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October 15, 1993Waterloo, Ontario

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~ ,,--... Wicked-Awesome. . .~ t ~0 Guest Editorial By ~ ~ 0ressed, put onweight, start walking 1 0 the park alonemumbling to yourself, cry a 10t, tak e a jobin the US1>ostal office ........ NEED I SAYMORE PEOPLE - ITS NOT TOO LATE -APPLY - RUN - GET ELECTED - DO IT -I HATE TO SEE YOUR MISERABLE LIFEGO DEEPER INTO THE SHIlTER Ofcourse, there's always the directorshipsand class representatives; they're goodtoo

I would like to take this opportunity totalk about what I do as Presldent of ourgre at Society. (NB. any variation to theresume version of this job description ispurely accidental. BesIdes, can yourefute with absolute certainty that thePresident of the University, Jim Downeydoesn't report to me?)

As President, I am the liaison to theWaterloo Administration. This involvesmany different activities on ma nydifferent levels. It could mean gettingcalled across the Dean's Carpet. Forexample, when evil Artsies do bad thingand b1ame them on Engineers I have toexplain: we couldn't nave done that,we're too busy with schoolwork." Thisalso means attendance at UniversityFunctio ns (ie. awards dinners, Board ofGovernors diners, etc.) Thi s is a greatopportunity to meet and greet the bigCheese of both Eng-ineering and thelarger school ad rnmistration.

One of my most serious duties is toserve as a student representative for theexaminations and promotio ns committee.

This committee accepts and reviewspetitions again st academic decisions.

There are several addition alcommittees both Kim and I are asked toserve upon. It is our duty to either serveor find suitable student representation todo so. Which brings me to my mostimporta nt function: getting peopleinvolved

If the exec tried to take o n Eng Socbusiness solo we would falter. The re aremore directorships and projects requiringgood dedicated people than we couldever hope to satisfy, ie its and endlesspersonhunt.

I am also the liaison to the selfsufficient TOOL committee. These large

people are also known as bearers.Despite their aggressive temperment theyare the best bunCh of neanderthals a Prezcould dream of working for (I meanwith). Despite the popular non-existent,non-opinion not stating otherwise, I amnot a liaison to any other non-existentsociety. How could I be?

There are several projects I take onpersonally . For example, funding for thePOETS renovatio ns. Nick Foisy nastaken over this project, but originally itwas Christine Voirler and myself who coproposed for the funding. PersonalPresidential Projects of Fresidents goneby are: WEEF's creation, the policymanual, the Pop fridge and the infamousEng Soc Logo dispute.

This description is only what has cometo mind as I'm spewin g away, so pleasecome down to tfie orifice and READ THE

POLICY MANUA L FOR MOREDETAllS .

BLE MINDED PEOPLE NEEDEDEarn twice the President's salary as

leader of one of the following great EngSoc Projects:

Get the policy manual on-line. Colin ofcomputer seTVlceswould like to see ourinput to UWINFO. This is an on linebulletin board . If you would like toobserve our absence from this board,simply type 'uwinfo' from the dosprompt: We'll call th at a Gen E 126 laband gxve all lA's bonus marks if they cando it.

The next project... well .. I can't describeit in the paper. But, if you have threehours available between now and the endof October and you woul d like to helpout y ur fellow studen ts, therebybecoming an Eng Soc Folk Hero forgeneration to come please see me. Thesuccessful candid ate shall possesscomputer skills includin g the on button,screen dimmer and a score above 10,000on tetris.

PLE SE T LKTO MEFor the first two weeks of school, I live

in the orifice. For the remainder of the

term, I try to catch up with school, I'mnever up to speed. This means that I amin the Orifice less and at scattered timesthrough the day. I can be contacted bestth rough EMAIL (SBCODRINOCIVIL). IpromIse to write back unless you want:money, a binding opinion or yourquestion requires genuine thought.

H PPY OCTOBERFESTSomething else to wake you from

depression; drunk people 10 leathershorts - Zigga Zagga Zigga Zagga HoiHoi Hoi

INSTITUTION LB TCHWell I've seen it all no w : algae batch,

screamin batch, batch in a nose cone,batch from a nose , batch in a truck, thirtyseven minut e batch, green eggs and

batch, but a batch party in McGinnisWhat a crazy ideaf Wnat execution topull it off What a great time we hadThanks to Liz , Poopy Pants, McGinnis,Sparky, Kevin, Barry, the inv entor of icedtea and of cour se t he LCBO.

Just to repeat two sentiments from y1st spew:

KEEP THE ORIFICE CLEAN

ENGINEERING HOCKEY TOURN MENTSI f you have any R A, R B and all star

experience and you are interested inrepresenting Waterloo at any of the InterUniversity Engineering HockeyTournaments . I can be reached at 888-4762 (Orifice) or email address :sbcodrin@civil .

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Was Ro i ood aCommunist?

Marc OuelletteForeign Correspondent

E veryone knows who Bob Rae is.He's the Prerruer of Ontario, ofcourse. He 's a nice guy, actuaUy,with a lovely family. His wife, rrund you,is not so lovely as she could be. See she'staken feminism to the extreme anddecidedthateverydaytlringslikebrushing (and washing?) her hair aresimply attempts by the male dominatedhierarchy to control women. At least shemeans well.

Where do we begin? How about Bob'supbringing. he comes from a wealthy familywith very strong ties to the Liberal Party ofCanada (Aren't all NO " ers just disgruntledUberaIs?) In fact for many years his olderbrother John was Jean Chretien's campaignmanager. Young Bob,being the idealist (ie.dreamer) that he still is, saw the horribledisparity between the upper class, withwhom his family associated, and th e lowerdass, from whom they got their money. Thiswas especially obvious in postwar Englandwhere Bob spent many of his formativeyears, while his father was there on anappointment from the government.

As we all know, jollyold England is hometo many things. One of them, sadly, issocialism. Socialism is such a big thing therethat for years, the British Labour Party a ndCommunist Party enjoyed tremendoussupport. The Soviets, for the duration of theCold War, were very generous supporters ofboth. You see, to young intellectualdreamers like Bob, socialism/ communismmakes a great deal of sense. Rather thanindividuals scurrying to provide forthemselves , the state would provide for

them, thereby making their lives easier.Ideally, and Bob's an idealist, everyonewould earn only what they need, ie. nomore rich and no more poor. So Bobformulated all these ideas and set out torenounce his family s practice of fleecing thepoor and longed to be one of them. Further,he decided to take his ideas to Canada tomake it a better place.

I don't know about you, but Bob, at thispoint reminds me of a character in MordecaiRichleI's Jamua, Then and ow. Like Bob,the character was a wealthy Canadian beingedu

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