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The Student Volunteer Centre is located in CC206. Information-on the following (and other) volunteer opportunities can be obtained by calling Ext. 2051 or dropping by the office. Regular office hours: Monday & Wednesday IO:30 to 12:30 and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 12:OO to 1:oo. Core Literacy - volunteer tutors needed to provide one-to-one tutoring for adults and youth who want to improve their reading, writing and basic math skills. Call 74% 6090. Elmira District Secondary School needs volunteers tc help OAC Chemistry students. Mdkgor Public School - students needed that are interested in helping with Grade 7 and 8 French classes. Services for Persons with Disabilities Off ice - persons needed to assist students with disabilities with reading, library work and note-taking. The Arthritis Society needs gift wrappers for the holiday season. December 15-24 at the King Centre. The Food Bank of Waterloo Region needs a person with computer skills to load programs into new computer system and to help set up directories. Days or evenings, CedarbraePublic Schoo! - work in aschool setting, Grades K - 6. Friends is a school volunteer program where a child is paired with a volunteer, establishing a one-to-one relationship to build the child’s self-esteem and confidence. Urgent need: male and female volunteers 18 years of age and over. Call 742-4380 to book an interview. Looking for good resume experience? How about volunteering at the Sexuality Resource Centre. If interested call Joan at 885- 12 11, ext. 2306 or leave a message at --_ -- Tl-nFmti. The Community Opportunities Development Association and the Kitchener Small Business Self Help Office is seeking the services of two volunteers. The services of a graphic artist and desktop publisher are required to assist with the revision of a 50 page booklet with the prominent credit In the publication for their work. Contact Wes Worsfold at 740-9694 or Terry Smye at 741-2604. Do we need Quebec?” If this is your area of interest, the FEDS need immediate help with a speech contest (organized by the Public Issues Board for National Unity) To sign up please call Jodi at 725-7408.
The UW Campus Ret Sailing Club has now begun its season. Call president Mike Kern at 747-2176 to find out more. Join the Conspiracy of Hope! Get involved with Amnesty tnternational Group 118. Weekly meeting at 7:30 p.m. lrl CC135. Fall Fun - there is still room in our evening dance classes for UW staff, faculty and students. Mondays: beginner Jazz ; Wednesdays: beginner Modern. $6,00/class. ECH Dance Dept., Studio A. For more info call ext. 2919.
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UNIVERSITY NOONHOUR LECTURES Fall 1991 Speakers are invited from the UW or WLU to give infomal tectures at the KPL Main Branch, Nov. 16 - Understanding and Tolerance for Other Religions, Dr. K. Koppedrayer, WLU, Dept. of Religion and Culture Nov. 25 - What’s Happening in the Technology Triangle, Dr. B. Fournier, WLU School of Business and Economics Dec. 2 - The Perfection of Man and the Need for War. Dr. Joseph Novak, UW Dept. of Philosophy Dec. 9 - Comparison Between Canadian and American Systems of Government, Prof. Arnd Juergensen, WLU Dept. of Political Science. Locking Ahead Sessions Nov. 18 - “Ideas & Issues” - 12 noon Nov. 18 - “Fly KPL” - 8100 p.m. Nov. 19 - “Risks and Public Issues" 7:30 p.m. vn fe&faI” 7:od p.m. Nov. 20 - “Alternative Medicine: Iridology” - 7:30 p.m, Nov. 21 - “Noonhour Book Review” 12:15 p.m. Nov. 21 - “Aboriginal Rights Coalition” 7:30 p.m. Nov. 26 - “Your Company’s Image: Creating Your “Paper Wardrobe” - 7: 15 p.m. Nov. 27 - “Equal Time - Examining Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Policy” - 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27 - “Holiday Craft Night” - 7:00 p.m.
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Would anyone who is interested in assisting students with disabilities for the Fall Term 199 1, with reading, library assistance, note-taking, please contact Jane Farley at Services for Persons with Disabilities Office, NH205 1, ext. 5082. Look forward to hearing from you! Kitchener/Waterioo Art Galery Exhibitions on View - “The Human Form” w Aug. 11 to Dec. 29 ; “Michael Boss” - Oct. 3 1 to Jan. 5/92 ; “Expressions 17” - Nov. 3 toDec. 15; “The White Line: Canadian Wood Engravings” -Nov. 7 to Dec. 22. Donationsneededforthe R.O.O.F. Library Program - books, magazines, art supplies, paper, and shelves are needed for our front tine counsetling service for youth. If you would like to donate some items please call Elaine 743-6090 or Gerrard 742-2788.
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STUDENTS - take time out for these 18 minute videos on PsychLit, the computerized index in CD-ROM format used to find journal articles in Psychology. Call Shabiran Rahman at ext. 2882 for more info. Thursday, Nov. 21 - IO:00 p.m.
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Bookstore and G&hop now open Saturdays. We are ready to serve you Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. or Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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HOURS effective: Sept. 3 Monday to Thursday 9130 - 9:00 ; Friday 9:30 - 5:30 ; Saturday 9:OO s 5:30 ; Sunday I:00 - 5:00 (effective Sept. 8)
DAM Are YOU looking for a volunteer opportunity on campus. If so, consider working for Plenty Canada. Plenty Canada has been working in Latin America, Asia, Africa and in North America. For more info call (613) 278-2215 or Plenty Canada, c/o Heather Phaneuf, RR 3, Lanark, Ontario, KOG 1KO.
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ALL FACULTIES *Don Hayes Award - Deadline: January 11, 1992. *Mike Moser Burs&y - Deadline: November 30, 1991.
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING John Deere Limited Scholarship - (available to all 36 Mechanical) - Deadline: November 29, 199 1. FACULTY
OF APPLIED HEALTH SCIENCES Mark Forster Memorial Scholarship (available to 3rd or 4th year Kinesiology) Deadline: January 10, 1992. ~appiication forms and further information please contact the Student Awards Office, 2nd Floor, Needles Hall.
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SEARCH WORK-m ml 1991 Sign-up sheets and workshop preparation handouts available in Career Services, NH 1001, the week prior to workshop. ALL WORKSHOPS are held at NH, room 1020. Summer Jobs - 1 hour - learn how to discover the array of summer jobs available. Tuesday, Nov. 19 - 11:30 to 12:30 p.m.
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Film held at8100p.m. in the Campus Centre, room 1IO featuring “The Fallof the Berlin Wall”. There will be refreshments served. _ ~,Uovlwnkrl~
Waterloo flood Donor Clinic - First Untled Church, King & William Sts. at 130 p.m. until 8’oo p.m. ywtfr building the Future - Meeting at - Everyone 12:30 p.m. in CC138 welcome!
Waterloo’s Caribbean Students’ AssociatlOn Sports Wde)cend Party - the Turret at WLU. Doors open 8:00 p.m. - $5.00 at door. Dance to Hip-Hop, House, R & 6, Reggae and Calypso.
Mem&s of UW Community are invite& attend a Salon (Oxford Definition: a meetIng of notabilities)to discuss theirviews on the Constitution Proposals. 7:00 to 8:X pm., room 221, ES. Refreshments.
Mabdmy,Wovlwnkrl8 Twin City Cycling COmmitbE?Meeting to rC:OO p.m. at Kitchener City Hall Round Table Session on Proposed Cana- 7100 4th Floor, Committee Room #4, - TOPIC dian Parks Service Policy. Your oppor- commuter cyclist needs, Iunity to influence public policy by way of questions and answers. William Davis Thw!&8y,llonmbwp1Sentre, r0om 1350. 7:30 to lo<00 p.m. CZ& Films - _. . Just Before the Rev= ~,~ovmab+r30 ‘Ion - (UW Fine Aits Film Society) - at i’:o0 o.m. in IJw’s East Campus Hall, roorr wRomeomaUU & Juliet.presenb Nov. 20 toShakespeare’s 23rd 918:OC 1219. “The Poets Taste for Life”, 102 pm-, Theatre of the ArIs, Modem minutes. Languages. Tickets $8.00/aduIts, $6.00 Qnadian Actlon for Third Wx students/seniors. Tickets available at the CUsO Development) invites you to purchasE Humanitles Box Office. colourful zind inexpensive gifts from Thirc Ifyou are interested in healthy eating to World countries at the Campus Centre
Resume Writing - 1 hour - techniques for writing an effective resume. Moriaav, Nov. 18 - 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Resume Critiquing - 2 hour - bring your own resume for analysis by the group. Prerequisite: Resume Writing. Thursday, Nov. 21 - 4:30 to 6:30 p-m. ; Morday, Nov. 25 - 3:30 to 530 p.m. Letter Writing - 1 hour - learn how to use letters to your advantage. Monday, Nov. 18 - 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Intenriew Skills III - 2 hours - practice selling your skills. Tuesday, Nov. 26 - 2:30 to 4:40 p.m. Graduating Students Interviews - Nov. 11 to Dec. 6, 1991 and Jan. 13 to Feb. 7, 1992. Graduate 2 Newspaper distributed Nov. 25. Additional Programs - Inquire in Career Services, NH 1001, 1115 or phone 8884047.
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aymen’s Evangelical Fellowship evening ervice, 163 University Ave., W. (MSA), opt.321 at 7:00 p.m. All are welcome. For nore information, call 884-57 12. lVLRY
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wg third and fourth year students who have financial need, an examplary academic record, and who have achieved a high level of accomplishment in extracurricular activities are invited to apply for these awards. Application, including resume and two letters of reference, should be submitted by November 29, 199 1 to Dr. Neil Widmeyer, Applied Health Sciences, BMli. Special applications are available at the Student Awards Office, 2nd Floor, Needles Hall.
This 1 session workshop will aid students in preparing for and writing exams. Tuesday, Nov. 19 - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. ; Wednesday, Nov. 20 - 9:30 to 1 I:30 a.m. or I:30 to 3:30 p.m. ; Thursday, Nov. 21 9:30 to 11130 a.m. or 1:30 to 3:3O p.m. Register: Counselling Services, NH 2080 or call extension 2655.
JW Recycles Meeting from 4-5 p.m., LC 38A. Students involved in recycling come nd out what’s happening on Campus
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ewish Students Association Bage lrunches are held from l1:30 a.m. to I:30 b.m. in CC1 10. Everybody welcome! {agels, cream cheese, juice for $1.50.
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EVERY TUCSDAY kperanto Club Lunch: Come experience le international language in action. 12:OO ,.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Modern .anguages cafeteria. JW Progressive Conservatives meet to iscuss world events and organize ctivities. New members are always welcome! Meetings are at 5:30 p.m. in MC, mm 4060.
SA Women’s Issues Commrttee Istairs at the Grad House at 12 noon. Last ieeting is Dec. 5. Ail women graduate udents encouraqed to participate in anning events and acting on university )mmittees. r,~ercle Francois meets to play “Trivial 3ursuite”, and “Quelques Arpeuts de i&ges” at 7 p.m. at the Grad House Ipstairs). Come test your skill and prac;e your
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GLLOW - (Gay and Lesbian Liberation o Waterloo) Coffeehouse - informal discus sion and’meeting. 9to 11 p.m. in ML 104 Our phoneline 884-GLOW operates ; p.m. to 10 pm weekdays (information ant peer counsetling).
l VLRY THURSDAY ---Career Resource Centre - open till 7 p.m every Thursday from Sept. 12 to Nov. 28 Research employers, occupations ant more.
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The Peace & Conflict Studies department is hosting Dr. Ruben Apressyan, Vice Chair, Ethics of Nonviolence Cenire, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Monday, November 25 at 12: 15 p.m. in the Board Room, &own Bag Lunch. For info 885-0220, ext. 265.
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amen’s Evangelical Fettowship Bible ;tudy. DC1304 at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome. Far more information, call 8841712.
Free Esperanto classes - come learn tht international language. Beginners met from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and advance, students from 8:45 p.m. +o IO:00 p.m. i MC4062. The text is “Teach Yoursel Esperanto” by Cresswell and Hartley. Nc registration is necessarv. uxtdChu=h Campus Ministry -prayer? bible study and discusston in WeS!e Chapel, St. Paul’s College at 8:30 a.m.. A are welcome.
The Student Christian Movement (SCh meets regularly at 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. We ar an encumemical group of student interested in integrating faith and social ju: tice. New members wetcome! For mor info call Sheilagh at 725-8047 or Bruce ; 7257993.
Chinese Christian Fellowship meets at p.m. in the Wilfrrd Laurier Seminary Build trig. Joln us for uplifting singing, investiga tive Bible studies and thought-provokin! speakers. All are welcome. There
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Prayer) from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in CC roan 135. All Muslims are welcome! Baha’i Faith Information Meetings - All arr welcome to attend discussions such as the Lesser Peace and Most Great Peace ant any more. Campus Centre, room 138 a 7:3&&
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by David A. Campbell Imprint staff Vandalism is nothing new and is, for the most part, expe&ive but harmless. Having some egg or paint on your house will make you upset but it won’t really hurt you. The whole vandalism changes, nature of however, the minute explosives are used. On Thanksgiving weekend, person or persons unknown went to parking lot “C” and detonated explosives inside one of the coinoperated gate mechanisms, according to Philip McKay, the supervisor of the University of Waterloo’s parking department.
If this was some kind of robbery attempt, it failed as the coin collection box inside the machine was undamaged. If this was just some stunt to get a cheap thrill, it certainly was not cheap. McKay says that a replacement machine cost about $3,000.00 and lost revenue from the 18 or so days the machine was down amounted to at least $7,000.00. called the occurrence McKay “stupid” and “dangerous.” Needless to say, Waterloo Regional Police are involved and are awaiting analysis as to the type of explosive used. Money collected from all the parking lots goes toward the mortgages on existing lots as well as things like snow removal. Parking tic-
ket revenue goes toward student bursaties and is recycled back to the students. However, revenue collected from towing is lost forever to the towing companies. UW’s parking problems were highlighted in parking lot “C” during the days the coin machine was down. Because parking was free, drivers took full advantage of the situation by cramming as many cars into the lot as they possible could. As the accompanying photo shows, cars could be seen on both sides of entrance-ways, in front of other cars, and even on top of the grass mounds. This created an extremely dangerous situation as well as dangerously short tempers.
Student survey analysis underway THE JtESULm ARE IRr! Preiminary tabulations have been comJiled from the 1,369 student surveys hat were received in the last couple If weeks. Even without the &rveys that were ust mailed to co-op students, it Ippears that there is interest in irrthering the project. To the right are :our of the main concerns and below ire the top twenty services requested md their frequency of occurrence out Jf 1,337 returned and acceptable surve ys.
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optimizing solar energy systems; and Dr. Owen Ward, UW’s Industrial Research Chair in Microbial Biotechnology. NSERC is Canada’s largest research granting agency. This year, the federal CounciI will invest $445 million in advanced research, the training of new scientists and engineers, and collaboration between the academic and industrial sectors. Ontario professors and students received over $155 million in grants and scholarships from the Council last year.
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The Sigma Chi Fraternity chapter at University of Waterloo was awarded its third Peterson Significant Chapter Award at the Sigma Chi International Fraternity’s 44th Annual Leadership Training Workshop at Oklahoma State University on August 9. The award, named for Past International President of Sigma Chi J. Dwight Peterson, is awarded annually to those Sigma Chi chapters which perform well in all areas of chapter operation, including scholarship, public relations, finances, campus involvement and community senrice. There is no limit on the number of chapters that can win. This year 31 of 2t2 chapters earned the award. Each chapter earning the award receives a large laminated plaque and its university receives a cash contribution from the Sigma Chi Foundation to its counselling or tutoring program. Pictured above is Mike Houston (left) and fellow Sigma Chi member presenting cheque for $100. to Associate Provost, Student Affairs Peter Hopkins (centre). Photo try Peter 6rown
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CFS delegates hug, then fight by Paul Done, Imprint staff After a week of intensive meetings held in the Ottawa Skyline Hotel and the Palais de Congres in Hull, the Canadian Federation of Students closed their General Meeting last Saturday, November 9 with a banquet celebrating the tenth anniversary of CFS. Despite a big group hug - in the form of seminars to discuss crucial
issues regarding the development of CFS, in a more representative, more co-operative fashion - the closing sessions of the GM were rife with the backstabbing and arguing which have plagued recent meetings. After the wrap-up of committees on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the collected delegates had a few free hours to take a deep breath before the afternoon sessions. These
consisted of first, a general overview of the first ten years of CFS, then various discussion groups afterward. Each of the groups discussed one question related to the current and future direction of CFS. The session produced remarkable consensus in the analysis of the problems with CFS over-politicization of the General Meetings, divisions along geographical and
ideological lines, a lack of effective communication to the individual students who make up CFS, a lack of effort to build consensus within the organization, and an estrangement from genuine student concerns. Many suggestions were put forth: concentrate on specifically student issues, poll student bodies before General Meetings to gain a greater sense of student concerns, reach out
into classrooms to communicate with students, abandon Roh~rt Is RU/V.S c!f Or&~ for a less bureaucratic meeting protocol, hold regular “gripe” sessions to clear the air of bad feelings, and the initiation of a shift of CFS’s focus away from General Meetings to a campus-driven approach. The main business of the Closing Plenary Sessions was the discussion of the Reports from Committee, the motions and business contained therein, and the election of next year’s CFS Chair and Deputy Chair. Current Chair Kelly Lamrock was elected for another term. Other business interfered, though, and hours were spent arguing a motion to impeach the treasurer of CFS, Lyndon Surjik. Much of the time was spent bogged down in procedural wrangling over the propriety of the motion, and whether or not the National Executive should be included in the motion to impeach since they are ultimately responsible for Sujik’s work. The motion was defeated. Committee reports were brought to the floor with their recommendations on the motions that were passed to them from opening plenary, and with motions brought forward as a result as a result of Committee business. With the exception of the reports from the Budget Committee (which met until 6 am Thursday morning) and Membership Development Committee. Some of the key issues which were dealt with during the meeting were moving to join the International Union of Student (IUS). This was done in order to fulfill CFS’s founding principles of uniting Canadian students in as large a federation as possible. A second major event was the transfer of ownership of Travelcuts, the CFS’s student travel service, to the Federation itself. After a decade of organizational separation, the shift was one more step toward consolidation. Some of the major topics dealt with by motions put on the floor were the three per cent “guarantee” currently Levied against student loans. Along with the current campaign to end the fee, CFS passed a policy motion which demands the return to students of any such fees collected by the government to date. Motions were also put forward condemning the MU~~PUU,Suniversity ratings. The genera1 feeling among delegates was that, not only were the methods used slipshod, but the survey was completely incapable of rating the quality of experience that a potential student might have, A further complaint was that CFS was misrepresented in the article, which claimed that the Federation had been consulted, when in fact they had not. High on the List of concerns for delegates was the recent Stuart Smith report on post-secondary education, which advocates massive tuition increases tied into a system of income-contingent repayment. Though not clearly spelled out, this would essentially mean that students would defer payment of their kition until after graduation, when it would be paid through some sort of tax over and above basic income tax. Rather than argue the specifics of Smith’s interpretation of the concept of “income contingent repayment,” the Federation chose to commission research into the entire concept. If possible, the researchers will be asked to posit a form of incomecontingency which might be generally acceptable to the Federation and its members. Many, many topics were examined during the course of the week. If you havtz
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Campus Centre News Update Unfortunately, this week we have to tell you some bad news. This will be the last semester for Cinema Gratis in its current form. For years now, the Turnkey Desk has been offering first-rate movies for free in the Great Hall, but our supplier Criterion has decided that we no longer qualify for the “educational rate” in ordering movies. The Desk, as much as it would like to, cannot afford $500-600 per movie.
Cinema Gratis est Cinemu Mart Between the audio visual and film studies departments, we hope to run a classical version of Cinema Gratis and show classical movies next semester. We are also hoping to assign different clubs, groups, and societies specific weeks in which they can show films pertaining to their organization in the Great Hall. Any other suggestions or comments on this are welcome. In the mean time, come out and enjoy this Tuesday’s FREE feature Monp @hurl and the Ho!v Gmil. Set up at 9 pm+ Also coming up in the Campus Centre Great Hall is a fine arts sale this Monday, Tuesday, and We&esday and the CUSO Third World crafts sale Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Next week you can watch out for the Safe Sex Fair and a Spring Break Travel display, followed by Christmas in November the last week of the month.
A team from the University of Ottawa has won the 1991 Leger Cup debating tournament, held this past weekend at the University of Waterloo. The University of Ottawa’s Sarah Dover and Max Valiquette beat a team from Queen’s University in the final round by proposing that Canada develop an immigration policy to deal with space aliens. Dover also won the public speaking component of the Leger tournament, by giving an extemporaneous but moving speech about how society treats homeless persons. The Leger Cup is the university debating championship tournament for central Canada (ie, Ontario and Quebec). Thirty- seven two-person teams competed, from universities including Trent, Royal Military College, Western, and Concordia. Waterloo could not compete because it was the tournament host, The tournament’s social activities included a banquet held Saturday night at the Valhalla Inn. Jack Sinclair, and executive vice-president at Bell Canada and a member of UW’s Board of Governors, gave a keynoteaddress on some peculiarities of the English language. Paul Check, tournament organizer, expresed satisfaction with the tournament. ‘IInconvenient delays aside, the tournament ran smoothly,” he says, adding “I’d like to thank those people in the community who tooI the time to help us by judging debating and public speaking rounds.” Check, a math student, gave the tournament a distinctly Waterloo flavour by taking all the resolutions for debate from the writings of physicists, mathematicians and Archimedes, Euclid, including Godel, and Einstein. In one round, competitors
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Remember, on any given day clubs, groups, and organizations are holding meetings in one of the CC’s conference rooms. Find out from the Turnkeys when your favorite club is having its next meeting. Duck food is back. Since we stopped supplying stale popcorn, the campus duck population has been starving (popcorn is actually bad for them). Now, thanks to a donation to the Turnkey desk by Pet Pourri of Beechwood Plaza we are giving out free cupfuls of cracked corn - bring a cup and ask for some. The duck welfare program is back - thanks, Pet Pourri! The Turnkey Desk is your onestop, 24-hour news stand. Did you know we keep daily editions of The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail, The Kitchener-Waterloo Record, and The Toronto Sun; weekly editions of The Hockey News, Imprint, Iran Times, The Gazette, The Record Entertainment Guide, University Affairs, The Waterloo Chronicle, and The Pennysaver; plus monthly editions of The Waterloo Region Visitor, Aficionada, The Princess Cinema Guide, The Woman& as well as 54 popular magazines. Some of our
by Teresa Kennedy Imprint staff The murder of US President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 devastated the political life of North America. On Thursday, November 21, almost 28 years to the day after the assassination of Kennedy, the Citizens’ Justice Committee will be presenting evidence in an attempt to prove that his death was a politicallymotivated coup, orchestrated by high-level government officials acting in conspiracy with members of organized crime. “We believe that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the crime of the century,” says Brian Seibert of the Citizens’ Justice Committee. “We believe that the assassination was a well-planned political coup that allowed a corrupt element of government and organized crime to take control of the White House.” According to Seibert, the committee has proof that Lee Harvey Oswald was merely a pawn used by corrupt government factions, and that once the story is out, “it will make Watergate look like Romper Room.”
newest subscriptions include Men’s Health, Entrepreneur, Ebony, The New Age Journal, GQ, and Canadian Remember that the Campus Centre and the Turnkey Desk will still be open 24-hours-a-day during exams and over the Christmas holidays.Need a quiet room to study in? Any student can make a same day booking for a room (with a student card) if the Turnkeys haven’t already designated one for exam studying (subject to availability) .
Humble reasoning?. by Mathew Englander special to Imprint
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authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” The House of Debates acknowledges financial help from the Associate Provost for Student Affairs and the deans of the arts and science faculties. The House of Debates regularly sends teams to compete in taurnaments in other parts of Canada, and sometimes abroad. New members are always welcome at meetings, which take place Mondays at 5:30 pm in Physics 313.
Seibert claims research the Citizens’ Justice Committee has conducted with the help of The Assassination Archives Research Centre in Washington, DC, and the JFK Research Centre in Dallas, Texas, indicates that the same organizations responsible for Kennedy’s death involved in the were also assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King. They alscl believe an alliance formed between the Republicans and organized crime leaders, which still exists today, was not sympathetic to the political agenda of the Kennedy administration. Because this alliance could not compete with Kennedy charisma, C JC says, key people were murdered, and the Republicans gained control of the White House. Seibert believes that the assassination of President Kennedy affected the history of the planet. He claims to have evidence that shows that if Kennedy had survived, there would have been no Vietnam War and no nuclear Arms Race. “If we want Canada to survive, we have to get rid of political cormption,” Seibert says. CJC urges those who think that Kennedy’s death does not affect
Canada in the ’90s to think about evidence linking the Republican administration to organized crime, and to think about Canada’s relationship to the States. As Seiber t notes, approximately 300,000 Canadian jobs were lost as a direct result of a Free Trade Agreement which was pushed through by the Mulroney government, and which only benefits the States. CJC believes that the destruction of the txonomy and the environment, and the escalation of crime are symptoms of a corrupt government, not signs of a government primarily concerned with its responsibility to the citizenry. CJC hopes that by making their beliefs about Kennedy’s assassination known to the North American public, the process will be reversed and justice wiI1 be restored to society. Seibert will present evidence about Kennedy’s assassination in a presentation, “JFK: The Coup of ‘63 ” Thursday, November 21, at 8 pm, 6 Engineering I Room 3518. Admission is free - you be the judge.
KGB in tunnoll by Walter Wagnleithner Imprint staff
It was a cloak and dagger evening. On Tuesday, November 12, Wilfrid Laurier’s exquisite John Aird Centre was the setting for the third Laurier Lecture, “The KGB: past, present, and future.” The large audience arrived early. A diverse crowd, not at all a dominantly student turnout, was eager to hear Cambridge Historian Christopher Andrew’s and former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievskv’s views on the Russian secret servick’s evolution. The evening began with Dr. Andrew. As he took the stage, his dapper appearance, excellent articulation, and academic stature might have imitated the audience. However, his self-effacing humour quickly endeared him to an interested crowd. He focussed his discussion on the KGB’s recent past. Deciding to minimaIize past KGB brutality, Andrew outlined recent developments. He described how a Soviet population more accustomed to free speech started to express its distrust. In efforts to combat this
negative publicity, the KGB has taken serious steps to improve public relations; they have even elected a “Miss KGB.” Andrew then decided to turn his attention toward covert KGB spy recruiting activities of which Gorbachev was aware. While these taIes of secrecy were somewhat alarming, Andrew eased anxieties bv describing how comical these effoits were at times. KGB recruiters were instructed to investigate almost every facet of someone’s life before they tried to bring them over to the KGB side. Obviously, this was an impossible task. Such rampant triviality and over bureaucratization made for an unhealthy system unable to SUCcessfully pull off and maintain the August coup. All of this information made for a lighthearted presentation. In light of current Soviet ideological reversals, KGB activities now seem pointless. However, former KGB colonel Oleg Gordievsky made the audience realize they should not laugh too loud. As a former double agent Gordievsky presented the crowd with an opportunity to hear what it was like on the inside. While acknowledging
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fireside chat y Peter 8rown In the wee, wee hours of the morning, uhen all the world is fast asleep. As 1sit here late Wednesday night, the world j in the process of shuffling a couple of steps #loser to the end-times. David Duke is due to je voted in as governor of the state of June .ouisiana tomorrow {Saturday), Iowlands was elected mayor of Toronto on uesday night, and Marty Taylor is now the city :ouncil member for the City of Waterloo’s Vard 4 (that’s right here, by the way). In other news, William Kennedy Smith, accused of raping a women at the Kennedy ?state, complains that the trial is “really iring.” Oh ya, and I missed Frank Sinatra at the 3ardens Tuesday night. tt never rains but il 3xlrs. Why mention the Chairman of the Board? Nell, I sit here listening to Live at the Sands, xrhaps the last great recording of Sinatra, Tis voice only cracked once in a while. Now, he is 75 and this week I squanderec what probably constitutes the last chance I’I ?ver have to hear one of the greatest voca stylists of the 20th century, Now, I know you’re skeptical . . . I mean, who wouldn’t be? Wha joes a guy like me have in common with ; tensioner with ties to organized crime? A man who often looks like he is retaining as much rvater as Liz Taylor? A guy who is danger 01 leing out-sung by Joe Piscopo? But back to politics. Wednesday morning’s sun rose to reveal a governor for the newly created Ward 4. Yes bat portly owner of Marty’s, Mr. Taylor had ridlen The Cord’s endorsement to the zenith of 2 I7-vote winning margin over Nancy McCrear) Ior representation of our little corner of this fail Durgh. Drinks are on the house, right Mar-t? Elsewhere in the region, three candidate: ior the conservative group Accountable Action landed themselves upon the eight member Separate School Board. Accountable Action feels that high school “children’ should not be informed about contraceptive: because this knowledge promotes promis, cuity. In North York, the ultimately incumbent Me Lastman secured his ninth consecutivt mayorality victory, breaking a 7 1O-year-ok Guinness record. 1.nthe City of Toronto, former police corn missioner and “law and order” lady Junt Rowlands romped over NDPer Jack Layton Rowlands’ claim to fame is stating two year! ago that black men commit a dispropor tionately large amount of crime in the city. Down in Louisiana, former Ku Klux Klal wizard and Nazi sympathizer David Duke i: darn close to winning the gubernatorial (thi whole column is an excuse to use that word race over former Gov. Edwin Edwards. Dukl is a man who could not say on NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday how many people in thf state live below the poverty line, or even whc the state’s three top employers were. “I don’ carry an almanac around with me,” he war reported as saying. He also regularly speak: of protecting America for “our people,” refer ring to people of European descent. Let’s ju: say he’s got prejudice under his skin. But back to Frank. First off, i’m pretty sure that I would havt been disappointed if I had gone - maybj that’s why I kept putting off buying tickets some subconscious thing. Well, here’s to hoping Marty’s gets i Karaoke machine soon, so I can go ant croon, lamenting my failure to get to the Gar dens. “My kind of ward, ward 4 is . . .“
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This wu.\ writ&n OFI II nupkirl WI Nov. 6 At this very moment I am sitting with a friend in Fed Hall. In fact, we’ve been sitting here for about 15 minutes. It is now 5:15 and we are still waiting for someone to take our order. After 10 minutes, my friend and I went to the kitchen to place our order ourselves, but no-one was there! So, we sit here waiting. We come here to eat and what happens nobody seems to want to let us. It isn’t as though there is no one here to notice us. Several staff members have walked past and seen us, but have chosen not to do anything. 1 think Fed Hall could probably make a lot more money if, oh, I don’t know, the staff actually noticed the customers. My friend has just now returned searching out some staff member who (it’s 5:22). He has told someone of our tence and we are getting some service. we wait for our food.
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Two suggestions for those of you claiming to “run” Fed Hall: 1. Advertise the fact that you serve food during the day, I didn’t know you did until a friend told me. 2. When people do come in to eat, don’t ignore them. You will lose the few customers you have. We were one minute away from leaving and it’s not the first time. I thought this ordeal was over but it seems there is more to tell of this story. Ten minutes have passed since we ordered our poutine (one order of fries with gravy and melted cheese). StiIl no sight of our food. The last time we were here, it was at our table in less than ten minutes.
At least’twenty minutes have passed and for the last eight minutes, we have suspected that it was our food sitting on the counter. The first five minutes had it sitting in the open air. The next three had it sitting under the heat lamp. Our suspicions were confirmed when my friend pointed this out to our server. To do this, he had to walk over to the bar and interrupt her re-arranging of the glasses. We can see them putting the food back into the oven. I wonder why. Our poutine has arrived at the table and we’ve only been in the building for 45 minutes! Please note: we are the only customers here and our server has re-arranged the glasses on the bar three times already. No, the story is not over yet. We ate-our poutine in a hurry because we had somewhere to go, but then spent five minutes waiting for our bill. We finally went up to the bar to ask for it ourselves. We expected to hear, “Sorry for the inconvenience,” or, “I apologize for making you wait, it’s been very busy around here (they were setting up for an event that night),” Instead we got, “Oh, that’s the third time tonight I completely forgot about you.” Well thank-you very much. We love you too.
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Not everything about Fed Hall is that terrible. The food itself is great. It’s just a shame that you have to grow old waiting for the chance to eat it! it really is no wonder that when you suggest going to Fed Hall, the people around you start to laugh. Emily
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Wailing and gnashing of teeth r To the editor, I wonder how many people who claim to believe in God have actually read the Bible or even go to church on a regular basis? These people who have this fuzzy, and quite secular vision of God are, in many ways, more difficult for me to understand than genuine, Bible thumping Christians proper. Although I find the kinder gentler God of popular culture more palatable than that vain and jealous bastard described in the Bible (you know the one that commits genocide by flood, turns people into pillars of salt and kilts all the Egyptians’ first-born sons), I find him even more difficult to believe in (which is a shame really, because He onty ever damns people tike Hitler-to hell, I think this letter alone assures me a gold ticket seat in Hell by Old Testament standards.) This secular vision of God bears little re!at-ion to the God of the Bible yet it is the source on which he is based. However if you do not accept some of the basic teachings of the Bible or it’s implications on what grounds do you claim to believe in the Christian concept of Cod? This seems to me to point to the wish fulfillment aspect of religion. People believe what they want to. They can believe in evolution and keep their God too. Thcyzan ignore the fact that if Christ is the only salvation, all Hindus, Muslims and Jews art’ dan11~~i. Some claim that the Bible is partly metaphor, if so which part? Can we claim that heaven is simply a metaphor for an tlarthly utopia that WV would achirxvt) if wt’ frAlow4 Christ’s . I tt~achin~s? God has becr)rnt) one ‘(if those krms lik “$\t-t” or “feminism” which has been rendt~r~d nt2;lrlV mcaningl~ss by ovt’r use And cr)ntradi&ory claims. I rcccntly asked a friend of mink) what thcv , meant wht)n they talk4 about God. They replied that Cod was pure IOVV and that he was whatever we thought he was. While that is terribly new age and all I still don’t know what that was suppcjsed to mean. I guess what I’m trying to get at is that atheism seems logical to me on scientific and moral grounds which led me to reject the Bible as any sort of authority on anything. I don’t see how you can reject the Bible in part without rejecting it entirely. Yet many who claim the existence of a remotely Christian God seem to have done so. Craig Nickerson 3N English/Philosophy
To the editor, If yclur intent was to get me lo read your I must admit you succeeded, in pur feature “Faith Versus Logic,” ! agree with many of the frailties of religion merk)ned. However, I think the author is cutting himself short in not going through the trouble of selecting some shards of truth amongst the religious debris he has left himself. Assuming the author still maintains an open mind, perhaps he might entertain the thought of briefly looking at a different perception of God. Imagine, if you will, a simple vessel, consisting of the qualities of wisdom, truth, love, compassion, sacrifice, innocence, patience, common sensor, unselfishness, generosity, creativity, trust, understanding, kindness, rt’spect, humility and strength. Think of the syntht*sis of thesp poorly undtrstood qualititls as what was being r&rred to when it was said that man was made in the image of God. Imaginta each of us being u-c-akd into a similar typc’c,f vtsst~l, CAP-abIt of t~mbracing thtbsta same txncrgics, and willingly sharing thtbse gifts with thta people with whum wt* intcbract.
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These forces represent an integral part of our daily building of relations with one another, Regardless of what culture or religion we belong to, they give direction, pleasure, and meaning to life, and strangely enough are equally accessible to each of the over five billion individuals who may wish to seek them. To claim that these components are not part of a single entity is doubtful; as absolutes, they cannot effectively act independently of one another-You cannot express trust without the complement of the other qualities I have mentioned. Believing in a God whose meaning has been subject to several thousand years of interpretation by man is not without some merit; however, understanding and embracing the components which make up this Being, would seem to represent a viable and practical alternative. G. Wahl Graduate
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Hence, in one sense, this whole discussion is a colossal waste of time, and reveals society’s obsession with the need for one correct belief system. It would seem more brneficial to focus on the positive benefits that a person’s beliefs could lead to.
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It is my hope, that a person’s beliefs, whatever they may be, would encourage continual questi&ing of one’s lifestyle, attitudes and the effect of these on the world as well as their immediate surroundings. It is in this way that beliefs can translate into “right actions,” and society and the world can evolve and become more equitable.
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To the editor, I have been fascinated with the recent series of letters evoked by Dave Thomson’s feature article on atheism. I felt Dave in his follow-up note did verV well in accepting thtr criticisms (ie. logic errors and inadequate research) and in providing further challenges. 1 was pleased with the amount of response; how&r 1 wonder if there would have hem any had the tone been less “offensive.” First I would like to comment on the motivation for writing the articIe. In my opinion, the primary motive should be to encourage people to think: to question and/ or dclubt. I believe these actions form the basis for learning. In a letter last week, Reimer stated that many Christians do question their faith, and that inner strength is not required to doubt. I am not sure that I would call this true doubting, however, because theimplication is that doubting is bad, and the objective is to overcome the doubts in order to firmly establish the previous belief system. perfectly human Doubting is a phenomena. It occurs when new information or experiences challenge or confront one’s of the wor!d and reality interpretation (including God). To truly doubt is to accept the possibility that to incorporate the new information might require the modification or even rejection of the previous mode!. To truly doubt takes a Iot of courage and inner strength. To put this in termsa Christian could understand, it takes a lot of faith. To some, this would seem an irreconcilable paradox, because doubting is often associated with a lack of faith. One possible motivation for writing letters or articles (such as this one) which would be suspect, is the desire to convince others that the presented view is truth and contrary opinions are misguided. Koffman in her letter was quite insightful in dealing with this issue, saying “Insult or disparagement of the views of others does not promote the upenmindedness you seek.“ In today’s society, many conflicts arise over the insistent belief that one religion is superior to another, and that it is necessary to convert others. As a fallible human being, however, I can only state as truth that which I have observed empirically, been told by sources I accept as authorities (written or verbal), or have learned by some divine revelation or inner voice (assuming it exists). The validity of none of these mediums can be proven or accepted by everyone, and hence I can only speak abrmt “what i b+AitJve.” The problems in Russia cannot he attributed to the professed belief system (atheism), just as it would be unjust to attribute the bchaviour of suv~ral scandalridden TV cvan+ists toChristianity. I would concede that some belief systems are rnorc
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The Doorstaff position is a very difficult and demanding job and I applaud the efforts of the men and women staffers (no gorillas allowed) in maintaining integrity and an efficient operation for all to enjoy. Fortunately, the proof of how the student popuiation feels about Fed Hall is at Fed Hall and not confined to the forum pages of the Imprint.
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I have been a member of the Federation Hall Doorstaff for over two years and have read many “colourful” letters regarding the operation of the student facility similar to the one entitled “Fed Hall Rednecks” appearing in last week’s forum. Although I find the forum an excellent means of voicing an opinion, having enjoyed Fed Hall as both a patron and staff member I generally take these opinions with a grain of salt or two. Nonetheless I shall use these means to offer a slightly different viewpoint to the inner workings of Fed Hall. I have seen Chuck Over the years McMullan build a doorstaff with an attitude . . . a posiri~ OW! In fact, the single most important quality the management team aspires to find in selecting doorstaff (or any other position for that matter) is not brawn but a positive attitude. The training that the doorstaff undergo is quite different from what the writer suggests, Fed Hall does not do”AH” training but rather “AA” training. What the writer describes as Fed Hall’s limited etiquette and social behaviour laws boilsdown to Alcohol Awareness and the liquor Iaws of Ontario. Some patrons do not understand that the Doorstaff play a very key and sensitive role in controlling crowds and alcohol consumption governed by the laws of the Ontario Govemment. Ideally, these laws would be cohesive with a patron’s expectations but sometimes this is not the case and problems arise. In these situations I would offer anyone to walk a kilometre in a doorstaff’s shoes (I wish everyone could), one might then understand it is neither a pleasurable experience for the doorstaff or the patron under these circumstances. However, we as Doorstaff accept this without complaint. Doorstaff training is geared toward not just reacting to a problem situation but more importantly preventing potential problems environment
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I’m okay You’re okay To the editor, I don’t know how to express my gratitude enough to all the people who helped me outside the Dana Porter library on Monday, November 4 when I was very sick. Even though it was freezing cold, a bunch of total strangers stayed with me the whole time, comforted me, caIled an ambulance, and even gave up their winter coats. One of the people there named Lorraine located me later in the hospital asking if there was anything she could do, like notify my profs, and simply just to see how I was doing. I’m okay now, thanks so much for caring, everyone. You know who you are. Dana Tuju
insults won’t change the past. Besides, did she ever think about the fact that James perhaps didn’t even notice her? Anything could have been possible. I don’t know James, but if I had been him I would have made a big deal out of this incident and I would have demanded an apology from from the newspaper editor for publishing such a narrow-minded letter. It is my understanding that newspapers cannot publish rubbish that is intended to hurt that image of any individual. In this case, Imprint has failed to take that into account included inappropriate and has even language to make a statement that could have been approached in a different way. Let’s hope that something of this nature does not happen again or I will begin to believe that this newspaper is nothing else but a waste of money for those of us who pay to get it. Tony Velasquez Spanish Club
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Full of direct insults To the editor, I would like to comment on Nancy Forde’s letter, “An asshole like you.” Although I symgathize with whatever she went through the day at Dr. McNally’s office, I am shocked to se that Imprint would even consider publishing a letter full of direct insults to __-_. -. Unlike Nancy, I’m not an English major but I’m smart enough to realize that rudeness and
This is written to address Andrew Conway’s letter of November 8, entitles “Feds Non-commitment.“Our main concern with it was that the problems outlined were due to a lack of information which could have been clarified had he spoken to myself or any other Feds, Thank you for your applause with regards to our support of National Students’ Day; however you seem to be mistaken with regards to how we advertised this day. Advertisements appeared across campus on the poster boards, throughout the Residences @ong with a petition to protest the 3% loan tax), in the Imprint, on the Marquee and around the booth in the Campus Centre
which was set up for a week. This protest was also discussed at council (which is open to all UW students), but those present felt that it was not a priority to throw macaroni at the Minister of Colleges and Universities or make bumper stickers in protests. I am satisfied with our advertisement of this event, and interpret the lack of participation by Uw students to mean that this type of protest is not a priority (especially when it is competing against mid-terms and co-op interviews) . In keeping with UW’s style, WC are concentrating on a pro-active funding proposal which directly addresses the issue. The schools who are directly involved with us in this proposal which encompasses accessibility, accountability and funding got together no because we were “miffed at OFS for being concerned with issues that affect students” but because we attempted to set up
a task force to deal with this same issue from within OFS and were unsuccessful. OFS would not abandon their tuition policy to allow for consideration of ALL funding possibilities. This is where Andrew is confused. The goal of this proposal is a REALISTIC partnership between students, government, university administrations and the private sector. I’d like to add that this group of schools working on the proposal do not constitute an alternative to QFS, as Mr. Conway implies. We are a task-oriented group simply trying to do what we could not do from within that organization. In conclusion, I commend Mr. Conway’s suggestion that students get informed on our positions vis-a-vis this crucial issue. Perhaps in the future he could take his own advice before he writes a letter that serves no useful or informative purpose. My office is in the campus Centre, Room 235 and I would be happy to answer your questions in the titure.
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It has been a gradual process, but in a way I am not completely surprised. I have become repelled by the thought of eating animal flesh. This is more psychological than physical. I am not a complete vegetarian yet (I don’t think we all should be and I don’t think I’ll ever be completely), because I still partake in a meal of chicken or beef stew on occasion, But I have not purchased any red meat from the supermarket in the past six months. My growing distaste I believe, is continent from an ethical principle more so than pure dislike. More to do with how we raise our farm animals than how we cook them. How we hire many middlemen between us and Bessy rather than doing the killing ourselves. The majority of agribusinesses (most commercially successful beef traders are no longer family-owned farms set on the memory of temperate forests and rolling grasslands; witness the lucrative ranching interests that root up tropical rain forests to meet Western appetites), tend to treat animals as mere chattel, investing both capital and hormones into an objective commodity with the same indifference of feeling whether it be in the stock market or the stock yard. Nonetheless, centuries of domestication are little cO-nsolation
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Like Thoreau, I question the wisdom of continuing this slaughter. The energy required to produce fertilizer, drugs, pesticides and the water and land needed to support the fodder and animals seems Iudicrous as a sustainable economic policy let alone ecological activity. Hunting and simple fishing - not the kind that casts miles of drift nets to snare dolphins along with Charlie the Tuna - are by far more natural tendencies than the food processing industry that divorces our needs from the soul and matter of nature. It is a food industry that feeds us Coca-Cola rather than water, Doritos rather than cornmeal or potatoes, inorganic trademarks rather than food _ Would not our emerging rationality and humanity lead us away from preying upon other flesh? Would not our broader imagination and ingenuity raise the cuisine of the lowly bean, grain, and root to an art worthy of our palate? I doubt that we can ever reconcile our taste for meat and fats, but at least we should consider where our tastes will lead _. .. . . I us. -
The purpose of Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Awareness Days (BGLAD) is obviously to increase awareness of the bisexual, gay, and lesbian communities. The term “communities” is not meant to, imply that there is a bisexual community, a lesbian community, and a gay community, but
rather to convey the notion that, just as there are many people “out there” in the heterosexual world who come from many different backgrounds and have a wide range of interests, so bisexuals, gays, and lesbians can be found in all walks of life, all cultural and ethnic heritages, and all
issues of interest to queer (and other) people has been compiled to raise awareness and increase the appreciation of the diversity that can be found in everyday life. For such opportunities to learn about people in general, be glad!
educational institutes. As one chant that is commonly heard at marches puts it, “We are everywhere!” We are everywhere, and being everywhere, we have all had different experiences, and we do have different interests. A small sampling of queer cultures, queer histories, and
GLLOW: A personal history by Jim Parrott In 1970,l began my present job at the University of Waterloo. Over the first few months that 1 spent here, 1 made several new friends. All of them knew that I was gay and were supportive. But all my gay friends were back in Toronto, and I felt the need for a gay support group here as well. (Those were the days when gay groups were just beginn~g.)
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On March 8, 1971,l attended the first meeting of GLOW, then called Waterloo University’s Gay Liberation rr---a---mrrnmffexperience for me. There were son-t&thing like 100 people at that meeting (the estimate in the student newspaper, The Chawz, was rather lower), most, but not all, of them gay people. lt seemed that the time was right. Over the next few years, the attendance at most meetings was between 50 and 60. There were equal numbers of university and community people, and there was a generous spread in ages. At the time, there were no gay clubs in the area, only one or two men’s drinking rooms that barely tolerated gay men; the situation was even bleaker for lesbians, So the campus gay group soon became a focal point for the local gay community. We arranged frequent dances and parties in the early years. We also did other things to foster a stronger sense of community, such as publishing our own newsletters. Probably our most impressive publishing achievement was the publication in 1973 of the justly famous “Operation Socrates Handbook,” which was used for years by counselling agencies in Ontario. After a sensational 1973 article in the K-W Record describing the 39page Handbook as a “sex manual,” there was a series of ludicrous letters to the editor. Apparently many heterosexual taxpayers thought that the aim of the Operation Socrates Project was to convert thousands of gullible heterosexuals into homosexuals. The goal of the Project was, of course, more modest than that. It aimed at answering some basic questions about homosexuality; and it did this mainly through a series of interesting interviews with a crosssection of lesbians and gay men. We also accepted numerous requests to speak at classes at UW, WLU, and Conestoga College. This is one of the public education tasks that I particularly enjoyed, and I have continued to do it to the present day. It is heartening to realize that the questions have become more perceptive and less asinine over the years.
In the beginning, there was a prethe more occupation among intolerant members of our audiences with the concept of gay men as child molesters. Now, we scarcely ever hear comments of that nature. I am not sure whether this represents a change in the attitudes of the intolerant or merely a recognition that the rest of the audience would shout them down if they voiced opinions like that. Our group also contributed to the political lobbying that has resulted in real and important changes in human rights legislation for gays and lesbians ---Aa~--Thcl plan&g for this work was accomplished mostly at various gay conferences held across Canada (primarily in Ontario in the early years). Those conferences were also a vehicle for personal growth for many of the attendees. For me, the high point was a conference we held here on the Victoria Day weekend in 1974. Most of the workshops we arranged for that conference focussed on human growth. Some of our desire to have a conference with less political emphasis came from our experiences at Waterloo in 1972 and 1973 with our gay consciousness-raising groups. These were immensely fulfilling experiences for us, true peak experiences, which we still look back to with fondness. When we began these ErouDs in kmuary of 1972, I had just returned from Christmas with my family in Saskatchewan. I had taken the opportunity to come out to my youngest sister (who said “don’t tell Mother, she’ll have a bird”), and my mother (who said “don’t tell Father, he’ll have a fit”). I trusted instincts, . . my_ mother’s _ reasoning that she knew more about his fits than I did. But after being in tW0 consecutive consciousnessraising groups, I knew that I had to give my father a chance to have his own reaction to my sexuality. When they visited in August, I went out into the park with him and told him what was on my mind, and I’ve never regretted it. We became closer as a result. Unfortunately, some of my friends have had less positive experiences. in the mid and late 1970s there were attempts to establish gay dance clubs and gay community groups offcampus. After a series of false starts, there came to be gay dance clubs ip Kitchener-Waterloo. But the attempts to establish a community groups eventuaIIy failed. That was a major disappointment for many in the KW area. I was fairly actively involved with the University group until about 1981, when my companion John and I decided to go our separate ways. At that point, I needed some time to
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myself. So I put all my extra energy into things of the mind. In 1983, when 1 was starting to tire of my hermit-like existence, the AIDS crisis had begun to surface, and I decided to continue to entertain myself intellectually for a while longer. It turned out to be quite a while longer. Last fall, I still had a small number of gay friends in KW and several more in Toronto and elsewhere. But I felt the need, once again, for a gay support group. This was partly because some very special friends of mine had tested HIV-positive, and partly because I wanted to experience the energy and excitement of a gay group once again. It seemed that the most obvious way to find that groups would be to come back to GLOW. I was wary, of course,
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to UW for longer than most of us have been breathing for!” As it turned out, when I returned in January of this year, most of the members were indeed students, with only a few over the age of 25. Nonetheless, 1 was made to fed welcome. Even though I am no longer stmggling with issues like coming out (since 1 did it so long ago) I can still remember the challenge and exhilaration involved in doing so, and l can appreciate the excitement of the younger members who are going through this. I immediately became involved in the preparations for the 20th anniversary, which we had in March. It was a marvelous experience; we had a big party and a panel discussion, and 1 saw more old friends than 1 ever expected to. We had a lot of fun. Over the last several months, as GLOW has entered its third decade, it has been moving in some interesting directions. For example, more people from the community have been coming to the meetings, and also a few more people over the age of 30. And
now, we have decided on a more active outreach program. We want to ensure that the thousands of lesbians and gay men on and off-campus know about the services that we offer. I myself am especially interested in setting up discussion groups separate from the informal discussions in the GLOW meetings - something along the lines of the consciousness-raising groups that we used to have. Possible topics might include: coming out to family and friends, relationships with our parents, achieving intimacy with another person of the same sex, sustaining in tima te relationships, pract-king safe sex without losing the immediacy of the momen C, stereotypes about lesbians and gay men, role-playing in relationships, living in a heterosexual environment, reaching out and rejection, friendships with other gay men and lesbians, body image and happiness, and developing a sense of community. ht us know what you’re interested in!
GLO W/BGW Moving toward Political Correctness MacFarlane
The politically correct movement certainly not a (KM) is phenomenon unique to the lesbian and gay liberation movement. The PCM is largely a product of American college campuses and has since spread northward to Canada and has the rest of North “infiltrated” American society. Since there are lesbian and gay organizations on most campuses across North America, and since lesbians and gays, as with many other cultural and visible minorities, have historically been marginalized, lesbians and gays - especially at the university level have been significantly affected by the KM. Being politically correct (PC) means different things to different people. To some, it is being aware of and combatting oppression and discrimination in its many forms racism, sexism, homophobia and heterosexism, ableism, ageism, lookism, and so on. In the editorial of the July/August edition of Ms. magazine, Robin Morgan states that “if choosing inclusive language instead of carelessly cruel terminology is PC, then PC must stand for plain courtesy.” On the other hand, anti-PC people (anti-PCPs) claim that the use of PC language is not necessary, since “man,” for instance, is inclusive. (I respond to that statement by saying the “man” implies “male” and males have penises and scrotums. I, I am happy to say, have neither. I am therefore not included whenever the term “man” is used). Anti-PCPs also claim that political correctness is like a hydra - whenever one issue is addressed, two more are raised and that the issues are becoming
individuals who believe to be PC feel that individuals who believe
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’ to be PC feel that they and only they have a monopoly on knowing what is “right” or “appropriate”and, being in this privileged position, feel that they have the right to censure and/or censor the-opinions of others. Too often, being PC means subscribing to a certain set of values and beliefs, without being able to challenge them or evaluate the rationale and logic behind them. Too often, one’s PCness is evaluated upon one’s potential for being discriminated against, for being a member of the most minority groups. Another criticism that I have often heard about PC is that it stifles discussion and has caused a great deal of self-censorship. If one cannot explore feelings fully, for fear of being labelled either PC or PI (politically incorrect), then one cannot get to the root of them and thus discover whir one feels that way. I do not argue that, in discouraging self-censorship, one should go around shouting racist, sexist, homophobic, environmental, peace activist, or feminist slogans. Rather, one should allow thoughts to develop fully, and the presumptions, motivations, reasonings, and arguments behind them could thus be explored, instead of slapping on self-censorship at the merest inkling of an “improper” thought. If the origins of behaviour (and prejudice and discrimination) can be explored, there is a better chance of altering undesirable behaviour. In this manner, the self-censorship that seems to have sprung fully formed from the PCM defeats the ideals behind the parent ‘movement.
political eurrect(ness)hard to define more and more trivial and nitpicking. Sweeping generaiizations are made about both PCPs and anti-RX%. PCPs are, according to stereotypes, all hyper-sensitive, monogamous, radical feminist, pacifist, ATDSvegetarians who wear activist Birkenstock sandals. Anti-PCPs, on the other hand, are all insensitive, racist, sexist, homophobic, heterosexist, ableist, ageist, lookist, straight, white, male supporters of the patriarchy. In my humble opinion, both sides have engaged in excessive amounts of both hyperbole and overgeneralization. The principal criticism I have heard of Iate, of PCPs, is that too often,
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While hatred, hostility, and oppression have existed since earliest times, Gay and Lesbian liberation is a relatively new phenomeson. The earliest rights organizations in North America were begun in the late 1940s. The Nattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis are the best known of these early organizations. The political catalyst of liberation, however, was not an organization but a riot in New York City in July 1969. The event was the Stonewall Revolution. Stonewall has been called “the hatpin dropped, heard around the world.” The New York City police moved in to close the Stonewall Inn, a gay night club in Greenwich Village, the Bohemian centre of New York. This was the final blow to a gay subculture very much under siege by the
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One of the greatest qualms I have about the PCM is its very name. I resent anyone who attempts to impose their own views of what is right - or in this case, “correct” - on me. 1 do not object to people explaining their positions and opinions to me, but T reserve the right to form my own opitiion as to what is “right” for me. However, I also realize that the PCM was not self-named, but the term was originally coined, therefore to a large extent, defined by the “privileged” people of our North American society the white, straight men who have much to lose by any alteration in the present fundamental balance of power.
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Queer Nation was founded in San Francisco, California in July I990 and member chapters have since arisen across Canada and the United States. Queer Nation is a group of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, and transvestites across North America to eliminate which strives homophobia, heterosexual privilege, discrimination, and queer invisibility often through non-violent and humorous direct action. In the words of one San Franciscan Queer National, Queer Nation encourages queers everywhere to “take to the streets to combat anti-queer violence, promote social equality and form coalitions with like-minded groups.” Local chapters of Queer Nation are formed with the particular circumstances of the community in mind. In some cities, there are problems with queer-bashing. and police heterosexism and violence. As a result, focus groups such as DORIS SQUASH (Defending Our Rights In the Streets, Super Queers Against Heterosexism) and Savage SQUELCH (Super Queers United to Eliminate Loathsome Cop HetPC is a phenomenon that only exists in liberal democracies, and the only people with power can afford to be PC. @hers (especially minorities) have to use any means possible to get attention. Too often, however, such minorities are condemned for being PI, since they refuse to play by rules set by others, whereby it is impossible for them to win. The PCM is not always the most efficient or effective means to affect change, since “PC” is increasingly being used as an epithet to denigrate those who oppose discrimination and stereotyping that is entrenched and institutionalized in the current social order. Many people I know are afraid of being labelled as PC, although they believe in equality for all and are aware of the various forms of discrimination and are actively opposed to them. In many ways, there are as many negative stereotypes associated with being caIled “PC” as being called “feminist” - and these stereotypes tend to be promoted by people who are, for various reasons, opposed to any change. There are many people who believe in what “feminists” believe, and are aware of this, yet refuse to call themselves feminists, In support of the ideal of PC, which I interpreted as nondiscriminatory multiculturalism, and in order to oppose stereotyping and reclaim the label as I define it, I, speaking for myself alone, am willing to call myself
police, the authorities, and politicians. Clubs had been continually closing and people had taken enough. Traditht says the rioting was begun by the drag queens and then moved to the whole community. The riot/revolution mobilized -Christopher Street for two days and the Gay community was joined by the Black Panthers, the black advocacy group. The Inn was set on fire and the rule of the day was bedlam rather than concession. Gay and Lesbian liberation was born of violence and not peaceful activism. a Today we enjoy many benefits from this original revolution but we must not let complacency replace awareness. Violence has been replaced by peaceful negotiation and demonstration where possible. However, we remember the tactics of Stonewall in the policies of modern organization like ACT UP which still
Queer Nation chapters employ a variety of means of promoting visibility, from T-shirts bearing queer or otherwise political images, to poster and sticker campaigns using slogans such as “Stop the Violence Stop the hate,” Fag Power - Dyke Power - Queer Nation,” “We’re
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Here, We’re Queer, Get used to it,” to kiss-ins at het bars, to marry-ins during which quee? couples go to the local judges and demand the right to get married, to chalking outlines of people in areas where bashings have been taking place and writing messages such as “My beloved was queer-bashed here.” The most controversial tactic which is endorsed by some Queer Nation chapters is “outing” informing the media of the true sexual orientation of a public figure who is behaving in a harmful and hypocritical manner toward the gay and lesbian community. Each chapter decides for itself which methods are the best, considering their circumstances, to be used to promote queer visibility and to discourage homophobia and discrimination. Queer Nation aims to creatively and, where possible, humorously address issues surrounding queer life. It is not a radical leftist group employing either terrorist or guerrilla tactics. For more information about Queer Nation, or forming a chapter in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, call 884GLOW (884-4569).
erosexism) are formed. For people with different interests, groups such as QSN {Queer Shopping Network) or SHOP (Suburban Homosexual Outreach Program), which visit shopping malls, engage in displays of affection, and hand out pamphlets, might be more appropriate. Across the continent, there are many other focus groups such as HEDGES (Homos Espousing Drastic Green Environmental Solutions), GHOST (Grand Homosexual Outrage at Sickening Televangelists), LABIA (Lesbian and Bi-womyn In Action), VIVA (Versatile vigilantes Instigating Volatile Art), and UBIQUIToUS (Uppity Bi Queers United In Their Overtly Unconventional Sexuality) to address the interests of any group - however large or small - that is out there and wanting to do something.
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A Theistic. Response by Michael Clifton lfnprint staff Those who have been following the mixed passionate/logical debating since Dave Thomson’s feature (Imprint, Oct. 25,199 1) hit the fan will undoubtedly have noted that I was one of those who opposed him (“Faith need not be opposed to logic,” Imprint, Nov. 1, 1991). I now stand on the other side of the fence, and it is to many of those other respondents who have angrily slandered Thomson’s character, and anxiously mishandled the issues he raised, that I am writing. I remain personally unconvinced by Thomson’s arguments against a belief in God, although I will admit that my reasons are not solely those I presented in my previous article. There I admitted only an inductive belief, merely hinting at the nature of my other experiences which have committed me (more than any study or tradition possibly could) to a belief in the Cod whom I worship. It is precisely this strong foundation of personal experience with God that allowed me to put aside natural inclinations to tussle with Thomson over his reasoning that there is no God. Having a confident vantage point of my own, I was interested, rather than offended, L drawn, n& illogically, from his also personal experiences.
When God does appear to Thomson, which I believe (as a mat& of faith) will some: day occur, it will be to Thomson’s dismay that he must then be called upon to admit and explain his disbelief; but based on Christ’s example, I find it difficult to believe that this would be the basis for Thomson’s condemnation, if condemnation were to be the Lord’s judgment of Thomson’s life.
The claim that no logic supported Thomson’s belief in the non-existence of God is one part of the evidence showing that very few of the respondents read his feature without predetermined prejudice affecting their interpretation of his words. Moreover and
the same careers; for the reason that every person, even a child, should be permitted to explore her inner sensibilities and sensitivities, trained in reason but not by reason%, allowing her, as she matures, to choose her own path in life. The facts would support the need for this freedom to be applied in a religious upbringing as well, since very often the children who are given the least intellectual freedom during their childhood and youth years, become the least responsive, and most prone to rebellion in later years. To “raise a child in the way,” ought not to mean indoctrination (in the negative sense that the term is commonly used), but education through advice and example. Neither of these destroy the fundamental freedom to choose one’s course in life withoyt undue
Thomson’s feature was not logically structured, certainly not any more than any of the condemned; religious arguments he however, that fact does not preclude its being logically based. In fact, the same logical-argument employed in my article is capable of defending the atheist viewpoint as well, especially that presented by Thomson.
Other issues raised by Thomson have remained undiscussed in most letters. PeopIe who choose to leave their faith, or to be otherwise open about their doubts, mereIy exercise the common right and advantage of every person to examine the life and culture he or she has been given. That they are sometimes psychologically threatened by the faithful who, until that time, might have called them sisters and brothers, is a concern of many thoughtful ministers. The related issue of the unwarranted imposition of guilt on <he curious or the morally erring, is equally distressing. Christians ought to recaI1 that the New Testament defines two kinds of guilt: the kind which leads to hope, and the kind which Lads to despair. The latter is defined as being opposite to the will and pleasure of God, yet it is the type we most often impose onto the minds and hearts of others. If we obey Christ’s directive to forgive all those who offend us (or him), we should not impose this latter kind of guilt. Rather, by an offering of hope and encouragement - conditions in us of giving unconditional love to others - they may, of their own accord, and with the assistance of the conscience or light of Christ which is in them, develop the former, positively functioning form of guilt, becoming able to embrace life with newness of spirit, which is, after all, the central focus of repentance, is it not?
To have ignored most respondents,
YousayJehovah,I say YQwertl It has been over and over compIained that Thomson’s judgments or conclusions were illogical (ie. Nov. 1, letter from Gary Dann). In fact, they were the very fair assessments of an individual based on 1. his personal experiences, and 2. the consistent experiences of others, including numerous highly intelligent and, in that sense, reliable sources. We, the faithful in God, may consider it disappointing, even sad, that Dave Thomson does not share that faith with us. It is entirely unbecoming for us, however, to condemn him, or deride him (take note, J. Schaper, letters Nov. 8). We ought to remember (at least, the Christian faithful ought) that Christ condemned most heavily the professedly faithful, not the professed doubter and disbeliever. In the book of the revelation of Jesus to John the Beloved, it is, in fact, the agnostic, not the atheist, whose state is the least preferred by God. Remaining momentarily with that theme, Christians {who were the majority that wrote against Thomson and his feature} may recall that Thomas was called the doubter because, until he saw with his own eyes and touched with his own hands, he would not believe. Christ did not condemn him, but said only that those who believe without first seeing are more blessed - more blessed, perhaps, because they had remained trusting in Christ and found their trust confirmed by his appearance to them subsequent to his death. Their prior trust admits of a depth of love and sensitivity toward Christ, a relationship with him of a sort such that, had with any person, it is a beautiful state to experience.
fact that Thomson’s effort was not to answer all the questions he raised, but merely to raise them.
these issues suggests that including Thomson’s
Let’s call the whole thing o$‘? atheist supporters, missed the most obvious intention of the feature. To have supposed, alternatively, that Thomson thought the issues he raised are the definitive claims against religion generally, also seems to miss the point. Thomson’s article was primarily his personal response to his personal experiences. His manner and method may have been distasteful to some, or at least unnecessary, but the intention of sharing one’s doubts, feelings, and “musings” is a time honored tradition of literature and philosophy, and, for that matter, a major portion of religious literature.
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paradoxically, the antagonistic readership seem to have read so carelessly that many of Thomson’s most obvious errors were missed. Even. more disappointing is that his most vaIid __ __ _ criticisms of the behaviour of the religious were also thoroughly ignored. One obvious inconsistency in Thomson’s article was his criticism of the indoctrination of children by their religious parents. A number of respondents countered his criticism, but only to the effect of asking the same question Thomson had been attempting to answer in the first place: “if parents sincerely believe in a religion, why shouldn’t they raise their children to believe it z” (Derek Weiler, Opinion page, Nov. 1; cf. also, Scott McClare, letters, same issue.) Thomson might answer: for the same reason ‘that parents who Iove their careers shouldn’t (‘raise their children” to engage in
stress from coercion. Combined in ar atmosphere of sincere love they become tht most powerful Foral and intellectual teaching tools available to parents. ?he inconsistency’ in Thomson’s article which could have been cited by other respondents was that while Thomson calls it “incloctrination” for religious parents to train their children in th&r parents’ faith, parents in an atheist society merely “socialize” their children to accept their parents’ moral standards. Thomson’s own prej’udices are evidenced by his word choice, and so also is his failure to deal with the issue of indoctrination in a thorough manner. However, Thomson’s “musing” (as he calls it} raised important and legitimate questions about the way that religious people ought to train their children. This positive aspect of his comments has so far been ignored, as has the
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Ratification of Auditor for 1991-92.
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Motion to amend By-Law 1, Section V, G. Voting of Members to read: Each voting member of the Corporation shall at all meetings be entitled to one vote and s/he may vote by proxy. Such proxy need not himself/herself be a member and any such proxy shall act as proxy for no more than one member. Such proxy shall produce and deposit with the %&es+&$arz$ Manager at least &@&&+8$~+~$&&& :. ..’ @j hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, before the meeting sufficient appointment on individual documents in writing for his/her constituent. Such appointment shall contain the signatures and student identification number of the member and of the proxy, if applicable, and shall be open to examination by any member of the Corporation. Such appointment shall specify the item or items of business upon which the proxy may vote. Such voting rights shall include all procedural motion or motions incidental to the main item or items of business so stated. No member shall be entitled either in person or by proxy to vote at meetings of the Corporation unless s/he has paid all dues or fees, if any, payable by him/her.
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Motion to amend By-Law I, Section XI, A. Business Manager to read: The &&+e&%%@ Manager shall establish, administer, maintain and supervise ai! necessary accounting and financial records of the Federation, its Boards, and subsidiary organizations including Clubs and Societies, subject to the By-Law5 of the Corporation and direction of the President; Vice-President, Operations and Finance; and Students’ Council. He/‘she shall also supervise all office services and engage or discharge personnel as may be required, in consultations and on the approval of the Board of Directors. The &&+e~&~a&~ Manager shall prepare and submit regular financial statcmcnts and assist in the preparation of budgets, The w&er;J Manager shall prepare reports and/or statistics as rcquestcd and required &nerd Manager shall recomby the Vice-$‘pesjde&, Operations and Finance. The m mend and give supervision to capital expenditures. The &&e&&e?4 Manager shall be responsible to the Students’ Council through the President and the Vice-President; Operations and Finance.
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Motion to amend By-Law 6, Section II, B and III, A to read: The following shall be non-voting members of the Board: the Federation’s Am&&fir (8 &g&@&& 9 ‘._ ii) the Manager of the Campus Centre; iii) the President and Vice-Presidents of the Federation of Students, ex-officio; aRa iv) ~h~..:sptqi m&it$ (3&rdity+@;,‘ji,@ such members as the Board may, from time to time, see fit to appoint to the Board. w
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ting 14 of the Stingers’ first 16 points, to keep the score close, at 18-16 Warriors. The Warriors, on the other hand, were getting balanced scoring from Pat Telford, Alex Urosevic, Sean VanKoughnett, and Dave Lynch. After building up a five-point lead 23-18 at the 7:30 mark, the Warriors frittered it away and allowed Concordia to retake the lead a minute later. Three-pointers from Urosevic and VanKoughnett built a 36-30 lead for the Warriors, before eight straight from John put Concordia back on top. The last two minutes saw a flurry of scoring which left the Stingers up one at halftime, 43-42. Whatever the Warriors did at halftime, they should never repeat! They weren’t ready at all for the second half, and Concordia took advantage of the Warriors’ sluggishness to build upon their lead. Despite the fact that coach McCrae used three timeouts during a one-and-a-half minute span, Concordia continued to expand the margin to 13 points at the 11:40 mark.
At this point, one might suggest that the St. Francis-Xavier X-Men should just keep the Naismith Classic trophy. Coach Steve Konchalski’s troops put the finishing touches on their third straight championship with a hard-fought 80-69 victory over the host Warriors last Sunday afternoon. That might be a little premature. Though the 24th Annual Naismith Classic basketball tournament was won by St. F-X, there were enough positive signs in the Warriors performance,,to get fans speculating that the Warriors might establish the same sort of strangle-hold on the hardware, starting with next year’s Silver Anniversary Naismith.
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of course, along with all the positive signs from the ‘91-‘92 Warrior basketball squad, there was also evidence that the very young Warriors still have some maturing to do before scaling those heights. After exciting wins over Toronto and Concordia propelled them into Sunday afternoon’s final, Waterloo ran into a roadblock in the form of the experienced, physical, and talented X-Men. On Friday night, Waterloo opened their tournament against the University of Toronto Blues, who were led by Rob Wilson, a 6’8” force in the post. The first half was closely fought, with Waterloo relying upon balanced scoring from Sean VanKoughnett who scored 10, and Mike Duarte and Dave Lynch, who potted nine apiece. was expecially Duarte’s play inspirational, as he established a level of intensity and commitment in his defensive play that his teammates didn’t
match until the second half of game. Duarte was a dervish, hitting the offensive glass at one end, diving to knock down passes at the other. In the course of this whirlwind, The Bruise became The Cut, as a Varsity Blue briefly turned out the lights for Duarte, delivering an elbow smash to his face which sent him to the dressing room, with head spinning, and blood pouring out of a facial gash.
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The score was within two, at 31-29, when Waterloo reeled off seven straight to pad their lead to nine. This burst contained the first crucial sequence of the game, as U of T head coach Ken Olynyk made a blunder of epic proportions, allowing Rob Wilson, who had put in eight points and dominated the glass, to pick up his third and fourth personal fouls in quick succession. In such deep foul trouble, Wilson was glued to the bench until deep into the second half.
Halftime score: Waterloo 45137. With Wilson on the bench, Waterloo .got the first hoop of the second half, temporarily upping their lead to double digits. A scoring
drought allowed the Blues to begin whittling away at the lead, which shrank to one before Alex Urosevic arrived, riding a white horse, to rescue the Warriors. During a four-minute span, Urosevic poured in 14 straight points for the Warriors four straight three-point bombs, leavened with a twepointer - which stretched the lead to eight, and swung the momentum toward the Warriors. With the Blues resorting to fouling, the Warriors hit eight straight free throws down the stretch, six by rookie Jim Toole, to nail down the win, 81-67. In the final tally, Urosevic led all scorers with 21, while VanKoughnett was the only other Warrior to hit double figures at 14. Pat Telford did yeoman work on the boards, hauling in
There are some things that we cannot explain, such as the transformation which overcame the Warriors at that point. Having be& outscored 197 over the first eight minutes of the second half, Waterloo found the defensive intensity and shooting range which had been lacking from their game. Three straight three-point baskets - two from Urosevic and one from VanKoughnett brought the 3,000strong PAC crowd back into the game. A Concordia timeout could not stem the tide. After a Rob Baird trey which made the score 65-63 at the 8140 mark, a Concordia out-ofbounds violation gave the ball straight back to the Warriors, who got another three from Urosevic on the ensuing throw-in, to put the Warriors into the lead for the first time since the late stages of the first half.
Waterloo then reeled off another seven straight points, climaxed by a Pat Telford tw&handed jam to make the score 73-65 at the 5:30 mark. That works out to a 24-3 run in just over six minutes of playing time. Though the 24 points were spectacular, the run was triggered by the phenomenal defensive intensity which saw the Warriors challenge every shot, every pass, and hit the boards with savage intensity. The Warriors’ attack didn’t relent, as they continued to fire on all cyIinders, stretching the lead to 18 at the buzzer, 90-72. Over the last 11:40, the Warriors outscored the Stingers by a staggering 41-10 count. Al Urosevic led the Warrior scoring attack for the second straight night, hitting for 27 points, including 7-of12 shooting from three-point land. Pat Telford, who was named game MVP, had a great night at both ends of the floor, making 6-of-7 from the field, and getting 16 points total. Sean VanKoughnett and Dave Lynch both reached double figures at 14 and 10 points respectively. Dexter John put forth a herculean effort in a losing cause, lighting the Warriors up for 34. Thirty-two of those were scored in the first 30 minutes, and the Warriors effectively shut him down during the last ten minutes of the game. Overall, the team had an unconscious night shooting the ball, hitting on 16-of-28 (57 per cent) from three point land, 15-of-26 (58 per cent) from two-point land, and 12-of- 13 (92 per cent) from the free-throw line. They also used their height to outrebound the Stingers 30-23.
Just before Waterloo started their game against Concordia, St. FrancisXavier had disposed of a scrappy Manitoba squad, who took them into overtime and hung tough, despite two of their starters fouling out of the game. After coming from a ninepoint deficit, the Bison proved incap-
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The PAC was abuzz for Saturday night’s match-up with Concordia.
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Over 60 band members and alumni turned up for the 25th anniversary of this venerable Waterloo institution. They turned in a rendition of the national anthem which verily echoed through the length and breadth of the land. The game had all the makings of an acid test for the young Warriors, who were going to have to deal with constant defensive pressure from the Stingers’ lightning-fast guard combo of Dexter John and Raphael Tyrrell. During the game, the Warriors succumbed to the Stingers’ pressure, coughing the ball up 23 times. However, Warrior execution improved immensely during the final 12 minutes of the game, allowing them
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victory.
The hot shooting of Dexter John displayed one of the Warriors’ weak spots, which would again become evident during the final: an inability to shut down the opposition’s top outside shooter. John, who wis named to the tournament all-star team, opened up the game on fire, hit-
VanKoughnett
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sports squad showed more grit and determination. The hard-nosed defence of Bruise Duarte ignited the team, and got the crowd back into the game. Trailing 66-57, Duarte stole an inbounds pass, scored, and was fouled on the play. 66-60, with 6:33 left. Coach Steve KonchaIski could leave Bella on the bench no longer, and he brought him back in after a timeout. Duarte went straight at Befla, taking advantage of his foul trouble, 66-62. That was as close as the Warriors would get, as Befla exerted himself at the offensive end, scoring seven of his team’s next 11 points, fouling out Pat Telford in the process. At the same time, Waterloo’s lack of inside scoring punch was beginning to take its toll, as F-X’s pressure D forced VanKoughnett and Urosevic to bomb, time and time again, from somewhere near the Fed Hall tent with the shot clock running down. A called intentional foul by Chris Moore put the final nails in the Warrior coffin, as Bella and Lee sank free throws to push the margin to BO69 at the buzzer.
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able of sealing the game in regular time, when point guard Gregg Filmon missed the front end of a oneand-one with 19.8 seconds left. St. F-X were just as wasteful, as Richard Befla missed the second of two free throws with 1.8 seconds on the clock, leaving the regulation time score tied at 74. The overtime jump. ball was Richard Bella’s wake-up call. He opened scoring in the period with a rim-shaking two-handed follow slam off a missed shot. After Marion “Johnny” Mathis sank two free throws for the X-Men, Bella poured in fdur straight to break the back-andforth deadlock. Some bad shot selection by high-scoring Bison guard Eric Bridgeland allowed the X-Men to forge a six-point lead 86-80. They held on to win 88-83. That win set up the final, ‘a rematch of the 1989 Naismith Classic Final, which St. F-X won 76-63Jhese are hardly the two same teams, though. While the core of the X-Men remains the same, only Moore, Telford, Duarte, and Baird remain from the Warriors’ ‘84 line-up. Defensively, the Warriors picked up where they left off on Saturday night, pressuring the ball, and showing great intensity all over the court. They held the explosive X-Men to seven points through the first five e minutes. Unfortunately, they couldn’t capitalize on their own offensive chances - Duarte, Telford, and Moore all missed from in close and they only led by three, 10-7. More importantly, Waterloo’s lack of success driving the ball inside allowed the X-Men to turn up the heat around the perimeter, forcing Waterloo’s long-range gunners into successively haider and harder shots. The Warriors kept it close through the first half, coming back from a sevenpoint deficit at the seven-minute mark (30-23) on the strength of treys from (guess who?) Urosevic and VanKoughnctt. The only inside offence Waterloo could generate came from rookie forward Tom “the Tominator” Balfe, who pounded his way inside for six points. Just as Dexter John had scorched the Warriors on Saturday night, XMen sharpshooter Danny McFarland hit time and time again from the field, to the tune of 18 first-half points. Halftime: X-Men ahead 42-40. It might be a good idea in the future if the Warriors were to forgo their half-time break; for the third straight game, Waterloo came out of the dressing room flat and let the opposing squad get the jump on them. In
Photo by C.D. Coufas
this case, it was Blair White with a three-point play and Richard Bella with a field goal, and then a free throw, to pad the lead to eight points. The game’s turning point came with 16:24 left, when Mike Duarte drove to the hoop, trying to draw the third personal on Richard Bella. The disputed call went against the Warriors, the basket was waved off, and a potential three-point play went by the boards. On the ensuing possession, the X-Men showed the killer instinct of true champions as point guard Brian Lee sank a trey to complete a six-point turnaround. The scoreline read 53-44, instead of 50-47, had the call gone the other way. Richard Bella then tipped in another offensive rebound to extend the margin to 11 with 14:30 to go. When Bella picked up his third and fourth personals in a three-minute span, and headed toward the bench, it looked like Waterloo’s chance to close the gap had arrived. Unfortunately, after a Urosevic three-pointer closed the gap to 57-50, the X-Men went on 9-3 run, to pad the lead to its largest point, 13, 66-53, with 7:33 left, The Concordia game showed that no lead is safe from the Warrior gunners, though, and Waterloo’s young
Urosevic led Warrior scorers with 20, while VanKoughnett hit for 17, and Duarte canned 14 in a great twoway effort. Tom Balfe gave the Warriors 15 solid minutes off the bench, contributing six points and four rebounds. Chris Moore helped the Warriors out-rebound the X-Men snaring 10 boards. The key stats were the shooting percentages, as the XMen’s stifling D forced the Warriors into poor shot selection. As a result the Warriors were outshot 50 per cent (ll-of-22) to 32 per cent (9-of-28) from three-point land, and 55 per cent (22-of-40) to 45 per cent (20-of44) from inside the fine. The Warriors lack of success pounding the ball inside also resulted in a discrepancy in free throw attempts, as the X-Men had 16 more attempt from the charity stripe (25 to 9). Overall, the weekend would have to be called a qualified success, as the Warriors proved that they are capable of playing with some of the best teams in the country. After an ugly victory against the Toronto Varsity Blues, The Warriors showed excellent defensive intensity in the second half against the Concordia Stingers. That work continued against the St. Francis-Xavier X-Men, but the Warriors were undone by a lack of offensive execution in the face of athletic and determined defence. Furthermore, questions about depth were answered as Waterloo got valuable contributions from the 11 players who saw floor time during the tournament,
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Photo by C.D. Coulas
1991 N&smith Classic All&tar Team Richard Be/la - St. Francis Xavier X-Men Alex Urosevic - Waterloo Warriors Sean VanKoughnett - Waterloo Warriors Danny McFarland - St. Francis-Xavier X-Men Eric Bridgeland - Manitoba Bison Dexter John - Concordia Stingers
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However, the Warriors who showed an offensive prowess that the Patriots had not yet faced. Right from the beginning, the Warriors built up a lead (3-1 after one and 5-2 after two), and carried it on to the end of the game (8-3 finaT)+
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seasonal record last week-end
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The part of the game that stood out in this game, was the play of the team in odd-man situations. The Warriors
batted 500 with the man advantage, scoring four times out of the eight opportunities. UQTR squeaked out only one goal in their seven chances on the power-play.
season.
the end of the lengthy
home-stand
the Warriors h.ave been enjoying. The Warriors came out of the six games with a 5-1 win-loss record, suffering their only defeat to the Guelph Gryphons in a game they dominated in, but just didn’t get the goaltending they needed. In retrospect,
coach McKee “felt we
could have played better,” referring to the Warriors’ general play, especially in the games prior to last weekend’s. Although only suffering one defeat, the Warriors showed many
weaknesses
that
sweep for the Queen’s Cup.
However, before our bladed Warriors could sink their teeth in Les Patriotes on Sunday afternoon, they had to contend with the Ottawa Gee Gees on Saturday. It’s easy to understand how the Warriors might not get as emotionally prepared for this game, anticipating the arrival of the team from Quebec the very next day, and it appeared as if this did happen. Ottawa scored their two goals first, against a Waterloo team that did not show a great amount of intensity. However the Warriors, backed by the superb goaltending of James Oigan, shut down the Bee Gees and managed to strike with four gals of their own.
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As mentioned before, the victory also affected where Waterloo is ranked in the country. Before the weekend, UW was not ranked in the top ten, and UQTR was ranked number one. Now, after our Warriors slaughtered {by UQTR standards) the Patriots, we cracked the top-ten and settled at number eight
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Oddly enough however, UQTR is still ranked number one. Well whn ever said that national rankings (or life for that matter) were fair.
up-ice. Photo by Wade Thomas
Organ, along with Steve Udvari, the Warriors number one goaltender, hadn’t been extremely sharp up to this point, but now seem to be close to McKee’s magic goals-against average of two {again Leaf fans, I did say two, not ten).
The story of the game, was without a doubt, the goaltending of Organ. After letting in the first two goals, Organ put up a brick wall, stopping 14 shots in the third period alone (haf fans might think that is low, but I assure you, in real hockey it isn’t).
“We’needed to get our confidence up,” stated head coach Don McKee, looking back on the weekend game,
and
indeed,
The Patriotes
the confidence,
along was up for the next battle against the mighty UQTR Les Patriotes.
game also marked
Warriorshit the road fOV fiUV The Warriors will be hitting the road this weekend to take on Ryerson for the second time this young season. The first contest was an exhibition game in which Waterloo dominated, winning 13-4. Waterloo’s next home game will be on Dec. 1 when the Western Mustangs roll their bus up to the Columbia Icefields. Until then, keep up on Warrior happenings by reading Imprint and well see you on Dec. 1.
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The hot goaltending carried on into the Patriotes game, the next day, against one of the most explosive
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offenses in the league. In fact, the top three scorers in the OUAA are on the Patriotes team roster. UQTR also boasts another player as the sixth thus far in the highest scorer season. So then it was no small feat that the Warriors held UQTR to only three goals. And considering that one of the goals was almost given to them &hen the referee awarded a UQTR player a penalty shot on a cheesy call, the goals against was exemplary. On the other side of the puck, UQTR boasted a goalie with one of three lowest goals-against averages in
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Athenas off to a good start by Frank SegIenieks Imprint sports The volleyball Athenas have started out this season playing well, and although they only managed to come out of their first three matches with a 2-l record, the results bode well for a great season. The week featured an easy time with Laurier, a heartbreaking loss in five games to Windsor, and a triumphant four-game victory over last year’s West division leaders, the Brock Lady Badgers. Last Wednesday, for their first regular season game, the Athenas travelled down University Avenue to Laurier looking to start of strong, which is exactly what they did finishing off the Hawks in three games straight: 15-3, 15-12, and 15-9. Waterloo got off to a great start in the first game of the match, jumping out to a four-point lead and continuing on from there never giving the home crowd anything to cheer about the entire game except for three measly points. The game featured all the ingredients which should make a winning recipe for this year’s team: quick hits in the middle to Michelle VanVliet and Carren Hall, good serving by Katrina Englebrecht, consistent play from the rest of the starting line made up of Sue Bylsma, Nicky Campbell, and Chris Harrison and solid blocking from the whole team. The blocking was especially evident in this game as even Laurier’s big hitter had trouble getting it through. In the second game, the Athenas had some ground to make up after falling behind 7-2 early on, but after a time out called by coach Dena Deglau the team rallied to shore up the game at 7 each. For the next part of the game Waterloo would give Laurier a few points and then take them right back until the score was knotted at 12, Coach Deglau then decided the time was right to make the only substitution of the match when she put Robin McKay in for VanVIiet. This move was prosperous as Laurier made some mistakes which Waterloo took advantage of to win the game 15-12. This was another point where the Athenas put together some points in the clutch, as the outcome of the game put Waterloo up by two games in the match, instead of
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being tied at one, which would have changed the complexion of the entire match, Game three started off with setter Englebrecht serving for 5 straight points including one ace. But, this was the last of the impressive serving as during the intermission between game two and three, someone must have repainted the lines on the court to make it smaller, as the servers on both teams were putting serves long, especially in the later stages of the game. After the impressive start, Waterloo went on to amass a 12-3 lead, but then let the home team close the gap to 12-7 before Deglau called another timeout. “Get serious and finish the match off quickly,” she must have been saying to the team. VanVliet responded by putting down a kill on the next play to get back the serve, The Athenas took control and finished of Laurier 15-9. Southpaw Bylsma lead the hitting attack with 12 kills followed by VanVliet close behind with 10 in the three games; Engleb-
recht put on her usual serving display, amassing 15 in the match: Last Friday, the Athenas travelled down the 401 to Windsor to face the Lancers, coming out on the wrong side of a five-game match, scores being 15-5, 10-15, 15-5, 6-15, and 815. The story of the match was unforted errors by Waterloo; in the second game, 10 of Windsor’s 15 points were handed to them in this manner. Lronically, in an exhibition game played the next day against the same Windsor team, Waterloo came out on top of a five game match. But, in the games which counted, Bylsma was again tops in kills with 15, followed by Campbell with 12, Vanvliet with 10 and Hall with 8, while Vanvliet led the blocking with 6. This Wednesday, the Athenas went up against a tough Brock team managed to defeat them 3-1, with scores 14-16, 15-7, 15-11, and 15-2, The game was marked by Iong rallies and fine play by both teams. In fact, the game went so long that the women’s basketball game that was to
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start at 8 pm was slightly (delayed. In the &arly going of the firsi game, Waterloo and Brock traded leads until Brock was up 5-3, but four serves by ByIsma got the Athenas on a roll which only stopped when Waterloo was up 12-5. But Brock was not about to play dead as they got some momentum and closed the gap to within three at 13-10. At this point, Waterloo hadn’t changed how they were playing, but Brock was able to stop all the offense we were putting up. Waterloo then got the serve back on a great hit by Vanvliet to the middle after which the Athenas got the next point to go up 14- 10. It was then that Waterloo wasted the first of four game serves, and allowed the Badgers to tie the game at 14. The next points took a so long that the guy beside me asked “Is this still the first game ?” But Brock managed to outlast Waterloo and ended up taking the game 16-14. The second game again started out close, and again Waterloo broke out and put together some solid play to jump out in front 9-3. However, in this game the Athenas were not about to let history repeat itself, getting the serve back time and time again without letting Brock close the gap. Waterloo got up 12-4 before the Badgers gained three points and looked to be threatening. Brock helped out our cause by missing a couple of serves allowing Waterloo to get the points they needed to win 157. In the third game, Waterloo found themselves down by four points early on, but instead of allowing this to affect their play, they held together, getting points when they needed
them, never allowing Brock to get more than two or three points up until the game was knotted at 11. An important pLay during this sequence was a long rally which ended with Vanvliet putting down a good spike atid then putting up a great block to get back the serves. The Athenas took control at this point and scored the next four points, with the end of the game coming on an uncharacteristic hit by Englebrecht. In situations like this, one team always seems to crumble - luckily, Brock was the team this time and they did it in a big way, allowing Waterloo to get up 9-0, including four serves by Englebrecht to start the game. Waterloo finished of Brock 15-2 without working up a sweat. From the stat sheet, Vanvliet led the kill department with 15, followed by Bylsma and Campbell with 10 and Hall with 9. Other numbers were Hall with five stuffed blocks and to show how many serves were played, four team members made over 14 serves in the match. The word which would best describe the Athena’s play in all the matches which I witnessed would be “parity,” with no one player dominating on either offense or defence, instead the team utilized the talents of all the player 3 on the court managing to hold together when they were down and put out that little extra when the team needed it. After beating Laurier last Wednesday, coach Deglau said that her team is”ready for the season”, and after these matches I have toagree with her. The nextgame for Waterloo is tonight {Friday) at 6 pm in the PAC, so why not come out to watch some exciting volleyball action.
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Season opener . woes Harry Shnider Imprint sports The OWIAA BasketbalI season has begun for the Athenas, who hosted the Purple Satan, the Western Lady Mustangs, on Wednesday night- This season’s squad had high hopes for the game, but had trouble getting on track with their offense. It was, however, a hot and cold game for both squads. Turnovers and missed shots were the rule for the Athenas as they needed three minutes for their opening hoop courtesy of Tina Murray. Fortunately for the Athenas, Western had shooting and foul troubles of their wvn and the game stayed close throughout the half. Strong play from Kathy Wordharn and Lxah Ann Erickson kept the Athenas no more than five points down for the first half until defensive lapses let Western put in four straight to make the score 26-32 at the interval. The second half saw the Athenas
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start stronger, particularly in the rebounding department, but Western also turned up the heat, gradually opening up the lead to 15, getting
points out of UW turnovers and offensive boards. More consistent outside shooting for Western contributed to a number of mini-runs that helped get the score up. The Athenas were able to get a strong contribution from Laurie Rempel inside, though. Unfortunately, every Mustang basket could not br answered and the score crept up. Murray finished the scoring for the Athenas, driving for bo at the buzzer. Final score: Waterloo 49, Western 65. The game stats showed a mediocre story with the Athenas actually out shooting Western 41 per cent to 36 per cent from the floor. More telling, Western out-rebounded Waterloo 32-27. Ildie Lubke was a pillar of strength for the Mustangs, finishing as game high scorer with uf 23. Kathy Wordham paced the Athenas with 15 points. Next home action for the Athenas is on WedneSday, November 27 against Brock. Game time is 7130 pm. Don’t ya darrrrre miss it!
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by Rich Nichol Imprint sports It can be tough for a national calibre volleyball team to get pumped up for matches against the cellar dwellers of their own conference. And a threehour bus ride-doesn’t help either.
We, at Imprint Sports, would like to congratulate the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football team for vanquishing the Purple Satan, the Western Mustangs, to advance to the Churchill Bowl against Queen’s tomorrow. Though the Warriors and Hawks normally maintain a strong cross-town rivalry, we like to apply the principle: Any team that beats Western had better have space on its bandwagon for us!
The Black Plague volleyball Warriors, back-to-back national bronze medalists in 1989-90 and 1990-91, extended their record to a perfect 2-O after rallying to destroy the Windsor Lancers 3-3 last Friday night in the border city 3-l (12-15, IS3,15-3,15-4) in just under an hour. “Windsor is a young team with nine rookies, so they made a lot of errors and we were able to capitalize on them,” said Warrior head coach Scott Shantz. “The difference between them and us is that even though we are in a rebuilding year, we are still a veteran team.” The victory was even more noteworthy for The Plague considering they were without the attacking prowess of sophomore offside hitter Jon Tenthorey, who did not make the trip.
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a 15-3 lambasting of the Lancers. Junior power hitter Jeff Stover marched onto the court late in the game to deliver the final kills. It only took Waterloo one rotation to win it. Some Lancers didn’t even get a chance to serve.
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Waterloo staggered from the bus to the court for game one and were woken up by a somber 15-l 2 loss.. Freshman setter Mike Service, returning to his native county for the first time since his high school years at Chatham Kent Secondary School, took the starting role of quarterbacking the offence. But despite a promising debut, the veteran starters could not get used to Service’s style, after only seven weeks of practice, and allowed Windsor to scrape by for the win. Then it was back to the old black magic of the Plague for the rest of the contest. Highly-touted sophomore setter Shawn Smith subbed in for Service in game two and the offence caught fire. Power hitter Mike Fullerton and middle player Ian Heynen (both in their fourth year} combined to serve 12 straight points en route to
The Warrior defence improved tremendously over game two with the acrobatic dives and digs made by third-year middle Brian Shin, playing the right side position in replacement for Tenthorey. Later, rookie Jack Krmpotic, back from a bout of food poisoning that had him sidelined for the opening win at Laurier, came in to relieve the exhausted Shin for game three and drained four kills down the line. Waterloo nearly blanked the Lancers again 15-3 in only seven minutes and were now in the driver’s seat.
Sensing the fear of the quivering Lancers (folding up like a cheap card table or a San Jose hockey team), Shantz substituted junior Perry Strauss and freshmen Roger Schamp and Marty Kulas in for game four to finish them off. The result - another cakewalk, 15-4. Because of the high numbers of unforced errors made by Windsor, the Warrior’s scoring stats were not
Waterloo’s home opener will be tonight (Friday, November 15) at 8 pm against the Western Mustangs. This may be your one and only chance to see a UW varsity team mop the floor with the Preptown Ponies. Then on Wednesday, November 20, The Plague meets up with OUAA West division nemesis McMaster fifth-place finishers at the nationals last year - for an 8 pm match. Wear black and, as usual, bring the noise! Come early; the Athenas play their matches at 6 pm each night. Last year’s home-and-home series’ against Western and McMaster all went to the five game limit with match times up to two hours Jung. This was the most entertaining volleyball that the OUAA conference had seen in years and it will be much the same in this year’s campaign. The Black Plague, with their legions of fans in support, seem to always get pumped up for these close battles. matches
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The Campus Ret Squash Tournament took place on the weekend of November 2 and 3. Participants were divided into three main divisions, A, B, and C. The intermediate division, B flight, was further broken down into three equal levels. In total, 31 players participated in the tournament, including only one female. Just a reminder . . . 699,465 Canadians are squash players, and they are not all men! Women make up a good proportion of that statistic, help prove the facts, sign up for the squash tournament next term. With the squash promo all done, let’s get on with some results: A (Advanced Division) Finalist: Andrew Housley Champion: Bruce Milliken I? (Intermediate Division) Bl-F: Kevin Lyons
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Competitive soccer came to an end this past Saturday, Nov. 9. Despite the cold, there was some pretty good soccer action. In the women’s league, the Amazonians defeated Eng Grad and Co. 3-l. In the men’s league, Magic Bus, from the A division, won over the UW Stingers by a narrow 2-l. In the B division, 82, Rainer’s Kickers slaughtered Paulander 4-1. The scores for the B2 and C division winners were not available at time of publication. All teams are given a pat on the back for games well played, with congratulations to all the league winners. A special thank you is also in order for all the officials who braved the cold and helped make this league run a little smoother.
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ALEX UROSEVIC Warrior Basketball Alex Urosevic, a third-year environmental studies student, is the University of Waterloo’s male athlete of the week. Alex led the Warriors to the championship game at the 24th Annual Naismith Classic, scoring 18 points including four three-pointers in the span of five minutes to spark a comeback over the Concordia Stingers in Saturday’s semi-finaI {see story on page 18). Alex played his freshman and sophomore years at Stetson University and joined the Warriors this season fresh from the World Student Games basketball team. The Warriors play tonight (Friday) at York (8 pm), followed by a game at Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
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Wherefore art thine clothes, Romeo? by Kimwun Perehinec special to Imprint The University of Waterloo Drama Department proudly presents a new interpretation of Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy, Romeo und Juliet, November 20 to 23, at 8 pm in the Theatre of the Arts. The 90-minute play is based on an adaptation by William Chadwick and
is directed by Darlene Spencer. Set design is by Stephen Degenstein, lighting design by Cathy Prendergast, and costume design by Jocelye Sobeski. Darlene Spencer is currently a drama department instructor. Her past directing credits include this year’s production of Single and Say and last winter’s Turtuffi, by Moliere. She is also recognized from her most
recent appearances as Helena in A M~dsummw Night’s Dream and Petruchio in Turning of theShrav. With these somewhat unconventional Shakespearean experiences under her belt, Spencer has opted to tackle her latest project from a somewhat unconventional angle. Picture, if you will, modern day Mafioso Sicily-in Spencer’s words, “the type of society where it is not unlikely that people will get into fist fights or switch-blade brawls” (which means, according to stage manager Lesley Storm, “cool fight scenes”). Romeo (Joel Han-is) and Juliet (Michelle D’Alesandro) are, respectively, the children of the Montague and Capulet Houses, two families involved in an unjustifiable rivalry. The contemporary setting, Spencer feels, explores the play’s Italian roots. In describing this production of.??umeu and Juliet. she uses words like “raw,‘! 1 “heated,” and “passionate.” This language evokes images of love and lust, a dominant strain. “The play is also about the hypocrisy of all of the adults. I think that this
is an essential theme as it contrasts the vulnerability and curiosity of Romeo and Juliet with the corruption and cynicism of the elders,” Spencer says. The setting provides the opportunity for a number of creative developments on these themes. Juliet grows up under the domination of a terribly powerful and dangerously cruel father. Her family offers her Paris as a husband, a man whom Michelle D’Alesandro describes as a potential “wife-beater kind of guy” paralleling Juliet’s father in some ways. Lady Capulet is a golddigging. “married-to-the-mob” type of woman. Juliet’s only friend is the young and spirited Nurse. Romeo and his parents do not communicate; they learn of his actions only through his best friend, Benvolio. (Interestingly, in this version, the feistyf fighting Benvolio is a woman.) Both children are surrounded by intrigue and vice, and varying levels of corruption. Joel Harris describes his character, Romeo, as an average l&year-old guy who is, at first, “led around by his
dick.” However, if the attraction begins with purely physical lust, Harris says that the relationship between Romeo and Juliet does develop “not just because of each other, but also because of outside influences,” namely the family life and circumstances against which each rebel. Of her character, D’Alesandro articulates, “Juliet is more mature than her age might suggest” (she is also sixteen) and will “hopefully end up being a strong woman/child.” She is intelligent and perceptive, and her reasons for wanting Romeo include testing her own individuality and escape from her family, as well as the’ inevitable dynamite chemistry. In reference to the interpretation, D’Alesandro says “rather than bastardizing Shakespeare, it’s liberating Shakespeare.” She sees this production as more exciting than the often conventional version, which she feels sometimes gets “lost in behind the words.” Spencer’s Romeo and Juliet is lively, lusty and emotional. And full of surprises!
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by Vince Kozma Imprint staff Next Tuesday night, November 19, TV Ontario is presenting a one-hour documentary called “Human Edge: The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior.” By the grace of Purolator, VCRs, and media contacts 1 was permitted to view the work many days prior to most of the world. Now, you are probably saying “Hey Vince, should I make time in my busy schedule to take in this broadcast? Is this going to make me a better person in that I will be able to understand the world in a new informed way?” Well let me tell ya . . . sorta. This jilm documents the struggle between the two main factors in the life of Ivan Dimitrievich, formerly a respected Soviet General with still more potential than you can shake a stick at. He was forced to choose between the Red Army or his family. Not that easy of a choice for a man in his position. The case of the family is somewhat typical for any TV0 documentary. Basically, it goes something like this. General’s Daughter falls for Jewish
~ch.l; they eventually get married; husband can’t stand the country; he leaves; mean GeneraI/Dad won’t let daughter and kid leave . _ . get the idea? I’m being a bit unfair to the film actually. This film depicts Perestroika on a personal level. The father makes peace with his daughter and pays the price with his career. Ivan (the father) also makes personal peace with his past by apologizing to CzechosIakia. He had headed the 1968 invasion. He spends a good 15 minutes saying how unjust the act was and how bad the whole thing was. He does it a bit too much actually. The majority of the film is somewhat interesting. Its a personal film of a family torn apart by politics and in the end brought back together by their subconscious love for each other. It puts into perspective the strains that devotion to a career can put on any family. In this case, due to the nature of the political system, the problem is amplified. This film will appeal to everyone in one way or another. It coven aspects of the family, “elite” Russian life, the Cold war and its warming. If you have nothing to do Tuesday night, watch it. You can get the gist of the film by watching ten minutes of it. If you like it then watch it to its end, if not, oh well.
For the past decade, Toronto has been a stronghold for the Stray Cats. In recognition of this fact, the band chose to play the only Canadian date on their current tour at the Danforth Music Hall last Friday. The ‘Cats are no longer the box office draw that they were in the heyday of songs like “Rock This Town” and “Stray Cat Strut.” Nor do they receive the media attention they once did, as virtually no press was given to this concert or to either of their last two studio albums, Rock Therapy (1986), and Blast Off (3989). But they still have a devoted following and they still know how to rock. These days, the ‘Cats seem to be playing music for their own enjoyment If others like it, it’s an added bonus. Not much has changed in terms of the band’s live show. The stage is sparsely ornamented, with only a cheesy siren that flashed during “Rumble In Brighton” and “I Fought The Law” backing up Slim Jim Phantom on his stand-up drum kit, Lee Rocker on bass, and frontman Brian Setzer. This minimalist approach puts the focus squarely upon the ‘Cats’ music. Setzer is a guitar hero. He put on a clinic as he played instrumental interludes between “The Corner Of Lust And L.ove”’ and “Gene And Eddie” and between “Something’s Wrong
With
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and “Gina.”
On “30 Days,” he put his trademark Gretsch aside long enough to play acoustically. Slim Jim remains the most animated of the three, often circling the drums or standing on them, delivering punishing roundhouse
-L&B do the Time *Warp now1 swings and tomahawk chops.. At the’ conclusion of the show, he rewarded the fans by tossing his drumsticks and ‘his gloves into the crowd. The finaIe, a cover of Buddy Holly’s “She’s Something Else” infused with a guitar
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found Setzer perched atop the drum kit for a moment, and Rocker riding his bass like a surfboard for all it was worth. Earlier, Rocker exchanged his violin for a guitar on “Let’s Go Faster,” adding a touch of newness to his repertoire.
photobyRegtna’ SchwaId The Stray C& seemed to be testing the water with this concert. They were obviously pleased to be playing new material (debuting four songs from an album to be released in the spring), but were wary of alienating the section of the audience who expected to hear their commerciallyoverkilled “classics” by not playing them. Fortunately, a happy medium was reached, and both the band and their fans went away satisfied with the evening’s proceedings.
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some say m Ice by Anna C. Done rmprint staff The stars of the evening shone brightly, the rest didn’t. World Cup Champions on Ice (real ice, that is) opened last Tuesday for a threeevening engagement at the Centre in the Square. The show featured a cast of champions led by Robin Cousins Manley. Other and Elizabeth notables included brother and sister team Natalie and Wayne Seybold, Scott (hunk o’ skating love) Williams, and Alexandre Fadeev. Conceptually the show was innovative. The intention of the show was to offer audiences a chance to see a world-class skating extravaganza, performed on real ice, in a setting more intimate than a hockey arena, It was a success in that it was a different kind of experience being in a theatre, hearing the sound of the skates cutting through the ice, being close enough to the skaters to realize just how much skill it takes to do their acrobatic daredevilry. ‘l’he show was done ip revue style with sets highlighting individual performers. Each half of the performance opened and closed with the entire cast on the ice; sometimes it worked, other times the ice surface seemed ridiculously crowded. The show reminded me of a nursery rhyme; when it was good it was very, very good, but when it was bad . . . it was quite frankly, boring. Musically the show was a bizarre mixture that, again, was occasionally inspired, but predictable with only a few exceptions. Along with tunes from top40 artists such as Madonna, Billy Joel, Prince, Sting, Dire Straits and Bette Midler, were Cole Porter, “The Music of the Night” from l?hantom of the Opera, several classical pieces, the freakish Yello, the Beach Boys, and the swinging “In the Mood.” A muddy sack of sounds indeed.
It was
very obvious that some of performers were having problems adapting to the size of the ice surface. Some of the acts contained little more than the artist going around and around in tight circles throwing in an occasional jump or spin. Cousins and Manley, in contrast were impressive in the way they made the stage seem much bigger than it was. the
Robin C&ins stole the show technically and artistically with verve and polish. It’s hard to believe it was over a decade ago when he was an Olympic gold mgdalist. He hasn’t lost the edge and precision that accompanies competitive skaters. In his individual routines, he dazzled the audience skating to the upbeat Dire Straits “Walk of Life” and Prince’s slow and passionate “Trust.” In the group pieces, he attempted to bring life to the otherwise dismal concepts and choreography. Harsh? Not really, picture this: skaters dressed in fluorescent jams carrying beach balls and skateboards with “Surfin Safari” blaring. Perhaps this is the little bit of the Ice Capades they couldn’t leave behind. Elizabeth Manley’s routines were very much in the style of her Olympic performances - perky and athletic. She was even more exceptional in comparison with the lackluster performances by the other female skaters, with the exception of Natalie Seybold. Manley performed two crowd-pleasing so10 numbers. She pleased kids and dads alike in her black velvet cat-suit, skating to “Inky Dinky Spider.” The second solo was skated to the whimsical Cole Porter song “Miss Otis Regrets.” Manley’s high-energy
performance was well received by the audience, but again the group pieces were disappointing despite .Cousins and Manley’s efforts.
everybody at sometime wondered what would happen if hands slipped during the death spin? The show, while not spectacular, provided the
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Three other performers who deserve special Gention are Scott Williams, and the brother and sister team of Natalie and Wayne Seybold. Williams was notable for his dramatic routine to the music of Sting. Of course, the fact that he has long, flowing tresses and performed barechested certainly added to the drama.
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The Seybolds were breathtaking lo watch. Like the stars of the show, they adapted to the venue and surface area well, causing many a heart-stopping moment with their death spins and lifts. The most dramatic routine of the night was the Seybolds interpretation of “The Music of the Night.” It was beautifully performed and even the three annoying brats behind me were impressed into silence.
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I don’t know if it was the venue or opening night jitters, but whatever the reason,. there were f&r more spills and near spills than you would expect in a professional show. Truthfully though, these mistakes made each perfectly landed triple more impressive and added an element of heightened expectation; hasn’t
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beautiful reflection on spirituality, “Hallelujah,” closes off Fun as it does Various Po&ions, the album from which it was culled. Exhibiting the same minimalism which made the recent Lou Reed /John CaJe tribute to Warhol (Sorzgs For L)r~lln) so compelling, Gale goes as far as to re-work the (yrriY - a chaknge gloriously met. There
wonderful to see groups from all over the world taking notice and paying tribute. The Btdge, a tribute to Neil Young from a few years back, was similar homage from around he globe to one of Canada’s most admired sons. Like it, iirl Your Furr is mostly good and often magical. Make its magic yours.
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by Trevor Blair tmprht staff God knows I’ve spent the years trying to cope with the reality that I’m not Leonard Singing his songs in my mind 5olation of sorts. Cohen,
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mer finally gets his due in I’m Your Fur1 - an 18-track, 76-minute labour ~>f love from some of the brightest stars in music today. Apart from REM, :he artists are largely what would be considered “alternative” to mainstream tastes. Don’t be put off if the roster appears unfamiliar; this is Cohen’s party and he is served well. The project itself is the brainchild of Christian Fevret, editor of the French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles. He basically solicited covers of Leonard Cohen’s songs from a host of bands. The response Fevret says, was overwhelming. And it is! Fevret deserves kudos not only for bringing Cohen’s work once again to the spotlight, but also for exerting stringent quality- control (with a few exceptions) over this double-LI? Often characterized as dark and “depressing” Cohen’s deep, confessional tone is above all inspirational. This dark/light dichotomy manifests itself in various approaches: fairly straight-laced covers by House Of Love (“Who By Fire”) and REM (“First We Take sit comfortably aManhattan”) longside joyous interpretations by Ian McCulloch (“Hey, That’s No Way To Sav Coodbve”) and Uoyd Cole (“Cheisea Hotel”). There’s a division d
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replaced by a rather static rhythm pattern. When the vocals finally kick in halfway through, they seem more of an . afterthought than,essential to the rnlx -- strange treatment for the”danceiest” song on the album. “Rider,” however, is an excellent reconstruction; the guitars are totally removed, replaced by wave after wave of rolling keyboards. The lyrics fit . . * hooray! and Julian rides his motorbike into the ocean. These mixes were taken from previously released expensive British imports, so if you’ve already blown 30-40 bucks on this material, I’ll take a moment now to laugh at your misfortune: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! About this time last year an album caIled l&l-Aid was released by BAD
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II in the UK to mixed reviews. I never saw a copy, but have heard that it was a limited release, quickly withdrawn, re-arranged, and rere-thought. issued as The G/&j. The liner notes for the “Rush” EP say it’s from the forthcoming LP T/w G’lobc. Now, since 7%~ G’lohcj has been in stores for about six months, either local record stores suck or Sony has a lack of confidence in BAD II, perhaps spurned on by the Kw,&Aid debacle. “Rush,” make no mistake, is their best single inyvcrrs and now that it’s all over the radio, Sony’s behind them. Ah, well, I haven’t been excited about these guys for five years; BAD II is an excellent re-birth, “Kushdance,” like Cope’s “Rider,” emphasizes bass and drums over guitar. It’s good enough, but not among the ranks of previous triumphs such as “Medicine Show” and “The Bottom Line,” which stand as two of the finest examples of the remix format. We also geta live version of “Rush” which is pretty raw and energetic, as well as a non-LP track “City Lights,” also featured in their recent live set at RPM in Toronto, I think it’s a cover, but even with the limitless source of info that is the Imprint Arts section, no-one can quite place who originally did it. Anyway, “Lights” is excellent, taking a rather simple guitar line and milking it for all it’s worth. Rather than steamrolling ahead as they do on “Rush,” “Lights” is more restrained, in a comfortable vein akin to “Can’t Wait” or “Innocent Child.” Well, there you are - a couple of W’s that exist because _. . well, I’m too cynical to say they exist ‘cause fhtl d music is .\‘(I good,They exist because someone thinks a buck is to be made. In spite of these tiresome market.place dynamics, Illl,rc*i~g Htrrlk and Rush.are both pretty cool. Double so if you’re already a fan.
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Record Reviews Chords the album is far from what you would expect from listening to the first single “Chorus.” The other nine tracks have few saving graces from being a complete let down. Most of the tracks start with potential but then just drag their heels. “Breath of Life” and “Waiting For the Day” start out with what seem to be a prelude to a great driving track, but after a minute you realize that is all you get. Zts a bunch of starters going nowhere.
by Sandy Atwal Imprint staff Forbidden Places is the Meat Puppets’ eighth(!) album, and the first one I’ve sat down to listen to. I’ve heard o/’ them, and mostly good things, which is why this album is such a letdown. It just sounds like the
Aside from “Chorus,” the one song that merits some mention is “Love to Hate You” (Oh boy what a great title!}. Even with the seemingly live recording, the tune is not as irritating as most others. Could it be that its energy, vocal range, and power could be attributed to it wasn’t recorded after taking a handful of Valium? It is a rare attempt to capture the old/ enjoyable Erasure sound.
same cock-rock everyday, and album strikes innovative.
by Vincent Kozma Imprint staff If this album is any indication, Erasure has gone straight because
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By thedebauched standards of pop music, it doesn’t take much to justify a song’s existence - a turn of phrase that illuminates a shadowy mental corner, a hook whose barb bites a little deeper, a twist of melody which rises above the pedestrian. With dark and obsessive intensity, “The Fly” swims deep into the murk of human desires.
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The first single “Sam” is sort of interesting but only because it steals a formula used much better by other bands. I’m talking about the “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” “It’s the End of the World as We Know it” formula. True, these are faster lyrics than the aforementioned tunes, but not even half as thoughtful. This being the band’s first release on Potwzram, the sell-out theory might apt$, bui i’ll have to check.- out ‘komk oi their SST/indie days it’ I’m to change my mind, but I’m Ioathe to spend any more money if the rest of their stuff sounds anything like this. The press relcrase says that this band has had reviewers “reaching for
kind of crap I hear nothing about the me as original or
desert metaphors since day one.” Well I can’t break. with tradition, so here goes: This album sucks coyote shit.
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Churus is a disappointing collection of dreamy eyed “if you would only come back” laments- It is neither fun nor entertaining. If you are looking for another wild or 77~) I~~IIU~Y~IIXJ, this is not for you. Should you have a burning desire to give Vince and Andy some of you hard-earned bucks, look into the singles with “Sweet Sweet Baby” or “The Good the Bad and the Ugly.” Another option would be Crudc~~rts fr~~-tlntiutrul or Wo~d~dml. If the case is that you are really hung-up on the single “Chorus,” it is out on the new CFNY sampler, which is almost free. With their new album, Erasure should be rubbed-out.
Built upon the same plodding rhythmic structures as much of Jmhum Trio and &N/P arid Huln, “The Fly” is characterized by guitar work from The Edge which sounds more like his idol Keith Levene than ever before - ejecting fragments of sound which cut across skin like shards of glass, distorting and refracting reality in the process. *
There’s a dark streak in “The Fly” which we haven’t seen since a few moments on The U~~fiqymddc Fire, or the Fellini-esque video to “All I Want is You,” and its return is welcomed. “The Fly” is an obsessive journey which travels deeper into the human psyche-than ever I thought U2 could. The new album, Achturlg Bdy, is due out next week.
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When I first put on the CD, I was forced to turn the volume up. I thought there was no way they would record at such an annoyingly soft level, but I was wrong. Clrorus is just a bit too passive and musically dull. The fourth track “Breath of Life” sounds a lot like an uninspired electro version of “Cinnamon Girl.”
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Squeezed by the claustrophobic surroundings created by the rest of the band, Bono sings like a man whose fingernails are losing grip on his last tenuous ties to sanity - “. , . a man will fal1 / from the sheer face of love / Iike a fly from wall.” The incongruity of the angelic voice is successively squashed by the waves of remorse and fear.
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The Fall have been around lonp enough to have escaped the British Press’ hype-slag-accept-deify cycle tc the point where the band and its music is finally being accepted on it: own merits, and having heard lasf year’s Fall greatest-hits package, il seems about time. Songs like “Victoria” have attracted me to Mark E. Smith et al. and Sh@ Wurk has fulfilled my hopes of having a Fall album I can give a good review to.
from thousands of miles across the ocean. The Fall actually take a stab at the Big Bopper’s “White Lightningl’ with moderately successful results. It’s almost exclusively how the album .wunds that is at all interesting. Lyrically, there’s a few good titles like “The War Against Intelligence,” but there’s far too much repetition of the chorus in all of the songs. But songs like “High Tension Line” and “Pitsville Direkt” are just original and innovative enough to keep my interest without any gimmicks to point at. As a whole, the album is strong enough to make me consider checking out their back-catalogue. The Fall still dwell in obscurity for most of the world, and “Shift Work” isn’t about to change that, but it should keep the fai&ul faithful.
The album was partly produced by Grant Showbiz who has worked on quite a few albums, the only one of which I can remember right now is The Smiths’ Rartk. He seems to bring the guitar fuzz and drums up to play against Mark Smith’s almost spoken vocals. A couple of tracks have Smith singing through a megaphone or a phlanger to give an almost PWEI effect. Other than that, the album is that sort of weird British rock sound. Trying to catch that delta blues sound
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This is not a new album, or even a new EP, from Dinosaur Jr. Rather, it is their new single (“Whatever’s Cool with Me,” not included on last winter’s excellent Green MA4 W) com‘oined with seven collected B-sides from their previous European singles. Because of this patchwork quality, the eight tracks easily fall into various groupings of quality. On the whole, though, this release is a worthy follow-up to Grtm A&zd and a welcome addition to the Dinosaur catalogue.
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acoustic strumming, adenoidal vocals, a roaring rhythm section, melodic twists and turns. Typically superb. LateI 2: “Quicksand”. A brilliant cover of the David Bowie song. How is it no-one’s noticed just how Bowieesque Ma&s’ voice can be? Cheeky and irreverent - Mascis substitutes his own lyrics, and begins the song with the riff from “Andy Warhol,” another Bowie tune - but not tiresome or self-indulgent, as some of Dinosaur Jr’s past covers have been.
J. Mascis (the only bandmember who matte&) pulls out all his classic tricks: keening electric guitars, folkish
Heavier, noisier and less melodic than some of the other material on
LRvei 1: “Whatever’s Cool with Mu’: “Sidavays’: “Not You Again. ” All of these songs are quintessential Dinosaur Jr. They might not be quite equal to the band’s untouchable singles “Freak Scene” and “The Wagon” although “Not You Again” comes close - but they rank
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buddy this record. Still strong stuff, but not as compelling as most of Mascis’ work. More obvious connections to the out-take bin.
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by Tony Olvet special to Imprint Nitzer Ebb’s music is never easy to pin down. This band continuall changes from album to album. Not in the &&se that their philosophy of music is different from one record to the next, but in a way that forces their music to be interesting. fiat Total Age, Nitzer Ebb’s debut album, was packed with fast-paced, electronic, drum-based rhythms which produced singles such as “Join in the Chant” and “Murderous.” Their second album, B&( had a more experimental sound, yet it maintained excitement with songs like “Control I’m Here”and “Shame.” Their third album, entitled Showtim, again took on a considerably different sound; it had almost a jazzy influence
blem for Nitzer Ebb. This album also has depth; with each listening you could probably pick up a different level of sound that you hadn’t noticed previously. (Jearly, the most powerful track on the album is “I Giv+ To You” with its enticing keyboards and climaxing chorus. Yet “djvd” brings out some arrangements and very POV interesting lyrics (a knock at the scratch-master dance club disc jockey). No sell out here, folks! “Godhead,” another good track, displays Nitzer Ebb’s taste for some power chords, which is something new for them. Other notable tunes from Ebhhmd include “Lakeside Drive” and “Trigger Happy.” Unfortunately, thtr remix of “Family Man” lacks much punch. The one downfall evident is the flow of the album. It Lacks a smooth transition from track to track, and some of the weaker songs are quite fragmented on their own, such as “Time” and “Family Man.” Ebbhead seems more like a collection of singles than an integrated project. As a consolation, though, loyal customers are rewarded with sing-along lyrics (a first for Nitzer Ebb). But watch out, kiddies this album contains explicit lyrics, and one ugly front cover. Surprisingly, even though Wilder of Depeche Mode is involved in production, he does not seem to directly influence the sound very much. Hc also worked on the song “Come Alive” from As /s, although in that case you could definitely hear the difference. Depeche Mode’s subtlety is not evident on Ebbhead. I expect that Nitzer Ebb’s harder style will influence the sound of rhc next Depeche Mode project. In a nutshell, Ebbhead represents a further de-industrialization of Nitzer Ebb’s sound, but its not a bad t-urn: it blows fresh smoke into the face of some of the stale Wax Trax bands.
with smoother rhythms, but ivith more forceful lyrics like 7&a! To&Age had. Ebhhcad, co-produced by their usual producer Flood and Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode, is the next stage in Nitzer Ebb’s dynamic sound. This album contains ten songs, including a remix of “Family Man” which originally appeared on the EP
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by Sandy Atwal Imprint staff Considering this EP is titled “My l.~~e Life” and considering the artist is Morrissey, it wouldn’t seem too out of place for it to be an instrumental.
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That would. be the epitome of belldegradation; so sad, so beautiful, so MOwic;sc?~. Fortunately, Steven is more vain than that. He bares his soul open on this album, so that all may see what the effeminate one is mad6 of - and it is not a pretty sight. Some may scream and run away- driven to madness, some may we;p tears of blood at the sight of a brother baring himself so openly, but the chosen few will open their eyes a little wider - and laugh. Laughing not at him, but with him But leaving the realm of dreams, let
gristle This is aIso a “Iimited edition” release of olr!l* half a million copies being distributed, so you better snap ‘em up before they’re gone. The compilation features material released by the bands on the Sub-Pop label within the last three years, most of which were originallj released on
by Dave Thomson Ixnprin t staff
Pop? Nope, it’s sub-pop. Thirteen band; that are sooc)o obscure that probably no one has ever heard of them, according to some people.
45bext question: what the heck are the grunge years? What’s grunge, for that matter? Is it the stuff vou h&e to clean out of the corner of the washroom in the new house you move into at the beginning of the term? Well, yes. So try and apply that image to music. This cassette is a 40minute workout for your woofers.
US return to the world of mere mortaIs, such as Alan Winstanley and Clive Langer, producers of this and many other Mozzer platters. Winstanley and Linger were originally the producers of albums by Madness. Morrissey has been working with them since “89’s “Ouija Board, Ouija Board.” The interesting thing about their work on this 12-inch is that although they produced”Pregnant-for the Last Time” only a few months ago, “My Love Life” is not as Razorbackish in it’s sound. Gone are the “git along little dawggie” chords (you can almost see the guitarist hopping backwards on one foot like a diarrheic little git) and back is the “wiIhe a bout Marr” strumming. And back, once again, some fine, fine B-sides. The first track is a confessional little number called “I Change my Plea to Guilty,” Morrissey, you see, has decided that
If you recognize the Sub-Pop iabei, you’ll probably recognize most of the bands on this effort, thus making the rest of the review redundant. But nonetheless . _ . Tad, Dickless, the Afghan Whigs, and Mudhoney are some of the more recognizable names on this, due in to their churning out Fati voluminous amounts of their music during the last year or so. There’s no point in re-heaping praise upon them, since this stuff hit the market quite a while ago, in some cases. The same holds true for Nirvana, with their song “Dive” being the first track to hit your eardrums and setting the mood for most of the other 12 tunes. There are, however, some disoriented (ie. out of place) band such as Mark Lanegan and Beat Happening whose musical- style, at least on these selections, departs rather noticeably from the majority of the other so-called “grunge” bands. L7 and Babes in Toyland are two bands I had never heard before, but who work well in this genre. All there really is left to say is to run down the other bands featured on this compilation: The Walkabouts, Love Battery, Screaming Trees, and The Fluid,
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hp isn’t worthy, and wants to spend hi5 life in jail. He doesn’t deserve the cotl’lpany of others and voltintarily incastrates, oops, that’s incarcerates hi:nself. Strangeways here he comes. The other track is a live version of “There’s a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends” from Kill Uwk. Only Morrissey could transform this song from a funeral dirge into a happy, jumpy tune you can’t get out of your
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release of 1991, including MO brand new ones. Except for a slight lapse with “Pregnant,” he’;s still hanging on. His hearing aid hasn’t quite started to melt as some had prophesied. Shameless fan boy fawning. I oughta be on KROQ.
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For lovers of the weird and wacky, put your waIking boots on and head down to the Commercial Tavern to catch the local girl’s band the Nancy Sinatras,also on November 16 (oh! to be able to clone myself so 1 could attend all these events!). Hark the herald angels sing! You don’t have to wait until Christmas to hear ethereal and oh-so precious ballardry. Sister Earth. brings Sarah McLachlan to the Humanities Theatre on November 20. Also on this day, Waterloo’s very own aspiring AOR rockers Strange Days (cxpirirlg is nww lib il - PC/.)come to do their stuff at Phil’s If you didn’t catch them last time here’s your chance: Bourbon Tabernacle Choir plays Victoria Park Pavillion on November 21. And for those who have more
money than sense (ie. those who will be in TO for the cvcckend) be sure to see the winners of the Mindless Bubbiy Pop Band Award, Transvision Vamp, who will be at the Opera l-louse Friday, November 15; t-umours that the opening act is Jason and Kylie are purely fiction. And just when you are saying to yourself “Wow, and 1 thought nothing ,exciting ever happens around here,” Rick$ Lee Jones comes to play ‘at the Convocation Hall, November 15. You don’t haw to go to Kio to set this Jesus, only as far as the Rivoli on November 16 where MC SOOft Jesus, industrial music yfkiolwtkw, will be plying their trade. Whew, what a showcase of stars! It only Elvis was here to see all of this
Hey la,,hey la, Zze BoyJFiendk back! by Pauline Oithof Imprint staff This is the first in a series of articles about the upcoming musical comedy production put on by the University of Waterloo’s drama department called 7%~ /~?~,+/ti~)~cl,written by Sandy Wilson. It will run from March 3-7. So why am I talking about this production this early? Well, the idea is to generate excitement and anticipation about this ambitious endeavour. Musicals have not been performed at the University for aboLt five vears and the director and choreographer of this production Joel Grhenberg, who has musical theatre background, wanted to do something diff&ent. The story of T/X) bo~vfi~v7u' is silly and full of pure entertainment. It’s a parody of a ’20s musical about a
young girl wfio tails in love with a messenger. All characters are looking for love in this three-act musical which has a very British flavour to it. The performance will take place at the Humanities Theatre in Hagey Hall, yet another departure for the UW drama productions which are more commonly performed in the Theatre of the Arts in Modern Languages. This makes the production even more lavish and expensive.
Drama productions at this university so far have been fantastic and well-performed, but not enough peopie know just how great they are. Turn-outs for more alternative and different productions are limited and minimal. Too often the audiences want to see what they aheady know and are unwilling to take a chance to experience something different. This musical will give students more of an opportunitv to showcase the extent of talent this university possesses, since
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both dancers and singers are also this university and he wants to plan ahead. This production is going to involved in this production, Auditions were held this week and require much dedication and hard catlbacks wiil happen next week If work by many. Watch for more the cast is set by press time, Imprint articles and pictures about the prowill publish the names. All of the 75 gress of this production and mark your calenders for early March. Once people who auditioned will not get roles; the cast will consist of between . those theatre lights dim, the excite15 and 18 performers, but Crecn berg ment really begins. was impressed with the interest expressed by so many students. He is starting rehearsals early because htr has never before directed a musical at
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But there is one more songwriter who this books owes much to. In 136 pages of actual text (another 40 in discographies) Bob Dylan himself is mentioned well over one hundred times. Often the comparisons and allusions to Dylan are warranted, especially when describing the history of The Band, but in general Fetherling ends up painting a picture of five Canadian artists who, although great in their own rights, fall slightly short of Dylan’s benchmark.
Some Day Soon Essays on Canadian Songwriters Dougkl.v F~~thdirtg Quarry Press 176 pages
by Sandy Atwal Imprint staff Even during times when Canada isn’t having Constitutiona crises, the popular conception of Canadians is that they lack self-esteem, they’re the ones who don’t rock the. boat, and define themselves as”not American.” That popular conception exists, despite the deserved international success of artists such as Robertson Davies, or athletes such as Wayne Gretzky to name but the most successful. In some ways, S0~77~Du~ Sovrl perpetuates that myth, because the singer/songwriters Douglas Fetherling examines have all had their greatest success in the United States, or in the case of Cohen, in Europe. However in his book, Fetherling manages to distill that which is distinctively Canadian about his subjects, and manages to do it with depth, style, and honesty. Five Canadian musicians are examined: Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson, Leonard Cohen, and Neil Young. The author devotes an essay to each performer and examines the artist’s historical background, gives a brief overview of his/her musical career and then concludes by providing a picture of what makes the artist distinctly Canadian, despite performing and making a living almost exclusively out of Canada.
Even when the topic is Leonard Cohen and God, Dylan scores slightly higher.
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Cohen, on his ‘68 Son& c/’ LPUMU~~ Cr,hc~}~ arrives at the biblical tone “as a result of his habitual plodding along from one cut to the next . . .‘I whereas Dylan’s John Wtdt~v Hmdit’s spiritual sound iq achieves “through clever though simple arrangements and melodic diversity, adding a sense of urgency into the bargain . . .” Alas, in the realm of songwriting Zimmerman reigns supreme.
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Fetherling’s style is easy to cornprehend, but not so simple as to be insulting to the reader. He can destribe Leonard Cohen’s work as “what Soren Kierkegaard would have written for laughs if he had been that kind of fellow” and then describe Neil Young’s vocal harmony in terms of “YMaj7s and a lot of extended and altered chords, not just Dom7s, altered sevenths and triads.” Although lost on the ignorant such as myself, I don’t think he’s just making up words. I’m sure he knows what he’s talking about. The book’s thesis is summed up in a description of Robbie Robertson’s (and most Canadians’) ability to apply their artistic talents to more
than one area. As Fetherling states, “The nature of Canadian culture forces artists and artisans to try their hand at a number of activities in order to make a living, with the result that generalists are more common and are corisidered less remarkable than in many other countries whose cultures tend towards specialization.” For Fetherling,, the lack of support in Canada for all of its artists results in multi-talented individuals. In some respects, his thesis is supported when one examines the constant change and experimentation of Neil Young or the dramatic style shifts in Joni Mitchell’s work.
Mitchell’s treatment in the book is a good example of how well Fetherling writes Readers who would have equal interest in Cohen, Young and Robertson might not find the leap to Lightfoot too difficult, but Mitchell seems as though she belongs to another era. I was not interested in her at all, having-only brief experiences with her music, I was satisfied. But Fetherling treats his subjects with care and expertise. He includes enough biographical information to build up each artist as a person, and details the music as part of a whole, not in isolation. Thus, each artist receives a sympathetic analysis of his/her work which is fair without being over-flattering.
But despite the “Dylan as muse” theme running through the book, Fetherling tackles the subject as one who is writing about what is most familiar to him. He writes with a sense of purpose and direction. Rather than examining these Canadians as Rock Stars, in the author’s hands they are artists - and rightfully so. If more people took the kind of pride Fetherling does in our own home-grown talent, we might soon shed our own self-consciousness and realize that there is nothing to be ashamed of, and lots of artists such as these to be proud of.
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