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ur current president, David Johnston, will be leaving next year, and a university formed Presidential Nominating Committee is currently seeking opinions to help appoint the next president of the University of Waterloo.

David Johnston, whose term is set to expire on June 30, 2011, will be leaving the university after 12 years and one month, the longest term of any president thus far. He was first appointed for a six year term in 1999, and later reappointed in 2005 and 2009 for a four year and a two year term respectively. Pursuant to the university’s Policy 50, which states that no president should serve more than 12 years, this will be Johnston’s last term.

Choosing the next president, who will be UW’s sixth, is a process that will largely be done in private and through the Presidential Nominating Committee. The committee, which has been established under the direction of Policy 50, will consist of 19 people, including Allan Babor, current Feds President and undergraduate student representative. The entire process will be guided by Policy 50, which has remained almost unchanged since its establishment, for the re-appointment of UW’s second president, Burt Matthews. Traditionally this committee was chaired by the chancellor of the university. However, a governance study that was completed two years ago suggested that since the president is responsible to the Board of Governors, the chair of the Board of Governors should be on the nominating committee. Following the change, the chancellor was no longer part of the committee. This year it will be headed by Bob Harding, Board of Governors chair and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. chairman.

In addition to this change, this year the nominating committee will also be seeking the help of the professional consulting firm SpencerStuart, which has experience in academic searches. The team will consist of Sharon Rudy (head of the Canadian practice), J. Carter Powis (head of the Toronto office), and Kristine M. Johnson (from the Los Angeles office). The team will assist the committee throughout all the phases of planning and implementing the procedures. However, the committee is retaining full control of the process, including the soliciting of opinions and expressions of interest.

As part of the process, the committee is expected to solicit student, staff, faculty, and community opinions. This will be done “right

into the summer term,” said Babor. “I intend to meet with various segments of student groups on campus and conduct one on one interviews with many of our students leaders.”

Everyone has a different opinion of who will make a good president: “My goal is to solicit these opinions… and to channel [them] into some common characteristics that represent the UW way,” Babor said.

According to university policy, “The President of the University provides leadership in all matters internal and external. The President should be a person of academic stature with a proven record of leadership and administrative experience.” The president is responsible for, among other things, administrative affairs, overseeing and upholding policies, and maintaining the intellectual independence and integrity of the university. With all the president does, “the qualities of a presidential candidate must be ones that are founded in trust, respect, vision, leadership, and passion. Their experience must be diverse, international, reputable, academic, and exemplary,” explained Babor. “Waterloo’s decision moving forward will have a profound impact on the future of UW.” Any undergraduate students wishing to submit feedback or opinion can contact Feds president Allan Babor directly or talk to any member of the nominating committee while opinions are being solicited.

The entire presidential nomination process, which began in January 2010, is expected to be completed by this Fall 2010. The duration may vary depending on the applicants and the amount of consultation required before reaching a decision. ptrelinska@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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he University of Waterloo’s Board of Governors is soliciting opinions regarding the proposed university seal before bringing the issue to a vote.

The proposed seal was first brought up on February 2 during the last Board of Governors meeting. It was simply introduced for information and members of the board were asked to talk with their constituents and get feedback. “After the laser logo debacle, the university wants to be certain that students are okay with the new design before they proceed with the approval of the Board of Governors,” said Sam Andrey in an email to the Feds council.

Unlike the logo, the change in the seal will not be very drastic. There will simply be more detail added, with the words “concordia cum veritate” replacing “Waterloo, Ontario,” on the bottom of the seal and the coat of arms will be placed in the middle. “The idea is that this new seal will replace all of the various versions of the seal or coat of arms in circulation (namely the current corporate seal, the ceremonial seal on degrees, those used in the coat of arms, the one on the mace, and those used in logos),” said Andrey.

In an email sent to Feds council last week, Andrey urged councillors to consult with their constituents. “Almost all of the feedback we’ve received so far has been positive,” he said, “only a couple of negative comments have been received, related to wasting of resources in the re-design process, and the technical difficulty in creating an embossed seal that is so complicated.

But overall, it seems the consensus is that this is a small, but positive change.”

It is unclear when the proposed new seal will be voted on but it will likely go to the Board of Governors on either April 6, or June 1, the dates of their next two meetings. Should the proposal pass, students would soon see the new seal on transcripts and university documents. However, “[the new seal] will likely take a while to get rolled out completely,” said Andrey. Diplomas and other uses of the seal may take a while longer to change. ptrelinska@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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World This Week

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Chile earthquake

A fatal earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 hit Concepcion, Chile on the night of Sunday, February 27, killing at least 700 people. With 1.5 million homes damaged in the earthquake, thousands have been rendered homeless without electricity and clean drinking water. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, this earthquake, tied with another 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador in 1906, is the fifth strongest since 1990 and may have caused between $15 to $30 billion worth of damage. After the earthquake struck, oceanographers issued a warning for Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a subsequent, fatal tsunami wave was heading towards them; however, this warning was soon lifted when the waves were actually half the predicted size.

Although the recent earthquake in Chile released 500 times more energy than the recent quake in Haiti (magnitude 7.0), the death toll in Chile is approximately 700, while it was over 200,000 in Haiti.

According to CNN, this could be attributed to both tectonics and poverty. Tectonics refers to the process by which mountains move and rocks squeeze and collide. Certain areas like Chile and Peru, are at a higher risk for earthquakes of greater magnitude due to their location and the collision speed of tectonic plates. The increased poverty, weak building structures, lack of zoning, and poor construction standards in Haiti have made buildings more susceptible to damage caused by an earthquake, despite the lower magnitude.

Pontiac Grand Prix. Since January 26, 2010, over 1,000 complaints, 14 crashes, and one death have led the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to investigate problems with the power steering mechanism. GM claims the vehicles are safe to drive. However at under 24 km/h they become increasingly harder to steer. According to BBC news, GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz said, “This is a case where, yes, we would blame partially Toyota-owned suppliers” for the problems they are having with the recalled vehicles.

Canada scores gold in Vancouver

After a lot of hard work, the Canadian Olympic team set a record for the most gold medals — 14 — ever won by a host nation of the Winter Olympic Games. Much of the success seen by the Canadian Olympic Team is in part attributed to an innovative program called Own the Podium, which was originally launched in 2005. This program brings together a multi-disciplinary environment of world-class coaches, support specialists, directors, and sports science/ sports medicine experts, to promote Canadian highperformance sports. Canadians brought home many medals, including a much-anticipated gold in both men’s and women’s hockey, which accounted for two out of the 14 gold medals won in total.

The closing ceremonies were held at a packed BC Place Stadium on February 28 and included performances by prominent Canadian celebrities such as Michael Bublé, Neil Young, Michael J. Fox, and William Shatner. The closing ceremonies also featured the transfer of the Olympic flag which was passed from Canadian officials to Russia who will host their first ever Winter Olympics in 2014.

German company BASF, to be grown in EU nations.

The only other biotech crop that has ever been approved for farming within the EU was a modified type of corn which is produced by biotech giant Monsanto.

The high starch content of the Amflora potato will allow for an increased production of paper products as well as animal feed. Although the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has provided a favourable safety assessment, some scientists are still in opposition to biotech foods due to antibiotic resistance in humans along with several other concerns centred on the increased risk of allergic reactions and carrying unpredictable toxins. That being said, individual member nations of the EU will still have the ability to decide whether or not to allow the Amflora potato to be grown within their borders.

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General Motors recalls 1.3 million cars

GM is recalling the 1997-2003 Buick Regals, 19982003 Chevrolet Luminas, Monte Carlos, and Impalas, 1998-1999 Oldsmobile Intrigues, and the 1997-2003

Genetically modified potato to be grown in EU countries

The European Commission has given the go ahead for a genetically modified Amflora potato, produced by

Council passes motion for merger discussion Gina Racine

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It looks like the possibility of Kitchener and Waterloo becoming one city just became more likely.

During the February 22 city council meeting, a motion was passed to include a question on the October 2010 municipal election ballot for the City of Waterloo. It asked residents if they support members of the Kitchener and Waterloo councils engaging in discussions about the advantages and disadvantages of merging cities.

According to the motion, if the majority vote in favour of the discussion, the City of Waterloo will provide opportunities to citizens and other municipal stakeholders to identify areas of concern through public meetings, mailed and online submissions, and other forums of discussion.

The motion also states that if the majority of residents vote against the merge discussion, the 2010 to 2014 city council should not enter into discussions on merging cities.

Short and long term financial impacts, negotiations of shared utilities, municipal debt, and democratic representation are just some of the topics the city will touch upon in the event of a yes vote.

If the City of Waterloo does decide to move forward with a formal proposal for merging cities, the final merger proposal will be brought back to the residents of the city via a referendum. gracine@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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The closing ceremonies were held at BC Place on February 28 and featured many prominent Canadians such as Michael Bublé and Michael J. Fox.

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ineligibility to participate on athletic teams. Donkoh’s sentencing will take place on April 21.

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Université de Montréal lecturers walk off the job

Over 2,000 Université de Montréal lecturers walked off the job on February 24 after going six months without a contract. Slow negotiations forced the union to strike after months of half day and full day walk-offs. These lecturers at Quebec’s largest university teach almost a quarter of all classes and half of the undergraduate classes at the university, according to their union.

The union is asking for smaller class sizes, changes in work distribution, and salary increases. The university administration says there isn’t enough money to meet the union’s demands. Francis Legacé, president of the lecturers’ union, said that the union had no choice but to call for a strike because the negotiations with university administration were going too slowly. Luc Granger, associate vice-rector for faculty affairs, said that the strike was premature and worries that it could have a negative impact on students if it drags on too long.

The two sides are scheduled to meet again on March 8.

Red River College student newspaper seeks freedom from the students’ association

The Projector, the official newspaper of the Red River College Students’ Association (RRCSA), is seeking independence from the association. According to Matt Preprost, the paper’s current editor-in-chief, the students’ association lacks commitment to the paper. The main goals for becoming autonomous are to increase the paper’s credibility and connection with students, and to ensure that the paper has complete editorial freedom.

A previous editor-in-chief of The Projector also cited RRCSA’s control over advertising, the printing process, and hiring and general operations as reasons for seeking independence. Prepost’s proposal includes a tentative business plan for a student levy and support from the RRCSA. The bid for independence is being headed by The Projector’s editor-in-chief and by Rob Fishbook, the Canadian University Press (CUP) president.

Ontario colleges won’t be going on strike

St. Francis Xavier University athlete guilty of assault charges, but will remain on team

On February 19, 2010, St. Francis Xavier University basketball player William Donkoh was found guilty of assault causing bodily harm. The charges were laid against Donkoh and two other players on March 2, 2009 after an altercation that sent another student to the hospital with a facial injury. At the time, all three players were suspended from the basketball team.

Despite his recent conviction, Donkoh remains on the basketball team and will not face any additional penalties, according to the university’s athletics department. According to athletics director Leo MacPherson, the incident occurred in the previous academic year and has already been dealt with by the university’s diciplinary committee. Marg McGregor, the CEO for Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), said that it is the university’s responsibility to determine a player’s

The results of the February 10 college faculty strike vote have been announced by the Ontario Labour Relations Board: faculty will not be going on strike and Ontario’s 200,000 full-time college students will be able to finish their semesters without disruption. It was not, however, a landslide decision. Only 51.45 per cent of the province’s college faculty voted to accept the final contract offer, with a margin of only about 200 votes between approval and rejection of the proposed contract. This small margin resulted in a delay in announcing results as the Ontario Public Service Employees Union — which represents over 9,000 teachers, counsellors, and librarians — to conduct a review and official count of the votes. The new contract contains a salary increase of 5.9 per cent. the union recommended rejecting the proposal because they felt it did not adequately address the issues of workload and academic freedom.

University of Manitoba declares general election campaigns will be Facebook-free

The upcoming general elections at the University of Manitoba will be Facebook-free. The supplementary rule prohibiting candidates from using Facebook for their campaigns was approved by the university’s students’ union in late February. According to the students’ union Chief Returning Officer (CRO), the reason for the ban on Facebook was that the social networking site’s privacy settings made it impossible to ensure candidates were only using approved election materials. Part of the students’ union’s bylaws mandate that the election is fair, safe, and free of slander, racism, and homophobia.

The CRO’s office worried that they would not be able to support these mandates if Facebook was part of the campaigning efforts. Some council members expressed dissatisfaction with the decision, believing that campaign methods should reflect the current media environment or that Facebook would not give any one candidate or party an unfair advantage.

Post-secondary institutions in Alberta face severe deficits

Multi-million dollar deficits for the upcoming fiscal year and a cut in provincial government funding may mean staff lay offs and tuition increases for some of Alberta’s 26 post-secondary institutions. Recent changes to the provincial funding structure will mean funding cuts for institutions of up to 4.5 per cent. The University of Lethbridge currently has no plans to raise student tuition, but the university is expecting to cut operating costs by laying off some staff. The University of Alberta anticipates cuts to certain programs but has yet to finalize the measures it might take in response to the cuts.

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ormally I don’t care about the Olympics, but there was an event last week that caught my attention. No, I’m not talking about the men’s hockey gold victory, though that was pretty epic. I’m referring to the Canadian women’s hockey team, their victory, and the ensuing celebration. A story published by The Huffington Post described members of the team as smoking cigars and drinking beer on the ice well after the game. The story was titled, “Canadian Women’s Hockey Team Celebration: IOC Unhappy, Team Apologizes” and is pretty much that.

And I think the story is a crying shame. I don’t think the partying is a shame, though. C’mon — Canadian women drinking beer after a well-earned victory? That’s awesome. The shame is the apology.

Though the sexism in this story is very interesting (male athletes celebrate as such all the time, and I couldn’t find any story about Gilbert Felli or other IOC members condemning Jon Montgomery for much the same public beer-drinking), I see that particular issue has already been covered in other editorials. I want to focus on the apology aspect of the story.

To make everything perfectly clear, it’s not that I believe that people shouldn’t apologize, ever. I only want people to apologize for actions that they actually regret — actions where if they could go back in time, they would act differently. But too often, I see apology confused with appeasement — an apology being offered just because group A doesn’t want group B angry at them anymore. Frankly, I find apologies under such circumstances disgusting. Appeasing every person who manages to form a complaint is a losing battle, and such appeasement should never be pursued, anyway.

We are surrounded by oversensitive people.

People (like the members of the IOC) who would like to exert tyrannical control over their “brand.”

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There will be no curse words or nipples on television, ever. And that offends me. Doesn’t that count for something, too?

People who think their religion too holy to be satirized. People who think only their viewpoint should be represented. Not every complaint should be heeded. It is my fear that if everyone were apologetic, free expression would be completely stifled, forever.

It occurred to me to use the FCC, Janet Jackson, and Nipplegate as an example here. But instead, I’ll use an example from this campus.

On Friday, October 4, 2002, on-campus publication mathNEWS published a list titled “Top 10 Rejected Froshweek Themes With Potential Team Names.” Intended as a satirical piece, mathNEWS published a list of themes which were unarguably bad ideas. Like naming teams after “speech impedements” (example team names: Lithp, Ststststututter, Jean Chretien.) You know, bad ideas. That’s the joke.

One of the “bad ideas” was “Derogatory Terms for Women.” Predictably, certain groups on campus complained about this. And disappointingly, theneditor of mathNEWS Louis Mastorakos apologized in the following issue. He wrote, “...as editor it is I that have ultimate responsibility and this time I believe I’ve failed that responsibility. I hope you can believe me when I say that I hope I can do better in the future.”

The rare twist in this story is something I wish I saw more often: people complained about the apology.

A group of female math students wrote into Imprint, saying, “We would like to say as females (and mathies to boot) we found the article amusing rather than offensive. The author didn’t call the list ‘acceptable’ or ‘deserving’ names for women...” The letter con-

tinued, “We resent the demanding of an apology.

It labels us as a gender to be ridiculously sensitive and insecure henpeckers. If the list was made for men instead of women, would anyone have batted an eye? We’re not against women’s rights and agree there are still battles to be fought, but this shouldn’t be one of them. We don’t need the apology.”

Here’s the thing: I like inappropriate jokes (so long as they’re actually funny and not just stupid). I like free speech. I like my movies uncensored, and would happily subscribe to Showcase if it meant never watching a movie on TBS again. But if nobody stands up and complains about complainers, apologies, and appeasement, there will be no free speech. There’s no doing something that somebody somewhere could potentially not like, like criticizing certain political movements, criticizing religious practices, or just enjoying a beer. There will be no curse words or nipples on television, ever. And that offends me. Doesn’t that count for something, too?

There’s this Ghandi quote which is really popular: “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Usually the quote is used by people who want humanity to be more happy and caring and sensitive. The change I want to see is more people taking principled stands.

Even if that means not everybody likes the stand, even if that means coming off like a cantankerous jackass. For instance, Hockey Canada shouldn’t have apologized for the Canadian women’s hockey team. Their statement should have read simply, “Our athletes celebrated winning a gold medal. They’re women and they like beer. Deal with it.”

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he Olympic party is over. It was a good one for us hosts­­ — we got lots of pictures, won lots of medals, and our guests cleared out with nary a stain on the carpet. We woke up on Monday full of pride, hope, and optimism, confident once again in the place of our country on the world stage.

And now, unfortunately, we are back to the everyday humdrum. Remember your best friends in Ottawa?

They’re back too. It was a busy week for them in our common house — by the time you read this article, we’ll have already seen the presentation of a national budget so incredible that everyone needed three weeks off to create it.

So where does this leave us?

Canada’s economy is recovering, but we still have not even come close to replacing all the jobs that were lost from last year. The biggest gains have been in part-time employment — not surprising in a still turbulent economic climate, but not comforting to the recently unemployed.

Close to 100,000 Canadians will soon have their EI run out, and be forced onto welfare. The new federal budget is cutting back on economic

stimulus as well as funding for social programs, while still proposing a mammoth deficit.

Don’t think that you’re exempt from this. Co-op students are finding out first-hand how difficult it is to find work with no experience, and this year’s regular graduating cohort will soon find that it’s no better for those with bachelor’s degrees in hand.

And yet, we need to find jobs and make money, not just because we depend on it to feed, clothe, and shelter ourselves, but because Canada is heading for a demographic crisis.

A report released last week by the parliamentary budget committee suggests that by 2033 there will be only 2.5 working aged people per 10 Canadians. There are presently five.

Do you see the problem ? If we are going to maintain the same standard of living that we enjoy presently, every working age Canadian needs to be twice as productive as they are now, and we have around 20 years to do so.

This is not to mention the fact that Canada is part of a global economy, and productivity in what is now considered the “developing world” is going to soar over the next two

decades. We need to start thinking about whether we’re willing to let our standard of living drop, and if not, how we are going to meet this challenge.

Some of the problems are evident.

Right now, we are cutting down investment on education and social services — how are people going to take classes to update their skills if classes cost a year’s full-time wage and their house is being repossessed?

How are we going to implement new technologies if we have to buy them from other countries who are rightly interested in maintaining their comparative advantage?

How are we are going to provide for the eight in ten people who will not earn a wage in 2033, yet have the same human needs as the two who are working ?

Can we integrate them into an economy based on the idea of “national wealth,” generated by all Canadians for all Canadians, incorporating not just money, but also art, sport, community spirit, and creative energy? Can we ourselves accept that idea?

Canada already has some major advantages, including an advanced

education system, developed hightech industries, world-wide recognition, and a tolerant, diverse society.

However, if we’re going to continue to succeed, we need to be thinking about ways to develop these advantages and share their benefits with more people.

We need to think of approaches that no one else has tried and see what they can offer the world — approaches informed by a multitude of religious, cultural, and social perspectives set within a national culture that not only allow but encourage difference.

This new federal budget does none of these things, nor has anyone in the opposition put forth a real plan to achieve them. Our concerns are changing, but the words we’re hearing from Ottawa are the same as ever — promises wrapped in lies wrapped in slander.

The road to lasting, sustainable political and economic change is a very long one, and we will certainly be walking it throughout our entire lives to 2033 and beyond. However, if we are serious about making Canada the greatest society on Earth, a head start can’t hurt.

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Policy matters — more than student senators think

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can be very dangerous. Indeed, wrongly placed one letter articles have inadvertently legitimized the death warrants of whole groups of people.

Perhaps I should share with you one such experience.

Last summer, I worked in a very policy-intensive environment at the United Nations. As an intern researcher for the World Youth Alliance, I was personally

Think of this proposal as the Ahmajinedads, Jong-ils, and Bashirs of this world being given UN-sanctioned powers to define human rights for their citizens!

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ticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Whoever came up with that famous phrase clearly never understood how policy works and what a tremendous effect it can have on people’s lives.

It might sound overblown, but my experience in policy environments has taught me that the slightest oversight in a policy document

responsible for researching the far -reaching impacts that some supposedly meaningless words written in a whitewashed air-conditioned office in cosmopolitan New York had on struggling farming families in rural Tamale. This life-changing experience made me aware that not only is our world much more interconnected than many people care to realize, but a collection of words on paper are also far less innocuous.

During my job training, my boss told me a very shocking policy horror story I will never forget.

It was the summer of 2000. The place was New York. The event was Beijing +5, a five year review of the highly deliberative World Conference on Women. It had been a very tiresome day of negotiations at the United Nations when, in the

dead of the night, the United States delegation (with typical abrogative airs), proposed what might have seemed, to the untrained eye, a very minor, insignificant amendment: “Human rights grant human dignity.”

What many people may not know is that these five words could have validated all the human rights violations of the last 50 years. Why? Well, because the Universal Declaration of Human Rights makes it very clear that human dignity is the basis for human rights. It is not for nothing they say this. Human rights are the legal entitlements of human beings as they are endorsed by law. On the other hand, human dignity is a much deeper understanding of human rights that base these entitlements operation a higher law. Essentially, this

language would have wholly placed the definition and determination of human rights in the hands of the state. To put it in lay terms, think of this proposal as the Ahmajinedads, Jong-ils, and Bashirs of this world being given UN-sanctioned powers to define human rights for their citizens! Imagine how horrible that would be.

Thanks to vigilant United Nations policy makers, the proposal was rejected. Huge swaths of the world were not signalled off to dictatorial monsters and all was right with the world again.

Now, why am I telling this story?

Well, if policy makers at the United Nations were anything like our student senators, perhaps a more egregious policy change would have been made— without opposition.

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When personal lives become public Jessica Pellow 3B mathematics

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did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

Sound familiar? Probably because that quote was at the heart of one of the biggest sex scandals of our time. Former President Bill Clinton denied having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, a 22-year-old White House intern. He was impeached in 1998 after it was revealed he did indeed “have sexual relations with that woman.” Which raises the question, should politicians’ sex lives be taken into consideration when judging who to vote for, or whether someone makes a suitable leader?

Should their personal lives be under public scrutiny? Some of you are thinking that the two aren’t connected at all, but I would beg to differ.

Anyone running for a position of power deserves the intense scrutiny that they experience throughout their campaign of running and once they are in office. It comes with the job. The public wants to know that the person they are going to elect, or have elected, is the best person for the job and can be trusted. A person is one whole unit and the decisions that they make in their personal life affect the decisions they make in their public life. In fact, it’s the same life.

If someone is lying and cheating on their husband or wife, who is to say that they’re not lying to you and cheating you?

Lying isn’t new. I think we’ve all heard the campaign promises that fall short, whether they be in presidential speeches about

change or from that kid running for student council who swears they’ll put a free coffee machine in the cafeteria. Lies seem to permeate politics wherever you look.

Adam Giambrone recently came under fire after information surfaced regarding a personal relationship with a young woman who was not his current long term girlfriend.

Giambrone was in running to become Toronto’s mayor but pulled out after this information became public. There was much debate over whether the scandal should have been covered by the media and if a candidate’s personal life was relevant.

Following what has become known as the “Lewinskygate” scandal, Bill Clinton said “Indeed, I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate.

In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.” Let’s see that again.

“A critical lapse in judgment.” If former president Bill Clinton, who already was in office, could so easily and repeatedly make a critical lapse in judgment, what’s to keep him from making other critical lapses in judgment and what other lapses in judgment have gone undetected?

If I’m going to vote for someone, I’m going to vote for the person whose opinions I agree with, and the person I trust to lead us. Glimpses into a politician’s personal life provide a look into their true character. If a man cannot be faithful to his wife or significant other, one of the biggest promises one can make, then who is

to say that he will uphold any promise he ever makes or be relied upon to be ethical and make decisions in the best interest of anyone? A selfish inconsiderate act is the sign of a selfish and inconsiderate person and that cannot be ignored.

The scrutiny does not end with the release of the information itself, but also how these people handle the growing scandal. Do they run from their problems or face them with honesty and courage? Some people are smart enough to accept it and move on, while other prolong their embarrassment by trying to deny it. So now they haven’t just hidden something and lied to their spouse, they’re now lying to us. These are people who have employees whose jobs are to spin their scandals and hide their mistakes.

Look at the extent to which they try to cover up these mistakes and hide them from the public. If Clinton can hide an extramarital affair for three years from his wife, how long could another politician hide potentially vital information. They say negative reinforcement lasts much longer than positive reinforcement and I have to agree with that. Once burned, twice shy right?

This isn’t just about their morals and values. This is about how a politician will react in a crisis and how they will respond to future situations. These are insights into their judgments skills, albeit only small crisis compared to say, a missile crisis, but insights nonetheless. To ignore these warning signs could be a fatal mistake, one we can’t afford to make.

Problems with plagiarism rules engineering

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ne of the things that I find ridiculous is how strictly UW can follow some of its policies.

There seems to be this idea Waterloo has that by being strict on the rules, they can discourage people from breaking them.

While that makes sense for the most part, it should be acknowledged that there are always exceptions to the rule. If there was anything I learned from my philosophy class on moral issues, is that just because something is established as a rule, doesn’t mean it’s a good one.

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More specifically, I have a big problem with the rules about plagiarism. Now, don’t

get me wrong, I completely agree that anyone that cheats should be punished, simply because it degrades the education that all of us are paying for. However, sometimes in the effort to reinforce that rule, some innocent people get trampled on.

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An example is group projects. Here we have a situation where a bunch of people work together to complete an assignment. Group projects are supposed to a) teach us how to work together in groups and manage group situations, but also b) reduce our workload because, let’s face it, university is anything but a walk in the park.

What happens when someone in the group cheats while everyone else does an honest job? Here we walk

into the metaphorical brick wall.

According to UW policy, when a person cheats in a group, the entire group gets charged with plagiarizing.

Does that make any sense? Well, UW argues that you put your name on it so, therefore, you should be held accountable for it. Though they have a strong argument here, I think it’s reasonable to assume that when you are working on a group project, you can’t predict what the rest of the group will do (especially if you are working with people you’ve never met before). Even worse is during exam time where you’re busy studying for your finals and just don’t have the time to reread an entire project or check if some of it was plagiarized.

Solution

So what’s a proposed solution? I think UW students, especially when working on group projects, should be allowed access to the same technology professors use in order to determine whether a group member has cheated or not. Some universities actually require you to check for plagiarism on your own and submit a generated slip which indicates that you didn’t plagiarize. Though I’m sure this system isn’t the cheapest solution, at least it gives people the opportunity to know what they’re putting their names on is an original piece of work. It’s definitely better than the alternative, where we gamble on the hope that the rest of our group did honest work like we did.

Proud to be Canadian Seven events in recent memory that had nothing to do with medals or hockey John Brian Dorsay 5A microbiology

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taring longingly at empty racks that should have contained a variety of newspapers yesterday I came to two realizations. First, something of great importance had happened to cause the people of Kitchener/Waterloo to rush out and defy recent trends by purchasing paper copies of a news story en masse. This led to the second realization, that I would have the misfortune of being forced to pick up the Kitchener Record, the only rag left for sale for miles.

Like many of the nation’s newspapers, it dedicated the entirety of its front page to news surrounding the events of Sunday’s gold medal hockey game and subsequent fallout, ignoring Chilean earthquakes, the return of parliament later this week, and countless other issues they deemed less relevant than the hockey game.

Fine. Canadians love hockey. They don’t like reading depressing stories about far away national disasters or boring stories about our politicians bickering. This is nothing new in this country, and nobody should be surprised by such things in 2010 Canada.

What struck a nerve with me was the headline “I’ve never been more proud.”

After witnessing streets being closed down in my own city along with images of the

same occurring in countless others, I knew Canadians were elated over our performance in Vancouver. What I didn’t understand was the degree to which this event would come to define our collective memory of what it is to celebrate our pride in being Canadians.

The notion makes me uncomfortable. We have much to be proud of in this country.

In the last 10 years there have been several events which have contributed greatly to our national identity, more so than Sunday’s hockey game in my opinion, and as such are worth celebrating. These are a few of those events: September 2000

Pierre Elliot Trudeau passes away. An unprecedented outpouring of grief occurs across the nation and thousands make a pilgrimage to Ottawa to pay their final respects. For a few days the nation is united in mourning our collective loss and celebration over the accomplishments of a man who helped define Canada as we know it today.

March 2003

The Chrétien government announces Canada will not be joining our American neighbours in the invasion of Iraq.

September 2003

Insite opens its doors. A revolutionary idea

in North American public health, it is devoted to harm reduction and reducing the spread of infectious disease by providing a safe injection site for people struggling with drug addiction.

Complete with on site medical staff, addiction counselling and mental health assistance is provided along with clean needles. Despite efforts by the Harper government to close its doors, it remains open.

July 2005

Same sex marriage is legalized in Canada nationwide. We are the first nation in the Americas to do so, and the legislation remained intact after a free vote on the issue in December 2006. Our commitment to equality remains steadfast.

June 2008

The Harper government offers a full formal apology on behalf of Canadians for the Indian Residential Schools system.

May 2009

Thousands of Tamil protesters move onto the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto blocking off the busiest stretch of road in the country. No arrests, no tear gas attacks or police assaults result from the motion.

Their right to protest is, albeit grudgingly by many, respected. As Toronto Police

Chief William Blair put it “we’re not in the business of killing people.” Would this event have had the same peaceful outcome in America or the UK? Doubtful.

January 2010

Governor General Michaëlle Jean is moved to tears as she delivers a stirring address to mobilize Canadians to assist with relief efforts to help rebuild the devastated country. The address feels distinctly Canadian. Though met with criticism by some, the address is widely praised for its heartfelt and touching nature.

These are just a few recent events that have come to define our national identity.

We are not a nation without flaws. We falter from time to time, and we are prone to getting hung up on our failings. That self loathing is part of what Canada is all about. That doesn’t give us leave from being proud of our accomplishments. A street party may not have been an appropriate form of celebration for all of the aforementioned events, but I’ll be damned if I’m not proud of every single one of them. On Sunday we may have proved to the world that hockey is our game, but it is certainly not our soul. I implore you not to lose sight of that.

Go Canada go.

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There is more to transatlantic slavery than meets the eye Clint Kyksa 2B science

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ip hop is an influential culture created in the predominantly, poor black areas of New York which entail music, dance and artistic expression throughout one’s life. A popular type of music associated with hip hop is rap, which is composed of a rhythm or beat made up of various instruments, traditionally drums, and a vocalist. A prominent figure in the underground community is an artist named Mos Def (i.e. Most Definitely), who is part of the world renowned duo BlackStar which speaks openly about minority (specifically black) oppression in America. One of Mos Def ’s frequent topics in his lyrics are the cultural inequalities between whites and blacks in American, and to greater extent, Western society (Example, “If white boys doin it, well, it’s success...when I start doin, well, it’s suspect,” and “America’s five centuries deep in cotton money”). This leads to a fundamental question most people have when encountering the history of American slavery for the first time– how could white people have done that? This has led Caucasian people to feel guilty about the gross injus-

tice whites have perpetrated against blacks.

Every major race has been the subject or the instigator of slavery throughout history.

The three largest religions– Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism– have all accepted and embraced slavery in the past.

All three of these religions were part of the Arabian slave trade which saw millions of slaves transported from Eastern Europe and Eastern Africa through the Arabian slave trade for half a millennium.

Furthermore, the Ottoman Empire (present day Turkey) had a long tradition of slavery which was not abolished until the early 20th C– over one 150 years after Britain and France outlawed slavery. Present-day rappers’ lyrics do not present the entire history of slavery and portray an understandable bias towards the United States’ history of slavery, effectively ignoring the long and equally terrible history of the Arabian slave trade and slavery around the world.

Most people know about the slavery of Africans, but an often unremarked slave history is that of Caucasians.

Startling as it may seem, many Slavs of Eastern European descent, called saqaliba, were traded by pagan slave traders to the Arabic world which included Muslim states in North Africa. Thus, we can safely

assume that at one point in the past, black people owned white slaves. Although the saqaliba were highly prized slaves, the trade eventually stopped as the pagans began to convert to Christianity which put less economic emphasis on trade.

A common assumption and simplification of the colonial slave trade is one where the United States carries the central dogma of slavery while Canada was a safe haven. This is unfounded as Canada (or New France) enslaved the Aboriginals when first arriving. Aboriginal enslavement continued until the arrival of British settlers who brought African slaves with them. This continued until the the act of slavery was abolished in 1834 with the subsequent relabeling of Canada as a haven for refugee slaves. Another misconception was that there were only white slave owners, which is again incorrect.

On multiple accounts it was decided lawful for a free black to own a black slave. “In 1830, 3700... African Americans... owned nearly 12,000 slaves.”

Although some freed blacks purchased an enslaved family from slave masters, there were black slave masters who did not differ in their treatment from white slave masters– expecting long hours of hard work and complete subordination.

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Every major race has been the subject or the instigator of slavery throughout history.

As argued by Mos Def, “America’s five centuries deep in cotton money”; many believe that African slave labor in the United States had a direct impact on it becoming the economic and political superpower that it is today.

This may be partially true but it cannot be an enormous contributor since the Ottoman empire did not formally abolish slavery for another half century after the United States and did not have anywhere the same economic power.

Some populations still have active slaves with the most prominent being the African country Mauritania. Slavery is outlawed in Mauritania but the predominantly Muslim population accepts Qur’an law

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which allows slavery. In this way the upper class Muslims of the country still enslave approximately half a million Africans.

In order to be clear, this was not written to abolish the Americans of their guilt about the enslavement of Africans but was intended to broaden the often narrow view on slavery taught in North America.

The idea and application of equal rights for all humans is a very recent development in human history and still has ongoing debate (Example. gay rights). Although the history of slavery is a tender issue, it is important to understand the history of humanity in order to move forward without making the same mistakes.

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orry. I’m sure you want me to shut up... but I can’t. If you don’t want to read about Israeli-Palestinian issues, think about Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) on campus, or listen to a potentially proIsraeli point of view, just stop reading; I’m not forcing you to go on.

Let me start with a little story.

I was walking with a friend of mine on campus and we reached a sublet ad posted on a board. My friend read the ad, then ripped every single one of those little pieces of paper at the bottom with the contact info. I asked my friend, “Man, you really want that place, huh?” and he said, “No, I’m trying to sublet my own room.”

Basically that’s the problem I have with the whole Israeli Apartheid shebang.

But first, a few apologies. I want to point out that in my editorial for Imprint last week, I may have caused the impression that IAW is anti-semitic. That’s clearly not the case, which is obvious if you look at their list of events and see the speech by a Holocaust survivor. IAW isn’t necessarily anti-Jewish.

I’d also like to commend the organizers at Waterloo’s SFPR. As far as I can tell the week’s events were well-organized and peaceful. There were no attacks on Jews or Israelis like at York univerity last year

(although that may be attributed to the lack Israeli Apartheid,” and “Canada and Israel: support and resources, I’d love to organize of Jewish presence on campus). Even if I Building Apartheid.” There are no events an “Israel is Awesome” week (originally disagree with your opinions, I respect your titled “Israel’s Struggle for Existence?”, titled “Israel Rules” week, but that title is efforts at organizing this week.

“Hamas - the terrorist organization ruling a bit too ironic), to present some opposing Now, pleasantries aside, IAW still pissed Gaza,” or “Is Israel an Apartheid State? A points of view from Israeli Apartheid Week. me off. Why? One reason. One big shiny fair debate.”

Until Israel is Awesome Week comes to reason. It’s one-sided.

But of course, IAW isn’t about debate. It’s life, I’m confined to presenting my opinions Just like my friend who ripped off one ad about presenting the pro-Palestinian point on Imprint. I know I probably won’t change in order to eliminate alternatives, the IAW of view. The very name of the week sug- anyone else’s opinion on the matter, but I’d presents one exclusive point of view with gests that Pro-Israeli people aren’t likely to like to encourage those students who don’t no alternatives. It’s not a week of debates attend an event titled “The Boycott Against know a lot about the situation between Israeli about Israel and apartheid, it’s just a week Israel,” are they? I can honestly say I haven’t and the Palestinians to look for both points of anti-Israel sentiments and discussions. sat through any of the IAW lectures, because of view on the subject, and not take Israeli The problem is, even when you call it I don’t think they’d like me to be there. The Apartheid Week as a fair, even-sided view Israeli Apartheid Week, you’re asking people purpose of Israeli Apartheid Week at UW on the situation. to accept that Israel is an apartheid state. isn’t to debate whether Israel is an apartPlease feel free to comment on my opinA lot of people don’t think so. And yes, heid state, it’s to “educate people about the ion online, or send me hatemail to olahav@ I know some people, including Desmond nature of Israel as an apartheid system and uwaterloo.ca. There’s nothing like the fresh Tutu, who think Israel is an apartheid state, to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions smell of hatemail in the morning. but a lot of people don’t. They see Israel’s (BDS) campaigns.” In short, the only way To summarize, I do thank SFPR at UW actions as necessary for its national security pro-Israeli people get a voice is if they step for organizing Israeli Apartheid Week in a and survival as a Jewish state surrounded by up and say something. way that minimized the potential for hate Arabic neighbours, some of which are prone Sadly, the University of Waterloo doesn’t and conflict. I just want people to be aware to terrorism. Just last week, MPPs from all have a strong Jewish student organization, that IAW presented a very one-sided arguover Ontario and from different political par- or a “Students 4 Israel” club. If I get the ment instead of a fair debate. ties came together to condemn IAW, which proves this isn’t just my personal opinion.

The problem is, even when you call Israeli Apartheid Week presents a very one-sided point of view. While it does try it Israeli Apartheid Week, you’re askand stick to facts, which is great, look at the events we’ve had on campus this weeking people to accept that Israel is an “Apartheid 101,” and “The Struggle for apartheid state.

Palestinian Rights and the Boycott against 6”w x 8”h b/w, 170ppi PDF/X-1A required.

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ast week an article was published by Oren Lahav that perhaps expressed popular sentiments felt by some Israelis and their supporters. In this letter, he stated no fewer than six times that there are various things that he does not like. Before I formulate a detailed response, I must point out that there are numerous statements on which Lahav and I agree. For instance, we agree that the scrawling of messages such as “Taliban 4ever, death to America” on UW desks is not only vandalism but also a despicable view. We agree that institutions should not tolerate anti-Israeli sentiments or anti-semitic views; the University of Waterloo is, I believe, an institution that upholds these values quite well. We also agree that many should be proud of one’s country of origin, and the Israelis are no exception. Certainly the country of Israel has been a success in several areas of discourse, but as a matter of responsibility Israelis must also acknowledge that this

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ren Lahav “doesn’t like” things he sees on campus. He doesn’t want to feel ashamed of his birth country, Israel, and resents that guest lecturers and human rights groups on campus make him feel this way. I feel bad for Lahav, but it is not for anyone else to worry about how he feels when he’s presented with facts. If he is uncomfortable with them, he can help to change them.

success has often come at the expense of the Palestinian people. To ignore the less savoury aspects of national history is not only a demonstration of ignorance, it is also a flagrant display of blind nationalism.

However, our opinions then immediately diverge, beginning with Lahav’s view that Israeli Apartheid Week, organized by the Students for Palestinian Rights, is anti-Israeli. He states that the portrayal of Israel through the numerous and prominent advertisements for IAW is fostering “an anti-Israeli vibe that I don’t like,” pointing to the torn IAW banner in the SLC as an example. In claiming that the SFPR’s advertising and events are anti-Israeli, Lahav fails to notice that criticism of Israel is not the same as anti-Israeli sentiments. I have refuted this assertion many times in the past, and I find it trifling and annoying when those involved in the debate simply do not listen. Either they do not wish to hear their claims dismissed as rubbish or they cannot read.

The fact that SFPR has named their main event “Israeli Apartheid Week” is

not in itself an anti-Israeli movement, but an acknowledgement of Israeli policies enacted in order to systematically oppress the Palestinian people. Indeed, even the argument that the use of the term “apartheid” is questionable seems to be a recurring one as many seem to be in denial of the Israeli government’s systematic segregation. The debate of whether the term “apartheid” applies is one of semantics that aims to detract from an obvious situation that is not only backed by facts and evidence, but also by a consensus across the international community. The International Court of Justice has long since passed a judgment declaring that the Israeli security fence violates the human rights of Palestinians in the occupied territory and that “the construction of the wall and its associated régime are contrary to international law.” Mr. Lavah, what exactly is debatable about using the term “apartheid” when both the UN General Assembly and its international criminal and human rights courts agree on the use of the term?

Even the South African government, with its turbulent history of black and white apartheid policies, has drawn precisely the same analogy between their past policies and the current Israeli practices.

What controversy is Mr. Lavah alluding to, other than the imaginary one he is trying to construct?

Lahav’s claims soon become even more odious when he expresses the feeling that as he walks the UW campus, he feels that he is bombarded with a message of hatred.

Once again this is a profound misunderstanding of the entire purpose of SFPR’s events that is backed by no examples on the writer’s part. There is no place for hate speech or inflammatory language at an intellectual institution such as UW, and SFPR has done absolutely nothing of the sort. Making the distinction between criticism of Israel and anti-Israeli sentiment is a frequent one that appears to require repetition ad nauseum. In fact, I feel that all of Lahav’s arguments give one a sense of déjà vu.

He might follow the lead of some of his countrymen (and women). Lahav says he didn’t serve in the Israeli military. Not every Israeli is so lucky. Many do serve and are traumatized by what they see and what they are ordered to do. Some veteran soldiers, in the face of threats of violence from the radical right, decided to speak out. Lahav can learn about them through Shovrim Shtika (Breaking the Silence), an organization that has compiled their testimony.

Or if he doesn’t trust Israeli soldiers, maybe he will want to learn from fellow Israelis who, like him, are concerned

about their country’s future. B’Tselem, the Jerusalem-based Jewish human rights organization, has repeatedly compared the Israeli government’s actions with apartheid.

Their website is www.btselem.org. Or he can pick up a copy of Haaretz, Israel’s most influential daily newspaper, which regularly opposes the Israeli government, settlements, and the occupation. It seems that even if Lahav had stayed in Israel, he would still be hearing the criticisms that trouble him on UW campus.

And if it is concern about appropriating the word “apartheid” from the South

African struggle for racial equality that troubles him, rest assured: prominent South African Jews who are veterans of the ANC, the party of Nelson Mandela, have described Israel’s actions as apartheid for years, and have called on Israel for change.

No one wants Lahav to be ashamed.

All these groups want is for Palestinians in occupied land to have the same thing Lahav has — freedom. Maybe this is his opportunity to get comfortable with the facts that so many are trying to draw his attention to.

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ladmir Shulman asks if common sense alone is not reason enough to stop the lunacy and partake in civilized debate. I think it is. Let’s start a reasonable debate right now: where is the common sense in killing 1,000 innocent people for the sake of also killing 500-700 enemy fighters? Is it right to bomb V1 to smithereens and kill every last one of the 1,000 first years in it, if it was hijacked by a hostile foreign army?

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t was not right for those two students to immaturely deface a community club’s promoted event. But is it not this very same event, Israel Apartheid Week, that was publicly denounced by every single MP in Ontario this past week? The Star journalist and Queen’s Park Bureau Chief Robert Benzie reported that “resolutions in the Ontario Legislature send a message. They are about moral suasion,” adding, “it is close to hate speech” to liken democratic Israel to apartheid-era South Africa.

“Israeli Apartheid Week is not a

dialogue, it’s a monologue, and it is an imposition of a view by the name itself ­ – the name is hateful, it is odious,” he said, adding it is also offensive to the millions of black South Africans oppressed by a racist white regime until the early 1990s. Israel Aparthied Week seeks to “end Israel’s occupation of all Arab lands” (taken from IAP official website, see ‘media’), and in the process demonizes the state of Israel(-ies), de-legitimatizes the state, and employs a doublestandard in the process – the very definition of anti-semitism. “The MPPs” move comes as Premier Dalton McGuinty, who was not in the House on Thursday, is gearing

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up for a trade mission to Israel and the West Bank on May 23rd.

McGuinty will be the first Ontario premier to visit Israel since Mike Harris in 1998. There are no laws within Israel that can even be compared to the policies of the racist apartheid South Africa. Please educate yourself to see that there is another agenda behind IAW besides “Palestinian rights” not to mention the on going war between Israel and Palestine, and a prevalent religious conflict between Islam and Judaism in the Middle East.

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TED goes independent in Waterloo Paula Trelinska staff reporter

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ver 350 students, professors, business people, and members of the community at large gathered at the Gig Music Hall last Thursday, February 25, for Tedx, Waterloo’s own independent version of the TED conference.

The TED conference is an annual event where world leaders in technology, entertainment, and design all come together and share their ideas. “In the spirit of ideas worth spreading,” TedX is an independent, locally organized event where individuals gather to watch speakers from the TED conference. These events can be quite small, simply a few people in someone’s living room, or they can be large and include their own series of speakers, such as the one in Waterloo.

Though the day began with some technical difficulties, TedX Waterloo was a success, drawing people from all over the region as well as surrounding areas. People came from as far as London to attend the one day event.

There were three sessions with several speakers each, as well as several videos of talks from actual TED conferences. The first session, entitled, “Design Started Yesterday,” began with Terry O’Reilly, host of CBC Radio’s, “The Age of Persuasion.” He had only 18 minutes to speak and could talk about whatever one topic he wanted to educate the audience about. As an advertising executive and visionary, O’Reilly explained what role friction could play in both advertisement and in the world. “A spoonful of sugar will help the medecine go down. A spoonful of sand might make it go down quicker,” he joked. Though this may be untrue, friction, he explained, can lead to effective advertising. Sometimes friction is necessary to play around with the human psyche.

Other speakers in the first session included Philip Beesley, associate professor at the University of Waterloo’s school of architecture, Ray LaFlamme, professor in the department of physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, and a TED video of Aimee Mullins, a double amputee who talked about different perceptions of beauty and disability.

The second session was titled “Our World Started Yesterday,” and included Paul Saltzman, a film and television producer-director; Madhur Anand, scientist and poet; Michael Sacco, a technologist and chocolatier, a TED talk from Wade David on endangered cultures; and Caroline Disler. Disler, who has long been fascinated by language and its various meanings and translations, talked about what it really means to say “western civilization.” Though it is geographically accurate, she explained, much of what we call “civilization” did not necessarily come from the west.

The day ended with a third session entitled, “Our Identity Started Yesterday.” This session included speakers Dareen Wershler, a poet and cultural critic, Marty Avery, a business advisor, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a writer, filmmaker and radio host, as well as a TED talk video from Matthew Childs about the nine life lessons he learned from rock climbing.

After the conference ended, the evening ended with an after party at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. This was an opportunity for everyone who had attended to network, get to know each other, and discuss the day’s ideas. ptrelinska@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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from left to right, speakers Ray LaFlamme and matt gorbet

Religion and public life Divyesh Mistry reporter

On the 10th anniversary of their partnership, the department of religious studies at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University put on their annual Religion and Public Life Conference held at the Paul Martin Centre at Laurier. With two keynote speakers and dozens of miniature panels, the conference confronted the theme of religion and globalization, and how they influence each other today. Every year, the conference aims to bring up the issue of religion and how it affects and interacts with the public sphere.

Dr. Carol B. Duncan, director of the conference, welcomed the two speakers, Dr. Lori Beaman and Dr. Paul Freston. Beaman presented a lecture on the topic of “Canadian religious freedom in global context.” Being the head of the Canadian Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada at the University of Ottawa, her topic elaborated on the future image of Canada in the coming years. She talked about how religion and law in Canada often clash, leading to monumental Supreme Court cases. Beaman related to two distinct cases: polygamy amongst the fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints in Bountiful, B.C, and the Hutterite driving license rules in Alberta. In these cases, the lower courts often ignored the local communities and went to the Supreme Court of Canada. As Beaman argues, they “tend to contextualize religion broadly and take a narrow read of religious freedom,” as it applies to the entire country.

Beaman asked a question that many people wonder: what does this have to do with global religious freedom? “It’s the religion them versus the civil us,” she said, also addressing the fact that this is where

the elephant in the room, “the fear of the Muslim them”, comes into play. The current narrow view of religious freedom is affecting Canada, as it has affected Europe.

The second keynote speaker, Dr. Paul Freston, Centre for International Governance Innovation chair in religion and politics in global context at Wilfrid Laurier University, presented in the afternoon. His lecture, titled “International Dimensions of Religious Human Rights in a Globalizing World,” focused on a religious concept that many people feel threatened by: proselytization — or preaching with the intent to convert. Freston began his lecture focusing on how religion has always taken on a globalizing or de-globalizing role. He listed several examples including the Portuguese spreading European Christianity to the South Americas.

He also discussed and how a global religion can de-globalize a nation.

Freston proceeded to argue that there is a wrong and right way for proselytization to occur and that without the practise, faiths may stagnate and fall apart. The wrong way to practise is to forcibly make people convert in exchange for humanitarian support. Modern governments that guarantee religious freedom have a problem in addressing as he stated it, “Whose rites get rights?” In addition, he presented several arguments against the anti-proselytization crowd. These arguments included the fact that many countries use anti-conversion laws as political tools such as the Hindu nationalists in India. In many cases, conversion and proselytization encourage debate and discussion on the home religion and can end up revitalizing existing religions.

In conclusion, Freston argued that, despite our best efforts, there is no ideal model of the religious-state. Perfect religious freedom will never exist, due to the fact that the human psyche will never allow it. Despite the cynicism in the last statement, it’s never too far-fetched.

One hopes to at least strive for a world whose people can live in harmony with one another.

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A cure for the terrible disease of loneliness The page that Epp was designing seemed to be inspired by an image of a little girl in a frilly dress and a Kurt Vonnegut quote that she had cut out of a magazine which read: “What should young people do with their lives? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

Being both a huge Kurt Vonnegut fan as well as having an interest in community organizing, I introduced myself to Epp. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that she is the Editor of Blueprint magazine, a Laurier University publication that features poetry, fiction, short essays, and artwork, all of which is accepted from students as well as community members.

Since she became editor nearly one year ago, Epp explained that Blueprint has taken a number of measures to become more community-oriented. One of the

most significant measures is that Blueprint now accepts community submissions alongside student ones, so community members are being published as much as Laurier students.

Epp, explained that this signifies that, “Non-students are now integrated as stakeholders in the magazine; they’re getting into print.

Many of our regular contributors aren’t Laurier students, but now they and their friends know and care about Blueprint, so in the most basic sense we increased our pool of talent, which means more perspectives and angles are covered in each issue.”

In addition to including community submissions, Blueprint also increased its off-campus distribution to make it more visibly present in Kitchener-Waterloo. Blueprint’s most recent release party was held off-campus at the Jane Bond, a local restaurant and music venue. Epp

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said that the event, “was completely open to the public and we had a pretty great turnout from students and non-students.”

Epp and I also discussed how Blueprint’s editorial staff is managed.

Epp works toward making the editorial board as non-hierarchical as possible and to consider everyone’s opinions equal on submissions.

Epp explained that her knowledge of non-hierarchical organizing has stemmed mostly from her involvement with LSPIRG, which operates according to a consensus decision making process, as well as from her own personal research on consensus decision making.

Epp said, “I think consensus is really useful, especially with a publication like Blueprint, because I really believe it fosters creativity by trying to get as much knowledge and information from each participant as possible.”

On the other hand, in extremely hierarchical structures, Epp believes that people can’t be as creative because the organization is based on competition and fear rather than open and honest discussion. As Epp said, “You can’t order someone to be creative, and a lot of our best ideas this year have come from the team just talking and constructively arguing about the issue.

Instead of cutting off the discussion when I’m not getting my way, I try to find a way that we can all be somewhat pleased with the result, and a lot of our best work has come from this process.”

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met Erin Epp, Editor of Blueprint magazine at Laurier University’s “Un-Conference,” a week of scheduled and impromptu workshops hosted by the Laurier Student Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG).

Epp, who is on staff at LSPIRG, was attending a zine-making workshop that I was facilitating. We sat next to one another at a table covered in magazine scraps, glue sticks, scissors, and zines. The only rules of my workshop were that each participant had to design one page of a zine, and that the page had to incorporate an image from a magazine as well as a poem or short story of no more than 50 words.

The page that I was designing was based on a magazine scrap I had found which depicted a hand drawn illustration of a swan dressed in buttless chaps and cowboy boots, who was vomiting a stream of rainbow. The illustration inspired me to write a poem.

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veto power because she is editorin-chief, she views her title as more of a formality and as representing the logistical and administrative aspects of her job. “When it comes to designing Blueprint and discussing what gets in each issue,” Epp said, “it’s definitely a team effort.”

Since Epp became editor, she has also worked with the editorial team to improve the design of Blueprint. Epp explained that in addition to written submissions, the editorial team also aims to balance student and community artwork submissions. Epp said, “We don’t want to completely dictate what goes on in the magazine because we aim to create a dialogue and engage students and community members around the issues. We also want to enable people; it’s an empowering thing to get your work published, so we want to provide that opportunity to as many of our contributors as possible.”

Throughout my conversation with Epp, I realized that Blueprint is in itself an embodiment of community organizing. From the nonhierarchical way that its editorial team operates, to its emphasis on balancing student and community submissions, Blueprint creates a forum for people to share their opinions by promoting honesty, openness, and inclusiveness. In a very tangible way, Blueprint contributes to creating a stable community in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. Vonnegut would have been proud.

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An Insight Into the 2008 Financial Crisis “You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste” – Machiavelli

David Collins reporter

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ith the above quote, Robert Pozen, a senior lecturer of business administration at Harvard and chairman of MFS Investment Management, ironically lightened the mood of the South Campus Hall, Festival room at the AFSA and SunLife Financial sponsored public lecture entitled “no room for complacency: Too Big to Save? How to fix the U.S. Financial System.”

The lecture’s goals were to detail some of the factors leading to the 2008 financial meltdown and ways to prevent future disasters. The aforementioned quote set the tone for the talk; the financial meltdown was not a situation to be ignored, it was a learning experience.

At the beginning of his talk, Pozen was quick to point out to a well-attended lecture audience that financial markets are much more prone to crisis than the general public is led to believe citing every 2.7 years as the average time between financial crises.

From there, he began listing off earlier reasons from 9/11 onwards. These varied from Alan Greenspan lowering interest rates in 2003, to the massive American debt to China and Japan totalling approximately $1.4 trillion, to the sneaky beginnings of sub-prime mortgages, to the beginning of the meltdown that saw the United States government bailing out 620 different companies with little or seemingly no thought to the gigantic sums of money that were being given to industries that did not need the money.

After his explanation of the causes, he gave the Canadian banking system a backhanded compliment.

According to Pozen, one of the reasons that our banks weathered the financial storm so well was due in part to the Canadian banks custom of an up-front deposit at a usual minimum of five to ten per cent with an average of 20 per cent for most borrowers, thus creating a system with a lower default rate.

As for our American counterparts, their system only required them to, on an average, place 3.5 per cent and in more than a few instances of zero percent, creating a higher default rate on mortgages that were being dispersed to other investors for more return.

He cited that in years before the crisis, the typical American consumer was saving very little compared to how much they made, and in 2006, the population as a whole on an average spent more than they made.

His major conclusion seemed to be that after all of this, the average American needs to start saving more (by spending less) and that China, the new economic powerhouse, needs to encourage its population to spend more in order to equal out the flow of money between the nations.

When I caught up with him after his talk and asked him about his thoughts on how his findings could help the lay-public, the source of the invested money, make smarter financial decisions in the future, he did not have a comment.

I guess the experts will know this information, but the general population that will have to bring it through won’t.

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iruses such as HIV, bird flu, and SARS have been ubiquitous in the media and are known for their ability to cause suffering and disruption. However, according to Dr. Marc Aucoin, an assistant professor for chemical engineering, viruses can be beneficial. Their unique abilities can be harnessed for many medical purposes, including the production of vaccines, effective gene therapy, and degradable drug delivery systems. According to Aucoin, “they can be used for pretty much everything.” On Tuesday, March 2, Aucoin presented a seminar as part of a series of lectures organized by the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The seminar described Aucoin’s research, with a placed emphasis on the technical details regarding the production of virus products used in medical research.

The type of virus that Aucoin described is called a baculovirus which affects invertebrates, particularly moths and butterflies. One of the benefits of using such a virus is that it does not replicate in humans, so there is very little danger in using it for medical purposes. Aucoin presented a short history of the virus; the first use of baculoviruses occurred once scientists

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discovered its effect on insects. It was then used as a fairly effective insecticide. Further research into the virus led to the discovery of other properties that make it suitable for medical applications. One such application is its use in the production of therapeutic proteins.

One of the goals of the processes that Aucoin researches is to produce “virus-like particles” that have the structure of viruses, but lack some of the components, such as the genome. The virus-like particles have some of the properties of a full virus, but can be modified to do something useful. Aucoin mentioned that virus-like particles “have a three dimensional conformation very similar to the virus, and therefore can be recognized by the immune system and can also be used in vaccines.” Similarly, virus-like particles could be used to deliver drugs. This method of delivering drugs is beneficial because the delivery capsule protects the drug and prevents degradation in the bloodstream, but the virus-like particle is easily degraded once its payload has been delivered. Researchers are looking at different ways of attaching drugs to virus-like particles for maximum effectiveness.

Another goal is to produce “viral vectors” for use in gene therapy, where the viral genome is modified to carry genes that can be brought into a person’s cells in an attempt to correct a genetic disease such as muscular dystrophy. Viruses are used

because they have naturally evolved to deliver their genetic material to cells and avoid the complex mechanisms cells have to prevent foreign materials from intruding. The baculovirus is suitable for gene delivery to humans because it is not associated with disease, and according to Aucoin, “the baculovirus can accommodate huge payloads,” because it can expand.

Aucoin described the process he uses for producing the particles, which are based on animal cells. Animal cells have advantages over bacteria cells in that they are able to handle more complex tasks which are needed for the synthesis of viral particles. One of the aspects of Aucoin’s research involves the detection of the viruses as they are being grown.

“The nice thing about baculoviruses is that they have many features that can be used to separate them from other materials,” Aucoin said. Aucoin is researching how to optimize the baculovirus production. He is experimenting with the flow and timing of nutrients into the cell cultures in which the viruses are grown. He is also researching “staggered” production, in which the creation of different components of the virus happens at different times. science@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Science takes one step forward, two steps back Ivan Lui staff reporter

Frogs change sex, not by magic

To control pests in farm fields, a substance known as atrazine is used. The backlash, however, is that 225,000 kg of herbicides fall with the rain every year. One might not think much of the effects that this substance has, but one thing should be noted: male frogs are turned female.

Tyrone Hayes of the University of California, Berkeley exposed 40 African clawed frogs (xenopus laevis) to a controlled amount of atrazine for three years. Of these 40 frogs, 30 of them were unable to reproduce after the experiment was done, with four male frogs turning into the opposite sex. These four frogs eventually went on to mate with other males as well, being able to reproduce successfully.

Another four of these frogs resisted the effects of the substance, but faced severe reduction in sperm count and had reduced male features.

The key problem, the scientists claim, may be aromatase, a protein that causes estrogen to be created, causing the male glands to be turned into ovaries.

The problem caused by the use of this substance only seems to affect frogs near farm fields. Frogs in the wild seem to not experi-

ence the sex changes that their companions go through near human activites. “If atrazine had these adverse effects on xenopus in the wild, surely we would have picked it up by now,” says zoologist Louis du Preez of North-West University in South Africa.

Although this study has provided insight into the changing sexes and the effects that herbicides and pesticides might have on creatures in the wild, further studies will be conducted to ensure that everything is understood. The European Union has banned the use of atrazine because of its ability to contiminate water.

Within the United States, however, atrazine has been discovered in nearly 57 per cent of the rivers within the country.

Shelling out our ancestral history

Shells dating back approximately 60,000 years have been found in the Diepkloof Rock Shelter in South Africa’s Western Cape. Those studying the eggshells claim that they are a possible method of communication in the form of drawings. The ways in which lines are drawn on specific egg shells shows that early human beings may have been trying to express individualistic ideals.

The most important aspect of these eggs is that they are proof of humans being able to use symbols. Human ability to represent something using symbolism is a great leap in the evolution of thought, setting us apart from other creatures of the animal kingdom. If scientists are able to

discover the origin of where these forms of communication originated, it could be a great step towards discovering our true ancestors.

“The lines [on the eggshells] are crossed at right angles or oblique angles by hatching. By the repetition of this motif, early humans were trying to communicate something. Perhaps they were trying to express the identity of the individual or the group,” said Dr Pierre-Jean Texier from the University of Bordeaux, Talence, France.

From the same region of South Africa, eggshell beads dating back 75,000 years were also discovered. These, combined with ochre blocks found with similar carvings, provide deeper insight as to our ancestors’ developments. The Deipkloof findings number near 300 pieces; this number represents why this finding was so significant.

Attempts to reproduce these kinds of markings have been done with flint. Due to the natural colouring of the egg’s surface, it is concluded that the eggs were not painted on.

By putting similar eggs near fire, they were able to produce a similar hue to that found on the eggshells at Deipkloof.

More water found on moon

NASA claimed that it has found more than 40 craters bearing ice within them on the moon.

A new moon mission named LCROSS discovered that hydrocarbons are mixed in with these

water sources. The diameter of these craters in the moon range from 2 km to 15 km (one to nine miles). The ice itself, however, is claimed

by NASA to be at least couple of metres thick.

In estimation, Dr. Paul Spudis from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, said these craters can house up to 600 million metric tonnes of water.

Accessibility to these water spots may be difficult, however, as some play host to extreme temperature conditions. Some of these craters go to temperatures as low as -248C (or -415F).

This temperature, which is even colder than the surface of Pluto, allows the ice to stay in its permanent form. A protective layer of soil prevents this pure ice from vaporising even if the area was exposed to sunlight.

With this new discovery of a potential water source, Spudis claims that it is quite possible to host human outposts on the moon. These outposts would be supplied with resources found on the moon such as water deposits.

The spacecraft that discovered this was India’s Chandrayaan-1.

Though previous sources of water have been discovered by probing into the surface of the moon, this is the first true usable source of water that can be found on the moon’s surface.

- With files from Scientific American and BBC ilui@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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uw professor awarded energy chair Paula Trelinska staff reporter

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iva Sivoththaman, a University of Waterloo professor, has been awarded a new Ontario research chair studying the safety of renewable energy technologies.

The electrical and computer engineering professor will hold the chair in renewable energy technologies and health. He has been awarded $1.5 million over five years. The funding for this will be provided by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, which will give $300,000 a year to study the safety of renewable technology and their effects on public health and the environment. Sivoththaman was chosen by a selection panel formed by the council of Ontario Universities.

Sivoththaman has 20 years experience in renewable energy resources and has been very involved in these technologies. According to Sivoththaman, with widespread implementation and introduction of new materials in these technologies nearing, it is increasingly important to study the effects that these technologies will have on both humans and the environment.

He says there has been increasing development in these areas, but the focus has been on performance. It’s important now to evaluate potential risks.

“As these technologies have developed over the last couple of decades, performance and costeffectiveness have been a focus, but with the steep rise in use of renewable energy sources and manufacturing initiatives, it’s the right time to investigate the health and safety element, offering a complete solution for society,” Sivoththaman told the University of Waterloo.

The program that Sivoththaman will be implementing will study and develop new approaches and guidelines to set standards to ensure health and safety in the manufacturing process, as well as the use and the disposal of these technologies.

Sivoththaman will also need to collaborate with researchers from the faculty of Applied Health Sciences. ptrelinska@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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any of you probably use your cell phone more than your landline. Some of you may not even have a landline. This is the reality of those in many developing nations and it is helping them develop faster. Many developing nations are forgoing landlines for the much more convenient technology of cell phones. By passing up the expensive and large task of creating landlines to reach all these people, cell phones are creating a better quality of life for those who don’t have computers or any other method of communication to the outside world.

Used for everything from agriculture to health services, cell phone use is growing rapidly; in Africa, it is growing by nearly 50 per cent annually. Not only do they offer users communication technology, but also access to the internet which many villages don’t have. This simplifies many tasks, such as access to information on crops and legal protocols, and simplifying interactions with government institutions.

Not only is this a social improvement for people living in conditions where they own little, it also helps developing nations develop more sustainably.

Cell phones give people access to information, and

information is everything. As an example, farmers can find information on how to implement sustainable agriculture practices. Phones can also be used to gather location-specific information about things like air quality or weather conditions from users. While there are still privacy issues around this, it is a possibility. It also makes activism and gathering people for protests and movements more effective, which is a great method for people in developing nations to speak out against corrupt government.

On the technical side of things, landlines cost money, use resources, and take up space. There is also new technology being developed, and more widely used, that creates an easy to set up, inexpensive, and reliable base station that runs off of solar power - something there is plenty of in Africa. The stations can be assembled by two people within six hours and are produced by an India-based company known as VNL. The stations can also provide service even in remote villages and make for cheaper access to services.

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are still challenges that are being addressed. One is the cost of the handsets themselves. In 2005, Motorola won a bid to deliver six million handsets to Africa for under $40 each. These phones also addressed other problems such as the fact many villages had no access to electricity (the phones had long battery life) and the low cost helped reduce the high tariffs that are imposed on services by some African governments.

Despite these efforts, many still find trouble in getting their own cell phone. Though there are groups out there such as Mobile Active and the Village Phone Program which empower poorer villagers by trying to reduce costs of phones and provide small loans for those who need them.

Cell phones are becoming a large part of life for people everywhere, especially in developing nations where they are causing faster development of countries, especially in rural areas. They do still produce large amounts of waste when they’re carelessly discarded, but recycling and donation efforts for old cell phones can and do help curb this. Cell phones just may be one of the many unlikely heroes in the battle for a greener world.

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Caroline Disler (below) is a master of linguistics with a reading knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Polish, modern Greek and Arabic and experience with many other ancient and dead languages. She gave a talk on the roots of different languages and philosophies.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrates Photosynth in this talk.

Photosynth is a program that seamlessly and artfully organizes many gigabytes of image data, and allows the user to view and navigate the data easily and effectively.

http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html

Dan Gilbert asks, why are we happy?

Dan Gilbert is a social psychologist and author of the best-seller Stumbling on Happiness. In this talk he speaks on the evolution of the human brain, and why the brain structure of a homo sapien affects the quest for happiness. He believes that humans cannot feel truly happy when things do not go as they were originally planned.

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Paula Trelinska staff reporter

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ne of the speakers at last week’s TedX conference was Phillip Beesley, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture. The audience watched, captivated, by a new kind of environment that Beesley presented: the Hylozoic environment. “[I feel] like a mother when dealing with these cells,” says Beesley of his creation. Since their development he has won the 11th VIDA Competition for Art and Artifical Life, published many articles about the hylozoic soil and continued teaching at the university.

Beesley first came up with the idea for the Hylozoic environment by creating what he called Hylozoic soil. This soil is completely inorganic, and made up of all synthetic materials, but it is reactive to human movement. Beesley believes that architecture can “be a filtering mediator,” and from this came up with the entire Hylozoic environment.

This environment — entirely synthetic — is constructed on very basic building blocks, a touch, and change in position. This allows the person to feel a sense of mutual exchange as they move throughout the environment. When one enters this environment there are many tiny structures, like a network of “clouds” made of acrylic, that react as visitors pass by. The little “clouds” use proximity detectors, muscle wires and actuators, and a network of microprocessors to work. When the proximity detectors detect movement, they cause the muscle wires to retract or slacken, while microprocessors control the whole system.

What Beesley has created is a sort of “organic living system.” Although everything in the environment is synthetic, it comes to life when someone enters the room. The “clouds” and little “tentacles” will retract, slacken, contract and move all sorts of ways as someone walks by. Although the cells are inorganic, they are emulating living cells. Everything is centered in air movement. It is as if the person benefits from the environment and the environment benefits from them.

There is a pattern of non-verbal communication that is used to interact with these systems that creates a mutual exchange.

Sometimes these systems can trigger an emotional response and, as Sylvie Parent says: “[prompts visitors] to question the boundaries between nature and artifice and examine their own organic condition as they interact with technology.”

Beesley would like to introduce emotion into these systems. Through them, he is exploring the overlap between human beings and items. The way, for instance, a young child can have a blanket they are attached to before they are even aware of themselves.

At the moment, Beesley is creating these systems as “sculptures.” He will fill entire rooms with this hylozoic soil, sometimes calling it a “Haystack Veil” or a Hylozoic Grove. Though these are being produced as sculptures at the moment, the technology and innovation behind this could be used to spearhead many different projects and ideas, eventually having the potential to create entire architecture with which we interact. ptrelinska@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Madhur Anand (above) is a scientist, poet, and professor of global ecological change. Her talk included fusing science and poetry. She believes that environmental crisis is a crisis of the imagination.

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Vilayanur Ramachandran is a neurologist that specializes in behavioural neurology and psychophysics.

He talks about brain damage, and how its manifestation can reveal certain things about the connections inside a human brain.

http://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html

Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight TED.com says “Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for.”

She is a neuroanatomist who had a massive stroke in 1996. As a brain scientist, she was completely aware of what was happening to her. She recalls the experience in this talk, as she correlates what she felt with what she knew about the brain. A fascinating look at academia coupled with the human experience. http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html photos courtesy ted.com

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CASA for charity Adrian Safati reporter

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ASA (The Canadian Asian Student Association) in collaboration with Free the Children put on their annual Charity Fashion Show on February 26. Running for its second time, the fashion show showcased the artistic talents of UW students. Unlike a traditional fashion show where models will simply strut down a walkway, the CASA fashion show featured live music, dance routines, performances, and even a magician by various groups on campus. Previously associated with the festival of lights, the fashion show has now come up with its own theme appealing to a broader audience and allowing them to do their own thing.

Having raised over $10,000 in donations for Free the Children, CASA has managed to raise double the money from last year.

Last year’s proceeds went to the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Fashion Show Executives decided to give back to the global community this year.

The Brick by Brick program run by Free the Children is dedicated to building schools in impoverished nations and has the low administrative cost of nine per cent of their revenue.

The CASA Fashion Show featured student from all backgrounds. Many of the outfits worn by the models were loaned by local clothing stores. The hair styling was done by the local Marvel Hair School and the makeup was done by local makeup artists, some of which came from the local Gemini Models agency. photos by Ethan

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Twists, turns, and seduction, CASA redefines “taking care of business.”

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Contemporary strings meets classical rhythms Adrian Safati reporter

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CASA also invited many campus clubs to take part in the fashion show. Among them was a special performance by the UW Hip Hop club.

Concert Review

Topless guys in ties and girls in underwear, the lingerie scene featured models dancing to Chicago’s “Cellblock Tango”

he Waterloo Chamber Players put on a concert at the K-W United Mennonite Church on February 27. Accompanied by the fantastic guitarist Kevin Ramessar, they played not only classics like Honegger’s Pastorale d’été, Joachim Rodrigo’s Fantasia para un Gentilhombre, and Mozart’s lesser known Symphony in D after the Serenade K.250, but they incorporated a few songs of Kevin Ramessar’s own creation, blending various guitar styles with the classics to produce an exciting combination changing from the classics to something more modern, gripping the audience’s attention.

As for the orchestra themselves, they are composed of local musicians of varying backgrounds, some whose careers are based on music while for others it is simply a passion on the side. Throughout the pieces the quality of the brass section was excellent — you could literally feel it whenever the trumpets came in.

Though at times the woodwinds sounded a bit shrill, especially with the higher notes, and the strings failed to flow as smoothly as they could have, the performance was none the less thoroughly enjoyable. Their performance of Pastorale d’été brought back images of what summer felt like, after several heavy days of snowfall and no chance of it letting up.

Ramessar, who is a music teacher at the Conrad Grebel University College, put on an astounding performance. Demonstrating his mastery of a wide range of guitar styles and techniques, his performance as a soloist clearly shone throughout the night. Whether it was accompanying the band, playing solos, or his own songs you were able to clearly hear his talent ring out. The sheer skill of his performance was unrivalled by any other guitarist I have ever seen. The way he was able to fuse everything together was unlike anything I had ever heard, if you ever have the opportunity to hear him perform, take it.

The conductor of the orchestra Len Ingrao is clearly a brilliant musician and did an excellent job conducting the performance. Sadly it was his last performance with the orchestra — after many years of conducting the Waterloo Chamber Players he is moving on.

A two-time winner of First Place for guitar at the Canadian Music Competitions, Kevin Ramessar teaches music at UW’s Conrad Grebel University College.

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4CHAN: FEEDING CHILDREN TO TROLLS

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Socrates was a troll. Lenny Bruce was a troll. Glenn Beck could be a troll. Stephen Colbert is a classic troll.

Lil Wayne is a troll — and Kanye West is venturing dangerously close to becoming one himself. But trolls — while massively influential — have never been part of society’s mainstream.

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ou’ve probably taken a whiff of the so-called “asshole of the internet” by now. Maybe you’ve been Rickrolled. You might have lolled at a lolcat. You may even have been touched by Pedobear. But it’s extremely likely that you have — consciously, or not— experienced one of the many memes birthed by the legion of Anon (anonymous contributors) to www.4chan.org’s infamous “random” subforum /b/.

To the uninitiated, /b/ is a shock humour image board. Media does little to shed further light on this; most coverage of /b/ focuses on Rickrolls and lolcats without exploring the factors that made these memes so explosive. One source of hilarity on /b/ has been Fox News’ continued reporting on the site. In typical Fox style, it presents highly dramatic verdicts with the matter-of-factness of actual journalism.

One infamous spot pulls out all the typical overdramatic Fox stops: horror-movie music, creepylooking shadowy guys who may or may not be on the site, and “demonstration” footage of an exploding car that has virtually nothing to do with anything discussed in the feature. It paints /b/ as “cyberterrorists [...] an internet hate machine.” While this is an example of particularly silly journalism, more reputable institutions like The Guardian and The L.A. Times have kept their 4chan coverage to fluffy Rickrolling stories and little else. /b/ loves this type of coverage. They might not like it, but it’s definitely good for lulz.

Lulz are /b/’s raison d’être. /b/’s unofficial wiki and neophyte portal, Encyclopedia Dramatica, defines lulz as “laughter at someone else’s expense... the only good reason to do anything, from trolling to rape.” This is a very succinct definition of the /b/ phenomenon. Fox may have illustrated this point in an unintentionally hilarious way, but they are right: /b/’s humour is undoubtedly mean-spirited.

“Trolling,” /b/’s primary source of lulz, is provocation for its own sake. It’s nothing new. Socrates was a troll. Lenny Bruce was a troll. Glenn Beck could be a troll. Stephen Colbert is a classic troll. Lil Wayne is a troll — and Kanye West is venturing dangerously close to becoming one himself. But trolls — while massively influential — have never been part of society’s mainstream. They’re court jesters, fools-onthe-hill. They’re the jerks who ruin the parade for everyone by yelling “The emperor has no clothes!”

At least, they’d like to think so.

“Malwebolence,” a fascinating New York Times feature on /b/ and troll culture, explores the psychology of trolling. Jason Fortuny /b/’s spokesman-of-sorts, justifies trolling with his “Theory of the Green Hair.”

In conversation with journalist Mattathias Schwartz, he calmly states: “You have green hair. Did you know that?”

To which Schwartz responds: “No.” “Why not?”

“I look in the mirror. I see my hair is black.”

“That’s, uh, interesting. I guess you understand that you have green hair about as well as you understand that you’re a terrible reporter.”

“What do you mean? What did I do?”

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According to Fortuny, Schwartz set himself up — if he wasn’t so certain he wasn’t a terrible reporter, he wouldn’t have become as defensive. Schwartz, Fortuny argues, had the opportunity to brush off the barb. But he didn’t. It’s like those jokes where you greet someone with “Hey dickface.” When they respond, “Excuse me?” you laugh: “Heh, you responded to ‘dickface.’” Trolling victims, according to trolls, deserve to be victimized because they are complicit in their victimization — words only hurt when we allow them to.

Some members of /b/ justify trolling as a way of exposing vulnerability. After all, if it weren’t for that

jerk at the parade, the emperor would still think he was wearing clothes, and that wouldn’t be very good at all. But trolling isn’t always that positive. It may be good for everyone to learn that the emperor is indeed naked, but do we really need to know that 13-year olds are emotionally unstable and bad at grammar?

Does knowing that help the 13-year-old any? Does knowing that help us?

One 13-year-old named Mitchell Henderson became popularly known on 4chan as “an hero.”

Henderson shot himself because he was upset about someone stealing his iPod. His friends proceeded to leave silly comments on the memorial MySpace his parents set up for him, with one particularly memorable comment claiming that Henderson was “such an hero, to take that shot, to leave us all behind.”

This was very lulzworthy, and became a popular 4chan meme. “An hero” is now a term used to describe any loser “brave enough to remove themself from the gene pool.”

An Anon I interviewed from the CS club was quite keen on Jonathan Swift’s classic satirical essay A Modest Proposal, in which Swift recommends that lower-class Irish could potentially raise themselves from poverty by selling their children as food to the upper-class English. This Anon praised A Modest Proposal as a “classic troll work,” and it’s not hard to see why. Swift’s rhetoric, heavily based on the language used by the English authorities at the time, was taken seriously.

Swift followed two /b/ traditions: he published A Modest Proposal anonymously, and he did it for the lulz.

But he also satirized some of the less-acknowledged /b/ values. /b/ does endorse culling of a sort, occasionally explicitly, and often implicitly. It’s a sort of online “survival of the fittest” mentality. /b/ doesn’t like to admit being so cruel - an Anon who works for Imprint was initially adamant that /b/ only trolled people who deserved it. But “deserving it” ties back to the theory of the green hair — we deserve it only through making ourselves susceptible to it.

“Christians are easy to troll,” said this Anon. “Atheists are harder. So we troll Christians.” Regarding the near-mythological Habbo Hotel raids, where /b/ invaded a Second Life-for-tweens world with hundreds of identical Afro-ed Black characters, organizing them into swastika patterns and generally causing a ruckus: “They [Habbo Hotel dwellers] were dumb kids messing up the internet for everyone else. We were taking them off it.” An Anon I interviewed from Optometry supported this trolling-as-welfare theory: “I think it makes a huge role in making internet kiddies more mature. They become more wary about getting passionate on the internet.”

Is the goal of trolling to breed a generation of passionless cynics? To make sincere Internet users become trolls, too? The CS Anon I interviewed occasionally shared this view. He likened trolling to Buddhism: “It’s less trying to instill doubt than attacking the attachments people have.” While he made fun of me for writing this down, he was trying to troll me with a corny line that sounded nice, he was on to something, whether he wanted to admit it or not.

The Optometry Anon continued to support trolling as a noble pursuit: “While you may think ‘passionless cynics,’ I think maturity in terms of self-restraint. /b/ tards don’t become cynics, they just become really self-aware people.”

The CS Anon — an extremely seasoned troll — is very self-aware. He is also very cynical. “Anyone who tries to justify trolling to you is either trolling you, the journalist, or is just fooling themself.” In his view, trolling is only done for the lulz. It has the potential to result in good — we’re all better off realizing the emperor has no clothes — but inherently cannot be performed as an intentionally good act. Trolling is simply too much fun.

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nvil is the real-life version of Spinal Tap. The band released their first album in 1981, apparently influenced juggernauts like the almighty Metallica and Slayer, and then slipped out of popular consciousness. Their 2007 album, This Is Thirteen, and the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil (which focuses on their crashing dreams and lack of popularity while on tour) has ironically helped propel them into the mainstream again. The album was re-released in 2009

by VH1 Classic Records to capitalize on the film’s success and features the bonus track “Thumb Hang” (more on that later).

The album opens with the title track, which is possibly the worst title track I’ve ever heard – it’s slow, monotonous, overly long, and presents no memorable hook.

The album starts improving after that though, and by the seventh track, “Axe To Grind”, there are some memorable, catchy songs to be heard. The riffs aren’t as precise as some of Anvil’s contemporaries and the solos aren’t as technical, but Robb Reiner’s drum work is jazzy, powerful, and interesting. All of these things seem to add up to a mediocre album, but the album has a competent vocalist and some skills in the song writing department that save it. Even “Thumb Hang,” the bonus track, doesn’t feel like it was a leftover from a previous recording session. It fits in well with the other songs. Even though Anvil can sometimes sound similar to Spinal Tap, at least vocally, it makes it easier to enjoy the songs. These boys aren’t trying to be too serious, and they aren’t trying to redefine the heavy metal wheel. They may lack the finesse of Iron Maiden and the power of Judas Priest, but there are few heavy metal bands that sound quite like Anvil.

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eft of Zero is an up and coming indie rock band of growing popularity that demonstrates both talent and innovation. Not to be confused with the industrial metal band from Michigan, of the same name, this Toronto based group has begun to steadily release music, now readily available on iTunes.

Their EP “Blame The Gun” shows a great deal of promise with provocative lyrics and an unique musical styling. Although one could simply take the music at face value and absent mindedly lose themselves in the melodic tunes, those of you who choose to pay attention may be rewarded with deeper and sometimes darker messages which can be found throughout their songs. If you choose to truly listen and question what you are hearing, what would have previously been a slur of pleasant noise will begin to take on shape and meaning. Due to the indefinite nature of many of the lyrics, listeners will interpret them differently, but they will be hard pressed to find the songs cheerful and uplifting.

The music itself changes shape constantly, with vibrant shifts in the rhythm and tone enhancing the darker themes that the female singer delves into. The lead vocalist, and only female member, has excellent vocal control and uses it freely, constantly keeping the music alive. The longer you listen to her, the more you’ll find yourself mesmerized by a haunting beauty in her voice as it flows through your speakers and into you. The band demonstrates their instrumental capacity by keeping the music fresh and interesting as the songs progress. The band plays certain riffs just long enough for you to get the hang of them but falls far short of boring you to death with repetition. As opposed to getting in each others way, the instruments and the vocals fit together into a rhythmic symmetry.

Whether you want something interesting and a bit strange to lose yourself in, or are in the market for something a bit more thought provoking, “Blame The Gun” is definitely worth checking out.

— Adrian Safati

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Making Money off YouTube

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Jacob McLellan staff reporter

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ith the introduction of YouTube in February 2005 and its rapid growth in popularity, many people thought of it as the next big money making tool on the internet. People everywhere started posting videos of cute cats, laughing babies, and idiotic friends.

But, the business model was simply: 1. Make a YouTube account 2. Get subscribers 3. ????

4. Profit One year later, when internet Goliath and multi-billion dollar search engine, Google, bought YouTube, things changed. A better business model was created for the users of YouTube. The YouTube Partnership program, which used Google AdSense Software, was created to provide those users with great, original content and a lot of subscribers with compensation for their hard work and for all of the money they were generating for Google.

Using Google AdSense, YouTube placed relevant ads throughout their partners channels. It made sense; Google is an advertising company, and they’ve set up a rewards program for those that get them visitors. It’s similar to the “sign-up a friend and receive a bonus on your next bill” system that cell-phone companies have.

Recently, Google expanded the partnership program to include videos that randomly go viral that we all know and love. In the same way, Google allowed users with videos that had a high number of views to submit the video for the partnership program. Videos such as “Battle at Kruger” and “Dra-

matic Look Gopher,” with 50 million and 20 million views respectively, can also receive partnership status from YouTube. Since the implementation of the Partnership Program, the business model of YouTube’s members has changed to: 1. Make a YouTube Account 2. Become a YouTube Partner 3. How? 4. Be recommended for Google’s rewards program 5. Profit Yes, making money on YouTube is possible. Many people have done it, including Canada’s very own FluffeeTalks, a very popular comedian and many others such as popular video blogger SXEPhil, and of course, Bo Burnham. But how do these people get partnership status?

The short answer: a lot of work.

YouTube doesn’t just give away partnership status. To date, only a small fraction of the over 200 million accounts out there have received partnership status. To become a partner, you must first apply to the program on YouTube. Google then reviews your account to ensure that you have a lot of subscribers and unique viewers, that you update frequently, and that you own all of the content that you publish. Even then, the criteria is vague and the final decision goes to the faceless corporate at YouTube.

For a rough idea of how many viewers you need, SXEPhil posts videos at least three times a week, with a few other channels for random uploads. He has around 1 million subscribers, and his videos average 250 thousand views within 24 hours of the video being uploaded. On the lower end, Fluffee Talks has 300 thousand subscribers and gets around 100 thousand views within 24 hours.

Either way, it requires a lot of work to become a YouTube partner with constant updates, many subscribers, and unique, interesting, or funny content.

Even after all that work, partners only benefit from partnership status based on the click-through rate of the advertisements. That means that if no one clicks the advertisements that Google places on a channel, the partner doesn’t make any money because partners only make a percentage of what Google makes from the advertisements.

On top of YouTube’s partnership program, you can also make money through product placement. To do this, you casually place products in your videos. The goal is to be very relaxed and not draw attention to the product that you are advertising to subconsciously place a message in the viewers mind.

Similar to YouTube’s partnership program, you must meet a bunch of requirements. However, making deals with companies for product placement is much harder because you have to seek out the deals yourself, meet all of the companies requirements for the representation of their product, and keep a high viewer rating with a lot of positive feedback.

It all comes down to having a popular channel with many subscribers and unique viewers. Many prominent companies pay a fortune to find out how to have a popular channel, with no concern to making money directly from YouTube. Companies such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi work tirelessly to tap into social media markets such as YouTube.

Coca-Cola pays the top people in the marketing business to create great YouTube channels and advertisements and work to understand their market and win over the YouTube audience.

But even the elite marketers struggle to create viral videos.

Ever yone has seen a Coke video that flopped, and everyone was watched a Pepsi ad that rubbed them the wrong way. Everyone has experienced this, even from the richest companies, because it is impossible to make a video that appeals to everyone. Pepsi and Coke often try to appeal to a wide variety of audiences at once and occasionally, they fail. As an average person trying to make it big on YouTube, you have to select an audience. SXEPhil succeeds because he caters perfectly to the horny male teenager demographic with a focus on pop culture.

The top marketers for these huge companies only know a few concrete rules. One: know your audience. Two: create content that touches the heart, tickles the funny bone, or interests the viewer. Three: videos can always flop, regardless of the amount of focus groups and research. Regular members are given a little more lenience, though. Quality doesn’t have to be perfect, the information doesn’t have to be completely factual, and a high degree of bias is acceptable, as long as the content is interesting and applicable to the audience.

YouTube is still an unnerving medium to users. Making money is possible, but it isn’t easy. The audience is fickle, the company is vague, and the opportunity is limited. Even if you become a YouTube partner, you can rarely have the luxury of quitting your day job. Of the thousands of partners, only a select few can make a living off of posting on YouTube.

And those few work tirelessly making new videos every day. It isn’t the care-free life that many expect; it’s a full-time job. jmclellan@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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After coming in from a rain storm, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) and his partner Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) talk about their suspicion about the people running the mental institution on Shutter Island.

artin Scorsese is back.

After nearly four years since his last movie, The Departed, received high acclaim and won countless awards, one may wonder if Scorsese can possibly pull it off again. With his longawaited 2010 release Shutter Island hitting theatres less than two weeks ago, speculations can finally come to a rest.

Based on the novel of the same name, Shutter Island focused on U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, as he begins his journey to Ashecliff Hospital, an institution for the criminally insane. The year is 1954, and the location is on an island called, unsurprisingly, Shutter Island. Accompanied by his partner Chuck Aule, Daniels was originally sent to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a dangerous

patient convicted for drowning her three children in a lake.

However, the story soon turns to an even darker direction, as Daniels begins to uncover a massive conspiracy inside the hospital, where dangerous research I being conducted on patients, with the goal of mastering mind control.

As with many psychological thrillers, this movie was very inwardly focused on the main character. Rarely would DiCaprio be out of the camera’s view. While this was definitely beneficial for his character development, one cannot help but notice that it had eventually turned into a one-man movie. DiCaprio was the centre of attention throughout, leaving absolutely no room for any of the other characters to be developed.

While DiCaprio did indeed deliver a very strong performance as usual, the movie certainly felt empty.

Shutter Island was also very much reliant on imagery to ap-

peal to viewers. Much of the movie focused on exploring the mind of Teddy Daniels. His flashbacks to his experiences as a soldier in World War II, in particular, were engraved in the viewer’s mind through images of blood, corpses, and other unpleasant war-related imagery. In fact, much of the imagery used in this movie paralleled that of a horror movie. While this enhanced the experience for many, it did seem occasionally unnecessary. Seemingly random flashbacks were placed at odd times throughout the movie, especially during dialogue.

Furthermore, much of the imagery used in the movie was over-exaggerated in an attempt to inflict a sense of horror in the viewer. However, it seemed very unnecessary for a movie such as this, where neither the plot nor the theme is appropriate for a horror movie.

Despite the various flaws the movie had, it managed to win me over at the end.

Within less than 10 minutes near the end of the movie, my opinion of it completely reversed, as did the plot of the movie itself. The twist ending made me completely rethink everything about the movie. It shed a whole new light on the first two hours of the plot. Watching this movie with friends proved to be a very surreal experience, especially on the walk back from the theatre. The entire conversation was filled with utterances of “I should’ve seen that coming” and “how in the world did they think of that?”

Ultimately, this movie was a pleasant viewing experience, if not for the great acting or impressive imagery, then for the fact that you’ll probably spend the entire movie trying to figure out the ending. Besides, all trivialities aside, this was Scorsese’s first movie in almost four years, and that has to be worth something.

— John Li

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Open Faced Croque Monsieur

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o here’s the thing, as you know, I am particularly prone to cravings and almost anything can trigger them. I am the demographic that product placement and food commercials target. This week I’ve been thinking, dreaming and drooling croque monsieur due to my current obsession with Meryl Streep’s new movie It’s Complicated — which I will probably watch over and over for the food as well as the ‘romcom’ (which I was recently informed means romantic comedy, apparently this is not a new slang and I missed the memo on this one). Meryl Streep’s character is a French-trained chef who owns her own restaurant. Conspicuously nestled between the hilarious antics of Alec Baldwin’s character Jake and the aforementioned Jane, are esthetically pleasing pastries, fresh fruit pies, a double fudge chocolate cake, and roast chicken. During a farfetched date between Jane and her architect, played by Steve Martin, the two create fresh chocolate croissants within a matter of hours (which, if you know what goes into making croissants, you’d know is a next to impossible feat). Among all the beautifully shot foods, and of course the actors, there is a heart stopping (to me) scene in which Jane pulls a tray of hot, bubbling Croque Monsieurs out of the oven — heart stopping in more ways than one.

Croque Monsieur is in essence a ham and swiss sandwich, but the

french to make something commonplace and overlooked completely rich, decadent and out of this world. The name Croque monsieur means “Mr Crunchy” and therefore, involves the bread first being toasted, topped with ham, drowned in buttery, rich bechamel sauce and finished with a sprinkling of gruyere before being put into the broiler to brown, blowing your old ideals of ham and swiss out of the park. As Jane herself says in the movie, the ingredients are cheap however she fails to mention that gruyere is a little bit pricier than your average chunk of cracker barrel cheddar but it’s totally worth it to splurge. Thanks to Troy at Casa Mia, the croque monsieur was amazing, so I guess that splurge on cheese and ham last week was worth it. I used a loaf of sourdough french bread and chose to make it an open sandwich, feeling that two slices would be a little too crusty, but feel free to use regular sandwich bread in this recipe. If you do, you would top the ham with the second slice, smother the top slice in béchamel and top with the cheese before broiling. Don’t skip the nutmeg in the béchamel sauce as it really makes the difference. This recipe is absolutely eye-opening, as I mentioned before, in more ways than one: the decadence comes with a price as each serving rounds out to about 800 calories, so try to serve something healthy alongside it, such as a tossed salad.

“Missed Connections” from Sidley Park Manor My dearest Hodge, Some ‘Charity’ must be bestowed on your lap. It has been too long; I must be satisfied. The weather is warm and my flowers need tending. My husband will be busy entertaining himself with the Couch of Eros. The Gazebo or the Boathouse?

C. Chater Charity, Looking forward to some perpendicular poking. The Gazebo lends itself better to carnal embrace than the Boathouse. Same time as usual?

S. Hodge Hodge, You damned lecher! You would drag down a lady's reputation to make a refuge for your cowardice. It will not do! I am calling you out! I demand satisfaction. I wait on you in the gunroom.

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Ingredients • 2 slices of crusty bread • 3 tbsp dijon mustard • 4 slices of ham • 1/2 cup shredded gruyere cheese • 1 tbsp flour • 1 tbsp butter • 1/2 cup whole milk • Nutmeg, to tast

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Preheat broiler.

Toast the bread slices in the toaster or broiler until golden, darker if you perfer, but make sure they are at least slighty crisp.

As the bread is in the oven/toaster, melt butter in a sauce pan over medium heat.

When butter begins to froth, add butter and wisk until combined.

Continue whisking for 2 minutes over the heat until yellow but do not allow to brown.

Add the milk slowly and stir until the sauce becomes thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.

Stir half of the cheese into the sauce, once it begins to melt, turn off the heat. Stir in nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste.

Spread each slice of toast with mustard and top with two slices of ham, place onto a baking sheet.

Spread cheese sauce heavily onto each sandwich, allowing it to run over the sides.

Sprinkle remaining cheese over each sandwich and place under broiler until cheese is browned and sauce is bubbling. Again keep a careful eye as the broiler can/will burn these in under a minute.

Eat using a fork and knife. Enjoy!

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Real Time Strategy on the Console: A doomed Attempt

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s gaming has evolved over the years, one genre that has spanned trilogies and gaming giants, has been the Real Time Strategy (RTS) genre. Juggernauts such as Starcraft, Age of Empires, Company of Heroes and Civilization allowed the control freak in all of us to go nuts.

For the most part, this genre has remained confined to the PC as other genres, such as Role Playing Games (RPG) (Mass Effect, Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts) crossed the gap between console and PC. Often, these crossovers included or focused on elements that serve as the core to First Person Shooters.

The history of strategy games and their attempts to cross onto the console has been a sad one. These crossovers often end up being pale imitations of their counterparts on the PC. Often cited problems include control schemes and lacklustre graphics. Gamers who were used to seeing armies clash by the thousands on screen and watch entire divisions wiped out in the blink of an eye were rewarded with a somewhat crappy result. Control freaks who were used to using the keyboard to order groups of units from point A to point B to point C and then back to point B had problems with the limited buttons of the controllers. Have you ever tried to create mixed unit combat teams and order them to take the high ground while at the same time coordinate an airstrike while using a console controller? It’s like trying to assemble the International Space Station with only a wrench and your pinky.

Some developers have made different attempts to tackle the chief problem: the control scheme. Some have tried cutesy radial menus and simplified gameplay (Heres looking at you, Halo Wars). Others have avoided using the controller like the plague and have tried using ‘alternate’ methods of control (EndWar).

Others have simply ported the game to console and told gamers, “Tough luck” (Age of Empires 2 on the PlayStation 2; yes, it existed!).

To be honest, some of the ideas that developers have come up with have been … interesting. Halo Wars’ unique control scheme streamlined aspects of the game and made it more engaging … at the cost of making every single battle just a mad suicide charge. There was no finesse available with the control scheme. You could not create unique battle groups, give them designations, or even attempt any strategy other than charging at the enemy. While it did make the resource control scheme intuitive and actually

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interesting, combat was oversimplified.

It is as if one summarized the Odyssey into a single statement “Odysseus kicks ass….and also tries to go home”: it reduced the game to a monkey’s plaything.

EndWar, on the other hand, avoided using the controller. Instead, they decided to use the power of the human voice (cheesy, I know). While the voice recognition system was impressive to say the least, it was also guilty of oversimplifying combat to rock/paper/scissors dynamic and the graphics were somewhat muted.

There was also the factor of sounding and looking like an idiot screaming orders into your headset.

In the end, console RTS developers have to realize the goal of every RTS: simply building a giant army so you can win by steamrolling from one end of the map to the other. Of course, we would like some finesse in how we steamroll, but the fact remains that we demand a largescale clusterfuck involving thousands of units with explosions that are rendered in loving detail.

Instead of continuing to whine like a preschooler about going to school, I would like to make some suggestions.

How about simply concentrating on the combat? Forget about resource management. Does any modern military worry about mining gold/wood/steel/ unknown resource? No! They simply drop in, defeat the enemy, and declare “job well done.” Or, at least that is what they try to do.

At this point, you are probably wondering, “where are my resources? Where are my workers/drones? Where is my base, this is no RTS!” Then call it a Real Time Tactics game and be done with it.

I guess what I am trying to say is that, instead of trying to do their own thing, developers should try to combine the best of each product. What I am hoping for in the next RTS to hit the console is the ability to lovingly croon to your units (aka: EndWar), thrown in with the aweinspiring visuals and gameplay schemes (aka: World in Conflict), and a control scheme that allows me to create battlegroups and actually concoct a somewhat concrete battle plan. Sure, it would not be original, but the last time someone had a truly original idea was God when he decided to make something called life (or when a cell decided to divide for the first time).

Until then, RTS games on the console are going to go the way of a sloth trying to climb a tree. Slow, painful, and rather pitiful to watch.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Turnkey Haiti Relief Coffeehouse from 6 to 11 p.m. in the Great Hall, SLC. Poetry, music, dance and free coffee! All donations to MSF/Global Women’s Strike.

Thursday, March 11, 2010 “Critical Thinking on 9/11 and the War on Terror” with speaker Michael Keefer from 7 to 9 p.m. at Arts Lecture Hall, room 113. uwaterloo911.wordpress. com.

Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia – from chaos theory to carnal embrace lie the ingredients in the masterpiece comedy thriller Arcadia. Not a seminar, this play takes place March 11-13 ; 18-20 at 8 p.m. in the Theatre of the Arts, ML. More information at drama. uwaterloo.ca.

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UW Ballroom Dance Club “Spring Fling” dance from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Button Factory, 25 Regina Street, Waterloo. Lessons, prizes refreshments. For more info www.uwbdc.ca.

Friday, April 23, 2010 CFUW book sale today and Saturday, April 24 at First United Church, King and William Streets, Waterloo. Donations can be dropped off April 21 and 22 at back door of church. For more info 519-740-5249.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 University Green Career Expo – buses will be available to and from the venue leaving the campus in front of Humanities Theatre. More details to follow – 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Bingemans, Marshal Hall.

Work Effectively in Another Culture – 2:30 to 4 p.m., TC 1208.

All about GMAT – 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., TC 1208.

Thinking About an MBA – 5:30 to 7 p.m., TC 1208.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Career Exploration and Decision Making – 2 to 4 p.m., TC 1112.

Thinking about Optometry – 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., TC 1208.

Thursday, March 11, 2010 Exploring Your Personality Type (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - Part 1) – note: materials charge of $10 payable at Career Services prior to the first session. Once registered and paid, you will be given information on how to complete the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) online. The online test must be completed a few days prior to the workshop date – 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., TC 1208.

Law School Bound – 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., TC 1208.

Preparing for the LSAT – 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., TC 1208.

Teaching English Abroad – 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., TC 1208.

GRE Information and Preparation Seminar – the GRE is required for admission to many graduate school programs. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., TC 1208.

Foreign (Non-Canadian) Lawyers and Law Graduates – how to become a licensed lawyer in Ontario – 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., TC 1208.

Monday, March 15, 2010 Academic Interview – 12 to 1:30 p.m., TC 2218.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Dental School Interviews – 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., TC 1208.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Success on the Job – 4:30 to 6 p.m., TC 1208.

Thursday, March 18, 2010 Work Search Strategies – note: since the activities in this workshop build on the material presented in the online Work Search module (under Marketing Yourself) of the Career Development eManual, you will need to complete the Work Search online module as a first step before registering for this workshop. To access the module, go to cdm.uwaterloo.ca and select the UW student version of the Career Development eManual. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., TC 1208.

Exploring Your Personality Type (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator – Part II) – second session of a two-part workshop. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., TC 1112.

Monday, March 22, 2010 Academic Interview Skills – note: all sessions are limited to 30 participants. 12 to 1:30 p.m., TC 2218.

Interview Skills: Preparing for Questions – note: since the activities in this workshop build on the material presented in the online Interview Skills module (under Marketing yourself) of the Career Development eManual, you will need to complete the Interview Skills online module as a first step before registering for this workshop.

To access the module, go to cdm.uwaterloo.ca and select the UW student version ofthe Career Development eManual. 4:30 to 6 p.m., TC 1208.

Pharmacy School Interviews – 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., TC 2218.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Interview Skills: Selling Your Skills – note: since the activities in this workshop build on the material presented in the online Interview Skills module (under Marketing Yourself) of the Career Development eManual, you will need to complete the Interview Skills online module as a first step before registering for this workshop. To access the module, go to cdm.uwaterloo.ca and select the UW student version of the Career Development eManual. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., TC 1208.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Thinking about Dentistry? 5:30 to 7 p.m., TC 1208.

Thursday, March 25, 2010 Successfully Negotiating Job Offers – 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., TC 1208.

Getting a U.S. Work Permit – 4:30 to 6 p.m., TC 1208.

Wednesdy, March 31, 2010 OMSAS Application – 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., TC 1208.

Sports & Living

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Warrior repeat last season’s playoff run

Five Reasons Not to Mail It In… The Olympic Games are over and it’s back to reality for sports fans. After two weeks of fresh, exciting sports and amateur athletes who don’t have multi-million dollar endorsements, we turn our attention back to the professionals. While the NBA is still going full force and the NHL returns to the ice, many people are captivated by another late winter ritual: Spring Training.

It’s been a long winter for fans of the Toronto Blue Jays (Bye, Roy!) and the spring doesn’t offer much in the way of relief. The Jays are facing what could be their first fifth place finish in the AL East since 2004. They lack any type of star power on their pitching staff and their lineup has more holes in it than Vernon Wells’ swing (First cheap shot of the season!).

But it isn’t all bad news in Toronto. Here are five reasons to stay tuned to the Jays instead of flipping to Seinfeld reruns:

1. Aaron Hill – This guy is a young Dustin Pedroia – except better and older. Hill is a gold glove caliber second baseman and should have one under his belt by now. But these are the same voters who keep giving Derek Jeter his awards. Aaron is coming off of a team-MVP, Silver Slugger and Comeback Player of the Year award winning season and doesn’t appear to be suffering any symptoms from his collision with a certain scrappy infielder two years ago.

2. The Skydome, (Yep, Skydome.) – How often have you wished your house had a retractable roof?

Never? Well the Skydome does and there is no better place to spend a summer evening than under the lights at the ballpark. And hey, pay ten bucks for a nosebleed seat and walk down to the dugout. Cheap night and a great view.

3. Avoid the Bandwagon – Ever call someone out for being a bandwagon fan? This is your chance to jump on early. Take a photo of yourself with the other 5000 diehards that are there in early August and you’ll have are making a playoff run.

With new GM Alex Anthopolous rebuilding the team it shouldn’t take long before your loyalty pays off.

4. Young Arms – Almost all of the Jays young arms are coming off of Tommy John surgery, which is like getting a cavity filled in Major League Baseball. Shaun Marcum and Dustin McGowan will most likely be ready for opening day and can hopefully return to the form. A form which enabled them to be the third and fourth starters in the Jays rotation a few years ago when they teamed with AJ Burnett and Roy Halladay for the league ERA title. And with the likes of Ricky Romero, Brett Cecil, David Purcey and newly acquired Brendan Morrow (nope, not that one) the Jays have depth at starting pitcher. It’ll be exciting to watch. The trouble is that they’re all unproven.

5. Cito Gaston – With his contract up at the end of this year this will likely be the great manager’s swan song. It’s a shame that he didn’t get another chance to manage after he was originally let go by the Jays.

Quite a few teams dropped the ball with regards to that.

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aterloo Warrior’s men’s basketball team took a flight to Lakehead this past weekend after upsetting McMaster last week. The win against the Marauders earned them a quarterfinal berth against the number two seeded Lakehead Thunderwolves.

The Warriors flew up to Thunder Bay on Friday night, in preparation for their Saturday night match-up.

In order to earn the win, Waterloo had to come up big on the road, where they have struggled all season. They had to beat the odds like they did against McMaster, and earn the win against a team who had beat them twice earlier in the season.

The Warriors would also have to outplay a strong Lakehead team that excelled under the basket with some tall athletes on their team. Waterloo was looking to continue Lakehead’s postseason losing streak, with the Thunderwolves unable to earn a post-season victory since 2005.

The Warriors started off strong and had built up a strong first half lead before having trouble scoring in the fourth quarter and losing 64–59.

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same manner as last year. Last year’s playoff run was extended after Waterloo beat Guelph on the road in the qualifying round, enabling them to meet Western. At Western, the Warriors built up a solid first half lead with some incredible shooting.

Unfortunately the Warriors could not keep up the pace and let the lead, and their season, slip away.

This year was much of the same as the Warriors built up an early lead with a strong lead early, despite playing in the hostile environment of a packed Thunderwolve gym.

Waterloo played hard in the tough road match, taking a six point lead after the first quarter and turning it into an 11 point at the half.

Lakehead found their offense early in the third as they went on a 16–2 run to tie the game at 45. The Warriors responded with a 7–0 run of their own to restore a slim lead until Lakehead dropped a three pointer at the end of the third to keep the lead to a slim four point margin.

In the fourth, Lakehead took a 58–57 lead and added a free throw later for a three-point lead. Shooting guard Cam McIntyre tied the game with under two minutes left with some perfect free throw shooting.

THIS WEEK IN SPORTS

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Men’s volleyball ends their playoff run

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FormerWarriorwins Olympic gold in women’s bobsleigh

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Waterloo’s results from CIS swimming championships

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eather Moyse is a national celebrity. She stunned the nation when she, along with teammate Kaillie Humphries, won gold in women’s bobsleigh. It was the first time in Canadian history that our women have finished atop the podium.

The combined four-race time of Humphries and Moyse was 3:32.28, almost a whole second ahead of the second place team, fellow Canadians Helen Upperton and Shelley-Ann Brown. This was the optimal result for Canada, who only qualified two sleds — both of which finished at the top. Moyse and Humphries gave Canada its seventh gold medal, a record-tying result.

The last run for Moyse and Humphries was their slowest. But in a race that saw one of the German teams tip their sleigh over, and the other German team pinball their way down the track, that run didn’t ruin the Canadian’s chance to medal. They had pushed as hard as they could and had driven the track to the best of their abilities, and so the 53.23s final run gave them more than enough to capture gold.

As a Waterloo Warrior, she competed in multiple sports while attending university. She was part of the women’s soccer team for one year, the rugby team for two seasons, and track and field for four years. This two-time all-Canadian was a multiple OUA all-star in rugby, and carried the Warriors to a national bronze medal and provincial silver. As a track and field athlete, Moyse won ten OUA medals and two CIS bronze medals. A member of the Waterloo Athletics Hall of Fame, she was also named an OUA track MVP. She is one of the most decorated female athletes in Warrior history.

Moyse was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island on July 23, 1978. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Honours Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo. Currently, she is a dual sport athlete, competing in rugby during the summer months, and bobsleigh in the winter. mduklas@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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UW says goodbye to campus sports fanatic Gina Racine

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he community said goodbye to a highly influential sports guru last month. Rich Nichol, a former Warriors play-by-play announcer, passed away on February 5 at a mere 43 years old after suffering a stroke.

He left behind his wife Michelle and two daughters Arwen and Claire. Nichol also left behind a legacy of true passion for campus athletics.

Having coached minor hockey in his hometown of Hespeler for 20 years, Nichol’s love for the game started off young. Known by many as “The Voice of the Warriors,” Nichol was the pioneer for UW’s web-casts for its men’s basketball, football and hockey teams.

A math major at the University of Waterloo, Nichol lived and breathed all that was Warriors spending his university years as the sports editor for Imprint. This is where he spent countless hours relaying his passion onto others – campus athleticism at its finest.

Nichol’s influence went national when he won a Grey Cup Ring in 1999 as a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats front office. Nichol also recently helped spearhead the Warrior web-casts, giving Warrior fans the opportunity to be on top of the action, right as it was happening.

Nichol was the ultimate Warriors fan, always getting others involved and interested in campus sports.

The Warriors basketball team’s wore patches emblazoned with Nichol’s initials as they played out the rest of the season, in recognition of his contribution to Warriors basketball. editor@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Golf team gains new asset with high-tech simulator

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Goetz top Warrior at OUA Championships

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Playoffs are over after loss to Western Michelle Duklas asst. sports & living

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or Waterloo, quarterfinals is as far as the playoffs will go. The Western Mustangs advance to the semifinals against Queen’s after winning 3–1 on Saturday against the Warriors in London.

Waterloo had the early advantage in the first set, but Western didn’t panic, quickly catching up and started to pull ahead. The Warriors had nerves of steel as they traded the lead with Western until they were tied at 19 each.

When Western pulled ahead 22–20, Waterloo called a timeout in order to refocus. Their timeout worked to their advantage, and they tied the set again.

Western looked to end the set when they led 24–23, but a serving error and mis-hit ball saw the Warriors in control 25–24. The Mustangs didn’t let them get that desired point, however, and the set tied at 25 apiece. Western pulled back into the lead and then took the set after, rookie of the year Mustang, Phil James blocked a play at the net.

The second set also started off tight, with the Mustangs holding the slightest of leads midway

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Ian Pappel (#15) finished the game with 15 points and 11 kills. through the set, 10–9. Western built on their lead as the set progressed, and had a 22–16 lead as they finished up the play. They finished with a 25–17 score to lead the game 2–0.

Waterloo started the third set determined, and lead the way 10–6 to prove their point. Western had the home court advantage, and used the rallying of their fans as encouragement as they tied the set at 13 points apiece. Waterloo managed to inch ahead 20–19, until the Mustangs tied the set again 22–22. The Warriors had the serving advantage, leading 24–23 and looked to take the set.

Mustang Reid Halpenny kept his team in the game with a fantastic kill, and allowed Western to tie the

game at 24. Waterloo didn’t give up, however, and won the set 26–24.

Western had the early lead in the fourth set by a margin of 5–0. Waterloo called a timeout once Western led 11–2.

It evidently didn’t help slow Western’s momentum, and the Mustangs took a 16–3 advantage at the second break. The Warriors tried to rally back and managed to cut the lead to 18–9; but in the end, it was too much for the Warriors, who lost the set 25–12.

Tyler Vivian and Ian Pappel led the Warriors in points, with 15 each. Vivian had 12 kills and Papel had 11. Dave Steiner led the team in digs with 13. mduklas@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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scending the escalator rapidly, I could already hear the screams up ahead. Not even the walls of the Eaton Center could contain the crowd’s noise, the merriment that had reached near-hysterical levels. A deafening cry reached my ears as I pushed through the revolving doors, a Best Buy to my left, a mob of red and white in front of me. I paused for a moment as the doors swung around behind me, carried by my momentum. For the first time in my life, my senses were overloaded by my surroundings. It was too much to take, too much for my mortal accessories — my body wasn’t designed to process an entire nation rejoicing.

I began moving through the crowd, truly floating; I could not feel my feet.

The air around me crackled with the electricity of a moment that was, at least for now, unending. The puck had hit the back of the net hours ago, but the euphoria that was held in that shot still filled the air, refusing to abate, relentless in its quest to touch every Canadian.

Greig earns personal best; Kemp gets taste of CIS

As I walked I felt a vice-like grip clamp down on my shoulder, and suddenly I was being pulled backwards.

Panic flashed through my mind, but it was fleeting; this was not a night to fear a Toronto mugging — only celebration would reign tonight.

And so I allowed myself to be pulled, finding myself a second later, linked arm-in-arm with a group of drunken men and women, the stench of elation almost as powerful as beer, cascading from their clothes. A second later a “CROS-BY, CROS-BY” chant broke loose and I found myself hollering along with them, as people joined in all around us.

I spun from the group and continued my walk into Dundas Square, fired up by the chant, galvanized by a fact that had never touched me before: I was Canadian.

Then there was a woman, round and sweaty, drawing me into a tight, but soft hug. I saw a five-year-old wearing a loose-fitting Team Canada hockey jersey, perched on his dad’s

shoulders, a toothy smile glowing from his face. There were police officers joking around with civilians, strangers giving each other high-fives, kids looking around wide-eyed, caught in a night they would never forget.

There was such pride in the air, such a national stir that had set fire to everyone’s hearts.

And this is why, when I hear people scoffing at sports, I feel sorry for them. Sports aren’t just silly games that have no meaning. They aren’t just mediums for which egos are flexed and massaged. They are inspirational, rewarding and challenging. What else, but war, could bring a nation together to cry as one? What else could enflame people with national pride like these Olympic Games have — like Crosby’s overtime goal has?

And that, above all else, is what is so brilliant about sports. Sports transcend the physical nature of their core, for the simple fact that within them, lay the hearts of their fans — and that, is what sports are all about.

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arrior swimmers Bronwyn Kemp and Wesley Greig travelled to the University of Toronto to compete in the Canadian Interuniversity Sports (CIS) championships. This nation-wide meet was limited to those swimmers who were able to clock times faster than the standard set by CIS. Wesley Greig had a fantastic swim in the 100m breaststroke preliminaries with a time of 1:04.20, placing 15th. His swim was “probably the best swim by a Warrior this year,” head coach Jeff Slater commented.

His time was a personal best by about four one hundredths of a second.

This time gave him the opportunity to race in the B final, a race between the ninth to 16th best swimmers in each event. He placed 15th again, this time with a slightly slower time of 1:04.29.

Greig also excelled in the 200m individual medley. He ranked 33rd with a time of 2:09.70, which absolutely shattered his previous personal best by over a full second.

He also had his fair share of disappointments. He slipped off the block in the 50m breaststroke and was consequently disqualified for false starting. He also did not swim as well as he would have liked in the 200m breaststroke, which he feels is his strongest event.

Greig was able to earn two points for the Warriors at the meet, placing Waterloo in 19th position by the end of the meet. His swims are remarkable for the very reason that he has just finished recovering from mono.

“I told myself I wasn’t going to let it affect my performances,” Greig told Imprint. “Grant Hackett won Olympic gold in Sydney swimming with mono.”

“He was very aggressive and focused for the[100m breaststroke] race and succeeded against the strongest field the CIS has ever seen,” praised Slater.

Bronwyn Kemp was the other Warrior swimmer who competed at the CIS championships. Being a freshman, this was her first taste of a national university meet. “With the experience I have gained I will have a better understanding of the level of competition as well a clearer idea of how to deal with the pressure,” Kemp explained. “Hopefully this experience has cleared the CIS jitters from my system, and I can come back next year ready to race.”

Kemp beat her seasonal best in the 200m individual medley with a time of 2:29.06. She placed 33rd in the 100m breaststroke with a time of 1:15.58 and 27th in the 400m IM with a time of 5:13.03. Her best ranking overall was in the 200m breaststroke where she swam a 2:39.16 to place 17th. This put her as the first alternate in the B final, meaning she would race if another swimmer pulled out or was disqualified. Unfortunately, that did not happen, and she was not given another chance to race in any more events.

“Moving forward, this experience will help me to prepare for future races and next year I will know the challenges I will be facing,” Kemp said.

“This meet posed some challenges in geting a second swim because all of the swimmers preformed extremely well in the preliminary heats, and going forward knowing this I will be able to focus accordingly.”

Notable results on a nation-wide level include a new Canadian record in the 4x100m medley relay. The University of Calgary women swam 4:03.28 to lower the previous Canadian record of 4:03.51. The Calgary women medalled in 16 of 19 events to reclaim their spot as CIS champions with 679 points. The men’s team from the University of Calgary won the championships as well, with a total of 636.5 points.

The University of Toronto’s Colin Russell was named the CIS male swimmer of the year after winning seven medals in seven races, including three individual gold, two relay gold, an individual silver and a relay silver for a FINA total of 1806. He also won the Sprinter’s cup after defending his title in the 50m and 100m freestyle events.

CIS female swimmer of the year was awarded to Martha McCabe of the University of British Columbia. She won gold in both the women’s 50m and 200m breaststroke and scored a total of 1826 FINA points.

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The Rundown:

Olympic Insights

Overtime…

A disappointing finish to the Olympics for Cheryl Bernard and her Team Canada rink, as they choked their way to a silver medal.

Bernard had a quiet tap back to win in the tenth end, and a very makeable double in the eleventh. She missed on both, allowing Anette Norberg to steal the gold. Make no mistake, Norberg is a two-time world champion and now back to back Olympic gold medalist, but it

Shout out of the Week:

I have to give a shout out to the men’s curling team from Norway for the comical, yet classy pants that they sported throughout the Games. The magic in those pants propelled them to the gold medal game against Kevin Martin, but you need bigger pants than that to beat Martin and company. jsmith@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Former OUA Student-Athletes Win Gold in Vancouver

OUA had great representation at the Winter Olympics, with four former student-athletes medalling. University of Waterloo alumnus Heather Moyse captured gold, along with her teammate Kaillie Humphries in women’s bobsleigh.

Former Toronto Varsity Blues hockey player Jayna Hefford won her third Olympic women’s gold medal, which is also her fourth medal won at an Olympics. She also won silver with the Canadians in 1998 at Nagano, Japan.

Hefford, along with her team, defeated Team USA in the gold medal game 2–0. In a tournament where Canada remained undefeated, Hefford scored five goals, earned seven assists and recorded a plus-15 rating by the end of the tournament. As a university athlete, she was the OUA rookie of the year in 1997, and top goal scorer for the Varsity Blues that same year.

John Morris, a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University, medalled gold in curling. He was the third on the team that also remained undefeated on its way to the top, where Morris shot 83 per cent. Team Martin won gold against Norway with a 6–3 final score, and went 11–0 in the victory. Morris was a member of the Golden Hawks from 1998 to 2001.

Records set at OUA Track and Field Championships

The OUA Track and Field Championships took place last weekend at York University.

York Lion Heather Hamilton bested her own OUA record in women’s pole vault, when she passed the 4.20m mark. Her teammate Dontae RichardsKwok set a new OUA record with a time of 33.80s in the men’s 300m.

Ottawa Gee-Gee Christopher Greenway set a championship record in the men’s long jump, where he jumped 7.64m, while Michael Del Monte of the Toronto Varsity Blues set the record in the men’s 1,000m with his time of 2:23.99.

University of Toronto runner Megan Brown took gold in the women’s 1000m with her time of 2:46.61 and then won the women’s 3000m in a time of 9:26.49. Windsor Lancer Noelle Montcalm also medalled gold twice: in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.40 and the 300m with a time of 39.29. Jen Cotten of the Western Mustangs was also twice golden; she won the women’s long jump with a jump of 5.85m, as well as the women’s pentathlon (3,718 points).

CIS Athletes of the Week

Female Recipient — Jen Cotten Cotten, a fifth-year sciences student at the University of Western Ontario, collected four gold medals at the OUA championships. These medals included gold in long jump, indoor pentathlon and 4x400m relay and silver in the 60m hurdles. She is an eight-time medallist in four previous national championships; among her accomplishments are three golden finishes in the pentathlon.

Male Recipient — Sam Effah Effah is a fourth-year communications and culture student from the University of Calgary. He was named outstanding male performer at the Canada West Championships held in Edmonton after winning the 60m with a time of 6.67 and the 300m with a time of 33.60. He is the two-time reigning CIS male athlete of the year for track events.

He looks to add to his collection of medals at the CIS Championships next week in Windsor.

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It’s March: Time for NCAA basketball to take centre stage.

Everyone can enjoy filling out a tournament bracket, regardless of whether they have any knowledge of the sport. It’s always a good time to compare brackets and see how badly your final four dark-horse selection got beat in the first round. One piece of advice this season: keep wagering to a minimum. This could be the year that a number one seed goes down in the first round; it’s that wide open. The parity in the league is unmatched in recent history and that’s just a nice way of saying that everyone is beatable…

Lost in the madness that was Canada’s win over the United States in the gold medal game on Sunday was Devon Kershaw’s performance in the men’s 50km cross country ski race earlier in the day. While he was visibly upset shortly after the race (understandable since he was 1.6 seconds behind the winner). In a few days he’ll realize the magnitude of his fifth place finish. The men’s 50km is the premiere event of the Olympics (outside of Canada) and it’s what every cross country skier strives to win. Giant hat tip to Kershaw, who finished the Games with two top five

was Bernard’s game to lose, and she did. International experience didn’t seem to affect Bernard all week. She consistently made clutch shots late in games, but you could see the look in her eyes when she was throwing to win in the tenth; she wasn’t thinking about the shot, she was focused on the gold medal at the end. Not a good idea to think about the outcome and lose focus on the task at hand…

Sidney Crosby has done it all at 22 years of age: Olympic gold, World Junior gold, Stanley Cup, and league MVP, among other awards. It makes you wonder if he’s secretly a little disappointed that it’s all come so early. That’s a pretty accomplished resume for any player, let alone someone who has possibly another 20 years left in the league.

He’s probably not complaining but you can’t help but wonder if it’s too much too soon…

Does anyone else think that Sven Kramer looks like Iceman from the movie Top Gun? It’s a loose comparison but the demeanor and resemblance is uncanny. Maybe if Kramer had a ‘Top Gun’ instructor for his coach he’d be able to find the correct lane to skate in. Is it that difficult to remember the sequence of lanes?

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There have been some marginal hires over the years while Cito was sitting at home. It’s also too bad that his gig as manager this time around was basically a marketing ploy to dangle in front of fans while the front office changed hands and sent the team into rebuilding mode. Not a bad idea; Gaston is a Toronto legend and it’s worth the price of admission to see him behind the bench.

finishes. This really speaks to the hard work put in not only by him, but by the entire cross-country team…

Seventh Inning Stretch…

Nice to see that Roy Halladay is having an impact on the younger players at the Philadelphia Phillies training camp. Halladay is notorious for his intense workout routine that starts at the break of dawn and goes all day. The business-like attitude he brings to camp is a sharp contrast from the young players you see nowadays. He’s showing them that becoming an elite player doesn’t come from wearing a straight brimmed cap (seriously?) or pants that drape overtop of your shoes; it’s a day in and day out grind both mentally and physically…

Speaking of elite pitchers, does anyone know what happened to the classy Canadian who was Jeff Francis? He’s been off the radar after a below average 2008 and an injury plagued 2009. There has been very little talk of his return to the Colorado Rockies rotation and he is only listed as their fifth starter. Whether or not he can return to 2007 form is a huge question mark for the Rockies, who hope to improve on their Wild-Card finish from last season…

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UW acquires golf simulator Rick Kim reporter

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t’s our secret weapon,” J.S. Rancourt told me, as he led me into the depths of the PAC. Its vacant and narrow corridors suddenly become reminiscent of those in Hollywood war movies that invariably lead to some top-secret bunker where diabolical plans are hatched like clockwork. There is no secret bunker, however, and we come to a stop at a door to what was once a squash court,

adorned by a lone metal sign that reads “Golf Teaching & Research Facility.”

Rancourt, a third-year mechanical engineering student here at the University of Waterloo, is a veteran member of the varsity golf team. The “secret weapon” is the University of Waterloo’s new golf simulator, tucked away in a converted squash court inside the PAC. But there is no real secret about the golf simulator, aside from its inconspicuous location: it was donated by the Ohio-based company aboutGolf, in a not-so-diabolical plan

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We are the only university in Canada with such an advanced teaching tool, and the varsity teams can use the simulator all season to keep their skills up to date.

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to increase its collaboration with UW’s researchers and athletes.

Things couldn’t have worked out better for Rancourt, whose research on spine-aligned clubs for Henry Griffitts (a recent aboutGolf acquisition) is sure to get a shot in the arm with the simulator’s arrival, not to mention his golf game.

“It’s an amazing learning tool,” says Rancourt. “And it’s incredibly fun to play.” Now, talk about a sweet job.

But this is not your roommate’s Tiger Woods 09 video game.

courtesy steve brooks

The members of the UW varsity golf team now have the ability to practice on Pebble Beach and many other golf courses in preparation for their tournaments.

From left: UW head Coach Dave Holliger, Athletic Director Bob Copeland, golf team members JS Rancourt and Tiffany Terrier, and Systems Design Professor John McPhee.

courtesy steve brooks

The simulator comes complete with playing surfaces that are designed to emulate common golf course features like the rough and even the dreaded sand trap.

It incorporates three high-speed cameras to track specially marked golf balls, whose angle, speed and spin — and just about anything you could swing a club at — are calculated by a computer and projected in full three-dimensional glory.

All of this, however, could not have been possible without John McPhee, a systems design engineering professor here at UW, who is also a science advisor and contributor to Golf Digest magazine. It was his friendship with aboutGolf ’s CEO Bill Bales that saw the $50,000 simulator come to the university.

“The golf teaching and research facility will support our investigations into new designs for shafts and clubheads, biomechanic modelling, motion capture, and golf ball simulation and optimization,” said John McPhee in a press release.

For Dave Hollinger, the coach of the men’s varsity golf team and godfather of UW golf, the simulator promises a lot more than just research.

Hollinger sees the undeniable potential in not only shaving strokes off his players’ scores, but in its ability to garner publicity for UW golf and raise money for future tournaments.

“We are the only university in Canada with such an advanced teach-

ing tool, and the varsity teams can use the simulator all season to keep their skills up to date,” said Coach Hollinger, before turning around to give some more pointers to a young golfer setting up for a shot.

“Members of the varsity team and I have been offering lessons using the simulator for about five weeks now, to help raise $10,000 for the Nationals coming up at the end of May. Personally, I’ve gained about 20 yards myself,” he added with a smile.

Between giving lessons and focusing on his research, Rancourt is looking forward to “getting out” on the course — though virtual it may be — before the RCGA National Championships in New Brunswick, and upcoming tournaments in Michigan and North Carolina.

The UW squad will be teeing off against NCAA Division I and Division II schools who are not bound indoors by the inclement winter weather.

The grass seems to be greener on the inside for J.S. Rancourt. “We stopped playing ‘real’ courses in November, but I like to come here on lunch breaks and play some rounds to keep my game up.”

All members of the general public looking to learn the game of golf or improve their swings are encouraged to contact Hollinger at davehollinger@rogers.com to book lessons. Proceeds will help finance the varsity teams’ trip to New Brunswick in May for the RCGA National University/College Championships.

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Goetz medals silver at OUA championships Michelle Duklas asst. sports & living

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Jason Goetz was named to the OUA all-star team after he jumped 14.75m in the triple jump at the OUA championships last weekend.

ast weekend saw the Warriors travel to York University to take part in the OUA championships at the Toronto Track and Field Centre.

The best performance by a Warrior was Jason Goetz’s silver in the triple jump. Unable to record a good jump in the first three rounds, Goetz came back in the fifth round and leaped into second place with his jump of 14.75m, earning the Warriors eight points in the process. With this jump, Goetz remains near the top of the CIS leader board and guaranteed himself an invite to the CIS championships in Windsor. Goetz hopes to better his performance from last year, where he earned the silver.

Goetz also participated in the long jump along with teammate Jeremy Yang.

In a very deep OUA event, Yang did not jump as well as he expected, and ended up in 12th place. Goetz’s third jump of 6.71m got him into the finals, where he jumped a personal best 6.78m to rank him sixth in Ontario.

The relay team of Jacob Muirhead, Luke Govia, Oliver Grant and Ben Terejko finished eighth in the 4x400m relay, earning the Warriors 1 point with their time of 3:25.85. As well, Andrew Good earned the Warriors two points with his 1.89m jump in the high jump.

This season’s best effort by Good earned him seventh place.

Jennifer Adenbanjo has shown that she has recovered well from her injury with her 16th place finish in the

60m, finishing with a personal best time of 8.15. On the men’s side in the 60m, Kofi Kwarko-Fosu advanced to the finals with a personal best time of 7.01, finishing in 11th place.

Rookie Justin Conlon had a great OUA championships. He jumped a season’s best 1.89m in the high jump which gave him big points towards finishing seventh overall. This is his first time competing in the pentathlon, and as such, can be expected to improve over the next few years.

Patrick Mckinnon beat his personal best by eight seconds in the men’s 3000m, where he finished 13th with a time of 8:49.66. Rob Bark also beat his personal best, albeit not by such a large margin. He has brought his personal best down by 27 seconds since the beginning of this season, however. He finished 18th with a time of 9:00.97.

Monika Bolejszo broke the five minute mark in her 1500m race. She ran 4:54.82 to finished 15th. Stephanie Hinton also finished 15th, but in the 600m. She ran 1:41.27 amongst some of the best runners the OUA has seen in a while. Hugo Lopez finished ninth in the 60m hurdles, finishing 0.02 seconds off of his varsity record.

Next for the Warriors is the CIS championships, taking place March 1113 at the University of Windsor. Goetz and Yang have qualified, and the men’s 4x200m and 4x400m are in a qualifying spot at the moment, with their ranks of eighth and ninth, respectively. mduklas@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Unfortunately they were the last points the Warriors got as Lakehead closed out the game strong.

Waterloo was not completely to blame for their second half let down.

Lakehead had a strong first half of the season, going 7–1, based on their ability to earn wins with strong comebacks, shooting their way back into games.

The Warriors were also struggling with injuries. Shooting guard Cam McIntyre was fighting through an ankle injury, and was being guarded by one of the country’s best defenders. Power forward Alan Goodhoofd was also sidelined with injury and was only able to play seven minutes in the game. Rookie blue-chip recruit Wayne Bridge was put to use and took a good share of Goodhoofd’s minutes.

Center Matt Hayes led the team with 13 points, while point guard David Burnett added 11. Cam McIntyre was limited to only seven points, making just two of his 13 shots during the game, while adding four free throw points.

The Warriors struggled from the floor, shooting only 33 per cent from two-point range, while shooting 35 per cent from beyond the three-point arc.

Waterloo also struggled under the rim as they were out-rebounded 40–27.

The Thunderwolves were also able to move the ball around more efficiently, assisting on 19 points while the Warriors only assisted on eight points.

The loss marks the end of the Warriors season, as well as the end of the

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Center Matt Hayes (#22) had a team-high 13 points, and added five rebounds and three blocks. road for a few of the players. Three of the five starters have finished their careers as Warriors. Co-captains David Burnett and Ben Frisby, center Matt Hayes, and guard Jesse Tipping have all used up their OUA eligibility and will be moving on. Coach Tom Kieswetter will be in tough to replace such great skill and leadership on the floor. sports@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Imprint, Friday, March 5, 2010

(postscript@imprint.uwaterloo.ca)

JORDAN CAMPBELL (faculties@imprint.uwaterloo.ca)

MICHAEL TO (irresponsiblyoptomistic@imprint.uwaterloo.ca)

“J.T.” (geese@imprint.uwaterloo.ca)