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AsFedsVice-PresidentAdministrationand Finance,ShannonWillisisinvolvedinprojects to renovate Feds businesses. This fall, theused Bookstore will be moved to a more spacious location at the rear of Campus Cove. The Variety Store will also undergo renovations, including a name change to U S S S Y O U s t Down Under." The entrance to thestorewillbe moved to the bottom of thestairs that leadto the lower level of the Studentwe Centre. Aussie's will feature awider variety of merchandise than its predecessor, including "an extensive card, stationery and giftware [department]," said Willis. "We're also going to bring in some clothing items." The WAF added that plans for renovating the Bombshelter are in the "preliminary. stages." She is currently in the process of hiring adesign consultant for the . vroiect. "We recognize - that there needs to be [improvements like] new furniture" at the Bombshelter, said Willis.

Plans for renovating the Bombshelter are in the "preliminary stages"

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FedsVice-PresidentStudentIssues, Desiree Taric, is planning eventsdesigned to encourage students to volunteer their time on campus and within the surrounding community. Taric explained that volunteer experience gives students the opportunity to "pad their resumes or socializeand meet people." TheVPSIis organizing the Discover Yourself Campaign during which studentscan signup for Feds volunteer positions. She added that about 150 students VOIunteeredwiththe Fedsthis term. "Hopefully in the fall, we'llgettwice asmany volunteers." During the Community Volunteer Fairscheddedforthisfall, representativesfromvarious community organizations will be invited torecruit students interested in volunteering. Taric's other projects include the 'Put A Lid On It' Campaignto protect students from rape drugs. "At Fed Hall and the Bomber, you'll be preventive able togetalidwith your drink Tasal measure for rape drugs," she explained. Postersat both establishmentswillwarn bar vatrons to be aware and bar staff will receive rape drug awareness training. - A

The UWStage Band livened uptheSLCwithj a u o n a Hotsummer Noon onThursday,july 20.

rire in residence burldine JEFF EVANB Imprint staff

fire started by a candle severely damaged a townhouse on the U W campus this past weekend. The unit, part of the tutor townhouses IocatedbetweenViage One and Ron EydtVillage (REV),sustained fire and smoke damage to the living room area on the main floor and to the bedrooms upstairs. Accordingto preliminary estimatesby the Waterloo Fire Department, the fire caused $100,000 in damage. The fire affected both the tenant's personal property and fUrnitUre owned mostly by UW. While there was some risk of damage to the four neighbouring townhouses because they are connected units, the concretewallsconfinedthe fire tothe s i i e townhouse. Four of the townhouses are rented to residence life staff, who are on call 24 hours a day. The fifthunit iscurrently beingusedasan office for the F w d ServicesDepartment. This fire follows another residence fire that occurred in October of last year. The

lounge invillage One, West Six wasdestroyed when a dish drainer was left on top of a stove. Damage in that incidentwasestimatedto be less than $10,000, but left the house without a common area for several weeks. According to Leanne O'Donnell, Director of ResidenceLife, "there was not a written 'no candle' policy for the Tutor Houses at the time of the fire." She added, however, "the Department of Housing will certainly look into avenues of trying to avoid a similar accident from happening in the future." Repairs are already underway; a restoration firm has been working on the unit since Monday. Dave Reynolds, manager of REV and the Columbia Lake Townhouses, told the Daily Bulletin, "We're rebuilding. The only thing that really matters is that the occupant is safe. We can't replace her, but we can replace carpets."

Reynolds hopes repairs will be complete by September.The townhouse'sonly ocrupant has managed to f i d new housing until repairs are finished.

Sweet Dreams are made of tea MIKE

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in-Hee Song, a UW Economics and International Trade student and owner-operator of the Sweet Dreamsteashop, recently placed second in the Canadian College and University Entrepreneur Contest (CCUEC). Her teashop mainly servesbubble tea and opened in September 1999. Bubble tea is a drinkmade of green or black tea mixed with flavouring and sometimes milk or ice cream and has "pearls" of tapiocaor flavoured jelly at the bottom. The "pearls" are sucked up with the tea through large straws and chewed with the drink. It first gained popularity inTaiwan, but has now spread to North America and Waterloo. Thecontest, CCUEC, is the regional component of the North American Collegiate Entrepreneur Award which is a program of the Jefferson Smurfit Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at St. Louis University. This regional conteais runby the Business Advisory Centre of Hamilton-Wentworth. Every school can nominate one student. The studentsmust be enrolled full-timeand

are judged based on finances, employment and future goals through an essay written by the student to answer a list of questions. Song got the idea two years ago, "I knew there was an opportunity and I just said, 'I'mgonnado it'." She had taken courses in business and marketingwhichprepared her. "My parents have entrepreneurial spirit. I went through many co-op terms that justweren't me. I thought if I fail then I fail and learn." For her Fall 1999 co-op term she opened the tea shop. The work term before, "in the winter of 1999 I worked at a bank and I was miserable." She much preferred running her own business to her previous work terms mostly because of the independence and the challenges it provided. "~t'sares~onsibility; &metimes I worry. It's stressfulbut agood stress." In the winter of 2000, Song was running the shop while being a full-time student. "I almost died," she said, thinking back. Asked if Sweet Dreams will be around for a while she responded, "Ideally, yes." When her competitor opened she was worried but her father told her to "quit being a baby and start doingsomethingabout it."

So she started supplying entertainment and more people got interested. Now, she has a more steady flow of customersthrough the shop. "Bubble tea is usually more of an evening thing but now people are coming in earlier,it's becomingmore of a daytime thing." Sweet Dreams is not a typical bubble tea shop she says, and describes her more ethnically diverse staff and clientele. "My first experience with bubble tea wasn't very good." She recalls the waitress not spending much time explaining the drinks.Songwanted to create amore friendly atmosphere. She says people might say it'snot good to encourage people to stay in the shop because it results in a low turnover but she thinks it makes customers more comfortable and more loyal, "people feel welcome." "So many people are eager to help too. Some high school students said, 'we have a business. We can print your menus.'" Architecture friendsof Songdesigned the furnishings and the intenor of the shop. She's had local entertainment, jazz bands, and they plan to have spoken word performances in the future. Her shop had a booth at

How to spend $776,830 in one year SUSAN BUBAK

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n July 16, Students' Council approved the Feds' Budget2000-01 which feam e s a $0.65 increasetothe Feds fee, a new investment fund and a downsized Feds Executive. The Feds fee willincreasein line with the Consumer Price Index as it has previously, said budgeter and FedsVF' Adminiitration and Finance, Shannon Willis. This fall, students willpayaFedsfeeof $25.40,upfrom $24.75 in the Winter 2000 term. The new Feds fee "was ratified at the March General Meeting and

will come into effect for the period from September 2000 to August 2001," explainedWillis.Sheexpects the Feds to collect $776,830 in student fees, but admits, "we can never accurately account for the student fees that we will be receiving until everyone pays their tuition." Student fees will go toward the Feds' service expenses, includingthe funds consumed by the Feds Executive, frosh orientation, specialevents, marketing, prograrnmingandoffice costs. These expenses add up to $740,362, leaving $5,395 in spare change, not includingrevenues from Feds businesses. In preparing the budget, the VPAF tried to "break-

even," but ended up with a "small leftover" that willserve asa "cushion for possible unforeseen expenses." Anew addition to the budget is the "retained fees" nest egg which sets aside four per cent of student fees, or $3 1,073, for investmentpurposes. Willis explainedthat the interest will be "invested with the principal, so that it will compound into a larger amount." She added that the int&eawill be spentwhen theinvestment grows to $250,000. By amalgamating the VF' Student Issues and the VP Internal, the Feds Executive shrank from five members to four, eliminating one salary from the payroll.

Canada Day to try to expose people to more East Asian culture by having calligraphers write out people's names in Chinese characters. A big challenge was her age; people didn't treat her seriously when she was dealingwith suppliers or banks. She learned time management, how to train staff in making drinks and quality of service. 'You have to realize it's not just tablesand chairsand selling; it'sso much more, marketing,service, differentiation."

Compared to when we started, the wait time is alot less. The drinks take a bit of time to make, but we're a lot more efficient." Song's future challengesare just continuing the business and finding new thmgs. "Nowthe challenges are a lot smaller, when before they seemed huge. My attitude has changed; I'm a lot more l a ~ dback." Song's advice to students starting a business: "don't be discouraged, but be realistic."

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Federal politics and you A

he first half of 2000 has been a very , interesting time in Canadian Federal politics. Events have and will continue to occur that could have a lasting effect on the Canadian political scene. Unfortunately it seemsasif alargepomon of the populaaon, includingmany university students, are not listening and are not interested in these important developments. Abrief run down of the major developments include a federal budget that is prbjecting billions of dollarsinsurplusesoverthe next few years, the birth of a new pohtical party, the demise of our opposition leader, the rise of a new one, significant debate about whether our Prime Minister should turn over his party's reigns to a new leader and people calling for the leader of one of our oldest parties to throw in the towel altogether aswellas afederalelection that is just around the corner. With all of this onthe politicaltable~twouldbe safe toassume that just about every Canadian hasavestedinterestmwhatlsgomgon. Why t h e n m that we don't seem to care? These events will affect you both as a unlverslty student and as a member of the workforce after graduat~on.The most direct Impact will be those massive surpluses that our economy wdl generate in the years tocome. Th~slsthe first time in decadesthat we have had the luxury of having extra money and deciding how to spend it. Our government will have to decide whether they want to use it to reduce taxes, increase spending on social programs or pay down our staggering debt load. And each one of the d&elopments previouslymentionedwill play a significantrole in answering the surplusquestion. In our current situation, where we are governed by a Liberal majority government led by Jean Chrttien, the focus has been on tax cuts, smallpayments against the debt and some increases to social spending. It is expected that the Liberals will call an election for this fall or next spring. While it is never a sure thing, it is widely expected that the

Daglobenpost: a good sign

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Liberals will once again win thiselection. The certainly wouldn't be the government's top big questionis whether it will be with a majority priority. or minorlty government. Many feel that However, in order to succeed, this new Chretiin's time isup and that hisleadership in party will need the support of many former the next election would result in a minority Progressive Conservative party members who government. But he isbeing very stubborn and have become disillusioned with their dismal has stated that he has every intention of run- performance in the last two elections. At the ning again. This is infuriating many people, helmof th~spartyisformerPr~meMnisterJoe including supporters of finance minlster Paul Clark, who issteadfastly ~ t t h h o l d i n g a nsup~ Martin. who believe Mr. Martin should lead ~ o roft the new ~ a r ,t vThere . aremanvwho feel the Liberalsinto the next election, giving them that the two partles should merge for an all out a better chance at a majority government. attack on Chritlen. Thislooksunlikely, asMr. Many of the other events are aimed at Clark has decided to run in a by-election in derailing the Liberal train and putting a new Nova Scotla under his PC flag, determined to lookon Canadian politics, includingthe dlstri- try and resurrect his party. bution of that fat surplus. It all startedwlth the It 1s very clear that all of these events are formation of the Canadlan Conservative Re- not only going to play an important role In the form Alliance, the successor to the old Reform upcoming election, but also In the years to Party. This new party was formed to try to come. The only way that you can Influence unify the Conservative vote in an attempt to how those huge surplusesare spent is to take an bring down Chrttien. After the party was Interest. This may be as slmple as voting or formed, the leader of the opposition, Preston chooslng to work for a party. Make sure you Mannlng, called a leadership convention to take an interest ~nthese events. Pickup a paper el~m~nate any leadership questions that m~ght and stay ~nformed,because ~twdl affect you. have exlsted ln the new party. Llttle d ~ he d know that he was golng to .be defeated by -MarkDuke Stockwell Dav. Mr. Day 1s the former finance minister for the Conservative government in TAE TmzA OUTT h m By Graham Dub Alberta. Now Ki11g of Kings we have a new King party with a new leader taking their aim at the Prime Minister's Office. Shouldthey get power, their goal would be to cut taxes even more and probably pay off more of our debt. While Jesus CLnist and Ehris Preeleyhve both been spotted all wa the they would not a seen in tbc place by thousands of people, but t h q have n ~ r bem ignore social same phce at the same time. Coincidence? I don't think so. programs, they

s someone who edits a newspaper fulltime, my hat goes off to the students behind Daglobenpost. The parody af our two national papers was spot on: not only were the layout and fonts painstakingly copied with careful prehsion, but the content was very, very funny and at times more insightful than was probably intended. Don't listen to those who try to dismiss this work with claims that "Well, they did have all term to put it together" or "They mobablyworkedout most of the layoutstuff while puttingtogether thelrrationulToastn. I know first-handfromthe work we do down here that Daglobenpost took both a lot of hard work and a lot of time. For most students, the paper was an entertaining diversion as they entered the final stretch of the summer term. While it was indeed that-it diverted agreat deal of my timeinthe daysafteritcameout-Ithink Daglobenpost shouldalso be read as a sign of a healthy learning environment. Math and computer students are often accused of bemg unaware of the world and events outside of their classroomsand labs. And I must admit that I've had conversations

wlthunlversitystudents (fromdifferent institutions and fromvarlous disciplinesand faculties, I mlght add) whose ignoranceof local, nattonal and international politics and events frightened me a great deal. Daglobenpost did a lot to restore my faith in the well-rounded university student. The people behind the paper had to have a keen enough understanding of Canadian politics, international relations, sports and business, among others, to be able to parody and satirize them as well as they did. Daglobenpost is also welcome evidence that even at a university as focused on providingstudentswithjobskillsasUWis, studentsare also still being taught to think critically. With stories like "Long goes after leadership of Survivortribenandadsforcarslike the "BogosLE" ("Luxury for the Irresponsible Professionaln), it is clear that people are not acceptingwithout question everythingpoliticianssayor the claims advertisers make. Behind all of the jokes is a little resistance to the status quo. In this age of campus corporate sponsorship and political manoeuvring that is constantly reshaping post-secondary education in Canada, it is nice to see that not everything is

being taken at face value and that students continue toquestion (if not make fun of) the dominant social discourses (and arrogant media tycoons). But above all, Daglobenpost isoverflowing with creativity which is perhaps its most refreshing quality. Let's face it, the regular mathNews is often fodder for those who believe math and computer students are an uncreative bunch: most of the time it seems as though it is put together by people unconcerned with layout. Daglobenpost should reassure any doubters (myself mcluded) that at least some (if not most) mathies are indeed a creative bunch. Ifwe have to make do with the roughedged mathNews throughout the term so that we can get a parody paper like Daglobenpost, it's worth i t My enthusiasmfor Daglobenpostis not, however, completely without reservation. Now that such a high standard has been set there'sgoing to be even more pressure on us to be clever and funnywhenit comes time for Misprrnt. -Scott Gordon, Editor-in Chief

Ending religious strife until next time

the New and Old Testaments in the year 3 82 AQ at the Councilof Rome, under Pope Damasus I. This decision wasapproved again at the councilsof Hippo (393AD) and Carthage (397 and419 AD).You, my friend, accept exactly the same books of the New Testament that Pope Damasus decreed were canonical and no others. The question you have to ask yourself is: "Where didwe gettheBible?" Until you can give a satisfactoryanswer, you aren't inmuch of aposition to rely on the authority of Scripture or to claim that you can be certain that you know how to accurately interpret it. After you answer that question - and there's really only one answer that can be given -you have another important question to ask yourself: "If theBible, which we received from the Catholic Church, is our sole rule of faith, who's to do the interpreting?"

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think what all religious conversations have taught me is that arming about religion is highly Profitable. Moreover, that parties on both sideswill reach a mutually agreeable convergence. Predicting (only roughly) I wouldsay that all religiousdisagreementswillcometo an end, this Friday July 28, 2000. No other venue of argument has taught me that I myself, and those around me are masters of logic, temperance and theolow. , Furthermore, I believe religious discussions delve vibrantly into dynamic new ground never before touched upon. If only we could take the power of this life-affirming and changing squabbling and harness it into some sort of power source, or perhaps even teleportation technology. . . Man I bet we'd really get far. P.S.Yes, Irealizetheirony of me appearing on GLY threadto decry it, so don't bother pointing it out.

Someone who used to like Warren Hagey

-Sascha Kokot 4APhysiw

Where did the Bible come from? To the Editor, r. Hagey (God loves you July 14), the only reason you and I have the New Testament is because of the trustworthy teaching authority of the Catholic Church. As St. Augustine put it, "I would not believe in the Gospelswere it not for the authority of the Catholic Church." The fact is, the Holy Spirit guided the Catholic Church to recognize and determine the canon of

omplete white. My hand became blurry at arms length. I turned my attention back to the guide as he warnedusthat the badvisibility masked the unrecoverable 150 meter fall to our right. That didn't stop me. I convincedmy friend to climbwith me to be safe, and we stayed in sight of each other. On our hands and knees, we crawled up the final peak and looked out above the clouds. We saw cloud which eventually broke to reveal the long expanse of Iceland and eventually the ocean. We marvelled at its beauty, took our ~ h o t o ~ r a pand h s headed back down the side of the glacier. Yep, what a place, which I later called "the white room." Nothing but white and ten snowmobiles. I hopped on. The engine roared to life. Theguidewarnedus: Lean. Yeah right buddy, relax. He started off. Damn, was he going fast. I took the first turn without leaning and was almost crushedunder my 600 pound

have enjoyed reading Warren Hagey's column for some time. Unfortunately, since hisJuly 14 article attacking the Roman Catholic Church, I can no longer say I enjoy reading his column. As a Catholic, I must defend the Church against Mr. Hagey's claim that the Catholic Church 1s"Anything but Christianin the Biblical sense." Mr. Hagey claims that theBible asserts itself as the final authoritv. (2 . Timothy 3:16-17). But when actually readingthe passage, it statesthat Scripture is "useful for teaching." Hardly the "final authority" Mr. Hagey claims it to be. Catholics believe that the Church, more specificallythe Pope, is the ultimate authority on interpreting theBibleandisguided by the Holy Spiritto ensure infallible interpretation (Acts 15:28). Suchasystem

beast. Barely recovering, I struggled to match the ludicrous speed our guide was maintaining ahead of us. I tell you, I have never hadarush as intense as that day, so thrilling, adrenalinethumpingheart beats blurring together into a steady hum icy wind, nose burning, high muscle straining to stay alive and a girl wrapped around you more scared than you are. You can see nothingfarther than a few feet, it's all white except the lights of the snowmobile in front of and the hill is so steep, you have to hit the brakes all the time, but then you fish tail and so you have to gas it to stay on course andnot tip over. It's like gas, brake, gas, BRAKE!!!!, crap gasgasgas,BRAKE!!!!!! But you just think it, no one could've heard anyway. Finally the cloud cover thinned slightly. I got tired of leading so I would drop back to the beginning of the group and then race to the front again. This aggravated the other rid-

must say that I found Flear's work quite weak academically (probably due to hiscolumn's400 wordlimit). I would like, then, to recommend some books and make a comment. For a sophisticated and scholarly understandingof the Bible'sview on homosexual sexual behaviour, I recommend Thomas E. Schmidt's Straight @Narrow? Compassion 6 ClaritvontheHomosexualitvDebate ( ~ n t e r h s i tpress y 1995)and~onald J. Wold'sOut oforder: Homosauuality in theBibleand thehcient Near East (Baker 1998). Schmidtisaprofessor of New TestamentandGreek. Wold is a professor of Near Eastern Studies. Both are fully cognizant of gay revisionist attempts at interpreting the Bible. For amore popular work, which reflectssolid scholarship, I also recommendJoe Dallas'sA StrongDelusion: Confrontingthe"Gay Christian" Movement (Harvest House 1996). Dallas is a former leader in the Gay Christian Movement and a former gay. Schmidt,Wold, andDallasmake awell-reasonedbiblicalcasefor thinking that homosexual sexual behaviour is not in accordancewith the wdl of the God of tht Bible.But this is not all. Sigdcantly -especially for those who do not accept the Bible as an authority in moral matters Schmidt also makes a strong independent case on secular grounds for thinking that homosexual sexual behaviour is not conducive to good health. For a detailed summary of -Christopher Young the studies supporting this conclu2BMathlhounting sion, see Schmidt'schapter six. Of course, some persons will More evidence quicklydismissSdunidt's workas the ranting of a "homophobe." Keep in mind the following three points, however. First, a phobia is an irraecently, Imprint columnistNigel tional fear or concern. Second,conR.Flear shared his understanding cerns about individualandlor public of the Bible's view on homosexual health can be rational. Third, if sexualbehaviour. As a graduate stu- Schmidt presents good grounds for dent interested in biblical matters, I thinking there are serious health

is necessary to maintain the unity of the Church. Amajor Protestant concept is the idea that everyone may interpret the Bible as they see fit. As a result, Protestantism is littered with 30,000 plus denominations preaching different messages from the sameBible, eachclaimingto have the correct interpretation. The only Church,which hasexistedsince JesusChrist foundedit Himself, isthe Catholic Church. Jesus Christ also establishedthe Papacy, makingPeter the apostle the first Pope (Matthew 16:17-20). Mr. Hagey also claims that Catholics "worship and pray" to Mary. This common misconception that most Protestants are taught about the CatholicChurchisuntrue. Catholics do pray to Mary, but Mary is not worshipped. While Mary is recognized as a special figure, this recognition is Biblical since Mary herself claims she is "blessed" (Luke 1:48).AsforprayingtoMary,itsnot hard to imaginethat Mr. Hagey himself hasaskedafriendtopray for him. When Catholics pray to Mary, they make the same request. The Catholic belief that more than "faith alone" is requlred to get to heaven is also firmly rooted in the Bible (James 2:14 - 26:2 Thessalonians 2:lS). Clearly, the Catholic Church is adhering more closely to the Bible than any other. I invite Warren Hagey to research Catholicism and discover the truth.

ers and soon we had an ongoingrace for first position. Of course, the mentality kicks in that "if they c a n g o h t fast, I can go faster," which kept the pace increasjng. Ten riders racing throughthe white room, the leaders sped down the hill at 60 km/h no more than a meter apart. Then almost instantly, we burst out of cloud cover, and at sametime, came withinview of asno-cat carrying multiple tourists. The race which seemed alreadyat a maddeningpace intensified even f+ther. Snow flew into the air as we raced for the coveted title of reachingthe people first. It was hafd to tell, we kind of just all converged on it at once, and then slowed down and drove down with it to the bottom. . I took 40 minutes just to calm down, and as we drove back to our campsite, I looked at the glacier-covered mountain with a sacredsenseof awe, both at the sheer size of it and the fact I could see the peak I had climbed to and snowmobileddown.

concerns connected with homosexual sexualbehaviour, then to dismiss his argument as the ranting of a homophobeis tocommitthe adhominem fallacy. I hope Flear will examine Schmidt's work and share with Imprint readers the serious negative health concerns closely associated with homosexual sexual behaviour. -Hendrikvan derBreggen Ph.D. student, Philosophy The Forum Section enables members of the University of Waterloocommunitytopresent views onvarious issues through letters to the editor and longer comment pieces. Letters shouldnot exceed 350 words in length. Letters must be signed, including a phone number. Letters willnot be printediftheEdjtor-in-Chief cannot identify the author. They can be submitted to: letters@imgrint.uwate~km.ca. Letters received in electronic form (e.g. fax & emall) willnotbeprintedunlessaphone number for verification is Included. All material is subject to editing for brevity and clarity. The editor reserves the right to refuse to publishletters or articles which are judged to be libellousor discriminato~onthe basis ofgender, race, religionor sexualorientation. The opinions expressed through columns, comment pieces, letters andother articles arestrictlythose ofthe authors, not the opinions o f h p r i n t .

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The dass average for th.e midterm was 82%, the hi hest I've seen ~n20 years. Gwe yourselves a pat on the tack. However in accordance with UW policy, the average cannot exceed 65%. You all have to take the test agaln.

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ell, this is my last column. I'd e thank everyone at ImW l ~ . k to print for giving me the opportunity to write and for all the work they put into the newspaper. Thanks also to everyone who has taken the time to read my articles and respond. In this final column, I'm going to address a sequence of questions which will once again demonstrate God's love. Who is God? People have all kinds of answers to this question "We'redgods," "EverythmgisGod," etc. -but these are simply misconceptions which humans have come up with after rejecting the true God. Even many who get their ideas of what God is like from the Bible have skewedperceptions of Hischaracter, overemphasizingHis love and m e r q and downplaying His holiness and justice. God is the eternal, infinite Creator; He isall-powerful,all-knowing, all-present, unchanging, holy, just, gracious and loving. Who are we? Here again, people have all kinds of notions about the place of humans in the grand

scheme of things. The Bible tells us that God createdusin His own image to rule the earth. He also designedus to be in aclose relationshipwith Him and since He is our Creator, we are accountable to Him. He wants each individual to spend all of eternity with Him in heaven. What'sthe problem?When God created the first humans Adam and Eve -He gave them free will to do as they pleased. They lived in the

This is my last column. beautiful Garden of Eden and God placed only one restriction on them (which was for their own good) they were not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, the devil convincedEveto disobey God and she in turn convinced Adam to eat the fruit. Ever since, sin has plagued the human race and all

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are born as sinful creatures. The evil in our lives separates us from God andpreventsus fromenjoyinglife as He originally designed it. What'sthe solution?People have tried to come up with all kinds of solutions to deal with sin and earn a place in heaven - religion, good deedsand morals, positive thinking, etc. -but none of these really address the problem. Sin is an offense against God, who is perfect and holy, andthe only acceptablepayment for sin is death. This is where we see God's love demonstrated; to overcome the problemof sin, He sent His own Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die on thecrossas abloodsacrifice to pay the price for thesinsof thewhole world. Christ'sresurrection from the dead proves that His death satisfied God's demand for justice. What response is needed? God has done everything necessary to save you from your sins and eternal torment in hell. He now commands you to acknowledge your own sinfulness and turn to Him in faith,

ast Friday evening, the front of City Hall was transformed into a youth drop-in as K-W youth hung out, donatedmoney to thecause and talked about various important youth topics. The event was organized by the K-Wyouth collectiveto highlightthe need for a 24-hour youth drop-in centre in Kitchener-Waterloo. The idea was to show what a youth dropincentre couldlooklike, both for the youth and others. The collectivealso used the event to educate youth on political issues through different workshops and to build community through interaction. Darcy h a n d - a homeless youthin Kitchener-agrees with the K-WYouthCollective that adrop-in centre is needed in downtown Ctchener. "Alot of the time, there's no one to talk to and nowhere to go to get away from dangerous situations" says Darcy, who was present at the Drop-In organizedby the K-W Youth Collective last Friday and Sat-

in shelters isvery limited so it takes a long time to get into one. Once there, you can only stay for a short time. Drop-in centres like ROOF aren't open 24 hours and are understaffed, so they sometimes can't open at all. This leaves people like Darcy on the street for much of the time. Darcy agreeswith the purposes of the Youth Collective and believes it is a good cause. He even donated the money that he had to the jar, which waspart of the Drop-Inevent. According toyouth Collective member Sue Forrest, the event raised $112 for the youth shelter. This is a significant amount when you consider that many of the contributors were youths like Darcy. "They did a good job reachmg out tostreet youth," saysDarcy, "Everyone I know is here." According to Forrest, a great deal wasaccomplishedby the action. An interesting community of people developed during the event and former strangers engaged in conversation about socialchange.The event

Eminem, the homophobe

dd Marshall Mathers to the list of hopeless homophobes. Better known by his pseudonyms, Eminem and Slim Shady, the rapper has consistently spoken out against homosexual . ~ e o ~ lHislatest e. album 1s no exception. It is replete with lyricsdeemed hateful to almost every group on the planet, but in particular to gay people and women. GLAAD has posted the lyrics from twelve songs on The Marshall Mathers LP which cite hatred towards gays and lesbians. Eminem's hit single, "The Real Slim Shady," is amongthose listed.MuchMusicand many radio stations have chosen tn edit out the phrase, "But if we can hump dead mimals and antelopes1 then there's no reason that aman and another man can't elope." In this particular lyric. . . not only does Eminem confound the concepts of homosexuality with necrophilia and beastiality, he also utilizes sarcasmto suggestthat gay people are worthy of ridicule. Most of Eminem's other songs are much worse that his single, including lyricslike, 'You faggotskeep eggin' me onl'til I have you at knifepoint, then you beg me to stop? / 'Slim Anus,' you damn right, Slim Anus/ I don't get fuckedin mine like you two little flaming faggots! / Hate fags?The answer's 'yes'." In interviews, Eminem has stated that he writes homophobic lyrics because it's what is expected from him. So much for free thought and free speech. He also says he doesn't A

agreewith thegay "lifestyle." When questioned about his own sexuality, he denies being gay himself. (Not that we wanted him to play for our team anyway.) Based on his commentsand Ivrics. . ,though. - ,aFreudian analysis would indicate he clearly has some sort of anal fixat~on. (Maybe all Eminem needs is a good gay lover). His record label, Interscopel UniversaVSeagram, will not cornment on Eminem's lyrics. Storeslike Walmart carry an editedversionofthe Marsh." Mathers LP removing violentcontent,but,of course leaving in misogynistic and homophobic content. According to Walmart, they have received no complaints. An interesting sidebar to the "Eminemhomo~hobic"themeisthe singer's apparent popularity among gay people. There could be many explanations for this.One is that his hateful mesagesare hidden incatchy tunes -many people are unaware of the homophobiclyrics. Asecond, more peculiar explanation is that many gay men find Eminem attractive. Some like him for his looks, others because he epitomizes the straight, tough, gay-basher-asymbol that appeals to masochist types. Battling homophobia isn't an easy task, even withoutthe impact of music. It'simportant that individuals who have a basic respect for all humansspeakout,bothwiththeirwords andwith their checkbooks.

Maybe all he needs is a good

gay

lover.

All vou need is a movement MARK A. SCHMN Feds VP Education

movements. The Canadian Federation of Students was born in 1981 and has been representing students on educational and social issues ever since. In 1995, a number of groups became dissatisfied with the overly broad tactics of the CFS and formed the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, of which we are apart.

spentthislastweekin the beautiful climate of BritishColumbia.While thismay seem l i e the perfect holiday to alot of people, I was actually here on behalf ofthestudentsIrepresent. Now, a lot of people may question the merits of travelling around the country to talk about studentissues; but I had a breakthrouh - thisweekthat revealed to me the great importance of meeting face to face. This week, I was attending a conference entitled the StudentUnionDevelopment Symposium. In the student movement, we have conferences that are very general in their orientation, conferences that are geared towards aparSince the split, these two organiticular portfolioandconferencesthat zations have not exactly been fast link people of very similar political friends. In fact, much time has often opinion and lobbying tactics. This. been devoted to undermining each conferehce, however, is one which other as we compete for access and targets all things political without spotlight in the post-secondary eduensuring that everyone in the room cation 1obbyingarena.Yetthis week, agrees. we sat in a room together and had For those of you less familiar what was perhaps the frank talk that with the student movement,our lob- was needed. For the first time, both bying efforts are largely divided. In organizationsrecognizedeach other. Canada today, there exists two main Both organizationsrealizedfully that

the other exists. While the road from here isnot easy, the conversation broke open to reveal that we are all a part of the student movement. The bottom line is thatwe all represent the best interests of students. What was revealed was that we have differing tactics on how to represent students, yet what was fundamentally importantwas thatwe began to ask questions about how to structure the student movement in a way that we can bothexist differently andstill cooperate. The issues of the day in post-secondaryeducation are not easy. Similarly,with two groups competing to represent the interestsof students there are a lot of complexities.Yet, what Ilearned this week - which ! realize now could not have been achieved by an e-mail chat group or by aconference call-was that we are all apart of the student movementand that, for now, this may make it easier for us to get along. I am a part of the student movement. Join together with the others now to ensure the best representation possible for yourself and other students.

Much time has been devoted to undermining each other as we compete for access and spotlight.

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5 What would you spend the Feds budget on?

"Buy another van for the safety van." Lyn Caruana 2A Honours Arts

"Male strippers at the Bomber" Lamees Daar 3A ES.

"Me!"

"Saving the Trees"

Howard Swertagar 4A Physics

Connie Sutherland 2A Physics

Brian App. & Andre Cousineau

"Pay our profs to do our exams" Danny Grudg 1B Computer Science

"Get anewbar. The Bomber sucks!" Annette Zind Economics

"Trying to get CIBC off campus" Aziz Ebrahim Math

io.

"Renovations to Bomber." Crista and Natasha 3 and 4 Arts

open.

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"Buy some hotties." Amanda and Leanne 3B Accounting

"An amusementpark to help lower stress levels." Devon Scoble 4A Anthropology

Cadence

Untitled Untitled mary musty made hand me down frown with her fear fangled tangled hair blowing wildly and blatantly in the wind

i'm sure i knew there would be an end though i didn't think it would be like this. this gradual backing away mumbled explanations and muttered apologies?

Things are different between us, We're the same two people in a different tune Seeing different things in the same old situation Going our separate ways; slowly drifting Perhaps it is time.

She secretly dances with her chances Her skirt hurts, shirts and ties unsteady and ready sweet mary isn't fine to be merry

in ones and twos, they drift off. the tides of acceptances

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Isn't fine that she makes you ache makes you shake Dirty flirty finger nails and toes beneath the sand, on land please understand

bewildered by the sudden alone in the empty too quie which still echo with shouted lost voices forgottensmiles the slam of doors, and your foots

runk Lust Smooth Sex in a strapless summer dress,

that musty made hand me down fr

Singing- Sultry - Swinging,

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from pick-up lines,

as you wander away -Erin Nielson

Wondering Flesh. Wandering Eyes,

Isn't it fine to be

Tips. Lips. salty sweet hips. and bees T o touch mary's bees and they sting and you sing isn't it fine to be merry blowingwildly and blatantly in the wind

Aggressive, Thirsty, And Dehberate. window of the six o'clock train,

-Andrew Terluk +

the smile in the yellow kerosene light

Hips slip and trip beneath the moon and she'll move to prove you wrong to prove how she makes you shake makes you ache quake -break beneath the pressure that is Mary

I remember how you looked as I pulled away, With your sad sm~le, And you blew a kiss, Just one kiss, As I smiled through my tears.

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this elfin bearded man tell I'm beautiful

I don't know if I can learn, To be myself, instead of one of two, Half nf nnr

Isn't it fine to be Mary as she secretly dances with chances you possess

Touching palm to palm as we sleep separately, And dream that we are together. Always.

Mary - musty made hand me down frown With her fear fangled tangled hair blowing wildly and blatantly in the wind Isn't that fine ? -Danielle Raymond

"I do believe that p e o ~ 'all in love only once, when they are hurtled into the dep ths of their own inferno dizzying . - thoughts as they . plunge - into the blackness of unconsciousness and every being they ever met, touched, smelt, and tasted merges anew to them, fresh and lovely with remembrance." -Monika Smetana

Bitter teenage angst, regret, sweat, freaking out and believing in something more powerful than love or darkness or self hatred. Standing on a corner in the cold, fallen angels and hipsters wince as acid snowflakes burn in empty bellies. Crayon dreams are more real in this pale streetlamp glow. Tonight we are living the high life, smoking cigarettes and taking cabs uptown. Slinking homeward before dawn, shaking the last tendrils of enjoyment from the evening just before the sun comes up. In this crowded room hopes burn bright as heroes fly into our lives with words and music. Idolatry, paltry faded heroes, charmless,flawless beauties. Freaky p%opje,hippies andkids clutter up our lives, drink in our lies. We are all nothing but beautiful stars in an ever paling sky. The coffee is hot and sweet tonight, here in the cafe, where we smoke h d choke and watch as others climb the walls. Sometimesbeauty floods this dirty place. Music fills the heart of thiscity, every once andawhile. Flaming, falling, praying. Words stretch out into disjointed fragments-not sentences,we do not make sense here. Here in this town, where we all get around. Blue baby eyes stare out into the dull as the noise rises up from the street, like bubbles rising from the page. It brightens, enlightens, deafens, turns 360 degrees and fizzles out. Here in this overgrown garden we breathe in the causticyellow light until all that'sleft is darkness. Creeps, geeks and punk rockers h e the walls tonight, tucked away, they hide, slinking quietly into jade green seas of springtime. Filling our hearts, our minds, our lives. On a night like this we are born, reborn and born again into velvet lies, where our hearts shatter into a million tiny stars spreading across a silken sky. -Amanda Rubin

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One Night in the Bedroom of your Thoughts.. . Held ~nthe palm of your hand I told vou to he still. Moving down with grace I undid the Deed And slid comic thought Into mouth Where you lay Your eyes glazed over and pondering Meta- genies enclosed in metameta genies, enclosed in the membranous liquid Which is God, enclosed in mute voice en1closed in enthralled desire Enclosed in peace (and silence came at last, A Short Story About Smoking Near Gas Stations though I have yet to read the beginning and the end of these philosophies).

I know only too well that time will unravel thee. Texas-style Teardown; an invitation for Mr. Prufrock Let us go then; Because I've been thinking we should leave this town we'll steal a car, and drive on down to a place where the rivers all run green. Perhaps we could even drive to Texas, Lovesongs sound sweeter there. Let us go then; Let's catch a train to the Amazon basin, then hop a bus to New Orleans; we'll take a walk down to the corner and walk down through the quarter, to the river; where the water will wash us clean. Yes I know it's not that easy, that something holds you here so hold me for tonight, because I'll be gone before you know. But I'll think of you while I'm lying cool in the shade and I'll wonder what you're doing, and what made you stay.

- Amanda Rubin Summerland Stationary Bicycle I found a daydream while sitting atop a robins egg blue exercise bicycle after having been dumped by an orderly in a sea of dirty carpet dotted with rubber balls and metal weights I found a daydream over in a pile of old beds the beds lay in rows, covered with an odd smelling white paper they were littered with unused ice packs and as I tread o n the peddles, thrashing legs somehow managing to drive synthetic fanbelts into the whirring drone of rehabilitation I became aware of my periphery it appeared in this, the most immaterial of views as if some sort of lunatic had entered the clinic, soilled anti-freeze everywhere and disappeared possibly out through the tiny frosted bathroom window and back off into the forest, or wherever it was that he left his backup store of anti-freeze burbling coolly amidst fragrant pines the silent training equipment pressed into the floor sweat marked my bare legs I wobbled about on the spindly seat belts dragging on knobs measured by burnt out gauges and despite the fact that I had armed myself with the knowledge that my endeavour had always been one of stasis my legs and stomach began to fill with despair an old man trotted past his hair a yellowed grey he glanced back and said with a chuckle "I'll meet you in Summerland" I nodded knowing that I wasn't going there I couldn't my bicycle -Tavis E. Triance

So speak up boy and I will swallow your juices whole I will break your silenced mind And leave tatters of undecipherable fury In the hollow opening of hope.

Eddie is smokingnext to the gasstation again. With each flickof his wrist, the ashesdrop andmy heart risesinmy throat, waiting for the mvthical exolosion of a s and flame. The perfectly manicuredlawns andbeds that cornerthe concrete stationcatch these tendriisof smoke, flakesof ash. A blade of grass has a tiny hole singed into the middle of it, and Eddie doesn't care. I suppose he'd care if he'd been caught in the improbable explosion of that tiny ash.

- Charlotte Clarke

I write with the spirit of the conceptual man Leaving little to the imagination But what can be conjured by Hidden thoughts buried in the SUPEREGO.

Art work credits: h u s h

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Circles and corridors - Benjamin D. Van Dyk Laughmg Woman -Andrew Terluk Elephant and Shuttle -Benjamin D. Van Dyk Bottles - Brian App Black back in summer - Charlie Ma Crystal Lattice - Matthew Tiessen Page Layout - Brian App

be stilled your dreams where fairies dance in moonlit sky caressing skin with elbows and long tangles of curly knotted hair like the curve of tantalizing feathers drawn from the breath of thee ... I am wet again! Cry me rivers of faith for I need to be freed from The chains bound by these pages Which tempt the outsider with promises of Vast openness And lead one from one question to the next, Never fully answering, Always probing with long Words of decision.

I came at last (to a conclusion) and relief left me e m P t Y.

-Monika Smetana

jackets i remember the night you wrapped your scarf around and around my neck then tucked the ends into your coat, which you put over my shoulders. doing up the buttons one by one. then gave me a kiss. later another night you zipped down my coat, dropped forgotten to the floor. pulled off my shoes and kissed me again; pulled both my hands, hurry, up the stairs. that was almost the end, that night

- Erin Nielson

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re you intrigued by espionage, secret messages and disappearing ink? While most people have experimented with secret messages at some point in time, not all realize the im~ortanceof this kind of work in today's world in which the secure transmittalof information is vital. The field of cryptography has come a long way since its first recordeduses in ancient Rome, where Julius Caesar sent secretmessages by movingthe letters of the alphabet by three places. In fact,UW itself recently moved to become a leader in the field by creating its own Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR)in 1998. The Centre. which aims to be internationally-recognized,isa joint venture between the departments of Combinatorics and Optimization, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Pure Mathematics. ManagingdiuectorDougStinson explains that this interdisciplinary collaboration exemplifiesthe range of expertise required to build a secure encryption system. "We [CACR] try to really cover all aspects of cryptography from the theoretical aspects to the practical aspects. so it tends to be a very broadsubject," he said. "There'salot of different mathematical techniques that are used, and thenon the implementation side you have to deal with the constraints of trying to take a sophisticatedalgorithm and put it into something like a smart card where you don't have much storage available." Mostcryptosystemscurrentlyin use involve a public keylprivate key system. The message is encrypted usingawidely-accessible "public key" which convertsEnglishwordsinto an apparently random jumble of symbols. Only the designatedrecipientis

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in possession of ag'privatekey" which is used to decrypt the message to its original form. "It [privatekeylpublic key cryptography] was an unusual concept to come up with, and then people had to figure out ways to actually do this," Stinson said. There are currently multiple methods used to design thissystem, basedonanumber of different mathematical problems.

Dr. DougStinson displaysa RIM pager and a PalmV, the subjectsof current cryptographicresearch. The most common encryption technique, called RSA, was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyin 1977in an effort to ensure internet security. This technique is based on prime numbers. While it is relatively easy to multiply two prime numbers, it is extremely difficult to factor the result back to the original numbers. RSA uses the two mime numbers to construct the private key, and their product for the public key. Stinson stressed the fact that while significant effort is being put into the creation of secure encryption .. and decryption algorithms, it is necessary to realize that it is not only the algorithmsthatmust be sophisticated. It is also important to implement an entirely secure system from top to bottom. This is one of the focuses of the Centre and a reason for its interdisciplinary basis. Agraduate student in

the centre, for example, is studying the phenomenon of differential power analysiswith regard to smart cards, which are plastic cardsembedded with computer chips, like Bell telephone cards. It has been discovered that the private encryption key on these cardscan be determined by mapping the power consumptioninvolved during their use. Another complex issue involving the implementation of a secure encryption algorithm is the generation of random numbers, which can be used for example in designating keys. "The traditional way [to generate random numbers] is to try and use a physical process like flipping a coin, but if you need many random numbers, you need some sort of algorithm or method to generate them," Stinson said. "Assoon as you have an algorithm to do something, it's no longer random. So if you're going to use an algorithm to generate a large number of bits, basically you want them to look as if they are random even when they aren't. 'You have to try to keep in mind what that means, and you have to considerthe possibility that someone might figure out how the bits are generated. This is one of the most important problems in implementingcryptography, butit'salso one of the most difficult." Stinson said that while technology is advancing at such a pace as to make it virtually impossible to predict, it is nonetheless imperative for cryptographers to look into the future and try to create their systems in a way that works not only today, but years down the road. With computing capacity increasing at speeds faster than ever before, potentially doublingroughly every 18months, it is possible that an algorithm which is secure today will be hacked with the technology of tomorrow. This remains the largest hurdle for cryptographers.

Enter the corporate dragon Cyberplex is the Bruce Lee of the dragon boat or many people, Saturday morning is a chance to sleep in after a Friday night of drinking and debauchery. After all, it is the weekend, and after all the bull one has had to deal with during the week, one deserves to relax, right? Well, on July 22, the dragon boat races began at the ungodlyhour of 9:OOa.m. Luckily,itwasworthmissingthe extra sleep as46 teamsgave it their all to determine justwho were the kings of dragon boat racing. From Stratford to Toronto, from Whitby to as far south as Sarnia, spectators got more than their money's worth. In the end, though, it was the Cyberplex Shao Lin Monks who got the last laugh. The KiwanisClgb of Elmira, long the bastionof charitable causes and not to be confused with the old fellows with the recognizable fez, presented these races at the Laurel Creek Conservation Area. Located on Westmount RoadNorth, Laurel Creek has a beautiful lake where competitors paddled itaut for glory and honour. Darryl Moore, president of the Kiwanis Club of Elmira, wished the teams good fortune. Lloyd and

onship race. The rest ended up in the consolation race. In the preliminary races, there were teams that clocked some rather impressive times. The Cyberplex ShaoLin Monks blazed though the course in a time of 2:15.42, almost three secondsfasterthan the ScreamingDemons. In fact, the time for Cyberplex was the shortest time all day. The rest of the teams that made up the Imperial Dragon Division were Catch 22 Crew, Chinese Cultural Centre Cyclones, Toronto Rehab Dragoneers, Perth County Dragons of Squeal, Rogers AT&T Warriorsand the championsof the University Competition, the University of Toronto Piranhas. Team Ruckus, the University of Waterloo entry, ended up in the Silver Dragon Division. Now, the resultsof the races. In the Water dragon Division, the consolation race went to Technical Dirty. Dogs, who just slaughtered the West Montrose Snap Dragons. Meanwhile, in the championship race, it was aclose affair as M&T Insta Print edged out the second place Arnazonians and the KitchenerWaterloo Hab Solutions for the win. In a truly inspiringIron Dragon Division consolation final, Team Transplant showed the spectators their grit, determination and mettle as they paddled to a first place finish. Made up

Inspectorssecond and CRA #2 TeamNewt capturing third. As for the championship final, Team Ruckus, under captain Gavin Hong, avenged a semi-final loss against the Stratford Flying Fellini Sisters in an exciting battle for first. The Flying Fellini Sisters at least took comfort in that they took second from the YMCAEWCAAnacondas. The Gold Dragon Division was the perfect predecessor to the big races in the Imperial Dragon Division. Certainly no slouchesthemselves, both semifinalraces were well run, setting up acouple of intriguing final races. In the consolation final, the Beaver Creek Beavers, donning beaver hats with tails, damned Smoke on the Water with a close victory. The Ingram Micro Dragons took third. The championship race, meanwhile, wasa barn burner in more ways than one. The Hewlett Packard Toronto Women's Dragon Boat Team just clipped the Dragon Slayersforthe finish line.TheTorontoPoliceCrime Wave took second place, while the Stratford SilverMasters finished fourth, just 0.14 seconds behind the Hewlett Packard team. Finally, there was the Imperial Dragon Division. The semifinalswere close, but in the end, the Cyberplex Shao Lin Monks, the Toronto Rehab Dragoneers, Rogers AT&T Warriors and

Charlotte Heywood, fellow members of the Kiwanis Club, organized this tournament for both the universities and the corporations. Indeed both the Moores and the Heywoods are to be commended for a job well done. First of all, there were 12 preliminary races. With four teams racing off against each other, it was not only a battle for first, but a battle for the shortest time. Once all 46 teams had raced off, the teams were placed in six different divisions according to their speed. The six slowest teams were placed in the Water Dragon Division, while the top eight battled it out in the Imperial Dragon Division. The other divisions, beginning with the more prestigious, were the Gold Dragon, the Silver Dragon, the Bronze Dragon and the Iron Dragon. Once the teams were placed in their respective divisions, there were two semi-final heats run. The first place finishers in each race got to the championship race. As well, the best two finishers of the runners-up would also qualify for the champi-

mostly of transplant recipients, donors and even a few nurses on duty, Team Transplant was ecstatic about the finish. Even second place NCR and third place Waterloo Maple were impressed. In thechampionship race,NormielsSpirit just beat out Edcal Knotty Strokes in a race that saw CRA #1 Team Godzillainundatedwith water near the start and the Recordwas disqualifiedfor going off course. The Bronze Dragon Division consolation race wasaphoto finish between three teams. The Bell Canada Golden Dragons finished first, with the Parmalat Paddlers only 0.2 seconds behind the Golden Dragons. The Descartes E-Dragons finished third. The championship race went to D.O.A. Dragon Boat Team, who slipped by the London Canoe Club Dragon Flyers and Summer Dragons, Eh?. Next, the Silver Dragon Division was the focus of the spectators. In the consolation race, the Better Beef Dragons cruised their way to an easy victory, with the CFIA Food

the University of Toronto Piranhas got the right to compete in the championship final. And what a championship final it was! Fromthewordgo,allfour teamswere even. Itwasthatway until near the end of the race, when Cyberplex got that last bit of steam and blazed past the finish line in front of Rogers AT&T. Toronto Rehab Dragoneers were third, while the Piranhas had finally been demolished by tougher competition and finished fourth. The difference between first and fourth place was.one minute. In the consolation, Catch 22 crew won out over the Screaming Demons and Perth County Dragons of Squeal. Overall, the Kiwanis Club would like to thank the volunteers and people who made this possible. T o the people who were selling arts and crafts, food and even the beer, thanks for the efforts you put into this. Lloyd Heywood was certainly pleased with the positive response for the event and hopes that people will attend next year's races at Laurel Creek.

JOHN SWAN /mpnnf staff

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Ice hockey final results

Campus Rec would also like to congratulate Mike Yosher for winning the Captains' Choice Award for Best Official. Thankseveryone for a great term of basketballand we hope to see you next term.

Well, yet another term of Ice Hockey came to a close last week, with the playoffs letting the teams shine in their true light.The " A division final wasaclosegame,withXL7 takingthe championship by scoring the final points in the last four seconds over LesVoyeurs. TheTools took out the "Bl" divisionwith their 4-2 win over Worriers. Ragin Steamers won the "B2" division with a score of 4-2 against Lordag. But, the playoffs aren't the only thing to win out on the ice. The Dominators were awarded the Fair Play Award for their admirable display of sportsmanship throughout the season.The RustyWhistle Award wasa toughdecision,but the Puckbags walked away with that one for the most penalty free games. Congratulations to Brent Hookins., who was awarded the Referees ChoiceAward. voted by team captains. To all the other players and teams who contributed to such a goodseason,thank you, and aspecial thanks to the referees.

Soccer final results Hey sports fans. Here are the results for this term's soccer league. In the "A" league final, The Riders beat GeoSys. In the "B" league tier one, PhysicsUnited beat MSA United. In the "B" league tier two, 10 Elecs and one Comp beat Keep the BEH. In the "C" league tier one, East Quad Bbeat East Quad A. And finally, in the "C" league tier two, Nuts beat The Unkowns. Thanks to all players, refereesand fans. Great season. Seeyou on the field next term.

Broomball final results After two intense days of playoff games, the season came to an end last week. The seven teams from the "A" Division had some great rounds with the final game seeing the Stallionsin the Desert defeat the Whackerswith ascore of 3-1. Congratulations to all the teams.

Basketball final results

aterloo has needed a joint like this! So we have built it a! the Westmount Piace shopping Centre! We have 2 floors, 4 satellites, 50 TVs (in the booths and washrooms) giant ween TVs, Billiard Tables, 2 Bowling lanes, NTH, ngsement Machines. menu featuring pasla, chicken, steaks, 3jilas and fresh baked pizza.

Another summer of Campus Rec basketball drew to a close last week with the final playoff games. In the "A" division, the Mad Cows beat Jim-To for the championship. The "B" division was split into three pools for the playoffs. In the Upper B Pool, Steve Kerr lost to The Last of South Eight. Milf beat Straight from the Ghetto to take the Middle BPool Championship. T+e Lower B Pool was the only pool with aserious upset. The two teams ranked at the bottom woundup in the finals, where the underdogs, The What, edged out the 1972 76ers to become the champions of the pool. The Upper C Pool was won by the TWSA Raptors who defeated East Quad in the finals. The Muddoeducks, who faced South One in their final game, won the Lower C Pool.

Volleyball final results Another term of Campus Rec Volleyball drewto aclose thisweek. But it wasn't just another season. This term, the "An Division had seven teams. Each teamgave their allandit came down to a fight against the Swingers and the Freeballers, with the Freeballers coming out with the win. The " B Division had the first eight teams compete in the playoffs and the champs, the Setting Sunset Gang, won by a score of 25-14. The other three teams played a round robin with ZSoldiers coming out on top. The "D" Division final wasvery close with Triple C defeating the Demons in their second game. Congratulations to all the teams for a great season.

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WORlD FAMOUS TUESDAYS THURSDAYS Pitchers Nkht Katherine Davis and Kendra Merkley Katie and Kendra were participants in the 7:15am step class this term. Despite the early hour, these girls were always ready for a workout with a big smile on their faces. Over 10weeks they only missed one class. So much dedicationto fitness isamazing. Way to go ladies!

Rob Snow Rob was involved in Social Dance lessons andAquafitthis term. He was alwayssmilingand working hard. His enthusiasm encouraged and motivated the others in the class to never give up. He splashed hisway into the workouts all term to prove an excellent attendance record. Congratulations Rob!

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s there anythin'gthat you can say about the Rheostatics?For many of you on campus, youmight say, "Huh. ..?Rheostatics?Ummm . Haven't really heard of them. Do they play on the new Matchbox Twenty CD? Are they anything like Creed?" Do these words sound familiar?Well if they do, it's time you acquired some taste and picked up a Rheostaticsdisc. Imightbeabletosayafewwords about thisgreat Canadianband How about a grossly under-appreciated, independent,criticalsuccess?Or perhapsone of the most creative,lyrical and virtuosic Canadian bands since Rush? But the Rheostatics are a band that defy categorization. They produce intelligent, thoughtful and affectingsongsthat you probably won't findin heavy rotation on MuchMusic. ~ ~ u a l l ~ c a ~ofa"rockin' b l e out," creating extended, whimsicalballads, or playing poignant, yet unpretentious love songs, these guys know how to make albums that will probably challenge your perception of "good" popular music. Plus, there are never any intense, "I'm a tortured artistwith black holes for eyes and an even blacker soul" kind of pictures in the liner notes. It's hard to pin down what ft is that makeslisteningtothe Rheostatics so intoxicating. Their artistbio states "How can you describe the band that helped bring Stompin' Tom back or who wrote an opus inspired by the w ~ r of k The Group of Seven? "How do youverballyillustrate the passion of the music that somehow has outlastedallthe hype and in the end is what it is, leaving people happy in its wake." They are a band that has been

around since the early '80swith their first album being released in 1987, the cornily titledGreatestHits. Since then, they have released nine more albums, their most recent calledThe StoryofHannelodia. This is not just any old album. It is a children's storybook, with illustrations by the lead guitarist Martin Tielli, and all songsbasedupon some elementwithin the book. The text is read between songsand I can saythat it is unlike anything that you have heard before. Although it is a children's album, it is a masterwork of audiostory-tellingwhich createshypnotic soundscapesand may best be appreciated after a couple of puffs on the end of a big ol' doobarue. The Rheostatinrecently played a show on Canada Day at Harbour Front Centre mToronto. The show consisted of eight new songsthat may make up the basis of a new album, with an encore that included past hits, including a tribute to Wendel Clark's recent retirement with the playing of "The Ballad of Wendel Clark parts one and two." Wendel Clark was symbolically present on stage in the form of a cardboard cutout. A -nood show, but there is one thing about their live performances that deserves critique. The music of the ~heostatics takesa couple of listens to warm-up to and they have a tendency to concentrateon new material at live shows while disregardingmany crowd-pleasing, older tunes. This causes somewho are unfamiliar with the Rheos' music to conclude that they are a boring live band. However, this show was a venue in which artists were displaying the@ new material to celebrate Canada Day, but there is some merit in these comments. I recently had the opportunity to interview the rhythmguitaristand

songwriterforthe Rhea, DaveBidini, via the electronicmail service. Bidini is not only a singedsongwrited rhythmguitarist, butalsoapublished author. His recent book, On aCold Road, detailsthe insand outs, ups and downs and trials and tribulations of Canadian bands trying to rock their way acrossthisglacialexpansewe call Canada. It's full of the rock 'n roll Hoo-chee-coo of bandsjust tryingto do their rock 'n roll duty. Here are some excerpts of the interview: On thestateofpopularmusicandthe importance (or lack on commercial success in themusicbiz -Anyone who sells one cassette is commerciallvsuccessful.There'ssimply no equatingthe kind of success that makes Boyzone popular with the kind that keeps us afloat. Besides, I think the notion of discussing commerce and art together is obscene. It undermines the craft. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked questions about money, in particular, about how I can continue playing in a band without making oodles of cash. It's l i e me asking the writer: "Isit true you like to have your asshole fingered during sex?". ..But shit, people who wanna know about how much money the trying to paint us in a sorry-kd, negativelight. They want tosubmarineourprofile,whichmore often than not is all-too-favourable for their liking. That'snot to say that we don't deserve to be taken down a peg or two. We do. Just stick to the

art, baby. As for Christinakgue-laria, we might as well be discussing the new kind of plastic lids that Wal-Mart is sellingfor their tupperware containers. That's essentially what the mainstream is about today. As Michael Phillip [their producer] said, 'Punk rock was music's Vietnam and the industry will never let it happen again.' After Kurt Cobain's death, mainstreamrock 'nroll went straight into the toilet.Sure, there will always be exceptions Radiohead, the Hip, Rage Against the Machine but rock and roll has as good a shot at being revolutionary as Ralph Nader does winning the U.S presidencv.

GroupofSeven are our "most-loved" recordings (if sales are any bellweather), but there are things on IntroducingHappiness,DoubleLive and the Blue Hysteria that, I think, are right up there. Harmelodia is hearddifferently, I think, because it's an album/story/ picture book. We tookthree years to make it and it just kept evolving. After awhilethough,itwaslikebuilding this castle that ultimately,you'd have someone else k i n rather than yourself. Since it was an album for kids, therearen't really songsonthere that directlyrefleaour personallives, so when Ilisten to it, I hear fictitious people speaking, not the voices of myself or my friends.Butthat'swhat makes it easy to listen to, I think. Really, it's agrandstoner album, and for sure I'd rank it among our best. Since it was aconcept that I hatched and therefore, felt terribly responsible for asit bumpedand harmmphed over 20 months of ups and downs, I'm proud of it too. On the prospective longevity of the Rheostatics and their respectiveside

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- Day by day, month by month. That said, we still have lots of music to make, at least presently. If we can hold our heads together, we'll release at least one more album, based on those songs you heard at Harbourfront. But for the record, these side projects enhanceour band rather than take away from them. The only realobstacleistime. Otherwise, we're supportive of what each other does. We're like the Germans in this regard. Mistresses are wholly tolerated. On the possibility of the Rheostatics On themusic oftheRheostatics. -The band is reflected differently playingWaterloo in the nearfuture on every record. The chemistry and -No. Waterloo used to be great.All taste are its own: ranging from very the New Wave bands would play potenttonot. Isuppose thatMelville, there, but there hasn't been a decent WhaleMusicandMusiclnspiredbythe club in town for a long time.

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bracelets and mohawks were slowing traffic almost to a stop. The Vans Warped Tour 2000 had pulled into town and even with grey skies in the morning and traffic CHRIS INCH jams on the way to the show, thouImprint staff sands of excited people piled out of f you were travelling between their cars and through the gates of Toronto and Barrie on highway the biggest punk rock show of the 400 last Saturday, you almost year. The idea of the tour was concertainly saw plenty of people headingnorth to Molson Park. Cars, vans ceived in 1994 and has been hosted and even school buses filled withkids by the Docks in Toronto and the sporting coloured hair, studded London Fair Gounds in previous years. The festival is a oneday event filled with music andextreme sports that travels to almost50 differentvenues in Canadaand the United States every summer. Many popular punk, ska and hiphop bands are showcased at the WarpedTour every year. Bands such as Sugar Ray, Blink-182, Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock have played at this festivalin the past. Now with the turn of the new millennium, andwith the popularity of punk rock and ska amongst Canadian youth, the Warped Tour is doing better than ever. This year, the Warped Tour's line-up of bands indudedTheSuiddeMachines, Save Ferris, Bif Naked, Snapcase, Good Riddance, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Thesuicide Machines'jason Navarro. Mighty Mighty Bosstones, MolsonPark, Barrie Saturday, July 22

MxPx, Green Day, NoFX and GOB. of the popular Even as people were still lined 1980s hit, "Come up for what seemedlikemiles outside On Eileen." Meanwhile, to the park, Jurassic 5 kicked off the show with a bang and even though keep everyone enthousands of people were still driv- tertained at all ing or waiting toget in, it wasofficial; times, the organizWarped Tour 2000 was now ers showcased variunderway. ous forms of exThere were five stages set up at treme sports during the festival. There was one stage de- the day. Directly behind voted to a "Battle of the Bands" for local musicians, two small ones fea- themain stages, two turing bands such as Anti-Flag and giant ramps were set Hot Water Music and the northand up for freestyle south main stages which took turns Moto-X bikers. showing off big bands that rotated While people were watchingbands, the every half an hour. - b o n g the first bands to play bikersc&ldbeseen BillieJoelookedlike hecould kill. were the Suicide Machines, who performing death cranked out a good mix of songs defying aerobatics30 feet above the Toward the end of the afterfrom old and new albums and even ground. Also, halfway between the noon, with the park filled almost to playedUNewGirl" which is featured main stages and the small stages, a capacity, GreenDay tooktothestage. on the soundtrack to the popular gianthalf-pipewassetuptoshowoff Near the end of their set, frontman Sony Playstation some of the best Billie Joe Armstrong searched for game Tony Hawks s k a t e b o a r d e r s someone from the crowd to play Pro Skater. and BMX bikers guitar with them for their last song. The day coninalloftheunited The day finished with bands NoFX, tinued with SumStates and Can- proudowners of Fat Wreck Chords, ada. 41, a Canadian and GOB, another popular Canapunk band with Other popu- dian punk band. members from lar places to hang In the end, the Warped Tour Guelph, and the Wornenhaveaccomplishedalot. out included the 2000 turned out to be a great day Mighty Mighty Ladies Lounge, a crammed with great music and fun. Bosstones,whocameonstagedecked tent for women to gather and see Oh, and traffic on the way home out in blacksuitsand sunglasses. Save what other women have accom- wasn't as bad as the way there. Ferris, with Monique Powell, one of plished in the punk and extreme For more information on the the few women singing in punk and sports scene, and the Stop Racism bands who played and about the ska bands, was up next playing an tent, which focused on "spreading tour in general, check out http:ll energetic set that endedwith acover tolerance through education." www.warpedtour.com.

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Hillside Festival GuelphLakelsland July 28 - 30 The Hillside Festival is a weekendof music, workshops and demonstrations. These artists are just a peek at those who will be performing. For more information, see http:/ /www.hiUside.on.ca.

released last April. This relativelyunknown Canadian band has received alot of media attention recently withthe release of their hit single "Can't Stop," which rose quickly to the top five of the MuchMusic countdown. John "Rabbin Levine of the Philosopher Kings, alongwith jacksoul's lead singer and sonwriter Havdain ~ e a l e&duced~le$less. , YOU k g h t say that Haydain Neal is in essence jacksoul jacksoul, as only his picture appears Sleepless on the album cover and throughout the h e r notes. BMG Music The album is a pleasant listen, NAZ E B R A H I M although listeningto it isa bit of alet special to Imprint down after having heardits best song on the radio countless times. The jacksoulisasix-pieceToronto-based album does have a few other good band that creates a unique blend of songs the title track being my permusic that encompasses R&B, hip- sonal favourite. One of the other hop, funkandsoul. jacksoul hasmade songs Ireally enjoyed was the "She's two albums in total: ABsolute was Gone,"coverofHallandOates(Abanreleased in 1997, and Sleepless was doned Luncheonette, 1973), al-

though I am at a disadvantage considering1have never heard the original. Critics have described jacksoul as trying to imitate Seal, but I believe that jacksoul has a distinct sound due to their creative blend of various musicalstyles. Overall, the album was quite enjoyable, althoughat times1got the feeling that I was listening to really good elevator music. Iwouldrecommend it as good study music.

Sarah Harmer You Were Here Cold Snap Music LISA JOHNSON Imprint staff

Many have called Sarah Harmer Canadian music's best-kept secret. Sarah is the lead singer of Weeping Tile, but with the release of her first solo album, it is hoped (and pre-

dicted) that she will remain a secret no longer. You Were Here is a beautifully subtle album that places Sarah's extreme vocal talents in the forefront. Sarah is so vocally gifted that she can sing avariety of styleswith unflinching potency. This range allowsher to sing low, moody notesand high, crystal-clear ones in the same breath, which contributes to the countrytinged warble that has become her signature. An important aspect of this album is how varied, yet well-balanced it is. The songs - range - fromcountry to folk to jazz to rock, keepinglisteners interestedandintrimed. - At the same time, Sarah manages to maintain a coherency not often found on albums with such an eclectic blend of music. The biggest surprisefor fansmay be the new rendition of "Basement Apartment," from Weeping Tile's debut EP. The song hasundergone a make-over and is now an almostdance track, complete with drum machine, funky electric guitars and rhythmic acoustic guitars. There are also other throws to Weeping Tile, such as "Weakened State," which has a guitar and bass element similar to "South of Me." This is the song most likely to be found on a Weeping Tile album. continued to page 15

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deanwhile, "Open Window (The Vedding Song)," with its jazz sensidity, piano, bmshesandupright bass, s the song most likely to be found on iongs For Clem -the album Sarah eleased of old jazz and bluegrass ,tandards. You Were Here isdistinaly Sarah. Ue are graced once again with her tcute attention to the art of ,ongwriting. Sarahmakes her craft appear so :ffortlessin songssuch as "Lodestar" ind "Around This Corner." The racks "Uniform Grey" and "Everywhere" demonstrate her ability to mite understatedsongs that still have nemorable lyrics and catchy meloiies. For more information, or to xder You Were Here, visit http:ll ,nvw.sarahharmer.com.

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If you haven't heard of the Ottawabased band Starling, you will soon. This pop band isgettingsome serious airplay. The bandemerged on the scene

in 1998 with a relentlessly catchy hook-filled indie release. A few lineup changeslatet (theband went from a three piece to a five piece band), Starling signed to a major label and released another album. Well, not exactly another album. With the exception of a few songs Sustainer is basically the same CD as the indie release. If the songs have been re-recorded they don't really sound any different. Many of the band's best tunes appear on the new disk. "Delusional" one of the band's funnest songs, is here, as are great tunes like "Die Hard Crush," "Homely" and the current single "Don't Deflate." starling combinesangst-filledlyricsabout insecurity and rejectionwith tunesthat get your feet tappingevery time. In "Superfrayed," lead singer Ian LeFeuvre sings, "Did I feel real, did I feel loved? That wasn't what it

15 was."In "Delusional"hesings, "Please notice me I'm around and I'm relatively grounded" Some people may be turned off by Starling'scomplete poppiness, but those who don't mind pure sugar musicwill love them. If youalready own the indie CD and aren't a die hard Starling fan, you might want to wait till they release another CD of new material, but if you are curious about Starling, you should definitelygive Sustainera try.

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he one clearly good thing that the United States have given the world is jazz music. This remarkable art form has evolved rapidly since it originated in New Orleans around the turn of thelast century.By alucky chance, recording technology has been around for most of that time. This leaves us with amusical archive that I highly recommend poking aroundin. Not only will you discover the roots and influences of today's music (jazzandmore),you will occasionally findamasterpiece that transcends the gulf in time and place and speaks directly to you. Lately I have been exploring saxophonist John Coltrane. His A Love Supreme, released before I learned to walk, is for me, one of those transcendent recordings. John William Coltrane was born in North Carolinain 1929. Through the '50s Coltrane played with various jazzmen including greats lie Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. I first really noticed Coltrane while listeningto one of my all time favourite records, Davis' Kind Of Blue.

"Trane" had fallen into the stereotypicallydrug infested jazz lifestyle. In 1957, however, he was determined to drop the dope. Music and spirituality became his obsessions. Within a few years he had established himself asamajor force in jazz. In 1960, he formed an amazing quartet withJimmy Garrison on bass, McCoy Tyner at thepianoandElvin Jones on drums. Jones is one of the world's best drummers. His style is complex but light, always moving and playing around the beat, leaving room open for the other musicians. Tyner offers fascinating clusters from the keyboard, playingwithrhythms.Garrison'sbass provides the groove that drives the tunes. With this quartet, Coltrane made some amazing recordings including A Love Supreme. This 1964 release is an attempt to say, "Thank You God." It's an undeniablysoulful and moving record. Throughout hiscareer, Coltrane searched musically. He masteredthe soprano, as well as the more common alto saxophone. Clear and forcefulbursts of soundexplore deep into the melodies. He moved with great energy into long and intense

improvisations. I find the free jazz explorations in his last recordings challenging. They almost require a new way of listening. They are chaotic on the surface, but acertain logic exists underneath. You have to develop a feel for the logic so you can get to the emotion of when it speaks. At leastthat's the approachI'm working with right now. John Coltrane died of cancer in July of 1967. His music lives with countless jazz fans, musicians and members of St. John's African Orthodox Church in San Francisco. Jazz music in many different styles has been the Monday night indulgence on CKMS since 1977. This month, we say goodbye to two long time, knowledgeable and entertaining jazz programmers, Geoff MacDonald and Eva Rucki. Thanks to both for their years of service. Happily one radio veteran, Doc Hight, remains. Docandour younger jazzophiles will take it in all directions every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight. Also, Terry the Cat plays jazz and other human music every other Friday evening at 8 p.m. on CKMS 100.3FM.

Canyhg the weight of the world below your shoulders? Eat sensibly, be physically active and consult your doctor.

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The Apples In Stereo

The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone SpinART NICHOLAS RPMEDIOB special to Imprint

With TheDiscovery OfAWorMInside TheMoone, Denver, Colorado'sThe ApplesInStereo bring us yet another slice of Beatles-esquepop. Not that there's anything wrongwith that. In fact, these 10 catchy tracks bubble with all the energy of an after school special. You'll either love them or

find them incredibly annoying. Moving away fromthelate-'60sinducedmiipsy&edelia of their last album and backto the more innocent pop soundsof their first albums, The LXucmy OfAWorIdInsideTbeMoone is filled with simplistic rhymes and straightforward arrangements. To say this albumwasheavily influenced .by swirly '60s pop is an understatement. With songs about rainbows, streams, submarines and an abundance of double trackedvocals, The Apples In Stereo come off as being very naike. How do they expect to be taken seriously with lyrics like "Baby, don't you know, that people come and go, oh, just like the rainbow?" Despite this, it's still the kind of pop music that gets stuck in your head and you'll find yourself humming along after a couple of listens. Not exactly ground-breaking, but a goodalbum for a summer afternoon nonetheless.

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The Patriot Columbia Pictures ADAM M U N R O special to Imprint

very once in a while, something comes out in theatres that totally changesyour standardstowards what the definition is of an amazing action movie. These intense movies totally captivate your attention and thrill you to no end until their brilliant outstanding endings. Not too long ago, I watched such an epic movie. It was amazing and1 still haven't quite gotten over it. I still tremble when I think about some of the incredible action scenes I saw and remember how I felt while watching the tragedies andvictories of the main character. That movie wasn't The Patriot, however, it was Gladiator. And while Gladiator appealed to most everyone, ThePatriot probably won't fare quite so well. To help me with objectivity I read overJuly'sissue ofMaxim (which has a positive short review of The Patriot) a couple times to revitalize my pseudo-American patriotism, I wasalso very careful to avoid June's issue of Maxim (which had an even better review of Gladiator-hail to you, gladiator!). This did not help.

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toris,13dgetcheers What arethey all staringat? from around the room, strangerswouldbuy me drinks outside of the US really want to hear and I'd probably pick up.'~owever, them drone on and on about how if I went into the same bar proclaim- great they are? ing how incredible he patriot is I'd You know the story line: one likely get a very different reaction: man's efforts fighting for independI'd be lucky to leave the bar without ence and the protection of his family having some drunk try to break a against the tyranny of the British steel chair over my head. army. If you've seenBraveheart you Don't get me wrong. I really do have the general idea of how this respect the US - after all they've goes. Of course Britain doesn't win given us Maxim, the protection of this time. one of the worlds most powerful So, in summary: the special efmilitaries, Gladiatorand some other fects were great, the action wasgreat. really cool things. Unfortunately, the The story line was good with some fact remains that the world has the interesting twists. The acting was impression that they have a bit of an great, it'sMel after all. The highlight ego problem. It's true, no one out- would be Cannon Ball versus the side of their CIAandcertain branches American infantry unit. The low is of their military can fairly question that there was nothing really new their patriotism, but does anyone here.

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