i n light of the conservative Government’s recent Football players Warrior no more. Our goal as an institution is to educate, not to create barriers to students based on race or financial factors. Imprint will be returning in the fall. imprint . uwaterloo . ca V ol 33 , n o 7 But we’ll still have updated content on the web. Visit us online at: www.imprint.uwaterloo.ca Out of the 62 roster football players, 18 of them have successfully sought transfers to other schools. Eduardo Ramirez
FRIDAY, J ULY 30, 2010 IMPRINT. UWATERLOO. CA VOL 33, NO 7 I MPRINT THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO’S OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER Eduardo Ramirez STAFF REPORTER I n light of the Conservative Government’s recent proposed changes to the hiring practices in the public sector, the topic of fair legislations and policies about equality and justice has been a controversial one. This is because of the tendency, according to those opposed to it, for these things to marginalize groups and create divisions within and among them. These divisions could lead to injustice and unequal opportunities that affect a wide majority of students and employees in Canada. Students might not be familiar with what Af- firmative Action (AA) programs are, or how they are applied, but these programs can affect students when they apply for employment or government loans, grants, or even scholarships. The Student Awards and Financial Aid (SAFA) office states that scholarships don’t discriminate; it is an equal access opportunity open to all students. Manager for under- graduate awards, Brenda Denomme, stated that AA is not legal in Ontario or Canada, but it is stated by the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC). Denomme agrees that giving students equal opportunities to apply for scholarships is beneficial both for the university and students. “Only for specific reasons can we target a specific group,” she said. An example of this is giving more opportunities to women who apply for scholarships for the faculties of engineering or science in order to solve the underrepresentation of this gender in these career paths. Interestingly, despite the SAFA office’s claim that scholarships provide an equal opportunity open to all students, the University of Waterloo does offer scholarships that seem to imply a preference for specific groups, such as Aboriginal or francophone students. The Ontario International Education Opportunity Scholarship Program (OIEOS), for instance, states on its application that “preference will be given to students with disabilities, and to Aborigi- nal and francophone students who self-identify.” The UW full-time bursary/award application asks “Are you an Aboriginal Person? (voluntary declaration).” The OHRC has a specific policy on scholarships and awards. This policy claims that criteria such as race, place of origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orienta- tion, age, disability, etc. “should not be the basis for deciding who gets a scholarship, unless, particular exceptions apply.” This raises the question of how these exceptions are defined and when or if these statements and declarations that are being found on UW scholarship and bursary applications are warranted. Sarah Cook, Federation of Students VP of Finance, agrees that equality of opportunities is es- sential to the health of the university. “Our goal as an institution is to educate, not to create barriers to students based on race or financial factors,” she said. Cook also believes that we need to address those barriers that may limit students without creating new barriers that may affect students in a discriminatory way. This is why the current Feds representatives are working on creating a sort of equality committee that will deal with any issues regarding equal op- portunities issues, explained Cook. “[This] will provide students and staff with a more equal and fair way to deal with any problems that may arise from any preferential treatment programs,” she said. Revision of minority advantage Government and UW aempting to even out the playing field Our goal as an institution is to educate, not to create barriers to students based on race or financial factors. - Sarah Cook, Feds VP of Finance “ “ Sports 12 Football players Warrior no more. Out of the 62 roster football players, 18 of them have successfully sought transfers to other schools. Imprint will be returning in the fall. But we’ll still have updated content on the web. Visit us online at: www.imprint.uwaterloo.ca SONIA LEE
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Friday, July 30, 2010 imprint.uwaterloo.caVol 33, no 7
ImprIntThe universiTy of WaTerloo’s official sTudenT neWspaper
Eduardo Ramirezstaff reporter
in light of the conservative Government’s recent proposed changes to the hiring practices in the public sector, the topic of fair legislations
and policies about equality and justice has been a controversial one.
This is because of the tendency, according to those opposed to it, for these things to marginalize groups and create divisions within and among them. These divisions could lead to injustice and unequal opportunities that affect a wide majority of students and employees in canada.
students might not be familiar with what af-firmative Action (AA) programs are, or how they are applied, but these programs can affect students when they apply for employment or government loans, grants, or even scholarships. The student Awards and Financial Aid (SAFA) office states that scholarships don’t discriminate; it is an equal access opportunity open to all students. Manager for under-graduate awards, Brenda denomme, stated that aa is not legal in ontario or canada, but it is stated by the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC).
denomme agrees that giving students equal opportunities to apply for scholarships is beneficial both for the university and students.
“Only for specific reasons can we target a specific group,” she said. an example of this is giving more opportunities to women who apply for scholarships for the faculties of engineering or science in order to solve the underrepresentation of this gender in these career paths.
Interestingly, despite the SAFA office’s claim that scholarships provide an equal opportunity open to all students, the university of Waterloo does offer
scholarships that seem to imply a preference for specific groups, such as Aboriginal or francophone students. The ontario international education Opportunity Scholarship Program (OIEOS), for instance, states on its application that “preference will be given to students with disabilities, and to aborigi-nal and francophone students who self-identify.” The uW full-time bursary/award application asks “are you an Aboriginal Person? (voluntary declaration).”
The OHRC has a specific policy on scholarships and awards. This policy claims that criteria such as race, place of origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orienta-tion, age, disability, etc. “should not be the basis for deciding who gets a scholarship, unless, particular exceptions apply.” This raises the question of how these exceptions are defined and when or if these statements and declarations that are being found on uW scholarship and bursary applications are warranted.
sarah cook, federation of students vp of finance, agrees that equality of opportunities is es-sential to the health of the university. “our goal as an institution is to educate, not to create barriers to students based on race or financial factors,” she said.
cook also believes that we need to address those barriers that may limit students without creating new barriers that may affect students in a discriminatory way.
This is why the current feds representatives are working on creating a sort of equality committee that will deal with any issues regarding equal op-portunities issues, explained cook.
“[This] will provide students and staff with a more equal and fair way to deal with any problems that may arise from any preferential treatment programs,” she said.
Revision of minority advantageGovernment and UW attempting to even out the playing field
Our goal as an institution is to educate, not to create barriers to students based on race or financial factors.
- Sarah Cook, Feds VP of Finance
““
Sports 12Football players Warrior no more.
Out of the 62 roster football players, 18 of them have successfully
sought transfers to other schools.
Imprint will be returning in the fall.But we’ll still have updated content on the web. Visit us online at:
www.imprint.uwaterloo.casonIa lee
Jamie Damaskinosstaff reporter
Last month the Federation of Students’ (Feds) council voted on a proposed policy change to make the comple-tion of co-operative education mandatory for students
who have completed more than three work terms. Originally intended for the math faculty only, the proposed
policy change is currently being reviewed by officials of all faculties and may universally apply across all faculties. Feds voiced its disapproval of the proposed policy change during their June 6 council meeting.
Arnie Dyck, the associate dean for co-operative education in the math faculty, authored the motion.
The motion that Feds received read: “Co-op is a partnership among three groups: students, the university, and employers. The success of the partnership requires a commitment from each partner group.
“Once students enrolled in the co-operative system of study have completed three work terms, they are expected to remain enrolled in the co-operative system of study until the requirements to graduate in co-op have been completed. Exceptions to this policy require the approval of the associate dean for co-operative studies in the student’s home faculty.”
According to an e-mail written by David McKinnon, associ-ate dean for undergraduate studies in the math faculty, located on list.feds.ca, the proposed policy change is intended to stop some students from freeloading off of co-op. McKinnon detailed three ways in which students can freeload from the current system.
The primary reason, McKinnon’s e-mail explained, is that students who leave the system cease paying co-op fees, thus limiting the latitude of Co-operative Education and Career Services (CECS) to garner jobs for students who remain on the system.
“A few co-op fees are not really all that big a deal, and we would never stop a student from leaving co-op just because of the fee. But it is money that could be put to good use,” McKinnon’s email explained.
McKinnon’s e-mail also stated that students who choose to remain with their co-op employer, but drop out of the system, end up taking jobs out of the system. “... Students who leave
co-op after three work terms are stealing jobs from the system, and generally really good ones,” the email said.
“When a third year student who has found her own job leaves co-op to get it, her employer usually reduces the number of co-op listings in JobMine by one, to compensate. She didn’t ‘find her own job’ — co-op found it for her, usually one work term earlier, and she just kept it.”
Finally, the e-mail stated that the fewer senior students in the system, the fewer employers will seek potential employees via JobMine.
“If every senior student that ‘found their own job’ left co-op, then there would be very few senior students in co-op at all,” the e-mail stated.
“Employers don’t, as a rule, want to hire a first year stu-dent with no experience; they have to be convinced. And to be convinced to offer a co-op job, they often need to be sold on the idea that there are lots of senior students available.”
McKinnon’s e-mail also said that the new policy is less stringent than the current policy governing co-op students’ rights and responsibilities.
“Once accepted into the co-op program, students will: main-tain registration as a full-time co-operative education student in their program in all terms from point of entry through to the final academic term and follow the study and work term sequence that corresponds to their program,” it explained.
Later McKinnon stated that there is a discrepancy between the wording of the current policy and its practice. “Indeed, in practice, this is not the rule that is enforced — the current proposal wants to replace the wrong rule with a more reason-able one,” McKinnon wrote in his e-mail.
“In practice, no student with a good reason for leaving co-op is forced to stay, and nothing in the CEC proposal would change that.”
When Feds met on June 6 to discuss the proposal, the council concluded that the new policy was not in the best interest of students. Ian Kasper, Feds math councillor, voiced his disap-proval at the meeting.
“I believe students should be able to choose their own aca-demic paths for which they are qualified,” Kaspar told Imprint.
“This already happens across the university in many ways: students switching majors, students choosing to leave the university, students choosing to enter the co-op program,
etc. I feel the co-op program should be no different.” Kaspar stated that under the new proposal, co-op students will be deprived of the latitude to fast track their degree in order to graduate sooner.
“We have been in discussions with the math faculty for two years regarding this proposal, and it is quite clear that we have fundamental disagreements over what constitutes a ‘good reason’ to leave the co-op program after the third work term,” Kasper explained. “For example, a student wanting to fast track their degree to finish sooner was not a good reason to leave co-op from Arnie [Dyck’s] point of view.”
Kenny Kou, the president of MathSoc, also voiced concern about the proposal, stating that the new policy limits students’ academic freedom.
“Though some benefits have been alleged, we don’t agree with the conclusions drawn by the faculty,” Kou said. “Students stand to lose far more than they could possibly gain from this policy change. Our academic freedom is severely jeopardized with this policy, and taking this decision out of the hands of the student is proceeding down a slippery slope.”
Further, Feds vice-president of education, Nick Soave, said that McKinnon’s argument that the current policy is more draconian than the proposal is flawed.
“It is an argument over semantics that takes away from the actual discussion,” Soave stated.
“The policy says ‘maintain registration as a full-time co-operative education student in their program in all terms from point of entry through to the final academic term and follow the study and work term sequence that corresponds to their program.’ This rule does not apply if students would like to transfer to a different program. For example, if a student wants to transfer from a co-op program the statement ‘follow the study and work term sequence that corresponds to their program’ no longer applies.”
The final decision rendered by Feds states that Feds “op-poses unequivocally the proposed changes to the co-operative education program as outlined by the associate dean, co-op education of the mathematics faculty.”
Despite Feds disapproval, the proposal is currently being reviewed by the faculty councils in their respective councils.
The floors in the Student Life Centre were torn up during the first stage of their replacement last week. UW is first replacing the floors in halls and the corridors around the Great Hall and later will replace the carpeting. The new flooring will be safety non-skid flooring with a new yellow and blue design. Access to certain areas of the SLC will be restricted during the construction process. However, access to the Bombshelter Pub, the Turnkey desk and Tim Horton’s will remain open. Work is expected to be completed by August.
Student Life Centre flooring gets a face lift
Co-op policy change under review by officials
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BP CEO being replaced
As of Oct. 1, Tony Hayward is bring replaced as the chief execu-tive of BP and taking a role with the company’s joint venture in Russia. His role as BP executive has attracted criticism due to his handling of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Among his alleged downfalls during the crisis, his downplay of the magnitude of damage this oil spill has caused was clear during his interview with the Guardian when he said the amount of oil spillage was “relatively tiny” compared to the “very big ocean.” At this time, according to CNN, Hay-ward continues to have the support from BP, BP’s company spokesman, Mark Salt, told CNN.
“Tony Hayward remains our chief executive and has the full support of the board and senior management.” According to BP’s 2009 annual report, Hayward’s compensation package was worth approximately $4.87 mil-lion and his 535,000 shares in the company are worth $327 million. Although Hayward’s new role is un-clear, according to CBC news, he will be offered a non-executive position at BP’s Russian joint venture.
Increasing consumption of high energy caffeinated beverages
The high consumption of caffein-ated drinks among kids and teens has increased dramatically.
The Canadian Medical Asso-ciation Journal has voiced concern about the increasing popularity of the caffeinated energy drinks, some of which contain an equivalent of 10 cans of Coke and suggest parents need to be informed of their chil-dren’s intake of caffeine.
Dr. Paul Hebert, the journal’s editor in chief said in an interview, “We need to educate parents and kids that these things are addictive or are potentially addictive. They carry concerns with use.”
Consumption of these caffein-ated beverages can be symptomatic and may result in an increase in heart rate, nervousness and irrita-
bility. Health Canada recommends children between the ages of 10 to 12 shouldn’t consume more than 85 milligrams of caffeine a day, and children younger than 10 years should not intake more than 45 mg. Further investigation is required for consumption of these beverages in older children.
New linear particle collider
A new type of particle collider that is expected to be built in the next 15 years may provide a more defined picture on how the universe was formed.
The project is to be a worldwide project funded by several countries including Canada and will aim to collide electrons and positrons to create a cleaner collision than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This will provide scientists with a far more clear picture of what happened fol-lowing the big bang.
The LHC is able to move protons with incredible speeds but has been limiting in the information involving proton collisions. The linear col-lider, expected to fill in this missing information, will cost $ 10 billion and will be housed in Japan, the USA, or Switzerland. Results will be discussed at the University of Toronto 2010 International Hadron Collider Physics Symposium.
NATO helicopter strike
A recent NATO helicopter strike has killed over 45 civilians in a vil-lage. A statement from Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s office indicated the attack involved machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades killing people in the Sangrin District.
NATO has failed to confirm evidence of civilian casualties and a spokesman for international forces Chris Hughes said, “We take al-legations of civilian casualties very seriously. We go to great measures to avoid civilian casualties in the course of operations. The safety of the Afghan people is very important to the International Security Assist-ance Forces.”
—With files from CBC, CNN New York Times and BBC
Due to the construction of the Math 3 building, the bridge between the math and computers building and the Davis Centre will be closed until May 31, 2011.
Paula Trelinska
Julia Petersstaff intern
U of O to be first bottled water-free campus in Ontario
Starting Sept. 1, the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with the Student Federation (SFUO), will be the first university in Ontario to put a complete and immediate stop to the sale of bottled water on its campuses.
This is only one of the many ini-tiatives the university has undertaken in the last few years.
Since 2008, the university of Ottawa has invested over $100,000 to revitalize its water fountains and an additional $75,000 will be invested next year. Since 1993, the University has reduced its energy consumption costs by $31 million and cut back greenhouse gas emissions to below 0.84 tonne per full-time student.
In the beginning of 2010, the university had set itself a goal to re-
duce energy consumption by two per cent every year thanks to continual improvements in air quality, energy efficiency and water management.
Solar paint research puts U of T student in Top 20 Under
20™
David Castelino, a second-year chemical engineering student at the University of Toronto, has just been named one of Canada’s Top 20 under 20™.
He developed a thin-film solar tile that uses solar paint made from organic dyes to convert the sun’s rays into energy, which was exactly what got him recognized.
Castelino was honoured on June 3, at the Top 20 Under 20™ seventh annual awards breakfast celebration.
Six years after Castellino’s initial interest sparked in Grade 5 when he was working on an efficient organic solar cell. He then decided to con-nect with University of Toronto
chemical engineering Prof. Tim Bender, whose research focuses on organic solar cells.
Along with Bender’s help, Castelino ended up developing a dye-sensitized solar cell that used natural plant pigments instead of synthesized dyes for converting light energy to electricity.
The result of the product was a cost-effective solar tile that could easily be manufactured in developing countries. As a Top 20 Under 20™ recipient, Castelino not only received a $5,000 prize and trophy, but will also receive leadership development training, career coaching and profes-sional mentorship.
Castelino also received the Canada Foundation for Innovation Impact Award, given in recognition of outstanding leadership in scien-tific innovation, which included an additional $2,000 prize.
—With files from the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa
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The Queen visited, Mel’s Diner burnt down, CASA disbanded, there was an earthquake, President David Johnston was named Gov-
ernor General, Warrior footballers were taken off the field, and Stephen Hawking came to town. The spring term was definitely filled with its share of excitement.
I remember the morning of April 22 like it was yesterday. I came to the office, expecting it to be a quiet and casual day — after all, it was April. I arrived to an interesting note on my desk.
“University Plaza seems to be on fire! You might want to check that out when you arrive! — E, 7:10 a.m.”
So I grabbed a camera and ran for it, literally. I ran all the way to the University Plaza and saw no fire. I started to panic. I quickly turned to the first person I saw and asked, “Was there a fire here somewhere?” He simply pointed straight ahead and I continued to run. When I crossed Phillip Street and began to see the immense clouds of smoke billowing on top of what used to be several local businesses, my jaw literally dropped.
After collecting a number of photos, I raced back to the office, uploaded them onto Imprint’s website and took a deep breath in. Oh, and finally ate my breakfast.
A few of our volunteers covered the story from beginning to end, keeping UW students informed about the ongoing updates in regards to the fire and the damage incurred. One of our reporters even had the opportunity to sit down with the owner of Mel’s Diner during a personal one-on-one interview about the fire.
When the results of the steroid testing were released here at UW on June 14, we were more than prepared. Our sports editor spent weeks getting ready for the event and enlisted the help from several other volunteers. We were there, tweeting live from the press conference. A video compiled by our volunteers went up on our website later that day.
It was a great term for news and our volunteers were both very fortunate and slightly burdened by the fact that there was so much to cover. I was able to witness, first hand, brand new volunteers
literally transform from fresh, interested minds to well-versed, experienced reporters.
I believe that even the volunteers who have been at Imprint for quite some time experienced something new and different this term and were also able to pass down their knowledge to those who needed it.
I can certainly say I grew tremendously as an in-dividual over the past three months. I was fortunate enough to be a part of some highly contentious news events (I never thought so many crazy things could occur over such a short period of time), but more importantly, I was able to pass the torch onto some extremely bright minds, allowing them to gain valuable experience as journalists.
In the fall, there will be several changes taking place at Imprint. As a publication, we hope to expand and provide the news to a broader audience and at a faster rate. We hope to get the information out there to UW students in a way they can access it easily and build a network of news that allows every student to get involved.
It has been a great term, but I personally can’t wait to see what the fall has in store.
In a move that will no doubt lead to a lengthy rant from your stats pro-fessor next term, the Conservative
government recently decided to do away with the mandatory long-form census. Ostensibly, the decision was made to respect Canadians’ privacy; you’ve no doubt heard people com-plaining that, “the government doesn’t need to know how many bedrooms I have.” Of course, the government still wants to know; they’ll just no longer threaten jail time if you’re not inclined to disclose your boudoir.
Those who support the decision are apt to do so from the angle of preserving personal privacy. Lots of people are reflexively anti-government and anti-control, and will criticize the census while posting the minutiae of their daily lives on Facebook. Don’t think I’ve overlooked the key distinc-tions: yes, posting information online
is voluntary. And yes, the census demands some details that even the least Internet-savvy person is unlikely to reveal in a public forum.
However, rather than distribute your information to third-party com-panies, census information is used in a surprisingly effective manner. It is used to plan neighbourhoods, bolster fundraising drives, and deliver social services. For instance, census data led to a government-assisted hot lunch program in two B.C. schools whose students came from predominantly poor neighbourhoods.
If the census can effect positive change, why is there resistance?
The best explanation I can offer is that while most would assume that policy and service decisions are based on statistics, little , if any , thought is given to the source of this informa-tion. It’s unlikely, for example, that at
any time during the implementation of those hot lunch programs was there a tag line that read: Brought to you by your 2006 census data. The problem, too, is that — much as I’d like to believe otherwise — there will always be people who fall through the cracks; the poverty-stricken family whose children attend an affluent, hot lunch-less school.
For this reason, among others, a voluntary survey will not provide accurate information. Certain demo-graphics — struggling single parents, hypothetically – will decide that they do not have the time, nor the energy, to complete the survey, especially if they have not seen (or at least, not known) their effort to bear any fruit in the past. Keep the census mandatory, on the other hand, and at the very least you instill the desire to avoid any kind of wrangling with the government.
The reality is that although refusal to complete the census does carry with it the possibility of jail time, punishment is (somewhat obviously) at the discretion of the government, and no Canadian has ever been jailed for failing to comply with the census.
If you want to throw around phrases like “mandatory,” “jail time,” and “invasion of privacy,” and tout your Charter rights, then by all means, jump on that bandwagon. But keep in mind the information you “vol-untarily” surrender online every day, and how it is used. I’d much rather surrender a few details — and be aware of specifically which details — to an entity that I (somewhat) trust.
Of course, if you’re in the busi-ness of S&M dungeons, you might be breathing a huge sigh of relief.
— With files from The Globe and Mail, communities.canada.com, cbc.ca.
On Sunday July 25, 2010, noted whistleblower web-site, Wikileaks, released
over 90,000 previously classified government documents relating mostly to the NATO mission in Afghanistan.
Most recently, a leaked report has claimed that the four Canadian soldiers killed on September 3, 2006, in the first day of battle in Operation Medusa (know later as the Battle of Panjiway), were not killed by insurgent activity but by a stray NATO bomb. Having taken part in that battle, though to the North, and having interviewed and cross-interviewed members who were involved in that battle for the combat engineering squadron’s war diary, I can state
without a doubt that this report is incorrect.
The chief fault lies in the timing. As the first day of battle progressed and the First Royal Canadian Regiment’s Charles Company started the assault across the Argen’dab River, fatalities were incurred at different times during this initial stage of the battle.
The first soldier to fall in battle was Warrent Officer Rick Nolan who, commanding from his G-Wagon vehicle, would be struck by an RPG through the windshield from an insur-gent-held position to the North-West.
The second to fall in combat would be engineering Sergeant Shane Stachnik on the right flank advancing north.
Coming within meters of the insurgent-held white schoolhouse, he was killed when an 82mm re-coilless rifle round (think bazooka)
struck the right side of the light armoured vehicle (LAV) he was commanding with the fragmenta-tion and blast then hitting him while he was standing in the air-sentry position at the back.
The last to fall in combat that day would be Warrent Officer Frank Mellish and Private Will Cushley from fragmentation after Master Corporal Hooper’s army front-end-loader (known as a Zettlemeyer) was struck by an RPG or recoiless rifle round (he would go on to be blown up a further two times that tour and survive).
The fragmentation from both the explosion and Hooper’s vehicle would end up killing Mellish and Cushley who were standing together in the path of the blast after it was redirected behind the vehicle. While soldiers attempt to write the most
accurate accounts of battle while in the battlespace, sometimes details on locations, numbers and actions can be misunderstood and miscom-municated.
These four members did not die due to a NATO GBU-10 bomb (though one was dropped and did not detonate during the battle,) but from combat with insurgents. Speaking with UW alumni and former com-mander of the combat engineers that day, Major Mark Gasparotto states “The original narrative, cov-ered in numerous books and articles, reiterated by Generals, DND and many in the media is and has always been the true story about that day.” The families and friends of these fallen soldiers can rest easy knowing that there was no cover-up to this day but a mistake of facts from the fog of war.
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The first of the Five Pillars of Islam is to believe in the fundamental declaration of faith: “There is no God except Al-
lah, and Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) is his Messenger.”
This credo forms the fundamental basis of Islam, from which all other teachings derive. Indeed, it is said that the entire philosophy of Islam is contained therein with everything else forming but a detailed commentary on it.
Let us examine this credo in two parts, first looking into the negation that there is only one God — Allah.
This teaching — the Unity (Oneness) of God — liberates man from all other yokes and frees man from all obligations except such as are born out of his duty to God.
Speaking on this, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, a great Islamic figure, says, “Man’s intentions and his subsequent actions are always guided and controlled either by fear or hope, and there is no exception to this rule. Those who do good deeds do so out of fear and hope, and those who indulge in vices are motivated by the same. [Non-believers]...shape their lives in accordance with...worldly fears. Sometimes they [fear] the displeasure of monarchs and authorities, sometimes they are afraid of society in general or of despots and bullies. Again, sometimes they act evilly out of a fear of poverty and loss etc. So, in a world full of vices, a large part of human actions can be explained with reference to these fears.”
Belief in unity removes these fears altogether, focusing one’s mind on the importance of the fear of God, meaning that one must not fear displeasing the ungodly, but should always strive to avoid displeasing God alone, and shape one’s life accordingly.
Further elaborating on the topic, Mirza Tahir Ahmad writes, “To [fulfill his desires], man has to please those on whom his pleasures depend. As such, again he has to constantly strive to win the favours of monarchs, authorities...[this] is the worst form of slavery. The hopes and fears of a slave are completely dependent on the whims, pleasures and displeasures of his
master. But a godless man has not one master alone. Every other human being in relation to his personal interests can play as God to him...the ultimate cause of social, moral or political evils...is such human worship which destroys the peace of man’s mind, and [as a result] society...begins to deteriorate endlessly.”
“When you cast another glance at the fun-damental declaration, that ‘there is no God but Allah, the One and Only’, all these fears and hopes relating to objects other than God are dispelled...In other words, by choosing one master alone, you are liberated from slavery to all others. To be a slave of such others as are themselves slaves to numberless gods is a poor bargain indeed...Most men...worship nothing but mortals like themselves, their own egos being supreme among them all.
Hence each of them bows to numberless egotistic gods, their interests being at clash with each other, creating a situation which is the ultimate of chaos.”
The second part of this fundamental credo, that Muhammad (PBUH) is the Messenger of Allah, is to inform Muslims that the way to establish the Unity of God practically in their lives is by following and obeying the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
The entire Islamic dispensation — from the Holy Quran to all the authentic sayings (ahadith) and practices (sunnah) of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) — is inextricably linked to the Prophet of Islam (PBUH).
Therefore, Muslims are enjoined to believe in and follow the Book which was revealed to him and to use him as a guide and exemplar par excellence.
It’s as if God has declared that the ultimate reality of the universe is to become aligned with and in harmony with His Unity — from which all excellence and peace is achieved, and that it is the good fortune of Muslims that they need not scour the earth for the paths that lead to Him, but rather God has raised and commis-sioned the Holy Founder of Islam (PBUH) to light the way to this reality and that they need not look any further.
As an individual who regularly uses liquid nitrogen, in an approved setting, for the production of liquid nitrogen ice
cream, I must express concern at the lack of safety information provided in last issue’s “Ed-ible Hypothesis” article. While the article does mention the extremely cold temperature of liquid nitrogen, and alludes to the difficulty in acquiring it, no explicit caution is provided other than that “a fog will be formed.” There are numerous other safety aspects to consider when making liquid nitrogen ice cream: once that “fog” clears and the cream or milk has frozen, residual amounts
of liquid nitrogen (which will look like water) may remain in the ice cream. If the ice cream is consumed at this point, there are risks both of burns from the intense cold, as well as of the nitrogen expanding internally as a gas. In addi-tion, when preparing the ice cream, it is possible that the liquid nitrogen may spill or “pop” up as it is being added to the pre-ice cream mixture. While insulated gloves, as the article mentions, are useful for protection, other body parts may inadvertently be exposed. In the interest of safety, when publishing articles that call for the use of potentially dangerous substances, and in particular regulated substances such as liquid nitrogen, I would ask that more safety informa-tion is provided in the future.
“If I was to pray, I’d pray for folks that’s alive and don’t know which way to turn.” The dead are slaves to the gods.
The word “slave” summons up images of misery; our mouths taste bitter at the abstracted reminiscence, in the comfortable lap of so-called freedom. In an advanced society of ancient times, how does one envisage slaves to be treated? The imagination conjures brutish scenarios imple-mented by people who are not so far removed from us, by pagans and people with gospels; significantly ignorant only in the sciences which have little humanizing value —perhaps the oppo-site. Through the times, varied religious doctrines have attempted to humanise the treatment of slaves. From the presence of such ideas in old worlds, I am tempted to assume that amongst good people with refined sensibilities, be they medieval or post-enlightenment, slaves would have been treated in the best manner possible for that lower class (in spite of how slave treatment is portrayed in popular media). They would be provided with substance just enough for basic sustenance and token recreation, and would be politely condescended on through minimal interaction and apathy.
In the modern world where everything has been upsized, it is a clever and necessary act of marketing: the elevation of slavery into the mainstream through detachment of the concept from the word, the flag, and symbol to the su-perficial observer. It is good taste, like not staring at a cripple, or contriving a euphemism. An old man busting his ass at a corporate fast food joint for minimum wage, a family driven out of their home by companies that control them through
their debts, Third World children who have to choose between food (earned by weaving carpets, collecting rough diamond rocks, etc.) or education, people dying from diseases that have been long cured as supplying them with “free” medication would hurt someone’s car collection — the list can go on indefinitely, with the common element that their misery is conducive to the prosperity of the privileged — are not much freer than a slave toiling on a field, and nourish no greater hope; their chains have changed appearances. It is clear to see that societies hundreds of years from now, perhaps stuck in the same web, would look back on us with the same disdain that we show toward what to us are the primitives. Without eliminating slavery, we have come up with a free and fair system for trading slaves, while distancing ourselves from the unclean act. No one man owns another, but one class of society still owns the lower class, and works them to reap the profits. It is somewhat to our credit, but not to our absolution, that we have become humane enough to not treat the less privileged with outright violence and subjection.
If an individual’s genes are the draw results from a lottery, which decides how much of the planet’s resources will be allotted to him; a sense of entitlement toward obscene amounts of wealth and power is a bestial mask worn to distance oneself from humanity and avoid responsibility — like the masks ancient gods put on to exploit the people and have their way. Yet this is not to outline a grand conspiracy from the elite. The point is to see things for what they are so there may flicker some desire for improvement. It is as if the human community together is a whole organism, with classes functioning as singular organs, stuck in their necessary roles. Again and again we are faced by our slavery to nature. To finally thwart her would be the ultimate victory.
Most people in science are trained to think a certain way. By now, you’ve probably realized that I’m not most people.
Unlike most my peers, I possess a vehement aversion to malnutrition; for me, exam season does not equate to Kraft Dinner.
It also does not equate to Red Bull, pizza, microwave dinners—or starvation, for that matter—even in the name of cramming. So, because I’m incredibly efficient, I’ve come up with my own revolutionary concept: you ace what you eat.
You see, it is during this particular time of the term that I’m supposed to be feverishly studying the golden child of eukaryotic genetics, saccharomyces cerevisiae (known by you as “baker’s yeast”). Instead, I’m practising my new philosophy and chowing down on him instead.
Especially popular with vegans and vegetarians ground up S. cerevisiae is the constituent of the nutri-
tional yeast, an ingredient that these folks have fondly nicknamed “nooch.”
In addition to housing a complete spectrum of all the essential amino acids, nutritional yeast is also a source of B-complex vitamins (nutrients that are particularly hard to obtain for vegans).
Its full-bodied, nutty, umami taste has a remarkable similarity to cheese—sort like Swiss-cheese-meets-parmesan—and makes a flavourful addition to rice, soups or side salads.
Of course, as an Asian with a major aversion to white rice, I had to find some way to incorporate my latest edible study buddy into the staple of my ancestors. Fortunately for me, I found a quick, easy, delicious and nutritious solution: rice-less eukaryotic rice.
Truly, studying has never tasted so good—and naturally, I’m expecting only A’s on that molecular biotechnology final.
Eukaryotic “Rice” (a.k.a. Cheddar Cauliflower “Rice” with Basil and Tahini)
INGREDIENTS:
3 cups of yellow cauliflower (But white is okay, too.)2 tbsp raisins½ cup (packed) of fresh basil, slicedGrated zest from ½ a lemon1 tbsp ground sesame seeds (or tahini)½ tbsp nutritional yeastJuice from ½ a lemon½ - 1 tsp turmericPepper to taste
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DIRECTIONS:
Chop those c-flowers and the raisins.
Toss with sliced basil, grated lemon zest, ground sesame seeds, and nutritional yeast.
Pour on lemon juice. Sprinkle with pepper and turmeric and toss again. Nom nom nom.
Jinxu Zhangstaff reporter
A controversial tax was introduced in the Province of Ontario on July 1. No, not that hated HST, this one fell under the radar. According to the official policy
of Stewardship Ontario, it is meant to stay that way. While many shoppers will grimace at the 13 per cent HST,
many are not aware that they are paying another tax. Dubbed the ‘Eco Tax’, this charge is rarely ever stated on receipts or even mentioned. Yet, every time sun block, vitamins, batteries, air conditioners, alarm clocks, potting soils, laundry detergents and/or car wax is purchased, a fee is added to the total price.
While many claim that this is equivalent to a 6.5 per cent surcharge, it can lead to the doubling of prices in certain cases. The eco-fee levy, set up by Stewardship Ontario, is to be used to mitigate the difficulty of disposing certain chemicals and compounds found in consumer products. The levy, which is charged to the brand owner, is then passed onto the shopper through higher sticker prices. It is likely that many consumers will not be aware of the indirect charge of the eco-fee levy.
To this effect, Stewardship Ontario alleged to have urged companies to bury eco-fee levies in a product’s price so the consumers are “none the wiser”.
While the stewardship claims that none of the proceeds from the eco levy will end up in government coffers, many MP and consumer watch groups claim that the fees are illegal. “It’s an add-on fee and there is nobody in this country who is allowed to put on a tax except governments … they have no authority to do this,” said Mel Fruitman, vice president of the Consumers’ Association of Canada.
“What you’ve got is the tax being passed on from someone to the consumer which means it’s an indirect tax, and under the Constitution Act… the province can only impose direct taxes,” Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, a sales tax counsel added.
Environment Minister John Garretson, however, has em-phasized that the recycling fee is “not a tax grab.”
In addition to the legality of the levy itself, many have questioned the potential problems associated with the appli-cation of this eco-surcharge. If added directly to the price, the eco-fee levy would be subject to the 13 per cent HST, leading to the taxing of tax. Additionally, a recycling fee
normally charged to tires or plastic bottles can be targeted towards those areas of concern. In the case of detergent or sunscreen, for example, the consumer would be forced to pay for the recycling of a substance even if it goes down the drain.
Furthermore, consumer protection groups have questioned the logic of giving re-sellers the ability to raise prices without the right to monitor those increases. “We have no way of monitoring, and quite honestly, we cannot step in and tell them what to do set the fees at because it violates the Com-petition Act,” said Amanda Harper Sevonty, a spokesperson for Stewardship Ontario.
“So one retailer may decide to charge something, an-other retailer may decide not to charge anything. We have no authority over that whatsoever.” This concern, echoed by critics of the levy, has led many to call for the retraction of a poorly publicized, difficult to monitor, and legally gray recycling-fee program.
Epic; but then again, maybe not everything is what people say it is, and not
everyone is who they say they are.Despite all the bad reviews
roaming the internet about An-gelina Jolie’s new film, Salt, the Russian spies, lies, and conspira-cies that constitute the plot do not fail to make this an impressive movie.
Written by Kurt Wimmer, the screenwriter of Equilibrium, Salt is the story of a woman’s CIA career cut short due to accusa-
tions of being a Russian spy. This incident generates sus-
picion of Salt’s true identity, preventing her from peacefully finding her kidnapped husband who went missing as a result of his association with her.
Manipulation, control and deceit fuel the intensity of the plot, creating a film lasting 100 minutes, but not wasting a second of the audience’s time.
This fast-paced action-thriller contains many twists and turns leaving you shocked on many occasions, with a deeper desire to find out why.
One of Hollywood’s biggest female action stars, Angelina
Jolie, pulls off a very complex and convincing character, one with a femme fatale aura per-formed with utter precision in movement.
Whether you are a Jolie fan or a Jolie hater, this movie will kindle, or rekindle, your love for the star.
Holding steady in second place at the box office, Salt seems to be meeting the expectations of the hype it has brought about through advertising.
It will be a surprise if the movie does not make the cut for year-end movie nominations.
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The Golden CityJohn Twelve HawksDoubleday
No one really knows who John Twelve Hawks, au-thor of The Golden City,
is. His interviews use a voice modulator, he supposedly has never met with his publisher, and only communicates electronically or through a satellite phone. This mystery was intriguing when his first book The Traveler came out, and rumors have abounded about who he might be. But I do not think that really matters, he writes under a pen name and wants to keep his privacy. What matters is that he is an excellent storyteller and has
White NightThe PostellesCapitol Records
Originality seems to be an increas-ingly difficult thing to acquire in the music industry these days.
Fortunately for the New York-based band, The Postelles, they have confidently made their mark on the music industry in just a couple of years.
With a full length debut album and an overwhelmingly successful EP entitled White Nights, The Postelles show no signs of slowing down their blossoming careers anytime soon. The Postelles produce a slightly bohemian energy to their overall
crafted an excellent dystopian tril-ogy. If you have not read the first books, I highly recommend them.
A battle rages between two brothers Michael and Gabriel Corrigan, but also between two groups, the Brethern who want to control every person on the planet and will use almost any means to achieve that control, and a resis-tance movement lead by Gabriel Corrigan, a traveler who can leave this plane of existence and travel to other realms, and his Harlequin guardians.
The Harlequins have protected the Travelers for generations. Historically the Harlequins stayed out the of Travelers plans and only protected them from the Breath-
ern who want to hunt them down and kill them. Now Michael Cor-rigan has usurped control of the Breathern and wants to control the whole world and use his power as a Traveler to plan and achieve that control. Gabriel and an intercon-nected group of different people do not want to allow that to happen.
The world is being turned upside down, governments are using fear to control people and systematically strip their freedom.
There is a vast machine of security cameras, email sniffing programs, facial recognition … growing in our world, and there are dark forces behind the scenes pull-ing all those resources together into an electronic prison for each of us.
Michael and Gabriel have both experienced the other realms but both come back with a different vision for mankind. Who will win this battle for mankinds hearts and minds?
The story has a fast pace, and a number of surprising twists in the series storyline. It also leaves the ending open to a continuation and a few interpretations. One of the best things about the series is that it will cause readers to ask questions.
Questions about what really matters in life, how intentional they are about how they live, about freedom and purpose in life. It is a great book and I can only hope for more from the author.
— steve McEvoy
classic rock sound, distinctly heard in tracks such as “Boy’s Best Friend” for its strong melodic guitar and lead vocals, as well as “White Nights” for its underlying beat provided by the catchy guitar rhythms and drum combination.
Having been musically influ-enced by such legendary artists as Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, The Roll-ing Stones, and The Beatles, they strongly withhold their classic rock reputation.
Their album was even co-produced by Albert Hammond Jr., the guitarist of The Strokes, who also was a major influence on the
band. They have a very authentic sound, refusing to use synthesizers or computers during performances. “It’s about the songs, not about the sounds we’re able to make,” says the band, which is recognized as one of their very distinguishable traits.
“You know that feeling when you’re out and everybody is talking and that one song comes on that brings you to another place?” Daniel Balk (Lead Singer/Rhythm guitarist) asks. “That’s the feeling I get when I’m in a bar or a house party and a great song comes on. I stop, just listen, and think, ‘damn, this is so good.’ I hope our music will have that effect
on people.” Balk’s wish to please night time party goer’s is easily granted considering every track on the album screams nightlife listening. Specificaly, “Fell Asleep on The Dance Floor” and “She, She” are two tracks off of the album that cannot be ignored, with both being tracks that increased the quality of the already impressive album.
The Postelles certainly are a musi-cal force to be reckoned with. Without a doubt The Postelles are recommended for those compelled to catchy classic rock influenced tunes that are a perfect soundtrack for any night time party or occasion.
Today’s videogame industry can be said to mirror a 50-year-old man, entering a mid-life crisis. Confused and bewil-
dered with his current state, he desperately seeks to reinvent himself, in order to stay “hip.” To do this, one might buy a Harley Davidson or pursue an illicit affair. The videogaming industry rendition of this can be said to mani-fest itself in the form of motion controllers.
Right off the bat, I would like to state that if any current and near-future motion con-trollers (Xbox Kinect and PlayStation Move) work as they have been advertised, it would be a technological marvel. It would represent an overall improvement in technology. As the radar helped develop the microwave, so too can videogame motion controllers help create systems that are intuitive and easier to use.
Criticisms
I firmly believe that current fascination the industry has with motion controllers is misplaced. Motion controllers are not the game themselves, they merely complement the product. An exquisitely designed wrap-per will not make a Big Mac taste any better than garbage. So, too, will a motion controller
system fail to improve a game with an awful story, graphics or gameplay.
Another problem with the current batch of motion controllers is that they’re sold sepa-rately from the product. In this regard, Kinect is the more high profile offender. Arding to Future Shop’s website, the Kinect currently retails at approximately $150 (which may be better spent on two brand-new games instead).
The argument for motion controllers is a very poor one. Not many videogame develop-ers have even thought about implementing it within the game, and the high purchase price is a complete turn-off.
Should we Kinect or Move?
To say that Microsoft and Sony created motion controllers as part of a knee-jerk re-action would not be untrue. In fact, I’m sure there are executives at both companies who have spent sleepless nights after seeing the sales figures for the Wii. For those unaware, the Wii, which essentially has the processing power of a squirrel (when compared the su-percomputer that is the PS3), has enough sales to collectively shrivel up Sony and Microsoft’s sense of pride.
In comparison to Sony’s almost blatant rip-off of the Wiimote (it’s black and has a glowing golf ball on it), the Kinect does seem a little bit more “innovative”.
For those unaware of the Kinect, kindly slap yourself. Done? Right. The Kinect is simply a series of sensors enclosed in a horizontal bar. It promises facial recognition, motion capture and voice recognition. If the demos are any indication, it certainly has potential to be some-thing good. Then again, so did Windows ME, HD DVDs and George Bush (ooh, edgy). I’ll hold off on singing its praises until I actually spend some time with it.
Potential
That is not to say that I am totally against motion controllers. Perhaps the right strategy would be to use a complement to standard con-trollers instead of replacing it.
Perhaps the beauty of the motion controller can be revealed to subtle little tweaks. Instead of having us dance in front of a screen and look like an addict on a bad acid trip, allow us to use subtle hand gestures instead.
For instance, for Tactical Shooters (Ghost Recon, Brother In Arms, SOCOM), let us use hand
gestures to control the squad (i.e.: a circling motion will order your squad to hold position), thus freeing up buttons which can be used for other tasks. This move would certainly help immerse the player into the game, and avoid making us look like idiots.
Another example would be with regards to real-time strategy games. One of the key problems the RTS genre has in its attempts to cross over to the console is the fact that console controllers have a much limited num-ber of buttons, as opposed to a conventional keyboard. Perhaps a few hand gestures (i.e.: holding up two fingers to select group two) will prevent console RTS from going extinct.
I’m sure there are plenty of of subtle meth-ods that motion controllers can use to avoid being associated with morons jumping up and down in their living room (Dance Dance Revolution has a monopoly on that already).
In the end, Kinect and Move are really just salad dressings to videogames. The funda-mental characteristics (graphics, gameplay and story) still need to be addressed, and no fancy motion controller is going to replace those.
Motion controllers represent a potential for developers to further players into the experi-ence, via subtle gestures instead of outlandish, ridiculous flailing.
Much like anything else we call “the media” nowadays, the gaming world is slowly
degrading to a point of stagnation. It’s gotten so bad, in fact, that we now rely on something called “move-ment” gaming.
For those of you who have man-aged to stay under the rock even longer than I have, here’s something to take a note of: video gaming has left the cocoon, that was the couch, to moving around like an idiot in front of your television.
Much like the portable gaming fad that caught on starting with the original clunky GameBoy, we’re expecting ourselves to soon be caught up with several different versions of this movement gaming business. Wait, what’s that? It already happened? I’ll be right back, leaving the rock for a moment.
So here’s the thing about motion control and gaming: it’s not really feasible. Think about it, when was the last time someone said “Oh hey, let’s go play Call of Duty while running around in the living room?” Wait for it…wait for it…never. That’s because if you did do that, aside from the weight loss, you’d probably be not playing video games, and rather, you’d probably be shooting paintballs or something else.
You know, actually hurt someone while doing those gun “pewpew” motions.
To make a God-awful idea even worse is to, of course, market it. Now in case some of you are still under the
rock, if you look at some of the ad-vertisements for these products you might want to slit your wrist. Some of these show hardcore gamers punch-ing away baddies, while others have a nuclear family jumping around in front of the TV with moms and dads making themselves play with the product because it’s all so fun.
I know most advertisements cater to idiots, but these ads are just terrible. Families don’t get in front of the TV to even watch it together anymore, well hardly, so what makes anyone think that giving us family value will make gamers buy a use-less product? Adding to that, what makes anyone think people are not just going to sit back down and do nothing but wave their arms around randomly?
Being the PlayStation fanboy, I’m going to take up the horrible flag that is the PlayStation Move while the Closet Gamer above will take up the Kinect for his little Xbox.
Let’s start with the Move. Well, as you can see, it promotes itself. You move and presumably things hap-pen. Really, I can’t tell you anymore about it than that. Well I can. See you hold these two joystick-like things, and they act kind of like your hands, or indicators or what not and you simply swing them around, for ex-ample, to swing a sword or any other weapons that you find befitting.
Adding to this, in order to receive the signals or figure out where the player is, you have to also buy another product called the Eyetoy. Which is,
It’s Just a wrapper
a camera. Yep. Essentially, the sap that wants
to buy this garbage is shelling out about $100. So that means, the sap, that’s you, pays for a Playstation camera thing, and two controllers. I sure hope you don’t like eating for a week or so.
Now just like any other product out there, to make it an official product, they need to churn out some really, really horrible accessories to this thing as well in order to make it official.
I know what some of you are thinking already, “The PlayStation 3 is ugly enough as it is, do we really need anything else?” Well sadly, I think that Sony will think that we will. See, I’ve been reluctant to say anything about the Nintendo Wii up until this point, but
lets just all face it, they’re both the same. Having been through the Wii phase
and now witnessing Sony’s own set of dild- controllers being used to vibrate in your hands, I know that Sony will too be more than willing to release a bunch of plastic crap to accompany these products as well.
If some of you don’t believe me, go to the Wii section next time you go to Best Buy or Walmart or whatever, and see if you can’t find some useless
things to put your controllers into. Yeah, you heard me.
I said that the PlayStation Move is just like the Wii because, really, the only difference with these two consoles is that instead of playing kid’s games, you’ll be playing more “hardcore” games…whatever that means. In the end, it’s just a set of Wii controllers added onto the PlayStation 3, and if that’s really what you want, then hell, its your rock that you’re stuck under.
During the rest of the summer break—between sunny days and finals —I hope you take the time to connect with your classmates and expand your
network. The stress of exams and excitement for “the end” is something everyone shares in common, meaning that you have something to talk about with everyone on campus for the next few weeks.
Since this is my last column of the term, I want to leave a few tips and tricks that you can take with you on vacation. Just in case a golden networking opportunity presents itself on Miami Beach—or in your hometown’s grocery store—I want you to be prepared. So far you’ve learned how to make a great first impression, network like a fiend at conferences, and build a LinkedIn profile all while staying genuine so you can build lifelong connections. This article is about staying prepared with the right equipment: all contained in your networking briefcase.
Whether you are heading to a conference or a student club meeting, it’s always important to have a few things with you. The first thing you should have is a reminder card shoved in an easily accessible pocket.
This card should read, “the best person in my life is only one introduction away.” Keep this card close, and when you feel grumpy or feel like you’re not getting the reaction you want, pull it out and read it to yourself.
This will help inspire you to keep being friendly to everyone you meet, because you never know who the next person might be.
The next most important thing to have is an item or accessory on you that is memorable and shows off your character. Ideally this item should be interesting enough that people are prompted to exclaim how much they like it, but not so strange that people don’t know what to say. Something about North American culture makes us gravitate towards items. This item should give people something to talk to you about, and you should have a story that goes with it so people remember you better.
Although many of us like to carry around laptops or net-books, true networkers leave the keyboards at home.
While you are staring at a screen, you could be engag-ing with people around you —at most you should have a smart-phone that helps you collect peoples’ phone or email information after meeting them. Use text messages, Skype, MSN, Facebook, and Twitter while you’re alone, rather than dividing your attention away from people who are actually in your physical presence. This sends the message that you value peoples’ time in a way that a quick email turnaround never can.
Most importantly of all, carry around the patience and goodwill to listen to others, so they know you care about who they are.
Exam time can be very busy, and as you become suc-cessful you will only be more crunched for time. Learn to take small moments with everyone you meet and your network will grow naturally. Keep networking.
Starting next term, students can expect to see a new piece of reading material around campus. Imprint will release a new
special publication magazine called Librus with the aim of expanding Imprint’s readership. This magazine will focus on current international affairs and news.
According to its creators, Librus will provide students with a different interpretation of global news, international affairs, and easy-to-read academic writings from University of Waterloo students and professors.
The creators of the magazine are UW stu-dents Matt Austin and Keith McManamen who describe the magazine as a new publication that
will combine The Economist style debates, domestic and international politics news and analyses, book reviews, as well as opinion articles and papers from Waterloo students and professors.
Both Austin and McManamen say they are keen political science students and readers. Matt Austin is a former regular force soldier with two tours with the Canadian Forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan as a combat engineer. McManamen is a fourth year political science undergraduate student and a volunteer researcher at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
Both of them have written numerous papers and analysis on how diplomacy can link global governance to international relations in current global issues. Austin is also a co-author of the book Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Kandahar which narrates the Canadian Forces’ tours in
Afghanistan from a soldier’s perspective. Librus will be run by volunteers and will consist
of four sections, or “pillars,” as the magazine’s creators like to call them. The first one will be an international section that will cover international politics and economics and how they relate between states and domestic and international governance.
The second section will focus on issues that deal with domestic government, issues and elec-tions in Canada and the rest of North America.
The third section will be a normative vs. empirical analysis and columns of how things “ought to be” in the world in terms of politics.
As for the fourth section, it will center on selected student papers on topics that are relevant to the magazine and to international affairs and conflicts. Along with academic papers, student
volunteers will be encouraged to submit book reviews on books that are relevant to the magazine that cover any of the sections of this publication.
“Librus will fill a void that has existed on campus for as long as I have been a student here. This campus is buzzing with people from all over the world who want to hear about international news and news analysis,” said McManamen.
The next step in launching the publication is to gather a preliminary group of volunteers that is willing to commit not only with the writing part of the magazine, but also with the graphic design and layout aspect of the publication.
If you have an interest in politics do not hesi-tate to contact the creators at [email protected].
New international affairs publication to launch at UW
Nishith Kini and Manal Khani perform a Bollywood style dance to a popular Hindi song at the EKTA held by UWIC at the Royal Canadian Legion on Friday, July 17.
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The Canadian Charter, the Canadian Employment Equity Act requires employers in federally-regulated industries to give preferential treatment to four designated groups: women, peo-ple with disabilities, Aboriginal people and visible minorities.
In most Canadian universities, people of Aboriginal back-ground often have lower entrance requirements and are eligible to receive exclusive scholarships. Some provinces and territo-ries also have affirmative action-type polices.
For example, in Northwest Territories, Aboriginal people are given preference for jobs, and education, and are consid-ered to have protected status. Non-aboriginal people who were born in the NWT or have resided half of their life there are considered to have protected status, as well as women and disabled people.
The roots of affirmative action are in the 1984 Abella Com-mission, chaired by Judge Rosalie Abella. She created the term “employment equity” for the Canadian context, but it could seem that separating people into different groups based on gender or race is counterproductive for the equity principle, even if the main goal is to protect those minorities.
UW psychology Prof. Ramona Bobocel, conducted research several years ago on the issues dealing with social justice. Her research focused on fairness, justice, and equality in the
workplace. Her paper, entitled “The Concern for Justice: Cause or Rationalization?” was published in 1996 and states that the researchers “were interested in whether people’s concern for justice determines their attitudes toward various organizational policies, or whether people’s concern for justice merely ratio-nalizes other less socially-desirable motivations.”
Bobocel concludes that a central problem that confuses the debate about AA is that “people often do not specify what they mean when they use the label “affirmative action.” Very often AA programs can take a wide variety of forms that people do not comprehend.
In the late 1990s there was case arguing against affirma-tive action that made it to the Supreme Court of Canada. The case involved a scholarship that was restricted to “Protestant Christians of the White race” this case made OHCR change its policies in order to fulfill equity requirements that are fair for all students and avoid reverse racism to Caucasians.
Many universities and colleges refuse to administer awards that are restricted to persons of a particular ethnic origin. Do-nors have, in some cases, changed their eligibility criteria so that awards are now granted according to merit, ability or potential. The question still remains of whether affirmative action ame-liorates inequality or merely diverts it to other groups.
Like me, you’ve most likely come across our local chapter of Food Not Bombs (FNB)
either in the SLC, trying to recruit volunteers, getting timid students to try their homemade soups, or in downtown Kitchener providing meals to people in need. After dis-cussing food politics and other social justice issues with representatives of FNB, I decided to experience a weekend serving for myself.
FNB is a global grassroots move-ment which has been mobilizing for peace since the ‘80s, with the core principle being that food is a right, not a privilege. When I first arrived at the Working Centre this past Saturday morning, I was welcomed
by a diverse group of volunteers; I was overwhelmed by the abundance of produce decorating the kitchen countertops. Deliciously ripened berries, apples, carrots, peppers etc. would have been destined for the grocer’s dumpster had they not been generously donated to FNB.
While preparing the weekend’s serving, the regular volunteers chat-ted about current issues, other social justice organizations and projects, without skipping on the subject of school and the latest box office hit. It was clear to me the volunteers genuinely believe in their cause and enjoy hanging out.
After multiple kitchen mishaps, which almost resulted in an unprec-
edented gazpacho venture, lunch was served. This weekend’s menu included a green salad, baguettes, potato curry soup and a berry crisp. Delicious!
FNB drew their regular crowd of 10 to 15 people, despite the blazing heat. These are people that are in need of compassion, company and a good meal, which is typically served by a familiar face with a welcoming smile. FNB is also known to draw travelers looking for a nutritious meal or to volunteer.
During the serving, many regu-lars approached me to tell me how great the volunteers are and how much they appreciate FNB’s work. It became evident that FNB has
a direct positive impact on these people’s lives and the community. As one of the enthusiastic regulars told me “everybody needs someone sometime.”
I was astounded that the group managed to incorporate the found-ing principal of FNB in every facet of their operation. No edible food was to be wasted and great atten-tion was paid to the quality of the meal; the barriers between “us” and “them” were effectively dissolved.
Even with the stress of a non-functional oven, the group man-aged to keep the non-hierarchical decision-making structure intact. Seeing the wealth of pricey pro-duce salvaged to feed people who
could otherwise not afford to pay the premium prices, clearly illus-trated the inefficiencies of current food distribution systems. It also demonstrated that food scarcity is indeed a myth.
We currently produce enough food to meet the nutritional needs of the world population; however, to this day, one billion people are malnourished and many starving.
This is precisely why FNB is advocating the reappropriation of wasteful government spending, such as unjustified military pursuits, to develop more sophisticated food distribution systems via increased managerial capacity to finally bring an end to world hunger.
The right to eatFood Not Bombs and the myth of food scarcity
If you have been keeping up with my column, you are prob-ably wondering why it’s titled
Paranoid Backpacker. I certainly have not been talking about being afraid, and for the most part I didn’t re-ally talk about any problems that I encountered on my journey (with the exception of Florence). Thus, in order to explain this, I will rewind back to the beginning.
I had said that this is a trip I wanted to do for a long time; what I didn’t say is that I kept finding excuses not to. These excuses would range anywhere from not having money to not having the time, or not having anyone to go with. The truth is, I wasn’t prepared to leave.
Leaving on my own would mean having full and total indepen-dence. While this is something that I desired, it was something that I was afraid of. Going on my own, meant that I would have to deal with any issues that came up by myself, and there wouldn`t be any people there on hand who could help me. It also meant that I had to do all the planning, figure out the prob-lems, the solutions, and just about anything else that would come up. I was afraid.
This was no more apparent then when I was waiting in the air-port to go to London. The planning for my trip felt like it was close to none. I knew my itinerary, I had hostels and trains planned—but everything else was up in the air. I
was both excited and scared at the same time.
Now, I won’t tell you that on my trip I didn’t run into problems and that all my fears were unfounded. A lot of them were true; however, the solutions weren’t that difficult to implement. I’ve been lost in Florence to the point of not being able to find my hostel and had no idea how to find it, since there were no bus maps anywhere within the city. I lost my adaptor which made it impossible to charge either my laptop making it difficult to com-municate with people in Canada. I had quite a few issues with security in hostels, feeling it was inadequate, or having bad roommates.
This trip has taught me that the biggest regrets people have are not the actions taken, but rather the ones that weren’t taken.
This has been one of the best decisions I have ever made, and I haven’t regretted a single moment of it.
If there is only one thing I could hope for, it is that all of you remember this: in life there are some things that you just have to throw yourself into head first. If the thing should fail then, it’s OK, because you will just pick yourself up again and be fine. If you don’t fail then you will enjoy yourself and have a great time succeeding. If you choose not to even try, then you will forever wonder what would have happened if you had.
Well, that is it for my column. I hope you have enjoyed it, and I wish you all the best on your exams. One more thing though. I still have a free airplane ticket to go anywhere. Who is up for round two?
To be honest, I was not expecting a lot out of this country, because it was overshadowed by what I thought were more famous attractions , such as the Eiffel Tower or the Colosseum. However, three days in Austria is all it took for me to fall in love with this beautiful and diverse country. As soon as I arrived in the capital city of Vienna, I went to see a performance of Mozart at theVolks Theatre. There were people dressed up as marionettes dancing to live orchestra music. Our tour group got a chance to talk to the musicians in person backstage during the intermission. It was amazing to see a real diverse group of people from all over the world united under one common passion for music.
Day 2: Becoming one with nature in Tyrol
The next day the tour group headed to the town of Tyrol, where I got to see a different side of Austria. Unlike the classy cosmopolitan City of Vienna, Tyrol is a very mountainous region with low-rise houses. The optional activity that was offered in the city was paragliding down one of the highest mountain peaks in the region with a professional paraglider, of course. Despite my fear of roller coasters and heights, I went up the gondola that took us to the top of the mountain. The view from the top was absolutely breathtaking. The adrenaline rush that I got from paragliding cannot be described in words. You have to try it!
For dinner I had pork schnitzel, which is a traditional Austrian dish that resembles a pork cutlet. As dessert, I strongly recommend everyone tries the sachertorte which is a delicious traditional Austrian chocolate cake. (All under 20 euros).
Day 3: Concentration Camp
I’m currently on my way back to the hostel from the Mauthausen concentration camp located not too far from Vienna. It is one thing to have read about the Holocaust in history class back in high school, but it is definitely another thing entirely to view, firsthand, the gas chambers and laboraitories. Going to the concentration camp was a gut-wrenching experience, but I felt fortunate to have seen the debris of one of the darkest times in human history, because I learned to appreciate the freedom we have as Canadians even more.
To add to this emotional experience, the tour guide took us to the Anne Frank Museum. A bizarre feeling took over as I walked through the secret pas-sageway behind the famous bookshelf that led to her family`s hiding place and the attic where Anne Frank spent time with her friend Peter. It was an overwhelming way to end my stay in Austria.
Austria is definitely a country full of surprises and experiences that one can never forget.
Experiencing the best of both worlds Looking back, was it all worth it afterall?
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I feel like the NFL season has crept right up on me like a New York mugger. By early July, I’m usually breaking out the past year’s Madden, buying my fantasy
football magazines and catching myself up on the latest holdouts. This year? I was too busy watching LeBron destroy his public image and Spain win the World Cup to stay tuned in on the NFL.
Turns out I didn’t miss much. There was Chris Johnson’s holdout (as riveting as hearing Sarah Palin talk), Terrell Owens’ scramble to find a team (seems a yearly tradition now, right?) and, of course, the high number of first-round picks that haven’t been signed. Yes, a typical offseason if I’ve ever seen one. But without further ado, let’s answer some of the most pressing questions heading into training camps.
Who is the best quarterback in the league?
This question comes up every year, and for the past eight years it’s been between two stars — Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. This year, a new contender has emerged. Drew Brees has churned out quality season after quality season and now has a Super Bowl on his resume. He’s like the new, hot transfer girl in high school — everyone was getting so sick of the same old and then bam, an infusion of new blood.
Okay, that was stretch. With that being said, I’d say Tom Brady is the best — three championships to the others singular tallies, that’ll usually do it.
Who will be the breakout star this year?
This is always the toughest question to answer but Aaron Rodgers seems to be ready for a ground-breaking year. It’s a quarterback-driven league and Rodgers has been progress-ing every year since he entered the league. Add that to the fact that he got in his first playoff beatings last year and Rodgers could lead the Packers deep into the New Year.
What team will produce the most drama — off the field?
This question comes down to two teams. In one corner we have the Cinncinati Bengals who have Chad Ocho-cinco and the newly-signed Terrell Owens, with Pacman “I Enjoy Strip Clubs and Guns” Jones and Tank Johnson as supporting stars. Yet, the Jets make a great case when
you consider that they traded for Antonio Cromartie, who has seven to 12 children, as well as Santonio Holmes who will miss the first four games because of a drug suspension. To support those two, they have Rex Ryan, the overly boisterous coach who just had his stomach stapled (you can’t make this up) and LaDanian Tomlinson, who is bound to have an issue with the number of car-ries he gets for this team. I’ll take the Jets, because I see an implosion coming of epic proportions and as weird as this sounds, T.O. and Chad might actually cancel out each other’s craziness.
Who will be the surprise team of this season?
I don’t know if they’re fully a surprise team, but the Baltimore Ravens will be a team that goes farther than anyone believes. They have upgraded their offense with AnquanBoldin, who is the first legit receiver they’ve had in years (Derrick Mason doesn’t count since he was at the tail end of his career) and have a defense that has been consistently one of the best in the league. This team will make the AFC championship.
Who is the fall-back team this season?
The Cincinnati Bengals are the obvious choice since Carson Palmer’s accuracy seemed so off near the end of the season and it’s hard to believe a receiving corps of Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens can lead the way. Pair that with a defense that wasn’t as good as they seemed last year and you have the recipe for a team that falls back a couple of notches. Obviously the Arizona Cardinals qualifty for this as well, but that’s more because they lost Kurt Warner than simply the organization over-achieving.
Who will be the MVP this year?
The safe bet is Peyton Manning, since he seems to excel in the regular season, and only the regular season. To throw out a curve ball, I’ll say that my favourite quarterback of all-time, Tom Brady, wins an MVP, with an amazing year. Going into his second season after knee-surgery, Brady has Randy Moss motivated by a new contract, Wes Welker, who should be back for the beginning of the season, and some new tight ends. Brady wins MVP.
Regardless, as always, it should be a wild NFL season.
Warrior Jack Gibson won the Ontario boys’ golf championship.
Brent Golemsports & living editor
Warrior wins Ontario Junior Boys’ golf championshipWarrior golfer Jack Gibson won the Investors Group Ontario Junior Boys’
Championship by three strokes as he was 10 under par after three rounds of play. The tournament was played at the Listowel Golf Club July 20-22. Gibson had a little help from mother nature as the fourth and final round was cancelled due to severe weather.
The tournament was open to amateur players aged 18 and under as of August 6, 2010. Gibson was representing Bridgewater Country Club. Gibson is only the second Warrior golfer to reach the national championship. The first was Tim McCutcheon, who was later inducted into the Waterloo War-riors Hall of Fame. Other elite golfers have started their career by winning the Ontario Junior Championship. Both Mike Weir (1988) and his longtime caddy Brennan Little (1987) won the event, as well as PGA Tour member Jon Mills (1996), and NCAA Champion Matt Hill (2007). Gibson will now represent Ontario for the Canadian Junior Boys’ Golf Championship being played at the Richmond Country Club in B.C. Aug. 3 – 5.
Warriors men’s basketball names recruiting classCoach Kieswetter is eager to announce the next generation of Warriors.
Kieswetter was able to recruit three guards, and two very big forwards. They will help bridge the gap left by the graduation of four key players from the program last year. The players will add some solid depth to the roster, but it may be tough for them to break into the starting five.
Zach Angelini, 6’1” guard from St. Thomas More in Hamilton.
“Zach is an intelligent, hard working, multi-talented player who knows how to play the game and has the ability to make the right decisions at crucial times.” Kieswetter said. “He could make an immediate impact on our team.”
Mike Wright, 5’10” guard from Assumption H.S in Burlington. “Mike is an exceptional scorer who is lethal from anywhere. He is quick, strong and has the ability to get a shot off and ‘finish’ in traffic.” Kieswetter said. “He is also an outstanding playmaker and a hard working defender.”
Jake Robinet, 6’6” forward from Sir John A. MacDonald in Waterloo. “Jake is an athletic, skilled big man who has the ability to be a dominate force inside as well as being able to handle the ball out on the perimeter.” Kieswetter said. “His upside is tremendous and we will need him to get into the mix immediately.”
Joesph Ojelade, 6’5” forward from Brampton’s Central Peel S.S. “Joseph is an explosive, tough, hard working, fast improving player. He is only 17 so as he gets stronger he will become a dominate presence. We expect great things from Joseph.” Kieswetter said.
Troy Stevenson, is a 6’1” guard from St. Ignatius of Loyola in Oakville.“Troy brings intensity and toughness, and a competitive spirit that we need.” Kieswetter said. “ He is an outstanding shooter and scorer and he can certainly play the up-tempo game, so he promises to be a very good fit for our future.”
Former Warrior diving coach passes awayMarnie Tatham, who was the Warrior and Athena diving coach for eight
years, between 1973–1980, passed away at 82 years of age on Sunday, July 18 at the London Health Sciences Centre University Campus. She instructed five CIAU divers of the year and lead the team four national championship titles. Her swimmers earned 14 provincial medals and 12 national medals during her eight year tenure. She had such a great impact on the swimming program that she was inducted into the Waterloo Warriors Hall of Fame on March 20, 1987.
Tatham was a widely respected diving coach and her experience extended into Pan-Am and World Championship events, where she acted as a diving judge.
“The history of Waterloo’s swimming program includes four national cham-pionships,” said current swimming coach Jeff Slater. “These would not have been possible without the contribution of the diving team. Marnie developed the team here and her passion and innovations were a legend around the team for many years after she left Waterloo and will continue long into the future.”
Athletic Director Bob Copeland echoed these sentiments. He acknowledged the impact she had on the quality of athletics offered at Waterloo.
“Marnie Tatham played a significant role in the history of UW Athletics and we extend our deepest condolences to her family.” said Copeland. “The swimming and diving community has lost a respected leader and a trailblazer.”
Out of the 62 roster football players, 18 of them have successfully sought out transfers to other schools; and three players have used up all their eligibility. That will leave the program with around 40 players, but does not take into account senior players who have eligibility but will not play again, those players that will still be suspended, and incoming recruits. Only four of the nine players with positive tests have signed their waiver to accept the anti-doping rule violation and sanctions. Below is a list of players trans-ferring, along with the school attending and their year of eligibility. Each player is allowed to play only five seasons in CIS. The list remains unofficial at press time, as the CIS has yet to confirm these transfers.
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Because really, who doesn’t? Regardless of the product, when it relates at all to the
world of fitness, you can bet a human washboard will be used to market it. Especially once the weather gets people wanting to be beach ready. Beside every magic bullet, slap chop and snuggie salesman is someone with an abdominal whiz-bang super-ma-thing, ready to turn your abs from cushy to chiseled with their contrap-tion. Unfortunately, that sculpted look won’t come by way of just working your core to oblivion, and that is due to some rather pesky scientific truths.
Core work is of course important, but it should be done safely and you should be sure that the exercises you choose are effective. Often stresses, in excess of what are required, are put on the lumbar spine in order to achieve activation of the abdomen. Fortunately, Dr. Stuart McGill right here at the University of Waterloo has an excellent resource in his book Ulti-mate Back Fitness and Performance on this very topic. With some certainty, then, I highly recommend exercises like
bird dogs, pot stirs, and side bridges over any of the traditional ones you may find more familiar. When doing a lot of abdominal work, it is all about getting the most value for your time. With that in mind, avoid having to take the time off later due to injury. Be sure to put these exercises, and those like them, at top of your list.
A statement that should be read by the crunch-crew wasting precious time attempting to make precious their waistline goes as follows: spot reduction doesn’t work. Read it a few times, say it out loud if you need to, because they’ve done more than a couple studies to prove it, but still the fact still gets forgotten. As nice as it would be, eliminating excess fat from a “trouble area” simply isn’t possible. Obtaining a visible six pack is predominantly a measure of your body fat percentage.
Underneath the fat that is just be-low the dermis, everyone has the same basic muscular structure and, notably for this article, the rectus abdominis.
Once your body fat percentage gets below about 10 per cent, the
resulting goal will be make its accom-plishment evident. But don’t concern yourself too much with this number, as a stand-in-front-of-the-mirror test will tell you a lot more a lot faster. So with this in mind, how do we best to go about eating our way there?
Diet is a fickle thing and needs to be approached differently by ev-eryone. No one can know if you’re going to need something as serious as a ketogenic diet or simply to ramp up the lean meats and cut down on the complex carbohydrates. Regardless, recognize you will need to be working out hard on a calorie deficit which is by no means easy. Don’t be afraid to talk to a proper dietician or physician if you have any concerns.
When it comes to a six pack, a bunch of factors need to be controlled in conjunction to successfully achieve these results. Depending on your starting point this can be a goal for a few months in the future, or even a few years. Like all things requiring a serious time investment, keep your eyes on the prize, and try to limit the set backs. Be safe and good luck.
Amazingly, there are people abound who are disappointed with the Blue Jays’ current
position; hovering around the .500 mark and a distant fourth in the AL East. Every Jays fan wants them to be a contender, in the position to make trades that will take them to the World Series, but that wasn’t a reality coming into this season; and we all knew it. Take a step back and see the big picture.
The Yunel Escobar - Alex Gon-zalez (the second) will one day be looked at as one of the greatest trades in Blue Jay history. Not only did they maximize their return on Gonzalez by dealing him at his peak, before his inevitable regression, but they captured one of the game’s future stars. Of course it’s all academic at this point, but Escobar has the highest ceiling of any shortstop in the game right now, and that’s including Hanley Ramirez.
If you let this trade slip by you (as it did many in the Canadian media) take a glance and watch Escobar play. He’s lethal at the plate and in the field; the only knock for a player with so much speed is that he is a decidedly poor base stealer. Let’s hope this is a small sample size issue and not par for the course.
Blue Jays’ general manager Alex Anthopolous did the right thing in targeting a contending team who were looking to solidify their roster for a deep post-season run. The Braves definitely sold their future for the present by giving up on Escobar; the fact that he was playing so poorly was the reason the Braves got very little return for him.
In case anyone sneezed, Jose Bautista just homered again. It is almost August and Bautista is five homers clear of Joey Votto (classy Canadian) for the league lead. If that isn’t crazy enough, where did this arm come from that is clearing the base paths with lasers from right field? As much fun as it is watching this guy play, this is a clear case of sell high. It’s tempting, and ill-advised, to keep him around through the rebuilding process, but the return they could get at the trade deadline or in the off-season far outweighs the risk involved in seeing if he can repeat this dream season.
Let’s be serious for a second. The man is 30 years old and his currently slugging 150 points above his career average and has almost doubled his season high for home runs. He has a career .334 OBP (yep, that’s low) and up until this season hasn’t really es-tablished himself in any one position. Is this a feel-good story? Absolutely. Should that negate common sense? Definitely not...
First Down...
There is talk that Juan Martin del Potro, who is currently recover-ing from wrist surgery, could make a return in time for the US Open to defend his title. While the US Open would be 10 times more interesting with del Potro in the draw, it may be
to his detriment to return that soon. It’s not worth rushing back to defend the title if you won’t be 100 per cent and could possibly compromise the rest of your career...
Injuries aside, del Potro, Tomas Berdych, and Robin Soderling represent the new force on tour with their powerful ground game that re-ally gives Federer trouble. Nadal and Federer are still the favourites at any given tournament but the fact is we’re seeing the wave of the future and this doesn’t bode well for guys like Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick who are still grasping for another major title...
Seventh Inning Stretch...
Jonathon Papelbon is finding out what happens when you face batters multiple times; it’s harder to get pitches by them. The Boston Red Sox closer is in the midst of his worst season in his young career and is being hit a lot harder as players get second cracks at him. He now has pitched in over 340 innings which is a season and change worth of work for a starting pitcher, and now it’s clear why he couldn’t cut it as a starter. He simply does not have the variety in his game to continually confuse hitters...
The greatest feature of baseball that no other sport can match: man-ager ejections. It’s so commonplace that nobody really gets too upset over it. The fact is, managers are expected to stick up for their players and get into heated arguments with umpires. Now, other sports have ejections and referee-coach confrontations but none match the sheer hilarity of seeing two grown men face to face arguing about an imaginary strike zone. Only in baseball...
Jose Bautista is leading the league in home runs. Jose Bautista. Home runs. League leader...
Overtime...
The Cliff Lee career turnaround from a run-of-the-mill back end starter to one of the best pitchers in baseball is nothing short of miracu-lous. The only sad part is that, after spending the first seven and a half seasons with the Cleveland Indians, he has now been with three different teams in the season and a half since.
It’s a shame that he’s become a pitcher for rent; seemingly whoever needs a top of the line starter for a playoff run will pick him up part way through the season. Here’s hoping that he’ll find a permanent home sooner, rather than later...
Shout out of the Week:
A hearty and sincere shout out to all of the (clean) U of W football players who dedicated themselves to the team for the past few seasons. Whether you agree with shutting the team down (suspect decision) or not, you have to feel for the guys who have to play for a new team this fall, or who cannot transfer and have nowhere to play.
Jose Bautista is leading the league in home runs. Jose Bautista. Home runs. League leader.
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UW Recreation Committee presents Book Club Wednesdays at 12 noon in LIB 407 – August 18: “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett. For more info on upcoming events [email protected] to raise money for your non-profit club or student society? Con-tact the Canadian Diabetes Associa-tion 519-623-0216, to learn about our “In The Bag” clothing drive fundrais-ing opportunity.
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June 19 to August 14, 201020th Annual Homer Watson Exhibition with opening reception June 20 from 2 to 4 p.m. For info call 519-748-4377, ext 233 or www.homerwatson.on.ca.
July 2010“Interzone 002, Laura De Decker” is be-ing presented at Rotunda Gallery, City Hall, Kitchener for the month of July. Reception July 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. For info call 519-741-3400, ext 3381 or www.lauradedecker.com.
UPTOWNWATERLOO BIA EVENTS 2010
August 26-29 – Waterloo Busker Carni-valSunday, September 12 – UpTown Din-ingSaturday, October 9 – 29th Annual Pan-cake BreakfastSaturday, October 9 – 32nd Annual Great Oktoberfest Barrel RaceMonday, October 11 – Thanksgiving Day ParadeNovember 2010 – UpTown Waterloo BIA Annual General MeetingNovember 4-6 – UpTown Waterloo Trea-sure HuntSaturday, November 20 – Santa Claus ParadeNovember 2010 – Holiday Open HouseDecember 2010 – FREE Horse Drawn Trolley RidesDecember 2010 – Victorian CarolersFor more information about the above events call 519-885-1921 or email [email protected] or www.uptownwaterloobia.com.
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August 20102010/2011 OSAP Application now available – apply early.August 6: recommended last day to pick up loans for this term.OSAP Access Number (OAN) is now required when accessing your OSAP account online. If you can not retrieve the OAN, you will need to bring in your SIN card and valid, government issued photo ID to get the number.Go to safa.uwaterloo.ca for a full listing of scholarships and awards.
SPRING TERM IS OVER!
Imprint Campus Bulletin deadline for September 3 frosh issue is Monday,
August 23.Happy Holidays!
LOSTREWARD – Motorola Symbol bar-code reader in black hip-pouch. Lost July 9 in EV1 or CPH area on campus. Call ext 32262, ask for Bill.
VOLUNTEERINGLibrus, Imprint’s new quarterly polit-ical science and international affairs publication, is looking for volunteers ahead of its anticipated September launch. If you have skills in article writing, proofreading, layout or edit-ing and would like to be a part in the founding of a student publication, please direct your intents to Matt or Keith at [email protected] great fun, met new people – volunteer at the LINK Picnic Festival Saturday and Sunday, August 21-22 at Victoria Park, Kitchener. For info [email protected] or 519-721-5746.
GroupVestor Inc, a UW student orga-nization, is assisting Mel’s Diner with renovation expansion fundraising, with a deadline of July 31. For info [email protected] or [email protected].“Core 2010” annual summer exhibition at Barber Gallery, 167 Suffolk Street, W., Guelph is running from July 10 to Sep-tember 6. For info 519-824-0821 or bar-bergallery.com.
Friday, July 30, 2010Come, enjoy and celebrate humanity with Nicaraguan singer/songwriter Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy and his band Tierra Fertil. This is a benefit concert for Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Sup-port at 7:30 p.m. at Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts. For info/tickets call 519-571-1912 or [email protected] School of Architecture presents an other worldly adaptation of “The Cy-clops by Euripides” in Cambridge today and July 31. Contact Miles Gertler at 519-212-8410 for details and ticket res-ervations.
August 2010rare events – for the monthly events please visit www.raresites.org or call 519-650-9336 for more info.
Thursday, August 5, 2010Rotunda Gallery presents “Marking time and Place” Felicity Somerset. Re-ception from 5 to 7 p.m. at Kitchener City Hall, 200 King Street, W. For more info 519-741-3400, ext 3381.
Saturday, August 7, 2010Paddles up! Get ready for the upcoming 12th annual Waterloo Dragonboat Fes-tival, at Laurel Creek Conservation area. A fun community experience with food, live entertainment and of course, racing! Please come out and support the event. For info www.waterloodragonboat.org.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Open House to celebrate Bereaved Fam-ilies of Ontario Midwestern Region’s new location in Kitchener at 678 Belmont Ave., W., Suite 103 at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. For more info 519-603-0196 or bfomid-west.org.
Sunday, September 2, 201013th Annual Butterfly Walk to Remem-ber 2010 begins at 2 p.m. at Williams-burg Cemetery, Kitchener. For info, 519-894-8344 or www.bfomidwest.org.
FOR SALEMattress with boxspring – new, never used, still in sealed bag. Will sacrifice. Delivery available. 519-635-8737.
Comics & Distractions
ACROSS1. ___ of time6. Spanish surrealist10. 45 degrees from ESE13. Some protestors19. Experiment20. Russian mountain range21. Korean car maker22. Type of lizard23. Final cycle24. UW summer perk #127. Charlottetown time28. Archaic for to redeem30. Formerly known as VO31. Big man upstairs?32. Scum Of The Earth, for short33. UW summer perk #239. Electronic Explosive Device40. Feline of the stars41. Above Field Elevation42. “Is that the truth ___ lie?”43. Actress Thompson45. Acid counterpart48. UW summer perk #355. Mont Blanc, e.g.56. KISS cover band57. Gentle hit58. Wood chipper?59. Fish egg60. 2000 pounds61. Fly63. Dr. Who and others (abbr.)64. UW summer perk #471. Stalagmite locales73. Borland and Capone74. “The _____ Feeling”, 2004 Metallica single75. Chow76. Murphy’s Law, e.g.79. UW summer complaint #184. Slow
85. Helen of Troy’s mother86. Japan or Chin suffix87. 12/24 or 12/3188. Berry with one large seed91. Cirque de Soleil show94. Popular tech website95. Stimpy’s pal96. UW summer complaint #2100. Gave birth101. Cut off102. Country West of Eng.103. ___mouse (type of bird)104. Construction equip. company106. Boy109. UW summer complaint #3116. Woodwind118. Nice yes119. Mass parts120. Sweet ending121. Scottish no122. UW summer complaint #4127. Burning129. Carved stone130. Bronze131. Dark film style132. Eats to excess133. Transitioned134. Letters seen on many a building135. Salons136. Make a strenuous effort
DOWN1. Horse food2. Wake3. Like Beethoven’s final complete symphony4. 1981 film “___ Boot”5. Trash6. Presidential nickname
from 2001-20097. Eastern Indonesian islands8. Let go9. “Let me pay.”10. Winter sport11. Honest12. Attack, as a country13. Resource Intensity Weight14. International Gemological Institute15. Inning numbers16. Chevy SUV17. Related to the mother’s side18. Hurried25. Old school OS26. Paper towel function29. Comes of age34. Bar beverage35. The Black Ranger36. “___ & Circumstance”37. Glue mascot38. Don44. Limb45. Home to livestock46. Cooling plant47. Eject forcefully49. y=mx+b50. Egyptian sun god51. “Right away!”52. Ukrainian capital53. Female suffix54. Diminutive form of Esther56. Fashion61. Appear62. What Pierre surfs on65. Joke66. Part of 124-Down67. United Nations Mission in Angola68. Internet slang for “understood”69. Golfers try to break it70. French Mrs.71. Military trainee
Come to the Open House at the Institute for Quantum Computing on Saturday, September 18, 2010.
Quantum Computing Labs will be open for tours 10a.m.-5p.m.
2p.m. Public Lecture by David Cory Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing
Seating is limited. Register online: www.iqc.ca.
Institute for Quantum Computing Research Advancement Center 475 Wes Graham Way Waterloowww.iqc.ca
Are you curious about how quantum mechanics will change the future of information technology?
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DOWN (continued)
98. Russian horse-drawn carriages99. Where the Tin Man was fashioned, perhaps100. “Takin’ Care of Business” band (abbr.)105. Resting 106. Aeolian sediment107. Reduce intensity108. Gang headgear, possibly110. Tu, to Agatha111. Cm parts112. They let you in113. Join together114. Less common115. View, to Shakespeare117. “____ Brute?”123. Colour124. End of math proof125. Tree creature126. Less than low-impact aerobics (abbr.)128. Paper sent over the phone?
