the iron warrior magazine: volume 5, issue 2

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heSpecial Through the ooking Glass Issue


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In oUI large group, there are a lot of smar t people.People who are not fooled by appearances. People whoknow when to have faith in their own judgement wheneverybody around thinks differently. But there are alsoalready made judgement on. It is unfortunately truel people who have not settled issues that others havea 5 hat more often than not, people will come to believeanything, if it is implied often enough. It is my beliefthat a lot of people develop a warped sense of values

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Fr me, and therefore, for at least a few others atthis school, the topic of engineering tradition is avery large can of worms. I do not particularlyenjoy the smell of worms, but I do fccl that it is somewhat my right - my responsibility - to influence thetraditions of the engineering society, of which I am avery proud member.

regarding alcohol at Waterloo, partly as the result of arunaway engineering steam train that has been incorrectly been taken in under the tradition canopy.I believe that any population has to take extreme care

in controlling who it makes into its heroes. When I thinkof engineering traditions that have the potential to confuse and mislead people, the ones involving alcohol areleading the pack.

What worries me even more is that I think the extentto which bad ideas are permitted to propagate throughour society is partly tl,e fault of certain people in chargeof organization: our leaders. The way in which ourengineering society promotescertain social events is, in

some ways,extremely" the general feeling is that the quickest drinkers r e c o n d u c ~ v eto bramour heros. washing.

In the mind of at least one small person (me) at thisbig school, a quick drinker is not someone to look up to.In no way can the ability to drink ever help anyone. Infact, I would even say tltat tl1e ability to drink is something any person is betteroff not having.

Having thought about the above . The impressions Iam left with after participating in some (but not all)engineering social events wornes me a little. Altl10ughnobody has stated it outright, I sense the general feelingis that the quickest drinkers are our heroes. I feel thatthis is both wrong and dangerous.

Any representative of the people should have to show his or herface in public on a regular basis. This is to give peoplethe opportunity to throw rotten fruit at their leader ifthey feel so inclined. Or if necessary, stormthe podiUIllwrap their leader in heavy linen, and bake him or herinside the world's largest Christmas cake to reward himor her for a job well done.

Every time a public figure appears, he or she is out inthe open, up for judgement. People can see where thepower lies. The people are in controt as they should be.Freedomof information is key in any democracy. Without it, things start to crumble very quickly.

I frown because I know that this freedom of infomation is only half-present in the way businesscarried out in some engineering institutions. Certaengineering events are never announced in my engneering class without a failed attempt to kewhat is being announced a secret .I think that keeping things disguised on such

large scale can be very dangerous. One (deliberateresult ofall this pathetic secrecy is that nobody is evgiven the opportunity to publicly voice objectionevents that are advertised in secret . After all, wcan oppose something that does not exist?

And IT SEEMS AS IF EVERYBODY SUPPORTHESE ACTIVITlES, which I know is VERY FAFROM THE 1RUIH.I strongly believe that every event should

named, described, and presented as it really is. f hwere the case, people might be more inspired think about who and what they are supportininstead of being content to drift off with the rest their class, down apath they have not investigated.

Dishonesty grows like a cancer. small deceptil e d ~ t o a small lie. And then awhole lot of little liea little omission on a budget record here an

there .. Soon big lies and who knows where we aanymore. Next thing we know, we're all card-carryicommunists.

Where there are decisions to be made that affect largroups of people, let us at least be allowed to see tbeast that threatens us. I think it is necessary to havegood think about what we consider important, lest wbecome just another herd of graduate engineerinsheep, hopelessly entangled in the barbed wire trapings ofcomplacency, slowly bleeding to death.

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We would like to start this article by conveying ourthanks for a oyous experience at the BOT. It was apleasure to join so many plummers in having a goodtime and to see that the engineering spirit is quite aliveand well. It is our hope to continue some of the greattraditions of photo opportunities and fun , but pleaseremember:you may not touch THE TOOL until youhave received your ring at graduation .On the topic of the BOT ,we would like to address theartide by Henry Murchland in the IRON WARRIOR . Weare glad to hear that Mr.Murchland believes that ''THETOOL is a wonderful mascot for engineering atWaterloo"and is concemed for its security . However,we are slightJy disappointed in his generalizations andbelieve that some of his arguments are misguided. Mr.Murchland writes about his concem of the BEARERSbeing ''half in the bag." In reality ,NONE of us hadconsumed any alcoholic beverages prior to enteringPOETS that evening . It is a rule, among the BEARERS,that NO one may be intoxicated at an event such as thisone. (It should also be noted that the iridium-lightsensitive lenses of our sunglasses allow us to see 10times more than conventional sunglasses, in dimly litareas.)Mr. Murchland also expresses concem as weparaded right through the spirited crowd and that someplummers were "handled" as we advanced onto the newpatio (by the way, nice patio). It is undear as to whatMr. Murchland is referring to by the term "handled , butto our knowledge no plummer was "handled" the night ofthe BOT. However, if you felt you were , please contactthe engineering society president, John Campbell andtell him about the specifics of the incidence.Mr. Murchland also "guesses that [embracing theTOOL] is something reserved for people who havereceived a RING. The tradition of a graduate tappingherlhis iron ring on the tool, is as old as the tool itself.Touching 1I1e TOOL has always been reserved forgraduating engineers (such as THE BEARERS) andshould be respected , as such.Mr. Murchland also comments on past occurrencesand mentions cases where some individuals, who werenot members of the engineering society, were astridethe TOOL." It is traditions like these which are best left inthe past. It is our hope that plummers enrolled atWaterloo will focus on the more important traditions,such as excellence in education and industry , engineering pride (not arrogance), and community aid, such asfood drives and the Bus Push .Other issues conceming the security of the TOOLwere also raised . A comparison was drawn to theUniversity of Toronto Engineering Society and their

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'double ring ' of security, however it is important to notethat their mascot has been stolen a ar greater numberof times then THE TOOL (approximately 10:1) and thatwe do not find it necessary to carry Billy-sticks or createa double ring of security,as the canon bearers do .We are not trying to protect THE TOOL from WaterlooEngineers, t is your mascot. With this said ,we like tothink that we can walk through acrowd of "spirited"plummers to reach the patio and enjoy the night air witheveryone else ,without someone trying to steal THETOOL. Plus think if someone WOUld , not only would theyhave to challenge THE BEARERS for it but they wouldalso have to get through the "spirited crowdr' Everythingin life is "case specific , with specific parameters and inthis case we felt it was safe to go.We wish to thank Mr. Murchland for expressinghis concems about THE TOOL and welcomeany other comments or concems. On thattopic, if they wish to write THE BEARERS or THE TOOL we will beaccepting letters through PresidentJohn Campbell. You can either e-mail him at eng .prez@novice or givehim a hand written letter and we will do ourbest to respond to you as soon as possible.Any appropriate letters will be published in THEIRON WARRIOR with our response under a newsection called ''TOOL TIME . We hope that through thisnew section we can deal with any of your questions andkeep you up to date on what THE TOOL has beendoing. [We , the editors would like to take this opportunffyto thank those individuals responsible for this letter. Notonly will they e deciding the content of his newspaperwithout our consultation, they came up with as nifty aname for it as tool time : Now if t had been up to me, Imight have named it tool stool : and ust think of thetrouble that would have caused. Any further autocraticpresumptious orders from any secret society may edelivered to us at the Iron Warrior office in CPH -ed. ps.Newspapers do notprint artides or letters second hand.We are extremely liable. But thanks for thinkjng of us.]

In dosing, John Campbell has been mentioning, thatwe are looking for someone to come up with anengineering logo which incorporates a graphic of theTOOL. As an added bonus, the winning plummer willbe given a photo opportunity with THE TOOL and THEBEARERS (no, you will still NOT be allowed to touchTHE TOOL). Good Luck and make sure you submityour designs to John by June 30th .LONG LIVE THE TooL

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I have been hanging around these engineering wasince the fall of 94 ,but not as an engineering student. Istarted attending Waterloo as a student in the Faculty oScience,and even though Iwas in Science I spent mortime in POETS than anywhere else . Through out this tIbecame introduced with many people that showed aspirit and enthusiasmin events organized by fellow engineers. It became athis moment that I realized how lucky engineers at Watwere to have so many activities available to them toparticipate in.At the beginning of this spring term , my transfer intFaculty of Engineering was approved and Ibecame astudent of this faculty. Except for the fact that Iwould bschool for a full year (12 months), Iwas glad to be a pof what Ienjoyed so much in my first eight monthshere . It was not until the BOT pub in POETS thcaught my first glimpse of the TOOL and thBearers. It was at this moment that I reathat the TOOL is not an idol to beworshipped, but a symbol of WaterlEngineering and its importance shoulupheld . It finally becam e clear (to me) thshould not be just the Bearers responsibilityprotect the TOOL, but a responsibility of allstudents in this Faculty to keep it safe. The fact theTOOL comes out to many events, throughout the yeashows that the TOOL is with us throughout our years ostudy here at Waterloo, and not hidden in some dark coand only seen at the Iron Ring Stag.So for everyone that discourages the presence ofTOOL ,please reconsider , because you don't realize hovaluable things like the TOOL are, until it is gone. I hopethat never happens, here at Waterloo,with the TOOL.

Mark PopikSME

1996 ASME NATIONAL STUDENT DESIGNCOMPETITION

Regional1st Prize - $200, Trophy, + up to 1(0) travel allowa

to finals n Atlanta, Georgia2nd Prize - $100 +plaque3rd Prize - 50+ plaqueAt the FInals1st Prize - 3000and 1(0) to student chapter2nd Prize - 1(0)and $500 to student chapter3rd Prize - 500and $250 to student chapterMany manufacturing processes involve the use

hazardous liquids which require proper collection adisposal after use. A company is interested in explorfeasible concepts for transporting such material fromfactory collection point to a disposal collection point.

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dents and graduates. The contestant are askedaddress this year's topic, ''Environmental Quality: HClean is Oean?"

1st Prize is a certificate, bronze medal, $1000, aexpenses paid to the International Mechanical EngineingCongress. $200 w ll also be awarded to the chapte

2nd Prize is 500 and a certificate.3rd Prize is $250 and a certificate.All authors of acceptable papers w ll receive a lette

participation. (Looks good on a resume.) Paperpages total) are to be postmarked February 15,1996.SEE KARINE DRMORE DErAIlS


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NENGINEER S POST ELECTION GUIDE(in case you never worked out what the parties stood for anyway .

Gordon Wilton Burrill

S y the time this reaches your hands the electionwillalready have come and gone. You willprobalybe sick of the media bombardment concerningthe election so I have decided to write about what thedifferent parties have promised. What you don't likebuilds character. n addition, you can now be aninformed citizen watching and checking whether or notwhoever wins does anything they said.

So this is the comerstone of our democracy put intoaction, where the educated masses head to the poles tohave their voices resonate to the very centre of thepower structure. Or if you AREN'T on Prozac it iswhere a simplistic view of the problems facing societyare used to judge which person we will put into office.Leaving our sarcasm aside, and ignoring all the largerquestions of why Canadians aren't as interested in politics as our counterparts in Europe, let's continue.

WARNING:I will shamelessly try and present a simplistic, biased

and probably only mildly accurate summary of thepolitical parties and their position on some of the issuesfacing engineers and regular citizens without sliderules. Sony Family Coalition, I'm limited to500 words.

By the way, yes I did write this before realizing thatthe election would be over before anyone had a chanceto read it. So what, we all make misIakes. ...

EDUCATION:The Liberals will implement a core program stressing math, science and technology. Tuition fees increas-

es would be '1imited and a new student-assistanceplan developed. In addition, part time study would bemade easier by making universities offer more eveningcourses. I guess it looks a bit like what the federal liber-als have also been proposing.

The Conservatives would also stress a core cunicu-lum with standardized tests. Abolish Grade 13, butthere would be 5 exb'a days a year. Funding to collegesand universities cut 400 million and fees partly deregulated. A new student loan program to be created. Perhaps the tax cuts he proposes will allow the alumni todonate more and that way we won't realize that the 400million was taken. Or maybe not.

The NDP have concentrated more on basic educationbefore university with destreaming and plans to get ridof Grade 13.

ENVIRONMENT:The Liberals would introduce mandatory velUcle

testing to get those damn mustangs that try and dragmy Tercel off the road. Big ugly plants with the phallicsymbols would be affected by updating air-pollutionregulations for industrial sources. Regions would nothave to look after their own garbage, maybe, depending on how much of a pain it s. Civils would work forthe Oean Water Agency and private -sector industriesto make sewage and water services more effective.

The Conservatives are saving paper by not writinganything down that I could find.The NDP would continue to force regions to look

after own garbage. No new nuclear plants. New pui


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Closing the Loop 5 Years Laterrevisiting a WWII concentration campE spring, 50 years after I had last seen the place,I returned to the concentration camp in which Ihad spent five years of my life during World Warn. The camp in question is called Sachsenhausen. It islocated in the former East Germany, 35 kilometresnorth of Berlin. I visited there April 22-24, remi.niscing,attending ceremonial occasions tha tmarked the 50th anniversary of theliberation of the camp, a nd sharingmemories with approximately 1,700former prisoners who, like me, werealso there as guests of the government of the Federal State of Brandenburg.Since former prisoners' familieswere also invited the total number ofguests was around 4,500 . . . about2,000 family members came too.Many German citizens attended theceremonies, so in all there were morethan 20,(0) on hand.

To this end, I was a little regretful that more of Sachsenhausen has notbeen preserved, as a testament to his-tory. Some of the most significant parts of the camp aswe knew it, including the crematoria and other execution sites have been partly replaced by memorials thatunfortunately do not begin to convey the significance ofthe tragic events there. Still, some of the gallows whereI had witnessed hangings during those unhappy years,are still to be seen, and some installations for quite

indicating that true world peace is not yet a reality.In the concentration camps it had been important to

try to struggle against tyranny, even though the struggle was one sided. Any effort we might be able to helpbring down the system was important, even though theultimate victory was still only a partial one. Still, it wasgratifying to hear a minister form the federal government in Bonn admit, during one of the speeches, to the"catastrophe" ofNazism.

From my experience, I can say thatwhat lead to this catastrophe was, to a

dlQ) phi oonsiderable extent, the concept that l J ; J N , ~ 1 l ' lk r ' ._ today we have come to call "political\v ... ___ - correctness." I refer to the ability of

the people of Germany at that time toaccept whateve r decisions their government made, without challenge.

, Thus to speak critically of the Hitlergovernment, of those days, was tohave no class, or status. There wastremendous pressure to perform. Thepolitical correctness, combined with astrong sense of duty and obedience,led to thedisaster.

Those who did object were, by andlarge isolated, though one of my earlyexperiences in the camp was of ayoung girl who came up to the ditchin which I was working (we weredigging a sewer system for the city ofOranienburg) and gave us someapples. We were so hungry at thattime we were barely able to stay alive.

In my case, I was joined on the tripby my two sons - one alone since hiswife could not come, the other withhis fiance. My wife could not bringherself to go, not wishing to experience the emotional turmoil of havingto relive those terrible days again,after all these years. I certainly under stand her refusal but once there, I per-sonally found the experience to be avery moving one. I t stirred up manymemories.

I was particularly pleased my sonsagreed to go because for the first time,they began to understand what it hadmeant to be a prisoner in the camp ..the hen we went through duringtho se five wartime years. But weemerged scarred but not broken -we did not depart from our principles; we were fighters to the end .

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She was a very small girl and Itried, during my visit to contact herthrough the local newspaper. I wasnot successfulbut it would have beennice to express our gratefulness to herfor her brave act.CJ::DOGs 0 0 ~~ 0 c=J . CJ_} I was interested to learn thatdespite our experiences there, theconcentration camp in Sachse nhausen had been permitted to continue after the war . Thus at one point,between the end of World War n ndthe early '50s, 60,(0) Germans continued to be imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Some of them were formerNazis, it is true. But others weren't;they were imprisoned simply becausethey were anti-communists. therecords show that of this number,12,000 died. This is a rather smallnumber compared to the more than100,(0) registered prisoners (and over

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Brandenburg paid all our expenses- airfare, hotel accommodation,

prisoners from Canada, United States,from many countries in Europeincluding former iron curtain countries (Poland, Ukraine, Russia) attended. was rather surprised that somany were still able to make the trip,when one considers how many failed

i Sachsenhausen had been engineereddeliberately as a system for killing people.to survived the camp in the first place, how poorly wefared while we were there, and how many years havesince passed.

Staging the event was clearly a gesture of atonementon the part of the German government. It must be saidthat a number of very constructive things happenedduring the occasion. This was because of the approachorganizers clearly took - that while the world mustnever forget the horror of the camps, so that theyshould be "places of memory" for all time - nothingsimilarshould ever be pennitted to happen again.

sophisticated killing. Certainly, there is enough to indicate that the camp was deliberately designed as a setting for mass mW CIers.

The other former prisoners shared their experiencesof fIfty years ago and in general, we felt great warmthfor each other and joy in seeing how many of us werestill alive. We sha red our happiness that the old Nazisystem had now been gone for so many years. Yet Isensed a good deal o f ooncem too over the present situation in the world. We had all been getting the newsreports from Bosnia, Rwanda and other trouble spots

100,000 non-registered) who died inSachsenhausen alone during the war years. Still, theend of the war did not mean all the killing stopped.

I recall very clearly that during the very last days ofthe war the Gestapo decided that Sachsenhau.sen's prisoners, and those in the nearby Ravensbrueck camp forwomen, must be moved to the port city of Luebeck,where they were to be drowned in merchant ships. Wewere herded out of the camps to walk northwest, inwhat truly became a "march of death." About 60,(0)prisoners started the march; within ten days 6,000 ofthem had died or been killed. We were weak to start


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The Sandford Fleming Foundation4306 Carl Pollock Hall, Uni.versity of WaterlooWaterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1Waterloo Campus Actiyities519) 888-4008

Thirteen silver medals were given to students from across the eight branches of engineering, at the May 1994 Convocation. f cat{emic ~ c e e n c e Co-Operative Proficiency

Terrence Koehler, Cfzemica[ EngineeringTimothy Lawson, Civil EntJineering

De-Wei Yin, cfiemica Engineering

Craig White, Computer EngineeringJullien Ollivier, Eiectrica EngineeringJeffrey Germaine, 9tfecfia.nicaf EngineeringElise Fear, Systems flJesign EngineeringJane Alcott, yeofogicaf EngineeringStanley Ma, :Management Sciences Option

Brian Wickenheiser, Civil EngineeringDavid Hansquine, Computer EngineeringMichael White, lJv{ecfwnfcal EngineeringJason Alleman, Systems Design Engineering

with and we had to go without food for days. Anyonewho fell behind was shot. There were lots of shootings.

The atmosphere of revenge was gone. There was But in my view there ought to have been an ethical

I remember particularly the reactions of theGennanvillagers as we marched past them along the road.They simply didn't notice us Of course, they weresurely afraid to do otherwise.

mourning. There was a strong resolve among every- component to professional education for the Germanone I met that such a tragedy ought never be allowed engineers of the time that would have told them, backto recur .. because one cannot build a future on destruc- at the start of the war or before, that to design such antive hate; instead, we must find ways to build bridges instnnnentwas a misuse - a conuption - of their talinto the future. Certainly this is particularly appealing ents. Engineers need to concern themselves within an era of growing internationalism. moral issues, as do the members of all pro.fess.ions, and

This is why I have personally tried to do as much as as do all of usAbout halfway along the march we learned of the I could to foster relationships between students of my There needs to be an ethical constraint that becomes

plan to execute us all in Luebeck. So I decided to own university, Waterloo, and thnse in the University aa:eptedasthema jordesigncrite rion.escape. My friends organized a disturbance in the of Braunschweig, in Germany. I did this through orga- Summarizing my concentration camp experience Iyard behind a farmer's barn where we spent the night nizing the exchange programme for engineering stu- reach the conclusion that the most important societaland, together with two friends, I slipped through the dents involving both UW and Braunschweig, which issues are strength of character and moral value sysyard fence and hid in a forest. Some other prisoners continues and is blooming at the present. My hope is terns, and that an education system that ignores thesefollowed us. Whethe r, had the war continued, we that these exchanges will encourage young people in leads to catastrophe. Thus the truth about concentrawould have been caught and summarily executed I both countries to get to know each other, and to find tion camps must continue to be taught and learned. Itcannot say, but fortunately the war ended before they out how much we all have in common. is in that spirit that I am writing these fragments ofcaught us, and we were spared. Surely, we need to do more than this. We need to reports" of my experiences .

During my visit this spring I retravelied the "death foster the development of a sense of ethics, among Thinking back to my years in Sach.


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yLife s squirrelGene Chae 5 m

other day, as rwas standing outsideof the Math and Computers buildinghaving my daily cigarette, an incidenta squirrel changed my life, in that it

la t l l rpn, me to the intricacies of humannature whil revealing to me the reason formost, if not all, the world's problems.

Before this incident, I simply thought of. as being very pitiful creatures; I had a

lA1nrV1r,n- theory that all squirrels lead very sadand were thus suicidal. I came upon this

, . . . L . : > J . U H after observing that squirrels whenrrn ,irl 'Streets, sit at the edge of the curb, wait

a car passes by and then proceed tothrow their pathetic little bodies in front of the. I mean, either they're suicidal or reallystupid and nothing is that stupid (accept

people who ride their bike drunk, hit aand break ahem).

Anyway, I was standing outside, mindingown business, when I noticed a squirrelbeside me on top of a garbage can

intently at something directly in front of it Nor, I would not have noticed something as rommon

a squirrel, but what got me about this squirrel wasthat it seemed so interested in something and gave itsundivided attention to it This got me thinking, whatthe hell could this damn little rodent be looking at? My

turned towards direction that the squirrel was fac-ing, yet I didn't notice anything particularly interesting.

perplexed, I began a more intent examination ofsurroundings and then it hit me - Squirrels' eyes are

the sides of their heads and that squirrel wasn't looking in the direction that it was facing - it was lookingthrough the side of its head at me.

What stupid arrogance - I naturally assumed thateveryone (thing/ rodent/ whatever) is the same as me.Sure I've heard it said many times that, you can't trulyunderstand someone until you put yourself in his

shoes , and I actually thought that I was pretty good atdoing so, yet this incident was a reminder of peoples'na tural instinct to assumethat everyone thinks inthe same way as them.

People, although theymay not realize it (orchoose not to realize it),too often believe that theirway is the only way andthat if someone doesn'tact in a certain manner,look the right way or

Come See The StarsUW Observatory StaffCheryl NollGiseie Dagenais

Come out for some stellar sight seeing through the University of Waterlootelescopes. W have a 12-inch telescope in the observatory on the roof of thephysics building, and various portable reflectors and refractors as welL eeJupiter, Mars, the Moon, stars and more.In general and weather permitting, the observatory is open to the public on

the first Wednesday of each month. During the winter months, tours begin atabout 7pm and during the summer, tours begin shortly after 9pm, or when it'sdark

Meet on the third floor of the physics building outside room 313For the Summer '95 term. the scheduled times are:

June7 - at 9:30 pmJuly 5 - at approximately 9:30August 2 - at approximately 9:00

Tours for individual group s can also be arranged in advance.Check out our home page http:/ /astro.uwaterloo.caf or last minute details, oremail [email protected]

believe in the same things that they should beliethey must be wrong. Often, we don't even think oremote possibility that we may be wrong and thaeveryone is the same as us - or should they be.position of the squirrel's eyes is not 'wrong' in romOOn to that of a human, rather it is simply differenfact, they are probably better suited for what it nthem for and squirrels probably would not funtoo well with human-positioned eyes. f people kmore open mind, not being so quick to judge,actually accepted that not everyone should be a ceway, many of he world's problems would be solv1his little incident uncovered a lot about who w

as a race and the need for better understanamongs t ourselves. After this incident, I have reathe need not to see the world from a narrow perstive that so many people do and I no longer looksquirrel in quite the same way (it's a rather humbexperience to have all your beliefs and values qtioned by a rodent). Anyway, the next time you cacross a squirrel, or purposefully put one out of itsery with your brand new four-runner as part of ssadistic (but fun game, don't look and see anostupid little animal; stop and look at the world throa different perspective - throug h the eyes of a squir


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King Rudolph Players

Kg Rudolph Players has been part of the Kitchener-Waterloo theatre since

April 1994. The company arose out of a need for self-employment. Itsoung founders realized that it was the most direct route for them to expe-

rience fully all the demands of the theatre profession, and more importantly, togive them the freedom to shape their own involvement.The inaugural production was John Guare's unusual comedy, the House ofBlue

Leaves, directed by Jennifer Epps and featuring a cast of 11. This play, a crossbetween farce and serious social comment, was presented for two weeks inAugust 1994 at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre, also known as the ButtonFactory, and received favourable reviews by Robert Reid of the Kitchener-Water-100 Record and by Rosemary Andeson of The Guelph Mercury. The companywas lucky enough to draw on a wide range of beginners, amateurs, and profersionals for cast and crew, including students and alumni from the University ofWaterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.

King Rudolph Players supports and actively pursues a theatre of ideas. Thiscompany wishes to explore the medium through relevant and challenging works.All members are involved because of their love of the oaft and their belief in theinunediacy of theatre as a fun damental, grass-roots power.

Anand Rajaram and Jennifer Epps are the artistic directors of the 1995 season.The three productions for the summer of 1995 are: American Buffalo at the WaterStreet Theatre by David Marnet, June 6-17 The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice,July 11-15 and Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, Aug 10-20.

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The Stone Roses What Reviewar ine rrermina{ 8 ay

Stephanie nd aron ChristieChemvlcted

er once and a while, a band comes out ofno where without warning, stops you in

our tracks and makes you reevaluateeverything. And The Stone Roses have d.oneit...1WICE. Their self-titled debut in 1989 rockedthe British charts and sent waves around theglobe. The appropriately named release "SecondComing" has done it again.

It was not surprising after wait ing six years fora Stone Roses concert, to have to a wait anotl1erfew hours at Marine Tenninal 28. 90 minutes inline outside ..60 minutes crammed inside. Aftersuch an exten ive sound check, one wouldassume that all the problems would be reme-died ..but then again ..maybe not.The Roses opened with one of the favourites, 1Want To Be Adored', and the crowd immediately forgave the band for their tardiness. Soonafter, probl ems arose and lead vocalist Ian Brownwas evidently disturbed. Technical problems

with Brown's monitor caused him to bringa tune to an abrupt stop for yet anotl1-

er sound check. In all honesty, we werehappy with the interruption, rather than hearing the

muffled version ofa frustrated vocalist. It may not havebeen the only option, but it certainly was the best one.Brown's ego then shone through from that moment forward. This should NOT have been a stuprise to Stone

Roses fans as the band is well known as "the cockiestself-fulfilling prophecy" in the music scene today.

Let's not forget that I an Brown isn't the only memberof this foursome. The unexpected omission of the

drummer Rem sent waves of disbelief throughout theaudience. His replacement did not rise to the occasionbut did as well as could be expected. Bassist Manimade up for Ian's lack of enthusiasm with a vibrantstage presence and then there was guitarist John

9 9 5Squire.A show stopper with his smoky curl of psychdelic guitar riffs that made the rusty warehouse seelikeCarnegie allFans may have been disappointed with the lack

"Fool's Gold and "Sally Cinnamon , howeveshattering songs like "She Bangs The Drumsand 1 Am The Resurrection" definitely made ufor the other ~ b s e n c e s Famous tunes like "1Story Love Song were surprisingly met withcrowd chanting each and every word. Alsunexpectedly, the band sat down for an oustanding acoustic set of ''Your St ar Will Shineand "Good Times". Ian's vocal ability could bno means be questioned after that exceptionperfonnance. So, does this sound disappointingDefinitely n ~ t Perhaps there was a poorly chsen venue, a lack of an encore and an emotioless, unresponsive lead vocalist; that can not bignored ..but for the die hard Stone Roses fanswasallworth the wait.

For those fans who were shocked and disappointed with The Roses ..it must be understoothat the performance was an exact display everything they've ever represented. We muremember that The Stone Roses' gained mometum and paved the way for bands such aRI.D.E., Charlatans, Blur and the now popul

Oasis. For those who missed the show, you missed yanother exciting chapter in The Stone Roses mysteriojourney. And for those who made it...We'll see you aagain in another six years


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E T II: This Time It s Personalby the Brothers Dum

Eas a beautiful summer evening in the Australianoutback. The aboriginal warnor reclined against acalyptus tree, scratched absently, and gazed lazilyinto the sky. Time seems to stop at that instant as dayfades to night,and the world turns into a mystical moremagical place. Peripherally, something caught the warrior's attention . He turned his head and saw whatseemed to be a shooting star. This, is a bad omen,thought the warnor, an evil god is coming to earth inhis char iot of fire. Instinctively the warnor crouchedand prepared himself for battle. The shooting star grewlarger and larger, until it seemed to fill the entire skywith its blazing glory. As brave as the warnor was thisfury of the gods was too terrifying for any man, even awanior such as he. He crouched in the bushes.

The star came closer and closer, growing in brilliance until the warnor had to avert his eyes. Sudden lythere was complete darkness, and by the light of themoon he could see the silvery shining outline of around pod-shaped rock sitting not a hundred feet awayfrom him. Paralysed by fear, the man stayed crouchedbehind the bushes not making a sound. Suddenly therock cracked open, and the shadowy outline of astrange spindly creature was framed by a dull lightemanating from the depths of the inside of the rock.The man could stand no more, most men would bemaddened by the visions he had withstood t hat night.That fateful fearful night. The sky grew dim andswirled around him as the warnor passed out with acrash in the bushes. When next he opened them he sawa weird squashy little guy with a head shaped like aneggplant and a glowing red figure crouched overhim

ET had come home.Fade to present. ET is perched behind a giant podi

um in front of the adulating gaze of millions of giantmutated kangaroo faces.

"Too long have the humans held sway over thiswor ld. They have raped. and pillaged the entire planet.They have destroyed and enslaved all the other racesincluding my own. Oh the humans are diabolicalindeed. They drugged me and planted the seeds of myraces destruction within me. For many long years Ihave lived with this addiction that I passed on to therest of my race. This madden ing craving that fills theentire core of my being, this desire overwhelms meuntil I can stand it no more. I must have them, evennow I can resist the temptation no more."

The mob below him gave an adoring sigh as ETshovelled handfuls of brightly coloured candy coatedchocolate Reese's Pieces intohismouth.

And look The humans even lied about thisThey do melt in your hands." Ef held his hands up for

the creatures to behold. The mob was 6:l.ching a feverish pitch.

'1t was to teach these humans that I created you,my beloved Cl'6:l.tures, my Dracaroos. You are the master race You have been genetically enhanced in orderto punish these naked apes. I took the two greatestspecies on earth, the blood sucking bat and the kangaroo and made them into you the DRACARcx)s'. "

At this point the giant screens that had laid dormant behind him came to life and a stirring patrioticmusic filled the giant hall. Images of savagely mutilated kangaroos killed only for the sport that they provided. The cries of the crowd grew loude r and louder untilit drowned out even the stirring patriotic music.ET. held up his hand and instantly an unholysilence swept over the crowd. The winged dracaroowarnors licked their fangs in anticipation. ow wasnot the time for talk, it was the time for action. Unfortunately E.T. was not all that great at understanding themood of the crowd so he just kept on talking.

We will destroy tIle will power of the entirehuman race. We will enslave them and make the entireworld into a massive factory for the utopia n productionof Reese's Pieces. And you my faitllful followers will bethe gwps and filloters." The stupid but strong Dracaroos did not now what these things were but assumedthat they must be good as their leader fully endorsedthem. Shouts of ascension rang out as the Dracaroosnodded violently to each other.

Now go forth and conquer, my children Destroyand enslave the evil S.o.B.'s."

And on that note, they arose in a giant cloud andflew to the four comers of the globe. The war was overin a matter of days. The huma ns were no contest for thefury unleashed by these bastions of hell. The remaininghumans were gathered and put to work in giant Reese'sPieces camps. The humans hadnot surrendered completely,there was an undergroundmovement, led by the brilliantand virile Doctor James Burke.Connecting the invention of theReese's Pieces to the evolution ofthe peanut, he managed toextract an enzyme that wouldhasten the evolutionary processand give consciousness to thecandy coated peanut buttertreats. These once defencelesscandies would now tower overeven the highest of skyscrapers,run faster than a goat on acid,bend Huck tl1ings very easily, andrecite Homer's lliyad i.n originalgreek.

After a short period of dormancy, the new improvedReese's Pieces were hatched andat work. Shortly after, the dracaroos were completely obliteratedin horrible and discusting ways.E.T. managed to survive bydressing in drag, and hiding in atrailer park in Alabama. TIlerehe sat drinking beer, eatingReese's Pieces and lamenting hislost once great empire, andappeared on talk shows such asGera1do and Sally Jesse. JamesBurke was automatically elected

world leader and obliterated disease, hunger, famine,the common cold, and bad hair days. The Reese'sPieces created a giant spacecraft from anorange, two paperclips, and a swissknife CMacGuyver helped) and flew off to helpsave the rest ofE.T.'s race.

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Dr. StrangeApocalypse(How I Learned to Stop Worrying nd Love the End of the World

8ellabarba STRESSED 60-61 Club

, a whole month without spending everyweekday on campus. I don't know howmuch more of this I can take By the time this

published, we'll probably be under a new governI know I can't wait until whoever wins the electo start keeping all their campaign promises, espeIy the Conservative leader, Mike Harris. He

nYrII 'Y 'l that if he breaks any of his promises, he will. Am I the only person who sees the Catch-22I don't know which of his promises he'll break

. . . . , but I can guess what t he second one will be.back to the Apocalypse-Full House has been cancelled You might

think that this i.s in fact a joyous occasion, a victoryevil, and no reason to fear the coming of the

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guards The solution? Force them to wear pinkthus exposing them to ridicule frompeers. I think this is a pretty good idea, but it has

minor flaw. t relies on prisoners to care whether oryou've exposed yourself to a female guard lately. I

't see someone in a maximum security prison .his buddies during their 20 minute exerciseand saying, "Look at Jones over there wearing

pink unifOIm. We may be rapists, murderers andbut at least we draw the line at exp0s

-You can now purchase a CD of music inspired byLion King. Can you see the marketing process

1) release popular movie. 2) release popular3) As soon as salesbegjn to taper off,

another CD that has the words "The Lion King inthe title so that people who bought the first one will

this one too. Note that '''The Making of The Lion

ookieere is meaning in a COO{ ieithe choas of ts shape,the taste of fie cfr.ocoCatethe coo{(ie Ijust ate .

Iguess I can't remem6ertfie cookje had its taste,

that caU'Decem6er morning'the foofc.upon fier face

I fQt.ew tfiat it was over'n t f that time had run its pace.

tfie thing that reafCy scares methe pain I {(now I've causedtfie fieart 6eat of fie person

I tfiin{(tfiat I might fiave Cost.fiatfn' t m u f ~ in common,

remem6er p{ain andsure,the time we needed Covel

were dean andpure.I do not {(now fier thoughts

atftficted to her strength)seems that we are parting

toU me tfiis at fengtfi).now I thin{(a6out it,

f tfie times that we have fiadinkjng ma{(es me seeat I thin{( that we 60tti are g{atfat tfiere 's meaning in a coo{(iejtrie cfr.oas of ts shape,the taste of rie cfiocoCaterie coo{(ie I just ate ...

King" fits nicely into this little fom1ula as vell. LionKing lunch boxes, bike bags, cereal, chocolate bars.Where ,vi.ll it end? l ion King Geri.tol?I guess that's about it for this edition. 'There \ \-'as oneitem I didn't mention because, when I saw it, I knewthat I had the exact d ate and time of the end of thworld, and I was a little afraid to share it \-'lith you.What the helL you'l l find out soon enough: 0 n the 30thof June, 1995, the world as we know it will aumble todust immediately following the release of the PowerRangers movie; a movie which will w1doubtedly bedumped on by critics, parents and anyone who anthink above a 5th grade level, but which will nonetheless make almost as much as Jurassic Park Until then:

June 12 -Jim Nabors' (Gomer Pyle) BirthdayJune 13-The Ford Folmdation launches a study to raise the culturallevel of TV shows, 1951 June 14 - Mr Ed Premiers,

1951June 15 - fun Belushi's Birthday, 1954June 16 - The first baseball game is played, 1846

(August, 1994 - The ast baseball game,...'


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INTERN TION LOPPORTUNITIES

SURVEYanada ay

WallaceThe Student Affairs Office is currently working on a three phase

to improve the accessibility of information regardingnities for University of Waterloo students.

Studying, working, volunteering, courses, athletics or any otheran international

111e first, and now completed, phase involved researching theUW. Within the next year, a detailed

t of all of theses opportunities will be available on UWinfo and atResource Centre.

The second and third phaseswill detennine which internationalies students are interested in and the most effectiveway

make this infonnation available to students. A survey targetinggroups has been developed. They are: 1) Students who have

an international opportunity; 2) Students who are3 Students who are not

of international opportunitiesStudents can fill out these surveys over the next two weeks atSociety office and the Turnkey Desk and on Juneand June 13 2:304:30) on the second floor of new

Life Centre


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Misfits ofSocietyEhe last few years, the fast development of communication technologies have given us the opportunityo become part of events as they occur. The mediahas been responsible for taking us to the other side.And thanks to them, we have become sterile. Sterile tothe facts hat the media exposed to us . But the big question is, how far are they taking us? The media hasbecome a commercial estate that has affected our culture. Their main concern has become not to inform usof "current affairs", but to get us involved in some ofothers' personal affairs.

It is great that we have become more aware of oursurroundings, and have becOme involved in matte rs ofpublic concern. It is also great to know that it is ourchoice to live enclosed in a box or to be pro-active insocial, global, and local endeavours .

On the other hand, it is just sad to know that wespend our lives and social resources in events thatshould not turn our eyes. For example, the overexposed face of a pale and depressed OJ has made theAmerican and International media go nuts spendingresources that could been spent in more relevant "current affairs". This celebrity has caus ed more turbulencein the a ir frequencies than the thousands of people brutally murdered in Rwanda.

The same issue can be exposed in the Bernardo case.Dowe have the right to overpass the doors of privacy of

entire families that have fallen in disgrace? Do wthe right to know how these families live? Animportantly, does the media have the right to disthe feeling and petitions of these hurting familjustice just? The media has crossed the line. Therespect that as human beings we all deserve. Bhave fallen in their trap. We have lost track ofreally important and what's not. The media has eed basic human emotions as cheap propagawhich the lowest common denominator of ourhas been trapped.

These are perfect examples of media surplusuperficial world that the media controls has crworld market that does not care for the most affehas become a perturber of the general public. Thket truly believes that the more shocked we amore we will turn our dials and the more monwill pay for their garbage. And it is just blowminds of our communities away.

This is the chance of the younger generationback the control of the media. To take bacbelongs to the community, and to give baceverybody deserves, information, respect, anesteem.

We have the right to empower and change a wdirty politics that makes everything go around and power. The sense of community has toagain The intolerable media's gossip machine dissipated as we become more aware of our

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graeme skinner Well, midterms are here and Ithink this could be the shortestspew in the history of the IW,with the exception of a dry heaveor two. You would think that Iwould write long spews since Itend to have verbal diarrhea usu-ally. Anyway, this spring termseems to be going by very fast,3a honours dance midterms already here and 'soonit will be the end of term and

unemployment. I once heard a great saying, Don't let school stand in theway of your education " but that's another story.

I've been hearing from a couple of people that they haven't seen me aroundthis term and so people in my class are actually concerned for me because theyhaven't 'heard' me in a while. Thank-you for your concern; I'm O K and NOTseeking any medical help, well not any more than last year. Thi s tenn is prettyhectic for my class and its suppose to get worse after midterms; I'm not tryingto complain, but I am putting a little more effort into school (the darkness hasovercome me ).

Thanks to Beth Duncan for a great job during Eng-Week and to everyonewho ran and participated in events. For those of you who witnessed theDunk-Tank on the beautiful Thursday afternoon, I would like to thank bigVlad in 18Oasys for giving me the big bath.

Up coming events:Canada's Wonderland - tickets go on sale Monday, June 5th for 24, the cost

of the bus and a days pass. Buses leave at 8:00am on June 23rd and we will beback by 8:00pm (hopefully). A great excuse to miss class on a Friday.

Tal-Eng - At the Bomber on Thursday June 22 (yes, the day before CW .Come out to see the great performances from your friends and family in engineering.

Come one, come all to the Mid Term Pub is on June 16th at P.o.E.T SThere will be more information on other events as we move closer to the

dates, check your blotters and go be a knucklehead somewhere soon (recommended destination - Rockwood COnseIVation rea justeast of Guelph)

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~ . : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~HelloNew Stuff

This month I said that I would tell you aboutsome of the new stuff that is being done this semester.Well, two areas of WEEF are being improved. TheEmployer Matching Contribution is being organized,and WEEF on the WWW is being implemented. Bythe time you get this, you should be able to access theWEEF WWW page like this: from the default homepage, go to Student organi.zc'\tions, and then chooseEngineering Society and you should find tl1e WWWsite there. The constitution, mandate, the purchasesthat have been made up till now, and other relevantinformation should be available (hopefully ). Start upNetscape and Check t Out More news on this nextspew.

Rehmds and Partial RefundsThis semester, approximately 70% of us donated

to the WEEF nmd. Obviously, 30% of the engineeringstudent body requested refunds of their donation.WEEF needs the support of the entire engineeringstudent body. 11lcJSe of us who did contribute should

Hello again everyone, I hope yosummer is going well. Have you eread Engineering Dimensions? We haa few copies avaibale in the Orifice,come on by and pick one up.

CO GRATUlATIOl SI'd like to take this opportunity to

John Campbell 4A Honours Dance congratulat ions to Elaine Thorne in Dean's Office whohas worked at University of Waterloo now for twenty-five years. It puts the five years that I

spent here in perspective. So good luck with your years to come and a sincthank-you on behalfof the Engineering Society for all your help.CONSTRUCTIVE CRmSMI set up a new email address for anyone who has an ideas, suggestions or coments. I encourage any thoughts you may have about things we do (in general)

specific cases. I would also like to see thoughts about the Engineering Society mcot, the TOOL. The address is eng.prez@novice. All messages will be forwardedmy personal account. I investigated anonymous comments, but it is a Universpolicy not to have anonymous mail. However, it is the job of the President to hcertain information in confidence, as I as a member of the Examinations and Promtions Committee. So, if you wish to send a message, but you do not want your nadisclosed, please indicate tl1is in your message. At the end of this term, I 'will hacompleted my term as President, and this account will be forwarded to Brian VidPresident of B Soc. This is something new, but the plan is to have this account pfrom President to President between terms. So please send me ail, I'd like to hfrom you.

ELECTIONSWe have a Chief Returning Officer, Ryan Chen-Wing (2B Mech), for the upco

ing Engineering Society election. Positions available are President, VP External,FInance, VP Internal, and WEEF Director. Nominations will open the week of Ju13. Nomination forms will be available in the Orifice and will be open for one weThe third issue of the Iron Warrior will be available on July 4th, and elections wmostly likely be held t11at day. So keep an eye out for a special election issue of Iron Warrior.

LOOK TO THE FUTURECorning up we have:Tal-Eng June 22Canada Day JulyJoint Council July 9

feel proud t11at we are part of a program t11at is largerthan anyone of us, a program t11at will benefit us andthose who come after us many years (ad infinitum )into the future. Those who didn I ask now for yoursupport in the future. Your contribution to theEndowment Fund is needed and missed. I would liketo see the percentage of people that contribute toWEEF at 90+% to ensure that WEEF continues togrow, and so that everyone who benefits (all of us )are part of the Endowment program. This programwill benefit us right now (it already has and continuesto , and also in the future. When we leave Waterlooand say t11at we are a graduate of UW, people willonly care if they know of the reputation of UW. Rightnow, Waterloo is respected as one of the best engineering chools in Canada and the world. WEEFhelps to ensure that Waterloo_s standing doesn_t tarnish with time. This is only possible with all of usworking together. Please remember this

People not familiar with what WEEF is, andwhat WEEF has done haVe asked me things like'Where does the contribution go? What does it getused for?" ..A complete desoiption of these kinds ofdetails is or will be available on-line for reference atany time through the WWW page. Of course, (forthose of you that don_t know) the contribution goesinto an investment fund t11at is n u by the Universityof Waterloo, and the interest is spent by the students,for the students, to improve the academic quality of

undergraduate engineering. So far, for example,WEEF has spent over 75,(XX) dollars on WATSTARalone The other 3OO,(XX)+ t11at has been spent hasgone to lab equipment, teaching equipment, studentprojects etc. Almost 4OO,(XX) spent on things t11at youand your classmates (through your WEEF Class Rep)have deemed most important to improving undergraduate engineering.

I would like to think t11at everyone would takepride in UW_s engineering program, and also inWEEF, the one method available t11at lets you have amonetary say in how things are improved aroundhere on an ongoing basis. Please put in a proposal forWATSTAR, new equipment, a student project, oranything else that you can think of t11at falls withinthe mandate of WEEF.

Proposal Due DatesPropooals are due on Thursday June 22, and you

can put them in the orifice, or under the WEEF officedoor. Proposal forms are available outside of theWEEF office, and also in the orifire.

f you have any questions or concerns, please con-tact me at 888-4893 orendowmenthelix.uwaterloo.ca.

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Hey There

Darrell O'Donnell4A Honours Dance

Well, I received quite a few applications tous at the ESSCO AGM (EngineerStudent Societies Council of Ontario

General Meeting - what a mouthful).and two 3rd year students

go. Skinner and Casey are going to raisehell while Sarah and Nina try to keepin check. Rumour has it that some

s tudents may be running forbut how much

do we place in rumours anyway.On the WWW home page front, we are up

running. The URLishttp://csc1ub.uwaso load

Netscape or some other browser andus out. Mike Kresin and I mcxl.i-and added an A Soc

from which you can access the Conthe ResourceManual, the Iron Waron-line edition, and information on aof other topics. The page is not finished,

it is looking a hell of a lot better than itWe have induded direct email access to

induding a special accountup for the prez to compile opinions on the

issues. I f you want to

acx:ess it directly, just email eng.p:[email protected] the 'A' Soc home page, go to the toolsection and click the email address. John-boyswears confidentiality, so go ahead and saywhat you want.

The Internal Relations Committee hasrome up with a survey to try and figure outwhat the general student population wantsfrom EngSoc. Please try and fill one of thesurveys out, they are short and will provideus with an idea of what you think Engineer-ingSociety should do in the future.

ow that we have a ao at press time, Ididn't know the nanle) the election looms onthe horizon. I f you want to run for one of thepositions, come and talk to us. Different pe0-ple seem to suit different tasks, so if youaren't too sure what you want to run for,please talk to one of us. The jobs are allrewarding and you willleam a hell of a lotfrom doing them.

I would like to clarify one thing regardingthe EngSoc meetingsand whose invited. TIlemeetings are held for every student whopaid their 14 this term. If you paid the 14, Iwant to invite you to the next meeting. If youcan't make the meeting, come out to Milkand Cookies afterwards to meet some newpeople. A lot of people think that EngSoc is aclique, but it really isn't. I was a bit scared toapproach EngSoc back in lA but the peoplein it really got me going on a buncli of stuffand I haven't looked back since.

So, come on out to the next meeting andget involved with EngSoc. I'll see you there.

Cheers,Bull [deodonne@civil]

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Will Teron 4A Honours DanceIt's hard to believe that May i

gone and mid-tern1S are upon u .Where is our summer going? Wehave been trying to promote brevityso here goes a quick spew

THE UDGET - By the time thisissue of the IW is published, the budget will have been approved ahope)for this term. A copy of which iincluded below. As can be seen, weare running a very tight budget andtherefore each directorship will beheld strictly to their amountsapproved. Please get all of yourexpense form in ASAP so that wecan keep the accounting up to date.

REQUEST R)R FUNDS - A munher of groups will have done theirpitch for funds at the EngSoc last

week. Their is $1000 availableterm and I would imagine that allit was distributed. I will publishfundin.g decisions in the next copytheIW.

C&O - Mary is doing a t",nt",,,tl(,job in the C&O. Already it isning more efficiently andbetter food than in the past. The

d ~ t c a s h l a s a r e s m m a r l y w Q r K U lout very well. ll1a1lk you to all

ELECTro s -The EngSoc elections are fast upon us. Theao hasbeen selected and more . .will be made shortly. I f youany questions about any of the positions, please fell free to talk to anythe curr nt exec. From the in

'pressed already, it looks likewill actually have an lectionterm. Congratulations, thiswill nSltre the ongoing successEngSoc in the future years.

Good luckand take care

Will VPFwgteron@::ivil.watstar.uwaterlooEngineering Society "A" Summe r 1995 BudgetAccount Revenue Ex.pensesStudent Fees$18. 760 378Academic $25Arts $1,000Athletics $400$t,SOO

Capital Expenses 0Charitie $500Class Reps $0Communications 0Conferences $1,100Course Critiques 0 $25CRO $0 100Donations $0 $1,000Enginewsletter $0 $480Exchange $0 $25Executive: Disc 0 $1.500Executive: Pres 0 $100Executive: VPF () IO()Executive: VPl () l(K)Executive: VPX $() IonGrad, Comm. $0 $50Iron Warrior $1,500 .1,750Novelties $6,OO() ",5,000Off Tcnn $0 .25Orifice: Office $0 $500Orifice; Copies$2.500 $2,500 $0Orifice: Salaries $0 IO,(K)(IP**5 $0 500Photography $150 $200POETS $0 I,()(X)Public Relations $0 $50Puhlicity $0 $25Recycling $0 $150SAC $0 $25Semi Fomlal 2,5()() $2.750Speaker $0 1,400Special Events $0 $250Spirit $0 $150TOOL $0 $500TSN $0 140Watpubs $0 $)00TOTAL $36.760 $38,743

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