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Canadians versus the U.S.
What's your New Year's resolution?
WLU is the new home of the UN Academic Council zoreign minister Dill Graham mnouned December 16 that X'ilfrid a m e r University would be the new lost for the Academic Council of the Jnited Nations System. The council vas previously located at Yale.
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"I'll never tell." Naomi Schulz 4A english
"To get a car, to work out and run a marathon and to make large amounts of money." Jozeph Peplinski, Natalie Dunk and Shaun Harvey
Yasir Siddiqui First year computer science
Speculations -I(oniecznalooks at the long path to publishing course evaluattons.
Undefeated- ~owancefebmtcs~ew Year's,gap style.
You! Offmy planet- Lee-IVudrick beheves "Canadianvalues" don't justify runmng 500 times over budget with gun registry.
Heramb's H a r e m Ramachandratl celebrates Christmas with 250 of his most distant colleagues at a company part).
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h I2eds housing survey, in the work? since November, is almost ready to go. l'he Feds hope togather information from tenants about their accoinmodations and to determine the demographicsof the area immediately around the university.
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Letter ofthe week-I~@t~wtclid not report properly on cheerleading wc CCSSC5
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Regular content: "Drink more beer."
Rob Deighan oolitical science
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"Work less, party more."
Tara Marleides 4A rhetoric & professional writing
uwRyan.com - Cheii-\Y'ing discusses decltne in OSAP recipients at b\Y.
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OPINION
"Stop procrastinating."
"To publish my novel."
Justine Saccornanno 48 environmental studies
Abdul Harnid chemistry post doctoral fellow
Something out of nothing \Viseless cvmmunicalion, although more than a century old, will rerolutionizc how \ve communicate as ~t becomes mcreasklglywldespread.
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Tolerate this A universiq should tolerate, but not ne~essaril~approve of,allviewpoints present in its community. Howcvcr, some advertising, such as the MSUJ 'Question Democracy' poster, has been met with a spirit of intolerance.
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ARTS C.S. Lewis' classic reviewed
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Warriors basketball
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Used bookstore online
Microfiles - A new product th allows parents to monitor the clrivit habits of their children, the establk ment of a regional environmen~ committee,orp-trackmg blackbo~ intended to improve medical d i a p sis, and the uncertain fate of pol bears.
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Province-wide drops in the number ,f students who receive OSAP arc ceflectedinLWspeciticnumbers.Tui~mandcnrolmentuicrease,mdOSAP lumbers decrease.
Housing survey almost ready
Tayyab Siddiqui
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"Moving t o Canada."
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As tuition rises, OSAP use falls at UW Daniel Dharmasurva
Foreign affairs minister Bill Graham was on hand to name WLU the new home of the AcademicCouncil of United NationsSystem December 16. The council will move to Waterloo this July.
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Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs,was at~iilfndLaunerUniversity on December 16 to announce that WLU, in associationwithUW's Centre for InternationalGovernancewdl be the new home of the Academic Council of the United Nations System In aworldwhere there is mcreasinginterdependencebetween nations, the importanceofunderstafichngcomplexglobalpohcs becomesevermore crittcal The Academic Council is an orpmzationthathas the ear of the United Nations and can help bring clmty m the wake of stormy global politics The council is focused on increasing the understanding of global politics bybnngingtogetherscholars,teachers and politicians It accomplishesthese goals through research and policy workshop, dissertation awards, and the publication of a scholarly journal. In July 2003, a little house on the Launercampus will become the new home oftheacadermc council Sinceits founding in 1987 the institute has been headqmeredat three Ivy League mstituitions,Dartmouth,Brownand Yale The institute wdl reside m Waterloo for five years l l e periodical moves are intended to bring fresh perspectives and strengthen instituitional ties. Inawnttenaddressby KofiA m read by Graham, Annan remarked. "that Canadaisa keycontributor" and with this institute, "Canada can help lead" the foreignpoliciesof the United Nations. Graham also referred to recent events: 'When you thifik and reflect on evcnts on September 11 [2001]and recent eventsmBali,Mos
cow, the Middle East andKenya,have brought home to Canadtans a new sense of the world's interdependence With this awareness has come a new sense of ourvulnerablityto forcesand eventsbeyond our borders "He con tinued by statmg, 'Foreign policy reflects our values,'' and "we do not have to be perfect to promote our values abroad " Graham cited values such as democracy, gender equality and respect for humanrights Graham believes that we have an opportunity to use our position to promote our values Graham referred to work in Sn Lankaled by former OntanoPrermer Bob Rae. QuotingRae, Grahamated, "I know that Canadians are skeptical on the subject, but our system has been remarkably successful " Rae is helping Sn Lanka adopt democracy based maCanadian federalist system ofgovernance in the strife tornisland nation Manbers ofACUNSareinterested in supportmgeducation,research and writing that increase global understandingand cooperation. Inparticular, this organization is focused on promoting global cooperation and buildtng ties between academa and diplomatsand officialswithm the UN and other multinational organizations ACUNS will be led by Dr Alistair Edgar, a Iaurier professorwithinterest in post-conflict peace building, international security and Canadian defence and foreign policy Also in volved is promment UW history pro fessor, Dr John English ACUNS is composed of 900 mdividauls and 45 mstituitionsmover 50 countries. Students may join for a $35 US fee
Theuse of OSAP at the University of Waterloo is d e c h n g and similar trends are appearing throughout the province Accordingtoanarticlepublished in the November 28 edition of the UniversityofTorontonewspaper, The Independent Week&,only 130,687 studentswill receive OSAP fundmgin 2002-2003 1111995-1996,thatnumber was 212,189. One of themqor changesbetween 1995 and now is that students are consideredindependentfromparents iftheyhave beenout ofhigh school for five years or more by the beginning of the studyperiod,not four.This change occurred in 1998. Independent students do not have to disclose their parents'mcome ontheir OSAP applications. At UW, only 3,871 students received OSAP in2001-2002. In 19951996, the number was 5,226. The number of OSAP recioientshas been steady declmngsince then. Smdarly,the total value of OSAP received by studentshas been decreasing overthe years as the cost of tuition has steady increased Just over $32 millionwas received by UW students in l995-l996, compared to $28 2 n d lion m 2001-2002 "The decline m OSAP by 40 per cent since 1995has equated to a $500 million deche in the amount of assistance available through that program," said Joshua Morgan, president of the Ontano Undergraduate StudentAlliance. Although some students turn to private loans to finance their educa-
OSAP per recipient versus tuition
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This chart compares the changes in OSAP to changes in arts tuition. Values are given as percentagesof 1995 baseline.Values for 2002 are preliminary.
This chart compares enrolment to number of students receiving OSAP. Values for 2002 are preliminary. tion, they lose out on the many advantages of the OSAP program. "These students do not have access to programs like interest relief and debt reduction like the students borrowing under OSAP have," said Morgan, refemng to the government of Ontaflo's Interest Relief Program,which can only applies to Ontario student loans
Preliminary statistics for up to December 15,2002 reveal that 3,855 studentshave received OSAP money It is expected that by the end of August, the number of students aided this year by OSAPwillactually exceed last year's, marking the first increase since the 1999-2000schoolyear
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In 1999, Vermca Chau, Federation of Studentsvice-presidenteducation (1999-2000),pressured the urnversitytomakecourse&t~ons a d able to students. At that tune, some a h s t r a t o r s and faculty members supportedthe publication of numencal evaluations,but not students' comments. A number of Canadian universities, including Toronto, McMaster, Queen's and Concordia alreadypublish course evaluations. Vice-president education Ryan O'Connor feels that UW studentswdl benefit from having access to course evaluations. "It's important for stu dents to see how their peers judge course content andinstructors, sothat they may make wiser, more informed choices about the courses theywishto take," he said Although not every admmstrator at UWis opposedtopublishingcourse
evaluations, some have reservations about posting the'mformation online "In speakmg with the dean of arts, I received positive feedback regar+ng the placement of hard copies of the course evaluations in the Arts Student Union's office," said'~illis "The main concernwith the publica tion of the information was that it would be available on the Internet " He added that some of his history professors, the dean of environmental studies and the Graduate Studedt Associationhave also expressedinterest m m h g c o u r s e evaluationsa d able to students In the fall term, the Academics Commissioncontacted all deans and provided them with copies of its options paper Gillis said the commtssionwill conmctthefacultyof arts early in the winter term "The applicable committeeswithin that facultywdl be informed of the mtiative and will be asked for thea feedback," he said The AcademicsComssionisalso
working on an academc nghts handbookthat outlinesUWPolicy33(ethicalbeha~10ur),Policy70(studentgnev ance) and Policy71 (student academc discipline) The handbook will also explam the roles of vanous academic bodies such as the Senate, the Federa tion of Students and the Academics Commission. The handbook w d bc available on the Feds Web site at fedsca The academics councilwas estab lished last termand heldits first meetingon November 28 The next meetmgwillbe heldearlyin thewinterterm Chaired by the academics commissioner. the comcil consistsof student society presidents or vice-presidents education,theFedsx~ce-president education and student senators. If you are interested m getting in volved, contact Gillis at rc@@uwaterloo caor O'Connorat vped@feds ca
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What you missed in December News that happened since the last issue
Magda Konieczna
Longest-serving UW prof retires
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Dr Peter Roe of systems design engineeringmaybe the longest-sew tng facultymemberatUW He started teachingwhen he came to Waterloo in September of 1959todoamasters of engmeermg The campus was very dtfferent at that time Roe taught in the first budding, then the chermcalengineenngand chemstry building, now known au the Douglas Wright Engineering building
On-line library system upgraded
The Trellis software, on which the library computer catalogues run, was u ~ d a t e dbetween December 19 and 23 Among new features are the "bookbag," whichallowsusers to save items for future reference,and a new system of combmng keywords for differentsearches Welcoming women faculty
Zoning change may mean more housing
A report on attracting female fac ulty members, issued m November, was discussed at the last meeting of UK' senate December 16 The report, headedby formRenisonCoUegeprm cipal Gail Cuthbert Brandt, Qscusses both recruiting and retaining female faculty Provost Amit Chakma told senate h a t a coordinator of faculty recniitmcnt and retentionwill be appointed to spearhead the effort A "bridge Fundmg" program, allowing faculty members to be hired when they are available even tf aposiuon is not open at that time, w d be created Improvements to maternity leave and day care are m the works, as well as start-up funding for new researchers,accompamed by a reduced teaching load m the firstyear Grebel's new president begins
UWgraduate and Mennonite misterHeniy Paetkau beganas president of Conrad Grebe1University College January 1. He replaces prestdent of
Students will be able to check whether books have been sold and search the bookstore inventory online using the new system.
Used bookstore goes online, finally Jennifer Chen
The Fcds took on this project two years ago and faced many roadblocks along the way. Shannon \%'illis, VP The City of Waterloo approved a zoningchangeforthe Hammarsklold Students no longer need to ltne up at administrationand finance2000-2001, first initiated the project. However, IIouse co operative residence, 139 the Used Bookstore to find out whether their books have been sold the company thatwas commissioned UniversityAvenue (acrossfromJose's After more than two pears of plan- to create the software dropped the NoodleHouse) X7aterlooCo opera tive Residence Inc is considering a ning, the Used Book5torc's Web site project near the end of Willis's term seven-storeyaddition Plans are yet to was launchedinearlyNovember.The The followingycar,Kdlts's successor new Web-based svstcm enables stu Dawn Phillips continued to research be finalized dents to wm the status of their ac- various software compames Ex entu NationalconferencecomestoUW counts online, check whether their ally, she hired DAS Software,a com Engineers Without Borders is a books have expiredor been sold,and pany that designeda softwarepackage search the store's inventory for prices for the bookstore at Queen's UniverCanadtan organization whose m s sionit is to help people in de~reloping a n d a d a b l e books. Startinglaterthis sity, to complete the project When countrtes access technologies to im- term, students may also be able to askedwhy theproject tooksolong,Di requestcheques ~naweekl~ormonth~yLullo said "it is unfortunately comprove their lives The organmuon, mon that things take a while not only founded by UW students, wtll hold basis. AccordingtoFedsMce-president in theuniversity,but in the Federation its national conferenceat UWJanuary administration and finance Chris Di of Students. . . the more people you 29 to bebruary 1 The conferencew d lookat the role ~ngineeringcanplayin Lullo, who oversaw the completion involve, the longer it takes." Direct depostt for payments was international development. Keynote of the project, the system was implespeakers includeDr.James Orbmskr, mented "tomake it easier for students considered, but discarded because it former president of Medecins Sans to see their accounts" and for students was "logistically problcmattc" accordFrontieres and Nobel lecturer and "to get paid more than once a term " ing to Di Lullo and Jon Jongerius, The old system, which was imple- manarrer StephenLewts, former Canadian am " of the Used Bookstore. mented nearly 15 years ago, issued "Some students generally change acbassador to the UN. cheques only three times a year counts when they leave the SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
university the same goes for if the wrong accountnumber is p e n , " said Di Lullo "I here was a lot more that could go wrong " Both Di Lullo and Jongeriuq agrecd that the con\ ersion to the new system has not been easy Currently about 50,000boob,whchwerem& bookstore beforenugust 12,2002,art std on the old system and won1 appear on the ncwweb-basedsystem It will take a little over a year for the books on the old systemto Lxpire and for the systemtobe completelyphased out Jongerius satd that, at first, "thc old system wasn't compatible witk the new system " There were somr problems and technicalglitcheswhil~ workingwith both systems,but 'hoth ingthat thel couldn't solve," he satd "Fheprocess] is labour-mtensivt because each studentneeds mdmdua attentton," saidJongenus '% e're hen to make life a little easier [for tht students] " Vtstt the UsedBookstoreonltne a www f e d s c a / b u s i n e s s e s / usedbookstore html
Man beaten at Fed Hall New Year's Magda Konieczna
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A 23 year oldI(itchenermanwasad mitted to Hamilton Health Science Centre with head injuries followinj the FederationHallNew Year'sparq \-Y. aterloo Regional Police respondec to the call at 2 20 a m Januaq 1 \Y a terloo Regional Police public affair coordmator Olaf Hem7el said twc menhave beenchapdin the inciden male.The kjuredmanls critical bu stable condition. Police were unsur~ whether he is a UW student.
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Feds housing survey almost ready to go Surveyunlldetermine demographlcs of area immediatelv around UW Alexander Lunde SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
Campaigning to improve student housingwill be apriority for the Federation of Students in winter 2003. The attemptto convince city council to amend the lodging house bylaw has only just begun The Feds are opposed to the portion of the bylaw that prohibitsgrant ing lodging house licences to houses less than 75 metres from elustinglodging houses in most residential zones. AccordingtoFeds VP educationRyan O'Connor, the Feds "are going to be a little more forceful in public next year. Inaddition to the letter campaign to city councilorsand the mayor be@ning [Tanuary],apetitionwill be circulated tointerestedstudentswhowould like to signoninopposition to the 75metre restriction." The bylaw was originallyintended as ameans of controllingurbandevelopment so that students were not concentratedinoneareaofthc city. A n oft-cited example of this is the infamous 'Queen's student ghetto,' the arcaimmediatelyaroundQueen's Umvcrsity in Ihgston which,populated largely by students, has become mndown Cityof\Y;aterloomayorLynne \Voolstencrofthasstated that she sup ports the bylaw because she believes it helps to create amore diverse community. Although the government affairs commission, which is spearheading the housing campaign, has collected some horror stories about the difficulties of finding sutable housing, thereare few comprehensive statistics to support these anecdotes. A housing survey has been in the works since November togather some of these statistics The survey, put together by VP internalMikeKerqgan andgovernmentaffatrscomrmssioner
Chns Edey, is designed to find out the number of illegal lodging houses in the area bounded by ColumbiaStreet on the north, University Avenue on the south, Lester on the west and AlbertStreet ontheeast.Sumeyerswill
Mike Kerrigan, Federation of students VP internal, initiated the housing survey. asktenants if they know whether their home is licensed and w~lltry to gauge support for the 75-metre restriction from both tenants and landlords. O'Connor said he hopes the survey, which is currentlygoing through ethics clearance,will be ready to go in the first few weeks of the winter term. Surveyerswere initiallyready t o p out the night of November 18, but they were stoppedand told that the survey must be reviewed by thc office of researchehcs. To raise awareness of the issue among students, student housing awareness days have been tentatively scheduled forJanuary 13and 14in the Student Iife Centre. Members of the Feds Government Affairs Commission and the Feds executive will be thcrc to raise awareness of the issue andupdate interested studentson the progress of the initiative. They will also hear tenant/landlord disputes and the petitton to the city will be available for students to sign, as will form letters. The Feds' attemptsto raise aware-
ness don't stop on campus Neigh bourhood groups, called ratepayer associations, such as Westvale Com mumty Association, have met with the Feds and groups of volunteers to discuss the importanceof the issue to the community Addmg a sense of urgency to the already tight housing situatmn in Waterloo is the impending arrival of the double cohort next year, when grade 12andOAC studentswillgradu ate together,potentdy floodingpost secondaryinsututionsacrossOntario The city ofWaterloo,with two untver sittesw i t h a 15-minutewalk of each other,canexpect tobegreatly affected by the double cohort It is expected that the number of first-year apphcants to UW.'wiU increase by 50 to 70 percent for the fall of 2003 The firstyear class has increased from 3,735 in 1998to aprojected 5,500 m 2003 "The inadequate supply of student housing with the massive influx of students coming out [of hlgh school] is probably the most pressing issue regarding the 75-metre restriction," said O'Connor The hope is that, when the housing survey is done, the community will have a more completepicture of thc current situation If aconsensus 1s to be reached between the Federation of Students and the city, a will take a lot of effort anda significant amount of tme If the petitions and letter writmgcampaignareto be successful, it will rcquirc a significant amount of student support
For more information on the government affairs commission, check out feds.ca/education/ govissues.html.
Student aid falling short Tuition rising, OSAP dropping
If increasingtuition hurts accessihdity then an increase in student aid can help accessibtlity Statistics from UW over the past se>enyears show whde enrolment and tuitton have been increasingthe number of students receivinggoverment student aid has declined In October I discussed accessibtlityand found studies that correlated higher tuition with higher socioeconomc class Higher fees can hurt accessibility in two ways Fast, students may be unable to pay Second, they may believe that they cannot afford, often calledesticker shock "Student financialaid reduces the actual amount that students have to pay from other sources and the aware d help ness of financial a ~ can students deal with the amount of money they must pay So in an environment of increasing tuition levels, the amount of aid can mitigate the impact on students The Ontario Ministry of Tram ing Colleges and Universities runs the Ontario Student Assistance Program, OSAP Its stated objec ti>e," to help students from lower tncomc familiesmcet thc costs ofposts~condaql~ducation OSAP is intended to promote equality of opportuniq for postsecondary studies by pro1idmg financialassistance for educational costs and basic living expcnscs You (and your famtly, if apphcable) are responsible for meeting the basic costs of your postsecondary education " The loan portion consists of funds from the provincial and federal government in the Canada Ontario Integrated Student Loans
Program Further funds can come ! from Ontario Student Opportunity Grants, which, as a grant does not need to be repaid From 1995 1996to2001 2002 total grad and undergrad enrolment increased 16per cent from 17,004to 19,734,and tuition increased in all programs Arts tuition, for exam ple,increased 64percent from $1,226 to $2,015 Part of this tuition increase is amelioratedby the 10 ten per cent holdhack on 1996 tuition increasess and 30percentafter 1996, which is essentially a redistribution In the samc period the number of student receiving OSAP dropped 26 per cent from 5,226 to 3,871 Over this period the government made some changes to how they assess smdents for funding. In 1998 they extended thc tme that that parents are expectedtocontnbUte to educational expenses from four years to five years This applies to the Ontano portion of loans Also m this tune part-time students became ineligible for Ontario loans These changes make some students mehgible for OSAP and reduces the funds available for others That the number of students receivqaid decreased whde enrolment and tuition increased suggests that students wdl have to undergo greater financial hardship than theJ did before One way the number students , receiving aid mtght decreaseis that students attending university had greater financialmeans,which would mean acccssihiliq was lost Another possibility is that students receiving aid in 1995 had it too easy, which would mean that theywere beingvastly overpaid ! considering how much tuition has increased. In order to protect the quality of students entering the university , system, OSAP must ensure that it has a proper assessmentprocess
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Stories to watch for this winter
Tim Hortons on its way to SLC
CECS staff started work in the new building on December 15,2002. Lauren Staines IMPRINTINTERN
New co-op building ready, almost
Thenew Co-operativeandcareer Serv ices (CECS) budding is open The building has 50 per cent more mterview rooms than CECS's formerlocationmNeedles I-Iall,whichisexpected tomake the interviewperiod one week shorter It is located between South Campus Hall and the Dana Porter bbrary and will have amenities suchas lockers, change rooms and a coffee shop It was part of a four building project plan thatwas submitted three yearsago The province approved the pryectin2000aspartof theSuperBdd
program I'hough the building itself is completed, the landscaping i q currently unfinished due to weather conditions DemsHuber,UW"s vtce president a h s t r a t i o n a n d fmance, told Imprint that the landscaping will be completed this spring Changes to co-op mean less paperwork for students
Novembcr I4 haw CFCS announce a senes of changesto the co op process 'Thanks to CkCS, co-op students will soon be able to cut through the tradi titmal paperwork and apply for jobs onltne In addition, they w~ll be able to post thcir rcsumc and rank their job preference\ noncrquentially~ r a & i n g day" will no longer be a part of the
process). A reorganization of CECS staff is also in order. The changes are part of a master plan to "improve thc qualityof student and employer services," OlafNaese of CECS told Imprint aftcr the changes were announced. CECS has already set up a help Web site to guide students through the process of creatinga resume online. Naese, the communications admmstrator for CECS, participated in an onlme question-and-answer session conducted by uwstudent org on Decemlxr 11 IIe assured students that the new online system will allow students to change their resume for every job, n o m i t h a t ~ ~ ~ selectedas ~ w a s the language of chotce (PDF was briefly
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The School of Architecture' move to Galt is one step closer tc happening "The hndraiaing [wit1 the pmate sector] has gone t erywell.' says UWSA director Rick Haldenbp He declinedtogwe any financialstab> ttcs, but stated that"the hllreportw $1 be presented mkebruarv " The -proposed site, a former coa gas factory,islocatedonthe the Gram Rlverwaterfront m Galt's downtowi core. The buildmg has been cleanec and a consultant n producmga repor to be sent to the Ministry of the En vironment Students opposing the school' move to Galt cite the negative aspect ofa satellite campus,the biggest con cern bemg the lach of socialiringnitl other students FIaldenby assuredlt~ pnnt that there will be a shuttle bu running from the U\VSA Galt cam pus, as well as fttncss facilities,loung areasand residences m Galt The strug glingdowntown communityhas beet supportive of the Intended move, demonstrated by the cafes and sush bars that have taken root tn the are. around the Galt campus UWSA' new site remama unnamed, thougl "Riverside Campus" has been men tioned as a possibiltty
Rick Haldenby, director of UW's school of architecture, with i federal government cheque worth $4.1-million. The City o Cambridge will soon find out about Ontario SuperBuild funding
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E K E Chair Tony Vannelli, President David Johnston, Sujeet Chaudhuri and VP Academic and Provost Amit Chakma were among the panellists who addressed student questions at the Microsoft forum.
Stories that unfolded A look at major storie:s of the fall term Jesse Helmer SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
Microsoft deal
UWmdMicrosohCanadaannounced in August that UWwouldreceive $2.3 million from Microsoft Canada's $10 million Academic Innovation Alliance 'rhe $2 3 milltonwas for projects m three separate arcas academic research, education solutions, and cur riculum integration The curriculum integration por tion of the deal had two parts the introduction ofamandatorvpre-uni , versity programming course (called FCE 050) using C# (C sharp) and a change oflanguage,fromC++ toC#, in the first-yearpro*mm~ngcourse ECL 150 C# is a programminglan guage developed by hlicrosoft The Fcdcratmn ofstudents reacted ncgatn ely to the announced changes under curriculum integration Vice president education Ryan O'Connor satdin aprec\ release, "The academic autonomy of the untrersity has been compromised. The decision to add these course requirements shouldhave been made at the university level, not through an announcement by bllcrosoft " I he story was reported by Ryan Chen Wing on uw~tude~zt.otg, and national and internationalnews sources, such as The GlobeAnd Mad, IVatzonaL Post, lushdo dot oig and CNet, also re ported the story Response from students was gen erally negative and some alumni sent harsh letters to p r e d e n t Johnston In response to this criticism and media attention, UX' issued a fact sheet that stated, "Thspre university elpenenceis optiotlal,andis intended to offer high school 5tudents an en richment opportumty to strengthen A
their programming skills before they enter the E&CEprogram." The in~tial Microsoft Canada press release, dis tnbuted by the university,stated that ECE 050 would be mandatory To provide enpeering students with firsthand information about the deal and allow them to ask questions of the decision makers, the E n p ~ e r ingSocieq organtzedapubhc forum About 125 people attended thc forum, heldonSeptcmber 12 President Johnston, dean of engineeringSuleet Chaudhuri, chair of F&CE Tony Vannelli, director of the School of Computer Science FrankTompa, and director of the Institute for Computer ResearchVic DiCicciowerepanellists About 20 peoplc asked questions at the forum,whchwas strcamedonlme and is avallablc at my3 feds ca At the fomm,PresidentJohnston admitted that mistakes were made in the Auguust announcement "In ret rospect, itwa5 a mistake to announce an %cement inprinciple with respect to the curriculum initiatives,anmtakc forwhtch I take re-qmn\tbility " He continued, "In retrospect, we should not - 1 should not - have announccd that agreement in princi plc at that stagebecause the necessary consultations with curriculum committees, and dcpartrncnt and faculty had not been had, should have been had, and will now be had " Micro\oft Canadadsoapproached the SchoolofComputcr Scienceabout switching from Java to C# SCS decided to maintain the status quo and, in September, struck an ad hoc committee to to examine the use of the C# m the undergraduate curriculum On October 8, SCS Councll terminated this committee's activities Commit tee members were Prabhakar Ragde and Troy Vasiga
Ron Scoins passes away
WJell-known and respected retired mathemaacs professor Ron Scoins passedaway on October 132002,after avaliant fight agqinst cancer. J AlanC George wrote inamemo dtstnbutedon October 14,'Xe served the facultyandthe mversity formorc than 25 years He was an outstanding teacher, receivmgaCXIDistmpshed Teaching Award in 1999, and OCUbA's 1eachng Award in 2000 Moreover,h s contributionswentwell bevond the campus He was a key indiyidual in our mathematics conteyt operations,andwas one of our leaders in thc development and nurturing of the wonderful relationship we enjoy wtth high school teachers m Ontario and across the country I Iewa5 ateachcr's teacher " In h s memow, MathSoc and thc Math Graduation Lommittee each donated $1,000 to each of the Grand Rlver RegionalCancerCentre and the Mount ZionLutheranChurch Organ Fund. Ron Scoins was 64 years old. New dean of engineering
Formerprovo\t ofUniversity of 1'0 ronto Adel Sedra d l be LW's next dean of engineering Professor Sedra isa well-respectedprofessorofelectncal engineeringand the author of MicroelectronicCircuits,which is usedin hundreds of universities worldwide Current dean, Sujeet Chaudhurl, was enthusiastic about Sedra's appointment. "I feel honoured that an outstandingprofessional cngineer and a great acadmcleader,Dr Sedra,~vdsucceed me as the seventhdean of the faculty,'' he said Professor Sedra's termas dean bee s on July 1,2003.
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Make course evaluations public this time
SPECULATIONS So the discussion about making course evaluattonspublic has surfaced again. As Susan Bubak writes on page 1, the Feds academics commission hopes to make the evaluationspublic this year. Robin Stewart,1998-99Feds VlJeducation, also set out to do this. There is no good argument for not making evaluationspublic, the fact that Stewart did not succeed makes me wonder how difficurt the task is InMarch of lC)T),Stewart and a group from UW admstration agreed that course evaluations should be publicized News stories from the tune indicate that the major disagreementwas whether student comments should be public as well. Many facultymembers believed that comments should remain with the professor There was also a disagreement regardqg what it would mean that evaluations should be "made available " 1was surprised to fmd that math and engineering e d u a tions are currentlyavadable I later found that I didn't know the cvaluationswerepublic because, while they are awilablc, they are not easilyaccessible;Yes,e~:erymathand engineering student can look at course evaluations.However, the situation at U\V is not comparable to Queen's or U ofT, where course evaluation booklets are published and available at little or no cost 'l'he fact that course evaluation5 are not publicly available is a mystery
to me Any arguments h e heard against makmg the evaluations pubhc (thmgs like evaluations could be based on a grudge against a professor or students could rate poorly a professor with h g h expectations) seem to be based on rare situations that would be irrelevantover alarge sample Feds and administrationagreed m 1999 that statistical results of evaluations should be published, why have we yet to see the resultsi It seems there is a fear among the faculty of what might happen if students have the opportunity to hear what others thought of their teachers Ifprofessors are confident that they are providing students with a good educationaleupenence, they should realize that they hate nothing to fear Students talk about professors anyway, given a formal way to do so, discussion would be more factual and students would have access to more opinions If professors are not confident m their skills, they should find out what students see as their areas of weakness so that they can work to improve Professors are ourgreatest resource rheyare here topass knowledge on to the next generatton and we should make it as easy as possible for them to do this well In a June 4,1999 Impnnt story, Sarah C r e h wrote "both the Feds and the Faculty Association see publsshed evaluation results on the hori~on,and students can prepare to have more mformatmn on whlch to base their course selections " If Sarah is still tuned into the U\V community, I expect she's surpnsed that these results are still not available I hope the Feds make good of their promse this time
Tolerate this Alex Cassar COMMUNITY EDITORIAL
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have the courage to sap so A group requestmg tolerance is one thing, a group requesmg approval is another A%a result, the Chnstian who publiclv states that homosexual acts, for example, are m o r a l is not approving of a particular action of aparticular in&I vidual, but that does not necessarily imply that he is not tolerant of the individual On the fip side, some UW students have responded to the W Students For Life 'Question .tion' posters and the Musl its for Universal Justice
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spirit of mtolerance In 2001 when the Question Abortion campapwas first . launched, the Feds trled to censor two of the posters m the campaign See TOLERANCE, page 1I
Our inferiority complex Alroy Fonseca COMMUNITY EDITORIAL
Last November,Jean Chretten's director of cornmuntcattons, FrancoiseDucros, created quite a stir idme&awhen she calledPresident Bush a "moron " A few days after the incident,Ducros' namecalling became the subject of talk on CNN's Cmssfireprogram. I missed the show but, as I should have predicted, NatmnaLPostran a frontpage article the next morning recounting this event of pnme Importance This remtnded me of the morning following the Oqcarq last wintcr when my radio woke me up to the important news that Tom Cruise had briefly mentioned that he grew up m Ottawa while he was up on stage the nlght before Somehow, suchevents become key news items for us m Canada So why are we so obsessed about being recogni7ed by Amen-
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cans, \Why do we care so much that a couple of blabbermouths are talking about us on CNNi All this is very odd given that most of us t h d that we're better than our Amencan counterparts to begin with After al1,Americans are selfcentered ignoramuses~vho"lo\-c to talk about things they know nothing about," as RickMercer proclams Moreover,asMichael Moore remmds us, Americans are a bunch ofreckless trigger-happy cowboys who display little receptive ness to seemtnglywise gun control legslation that would keep more of them ahve Most of us Canadians, con \ ersely, appear to be aware of the existence ofother countries in the worldandwe would certainly never even tmagne that something like Columbme could happen here Moreover, as far as our behat lour towards our global counterpart5 15 concerned,we're alla bunch of
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peacrmks If I am correct about the aforesaid, then let's not waste our tune checkmgifAmencans knowwe exist or find us to be as beauttful as we dunk we are Furthermore, our newspapers should not bother reportmgonpatheticurelevancies such as those mentioned at $he onset Instead, we should show some leadership and take on the more enlightened goal of promotmg our values at home and abroad, without being afraid to take a firm stand agamst America if need be Firstly, I say at home because Canadahasagulty conscience with respect to how it has treated First Nations peoples The only way to legtmxze this country is to con tmue the trend set with the Nisga'a Treatyand recent SupremeCourt rulings dealing with First Nations' litigation See CANADIANS, page 11
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Wasting other people's money
My fiercest crmcs should sit up and take note Even though I am now the cockroach of the opinion section, having survived an incrcd ibly competitive inter termpurge, this term's first offering must necessarily aclm~tto agross lack of judgement on my part, several columns ago Last term, musing about the usefulness of gun control, I obviously forgot the whole point of
it: reducing crimes involving guns. We even register cars,people used to tell me, so why not guns? I never bothered to ask myself if registering cars reduced the likelihood of having them stolen, or getting into anaccident Even more foolishly, I assumed that the cost of kecping track of guns would be negligible The federalLiberalscertainly said so $2 million for the entire country Sounds reasonable, eh? But then, these are the same people who've broken so many promises -not implied or inferred promises, but real, on-the-record promises -a summatwed list of them could easdv fill 10 columns In case you've been under a rock for the last couple months, the auditor general finally came out with the facts in November: the fcdcral
Christmas blues
HERAMB'S HAREM So I'm whistling, mmdmg my own business, when some numb-nuts taps me on the shoulder "Excuse me sir, can you stop urinating in the water fountain " Yeah, I'm embarrassed Especially since there's a sign and all But I quickly think about something else, (cuz why dwell on my peeing escapades,) and then reah~eit's my office Christmas party tonight Ah yes, the office Christmas party Where 250 of your most distant colleaguescelebratethe festive scason in style 1 he clock strikes seven and I decide to make a fashionablyearlyentrance So I'm wandering the joint looking for anyone born in the '80s to chll with cuz I ain't flirting with no grandmas I search deep into the sea of w d e s only to find more w r d e s It secms my generation has scant representation so the mphcation? Trepidation (I have a big fuckin'vncabulary so qutt yer snickerin') ; I feel alone Celine Dion's r+ditton of "All By My Self' starts pbyingin the background Ouch Then all of a sudden, the music Jason Nevins, "It's Like otice a look of bewilderment g the audience This music is reign to them IIeck, I was rised by the )election, but you ,DJs are an eccentricbunch en the unthinkable happens hite guy gets the rhythm in and it rapidly moves up his c a possessed blood vessel mere seconds, white dude
dance. Well, it's morc like a ritualistic flailtng of the arms as if to worship the octopus god Bolsterous laughter engulfs the scene. I mean. what's f w e r than a whte guy trying to dance) Okay, one year, this quiet and serious dude named Barry jumped on a stage and started to ride an invisible horse, smaclung its ass a few times That was funny Anyway, this 'dancing' starts to spread fastcr than a brush fire in the Serengeti, so I hightail it outta there. W t h my spirits up, I spot a 20something coat-checkgirl. She's meanwhile immersed in the poetry of Ja Rule, totally ignoring my glances.They're penetratingglances but no match for Ja, obviously So I coolly glide over to her and announce my presence 'Xeramb's the name, poetry's the game." And then I recite some Seuss, Dr. Seuss. It turns out she's a vegan and vegans don'tparticularly fancy "Green Eggs and I Iam " 1o make matters worse, my jacket is 100per ccnt Ecuadorian Emu hide (no one told me they wcre frcakin' endangered!). Another one bites the dust. After two beers, I was wastcd. The onlv obstacle to the men's washroom? A rather lush water fountain.
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gun r e p t r y has now cost Canadians close to $I bdbon. Hmm. Now, to be fair, government cost estimates are supposed to be ballpark figures. And with a $2 million estimate, essmtially pocket change for the federalgovernment, a few million morc probably wt~uldn'thave given much ammunition (forgive the pun) to oppo nents of Rill C-68, the Liberal's gun control legislation But when you run 500 times over budget, shit is definitely going to hit the fan 1he more galling part is that the registry costs were kept secret from the pubhc and from Parliament And now that the news is out, instead of admitting that perhaps the whole exercise was a mistake, the likes of FormerJustice Minister Allan Rock defend it lamely on the
tpicallv barren Liberalgrounds of "Canadianvalucs " Well, maybe that's not a wholly unreasonable claim Tt certainlyhas been a "Canadianvalue" for governments to commit to wasting obscene amounts of money on such obviously unworkable ventures as the gun registry, while important areas needing funding the military, health care, education -are told that there isn't any cash But perhap5 morc accurate than "Canadian values," the whole gun registry mess would be better described as epitomi7mg"I,ibcral values" the pursuit of a certain end goal using preferred mechanisms, without regard to whether we actuallyreach that goal \Vhich is exactly the tragedy of thts wastcd billion dollars Even after theunconscionable cost, at
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least if the regstry workedthen the Liberals could claim the moral high ground. It cost a lot, they could sap, but it was worth it. But it heuz't work. It's true -gun crime is on the decline, but it was already so for years before Bill C-68, so Allan Rock can hardly credit the registry forthat. Even more telling, the RCMP claims that the registry is not helping it fight crime and if anythmg, is drainingpolice resources trying to deal with the paperwork Wanting less crime is a nobraincr, just as is having quality health care. Rut once again, what Canadians want to acheve has taken a back seat to how the Liberal party wants to achieveit. -
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Christmas is the waning of the heart
TOUCHED December can be auite a tumultuous time. Exams, shopping and other stresscs seem to be at their height. Then the holidays finally arrivewhen we can relax and enjoy thc scason. But as the break comes to an end realtty hits. From my experiencesJanuary can be an cvcn more emotional and confusing month. Many changes may have occurred d u m g the break that can be surprising These alterations concern the forgingof new relationships. bor some reason just before the holidays is when new interests disclose themselves andpossibilitics ofgreater interactions exist. Just when the outlook scems positive with these boys we must take a step back for a few weeks to spend with our families This time span when the progression remains stagnant can prove to be very detrimental. Most of us return home for the holidays and spend time with old friends from
htghschool Alcohol usually plays a part in the festivities resulting m unplanned relations w ~ t hcertain indmduals This promotes rekm dling of old bonds, the starting of romantic friendships, and random encounters All areas suspend thoughts of the 'girl from school' whch pretty much extinguishesall possibilities of romancc with her in Januv Whtle my friends party in Canada I am cvcn morc dctachcd, makmg the return in J anuary even harder This is because it is my famtly's tradition to trav~lto Florida for the holidays Sure it's Plorida, hot and fun, but where I stay a is old people's paradise and the chance of meeting someone remotell close to my age is slim So those at home experience many opportunities for romance and my thoughts remain on those new bonds I formed bcfore I left As years pass I have had to deal with returning home and being replaced (one vear it felt like I was the only one who didn't get New Year's nookiel) But I've decided that it isn't my fault that guys live in the %ere and now' with no patience for the future For when T rcturn I am a tanned goddess and they are stuck with a pasty ice queen Kell at least that's how I rationalize the situation in hopes to prevent
diving into the depths of despair! Even in the situation where both partieb intend on continuing the process, after the break, awk ward moments still present themselves It can be hard to start thmgs back where you left off In many instances it feels like you have just begun and what happened beforc the halldays has no bcaring on the future Such issues as jealousy, insecurities and curiosities can also play alarge role Because nothing 'official'was formed before the holidays anything could have went on between your crush and other girls This can be quite bothersome, haunting and hard to ignore Januaq is going to be different t h s year Regardless ofwhether or not interest remains whcn I return it will not phase me Or at least I will try not to let it I urge vou all to do thc samc It is going to bc tough and I a d m t that I wdl hope deep down that feelings still can be found amongst my interests but I will not let it determine the out come of my January So those that were dubbed as 'chilld with me or 'getting to know me better' in Deccmbcr be warned that I am ready for anything
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N e w Year's, gay style Gay and straight celebrations are slrmlar
UNDEFEATED How does a gay New Year's celebration differ froma straight celebration? For the most part, it really doesn't. Gay people seem to like doing virtually the same things as straight people; h a n p g out with close friends, drinking too much, smoochtng at mtdnight and making utter fools of themselves. At least, that's what my parents seem to do. Oust hddin' mom a i d dad!) Gap or straight, most people seem to enjoy participating in the same New Year's traditions, regrdless of their sexuality. Ycs,whether or not you smooch with a boy or a girl at the stroke of midnight, it really doesn't matter. Arguably though, they should be wearmg a lip balm with a nice berry flavour and not smell like Polish sausage. Hmm. I sense a need to change the subject. If you are someone that has attended both straight and gay bars for New Year's cclebrations,pou will probably know that the two club scenes are a little different. I find that straight bars usually cater
Once I heard someone say "Straight people dance to dance; gay people dance to have sex." to a specific age group, while gay bars will often be filled with people of all ages. Some people find it creepy to go to a bar where you can party with folks as old as your parents, but 1 h n d of like it. It adds a whole new perspective to the bar and I think that mingling with men and women of various age groups reiterates what gay bars are all about: absolute acceptance. Also, having been to both a straight club and a gay club for different New Year's celebrations, I have noticed that there is definitelya contrast in dress expectations. At gay bars, you can seeminglyget away with wearing pretty much anythtng, while at straight bars I have found that you have to be much more particular in what you sport. For example, I would definttely say that leather chaps, feather boas and mesh shirts are farmore acceptable
in a gay bar than in a straight one. I Iowever, an indidual weatvlg all three items might risk getting arrested by the fashion police. Alongwith age and dress code, some would point out that gay bars differ in the way that people dance. Once I heard someone say, "Straight people dance to dance;gay people dance to have sex." Personally, I would have to admit that I do not fully agree with this statement. While gay men can often get down and d i m with the rest of them, I have yet to go to a straight bar and not find a number of boygirl couples makmg-out &e mad on the dance floor or feeling each other uv beside the bank machne. If you disagree with me, please do yourself a favour and take a trip down to Loose Change Lome's or the Silver Spur. In my professional (cough, cough) opinion, straight people and gay pcoplc are no different in the way that they dance. In the end, I had a fabulous ttme at the Embassy Club for New Year's. Both drinks and laughs were had. I hope a11 of your New Year's celebrationswere as enjoyable as mine was, whether you were at a straight club, a gay club, or just hanging out at home with the folks. If you are anythmg &e me, your evening went swell and eveiy New Year's resolutton you made went out the window the next morning. Happy New Year everyone!
Second, we ought to promote our values all ox-er the world bccause~-eryfew other countriesare pushing similar values globally. America is too busy chastng rlustvc cave-dwellerswith its partner it1 terror, Great Britain,while continen tal Europe ts so caught-up with its e~pertmentin integration that ~t seems tohave completely forgotten about the world it once so enthusiasticallyconquered. As far as the West is conccrt~ed, then, we are the ones that ought to be working for positive change in the world. A few years ago, Canadamas
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doing just this when Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy threw the support of the country behind the efforts ofJ ody Ktlltams, an American actinst fighting for the elimination of landmines worldwide. By 1997, the International Mine Ran'l'reaty had been signed by over 100countrtes (Americasaid no) with \Yilliatns sharing that year's Nobel Peace l'riae, As of last month, the treaty had beet1 signed by 146 countries with 130 ratificatttms. Unfortunately, today Canada is just sitting oil the fence, too timid to tell Ilubya that we wdl not support a war for oil. Now to be sure, Canada is a middle-power and
l'he Impnizfcrosswordsby Neal Moogk-Souhs need serious help. 1 Feel sorry for your readers trying to solve the oh-so-ridiculous clues found m his puzzles. For example, his use ofi "in short" or "vera-less" or" ... rearranged" is absolutely foolish. Furthermore, who makes full clues like "Frodo even shorter" or "Prime with short Romania in the end"? Neal should refer to other crosswords to see how to create sensibleand smart clues without leaving his readers dazed and confused.
Terrorist argument flawed
I have never written a letter to the editor of another university's newspaper. Then again, I have never been bombarded with 300 pieces of garbage. I, of course, am referring to the 300 words written by Alroy Fonseca in your last issue r h a r o n has wrong terrorist," November 29,20021. The argument that the Umted
as such is far more constrained in terms ofwhat kind of change it can effect globally than our neighbour to the south. Nevertheless, we are onl! morally responsible for our owti actions atid as the landmines story sho\vs,positive change can occur with our leadership. I d s push forpeacc,work for the political settlement of confltcts and never get suckedmtoperpetuating the horrors gripping so much of our planet. Determining whether or not Americans are taking note of us should cease to be our national pastime.
States is a terrorist nation 1s rtdtcu lously flawed It1 fact thts is what philosophers - I admit I am not one -would call "a load of crap " It tc an argumcnt not worthy of the few bytes of memory and band width it takes up on the Internet The writer compares soldtcrs to tcrrortsts Thts is morallv repug nant Soldters ha\ e the honour to put on a untform They do not ' murder innocent people who are nowhere near the war Lone 1he) do not blow up school buses 1 hey do not blow up coffee shops filled wtth teenagers They most certatdy do not blow up dance clubs filled with tourists and foreign nattonals Let us not confuse the issue These Islamotnaniacs arc no different than the e>ilsthat the \X est faced durtng LY orld U ar I1 and the ColdU ar These are the people who order the death of aiqonc who dare cpeak badly of thetr skewed version of Islam Thece are the yamc people who i lumped for joy m the streets when they heard about the news of September 11 Let us treat them as they are nothing more than a brainwashed few who have been tndoctrinated into a culture of ewl 1
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Mike Kerrigan rescinded the ban; howewr, that has not stopped the EngineeringSociety from consdering a similar ban on Engineering Society boards. It should be noted that neither Studetlts for T,ife nor M u s h Students for UnivcrsalJucticc,hax-e, to my Imo\vledge, demanded approval or official sancttoii for their pnnciples. 'l'hey have merely requested tolerance and an equal atntlg and constdcratton of thctr x-iewpoints. However, shldents who support the proposed ban are being much more than intolerant; rather they are actingin a spirit that is contrary to the fundamental nature of a untversity. Thanks to ULTs 100-plus co-op programs, it is eas) to confuse t h s
universitywtth a job tcatnmg centre. Certainly some students are here just for that purpose; however UW is not a job training centre but rather auniversity Universitiesare charged ~ 4 t the h task of permttting a broad range of ideas for discussion tn a free and open atmosphere. As a result, tolerance for all rather that1ail approml or rejection mechanism ts absolutelyessential for a universtty cnnronmcnt. Once university ' bodtes -be they student societies or administration -start censoring opmons on key soctetal tssues, the university environment \ d l most certady degenerate. After all, a universtty must be concerncdwtth the quest for truth and can only do so if both popular and unpopular theories are esamincd and scrutinized, in a spirit of tolerance,notnecessardy acceptance.
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Editor has a long way to go To the editor, In response to Magda Konieczna's bafflinglydlogcal editorial ["A forum for discussion," November 291, I haw only this to sa) -a newspaper that prints eT ery letter it receives is first of all unprofessional and, second of all, lacktng standards There arc several reasons that a is difficult to get your letter printed m the GlobeundiMad \Y tth a circulation of mer 1 mllitm, they get a lot of letters But perhaps more importantly, they have a minimum standard whereaa I suppose Impn/zfdocs not And as for the claim that the reason all letters are printed -e\ en offensive ones -because this is a commmty newspaper7 Come on1 A commmty newspaper is not supposed to Lncite hatred -or spread the belicf that there are studcnts among us who deserve to be checked at the border or who desen e to have their religion mocked and called hatefd A commmty newspaper would r e c o p z e that letters from the periphery of the university commumty do actually have the power to make mmorlties feel unwelcome at this school A community newspaper would question certamvaluesperhaps but never have such a lax e d i t o d policy as to print e r q letter that comes -regardless of its hateful sentiments towards students that are a part of this community Ms Komeczna, you have a long way to go as a newspaper editor and cspccially as someone who is to represent our community~ -
Sustainability project deserues no awards To the editor, The U\Yr bulletin for December 9, 2002, mentions that volunteer Sandy IGang has won the U\Y! President's Circle Award for volunteerism for hcr work on the University of K'aterloo SustainabilityProject (rrvcrSP). This is a travesty. As a former environment commissioner I dealt with Sandy concernmgissues of UW'SP's creation;and with much difficulty at that. As commissioner I had, and continue to have, major reservations about the environmental effectivenessandutilityof U\X'SP
as an orgaiization. This award is being given to someone who has turned the U\X7environment commission into a papcr tiger. UWSP now manages a paper- and energy-intensive office,it bas not conductedproper cost/bcncfit analyses or an environmental assessment of its operations to examine the necessity of its existence (somethmg I requectcd, but that Ms IGang never sau fit to com plete) and what is more, for all of these negatives, U\\'SP has not producedone direct successful em ironmentalpro]ect The environment commission bas had a proud history of direct projects that actuallpimproved the state of the campus environment (lug-a-mugs, daylight harvesting, paper reduction m computer labs, etc ), but Ms Kiang's U\TISP functions as a bureaucratic and envxonmentdly ineffectwe orgam zation It lust goes to show that award-wmnmgprojectsand people don't need ment, professionahsm, or effectiveness to win -as long as the average student oruntversity administrator doesn't know any better She does not deserve this award, shame on those who have conveyeda.
-Patrick Quealg, BES Former enuironment commissioner
I want to see the real UW To the editor, After readingRyan Chen-Wq's article about the face that this umversitl, presents toprospective students r U W s public face," November 291, I was mepired to pick up a View Book of my own to conduct mvownresearch We arc shown images of students leisurelymalung their way down paths, possibly going to clays among golden trees and green grass However, I didn't see a single image of the miserable chain gang that trudgcs along the uncleared V1 paths in the dead of winter ever). Monday morning at eight o'clock, with the dark threat of more snow hangmg ominously in the sky Another thing that I found perfectly disturbing was the com plete absence of Cast Lampus I Iall from the brochure K'here is that7 I'd point it out on the map provided at the back of the pam phlet, but unfortunately it's almost completely obscured bv a blue word bubblc asLng me 'What hohdav was the observatory decorated for>"
1 want to see the truth. 1want to see a hangover. I'd like to see a picture of a rosie-nosed chemistry major furiously writing an exam wMe trying to suck the snot back into his face, wishing to God he'd brought a box of Kleenex. I'd like to see apicture of the epic proportions of goose crap that adorn the path leading to Village One. In fact I'd like to see a picture of a goose viciously lunging at an unwary passerby. I want a good close up shot of the look of terror on a conservative resident's face as she is unable to sleep due to the thumping noises nest door. -Nichohs
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A beef with Short order 7 0 the editor, I am writing in response to an article that was written by Kourtney Short entitled "Short on the best of the worst" about several of the local restaurantsin\Xraterloo.The article appeared in the November 29 edition of Imprint. The article was absolutely unfounded and is considered slander against these restaurants. The reporter describes one of the restaurant's rolls as having "all of (those) chemicals pumped into such bread," and wondered if the taste of the food at Mtkey's Eatery was a result of "the generous portion of MSG or the grease, but left mc feeling nauseous." \&'here is the evidence to support this? 1 low can this garbage be published? The tirade that was displayed by the reportcr was completely unprofessional. l ' h s article shouldnever have been written or published in Impn'nt.The reporter showed a complete lackof respect forthe owners of these establishments. The slander that was displayedis the worst type of publicity for any restaurant. Given the demographics of Waterloo and the small types of restaurants, these comments are the
type that will directly lead them to bankruptcy. No restaurant business can afford this type of comment. Being in the service industry myself,if t h s reporter ever comes into my establishment I will most definitely show her to the door.
-Joe Murry 4thyear, restaurant aritic
EvenGreenspandisagrees with Lee-Wudrick To the editor, This letter is in response to Aaron Lee-Wudrick's articleon Buy Nothing Day. He labels the day as ''puerile" (chldish, trivial, immature) and its purpose being to have a significant effect on the economy. He underlines the mportancc of frivolous spending as "one of the most important contributions to the world you can make." This fanatic household spending and lack of savingare what even Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the US. Federal Reserve, warns about in h s addresses. Spending money is not bad. But spending wisely is one of the most important contribu tions you canmake, especially during a slow economy. Not spending money on one single day is not supposed to bring the economy to its knees. The purpose is to make people aware of how much they spend, consumc and waste. Lee-Wudrick hints at t h s part-way through the article, but ends commanding people to run off to the mall. What's puerile is categorizingthe world into black and white, left and right, and choosing to remain oblivious to the impact each of us has on the world.
How to stop terrorism To the &or, It is a commonly held opinion that international terrorism can only be
dealt with through peaceful humanitarian solutions. I think such an approach is very noble yet horribly misguded. It is doubtful whether social programs would have prevented the creation of al-Qaeda, since it is not run by Middle-Easternteenagers born in poverty. Instead, its heirarchyis full ofwell-educated middle-class people Lke Mohammad Atta. There is really no way to stop Atta and other people From picking up violent ideologies. No medical supplics help against vicious millionaires like bin Laden. It is often argued that social programs diminish the popularity of terrorists. I-Iowevcr,such programs help prevent terrorism, but do not cure it. Al-Qaeda is an existing, determined and violent foe which Canadaand other countries face. No doubt, American foreign policy has indirectly helpedits rise. However, currently the only way of making thc world safc is for Canada and others is to join America in battle.There are important humanitarian reasons to be very aggressive when dealing with terrorist orgamzations. The prmary goal of alQaeda is to inspire the dissatisfied masses to join its ranks. The attacks on Westerners arealQaida's means of showing mindless recruits al-Qaeda's strength and our weakness. A sure way of making the conflict even bloodier is to appearweak. Thc American offensive against d-Qaedaleaders andal-Qaedainfrastructure has probably saved lives on our side. This approach has another virtue. By preventing dogmatism, weapons and planning from reaching many young hfusluns it has sal-ed their lives as well. My economicsprofcssor said that confusing long-term and shortterm planning is one of the worse mistakes. I hope that in the fight against global terrorism our government will first fight and solve humanitarian problems later.
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Short tries out do-it-yourself cuisine Kourtney Short Vegetarian Fastfood Restaurant 7 60 University Ave. West 746-0057
Apparentlyeveryonebutmehas been eatingat VegetarianFastfoodRcstaurant. On my first visit, at the suggestionofan Imprintreader,Iraninto two friends in the restaurant and had two other people tell me about their favourite dishes. The ambience at Vegetarian Fastfood includes fluorescent lights and alow-pilecarpet*with muddy snow. he washroom is tidy and PIV
erly stocked, but unfortunately the floor and other surfaceslooked pretty grimy. The spicy bean curd ($5.50minus 15percent student discount) consists of a gencrous portion of deep-fried tofu, freshmushrooms, red andgreen peppers,broccoli,cauliflowcr,bokchoy and cabbage in a mildly-flavoured sauce. Wait -wasn't it supposed to be spicy tofu? I could see a few dried crushed chiles, but couldn't taste them. I was, however, impressed with the freshness of the vegetables. Onanother occasion, Ivisited duringthe lunch hour. The restaurantwas packed and, although the service had been fast onmy previous visit,it took 25 minutes for us to get our food. I
had the vegetarian pad thai ($6.25), which consists of rice noodles, onions, bean sprouts and firm tofu in a peanut sauce. The &sh was on the bland side, but very filling. On another visit, my companion and1 shared the special hotpot ($9.99 per person). This &sh consists of meat,vegetables and noodles that you cook yourself in one of two broths: a mildly spicy broth and a fish stock. The meats wcrc shrimp, squid, mussels, beef balls, thinly sliced beef and chicken breast. The beef and chicken were fresh,but the seafoodwas oldthe shrimp was dry and fishy-tasting and the mussels smelled ofammonia. Thevegetables,amixtureofbokchoy, cabbage,broccoli,cauliflowerandcarrots, were fresh and delicious. The noodles, most of which we left behmd because we were so full from the meat andvegetables, were ramen and rice noodles. A warning: The waiter's instructions consisted of telling us thatwe were to cook the food in the broth. If you don't know how to cook, this probably isn't We also shared rice paper rolls ($2.99 for two). These morsels were filled with lettuce, bean sprouts, tofu and carrots and came with a peanut sauce that could have usedmore heat. In addition to pop and a few types of beer, Vegetarian Fastfood serves someinteresting fruit juices. I enjoyed the lychee juice ($1.49),but my companion's mango juice ($1.49) was mouldy-tasting. The waiter quickly replaceditwithanother lychee juice. Although the hotpot was a disappointment, with a lot of &shes in the $5 range and a student &scount that knocksoffthetax,VegetarianFastfood is an ideal place for avery filling lunch. Stick to the vegetarian portion of the menu and,ifyou like your food spicy, to ask that they add extra chiles.
MAGDA KONIECZNA
Hotpot involves a little innovation and a bit of chose-your-own adventure. Customers are served a pot of boiling broth (below left) and platesof raw ingredients.They preparethe food themselves by cooking in the broth. If you don't like cooking, this is probably not a dish for you.
Historv: St. Jerome's is more than three times UW's age Continued from cover
Furthermose, knowing some of the people and Iwing through some of the events provides information that a distant scholar would probably not discover. The potcntial cost of sucha strong conncction, however, is the temptation to allow history to devolve into a justification of the present, rather thananaccount ofthe past. Fortunately for their readers, the authors have largelyresisted t h s temptation. Richard G y n ' s foreward and Michael H i p s ' preface both &om-
mcnt on the nature of a Catholic university (both invoke John TTenq~Cardinal Newman), but the history, as a whole,remaim an account ofthe past. 'l'he 13th and last chapter of the history, however, simply demands comment. Entitled "A Contemporary Catholic University," the chapter covers the recent past of St.Jerome's University, from 1972 to R~chard Gwyn's installation as chancellor in March2002. This final chapter covers the greatest length of time and is the longest in the book. Certady, the events of the time
period covered deserve to be mcluded in the history. Pr. Siegfried's negotlation with UW about the distribution of the hndingpromded by the province, thc hiring of many current professors, the opening of Siegfried Hall and the Centre for Catholic Expericncc, general changes in government funding of universities, the installation of John Sweeney and Douglas Letson as the first lay chancellor and president, respectively,andthe effects of the Special Early Retirement Programareimportante~rentsthat should be includcdinahistoryofSt.Jerome's
University In the "A Note About Sources," the authors write that Martin liriedland, m his 764-page The 7,7ni/w sig nj' Toronto: A Ilisfoyy, "demonstrates that it is possible to write about contemporaryhistory~vithma utGrersitycontext."I readFriedand's histow before Enfhu.rius/~~. and he certainlydemonstrated that it is possible, but he did not demonstrate why it should be done. The phrase "contemporary history" seems ailapt description of the final chapter of Enthusiasm, but I am not sure what it
means. I t mould seem that n o enough time has passed for the his tory of the very recent past to be tolc in a conventional manner. \Vhm thc nexthistoryofSt.Jcromc's Universi? is published, someone should cum pare the final chapter of Entl71s~~ius with the corresponding one in thr new history. 'l'he final chapter ts un conventional. It is entertainmg and dare I say, innovative. This illustrated history provides ; much-neededaccount of the longlife ofaveq~spccialpublic RomanCatho lic untrersity.
Crossword: clue-solving clues Continued from cover
T w o meanings: Give b a c k tax document-Somewords havemultiple meanings. For these words, I may just give two definitions side by side. RETURN means both "give back" and " t ~ udocument (return)." Container: Nurse holds benefit control -In a container, the solution involves putting one part of the answer inside (or outside) another. liEIN(contro1) is formed when EIf%enefit" employment insurance) is held by an RN(nurse), like this: R(E1)N. Homophone:Dragdigit,we hear -- A homophone clue tells you that the answer has the same sound as another word o r phrase. T O W ("drag") sounds like T O E ("digit") when "we hear" the sound. I Iomophone clues have indicators like "we
heard," "overheard" or "broadcast" that indicate if people hear or say two words the same way. T h s homophone signalis alwaysbeside the definition of the homophone, not beside the literal definition of the actual answer word. Reversal: N o t Rowlingcharacter reversed -A clue may h n t that the answer word spells something when reversed. NOli("not") is RON ("Rowling character") reversed. Reversal indicators include words like "reversed" and'makes a U-turn" or, in the case of down clue words like "rising" and "northward." Deletion: Short ride measurem e n t - A clue may suggest that a word could lose its "head" (first letter), "heart" (central letter) or "tail" (last letter) to formanewword. These deletions often take the form of abbreviations in order to remove more
letters.KODf'measurement") is short I am satisfiedwith, I let the computer R O D E rnde"). program use a database of roughly Acronym: Pre-big b a n g matter, 250,000 words to fill the grid. T am initially yelled Lewis E. Mumford then left with the task of writing the -Uscdindesperation, h s is aninth clues. form of cryptic clue of my owninvenA puznlcmakermusthaveawide tion. Anacronymindicator like "in the varietpof soucesavaJableandabroad beginning" or "from the start" indi- imagination. The Imprint crossword cates that the clue uses the initials of contains between 80 and I00 words the adjacentphrase. YLEM("pre-big each week. I try to make sure that 90 bang matter") is taken from 'Yelled per cent of the words are recognizLewis E. Mumford." able. Words like "sort" and "detail" Abbreviations As I said beare ones that everyone knows and are fore, I use abbreviations that are ac- usually easy to make clues for. Someceptedby dictionaries,includingcoun- times however, I get words like try codes,Romannumeralsand chemi"primeron or "yiem." 'l'he oddball calelements. words, which I try tolimit withn the crossword, offer the brgest challenge. Makingthe crossword It takes between hvo and three hours of straight clue-writing to creUsinga computer program, I cre- ate the clues for a gvcn puzzle.If I atea 17by 17 squaregridwithadecohave the time, I spread the clue-makrative pattern. Once I havc agnd that ing across several days to allow my -
brainandimagination time to recover. A reader will often be able to judge how tired I was and at what point m the puzzle-makmg process I was by the quality of clues. Ingeneralandifl getachance, Ivet the puzzles several times before they go to print. Tf I can't figure out what the cluemeans aftera fewdays,it's back to the drawing board. Professional crossword makers farm thelr puzzles out to experts for a test drive before they arepublished. At lqprint, the only test-drivers are the proof-readers. Nothingprevents anyone else from coming in to test the crossword before it's printed; in fact t h s would be appreciated. The more brains contribute to a crosswordpuzzle, the more likely it is others will be able to solve it.
NOVEMBER 28 SOLUTION
CROSSWORD o Moogk-Soulis on the art
Across 1. Atomic number 76 6. Pope supporting past surrounds Martel character 11. Make amorous advanres toward.7 inzpossiblefilrn director 12. Street about alternatives for arrangrnzent 15. Roman nine uround Belgian bird 17. Rcccntly retired Kcnyan president 18. False soup ingredieni we hear 19. Famous bear when ring reversing 20. British comedian Coward 21. Juvenile canine 22. Floodgate missing international committee turns shu?ply 23. Late-night dance party extrava-
g-a 24. Fine grained soapy powder 28. What you don't want after a big meal 30. In addition to scrambled Laos 33. Prescribed procedure surrounds rejected spy 35. Laundry advertisement contains wood nymph 36. News you first heard here 37. Altogether en franpis 39. Short Bumstead boss leads Y ineffectively 41. Group alternates hydrogen for treasure 43. Pre-ejection queasiness 44. Celestial beam reveals night 45. Federal Investigation 48. Private evening house party 52. Overt manner shakenly concealed in this very lot
of solving crosswords. - cover
0 Italicized clues are cryptic clues. 0 Non-italicized clues are definition clues.
54. Check out the good view, what do you see'? 55. Begging unfinished request,s 56. Grim Reaperfound within idea theji 58. Mixed up sage$ vapours 60. Traditionally the first man 61. An official recognition of merit 63. An incidental benefit 64. Brass musical instrument 65. Sheltered,secluded place 67. Baseball player Gehrig 70.American novelist agree without radon 71. Scottish narrow secluded valley 72. Cut meat overexaggerated acting 74. Pinnacle-less hill complaint 75. Ya-ya actress Ashley 76. 1994 Winter Olympiad 77. Pharaonic life and death symbol 78. The devil is in the particular 79. Wisconsin hiding within shy effeminate
Down 1. Baby hooters 2. Rising broken yoyos bean
3. Homer's barkeep Ministry of Environment head 4. American Postal Service beginnings 5. Money, Manitoba representative hiding liscence to kill 6. Irritate in pipe evening 7. Fax letter contains carpart 8. Playfully mischievousfairy 9. Former french penny 10. Highest quality pot pit rising 13. Hunch-backed mixed up Norse huddler duo 14. Third person plural future action 15. Intrusion mixed up donuir 16. Mixed up snob oligarchs do residential school 25. Again in a new way 26. Lee Oswald was which gunman? 27. Inert incomplete comma 29. Oh hlimey! 30. Pros shuffled case 31. Traditional knowledge confused role 32. Tofu hearing shrub 34. Palm bearing medieval pilgrims 36. Obsolete shooting melody making
surrounds house 38. Rodent confuses tao in middle of street 40. Californian-Nevadan border
pleasure lake 42. Cunning and dodgy 45. Daring emphasis 46. Iris containing ocular structure 47. Large quantity of written matter 49. Harvest mixed fruit 50. Manx and Gaelic language group 51. Observcr using his eyes 53. Desired Japanese coin leads Simpsons goody-two-shoes 54. Westin goods contain strong
malted drink 55. Friend cover for pale 57. Atomic number 85 59. Skinny snoop surrounds Kipling character 61. Ski-jump tycoon 62. Christmas over and over again 64. Pilgrim heading to Mecca 66. When the Brits sleep with
someone in the Biblical sense 68. Spanish exclamation at uncovered hole 69. Ultimate beheaded sect 72. Possession 73. Yule log left overs
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Making something out of nothing Indeed, here's how: all a takes is a base station,whichcould be any computerwithawirelesscard Runabit of Thishasbeenthecasewithwireless cable, which can be bought from any voice communications Just ask the radio outfitter, buy a cheap omni guywhosephonekeeps mgmgwhde directional antenna and mount a youaretrymgtoenloyyourcoffeeand somewhereoutside where it is visible Timmy's bagel fromwhereyouwanttointerconnect I becameinterestedwhenI reahzed Plug that computer into your netthat it could not onlychange how, but work alsowherethgsaredone.Witha few From there people will be able to antennae and some cheap radio gear connect up to a half-k~lometre,nonfor some old PCs, one can provide he-of-sight andmuch further as long networkcovas they can eragetoalacge point directly at that an area What has changed is tenna Thus, Not only could~siton thatthistechnology your roommate, neighthelawnouthas become prolific. bour across side of the SLC while I If is now cheap and the street, research the commonly available. net formypablock over per on "the and you disappearance of the Aral sea," but in countries could share the cost of your Internet where l a y q fibre optics and copper connection. Moreover, imagine the implicawire is unpracticaland financially impossible, this could make a great leap tions of having such an antenna on a building like the Dana Porter (DP) in bndgmg the digital dmde - a networkcouldbemade out ofthinair. hbrarg. How about here - could a be Studentswho could mount cheap used to reduce the cost of using the directional antennae on their roofs Internet? and point them at DP would be able
Rados are no longer just for the CBC Ian Howard SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
Yeah,I'mabit ofageek.Youcanoften find me tinkering with the computer or the electroniccrap that l t epiled in my room or basement Being a %eek, I see a lot of new technology Bigger hard drives, faster CPUs - snore Kecently,however, somethifigthathas caught my attention is wireless net workmg-using radio gear to transmit data 'wirelessly.' The technologyis not new We've knownhowtotransmitdataviaradio waves for more than half a century We've been firing radto waves into space forages.Sowhyallthe hub-bub and why should I be interested? What has changedis that this technology has become prolific It is now cheap and commonlyavadable Peopleare starclngtouseitlnwaysthatwe had never imagmed, like the guys in Califorma who built a 72-mile network with equipment that for the most part you could buy off the shelf of your local computer shop. When technology becomes easy and avadable, it has the potential to make a dramaticimpact.
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to connect to the campus network from all over the city with little more thanatincan,abit of antenna cableand awirelesscard Thoughadvancementsmtechnology have made this technologycheap and accessible, the greatest advance ments have been the cooperationbetween manufacturers in developing standards (IEEE 802 l l x ) and the liberalizationof these frequencyh d s . This hasallowedmnovatorstoquickly make thin air into avaluabletechnology The U S FCC has realized this and has begun to discuss further liberalising radio waves in frequencies that would be even more apt for pervasive commLlnlcatlons Such legslation would allow this technologytobecomeevenmorea d able and thus able to furtherbridge the information&vide.L&wise,changes in policy havenow made this technology available to UW in our libraries, lounges andwhoknowsmaybe someday from the top of DP?
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Read more about U W s wireless networks at www.waterloowireless.org.
This antenna, not in use today, is on the roof of Dana Porter. The white, 10-foot, 900 MHz omni-directional wireless antenna connectsBurt Matthews Hall with the Fields Institute. The black, 900 MHz yaggi directional antenna is for longrange communication with downtown Kitchener.
Tobacco advertising and you pressureis the leading reason forpeople starting to smoke. Although researchhas concluded that cigarette advertising has a large effectonpeople,ithas also concluded that theHealthCanadawammglabels that take up 50 per cent of the area of a cigarette pack have a big effect on people "Anti-smokmgcarnpiugns arevery
A UW graduate student researches how advertisinginfluences smokmg Chris Ladouceur IMPRINT INTERN
How many umes have you seenan ad for somethingand thought 'I want to buy that ' Everyday you are impacted, m some way, by advertising Whether it be advertising for clothing or candy, advemsingeffects you Tobaccoadvertisingmaybe one of the largestinfluenceson many young smokers in Canada If vou are a smoker. don't blame yourself,considerthe effectofadver using "Althoughm Canada,it is dlegalto
o Read about quitting smoking or the government's non-smoking campaign on the Health Canada site at www.hcsc.gc.ca.
"Cigarette advertising has the largest effect on people between the ages of 16 and 25. . ."
o You can also check out www.infotobacco.com.
adveaise the actual act of smolung, tobaccocompames have found away aroundit,If a tobaccocompany sponsors an event or a team, thtnit isIegal,"sa~d~cutt I.eatherdale, a formcr \mokerforlO)carband a yaduare stud~ntIn health mdies and ger l~llt0lOg) I Ie studm thee ffccts of tobacco ad\ rrtiamg onpeopl~and the effect of anti smoking cam Paw" r. ~. w 9r -F- -Tdoes -~- ... .a r .c h Anti-smoking campaigns have been effec- uw ,he effects tive, and yet millions continue to smoke. tobacco adveaising on
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Players ads in Imprint, in November were dents, people that met with some disapproval at UW. Health have been smoking studiesstudent Scott Leatherdalesaysthese for many years and ads influence people to pick up smoking. smokers. people and runs presentations that make people aware of the effect of tobaccoadverttsmg. The research that is done is helping the dream of Canada being a smokefree nation Anexample oflegal tobaccoadverusing is the Players Light mountain
The data collected from survcys is converted into statisticswhich show howbigofaneffectadverttsmghason people. "Cigarette adverttsinghasthe larg est effect on people between the ages of 16 and 25," said Leatherdale. Health Canada stdl says that peer
effective on the public," said Leatherdale "People have said that since the labels came out, they acknowledge some of the health risks associated with cigarettesand they smoke less," said leatherdale. Since cigarettesare veryaddictive, more addtctive than heroin or cocame (accordmgtoHealthCanada),itcanbe a challenge to quit With determination and effort it is possible
FRIDAY,JANUARY 3,20C
A black box for everything Erin L. Gilmer IMPRINTSTAFF
Keeping an eye on those crazy teen drivers A new product has been developed by Road Safety International, Inc. that will allow parents to keep a constant watch on their teenage drivers. The product, sort of a l k e a black box for cars, is called the Road Safety On-BoardComputer System and is a more basicversion of systemsusedin emergencyvehicles. The product, aimed at bang used for teenagers, is plugged into the car's datahkconnector fromwhichitmmtors driving on a second by second basis Parents pre-record voice warnings that are played w.henever the driver is detected as driving unsafely, Acludmgspeeding,hard corneringhard b r h g , fast starts,notwearingaseatbelt, and h c h g up without mirror and shoulder checking. Parents can set the sensitivity for
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things like acceptable speed limit To detect hard brakmgor cornering, the system uses anaccelerometer that detects htghg-forceson the vehicle Forbackingup,a spotter switchmust be depressedby the driver indicating that thev've done the necessanr checks. Failure to drive safely reWaterloo region has a new logo and sults in alarms that go and continue until the be- will Soon have a new environmental committee as well. haviour is corrected Reports and graphs u e generated for parents to monitor the mttees willnot overlap, since the eusafety of their child's drit ing isting committee focuses more on The system should be available p l a m g and development appllcanext October for about $400 Besides tions menvironmentally sensitive arbeing anticipated greatly by parents, eas there are many that see ause inaccident 1.ook out for advertisements that prevention for poor adult drivers will be put out soon by the region The first committee meeting Interested in advising the should take place in late Pebruary or region on environmental March
issues? Waterloo R e p wdl soonbegin look mng forpeopleinterestedin servingon the regonal municipality's first-ever enmronmental committee The new committee's lobwillbe to adnse counc~lon issues that get re ferred to it by reg~onalcouncil,including clean air, environmental health andpesticides The committee will be in addition to the ecolog~caland environmental commttee that advises on development applications, but the two com-
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Black boxes for humans The future of medical diagnosis and momtoring may be in implantable, black box like devices Doctors and scientists are developing these de vices tomcreasethe q d t y of rLagnose of disease,and decrease the cost ofcare Designed to track the function of a person's orgams, a tiny, new imalantable monitor from Mcdtronic Inc is already on the mar ket. The device can be placed in a per-
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Nenad Medic looks for a three-pointer in the Niasmith final game. The Warriorsended up losing 64to 72against the Western Mustangs.
Mike Sovran(left) and Andrew Coatsworth celebrate the Warriors' semi-final win over Saskatchewan in the Naismith Classic, November 2.
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tough road ahead m the new yearwith hvvo more game5 to play against McMasterandone eachagamstBrock and \Xrestern,but the es~ectedreturn of Chris Edwards in January should add a lot to Waterloo's lme-up De spite the difficult schedule, look for the Warriors in the playoffs come March The women's basketball season has been rather inconsistent so far After opemngwith a huge win on the road at McMaster, the Warriors have gone 4-4. Considering t h ~ 1s s a team with seven rookies and an q u r e d Nicole Consitt (the team's lea&ng scorer), that's rather impressive Although the team is young and has yet to come together completely m terms of chemistry on the court, the players seem to be far ahead of where most teams would be in their position. High points for the team so far have been Amanda &esxvetter's out-
side shooting, which ha5 been both precise and timely,the consistentplay on bothends ofthe coua by last year's CIS rookie of the yearJulie Devenny and the play of rookie guard Crystal Richardson and fonvard Caroline Beairsto The OUA west is a wide open &vision this year and while the Warriors currentlystandm fifth-place, they are only two pomts out of sccond Under coach O'Brien, h s team should and will be more consistent after playing more games together Look for the Warriors to host a home playoff game in the post-season and perhaps, with an excepttonal second half, even earn a first-round bye In the new year, both of these teamswill be fighting fortheplayoff5 l'he firsthomegames for the Warnors will beJanuary 17versusRyersonand January 18 vcrsus Toronto Games are 6 p m for women and 8 p m for men
rienced some ups and downs m the first half of the OUA basketball season HeadingmtotheChristmas break, both the men's and women's teams had been invol\ed m some hotly contested matchupswith some ofthe top teams in the province Here's a lookat how the first part ofthe season played out for the Warriors The men's basketball season got underway shoaly after this ear's NaismithClassic,which saw the W ar riors losmgm the fmal to theKestern Mustangs Despite the loss, the Warriors impressed many people o\er homecoming weekend and expecta tions were raised gomg mto the season Howex er, after the first eight games, the \X'arriors headed into eu amsnitha2 6 record,whch onpapcr looks bad, but is quite misleading Aside fromaone sidedlosstocarleton ( r d e d firstmthecountryattheme), the Warriors had agood chancc towin each ofthe other fivegamesthey lost Just look at the last three games gomgmto the break anovertime loss toL,akehead,aone-pomtlosstoLauner and a two point loss to Guelph It's unfortunate that they came out on the losing end of all three tight games, despite playmg extremelywell, but as is the case m the game of basketbal1,a lucky bounce here or there and the LVarnors could easily be headmgmto Christmaswith arecordabove 0 500. Htghpoints so h r for the Warriors have been the play of roolue fonvard MichaelDax~is,the emergence ofDave Waterloo's Michael Davis looks to pass the ball around a Munkley as one of the league's top shootersand the mspuedplay ofguard Western player in the final game of the Naismith Classic, Gerard Magenius. Thts team has a November 3.
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FIELD HOCKEY OUA All k r r 1st Team Robm Leshe Is1 Team E m Morton 1\t Team JUIMMarlon 2nd Team Sam~raV~swanathan 2nd Team Jessa Jennmgs 2nd Team Wendy MolCell Pluyer of the Yea, Enn Morton (Waterloo)
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OUA All Stars 1 ~Rum t Steven Flatt 2nd Team Mark Accard~ CIS All Canadruns Steven Flatt
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Theatre & Co. produces a magical night The L o n , The W .and The Wardrobe captivates audiences with only two actors The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Clanche Du Rand Theatre &Company, K~tchener December29
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of individual who loves to not only viewa wonderfully performed show, but also to have the opportunity to participate in it, then you missed out on the chance of a lifetime Thc play starts even before 1ouenter the thea tre when an usher informs the audience that thete has been a problem with the staircaseleadingto the stage and therefore, allmust take the elcva tor up to one of the higher levels of the budding The elevator, however, has been brealung doxn lately and m stead sends you down to the lower levels of the theatre Upon your ar rival, you step through a very large wardrobe, onto the stage and fmally mto your seats Thls is certainlyaplay &at includes a grcat amount of au& cncc participation I'hroughout the play, audience membcrs are allowed to portray slaves (which of course everyone wants to be) and frozen a d s or statues whichcome to hfe Shortlyafter, under the mstructton of the actors, the audience mcmberspolitely sit down m their respective seats The audience was constantly o o h g and ahhtng at the magic of the play Not onlywere the actors andaudt ence members hamng the tune of
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Lakin and Tutt play all of the characters in the play.
their Iivcs partakmg m the events of this production, but the dlrector,Mtke Peng, said he too was having a great time "Dtrectlngls fun," saidPeng,"you get to play all the parts \Ve're worhng venl phvstcally, thc actors mowwcll andtheybothposseasgeat comic sense. The story itselfis so rich there'slop,elements ofdanger,and depth it'\ ea5) to understand Narnla's enduring appeal " l'cng 1s making his directorial debut 'I'he production was designed five years ago The playground set and simple costumes were designed by April Anne Viczko One must, how e~~er,achowled,qe thc fantasticp b o f Jascha Nameson and Nick Storrmg They composedthe live music for cach performance, whichwas very wellreceived in t h ~ sound-heavy s play. In a short recount of the play (for those, who are unfortunately not famliar wtth it) Andrew Lakin and Andrea Tutt portrayed all the characters m the play Theseactorsherally tell the story through thelr performance of a magcal wardrobe and a dreamlike world on the other side Thts world, Narma, has fallen under the spell of theevdwttchandanunendmg -
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land of Narnia after stepping through that magcal w ardrobe Although tt may have been a bit short,bemglustover anhour mlength, The L o n , The Wttch and The Wardrobe leaves you wantmg to escape to that timeless world of Narma over and over again
The year that is the wide music industry Another year finishes and Imprint recaps the best and the worst music of 2002 Annu Saini
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Everyone has his or her own way of celebratingthc holidays. For some it is the time of yiarwhen one reconnects with sniveling ungrateful chtldren; others celebrare the birth of Lord and Saviour; and most obser\ e the comtngofbclovecl Annual GiftMan.Yes, ~ t itruly s aspccd time. But amidst the ktnd (escept 6)rChrist-lesspag;uls,of aurse), some traditions are notgwen he credencet h t they sodeserve.\Yldc we hold dear our candy canes and murderous shopping trips, what of the year-end crtttcs list? Imr I behe\ ethatitis the right,nal, thedutvofthe music critic tocontnb ute to thc seemingly endless and cer rainly redundant lists of "Best and Worst" mustc for the year Accord lngly, I have decided, with my fellou cnttcs, to indulge in the rtdtculous pretense that wmcone cares about my opinion ,md produce rnl patented (not reall)) pear-endwrap- up Forthe sake of you, the poor ovenvhelmed reader, I'll keep this brief. 'l'here was a fairly successful onslaughtof fcmalc,sentimental,writer/ rocker,alaMichelle Branch/ Vanessa Carleton artists this year from whtch h e aforementioned clearly pre\-ailed.
Avril La1 lgne represented the Cana dian share m the sameputrid categoq These women have worked tirclcsslp to mmtc the agom of menstruation tn the form of song, congatulations ladies Coldplav released it7 much antic1 pated 5ophomore release and did so without disappointment \X'hilc Bra ish rockers Oasis did not enjoy the same cnticalacclaimfr~rtheir1002re lease 1leathe~rChemsfty (thew cnttcs were cleat ly delusional),thealbum&d ,ell extremely well, I'm sure those sensitive chaps are bawlinginto thcir gold-plated, cocaine-frosted beer mugs While a seems ridiculous to cite albums thatwere not released. Creed's dcctsion to spare us the hammer-like subtletyof its devotionalwhining this year was extremely benevolent and appreciated Sadly, despite a pu~zltngability to capttahzc upon pre-teen unrequited love, Nickelback has yet to acquwc enough dessert to show into, and consequentlyshut,their respective pie holes \X'e can only hope 2003 brings better days TheStrokes,ThcVincs, I heHn es, and 1hc Datsuns all made rt big thi\ vear andwithgood reason, but bands like Sum 41 and N o Doubt did not acquiesce to the compellingappeal of
the definite arttclc Instead both re 1easedsurpnsinglyweIIcraftedalbums inwhichNoDoubt rcturned toits ska roots at least m spirit and Sum41 was, well, being Sum 41 VElule RonSe~~mithts somewhat of an unsung hero this year, Chnv Martin s m p g his praises (both puns intended) should make him a face to keep an eye on next )ear \\ atch for their duet featured nn Sexqmith's al bum Cohblcrfun~ 1<1/m~aySam Robertson,K 0 5 dnd 1 die Blach also shou~promisingresolvefor next year and allfourCanucksma\-actuallvbrcak into the coveted [ I S . market before New Years Eve's party favours and vomit are cleared. Norah Jones took over Diana IGall'slazz-hottie statusthts yearmith stunning vocals, haunting lyrics and sitar-Godlineage (she's the daughter o f B e a t l e ' s m e n t ~ ~Shankur) r ~ ~ ~ i n) brag about. Nrhile 1 have yet to hear %wan, Billy Corgan's ncw band, or Smash ing Pumpluns 11, as I like to refer tu them, the chances of them flopping with former Pumpkins fans next year ri~alsthat of bin Laden sweeping the nex-prestdential election.With nary an album to offer, their first show.in Toronto sold out in about ananosecond. Hurrah, no onecan inspire selfdeprecating suicidal thought lFke Mr.
Billy Corgan Two-thousand and two was an interesting year for hip hop, meaningful lyrics yielded in large part to high pi oduction values Thua, most of the urbanmusic produced this par, sate two?stoundmgdcbuts byJustin Timberlake and Ms Dynamite (who carned the esteemedMcrcutl Pn7e for her cfforts),was danceableand quau pornographc The Neptune\ and cornpan) managed toproduce all but a handful of stngles and tn a remark ablc shou ofcompa\\ionandpatriot ism the crack whore population of the New YorkCitywa mcludedmthe makmg of all videos for said singles God Bless America Much control ersp surrounded the posthumous release ofNin ana's sin gle Y o u I(no\v Your kght" and all the hoopla resulted in the o~ershad-
oning of the clear fact that the song really sucked But for unleashing this immature travesty of a song on the public smplv for the financialgain of the venture, Courtney Love has her conscience to face-her conscienceand an ununagrnable amount of wealth Oh, and probably some heroin I'm sure the emotional battle is torturous Ina surpnse move thts year, record companl executix es kept their pop dix as blond and near naked, but dc cided to add gyration to the formula with lucrative r u t s (read Shahiraet al) I<udvs And that was the jear in mustc according to me No\\, if you haven't alrcady in the proceas of readmg this article,celebrate the season like we all know you should get drunk and make out with a stranger I hope you had relaxingholiday
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The evolution of The Vines
Sex, gore and punk
A review of their concert at the Kool Haus and things to come Ian Blechschmidt SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
For a rock concert to go down as "classic," somcth~n~has toget destroyed Consider events 1tkeJmHendrix settmghis Stratocasterablaze at W'oodstock or The Who setting off a bomb inside their bass drum on The Ed SuIltvan S b o ~ are these definingmomentsin rockhistory?Yes they are. Did stuffget wrecked?Absolutely!To keep rockprogressive,itis up to the newgenerations of artists to create great new classic moments. The Vines are, as the title of their debut album H& Evolved would suggest, the new evolution in musical destructo-tainment. The Vines crawled out of the artisticprimordial ooze in a McDonald's in Sydney, Australia in 1991.kfteen-ycar-oldCraigNicholls(vocals) mct PatrickMatthews@ass)and the evolution began. They played few shows over the six years following their first gig in 1994, but still man aged to catch the eye of industryhlgher-upsand wereasked toplayforth 2000SydneyOlympics HamshRosser {oinedthe band on drums m late 2001, replacing original drummer David Olliffe who had departed a few months earlier. These three,alongwithRyanGriffithsonacoustic guitar, are The Vines as we know them today. The Vines' debut album H&hbEvolvedwas released to the world on July 2002 to critical acclaim.Nicholls'andfitthews' self-proclaimed obsessionwithNirvanais evident-the disc is definitelya throwback to'90s grunge. If you've ever seen Nicholls' hair,it's apretty goodmeta-
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"Outtathaway," a noisy radio TheVinesare Craig Nicholls, PatrickMatthews, Hamish tune to balladic tracks ltkc c'firyJane ,,HghbEvoIjedfs Rosser and Ryan Griffiths. I was surpnsedwhentheyplayedtheirbreak agreat hsten, regardless ofwhat you're looking out single "Get Free" a mere 30 mmutes mto for tn a rock disc their set It got the audience excited, but it So now that you've got the background, I can seemed anti-climactic would they be able to tell youaboutthereallycool stuff The Vmcs'live keep up this momentum when they'd already show, a good example of wh~chwas their Noplayed the "ht-single" card?But, surpnsmgly, vember 28,2002 performance at Kool Haus m The Vines seemed to settle inafter "Get Free " Toronto They talked to us more and the fact that the I knew that The Vmes were high-energy, so punky singles were out of the way seemed to I hadhigh hopes for their show Ialsoknew that make the crowd more receptive to The Vmes' they had recently destroyed Dave Letterman's slower songs stage when they appeared on The Late Sho~j/The set ended suddenly during the mess of this was a good s p distortton at the end of one such song when They played most of HzghbEuohzdaswellas Nicholls broke his mcrophone and got frussome new stuff and Nicholls ran around a lot, s at the drum kit Then trated, tossing h ~ guitar which was good I also must commend them he left It was so abrupt that I wasn't sure what for their cleverly arranged cover of Outkast's to thmk Was t h s it? Was t h s the s h o d "Ms Jackson " But they didn't talk much, optFortunately, it wasn't ing rather to play their songswith little interrupThe Vines' encore was the best part of the tion in between It made them seem a little night They only played two songs, but they distant seemed to enjoy the audiencemore (evengettifig them to sing along with "Country Home," though few people seemed toknow the words) In another post tune somc mess, Nicholls broke his mcrophone agaqgotreallypissed off at it and threw it at the drums He finished the song on the back up mic, then smashed his guitarmtothe floor,breakingitinhalf This was great This was exciting 1his was rock But it didn't stop there Not satisfiedwithhavmgdestroyed his own mstrument, Nicholls turned on the drum set Matthews kept the noise gomg with his bass, and Rosser valiantly tried to keep a beat whde Nicholls systematically dismantled h s kit and hurledit evcrywhichway Rossergaveupwhen Nicholls grabbed his high-hat rig, one of only two pieces of equlpmentlefton stage that hadn't been assaulted,and chucked it across the stage Nicholls'outburst only lasteda few mmutes, but it made the enttre concert worthwhile I don't know ifThe Vmes have achleved the samL status as Hendrix or The Who, but they put on a fantastic show in support of a great album, so I guess we'll see Anyway, I don't care I got to see stuff smashed It was fun
In the spectacle that is punk rock, few bands entered the arenaw~thsucha controversial reputation as the Plasmatlcs Founded by a porn fdm producer who fancied himself as tl next Malcolm McLaren, the l'lasmaticswere fronted by sex film "star" Wendy 0 Wihams, a muscular, ra5py-voiced "smger" who generally wore next to nothing onstage (Her most radical bit of fashion accessorizmg consisted of coveringher nipples with black electncal tape ) Playingthe New Yorkpunk circuit (1 e ,CBGBs), the Plasmatics became notorious for their extreme stage shows, which mcluded antics ltke fimg blanks from sawed-off shotgun and taking a chainsaw to human dummy filled with stage blood, sending a spray of fake gore throughout the club and anticipatingthe fake carnage of Gwa by nearly a decade The music, however, was another story mostly sub-literate punk rock loaded w~thlo of sci-fi fascism and consumer ntghtmares of gigantic proportions that on record didn't workwithout the stage pyrotechnics, some thing Williams and the Plasmatics understoc completely as the stage shows quickly becamf more elaborate cars were blown up, guitars were sawed in half (oddly, the dummy drsappearcd) equipment was set on fire 1X hde Williams became something of a dem celebritym punkctrcles,especiallyafter she was busted (and brutali~edby policc) m Milwaukee for "public mdecency," the Plasmatics were mostly show and httle substance,musically speaktng In 1982, Wendy 0 \Y'illiams went solo, made two fairly bad records, and appeared m the film Kfom S~houLGzrlJIn 1989, the Plasmatics reunited, but Williams essentially dropped out of sight in the early 1990s, and sadly, committed suicide in 1998at the age of 48 Punk rock was alwal s a spectacle, but the Plasmatics added violence, aggressive sewah! and gore to the mut And m a certain sense, i has never gone away
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Young musicians, strong warm forces, and old Mr. Lee K'annaHit it," one of thesmgles from thclrlast record, Ti~rn21I amnot sure Lookout Records if the video for their first single from this album, "Take it off," 1s also mThere are plenty of young musicians cluded, but the video is a great battle around these days, 3LW, lil'romeo, ofthe h d s parody,withTheDonnas the listgocsonand on, but the chances playmg themwlve~as well as their of these luds makingrecordsmtotheir male competitors 20s is slm They wdl probably be With the current movement of shopliftingand domg reunion shows rock music into the spotlight of the at theme parks or something. The music media, you wdl surely be hearDonnas, however who started with ing a lot more from The Domas on theirfirstperformancewhentheywere t h e d o . 'T&eitoff,"issupercatchy, in grade eight and are now 23, have grownintoapower-house of no frills rockand roll, and their newest album, Spend fhe N$t, delivers the same punch fans have come to love. Donna DonnaF, Donna A, and Donna R, or Torry, Maya, Brett, and Allisonastheir parents call them, hail from the sunny state of California. Donna R provides the searing guitar, DonnaA delivers the words, Donna C pounds out the beats and Donna F rocks the bass. Spend the N i g I ~ ftheir , fourth album, is a 14-song pyjama party with Gibson guitars and JackDaniel's. The lyncs are hilarious and packed with sexual innuendo. The Donnas seem to use their songs to complain about some of theirpetpeeves,whichmostly involve silly boys. But don't get me wrongone of those songs you just can't these girls aren't whining about guys stop singing and, to tell you th who have broken their breaktng the hearts of boys world- favourite is "Dirty Denim," wide. Not only are their fun songs a about expensive vintage clot refreshing change from all the sob the too cool attitude of som songs out there, but The Donnas also people who wear them Although show that prl? m the music industry this album is not something you can don't need to show skin to sell records lust sit and listen to one ume through. The Donnas Spend the Night
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Just listeningtoBeth Oaon's voice is an experience-eachnote1sa strong, warm force-ficld of sound,likc srmng directly m front of someone playmg the french horn, or the first time you .heardSarah McI,achlan, before all her vocal tmks startedtograte It's lovely All the problems on this, her third album, come from the songs. Especially in the first half, they tend too much towardsthe downbeat, melan choly and densely produced to the point of murkiness. Orton's voice blurs around the syllables, even to the point of slurring, whlch is good because the lyricsare vague and forgettable, at other times coming frighten-
ingly close to the Jewel-esque ("Am't nothingvery funnyabout amanmakingmonep/ Off a blonde-haired blue eyed girl") The album is sometmes m danger of f h g m t o pleasant background music Only towards the end,cspcciallym the gorgeous "'l'hinkmg About 'l'omorrow" and the stripped down Ryan Adams compositionâ&#x20AC;&#x153;^^ One's GonnaBmse" do the songs show off hersingingtoits best advantage, as on hermorcbalanceddcbut Y'raiLerPark Stil1,withher talent,alongwithher wistful publicity photos and her sncakcr-wearing, freckled girl-nextdoor look, she will no doubt remain the number one pin-up girl for dreamy indie rock fans. Daniel Saunders, special to Imprint
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Tommy Lee -what the fuck is that guy still doing around' If I were him I would've shot myself in the head a longtune ago First -you're the lead smgerm one of the coolestrockbands ofall tme (MotleyCrue) and at a time whenrockstarswererock stars None of this Creed, POD, I love God and am a good person stuff, I'm talking about really heaxy drugs, really heavy boozing, tons of chicks, reallybighair andjustbemgabad-assmothcrfuckcr. Second, your band breaks up, but at least he came out of it with a reall), hotwife. So she has STDs-I'msure she has areallynice personality tomake up forit. Anyway,shedumpsyourass and then hooks up with some dirty wanna-benamed IGd Kock. Holyshit, I'd go off the deep-end. Regardless,TomrnyIhe is out with another album. What's that?You didn't know that? Well neither did I. The reason for this is because nobody cares. Tommy T,cc, youarewashed.Your time is up. My advice for Mr. Tommy Lee is to just be happy that you didn't die of .& overdose and sail off into the sunset with dignity. Oh yeah, I listened to the album and it sucks. Matt Patterson, special to Imprint
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Catch Me If You Can keeps its promises their acting abilities alone The plot line 15 taken from the true story of Frank AbagnaleJr who, (as the film Dream WorksPictures firmly andunfortunatcly statcs right from the get-go), committed fraud Andrea Kerswill againsttheU.S. government through IMPRINT STAFF a compilationofbad cheques totaling $2.5 million before the age of 71. Spielbergdoes it again, although on a Spielberg takes these ideas and relatively mediocre level. When you consider that the plot h e for Cut~hble cvents andelaborates onthemeffectivelp.However,because the audence I , i Can was concocted from areal lifc story it has you that all Spielberg, is prepared forwhat AbagnaleJr.'s life Dream \Forks, Barry I<emp attd will consist of, watchmg the film is a bit of a disappomtment. Spielberg Mtchael I<ahn ncedcd to dowas make lets theaudience jump mto Abagnale's an already great story into a f h that foundation for being a criminal.We heavily complunenteditsinterests I'll watch the unravehg of the happy be the firsttoadmi-what attracted family, Frank Abagnalc Sr., me to the film was the preview I Iere (Christopher Walken) and Paula comes Leonardo DiCaprio (Frank Abagnale (Nathalie Baye), due to Abagnale Jr.) escorting a wave of blonde, blue-eyed stewardesses into FrankSr.'~debtto the Im andPaula's infidelity. Sympathj is thus set for an airport while Frank Sinatra's faDiCaprio's character as the audience mous "Come Fly With Me" plays in watches FrankJr. make anattemptto the background. Iwasdrawnin by the preview andafter seeingthe film satis- regain all that his famdy had lost, another lofty example of the tragic fied, but wanting more depth. hero Stacked with great actors such as This is, however, one of the sucTom Hanks, DiCaprio, Christopher cesses of the filrnand a strength that Walken and Martin Sheen, the audican be recogn~zedwlthinSpielberg's ence is guaranteed to be satisfiedwith Catch Me If You Can Directed bySteven Spielberg
many years of directmg. True to the era of the plot,themid l96Os, the costumes and set hand much thanks to the top-notch designers that the filmicable to workwith TheaggofFrank Jr is handled well o\er the four-ycar span it covcrs,with a flip of the hair, looser- fitting shirts and some nifty glasscs. Paula Abagnale's home is appropriately decorated with floral patterns and green carpets I Ianks' character, FBI agent Carl Hanratty,who spends a good half a decade running after DiCaprro's character,isableto Here FrankAbagnaleJr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) posesasa pilot. This ison~ handle the dark-rimmed of the many schemes that Frank pulls during the film. glasses and quickly expanding I supposemaybe that I wantcd to hear tion of the film?Frank Abagnale hur belly. self spenttime on the setwithspielber With thc plot line alreadywritten, less of that'6Os music I know so well, and the cast. I expectedmore from Spielbergwith andbe introduccdto somethtngfresh Althoughnot anentire disappoinr The film did, however, delve into h s brilliant cast and experiencedpioducers. I may not have been so disap- that unfamiliar territory of crmunal ment, ChtchMeIJYoolr Canprovesitsel to be interesting. 'l'he actmg compll pointed had a director with less cred- fraud, which I can appreciate Frank ibility attempted to make this film. Abagnalewas in actuahty not a most- ments the filminits entirety,whileth 'l'he shots were simple,cameraangles wanted c r m a l and as he says on his plain camera angles, sunple costume and the Sinatra Garland soundtrac far fromunique, and the music typical. Web site, "I was never on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List "The demon- provide that all-American feel-goo, film that many of us love to hat( stratlonof how Abagnale committed these actwities is very detailed and Headouttothe theatre,before classe start to drag you down, and give thi captivattng The audience is shown exactly filmachkce. Ifnot for DiCaprioan, Hanks'actingabilities, or because it' how Abagnale replaced bank numbers, signatures and cashed cheques Spielberg's newest flick,then just to b that were completely fraudulent Al- intrigued. though I wonder how much of this detail can be credited to the produc
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Summer Camp Counselors on campus intervicws for prenner camps in Massachusetts. l'os~t~onsavailable for talented, cucrgctic, and fun Iov~ngsnidcnts as counsclorsin all team sportsincludir~g Roller llorkcy and I.acrosse, a11 indiv~dualsports such as Tcunis 81 Golf, Waterfront and pool activitics, and spec~ahtyactiv~tiesincluding art, dance, theatre, gymnastics, newspaper, rocketry and radm. Great aalar~cs,room, board, travcl and US summer work V~sa. Juuc 22 - Ang ust 16. Intcrviewer wdl be on campus Wcducsday, January 29, 1 0 a.m. t o 4 p.m. In the SIC. For more mfo: 1-800-753-9118 (boys), 1-800-3923752 (g~rls). Wanted: Occassional babysitting in my homc on Bridec Street. Waterloo. 'Ten minutc drive from IJW. Non-smoker. $7lhour. Call Alicia a t 880-8909. Mad Science - required part-time for lunch and aftcr school programr. We are looking tor outgoing nidwidunls who havc experience worknig w ~ t hchlldrcn. $20-$25!hour. Milst havc own car. Fax resume to 5 19-650-0757. Full-time and part-time cnoking and dishwarhn~gp n v t ~ o n savail.ihlc to hcgin ~mmed~ately. We are uftcr~ngdaytnne, rvrnlng m d n ~ g htt m i ~ position5 t o cow tnrm t o most rcbool schedules. 'I (I apply tor a hm, team spxited, audgood payng ]oh at hlel's I k e r , call Jerry ~t 574I 8 53 ur apply in perron to: hlel's Ihncr, 7.140 lJniver5ity Ave., W., Wntcrloo,
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timate Questions" e Lord Trsur C h r ~ s t IS the difference. Learn ahout Flim. Bible study by correspondence. Please send name and address to: Bible Study, 71011Ilnited Kefornmed Church 1238 Main St. Sheftield, ON I.OK 1L0 ( ~ r emall: b~blc(@zur~ch.on,ca. Sign u p today. It's frcc. Essay service - need help w ~ t hany of your essays? H~ghlyquahfied graduarcs w ~ l lhclp. Toll frcc: 1-888-345-8295. www.customessay.com Math tutoring. Learn how t o learn. Expcricnccd tutor -UW Math T.A., IIS h . l ~ t hteaching, B.Cd, B.MAth. Call 880-0257. Viewsonic 17PS, 17" CRT m o n ~ t o rIn excellcut condition. Comes with sync and vrdco ~nputs,all cables, software and mananls. $1 25 or best offer. Call C o s t ~ s at ext. 6462. shtanga Yoga with leagban Johns011 experirncr tlir power, sweat and grace of yoga 111 Meashan's fun and invigorat~ngclasses. Yoga clear\ the mind and brings balancc and relaxation t o the body. All levels. Student dircounts and flcxible drop-in schcdulc. yogarncagl~an@yal~oo~ca or 502-9992.
olunteers needed for a d o ~ n r r ~ c ~ encc ~ - t o a child. Thc Friends Scrvicc at ry hlm product~onteam. ficlp to CMI-IA matchcs volunteers with chilmdraise and contr~hutrt o a great dren who need add~tionalsupport at sc-hod. r r ~ r n d operates s III partnersh~p with thr local school boards and hrlps children 4 t o 15 years. Call 744-7645, rxt. 317. Volunteer to visit an individual with Alzheimer's D~sease. Matches made theatre and improvisatiou to help based on interest. 'I'raining provided. out with the Waterloo tournament. One t o four hourslweek. Call Jill at the V~sitwww.goIdcu.net/-~mprov or Alzhe~merSociety 742-1422 or e-mail e-mail improv@~golde~i.net. jmercier@nonline.net. English Tutors are needed t o tutor T h e YMCA of Kitchener/Waterloo is students and scholars for two t o looking for volu~iteersin the following three hours per week. Shadows are areas: Computer Literacy, Resource Deneeded t o help new international students adjust t o life in Canada during velopment, Children and Youth Semtheir first term at UW. For more inforices and Special Events. For more information about the programs, please view mation please contact Sam a t (519) the IS0 website at: 576-8856 o r by e-mail at www.international.uwaterloo.ca. samantha.veniez@ywcakw.on.ca. Volunteer a few hours weekly during the Children's International Summer Vilschool day and make a lifelong differlages h a s a d u l t leadership travel
ONDAY, JANUARY 6 lan to attend an Impnnt staff meet1g ~n S1.C 1116 beg~nnmgnt 12:30 p m. T'oluntrer at your school newsNature photography in TVarcrloo unty \\.it11 photogrdphcrs Norm arms a n d Bao Tran, at .libcrt IcCoim~ck.\rcua, I~bmcycntrmcc, 550 Parkstdc Dtxc at 7 30 p m Call 88+2888 for mformation TUESDAY, JANUARY 7 Sun Microsystems "Sun Tcch Days," featuring keynote spcakcr Dr. James Gosling, VP and Sun fellow for
he PI-ovincial Chapter of Ontario )I)E w ~ r h e st o annoonce that Leah Butler 1s the winner of this year's Gladys Rarer Bursary. The bursary for the 2002-2003 academic year was $3,000. Cougratuhhous, Lcah. Leah is doing her Graduate Shid~esin thc English program at Wilfr~dl a m e r IJn~versity. T h e International Student Office needs Shadow volunteers for new internanonal students arrlvlng o n campus tor the Fall 2003 term. Shadows help new uiternational stl~dentsthrough thc transihonal p e r ~ o ddnrmg t h e ~ first r term at the Universt~yof Waterloo. A descriptlon of the Shadow Program and regis-
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current.htrn. For further intormation contact Darlene Ryan at darlene@uwaterloo.ca. Counselling Services is offering a nnmber of personallsoc~aland study sk~llswork\hops d u r ~ n gthe W ~ n t e term r including: Stress Management Through Kelaxatmm 'I'raining, Assertwr Communicat ~ o n Self-Esteem, , Procrastinat~on,Disordrrly Fatmg, Grief Support, Essay Writ~ng,Keport W r ~ t ~ nand g , Grammar W ~ ~ r k s h oA p .minimal materials fee applies for most workshops. Individual career development appoint~rientsare and also ava~lable.For more mforuiat~o~i registration, vmt Counselling Serv~ces, Needles Hall 2080 or call ext. 2655. Nominations are requested for the follow~ngundergraduate rtudent seats on Senate: Faculty scats: o n e student clcctcd bylfrom thc full-timc nodcrgraduatc studcnts in the Faculty of Engiimccring, tcrm from May 1, 2003 t o April 30, 2005. One snident elected by1 from the full-hme undergraduate students in the Faculty of Ikvironmental Studies Department of Independant Studies, term from May 1 , 2 0 0 3 t o A p r ~ l 30, 2004. O n r student elected bylfrom rhe h ~ l l - t n r ~nndergradnate r shlderlts in the Faculty o t Mathemat~cs,term from May 1 , 2 0 0 3 t o April 30, 2005. At-large seatr: One student elected 1)ylfrorn fullt m c u~ldcrgraduatcsnidcuts, tcrm from May 1, 2003 t o Aprtl 30, 2005. Onc student elected bylfrom fnll-time undergraduate students, term from May 1, 2003 t o Aprd 30, 2004. Nommat~on forms are available a t : h t t p : l l wu~w.ad~n.uwatrrloo.ca/i~~fosrcinominahons/uqtosenforrn.html o r from the Federation of Student\ Office. At least five nommatorr are required in each caw. Nominations should he \ent t o the Cbief Returning Officer, Sccrerariat, NH 3060, 110 later than 3 p.m., Friday, Jauuary 17, 2003. Elections will coinal of Stucide with the a ~ i ~ i uFederation dents' electious February 7-14.
Come get involved in your student newspaper as a writer, photographer, graphic or layout designer, proofreader or system administrator. Staff elections will be this Monday, January 6, at l2:3 0 in the Imprint ofice, SLC room 1116. Production nights are every Wednesday 5:30 in SLC room 1116. Have your voice heard.
Imprint ran a survey of rmders November 22 and 29. Our raffle prize winners are: R e u b M&ofroni& Melissa De Souza
Thanks to all who participated. Results wilt be pubfishd in the newspaper and on our Web site (imprint.uwaterloo.ca) this
ROBERT REID EXPOSING MEDIA MYTHS UW writer-in-residence Robert Reid will dispel1 common media misconceptions. Join us to learn about this as well as about Imprint and how you can