The Iron Warrior Magazine: Volume 4, Issue 2

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Protest aUnanimous Failureing to Canada's i l ~ a r y i n d u s t r i a lconservative media establishment, thestudent protest against educationaling cuts was aunanimous failure .

Alberta Projectionists On Strikemovieprojection ists have walked offjob protesting Famous Players ' proposalcut their wages by 67% from $20-30lhr to

7-1 /hr or just slightly less than you canto be paid once you graduate. n the, Calgary still has less culture thanyoghurt.

GuyPaul Morin Acquittedten years of incarceration and onoff-again egal battles,Guy-Paul Morin

innocent. This is ten years lessCanadian justice system took tofind David Milgaard innocent.

XXIX Less Pathetic Than LastYearall the hype, the only surprising thing

was the fact that the 4gersbeat the spread .

Airborne Regiment Disbandedproves that men are not only scum, butthey eat it too.

New Chlamydia Testover to Health and Safety for your testbefore everyone else does.

Chretien Trade JunketPrime Minister Chretien toured Brazil,Chile,Costa Rica and TrinidadTobago. Interestingly, although he dideither country , Peru and Ecuador

are embroiled in abitter turf war.

Sexual Revolution Sweeps Indiadecades of British rule, Indians have

sex. Had the Frenchoccupied India instead of the British, awould not have been necessary.

Meathead Guilty of EverythingPresident Stephen Codrington has beensubjected to an endless onslaught of

of misconduct and incompetenceby campus publications. They failed to, however, his lapidary qualities andgood oral hygiene.

EditoriaAndy Candy Man ChonL ast week the Anti-Cuts Action Committee held a rally outside the DanaPorter Library. They, and others oftheir kind, gathered on campuses acrossCanada to send a message to Ottawa thatstudents are opposed to the proposedtuition fee increases. While the goals of theprotesters and the discussion forums maybe noble, and while as citizens we mustnever allow our govenunent to act withoutscrutiny and skepticism, we must howeverface the fact that the days of subsidizededucation are coming to an end.

Due to the free-spending of past governments, we are left with a debt situation thatcan no longer be ignored . We are burdenedwith a massive debt that affects the quantity and quality of services our governmentis capable of delivering. Each year a largeportion of our tax money is put towardspaying off the interest on our federal debtand every year that portion increases, leaving less money that can be used more effectively towards health-care, educati on andsocial services. We can no longer spendour way out of problems and we can nolonger maintain the status quo. The debtsituation must be dealt with quickly, andbefore that happens the deficit must beeliminated and interest off the debt paid. Inorder for that to happen, the governmentmust either increase tax revenues ordecrease spending.

Don t expect income taxes to go upmuch since income taxes have reached alevel where any more increases would hurtthe economic recovery. Some people arecalling for corporations to take an increasedtax load rather than the citizenry. In a free-trading sodety, how realistic is it to expectcompanies, especially multinational corporations, to remain in a country that is ec0-nomically unfriendly? I f a companydecides that it would be more economically feasible to pick up its operations andmove to a friendlier country, not only dothe people lose their jobs and thus theirability to pay taxes, but they may be forcedinto the social safety nets of UI and welfareif they are unable to find work. a company decides to stay in the high tax environment, the buck would most certainly bepassed on to the consumer or employeethrough higher prices or lower wages andbenefits. Companies can and do contributethrough taxes and payments to the UI and

Stop with the WhineyNoise MakingCanada Pension Plan systems, and itwouki be unfair to ask rompanies to takemore than a reasonable share of the taxburden.Taxing isn't the solution so services andspending must be cut. Currently, onlyabout 20% of the total cost of post-secondary education is paid for by students.This level is expected to double within afew short years as the federal governmentdecides how much and how soon provincial transfer payments will be cut. Education is under the jurisdiction of theprovinces, but much of the money used foreducation comes from the provincial transfer payments from Ottawa. As a result ofthe cuts, a gradual increase in tuition toabout half of the total cost of the student'seducation is predicted. To offset theincreased tuition, there is a plan to implement a better student loan system whererepayment of loans is based on post-graduate income, allowing financially disadvantaged students to continue their education.Some say higher tuition will cause universities to become the realm of the privileged,but such a situation has always been thecase. In the past, universities were therealm of the wealthy, now it is simply amatter of getting high enough grades.

We value our relatively inexpensive education system compared to the cost of postsecondary education south of the border.While our tuition may not reach US levels(compare MlT. s Engineering at $20,{XX)+($US) per year to Waterloo's Engineering at$2,400+ per year), higher tuition fees willhopefully force students to think twiceabout their reasons for entering university.Yet how many of us can name fellow students who have no idea of what they wantto do with their education? They take sporadic rourses in the 3 to 5 years that theyare at school trying to find themselves',taking up enrollment space and OSAPmoney, while individuals who have a realthirst for knowledge or who have definedcareer goals struggle to make ends meet.Now this isn't an attack against those students, but in a time where resources aregetting fewer, we must question whetheror not the current situation should beallowed to continue. With moderatedtuition increases and a system wheremoney is placed directly into the hands ofthe students in a m ore accessible loan sys-tem, students would be more motivatedand take a bigger interest in their education. Providing the go vernment mandates

a limit on how much a school can reasoably charge for tuition. schools would alshave be run more like a rompetitive busness where thequalityand cost of their sytem is judged against other schools attracing the sarrestudents.''Why should you care, you ask, by th

time you graduate the tuition increase wonly affect you slightly. I'll have about$4O,(XX) debt when I m done. That may btrue, but we can't take such a narrow anshort-sighted approach to these issues, wmust look at the larger picture. The federdebt is currently well above $550 billioand the federal deficit is projected to bethe range of $40 billion These figures doneven include the provincial debts andeficits. I would love to see a movemewhere every single person contributedyear s pay solely to payoff the nationdebt. Unfortunately, such an occurrenwould never happen, but I can still dreamIn the case of rising tuition, I personaldon t like to pay more money for schobut if it comes down to choosing betweehigher tuition costs now, or higher taxlater in life, I would choose paying mofor school now. After aIL we spend fourfive years here in Waterloo attainingbachelor's degree and some of us ,,'ill cotinue on to do master's degrees and maybeven a doctorate. Those few years are ona small portion of the time compared to thtime that we will spend in the workforcWith that five or more years, our earninpotentialwill also be much greater than thaverage high-school graduate who habeen working for the same number oyears . Our ability to repay any loanbecomes greater and it isn't unreasonabto have a student be able to support themselves after the second work-term withCo-op.

little is done about this crisis, the dewill have accumulated so much that oudegrees will not amount to much in a cripled economy bereft of jobs, or, if I wefortunate enough to hold a job, where haof my paycheque went to the governmenIt's a case of paying a little more now orlot more later.

We ve been complaining that the government hasn't been doing enough abothe debt but when we are asked to pitch iwe bitch like hell. Well, now that we being asked to pay a bit more for tuition agovernments try to reduce the deficit,have to kindly ask you to stop smoking'er .. bitching.

Leffer to the EditorComrade E d ~ o rSo Iwas [Relic] standing there on the night of Friday the 13th,enjoying some [Nick Adonadis] Puke-rock band, when the juicewas shut off by some Black-robed-[Jessie Jim]-geeks with a bigwrench. They pushed everyone out of the way, chanted some[Constable John Constable] song, and then left. The entire bandwas broken in pieces thanks to these soon-to-be-unrespectablebusiness ''people (who thought they were Unholy NOIWegian BlackMetal or something ..)These fascists have once again bathed us in their ignorance, and

shown that the star-spangled-sissy-boy [Molly] icons like 'The Tool''fraternities'', and Nazis that cause One-Mindedness, will onlycollapse back in upon themselves in a plume of dusty socialisolation. This farulty will not rid itself of irs Ioser-cliquey image untilis free from the [Sarah -Jessie's kid] situation/peoplelproblem thatperpetuate it.lt1heyllhis must be thoroughly cleansed from our society.This is prompting the only acceptablesolution; a fiery holocaustBiblical proportion.Anony-[Pat - the old guy not the idiot kid]-mous.


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,Editors

Colin The Tor-:h YoungAndy The Knife Chan

Advertising ManagersWendy The Trowel Frank

atalie 'The Ratchet Zgola

Layout EditorsScotty The Jackhammer DudleyKati The Axe Princz

Visual Proctors. Jessica The Chi el ZhouScott The Drill Chandler

Vanessa The Chainsaw Choy

ContributorsMarc Monkey Wr ench Risdale

Mario Ball Peen Hammer BellabarbaAli Screwdriver Pearse

Claire Crowbar AndersdonDave Transit ThompsonMike Vise Grips Worry

Vlado Sledgehammer DimouskiPete Band Saw Hendel

Trevor Torx Driver Quay IeSamson Pliers Tam

Todd Callipers VeldhuizenKim Gr inder Jones

Jenifer Side Cutter BuslerCheryl Wire Stripper Noll

Gisele Torque Wrench DagenaisDarren Soldering Iron Zacher

The Iron Warrior is ;] forum for thought provoking and infonnative articles5enled by the academic community of me University of Walcrloo. Views upressedin The mn WarriQr are those of the aUlhors and do nOI necessarily reflect the opinions of the Engineering Society.The Iron Warrior encourages submissions from siudenis. faculty and othermembers of he university com munity . Submissions should renect the concerns and

intellectua.l sUlrldards or the university in generaJ and should be typewrinen on aMacintosh or MS -DOS 3 1/2 The author', lUlITle class (if applicabl.) andphone nwnber should be in


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hre t Northern Concrete Toboggang Montreal 1995 w

, ___ h p phone rings, I am in my living room, it's ; ... ... T -

This year, L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal hostedthe competition, I had 10 minutes to make it to Univer-sity Shops Plaza. I had been up for 48 hours, workingon the tedmical report for the competition, and I dozedoff in my living room at 7:30 am. The report wasn'tbolUtd yet, but 1 gathered the loose pages,my bags andheaded off to the bus.

The bus contained 45 members of 'WaterLuge andTool Runnings, this year's entries from the University

of Waterloo. The eight or so hours on the bus werespent watching movies, sleeping, eating junk food, vis-iting the washroom, and consuming beverages, notnecessarily in that order. When we got to the Hotel duPare in MontreaL our bus driver, Bob, was impressedthat we filled the tank of the washroom

The night was spent eating Greek food at a localrestaurant, meeting other tearns, and catching up onsome sleep.

Wednesday January 18This was our free day. All I had to do was register

with the organizers, get the report bound, and get somesleep.While halfof our teams left at 7am to go skiing atMont Trernblant, I managed to get about 6 hours ofsleep before some of my teammates woke me up to goto the Biodorne. The Biodorne is one of the maj or attrac-tions in Montreal, containing several ecosystems withinit, complete with vegetation and wildlife. The highlightof the journey was watching the otters jump in thewater while a lady wearing a fur coat walked by.

After we registered for the competition and complet-ed our technical report, we decided to sample some ofthe world famous Montreal bagels. We quickly made

friends with the intoxicated owner of La BageL whoin return gave us free beverages.

To welcome everyone, we decided to host a party inmy room and invited the other 32 teams participatingin this year's competition. We met the Chiefs fromthe University of Alberta, who were all dressed like theHansen brothers from Slapshot; the Blues Brothersfrom U of A; the Sheridan Snow Pirates ; some peoplefrom UBC and BCIT; the two Western tearns; the

Tool Runnings, had themost spectacular run ofthe d y when t one point

of the race they turned thetoboggan 18 and endedup going backwards.

Dukes of Hazard from Queens; the Rednecks fromEdmonton; the 'WasteWater Buffaloes from U of S;the German team (last year's winners); the organizersand spirit judges; hotel security; and some other peopleI don t remember.

The party was a great success and ended after securi-ty threatened to remove us from the hotel for the thirdtime.

Thursday January 19Once again, I went to bed at 7:30 in the morni

woke up at 9:45 am and realized that I had a capmeeting at 11 am I walked over to the technical extion part of the competition which was held at Cplexe Desjardins, a Montreal shopping mall. We hhoU): S to assemble and display our toboggan. Sommy teammates were there since 8:30 am and whgot there at 10:25 am, everythlng was ready. At thetains meeting (after submitting the report), we wtold that the judging and weighing of the tobogwould take place on Friday, while the order of desfor the race on Saturday would be determinedlunch by a draw. We spent most of the day answequestions from the many shoppers at the mall Adraw, we had to do a chant, so we came up with:

'We are, we are, we are WaterLuge We can, webuild toboggans smooth Slide down fast, slide dfast and come along with us For we love to racevery fast pace, so you better watch out for us

We picked number 17 (as a tribute to Wendel Cfor our starting position and prayed for snow on Sday.

That night started with a spaghetti dinner at L'EPolytechnique, followed by a party at their pub, c

C1andenstin. The party started with all the teamsforming a 30 second skit for everyone, and endedus educating some of the Montreal teams on the fpoints of Regatta. After returning to the hotelanditing the party room (open until 6 am every night),to bed at 5:30 am

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Friday, January 20The exposition did not begin lIDtil10 am but Scott

Long and I were there at 8 am to begin waxing the bottom of our toboggan. The rest of our teammates joinedus at 10 am and we were ready for the judging. Theweighing of the toboggan happened fust, with ourscoming in at 300 Ibs (maximum allowable weight is 300Ibs). After our hearts were setback in place, we returnedto our display anticipating the arrival of the judges. Wewere judged on roncrete design, braking system design,genezal design and safety, display and spirit. The judgeswere very impressed with our display and toboggan, sowe decided to host a cocktail (Batch) party in my roombefore the Pub Crawl.

The other participants were very impressed with ourBatch, but they were all wondering about the Q-Tips.After the party, the organizers had a Pub Crawl whichtook us to: Vieux Munich; The Dome; and The Loft. Thehighlights of the Pub Crawl were the WasteWater Buffalo that knew all the words to the Engineering Hymnand a WaterLuge team member mistakenly beingescorted from Burger King by the Montreal Police. Idecided to take it easy that night, so I got to bed at 5 am.

Saturday, January 2I woke up at 7 am because we had to be at the hill by

9 am and it was an hour away from the hotel. My firstthought when we got to Terrebonne was: ''We aregoing to die." The hill was very long and steep, and thesnow was wet and slushy. t was also very cold andwindy on the hill, so we were miserable as well asscared. Our first descent was a failure, we started off bybouncing off the banks, continued by flipping thetoboggan and finished by applying the brakes beforethe finish line. But, sin.ce we got two runs, and only thebest run counts, we did not lose hope. The second runwas a lot better; we adueved. the highest speed of theday (37 km/h); third fastest time (26 sec); and stoppedin about 1.5 metres.

The other team, Tool Rwmings, had the most spectacular run of the day when at one point of the race theytumed the toboggan 1800 and ended up going back-

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n the evening. we attended a semi-founal banquet atL'Ecole Polytedmique, which was followed b theawards ceremony. The a\vard cerem ny v.ras a bla,t,complete with hosts, award presenters and v:ideo clips- I felt like being at theOscars. We were nominated for.Brake Design (together with Tool Runnings) but lost toWestern; Spirit (the Chiefs won); best displa (tied withMcMaster). We won best tedmical report and highestspeed, with Tool Runnings \'\IDning "Most pectacu.larRu n" . Finally, it wa time to announ the o\erall wi nner of the competition. When th p r s n ~ r annOtmced''WaterLuge'', we were ov rcom with joy. Wat doohas been sending entries to the G CTR r the last 15years, and we nev r had an overall wilmer. The Ix t

he best part aboutreceiving the award w sthe recognition from allthe other teams who werechanting Water uge evenbefore we were announced

part about receiv:ing the award was the recognitionfrom all the other teams who were dlanting WaterLugeeven before we were announced. Western finished second and the University of Stuttgart finished third. ''ToolRunning " finish 13th out of 33 entri

Sunday, January 22We attended a brunch in the morning, where we

received our medals and trophy, and the organizersannoUlKed that the winners will be receiv:ing a cashprize ( 750) which will help us settle some of our debts.We left Montreal at 2 pm, arriv:ing in Waterloo about 10pm, spending most of the bus ride watching v:ideos and

ping.Our team, WaterLuge, has been in exic;tence for about

9 months, in which a lot of hard work was required tosecure ponsors; hold weekl B.B.Q.'; organize Bov:ineBing and other fundraising vents; d ign and construct the toboggan; organize lh trip; make T-Shirts anduniforms; and a million other things. We could not haveeven attended th competition without th help of oursponsors: Federation of tudents; Erb Transport; WEEF;Dean of Engin ring; ir Sandfor d FI ming Foundation;Engineering . ty; ltalia Pizza, John Em ry rechnical Engineering; Hogg Fuel c d Supply; The BrickBrewing o. Ltd.; heny Bus Lines; UW AlunuLi fromParagon Engineering; TSC tores; Riordansi W ports;Bochmers oncrcte; Atlas Block o. Ltd.; Video Vendor; Ea t ide Mario '; Fr nl Ro w; The Fox and thePheasant; TCBY; Pizza Hut; Gino s PiU.c1; and HMVCanada Ltd.

I wOllld like to thank L'Ecole Poly mique for organizing the event; th other 32 teams for attending andhelping us have a great time; our sponsors, especiallyErb Transport for transporting our toboggan to Montreal and back for free; Terry Ridgeway, Ken Bowman,BOlmie Neglia and Shirley Springall from the Civ:iJDepartmen t; Bill, Fred and Fred (tecluLiciansat the E11gineering madline shop); and last but not least, all myteammates, because frrst and foremo t, GNcrR is ateam competition, and ,oIfithout teamwo rk, we could nothave done it.

Finally, I would like to wish good luck to next year steams from th University of Waterloo in defending ourchampionslLip at the GNCTR '% in Winnipeg.

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T he Civerely Damaged fourth year civil engineering class participated in the Great orthemConcrete Toboggan Race (GNCrR) held in Montreal this past weekend. They exceeded all their expectations and placed a respectful thirteenth place out ofthirty-three teams. They also received a nomination forthe ''Best Braking System and the award for the MostSpectacular Run.

The rules of the contest are that the toboggans musthave a running surface made exdusivcly of concrete, anadequa te braking system, a weight of less than 136 kg(300 lbs. , carry five riders, and have a roll bar to protectthe riders in the likely event tl < t the toboggan flips (askthe other Waterloo team about that) . The judgesmarked the teams half on their race performance (topspeed, time, and braking) and half on other factors suchas aesthetics, team spirit, presentation, etc. In the past,toboggans in this race have reached speeds up to 60km/h with total weights over 1 XX) lbs.

Civercly Damaged ca lled their race team Tool Runnings/' combining engineering ingenuity and aJamaican attitude towards the competition (as in CoolRunnings the movie about the Jamaican bobsledteam). Knowing that they we were not there for a longtime, but a good time, Tool Runnings hit Montreal'sn.ight life like a runaway toboggan. They did their bestto change attitudes about Waterloo by having spirit andmaking it a memorable event.

Tool Runnings also kept up Waterloo's reputation bybuilding an excellent toboggan. Function had precedence over form for their toboggan. Other entries werevery impressive and included such d i : a gianmoose head (Concordia); a keg of beer cut in half(McMaster); and a monstrous alligator in the midst ofeating someone (Ecole Polytedmique de Montreal). Ateam from the University of Stuttgart, Germany brokewith conventional practices and used a new quick setting concrete tl1


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SCUNT TV

Darren ZacherA Comp Sun o a itHey kids, it'sSCUNI1From the crypts of the llama box sprang an idea- the idea of t

array of solid metal objects racing towards an ultimate prize: airSCUNTTV.On January 20, 2A Systems (CriSYS) aired SCUNT TV. Thre

entered the ratings race:TOOL Tll\.1E (Presented by O M '9'7), awhelming steamroller that smashed everything in its way, crdestroying, mutilating (Aaaahh, but I digress .. ; CHEM IN YOUR Ffeisty bunch of chems; and -ENG, (Pronounced ot Eng"), a teaprised of mostly mathies with a few science people thrown in-ENG had a terrible tragedy involving three of its key organizers an

lain car accident which prevented them from eing, shit happens.

TOOL TIME kicked off with a campus paratools (chain.saws) and coveralls ,md offered thefice of a diss ident television to be obliterated tdelight of the Scunt Gods. SCUNT TV wmarathon of wacky and wonderful SCUNTerment Game shows like Jeopardy, Family FLet's Make a Deal and Just Like Mom; sheer sand enginuity with MacGyver and Mr. WizWorld; and roc.kin ', rollin and twistin' withMusic Videos and Saturday Night Fever. SCTV ended it's airing with a feature showing ofinal game of the Winter 1995 Waterloo EngineUltimate frisbee championship, followed bcourtroom anticsof Night Court.

Check out these neat still framesELECOM takes this opportunity t o thank

for the S UNf ratings race. Be on the look oFallScunt '95 it's gonna be a doozie


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The Sandford Fleming Foundation4306 Carl Pollock Hall, University of WaterlooWaterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G,Waterloo Campus Activitjes(519) 888-4008

Student Travel Grants Available to students participating in technical conferences. Contact Prof. Herb Ratz, x5175for further infonnation.Teaching s s i s t ~ n t s h i p Award: Winners for 1994 were:

Duane Baker, Chemical Eng. Dino Vito, Civil Eng.Rafik Guindi, Elec. & Compo Eng.Janice Cheung.Management Sciences Philip Choi, First Year Eng.Don Oguamanam, Mechanical Eng.Is your TA outstanding? Consider a nomination and submit your class nomination to the Eng. Undergraduate Office.

The ohn Fisher Award for LeadershipThe John Fisher Award fo r Leadership is made from time totime to a graduating student whose activities throughouthis/her academic career have made significant contributio.ns toCo.-operative Engineering Education. Nominat ions for theAwaJd can originate from student groups, faculty membersand the Foundation. Nominations should document thenominee's contributions and other support for the nomination.Contributions are to have a professional orientation and caninvolve student activities, the Sandford Fleming Foundation

work or o ther appropriate functions. Letters from colleagues,faculty members, and others knowledgable of the nominee'sefforts will be given consideration.

Love ThemRightslMarc Rlsdale8 Alchemy

W alking around Kingston, you'd have to beblind not to notice the sickly red sloganscrawled onto every second wall: "[Insertname of local MPJ is anti-choice./I This should come asa surprise to the people who voted for him? Whatdivine purpose could this 'outting' possibly 5elVe? Isthis poor MP not entitled to his opinion? Is it a markagainst him that he can think for himself? I got the distinct impression that only some opinions are worthhaving while others 5elVe only as foils for freedom ofspeechand though t rhetoric.

last week at the Anti-Cuts Action Committee's bigrally, OUT very own Steve Kingsley-Jones, of A-Socfame, had the gall to show up with a placard reading,"Raise Tuition Lower Deficit Save Canada " He wasgreeted by one female protester who swore at himand tried to pull down his sign." (Imprint, January 27)Isn't that a fine how do you do? Oearly, he was out oforder with his high-falutin' though t process. Who is heto think? Again, I got the distinct impression that onlysomeopinions are worth having.

It makes me kinda sick. It's not that these opinionsare near and dear to my heart (in fact I feel quite theopposite) but the thing that disturbs me is that the pe0-ple proffering this blatant conscience cleansing are selfproclaimed leftists. It's self-contradictory for progressives to shut down the right while nary allowing thema word in edgewise. Reme mber how one of our defining qualities is oUT absolute belief in freedom of speech?People are free to express any opinion they see fit.Without this, we just fall into a tyranny of a dilierentflaVOUT. Don't make me ashamed of you. Don't getmired in hypocrisy. Let the people speakl

The Award at Convocation, consists of a Citation and anHonorarium of $1,000. For more information, contact theSandford Fleming Foundation. The Deadline for nominationsis April 11994.

See t he StarsUW ObservatoryStaffJennifer uslerCheryl NollGisele Dagenais

Come out or some stellar sight seeing t hroughthe University of Waterloo telescopes. See theOrion Nebula, the Andromeda Galaxy, planetsand more.

We meet on the third floor of the physics buildingoutside room 313, weather pennitting.March 1- at 7:30AprilS - time to be sched uledCheck the daily bulletin on UWinfo or OUT home

page (http://astro.uwaterloo. cal for la st minutedetails, or emai l usatobserve


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E n g 0 c ewsEngSoc B Executive Positions

The Engineering Society Executive andW.E.E.F. elections are rapidly app roachingNomination forms will be du e at the end ofFebruary, and campaigning will be forapproxima tely one week at the beginningof March, so now is the time to start thinkabout your po tential for one of these positionsAll five of these positions have terms of16 mon ths (end of March 1995 untilAugust 1996). When on work terms theExec of the off-stream society keep in touchwith the on-stream Exec to try and maintain continuity between the s treams. Thedescriptions are outlined below, but yourbes t so u rce of information about the sepositions are the Exec th emselves Theycan be contacted through the Orifice, CPH1327, or email them. NOW is a great timefor you to get involvedPresident(Alison Pearse, ajpearse@chemical)

Candidates for th e President positionwill be in their 3A term righ t now - 3B'sare not eligible because they will not be oncampus for the S96 term. This position isfull of perks, yo u will discover this rightaway (the dye does eventually come out)

The Pr es ident will spend time in thDean's office. Dean Burns has been veryhelpful to the Engineering Society and hisassistant Elaine Thome is veritable wealthof information

Once a year all the Presidents for OntarioEngineering Student Societies get togetherat O.ES.P. Ontario Engineering SocietyPresidents Conference) for a weekend anddiscuss issues affecting Engineering Students and Societies. This is a great time toshare ideas and tips as well as meet a veryoutgoing group of students

The President sits on th Commit tee ofPresid nts (which is made up of the Presidents of all the tudent groups on campus)and the W. E.E.F. Board of Dire tors. ThePresident deals with all staff issues with thehelp of University Personne l. They alsolook after the Yearbook contracts, decidingVPFlnance SpewsH llo from the land of conferences,borrowed shoes (thanks Pete) and00. I'm writing this while at thePEO conferenre- watch for a full report in

thenextIW.The budget passed at the last council

meeting, and I'm happy to say EngSoc isable to meet all directorship requests. AsVP-Finance, this is a refreshing changefrom last term when a lot of good directorships were allocated insufficient funds dueto budgetaryconstraints.

Also approved at Council was the rein-statement of the Engineering Society 'H'backup fund. This will provide the society

the Pa ul and Paula Plummers Awardrecipients (unless they are graduatingthemselves) and the recipients of P residents Awards at the end of eac h schoolterm.

The P resident sits on the Examinationsa nd Promotion s Committee, whichreviews student academic petitions andmakes sure that all petitions are treatedfairly. The President also acts as "legal aid"to students who are petitioning academicdecisions, by giving advice to students. It'sa good feeling helping someone get past apetition Vice President External

Claire Anderson, canderso@chemical)Candidates for the VP-Extemal posi tionwill be in their 3A term righ t now (3B's are

not eligible because they will not be oncampus for the S% term).

The VP-Extemal attends FUC.S. (Faculty Undergraduate Studies Committee) andFaculty Council meetings. The VP-Extemalis also responsible for pla nning services forRememb rance Day and December 6 services. They also serve as a reso urce forExternal Directorships such as Public Relations, Hi gh School Shadow, Charities,Frontrunners, Bus Push and others.

The VP-Extemal looks after sending stud nt to nf r n an communica teswith Engineering student s at schools allover Canada; thro ugh such groups asC.F.E.s. (Canadi an Federation of Engineering Students) and E.s.s.C.O. (EngineeringStudent Societies Council of Ontario). Thisis an excellent opportunity to m eet newpeople that you wo uld o therwise neverhave the chance to

Vice President Finance(Mike Worry, maworry@elecom2)

Candidates for the VP-Finance positionwill be in thei r 1B, 2A or 3A term rightnow . Th VP-Finance is responsible for collecting all monies for the society, presen ting and getting a budget passed at the second council meeting of the each term andpaying all accounts und er the direction ofthe council .

The VP-Finance is currently responsiblewith the independence to handle our ownemergencies. The mon ey for this fund willbe generated through additional EngSocrevenue; s uch as Novelties, photocopies,video games, etc. Starting this term. 1(XX)will be contributed each term until it reaches its balance of $5(0),

From then on, any withdrawal of thesefunds is considered a loan to be paid backon a priority basis.The current VP-Financewill handle the fund and keep councilinformed. Any withdrawal of the fundmust include financial planning for howthe money will be replaced.

Money will be replaced through normalrevenue channels. For example, capitalexpenditures (money on big things that last

for keeping the C & D finances updated as:well as keeping all the C & D accounts. The:accounts for the Engineerin g Society and :the C & D are maintained using Quicken:software and are to be kept accurately by:the VP-Finance. :Vice President Internal

(Dave Thomp son, dathomps@civil) :Candidates for the VP-Internal position :will be in lB, 2A or 3A term right now. The:

VP-Intemal is responsible for keeping up to:date on all events being run within th e:school atmosphere. :

The VP-In ternal keeps and distributes:the minutes of all Council meet in gs:(including Joint Council). The VP-Intemal:fills in for directors who may need assis-:tance and is a general all round resource.:The VP-Intemal also takes over some of the:President s res pon sibilities w hen tim e :allows. :

The position of VP-Intemal is the most:flexible of all th e Exec positions, so use:your imagination and think about events, :p rograms and services that you would like:to provide to Waterloo Engineers :Waterloo Engineering Endowment Fund :Director :

(Peter Reschke, endowment@helix) :The position of W.E.E.F. direct or is open :to any und ergraduate engineering s tud en t

and is no t an EngSoc po s ition as th e[Endowment Fund is an ent ity separa te:from EngSoc. The W.E.E.F. d irector is:responsible fo r organizing and overseeing[the inner workings of the W.E.E.F.; includ-[ing all ftmding decisions during tile term,:organizing the Board of Directors meeting[(this occurs once a school term) as well as:main taining the image of the W.E.E.F.. :

The W.E.E.F. director should be active in[promoting the Endowment fund to t h ~students, through class visits, articles in the1Iron Warrior, visits by Bill Gates etc. ... the 1sky's the limit, use your imagination here :This is your calling you can make a big dif-1ference to Engineering at Waterloo 1AI ,. p ,,,,a long time) are handled by advertising1sales from our Handbook. f the POET's 1TV broke and money was used from back1up, those funds would have to be replaced1with revenue from the next handbook 1

On a different note, EngSoc would like t01ask all student engineeringgroups in need:of funds to pass by the Orificeand fill out al"Request for EngSoc Funds application.jGroups that have requested funds in the:past include: CS Gub, IEEE, Midnigh tetc. Any group containing active engineer-:ing students can request up to $200 of soci.-1ety funds. Applications will be accepted:un __

IEEE NewsflashA nother term is upon us anm eans the IEEE Studentis back in action again.IEEE stan ds for '''The Institute of

cal and Electronic Engineers" andsents a professional, world-wide orgtion dedicated to the provision of intion about electro nics, computerrelated fields.

The lEEE Student Branch represmall portion of this large force proservices to all interested students.would like more information aboIEEE and what the Student Branchoffer, please feel free to dropMcNaughton Center located on thfloorofE2 (E2-3359).

Our office hours are MondayThursdays from 2:30 - 4:30 pm. Walso be reached bye-mail at the adieeesbJJ@electricalor through the unewsgroup, where the latest everegularly posted.

So drop by or give us a shout anmore about what the IEEE can do fo

Samson Tam starr@e ecom2IEEE Student ranch Secretary


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E n g S o c N e w VPExternal Spews

I ope everyone is enjoying the term sofar. I'd like to begm by saying thankyou to all those who attended the fust"Bridgmg the Gap" lecture on Tuesday,January 24th - the attendance was awesome (We almost filled EL 101.) Thespeaker was Prof. Lany Smith of the Ec0-nomics Department here at UW. He spokeon the topic of "Career Strategies for the1990's," giving us all some very interestingand valuable insight into how the job market is changmg and what we should bedoing in order to meet its demands. By thetime this issue is published, the second lecture will be over as well Debra Dileo, theRegistrar from the PEO


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