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imprint . uwaterloo . ca Friday, March 9, 2007 vol 29, no 30 Finalist in the Ontario Community Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Award’s General Excellence category

playoff hopes dashed

Warriors meet defeat in the OUA semi-finals James Rowe staff reporter

The Battle of Waterloo once again lived up to its name in the OUA semifinal series between the Warriors and the Golden Hawks.

After two hard-fought and entertaining games, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks advanced to both the OUA and CIS Championships with a 7-6 overtime win over UW Warriors in front of a sell-out

crowd at the CIF arena on Friday, March 2.

The win, coupled with WLU’s 5-3 home win in the opening game, gave the Golden Hawks a two game sweep and marked the second consecutive year in which they eliminated the Warriors from the post-season.

The Warriors got off to a quick start in game two when Bryan Fitzgerald beat Laurier goaltender Jeff MacDougald for a power play goal just over two minutes into the first period.

That goal ignited a wild opening period that saw the two teams combine for nine goals.

Laurier’s Jeff Borrows and Waterloo’s Ryan Macgregor each scored making it 2-1 for the Warriors before Laurier pulled out in front.

Rob Dmytruk scored a power play goal to tie things up and then WLU’s top scorer, Mark Voakes, scored two beautiful goals in the span of 58 seconds to give the Golden Hawks a two goal lead.

On both goals, Voakes was able to beat the Waterloo defensemen and get into the slot before beating UW goaltender Curtis Darling high. Voakes scored one goal on his backhand to Darling’s blocker side and one on his forehand that beat Darling on the glove side.

The lead was cut in half by the Warriors with just over two minutes to go in the period. It was Macgregor who beat MacDougald for his second goal of the game.

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Laurier was able to regain their two goal advantage less than a minute later when diminutive winger Nick Vergeer finished off a pretty passing play at the side of the net for a power play goal.

It looked like the Golden Hawks would have a two goal lead after the first period but with just two seconds left on the clock Waterloo’s Shane Hart scored to make it 5-4 in favour of Laurier after just 20 minutes of play.

See OUA, page 34

“The luckiest thing about me wasn’t that I was born at 24 Sussex, it was that I was born Canadian.”

— Justin Trudeau Trudeau speaks about environmental issues before audience at Hagey Hall See page 3

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news@imprint.uwaterloo.ca News Editor: Suzanne Gardner News Assistant: Narmeen Lakhani

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Trudeau encourages youth to be Feds calls U-Pass leaders of today, not tomorrow

referendum Michael L. Davenport staff reporter

Mohammad Jangda

Justin Trudeau, son of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, discussed everything from the environment to politics in a 75-minute lecture and question-and-answer period hosted by the UW Diversity Campaign.

Ashley Csanady staff reporter

Speaking to a crowd of everyone from students to seniors, an engaging and charismatic Justin Trudeau encouraged youth to take a leadership role in fighting climate change and shaping the future of Canada.

It’s hard to listen to Justin Trudeau without thinking of his father — and not just because he’s the late prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, but also because the comparisons are endless. Both are charismatic speakers, snappy dressers, a hit with the ladies and passionate about Canada. Although similarities are plentiful, when Justin Trudeau spoke at Hagey Hall March 5, 2007 it was his own ideals and charisma that captivated the audience and not those of his father.

A former high school teacher, Trudeau promised to engage his audience as much as possible because he claimed there is “nothing worse than being talked at for an hour.” And engage his listeners he did — perhaps a bit too much for a few audience members, as one heckler constantly berated the environmental activist, youth advocate and burgeoning politician throughout the night.

Focusing most of his attention on the environment, Trudeau stressed the need for a combination of individual action and leadership

from the government to resolve the issue of climate change. He encouraged students to take a leadership role when it comes to the environment, saying, “For me, the greatest hope right now in making this change happen is right here in our universities with our young people.”

Making otherwise bleak subject matter more encouraging and positive, Trudeau coloured his speech with anecdotes regarding his father, tales of the environmentally friendly changes he’s made personally and a sense of self-effacing humour.

Following a story about receiving a razor that belonged to his grandfather which was later passed on to him, Trudeau said we live in a disposable society and are creating needs for ourselves with inventions like disposable razors.

He emphasized that recycle is the last of the “Three Rs” and that we need to remember to reduce and reuse first.

From switching to biodegradable non-toxic cleaning products to sharing a hybrid car with his wife to eating less red meat, Trudeau listed a plethora of ways that he has personally altered his life to be more environmentally friendly.

Among the more standard suggestions of carpooling and using compact fluorescent light bulbs, Trudeau also recommended considering the positive impact of buying locally-grown instead of organic strawberries that are flown in from California. For him, there are “huge

things that we can do as individuals” and he stressed that “we need to be a lot more aware of our own footprints.”

While most politicians encourage youth to be the “leaders of tomorrow,” Trudeau countered this by saying that “the fact is, we don’t need people to be leaders tomorrow, we need people to realize right now, today, is where we desperately need leadership.”

Despite this need, Trudeau is acutely aware of the apparent apathy today’s youth have with regards to partisan politics. He described the situation as a “catch-22 of sorts,” and said that a lot of youth vent this frustration by funneling their energies into non-governmental organizations because these groups appear to accomplish more tangible results.

“The perception is that partisan politics don’t actually get much done,” said Trudeau in an interview with Imprint. “The only people who join Young Liberals, Young NDP, Young Conservatives — when the Conservatives actually deign to have a Young Conservatives — were the people who wanted to play politics and not the people who actually wanted to make a change.” He further explained how the Liberal party wishes to break the “vicious cycle” that has arisen and reach out to youth more directly in policy formulation.

See TRUDEAU, page 7

It was once said that the U-Pass issue wasn’t a question of if a referendum would be held, but when. Now it’s not a question of when you are going to vote, but how. The Federation of Students is holding a referendum at the end of the month, tentatively scheduled for March 28 and 29. Feds referendums typically have “yes” and “no” committees, each debating its side of the issue and raising public awareness of the referendum. Expect the campus to be carpet-bombed once again with posters in the near future.

ES councillor Drew Adams circulated a petition back in January, gathering approximately 2,500 signatures in two days. While the petition was never “officially” submitted (and thus the actual referendum question is different from that on the petition students signed), Adams met with Feds vice president administration and finance Renjie Butalid, as well as the Feds board of directors. Adams’ success in accumulating so many signatures in such a short span of time was enough to convince Feds to resume negotiations with Grand River Transit last January and work out the details of implementing a pass.

Adams is pleased with the result. “A lot of progress has been made since the issue was brought to council in January and I’m very pleased with where we stand now. The issue wasn’t how a referendum would come about but rather that there would be one this term.

Ultimately, I think the system Feds has chosen to move forward with will be very beneficial to all students involved but what’s important is that students will finally have the chance to decide for themselves on the issue.”

Feds math councillor Eric Logan, who also sits on the Feds Board of Directors, commented on the progress: “The question on the petition was far less specific than what we have brought forward. In the past two months, the executive has been in extensive negotiations with Grand River Transit, to the point where we expect a signed letter of intent from GRT by week’s end, completely laying out what students can expect if they vote in favour of the bus pass. Indeed, this has allowed us to write a very specific and unambiguous question.”

The motion reads, “Do you support a Universal Bus Pass (U-Pass) at a cost of $41.08, plus an administration cost of not more than $9.50, subject to increases due to inflation and student demand, to be paid by each full-time undergraduate student per academic term, scheduled for implementation in September 2007, and which will be reviewed in three years?” Most students following the issue expected a fee near the $40 mark, but to some the additional $9.50 “administration cost” comes as a surprise. It was also, in part, why Feds was concerned about Adams’ petition, as it made no mention of administrative fees.

Wilfrid Laurier’s bus pass is simple: students show their OneCard and they get on the bus — but that system would never work for UW. “The University of Waterloo, and I want to stress this, is very, very different compared to other schools...in the sense that we have a lot of different categories of students on campus,” Butalid said. He went on to explain that with co-op students, grad students and part-time students all holding a WatCard, our authentication process would have to be more complex than Laurier’s. “We’re still in the process for determining what the price point should be for that administration cost.”

See U-PASS, page 4

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Peter Etril Snyder stands beside a completed mural of Parasaurolophus dinosaurs displayed at UW’s Earth Sciences Museum.

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U-Pass: rules laid out at last Continued from page 3

“The reason we set [the referendum question] at $9.50 is because we thought that would be the maximum. It could potentially be lower,” said Butalid. The plan that students would actually pay in September has not been finalized.

Several ideas were considered for keeping track of which students had paid the fee in a given term, including mailing out stickers to be applied to WatCards or another piece of identification entirely. And though those options would seemingly be cheap (i.e. not requiring a $9.50 fee), in reality they are a logistic nightmare.

Instead, the $9.50 will go towards equipping all busses with a WatCard swipe system.

“What that entails is a WatCard reader on every bus — we’re budgeting it for 210 busses, that’s the figure the region of Waterloo gave us. Every bus would have a WatCard reader system, and it would be connected online to a server at the Watcard office which has information from the registrar’s office, as to the [valid] student ID numbers,” Butalid said It may seem elaborate, but seemingly cheaper systems would incur other costs.

Butalid spoke of the chaos that would ensue asking 22,000 students to pick up a physical bus pass, or mailing out 22,000 bus passes by hand. “It would have to be done every term. It would be a very tedious task. And then we’d have to deal with the fallout of students not getting their bus pass, not getting it in a timely fashion, and complaining that they’d already paid for it.”

Butalid credited Bud Walker of UW’s office of business operations for swaying him in that direction.

Walker made the case for technology, saying, “What you want to do is try and minimize the manual intervention to a system like that. The more things you can do in an automated or electronic fashion, the better. [...] We’d want to try and do as much electronically, because it has more integrity if you do that than manual systems, which are more prone to individual errors.”

Butalid also praised the other benefits to this system. “The simplest model would be to use modern technology. And I think Waterloo’s always been innovative in that aspect.” He pointed out that this technology would allow Feds to track ridership and see where service improvements work best.

Neither Walker nor Butalid thought the September deadline was an impos-

sible challenge, as much of the infrastructure for the GPS WatCard reader system is already in place. Consider that it is currently possible to charge a Waterloo Taxi to one’s WatCard.

Not only will undergraduates be voting on a referendum, but graduate students will be holding their own bus pass referendum concurrently with the Feds referendum. Ian McKinnon sits on the board of directors for the Graduate Students Association and has been taking care of the U-Pass issue from his position. Said McKinnon, “What happened during all the negotiations is GSA sat in on them, [and] GRT said we can hop on board with whatever decision Feds makes.”

He went on to explain that it made sense for the GSA referendum to piggyback on the notoriety the Feds referendum was sure to get, and be on board for the bus pass from day one rather than try to get in on the action later.

However, the GSA referendum question reads, “Do you support a universal bus pass for full-time graduate students with a non-refundable cost of not more than $48.60 per term subject to inflation, provided there are significant transit service increases and there is a review of the fee in three years?” The strange case is that the “transit service increases” is dependant on the success of the undergraduate referendum; there are 22,000 undergraduate students but only 3,000 graduate students.

If the undergraduate referendum question is voted down there will likely not be a bus pass for graduate students, no matter how their referendum vote goes. Three thousand do not have the same bargaining power as 22,000 or 25,000, and will likely not be able to get the services increases on their own.

Butalid commented, “If the referendum fails, I will only have one more month in office, so what I will do is highly recommend to the next Feds executive, is to look at the possibility of a refundable bus pass. Or not even refundable, but an opt-in bus pass.” We already have those opt-in passes for $148 for three months, but Butalid holds out hope that we could get a better deal.

It seems that no matter the outcome of this referendum, the U-Pass will be a persistent issue on campus in the coming year. mdavenport@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Apprentice contestants tackle Unique PhD program real-life business challenges in work and health comes to UW Suzanne Gardner news editor

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Adrienne Raw reporter

The UW Apprentice is a four-week business competition that began February 14 and finishes March 14. Modeled after the hit TV show The Apprentice, the UW Apprentice showcases talented UW students participating in real-life business challenges. Students compete in five teams of five: three faculty teams (arts, math and engineering) and two interfaculty teams. At the end of the competition, the winning team will receive a $1,500 prize.

Teams were chosen through an online application process in January. Interested applicants answered questions ranging from what entrepreneurship meant to them to giving examples of their past volunteer or work experience. “We [received] a good response from students,” said Thanoosha Sivakumaran, organizational chair for the Entrepreneurs Association of the University of Waterloo (EAUW). “It was difficult narrowing it down to the final 25 but we had to.”

Title sponsor SGNT Technologies provided a real-life product for the first challenge: their new fingerprint sign-out system. Teams have been preparing marketing plans for

the system since February 14. They presented their marketing plans in a 15-minute presentation on March 5 before a panel of judges — called The Trumps. Their marketing plans included a discussion of the target market (chosen by the team), an evaluation of the product’s pros and cons and an outline of possible sales leads.

“UW Apprentice teams really appreciated the chance to apply their classroom knowledge to take on a real-world scenario,” said Sivakumaran. SGNT Technologies is also willing to offer employment opportunities and commissions to students who developed promising plans.

The second challenge, the “Tshirt city sales challenge,” took place on March 6. Teams sold Waterloo T-shirts and Prize Fighter CDs in the SLC and off-campus to raise money for the Global Fund. All proceeds from the sales will go straight to the charity.

As of press time, challenges three and four had not been announced, though they are scheduled for March 8 and March 14.

The Entrepreneurs Association of the University of Waterloo hosts the competition. The EAUW is a non-profit organization that supplies

resources and education for students interested in starting a business.

Founded in 2000 by Cyrus Mills (computer science) and Zafrin Nurmohamed (computer engineering), the organization provides services for over 600 students, alumni and faculty.

The UW Apprentice is EAUW’s major event. The competition runs yearly and is in its third year. Due to student interest in the competition this term, the EAUW plans to run another event in the spring term.

The EAUW also hosts guest lectures and case study competitions through monthly e-mails called the EAUW Digest.

Sivakumaran believes that the UW Apprentice is an important event for students. “UW Apprentice promotes leadership and provides a better understanding of the dynamics and complexities of team work,” she said. “EAUW hopes that by organizing events such as UW Apprentice, more students will be encouraged to develop their entrepreneurial skills.”

If you’re interested in competing in the next UW Apprentice, keep an eye on their website (www.eauw.ca/apprentice/) or their Facebook group (called UW Apprentice).

The University of Waterloo will admit graduate students into Canada’s first interdisciplinary doctoral program in work and health next September.

This unique program will provide graduates with the expertise to deal with rising rates of workplace stress around the world.

Recent studies have explained these increasing stress levels: a report by the International Labour Organization for instance cites one in ten workers as suffering from depression, anxiety, stress or burnout — all of which could lead to unemployment or hospitalization.

Jim Rush, associate dean of graduate studies and research in the faculty of applied health sciences, explained that “despite the importance of work and health issues, and growing research activity and support, there has been a lack of training opportunities for students at the doctoral level. We want to offer students a richer, broader and more integrated graduate education in work and health than is otherwise available in Canada.”

The program rightly earns the title of “interdisciplinary,” as it involves three different departments in the faculty of applied health sciences: health studies and gerontology; kinesiology; and recreation and leisure studies. Graduates from this program could find employment at places such as universities, government ministries of labour and health, and workplace health and safety associations.

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integrative, multi-disciplinary training program with a specific focus on work and health and the breadth of our program,” said Rush.

Nancy Theberge, associate chair for graduate studies in the kinesiology department of the faculty of applied health sciences, commented on how work-related illnesses and injuries are a growing concern. A report from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board cited that more than 270,000 workplace illnesses and injuries occurred in Ontario in 2004. “These work-related concerns are occurring in a context of rapid change in both the composition of the workforce and the nature of work,” said Theberge, noting that 60 per cent of working-aged women no longer work inside the home in Canada.

“All these developments point towards the need for students who are better equipped to face the challenges of work-related health issues in the 21st century,” said Rush. The new program will help establish UW as the leading Canadian training ground for students interested in completing doctoral studies in this field.

The program will also help meet several of the objectives of UW’s new 10-year strategic plan, which aims to create more graduate programs in professional fields, as well as increasing the enrolment of graduate students at UW to 8,000 by 2017.

“The next 10 years promise to be exciting ones for all involved in graduate education at UW,” said Ranjana Bird, dean of graduate studies. sgardner@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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SAS spills on Coke allegations christine ogley

Narmeen Lakhani assistant news editor

The University of Waterloo chapter of Students Against Sweatshops (SAS) is petitioning for a ban on Coca-Cola products at UW following allegations of human rights violations by the beverage company.

SAS efforts follow an international “Campaign to Stop Killer Coke,” initiated by a lawsuit in July 2001 that the International Labour Rights Fund and the United Steelworkers of America filed against Coca-Cola. The lawsuit represented SINALTRAINAL, a Colombian labour union whose leader was killed at a Coke bottling plant in Colombia. This and other alleged killings of Coca-Cola members of labor unions have been an issue in Colombia since 1989, according to www.killercoke.org.

The United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) campaign added to this list of CocaCola’s crimes by stating, “The vast majority of these murders have been carried out by right-wing paramilitary groups (a.k.a death squads) on an ideological mission to destroy the labour movement…

In the case of Coca-Cola, according to numerous credible reports, the company and its business partners have turned a blind eye to, financially supported and actively colluded with paramilitary groups in efforts to destroy workers’ attempts to organize unions and bargain collectively.”

USAS also accuses Coke of “the environmental devastation of communities in India, beating and firing workers in Turkey as a means of union busting, firing of workers in Indonesia simply for passing out pro-union literature, [and] the threatening of workers in Guatemala for talking about forming a union.”

Coca-Cola has responded to these widespread allegations by publicizing the dismissal of the lawsuit in Columbia. On September 29, 2006, Judge Jose E. Martinez in Miami dismissed the most recent case against Coca-Cola: “Plaintiffs allege that the defendants hired or conspired with paramilitaries (or local officials in one of the cases) to ‘rid’ four Colombian bottling plants of the Sinaltrainal Union and that the Colombian government endorses or tacitly condones this activity…

In conclusion, this court finds that it does not have subject matter jurisdiction. These four cases pres-

ent difficult issues of law regarding the vicarious liability of corporate entities in the context of the ATCA [Alien Tort Claims Act]…”

Coke is also welcoming an investigation by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on activities of bottler plants in Colombia. USAS, however, believes that this investigation, having supposed to have begun about a year ago, has had no impact on Coca Cola’s behavior thus far.

Miriam Papps, member of UW’s Student Against Sweatshops, described the rise of the concern at UW as having joined the international campaign about one year ago. After much research, SAS presented the issue to the larger student body just recently in February.

SAS also began a petition through its awareness booth on February 8. “We would like to have a referendum after people are more aware of the issues,” said Papps in a recent interview.

When questioned about the weight of Coke’s defence against SAS’s allegations, Papps said, “I don’t see it as addressing the actual issues... they care about their industry and they want to preserve that.” She believes that Coca-Cola’s publicity only represents “minimal points” to consider against their crimes.

Papps directed Imprint to a report by an independent delegation from New York that went to Colombia in January 2004 to research the alleged misconducts of Coca-Cola. The delegation was headed by New York City Council Member Hiram Monserrate.

The report included in its findings, the statement that “the delegation heard testimony from dozens of Coke workers and family members who had either been the victims of violence and terror or who were eyewitnesses to them. The volume of this testimony was overwhelming, and the pattern that emerged was undeniable: union workers and especially union activists and leaders were targeted again and again in a systematic effort to silence the union and destroy its ability to negotiate for its members.”

During a call to the Coca-Cola Office of Consumer Affairs in Atlanta, a representative wishing to withhold his last name, said to Imprint that the allegations against Coke in Colombia are “outrageous” and directed all concerns to www.cokefacts.org for further information.

David Moran, director of public affairs and

communications for Coca-Cola in Toronto, recently responded to similar concerns raised by the University of Alberta: “In Colombia, TCCC [The Coca-Cola Company] continues to take steps to strengthen its business practices and commitment to labour rights. Working closely with international and community-based groups, TCCC ensures workers rights are protected and free from violence or interference.

It also supports programs that aid children, promote education and bring relief to victims of the country’s ongoing conflict.”

According to Bud Walker, director of UW business operations, there is not enough evidence at this point to support SAS’s petition against Coke products on campus. “We have to rely very heavily on our governments to tell us what companies are engaging in proper activities and which ones aren’t,” remarked Walker.

He does not believe that the university has the proper knowledge and capacity to review the full legal activities of companies such as Coke.

Walker insists that the Coca-Cola situation is very complex because it deals with many bottlers throughout the world that are somewhat independent of the company, and so issues are inevitable, especially with strife such as the ongoing civil war in Colombia.

In the past, UW has come to a consensus with SAS in implementing guidelines when purchasing apparel products to ensure that there is no on-campus promotion of companies that violate human rights laws. “We do our due diligence. We make sure the suppliers we deal with have a good human rights record,” said Walker. Papps expressed

that ultimately this kind of agreement is what SAS would like to reach, but she knows that more student support is necessary for this goal.

UW is due for a tender to renew its contract with Coca-Cola or sign with another company such as Pepsi this August, and Walker concluded that “both those companies at this point are qualified bidders.”

Papps expressed that SAS has a lot of campaigning to do to raise awareness of this issue in the next few months, such as approaching the Feds about a referendum. She believes that it is only democratic to let the students vote on which beverage should be offered on campus after considering all ethical implications. SAS is also planning activities for the International Day of Action against Coca-Cola on March 27 and intends on meeting with the UW Debate Society to promote this issue.

On a closing note, Papps remarked, “The main obstacle to this campaign is bureaucracy.

Universities don’t want to make a decision until another organization has already clearly laid out the facts. With the Killer Coke campaign, however, it’s not that easy. Since there has not been a complete and independent investigation, universities do not have the luxury of making an easy decision. Even without these facts, it’s important to recognize the legitimate research done by other upstanding organizations, which has clearly revealed Coke’s apathy to the situation. It’s an ethical issue and, backed up with the facts we have, that’s how we’re going to present it to UW.” nlakhani@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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EWB takes the splash to end poverty

Trudeau: Speaker encourages Canadians to take on a leadership role Continued from page 3

Michael L. Davenport

Students help celebrate the future end of extreme poverty on National Engineers Without Borders Day last Thursday, March 1. UW’s EWB chapter hosted two events on that day: Bash Out Poverty, where students hit pinatas to symbolically beat out poverty, and Splash out Poverty (pictured above), where students threw buckets of ice cold water on a line-up of EWB and Feds exec members in an attempt to wash the word “Poverty” off of their half-naked bodies.

Leading up to the event, Arts Student Union President Kevin Royal stressed it would be “a non-partisan talk about his experiences and getting involved.” The talk was anything but non-partisan; although Trudeau stressed youth involvement and the environment, a few pointed barbs at the Conservative government made it clear where his loyalties lie. Even going so far as to say “Don’t vote Conservative” when asked what can be done to improve the state of the environment, Trudeau let his Liberal roots show through that evening.

Partisan leanings may have speckled his speech, but Trudeau expressed a real admiration for all politicians, no matter their leanings, saying that they sacrifice a lot for their cause, especially family — to which he added a telling aside “I can tell you about that.” He continued his praise of politicians saying, “if you actually want to do that with your life you have to believe in a sense of responsibility …[all politicians], at least when they started, wanted to make a better place.”

During his promised question-and-answer period, Trudeau was grilled on everything from Quebec nationalism to his own political aspirations.

His response to a half-rant half-question regarding Quebec nationalism described Canada as a nation that was built upon two divisive identities. Though French and English

Canada have always existed and can continue to do so, he contends that there is no one definition of Canada and that the “existential angst of Canadian identity is built into our very fabric… there is no one Canadian, we are all immigrants.”

Trudeau later said, “The luckiest thing about me wasn’t that I was born at 24 Sussex, it was that I was born Canadian.” He explained how this is both what unites us and “is the one thing that makes us responsible for the world around us… we have an opportunity and an obligation [as Canadians].”

Trudeau also emphasized the leadership role Canada needs to take in the world when it comes to climate change and social conflicts such as Darfur.

“We love to think of ourselves as a country the world lives up to — we haven’t been that for a while,” he later added. “Right now it needs to stop, because if the world ever needed Canada, it needs it right now.”

As for his potential aspirations to move back into 24 Sussex, Trudeau said, “I have a lot of great ideas and idealism — I hope they won’t be completely sucked out from me in too short order, but I don’t know what I would do if I was prime minister yet, fortunately for all of you I didn’t have to answer the question … if, or perhaps not, ever.” acsanady@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

“...I don’t know what I would do if I was prime minister yet...”

— Justin Trudeau

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Passion and prestige all in one I’ve never seen quite so magnetic a personality as I did Monday, March 5. Trudeau could have read a phone book, and I’m sure that he would have been just as passionate and the audience just as rapt.

To be sure, Trudeau is able to use his name to open doors that would otherwise be closed, but resting on your father’s laurels is not enough.

As he told his audience, Canada punched above its weight class in the 20th century in such conflicts as the World Wars and in organizations like

the UN. As we move into the 21st century, we must be aware in order not to squander it.

Trudeau was just 29 when he delivered his father’s eulogy in 2000.

For people of a certain age, this was the first time that they had seen the oldest son of one of Canada’s longest serving prime ministers in the public light. His father’s eulogy was memorable and is often cited as a stellar performance. Even in his grief, he exhibited a radiant personality.

I was struck by this again when I heard him speak Monday in Hagey Hall at 7 p.m. Luckily, he was only going to speak for 15 minutes before opening the floor to questions. The questions began shortly before 8 p.m.

So what makes Trudeau special?

I could just as easily stand on stage and deliver the same message, but no one would likely listen to me. Passion

and drive are key components of a university education. Without them, a student would be sunk or, at the very least, drop out.

Trudeau has learned the art of connecting with his audience. He did not pretend to be pretentious but was instead self-effacing. He was not unwilling to poke fun at himself.

Even with his passion, listening to Trudeau speak was a serious déja’ vu.

Having seen David Suzuki a few weeks ago and watched Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth on the weekend, Trudeau’s environmental message was yet another reminder to do the right thing. All three men had compelling and similar messages. In sum: our world is a mess, but you too can do your part.

While David Suzuki and Al Gore have an international presence, Trudeau had the ability to connect with his audience in a way that I

haven’t seen before. I have seen my share of eminent speakers at Waterloo, and most of them have failed to be engaging on a personal level.

If we had half the passion that Trudeau exhibited, we would be able to do great things. Hell, if we had an ounce of his passion we could do great things.

While he strode around the stage on Monday, he was definitely not the model of modern major-general.

There was no spit and polish; he looked downright comfortable. He was in his element.

We can only hope that once he enters politics as he hopes to do in the next federal election, that he does not merely become another party sycophant.

Politician or not, Justin Trudeau leaves an impression. nmoogksoulis@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Friday, March 9, 2007 — Vol. 29, No. 30

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Having done the whole Imprint thing for four years now, I’ve hardly been to a Bomber Wednesday. Officially, I’ve been there for one beer or so.

But I still see the line up. It’s intense — half the campus turns out to listen to crappy tunes and sweat on each other.

Other clubs are the same: people flood the place to hear the same shit you hear on the radio. It’s like going to a house party to watch TV. On Mondays, though, Bomber is an entirely different venue. The place is sparsely populated with staff and performers. Most of the chairs are empty, but future rockstars play on regardless.

I’ve recently fallen in love with Bomber’s Monday open mic night. This is mostly due to my roommate and Imprint’s staff liaison, Darren Hutz, who takes the stage weekly. He introduced me to the whole shtick, and the range of performances kept me coming back.

To my chagrin, I missed this week. But previous weeks have been an absolute riot.

From Hutz’ powerful voice to some guy wretchedly belting out strange emo tunes, I’ve never had a bad experience.

Yet most of the campus insists on loud, smelly Bomber Wednesdays and Saturdays.

For what? To dance? To socialize?

Somehow there is an appeal in going to the dance club. I never understood it myself.

Concerts and mosh pits are more my style.

The strange thing is that I used to be an open denier of all things indie. Call it ignorance, but I’d write off any independent effort to craft art as being of lesser quality; I was a victim and child of the corporate culture.

I know a lot of people out there are the same way, but you needn’t be turned off by the world of independent art.

Right now I’m rocking out to a freely downloadable album by The City Streets and wearing a sweater that I made myself. I am genuinely enjoying The City Streets’ music; it’s not out of some gross desire to be cool and edgy and hip.

And my sweater? Well, sloppy painting skills aside, it looks pretty damn cool.

It’s very easy to swing in to the rhetoric of “damn the man,” but there’s something so powerful and socially important about putting the means of production back in

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the hands of people. Whether musically or materially, independent efforts are worthy of your attention.

Once a week, Bomber opens the stage for potential rockstars to strut their stuff.

A couple acts might make you groan, but something might touch you in a way that no labelled media can. Afterwards you can talk to the performer — tell them how much you appreciate what they did.

Can you track down 50 Cent and tell him how much you appreciated that track where you danced your pants off and accidentally threw up on a bouncer while he was dragging your sloppy, inebriated ass out of the club?

Barely anybody is attending Monday open mic. Granted, the event is poorly advertised and on a Monday — not your typical “go out and have a good time night.”

Take it as a break from the stresses of university living. Go to Bomber on a Monday.

The live music is relaxing and engaging and the pints are reasonably priced.

If more students start coming to open mic nights, more artists will come. With more artists comes more talent and the musical culture of UW will blossom.

Just don’t request Freebird. editor@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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COMMUNITY EDITORIAL

Megaman artist reflects on his deed I read The Record’s article on the Megaman graffiti spottings from February 28, and was shocked and appalled! To think that The Record would have a bias? Blasphemy. I’m the one responsible for the Megamen, I should know.

The Record reported, “A suspicious man in black.” The evening I was caught, I was wearing jeans and a black sweatshirt. If that doesn’t just scream, “I’m a criminal, arrest me,” I don’t know what does!

And it’s a good thing The Record did their research too! Because this “Megaman” character has been a huge internet phenomenon lately, what with its fresh 1987 style.

And although I’ve never met her, Marg Gingerich, variety store manager and criminology/gang expert, sure hit the nail on the head this time. Waterloo has been running wild lately with gangs and gang related violence. I’d know. I’m a leading member of the Megaman gang. Just last week there was a huge rumble between us and rival Sonic the Hedgehog gang. Seventeen people were killed.

But The Record was most definitely right when they say that the damage I’ve caused to the community is huge. I mean, the Bank of Montreal is actually thinking of going under,

as it will cost them so much to remove one of the tags. Not only that, think of the chaos that’s been erupting as people see the tags.

I mean, it might make people smile, maybe even laugh. Think of the destruction this is causing. Won’t somebody please think of the children?

And I’m extra glad they mentioned how historical buildings are extra hard to clean.

Because if they hadn’t, how would we put in perspective the idea that I didn’t tag any historical buildings, but instead a bar and a convenience store. The Record sure knows what they’re doing.

And last of all, the police spokesperson was highly worried about “graffiti breeding.”

I’m sure glad then that The Record put it on the front page then, because it would be a tragedy if anyone were to see my graffiti and have the idea of making some witty and creative graffiti for themselves.

But seriously, what I did was against the law and now I’ll be paying the consequences for it.

But just because I broke the law, doesn’t mean I’m an immoral person. I would never tag someone’s personal property, something owned by the people like a church or a university and definitely not a historical building.I was just looking for something

to make me and other people smile, and maybe take a small jab at the culture we’ve adapted of accepting both what offends the least instead of what is prettiest, and the companies that have a visual monopoly on everything we see.

Thanks for the article.

— Nick Green

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It’s just such an extreme stance to assume that preventing a disease that is sexually transmitted will “send the wrong message” to kids. Sex ed starts being taught in schools around Grade 6, so why not include education regarding the vaccine in the catchall “have safe-sex but abstinence is best” talk?

I understand that parents may not want their children to have premarital sex, but wouldn’t they rather they be protected if they did? Safety first and all that jazz?

The thing that’s unique about this vaccine is that it’s a problem that only affects women’s health, and women’s sexual health at that. I’ve written before about societal taboos regarding women’s health, so I’m not going to rehash that here, but the fact that something which seems like such a non — issue to me has caused such controversy indicates that we still have a long way to go in realizing that women’s sexual health doesn’t have to be a dirty secret.

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Amid a hailstorm of controversy the Texas govenor, Rick Perry, recently mandated that all girls entering Grade 6 in 2008 must get a new vaccine that fights the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes many forms of cervical cancer.

Released by Merck Frosst, the vaccine Gardasil was approved for use in the U.S. in June and in Canada in July.

According to the Canadian Medical Association, Gardasil prevents infection from two genotypes of HPV — 16 and 18 — that cause 70 per cent of cervical cancer. It also prevents infection from HPV 6 and 11, two genotypes that are the cause of 90 per cent of genital warts. Regular Pap smears are still necessary as the drug only protects from certain strains of the virus. This supposed miracle drug has been met with much controversy, including the religious right saying the drug encourages promiscuity

and medical skeptics fretting over the safety of the drug.

While the medical skeptics may have their point — long term side effects of the drug are still not known as it has only been in testing for ten years — the benefits greatly outweigh the cost. Cervical cancer rates may be low in Canada, where approximately 1,350 women are diagnosed each year, but the rates are much higher in developing countries where preventative measures such as Pap smears are much more rare.

This drug could potentially save hundreds of thousands of lives each year — especially for those who already have limited access to medical care.

Unlike those who fear potential side effects, the conservatives who are fighting the drug seem to have no real point. Beyond a seeming shrug of the shoulders and a muttered “because,” the general attitude seems to be that the vaccine would be a green light for premarital sex — and God knows, we can’t have that!

Carol Hogan, California Catholic Conference communications director, said in an interview in Catholic Online that the drug “takes away the parental prerogative for children to

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Since I’m eating less red meat, I’m, well...

I’m pleasing my wife more.

— Justin Trudeau

COMMUNITY EDITORIAL

Find everything you need inside yourself I’m told I have a unique view of most relationships — more specifically, their futility.

In theory, you get into a relationship with someone you like and/or care about. But therein lies the paradox — why would you want to do that to someone you like? Inevitably, you’re going to end up hurting each other, pissing each other off, and eventually probably hating each other.

What’s the point?

Yes, obviously I realize that somewhere between meeting and wanting to kill each other, you’ll have some good times. There might be some memories that you’ll look back on (after breaking each others’ hearts) and think “now that was nice.”

My question: Is ‘nice’ worth it?

Is ‘absolutely amazing’ even worth it? Yeah, yeah, I know the saying just like everybody else. “It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” My response: Blah, blah, blah. Oh, and: phooey.

Perhaps the worst example of society perpetuating the “must mate for life, and as soon as possible” standard is popular radio. I can’t listen to five songs without some singer or another explaining how meaningless and horrible their life was before this magical person came into their life.

I should write my own love song…Before you, I was hopeless.

Before you, there was no meaning

to my life. Before you, I didn’t know who I was. But now that you’re here, I’ll be whoever you want me to be! The sad thing is how many people really do believe in the messages of these songs. Who says we need someone else to define us? Does that seem unhealthy to anyone else?

I can’t help but wonder why everyone is so interested in being in a relationship. Companionship looks like the most common answer.

I know that that’s what I used to want when I was among the masses desperately seeking “that special someone” to share things with.

Actually, I wanted someone to share everything with. I thought that everything would be better when done with someone else. I wanted someone to talk to, I wanted someone to spend my time with, I wanted someone to travel with. But I’ve recently come to a realization that I’d like to share: we all already have that person. In fact, most of us have several persons: our friends.

Everything that I thought I needed a guy for, my friends can satisfy me. Want to go to a movie?

Lonely? Call a friend. Significant others are not necessary to stave off boredom. If friends are unavailable, help yourself. Be independent.

This summer, I went on a two week tour of Europe, and my travel companion was none other than myself. I had the time of my life,

but I never would have done it a year ago. And why not? Because I thought that traveling was something that should be shared with a loved one.

My point is simply this: don’t wait. Every day has 24 usable hours; every year has 365 usable days.

Make the most of them. Don’t wait around for someone to come along and tell you how to spend that time.

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He is certainly a politician, but definitely not a leader This past Monday, March 5, I had the opportunity to hear Justin Trudeau speak on matters I have a great deal of interest in: youth involvement, the environment and the roles they share. Interesting topics, and things many of us share as our primary concerns.

Before attending the talk, I wanted to learn a bit about him beyond what I had been reading in the paper. While the recent media flurry has surrounded his announcement of his intention to run in the Papineau riding, he is probably still best known for the moving eulogy he gave after the death of his father.

As I watched him recount the life of his father through his own eyes, I was amazed by his eloquence, his honesty and the genuine emotion he displayed. I was stirred by how well he spoke, and thus I was excited to see him Monday night and judge for myself how he might perform as a politician. I was disappointed.

Once again I will reiterate — he is an incredible speaker. However, in listening to the lecture I was dissatisfied by the limited amount of knowledge he appeared to possess. As many politicians do, he spent more time outlining his vision than actually giving any details on how such grand ideas could work in practice.

The central theme of the lecture was the environment. In it, he outlined the importance of action, and to a certain extent the dangers of inaction, but gave no real solutions. Each time a question was asked of him regarding solutions, he would either spin the question into a nice bite-sized quotable or would flat out admit ignorance and appeal to ‘Canadians,’ whom he spoke of as some intangible force that would eventually yield the magical

solutions that would save the world from ourselves.

An incredibly rude gentleman interrupted the lecture throughout the night. Even during the question period he refused to raise his hand like everyone else, but continued to yell out of turn. This greatly bothered me because while I patiently kept my hand raised, he once again yelled out, prompting Trudeau to answer his question. Instead of confronting the man over his uncouth behaviour, I feel he dignified it by responding to him.

This bothered me not only because it prevented me from asking my question, but also because it seemed like he showed a lack of resolve. He could have confronted the man for constantly interrupting him, but the most he mustered was an anemic “please, sir, hold your questions until the end.” There is patience and diplomacy, and then there is being nonconfrontational to a fault.

When he mentioned the collapse of past societies, I was reminded of a book I am reading by Jared Diamond, Collapse, about this very topic. While the book gave a detailed and critical analysis of factors which contributed to the decline and collapse of past societies, Mr. Trudeau addressed it in the most superficial of ways, and with little or no insight.

Most frustrating were his cries for restraint from the Canadian public with no concept of the simple fact that these appeals never work.

He appeared to be genuinely confused as to why everyone doesn’t just do the moral thing and work together to save our country.

The reason, Mr. Trudeau, is because Canadians have no incentive to do anything about it. Why do you think so many Europeans are so environmentally conscious, buying

smaller cars, driving less and on the whole consuming less? Do they possess some elevated sense of ethics that we as Canadians lack? Of course not. When you pay $2/litre for gas along with a slew of other ‘sin’ taxes, you are certainly going to be more conscious of your consumption. This doesn’t need to mean the amount we spend on taxes would increase overall, burdening the already hefty tax load Canadians bear. We could also offset the gains made by the government through lowering income taxes. This would benefit Canadians with an incentive to earn more and drive less.

He consistently made appeals for a Canadian born solution, but refused to acknowledge that solutions already exist in many parts of the world — parts of the world that don’t expect people will change how they live their life because they attended an inspirational lecture, but because the legislation of these countries furnish a political environment that encourages people to live in a more sustainable way.

Mr. Trudeau spoke very well. He spoke with an easily digestible, quote-worthy cadence. Charming and witty, he clearly impressed the audience, but provided little in the way of actual substance.

Following the lecture I wanted to stand and speak with him a while, but alas, the quintessential politician was distracted by photo ops with adoring fans. He spoke passionately about using the position his life has furnished for making a positive difference in the world, but, unfortunately, with his lack of practical knowledge, I’m afraid he is doomed to fail — not as a politician, but as a leader.

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Frolicking through the snow before winter’s all gone

We’ve been hearing a lot of complaining on campus recently. It seems like a lot of people out there are fed up with the snow and can’t wait for the warm weather to be upon us.

Sadly, these are the same morons who will inevitably complain about how hot it is without any regard for how douchebaggish this makes them look. You can only complain about hot or cold. Not both.

But that’s neither here nor there. What’s really important here is to learn how to make the most of the cold weather and I have some tips.

First thing’s first — get an attitude adjustment.

If you’re bitter about having to wear a hat and

scarf outside then you’ve already lost. You need, as always, to look at the bright side.

So what’s good about the cold weather? One word: snow. You see, in some parts of the world snow is a rare and valuable commodity. Here, we have snow in such abundance that we lose sight of its immense value, while black-market vendors in poorer regions would give their left thumb and right index finger for just a handful of this white gold. It’s about time we started to appreciate our good fortune.

There’s so much to do in the snow. Unfortunately, as we get older, we tend to focus exclusively on grown-up sorts of activities like skiing, skating and peeing our names in the snow. While there’s nothing wrong with these activities, we should be careful not to trivialize the more childish pursuits we once enjoyed.

Something you probably haven’t done in a long time is tobogganing. With time, tobogganing tends to take a back seat to skiing. A good way to spice up the toboggan hills is to try variations of the sport such as using a cafeteria tray, “traybogganing,” or an

empty case of beer, “beerbogganing,” instead of an actual toboggan.

Another activity that has become a lost art amongst many university students is snow fort building. Kids used to pride themselves on their fort construction abilities, but these days you barely see any around. It’s important to note that if you’re unable to build a snow fort whose walls are at least two and a half meters tall, one meter thick and capable of supporting the weight of a fully-grown pony, then you’re a failure as a student — no matter what your grades say. And if you’re unable to find a pony to test this, then the same is true as well. We’re not going to let anybody off on a can’t-find-a-pony technicality.

Constructing a fort isn’t just about creating a monolithic testament to your own awesomeness.

The fort is only a beginning. Once the fort is built, it’s time to find people to challenge to snowball fights. If possible, I recommend fighting little kids. This tends to be a great way to have fun while simultaneously boosting your self esteem at someone else’s expense… unless you lose, in which case it will have the exact opposite effect.

Just a few tips for snowball fighting victory against little kids: you’re (hopefully) smarter than they are, so use this to your advantage by cheating and fighting dirty; hitting them in the face a few times tends to quickly demoralize them into submission. Get a posse so that you’re not only bigger and older, but also greatly outnumber them. In no time you should be hearing the sweet sound of victory, which, as it turns out, sounds an awful lot like crying and screaming for parents. It’s time to take a victory run, because you probably don’t want to be here when the angry parents show up.

What can be done in the snow is limited only by your imagination, so get out there and stop whining about the cold. Good luck and happy forting. rhunealt@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Cyberbullying is a growing and serious problem.

Too often dismissed as “sticks and stones,” cyberbullying has been the cause of at least three suicides in the last few years and the murder of a 13 year old by a 12 year old girl in Japan. We need to distinguish between rude behaviour and disrespect, threats and harassment. It’s not always easy to do that, but we have a checklist at stopcyberbullying.org that can help. I share the columnist’s frustration, especially as a victim of bullying in the past. I think that we need policies, not knee-jerk reactions when these events occur.

I find that pulling the parents of the cyberbullies into the principal’s office in the middle of a workday gives the parents just the right emotional push. If they miss work or have to take a personal day to deal with this, they are more likely to take it seriously.

There are other programs as well, such as getting the peer counsellors involved in setting up community service, etc. Cyberbullying hurts.

We need to take it seriously.

— Parry Aftab

Children just need to grow thicker skin

Bollocks. Cyberbullying is easily ignored. Nasty website about you? Don’t visit it. Nasty e-mails or MSN conversations? Block them.

What kind of lesson is this teaching kids when everytime someone says or writes something nasty about them, they run to the authorities to get them to remove said nasty words? You going to do that when you’re an adult? We don’t need organizations and policies in place to “protect” children. Parents need to teach their kids to grow thicker skin and if this sort of thing bothers them that much, they need to deal with it on their own.

— HappyDude

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Friday, March 9, 2007

Automatic doors

To the editor, If you are one of those people who feel obligated to use automatic doors on campus rather than your own arms (excluding those of you who are disabled as this service is justified for your use, or those who happen to be carrying seven large bags in each hand and the option of opening the door by hand does not exist), please consider moving yourself to the nearest street intersection, where the next automobile can remove you from the exceedingly exhausting life, which you must lead. Thank you in advance.

— Marcel Pinheiro Master of sciences candidate

stunned! Why should the Warriors have to go to Laurier to play home games?

The fact is, you aren’t really playing at home — you’re a visitor! Even if it may be close to home. You don’t get that same atmosphere and excitement that you would get if you had your own stadium. The University of Waterloo has its own identity and we should be able to reflect that on our own stadium. There are over 550 students who compete in 32 varsity sports, does that stat not warrant our own stadium?

Every university in Ontario has its own stadium. I know having a stadium built and raising the money doesn’t happen over night, but we should take the proper steps forward into getting our own stadium!

— Matthew Dumont 1B environmental studies

Is this university all that good?

To the editor, I recently came across a post on the UW homepage with a link to a piece in The Record on January 26 entitled “University made this community.”

This article is just more praise of how awesome our university is, something that I’m growing to disagree with.

I came here with the knowledge that the school was focussed around engineering, math and sciences, but figured “How bad could their arts program be as one of Canada’s top institutions?” The answer, of course, is pretty awful.

In my first semester, I [took a course] rumoured to be taught by a reputable instructor. Instead, we had a bumbling MA student from York who was routinely stumped on basic knowledge.

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More recently, I entered a class looking forward to being experiencing a top instructor — Bessama Momani.

I was sorely disappointed. Instead, another replacement part-time Prof.

At least this one had a doctorate, but he’s taught at about 10 schools in as many years. That’s got to be indicative of something, probably not extreme desirability.

As full profs retire from the arts department they are replaced with sessional profs at a much lower cost.

Where are these saving going? Increasingly this school is becoming a glorified daycare, and for only $5000 per year.

To the school’s credit, they have recently acquired one instructor that stands above the rest. His intention to build a new masters program in global governance, however, is being undermined by the unqualified instruc-

tors who are teaching undergraduate courses in that area.

I’ve written to the political science department regarding the deteriorating quality of their program, but have thus far received no reply. Maybe they just don’t care.

— John Mouth 3B political science

Sai Kit Lo’s resignation

To the Editor, Congratulations to Sai Kit Lo for standing by what he believed was right. Even if I did not agree with his decision, I would still be impressed by the strength of his conviction.

University of Ottawa

Warrior pride: something’s missing

To the editor, The University of Waterloo has distinguished itself as Canada’s top leading university as it has over 25,000 students.

When I arrived at the University of Waterloo in September of 2006, there was one thing that I wanted to do, to watch a varsity football game! I remember the season opener on September 5, 2006, when the Waterloo Warriors faced Windsor. Everyone was ecstatic about how the Warriors were going to start the season off on a good note.

Friends of mine who wanted to watch the game were expecting the stadium to be near our university. When I found out that our home games were taking place at Wilfrid Laurier’s stadium, I was

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Putting an end to cyberbullying

To the editor, I am writing in response to Brendan Pinto’s article, “Putting an end to cyber bullying.� I strongly agree with the idea that bullying is bad no matter where it comes from. Although the column had obvious sarcasm behind it, it is nice to see that it was against something that is wrong.

Whether it is in person, over the phone or the internet, it is still bullying and has the same impact. I do not understand how kids think it is cool to come together and collectively attack an individual. Is it not apparent that this is a way a nine-year-old would act? Are we back to making clubs and thinking we are big and tough just because we know how to be mean?

If I were in the principal’s situation I would have done exactly the same thing, even more if it were possible.

Maybe it would be a good idea for the teachers to start something like that too, and gossip about these kids. That would be entertaining. Why be mature when no one around you is? Are you really teaching them something anyways?

No, you are only giving them reason to keep going. It is quite obvious that most people do not learn vicariously, so maybe it is time to teach them in a way they will understand. Clearly, this is not going to happen but it is something that should be kept in mind.

I will not be a hypocrite and say that I have not talked about a teacher behind his back; my only defence is that I have not made it a goal to go on the world wide web and start a hate group.

Furthermore, it is evident that this topic needs to be approached from a different perspective because the outcomes we have seen so far have not changed anything for the better; bullying is a bigger problem than it used to be. — Eliza Oprescu 1B planning

HPV attitudes need to change

To the editor, I am writing a response regarding the article “Controversy over mandatory HPV vaccination,� written

by Basma Anabtawi published on Friday, February 23, 2007.

As part of the female population of the world, I must agree with the author of this article. There are enough incurable diseases around the world, and if we have the chance to prevent even one of them, why are we not taking it? It would be unfair and cruel if a cost of $400 was required for the vaccination.

It is true that most people will pay for the immunization because they will feel more secure, but not everyone can afford such an amount.

Also, parents should not see this vaccination as an encouragement of unprotected sexual activities at young ages. Parents cannot always guarantee that their little girls will listen to them and tell them everything. It’s always better safe than sorry.

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Mothers, daughters, aunts, friends and sisters around the world could be saved. — Lilian (Wei-Ling) Chen 1B planning

Make voting compulsory

To the editor, Every Feds election students are begged to go out and vote. In addition to campus polling stations, students were able to vote online from the Feds website. Despite the added convenience, voter turnout was low. Feds needs to stop trying to encourage students to vote and start punishing those who don’t.

If Feds wants increased voter turnout, compulsory voting must be introduced. Any student who neglects their obligation to vote should be fined, no exceptions. Judging from the reaction to increased tuition students will avoid more fees at all costs. Any money that is raised could be used in numerous ways, such as funding Feds activities.

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Compulsory voting may result in unfit candidates being elected, but that would hardly be a new trend. Unfit candidates are being elected with or without compulsory voting. Instead, compulsory voting will prevent organized groups from controlling the election. It will also force candidates to work harder during their campaign. — Mark Michniak Environment & planning

UW Place not up to student standards

To the editor, UW Place is a student residence that fosters independence and responsibility. I have spent my first year of university in the apartment style of living, and needless to say, this experience will be unforgettable.

However, there are some facilities UWP residents do not have direct access to. The students’ desire for a gym, a lounge area and a cafeteria could be satisfied if the daycare, Paintin’ Place, located in UWP, was to relocate.

Fortunately, the minds of many are imagining a much better use for the space. Paintin’ Place should be replaced with a cafeteria, lounge and gym. If UWP students want to workout, for example, it’s a 15minute walk to the nearest gym.

It may sound funny that I don’t want to walk to a place where I would just be getting exercise anyway, but during a storm, when it’s -20°C or when it’s late at night, the 15 minute walk does become quite an inconvenience.

Students should be better able to take advantage of the services they have to pay for. The same goes for UWP students who purchased meal plans. Moreover, the community centre in UWP is barely big enough to house residence events.

It’s time to bring UW Place up to par. If we were to bring in a cafeteria, lounge area and gym, these places would act as simple tools to overcome the lack of community UWP has been criticized of. UWP has grown and is now the largest student residence at the University of Waterloo.

If Paintin’ Place was to relocate, UWP could expand what it has to offer. Now is the time for UWP to evolve to a superior place of student living. — Emily Dandy 1B environment & business

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features@imprint.uwaterloo.ca Features Editor: Ellen Ewart Features Assistant: Christina Ironstone

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Dust off the dice and let the good times roll Keith McManamen reporter

So you recently got your World of Warcraft character to level 70 in Burning Crusade.

Now you sit astride your armoured netherdrake as top in your battlegroup wearing full arena armour, having conquered Karazhan and Magtheridon and everything in between. Well congratulations, but what do you do now?

I recently made a groundbreaking discovery in the entertainment world. On frigid, gloomy, depressing Sunday afternoons, as are becoming quite typical of late, a bored individual like myself usually finds little solace in either doing homework, cleaning or anything involving setting foot outside.

While doing laundry, some friends and I decided to dust off the old Scrabble board and play a few games.

Guesstures – Sort of like Charades on speed Easy words but very little time to act them out; the worse you are the funnier it is.

What resulted was balls of fun, plenty of laughs and clean clothes at the same time. And a profound realization: What the hell happened to board games?

Everyone remembers the good old days where, when you were younger, you would sit down and play the same old games for hours on end, sometimes even days, throwing the same dice, drawing the same cards, moving the same piece around the board, and getting upset when mom and dad told you to stop.

Back then, it was always fun, never got old, nobody got bored and nobody cared whether they won or lost. Yet now, nobody appreciates those simple pleasures anymore.

The technological revolution has possessed

Apples to Apples – Pick a card from your hand that you think best fits a definition. Players take turns judging who has the best answer.

all of us and now it is difficult for some people to be totally content unless they are jacked into an iPod, blasting tunes on their stereo, clicking a million ammo per minute on a computer game, watching three different shows on T.V., chatting with 50 friends on MSN and playing guitar, all at the same time, resulting in the most extreme and ridiculous sensory overload possible. Okay, so I’m exaggerating a little, but seriously, what made people stop sitting around a table and relaxing a bit?

So since my interest in the great activity of days gone by was rekindled, I decided to cut back on TV, movies and video games, and to start resurrecting the favourite pastime of the ’90s. And I feel a whole lot better.

Scene It! – Pop a DVD in and answer trivia questions about various video clips; there are many different versions about all aspects of pop culture.

This is probably the best way possible to have friendly competition. It is also the best opportunity for laughter, to get to know people, relieve stress and stay out of the cold. So when you get a chance, grab the gang and try playing a board game together. You could go for classic, and bring out some Monopoly, Risk, Clue, Battleship, Pictionary or Sorry!, among others. Or, for bigger groups of people, you could try out some lesser known party games which are all a riot.

So, on days where spending time inside is your only option, or if you have a bunch of people looking for something to do, get a board game and play it. The Turnkey desk and the community centre of each residence have pretty good selections of games you can borrow for free.

Win or lose, it’s worth it.

Let the petty childhood quibbling begin!

Balderdash – Everyone makes up definitions for a crazy unknown word, then players try to guess which one is right, and which ones are balderdash.

Cranium – The king of games.

Up to four teams of an unlimited amount of people, everyone singing, acting, dancing, drawing, sculpting, spelling and laughing their way to victory.

We need to look back to prepare for the future

In a 1947 speech entitled “The Lost Tools of Learning,” Dorothy Sayers argued for the merits of a Classical education to meet the changing demands of her society. More important than learning any one subject, her argument went, was learning how to learn new subjects. The tools to achieving this end, she felt, lay in a teaching model provided by the Medieval era.

Sixty years later, Sayers’ words exist in a context even more saturated by new media than the film and general press she so feared.

Care of the internet age, information abounds but its authority remains in constant question.

Dr. Peter J. Nicholson, for instance, spoke last term at UW about the need for future genera-

tions to be “more sophisticated consumers” Now, I hesitate to call into question the of internet content — yet how to pass on the merits of a contemporary education. It’s just requisite critical tools? careless to say, “Yeah, back in the day, everything In a Classical education, the ability to think was awesome, but now it’s all gone to pot!” critically is taught through Trivium — specifi- Moreover, there are solid arguments for how cally, a curriculum of Grammar, Dialectic and contemporary educational structures recognize Rhetoric. In the Grammar the many different phase, the emphasis is ways of “knowplaced entirely on learn- It’s not so much what we ing” — kinesthetic, ing by rote — namely, visual, linguistic, facts, figures and linguismathematical and learn that matters any tic fundamentals. In the rhythmic, to name a more — but that, now Dialectic phase, students few — and so serve then learn how to conto make the process more than ever, we restruct logical arguments of education as farthat allow them to debate reaching and accesmember how to learn. and contextualize all the sible as possible. basics they’ve already abHowever, remsorbed. Finally, through nants of a Classical Rhetoric, students are taught how to structure education linger in our contemporary model. their arguments persuasively and elegantly. At Defending a thesis, for instance, is a practice the end of a Classical education, students as rooted in the culmination of what one learns young as 16 are expected to be able to absorb, through Trivium and Quadrivium (with the latter assess and effectively learn from any subject being the second part of a Classical curriculum, they later encounter. concerning particular subjects).

So while I am in no way arguing for a return to Classical education over and above the more inclusive, dynamic models of today, my point is thus: the staggering technological advances of our society have created new opportunities and difficulties for contemporary education.

This is furthered by the incredible uncertainty of our age, with new jobs and even job fields being created at an ever-escalating rate. Job titles that didn’t exist six years ago are now in high demand, and there’s really no predicting where we as a society will go.

In this context, the onus on education is especially daunting: we need to be prepared for a world that we can’t even anticipate. As such, it’s not so much what we learn that matters anymore — but that, now more than ever, we remember how to learn. And if Medieval methodology can offer even a “new” perspective on how best we, as individual students, can effectively supplement our contemporary education to meet the demands of the future, well, more power to the Middle Ages! mclark@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Friday, March 9, 2007

Cheesy perfection Sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami?

Defying translation, this Japanese word is what we are now recognizing as the existence of a fifth basic “taste.” Umami brings a subtle but memorable savoury meaty sensation, essential in rounding out food’s “deliciousness.” Umami is created by glutamates found naturally in protein rich foods, such as cheese (i.e. parmesan), mushrooms, meat and fish.

Such a discovery deserves some well overdue recognition, so I will celebrate with a dish that draws a spotlight to our palate’s fifth taste. This

recipe offers a symphony of luscious flavours: the blend of the sharp cheesy pesto sits atop a thick, white-fleshed fillet. The mild taste of cod readily accepts the vibrant coloured sauce.

The tangy cheese in the pesto does wonders to the palate. Whether you have a preference for creamy and soft, or pungent, hard and crumbly, like a fine aged wine, everyone can appreciate cheese for all its different types. Its basic categories begin as either fresh or ripened and, depending on the texture of the cheese and how it was made, it gets listed under one of many available subcategories. However, the same cheese can end up in two separate categories, depending on whether it is consumed when it is young and fresh or when it is aged.

From a humble liquid, the milk of a cow, goat or sheep is thickened with renin and when the liquid whey separates from the semisolid curds, the whey gets

drained off and the curds are collected and pressed into shapes. Cheeses at this stage are qualified as fresh or unripened.

These include cottage cheese, ricotta and cream cheese.

Meanwhile, aged or ripened cheese takes more time for its taste and character to develop and can be created by curing it in several ways: exposure to heat, bacteria, soaking, etc. If seasonings are desired, at this stage, salts, spices, herbs or even natural dyes (i.e. cheddar) are added. From here, it is stored, uncovered, a specific temperature and humidity for the cheese to undergo its natural ripening process. The cheeses are ready when the desired texture and character have been achieved.

The beauty of this recipe is that all assembly is done in the foil packets, which makes serving and cleaning up a breeze. tli@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

A breakdown of cheese forms: Firm cheeses are cooked, pressed into shapes and take at least two years to reach their desired taste and texture.

Some beloved forms include parmesan and pecorino; sharp and tangy, they are usually grated onto food.

Semifirm cheeses are cooked and pressed but are not left to age like hard cheeses. Semifirm types include

cheddar and edam.

Semisoft cheeses are pressed but can be cooked or uncooked. Types include gouda and monterey jack Soft ripened /surface ripened cheeses are interesting because they are not cooked or pressed. Rather, they are subjected to bacteria that ripens the cheese from the outside in. The result is a texture range from soft and creamy to spreadable. Cheeses like this include brie or pont l’evêque.

Blue-veined cheeses are not for the faint of heart. A strong aroma and pungent taste, these cheeses have been sprayed with a mold (Penicillium roqueforti ). To ensure the mold has permeated the entire cheese, painstaking labour is made to puncture it with pin-needle holes. As a result, blue or green veins emerge within its confines.

Other notable categories of cheeses include pasta filata and whey cheeses. Pasta filata, or “spun paste,” is

Italy’s famous stretched, cured cheese. Mozzarella is found under this discipline. Cheeses like this undergo a special process where they are given a hot whey bath, then kneaded and stretched to the desired pliable consistency. Whey cheeses like Italian ricotta are interesting because they are created not with milk, but from the whey drained from other cheeses. Renin is added to the whey and heated until the mixture coagulates.

Firm, semifirm and semisoft cheese should be wrapped airtight in aluminum foil and stored in the refrigerator door compartment (or warmest location). They will last for several weeks. Such cheeses can be frozen: just slice them before hand and wrap them tightly in foil then plastic. However, they may undergo a textural change.

Fresh and soft-ripened cheeses should be tightly wrapped and stored in the coldest part of the refrigerator for no more than two weeks.

Fish and Pesto

Tiffany Li

2/3 cup homemade pesto (see recipe below or use purchased pesto) 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice 1/4 tsp hot pepper sauce 4.5- to 6-ounce fish fillets of choice (cod, red snapper, sole, halibut) 10 ounces plum or cherry tomatoes, coarsely chopped 2 yellow crookneck squash, thinly sliced on diagonal (optional) 8 ounces peapods Salt and pepper Preheat oven to 350°F. Blend pesto, lemon juice and hot pepper sauce in small bowl. Arrange four 12x12-inch pieces of heavy-duty foil on work surface. Place 1 fish fillet in center of each (skin side down on the foil). Sprinkle fish lightly with salt and pepper. Spread each fillet with 1 tablespoon pesto mixture. Top each fillet with tomatoes, squash and peapods then dollop with remaining pesto mixture. Fold sides of foil over fish and vegetables, covering completely; seal packets closed.

Using a spatula, transfer foil packets to large baking sheet. Bake until fish is just opaque in center and vegetables are crisp-tender, about 25 minutes.

Makes four servings.

Homemade Pesto 3 large garlic cloves 1/2 cup pine nuts or walnuts (lightly toasted, if desired) 2 ounces Parmigiano-Reggiano, coarsely grated (2/3 of a cup) 3/4 tsp salt 1/2 tsp black pepper 3 cups loosely packed fresh basil 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil With food processor running, add garlic and finely chop. Stop motor and add nuts, cheese, salt, pepper and basil, then process until finely chopped.

With motor running, add oil, blending until incorporated.

Lasts for 1 week in the fridge, surface covered with plastic wrap.

Makes about 1 1/3 cups.

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Any body can feel good As a sex columnist, an article about the G-spot is just about the most cliché thing I could write. I’ve been writing for over two years and have thus far managed to avoid writing this article.

G-spot articles are so pop culture; Cosmo does a “revealing” piece on them at least once or twice a year, so by now most people know where a G-spot is supposed to be and generally what you’re supposed to do to it. But there’s a lot about the G-spot that popular magazines tend to gloss over because it doesn’t make good copy. So, since I’ve succumbed to the pressure, let me at least reveal to you the things you might not know about the G-spot, the things Cosmo doesn’t want you to know.

First off, let’s talk about where the G-spot is supposed to be and how one is supposed to find it — this wouldn’t be a real G-spot article if I didn’t cover this topic for the uninitiated.

There are a few theories about what the G-spot might be and where it is. Usually what we hear is that the G-spot is on the roof of a vagina (that’s “up” if you’re

lying on your back) and that it’s a roughly textured bit of flesh that feels different from the rest of the tissue in the vagina. You’re supposed to wiggle a finger or two back and forth (in a “c’mere, you” motion) over this area to stimulate it; then it’s supposed to enlarge and do something magical (that is, give you a “G-spot orgasm”). But looking for a bit of tissue that feels different isn’t very specific.

Dr. Daniel Goldberg and his crew of researchers tried to find out exactly where the G-spot was in 11 different women by systematically stimulating the entire vagina, one little section at a time. In four of the women examined, a sensitive area capable of producing orgasms was found in the same general region where the G-spot is described to be.

There’s a lot of cool stuff in the roof of a vagina; there’s the urethral sponge, the urethra, Skene’s glands and a bunch of nerves.

The G-spot has been said to be a bundle of nerves in the vagina, possibly descending from the clitoris.

But when scientists have examined the vagina, looking for bundles of nerves, they weren’t able to find any area inside the vagina with extra nerve endings. So, the bundle of nerve endings G-spot idea is out.

The urethral sponge is made up of erectile tissue (like in the penis); when a woman gets turned on it swells with blood and compresses the urethra (so she can’t pee). Hey!

Wait a second; in the original description of the G-spot, we talked about it swelling, so perhaps the swelling part is the urethral sponge. When you massage the roof of the vagina, you’re massaging the urethral sponge as well. It’s also supposed to be highly sensitive, so maybe that’s what feels good for some women — massaging their urethral sponge.

The urethral sponge is also accepted as the location of Skene’s glands. I talked about Skene’s glands in my article about female ejaculation two weeks ago; it’s described as being the female equivalent of the male prostate gland and is believed to be the source of female ejaculation.

So when the urethral sponge is being massaged, Skene’s glands may be getting attention too. This likely accounts for the belief that stimulating the “G-spot” leads to female ejaculation. So it is possible that Skene’s glands are the G-spot.

All the pieces are there, it’s in the urethral sponge that swells when a women is aroused, it’s in an area that can feel good when it’s stimulated and it can produce female ejaculation.

But — and this is the part that usually gets brushed under the rug — not every woman has them and they aren’t even the same in every woman who does. Dr. Emanuel Jannini and his team of researchers examined a bunch of women, some alive and some cadavers, looking for

Skene’s glands and a biological marker of sexual activity, an enzyme that is known to be found in men. They found that, even in their small sample size, not every woman had the same concentration of this enzyme and their Skene’s glands were different sizes. In some women he couldn’t even find any Skene’s glands at all (these women also had the lowest concentrations of the enzyme). This might be why not every woman can experience a so called “G-spot orgasm” and why not every women can experience female ejaculation.

In fact many women don’t even want their G-spot area stimulated; for them it doesn’t feel good: it just feels uncomfortable or weird.

As we’ve seen, contrary to what some popular magazines, books and sex toy manufacturers would have

you believe, there is no universal trigger inside the vagina that can automatically give women amazing orgasms. Besides, plenty of women have mind-melting orgasms without putting anything inside their vaginas at all.

Instead of telling you that you should be built the same as everyone else and should go buy a G-spot stimulator, let me do something a little different and tell you that you need to explore your body for yourself to see what works best for you. Sexual pleasure isn’t just based on anatomy either; it is affected by the context, by emotions, as well as stimulating the right spots; so you can’t expect anyone to be exactly the same as anyone else. ssparling@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Bottled Poetry Drinking wine is easy, but what sparks conversation, enhances food and brings people together is tasting the wine. Learning about wines is a process that requires patience, imagination and a bit of money. This introduction can help the complete beginner or guide the intermediate oenophile.

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Organic wines aren’t usually grouped in the LCBO unless there is a special — and temporary — display. Instead, you’ll have to ask a clerk to help you find an organic wine that suits your tastes and price range.

The manager of the new LCBO on King St. in Waterloo Town Square draws a cute little flower in pencil on the price labels of organic wines.

This doesn’t prevent you from having to walk through the entire store, but helps nonetheless. Summerhill Estate Winery and Bella Vista Farm Winery are both Ontario vinters each produce organic wines. More than half of the wines produced

by Hainle Vineyard Estate Winery are not only organic but certified organic.

Certified organic is the key if you’re hardcore because otherwise, nothing prevents the vintner from diverting from their original plan of being organic if the wine doesn’t turn out as planned.

I recommend trying Domaines Perrin Nature Côtes-du-Rhône. At $16.95 for 750ml it’s a bit expensive but Côtes-du-Rhônes are well worth it.

Also worth the price tags are a syrah or chianti. Badia A Coltibuono sells a chianti classico for $25.15 and Bonterra sells a syrah for $19.95.

When your goal is to just get trashed but the high heels and pearls aren’t classy enough then you might choose wine as your poison of choice.

First, go with white wine to avoid the stain that red wine often leaves on your teeth; red chompers are a bit counter-intuitive to the whole make-up, waxing, trimming, high-heel effect.

Your best bet is a white wine that isn’t too sweet — the sweetness of Riesling, gewurtraminer or zinfandel is what is responsible for your headache the next morning.

Don’t focus on the most amount of wine for the cheapest price — it’s not a deal if you don’t need it… or can’t stomach it. Instead, find a region, varietal or colour and search out the lowest price tag on the biggest bottle, while knowing which varietals to stay clear of.

Try Botticelli, $13.15 for 1500 ml; the famously tacky Maria Christina, a.k.a wine in a box before there was the tetrapak, $33.15 for 4 litres; or try Bandit, a California wine that retails at $12.15 for a litre in a tetrapak.

The extra millilitres and low costs of these choices help justify drinking for sport.

If you insist on a red, despite the warning of stains, try a lighter red like 20 Bees Baco Noir, $13.15 for 750ml.

For the adventurous traveller, begin by thinking of form to meet function.

Many wineries are moving towards the screw cap method rather than corking.

Whether you’re day-tripping, having a picnic, camping overnight or hitch-hiking across Canada, not having to bring a corkscrew is a little weight off your back. Better yet, go with a tetrapak.

Lightweight and crushable when empty, the tetrapak (often more than the typical 750 ml) is a perfect solution for the mobile connoisseur.

I recommend a merlot despite Paul Giamatti’s calamitous line in Sideways “I am not drinking any fucking merlot.”

Merlot tends to be the wine of choice for newbies and there is a good reason for that. It is not so full of tannin that it overwhelms the palate but it can work well with full flavours.

When bringing a bottle of wine on a trip, be careful to maintain the temperature of the wine — although constant temperature is most important for wines that are corked.

It is true that wine aficionados might turn their noses up at a merlot, so don’t bother bringing this bottle to someone else’s dinner table. But merlot works well in a supporting role, blending with cabernets to add sweetness and lend drinkability.

I recommend French Rabbit family reserve red wine that retails for $18.15 — slightly pricey but also sells merlot and pinot noir for under $10.

Understanding the difference between Old and New World is the starting point to understanding varietals. The difference is important because the grapes of Old World wines can be explained by their geographic location, whereas New World wines are titled as varietals.

New World refers to any wine that is not from the classic wine making regions in Europe (France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain). New Worlds may also be easier to manage because they dumb things down on the label; they will include the vinter, varietals, region, for example, on Inniskillin, 2004, Pinot Noir, Ontario.

An Old World wine can be hard to understand. Let me illustrate: You can have a Jaboulet Côte du Rhone Parallèle 45.

What does Jaboulet refer to? Or Parallèle 45? Is that literal, lateral or horizontal? Côte du Rhone is a region in Europe that stretches from Avignon in the south to the city of Vienna and encompasses both sides of the Rhone River. Yet this is not simply an indicator of the region, it also describes which grapes are used (“varietal”). The northern Rhone is home of the Syrah grape. The southern stretches of the Rhone produce the sublime Chateuneuf-du-Pape (sometimes produced from a single grape, sometimes from a blend of as many as 13 grapes). And that is just the red wines. Get it? Me neither.

Beyond this basic comparison of Old World vs. New World, Old World growers have the danger of being too complacent because they’ve been tilling the soil for generations. Old World wines span back to the Roman Empire and beyond. New World growers don’t have the advantage of years and years of trial to see what grows best in which regions; however, for this reason, they develop new technologies to ensure a quality grape.

Full Bodied

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Restaurant dining

Dinner In

When in doubt

Be realistic. You don’t need to buy the most expensive wine to impress your date. And don’t feel daunted by a large selection. The key is to select a wine that best complements your food choice.

In general, pair light-bodied wines with lighter food and fuller-bodied wines with heartier, more flavourful, richer and fattier dishes. Rich meat, fish or chicken dishes that include cream are well suited to full-bodied wines. Tannic wines are harder to put with food, but the classic rare roast beef with a cabernet sauvignon works well.

Shellfish pairs nicely with crisp, dry whites like Riesling, sauvignon blanc or champagne. Poultry, particularly roast chicken or turkey, go well with pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon or a chardonnay. The richness of duck requires a rich wine with full flavour. Chinese food is balanced by spicy whites such as a gewurtraminer or off-dry Riesling.

Spicy food also pairs nicely with the sweetness of gewurtraminer, Riesling or zinfandels. With pasta, the pairing depends on the sauce. Generally, white sauces go with dry white wines while colourful sauces go nicely with rich red wines.

Remember that asking the server does not translate to, “I’m an idiot, decide for me.” Besides, the server should be knowledgeable enough to suggest a perfect pairing in any price range.

Being conscious of what your date is eating is important because you may not both choose a food that has the same wine pairing. A pinot noir is a red wine that has a nice range that can pair with most foods without fighting their flavours. Though you might not have the choice in a restaurant, I recommend Inniskillin, an Ontario pinot noir.

Generally, wines in restaurants can be marked up by 300 per cent, therefore expect to pay roughly $26-35 for a bottle of Inniskillin.

To impress a hot date it all comes down to matching your wine with the fabulous meal you’ve prepared. Your date won’t likely know the price tag of the wine but will notice if the entire night goes smoothly and everything magically falls into place.

You can match your wine by similarity, by contrast or by provenance. Contrasting a fat and greasy dish like sausages with a dry acidulous wine will cleanse the palate and lighten up the heaviness of the dish.

Or, if you were working with a salmon filet with a rich and buttery sauce you could pair it with a fresh sauvignon blanc to cut through the heavy sauce.

To match by similarity, in the case of the salmon filet, you could also choose a full-bodied, big, buttery, oaked chardonnay to math the weight and character of the dish.

Matching by provenance is the traditional approach that pairs a regional dish with a wine from the same geographic area. Regional foods and wines often have a natural affinity for each other, having developed together over time.

An example of matching by provenance would be to serve a Florentine steak with a Brunello di Montalcino, a wine from Tuscany.

Put the effort in ahead of time by pairing wine online. Author Natalie MacLean’s website is the best for such occasions as it allows the user to select specific dishes and then matches a number of wines www.nataliemaclean. com/matcher/.

If you’d like a wine that serves as a pre-dinner drink among friends, I recommend a Sauvignon Blanc or a Pinot Grigio because they are nice “starter” wines for those who tend to pucker after every sip. South African wines have never let me down and such is the case with Two Oceans Sauvignon Blanc. It sells for only $9.25 but I wouldn’t shy away from presenting this bottle to a relative at a family dinner.

I know we’re told since kindergarten not to “judge a book by its cover,” but I’ve got to say, when in doubt, select a wine, within your price range, whose bottle appeals to your sense of aesthetics. Even wine labels seek to target a certain market so if the bottle itself appeals to you, it is likely for a reason.

Part of learning more about wine is by trying new things. Do this daringly by grabbing a bottle from the shelves that you know absolutely nothing about; or carefully by testing your favourite varietal from each region or vintner.

When I visit the LCBO, I like to buy a bottle that suits my initial needs – the reason I came to the LCBO in the first place – then I pick up another bottle that forces me outside of my comfort zone. I often select that second bottle based on the design and appeal of the bottle.

While perusing the aisles of the new LCBO in Waterloo Town square, I noted some particularly fancy bottles. Sogrape from Portugal ($8.15); Painted Turtle, an Ontario shiraz and sauvignon blanc ($12.15); and 20 Bees Baco Noir ($13.15) have great labels.

Australia takes the prize for coolest labels with The Little Penguin Merlot ($12.15); Four Emu Shiraz ($14.15); and Alice White Cabernet Sauvignon ($8.10).

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Glossary Aroma

The smell that the wine produces when wafting. The perfume of a wine can be secondary like fruit, flowers, spices or honey, and be associated with winemaker’s practices, or tertiary perfumes that form during the ageing of wine, typically called the bouquet.

Oak

Often used when describing chardonnays, oakiness refers to the taste that is produced by wine being stored (aged) in oak barrels.

Those that are stored in metal barrels are called unoaked and have a different taste.

Tannin

The astringent, bitter-tasting plant polyphenols that bind and precipitate proteins. Uh, what? Tannin preserves the wine and balances against the other flavour components of fruits, mineral and acids. Such wines are designed to improve over many years until they reach their peak — the point when the tannins have mellowed and the components have integrated perfectly. Tannins in grape skins and seeds tend to be more noticeable in red wines, which are fermented while in contact with the skins and seeds.

Body

Full-bodied wines have the greatest amount of tannins, while light-bodied wines have little or no tannins.

Varietals

Knowing the wine’s varietal is the most important way to distinguish one wine from another. Because consumers have become aware of the characteristics of individual varieties of grapes, wines have come to be identified by varietal names – except in Old World wines where the region of the wine describes its characteristics and is the primary method of categorizing. (See the distinction between Old and New World wines for more details.) Primary perfumes of a wine are linked to the grape variety.

Terroir

A French term that denotes the special characteristic of geography that bestows individuality upon the grape. It gives a sense of place. It is the sum of the effects that the environment has on the production of the wine. Terroir is a term that is used with chocolate and coffee as well as wine.

Vintage

Describes the year and the harvest of the wine in question. Some wines can be “multi-vintage” to denote that the vintner is purposely mixing grapes from several years to achieve a higher level wine.

Vintner

This will be the name of the winery on the bottle. Some vintners represent centuries upon centuries of the same family growing grapes in the same region, whereas others are infants in comparison and lacking in the family history.

Semillon

Sauvignon Blanc

Pinot Grigio

White Zinfandel

Reisling

Gewurztraminer

Côtes du Luberon

Soave Classico

Light Shiraz

Côtes-du-Rhône

Cabernet Sauvignon

Amarone

Valpolicella

Chianti

Châteauneuf-du-pape

Zinfandel

Baco

Pinot Noir

Merlot

Beaujolais Gamay

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Looking for time to kill, I prompted him to guess. He proceeded to name all the major Asian nations until he gave up. I told him that I’m from the United States, but he wasn’t satisfied until I said my parents are from Hong Kong.

Another time, I met a Chinese UW student. She looked at my Western clothes and listened to my English and concluded I was born here. She too was not satisfied until I said I was raised outside of China.

Sometimes, I feel like I just can’t win. With non-Asians, I’m automatically Chinese even though I’m not from China. With Asians, I’m too whitewashed to be Chinese.

Racism used to be about pitting one race against the other. But Canada’s multicultural ‘melting pot’ has changed the face of racism in the 21st century. Whereas racism of the past was about pitting one

race against another, racism today has become insular. It’s not so much the white majority looking down on minorities anymore, but minorities looking within and ousting those who are deemed ‘not coloured enough.’

The current presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is facing this problem. Obama is black by birth and was raised by his white mother in Hawaii. Some citizens support Obama because they believe his ethnic roots will give blacks a voice in Congress. Others of his own race argue that Obama is not black enough because he’s not from the South and has ‘white blood’ in him.

I didn’t know that the American presidential race included an ethnic authenticity test. The last time I checked, President George Bush is white. And he’s also an idiot.

Interestingly, Hilary Clinton is also running. If she wins, she will become the first female American president.

A woman American president would be as historically revolutionary as the first black American president, but nobody is questioning Clinton’s femininity. As my friend aptly put it, “If we question Obama’s ethnicity, we should judge Clinton’s femininity as well. Is Clinton’s chin too masculine?

Maybe she looks too much like a man to be able to run the country well as a female president.”

Focusing on Obama’s black ethnicity, or lack thereof, and Clinton’s female status has allowed attention to detract from their actual political platforms.

We need to stop looking at differences; we need to stop segregating and acknowledge that the face of politics has changed, but the heart of it remains the same. Obama and Clinton should both be acknowledged as Americans, rather than black and female, respectively. Isn’t the whole point of the presidential race about finding the best leader for the country, anyway?

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Reach into the unknown Paul Bryant reporter

University life is temporary, amigos; like a stick-on tattoo. You might say we’ve consented to live in a bubble of academic miasma for four-or-more years. The conclusion of this is punctuated by a grotesque crystalline spike which emerges from the fog, turns toward your bubble and, with an unceremonious jolt, pops what was really a small world after all, releasing you

into something much, much bigger.

How will you fare in post-bubble land?

The educational system is itself a forever-shrinking bubble, beginning with those sugary, peachy kindergarten days, when skies were coloured maraschino, and sprinting toward university, in which edible descriptors lose their flavour.

Perhaps it can be adequately captured as walking a fine line of dental floss over a chlorine-heavy swimming pool inhabited by piranhas, moray eels and ever-lovable blue-ringed octopi, each of which forgot to bring goggles. Granted, we’re accomplished acrobats by the time our education ends and the circus tent is packed up, but what of the future? Surely there’s more out there than leaping lions,

curling contortionists and pinkish popcorn.

Well, yes, of course. There are vast, sparkling oceans, arm-stretching cities of sleek silver and neon light, somber mountains whose peaks peek above creamy clouds, tropical islands with sour umbrella drinks, white beaches and ticklish manta rays, celebrations so numerous that you couldn’t even count them, wearing sandals, histories, traditions and cultures older than sin, bushels of work, barrels of fun, baskets of magic and people of all ages, shapes, colours, types, personalities, purposes and beliefs who each have a favourite colour qualitatively different than yours.

It’s exciting to have your adult life ahead of you, yet the abrupt end of school may induce shivery feelings akin to having a gang of rowdy tarantulas playing a game of pick-up lacrosse on your shoulders — harmless but unpleasant. Let’s be honest here: once your bubble bursts and the scholarly roller-coaster comes to a heart-wrenching halt,

you’re likely to exit to your right on faltering jelly-legs. You’re probably in your twenties at this point — the age of sitcom pilots and marriage proposals, house purchasing and child rearing. Oh, calm down. Worrisome thoughts may be ebbing and flowing through your neuronal sponge as the incredible, scratchy wall of maturity laughs at your shiny-new underutilized climbing equipment, but by an astonishing quirk of fate, everybody manages to scale the sucker.

I acknowledge that my use of metaphors is becoming stupidly obnoxious, so I’ll roll up this scroll by saying that nobody has the slightest precognitive idea of how their life is going to pan out. You ought to embrace this fact; navigating your after-bubble world is certain to be a wild, harum-scarum nightmare… and it should be.

After all, nightmares are just dreams with an attitude — and every so often, they illuminate the big picture.

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What is the best part about being a woman?

By Dinh Nguyen

“They’re hotter than guys (since they are from Venus which is closer to the sun).”

Dan Hill

“Going to Stag Shop events knowing you’ll be satisfied.”

Amanda Holler and Candace Inacio

1B science

3B and 4B sexuality, marriage and the family

“You can crossdress and still look good.”

“You can fake an orgasm.”

Myles Dunn and Cassandra Cline

Keveen Gabet French studies

March 2 solutions

3A geography and 1B honours arts

“We get to have babies” Jacky Stam and Ebele Mogo 2B recreation and leisure and 2B biomedical sciences

“The extra storage space in our vaginas.”

Reena Reddy and Christropher Reddy 3A science and business and 4B medieval studies

“You can always get into the bar.”

Lisa Cahill

4B biochemestry

1. B-movie actress Jessica 5. Central American Indians 10. Flower jar 14. Social pollinators 15. Chicago airport 16. A golden calf 17. Days before 18. Planter 19. Offensively curious 20. Current opposition party 23. Female domestic 24. In poor health 28. Semitic language 31. No longer hungry 32. And the cow goes...

33. Baseball championships 36. Show displeasure 37. Cosy 38. Ethiopia needs it 39. Auction calls 40. International trade organization 41. Unnecessary 45. Romanian monetary unit 46. Underground insect 47. Quite!

48. 2 a.m. term paper computer nightmares 50. Bank website copycat 51. Spelling it like it sounds 57. Islamic holy man 60. French ending 61. Pakistani language 62. Lucky fish 63. Gland sacs 64. Cashtray 65. Make a print 66. Marley’s religion 67. Paying particular notice

“Getting exams deferred because we have ‘cramps.’”

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arts@imprint.uwaterloo.ca Arts Editor: Ashley Csanady Arts Assistant: Andrew Abela

Bedouin Soundclash sparkles with Inward Eye

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Worth the handshake Darren Hutz staff reporter

Like a fine meal, the Secret Handshake concert, featuring Bedouin Soundclash, Social Code and the unheralded Inward Eye, served up a few quality courses, even if many missed the appetizer.

Most concerts have a variety of bands, each with growing fame as the evening goes on, but fame isn’t necessarily the best indication of quality.

Sometimes, the openers are as good as the closers — whether you’ve heard of them or not.

That was the case on March 4 at Fed Hall.

UW regulars Bedouin Soundclash drew a capacity crowd and they gave UW another great performance. Their unique brand of reggae/ ska/punk had the bulk of the crowd dancing like Rastafarians. Bedouin has “being cool” down to a science. With the perfect balance of energy and nonchalance, Bedouin’s stage show is difficult not to enjoy. Guitarist and singer Jay Malinowsky had the perfect delay effect to give his voice the gravity to compete with the funky bass of Eon Sinclair and the remarkably complex drum work of Pat Pengelly. They didn’t draw attention to the stage though; their set was primarily about dancing and fun, and there were few who didn’t pick up on that message.

They covered “New Year’s Day” by U2 and made it their own by infusing it with reggae.

At one point a drunkard tossed a bottle at the stage. Malinowsky took a moment to thoroughly chastise the asshole in question, afterwards stating, “That’s what happens when you bottle somebody with a mic.”

I congratulated Malinowsky on his way back to the Elvis room — Fed Hall’s green room — for his performance. When he discovered I was with the campus media, he said, “You’re probably going to give a bad review, eh?” Guess I showed him.

How do you warm to a cool? For their style of music, Bedouin Soundclash rarely seems to need anybody to butter up the crowd. Any other bands they play with are pretty much a bonus.

But they did have opening acts. Edmonton’s Social Code, formerly known as Fifth Season, didn’t blow me away, but they certainly had their following. Scanning the crowd, you couldn’t miss the fans singing along. The band was tight, but relatively tame. Their music conformed to pop/ punk conventions diligently.

“These guys wish that Hedley didn’t get famous first,” reflected fellow reporter Andrew King, “so they could be that band that 14-year-old girls like, and everyone else hates.” He may be a bit extreme in his observation, but his characterization of Social Code is valid — after all, they used to open for Good Charlotte.

Travis Nesbitt, the lead singer, was the only real source of stage presence from the

entire band. There is only so much reaching at the audience while standing on a monitor amp that one person can take. They were adequate, but not exceptional.

The best performance of the two openers came from the band not even mentioned on the poster. They may have been relatively unheard of, but Inward Eye still has their pride; “We sweat the most,” joked frontman and bassist Dave Erickson. I caught up to him and his brothers/bandmates Kyle and Anders before the show. Drummer Anders added, “We definitely fall off the stage the most.”

In contrast to Bedouin’s cool groove, the wild antics of these brothers from Winnipeg were compelling and enticing. The capacity crowd that came for Bedouin had yet to arrive, and the two thirds of it that had arrived milled about the dance floor and bar, but all eyes were pointed at the stage. Bedouin fans didn’t count on being kicked in the face by driving rock.

Inward Eye and Social Code were the only two staples on the Secret Handshake tour that brought them to Fed Hall. Sunday was only Bedouin’s second concert as the headliner, which had previously been rockers Thornley. Oddly, they feel more akin to their new headliners, “We think that Bedouin’s style matches ours a little bit more,” commented Dave, “I think we both come from a funkier background.”

But I wouldn’t call their music funk — with the exception of a few stellar instrumental breaks — but they do roll with the funk attitude.

It’s all about creating a vibe and carrying it; where a funk vibe struts and the Bedouin vibe saunters, Inward Eye’s vibe sprints.

But vibe maintenance requires incredible cohesion — rarely was cohesion as exciting as Inward Eye. The three brothers each charged through each song like it was a competition of who could be the most energetic. Anders kept throwing his drumstick up in the air and catching it again without missing a beat, Kyle crusaded his guitar all over the stage and Dave sang with the fury of a Scotsman. The results were electrifying. The audience didn’t know what to do with itself.

With nothing but a MySpace page and a demo, the brothers Erickson are still on the incline.

They recently got back from recording an EP in California which should hit stores soon.

There’s a moral to this story. Get to the show when the doors open. And I know that some of the stuff that goes on before a concert sometimes runs a bit long; But if you can just champion that beer, marathon that joint and get your ass to the Fed Hall promptly, you might catch something unexpected. Inward Eye wasn’t even on any of the posters, but they were definitely worth the stupid handshake. dhutz@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Arcade Fire Neon Bible FAB

Neon Bible, Arcade Fire’s sophomore album, is everything that I didn’t hope it would be. The morbid themes of parting and goodbye only an album called Funeral could provide painted nothing but grim futures for the octet in my mind. Just like Jesus, though, these guys proved to me that resurrection is not an impossible feat.

Neon Bible reminds me exactly why I fell in love with Arcade Fire the first time I ever heard their debut album Funeral: their music is heartbreakingly catchy yet they manage to keep my fleeting interest for more than the standard 15 minutes. Not many pop groups achieve this. But then again, not many pop groups have eight members, are fronted by a husband

and wife duo and are capable of stealing the hearts of thousands by just playing them a song or two.

The namesake track “Neon Bible,” is a nice and soft-spoken, rhythmic piece of folk. Its music teases me with its attractiveness in an attempt to distract me from the more interesting yet unattainable lyrics. Completely absorbed by tune instead of text, I was left stunned and silent for the next track “Intervention.” It strolls in out of nowhere all business-like and intense leaving you totally shocked, intrigued and wanting more of this eerie and church-reminiscent organ.

After a calm acoustic guitar strums in like it was there all along, lead singer Win Butler screams out his words as if weeping for every soldier who has ever died at the greedy hands of some political figure.

“The Well and the Lighthouse,” my favourite if I were to choose, is a nice rhythm-driven shift from the general moody tone of the album. Its catchy, annoying yet poetic background vocal lines will plague your mind for days, but their generous use of a contrasting, well-paced breakdown outro is more than fair compensation.

Unlike a one-trick-pony, Arcade Fire have proved themselves quite capable of much more than Funeral.

— Andrew Abela

Friday, March 9, 2007

Juno Awards 2007 Various Artists

Van Canto A Storm to Come

Explosions in the Sky All Of A Sudden, I Miss Everyone

EMI Canada

General Schallplatten

Bella Union

Talk about the worst mix CD ever.

The Junos, like their American counterpart the Grammies, are typically awarded to what is popular as opposed to what is actually good. The awards reflect the fleeting fancy of the moment, and this CD does as well. The result is a bunch of songs that were big hits on the radio, including and some obscure songs as the categories narrow.

I’m sorry, while I can admit that Nickleback isn’t the worst band in the world, they don’t write award-winning music. And come on, Canadian Idol winner Ava Avila and finalist Jacob Hoggard’s band Hedley? You nominate the Tragically Hip, but not for “Lonely End of the Rink?” The nomination committee must just looks at the top 40 without actually listening to any albums for all but the more obscure categories.

From the ashes rises a heroic sextet of epic proportions, emitting a collective aura of a glimmering phoenix. How epic, you say? Well, here comes the irony. The only thing as vivid as a band with intensity as raw as Metallica, with melody as strong as Nightwish and with hyper-speed guitar riffs like Dragonforce, is a metal band... with no guitars!

As mentioned, this German-based hero-melody metal band consists of six members. The drummer, Strilli, stays as a basic staple like in other metal bands, but the unique thing about this band is that all the other members sing “a capella.” Save the percussionist, the only instruments used in Van Canto are the ones they were born with (from the ashes, of course). The band can leave you at the edge of your seat. Members Sly and Inga shout lead vocals, Stef and Ross give you melodies using great riff-lines like “rakka-takka” and “wah-wah,” and Ike leaves you breathless with his deep bass “dan-dan” lines.

A Storm to Come is a listen that fans of metal (or any fan of music) can never forget once it rings through their ears. There are some songs where the vocals fight too much for prominence during harmony-melody moments, such as in the songs “King” and “Lifetime.” However, tracks such as “The Mission” and their cover of Metallica’s “Battery” are of the stellar, ethereal-sound variety, and Stef ’s wah-wah solo in “Rain” is pure brilliance. Fans of both nu-metal and classic metal should find something to like in Van Canto. That and the album cover rules!

Rakka-takka on, Van Canto, Rakka-takka on.

The post-rock repertoire that includes Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, and Canadians Do Make Say Think recently got another addition from their bare-bones stablemate Explosions in the Sky. The Texas instrumental veterans’ fourth EP, All Of A Sudden, I Miss Everyone is another iteration of their bare-bones approach to edgy minimalism.

They’re adept at building intensity with layered loudness of drawn-out guitar motifs, distortion and percussion. Whether you’re familiar with four tracks or four albums of theirs, it’s difficult not to find their tactics a little formulaic.

Nonetheless, I Miss Everyone has some captivating moments.

“It’s Natural To Be Afraid” is an exhibition of everything Explosions — long drum-driven crescendos that either fade to nothing or explode. Compared to their previous work, their instrumental expertise seems to be stronger, and on the closing track “So Long, Lonesome” they’ve even opted to break out of their mold by adding piano.

If their style sounds reminiscent of film score music, that’s no coincidence; three years ago they lent their stylings to the Friday Night Lights soundtrack to great effect. I Miss Everyone, despite its display of some of Explosions’ new-found creativity, feels just as much like background music as does their soundtrack work.

As an introduction to Explosions in the Sky themselves, it’s a stellar album. However, it’s no primer for post-rock as a whole.

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Who knows what blaxploitation will do for us all Few would debate the fact that AfricanAmerican pop culture has permeated almost every aspect of modern mainstream life. The countless and obvious blaxploitation film references in media icons like The Simpsons, contemporary hip-hop and some Tarantino films make it a tough truth to deny. It seems like everywhere I look “blackness” is continuing to be exploited — just like it was in the ‘70s when the whole phenomenon began! With the release of Jackie Brown, London’s The Independent reported that “black people are being urged to boycott the controversial new Quentin Tarantino film. Leo Muhammed of the black separatist movement, the Nation of Islam, has condemned the “liberal use of the N-word” and accused Tarantino of trying to make black people look like “buffoons and clowns.”

I couldn’t help noticing the most recent release of Black Snake Moan.

The provocative title is actually a blues reference, as it is a derivation of a Blind Lemon Jefferson song title recorded in 1927. Like some of the ’70s blaxploitation classics, this is a movie about slavery in the south — but with a much welcome twist. In addition to the depiction of Lazarus,

the god-fearing bluesman played by Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci plays a troubled and tempting nymphomaniac named Rae. Although it’s obviously a film about redemption and morality, these themes were ignorantly overlooked by many critics who passed the film of as blatantly racist and derogatory. One reporter from Reverse Shot even claimed that Black Snake Moan is “…racist, by acute and cumulative degrees.” Christy Lemire from Associate Press noted that it “is a movie that’s definitely going to make people angry. Many will view it as racist, misogynistic or both — or just plain hard to watch.”

With the release of Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song about a renegade black man running from the evil white authority, afrocentric entertainment was finally provided the outlet it so rightly deserved. Soon, movies were being released in full force — along with their afros, crooked white police officers and cool cats like Superfly’s Ron O’Neal, Shaft or Foxy Brown.

But at what cost were they willing to sell their dignity? A lot of the movies portrayed and encouraged negative African-American stereotypes by mostly containing characters like drug dealers, tricked out pimps, hoes and hitmen.

Others dealt with slavery in the south on plantations and miscegenation. Was it worth the screen time, exposure and recognition for the starved funk musicians and black actors?

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A furious Samuel L. Jackson pulls on a chain in search of redemption and salvation. from the cool, smart and strong woman Pam Grier. In my mind, no woman seems stronger than Foxy Brown, the sexy, sassy seductress Pam Grier so wonderfully brought to the film by the same name. Pam Grier, with her casual disregard for authority and her badass attitude, gave young girls everywhere a woman to idolize.

Not only did this decade of film show one of the earliest female dominant roles, it also gave way more screen

Dark humour M*A*S*Hed with sentimental tales

“My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.”… Well, not my mother, but now that I have your undivided attention, this is the opening line of Alan Alda’s memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I’ve Learned.

This opening line is an example of one of the greatest elements in Alda’s book: the striking, sometimes dark, humour that is characteristic of Alda’s personality. Another appealing element in the book is the emotional stories that Alda tells about his family and his personal life.

The opening line, and the account of the stabbing, takes the reader to a

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Alda’s early career is an emotional account of a poor man who has little luck and is struggling to keep his family fed. Alda’s big break comes with M*A*S*H, but before that there are gas stations, small plays, clown costumes and a gambling obsession that could have ruined him.

When Alda begins to tell stories about the creation and the years of M*A*S*H, as well as all the actors involved, I was unable to put it down: it was one of the most interesting parts of the book. After M*A*S*H, Alda tells stories about his work on Scientific American Frontiers, The West Wing and his Academy Award nomination for his performance in The Aviator.

This book is so fascinating, it is an honest story and is as funny as it is emotional. For myself, my love for Alan Alda and my love for M*A*S*H drew me to the book. For others the interesting life Alan Alda has led, combined with his sense of humour and his great writing, are all reasons to pick up this book and give it a read. It won’t take long, because you won’t be able to put it down.

giving a new meaning to film noir, they also restored a sorely missed — and much needed — racial cinematic equilibrium. How can we possibly predict what modern blaxploitation will do for us in the future?

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The title of Alda’s book is advice, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I’ve Learned, and although there is little advice throughout the book, it is the story of a very interesting man who has learned many life lessons that he wishes to share.

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time to many different black actors and actresses. A much welcome change from the mostly white casts so typical of Hollywood then. It was as if all that existed before was a boring blank white page, anxious to be filled by the mistreated and under-represented black content it finally received.

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Friday, March 9, 2007

When Ché becomes cliché

Who’s the hipster’s favourite U.S. president?

Why, Woodrow Wilson, of course! In 1919, our boy Wilson stood up for the right of national self-determination at the Paris Peace Conference, lending legitimacy to the work of oppressed people the world over in their fight for independence from colonial masters.

Why should a hipster care? Well, the ability to associate oneself with the struggle of minority groups is strangely reminiscent of the

desire in hipster culture to attach themselves to obscure new bands or undiscovered new artists. Wilson gave courage to the downtrodden millions by demanding national sovereignty and, in doing so, created a glut of potential groups that could be converted to trendy accessories in the West.

Case in point, the Palestinian keffiyeh. This checkered traditional Arab headdress is the symbol of Palestinian national disaffection and, as such, has emerged as a fashionable scarf option among cultured urban youth in the West.

It is quite obviously a politically conscious attempt by hipsters to display their allegiance to

the anti-Zionist movement, and certainly has nothing to do with the fact that certain British rock-star libertines have been known to sport the keffiyeh under dark leather jackets.

In the same way, Spin magazine declared “gypsy” to be the scene of 2006, illuminating the attractiveness of the dispersed Roma populations to indie culture. Bands like Beirut, Gogol Bordello, and DeVotchKa have been embraced by hipsters as a means to better understand the plight of the Eastern European diaspora. Similarly, electro-grime-baile funk goddess M.I.A. has built an identity around her Sri Lankan Tamil roots, filling her music videos

with tigers and rebellious looking figures wearing colourful bandanas. If she doesn’t attract any political sympathy for the Tamil cause in South Asia, at least she’ll get the kids thinking she’s “deck.”

Indeed, my dear readers, the uniform of oppression has replaced the one inch button in distinguishing the cool kids from the posers, and the search for new minorities to exploit has replaced the scramble to find that long lost Sergei Eisenstein film. Assuming his recurring role as the catalyst of coolness, the Arts Snob offers some suggestions on how to stand out in this new age of global hipsterdom.

Hipster uniforms around the world The Dudayev Moustache

Thin, sharp, sexy…the facial hair of Chechen secessionist leader Dzokhar Dudayev bursts with anti-Russian sentiment.

It is, perhaps, the most potent symbol of Chechen nationalism, and styling your moustache in a similar style will convince everyone that you follow the Nokhchallah code of honour of this oppressed Russian republic. For ultimate effect, wear a green military cap and look angry.

The Saami Garb

This colourful costume of the reindeer-herding Laplanders will exemplify your sympathy with a people whose culture has been suppressed for centuries within the states of Norway, Sweden and Finland. Accordingly, I predict the curly-toed shoe sported by the Saami will soon replace the Converse Chuck Taylor as official hipster footwear.

The Red Robe of Tibet

Uniform of the Dalai Lama, this Buddhist outfit will undoubtedly be adopted by the hipster to show solidarity with the Tibetan struggle for independence. Not only does it exemplify dissatisfaction with Chinese occupation, it’s also silky smooth and extremely comfortable.

The Canadian Aboriginal Headdress

Since the whole world has jumped on the Arcade Fire/Montrealis-better-than-you bandwagon, hipsters have had to abandon their association with the Fleur-de-lis and Quebecois oppression.

What better replacement than the trampled indigenous Canadian populations? Rock the feathered headdress when you go out with your friends and acquire infinite credibility as an opponent of reservations, residential schools and cultural assimilation.

The Frantz Fanon tattoo

This Algerian philosopher penned The Wretched of the Earth, the manifesto for violent upheaval in the Third World. Plant his handsome, North African face on your skin and you will be instantly connected to every revolutionary insurgency from the FLN to the PLO. No need for thanks, dear friends. I’m glad to be of help in your quest to capitalize on the oppressed for the greater good of hipster fashion. Godspeed.

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SASA sashays through game show dance numbers Mohammad Jangda staff reporter

With music blaring and smiles abound, the members of the South Asian Students Association (SASA) dance team graced the floor of the small PAC gym.

An entranced crowd of about 200 watched as 30 dancers showed off the 10-minute set they have been hard at work perfecting over the last six months.

The dance was a dress rehearsal in preparation for the upcoming Culture Show to be held this weekend, beginning March 9 at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga.

Almost 16 years in the running, the show sees roughly 15 schools from across Ontario and Quebec represented, face off for 10 minutes at a time typically in front of a sold out crowd of 5,000. Each set is required to implement a fusion of the Bhangra, Bollywood and Classical Indian styles (in addition to any other genre of dance), with marks being awarded for various aspects of the performance including costumes, energy, originality and so on.

In addition to the required genres, the Waterloo team threw into the mix aspects of popping, line dancing and cheerleading with the running theme of game shows (a concept initially started by Waterloo). Each genre was paired with a game show and skilfully executed with matching costumes and props, with homage paid to favourites such as Hollywood Squares, Jeopardy, and Deal or No Deal.

Although, the top three teams in the competition are presented with trophies, the show is touted as ultimately a competition of pride.

“It’s a way to gain the respect of other schools,”

said Amit Gupta, a dancer on the team. “For at least a year, the winners get bragging rights,” said Niket Shah, co-ordinator for the team.

As such, competition is fierce and dedication is a must for all members of the team. “You gotta want it so bad,” said Rabiya Lallani, also one of the dancers.

One hundred and twenty people usually try out for the team, with only 30 making the cut. “The popularity of the team shows that Waterloo students care,” said Shah. Additionally the experience that the team and the competition present its members is one that’s a huge drawing factor. “It’s adrenaline that comes with being on stage,” explained Lallani.

That same adrenaline runs rampant through the crowds as well. “There isn’t a quiet moment [during the show], except when the dancers are on,” said Shah. “Even then the crowd is just waiting to get up and cheer,” added Mihir Shah, also a coordinator.

In fact, 10 per cent of the competition score is based on a presentation by each team’s Spirit Squad, where up to 150 students from each school are given a minute to show off their energy.

With the competition stretching across an entire weekend, the “Battle of the schools is taken off the stage as well,” said Shah. All teams stay in the same hotel for the duration of the competition, and the spirit they show off through cheers and showmanship throughout the weekend, account for another 10 per cent of the score.

Although the competition has historically attracted mainly the South Asian community, Shah said that recent attention through increased media coverage is getting other communities

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When asked how he felt the team would do, Shah was hesitant to answer, and said with a chuckle, “I don’t want to jinx the team.” mjangda@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Zoobombs lead Starlight to punk rock heaven Andrew Abela staff reporter

My first impression of the Sourkeys at the Brampton Indie Arts Festival (BIAF) was a total turn off. I felt as if they deserved a second chance, so I decided to give them one as my photographer and I quickened our pace down the freezing and snowy Waterloo streets.

Just as I arrived, the opening band Charlemagne was getting into their next song (which was probably not the first of their set).

Some badass intonation was belted out by the lead singer, with lyrics that I only wish I could comprehend — all atop the deliciously loud bass, drums, keyboard and guitars. The next song was an extremely familiar cover, which I soon noted was a particularly cooler and more rhythmic rendition of “Dancer in the Dark,”

by Bruce Springstein. Charlemagne rocked hard and promptly left the stage for the next group.

As the Sourkeys set up their equipment, I anxiously waited to hear why they sounded so terrible at BIAF’s second stage this past month. About three seconds into their performance I noticed that they sounded much better than before. I instantly forgot any bad first impressions — ultimately dispelling the popular myth that they count most.

The next song quickly changed tone with a bass and rhythm guitar line that sounds more like a zombielike pace than music, but enjoyably so.

The frontman Mike Mercy reminded us of his presence, though, as he quickly came back in with a weird riff. He quickly changed his mood and performed a few pretty acapella breaks, in which he so romantically crooned “I offer my whole heart to you so please feel better soon!”

With a mischevious smirk, Mike repeated a childish, cute “Ba, ba, ba, ba…” melody. After more crib-speak, “Da, da, da, da…” as if calling out for his father’s love, the seemingly cute and lovable Mercy quickly returned to adult form and voice.

All this intensely unique music

made me wonder how they came up with it all. I later asked Mark Lecompte, bassist, “Who leads the artistic vision?” He promptly responded “I have complete faith in Mercy’s ability as a songwriter.”

Blind faith and complete trust only an innocent bassist would provide.

I puzzled more over their artistic efforts and wondered about their new song, one of the last ones of the set. It had a part with three out of sync riffs that for some reason fit together well. “[It was] the only song that I’ve been involved in the creation of, so I was super excited to play it. It’s basically just really good to be involved in the progression of the band,” said Lecompte.

More depressing chaos came from the stage, which allowed me to finally realize Sourkeys’ best quality: they can go from flat out dead to coked out manic in seconds, as if to say “No worries man, we’re still living and well.”

Worried about another technical failure, Mercy wryly suggested that we either “ignore it, or like, improvise in your head,” if his guitar decided to cut out again. Thankfully we didn’t need to as their last song poured out from the Starlight stage. Mercy once again reminded the audience of his infantile disposition with stream-of-consciousness lyrics only a psychiatrist could follow.

After getting some fresh air outside, as I was left breathless by Sourkeys’ set, I was lulled back into Starlight by the dissonant and wonky tunes that dripped down into my ears. Zoobombs began with a wild rhythm played by the lead singer and drummer on one set, with wildly experimental random key and bass.

With some more endless strumming and another improvised jam session, Zoobombs assured us that they have respect for no one except the rock and hip hop gods they praise in private. I’m once again reminded at how much I’m missing as Don spits out more sick Japanese hip hop prose. I wish I could, but I don’t speak Japanese. “What are most of your lyrics about?” I asked

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Zoobombs amazed Starlight audience with their energy alongside Sourkeys and Charlemagne.

Don. He laughed and remarked that “it’s pretty discouraging. I’m basically Japanese, my way of thinking is pretty Japanese. Japanese is pretty hard to get into a rhythm, English and French is pretty good for rhythm music like rock and hip hop.”

When I listen to Zoobombs, I can’t help but notice how they seem to combine hip hop and funk in perfect proportions. I wondered if it came naturally to combine these two genres since they both involve a lot of energy like their live performances contain. He said “I think I love the songs with really good rhythm, so I try to catch the rhythms I come up with. Maybe I’m catching some kind of feeling there.”

Concerning himself more with the music than his bodily health, Don the vocalist continued to thrash passionately across the stage totally owning it. Zoobombs led me to forget about any other punk band I’ve ever heard of, for just

over an hour.

My colleague ridiculed me when I noted “This j-rock is crazy!”, for he more appropriately described them as “J-heavy metal!” I was a little alarmed by the return of more jap-poetry, unlike any haiku I’ve ever heard atop metal heavier than the biggest sumo wrestler. Then suddenly, as a volcano explodes from pent-up rage, drum solo from the long-haired fellow in back! So wild and frantic!

Just after midnight, after thanking us endlessly, they quickly left the stage with a fake conclusion telling us “we’ll be back soon.” Don the insane vocalist came back in as fast as he left with more thank yous, a declaration of his love for Kitchener and a self-order to not talk and just play instead.

Back to the music and a crowd sing-a-long jam to the optimistic lyric “We’re gonna see the good good future.” They end with one more song and say goodbye with a well-coordi-

nated group bow. Matta, the last on stage, says see you soon instead of goodbye. It’s almost like she was assuring us they’d return someday!

“Why should people not miss their next chance to see Zoobombs live?” I boldly asked him. He coolly replied, “We are looking right away to get high onstage.” It begged the question, “like with drugs?” “It’s kind of same, I guess!

I want to make some kind of vibration with audience and with band.”

I was glad I braved the bad weather for a concert that ultimately changed the way I will judge musicians in the future.

Not only have I managed to totally prove that first impressions are innaccurate, I also learned that Japanese do it better and that Ontario’s music scene is as energized as this concert was.

Zoobombs, the Sourkeys and Charlemagne have one thing in common: you can listen to their myspace or CD all you want, but they are all bands you can’t afford to miss live.

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Film studies at risk

Margaret Clark assistant editor-in-chief

If I were to pitch this article as a movie, it would be a hard sell. Just imagine the tagline: Rumours about an ailing university program prompt up-and-coming campus reporter to seek out The Truth! We’re not talking Hollywood here; we’re not even talking YouTube.

But not every important story makes it to the silver screen — and for a campus mystified by the future of the film studies program, maybe that’s all right. The point, first and foremost, is to inform.

I first heard rumours about the film studies program coming to a close two years ago, at which time Prof. Jan Uhde — the man who created the program over thirty years ago, and who has been maintaining it ever since — expressed an interest in retiring this year. Programs centred around the efforts of one individual are notoriously vulnerable, so Uhde’s possible impending retirement induced a panic as to what would happen to film studies at UW after he left. Many feared the tiny program, which does not even have the resources or means to accommodate film-making in its curriculum, would be kicked to the way-side. Meanwhile, the optimistic hoped the issue would make the university consider reinventing its courses as a whole.

As it turns out, Uhde has no plans to leave this year. He is intending to be around for another five if his health holds out. “I feel very much dedicated to this film studies program,” he said — and with a sizeable throng of students waiting outside his office for me to finish my

interview, it showed. He added, however, that he would like to see UW expand the program anyway, “Not for my sake — not because of personal interest — but because I cannot imagine a faculty of arts, and a university that’s supposed to be the best in Canada, existing without a solid program in film studies.”

Which brings us to the real story of the film studies program: not the rumours of its impending doom, but the social context that first gave rise to them. The UW film studies program is small. Tucked away in East Campus Hall, it pulls small class enrollments for upper year undergraduate courses and is taught by a single dedicated professor, Jan Uhde. Since the construction of ECH, this format has been pretty much par for the course.

Yet while the film studies program at UW hasn’t changed, the world has. With the advent of the internet, the proliferation of moviemaking technology among the general masses and the concurrent rise of a communications culture with the means of self-empowerment, media programs in general have had to adapt.

According to Uhde, communications studies across North America and Europe are “flying high” — and so too are those film studies programs that now emphasize the links between the two. “But the University of Waterloo,” said Uhde, “is not rising to the challenge.”

Wilfrid Laurier University recently approached film studies reform in a more expansive manner, grouping the program under the English faculty so as to emphasize the contemporary connection between film and communications studies. The result is a broader,

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more engaging program — so much so that the WLU faculty has been wooing film studies students away from UW. Simon Yarrow, a UW alumnus who took film courses at both UW and WLU, commented on more specific differences between the programs: “I think Wilfrid Laurier benefitted from having more time dedicated to each class per week, so there could be more actual discussion about the film content we were watching. There was also more of a philosophical perspective to the material at Wilfrid Laurier, and while Uhde is a great guy, it helped that Wilfrid Laurier could offer multiple perspectives on the material simply because they had more than one professor.”

On the last point Uhde agreed, and added that because the occasional film studies course turns up in other faculties, UW should consider a more interdisciplinary approach to film studies reform. “I would like to see if there’s a possibility for an inter-departmental program,” he said, “since there are film courses in other faculties, like drama, women’s studies, language studies, graduate-level architecture — even in some of the colleges, like Renison. I’ve talked to the Dean of Arts about this, and I hope we can start some sort of initiative soon since he’s really open-minded.”

Dean Ken Coates himself said that in the near future, the university will be “speaking to departments and the colleges about the film studies courses currently on offer, […] asking about the departmental plans regarding these courses [and], on the basis of their responses and our assessment of […] student needs and faculty resources, developing a plan for the

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future of film studies.”

Nonetheless, despite its modest size and relative stagnation, the film studies program at UW has had its moments of success. Film studies graduate Steve Miller has gone on to film documentaries for the Save the Children foundation, while UW graduate Troy Scott might be better known as third assistant director for the T.V. sensation, Battlestar Galactica.

According to Uhde, the options for film studies graduates are diverse: an undergrad can use the program as a springboard for filmmaking, teaching, doing research in film history, running an alternative cinema or organizing a film or communications-based archive. He added that contemporary opinion generally argues for an education first in film studies, followed by a year in a technical program, as being of greater benefit for those who want to go into film-making than going straight to technical courses.

The overarching portrait of the film studies program is thus a tenuous one: since rumours first began to circulate about its impending doom, little demonstrates a clear, decisive response on the university’s part. Two years later, students can rest assured that film studies will still be around for another few years yet — but in what form, and with what future?

A tired reel is still spinning on the proverbial university projector; the flap-flap of a program in dire need of replacement is the only sound of consequence in this old movie hall. mclark@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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March 13 Unplugged for Darfur Benefit Concert featuring Prize Fighter and Intransit — Bombshelter $5 in advance or at the door, doors at 7 p.m., 19+ March 14 Dave Young Trio — Conrad Grebel, Great Hall $15+, 8 p.m.

March 15 The Caucasian Chalk Circle — UW Theatre of the Arts $10 for students, $12 for others, 8 p.m.

30 COURSES SP-100 Forest Firefighting course, London, March 7-11 or Waterloo, March 14-18, 2007. To register, please call Wildfire Specialists Inc., 2233 Radar Road, Suite 5, Hanmer, Ontario, P3P 1R2. Toll free: 1-877-3815849. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources accredited. No guarantee of employment.

HOUSING Premium three-bedroom townhouse unit in a professionally managed student complex. Perfect for students, close to UW campus. Now renting May or September 2007. Call Perry now at 519-746-1411 for all the details and to set up a showing.

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Attention Cambridge School of Architecture students! Live conveniently and comfortably right across the street from school in this beautifully renovated apartment. 4, 8 and 12-month leases available with excellent signing bonuses and rental incentives! Call Perry at 519-746-1411 for more details.

Five bedroom, two bathrooms, two kitchens, upstairs new, laundry, 10 minute walk to Universities, parking, excellent condition – must see. $2,200/month, utilities included, cable internet. Call 905-417-5538.

A perfect four bedroom apartment to live in comfortably within a short

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Enjoy the convenience of living in a great location close to many shopping amenities and the life of Uptown Waterloo. Call Perry now at 519-7461411 to set up a viewing today.

Five bedroom house for rent – available September. Great place, near UW – $1,725 per month. Call 905509-3284 or e-mail gord010@sympatico.ca.

Available May 1, 2007 – minimum four-month lease, very clean, 372B Churchill Crescent. Six bedroom, each room is $350-$375/month plus utilities. Free parking, laundry facilities included, two common rooms with TV, two kitchens, wireless capability throughout house and internet jacks in every room, 15 minutes from

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campus. Call Andrew at 416-5270369 or e-mail andrew.chalabardo@ hotmail.com.

Single rooms in residence available for fall term at St. Paul’s College right on campus. Apply now. All welcome.

519-885-1465, ext 212 or stpauls@ uwaterloo.ca.

HELP WANTED Weekend counsellors and relief staff to work in homes for individuals with developmental challenges. Minimum eight-month commitment.

Paid positions. Send resume to Don Mader, K-W Habilitation Services, 108 Sydney Street, Kitchener, ON, N2G 3V2.

Summer job – work at the beach for Kazwear Swimwear! Full and part time management and staff positions available. Grand Bend, Port Stanley and Bayfield. Competitive wage and bonuses. Contact: resumes@kazwearswimwear.ca or visit our website www.kazwearswimwear.ca for job opportunities.

Student website designer/java programming required for small local business close to UW. Transportation can be provided. Pay negotiable with experience/site setup/ongoing maintenance. Call 519-880-1282.

Child care needed – responsible student with child care experience needed four afternoons per week for May and June for part-time teacher in Uptown Waterloo. Please call 519880-0451. Possibility of continuing in September.

Work outdoors! Landscaping and property maintenance company seeks staff with positive attitude and solid work ethic for spring/summer, potential to continue into fall. Call 519-578-7769 or e-mail resume to sales@acelawncare.ca.

Window cleaner required for summer employment. Kitchener, $13 to start, 40-50 hours per week. Fax resume 519-749-4022. No highrise but second story ladder work involved daily.

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Friday, March 9, 2007 The GO! Music Festival takes place on March 9 and 10 in Uptown Waterloo. Over 30 live acts; five licensed venues. Details: beatgoeson.com or myspace.com/gomusicfestival.

Art exhibitions at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre, 25 Regina Street, S., Waterloo, until April 4.

Displays of Gloria Kagawa and Marilyn Batte.

7th annual Rainbow Reels Queer Film Festival celebrations until March 11. For info www.rainbowreels.org.

Thursday, March 22, 2007 orchestra@uwaterloo concert “In D” at 8 p.m. at Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall. For tickets call 888-4908 or info at www.orchestra.uwaterloo. ca.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Laurier PoetryFest at Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener at 7 p.m. on April 4 and 5. Free event with charitable donation accepted.

For info call Clare at 519-884-0710 ext 2665 or www.wlupress.wlu.ca.

FINANCIAL AID March 2007

Stop by the Student Awards & Financial Aid Office to see if your OSAP grant cheques are available.

March 15 — last day to submit undergraduate bursary appeals for winter term. March 23 — last day to sign confirmation of enrollment for winter only and fall and winter terms.

March 30 — recommended submission date for OSAP rollover form to add spring term. Check out our web site for a full listing of all our scholarships and bursaries. http://safa.uwaterloo.ca.

ANNOUNCEMENTS Travel Cuts inks exclusive deal to offer Canada’s cheapest flights to Europe and the UK for students. For info call 1-866-246-9762 or travelcuts.com/contact us.

Hey students! Tune in weekly to “Morning Drive” with DJ Cool at CKMS 100.3FM for important info on what is happening locally, on campus and in your area. Music, fun and more — morningdrive1@yahoo.ca.

Exchange opportunities to RhoneAlpes, France and Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany for the 2007-2008 academic year – to undergraduates and graduates. For additional informatiton and application form/deadlines contact Maria Lango, IPO, Needles Hall, room 1043, ext 33999 or by email: mlango@uwaterloo.ca.

Cigarette study — smokers needed. $70 cash paid. Please state your name, age and brand of cigarettes smoked most often. Call Sandy at 519-578-0873 or e-mail this info to smokesstudy@hotmail.com.

Turnkey Desk Recycles Batteries.

Drop your old batteries to the blue bin at Turnkey.

Nominations are requested for the following seats on Senate: Graduate Stuent Representatives – two graduate students of the University to be elected by/from the full and part-time graduate students of the University, termsfrom May 1, 2007 to April 30, 2009. Nomination forms are available from the secretariat, ext 36125 and from the Secretariat webpage; see http://www.secretariat.uwaterloo.ca/elections/omelectiojns.htm.

At least five nominators are requrid in each case. Nominations should be sent tot he Secretariat, Needles Hall, room 3060, n later than 3 p.m., Friday March 16, 2007. Eelctions willf ollow if necessary. Graduate student members of Senate whose terms exprie as of April 30. 2007 and are eligible for re-election: Atefeh Mashatan (Combinatorics & Optimization), Douglas Stebila (Combinatorics & Optimization).

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science@imprint.uwaterloo.ca Science Editor: Rob Blom Science Assistant: Yolanie Hettiarachchi

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Shedding light on the darkness of the universe Two discoveries by international teams broaden our understanding of invisible matter in space Adam Gardiner staff reporter

Most people, at one time or another, have heard of “dark matter,” but the average person isn’t likely to know exactly what the term means.

That’s largely because astronomers know little about the phenomenon themselves. Strictly speaking, dark matter is anything that can’t be seen because it doesn’t put out enough electromagnetic radiation to be visible. Astronomers study planets, stars, nebulae and the like, but they’re only actually looking at about onefifth of the universe. Measurable factors such as distortional and gravitational effects, as well as an application of the Big Bang theory, tell us that more is out there than we can see — countless planets, stars and even galaxies, all invisible to the naked and telescopic eye.

In a report published in the February 15 edition of Nature, an international team of scientists from the astronomical community describe how they used computers to simulate the formation of a dark matter galaxy. In their scenario, which took several months to create and test, a dwarf galaxy composed primarily of gas, passes through a galaxy the size of the Milky Way. What they found

Yolanie Hettiarachchi assistant science editor

New shark and ray species discovered in Indonesia

Indonesia, consisting of more than 17,000 islands, has been found to contain at least 20 previously unknown species of sharks and rays.

The study, spanning a period of five years, has identified six of these species — the Bali catshark and the Jimbaran shovelnose ray, among others.

William White, co-author of the study and member of the marine research division of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), says that Indonesia has the most diverse shark and ray fauna in the world.

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The team of Australian scientists believe that their work will be the first not only to describe these species, but also to provide information critical to their conservation — such as estimating population sizes, assessing the impacts of fishing and

was that the superior gravitational force of the larger galaxy tore the stars and interstellar gas from the dwarf galaxy, leaving behind only the invisible matter.

“These results are so exciting because they are based on a combination of physical effects that have never before been postulated,” commented astrophysicist Stelios Kazantzidis, a member of the international team. Kazantzidis hopes that the team’s working theory will lead to more discoveries on the nature of dark matter. “Elucidating the nature of dark matter,” he said, “is one of the grandest challenges of modern-day science.”

He also noted that the computer model’s success has lead the team to theorize that many “dark galaxies” could surround galaxies like the Milky Way, held in place by the gravitational forces that created them. “These galaxies could just be too dark to detect.”

On February 23, the Kazantzidis team’s theories were confirmed. A second international team of astronomers using radio telescopes located a galaxy of dark matter in the Virgo cluster; named VIRGOH121, it is the first “dark galaxy” ever discovered.

The team found it by detecting radiation in the cluster caused by

developing methods of conservation for at-risk species.

Hundreds of the specimens collected are now lodged at the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense on the Indonesian island of Java and at the Australian National Fish Collection in Hobart.

2,000 year-old date seed may provide a link to Israel’s past

Researchers in Southern Israel have discovered a nearly 2,000 year old seed at the desert fortress of Masada.

Nicknaming the seed Methusaleh — after the biblical figure who was believed to have lived to 969 years — the scientists, led by Dr. Sarah Sallon of the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center in Jerusalem, have ventured to grow it into a palm sapling. A process known as carbon dating has shown the seed to originate from the first century.

The potential plant could replicate the ancient date of Judea, an invaluable export known for its medicinal properties.

According to historical accounts, the Judean date once grew in plantations originating in the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, but was destroyed by the time of the Crusades.

Elaine Solowey, a horticulturist from the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies at Kibbutz Ketura in Negev, believes that a plant of this type may flower late, if at all. “Complex organisms are so fragile. With luck, in three years maybe we’ll get

particles of hydrogen. Astronomers quickly realized that the hydrogen was spinning much too fast to be the only matter existing there.

“From the speed it is spinning, we realised that VIRGOHI21 was a thousand times more massive than could be accounted for by the observed hydrogen atoms alone,” explained Dr. Robert Minchin of Cardiff University, one of the galaxy’s discoverers. “If it were an ordinary galaxy, then it should be quite bright and would be visible with a good amateur telescope.”

Although the area was first studied in 2000, astronomers have up until now been examining other ways to explain the phenomenon.

Cardiff astronomer Dr. Jon Davies was ecstatic about his team’s realization that the “dark matter” theory is the most plausible. “The Universe has all sorts of secrets still to reveal to us,” he said, “but this shows that we are beginning to understand how to look at it in the right way. It’s a really exciting discovery!”

Both teams, driven by their success, intend to further their work in this area of study. The Cardiff team plans to continue using radio telescopes to find and study more dark phenomena. “Radio telescopes,” commented Jodrell

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The gaseous layers of the NGC2440 star shine brightly as its remnants reveal a burned-out white dwarf.

Bank Observatory director Andrew Lyne, “still have a very major role in helping to understand the universe in which we live.” The Kazantzidis team, meanwhile, will be using their model as a guide to find in the real universe what they created in the simulated one. “In the next several years,” Kazantzidis said, “numerous

Archaeologists have discovered a shipwreck off the North Carolina coast, believing it to be that of the famous pirate, Blackbeard, who was killed in 1718 by volunteers from the Royal Navy.

Steve Claggett, the state archaeologist, believes that the find could be excavated fully in three years.

The ship is believed to have been a French slave ship that was captured

by Blackbeard in 1717 and renamed Queen Anne’s Revenge, running aground in 1718.

Some coral-covered artifacts have been recovered from the site which further strengthen the belief that the wreckage belonged to Blackbeard.

For example, a coin weight bearing an image similar to that of Queen Anna and a King George cup are both dated before the shipwreck.

As of yet, about 15 per cent of the shipwreck has been recovered, including jewelry and dishes. Researchers anticipate that the discovery of these and other artifacts will allow for new insights into the era’s naval technology, slave trade and pirate life.

Hospital, demonstrates that obesity in children in the U.S. appears to cause girls to reach puberty at an earlier age.

The report, which followed a group of 354 girls, showed that those who possessed more fat at age three and who gained weight during the next three years reached puberty by age nine.

Dr. Joyce Lee, the lead author on the project, has stated that according to previous studies, girls who reach puberty earlier tend to have a higher body mass index — a measurement of weight related to age and height.

While it is usually difficult to tell whether puberty caused the weight gain or if weight gain caused early puberty, Lee says that she is convinced that it is weight gain that leads to early puberty.

According to the study, girls were at risk for being overweight if their body mass index was between the 85th and 95th percentiles, and were overweight if the measurement was greater than the 95th percentile.

The researchers have stated that 168 of the girls were classified as being “in puberty” by the age of nine; nearly 24 had their first menstrual period within the next two years.

The findings are published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Early puberty in girls may be attributed to childhood obesity

— With files from National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American and the Chicago Tribune

A new study, performed by the University of Michigan’s Mott Children’s

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some flowers, and perhaps we’ll know something about the past.”

Notorious pirate’s shipwreck surfaces artifacts and insights

experiments will attempt to detect dark matter using dwarf spherical galaxies as targets.”

Hopefully the work of both teams will help turn the darkest parts of the universe into something truly enlightening. agardiner@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Traditional chemo faces competition David Judah staff reporter

Currently, cancer is a disease with so few effective treatments that standard procedures to fight it include literally poisoning the subject. This process is called chemotherapy, and is currently our best line of defence against many forms of cancer.

The premise of chemotherapy goes like this: cancer cells are simply normal human cells that are dividing endlessly without going through the regular stage of apoptosis, a process in which excess or un-needed cells commit cell suicide.

Chemotherapy takes advantage this first characteristic of cancer cells, the fact they divide endlessly, to halt their proliferation. By throwing a proverbial monkey wrench into a cell’s growth cycle by means of a drug, the cancer can be disrupted.

Chemotherapy ensures the death of new cells, should they attempt to divide, thus killing the rapidly dividing cancer cells. Unfortunately, there are many other cells in the body which also are in a state of constant division, and when a person goes into chemotherapy, these cells suffer along with the tissues and organs they make up. This is why chemotherapy is such a painful ordeal.

However, hope for an easier, safer and possibly more efficient cancer drug is coming out of the University of Alberta through the work headed by Dr. Evangelos Michelakis.

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Simple and feasible, preventative trials show promise in Africa Basma Anabtawi staff reporter

Although the human body looks strong and invincible, it is just like any other organism on the planet: vulnerable to all those with more strength and unique methods to attack and invade.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is one of the most terrifying and startling diseases to affect the human race. It’s a tiny virus with the massive ability to break down and take over our own personal immune army, making humans vulnerable and defenceless to the weakest infections.

It’s become well known why the HIV vaccine has been so difficult to produce and why it’s so difficult to stop new HIV strains from generating in a matter of mere minutes.

HIV viruses have an astonishing ability to evolve when they become resistant to an environment or a new medication. This ability makes it almost impossible to predict and verify one certain medication to kill all possible strains.

The problem, however, worsens dramatically when combined with a little, harmful parasitic disease known as malaria. Malaria is not always a lifethreatening disease, but the mosquitoborne protozoan can leave a person ill in bed for days and can have severe consequences if left untreated. As they bite their prey, the Anopheles mosquitoes inject the Plasmodium parasite into the bloodstream, which then infects the red blood cells. The most common symptoms of an infection include fever sweats, cold chills,

severe muscle and headaches as well as vomiting.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 300 million people are infected with malaria worldwide every year and in one million of them, the disease is fatal. Most often children are the ones who are infected with malaria, and those who do not develop immunity with the reoccurring infections frequently die.

The beauty of this method is its simplicity and low cost making it very accessible and obtainable for all those at risk of the malaria infection.

Over 90 per cent of the malaria cases occur in African countries, increasing the problem of HIV. The disease also occurs in astonishing levels in African countries, mainly due to lack of prevention awareness and unsafe health practices.

Co-infection of HIV and malaria seems to be one of the most severe disease interactions and operates as deadly combination. According to a study by a Malawian and American research group, Malaria infections seem to cause increased HIV viral

loads, increasing the severity of the disease. This increase in the viral load could assist in accelerating the AIDS development within the infected individual, as well as amplify the possibility of HIV spread and transmission within susceptible persons. One of the most apparent consequences of the life-threatening interaction of the two diseases is the effect it has on HIV positive, pregnant women. The malaria infection doubles the risk of passing the HIV virus to the fetus by allowing it to cross the placenta lining.

According to the WHO, the two diseases cause over four million deaths annually worldwide. A new study led by Dr. Anne Gasasira at the Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, has been focusing on finding an inexpensive and efficient solution to prevent and control malaria infections in HIV positive children. The tested solution included a daily oral antibiotic pill with nightly use of an insecticide-treated mosquito net. The study shows a reduction in malaria infections by 97 per cent when compared to a control group.

The beauty of this method is its simplicity and low cost, making it very accessible and obtainable for all those at risk of the malaria infection. The antibiotic used is cortimoxazole, which is commonly used in North America to prevent AIDS-associated infections.

According to Dr. Gasasira, the annual cost of the treatment is a mere $15 per patient making it very promising and achievable with the aid of the United Nations and global donations. banabtawi@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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DCA: Simple solutions and complex problems Continued from page 31

This new drug, seemingly ready to revolutionize chemotherapy, is DCA or dichloroacetate. It’s a small molecule, sharing a very similar structure to acetic acid — the ingredient that makes vinegar sour. It is also easy to manufacture and could be prepared at extremely low costs. Additionally it’s already on the market as a drug to treat certain metabolic diseases and so its side effects are well documented. And it also holds the potential to treat cancer in a very untraditional way.

Traditional chemotherapy works by affecting a cancer cell’s ability to divide endlessly, one of two key differences between cancer cells and normal cells. DCA works by attacking the other critical difference, a cancer cell’s ability to not commit suicide when it should. This is because in normal cells, apoptosis is triggered by mitochondria, tiny organelles within cells. In cancer cells however, mitochondria simply do not work. At first it was thought that cancer cell mitochondria were damaged to the point of uselessness, but strangely DCA has the ability to reactivate them. Once reactivated, the mitochondria initiate cell apoptosis, taking the cancer out with them.

Already, DCA has proven that it can reduce the size of human cancer cell tumours implanted in lab rats as well as cancer cells in test tubes.

Additionally, it left non-cancer cells unharmed, a claim that cannot be made by current pharmaceuticals.

So far it has proven effective against breast, lung and brain cancer cells. Furthermore, because of DCA’s small size, it is able to cross the blood-brain barrier, perhaps allowing it to be one of the first the drugs to be able to treat brain cancer effectively in patients.

The problem with DCA is that it has yet to be approved for use as a cancer treatment. While it has been in use for some 30 years to treat rare metabolic diseases, and while it has proven to have little or no side effects in most patients, it is still treated with justified apprehension.

DCA cancer research founder Michelakis urges caution. “It is possible it might hurt someone; for example, a lot of cancer patients are already taking cancer medications and the interactions of this drug [DCA] with these drugs is unpredictable,” commented Michelakis in an interview with CNN, adding, “these clinical trials are really important.”

Unfortunately the clinical trials of DCA are facing a setback. Since DCA is a small, easily manufactured and commonly manufactured chemical, it cannot be patented. This means no pharmaceutical company is willing to put up the money to pay for the expensive clinical trials that are necessary to get it approved. Right now, DCA’s funding is coming from donations.

To find more information about DCA and to make a donation yourself, visit www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca. djudah@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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sports@imprint.uwaterloo.ca Sports Editor: Shawn Bell Sports Assistant: Doug Copping

Paopao now the offensive co-ordinator

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It’s over; Laurier sneaks by in OT

Shawn Bell sports editor

Three weeks ago, Warriors football head coach Dennis McPhee named Joe Paopao as part of the training camp coaching staff. Last week, the “Throwin’ Samoan’s” relationship with Waterloo football was seriously upgraded—Paopao is now the Warriors assistant head coach and offensive co-ordinator.

Paopao brings with him a wealth of coaching experience. He comes to Waterloo straight from the Canadian Football League after serving as offensive co-ordinator of the Hamilton Tiger Cats until last August. Before Hamilton, Paopao was the head coach of the Ottawa Renegades from 2001 to 2005. He also coached in Edmonton, Winnipeg and British Columbia, where he won a Grey Cup in 2000.

This will be his first university football coaching experience.

“I am truly ecstatic to be working with these coaches and student athletes at Waterloo,” Paopao said in an interview with CIS. “In the short time I have been on campus, I have been impressed with this university and the direction of the football program. This is the toughest football conference in Canada.

It is a short eight-game schedule; every game is like a playoff game. You have to compete week in and week out, and I look forward to the challenge.”

This is a coup for coach McPhee, who worked with Paopao in Hamilton last year. “I know him real well,” McPhee said. “He is a good person, loyal and trustworthy. He is also a good father and a mentor to young people.

That is what we want here. Football, for us, is life. It doesn’t just happen on the field.”

Assembling a team of coaches around him is all part of the plan McPhee has talked of since day one. “He’ll bring in a system that we ran in Hamilton and that he ran in Ottawa,” McPhee said. “He’s a knowledgable man. I’m going to know what’s going on in the offence, but that is his baby. I’m going to run the defence. And hopefully in a week or two week’s time, we’ll have someone in here to run the special teams.”

Paopao, originally from Honololu, Hawaii, began his CFL quarterback career in 1978 with the BC Lions. He played for 13 years before stepping into the quarterback coach roll with BC in 1991 to make way for Doug Flutie.

All that knowledge will surely be invaluable to Waterloo’s two second-year quarterbacks, Evan Martin and Luke Balch, who will battle for the top job at training camp in August.

“I think it’s a great step for Waterloo football,” Martin said, “and for Waterloo athletics.

[Paopao’s] been there. He’s played at that level, he’s coached at that level. He knows what it takes.”

“He brings a different perspective,” Balch added, “because he’s played the game, and played quarterback. He understands why we do the things we do, and what worked and didn’t work for him.”

They’ve both met the new coach a couple of times. “He’s a real nice guy, very friendly,” Balch said. “He’s already shown me a few different techniques, on ways to do things, things he’s done, on and off the field. You listen real hard to everything he says.”

They’ll have plenty more chances to learn the tricks of the trade. And we’ll have plenty of chances to see them throw the football. Come the 2007 OUA season, the “Throwin Samoan” will be patrolling the sidelines at University Stadium. This Warrior offence may never be the same again. sbell@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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After losing 5-3 in game one, Waterloo took Laurier to OT at a packed CIF in game two. But it was not enough, as the ‘Hawks won 7-6 to move to the OUA finals.

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OUA: Warriors lose in semifinals

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Continued from cover

In the second period the torrid scoring pace finally slowed but the intensity of the game increased. Tempers flared on both sides during many after-the-whistle altercations which led to a whopping 150 combined minutes in penalties for the two teams.

The game, which had a little bit of everything, was also delayed multiple times due to a leak in the CIF Arena roof as well as an injury to one of the linesmen, who took a high stick in the mouth on a faceoff. The linesman left for repairs, returned briefly and was eventually replaced.

The Golden Hawks were able to regain their two goal cushion on a power play goal by Riley Moher early in the second period.

Waterloo once again responded. This time it was Doug Spooner tipping home a point shot past MacDougald on a Warrior power play.

The goal made the score 6-5 WLU heading into the third period.

Facing elimination going into the third period, the Warriors came out strong and got the equalizer early on. Macgregor’s hat trick goal came on the power play just over a minute into the period.

From that point on, the two teams traded chances but neither team could convert. The players seemed to be squeezing their sticks a little tight as the pressure mounted, and many scoring chances were wasted with shots missing the net or passes being mishandled.

The rest of regulation time was scoreless and the game went into overtime, tied 6-6.

Early in the extra session UW’s Brandon Mulholland took down Voakes while backchecking and was given a holding penalty.

Just 13 seconds into the power play Dmytruk beat a screened Darling with a low shot from the top of the faceoff circles to give the Golden Hawks the win. It was the fourth power play goal of the game for Laurier.

The loss finished off a disappointing stretch to end the season for Waterloo. Including playoffs, the Warriors dropped five of their last eight games.

The win for the Golden Hawks put them in the OUA Championship game, which they will host at the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Centre on Saturday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Their opponent will be the UQTR Patriotes.

Regardless of the outcome of that game, those same two teams will represent the OUA at the CIS Championships in Moncton later this month, something which the Warriors had their sights set on all season long. jrowe@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Waterloo’s season is a week from over, but the Warrior’s all-star goalie, Curtis Darling, is already on his way to the pros.

Darling was signed this week to the East Coast Hockey League’s (ECHL) Reading Royals.

Reading is in Pennsylvania. The Royals, coached by former Waterloo head coach Karl Taylor, are an affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings.

The 2005-2006 West Division MVP, Darling played three seasons for Waterloo, amassing a record of 50 - 23 - 8 and a goals against average of 2.73 GAA. This year, Darling went 14 - 5 - 1, with a 2.82 GAA this year, playing a major role in the Warriors 45-point, second-in-the-OUA regular season.

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Warrior women hit the showers

photos by Simona Cherler

Penalties translated into powerplay goals for Queens and ended the 2007 Warrior women’s hockey season.

Matt Levicki reporter

The toughest part is pulling off the Warriors’ jersey for the last time. Not pulling it off just for the game, or the year, but pulling the jersey off for the last time of a varsity career. After the playoff loss that the Warriors women’s hockey team suffered last Sunday to the Queen’s Golden Gaels, that is exactly what Kaity Martin and several other Warrior players had to do.

Martin served as the Warriors’ captain this year and she spoke about what her and fellow graduating players, Krystal Benesch, Mary Finlayson, Laura Sturch, Miranda Humphrey and Alexis Huber, were feeling after the tough 3-1 loss to Queen’s. Martin said, “The hardest part was realizing that the season was in fact over.

Then taking the jersey off for the last time as a varsity athlete was saddening.�

The Warriors went into the game against the Golden Gaels confident they could pull off the upset over their higher ranked opponent. The

season series was very evenly matched and the start of this playoff game followed that trend.

Queen’s would open the scoring three minutes into the game, only to see a quick response by Warriors’ top sniper Sarah Bryson, who tied the game less than a minute later.

The Warriors knew that going into Queen’s and pulling out a win would be a difficult task not only because they were playing a quality team, but also because the refing in Kingston has sometimes been questionable. The Warriors would kill off several penalties through the first period, but did not escape without allowing Queen’s to score the go-ahead goal on a power-play with only 21 seconds left.

The late first period goal was a backbreaking moment for the Warriors as it would turn out to be the game winner. The Golden Gaels would add another power-play goal for insurance in the third period, thus ending the Warriors season.

After a season-ending loss, the first feelings are those of disappointment and frustration,

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as well as asking the dreaded question, what if ? There are never any answers and the only thing left to do is rely on the old saying, “time heals all wounds.�

Unfortunately for the graduating Warriors there will be no next year, but only a successful season and proud varsity career to remember.

After the initial bitterness of the loss, Martin would offer a reminiscent look back on the season; thinking about “all of the memories, and how proud of the hard work and extra time the girls put in to make the team successful, I was less sad and proud to be a part of this team.�

Now that the season is over, all of the Warriors will say their goodbyes and adjust to a life that does not involve being at the hockey rink six days a week for countless hours. For the graduating players, they will move on to a new chapter in their lives. For the returning players, they will begin counting the days until they can pull that Warriors jersey back on and play the game they love.

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Sarah Bryson and Alexis Huber named to OUA first team all-stars Shawn Bell sports editor

The Waterloo women’s hockey team concludes their season with a 8-11-3-2 record. Leading scorer Sarah Bryson was named an OUA first team all-star, and stellar goalie Alexis Huber was named to the second team this week.

The third year Bryson centered the top line and led the Warriors’ offence right from the start of the year. She ended up with 13 goals and nine assists.

Huber played outstanding in every Warrior game this season, and was a major catalyst for earning the team a spot in the playoff battle. sbell@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK RYAN MacGREGOR, HOCKEY A 3rd year Sociology student from Carleton Place, Ontario, was the spark plug for the Warriors offense scoring four times in two games against Wilfrid Laurier in the OUA semi-final. On Wednesday night at WLU, Ryan scored a critical short-handed goal late in the third period to get Waterloo back in the game. On Friday at the Columbia Icefield Arena, Ryan scored a hat trick and added an assist in a 7-6 OT loss to the Hawks. Ryan also scored both game winners against the Western Mustangs in the OUA quarter-final.

ALEXIS HUBER, HOCKEY A 4th year Math/Business student from Belwood, Ontario, stopped 29 of 32 shots Sunday afternoon at Queen’s in a 3-1 loss against the Golden Gael’s in the first round of the OUA playoffs. The Warriors were shorthanded several times throughout the game, but Alexis made a number of key stops to keep the Warriors close. Alexis has been a solid force for Waterloo all season long and played a significant role in Waterloo capturing their second ever playoff berth in their short history.