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specific changes she would like to see, Trickev stressed the necessity to not "let the pa;t predict the future, b~t let it shape it in a different way." In response to - a variety of questions about how to best handle multiculturalism at a diverse campus like UW's, she found that the exposure to different groups made "[her] the rich one and a better person." Society's failure to embrace this, Trickev says, a "failure of creativl ty... and -the most important component of societal change." She noted that while Canada is perhaps a better supporter of diversity, we are still guilty of \vide-sptead "democratic racism," which involves "holding racist values, but alongside democracy." Trickev's assessment continued with the idea that ~ociety is hurt by not attempting to find more accutate definitions of race. "If students talked about math and chemistry with the same misinformation they'd be thrown out of [school]." She also faulted "colourblindness" as a doublc.-cdged sword, saying tllat "if we continue to think that not talking about race hurts everyone, ,ve'll be in trouble." Because we are unabJe to admit that racism exists, we've shifted to [class conflict] even though we certainly know that it's actually both."

In a small room hidden away in the of tl1e SLC, a sparse yet enrlmsiastic group of students learned all about a woman \yho is quickly becoming one of the most talked about citizens of our countn-o Counes,· of the Univetslty of W'aterloo's Young Lib~rals group, Liberal party leader candidate j\f:.utha Hall Findlay eame to U\Vl on j\fonday, March 20 to let her potential supporters what she is ali about. Hall Findlav a46 vear··oldlavlver business~ woman, Canadian sIlver rnedali;t j~ the 1976 national ski championships and mother of duee, does have a world of em:e to teach Camldians :;thout. She is also the founder of The General Counsel Group, vice president of the Poli~y of the Ontario Women's Liberal Comtnisgion and an aCtive participant in Equal Voice, a multi-partisan organization committed to promoting greater female involvement in politics. Despite all these ,;"oddly accomplishments, Han FindJay does openly admit that her political experience .is limited. Although she came surprisingly dose to becoming the Liberal MP for Newmarket--Aurora in 2004, then-Conservative party member Belinda Stronach won that seat in the Hou~e of Commons by a slim margin of votes. After being acclaimed again a$ the Liberal candidate in 2005, Hall FindLw looked forv-ard to tepresenting Ne\vmarket and }\.urora in OW.!\va, but after Stronach's decision to cross the floor and join the Liberal ranks, HaH Findlay decided to step aside, thus once ago-din missing the opportunity to be an MP in the House of Commons. Up until earlier on Monday when Liberal MP lohn Godfrev announced his intent to run for leadership of the Liberal party, Hall Findlay was the only candidate officially entered into the patty leadership race. Nledia outlets have been hyping names of \velJkllO\vn Liberal players since immediately fol lowing former Prime l'vunister Paul Mar-tin's announced resignation from the positjon of party leader on January 23, 2006, the night of the 2006 federal election. Hall Findlay, however, considers her rclative1v unknown status to be an asset. . "I have no baggage," Hall Findlay explains when asked about her somewhat lack of political expetience, "and therefore I can make it clear that I am a Liberal, first and foremost." \"xlllle many other leadership candidates may already have strong political ties and diques within the party, Hall Findlay is a new face and a new voice, both of which she vie\vs as very important qualities in a Liberal party leader at this time. In addition, she includes substimce, intelligence, integrity and a solid track record to her lengthy jist'of what she belieyes a leader must possess.

See DIVERSITY, page 5

See LIBERALS, page 9

Minnijean Brown Trickey answers questions from Dr. Carl Bon Tempo about the importance of embracing diversity and the need to remove "democratic racism" from Canada. This interview was part of the UW Diversity Campaign. Jacqueline McKoy IMPRINT STAFF

Civil rights pioneer Minnijean Brown Trickey engaged a UW audience last Wednesday evening during this term's final Diversity Campaign lecture. A member of the «Uttle Rock Nine" group of teenagers that led the way towards public school desegtegation in 1950s Arkansas, Trickey drew on her wide range of actiyism and outreach experiences to help demystify racism in North America. In a discussion moderated bv history Prof. Carl Bon Tempo, Ttickey iir~t painted a picture of a child's view of American racial discrimination a half-century ago, noting that "[she] didn't know about segregation, just about embarrassment." Racism soon became much more obvious to her as she and eight other black students took the opportunity';" to transfer to Little Rock's, formerly all-Caucasian Central High School afrer desegregation became mandator\' in 1955. Her decision, -w'hich at the time she saw as "notlung really complicated ... just as simple as signing up to go to a new school," suddenly thrust her group of students and Arkansas in general into the media's spotlight. Trickey commented that at the time "tlle only black Ichild] anyone had seen on TV was' Buckwheat. .. now everyone had to see real black children," and th~ir struggle for basic free-

doms. Unlike other areas of desegregation, Trickey suggested, "schooL.was sacred" and that "going to school with whites meant that l\ve were] capable of thought and learning, which scares people." Media attention aside, Trickey and other Arkansas .blacks became targets for a staggering increase in hate crimes, even at Central High itself, to the point that the 101st Airborne Division was summoned to protect the lives of the school's black students. Trickev's efforts to stay dear of controversv at the 'school failed w'hen she was expelled later that year for allegedly spilling food on a white student. She later finished high school at another integrated school in New York, thereafter attending the University of Southern Illinois. Reminding the audience that activism is not "all about guns, marches and getting arrested," she spoke of fighting housing discrimination at the university, as well as travelling across the country to participate in anti-segregation sit-ins. Upon graduadng with a journalism degree, Trickey's race induced yet another barrier - her inability to cm-er segregated government meetings. l\part from Bon Tempo's questioning, Trickey explored a variety of discrimination's far-reaching effects both during an audience Q&A session and in an exclusive interview with Imprint. \"X'hen asked what

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Martha ~tew~t may be a mote experienced chef, but the three rontestants in The Apprentice Chef 2 would probably be welcome in mote kitchens. UW Food Services hdd the second instaUmentof this contest in the REV Great Hall Ott Sunday. March 19 at 6:30p.m. with about 40 spectators in attendam::e. The co~ottlinators based the event on the fact that. once they leave residence, first-year students ru:egoingto find themselves havingtopre.pare

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The evening was more than just a cooi..mg contest; theorgaitizerseducated the enetgetk:at~ tendee300nutritionandhowtomakemealstbat are easJ~ inexpensive and well-balanced. Linda &1:ton, a c04trwting dietician who helped plan the event, especially liked the interactive nature of the event; "It; tatgeted students who ru:en't yetcooldngbutueaboutto... willbe] ." a pretty big part of .living on Barton also rewarded those who answered hetquestiollS bygivingthemsmaU prizes. which the students were extremely eager to win. For example, a student wnotold Barton about her very reakfast was rewlittded with erstudentsreceivedinstant fibre soup, pedometers. and Toucan Sam dolls. At the end of the night. they also raffled off gift baskets filled with treats. The essentially a 'COmpetition betweett three <-CUffi-chefS who ,prepared :meals in the theme of i<btealditst tOt dinner~' . PaulaSchnutr,1B French'and art hiswry. was the firstto-compete.As i vegew:ianand apk:kyeatet, she has more trouble finding meal ideas. ''I didn"t do anythlng too, difficult," she said in tesponse to her given task of yogurt, cereal and fruit, <'It's not like I didn't know how to cook.." LciaSalttman,lB psychology, was the second 'ra Grover, winner of the Apprentice Chef 2. Hrves up a delicious crepe. competitor to be put to work, malcingomeletres determined by applause. Three got prizes such cream of mushroom soup and sweet crepes with meese, black beans and vegetables. She with fresh strawhetries.·~I had fun," she said, as Tupperware sets. a crepe pan. a cookie-mnk~ foundthatsheeat& diffetentiy at school than she ing kit,. silicon spatulas and gift certificates for did living at home; <'It was a good time;' she said. "1 attended the first one; that's why I wanted to food services. when asked what she thought of the contest. patticipate ••. I was kind of nervous." The students wh'!) were there got to taste The firuIl competitor was Ira G:rovcr, 1B arts and business, who made savoury crepes 'With the dishes prepated,c with the winner, Grover. vlecat@lmprint.uwsterloo.ca

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anti,..homophob'ia posters vanish from poster run Ashley Csanady IMPRINT STAFF

In response to the string of homophobic graffiti around crunpus" Gays and Lesbians of Waterloo (GLOW)attemptedtoinstigateapostercampaign

The above is one'Ofthepostersfromthe Canadian Rainbow Health coalition's Outlive campaign. The posters feature basictipsto help you live long followed by the words: Whatever you want. As long as you omlive homopho.bia.

tocolinteractthevisiblehomophobia on campus. The posters, provided by the Canadian Rainbow HealthCoalition,attivedFebruary7,butwerelost when GLOW attetnpted to use Feds' postel: run service to put them up across campus. The posters Md been delivered to the Feds office on February 8, when GLOW representatives say they booked a poster run, only to find out their posters acceded their allocated space. They contacted Lawrence Lam, vice president intemal for Peds, and re-booked the poster run forFebruary15. Thepostersfailed togo up once again. Membersof GLOW were assured that the posters would go up OVet reading week. After· the break. members of GLOW searched <:atnpus for the posters. They failed to find any of the lru:ge. artistic posters preaching the slogan «Outlive homophobia" anywhereon campus. Excluding the places where the posters had been put personally by members of GLOW, they had never been seen on campus. Members of GLOW tried to talk to Lam about the problem again. but were directed to Melissa. ann, matketing director tot Feds. After repeatedmeetings 'With ann, Peter MacDonald,a 2B political science student, said. "It was

esmblished that thetnistikewas Peds'. Theposrers , wete supposed togo up and theydidn\ n they would refund the poster run. bu . aIreadybeenchatged. thenextpostertunweapplied fm; it [the fee] wouldn't be charged "The Fedsofferis haskallynot tochatgeus for losing 120 ll+fg<!, glossy; coloured posters,') added MacDonald. The 300 posters GLOW received from the CanadianRainbow Health Coalition were to be distributed across campus,mresidences. evenat Laurier. However, since the posters \fere lost, only 80 posters have been put up and this waS donepersonallybyvariousmembetsof GLOW and suppo . ., ations 04 campus. Macl)o "the goal of the campaign was to minimize the negative effect of recent incidences of visible homophobia on campus on the student body." He commented that the loss of the posters "occurted in a climate where there is increased visible homophobia on campus, it occurred in the same term when there were allegations that a report that Feds released contained homophobic~angu.age. then a more or less politically defanged eampaign mysteriously vanished without a real explanation or apology." He added that '''Ies a sign tImt Feds really wasn't interested in helping the service {referring to GLOWJ."

See GLOW, page 5

February 18 provided quite the surprise to a local farmer in Limburg, Belgium. One of Maurice· Peetets's sh .rth to a six-legged Iamb! Incredible the lamb shows it is alive and healthy- with 11 few extra limbs kicking around. The lamb is still unable to walk, though a local veterinarian said the lamb is. healthy. Peeter's says he'n wait f01" the lamb, who I have dubbed Legs, to grow stronger before he'll . It a while befote this little lamb is following anyone to school - but if he did. what a great "show and tell". that would be!

United States A family cat in SUID.rllerville. South Carolina, fell from un 80-foot high tree, landed on 1ts feet and ran away uninjured. The cat, named Piper, climbed up the giant me March 13. After the family attempted to coax it down fot eight days, it nnally got fed up and jumped! A home video shows the cat falling and clipping a few branches on the way down. Scottie Colvin, Pipet's shaken owner, S$id when. she saw her falling from the tree, "I just wanted to catch herl I know that's stupid because I probably would h1lvegotten killed. but I just wanted to catth her." Piper was found hidingunder a carafter her traumatic experience. A veterinarian exatnin.ed her and said she was fine aftet her huge fcll.. Fot YO\1 skeptics out there, here's proof that cats not only land on their feet, but also have nine lives. I wonder if iPiper has to wear mimns in order to acquire pie~

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Want in on the latest craze in Moscow? Pig , racing is were it's ad Russian piglets are being trained by - get this -}intllU1lcoaches for thenew craze that's sweeping the nation - pig radng. They are trained at the Sport Pig Centre, yes, that's right - the Sport Pig CcnJre~ in Mosrow. The piglets are trained in everything from running to swimming to "pig-ball" competition. The piglets are only a month old when they begin training, according to Alexei Sharshkov, presi~ dent of the Federation of Sport Pig Brceeders.. He explained thatcurrentlythe pigs «are going . through general training and only after that will they take up different specialist sport!>, The piglets are looked after by coaches and zoo ps.ychologists." Pigs have psychologists now? Pig racing tracks have sprung up all over Russia to accommodate the craze - which isn't jnst in Moscow anymore. Thousands of people Hocked to Shanghai. China, to watch the pig Ofj'tnpicslast year. I'mnotgoingto.lie,I wentto-aplgandducR f.ace at the Western fair last fall" but something is telling me that this is going a little far. Sport Pig Centres, pig psychologists, what's n-ext,. pig Olympics? --;- wait they already have that! No mattet how I poke fun, I would kill to see a '''pig-hall'' competition - I wonder if they shoot them out of canons? aesanady@impril'lt.uwaterloo.ca

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half of my grandchildren, I thank you. On behalf of the young people here, I thank you:' Suzuki added, "I'm assured by Paul Gipe who met with me and the premier that this puts us Wlly above California." Gipe, aninternationalexpertinwind energy, worked with the Ontario SustainableEnergy Association to develop a plan forthe Ontario Power Authority. Sustainable Technology Education Program presented Gipe for a speech lastOctoberandWPIRG'sOne-Tonne Challenge hostedbySuzuki in February. Suzuki willbe returning to UW April25 to promote his new autobiography.

'Clean, sustainable energy will soon be the norm across Ontario. That's the promise made in an announcement March 21, 2006 in Cambridge by Premier Dalton McGuinty. McGuinty was joined by Energy Minister Donna Cansfifld and famed environnlentalist DavidSuzuki atPhotowatt, asolarpanel company based in the Waterloo region and France. Ontario now joins the 'likes of Germany, Portugal and South Korea who provide stanqard offer contracts to those who want to build small renewable power supplies. This gives individuals, companies and co-operatives a fixed price for the' power that IIThis position supplies the electricity grid. " Ontario as the North "This 'will position Ontario as the North American leader in energy inAmerican leader in novation," McGuinty said, which was metwith applause from industry leaders energy innovationll' and sustainable-energyadvocates. "We are creating a: market for a new cash -.:.Dalton McGuinty crop for Ontario farmers," he added, Premier of Ontario making reference to the day's protest by farmers at Queen's Park who are raising the issue of an income crisis. The European model has farmers The Ontario Power Authority,regenerating much of the supply in local centlv under fire from environmental distribution systems. Looking at some of the students . groups forrecommendfugnewnuclear generation, will pay 11 cents per klloin the crowd, McGuinty stated, "in renewable technologies, young people . watt-hout for wind, biomass or small are in a position to lead and they have hydroelectric power and 42 cents for solar, with a higher price possible for to." Summarizing a Fitst Nations story peak-how production. John Straube, regarding future generations, Cansfield professorof builclingsciencewho gave added, "We all have a responsibility to walk carefully." a public lecture last week, stated that the mqst cost-effective wind solutions Suzuki, .who WllS there'supporting are offshore from Lake Huron, costing the plan, agreed with Cansfield's views. less than three cents rather than 10-12 "rm t:urning 70 in a few days," Suzuki cents for small turbines. said; "I have nothing to gain. On be-

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UW President David Johnston, who atrended the announcement, was thrilled with the news. "I have particular interest in this' as I live on a farm;' Johnston remarked. ''The Universi,ty of Waterloo has probably the greatest concentration of research on renewable technologies ... we'll be looking constantly at how we can use renewable energies at the l1l:1iversity;' Johnston told Imprint, after discussing the announcement with David Johnson, a professor of engineering who works with students on wind research at a facility on Erb Street. Johnson believes that industry in Ontario must now manufacture these technologies as most are currently done overseas. "Hopefully Ontariobased businesses will come in and use Waterloo students who are doing this research,"Johnsonsaid. Simon Boone, with the Peterborough company Generation Solar commented that "our business isn't going to change overnighL .Alot of people we see day to dayare saying the governmenl:has to support us. This is a great step." "'Comml1l:1ity Renewable Energy Waterloo (CREW) was delighted to attend the official announcement at Photowatt in Cambridge and help rhlse local awareness;' said Sandra Mooibroek, calling the steps "bold and . historic." CREW will be following up with the announcement, hosting Doug Fyfe,general manager of Countryiide Energy Co-op to discuss howindividual<; can profit from wind projects in light of standard offer contracts. The free event will take place Wednesday, March 29 at I<itchener Public Library . on Queen Street, from 7-9 p.m. dhiggins@imprinLuwaterloo.ca

FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2006

UW got lectured on God and sex the mainstream association of sexwith love. Next,Dr. Erbdlscussed thenature of the body and what it means to behuDr. Peter Erb, a professor of religion man.Brushingasidethereductivenotion andcultureatWlIfridLaurier University, of either brain or psyche capturing the explored the theological perspectiveon human essence, he went on to argue human sexuality this past Wednesday that instead of limiting ourselves to in the Great Hall of the SLC. such constricted definitions, we should Dr. Erb began the lecture with a consider the bigger picture. He noted brief discussion of the "adolescent that in Christian vocabulary we could mentality" prevalent in modern sonever grasp a concise definition of the ciety. In his opinion, our common body, as it has not reached its true form tendency to momentarily classify - the God-like ~ty intended by its bottom-line arguments as either acceptable or inadequate is insufficient . creator. In his final comments, Dr. Erb for the treatment of philosophical amalgamated all preceding discussions problems. Instead, he suggested a and addressed the issue of spiritual systematic approach to the controgrowth. He stated that loving oneself versial topic, organizing the lecture (m a broader, metaphysical sense) and into three parts - the relationship seeking carnal knowledge leads us to between knowledge and love, the the desire to learn more about others nature and definition of the human and extend ourlove to them. Thiscom-_ body and love as the means for humunalapproachtoloveandknowledge man growth. promotes growth within oneself and Dr. Erb classified knowledge and one's society, fulfilling our basic needs love as manifestations of desire and of loving and being loved, learning central factors of human nature. He and being 'studied' is quintessentially went on to say that both spring from human from a philosophical and, spethe basic human need for companionci£caIly, theological perspective. ship-our thirst for knowledge unites Dr. Erb recommended appreus with ideas and our quest for love yields spiritual unification. He did, hending the facts instead of trying to comprehend the rules. He restated however. present the main distinction that neither sex nor self-appreciation between knowledge and love: knowlare unacceptable or taboo-itis only edge creates a paradoxical link to the when people selfishly exploit carnal subject of desire while love directly knowledge and self-love that they joins with it. He then proceeded to lose their sense of community and, say that sexual intercourse is, in fact, inevitably, corrupt their ltumanity. carnal knowledge, which contradicts

Kick-ass innovation at UW

Alex Korotin

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From left: Ramadan EI-Shatshat, John Conklin, Kailey Ma and Matt Strickalnd hosted a student and professor a&A pannel about fourth-year engineering design projects.

UW FIT is a student think tank that is geared towards channelling the problem solving skills of university students into real world problems. It The South Campus Hall Festival hosted the UW Innovate conference Room was packed with engineernot just to inspire students to create ing students March 22 for the first and exceptional and innovative fourth UWInnovate conference. Hosted year design projects, but to help by the UW Forum (or Independent them come up with ideas and meet Thought (UW FIT), the conference professors and other students that encouraged engineering students to begin sett:ingtheir minds on ideas for theycouldpotentiallyworkwith. The event was co-ordinated by Rajat Suri their fourth-year design project. and Kirsten Robinson. When Imprint The evening began with a few opening words from the dean of engi- . spokewithSuriaboutthefourthyear lived in Northern Ontario during . neering, Adel Sedta, followed by a talk design projects and UW Innovate, the Vietnam War due to her pacihe said that the "main goal was for from professor of economics, Larry fism and was involved with social Smith, on how to achieve innovative engineering students to improve the work on native reserves. She served success. There was then a tradeshow quality of [the fourth year design as Bill Clinton's Deputy Assistant project] experience. People are really portion of the conference where Secretary of the Department of the interested in what's going on here." students could view some finished Interior responsible for diversity He mentioned thatit gives students a design project exhibits as well as meet and also received the US Congreschance to, "come out of the comfort other students with similar interests. sional Medal for her record of After refreshments, there was a talk zone" and see all the exhibits and volunteerism. When asked if she meet other students. by the chairman and era of Penguin plans to slow down her activities Automated Systems Inc., Greg Baiden, LarrySmith, who already speaks to for retirement, she replied that "[she his classes abourthe fourth-yeardesign on design in the industry. The evening doesn't] think that you can stop wi:apped up with a panel discussion project, wasinvitedtotheeventtospeak being involved.. .it's not a sacrifice, on innovative success, and he did not questionandanswerwith three students it's how you live." disappoint. Hediscu&sed ways to come whobadcompletedtheirdesignprojects, Currently, she lives in Arkansas, and Pro£ Ramadan El-Shatshat, the up with exceptional design projects, and is continuing her work for civil co-ordinator for the fourth-year design and he hoped to reduce the number rights and social equality. She is also of "routine" projects, of which there projects in the electrical and computer working on her autobiography, tenare too many. He emphasized that an engineering department. tatively entitled, Mixed Blessing: Living Andrew Smart IMPRINT STAFF

DiversitY: activist Speaks at uW continued from Cover

To a student who commented that she "really hasn't learned anything [about her own culture] from Black History M:onth," Trickey responded with the concern that young people, blacks in particular, are "intentionally miseducated" about their place in the world by the media's narrow focus on hip-hop culture. She feels that "it shuts down intellectualism" and "makes culture discrete rather than universal." In her work with various school boards she has helped to create a core black history curriculum, including lesser-known, but far-reaching, accomplishments. ''There is no more 'American' history story than Little Rock," she says. Since her days of activism in the 1960s, Trikey has been involved in a variety of outreach initiatives. Trickey

When asked what he was going to do to rectify the situation, Lam said, ''They would try to get more [posters]," but that "they are not going to go dumpster diving for posters that vanished." GLOW, however, had explained thatin order to get the posters, they had to appeal several times to the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition to send them for free. In another statement, Lam stated that "we have not had any issues with subsequent poster runs;' and that Feds "now [does] spot checks on posters to make sure they all go up."

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exceptional design project would 1>< one that gave a student that extra edgt in a very competitive industry, as then are many people all over the world whc aretaughtthesameengineeringcu:tripIlum. Pro£ Smith was tryingto "increas< the number of kick-ass fourth-yeru design projects," by which he mean1 "projects that were exceptional am accelerated [the student's] career." The second key-note speaker Greg Baiden, who is a mining engineer. was invited by one of his co-of students to talk about the innovation! in that industry as well as others. H( discussed remote mining machine! where one operator could be control ling a machine that was in the mine! from kilometers away. He had ever presented this technology atJohn Basset theatre in Toronto, where ~ machines in Sudbury were operate( from hundreds of kilometers away. The UW Innovate conferenc( inspired many engineers and gav( them ideas to come up with "kickass" fourth-year design projects. Sur is hopes that this will be the first of possibly many annual UW Inn()vau conferences to come.

When asked if they were going to attempt another poster run, MacDonald replied, "I'm not. We haven't run another poster with Feds since then, to my knowledge." The posters in question are part of a series distributed by the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition. There are six posters in total, featuring everything from a gay couple kissing chaste1yon the cheek to an oldwoman stating that ''homophobia makes me sick." All feature health tips and state at the end "no matter what it takes, outlive homophobia." For more information about the camPaign, visit http://outlive.ca acsanady@imprint.uwaterloo.ca .

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TheEngineeringSocietyhosts a wheelchair basketball tournament every term to r;;rise money for the Brampton Participation House. Usually the tournament is a class vs. class challenge but this time the Engineering Society is opening up participation to anyone on campus. The organizers are hoping that the Feds councillors and faculty members from the arts, math, environmental studies, applied health sciences, science and independent studies departments will all create their own teams. Each team needs at least five players and there is no skill level required, so everyone is welcome. The event will be taking place on March 30 sometime after 5 p.m. in the CIF fitness centre. Participants are asked to raise at least $50 each for theit team. If you are interested in registering, e-mail Istrick1@engmail.uwaterloo.caortalkwith the secretary in theEngSoc office. Faculty salary agreement reached

Negotiators for UW and the faculty association recently reached an agreement on salaries for the next two years. This new salary settlement applies to faculty, unionized staff members and non-union staff members. Starting on May 1, the new agreement will take effect and on the same date for the next

two years faculty members will be given a raise. Each year the faculty members will be given a 3.2 per cent pay increase, which will increase the minimum salary to $61,832 a year. An annual anomalies fund will also be created for each faculty. This fund will be 5 per cent of the Faculty's Selective Increase pool and will be used to correct any individual salary anomalies. A two per cent salary increase instead of one week vacation will also be allowed once the new salary settlement takes effect.

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WIPAC, also known as the Waterloo Israel Public Mfairs Club, is holding two ,events in the upcoming week. The first event is a set of mock Israeli elections. This event will be held on Monday, March 27, beside Brubakers. , Also on Monday, March 27, a speaker will be coming to the University of Waterloo to give a lecture and show a film. The speaker is Joshua Faudem, an Israeli director who will be showing his award-winning film Blues l?Y the Beach. The film's main focus is on the effects of New Feds awards announced terror and the aftermath that the people who Two new awards, the Commitree of Presidents' , experience it go through. Student Life Award and the "One Waterloo" Faudem began production of this film piversity Award, have been announced by the to show that there is more to Israel than the Federation of Students and will be awarded at bloodshed seen on the news, filming it at Mike's Place, a bar in Tel Aviv. During filming, next year's Feds Leadership Awards Banquet. ,The Committee of Presidents' Student however, a suicide bomber detonated himself Life Award will be given to a faculty student inside the bar, killing a participant in the film, a society that has made large contributions to'life waitress named Dominique Hass, and injuring on campus throughout the year. Alongwith the its producer. Faudem then decided to film the award, a cash donation will be made to a charity effects in the days following the bombing and of the winner's choice. how people were impacted by it. The "One Waterloo" Diversity Award will The film has won many awards including the ,be awarded to a group or a combination of Conflict and Resolution Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival and the Red groups that have promoted diversity on the UW campus through events that they have Wagon Award at the Fire Island International hosted. The Student Life Office and the Feds Awards. It was also an official selection at the will jointly award the winning group a plaque Sarasota Film Festival and the Newport Beach and a cash award. International Film Festival. Feds VP internal Lawrence Lam said, ''There WIPAC's main concern is to bring a betrer are so many impre~sive events put on hy our understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict student groups on this campus and it's about to campus by presenting each side of the situtime we gave them some recognition in addition ation equally. to the individuals that we recognize already," The film and lecture will be presented in the of these new awards. Art!> Lecture BUilding in Room 116 at 7 p.m.

Green night at Bomber

"Green" Bomber Night, hosted by the University of Waterloo Sustainability Project (UWSp), brought out a large crowd on what would usually be a quiet night before the next "Legendary Bomber Wednesdays." On Tuesday, March 14, a crowd from a range of faculties came out to see the live performances of local superstars Balance Pact, Red Balloon and Sexy Tiger Party. Les Loh, UWSP's director of events, said, ''We were impressed with the turnout and 'the fact that there is so much excitement on campus towards environmentalism and sustainability." The' event was aimed at not only increasing awareness about various campus-wide environmental efforts and activities: it was also a charity event to raise funds for the UW Food Bank and the treatment of children with leprosy in Africa's Ivory Coast. Screenager "tree hugger" UWSP t-shirts were sold as part of the fundraising efforts. Each of the environmental working groups brought along display boards and spoke of their term activities and ways to get involved. The "green" title may cause some confusion being that the event took place just days before St. Paddy's Day, although the theme of the night had more to do with "green" environmentalism; however, MC Seamus O'Higgins did bring some Irish spirit to the night with his leprechaun get-up. Irish dancing was replaced with ES-style interpretive dancing and so the only other thing absent was the green beer! etarswell@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Robotics to> rock the region uw to host region's first robotics competition Alexa Higgins IMPRINT INTERN

The robot: universal dance move, or outlet for scientific genius? This weekend, March 23-25, you can catch a glimpse of the latter. The first Robotics Waterloo Regional is taking place in UW's Physical Activities Complex. The objective is clear: to build a robot that can successfully rage against the other machines. But this is easier said than done. In a six-week . time frame, teams made up of 15 to 25 students and a few encouraging engineer mentors are responsible for constructing a robot while using only a standard kit of parts and abiding by a strict set of rules. The matches are intense. This year, three robot alliances have been formed to battle against the opposition. Teams must direct their robots to pick up a series of balls and shoot "them through hoops, one of which is eight feet high. But it gets tougher. Each match only lasts a total of two minutes and te!l seconds. This' weekend, 30 teams from across Ontario and the southern United States will enter their robots into .the aforementioned competitions designed by Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers. Teams will

promising students, can help them to pursue a future in a variety of technological fields. In 1992, 28 teams in New Hampshire participated in the origi- . nal FIRST Robotics Competition called the Maize Craze. Today, there are a total of 1,125 teams involved (though only 30 are competing in this weekend's competition). The ~ competitions have grown tre1I\endously over the years, so much that this weekend's schedule is practically . busting at the seams. The pits open at 8 a.m. on Friday. After the opening ceremonies, the qualificatiori rounds begin. By 4 p.m. these rounds are over for the day and an awards ceremony Will take place. Hopefully, the participants get a good sleep that night, because on Saturday the competition really heats up. The morning mirrors Friday's events, but at 11:30 a.m. the match-ups will be.randomly selected. Surrounded br cameras and cheering farrs, the competitors will engage in the elimjnation round - the final event. Even with the . elaborate awards ceremony following this event, the competition is about . more than just winning. Participants test their knowledge of technology, build lasting friendships and just have a good time. ' Dean Kamen, one of the competition's designers, clearly sums

pro .~~<':llP;'... . ~~~~~< problem-solving skills. Thanks to technology are celebratea.. Where generoUs. sponsors like Research young people dream of becoming' In Motian and the Government of science and technology heroes." Ontario, FIRST is also able to offer ahiggins@imprint.uwaterloo.ca scholarships that when awarded to .

WPlRG, CTRL·A, Asian Focus and Konnichiwa Japan joined together to fold 1,000 cranes for peace on March 20 and 21. This annual event, called the Yuma peace project is held to remem.ber the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The Yume peace project is based On the experience of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who survived the bombings at the age of two.

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Stephen Cla:rk~on tackled the question of North American integration Tuesday night at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, hostediO co-operation with the Canadian Institute of InternationalAffairs. A professor of political economy at the University of Toronto, Clarkson was described by CIGI Director of Research Darnel Schwanen as a «prominent,·proli~c, even provoca. tive scholar." Originally scneduled to talk about his book, "The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics," Clarks.on instead turned his attention toward the question, "Does North America Exist?" and offered a thi~e-partanswer, using his backgtoWld in European integration as ibasis. «North America is less than meets the eye when you look at institutions," said Clarkson, citing NAFTA's lack of an executive body and :its restricted role as dispute mediator as evidence for the insubstantiality of North American institutions. Compared to the European Union, such bodies do not have the same backbone. His second point stated, "North America is more than meets the eye when you look at economy," citing the homogenization of standards surrounding banks, pharmaceuticals,

and agro-business between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Yet, he suggests that what is occurring is not an example of ''North Americanizatlon," but a global phenomenon. "North America is more or less what it looks like when it comes to inter-governmental negDtiations since 9/11." Commenting on the border agreements between the three countries, Clarkson stated, ''I think it: reduces the asymmetry of power. [America's} security depends on the co-operation of Canada and Mexico." He fUrther suggested that the defence model has "regressed to what it was like during the Cold War;' with Mexico out of the picture and Canada back in. ''What we can say is that North America is not an'embryonic European Union, even though there is extensive co-operation between governments," concluded Clarkson. He believes that what has occurred is a give-and-take, with "the major power enforcing its standards with the two peripheral governments, in order [for them) to gain access to the American economy." He also fielded questions on high-profile issues such as the lumber dispute, American debt, and Chinese interest in American oil. The presentation was one of the free public events regularly held at the CIGI's Erb Street centre. . cmiller@imprint.uwaterlooo.ca

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at The Ontario government has recently announced a new energy plan called the St.andard Offer Initiative, made possible through the Ontario Power Authority and the Ontario Energy Board. 11lis plan would make it easier for small op~rators to generate power and sell it back into the electricity grid. Among the key recommendations, the ;ipproval process would be much quia"er.lvucrc>-projectswouldlimited to a m;<..'timum of 10M\1(7 and would earn either 11 cents per kilowatt hour or 42 cents per kilovv1l.tt hour for solar power. Offering these subsidized prices makes rrricropowergeneration that much more attractive for small operators. UW is an ideal location for rrricrogeneration. In fact, the Sustainable Technology Education Project (STEP) has taken baby steps, including installing a 1950W array on Fed Hall. STEP hopes to install solar thermal heaters on the PAC building and to install some demonstration wind turbines on campus. The big problem, as 'N'ith funding. Currently, STEP on cash and kind donations cO'rnt.>!el:e their proj!..'<:ts. estimates that its current project generates enough pO\\'er to meet two-thirds of the energy re(:juirernet1ts for an efficient home. the Standard Offer Initiative, STF.P could add over 500 more arrays of size to the Fed HaH proje~t before hitting the lOMW limit. Witb the government's announcementtoboosttnicro-generation,I would recommend that the university make plans to join the game. 1be S'I'EP array will be joined on campus by the Centre forAdvanccdPhorovoltaicDevicesand Systems building currendy under construction next to Burt Matthews Hall. Our campus is an ideal proving ground for avarietyof alternative energy project'S. In addition to lots of sunlight, there is plenty of wind and biomass generation could also work. As well, as power a home to many disciplines of research,manyexperimentalrrricro-generation techniques could be perfected before hitting the mass market This project need not cost extra money. Instead, the university could establish a revolving fund. Every time an energy efficiencyis made - everything from replacing inefficient light bulbs, to leaky windows or power-saving initia-路 rives -- money is saved. A portion of the money saved could. be set aside to flind new energy saving initiatives. The system could work the same way when installing micro-generation systems. When a solar-array or wind tmbine is built, perhaps with a one-time capital grant from either the university or an outside funding agency, the money that is saved or generated could be paid fOf\\.'lU"d for other generation projects. The Ontario government's plan opens the door for a myriad of possibilities. As a forward thinking institution that likes to stay on the cutting edge, this energy plan sounds perfect for the University of Waterloo. nmoogksouiis@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Being bilingual is also something that Hall Findlay claims to be "tres, tres important/' yet she makes it dear that it is not only important to speak French, hut also to understand French. "\'I7e have the opportunity now for the Liberal party to do far, far more for the prodnce of Quebec and we will lose more support if we do not acknowledge the differences between Quebec and the rest of Canada," explains Hall Findlay. Hall Findlay also took the time to express her opinions em several other hot topics 1n the Canadian political realm, from ber stance against a tiered health care system to her position against Canadian involvement in Iraq. Most notably, however, the leadership candidate focused on her thoughts regarding Canada and the environment, as

she stated that if Canadians want to pin her on one issue, then we should brand her as environmentally friendly. "Prosperity and progress are not prosperity and progress if the bottom line isn't a clean environment," Hall Findlay said. She does, however, admit that it is not enough to simply say that the environment is important, as \ve have to recognize the economic realities as \vell. "r\ huge part of our solution is not in creating alternate solutions but in conserving," explains the Liberal leader candidate. As a result of the rather obvious gender imbal~nce in attendance at the talk, Hall Findlay also discussed the issue of female participation in politics. She bel.ieves that these disproportionate numbers are an important concern as she does not sec this as being simply a generational Issue, nor strictly a

Liberal party issue. According to Hall Findlay, the barriers against women entering politics at a public level will not falter until society begins to applaud men for taking on responsibilities in the household in the same manner that women receive this respect. She hopes that her participation in Equal Voice helps to expose the need to encourage more strong females in politics and that she is also doing her part by leading by example. After being asked about her opinion on the comparisons being drawn by the media between potential leader candidate Michael Ignatieff and former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Hall Findlay boldly points out that "Trudeau doesn't necessarilv have to be a guy anymore." ' Above all, Hall Findlay makes her stance on the current state of her party very clear by plairJy stating

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opinion@imprint.uwatcrloo.ca Opinion Editor: Wasim Parkar Opinion Assistant: Vacant

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The key to productivity

Vol. 28, No. 32

The art of ftnding self-motivation through tools of mass distraction

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Besides sacrificing most of my central nervous system to caffeine-related shakes, the biggest task of this job has been effective time management. I am the leader of the paper, with no boss as it were and nobody to give me direction. My volunteers frequently offer ideas, but for the most part I'm left to shape the future of the paper. As a result, I find most days beginning wi.th the creation of a to-do list. This is, of course, after the obligatory six cigarettes and an extralarge coffee. When you're in university; you have exams and projects. Though they may be the bane of your existence, they represent a sort of direction. There are a set number of tasks for you to complete, and a relatively clear way to go about it_ Whether directed work is harder or easier than free work is not the question. They are

both difficult to excel at, but they require drastically different strategies. In school, people find regimented studying routines (or perhaps binge drinking disguised as studying) useful. I used to study by osmosis - hold the book until the knowledge passed to my hands. Now I'm directionless. I have no books to absorb and no tests to take, save for the ones I create myself So how have I prepared myself for this unstructured lifestyle? Oddly enough, I've found video games to be the best training. While normally thought of as a waste of rime, I've found video games to be a wonderfulaid for training your self-motivation skills - particularly the newer, open-ended games. In addition to giving you the opportunity to righteously destroy things, they pro-vide a virtL1al independent working environment. There are a series of goals, but multiple ways to accomplish them. The choice of paths is up to you and your enterprising young mind. Massive multiplayer online role-playing games (11MORPGs) tend to be good for this - although news suggests the opposite. Provided you're not locked in the basement with a case of Jolt playing World of Warcraft for

48 hours straight, MMORPGs can provide a stimulating open-ended experience. You set your own goals (say, level 60) and achieve them accordingly. That's essentially what I'm living - a consequenceQsh) free existence. I could, in theory, sit and makenewspaperswithoutu:yingtoimprove Irl.print and still cut a paycheque. But somehow I can't. I'm driven to constantly find new ways to level up, ... err, ... improve my newspaper. Just like sandbox games where somehow you find goals to achieve, either find all the hidden packages in Grand Theft Auto, or build a successful white mage in Final Fantasy };''1. When we're encouraged to ere-ate goals to have fun in a game, it happens. Unfortunately some people have trouble findingthis same encouragementinlife. I dOn'tac.:tL1a1ly think my work is like a gdffie (though sometimes I'm tempted to jump on some heads), but I fed tl1e same rush whenI'm pioneering a new initiative for ul1printas \\l1en I am hunting elusive monsters in Anarchy Online. I don't know exactly what I'll achieve, but I know it'll be something good - something satisfying. editor@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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After reading Imprint from the week of March 6, 2006, I was pleased to read about how UW would not be following Lakehead's initiative of banning Wi-h across campus. However, in last week's Tntprint, a student wrote a letter stating that "the publication or group until such time as the material has radlation of electromagnetic fields is a problem been.distributed in an issue of imprint, or ii1¥m'lItdeclares that is especially harmful to younger people who tbeir intent not to publish the materiallne fulJ text of this have fast growing tissues," and further went on to "brreement is available upon re<.juest praise the Lakehead University president on his ef· Imprint docs not guarantee to publish articles, photoforts. Her statement about the harmful effects of graphs, letters or advertising. Material may not be publishecl, I electromagnetic radiation is entirely true; however, at the discretion of Imprillt, if that material is deemed to be . it is completely out of context. libelous orin contravention withI"'L'Jrillfs policies with referThe statements made in that lett<-'! not only ence to our code of ethics and journalistic standards. solidify people's misconceptions about the efl"'p,i"t is published every Friday during fall and winter fects of radiation, but also make people neurotic terms, and every second Friday during the spring term. Intprillt worrying about things they cannot see. I want to reserves rhe right to screen, edit and refuse advertising. One briefly dissect the common misunderstanding of copy pef customer. Imprint ISSN 0706-7380. Imprint CDN radiation and the dangers involved in it. Firstly, I Pub Mail Product Sales Agreement no. 4D06S122. just want to make it completely clear that thL'!e are several types of electromagnetic radiation, and Next board meeting: not all are l>..armful and cause devastating effect:s. To be announced The types of radiation that actually cause cdl.ular

or chromosomal damage have short wavelengths - veryshortwavelengtbs. Short enough that there ate more than one needed to fully penetrate DNA and actually cause double strand breaks; the type of cellular damage that can lead to cancer and! or death. The length of Wi-fi wavelengths is in the radio frequency spectrum (specifically at 2.4GHz) with waves spanning a few centimetres to about a metre. Secondly, in the letter, the writer makes it seem like there can be devastating effects of this radlation many years down the road; this is completely untrue. If you know anythi.ng alx)Ut radiation you know that if it is a high energy radiationits harmful effects v.>ill be evident within hours. For lower energy radiation the effects \vill still be devastating, but will take at most two months to take effect The electromagnetic "''aves give..'1 off by a \'V'i-fi port are approximately one-tenth to one one-hlrodredth of the power of cell phone s.ignals. Youhaveagreaterchanceof devclopinganenlarged thyroid or leukemia or even a still bom child from a simple X-ray at the doctor's office. Therefore, it is nearly impossible {()f these radio \vavcs that are at a low enL'fgy level and an extremely long wavelength to be causing DNA double stnmd breaks that cause the devastating efiects of radiat-ion. If you are that wOlTied about "being a guinea pig" then maybe you should statt wearing a tin foil hat on campus. And oh y(~ah, don't fC)1'get about not using those other devices

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that use similar RF frequencies-like thatnifty cell phone in your pocket, or the Blue Tooth hC'ddset you use or that cordless phone you walk around the house ,vith (the latter two ,rod Wi-fi use the same signal range of 2.4GJ":Iz). I just thought tllat it is important to get rid of the idea that a mad scientist is using radiation to create horribly modified creatures with 10 eyes and three sets of arms, it just doesn't happen. FUl"thermore, has anyone thought that maybe there is something else playing a mle in Lakehead's ban on Wi..fi, like oh I don't know, money maybe; perhaps the president of Lakehead has some alternate business interests that seem to be affected by his campus having free Wi·-6? In my opinion, itJtprintshould not be printing people's letters that have absolutely no hard evi.dence to back these claims. This type of letter is the reason that we have such grave misconceptions of radiation and its effects. One can also argue t.1-tatRF signals seem to.be herping mankind; life expectancy has risen steadily over the past century, along with the widespread use of these signals. So don't just write a letter saying that radiation is bad and will cause cancer and blah blah in us in the future, do a little research and re)llize how you are comparing apples to oranges here. -

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JU A debate has been raging amongst a group of my friends. No, it's not cOllcerningvariouspolitical cartoons, freedom of the press, Stephen Harper's photo ops in Afghanistan or any of the other politically charged fodder that usually cover the pages of opinion sections everywhere. It's about whether Emilv Ifaines, lead singer of Metric, is hot. From there the debate branched out into supermodeIs and even Angelina Jolie, leading to one friend of mine being she had "terrible" taste in women hecause 8h" thought Angelina Jolie ""r.,j',-,,''p not "hot." discussing the recent issue of Fair with the same girl. She was pointing out the fact that Sienna Miller (who poses topless in the issue), probably one of the hottest starlets in Hollywood, has a weird body. Tills got me thinking. Why are girls so critical of each

other? Tabloids, which are mainly read by females, cons tantly tear apart celebrities for having cellulite, bad skin and even wrinkles. These are natural parts of being a woman, so why, as a sex, can we be so critical of these "Haws?" Another friend asked me the other day whether I would rather take my clothes off in front of a man Of a woman. [ replied, "man" without much thought. I would fee! alot more judged, naked and exposed, in front of a woman than a man. I'vfost of the girls in the conversation agreed with me, stating that "girls are too critical, guys are just happy that you are naked." Typically, it is thought that the impossible beauty standards set in Hollywood are the products of the patriarchal society in which we live. It seems to me, however, that these standards are created more by other women d1an they are by men. \Vomen's beauty standards for other women seem a lot higher than those that men set for them. It's not just magazines that, tear women's tiny flaws apart, how often do you hear girls point out minute flaws in celebrities and their peers alike? Frankly, women can be bitches,

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but why are we so critical of one another? Shouldn't we be -- to be a tad trite - building each other up, not tearing each other down? Who cares if Sienna Miller has a "weird torso" or Britney hasn'tlost the baby weight yet? Even if they are celebrities, they are teal wom·en as well. These negativeattitudes toward celebrities' looks transfcr to the rcal world as wen. A woman shouldn't have to feel selfconscious while naked in front of other women, fearing that she will notice, and judge, the same "flaws" she notices in front of the mirror. Whenever vou notice a "flaw" in someone else, it can be reassuring to think that even someone as beautiful as Sienna .Miller isn't perfect. Instead of noticing these features of other women's bodies as "flaws" we should instead see them as differences; as the things that make all of us unique. So next time you see Cameron Diaz's acne glaring at you from the cover of Star, push aside the vindication you feel when you realize that even one of Charlie's angels has acne and remember -she's just a person. acsanady@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Entrance examinations are something I'm sure you are all familiar ",1th. Whether for entry into a private school, university or a post-grad position, we've all nill into them at one time or another. But aside from these scenarios and the occasional secret society, entrance exams also playa large role in one other area: immigration. This is not a new thing, of course, and it is a re<.luirement for many _. if not most countries in the world. It is " necessary process as well: every cOlmtry has th.eir own distinct culture, norms and laws, and it is important for them to ensure t..~at people who wish to live within their borders understand and agree to abide by the practices that make L~at country unique. Last week, however, the Nether· lands changed tlus process slightly. No longer will potential immigran ts go through the dull process of multiple choice tests -. instead, the Immigration Ministry has upgraded their entrance exam to include CDs, a photo album of famous Dutch citizens and an hour and a half long movie. This move has caused controversy in the Netherlands; not because people dislike this embracing of technology, but because of the content of the mandatory video. TI1e video is a showcase of Dutch culture, displaying openly for potential immigrants the full extent of what it means to be a Dutch citizen. As per the video, this includes being accepiing of two gay men kissing in the middle of a public park and

a topless woman emerging from a swim and wandering onto the midst a crowded beach - two scenarios which both appear in the video. The underlying message of the video is clear: "Have a problem with this? Well, the Netherlands may not be the place for you." . Now, this is a very interesting idea - and an efficient way of filtering the immigration process down to those whose personal ideologies fall \vithin the broad spectrum of the national culture. While some people may not like it, it is a method that will ensure that potentialimmigral1ts know what they are getting into when they decide to make the cross-border move.

... a path where being "Canadian" would eventually have no meaning beyond the slab of land upon which you were born.

But what about Canada? Should we, as a nation, begin to take similar steps in an attempt to maintain our own cultural identify? Could we? \Xlhile it may seem like a form of suppressing people who don't fall within the guidelines of whatitmeans to be a Canadian - which could be easily dismissed as "weeding out the undesirables" --- this approach has its merits. In our ever more technocratic world, cultures and societies are blending into each other at a higher download speed then ever before. As we Inove faster towards the creation

of a global culture, our own individual uniqueness as a nation is slowly being stripped away. As it is, we are already seeing more and more shades of "American-ness" creeping into our media and society - a path where being "Canadian" would eventually have no meaning beyond the slab of land upon which you were born. As time goes on, protecting our national culture will become a much bigger issue. However, could we realistically make a similar video, showcasing the culture that is "Canada?" I don't think so. The Netherlands's film is already over an hour and a half long, during which time they show "this i~ who and what we are." Canada would have to make a video that was epic in length due to the fact that it's simply not possible to say "TIus is Canada:' without the addendulTI " ... but it is also this, and this, and this ... " ad nausearn. Canada's feature film. would need to present everything about who and what we are as Canadians. It would have to portray same sex marriages being performed. It would have to explain everything from medicare to income tax to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It would need to give equal time to each and every cultural and spiritual community that makes up the tightly interwoven fabric that forms our national identity. The Netherl~nds has taken their O\vn unique route to ensure that they can protect their national identity. \':rhether other countries will follow a similar paL~ remains to be seen, but it may be necessary for Canada to take similar steps so that potential , cit:izens better understand the patchwork of Canadian identities when they decide. to pursue a maple leaf of their own. gbarclay@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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James Bond is suave; not rude

To the editor, In a recent television interview,James Bond actor Daniel Craig was asked what he thought of the many life-long James Bond fans that were less than satisfied when he was chosen to play d1e role of 007. His two word reply was sin1plythis: "Screw them." Cfranscript at: http://extratv.warnerbros. com/v2/ news/0306/09 /2/ text. hmll.)

I wish to make it known to you and your readers that I found Mr. Craig's remarks particularly tasteless and offensive and they are a clear sign of the man's poor- judgment as an actor in the public eye. Does he not realize thatloyal James Bond fans have every right to be dissatisfied with the choices producers make, particularly where it applies to the actor they choose for a role like 007? \Vhat is most contemptible about his brusque remarks is that he \vrongfully directed them towards so many fans who are mothers, wives, grandparents and children. In conclusion, I would like to say that any feeling I had about Mr. Craig or about boycotting his first turn as James Bond are now doubly strong; and I am that much more committed to the grassroots efforts to see that

Casillo Rl}ya/e is a box office failure. I urge anyone reading this letter who values common decency to join me in this boycott. -- Susan Ling Po

laurier women are valuable

To the edit01; I'm writing in response to the article about Waterloo u'O!lJe?1 and Laurier )}JomeIJ, written bv the dateless second year UW boy. . First of all, I'm not that familiar with the inner workings of the UW subculture, but in four years at Laurier I, nor any of my friends have ever heard or acknowledged an aesthetic superiorin; of Laurier's female body

to that of Waterloo's. The creative forces behind that little ditty, my friends, are all yours. What I find most interesting about this entire article is the recof,'11ition and admission that you, the UW population, label your own in such a derogatory manner. Even more fascinating .still, are your complaints about the lack of confidence found in your female body. If the U\V men can't find someone to date perhaps they should reconsider their interesting courting ritual of label, shame and complain. Secondly, let's talk aboutvour need to drag La~rier down to y~ur leveL Apparently (according to you) Laurier women are a bunch of brainless bimbos while your own female body is comprised of intelligent uggo;s that should "step up." The fixation that you have created on Laurier as

pretty and dumb is as ignorant as the claims you make of your own. I find this entire generalizing concept so absurd that the only rebuttal I will offer is this: Fuck your ridiculous "grading system" on behalf of all 'Waterloo/Laurier female students. \Ve know who we are and what we are, without random attempts by men to "rescue us" from the labels they themselves create for us. In an idealistic world our male counterparts (who are also here at university to broaden their scope of tht wr;rld) would appreciate that none of us are either. We defy their categoJ;izations and their attempts to label us and pit us against each other. \Ve ate worth more and deserve better. -- Kate Casselman 4A English and global studies Wilfrid Laurier University

Cole needs to layoff the whisky

To the editor, \\'hat the shit IS Russel Cole on about? Hev, whish dink dick in the dumps, \vhat's yo;r gig? You've got an unrelenting, devastating erection and it's driving you to push your tripe down our throats. What were you attempting to impart on us by detailing the troubles of an apparent Viagra junkie? Oh yes, I feel for this sad soul, a victim of "Penile Poison," and unfortunately, it's out of rhe pharmacy's hands. Yeah-that's trouble. Really, anything that's hindering us m?Jes from maintaining huge boners should be immediately purged. I'm trading my two wheels ~ for a click prescription post-haste. You're a slug. Please stop writmg. -

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To the editor; I came across l'vlike McCubbin's letter, "The PAC is not 'Muscle Beach'" and felt compelled to interpret it f~r the general reader audience, hecause really, we all had to read his letter at least three times to get his point. So, what I think he was trying to say was: pt<1 a shirt on ,whm you IIJork oM lllan! Such is the beauty of brevi tv. Wait - this is what he was t~ying to say, fight? -

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Workshop antics

To the editor; TIle last few issues of Imprint have contained letters to the editor discussing, in part, the current situation and the future of the workshop in environmental studies. I am reluctant to entcr the discussion, but as supervisor of this facility, I think that it's necessary to clarify a couple of points

and state plans and proposals for the shop following the departure of architecture from this faculty. As the School of Architecture moved to Cambridge, many pieces of equipment were involved with the move, but a great deal of infrastructure, machinery and tools remain in this shop and they will remain. The workshop and I ~1ll continue to provide all support necessary for the construction of student models and other areas of graduate and undergraduate research within environmental studies. Aside from the serious loss of services suffered if the shop was converted to a student lounge or computer lab, as suggested by lYIr. Liang, the sin1ple costs of these renovations make the conversions quite unreasonable. The shop is important for many projects in environmental. studies. Besides structural and landscape models, tile shop also serves ES students working in studies of tree growt.h, water collection and analysis and other issues of environmental research. I appreciate the support from Messrs, Tsang and Adams and it is true that the shop is essential for the safe and supervised construction of Planning models. The large landscape models could not possibly have been created at the kitchen table using a bag of goodies from Michael's Crafts. Concerning new directions in the shop, a great deal of attention is currently being given to the concepts of sustainability in design, construction, agriculture and many other areas of human intervention that impact upon the environment. Experiments and research in sustainability can be conducted in this shop and it's time to evaluate the resources and potential that this shop offers and move ahead to develop a facility that will the serve the faculty of environmental studies in new ways. We have had generous financial support from \V'Il.SEF and I trust that we can count on continued support from this fund.

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Last Friday, I found myself ,vithout an imminent project to complete, lab to write up or any drive to do even the slightest bit of homework. Instead, I thought I'd take advantage of the situation by Hipping through the three channels that my parents' cable-less teleyisioll picks up. To mj' utter surprise, the CBC actually had something worth watching. I gucss because it's been so long since I've bad the chance to v.-atch an'," TV, I hadn't realized that Friday nights ar~ rammed with comedy which, again to my utter surprise, was pretty funny! Then again, perhaps 1 shouldn't be so taken aback that. For one reason or another. the habit of producing a dispro number of top-notch comedians pleasure of North American audknces. From Dan \krovd to Martin Short to to rim CarfeY, it's faIrlv clear that there must be s;>111cthin\:> 'in the w~tter ,-_. or '" us funny. heer -- LIp here that makes Yet to my it seems like c\'ery single one of thesc classic entertainers has h'ad to make it in the 'United States before any Canadi,m gives a shit. Caney specifically has talked about how little support he received in Canada as a struggling (but obyiously very which in ,1 way has alienated the Great \Iihite N'orth. has twu quite unfortunate drawbacks. First of all, like Carrey, our complete L

lack of support for comedy leads to some pretty pissed-off comedians that don't exactly spread the best image of Canada. It also makes us look like a bunch of band,yagon路 hoppers, a shortcoming that acts as a double-edged sword not only by damaging the reputation of our ability to recognize talent, but also by discrediting the talent currently performing as well. And I must admit, after Friday, that talent has never looked brighter. The other issue for comedianI'. in Canada is the lack of opportunity to make an impression on a Canadian audience. Other than the CBC, hmv many specials are there out there that showcases a variety of stand-up comics? ComedyNow used to, but they always seemed to And people with half a~ hou~'s worth of jokes to fill an hour-long 5ho\\: The Just for Laughs festival does little to showcase Canadian performers, they tend to focus on foreign acts despite a golden opportunity to do so. Thus, for once I must applaud the CBC. For two prime-time hours Fe week, in prime time mind you, they feature Canadians performing ill front of Canadian audiences spanning from coast to coast, performing Canadian humour (and that's more than just rbyming off anecdotes about how cold it It's abl~ut time get to show off what they have to offer in terms of entertainment without having to migrating to New York or Los Angeles. After all, wouldn't it be nice if the only "selling out" Canadian comedians had do any I11nre invohTd the tickets to their performances in from of a supportive, hometown cro'.vd?

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SHlUVEUID & Every week I talk about my boys in blue -- that is, the Conservative party of Canada, Well, this week I'd like to shift the focus onto mv other

boys in blue. I'm talking, of course, ab~ut the mighty Toronto Maple Leafs. Nm.v, one may guickly assume that such a topic \vould be irrelevant to my political column, but really, hockey is just politics on ice if you think about it. For example, Canada has a Prime Minister and a Leader of tbe Opposition and so does hockey, except that they're called the NHL commissioner and NHLPA executive director. \~!ho is who exactly depends on who has more leverage over the otller atthe time (a.k.a. whether or not the NHL is making money), Floor-Cl'ossing i1"[ hockey exists in the form of trade&, except'that it's ~1ore honest in tl1e NHL than in politks because players openly admit that dernanded a trade iix more money 1)1 a better chance of "tinning as opposed to "a sudden change in ideals." In politics, new partie.s pop up from time to time, but they never fare too well (see: Green Party) and often fold. In hockey, expansion teams do pretty much the same. How you may ask, does all this tie in with the Toronto :M::lple Leafs? Well, it has to do vlith the biggest similarity between hockey and politics, that being the striking parallels

between three teams and the respective political parties they represent ,-- the Calgary Flames (Conservatives), the Ottawa Senators (Liberals) and, of course, the Toronto Maple Leafs (NDP). The Calgary Flames' affiliation with the Conservative party is pretty self.explanatory. For one thing, Calgary is obviously a ycry Conservative city. For another thing, nobody really ever gave the Flames much credit until they made it to the Stanley Cup Final two years back and then eyeryone was on the 01' Calgary bandwagon, not because they particularly liked the team, but because they disliked the alternati\Te more, . The Ottawa Senators are situated in the Liberal heartland. ]\lore importantly though they are cheating, thieying, conniving ~~umbags: Thev make it to the big show quite often, but ahvays seem to find a \va,- to blow it. . . like real Liberals, ' Now we come to the Toronto ;\fanlc I.eafs, How in tl1e world can I compare my' one and onlv beloyed team to the political that I abhor over all others? \'\dl, although been around pretty much forever, their biggesr accomplishments'still come back fWln ~;hen dinosaurs roamed the earth. Reg:ll:dless, fans still seem to remind everyone of those accomr>lishments and continue'to Jove them even though they are habitual losers and seem to be making no efforts to change that. They insist that tl1CY will win it all really soon, but may ,;ery well all be dead befi:Jfe they do so. 1 say all this, but really, the Leafs a/'e going to ,v1n this year .. ,really ... spreisman@imprint.uwaterioo.ca

Vatican supports crusades

I While I commend and greatly respect the Catholic Church for it-s moral stance against the Anlericanled terrorist invasion of Iraq, the Vatican has, once again, proven itself lost in the t\vilight zone, far from mday's world. The Catholic hierarchy has long been a laughingstock because of their stubborn opposition to birth control methods, from condoms to abortion, and their refusal to recognize human rights for homosexuals. They take it upon themselves to preach moral superiority while their priests are raping little boys. These are only a fev: of the reasons why the Vatican has a bad case of tlle sillies. ' Apparently Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict A'VI, was irritated when the late Pope John Paul n sought to achieye MuslimChtistian reconciliation by asking "pardon" for the Crusades and apologized for the past "errors of the Church:' such as the SpanisH inquisition and anti-Semitism. Frankly, "anti-Semitism" is putting it mildly. Adolf Hitler, the well-known perpetrator of the .Holocaust and initiator of \\'orld \V'ar II, was a devout Christian and, in some bizarre fashion, appare.ntly believed himself to be divinely appointed to fight for Jesus. In his famed book, Afein KaJJtpf, Hitler wrote, "I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the i\llTlightyCreator: bydefendingmyself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." As a matter of fact, at one point in his life, Hitler considered becoming a priest, and in 1922 he emphasized, "]\Jy feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and saviour as a fighter." 'Inere is little doubt that Hitler was a Christian an{,~indeed, the Vatican initially blessed the project of t..~e Nazis. 'Then, of course, Hitler proceeded to massacre six million Jews and half a million

homosexuals. The Vatican's apology was long overdue, but I nonetheless thank the late Pope for admitting this stain on the Catholic record. Unfortunately, the Vatican continues to stand by their strong vit.'ws on homosexualitl7, despite the hanky-panky going on among their army of sexually starved priests. \,{'hat knocks me off my rodzer was the antic tltat occurred just this week. The Vatican has begun a can1paign to rehabilitate the Crusaders by sponsoring a conference that portrays the Crusades as "noble" wars fought to regain the Holy Land for Christianity. Their hassling of homosexuals over the years pales to this, a pronouncement in support of mass murder. The Crusades were Roman Catholic "holy wars," the intent of which ,,,ere to recaptur~ Jerusalem and the J'Iolv I4md for Christianitv. TI1ese areas were ul1de~ Muslim control at the time and now, as we kno",~ controlled by Jewish interests. In the 11 th to the 13th centuries, Christians insisted that territory was to be under tl1eir control. Pope Urban II declared "a holy war ag-ainst infidels" - yes, this was originally a Chtistian declarationl ,He assured that "There ",,'ill be absolution and remission of sins for all who die in the service of Christ." In 1099, Christians took over jerusalem and slaughtered its population. According to historian Raymond of Agiles, "piles of heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the street<; of the citv." For tl1e next couple htU1drcd years, Cath~lics launched invasion after in\Tasion to forcibly t;}ke o1 on lcillilw a\\'av" hli'1d from the Muslims in the re0"" b thousands in the process. Muslims weren't the only target; Christians also launched many attacks on the Jews as well. It was a horrible period in human history. Yes - these are tl1e exciting adventures that our newJoe Pope is now defending. What a kook! I'm sure glad to be a Protestant thesc days. I await the next apology from the Vatican; I can't wait to sec how they justifj' this latest monstrosity. mjohnson@imprint.uwaterioo.ca

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For everyone who is in co-op: this is la creme de Ia creme of rour competition. On March 20, coo-operative education and career services presented the U\X;' Co-op Student of the Year a,vards. Jit Seng Chen, 31\ actuarial science, received the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education Co-op Student of the Year Award and Kayan (Kayley) I\1a 4B sys tems design engineering won the Education at \'{!ork in Ontario Co-op Student of the Year Award. Nicole Bradley, 4B health studies, \'.":2.S the wmner t~om applied he,lith sciences. Far four co-op terms, she h:,:; been employed at the 1bronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre where she was a clinical research assistant. "1 was invoked in a lot of re~earch studies with cancer patients who had advanced incurable cancer. I got to work hands-on with patients and do a whole bunch of research, from writing reports to interviewing patients." Bradley said that what distin· guished h~r from other co·op students in her faculty was her interest and ilwolvement in her job. "I ended up publishing three journal artides. I also attended some medie>tl confer· ences where I presented and I won the best scientific oral presentation at the Ontario palliative care confer·encc." The receipient from the faculty of arts was Shaneika Bailey, 3B social development. She spent her last two co-op terms in Guyana working for the Red Cross where she was an admitlistrator for their orphanage progr.am. She was responsible for "the daily maintenance of the orphanagc, pianningprograms for the orphanage for sustainablility and donors. I was also in charge of developing the antisexual abuse program; I was sort of their spokesperson for that." What she found challenging about working in Guyana was the

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Co-op students pose after being presented their Co-op Students of the Year awards. you really just have to take things easy." After she graduates, she hopes to continue working there for a few more years. The faculty of environmental studies' winner was Heather O'Hagan, 4B environment and business. She was working for Bruce Pmver in the environment management section. "I did initially a lot of regulatory reporting and stuff like that. However, halfway through my work term we had a catastrophe occur where we had to shift all of our resources to cleaning up the spill of oil at Bruce Power. So, there I was put in charge of doing surveillance monitoring shoreline clean-up where

The faculty of sciencc's ",<inner was Tasneem Nakhooda, 3B science and business, who was working as a solution consultant, working face-toface with clients to help them with financial statement problems. Though she liked the experience the job gave her, she doesn't think she'd like to go back to the tight deadline world of financial ad\<ising. "It was extremely challenging and it was one of those pressure-cooker situations most of the time. It's not something I'd be passionate about doing long-term." She is c"urrently on an eight month co·op term with Microsoft. N akhooda loyed the entire co-op process. "I think co-op's great. It gives

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have all these experjences behind you and you kind of feel confident going into the real world." Kayley Ma, the winner for the faculty of engineering, was working with mot1on capture technology during her co-op term- the same system tl1at animated Gollum in the Lord of the Ri/~ movies. Her breakthrough was allmving this process to be performed in real time. "My project is actually immersing yourself into a virtual environment. \,,'hat happens with the motion capture system is .. .it will track your motions and your motions actually control a ,,'irtual model, so you can see your hands ... I cus tom developed a skeleton model. I mod·

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cUed the dynamics and kinematics of a human model skeleton." Ma adored working in such a soplListicated high-tech facility. "I -worked at a virtual environment technology centre in London and they have like caves of VR stuff, goggles, all tl1e facilities were great. They have 3D simulators where you [play] a "ideo game ... It's kind of cooL" Jit SengChen, who's in the faculty of mathematics, worked for 1:\vo terms at KPM G doing an-uarialv,-ork. "I loved both terms. The people -were great, ycry nice people, they were ~"tremely good at what they were doing and nice to the co-ops; it ·\Vas just a good environment; they knew when to have fun and when to work hard -- good team dynamics. gave me lots of opportunities to do stutT. The work was challenging and ... no matter how busy they were vou could always talk to tllem: .. they reallv took the effort to invest in their co-ops." He developed a program that processed tl,e raw data they receive into usable information, a contribution that saved his emplo"er several hundred hours of lab(;ut per unit of information. "1 looked into it thinking, how could this be done better? So I learned VBA IVisual Basic]. I designed a system that amalgamates the whole process: extracting data, putting the Excel templates, doing the calculations and making files values that are of value." All the nominees were evaluated on their contribut1ons to their employers and to L.~e co·op program, the evaluations they have received for all their work terms (they must receive "outstanding" for their cur·rent term and at least "excellent" for their other terms), their grades (a minimum of 75 per cent average) and voltmteer work. For more information about the a\vards, go to ,-vvlw.cecs.uwaterloo.ca/ students / SOTYaward.php. vlecat@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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New environmental studies dean reveals his ambitious plans for the program Steve Utz SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

Beckoning me into his office while continuing to type away at his computer, my first impression of the new environmental studies dean, Dr. Deep Saini, was that of another straight collar atop one of Waterloo's most prestigious disciplines. But, like Homer in the classic episode of The Simpsons where he returns to college, I soon found that this is one shirt without any starch in need of removal. "Japan is a country that simply blows me away," the boisterous academic explained when we began discussing his scholarly travels. "But my best trip was probably to the Great Wall of China."

Capable of sliding into the slang of the students that he will now lead, mentor and represent as easily as he did, it is dear that Saini speaks in a language that is somewhat novel for this position and even for this faculty. "\\/ith me, what you see is \vhatyou get," he offered brway of explanation, but a quick glance at his curriculum is also telling. Fluent in English, French, Puniabi and Hindi, Dr. Saini is as likely to speak as passionately about motorbikes as he is his background in biological chemistry, suggesting that he is an individual that could comfortably chat at the water cooler ad infinit~. Would that he could, more likely, as his ambitious objectives for the first year alone leave littles time for rest. Saini has earmarked faculty integration, fundraising, display

space and staff renewal as priorities for the next 12 months that will bring prominence to the faculty of environmental studies within the university and abroad. Properly implementing a budget of up to $2 miUion to achieve his vision should surely proyC enough to keep him on his toes, but Saini prefers to soar. "I have always held that if you want to be somebody or do something, you ought to start acting as though you already have it," he said. "It is tl1e only way your feet will take you there." In the longer term, he expects his feet to take him toward improving the relationship between the hard and soft sciences while developing at least one course that is common across faculties .

An author of over forty scholarly journal articles, Dr. Saini is fully entitled to speak of the divide that he sees. "My one true discovery about enzymes was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry;' he stated. "But for a planner to read it, they'd probably need to see a psychiatrist aftenvards." If the faculties arc to come closer together, it is not at all unreasonable that Saini should lead the charge. The current ,'ice-·president of the National Association of Canadians of Origins in India certainly has the pedigree and the passion. "It's been a lot of fun here so far," he grinned. "I find that I get happier and happier as I drive to work." \,\'lLichis whv, just like the convivial Dean Peters~n from The Siflljwms, his door is always open.

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child up? I am doing a restaurant review," I announced to the couble, who seemed strangely bewilde~ed by the question. A mix of Whitney Houston, 'N Sync and Tina Turner played in the background, poorly fitting in with the classed-up surroundings. Our server came by to take our order shortly. I ordered the Jackson Triggs Cabernet-Sauvignon ($5.95 for a six-ounce glass), a fruity, shy red witlt a touch of oak . Both Jeff and I wanted the sirloin ($18.95), Filip, since he chose the steak restaurant, went for the chicken fajitas ($14.95). "Don't forget I'm reviewing your restaurant and I will hol.d you personally responsible for anything that goes wrong, even though you are clearly only working here to finance your education," I gently reminded our server. The chicken fajita came with a dish of a miniscule pile of lettuce, some pre··fab salsa and sour cream. See WINE, page 17

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break, laughter and tears and the possibility of a night in jail? Filip selected The Keg, a steakhouse right near the movie theatre. I called ahead for reservations, being sure that they knew I was reviewing the place. "I'm reviewing your restaurant for Imprint, so you better give us free stuff! And I want a discount on all our food. And free dessert. And a clown who makes balloon animals in the shapes of dead American presidents." We arrived on a Monday night to the moderatelv filled restaurant. The room was painted in solid blocks of colour, mainly dark cranberries, blues and mustards. The walls were coated with nature paintings, which if used in less reckless abandon would certainly have increased the sophistication, which was actually surprisingly classy. Filip commented that it was like "a dassy cabin, but not like one J made myself." We sat in a booth panelled with dark wood, next to a screaming child. "Could you please shut your

Note: this is part !lIIO of three. Pari Otte, by Sabritla Bowman can be located above, andpaF1 three, l?JI Filip Vtlkcevic can be located on page 21. So there I was; I'd been asked on a date by two of Imprint} foremost columnists, one a well known restaurant critic (and known debaucher), the other a moderate campus celebrity and film columnist. I knew, being the paper's most notorious womanizer and the paper's less··known but just as successful manizer, there was no way in hell I could mess this up. I decided to take this opportunity to try and see just how far I could push the envelope. It was to be dinner and a movie, a night out most of us can attest to having experienced. So what do most people do to screw up a night like this? I arrived 15 minutes late to pick up my two escorts for the night. Since I was the only one of the three who drove, I was free to set the agenda. I had arranged to have both meet me on street corners, telling them I would not pull into a driveway and wait. I not only ar·· rived late:but I also had a rOlled·.up carpet, eight CD cases, four VHS films (including the hit musical Hl1fte), three empty McDonald's bags and nine Roll-Up the Rim cups (all losers). Not only was I late, but it

was damn near impossible to sit in my car without five minutes of rearranging and two tetanus shots. The fact that I brought an uninvited guest along with me couldn't help the spacing either. So, let's look over the checklist-late, messy car and uninvited tagalong. \Ve reached the restaurant almost 25 minutes late for our reservation. My tagalong friend decided to wait at the bar with the cute bartender. Apparently, they had given away "Jake Fakenamerson's" table. Luckily, the restaurant was empty and it didn't matter. Seeing as how we were reviewing the place, it was a good idea for us to vary our ordering to get the maximum experience. So I ordered exactlv what Sabrina ordered. The only difference was, I ordered my steak more rare tl1an hers. I then slipped the waitress a toonie so she would

Sabrina and I but I quickly took hold of the conversation. \'X;'hen conversations were about people other than me, I quickly lost interest. We piled back into my car after paying our bill (I left no tip). Somehow, all of the junk that was moved earlier was back (which took me about 15 minutes). After they moved my junk to the trunk we drove to the theatre with the windows down so I could double fist cigarettes and cigars while blasting '80s rock so loud I actually saw a guy in a suped-up Civic shake his head at me in disgust. At the movie theatre, we bought tickets for V for Vendetta. I, of course, had already seen the movie on the internet before we went so I took the time before the show to tell them ali the good parts to watch out for. A quarter hour into the movie, my phone ran g . I t was my uninvited tagalong friend ( f Tim who tl/t~,, ..,I' '\ ¥,1 /",>1 ;\,)".1/ j I ' I'd left /,,1 v ' '.' v If! .• at The ' '''-_!~ l~eg ear_-4, . / her. He W,anted V >j to know I / /"":1 where we -_ ~ ,c"'l' ? "'-.../ wereandwhat ~

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Another dish had cheese and there was a plentiful cast-iron skillet with chicken and vegetables. It also had six tortillas. I ordered another glass of wine before plunging into my meal. The sirloin was presented with a broiled tomato topped with melted parmesean and a choice of baked potato or garlic mashed potatoes, the latter of ,>vhich both Jeff and I went with. \Ve had both ordered the dinner, which comes with vegetables and salad, but we had only received the regular plate. Somewhat disappointed, we started in on the food. Tile garlic mashed \vere some of best I've had. They were rich, siudded \'vith pieces of potato skin and creamed up with butter and sOlJr cream, lightly garlicky, nicely salted and absolutely delicious. The tomato \vas good, though . not remarkable. The steak was quite delicious, though I \vas dismayed to find that they had also mixed up Jeff and my meat slabs, resulting in me getting Jeff's medium rare and him getting my medium ,veU. \'V7hile the steaks were tasty, I couldn't cat most of mine, si~n; the texture was unpleasantly like enrobed in softened butter is apparently the sign of a steak). The server came to the table with my second glass of \vine and to enquire about the food. I drained the wine, stood up and threw my napkin down in disgust. is not the steak I ordered!" I shouted as I launched it at her. It sailed across the room, hit the wailing child, leaying her rather silent (a blessing, 1 thought). The parents stared coldly at me, though I don't know why. The Seiyer scuttled awav and Jeff peeled the steak off the' nowsilent child and devoured it himself, while I realized that I'd just paid 19 bueks for two bites of meat, a pile of potatoes and a half a tomato. "Garcon!" I shouted across the room and snapped my fingers, us more wine!" a bottle of Cab Sauv later, I beckoned the server over. "I jes wantyoo to know that you are the ... the best server ever. Yoooo are sooo nice! I jes, I'm so sorry I thew the steak at you ... I love you man! 1... I...waaaaaahhhh!!t Oh .... oh I don't feel so good .... " I remarked as I pitched toward the bathroom. N ext thing I remember, we were kindly being escorted out of the restaurant by several of the burly kitchen staff without having to pay our bill. .. something about innapropriate behaviour, and never, ever returning. They must have been referring to the server. It was then that we dusted ourselves off and headed to the cinema, at which point Filip did something quite unexpected. The saga continues with Filip Vukcevic on page 21 in his Once ,\iore Jl'ith Feelillg column. sbowman@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

What is the deal with vaginas? Seriously. I was just in the middle of taking a shower when it struck me; the vagina is so ridiculously amazing. They are the source of incredible pleasure, which leaves most guys jealous and jaw-dropped. Let me straighten things up a little bit; when a woman's vagina is filled up to the brim with a tender loving man's sexual pleasure, there is

no telling what she'll do. And guys, or bicurious or lesbian girls, if vou have just entered the scene of sucking clit or you plain and simply feel like learning of a few more ways to please your partner, then keep on reading. But let me warn, if you are erotiphobic and are afraid of sex in general, what is about to come should not .be read and may have already decreased your chances of climbing out of your phobia. To be blunt, whoever is interested in the vagina just can't refuse it. If you're a guy, picture yourself telling your girlfriend that you're going to get something to eat. Then surprisingly, in response to your words, your partner spreads her legs wide open and says, "I'll give you

something to eat." \V/hat do you do? Walk over to the kitchen? Hell no! If you don't accept her offer, you probably don't deserve your share of bloulobs or sex. It's a sharing game and on the sex playground everyone deserves the opportunity to go down the slide. So what's your angle when div-路 ing down under? ~l.issionary? From behind? Do you get the girl to sit on your face? Or do you jump straight into something kinky like the 69? Well, the truth is, they aU do the job, butif yOIJ're!ooking for different experiences then I would recommend trying them all. --- at your own pace of disclosure of course. On that note, a woma..."1'S area is probably something that is thought to be as

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personal a place as anyone can get to on her body, so offering the respect that she deserves is important when packing your bags and heading into the adventure ahead. Experimenting withi11 yours and your partner's comf()rt levels is the best way to find that zone that you are both looking for. Because fet's not forget the point here: we're trying to get your lady friend offl The best way to describe the zone would be to say that it is the position that a guy gets himself into where he can run a tongue marathon and at the same time where the girl fmds herself being thrown into erotic vibrations of pure pleasure.

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To four University of Waterloo students, this summer will be one that they will never forget. Forsixweeks,MandyHutter, Kristen Flegel, Tyler Liston'andJesslyn Tjendra wjll be taking part in a research expedition in the Cusuco National Forest in Honduras and in the L!mbusango and K3kenauwe rainforests of Indonesia. They will be collecting various forms of data in order to evaluatethe conservation efforts in the preservation of social and biological ecosystems in the

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region. It will.be the first year all four students have contributed to the project. The program, which operates under a nonprofit organization called Operation Wallacea (OPWAIL), is in its ninth year and has been in Honduras for two years. It will be the largest biodiversity research program attempted anywhere in Central America. The expedition will include 320 sample sites to retrieve data on habitats, trees, butterflies, moths and various small m,arnmals and bats. Over 100 researchers from universities in Europe, the U.s. and Ontario will be contributing to the project.

The team's main focus will be research. Each member will have . a specific job and area of interes~ but as a group they will be collecting data that will illuminate the direction of future conservation efforts in the rainforest. Their research includes population counts .of howler monkeys, boa constrictors; sea turtles and butterflies. The researchers will also observe and document the activities of the animals that will be counted. In addition to observing the animals, the group memhers will also focus some of their research on the trees of the rainforests. One example is the observation of selective logging, a logging technique designed to have a low impact on the rainforest's infrastructure. Living arrangements for the team of four will be anything but ordinary. When asked about the accommodations they would be sharing, the team replied, ''We'll be sleeping in hammocks in the remote jungle camps of the rainforest with only a tarp to keep us dry and a million bugs to keep us company." The cost of such an endeavour is not cheap. For each student, the price tag of the trip is in excess of $4OOO,paying for the use of equipment, labs, transportation and training. Since the program is not funded by the University of Waterloo and operates under a non-profit organization, the students must do their own fundraising and seek donations from outside sources. Acknowledging the strict demands that the project entails, the team stated, "Although it's hard work, this is like a dream. come true for all of us. We just couldn't resist an educational experience in the rainforest and we're all excited to be such valuable members of a project that has such an intense grasp on conservation issues."

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And remember to build up to the orgasm, unless,you're justinit for the quickie. But there's nothing better to be built up to that peak of screaming, while your legs shudder and then be brought down just a few degrees only to finally reach that climax. And damn is it ever good, which is exactly why we men can be so jealous! And be careful when running into no-man's land, as your face can be a prime target in addition to other parts of your body for that matter for a collision with the unsuspected flailing limbs. And here's a note on 69-style cunnilingus. From what I've been told, a woman loses her focus while her clitoris is being stimulated and can't really do the job that the guy might be expecting. So expect the unexpected! Expect to be able to get your girl off so hard that she will be unable to get you to bust your nuts. But you should let it be a confidence booster, because if this is the case than you definitely suck hard, and that doesn't suck at all. And if you feel like adding to your repertoire then never shy from using your arms to wrap around your parmer's waist to get those added waves of pleasure. So at the end of the day just remember that the vagina is a very special place and should only be approached with care. And to finish this bad boy off, I want to leave you with words from a wise, wise woman. Is it bad for a guy to ask if a girlis clean? Yes,itis bad, butat,tPe same time, it is totally rude for the girl not to be:~ rcole@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Morningwood from a Placebo Magnete Lane Dancing With Daggers Paper Bag Records

Even with last year's promising Constant Lover EP, nothing could have hinted at the immediacy of Magneta Lane's first album proper. The Toronto trio's distortion-heavy, girl-gloom anthems switch between destructive ferocity ("22'') and tense inhibition ("Butterflies Are Blue''). Lexi Valentines' sassy, irritated-Blondie vocals ~ easily one of the most distinctive in Canada, or elsewhere- allow Magneta Lane's style to remain consistent while experimenting with buzzing bass tones and high tempo drums - both of which are clearly guided by producer andDFA 1979 bassistJesseKeeler. Nadia King's alternating drum patterns are tight but simplistic to a fault, straightforwardly switching betWeen them like an automat~d beat machine. Listeners are left asking, both in regards to snare hits and in anticipation of the band's inevitable success, "Drum roll, please?"

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casruiIlover, ''Baby, did you forget to take your meds?" on the album's tide track, it seems better directed to his teenage son. This isn't surprising coming from a band that has based its career on making theme songs for sad kids with radios, messing up their melodies ., with Just the right amount of gloom - depressing yet danceable, but more so feigned and flimsy.

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If you want to listen to some stereotypical . poppy rock, New York City's Morningwood is perfect for you. For the rest of you who don't. enjoy recycled music, definitely pass o~ this one. Lead singer Chantal Claret sounds alright when she's singing, but unfortunately she usually prefers to be either scream-

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Northern Blues'

JWJones' fourth album releasewasn't exacdy what I \Va5 expecting from a blueS band. Instead of the usual blues riffs found in other Canadian groups, the listener is treated to different bluesinfluenced genres. Songs on the album that demonstrate this include the country-styled All My Money, the roekin' Parasomia and the catchy PrettyIitdeSweetThing.Hi:>wever,someofthese songs mixedwithotherstylewf music really don't work,resultinginJones'worksoundingless,well, hip. That being said though,Jones still pulls off a good effort. The best feature Kissing in 29 Days would have to be.the guest artist David ''Fathead" Newman (Ray Charles' good friend and original tenor saxophonist). The bands complex arrangements, Jones' vocals and ~ solos also make Kissing in 29 Day's fun to listen to. Just don't expect a pure blues sound.

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, There's much to be said about believability. On the aging Europeans' sixth album, their scratchy, sinister guitars and equally brooding ambient noises are entirely disarmed by Britm Molko's cracking whimpers - ca1'l you really believe a 34 year-old half-whining about poor' grades on algebra tests? When he sings to a

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ing or spelling. She demonsttates the latter skill in not one, but two songs on this album: ''Nth Degree" (where she repeatedly spells out her band's name) and "Everybody Rules" which ' she amazingly spells out the tide of the song). Ob, and a little newsflash to the band: bleeping out the word "fuck" in yoUr songs is also not a good way to get a cool rep - nor is singing a: song about undressing called ''Take Off Your Clothes."

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Bene and Sebastian even wrote a song about him. It can be hard out here for an artist, really. Feeding off the accomplishments of other cultures has become animport.antway of keeping \XTcstem art exciting and interesting; people like Gainsbourg have been. essential in stimulating new intellectual activo, 'De.zrestAr!s Snob, I recently came across a CD called itv. But international awareness is about more than just beiilg able to "j'vionsie1<r Gainsbozlrg RelJiJited." The French-iness of the title didn't .fit lPe!l appreciate the influence of Ethiopian art on Picasso's sculptures, it's about 111},H'udoJJl rfies, but J picked it not being an idiot. As arts snobs, it ,ff!}'IW!'Y aNd Itta.r shot'ked tv find tbat SOfllf uber-hip, stfj)er in- is our privilege to know thing'S that die, band, wen! on it, pqying others do not. Ou St. Patrick's Day, for instance, iJilJt!te to tbis chaitHtJlokillg leftist Frog UYhflt:r the d.eal oh knolJiledgeable 'we enjoyed our pints that much more because we knew that IrcJand is in fact 01181' lJ"h{lt do thr Ra,~es, the Kills, Cat not merely a slogan on' an Pm/Jer ,mdFral1Z ,rerdittafld hal)!: to riD a American Eagle trucker cap. \Ve also Il.ith this baguette? rore/JeT ]()ur:~ Pippa Pa.r.res, aspir- recognize that "Fubar" has its roots in the German word "furchtbar:' which ing elitist" means "awful" or "shocking," a fitdear, dear Pippa! You have ting description of that abominable much to learn! Most impoft.antly, understand that Franz f·'erdinandhave , night club. Germany, by the way, is a country in Eutope, which is a land lost their indie status and thus can no mass beyond the Atlantic Ocean, be admired! Silly' girl! which is a body of otherwise, ".,,_______ water to the east of have to realize - - - Canada, the country the world is a .I1 ••• global we live in. large place! Tile arts snobs can snob must acknowl-community has alsoArts appreciate the this \IT cannot he resttained much to offer the factthatthe bearded,

It was only after the alcohol started to wear off and the conservative ramblings were hushed that we began seriously considering anarchy. How were we placed in such a precarious situation? To ,,,hat new lands of decadence and chaos would our path lead us? A.nd perhaps most importantly, where was the beef? iili questions were answered in due time. The notion of doing a three-part cocolu1I11l has always been an interesting prospect. The idea was for three differentpeopletolookatthesamethinga.'1d present three different perspectives. I was curious how others came up \vith their columns. For rne it's usu.ally a long bout of planning followed by a period of procrastination and concluded with a heated debatevvith mveditors, "\~'hat do you mC'all I can't ~all my column Trltck? IF'hat Trltck?" I'd ahvavs wondered hm\' Sabrina could retn~mber the specifics of het manyrestaru:ant adventures: the layout of the restaurant, the exact tzste and quality of the food, the prices. It t)ltnS

out she takes notes. As somebodvwho considers himself "a reviewer," I'm a bit ashamed to admit that onl;: now do I realize that taking notes is lJrobably a good idea. Jeff ruew Out conversation toward tipping and I realized something I'd never really thought of before: I tip 15 per cent regardless of the quality of food or service. One time at Morty's a waitress dropped a bov,rl of hot sauce right next to me, it shattered, and I was sprayed \V1th red paste. Not only did the waitress not apologize, she seemed to ignore the fact that it happened. I ripped her the same nonetheless. Again, something to think about. I couldn't help but disagree with Jeff's less liberal views; ifsomeol1e viants to get paid better, maybe they should stop serving table.,. Back to the shooting range v;rith yoll, John Milius! Rather than rjsk a lull in the com'er.. sation I asked a cliched and favourite question of mine: So, what's your favourite movie? It turned out that Jeff has as much passion fotApotalypse NOIl' as I do, and I \'laS surprised to hear that Sabrina is a big fan of .The USlItJl Jusped.r. I'm not sure why, but the "let's not use derogatory terms" and "recycline is mandatory" rvfs. Bowman does~'t strike me as ; Kaiser Sozeappreciating girl. \Yi'hen we brought up Moulill Rl)uge (my second favourite fIlm) I discovered that Jeff; while a fan, had issues with the film. And here we reach the crux of this "colunm: that moment where

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eager mmn ... of North Our open- __ ~ _____________.___ ~_", __ _ ness to other cultures ±act "Che H~eare the ones who an Argentinean who had fu"limportant appnc;clate Haitian impact on revolutionary movements in Latin America (yes, you've read cor" there's rnore to the "Arnericas" than li~e North. In there's even a South An, snobs wldcrstand that Ikea seU~ meatballs because meatbnlls of their Swedi5h Sweden is one of manv around the world pretty \vho~e ±()od habits do not revolve around microwaved and century, France is frozen dinnets. the klld of a paradise of 'nle "vorH is a fascinating place, long cigarette bolders and dear Pippa! Serge Gains bourg is \,.UHiCUUK. PipDa, V0l1 fJl1Istiearn thos~ F~eedom Fries one example of thC\vonderful tigures you will meet on your explO1'ations! really are: FreNch fries. You must set forth with an open mind Yeah, I French fries. and an eager heart, and once you The point is, tne arts snob rechave filled that ignorant little head of ognizes that the global community yours with languages and experiences has much to offer the eager mind and memories of strange streets and and is willing to exploit it fot alJ its even stranger foods, perhaps then goodness. This considered, it is not you will be able to truly justify being difficult to see why Serge Gainsbourg an "arts snob." may have influenced the artists you U ntilthen, enjoy "Monsieur listed in your lettet. Gainsbourg GainsbourgRevisited" forwhatitrewas the "dirtv old man" of French ally is: an exceptional tribute album to music, a si;ger/songwriter who an under-appreciated genius of pop pushed boundaries with his genre music. The fact that he is a "baguette" experimentation and more notably, his use of the sounds of female makes it an the better. On a final IZote: Last lJJeek, orgasms in his songs. portiom 11'l)! colul1'ln contained He was never really successful in North America, however, and qttotes from The Grey SUleatsuit ReJJ{)l14tiol1 uJebsite tbat uJere !lOt remained a cult figure beloved by us indicated I:Y q14otatir)J1 marks. This elitists. His "taboo-shattering" output was a mistake incurred itl the editing and interest in alI t)'pes of music pmcesJ. PlagiatisJJJ IJlaS celtainfy not from jazz to Baroque to reggae has intended; as JNch, Imprint deepfy no duubtinspired many bright young apologizes. minds to create, especially those in the "uber-hip" bands you mentioned. cmoffat@iinprint.uwaterioo.ca Beck has sworn allegiance to him.

you're gushing over something with someone and you suddenly realize that you disagree on a key point There have been countless times when I've been in an excited conversation \v1th someone - let's be honest, it's usuaUy about a movie - and we suddenly realize that \\'e disagree on something. \Xlhy is it that suddeflly the previously energ1zeil conversation loses it'S steam? I think if-" the factthatafterag'Teeingwith someone so strongly you're disappointed to learn that you do, in ['lct, disagree. \Vhat do youdo\vhen yourearn such an impasse? Ivfystrategyis tojwnp backinbyflnding commongTOund again. Forme andJeff it was our love of Wes Anderson films. I'm guessing mind-warping bor(';cbm impelled Sabrina to ot-der more wine. I suppose it's a good thing that I didn't get inlD my dissertation on EnljJire of the J!lflandits ability to bend both space and time with its brilliance. After dinner we watched V for VCIl"" detta. Walking back after the [11m ended we began to discuss the history of Guy Fawkes and the difference between revolution and anarchv: ~'hile I had issues \vith I/~ I wiH say th.at it qual.i". fies as a good movie if only because it encouraged debate. As t.l,.e evening drew to a close ---and Sabrit1<'1's intoxication d-\"Vindled - I was reminded of mv conclusion earlier that evening. No' matter how much people disagree, it is always possible to find common ground.

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Overthe course of the film welearn that this 1984-likc world is ruled by an oppressive, fascist government, Big Brother and all. As Evey is introduced to V, who becomes her saviour (and she his), we learn that the masked vigilante is waging a self-prodaimedwaron their government. "Something;' he intones, "is verY\vrongwith this country." And he's right. \1\7hether it's in the Mat?iv: films or the LOTR trilogy, Hugo Wc.'aving has a wvnderful presence and he brings every drop of authority along with him to the voice of V. Meanwhile, Natalie Portman is excellent because she's Natalie Portman and well, she's excellent. Not

time-and that's at a runtime of two hours--and suffers for it. There are Hilarious, heartbreaking and enlight·· just too many characters and too much Warner Bros. ening, The Vagina ?vfonologue.r captiplot. Exposition is frequently shoved vated a packed audience in the SLC The moVie is an adaptation of the dO\vn your throat instG'ad of given the , multipurpose room on March 22. freedom to unfurl at a normal pace. In '80s mastelwork of the same name The performance explored ,,,'omen's by legendary comic scribe Alan Moore terms of plot, we understand why V sexuality through topics relating to and penciller David Lloyd. If you'd and Evey ac't the way they do, but we vaginas including orgasms, periods told me that this fringe comic book never really get to know the characters and perceptions of the body part. would soon be adapted into a major or come to underst.'h'1.d their somewhat The benefit production was put theatrical release when I first picked up contradictory nature. on by student volunteers under the the trade paperback several years ago, Ultimately, this is a very interesting leadership of Emma Dines and Vik film, full of wonderful ide-JS and poI would have laughed This is not your Kovac. ordinary comic book movie. It doesn't etic predictions. However, its awkward Originally a book by Eve Ensler, focus on costumes and capes, but on pacing and plot-heavy structure keep The l7agina lviono/agNes are real interit from resonating on the levd that a ideas. And that, it turns out, is both its views she conducted with over 200 blessing and its curse. movie like this should. This isn't so women of different social and racial - - - - - - - backgrounds. The book achieved much success, with it being turned Meanwhile, Natalie Portman is excellent because she's Natalie into a documentarv on HBO in 2002 and a play performed all over Portman and well, she's excellent. the world. Well, UW can now be added to that list. The student-nm Originallywritten in response to the since Vivian Leigh in Gone lf7ith the W'irtd much a foily of the filmm.akers as it production of The Vagina MOflO/ogtll!s has an actress pulled off the permanent is a consequence of adapting a very contflwct'sial conservative government was outstanding, with great perforof British Prime JYIinister Margaret arched eyebrow so well. large story that was never designed to mances bv all. 1batcher in the '80s, V·for T/endetta is a As a big fan of the comic book, I playas a film. Asked ~'7hyproducer LeenaMiller wentinto this movie with few expectaIn the end there is only one thing wanted to tackle this kind of show, she storyaboutanarchy.ltis a tale filled with politics and corruption andinlYibttle. At tions. A film and a comic book are two mon: powerful than an idea, and that's a stated, "I was surprised that nothing person. Filled to the point of bursting, the heart of the story is a velY simple different things and you cannot expect like this had ever been done at UW one to be a completely accurate adaptaV for T/imdetta is so focused on com·· message: a single person \vith an idea to talk about these issues women face tion of the other; ali thatmatters is that can change the world. municatingits story and establishing its and The f/oJilla NIIJtl%g!18S seemed to Takill..g place in the not-too-distant the core of the story remains intact. world thatitloses sight of it.s characters. communicate these issues in a great future, the story centers around two Luckily, VjorVi:nrktt£lpreserves the No matter what the action or intrigue way." Leena conduded, " Stories of characters: V (voiced by Hugo Weavmessage of the original work. However, 01' gCU1powderplot, the human element women are important and should be should never be forgot_ ing), the anti-hero of the story, clad in the film also seems to be choking on told, as well as [those about] violence black and sporting a Guy Fawkes mask, the material. It's trying to communicate against women; [thL'Y] are important filipvukcevic@imprint.uwaterloo.ca and Evey (Natalie Portman). so very much in a limited amount of and should be told."

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The play addressed dlese lssues in a fun and creative way, "rith monologues carried out with others or in a solo spotlight. Some of the acts made the audience burst out laughing with the wit and execution by the actors. MeJinde Whitfield's performance in the monologue "Because He Lked to Look at It" and Courtney \X7ilson's solo partin "Hair" gave a fresh look at female views of vaginas while making everyone in the room falling out of their chair laughing. However, The Vagina lYfOllokgNe.r also had very emotional performances felt by every person in the audience. Erin Calder's piece called "Say It, For the Comfort Women," dealt with the sexual slavery brought upon by Japan during the Second World War and the rape and sexual torment these women faced ",jdl the Japanese military. The monologue vented emotion after emotion of what was felt by survivors. During Erin's performance, the room becam~ silent because of tne distressing mate· rial being dramatized. The T/agina i\{ano/f{f,Ne.r gives 90 per cent of the proceeds to the Kitchener women's shelter Mary's Place. With the high demand for this production, the Friday, March 24 show is sold out with $1,500 alreadv been raised for the refuge. ~ A hetNre i.f also being held ofliltiarch 27

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Rosanna Morales, (Health Studies and Gerontology), Developing a Web Tool to SUpport Youth Tobacco Control: A Prototype Tool Unking Research, Policy and Practice Norma Jutan, (Health Studies and Gerontology), Home Care in Ontario: Umited Resources and the Needs of Elderly Ught-Care Clients SamI Rehman, (Environmental and Resource Studies), Approaches to Conservetion Planning in Atiantic Canada Mk:baeI MacLellan, (Kinesiology), Stepping Over an Obstacle on a Compliant Travel SUrface Reveals Adaptive and Maladapllve Changes in locomotion Pattems Lesley &audry, (Geography), What Clan are You? An Expforation of HerDage and Ancestral Tourism With Canadian Scottish Descendents in a Diasporic Community ChrIstophar Pearlman, (Health Studies and Gerontology), Aggressive Behaviour in long Term Care: Patterns and Predictors of Change lIIuIIIe CIIavar/a, (Biology), The Response of Hornaday River ArctIc Charr to Climate-induced Environmenlal Variation Sarah Robinson, (Health Studies and Gerontology), Assessing the Reliability and VaMity of the Network Engagement Questionnaire: Can Engagement PredIct Knowledge Use in a Community of Practice? Sean Meehan, (KinesioJogy), Cross-Model Conflict Between Tactile and Visual Stimuli Modulates COrtical ActIvity and Motor Performance During Sensory-Guided Movement Sarah Woodruff, (Heal!h Studies and Gerontology), FamIly Dinner Environment of Grade Six Students From Waterloo Region District School Board

Alison AspInaf, (Local Economic Development I Tourism), Communities in Change: Social Sustainability and Tourism Development in Invermere, BC HedIer ROUWagen, (Sociology), Conceptual Differences in Self-ProtectIve Behaviours: An EmpIrical Analysis Joel ThIeIIsen, (SocioIogy), Religious Beliefs and Practices in Canada: Examining Reginald Bibby's Renalssance Thesis Laszlo SarIumy, (PoIiIIcaI Science), An Analysis of the Relationship Between the State of Serbia and Montenegro and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Lessons for the International CrIminal Court Kate Hano, (Sociology), Jury Decision-Making: Impact of Lawyers; Presentation StyJe on Jurors' Decisions Meyyappan Narayanan, (Computer Science), An Economic Model of e-Commarcialization

Jennifer RobInson, (Environmental and Resource Studies), Applying Energy Conservation Behaviour Research Results to the Ontario Context Richard Oduntan, (Management Sciences), Dynamic Portfolio Risk Management in Deregulated Electricity Markats

JennIfer RobInson, (Sociology), Street Youth and "Crime": SUrvival Strategies and Labour Market Experiences

Jessica DeakIn, (Geography), Identity Formation in Female Canadian Backpackers

PHYSICAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY - Judged Oral Pre.ntattons (DC 1302)

PHYSICAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY -1Ion-Judged0ral1'faatllltlllun (DC 1304)

Jeff carter, (Physics), Observation of Electric Dipole-Dipole Interactions Between Gas-f'hase Atoms and Malal Surfaces Mike Peasgood, (Mechanical Engineering), Motion Planning for Multiple Robots in a Grid-Based Environment

Martin IIan8en, (EIectricaf and Computer Engineering), Hardware Implementation of Efficient Image and Video Deblocking Rlnvan YOIIIIIs, (CIvIl Engineering), Development of a Dynamic Decision Making Framework for Cost Effective Rehabifitation of Waste Water Collection Systems JaIMs She, (Computer Science), Numerical Evaluations of Nanptube-Based Gapacitive Transducer

Fung Shan-VII, (Chemical Engineering), Self-Assembly of Ionic-Complementary Peptides. A New Model System to study Amyloid Fibrillogenesis? Petr Chladek, (Chemical Engineering), Novel Cycle Separation Process for Hydrogen Utilization in Fuel Cells Daniel faboIII, (Systems Design Engineering), The Design of 3D Markers for Trailblazing in Virtual Environments KaI Wang, (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Transparent Oxide Semiconductor (TOS) Based UV Detectors Maja OIllllllOVlc, (Computer Science), Efficient Least-Square Metching of Dental X-Rays for Forensic Identification PuIposes Matthew stevens, (Chemical Engineering), incorporating Reflability Into Controf Strategies for Hybrid Fuel Cell Vehicies

Man:ilto Mendonca, (Computer Science), Model-Driven Framework Instantization CaI10s ttoppen, (Combinatorics and OptimIzation), Bounding the Size of an Induced Forest of a Graph WIth large GIrth Mark PetrIck, (Computer Science), MorpIiing Orthogonal Pfanar Graph Drawings Dave Findlay, (Geography), Enhancing lIle User Experience: A Procedure for 3D Visualization of Geographic Data for Use in a Web-Based PartIcipatory Spatial Decision SUpport System Owen Cherry, (Physics), Fabrication of a Magnetic MicroIIap HEA LTH, L I FE AN 0 EN VISO NM ENT - NiIo-Juclged 0ra11'reseDtlllons (DC 1304)

1:20 -1:40 1:40 - 2:00

Laura Jones, (Civil Engineering), In Situ CheffiicaJ Oxidation With Permanganate: How do NOD Kinetics Impact Treatment Efficiency NahIa Elsald, (Computer Science), Prospactive Motion Correction in Anatomical MRI Using IR Tracking Camera ReId Kerr, (Computer Science), Trunits: A Monatary Approach to Modeling Trust in Electronic Marketplaces

2:00 - 2:20

Jean-Paul Brichta, (Physics), Simple as Simplex: Anding Optimum SoIuIIons to Molecular Geometries

2:20 - 2:40

DavId HadaIIer, (Computer Science), Using 0pp0rtunisIic Connections to Provide Internet Access on the Road

3:00 - 3:20

Shokouh HoaseInzadehhad, (Chemistry), Internally Cooled Solid Phase Microextraction Based on Thermoelectric Coolers Katrin Hoeper, (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Efficient and Secure Key Exchange Protocols for Wireless Mobile Devices Marll! Huerta GaJTIdo, (Chemical Engineering), Statistical Analysis Applied to the Atting of an EIS Model to Copper Deposition Navneet VIdyarthI, (Management Sciences), Make-to-Order SUpply Chain Network Design: Model Formulation and Solution

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HUM A NIII ES & SOC I A L SCI EN CES - Non-Judged Oral Presentations (OC 1302)

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Joanna Jacob, (Sociology), Youth Crime in Canadian Communities: An EcoJogical Analysis of Violent and PropertY Youth Crime by Gender Ffed Pries, (Management Sciences), ATale of Three Start-Ups: Commercializing New Technologies Arising From University Research . James Huebner, (Planning), Canada's National LandlWater Information System (NlWIS) 2005-2009: Potential and Challenges for Urban and Regional Planning Martin SchmIdt, (Germanic and Slavic Languages), German Neologisms of the 19908 in K-W German . Gordon Admodza, (Management Sciences), Control Orientation and Hypnoses: An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between the Desire for Control and Modes of Cornmerciafrzation of New Ideas Adele Ga1iIIfey, (Sociology), Power to the People? Jordan leith, (Sociology), Numbers Don't do all the Talking: The Role of Market Research Data at a CRTC Hearing Joanne Benham Rennick, (Religious Studies), The Changing Role of the ChapJaincy in the Canadian MiIltary Jessica Pulls, (Sociology), Understanding Probation Conditions Under the 'mung Offenders Act and You\Il Criminal Justice Act: Setting Young Offenders up for Failure'? Sara CummIIIg, (SocioIogy), "Define SUpport"; Low-lncome Single Mothers' Experience WIth Social "SUpports" SheiJa Hannon, (Eng/ish language and Uterature), The Press Opprest and Overprest

Anna MarIe CIprIani, (P/anning), Environmental Resource Management at the Urban Interface: Social Monitoring in Waterloo, Ontario Brooklin SchneIder, (English Language and Uterature), Academic Gapitalism, Transactional Distance, and Tablet Computing in Higher Education

DavId Gonzalez, (Kinesiology), The Role of Auditory Cues in the Anticipation of Object Mass When Grasping Oan SU, (Local Economic Development), Governance Models for Nature-Based Tourism in China Ruanm ZIIou, (Chemistry), Microwave Assisted Purge and Trap Extraction of Volatile Organic Compounds

From Porous Rocks I.awnmI:e McAllIster, (Civil Engineering), EvaJuating the Risk of Producing Non-CompJlent Water in a Water lI"eatment Plant Using ProbabIlistic Risk Analysis Methodofogies ErIc UIIenIa, (Environmental and Resourca Studies), Is Thera a Need to Re-Examine Health Canada's Human PCB Guidelines? Margaret Adam, (8i%gy), Evaluating the Use of Plant Macrofossils in Reconstructing Past Vegetation Communities in the Slave River Delta, NWT Alexander GutfraiIId, (Applied Methematics), Structure of the Gentetic Code Indicates Non-Thermophile DriginofUfe CIaInt Davis, (Systems Design Engineering), Interface Design for Individuals WIth VlSUllllmpairmants

PH YS I CAL SC I EN CES & TECHN 0 LOGY - Non-Juclged Oral PresentatIons (DC 1304) Shah Jahlnuzzaman, (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Estimation of Soft Error Tolerance of Nanoscaled

Static Random Access Memories Stephen walker, (Physics), The Application of Ultrafast Laser Systems

Claus SpHzer, (Computer Science), A Framework for Dynamic Disambiguation of Prepositional Phrase AttachmentS NItln Mohan, (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Designing a Low-Power TCAM Chip AmIr H. Norcozi, (Mechanical Engineering), Fatigue crack Growth Prediction for 4340 Steel Using a Unified Two-Parameter Driving Force ParIsa IIohtouII-Zaajanl, (Physics), Optical Transfer cavity StabaIIzation Using Current-Modelated Injection-Locked Diose Lasers WIllIam Wong, (Computer Science), Using Kernel Alignment to Pick Molecule Description in a OSAR study Hang Yang, (Chemical Engineering), Characterizatio of Copper(II} Binding to SeIf-Assembfing Peptide EAK16{II)GGH SechIII Jay8S1lflll, (Management Sciences), Queueing Madel for an Assemble-to-Order ManufacIuring Syatem - A Matrix Geometric So/utiOn Approach PIIiIIp SchmIdt, {Civil ÂŁngineeringj, Design and Analysis of RecoVery Studies for DiscretB Particle Enumeration Methods Maaud MakreIIcIII, (EJectrIcaI and Computer Engineering), From Content to Social Networks: App/icaIion of , Text Data Mining in ExIracting Social Relations Ali Nasseri-MeglllddalD, (Civil Engineering), Use of Numerical Simulations to Explain SISN ReId Measurements

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Ogi Panic, (Chemistry), PoIenIiai for Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatograpgy (GC x GC) in EnvIronmantal FIeld Analysis Armando Roman Rores, (Mechanical Engineering), 3 112 1/2 -Axis Machining of Complex SUrfaces Jana Skorepova, (Chemical Engineering), Production of Soy Protein Isolates by Membrane Ultrafiltration WInhua SU, (Statistics and Actuariaf Science), Bayesian LAGO for Statistical Detection With AppDcations to Drug Discovery AlexeI Ramofar, (Computer Science), An Inverse Radon Transform Algorithm for a Portable CT-Scan Taylor W. NIcholls, (planning), Managing Raster Imagery in an Open-Source Web-Geographic Information System

FRIDAY. MARCH 24, 2006

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UW professor studies fuel cells while promoting energy diversity Adam Gardiner iMPRINT STAFF

As energy consumption and the environment become increasingly important issues, ideas such as hydrogen cars become more plausible as real--world solutions. That's good nC\vs for Dr. Xianguo Ii, a mechanical engineering professor at U\'{Z He and his team of post-doctorate graduates ate working with hydrogen fuel cells to make their design cheaper and more suited to the demanding conditions of real-world driving. And Jj feds his work alone isn't the al1S\VCr to the energy problem, he it as a very important part of t:he solution. \vith local

solution optimizing the energy system for sustainable devel opment 'Wct For his part,

to transfer particles from one electrode to another. His f<cscarch proceeds in stages, startthe nanoscopic level. "\'!{!e use results obtained analysis as a sub-grid model for our micro-scale model," said Li, "and the results from the micro-scale model are used as the sub--grid model for our macro-scale model, which is the scale for practical applications." ITs team works in collaboration with DaimlerChrysler, a situation that is beneficial for both parties. Through DaimlerChrysler, Ii's work can be tested in U.S. governmentlabs with specialized equipment, such as an Xray like scanner, that fires neutrons through the hydrogen cell, allowing researchers to see.inside the cell as it: works. Although Li'5 team

may not operate the equipment, they are allowed to accompany their work to these labs to observe the tests as they are carried out. DaimlerChrysler, in turn, is aD,owed first dibs at buying the patent and intellectual property rights for anything significant to come out of Li's research and development. \X'hile Li's work is fascinating, his thoughts on the future of energy are equally as compelling in their insightfulness. An advocate of energy diversity, Li developed his understanding of the energy issue over ten years ago, when he was studying in Victoria, B.C. He original1yworked \Y1th gasoline and diesel engines, but switched his studies to hydrogen fuel cells -when he became attracted to the promise held. "Over 10 years ago, when we started '''~''~''H'' on this of fuel only cal engineering n;_embers in Canada." But Li soon realized tl1at simply converting everything that ran on oil over to hydrogen was not as clear-cut an al.1S\Ver as it seemed. "There is no 'perfect' solution to this problem," Li said. "From the fimdamental theory, tAU}U,dl_!UH and envirqnment~l impact go hand in hand." That "ftllldamental theory" is the law of thermodynamics, a set of founding principles for the study of energy. "By the second law of thermodynamics," Li said, "any energy utilization process will be accompanied with energy degrada-tion, and degraded or waste energy is dumped into the environment like garbage, which is the impact on the environment. When a single energy system dominates, the impact accumulates and once beyond the tolerance linlit of the environment, permanent damage occurs."

Such would be the case if hydro-gen was touted as the only replacement option for gasoline engines. Ii estirrtated that in a situation where hydrogen was used In a manner similar to gasoline, 10-15 per cent of the fuel would escape into the atmosphere by various means; including storage, and at fueling points, where small amounts would "leak" out while filling up a car. In addition, hecause water is the byproduct of hydrogen combustion, the amount of water created in high-density traffic ,\'ould increase the humidity in those zones. Li could only ~peculate as to what the environmental consequences in either case would be. "Hydrogen ... -win participate in the atmospheric chemical reaction that can destroy the ozonelayer.Hydrogen is a nutrient for micro-organisms, and the escaped hydrogen would increase the hydrogen concentration in the soil and water, potentially increasing the micro-organisms' population and changing the local eco-"systems. High water vapour concentration.in the air is very corrosive, potentially damaging man--made structures. All of this could happen \vhc.n hydrogen reaches dominat1ce or a monopoly ill the utilization of energy." Aside from the effects of hydrogen usc, problems also exist where the creation of hydrogen fuel is concerned. Electricity can be used to hvdrolize water, but this means that e~tra electricity must be generated. Natural gas is currently the cheapest way of extracting hydrogen, but this process relies on hydrocarbon fuel sources, just as gasoline or diesel does. "With today's technology," noted Ii, "hydrogen produced from natural gas through steam reformingis more energy efficient and most econ6mical," noting that the most energy--efficient

Professor Xianguo li shows off a hydrogen fuel cell ii"! his means of fuel generation would none-theless be tj'om electricity generated by renewable sources, such as wind or solar power.Few of the problems associated with hydrogen can be completely eliminated, hut encouraging divcrsity in the sources of power used, according to Li, 'will be the least damaging to the environment, and could possibly even be harm-"free. Li explained that different energy sources impact the environment in different ways, and that diversifying energy sources will Jessen the impact each source will have. If their impact is slow enough, the environment may actually be able to continually recover from the damage being done to it. Ii strongly

advocates that th,,, best 1:0 pursue diversification would if every locality or local relied primarily on their own natural and alternative resources. "The use of local energy re sources," he says, "such as solar, 'Arind, hydro, biomass, geothermal, ocean waves, etc., will provide energy security ... (and) will increase energy efficiency. Further, jobs will be created and kept in local economy." Li is optimistic about the role his work will play in a future such as this, even if that future isn't the idealized solution some people picture. "Allsolurions arc evil;' he says. "So we might have a 'lesser evil' solution at best." agardiner@imprint.uw8terloo.ca

Personalized drugs are the next great medical achieve ent faisal Naqib iMPRiNT STAFF

l\ledicine has come a long away over the past century; controlling infectious diseases, major advances in anesthetics and whole organ transplants. The next great achieve-ment on the horizon is the clinical usc of personalized medications. One such drug is Herceptin which was released in 1996. Herceptin is a breast cancer drug that was found tu be effective in only one out of five women who used The reason behind this narrow range of effectiveness was found to he caused by the genetic make-up of the patients. The responders to the medication turned out to have a certain mutation in their tumor ceUs that enabled the drug to take action. And, thus was born the first personalized treatment. Drug companies began selling_ the drug along with a diagnostic test to determine if the patient ~vould benefit from the treatment. T'his idea could be expanded to many other medications creating

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far more efficient treatments, but several obstacles are blocking this medical dream. Making the drugs, which.in the past has proven most difficult, is not a factor in this case. The real problem lies in identifying the gen('s, and the proteins they express that\vill determine the effectiveness of a particular drug. The reason this is difficult is because data on thousands of genes are collected from thousands of patients creates such a large pile of information that researchers are not sure how to analyze it. Another obstacle is how to integrate tbis new type of treatment plan into medicine: I--low should companies develop them and how should physicians use them? A major problem is convincing pharmaceutical companies to invest in producing personalized drugs. These companies have a huge pro{-it1ncentive against personalized medicine; if they sell a diagnostic test that will reveal to the patient whether the drug win benefit them or not, it will inherently lower the numbcr

of patients who wilJ buy the drug. This is a prime example of how pharmaceutical companies take into consideration more than just the patients' benefits. This idea of personalized medicine would not just be concerned with new drugs either, it can be ap-plied to existing drugs and optjmize t.he way your physician determines the cortect dosage. Researchers are studying a group of liver enzymes that ate responsible for rernov1ng drugs from the body. I\futations in these enzymes can affect th,~ rate at which the drugs are taken out of the body, meaning that ~ standard dosage could prove to be too little or too much. For example, if these enzymes are h}1)eract1ve in a given patient, the standard dose will be too little and have little effect. On the other hand, if the enzymes arc slower than normal, the drug will remain in the body longer than usual and the standard dose could cause many side effects (most serious of which would be an overdose). The diagnostic tests have not been completely perfected for

clinical practice and more research is needed to create dosage guidelines useful to clinicians. Although the idea of discovering the optimal dosage for each patient seems like an amazing step forward, physicians will need more convincing before implementing it on every patient they see. Many of the drmrs that cocJd be personalized in this -way ate a staple of dinicai practice, and physicians are comfortable with their "trial and error" method of prescribing. The idea of whether t.he benefits outweigh the hassle and

cost of testing will become the issue most dealt with. Integrating this form of treatment into medical practice will require time because of all these problems. This new achievement is different than the others mentioned at the beginning of this article be-cause of its ability to restructure the entire medical field; £l'om the way physiciaflS treat patierlts to the \vay pharmaceutical companies manufacture

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Ridding ourselves of I OO-year-old technology An interesting project has been recently management system that ensures that the demands in a particular environment are met. launched across Europe and has been planned The Cyber Cars are now in initial stages to be implemented in some parts of China: _ _ _ _. .- and are designed for the project is entitled Cyber Cars. short trips at a low Cyber Cars are fully automated speed in an urban vehicles that can eliminate environment. But the 100 year-old control in the long run, mechani,sm of the driver the project will be having total responsibility We have been talking about rapid bus transit expanded to highof his vehicle through speed cars runand light rail transit for quite a while. These mechanical means such solutions offer modern !pass public transning on dedicated as the steering wheel portation, which are both convenient and tracks. and pedals. sustainable. In addition, this mass transportaThese Cyber The cyber cars tion is highly efficient in terms of the number . are road vehicles Cars employ of people that can be transported, as long vehicle syswith fully automatas there is sufficient demand. Consider times tems that are ed driving capabiliwhen there is less demand (night operations, compose.d of a ties. These vehicles off-peak hours); the operation cost remains navigation, planning, can form a fleet the same and the system faces deficit, the control and communicafor passengers and very reason for no service on transit during tion modules. The core lies in goods. The fleet COURTESY OF CYBERC3 the night hours and off-peak hours in some' can run on a network of the planning module. It receives vehicles' relative and global pose from the applications. roads with door to door delivery capability. The control of this fleet is through a central guidance modules through magnet, vision

Socialselfassembly THESoaAL PHYsICIST Under an hour ago, I saw someone walk by with one of those UWleatherjackets-with "Nano Tech" stitched on the sleeve. My second thought was about the nature of nanotechnology. Some people (including some poor, naive high school students who enrol into the program) have no idea how nanotech is actually "done." It's not as if those little tiny machines are chiselled and wrought in the same way our ancestors mucked about with rock and bone to produce sharpened spears. The tiny nanoscale-structures we see pop up in the news from time to time are createdusingadvanced techniques, suchas electron lithography. However, it is the technique of seff arsembb'which I want to fOcus on for the purposes of my column. (Those actually in the nan9tech prognun can skip my horribly mangled interpretation of what self assembly is.) "Self assembly" refers to the proce~s of a structure being constructed without any outside intervention. Like, if you dumped a bunch of metal, Crude oil and leather in a pile and a Porsche appeared without you having to intervene at all, that would be an example of "self assembly." (An awesome example.) Self assembly doesn't often happen on that sort of scales but it is a method for forming certain nano-scale structures (such as single-walled carbon nanotubes.) And, as I'll contend, it's a method for building desirable social structures as well "Self assembly" doesn't mean that there are no forces in action. There are aiwf!ys furces in action. It just means that the forces are internal and naturally occurring, without the intervention of an outside, interested observer. MEXT WEDNESDAY MARCH 29TH

and laser guidances respectively. Results are sent to the central control system by the onboard communication module through the wireless network. Many other modules help in planning and detecting obstacles. They can also aid in collision detection by minor adjustments in the deceleration or acceleration processes. Cyber Cars at initial stages are working ,on short trips, such as campuses, parks, resorts, et cetera. Many transportation systems, relatively small in scope, are already operating on different projects. They are Floriade 2002 by Yamaha, ParkShuttle by Frog and are located in the Schiphol Airport and Rivium of Netherlands, Simserhof Ride and CyCab by Robosoft in France, ULTra by ATS in Cardiff and Serpentine capsules in Lausanne. Nevertheless, Cyber Car is a promising step towards more sustainable transportation with more flexibility of operation. zabdy@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

World's poor expected to be most impacted by s'pecies' extinction

I used to take a lot ?f cabs to carppus, living far asked cabbies what they do when "The bottom line is that you cannot achieve Rebecca McNeil they'renotbeingordered around by the dispatcher. long-term poverty alleviation without sustainIMPRINT STAFF Turns out when there are no orders pending, the ability. In order to reduce hunger and poverty cabb!es get to drive wherever they want and increase access to clean water and sanitation, And why wouldn't they be afforded this freeAccording to the Millennium Ecosystem we need to have a strong base of environmental dom? Sure, the cabbies could sit in their cars and . Assessment (MA), we can now add human sustainability which is providing these services do nothing, but left to their own devices, they poverty to the list of reasons why biological on which people rely for their well-being;' comrealize it's better to make momy so they canfeed their extinction is undesitable. Those concerned mented MA team member Dr. Neville Ash. children. So they drive to where the fares are likely with social welfare can turn to the report for But most scientists sadly agree that if they to be. Ever wondc;r who told the cabbies to wait indications of a bleak social future as it outlines can't get those in industries such as agriculoutside your favourite barat2 a.m. everySaturday? how organisms are disappearing at rates at least Answer: no one. It's just smart business practice. 100 times faster than the ''background levels" ture, energy and world trade to realize their impact on biodiversity, there is only a slim Self assembly, baby. seen in fossil records. This and the fact that the chance that any efforts from the scientific The cabbie example shows how. an intrinsic poorest individuals are often most affected by community will reap the benefits. This is human motivation (greed) can be harnessed to ecosystem degradation on a socio-economic not an easy task when it is projected that achieve a desired encl. Sometimes the key to getlevel and have a harder time recovering, is what consumption and energy use will remain the ring people to behave productively is not to make is making this report so distressing. It also adds that decreasing biocliversityis bad , same or increase in the near future. Thererules, butprovideincentives; createanenvironment fore, decreasing or slowwhichharnessespeople'snaturalforces. The British news for the economy as ing extinction will inwell, as it reduces natural Navy did much the same thingin the 19th century volve major changes for by providing monetary rewards for captains who goods requited for our We are currently human activity. Major captured slave sl:rips. Isn't that more effective than current lifestyles such as "drivers" of extinction "Hey you, capture that slave ship?" timber, water and soil. removing species at noted in the paper inThe MA is the most Sure, "path of least resistance" is a part of \ tqis but it's onlY a part of it The whole breadth . comprehensive audit to such drast~ levels that cluded: agriculture expansion, climate change, of human motivations and emotions playa part date of the health of our in assembling the social groups we see. Laziness, planet and claims that we we are threatening our introduction of alien species, over-exploitalust, greed, hate - all of it. are currently removing very own existence. tion of wildlife, chemiTake me and Imprint, for instance. Two years species at such drasticlevcal and synthetic inputs ago, I joined because a girl I liked told me to. I elsthatwearethreatening through fertilizers ana know of anothercampuspublicatiQnwhich.rtarled our very own existence. sewage and air pollution. Human inclination to over-exploit resources withsimilarinfatuation.Somanyvolunteergroups It's shocking when scientists are saying that on campus organize themselves - and are held has lead to one-third of all amphibians, onetheleve1 of extinction seen today is only matched fifth'of mammals and one-eighth of all bitds together-bysuchforces.Lustissttong,butgreecl works well too. I remember when the university now being threatened with extinction - not by the extinction of the dinosaur. However, bleak as it may seem, the paper insists that a wanted to stage a photo op when we retook fitst including the species already gone for good. revival of our current species and organisms on the MacLean} rankings,they just offered free Experts agree this is likely well over 100,000 is in reach, though there is no hope for species pizza. How often haveyou fallen fo1' that trick? strictly based on human interference. already lost. Because of our unprecedented Dh yeah, the fitst thing I thought when I saw The MA discusses ecosystem ''value'' as imdestruction, we will requite unprecedented that student's nanotech jacket man, I'm old. My portant based on the provisions they supply as efforts to maintain or improve the status quo existence here predates that.Jm?gmm. I need to get well as the often unnoticed and underappreciated of biodiversity that exists today. off this campus. . services it provides such as climate control, water purification, nutrient cycling and the countless , rmcneil@imprint.uwaterloo.ca mdavenport@imprint.uwaterloo.ca acts of nature taken for granted daily. 1lway. Curious, I

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FRlDAY. MARCH 24, 2006

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Cancer treatments foreseen by the minds of the ancient Mayans The ancient Mayans believed the portal between our world and the lair of their volatile rain god Chac, to be at the source of Mexico's jungle sinkholes. These "cenotes" are embedded in limestone and contain crystalline waters - a vital water resource for the Mayans - and have been the amusement for underwater divers, having mapped 650 kilometres of the vast and complex waterways. This river system that spans the Yucatan peninsula forms a subterranean river delta connecting to the Caribbean Sea. Scientists studying the caverns formed over the millions of by rainwater passing through porous limestone material to tht: nonporous rock below - have identified many early archaeological relics and prehistoric animal bones daring back to the Ice Age. Accompanying these were 40 new aquatic species, mostly blind, that have adapted to th<;:;se harsh environ·· mental conditions. "his proving to be a totally unique environment" said marin~ biologist Tom Iliffe ~f Texas A&M Universitv. "We are finding things down the;e including forms of life that no one had ever guessed existed, and there is a lot more work to be done." Scientists postulate manv medical applications, including cures for cancer, after discovering mi· cro·organisms that reside along the transitional zone where fresh water flows into the Caribbean and saltwater sponges containing anti-tumour compounds.

Preservation through disposable chopstick tax In a bid to preserve the forests of China, the government has implemented a 5 per cent tax on disposable wooden chopsticks. The chopstick industry sees an annual prod~lction rate of 45 billion pairs per year, consuming millions of trees and bamboo plants. "This is part of the government's strategy of rebalancing growth and reducing energy demand," said Ben Simpfendorfer, a strategist with the Royal Bank of Scotland .in Hong Kong. "The government wants to show that it is doing sometl1ing to increase the tax burden on Ll-te richer segment of the population to reduce the widening disparity between the rich and poor." Despite continuing efforts to reduce the gap between the rich and poor, over 200 million Chinese live on less than $1 per day. Although a serious concern to Chine~e environmentalists, the reactions have been mixed. Some want a complete ban on disposable wooden chopsticks, restocking cafeterias with spoons; whereas others deem it wise to continue its use to lower the risk of infection by sharing utensils.

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Reborn from extinction; the lazarus effect Having eluded scientist's radar for 11· million years, the creature that sports the face of a rat and

tail of a skinny squirrel has finally emerged. Late last spring, near central Laos, which neighbours Thailand, the whiskered squirrel-rat was discovered and dubbed the Loatian rock rat. Rather than a new species, this rodent was a rare surviving member of a species thought to be extinct for millions of veal'S known only through fossil re~ord: originating from China and other regions of Asia. The species, called Diatomyidae, is not technically a rat, but more of a small squirrel or tree shrew. The nocturnal creature flourishes in the Laotian forests that are largely unexplored due to geographic remoteness and history of political turnmoil. To reappear after such dormancy is so rare that paleontolo-

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gists coin these occurences "the Lazarus effect." To locals, the squirrel-rat is called kha-nyou, and are sometimes present at meat markets. Scientists have yet to catch a live one, and

are unable to calculate how many still exist. This area is also home to other unique animals, such as the soala or wild ox, barking deer and neverbefore-seen bats.

Although it's silky white appearance mimicks the charactereristics of the Himalayas, this crustacean is home to the deep, dark depths of the South Pacific, located 1,500 kilometres off the coast of Easter Island. This unusual creature Ki}1Ja hirsuta, christened "yeti-crab" has forced scientists to create an entirely new classification for it. Even after a year of study, the scientific com·· munity is still baffled to much of its complexities, including the purpose of the fine, hairlike filaments that coat the crab's arms and legs. Future expeditions in search for yeti-crabs will see biologists in the far-south waters of Antarctica. rblom@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2006

sports@imprint.uwaterloo.ca Sports Editor: Dave Klaponski Sports A.ssistant: Va<::am

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I Brody Hohman SPECIAL TO IMPRINT

On Sunday afternoon, the third·-seeded Carleton University Rayens won their fourth straight WE McGee Tropby, beating the top-r2J1ked University of Victoria Vikes 73-67 in the finals of the CIS National Tournament at the Halifax l\Ietro Centre. Carleton becomes onh' the second team ever to four-peat' as national champions since none other than the Victoria who won an increc.ible sev(cn straight titles betwten 1990 and '86. finals

for the straight year on effort, his highest point previous four finals. added eight rebounds and threes on 60 petcenr. shooting from the field. The 2005-06 CIS player of the year also averaged 23.8 points in the tournament, including 22 point~~ against both lJQAl\f in the quarter finals and the tough Breton Capers in the semis, aU \1/h11e never leaving the floor in three head coach Dave Smart has now led his team to 14 straight tourD:h"11entw-ins, which is, of course, second to Victoria's 18 consecutive wins during their tjtlc reign. Although the result was the same the past four years, the Ravens were faced "with some adversity, they have been without iniured s~condteam all-·Ca.nadlan forward Aaron Doornekamp since the second round of the OVA playoffs. But Carleton is a talented tC3m and several other players stepped up to fill the void. Ryan Bell had 15 points, 4 rebc·l.lnds and 4"ssi.st'l 1.'1 the game while teammates Jean-Emmanud Jean-Marie and Sluatt-Turnbuil added' 12 and lO respectively:

Waterloo lost 82·60 when they travelled to Ottawa to play Carleton at home this past season. The UVic Vikes dld an admirable job in the game, putting together a 22-7 run in the second half which \vas capped by a Chris Trumpy three 1"0 cut the elderon lead to one. They also managed to keep Jeanty scoreless in the second half until the 4:30 mark when he hit a big threepointer to put the Ravens on top by

seven. He then hit three crucial free throws in the remaining seconds of the game to seal the victorr lacob Doerksen, CIS Rookie of the Ye~ for 200506 led the way for the Vikes with 22 poinu, and 6 rebounds. Canada West All-Star Chris Ttumpv had 11 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assis-t~, 2 steals and 2 threes in his final CIS

There's no crying in baseball - maybe for the Tigers

You heardithere first) folks: the Detroit Tigers ,\1.ll not make the l\Iajor League Baseball post-season in 2006. It may be a little early to disqualify the Tigers from playoff contention, seeing as Detroit doesn't play it~ first game of the season until April 3. And granted, anything can happen in the long, long (dld I mention long?) 162gaIne i\ILB schedule. But if karma, the baseball gods ,md the Chicago Cubs have taught us anything, it's that the hard-luck teams will al·ways be hard· luck. So no, Virginia, there's no Santa Claus and there's no post-season berth for the Tigers. But that won't stop thousands of people from believing. Baseball season is once again upon us and from out of the rippled shadows of Barry Bonds' mutant biceps corne the die-hards of America's pastime. EverYl\hrch, fans of the C~bs,

Tigers and yes, even the Kansas City Royals, emerge with a new hope and a chorus of "this is our year!" Sure, all their hopes and dreams are dashed by the All-Stat Break, but that doesn't ~ake them any less passionate. One particular friend of mine from the southern part of southern Ontario picks the Tigers every year to win the American League Central. He doesn't do it to be funny or original Of even sarcastic. He does it because, every March, he adHallY believes the Tigers will win their division. Of course, the Tigers won't ",'"in their di,'"ision. They haven't since 1987. But my friend has what a lot of dedicated baseball fans have and what a lot of other sports fans are missing ~- a little blind faith. Even though he's dead wrong about his Tigers, he is what's right about baseball fans. Maybe it's tlle history behind the gam'; maybe it's the fan· friendliness, or maybe it's the readily available beer in Stadium5 con· tinenH.vide. \'V'hatever it is, basebalJ fans are committed through the good, the bad and the Tigers. \'(Jith the exception of a few Canadian hockey fans, you will not see the kind of dedication to a team that

you see for every MLB dub. Even the haves of baseball experience the phenomenon of blind faith, as fans of teams like the Yankees consciously ignore how hated their team is league",>ide and root for them like they hadn't won a pennant since the Eisenhower administration. Bandwagon jumping happens less in baseball than it does in any other sport and that's what makes the fans special. For someone to actually believe -_. no, asStmtli- a club like the Tigers could reach the Promised Land take--s a special kind of makeup, th.e type of person who would paint himself blue and orange and sit topless in minustwelve-degree weather at Commerica Park should they actually make it. But when one of the lovable loser teams climb to the top and inexplicably win a \!<;rorld Series .- as they have in the last two seasons ~~ the die-bards are the ones who reap the most rc\vard. Every tearn's time will come and when it does it \vill be all the sweeter for the dle-hards. So maybe there's no such thing as blind faith after all. OK, unless you're a Tigers fan. amcguire@imprint.uwaterioo.ca

basketball game. Brandon Ellis scored 15 points and added 3 three· balls. Tne difference in the game \vas shooting. Carleton shot the basketball much better then Victoriainevcrdacet ,~ 54.2 per cent FG, 46.'7 per c~nt 3P FC, and 82.4 per cem FT coITl}I'ared to Victoria's 45.7, 38.9, and 62.1 percentages i.n those same categories. Carleton

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also went tCJ the charity stripe 11 more times than the Vikes. Ry:m Bell, Brandon Ellis andJacob Doerksen were all named tournam.em all-stars, along \\"ith Jeanty's Donohue Trophy CfvfVP). McMaster beat eBC 96-87 in the consohtion final on Sunday to take home 1hird place.

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and these games are ones that they cannot lose if they hope to make the playoffs next season.

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Ontario University Athletics released this fall's varsity football schedule this week. Waterloo is in action the first weekend at home against the Windsor Lancers and their returning first-team all-Canadlan running back Daryl Stephenson, who rushed for 1,306 yards and 12 touchdowns last year. Highlights of tl"le season include a September 30 derby between Waterloo and LaUl1er at Uni-\rersity Stadlun1. Other important match-ups next season will be against Toronto, Guelph and York. \Vaterloo heads to Toronto on September 16 to take on the Uniyersity of Toronto Varsity Blues, who they only beat by two poims in last season's game. In a week six match -up on October 7, Waterloo hosts Guelph at University Stadium. \1(laterloo beat Guelph last year by only a field goal. \V'aterloo takes on York at home on October 21 at linivctsitvStadium. Last season, Waterloo fell York by' only 4 points, 20-16. The \X'arriors are looking to improve on their 2-6 record last season

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