FRIDAY, MARCH 28,2003
Interest in broomball soars 'l'he broomball h a 1incampusrec w d cap off a superb term for the sport
The trains shall run on time
sider to be most detrimental to humankind?
I'he Ontariogovernmentwill donate $10 billion to Toronto for the conqtruction of ncw roads, K-W's Light Rail Transit w d receive $3 5 billion
Turret gets tough UW studentswillno longer beadmtttcd into Launer's student pub unless in the company of a Lauaer student.
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From Iraq to Waterloo The long journey of an Iraqigraduate student, from its b e v g s in Mosul to studying civil engineering.
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Varsity winners Arecapofthe2002 2003varwyawards wmcr5 presented
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Regular content: Problem of the week -How well do you know your home and nativc land?
Top comer hockey -Henry Ltm provides acomprehensivelist of suggestionstoselectfor yourplayoffpool.
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page 15 Shortorder-short investigates discounts at several bars around town.
"Co-op." Diana Chisholm 2A actuarial science
"Atomicweapons." Steve Bosa 4A history
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A Wilde evening Stellar performanccs make UW drama's "Gross Indecency,"aplay about OscarWilde,ahighlightfor all theatre fans.
Imprint turns 25 Wetakea specialnotice of our 25-year anniversary.
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Cleaning up Hamilton harbour
U.S. sets dangerous precedent
UWgrads hclp create new solutionsto cleaning up one of Canada's most polluted harbours.
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President Bush threatens more than Iraq with his pre-emptive war.
"The campus question." Lino Demasi 2A math
"Yar! It be him!" (to Lino Demasi) So0 Go 28 umath
page 8 Regularcontent: Maps and legends - In his final column,Edeyexplainswhyhe chooses to support a war on Iraq.
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Microfiles - Spiders makc nanotubes and tapeworms help you take your meds.
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You! Offmyplanet-Lee-Wudrick takes abow after 16 months of representing the right wing.
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Tuition deregulation British Columbia's removal of a slxyeartuition freezemayhave far-reach mgeffects on Ontario. -
This band's latest will take you to rock and roll nirvana.
Rangers sweep aside Greyhounds Kltchener swept the Sault Saint Marie Greyhoundswithfour stralghrvictories, and the Rangers' Scott D d i e supplied some spectacular goaltcnding
"Humans.Arf." "Bear"
'The development of board games have been the most detrimentalto my marks." Ben Willson 4A applied math
A Japanese girl, who died from leukema, Inspired the university and local communityto fold paper cranes Eor peace at the SLC.
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Tales from the 'Loo 2 special literary insert showcase the oest in short stones and poetry from the UW community
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Folding their way to peace
The 75th aniliversary of the Hollywood tradition lived up to its legacy. 'l'his year's ceremony providedplenty of memorable moments.
Trail of the Dead
Undefeated -How homophobia, mall its forms, affects Cowan's life.
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Oscars shock and surprise
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"Briefs!" Tyler Slijboom
Public demonstrationsmay work for some, but you canadvancethe cause of peace - right from your very own home!
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"Closing of the bomber." Margret Skora
Masturbate for peace
First-year students juggle academics and sports A number of students provide their thoughts on the struggle to balance schoolwork and their spoas team commitments
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Airheads -Les Claypool is one of the greatest musicians you've never heard of
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WLU pub snubs UW students
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n response to concerns of urban prawl, the Ontario Governmenthas xoposed to build 200 kilometres of lew roads around the greater Toontoarea over the next 10years. The wovincial government intends to ,pend $10 bdlion to do so The govmunent has also earmarked a lesser mount, $3 5 bdhon for mass transit nfrastructure, such as the proposed dtchener-WaterlooLRT (LrghtRail rransit) Smart Growth is a term that :merged from Oregon to combaturmn sprawl by saving farmland, for :sts and wetland areas from urban ievelopment This term has beenused hfferently by many groups "Smart Srowth is one of those terms that wecyone uses no matterwhat they are promoting]," said David Crombie, Ln expert m urban development and Former mayor of Toronto The Ontario government estab~shcda Smart Growth panel mJanu~ r y2001 to advisc the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and other m s tries about urban sprawl One of the ?an& d e f m g is that principles is that they will "provide citizenschoices for where thep live, where they work md how they move from place to place." In the same document, howtvcr, the panelwrote"urban developmentwould be compact and directed away from productive agricultural lands and ecologicallysgmficantnatu ralareas."Thesetwo statementsseem to contradict one another and this is reflectedmthe Ontanogovernment's smart growth plans. The panel also considered in its core values conservation and
sustainabhty.Thus theastomshment by mass-transit and environmental groups when the government announced its plan to expand highways and spend three tunes the amount on automobileinfrastructure thenmasstransit or alternativetransportation.
"We have lost a balance that needs to have some provincial strength behind it." -David Crombie urban development expert
"The 407 was supposed to stop grid lock eight years ago," said Paul Langan while speakingto studentsat the SLC this past week Langan is president of Transportation 2000, a pro-mass transit group that is scrutl nizing the government's Smart Growth mtmtive The governmentis PZopo~m~rapidtransit andeconomic corridorsthat Langan believes to be a synonymfor bus lanes and truckhigh ways. These highways are being built over some of Canada's best agricul turd land and, as the Ontario Federa timofNaturalist noted, 37 per cent of which can be seen fromthe CN Tower ona clear day. The Ontario Federation of Naturalists share many sentiments with Langan's group and they too are shocked that thegovernment has failed toinvest adequatelyin transit.'3Buitd-
ingmore highwaysbefore complettng long-teh community growth plans has fuelled car-dependent, sprawling suburban development," says aguide titled "A Smart Future for Ontario " The Federationnotes thatthe number ofcarshas doubledmthepast 20 years while capacityhasgrownby only seven percent.They inkate that thishisled to congestionandthat buddmghighways only attracts more cars and doesn't solve the problem. The Ontario Smart growth panel places a high priority on increasing buses to battle vehicle congestion "Bus transit does not result in hgher densitydevelopment," stated-. Hedescribedthat'inEurope,they. say, that light rail transit shapes [the landscape]while buses only serve it." His group firmly believes that rail solutions, suchas extendingtheGO train service andproposals suchastheK-KJ LRTare the soluttonto lmitingurban sprawl andallcviating traffic conges tion by mtensifyingand directingdevelopment
Students at the Feds general meeting elected Will Hamilton, Jesse Helmer, Rob Ewaschuk, Paul Lehmann and Rhiannon Macdonnell, shown speaking, to the Feds Board of Directors.
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Q The March 14 article "Feds say U W violated liquor laws" was credited to Ryan Chen-Wing. However, the first two paragraphs which appeared on the cover were written by Rick Smit for a separate story. The continuation inside the paper was written by Ryan Chen-Wing.
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a move characterized by \%Ifrid ~rierUmvcrsity Student Council ,stdentAndy Pushahkas a definite ft inoperatingpolicy, Unirersityof rterloo students will no longer be >wedentry mto xudent union opted beveragc establishments, the rret and \Yiilfs, unless accompad and 5ignedm bl a \Y I,LT student "It is an issue of accountabilrty," d Pushalik. "\Y'e just want everyone JC accountable." \X%ile explaining the student mt's position l'ushalik stressed that policy change was not a"s1ight" of rterloo students nor did it mean rt U\V students were not welcome XiZU facilities.'We are justlookkg some unibrmity and consistency :h respect to our p e s t policy." Push&adrmtted that "traditional ~tpractice"dictated thatTurretand If s door stafftreatedUW students ionymously with WT,U students. "There have been a few minor kLents [withnon-WLUstudents]and are hoping that this accountability xess deals with anypotentialprob-
lems "The nem poliq was enactcdlate last week in an effort, according to Pushalik, to develop a high degree if operational control m the face of heightenedscrutiny for students' safety and challenging alcohol on-campuq issues versusuniversit1es admmistrations' tolerance for campus based boozc oriented facihties "Student safety 1s our prime con cern," said Pushalik 'V'e are onlv rcspondmg toissuesthat have cropped up on other campusesacrosstheprovmce, mncluding\lE7aterloo" The Turret, the campusnightclub andentertamnenttenue,first opcned its doors in 1970 % ilf s,the friendlypuband restaurant, went through a similar metamorphosis, opemngon the first floor m 1980 Arectprocdarrangemcntprevioudy practised by WLU and UW studentrun liquor f a e h e s , which allows for students ofthe respectiveumversitles touse each other's facilities, has been common practice since eachcarnpus' respective facility started operatifig.
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Ex-Bomber employees losing hope are only as good as the staffwho work there \X e are able to be as good as we are because of the staff themselves The spiritand the ltfe blood of this bar flow from thc studcnts wc havc we face losing the bedrock of great stu dents that the bar is based on and run ~ this thing goes on " by t h longcr In the issue at hand, one wonders where this leaves the unemplo) ed stu dents For many of those former employees the issue has drag& on far toolongalread\ Some\ eterans of thc job havc already abandoned the hopes of obta~tlingcinplo\,mcntelse where, suchas other campus lobs, or at other bars, to make the monel needed for rent I here are seiltirnent., of depletion and feelings of defeat, but for some thcrc IS always hope IT ith wme action bv the Feds (the lmv suit) to cnd the deadlocl\,perhaps a nen found \ense of hope and pur pose canbe imbeddedmthe workforce who is losing hope and mone) ev ery
Sean Kinsella . COMMUNITY EDITORIAL
Federation of Students president elect Chris Edey, second from left, watches at the Feds' general meeting on Wednesday, March 26 in the SLC. A new board of directors was elected and the Feds fee increased by more than $1.
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Smce the untimely closureofthe cam pus bars, many students are wonder ing what happened to the s d n g , attracw e andwell-dressedemployees who created the safe barenviroment for students The news that the beds had sued the admini5tration for $11 million caught those awaiting news on their former lobs bv surprise Most staff member5 are not questloning the Feds' reasons for the lau suit, or cvcn the ad1 isabilit) of suing an organintion \r ho is arguabl~more integral to umversit) life then a stu dent association The lawsuit could, oâ‚Źcourse,bethe breaktngpoint forthe admmstration, or reason to keep the barsclosedindefinitelp \\'hatex erthe reason, it will be interesting to scc what happens with the whole kafuffle, and cxactly how it will be resolved h c k lheic, one of the assistant managers at Fed Hallwho has been on the front during this whole debacle, said about the closing of the bars "These places [the on campus bars]
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Itas always a good sign to see employees backing their companies, and hopefully can take that as a signal of Philthy's longevity andabilityto overcome this obstacle. The bankruptcy documents indicate that Philthy's was faced with a colossal$465,184OGcreditordebtload. Usually bankrupt companies can only emerge froinprotectcon by secur-
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ing sipficant debt reductions and write-offs on montes owed to credltors Although it doesn't seem students' alcohol supply will be corn pletely degeneratedthisyear,this does pose quite a scaretothosewhoare just looking for agood time at Waterloo.
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In reference to those studcnts who are now financially m questionable territory, and may well be worried whether thcir lob5 w l l ever return, Theic also said, "Chance favours a prepared mind, and you accept the rcalitv of the present situation but you have to ;emam hopeful for the long term situation Everyone has to evaluate the situation thcmsclvesand you have to do [financially]what you have to do to get by " Serious questioning of the a d m m istration, by the students, is of course, centred at both the universitya d m stration's reputation with the s h dent body and the abkty to keep the university a unified body. A few questions remain for those students who are unemployed Will theybe forced tomove on by the tune the bars reopen . (if . thev, ever do)?And w d ths whole disagrecmcnt lust become another event to be forgotten? (:at1 this~ncidentIw a l e a r n ~ n ~ e u p e rnce for hoth admtntstration and thc F'eds, the r e d ~ t i o nof which a.dl bnnga unitcd uniwrstry admintstm tiun and student bod), prowng once and for all that this truly i i the best plncc of highcrcducation tn (:nnada;
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Transit: I<-W LRT to receive $3.5 b a o n from
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Amajorargumcntagainst theproposed Lli'l' system in K-W, is that there is not a sufficient population density to warrant its development. Langan rebuts this argument, stating "Once you have the populatton dcnsity it's too late. It makes more sense to put it in beforehand." Crombie zoricurs,s~estingthatonceyouhave neighbourhoods and people it is often too hard tomake changes."Neighbourhood associations are, generally speaking,opposed to anything," said Erombie. Therefore it is their belief hat the use of rail can encourage the ntensiftcation of development. These groups bclieve that poor ,olicy and a lack of provmcial input nto municipal plannlng have led to iprawling suburbs and congested lighways. 'We havelost abalance that ieeds to have someprovinc~alstrength , e h d it," said Crombie. The Onario Federation ofNaturalists believe hat loosening of the planning act in 996 and the Ontario Municipal 3oard's inability to look a the big icture are key factors inwhy there is lot Smart Growth in Ontario. The federation also believes that here is not adequate funding from he province for municipal transit. One sample is the access to pro~incial poline taxes. The federation notes hat Ontario inuiitcipalities haw uo cccss to pnxincial gas tases to help und local transit solutions, suchas is vadable tociocs like C a l g q , k o n m , Montreal and Vancouver. Projects like the Kegon of1Y'atcr30's 1,RT proposal have promise to elp municipaht~esgrow smarter.The rovincial government has commit3d only $5.4 million of the $250 milon needed to coinplctc the project. Thus, the government of Ontario ontinucs to coiltradict itself by purortingthe need to reduce the number f automobiles and encourage mass .ansit,while continuing to fund new ighways.
In the first issue of the year I criticizedthe Federation of Students for a lack of communication and, for the most part, they have obliged; lqt~rinthas not. It might seem strange that a newspaper would be poor at communication, but however you view the publtcation, Imprint provides information about most other t h g s better than about itself. Very little news about Imprint is reported, little information about the workings of the organization is available. There should be more coverage of imprint in Impri~~t. Many of you may say, "I don't want to read that boring bullshit," but the scrutiny that newspaper coverageprovides ensures the accountabditythat makes the organization better, the product better and thmgs you do want to readbetter. Of the 275 news stones published this year, only three of them have related to Imphf.The three are about our new editor-in-chief, tobacco ads and a story about inappropriate changes to content and attempts to prevent content from bemg publ~shcd.Of the 30 columns I har-e written this year, thrcc ha\-e been about lmprhf. These six stories clearlydon't cover the events that affect thc organization. On a board of directors of five, there have been fwc resignations and four appointments. The only originallyappointed director that hasn't resigned
is the only one that has been away from campus for two out of three terms. There will be a special general meeting, and further decisions that the board makes aren't well known. Yet none of these have been the subject of an Imprint story. Students and volunteer staff do not have easy access to information about the workings of Imprint publications. Most of the board meetings this year have been held without notice to members. O n the general announcement e-mail list notice has been sent out for only five meetings and I haven't seen notice posted in the office more than twice, though board ineetings must be held at least once evey three weeks. Since May more than 47 weeks have gone by, which means that there should have been at least 15 meetings. I don't know how many there really were because I did not receivenotice. Giving notice of meetings to members is not a requirement under the bylaw because just the &rectors can be notified or they can waive notice. 'LYrhile it is not a requirement under the bylaw, it is a requirement ofdemocratic principle. Once those meetings have been held, information of what happened is not readily available. Board minutes used to be posted in a document holdcr on the wall of the office. While there are many sets of minutes there, there are no& from thts year. In order lo get some of the minutes I e-niailcd the secretary of the board, Ttm Mollison, and asked him for minutes from 3003. I lc replied and told me to ask the business manager for them, who then ieplied to h m saying that it was Mollison's job as secretary to supply them. I have yet to receive them. At the end of February, Lnlpri/lf had its annual general meeting
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whcre under the bylaw members needed to approve the policies. At that meeting attendees expressed concern that they were being asked to approve a document that they had not seen before. Tyler Thomas, sensibly, made a motion for another meeting to be held. Another part of the motion required that the policies thatwere to be passed be available 10 days before the meeting. The meeting is today, March 28, and so they should have been available on March 18.'She document that was placed in the Imprint office didn't appear there until March 24, and it is dated March 21. What should be done about all this? The new board, Andrew, Michelle, Neal, Mike and 'im, must comunicate and provide more information more readily. We've come to the end of
another pear. Thank you for reading whcn you did. At the close of a year of columns, I think it appropriate to consider the motto chosen by George Brown when he founded what would become The Clohe undhfuil. "The subject who is truly loyal to the Chef Magistratewill neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures."
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Dangerous precedents being set by the U.S. Rob Schmidt COMMUNITY EDITORIAL
Despite worldwide protests involving &ions of people, despite the opposition of the UN and the absence of an internationally backed resolution, despite the pleas of the Arab nations, George W. Bush has gven the go-ahead on war a p s t Iraq We all knew +ll those soldiers and fighter jets and aircraft carriers in the Middle East weren't there for d t a r y exercises. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the United States has ignored the voice of the world After all, old habits die hard. So what if they're sendmg troops mto Iraq? What if a few hundred or a few thousand Iraqi civilians get killed along the way? Hundreds of thousands more died during the past decade due to internationally supported sanctions, so we shouldn't be complamg now about a few war casualties And at the end of it all, the Iraqis w d fmally be rid of Saddam Hussein, and what more could everyone want? However, whde there won't be an evil dictator ruling with an iron fist @more, the precedent that has been set by George W Bush will allow future dictators and world powers to act daterally whenever they see fit To blatantly bypass the United Nations will lend legitimacy to future disregard of the law by whoever is powerful enough to do so. President Bush has called the UN "irrelevant to the problems of our time" if it refused to act in the way proposed by the United States What does that s i p f y for the future of this world body?What's to prevent other countries from "solving" the problems of the world in the way they see fit, without seeking . international consensus of approval? On the question of liberating
the Iraqis from a tyrannical ruler, it seems hypocritical of the United States to do so now. The people of Iraq were left to their own devices after the Gulf War, left to suffer not only under Saddam, but also under cripphg sanctions pioneered by the United States and supported by the rest of the world Why should they place theu trust in the Americans to deliver them now? If this is being sold as the next episode in the 'War on Terrorism," there is sunply no lmk between the Iraqi regime and the A1 Qaeda network -this is the Blrtish defence intelligence taking, not publicists for Saddam or Osama bin Laden There is no past evidence of Iraq selling weapons to terrorists (although the United States has in the not-so-distantpast given arms to people like bin Laden). So why is the war suddenly being fought on Iraqi soil? AntiAmericmsm in the Middle East and terrorism against American target$ wasn't born out of Saddam Hussem's oppressive rule. It is partly the result of the double standards of the United States See PRECEDENT, page 10
However, this is not a mutually exclusive situation The Impnnt board of directors- you know, those wonderful people who sign my paycheque - may want to consider maktng a business decision, in a timely fashion that addresses the perceived-by-many conflict of interest practiced by many in the student media My e d i t o d mind is made up. I have no problem whatsoever attacking cigarette adveaising regardless of the format it chooses to take. I have, as mentioned to one Imprmter early in my tenure at this organization, a moral problem with tobacco advocacy advertising. Advemsmg s d r to that which appears in this publtcation. However, the issue stds remains the purview of the publisher Tobacco advocacy advemsmg should be e h t e d Hard-hitting anti-smoking ads should be encouraged and pursued However, those are board decisions but I would encourage the Imprint board to make such a decision Is that an editor thinking as a publisher, the othcr way around. or none of the above?
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People throughout Northwestern Ontario -Red Lake in pamular -are M a r with my oftendescriptive adjective-driven rants One of my personal rssueoriented crusades is the elmmation of second-hand smoke in confined spaces And it is r e f r e s h to see a provincial party leader, Liberal Dalton McGwnty on the same crusade Now set as part of his party's election platform, an end to smoking in any confined space m the province is just about the most responsible thing any Ontario politician has ever made on a public health issue Now comes the rant Cigarettes are death They are the vilest addictme products ever to be commercialized And second-hand smoke is the putrid toxic remams of air borne death.
Tobacco manufacturers have for centuries profited by poisoning people which hastened chrontc h e s s and premature death. Governments have, in hypocritical fashion, sacrificed the health of their citizens for short-term cash flow p s And the government's education campaigns, encouraging a person to qult smoking, well that's a lot of good advemsing money up in smoke. Which begs the question -what about all that tobacco company sponsored advocacy advertising in Impnnt? This is where converging philosophies clash As the new editor-in-chief at Impnnt I am ultimately responsible to all editorial copy Tobacco advocacy advertising is of the the exclusive dobusiness side of the newspaper. And anyone with an even basic knowledge of newspapers knows that editorial departments traditionally distance themselves from business decisions This editor believes that tobacco advocacy advertising is morally reprehensible That is my personal editorial view I also know that advertising is the exclusive domain of the business side of the newspaper
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Provincial discrimination To the editor, 4s a student who 1s paymg for mversity using government noney, I find myself appalled at the service from the registrar's * 3ffice It is slow, laborious and rather unfriendly. And that's just what I hear from friends who get DSAP, which, in retrospect is rather smooth. See, the university 1s fairly well equipped to deal with those who get OSAP and from what I've heard, the process is pretty much the same for everyone; fill out a form, sign here, there and everywhere else and you're on your way. Granted the hassle involved in getting into the office cvery term would make anyone develop an ulcer But for a university of over 15,000 students, things work relatively well Until, of course, you become an out-of-province student I myself hail from the Northwest Territories My process of getting student aid isn't so simple In fact, because of a host of difficulties that I won't get into now, my account is now frozen, I wn't do anything except check how much I still owe the umvcrsity Frankly, I've got a lot of problems with how out-ofprovince students are dealt with, or more specifically, aren't dealt with. My problem is this. I receive student a d in payments once cvery month, not in a lump sum. The university apparently doesn't ltke this or doesn't understand that not every province and territory handles student aid in the same way Regardless, they don't appreci ate the differences inherent m how student aid is handed out and can only deal effectivcly with those students from Ontario. I have one question is it realistic to ask students to take out a second loan in order to pay tuition in a more timely manner, amply becausc the umversq doesn't want to wait until I receivc all of mu student aid)
Calendar conspiracy To the editor, The next time you're looking at Four 2003-2004 undergraduate calendar, make sure to have a good hard look at the panoramic photo on the outside covers At first glance it looks great Wow, I don't remember campus ever lookmg that good The SLC and MC at their best B2, Dana Porter Hey, wait a m u t e . I dodt remember them bemg on that srde of MC l h e same goes for the blue CS sculpture Further more, the shadows on the left side of the picture are pointing m a
different direction than the ones on the right side What kind of sick joke is someone try% to play on us? Why has this photo been doctored? It could be a simple mirror reversal of the two Images on the covers. But I think there's something far more sinister going on here. I think the registrar's office has deliberately altered this picture in an evil attempt to hide something What are they hiding) Maybe a cnme was being comrmtted at the tune this photo was taken Perhaps a second gunman hdmg m the bushes) Or maybe th~spicture isn't our campus at all. It could have been taken somewhere else, on some other campus Whose campus are you secretly promoting) Well, registrar's office, your brainwashing J may work on the new double cohort students, but you can't fool the rest of us1
The all-inclusive package To the editor, I probably shouldn't comment because it's no skin off my nose if you undergrads want to gut your services in order to get $30 more beer money a term But what's more dangerous is the principled illusion of the conservative student groups that when you pay fees to the university for education and community enrichment, these m m e s are still, somehow, yours The community, d k e Aaron Lee-Wudrick's bizarre metaphor of an invading charity, does not rob students of their money Listen closely because here's the point We all pay for the privilege of educaaon and association It's not your money just because you happen to disagree with some of the things that the money funds As an example of this absurd th&g, let's assume you've just bought an operating system upgrade \%%enyou pay for a system, you don't get to return the drrvers you don't usc for a credit Long historical precedent suggests that we perceive the university as a community of differing viewpoints and theu
correspondmg services, fostered and protected by various political and administrative bodies. You pay for the services of an educatron, yes. But more importantly, you pay to clam affiliation with a larger communitv. This communitv consists of a chorus of different and sometimes dissonant voices, all funded centrally to foster diversity. When I pay my fees I under; stand that I w d not use many of the services that they fund, but I acknowledge that even if these services don't share my viewpoint on matters of politics or policy, those organizations enrich the community If you don't 11ke the way funds are bemg distributed, take it up with the people who distribute the money That's rpresentatiueguwrnment. If you dodt like the bums, throw them out and get new ones But don't strangle the diversity of the institution chasing after an illusion of "democracy" that will hurt everybody equally P S Students who voted in the elections should be deeply offended at Mr Lee Wudrick's suggestion that he lost his race based on the ignorance of his electorate That'syum he's calling ignorant All 2,382 of you
-Mark Rowell Waltn PhD. c,andidate,Eng(irh
Letting the ball drop To the editor,
A close friend of m e is news editor at another university paper, so I appreciate the time and effort put forth by the I q n n t staff Thank you But I was shocked at the number of spelling and grammatical mistakes in the last edition1 It was riddled with missing and misspelled words And no, I wasn't d r h g In the Microfiles' second article, for example, three obvious errors appeared m the first two selitenccs. In the first, the word "to" was omitted and in the second, the word "the" was missmg and an extra "en turned the word rat into rate. What happened? Have funding cuts replaced the editor with a spell
checker? Were you rushed to go to prmt? Is the pressure of exams and assignments affecting your writing abihtres? Whatever happened, I hope it is not a permanent change I have always been very happy with the Iqn'nt's quality and have never felt the urge to actudy write a letter So please take this note as a compliment to the hundreds of excellent edifions I have read, not as a stab at the one that was not But don't forget to proofread!
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Camping out for peace To the editor, Have you ever questioned the reasoning George W Bush and his "coalition of the willing" offer in going to war? The vast majority of those involved m this conact agree that Saddam Hussein is an evil tyrant that needs to be removed However, when Bush promotes his version of peace through killing, the doctrine of hate perpetuates itself Supporters of peace believe there are other solutions to international crises besides military conflict In our communttv. ,. we have the opportunity to stand up for disarmament through diplomacy at Wilfrid Laurier University's Peace Camp. As a community meeting place the camp provides a safe and inclusivc environment where you can think, listen and act against wars of deceit, corporate, greed and disrespect for humanity. I invite you and the UW community to visit the camp any time, day or night, at University and Albert Streets -across from St. Michael's Church.
-Joe Nethery 2B planning
Old news is no news To the editor, A few days ago, while walting for a class to start, a copy of Impnnt caught my eyc With its snazzy "read me" appeal, I had no choice but to pick it up and take a closer look
Being a rookie to I q n h readmg, I thumbed through its pages to see what valuable &ormatron it had to offer to my growing student mind I am a musician/perforrner, and I therefore flipped to the arts section with the hopes of finding some upcoming cultural extravaganza that I could attend. But a& To my d~sappointment, there were only articles covering events that had already occurred Hence, I am urging you, dear Iqbnnt editor, to keep the UW student body informed with an upcoming events calendar or column I think the fine folk at UW would have much better turnout at their events if people were mformed in advance through Imprint, instead of always reading about the events after they have passed.
-Te~sa Hofman 1R p fanning
Recognizing the despot To the editor, With regard to Alroy Fonseca's March 21 letter attacking both Chns Edey's and my support for war in Iraq, he has again demonstrated his remarkable ability to draw a lame moral equivalence between the country he so desper ately hates, the Umtcd States, and the actual despotic regimes of the planet. He incogectly interprets both of our arguments regarding Saddam Hussien treatment of the ICurdish population as the only reason justifying war in Iraq. It most certainly is not, it is merely a fortunate and relevant bolstering of the other, primary arguments. The Iraqi regime is guilty of an absurdlylong hst of crimes against humanity and the international community, all acknowledged by the toothless, gutless, now-useless orgamzation known as the Umted Nations Unl~keIraq, the Umted States and Turkev have ncvcr demonstrated cxpansiomst temtorial aggression. Unlike Iraq, neither have acqulred and used banned weaponrj in contravention of UN demands. Unlike Iraq, neither has sponsored heinous terrorist groups. see RECOGNIZE page 10
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Graham, CIA director George Tenet reported that the CIA had concluded that Baghdad for now appeared to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or chemical and biological weapons agamst the United States The CIA, according to Tenet, had also determmed that should Saddam conclude that a U S -led attack could no longer be deterred, he probably would become much less constrained m adopting terrorist actions The agency also found that Saddarn mght decide that the extreme step of assistmg Islamst terrorists m conducting a weapons of mass destruction attack agamst the United States would be his last chance to exact vengeance by takmg a large number of victims with him Current sources from Iraq have concluded that d t t a s are currently hmdemg allied forces Furthermore the Iraqi acceptance is a far cry from greeting the Amencans with open arms, as you have mentioned. To end my response, you are correct, ahajacta est -the die is cast. I ask you: is "Gulf War 11" not the begumkg of more terrorism?
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And unlike Iraq, both are demo cratic countries Fonseca mstead does the Chomsky tradition proud, by deflecting the questions he knows he cannot answer about IIussein by attempting to claim that Amencan foreign policy is a bigger problem In doing so, he becomes thc person complainq that his neighbour's dog shits on everyone's lawn, while at the same time a pedophile stalks the neighbowhood raping children Get your prionties stmght, sir Terrorists and dictators and those who seek to wipe them out are not to be assessed in a moral vacuum A human body and the cancer eating away at it are not to be given equal rights to existence. And America, whatever its other faults, is not to be held morally equal to the mamacal sickness of the Iraqi regune.
-Aamn h e - Wudrick 4B economics Perspective on Iraq To the editor, Lauren S Breslm, your article 'War on Iraq the last resort" lacks perspective about why this war is illegal and not set out to achieve the goals that you claim 1he objective of the current war is to elimmate Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, along with liberating the Iraqi people E w e it is fair to say that Saddam is a tyrant and one of the most evil men m history, the U S (the self-appointed world police) is no better by any means The U S has denied access to UN weapons inspectors for the past decade Saddam has admitted h s intentions to donunate the Middle East, which first and foremost were approved by the Umted States U S ambassador Apnl Glaspie told Saddam, W e have no opmon on the Arab-Arab confl~cts,like your border disagreement with Kuwait '" The U S State Depaament had earher told Saddam that Washington had, "no special defence or secunty commitments to Kuwait" Lastly, in a letter to Senator Bob
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To the editor, I am writing m response to Michael Moore's acceptance speech after his informative film, Bowhngfor Colutnbme, won an Oscar for best documentary Moore's f ilm exposed a side of America that media usually does not address His speech on Sunday reflected a s d r perspective 1 am not writing to ccmment whether Moore's views are right or wrong, but to recognize the importance of taking a stance. Moore foresaw his chance to communicate his opmon regarding Mr Bush's war to people that may otherwise never think of his perspective, and he pursued this OPPO-ty.
It's frustrating to think of the opportumties lost when someone is in a position to reach people, to makc statements and take a stand on thmgs they truly believe m yet they do not pursue it because in their lifetime they have never had any context of how to take advan tage of these situations Remember Moore's actions if you're m a position to take a stance and shine your light
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have to deal with consequences of the course of actions that we espouse Those of us who believe that war is necessary to remove Hussein don't run the risk of becomtng "collateral damage" from a precision strLke On the other hand, those marching through the streets of the E'estern world demanding peace don't have to go home to I really wanted to write about the slow death of a tyrannical -Doug Copping something else for my final regime at the end of the day For I B environment and resource studies submission to Impnnt, but recent us, whoever wins the debate gets events have left me with no to have their cake and eat it too Thumbs up choice but to come back to the About humanity. Before the highly charged and overcrowded war started, I believed that given To the e&tor, debate on the war m Iraq the deplorable nature of Hussem's In this space two weeks ago, I regime, his removal would be the I would like to c o m p h e n t the said that the removal of Saddam most humane outcome for the staff of Iqn'nt on the changes that Hussein and the creation of a citizens of Iraq What seemed like they have made to the newspaper new chance for the people of a clear moral decision on the in the last two weeks; especdy the Iraq were worth the heavy price outset has become decidedly improvements m content and of war. My opinion has naturally opaque now that the fighting has addmg a weather bar That proved elicited a range of negative begun to be quite helpful! Also, I like how reactions, as I fully eitpected it Even the smartest bomb can the paper looks more colourful would, since I am now squarely mss, and shrapnel does not stop lately.Just in time for spring, too. on the wrong side of public to separate soldiers from civilians Well done, people! opinion But there is one encoun My confronter claimed that ter m particular that I will always 200,000 Iraqis &ed in the last -Vh&shv fidyuk remember Gulf War, and thousands more I B environmental~tudes Last Thursday, a visibly angry will certainly die before this one is student approached me, threw over Later that same day I read ' down a copy of a recently read that Hussem's rcgymc kills 5,000 Impnnt before me and demanded Iraqis every month On-which side to know whether I read anything are the real humanitarians2 PRECEDENTS, from page 8 other than the NatzonaLPost Personally, I can no longer tell bcfore I wrote "that garbage " He Too much ink has already been towards Arab and Islamic nations ripped me up and down about my spilled on this subject, and too compared to countries like Israel, "lack of humanity" for several much blood will be spilled before which continues to receive bFUlons minutes before storming out He it is resolved Pro or anti war, at in military aid from Washmgton returned later and we had a much this pomt, I believe we can all An unlust war on Iraq will only less heated exchange about the agree that the best outcome is for add more fuel to the fire that has war I never caught his name, the war to be concluded in as already erupted m the form of the although I am sure that given his short a time as possible and for September 11attacks complete disgust for my views, the United States to live up to its Canada has taken the right step he's not very interested in rhetoric and to truly provide the by refusing to participate m an speaking with me further Days Iraqi people with a new beginrung unsancfioned d t a r y action, but later I am still thinklng about If they can find tens of billions of we need to do more to support the what he had to say He called my dollars to make war, they must cause of peace and justice in the opinions ignorant and unufind at least as much to make world, especially when it means formed. It would be incredibly peace. Anything less would truly trying to convince our friends and arrogant for me to claim that I be a cmne against humanity. neighburs, the Americans, to know all of the facts, although I To the readers of Imprint, thank policy. OW try to consult a wide variety of reconsider their foryou for your time and mterest I government should be supported, information sources before I load hope that I've been able to add to not cnticised, for their stance up my "500 word megaphone." the depth of debate here on a g m t this u n h act of aggression What I can't stop thinlung campus. Good luck to us all in on part of the United States about is how surreal the entire these trying tunes debate is for Canadians, given that the vast majority of us w d never
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Illgood things
OU! OFF MY PLANET first began writing this column in le fall of 2001. In the 16 months nce, I have had the honour and avtlege of having my opinions on reiything from international olitics to on-campus affairs ublished weekly. In that tune I have received lany nasty letters and many letters f support, and along with t h a~ ~ egree of notoriety On thls campus )at in September 2001 I would ave never thought possible. I take reat pride m having stunulated so luch debte and I have no regrets bout any of the things I've written. In the twilight of my academc weer, I will look back on my tune s an Imprint columnist with much mdness. It has been far and away le hrghhght of my time at raterloo. For my f m l piece, I want to lady a few things, lest a few eople misunderstand my reasons x having written this column I applied for this column ecause I felt that there was a erspective that needed to be ommunicated Umversities are ie breeding grounds for tomorJW'S leaders and this is more true f Waterloo than anywhere else A iversity of views is crucial to eveloping informed opinions and lany of the views I espouse, while ot always of the majority, are not 3 alien either With that in mind, I have shot .om the hip and dared people to
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respond. I've often been asked if I always mean what I write My answer is: yes, but I often deliberately frame things m such a way as to get a rise out of people Opmon columns are not academic research papers and they are not always best written by followmg the usual rules of diplomacy. In a world that is far too often apathetic, saying things that get people off their rear ends is not always easy to do. I hope that, if nothifig else, I've made people think -and made them care. To those who are happy to see me go:don't get too excited. Others wdl follow. For a long tune the prevahg poiitical slants m university circles leaned exclustvely one way (the wrong way!) No longer. In the true spirit of -m t for it -capitalism, your ideas must compete with others. May the best ones win! To those who lament my departure: for the same reasons as above, don't wmy. The thtngs I believe in and have written in this space are not exclusively mine and the future will no doubt find more a r t d a t e and persuasive expression through other people. OK, after this sentence I'll have 48 words left, and I'm damn well going to use them. Yes, O'Connor and Kerrigan dnnk too much. No, I don't tMrAyn Rand was completely right bust 90 per cent of the tune). Tatha, I love you. Tones, Ahance, merge already. Kill Saddam. Donate to U W after you graduate. The National Post kicks ass. Untd we meet again.. .
'The mad to truth is long, and lined the entin ivy with annoying bastard? -Alexander Jablokov
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Speaking out against homophobia UNDEFEATED Being gay means a number of things. It means that you are attracted to people of the same sex, it means that you are a member of a illinority, and it means that you might face challenges m your Me that many people may never have to face. One of the most common challenges that gay people face today is homophobia. According to The Encyclopedia of Homosemali~homophobia "usually refers to negative amtudes roward homosexual persons and homosexuality." The encyclopedia then divides the term into three categories: institutional, mdividual andkternahzed homophobia Institutional hommhobia can be identified as either outward hostility towards lesbians and gay men or through the fdure to recognize the existence of homosexual people or their concerns. It can manifest itself through anti-gay legislation, policies or orgamzed religion Institutional homophobia is also evident m the social processes that reinforce the invisibility of gay men and women
(as m the way we define "fadf' in strictly heterosexual ways) Individual homophobia n the negatlve attitudes or actions of a person rather than an institution, towards gay people. This type of hostility can range from hurtful slander to physical attacks. Furthermore, this type of homophobia can be found in the assumptions that people make about their society; as one may believe that all of their friends and relatives are heterw sexual. The third charactemation of homophobia, according to The Encyclopedia .fHornosexuali~,is mtem;alized homopholna. Most often, this term relates to gays and lesbians who are themselves homophobic, and is often understood to involve a rqection of one's own sexual orientation. Surely most lesbians and gay men go through a period of such self-contempt, as it can only be expected as one of the steps m the c o w out process. However, recognizing and rejecting the homophobia ih them society is an Important part in coming to accept themselves for who they are. That's all well and good from a textbook standpmt. But The Enplqbeda ofHomomuali~cannot depict m words what it feels like to be a gay person and experience homophobia firsthand; it sucks. Homophobia means that I get yelled at from out of a passing car
when I hold my boyfriend's hand Homophobia means that for the rest of my life I will have to consider how people might react when they learn of my s e d t y . Homophobia means that there will always be tunes when I will have to trade my dignity for people's ignorance. In my expenence I have found that most homophobic people seem to have been raised m a lifestyle that is either sheltered from much of society (1.e small rural towns) or have been taught to read the religious texts in a literal sense. For this reason, I do not feel that I can personally look down upon those who are homophobi as they have never learned how not be. However, while we may not have much say over where and with whom we are raised or what ideals we are taught, we do have a choice m how we act. Of course it would be great if every person took the small amount of time it would require to become educated about homosexuahty, but I know that that is easier said than done. Instead, I ask that people recognize homophobic attitudes and just treat people with respect. Despite what some people might thmk, persecuung gays wdl not make the world a better place.
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Make love, not war
TOUCHED War. It has taken over our media, minds and society. Even though Canada is not participating, the current war has definitely impacted our lives. The debate between proand anti-war sentiments fill our ears. Those against this fight commonly mention the civiLans being threatened, while their opposites point out that Iraqis are oppressed and such actions are ultimately necessary for their survival. Regardless of the side on which one stands, there is a common thread: love. Whether it
be love for country, peace, survival or even violence. Of course, some will protest that Iraq's general sense of love is quite distorted and fundamentally lacking. It is a dictatorship where Saddam Hussem rules and others suffer due to his own sick form of self love. With such a leader, faithful followers are expected, loving their leader and his power. Hussein was first married in 1963 to his first cousin and then took a second wife in 1998 having more than one wife is legal under Muslim law. In addition to having two wives it is believed that he has numerous concubines, raping . - and killing - many . women to satisfy himself. In regards to women it seems as though love is not an issue in Hussein's relationships (if that's what they can be called). Violent sexual acts occur throughout Iraq, especially being
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wdl no longer be abused by a man committing crimes in its name. We can blame this war on many things; oil, America's past actions and terrorism, but in the end, it is irrelevant. Placing blame is a waste of time. Instead, we should focus on finding a solution removing Hussein from power. World peace is impossible until love prevds. In a perfect world, war would be unnecessary thanks to the abundance of love. During this tumultuous time, do not forget love. Our current . . minimal participation in this war allows us to make love instead of fighting; just be sure to keep a place free in your heart for those who are fighting, dying and alone. rntitus@impr~nt.uwaterloo.c
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of the campus, but the campus police should be better trained an( more knowledgeable of campus than any thief. It's baffling to see how these crimes, which would most likely take much time and effort to administer, are succeedin almost without a hitch, and UW Police seems unable to stop them. Many student societies already tak extra precautions with their belongings we can't fully blame society if a heavy safe is stolen from their office. UW Staff, Sergeant W. Shortt believes that an extra patrol office is a major root solution to our campus problem, but I don't fully believe that. If two police have a success rate t h s year of 0 per cent how can we be sure that having ar cstra policeman will make them more reliable?The problem could be the response time from theft tc p o k e arriving on scene. Maybe student societies should have an alarm system, or at least somethin; that will notify campus police moi quickly of a disturbance. That way if they can't apprehend the crimin right away, they can at least preserve the scene for evidence and fingerprints. It's ironic UW Parking Services will be there on the spot to give you a parktng ticket as soo as you leave your car for parking illegally on campus. Maybe thc rca solution is to switch the two force -
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Tuition deregulation looms in Ontario lmpn'nttakes a look into the everlasting battle with tuition deregulation and what students can do to help Melissa Dunne SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
The average student debt load m Zanada is between $25,000 and $30, 300" (myams.org) Further tuition lncreascsandderegulationwillleadto geater student debt and hmt access to higher education. "Already, less than half of young people from low lncome backgrounds have access to higher education." (cfsantano.ca). On February 10, 2002 the B.C Fvernment announced that the provmcialgovernmentwashftingthe s=year tuttion fee freeze.Ths resulted in gvmg universities and colleges the Ereedom to increase fees to whatever level they chose 'I'he repercussions of this action resulted in tuition m B C skyrocketingduring2002 The decisionto deregulatetuttion â&#x201A;ŹeesmBC followsthepassage of Bill c-28, the Public Educatton Flextbility andchoiceAct,whichgves collegesm 6 C. the right to mcrease class sizes and to require facultyto take on more ~tudentsOne of the mainarguments for deregulation is that increases in tuition will increase the quality of the post-secondaryinstitutions. The Canadian Association of University TeacherspresidentTomBooth disagrees with this argument by statingin a news release "This government is not interested in improving the qua1 ity of education. It is t e h g students they have to sam larger classes, have less contactwithteachers,andon top of that pay thousands of dollarsmore m fees.The impact anincrease in fees has on studentsfrom low and middle class families is enormous " The possibilityof tuttton deregulationloomsm Ontano,withQueen's Umversity bemg one of the loudest
tion fees have more than doubled m the past two years Ontario Medical Association president-elect Albert Schumachernotes in an article on the OMA Web site that htgh medical schooltuitioninhib~tsaccessibilityto the field "The only ones who w d apply are those who are well off, and m g r a n t and other groups will be illissing " The average 1999 tuition fee for first-year med~calstudents m Ontanowas $10 387-a 108percent increase overthe 1997average Tultion feesingeneralhaveskyrocketed,nsmg far more rapidlythaninflatlon or family income For the 2002 2003 academc year, average Ontanouniversity tu~tionwillbe $4 745;mNovaScotia. Canada's highest, a will be $5 676. In a n d e i n Macham,Jacque McFarlane pointed out that, "According to StatisticsCanada,"between 1990/91 and 2000/01, tuition fees rose 126 2 per cent. or SIX times faster than the 20 6 per cent mcrease mmfhtionas measured by the consumer price index." Can anyone tell me why that is? With the double cohort in the fall, UW is admittmg approximately 15 per Cent more students, accordmgto the AlOffice. Also, tuttion has alreadybeenraisedstartlilgmthespqng 2003 term. For example, regular arts -on hadonly a smallmcreasefrom $2, 311 61 to $2, 320.30, while the engmeemg department hadagreater mcrease from $3,800 52 to$Q53.52. UW currently states on their Web site that it "spends d o n s on student aid." The UW statement of purpose on undergraduate student financial support u as follows: "The university intends to ensure that all qualified students a h t t e d to full time undergraduate programs have adequate financialassistanceto com-
plete their studies" There are some pretty significant loopholes In this statement UW students must pursue all other avenues for finanaalass~stance first, suchaspareats, OSAP and employment. The policy excludespart-time students, students who do not qualify for OSAP, and those with an averagebelow 65 per cent UW follow5through on their state mcntbyOffef% With the addition of deregulation, students across Canada are finding it difficult scholarships to afford tuition. which are based onmentand bursmeswhicharebased you are involved in tenduniveraty The bursary system at on fmancialneed. This brings to light the second UW simplyneeds to be more stream The UXJbursarysystem has many major flawwiththeUWbursaryproc- h e d and less sublective to ensure benefits for students, but specifically ess Bursaries are supposedly for un qualified studentscan easily and effineeds to improve in two malor areas derpvileged students, based on fi- cientlygetaccess to bursarymoney First, the applications for a regular nancialneed UW studentswho come The outrageous tumon increases eight-month academic year are not fromunderpnvilegedf a d e s are not that B.C. studentshave endured over due until the mddle of October and onlyexpectedtoapplyfor OSAP, schol- the past year should make UW stustudents are not notified of the burarships, and bursaries, they are also dents very apprehensive When total sary amount granted until early No expected to excel m all areas to gain tuition deregulation comes to Onvember. This date is more than halfaccess to the maximum bursary tario, you could be denied access to way through the fall semester, long money I have recetvedabursaryeyery hgher education because of money, after tuition is due, after books and semester smce I came to UW. not because youare not smartenough. suppks have to be bought and rent I have reaped the benefits of bur As one Ryerson student aptly put a, and food have to be paid for. While it sanes, without them I would not be "It is simple If twtion is raised, I wdl s n o t a requirement,it ahighly recomable toattendwersity. Bursaryfunds notbe able to returntoRyersonorany mended to write a letter e x p l m g allow many students from low in- other university I am poor but not why you need a bursary and to list come families the oppornmty to at- stupid." school and community activities that
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Folding their way to peace Yume project is a great success Without the help from many contributors thlsprojectwouldnotha~ebeenpossible Many volunteers from the club as well as other mdividuals spent many hours in organi7atton Shop One piece ofpaper and roughly 20 folds,apaper thanks Nancy O'Neil who was very supportwe crane for peace If 1,000 cranes are folded it is believedinJapanese culture thatawishwdlcome and helpful and Patty Cook who donated the recyclcdpaper T shirtsweredonated by the UW true If only world peace could be attained so shop and the pharmacy located in the SLC also easily contributed money, which displays that our OnTuesday,March18theKomchiwaJapan campus can come together for a commongoal (or KonJa) club held the Yume Project where At first itwas slowgoing, and those involved students could fold a paper crane that will be b e p to worry..As tune began to dwindle and taken to the Peace Monument m Hiroshima five o'clock drew nearer there was a rush during This project promoting world peace was in the last two hours of the project Althoughitwas memory of Sadako Sasalu, a girl who died of cluestionableat first there was a lot of support leukemta caused by the Hiroshima bombing Participation was not limlted to the UW comWhen diagnosed with thts deadly disease, she munity, "famtlies came m [as well]: excalmed wasinspiredbythe'Zegendofthc 1,00Ocranes," andbegan foldtngpapercranes, hopingthat she Shoji The success oftheYumeProject is quite impres would soon be well sive. Its occuragain. The endtng rence at thts tuof Sasaki's tale differs, some saying multuous time helps to put the she met her goal current war into whde others claim she did not. After perspective. \Vorld peace is her death, a monumentwas erectedin not something that we can take Haoshima's Peace for granted; it Memorial thanks to must be worked money raised by Sasaki's classmates. toward. A little girl tried to fold At the bottom of her way to surthis statue the wish vival. This innoofworldpeace a enw e d : ' ' T k is our cenceiswhatcannot be forgotcry. This is our prayer. Peace in the ten. Sasaki's story world." Yearly, in is verypowerful, time for Peace Day emulating a on August 6, thouchild's courage sands of cranes are and will to live. sent to this monument. To apply this to the children in Spearheaded DAvEmRsAM Iraq would be last year by Haruka she,;, v;ce.presi- Above is the peace momument in Hiroshima most appropr;. ate. Victims of dent of the KonJa war must be remembered;especially the chilclub, she points out that "we have to do little dren. In times such as these it is easy to feel things."She has beenthevice-president ofthis helpless, but this is nothing compared to what group since last yearwhen she enteredUW.Her the chddren caught in the war must feel. Sholi intentionswere "to do somethingforthe collecstatedthat "knowledgeis apowerfultoo1,"so by tive good" while "promotingand teachmgJaparemembering past wars it should be easier to nese culture." Shojiplanstocontinuethis project during her time at UW,already c~ncoctin~ideas avoid future ones. Our current generation is for next yearand hopes forits continuationafter removed from war while the older generations, who are dying, know it all too well. We must her graduation: Dunngthe summer S h o j i d e remember the past to shape the future and ered the cranes personally to the.monument contmue hoping for peace. where she also Canadmn flag and UW pictures. T h ~ summer s she hopes to venture to mtitus@imprint.uwaterloo.ca Hiroshuna againwith well over 1,000 cranes. MichelleTitus IMPRINTSTAFF
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As the end of term approaches. . manv of us find our bank balances dwindling. At the same time, exams and essays make it difficult to find t m e t o cook. S o we start looking for a deal. Many restaurants and bars offer dav-of-the-weekd~scountst o lure customers in o n what w-ould otherwise be a slow night. If you keep an eye out and an open mind you can save some money whdc still enjoyingyourself. McGinnis Front Row offers wings for 25 cents each (minimum of 10 wings in increments of five) o n Mondays. The wings, which wcrc appropriately spicy for the hot I ordered, are meaty, albeit small, so it typically takes about 20 for a meal. CruditCs (carrots and celerywithan insipid blue cheese salad dressing) are $1.50 extra The discount requires the purchase of a beverage, so add $2.50 for an admittedly sizeable (and bottomless) p o p costs $2.50, or $12.35 for a pitcher from an mspiring selecmn of beer Overall, I found that this wasn't q u t e the bargain it appears t o be -a meal can easily costover $10 I n addrtion t o its well-known buffalo wings (35 cents each o n Mondays), Morty's offers half-priced panrerotus (regularly $5 99 plus 75 cents per toppmg) o n Tuesdays. The panzerottis are available deep-fried o r baked and come with an u n f o m nately cold tomato sauce for dipping My green olive, lalapeno pepper and mushroom panzerotti was great -
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it had lots of cheese in it and leaving most of the sauce o n the side avoided the mushy insides that some panzerottis are prone to experience. W t h a half-pint of Rtckard's Red (they also suffer from a poor selection of beer on-tap), my bill came t o $8 - not bad for a substantial meal. The Still Bar and GriIl,located o n King street lust past Market Square, caters mostly to the over-75, mullet sportmg crowd, but I don't know why Student friendly prices and h e music -every Wednesday from 7 t o 11, hvc bands play a mixture of pzz, blues and rockdefinitely appeal to me Specials include a$3 95 cheeseburger from 4 t o 7 p m o n Wednesdays and 10 cent wings every day from 4 t o 7 p.m. Unfortunately, I mssed the seven o'clock deadline so 1tried the wings at regular pace -1lb. for $6 95. The wings, whtch I ordered hot, were great. They were crisp and hot, lightly topped with a tasty sauce that made me appreciate the carrot and celery sticks andcxcellent blue cheese dressing that came alongside. 'l'he Still also offers good drink prices ($2 after tax for a pop, $4.50 for a pint of domestc beer) and an interesting selection of beer o n tap (including Stclla Artois and Heincken).
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From Iraq with love A grad student travels the globe to UW Neal Moogk-Soulis IMPRINT STAFF
When he graduated from high school in 1986, Senan Alattar could not have imagined the route he would travel for the next I 4 years. In the intervening 17years, the Iraqigrad student has travelled to many parts of the Middle East, South east Asia and Africa, livingin five different countries. He currently works as a researcher for Ric Soulis,a civil engmeeringprofessorwith the water group here at the University of Waterloo. Alattar grew up in the town of Qayara, about 70 kilometres south of the northern
istration manager for an oil refinery and his motherwas aprimary school teacher. Alattar completed his primary school education in Qayara and his familylived a comfortablelife. His family moved to the city of Mosul at the outbreak of the Iran-IraqWar in 1980. Mosul is Iraq's second-largestcity and has apopulation of approximately two million. It is the site of an ancient Assyrian castle,whose many walls have been mtegrated into the general city architecture. Alattar has two sisters: one who is a medical doctor in Manchester, England and the other is a biologist in Yemen. Both are married and each has a son. His father died in
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come a resident engineer, a position service. Alattar was disappointed that normallyneeds 10to 15years to that his fathertllissedhis acceptance into graduate studies and his sisget. Atonepoint,Alattarwasincharge ter's graduation from medical of developing 1.25 million square school. metres of the airport pavements,apHis thesis is dedicated to his proximately one half of the pavememory. Alattar's mother lived in mentlaidaroundthe airportt e d Mosul with his grandmother, who bddtngs. The total airport surface passedaway last summer. Prior to the areais 100squareMometresandthere outbreakofwarin Iraq, shewas living were over 400 international compawith relatives inMosul. Since h o d nies collaborating on the project. ties began March 19, he has been in contactwithher by telephone but the When the final stage is complete in lmes have since beendisconnected. the future at its maximum capacity, Alattar tried several times to go the airport will be able to handle 100 d l i o n passengers per year. He had overseas, the first time was when he graduated from high school in 1986. to learn on the job frequently. In addition, Alattar kept in touch with His request didnot fulfill the requirements, so he had a choice of either his family, sending the money and supporting their other needs. The gokg to university or f u l f h g his military service requirement. Given co&any~fferedhmasalary increase and other benefits, something none that Iraqwas in the depthsofthe Iranof the other foreign engineers reIraq War, Alattar continued his studies at the UniversityofMosul. He tried ceived. In addition, he received an agamin 1991to leave buthad to fulfill offer to lecture at the University of Malaysia. his rmlitary service. Several months With his contract at the airport into his military service, he was acfmshed in December 1997 and the cepted to workonhis Master's thesis Asian economic collapse effectively at Mosul. Though the working conditions were primitive-at times the freezing all constructionworkinMaonly h g h t s o u r c e w a s a p r o p a n e ~ laysia,Alattarwas forced to return to Jordan to fmd work. He also worked he succeededinwritingadraft thesis. tosupport his younger sister. Before He finally succeeded in gettifig his his Jordanian visa and his Iraqipasspassport in 1995andwent toJordan. port expired, he had to move to Due tothe economic situation,he was Tripoli,Libya,a five-daybus trip from only able to take $50 US with him. Amman. Arriving in Amman, Jordan, he When he was working in Malayhad no practical engineering experisia, he had appliedto move to Canada. ence and it took hun two months to land a job with the engineering firm His interview was granted while he Wadah al-Suki. His older sister acwas workingin Al-Jufra, in the Great Desert of Libya. He was the chief companied hun to Amman and together they worked towards getting designer forirrigationprojectsonthe Great River in Libya, considered by better employmentchances elsewhere. UNESCO to be one of the world's Alattar headed for Malaysiabecausehe biggestprojects. The journey to Sinheardthat therewereplentyof jobs for gapore involved taking one of the civil engineers. first c i v h flights out of Libya folAfter more thanone year inMalaylowing the liftmgof sanctions,delays sia, he was able to send his sister crossing various borders and riding enoughmoneysothat she could travel the Singaporehighwayon the backof to the UK to continue her medical a stranger's motorbike. 'Waysia is stud~es.Once inMalaysia,Alattarw;ts the most beautiful country," said employed by Enginecringand EnviAlattar. He managed to arrive in ronmental Consultants, a company Singapore just one day before his involved with the construction of interview. ICuala Lampur InternationalAirport, Before immigrating to Canada, at the time considered one of the Alattar last saw his mother and largest constmction projects in the younger sisterinJanuary andFebmworld. In a short pe40d of time, he ary2000,whentheygatheredtogether worked his way up the ranks to be-
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inJordan.WluleworkmgkMalaysia, Alattar supported his older sister's studies in England, but he has not seenher sincehe 1eftherinAmmanin 1996. Though his family is spread to the four comers of the world, they remain in touch through telephone conversationsand e-mails. Before landingin Canada in 2000, Alattar had transferredairplanes in the UAE, India, Bahrain and Greece. He had lived in Iraq, Jordan, Libya and Malaysia and visited Egypt,Thailand andthe US. When he first applied for his passport, he wished to traveloverseas but had no guarantee that he would be able even stay in Amman, Jordan. With each new place that he visited,hewas fascinated bytheunique combinations of its behaviours..dress.. envirment,infrasmcturesand cultures that each country boasted He hasvisitedseveralAmencan states In Canada, he has extensively travelled alongthe QuebecCity-Wmdsorcorndor,&ngmthe many sites andplaces inbetweeninanattempt tobecome as familiar as possiblewith Canadianlife. He has enjoyed exploring Canadian societyand culture. The work that he is conducting with Professor Soulis involves the study of hydrological modelling and climate change.Alattarworkedonhis thesis m Iraqat the Umversity ofMosul but was never able to publish it. He doesn't know when hell next be m
Iraq or for how long. He hopes some apply forevery job he could -at one day to be able to use his work to point applying to hundreds of compabenefit the world. Professor Soulis nies at once. It took a lot of determisays that Senan's workis a slgfllficant nation for hun to get from Amman, Jordan to Canada. Who knew that a contribution to his field of study. Alittar's journey took many years simple move would take 14 years of and he left nothing to chance. When- international travel andpaperwork? ever he had the opportunity,he would
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Brett Haynes (left Wilde) and Jeff deSchflert (Lord Douglas) deliver strong performances
Spending two hours with the incarnation of an itinerant tempestuous sullen Irishmtellectualis somethingthat friends of the URrstage should appreciate. It is also an opportunity to witness the fall from grace, the self-directed personal destruction of the most widely read English hterary figure next to Shakespeare Oscar Wdde's self-destructive journey mto eventual bondage is, by todafs standards, an indictment of the intolerance of his era Wdde was subjugated by the system, an all too-common occurrence m overtlyjudgmental late-Vict o r m society. Evenwhen he originally turned to the courts,looking forpsticeagamst the vicious public attacks of one royally connected recreatmnd pugilist (the Marquis of Queensbury, so angnly portrayed by Jonathan Hubble), Wdde found out the hardway that public declarations orgeneratmgpublicdiscourseon sexualpractices mlate 19" centuryEnglandwasperceived by the powers of the day to be devmt counterculture, the object ofpublicv&fication. These complex themes have same-sex overtones and Imagery threaded throughout the production Yet the cast and crew of Gross Indecenry marry the moment and present Wilde's trials m a fast-paced narrative style that mterposed itself on a somewhat naive, sullen and almost child-liketrustportrayalofWildcby UW arts student Brett Haynes. Haynes brings Wlde to life m a characteri~ationthat students of the literary master should feel comfortablewith He looks and acts the part, a part that has been mterpreted by many but mastered by a few. Haynes can count hmself amongst the few. Lord Alfred "Boisie" Douglas,played byJeff deschffert with the ambivalence and style of a more seasoned performer, follows his lover's tort~OuSjourney He acts as some sort of selective moral interventtomst who is on one hand
quite prepared to sanctjonandrationalizeWilde's behaviour in a vain attempt to mittgate his lover's fate, yet all too willing to remain abroad m order to avoid the malicious prosecution befallmgWilde Special mentiongoes out to supportmgcast member Jemfer Sculhon, whose portrayal of Carson, the truth-twi\tmg prosecutor, was articulately brilliant, poised and polished Kudos also to theplay'q narratorswho help the audience follow the fast-paced action of this emotional roller coaster Stage designer Meredith Kerwie crafted a marvelous mule dimensionalset that facilitates the show's rapid pace but is also flexible enough to be anmterestmgvisualbackdrop to the words, life andunage thatwasWilde And coupledwith a visually eclectic and mterestmg set, the costumes,especiallythose ofWildeandDouglas,fit the moment and complemented the set In professional like fashion director Julie Hartley has crafted a stellar interpretation of Moises Kaufman's Three Trazls ofOscar Wdde She has characterwed the complicated literary gemus as a deeply flawed man as well as a vulnerablechild Itke mdiwdual who, LO hls own heart, knows he has done nothmg wrong, yet suffers because others choose not to see or understand his feelings Misunderstanding of genius is a common theme throughout the d e m a Gros~Indecewly is professionally portrayed m apassionatemanner It has style and feelingbut does not sacrifice the fundamentalsof apolished presentation The play moves quickly andmost certainlyheld dxswriter's attention It is thought provokmg and emotionally charged It wdl be stagedunttlSaturdayMarch29,atthe Theatre of the Arts m the Modern Languages buildingand is well worth the tune and f 10 ticket.
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Masturbate for peace: pleasure over pain Like a shotgun, one cock and it blows Annu Saini SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
War is uponus. Here we stand, at the crux of a great crisis. We feel lost, helpless and frustrated. Thingsaren't loogood So what do we do? There are demonstrations, protests,marches; they'realllust fine and dandy,but ifyou'relike me, you're just not feeling it anymore Maybe we should all come to terms with the fact that unless you have an oil refinery m yourbackyardBushdoesn't careif you live or die It's enough to make you consider switthingcamps Itmay seemalittleextreme,butthe peace movement just doesn't seem as satisfyingas the Americans rock 'em, sock 'em, kill the innocent Iraqi childrenplan After all, I'mamiddle class North American young adult, I need excitementmmy life1Smceallthewar moviesmI Iollywoodsuck right now, I'm gomg to have to look elsewhere for some good old-fashioned entertainment
I know you're all a bit bred of the old-news 911coverageand In&-Pakistan nuclear conflict; plus, The Sopranosis m its last season1Woe is me! So why is peace so boring? No blood, nogore, in fact, aside from the occasionaltrampledprotestor,noone gets hurt: where's the justice in that? The American solutionmvolvesguns, bombs, explosions, death, and all kinds of cool stuffl But have no fear; folks, have I got a solution for you! Oh, and it's cool too; involvesguns -well, m a manner of speaking. Masturbateforpeace.com is a worldwidemovement strolungitsway to peace, one person at a m e . The premise?The site explains, "Replace negative feelingswithlove and you're half.vaytowardsresolutionof any connict. However, any reallovemust start from within You can't love others without lovmg yourself first. And, of course, masturbation is the greatest expressionof self-love.So it's natural that we, the citizens of the world, are
loining together to masturbate for peace." Aww, doesn't that justwaan your heart? Maybe not, butwhat's more excitmg thanorgasms for peace?!Even the most aggressivewarmongerwillagree' that they'dmuchrather be moan&in ecstasythanmoaningfromexcruciatingpatqperhaps the result ofa bulletwound on the front h e , or for us bourgeois bastards,more &ely from filling the tank m the good old SUV Yeah,amay seempathetic lacking off m the hopes of preventing what seems so Inevitable right now But hey,havmgyour hands sodedwiththe blood of poor, huddled Iraqi masses is less appealing than havmg your hands soiled with other secretions MtchaelMoorewasbooedlastweek at the Oscars for voicmghis anti-war senment,whileRomanPolanskiwas given a standing ovation presumably for havmg sex with a underage girl m Jack Nicholson's hot tub and subsequently avoidmg arrest. So we learn
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Oscars shock and surprise Upsets, speeches and surprise winners make thls year's ceremony memorable Rouzbeh Noori SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
On Sunday night, with the world in such turmod, the Academy of MotionPictures delivered the real shock and awe operation The 75th amversaryofthe Oscars ceremonyprovedto bc one of the most memorable of the past couple of with many surpnses and shockmgmoments. It is a known fact that the academy gives out Oscars to headlines, not art And an equally mesistibleheadhe 'rMusicalsAreBack!" is How else can you justify Chzcago w-g best cos tume, best sound, best editing and best art direction in the year of suchbdiant and techncally flawless epics as GangsoJNen~YorkandLord oftheRtngs: The Two Towers. The musical stages of Chtcagowere better designed than the mtenors ofEIelm's Deep ortheFivePomts)Yes,andI am
a l4year oldRussianballerina Theacademyalso showedthatitismore"hip" thanwegveit credit for, by presenw Eminem-who sadly was not present with the Oscar for bes original song for his radio hit, "Lose Yourself" Nicole IGdman won best actress,partlallyfor agreemg to wear a prostheticnoseandlookugly andpad y b e c a u s e she didn't wm for Mouh Rouge?when she should have. Chris Cooper won a much deserved bests upportmg actor Oscar for his excellent portrayal of a slightly-demented flower dealer mSplkeJones'
Adaptatton. The biggest upsets of the mght came from dark horses of the much acclaimed Holo-
verypassion ate "thank b you" to the presenter, Halle Berry, bringing a sad ending to the speculations overwhetherof FFTRAN Jack Nicholson or Daniel DayLewis were gomg to bc
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awarded. The academy also showed that-they have respect even for no-shows Insteadofrewardmg the much-overlooked gemus of the veteran di rector Martm Scorcese,like many thought they would, they chose to honor another veteran, Roman Polanski, despite of his fugtive status
(had he shown up at the Oscars to collect his statuehe would have beenwalkmg downthc red carpet m handcuffs for 25-year-old charges of rape). Chhagowasalsovictoriousas best picture and Rob Marshal and Marty Richards, the p r e ducers ofthe movie, mreality collectedaposthumous Oscar for the late great Bob Fosse. Given all of the above, the most memorable moments of the mght were the peace seeking politically chargedacceptance speeches,withthe ever cmtrovers~dandoutspokmMichaelMoore toppmg the bill Accepting his award for best documentary forthe widely acclaimedBowLndor Columbzne,Moorewent on to accuse George W Bush or being m the office as a result of a . "fictitious" electionresult and startingawar for "fictitious" reasons He was fist greeted with a standing ovation, then with a mtxture of applause and boos The Oscars delivered some surpnses, but nothing out of the ordinary Many deservmg nomtnees walked home empty-handed, many were overlooked and not even nominated (ap paredy The Two Towers directed itself) But for what itwas,the Oscars didn't fail to entertamor help us escape,even fora few hours, from the sad realities of the world we live in today Isn't that why we love movies m the first place>
The greatest forgotten man A closer look at Les Claypool
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drummerJay Lane. The seeds of change were planted. Eventually Primus reumted, this time with former Prams drummer Brmn "Bram" Mantm Unfortunately the next few releases, while s d techntcallybdhant, were commercial flops. Primus had returned to obscurity save for their mbid followmg.The~unOfficid~ 'lUtSafter 1999'sAnt!&' a live later received a show called "Oysterhead." Lo and behold the bass master had teamed with Phish's Anastasia and Stuart Copeland from the Pohce' Suddenly was play% with POP and lam musicians, resultmg mmore laid back and groovy From this Tawned a
I can still remember the day I heard the lick to the - M N~~ ~ is ~~d I was a 15-year old fledghg bass player, and watching that crazy thumb slap out that b ~ g rhythm put knots m my stoma& It was the sound ~ ' been d looking for, l-hen the song started. I hated that song, but I still bought Pork Soda so I could listen to the first 13 seconds over and over again. I ' m sure I'm not the only one who felt this way about P-us, they were weird, the singer sounded hke a hillbilly and a lot of the subject matter was new idea. Les C1a~~OOl's Fearless FlyingFrogBrigade They play longer, about fish. tflPP'er renditions of P m u s staples and a I grew to enjoy th;.music, due m no small shttload of PinkFloyd covcrs. They mclude to my learag ofmstrumentation and elementsof lazz, rock ~ ~ o g r e s s and ~ v efunk realizing that this strange man was creating Listenmg to Frog Brigade I can hear the sounds from a bass that nobody had ever has found a a Seat man heard before. That man is Les Claypool, avery niche for his umqueness and a bdiant ear for under appreciatedmusician. alblm production Frog now three First came Pnmus, startmgthetrcareerwith albums and two tours into its existence and I a herecordlng ruckonT ~ P ~which , gemus' have Yet to see One mention of both Les and the crowd take tune to belittle contmued~rowess the band with cries of "Primus sucksl" But If you are a fan of good, thick, fun music what they gve those ingrates is a mtndblowing rock show They put their name on then Your peeled for the Frog the map with their third album, Sarhng the Brigade. check out some the bands on Les' label, Prawn Song, which includes Sem @Cheese Scoring minor hits with blisteringly fast bass tapping m 'Terry Was A from and Laundry Legends don't die when their press R~~~~~~ D ~ ~and~- ~ ,T ,the cap ~ (sung~ ~ does. by Tom Waits). Then came some Mike Yunker hosts gneous Raivk, alternating superstardomwith the unlikely successes of Fridysf.om 1lp.m. to 2 a.m. c ' N~~ ~ ~ is ~~p and vynonna~s B~~ Brown Beaver." Tensions rose with longtime CKMS@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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And you will know us by the trail of the dead Trail of the Dead Source Tags & Codes Interscope
Matthew DuCharme, SPECIAL TO IMPRINT
Strap on the waxwings of the AmericanTra11andfly forthc sun of rockand roll nirvana. In the audio, the 10-track Source Tags and Codes rocks. In theverse,the band's poets grapple with love, meaning and god;however they're all "once-believers" and it is no surpise they should."Itwas there that I sawyou" opens, fading in from a static-ladenvanishingpointto hammer out a smolderingodc to love lost. Track two, "Another Morning Stoner",yellsandmoansthe angst felt when a bohemian can't help loving another stuckon the straightandnarrow.
God weighs in on "Baudelaire": the band questions sin in a world without apple eaters. "Monsoon" makes sweettrackseven.Ifyouwish Spiritualizedwasn't soBritish, trade the heroin for a little Jack Danicls buzz: "Pray to god, doubt that he's listening; This world's a gutter, he likes to piss in."And the album sounds great, better in the headphones. Guitar driven, supported by strings, horns and harmonies, "Trail" took time to construct audio interludes from satellitechatter, waves, newscasts, traffic,and forgotten . vmyl. Hutfeted by mediocrity in later tracks, "Trail" resumes its ascent with the finisher Source Tags andCodeanothcrthirsty shot of rock and metaphor. Six out of ten songs are solid, close enough to two out of three. In love and rock 'n' roll, that ain't bad. -~
Where's My Bread At, God Damn It? Where's my bread at, God Damn a? You stare out the window, '1'00 wrapped up With your bowl haircut To truly appreciate my need. \Vhere's my bread at, God Damn it? I repeat, this time, with an added sense of urgency. You ask me your ridiculous questions. No, I don't want a sandwich. You know I don't eat meat. Yes, that's exactly what I want you to say To the bitch down at the deli Two slices of bread, My bread.
All-new Stepford Barbie!
DIET COKE HEAD Mattel's Barbie is based off a German doll named L a , who originallyappeared in an adult comic strip named Bild Zeitzing. A A y veiled prostitute who existed only to amuse German businessmen, Lib was bought by Mattel in 1955. A couple years, some minor cosmeticalterations and one namechangelater,Barbicofficiallyhit the market in 1959. Since then, the corporation has createdan empire of spm-offmerchandise includmg clothtng lines, videos, school supplies and a host of doll friends, relatives and multiculturalpermutations. Not only can you buy Teresa and Christie (her Ilispanic and Black friends), you can also purchase a numbcr of cthnic permutations of Barbie herself. "Now," announced product manager DeborahMitchell, "ethmc Barbie lovers will be able to dream m their own image." Civil Rights Barbie? If you look past the exterior, you could h n k of Barbie as a smart minded career woman who has grown up a lot since the '50s. She's no longer the nurse, she's the doctor. She's no longer the stewardess, she's the pilot. 'VJe girls can do anything!" or so claims a recent advertisingcampaign for Mattel. Feminist IconBarbie? Could Mattcl bc right about all of this? A Socially Conscious Barbie? Don't t h d for one minute that Matte1 had any part in h s shift in values. Don't confuse them with socialactivists and progressive producers. Once they identified the "ethnic market" as profitable, and
saw that feministswere becoming upset with the perpetual housewife image, they chose to pursue new variations of Barbie. According to activistSarahLeung, Matte1only begun their update towards political correctness when they knew itwas socially"safe." CapitalistBarbie. And as author Ann Ducille notes: while marketed as positive role models of diversity and equality,e t h c Barbie dolls are little more than dye-dipped vcrsions of the archetypalwhiteAmerican beauty. Regardless of their colour, the dolls are all "still mythically t h , long-legged, luxurious-haired, buxom beauties." In other .,-a
time. Mattel's version
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of "beauty" sets a standard for young girls that is unhealthy and anatomically improbable. (Thinkfo a second of having38-18-26 measurements. Top-heavy with tiny, tiny feet, you'd barely be able to walk, let alone attend astronaut school and dig for dinosaurs.) Drag-Queen-Gone-BadBarbie. Feminist icon my ass. M.G. Lord, writer of Barbie's unauthorized biography, cites Mattel's Slumber Party doll, who comes with a weight scale permanently set at 100 pounds, and a book entitled "How To Lose We@," whose text reads "Don't eat." Anorexic Barbie. Sowhat does Barbie mean in
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Don't let your dreams disappear
T m e was, you could dream of continuing your education at the Ontario university of your choice, and those dreams stood a fair chance of coming true
1don't care
I could give a fuck If you're got to walk The streets of Ottawa And spread your manpussy To pay for my bread.
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R'here'5 my bread at, God Damn ~ t ? What's taking you? Yes, rye's ok OK Later I<arim Hasanen
GRADUATE PROGRAM ON LEASING OR FINANCING - Get the car you want before you graduate!
But that was before the Ontario government cut over $1 billion from our universities. Less funding means higher tuition, fewer professors, overcrowded classrooms, inadequate resources and, potentially, a lower quality of education. The Ontario government's spending per person on universities remains the lowest in all of Canada, and is also lower than nearly every American state. And this fall the Double Cohort will stream a greater number of hopeful students into a limited number of spots, with less money to go around to support the quality of education. In other words, dreams may disappear. But you can fight back! Tell your MPP what you think about the government's plans for Ontario's universities and your future. Ontarians have a right to a quality education but we're going to have to make some noise now! Go to www.lwanttogotouniversity.com and find out what you can do.
We care about the future of our universities. This has been paid for by The Ontario Confederationof University Faculty Associations, representing professorsand lhbrarianr ~nOntario's universities.
FWDAY, MARCH 28,2003
White keys, empty Andrea Kerswill Gwendolen: There b very Lttle music in the name Jack, fany at alindeed.. . Jack WemuJtget manied at once. Thenis no time to be lost! Gwendoen: Man'ed; Mr. Worthing? Jack Well. .. sureljyouknow thatI hyeyou, and you led me to belieye Mi.u Faifa)~,thatyou would not be absohtelj indJerent to me." You askedme if I would marry you,and that is my most vivid memory. You introduced yourself as Jack Worthing, the p i w g lover of Miss Fairfax. Young as we were, we played the part of Wilde's lovers.And evennow, as careful as I am, I still watch the sphere of your eyes undress my every thought.Youare like nobody else tome, yet you are never enough. That train tldes my brain late into every night, chug, chug, choo, choo. Rehearsalwascut short.I saunteredout ofthe theatre, and there you were. Hands in your pockets,lettingacigarettedtlbble fromyourlips, coveredina blacklngfastenedlacket.Sinceyour proposal things have changed I have gotten to know your alluring looks. After rehearsals you would walk me home right to the door, and say "signora senorita," in that voice I know so well. I would close the door and gaze out the glass wmdowpane. I would watch youreyes followme,asItnednottoaccept your fur You knew I was looking. On this particular day you invited me to take a trip to thatloftyapartmentofyours We headed out into the re-ears ofJanuary and decided to have coffee Although strangeas n is, neither of us dnnks that toxin. Milk and sugar please The door slammed behmd me and snow brushed in. Two fights up and into your apartment Hilarywelcomed me at the doorway. Big and burly girl, she sat comfortably on the futon waiting to see what would happen. But before I could nottce anything else, I saw the beauty of where you lived, and it said so much.
I was amazedatthe vividcolorsofyourwalls, everyinch of spacewas coveredwithpianoplay ers, drummers, musicians,music, music,music It was a bachelor's apartment, suited to your name, filled with the aroma of man. Why was I comfortablethere? It's incrediblehow much you can tell about an individualby the stuff on their walls, or maybe evenlackthereof I kept s t m g at Marley's dreads, maybe it was him that attractedme to you Maybeitwas themage Maybe baby. Youdidn'ttakemy lacket,oroffermeaplace to sit. Here you were not Mr Woahing, although I didn't want you to be In the right comer sat a set of stamed yellow drums that seemed to fill the bulk of the spacious room And tothe left ofme sataplam blackpianowith anopenedkeel.SheetmusicforGilbea&Sullnan rode the notes. Classicmusic that said somuch Your bed was a messy, red sheet bunched and slept m, I think I could feel the warmth And I wanted to siesta there Mooseheadwas yourpoison, so I decided to d d i t with you My veins loosened and hours passed Tallung again, talktng My throat was parched, but I didn't feel like water I wanted to hear your deep voice elucidate to me the technique ofmusicand drums and piano Itwas then that pictured myself "marrying a music man," and I stopped hsteningm enigma I couldlisten to you forever, but you wouldn't let me, you asked me questsons oflife, and changes Where I wanted to be, and why I loved the stage so much I didn't need coffee to talk with you, or breaks tolet the voice turn I kept looktngaround your apartment,bluepaperwalls,andcoldpiano keys I stopped "There is a song, that I play for you, that I play for myself to imagine you Do you want to hear it?" You had guts, and I had none There was nothing1could dobutlistentomy bongand feel the way you experienceme You sat on the piano bench, invitingme to sitwith you Barely really, creatmg room for yourself It was then that I noticed your hands Men don't have beauttful
hands. I was sittmg beside you, I don't know how I got that far, but nothtng made me move. I never expected such grandeur of music to descnbemyself. I am just me, I amnot a Gershwm song, at least no man ever told me so. Piano, white blazoned keys that loved the fee% of your fingers. You sat them down perfectlyandclosedyoureyes.The notes rangm my ears, as you played me "George Aiid Ira"; Gershwmwithoutany sheet music t o p d e your hands. You opened your heart and h d it on the table with forks andhves. Neverwas a feeling of awe more wonderful, never was an amazement that you codd think I emulate that music; I a m what remmds you of it. I am. I am.I am, temfted
'Thewqyou holdyourknife,the w q we dancedtil three. The wqyo.a've changed y ye. No, no thy can't take that awqfmm me, No thy can't take that anqfmm me." I never heard much from her after tharday Somehow I knew she would come around I'm not crazy, it was lust a song A song I used to think of her, and a song I wanted her to know I've beenplayingthedrums more,whenever I'm not studying. I think the neighbors hate it, but they love when I play the piano so it all works out Oh yeah, and by the way, Gwendolen acceptedthe offer ofmamage AlthoughJacknever played her a song, something tells me he wasn't that engrossed in her Matrimony was more of a convenience thing then, wasn't it? So here I am, pitifully waiting for her to phone I'm startmgtogive up The show ended last night,itwas one of the best thatwe have ever done I waited for her backstage for about an hour, but she never came Hilaryhasnowdecided togetup off the !ouch finally.she sticksher soggy nose tothat door every tune she wants to go for awak Igrab herleash,the keys, and some money for cigarettes.Dogs never stoppanting. I open the door andmy foot never leavesmyapartment There she is. I'mastonished; I was lust about to
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I'ic~flowersmBerkafieldParkonSunday afternoonswasmy favounte pastime I was just passing the rusted old slide by the water fountain when I spotted anew patch of flowers Stuckm the middle was a most beautiful flower, teacup shap~dand as blue as the sea I looked around to make sure no one was lookmg and then crept closer, reached mto the middle of the bush, and plucked one of the flowers I heldmy picked flower up to my nose It smelled like a wet pinecone Dringmg ~t back down, I noticed an itchy fceling on mv nose I brushedagainstmyleftnostrdandtheninstinctivelylookedatmyindesfmger,therewasagreen
caterpillarclinpg toit. "D'ahh!" I said, l e r h g back. I shook my hgerandthe caterpillarflew off. I stood silently foramomentasTwatchedthecaterpillar. Hewas
walkmgma smallcmle Igot down onmy hands andkneesandleanedclosetothecaterptllarAfter a closer inspection, I found that he was missing all the legs on one side of his body "Oh," I whispered,"poor caterpillar " It was then that I noticed a strange smell carried towards me by the wmd, a combination of old cheddar cheese and a musty room I mstantlykncwwhatitwas it could only be hdna "Log Cabin" Smithton She was the biggest, meanest, hairiest g d m the fourth grade \\ e all told her that the nickname Log Cabin was on account ofher si~e,butmactuallty,itwasbecause of the flaky, tree-bark like rash on her elbows M~7mindsuddcnh flashed back to last week I was playmg with a small spider on my desk at school when Log Cabin walked up to me and said 'Vhatare pouplayingw-iththat stupid thing for . . . can't you findany real friends?" She laughed and continued, "Well, we can't Ict you play with thts thing here, ~ou'rejust
And I awake to empty sheets.
'We kirs and sweat We'll turn this better thzng To the best Of all we can o f f e ~Just a rouge kzis Tangled tongues and h)s See me lhzs way I'm turning and turnzrg fnryou Gzrd p s i tonight. '"
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Sara's afternoon Jeremiah Sabadoz
give up on her I say nothing Nothing I don't know what to say It may not even matter Those emerald eyes are sharp Wey, I thoughtwe could talk, have coffee?" I can't believe she thinks that it is that simple to say It is that simple 'Well, I was goingto take Hilary for herwalk now, and I don't know d she can spare it, old dogs need exercise " I see her smile, I see her s i d e Her hands touchmy stomachas she pushes herwaymtomy apartment. Hilary agone, she knew, old dogs are smart I seeher twiddleherthumbs,asifpractlcmg what to say She should know better, she really should Her heels of her boots click click on the floor She is swift, careful and lean I can see her eyes pee% on my shoulder And I am feeltng the vunerability of wantmg to know the next hours Skipping ahead in a book "Play me my song, I want to hear it " I quaveredinher comfort,as the hourspassed andtime stoodmottonless And1 listenedtothe stones ofherpast I loved tolisten to her talk It never mattered to me what she said, it never mattered much that she had a lover Another lover I'll never compete And I took her m, knowing, she was never m e Skin to skin, and lip to-Lp She visits my body Nothmg seemed tomatter The picture of the tangled sheets now takes her body in And I am not the same The music is loud and our love is strong The softest skm never had so hard of a touch The music is loud We let sleep encap sulate the afternoongrace
Maadalena Konieczna diqgusttngeveryone else m the room " She then squished the spider between two Fingers and popped it into her mouth I looked into the cateipillar's big eyes and thought, "I can't let her eat you too " I tucked the tmy bug safelybehindmy "Sara,r)uchess of Niagara Falls" name tag on the m\ide of my hat andputitbackonmyheadpstmttme toseeLog Cabin's dirtv mop hairdo come up ovcr the hill 'T ell, well, if it isn't friendless,vermm-10x7 ing Sara," Log Cabm said She stoppedin front of me and then began poking at mv hat I was afraid she mght take it fromme anddixtn crthe caterpillar,andstartcdsweatinginfear "That an uglj hati" she fmally remark~dbeforecontinumg on her way. TYow," I thought, "that was lucky." I took off my hat and, "Oh no!" the caterpillar had drownedinmysiveat. 1laidthe caterpillar on the groundand placed the flower I had picked over hun before going home
Can I bum a smoke a light a quarter apiece of bread a room for the ntght? \Yrould you give me thc time lend me your shoes or a book, Can I borrow an idea a srmle a twinkle in your eye'. LY ould you lend me a life a spirit a home some words of my own?
Just to get me through the day. 1promise to return it all tomorrow.
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Snapshots Natalie Dushney They sayapictureis worth athousandwords. Well, I beg to differ. Pictures tell stories, exude naked emotions, evoke sacredmemories. They are worth farmore thana mere thousandwords. As I sit here on my bristly carpet, snapshots of my past scatteredaroundme like fallenleaves,I am drawn into a world of somewhat nebulous memories that delightme, sadden me, but most of all, make me yearn for the past. I feel a& of apprehension and tranquhty overcome me, as I succumb to the memories of the snapshots. Snapshot #I. In this photo my mother clings to the hand of my grandmother,or Baba Yasinsky. They are posingin frontofamajestic Christmas tree. My mother's baby-fine hair is a soft, buttery blond, and her chubby legs seem rooted into the floor. My grandmotherlookmg at the camera,aveilofserenityonherface. Baba Yasinsk~was not my biological grandmother. Mymotherwasadoptedattheage ofthree,when her mother died. I always considered Baba my real grandmother, though. Being a naturally inquisitive girl, I couldn't help but wonder what my real grandmother would have been like. Would she have fed us lovingly made hohbtsi (cabbage rolls)? Would she have let mc sit in her warm, cushy lap and stroke my hair? Did I inherit my full lips from her? Was sheas jealous andcompetitive as I am? Did she unconditionallylove my mother? There are so many things I will never know about my biological grandmother. And it hurts. Snapshot #2. This photocaptures the image ofmyothergrandmother,BabaDushney,round andwarm, standingin her domain, the kttchen. Her body faces the sink while her face is turned toward the camera; a small smile lingers on her lips. Perhaps she is preparing her deliciously fatteningpymhi(perogies), to be smothered in sourcream. Or maybe she iswashingthedishes, piled with scrapings we could not finish. My Babalooksshe same as she always has,except for a few more gray ham decorating her head. When I thinkofmygrandmother,I visualize
the conventionalUkrainianhousewife -- cookingand cleaning for her famtly,unquestioningly obeying her husband, speaktng mainly in her native language. I know that my Baba met my Didoin Germany,duringthewar. Didshemarry hunbecause she lovedhim,orbecausehe represented safety?Did she really want to come to Canada and begin a new life, or would she have preferred to remain in desolate Ukraine, living the only life she had known? How hard was it raising my father and my aunt in her new country? Snapshot #3. This next photo is one of my maternal grandfather, Dido Dushney, lying in his hospital bed, slowly being ravaged by the pneumonia that would kill hun. I am standing by my Dido's side, holding his hand, smiling at h, but silently cryinginmyhead. He is fralland gaunt in th~spicture. This is one of the last picturesofmygrandfather;itneverfadsto stir my heart with grief. One fond memory I have of my Dido is that everytime we visited him, he would always offer us chddrenLifesavers ,usuallythe butterscotch flavor. Iwas notpartialto butterscotch,but since they came from my Dido, they tasted delicious. I also remember hmonhis 'deathbed;Itold him that I loved him in Ukrainianand he said that he knew. But, therewas somuchmore Iwanted to say, that I couldn't articulate. I wanted htm to know how specialhe was to me, how the way he carried on tradtions from the old countryfascinated me. All those who have embodied the culture I have tried so hard to understand are now deceased. My parents have assimilatedinto Canadtancdture. They donot fullyunderstandwhat it is like to be Ukrainian in all respects. I have so many. questions,thoughts, - heartaches. I want to know everythlngaboutthe culture my grandparentswere borninto.I want to know their thowhts and feehgs on being Ukraifllan and ~anadian. I want to know it all, and yet, aU I can do is stare at these snapshots,these fragmentsoftime,and wonder what it will be like in the future, when I am reunited with my past.
The ground where I leapt Daniel Plouffe The breeze is my crown. The Storm Crow is ruled by nothing other than the winds, The Butterfly knows no sin The Leaf has no path to follow, Dove, SeagulandRobinlivem peace with the Swallow.
I feel comfort in knowing I w d never touch solid ground, My ears are overcome with the deafening sound. Not knowing what will happen after ths In total freedom, senseless bliss My mind could not feel more focused. Faces I've met fly past me on the may down M y kingdom was built m one day
Unknown and unprepared I s d e ; it is not within my control A plate wishing she was a cereal bowl. Earth's touch seems useless looking back Only when I lose a all do I gain something hrm By leaving my nest I find a worm.
My Pussy, Mv Power
Bus stop M. Brown Buzz cut Bomber jacket Big boots Belt buckle I'm waiting for a bus I'm alone, waitmg for a bus on a cnsp, cold Friday mght at a busy intersectionthat is f d a r to me, although I am a stranger - to it Agyratingbeat box on wheels pulls up before me. The window is down on the~assenzer side u and he (the passenger, the spectator, the star of the show with the blaring soundtrack to prove it) peers out at me with hsgust so I avoid his glare because, after all, I'm alone and I'm waiting for a bus. A hounding peal of laughter breaks the still coldair. 'What is that?' he gasps, his mean boyish grina tribute to his very own boyhoodperformance only now swellingto truth: aveteran of his sex. "No," he laughs, "what thejbck is that?" I don't spit at hun because it's not ladylikeand neither am I. I spit in his face because I wantmy dignity at his expense just as he had his dignity at mine. At least, that's what I tellmyself afterwards. I ran. I ran from bunas he peltedmewith the very truth he knew: "You bitch! Youfucking bitch! I'm going to kick your ass!" I ran to the nest bus stop, to my ephemeral embassy,safe,warm,ready to be birthedintomy desired destmation.
Karim Hasnem My Pussy, My Power My dtck-eatingflower You are not The blind, angry, howling Void. You are not The Absence of the Life-Giver You are The Garden in which all Humanity grows. You convince me that having a penis Totally blows. My Pussy, My Power. Our cycles synchronize And as Luna dictates Our Oysters return their Pearls ofgreat pnce Back to the Mother-Womb, Gaia My Pussy, My Power To the accusation "Vagma dentata" I reply Hakuna matata My Puwy, My Power
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Don Lodger Two flat, warm pints separate my stubby body from his tall torsoe. It smells like a dirty Mr. Clean floor anda soggy-coastertable as we spend the evening talkmg in cliches. The beer, our only sign of maniless as Canad~anfigure skatingilluminatesthe tv. 'Women suck," he says. I expressmy concurrence with a nod and a, "yeah, I wish I wasn't so attracted to them". Later I would feel conflicted from our talkhe is gay. As we walk in the 2a.m mr the warm beer comforts the chdl Montreal brings in January. He spends the night with me, basking in the flavour this foreign City. We walk on the squeaky snow. 2 0 C, through a french park. Even the trees smell of cigarrettes
Sixth-floor, Dana Porter, 6:45 p.m. Tom Bryce-Hart By the beautiful constant light ofthe greenhouse reflectedblue-pink shadowy by the snow I see the tiny people below scurryingquickly,wal!ungslow. Their breath steams before them in warm vaprourous clouds. Their shadows pace beside them growing, playing, s h r i h g upon the blue-pink snow I see A s and I wonder are they happy?and Do they know... ? That they should be. Because I will remember them alwaysas beauty wherever they go
Cheap girl M. Bowie Someday you will look in the mirror
Naked; with only the charm of a snake's bite I am lost and found, like a sparrow chasing a kite. Letting all go, taktng the first and last step Bit by bit my feet, toes and shoes crept I blew the world a lass From the ground whcrc I lcapt.
the man !ou brought home Ia>tmght is stdl in p u r Icd You are incapableof 101-e; all stupid people are. Enjoy it while it lasts, Your breasts won't always be perky . and people haw already begun to notice I low replaceableyouare.
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Hot pavement beat Rinm Andrews "Yeeeawwwwwl" Freakin' hippie. "I said yow! Yeeeeaawwwwwww! How you doin', little buddy? Ride of your life, I'm sure!" Wow, ifthts crazyguy doesn't take it easy, then I'm going to lose it. I begin to wonder how easy it is to exit from a moving vehicle, although I soon note that it's probably not such agoodideain this case. He's flymgso q ~ ~ c kdown ly this highway that any attempt to jump out would probably kill mc. I just hope that he doesn't do that before we hit the next town. "What do you think, brother? We're just flyid by all these cowfields now. What a ride; what a ride! Yeeeawwww!" "Um, yeah, thanks. Say, how long untd we hit the city?" try to placate hun, all the whde hoping that he doesn't really notice the nervousness inmy response.Thisguyis soonedge, I'm guessing that the slightest little thing might make him snap. I catch myself wondering just how fried his brain is, and asking myself if this is really the adventure that I'd beenlooking for. "Don't worry, little buddy. We'll have you down to Sioux Falls before that sun sets over those hills there. Then you can get out and enjoy the town, what there is of a. Never been a huge fan of the Sioux, but there are a few places to hangout. Heck, you're a cute little guy. Maybe you can find yourself a nice Sioux Falls fillic to spend the night with," he adds with a wink. I try not to wince. Creep. What luck I thinkto myself. From what I've seen so far, South Dakota is the very heart of redneck country,but halfwaythrough my travels I get picked up by some pot-smoking, tie-diewearing, thick-skinned hippie oldtimer. With the fervor that this guy is barrelhg down the road, he's either on something, or his brain is so fried fromyears ofabuse that some of it has turned into stuffing. I wonder if I'll survive the trip. .1< here isn't any sort of civilization formanymdes mthis part ofthe state,
and I've already promisedmyselfnot to get stuck out in the nuddle of nowhere. Especiallywhennightfallis coming. In this in this case,the lesser of two evils seems seemsto be sticking with the ride and justprayingto make it there safely Since~t'sprobably safernotto rock the already shaky boat, and on the outside I try not tolet him see that I'm hterally hangng on for dear life Tnstead, I just keep on smiling, and nod some sort of approval, hoping that this ride doesn't get any crazier thanit already is I drift off into thought, wondering how I got myself into this predicament. 'Yodregoingwhere?'' Jan&, one of my long-tune female fiends, has this incredible look on herfae. It boks as gshe's torn betweenpride in our fiendshz) ofme and asking me whether or not1needtogo to the hospital I'mginning inward&,as 1 know that she'll beproud OJ me when she gets ozw the initial shock. Witch hiking, " I npb. 'XL' the way amss the countr~.Ipbn to make it allthe way out and visit somefami4 in southern California, $1 can make it. Spend afew weeks on the coast, and see f 1 can Yjnd a way home. " 'Won)!" she rplies. 'That's coo4 J guess. I'lLmissyou so much! Doyou think you'Umakeit? Doyou thinkyou'llbesafeZ Areyougoing lyyoursep You aregoing to come back, aren'ryou?" "I'msure thathgoing to be saf, and sojar I'ze a h ~ qaccomplishedn,ha/ s 1'vesel my mindto,"l r & vwith agrin. 'T've ahmys wanted to do something crag like thir, Sandy, adyou knolu thafI ha~~e toget out of Connecticntfor anihih &$ore I lose my mind. I'm havingftmhere in coIlege sofar, bul I can't .Fend too much more time nith my headin the book. 1needto cntloare, and hitch-hiking out to Cali seems likejust the way togo. And I'mgoing to t y to be back before14, ro don 'r worly about mi~singme too much." 'Xlrz& u a g boy, "she responh. 'X regular Jack Kemuac-you are. Just gef yoursefthere saj(y, and be back in kmejir ,Jim'sbirthday in August. Bz&estpaq of theyear!" I glance ozar at my jriend, and jbr the jinttime it hits mejtst how much I'mgoing fo miss her. She's an English major here ~vithme at Wesleyan,and n m able lo pick
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odmy heray inspirationimmediateb.I'm a sign just gbd that she? still smiling that she must be taking it welL .Tan& ic one ofthe most bid back people I knoq and nothing ever seems to bother her. That? probab(y nhy, ~Il/ihr q yolatile l$es!yle, adre still such good fiends. I hope that 1 meelpeople like her a h g the n~ay. "Allright, little buddy. I Iere ya go, Sioux Falls safe and sound!" I wake out of my reverie to notice that my ride std has that half-crazed, drugged out grin on his face . . . and has also safely brought me to my destination. My adventuresomespirit is stillin tact, butthe reliefthat I begin to feel is beyond expression. "Umrn, thanks, guy. I appreciate the ride." I'm out of the car, and glad to have my feet on the pavement. "Don'tworry about it. Yeah, you have agood time, buddy! Be safe,and have fun," he says as he pulls away. Withmy feet firrnly on the ground, I stand for a moment watching hun drive away. A grin begins to break acrossmy face, and I shakemy headin amazementat my most recent adventure. I made it! Another test of spirit passed successfully, anotheradventure to dream about later. I can only wonder what will happen next. Still grinning, and with my feet pointed off towards downtown Sioux Falls, I can hardly wait to find out. -
Jain Redfearn We brush the bank of the pond pierce warrnworms,barely sqwrm ing, with dull hooks Over the edge of Uncle Greg's greencanoe we dip p d fingers to rinse the guts and dirt off Boys on the dock make agame count the sunfish they catch, release. By twelve o'clocknotice they catch the same fish because there are holes from beforc My sister, frog on a lily pad, watches with silent feet. Handed a rod to cast, hooks her first fish through the eye. I rip the hook from b h d jelly. She cries and wants to go back The pond softly forgotten mtheglimmcringflickofthemovie screen. Popcorn teethand CherryCoke choke past giggles and tongues. People slap mosquitoes dead, smart at the stmg on sunburned skm
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Cleaning up Hamilton Harbour Erin Gilrner
toxic chemicals such as PAHs, PCBs
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andothercancer-causingsubstances,
Anyone who has ever driven on the QEW through~amiltonhas beenhit by the gut-wrenchmg stench of the area's steel industry. If the pollution coming from the south side of I IamiltonHarbourhas ever concernedyou, youmay not be surprisedto learn that thereisdsoagreatdedofcmcernover the various toxics in the harbours waters. A team of Canadians including representativesfrom Envlronmenta Cafl;rda,areaindustrythemumcipality of Hamilton, and community stakeholdershave recognized the en vimnmentalthreatandcomplexproblemsintheharbourposed bym&iple types of pollution. The group, called the h d l e Reef ProjectImplementstion Team, has been gettmg together to discuss the extremely difficult task of how to clean a particularly filthy section of the harbour. Among the team members are also a few UW graduates. Since the 1980s. H d t o n Harbour has been listed as an "area of concern"intheGreatLakes.The harbour is polluted with high levels of
as well as various metals. Contaminants have entered the harbour over the years fromindustry,heavy highway traffic andwatershed tun-off. Half of them-offtotheharbouratanygiven time is composed of treated sewage from the four sewagetreatmentplants around the shorelme.This sewage i n flow contributes to nutrient butld-up inthelakethathascausedankcreasein algae levels causinganoxygenstarved environment. Allofthesecontammantsaffect the fish and wildlife According to the H d t o n H a r b o u r Remedlal Action Plan, co-ordmated by UV(I grad John Wall, before 1990, fish and birds "showed signs of toxic contamination with tumors, lesions and deformities." Nowadays, cleanup has resulted inadecreasein the number of fishand wildlife showingthese effects. The Randle Reef Project Implementation team is planning to implement a multi-dion dollar initiative to reduce levels of certaintoxics in the harbour. Environment Canada r e searcherandIJWchemistrygraduate Chris Marvin, who is studying contaminant levels in the harbour, has
been working with the team to help identify solutionsthatwill be botheconomicallyfeasib1eforindustryandgo~~ernment and environmentally responsible. It is challengingto find solutions with the greatest benefits t o all stakeholders involved. Accordingto Marvin, the committee has decided to permanently section offanareaof the harbour calledRandle Reef. Randle Reef is a smallarea on the south side of the harbour near the steel plants (StelcoandDofasco).Thisareais WITH COURTESY TO THE NATIONAL WATER RESEARCH INSTITLTE of pmcular concern because of the Shown is the Canada centre for inland waters on Randle Reef. reletively high levels of PAHs present compared to the rest of the harbour. iltonHarbour has become amodel for Theselevelsmay exlstbecausecoalgasi- ment money set aside through the finding "solutions to very very ve.ery fication plants of the past had dumped Great Lakes SustainabilityFund, but large amounts of chemicals into this we don't yet now if all the money will complex environmental problems." area,not reakingtheirdangers,potcn- be coming from these two sources Marvinnotesthat he is "unaware of any other simationswhere thereisa consult dtoaccumulateinsedment, or spread alone." Marvinand those involved cannot tation process such as we have here in outside the harbour. The solution to build a wall around be sure how the permanent barrier in I I d t o n where all of the different theareahas comeafter five years oftalks Randle Reef will affect contaminant stakeholdersworktogetheronat e c h and will take within two years and mi- levels in the rest of the harbour. They calproject."Headds, "people fromall lions of dollars to implement. The de- will continueto"see how the harbour around North Americalookat H a n d responds" before they judge itseffec- ton Harbour as amodel forthe consuld s ofthebamer construction havenot vet been finalized. nor have plans for tivenessand proceed. tationprocess." In the meantime, the Randle Reef money to finance the project. Marvin notes thatmuchof themoneywillcome Project Implementation Team's from "provincial and federal govern, method for solvlngproblemsinHam-
Spiders and taIIeworms: the fi ture
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Spider silk makes nano tubes
Scientisthavesolvedamaprproblem in photonics: how to make optical fiberssmallenough to cary light beams. Researchers at the U~xrersityof California are using spider silk to solve this problem. The process is similar to candle making in that the delicate silkthreadfromagant spider of Madagascar is glued to a piece of card and repeatedly dipped into a solution of glassy tetraethyl orthosdtcate. The coated fibers are thendried and baked at 420dcgreesC to burn away the silk. The coating shrinks leaving hollow sdtca tubes witha diameter onemicrometrewide. The next step will bc touse smaller silk from spiders in the Mlddle East and SouthEast Asia toproducc tubes lust tn-o nanomctrcs wide, 50,000 times smaller than the human hair! 'These tubes \\ill be useful to increase resolution in optical microscopesor usedasnanoscalctest tubes to suck up single molecules. Wireless chargers
Bytheendofthe year,pluggingin your cell phone to charge it will be a
thing of the past. Splash Power, a Britishcompany, has createdwirelesschargngdevices thatwill charge yourvarious "toys"all at once. The systemisa small flat mat thatls pluggedmto the mainelectricity supply. It works by generating a magnetic field which transfers the energy into a gadget with a Splash module. This then transforms the energy mto the direct current that the batteryuses to recharge 'Youpickup your phone, drop a on the pad and ~tcharges 'The pad does all the thinlung for you," exphedDavid\%%itewood,vice-president of business development for SplashPowcr The system will not even wipe credit cards if they arc accidentally placed on the pad. SplashPoweraims for the pads to be on sale at the end of this year for $25 to $50 US. One additive fits all
A biotech firm, Linguagcn, has &scoveredanaturalcompoundwhich can reduce the taste of sourness.This compounds could replace the extra fats,sugars,andsaltcommonlyadded toprocess foods and pharmaceuticals to mask bitter tastes. Bitter foods such as grapefruits, caffeine, ibuprofen release a protein calledgustducinwhchresults in "btttcmcss" signals being sent tu the brain. To reduce the "bitter" sipals being sent to the brain, this compound mill block the production of this protein. Tests on mice showed that with thls compound mice could not tell
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the difference behveena bitter solution andplainwater. The researchers tricdit themselves and found a made their coffee and p p e f n u t taste milder. These compounds are naturally found in mnous foods and will not need FDA approval w-hen added to foods in small amounts. Tapeworms reduce drug intake
A foot -long parasite may hold the key to reducing the amount of medi cmeswe consumed and thatare flushed into the enlironment Researchers at the Uni~ersityof \Y;iscmsm found that cychcguanosme monophosphate (cGMP) excreted by tapeworms, rcduc~sthe amount of intestma1contractions The researchers believe that adding this compound to medicines couldlengthen the amount of t m e they spend in the gut and increase the amount of medicme absorbed Normally, mammalian intestines contract between meals to clean out bacteria and waste T o sunwe many years m hosts' guts, parasites need to evcrctc cGMP m order to slow down the stomachcontractions and prolong their sunival John Oaks, one of the researchers, states that with some pills only one per cent of the drug is absorbed into the bloodstream The rest ends up m sew age or in the emironment The re searchers hope to "lou er the amount of drugs necessary for t r e a t q a n indt vidual and mtnimi7e environmental contammation "
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Varsity frosh juggle teams and textbooks Roohe Warriors face the challenges of a new school, a new city and a new chapter in their athletic lives Adam McGuire IMPRINT STAFF
It's never easy being the new ktd. Each fall, thousands of L:\\;.i~ewcomers are forced to adjust to nev phys~calsurroundings and the pressures ofacadcmics,as\vellasllawngto deal with what sccins like an endless list uf remedial and not-so-remedial tasks and reymnsibibtics. Tlic intensityofbeulgmfirstyear is oftenenough to make any frcshman curl up in the fetal posit~onandsob uncontrollably. I iomever for first-ycarrarsihathletes, this is only half the battle. The pressures of playing m the time consuming world of Tarsby athletics are simplymassive.Every rookie athlctc has a different perspective, a different background, and a whole new set of respoiwbilities to balance with their scolastic endeavours. ,. 1ake, for instance,thcperspective oâ&#x201A;Ź\Varriorswomen'svolleyballplayer Anneke Newman. Her experiences as a first-year athlete appear to be as normalas a first-year athlete's experiences can be,with one bigexception-she's almost 3,000 km from her hometown. Newman, a roolue centre, hails from Kingston, Jamaica. BecauseJamaica is not a heavily populated nation, Newman has had to adjust to the largescale lifestyle ofWaterloo. "Everythmg is so much larger here," said Newman. "Evcrythtng is on a bigger scale." Newman, &c many of her fellow rookie varsity athletes, did not get an abundance of playing time this season. While lack of court time often upsets or discouragesyoungathletes, Newman has been able to stay gounded and focused on her longrange goals as a member of the U\V volleyballprogram "This whole ycarwa5toprepare for nest seaton," she satd "I have to try
toget used to the different situations [on the court]." As for getting accustomed to Canadian culture, Nrwman says the trailsition has becn made easier because she has visited Canada on numerous occasions. I iowcrer, Newman says there are still substantla1cultural differcncesthat shehasencountercd.both on and vff the court. "It's a different culture," she sap. "'rhe coinpetitionis at aclifferent Icwl thenmhat I'm used to, but I lust really want to be a good athlete." Howcvcr, the pressures of beinga first-year athlete arc not limitcd to those who come from foreign soil. U\Y basketball rookie point guard Crystal hchardson's home town is closer than 1GngstoilJamaica;infact, it's closer than IGngston, O m & ) . Richardson, a first-year arts student, hails from Cambridge, so she's not forced to make the same cultural or geographicadjustmentsthat Newman had to. However, like many of her fellow rookies, Richardson has been forced to endure the tedious balance between sports and school.
The intensity of being - a first-year athlete isenough to make anyone curl up in the fetal position and sob uncontrollably.
"At first, it was a little bit overwhelming," said Kichardson, "but it got a lot easier, you learn how to manage time better "
Despite limng so close to U K , Richardson opted to live on campus instead of bravmg the oftell- bus^ commute from Cambridge 'I'hc combination of residence life \nth her close proAnity to home has
ycar,bothMattai~dTomha~-epro~lenunl~-er.?lty has to do it." 'l'he freshman guard also strugtheir abilities to work effectively t o gled with the notion of doing home gether work n hilc the team was on the road
Matt had a solid rookie campaip, despite the fact that his phi-in:: t m e was limited li\his role on the team. FTo\\ever, Matt undei-stands that his contributions to the team will grmc with experience."I knouthe things I have to work on," he said. \Then asked why he takes on both school and basketbal1,Matt has ax-ery simpleanswer. "l'm just not atapoint in my life where I want to stop playing basket-
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pressure of being a starting athlete in a high-profile varsity program, Richardson said that basketball has never become a burden. In fact, she seesbasketball as anything but a hindrance. "It's just something I love to do," shc said "!J3asketbaU] is a stress re liever " Stressis somethingthat every first year athlete has toendure,but for Matt leswetter, the pressures of varsity sportsare trulpunique l he WTaterloo nativc has lust completed h s rookie seasonasaguard forthe men's basketball team, aclub that is coached by his father(andUWhalloffamebasketbal1 player) 'I'om. W e some may have forseenproblemswiththefdycon nectlon on the Warnors squad this
"He has nothing but good advice togiveme,"saidMattabouthiscoach and father. "He's always helped me out." Tom has also been able to enjoy the experience of coachiryzhis - son, as he hasmadeaconscious effortto treat Matt as he would any other player "It's always a concern in terms of falmessandobjectivity,"s;udthecoach "He's a good basketball player, he works hard " Aside from the fact that his father is hi5 coach, Matt has bccn forced to face some of the samc hardships as his rookie peers. "It was tough at the beginning to balance it out," said Matt of h s a c a demic and athletlc responsibilities, "but everyone who playa sports at
As for Matt's dad Tom, the 1-eteran coach of the Warriors men's basketball teak offersa dtfferent perspective to the plight of the first-year student athlete. "It's a big jump in the speed the game is played and the strength you needtoplaythegame," hesaid. "Most rookies come in [to varsity sports] needing to make a big jump in a physicalaspect, acognitiveaspect, and in terms of the intensity they play with." The coachhas seennumerous firstyear success stories in his 11years as UWs head basketball coach. However,Tomrealizes that athletics must be a secondarypriorityfor his players. "To have players come in and plal basketballand f l d out is no good tc the program," he said. "They're stu~ dent-athletes, in that order, bccausc they're students first." arncgu~re@~mpr~nt uwaterloo ca
Columbia Icefields survey seeks student input Rod McLachlan IMPRINT STAFF
The much anticipated Columbia Icefields and Physical Actir-itiesComplcs renovations are right on track accordingto campus rccrcatloncoordinator of fitness,aquaticsand coilditioning Rebecca \Thite. This means that stucleiit input is being sought on what types and branda of equipment should be bought for the ncw facilities. A survey has beenlaunched and tl~osewhoarcgatherin~ the responses are going to the students for input instead of waiting for the students to come to them. 'Wc surveyed the students who werc using the equipment.. . whde they were using the equipment," said
\\kite. So far she said there has becn a good response with 100 surveys having been completed by staff, faculty, and students. As expected, students have filled out roughly 80 per cent of the sun7eys."Every group is represented [inthis process]. Asmuch response as possible is wonderful," noted \Yhite. Or-erall surrey responses to date haw been "nearly identical" on what users would likc to see at the new faciltics. \Y'hae went on to say that eachfachtywouldha~~eafocus. 'There will be no free weights at the [CIF facilityl,l,"but instead they will be locatedat the PAC for example.As well those who have completed surveys have almost unanimouslv indicated that they want a stnct dress code im-
posed. "All of our facilitiesarc focused on students and [these] new facilities willrelicvc that pressure [for increased user space]." 'l'he new lounge will be one of these student-oriented facilities. It is being created out of the old upper \veight room in the PAC and will be used as a place for students to relay and study dunngthe day. During the eereningit will be used toaugment muchneedcdclassrootnspace for c m pus recrcationprograms. Sun-eps mill be accepted right up until April 18 and constructmn is scheduled to be wrapped up this fall. Studcnts can speakdirectlyto conditioning room staff or can contact K h t e at rgwhitc@uwaterloo.ca rmclachlan@~mpr~nt.uwaterloo.ca
A construction worker labours high above the ground on tht north campus' newest addition. Student input is starting to rol into the athletics department on what equipment is wanted.
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Broomball final to cap off a stellar term start, but were unable to keep thcir unbcatcnrecordasthey sufferedaloss in the final match of the regular seaThe broomball season kicked off its son,after scvcralothervetyclo~egames. The Stallions eventually took the winter campaign amidst much anticipatmn, with six teams lining up to top seed going into the playoffs, but battle for thc top honours. As usual, with only two points COT-eringthe the sport drew a fine mixture of play- remaining teams, the championship ers: veterans withmany years ofexpe- surely rcmains open indeed. The term'sgamcsmcrc dominated ricnce, top athletes who occasionally by aninflux of fresh talent,~vithmanp play at national1c1-el andnovices with teams fieldingplayersnew to campus little more than a term's eqeriencc rec. Most notable was the level of bchind them. Withall the teams beingve.erye~.efily international involrement - the matched, the season's game play Endangered Species, captained by provcd to be closer than anticipated. broomball veteran Bob Heringer, fielded severalJapanese players, and Previous champions, the Stallions in the Desert, looked strong from the were unlucky not to finish in the top Mark Morris
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The 2003 UW Marsden trophy award winner (female athlete of the year), Robin Leslie (left), is picturedwith hertrophy that she received last Friday at the varsity athletics banquet. Lesliewasalso a 2003 OUAAIIStar. As captain of the field hockey team she was co-MVP with teammate Erin Morton. Judy McCrae (right), director of athletics and recreational services, presented Lesliewith this prestigiousaward. As well, McCrae announced Leslie's induction into the UW Sports Hall of Fame.
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TOP CORNER HOCKEY Every year around this time, playoff pools spring up in offices throughout the country. The name of the game ts to identify the teams that you think will make it through three rounds and then focus on the players on these teams. The logic behind this sensible approach is that, of course, the more games that the team plays, the more likely the players on that team will rackup pomts Here is a list of top players to pickunder the adjusted scoring system of two points for every goal and one point for an assist Includedm-brackets is eachplayer's adjusted point total this season, with seven games left to go. Det 1. SergeiFedorov(104) Det 2. Brett Hull (101) D d 3. Mike Modano (107) Col4. Peter Forsberg (118) Ott 5. Manan I-Iossa (118) Det 6. Brendan Shanahan (94) Ott 7. D m e l Alfredsson (100) Col8.Joe Sakic (79) Van 9. Markus Naslund (140) Van 10. Todd Bertuzzi (136) Col11. M a n Hejduk (128) Det 12.Nicklas Lidstrom (77) D d 13 Ed Guenn (75) Tor 14 Mats Sundm (98) Tam 15.Vmcent Lecavalier(l01) NJ 16. Pat& Elias (72) Ott 17. Radek Bonk (70) Van 18. Brendan Mornson (94) Bos 19.Joe Thomton (129) Ott 20. MarunHavlat (72) Tor 21. AlexanderMogilny (102) Ott 22. Todd Whte (81) Dd23.Jere Lehtinen (75) NJ 24 Jamie Langenbrunner (70) NJ 25 Joe Nieuwendyk (56) Tor26 Owen Nolan (78) Da127 Jason Arnott (64) Co128 Alex Tangmy (84) Bos 29. Glen Murray (126) Phi 30 John LeClair (39) Phi 31 Tony Amonte (61) NJ 32.Jeff Fnesen (66) Tam 33 Mattin St 1,ows (98) Was 34.JaromrJagr (109) St135 Pavol Demttra (116) Det 36 Steve Yzerman (7) Det 37 Pave1Datsyuk (53) Ott 38 Bryan Smoliskf (65) Dal39 Sergei Zubov (62) NJ 40 John Madden (59) NJ 41 Scott Gomez (59) Tam 42 Brad Richards (84) Van 43. Trevor Linden (55) Phi 44 Jeremy Roenickfi5) Det 45 I IennkZetterberg (59) Mm 46 Marian Gaborik (90) Ana 47 Paul Kariya (100) Tam 48. Vaclav Prospal (94) D d 49 Pierre Turgeon (54) D d 50 Brendan Morrow (59) Det 51 Tomas Holmstrom (54) Ott 52. Wade Redden (53) St1 53. Doug Weight (74) Col54. StevenReinprecht(62)
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Rangers sweep Greyhounds to dog pound Rod McLachlan
wardDerekRoyput on a dinic on how to frustrate an opponent. He was a thorn in the Greyhounds side allnight Can you hear the sound?In Sault Saint as he registered a goal and three assists. Marie, Kitchener Rangers' head coach Withless thanaminuteseparadngDidde Peter DeBoer shouldhave been able to from another shutout, Hounds centre hearthedeafeningsoundof thousands Petr Taticek believed that he had a sure of brooms from fans back home in goalwhen hereleasedashottowardsthe Kitchener on Wednesday night as h s wide-openleftside.However,the RangRange~~swepttheGreyhounds.DeBoer ers'o~reragegoalierobbed h m with his had many of his players to thank as the lghtning quickglovehand. Dickie hRangerscruised throughthe firstround ished the game with 33 savcs earning ofthe On~oHocke~~League's (Om) himhis secondconsecutiveshutoutand playoffs.Butno onedeservedashowof theRangersa40victory. appreciationfrom his coach more than Proving that hc is a playoff road Rangers'goaltender ScottDickie. warrioraswell,Dickiestoodonhishead Withhis solid playinallfourgames, to secureanother first star selection.He Dickie provedhis&ics were stopped37 shotsas theRangwrongafterhe helped his club erswentontodefeattheGreydominatethesttu&ngGreyhounds 2-1. hounds who have had to enInWednesday'sresult,the dure a coachingchangeaswell Rangershung onto a3-21ead for much of the game until as the loss of their captain to Marcus Smith added an ininjury in recent weeks. In an otherwisesolid playoff team, surance tally at 1904 of the Dickie was thought to be bv third to secure the swee~with sceptics the weakchink in his Jeff Johnston a 4 2 win. team's post-season armour. By shutRoy and Smith both finished the dngdowntheSm'soffencejntheseries' fourth game with two points. The lirst two games and holdmg the oppo- KitchenersquadalsooutshottheGreysition to just a single goal in the third hounds N28. Dickieallowed only three match, he almost ensured his team goals dunng the four games, and subwould sweep the Greyhounds. He re- sequently he frustrated the Soo offencorded 122minutes and 51 seconds of sive unit by himself. shutout hockey to start this playoff seThe Guelph Storm are a possible ries. His effort makes it easy to see why adversaryof the Rangers in the second Dickie is becoming the idng on the round. 'Ihs potential serieswouldonly Rangers'hopeful championshipcake. heighten the tension of the hghway If anyone knows what Kitchends sevenrivalry. netmindercanaccomplish,itis cutrent WarriorsgoaltenderJeffJohnston.Last year,Johnstonbacked-upDickieon the Rangers beforeJohnston jojnedupwith Waterloo'smen's hockey team this year. Johnstonplayed in two games with the Rangers last year and 17 matches two years ago. "He played a totally different style from me," said Johnston, a &st-year UW Kinesiology student. "I learned a lot like puck control. Scotty is playing welland [SteveEmingcrandTJ.Eason] really help him out." This past regular season has been a magicalone forthe Rangers.Theywere tops in the OHL by fishing their 68 ,-esmsonwitha4-14-5-3record.A~ welltheyaecutrentlyrankedtkirdinthe CanadianHockeyLeague's topten. One might thinkthat UW's Johnston might bewonderingwhy fatehasbeen so cruel to hun and what a difference a year can I make. '"rhmgs didn'tworkoutbecause IMPRINTSTAFF
they didn't want to have two overage goaltenders." However, "everyone would like to be there on that [playoff] ride," admitted ~ohnstoi. In the &st game of the series, last Friday,theRangers cameoutofthegate timidlyand did not find their strideundl the secondperiod on their way to a 3-0 win. With numerous scraps, it was apparent fromthe outset that nolovewas going to be lost between these two tearns.Dickieearneda~tstarselection by deliveringa 32 saveperformance. The following night, Rangers for-
KitchenerRangersrightwinger Gregory Campbellensuresthat Soo centerman Petr Taticek knows he is there in Saturday's action at the Kitchener Auditorium. Anotherdream match-upwould be againstthe Londonhghts in the second round. However, the Rangerswill now have to wait to see who they will play next.
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Rangers Derek Roy ties up winger Jeff Doyle in front of Dickie.
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