2004-05_v27_no14_Imprint

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO STUDENT NEWSPAPER

OCTOBER 22, 2004

VOL 27, NO 14

IMPRINT. UWATERLOO. CA

azzy Jeff gets fresh at UW DJall smiles throughout fIrst appearance at Federation Hall Penny Michelle Rorke IMPRINT STAFF

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DJ Jazzy Jeff, who gained fame as Will Smith's DJ and co-star on The Fresh Prince ofBelAir, brought his tour to Fed Hall on October 14.

Fed Hallwas a sight to behold on Thursday, October 14, as the ''hfagnificent One" himself, OJ Jazzy Jeff, made his first ever appearance on UW campus.

The evening began \vith the Feds' very own OJ Brandon warming up the crowd with a fine selection of breaks and old schooL Next on the decks were Fed Hall residents OJ Disgrace and OJ Penny,alongsidespecialguestDJ\Vhite Gold, setting the mood with some club and rqi..t;ac fayourites.

The crowd roared when Jeff, who co-starred \vith Will Smith in the hit sitcom The Fresh Prince ifBelAir, hit the stage around midnight. J efrs road cre\"\; quickly set up the fume Serato Scratch interface, allowingJ effto choose from over 10,000 records without even flipping through a crate.

Mad Skillz jumped on the mic, hyping the crowd while Jeff settled in on stage. From the start, Jeff confIrmed that he was worth every penny of his four-figure contract by showing off his beat-juggling skills and signatJ~e transformer scratch. A screen on stage left allowed the audience to get a fIrst hand look at how Jeff flawlessly

handled the turntables.

The crowd seemed mesmerized throughout the night while watching the screen more closely than Jeffhimself. This was especially apparent when he spent nearly fIve minutes working two ofthe all-time classic batrlerecords: LL CoolJ's "Rock the Bells" and RunDMC's "Peter Piper." Interestingly, these were the only two actual 12 inch singles Jeff played all night.

His set, which lasted almost two hours, bridged the gap between old school hip hop classics and current club bangers. There was even time put aside for Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" It was unfortunate, however, that he never gave the audience a glimpse ofhis upcoming house CD, which \,':ill soon be released on Defected Records.

Sipping on his iced tea (apparently Fed Hall has the best iced tea on his tour so far) ,Jeff continued to drop hit after hit, smiling all the while. It was evident that he has not only mastered his craft, but loves it as well.

Although the night ended abruptly at 2:00 a.m.,J effgraciously remained to sign autographs and pose for pictures with many of his adoring fans. pmrorke@imrpint.uwaterloo.ca

SA declares war on Federation of Students Mark Johnson IMPRINT STAFF

The ongoing battle between the Embassy Students' Association (ESA) and Feds has suddenly turned nasty, \\1.th the ESA sending out a long and detailed press release on October 19.

The ESA, a Christian organization affiliated \\1.th the PentecostalAssemblies of Canada, has reacted in anger to their September 29 suspension by the Internal Administration Committee, and sent out a press release" described

by Feds as containing "unfounded and purely speculative supposition" The situation leading up to the ESA's suspension is long and detailed.

Feds issued the suspension after the ESA failed to comply with the terms of an agreement struck between themselves and Feds and as a result ofa litany ofFeds policy\1.olations taking place at the \veekly Embassy Church event at Fed Hall. Some of the infractions included not reporting income gathered

at club events, distribution of materials \\1.thout the consent ofFeds and the ESA promoting and advertising events not sanctioned by Feds.

In the fall of 2003, an agreement was struck between Feds and the ESA for a reduced rental rate at Federation Hall. The ESA claimed they could not afford the rates, and so Feds gave them a discount with the understanding that the ESA, not the Embassy Church, would be responsible for all ESA events, such as services at Fed Hall, and that all events would abide by Feds' policies. Embassy Church could not use ESA simply as a vehicle to get cheaper booking rates at Fed Hall. The ESA was a Feds-recognized club, whereas the Embassy Church was a third party that merely happened to be affiliated \\1.th the ESA. "\"X'hen the rates went up Oastyear] , theESA was formed [as a Feds club] to get a cheaper rate for Fed Hall," said the press release. "The Embassy Church didn't want to pay the higher rate."

On September 24, the ESA submitted a plan to Feds agreeing to abide by the rules that had been violated at past ESA events, and they were permitted to hold their September 28 church service at Fed Hall.

A subsequent press release from Feds indicates that they sent representatives to the September 28 Embassy sen1.ce and, to their dismay, found that the ESA had made "virtually no effort to comply with any of the Federation of Students concerns." The ESA was still violating procedure and there \vas no indication that they had any intention of meeting the terms of their agreement.

After much debate and discussion, the Internal Administration Committee voted unanimously to place the club on probation for refusing to obey Feds rules and suspended their activities for the remainder of the term. The ESA responded by holding a peaceful protest at the Feds offIce on October 5 with about 150 supporters attending.

The ESA has publicly condemned the lAC decision, claiming in their press release that it\\':ill have an "enormous impact on ... the quality of life for U\X! students that the ESA serves."

They launched a virulent attack on Feds and Clubs Director Rick Theis, citing a "misuse of po\ver" by Theis. They went on to accuse Feds representatives of speaking "a mix of half-truths and categorical falsehoods" \\1.th regard to the situation with the ESA. The ESA claims to be the victim of "political mudslinging" by Feds and that it has been "unfairly targeted" by Theis.

Theis calls the accusations a "misunderstanding of my authority," and pointed out, "it's not \\1.thin my jurisdiction to suspend [the ESA]."

The ESA claims in the press release that it was provided with "last-minute deadlines without proper written notice, [ignoring] the fact that clubs are comprised of busy, full-time student yolunteers who cannot respond at a moment's notice."

Theis disputed the allegation. ''\Ve ... followed [all] guidelines ",1.th regard to notice for events."

The ESA believes, according to the press release, that the allegations leading to the suspension "were spuriously concocted by the clubs director in order to justify the abrupt cancellationof the ESA's fall kick-off eYentso that a high-profIle personality could speak at Fed Hall on September 20, 2004."

Theis insists this is false, pointing out that the \'{'aterloo-Israel Political Affairs Committee - the group responsible for bringing Irshad Manji to campus - had already booked alternate accommodations in the Davis Centre once they learned that the ESA had refused to let them use Fed Hall on September 20. \"X1PAC only switched back to Fed Hall once it had become free, resulting from the ESA being placed on probation.

See ESA, page 7

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2004 ,

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31. Hindu princess 32. Repair?

33. Selflessness 37. Humble request 38. The guillotine's targets 40. Noone 41. Canine 43. Mountaineering spike 44. Girder that gave birth to skyscraper 45. Gleeful crows 46. Call off the engagement 50. Epitome 51. League qf pre~tigious colleges 52. Romanian currency 55. Wedding promise 56. Intriguing 61. Before 62. Integralpartofanythingwhatsoever

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Why do leaves change colour in the fall?

63. German name 64. Telus and the telephone 65. Work, as dough 66. Pop artist Warhol

Down 1. U-trucks forgoing everywhere 2. The beginning of God's year 3. Give the cold shoulder ' 4. Suess's cat's apparel 5. Membrane fold 6. Stood for election again 7. l\iother of Irish gods 8. All that's left after a meal of com

28. Swindle 29. Exclusive 30. Turning colour this time of year 34. One tiny bit 35. Arrogant person 36. Not the ladies room 38. English actor Coward 39. And everyone else 42, Stone pillar 43. Game manoeuvres 45. Donors and philanthropists 46. Asian cats ftngered for SARS 47. Lmre intensely 4ft ~'h"d""i!

"Because it's more romantic 'when you take a girl for a walk."

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"Chris is a huge douche.'"

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"The leaves blush red because they don't like the trees when it's cold."

Taun Jeong

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''The plants want to conserve their stores'of chlorophyll."

Steo Ebata

"Photosynthesis?"

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WIRI JIMILE 1. (2003) "1 am the leader of the party until 1 . And 1 \vill the day that 1 \vill _ _ _,

5. (1993) "If the GST is not gone, I will have a tough time the ___ after that!"

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Final Quotation: Chretien said in 2003 that, to deal with the Rroblem of fraud in Canada, thev'd arrest those guilty of this crime.

"'Cause they're tired of the same old green."

Kevin Spurs 2A kinesiology

"Because squirrels pee on' them and it changes the pigmentation in the leaves."

Ida Cavaliere 2A kinesiology

For the correct answer, see MICROALES, page 2E

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Cops called unnecessary, costly uw clubs unable to afford hefty campus police fees Sarah Allmendinger IMPRINT STAFF

The cost ofhavingpoliceprotection at Fed Hall is becoming prohibitive for clubs to use the facility. Having a gUest speaker or politician come to campus ingeneral, not just Fed Hall, seems to be a q.sh drain.

When a campus club or group wants to organize an event or host a speaker they have to get permission from Police Services. Police Services then conducts research to find out how risky it would be to hold the event in question or host that particu- . lar speaker. The police have to keep a number of things in mind -includ. ing how many people are bound to show up and ho\\; much of a risk factor the speaker brings to the UW campus.

AI MacKenzie, director of Police Services, explained, ''We need enough people to work an event to make sUre everyone is safe; the venue needs to be safe." l.\facKenzie also stated that the number of people attending plays a "to assure the of the offi=." . . . 路1hl....1.J!ii::' > ... ~ItQW~III路 '.~.,

Manji, to the university, several extra precautions had to be taken. The total costs for this specific speaker was almost $1 ,300 which, according to John Andersen,Feds VP internal, is, "completely unfair and completely unreasonable. [Oubs] can't afford that."

Because the topic was deemed conttoyersial, an extra police presence was necessary for the event.

This, in turn, means extra costs to cover the work of the extra security officers. According to MacKenzie the clubs need to consider this bdoreasking to bring speakers that are "high risk" factors to the UW campus.

The Federation ofStudents is tryingto help out where theycan. \l;1JPAC will only have to pay for half of the'

costs for thdvfanjievent; Feds will pick up the rest of the tab explained Andersen.

Feds is also trying to work something out for the future that will allow more clubs to bring speakers to campus without such extreme costs.

Anderson pointed out that the decision as to whether to have an excessive police presence at a given eventis not up to the Feds but up to the admin~ istration and Police Services.

Clubs director Rick Theis added that Feds is presently in the process ofloweringthe fee for clubs by half for those who book Fed Hallfor events or speakers. At the moment it costs aroufld

$500 for clubs, whereas non-university groups are obliged to pay around $2000.

Feds wants to encourage University of Waterloo clubs and organizations to use Fed Hall for their events and keep their proceedings on the UW campus. This is why Feds is trying to work dutthe costs with Police services.

When asked whether or not security measures where overdone. for Manji, RickTheis said that with every event there are three concerns: safety, cost, appearance. ''The last thingyou wands to walk into an event and see a dozen police officers [standing around watching you.1 Events should be welcoming as well as safe."

Mark Stratford IMPRINT STAFF

Universities/Colleges Members ofthe Ottawa police, fire andemergencysafetyteamswerecalled out to Carleton University on October 13 after a mysterious powder in a plastic bag was foUn~ on campus.

However, the mystery mix - which was tested for anthrax before the explosives unit arrived to make sure the material was not bomb-related turned out to be nothing more than a combination of sugar and flour, created as partofanengineeringprojectin which students attempted to construct the best solar-powered oven. An aerospace engineering student at Carleton eventuallycameforwardandadmitted to misplacing the substance. The charges for the investigation are expected to hit the university soon, ~th anofficialforCarletonsafetyprepating the school forwhatheexpectstobe"a hefty bill" A. ,~Nlill%'. , .

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has oc"e!l scouring multiple countries for surplus influenza vaccine (or "flu shots'') since they lost 48 million shots due to conmmination at a .British manufacturingplant-maypurchase the vaccine from ill Biomedi~ of Vancouver. FollO\vingdiscussions between U.S. officials andHealth Canada, the acting commissioner of the Food and DrugAdminisrmtion announced that the vaccine can be imported to the U.S. underthe guise ofan experimentaldtug. Meanwhile,Dr. SheelaBasrur, Ontario's chief Medical Officer of Health, has called it "the luck of the draw" that Canada can spare the vaccinewithoutfearofshortage. Noword yet on how Dubya feels about having to import more of our nasty, Third World-quality drugs.

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Architecture school hold official openingin Cambridge Stacy Morris SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

The new school of architecture building certainly puts the grand in grand opening. 'fhis $27 million project is opening its doors to the public this

weekend to showcase its new location.

OnFriday, October22 the school of architecture will commemorate the buildingopeningwith aribbon cutting ceremony at its new downtoV{O Cambridge location, 7 Melville StteetSouth.

The public is invited to a weekend open house to tour the new facility, which is the spectacularly renovated Riverside Silk Mill on the bank of the Grand River.

From noon until 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, individuals can take self-

The University of Waterloo's new school of architecture in Cambridge.

guided tours of the three-level, 85,000-square-foot facility which accommodates about 400 architecture students, faculty and staff. Hosts will be available to explain the school, the facilities and the program and 'tudent work will be on display.

Visitors will also be able to witoess a demonstration of advanced 3D digital models of the three core areas in Waterloo Region and a huge physical model of the Toronto waterfront.

The new school ofarchitecture will include a gallery built and operated by the Cambridge Libraries and Galleries, as well as a 70-seat cafe. B~th facilities are open to the general public.

The Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario each committed up to $4.1 million to the project. The City of Cambridge and the Cambridge Consortium, a group路 of local business leaders, committed the balance ofthe project's total cost of $27 million.

This is school's first semester in the new facilitywhichit chose forits beautifullocation, architectural design and spaciousness.

UW is proud to have its school of architecture recognized as one of the best in North America. This status is primarily due to the experience students gain through the co-op program. the school's focus on creativity, as well as its international opportUnities such studying at school's studio in Rome.

International Breast implants are not just for women anymore. Doctors in Shanghai, China arc seeing an increase in men seeking stiffsilicon implants as easy-access pectoral muscles, so they can impress women and even employers. Despite the rising popularity of breast implants among Chinese men,Liu Chunlongofthe Shanghai Ren' ai Hospital is quick to point out that "physical exercise can create the same effect and it is safer." He adds that the majority of men who undergo this surgery have psychological problems, and many of them blame their unhappiness on their saggingpecs. Ourcultures are so alike, it's scary.

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"Green Party in the Province of On~ 'grants and another successful yeat of Appatently someone has thesmarts tario. The Green movement, which supporting;local literary efforts includto get into Uhiversity but lacks the began in the 1970s, is based onppn:ing One. Book One Community, matUrity ,to see how,serious blood ciplessuch asnon-violence, participaWord on the Street and the Festivalof donatio!\: is. One unit of blood can tory democracy, social justice and ecoArt and Spirit. save up to three lives! Perhapsitwould logical wisdom. UW Greens willbe The evening will include refreshbe besi:u the thiefmade up 'for his error promotirig these values th~ough,edu~ t:llents,readings by literary stars from the by donating bloodatthe clinics. . (;ation, not just political action., ' Cana.dian: books thatsentthemoverthe ''The 'club is registered uflder the " . . moon, music and both live and silent Waterloo Unlimited unveiled Fe~erationofStudents;" said Darcy auctionsofone-of-a~kindliterarymemo­ Higgins; preside~toftheUw Grt.;eiis; AhewprogramattheUniversityof rabiliaandoth<;tglittetingobjects. TickWaterloo will help the most promis- . ets are $50 for one, or $75 for a pair.

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, TVa is looking for the.prpvince's ten~bst inspiring post~secondary lecturer~.Students, faCUlty, and alumni: we want to hear from you. , Which lecturer has opened your mind, inspired you to follow a field of study, or simply made you laugh or cry witha memorable talk? Whose classes would you never miss? The ten most innovatIve, entertaining, cbmpeHing lecturers persoriifying alolie of learning will be taped and featured on TVa's Big Ideas next seasQn. T.he winners will bethosen by a TVa-appointed jury.

To nominate your favourite, please send us 250 words describing the professor/ledurer and his or her field of study. What .unique arid dynamic elements make this lecturer standout? If possible, include a video or audio tape showing , . us your: star in action. '

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ESA: some Feds regulations

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"unkno~ngly'·'violatedat .events Continued from cover

Dan Bishop, secretary of the ESA" admits that"so~e of the Feds regula~ions had unkn9wingly been violated." ESA regrets the violations, but believes. that the nature ot the _term-long ~uspension was inappro~ priate, as it was placed on the- ESA without the abititytorepresentitselfin froIlt of the lAC." .

The revocation of club status for the.ESA has not stopped their desire' tbhold services. ''The ESA is financially incapable of renting Federation Hall at rate of $2,300 a nightto host its Monday event - known as 'The Eltlbassy:" said Bishop. .

"In response to the ESA's cur- • rent suspension, a local church has volunteered to book FederationHall on October 18 and 25 ·to host the Monday night event. It is not possible for the ESA to book its Monday night event as an outside organization, as the finances are simply not there."

The officiallyinter-<lenominational services area popular pastime for UW • students, as well as guests from Wilfrid Laurier University, Conestoga College' and the community-at-large.

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"Roughly45percentofthem[are] ''The Students' CoUncil supported the full-time University of Waterloo stu- . ESA's willingness,to make changes, dents," he added. and thus they directedtheESA a.n,d the Theis disputed that claim, as Feds lAC to work together on ll,resolurepresootativesattended the service.one . tion." weekandch~edforWatcar9~::-only­ The ESAis currendywor]ringon about one third of students rvere from an action plan to deal with,any outstanding concerns of the Feds,and they have already made. significant changes toits constitution and organiII[ESA's] tone at zational structure, andis, according to the recent council Bishop, "looking forward to meeting with the lAC to discuss"the details of meeti,ng·wasa a resolution."

180·degree':'ll\~· Theis was happy,to hear that ESA to work together with' Feds to wants erence ... diff " pursue its reinstatement. ''Their tone . -Rick Theis, at the [recent student's] council meetClubs director ingwas a 180-difference fro)n the tone of [their press reiease]. Infet~hatever you want aboqt why that is." tlte UniversitY ofWatetloo.

He continued; "I'm always here to ESA representatives came out to a talk with. They never exPressed the recent Students' Council meeting, desire'to discuss [the situation] ... where a motion was passed that read, until t!Ie press release ... ·.they were ''Be it resolved that the\Students' given a large amount of time to put Council directs the ESA club and ·the • [our sugge.stionslinto practice." . lAC to wol"k together to bring the The personal attacks on him by ESA clubtogood standing in accordESA notWithstanding, Theis continancewith established clubs procedure . ues to hope:! for a quick and peaceful y,~~"soo,n asreasonably,p9ll~,iplt7'~ ,ESA solution. '~£p.eq~!~~s:~support, tOOk issue not so mOth With the siis- there>saproced~tOtolbV:ltwasn't pension as with the length of the followed" suspension. ''We argued'that bemg suspended mjohnson@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

''Never trust anyone over 30;" ''Never trust !lnyone under 30."

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Young minds with fresh ideas are not hindered by a wealth of experience. In contrast, old minds have a wealth ofexperience and are typically set in their ways. Each se~prefers not to listen to the other since the other doesn't match the philosophy.

To a degree, we as university studentsviewhigh.sGhoolstudehtswith the" saltleattitude that our parents mightholdtowardus.Couldwehave even been so naive? Well, yes. We all were at one point, no ~tter how many times you thought that you were a grown-up person. Itisacreclit

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us with the same respect they might treat their colleagues, no"matter how crazy our ideas might have been.

Hare-brained though they may seem, it is from the youth of this worldthatourgreatideascome.Several years ago, the feel-good song, Everybo4J's Free (fo Wear Sunscreen) "made its rounds of the radio stations and Internet websites. The line that sti,cks with me is this one - ''Enjoy

no. one else might. Just think of unknown young· people like, oh, I . don't know, Bill G.ates or Craig Kielbergerwho have gone on to make theirmarkontheworld.MikeLazaridis, our chancellor, w~ well on his way to innovation and changing the world before he hit 30. Meanwhile, the rest of us have grind on through our studies.

The difficulty that we have as 00der-30year-olds,is thatwemustwork really hard to convince the minds that are over 30. The older minds, with the money and political power, hold the strings ofthis world. Convince them of yoUr cause, and the world is yours.

Otherwise, forgedt.

This fresh"-minded oudook, or perhaps flippant attitude, that the under-30s might have can easily be abused.Icanonlythinkoftheattic1ing law student Daniel Brown who re~ cendy convinced ~ Toronto justice of the peace towaive attaffic ticket on the basis of a technicality.

Mr. Brown argued that the ticket shouldbewaivedbecausetheoffending traffic signwasnotbi1ingua1 (though the offender did not speakFtench either).

Granted,..there is no record of Mr. Brown's age, but the hallmarks of an Utider~30arethere.Hehastakenafresh

approach to fighting a ttaffic ticket, using an obscure pottion ofthe traffic act to win his case. This is the kind of attitude that raises the ire of the! oVer';:' 3Os. An upst2ttwith a fresh approach that, were it to be universally applied,

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Patty Cook, waste management co- ·the university'S environment:ano inordinator for tJ:e OniversltyofW!ltercreasmgthe student Qfenvironmental 100, comme,nted that "waste is someawareness.

Waste Reduction Week will be taking thing people forget about ... but it's, ' . Canada's Waste Reduction Week is , place across ~anada from,October 18 still an,. issue.'~ , annUally run nation-wide by non-profit The amount ofwaste the UW proenvironmental organizations. Al- . to 24. This is-an eventwhichhas been duced in the 1986-87 school year was held ann~ally since 2001. The theme though the University ofWaterl<;>o is this year is "too good to waste."

2,974 tons. For 2002-03, UW pronot officially registered with Waste . Reduction Week, anyone can easily The University of Waterloo- duced 15,090 tons 6fwaste. . . The University of Waterloo Sustainabilicy Project (UWSP) had a sign up online. Companies, schools booth set up in the Great Hall of the Sustainability Project is a student run and individuals that are interested in Student Life Centre to promote awareorgacization that consists of student preserving the environment can regisnessofWasteReduction Week to UW volunteers from various programs: ter. students.

The UWSP offiCe is located in TheUWSP students at the booth room 3102 (top floor) in the Student cwilliams@imprint.uwaterloo.ca distributed recycling bins and infor- 'Llfe Centre. The group's formal mation on environmentally-friendly objectives are nJl!Ilerous, . alternatives such as compo sting and and involve imconservation. They also handed out proving recycling bins arid pamphlets outliningthe correct way to recycle.

"A lot of people think it's overwhelming and that it involves it big lifestyle change, but there's little things you cat) do to make a difference," said Bianca Sayan, co-facilitatorofUWSP's waste-management division.

Therewere also free tumbler mugs available for students. These were the , same mugs that will be available for sale lat~r at Brubaker's. -The promotion of these mugs during Waste Reduction Week is to encourage students to choose to utilize reusable or biodegradable cups as opposed to the wasteful cardboard and styrofoam cups that are provided in campus cafeterias.

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A new UW website www.cooprankings.com-has been . created, to aid co-op students. .Coop Rankings was launched on :May16,2004. The planning and devel- , opment of the website started in early March of this year. Two fourth-year electrical engineerirlg students are responsible for creating Coop Rllnkiogs - Tommy Rakic and Kevin Quan.

The ranking aspect of th,e website is, considered by the developers to be the mbst important. Students, canpos! which comp~es they ranked as their first, second or third choices. Then when,matches are tllade,other studeqts will know which jobs are takep.

This ~ay, students will not be wasting their nlJffiber one rankings on jobs thatart<alreadytaken. ' Students can. also offer *eir opip,.; ions about the jpbinterviews! what they were like and whem.er Qf.pot th~y thinkthejobisworlhgoingfor. Then students going into'fll;1wterviewfor that same company can be informed.

Rakic also said that a section on the websit~ for important co-op anc n~uncements is also in the works.· This section will keep the stUd~nts updated on information sessi()ns and " seminars by companies thathire co-op studeRts. 'We've already started contacting Ihe companies," said Rakic. .~J;website will also pt;~>vide ..a.q.

online community for students when they are away on a: co-op-rerm;including chat rooms 'and message boarq§ organized by location so that students will be able to find fellow studests in their area.

Coming,soon tQ th,e-website is a coor classifieds section. This w:ty, stude-nts going to the same area c~ know ',Vhat is available. This section should be operational by October 25.

Every cime a stttdenr' submits a ranking on the website, they will receive one ballot. Each ballot goes towards a daily draw for a pizza lJ,P.d a grand prize drawofanX-B()xand tWo games .. Subinissions .can· be in the form of ra~kings, interview notes, cla,ssifieds orparticipatingin co-op.

Coo!!, Rankings is in n~ way affiliated with the university.OlafNaese, communications lJ,P.d publkrelations ' with Co~operative Education and Career Services,J:~a.s no comp].aints about the website but approves oft4e seplt, _ ratio~frorn the university.

"It's a good thlngthat we're npt invoJvedif comments are not right-:'7 someone h~ to be blamed."

However, Rakic says thae'all parts of the website will bem,onitored, especially the ranking section."

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Millions of people are affected by ar:d .~ interested in American government . poliey.. Yet,fuwofthemactuallydebate Atneri<;an p?licy factually. -Instead of facts, the debate centfes on the people guiding American policy. Itis said for example thatBushis a lazy, elite-courting idiot or that Cheney is a corrupt oilman{ Even if these facts were true it .would still say litde about their policies.

So, what were PJ:esident Bush's policies? How good wete}ris policies economically, domesticillyand in~er­ nationally? On the economic front, the first Bush election was in the wake of the dot-com crash, which destroyed trillions of dollars of wealth and millions of jobs. 9/11 caused tniJhons of layoffs, but I don't think Bush could have prevented this. Inf!!.Ct,his administration responded to the bad economic devel!Jpment through a combination of tax cuts ana large increase in deficits, which is textbook economic policy. However,Bush alsomade some irresponsible economic.decisions that threaten to undermine his achievements. There's the budget deficits which seem to have no end.

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Secutityand foreign policy together are the largestandmosi: complicated of Bush's policy areas, which is perhaps the most important to those of us who arenotAmencan. He dumped the anti~ballistic mis~ile treaty with Russia. I think that was ~ good decision sftce the treaty was dearly designedfot; the Cold War. .

Would creatingagiantcentralized domestic security flgencyimprove se. curity? It,probaolywould, because it would centralize the resources and information involved in protecting the country. Aloqgside the DHS,we saw the Patriot Act that introduced limits on civil liberties. This, was controversial and for a good reason: it'sdifficulf to get the right trade-oft between freedom and security.

"Next41 the list ofiriitiatives came Afghanistan and the Taliban. Thanks to American bombs, al-Qaeda no , longer has a place to train terrorists.

That campaign also saw many alQaeda leaders eliminated, possibly even Osarila hirnself. In any case, Afghanistan j~st had its first election ever. The people who deserve credit for getting the ball roiling are Bush and the others who bombed the Taliban. Who said bombs don't bring democracy?

We now have a vigorous diplomatic effort aimep at stopping the Iranians from getting nUkes. Iraq now has a new government. Even the effect on North Korea was positive.

Soon thereafter, theyadmitred to violating their previous commitments, but eventually ~ed to participate in

a multilateral dialogue involving the Americ.ans and the Chinese.

The invasion.ofIraq is Bush's most contrqversial decision. In September I suggested why this invasion was both justified and integral to the war on terrorism.

I'd like to note two aspects of the war that are, in my opinion, often ignored.Firsdy, we may never know whetherIraq had WMDs. It could be thattheywere destroyed in the run-up, to the war. They might be 'hidden in Syria. Yet, the invasion has led to the disarmament, if not of lraq, then of Libya. On December 19, 2003 Iibya'sColonel Qaddafidecided to give tip his WMD, seeing Saddam's fate.

He mustnave considered Saddam his ''brother dictator."

Bush's foreign policies were radi-. cal. Yet, they also showed adaptability and willingness to use diplomacy (Iran and North Korea) or militaiy might, -when necessary (Afghanistan and Iraq).

Clearly, Bush~s policy.was notallabout bombs. In fact, one ofthe pillars ofhis policy, the so-called "New'Middle East" relies on democracy as an antidote to terrorism. ' Only time will tell whether those policies are successful. In addition, the administration made numerous grave mistakesthatput that success in more doubt. Yet, whether we flgtee or disa-· gree on these. methods, it would be better for all of us if the debate was factual, and not sensational. Whether George Bush gets another term or not, the decisions he made will continue to matrer long after he is gone. sgutfraind@imprint.uwatarloo.ca

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the presidential race,l couldn't help butteflect on September 11 since Duby~ seemed:to bring it up every three seconds. '.

When the planes hit the tWin toWj; ers I thought to myself that the U.S. would finally realize there are many in the world who hate, them very tnl.lch.

This realization, I hoped, would lead With all the talk about the US election , ofindependencefromBritairl,the terto some kindofaction to address this. ritorythatwould become Canada was going around, one thirlg.is apparent: After all, the attacks of 9/11 were all ofthe sudden there is nothingmore accepting British loyalists who wer~ horrific.HO'.y could the U.S. not ask fleeing the Americaalands. To this popular than hating America. "why would someone do this to us?"

Remember when it was onlyindie day, Canada still has rernruUIts of its Wen; I was wrohg. The response bands and guys' with Mohawks \yho history as a British colony;,-,;e stillh9:vc' , that George W. Bu~h elicited and was , subscribed to the kind of anti-estabtheGov~orGeneraltraipsingaround praised for,was a vow fbr revenge. A lishmetitviews that saw the U.S. as a spending taxpayers' money. dedication to bring those responsible Canada is like America's boring cultUrallyimperialistevilempire? Now for 9/11 to justice. He wasted no time it ~eems to be ail acceptable, main- older brother who still lives ~t )nom's launching an' offensive on Afghanistream sentiment that America is house. stan. This ~oun1;1;y did havea clear link " But Canada is not the onlfmaiket worthy to be deSpised. to 9/11, b~tthen~xtvictim ofBUsh's forruiti-Americanism. Moore's latest Green bay used to be a punk/pop tirade had no apparent link to it at all. icon in their own right, but their newfilmwonthePalmed'OrattheCannes Dubya; or more accurately those est album reeks of anti-Americanism.

Filin Festival this year and made al~o,,~'",0~:~:f1ep.~~~r~{:~s p~s$spdncanyBfishthat~ mos.t-<$-l M million ovel:lcls. 'Wliy:. is ope~m> ;;opatout uuS exp Day singles out, but their current sln~ there such a Willing market for us tion for the offensive on Iraq: after 9 / gle clearly characterizes the u.s. in a bashing?

11 the US bestowed upon itSelf the Since 9/11 anti-Americaru,.sm has • right to militarily pumm~l any poor 'certain waywhenitsays, ''Don'twanna b~,part of a redneck agenda." become more and more, popular.

George W: Bush's failure to amass 'An.-9,th~r example of the mainsupport for the "war on terror" and stt:eanlwrl-Americanism is Michael Moor~~s latest documentari~s. Bowling his choice to ignore the UN's disapjorColuinbineandFahrenheit9/ 11 were proval of preelllptive action in Iraq very critical of aspects ofAmerica and certainly didnotwin the U.S. ~ypoints in the ~ourt of public opinion. ' its culture. Both were box office hits.

Andwho ~an forget Rick Mercer's UnJ.ik,e other unpopular military undertakings,· such as Vietnam, the forayintothelari~ofthefree, where he spoke to everyday Americans and exwar on terror is a very public war, Itis posed how unaware and uniOtelligent true that Vietnamwas a war.thatplayed they were when it came to anything itself out on the evening news, but in beyond their own borders. No bne this curreht day and age CNN is no complained when this one hour spelonger the only source, ofinformation.

Ifwe, who benefit from closeness cialmade fun of the moronic qualities of] oe-America, it's a pretty common to the economic hegemon, feel this pastime to make light of our neighresentment toward the U:S., how must bours to the south. countries that are marginalized (ecoGranted,itis almost a c0t?erstone nomically, politically and culturally) by of Canadian culture'to dislike Ameriit feel? Capadians' anti-Americanism c~s,soitmightjustcomenaturallyto seems to be a superficial symptom of a larger problem. us. When~erica was figh~ga war

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fool who they deemed to be a "terror-ist." God only knows what is meant 'by this frequently overl!sedword, but it seems that a "terrorist" was anyone who could possibly hurt the U.S. in the future.

The result of 9/11 seems to be, in addition to the launchtngof an excuse to attack anyone who may possibly be a threat in the future, a focUsing of resentment on those perceived to be the enemy.

Dubyahas no problem with painting this issue as a black and white , situation. He taps into the emotions stirred by9 /11 to generate public support for his wars, but he also focuses the reaction to 9/11 into one of fear and resentment.

Why wouldn't people be afraid of being vulnerable after the attack of 2001 ?This is understandable. Dubya's ~ctions capitalize on this and depend on perpetuatifig this fear and hatred toward "the enemy."

But isn't fear, resentment and hatred what caused 9/11 in the first place? Rather than continuing on this cycleofhatred, woulditnot be wiser to address the source of it? ' What is certain is that we do not need more hatred. For example, in ~OOi; fmran Yousuf decided:to show his eight-year-old brother thatMus'lirris should not be afraid to be part of Canadian life after 9/11. He took his brother to the Daily Bread Food Bank

in Toronto and they volunteered together sorting food donations.

As TheGlobeandMailreported this Saturday, he found a bag of foodwith a message written on it: "None of this is to go to Muslims."

Likely, the message writer did not know anything about the Islamic faith.

They probably did not even Know a Muslim person. Yet they felt justified in attaching this message to. their donation.

In another example, TheEyeopener, Ryerson's independent student newspaper, reported that on the last day before the commencement of Ramadan, notes were slid under the doors of both the Muslim and Arab student associations on campus. Both noteswereidenticaldrawingsofawhite man expressing a death threat against "those who follow the Islamic faith!'

This occurred at a campus where the Toronto's police hate crime unit is already investigating several incidences of similar events happening in past months.

This hatred for Muslim peopl.e is wrong. And Dubya's,peipetuation of the fears and insecurities of9 /1ToXdy increases such hatred. Perhaps we should take guidance from another role tnodel.

-""'''''''''''' When Yousuf found the note on the food donatioh ~wa~ stunned, it took him monthstq:~t.overthe shock. His response to it was inspiring' and I think an example we should all follow.

He decided that he and his fellow Muslims /!hould .show community members what they were all about and participate in thetr commuriities. He began to organize food drives in To": ronto mosques. , Thus his confrontation with an-' other" person's hate brought out a , desire to increase awareness about the situation (between Muslims and nonMuslims) and to encourage Muslims to be active members in theircommunityratherthan shrink from the hatred that they sometimes encounter.

Can you imagine the difference if Yousuf had responded by vowing to find the message writer and bring them to justice? editor@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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lllllllilB Genocid~Awarehe;~ P~ed:As~1!d,bythe ~an1ole,man1 , writer, the word "genocide" does indeed mean The economy is in the tank; the economy is' To the editor, kilmig of 'genes, though this is,not always the • great He'saWarPresident,l:heriaPeacePresident context in which it is presented. Genocide is. SaddamHusseinhas stockpilesofbiologicalweapIn Canada, one of the greatest issues is electoral defined (by Dictionary.com) as the systematic and ons and then he doesn't' ·Saddam HuSsein haS p1aMedextenninationofanentire~tional,raciaI, links to al-Qaeda and then he doesn't have links reform. It doesn't sound as pressing as povertY, environment; education or health care, but it poijtical, or ethnic group. Each of these groups to al-Qaeda. He'dcatch Osatriadead or alive, then affects all of these and more in great ways: Out does not necessarily nave to have a distinct com-" • he doesn't worry much about him, and then he Parliarrientary system is seriously flawed when it . mon gene pool in order to be thevictitilofan act never said that Baathists can't be ingovernment party with 40 per cent or less of the vote can hold ofgenocide. In this case, this gtoupwdi;dd be that andmilitarypositions,and then they can. A 9/11 . ;.J neartotal powerandnotletothers have a say. Most of unbom huInan beings.

Commission shouldn't be created and then it other nations nave a form ofproportional repreThe Writer also claims that Gray failed to share should (and $20 says Kristen Breitweiser would sentation, which attempts to gn;e everyone a say. . what there is biolog1.callyabouta fetus tJilitshould slap you senseless forwritingwhatyou did). Bush In British Columbia, right now a Citizens' • make it considered alegal person. Well, by definirefused to speak with that committee; but then Assembly on Election Reform is deciding on tion, a fetus is not a legal person;-since a fe~ does would so J~ng as he didn't have 'to be honest in whatwould be the bestwayto elect its representa- . not have the legal'cipacity to represent its own tbeeyesofGod. America didn't need a Homeland tives. This will go to areferendum next year so the interestsinitsownname.Also'bythatdefinition,· SecurityDepartment and therthe cdatedone. 1'd an infant, a person in a coma or a person ofcertain go on, but I have to go drink away the memories people can decide.

Ail federal opposition parties support a citi- mentalinabilitywouldnot be alegai person either, . of my scatted childhood arid other emotional turbulence. . zens' assembly on electoral reform and the Bloc' sincetheywould be unable to complete these tasks and Conservative parties' have put forth amend~ther. In any these cases, they still have,a right By the way, actiot1man. Bush thoughtAmerica ments calling for consideration ofa citizens assemto life and SOme will eventUally fit this definition. shotildri'tnegotiate with North Korea. Why is bly. Fair Vote Canada is encouragingyou to write To comment on the Blct that a fetus should • the States offering them incentives now? your MP and ask thai they support this. Tell them 'have the right to subject a woman to the pain of that you believe in reform andit's important that childbirth, the woman may not alWays desire the ~Joe Nethery they do too. Your Kitchener-Waterloo MP, presence of the fetus insk\e her body, but that . 4A planning Andrew Teledgi, can be reached at, doesn't mean it's the fetus' fault for being there.

TelegdiA@parl.gc.ca Unless you'reinferti.1e, there's always a chanc~ of . Anonyrnouswriterspieasestand'upl pregnancy following sex and if you can't accept You can also send the email to liberal House Leader,TonyValeri, at Valeri.T@parl.gc.ca ' that, there are always alternatives.

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-l)arry Higgins -KevinRedmond I don't know which article the 'anonymous letter MERS JA science writer in the October 15 issue is referring to, but the only people quoted in <'Pro life Speaker Stirs What makes a person?

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Debate" were the speaker, an organizer, and Rick Theis, who did not attend the debate. Two other audience members wefu menti6n~d, one Who To the editor, To the editor, declined to identifY herself to Imprint. , Tom Levesque; I want some of that increasingly 'Iftheanonymousaudiencememberisalsothe I amreplyingtotheletterto theeditorinlastweek's ,Imprinttitled ''Pro-choice perspective." Thewriter legalized stuff you're smoking f'Dam Republi- writer ofthe letter: your strong protests to Gray's " presentation cqultl not go Unmentioned in the was writing to clatifystatements thathe/shemade cans," Oct. 15,2004).

Bush as a resolute, stan4 firm'leader? 'Holy story. However, in choositi~, to remain, anonyat Stephanie Gray's OctGber 4th Lecture on the More people to the power!

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mQus when others did not, it was difficult to justify prominently featuring your arguments; anonymous sources lose credibility.

Instead of identifying yourself, you chose to write a letter, 'claiming your co~ents were trivialized. Next time, I suggest speaking to the jounialist who wants to write ,a balanced report about both sides of a debate.

- Christine Loureiro 3Barts I disagree with Byron

To the editor, We seem to be bombarded by a particular question this week by the Campus Crusade (or Christ (CCC). That question is ''Do you agree with Byron?" The CCChas taken it upon themselves to ask us, this by scrawling the question on every surface they can find around campus. It turns out that Byron is a third year environment and resource ~tudies student who has put up a manifesto of sorts on the CCC web site: Actually it's a "Statement ofFaith." I justwantto say that I don't ~ewith Byron. Actually Byron doesn't ask any questions on his so called "statement." It's just a , collection of random and confusing statements.

I really don't understand why all these campus faith basedgroupshavetheau~tyand the nerve to come here to proselytize. I don't care!

Ifyouwanttofindyourselfbyexaminingyour relationship with some fantasy sky god, do it on your own time and in church (or whatever temple yO? fancy).J?o ~ a fav:ourll1?-d stop shoving your beliefs dowtpour throats. Som.e of uS rlltiOrua . human beings have midterms and assignments to go through.

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campus po4cecor security is when these acts of vandalism occur. I am referring to the ~etter To the editor, written by Sherry Bei).regardingwhat apparendy ." take;! place ·after .the Wednesday night Bombshelter.ac;tivities. She seems to iQdicate Last.weekMarkJohnsonwrote anarticlecriticizing shows like Crosffire to finally get tough with anti-Islam bias in the media. While. that ,:::riticism that nobody is listening or watchinS. . ;, politicians:to be a friend to the public rather than may very well be justified whatwas not justified , Why is this? I ~an't believe that the incidents the messengers of spin for the politicians, of in his article was the unsubstantiated assertion sh¢isreferringt(» toiletplugging,garblJ.ge thrown, . whichever stripe. The anchors could not seem to s<;<;urity blockades being dismanded, etc., goes that the med,ia is ''Pro-Jewish.'' direcdyaddress Stewart's concems, acknowledge By making this comment, Johnson - who completely unnoticed by th~ campus police or the problem, o.r even defend themselves. Inhappens to be affiliated with the pro--palestinian . security. If indeed it is, then somebody is o<)t stead, they attacked Stewart's joumalisticprowmovement at our campus ---'- shows once again doingtheirjobtopro~ecttheotherresponsible As a regular viewer ofJon Stewart's The DailY ess. I repeat, Stewart'sjournalisticprowess. how many in the pro-Palestinian camp miss the s1Udents who aregomg to the shelter for a night Show,I w~s plenty interested tohearthatStewait The anchors, supposedly genuine newspointwhen it comes to whyJews are legitimately of fun. ifstUden~are really doing this d~ guested on CNN's Cro.fl.fire last Friday. 'men, were attacking Stewart, a comedian, for not and are caught then I believe they should be Having observed Stewart ~terviewed on a concemed aboutanti-J ewish septimentinNorth ~g a good enough newJ7lIan. Stewart's rather America. For much ofJohnson's articlehiscriti- " arrested the same way as ifthey-were off-campus number of shows, the one that stuck Qutwas his stunned reaction was that he was not a newscism Was concentrated on the Evangelical Chrisdoing the same damage. segment on Ted Koppel's Nightline, the last man, his role was to entertain - the newsmen tian elements ofwestem media. While this is not The parents responsible for raising such irrenight of th!! Democratic National Convention. should be newsmen, and leave the spinning to the only place ih Westernmediawhereanti-Jewish sponsible adults (age of~jority for drinking is On that night, it was made abundandy clear to the spinners and the entertaining to the entersentiment can be found, it is one of the most 19, isn't it?) should be a~hamed of themselves me that even respected and inte1ligent news tainers- not be willing lapdogs to either the for not doing their jobs too. Everyone needs to prominent making it even more astounding that anchors don't quite understand Stewart's conright or the left. " Johnsorimissedit Ifhe had opened his eyes alittle take along hard lookat their partin all of this but cern with the media. . , -~t this point, the newsm~ took a different don't take lJ.way the rights of the responsible to ' That night, Koppel interviewed Stewart and widerhecouldhaverememberedafewyears back tact, tryingto guide Stewartback to the acceptable have a night of fun. . made clear his unease that so many young whenpopularTVReverendJerry Falwen went as rolc> he was supposed to fill during this segment faras to declare thattheAnti-Christis alive, and on people get their news from The DailY Show 'that of light-hearted funny-man, but Stewart earthintheformofaJewishman:Morerecendy, -Kathleen Lang rather than a ''legitimate'' news source. Koppel woulp have none of it ~ ''1 won't be your Parent . opined that Stewart's show is not hard .news ifhepaid attention,Johnson could haVe heard Pat monkey." " Robertson the host ofFox's 700 clubpart.;with the budnsteadaboutmakingpeoplelaugh. Stewart Coip,cidentally, onNightline Stewart had used agreed that his show is comedy, but that one of . the same word to. describe hirpself - "I know . pastwhenheespousedJewish conspiracy theories the reasons people to slap .the Jewj.sh religion in the face with his myplace, I'mjustthe dancTo'the editor, watcheditis becau~e, aside n~oundacceptance bydeclaringthat"theJews ingmonkey... allI Can do from the laughS, it's doare sta.rt:fugto acceptJesUs," as though theJewish is point and say 'look!'"

While, he"l1 be a WeWomenCentte types reallyanno.yyou,huh? ing some small part of the people are finally realizing their religion to be Stewart's point was that incorrect and en masse jumpingaboard the proper Here you are, ttymgto run a nice, fun little paper, job the mainstream ne~s while he'll be a monkey, monkey, he'll be a boat Looking outside the evangeIicalmedia,Mark media is supposed to be dotrying to be a bit edgy (JIiow, swear words and it'll be amonkeyinservice monkey in service to might remember several months back when toilet hUm~ur in a school newspaper, Mom!) ing, which is calling out to thepuhlicrather than to politicians when they misAdbusters founder KaIleLasn dedicate4afeature and we just can't stop complaining. a candidate or party. the public. direc~ use nnsavoury tac~.~~eentided~~WQn'tAnyoneSlJ.}l ,), WeJl,it'sgearlH9lst;of''l99~for!lfigh):'' Watching",these"~." tics and downright lie. , They areJewish," an old-styleJewish conspiracy , femmistS who cari'tpick their battles. Our"spiii changes reaJly broughtout the wheel, get labeled by Heramb" protest It w:as, telling that theory complete with a list of names ,with stars some of the key probKoppel's response was.thatStewart needed to next to them. 'These are just some of many couldn't possibly have been just trying to open lems wicli the media today: there is this strange understand the difference between "fact" and a discussion in a crf'!ative way (though perhaps possible eX¥TIples, So Johns'on to answer the bond between party and networkl anchor, makavid readers ofImprintsee a letter ~ the paper as "truth": that "fact" is what's said, verbatim, ~n ing it no longer about faithfulness to the truth, question you masqueraded as fact, t?-o the media the be all and end all ofeffective communication' if it's a lie, while "truth" has to do with the is not 'Pro-Jewish,' and if you had bothered to but instead about faithfulness to a party or look where you were alre'ady looking you would and creative resistance), or trying to break out of underlying validity of the. statement. Koppel politician. Watching Stewart's genuine frustrahave realized that the whole 'whiny feminist screechy letterwriters' argued that the news media isn't in the business tion at the process really illusttateda fundamen~ shtick, or hav:e sQme sort pf hap~ that ., of telling truths, but in the business of "facts"; tal flaw in trying to' bring about change in the '--DavidMandeliJs they are just the messengers, nottheinterpret€rs. made people come together (it was truly: a tranmedia - it's never going to happen from the • 3B math and economics scendentmomentwhen we were all arguing and On this, the current state of the media, the , inside. laughing and teasing and joking and talking and· two men agreed. Stew.F .s frusttatiOll. had t~ do Just like campaign finance reform for politi: Team Impnnt: Willingly Profane lea.roirlgout there in front of rpeImpnntofflce... . with the. fact that the public needs the media to cians, getting the media to il.dmittheir failings '. fill tha~l'~le; to call o~t untruths rather than just and become a frieridto;the public is not going to too. bad no staffer tho~t to cover it.

To the editor, Guessrealnews, espe(:iallynews criticalofthe repeat ad fl!I.us~um the spin and i:aIkingpoints of happen from themstde.'It's only going to hapthan Imprintwarm. to the day: . news source, is ju~t pen through audienCeootcry.

Ihave j'llstfinished reading the article printed last take on), or raise alittle school spirit, or just have These same points,albeit with a larger audiAudiences have got to start demanding more Friday about Team America: World Police. I am ence (over the net, after the show aired and word fun wd make a pomt because that\'\Tould make from their news 'media and start supporting, via . got out) and with much less civility, were' conlJ.ppalled that suchlangullge was allowed to grace us the opposite of what you stereotype Us as viewership, news' ~hows that ate o.n ·their side, the p~s of Imprint. I certainly hope the author veyedon Crosffire this past Friday. bumbling, misguid~ femitljstswho take eVerywilling to forgo the big interviews and access to While much of the coverageop the event is not actually pursuing a career in jO\lffialism thing so seriously. ' power figures in favoUr of reporting the truth. , And you think·\ve. embarassed ourselves! because those words would not b~found on the focused 'on a particular word Stewart used to For this to happen, not only ~ the media, Maybe you shol.il.d be embarrassed: if you describe host Tucker Carlson, and on an aruilysis pages of the National Postor the Toronto Star. It have toletgo oftheir blind faith in politicians and always amazes me that people have come to use , thought that that protest was all about whining, ofStewart's personal choice ofcandidate, hardly ~oveofspin, sowillwe as audien~es-areweup to it? ' . complaining and misguided militancy; then you the f-word as an adjective; are there no other any attention hasheen paid to whatStewll,rtwas missed some essential facts and context relevant :words in their vocabuJ.ary? It's,good to know trying to discuss withtl'le Crosffire hosts. that this posHecondaiy education is being put to your editorial. , Stewartllgainre-iterated, begged, pleaded with sl'yvvang@imprint~uwa!~,~~(l..c.a .Here they are- we chos~ our battle and we to good use, Yes I am aware of the contents of the movie, and.yes I am awar~ of the <:ontext of think we were successful: we raised awareness freedom of speech, however, a sch,ool paper is andletourvoices be heard, did not take ourselves not the place for vulgarity. That's 'the sort of too seriously, had grace and dignity (we did not htnguage l expect to hearcommg from a football attack Heramb personally at any time, even when he and his friends set us up and playfully goaded locker-room. Needlessto say I think a: dictionary NIlX\' W8lNIiSQAr <X:It.IElt'Z1 .. til 'IHlU'!iOSJ'$IlOUtiO" G;WGEI)~ may be needed in ord~r to replace the; f-word us), had an, incredible dialogue, made people WIIfoJQII,IIf(~IfA1S&IIlOGII!SSa>OtffOAN!I'.H'OI'-'aec:mo& phenomenon so thatwe can be exposed toweJl- 'laugh with us and not against us, stirred up some ~.I!OP..t.1!W~&f1ECIIOQNltf... ~ ·~ .. ·ftmIIH written articles and not street~talk ttash. school spirit, and even sucked Heramb into the 1NS1IUIiIlAY0CI0lIIiit21 .~«M'!l!Jlf()R1tIimu:OFMiSS whole drama(a mighty fine performance, my ~""~~N:.U.llEIM!MNGWEAA.TAl!Nr;

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Music from Mao

Beware: the music industry is being invaded by communists. I'm not talking about closet communists, hippies or little old ladies. These people are the real thing. ' In a recent speech, Andrew Orlowski, a little-known writer from th~ U .K., reflected whatI consider to be a scary opinion developing amongst music consumers everywhere. He thinks that music should be a "free" service.

J\1usic is currently monetized through CD· sales, concerts and so on. But as technology makes it easier to share music, fewer people are aoquiting it directly from. the recording' industry. It's an unstoppable wend. " The question is how to successfully monetize music.

One answer is something called Digital Rights Management (D!U'1)., The idea is that if you cannot share music with others, the "others" will have to go back to the recording industry to. obtain their music. It sounds reasonable, but in reality it goes against the basic philosophy of the Internet and mobile technology and puts limitations on a whole world of other possibilities. .

I, for one, hav:e no idea which solution is best for the lqng term. I have my own ideas that are beyond the scope of this article. But I do know which ones will not work.

The communist consumers have two ideas. The first is that music downloads shoul<1 be allowed to run rampant. The iecording industry should back off and allow this to happen because they will still make money from concerts, CD sales and

other ventures.

Hold on to your pants, I'm going to tell you a secret: those artists and bands you love and the industry that supports ~em are not driven by treehuggers or starving children on TV commercials. They want monry.

Any executive who ~alues his or her. job will not bring a proposal to shareholders, board members or venture capitalists that involves giving free music to everyone, everywhere be• cause it would be nice. ' Communists ,like Orlowski have expanded on thisidett, suggesting that everyone pay a music tax to the government. The tax would then be redistributed to the recording industry. Shareholders might be able to swallow this one a little easier. At least there is mosey involved. . Unfortunately this "improved" system does not allow for growth.

Companies are not looking for static yearly payments; they want yearly payments proportional to sales. Far more importat;ttly,Orlowski's proposal ties the profit of a corporation directly to the whims of politicians. It's a corporate death trap.

D~n't get me wrong':"":" I would . like to have freely available, freely sharable music as much as the next naive consumer.

I would also like world peace and little stand-up booths where I can plug in my right hand to get a warmaIld-fuzzy communist buzz located at every str~et corner and near ev.ety lineup for government-provided potatoes and bread.

The difference is this: I acknowledge that such things are simp'ly not feasible. Commurusm does not work.

The Soviets proved it, the Chinese are learning it and Castro will die before he gets it. Let's fInd a music distribution model that makes sense for capitalists and consumers alike. talevesq@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Legislat~rs

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2004

gone, wild.

Checking out the new babe sel~~tion on Parliament Hill· lish, the Bloc Q~ebecois also boasts morCi: thrilled to see her in my... some great-looking politicians. My Well, never mind.

- personal favourite is 34-year-old Heritage Minister Liza F rulla, alCaroline St-Hilaire, a veteran MP though she's getting on in years (55), and goddess liament Hill's Sexiest still has a pice, firm body and is a Female MP on more than one occa- . spellbinding gift to the Bouse of sion.

Commons. Frulla, like a lot of the The Liberals have their share of hotties in Parliament, represents a Have you taken a look at boatload of cute women, although I'm sorry to Montreal-area riding. new MPs to hit Ottawa recently? I Still more MPs are fairly cute as never thought I'd have anything well: ~enRedman from Kitchener . positive to say about the (let's be Centre, Paddy Torsney from The Liberals have honest) slightly fascist Conservative Burlington, Nina Grewal from VanParty of Canada, but they've sent couver, and several others. their share of cltte some defInite hotties to Ottawa, Now, we guys have another area women, although and I must say, i'm grateful. ofopportunity besides just the sweet Tne new array of. "eye candy" women.....:.. homosexual men! The ~'m sorry to say politicians is led, of course, by the hot guy situation in the House o~ gorgeous, voluptuous and illthy rich Commons took a dive with the blonde "yummy mummy" Belinda downfall of attractive Vancouverite went down in Stronach. Curse Stephen Harper for and long"time gay rights advocate defeat on defeating Belinda for the Conserva, Svend Robinson. tive leadership she'd be a far No:wadays, 1'd say the cutest guy Election Day. more attractive leader of the oppo-who happens tobe openly gaysition! ~ in the House is former Conserva,- Strqnachis Toronto's finest oftive, now liberal Public Works Minfering to this 38th Parliament. I can say th,at some went dqwn in defeat' ister Scott Brison. Although, a rightthink of quite a few things I'd like to on Election Day. Not to worry- wing neo-conservative, he's quite' . do to Belirida -,-voting for her is not we're still doing fine! . progressive on social'policyand this one of them.'

Wehave forro'er deputy speaker gives him a certain desirability.

Accompanying this hot blonde Eleni Bakopanos, a Greek sweetie Although the female MPs have in the Conservative caucus is a pair from Montreal. Sarmite Bulte, a stun- my tongue wagging, I defInitely of totally dazzling backbenchers. ning Latvian from Toronto, is a fIne wouldn't say no to Mr. Brison!

Helena Guergis from Simcoe and blonde as.well as a sexy lefty! _ So, never fear-question period Rona Ambrpse from Edmonton !The biggest electoral gain of the will def~tely be an enjoyable experu;e aknee-bu<:klingsightwhose presliberalPartytbis year had to be former , qenee this parliamentary sessiqn. Stay ence deftnitely brightens up the typiIndian beauty queen Ruby Dhalla, a tuned, and be sure to "rise to attencally grumpy faces of the jaw-dropping divine figure who hails tion" for the new hotries on Parlia~ curmudgeons in the Conservative from Brampton. As one who greatly mentHill!

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2004

The institution of marriage: they're gonna do what?

Recap: last \,veek, 1 o~ltlin·ed the reasons behind why Canada is currently undergoing a major upheaval \vithin our social and legal systems.

The legality of same-sex marriage is .in front of the Supreme Court, and this simple fact has caused many groups with various aftiliations (religious, social, and otherwise) to begin squaring off against one another: this week, I present·a critique of some of lhe arguments thatI have heard against changing our society' s laws. .

But first, a disclaimer of sorts: let me say now that I am not an overtly religious person, and \vhile I have no mainstream affiliations whatsoever, ] am neither agnostic nor al) atheist. J\1any of those groups who are the most-vehemently opposed to same-sex marriages have significant religious ties.

Understand that while T am opposed to their position, 1 am not trying to lay blame upon any single religiops group or call their beliefs into Lluestion. People have the right to freedom of religion, and I stand that. If arll'one takes offence to whatever 1 sal' in these articles in regards to religion, it is not intentional.

One of the more freqw.:nt arguments that I have heard is that the legalization of same-sex marriages would lead to the eventuallegalization of polygamy, incestuous marriages, pedophilic marriages or a union between a person and their barn animal of choice.

Now, while I have heard this claliTI many times, I have not once heard a reason as to why, in our "enl1ghtened" culture, our entire

society, would sudderth'. send itself plunging into the abyss in such a way.

Pedophilia and wophilia are both i1legalpra~tices in this country and, according to constitutional lawyer . Ritu Khullar, in no way could either group be seen as, "t/ historica/fy disadvantaged group that is either idetltified in tbe [Charter qlRights and Freedoms] or simi/ar to tlie J!,roup ... identified in the chatta:," as gays, lesbians, and 'bisexuals are.

Meanwhile, incest and polygamy are both highly taboo in our society, ho\vever are not outright illegal; there have been cases of marriages recognized between first cousins, and some religious views of polygamy differ, making it into a messy freedom of religion argument.

However, I cannot see how allowing two consenting adults of the san1e gender to marry one another would lead to shattering the social taboos surrounding inces t or polygamy and cause their legalization.

Other arguments focus on the relationships themselves, stating that marriage'S purposeis to create a family, a caring atmosphere to raise achild.

Firstlv, they say that since samesex couples cannot have chiLdren, the relationship is invalid, not worthy of being officially recognized under law; secondly, that a same-sex household is a negative atmosphere in which to raise a child becmise a proper family requires both a mother and father.

I am sure, first of all, that just about everyone of you can think of someone you know, either a nextdoor neighbour, or your aunt and uncle, who have been happily married for years, yet never had children of their own to raise.

Are their marriages less valid because of that?

A single parent household is a highly difficult thing to manage, but are those children loved any less?

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Numerous doctors and respected psychologists have come forward saying that children raised in samesex households are no worse off for it, and that the sexuality of the parents in n() way effects the sexuality of the children.

TVIany religious groups have been quoted as saying that by opposing same-sex marriage, they are preserving the sanctity of marriage, and that· without this institution preserved, societyv,;illcrumble. Unfortunately, I'm sad to say that marriage is already in a desperate need of help. \'{!ith a divorce rate of nearly 50 per cent, celebrity whirlwind 55-hour marriages in Vegas, and such morally inspiring television shows as "For Love or Moncy?" or "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancee," marriage is in a long downward spiraL If things like this

aren't causing our society to fall apart, then allowing a devoted same"sex couple of25 yeats to finally be married in the eyes of the la\1: could do nothing but reinforce the crumbling social institution.

Now, I don't want to give the impression that every argument against cl;anging the state 'of marriage is bogus or invalid, because this is not the case. The two valid arguments that I have heard so far are also the most obvious.

Primarily, the religious state of marriage should not be changed because itwi11 force it religious group·

to, change its belief structures. Tam a hypocrite, and since 1 do n01 'want other people's religious view, forced upon me, neither would] \vant to force my own beliefs UpOl' them. Secondly, aUO\ving same-se]l marriages would lead to "marriage, of convenience," two people hitch· ing up to reap the benefits that come out of the arrangement.

The firs t problem is the easiest tc solve. \vriting into law a provisior stating that no religion, religiow group, or church would be forcec into recognizing a same-sex mar· riage if doing so cont1ict~d with in belief structure would protectth( freedom of religion in this country The second problem, however, i~ not so simple ... but this is not a ne\\ problem.

People already do this to secure citizenship or a green card in the U.s. and I'm sure there are probably a fe" relationships out there that exi, t onl~ because they can save a fair chunk b tax when April comes around. I don' know hO'\v we wm prevent this, bu it is crucial that ~we do. \\ie all understand that mar riage is important (which shoulc be ob\'ious from how strongl~ we are fighting to be a part of it and we don't ,vant to cheapen wha we are fighting so hard for. :"brriage is a sacred thing, I agree but allowing gays, lesbians and hi sexuals to join the straightmajotit1 won't change this fact. That \vi11 h< the argument for next week. not

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I t can't be most movies, because The reason for chopping my perthere are one or 1:\,VO DVD sets semest~r course load was simplewhich still cost around $25 dollars I wanted better grades in schoY)I, and to buy (Garfield the movie, for exI thought that fewer classes would ample, costs $24.99 for 1 disc). TV . mean more time to study per course. show season sets are definitely How wrong I was in that assumpcheaper. tion.

There arc discrepancies hen~you If a DVD costs $24.99 regular should watch for. For example, each price and it suddenly drops in pric<; season of Af/gel and Bilib the tFdl!lto $14.99, consumers will be more pire Slayer (both one hom shows than happy to buy at t\:tat price. If and 6 DVDs per season) costS59.99, the store suddenly brings the price whichis $10 per DVD. back up to $24.99, consumer will be On the other hand, Season Two mad and refuse to buy the DVD, o f1fl Li!!it{I( c.()/or(a 4 DVD set) cos ts having seen the former $14.99 price $45.99 - which is $11.50 per CD tag.

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individual artist and to what extent?" Can a single artist one day make a movie like The Malr'iXr How can we push beyond the limits that Animationisn't just for kids. Anyonewhowatches , exist today? The Tidbits f1lms may be dwarf~d The Simpsons or FfI1lIify G'9'will attest to that. But in budget or ambition by the feature filins of the World Cinema program, but the drive and the does anyone realize howttue that statement really is or how far animation can go as a narrative dedication of the artists behind the Tidbits filins are unmatched and the filins are the more remedium? Can an animated drarna make us weep? markable for it.

Can an animated sci-fi make us gasp in wonder and think about the meaning of what it is to be New this year is the Midnight Madness prohuman?' gram, to be shown October 29 at midnight ~ Yes. Yes. And yes. threefilinsthat are just a bit wilder than normal, The fourth annual Waterloo Festival for thtee filins for the price ofone. And, as a special Animated Cinema (WFAC), running October tribute to Canada's place in animation history, 27 -30, brings some of these ftlrns from around there will be a very rare screening of Rock & Rule, the world right to our doorsteps. Beginning in the 1983 Canadian animated feature film that still 2001 as a review of] apanese anirne f1lms, the stands up today with its verve.

Special guests at the Festival are Mr. Morita festival's program has gone international and Shuhei and Mr. Sajiki Daisuke, who created the now includes a rare opportunity to see productions from Russia, the U.K., France, Hong Tidbits world premiere Kakurenbo, as well as Kong, Korea,] apan and even Zimbabwe-all numerous in-game animated filins for Rockman on,the big screen, exactly how they're supposed Xl and other popular games. Also coming to the festival is Mr. Brett Ingram, who directed !abe seen. From the quirky Canadian premiere McDufl, Prince de la Bun - a cynical fable of the Munster Road, a documentary about legendary angst of Hong Kong life ..,.,- to Appleseed and claymation animator Bruce Bickford, who worked Steamboy, two state-of-the-art]apanese anime his magic for Frank Zappa in the 1970s. ftlrns, the festival is the only place you can see The films will be playing at Galaxy Cinema at these ftlrns. See them big, the way they're supConestoga Mall on October 27 and 28 and at the posed to be seen, with their original voice cast new Princess Twin Cinemas on October 29 and and subtitled in English.

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Shall We Dance?

Peter Che/som Miramax

Shall We Dance? is one of those nice forgettable movies that's not bad to sit thtough but will certainly not make anyone's top 100 list this, or any other, year.

A remake of the 1996] apanese filin Shall We Dance?, this romantic comedy has its moments, both good and bad. It's mildly pleasant but nothing to rave about, kind oflike a sugar cookie.

Not having seen the original] apanese version, I can't compare the two-what I can say is thatthis movie anyway, is a pleasant romantic comedy that takes place in the amateur ballroom dance world with all of its spandex, sequins and selftanning lotion.

Right up front, one gqod thing about this movie is that it's not a] ennifer Lopez vehicle, whatever you may think from the commercials.

Now, I'm not an avid J-Lo basher, but I heaved a sigh ofreliefwhen I realized faitly early on that this movie was not another The Wedding Planner.

In fact,J-Lo is just one of many in an ensemble cast - though she does get a few mini melodramatic speeches.

Shall We Dance?revolves around] ohn Clarke (Richard Gere), a man who has what seems like theperfectlife-theperfectmatriagewithawife he's still in love with, a grown daughter and a good job - but something's missing. ] ohn rides the train every day after work and sees through his window the same forlorn face of Paulina Oennifer Lopez) as the train chugs past her building. On impulse one day, he gets off the train in search ofher- perhaps she's that something missing? He winds up at Miss Mitzi's dance school, a small operation specializing in teaching ballroom dance and thus his adventure begins.

There's really nothing memorable about this filin, but it's a pleasant ride with some chuckles along the way and good performances by the many supporting actors who play sweet characters. Stanley Tucci is entertaining as John's coworker, a closeted straight ballroom artiste. As' the long-suffering dance teacher Miss Mitzi,Anita Gillette is delightful as she,swjgspitience from her secret flask befor~ facin&: arlDJher begiri!!e.t~:. class with a big smile. 路Omar Miller" as. Vernrthe overweight man. learning to dance to!:;'his,gitl, . does a good job filling the role of the stumbling fish in the obligatory fish-out-of-water scenes in the dance studio. Bobby Cannavale, as Chic, is the mildly homophobic young stud learning to dance so he can score. Chic gets a few good lines like this one (while practising with] ohn) - "If your. hand moves beyond the equator, I'll kick your nuts in." Lisa Ann Walter plays the sole female student in the joint, Bobbi, a.k.a."the Bobbinator," who's the loud-mouth, blonde, aged bimbo / gossip who turns out to be slightly more than meets the eye. Richard] enkins plays the un,gg,standipg, surprisingly un-seedy; (tke. .~an;s practically seedl~ss), compasslonat~ p'd::路 vate dick who aids John's wife Beverly, played " credibly by Susan Sarandon.

To its credit, Shall We Dance? does have a few touching moments, such as Beverly's speech about marriage. This movie also manages to avoid the landrnine of the stereotypical hysterical suspicious movie-wife - Beverly's written smarter than that (i.e. there were no over-reactions to innocent photos of one'shusband-in-the-arms-of-another-woman moments). It's th~ kind of movie that's a nice reprieve from thinking too hard but just smart enough to not smack you in the head with too much idiocy.

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This album follow-up marksMos Def's widely anticipated return to hip hop. Not that he ever really left, but while most artists in this arena drop another watered-down album on us each year (Talib Kweli with thteesince Black Star), Mos Defhas remained mostly unseen by the hip hop community. A handful of singles served as kindling to the fire first set by BlackStar and fueled by the explosive Black on Both Sides.

You see, Mos Def has been stepping up his Hollywoodgame. Notthathe's any stranger to the camera, with TV appearances datingback to 1988.

Long before anyone knew he could even freestyle, Mos Defhad beengettinghis acton. After making a name for his music, he appearedinacclaimed film Monster'sBalI, followed the next year by BrownSugar.

After thathe landed amore centralrolein Theltalian Job opposite Edward Notton, Charlize Theron and rap superstar Marky Mark. However, his most impressive and substanclalmovie appearance is still unreleased. In the remake of Hitchhiker's Guide to The Gala:>g Mos Def will co-star as intergalactic researcherFordPrefect Down from. the stars, Mos Def and The New Danger focus on pressing issues, namely the new danger posed to the world in recent years. An angrier record than Black on Both Sides, Mos Def delivers with potency; this is the. best hip hop album I've heard in a while.

For starters, Mos Defis back with his smooth passionate ballads, the second last track ''The Beggar" showing Mos Def's talent for acting.

Along with the jiggy staples on this record are

other tracks that show us that this rapper comes in more than just a few flavours.

Tracks like "Life Is Real" and "Sunshine" show us that Mos Def can still write catchy, lovable hip hop, but we also see a much angrier side to this man. With musical licks lifted straight from such greats as Barry White and Grandmaster Flash, this album respects its ancestry while venturing in still new directions.

"Freaky Black Greetings" welcomes us into the new world order of thtashing power chords de la Rocha, funkier-than-thou synth bass and Mas Deftellingus to "Rock wit' it like this." The guitar is back in full melodic distopia in the next track, 'Ghetto Rock, "but this time it's accompanied by a more familiar Mos Def, confidently spitting his hard rap up in your ear.

By the time we hear the B.B. King-reminiscent blues guitarriffin ''Blue Black]ack" we know that our little Mos has delivered again. Since Black Stardefined his voice to the public, he has stayed true to his sound. This notion is only confirmed by the supreme funk dripping from the next sorig, ''Bedstuy Parade & Funeral March," an almost entirely instrumental interlude to the album.

Fromstatttofinish, TheNewDangerisabreath of political fresh ait into the scene. While the current state of hip hop is so polluted with garbage, Mos Def keeps his shit fresher than Tupperware could ever hope to. If you're ever wondering what conscious hip hop is then ask yourself what it's conscious of. With lyrics like "Hey little soldier is you ready for war, but don't ask what you fighting for," and later telling people strait up that war is a global economic phenomenon, Mos Def shows us that he's paying attention too.

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Head, heart, lungs and content Matthew Good doing what he does best - speaking his ~d no business being there," Good goes wel~are sys·tem. How many people further to adressingtl:ie missile defense , with mental'illness are turned away debate by asking, ~'\XIhy should we into the streets and nobody gives a buy into an American weapons sysshit about them. It's all based on It's 2:15 on ll: Friday afternoon and Matthew Good is just waking .up tem that i~ going to cost Canadians greed. Lower taxes, lower taxes!" such is the life ofarock star. Good isn't , billions of dQllars that will do nothing All in all, Good deridessociety's , in a typicalrockstarmoodrightnow-:to protect Canada? Whe1,1 was the last "love affair with ourselves. It m~kes ~ot too busy or self-righteous. He has time you were wor)ied about Kim me extremely angry and extremely an unparalleled perception ofthe world Jong III pointing a missile at Moose sad at the same time. i think about and isn't afraid to let his opinions be '1 aw? We are basically paying to defend this every day of my life. It takes the known on issues like his ·new album, the U.S. Our biggest problem is that wind right out of my sails and then the music industry, foreign policy and we share a border with no other naI realize that I can be a force for tion." human rights. change and it puts the wind back in them."

It's the fourth day ofhis headlining . , Good continues with fervor. tourwithAufDer Maurand Limblifter; "Saddam Hussein was a tyrant, but An active advocate for Amnesty Good calls from his' hotel ro6min so is Kim Jong III and nobody has Internati~mal, he allows Amnesty invaded North Korea. Saudi Arabia representatives to hand out inforCalgary,Alberta. Laterthateveninghe is scheduled to perform at MacEwan, is a great ally to the United States, but mation and pins at concerts. "HuHall and says that it's still too early to is not a dem~cracy and has a horrible man rights' is something that affects humanrights record. Ironically, more ' every person in the world. It is a gauge any highlights of the tour because "you got to have at least ten or of the attackers from September 11 representation of human dignity.

Everyone deserves to have the same eleven shows in'before you can get a were Saudis, but you don't see1:hem perspective." invading Saud}. Arabia, because they st~ndards of rights. Even in. our cohstituteseventoten per cent of the Good is promoting his latest ofsociety we consider ourselves free, entire financial status of the U.S. In all fering White Light Rock andRoIlReview. but we still tolerate human rights· ReleasedJune 15,2004, the album was of this;15,000 Iraqis are defld and for abuses. Howmimyt>eopleinNorth what? Honestly, forwlu~t? You can't America consider violence against "inspired l;>y bands largely from the '60s ... Like the Kipks,'tbe Who and just pick and choose who you go . women a human rights abuse? Not Buddy Holly. Bands like ~at pretty after. The entire thing is just a gross very many; we jus~ consider it domuch had to record live off the floor." representatioh of the ignorance of mestic violence, but it is human It contrasts Good's previous solo our society. That's what wanting new rights! projects Avalanche and the Audio of cars and watching Survivor and Paris "How we view human rights sets Being as he has removed the sympho- Hilton.on: television will get you." All the standard for how they are viewed nies apd has produced what he calls a of the points, Good explains, are around the world." , Good listed ''Massive distracti.ons trom the reality "rawer... and live off the floor record numerous examples, like· the U:S. with no fancy tricks." the rest of the world has to face." holding prisoners without habeas Good calls his latest album a step corpus in Guantanamo, "disassociating itself from the Geneva convenup in the evolutionary chain for him.

But the music industry isn't progresstion." Good also mentioned that '~We live in an age ingthew~yitshould. ''We live in an age the U.S. is the only western civilizawhere a k>t of young people are so tion that has capital punishment. , where a lot of inundated with new bands all the time "How are you supposed to tell Saudi young people are and marketing from record compaArabia to stop beheading people nies tends to not really he focused on when you aren't joining the world so inundated with ~ving bands longevity: but rather-, court. None of these set very good new bands all the , standards for other. nations who l:iere's the new thing.~' Consequently, musicians are "marginalized and are have questionable human time, an~ marketing already rights records." . willing to do whatever it takes to be , from record famous or rich.

Good controls his website and . ..

"Record companies," Good ex~ uses his message board, blog and companies tends to book to keep in touch with his fans. .plains, "need to be completely retooled , from top to bottom. They are using . not really be fo'~The web is unbelievably important decade old marketing plans that don't for exchanging information andideas ~used on giving take into account new technologies," with'people. It allows p~ople gloGood .offers this explanation for how bally to ~hare ideas instantaneously. bands longevity." thing; work: "theybasically take a band, That being the case, I don't really feel , - Matthew Good mould them to do one specific thing safeleavingit iri anyone else's hands and put them out; dump ,a burich of but my own."

Muchlikeinanyotherartists,Matmoney arid hop,e theyhave a hit. And Regarding the fact that his Noif they don't produce again, then oh thew Good believes change in the , vember 3 show at Club Denim ~osts w~ll. This is just wrong;" WhiteHouse is necessary. "I think upwards of$40, with service charges, Good also has a problem with the it's important that John Kerry win's, he States, "When it comes to tour"hypocritical" s~te ofthewot1d.When not because his policie~ will change ing, prices keep going up. When. Igo asked about Canlida not joining the 'anything but because it will send a to a hall, the hall takes 30 percent of Americans by going to war with Iraq, clear message to the moderate Arab my merchandise. $35 for trus bill is he said "I think it was a good call for world and,therest of the world that nothing! People have e-mailed me the prime minister to make, but you the people of the United States have and said 'it's, too expensive', you not been pleased with what's ,been have to remember, I am ~itting ina want expensive? Go see Tom Waits, province where the premier sentaletit's 100 bucks. Go 'See the Beastie dpne in their name in the last four ter to Paul Cellucci saying that Alberta years." , Boys, they're 65. This is three awesupported the Onited States; there are Domestieally, Good believes some bands for 30 and in some cases a lot ofignorant people in this cOuhtry 40 dollars!"

Canl!-da doesn't have its priorities straight.· "Education and health care who think the Americans did tl1~ right . Matthew Good,Auf Der Maur thing. in this country [are] going down the and Limblifter play Oct.ober 23 in ''Yqu have to remembe~ that just . tubes; we like to think [they'tr] not.

Toronto and November 3 at Guelph's because we didn't go to war in Iraq Club Denim. Tickets can be purchased How can you spend 800 million doldqesn't mean we· aren't supporting , , lars on submarines and notgoing to through Ticketrnaster. For more inthe US efforts. Canada is involved in formation on Matthew Good, visit put any money into education? Let's NATO and Afghanistan andwe have not even get start~d on our social www.matthewgood.org.

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Wherefore art thou Chromeo?

Zach Siootsky SPECiAL TO IMPRINT

In case you haven't heard of Chromeo, I'Ulet you know right no\v that you're missing out large. The fact is that there's just nothing like these guys around, this decade or any oth'er. \Vhile it's easy to not take something seriously when you hear that it sounds.like funkier vocOded version of all the be~t eighties tracks that you never heard, it's hard to ignore how committed these guys are to a very focused sound, a hundred songs about girls and a bang-onlook that will never die (ever). . Friday, October 8 at the Gladstone, next to wailing karaoke to the east and. a sea offiending crackheads to the west, Chtomeo rocked their party so hard it hurt to sit down the next day .. \'X?hile most bands takeoff after their shows or just chill backstage with a select fe\\' VIP jerkoffs, Chromeo stayed after the show, abusing the Gladstone as their own personal party - which it was'. And why wouldn't they? This joint was so packed with Toronto's real hipsters and hotties that every other Friday night party must have looked like charity ballroom at the local rec centre.

Chromeo's set itself was tighterthan a 30rear old virgin. Droppin' tracks from their first and only album, oS-he's Tn Control (www.vicerecordings. com/ chromeo/), to an anticipatory crowd, Dave One and Pee played ~vith a loose grace and well-deserved confidence. Everyone agreed that it's hard not to have fun ,,,hen the people on stage are having so much of it.

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The two-piece group, native to Montreal, is just the iced-out tip of the musical berg. Guitarist and producer Dave One is a PhD student at Columbia, A -Trak' s older brother and a m1.isical mastennind. Producing beats for Bran Van 3000 and plaringalarge'role in Obscure Disordenvith his bro, this guy is on top of his game. Cofounding Audio Research - 110ntreal's elite hiphop label- in '97, Dave One .cemented his spot in the Canadian hip liop scene. No amateur operation either, Audio Research sports rdeases from DJ Serious, DShade, D-Styles, DJ Craze, Tro)~ Dunnit, Brass Munk, Shotgun & Klever, A -Trak and of course Obscure Disorder.

1>ee, a.k.a. P-Thugg, is the mysterious side of the group. Working as an accountant in Montreal, Pee always catches Sou by surprise. Seriously though, this guy is hardcore. J mean he's got fronts ~ multiple,gold fronts, Rocking the talkbox throughout the show while taking a break to play some of the funkiest slap-bass this side of reality. Wearing the pimpes t t\vo - tone suits I have ever seen with a matching doo-rag under· his fedora, Pee reminds us again \,lhy they aren't called don't"rags-.

TogethertheyareChron1eo. They are about to go worldwide and are already more popular in Eutoj)'e than here. SC) go watch their video online and act like you always knew. Kop their album do\Vl1 at Vice and play it the next time you want to kick your party up about ten notches. \\.'ith a sound that spans genres while appealing to hiphoppers, nerds, fashion designers, jazz singers and even my best friend's mom, yi)U don't want to· be the last one on the bus. Trust me.

The funk soul brother returns!

Chris Mustakas SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

Palookaville, the fourth ;1Ibll!;1:1 from critically acclaimed DJ-producer Fatboy Slim, a.k.a.Norman Cook,isfarremovedfromthetypicalalbtu11Fatboy Slim's music listeners have come to e,q)ecroverthe years. Longgone are the get-up-and-dance days of the late nineties releases BetterLil.ingThrotrgb C/Jemi.rt~J'and YOU'l'i! COllie aLong lP~.IJ\ Baby. \\Tith his new offering, Fatboy Slim will be hard-pressed to find cotn1nercial hits similar to "Praise You" and "\Veapon ofChoice." However, Fatboy Slim does give music cOl1noisseurs a treat by provlding more of a restrained and structured album that is sure to please even the toughest of critics.

Pa/ooktl1)illeis both funandmatureatthe same time, as Cook experinlents with .live musicians

and classic rock cuts. The album kicks off with "Don't Let the "'Ian Get you DO\VI1," an infectious track that includes a sample from the 1971 Five Man ElectricalBand track "Sihrf1s." "Slash Dot Dash" is somewhat of a return to tile traditional Fatboy Slim tracks, acid-funky and repetitive in true Fatboy Slin1 fashion.

Throughout the album, d1ere seems to be a gradual progression from funky-groovy beats to soft melodic surprises. "Long \vay From Home" and "Put It Back Together," featuring Blur front man Damon' AJbarn are also winning tracks.

There is even a new version ofStevel\..filler's "The Joker" featuring Bootsy Collins, that definitely requires a listen.

All in all, music fans ,viiI enjoy this longawaited Fatboy Slim album. It's smooth enough to simply press ph)', repeat, sit back and relax!

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Coming Out Week ahit atUW Alexandra Dawson SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

u.st week was full of freedom and' openness for'hundreds of UW students: ComingOutWeekwas celebrated all over campus py GLOW, the Gays' and Lesbians ofWaterloo, in an effort to boost knowledge about gay, lesbian, bisexual. and transgendered (LGBT) iss.uesandperhapsev~nconvincea·few closeted members ofthe community to · metaphorically "come out." _ Fittingly, the week stltrted offwith National Coming OutDay,whichhappened to. fall on the Thanksgivihg Mondayandmade fora perfectiritroduction to the week. . ''We put out advertisements for tha!day,justbecauserliat'ssortofthe whole reason we decided to [hold Coming Out Week] that week," .said Lana Phillips, a G;LOW volunteer and coordin~tor fot Dyketopia,a women's weekly social gtoup'that meets at UW every Tuesday evening.

Also on Monday, members of GLOW went around putting chalk designs Ola campus walkways advertising the restofthe week. Th~seincluded

ing rhetorical questions as, "Is your straightness just a phase?"

"Even justdoingthat~e got some feedback from people," said Phillips.

Tuesday's event also got some feedback - Wear Jeans Because You're Gay Day. "It was an awareness cam.paign to help people realize that there is a gay community on campus," explained Phillips. ''The idea is just that gay people exist and that they're just regular people."

The point of the event was t() enlighten stttdents by showing them th~t anyon~ could be wearing jeans, . just like anyone on campus could ge a member of the LGBT community.

"It's not like we're all'wearing big pink triangles on our foreheads to identify us or anything," laughed Phillips. ''It's just sort of to make people think a little bit." ,"And ~t aiso shows] that you never really know who's gay and who's not, so maybe you should watch what you . say," added GLOW social coordinator CrystalJohnson.

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States. Last week marked tI:e six-year Volunteers at the flag were also subjected to the feedback of those wh?walked by, which was both positive and negat;ve. For their efforts, flag 'guardsreceived sna~ funded by Feds First thing Wednesand Tim Hortons gift certificates, day morning.' the which were donated ~y community volunteers. .giant rainbow flag On Friday, a movie night was held was set up in Davis in the multi-purpose room ofthe SLC,

an audience of about 20 peopi<:.

C~mingOut Week concluded last Satl.j.tdaywith the:'BBlackLights and GGlow Sticks" party at the. Grad House, where money was raised to .assist the legal costs endured by Marc Hall, theOshawa student who fought his Catholic school to let him bring his boyfriend t? the prom.

On top ofthe cover charge, glow sticks, black lights and fog machines were sold at the dance, with all money going to the Marc Hall cause. "They did a fifty-fifty draw for Marc Hall's legal fund and the person who won gave his winitings to that cause als~," wheretherewasaback~to-backsJiow­ Centre, a symbol of ingofB~s Don'tCg, an Oscar-winning said Phillips.

Allin all, Coming Out \Veek was a' gayprid~ for all film about a transgendered female, and big success, particularly the BBGG . ButImACheerieader,alight-heartedand danceattheel'ldofit. "It was probably see. funny satire of gay rehabilitation cenone of the best dance events we've put tres. on in years," said Phillips. ''We hit capacity. Everyone who came"loved Johnson explained the importance it." anniversary afhis brutal death; there is of showing the ftlm B~s Don't Cry: ''We didn't have any'transgendered no better time;; to think about the When speaking to Imprint, Phillips damage that hate crimes and violence . topics or anything like that which adalso expressed her desire to thank all cause to. so many lives. . dressed those i9Sues so that's why we the studentvolupteers andrepresentaF~tthingWednesdaymorning,a chose that film. tives who helped out during the past "And that's why we [showed that" week, including the Feds, the Student giant rainbow flagwas setup in Davis Centre, a symbol of gay pride for all movie] first," added Phillips, explainLife OfficeandclubsclirectorRickTheis.

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This week, Adam has a thereputic chat with Lance Armstrong. :Lance Armstrong: So, what's the problem, Adam?

Adam: Lance, you ' k11Pw I've alwqys consideredyou a mentor. I.was hopingyou might be able to help motivate me, being that you're like the most motivatedperson in the world and all. It's about nry column; You know, when I started writing this column, I wasn't expecting much. Just the general benefits one hopesfor as an unpaid writerfor a student newspaper- making'a contribution to campus life, meeting a few people, access tf! quality hallucinogenic toads from South America, et ceiera. I mean, sure, I've scored some killer toad. Butit's a lot rfwork, Lance. Some dqys I can't handle it. And I moan, 'it wauldn't be such a bigproblem ifI could just write it.between classes,for ill' stance. But people don'! realize that the writer's miffis a very delicate thing. Howam I supposed to sacrifice the requisite number · rf chickens and draw the necessary magic circles iflm worried-about stutfying?

Well, you could always try writing. · without the aid of voodoo.

Have you tried breathing without air?

Nice analogy. .

"Thanks. But back to my rant~ I have

so hard to bejun'lY whenyou halJ.e to stu4J. Try reading two pages rf statistics. It just sucks a!l thej~ out rfyour bo4J. I have a feeling that ifI studied itfor more than three hours at a tjme I'd shrivel-up like the Na'?:!s /nRaiders of the Lost Ark; It won't help to stress, Adam. Besides, you don~t have to worry about the midterms that much. You went to class, right?

Class ... it itJti:ifered ujth my pilates schedule.

Okay so maybe you will have to study. But on the btight side, your calves look great.

Yeah, eh? But sti/~ calves or no calves; the de,,!ands rfbalancing an education with extracurricular responsibilities are taxing indeed. Andyou know the thing that reallY • bothers me? I am missing out on all ki~ds rfgood stuffwhile I'm writing this column.

Likewhat?

Come on! There's tons rfgrecit sttiffgoing on at one in the m~ming on Tuesdqy night!

There tm no Cdrs on thestrnt! I could be ... pkfyingstreet hockty... or... street goff. . Adam, what have) told you about street golf?· It leads to my frequent arrest?

Yeah. Now, isn't your column less likely to land you in jail? .

Not ifyour la1l!JlCrs get winJv{ this.

You may have a point thete. Still, you can do this, Adam. You are going to get this column done. I'll help you.

Fitst, we need to think of some good jokes.

Ummm, ok.qy. Gotone. I brite midterms so much. .

How much do you hate midterms?

So much that I lead a life rf quiet desperation and sob when I am alone.

Okay! Nic~effort, butwemaywant totake the jokes in a direction that's a little more, you know, traditionally funny, Let's try again.

Okqy. What was so strange about the nice statistics professor?

I don't know. What was so, odd about the kind statistics professor?

He deviatedfrom mean.

I'm sorry. You have officially sunk to a new iow. That's okay, though.

Let's try a different strategy, We need to find sQmeone for youta have dilanerwith! Let's check your phone book. .

[Adam dials,number] 'Affleck!Whatis.up, dude? Man, I need a big/avour. I have a column due and I reallY need an interview. You free for dinner?

Ben Affleck: Broseph! I'd love to, but I'm on the set. Can we do it next week?

Dude, I didn't want to have to do this.

I askedyou nicelY. Remember those photos l have rfyou an{iQueen Elizabeth? Yeah'. that's right. It would be a shame ifthose were leaked to the press.

Dude, I'm pretty sure I have those photos, and they're actually of you.

What? Is this Moviefone? I have the wrong number! Ne parlez pas anglais!

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Ignor"ance; not bliss lastweek. Theyexpiredin2003, but he infinite ~ the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the didn't mind. , Heck, Bill Cosby said it best: "A universe." word to the wise ain't necessary - it's Last month I had a brilliant conthe stupid ones thatnced the advice." versation with someone at a Kitchener Every once in a while you are thrown party that reaffmned my affection for Einstein's witticism. As an aside, I a curve ball. One day I was relaxingwith a cold beer in one hand and my free seem to remember cO'nversations in hand in my pants when my roommate detail and use them in print to mock Before we get started, I gDts to'relay this word-for-word exchange Thad barged in with something to say. I put peDple. Mind you, this particular perwith a lady friend recently, We were son probably can't read sO' no worries. my beer down and listened. The one talking about the male libido.

Heramb:"DidyouknowmyGer- , .. piece of news that's sure to irritate allis when you find out an acquaintance of Heramb: "\'1/ell, lady friend, the . man friend Mat has his Mercedes in yours whO' you presumed was a simpenis is a function of my personality," town?" pleton turned out to' be a member of Lady Friend: ''1 noticed. It's a pretty big function of your personality."

MENSA. I thought for sute this guy was Booyakasha!

Heramb: "Did you mildly retarded. He pronounced the Resssssssssssssspect. know my German word "other," "udder." But nooao.

Herainbone gives this word-forHe has to' be this idiot savant who word exchange the brown fist of apfriend Mat has his does cryptic crosswords each morning provaL All tight folks, that's it for the Mercedes intown?" while fInishing Beethoven's Unfinweek. Can't top that. Drive safely.

Symphany at night.

Dumb human being ished Fine, I'll write more. Remember I felt so inadequate. I mean, the the proverb "ignorance is bliss." That's closest I ever came to MENSA was in a non.:comical jaining its young($r, stupider affiliate what stupid people say when they're tone: "Wow. How MENSO. That was for all them triple52 cards short Df a full deck. Back in digit IQs below 101.

OAC calculus, the teacher would allong was the drive But then I got to thinking, why wayspick on me: "'Hey, you with the from Germany?" wauld anyone everwant,to be associshitty haircut, differentiate this ated with.such an elitist arganization? godd function." As an aside, my It's an organizatian thit openly mocks old calculus teacher suffered from sethe slaw-witted while exulting the virDumb human being, in a nonvere cC)flstipation, which generally rc~ comical tone: "Wow. How long was tues of the intellectually superior! sultto,dinangtyyelling.

But alas, my self-esteem baosts Here was rrwdroll response: tlle drive from<Jet111any?" failed miserably. Oh haw I wished to ':Dmm, ignorance is bliss?" He kicked I know some people are not geob¢ a genius and mingle with many likemy.ignO'rantasstb the remedial clas§. graphicallyinclip.ed,butthere'sacl~ minded individuals. Instead, I dabble distinction be~een lack of inclinaThai: was a blissful experience.' in mediocrity, chugging stale beet and tion and dumbassification. Unless You'd think university students this person thDughtMatwas a biblical watching Jerry Springer re-tuns with would be mO'derately knowledgeable my hands in my pants. Come to think individual who could hover over thouabOut stuff, right? I mean TV, bool)-s, ofit, isn't that what they do atIVIENSA sands· of kilometres of water, this magazines and, oh yeah, the Internet person will not receive the benefit of < gatherings, just with imported beer? seem to be r~adily available to us. the doubt. Well, I did sell my Nortel .

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SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY· VISITS WATERLOO! .COME AND MEET The. Director of Graduate Admissions Shenandoah University, Virg·inia, USA -

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Breaking the slacker-stoner image Brendan Burrows IMPRINT STAFF

Today, despite the fact that pot is still mostly illegal,it is true that, except for in some extremely conservativc analretentive s~gments of the population, pot smoking is accepted as a lifestyle chaice. The sad part is that stereotypes and negative images of pot-smokers as much as 30 years old persistamang the general populatian. The common untruth that pat-smakers are lazy, trouble-making underachievers perpetuates itself thraugh the media and fJltersinto the general public's psyche on a daily basis. That is why I present to you the "Healthy Stoner," a Waterloo honaurs student/ athlete/--r:A who also happens to smake up seven to eight times a day. 111eHealthy Staner is just ane ofmany habitual pat-smokers who represent a counter-stereotype to the common image of cannabis . connaisseurs. He is a man who knows how to use the drug like a Prof. knows how to drink Starbucks coffee. I sat down ,vith The Healthy Stotier to . discuss his revealing insights into his usage of the drug, his hints not to fall into the lazy staner slump and his love of green tea.

Imprint: Rumour has it thatyou smoke weedseven to eight times a dqyye~you are still luliycapable offttnciioning~fflthe ol/lSiae world. How doyou acuJmplish this alJ1tli/ng feat?

Healthy Stoner: If you're just getting stoned for the sake of getting stoned, you're just going to' end up sitting on the couch and doing nothing. The trick is realizing what you'd like to do before you get stoned and doing it.

How do yotljight the IIrge to pass auf )JJhen you're stoned? I know that's some.times. the most appealing benifit about getting lfigh, however sometimes it can just be counterproductive.

Well, the first thing you have to withhold from is the urge to' just start mowing down on food. If you get stuffed from ding-dangs and whatnat your metabolism is gaing to slow dawn and you're 'ga.ing to want to pass out. The trickis to eat a fairly large mealabaut a half haul' beforehand and then get ,{Ugh. That way· your metabolismwon't slaw down enough t9 put you to sleep.

Rumour also has it you are. also a connoisseur of tea, namefy drinking tea while high. What therapeutic or health benifits do you get from this?

Many people think that tea, like coffee has a diuretic effect thatcontrib-

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utes to dehydration. Thc hydrating effect of tea is twice as much as the diuretic effect, so it actually has a hydrating effect which is good for cambating pasties.

I'IJC heard tha~you plqy on not one, but two intramuralA division teams, andyou do . this while you're stoned. That's practicqlfy unfathomable for most chronic smokers.

How do you manage to do this?

If you get past the stereotype that it is hard to do things when yau are high, yau can accomplish pretty much anything that you can do when you're sober.JustlastweekI went fora fourhourmountall bike ride from Waterloo all the way up to Chicopee while I was completely stoned. It was exqui- . site to' say the least.

Doyou everget sketched alit on the ice?

No, yau're usually so into the game that it's impossible to get sketched. I encaurage cveryane to tty playing sports while baked - it's intense.

Having broken the stoner .rtereotype ]ourse!f, do ]Olt jind .that other stoners often fall prey to the anti-social stereotype?

I think that a lot of pe~ple that smoke weed get excluded [from}shit that is cool, just because they feel that they are not welcome or that the two don't go together. In certain circles it's looked down upon to smoke a joint or be stoned, So' those people disassodih:thetnselves ffromlcenainr~" tiDna! activities by either rationalizing them as not cool or playing their video game equivalents rather then getting out there and actively taking part.

WkJ doyott think that marijut:{nafhas beenportrqyed as hazing a damjxfling effoet onpeople's behaviours both by/hose fhalflse negative stereotype{ and smoker.> ,who perpetuate these beliefs themselves?

Yeah, it's easy to burn aut. And by burning out I don't mean the afteraffect of smoking ance, I mean when all you do is smoke and vegetate and yau don't keep active. Eventually the stereotype perpetuates itself, the key is to stay active.

HealtkJ Sionet; it has trufy .bem a delight to interview you and 1 hope you continue to smoke and to break down borders. The world needs soldiers such asyotl to break down pre-conceived notions about potsmokers that are subliminallY pumped into otJr brains by the media.

Hopefully this article will motivate all the burnauts out there to' grab life by the roach clip and smake it rather then just stating ain1lessly at ~ome mavie that they've already seen ninc tinles. bburrows@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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The word ~'computer" evokes a very fix~dimageinthemindsofmt>stthese

- it doesn't matter if the information is stored in the form of an electric charge, a magnetic domain, the spins of hydrogen atoms, or holes punched in cardboard. Says Laflamme, "The nucleus of certain atoms, like hydrogen, behave -like little rpagnets. And then we can use these magnets to do quantum computing."

In. classical computers, the fundamental-unit ofdata is the ''bit'' which . can be zero or one·- no othervalues ·are permitted. With a quantum computer, thefundat:?~lltal unit of data is the "qubit" (quantum bit), which can be zero, one, or combinations of zero anddne. . Are the words "superposition of waves" familiar? Think of the overlapping ripples from tworoc:ks thrown into' a still pond. Or sound waves - if sound waves couldn't interfere constructively, you wouldn't be able to hear anyone else talk while you speak. Now think of the coloured children's tops again. Oqe could define a clockwise spin as a "0" bit, and a counter-clockWise spinas a "1" bit. In the quantum universe, particles can b<r thought ofas wave:;;; "quantum" tops can be clockwise and counter multaneously. Atoms have spin;replac~ the tops wi~~:, you're imagining a baSic quantUm' computer!

There is virulent interest in quan- . tum computing today for several reasons, notably because of cryptography 3!ld the ease with which a quantum computer could be used for modellinga quantum system. But when in the history of pwllcind have our scientists needed any reason but curiosity to pursue anything?

I'll leave you with Laflamme's own words: "Steam led to railways and the machine. age. Electromagnetism led to radar' and .telecommunications.

Every time humans have been able to tackle and control a new force of nature, ~ technological revolution happens. Sometimes there are forces that people knew about .:.:..- but they were unable to control [those forces] so they were a curiosity.

"These curiosities are great. This' is what astronQ~Y is about,. this is what most of fundamental science is about. Butat some point, you can not only observe these curiosities and understand them, but you can control them. And this is what we're just starting; we're at the beginning witn the quantum world."

days - a keyboard, mouse and monitor.w;ired iOto a small box. At the heart of this box is what we call a CPU (central processor. urllt), which uses transistors to triCkel~ctrons into rhov- . ing how we want them to move thus forcing them into doing millions of calcnlations per seCond for us.

H~wever,in theory a "computer" can. be anything. The only truerequitements are that one can put data intcithe computet, get the data out of the computer and use the computer to manipulate the data in a predictable fashion.

Imagine. a table~ with eight brightly coloured children's' tops (as in, the ones that spin). Youc:an tell the difference between the tops; because they are different colours. You can plainly see which ones are spinning and which are not. Imagine you had a trained monkey which would spin TwC)Atlanta residents ride Segways during their mOrriing c~mute. ' some tops and stop others in a predata and send it to the'vehicle's Its top speed of27 km/h, however, is dictable fashion, based on a verbal Adam Gardiner "brain," which calculates ,the angle considerably faster tfummere walkSPECIAL TO IMPRINT command and which tops the monand rate at which theSegwayisoutof ing or rolla-blading and unlike riding key saw spinning. As difficult as it is balance and signals the motors to to believe, that is a computer! a bicycle, the rider exerts virtually no It's got two wheels, five gyroscopes move the wheels to compensate. Sq, extra energy to use it. 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These quantum interactions have vehicle that have ~ee times the power of an ordinary PC, Such would revolutionize the' way Another problem is that the been a thorn in the side of Chip manu" a high degree of capability is people get around. While the Segways currently aren't allowed on factur~? who waht to continue to needed not only to run the only thing it's actually revopublic sidewalks in Ontario. Critics Illiniaturize computer components. ' software responsible for keeplutionized so far is the novclaim their high speeds pose a danger "People see the[quantum] effects, elty items industry, it does ing the Segway running in fine they want to get rid of it. And the to pedestrians, which is contrary .to fashion, but also to handle the deserve some credit as an the company's philosophy that the wholeprogramotquantuminforma, number of individual adimpressive work of techpurpose of a Segway is to reduce tion is to say, 'People seeing quanjustments the vehi: _congestion among pedestrians' by nology. Consider tum mechanics. as an obstacle... we the fact that' a de makes to should tum it into an advantage,''' having more people use them on the !itn smoothly rider can stand sidewalks and other pedestrian areas. <'Said Dr. Raymond Laflamme, the -no less than siiII on its platThen there is the case of Pierre director of the Institute for Quan100 per'secLeFeuvre, a Segway owner who was form, suptum Computing located right here ond. Thevehiported only fmed $8,000 in Niagara Falls in Sepon campus. de's motor by two wheels tember for driving it -without a liQuantum computing uses the tenuses a mix of cence or insurance on the road. on either side, ets of quantun:i mechanics to perform and 'not roll neodymiumLeEeuvre claimed that Segways are calcnlations. Remefnber, all we need iron-boron for a computer is the ability to store, offineitherdinot motor vehicles and as such need magnet!J and rection. no licence or insurance as a car would. manipulate and retrieve information mdavenport@imprint.uwaterloo.ca There's some side windings to . ij't!'plans on fighting his tickets in a produce up to pretty cool c~urt hearing on Oct~ber 28, the two horsepower- a fair amount for ruling on which may shed some light , technology at work inside' the a vehicle weighing between 70 and on exacrly how the Segway will be Segway, for sure.

83 pounds. And it can be fully reThat technology is the Balance clasSified in Canada. charged out of a reguiarelectric soCket Sensory Assembly (BSA), which is But in the mean~e,. Segways for less than a dollar on the energy . keep Q£l selling. So, who knows? essenrially five gyroscopes pac.ked ; into a cube about. three inches' on. bill.

There's still a lotoffutureleft and the Sounds wonderful, 'eh? Well, the problems of urban transportation each side. Gyroscopes create their MICHAELL.DAVENPORT pric~ isn't. At around US$4,000, it's own force through spinning, thereby aren't getting any better. The promIn a quantum system, two opposite magnetic spins can be super- ' . resisting the effects. of gravity. The more than slightly above the price of, ised revolution may still be yet -to say, a bicycle or a pair of rollerblades. posed upon each other, resulting in a third, in-between state. gyroscopes each measure their own cQme.

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Another very interestihg> vehicle is the stretch Hummer limo. This Hummetcan be fuelled h¥ ahnost For many people, traveling 16;000 anything. Food waste iSt"\l!11ed into miles without stopping at a gas sta- hydrogen, methane and carbonmonoxide by the heat of the exhaust. tion will seem impossible. However, Australian Eco-Trekker Shaun These gases are the fuel for the truck.

Murphy and his Jack Russell terrier With tfti:; system, the Hummer ,gets Penny Michelle Rorke approximately 15 miles per gallon.

Sparky completed this exact feat. He journeyed 16,000 miles thtough 30 Shaun also u~edt:he "E-bike." It IMPRINT STAFF states using 13 alternative fuel sources looks~e any other bicycle; the only WHy do the leaves change and ;various types of vehicles 1>or- difference is' that .the power t~"on colours? rowed from the people all over the demand." By pushing the thtotcle, We allkp,ow that the leaves lose their U.S.A. He set out to show th€? world electric motor is 'engaged,Jor assisthow far alternative fuel sources have " ance ,in climbiflg a hill or instant 'green colour in the fall. Thi~.isthe time when trees try to save, their . .' come and how feasible they are for. acceleration without p~d,aliiig. pl;ecious <;hlorophyll by pulling itol,lt ,sendingouta warning to insects thinkMany of the vehicles use~ howmodem transportation. ever,wcre not altered to use a "cool- oithe leaves and storing it ~the 'ingoflayingtheireggsinthetree.J~st Shaun completea his eight-month trip on July 21,itl a stretch Hummer ruel.': He drove various cars fuelled" twigs. The leaf then nattirally be~' Jikea pOisonous frog has stripes, the comes yellow and orange which are . limo fuelled by various types offood. by bio-dieseL The engines were able red trees wam that they will be able to Throtighoutthe journey, Shaun used to run with bio-die~el the same as pigment~ that·havealways been there, "produce nasty chemicals.that will kill we just couldn't see, them because the egg,; if they are laid. a range of vehicles fuelled by '~cool­ P€?trol~um diesel. The advantage is they Were hidden by the prominent that bio-diesel has very low emisfuels.~' He used hot rocks, soybeans, green. The orange colour comes ttomSkuH:.found inTo~onto sions. water, cow manure, corn ~hiskey, carotene and the yellow from ' COl:1Stt:uCtiOQ workers who were garbage, sugar,hempoline, food, By completing this journey, Shaun vegetable oil, wind and solar power has shown just howeffectivealternarenov;atitlg a home last summer on xanthophylls. tive fuel 'sources have become. He to complete the trek~'Some fuels Bl,lt why do the leaves tum red the westside o(Toronto found a and purple? The tree actually has to, skulL Forensic anthropologists from were used directly by the vehicle , has showl) us that if we look hard enough, there is a less harmful alterproducethi'Spigmentcalledanthocythe Totonto coroner's office were and others were used to charge its batteries. ,. native to the way that we commute anin and there are two competing called to:determine if the find was of any ~hri:portanCe,eithefhistorical or now - . even for the simplest means ,theories as to why.

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Apparently, this unknown'male's diet was thought to be low in complex carbohydrateS or sugars and there~ fore he probably lived in the preagricultural era. It is estimated to date back into the 12th c~nttu:y.

The cause ofdeath is th6ughtto be meningitis. Anthropologists tell . by the large hole in th€? tOP of the skull where it appears t:ha.t the bone was absorbed by the infectious bacteria.

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There was a silver lining for the \1('aterloo \'Carriors at the OUA golf championships in \\1indso1' earlier this ~'eek . .Although \,' a terloo came up short in their defense of the 2003 Ontario golf championship, a determined Warriors club caprured second place and a provincial silver medal at the Sutton Cn:ek Golf Club in \\路indsor.

The fiTe-man \'l"a1'1'io1' squad \\"a5 able to piece together a solid t\yoday total of 618, finishing "C\'en shots back of the gold medalMc';\Iaster .:\lamude1's. The \\'ilf1'id Gulden Hawks won ptm'incial bronze rutal score of620.

This is the third consecutive rncclal at the Ol A championships hH' \\':1terloo after claim.and sihTr in 2002. Coiriciden路 ago as \'i;'cll. \Yith the second place result, U\X' head

coach Painter said he \,-as pleased with the effort of his team at the difficult Sutton Creek course 路ben you go into these kinds of[toumayou want to be able to be in the 111mt," Painrer said. ''I'm nut disappointed. \\'e wam 10 finish first, but we did well." ~,\;; he sd.s6Ji, veteran Justin Fluit1ed ttl<' \\!arriorcharge shooting a 76 on one before firing a 74 on dm' two to land himself in a five-,-':ay playoff for the individual championship. Fluit had a chance to claim the first playoffhole, but he had to settle for a par after his ten-foot uphill birdie effort came up just shott.

Unfortunately for Fluit, that would be His last chance to win as \\'estern's Ivuke de Courcy birdied the second playoff helle to claim the individual title.

"1 thought I was lucky to get in [the playoffj," l"luit said. "It \vas really exciting. I had ITl)" chance," According to his coach, Fluit's showing at the OUA championships was indicative of his whole season. In fact, Fluit was named an OUA all-star, amassing a province-best 56 points in the all-star points system, "He does a lot for us off tbe course," Painter said, "He's the guy \VC look to all the way, TtwouJd have been nice to sec him win."

The \X'arriors had an all-around strong performance at the tourney, placing four of their five golfers in the top 20. Rookie Arjun Walia finished tenth with a two-day total of 154, \\Calia was named a second-team OUA allstar, \\'ith a total of 37 points.

Finishing with rounds of 74 and 82 for a two路 day total of 156 \\"as U\V stalwart Jud \Vhiteside, who finished fourteenth overall. \'('alia's older brotherJaspreet, a key player in \X'ater!oo's march to the title a year ago, finished twentieth with a two-day total of 158.

Rounding out the \,\'arrior contingent \vas Mark \'anderbeek, who fired a 163 10 finish thirty-fifth.

After three years of podium finishes at the OVA championships, \'{'aterloo's beyy of young talent gives Painter hope that the program will continue to flourish. In fact, the coach expects atlcast four of the five OUA combatants to return to the links for U\'Z' next season.

"It's a program." Painter said. "I think we're st.ill going to have five competitive golf-

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Warriors golfer Justin Fluit shows off the silver medal his club won at the ~UA Championships earlier this week at the Sutton Creek Golf Club in Windsor, Fluit also finished tied for second in the individual competition after a two-hole playoff. ers [no matter ,\'ho they are]."

Meanwhile, in the \yomcn's diyisiol1 at Sutton Creek, U\'\''s J;<ime Steedma,n shot a two-round total of 177 to finish in a tie for sixth. Although Steedman wasn't pleased with her scores of90 and 8 7 , Painter said the tough course setup and conditions did not do justice

to Steedman's O'(--,A tourney.

"It's hard to put into words how much she's improved o\"er the last year," Painter said. "The c()ndition~ were ,"err tough for eyeryone."

Danielle Green of Queen's won the \n,m .. en's division with rounds of 80 and 79 for a

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Woinen's hockey team continues mastery over WLU Rod Mclachlan IMP.RINTSTAFF

OniSunday, October 1'7, theWaterloo Waniorswomen'sicehockeyteamcontinued their perennial-dominance in " this year's pre-season action over last year'sOUAchamps,theWJlfridLauner' GoldenHawks,witha2-1 winatWLU's Waterloo Recreation Complex. ' The triumph 'followed an earlier 22 draw against WLU in Watedoo's previous contest, which was .on Octbber8.

TheWlIi:riors'2-1 victorycappedoff a successful exhibition season in which the team wound upwith a 3-2-1 record, and in the process gained s~me valu~ able t;xI>e#encein back-to-backgames against last year's nationally ranked Hawks" which was a key litmus test to see where UW stands this se~on.. ''Weareverypleasedwiththegrowth ' of the team through the exhibition se3;Son and the way the rookies have responded to the eXpectation_~ placed before them," saldOWhead coach Bill Antler. 'We are looking forward to a very competitive division, withanyt:ea.tn being able to Win on any given night." In the October 17 match, the Warriorsdrew blood first when first-year UW centre Sarah Bryson recorded an

Warriors second-year forward Kirsten Lindstol ge~s roughed up by GuelPf(sAriadne Jevnikar in a 3-219SS to the Gryphons.

kept Waterloo in contention.and the • Atthe time ofthe goal the Wa.n1ors score at 1-1 at the first intermission. wereactuallybeingout--shot. Neverthe~ ,"AfewneceS&a,t;ypefialties resulted ress, the rookie Kitchenernarive rose to in T~y~~clingt?comeupbig, but the occasion. " ..c ~tis whY wi l1av~h!f/' confesse~ "" In the op~ frame; outstanding , Ander. "We, feel ourgohltending is as goalkeeping by Warriors netminder strOng as any team's in the CISwiththe Tammy Low-Foon, coupled with a three goalies we ~ve."

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Wednesday, October 20 at the CIF , arena. Kaitlifi MacDonald andSarah ,Bryson were the Watrior goalscorers.,

game: " "., " , ' , '",,", ,'" ,,_.~uaIlyontheforecheck. ·Thisstr.jtegypiid6~~t~1.":~<'1b.¢Watpots,play~t,Octbber veteran Stacey Grygielputthe Warriors 22,ad40p.m. vmtis theBrockBadgahead forgoodaftergoingtlve-hole on .erg in St. Catharines at Thorold Arena. the helpless Lauriergoalkeeper.

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'We ptayed much stronger in the To maintain their second~place 'We were a little disappoirited in SPECIAl. TO IMPBINT position, the Warriors need is, a second half," Mackie said. the first half; we looked a.little ten~ student ~win either one of the two reptainGrinstead, a fourth-year rive," said UWheadcoachPeter.Mackie.

Awell~earnedhome\vinlastSatur7 The Watet:loo Warriors have some- . frQDf Indianapolis, Indian~ has been , ing matches. Their next game is. on "But after that fluky goal, were1axed." dayaftemoon has put the Warriors in thing to smile about..

Friday,October22 at3p.m.atUniver- . ' Although the Golden Hawk strik- ' on a tear as the Warriors drive to the a comfortable position in the standings With the fitst installm:ent of the sityStadium, againstthe WJlfridLaurier ers tried, and at times even looked. postseason, registering five goals in Ba:tJ:le ofWaterloo resulting In a con- . --,-five points above the Hawks. From Waterloo's last two matches - she Golden Hawks. The finalgame of the dangerous, the Waterloo, defenders the start, Waterloo persevered through Vivcing 3-0 triumph over the Wilfrid regular season for Waterloo will be Laurier Golden Hawks; thew9men's. theraln to dominate play. The con- . shutthemdown,allo~keeperKelly , tallied/three goals in UW'swin over RMC on October 9. played on the CIF fields at 3 p.m. on Ogden to record the shutout. . tinual pressure. during the fitst half socc:etteamisonthebrinkofffuishing "She's having ,an all-Canadian Saturday, October 23, .against the The second half was more of the paid off when UW winger Nicole second in' the west division. More Crfustead bounced a comer kickoffa same, as Grinstead added another . year," Mackie 'said of, Grinstead.' Windsor Lancers. . importandy, however, this distinction "We're scoring a ton of goals right Laurier defender and notched Water- . and W~terloo, striker Jenna Jatnani would mean that thewornen would now and that's.a reflection of our -withJiles from Adam McGuire scored fl.5 well, giving ~e Wamorsa hayehomefieldadvantageduringthe loo'sfirst tally;rudway through the . fu:stround ofthe playoffs":"'-a feat not accomplished by the Warriors in recent history.

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The' everlasting' Battle of Waterloo alone).

But cocaine-snorting, gun-toting footbalLplayers aside, the Waterloo~ . Laurier rivalry is as hot now as it has . .eVerbeei:t. The defending OUAcham· pion Golden Hawks women's hockey club counts ''beat Waterloo" among their team's goals this season. UW I don't li,ke hawks. sOcCer coach Peter Mackie, a former Morespedfica1ly,I don'tlikeGolden Hawk himself, said there is a "genuine Hawks. Can't stand'em. In fact,nothdislike"between the two clubs. And in ingthaps my ass more than a flock of a'Laurier-Waterloo worpen's baSkethappy-gO-lucky GoldenHawks ready ·ballgamelast.season, theHawksheaved upalast~secondthree-pointer-even tolifttheirtailsanddefecatetheworld But I'm allowed to hate Golden thoughtheywerealreadyaheadby37 Hawks, because I am a Wai:rior.' points. Tom O':srien, then-UWhead In the heated midst of a week-long coach,wasn'tevenangty;hejustchalked span where Laurier and Waterloo will the shot up to competitiveness (transfac~each other a totaiofeighttimes, the lation: ''we would have done the same damn thing to them.") greatestuniversityrivalryin Oritariomaybe Canada - has been renewed.

Even the athletic directors seemto .And although only two kilometers of get into the rivalry, as Waterloo's Judy University Plaza and ~verpriced sti:tMcCrae andLautiefs Peter BaXtertake dent housing separate the twoinstituevery opportunity to sit ptoudly be. tions, the rivalryconstandy reminds us hind their team's benchatthenumerof the numerous differencesbetwee~ ous batdes ofWaterloo. And although a Warrior: and a Hawk; they appear very calm and collected, ' For instance, a Warrior is excused you just knowthey're shooting underfrompracticetoattend.amidtermustated stares across the gym, call.iflg amination, whereasaHawkiseXcused each other out with glares reminiscent fro~ practice to attend bail hearing of two rival saloonkeepers in the Wild Gust ask foriner Laurier running back West.

Derek Medler, who somehow ffianThe rivalryis particularlycloseto me aged to rush for 1420 yards, amass a because I live on the wrong side of $17,000 drug debt and get charged in King Street with fourLautiergirls. But connection with a shooting in 2003 aside from being constandy sur-

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November is fast approaching, and with it comes the winter season. Came pus Recreation is offering a club forall students who are adventurous skiers andsnowboarder:s. Thursday,November 4 is the general sign up meeting for memberships with the Ski and Snowboarding Oub. By joining the club, students can gain access to free skiing and snowboarding. .

The cll,lb offers many exciting deals formember:s. Thecostis$45,or$40at . the general sign-up meeting. Thismembership feegives students free skiing or boarding at Chicopee for the season Qimited passes given out daily at the Turnkey desk),irivites to socials during the yearwhere prizes can be won, and a specialinvitation to the readingweek triP' to QuebecwithBreakaway. Tours.

Alongwithmember:ship, students receive discounts to a humber ofski and snowboard shops around Waterloo.

As well, club members cail putebase' • club wear; this·year the club is looking into the option of having touques and mitte'ns available for members.

The ger;teral meeting will be from 5:30p.m. until 7:30 p.m. on November 4intheGreatHalloftheSLC.Duetoa limit on the number ofpossible members, interested students are encour-

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Students thatcannotmake tbis meeting can sign up in the athletics office in the PAC starting November 5. This club is open to UW students only. . _ For moreinfor:mation on the ~lub you can visit their website at · www.athletics.uwaterloo·.ca/ · Cam pus R e c J eIu b s / SkiS now boa r d C 1 u b / U W S S Club .a s I' x ,or contact the club executives at uwskisnowboardclub@hotmaiLcom.

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. This past Saturday, October 16, the University of Waterloo hosted its an~ _nual Oktoberfest Lifeguard Competition. The eventisakeyfundraiserforth~ UWLifegu3.rdciub. Thisyearitattracted £14 teams offour from all over Ontario.

Coordinating the competition for the club was Peter Whittington.

Thisyeafsconapetirionconsistedof three technical events: First-Aid, Water Rescue, Simulated:EmergencyResponse .

Competition (SERC) an~ two physical events, Medley and Line Throw.

In the first-aid event, competitor:s have four to six minutes to respond to an emergency first aid situationinvolving anywhere from couple to -more than half a dozen casualties. In water rescue, competitor:s ~the pool for six minutes during. which they must respondtoahumberofsimulatedemer-

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· rounded. by hair~care products, my living conditions often give J;Ile the chancetopushmypro-Warrioragenda. ' In fact,. the boyfrie~d of one oEmy roomies is Lautierrugby captainJason Doble, who often takes the brunt of my Hawk-hating. That is untiU re-, member ~at he is built like a rugby player and I am built like a rugby goalpost.

Buthavingfriends atthehigh school do~ the road does givem~ one great pleasure that every Warrior should be privy to-I havewaIked on the Hawk.'

On the second floor of Laurier's 'Fred Nichois Campus Centre is a Golden' Hawk .logo printed' on the ~ floor - a logo that is allegedly so sacred that no Laurier student dares walk across it. However, as a W ll):tiorit is my prerogative to strut, wipe my feet and --'-when the opportunity arisesspiton the Hawk:. Itis the single most liberating experience in the life of any . Warrior.

But the rivalry, the ribbing and the Hawk-treading are all in good fun. In fact, the rivalry is healthy and so is .

Hawk-hating. Truth is, Hawks hate Warriors too. But despite our differences, thereis one. thing that could end (or at least temporarily postpone) the rivalry between Laurier and Waterloo: a wmmon hatred for Mustapgs.

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Finishingthirdwas "CPLA," a team representingtheCarletonPlacellieguard Associationin Carleton Place, Ontario.

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Also competing was Pat King. the. airrentUWLifeguard{Jubcoach,and Steph Zamperin,aformerUW student. andLifeguardOubmember.Theirfuur person team, ''Bearing Water Wmgs," finished fifth overall and should have

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Hockey begins Friday With the regular season about to begin, the Warrior men split theit fInal two pr.eseason games. Last Friday night, the team beat crosstown rival Laurier 6-1 with Adam Metheral and Alex MacDonnell each potting two markers. o ' Satutday, the Warriors ended theitpreseason on a sour note. The team travelled to New York to face the Oswego State University Lakers and ultimately lost 4-2. Alex MacDonnell and Kevin Hutley tallied for the Warriors.

Waterloo opens the season ori Fridayat7:30p.m when the LakeheadThunderwolves visit Columbia lceFieldsforarematchoflastyeaisOUAquarter-final The two teams will face off in a second game on Saturday at 2 p.m~ also at CIF. Mixed doubles. proves the difference The Warriors brokeatiewithMcMasterbysweepingthreemixeddoubles matches onSaturdaymoming. Waterloo beganthe dayby sweepingthe men's singles competition, but failed to win a wOplen's Singlesgame. The two teams proceeded to split both themen's andwomen'sdoublesmatches,leavingthe door opeh for the mixed doubles sweep. Waterloo improves its record to 2-0 in the still young season. \

Warriors men top sWimming in\litational The UW men'sswirritning team finished fIrst at the OUA Sprint Invitational at the Unie versity of Guelph, Individually,lyfattMainsoompletedanotherclomi-; nantperfonnance, winningthtee events. Mains~ theonlymaletoachievea timeofless than one mitlUte . in the medley and was almost beaten in thG fly by teatnlIiate Alex Watson who finished just :05 seconds off the lead.

Intherelay, uw placed two teams in the top four in two events, finishing 2nd and 3rd in the 4 x 25 medleyarid3rdand4thinthe4x.506:eestylerelays.

Theyalso fiirisqedsecondin the4 x'25 freestyle relay.

The W0men's team was not as successful at the meet, finishing fourth overall.

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Men's rugby cranl(s U of T The OW men came back from an 8-5 defIcit at the break too defeat U ofT 37-8 in theit final match ofthe regular season. The team's explosive second halfwas lead byJustin Underhill, who fInished the game with two ttys, and Blyth Gill, who sco~ed one tryand set-up three others. PaulAuzins.and Taylor Nicholls also added one try each in the match.

UW, who fInished the season with a record of 4-3, will be home to Carleton in the OUA quarter _ finals on October 23. The game starts at 1 p.m.

Men's volleyball. off to rocky start In theit fIrst match of the OUA season, the Warriors fellathomein i:hreestraightsets to Guelph (' by scoreS of25-23;25-Z1 and27-25.

The team's second match of the season, on the evening ofWednesday, October 20, ended in a 3-1 loss ,to t1'I.e Laurier Golden Hawks. dinicak@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

UW rightside Konstantin Kovalenko (centre) prepares for an incoming serve during the Warrior(seasonopeneragainst the Guelph Gryphons last weekend.

Toronto sings. "varsity blues'" in 34-6 Warrior win

nine tachles, also agatnehigh, to add to hisle~ 59 solo tackles and earned player of the~e honours at his fInal V arsity ~lu~s.homegarne.

Headingiototi1e game against Toronto, the That's right, you heard me. The Warriors de~Wirriors worked hard on anumber of aspects ofeated U ofT on Saturday 34-6 in a very rainy game. The win picks UW's recQrd up to 2-5-0-1 . of theit game, whlch' translated into il.lot of (win-lossctie-overtime loss). . positives in the actual cqntest last Saturday.

"The triple option worked .well for us':' W~te:rloo's opening points came in the form co~ented Bingeman on one of the things the ofAlex.Ballowayscoringa 10-yard touchdown.

Warriors have been practising. "Also, special The highlight of the game would have to be teams played very well." fust-year slotback Travis Gellady rushing for Drew Haynes, a London, 103 yards and scoring a 1jOntario native, was e;x:cep-yard major. tional on special teams. The . ''We're really happy to thitd-year history major had see the running game come .The third-year one interception, one fumaround," said Warrior ashistory major ble recovery and blocked a sistant coach Marshall , punt which was retutned for Bingeman in a telephone had one intera touchdown, which earned interview with Imprint. ception, one him UW male athlete of the However, . Bingeman week honour,s. did note that Gellady is fumble recovery On Satutday, October 23, currendy suffering from a and blocked 'a the Warriors fInd themselves lower-;body injury, which in another must-win situathe Warriors coaching staff punt which was tion as they face the Windsor is hoping will heal up in returned for a Lancers (2-5) at 7 p.m. at Unitime fOr this weekend's fi- . versityStadium.IfWaterl60 nal game of the -season. touchdown. can pull off a win and then Other highlights inGuelph or York loses this cludeJ on Morbey's 17-yard weekend, Waterloo will semajor and a blocked punt cure the fmal seed in the playoffs. attempt resulting in a touchdown by DB Drew Haynes. .

"It's tough right now with 20 guys missing practice because of midt~rms on some days," Although they didn't"score until the efld of said Bingeman on the team's preparations for thefo~rth quarter, U ofT had some offense the Lancers. Nevertheless, the'Yarriors are workbehind them in the form of rookie fullback ing hard in practi~es that the assist!lnt coach Marc Gaudett running for 114 yards on ~ 6 describe's as "up-tempo." carries, a game high. "'The mood of the team is' outstanding," "The [U of1] touchdown was a late touchsaid Bingeman on heading toward the playoffs. down," said Bingeman. 'We had our back-ups in [the game]," . ''We deserve to be .there."路 .

Bingerrlan added that overall his team's -withftlesfrom UWathletics, Wamorfootball defensewas路outstanding throughout the course and Rod McLachlan of the game. "The guys are getting comfort,able," he said. shouston@imprint.uwaterloo.ca In addition, the Blues' Derek Wheeler scored

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War'riorsfall sho路rt'in cross-town showdown With~' Golden Hawks Men's soccer club now battling Lancers for fmal postseason berth lapses defensively and were frustrated ' Waterloo's Nick Klassen took the offensively, as they have been shot and hit the net easily to get - throughout 2004; Warriors on the scoreboard.

"Our inability to finish is killing The Waterloo Warriors men's soccer The Hawks pulled ahead again us," Mackie s'aid. team is officially ina battle. on a free kick and the game ended On one play, a cross-field pass with Laurier taking it 3-1.

Following a 3-1 home loss to the from a Hawk rolled through the sixWilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks last Waterloo will now face off with yard box untouched. Another inSaturday, the Warriors suddenly find Laurier again today (Friday) at Unithemselves tied for the last playoff stance after a midfield turnover, a versityStadiumat 1 p.m. before hostHawk striker was able to run the ball ing Windsor in a virtual playoffgame spotintheOUA West Division with to the Warrior end unmolested.

Windsor, whom they will host totomorrow (Saturday) at 1 p.m. The On ,offence, Warrior passes winner will likely lay claim to the flnal morrow (Sattlrday) to close out their weren't placed right and Hawks were 'seasQU, playoff spot in the division. able to control the pace of the game. ''We're under the gun," said UW ''We need to beat Windsor on The second half was more of the head coach Peter Mackie. ''We're in Saturday," Mackie said, ''Ifwe squeak same for the Warriors as Laurier folan absolute dogfight to get into the into the playoffs, we're a very confilowed the second kick-offwith good playoffs." dent team."

The Warribrs had a strong start intensity,notchinga second tally early in the half. A Laurier shooter was left againstLaurier last Saturday, but Wa-with files from Adam McGuire unpressured in the box when Warterloo failed to create any solid oprior keeper Paul Cocker ran out to portunities. The Warriors control. led the play well at the beginning of challenge and block the shot. The ball was then loose and the Hawks the half until Golden Hawk Joel capitalized, burying the rebound to Abwunza received the ball near the double the lead. top of the"box and, without much The Warriors finally narrowed the pressurefrqmthe UW defence, struck gap when UW mid fielder Mark a bullet to the top corner to put Accardi.,- fresh off an injury - ran Laurier ~ad.

"Aftf!r that fgoal],the,quality of down the left sideline and broke to the middle. A Laurier defender soccer just~fuopped for us," Mackie tripped him in the box and the refsaid. ''We started to panic a bit." eree pointed to the penalty spot.

Indeed, the Warriors had more Ryan Chen-Wing .

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