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Johnston, Governor General, graduates from UW

His Excellency, former UW president, granted honourary degree, title of ‘president emeritus’ Eduardo Ramirez staff reporter

Ryan Webb news editor

UW President Feridun Hamdullahpur looks on as his predescessor, His Excellency David Johnston, accepts an honourary Bachelor of Law.

Waterloo saw the return of one of its most famous alumni last Saturday. Three weeks since moving into Rideau Hall, former university president and current Governor General of Canada, His Excellency David Johnston, graduated along with 1,707 students at the university’s 101st convocation. Johnston returned to UW, where he served as president for over a decade, to be awarded anhonourary Doctor’s of Law degree, the school’s top distinction. He was also inducted into exclusive company as the third ‘president emeritus’ of the university. Three weeks ago, on Oct. 1, Johnston was installed as Canada’s top public servant. In recognition of his stature, the Governor General’s blue flag flew on one of the flagpoles at the university’s southern entrancefor the duration of his stay on campus. Following an introduction by university secretary Lois Claxton, UW chancellor Prem Watsa officially conferred Johnston with his honourary LLD. In his address to graduates, faculty, administrators and guests, His Excellency made use of three symbolic props: a watch, a compass, and a well-worn University of Waterloo necktie. According to Johnston, the watch signified both “progress” and “keeping a balance in your life.” He used the compass to remind the audience of the importance of a “Set of values in your life… [to] chart our course by them and safely find our way.” Lastly, he took off one of his famous UW neckties and held it up to remind graduates of “loyalty beyond self,” specifically to the University of Waterloo. “A part of you remains here and a part of us remains with you,” he explained, “You are stewards of the institution.” The Governor General used a familiar George Bernard Shaw quote to wrap up his oration: “Some people see things as they are

and wonder ‘why?’. We dream of things that ought to be and ask ‘why not?’” When he concluded,those in thePAC rose to their feet and gave the president emeritus a formal farewell by way of standing ovation. Afterwards, new graduates in arts, applied health sciences, and social work crossed the stage and were conferred with their degrees and diplomas. Near the end of the ceremony,the university recognized outstanding graduates,including two Alumni Gold Medals for the top master’s and doctoral graduates of the year. On the stage, UW’s current interim president, Feridun Hamdullapur, wore the blue and white presidential robes that Johnston had dawned for the proceeding decade. However, the wardrobe was not the only noticeable difference for this fall’s convocation. With a new title, and new national responsibilities, the Governor General’s presence ensured that security was heavy. Over a dozen security guards with business suits and earpieces stood watch throughout the PAC. Uniformed UW Police supplemented them. Access to the Governor General was limited, and at least one student was asked to leave the PAC for the duration of the morning convocation. However, His Excellency seemed as personable as ever. He still laughed with acquaintances, his shoulders shaking as he did, visible from the opposite side of the PAC. “It feels very much like home,” Johnston later said. A lifelong hockey player, Johnston became most animated when asked about recreation plans for his first winter in Ottawa.“I’ve spoken with Frank Mahovlich,” the viceregal gleamed, referring to the ’72 Summit Series hero and current Canadian senator. “Frank and I will go for a skate on the Rideau Canal.” After a modest lunch on campus with old friends, His Excellency left by official motorcade. news@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Photos by Eduardo ramirez

Left: Carrying the Mace, Associate Provost, Academic and Student Services Bruce Mitchell, leads the academic procession into the convocation ceremony. Right: A Canadian Forces soldier stands guard as His Excellency David Johnston delivers a speech to graduates at the university’s 101st convocation.

News

Voters leave their mark Jacqueline McKoy Lambert senior staff reporter

aterloo's Oct. 25th municipal election brought changes, continuity, and definitive statements on the city and region's future. Current Mayor Brenda Halloran was reelected to her second term leading Waterloo, beating her closest competitor Councillor Jan d'Ailly 12,247 to 7,092. She joins a slate of incumbent mayors re-elected across the region — Carl Zehr in Kitchener and Doug Craig in Cambridge. Elated to win, Halloran thanked the citizens of Waterloo for their support and trust, according to a recent press release. “It is a privilege and honour to continue to serve this great city as your mayor for another four years.” The two wards closest to the University of Waterloo — Wards 6 (Central-Columbia) and 7 (Uptown) — are home to new faces on city council. Waterloo computer engineering alumnus and former Feds VP Education, Jeff Henry, won Ward 6 in a hotly contested race. Henry begun the night in a dead heat with his three fellow candidates, but eventually garnered 1,061 votes, ahead of Ed Korschewitz's 826. A mere 39-vote

Alexandra McMurray reporter

SFU bed bugs are costly

Officials from Simon Fraser University have admitted to a bed bug problem within their residence buildings. They are actively using various measures to stop the spread of the problem. Pest control experts say it is becoming harder to fight against the pests as the bugs are becoming immune to the chemicals used to control them. School officials have called in a special dog unit that is capable of sniffing out the bugs. Bed bugs have been detected in 12 students rooms that have now been treated as well as the rooms next to them. The cost of eradicating the bugs is becoming more and more expensive. Estimates put the cost of the infestation at $20,000 for this year alone.

spread was recorded between Korschewitz and competitors Mike Connolly and Anne Crowe. “Having lived in this community for many years, I know that our challenges are great, but our opportunities are even greater,” said Henry a press release from last Tuesday. “After speaking with so many of our community members in Ward 6 during this campaign, I am confident that we can face the hard problems together and build an even stronger Waterloo.” CTV newscaster Melissa Durrell is the other rookie councillor elected in Ward 7. With 1,653 votes, she beat UW Prof. Emeritus Peter Woolstencroft and WLU student Erin Epp by 666 and 834 votes respectively. Waterloo's other four wards were won by their incumbent councillors. Incumbent Regional Chair Ken Seiling was re-elected to his position; Jane Mitchell and Sean Strickland also reclaimed their seats as Waterloo's regional councillors.

Election Results:

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Regional Chair: Ken Seiling Waterloo Mayor: Brenda Halloran Regional council: Sean Strickland Jane Mitchell K-W merger talks? No Water fluoridation? No

Ward 1: Scott Witmer Ward 2: Karen Scian Ward 3: Angela Vieth Ward 4: Diane Freeman Ward 5: Mark Whaley Ward 6: Jeff Henry Ward 7: Melissa Durrell

Nearly two-thirds of Waterloo's voters voted against entering talks to consider amalgamating Kitchener and Waterloo. Meanwhile, Kitchener's residents came out on the opposite side, with two-thirds in favour of starting amalgamation consultation. In a controversial decision, Waterloo also voted to remove fluoride from

the city's water in one of the region's closest decisions. A total of 13,363 voted against fluoride, while 13,216 voted to keep the substance in Waterloo's water. Waterloo will now join the rest of the Region, as well as many other cities, in having un-fluoridated water. The city enjoyed a 41.14 per cent voter turnout, with over 26,000 residents heading to the polls last Monday. Driving some of this

increase is an improved student turnout. While results are not available for UW, WLU's polling station saw over 150 voters, a significant difference from the 15 who voted last time around. The new representatives will take office on December 1.

McMaster does business applications for smart phones

Positive results for UVic and UBC on ‘Sustainability Report Card’

Alleged hazing incident at U of Alberta

With the sponsorship of CGA Ontario, the Degroote Commerce Society at the Degroote School of Business, McMaster University, has launched mobile applications for smart phones. The phones capable of using this technology include Blackberrys and Android Devices; Apple devices will soon be compatible. These applications will allow students to instantly access information on their smart phones regarding campus events, academic dates, as well as a phone directory. The application is free and a first of its kind for Canadian business schools. This new mobile application will soon be utilized by various post-secondary schools within Ontario over the next few months due to a sponsorship alliance between CGA Ontario and the CampusCurrent Mobile Platform.

The Sustainable Endowments Institute, located in Cambridge, Mass., recently released its College Sustainability Report Card and Canadian universities received mixed grades on their sustainability practices. This year, the University of Victoria received an overall B-plus rating, the second one it has earned. In four major areas UVic earned A’s: transportation; green building efforts; food and recycling programs, and administration and endowment transparency. However, most of the schools did not perform well in the area of shareholder engagement. UVic and the University of Alberta received Fs and UBC earned a D grade in this category. The highest overall scores within Canada were earned by UBC and the University of Calgary; each receiving an A-minus.

Kitchener and Waterloo diverge on merger

— With files from The Record and The Cord jmckoy@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Allegations of a hazing event at a University of Alberta fraternity have just emerged. The actual events occurred in January 2010 but the campus newspaper, the Gateway, has only recently published details. Observers of the Delta Kappa Epsilon event caught the alleged incidences on video. The Gateway’s senior news editor described the video as being “disturbing and difficult to watch”. Allegations of sleep deprivation and confinement to a box have been reported, amongst other activities, to campus security at the U of A who are now looking into the incident. The risk management policy of the Delta Kappa Epsilon International says hazing is prohibited. If the allegations are found to be true, the university’s dean of students, Frank Robinson, has said that individual students and the fraternity could face sanctions. — With files from CBC and the Times Colonist

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Crews from Plant Operations respond to a tree that fell on campus Saturday, during the university’s 101st convocation. The tree, located on the western part of Ring Road near the Grand River, raised anxiety on a day where security was already tight due to the visit of the Governor General of Canada, David Johnston.

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in the country should be strengthened. Public education campaigns through the media are informing the citizens what to do if they contract cholera. Canada has provided $1 million to help fight the cholera outbreak and to help prevent further outbreaks of water-borne disease. Tibetan leader, Dalai Lama, visits Toronto

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The Dalai Lama, pictured above at an earlier event, opened the Tibetan Canadian Culture Centre in Toronto on Saturday and spoke at the Rogers Centre to promote human value and religious harmony. Azra Premji staff reporter

Riaz Nathu reporter

Cholera death toll high in ravaged Haiti

A cholera epidemic in Haiti has resulted in over 250 deaths and 2,634 hospitalised. It is feared the disease will continue to spread in the crowded capital. Cholera, a bacterial infection that is acquired through contaminated water, causes symptoms such as severe diarrhea and vomiting, which could lead to dehydration and even

death. The St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint-Marc, Haiti is filled with patients arriving with symptoms from this intestinal disease and at one point patients were laid outside with intravenous drips due to lack of space inside the hospital. Dr. Alex Larsen, Haiti’s health minister, told CNN he believes the outbreak is stabilizing and Dr. Eric Mintz, a scientist specializing in diarrheal diseases, indicated the mortality rates appear to be decreasing. Those most at risk include the elderly and the very young. In order to prevent a full-scale disaster, the water, sanitization, and hygiene infrastructure

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader and an honourary Canadian citizen, opened the Tibetan Canadian Culture Centre in Toronto last Saturday and spoke at the Rogers Centre to discuss approaches to world peace, and to promote human rights and religious harmony. The Dalai Lama emphasized the desire for freedom in China and that preservation of Tibetan language and culture is important. He said in his talk at the Rogers Centre with over 15,000 viewers, “You, the younger generation who belongs to the 21st century, have many responsibilities to bring some peace to the world, some compassion to the world. The main responsibility is on your shoulders.” The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India since 1959 and indicated that the Chinese government should look at India’s diversity of languages as an example of preservation of language and culture. Countrywide protests heat up in France

Youth have joined in countrywide protests ahead of Thursday’s Senate vote on pension reforms. Nicholas Sarkozy’s government has proposed increasing the retirement age from 60 to 62 and the full pension entitlement from 65 to 67. Unions across the country have called upon workers to mobilize and block transportation services, effectively bringing France to a halt. Blockages on oil refineries have cut-off supplies to nearly one-third of the country’s service stations, air transportation has been grounded by air traffic controllers walking

out, and the country’s rail infrastructure stands idle as workers have also walked out in protest to the reforms. Sarkozy’s government is confident that the protests will dissipate over the coming weeks; however, recent polls produced by the Libération newspaper suggest that 79 per cent of the population want Sarkozy to restart negotiations with unions over reforms. France has one of the lowest retirement ages in the developed world. Retirement age reform is also on the agenda of the UK government as the working population continues to age, having compounding effects on the economies in both countries. Bolivia secures access to the sea

An agreement signed by Peruvian President Alan Garcia and Bolivian President Evo Morales ends a 126 year Bolivian struggle for access to the Pacific Ocean. The new 99-year agreement would grant Bolivia a free-trade zone and space for economic activity on a small strip of the Peruvian coastal line. Bolivia has been a landlocked country due to Chile’s victory in the 1879-1884 war, which resulted in most of Bolivia’s mineral rich coast line being lost. The agreement is economically significant for Bolivia as trade has suffered over the years due to lack of access to ports. This new access to the sea will also allow the Bolivian navy to establish a presence and relocate from landlocked Lake Titicaca located in the Altiplano of the Andes. Relations between Peru and Bolivia have been volatile in recent years. Just two years ago both presidents exchanged colourful words about each other over political ideologies, however, this agreement marks a new chapter in friendly relations between the Andean countries. — With files from CBC, CNN, BBC, Toronto Star, Vancouver Observer, Daily Telegraph, CP, and Reuters

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Holy Halloween, Batman

o let me start by admitting that I don’t even have a costume yet. It is Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 3 p.m. and I don’t even have an idea. My gut says being a kitty would be the easiest and most effective way to dress up with all of the other things on my to do list this week, but my heart says a homemade Ninja Turtle with a cardboard-painted shell and fabric head band with eyes cut out would really grab some attention. Halloween has been an overly celebrated holiday in my household since the day I was born. You see, my brother, who is four years my senior, was born on Halloween. I truly believe it’s the best birthday to have, as you are guaranteed to always have an invite to some sort

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of Halloween festivity, and presents plus candy equals loads of fun. In the past, my costumes have quite obviously been overshadowed by others, mainly my brother, but most recently by my best friend who is a closeted costume designer. For example, her costume three years ago was a zebra. Pretty simple, right? Well that’s only if you think head-to-toe stripes, face paint, zebra print heels, and a mane styled out of her own flowing hair is simple. I mean, this year she begged me to join her and one other in being Snap, Crackle, and Pop (Rice Krispies), red and white striped hats and all. I was able to talk her down to Ninja Turtles and still haven’t decided if I have the creative ability to help her construct the

entire costume by hand (is she crazy?). All creativity aside, I did some research and stumbled across a few homemade costume ideas that I thought the general public would enjoy, and might be easy enough for me to put together on a crazy deadline. Here are my top picks for last minute dress up ideas.

For this costume, you only need a tiny chair, pink clothes and elastic or ribbon. Simply put on the pink clothes and then use the elastic or ribbon to attach the chair to your head. Done and done.

Cereal killer costume

Lame excuse

All you need are some black clothes, cereal boxes, plastic knives, fake blood, glue and some safety pins. Simply empty the cereal boxes and glue the tops closed. Stab plastic knives into the boxes and add some fake blood on the knives and boxes. Glue the boxes to you and add some blood and pieces of cereal on your face, and voilà.

For this costume, you need a cane or a walker, Post-It notes and a pen. On different Post-It notes, write several excuses such as “I’ll be washing my hair,” or “My dog ate my homework,” and stick them all over your shirt. Grab the cane or walker and walk around with a limp. Happy Halloween.

Gum on the bottom of a chair

Yemen: back on the map

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emen has fallen off the map recently; its 15 minutes of fame occurred last winter when it was revealed that failed underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been trained there. On Wednesday, the CIA released an intelligence report suggesting that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) — a group based in Yemen — is more dangerous than the core of al-Qaeda that operates within Pakistan. This is in spite of the fact that, actually, according to Yemeni estimates, AQAP boasts just 400 fighters. In any case, the report has led to calls for drone strikes in the region. Understandably, Yemen is less than eager to co-operate; one need only look to Pakistan, and the public backlash over perceived governmental prostration to the U.S., to understand why Yemeni officials are wary of American involvement. That Yemen is currently fighting two civil wars makes public sentiment all the more important. There have yet to be calls for a full-scale ground invasion of Yemen (even if a report of this nature

generally predicates such things), and there may never be. The Obama administration seems intent on proving the usefulness and accuracy of their unmanned drones, and they might favour a sustained campaign of aerial strikes. Furthermore, the civil wars complicate matters immensely: is it possible to land in Yemen, refrain from taking sides, and focus solely on neutralizing al-Qaeda? Among the reasons not to invade Yemen are the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not so much because of troop commitments, but because the public may have finally lost its stomach for the war on terror. A war in Yemen, though, could sway public opinion. I say this because, as crass as it sounds, public frustration does not stem from the killing of innocent Iraqis. The frustration stems from losing. Granted, opinion polls on the war don’t ask why citizens respond a different way (I’ll concede that it’s a pessimistic outlook). But the most common question, perhaps more so than, “Are you for or against?” is, “Who do you think is winning?” In a

recent Bloomberg National Poll, just 31 per cent of Americans believed that their side held an advantage; in a CNN poll, that figure shrank to 18 per cent. If the U.S. invades Yemen (or partners with the Yemeni military, as the case may be) and is able to swiftly dispense with the four hundred AQAP fighters, it may just buoy public support for the war efforts. Nobody likes to lose, especially the Americans, and they desperately need a win. Yemen might be it. A quick aside: I’ve written a lot on both Wikileaks and Iraq, and though I went in a different direction this week, the most recent release of classified documents is important — I encourage you to investigate for yourselves. The files suggest that as many Iraqis were killed or tortured during the current eight-year-long campaign as were harmed when Saddam Hussein was in power. “Regime change” my ass. —With files from pollingreport.com, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, and antiwar.com

Letters

Re: Unconditional love on the international stage

Alexander Gurevich mathematics alumni

anada has gained a reputation for maintaining a balanced foreign policy, but balance does not mean ignoring what we believe is wrong. During several past conflicts, like World War II and the Cold War, Canada was not neutral. That is because, along with being balanced, Canada maintains support for democratic ideals. Whether Liberal or Conservative, we stand shoulder to shoulder with countries that share these ideals, such as Israel. Israel is a small democratic country with a population that shares Canadian values. It is surrounded by larger dictatorships that spread Nazi propaganda and oppress women, nonMuslims, and some ethnic groups.

It is these countries that condemn Canada for its relationship with Israel. Information on these countries, and their policies, is easy to find for those interested. The recent flotilla incident is often referenced when Israel is discussed, but many facts are often omitted. Before boarding the ships, Israel contacted every vessel from the flotilla and informed them that they are entering a closed military zone; they further stated that if they would like to deliver aid to Gaza, they may sail to an Israeli port, from which the aid would be delivered to Gaza by land. One of the ships replied with the phrases “Shut up. Go back to Auschwitz,” and “Don’t forget 9/11, guys.” This was the same ship on which Israeli soldiers were later attacked.

These are the sides Canada chooses between when choosing to side with Israel. All other vessels co-operated with Israel without violent incident. The BBC Panorama episode, “What Happened on the Flotilla to Gaza,” is a thorough documentary on these events. It may be found on Youtube. As for the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC), don’t let their name fool you. The UNHRC regularly demonstrates strong anti-Israeli bias while ignoring serious human rights violations elsewhere in the world. Several UNHRC members, and past members, are the same dictatorships that surround Israel. The United Nations Secretary General, the former United Nations Secretary General, and several western democracies, including Canada,

have condemned the behaviour of the UNHRC. More information on bias at the UNHRC may be found on websites of mainstream news organizations, as well as Wikipedia. Canada’s support for Israel, despite criticism from fascist states, terrorist organizations, and believers of Nazi propaganda, is something Canadians can be proud of. To conclude in the same spirit as the article I am responding to: you know that guy that everyone wants to be like? He’s smart, good-looking, and successful. He speaks his mind, and won’t say what people want to hear just to gain their approval. He draws much criticism from jealous characters. He has great friends like him, and he stands up for them. Canada is that guy.

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Community Editorials

Confessions of a confused young voter

Howard Leung 3a accounting and

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hy did I vote on October 25? I’m cheap, so that’s why I voted. I’ve already paid for the elections through my taxes. The election chiefs’ salaries, the sheet that I voted on, and the black sharpie that I used to fill in the bubbles were all paid for by our money. With that mentality, why wouldn’t I vote? However, I learned the hard way why our current system discourages some people from voting, and hence, it could definitely be improved. Firstly, you need to spend time doing research. Like many of my peers, I had very little knowledge of who was running, especially the candidates for ward councillor. By Monday afternoon, I was so desperate that I was looking up their profiles in class. I felt it would be a slightly better strategy than my friend’s, who picked the funniest sounding name on the ballot. (“Mr. Wood? Yes, that sounds awesome.”) There were also two referendum issues on the Waterloo ballot: one regarding fluoridation of water, and the other

about the amalgamation of Kitchener and Waterloo. I had no idea how I felt about the first issue, so for research, I asked “smart” questions on Facebook like “Is fluoridation good?” and “Will I be safe if they don’t have fluoride?” I hoped I was shaping up to be an informed voter and a good citizen. Secondly, the location isn’t as convenient as you think. As a busy UW student, I found out in advance that the SLC had a voting station. Perfect, I thought. I was going to be there anyways, so this would take five minutes of my time. Get in, get out. This would be quicker than a coffee run at the nearest Timmies, especially with the lack of lineups. So as I eagerly approached the voting booth, all excited to exercise my democratic right, I found out one reason why the station had such little students voting, despite its centralized location. “You can’t vote here,” was the firm rejection from one of the volunteers working at the polling booth. She pointed to a map of the city, which was segmented by harsh red lines. If you were within the lines encompassing the university, you could vote at SLC no problem. But if you lived outside of them, tough luck. You would

have to go to your nearest polling station, which was apparently closer to where you lived. And lucky for me, I lived on the wrong side of one of those blinding lines. So if my house had legs and walked across the street, then I could vote at the SLC. Inside, I was thinking: where was my landlord when I needed him? Since I was so determined to get my money’s worth, I overcame my laziness, finished what I had to do on campus, and with half an hour left before polls closed, took the bus to my “correct” polling station. The volunteers were accommodating, at least until 8 pm, when the polls (and doors) closed. Another young voter came in at 8:02 pm, and was, again, firmly rejected. His parting words? “This is bullshit,” he fumed, before leaving in a huff. Despite these flaws, it’s important to end this rant in a good note, and leave democracy alone. And there were tons of good points about democracy. After voting, I asked one of the volunteers when we would know the results. “Oh, by tonight, probably 10 to 10:30,” was her reply, “You can even access it online.” Now that’s what makes a young voter like me smile.

Memorandum from the Ministry of Truth Not every fantastic gem hidden within our mundane world is positive Stephen Kearse 2a classical studies/political science

oublethink is everywhere. It is perhaps fitting that I should realize this at 7:15 in the morning, after a peculiarly quick night of attempting to write something of significance. It is undeniably true, though — doublethink is a rampant disease in our society. For those who did not attend high school in York Region, Ontario, doublethink is a fascinating concept presented in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (written in 1948, of course). It is quite complex, though utilized with astounding cleverness by Orwell. For our purposes, doublethink is a two-part process. One must first consciously believe or accept something while unconsciously disbelieving or refusing to accept it (or vice versa). Afterwards, at any given moment, one must be able to hold these ideas in one’s head simultaneously and believe in both of them, an act usually facilitated by a distraction of some sort. For example, I may consciously believe that contemporary music can be worthwhile, but I still unconsciously roar in agonized outrage every time I hear “I Gotta Feeling.” Before a conflict can arise, the music usually summons my inner boogie to provide a pleasant distraction. In a brief pause, I submit this

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disclaimer: though I curse myself whenever it comes to mind, I have not read Nineteen EightyFour since Grade 11 — three years ago — and my memory of the details is rather hazy. I freely and unreservedly offer up my head for any bashing I may deserve after misusing or misunderstanding doublethink. If I have been so long removed from Orwell’s dystopia, then, what brought it to my mind on this lovely morning? The honey dip. The honey dip is my favourite kind of doughnut; if you bought me a half-dozen, I would give you a massive hug and reimburse the full cost plus a two dollar tip. In itself, however, it is a marvellous exercise in doublethink. The honey dip, you see, does not seem to have any honey on it, but is merely an airy, sugar-coated white doughnut (I also have the testimony of a longtime Tim Horton’s employee). This does not detract from its appeal, naturally, but it does mean that I have to do some doublethink every time I want one. I consciously know from sensory input and expert testimony that this doughnut is a lie, but I unconsciously refuse to accept that

because it is too satisfying to relinquish on such trivial terms. The honey dip is not a profound exercise in doublethink, but it gives you the gist of the doublethink mechanism. A long-running exercise of doublethink in our society is the concept of diet beverages. Though I am fully expecting there to be diet water one day, I can still see the doublethink plainly at work. In consuming a diet beverage, a person consciously believes that, presumably combined with a sound exercise plan, the drink will make him/her healthier. This is balanced by an unconscious acceptance that artificial sweeteners may defeat that purpose. With soda, it works the other way around. Conscious awareness that soda is patently unhealthy, and unconscious belief that reduction of sugar/ replacement with aspartame will compensate. A more current example, one which is likely to have an even greater impact on our society, is Facebook. In my last article (October 8), I discussed the philosophical reasons why the idea of Facebook is immortal. This time, I will approach it from a watershed perspective. The advent of Facebook was, in itself, a titanic

watershed, but Facebook now faces another — and this one is not quite so rosy. Speaking from the experience of my first month as a “Facebookian,” I would say that Facebook has its advantages: my social calendar is flourishing, existing bonds with people have gained an additional layer, establishing new bonds is easier, and I have something else to keep me woefully distracted. That said, there is a severe disadvantage; after just a month, I am already feeling the isolation that long-time users bemoan and lament. With this bleary-eyed epiphany of mine, however, I am beginning to grasp why. Facebook is a tremendous group effort of doublethink because we all must consciously revel in our digital interactions to make it work — “Yay! I’m interacting with people!” – but the price is an incessant unconscious feeling of isolation and loneliness – “But I’m not really interacting, am I?” — because we are evolutionarily designed to interact in person. What a brave new world, eh? Send me other examples of doublethink you have noticed at skearse@hotmail.com

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ssassination of activists, intimidation and bribery of public officials, negligent disregard for human rights and environmental impacts, and alleged accounts of rape; do these activities seem like the sort of thing Canadians take part in? These were the types of actions recounted by eyewitnesses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2000, where serious human rights and environmental abuses were reported to have been committed by Canadian miners. This type of behaviour is not isolated, either. In Chiapas, Mexico, Mariano Abarca-Roblero, a human rights defender and activist for responsible mining, was abducted and assassinated after organizing a protest rally with local Mexican farmers. Roblero had been opposed to mining exploitation by Blackfire Explorations Ltd., a Canadian mining company. He was gunned down in front of his

house after receiving death threats, allegedly by two ex-Blackfire Explorations employees. As students, most of us don’t take the time to pause between our busy schedules to give attention to causes such as corporate accountability, especially when we don’t experience direct consequences. So, how does corporate accountability affect us? A good proportion of the students here at Waterloo are in co-op programs and may have the opportunity to work with multinational corporations that may be practising unethical behaviour and human rights/environmental abuses. For example, for those working at computer or cell phone companies, one should be aware that the high global demand for cell phones and computer chips has indirectly contributed to a bloody civil war over coltan mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Canada’s record on human rights has been slowly dwindling. With Bill C-300, also cited as the Corporate Accountability of Min-

ing, Oil and Gas Corporations in Developing Countries Act, Liberal MP John McKay says he hopes it will “send a signal to the world that Canada is serious about regaining our floundering reputation as champions of human rights.” The purpose of Bill C-300 is to ensure that Canadian mining companies are responsible for their actions while working abroad. The bill will encourage Canadian mining and extractive companies (industries where human rights abuses are particularly high) to respect international human rights standards when operating in developing countries. The act gives the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of International Trade the responsibility of holding corporations accountable for their practices by submitting annual reports to the House of Commons and the Senate for review. If passed, the bill will put in place: human rights, labour, and environmental standards that Canadian extractive companies must follow when operating in other countries (in

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order to continue receiving government support). In addition, the bill will create a complaints mechanism that will allow people of affected communities or Canadians to voice their concerns, and create sanctions for companies that are not complying with the standards. These sections would be in the form of loss of government funding and political support, and allow for investigations. Bill C-300 is an important step towards improved corporate accountability for Canada. Bernarda Elizalde, director of sustainable development programs at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada says, “What we’re trying to do is provide tools to companies to understand how they can start improving their relationship with communities and how they can be more inclusive and respectful.” A study done by the Canadian Centre for the Study of Resource Conflict suggests that “the leading causes of incidents involving Canadian mining companies were related

to community conflict, including significant negative cultural and economic disruption to a host community, as well as significant protests and physical violence.” The poor practices and unethical behaviour of a few Canadian mining companies have not only tarnished the industries’ reputation, but Canada’s reputation as well. On Oct. 27, a final voting for the bill in Parliament took place. Our Conservative MP for the KW region, Peter Braid, has made it clear that he is against this bill. The bill was not passed, which means Canada will not be helping to send mining companies the message that their negative actions will no longer be tolerated. We are also demonstrating a commitment to protect the human rights of communities abroad where Canadian mining is active. It is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate leadership in human rights cases for Canada again, and may result in us as students working for companies that practise ethical behaviour and hold high integrity.

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Mental Health Awareness Day was observed Oct. 26 at the University of Waterloo. Information booths filled the Student Life Centre. People in food, retail, health, and counselling services, as well as the registrar’s office were seen sporting T-shirts marking the day. There were also a series of speakers there to discuss mental health awereness. The day was intended to enlighten people on mental health, and promote mental health and positive attitudes towards it.

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A recent blog post on Microsoft’s Dutch website suggests that Windows 8 could be available in as soon as two years. The remarks come after celebrating Window 7’s first year anniversary last week, which was released only two and a half years after Windows Vista. The U.S. Microsoft website did not make any mention regarding Windows 8, however, nor has any Microsoft executives. Overall, Microsoft has been quiet about future operating system updates but CEO Steve Ballmer has said that Microsoft would not go as long between Windows releases again. A presentation leaked to the public in June did mention that the Windows team plans to tweak the new operating system (OS) to include an app store, improve start-up time, and optimize power efficiency. They also plan to work more closely with computer manufacturers to better customize Windows to their machines’ individual features. In related news, Apple announced last week that their new OS — tentatively named Lion — will be released next summer. In addition, Apple will be launching an app store for the Mac in 90 days, after much success from the iPhone and iPad versions.

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NASA’s search for water on the moon has proven more bountiful than previously expected. Last year, NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission blasted a rocket into the Cabeus crater near the moon’s south-pole. A spacecraft followed the rocket into the plume of debris and analyzed the dust particles, which revealed the presence of water, as well as a mix of other chemicals including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ammonia, sodium, mercury, and silver. Today, images of the blast reveal that there is 155 litres of ice and vapour in the crater – twice as much than what scientists initially estimated. Based on these numbers, the LCROSS mission’s chief scientist, Anthony Colaprete predicts there could be as much as four billion litres of water in the crater and suggests there could be other craters just like it. “[It is an] oasis in a lunar desert,” he says. The discovery of lunar water presents the possibility of using the moon as a spaceship “gas station”. The water can be used for drinking as well as turning into rocket fuel. This won’t happen anytime soon, however, as the U.S. does not have any plans to land on the moon in the near future. —With files from CNET News, NY Times, and CBC News.

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’d imagine that most readers of this column will be familiar with the TV show The Big Bang Theory. If you are out of the loop it is a sitcom on CBS about physicists. It stars two theoretical physicists, Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, who live across the hall from an attractive blonde waitress. The difference between the type of personalities of Sheldon, Leonard, and Penny provides much of the humour of the show. Words cannot do justice to the character of Sheldon Cooper and if you have never seen clips of the show, go to YouTube and watch some. They’ll give you a better impression of the character than I ever could. Now, I was fortunate to be in Halifax last weekend to attend a national conference with undergraduate physicists from across the country. It’s safe to say that physicists like Sheldon are very rare. In reality, Leonard is the more accurate portrayal of the average physicist with respect to personality, mannerisms, relationships, and so on. Sheldon, on the other hand, is an exaggeration of what people think of as a stereotypical physicist: gawky, socially awkward, ingenius, and asexual are just a few traits that come to mind. However, there is one physicist, however, who makes Sheldon look like your average run of the mill guy. That physicist is Paul Dirac. Dirac’s name appears everywhere in quantum mechanics. Along with Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schroedinger, he wrote down the laws of quantum mechanics. To give you an idea of how much he contributed to its development, his book, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, contains no references to any other papers or books available at the time. Dirac developed it by himself. In the book, Dirac writes much about the formalism of quantum mechanics that is still used by physicists to this day. In addition to developing the formalism, he invented the way physicists do quantum mechanics through the introduction of mathematical entities called bras and kets which he wryly coined from the word bracket. This method of doing quantum mechanics largely obscures the mathematics that are being used but provides a very simple and straightforward way of doing the physics. Dirac was never one for mathematical rigour; he famously introduced a function that seemed mathematically absurd but gave the right answer. Despite being ridiculed by mathematicians, Dirac continued to use this function (appropriately called the Dirac delta function) freely and without care for its theoretical grounding in rigorous mathematics. It gave the right answer and that was all that concerned Dirac. It took mathematicians

about 20 years to put on rigorous grounds the type of mathematical entity Dirac used freely. Dirac’s most famous contribution to physics is the equation governing the dynamics of the electron: the Dirac equation. Early on in the development of quantum mechanics, physicists noticed that there seemed to be this new property of nature that did not seem to have a classical analogue. This property is, rather unfortunately, called spin. Rather unfortunately because it has absolutely nothing to do with spin or spinning things. The reason for the name is that physicists first assumed that quantum particles were spinning about an axis much like spinning a basketball on your finger. It was shown shortly afterwards that this idea is completely false and quantum particles do not spin about an axis. But, the damage was done and the name stuck. Prior to Dirac, spin was a somewhat mysterious quantity that had to be added into the theory by hand. In addition to this weird spin property, quantum mechanics was not yet compatible with relativity so there was concern over how that might play a role in quantum mechanics. As legend has it, one night Dirac was staring into a fire and in a flash of insight, came upon the solution to the problem of incorporating relativity with quantum mechanics. With his new equation, Dirac was able to incorporate special relativity with quantum mechanics, and, as an added bonus, derived the dynamics of spin of the particle as well. Thus, in one neat little package, Dirac derived a complete theory of the electron that included special relativity and the spin of the electron without having to add them in by hand. This new formula predicted many additional weird phenomena, most notably the positron. The positron is the anti-particle of the electron which means that it has all the same properties of the electron, but it has a positive charge instead. To many physicists, the notion of this anti-particle was absurd but only four years after Dirac predicted the positron, it was experimentally verified and won Dirac the Nobel Prize in 1933. It is hard to not emphasize the importance of the contributions to physics made by Dirac because his ideas are behind modern technology. The equations he wrote down governing the dynamics of the electron have consequences that are fundamental to tons of ideas like transistors, star formation, and even the structure of the periodic table. Without the understanding of the dynamics behind the electron, society would be a much different place. Now that I’ve gotten the contributions of Dirac out of the way, I can discuss Dirac the person next week.

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niversity students already have an overwhelming list of costs to worry about. Items such as tuition, rent, and groceries take up a large portion of your budget. There isn’t room for much else, let alone buying overpriced software. What most students don’t know is that they can get a lot of popular programs (or similar programs that work just as well) for free. The key is to know where to look. Students may also not be aware that UW’s

Information Systems and Technology (IST) department is an excellent resource for software. IST offers a wide range of licensed software at a reduced cost. For example, did you know that you can get Microsoft Office 2010 Professional for just $5? For a complete listing of programs available, please visit the IST’s website at www.ist.uwaterloo.ca or visit the Computer Help and Information Place (CHIP) in MC 1052. If this is still too much for you to spend, the remainder of this guide will show you where you can get software at no cost — legally of course — to help you succeed in your courses.

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You may also need an antivirus program to protect your system from malicious worms and viruses. Instead of paying for a program like Norton, use AVG Antivirus. AVG Free 8.0, as the name implies, is a free antivirus software that protects your Windows or Linux computer from spyware, adware, identity-theft, and viruses. Unlike Norton, it is a lightweight program that won’t suck up all your system’s resources.

If you are a computer science major and need one Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to handle all your coding needs, try Eclipse. It is an open source IDE that is able to support a variety of programming languages like Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, and Java. If you are looking to develop programs for Windows, Microsoft’s Dreamspark program allows students to download a suite of developing tools including Visual Studio 2010 for free.

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ChemAxon provides a variety of free chemical editing programs like MarvinSketch and JChem, which are good replacements for ChemDraw. Chemistry students can use the programs to draw 2D chemical structures, write chemical equations, and view molecules in 3D. In particular, they can convert a structure to its correct IUPAC name and vice versa, which organic chemistry students may find of interest.

Engineering and architecture students may want software to help them with their designing needs, such as AutoCAD. Developed by Autodesk, it is a computer aided design (CAD) software for 2D and 3D designing. Autodesk offers 12 other designing programs as well as software products for digital media creation and management. Fortunately, all these products are available to students for free for a three-year term from Autodesk’s website.

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If you want to type up an essay and don’t want to pay for Microsoft Office, a good, free alternative is OpenOffice. It contains a suite of applications for word processing, creating spreadsheets, making presentations, and setting up databases, just like Microsoft Office. The program runs on any operating system and is compatible with Microsoft formats, i.e. it can open and create Microsoft documents.

If you have taken a linear algebra course, you most likely had to use Matlab, which will set you back $75 a year for a license from IST. A perfect alternative is Octave. It is a high-level programming languageto help you solve mathematical problems and perform almost any other Matlab functions. The advantage of using Octave is that you can install additional add-ons to enhance its capabilities.

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For those who like to take notes on a computer during lectures, Microsoft’s OneNote is an excellent tool. It acts like a virtual notebook where you can keep all your notes from all your courses in one easy to find place. You can type, draw, add pictures, write down math equations anywhere on the page and your note is created. There is no need to press save with OneNote. If you have a tablet computer, you can also write your notes during lectures and convert them to typed words after class. OneNote is free to download from the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance (MSDN-AA) storefront from IST’s website. Simply enter in your Quest ID to start downloading. Windows users can also download a free copy of Windows 7 here.

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Need something better than Microsoft Paint but don’t want to pay the exuberant price of Adobe Photoshop? GIMP is your answer. It is a freely distributed image editing software that has many of Photoshop’s features like layers and support for a variety of file types. For those who like to take photos and need a way to manage them all, Picasa is also a great tool. Users can easily tag photos for easy sorting and finding as well as make fun collages to post on Facebook.

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Statistics students will likely need a statistical software package to do their course work. Even if you aren’t a statistics major, but need a statistical package to analyze experimental data, R or S-plus easily fit the bill. They are open source software and are available for free from the Internet. Similar to Octave, users can install additional packages to increase the program’s functionality.

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Students, professors, and the general public were invited to view the refurnished University of Waterloo’s Art Gallery on October 22. A new exhibition features carnival-esque paintings by Dan Kennedy and pin photos taken at the Calgary Stampede by Dianne Bos. Renisa Phadkar staff reporter

he UW Arts Faculty is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The Fine Arts Department hosted its tribute to the Faculty by launching an open house and an exclusive Artist Talk at the UW Art Gallery on October 22. The Gallery was open to the public, showing its most recent exhibitions Ticket to Ride and Unlikely Stories. The latter was presented by artist and UW Fine Arts professor emeritus Art Green. Art (as his colleagues and students call him) talked about his work, his experiences, and the celebration of the faculty's

50th anniversary. The talk was deeply appreciated by the public as they got to meet Art as an honoured member of the Faculty. Following the formal presentation, Art met students, professors and the general public in an intimate session to talk about Unlikely Stories. As viewers visited the exhibition, Art shared with them the complex process he went through making these intricate pieces. I had the opportunity to listen to his thought process when producing his art, which has a fascinating display of

real talent and extraordinary attention to detail. He also shared with the public his sketchbook and the multiple steps of building a concept for the paintings in the exhibition. As he turned the pages of the sketchbook, he explained the evolution of his works into their final version displayed at the gallery. The experience was golden; Art spoke to viewers as though he were still in a lecture, attentively guiding the public to a deeper understanding of his work. “As you see in this sketch, I write down which elements I will present in

the painting […] so in the end you have it all, you have it all in this one piece,” described Art as he analyzed one of his works. He explained how he gave the viewer freedom of interpretation for the message conveyed in his work. “It is not arbitrary, I just think in a certain way when I produce a work and the viewer can interpret it in a number of different ways.” The mingling session was also a great opportunity for students to approach Art and learn more about the career they are pursuing. He gave

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you find the bus route, you go to the concert, enjoy the concert, and then finally go home. Whoopie. But I think gaming is way more rewarding than that. At this point you’re all thinking the Prick has finally gone soft, but no, I have not. I am not admitting that I’m a closet gamer where I do nothing but stay home all day. I also am not admitting that video-gamers are above concert goers. I’m just saying that there’s more satisfaction to a game than concert going. Think about this carefully. You go to a concert, you take videos or photos. Sure, they can last a lifetime, and you probably would say to a friend, “Hey remember band member X at concert Y? Wasn’t that fun?” Good laughs probably follow, but nothing material can really come out of those memories. It’s just what you remember, and what your mind expects of it. Buying a game, and beating it the first time around would be better than that. You go into a game, unlock its secrets, and beat it. Sure, some games are very repetitive, and lack any proper re-runs of the game. To an extent, that’s alright. You can pick that same game up, years from now, and still replay it. When you

start replaying it, you’re probably going to try remembering how you did things the first time, and try to reproduce those actions. Maybe you will go down different routes from last time and look for new secrets; maybe you will find new ways to beat a boss. There could be new possibilities even from the most straightforward of games. While you’re living out those memories again, you’re also re-enacting what happened. I doubt that any concertgoing members would experience what gamers can actually experience. I know what some of you are already saying, “But what about movie goers?” Let’s be honest. Even gamers come out of their closets to watch some movies. Need an example? Scott Pilgrim anyone? Yeah, I thought so. So before you accuse me of picking on the concert goers, well I am. So tough luck. Gamers enjoy their games. We enjoy the exploding pixels, but flail ourselves every time we miss a target. We may not be, and we are not, superior to anyone, but we live the best times of our lives in front of a television or computer screen. Sounds familiar to those who watch television? Yeah, there’s probably a reason for that.

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A panorama view of the exhibit Ticket to Ride at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery.

University of Waterloo’s ticket to the Fine Arts Carla Valerio staff reporter

eep into the University of Waterloo campus, right where you think you would not find anything, there is a place that life, colour, energy and joy lives; the UW Art Gallery. Our very own university art gallery shows the work of current and former members of the UW Fine Arts community and artists from around the world. In an environment of relaxing contemplation, art fans can interact with incredible talent at the most personal level. Most of the exhibitions have events with the artist(s), giving students, staff, and anyone interested the chance to speak to “the masters” face to face. The exhibition gives visitors a unique occasion to hear insights on the process of making works displayed, the meaning behind them and the artist’s personal views of his/her own work. The space itself is warm and welcoming, very professionally presented and dexterously designed to immerse the viewer in the world of art. Music, lighting and layout make the overall experience very pleasant, not to mention of course, the works of art. This year, UWAG has ten exhibitions in catalogue, starting with the current Ticket to Ride, in Gallery I. This collective work of artists like UW Fine Arts alumnus Dan Kennedy, Dianne Bos, Niall Donaghy, and Anitra Hamilton revolves around the concept of amusement parks. Presented in different media through photography, painting of tridimensional models, the aura of amusement parks is captured from multiple points of view. The exhibition is full of color and vibrant energy, as well as mystery and hidden meanings. Also, dazzling viewers with double-meanings and hidden elements is UW Prof. Emeritus Art Green, in his own collection Unlikely Stories (exhibiting in Gallery II). Art depicts a lot of concepts with interesting relationship between one another. These works are complex and very interesting to analyze, in plain words, this is a “smart” kind of art. These exhibitions will be running until October 30, so there is still a chance to visit them, upcoming are the works of Derek Sullivan in It is More Difficult to Hit a Moving Target and Patrick Cull in Gravity Paintings. With many more pieces to show and many more events still to come, UWAG is a place to be for this year. If you want to keep tuned with UWAG‘s events and exhibitions you can visit their website uwag.uwaterloo.ca, and if you are an art lover and want to experience UWAG for yourself, come down to East Campus Hall 1239, everyone is invited, admission to all events and exhibitions is free. courtesy of J.T. McVeigh

Top: Various pieces of art on display at the exhibit. Ticket to Ride is the inaugural fall exhibition at UWAG. The exhibition focuses on the experiences of carnival, parades and midways. Displays include work from UW fine art alumnus such as Dianne Bos, Dan Kennedy, and Anitra Hamilton. Left: A view into the Labyrinth Coaster in the exhibit. The installation was created by Niall Donaghy in 2009 and is made from basswood, birch plywood and masonite.

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ith drag performances by the likes of “Justin Beiber,” Penny Traition, Johnny Deeper, and Almost Adamn, Coming Out Week could not have ended better this year. All the make-up, lashes, high heels, and big-hair made me want to get up on the stage with the other performers, and the music — oh all that sexual music. It was certainly a night to remember. GLOW’s Fed Hall Drag Ball took place on Saturday October 23, with a large crowd in attendance, ready to have some fun and celebrate drag culture at UW. At the Drag Ball, there were both queens and kings to entertain the crowd. What exactly is the difference? A drag king is a woman who takes on the appearance of a man. They exaggerate the male persona by presenting themselves as a masculine, macho character. On the other hand, a drag queen is often a man who implements a female persona and appearance. A drag queen’s aim is to take on the character of a woman with an exaggerated use of lipstick, makeup, hair and eye lashes. With that said, there is also a faux queen, who is typically a woman performing conventional female drag in the same spirit as the men. Drag is a form of self-expression, and people do it for many different reasons but usually it is for fun. With all the drama and glamour, drag culture has come a very long way. The term drag queen originated in Polari, which is a subset of English slang that was popular in select gay communities at the beginning of the 20th century. “Drag,” which origi-

nated from Shakespeare’s time (when only men performed in live theatres), means clothes. “Queen” refers to the contrived royal persona found in many drag characters. However, as exciting as it may be now, drag culture was not always about the glitz and glamour. Drag culture gained momentum in the late 1969 Stonewall Riots, where gay men fought against government operated systems that were put in place to suppress the sexual minority. These fierce demonstrations took place in the small community of Greenwich, in New York City. At the time, a person could not publicly express that they were gay, and the only places that would accept them were bars with open minded, heterosexual owners. The Stonewall Inn, at the time, was owned by the mafia. It catered to an assortment of patrons, but it was known to be popular with the poorest and most marginalized people in the gay community: drag queens — representatives of a newly self-aware transgender community, effeminate young men, hustlers, and homeless youth. The bravery and courage in the unrest of the stonewall riots are portrayed in movies such as Paris is Burning. The documentary is a well thought-out analysis of race, gender, and class in America. This documentary marks the “Golden Age” of New York City drag balls, and with its rise, the emergence of Rupaul, one of the most famous names in drag culture. Born Rupaul Andrew Charles, he became an American sensation who did everything from performing and modelling to writing books and songs. Another famous name is Billy Ninja who invented the Vogue, a famous dance technique made famous by Madonna. Ninja went on to star

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in Madonna’s music video, “Vogue,” jump-starting a career in mainstream performance. The vogue went down in history for being a defining trend that reshaped the fashion and celebrity world — so much so that the magazine Vogue was invented. Drag culture wasn’t always a performance of gender. During the 1960s in Paris, New York, people also dressed up to perform class, culture, and race. Since then, gender performances have been over empathised by society. Regardless, it is because of famous drag performers like Rupaul and Ninja that the movement continues to grow. “Thank God people don’t consider us freaks of the night anymore,” says Mado, a drag impersonator from Montreal who has experienced the change in drag culture first hand. “Since I opened my cabaret eight years ago, I started with a mixed crowd of about 50 per cent gay, 50 per cent straight. Now it’s about 80 per cent straight, 20 per cent gay.” I can include my friends and I in the straight crowd as we had a blast at the Fed Hall Drag Ball last Saturday. Today, drag culture is a celebrated part of the contemporary gay lifestyle, with shows consisting of a variety of entertaining performances. Many drags engage in lip syncing shows, drag pageants, and gay pride parades, and whether you are gay or straight who wouldn’t have a little fun. Let’s just say that whenever you think of drag king and queens you should think of living it big, and living in excitement. It’s a moment to self explore, come out of your shell, and be free, so watch out for next year’s UW drag show.

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Berlin, Germany Paul, the famous “psychic” World Cup octopus died of natural causes in his aquarium in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 26. The “oracle octopus” was famous for correctly predicting the outcomes of all eight World Cup games he was asked to predict. To make the predictions, two boxes were placed in his tank, each containing a mussel and the flags of the two opposing teams. Paul would choose and eat the contents of the predicted winning team’s box. However, he also fell out of favour with fans of the teams he did not tip. They threatened to turn him into sushi and sang antioctopus songs at screenings of the games. Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luiz Rodrigues Zapatero, called for octopus bodyguards. Paul’s fans

may be reassured by the aquarium’s presentation of a successor, also to be named Paul, like his mentor.

London, Canada Captain Condom and Wonder Vag is back. The Middlesex-London Health Unit in southwestern is looking to launch a sequel to their controversial online game: Adventure in Sex City. The aim of the game is to raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections. The original Adventure in Sex City was popular. It allowed players to choose from four character, each belonging to a group called the Sex Squad. These characters includes Captain Condom, Wonder Vag, and two other members: Power Pap and Willy the Kid. The heroes battle against the evil Sperminator, who wants to infect everyone in Sex City with sexually transmitted infections. To find out more visit: getitonlondon.com. — With files from Yahoo! News and the Toronto Sun

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Halloween Tales

When it calls your name

Ethan Oblak

The Windego can mimic voices, and call to their prey to lure them from well travelled paths or the safety of their homes. It is suggested that a person walking the woods should put up their hood, put on headphones, and just keep walking. If you stop, you die. in this picture: uw student amanda freiburger Caitlin McIntyre staff reporter

can’t tell you how much I hate to start this story with “a friend of a friend of mine,” but for the purpose it’s the best way for me to begin. For the sake of this tale, I’m going to call this once-removed friend Jason, if only to preserve his social aversion to association with the supernatural. Though this may seem unbelievable, I assure you that this story is true. That it still troubles Jason to this day. Jason comes from a long line of psychics and clairvoyants, dating back farther than his grandparents can remember. He inherited from his great aunt the ability to read auras and tarot, as well as a keen perception for the things that lurk just beyond the corner of your eye. The gift of sight was, however, not the only thing passed on to him from within his family line. From what I’ve been told, the first time anyone actually saw it was when his great aunt was still a young woman. They’d all heard it and caught glimpses dating back generations, but no one had felt the true weight of the thing’s terror. Jason’s aunt lived with her family in a home on the edge of a large expanse of wood. They weren’t far from town, just on the outskirts where the houses are thin and bushes creep across unfenced

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backyards. Having grown up there, they knew the woods well — despite the quiet stories of the monster that had come to rest in their blood line. They weren’t afraid because, at the time, it was just that: a story. One night, Jason’s great aunt was alone in the kitchen when she heard a sound, it was the kind of cry that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end, and coils tightly around your chest, and rests cold and heavy in your belly. A child’s voice was calling from her backyard. Normally she would have been too nervous to go out back in the night all alone, but no one else was home. The longer she waited the more desperate the cry became until finally, she just couldn’t ignore it. She rushed to the back door, shoved the creaky screen open, and moved out onto the porch. The cry didn’t stop. Even as she scanned the yard the crying continued, only now it was accompanied by a faint rustling sound, like something moving in the bushes. A chill worked up her spine, weighing on her shoulders even as she forced herself to step toward the edge of the wooden porch. She called out to the looming woods, trying to reach the child that was begging for help just beyond her line of sight. See Windego, page 19

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Halloween Tales

The pregnant ghost Dinh Nguyen features editor

ater seeping down to the apartment below alarmed the neighbours, while a struggling woman, using her nails, inflicted wounds on her attacker. The drowning was unsuccessful, but this was not enough to avert her fate, as the attacker turned to kitchen knives. By the time the police arrived it was too late; stabs wounds to the stomach had claimed the lives of a mother and her eight-month-old, unborn child. In the fall of 1992 at 356 Hoffman St., apartment 206, Kitchener, an intoxicated Asian man came home to his pregnant wife and initiating an argument that would haunt an entire Vietnamese community. Partway through their screaming the man broke out into violence, beat his wife, dragged her by the hair into the washroom, and attempted to drown her in the bathtub. The deceased was a close friend of my family. My stepmother, my babysitter (who is also deceased), and the woman had formed an impenetrable sisterhood. I was six at the time and the dead woman would dominate my nightmares. Every empty apartment hallway I would see was daunting, and the area underneath my bed was a pit of hell for the whole of my adolescence. Months before the pregnant lady was murdered, she had reported to our Vietnamese community that the spirit of my babysitter was visiting her. Her husband attested to this, telling tales of how he would wake up at night to a bonechilling room, with his wife talking to herself like she would to another person. My babysitter also had an abusive alcoholic husband, and many speculated that she was driven to committing suicide by depression. The ghostly events continued harmlessly for months. One night, though, the babysitter appeared to the pregnant lady and asked her to “come down and join me.” In our culture, where the veil between the living and dead is very thin, this means that the spirit wants the person to die and cross over (‘come down’) to the spirit world to “join her.” A couple days later, the murderous event occurred. After her death, the pregnant lady’s husband was arrested, and all their belongings were auctioned off. Within two weeks of the auction, all the items were sent to my stepmother by the winning bidders. People called from all over town begging my mother to accept items belonging to the woman. They claimed that the pregnant lady was appearing to them in dreams and in spirit, threatening them with curses, and telling them that only my step-mother, her best friend, could have her belongings. This was also when my father started waking up to my stepmother talking to herself. My step-mother, who was pregnant at the time, was experiencing the same things her friend had before her death, except now she was visited by both the pregnant lady and my babysitter. The Vietnamese community was very wary of this and hired monks to do rituals to shield their homes from the dead. My family, however, had a strong sense of loyalty and regarded the spirits as friends, we did not take part in these rituals. This decision, however, resulted in malicious consequences. One night, coming home from grocery shopping and hearing agonized cries coming from my step-mother in their bedroom,

my father barged in to find my step-mother on the floor begging for her life and for the life of her unborn child. History was repeating itself. my mother was being asked to “come down” and join the pregnant lady. My father, furious, ran out to her grave and screamed at her. Over the next two weeks, everything (except for the phone) that we’d inherited from the woman’s family broke. We began receiving eerie phone calls every night around midnight (when the gates to the spirit world opened) and 3 a.m. (when spirits are the strongest). Sometimes there was no one there, but sometimes there was a lady or a baby crying. My parents often came home to unlocked doors and open cupboards and windows. I was not aware of these events at the time because I was experiencing the haunting on a personal level. I began to sleep walk at night, leaving my bed to lock all doors and turn on all the lights in the apartment. I began to see glimpses of the pregnant lady everywhere. Sometimes, while in bed, I would see purple, black-blue floating images (the ones you see when you’re dizzy or when you close your eyes really hard) of frightening things, like decapitated heads. One night, I saw skeletons taking off their heads, and for some reason, I ran into my father’s room and begged him to beat me up. For some reason, I thought that unless he beat me up and made me cry, I couldn’t sleep. The events began to escalate to the point where my father, the macho traditional strict Asian man of the family, became scared. Apparently many people who chose not to do the shielding ritual were having simliar experiences. The Vietnamese community once again gathered to solve the issue. They decided to buy the pregnant woman a spot in a Buddhist temple, where her spirit and body would be forced to reside, listening to Buddhist chants and prayers night and day — a practice that they believed would calm the spirit and keep her away from the mortal realm. After the ritual, our house felt a lot warmer. I no longer sleepwalked, and was able to sleep peacefully. Though the fear of her ghost stayed with me for much of my elementary school years (I remember running and jumping into bed to avoid the area underneath where I thought she dwelled, and drawing pictures of her when teachers made me draw pictures of what I’m afraid of), I eventually moved on, believing that it was all some silly childhood fear. But little did I know that the event would be something that would change my views of the paranormal. Two and a half years ago, I began university. Like most people here, my education began to make me believe that there is a rational and scientific reason behind everything, leading me to dismiss all my supernatural beliefs. Six months into school my family held a reunion inviting many Vietnamese people who used to live in the area, but had moved away — people who were around for the haunting. At the reunion, many people spoke about the events which occurred after the pregnant lady’s death. Many of them experienced the same sort of haunting my family did. What really grabbed me was that many of their children had experienced the same thing I did. Hearing all of this, goose bumps prickled my neck and arms, ascending from underneath my skin, they were rising like memories from beyond the graves. That night I ran and jumped into my bed. I couldn’t sleep. I used to firmly believe the supernatural didn’t exist. That night, I became less certain. dnguyen@imprint.uwaterloo.ca graphic, courtesy Joyce Hsu and Dinh Nguyen

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ur global community implies a collective without significant divides so it seems counter-intuitive that, when we’re trying to build a united community, we continue to use divisive terms like “Third World” and “developing” to classify, categorize, and rank the nations in our community. Today, the terms “First World” and “Third World” are used colloquially to refer to the richest and poorest countries and to evoke a general stereotype that describes these countries. These terms originated during the Cold War as a way of classifying countries based on their political association with communist (“Second World”), non-communist (“First World”), or neutral blocs (“Third World”). The terms have since evolved into an unofficial classification system based on social, political, and economic characteristics. The UN’s official classification divides countries into developing (or emerging) countries and developed countries. While this definition is, according to the International Monetary Fund

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(IMF), somewhat flexible, it is based solely on economic characteristics such as per capita income and export diversification. In the last three months, I’ve travelled to countries on opposite ends of the classification hierarchy: Sumatra, an island in Indonesia (classified as a developing nation), and Hong Kong, classified as a developed nation and a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China. My experience in these countries has helped me see how invalid these arbitrary classification systems are, how they facilitate the spread of inaccurate stereotypes, and how they promote impressions of inferiority. Indonesia is classified as a developing nation with a population of over 230 million, one official language (Indonesian), and over 300 ethnic groups. Because of its classification as a developing nation, many perceive Indonesia as poor, dirty, and unsafe. The reality is quite the opposite. Indonesians are quite possibly the happiest, friendliest people I’ve ever met. The villages I visited or travelled

Windego: Once a man, now a flesh eater Continued from page 17

Then, the rustling went silent and the cries tapered off, the entire wood falling still to the sound of her voice. The silence was enough to cause her to step back, her hand reaching blindly behind her for the screen door handle. She didn’t make it that far. Suddenly the child’s voice came back. It was still broken, and still afraid, only now it was calling to her by name. It caused her to pause; her instincts begged her to run, but a sort of motherly inclination told her to stay. Her hesitation lasted just long enough to witness the bushes not 10 feet in front of her fall apart to the figure that crawled out from between them. Long, gnarled fingers dug into the ground like claws, jerking limbs curling as this monstrous thing dragged its way through the underbrush on its belly. It was tall and gangly, its movements stuttering as it crawled out and into the light of the porch. As hollow eyes rolled up and down to lock on to her frame, she was terrified, she couldn’t move. The thing’s head jerked to the side at an inhuman angle, long incisors dropping open with a click of its jaw. Then as if from the belly of the thing itself, a child’s cry shocked the cold night: “H-help me.” Jason’s great aunt just barely managed to tear herself away from the beast and into the safety of her home. Though she bolted herself inside, she could still hear it calling to her, softly now, begging her to come out. It was the same beast that had haunted her family for generations, and would for generations to come. Even Jason would hear it in his youth, pressing his pillows firmly over his head as it called to him in the night, “Ja...son. Ja...ason.” The curse that brought this unwelcome shadow into Jason’s family’s line is one which he has tried desperately to break, with little success. Despite mediums and psychics, he still

sees those curled clawed fingers around jarred doors, and sees the shadowed shape of the beast as he walks alone. With some effort, his family has put a name and a myth to this creature. They call it the Windego. A tall cannibalistic beast, once a man but long since turned by the evils of consuming human flesh. The Windego legend stems from Native mythology and holds a strong foundation in the province of Ontario. These creatures can mimic voices, and call to their prey to lure them from well travelled paths or the safety of their homes. They are known to be abnormally strong, large, and demonic in appearance. Devious and intelligent by nature, they also have solid reputations as both tricksters and hunters. They have been blamed for countless missing hunters throughout history, and sightings continue throughout Canada and the northern states to this day. There have even been accounts of hikers in wooded areas or national parks have heard eerie calls from within the trees, beckoning them away. Some of these calls have seemingly come from deceased loved ones or relatives. For the average person, the best thing you can do to avoid a Windego is to simply not listen. Block out the calls, or ignore them completely. It is suggested that a person walking the woods should put up their hood, put on headphones, and just keep walking. The likelihood is that the creature will lose interest in you, and you’ll never see or hear from it again. In Jason’s case however, this simply isn’t possible. It’s not unheard of to be cursed with a spirit or a creature, but it is notoriously hard to get rid of them. Until the source of his family’s curse is discovered, there’s nothing he can do but suffer through the creeping calls that come to him in the middle of the night. cmcIntyre@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

through were clean, orderly, and well-maintained. And though most citizens didn’t accumulate the luxuries we often enjoy in our economic bracket, they definitely didn’t belong to the stereotypical image of the miserable poor. Hong Kong is classified as a developed nation with a population of over seven million, a GDP of almost $300 billion USD. two official languages (English and Cantonese), and a prominent role in the international economy. Despite the initial differences between Hong Kong and Indonesia, spending time in both countries showed me how small the differences really were. In both countries, I found people living as people. Economic differences didn’t create the vast divide that I expected them to and none of the stereotypes held up under the light of reality. The stereotypes we harbour are shaped by many factors in our lives, from friends and family to what we learn through the media to our personal experiences, but the stereotypes shaped by the existing classification system of countries are inaccurate, harmful, and counter-productive to the global community we’re trying to build. I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: classification systems in and of themselves are not harmful. It is our response to operating within a classification system — particularly the biases, stereotypes, and perception of a hierarchy that develop between individuals or groups from different levels of the system — that is problematic in the effort to create a true global community. The UN, in its definition of developing countries, claims that there is no judgment attached to these labels. However, the very nature of the classification system and the terms chosen — “first” versus “third” and “developed” versus “developing” — implies a hierarchy in which some countries are inferior to others.

This classification system supports several biases. The first is that the Western system of living, characteristic of most countries classified as “developed,” is inherently better than any other system. Countries that do not model themselves on this system often retain their classification as developing. China, for example, is still classified as a developing country despite the fact that its economy is the fastest growing the world and its GDP is surpassed only by the United States and Japan. Cuba is similarly classified as a developing country despite having a lower infant mortality rate than “developed” countries like the United States because it chooses not to follow a Western economic model. The second and potentially more harmful bias is that the countries classified as “Third World” or “developing” are inferior in some way to “First World” or “developed” countries. The proliferation of this perception of inferiority and unofficial hierarchy makes it almost impossible for any nation classified as “developing” to stand on even footing with nations classified as “developed.” Nations classified as “developing” are often viewed as young, uncooperative, unruly children that have to be firmly guided onto the correct path. This perception drives a wedge deep between nations on opposite sides of the developing/developed divide and makes the formation of a global community all but impossible. My suggestion: do away with the labels and the classification system altogether. Any potential value they have is negated by the stereotypes they facilitate and the divisions they promote. Keeping a classification system that creates a hierarchy between nations is counter-productive to creating a united global community.

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Friday, November 5, 2010 “Warm Hearts, Warm Hands” winter clothing drive for families in need. The drive will be held at 102 King Street, W., Kitchener from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Drop off items can be delivered to Laurier’s Faculty of Social Work, 120 Duke Street, W., Kitchener between November 1 and 5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, November 13, 2010 Christmas Craft and Bake Sale: Vendors offering unique items. Christian books, jewelry, scrap booking, etc. Lunch available. Free admission 8 am to 2 pm, Messiah Lutheran Church, Waterloo. For more info, call 519-8843849. Towards A Peaceful Economy: Looking at the global financial crisis and working on local alternatives. Keynote speaker Paul Hellyer. 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, Kitchener City Hall. RSVP by November 6: administrators@nonviolencefestival.com. For more info, visit www.nonviolencefestival.com.

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November 2010: UpTown Waterloo BIA Annual General Meeting November 4-6: UpTown Waterloo Treasure Hunt Saturday, November 20: Santa Claus Parade November 2010: Holiday Open House December 2010: FREE Horse Drawn Trolley Rides December 2010: Victorian Carolers 2011 February 19: UpTown Waterloo Ice Dogs Festival March 10-12: UpTown Comedy Festival May: UpTown Waterloo Jazz Fundraiser June 18: UpTown Country July 15-17: UpTown Waterloo Jazz Festival August 25-28: Waterloo Busker Carnival September 11: UpTown ?Dining October 9: 29th Annual Pancake Breakfast October 9: 32nd Annual Great Oktoberfest Barrel Race October 11: Thanksgiving Day Parade For more information about the above events call 519-885-1921 or email uptownwaterloobia@waterloo.ca or www. uptownwaterloobia.com.

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Volunteer with a child at their school and help improve their self-esteem and confidence. Call Canadian Mental Health at 519-744-7645, ext. 229. City of Waterloo has volunteer opportunities. For info call 519-8886478 or www.waterloo.ca/volunteer. The Distress Centre needs volunteers to provide confidential, supportive listening on our crisis and distress lines. Complete training provided. Call 519-744-7645, ext. 300. Volunteer Action Centre, 519-7428610 / volunteer@volunteerkw.ca, for all your volunteering needs! Volunteers needed – The English Tutor program is in constant need of volunteers to tutor international students. Volunteering is an essential part of student life at UW. Apply online at www.iso.uwaterloo.ca.

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Wednesday, November 24: Feng Shui Discussion Group, MC 5136, 12 noon – all welcome. Sunday, November 28: “Peter Pan Pantomime” at St. Jacobs Country Playhouse. UWRC Book Club, Wednesdays at 12 noon in LIB 407 - all welcome! November 17: “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee ; December 21: “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Shaffer and Barrows. Movie ticket discounts available from Empire Theatre, Galaxy, Princess. For more info for all the above email schatten@uwaterloo.ca or uwrc@uwaterloo. ca.

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Warrior’s field hockey team to face Dalhousie in quarterfinal

Saturday

Waterloo 2 Western 0

Saturday

Sunday

Toronto 7 Waterloo 2

Waterloo 6 Carleton 2

Warriors drop two on weekend to fall to 3–3

Namish Modi & living editor

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aterloo’s field hockey team won two of three over the weekend to seal their spot as third in the OUA. The Warriors first faced the Western Mustangs on Saturday at St David’s Field in Waterloo. The Warriors had already clinched a playoff spot going into this game but needed a victory to have a shot at finishing third place. “There were three goals that were set at the beginning of the season. One was placing as high as we could in the regular OUA Standings,” said coach Steven Rodrigues. “So, even though we had secured a playoff position, the team knew that third place was still a possibility and in achieving this goal, they would do one better than last season.” Waterloo defeated Western 2–0. Waterloo’s assistant captain Kara Moro notched the opening tally five minutes into the second half, and that’s all they would need. Natalie Chemij added an insurance tally later in the second half to secure the victory. Warrior goaltender Clayfield Jewett was awarded the shutout. “Hard work, determination, team work, and a positive attitude,” Moro described as keys to victory against Western. Waterloo hosted Toronto in the second game of the day. The Varsity Blues beat the Warriors 7–2. The Warriors dressed six new players in this game. “We played our second game against Toronto very strategically. In order to secure a birth into Nationals we will need to beat Toronto, so we wanted to play a different team than we would when we meet them this Saturday,” said Warrior captain Jessica Lawson. “Many key players were resting that game so to show Toronto a different side of us.” “While most of the Waterloo team worked hard, the Toronto players just seemed to want it more,” said Rodrigues. “I would say that instead of a lack in motivation from Waterloo, the result was actually due to more urgency and greater determination from Toronto” Emily Thomson and Meghan Bester were the goal scorers for Waterloo. Waterloo hosted Carleton on Sunday in the final game of the weekend. A win in this game would seal the Warriors position in third place. Waterloo beat Carleton 6–2 to seal third spot. “We had played Carleton the weekend before and found them to be quite resilient defensively and able to counter-attack well,” said Rodrigues. “So, we focused on keeping the ball in their end and trying to generate as many penalty corners 1 with 10/26/10 asbanner_ad_v6.qxd:Layout possible because we knew that our of-

The Warriors will now face Dalhousie in the OUA quarterfinals on Friday October 29th. It will take place at Downsview Park at York University. “Not knowing a lot about Dalhousie, our focus will not be on what they have to offer but on what we will need to do if we want to dictate the game,” Rodrigues added. “So, we’re working hard in practice on defensive adjustments, putting pressure on the ball carrier, and attacking in numbers. We will also be refining our set plays in anticipation of getting a handful of penalty corners so that our finishing percentage will be better. “I think the team will need to stick together and make sure to focus on our basics,” said Lawson. “If we’re disciplined with our basics and work on keeping possession we will have no problem defeating Dalhousie and Toronto.”

aterloo dropped a pair of home games this past weekend to even their record at 3-3-0 on the season. On Friday night, they took on the visiting York Lions. The game opened with two power plays for the Warriors, which they were unable to capitalize on. York opened the scoring at the eight minute mark with a point shot that was tipped by the forward in front of the net. They would do the same thing off the ensuing faceoff increasing their lead to 2–0. York took a 3–0 lead before the teams headed to the dressing room for the first intermission. Early in the second period, Waterloo forward Kurt Thorner would block a point shot and take the puck all the way for a breakaway goal despite being hauled down and pushed into the net from behind. The rest of the period belonged to York as they had the bulk of the chances and outshot the Warriors 16–6 in the period. York regained their three goal lead after a bank shot off a Warrior defender bounce past the unsuspecting goaltender, Keaton Hartigan, in the 12th minute. Waterloo finally turned up the pressure in the third period, both offensively and physically. Defenseman Steve Whitely threw a thunderous check in the Warriors’ end to separate the opposing forward from the puck. Warriors’ up-tempo play finally paid off when defenseman Kyle Sonnenburg took a screened slap shot for his second goal of the season. Waterloo pulled within one goal just two minutes later when forward Andy Smith blocked a point shot and raced down the ice on a breakaway. He deked out York goalie David Blair and slid the puck through his five-hole for his first goal of the season. However, that was as close as they would come as York played tight defensive hockey in the latter half of the period and sealed the win with an empty netter. Saturday evening featured the host Warriors taking on the Western Mustangs at CIF. Waterloo would once again start the game with a listless first period leading to their defeat. Once again spotted with an early powerplay, the Warriors would concede the best chance of the man advantage to the opposition. Western forward Jason Furlong stole the puck and made a perfect stretch pass to send forward Kevin Baker in alone on Hartigan. Baker would make no mistake, scoring to put the Mustangs up by a goal.

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Warriors forward Jaimie Wey notched two goals over the weekend and has five on the season. fensive talent, we would eventually score some set play goals.” The goal scorers for the Warriors were Jessica Wartman, Meghan Bester, Jaimie Wey and Kara Moro. Wey and Moro each notched two tallies. “We knew we could win this game decisively, so we went out hoping to end the season on a high note before playoffs and to bounce back after our loss to Toronto,” said Moro. Moro is tied for fourth in the OUA with 11 goals. The players and coaches stressed the importance of finishing third. “Not only did placing 3rd provide us with a match up against Dalhousie but the winner of the game takes on Toronto instead of Guelph,” said Rodrigues. “I’m not saying Dalhousie and Toronto will be easier opponents than York/ Western and Guelph but as history proves 11:39 AM Page 1 otherwise.”

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Sports & Living Wayne Rooney: Money or Ambition? Rooney’s initial statement where he outlined his reasons to leave the club. Manchester United are a o say that Oct. 19, 2010 club that are driven on ambition. In the past four seasons, they shocked the football world would be an understate- have won three Premier League ment. In fact, it was a mixture of titles, reached the Champions emotions that gripped millions League final on two occasions, of football fans, coaches, and and have also won the FIFA Club journalists around the world. Oct. World Cup. If winning eight major 19, 2010 will be remembered as trophies in four years shows lack the day Sir Alex Ferguson an- of ambition, then there is no club nounced that Manchester United’s in the world that can top that. How talisman, Wayne Rooney, wanted Rooney deduced lack of ambition, one can only speculate. to leave the club. Contracts such as those similar Rooney claimed that Manchester United lacked ambition. He felt that to Wayne Rooney’s take weeks to they could no longer compete with discuss, analyze and eventually sign. the top clubs in the world when at- The fact that Rooney signed his tracting the best players. There was within 24 hours shows a very telling a feeling from Rooney’s statement story. Rooney knows he is important that he was no longer confident in enough for the club to do everything in their power to keep him, giving United’s ability to win trophies. Thursday was spent in emer- him whatever sums of money he gency meetings between the man- would demand. But, could it all ager, David Gill, the Glazers and have been money? Rooney is no Rooney’s representatives. There stranger to death threats. Rooney knew that moving to was nothing concrete that came out of these meetings until Oct. rival Manchester City would not sit 21, when it was announced that well with United fans. He probably Rooney had signed a new five-year knew that these death threats could be put into action, as was evidenced contract. So, what changed Rooney’s by the fans protesting outside his mind? There are a number of theo- mansion on Thursday night. Movries about what actually happened. ing to Man. City would mean facing But let’s get something straight. the wrath of approximately six per First of all, there were flaws in cent of the world population.

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Upon signing his new deal, Rooney claimed that everyone associated with the club had assured him that United was the best club for him. Did they not try and assure him of this back in August when contract talks had broken down? If Rooney did not get the squad assurances he wanted back in August, how concrete are the assurances that he was given now? Another theory being talked about is that the whole saga was part of a bigger plan to force the Glazers to spend money on buying new players. There is talk that both Ferguson and Rooney were in on the plan and Rooney was used as bait. However, judging from Ferguson’s emotional and open press conference on Tuesday, I am not buying into this. I don’t believe Ferguson was misleading anyone, because otherwise, it was an Emmy winning performance. We will never know what went on behind the scenes, nor will we know what Wayne Rooney was actually thinking when he decided to take this giant step. But we do know that the relationship between Rooney and the United fans will never be the same. Rooney has no option but to give 110 per cent on the pitch and win back the trust of the Old Trafford faithful.

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Men’s Volleyball opens season with weekend split Friday

Saturday

Namish Modi sports & living editor

Waterloo would travel to York to face the Lions on Saturday night looking for their first win of the season. The Warriors would complete this task beating the Lions 3–1. “We used a very different line up on Saturday but not because of Fridays performance. We have a number of positions where multiple players are battling for the starting spot. We gave each player one match on the weekend to see what they could do under real match pressure,” said Lawson. Waterloo took the first set 25–22, and dropped the second set 25–21. They would prevail in the next two sets by scores of 25–21 and 25–15 to take the match and notch their first win of the season. “It was extremely important to win on Saturday. The OUA is going to be extremely close and every single win is important. Last year fourth through seventh place finished with the same win loss record, “ said Lawson. York’s Humana Paredes and Kazhamiaka were named players of the game. Waterloo will next travel to Guelph and McMaster over the weekend looking to improve on their 1–1 record. Lawson mentioned that the key to victory over the weekend would be focus. It is midterm time for most of the players and the team would need to remain focused during this stressful time.

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he volleyball season got underway with a smash on the road. The Warrior’s men’s volleyball opened their season over the weekend with a win and a loss. The Ryerson Rams hosted Waterloo in both team’s season openers Friday night. The Rams beat the Warriors 3–1. “I think the primary reason for playing less than their best was first game nerves. A number of the guys were over activated and that led to mistakes,” said Warriors coach Chris Lawson. “This is a very young team and almost everyone was making their first league game start,” Ryerson took the first set by a score of 25–20. The Warriors would tie up the match with a 25–20 set victory of their own. Ryerson would take the third set by a score of 25–22, and seal the victory in the fourth set with a 25–17 win. “We were not rusty but we were not ready to go either. We were definitely over excited and anxious.,” Lawson said. “As we gain court time experience we will settle into a more consistent and higher level of play,” Ryerson’s Luka Milosevic, Chris McLaughlin and Roman Kabanov were the driving forces for victory. Milosevic had 14 kills, while McLaughlin had 10 and Kabanov had 7. Rookie Fiodar Kazkamiaka led the Warriors with 14 kills.

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Imprint, Friday, October 29, 2010

A new era in the Jays’ nest T

he Toronto Blue Jays made John Farrell their new head coach, and 12th in team history, in a move that is definitely a positive one for the club. Farrell is obviously very smart and seems well suited for the position. The fact that Farrell is the former pitching coach of the Boston Red Sox is another point that surely was a large contributor in his hiring. With the Jays amassing a ton of talented young arms, it only makes sense to hire a manager who can develop them. You have to wonder if third base coach Brian Butterfield was given serious consideration for this job or if it was simply a courtesy. Nothing against Butterfield, but the way the organization is moving it would not make sense to promote from within. And given the history of in-house promotions around the majors — Toronto in particular — it seems to work out better with an outside hire. The fact that Butterfield and pitching coach Bruce Walton are returning is a good sign that Farrell will be a good fit. But that’s all it is, a sign. The success of the Blue Jays next season will depend on Farrell’s ability to manage his coaches and implement his own ideas without stepping on

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anybody’s toes. Easier said than done considering how respected the Blue Jay coaching staff is by the players. The absolute worst thing that can happen is the Jays play through the 2011 season while there are issues within the coaching staff. If there are incompatibilities amongst the staff they need to be resolved before spring training is over; or there should be a house cleaning so John Farrell can put together his own staff. However, Farrell doesn’t seem like the type of manager who will have a lot of problems with his coaches. But only time will tell... A lot of credit has to go to Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos for the way he has handled this entire process. From the outside, it seemingly went smooth and he even managed to keep Brian Butterfield even though he made it clear that he wanted to manage somewhere in 2011. Clearly, when Anthopoulos interviewed for the job he knew he direction he wanted the team to go and had a good idea of who he wanted as his manager after Cito Gaston retired. Another indication that Anthopoulos knows what he needs to do, and more importantly, he knows how to get it done...

First down...

The year is 2010, and yet with all of the modern techno-junk out there and high-definition everything, official scorers in baseball still won’t give an error when a routine double play is not made but only a single out is recorded. Spoiler alert: these are professional athletes and they should be making those plays 100 per cent of the time. Case in point: Chase Utley boots a ball that should be an inning ending double play and winds up only recording the out at second. It should have been inning over, instead the runner scores from third and Roy Halladay is charged with an earned run. Let’s be serious for a minute: the definition of an error is not making a play that a normal player should routinely make. Well, a double play doesn’t get more routine than a grounder hit directly at the second baseman at a moderate pace... Seventh inning stretch...

While we’re on the subject of statistics, let’s all get serious again. Can we stop with all of the meaningless post-season records? Every other

inning during a New York Yankees game we have to endure a graphic telling us that Derek Jeter has the most playoff doubles, or Mariano Rivera has the most playoff saves... Well of course they do. For those of you not adept at sports history — you should be — we’ll break it down. Up until 1969, there was only the World Series. The top team from the American League played the top team from the National League in a best of seven series. From 1969 to 1993 there was the League Championship Series where the top two teams in each league (East division and West division champs) played a series for a chance to go to the World Series. Finally in 1995 — 1994 was a strike shortened year — they added the Division Series and thus created the current system of three rounds of playoffs. Now, seeing as how the Yankees have made the playoffs all but one year from 1995–2010, it follows that players playing their entire career during that time for the Yankees are going to accumulate a lot of playoff stats. Not trying to take anything away from their accomplishments, but when you put it in context, saying that Andy Pettitte is the career post-season wins leader is nothing more than trivia...

off of Jay Cutler, who seemed to just want to complete a pass to somebody. If you’re a Washington Redskins fan (why?) you have to be a little concerned that you forced six turnovers but only managed to put up 17 points. The Chicago Bears’ defense is good but it’s not that good... Speaking of four interceptions by one player in a game, was anyone else surprised to learn that it’s happened 18 other times in the history of the NFL. Doesn’t that seem excessive? Memo to NFL quarterbacks: after that third pick, why don’t you try throwing to the other side of the field? If Jon Kitna had been ready to go when Tony Romo went down the Dallas Cowboys may have had a shot at a comeback. Instead, it took Kitna a solid two quarters to find his rhythm and the Cowboys’ playoff hopes went down the drain. Obviously it’s impossible to see an injury coming but this should wake up other teams around the league: give your backup quarterback some reps at practice, in case the worst should happen... Shout out of the Week:

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evastating hits and head shots no longer tolerated in the NFL. The NFL announced last week that as of Week Seven — Sunday, Oct 24, 2010 — that even first time offenders could face suspensions for what the league is calling “devastating hits” and “head shots.” I was getting all kinds comments from football guys saying, “Oh my god, they are killing the league!” Settle down people, settle down. The NFL is being what MLB never was, or never is, proactive! In Week Six, when Philadelphia played Atlanta and Desean Jackson and Dante Robinson collided, and in the New England/ Baltimore game when Brandon Meriweather and Todd Heap collided: it doesn’t take that smart of a fan to know those hits were beyond violent. Players are faster and stronger, we all know that will cause more violent collisions. You get one death in the NFL and you’ll have a domino effect. Advertisers could bail, the media is going to kill you, and government agencies will step in. Let me ask you this: why did baseball players and the commissioner — embarrassing really — end up in front of Congress? “Well Andrew, because they took steroids!” Umm no, that’s not why. Why did baseball players and the commissioner — star players I might add — have to go in front of Congress? Because they never took

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It doesn’t take that smart of a fan to know those hits were beyond violent. Players are faster and stronger, we all know that will cause more violent collisions.

steroids seriously as a major crisis. Congress felt that they weren’t getting a straight answer. Baseball players have been taking drugs forever, but with the steroid crisis, they never took it seriously. With the NFL taking this seriously, if there was a death this weekend, the NFL could say “Whoa whoa, we were proactive, we changed the rules immediately!” Lawsuits disappear, advertisers feel better, and media can’t clobber you. Folks, there is a reason why my current work placement blocks certain websites on all their computers: you can’t get porn here, no matter how hard you try. If someone filed a harassment suit, my employers could say “We did everything within our power to create a safe working environment. We held classes on harassment, we blocked porn on the internet.” That’s why big companies need to be proactive — they are targets anyway. Baseball never took steroids seriously, that’s why they got called in. With the NFL saying “We have to right now, change something in our league,” you’re avoiding lawsuits, you’re avoiding negative publicity, and you’re avoiding Budweiser bailing next week if, god forbid, someone were to die. You don’t have to be a scientist to see that the game is getting violent because as we all know, the players are getting faster and stronger. When you’re a big target like Disney, when you’re a

big target like Fox or ESPN or Nike, your job as CEO of the business you run is to avoid catastrophes. And when you have a potential crisis, you have to be proactive, not reactive. That’s my number one criticism of Bud Selig. He’s done some great things, but it has taken MLB years to implement change — baseball is a battleship and has no turning radius. The NFL, to its credit, has really good turning radius. Despite its behemoth size, it turns quickly and acts quickly. That is why the NFL is king. “Oh we’ve got some new technology, let’s implement it now.” Or they’ll say “There’s a rule we changed and people don’t like it, let’s have a meeting now.” So if there is a death, the NFL is covered. You might say “Well Andrew, what is the line between violent and too violent?” Well, it’s like I always say, the Supreme Court looked at pornography and said “We can’t define it, but we’ll know when we see it.” It is very hard to explain but, our society, the history of the US/Canada has been built exclusively the way I am going to describe it. The smartest people make laws, okay? That’s how our society works the upper crust, the smarter people create the laws, not the mouth breathers. So whenever you have a situation where people ask well, what’s too violent? Well in Hollywood, they have committees to decide between an R rating and an NC17. You find highly proven educated people, you put them on a committee and they decide and they figure out if there is a difference between “Faces of Death” and “Reservoir Dogs”, smart people can tell the difference. Now the difference isn’t huge, it’s not a Grand Canyon, but you certainly don’t let mouth breathers decide it. There is a reason why Roger Goodell is highly educated and experienced and he got the commissioner’s job. It is the job of the smartest people in this country to create the laws and tell

us the difference between too violent and not violent, really violent and too violent, smart people can tell. So the meatball heckler who always sits in the third deck and emails radio shows harping, what do they want to wear dresses now, too? That’s why you don’t work in the Supreme Court or in the NFL, that’s why you’re not on a committee to decide. We have committees all over this country, in law, in litigation, in politics, in health care, in sports — who deserves this and who doesn’t deserve that. What is violent and what is not? So reasonable people in the NFL, and we all love the NFL. I love some violent aspects of the NFL. Watching Desean Jackson and that kid collide in Week 6 of the NFL, I cringed every time I saw it and I love collisions. I think I’ve got pretty good instincts, maybe not great enough to be on a committee, but I watched that hit and I said “Okay, I didn’t need to see his neck do that.” Chris Mortensen, who is a NFL columnist at ESPN, talked about this on the Mike & Mike Show on ESPN radio saying the NFL announced that effective this weekend [Week 7], even first time offenders who deliver these devastating headshots will face possible suspension. You have to dispel the notion that you get one free pass for these egregious and flagrant shots that the league won’t tolerate. You can’t tolerate it, and the NFL said that what they saw Sunday [Week 6] was disturbing. This notion came out after a long day of meetings with Roger Goodell talking with various members of the competition committee and I think more changes are coming effective this weekend. This is a mid-week policy change that shows the urgency and that it’s the right thing to do.

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Waterloo sits fourth in West Division Continued from page 21

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Midfielder Mohammed Aborig notched his fifth of the season and lead the Warriors to a crucial 2–2 tie with Laurier. Ron Kielstra Jr staff reporter

Chester Yang reporter

Women’s Rugby

Waterloo 8, Queens 15 The Women Warriors’ rugby team will play for bronze after a 15–8 loss to the Queen’s Golden Gaels on Saturday October 23 in the semi-finals of the OUA. Sam Eyles scored the only try for Waterloo and Valerie Bigelow had a penalty goal. The game was close, with Waterloo down only 10-8 until a late try by Queen’s put the game away. With the win, Queen’s advances to the OUA finals and secures a spot in the CIS championship starting November 4th. The Warriors will now face the visiting McMaster Marauders in the OUA bronze medal match Saturday, Oct. 30 at noon. Men’s Soccer

Waterloo 2, Wilfrid Laurier 2 A crucial tie with the Laurier Goldenhawks gave the Warriors the one point they needed to clinch the final playoff spot over the Windsor Lancers. Waterloo needed the win much more than the third place Goldenhawks, and they showed it. They got on the board first in the 16th minute from midfielder Mohamed Aborig’s fifth goal of the season. Laurier would equalize in the 42nd minute on a Sandro Stojackovic goal. Warriors would once again take the lead in the 68th minute from midfielder Jesse Bean. However, with only a minute left in the game, a foul was called on Waterloo in the box. Goldenhawk freshman midfielder Donald Chmura made no mistake on the ensuing penalty kick to send the game to a tie. Waterloo travelled to McMaster to take on the Marauders in their OUA quarterfinal match-up on Wednesday, Oct 27. The score is not available at press time. In their only meeting this year, Waterloo was outscored 2–1 at home on Sept 12. Women’s Soccer

Waterloo 0, Wilfrid Laurier 2 Waterloo finished their season with a 2–0 loss to the Laurier Goldenhawks. Laurier got its goals from Brynn Metherall and Krista Cellucci, who each fired four shots on the Waterloo goal. Waterloo goalie Lesia Bandura had to be sharp the whole game as the Warriors were outshot 16–4. Waterloo finished its season with 3 wins, 10 losses, and 1 tie. Women’s Hockey

The Waterloo women’s hockey team remains winless this season after dropping two games on the weekend to fall to 0–6. The Warriors hosted the Brock Badgers on Saturday afternoon at the CIF, with third-year goaltender Elizabeth Baverstock getting the start for Waterloo as the coaches looked to shake up their lineup. The change didn’t seem to spark the Warriors, however, as the Badgers would score only 27 seconds into the game. Led by Kelly Walker, who had a goal and an assist, the Badgers jumped out to a 4–1 lead after two periods, prompting another goalie switch as Waterloo rookie Emma Meanor saw her first action of the season in the third period. Waterloo would rally, as Jessica Tracey scored her second goal of the season, but the Warriors would ultimately come up short, falling 4–2. Owen Sound’s Ona Mezenberg had the other Waterloo goal. The weekend didn’t get any easier on Sunday, as the nationally ranked Guelph Gryphons came to town for an afternoon game. Waterloo had their chances early in the game, but quickly fell behind and trailed 2–0 at the end of the first period. Hastings, Ontario native Emma McMillan would cut the lead to 2–1 midway through the second period, but the Warriors took nine penalties and dug themselves into a hole they couldn’t climb out of, eventually losing by a 5–1 margin. Meanor got the loss in her first start of the season, but the Morell, Ontario, native was the lone bright spot for the Warriors, as she stopped 43 of the 48 shots she faced. The Warriors now travel to London on Saturday, to face the Western Mustangs, before heading to Windsor to face the undefeated Lancers on Sunday. rkielstra@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

The Warriors equalized late in the first when a shot by forward Kyle Schwende took the Western goalie Anthony Grieco out of position, giving Kyle Moir a wide open net to shoot, for his second goal of the season. Western would get the lead back just a minute later when Furlong threw a weak wrist shot on net from a tight angle below the circle that eluded the screened Hartigan. Western would add another in the last second of play to go into the break up 3–1. The Warriors came out swinging in the second period, finishing their checks and peppering Grieco with shots. On a powerplay, Warrior forward Kirt Hill made a pass from behind the net that trickled out front. Defenseman Steve Whitely makes no mistake, stepping into a vicious slap shot that beat Grieco up high. Whitely highlighted the rest of his strong period with some checking, including laying out a Mustang forward with a devastating hit behind the net. “It was something we discussed at the intermission,” acknowledged head coach Brian Bourque with regards to the physical play. Despite out-shooting the Mustangs 18–8 in the period, Waterloo would go into the third period still down a goal. Third period began with the Warriors doing what they were doing so well in the second. They were throwing their body well and playing up-tempo and energetic hockey. Their efforts were rewarded eight minutes in when defenseman Luke Turcotte fired a weak wrist shot on net that was corralled by Moir. Moir deked from his backhand to forehand and slid it past Greico for his second of the game.

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Warriors goaltender Keaton Hartigan made 27 saves in a losing cause against York on Saturday Warriors would give the game away shortly after. Moir would hit a Western forward from behind minutes later which left the forward sitting down on the ice for several minutes. Fortunately, he seemed to be fine after a few minutes. TheWarriorswereforcedtokillafive minute major penalty against a Mustang power play that had been buzzing all game long. Mustang forward Lamb would then tip home the go-ahead goal on a slap shot from the point and that would be the difference in the game. Warriors could not solve Grieco despite their best efforts in the last ten minutes, falling to 3-3-0 on the season. After the game, coach Brian Bourque noted that while he was disappointed with the effort shown in the first period, he credited the Warriors for their play in the other two periods. “Between the injuries and the suspensions, we were down three or four guys and the guys competed with everything they had. Unfortunately at

this level, you need to compete for the full 60 minutes.” With the two losses, the Warriors fell to 3-3-0 on the season and sit at fourth in the West Division. They travel to London to take on the division leading Mustangs in a rematch that is sure to entertain. The key to beating Western will be getting past their goaltending, which ranks third in the league in save percentage and seventh in goals against average. “We’ll watch the video as the coaching staff and we’ll make some adjustments for the next one,” admits Bourque. Following the game, they will travel to Windsor to take on the 3-3-0 Windsor Lancers. Lancers forward Mike Lombardi is the man to watch, with 10 points (7 goals) in only 6 games. Windsor also has a good goaltending duo with their combined .921 save per cent ranking sixth in the league and making key saves when needed. Their 221 total saves is third most in the league as well.

Comics & Distractions

Imprint, Friday, October 29, 2010

SUNSHINE ANIMAL Marta Borowska imprint staff

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Sea Snake Stacy Stacy’s talent in speaking Parseltongue will leave you enchanted in the bedroom. She can only have phone sex because she is a first-year with limited magical travelling knowledge, who lives in a dorm called Slytherin in a castle far away. Give her a call, but remember the law for doing the dirty with the ones underage.

By Steve Cutler and Gina Racine

Daniel Choi, Michael Yang, Louis Hong, Lei Huang 1A Math Chartered Accounting

“Jamaican bobsled team.”

“A playboy bunny.”

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Joey Liu

4A Environment and Resource Studies

1A Science

“A penis.”

“A one night stand.”

Leo Huang

Eric Hein

3A Nanotech

2A Recreation and Business

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Jordano Tonial has no friends: hates Halloween

What is the best/craziest costume you have ever seen?

“Acetic acid.”

ust three drops can easily kill eight people. Possessors of some of the most poisonous venoms in the world, sea snakes do not have the fangs to bite through a scuba divers suit. Thank God; however, fishermen of course do not wear these suits and some have been unfortunate enough to have lost their lives after being bitten by one of these animals. Sea snakes are invertebrates. They live in the shallows of the Indian and Pacific oceans but often come up to the surface of the water to breathe. They do this because instead of having gills like other sea creatures, they are equipped with lungs. One thing that distinguishes sea snakes from land snakes is their tail, which is flat and oar-like, allowing them to swim. Due to their underbelly lacking the proper scales, this snake cannot manoeuvre or survive very well on land for extended periods of time. Even though sea snakes are a threat to fishermen, fishermenv are also threats to the sea snake. They profit from the skin, organs, and meat of the snakes. They lure them in by shining a light into the water, something that attracts the attention of the invertebrate. It is unclear of how often this occurs, but nonetheless important to note. The diet of the sea snake consists of fish, fish eggs, and eels. A study has found that female sea snakes have had a smaller variety of fish/food in their systems than the male, at a ratio of 6 to 16. What this shows is unknown, but may one day provide as an interesting base to the difference between male and female sea snakes.

alloween is a big night for people of any age, as a kid you get together with your friends and get candy, as an teen you lock trick-or-treaters in your garage and attempt to make them urinate themselves, and as an adult you get yourself a funny/whorish costume and you drink alcohol to the point where you can’t remember what you’re dressed up as. In Halloween 2008, I was sitting alone, in residence, no costume, no plans (unless you count sitting by yourself eating Mr. Noodles and watching Season 2 of House as plans). I had to work the next morning at 8 a.m., giving prospective students tours of residence. Now, I’m just spitballing here, but organizing your biggest university residence tour day the day after Halloween, is probably not the best idea, aesthetically for your university. I decided that not having any friends to hang with on my first Halloween at university was probably a bad way to start things, so I texted everyone on my phone that I had only met a few times. I figured that if I was gonna look desperate, I might as well do it in front of people I didn’t care about. I got 1 response out of about 13 people. Success. I now had one lead on plans for the evening. The fact that I had registered the girl who responded on my phone as ‘blondface’ led me to believe that I may have been drunk when I met her. Now going about inviting yourself into people’s plans is a delicate art that I have done many-a-time (I don’t read into this fact very much, mostly out of self-preservation). You have to pretend that you’re

already having the best night ever so that they don’t see you as a leech, but rather as someone who’s super awesome and more fun than you. I told her that I was with a big group of friends at a party that was outa-sight, and then half an hour later I told her I was considering going somewhere else, maybe, but probably not (after all I was with this big, cool group of friends, right?) Yes, in retrospect I do realize how incredibly sad it is that I had to lie about having friends on the most happening night of the year. Fuck it, it wasn’t the first time I’ve lied about having friends, and it certainly won’t be the last (unless I find some way to stop being so intolerable, that is). So she invites me to this party, but remember, at this point, I’m pretty goddamn comfortable. I have House on, and I have the Mr. Noodles that come in their own bowl so you don’t have to wash anything (Eating + Not having to do anything = yes, please). So I flipped about a thousand coins deciding what I should do, and finally decided that in the interest of self-replication I should probably go (having sex with passed out girls; all the appeal of necrophilia–none of the negative social stigma). I didn’t have a costume, so with all the imagination in my brain I decided to go as Dr. Gregory House. I quickly put on a sport jacket, grabbed a cane, some prescription bottles (don’t ask), and drew stubble on my face with a black magic marker (bad decision, you’ll see). And so, I took off in search of booze and companionship. See DRAW page 27

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Imprint, Friday, October 29, 2010 Continued from page 26 Now at this middle part of this night, finally at this chick’s party, my memory only seems to remember the fact that I kept drinking and hitting drunk people with my cane while they weren’t looking. I didn’t even meet the girl I was texting, because I couldn’t remember what she looked like. My memory only kicks into action near the end of the night, when I am sitting next to an unknown girl, on the couch. This girl’s friend was on the couch adjacent to us in semi-coitus, so I figured that next to that, talking to me couldn’t be that uncomfortable. Now this girl was alright, nothing to write home to your mother about (dear mom, I saw a hot girl today and I really wanted to have sex on her, that is all — thank you), and she wasn’t particularly interesting, but my God were her boobs enormous. Honestly it was like they had Manifest Destiny for the rest of her chest. Anyhow, we had a nice, pleasant conversation about how her friend was on the verge of getting fingered on a dirty couch, in front of a room full of people. Apparently, this qualified as ‘good game’ because I was invited back to their room at Laurier afterwards. Now, there is a second large gap in my memory at this point because my brain becomes so addled over the idea that sexytime was about to happen that my memory becomes nothing but a boobyobsessed blur. All I do remember is that as soon as we got back to their place and her friend left, we got down to bidness. Nothing past first base at this point, but bras were off and surely nothing could go wrong. Her friend then loudly barged into the room (visibly much more drunk) and began accusing me of stealing her “140 dollur coat I just bought, I knew you shouldn’t have trusted this guy.”

Now yes, I should, never, ever, under any circumstances, be trusted with anything, ever. But I solemnly swear that I did not steal her coat. I thought she would eventually leave, or at the very least, pass out on the floor, and I could continue playing sexy baseball, but as time went on her anger only increased and she left to go get some guy named ‘Mike’. Now I did not know this ‘Mike’, but I have met, like, five ‘Mikes’ in my life and all of them are capable of beating me up, so I assumed that this would result in me getting beat up and/or crying. But the option of staying was still too convincing, I mean, boobs, am I right? But as I looked back at my Halloween princess, I was both shocked and disgusted in simultaneous amounts. Faint black streaks now covered her face and neck. Not that bad, but enough to be noticed, apparently my black magic marker had mixed with lovesweat and was smearing onto her face, neck and left bosom. This was not a good look for her (or her left bosom). And then the final nail in the coffin erupted, and I heard her friend yell “MIKE!!!” loudly down the hall. I had precious little time, and so in the interest of self-preservation (again), I fled, on foot, back to residence. Arriving home at 4 a.m. my roommate Joe heard my story, and began to drunkenly berate me by yelling “pussy,” as loudly as he could for a solid two and a half minutes until the duty don showed up, at which point he also heard my story and also began to yell “pussy,” as loudly as he could. So the next morning I gave tours to prospective students as a broken man. The school looked terrible, and was covered in empty cans, bottles, vomit and condoms (I know, people having sex at Waterloo–weird.) The lesson here? Don’t draw on your face.

Happy Halloween ACROSS 1. Reply to a qn. 4. ___ la la 7. Octagonal pavilion 13. Ket’s partner (this one’s for Rob Hill) 14. Do no ___ 16. Egocentric network data program 17. Nitz’ friend in “Clone High” 18. Therefore 19. Feline male 20. Reusable shopping bag 22. Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, famously 24. Lacrimal or mandible 25. Excuse 27. A jack or a jenny 28. Assistant 29. Canadian tuxedo material 30. Math degree? 31. Malicious looks 32. 25/12 or 31/12 33. Miniature suffix 35. Sequel to “Angela’s Ashes” 36. Maggie to Bart 37. Freakazoid 39. Junior rank (abbr.) 42. Spitball ammo 43. Chow follower 44. “Sex With ___” 45. Millionaire Titanic casualty John Jacob 48. Some zipped docs. 49. “Lost”-type monster 51. It borders your face 52. To become like suffix 53. Chowed 54. Soccer match interval 55. ___ la la 56. Central shaft 57. Rower 59. Jamaican tangelo 61. WWE program 64. Previously owned 65. Check, essentially 66. “___ Heard That Song Before” 67. Relating to the first garden 68. Possessed 69. 65%, to a Laurier student DOWN 1. Song with same tune as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” 2. Ben-Hur’s org.? 3. It’s tough to eat 6 in a minute 4. Transylvanians’ favorite song

5. “Donkey King Country” company 6. Cry of frustration 7. Arrives 8. Toronto Museum (abbr.) 9. “Tell Her No” band, The ____ 10. Put into ciphertext 11. Aggressive pitch 12. Semi-aquatic mammals 15. The real title of this puzzle 21. Kimono sash 23. First Wednesday of Lent 25. Fruit drinks 26. Maker of 29-across clothing 27. Not for 28. Blink-182 warning 34. Riveting talk website 35. 2 all, for example 38. ___ straits

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