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JUNE 17, 2005

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UW wins energy challenge Kelly McGregor IMPRINT STAFF

Members of UW’s Alternative Fuels Team left Detroit last week with smiles on their faces. The team placed first overall in General Motors and the US Department of Energy’s “Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility” engineering competition. Students from 17 universities across North America participated in Challenge X, where teams had to re-engineer a GMC Equinox to minimize energy consumption, emissions and greenhouse gases while maintaining or exceeding the vehicle’s utility and performance. The competition focussed on modeling, simulation and testing of the vehicle powertrain and vehicle subsystems designed by each school. UW was the only team to implement a “series” fuel cell hybrid system in which the fuel cell directs energy to the powertrain of the vehicle. GM University in Detroit hosted the competition, where the UW team impressed judges with their virtual advanced propulsion technology solution. The team’s display included an interactive simulation of driving a vehicle running on their hybrid system. Users sat in a driver’s seat positioned with a steering wheel and the full powertrain of the system was set up behind them. Because they were unable to transport the fuel cell to the competition in Detroit, live interactive feed from Waterloo was broadcast to those using the simulator. Team captain Matt Stevens said fuel cells are the next step in automotive technology, “A fuel cell acts just like a battery, but you don’t have to recharge it. You refill a fuel cell just like you fill the gas tank for a combustion engine. Using fuel cells in vehicles is over twice as efficient as combustion engines and the only emission into the atmosphere is water.” At this point, the cost of owning and operating a fuel cell powered vehicle is significantly more expensive than a combustion engine. Thanks to sponsors such as Natural Resources Canada and Hydrogenics Corporation, UWAFT was able to obtain a fuel cell large enough to power their operation, one of only four produced at this time. Stevens’ goal for the competition was to place amongst the top three universities. In addition to winning first overall, the team received awards in the areas of Outstanding Web Site, Outstanding Outreach, National Instruments Most Innovative Use of Virtual Instrumentation for Control Design and Simulation (third place), Best Control Strategy Presentation, Best Technical Presentation and Best Written Reports (third place), among others. The team earned a total of $19,500 in prize money and were also given the keys to a donated GMC Equinox in order to complete the next steps of Challenge X. kamcgreg@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Erinn Solomon (left) gives her sister Shauna a congratulatory hug after convocation ceremonies on Wednesday, June 15. Shauna graduated from environmental studies. UW held convocation ceremonies from June 15 to 18.

Waterloo grads say farewell Ciprian Mihalcea IMPRINT STAFF

Many friends and relatives of UW’s 2005 graduating class attended the first of five sessions of Waterloo’s 90th convocation ceremony on Wednesday. In the midst of all the recognition, emotions ran high as many students celebrated the end of one stage in their lives with close friends, relatives and colleagues. ES grad Vukica Djuric said she did not think it would be as sentimental as she initially thought it to be. “Coming back one last time makes you really appreciate the fun you had while you were here,”

said Djuric. “You’re leaving a part of your life behind.” UW Chancellor Mike Laziridis chaired the ceremony which saw the graduation of students from the AHS, ES and IS; some of the 3,767 students graduating this spring. Recreation and leisure graduate, Tricia Jansen, spoke on behalf of the graduating students as she delivered her valedictorian address while faculty member, Ronald Schlegel, delivered the convocation address. Schlegel was also the recipient of an honourary degree for work in the field of long-term care for seniors. Many students were also recognized for their

achievement at Waterloo, notably Meagan Dilworth and Jessica Steinmoeller who received the President’s Circle award for volunteerism. Esther Cheung who received her master’s degree in architecture and Patricia Fitzpatrick who received her PhD in geography were also honoured with the Distinguished Teaching by a Registered Student Award. After the ceremonies, graduates congregated in the SLC Great Hall for refreshments. Convocation will culminate on Saturday with the graduation of students from the mathematics and engineering faculties. cmihalcea@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Why are you failing? by Salim Eteer and Kirill Levin

“All the coke and nitrous.” Colin Pardoe 3B history

“Because the boys are driving me crazy.” Richard Benko 2A civil engineering masters

“I’m on MSN too much.” Katie Ojamae & Gladys Ruiz 2C rhetoric 2B computational math

“I am She-ra, princess of power, too busy protecting crystal castle.” She-ra 2B 80s superheroes

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Across 1. Basic form of Expo’s Habitat 6. Star Trek collective 10. Happens in a steaming tea kettle 14. Tolkien’s Treebeard 15. Copycat 16. Strong desire 17. Ski run 18. Decorative fabric 19. Religious painting 20. Outside the vehicle 23. Famous boxer 24. Duck’s watering hole 25. Slope without steps 28. Running competition 31. It’s number one 35. Almost an ABBA reunion tour 36. Lativian capital 37. Rich in decorative detail 38. The goal of an undergrad (at least their parents hope it is) 41. Causes glaciers 42. Valuable deposit 43. Favoured shade trees 44. Wispy white cloud 45. Pilgramage to Mecca 46. Greek god of war 47. Leg hinge joint 49. Having possession 51. Slot machine 58. Go in circles 59. Arabic chieftain 60. Rental agreement 61. Quebec’s first separatist premier 62. Wrap up 63. British peers 64. Hit by the Mafia 65. Playing card with three pips 66. Falling rain and snow Down 1. Most superheroes (except Mr. Incredible) have one 2. Powerful operating system 3. Top of the line 4. Set up for arrest 5. Take what’s not yours 6. The latest Batman

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“Because I don’t go to class.” Kory Litt

“I go to Bomber too much.” Michelle Arnold

2B environment & business

2B political science

“Because we love to par-tay.” Ashley Rudy & Caitline Robrins

“Because I can’t pass.” Evan Koronewski

3A science 3A psychology

3B history

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7. Moonfish 8. Food steps 9. Greek in origin 10. Generally has four walls and a roof 11. Keiko the whale 12. Dr. Frankenstein’s assistant 13. Poet Cohen among friends 21. Potent man 22. Captive 25. Having rabies 26. Chinese calculators 27. Macebearer 29. Art gallery 30. Imprint EIC 32. Not as many as the Black rhino? 33. Ancient stone slab 34. Full of life 36. Saskatchewan capital 37. Goldfinger’s assassin 39. Think back to an earlier time 40. Lawns for sale 45. Used for putting in hems 46. Temper through heating and cooling 48. Standing tall

50. Prince Charles is its prince 51. Started the oil crisis 52. Baseball players on the field 53. Republic of Ireland 54. Squirrel’s nest 55. Dangerous challenge 56. Small island 57. A quick examination 58. Half of Ceylon’s new name

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Waterloo’s CREW wows Wonderland Mariano De Maranis SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

“Water, water, water”, an excited young boy shouted as he spotted UW’s sea of red shirts. “Loo, loo, loo!” more than 240 UW students responded enthusiastically at Paramount Canada’s Wonderland on Friday. That was one of many highlights of W@W (Waterloo at Wonderland). Students showed up in the morning with an assortment of customized cut-up Tshirts. One excited W@W patron even climbed the 30-foot lamppost outside DC. After a professional send off from Feds VP Internal Lawrence Lam, the first of five buses left promptly . The UW Crew created not just a trip, but an entire experience. It started from the moment that students received their ‘Wonderland Crew Survival Kits.’ Wonderlanders waded through goodies to find the real treat: The Craviators (Crew aviator sunglasses), which were specially chosen for their connection to the popular Top Gun ride. Wonderlanders donned the Craviators and began to realize what an amazing day was in store for them. In keeping with the UW Crew’s mission of delivering a complete experience, the bus rides were not overlooked in terms of amusement. Needless to say, the energy was high and before they knew it they were pulling into the park.

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240 students wow the Top Gun ride with their Craviator sunglasses. With people wooing and cheering, Waterloo’s presence at Wonderland was evident. From kids running around and shouting “Water, water, water,” to parents witnessing Waterloo

pride to the park employees getting involved, everyone was struck with one thought: W@W. Mariano De Marinis is Chair of UW CREW

Trek 4 Kids conquers Bruce Trail Carla Sandham EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

collected ice chunks in his hand. Severe thunderstorms struck during the last couple nights of their hike. Fortunately, Eric said they never had to dodge the storms as they always hit soon after they got in their tent. “There was amazing lightning and it was really

grocery store and a phone to tell mom and dad to send more food. But what kept them going was pie. It all started in a small town near Collingwood —where Kevin and Eric were told they could find the best homemade pies. “They were good,” said Eric, who had eaten an entire pie himself. From then on, the brothers ate pie whenever they could find it. And when they weren’t eating it, they were talking about it. “When we were really hungry, we probably spent more than two hours talking about pie,” said Eric, adding they even invented new kinds.

Swollen feet, raging ice storms and swarming mosquitoes couldn’t keep Eric and Kevin Martin from sending disadvantaged children to camp this summer. The Martin brothers returned home last week after an 850-kilometre hike along Bruce Trail. To date, their Trek 4 Kids has raised $9,750 for House of Friendship’s summer camp program, which depends on $25,000 in donations each year. “We are still reveling in the afterglow of having gone the distance. But we’re also glad to be home with runWildlife ning water and a good bed,” said a “I feel so in tune with our natural clean-shaven and full-bellied Eric. surroundings having been out in it so The brothers left Queenston Park long,” said Eric. in Niagara-on-the-Lake on April 30 The brothers observed tousling and strolled into Tobermory under fox cubs, climbing porcupines and sunny skies on June 7. soaring hawks below them on the “Our parents were happy to see us DAVID MARTIN escarpment. Deer, fawns and wild tur— but not to smell us,” laughed Eric. But it wasn’t an easy trek. The Martin brothers slogged through slugs and marched keys were also common sightings Before setting out, Eric stumbled through mood swings to raise nearly $10 thousand dollars along the trail, said Eric. But what shocked them more than out of bed after a late night of packing in their Trek 4 Kids. anything were the masses of slugs. and nailed his baby toe on the leg of “Slugs should not be underestimated, they a rocking chair. His toe turned purple, the nail close,” said Eric, adding it was scary at times. “It were everywhere,” said Kevin. “There were slug lit up our tent like it was day.” barely hanging on. guts on the sleeping pad and in our shoes.” Eric’s toenail eventually fell off and was burBut slugs were better than bears, which Kevin ied on the trail. The tribulations didn’t stop on Food “I didn’t know how much I could eat . . . and still and Eric managed to avoid. day one of their 39 days in the wilderness. Kevin said they had only one almost-bad be hungry,” said Kevin. encounter with wildlife — a rattlesnake. “It was Weather Within a week, the brothers were out of trail so close,” said Eric, who almost tromped on the “I can’t believe the weather,” said Eric. “It was food. “We were eating machines,” said Eric, who ate snake sunning on a rock. ridiculous.” A group of rowdy teenagers celebrating May They left under gray skies and light rain, but about three pounds of dates per week. The brothers didn’t account for the increased 2-4 weekend also sent the brothers packing from Kevin said the wind picked up and pelted ice appetite they would build up walking eight to 10 their once-quiet campsite. chunks on them for four days. Eric said the most vivid moment was stand- hours a day. So when they reached Hamilton, ing around vibrant yellow daffodils while he Kevin and Eric hiked into the city in search of a See TREK, page 4

Researchers at the University of Alberta have found that men whose index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers are more physically aggressive. According to psychology Prof Peter Hurd, it may be correlated to the amount of testosterone a person is exposed to in the womb, and that studies with animals report a similar link between testosterone and aggressiveness. Hurd hopes to broaden his findings by analyzing hockey players for correlations between finger lengths and their time in the penalty box. The index and ring fingers are usually of equal length on women’s hands, although a researcher from McMaster University concluded that women possessing longer ring fingers are often more promiscuous. Canada

A study led by a doctor at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children has found that Viagra may significantly help youngsters afflicted with pulmonary hypertension, an often fatal affliction of the lungs. The condition, which narrows blood vessels in the lungs over time, causes children to lose breath and wear themselves out simply by climbing stairs or playing with friends. A 12-month study in which the phallus-friendly wonderpill was used by afflicted kids aged five to 18 showed an increase in blood pumped to the lungs and the ability to exert more energy. And since you’re wondering, no sexual side effects were reported in the kids (phew!). “For treatment for erectile dysfunction, you have to have a sexual environment,” said head researcher Dr. Tilman Humpl. “Parents asked this question as well.” International

Police in Nigeria arrested a cow last week after it killed a bus driver who had stopped to urinate on a highway. The horned African bovine was wandering astray when it ran into the peeing man before injuring several bystanders, according to a Nigerian police spokesman. The animal was taken into police custody alive with hopes that the owner can be found and charged. “We applied ingenuity and arrested the cow, which is now being detained at the station,” a policeman said. If their idea of “ingenuity” is arresting cows, I’d hate to know what ideas they find dumb. More dangerous animal news! The state of California has renewed the operating permit of the Animal Haven Ranch in Bakersfield despite the bloody carnage a visitor faced at the hands of two chimpanzees earlier this year. In March, St. James Davis and his wife LaDonna were attacked by two chimps, Buddy and Ollie, who had escaped from their cage. St. James remains in critical condition after the chimps chewed off most of his face, his fingers, a foot and a testicle before they were shot to death. LaDonna, who received a mere bite on the hand during the attack, expressed disappointment that the ranch won’t be closed, but the real tragedy is that no Nigerians were around to arrest the chimps before they were slain. Another chance at “ingenuity” shot to hell. mstratford@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Tories plummet in polls, suddenly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want election

Mark Johnson IMPRINT STAFF

The ups and downs of Canadian politics have become quite apparent to the Conservative Party. As many a journalist has commented, the Conservatives have â&#x20AC;&#x153;managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.â&#x20AC;? Their embarrassing behaviour in recent weeks has reflected badly on all parliamentarians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and they have been punished accordingly in the polls. Since the brokering of the Liberal/ NDP budget deal to save this Parliament and get help to cities, cashstrapped students and the environ-

ment, Liberal and NDP popularity has risen, largely at the expense of the Conservatives. Is it any wonder? The Conservatives initially supported the budget, and then changed their minds, forcing the Liberals to deal with Jack Laytonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NDP. Later, Harper decided that he again supported the budget, and the Tories voted in favour of it in late May. Immediately afterwards, they changed their minds and, working collaboratively with Bloc QuĂŠbĂŠcois MPs, made attempts to stall the budget in committee. There it sits â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to this day. At least the separatists have maintained a clear position: theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been opposed to the budget. The Conservative position, however, seems to change day-to-day. Deputy Tory leader Peter MacKay accused Paul Martin of â&#x20AC;&#x153;spending like a drunken sailorâ&#x20AC;? on his agreement with the NDP. One would guess, from this comment, that the Conservatives

are opposed to the $4.6 billion in additional spending proposed by the Liberal/NDP budget. Why, then, did Harper stand up in the House immediately after the narrow passage of the budget bill and berate the government for not spending enough? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing for workers, nothing for forestry workers [â&#x20AC;Ś], nothing for seniors, nothing for fishermen, nothing to help the Atlantic offshore,â&#x20AC;? he complained. Now we have this alleged bribery scandal that nearly saw two Conservative members of Parliament from the Vancouver area defect to the Liberals just before the big budget vote a couple of weeks ago, an event that served to embarrass both the Liberal and Conservative parties. Basically, it seems we had Tory MP Gurmant Grewal approach the Liberals because he and his wife, Nina (also an MP) wanted to cross the floor and

join the government. Grewal apparently desired a cabinet post for himself and a UN posting for his wife in exchange for abstaining from the budget vote or possibly joining the Liberal caucus. The discussions that took place between the two parties were secretly taped by the Tory MP, suspiciously altered then handed over to the RCMP. This frantic attempt to tarnish the Liberal reputation has backfired on the Tories. Poor Grewal seems stuck in the Conservative Party with no way out. MacKay has stopped defending Grewal; his constituents are furious with him and his career will probably never survive another election. So the Liberals remain Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural governing party, leading the Conservatives nationally in the latest Decima poll by 14 points. The Conservatives had the lead but are now finding themselves in a tight battle

with the NDP for a distant second place. The Liberals deserved castigation for the sponsorship scandal. They retain their â&#x20AC;&#x153;naturalâ&#x20AC;? hold on government only through the NDP. We must be careful, though. Electing a Conservative majority government would punish all Canadians. Perhaps the solution is to elect an NDP government â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a positive but extraordinarily unlikely prospect. No matter how you slice it, the Conservatives are seeing their prospects go down the toiletâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;right along with Stephen Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political career. Memories of Stockwell Dayâ&#x20AC;Ś If an election were held today, God forbid, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d likely return a Liberal minority government with enough NDP MPs elected to form a combined majority. Hey, maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not such a bad idea after all. mjohnson@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Drunk driving with a sober twist Carla Sandham EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh shit,â&#x20AC;? a UW student yelled as the Toyota Matrix he was driving crashed into a lamppost before veering into an oncoming truck. Many other people echoed this studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reaction as they too smashed the car into road signs, other vehicles and even pedestrians. After striking a brick building with the Matrix, Vikram Mand, who is taking an algebra course at UW, was stopped by a Waterloo regional police officer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hard not to hit anything,â&#x20AC;? Mand explained to Const. Christopher Larochelle, of the WRPS traffic branch. Mandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driving mimicked that of a person with a blood alcohol level three times over the legal limit of 80 milligrams, said Larochelle. But, Mand was not drunk. There was no road, no accidents and no charges laid. It was only a video game, with Mand in the driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seat wearing a pair of platinum beer goggles.

He and many other students participated in the drunk driving simulation program in the SLC on June 8. Health Services organized the event with WRPS to bring awareness of the consequences of drinking and driving. The state-of-the-art simulator has been used in high schools for about two years to coincide with WRPS Road Safety campaign on alcohol awareness, said Larochelle. Last week was the first time itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come to UW. The Toyota Matrix driving simulator has three levels of intoxication: low (60 mg), gold (160 mg) and platinum (240 mg). The goggles affect only their vision, said Larochelle. But he added the steering wheel, gas and brake pedal are also adjusted to correspond with the level of drunkenness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t control everything,â&#x20AC;? he said referring to the lack of inhibitions and judgment drunk drivers exhibit. But the message seemed to hit home for Mand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow,â&#x20AC;? he said after getting out of the car. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hard enough to

drive under the limit let alone three times over.â&#x20AC;? Const. Peter Viol, who was also assisting with the simulation, said that on several occasions regional police have caught drivers with a blood alcohol level of 350 mg to 400 mg â&#x20AC;&#x201C; more than three times the legal limit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not unheard of,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding many drunk drivers pulled over are double the limit. While waiting for a chance to drive, Sarah Norton, a third-year psychology student, tried walking a straight line for Viol wearing the Level 2 goggles. Walking a metre besideâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not onâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the line taped to the floor, Norton wobbled side to side, unable to keep her hands behind her back as instructed by Viol. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m like that after one beer,â&#x20AC;? she giggled after regaining her balance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insane. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the level for frosh week.â&#x20AC;? Despite the laughter as students crashed the Matrix, Viol said most of them would likely take the message seriously. csandham@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The views were breathtaking,â&#x20AC;? said Eric, recalling the sights from the top of the Niagara escarpment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could see the CN Tower and there were tons of waterfalls.â&#x20AC;? At one campsite, the brothers watched the city of Hamilton light up as the night sky fell. But the real sights, said Eric, were along the Bruce Peninsula. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasâ&#x20AC;Śbeautiful,â&#x20AC;? he added, struggling to find words to describe it. However, not all sights were as indescribable as those along the peninsula. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We saw a lot of garbage,â&#x20AC;? said Kevin, adding that there were random dump piles along the trail. On the first day, the brothers saw

10 cars pushed over cliffs. They also counted 160 tires. The next day, they counted 96. Physical/emotional challenge

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Physically, it was an adjustment,â&#x20AC;? said Eric. Kevin and Eric left in good shape, but Eric said they were not used to walking 3.5 km/hr and up to five kilometres to escape the buzzing mosquitoes. Kevin, who wore hiking boots until the last week, suffered blisters and numbness in his toes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I still canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel the tips of my toes,â&#x20AC;? he said. Kevinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ankle also swelled from the friction of the bootsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; collar as they walked on uneven ground. Emotionally, the brothers said the hardest part was â&#x20AC;&#x153;keeping the mood up at the end of the day.â&#x20AC;?

One day, they spent more than two hours arguing over what time they should go to bed. Kevin wanted to stay up late, while Eric wanted to go to bed early. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kevin won,â&#x20AC;? said Eric, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was too winded.â&#x20AC;? In the end everything worked out, but not without the help of their parents and Kitchenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Adventure Guide which supplied much of their camping gear. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We never could have done it without them,â&#x20AC;? said Eric, adding their parents always had their food shipped on time and extra money when they needed it. Since returning home, Kevin said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enjoyed having music again, while Eric expressed his love of indoor plumbing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toilets are awesome,â&#x20AC;? he smiled. csandham@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Bollywood cowboys take over Toronto Amanda Kind IMPRINT STAFF

June not only brings humid heatwaves and chaotic thunderstorms, but also the launch of summer fun from the opening of seasonal theatre productions and a plethora of jazz festivals to parades celebrating everything from Shriners to Pride. For many the event that kicked off this year’s summer fun was the glamorous Fashion Cares annual fundraiser benefiting the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) held on Saturday, June 4 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The event was sponsored by numerous international and local businesses including title sponsors The Bay, BMO Financial Group and M.A.C. Cosmetics. Fashion Cares raised close to $1 million for ACT this year to add to the almost $8 milllion which the organization has raised since 1986. Fashion Cares is known for its ostentatious themes and this year was no exception. This year’s unique theme, Bollywood Cowboy, combined exotic Indian-inspired colours and prints with raw western cowboy sex appeal in a strange yet alluring cultural collision.

The breathtaking creations of dynamic designers Wayne Clark, Comrags, Hoax Couture and Mercy were featured in a spectacle of fashion with hundreds of hot models, sexy dancers and memorable music. Jann Arden performed two songs from her newest album including the hit “Where No One Knows Me” to the delight of the fabulously clad crowd. Canadian singer Feist, the Brazilian Girls and Panjabi Hit Squad also played and entertained. In a surprise performance, Erasure, fresh off the stage at Massey Hall, played some of their famous ‘80’s electro-pop to cap off the night. To say the audience went wild is an understatement— they shed their cowboy hats and middle-eastern attire and clamoured onto the stage. Security quickly restored order and the evening ended on a high. The glitz and glam of Fashion Cares will be relived at the end of the month when countless Pride events monopolize Toronto culminating in the parade on June 26 beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Market Street. akind@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Models strut their stuff in Bollywood and western-inspired creations while the crowd dances to performances by Jann Arden and Erasure at the annual Fashion Cares fundraiser in Toronto.

Shower sopranos— breathe your way to better singing

Everybody sings, or at least everybody should sing. Whether it’s Carmen at Carnegie Hall or Hollaback Girl in the shower, we will all utter some tune at some point in our lives; you may as well do it properly. Now, I can’t possibly teach you to sing in the confines of this article, but

I can give you some of the basic principles behind vocalization. The first thing to consider is air. Singing is the expulsion of air from the lungs, through the vocal chords, in a melodic fashion. Something that many shower aficionados do not understand is that air has to be in the lungs in the first place for anything to happen. You need air to sing well. There are two main ways to breathe: shallow and deep. Most of us perform the former all the time without thinking. We only really need to use the top half of our lungs for most of our dayto-day activities however, singing is

June 17 CKMS night at the Grad House featuring Jon-Rae Fletcher, Alun Piggins, The Plaster Cowboys. 9 p.m. Passenger performs at Harry’s Grill, Kitchener. 10:30 p.m. June 18 Passenger performs at The Duke of Wellington. 9 p.m. June 19 Captured! By Robots and Grand Poo Bah at Starlight. 8 p.m. June 20 Colin James at Lil Big Horn Bar and Grill, Cambridge. 9 p.m. June 23 NOFX with Chixdiggit at Kool Haus, Toronto. 8 p.m. June 25 Jazz on the Grand with Katalin Kiss Band at Elora Centre for the Arts. 1 to 5 p.m. Billy Klippert with Madviolet at Bracebridge Arena, Bracebridge. 8 p.m.

definitely not a mundane endeavour. Deep breathing is important because it lets us best use the muscle that controls inhaling and exhaling — the amazing diaphragm (no, not that one, that’s a different kind of heavy breathing. Incidentally, do not put air into your birth control device. I’m pretty sure that can kill you.). Your lungs are like a tube of toothpaste and the diaphragm is like your hand giving it a squeeze. If the tube is full, you can spew paste all over the place with minimal force. But if the tube is empty it takes a lot more work to get out enough to brush with. It’s

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a matter of controlling the air coming out of your lungs, not forcing it. Full breath allows you to relax, but still project with power. The second most important thing to do is practise. I know that’s what mom always said, but the only way to guarantee any improvement in skill is to practice often and practise smartly. Often is easy enough. It’s not like you need any equipment to sing. Make yourself sing all the time! If you are worried about sounding bad, just follow my handy credo: “If you can’t sing, sing louder.” Even if the notes are all wrong, you can always work on

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projection. To practice smartly takes a bit more effort. An important thing to do is make sure you practise with some kind of reference point that is in tune. Sing scales along with a piano. It might be boring, but it teaches you to move between notes properly and expands your range. Finally, make sure that you sing with others every once in a while — that will make sure you know when you sound terrible. We’ve all seen American Idol try-outs. Don’t let that happen to you! dhutz@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

– What is Major Barbara? – Canadian Idol— awesome or awful? – Name any actor who has played Batman. – The haunches? a) shadowy figures that haunt your dreams b) some sort of foreign stomach illness c) the up and coming band that played Starlight last Saturday – What famous movie trilogy is becoming a musical? – Name one group featured at the CKMS concert at the Grad House June 17. Submit your answers to arts@imprint.uwaterloo.ca for a chance to win free CDs. Last week’s answers: 1. The Diskettes 2. Recording artist Ludacris 3. A little of both 4. Longview 5.The Early Morning 6. As You Like It

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Dogtown fails to live up to expectations David George-Cosh IMPRINT STAFF

Lords of Dogtown is quite possibly one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life. The worst I’ll save for Freddie Got Fingered, but Dogtown comes extremely close. You might have heard the story by now, previously explained in the award-winning documentary, Z-Boyz of Dogtown, about a group of surfer boys (Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Stacy Peralta, all played by relative unknowns) who pick up skateboarding and popularize the sport in ways that we can appreciate only now. But the movie strays from the actual documentary story and ends up looking like a badly re-enacted television show. Add the basic skate story, throw in a dash of conflict, romance and wit and you’ve got a hit on your hands, right? Wrong. The acting in this movie fails to be sincere, the dialogue is hokey (we really talked like that in the ‘80s?) and the plot muddles along inconsistently. The director, Catherine Hardwicke, famous for her work on the cult blockbuster Thirteen, forces you to believe everything that’s happening, from seedy company owners to girls flaunting themselves at the skaters with such reckless abandon that you’d think the skaters had invented Tag body spray. Granted, this movie isn’t the complete stinker I could make it out to be. Heath Ledger, of The Patriot and 10 Things I Hate About You fame, does an adequate job portraying the boozy surf store owner who

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Actor Emile Hirsch displays his skateboard talents as Jay in Sony Pictures’ Lords of Dogtown which opened last Friday. coaches the boys to their success, although there are times when he seems to be phoning in his role. Hardwicke also does a good job focusing on making the cinematography as authentic as possible. The movie is filmed in a soft, fuzzy cinematic style that lends to the feeling that we are back 20 years or so.

Upon leaving this movie, the friend who invited me to watch it with him apologized profusely for dragging me along. Do not spend your money on this movie at the theatre. Think for a long time if you’re about to rent this movie and if you want to watch skateboarding, you’ll have a better time buying

a skate video at West 49 or surfing the Internet than with Lords of Dogtown. Better yet, rent the documentary the movie is based on instead— at least you’ll get an accurate portrait of what really happened over in Dogtown. dgeorgec@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Bootlegging is not a crime

I am a bootlegger. No, not the kind of person that brews their own moonshine— I proudly collect and distribute recorded live concerts, otherwise known as bootlegs. Bootlegs have been around for years, and I define them in this column as audio that is recorded outside of the studio that is released into the public domain. This includes live concerts, but also recorded studio tracks that were not intended for release by the artist, label, etc. In a world where views of downloading music are at extremes (it is either threatening or saving the music industry), bootleg trading is highly welcomed into the music lexicon. The artists consent to distribute these shows with the understanding that no one’s making a profit off them, so everything’s gravy. Live concerts have always been part of an artist’s discography. But the hardcore fans (and there’s a lot of them) want more, much more. Bands such as The Grateful Dead and Phish are known for their extensive live concert catalogue. But not every band has taken the time to release a concert with crisp sound and production. That’s where fans, armed with the latest in recording technology, come to the rescue. How to make your own bootlegs? Well, go to a fairly large concert (I recommend somewhere in Toronto) and check out the soundbooth around the back of the venue. If you see a couple of mic stands being attended by some dude with a rock shirt, that show is probably being bootlegged. The recording is made onto a DAT tape or minidisc, copied onto a computer and then

burned or uploaded on the net for mass distribution. It’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it. I remember being a wee lad heading off to the post office with a bundle of envelopes filled with cassette tapes (remember those?). I collected everything from rare Beatles White Album demos to every single recorded Jeff Buckley concert of which I knew. Now, although people still mail off burned CDs, most bootleg trading has been made simpler with the advent of the Internet and broadband connections. The Internet has transformed bootleg trading from something you’d have to scour monthly newsletters for, to just downloading a show that was recorded 24 hours earlier. The increased popularity of BitTorrent, a file-sharing program, has also made it that much easier to get shows. A recent Reuters article claims BitTorrent uses over one-third of all Internet bandwidth. If we assume that only one per cent of that is from online bootleg trading, then there’s a pretty large amount of data being transferred which are solely live concerts. When trading bootlegs, keep in mind two things. One, never profit off a trade— not only is it bad karma, but you’re essentially taking money away from the artist. Secondly, always help out people new to the game— remember, everyone started out with nothing, even you. The trading community may seem quite selfish and at times pretentious, so don’t be taken aback if some jerk screws you over for postage. Bootlegs are a nice treat for fans who know where to find them. When listening to your favourite album starts to get boring, live recordings often add that extra lyric or solo that changes the song entirely. Add a few covers and an everchanging setlist and maybe you’ll begin to see why I love bootlegs so much. dgeorgec@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Dieting not the answer — eat healthy! Stephanie Lim

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The gloomy winter days are over and the hot weather has arrived. But how are UW students staying cool in this heat? While some enjoy the air conditioning at home, others choose — you guessed it — beer and ice cream to help beat the heat. Increased consumption of such drinks and foods brings up the question of whether or not people are exercising enough to burn all the excess fat and energy their bodies are taking in. Health and fitness concerns are on the rise. Morgan Spurlock made a documentary entitled Supersize Me to demonstrate that “you are what you eat” and gained 25 pounds by eating McDonald’s food for a month while creating the documentary. Celebrities such as Dr. Phil and Oprah Winfrey are also emphasizing going to the gym more often and eating healthier. But why the hype? According to Statistics Canada, nearly one quarter of adults who were overweight in 1994/95 were obese by 2002/03, amounting to about 1.1 million Canadians. Obesity is one of the leading causes of heart disease and stroke, accounting for 78,942 or 36 per cent of Canadians in 1999. The Heart and Stroke Foundation suggests monitoring your body mass index (BMI). To calculate your BMI divide your weight in kilograms by your height in square metres. If your BMI is 27 or higher, you are at risk of being overweight. A BMI of

under 18 also means you are at increased risk of heart disease and need to gain some weight. With regular physical activity and healthy eating, Tammy Hoffman of Health Services says “you will increase your energy level, relieve stress and decrease your risk of many health problems such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes, some cancers, osteoporosis and even premature death or disability.” H e a l t h Canada has released ‘Canada’s Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity’ that combines both of their previous food and physical activity guides in order to provide Canadians with a more comprehensive perspective on healthy living. Hoffman recommends referring to this guide for health and everyday choices rather than trying fad diets and quick fixes that deprive the body of essential nutrients and don’t offer lasting lifestyle changes. By following this guide (found at www.eatwellbeactive.gc.ca), eating at regular intervals throughout the day,

including three to four food groups at each meal and limiting foods high in sugar, fat and salt, Hoffman says you will be leading the healthiest life possible. It is also important to include 25 to 35 grams of fibre in your diet daily and to drink plenty of water. Hoffman also stresses the importance of understanding the difference between calories and carbohydrates; calories are the energy we

also recommends that about 45-65 per cent of food energy should come from carbohydrates. Lily Shang, a second year science major, says she enjoys living a healthy lifestyle. Aside from running and weight training, she tries to eat a well-balanced diet in order to stay healthy and physically fit. Unknowingly, she does follow Canada’s Food Guide by eating lots of fruits, veggies, cereal, milk products, and pasta with olive oil. Occasionally she enjoys cookies and ice cream to satisfy her sugar cravings. Though alcohol and soft drinks are popular beverages among students, they contain extra calories and can lead to health problems when consumed excessively. The key is “limiting the amounts,” says Hoffmann. Shang adds, “avoid greasy COURTESY HEALTH CANADA cafeteria foods.” get from foods (i.e. carbohydrates, Health Services and the PAC will proteins and fats), whereas ‘carbs’ hold a nutritional workshop with a include sugars, starches and dietary registered dietitian for $5 at PAC fiber. Foods like grains, fruits and 2021 on June 21 from 5:30 p.m. to vegetables provide us with the en- 7:30 p.m. ergy we need to work and think. She Along with eating well, keeping

fit is the second component to living a healthier lifestyle. This means incorporating physical activity into your life on a daily basis. With the move to a more holistic and fun approach to fitness, Annette Bryndza, Campus Recreation coordinator at the PAC, says Campus Rec offers many instructional fitness programs such as dance, yoga, pilates, personal training, tennis and golf in addition to traditional sports, all at a nominal price. Campus Rec’s programs are run each semester, and more information can be found at www.campusrec.uwaterloo.ca, or in the Campus Rec handbook published at the beginning of each semester. Bryndza adds that all UW students can consult with any of the fitness professionals about starting any new fitness programs at the PAC. She also encourages students to use the school gymnasium, the workout gym at CIF and the PAC, swimming pool, squash courts and other on campus facilities — all of which are free for UW students. With homework, assignments and mid-terms, keeping a regular exercise regime is hard for Shang. Regardless, she tries to get in at least the recommended amount of physical activity to stay in shape and to relax her mind after studying. Of course before beginning any physical activity, you should consult with your physician and a fitness instructor to avoid injuries or health related risks. “Stay active and have fun,” says Bryndza.

Daily exercise leads to a healthier lifestyle Jasjit Banwait SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

Summer is always the perfect time to get in shape and get back into the healthy swing of things. With the fabulous sunshine, hot weather and potential to strip down to barely-there apparel, it is only fitting that physical activity and healthy eating become a part of daily life. When evaluating your health in terms of weight management or muscular proportion, it is essential to re-examine your food intake. A common misconception is that exercising and nutrition are mutually exclusive, but on the contrary, they work hand in hand. While overhauling your diet can be quite time consuming, it is best to consciously make healthier choices in foods. Here are some tips to get you started. Replace fruit juice and soft drinks with ice water. If you’re always on the go, sport a Nalgene bottle or invest in a 24-pack of water bottles. On your next trip to Sobey’s, ditch the blah Kraft Dinner for fresh lean meats and fish with green veggies—much healthier choices for your new healthy lifestyle.

Don’t allow hunger to hit you like a ton of bricks; try to eat small portions of foods every three hours. Healthy snacks can include flavoured, ready made tuna, cottage cheese with grapes, a handful of cashews or almonds, a piece of fruit or a can of V8. Enjoy junk foods in moderation. Think about eating well 80 per cent of the time, and don’t worry the rest of the time. You could also designate one day a week as a junk food day, while eating well the rest of the week. Exercising and living an active lifestyle is probably easier to accomplish

than eating right, especially with the sun shining and the desire to be outside all the time. Get a group of friends together and partake in more outdoor activities such

as beach volleyball, Frisbee, Football, rollerblading, or biking at least four to seven days a week, Make active choices throughout the day, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator, walk briskly to school or standing instead of sitting. If you don’t have time to go to the PAC or CIF to do weight bearing activities, try some free body exercises (no weights). Attempt three sets of 12 repetitions, two to four times a week for each of the following exercises.

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The physical activity pyramid indicates the amount of time you should be spending actively.

To tone your legs try squats (feet shoulder width apart), plie squats (feet diagonally away from each other) and stationary lunges (one step forward). These all involve slowly moving into a low, sitting position, while keeping the back straight and knees not passing the ankle. Other free body exercises are calf raises (transfer weight to toes) and front leg raises (done on an elevated surface where the toes are raised). To tone the stomach, normal crunches are key. However, it is important to change up the crunch to build intensity (raise legs or knees) as your body gets used to the same motions very quickly, this is true for all exercises. To firm up the upper body, try push-up variations (wider or narrow hand placement) which work both sides of your arms and chest Realistically, there is no quick fix solution which will make you look like you belong on the cover of Oxygen or Men’s Health overnight. The only way is through consistent, long term healthy choices, not a diet! Following these tips will allow you to live an active, healthy life.

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Coincidence or miracle?

Passover is one of the biggest events in the Jewish calendar. For eight days Jews abstain from all leavened bread and instead cook massive amounts of food using a large unleavened cracker called Matzoh. Families gather together for the first two nights for a ritual meal known as Seder. It comprises of a long set ritual of prayers, blessings, and consumption of symbolic foods: wine for celebration, eggs for renewal, bitter herbs representing the harshness of slavery, and salt water for tears. There is no Jewish community here in Cambodia who I could celebrate Passover with. I planned to have some stir-fry on rice with a side of mango and maybe some eggs in salt water for my Seder. On Sunday I went to the Cambodian National Museum. Wandering amongst the statues, the irony was not lost on me that I was spending my celebration of the victory of God over idolatry, surrounded by idols. As the museum began to empty, I decided to take some photos. Next to me, I thought I heard someone speaking in Hebrew. “Shalom,” I ventured to the woman walking past. “Shalom,” she replied. This was followed by a string of Hebrew I could barely discern asking where I was from, how I had learned Hebrew, and was I Jewish. After weeks of focusing on Khmer, I was unprepared for the onslaught. I stuttered in three languages simultneously.

She was nonplussed and responded in Hebrew that yes it was Passover, she and her tour group were on holiday though and didn’t much mind missing the rituals and then switched to English and said, “Okay. Bye-bye.” I spent the next ten minutes abusing myself in Hebrew for my inability to communicate. On the way out, the man in front of me mumbled something in Hebrew that sounded like “…. speak Hebrew.” “I speak a bit,” I responded, “You are all … Israeli?” With slightly clearer Hebrew, I attracted a crowd. Between English and Hebrew, I explained my work and life in Cambodia. The group had already had their Seder but one of them had leftover Matzoh to offer me. He invited me to stop by their hotel, so later when I arrived I was warmly welcomed. They gave me enough Matzoh to last the week as well as a large ‘Kosher for Passover’ Toblerone bar. I was amazed and very grateful. Thanking him and everyone else in sight, I merrily biked home. In the market I had found grape drink. I had never seen it here, but an essential ingredient of the Passover Seder is four cups of wine or at least grape juice. The only English on the bottle assured me that it contained “25 pre cent real juice.” This was good enough for me. I threw on my skullcap, put my egg, hot pepper (for the bitter herbs), some soup spices (for green leafy vegetables), and my matzoh in a bowl. It wasn’t quite a ritual Seder plate but I figured it would do. I mixed up some salt water for dipping in a glass and recited what blessings I could in what was almost certainly the wrong order. So this was my Passover miracle. Was it Kosher? Almost certainly not. But based on all of the unlikely events leading up to it I’m loathe to call it all coincidence.

Friday June 24th and Saturday June 25th Friday: Movies: SLC Great Hall ~ Spanglish (9 PM); Constantine (11:30 PM) Campus Cove Night: Unlimited play 9 PM–2 AM. $5 for UW students with Watcard; $7 for Non-UW **Support the UW Food Bank, $1 off admission for each food item donated** Sports: Beach volleyball on Bomber’s court (7:30 – 9 PM) Mexico: Salsa dance lessons in lower atrium of SLC (9 – 11 PM); make a Maraca or an Ojo de Dios in SLC-MPR (9 – 11:30 PM) France: Café Warrior; serving speciality coffee and teas (9PM – 12AM)

Saturday: Movies: SLC Great Hall ~ Guess Who (8:30 PM); Troy (11 PM) International Amazing Race: Teams of two compete to win Great Prizes. India: Get Henna tattoos in the SLC-MPR (9 – 11 PM) Hawaii: Make a Lei outside the SLC-MPR (9 – 11 PM) Japan: Learn how to fold Origami in the SLC-MPR (9 – 11:30 PM) Canada: Ice Cream (10:30pm-11pm)

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My Speedpass is maxed, what do I do now?

I spent $48 filling the gas tank of my Civic this week — an expense that used to cost about $30. Rising fuel prices are affecting everyone, especially students, as transportation costs, whether bus, train, plane or car, are sky rocketing, and students’ wallets are shrinking. For those of us who drive on a daily basis, I have to wonder: are we really going to need to invest in a fleet of Smart cars and Toyota Priuses?

At these prices, a Smart car is looking very attractive. Compressed natural gas, alcohol fuels, electricity, hydrogen, liquified natural gas, liquified petroleum gas, and coal-deprived liquid fuels are all considered alternative fuels. Marketed by the major automotive manufacturers, and a source that is readily available to all vehicle-operating Canadians, is electricity. Hydrogen fuelled vehicles, mainly studied and developed for market purposes by BMW, are also being introduced to market. Electric cars not only offer an advantage over the internal combustion engine in terms of gas mileage, they eliminate damaging emissions that have become a concern to society. An electric engine is powered by an electric motor and an

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The Smart car is small resulting in fewer emissions than the average car. As anyone who has pumped gas knows, the higher the octane of fuel the higher the price. In order to understand what level of octane is optimal for use in your vehicle, here is a quick primer: octane requirement of a particular vehicle depends on the compression ratio of the engine. A higher octane fuel is less volatile and burns slower than fuel of a lower octane. Higher octane fuel contains more potential energy, but requires the higher heat generated by higher compression ratio engines to properly release that potential energy. To determine the compression ratio of an internal combustion engine, compare the greatest volume of the piston cylinder (when the piston is at it’s maximum excusion) to the lowest volume (when the piston is at top dead centre). Or you could check your owner’s manual. A good rule of thumb to follow is that engines with a compression ratio of 9.3:1 or less will operate perfectly fine with unleaded 87 octane fuel. Thus, a higher octane is not always better — not to mention the increased expense. With 87 octane fuel averaging 88.5 cents per litre in KW over the past week, 94 octane fuel, the highest available from a Canadian mass market pump, has reached over $1.

electronic control module. The electronic control module takes its signal from the accelerator pedal and regulates the amount of current and voltage the electric motor receives from the batteries. Electric energy from the motor causes the torque to turn the wheels of the car. The cost of charging an electric car is small compared to that of refuelling a vehicle that runs an internal combustion engine. Simply plug the vehicle into a recharging unit, attached to a building, and in approximately 10 to 15 hours the car will be fully charged, from dead. In the past, small cars such as the Smart and two-door Prius have been the only electric cars available. Today, hybrid offerings in Canada include larger vehicles such as the Honda Civic and Accord. These cars can reach speeds equal to that of a fossil fuel vehicle, and experience quicker acceleration. Gas prices don’t appear to be falling any time soon, and emission laws are rapidly becoming stricter. On the other hand, the cost of owning and operating an electric car is falling. So the next time you’re purchasing a vehicle, why not go electric? kamcgreg@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Step aside burgers, grilled pizza is here

Mediterranean pasta salad Amy Cruickshank SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

Is the heat too hot to handle? Cool off this summer with a light and flavourful pasta salad. This quick and easy recipe is sure to be a crowd pleaser whether its served as a side or on it’s own. This salad also makes great leftovers and will keep fresh in your fridge for up to seven days! The ingredients can easily be found in your local grocery store, and for un-

der $15 it will keep your wallet and your stomach satisfied. So cool off, relax and treat yourself to this refreshing salad, Mediterranean-style. Ingredients: 1 pkg. of Tri-Colour Rotini (spirals) 1 clove garlic, minced ½ red pepper, chopped 2 tbsp. olive oil 6 slices of sun dried tomatoes, chopped 1 jar of basil pesto* ¼ cup of feta cheese Salt and pepper Directions: Boil noodles for seven to nine minutes, until al-dente (firm and slightly chewy). Rinse with cold water (warm water will continue to cook

the noodles and they will become mushy). Chop red pepper, sun dried tomatoes and mince garlic. Put all vegetables into a saucepan . Add olive oil and pesto to vegetables and sautee in saucepan for five minutes (or until tender) on medium heat. Place noodles and pesto vegetable mixture into a large bowl with a lid. Seal bowl and shake for two minutes. Crumble the feta cheese and add to the pasta. Once again seal lid and shake for two minutes. Add salt and pepper for flavour. Chill pasta salad in fridge for about five hours. Makes six to eight servings. *Pesto can be found in most grocery stores for under $4, just look in the pasta sauce section.

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Enjoy your favourite pizza outdoors - grilled. bottom of the pizza is nice and browned and the cheese is fully melted, take the pizza off of the grill and throw it on a plate. Since the crust is well toasted, you’ll either need to cut the pizza or use a knife and fork to devour these bad boys. If all else fails and no utensils are clean or present, fold the pizza like a taco and enjoy. Pizzas make a great snack, but as far as main dishes go, I recommend

complimenting your pizza with a nice side. Choose something that either contrasts or complements your dish. Something creamy like a Caesar salad or some sort of bread dish is a nice contrast while chips and salsa or a bean salad are complementary. As far as side dishes go, I recommend salad, fries or a nice bowl of cereal. janstett@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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If you’ve ever watched Shrek you know that “parfaits may be the most delicious thing on the whole damn planet.” Berry lemon mousse parfait proves the donkey right. Perfect as a dessert or just a midday treat while you lounge outside, this quick and easy no-cook dessert is delicious and refreshing. Lemon juice, lemon extract and vanilla brighten the sweetness of fresh berries to complete this perfect summer dessert. Recipe yield: 8 servings. Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups heavy cream 1/2 cup sugar, divided 1/4 cup lemon juice 1 teaspoon lemon extract 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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add bacon or ham when the mood hits me. Remember that your meats will not fully cook on the pizza so it’s best to precook the meat either partially or fully. For the bacon, 45 seconds in the microwave will do. For the brats, either throw them on the grill or fry them in a pan ahead of time. Barbecue pizza is a great chance to get rid of your leftovers. Don’t be afraid to throw anything on. Except cereal. No cereal on the pizza. You gross, gross people. Finally, when all of your ingredients are heaped on the pizza, top it off with cheese and finally a blast of pepper. I add fresh ground pepper to just about everything I eat (again, except cereal… gross) so always feel free to skip or reduce my pepper instructions. Now it’s time to throw these cheesy bastards on the grill. Keep the grill on low heat and keep the lid down. By keeping the lid down you trap the heat in and allow the ingredients to simmer together and the cheese to melt without burning the bread crust on the bottom of the pizza. Keep checking the pizza every few minutes to make sure everything is going all right. Finally, when the

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I’ve seen all kinds of grilling in my years of barbecuing. I’ve seen people barbecue everything from burritos to apple pie. So, to me, my next adventure does not seem too far off the trodden road. However, to some, the idea of grilling pizza may seem odd — especially if you’re Italian. My pizza recipe in no way resembles true Italian pizza — not that a Meat Lover’s from Pizza Hut is any closer. For starters, most pizzas are baked, not grilled. Secondly, because of the nature of grilling, the toppings on a barbecue pizza need to be stacked. I often start with a base from a mini pizza. There are usually two to three inches in diameter and have cheese and sauce. Since they are frozen, I’ll let them thaw a bit before throwing them on the grill, but by keeping them slightly frozen it’ll take longer to toast the crust, which gives your toppings more time to melt and simmer in the cheese.

Lay your semi-frozen pizza on a baking tray. Depending on how much cheese you like and how much is already on the pizza base, I would recommend adding a thin layer of cheese. Not too much though, save that for the top. Sometimes I add a little homemade sauce to my pizzas. For a quick and easy sauce I add two tablespoons of Frank’s Red Hot with Lime, one tablespoon of tomato paste, a pinch of salt and a dash of vinegar. Next pile on the ingredients. Since barbecues have large open spaces capable of swallowing 1/10 pound burger patties whole, you’ll want to pile the ingredients in the middle so that they don’t fall off into that netherworld below the grill. For my ideal pizza the toppings are roasted garlic (browned in a pan with some olive oil), onions, green peppers, pickled Greek peppers and spicy pepper rings. Having a fine array of different pimento diabolo (spicy peppers) will add heat to your cooking while making a rich flavour. Don’t rely just on hot sauces, try jalapenos or Tabasco sauce as well. For meat, I like to use Bratwurst, especially hot Italian sausages. I also

O PINION Pride and prejudice

KIRILL LEVIN

FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2005

As we begin the rather rapid march towards Pride Week in Canada and most of the world, the rhetoric and pseudo-religious hate-mongering is likewise increasing as every heterosupremacist, from Billy-Bob Backwater to the grandiose Pope himself, decides they can’t let us go without raining on our parade. Of course, this happens every year as pride events begin to roll around, and it’s often right around this period of time that you can hear some of the most blatantly anti-gay discourse. Needless to say, the media absolutely loves it. The Reverend Bill Banuchi, executive director of the New York Christian Coalition, has been the first big name to step up to the plate in fabulous style, saying during an interview with the Mid Hudson News: “We put warning labels on cigarette packs because we know that smoking takes one to two years off the average life span, yet we ‘celebrate’ a lifestyle that we know spreads every kind of sexually transmitted disease and takes at least 20 years off the average

life span according to the 2005 issue of the revered scientific journal Psychological Reports.” Needless to say, this has caused a small uproar for no small number of reasons. For one thing, the suggestion that gays should be given nice, neat little labels so that these “moral” individuals know who all the “dirty little sinners” are has been tried out before. The pink triangle was the solution back in the “glory days” of history, used to designate gay men, while a black triangle was given to lesbians. These symbols were the brother and sister of another ominous symbol: the yellow Star of David, used to pick out those of the Jewish faith back during the days of Hitler and his Nazi party. Wearing any one of these landed you in great danger of falling victim to either a lynch mob, or a concentration camp. The good reverend must have slept through that portion of his history classes… unless he follows the misguided “That Event Did Not Occur” stream of belief, which is a possibility. After all, bigotry knows no boundaries. Beyond the suggestion that society should return to the family values of the Nazi party, Banuchi also manages to show off his amazing ability to do very little in the way of researching his “facts”.

The figures he quotes come from a rather notorious scientist by the name of Paul Cameron, a once-doctor who was expelled from the American Psychological Association in 1984 for ethical violations. Much of his research being heavily biased to the point of near-fabrication, his “research” papers usually being capped off with recommendations for the extermination of gays and lesbians. His other list of accomplishments include being thoroughly debunked and condemned by the UK Press Complaints Commission, and being accused of misrepresentation by a court judge when some of his research was used in a court case back in 1985. Essentially, if you find any of his research believable, then I’ve got a very nice bridge in San Francisco I could sell you, cheap. Despite this, Cameron is the very basis for much of the religious right’s statistics and sound bites, mostly because the media very rarely calls them on it. So, the endless cycle continues; hatred and stupidity hand-in-hand in a marriage headed for disaster, while everyone else stands around and is generally horrified. We’re just waiting for it to backfire — and from the looks of things, it’s all primed and ready to blow. gbarclay@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Harper’s Conservative Party spirals down the toilet pounce on a Liberal-NDP coalition ready for the taking. But oh my, what one month can do — just ask the French. Somehow they managed to lose Paris two weeks after being invaded by the Nazi army in World War II. Mr. Harper’s negative and I must say, I really have to hand it to destructive tone, epitomized by those the Conservative Party of Canada — I devilish little eyes of his, has quickly have seen groups grown tiresome to of people crash those Canadians and burn before, He was riding high not already turned but nothing off by his regreson a wave of quite like this cursive tactics and is rent situation the last person momentum, and that loosely who should be lecresembles the was ready to pounce turing about morHindenburg’s als (as he has to the on a Liberal-NDP descent. government about coalition ready for Not more their authority to than a month govern) given his the taking. ago, Stephen reprehensible perHarper’s posse of sonal and political brash cowboys stance on gay rights he calls his caucus, were striding and environmental concerns. through the House of Commons in His party, it seems, is equally inept. Ottawa like John Wayne in a bad Following the vote on the federal mood. budget in May, Gurmant Grewal, a He was on top of opinion polls, Conservative MP from British still had semi-hottie Belinda Stronach Columbia, surfaced with recordings sitting on his side of the floor, and no alleging that a Liberal cabinet minister one had any idea who the hell Gurmant attempted to “buy” his vote. Grewal was. He was riding high on a wave of momentum, and was ready to See GREWAL, page 11

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The ups and downs of a UW academic career The academic career. An interesting term, that. Some call it an oxymoron. Others call it a creed to live by. Regardless of our perception of the term, the relationship between “real” work and “school” work is something that defines who we are as students. Consider for a moment all the “work” skills we have had to learn in order to be successful students. Time management? Balancing five classes worth of professors, each convinced that theirs is the only class and thus the only class allowed to load you down with homework? Respecting the bottom line? Spending our summers/ Christmas breaks/co-op terms saving

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to cover the ever-rising cost of tuition? Hard work pays off? Contrast the premidterm weeks you spent in the Bomber line versus those spent hitting the books in the library. Don’t get me wrong. Despite the skills we may or may not have learned, I still know many students who flinch when they hear that term: “academic career.” “No,” they protest. “It’s not all about money! It’s about learning, really learning!” Whether intentionally planned or a happy coincidence, I find it interesting that many of these “lifelong learners” often end up in teaching positions — positions that pay healthy five and six figure salaries. Consider, for example, that half of UW’s 800-odd professors earned $100,000 or more last year. Lifelong learning or savvy career move? You decide. Other students make no issue about attending to the, shall we say, “financially salient” aspects of life at a univer-

sity. These individuals have no time for anything that does not bring them more money or at least the opportunity for more money. Will this activity help me get a good co-op job? Great! I’ll do it! What all this will do is help me learn about the world around me, but it won’t help me pay off my new car? Oh sorry, I’m just too busy... For better or for worse though, academics and careers are two deeply intertwined subject areas. By the time this paper hits the stands, I’ll have spent the obligatory “two-and-a-halfhours-of-my-life-I’ll-never-get-back” sweltering in a black polyester convocation gown at a crowded ceremony in the PAC. Lacklustre UW celebrations aside, once everything is said and done I’ll be able to command a far higher salary than I would have without the degree, no matter how much I actually learned while I was here, though I did learn a lot. See CONVOCATION, page 12

Grewal: secret

recordings altered Continued from page 10

Yet within days of being released, respected experts who analyzed the taped phone calls came back with strong evidence that they had been tampered with using crude editing methods, citing extreme changes in frequency of voices and background noise. Possibly the most infuriating part to yours truly was the way in which Mr. Grewal has since dealt with his fiasco — that is by taking a “stress leave,” while still collecting his handsome salary. To understand my vexation with this, let me share my schedule from this past week with you: five engineering midterms, five days. Seriously. Now imagine this — I walk into the dean’s office and tell him, “Listen... this schedule... it’s really stressing me out. I need a leave of absence until, say, mid-October. I want my tuition money back, and while you’re

at it, I’ll take a 4.0 GPA, too. Thanks.” Probably the only thing I would actually get is a good laugh at my expense. And yet, ever confoundingly to me, Mr. Harper accepts this proposal, sending Mr. Grewal off to an extended summer break so long it would make a school teacher blush. Instead of firmly dealing with the situation, the problem has only been awkwardly swept under the proverbial rug to be dealt with at another time. It is this sort of leadership (or lack thereof), that will eventually lead to the demise of Stephen Harper’s reign as the face of the ever-struggling conservative voice in Canada. Then again, you do have to hand it to the guy. After all, he’s managed to make former Canadian Alliance screw-up, er...leader Stockwell Day look good. Now that truly takes a special talent! kruch@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Claire Mousseau

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McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., a leading Canadian textbook manufacturer, recently revealed plans to offer advertising space within its textbooks. The company offers to help corporations “reach a hard-to-get target group [of] 18-24-year-olds” that “spend all their parents’ money” while essentially claiming that magazine ads are ineffective compared to “an ad that is placed in a wellrespected textbook.” The thought of offering a hardcover volume of promotional paraphernalia lazily swathed in formal education is almost unfathomable and screams impropriety. Aside from the obvious distraction ads create, students will more than likely be encumbered with higher textbook costs. Although McGraw-Hill will profit from advertising space, the ad pamphlets will increases production costs and ultimately hurts students. Diana MacDonald, a business development specialist for McGraw-Hill, attempts to alleviate the cold-hearted nature of supply and demand by saying all profit will be contributed to the Institute for the Advancement of Teaching in Higher Education and any conferences the publishing house arranges. Post-secondary students

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are already compelled to pay numerous miscellaneous fees in addition to their tuition; should they not have a say in what organizations, unrelated to their university, extract the last pennies from their pockets? Through collective agreement, the book format, a scholarly binding, is held in a higher regard than magazines and other similar entertainment circulations. Integrating ads into textbooks will decrease their significance as an educational tool. Featuring endorsements seems almost sacreligious because textbooks are expected to contain objective knowledge and truth. Randy Stein, a partner at Grip Media Ltd., says, “textbooks are one of the last bastions [that] should remain pure and sacred.” Imagine skimming through a reprinted version of Genesis 50 and having an ad for a McValue Meal fall out of the pages. Even if you aren’t a religious person, you can sense the unseemly and forced alliance of mismatched intentions. Similar to how the Bible is the sacred and primary reading for certain religious groups, textbooks are the No. 1 source of academic enlightenment for students. While we can’t escape the reality of consumerism, we can advocate against the blatant promotion of mass superficial consumption and deny the chaotic mish-mashing of commercialism and education by refusing to be the advertiser’s billboard. — Marianne Nguyen, Honours English Rhetoric & Professional Writing 2B

Convocation: ceremonies sum up the “academic career” Continued from page 11

Indeed, the convocation ceremonies that overwhelm our campus this week bring us right back home to the issue of the “academic career.” This is the long-awaited promotion, the certificate of achievement we’ve been saving up for. And just as no successful business venture would be possible without its supporters, its mentors and its guides, convocation week will see our campus swarming with thousands of “professional advisors” and “stakeholders” (read: parents) who have come from all corners of the world to oversee how well their “investments” (read: children) have done.

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My own academic career would not have been possible were it not for my own parents — thanks so much, mom and dad! — or the friends, I mean, er, “business network” of people who have helped make this “job” bearable. Thus, it is only my proper and official duty, “Professional Student” that I am, to give a quick but sincere thanks to all those who have made this journey possible, not the least of whom is my little brother Philip, also convocating this week. Cheers, Phil. Thanks, everyone. adilts@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Shedding light on the origins of life at UW Fatema Nahar SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

The question of how embryos are formed is difficult to study and poses complex modelling problems. It requires expertise in many different disciplines such as biochemistry, mechanics, micromorphology and other fields. The solution to this puzzle provides the scientific community with a novel tool which will be extremely useful for testing hypotheses on human embryos without actually carrying out illegal experiments on them. Prof. G. Wayne Brodland and his research team in the department of civil engineering are making the realization a computational model of embryonic morphogenesis. In fact, some important discoveries have been made in their journey towards identifying the forces which enable an embryo to change its shape giving rise to a healthy human baby. The researchers are specifically looking into the spinal malformation known as spina bifida, a disorder which plagues half a million babies throughout the world. As spina bifida takes place during neurulation, a process by which the precursors of the spinal cord and brain are formed, the computational model they’re working on simulates

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The reconstructed surface of an amphibian (axolotl) embryo is represented in this rendering using approximately 1000 triangles.

Dr. Brodland applies a computational model to embryonic morphogenesis in the civil engineering department. this event specifically. As Dr. Brodland says, “The idea of a computational model is that it takes as input the detailed geometry of an embryo and the sub-cellular morphology and mechanical properties of its tissues at a certain stage of development. “It then uses established methods of mechanics to calculate how a mechanical system defined by that input would deform with time.” The software specifically uses the finite-element method, a method often used to analyse complex engineered systems such as tall buildings and automobiles. Model validation is achieved through comparing results of the virtual embryo against a real one. If the predicted motions do not agree with those that occur in real embryos, one is forced to conclude that the current understanding is insufficient to explain the

motions that occur. Differences between model and real embryos can be used to pinpoint regions where differences in mechanical properties or gene expression may be present. A second approach entails the usage of some innovative custommade equipment. A unique robotic microscope was designed and built to take time-lapse photogaphs of developing axolotl embryos. Axolotl embryos were used as their colourations make it easier to identify changes in regions. Brodland explains, “The basic concept is that if a particular point on the embryo can be seen from two different viewing angles, its three-dimensional location must lie at the intersection of those two lines of sight. To overcome error, data from at least three views are used for the reconstruction of each point and sophisticated software is used to

account for errors in camera positioning.” This approach allows the determination of the precise shape of real embryos, calculation of important geometric details such as surface curvatures at any time and location and rates of in-plane and out-of-plane deformation with time. Some interesting and critical results have come about from the research so far. Researchers have been able to perform unbiased tests of any of the 50 hypotheses that had been offered in the literature to explain this critical developmental process. Researchers confirm that only one theory — contraction of apical microfilaments coupled with axial elongation of the embryo — could produce the actual changes of shape. Prof. Brodland explained the simulations also revealed an interesting interaction between the current shape of the embryo and the effect of

NASA practises for Armageddon Sam Brown SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

The majority of Earth’s citizens are completely oblivious to Comet Tempel 1— a four by 14 kilometre large mass that is rifling through space only 106 million killometres away from Earth. To put the size of the comet into perspective, it is roughly one-half the size of Manhattan. Why is this comet of any significance? Much like the movie Armagaddon, NASA plans to blow a small crater into it. There is no danger of Comet Tempel 1 colliding with Earth, but this will be human-

kind’s first view of the inside of a comet. On July 3 at sunset (Eastern Standard Time), the spacecraft, Deep Impact, will allow a small impactor to smash into the comet at 37000km/h. This will occur one day before the comet reaches perihelion (the closest point to the sun). The result of the impact is unknown as this is the first mission of its kind. The impact could feasibly create a 200 metre wide and 50 metre deep crater. It is thought by NASA that the resulting dust cloud will expand around the comet possibly brightening it to a sixth magnitude. (For comparison, the faintest star one can see

under dark sky conditions with the naked eye). The comet could become 15 to 40 times brighter immediately after impact and then lessen within 24 hours or it could have increased brightness for weeks, months or even years. Although Comet Tempel 1 is now moving away from Earth, it is still approaching the sun, so its overall brightness in the coming days and weeks will not change much. During the next several weeks, the constellation of Virgo and the comet will be over in the west-southwest part of the sky as darkness falls and setting soon after

midnight, eastern standard light time. At the moment of impact, it will be situated about 3.5 degrees to the east-northeast of the bluish first-magnitude star, Spica. To get a look at Comet Tempel 1 one needs a star chart, a good telescope and a dark night sky away from cities and towns. It is important to note that NASA stresses the impact with Comet Tempel 1 will be the equivalent of a bruise on one’s arm. It is predicted that the impact will not cause any severe damage to the comet and a glimpse of the inside of the comet will provide significant insight into the universe.

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a fixed set of forces. As the geometry of the embryo changed, a single fixed set of driving forces was able to produce ridges at the edges of the neural plate, followed by narrowing of the plate and, finally, rolling up of the plate. Lastly, they also accidentally discovered that the universally accepted differential adhesion hypothesis was mechanically invalid which thus led to a new theory. The future holds some interesting prospects for this research. The computational model can extrapolate the morphogenetic movements of human organs such as the eye, heart, lung etc. Thus the common malformations of these organs can be studied with the software as well. At the full completion of the project one should be able to use the virtual embryos to conduct experiments in lieu of real human embryos.

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Warriors welcome “one of the best” Waterloo defender Carissa Casselman says team misses Kadar, but excited about Heaney Rod McLachlan IMPRINT STAFF

Only time will tell how things work out with UW’s latest women’s hockey coach, Geraldine Heaney. However, for now at least there is a certain level of excitement surrounding her arrival, commented second-year defender Carissa Casselman in a recent question and answer session for Imprint. In April of this year, UW athletics announced the hiring of Heaney, a seven-time world champion with Team Canada and an Olympic gold and silver medallist. The Irish-born Canadian citizen replaces Mike Kadar, the Los Angeles Kings’ strength and conditioning coach who hopes to return to his post should a resolution be found to the National Hockey League’s lockout. Although this is the second coaching change for the Warriors in a fourmonth period — Kadar took over the helm from Bill Antler who resigned from his coaching position during the 2004 winter break — Casselman

believes hiring Kadar was still beneficial. “I do think we need more stability, but I also think that appointing Mike Kadar as the head coach was an excellent move even if he was not permanent,” said Casselman. “Mike helped our team in so many ways.” During Kadar’s time with Waterloo from early January 2005 until the end of the regular season, the Warriors improved from a 3-7-1 record to 8-11-3. Although the surging Warriors were able to make the postseason, they quickly exited from the suddendeath OUA playoffs, falling 4-1 to the Brock Badgers. Casselman now says that she is expectantly waiting for some more permanence behind the bench with the addition of Heaney. “I am looking forward to being able to settle down with Geraldine as coach but I also feel that the changes that our team has gone through with coaching has been necessary and will

benefit us overall,” offered Casselman. “Changing coaches halfway through the season was a difficult adjustment but I did not take long to be at ease with Mike as head coach. He was a great coach and has set the bar

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very high for Geraldine.” Nevertheless, Casselman is rightfully aware of the 37-year-old Heaney’s impressive hockey achievements. Heaney, who has oft been called “the Bobby Orr of women’s hockey” and retired in 2002, recorded 93 points for the Canadian national team and is also the team leader in career games played at 125.

“I am extremely excited,” commented Casselman on the appointment of Heaney. “I think it will be great for our team. Having two very highly qualified coaches looks great for our team and hopefully it will draw in some great talent for the years to come. It is an honour to have Geraldine as our new head coach as I have watched her for years while she played for Team Canada.” Although Casselman has never met Heaney, she is sure that the Canadian superstar will help the Warriors improve both the offensive and defensive aspects of their game. “She has a great knowledge of the game and I am sure she will bring in some great systems for our team,” mentioned Casselman. “We have improved a lot since Mike joined our team, but we still need a lot of work. I am sure she will be very disciplined and have intense training for us to do both during off and on season, which is what our girls need to do.” For many of the Warriors, watching Heaney play on the international

stage while was always a thrill. “It is an honour to have Geraldine as our new head coach as I have watched her for years while she played for Team Canada,” said Casselman, who is among those that saw Heaney as a player to model themselves after. As for the concern that Heaney may focus too much on one aspect of the Warriors’ game, Casselman is confident that her new bench boss will bring more than a single-minded approach to Waterloo. “I think she will bring great knowledge to our defensive game but I don’t think she will focus primarily on defence. Our team needs work in all areas and I am sure she will bring all of her knowledge to both our offensive and defensive areas of the game. “I am [on] defence and I find it an honour to be able to be coached defensively from one of the best defenders to play the women’s game.” rmclachlan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Warriors finish fifth at university golf championship Warriors’ captain Justin Fluit shines for Waterloo, finishing with a four-round individual total 291 to place sixth

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Fluit continues to shine for UW

The University of Waterloo’s men’s golf team recently finished fifth at the Canadian University College Championship conducted by the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA). The RCGA is the governing body of golf in Canada, representing close to 400,000 members nationwide. They provide core services such as the rules of golf, handicapping, support of turfgrass and environmental research. The championship, which ended June 10, was held at Duncan Meadows, BC. The University of Victoria Vikes men’s team benefited from their home course advantage as they took their third title in three seasons finishing 26 strokes ahead of the second place University of British Columbia Thunderbirds. Vikes team captain Todd Halpen commented on their four-day round, “The great thing about this team is how deep we are, if one of us plays

bad we know someone else is going UW continued to excel into days to help out.” three and four as Mark Vanderbeek Depth was definitely a part of the shot a 75 and 76 round respectively, team’s victory as a new player held the following just behind their captain team’s low round score each day. each day. There were 20 university and colWaterloo’s final day team score of lege teams competing in the champi- 304 solidified their fifth place finish onship, each with five members per overall. With outstanding performteam with the best four scores each ances coming from each team memday counting towards the total team ber, the Warriors were the top Onscore. tario finishers. The UW Warriors finished with a As well as the teams fifth place final team score of 1199, only 47 finish, the Warriors had another reastrokes behind the lead team. son to celebrate as their captain, Fluit, The Warriors posted 303 on day finished with a four- round total of one, putting them in seventh place. 291, placing him sixth in individual Captain scoring. He conJustin Fluit, who tinues to prove was recently his ability as one “The great thing awarded the of the best CanaUW’s Totzke dian varsity golfabout this team is Trophy for male ers around. athlete of the how deep we are, if Meanwhile in year, shot the low women’s chamone of us plays bad score for day one pionship action, we know someone the with a par 72 UBC while Chris else is going to help Thunderbirds Vredeveld foltopped the Westout.” lowed with a 74 ern Mustangs’ round. —U of Victoria Vikes’ captain team score of Day two Todd Halpen 1282 with a 1276, brought a stunrallying from ning two under eight strokes bepar from rookie Arjun Walia and a 73 hind to overtake the lead. With this round from assistant captain Jud victory the Thunderbirds captured Whiteside. Their day-two team score their third consecutive national title. of 293 was the second best score of Because women’s golf won’t bethe day moving them up to fourth come an official OUA sport until this place overall. fall, UW’s team, which will be led by

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Powerful outside hitter Bojana Josipovic has committed to UW. coach Carla Munch, did not compete. Local volleyballer commits to UW

The Warriors women’s volleyball team has recently announced the commitment of their top recruit, Bojana Josipovic, a strong outside hitter.

The graduate of Grand River Collegiate Institute, a public secondary school located in Kitchener, will attend the University of Waterloo this fall. See STAR, page 15

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MAD-LIBS for the Stanley Cup Finals

It just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like mid-June. Yes, the days are getting longer and the UV index is crisping skin across the nation. But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care what the calendar says. It just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like June when you flip through the sports pages, because something is missing. There is no NHL coverage. Granted, there hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been NHL coverage since last June, save the ultrafrequent template story about labour negotiations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a story that has appeared in hundreds of papers thousands of times, yet never seems to change. But now that summer is upon us, the reality of a lost season is, well, a reality. I open the sports page expecting to see the Stanley Cup parade and all I see is the face of grim death disguised as a short New Yorker with a pinstriped suit (see: Bettman, Gary). Well, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sick of reading overdramatic hockey obituaries in the sports pages of every publication on the newsstands. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for some creative intervention. Cue the Mad-Libs. You remember Mad-Libs, right? They were those loveable childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

word games that let you build your own story when there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t one otherwise. All you had to do was fill in the blanks with a word from the appropriate category (indicated in parentheses) and you had a zany, mixed-up and downright silly tale. And nothing was more zany, mixed-up and downright silly than the NHL un-season of 200405. With that in mind, Two-Minute Warning is proud to present the 200405 NHL end-of-season newspaper report, Mad-Libs style.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for some creative intervention. You remember MadLibs, right?

Associated Pressings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Over 300,000 people lined the streets of ______________ (city) to catch a glimpse of their beloved _________ ______________ (team name, excluding the Maple Leafs) as the 2005 Stanley Cup champions arrived home after a harrowing game seven overtime victory over _________________ (team name, Maple Leafs is ok here). The championship marked the first in many years for the city, excluding the

extreme chess league championship in 1997. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has been such a roller coaster ride,â&#x20AC;? said Conn Smythe Award winner ________________ (player). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so hard to even find an adjective to describe the feeling. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just been ________________ (adjective).â&#x20AC;? The finals culminated in a seventh and deciding game, a contest that reached ________ (number) periods of overtime before a winner was declared. The Cup-winning goal came in odd fashion, as a dump-in clanged off the helmet of _______________ (referee) and into the slot area, where ___________________ (heroic forward) deposited a rather weak shot past _________________ (goat goaltender). It was the highest-scoring final in league history, as the teams combined for a heart-stopping 74 goals in the seven-game series. Television ratings were also uncharacteristically high in the United States, marking the first time since ___________________ (Biblical reference) that anyone outside of Canada actually cared about NHL hockey. The league will now turn its focus to the 2005-06 season, and the early odds makers have the Stanley cup favourite to be __________________ (team, excluding Leafs again). â&#x20AC;&#x201D;with files from _________________ (your name)

Star: Grieve ropes in local player Continued from page 14

Her Grand River C.I. Renegades coaches Sue Senior and Margaret Howell had this to say about their powerful hitter: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bojana Josipovic] brought our team to a whole new levelâ&#x20AC;Ś not just in terms of her skill and talent but, more importantly, her ability to motivate the teamâ&#x20AC;Ś to play with heart.â&#x20AC;? In 2005, Josipovic helped lead the Renegades to a CWOSSA championship and later a fourth place finish at the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;AAAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; OFSAA provincial championships. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bojana will be an excellent addition to the Warriorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; program. She brings terrific athleticism, competitive fire and strong character to our team,â&#x20AC;? said Warriors head coach Jason Grieve. Renegade coache Howell commented on the character of their

departing athlete, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her positive attitude and love of competition is infectious. She has been a role model for teammates and competitors alike.â&#x20AC;? If the seemingly unanimous reviews of Waterlooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new recruit prove to be correct, she will be an exceptional and significant addition to the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She believes strongly in (and will play a significant role in) the path and future success of our program,â&#x20AC;? stated coach Grieve. As the first Kitchener-Waterloo area recruit, Josipovic will join a revamped group of outside hitters including third-year athlete Jenna Schroeder (Regina, Sask.) and sophomore hitter Gaby Lesniak (Hamilton ON). Bojana, who has been admitted into honours arts, majoring in psychology, will wear no. 13 when she takes to the court this fall. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;with files from UW athletics

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or e-mail eventrsvp@uoguelph.ca. Saturday, June 25, 2005 Association Des Francophones de Kitchener-Waterloo (AFKW) is hosting St. Jean Baptiste celebration today from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. at Laurel Creek Conservation area. Campsites will be reserved. For tickets/info call Pierre at 8946058. Wednesday, June 29, 2005 Support Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Kitchener-Waterloo and area by joining in on the first annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCR Drive and Dine.â&#x20AC;? For info call 579-5150 or www.bbbskw.org. Friday, July 1, 2005 UWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s massive Canada Day celebrations are once again getting organized. New attractions are pony rides and an exotic petting zoo. Special guest appearances by three-time Juno award nominee Emm Gryner and Robert Munsch. Volunteers are still needed to make the day a success so contact canadaday@uwaterloo.ca. More info can be found at www.canadaday.uwaterloo.ca.

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