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vol 30, no 5

Friday, June 29, 2007

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Rez shortages pack students Karina Graf staff reporter

The University of Waterloo is facing a larger than expected influx of first-year students in fall 2007, as confirmed acceptances are at 114 per cent of the university’s target.

Applications at Waterloo increased by 11.2 per cent over last year, with both existing and new programs garnering an upswing in confirmations here at UW. For 2007 UW made a total of 19,562 offers of admission, with expectation of 5,114 new students.

However, the number of confirmed students for this fall is 5,825. To compare, last year 19,050 offers were made for a targeted 4,948 new students, and this target was met within three per cent. Last year, eight per cent of confirmed students chose not to attend, and UW is expecting a similar number to cancel this year.

Jennifer Ferguson, manager of admissions and marketing in the department of housing and residences, cites the popularity of programs at UW as one of the reasons for the increased confirmations. She noted higher than expected interest in new programs in management engineering, geomatics, geography, and aviation. As well, Ferguson stated that “the other thing we seem to be seeing is the increase in interest by students in some of our programs with a business mix to the degree: arts and business, science and business, math and business, and environmental studies and business.”

Ferguson also attributes the

increase in UW’s admissions to a number of other factors, noting, “We’ve enhanced our scholarships over the last couple of years, the experience in our community, our student life environment has improved, and also our residence accommodations have created living learning through experiences within the community.”

Housing is an area that is strongly affected by this increase, as UW guarantees residence to all first-year students. If current totals remain unchanged, the number of beds available for first year students would be 650 short of the number required. To help alleviate the problem, UW housing is going to create a first-year community to house 150 students in the Columbia Lake townhouses, which is traditionally an upper-year and graduate residence. As well, Ron Eydt Village will see 120 rooms which are currently double rooms converted into triple rooms. The university colleges are also planning to absorb 36 extra students. Another solution is to give first-year students rooms that were originally allotted to upper year students who hadn’t yet been assigned rooms. Furthermore, UW housing officer Chris Read said, “We expect about 150 students over the course of the summer to not show up in the fall. They’ll either decide not to live in residence; maybe they’ll have their academic offer withdrawn by the university, all kinds of personal situations. That’s historically a number we know we can more or less count on.”

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What’s Inside News Workers returned to School of Accountancy site after strike-ending deal was reached, but will it open on time?

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Opinion Christ almighty! Christine Ogley preaches about problems with evangelism. ► page

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Sports Track athlete gets his sled ready for a run at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. ► page

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100 million dollar venture

Balsillie turns from attempting to conquer the NHL to donating $50 million to CIGI and to support the formation of the Jim Balsillie School of International Affairs

Michael L. Davenport

UW President David Johnston speaks at the official announcement for the new $100 million project at CIGI. Seated, from left to right are CIGI executive director John English, CIGI founder Jim Balsillie, Kitchener Centre MPP John Milloy, Premier Dalton McGuinty, Mayor Brenda Halloran and WLU President Robert Rosehart.

Ashley Csanady assistant editor-in-chief

The University of Waterloo is usually known for its technology and science based achievements, so its role in the largest social science initiative in Canadian history may come as a shock to a few.

A total of $100 million will fund the creation of the Jim Balsillie School for International Affairs (JBIA) — named for the RIM co-CEO who donated $50 million towards the creation of the school and to the Centre for International Governance (CIGI) — a joint graduate studies endeavour between UW and WLU. Thirty-three million of Balsillie’s donation will go to the school, the other $17 million towards supporting CIGI’s ongoing research. The provincial government pitched in with $17 million, and each university added approximately another $25 million each.

During what John English, executive director of CIGI, called a historic day for Waterloo, the official announcement was made

at CIGI June 25. Premier Dalton As a joint venture, the JBIA will the school will also benefit underMcGuinty, Jim Balsillie, Mayor benefit from resources, funding and graduate students in the public Brenda Halloran, and both universi- support from both universities. In lectures, conferences and forums ties’ presidents were in a attendance an interview with Imprint, UW Presi- it will draw, faculty that will be on top of a slew of MPs, MPPs, dent David Johnston expressed a shared, and that it will benefit the university officials and local coun- vision of two universities spread undergraduate curriculum. Both cilors and chairs. throughout the city, with the park he and Laurier President Robert The JBIA itself will be an in- as the division and meeting place Rosehart also said that the JBIA terdisciplinary venture as well as a between the two campuses. will potentially offer undergraduate joint venture between the two uniDespite the significant donations, studies in the future. versities. The school will focus on UW is still putting up a lot of money.

When Feds President Kevin developing “interactive knowledge When asked about future costs and Royal was asked his thoughts on of international undergrads beissues from the ing left in the core disciplines dark, he said that Even though it will only provide of political scihe understood ence, economics that it was at the graduate studies, Johnston said and history, and donor’s request, the related discibut that, as an arts that the school will also benefit plines of geograstudent, all fundphy, global studing towards the undergraduate students. ies, environmensocial sciences is tal studies and encouraging. business among “I think there’s others,” stated a press release issued the plans for its use, Johnston said a reason for humanity to be hopeby the newly-formed JBIA. that UW’s contribution will fund ful at this point in our history,” Scheduled to open in 2008, with professors’ salaries and UW will bear said McGuinty of the potential for the new building to be completed the responsibility for the day-to-day this school to spark great social in 2009, the school will be located running costs of the school. change. next to CIGI in Uptown Waterloo Even though it will only provide Unintentionally quoting Spideron the former Seagram’s land. graduate studies, Johnston said that man, McGuinty expressed that “with

power comes responsibility” and that “it is our responsibility [as Canadians] to stand up and be a shining beacon for the world.” He sees the new school as the kind of endeavor that will allow Canadians to develop solutions to global problems.

Balsillie said that donations such as his are the “moral imperative of the new economy,” and that he chose the here and the now to fund the endeavour “because there is such a remarkable capability for Canada to do something on the world scene.”

Balsillie, also the co-founder and chair of CIGI, provided millions towards the founding of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics ,and bestowed the largest donation ever to healthcare in this region to Grand River Hospital’s Regional Cancer Centre. Throughout the funding announcement, politicians and educators alike thanked him for the generosity that will, hopefully, help Waterloo make an even bigger impact in the world for years to come. acsanady@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Canada Day: birthdays all around Scott Houston features editor

This weekend is a time to celebrate as we commemorate four anniversaries. UW is 50 years old, Feds is 40 years old, the city of Waterloo is 150 years old and Canada turns 140 years old. Festivities will be held on Sunday, July 1 at Columbia Lake Field.

Headlining this event will be Ron Sexsmith, a Juno award-winning songwriter. Other acts include Franklin the Turtle for kids and a post-fireworks performance by Knock Knock Ginger, both on the main stage.

The event has many activities for those young and old. The children’s stage will have various shows by many of UW’s performing arts clubs, including the UW DJ club, UW HipHop club and the UW jugglers. Also,

UW Cheerleaders and the Engineering Jazz Band will perform. There will be face painting, a caricature artist and an obstacle course for the kiddies to enjoy.

Other acts include a performance by Andy Stochansky, and performances by Soul Suppliers, Allister Bradley and Charlie A’Court.

Be sure to check out Activity World where there are many activities and demonstrations for young and old from Konnichiwa Japan, UW Robotics Club, Scouts Canada and many others.

Food will be available in the UW food tent including sausages, hamburgers, pizza and soft drinks.

The proceeds will go toward the fireworks display, which will start at approximately 10 p.m. shouston@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Man sentenced in death of UW student Driver pleads guilty to manslaughter in 2005 death of UW student and his brother Andrew Abela

Construction workers resume work on the School of Accountancy after a three week strike.

Construction resumes on accountancy school Andrew Abela staff reporter

After three long weeks of striking, work on the previously boycotted school of accountancy construction site has begun once again.

On June 26, members of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) were finally allowed back to work. Because of unsatisfactory wording in a contract agreement, general contractors began striking on June 4.

Although the language of the work agreement was the main reason for striking, the general contractors had been working for over a month without an actual contract since the last one expired on April 30.

For the past three weeks, pickets near the main entrance to UW were upheld to prevent contractors from entering the job site. For UW campus, this has resulted in very little progress for the new school of accountancy building since ground was broken on March 27.

According to Dan Randazzo, a legal counsel for the Ontario chapter of LIUNA, “the contract has yet to be signed, but the contractors went back to work [Monday].” Though the ink is still missing, he described the new contract as “good enough to know that they will sign it,” in reference to the ratification that should occur over the next week or so. In addition to a change in wording, the new contract will also bring wage increases for the contractors to reflect economic inflation.

Major project construction co-ordinator/inspector Don Haffner from Plant Operations stated that the erection of the new school of accountancy would be pushed back by “a month or so” but that “it depends on how the construction progresses.” He added that “since construction just began, it is too early to tell at this time.” When asked if anything was being done to make up for the delay, he simply responded “nothing at this time.”

As stated on the school of accountancy website, one of the goals for the new building includes providing exceptional student learning space.

Apparently, accounting students will have to wait longer for that soonto-be exceptional learning space. aabela@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Adrienne Raw assistant news editor

On June 26, 22-year-old Toronto native Paul Alexander was sentenced in the deaths of two students: 21year-old Chandru Nagulasigamany, a student at UW, and his 19-year-old brother Soumiyan. The brothers died on September 23, 2005 when they were run down by an SUV driven by Alexander during an altercation.

Prosecutors initially charged Alexander with two counts of second-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder. They later accepted guilty pleas to two counts of manslaughter and dropped the other charges.

Earlier this week, Alexander was sentenced to nine years, but was given credit for time already served. As a result, he will only spend six years in prison.

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On the Nagulasigamany family’s reaction to the sentencing, Poland said “The problem they have is the problem anyone in this situation has: There is nothing we can do in the justice system that could make them happy. The only thing that would is getting their sons back, and that’s not possible.”

In an interview with The Record published June 26, Uma and Nagi Nagulasigamany, parents of Chandru and Soumiyan, spoke about their continuing grief for the loss of their children. “There’s no child to carry on the family name,” they said. “There is nothing to look forward to in our lives.’’ araw@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Feds step carefully Coverage increased for health and dental plan Michael L. Davenport staff reporter

Zoe McKnight reporter

The University of Waterloo Federation of Students announced an increase in coverage provided by the health and dental plan in a press release dated May 28. New items included under the plan are the Gardasil vaccination against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted infection, as well as accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

The increase in health plan coverage comes with a concomitant increase in premiums, from $43.06 per term to $44.06 for regular students. Co-op students will pay $82.66 per term. At no additional cost, the dental plan was expanded to 70 per cent coverage from 50 per cent for basic services and now includes white composite fillings for all teeth.

Feds vice president administration and finance Del Pereira describes the increased coverage as not just preventative but “proactive” medicine, noting that the HPV vaccine is most successful among university-age women, between 19-26 years.

The accidental death and dismemberment insurance was added with co-op students in mind, who oftentimes work in large factories where the reality is that job safety can become a life-or-death situation. With the major job safety initiatives undertaken by the provincial government and growing awareness of the HPV and its connection to types of cervical cancer, it seems as though the Feds’ health and dental plan is keeping current.

The health advisory committee includes Health Services, Feds and the Graduate Students Association and strongly recom-

mended the Gardasil vaccine, termed a “top priority” for Feds in their press release. The advisory committee also consists of SunLife Insurance, the StudentCare service provider and two human resources staff.

Debate on the committee surrounded not the increased cost to students, but the most beneficial policy for the price increase. In the wake of the Feds bus pass referendum and the upcoming motion to council on the status of Greek clubs, the lack of controversy seems welcome.

“We tried to look at what’s beneficial to the entire student population, and balance that against a price increase … what [students] can afford to pay,” said Pereira. “If we manage the plan well, we can keep offering more coverage as we go along,” he explained, referring to the balance between premiums and claims, a balance which was met last year with $1.6 million in claims.

While the health and dental plan remains refundable with opt-out available in the fall term only, relatively few students have taken this route. In 2006, only 1,820 students chose to opt out, of 21,000 undergraduates in the student body.

UW health and dental plan Health plan coverage Prescription drugs: 80 per cent of drug costs; dispensing fee

Diagnostic services: 80 per cent of costs, unless covered by provincial health care

Vaccinations: 80 per cent of costs

Hospitalization: 80 per cent of costs (room, board, etc…), maximum $16 per day

Health practitioners: 80 per cent of costs for a physiotherapist, naturopathic doctor, dietician, speech therapist, osteopath, massage therapist or psychologist, maximum of $400 per category per calendar year; chiropractor for a maximum of $20 a visit, $400 per calendar year

Out-of-province referral: 80 per cent of costs and up to $60 per day for public ward accommodation, auxiliary hospital services in a general hospital, and services of a physician for 60 days per calendar year

Home nurse: 80 per cent of costs, maximum of $20,000 per calendar year

Ambulance: 80 per cent of costs

Medical equipment: 80 per cent of costs (hearing aids, crutches, etc…); podiatrist services, maximum $80 per calendar year; orthotics, maximum of $400 per 24 months

Dental plan coverage Insured portion - a percentage of the recommended fee for covered services

Dental accident: 80 per cent of costs

Travel health coverage: maximum $1,000,000 per lifetime, 150 days per trip

Maximum coverage on insured portion is $750

Insured portion

Extra network coverage

Preventative services: recall exams, cleanings, root planing, extraction of impacted teeth

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There were many differing opinions at the Feds Council meeting on June 23, but the discussion was civil. While the issue of recognizing fraternities and sororities on campus did get its much anticipated attention from Feds Council, two other issues garnered attention as well: potential loss of study space in the Tatham Centre, and lobbying for renewal of the Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation.

Roughly a dozen students sporting Greek letters looked on as council debated the topic of Feds recognition. Though Councillor Jeffrey Aho put forward his motion to council three weeks in advance, it has been continuously revised and tweaked since then and, in fact, was amended again at the meeting.

Feds President Kevin Royal also introduced a new motion, separate from Aho’s, that would create an “ad-hoc committee [...] co-chaired by the vice president internal and president” to investigate the issue. This motion passed with little opposition; one councillor voted against it and Royal abstained.

After much debate, Councillor Aho’s motion was ultimately deferred to the next session of council. Royal believes the ad-hoc committee will be best equipped to look into the issue and create policy amicable to all parties, whereas Aho felt it should be the job of the bylaws, policy and procedure committee.

Vice-President Admin Finance of Feds Del Pereira reported to council that — according to Feds’ lawyer — passing Aho’s motion would constitute “recognition” of Greek organizations by Feds and thus potentially make them susceptible to liability for the actions of fraternities and sororities.

It is hoped that the committee will give Greek organizations something they want while not making Feds culpable for the organizations’ actions.

Not many who came for the Greek debate stayed for the remainder of the council meeting, even though the ramifications of those discussions could be as far-reaching.

The Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation has run its course, and must be renewed by the federal government in the 2008 budget. The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) will be lobbying for its renewal, with increased funding to account for higher enrolment and inflation.

CASA also wants to keep the current 95 per cent need / 5 per cent merit-based scholarship split. However, Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) wants the scholarship to become 100 per cent need-based, stating, “A renewed foundation or any comparable new federal endowment or program should not distribute merit-based scholarships.” After much debate, Feds passed a resolution supporting CASA’s position.

Finally, council had an informal discussion regarding giving up study space in the Tatham Centre. There are currently 35 rooms available as student study space in TC, but CECS wants to take up to 12 rooms for the development of “Jobmine 2.”

While there is concern that the university will slowly absorb student space in TC, Vice President Education Jonah Levine said, “...there is also a recognition that Jobmine has a lot of problems.” Added Levine, “Talks are still ongoing, and no decision has been made. The lines of communication are still open and both parties are optimistic for a good resolution.” mdavenport@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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However, these measures alone will not be enough. Read describes the current situation, saying “We’re not worked all the way down to zero.

There’s still about 100 spots that we’re looking for.”

Incentives are being offered to entice students to choose the triple rooms. People living in triple rooms will get $1,000 for the year off of the double room price.

They will also receive guaranteed residence for the remainder of their undergraduate career. Read describes this guarantee as “a pretty significant incentive, because for this coming fall […] we ran a lottery for students who wanted to live in residence and we have over 1,200 students that we did not offer a spot to.” Students in triple rooms will also be given 100 flex dollars for their WatCard and will be guaranteed a spot with two other friends if they sign up as a group of three.

The existing beds in REV will be stacked into bunks, and new loft-style beds have been ordered to furnish the rooms. The bed is elevated and an extra dresser and desk will fit underneath the bed. However, there will be no extra closet space. Housing

is also converting an existing lounge in REV into study space in order to give students another option for quiet studying area.

Read expects that upper year undergrads won’t be affected, as he said “It won’t affect the upper year students a great deal because those who have already been assigned spots are getting the spots that they’ve been assigned and paid for. They’ve returned contracts.” He reveals that graduate students make up the largest affected group. “There were a lot of graduate students who had applications to live with us in the fall and we’re not able to offer any new graduate spots,” he said.

Read is optimistic that everyone will be satisfied in the end. “So our goal […] will be to do everything we can from a residence life, a student life perspective to make it a good experience. And historically other universities have had success doing that. Where people are unhappy in the beginning, accept it as, you know, that’s what had to be done, and end up having a very positive experience,” he said.

All faculties are over their projected number of students. However, environmental studies and science are the most affected faculties. Mario Co-

niglio, associate dean of undergraduate studies in science, describes the challenge of extra students as similar to dealing with double cohort students in 2003. He details the measures that will be taken, describing that they will have to “be sure that we schedule an additional number of lab sections, therefore we need to hire additional instructors for that, and also schedule additional lecture sections as well. So it has resource implications, in terms of just multiple sections, above and beyond what we’re doing for some very large courses.”

Coniglio attributes the high confirmation rate to an increased interest in the health profession. He said, “We’re most over in those areas that would be directly attributable to things like students looking at our school of optometry, or school of pharmacy, trying to basically decide on programs that will allow them entry into those health profession type schools.”

As for changing admission policy for next year, Coniglio expects to take the numbers from this year and modify historical information to adjust admissions for next year.

Coniglio is cautiously optimistic that students will not suffer from the increased number of first-year students. “I think that the fact that

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The highest increases are generally being seen in co-operative education.

Olaf Naese, communications and public relations director at co-operative education and career services, said that he had not yet seen the numbers as of Friday June 22. He said that his department will “have to wait and see because — depending what faculty the student is in — the job situation could be better or not as good.”

Although Naese relates that the co-op department has not yet undertaken steps to specifically deal with increased co-op enrolment, he does say that “we’re always out soliciting jobs. That doesn’t stop. Our field staff is out there visiting employers all the time — ones that are currently hiring and also ones who have not hired yet. So they’re always asking, hoping to promote the university in hopes that they will take a co-op student in.”

Naese also described the regular occurrence of students deciding to drop out of the co-op program and said that more students may choose to switch to the regular program if there is a shortage of jobs.

He stated, “if the job situation were really significantly affected by higher enrolment then there’s always the situation where some students may decide that they don’t want to put themselves through that kind of stress in the co-op program. And that’s actually really easy for any plan that has both the regular and a co-op component. Students have the ability to drop out.” He did say, however, that counting on students dropping out of co-op is “not a plan of ours. That’s just natural attrition.”

The large influx of extra students is also going to affect orientation week and other student life activities. However, Heather Fitzgerald, UW’s Student Life Co-ordinator, feels prepared to handle the extra students. She said that “it’s something that could happen any year. With that in mind, we plan orientation with the information we have and if something changes we adjust accordingly.”

Adjustments that might have to be made include changing locations to account for larger groups of students and dividing faculties into smaller groups for other activities, such as the play Single and Sexy.

Furthermore, Fitzgerald does not feel that there will be a problem with orders for T-shirts and items for frosh kits, because “with anything that we order for orientation week we have worked with a few of the suppliers for years now so there is a bit of consistency […] When you plan for orientation, you know it’s a possibility […] so we’ve built contingencies into orientation to be able to manage this.”

When asked if she expects that new students’ perceptions of UW will change, Fitzgerald said, “I don’t think so because behind the scenes in orientation, especially at the Federation Orientation Committee level, everyone really works well together.

So students may look and decide that they need to recruit additional volunteers.”

Administration confidence at UW can best be described by Coniglio’s summation of the situation.

“Our feeling here is one of optimism and things will work out because we’re working hard behind the scenes to make sure they do. And students shouldn’t be overly concerned with us doing our job because it’s going to be done right,” he said.

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Religion: genocide of free thinkers How do you get a bunch of non-Christians to listen to 50 minutes of talk about God and the Christian way? I know, tell them you’ll talk about genocide for an hour and then talk about it for 10 minutes. They’ll spend the other 50 minutes listening to your preaching, wondering when you’re going to get on topic. I mean, no, they’ll sit in awed reverence, utterly convinced and converted by your magical gospel.

Why stop there? Why don’t we have debates featuring each religion that is practised in Canada?

We’ll have Sikh day and Jewish day, Buddhist day and Orthodox day, and when all our talks are finished, people won’t know what to believe anymore! After all, all you need to do to convert people is to have a talk explaining why your religion is right.

Last Friday, June 22, Campus for Christ (C4C), formerly Campus Crusade for Christ, hosted a talk which was advertised variously as “Is Genocide Wrong?” and “Is Genocide Wrong: Moral absolutes and where do they come from?”

When I first saw these banners, I chuckled to myself, thinking, “Who on Earth is gonna argue that it’s okay?” Later, while chatting with friends, someone suggested that perhaps the morality of genocide is quite debatable in countries where it’s already taken place — that maybe the victims learn to blame themselves and believe they deserved what they went through. Not convinced, but without any genocide victims to back me up, I thought that the debate at least promised

COMMUNITY EDITORIAL some good intellectual discussion — and perhaps an in-depth look at cultures where genocide has happened. However, at the last minute, I couldn’t help but express some skepticism that C4C would hold true to their supposed topic. A Christian friend of mine lightly chided me for my pre-emptive judgement, insisting that I shouldn’t assume they would veer off topic.

C4C might as well have advertised their talk was about chocolate bars.

The talk itself was about an hour long. Ten minutes of that was about genocide, and only in the loosest, most superficial sense; genocide as an example of a moral dilemma, as far as moral dilemmas relate to God. All the chalk drawings across campus that screamed for my attention to this “debate” about “genocide” purposely misled me.

Or was it on purpose? That was what I asked C4C. In an e-mail response, a very polite representative of this Feds club explained to me the basis of their organization and how they run. I’m thankful for the politeness, but I still don’t agree with the content. According to Brad Stewart, a C4C leader, the main purpose of the club is to spread the word of Jesus to every university student. They purport this is necessary because some people haven’t heard of ol’ JC before. Apparently a lot

of people missed out on the WWJD fashion trend. As far as advertising goes, obnoxious and in-your-face is no problem, as long as students are aware of C4C and their latest events.

I regret not asking specifically about misrepresentation of the debate in question, since that’s what I wanted to know. I guess politeness reigns on both fronts. I was afraid to sound rude by asking, “Why did you say your talk was all about genocide?” Stewart cites Canada’s “deep Christian heritage” as a main reason for spreading the word of Jesus. How deep, you say? Well I guess you could say after we took Canada over from the Aboriginals, and well, just before we opened our doors to immigrants from countries all over the world, there must have been at least a 50 year period of deep Christianity in there somewhere.

I sound facetious, I know. I’m not trying to, it’s just really hard to keep a cool head when talking about religion and especially evangelism.

I take it personally, yes. Why not? As with any evangelical faith, C4C throws my views, experience and beliefs out the window. They have so little respect for my beliefs that they think it’s okay to get me to listen to theirs by any means necessary.

I have some critical questions here: Who are these talks meant for? Do these events actually aim to encourage debate?

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Not convinced, but without any genocide victims to back me up, I thought that the debate at least promised some good intellectual discussion...

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Why is it so ingrained that sex isn’t over until both parties have reached climax — even when it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen?

Faking orgasms has always intrigued me because it’s something I’ve never done. It’s not that it’s never been needed, it’s just that I prefer an awkward, “Um… no, that’s good” rather than an elaborate performance. Still, most women will or have faked orgasms, and I’ve always wondered why.

Last week I solicited “faking it” tales and got some pretty interesting responses. Besides a pretty unbelievable tale posted as a comment on the website, my responses were all female and all for pretty much the same reason: I just wanted the encounter to end. From one girl who faked for an entire relationship to another who wanted an awkward encounter with a good friend to end, the general sentiment was, “It wasn’t going to happen, and I didn’t know how to let him know.”

Why is it so ingrained that sex isn’t over until both parties have reached climax — even when it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen?

I found an interesting article on this very subject from a sociology journal, Body & Society, entitled “Faking like a Woman? Towards an interpretive theorization of sexual pleasure,” by Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott.

The article suggests that while many feminists argue that the female proclivity to “fake it” is a result of a misogynistic misunderstanding of female sexuality, in reality “the current masculine meanings associated with the ‘sexual sentence’ and orgasm itself are not given by male sexual anatomy and physiology, but are the product of culturally ordered meanings embedded in particular social practices. The meanings of orgasm derive from social, not biological contexts.”

The article explains that we are taught almost from birth that “a man’s virility is represented as control of both his own and his partner’s sexual response: ‘She’s transported to another world; he’s the pilot of the ship

that takes her there.’” The female is therefore taught that her role is to reinforce his capabilities and perform accordingly. The moans, cries, facial expressions and bodily reactions we typically associate with female orgasm are, in fact, not organic bodily reactions, but a series of cues and performative techniques ingrained in our psyche as we develop an image of what sex “should” be.

We are socially taught — from before we even know what sex is — that the “natural” progression of sex is foreplay, followed by intercourse, culminating in orgasm. If a woman fails to orgasm, both she — and more importantly — her partner, have failed.

Here’s the thing, sex doesn’t begin and end in orgasm. By faking it you’re not only teaching your partner that he’s doing something right when he isn’t, you’re reinforcing the age-old fallacy that sex is only about attaining orgasm. As Jackson and Scott write, “Human sexual embodiment can neither be thought of as an abstract potentiality outside the social spaces where it is lived, nor as a mere assemblage of organs, orifices and orgasms.”

Maybe the sexual sentence needs to catch up with our postmodern age and be deconstructed. The realms of sexuality have potential to go above and beyond our current understanding, but, by faking it, women are perpetuating the current system. So stop ladies; don’t fake it and tell your partner the truth. At best, it could change your entire concept of sex; at worst, he’ll get offended — but at least you won’t have to fake it ever again. acsanady@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Opinion

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Debate: disguised evangelism continued from page 7

Threesome in the top bunk What better way to get accustomed to university life than by sharing about 16 cubic feet with two complete strangers?

When UW’s fall 2007 admission numbers were released on June 18, the school’s PR department published a flowery press release about how everyone and their brother wanted to study at Waterloo. And while nearly 6,000 new minds will certainly benefit from this campus, one question must be asked: Where the hell are all these kids going to sleep?

Enter Ron Eydt Village — or REV, as inhabitants call it — a residence building on the northwest corner of campus known for its tight sense of community. It’s about to get a whole lot tighter.

Some of the two-bedroom REV rooms will be turned into three-bedroom units with the addition of an upper bunk to one of the existing beds in the room, in order to accommodate the excessive influx of frosh expected this year.

UW saw 5,825 people take the school’s offer of acceptance, meaning enrolment will be 114 per cent of the expected target.

Suddenly — in a unit that’s virtually small enough to high-five your roommate while you both lay on your beds — a UW housing official bursts in singing the theme from “Three’s company.”

Welcome to Ron Eydt Village. Please leave your personal space bubbles outside.

To discourage students from feeling slighted at REV’s new stacker models, frosh that choose to take residence in a converted three-bed unit will be rewarded with $500 off their housing bill per term, 100 flex dollars on their WatCard, as well as a promised spot in UW’s upper-year residences for the duration of their UW undergrad career. Something stinks with this offer — and it’s not the unsanitary math student sleeping on the mattress three feet above you.

The deal will accomplish one of two things: it will either eliminate the already scarce amount of upper-year, first-come-first-serve spaces, or it will postpone the problem for 12 months while UW admin pray for Jim Balsillie to donate an already-constructed, gajillion-square-foot, 26-floor residence building that he flies in with helicopters and plops down on a cement pad north of Columbia Street.

I don’t care what UW offers these kids; the residence fiasco is simply poor business. Seemingly unbeknownst to the problem solvers at UW student housing, we need these students to actually come back next year.

“Sure, I had no desk and I had to use my bed posts as clothes hangers and I slept with my face eight inches from the ceiling, but I think that’s a place I’d like to go back to.”

The university only gets one chance to make a good first impression on these frosh. And at this rate, it will be a literal impression — of a stucco

According to the C4C website, their mandate is “helping to change the world through turning lost students to Christ-centred labourers.”

They use debates, special events, websites and one-on-one evangelism to do this. So I make the connection that it’s no accident that their events are mislabeled. In order to change “lost students” you have to attract said students, even ­— and especially — if they don’t give a damn what you have to say. Friday’s speaker claimed that C4C aims to spark discussion about “spiritual issues.” But not to Christians. Bear with me, and I’ll elaborate.

The talk went through the very basic tenets of fundamental Christianity — tenets that any Christian would know by heart and be able to elaborate on in a lot more depth. Issues such as: where do morals come from (God), why it is relevant (because the Bible says so, and good Christians should care), does evil exist (yes, it comes from the Devil), etc. I’ve been to church before. These kinds of points are so basic, it’s just assumed that you know and agree. One would argue these points with an atheist, or an agnostic.

Let me be clear. I don’t have a problem with religion, or with Christianity in particular.

What I have a problem with is evangelism, and also the interference of religion in our political system and civic rights. We’re concerned about the Taliban? This is the thin end of the wedge.

Evangelism takes what should be personal and makes it everyone’s business. It’s like a religious Facebook!

Okay, scratch that. I’ll put it this way: I highly doubt there’s a God, and even if there is, I don’t think organized religion is a good way to live one’s life. And that’s me, and I’m entitled to my opinion.

Thank the Charter of Rights every Canadian is entitled to theirs. Furthermore, although I have my own beliefs, I respect the beliefs of others.

You will never hear me lecture my Christian, Muslim or other religious friends about how they

should become atheists. Never. How would we all be friends if I brought this up daily? Don’t I think that they’ve thought their religion through?

Or that if they haven’t, they’re entitled to a blind sense of faith? Yes and yes.

It’s been put forth that you can’t compare the fusion of church and state, for example in Iran, to a country like Canada. I don’t mean to exaggerate the influence of Campus for Christ, but think of this: if fundamentalist lobby groups were to grow in strength, would abortion become illegal again? What about gay marriage? What about anal sex, for that matter?

What other civic rights could be debated from a religious stance?

Both abortion and gay marriage were discussed in the lecture. From Campus for Christ’s viewpoint, both are immoral. The speaker argued that the repercussions of those acts outlast our short, human vision, as do any acts that go against traditional (Christian) biblical teachings. You know, that myth that gay men are responsible for the spread of AIDS, and that free-loving hippies accomplished nothing but the spread of STIs. Remember that Stephen Harper didn’t attend Canada’s International AIDS conference, held in Toronto? Here’s a guess as to why: AIDS came from gays, and Harper wanted nothing to do with it. Nevermind that it’s just a myth.

I could go on forever, but I’ll try to sum this up. Campus for Christ has it in their mission statement that all non-Christians need to be converted. In my opinion, they’ve shown that any method of getting non-Christians to listen to their method is okay. Trick them into attending a “debate.” Hey, the problem is to get them there. After that, God does his work and atheists become deists. Besides, who cares what people already believe, if it isn’t Campus for Christ’s version of “traditional” Christianity?

I’m not impressed. Can’t we all just agree to disagree? Failing that, at least be honest about your lectures.

— Christine Ogley

ceiling design on the faces of the first-years in the upper, upper, upper bunks.

Should Feds recognize Greek The same thing happened at Wilfrid Laurier a few years ago — doubles into triples, irate students, sardine-can living situations, a public relations disaster, and refunds left and right. So 3.2% to fix the problem, WLU sucked it up and constructed a brand-new apartment style residence on King Street.

Obviously UW isn’t going to turn more people away (it’s not good for the university’s income statements). So let’s steal a cure from our neighbours down the road — take one of the many slabs of land at UW and build another block of residences.

Should Right now, there are a total of 10Feds capitalrecognize Greek Life on campus? construction projects on UW’s docket, with costs totalling $258 million. And as each of the 5,825 frosh get set to sign their first of many tuition 3.2% cheques,Should not one of those 10 buildingsGreek and ad- Life on campus?

Feds recognize (157 votes) ditions will give them a place to lay their heads.

Yes 3.8% Makes you wonder: how much closet space can Should Feds recognize Greek Life you get for a quarter-billion dollars?

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3.2%acknowledged It’s time UW’s higher-ups as a serious problem, not something they can Not sure Yes 3.8% band-aid with discounts, promises and bunk beds.

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No ize the issue23.6% and break ground soon, I propose another solution to the problem: How many bunk beds will fit in Needles Hall, I wonder?

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Warrior track star training with Bobsleigh Canada Adam McGuire editor-in-chief

UW track and field star Kyle Raymond is taking his talents to a whole new arena of competition.

Raymond, who is striving towards his master’s degree in biostatistics, has tried his hand at a new sport — bobsleigh — as the top bobsleigh organization in the country holds its annual national team development camp this week in Calgary.

The training and evaluation camp, hosted by Bobsleigh Canada, is the first step for many athletes trying to crack the international scene in the sport. This camp, along with other evaluations, will ultimately decide who becomes a member of the national bobsleigh team for the upcoming World Cup season.

Raymond, a track speedster who specializes in the 60m and 200m dashes, was chosen based on his “national team-level” results during a nationwide recruiting drive conducted

by Bobsleigh Canada.

The week-long camp concludes June 30. The training regiment at the Alberta-based Bobsleigh Canada headquarters included intensive

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dryland training and testing for the 2007-08 season.

Raymond is an explosive sprinter, making him a good fit for the sport of bobsleigh. Often, breakmen and push start specialists have their roots in the sport of track and field, as the skill set transfers from the track to the ice.

Raymond’s whirlwind trip to Calgary started a little over a month ago, when he attended a Bobsleigh Canada recuiting combine at York University’s Track and Field University Centre. Immediately, the Bobsleigh Canada brass became impressed with Raymond’s compact, powerful style and the co-ordination with which he moved. Because of this, Raymond is seen as a good bet to make the national squad for the upcoming season.

Raymond may also have some long-term aspirations including the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver.

Should Raymond make the national team and stay on with them through 2010, he may get the opportunity to race for Olympic gold.

This is not the first time a successful UW athlete has made the leap into bobsleigh, as UW hall-of-fame rugby and track alumni Heather Moyse joined

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UW’s Kyle Raymond spent a week at Bobsleigh Canada’s national team development camp. the women’s national team a few years ago. Her hard work and dedication to the Bobsleigh Canada came to fruition last winter when she won an Olympic bronze medal in Turin. ­— with files from UW athletics editor@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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“The whole weekend exceeded expectations. I think it was a coming of age. 50 years is sort of a recognized time period; it’s a benchmark for us.

We were really high on making this a place for alumni to reconnect; the stories just abound. We couldn’t have celebrated 50 years of athletics in a better way.”

A half-century of Warriors decended on UW on June 23 for the Department of Athletics’ 50th anniversary celebrations. The weekend of events included 20 individual sport reunions, culminating in an all-sports, all-years gala event.

— Judy McCrae Director of Athletics

“It was a lot of fun to see some of the old coaches, and the people I knew when I was here. It was fun to be back in the pool, just to have some short relay races. Also, to meet some of the other alumni too, and hear their experiences.”

— Lynn Marshall Former UW swimmer

“It’s always nice to be appreciated and to be part of something like this.

I get probably more credit than I deserve.

We got to get up and act like fans with whatever instruments we had.”

— David Greenberg Warrior band founder

“It was the most exceptional reunion I have ever been involved in. To come back and see so many hockey players return was really exciting. To see how successful they’ve been as individuals and families was very rewarding.”

— Don McKee Former UW hockey coach

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Arts

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Zero payment for lots of enjoyment Free movies and music in Waterloo Park Emma Tarswell staff reporter

On nice, warm summer nights, the last thing you want to do is coop yourself up inside to watch a movie or listen to a band. Although it’s always fun, who wants to be inside when the weather outside is so gorgeous? Last summer, the City of Waterloo, Princess Cinemas and The Beat Goes On found a solution to this problem: take the music and the movies outside.

Waterloo Park was the venue for the first Music and Movies in the Park last year. Four films were shown with four bands throughout the summer, under the stars and on a huge outdoor screen. This year they continue the tradition with four different films and musical performances.

Event co-ordinator and founder, John Rocchetta of The Beat Goes On says that the idea for the event came to him while he and his wife were travelling out east.

“We were in the Halifax area and attended a movie and music event in a harbour. We enjoyed it a lot and thought to bring it back to Waterloo. It seemed like a great community-building venue.”

The decision to have the event again wasn’t difficult at all for Rocchetta.

He said that last year’s turnout was “phenomenal — double the turnout

we expected” and that throughout the year “people kept asking if we were doing it again.”

This immense popularity made it easy to go ahead with an encore.

In the past the films shown had been more music based, including The Blues Brothers and Buena Vista Social Club. This year, however, they are more family-oriented, with both Night at the Museum and Happy Feet being shown.

According to Rocchetta, this is because last year many people brought their children with them. This year the films are geared for all ages and will hold the attention of the younger set for a longer period of time.

The musical performers are mostly well-known local bands. Each band shares its theme with the movie that will be shown after the performance. For example, a jazz band precedes Casablanca. Many of the bands this year performed last year and were chosen again due to the draw they enjoyed in the past as well as their local popularity.

In addition to the movies and music, local merchants will be in attendance selling everything from homemade clothing to novelty items. Rocchetta believes that this will add to the homey feel of each night and create a festival atmosphere for the movie and music-goers.

Beginning on July 12 with Night at the Museum and the Latin band Zorba, the event continues weekly until August 16 with Casablanca and The Shadow Wolfe Jazz Trio. The two weeks in between will show Neil Young: Live at Massey Hall 1971, with musical performances by the Water Street Band Blues, and Happy Feet with Traces performing.

The event will be held in the Bandshell at Waterloo Park and is free to all members of the community. Bands begin to play at 7:30 p.m. and films start at dusk. etarswell@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Phil Isard

Turn your open, proud hearts to LGBT webcomics

To those suffering from what I would call Post-Pride-Week Depression, don’t fret!

Believe it or not, webcomics can turn that sad frown into a proud smile — no pun intended, of course. Sorry to disappoint, but I am neither homosexual nor transgendered. But — as the infamous Steve Zissou suggests — everyone’s at least part gay. In any case, I’ll give you readers an eclectic collection of webcomic artists to check out that relate to alternative sexual orientations in clever and (hopefully) entertaining ways.

One webcomic I remember reading in the past that is still active today is Venus Envy by an artist that goes by the pen-name Erin Lindsey. Originally a bunch of random comics, it featured a character who later developed into Zoe Carter, a transexual girl who moves to Pennsylvania, trying to live a comfortable

life with her family and newly-found friends. This teenage-drama comic is an original twist in themes — as far as most clever webcomics go — where readers can experience a different take on life through people with ideas that are perhaps unknown to more traditional folk.

The artwork, in all honesty, is fair — yet it’s improving a lot every day.

The genius of this comic, though, is in the writing — and that is the key to hooking you into a story.

Josh Lesnick has a habit for drawing and writing lesbians. It’s an amazing habit he has, and he’s developed quite the knack for it, which is most evident from his recent work. His current webcomic Girly is a bizarre sequel of his earlier, equally bizarre series Cutewendy. It stars Otra, a young and aspiring fashion designer whose life seems monotonous and repetitive at first. She hates almost everyone, and rids herself of those who annoy her by strapping them to rockets and blasting them off into outer space.

One person who manages to stay on the ground is Winter, a curious girl new to the city who finds Otra and selects her as a “sidekick” to tackle crazy adventures. It’s truly a

bizarre comedy-adventure-romance tale with an exaggerated comic style to boot, but the connection between Otra and Winter is pretty cute as they become an item.

Yet another LGBT-themed webcomicist is Lulu Award nominee Kris Dresen. As a Chicago-based freelance illustrator, most of her work deals with gays and lesbians from the U.S. east coast. Her slice-of-life works — including her current story called Grace — come from her experiences as a lesbian. While some might argue that such a fact is pointless to bring up, others would argue that writing what you know is the best to write, which is what Dresen does. Her writing is nostalgic to the Chicago city slicker; the downtown café and diner scene is a familiar backdrop to most of her comics. Dresen’s drawings have a distinct style, reminiscent of Disney/Pixar, Miyazaki films and comics such as Doonesbury and Calvin and Hobbes.

Everyone should read comics of the LGBT nature like they would read any other comic. Keep your mind open to these great works, and you will be in for quite the treat. ptrinh@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Christine Ogley

Correction The article “Pottery with a side of politics” by Ashley Csanady published in the last issue of Imprint mistakenly referred to artist Joseph Hubbard as John Hubbard. Imprint apologizes for any confusion this may have caused.

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Ohbijou Swift Feet for Troubling Times Blood & Water Inc.

Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies Lauren Redniss

Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir Heather Summerhayes Cariou

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Lauren Redniss’ Century Girl is a very interesting biography of the life of Doris Eaton, who was thrust into the entertainment industry with her siblings at the age of 14.

Eaton has lived for over 100 years, through the Great Depression, the First and Second World War, and saw all the changes the 20th century brought. By the end of the biography, Eaton has travelled across the globe, had several romantic affairs, hung out with many celebrities and political leaders and basically led one of the fullest lives I have ever encountered.

Redniss also has a distinct writing style. In Century Girl, she takes quotes from Eaton, as well as her family members, friends and mild acquaintances, and weaves them seamlessly into a fabulous narrative of a very real life.

The author also writes for the New York Times and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and in Century Girl her writing talents are showcased well.

What really makes this biography interesting is the way in which Redniss has designed each page. A graduate of Brown University’s Visual Arts program and a teacher at the Parsons School of Design, Redniss has taken this visual ability and made the book seem more like a scrapbook than a biography. Each page appears handwritten and is surrounded by vintage photographs, newspaper clippings and drawings.

The information found in the photos and newspapers is just as interesting as the words that Redniss has written. The flavour of the time is expressed through the newspaper clippings and the photos bring a personal touch, giving readers a visual look at what Doris Eaton looked like throughout her life, where she lived and her belongings.

Visually stunning and a great history of a life — and in some ways a country — Century Girl is a must read for anyone interested in American history or in visual design.

The hardest part of reading a biography is that the reader often knows the end of the story.

This book is a powerful take on life, service and a family that stood and faced a terrible disease.

Sixtyfive Roses is a chronicle of a family’s struggle against Cystic Fibrosis for 22 years. Its narrator, Heather Summerhayes, was six when her four-year-old sister was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, a disease that at the time her sister Pam pronounced as “sixty-five roses.”

At the time of Pam’s diagnosis, she was only given a few months to live; yet, the family persevered and fought against the diagnosis. Her mother promised that they would do all that they could for sick little Pam — and they did.

The Summerhayes helped create the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation with the assistance of the U.S. equivalent and the Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto. They set up a financial advisory board as well as a medical advisory board to help families deal with this disease and to raise funds to research for a cure.

This is a story of true Canadian strength, hope, love and charity. This book, which spans years in the Summerhayes family life, will draw you into their struggle with prevailing opinions, medical advances and the constant struggle to seek what was best for their beloved Pam. Pam became one of the first wave of children diagnosed with this disease who lived on into adulthood. When she survived despite previous doubt the family and medical staff found themselves in new territory and “all bets were off.”

Carion does an amazing job of recalling her family’s life living and dying with Cystic Fibrosis.

She reflects on the hard moments soberly and celebrates the victories. The narrative is well-balanced, not focusing solely on the difficulties of living with a terminal disease.

This book is so powerful that it will give you courage and faith to face trials in your own life — and the lives of the people who are dear to you. The hardest part of reading biographies is that you know how the story may be going to end, but with this one, the journey getting there is so moving and powerful that it’s still a great read.

— Emma Tarswell

— Steven R. McEvoy

McArthur & Company

There is only a single moment on Ohbijou’s debut album that could be described as exclamation.

It’s about 40 seconds into “The Woods” when the Toronto-area septet, collectively jumping out from behind a corner shouts, “Wolves!”

That’s it. Just once. Despite being made by such a large group, Ohbijou’s Swift Feet for Troubling Times is incredibly hushed, populated mostly with quiet instruments and even quieter vocals.

The album begins with Casey Mecija’s barely audible voice cowering behind Anissa Hart’s cello on “Widths and Curves.” As the track progresses, instruments join one by one and they slowly build on each other. The expectation for a climax of cymbal crashes and string arrangements is ever-present, but save for the booming chorus on “Anabacus,” Ohbijou never allow their songs to exceed a certain volume.

Instead, the album’s most pensive moments are reserved for when they strip away instruments until songs hover near silence, as in the vocal-only harmonies on the tail end of “The Otherside,” returning to simple melodies that are at the heart of their songs.

This kind of intentional restraint is surprising for a young outfit and the pacing of their tracks also implies wisdom beyond their age. But their youthful naiveté is captured in Casey Mecija’s lyrics, whose overt romanticism manages to find love lessons in a lamppost, a ribcage and even in a disastrous trip to the CNE in “To R.I.P. on Righteous Tides.” These charming musings matched with their delicate instrumentation give each song an awkward intimacy akin to reading another’s journal.

So while Swift Feet’s gentle songs may not seem like much of a statement, the album still manages to capture the attention of listeners with a closeness that’s shocking nonetheless.

It’s a declaration of Ohbijou’s promise not unlike that collective shout 40 seconds into “The Woods.” Let’s just hope this happens more than once.

— Angelo Florendo

Metric Grow Up and Blow Away Last Gang Records

Two years before Metric rocked their way onto the Canadian indie dance floor with 2003’s Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, the band attempted to groove their way up the music social ladder instead.

Grow Up and Blow Away was recorded in 2001 by original band members Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw and has finally been released for

purchase after years of struggle with early record labels. The somewhat softer and jazzier album has been a popular bootleg download for fans for years, but only now can Metric lovers show their financial support to the band as well.

Without a doubt, this first effort by the Haines and Shaw duo is extremely different from Metric’s later releases Old World Underground and 2005’s Live It Out. Haines’ sultry vocals are notably present as per usual, but the album as a whole seems less cohesive than the band’s other works. Each song seems to stand completely independent from its companions, which makes some sense since Haines has stated that this record was much more experimental and varied than their later albums.

As a result of this seeming lack of connection between songs, however, many tracks stand out from the crowd. “Soft Rock Star” and its bonus remix version easily make the entire album worthwhile. Haines’ voice becomes almost angelic during the chorus of this song, and the lilting melody is ridiculously infectious. Songs like “Hardwire” serve up a slower and more groovy version of Metric’s familiar dancing beats à la “Combat Baby.” “Raw Sugar,” my personal favourite, simply oozes sex appeal and will make any warm-blooded listener feel their body temperature rise.

Although somewhat lacking in flow, Grow Up and Blow Away still offers up many individual gems from one of Canada’s best group of indie rockers.

— Suzanne Gardner

Beastie Boys The Mix-Up Capitol

To youth, the Beastie Boys are usually known as those silly white boys who spit wack rhymes to sick beats and make very odd yet funny music videos.

Surprisingly enough, their latest album The Mix-Up features absolutely no rapping whatsoever. Featuring 12 pure instrumental tracks, anyone hoping for more rhymes like “I’m so sweet like a nice bon-bon” will surely be disappointed.

The drums are bouncing and tight, and the bass never stops flowing. There are weird key parts, blips, bloops and whatever other weird electronic things everyone else seems to be experimenting with these days.

“Electric Worm” is a good example of all that, though it’s too “superfly” funk with its wah guitar, organ and cowbell to make the claim that it’s electronica-esque.

“The Rat Cage” has more weird random sounds with a heavier, rock-type bass line, and seems to be the best example of the randomness this album features.

If you think the Beastie Boys’ non-rap music would get boring, you’re wrong. The rest of the album only gets stranger with songs like “The Cousin of Death” and “The Kangaroo Rat.” The Beastie Boys’ latest is unlike anything else they’ve come out with to date. It isn’t hiphop, rap, or punk; it’s bizarre, unexpected and what I will try to term experimental-groovefunk-dopeness.

The Mix-Up doesn’t really fit into any genres we have names for, but it doesn’t matter because The Mix-Up is well worth a listen (or nine). And anyway, pigeon-holing is for losers.

— Andrew Abela

Arts

Imprint, Friday, June 29, 2007

A vibrant love affair with the keys Sukhpreet Sangha staff reporter

Mention the name Jason White to anyone who frequently shops at Waterloo Town Square and not only will they most likely know exactly who you’re talking about, but they’ll be able to describe his music and why they like it.

White has been entertaining shoppers there with his unique jazz piano stylings once a week for two and a half years. Even if you aren’t a music enthusiast, White’s warm manner and obvious vibrancy while playing can easily draw you in.

He is one of five pianists who regularly play at the small mall one day a week, Wednesday through Sunday, as part of their live entertainment in the Centre Court series.

The other artists are Andriy Tykhonov, Olena Klyucharova, Alex Bott and Jesse HoffmanFrench.

The live music does a lot to enrich the experience of shopping; you can even pretend part of your spending is paying for the entertainment, although the pianists are actually paid for by the mall’s storeowners.

White, a 26 year old graduate of Wilfrid Laurier, holds a Bachelor of Music in composition. He says his composition training “really forced me to listen and think about what [he] was hearing. It’s difficult to describe the process, other than to say that it gave me the ability to teach myself through critical thinking.”

An integral part of White’s work in the community is as the pianist in the Jason White

Trio, a jazz trio composed of Tomas Bouda on bass, Joe Ryan on drums and himself on piano.

White met Bouda one New Year’s Eve when he needed a bass player for a performance at Art Bar, a restaurant in the Centre in the Square; the two “started playing duo gigs all over, because it went so well.”

Later, they needed a drummer and the first time they played with Ryan, “a two hour booking turned into a six hour party,” where White says “they just kept throwing money at us saying ‘Keep playing for another hour!’” White claims he and Bouda “struck gold with Joe, who is definitely one of the finest and most intuitive drummers in the city.”

On the biggest difference between performing solo and with the Trio, White comments that when playing with a band he “can’t be totally within [himself.]” Rather than linking ideas and sounds within “exactly the right moment” as he is able to do when playing solo, he “musically comments” on what the other band members are playing and decides whether to ignore or go with their ideas.

These ideas are plentiful within the Trio as their music is at least half improv, which White describes it as something like “random cymbal shots with fast bowing on the bass, balanced sometimes with a funk beat and extremely quick piano playing.” This openness to improvisation, and the liveliness of the music, are what makes jazz the genre for White.

Although originally from Burlington, White has concentrated his work in Kitchener-Waterloo since becoming a student at Laurier and plans on continuing to focus here, leaving only to pursue graduate work.

...their music is at least half improv, which White describes as something like “random cymbal shots with fast bowing on the bass, balanced sometimes with a funk beat and extremely quick piano playing.”

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Sukhpreet Sangha

Local jazz pianist Jason White plays at Waterloo Town Square every week.

White says he’s stayed here because he loves Kitchener-Waterloo and that “for a smaller city, the music scene here is killer.”

After having played gigs in KW for eight years, he has gained local notoriety and is often recommended by his audiences. On average, he performs three times a week, and still manages to find time to maintain a teaching studio of approximately 60 private students of various ages.

The Jason White Trio plans to release their new disc on September 5; it will be available in

most local music stores. You can check out a few of their tracks and upcoming show dates at www.myspace.com/jasonwhitetrio.

Jason White plays in the Centre Court at Waterloo Town Square every Wednesday from 12-2 p.m. The Jason White Trio will also be playing at the mall during the Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival occurring July 12 through July 15. ssangha@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Make like a phoenix and revive my Potter zeal

Christine Ogley

We’re all getting a little older, right?

It’s an obvious fact, yet it’s also one that needs mentioning. Sesame Street isn’t hip anymore, it’s a faux-pas to carry around a teddy bear, and you can certainly bet that schoolyard bullying is no longer the cool thing to do.

One part of my childhood that is still kicking around, though, is Harry Potter and his wild adventures — if a 12 year old is still called a child in these days of prostitots and emo kids.

In addition to popping out a book every few years, J.K. Rowling satisfies the little, nerdy seventh grader in me every year or so with a cinematic rendition of her fantasy witch-craft novels. About one and a half weeks from today, it’s happening again with the release of The Order of the Phoenix, being released July 11, 2007.

However, as I move on into adulthood, the books I once obsessed over seem more like Robert Munsch picture books to me. The movies, on the other hand, were always childish and clearly geared towards the young. Maybe it was all the lame jokes, but — apart from The Goblet of Fire — they all struck me so depressingly juvenile.

In all optimism, the next one just can’t be like that. The Order of the Phoenix was dark. At age 15, Harry Potter was angst-ridden and bitchy — and a really cool character died at the end. The New York Times called it “an angry book, a lamentation and a thanatopsis, a ‘Song of Roland’ and an ‘Epic of Gilgamesh,’ with the usual chorus of doxies, puffskins, bowtruckles, spattergroits and thestrals, not to mention a crumple-horned

snorkack,” whatever all that means.

The film adaptation of The Goblet of Fire was good enough — it was sad, epic and interesting — but watching 752 pages crammed into just 157 minutes was tiresome, to be nice. Coming in at exactly 768 pages, how will The Order of the Phoenix tale be given justice in 138 minutes? I’m no mathematician, but to me the proportions seem way off!

Aside from the awry numbers, even more stuff happened in The Order of the Phoenix than in The Goblet of Fire. The latter had a great big Triwizard tournament — yawn. The Order of the Phoenix, on the other hand, featured a secret society, an evil headmistress, an anarchist-esque academic uprising and a wild battle climax, to top it all off. How can all that be done justice in just over a couple of hours?

Are the attention spans of children, teens and adults of today not long enough to sit through three riveting hours of fantasy and witchcraft?

It was done thrice over with The Lord of the Rings trilogy; why can’t it be done again? Can’t the actors just adopt the lightning-fast script techniques perfected by the Gilmore Girls?

Whatever the reason for shortness, I just hope that The Order of the Phoenix will be as good as the book was. Since The Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001, I’ve seen Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe go from looking like he’s worthy of an atomic wedgie to a buff, manly 17 year old. In that time I’ve matured quite a bit and, as such, I have a whole new set of Potter expectations. The Order of the Phoenix better live up to them, because director David Yates and J.K. Rowling should care about my opinions — though, in realtiy, I have no arguments to back that up.

Maybe I’m pessimistic but all in all, I think I’m getting too old for all of this witch-craft tomfoolery. aabela@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Science

science@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Imprint, Friday, June 29, 2007

Downed internet disrupts campus Basma Anabtawi staff reporter

With more than 45 billion non-spam emails sent out everyday, having an internet connection is crucial for today’s internet-dependent society. As university students, internet and computers in general are huge requirements for our undergraduate and graduate careers.

Submitting assignments, completing research, meeting deadlines and reading course announcements are all done today through websites, simplifying the term’s administrative processes.

As of 10:25 a.m. Friday June 22, 2007, UW’s internet service was down for the majority of the business day, making students off-campus unable to access their UW Nexus, UW ACE or UW Quest accounts as well as any Waterloo related educational websites. Students on campus, however, had the advantage of accessing waterloo-based websites, but none other than that. The internet was back at around 6:25 p.m. on Friday, but was still fairly slow for the entirety of the weekend.

UW’s internet network services are provided through the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION), which is supplied to Waterloo via Bell Canada. ORION’s fibre-optic Systems and Technology (IST), “UW’s internet network is a private company delivered through a service was down as a result of construction private partnership with Bell Canada and Hydro workers severing [a] Bell fibre optic cable, on Glasgow Street in Kitchener.” The sumOne Telecommunications, as well as a variety of regional telecom suppliers. The ORION network mer season is the optimal time in Ontario to covers most of Southern Ontario’s universities, catch up on construction work and facilitation colleges and other public institutions, and extends maintenance harmed during the harsh winter months. Construction workers are everywhere as far as Thunder Bay. throughout Kitchener- Waterloo and even surAccording to Bruce Campbell, director of IMPRINT-ab.patio-rawbco© 6/25/07 5:41 PM UW’s Pagering 1 road. round network services at Waterloo’s Information

Campbell added, “In addition to the ORION network service, UW also has a general internet service provided by Cogent.

However, the connection between UW and Cogent is over the same Bell fibre that was severed.”

This means that both of UW’s internet connections — the main as well as the backup — are connected via the same internet line creating a rather big problem when service errors occur or accidents such as the severed cable.

An internet shut down has severe consequences on students and faculty on and off campus. The Davis Centre Library staff reported tremendous frustration from the students at school Friday, who were counting on sending out emails, submitting assignments and a variety of daily essential internet uses. In

reality, students do not just depend on internet for school related purposes. Most on-campus students consider Hotmail, Google, Yahoo and, most importantly, Facebook as a vital part of their daily routine.

According to the ORION reports provided for UW’s IST team, the company is currently considering options to help minimize the risk of fibre-optic damage and other common errors in order to reduce the significant consequences they have on internet users. For students and faculty who were affected by this error, a possible prevention or back-up method that could decrease the effects of an internet shut down is carrying a USB key on which to save all important files. banabtawi@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Nanotech building remains unseen Paul Collier staff reporter

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canada day bash sunday july 1st open thurs- sat 9pm-2am 667 king street w kitchener 571-9032

The B2 green, location of the coming Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) — and consequently the subject of protests such as Requiem for a Green — remains conspicuously undisturbed even today. Though it was the focus of controversy and many bade it farewell last year, the green is ever-present and grassy as usual.

Summer activities are still held on the field almost daily, oblivious to territorial affairs; for example, on June 27 a fund-raising barbecue was held on it.

According to UW’s nanotech website, the building promises to make UW a leader in “multidisciplinary research in both quantum computing and nanotechnology.” It describes the QNC as being “unique in Canada;” it will presumably overshadow the the University of Alberta and National Research Council’s joint creation, the NRC National Institute of Nanotechnology (NINT). Construction of both buildings has been supported by millions of dollars in federal funding, and NINT was launched in 2001.

However, construction of the QFC has been postponed several times already, and ground that should have been broken last fall remains untouched.

Lecture and lab space is under high demand as always in the university. The delay of this building comes at a bad time; enrolment at UW is significantly higher than expected for this coming fall. A shortage of first-year student housing is causing residences to be packed to the brim, and likewise classrooms will have to expand capacity to accommodate.

Additionally, there appears to be no end to the continued creation of more fields of study at UW. One of these is the new management engineering

program which also begins this fall.

Thankfully, there are many other new buildings under construction or in planning on campus, with building sites ranging from the parking lot east of engineering to the relatively sparse UW Research and Technology Park to the north.

The seminal nanotechnology engineering class — now in 2B — will face difficulty during its fourth year if trends continues; classes and labs scheduled to use facilities in the new building have an uncertain fate. According to its site, the QNC should have space for 500 undergraduates — enough space for the entire nanotechnology program — along with room for 100 graduates and 50 researchers.

Opinions on the matter from second-year nanotech undergraduates range from criticism of unrealistic construction deadlines and dismissal of the QNC’s necessity to resigned acceptance that it will arrive someday. Recently, members of the first-year class have created the Nanotechnology Student Committee to address concerns about the relatively new and evolving program.

Nanotechnology is heralded as the “next big thing” to happen to science and engineering, and products taking advantage of its properties are already appearing on shelves. For example, certain atomic structures can be employed in fabric to make crease-proof and water repellent clothing. Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize certain types of computer algorithms and encryption, but remains a more distant prospect. Both fields are tightly related and are a target of huge amounts of research locally and around the world — for the foreseeable future. pcollier@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Science

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Preparing to explore Mars in Canadian Arctic Brendan Pinto science editor

To help develop key knowledge needed to prepare humans for Mars exploration, and to inspire the public by making this vision a reality, the Mars Society maintains multiple habitats around the world, where simulation missions can take place in conditions as similar as possible to actual Mars missions.

The Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS), brought online in 2000, is the first station created in support of this goal.

The FMARS may be an unfortunate acronym, but the researchers are hard at work in the Canadian Arctic. In this unique environment, participants learn the lessons that future astronauts need to know before embarking on an ambitious mission, as one to the red planet would certainly be. The FMARS base on Devon Island, Nunavut is home to a crew of nine scientists and engineers, including mission commander and geologist, Melissa Battler. A UW alumni, she revived SEDS Waterloo (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) in 2001, and then founded the Waterloo Space Society at UW in 2002 (it was the largest UW club for several years). Waterloo also hosted the largest Canadian student space conference, called Canadian Student Summit on Aerospace (CSSA) in 2004. She recently answered a few questions for Imprint regarding the project she is currently involved in.

Imprint: Is this what you thought you would be working on when you first started university?

Battler: Actually, this isn’t too far off from what I hoped to be doing! Since high school I’ve been dedicated to the goal of becoming an astronaut and helping to accelerate the pace of human space exploration. But, I sure didn’t think I’d be commanding a mission of this duration and intensity quite so soon!

courtesy FMARS research station

What residence were you in at UW, and did it prepare you for living with your current roommates on Devon Island?

I actually lived off campus. However, I’m drawing from all of my various roommate experiences to keep things running smoothly in our extremely tight quarters here at FMARS! And, I must add that after living here for two months already, things are going very, very well — this group gets along wonderfully.

If all goes well, at best, what do you think will come out of this experiment?

I’d like to emphasize that this isn’t a single experiment. The four-month simulation in itself could be viewed as “an experiment,” however the real scientific results will come out of almost 20 different research projects currently being carried out in such fields as planetary science, biology (astrobiology), geology, human factors (psychology, physiology), water utilization and more. In

addition to our scientific goals, we have high hopes for generating a lot of public interest and thereby educating children and adults alike as to the importance of human space exploration. So, at best, I’d like to see up to 15 papers published in various scientific journals, and I’d like to get our message out to as many people as possible, thus inspiring others to get involved with human space exploration right here in Canada — and around the world! Perhaps in the best possible case, we might even persuade our government to allocate more funding to the Canadian Space Agency’s Analogue Research program, and make Mars simulation and/or Mars analogue research more of an on-going, fully supported field in our country.

If Murphy’s Law shows its face, at worst, what do you think will come out of this experiment?

I guess a polar bear attack, or the Mars habitat (our home) burning down would be the

absolute worst things. But all joking aside, at this point things are going extremely well.

The crew works extremely efficiently together, and we also have a great time living together!

Based on my years of experience doing Mars simulation research, the most important factor governing the success of a mission is crew dynamics. A happy crew is a productive crew, so as long as things keep on going this well [I have no reason to believe this will change], I’m confident that the second half of our mission will be even more successful than our first!

The red planet has always held a mystique that captures the imagination of countless space junkies. If the dream is ever to become a reality these kind of projects will be required to lay the foundation for future exploration. bpinto@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Campus Bulletin Classifieds VOLUNTEER Distress Line volunteers wanted – Canadian Mental Health Association is seeking caring volunteers to provide supportive listening and crisis deescalation to callers living in Waterloo Region. Please call 519-744-7645, ext 300.

Summer volunteer opportunities with Grand River Hospital/Cancer Centre. Information sessions will be in March, April and early May. Please call 519-749-4300, ext 2613 or e-mail volunteer@grandriverhospital.on.ca for details.

Volunteer Services — City of Waterloo — 519888-6488 or 519-888-0409 or volunteer@city. waterloo.on.ca — “Celebrate Waterloo” seeks volunteers for many positions for this summer’s events from parade to picnic activities.”Waterloo Home Support Services” needs drivers, shoppers, etc. “Aquatics” looking for volunteers with bronze medallion qualifications. Call the above numbers for information.

Raise a lab or retriever from 8 weeks old for one year. All food and veterinary care is covered alonh with puppy training classes. For more information email gstephenson@nsd.on.ca, or call 519-623-4188 ext.22.

The Literacy Group is looking for board members to help adult learners. Please contact Carol Risidore at carol@theliteracygroup.com or 519743-6090.

Kids on the block, a disability awareness puppet program for children in grade 1-6 is looking for volunterrs for the summer camp. Call Douglas at 519-571-6788 or email douglas@ilcwr.org.

Participation House is looking for a volunteer who could practice sign language with someone who have a special interest in developing this skill. Please contact Elsa at 519-742-9424.

CAREER SERVICES For more information on 2007 workshops, please visit the Career Services website at www. careerservices.uwaterloo.ca.

Employer Info Session: Microsoft – July 10 from 5 to 7 p.m., TC2218. EPSON Programming Contest – July 11 from 7 to 9 p.m., TC2128.

Workshops: July 10 – “Work Search Strategies” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., TC1208.

UPCOMING

Thursday, July 5, 2007 Rotunda Gallery presents “Waste not...now what?” with Michelle Salter. Opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. at Kitchenr City Hall, 200 King St., W., Kitchener. For mor einfo contact Cheryl York at 519-741-3400, ext 3381.

FINANCIAL AID

July 2007 Some grant cheques are available for pick-up.

Stop by the Student Awards Office to see if yours is here!

July 13 – last day to submit Undergraduate Bursary Appeals for spring term.

July 16 – last day to sign Confirmation of Enrollent for spring term.

Start applying for fall 2007 now on the OSAP website. Check out http://safa.uwaterloo.ca for a full listing of all our scholarships and bursaries.

CHURCH SERVICE

St. Bede’s chapel at Renison College offers worship on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. or take a break mid-week with a brief silence followed by Celtic noon prayers on Wednesdays. Beginning Janaury 21 there will also be a 4 p.m. worship.

For more info call 519-884-4404, ext 28604 or mcolling@renison.uwaterloo.ca.

ANNOUNCEMENTS Hey students! Tune in weekly to “Morning Drive” with DJ Cool at CKMS 100.3FM for important info on what is happening locally, on campus and in your area. Music, fun and more — morningdrive1@yahoo.ca.

Turnkey Desk Recycles Batteries. Drop your old batteries to the blue bin at Turnkey.

Row for Heart – learn to row. Register a crew of five or as an individual. Nine week lessons start the week of June 18. Call 519-571-9600 for more information.

HELP WANTED Weekend counsellors and relief staff to work in homes for individuals with developmental challenges. Minimum eight-month commitment.

Paid positions. Send resume to Don Mader, K-W Habilitation Services, 108 Sydney Street, Kitchener, ON, N2G 3V2.

HOUSING Premium three-bedroom townhouse unit in a professionally managed student complex. Perfect for students, close to UW campus. Now renting May or September 2007. Call Perry now at 519-746-1411 for all the details and to set up a showing.

Attention Cambridge School of Architecture students! Live conveniently and comfortably right across the street from school in this beautifully renovated apartment. 4, 8 and 12-month leases available with excellent signing bonuses and rental incentives! Call Perry at 519-7461411 for more details.

Five bedroom house available September 1.

Walking distance to both universities. Free parking, laundry, central heating, air conditioning, newly renovated, hardwood floors. A must see – call 519-575-1973.

A perfect four bedroom apartment to live in comfortably within a short walking distance to both campuses. Enjoy the convenience of living in a great location close to many shopping amenities and the life of Uptown Waterloo. Call Perry now at 519-746-1411 to set up a viewing today.

Three bedroom apartment Hazel Street $400 includes utilities and parking. Also two bedroom apartment $900 and five bedroom $350.

Also eight rooms at 120 Columbia $400 plus.

Call 519-746-6327 or 519-501-1486.

Only one bedroom left – fall 2007 – very clean house located on Quite Street, 15 minute walk or two minute car ride to UW. Newly renovated, free parking and laundry, 12 month lease.

E-mail tollgate295@hotmail.com or call 416266-3351.

Room for rent for a quiet individual in a detached home near both universities. Please call 519-725-5348.

FOR SALE MAC G4 533/128/L2/40G/NVID for sale. Six years old. For more info or to see it, come to Imprint, SLC room 1116 between 8:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Selling by auction with a reserve bid.

Features

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Imprint, Friday, June 29, 2007

Saving a life: getting the callback Steven McEvoy prepares to donate bone marrow in the second of a three part series Steven R. McEvoy staff reporter

Well, to be honest, my journey with the Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Registry (UBMDR) actually began with a letter. About 13 years after I joined the registry, I came home to find a registered letter from the RCMP. The letter stated that the Canadian Blood Services (CBS) had contacted them because they had found a match and their contact information for me was no longer valid and would I contact the CBS if I wished to proceed.

At that time, the workup proceeded but the patient did not become well enough to attempt a transplant. Once you have a match and are willing to proceed, the UBMDR does a full medical workup. But under their guiding policies and regulations, they can only keep you on hold, and off the registry, for nine months. Once that time had passed, they contacted me to let me know that I was now back on the registry. It was a very emotional nine months, waiting to see when the transplant would happen then hoping for the call each week, and being asked to hold for three months three times.

Day 1 — The phone rings Then, nearly two years later, the phone rang. It was CBS. I had another match and they asked if I was still interested in donating bone marrow. Of course I was willing to try to help save a life. What greater privilege could we really have in life? Yet there was also the fear that something would again prevent it from happening.

Day 3 — Intake interview The major part of this first phone interview was a 10-page health questionnaire. The information gathered was similar to the questionnaire online that you do now to join the registry.

This is just to verify that you are still healthy and do not contradict any of the regulations that would prohibit you

from donating. I actually had the same intake nurse do the questionnaire this time as two years earlier. We went over the different procedures at the two collection centers near to me, and they asked if I had a preference. I was willing to go to whichever one could help the patient sooner. During this first phone interview, the donor co-ordinator from CBS also explained to me about the newer procedure to collect and to transplant stem cells — peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC). In this new procedure, a donor is given injections of granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), which dramatically increases the number of stem cells available for transplant. They asked if I would be willing to donate either bone marrow or PBSC, depending on the request from the recipient’s doctors. Then we set up the appointments to take place to move the donation process ahead.

It was weird thinking about donating bone marrow through the blood, yet this procedure seemed much less invasive and it was still an opportunity to help someone.

Day 8 — Further phone interview This phone call was much longer, and involved the decision to go ahead barring positive blood tests against me.

We discussed which collection centre, the effects and process of taking G-CSF and how it would be administered. We set up a phone time for me and my escort, Grant Carioni. (Grant was my best man when I got married, and he is one of my daughter’s godparents.)

Grant booked time off work and came, and even if the company would not let him take it, he would take it without pay. Without Grant’s assistance, this would have been much harder on me and my family.

Day 16 — Phone information session with me and my escort This was again a long phone call;

Grant Carioni

Steven R. Mc Evoy receives a calcium drip to counteract the effects of the PBSC extraction. it was a three-way call with Grant, the CBS donor coordinator and myself.

We went through what the days of the donation would be like, exactly what would happen at the hospital, the possible side effects, and Grant’s responsibilities as escort to look after me after the donation.

Day 17 — Travel to CBS collection centre and bone marrow collection centre This was a long day in the preparation for the donation. I went first thing in the morning to the collecting hospital for blood work; then we had a meeting with the nurse co-ordinator for collections at this hospital.

After that there was a meeting with a doctor who co-ordinates the collections. He had a long health questionnaire that was similar to the one done by the CBS on the third day, though a few of the questions were worded differently. The doctor told me that it was the hospital policy that they had to do the questionnaire orally and record the answers personally. Next he did a complete physical examination. By that time in his computer system, he had all of the blood work results. He went over all of them with me; two were a little out of the ideal range and he said I should mention them to my family physician next time I saw him, but nothing that would prohibit the donation. Next he thanked me. He said the recipient was not one of their patients, but that having patients who were waiting for matches, on behalf of the staff he wanted to thank me for my willingness to donate.

Finally, I met with the nurse who would perform the actual procedure of collecting the PBSC’s. She showed me the room in which the procedure would take place, went over the whole procedure, what to expect and how to prepare. Then she helped me with directions to the local CBS where I had another appointment for more blood work.

At the CBS, they collected about 12 vials of blood that would be used for disease testing both at CBS, per their

policy, and vials for the receiving hospital to perform their own tests much like the collection hospital had earlier in the day. All of this is to verify that it will be a safe donation for the recipient. Both hospitals and the CBS all test the blood for health and diseases or illnesses, just to make sure this will be best for the recipient and for me the donor.

It was becoming so much more real; the donation was now just weeks away.

Still there was the nagging feeling that, again, things would not happen. Or that something in my health would hold it back. Last time I only got as far as the blood work.

Day 28 — CBS Collection Centre We made one more trip to the CBS for more blood work for them. Today is the point of no return for me; at this point, the patient is far enough into their chemotherapy and/or radiation treatments to kill off their own bone marrow, that if I back out now, I will be ruining what health they have. It is also the point of no return for the patient; now they too have to go through with it. I find myself wondering what they are like, how old they are, what are their dreams and passions? Will it work? I also find myself praying for their health and for their friends and families to be strong and supportive.

Day 31 — Travel to bone marrow collection centre It is time to begin the injections of the G-CSF to help my body produce extra peripheral stem cells. The injections must be given within one hour of the initial injection on each of the next five days. The first injection brings some nausea and the expected bone aches.

Day 32-34 — Injections The Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) came to my house to administer the injections of the G-CSF. That is based on this collection center’s policy. With the other local center, you are allowed to administer this yourself, and not have to rely on the VON’s

timeliness. The G-CFS has a number of possible side effects; with the dosages given for this purpose, the two most common are bone pain, and nausea, and I experienced both. The nausea more so the first day, but the bone pain and soreness got progressively worse over the next four days. It was uncomfortable to get to sleep and the pain would migrate around the body as the G-CFS worked through the system.

I personally found the pain was worse at sites of previous injuries - where I had old breaks from childhood, rugby and hockey, and also from the location of my shoulder surgery where they shaved off part of the acromion. Thinking about the recipient, and the treatments they were going through, and then the hope the transplant can offer, made the discomfort more than worth it.

Day 34 — Travel to collection city Grant and I travelled to the collection centre; we checked into the hotel, booked a 5:30 a.m. wakeup call, and went to a nice pub for supper. Tomorrow, the donation begins. I was excited, nervous, anxious. I found myself praying again and again for the recipient and success of the procedure. It had been difficult, as this day has approached, to think about anything else. I often thought of my own daughter and if she were ill, and how someone could help her by being uncomfortable for a few days.

Day 35 — Begin collection The day began with a 5:30 a.m. wakeup call, quick showers and then we headed to the hospital. I had a knapsack packed with books, season one of Battle Star Galactica and drinks. Grant packed some work and a book to read. We made a quick stop for a drive-thru breakfast and then it was on to the hospital. Grant and I had to be at the hospital at 7a.m. to begin preparations for the day’s donations — but you will read more about that in part three. smcevoy@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Imprint, Friday, June 29, 2007

There are other ways to get yourself lubed

So you’ve tried the oysters, you’ve tried the ginseng, you’ve even tried strawberries and asparagus, but you’re starting to wonder if maybe you’re immune to any aphrodisiac placebo effect that you’re supposed to be feeling after eating these items.

Those of you searching for the perfect aphrodisiac are bound to run into some problems. Herbal supplements and “special” food items tend to work more on a “Dumbo’s magic feather” principle rather than producing any actual chemical effect to give guys an erection or make women wet and ready for sex. Wanting sex is as much a mental state as a physical state and taking a pill or eating a meal that is “supposed” to get you horny could still help get you into the right mental state for sex (aka the placebo effect), but it might not.

So if foods and herbs don’t actually do anything, what are you supposed to use to help you and/or your partner get in the mood for some tender — or rough­­­­­ — lovin’?

Well, a safe, inexpensive, non-toxic aphrodisiac exists that is readily available and Phil Isard works on both men and women. It has been around for at least 5,000 years.

Proof of how well it works is that it has been restricted, prohibited, destroyed and just possessing it has landed people in jail or even gotten them killed!

When your penis/clitoris is touched in a sexual situation, the sensitive nerves on these organs transmit signals up to your brain and spinal cord telling the rest of your body that you are aroused.

Your pupils dilate, your breath and heart rate increase and your sexual organs start producing lubrication.

But there’s something else that can set these wheels in motion too: just seeing an attractive member of the sex that you desire, who is naked, with their sexual equipment exposed, triggers the body’s arousal reactions too! And looking at pictures of naked people is processed by the brain in pretty much the same way as seeing the person in the flesh — yes, this applies to both men and women!

There you have it; pornography is the most powerful, most reliable, and safest aphrodisiac out there. Even better is that, in our current society, it’s incredibly easy, for consenting adults to obtain porn — just a few key presses on your computer keyboard and you can Google yourself and your partner into a high state of arousal.

As a sex-positive feminist — well, humanist — I support pornography.

There’s nothing inherently degrading to women about it — all the women in legit porn are well paid and have volunteered to appear in whatever rolls they have been offered — they are on screen because they enjoy sex and don’t mind being paid for doing it. It’s freedom of speech — or freedom of moans — baby.

But, if your sensibilities are offended by certain types of porn (as mine are), another wonderful thing

about pornography is that there truly is something for everyone; from the softcore “pretty porn” fans, to persons who enjoy female domination, to those of you who enjoy bukkake and a little bondage.

And not all porn uses slim models with inflated breasts; it’s very easy to find natural looking women and/or men, or even overweight women or men, if that’s what you’re interested in.

If you’re not enjoying the porn you’re seeing, then you’re not looking hard enough for something you do like.

Many people think that women don’t enjoy pornography just because some either don’t know how to find stuff that they like, or have been turned off by what they have found. We can be just as horny as guys. The thing is, many women do not enjoy the same kinds of porn that men do. Sometimes it’s hard to identify with the women we see in porn designed for men — we couldn’t imagine ourselves being her and don’t find ourselves attracted to her. Seeing a silicon-y woman being flipped around into a hundred different positions and shared between three guys with hardly a moment to breathe doesn’t always do it for female porn viewers.

So here is where “couple/ woman friendly” por nog raphy comes in: porn without excessive oral, without the money shot, porn with pretty men as well as women, and with some plot to turn you on mentally as well as physically. If you’re looking for some titles, try Pirates, Fluff and Fold, Edge Play and the website comstockfilms.com.

Like any sexual tool, it’s important to use pornography responsibly. It’s not healthy to lock yourself in your room and look at your porn all day.

Porn can be used as a complement to your sexual relationships with real people. Couples can watch a porn video together, flip through a skin magazine or even look at photos that they’ve taken of themselves, and both can feel the aphrodidic effects of the material. then, once the juices are flowing, they can have wonderful sex together.

Features 19 You know how to soufflé, don’t you?

For your summertime entertaining, a soufflé is the quintessential showstopper — and with only five ingredients, you’ll have no excuse but to try this yourself!

Traditionally, a soufflé is a light airy dessert made with egg yolks and whipped egg whites. However, there are several variations our egg dish can be: savoury or sweet, hot or cold.

Unfortunately, many are daunted by the prospect of making a soufflé; especially the warm variation, because the hot air created in the soufflé as it bakes begins to escape as soon as the dish is removed from the oven — resulting in a less than desired “deflated” effect.

Fortunately, the effect is normal; and it won’t “fall” for 5-10 minutes, so bake it à la minute (at time of serving). The alternate route is that a souffle is served alongside a delectable sauce which is added to the soufflé by making a well in the middle with your spoon.

Another element which creates a bit of a headspin is that the egg whites also need to be beaten correctly in order to get the ‘lift’ and delicate taste desired. Fret not, this technique is not difficult to master.

Soufflés are also quite versatile in what they can contain. While the classic choices are chocolate or fresh lemon juice, they can also be made of cheese, meat, fish or vegetables.

Soufflé, as you may have guessed comes from French. Soufflé comes from the verb “souffler” meaning “to blow up,” or rather in our case “to puff up.”

Traditionally, soufflés are made in individual sized round porcelain ramekins. These pearly white pieces of equipment are built to withstand high temperatures and the high, straight edges help facilitate the souffle’s rise.

However, I have made an alternate suggestion if you don’t have these on hand. Many like to opt for the ramekins because it enhances the presentation of the dish — and besides, who wouldn’t want their own special soufflé?

Don’t be shy to try goat cheese too, it is rich in calcium, protein, vitamin A, vitamin K, phosphorus, niacin and thiamin. tli@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Goat Cheese Soufflé Ingredients: 1/4 cup flour 1 tsp chopped fresh rosemary or 1/4 tsp crushed dried rosemary 1 cup milk 4 oz goat cheese or 4 oz herbed cream cheese 4 eggs, separated yolks from whites

Method: 1. Preheat oven to 350ºF (180ºC).

2. In saucepan, heat 3 tablespoons vegetable oil over medium heat; cook flour, rosemary, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, stirring, for 1 minute.

3. Gradually pour in milk; cook, whisking, for about 5 minutes or until smooth and very thick.

4. Remove from heat. Add cheese and stir. Let stand for 5 minutes. Whisk in egg yolks one at a time.

5. In bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form; fold onequarter into cheese mixture. Fold in remaining whites. Spoon into 11- x 7-inch (2L) baking dish.

6. Bake soufflé in oven for about 30 minutes or until puffed, golden and tester inserted in centre of soufflé comes out clean.

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Imprint, Friday, June 29, 2007

GLOWing with Pride For the first time ever, the Feds exec marched alongside GLOW in the annual Toronto Pride Parade I squeezed into a car June 24 with four others and headed down to Toronto for my first Pride Parade experience. Ostensibly, I was going down to take photos of the Feds marching with GLOW for the first time ever; however, Pride was something I’ve wanted to attend for years, and was more than happy to jump at the excuse to finally see what all the fuss was about.

I expected the floats with buff, dancing men, the amazing drag queen costumes, the politically charged Liberal and NDP floats, and even the AIDS awareness and support groups. What I didn’t

expect, however, were the groups of family and friends marching on behalf of LGBT loved ones, or the stirring group marching dressed in all black carrying flags from countries where homosexuals are still persecuted.

That being said, the party atmosphere of Pride is hard to escape, and the water guns, exuberant participants and free condoms will definitely draw me back next year.

— Text, photos and layout by Ashley Csanady