction construction is a among many is a major threat major threat toother titles, is a stability,” former M.P. for towards stability.” wards said MacDonald. Kingston and — Flora MacDonald “The internathe Islands and former Chairperson of the was Chairperson tional commuInternational Development of the Internanity promised five Research Centre billion for Aftional Developghanistan in 2002 ment Research and only two bilCentre. She is also this year’s Toronto Dominion/ lion has been given so far. This is Walter Bean Visiting Professor of the compared to the 33 billion promised Environment, and gave a lecture on for reconstruction in Iraq.” Tuesday, March 2 titled “Afghanistan: Yet signs of progress can be seen, Failed State or Struggling Democracy?” insisted MacDonald. She has visited at the Humanities Theatre. the country three times in the last four For the last 25 years, Afghanistan years and sees significant improvehas been decimated by almost con- ments being made, especially in the tinuous war, the most recent being the countryside where ordinary people are war against the Taliban by the Ameri- determined to rebuild their country cans and their allies in 2002. The statis- and their lives. With help from intertics are bleak: the life expectancy in national organizations, such as CARE SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

Who wants to be prime minister?

“As PM Awards” gives big bucks for big ideas Mark Stratford IMPRINT STAFF

Were you one of those kids who dreamed of being the next prime minister when you were younger? Here’s your chance to go for it! It is time for the tenth annual “As Prime Minister Awards,” which are held every year to challenge college and university students all over Canada to come up with innovative ideas and solutions for the future of our nation. Over $500,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded to finalists through the Magna for Canada Scholarship Fund, as well as internships with Magna International Inc., Canada’s largest supplier of automotive systems and components. To enter, students must write a 2,500-word essay that answers the following question: “If you were the prime minister of Canada, what political vision would you offer to improve our living standards and ensure a secure and prosperous global community?” Essays are judged on

the merit of creative and feasible solutions as well as a demonstration of dedication to the author’s community and leadership skills. From the entries, 50 semi-finalists will be chosen and taken to Toronto to present their essays before a national panel of judges. From the 50, ten finalists and an overall national winner are selected based on how they present themselves as well as their ideas. Over 500 students across Canada participated last year. The essays of all this year’s finalists will be documented in a publication entitled @stake, “As Prime Minister, I Would…”. The deadline for essays is June 4, 2004. For more information on the “As Prime Minister” program, click on www.asprimeminister.com or call 1-866-AS-THE-PM. Past UW participants include Matt Stevens, who reached the semi-finals last year, and Alex Sloat, who was a finalist in 2002. mstratford@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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The Honourable Flora MacDonald, outside Humanities Theatre at a reception following her lecture. (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere), local community councils are springing up in villages and towns around the country to discuss the priorities of the community. These councils, which must have at least half of their members be women, are being used to build-up the practically non-existent infrastructure, especially housing and schools.

“Education is very important to the Afghans,” said MacDonald. “In 2001, girls had to attend underground schools run in people’s homes as it was illegal for girls to get an education under the Taliban. In just a span of a year, this has drastically changed — today we see women in many rural areas raising money to make uniforms for girls to wear to school.”

Nevertheless, times are still very difficult for Afghanistan and this time period of transition in the Afghani government is crucial for the future stability of the country. “The jury is still out if it will be a failed state,” MacDonald pointed out. “Afghanistan must be assured of support from those in developed countries in order to survive and prosper.”

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New ERS course helps Mother Earth

All environment and resource studies undergrads will get the chance to widen their sustainability views and challenge themselves Nasiha Prcic SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

NOTICE WPIRG Annual General Meeting

For the purpose of reporting on fiscal year ending August 2003 and electing 6 members to the Board of Directors

March 17th, 2004, 5:30 PM UW SLC Multi-Purpose Room To be eligible to vote, you must be a WPIRG member in good standing (a UW full-time undergrad who has not obtained a refund, or any other person who has purchased a membership). For more info visit UW SLC2139, http://wpirg.org, or call 888-4882.

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Fall 2004 will see the addition of a new environmental sustainability course at UW, a course that will be open to undergraduate students of all faculties in order to promote awareness of environmental issues on campus. The proposed course, entitled “Sustainability: Challenges & Changes for Our Institution,� is the brainchild of current and former Feds presidents Chris Edey and Yaacov Iland, respectively, UWSP co-founder and fourth year ERS student Sandy Kiang and UW vice-president academic and provost Dr. Amit Chakma, all of whom make up the members of a research council dedicated to the issue of sustainability. Their intent is to educate students on how they can make environmentally-friendly changes in a university setting. So far the council has succeeded in having “sustainability� ready for the fall term as a special or reading course, but they are still in the process of receiving Senate approval to make it into a permanent course by winter 2005. According to Kiang, some of the steps they have taken to foster the development of the course include selecting fourth year ERS student Carl Prey as an undergraduate representative on the council to “help bridge [environmental] research with aca-

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accessible to students in the course, but we’d like to have funding that was more specific,� said Iland. “The new Entrepreneurship, Opportunity and Innovation is one area we’re investigating.� The sustainability course is a standard half-credit course that will be offered in ERS as a senior/graduate seminar course. What sets it apart from ERS’s conceptually similar “Greening the Campus� course is that it does not focus on research methods. Kiang explains that the purpose of the course is to “teach the theories of sustainability and the application of sustainability in a variety of fields in the hopes of increasing environmental literacy.� This will help make this information available to students of all other faculties who may not have background knowledge of the topic. Class size is projected to be relatively small and about 12 guest lecturers from a multitude of academic and administrative departments across campus are to contribute different perspectives of sustainability challenges faced on campus. Students will then work in multi-disciplinary groups on projects devoted to on-campus environmental sustainability. Kiang is currently compiling a list of students interested in the sustainability course. To join up, contact Kiang at skiang@fes.uwaterloo.ca.

Few of us doubt that there is a wealth of talent at UW. It is even emphasized with “Building a Talent Trust,� the slogan of UW’s soon-to-be-launched fundraising campaign, Campaign Waterloo. It would be a shame then not to capitalize and benefit from the talent. Recently, a group got together to generate ideas to improve UW, but those ideas and others that people have conceived still have to be pursued, implemented and realized. About 30 members of the UW community and one from Laurier, Tudor Costache, met for an idea generation workshop on Tuesday night. The purpose was to generate ideas on how UW could be improved in the future. It was an expansion of a smaller group that had been meeting (in which I also participated). First, groups of about five dis-

cussed different specific topics such as first-year student issues, the campus or internationalization, and talked about how things could be improved in these areas. Later, groups were formed to generate ideas on anything to do with the university. The teams filled up many blackboards and took digital photos of the recorded ideas for later transcription. Now we face the question of what should be done when the ideas are right there, just waiting to be implemented. I can think of cool initiatives like the following: CUTC, the technology conference; Engineers Without Borders; the new Waterloo Unlimited high school enrichment program; and uwstudent.org. But there are many other ideas that aren’t realized. We need to emphasize social entrepreneurship in addition to business entrepreneurship and provide more resources for UW-related initiatives. Prime Minister Paul Martin acknowledged the value of social entrepreneurship in his response to the speech from the throne. “Just as entrepreneurs are essential to a strong economy, social entrepreneurs are essential to strong communities and they require our support,� he said.

Some possibilities include more encouragement to implement ideas, sharing ideas and getting them to the right people and providing support and resources. When someone has an idea, they should feel that UW is a place where it can be realized. When someone hears a new idea, his first thought should not be how it won’t work, but how can it work. This change is rooted in the attitude of individuals. Sometimes the originator of an idea is not the best person to implement it, so ideas need to be shared to better realize them. A system of recording and publishing ideas, as well as targeting ideas to those who can help them, would increase the level of initiatives. Some formal and informal resources already exist for supporting new endeavours, but there is room for more, possibly including grants for students to work on initiatives for a term. Even without the recent idea generation session, people have and would have conceived new ideas. We must realize these ideas so they move from our minds into the world. rchen-wing@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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UW may expand to downtown Kitchener Durshan Ganthan SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

The University of Waterloo, in conjunction with the City of Kitchener and the University of Toronto, is investigating the possibility of establishing a health sciences campus in downtown Kitchener, which could include a school of pharmacy. The proposed site for the new campus is the former Epton site at King Street West and Victoria Street South and the first phase could be open as early as September 2006. “Many universities are considering secondary campuses,” explained Carl Zehr, mayor of Kitchener. “We have a plan to develop an education and knowledge creation cluster in our downtown as part of an employment lands strategy.” Wilfrid Laurier University’s new graduate school of social work will also be located in downtown Kitchener, and the Epton site is in between Grand River Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital. The City of Kitchener council approved the investigation for the campus at their February 9, 2004 meeting, and since then the university has been trying to iron out the details. “I am prepared to say that we are interested in a school of pharmacy,” said Amit Chakma, vice-president academic and provost. “We believe that such a school

will add to our existing strengths in the faculty of science, notably in chemistry and will expand UW’s presence in the general area of health.” Terry McMahon, chair of chemistry, has been charged with creating the curriculum should the university move forward with this idea. He noted that many faculty members expressed great interest and enthusiasm when the idea for the school of pharmacy arose. “Proteomics is an emerging area of research strength in the faculty of science and the potential to use the findings of this and indeed all healthrelated research, in collaboration with health professionals would be of considerable benefit to us.” The new health sciences campus will cost $147 million, with the university expected to cover $87 million. Of the $87 million, a one-time payment of $12 million is for the operating endowment and can be collected through gift-giving and fundraising. The university would be responsible for $15 million per year for the operating budget and is expected to attract $60 million per year for their research budget. The City of Kitchener is expected to contribute $30 million in capital investments and the remaining $30 million is expected from the private sector to create a 400-bed residence. The city will decide by March 29

whether or not to approve the funding. “Most municipalities provide incentives or subsidies for the creation of employment lands,” Zehr explained. “Clearly, this type of investment within the core of the city would have longlasting and positive change on our downtown. “Ten years from now, I see a great number of vacant lots and buildings occupied with educational uses and the spinoffs therefrom. In ten to 15 years, I believe our downtown will be one of the places to live in our community because of all the activities available within walking distance.” John Milloy, MPP Kitchener-Centre, noted that out of the citizens he has talked to, he’s heard nothing but positive support. “This is a real boon for downtown Kitchener,” he stated. “It’s hard to think of anything negative about this.” He went on to state that the province could help fund the health sciences cam-

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pus as well, as they help fund capital projects with universities. Karen Redman, MP KitchenerCentre, explained that she supports the proposal because it “outlines significant economic benefits for the City of Kitchener while at the same time address[es] an expressed priority of my constituents for increased health-related services.” The University of Toronto currently has the only school of pharmacy in Ontario and as such they have been in contact with administrators regarding such issues as curriculum. They may create a joint-degree with UW or have a U of T satellite school of pharmacy on the UW health sciences campus. The current school of pharmacy at U of T only graduates 180 students per year and this number does not meet the demand in the workforce. Should UW decide to proceed with the creation of a health sciences campus, they will still need approval from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. The university must also finalize an agreement with U of T and the city and other partners must also put the funding in place.

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Mike Kerrigan SOBER THOUGHTS Rarely do I spend a day on campus without engaging in a debate about something political. The conversations range from serious discussion about environmental policies to irrelevant speculation about George Dubya’s IQ, but more often than not economics gets tied in. As an ardent supporter of capitalism, I’m usually defending free — or at least freer — markets against the latest fashionable governmental interventions. Supporting capitalism is often like acting as the court-appointed attorney for a child-molester: people attack you for what you’re doing before you get a chance to explain yourself. It’s considered a rite of passage among my political friends to be arbitrarily and ignorantly labelled a ‘fascist’ during an argument for the first time. I earned my title when I argued that the government has no right to prevent people from living in gated communities to try to preserve the diversity of other areas. Part of the reason people react with such hostility towards capitalism is that few people understand what the

‘capitalist system’ actually is. Most people conflate support for markets with support for big business and believe that corporate welfare, eminent domain abuses, the award of monopoly markets and other similar government actions define the nature of capitalism. I’ve had people tell me numerous times that I must be opposed to open-source software, vegetable gardens or some other similar activity because fewer people are buying things. Capitalism isn’t specifically about buying and selling, it’s about creating a system that allows people to engage in voluntarily exchanges with each other. Corporations happen to be one of the best ways to facilitate this exchange, but no free market supporter universally supports every corporation or thinks a service provided by a business is necessarily better than a friend helping for free. For this reason, I’ve always been amused by the various supposed alternatives to capitalism that crop up — “barter dollars” for example. In general, these systems avoid using money and instead use points, credits, labour time or some other medium of exchange for goods and services. A number of people and businesses are coordinated to utilize this alternative system. I stopped by a session that was being held by WPIRG about one of

these systems a while ago. I was drawn by an e-mail WPIRG sent out that stated that the presenter would explain how the barter system he was promoting could assist the anti-globalization movement, but the speaker didn’t sway into political or economic discussion. What he did describe was a system that embodied the best elements of capitalism. It provides people with a way to get goods and services they either can’t afford or wouldn’t normally purchase but that they desire. Any system that improves people’s ability to freely trade for their betterment is great capitalism. Capitalism is disparaged by its opponents and accused of permitting virtually every societal ill that exists in the Western world. But the same system that can make pornography a multi-billion dollar industry allows niche interests in things like ‘fair trade’ coffee and hemp products to be satisfied. In the movie ‘The Corporation’, Michael Moore closes with a claim that the irony of capitalism is that it permits anti-capitalists like him to become successful, undermining the system. In fact that’s the beauty of it. An average middle aged guy can become a millionaire simply by giving people what they want — an effortless, knee-jerk reaction against capitalism and the world around them. mkerrigan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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more coffee because of this — that I will just stick to my regular consumption and not be influenced by this marketing gimmick. Not true — all lies. I will buy more coffee. All in an effort to win baked goods. Now, there is no reason too small to make it out to the local Tim Horton’s. Every errand will involve a I was just going about my daily busi- quick swing by the local store — maybe ness when it happened. No warning. varying up the location from time to No anticipation. And just like that, I time to increase my odds. Sure, I’d like to win a big prize — was filled with unadulterated glee when instead of my usual beloved who wouldn’t. But in reality, the satbrown cup of Tim Horton’s coffee, I isfaction that comes from rolling and was handed my first roll up the rim winning anything is bizarre. It’s like an addiction. Sort of like cup of the season. It coffee. Funny how was that simple. that works. How does that And don’t unsong go? “It’s the I have won derestimate the asmost wonderful time them and they pect of comptetion. of the year…” There are small bragFor coffee will be mine. ging rights involved obsessors like myself, and a certain pride in the chance to partake whipping out your in a little bit of gaming while partaking in a little bit of caffeine free coffee tab while standing at the counter. is a thrill not to be underestimated. Someone came into the office toIt’s not just me. Earlier this week, I saw prime minister Paul Martin hold- day with a tea — double cupped in ing his contest cup on the news. I contest cups. I won’t say that I wasn’t snickered at the grumblings of work- annoyed and a little jealous. Clearly a ers on campus as they lamented their novice at the carrafe that time. When the season starts to come to an lack of winning. Even those less in the grips of caffeine indulge more during end and the cups start to disappear, the this time, a fact which Tim’s is clearly real game begins. Forget the drivebanking on. When you consider the through. If you go inside, you can see fact that there are 30 trucks, 500 $1,000 what sizes of contest cups they have left. prizes, 7,500 bikes, 100 plasma tv’s I am not against ordering an extra large and 24 million food and beverage coffee instead of a large or downsizing to prizes up for grabs, they had better sell a medium if that’s what it takes. Sometimes, it requires a location change and a hell of a lot more coffee. I have no fear of that. The signs will those of us really involved in the hunt be everywhere. Cups will choke gar- will let each other know where they still bage cans, rims chewed up revealing have cups. I’m not kidding. So far, I’m doing well. Two coffees, that the unlucky drinker simply won the opportunity to play again. Me- two prizes. Ignore the fact that I don’t dium coffee drinkers will often up- really need or usually eat cookies and grade to a large, sticking to the bigger doughnuts from Tim Horton’s — I cup, bigger prize theory. Drive-through have won them and they will be mine. lines will be longer. editor@imprint.uwaterloo.ca I would like to say that I won’t buy

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Letters SplashBash leaflets litter campus To the editor, This letter is prompted by the numerous leaflets scattered around campus over the past few weeks on pathways, halls and stairwells. At first, they were just 4"x 5" pieces of paper with a white t-shirt on them advertising that “SplashBash is coming! March 5.� This week, more sophisticated, blue-coloured cards were dropped giving more information about the event, presumably organized by a local fraternity and taking place at a local bar. The manner in which these advertisements were distributed is breaking many rules on campus and it creates a mess of litter for UW grounds crews to pick up. Each of the various student societies including Feds, MathSoc, EngSoc and the Arts Student Union all have dozens of bulletin boards in all of their respective buildings across campus and have established rules and guidelines to ensure the fair and proper use of the boards. There are rules that say posters should be restricted to authorized bulletin boards. These rules give all parties an equal opportunity to post their advertisements. They also prevent against posters being taped up anywhere else, making the campus look like a mess. That’s exactly what the SplashBash

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l letters@imprint.uwaterloo.ca leaflets are doing — dirtying up our campus both indoors and out. Repeated complaints were left with UW police regarding these SplashBash leaflets. With the information contained on the latest cards, hopefully the people responsible for organizing the event and distributing the advertisements will be held accountableand be fined for littering all over campus. - Name witheld Common courtesy To the editor, For all those who use that closet we call a lower weight-room, stop acting like you still wear a diaper and have people to clean your shit up for you. Act your age and use some common courtesy and put your weights back. Today there were at least 40 freeweights on the ground. Understand that with such a poorly set-up lifting area it easily becomes cluttered. When someone carrying heavy weights slips on a stray dumbbell tempers will flare, especially if that athlete scores a broken leg or ankle. Just use them and return them. Seems simple, but apparently some of you can’t read any of the 12 return the weights signs adorning the walls. If you are a beginner, as we all were at some point, ask and learn from

those that have lifted for a while. You don’t need six sets of leg extensions; that doesn’t get you anything. Don’t try four plates a side for squats if you can’t lift it safely. If an exercise hurts, like you are becoming a human pretzel, ask if this is the best way to perform the lift. Lifting properly within your range will get you bigger and stronger faster than lifting with your ego. And, you look like an idiot when you lift too heavy. To keep the PAC a friendly area to work out something has to be done. Tempers are starting to flare and everywhere you look someone is bumping into someone else with that “I’m huge� look in their eye. This chip on the shoulder attitude has no place in university. No one is laying down $15,000 to feel intimidated. Be nice, be polite and be a grown-up.

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- Kyle Ramsay 4B ERS and Political Science Lee-Wudrick ignores history To the editor, This letter provides a clear, factual and logical rebuttal to the reactionary opinion piece provided by Aaron LeeWudrick in the previous week’s edition. See LETTERS, page 10

International gay rights lacking Aaron Cowan UNDEFEATED With so much emphasis these days being placed on the subject of gay rights in North America, this week I thought it might be appropriate to do some research into the ways in which other parts of the world view homosexuality. Here is just a portion of what I found. Many of the Asian nations punish homosexuality with imprisonment. In Bangladesh, Brunei and Singapore sodomites are fined and imprisoned for a period of up to ten years. Sex between two men can result in a life sentence in Bhutan and in India sodomy, buggery and bestiality are regarded as equal crimes and sentences can range between ten years to life. Just as it is in Asia, Africa can not be regarded a safe haven for gay men and women. With Uganda’s president regarding homosexuals as those who practice in “abominable acts,� it can not be surprising that in this very nation, gay boys can receive a life sentence for exercising in “unnatural behaviour.� Egypt too treats homosexual acts as contentious issue. With a certain amount of dubious wording in Egypt’s statute, including “of-

fences against public morals and sensitivities,� Egyptian officials do not shy away from discriminating against gays. Perhaps the highest profile case in Egypt was that of May 2001 when 52 men were arrested from the “Queen Boat Disco� for “obscene behaviour.� Allegedly the men were also subjected to abuse, beatings and electroshock therapy. In South America and the Caribbean, it seems that laws against homosexuality have been tamed due to Western influence, yet still remain severe. In Jamaica, sodomites can be punished with ten years of imprisonment, including hard labour. Interestingly, Argentina possesses gay rights laws that ban discrimination against gay men and women; however, it seems that publicly dancing with a member of the same sex still remains a punishable offence. For many countries in the Middle East, homosexuality is regarded as an extreme sin. While many of these nations abide by the Islamic Shari’a laws, it should be noted that it is more often the specific nation’s unique interpretation of the Shari’a that has led to infringements on human rights rather than the Shari’a itself. For example, in Iran a sodomite is punished by death by hanging, stoning, being halved by sword or dropped from the highest perch. Furthermore, if two people of the same sex (who are not related) are found to be naked together they may suffer the penalty of a hundred lashes. Under the Taliban, Afghanistan’s

policy with regard to homosexual practices was even stricter. In March of 1998, two young men accused of sodomy were buried alive in the city of Herat, while just a month earlier three men found guilty of the same deed were punished by having a stone wall collapsed on them. As surprising as these treatments may be, it must be remembered that the treatment of sexual “deviants� under the Taliban was only the tip of the iceberg in regards to the horrors contrived by that very regime. In Pakistan, the policy regarding homosexual activity differs depending on the culture to which one belongs. For the most part, homosexual action is punishable between two years to life in prison or death by stoning or a hundred lashes. However, in the Northwest Frontier, Pathan culture allows men to have other men as lovers. As it stands today, Europe and North America stand as the frontrunners to international gay rights. While the policies of other nations in regards to homosexual acts may seem shocking, one must remember that many of these nations also infringe on human rights in many other ways as well. I suppose all that we can do is continue to educate people and feel comfort in knowing that one day the rest of the world will follow in Canada’s footsteps. acowan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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It is a matter of public record that in 1996, the environment ministry freed testing labs of an obligation to tell the environment ministry if it uncovered tainted water. Furthermore, it is a matter of public record that on May 18, 2000 the Walkerton PUC received a report that the water was contaminated. This was a full five days before it was revealed. To suggest that those five days were as a result of reduced controls on water quality is irresponsible in the least and definitely insensitive to those who drank the water during those five days. Anyone who doubts that our electrical system was privatized only has to look to the lease, signed in 2000, between Bruce Power and Ontario Power Generation, in which Bruce Power, 95 per cent owned by British Energy, runs Bruce A and Bruce B nuclear power plants for profit (or the hope of one). In regards to proportional representation, my point is that to disparage the NDP based on them being the highest vote count in only seven areas is to underestimate their real support. One of the main benefits of “first-past the post� representation is that it forces voters to make compromise votes, largely marginalizing fringe parties, of which the NDP is not one. This also has the effect, however, of many voters voting against a party instead of for the party that best represents their views. Under proportional representation the number of NDP seats will most definetely be more than the 17 that Lee-Wudrick expects. Frankly, I am appalled that someone who claims to be in a political science program would fail to understand such basic voter behaviour. If Imprint ever does invite Lee-Wudrick to write again, I hope that the readers of his column understand that conveniently ignoring historical fact is the

- Michael Fischer 4A Math/Business Queen’s Aboriginal policy

Progressive Conservative Campus Association described it as. - Herb Shields Political Science grad student Cowan’s flawed argument

To the editor, To the editor, Kerrigan is absolutely correct and I doubt any person in Canada would deny that, in general, the economic and social conditions of Aboriginal Peoples is worse than the rest of the population. I also firmly believe that admissions based on your economic situation is faulty. However, the Queen’s initiative must be looked at from beyond the narrow scope of the bank balance to something more structural in our society. I would like to quote Kerrigan, “by using ‘aboriginality’ as a qualifying factor for special treatment, the university assumes being a native person is inherently problematic.� In short, it is. The entire Ontario university qualification system is based on measurements and testable aptitudes. I qualified for university and then for graduate school because of “fair� testable criteria: marks, letters of recommendation, program availability etc. It might be difficult for Ontarians to realize that this “fair� system of testable criteria does not reach Aboriginals in the same way as the rest of us. Our education system in Canada is structured segregation and anything but “fair.� Queen’s has recognized this failure of the traditional system and wants to get beyond the test scores and test the mettle of native students for themselves — as individuals that are intelligent and capable, but the test scores just don’t show. This is a brave step exactly against institutionalized racism the Ontario

I am disappointed that your columnists refuse to engage in a rational debate on same-sex marriage but instead have resorted to ad hominem attacks on their opponents. The most recent example is Mr. Cowan’s February 27 column “Ignorance is Bush.â€? In the column Mr. Cowan states: “the fact that I can ‌ witness the president of the United States condemning homosexuals is extremely discouraging.â€? I ask, can Mr. Cowan back up a statement like that with a direct quote from President Bush that indicates ‘condemnation’ of homosexuals? Just because he opposes same-sex marriage does not mean condemnation of homosexual persons. I for one adhere to the Christian principle of hate the sin, but love the sinner. I would speak against homosexual marriage, but would never condemn a person. Mr. Cowan continues, “I don’t care how you look at it, President Bush’s call to endorse this constitutional amendment is both discriminatory and ignorant.â€? Does Mr. Cowan care to explain why and defend his stance? Well in Mr. Cowan’s own words, “I will not lay out all of my reasons for why banning gay marriage is absurd; everyone has heard the arguments for or against the issue a hundred times.â€? - Alex Cassar Accounting

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Let me tell you about a good friend of mine (no, he’s not imaginary, nor is he “Norm� from Cheers). He graduated from Queen’s with a degree in psychology. Then, moments afterwards, he completed York’s Schulich School of Business MBA program, culminating about a year ago. While at Queen’s he was a don in residence, he almost aced the MCAT and he has had work published in MacLean’s and the Toronto Star (look out, Imprint!). Doesn’t it scare you a little then that this guy has been searching for a job for just about a year and still hasn’t found one? It’s not due to a lack of effort either — this guy is one of those “organize all of my contacts into an Excel spreadsheet� types. He knows people. Unfortunately, those people can’t

offer him a job that he wants — or a job, period. Our confused hero became so perplexed that he flirted with the dubious practice of “stripping� his resume down (i.e. leaving the MBA part out) to “qualify� for entry-level jobs and still had no luck. He was still either too qualified for a job, or under-qualified. What a conundrum. I look at him and I get scared myself — after all of this time, effort and money, will I end up with no job as well? Will I have to move back home with (gasp) my parents? How’s that for additional stress, on the calm before the storm that is exams. This guy did everything right while in university — now he’s back at home, taking high school French so that he can apply to more jobs. Who is to blame here? The economy? Maybe. They say (and by “they,� I mean Larry Smith) that the best thing a student can do while still in university during a time of bad economic condition is to stay in school. Who cares if it costs you more money — you’ll learn more and you’ll avoid the heartbreak of a potentially fruitless job search.

But that is easier said than done — many of us are chomping at the bit to run away and never look back. To those students, even good grades and a decent extracurricular resumĂŠ might not even be enough. Maybe these days, it takes not only grades, not only direct relevant experience, but a solid contact that will get your foot in the door. It might no longer be about “let’s look at the job market and find a job that I likeâ€? (something that coop regretfully trains us to do). I hate to say it, but you just might have to plan well ahead. Take time to think about what you want to do with your life, take relevant courses in that field, find a job or volunteer in jobs there and talk to people in that area. Go and schmooze with a VP (trust me, if they have the time every bigwig likes to talk about himself — they might even buy the coffee). The earlier you start, the sooner you might just find a break to get your career rolling (and once you’re in, maybe you can find a bilingual position for my buddy). aocal@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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It takes two Michelle Titus

T OUCHED Maintaining a relationship is tough enough with school, work and friends monopolizing our lives, but imagine its difficulty when your partner is not even physically accessible. Long distance relationships seem to follow me wherever I go. After two unsuccessful situations over the course of my first and second years of university, I vowed to never become involved in such a manner again. The next year was filled with local dating, but nothing serious, and then the summer when I planned to limit dating. Canada Day then brought an unexpected cute Queen’s boy who swept me off my feet in his drunken stupor. What I expected to be a short-lived experience turned into now seven months together. Initially I was unsure of giving him a chance based on my track record, but a close friend who continues to succeed regardless of distance obstacles assisted in my decision to pursue. What I expected to get easier over time has only gotten more difficult and I cannot even imagine how others in even more complicated situations thrive. Finally I feel like I understand what it takes to overcome the distance setback and while I do not claim to be an expert, I do my best and will share my insights. First and foremost, both of the involved individuals must not only commit to each other whole heartedly but truly want the relationship. This dedication must be one of free will; it is not merely required to commit to the relationship, but also to the situation of your significant other being in a different place. It is not until recently that I realized the importance of this aspect. Both parties must genuinely invest themselves into the situation. Like any other relationship the longdistance sort needs fulfilment of typical attributes such as understanding, patience and trust. However, these are

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useless if communication skills are lacking. Without being able to communicate well, typical attributes cannot even begin to be shown. Strong communication will result in better conversations whether it be on the phone or internet, in turn progressing the relationship forward. In time little voice intonations, punctuation and even language choice will substitute for body language. One of the hardest aspects of being in this type of relationship (other than being four hours away) for me is usually caused by external circumstances. Money can be a huge problem. With a long list of university expenses, adding travel costs can be next to impossible at times. This annoyance can then be tied to something necessary in all relationships — sacrifice. While I frown on the term, it conveys my meaning clearly. In relation to money, sacrifice occurs in an attempt to budget money in order to make the trip. Whether it be less partying, less shopping or cheaper groceries, tradeoffs are needed to survive as a couple. Long-distance relationships need a sense of sacrifice but on a different level. When a couple is separated by distance both must sacrifice and together they throw away the negative connotation of ‘sacrifice’ and turn it into co-operation. It may take time to arrive at this point but when you do it will be clear how right your decision to continue a long-distance relationship was. As with any relationship, long-distance ones are also hit or miss. They do require more attention and care but can offer an intense sense of satisfaction. It is possible to locate a person whom you love so much that you would go to the ends of the earth for them and no distance can alter that devotion. Of course there will be bumps along the road and they will be so much harder to overcome without physical contact. At these moments take John Lennon’s words to heart, “all you need is love,� and through the tears remember why you fell for that person and express that verbally. Relying on speech more than physical comfort is a difficult transition, but if I can do it, anyone can.

Mark Stratford BIG EARS BURNING Ever since Ontario legalized same-sex marriage last summer, the topic has been run through the ringer by virtually all of the Canadian “politirazzi,� to the point where it is difficult to differentiate the legal parameters from the symbolic and time-honoured bond of marriage itself. Right now in San Francisco, thousands of couples partaking in one of our greatest institutions must treat it as not just a celebration, but as a civil act; the sentiment has gone from “I will love you for the rest of my life� to “In yo’ face, Santorum muthafucka!� The political talk is siphoning the love and romance aspects right of the issue. Of course, the debates aren’t ending anytime soon, but I have suggestions on how we can put the varying arguments into perspective. Don’t take this as my audition for a gay-rights column — that’s Aaron’s job and he does it well. But as a gay Canadian, it is so thrilling to see this progression finally taking place, and seeing it hit home (e.g. Mike Kerrigan’s conservative and Mark Johnson’s liberal commentaries, Johnson’s new UW Students for Same-Sex Marriage club) prompts me to make a statement. And that statement is basically this: enough already, everyone, with your political garbage and your clinical hoopla about what this means to rights and charters and freedom and everything else. Let’s forget for one second about the legislative

side of any of this and look at the human lives some wish to liberate and others wish to cripple. I truly believe that if some people could muster even the slightest bit of empathy and observe a situation from outside their own well-maintained paradigms, it could change their whole take on the argument. I also believe that if any of the lawmakers currently in power cannot even make an attempt to do that (i.e. if they hold on to perceptions of what gay life and gay love are from more than a decade ago), they are far too irresponsible to be making decisions for anyone beyond themselves. Calling someone “closedminded� is a very serious offence, implying that no new ideas can seep inside, but for those to whom that applies, shut up. To live in this world, you have to change with it. I also think that if you show a lack of responsibility in a certain field — in this case, love and relationships — you really have no business commenting on how it should be conducted by others. For example, Bill Clinton, who signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law in 1996, will cheat on his wife with anything that walks! Meanwhile, Dubya is so concerned with my sex life he seems to be ignoring his own (I swear, every time I see poor Laura on TV, the look on her face suggests she’s seeing less shaft these days than an unemployed elevator repairman). Shut the fuck up, hypocrites! Fix yourselves, then worry about the rest of us. This brings me to the hardest part of my lecture: the insulting bombardment of heterosexual viewpoints on something that really doesn’t concern them. Don’t get me wrong, I understand how both pro-gay and anti-gay

straights can garner some pretty passionate views on the subject. But how can someone who is on the outside truly define what should or shouldn’t be for someone on the inside? It’s everyone’s right to have an opinion, but let’s get real: on a subject like this, the opinions of straight people (or at least those people who identify as straight) are totally and without exception secondary to those who can be associated by the blanket term “queer� and should be considered accordingly. The problem is, gay people don’t seem to be allowed to speak out on the issues that affect them most, particularly this one, and it is a galling example of prejudice. Let me put it this way — if Dubya imbibed in just enough cokerock to pass a new amendment stating that black men can only marry black women, the press would be clamouring to know what Colin Powell thinks, not Donald Rumsfeld. So why ask either of them what they think of the struggle to achieve something they have always had? Go find Rip Taylor, dammit! So who’s left to sort out the issue? Well, what do you know — the gays and lesbians are! They’re free, free to plan their own weddings. Free to proclaim their marriages for their own sake, not millions of people watching footage of the nuptials on CNN. Free to enjoy all the responsibilities that a hard-working, tax-paying contributor to society should have regardless of who they wish to spend the rest of their lives loving and fucking. I hope that you find comfort in this vision of tomorrow. But if you don’t, too bad. I didn’t even ask you. mstratford@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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STEPHEN FRYERS

Hollywood has drilled the idea of happy endings for any quest embarked upon by a main character. From The Quest for Fire to Shrek’s epic quest to save Princess Fiona — happy endings are what we are used to. However, a happy ending was not waiting for me at the end of my quest for financial aid. All that awaited me was wasted time, no solutions and loss of respect for this university. It all started over a month ago when I began filling out a bursary application and realized after reading the first line that alas I had not previously applied for OSAP assistance. Not that this financially burdened hero had not thought about it, on the contrary, I had put great thought into it. As a first year (I am now a second year scholar/hero) I applied for OSAP but was declined because I fell into that income bracket between, “I have more than enough money and can laugh at tuition costs” and “I don’t have nearly enough to even laugh at the price of my lunch.” According to OSAP both my parents and I made too much and could effectively pay tuition. Concordantly, I did not apply this year because everyone involved made more money and expenses were down.

Anyway, back to the quest for cash. With no OSAP acceptance or rejection I discovered a line on the bursary form further down that stated, “if you did not apply for OSAP, please provide parents Notice of Assessments and proof of extenuating circumstances.” It seemed to this hero that the first trial could be passed. All I have to do is show with the assessments that my parents made much more money and tell the administration my reasoning for the expected rejection. With this victory under my utilityless belt, I applied to 21 different bursaries. Some were UW’s, while others were corporate or volunteer based. Content, I went back to studying and awaited the assistance sought by my quest. Two weeks later I got my answer back — rejected: failure to provide proof for not applying to OSAP. I felt like Indiana Jones might feel if the Germans got both the ark and the girl. It seemed to me that my quest had failed. However, not willing to accept defeat, I called a financial aid counsellor to talk about this rejection and provide support for my stance of “Expected Rejection by OSAP.” With an appointment three days hence, I called my parents again and asked them to take time out of their day (early morning no less) and bring me T4’s, pay stubs, notice of assessments (again), anything that could be used as weapons in my crusade against the

administration’s decision. Lastly with a printout of my OSAP rejection (along with my financial projects for that year) and an expenses budget showing an expected $2000+ debt from school expenses alone, I went to my appointment. Surely with all this proof, this hero could have triumphed — wrong! Upon entering the dragon’s lair, Needless Hell, I was rejected again in under two minutes. I was told that rejection is not an extenuating circumstance (something that was not well defined on the form). So to recap, I’ve now wasted hours of my time and my parent’s time preparing documentation for a defence that could have been rejected over the phone, or explained better on the form. The bad has won, the fire was extinguished, the princess has died and this hero has failed. All because the univer-

sity would much rather have students take government money that they have to pay back than to give them funds that have been allocated by themselves, alumni, corporations, etc. for students anyway. These funds will not cause worry to students because they do not have to be paid back. Bursaries sit unclaimed every year, and will again this

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year because of the apparent greed (seemingly to this hero) of the university to not give up more money. Twenty-one bursaries applied to, one total and utter rejection. While my faith in this university has fallen to the lowest it has ever been, my faith that students will never get a break has further been strengthened.

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Mysterious rocks discovered on road Imprint found out what this was all about and got the scoop on the expansion to the Dorney garden Tim Alamenciak IMPRINT STAFF

The mysterious appearance of several tonnes of Canadian Shield granite alarmed some students and mystified others. Well, the mystery of the stones has been solved. The Robert S. Dorney garden has been a staple of the natural landscape at UW for 16 years. The garden, situated just outside the student lounge in the environmental studies building, now contains plants native to southern Ontario’s forests and prairies. The garden was built to honour Dorney’s accomplishments in the field of environmental protection during his lifetime. Currently the Dorney garden is home to three different types of Canadian wildlife, each growing in its own section in the garden. The garden houses prairie plants and grasses in the west section, deciduous woodland in the east and nestled right in between is a gathering of trees and shrubs. The garden features stone paths and benches for sitting on those sunny days. The Dorney garden is due to receive a welldeserved expansion from the environmental studies faculty, its endowment fund and the garden’s own financial resources. The natural landscape at Waterloo is, for the most part, good looking in the summer. The expansion of an already gorgeous garden will only serve to further Waterloo’s beautiful landscape. Slated to commence once the snow melts, the expansion will incorporate both foreign and local plants and an assortment of landscaping innovations. The most notable part of the expansion has already sat itself down on Ring Road, right next to the modern languages building. Large pink stones line the driveway, each numbered and catalogued accordingly. The stones are granite from the Canadian Shield and come with a price tag of about $7,500 for the lot of them. The stones will be used to construct landscape architect Jens Jensen’s vision. Jensen plans to construct a loose circle of stones weighing in at one to two tonnes each. The

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These rocks are seen stacked along the driveway near the environmental studies buildings. They await placement in the expansion of the Dorney garden. Each stone is numbered for easy identification, and each weighs between one and two tonnes. circle will create a comfortable seating area for holding classes outside, or simply stopping to sit in the middle of the long beginning-ofterm trek across the Alaskan desert to parking services. The Waterloo environmental studies endowment fund and the Dorney garden fund

are funding the expansion. The group has no budget allocated towards purchasing plant materials. Instead, they hope to receive donations or come to plants’ rescue when threatened by other expanding industry. The Dorney expansion shines through as not only a brilliant effort to brighten up our

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Fashion in Mali Cari Mason

12° NORTH “No,” I say, “not the shirt, just the skirt.” And pointing to a photo of a young African girl wearing a beautiful blue outfit, I demand: “just like that.” The tailor, who had introduced himself as M.C. — as in M.C. Hammer — looks from the photo, to the colourful African fabric I have brought with me, to my white arms and skeptically reaches behind his sewing machine and withdraws a long measuring tape. Since I arrived in his shop, two little girls have appeared out of curiosity to watch, thus while he measures me, we have an attentive audience. This doesn’t bother me, having an audience is something that I am getting used to here in Mali. Finished, he steps back. “Tomorrow” he states, gesturing to the photo and sighing he picks up the fabric and turns back to his table. I’m tired and hot. The whole experience has been yet another ordeal. In this humid, cramped little store — a room smaller than a one-car garage, though having the same characteristics of one — we discussed for nearly an hour exactly how I wanted my skirt to look. The language barrier had

caused problems and had required bringing a friend in to translate. Measurements were taken with all of my clothes on and I left wondering how accurate they could possibly be. As instructed, I return the following day, with 1500 West African Francs (CFA) in hand. The two skirts will cost a total of $10 Cdn., materials and workmanship included. A little while later, after returning home, I discover that my concerns regarding my measurements had some merit. The skirt makes me look like I have the child-bearing hips I have always feared would appear. But now looming in my future is the day when I must return to be refitted. Ignorance and mistakes are not things that most people will admit to here and in taking the skirt back I am afraid of damaging M.C.’s pride. The facade of self-confidence and self-assurance in people here, a part of what makes them so beautiful, is often used as a mechanism for hiding a wealth of confusion and misunderstanding. The most dangerous place to run into someone like this is in the taxi and you must quickly learn to recognize a look of ambiguity that appears when you ask “do you know where...?” unless you want to be driven aimlessly around the city. But when I return, M.C. does not seem upset. In fact, he is happy to see me, greeting me like a long lost friend, even though only a few days have passed since I was in the shop last. Praising the beauty and quality of the

skirt, I slip it on over my pants — a much tighter pair this time — and point out the problem areas. He sits behind his sewing machine, nodding enthusiastically and pointing at the areas that need fixing, but does not rise. Waiting expectantly, I expect him to pin it or mark it somehow but after a few minutes it is clear that he does not intend to do this. “Tomorrow” he calls after me as I take off the skirt and head for the door. This time, I am wrong about his techniques and the skirt fits like a glove and I am left to wonder exactly how he managed to do this. Homemade takes on a whole new meaning here in Mali. Vendors line the streets with handmade goods. Everything, from stamps to shoes to chairs to beds, are constructed on the streets. Though the prices are generally much cheaper, with none of the boundaries that we have created in North America that tend to segregate us from the creation process of goods, the merchandise seems more valuable here. The craftsmen are highly skilled and good at their trades, though the cost of labour remains cheap. Low wages are a problem here in Bamako and work takes a different pace. Thus what one does not make in money, one does earn in leisure. This less hastened pace of life permits the workday to stop for what is truly important, like when the Malian Eagles Soccer Club are playing on TV. cmason@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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UW’s food bank has begun a new project in conjunction with the Zehrs and Sobeys grocery stores in Waterloo. This project involves the collection of either Zehrs or Sobeys receipts from previous purchases. For every $450 of receipts collected from each store, Zehrs or Sobeys will donate $1 to the food bank. UW’s food bank hopes to collect a large amount of receipts by encouraging everyone on campus to take part in this great fundraiser. Receipt tapes can be dropped off at any of the various donation bins located throughout campus, or at their central location in the SLC.

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Racism in the American past Alexander Lunde SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

Wars often have unintentional side effects that alter the status quo within a society. This was the subject of a lecture given by historian Kimberly Phillips on February 26, 2004 at the Davis Centre Entitled No Jim Crowe Military: Black Soldiers and Civil Rights Activism. Phillips presented a remarkably clear narrative on the experiences of America’s black population during World War II. She outlined how blacks were able to turn a war against fascism into an opportunity to challenge racist American attitudes and gain a greater sense of community identity. Her argument encompassed three main facets of the black war story: the

experience of black soldiers with segregation, the importance of black women to both the American home front and as objects of male desire and how black popular culture assumed the role of recreating the image of blacks in America. Blacks, seeing themselves fighting a war against racist and repressive regimes, used their wartime involvement as an opportunity to publicly confront American racial inequity and to give themselves, through their involvement in the war, a new image with newfound dignity. This dignity was based on the image of black soldiers in uniform, which the black community celebrated both in pictures and in songwriting. Also, through the use of newspapers such as the Eagle and the Chicago Defender blacks published letters that ex-

posed social conditions for American ond World War to put black units blacks and called for racial equity to be under the command of white officers reconsidered. from the American Black newspasouth because pers also put “they understood ...She outlined how the principles of front page stories of black heblacks were able to segregation.” roics on the EuPhillips preturn a war against ropean battlesented her argufields to counter fascism into an op- ments convincthe censorship of ingly; the breadth blacks in action portunity to challenge of her evidence that took place in racist American atti- showed the depth vintage newsof her research and tudes... reels, “to reasgave her conclusure the white sions credence. community by Considering the not exposing it to the image of blacks fact that black Americans make up 27.5 with guns.” This was very important per cent of the American population, because it was practice during the sec- and 25 per cent of all male Americans are

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Our culture’s relationship with the corporate giants The Corporation directed by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan Big Picture Media Corporation

Have you ever wondered how corporations like Exxon can get away with environmental disasters like oil spills? Or how the tobacco industry can knowingly directly poison millions of people every year and kill more people than almost anything else in North America and get away with it? A new documentary is going to tell you how they do it and that our ancestors wanted it that way. The Corporation is probably the most profound movie about “big business” that has ever been made; it makes Roger and Me and The Big One look like funny kids’ movies full of filler humour and useless sarcasm. There is nothing funny about the pathological actions of corporations today. This movie offers cold hard facts, which make it disturbingly intense. The three-part mini-series consisting of onehour segments begins at the beginning of the history of corporations in the United States. The

truths revealed about this formative stage are downright scary. Who would have known that corporations are made to have single minded obligations to make profit above any other factor, even safety and environmental responsibility? This series also includes great interviews and clips of noted speakers such as Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein and Milton Friedman. Also included are many interviews with CEOs telling of their enlightenment to the perils of corporate culture. There is even a day in the life of a corporate “spy” whose only goal is to steal trade secrets from other companies for corporations. The Corporation is a documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan. The documentary was based on a soon-to-come book written by Joel Bakan called The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. The Corporation will premiere in Waterloo on March 12 at the Princess Cinema. Garick Stevenson, Imprint staff

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NANCY BLECK

Who comes after the thin man? And how can I find him? David Carey DIET COKE HEAD For decades women have been told by the media how they should look. Often these ideals take the form of ridiculously unfeasible forms with unhealthily exaggerated hourglass figures. More recently this emphasis has been on a thin body image. While the desired waist size of women has dropped, the male ideal has done just the opposite. I weigh just under one hundred and sixty pounds, but I’m over six feet tall. That makes for a rather thin, or let’s say slender, build. Although I certainly don’t have a balanced diet or rigorous exercise plan, I never experienced

the “frosh fifteen.” My last weight gain of any relevance was probably a mid-pubescent growth spurt during high school. Being tall and skinny, at least for a guy, isn’t a day at the park. Shirts tend to be either too baggy or too short, while tight-fitting clothing is risky at best. I certainly don’t fit any of the ideals presented in the media. According to the latest Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue, there’s something missing from my life. The term is muscle mass. I don’t have it. I want it. But I’m certainly not the athletic type either. Imagining myself lifting weights results in a very scary, almost farcical mental picture. Thus I decided that the best thing to do would be to join a fitness class with UW Recreation Services. Along with a friend of mine, I signed up for TKO: Total Knock Out, which basically boils down to a Tae-Bo style blend of kickboxing and aerobics. Maybe not the fastest way to Sixpacksville but it’s a start. The modern man doesn’t have to just worry about being too fat, he has to worry about being

too thin. It seems that males are beginning to suffer through the same experiences that the fairer sex already fight against. Journalist Alicia Potter describes a phenomenon knows as “muscle dysmorphia,” in which athletes are incapable of recognizing their own muscle mass and are even sometimes ashamed of their bodies. Imagine, Potter explains, a bodybuilder — 250 pounds, 20-inch biceps, 6 percent body fat — horrified to take his shirt off for fear he looks out of shape. According to a research firm called American Sports Data, the number of men who exercise regularly has increased thirty percent in the last ten years, probably due in part to the increasing media focus on the male body ideal. Magazines like Men’s Health, GQ, even Cosmo and YM, display these seemingly unattainable Adonises with their washboard abs and pearly whites staring back at us. Women have changed their ideals as well. Muscle definition has never been as important as it is today. Think David Cassidy, Michael

Jackson, The Beatles, even Elvis. But has the modern male adapted to attract women, or is it more complicated? Perhaps men are becoming more concerned with their appearance because they know that they no longer have control over the world. Society is on its way to equality in terms of gender and sexuality. The boys’ club mentality isn’t cutting it anymore because girls are allowed in the treehouse now and they’re bringing their gay best friends. As a reaction to this loss of power, a heterosexual male-dominated media feels the need to assert its virility (and heterosexuality) by promoting an ideal of the super masculine muscle machine. This ideal is being accepted by all walks of life and even the most media-savvy of us are falling for it. I joined a kickboxing class — I don’t even own running shoes, OK? Life is funny that way sometimes. dcarey@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Say that name ten times – fast. The experimental band’s German name is pronounced INE-shtewr-tsehn-da NOY-bauw-ten and means “collapsing new buildings.â€? But EinstĂźrzende Neubauten are far from new. Affectionately known as simply “Neubautenâ€? (new buildings), this eccentric band from Germany was formed by lead vocalist Blixa Bargeld in 1980 with Bargeld, F.M.Enheit, and N.U.Unruh. They released their first album, Kollaps, in 1981. Mark Chung and Alexander Hacke joined in 1983 with the release of the second album Zeichnungen des Patienten o.t. (drawings of the O.T. patient). Their discography also includes Halber Mensch (1985) (half man), FĂźnf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala (1987) (five on the ascending open Richter’s scale), Haus der LĂźge (1989) (house of lies) and Tabula Rasa (1993). Mark Chung and F.M.Enheit left in the mid 1990’s and after the upheaval the band released what seemed like their last album, Ende Neu (ending anew), in 1996. Neubauten added Jochen Arbeit and Rudi Moser to the roster with Silence is Sexy in 2000, before going on another four-year hiatus. That hiatus ended about a month ago when Neubauten released Perpetuum Mobile on February 9 in Europe and on the next day in North America. Neubauten’s anonymity in the mainstream thus far is probably attributed to their eclectic variance in genres – and unconventional instruments. Their love for using metal pipes, shopping carts, garbage bins, etc. (they still use guitar and bass though), in their music might have people classify them under the genre “industrial,â€? but I prefer “experimental.â€? Really, all that’s needed to enjoy this type of music is an unbiased mind and a complete disregard for language barriers. Taking examples from the latest

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In his more than ten year career producing and performing music, Craig Cardiff has earned a reputation for being a unique and quirky artist. He combines his talents as a storyteller with his love of folk music to create a show that captivates audiences with smart lyrics and vivid anecdotes, embedded in rich melodies. AoK caught up with Cardiff before his performance at the Bomber on Friday, February 27. Upon being asked what it felt like being back in Waterloo, he remarked, “It’s neat to be at the Bomber. I used to play here when I was 19 and 20. It’s kind of neat to come back and see that the washrooms are still in the same state of disrepair and the room still has its excellent, grubby vibe that makes it work. Some things just stay the same.� Since his early days as a UW student

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album, Neubauten is meant to put you in a temporary trance, perhaps even send your mind to the tranquil outer reaches of space or down to the mysterious Pacific trenches. A good starter is “Ein seltener Vogelâ€? (a rare bird). It starts off smooth and soft while the banging of sheet metal and the surreal, bird-like whistling in the climaxing coda will make it feel vaguely romantic. Or perhaps you might fancy a song sung in English. “Youme and Meyouâ€? talks of a consumerist world, a contagious diffusion of Western culture, the desperation for wealth and so on: “Because out there’s always a construction site, a Starbucks, and yet another Guggenheim‌They fail, fail and try again, fall off a cliff, succeed and fall, fall again.â€? “Selbsportrait mit Katerâ€? (selfportrait with a hangover) is probably the most fun “sonic paintingâ€? on the album with its mix of tube bells, electric bass and metal springs. At the near end of the song repeats a humorous message: “Ich treibe Inzest mit den Sternenâ€? (I commit incest with the stars), reminding us that we are all the same shit. Finally, it concludes with this seemingly obvious thought

(in English): “Life on other planets — is difficult.â€? Non-Perpetuum Mobile songs deserve some attention as well: “Armeniaâ€? from Zeichnungen might remind you of the horror film The Ring. On Haus der LĂźge, techno-trance lovers might favour the party-like “Feurio!â€? The calm “Stella Marisâ€? on Ende Neu, makes labelling Neubauten any genre almost futile. (“Stella Marisâ€? introduced me to Neubauten in 1999.) Other great songs that are just plain great include the repetitive “NNNAAAMMM,â€? the slow sappy English love song “Sabrinaâ€? and clubsounding “Die Interimsliebendenâ€? (the temporary loving). Just remember that these “new buildings,â€? who sing mostly about nature and the cosmos, are nine albums and a quarter century of art — and possibly more. You can catch Neubauten live at the Opera House on Wednesday, April 28. Tickets are online for $20 at www.ticketmaster.ca. More band information can be found at www.neubauten.org. The site is in English and offers lyrical translations. Jon Chiu, Imprint staff

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performing around campus, Cardiff now has produced six albums, the most recent releases being Soda (2002) and Live at Ginger’s on Barrington Street (2003). With regard to how these albums were made, Craig said that he is “a big believer in the quick and dirty.� He talked about placing more emphasis on “recording a moment in time,� like spending a few days creating an album as opposed to many months. Soda was recorded in Kingston with a whole band, while Ginger’s on Barrington Street was recorded in Halifax with a friend of his, Rose Cousins. When asked to describe the music, Cardiff said that it’s “intelligent, witty pop-folk, with clever hooks and flourishes.� With regard to interesting musical experiences, not many musicians can boast challenging the great Polka King, Walter Ostenik, to an accordion duel, but that’s just what happened to Cardiff in a crazy Oktoberfest moment.

“I was drinking copiously. I played the accordion, not that well, but I challenged him to a polka-off. Security helped me out [of the building] and that was sort of the end of that encounter.� When asked if he had any advice for aspiring musicians, Cardiff encourages people, with respect to the music industry, to “take advantage of the new medium and realize that there are no record deals in Canada. Don’t look at how things have been for models. Make your own model.� Cardiff also performs “livingroom shows� when he entertains small, intimate crowds on a by-request basis. For more information on Craig Cardiff or how to book a livingroom show visit www.craigcardiff.com For the complete audio interview with Cardiff check out www.ckmsfm.ca/aok. jholko@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Desperately seeking a drama program Andrea Kerswill UNHEARD OF Laurier is a university known for its music program. Just a hop skip and a jump from UW, it seems to be the more artsy university. Their programs focus more specifically on the arts, including plays and festivals each year. And although UW has a fully-equipped drama program, it appears that our friend down the street might be able to compete with UW drama. So, I thought

why not go and see Laurier’s Fringe Festival? This was apparently their showcase of talent and creativity for the year. And all I can say is, it was worth a shot. I wasn’t expecting masterpieces of short films, one-act plays, or astounding poetry, but I was expecting at least to be entertained. For the most part, I was interested in what was occurring on stage. The program allowed for an attention-grabbing mixture of short plays and films. The topics covered ranged from things such as a genius student, who invents a pill that can, yes, make you live forever, to the usurping of a pretentious king, to a hyped-up rendition of Dawson’s Creek that came fully-equipped with swearing and the theme song.

I’ll admit some of them were really, really grueling to sit through. I’m not going to lie and say it was all roses although I’m proud to see Laurier doing so well without a drama program. The truth is, they are desperately, desperately in need of one. I am actually surprised they were able to stage a semi-professional show. Their lighting cues were mostly on time and everything seemed to be in order, minus the sometimes long waits between each act. Nonetheless, kudos to the daring artsy souls at Laurier for staging the festival — it can be a tough thing to do when you have limited resources. Each play was performed, written

and directed by Laurier students. This was sadly clear when watching it, mostly because a lot of the jokes were inside jokes. You could hear their friends in the first few rows laughing hysterically at things, while I cranked my head to my friends with an “I don’t get it” look on my face. There was even one person in particular who proceeded to laugh through the very serious acts and then justify his actions through the ridiculous explanation of, “hey I directed one of these shows, it’s fine.” I walked away from this experience laughing, but also making note that there needs to be something done to change, enhance, improve or recover Laurier’s drama program. I cannot believe that a city with two universities

produces some of the crap we do each year. UW drama’s staging of the Upstart Festival (and I hate to state the obvious) put Laurier’s Fringe Festival to shame and it’s not because UW is the best (of course not) but it is because UW has the resources to stage such a festival. Although our arts faculty is spread out all over campus amongst the drama, music, fine art and dance departments, at the very least they all exist. Even so, congrats to those Laurier artsies for an honest attempt at a festival. Maybe next year you will have a new and improved drama program to back you up. akerswill@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Around the world and back again with Ian Wright Julie Diener SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

Ian Wright, the world traveler from England, came to Waterloo on February 25. He spoke for two hours about his experiences travelling from Japan to Sicily, from Australia to Napoli, accompanying his lecture with a slide show. But the entertainment was in the form of Wright himself. Fantastic stories just oozed out of him. Some years ago Wright scored a dream job with Pilot Productions that involved traveling around the world — yes, he gets paid to travel — to film its diverse people, sights and sounds for the travel show Pilot Guides, a tenseason hit in Canada. “I am the luckiest bastard in the world,” he relished, fomenting audience jealousy over his

adventure of a career. “It’s okay to hate me.” Now he is the host of his own show, Ian Wright Live. Besides that, he has a regular column in Outpost magazine, produces original, culturally rich artwork and visits audiences like those at UW to tell behind-the-scenes stories. Wright started off the night addressing Canadians: “you are absolutely barkin’ mad.” He made mention of the loud Canadian “blokes” who crudely jested and taunted him from across a busy downtown street. He also rebuked our nasty habit of spreading “rumours” about other countries (he has apparently fallen victim to them more than once). And of course he didn’t neglect to scrutinize Canadian weather. But he’s been in

Canada eight times in the last four years and loves it as much as the next place. Of all Wright’s stops along his travels, though, the Solomon Islands are his all-time favourite. That trip to Fiji afforded him and his film crew with three days of paradise. Day 1: Deep-sea diving and treasure hunting. Day 2: Shark feeding. Day 3: Volcanoes up-close and personal (“The orange is like living colour! And the sound’s bleedin’ your ears!”). Wright then sliced through the explosive story with another slide. The beauty of the little huts resting along a blue evening horizon made the audience in the Humanities theatre sigh. It’s places like Fiji that really make Wright appreciate what he does. “I just thank my lucky stars, every

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day,” he said. But of course, other challenges If stories of the typical tropical para- come with the job. Getting along with dise could be considered the evening’s the same five people (his film crew) he appetizers, the adventures off the admits can be challenging at times. beaten track were the main course. And he spends a lot of time away from In Morocco, while strutting along his new bride. as an overconfident tourist, Wright The most annoying thing about bumped into some persistent mug- traveling? “Travelers. Traveler snobgers. “After I started running, I threw bery — the ones trying to be dismyself into this hotel and the [head guised as locals. You know, purely a mugger] comes in an’ says: ‘What are middle-ass getting money from your you doing in here? We’re just gonna daddy.” get you when you come out.’” Despite the downfalls of his work, It got a bit dodgy in Bolivia too, Wright still loves it. And so do the where two tribes will gather in a village millions of Pilot Guides fans. square after their annual offering to “Pilot Guides is probably the most the goddess of the Earth (a night of interesting and educational travel show betel nut chewing) and just attack each yet,” says Ed Diener, one of the other, however clumsily and absurdly. evening’s 800 spectators. “They allot In another part of the country, some time to the big cities and tourist Wright’s director decided to set up the attractions, but the main focus is on crew to film in an the back roads, area infested with meeting ordinary monkeys. “We’d people and shar“Nobody wants only been filmin’ for ing in their custwo hours and the toms, livelito listen to all director gets bit in hoods, heritage, my travel stories the ass by a moncuisine, architeckey.” ture, standard of anymore. Now I Wright’s audiliving and perhave to travel ence squealed with sonality on the both laughter and whole.” across oceans to embarrassment as W r i g h t tell them. Isn’t he played out more summed up the of the scenes that show’s objective: that sad?” Pilot Guides never “at the end of a aired. With huge day, everyone gestures and funny loves a fart joke. faces, he recounted discoveries, dan- There is a basic level, regardless of race gers, horror stories and the touching or creed. So at the end of a show, we “little differences” he treasured about try to give a positive splash, flavour, each place visited. smell of a country.” An Evening with One such “little difference” that Ian Wright certainly did the same. seemed to amuse many audience Wright’s charming English accent, members was the incredibly squashed witty sayings, and unique skill for stosize of the bars in Tokyo. And in the rytelling forged a strong connection bigger ones, instead of having to push with his audience. He finished off the your way through a bunch of thirsty night by inviting audience questions. blokes lined up at the bar for drinks, If you have any questions about you can pick up a beer from right off Pilot Guides, Pilot Film and Television the dance floor; they’ve got beer vend- Productions and other sponsors, or ing machines conveniently mounted about the host himself, visit on the walls! PilotGuides.com. You can find a fanHe also shared some of the chal- tastic interview with Wright there; lenges that go along with his job. follow the community, features links. “You’ve got no mates, ‘cause no- Pilot Guides airs on the Outdoor Life body wants to listen to all my travel Network Wednesdays at 10 p.m. More stories anymore. Now I have to travel info for travel enthusiasts is available across oceans to tell them. Isn’t that in Outpost magazine and the web sad?” (www.outpostmagazine.com).

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Mix, burn, play: a mixtape for stoners David George-Cosh SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

There’s no easy way to go about saying this, so I’m just going to come right out and say it — anything sounds good when you’re stoned. As varied as stoner music gets, somewhere in the underground music scene between glam rock and Scandiavian black metal lies stoner rock. No, you’re not going to find some burnt-out hippie passed out in a cloud of patchouli, what you will find is an ineptly-labeled genre of hard rock that gets associated with bands that like their music tuned low and played with their amps cranked to “sludge.” Sure, you can have a great time getting high to stoner rock, but the point is you don’t have to be high in order to have a good time. Here’s a bunch of songs that your head will thank you for later: Queens of the Stone Age — Feel Good Hit of the Summer How could you not enjoy a song whose lyrics only consist of seven different forms of indulgences?! “Feel Good Hit of the Summer” is the perfect song to start out with, as it really hits on the level which most of us had all experienced by the end of Frosh week. The thumping, morsecode like bass-line harmonizes with the psychedelic guitars flawlessly to provide the right atmosphere to let loose, shake it like a Polaroid picture and have a good time.

Black Sabbath — Snowblind To appreciate today’s stoner rock, you must learn from one of the masters. Oh yeah, Ozzy’s a sick, frail old man right now, but it was his work with Sabbath that made him the man he is today (in more ways than one). Really, any Sabbath song will fit perfectly into any stoner mixtape. I mean, it’s Sabbath for crying out loud! Kyuss — 50 Million Year Trip Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Kyuss revived the stoner rock scene all by themselves. This song has it all — the heavy crunch that’s part of every quintessential stoner song, the psychedelic bridge with ghosty vocals, the kick-ass guitar solo by some guy who’s probably feeling the music so much he ate it for lunch and then a comedown complete with fake outro. Fu Manchu — Godzilla It makes perfect sense! You know, that dude in the suit that terrorizes countless Japanese people and fights evil foes such as Mothra? What better subject matter for stoners? So it made perfect sense for a group of skaters-turned-rockstars to write a big, heavy and pounding song about a big, heavy and pounding action hero. Masters of Reality — High Noon Amsterdam What do you get when you mix grunge, a couple handfuls of hash, the California desert and a bunch of Ovations? You get this song. Wellwater Conspiracy — The Ending I don’t know if it’s the ‘60s garage-rock guitars

or the canned vocals, but this song definitely feels like I’m in a movie, running with the heat on my tail. Ex-Soundgarden and current Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron steps away from the kit and shines while John McBain unleashes a psychedelic wall of sound that stands up to the toughest critic. Melissa Auf Der Maur — My Foggy Notion After years of toiling in the shadows of Courtney Love and Billy Corgan, one of the hottest women in rock decides to go off solo and invites all her friends for the ride. Auf Der Maur’s Kyuss influence plays largely in this song as she hires Kyuss’ rhythm section to accompany her. Of course, she could sing the phone book to me and I’d still be captivated in awe of her. But that’s just me. Tenacious D — Explosivo Because every stoner likes to laugh, because

every stoner likes rockin’ out and because a fauxSatan voice channeling through Jack Black just has to be enjoyed by someone who’s high. Need I say more?! Brant Bjork and the Operators — My Ghettoblaster Falling into the stoner rock-lite portion of the mixtape, this song is a perfect example of a great song that has the potential to be a platinumselling radio hit. With a left-handed clove cigarette in one hand, Brant Bjork shows the world that a stoner rock can be pop-friendly and score high on the dance-ability scale at the same time!

Perfectly genuine Elliott Smith David George-Cosh SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

I once read that there are two different types of people in this world: those who haven’t heard of Elliot Smith and those who love Elliot Smith. I consider myself to be part of the latter group, which is why I traveled all the way to Toronto on Sunday night to attend a memorial tribute concert in his honour. Held in the back of the Blue Moon Pub in East Toronto and having to compete with an Oscar night party in the front, the event attracted a sparse crowd of around 30 people. Half a dozen people performed on a simple stage, decorated with only candles and a picture of Smith. It was, for lack of a better term, perfect. We were there to celebrate the life of one of the most overlooked and underrated artists in recent years. His music was heartfelt and honest, emotional and exciting, powerful and painful. Always one to wear his heart on his sleeve, his songs document the troubled addictions and growing pains he unfortunately experienced over the years. The night had a very “open-mic” feel to it; each performer sat alone on stage with a guitar and poignantly played several songs. After a couple of performances, videos of Smith performing were shown. Smith was known to keep ties to the underground art scene in Portland, Oregon where he lived and was featured in two short films, Lucky 3 and Strange Parallel. Both of those along with Smith’s performance at the Academy Awards were played during several intermission breaks. One of the final acts of the night was a successful attempt to lighten the mood with Smith’s a cappella song, “Bye,” which was sung on stage with mixed and often off-key results. He left behind a legacy to those who have had the pleasure to experience what he brought to the world. Elliot Smith will never be forgotten. With over six albums to his name, Smith’s greatest achievement came in 1998 when his song “Miss Misery” was nominated for an Academy Award. Since then, Smith has maintained critical acclaim for his releases and a steady, but loyal, fan base.

Smith died in 2003 of a fatal stab wound to the heart and his departure has been felt around the world. Musicians such as The Flaming Lips, Beck, Sebadoh, Ween, Ben Harper, Beth Orton and others have all performed tributes and kind gestures to him in various ways. Beck, Beth Orton and Sebadoh participated in a Tribute Concert in Smith’s honour in Los Angeles last November. At the performance Orton stated “I didn’t really know Elliott as a person … I’m doing this more for what he’s leaving behind.” Other musicians such as the Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Quasi and Ween have also paid tribute to Smith. As I walked out of the bar, anticipating a long drive home, I heard strains of one of my favourite songs of Elliot Smith’s, “Happiness,” playing in the background. I stopped and watched the rest of the performance. It wasn’t perfect by any means, but it was genuine, exactly how Elliot would have played it. A man is nothing if he is not remembered by anyone and Sunday was an example of one man being remembered for his extraordinary gifts and talents. I encourage anyone to give his music a spin — hopefully you’ll make the change from not knowing Elliot Smith to loving him.

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Mel Gibson’s Passion comes under fire But the film’s message cuts through the controversy surrounding it The Passion of the Christ directed by Mel Gibson Newmarket Films

What would you be willing to sacrifice for someone you love? Jesus was reported to say that there is no greater expression of love than to lay down your life for a friend. The Passion of the Christ, written and directed by Mel Gibson, is a gripping account of how Jesus, called a prophet by some religious groups and the Son of God by others, willingly gave up His life to demonstrate His love for the world. I am one of about eight million North Americans who watched the film on the big screen last weekend. Amid a mob of critics who have declared Gibson’s film as anti-Semitic and bloodthirsty, I think it’s important to take some time to critically evaluate the film. It is impossible to turn on the television without hearing accusations that The Passion of the Christ is an antiSemitic film which places the blame for the crucifixion squarely on the shoulders of the Jews. Contrary to what I heard in the media, I did not feel that all Jewish people in the film were depicted as vindictive. A good example in the film is the crowd gath-

ered along the Via Dolorosa (the road which Jesus walked with the cross). While some spit and jeer at Jesus, many others are seen weeping in sorrow. It seemed to me that if anyone was to be blamed, it was the Roman soldiers: men who laughed and joked as they beat him beyond recognition. I was surprised to learn in Gibson’s interview with Diane Sawyer that Mel Gibson wanted his own hand to be filmed driving the first nail into Jesus’ palm. When Sawyer asked, “who killed Jesus?” Gibson responded, “we all did. I’ll be the first in the culpability stakes here.” With this in mind as I watched the movie, I was impacted by the fact that he feels that we all bear responsiblity for the death of Jesus. It is regrettable that some Jewish people feel misrepresented by the movie, but I didn’t feel this was the case after watching it. A second major criticism of the film is that the graphic violence is unrealistic sensationalism. Gibson said in the same interview that he did intend to shock the audience, not with a display of violence, but rather with the truth. The Bible was used as a primary source for the movie and speaks of the beatings which Jesus endured. It describes Jesus as being “flogged,” “beaten,” “struck,”

“wounded” and “spit on.” Historical and archeological evidence shows that the cat-o-nine-tails used in the graphic beating of Christ was an actual weapon used in the Roman Empire to punish offenders. Crucifixion was the worst punishment of the time, reserved for murderers and criminals. The victim would eventually die of exposure and suffocation. Knowing the context of the times from both the Bible and history, I didn’t view the violence as excessive. At the beginning of the film a passage from the Bible appears on the screen that describes the beating that Jesus endured and the reason why He endured it. “But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him and by His wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5). This passage helped me understand why the violence was necessary. In my understanding of the message of the film, Gibson wanted to show that God’s forgiveness of sin came at a great price. To remove or tone down the violence would undermine the cost of forgiveness. So now that you’ve heard about or seen the film, you must ask yourself as Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, did: “What will I do with Jesus who

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I hope that you won’t accept my views and interpretations without going to check it out for yourself. The issues on which I have offered opinions are important to consider and should not be taken lightly. If you want to offer your opinion after seeing the movie, there are numerous places you can do so, including Web sites like www.thelife.com. Leslie Maund, special to Imprint

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Sweating the small stuff could kill you! Well, not really Eli Denham IMPRINT STAFF

Woody Allen defined major surgery as “anything being done to me.” Evaluating medical risk is, as it should be, very personal, and when we’re considering threats to ourselves, or our loved ones, we may overact and not look at it totally logically. An excellent example of over-reaction to health related concerns would be the overly dramatic reaction to SARS. Although more people died of flu-related illness during the time in which SARS was at an alltime high in certain cities, people still limited their travel and wore dust masks. One picture can indeed be worth a thousand words, which may make you consider the impact of hundreds of pictures per second that fly past you on the evening news. Public perceptions about risk are often shaped by television news, which has immediacy and visceral impact, but might not provide care-

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ful reflection or thoughtful analysis. So why do stories about flu outbreaks only occasionally make headlines or lead the evening news, while small threats such as SARS capture all the media glare? “In my opinion, it has a lot to do with the way the media handles the reporting of it. I think there are times when the media tends to overstate certain issues especially when it comes to medical problems. “Obviously the media is very helpful in disseminating information, but if things are overstated, then they can result in people overreacting,” says Dr. Michael I. Greenberg, MPH, editor-in-chief of The Journal of Medical Risk. Another reason, says David Ropeik, director of risk communication at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis in Boston, is that when it comes to risk, familiarity breeds concern. “Fear has intuitive characteristics which are more powerful than the probabilities and the scientific facts. For example, cancer kills us in a dreadful way and the nastier a way it is to die, the more afraid of it we are likely to be. That is our perception of what to be afraid of,” Ropeik tells WebMD. This concept reflects a problem that has been experienced for years by the American Heart Association (AHA). Recently the AHA launched its highly visible “Go Red for Women” campaign to coincide with the release of heart disease prevention and treatment guidelines. The AHA shows that heart disease and stroke kill nearly half a million American women every year, accounting for more deaths annually than the next seven causes of death (including breast cancer and all other forms of cancer) combined.

“Unless a woman perceives herself to be vulnerable, she’s not going to heed a preventive message. It only resonates when you realize there may be a personal risk,” Dr. Nanette K. Wenger, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and chief of cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, tells WebMD. “When it comes to health care, people do not put the equivalent amount of worry into what the experts throughout health care tell them are the biggest risks. Smoking, obesity — there’s a disconnect between what the figures and the facts will tell us and how people in general treat those risks in their mindset,” Paling says. In their book Risk! A Practical Guide for Deciding What’s Really Safe and What’s Dangerous in the World Around You, Ropeik and co-author George Gray, Ph.D., list factors that shape our perceptions of risk. - We have a greater fear of humanmade risks than natural risks (such as radiation from nuclear waste exposure, which is rare, rather than from sun exposure, which is common). - Voluntary risks such as smoking, poor diet, dangerous forms of recreation are seen as less threatening than risks over which we may not have direct control, such as air pollution or someone else’s drunk driving. - We have a greater fear of risks from unknown or untrusted sources. “Imagine being offered two glasses of clear liquid,” Ropeik and Gray write. “One comes from Oprah Winfrey. The other comes from a chemical company. Most people would choose Oprah’s, even though they have no facts at all about what’s in either glass.” See HELPLESS, pg 22

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Gambling addicts have one less temptation Eli Denham IMPRINT STAFF

Bookies from around the world have stopped taking bets that life once existed on Mars after a NASA probe found evidence that the Red Planet at one time had a wet climate. “Following the latest news from NASA, we think it is now likely that evidence of past life on Mars will be found in the coming years,” said spokesman from an established odds-making firm, Warren Lush. When betting closed, the odds were down to 16 to 1 from 1,000 to 1 which was the going rate back in the ‘70s. Scientists from NASA said this week that its rover Opportunity had indicated there is strong evidence that at least one part of Mars had a persistently wet environment that could possibly have been hospitable to life. Most odds offices are still offering 500-to-1 odds on whether there

are organisms still living on Mars. Most firms are also taking bets on an array of non-sporting events such as the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections. Some British bookmakers are in the space business as well: For example, the William Hill company is offering 66-to-1 odds on whether a British prime minister or American president will confirm the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life within a year’s time. It has also offered 50-to-1 odds against humans landing on Mars before the year 2031, and 10-to-1 odds against humans returning to the moon before 2016. In the early 1960s, William Hill offered 1,000-to-1 odds against a human landing on the moon before the end of the decade — and paid out 10,000 pounds in 1969 when David Threlfall won his 10-pound bet. Most offices are reporting that they will honour past wagers on Martian life. edenham@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Perhaps we can’t help ourselves. Blame it on our nature. We have been conditioned over thousands of years to react first then think about it later. This is evident in our endocrinological reaction to danger by pumping out stress hormones such as adrenaline when we’re suddenly confronted with the choice of fight or flight. These hormones increase our heart rate amd blood pressure, tense our muscles and prepare us to defend ourselves or outrun the threat. “The whole topic of understanding risks these days tends to be based on facts,” Jon Paling, Ph.D., founder and research director of the Risk Communication Institute in Gainseville, Fla., tells WebMD. “However, humans as a species have had to deal with risks from our earliest tribal and pre-tribal days and clearly those that were best at surviving risks were the ones that propagated the next generation. So we have very, very deeply seated, hard-wired responses to risks that have nothing to do with graphics or numbers, because in essence the human species has had to be geared up to intuitively deal with risk over eons.” Evidence however, may show us that these instincts may get us into the trouble they are supposed to protect us from. Take for example the advice of wildlife experts: when being chased by

a bear, it is best to fall down and play dead, but our hardwired systems are all screaming “RUN!” The keys to making clear-headed decisions about specific risks, experts agree, are knowledge and trust, and both health-care consumers and their doctors have an important role to play in informing patients about medical risks. “Every time you’re with a patient is a teachable moment and you can use that moment to re-orient patients about the biggest risks that they should be concerned about and have an intelligent discussion with them about the risks that maybe are important to know, but that they don’t need to be obsessed over, compared to more lifethreatening risks,” said Greenberg. Sensible risk avoidance is also a matter of self-awareness said Ropeik. “We have to understand that there are these emotional prisms that filter the facts into the decisions that we make. We have to recognize that they can be dangerous; if we underestimate a risk or overestimate it, we might not take proper precautions. We might be worried, too stressed; and stress is bad for our health.” His take-home message? “Seek out trusted reliable sources of information and work a little harder at being informed.” edehnam@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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A strangle hold on cancer

Avastin was approved recently by the Food and Drug Administration. Avastin is one of the first drugs to battle tumors by limiting their blood supply, vindicating a 40-year-old medical theory once rejected as being illfounded. Doctors said the drug was not a cure for colon cancer, the disease it was approved to treat, but they welcomed it as progress toward their long-range goal of turning cancer into a manageable illness. Avastin blocks the action of a protein that growing tumors send out, which orders the body to sprout new blood vessels to supply the malignant cells with nutrients. Without a blood supply, solid tumors do not grow. “This is a milestone and it may be a turning point for cancer, because of the lowered side effects” seen with Avastin and similar drugs under development, said Judah Folkman, the

Two new dinosaur species have been found by scientists in Antarctica’s frozen reaches, one a prehistoric carnivore that survived long after its closest relatives had gone extinct, the other a large plant-eater found on a mountainside 400 miles from the South Pole, researchers reported. The new finds, excavated in December by separate expeditions working 2,000 miles apart, are holdovers from a time when Antarctica had a relatively mild climate and formed the core of a Southern Hemisphere supercontinent known today as Gondwana. The carnivore, estimated to be between 6 and 8 feet tall and weighing 300 pounds, probably died about 70 million years ago. It was found on James Ross Island, in the Weddell Sea close to the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Making Spanish classes more important

David Graddol, a British expert, said in a new analysis that in the future, more people will speak more than one language, with English no longer likely

to be dominant. “English is likely to remain one of the world’s most important languages for the foreseeable future, but its future is more problematic—and complex—than most people appreciate,” said the language researcher. Graddol sees English as likely to become the “first among equals” rather than having the global field to itself. Those who speak only English, “will experience increasing difficulty in employment and political life, and are likely to become bewildered by many aspects of society and culture around them,” Graddol said. The share of the world’s population that speaks English as a native language is falling, Graddol reports in today’s issue of the journal Science. The idea of English becoming the world language to the exclusion of others “is past its sell-by date,” Graddol said. The U.S. Census Bureau reported last year that nearly one American in five speaks a language other than English at home, with Spanish leading, and Chinese growing fast. Yale linguist Stephen Anderson noted that “in most of the world multilingualism is the normal condition. The notion that English shouldn’t, needn’t and probably won’t displace local languages seems natural to me,” he said. edenham@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Warriors’ CIS title hopes dashed by Mac Aaron Tomlin SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

Last Saturday the incredible ride for the men’s basketball team came to an end. The third straight difficult game proved to be too much for the depleted Warriors’ as they lost to the McMaster Marauders, 83-60. The loss, which brought an end to the Warrior’s postseason run, was largely in part due to untimely injuries that caused the Warriors lineup to thin dramatically. This, along with the past few tough games, took its toll on the entire Waterloo team. With second-year forward Michael Davis out and fourth-year veteran guard Bryan Nichol playing injured, the Warriors were behind the eight ball immediately. “The injuries definitely hurt us. However, the players who stepped in contributed admirably. But you just can’t replace healthy bodies,� UW head coach Tom Kieswetter said in regards to his injured players. The game opened badly for the Warriors after three turnovers gave Mac an early eight-point lead. Things could have been a lot worse if it were not for the efforts of Waterloo forward Dave Munkley and third-year guard Graham Jarman, both of whom managed to keep the Warriors within striking distance. A late nine-point run brought the Warriors within 14 points of the surging Marauders. The second half proved to be eerily similar to the first 20 minutes. Mac continued to roll, hitting a team record 15 3-pointers. The hard-nosed Warriors could no longer battle back against such odds. The lead began to grow and the outcome was obvious with minutes still on the clock. Leading

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Fourth year forward Andrew Coatsworth’s last game for UW came sooner than expected as the team exited early in the playoffs. scorers for the Warriors were Munkley with 15 points and Jarman and Sovran both adding 10 points. The loss brought an end to the hopes of reaching CIS championship in Halifax and a berth in the national championships. However, this season was not a complete failure. The Warriors had one of their best seasons

in quite some time. They finished fourth in the OUA West and had an overall record of 23-13. If it were not for the unfortunate timing of key injuries, the Warriors would most likely still be playing today. The season was an up and down battle that saw the gritty Warriors never give up. Waterloo began the season with an

incredible run by going 11-5 between November and January. In February, during the stretch drive of the regular season when it counted the most, the Warriors slipped with a 2-4 record before beating Laurier in the OUA west quarter-finals and advancing to play McMaster. Waterloo was expected to make the CIS championships this year due to its deep roster and because during the second week of November

the Warriors were even ranked number 10 in the country. Kieswetter commented on his team’s season by saying, “this season was a roller coaster ride. But it was an enjoyable ride. It’s not that we didn’t play well against Mac, they just played better. It was like running into a stone wall.� see PLAYOFFS, page 26

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The UW women’s basketball team saw their improbable winning streak come to a screeching halt last Saturday, February 28 when their season was promptly ended with a 66-49 defeat at the hands of the Brock Badgers in second-round OUA playoff action. The defeat was even more stinging for the Warriors because they had strung together one of the most impressive streaks in recent memory, winning four of their last five games prior to their elimination from the postseason picture. “I give them full credit,” said UW head coach Tom O’Brien of his opponents’ efforts. “Tonight we missed some easy shots and they took full advantage.” The game certainly began on the right note for the Warriors, as they jumped out to an early advantage. The teams traded blows throughout the opening stanza and the score reflected the evenly matched nature of the two squads, as they traded leads throughout the first 20 minutes. However, the Badgers heated up at the right time, knocking down some timely shots in the closing moments of the first half to take a 35-27 lead into the locker room at halftime. It was more of the same hot shooting from the Badgers in the second half, as Brock guard Jodie Ebeling led her club’s offensive charge, finishing with 19 points. Badgers forward Erin Allan added to the Warriors’ woes with 18 points of her own, as she went an astonishing 7-8 from the field. “Jodie is just a great player,” said

O’Brien. “Brock has so many offensive weapons.” With the final minutes of the clock ticking down and the Warriors unable to make a dent in the double-digit Badgers lead, it became apparent that UW’s season would come to an untimely end. However, the underrated and overmatched Warriors squad gave the Badgers everything they could handle for 40 minutes. “We knew we were in for a ball game,” said Brock head coach Chris Critelli, who is in her twentieth season at the Badgers’ helm. “They surprised a lot of people. I thought they did a very good job.” Even though the loss in St. Catharine’s was tough for UW to swallow, the Warriors still have numerous positives to take from the 2003-04 season. UW has an extremely young squad, highlighted by a pair of outstanding rookie performances this season from post Gillian Maxwell and guard Nicole Tisdale. Furthermore, their late-season three-game winning streak proved that the Warriors can play with any team in the OUA. The Brock loss was also a disappointing end to two UW careers, as post Leslie Futter and guard and cocaptain Amanda Kieswetter played their final games at Waterloo. “Leslie Futter is one of the hardest working, committed people I’ve ever met,” said O’Brien. “She made our kids tougher.” As for his outgoing co-captain, O’Brien praised her pure offensive ability. “Whenever we needed a basket, [Kieswetter] would be the one to hit it for us,” O’Brien said. “She worked

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UW’s Julie Devenny notched 22 points in a losing effort. really hard in the off-season and her leadership was certainly beneficial to us as well.” Futter and Kieswetter were both named Academic All-Canadians last season. Both have applied to teacher’s college and Kieswetter also has aspirations for law school. The Warriors’ on-court season is now over, but for O’Brien and his staff, the off-season is perhaps the busiest time of year. UW will look to bring in yet another group of strong recruits in hopes to advance the program even further next season. “Next year will be a big year for us,” said O’Brien. “A lot of people think [the season] is over when it’s over, but it’s not.” amcguire@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Adrian, a fifth year Economics student from Hamilton, Ontario, qualified for the CIS Championships this past weekend at the Ontario Championship at York University. Adrian ran a personal lifetime best of 35.34 to claim bronze in the 300m event. Adrian was also a key element in both the 4x200m (4th) and 4x400m (5th) relay teams that also qualified for the CIS Championships to be held March 11-13 at the University of Windsor.

Julie, a third year Kinesiology student from Waterloo, Ontario, led the Warriors in the playoffs with an upset win at Guelph and a loss at Brock. In the OUA quarterfinals at Guelph Julie led the way with 17 points, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals in a 56-37 victory over the Gryphons. On Saturday evening, Julie scored 22 points, and added 4 rebounds and 4 blocks in their semifinal loss at Brock 66-49.

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‘em, need ‘em,” but no trading cards are exchanged in this version. Deadline day itself has become a media circus. All three major Canadian sports television networks have a full day of trade coverage, each boasting the most comprehensive, earlybreaking news on deals that come down the wire. Broadcasters and journalists kiss the collective ass of every insider contact that they have ever made, hoping that they will be the first to break the story on the next big trade. Even the players rumoured to be on the move watch television to see where they will end up next. On any given day, TSN “Hockey Insider” Bob McKenzie is just another hefty hockey reporter with sweaty armpits and an opinion. But for those eight hours on deadline day, he and his broadcasting brethren are gods. Sure, it might seem odd that the media dedicates so much effort to one day of wheeling and dealing (just to put it in perspective, TSN offers a service that will allow you to receive trade updates on a wireless internet device). But the trade deadline is the kind of day that hockey poindexters like me live for. The average Canadian couldn’t care less about deadline day, but the networks tailor their coverage for the hardcore puckheads of this country and we wouldn’t have it any other way. It may be

inconsequential to you, but come deadline day, I will just be dying to know which team traded for Jim Dowd. Even if the deals don’t come by the bucketful, it can be argued that the most exciting part of deadline day is the anticipation. On deadline day, people stay glued to their sets like they’re about to find out who shot J.R., despite the fact that blockbuster deals are far from a guarantee. Some deadline days fizzle in the überhype created by a hockey-hungry media, but the chance of a big deal involving a big player is ever-present until the deadline hour passes. Just like auto racing viewers hold out hope for that metal-twisting wreck until the checkered flag falls, fans of deadline day stay put just in case that blockbuster trade is made at the eleventh hour. Deadline day is tireless for general managers, sleepless for players on the trading block and tiring for the marathon broadcasters. But rest assured (or not assured, for the general managers working the phones), deadline day has the potential to be the most influential and exciting day of the hockey year. Until 3 p.m., when it becomes business as usual. amcguire@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Parsons and Mains ready for CIS championship Rod McLachlan IMPRINT STAFF

It’s official, UW swimmer Danny Parsons has not only hit full stride, but the second-year student has also hit the big time by qualifying for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national swimming championship. After hovering on the bubble of qualifying for the championship in his rookie year last season, Parsons has turned the corner in 2004. His teammate Matt Mains’ (Swimmer of the Meet) effort at the OUA championship (four gold medals), which was held in Ottawa on February 1315, overshadowed Parsons’ stellar performance at this year’s CIS qualifying meet. A Scarborough native, Parsons is definitely a rising Warrior swimming star, and with Mains having only one year of OUA eligibility left, Parsons should be a standout leader for Waterloo in the pool for years to come. “I think that Danny has always had it in him. When you watch him race you can tell that the ability to make [the] CIS [championship] was within his grasp. As for advise I only told him that he needs to hold the water more and not have such a high tempo, but those are things that I know he was working on the begin with,” praised Mains of his teammate Parsons. Parsons, a Recreation and Leisure student, qualified for three events at the 2004 CIS championship by posting excellent times in all of the breaststroke events that he competed in

(50m breaststroke, 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke). The second-year swimmer accomplished this feat by capturing a bronze medal in both the 100m (1:05.10) and 200m events (2:21.82) and a silver medal in the 50m breaststroke event (29.69). The three exceptional

finishes in the breaststroke events gave him an eighth place CIS ranking on Swim Canada’s point-ranking chart in the 50m, a seventh place ranking in the 100m and an eighth place ranking in the 200m. “Danny always works very hard in practice, often leading the lane. His attendance is very good, better than mine at least,” commented fel-

UW’s Blair qualifies for CIS championship SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

This past weekend the Warriors track and field team competed in the OUA Championships hosted by York University at the Metro Toronto Track Facility. For many members of the team, this was their last event of the season. The meet started on the morning of Friday, February 27 with great performances for the Warriors in the men and women’s pentathlon. Andrew RY UR Sepic was LC U PA able to set HN JO a new Waterloo varsity record for the pentathlon with 3171 points, setting personal bests in four of his five events. Laura Pearson, also competing in the pentathlon, was also able to set personal bests in four of her events as well. The men’s 4 x 800m relay team captured OUA bronze with a personal best time of 7:52.80. Coming very close to the podium were the men’s 4 x 400m relay team who finished fourth. The women’s 4 x 200m relay team secured

2:16.45. The computer science student’s dominance in the event can clearly be seen through his continual improvement of his own OUA record. However, UW men’s captain Mains will have plenty of solid competition at the upcoming CIS cham-

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low UW teammate Art Hare on Parsons’ work ethic. As for Mains, the fourth-year Kitchener native won four gold medals in the 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke, 200m individual medley and 400m individual medley events at the recent OUA champion-

sixth place after all runners of the team set personal bests in their respective legs of the race. Team co-captain Adrian Blair, who will be graduating this year, won OUA bronze in the 300m dash with a personal best time of 35.34. In the field, Andrew MacDonald placed fifth in the men’s triple jump while Leanne Stanley seized ninth in the women’s shot put. Although the Warriors may not have fared well in the standings, they were able to set 39 personal bests at the OUA Championship, adding to the 213 that were set throughout this season. The athletes that placed in the top three of their events will be traveling to the University of Windsor next Thursday, March 11, for the Canadian Interuniversity Sports (CIS) Championships. -with files from UW Athletics

ship. His time of 2:13.72 in the 200m breaststroke event shattered his own OUA record of 2:15.89, which he set in 2003. Prior to his 2003 recordsetting swim, Mains broke gold medal winning Olympian Alex Bauman’s 1984 OUA record (2:16.85) in the event in 2001 with a time of

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pionship in the form of University of Calgary Dino swimmer Chad Murray, who competed with Mains for Canada at the 2003 Pan-American Games. Murray is currently ranked first on Swim Canada’s point-ranking chart in two of Mains’ events, the 200m and 400m individual medley events. Nevertheless, Mains has a secret

weapon in one of his fellow Warrior training partners, none other than Danny Parsons himself. “Danny is a great person to train with. Whenever I’ve gotten down lately he’s been there to encourage me and I really appreciate it. I think that in the coming years he can continue to improve so I’m looking forward to training with him for next year,” added Mains. Unfortunately, the UW women’s swim team will not be sending any representatives to the CIS since the Warrior women swimmers failed to qualify at the OUA championship. Jen Sweny, who is in her fifth and final season with the Warriors, came the closest to qualifying out of all of Waterloo’s female swimmers. With a time of 1:17.16 in the 100m breaststroke event, Sweny was out touched by five-tenths of a second by thirdplace Western swimmer Ingrid von Beckman. Only the top three swimmers in the event qualify for the CIS championship. The fourth place finish must be a huge disappointment for Sweny because this was her last crack to qualify for the national championship. The 2004 CIS swimming championship takes place this weekend at the University of Toronto (March 5 – 7) at the Warren G. Stevens Athletic Centre. Heats will commence each of the three days at 10 a.m. Final action is scheduled for 5 p.m. -with files from UW Athletics rmclachlan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Playoffs: UW stumbles Continued from page 23

UW can now look forward to next year and begin to work towards their ultimate goal of a national championship. If it is to happen it will have to be without two key players who are saying good-bye to UW this summer. Fourth-year players Andrew Coatsworth and Bryan Nichol are graduating and will more than likely not be on next year’s squad. Kieswetter had great things to say about both players. “Andrew is a player who is barely tapping his potential. You could see his skill when he produced significantly with more minutes down the stretch. It’s a tough loss when it would be interesting to see how much he could improve with one more year.” Nichol, who battled with a severely sprained ankle over the last two games, was also praised by Kieswetter. “Bryan is the epitome of a Warrior. He battled every game and every practice. His leadership down the stretch was missed and it will be difficult to replace a player of his calibre.” So that’s it, the season is done and looking towards next year takes priority. Even though this season is over it should not be forgotten. The Warriors battled every game and put forth a product that Waterloo students can be proud of.

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T’wolves end UW’s playoff drive Rod McLachlan IMPRINT STAFF

After taking an early 1-0 advantage on a first-minute goal by Kevin Hurley, it appeared as though the UW men’s hockey team was heading towards a much-improved effort in comparison to the 5-1 loss that they suffered on February 25 against Lakehead at the CIF arena. However, the Lakehead squad, backed by 3700 boisterous fans, had something to say about that as the Thunder Bay team trampled UW 121 to win game two of the first round best-of-three series, clinching a spot in the second round. However, Lakehead responded by tallying three times before the first intermission. Waterloo was undaunted by this fact as Geoff Rivers, Jeff Fiorino, and captain Chris Hopiavuori laid out several members of their opposition with bone-crushing checks. In the second frame, UW fell apart as Lakehead poured it on with eight unreturned goals. The Thunderwolves’ goals came from varied sources including turnovers, odd-man rushes and the powerplay. The period ended 11-1 with the Warriors being out muscled and out shot (14-3). UW tried as hard as it could to rally in the third, but the game had long been out of reach. Adam Metherel, who had assisted on UW’s only goal in the game, had another breakaway, but his shot

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UW’s Scott Gouthro, who missed the playoffs, was stellar against Lakehead earlier in the season. rang off the crossbar. Despite UW goalie Jeremy Elliott’s stellar play, Warrior fans can only stop and wonder what may have been if standout starting goaltender Scott Gouthro had been able to return to the ice in time for the playoffs. Gouthro had been sidelined since playing in a game on February 7 versus the York Lions, when he sustained a slash to his ankle. Although Gouthro had been skating lightly in practice, he had been seen

hobbling at the CIF only a week before the playoff series began and was unable to mount a comeback to the ice. What may make UW fans dream about what may have been is in part due to the January 23 regular season overtime loss to the number four nationally ranked Lakehead T’wolves. In that game Gouthro faced 49 shots and shutout one of the most potent offences in the OUA for over half the game before his defence collapsed in front of him and

Lakehead rallied with four unanswered goals to win 4-3. Either way, Waterloo made a huge leap in its calibre of play this season under new coach Karl Taylor and returned to the playoffs after a three year absence and things definitely look even brighter for next season. -with files from UW Athletics rmclachlan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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