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WATROC - (Waterloo Recycles On campus) - meeting on Monday, May 6. Join the recy’cting movement on campus. CC room 138A.
2. Niagara Escarpment - July 8 to 12 =osf $95. 3. Niagara Escarpment - July 15 to 19 co!a $95. k Long Point Camp Out - Aug. 12 to 16 zct!a $140. For further information, please contact the Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo at 885 12 11, ext. 3066.
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l’he Heritapre Resources Centre at the 3niversity ol Waterloo is offering 4 oneNeck summer programmes for children ag& 8 to 12. A combination of educational snd physical activities focuses on local his:oric and natural themes. The 4 themes this summer are: 1. Exploring the Grand - July 2 to 5 -cost
mcally grown beef hamburgers and iotdogs will be served on buns produced ‘ram organically grown wheat in the Cam3us Centre only at the Wild Duck Cafe. ‘Skin on” french friis from organicalty grown potatoes cooked in low cholesterol shortening will also be available. (from Food Services).
Canadian Authors Assoc - holds meetings :he first Monday of every month at the Kitchener Public Library. Mon., May 6 - Lee Bryant Mon., June 3 - Lorraine Williams Car more info contact tenore Latta 8241225 ; Susan Gibbons 744-0900 ; Dale G. %rsons 742- 1495.
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Ihose who wish to improve their study skills can take advantage of individual zounselling and workshops in the followng topics: a) study skills in the classroom, such as notetaking, effective listening, and class preparation; b) effective study echniques, including time management, textbook reading, and concentration and; 2) effective exam-writing skills (4 sessions). e: Tuesday, May 14 - 1:30 to 3:30 zm, ; Wednesday, tvlay 15 - I:30 to 3:30 3.m. ; Tuesday, May 28 - 6:30 tu 8:30 3.m. Interested students can register at the Seception Desk in Counselling Services, Needles Hall, room 2080 or call ext. 2655.
Studenti who procrastinate and have rouble organizing their studies may be nterested in this two-hour, 4 session Norkshop. Beginrr: Wednesday, May 29 - 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
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C-W Minor Soccer - opportunities availible as coaches and assistant coaches for roung boys and girls. Canada Day - opportunities available in nanagement, program operations;promItIons, etc. Zentre for HabilUion Education and %eeear& - volunteers needed Tuesday, ulay 20, 1991 for A Community for Iveryone Conference. Beneficial for any >ne interested in helping people with l&abilities. llitis and Collitis Foundation - volunteers leeded during the long weekend, in May Friday, May 17 to Monday, ’ May 20 nclusive) at the Play Ball Booth at Bingenan Park. Give as many or as few hours of {our time as you wish. Volunteers needed o work at the pitching booth, record speeds, hand out balls, etc. pin-ted in any of these, or other voluneer opportunities, call ext. 2051 or drop by X 15OA.
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Wednesday, May 15 “Law is a Many Splintered Thing” - 7:00 p.m. - Arthur Black, KPL Writer-inResidence.
7:30 p.m. - moderator: Arthljr Biack, Host of CBC Radio’s Basic Black.
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Tuesday, May 14 “Canadian Studies” - 7:00 p.m. - Iectuier: Dr. Pauline Greenhill, St. Paul’s College. Public lecture.
Monday, May 13 “Ontario Genealogical Society” - 7:30 discusses p.m. - Ken Westhues “Genealogy and Personal Identity. *
“Sex in the Middle Ages” - 7:00 p.m. Arthur Black, KPL Writer-in-Residence.
Wednesday, May 8 “Starting A New 8usiness: A Look at Your Business Plan” - 7: 15 p.m. - special guests: Senior business students from the Wilfrid laurier University Small Business Consulting Service. Reserve your piace in person at the Information Centre or by calling 743-027 1.
Tuesday, May 7: “Canadian Studies” - 7:OO p.m. - lecturer: Dr. Pauline Greenhill, St. Paul’s Cotletge. Public lecture.
Seagram Museum - “The Wine Cellar” opened from May 1 to October 31 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free. For info contact Lynne Paquette at 885- 1857.
b Heritage Crossroads opens for summer season on Sunday, May 5 from IO:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This is a non-profit museum. For info contact Marcia J. Shortreed at 748-1914.
Health & Saf&y Department - Summer Hours - The Health & Safety Dept. wit1be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday as of today’s date and during the months of May, June, July and August,
Museum & Archive of Games - UWY “Traditional Games You can Make and can Play”, Beginning May 14 to August 18, 1991. Hours - Tuesday 10-l and 2-5, Wednesday 2-5 and 6-9. Thursday 2-5, Sunday 2-5. Closed Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays.
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and area Big Sisters required female volunteers to develop one-on-one relatlonships with girls aged 4- 16, and boys aged 4- 11 years. If you are a caring person and can give 3 hours a week to a child, we need you! Training
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orientation Session for Graduating Co-op Students (91/92) who will be on Work Term in the Fali - “Employer On-Campus Interview Program”. 1 l/2 hours on Wednesday, May 15 at Humanities Theatre, 3:30 to 500 p.m. For info contact John Cullent, 2896.
are available. for ‘information, contact Youth Committee. Chairperson at (416) 266-7757.
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was taken tier the game. Imprint Photo Editor Joanne Sandrin admitted that “yes it was, but the sign was periodically shown throughout the game when I also attempted to take pictures of them. They were displaying it after the game as well, which provided the best photo opportunity. . I and besides, if they were foolish enough to show it to the camera, it indicated to me that this wasn’t just a joke to them.” After talking to the two students, Ernie Lucy said that he was “convinced that suspension or expulsion would serve no useful purpose.” Instead, the students have agreed to assist in preparing a pamphlet on date rape and to work with the Federation of Students’ Women’s Issues Board concerning how the University can deal with date rape in the future. When asked how she felt about the University’s response, Director of Women’s Studies Mildred Davies said “while many women undoubtedly feel that a more serious penalty would have been appropriate, the University’s response is nevertheless a constructive one. The offenders’ apology makes it clear that the issue of date rape is to be taken seriously.” “By meeting with the Women’s Issues Board and producing a pamphlet on this subject,” Davies continued, “the offenders will be educating not only themselves but other male students as well. These are all steps in the right direction.”
Nearly three weeks after two University of Waterloo students displayed a sign with the phrase “No! Means Harder” at a hockey game at Varsity Arena, the students have submitted a written apology to Dean of Students Ernie Lucy. Imprint printed a After photograph of the two students in the March 29,199l issue, the photograph and a story about the incident in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record was picked up by the Canadian Press wire service and circulated around the country. Many students on campus signed a petition to be sent to Ernie hey that supported disciplinary action against the students, and the Federation of Students suggested that “these two men need to be educated and they need counselling in order that these oppressive attitudes be eradicated.” In their apology, the students stated that“An error of judgment and lack of foresight on our pad has resulted in a controversy over a particularly sensitive issue which we neglected to take into consideration at the time.” “We regret any negative effects that have resulted for women at the University of Waterloo. It is our hope that public concern regarding this incident will result in continued emphasis on this most important issue for both men and wcmen.” The students also stated that the Thefull apology has been reprinted photograph printed in. the Imprint this week’s Forum pages. A -
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Community clearly showed . the motivating themes for the plans. The first of these is a “green orientation,” the central example of which would be the permanent preservation of a natural reserve along the Laurel Creek corridor. Another important goal is improving the’ University’s relationship with the City of Waterloo with continuous pedestrian and bike routes and closer linkage between city streets and university streets. Other themes included maintaining both an “open-ended framework for sustainable development” and the campus’ strong sense of place. Bray said that BLG consulted “every major group on campus” during its study of the campus, especially those outside of the administration. These groups included the Federation of Students, the Graduate St-uthe Safety dent Association, Committee, Watgreen, UW Security, the Church Colleges, the Faculty Association, and other groups.
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Sunday, April 7 saw the return of the University of Waterloo Cmpus Master Plan to another open house at Federation Hall. Prepared by the consulting fum of Berridge, Lewinburg. and Greenberg with input from the Senate Long-Range Planning Committee, this plan examines everything from the development of the lands north of UW to improving safety on the existing campus. The first steps planned for the next decade include a visitor centre in parking ht H near the front gates on University Avenue. This building would contain a new home for the bookstore, and would clearly mark UW% principal entrance, giving visitors more than just a kiosk to find upon arrival. A new Engineering / Earth Sciences building is needed, and an addition to the Campus Centre, perhaps
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Operation Barbarossa, the largest land battle ever fought and one whose outcome determined world history, will be the subject of a major academic conference in Waterloo from Friday, May 17 to Sunday, May 19 at St. Jerome’s College. Sponsored by the Waterloo-Laurier Centre for Soviet Studies, the conference falls during the 50th anniversary of Hitlq’s push into the Soviet Union during the Second World War. About 35 academics, and military and government scho,lars from six countries will speak on diplomacy, intelligence, and the nationalities as they relate to Operation Barbarossa. D.A. Volkogonov, a close advisor to Russian federation leader Boris Yeltsin, will make a presentation on the first day of the conference. Other speakers include Gerhard Weinberg, who served a$ a consultant on the authenticity of vohtmes presented as Hitler’s diaries in 1983; Erich Haberer, who for the last two yeti has been responsible for the Department of Justice’s investigations of war crimes; and Theo Shulte, a consultant to the Department of Justice regarding war crime trials. The centre, a joint venture of Laurier and UW, was established in 1989 to enhance Canada’s ibility to analyse and interpret development in the Soviet Union.
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Other topics include sessions on understanding racial and ethnic conflict, intervention in conflicts of family and friends, careers in mediation, and town-and-gown relationships that will involve City of Waterloo representatives on a panel discussing the Neighbors Program. The keynote addresses wil1 be given by Professors Michael Wessells and Philip Eulliver. Wessells, from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, will speak about “PsychologicaI Dimensions of Peace and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution: Rethinking the Security Agenda.” Kellogg On a three-year Fellowship, Wessells studied issues of war and peace from an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. He teaches courses in the areas of aggression, leadership and social transformation, and social and ethical issues in computing. He is the president of the recently formed Division of Peace Psychology of the American Psychological Association and chati the executive committee of Psychologists for Social Responsibility. . Gulliver, a professor at York University, will give a talk called “Mediators Come in All Sizes and
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As an audit partner, Garvey deals mainly with multi-national clients, On a tour-6f-duty basis, he was chairman of PW’s National Continuing Education Department and a member of Price Waterhouse World Firm’s Continuing Education Advisory Group. Presently, he is vice-chairman of the firm’s Insurance Specialty Group. Currently, Garvev’s professional and community activities include his role as chairman of the Alumni Sector for Campaign Waterloo to be publicly launched next year; chairman of the board of directors of The Donwood Institute, Toronto; and chairman of
He is also chairman of the board of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Garvey is a Toronto native, raised in Barrie, Ontario. Garvey graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Waterloo in 1949, and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1972. He served two years in the London, England offices of Price Waterhouse and he became a partner in 1982. He was awarded his FCA designation by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 1985.
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Now in its third year, the award commemorates the life and work of Dr. Thomas Lee York, chaplain to both local universities for several years before his death in an automobile accident in january, 1988. York was the author of DesireIess, published posthumously, and other novels Three dozen entries came in this year - a larger number than ever, repor& Dr. Pauliie Greenhii of UW’s Canadian Studies program. Greenhill, Canadian Studies colleague Steve Jones, and others set up the award at St. Paul’s United College (York’s office location while in Waterloo) shortly after his death. “We’re get& welI known,” says Greenhill. “Some entries arrived a month before our publicity went out.” She credits UW writer-inresidence Greg Cook with helping get the word out effectively. Cook was one of the adjudicators this year; the others were Dr. Gerald Noonan of the WLU English department and Dr. Peter Hinchcliffe of the English department of St. Jerome’s College at w. The award is for short stories and undergraduates and graduates at the two universities are eligible, whether they are studying full time or part time. Entries were submitted last fall. First prize winner Anne Fleming finished a Bachelor of Arts degree at UW in 1988 and has been taking a creative writing course with Ren&& College professor Dr. Judith Miller. Fleming’s “fluid style,” said Greg Cook, “brings to life the everyday (world) and engages the reader in her characters witi a refreshing sense of humour.” Now working as a tech& cal editor and graphic designer, Fleming will be enrolling this fall in a fine arts creative writing program at the University of British Columbia.
time students have won the Tom York Memorial Writing Award, an annual short story award-open to students at UW and WiIfrid Laurier University. Anne Fleming received firstprize for a story called “Red letter day,” Larry Sianchuk an honourable mention for “Flying dreams,” and Dona Paul Masse1 an honourable mention for “No school on Saturday.”
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Dona Paul Masse1 will graduate from UW ,this spring and is also B prolific poet with two books of po. etry to her credit. She was also short-listed in a CBC poetry con test. According to the judges, heI entry “evokes trauma as a man’s lift fleets convincingly before his eyes,’ ach-ieving its effect through”preci sion of detail and compassionate study of character.” The three winners received the awards at the St. Paul’ s awards night, held at th College in late March.
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the Doctoral Study Support Program Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Garvey is spearheading the recent drive by university alumni associations to form an effective united lobby on behalf of Ontario universities. He is the founding president of UW’s Accounting Alumni Association and Waterloo’s National Alumni Council where he is still a# member of the executive committee and chairman of its nominating committee. Mitchell is a native of Windsor, Ontario, and received his postsecondary education at the University of Windsor. He joined Johnson & Johnson is 1966 assuming increasingly responsible marketing and sales management positions until being appointed to the board of directors in 1973 as vice-president, Con-
Michael Garvev. a UW alumnus. has been naGed BOG chair ’
Elected vice-chairman is Waterloo resident Paul D. Mitchell, who is president and chief executive officer of McNeil Consumer Products Company, Guelph Former board chairman Jack E. Sinclair, an executive vice-president with Bell Canada, was elected to the board.
Michael F. Garvey, FCA, a University of Waterloo alumnus and audit partner with Price Waterhouse, chartered accountants, Toronto, has been elected chairman of the University of Waterloo’s board of governors, for a two-year term. Previously vicechairman for the past two years, he takes over from J. Trevor Eyton who remains on the board and its executive committee.
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The editor of Imprint, like that of any student newspaper, often takes the blame from readers who disagree with the opinion articles in the forum section of the paper. This happens despite our masthead’s clear statement that all opinions expressed, whether in letters to the editor or in comment pieces written by staff members, are those of the authors, not those of the staff at large and certainly not those of some supposedly amorphous entity called Imprint. Very rarely, you might find an unsigned “editorial”~ on page six, but this happens only when a consensus of the editorial board (the group of people listed at the top of the masthead) can be reached on a sufficiently important topic. With that number of people, just how rarely this you can imagine happens. Since getting blamed for everything in the paper is a fact of life, I thought it appropriate that I start my own regular column in addition to the necessary contributions to the lead forum page (you know, that treasured spot under the Lefcourt cartoon where the editor has to think up 600 pithy and well-reasoned words at three o’clock in the morning,‘since no one else on staff was angry enough about anything that week to write them instead). I figure, this way, if people want to harangue me, at least they’ll have a reason to do so. The word masthead has an interesting etymology, actually. Not surprisingly, the publishing industry borrowed it from naval lingo. Originally it meant the top of the forward mast of aship, the location where a crewmemher would serve as a lookout in the crowsnest and where the ship’s flag would fly. &rtainiy an honour, right? Not always. To muahead a crewmember meant to send them up to this perch as a punishment. I suspect that other student newspaper editors who write a regular column would jokingly suggest that I am mastheading myself by making this commitment. I hope to accomplish a few things by starting this column. First, I want to force myself to do some editorial writing week to week and encourage other staff memb&s to submit their opinions to the forum section; neither of these should be considered cruel nor unusual. More importantly, however, I want this column to be the first step in “beefing up” the forum section - 1have seen in years past and in other student newspapers that the students’ forum can be the engine that drives the vitality of a paper like Imprint, your student paper. To this end, I invite any and all submissions to these pages from readers, whether they are undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, or staff. Format is also wide open: you can submit letters to the editor, opinion pieces on any topic, or full-blown opinion features. Now, this invitation isn’t an unconditional promise that we will print anything that crosses our path. Of course, letters to the editor - or any other article for that matter - can and will be edited for brevity to ensure that everyone’s opinions can be heard in the available space. And we certainly won’t print’anything that is libellous or that we consider discriminatory. Of course, that last point is usually at the centre of any controversy that surrounds the student press. X Remember that I don’t have quite the same authority as a ship’s captain - I can’t make volunteers walk the plank for contributing in their areas of interest. Imprint exists because of, and for, the students of the University of Waterloo. If the volunteer staff down here are not covering issues which are important to you, or music that you listen to, or sports that you play, let us know. But better yet, come down to the office and volunteer to attend that conference, review that album, or take photos at that game. it may be the only chance you will have during your time at UW to actually be heard above the mechanical din of the consensus factory that is postsecondary education.
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The last issuh of Imprint featured an article an Phil&e Rushton of the University of We+ tern Ontario. The feature examined the organizations that support his racist views and his vague scientific methods were discussed, But since Rushton’s theories, are so controversial, the issue can’t stop at a reasonable examination of the facts. There are two dangerous factions which, although at odds, are as dangerous as each other in their convictions to prove Rushton right or wrong and the methods utilized to achieve this. The fhst group is those supporting Rushton. Although we may hasten to simply dismiss them as redneck KKKers, there is a large audience for what Rushton has to say. They are looking to use Rushton’s “scientific theory” as the Iegitimization that they need to support the fractionalization of society based on race. What this will mean in terms of immigration, wage equity and education, one needs onIy to look to the Reform Party. But cheap shots aside, there exists a faction of society that believes that races can be classified, and that this necessarily leads to a society in which the most important element would be a hierarchy ensuring the survival of the purest. As dang&ousIy misinformed as these people seem to be, perhaps even more dangerous is the group of “politically correct” protesters. They stand outside Rushton’s classroom, being noisy and yelling angry slogans against his views which they find racist. However, in doing so, they are acting in direct opposition to the views which they so earnestly champion. When the police come to drag them away, the excited protesters use this as an opportunity to yelI about the silencing of voices and the lack of freedom of speech. Silencing of voices? Excuse me? But that’s exactly the point. I think Rushton’s an idiot, but for me to be so presumptuous as to say that he doesn’t even deserve his say is even too stupid for me, My~~burnirrIrrdia(which actually makes me a littIe bit higher than all you whiti&) so I do have a personal interest in what affirmative action garbage or racial equality news hits the ahves since I have the impression that it affects me much more personally (whether it does or not). One might think that “we” would be the first to support the politically correct, wirerimmed spectacle intellectu& condemning Rushton, but not when the political correctness represents prejudice against prejudice, and intolerance for intoJerance. In order to protest something which is not perceived as politically correct, these protestars will try to silence a voice whiqh they do not agree witi - something which they might protest if it wasn’t them. Sandy AtwaI
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I haven’t had a chance to watch too much television lately, but the other night I wanted to slow down my metabolism, so I sat through two consecutive episodes of Slur Tmk. I never was a trekkie; now that I think about it, I can’t remember ever sitting through a whole hour of that garbage. But that’s not the point. What caught my attention was One of the commercials. I have poor sight to start with and I know I need new glasses. So I moved closer, still in disbelief that it could be true. And here it,-Xhat image of a remote control fding and then bouncing up again off of k thefloor~Whatththell... Turns out that someone is marketing some padded vinyz widget that will p&xt your remote control if you drop it (presumably as you’re dozing off in front of the idiot box). Again,whatthehell... Why are our priorities so screwed up? I’ve watched mv roommates and other DeoDle spend sev&tI m&&s looking fop threir remote control: under the couch, newspapers, in the other room, whatever. Do the old fashioned thing and walk alI of 10 or 15 feet to change the channel. I don’t want to come across like Andy Rooney in print, but this concept of priorities k leading somewhere. As much as I would like to start raI&ng about the stupidity and utter futility of television, I won’t. Instead - believe it or not - I will relate it to the ecological non-state that the earth is in. First assumption: if some cpmpany is spend-
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ing enough money to get a commerciaI on television, odds are they’re sufficiently confident that theyll make a good amount of money from it. First question: why would people buy it? An answer: because people love to buy stuff they don’t need. Also, the remote control is an important component of watching television: it adds to the total mindless reIaxation of the medium. !3econd assumption: to successf~Ily make any attempt at repking the environmental damage we have done, we hue .to change Our conmrner l&styks (thus destroying our current economic %ystem’? into lifestyles thattheearthcansustain. If people cannot refrain from buying such utterly non-essential items that the public has not even created a demand for, how will they be convinced that blue boxes alone will not save the earth, thatblue boxes are a fraction of that “drop in the bucket”? They won’t. Economic growth is an “end justifies the means” priority. Here comes the snowball. Depressing, huh? Realism always is, WeU, the year 2000 is coming, which apparently has some sort of religious meaning. Maybe I11 become a born-again. Aarrgh! What am I saying. . . I’u die from self-inflicted wounds first.
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Last term, I had the oppurmni~ tu practice a philosqAx2l exexise ca//ed phenomenologv. Everywhere around you, the term “environmental crisis” is thrown at you. but do you actual/y understand what it means? I think very fav people do, including myself So, once a week, I went to a spot near campus that I considered as natural as cuuld be and meditated on the &atiunship between uu&ves and nature. This column is ths result of this: taking offmMv theoretical glasses so that Icould allow the t-qxrience of nature to guide my thaug/tts and rrflvctions in and around the arlifactsof our suciizty. ;Tple@t column piece was a description ofthe.Biulogy Wood/at beside C&mhia Luke and the second was an account of the living organisms that lived there. TKis week ‘s piece and subsequent ones will touch upon a variety of themes such as home and p/ace, the use uf nature, the cuncept @nature. and pemuna&y.
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It was only as wide as two standard straight edge rulers, but when I pulled my soaking pant leg out, it was at least that deep, When I chanced upon this ice-covered depression in the snowy earth, my first reaction after some reflection about its Being, was to put my foot in it. I felt a strange sense of power, which for some reason escapes my conscious effort of trying to quantify it. Judging by the pattern of rabbit prints on the perimeter of the hole, I realized that it could be a watering hole. How was it made, I wondered. My finger traced its outline; it seemed too perfect to be the result of a fallen tree, but I hesitated to conclude that it was man-made, even though the latter was quite possible. I did not want to accept it because then I would know that this area was not completely natural. That would have shattered the tenuous contract with nature I had reached in the past three weeks. And that is what troubles me: that we’ve come to believe that nature is not nature unless human beings are not putting their boot prints in the snow, the soil, the air, and the water. It must seem whenever we do try to climb back onto the mystery train, that there is a sense of awe, ambivalence, and wonder to the world. A “wonder” that is easily shattered by the brutality of a harsh Arctic wind or a devastating Gulf of Mexico tempest. The destruction is also self-made in the form of the homogeneous monuments of our modern society, signposts to the global village. The next week I went in search of the well again. I tried following the same path as before. It was useless. I couldn’t find it. I doubled back, making sure I passed all the signposts: the upturned root with the spider web, the fallen maple with its lichen passenger, the roots arranged in a rabbit warren. AI1 these natural homes were connected in some sense to the
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wants to be told how to act because guidance is a restrict&. Public bodies have sprung up to ensure the sanctity of the individual. The American Civil Liberties Union finds its raison d’etre in defending the individual against outside interference - it once argued that the Ku Klux Klan had a right to legal assembly. Ontario’s Libertarian Party is dedicated to strangling and reducing the size of government in order to allow individuals freer reign. We have placed individuality on an altar and worship it with incense. (Though, it does seem strange that Ontario elected the NDP - I guess the public does not see them as socialists and thus collectivists.) Hence, it is with no Iittle audacity that Dean Lucy puts on the hat of moral enforcer and pontificates on the evil that the pair wrought. Er, excuse me Dean Lucy, but don’t go around enforcing your morality; it goes against the public grain. Of course, some people would like to deny that thoughts are of the private domain: the Kitchener-Waterloo Record (May 17) quoted Tammy Speers (chair of the Women’s Issues Board) as saying “they the pair realize their attitude is wrong, but they don’t realize what attitude they should have.” Okay Ms. Speers, I bite, what attitude should they have? I know that their attitude does not agree with you, and nor does it with me. But if morality is subjective, how can you tell them what to think? But I’m sure once you are done with them (the two agreed to ‘work’ with the centre), they11 have the right views? Room 101 does wonders. I guess the issue is really political correctness. Now, I am not so stupid to think of date rape as an ideological thing - date rape is wrong because it interferes with the volition of one of the two parties, usually female. Everybody in their right mind ought to oppose it, and the Women’s Issues Board is correct in attacking the problem through its poster campaigns, discussions, and various other methods. I applaud them. But they are not a penal institution. Yet, this is how Dean Lucy is treating them. After tongue-lashing the two, he handed them over to the Board. The KW Record des-
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In early March, two University of Waterloo students relieved themselves of any human intelligence and prominently displayed a ‘banner whose message was particularly disarming and disgusting. In mid-April, UW’s Morality Police acted in a manner equally as disarming and disgusting. Dean of Students Ernie Lucy threatened the pair with suspension and expulsion for their actions. The two were parodying an antirape campaign and its slogan “No! means no.” Their banner read “No means harder.” They were quite wrong to display it. But their actions should not serve to give Dean Lucy, or the UW Women’s Issues Board, an excuse to extend their power and jurisdiction. The unnamed pair carried out their regretful act in Toronto, on their own time, and not in the name of UW. UW was not figured into the banner, and the now-infamous photo indicates that the pair were sporting no references to their school on their clothing. They were just two average dolts with sexual hang-ups. (However, apparently the two had displayed another, arguably obscene, banner sporting the Warrior crest; they were not castigated for this banner, so it needn’t enter the discussion.) Now, I believe that their actions were immoral, and Dean Lucy seems to think SOas well. The stance of the Women’s Issues Board needs no elucidation. Funny word, morality. It used to be a hard and fast code that ensured the public acted in certain ways. But then a weird thing happened - people (mostly specialists) saw morality as nothing but a social construct and thus as bendable, changeable, and even disposable, The rallying cry became “don’t enforce your morality on me!“. Perhaps such a jettisoning of morality has created the mess that most of us agree the world is in - just think of George Bush’s moral lapse in his Bushkrieg, the popular war against Iraq. Nobody wants to live bound to a moral code because such rigor seems to deny the individuality that we cherish above all in double-car-garage North America. Nobody
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called justice seem to be done, so he made a show of it. He sent the two to a decidedly partisan board to correct the pair’s attitude. To make new men out of them. Essentially, the morality of UW seems not to be the eternal struggle to live harmoniously with each other and with nature (some may say with God), but to ensure that UW looks good. And in order to look good, UW must comply with all the standards of political correctness, hence the sentencing to the Women’s Issues Board. No, Lucy could have escaped the ideological baggage associated with the Board by suggesting the two go to a rape crisis centre, or to Anselma House - in other words, to a place concerned with care and support (assuming that he had the moral authority in the first place). However, the two are sent to a Board that seeks - rightly or wrongly - to push their own agenda on a variety of issues. To put this choice in perspective, imagine the uproar if Dean Lucy had sent - upon pain of expulsion - the two to a Catholic priest for counselling. But nobody bats an eyelid at the choice of the Women’s Issues Board. Of course, my whole discussion could be negated by claiming that morality is not the basis for Dean Lucy’s actions. But I would simply counter: if not in morality, then wherein lies the basis? What would a law or a rule or a policy be with out a moral base? Without a moral trase, they would all be naked ideology, geared completely to enforce the ruling status quo and totally unconcerned with human beings. Thus, if morality is not the basis for Dean Lucy on this issue, then we are in big trouble, So we are all happy that good Dean Lucy punished the bad hockey fans. They did deserve punishment. But none of us are thinking. For the life of me, I cannot find one reason why UW ought to mete out such justice. It has no moral authority because it, like most of society, has jettisoned the idea of moral responsibility. Don’t enforce your morality on me! Dean Lucy was simpIy being politically correct, and hence, overstepping his boundary and enforcing ideology, not morality.
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Dean Lucy gave the two, bound and scoured, over to the Board in an incredible display of political correctness. It is political correctness that allows Dean Lucy to act in such a heavy-handed fashion. For God’s sake, what the hell right does he have to punish two people for acting immorally in Toronto on their own time? Answer: UW Policy number 33. We go to a screwed-up institution. This policy allows the university to expel, or to take any other action against, a student who contravenes the University’s code of behaviour regarding discrimination of any sort. Think about it. By trying to breed tolerance, it fosters intolerance. We all seem ready to admit that morality is personal - hence the Women’s Issues Board is predictably pro-choice on the abortion issue - yet in this one instance, we argue for the universality of morality. Am I the only one confused? I hope not. Such ideological morality, political correctness if you will, is going to end in the death of thought and the birth of reaction. Last year, as readers may recall, the Imprint arts section was attacked, and later censored, for running swastikas as rating guide symbols. But not one person protested the hammer-and-sickle of Joseph Stalin, nor the Star of David of Yitzac Shamir. Both men, as did Hitler, utilized programs of genocide - in varying degrees - to enforce their ruling ideologies. Yet only the swastika caused the arts section problems. Why? Because people reacted instead of thinking. Ideological morality is bound to create knee-jerks like that. And like our readers in the case of the swastika, Dean Lucy is picking the issue for his sanctimonious action. The question is: why this issue? I believe the issue lies in Bad Press. The photo, snapped by Imprint photographer Joanne Sandrin, appeared all over the nation, thus embarrassing UW as a place fuIl of date rapists. I would not want this attitude spread about my school, but I am content in the knowIedge that the two are no more ambassadors for UW than any drunken moron at a Watpub in Toronto. But Dean Lucy sensed the political importance of making so-
tribes the two as “agreeing” to “work with the Women’s Issues Board.” Now, in agreeing, it hardly seems that the idea was theirs. They were sent there for punishment, apparently in lieu of expulsion.
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I am angered every time I look at the picture which appeared in the March 29 Imprint depicting two men holding a sign that boldly states: “No! Means harder.” I am confused when I see their grinning faces. I cannot begin to understand. What is the purpose behind their words? Do they mean that they would forcibly rape someone? Or are they only joking? As Craig Netterfield, who was either the only one who saw the posters or the only one who cared, pointed out: date rape is not funny. Moreover, by joking about this type of violence, the persons not only condone the action, but also reinforce and perpetuate it. Unfortunately, this incident is not isolated. We are daily subjected to a barrage of blatant and subtle sexism. A link does exist between the sexist posters we laugh at during the Warriors’ hockey game, the women who are abused daily by the husbands or lovers, and the 14 dead women in Montreal. Although we vehemently deny any responsibility, we are all involved; we are all somewhat guilty. But we also have the power to change: individually, interpersonally, and socially. And we must change if we care about, and hope for, a safer and healthier society. B. BilI 4N l%ychology
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The incident that occurred at the March 23 hockey game in Toronto at Varsity Arena is one that has directed some unwanted attention and focus at the University of Waterloo. An error of judgement and lack of foresight on our part has resulted in a controversy over a particularly sensitive issue which we neglected to take into consideration at the time. We apologize for any inconvenience or repercussions that this might have caused the University of Waterloo’s image within the community and nationwide. This was a stupid and immature prank which has caused concern regarding the status of women on campus. The picture shown in the Imprint and subsequently widely published was taken after the game at the request of an Imprint photographer. It is not our purpose to justify the foolish act we committed. However, we would like to state that at no time did we have a conscious intent to belittle the date rape campaign on campus. We wan-t to forcefully reiterate that we regret any negative effects that have resulted for women at the University of Waterloo. It is our hope that public concern regarding this incident will result in continued emphasis on this most important issue for both men and women.
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Perhaps it is time that professors don’t have tenure and that the civil service not be”un.fireable”! Construction workers build beautiful buildings and home - don’t they own part? Isn’t it time that the Senate was younger and accountable to the public? Who is literate? 1 am! And I expect anfree lunch!
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I’ve lived five years out west and in the country and in Montreal and met many people. I’ve met men who work on the Task Force
As for the rest ot us, with MAs and PhDs, let’s just bum our degrees and resumes, as some have already done.
What infuriates me is that all the pretty 1% 24 year olds are getting the plum salesperson and teller jobs, as are matrons of 65 and older, if they’re attractive. For example, an Australian bIond with blue eyes got a job as a secretary in Canmore, Alberta at the ProvinciaI Courthouse!
So, crushed, I applied to the governments in Ontario and in Alberta and was told that I was NOT QUALIFIED and NOT EXPERIENCED as a Planner! A guy from Africa told me that all they want in Africa are PhDs! And a11 my friends from THIRD WORLD developing countries went back home or stayed in Canada after going back to their own country and getting married and bringing their wives and parents to Canada and working in Canada as engineers and accountants. I saw one doing construction work and other one as gas station owner. Is this where my $40,000 went?
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Therefore, I was a money conduit for these governments and that’s all. Do you suppose they fear my “expertise”? So, there I was, starry-eyed and now a lover a Star Trek and Dr. Suzuki and nature shows of animals and birds and mountains and tmpics. Hoping, after 15 years, that I would be a big wheel in UNESCO in Paris, France and many an Arab and live in&&a.no~~. But it didn’t materialize. CUSO (CIDA) rejected me because of my debt bad! They said - if you aren’t paying back your student
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“Will you marry me?” The reply, ‘You should see the wedding cakes in Bride’s Magazine!” This was meant to indicate - why are you, a rich man, asking an ugly, fat poor girl such an inane, foolish question? I mean, I have no money no trousseau, no dowry, and no spectacular BUNS like Penthouse Centre(money) fold (dig deep, oh!!!). The sad raison d’etre for this is the WAR against educated people in my age bracket (42) and foreign name (1952 I came to Canada) and wrong addresses in my life according to Personnel! Oh yes, the lout who proposed is 71 (is that $71 million?). He must have heard about my $40,000 investment to the University of Waterloo from 1969 to 1985 (delete 1975 & 2976whenI was in Ban.& Alberta with a BA in Political Science working as a waitress, chambermaid, and library clerk.
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if we do not care or if we simply decide to stay out of the debate our voice will not be heard or considered. Any breakup of the country would also affect students as provinces could no longer
All levels of government will look to student organizations for some sort of direction on this question. As the future of this country,
of the province of Quebec is looking at late 1992 as a date for a referendum on the future and extent of their involvement with Confederation We must decide where we stand on this allimportant issue. Are we as students, as future of this land, of the attitude that “if Quebec wants to leave Canada, then let them” or do we think that the demands of all players (5111 provinces and the federal government) can be reconciled so that the makeup of Canada can remain intact Is it worth the effort? What we must keep in mind when considering the question of sovereignty for Quebecisthefactthatifthisweretooccur,the c status quo would not remain. Think of the following very reaI ibilities: the h&&times would be cut off i? om the rest of the Canadian territory leaving a huge hole in the middle of the country; the west, unhappy with the terms of Confederation for the last decade, would surely also consider independence. How long would Ontario stay satisfied within the federation knowing that it will be them through their tax dollars who will subsidize the rest of the country? Could Canada last? It would seem very unlikely. These repercussions must be considered when making an informed decision as to where we stand on this issue.
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I am an undergraduate here at UW and I am quite puzzled and a bit ticked off by the attitude of Imprintregarding &ssifiedads. I am running a student fmnchii business this summer and I am presently in the process of hiring a crew. I inquired by phone to the Imprint office regarding the price of placing an ad in the “help wanted” section. I was informed that there are two rates: one for Waterloo students and another more expensive rate for others. However, when I went to place the ad, I was informed that because the ad was for a business, I would have to pay the more expensive rate. I explained that I was a full-time undergrad p-g to return in the Fall to complete my degree. I was informed that it did not matter - it was for a business and I would have to pay the higher rate, which I was reluctantly forced to do. I do not understand this. I was under the impression that the paper was by and for students. How come I, who has paid my voluntary Imprint fee every semester (not likely anymore!), not be able to advertise at the student rate? My running a company this summer does not affect my status as a student with Revenue Canada. Why should I not be considered a student by my own school newspaper?
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As the Citizens’ Forum on Canada’s Future begins to compile its final report, I am writing to thank all those who took part in the Forum’s discussions. The last few months have been hectic and a bit confusing at times, but the incentive to find solutions (and the energy to keep going!) always came from you: those who got involved. You were a constant reminder that although we may have struggled a bit to get the process organiza the process itself was a good and necessary exercise, appreciated by many Canadians. We hope that the important exercise of dialogue about our country’s future will continue beyond the formal six-month duration of the Citizens’ Forum. Many groups have spoken enthusiastically about the experience, and have indicated that they will be including such a discussion as an on-going feature of their activities. We hope that many others will follow suit. And finally, as a reminder to those people who may be planning a group discussion, you are encouraged to submit your reports to the
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This is an open invitation to all those who are interested in getting involved with student activities. During our campaign, we stressed teamwork and making the Federation of Students more student-oriented. To accomplish this goal, we need input and participation from the entire university community.
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actual costs of education on your own tuition fees. The reason that we raise this ‘heavy issue” at such an early stage in the term is that we will be attending a meeting of the Canadian Federation of Students, our national student lobby group, in mid-May. We will be attending this conference as your representatives and we ask for feedback on how the students of this university wish to proceed on this question. If you have anything to say about this, please take the time to drop by the Fed office, drop a note to either of us, or with a letter to the editor of Imp* We reiterate the importance of taking the ,time to do this. We, as students of the Universiq of Waterloo, can make a difference with regards to the future or failure of Canada.
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plight of the Kurds is desperate and their cause just, but it is remarkable how this now noble struggle did not figure in the minds of government policy makers before they deemed Saddam Hussein the second coming of Hitler.
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Imprint file photo ARMX is not the only Canadian contribution to world peace and security to bear fruit during the Gulf War. For years our peace government has bent over backward (and contrary to the wishes of the majority of its citizens) to test cruise missiles over the Artic, low-flying fighter-bombers over the Innu people of Labrador, chemical and biological weapons in Alberta, and United States nuclear submarines off the British Columbia coast. In keeping with Canada’s respect for human rights, government grants have assisted the production of cruise
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in the months before the invasion missiles by tiiion Industries in Toronto and the development of fuel of Kuwait, Cmdian military contracair explosives (dubbed “the poor tars shipped tons of explosives and man’s atom bomb”) at McGill thousands of douarS worth of conUniversity in Montreal, both of which struction supplies and comwere used with deadly effect against a munications equipment to Iraq, according to a Statistics Canada poor, young non-white population. report. But rounding out the CanaBut more than any other event, dian tradition of peacemaking was ARMX symbolizes the depravity and the participation of Iraq and dozens hypdcxisy of Canadian foreign policy of other repressive regimes in the and the sickness and cruelty of huge ARMX ‘89 weapons bazaar held Canada’s “peaceful tradition.” in Ottawa in May, 1989. China was in Shortly after the cease-fire that attendance two weeks before ‘the Tienanmen Square Massacre, and so ended *e pound warj Joe clarkr then Minister for External -Affairs, were El Salvador, South Korea, Chile, stat4 that free trade in arms was South Africa (for whom Joe Clark “suicidal” for the Middle East. “Murclaimed “a right” to attend), derous” would be more accurate, Indonesia and Israel all noteworthy for their wide-kale rep - Clark’s comments betray the characteristicaIly Canadian mentality that ression and massive violations of bskrs the international arms trade human rights, with the last three known for their illegal invasions and by s”PpO* ARMX On One hand and gains “peace points” by decrying’ brutal occupations of Namibia, East it on the other. The arms trade cannot Timor, and Palestinian lands respecbe “sticidal” for arms pushers and tively.
ARMX must be stopped
Take for example the case of Pratt and Whitney Canada, makers of military aircraft engines. During the Iran-Iraq war, the Canadian govemmerit approved the export of P&W engin& and parts to both sides of the conflict. P&W engines powered the aircraft that dropped poison gas on Kurdish villages very few years before “our man” in Baghdad managed to cross his benefactors with a threat to the oil they always took to be their own, providing them with a convenient excuse for starting a hot war just as the cold one was ending. One million dead.
Protesters block the entrance to last year’s ARMX
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One million dead: 100,000 bombing sorties each claiming an average of 10 victims (though probably more). It helped, of course, that the media had demonized the victims, or at least their leader, and it helped too that we never really saw the blwd. It helped that we are racist. We do not hear much about the nuclear power plants that we bombed, or the chemical and biological weapons pltits on the outskirts of Baghdad that we “neutralized.” More than half the population of Baghdad is under age 15. All we hear about is the suffering of the Kurdish refugees, the latest cause celebre by which the Western governments and their loyal media maintain anti-Iraqi hysteria and justify the bleeding of Iraq. No doubt the
One million dead. One million carpet-bombed, burned, people napalmed, and surgically struck all in six weeks and all now forgotten - by the victors anyway. Canada has played an important role in the slaughter of one million people, our contribution to the new world order. We should be so proud.
A l@kilometre educational fundraising walkathon will be held Saturday, May 25 starting in downtown n Kitchener at noon. Half of the funds raised will go the the dism campaign, while the other half will go to a group or cause of the walker’s choice. AKMX information and walkathon pledge sheets are available at WPIRG, Surrender Dorothy Clothing. and the Global Community Centre. The KW Alliance for Non-Violent Action can be reached at 884-8621.
Zal opposition to ARMX ‘91 is being coordinated by the KkhenerWaterloo Alliance for Non-Violent Action, the local chapter of the organization, ANVA, which staged the successful resistance to ARMX ‘89. A number ofactivities-arealready under way. Concerned members of the universi~ community can sign the Pledge to Stop ARMX This pledge takes the form of an open letter to the organizers of ARMX and commits the signatory to train for non-violent civil disobedience should conventional means of letter writ@, petitioning, and other forms of protest fail to bring about the show’s cancellation.
ARMX 91 must and can be stopped. It must be stopped because it is a key component in the delivery of death and misery to millions of human beings. A&fX can be stopped because each of us has the opportunity to refuse it our cooperation and its organizers and backers our obedience. A dozen students from WW and WLU did just that in 1989 and were arrested along with 150 others for block@ access to the weapons show, spending a night in jail as human rights violators and arms merchants from around the globe freely walked the streets of Ottawa, toasting each other over talk of cost per kill ratios
AI&IX ‘91 will happen as long as we allow it to happen, just as the international arms trade will flourish so long as people put their faith in the state to stop it. War, as the saying goes, is the health of the state, and in the words of one peace activist? we can expect the government to stop the am-s trade in the Same way that we can expect the Mafia to stop the heroin trade. Each must be made to stop its crimes - to assume that either will do so voluntarily is fantasy. Force of reason and appeals to morality will not put an end to a systern that guarantees such profit, privilege and power.
Rather than risk offending Salvadorean, Indonesian, Israeli and South African human rights violators, Baxter invites them to view the latest in weapons - weapons that these governments ultimately import and use against their own populations as *a courtesy.” The fivour is returned: the ARMX ‘89 weapons show boosted the international arms trade with a billion dollars in sales in three days, according to a study commissioned by Baxter Publishing itself. One billion dollars spent on enriching arms makers while millions of Canadians suffer poverty and deprivation.
their backers - politicians like Clark and the businessmen who make huge profit from the sales of arms the effects of which they never see, let alone suffer. For these men, the arms trade is murderous and very lucrative. And in the wake of one million dead, ARMX is scheduled to take place again. ARMX ‘91, set for Sep t-ember 24-26, 1991, wil1 be held in Carp, Ontario, just outside Ottawa. Once again nearly 500 companies from almost 20 countries will display their wares to 15,000 members of the Canadian and American armed forces and “guests“ from the international diplomatic ‘corps invited, according to AR&IX organizer Baxter Publishing of Toronto, as “a courtesy.“
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Windows are a key source of heat loss. performance, including using low-E coatings, gas filling, insulating spacers, and better frames with higher insulating properties. As a result of the research findings, manufacturers are redesigning their windows to make them more energy-efficient, he said. The UW team collaborates with manufacturers to test their products %nd offer advice. The government contract will also enable UW to develop a “revised, user-f+iendly version” of VISION, a personal computer program for evaluating window design. The UW lab has been refining and updating the program for the past four years.
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Question: I have been renting the basement ufa huusefurthreeyeurs. when I first moved in, Isign4 a one-year lease. I have nut signed a leasesince then. Five months ago. the house was sold. The new ownem and Igut along very well. 771,~ recentfygavemea termination noticetumovein #dayssurhat cheparentsu@he owner’s w$ecan moveinto the basement. Iam v41y uptandongry. Whatcan / do @ght this? Answer: In situations where landlords honestly and sincerely require vacant possession so that the premises can be occupied by themselves, their spouse, their children, or a parent of them or their spouse, they are entitled
Question: 1 had u verbalagreement tushareaccummodaGun in a house&m January tu August, 1991. ?%epersan with whum Ishared accummudutiun was also a tenant. A fog months ajer I moved in, this pemun and Idid not get aiong. Initial/y it was minor things, but we just grated on each other’s nerves to the point that we ’ didn ‘t even talk to each other. In March, Idecided to moveat theendufApril. Two weeks be$ure I moved, I lpft a note fur her on the kitchen table. l%at note txpluined that I would be moving and that I wkhed to have my last month ‘s rent deposit returned. On the date that Imuved qut,,sheruld me that she would nut return my deposit und that she would sue me as I was in breach of my contract with her. She honest/y believesthutshe has reasons to sue me. Itu!d herthatsince wedidn Iget alung it was pointless tu continuestaying there. lalsu told her that in view uf the tensions bmeen us, there was no obligation fur me To stiy. Who is right? Answer: Unfortunately for yaw she is right. You entered a verbal contract to rent these premises for the period January to August, 1991. Your options to terminate the contract are as follows: 1. A written 6O-clay termination notice effective August 31,199l. 2. A sublet of the balance of your tenancy, to a third party. 3. A termination agreement to end the tenancy prior to August 31, 1991. A personality clash does not allow you to simply walk away from this tenancy. Although there is a duty on her to mitigate damages (i.e. lost rental income) by finding another tenant, she may not be able to do so before August, 1991. In that event, she would look to you for the lost rental income. With respect to the last month’s rent deposit, unless she is able to find a replacement tenant for May, 1991, you are not entitled to the return of that money. Attempt to settle this matter with her now.
Question: lam beingsued by afumterlandlordfordamage to a lawn. Irented a housefur two years. &ring that time, I had three dogs - a LJoberman and IW German Shepheh. Naturaily, dogs of this size would be kept outside. The landlord claims that my dogs destmyed the lawn and wants me to pay for the nzsudding. I admit that my dogs did dig a goodly number of holes in the yard Before I moved, I r@lled those hula. I know that tenants ure nut responsible fur reasonable wear and tear. I cunsider this in that categuv as it is peqfectly natural and normal fur dugs to dig holes. Although the yard &WI ‘t Iuuk as good as it did when IJrxt moved in, I dun ‘t believe 1 cllll responsible to put in a new lawn. Am I? Answer: It is true that tenants are not responsible for reasonable wear and tear. Holes dug in a yard by dogs, however, are not reasonable wear and tear. That is damage. You are responsible for the actions and resulting damage of your pets. I suggest that you settle this matter with your former landlord for the reasonable costs incurred by him or her, or to be incurred by him or her, to remedy the situation.
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Questim: I am a universily student who has un opportunity to move into a fiaternig house. l7ze house is located in an upper-middle-class suburban neighbuurhuud in Water&xx mere will be Q tutat of eight students living there I don t wanr tu move into the house and then discuverthat Ican Istay due to zoning or by-law in&actions. LY ii kguiIU have rhti ry/l4 of &using in u rpyidential neighbuurhuud? Answer: The proper terminology for this type of accommodation is lodging house. It is permitted in residential areas in the City of Waterloo. The City requires the owner/operator of the lodging house to obtain an annual licence. The cost is $50. Before the owner/operator obtains a licence, he dr she must comply with the zoning by-law, the fire code, and the property standards by-law, The owner/operator ia required to post d-65 license inside the main entrance of the premises. The licence will indicate the maximum number of lodgers permitted. It is evidence to you that the owner has complied with the relevant by-laws. You should also consider contacting the Waterloo City Hall to confirm that the licence is in good standing and that it has not been revoked.
Qwstion: I rented u mum in my lundlo& house. I si&ned a contract that I would pay $375 per month in rent and that I would be renting on a monthly basis. 712econtract sti out the house rules. There was to be no noise afier I I pm, no smoking, and nu overnight @es&. I was to have fill use of the landlord> kitchen. 73, landlurd and I had several arguments regarding my use of the kitchen u$!er I I pm. I explained tu him that I like lute night snacks. I tried to discuss this with him in a mature manner, but he just blew up at me. He said that he could not and would not tulerate the noise of the wfngeratur dour us it was opened and closed by me or the noise of platps and tiensils used by me. He toEd to get out by 10 am the nat morning ur he would throw both me and my bejungings uut. I did as he requested. I would like to get my last month ‘srent dqusir buck and I wuuld like to sue this iundlordfur damage. What are my n’ghts? Answer: The Landlord and Tenant Act does not apply to situations where a tenant shares a bathroom or a kitchen with the owner, the owner’s spouse, child, or parent, or the spouse’s child or parent where such person also resides in the premises. Situations outside of the Landlord Tenant Act are governed by the contract between the parties. In your situation, the contrxt does not d&al with grounds for termination nor does it deal with the amount of notice to be given (by the landlord to you or by you to the landlord) in order to terminate the tenancy. ” The court will not impose terms where the parties themselve did not deal with those types of terms. The court will, however, examine the overall situation and the actions of the parties. It was not reasonable for the landlord to evict in this fashion or for this reason. You are in a position to sue the landlord for damages. Those damages would consist of the return of the last month’s refit deposit, the return of the balance of the month’s rent (for the month in which you were evicted), out of pocket expenses incurred by you due to this eviction, and, to a certain extent, any increased rental payments incurred by you in your new accQmmodation.
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performance windows with an energy rating calculated using the VISION program. “Window shoppers” and manufacturers will benefit from the new certification system, said Roger Henry, program manager of the passive solar program, energy efficiency division with CANMET/EMR It will allow manufacturers to receive proper credit for the performance of their products while increasing the incentive to build better windows. The public will also be able to tell which windows are best at keeping out the cold and reducing energy consumption. Manufacturers have been using the computer program to simulate glazing conditions to design better windows as well as reduce their cost to meet new standards. Research and development of energyefficient windows is “more focused in Kitchener-Waterloo than elsewhere in Canada,” Henry said. He noted the involvement of UW graduate Steve Carpenter of Enermodal Engineering of Waterloo to develop the original FRAME computer program that’will be an integral part of the new CSA window thermal performance standard together with the VISION program. Also actively involved locally is Morgan Hanam of Golden Windows Ltd., Kitchener, who chairs the voluntary certification committee of the Canadian Window and Door Manufacturers Asso& tion. GoIden Windows, a producer of high-performance windows, has used the two compute1 programs.
to obtain that possession. Unless you ban demonstrate to a court that the landlord does not intend to move the parents into your premises, you cannot successfully digpute the eviction.
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A federal government contract totaIling $240,000 will enable University of Waterloo researchers to continue their work to develop better energy-efficient windows. Kitchener MP John Reimer, on behalf of Energy Minister Jake Epp, presented the first payment on Thursday, April 18 to Prof. Harry Sullivan of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The contract is from the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology and (CANMET) - the main research technology development branch of Energy, Mines, and Resources Canada (EMR). The contract will enable the work, which began four years ago, at UW’s Advanced Glazing System Laboratory to continue for the next two years, Sullivan said. Of part$ular interest to John Wright, the research engmeer on the project, is the problem of heat loss at the edge of window panes, where condensation and frost occur most often. Windows are a key source of heat loss and are largely unchanged from the doubleglazing systems of 30 years ago. While average insulation of walls has increased from RI 2 to R20 and greater, the average window is still only R1.5 to R2. There now are windows available that are twice as good as the standard varieties and several key developments are underway, Sullivan said. Manufacturers are incorporating new technologies to improve window energy
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6 lane 200 m indoor track 3000 seat viewing gallery overlooking track 3 multi-purpose recreational courts within track an injury clinic for all students So00 sq. ft. of additional retail space 3 meeting rooms 3 activity rooms 2 international size squash courts a 3500 sq. ft. lounge area additional men & women’s change facilities
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Thank you for having referendum - l3 resti(1.6%) NO COMMENT - 271 RESPONSES (33%J
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Needed more student input - 58 respollses (7%) Too much emphasis on athletics - 25 responses (3%) Proposal/referendum was a waste of time and money - 21 responses (25%) Academic needs take priority over recreational needs - 21 respo~ (25%) Scheme theme was very confusing - 16 respo= (2%) Bad timing - 12 reqxmses (15%) Cannot afford it - 10 nqmnses (12%) Not enough information - 65 respom (8%) Needed longer campaign period - 25 responses (3%) Need a neutral informative campaign - 21 respomxs (2.5%) Not impressed with “yes” side - 21 responses (25%) Fix up/expand CC - 21 respn (25%) Do nothing - 13 fesp01lses (1.6%) Spend time and money on safety issues - 5 responses (.a%)
115.Please make any comments that you feel might be pertinent to this feedback process (Don’t be shy!!).
1. Olympic size swimming pool - lU7 respmses (13%) 2. More Club/meeting space - 65 responses (8%) 3. More weight rooms/better equipment - 16 responses (2%) NO COMMENT- - 271(33%]
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14. Please list any additional contents that you feel should have been included -in the Proposal?
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534(65%)
13. Listed below are the contents of the proposed Student Life Centre. Please rank them in order of importance to you.
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12. Did you vote in The Student Life Centre Referendum on November 21st and 22nd?
378 (4%)
460 (60%)
x79 (33%)
10. Do you think that UW has adequate clubs space? 11. Do you think that UW has adequate academic space?
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Do you think that UW has adequate athletic facilities?
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271(33%)
501(61%) 271(33%)
Do’you think that WV has adequate lounge and meeting space?
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263 (32%)
2 (1%)
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83 (10%)
58 (7%)
58 (7%)
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296 (36%)
205 (25%)
Do you think that UW has adequate recreational space for its campus recreation programs?
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8 (1%)
8 (1%)
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Have you ever used UW Athletic Facilities outside of a campus recreational or varsity program?
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674 (82%)
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214 (26%)
140 (17%)
Are you or have you ever been a varsity athlete?
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197 (24%) 320 (39%)
No~ent
600 (73%)
4!n (60%)
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5. Have you been to other Canadian Universities and seen their Student Life Facilities? . 518 (63%) 6. Were you impressed with them? 321(39%)
616 (75%)
Have you ever been a member of a recognized campus organization?
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Have you ever participated in a campus recreation program?
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Wow are the RESULTS OF THE STUDENT LWE SURVEY which was conducted immediately after the November 21/22 Referendum. Thanks to everyone who took the time and effort to participate in the survey and make their opinions of the proposal known to the student leaders of the Federation of Students. A more comprehensive study of these results, as well as the history and future of the recent Student Life Centre proposal will be available for you to view at your respective Society offices, the Village One and Two main offices, the Church College Student Council Offices, the Athletics Department, each Faculty Deans’ office, the Dean of Students office, the Imprint and the Fed Office. Please study the results at your leisure and direct any comments to the Federation President at the Fed Office, Cr3 235. Thank You, again. TARGET MARKEl? ALL UW Students AREAS OF IXZIXIB~N All floors/houses in Village residences, all Society offices and councils, the Fed office, the Federation Students’ Council, the Turnkey Desk, November 30th lW0 issue of IMPRINT, January 4th, 1991 issue of IMPRINT, WIC/MIC/CRAC Councils and the Athletics Department.
Results of the Student Life Centre Survey
Do you support student involvement with the planning process of a student life initiative?
YES
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RYEXREWTIONALNEEDS - additional meeting rooms - additional clubs space - additional activity rooms - additional multi-purpose recreational courts - another weight room - an Olympic size pool - a diving well - additional squash courts - racquet ball courts
YES
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YES
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How much fmancial responsibility should a student assume in order to address his/her campus leisure needs? ALL NONE aI% 40%
NO
Of the three areas of student life outlined in this survey, which one do you consider a top priority in addressing your existing needs. LEISURE RECREATION ACXDmC
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L;EISuRE NEEDS = additional lounge space - another campus pub - a cinema - a drugstore - a grocery store - a laundromat - a dry cleaners - a pool hall
NONE
Additional items or comments to help us assessyour campus leisure needs.
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How much financial responsibility should a student assume in order to address his/her campus recreational needs? do% I 40%
* Additional items or comments to help us assessyour campus recreational needs.
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How much Ftnancial responsibility should a st.udent assume in order to address his/her academic needs? ALL NONE > 50% 60%
NO
Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. The results will be made available to you through the Imprint and your society office by the middle of next term. This survey has been approved by the Offke of Human RcsCarch. PLEASE RETURN TO THE FED OFFICE (CC ROOM 235) A.S.A.P.
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ACADEMIC- additional classroom space - additional/updated lab equipment - additional lab space - smaller class sizes - more professors in your faculty - additional study space L updated library resources - additional library resources Additional items or comments to help us assessyour academic needs.
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4. The following are a list of additional resources which students have previously indicated as required to improve student life at UW. Please indicate which items you would like to have improved on campus. ALSO please rank your choices in order of importance.
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1. ‘Faculty
The purpose of this survey is to find out what UW student needs are with respect to academics, recreation and leisure on campus. This survey will gather pertinent data in order that a formal proposal(s) for a student life initiative can be made to address your expressed needs. Please complete and return this survey ASA.P. to the Fed Ofice (C&235) or via on campus mail. .
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member VLSI research group at Waterloo. “As well, we are looking at ways to reduce the power consumption of the chips, so they can be used in lightweight portable products such as hand-held cellular telephones.” Elmasry has published more than 175 papers and three books, and more than 30 masters and doctoral degree students have graduated under his supervision. A Fellow of
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safety concern.
“Workers can’t just be the cog -in a machine - the human system doesn’t work well as a cog,” says Richard Wells, art associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Waterloo. He and his colleagues have been involved in numerous studies designed to help make the workplace both comfortable and safe for people performing their jobs. This can range from designing efficient and adjustable clerical work stations to engineering an assemblyline task to minimize the risk of injury from loads that must be lifted or jobs involving repetitive motions. Fitting the job to the worker - whether in the office or in an industrial setting - is dependent upon the employee’s interaction with the surrounding environment. UW’s lcmesiology department {in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences) has 21 f&time faculty dealing with the science of human movement applied to health and performance in work and leisure. Identifyinpnalyzing describing, and explaining human performance is the focus of the research and teaching department’s activities. Examples of the type of research conducted and low-back include repetitive-strain injuries; prevention of cervical-spine injury in ice hockey; adherence to aerobic exercise ergonomics; muscle fatigue programs; mechanisms; balance and stability of the
perceived
Many workers have the feeling their jobs make &em cogs in the wheel of a giant production machine. At the end of the day, they are tired and worn out, and often complain about constant aches and pains. They feel driven by the rate of the production line, the blinking of the of a computer cursor, or the dictates machine. There’s no question that repetitive, monotonous work - no matter how simple - can be a real pain for workers. It’s a growing concern as well for employers. Entire production lines and businesses can be idled if employees exercise their rights to refuse work because of a real or
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the International Institute of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he joined UW in 1974. He received his BSc from Cairo University and MASc and PhD from ‘the University of Ottawa, and worked for BNR before joining uw. In addition to its funding, BNR is providing facilities for graduate students who wish to intern with the company. “We have developed an excellent relationship with Dr. Elmas@, and we are very interesied in the work h-is group is doing &advanced circuits,” said Dr. Ian McWalter, director of semiconductor design at BNR “Because we design many of our own chips, new,techniques that can make possible more complex designs, or reduce design time offer significant advantages.*’ The participation of NSERC in funding this position reflects its commitment to fqstering links between universities and industry. “The support of world-class research in universities represents an investment in the future, helping young Canadians achieve the excellence and leadership needed to compete in the global information economy,“said Leo Derikx, director general, Target Research at NSERC. ‘The chair was one of the first awarded by
NSERC under its University-Industry Research Chairs Program,“said Arthur Carty, UW’s Dean of Research. “We are very pleased indeed that Bell-Northern and NSERC have agreed to continue funding for a further fiveyear period,” he said. Several of the VLSI graduates have gone on to careers in telecommunications and electronics companies, including Bell-Northern, and “there have been greatly increased opportunities for technology transfer,” Carty said. “Overall, this is an excellent example of what a co-operative partnership involving a top researcher working in a frontier area with a high technology company can achieve.” BNR is a world leader in the design and development of advanced telecommunications systems. The company, which operates laboratories in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, is owned 70 per cent by Northern Telecom and 30 per cent by Bell Canada. The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council is Canada’s largest research granting agency. This year, the federal council will invest more than $400 million in advanced research, train new scientists and engineers, and collaborate between the academic and industrial sectors.
elderly; and neurological control of human motion. Work is a pain in the neck - or shoulders, arms, hands, and back - for many people and in recent years, companies have started to li+ ten more to their complaints. Such chronic injuries are harder to cure because the longer it takes to get a problem, the longer it seems to take to go away, Wells says. “In the 193Os, people would either continue to work in pain because they felt that it was ‘part of the job,’ or just their arthritis acting up, or quit,” Wells says. “But these days, workers and companies are desperate for solutions.” Also driving the demands for improvements are recent changes in legislation and policies on workplace safety enabling employees to refuse to work at a job they feel might be hazardous to their health, and they can also receive compensation for their ailments, says Prof. Pat Bishop, who chairs the department. ‘The compensation claims of industry are enormous and ‘companies are looking for anything to reduce injuries and make workplaces safer,” he says. Woik&s who remain injury-free are more productive and satisfied, says Prof. Stuart McGill, who also does consulting work in ergonomics and basic research into how the spine works, so that methods can be found to
are related to the physical demands of constant standing long-arm reaches, and the highly
limbs. It was found the many of the problems
prevent lower-back injuries. He has put together a computerized spine that uses biological signals obtained directly from the spines of people performing their usual work tasks, such as bending; lifting, and moving. It can evaluate the safat Way to lift objects - for example, whether slowly or quickly or with the back straight. “With the industrial revolution, jobs have become so specializFsd,” McGill says. Performing the same repetitive tasks results in the same muscles being used along with forces that can damage tissues, which do not have time to heal. His research projects have included testing abdominal belts for miners, looking at the effects of vibration on the spine for workers such as dump truck drivers and crane operators, and designing climbing harnesses and pole straps for hydro workers. As well, the UW researchers are involved in preparing scientific evidence- for legal cases involving workplace injuries and claims. A widely noted study headed by Wells looked at the repetitive-strain injuries of supermarket cashiers, many of whom have complained of pain and disorders in the muscles and joints of the back, legs, and upper
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To make matters worse, studies in the United States also found that the widespread use of scannerS for reading bar codes on grocery items has further increase the risk of injury to cashiers. In many cases, the scanners were simply “plunked into existing workstations without any though given to the impact on people.” This is also a cause of many problems in offices where computers have been placed on existing desks with no thought given to ac uiring proper workstations and chairs. & rocery store scanners, in effect, make a manual task much more intensive and monotonous, with the workers having to repeatedly use a smaller number of muscles. This requires many extreme wrist movements and creates more stress trying to keep rushing the groceries across the scanners. “Even light work, if it’s monotonous, can lead to problems,” Wells says. “The best work is varied with some kind of physical demand using different muscles groups.” Among the supermarket solutions were to identify the hazards, provide information to in assist designing and modifying workstations, proper training. and early recognition and treatment of injuries. There is a growing demand for ergonomic expert+ by business and industry. Numerous UW graduates and co-op students have been hired as ergonomists and consultants for businesses and government agencies including &fence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd., Ford Motor Co., Mines Accident Prevention Association of Ontario, Ontario Hydro, Ontario Ministry of Labour, and Shell Canada Ltd.
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Ergonomics seeks to humanize workplace
Research into repetitive tasks gleans results
The University of Waterloo, Bell-Northern Research (BNR), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) have announced a five-year renewal of the BNR-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Design. This will top up the funding for the chair to $1.5 million for the lo-year period ending in 1996. Total funding for the chairholder, Prof. M.I. (Abe) Elmasry of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, includes a number of sources in addition to BNR and NSERC. It exceeds $500,000 annually and supports his 20-member research team. The team is exploring new techniques for designing advanced microchips - referred to as VLSI because of the high density of integrated circuits found on each chip - used in telecommunications, computing, and other technology-intensive industries. “Our goal is to make possible ever more complex designs, with up to one million devices on a single chip, while reducing the time it takes to design a chip,” explained Elmasry, the founding director of the 60-
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Elmasrv leads 20-member team toward guals
Science, Technology, and the Environment
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Home Produc@
Nestle Co. is contravening World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines by prornoting baby-fromula in Third World hospitals. Parents without access to clean water mix unsanitary water with the expensive formula (often the formula is too diluted to be nutritious) with the resulting problems of:
Reason for Boycott
Beechnut Carnation Cain’s Chase and Sanbom Coffee-Mate Cross and Blackwell Crystal springs Dr. Ballard’s Hill’s Bras. Coffee Libby’s Magsi MJB Coffee and Tea Nescafe and Nestea Nestle’s Rowntree Stouffer’s Taster’s Choice
1: Nestle
The Mitsubishi Group has taken a leading role in the logging of the forests of Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, and Chile. As a result, it is directly implicated in the destruction of the irreplaceable ecosystems that have evolved in these countries. The loss of unique plant and animal life, increasingly large floods and levels of soil erosion, and the destruction of the homes and livelihood of native forest-dwellers are all the
MitsUbishi
A4 886-8806 Ebytown food co-op is a not-for-profit retail store, meaning that other objectives such as environmental and social responsibility are stronger then profit considerations. The store attempts to limit the environmental damage caused by their actions by stocking minimally packaged foods, bulk foods, and organicaIly grown fresh produce. It also supports boycotts called by other organizations, especially those concerned with social . justice.
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1) Bridgehead - Bridgehead is an alternative trading organization which cooperates with small-scale producers in Third World countries by paying higher, more equitable prices. It is owned by Cbtfam Canada, an international development organization, which supports low dollar, grassroot organizations. Bridgehead is packaged at its locations in Toronto and Ottawa. A recently emerging trend with Bridgehead is the provision of environmentally friendly products that are produced in Third World countries. Often the grassroot cooperatives set Up to provide goods for Bridgehead aIso attempt to incorporate social and educational programs. Bridgehead offers coffee, tea, nuts, and spices, as well as a wide range of affordable handicrafts from develop ing countries. Bridgehead products can be obtained locally at:
Being a conscientious consumer does not end with the boycott of products. It also invoIves supporting companies that are txying to provide a more responsible alternative. Instead of buying the products that have been targeted for a boycott, why not buy similar roducts from responsible producers? The Pollowing list provides a start to your change in purchasing habits:
Farmers Market
1 Natural Food Market is sin&r to Full Natural Foods in that it offers a selecorganically grown produce, and predeal with small local businesses.
2) The Body Shop - The Body Shop is an excellent example of how a company can remain competitive while selIing products that are environmentally benign and carrying out practices that attempt to improve social and environmental conditions. The Body Shop does not use mate&& from endangered species or threatened environments, and uses only ingredients which are both natural and not tested on animals. This,company is also involved in environmental initiatives and canvasses for the support of such organizations as Friends of the Earth and the Kenya Wildlife Fund. Many of the ingredients in Body Shop products come from the Third World thus supporting economic development in poorer regions of the world; the prices paid for each ingredient do not depend on the source country’s economic status. In Kitchener, they are located at Fairview Park (phone 873-4841).
884-W The Circle tion of fers to
Natural &od Market 92 Lodge St, Waterloo
Waterloo
MCC Shop - St Jacob’s Mill
746-4090
Global community centre 89-91 King Street, Waterloo
Full Circle Natural Foods is a local health food store which offers a selection of organidy grown products, They deal wjth local small businesses as much as possibIe.
Full Circle Natural Foods 346 King St W, Ktchener 744-5331
Alternative Shopping
stopped their practice. However, in 1988 the boycott was reinstated after a WHO fact finding mission found numerous violations by both corn? park. The latest boycott was called by Action for Corporate Accountability IACTION), a Minneapolis based group which monitors infant formula promotion. Both companies recently announced plans to stop their practices, however, only after “all other companies” stop infant formula promotions as well.
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The first Nestle boycott of 1981 was so successful that Nestle set up an entire public relations firm in Washington to fight it. One of the staff members of the public relations firm claimed that employee morale was the first casualty of a successful boycott. He told of one Nestle executive returning home to his 8year-old daughter’s question, “Daddy, is it really true you kill babies?” The road to a successful boycott is incremental. You can start by simply refusing to buy a certain product, and then graduate to such actions as talking to a store manager about stocking alternatives, writing letters to the boycotted company, or actively protesting at one of the company’s branch offices. The word will get out, the products that damage the environment of Third World countries will be avoided, and companies will be forced to stop their damaging practices and adopt a more responsible attitude or go out of business.
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A boycott of tuna caught in drift nets, gill nets, and purse seine nets is currently in effect as a protest of the massive destruction of nontuna species. In particular, the dolphin has been identified as being particularly endangered since many fisherman, often fishing in Third World waters, purposefully seek out dolphins as they feed off schools of tuna The result of these fishing practices has been the deaths of an estimated 100,000 dolphins each year at the hands of US and foreign registered boats. Consumers can protest these actions by boycotting all brands of tuna that cannot be certified as “dolphin-safe” (caught by methods that do not endanger dolphins). Dolphin-safe tuna is labelled as such and includes both “Star&” and “Chicken-of-theSea.” However, Starkist is the only one which carries marshalIs on board the fishing ships to ensure dolphin-safe practices. This boycott was CalIed by Earth Island Institute of California, and is supported by Greenpeace and other environmental groups*
The Tuna Boycott
Mitsubishi International 520 Madison Ave. New York, N.Y. 10022.
direct results of the Mitsubishi Group’s logging efforts. The Rainforest Action Group urges a boycott of all the Mitsubishi Group Companies and products in response to these ations, and calls for letters of protest to be sent to the folIowing address:
World
Action
Accountability
Advil Anacin and Anacin-3 Aerowax Chef Boy-ardee Products Compound-W Dermoplast Dristan Easy-off Easy-on Speed Starch Jiffy-Pop Popcorn Neet hair remover Pam Cooking Spray Preparation-H San&Flush 3-In-One Oils Wizard Air Freshners Woolite
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Mitsubishi Co. continues to 108 and destroy the rainforest of Borneo. Repeated protests by numerous environmental groups around the world have met with no response from the company. The Malaysian government reacted to these protests by creating laws that
Reason for boycott
all Mitsubishi products Electronic Equipment Light Cars and Trucks Paper Products
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Boycott A&on
Reason for Boycott American Home Products Co. is the second major company (along with Nestle’s) to be found actively promoting baby formula in Third World countriqs. All of the adverse effec@ listed for Nestle Co. apply to American Home Products Co. as well.
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Except for the two brands mentioned, all other companies engaged in the catch of tuna regularly ensnare dolphins in their tuna nets. The annual estimated dolphin&ill by tuna boats numbers over 100,000. Both Starkist and Chicken-of-the-sea recently announced
Reason for boycoti
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Boycott Initiator: Rainforest Action
made protesting illegal, thus supporting Mitsubishi’s bid to log the rainforest of North Borneo.
Summary of products to boycott
Both NestIe and American Home Products #remote the use of infant formula in Third World hospitals, a contravention of World Ieakh Organization (WHO) guidelines. This practice has resulted in widespread tse of form& instead of breast milk. When nixed with unsafe water, the formula can lontain high bacteria levels making its safe Lse impossible. The chances of dying from liarrhoeal diseases are 25 times higher for ormula-fed babies. In addition, both Nestle wl American Home Products have been :aught providing free samples of formula in Krd World hospitals. When the formula is Eed for enough consecutive days, the nother’s milk dries up, thus locking mothers nto an expensive and dangerous cycle of fornula feeding. Because formula is much more expensive han breast feeding, poor parents often overMute formula causing malnourishment in he children. n reaction to this problem, a boycott of both qestle and American Home Products was lalled in 1982 by the Infant Formula Coalition INFACT), This boycott was subsequently lifed when both companies claimed to have
Nestle and American
This is Part 2 of a series of articles dealing rith the effects that the First World has on the nvironment of Third World countries. Part 1 m in the November 9,199O issue of Imprint nd provided an overview of environmental roblems presently facing Third World couni ies. In Part 2, we focus on First World comanies that are causing serious environmental amage in Third World countries, and idenfy the products that these companies prouce. We also provide information about ompanies that have recognized the problem, nd have taken steps to counteract environlental damage. With this information, you wiI1 be in a posior! of consumer power: the power to boycott ompanies without social conscience, and the lower to support companies that are enuinely trying to make a difference. We ask lat you save the chart provided with this artile, and use it as a reference for future shop ling trips, Here is a brief description of the companies jat have been identified as causing environlental damage to Third-World countries. In ach case, public interest groups or environlental groups have called for product boycotts of these companies.
WIRG Eco-Destruction
y Brent Doberstein, Clint Hanson, Siie Schiewer, Ingrid lepstad, erschot, Wendy Wynia.
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So now that howling in the darkness has lost its appeal to you, I would like to present an opportunity to you. Let us call it dancing in the light. The Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) has been dancing at the University of Waterloo since 1973. Its mandate is to carry out research, education, and action on environmental and social justice issues. Sometimes big, sometimes smaller, it has been consistently trying to shine some light on an alternative path for our society. WPIRG is funded and directed by the undergraduate students, which means it is your MRG. Its achievements and shortcomings are yours. If you are interested in becoming more active, your opportunities are plentiful. First, we should look at the role of volunteers at WPIRC. WPIRG has a small operating budget and can employ only a couple of individuals at very modest salaries. If all of the PIRG’s activities were limited to the employees, its effectiveness would be severely constrained. So, the PIRG relies on its membership to volunteer to undertake a wide variety of roles in the organization. The employees provide continuity as the students come and go in their studies. Also, the MKG has a, different philosophy about how it carries out its mandate. Being a social activist group, it believes that members of society should be directed involved in bringing about thoughtful change. This is in stark contrast to say government, where once every four to five years we empower another individual to make decisions for us. In the PIRG, we believe that all individuals should be empowered to seek the changes that they feel are necessary. To see a need for change, but to believe you can do nothing about it or to rely-on someone else to act upon it, is to be in a state of disempowerment. Now that you are contemplating a role in WPIRG’s activities, you may ponder the natural question of “What are the benefits to me?“. The benefits of volunteering will vary with the motivations of the individual, but in general they will include: personal growth from undertaking challenges new to you, serving society (where the ’80s were the “me” decade, the upswing in volunteerism in the ’90s could make it the “we” decade), and fun, that’s right social activism can be enjoyable as you meet with others with similar sensibilities. Okay, so your chomping at the bit, raring to go. Here are your opportunities. WPIRG organizes its volunteers into self-defining self-directing workgroups. You may join or form one of these workgroups which fall into three categories: support, projects, and study. Support workgroups undertake the routine operations of the office (reception and resource centre maintenance, for example). Project workgroups carry out an enterprise which has a defined beginning and end. Study workgroups research a topical subject. During the past eight months, WPIRG had over 100 volunteers active in 14 different workgroups. Some of these workgroups are still active and are seeking new members,
Hu Macdmald WPlRG
Dancing in the light.
The Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) has a new Board of Directors and is pursuing an agenda designed to build upon recent accomplishments toward an exciting year. ’ The student members of the new board are David Rolls (3rd Yr. Mathekatics), Anna: Waldvogel (2B/3A Psychology), Ingrid Vanderschot (3A Geography), Charlene Vantyghem (2nd Yr. Geography), Jackie Mch4illan (3rd Yr. ERS) and Bruce Fletcher (QualYr Philosophy).
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and some tie glimmering in the minds of the reader, waiting for the magically moment of birth. To become involved in WPIRG, drop by the offices in the
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of the I’bw l&e1 ‘of student activism. I agree with most of the points that she made, b& I would like to exGnd on her brief attribution of apathy to a s&e of disempowerment. It is my observation, that most apathy isdue to ignorance. However, some apa-&y, in addition to cynicism, is a symptom of a much more difficult problem, the state of disempowerment. &empowerment is the state of believing you can do nothing about a perceived problem, a belief that one is powerless. It is accompanied by statements such as: “‘What can I do? I’m just one person” or “Why bother? Nobody cares and I can’t do anything anway.” Truer words have never been spbke;, for once uttered, they are an inexorable, self-fulfilling prophecy. 1 believe the term disempowerment is more accurate than that of powerless, for the former goes beyond sirnfiy describing the state by implying an action to remove or impedk hum& potential and to perpetuate the end state. This definition of disempowerment seems to imply human agents who employ effective means of reducing free will. Undoubtedly some will feel it too casually stated, with too few references. However, time and space press me to make sweeping statements and I will eagerly entertain a debate if one should ensue. Let us say that the status quo initiates this state and we ourselves, having learned our lessons well, perpetuate it. Once established, disempowerment becomes a belief system, contradictory to a more natural state of empowerm&t. Those who still have one foot in he natural state, may rail at the inhumanities of this world or smolder mutely as they bare witness to the insanitiei. Cynic&m! Once they burn out, though, they have nothing but a shrug. Apathy! So what! For all my words, symptom or problem, who cares? What can be done about it? Take the cure . . _ it’s fun, it’s painless. EMPOWER YOURSELF! Get up, get out join with other humans with a similar concern, organize and engage in the struggle for change. Now here is the kicker - as soon as you start to do this you will feel better about yourself, bigger, more confident. You’ve got to like that. So don’t howl in the darkness; don’t hide in the darkness. Go out and seek the light. If you can’t find it, create it.
Angela’s obkvation
As I prepare for another school term and the anticipated arrival of a fresh wave of student volunteers, I have been reflecting on Angela Heeds’ article “Is student activism an oxymoron?‘< (Imprint, March 29, 1991)*
Hu Macdonald WPIRG
Howling in the darkness
Kitchener, both previous Board members. This was the first of a series of meetings of this group, held to discuss how to further the vital community member activity at WPIRG. Recommendations for such items as a newsletter and other networking gatherings were collected at the election and wili be developed over the summer.
The new administration established itself quickly by holding an election for community membership representation to the Board on March 27, 1991. The Community Board Members are Dr. Scott Slocombe of Wiid laurier University and Robert Little of
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A variety of support working groups are needed and are actively seeking new volunteers. These people would work with the resource centre and reception and communication aspects of the PIRG office, which is located in the General Services Complex (under the smoke-stack), room 123. WPIRG invites all of its members to visit its offices and discuss project possibilities with its Coordinator of Volunteers, Hu Macdonald.
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WPIRG serves as a vital agency at the University and in the Region WPIRG researches and publishes citizens’guides and other public interest research material, much of which is available for purchase in the office. WPIRG provides an alternative Resource Centre with a collection of books, journals, vertical files and audio/visual materials on a
The next maior event for the Board is the visioning and goal planning retieat to be held over the weekend of May 4-5,1991. This process sets the stage for the events of the upcoming year. To ensure a wide variety of interests were considered, submissions were accepted from all active members. Hirings for permanent staff positions will be held in June, following the revision of job descriptions developed from the Goal Plan. The remainder of the summer will be spent preparing for the fall activities and events. Board meetings are currently being held weekly on Tuesday evenings in DC 1331 starting at 6:30 pm.
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1990-91 Athletic Banquet Recap
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McKee, using a team filled with freshmen, took the hockey Warriors to their first national championship tournament appearance since their CIAU banner year of 1973-74. McKee is now a two time winner of the award. Warrior footbalI manager Rich Nichol took the J.O. Hemphill Award for his outstanding contributions in the areas of athletic administration. Nichol worked in various capacities promoting the football program and was public address announcer at Warrior volleyball and Athena basketball home games, Warrior basketball statistician, CKMS-FM sports director, and Imprint sports editor for
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Recipients of individual Most Valual 3le Player Awards for Athena teams ti his season were Eric;! Coeck (badlinton), Brenda Kraemer (baskett all), Marci Aitken (cross-country), (~rling), Annette K im Bradley Ii .oehler (field hockey), Alison HHughes _. I (figure skating), Fiona Griffiths (noraic smngl, Lisa f5ater (sotcer), Diane Lee (squash), Shekyl Slater (swimming}, Kate Afknamia (tennis), Jane Taite (indoor track & held), and Katrina Englebrecht (volleyball). Warrior MVP award winners included Don McIver (badminton),
Most Valuable Players
Andi
Kenyon
Powell (swimming); deA1wis (tennis).
(squash);
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The 1986-89 Outstanding Graduating Seniors Awards for Athena sports went to Jill Francis and Fiona Griffiths (cross-country); Sheryi Kennedy (curling); Meredith Shaw and Lies1 Walton (figure skating); Fiona Griffiths and Honda Williams (nordic skiing); Lisa Bater, Julie Latreille, and Jani Gendron (soccer); Diane ‘LRe and Louise Waite
Graduating Seniors
and Cory Delaney (football), Edson Castilho (rugby), Jason Pither (SOCcer),and Karl Zabjeck (indoor track & field).
Warrior Rookies of the Year were Sean VanKoughnett (basketball), Dave Lorentz (hockey), Steve Bennet
Athena basketball freshmen Laurie Rempel and Marion Femandez were given the Most Improved Player Award. The team does not have a Rookie of the Year honour.
Koehler
(indoor
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hockey);
Lisa Bater (soccer); and Diane Lee and Louise Waite (squash). Provincial Coach of the Year recognition went to Athena field hockey coach Judy McCrae and Warrior hockey coach Don McKee. .
Annette
OUAA
Waterloo’s OUAA all-stars from this past season were Tom Chartier, Mike Lane, Marshall Bingeman, Benoit Drouin, and Mike Raynard (football); Steve Udvari, Dave Imentz, Cory Keenan, and Ian Pound (hockey); Paul Toon and Mark Cohoon (rugby); Jason Pither (soccer); and Richard Straka (tennis). OWIAA all-star honours went to Brenda Kraemer (basketball); Janet McPherson, Caitlin McGregor, and Annette Koehler (field hockey);
Year).
In the 1990-91 season, Waterloo boasted four all-Canadians: Warrior football tailback Tom Chartier and nose tackle Mike Lane, Warrior volleyball power hitter Steve Smith, and Warrior basketball forward Sean Van Koughnett (CIAU Rookie of the
All-Canadians Rookie of the Year honours for Athena teams went to Lesley Neave (figure skating), Andrea Jalbert (soccer), and Nicola Campbel1(vo1leyball)
Rookies of the Year
Outstanding Graduating Warrior Seniors included Paul Ernst (crosscountry); Paul Kilby, Bob Casey, Orville Beckford, Mike Lane, Marshall Bingeman, Mark Yarmel, and Brian Rayner (football); John Donald (golf); Ian Pound, Brad Geard, Jim David, Clark Day, and Jamie Maki (hockey); Dan Rogozynski (soccer); Steve Millard (squash); Jeff Budau, Chris Cupido, and Greg Pye (swimming); Richard Straka (tennis); and Scott Smith (volleyba1l).
Sean Van Koughnett (basketball), Mark Ferguson (cross-country), Shanon Alpaugh (curling), Tom Chartier (football), Jeff Clapp (golf), Steve Udvari (hockey), Paul Toon (rugby), Mark Rab (nordic skiing), Carlos Burmeister and Rick Deane (soccer), Jeff Deverill (squash), Greg Pye (swimming), Richard St&a (tennis), Pat Kirkham (indoor back & field), and Steve Smith (volleyball).
power hitter Steve Smith and Athena squash no. 1 seed&o&e forward Sean Van Koughnett and Athena field hockey prayer The Women’s Interuniversity Council (WIC) award, presented annually to a student who has greatly contributed to WIG and to women’s was awarded to former sports, Athena cross country All-Canadian Jill Francis. Her leadership roles included her membership in WIC, including publicity director. Long-time Men’s Interuniversity Council (MIC) member and varsity swimming head coach Jeff Slater received the hardware for the MIC award, honouring a student who contributes significantly to the men’s interuniversity athletic program. The Doug Shuh Trophy, recognizing Warrior football’s most valuable lineman, was presented to Mike Lane for the second year in a row. Fifthyear lineman Marshall Bingeman received the football Coaches Award, honouring the player who displays leadership and the greatest sportsmanship. Waterloo student therapists Trisha Kristoff and Todd Hinton received the Don Hayes Atiard, which honours deserving undergraduate students involved in athletics in the sports therapy function.
The 1990-91 UW Athletes of the Yeaf are Warrior ~ Waite. Rookie of the Year Awards went to Warrior Leanne Dietr#ch.
Track and field skipper Brent McFarIane (right) rbceived the highly touted Imprint Coach of the Year Trophy along with imprint file photo Warrior hockey helmsman Don McKee.
The evening after Imprint’s final jublication of the winter term, memjers of the University of Waterloo’s rarsity teams gathered together at Xe Twist to honour their best thletes at the 30th annual ‘UW 4thletic Awards Banquet. The event officially ended another banner year n Athena and Warrior sports. Collecting the top hardware as kthletes of the Year were two of the nest deserving recipients in recent ‘ears: Warrior volleyball superstar iteve Smith and Athena squash mowerhouse Louise Waite. Waite received the Dean of Vomen’s Award, honouring the nost outstanding female athlete of he year, in this her fourth and final ‘ear as the squash team’s no. 1 seed. n her tenure at Waterloo, Waite won 9 of her 44 OWIAA matches, went Indefeated in her first two seasons, nd was named an OWIAA all-star in 11four years of competition She also pearheaded the team to their first ver provincial championship title in 988-89. Smith took the Totzke Trophy, iven to Waterloo’s most outstanding nale athlete of the year. Lauded as the lest power hitter in Waterloo olleyball history, Smith led the team 3 two consecutive bronze medal nishes at the nationals in the past hro seasons. He achieved-first-team &Canadian status in 1989-90 and 990-91, and was named an OUAA U-star in al1 four of his years at Waterloo. In those years, the Warriors Ion the OUAA West Division title lree times and finished second once. The Federation of Students Rookie f the Year Awards went to Warrior ask&ball star Sean Van Koughnett nd Athena field hockey player eanne Dietrich. Van Koughnett and lietrich each received checks for 500 on behalf of their respective tarns to aid the basketball and field ockey programs. This year’s recipients of the disi nguished Imprint Coach of the Year Lward were Warrior and Athena lack & field coach Brent McFarIane nd Warrior hockey skipper Don IlcKee. Under McFarlane’s interationally renowned leadership, the *a& & field team achieved 99 per-
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Smith and Waite: Athletes of the Year
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The University of Western Ontario Muslang football team has been slapped with penalties and put on a one-year probation for recruitment violations. The ruling, announced by the Ontario University Athletics Association head office just over a month ago, stated that Western will lose homefield advantage in the OUAA playoffs and cannot televise any home games. Western will still be able to host the Central Bowl, as it is Ontario’s turn to host the Atlantic Conference winner. Western had between 30 and 40 high school players at their bench during a game aga@st the Guelph Gryphons on October 20, 1990. L&&e ruies prohibit recmits from
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travelwith teams to games or being at the benches during games. The Mustangs were warned about the recruitment violations in a similar incident in 1989. OUAA footbalI convener and University of Guelph athletic director Dave Copp said that other coaches btiught the matter to his attention that year. Wgtem athletic director Darwin Semotiuk would not comment on the ruling but confirmed that an appeal would be heard at the OUAA annual meeting to be held this weekend. Paul Wilson, vice-president of the OUAA, in a quote which appeared in the UWO Gazette said he ‘was surm prised at the appeal despite little doubt the violation had occurred. “I don’t know on what grounds they could appeal on The viomon was very.- -esa* clear on the . I videotape of the game,” Wilson said.
Western football slapped, with penalities after SEASON:
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2, OUAA Semi-Finals, Ipm (4th at lst, 3rd at 2nd) Sat. Nov. 9, OUAA Final (Yates Cup), lpm Sat. Nov. 16, CIAU Semi-Final Bowls CWUAA at AUAA, 12pm OQIFC at OUAA, lpm Sat. Nov. 30, VANIER CUP, 3pm
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Guelph at McMaster, 2pm La&3 at Western, 2pti Sat. Oct. 19, WATERLOO at Western, 2pm Toronto at McMaster, Zpm Windsor at Guelph, 2pm York at Laurier, 2pm Sat. Oct. 26, Lauder at WATERLOO, 2pm McMaster at York, 2pm Toronto at Windsor, 2pm Western at Guelph, Zpm PLAYOFFS:
Thur. Oct. 10, York at Toronto, 7pm Sat. Oct. 12, Windsor at WATERUX),
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Fri. Sept. 13, WATERLOO at Tomnto, 7pm Sat. Sept. 14, Guelph at Laurier, 2pm Windsor at McMaster, 2pm York at Western, 2pm Fri. Sept. 20, Western at Toronto, 7pm Sat. Sept. 21, Gudph at WATERLOO, 2pm Laurier at McMaster, Zpm York at Windsor, 2pm Sat. Sept. 28, WATERLOO at York, 2pm M&aster at Western, 2pm Toronto at Guelph, 2pti Windsor at Lawier, 2pm Fri. Oct. 4, Laurier at Toronto, 7pm Sat. Oct. 5, M&faster at WATERLOO, 2pm Guelph at York, 2pm Western at Windsor, 2pm
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singing. and staring glassily throughout the proceedings) and the boys managed to reproduce most of the tracks from 7%n’llj;, as well as “Rave 0n”and “Wrote for Luck” from Madches~m. While not quite achieving the audience-ignoring level of obstreperousness recently demonstrated by The Sisters of Mercy, The Happy Mondays chose not to perform the obvious “Hallelujah,“nor did they even attempt “Bob’s Yer Uncle,” their most recent single, The utter disappearance of their back-catalogue was a dismaying development. Of the songs they attempted, only “Wrote” actually seemed to demonstrate any kind of familiarity with the concept of peglbmtance. A satisfying wall of feedback was set up as the song ground on to its con&sion. They followed this up, however,
audience was X-tatic, and the band was . . . erm . . a mediocre. Merely competent renditions of recent material doth not a party make, and these 24 Hour Party People deigned not to grace the stage for even one hour. In the 45 minutes that they spent on stage, Sean (sitting,
has become a way of life. Well, the lights were plentiful and hi-tech, the sound was loud and clean, the
sloppy,
Of course, no one should have expected anything but a crap show from the Happy Mondays, for whom
The opposite is true of John Wesley Harding; he comes across as much more entertaining live than on vinyl. Harding’s songwriting is not always up to snuff* Musically and lyrically, he’s simply no match for his inspirations, Elvis Costello and Billy Bragg. On stage, though, he manages to overcome his limitations with sheer attitude and showmanship.
supporting British folk artist John Wesley Harding. The Judybats are yet another of those REM-influenced southern jangle guitar bands. Hap pily though, their set was distinguished by remarkably strong songwriting and an excellent lead vocalist (highly reminiscent of Stan Ridgway). Unfortunately, the band was also notable for its distressing lack of stage presence; a live band they’re not.
WEA Records presented a double bill of new talent at the elMo, with southern US. pop band the Judybats
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incredibly dismal expectations carried to the show. They weren’t atrocious, just mediocre. In light of their hype and great records, that wasn’t
handed
toting backup singer/tart seemed to be having fun - whipping members of the crowd unmercifully. Everyone else seemed to be lost in a different time and place. As the opening act on this “Happy Mondays Roadshow,” Stereo MC’s well-nigh blew the headliners off the stage with an irrepressibly funky and energetic performance which had the crowd - most of whom were completely ignorant of the MC’s music jumping and jiving. Their unconventional drums/turntables/ MC setup provided non-stop beats and throwdown hip-hop (with a silly British accent, of course). The Happy Mondays did not disappoint - but that’s a rather left-
1 always wondered why every live review of the Happy Mondays always had a picture of Bez and now I know. It’s because everyone else in the group has a combined stage presence quotient even tinier than the miniscule amount possessed by Bez. That’s not quite true; the Cat ONine Tails-
with CIcompletely disorderly encore of “Step On,” which Sean Ryder did not even bother to finish before stumbling off the stage.
into an original song, a rant about the meaning of songwriting. (You’d think Harding was the only artist left in the world with any integrity.) This set the tone: humour and irony made the show, not the songs. Granted, Harding (on vocals and acoustic guitar) and his band the Deceivers (featuring former Dream Syndicate bassist Mark Walton) were musically above reproach. They also had the stage presence that the Judybats lacked, leapin’ atl over the place and mugging for the crowd. It’s just that very few of Harding’s songs stood out. If the Judybats’ vinyl is superior to their live set, John Wesley Harding is the flipside. He must be seen in a club to be appreciated.
of Costello
For example: responding to an audience request for Costello’s “Watching the Detectives,” Harding strummed the first few bars of that song before switching to another Costello tune, “Miracle Man.” Ttig
Jesus Jones can do no wrong. Their sold-out Toronto concert at the RPM club, a venue twice the size of their sold-out inaugural show at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern, guaranteed their third Toronto show (rumoured to be in late summer?) wiI1 be huge. Picking selections from their two albums, fiquidizur and Doubt, as well as some rarer b-sides, Jesus Jones performed a well-crafted set which dramatically depicted the band’s diverse creativity.
that
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Especially not vocalist and guitarist Ed Crawford. While he has shown some improvement in recent years, Crawford is still fIREHOSE’s consistent weak spot.
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Depending on the charity of your viewpoint, fIREHOSE are either the pride of the US indie scene or the noxious postpunk equivalent of “progressive rock.” Certainly, you can’t deny that the group contains at least two superb musicians. In terms of sheer skill, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley are in a
Mike Edwards proved himself to be the consummate showman as he presented himself as an amicable front man who seemed to be genuinely sincere when he thanked the crowd for their support. He attempted to get the audience
The best thing about their set selection was some of their unorthodox choices and omissions. One of the stand-out songs from f&u&er “Real World” went unplayed, whereas “Caricature,” the flipside to their latest single “Who Where Why,” was played right after “IBYT.” Ending the encore with “Blissed,” one of the few softy-wafty Jesus Jones songs from Doubt was an inspired yet unconventional closing point.
Taking the stage with “Never Enough” (their song. not the Cure’s), the band produced a fever-pitched intensity which never subsided even during the pause before their encore. The set continued on including the singles “International Bright Young Thing/ “Right Here, Right Now,” “Who Where Why,” and “Info Freako.”
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including Public Enemy’s “Sophistica ted Bitch II - were as compelling as any of their original work. So they tried to make up for it with bluster. They concentrated on their
covers they played
excellence of the rhythm section did not always translate into interesting songs. The memorable tunes were’ few: “Chemical Wire,” “Riddle of the ‘~OS,” the clipped funk of “Making the Freeway,” the lovely ballad “In Memory of Elizabeth Cotton.” The
show at the Trash was that the musical
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Like Jesus Jones, EMF’s sound is shaped by one member, Ian Den& And the sound is pretty similar to. Jesus Jones’ four-piece rock band thrown over a house beat. They even have a keyboard - er, sample - player who is really just there to dance around a lot, And like Jesus Jones, EMF use backing tapes in their live show to augment the rhythm and add that houseypiano. To smoooth things s-h.r*uvel* But unlike Jesus Jones who have
In contrast, EMF, who played the El Mocambo on April 1, show& themselves to be little more than five brats who have been showered with excess amounts of media attention and record company hype.
Watching this show, it became apparently clear that Jesus Jones is destined to be huge. Their creativity, songs and live show all equate that fesus Jones is going to be (to use &y’s Allan Cross’ humble and stoic pronouncement) “the best fucking band in the world.”
involved in sing-a-longs; however, unfortunately, tqe audience was not that familiar with the lyrics to “Welcome Back Victoria” (wait until next time). Edwards marries the thankful performer with just the right amount of the cheeky arrogant pop star to keep him from being a total Sinatra-esqlle Vegas lounge act. He was quick to admonish the jerk antics of the idiot attempts at stage-diving in the cramped environs at the front of the stage.
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tightness
brand-new LP F!vjtl’ fhu Flanrrel (first in two years). The new approach is less accessible, more ferocious than the band has been in the past. Subtlety is not the aim of the new songs; stunpower is. Trouble is, the new songs aren’t very good. Neither is the playing. Bluster has not only replaced songwriting, but
see why. They’ve cashed sound that Mike Edwards working on for three years they don’t have the depth anything more than d&$&s.
EMF have been called “New Jesu: Jones on the Block,” and it’s easy tc
In a way, though, EMF’s lack o experience helped them put on i good show. They were so damnec happy to be there that they gave us al hey had. After the second song, ‘? Believe,” the crowd went nuts. teen year old girls were stagediving At the end of the show everyonc rushed the staged and helped tht band trash it.
And poor Derry didn’t have time tc memorize which key on his Casia sampler made the cowbell sound and which one made the police siren sound. He had nice little stickers tc show him where everything was. Bui t’ even those didn’t help when the sampler stopped working. So he smashed it at the end of the show, just to let everyone know that he’s a rock star1 and he doesn’t have to take any shl from instruments. Another outburs like that and Derry’s samples migh find their way onto the backing tape next tour.
In fact, the tour was so rushed thal Zak didn’t have time to learn to play his bass. But he did get to dance around with it while he and the rest 01 the audience listened to the backing tapes do the work
been on the road since February, EMF are inexperienced kids who were rushed into a North American “showcase tour.” The show was short - not more that ten songs - and frontman James apologized for their not knowing any more tunes before they launched into their second “Unbelievable” encore.
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While early on in their careers, Dave Prater had acted as the first tenor with Sam Moore as the second, Isaac Hayes and Dave Porter decided that Sam, whose voice was sIightIy higher and of a more cutting quality than Dave’s, would sing the leads. In practice, this usually meant that Sam
Mississippi, each of which used two tenors, playing off each other, driq each other ta greater heights of fervour and passion.
tets which had become common circulation since the 193Os, propelled by the likes of Rebert Harris’s Soul Stirr&s or The Pive Blind Boys of
Curiously
compilation actually documents the Work of four men, Sam Moore and Dave Prater (Sam and Dave, of course) and Dave Porter and Isaac Hayes, their songwriters, producers, and mentors. The development of the Porter/ Hayes team mirrors that of Sam and Dave, who always seemed to provide the best canvas upon which Hayes and Porter would paint their soul masterpieces. One can trace the essence of Sam and Dave’s technique io gospel quar-
Onto Dave.
Andrew Love and Wayne Jackson the Memphis horns - were on call, and a bunch of young, eager songwriters were busy mining nuggets of the purest soul.
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souIfulness and dynamic interplay which would make their Stax recordings so magnificent Spotted by Atlantic Records’ Jerry Wexler, Sam and Dave were signed, then shipped to Stax studios in
began to display
various small labels, and had a stint on Roulette accords where they
After time in various Flow gas; pel groups, Sam Moore hd Dave Prater came together in 1961, in a Miami nightclub where Moore was acting as MC for amateur night. They then spent a few years recording for
The various “Best of”and “Greatest Hits” collections always passed over some of their finer material - buried on single B-sides and as album tracks. However, the recently-released 33 tracks of Thu Stax Years finally do justice to the four years they spent recording at 926 E. McLemore Ave.
the finest soul oeuvres.
Though primarily remembered for their seminal recording of “Soul Man” which has provided grist for every variety of commercial product - the awful movie of the same name, the Blues Brothers’bad cover version, and, of course, beer commercials Sam and Dave in fact produced one of
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And of course they don’t try to imbue the set with any identity of its own, either. These willing young ticketbuyers want to hear the hits as they know them, so that’s what they get. It’s downright embarrassing to hear Jagger imitate the opening yelps of “Sympathy for the Devil.” And much of the hit parade on side two “Brown Sugar,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Paint It Black” - sounds worse than the studio originals. Inevitable, really:
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haphazardness. The surprises are token ones: the little known “Factory Girl” (from Beggars Banquet), the blues standard “Little Red Rooster.” Otherwise, it’s all stuff familiar to 15-
hits, chosen from the band’s entire career with perversely deliberate
The material here is far from fresh: the bulk of it dates from the Stones halcyon days of the ’60s. Far from being what a live aIbum should be, Flashpoint represents what too many live LPs actually are: scattershot greatest hits packages with canned applause. The set list is crammed with
Contrast that with the cynical moneymaking machine that is Flashpoint.
Ideally, a live record should have an identity of its own, a sort of “this is where the band is at now” feel to it. This is accomplished not only with the actual performance, but with the song selection. A good example would be the Stones’ 1970 live disc Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! - the only worthwhile live album they have released. On that album, the material was fresh - a couple of Chuck Berrys, the current singles, cuts from the ‘68 and ‘69 albums. And the sound was cohesive and unique: a dirty, mean-minded cross between blues and hard-rock, highlighted by Jagger’s reptilian stage presence (“Yuh wouldn’t want me trousers tuh falI down now, wouldjuh?“).
A shit live album from a band with a long history of shit live albums.
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this compilation - projects which, on the surhce, seem to have a small commerciaI potentiaI. In doing so, WEA Canada have set a standard of adventurousness and attention to detail in their handling of their back catalogue which has not yet been matched by any other major record
Roots series, the excellent four-aIbum Otis Redding Sfov, and
Atlantic
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In closing a note of thanks. While record companies are usually the brunt of nothing but complaints, WEA Canada deserve nothing but kudos for their longstanding series of excellent reissues and compilations. They have consistently put effort and
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music is as stirring and unquenchably passionate as has ever been put onto vinyl. A 24-carat solid gold soul wonder.
track seIection
This is, in every respect, a flawless compilation: the liner notes, from the pen of Rob Bowman, are exhaustive and insightful, the remastering and
Sam and Dave were live performers of legend, possibly the greatest live act in the storied history of soul music. One would drop his mike, only to have it caught by the other, they would dive through each other’s legs, and generally do aq+?hing to put on the best live show around. During the Stax records tour of Europe in 1967,Otis Redding (a live performer of no small renown himself) vowed that he would never tour with Sam and Dave again - “they’re killing me out there” said soul music’s biggest star.
highlights from the Suul Men and I Thank You LPs, are beautifully remastered.
singles. Thus, killer tracks like “Broke Down Piece of Man”and “Ain’t That a Lot of Love,” previously just scratchy
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exceptional and deserves special mention with Chris Lowe’s whiteboy rap and Tennants’ breathy backing vocals. I heard rumour of an imminent outtakes tape - &sides. Here’s hoping.
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creating a total consumer maze. Course that’s part of the game. “We All Feel Better In The Dark,” the
around formats
EP releases are different from those domestic, while also bouncing
collector
were culled from their latest and best album &haviour. Now, their flashy world tour, replete with dancing choruses, winged costumes, and cowboy hats, coincides with another worldhde hit a la ’88s “Always On My Mind.” Neil Tennant has commented that the tour’s over-the-top humour is based in American pop culture, and often at America’s expense. It’s no wonder they chose a recent U2 single, a “rock ‘n’ roll” cIassic and fused it with “disco masterpiece” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” Not finding U2 to be all that precious in the first place, the song is a sheer delight; waft after waft of uplifting keyboards, soaring vocals, and mirthful “ah-ah ha” accompaniment all whip together to secure our saccharine trust, The boys have always been generous with bonus tracks, B-sides and remixes. Unfortunately for the
witness to a slew of PSB releases; both “Being Boring” and ‘?-Iow Can You Expect To Be Taken Se,riously?”
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Oh, the two new studio songs the politically correct antiwar tirade “Highwire” and the typically naughty “Sex Drive” - are pretty lame too. As if the live set wasn’t proof enough, the new songs provide ample evidence that the only difference between the Stones and the dozens of other crummy revivalist bands that troupe through LuLu’s is several million dollars.
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The 75minute, 17-track CD covers strong dancey material from Somerville’s debut with Bronski Beat, his changeover to The Communards, and his recent solo works.
Trailing behind the wave of Christmas-time greatest hits albums, British pop star Jimmy Somerville coasts in with a singles collection of works spanning from 1984 to 1990.
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This new five-song EP from Boston indie rockers the Lemonheads rep resents all that is both good and bad about the “wacky cover” trend. First up is a cover of the schlocky pop nugget “Different Drum.” Much as they did with “L&al a couple years ago, the ‘heads turn a silly pop smear into a screemin’ geetar anthem. This is what cover versions are all about, or at least what they should be. They throw a whole new light on the song, bringing it into the ‘9Os, as it were, but still they sacrifice none ofits original poweror charm. Unfomtely, the two original Lemonheads songs lend credence to the dictum that the reason covers are
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colossal work ethic in the music industry. His enthusiasm has even created several cover songs, to which the critics have not take17 a liking. But in an attached biography Somerville defends his actions stating ‘if it’s a good song and people want to hear it, I?lsingitI don’t see any problem with covers.” But in similar fashion to Depeche Mode, a charismatic voice coupled with some jazzy drum sequences will sprout continued success for Jimmy Somerville /\
So what happened? Seems like everything that madeBuzz Factor distinctive - the psychedelic t&.&es,. the moodiness, the terrific melodies -was missingonthis one. And thqre was nothing else there to replace it. There was just. . . nothing there. Maybe 1 would have liked this record better if I’d never heard Buzz Factory. Both records distill the band’s style, but the earlier Lp is just so much more realized and effective, listening to the new one wems like a big waste of time. So if you buy only one record this year - well, make sure it’s not this one. But if you buy only one Screaming Trees record in your life - well, make sure it’s not this one.
So if you’ve been thinking about RiBmm jumping on the envtronmental bandwagon and haven’t had the chance, drop in and pick up a high quality used record or tape for a minimaf amount of money. (We also stock CDs,posters,mags etc).
Also complimenting this collection are Sqnerville’s ~10 material from the &IJ& Read My. Lips: his most succes&d solo single to date ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) ” and “To Love Somebody” a song written by Barry and Robin Gibb. Yet, too often on this CD, it seems that there is little variety between tracks. This is surprising considering the three projects Somerville has been involved in. Despite his scrawny alien-like visage, Somerville has estabhshed a n
Usually, that is. The third cover tune is none other than “Step by Step,” as popularized by New Rids on the Block, musical spokesmen for a generation This represents all that is wrong with cover versions today: doing genuinely awful songs just for the sake of being ‘kooky.” Even worse, the ‘heads do nothing for the tune. They seem to think that theyrc being eccentric and hilarious just by virtue of covering such a “zany’ choice. They aren’t. Oh well. Most of this EP is pretty entertaining, and “Different Drum” is nothing short of a must-hear. All in all, not a bad tally.
so fqmlar right now in the first place is because nobody writes good songs ~ymore.“Rtint”and ‘“Ride with Me” are both highly listenable: one’s breezy and rockin, one’s acoustic and mournful, both are tightly-played. But in terms of appeal, memorableness, and sheer thrill power, they are nofhing next to ‘Different Drum,” Same goes for another cover on this Er“Skulls,” originaNy by Glen 1Danzig, who’s not a cheesy pop hack, but a ‘serious musician” The unpleasant fact is that cheesy pop hacks wually write better songs than “serious musicians.”
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Couple years ago, the Screaming Trees put out one of 1989’s best albums, a piece of melodic, grung y, neo-psychedelic Rower power pop called BUZZ Factuv.. Since theq they’ve splintered into various solo projects and released a group EP or two. The brand-new album Uncle Ancutksiu is tf\eir first major project since Buzz Fatq. -‘They sound like a cross between REM and Dinosaur Jr. - typical Amerirock,” sez Done. My instinctive retort was that this is not such a bad lace to be, but as the album wore on, P began to have less and less interest in defending it. Truth to tell, I was bored rightout o’my skull by the time side two sputtered to a halt. ~
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bands are @@ng signed too quickly nowadays, - j$ometimes after their second or third gig. Ignoring the tact hat the Wtiderstuff were snatched up pretty damned quickly themElves, the man has a point. There are plenty of aIWms being cut by bands Nho don’t have the maturity to fill even halfof the record. The Farm is one of them. The Farm tie like the car horns of pop music:
“Drive That Fast” is about a topic ong ignored in songwriting Nomen trusting men who drive fast am, in an allusive sense. The guitar Nork in this is phenomed, like nothng else I’ve ever wanted to hear. This s the best one.
Both @tars mix and intertwine, until you can’t distinguish one from the other. Another change is with the new-found source of cash, the Kitchens finally could hire a real numan drummer for this record - so no 808 bass kicks here, houseleads.
The Kitchens of Distinction. The Toilets of Destruction. The Bedrooms of Fornication. The Gazebos of Aggression. So it goes. The Kitchens are the latest guitar export from the United Kingdom’s One Little Indian Records, and “Drive That Fast” is the first single and second-best track from their new Strange Free World release, bested only by “Quick as Rainbows. NSince the Kitchens signed to big-trme A&M Records, their characteristic unmodulated-rawand-fast guitar wave has evolved into a more trebly, textured and layered sound.
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But unfortunately the rest of Spur~CZCUS,whose soapbox-like pop-art cover promises a “gentle but effective” record, is a bleached effort. Songs like ‘Wigher and Higher” show us a band who haven’t been around long enough to separate the wheat from the chaff, beahvise. I have the feeling that the Farm don’t know many more songs than they’ve put on Sp~rba~us. Save your money until they Iem some better ones.
The songs “Groovy Train” and “I-Iearts and Minds,” perfect examples of the great pop music that the English bewilderingly churn out with clockwork regularity, deserve a place alongside the best from the Charlatans or Happy Mondays.
they have one sound. It may be a good sound, but it’s their only sound. But using it for the entire span of an LP is Iike staging ‘hands across America” with a few dozen Stretch Arrnstrongs. Which is a shame, because there are four songs on this album that would make a great EP.
IfyoulikeEchoandtheBunn en around the time of Heaven 0” P ere or perhaps a faster A Teardrop Explodes, listen to the Kitchens. “I would never want to leave this country where roads are fast and knowledge easy.” .
“3 To Beam Up,” far from being an ode to Star Tick, is an extended instrumental, with swirling and sliding layers of guitar reminiscent of the MarshrnaIlow Overcoat. The Kitchens are sounding epic and almost symphonic and make you want to listen to them in bright oaken parlours, sipping boilermakers while wearing well-made natural fibre clothes.
Also included on. this EP iti “Elephantiny,” an ethereal u cap& version of an old single “Elephantine,” with the ever-deep chorus “every great nation ends up deserving war. , . .I’ The B-side of the single has ‘These Drinkers” and “3 to Beam Up” - no C & C Music Factory remixes of the title track here! “Nothing’s untainted, not even Pooh Bear” is how “These Drinkers” begins, ‘and it goes on to quite accurately describe a drunken night out and a hangover-sodden morning after. Rather slow-placed, this, but the lyrics make up for it.
That album contained some great tracks that attacked pro-Fascist skinheads (she started out in the LA punk scene and had a stint with Catholic Discipline of Lkche of Westm Civilization fame), satirized Rogers and Hammerstein, and paid homage to Martina Navratiloti. But one of Phranc’s greatest strengths was that she could vary her musical style from three-chord punk to neofolk to jazzy, lilting, piano bar blues.
As the folksinging bandwagon rolled over us in the late ‘~OS, I always thought that Tracey Chapman and Suzanne Vega were somewhat overrated and pretentious. Michelle Shocked was only slightly more appealing, because her first album was recorded on a Sony Walkman. But back in 1989, I picked up a copy of Phranc’s second album, I Enjoy being a Girl, and realized that this is what true folksinging was all about.
Then again, Stipe’s introspection on ‘bw,” Buck’s guitar on “Shiny Happy People,” and Mills’ “Near Wild Heaven” all have abnormally strong individual stamps, magnifying elements within the band, rather than {as on Green) the band itself. By way of disclaimer, “Iosing My Religion,” easily their best single since ‘Xockville,” i,s evidence that their musical
REM is mutating. But that is OK, we are all mutating. New voices, new arms, stronger legs, and eyes sensititve to different hues, Our Of Time captures a band tottering on the verge of fragmentation Not to say they are splitting up; rather, the strains of success on a democratic group have begun to suggest the natural divisions within, If, like KISS, REM decided to record four solo albums, and then culled the best tracks onto one, it might sound like this. Actually, that’s pretty silly.
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KRS-1, one of the album’s many costars. Katie Pierson, from the B-523 also helps out on a few tracks, adding particularly delectable vocals to “Shiny Happy People,” the next single. The whole project comes across as important, special, as if a faltering relationship suddenly caught the breath of life. “Endgame,” ‘Texarcana,” and “Me In Honey” all embody the sense of joyful rejuvenation that will undoubtedly fuel our summer airwaves. Life’s rich pageant goes on.
In ‘Hitchcock,” she sees her lover as the women in Alfred Hitchcock films: “When you went blonde you looked just like Kim Novak / You looked like her when you were brunette too / And I must’ve cried a million tears when I watched Vertigo/ ‘Cause both of her looked so much like “Tipton” is dedicated to the you.” late Billie Tipton, the jazz musician who was actually a woman who’d masqueraded as a man for 50 years. “Outta Here” is a tribute to hr friends that have died from AIDS, controversial including photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. But the highlight has to be the cover of the Beach Boys’ “Surfer Girl” done as an a cuppeia duet with . Syd Straw. Hearing the Beach Boys sing it makes them sound like sexist pigs; hearing Phranc render it gives it a beauty and wit ‘it never had before.
latest album does show more subtle On Phranc’s third and newest release, ?bsitiveiy Phranc, she conhumour, wit, and sarcasm. “I Like You” and “I’m Not Roman. tinues to explore the theme of love throbgh the eyes of a lesbian. Her . tic” spe* notjust about homosexual relationships but hetcroscxual ones gender preference is what saves these too. In fact, it says more about the songs from melting in a vat of cliched inability of men to underStand the nesfolkie syrup. Although not as musically raw as her last ettort, her simple phrase “no means no. ” ‘“‘64 Ford,” with its Heart-like opening a -and ’60s California surf sound - _----frn~lrtesy of 2 Nice Girls), shows &ra woman can love cars just as much as men, even when she’s 64 years old.
The opening strains of “Radio Song” harken to the glories of Retkoning before skirting down a rather funky path, culminating in a rap by
experiments have produced no irreconcilable divisions. This, their seventh LP, is entirely listenable - chock full of hit singles as hummable as ’89s “Stand” without being as hokey. Good idea to get this album now and enjoy it before AM radio and muzak cram it endlessly down your throat.
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The playwright’s own staging of the work (a kind of cousin of Waiting for Godot) is uneven. It contains far too much mugging by Gary Oldman and Tim Roth (ditigent performers elsewhere), frequent lapses into uninspired slapstick, and a misguided attempt to couch the picture in mysticism. Three or four of Stoppard’s rapid-fire repartee scenes are well-done, but the only other enjoyable parts come from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, mostly involving Richard Dreyfuss. Go figure. .
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Allen realizes Manhattan is not the * whole world; that’s a breakthrough However, this fantasy, which involves Mia Farrow in a series of drug-induced magical states (like Lewis Carroll’s heroine), is often facile and rarely as engaging as Allen’s l7te Arrpie Rose of Cairo, or even his short Oedipus JVk&s. The chief attraction is waiting to see who will turn up next, for the cast includes AIec Baldwin, William Hur$ Joe %tegna, Bernadette Peters, Gwen Verdon, Blythe Danner, and Cybiu . Shepherd.
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Like ?&ridan’s ‘My L& Fmt, this IriSi f&n is essentially a one-man show: this time veteran actor E&hard Harris is the man, Brenda Fricker is back, playing the wife Harris’character (the villagers call him ‘Bull”) has lived with but not spoken to for 18
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Weir’s appeal is a mystery to me; I have found Whess, ?he Mosquito Coast, and Dead PMS Society all unsatisfying (what about The Year of Living Dangerously or Gallipoli? ed.). Weir’s films never seem to have anywhere to go. This American romantic comedy starring Andie
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is affected by three unique women, played by Margot Kidder, Sheila McCarthy, and Kate Nelligan. It’s the flip-side of wacko - it’s schizo. Rozema, who also wrote and edited, has a fresh, dazzling styiishness; her use of cofour, sound, architecture, camera, cutting, dialogue, and tone are enough to make you think music video has a valuable legacy after all. The story is thin, but someh6w it doesn’t matter.
years The melodramatic plot begins when an American intruder (Tom Berenger) tries to buy a meadow that Bull considers his own There’s a meat small town flavour, with wonYderfully eccentric characters. H&is is superb, and even the cinernatography is right on the money but the film goes crisp, not soggy on too long. We have to watch Bull’s mind snap more than once too often.
Macdowell and Gerard Depardieu is a bad idea from the outset: a pair of opposites get married for the papr benefits, hoping never to set eyes on each other again, then, under pressure to pass an immigration department exam. They cram on each other’s characters, and in the process, fall in love. It’s all very tame and very dull. I actually wanted Macdoweil’s girlfriend to end up with the pianopraying French hero; she had spunk.
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Caroline (Jane Birkin), is more intimate with him than ever. The acting by the principals is excellent, bui Bogarde, with his soulful, cocker spaniel eyes, is especially watchable The one problem is this trio, psy“enmeshed” in their chologically unhealthy dependence and confused roles, don’t seem connected to the family of the flashbacks, where Car. oline is shown as a neglected child.
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definitions of pornography, while empowering the female identity with their larger-than-life depictions of open vaginas. Using this visual taboo; Johnson subverts the usual use of the passive
of Christine Dotzert and Debbie Johnson. Contrary to her ink figures, Johnson’s oils are confrontational and bold. They defy normal
sculpture which fixes on dentistry for its exploration of the inner self and its definition through outer structures. This piece must be experienced for its full effect, for merely describing his ,dental box is not enough. The impression it leave with you is most interesting, a penetrating deconstruction of both the mind and its language. No less penetrating are the works
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genitalia openly deifies you while it also invites - nay, demands - the utmost scrutiny. Dotzert’s smaller works use a similar approach and deal with identity as well, not how onezlates to self through body, but in relation to one’s parents. The two pencil crayon collages that take their names, “Harlot’s Curse” and “Marriage Hearses” from Blake (adding a cortuscating twist) develop a clever colour use that binds the photographs to the extended collage. The smooth .incorporation of the photographs in the work enhances, instead of where it can so many times destroy, a good work. The mood and feeling of crushed dreams from the rituals of an out-dated culture pervade both mind and body of the pieces as well as the viewer. The large wall installation, “Portrait of Mrs. E.B, Donly” by Laura Cunningham, has about it both a respect for its subject as well as the unflinching artistic eye. A homage to the late Mrs. Donly, the piece combines portraits taken from old photos and pages from an ancient health text. The contemporary projectionbf the artist and her identity. The portrait paidngs are diverse, ranging from Seri Haber’s Treeplanter 1,” with its sexless planter stooped and toiling with tree/paintbrush to create something, anything, in desperation; to Martin Williams’ “Self
East.“It is s subtle little piece, graphite on heavy paper, which combines tribal culture with contemporary minimalism. Debbie Johnson’s ink figures are also refreshingly minimal. Modem classical nudes which become fine tracings of the human form. Their study of line is interesting and catches the eye when many figure sketches don’t. This subtlety, however, is abandoned in her paintin% most fragrantly. In sculpture, there were two very intriguing pieces, the first being Dianne Fries’ gargantuan “God.” The structure stands a clay jester to the ceiling and has him hold the lines of several diminutive people below. While the project may have its small flaws, the sculpture works by virtue of how it draws you into it and forces you to look up humbly and then down to investigate the tiny figures.
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Mike Something checks into the Bomber to play his set of classic rock and roll covers on May 8 in a matinee perfcmnance. The next evening (May 9), Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra play at Phil’s Grandson’s Place in what promises to be a great show - the man is dynamite on stage, with a great voice and
Wednesday mornings from 10 am to 12 nmn, the Voice of the Fiddlehead spins your requests and then some on CKMS, 94.5 FM. This is an extended engagement all summer. Listen to CAMS for a great promo cart in case you forget when I’m on. Tonight, Friday, May 3, the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir is playing in town, at Kitchener’s Victoria Park bandshell; tix are six
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novel is that it is always instantly readable. L&n never wastes a word, and always writes with obsessive precision and care. And of course, the nice thing about popular fiction like this is that it’s so utilitarian: look not for long-winded thematic dissertations on the meaning of life in our time, ‘cause they ain’t here. No, Levin is only concerned with story and character, and while this may bring a sneer from your favourite English prof, it shore makes for damn fine readin’.
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Kiely’s “Pussy Pops,” a large prisma colour stix drawing of a bawdy stripper in the middle of her routine. The styles she employs, reminiscent of 1940s comic strips, does not degrade the subject but allows her to reveal her own sexual expression. The spunky ‘girl,’ depicted is a highly figure which idealized fantasy proudly flaunts herself and her erotic nature. A very interesting welcome. More tame, but no less effective, is Heidi Schlegel’s oil, “Snow Drifts.” Coming from the other end of the artistic spectrum, this painting is a relaxing piece which employs cool pastels in simple shades. Continuing this exploration into the nonrepresentational are Jesse Corning’s; two pieces, “Divided” and “Two! Squares in Space.” The two pieces are easily of the same cloth and are sound examples of what decorative art should be. Everything about them, from colour to shape, is completely inoffensive and does not provoke any heavy thought.
You only have two days left, but if there is anything to do in them, it should be to see the exhibition at the Modem Languages Gallery. The show, titled “Gathering Forces,” is a collection of third year fine arts students’ work, and an interesting collection it is. Some of the pieces deserve special comment, When you first arrive at the gallery, you run smack into Molly
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WPIRG Radio Show is on the air at 5:OO p,m. on CKMS 94.5 (95.5 cable). The local “Electric Green” alternates with “Planet Earth Radio Project”.
Bourbon in the Park? But of course, Perennial favourite - The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir - with special guests The Gropetoads - at Victoria Park Pavillion. Come get Bourbonized!
Fm Drop-In Legal Clinic sponsored by Zinszer Cooke Pinchen between 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. at WCRI Main Office, Clayfield 5uildinQ. Block 2, 268 Phillip Street.
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UW graduatestudents’ conference: “Federal Government Policy during the Mulroney Years, 1984- 1991. Keynote address by Hugh Segal, PC advisor and commentator, May 10, 11, 12 at 7 p.m. MacKirdy Hall, St, Paul’s United College. Admission $5.00.
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The distortion of the face is at first disturbing, but then can be read a different way. By standing almost parallel to the piece (it hangs around a comer, making this easier than it sounds) the face can be viewed without its unnatural stretch. Seen from the side, it looks normal. Then, at the front again, it is askew- The I inherent comment on the nature of art and the assumptions usually made about it are genius. I These works, and many more, will only be around for two more days, SO go see them while you can. It’s well worth the drive to Modern Languages.
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