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3772 first year studentsgot out of bed at a ridiculous hour on Tuesday, September 7, to participate in the frosh activities that Dave McDougall (Special Events Co-ordinator for the Federation of Students) and hard-working members of various student unions had planned during the summer. Frosh wandered about like lost sheep, but sleep-deprived frosh leaders showed them where to be processed and where to get their overpriced frosh kits. Once everyone’s caffeine had kicked in, activities commenced. Individual faculty activities were
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not just designed to be fun but also helped frosh to meet each other, and all organizers should get a pat on the back for the results of their work. Although attendance of daily activities seemed to slack off as the week went on, many activities were enjoyed. Some highlights: School spirit ran rampant at the Pep Rally, with all faculties trying to out-cheer each other; Casino Night (Arts & Science) was very cool; public school favourites like balloontoss and scavenger hunts went great with all the pizza and subs; the CFNY roadshow at Fed (Engineering & AHS) featured long line-ups and hyperactive dancers, with tunes a little different from the typical Fed Hall music. Green Spirit Day made everyone .
feel a little closer to nature, hopefully for longer than it took to clean the dirt from our fingernails; the Toga Parry at Bingeman was a blast even if MuchMusic didn’t play all requests (grrrrr) and oh yeah, everyone was really impressed with the Tool ceremony.. Unfortunately, the cheers of I993 were more politically correct than in other years, though the old inter-faculty rivalry had promoted just as much school spirit as (if not more than) putting down the “high school down the street”. Official frosh totals for this year, faculty-by-faculty: arts, 966; math, 8 IO; engineering, 755; science, 662; AHS, 290; environmental studies, 284; independent studies, 5.
Take I:Dack the night n ext week by Kieran Green Imprint staff One night without fear. Women of the Waterloo Region will walk through KW’s streets for the annual Take Back the Night March on Thursday September 23. The annual women only march, launched almost IO years ago in the KW area, is a demonstration to support women in their struggle to reclaim the right to be able to walk safely at night.
elude, a live music coffee house will take place at Market Square. Men may show their support by providing childcare during the march, assisting with the coffee house, and by educating other men about issues of violence against women. Members of the Men’s Network for Change will be active in this role. A meeting will be held Sunday, September I9 at 7 p.m, in the Women’s Centre for any women interested in marshatling.
“It’s very appropriate that we continue locally to express concern through this march,” said Donna Reid, executive director of the Waterloo County Women Teacher’s Association, which has just completed a province-wide campaign aimed at ending violence ag;linst women. Commencing at 7 p.m., the march will begin at the Seagram Drive entrance to Waterloo Park and will proceed to Speaker’s Corner where key issues, such as the double oppression of women, will be addressed. To con-
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The University of Waterloo has installed a new “automated attendant” telephone service for people ringing the campus, bypassing the regular “live” switchboard operator. The number to dial is 888-4567, ‘says Joan Wiley, manager of telephone services. “You will be greeted by the automated attendant electronic voice prompts. “When the automated attendant answers, you will be instructed to press ‘ I ’ from your touch tone phone. Once you have pressed ’ I ’ the automated attendant wit1 instruct you to dial the extension number followed by *#‘. “ To take advantage of the service, callers must know the campus extension of the person they are trying to reach (if you don’t, a “live” operator will then assist). The new service can only be used with a touch tone telephone; callers with rotary phones should continue calling the 885- I21 I number.