On the Move Aging Research at Waterloo

On the move aging research at Waterloo

Well schooled Three of Waterloo’s professional schools get new space Making a promise How branding goes beyond a logo End_of_Normal_Ad.qxd:SS_larry_final.qxd 3/30/09 4:29 PM Page 1 The End of Normal University of Waterloo economics professor Larry Smith shares his views on how the recession will change the nature of work and shake up our careers – and how Waterloo co-op students can help.

How is this recession changing the workplace? I tell students,“You should be looking for work, not a job.”It applies to everyone.This economy will accelerate the move towards contract work. “When things return to normal,”is a phrase that worries me.It’s naïve. The expectation of permanent employment is for minds from the 1950s. When this recession is over, we’re not going back to normal.This is the To really be useful to your organizations – you need to build flexibility recession that will change the world. into your mindset and your skill set. Events are challenging a lot of old assumptions.We were wrong to think that borrowing, evolutionary change and government deregulation are Where do Waterloo co-op students fit into this picture? good and that an organization can be“too big to fail.”Government If I were a manager in an organization aiming for excellence, I’d hire a co- agendas are being pre-empted and politicians are being forced to do op student just to challenge my ideas. The recession’s not going to let you things they’d never have considered, such as propping up failing get away with poor decisions and neither will a co-op. They challenge companies. As a result, we’ll see more interventionist governments and your thinking. They do it with me. They ask questions I’d never thought a tougher regulatory environment.In business, we can expect better due of,see things I don’t see,make observations on things,places and people diligence, more careful oversight, greater demand for accountability and and show me parallels and contrasts in situations.They make me smarter. a struggle to be innovative. No matter how smart you are the things that made you successful won’t The standard of performance was rising, even before the recession, necessarily keep you successful.Co-ops bring more than up-to-date because of competitive pressures that accompany globalization.The knowledge and an appetite for learning.They bring freshness of mind. economic situation is accelerating this. It’s pushing us faster and faster They aren’t weighed down by pre-recession thinking.When you let toward new norms of business practice. students challenge you, you think better.You look good.A co-op student Almost every organization talks about being innovative, responsive is an ally in your career success. and flexible.But you can’t just talk about it; you have to be that way. Junior students, particularly, bring that freshness of mind.You can shape Organizations that succeed will be those who can rise with the them so they become incredible assets.Their unique value is curiosity standards of performance. The same is true for individuals. and energy applied to your business.Senior co-ops,who’ve been What can individuals do? exposed to several organizations through their work terms, bring a range of experience greater than some 40-year- We all have to take some personal risk olds who’ve worked with just one organization. with our careers.You can’t be a clone of There are few investments with high return and your colleagues.Distinguish yourself low risk. Hiring UW co-op students is one. from your competition.Stepping up You and your co-op students can help your is the response to this recession. organization respond faster and with a You can’t wait for your boss or your broader perspective.Co-op hiring lets organization to tell you what to do. you make a unique contribution to your You need to see what the job is and organization that’s not otherwise available. know how to get it done.To advance If you want career success, have a co-op your career you must serve your student help you. organization’s needs.You’re going to have to earn your keep. And you need to be doing work that brings you to life.If you don’t truly That’s what I enjoy what you’re doing, you’ll never create excellence, no matter how hard truly believe. you work or how much you earn.And your employer will get much better value from someone – someone else – who loves the work.

on the move: aging research at waterloo pg. 12 At Waterloo, our approach to aging research is uniquely action-oriented. We’re not just interested in health and aging: we’re interested in changing it for the better. Patricia Bow

well schooled pg. 20 Pharmacy, optometry, accounting and finance: three of Waterloo’s professional schools showcase their bold ambitions with three newly opened landmark buildings. Patricia Bow

making a promise pg. 26 Rebranding was meant to show Waterloo to the world as we are and aspire to be — bold, daring, creative. Reaction to a proposed new logo showed that Waterloo’s students exhibit creativity in spades. Kelley Teahen

aging research at waterloo well schooled pg. 12 pg. 20

making a promise pg. 26 editorial pg. 2

Commentary pg. 3

heard on campus pg. 5

Talk of the campus pg. 8

Class Notes pg. 32

Calendar pg. 39

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On the cover Staying physically and mentally fit is especially important as we grow older. This strategy is emphasized by many University of Waterloo groups and professors involved in research on aging.

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What's inside 1 « Editorial

THE UNIVERSITY Hiding Waterloo’s lights under a bushel OF WATERLOO MAGAZINE Mary Jane Braide had her “ah-HA!” moment at the Math C&D. FALL 2009

That’s one of several “coffee and doughnut” shops run by student societies across Waterloo’s publisher campus. The Math C&D has become an interesting place to grab lunch as the managers have MEG BECKEL engaged local caterers from different ethnic traditions. So while there are the usual urns of editor KELLEY TEAHEN coffee and racks of chips, there also are falafel, tabouli, jerk chicken, and chana. assistant editor PATRICIA BOW As the university’s associate director of communications, I had been assigned to be Braide’s “Sherpa” contributing editors during her trips to Waterloo to do research on the university’s identity (see “Making a promise,” BETH BOHNERT, CHRIS REDMOND

page 26). I suggested the Math C&D for lunch, and described the culinary richness awaiting. advisory board Sunshine Chen (BES ’95, BARCH ’97) And then, we walked onto the second floor of the Mathematics and Computer building. Martin DeGroot (BA ’79, MA ’81, PhD ’95) Chris Harold (BES ’00) Patrick Myles (BA ’97) There it was: the plain white-on-black hallway sign stating, “Math Coffee & Donut.” Lorie Soper (MA ’87)

By the entrance, the dominant signs exhorted, No Backpacks In Store. ex officio JASON COOLMAN “This is soooooo Waterloo!” Braide exclaimed. “This is it!” MARTIN VAN NIEROP

advertising What is “it,” exactly? Call it the “light under the bushel” syndrome. BETH BOHNERT

The inherent mojo of an institution where practical beats pretty business manager ALISON BOYD (although that’s changing with our recent building projects … creative director see “Well schooled,” page 20). It’s not modesty, exactly, but a CHRISTINE GOUCHER

profound distaste for “showing off.” If plain will do, and plain design is cheaper, plain it is. UW GRAPHICS

The Math C&D relies mostly on word of mouth to let people know The University of Waterloo Magazine is published twice a it has diverse food offerings. In many ways, compared with our year for graduates and friends brethren in higher education, Waterloo has operated on the same of the University of Waterloo. All material is copyright ©2009, principle: we have a quiet confidence that if we do good things University of Waterloo, and may be reprinted only with written

here, they (students, faculty, researchers, partners, donors) B IEL aski o : JO N athan t permission.

will come. Marketing is for cereal. Ph o Printed in Canada by Commercial Print-Craft Limited They still do come, of course. But in context of the university’s ambitious Sixth Decade Plan goals, ISSN 1207-778X Waterloo will need to tell its story more widely and be better known to form more international Send editorial correspondence to: University of Waterloo Magazine attachments, attract more graduate students, and ramp up the intensity of research (for an Communications and Public Affairs example of that growing research, see “On the move,” page 12) – all in service of building a better University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1 future, for Canada and the world. The university also needs to “step up” to be what Braide’s 519-888-4567, ext. 35719 email [email protected] research discovered the university community believes it is – innovative, unconventional, collaborative, and risk-taking, among other qualities that marketer-types label “attributes.” For advertising inquiries call 519-888-4567, ext. 35353 Braide’s work is part of a larger branding exercise overseen by a task force with representatives Send address changes to: from across campus. We jokingly refer to branding as the “B” word, knowing how hated the Office ofD evelopment and Alumni Affairs concept is in some circles of the university because it seems too corporate. So we use other words: University of Waterloo Positioning. Identity. Our promise. Those all mean the same thing: What do people think of Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1 Fax 519-746-8932 Waterloo? What do we want people to think of Waterloo? And how do we make the journey email [email protected] between those two points?

“There’s a constant tension in brand strategy,” Braide says. “You want the organization to agree to something that isn’t strictly true about it right now, but that it can grow into. You are saying to the world: we are not there yet, but we have aspirations that are exciting. We want you to grow with us.”

Kelley Teahen

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Keeping co-op successful in tough times

The University of Waterloo was founded on Our students approached a difficult job search with the basis of an idea untested at the time in determination. Many found success by returning to Canada – co-operative education. Waterloo’s workplaces where they were already known, and a founders took a considerable risk in making quarter of this term’s co-op students were welcomed this unconventional idea the cornerstone of back by previous employers. a fledgling university. It is fair to say that 52 This hard work by CECS staff and our students has been years later, their risk has paid off. Waterloo is responsible for keeping employment numbers from the world leader in experiential education and suffering a dramatic crash, and they should be commended each term more than 4,000 students strike out for their efforts. CECS reports that, as of mid-September, to find work that reinforces and complements our student employment rate is approaching 94 per cent, their academic studies. down from 99 per cent in September 2008, but well above

It is also fair to say that co-operative education the nationwide rate for the student age bracket. That remains a risky venture, especially in times of percentage will increase slightly later in the fall as our economic upheaval. Statistics Canada reports final numbers come in. that unemployment rates for students aged Our goal throughout this time is to use this crisis as an 15-24 reached 20.9 per cent in July 2009, opportunity to be creative and bold, aggressively seeking the highest in 32 years. good ideas, and continuously improving ourselves. CECS continues its marketing efforts, but we welcome, and rely As the recession loomed, we knew that on, your feedback and input. student jobs would be impacted. Some of our most loyal co-op employers have been severely We need your help. Faculty members, do your best to affected. Co-operative Education & Career promote Waterloo students with your external colleagues. Services (CECS) drew on its network and the Alumni, hire a co-op student if you can, or encourage entrepreneurial talents of its staff members your employers and contacts to do so.

to preserve job opportunities with current When we help a student find employment, everyone employers while creating new ones. How? wins. Students gain experience. The university adds to its By reinforcing, in the minds of business reputation for excellence. The employer gains the most. leaders, that co-op students are a flexible Our students do fantastic work, and they can help busi- workforce representing the perfect nesses and organizations get through these difficult times. combination of the latest knowledge, We want to lead by example. Waterloo continues to be a fresh perspective, and creativity. the largest employer of students in our co-op program. But if our community works together, we can provide our students with incredible opportunities to make a difference.

David Johnston

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Feridun Hamdullahpur is « VP, academic and provost Waterloo’s new second-in-command is Feridun Hamdullahpur, succeeding Amit Chakma, who is now president of the University of Western Ontario. Hamdullahpur held key administrative positions at the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS), DalTech-Dalhousie University, and Carleton University, where he served as vice-president, research and international, and interim vice-president, academic and provost. He sees his role as helping the university overcome increased financial pressures without compromising quality, while pursuing the goals of its sixth-decade

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Ph o Excellence: Seizing Opportunities for Canada. His first term runs from September 1, 2009 to June 30, 2014. Holding engineering degrees from the Technical University of Istanbul and TUNS, he will also serve as a professor of mechanical and Name change for St. Paul’s mechatronics engineering.

St. Paul’s United College, an affiliated institution at the University of WEB See Feridun Hamdullahpur at Waterloo, is now officially St. Paul’s University College. The change reflects www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links academic growth, especially in environmental and international programs, and emphasizes an inclusive approach.

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Warrior Field gets a makeover

With $1.2 million federal and provincial funding, Waterloo’s Warrior Field north of Columbia Street West is being upgraded with synthetic turf, lighting to extend playing time, and grandstand seating for 1,400, with sloped lawn seating for 3,000 more. WEB See Warrior Field at www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links

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co-op program are No. 1 in Corporate Knights magazine’s annual business schools ranking. The magazine

compares Canadian universities in how well they integrate sustainability into programs. The Waterloo

students learn economics, finance, accounting, management, and marketing, integrated with

environmental subjects such as field ecology, human geography, and environmental research

techniques, and gain practical experience through co-op. recreation WEB See Environment and business at www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links business+ WATERLOO

These Waterloo drama students « (pictured in Italy, with Prof. Andy Players Houston in the front row) took part in on the May in a cultural/academic exchange world to Cosenza, in Calabria, where they stage staged successful performances of the Waterloo student-written play, Differ/ End: The Caledonia Project. Exchanges can be counted toward the university’s Global Experience Certificate credential, created to encourage students to become global citizens equipped to work and learn abroad. WEB See Calabria exchange at www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links tt Sp i d ell o What’s going on? 9 o : S c t Ph o CENTRE FOR CENTRE FOR POPULATION POPULATION HEALTH IMPACT HEALTH IMPACTCENTRE FOR CENTRE FOR POPULATION POPULATION CENTRE POUR CENTRE POUR HEALTH IMPACT HEALTH IMPACT L’AVANCEMENT L’AVANCEMENT DE LA SANTÉ DE LA SANTÉ DES POPULATIONS DES POPULATIONS

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for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation (CBRPE) and propel September 18, 2009 the Population Health Research Group (PHR). Propel is based

in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and is sponsored by

the University of Waterloo and the Canadian Cancer Society. Canada 3.0 Its scientists focus on the study of social changes needed to Forum spotlights reduce or eliminate chronic disease. Propel, says its executive Canada’s digital director Roy Cameron, “is a collaborative enterprise that o : J nah H u t advantage conducts solution-oriented research, evaluation, and « Ph o knowledge exchange to accelerate improvements in the

The Canada 3.0 forum held in June health of populations.” attracted 1,500 people to Stratford, WEB See Propel at www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links Ontario, to explore digital media trends, a new economic area identified by the Council of Canadian Academies as having the highest growth potential for Canada next to that of the oil sands. Putting environment in the Faculty of Environment The lineup of speakers included leaders Supervised by Huntsville mayor Claude Doughty (left), federal Industry Minister in government, business, education, Tony Clement and Deep Saini, Waterloo dean of environment (right), wielded the and culture. As well, students and ceremonial spades to start work on the new Waterloo-Huntsville environmental community members were invited centre in August. to experience a Community Digital Local opposition to the original site near Fairy Lake prompted the choice of a new Media Boot Camp showcasing digital innovation. site near Cann Lake. The 30,000-square-foot, $9-to-$10 million centre, funded primarily by the federal government, will be built, owned, and managed by the Organized by the University of town and leased by the university. It will be used for the G8 summit in June 2010 Waterloo, Communitech, and Open before the research centre moves in. Text, Canada 3.0 also marked the launch of the Stratford Institute, a “This is about putting environment think-tank and training institute in the Faculty of Environment,” Saini devoted to collaboration among digital said, referring to Huntsville’s location media, international commerce, and near biosphere reserves and wilderness culture; and the Canadian Digital Media areas. The centre will educate students Network, established earlier this year and mid-career professionals, and to link Canada’s digital media clusters house research in ecology, climate from coast to coast, creating a digital change, tourism, land-use planning, convergence corridor and enabling

and local economic development. Dash y e Malchuk collaboration among researchers, WEB See Huntsville implementers, and entrepreneurs. o : C arl t

WEB See Canada 3.0 forum at environmental centre at Ph o www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links

10 new buildings 3growing fast Math, engineering, and environment will see their teaching and research space expand again, thanks to joint funding of $50 million received this spring from the federal Knowledge Infrastructure Program and the provincial government. As a condition of funding, the construction must be finished by spring 2011. The three buildings are: » Engineering 6, near Phillip Street, for the chemical engineering department; » a north annex to the Math and Computer building, a home for statistics and actuarial science and the math-and-business programs; » Environment 3, adjacent to Environment 2, will be a three-storey building Waterloo profs win Donner that will also add a third, cantilevered storey over the existing structure to accommodate growing enrolment and programs. Two Waterloo professors are among four joint winners of this year’s $35,000 WEB See Three new buildings at www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links Donner Prize, an annual award for the best book on Canadian public policy. The book is Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North, by Ken Coates, Waterloo dean of arts and professor of Searching for history; Whitney Lackenbauer, history « water in space professor at St. Jerome’s On May 14 a piece of Waterloo reached for the stars when the University; William R. Morrison, University of Herschel Space Observatory, the largest telescope ever put Northern British Columbia; into space, was launched from a European Space Agency site and Greg Poelzer, University in French Guiana. Canada’s contribution to the mission is of Saskatchewan. led by Waterloo physics and astronomy professor Michel Fich “Winning the Donner Prize (BSc ’78; MSc, PhD Berkeley), who worked with Cambridge- means a great deal to based COM DEV International to build a key subsystem us,” Coates says. “It tells us that the topic — Arctic in the high-resolution Heterodyne Instrument for the Far sovereignty — is important, Infrared (HIFI), with Canadian Space Agency funding. Fich that our book is having an leads a team of 30 astronomers from across Canada who will impact.” It’s the second use HIFI to look for water, the basic molecule of life, in young Donner Prize recently won by Waterloo faculty. In 2007, solar systems, in dense interstellar clouds where stars are the winner was political science professor being born, and in other galaxies.

Eric Helleiner, for his book, Towards WEB See Michel Fich at www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links North American Monetary Union? WEB See Donner prize at www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links e Malchuk Dash Dash y e Malchuk o : C arl

t UAE campus welcomes first students Ph o Twenty-two students — eight in chemical engineering and 14 in civil — started class on Waterloo’s newest campus, in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, on September 1. The campus was established in partnership with UAE’s Higher Colleges of Technology and Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training, with Waterloo engineering professor Peter Douglas as director.

WEB See UAE campus at www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links

What’s going on? 11 On the move aging research at Waterloo

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Gerry and Marilyn Gelata are planning to climb a Mexican volcano next year. Gerry, a Waterloo grad (BSc ’64), is a vigorous 70, Marilyn On the move several years his junior. aging research at Waterloo

erry spent 20 years working with engineering companies abroad before settling in Ontario. He and Marilyn retired from their successful chicken farming operations 15 years ago. Healthy, active, busy, linked to a large family circle, Gthey don’t feel they’ve slowed down much. Yet unexpectedly, they are finding the senior years a time of uncertainty. How and where should they choose to live? How make the most of their retirement? How long will they remain independent?

Many people are asking similar questions. The proportion of seniors in Canada and elsewhere is growing. The 2006 census found 4.3 million Canadians 65 and older: 13.7 per cent of the population. It’s projected to reach 20 per cent by 2024. And we’re living longer. Statistics Canada posted a life expectancy of 80.8 in 2008, compared to 77.8 in 1991.

“Ten years ago,” says John Hirdes, a professor in health studies and gerontology (HSG) and sociology who spends much of his time finding better ways to house and care for seniors, “the director-general of the World Health Organization described aging as the 20th century’s greatest achievement. I think the challenge for the next century is to keep older people free of disability for as long as possible, so they can continue to be happy and productive. That’s where I think there’s a great deal of work to be done.”

A great deal of that work is being done at Waterloo, especially in the applied health sciences (AHS) faculty, where Canada’s first graduate program in gerontology began more than 20 years ago. “Our approach to aging is unique in that it’s very action-oriented,” says Roger Mannell, AHS dean. “We’re not just interested in health and aging: we’re interested in changing it for the better.”

That philosophy is reflected in the name of the recently launched PhD program in aging, health and well-being – which, though no longer unique, is still distinctive in its focus on health and wellness. And, Mannell says, Waterloo has become a powerhouse of aging research with the establishment of the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging (RIA) in 2005, and the funding of four Schlegel Research Chairs in aging and neuroscience, optimal medications, aging and nutrition, and geriatric medicine.

RIA is a partnership between the university and Ron Schlegel, a former professor who helped to establish the HSG program and is now co-owner of 10 long-term care and retirement communities, and who contributed $6 million to the institute. It’s a symbiotic relationship, with the communities serving as “living research environments” for carefully chosen projects, and the research results intended to enhance the residents’ quality of life. A leading example is the Functional Abilities Program headed by Eric Roy, a professor in kinesiology and psychology, in which residents’ cognitive and motor » M o ve: Aging research | TEXT patricia bow | photographY jonathan bielaski 13 O abilities are assessed and cognitive remediation and physical exercise Hearts (a fitness program for heart patients), programs are developed to help them maintain or regain mobility UW WELL-FIT (for cancer survivors), Kids and the ability to care for themselves. FAP has also developed a falls in Action, and Teens in Motion (for obese registry to track falls with a view to preventing them by understanding children and adolescents). Now he also leads what causes them. the Fitness and Plasticity of Aging program area in RIA. Gerry Gelata has no problem being mobile. Blessed with the energy of a man many years younger, he jogs from the house to the workshop Being active is always important, he says, instead of walking. He’s health-conscious, too, careful to check food but especially as we grow older. “The saying labels for unwholesome ingredients. However, he and Marilyn ‘use it or lose it’ is true, but you don’t have to notice that there doesn’t seem to be a cure for those so-called senior lose it for good. Up to 50 per cent of your loss moments, when you can’t remember why you went into the kitchen. of aerobic capacity is from aging; the rest is from sedentary living. So you can recover a Going for a brisk walk may help. Myra Fernandes, a psychology lot of it. You can also recover muscle strength. professor, studies cognitive changes associated with normal aging. The key is to maintain or improve fitness Those senior moments are not simple forgetting, she says. As we age, through cardiorespiratory physical activity there’s a decline in “working” memory and executive function – the and weight training.” ability to keep track of and manipulate multiple bits of information. In fact, a host of age-related ailments can be This is linked to a decline in the function of the frontal lobes, home mitigated by physical activity. Osteoporosis base for abstract and analytical thought. “It’s the last thing to develop is one. Lora Giangregorio, a kinesiology in children and the first thing we lose as seniors,” Fernandes says. She professor, is interested in the value of exercise is collaborating with other professors in kinesiology and psychology in preventing “fragility” bone fractures – the in studies of how cardiovascular exercise feeds the brain. kind that may result from minor bumps and “Because of the brain’s architecture, if you have less blood falls. Among frail older seniors, this type flow to the brain, the frontal lobes will take the biggest hit. The more of fracture in the hip or spine can lead to blood flowing to your brain, it’s the frontal lobes that stand to gain complications from blood clots, infection, the most. That’s the area that shows the deterioration and that needs or pneumonia; pain, loss of mobility, and the oxygen most, in seniors.” depression; a downward spiral; and, for up to a quarter of hip fracture patients, death Mental exercise helps, too, Fernandes says. The more you use your within a year. brain – whether solving puzzles, writing memoirs, or organizing a bazaar – the better the blood flow to the frontal lobe. “The best advice What are some non-drug strategies for seems to be this: Keep moving, physically and mentally.” sidestepping such a future? Exercise to strengthen leg muscles, improve balance, and Mike Sharratt repeats that advice wholeheartedly. RIA’s executive prevent falls. Resistance and cardiovascular director has spent his working life promoting physical activity as the training to maintain bone density, strength, key to wellness. Over his 30 years at Waterloo, including terms as chair and fitness. Don’t smoke, keep caffeine and of kinesiology and dean of applied health sciences, he initiated Hardy alcohol intake moderate, get enough calcium, and consider Vitamin D supplements. And have your doctor regularly evaluate your risk for fracture.

High-tech aids being developed at Waterloo

Amir Khandani, electrical and computer engineering. Mobile Health system of miniaturized wireless sensors in and around the body to seamlessly monitor health of seniors and others needing complex medical care.

Pascal Poupart, computer science. Smart Walker with computer, sensors, video, and audio to monitor gait, record falls, and recognize user behaviours.

John Zelek, systems design engineering. Tactile Sight Belt with GPS receiver and other devices to help blind people or Alzheimer’s patients follow a mapped route or navigate through a building.

14 Since 1995, the Functional Abilities Program headed by Eric Roy has been creating programs to help the residents of long-term care and retirement homes to stay independent and healthy.

“Get moving” is the best advice, too, for people who have recently suffered a stroke. Bill McIlroy, a professor in kinesiology, has been working with stroke patients, the majority of whom are seniors, for 10 years.

“Traditionally, people with stroke have been treated with rest, while rehab focused on restoring speech functions or the use of a limb,” McIlroy says. “But we’ve found that stroke patients can do the same sort of cardiovascular exercise prescribed for heart attack patients, starting as early as two weeks after the stroke. And when they do, they recover more quickly.” Cardio exercise may also reduce the risk of another stroke.

Now McIlroy is taking that research further. One objective is to design new exercise equipment that post-stroke patients can easily use. And, since training for long stretches can be impossible for weakened limbs, he is testing other approaches, such as interval training. “Our goal is to find the best way for a person with a certain impairment to train,” he says, “so we can offer them an exercise regimen they can actually use, and that will be effective.”

Regrettably, says optometry professor Susan Leat, not everything that happens as we age is subject to our control. Among other things, she studies macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in older people. The condition gradually blurs your central vision, thwarting critical tasks such as reading, writing, and recognizing faces.

Current treatments do not fully reverse the vision loss, but Leat is exploring ways to help people cope: for example, developing software to improve the visibility of digital images on a computer or television. In a new study, she is comparing the effectiveness of two approaches: one that trains people with macular degeneration to use their side vision along with magnification, and one in which a video camera and CCTV monitor are used to make a text more readable. »

The best advice seems to be this: Keep moving, physically and mentally.

Myra Fernandes, professor of psychology

Aging research 15 The M in MAREP Gerry Gelata’s mother is 97 years old. Until recently she When Ken Murray’s first wife, Helen, was lived in a retirement home and was doing well. But she diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, is now experiencing dementia, and not doing well at all. he went to Bob Norman, then dean of AHS. Dementia, a brain disorder of which the commonest “How can I enhance the quality of life of someone example is Alzheimer’s disease, affects one in 11 Canadian seniors. It is incurable, but its onset can be delayed with with dementia,” Murray asked, “when they can’t medication. Here, too, physical activity may help. tell me whether I have made a difference?” “It’s important to note that not all cognitive Murray proposed to underwrite the startup impairment leads to dementia,” says kinesiology’s cost of a program of applied research dedicated Safa Elgamal, Schlegel Research Chair in Aging and Neuroscience. Working with other researchers at Waterloo to finding better ways to care for people with and in Kitchener’s Centre for Family Medicine, Elgamal is dementia. This included engaging an executive leading a three-year study on how improving cardiovascular director for the first two years and raising health can lead to improved mental health. another $300,000. “It took Bob about 30 “Dementia usually begins subtly and progresses gradually,” nanoseconds to say yes.” Elgamal says. “If someone has mild cognitive impairment, such as isolated memory lapses, and if we intervene with The Murray Alzheimer Research and Education physical activity at an early stage, can we can postpone the Program launched in 1993. Murray has supported presentation of dementia? That’s our question.” the program ever since, through personal The stigma that used to cling to dementia is starting to involvement and advocacy as well as funding. disperse, thanks in part to the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program (MAREP), now a unit within RIA. A partial list of his contributions to the university “We have adopted what we call an ‘authentic partnership’ includes an endowment fund for awards to approach, which means we work directly with people undergrads studying aging; a similar endowment with dementia, family members, and professionals,” says (with his two daughters) for grad students; MAREP’s director, Sherry Dupuis, a professor in recreation and the Murray Graduate Award in Aging, and leisure studies (RLS). “We are trying to change the culture so that it’s more widely understood that people with Health and Well-Being. He heads a campaign dementia can make important contributions to research and to raise $1 million for MAREP. He is also a to the products and services that are developed for them.” Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging This unique approach has led to several creative solutions: board member. a series of guides on managing the daily challenges of dementia; the annual Changing Melody forums initiated Murray’s support for Waterloo is just one and planned by and for people with dementia; and facet of a life spent in giving. Born in Chatham, I’m Still Here, a videotaped drama meant to increase 1924, the son of a United Church minister, understanding of dementia and seen by thousands Murray absorbed the example of community of people around the world. service and generosity set by his parents. Among other new research projects, Dupuis is working with RLS professor Bryan Smale, as well as colleagues Starting during his career as a food industry at other universities, long-term care homes, and local executive, he put the example into practice. Community Care Access Centres, on how to put the

“If someone had said in 1992 that we would “authentic partnership” approach more generally into practice in long-term and community care. create an entity with an international reputation, Gerry and Marilyn spent the last nine years renovating I would not have believed it possible,” Murray their big century-old stone house near Waterloo. Now they says. “It has occurred largely due to the leader- are planning to move on. “It’s too much house, and too ship and commitment of executive director far from our family,” Marilyn says. “We’re asking ourselves Sherry Dupuis. To the degree that there is a joy where we want to be in five years, how big a house or apartment we want, how much work we want it to be.” in all of this, it’s that Helen’s legacy is MAREP.”

16 Sooner or later, many of us will have to make Overall, the outlook for Canadian seniors is Sooner or later, choices about where we, or a parent, will live. hopeful. Most will continue in good health, many of us will The best place for most, says John Hirdes, living in their own homes independently or have to make is at home. As Ontario Home Care Research with minimal help, active and mobile as ever. choices about where and Knowledge Exchange Chair, Hirdes But in North America, mobility often depends we, or a parent, helps evaluate the Ontario Aging at Home on wheels. Losing a licence can be catastrophic will live. The best strategy, a $1-billion investment in home- for a senior, leading to dependency, isolation, place for most, and community-based care by the Ministry and depression. “It’s a major fear for many says John Hirdes, of Health. Its objective is to keep seniors at older drivers,” says HSG professor Anita Myers. is at home. home as long as possible. Myers is a co-investigator in a five-year study by the “Home care is less expensive and better for Canadian Driving Research Initiative for Vehicular Safety seniors’ health and well-being than staying in in the Elderly, monitoring the driving patterns and road institutions,” he says. “The trick is to provide incidents of more than 1,000 drivers aged 70 and older health and social services so as to keep across Canada, using computer chips and GPS. The goal is people well: to improve home care, improve to develop evidence-based screening tools for physicians interventions to prevent falls and medication and ministries to determine fitness to drive as medical errors, and so on.” conditions, such as early dementia, appear.

For those who can’t stay at home but Among other projects, she leads a study funded by the don’t need to be in a nursing home, supportive Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, evaluating licensing housing could fill the gap. “This is an emerging policies and procedures across Canada for medically part of the health-care continuum,” says at-risk drivers. Partnering with researchers in the United Norma Jutan, a doctoral candidate in the States, the goal is to develop a searchable North American aging, health and well-being program. Living website on policies and procedures for licensing agencies, in government-subsidized apartments, seniors researchers, and health professionals. can enjoy privacy and independence while Myers helped revise Ontario’s Senior Driver Renewal receiving the help they need with meals and Program, mandatory for drivers 80 and up, and has personal care. Jutan is researching the needs of evaluated self-help programs such as the AAA/CAA’s seniors in supportive housing and studying the Roadwise Review CD-ROM for senior drivers. She also criteria for inclusion, “so that the right people serves on a Kitchener-Waterloo dementia and driving enter and, where appropriate, the right people committee that aims to help local people as they are discharged in a timely manner.” confront the important issue of when to stop driving. More people could live at home if our As Gerry and Marilyn Gelata have found, the senior neighbourhoods were more senior-friendly, years are not an oasis of calm. This is a time of often John Lewis, says a professor in the School of rapid change, of decline and growth. In more ways Planning. “Our communities are not generally than one, we are in constant motion. laid out in such a way as to encourage seniors to be mobile. They experience a lot Gerry sometimes marvels that he’s a senior. “I’m 70 of difficulty when it comes to access and but I don’t feel it. And there’s a ton of things I want to getting past barriers.” There’s been some do!” Marilyn agrees. “We want to travel, see more of progress in designing for physical and sensory the world. We’ve talked about it for years. Now we’re impairments, he says, “but we have not even saying, let’s do the things we always wanted to do. started to address the issues when it comes to Let’s pack the good years still to come.” designing for cognitive impairments, of which there are many – it’s not just Alzheimer’s.”

WEB Want to know more? Lewis is beginning a study of how seniors find their way around difficult or unfamiliar Visit On the move: Aging research at Waterloo at www.alumni.uwaterloo.ca/links for links to these groups: neighbourhoods and buildings. As one » Faculty of Applied Health Sciences outcome, he plans to create computer » Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging simulation tools that the seniors will test, » MAREP leading to better design tools for planners.

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School of Pharmacy

he new School of Pharmacy, with its tall glass panels emblazoned with images of plants, was already a landmark by the time it opened officially in April. Designed by Toronto Tfirms Hariri Pontarini Architects and Robbie/Young + Wright Architects, the 120,000- square-foot building anchors the university’s Health Sciences Campus in downtown Kitchener.

Inside, curving lines and the warm textures of walnut wood and Eramosa stone welcome the visitor. A sense of airy openness is created by high ceilings and the natural light that floods in through the glass curtain wall, which also functions as an ultraviolet filter.

The school – Canada’s only co-op pharmacy program, and one of only two in North America – was founded to help relieve a nation-wide shortage of pharmacists. The first students will head out as graduate pharmacists beginning in 2011. They’ll have benefited from lecture rooms structured to bring students and instructors closer together, and equipped with projectors and smart screens to display information. One lecture hall is also set up for videoconferencing with lecturers at remote locations.

The state-of-the-art facilities reflect an evolving profession. Pharmacists now are more involved in assessing patients’ needs and prescribing medications. As well as the scientific labs where students learn about pharmaceutics, drug compounding, microbiology, and physiology, the school includes a professional practice lab, where they learn how to work in a dispensary, communicate with patients, and check health markers such as blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature. The building will also include a café with an outdoor patio, open to the public, and a landscaped courtyard.

WEB www.pharmacy.uwaterloo.ca

Above | From the reception desk onward, warm textures and an abundance of light lift the spirits.

left | Pharmacy’s glass panels emblazoned with giant images of medicinal plants explain to passersby what the school is all about.

Well schooled | TEXT patricia bow | photographY jonathan bielaski 21 Bold graphics of eye chart letters in the foyer and irises looking out from the top storey signal the building’s function.

School of Optometry

uch like an eye’s dilating pupil, Designed by Rounthwaite Dick and Hadley Architects Inc., who also the new 40,000-square-foot designed the original building in 1975 and the 1995 addition, the new Maddition to the School of addition that opened in June admits light through translucent and Optometry lets in more light – and there’s semi-opaque channel-glass walls. Bold graphics of eye chart letters plenty to see inside. The expansion over the main door and irises looking out from a panel on the top accommodates a steady growth in storey signal the building’s function. enrolment over the last eight years, Inside, facilities include a 125-seat lecture theatre with high-definition from roughly 240 to an estimated 355 data projection, group and quiet study rooms, expanded food service undergrads this fall, as well as 40 to 50 area, and other amenities for students. Display and storage space for graduate students. It also makes room the Museum of Vision Science have also expanded, as have TLC Laser for an expanded curriculum and facilities Eye Center Facility. A highlight of the building is the Witer Learning that allow more students to train in Resource Centre, named for alumna Marta Witer (OD ’79), who with her Canada, rather than the United States, as husband Ian Ihnatowycz donated $500,000 for this purpose. The new they prepare for the greater responsibilities 4,000-square-foot library more than doubles the size of its predecessor assigned to today’s optometrists, including a primary role in the treatment and and provides ample space for students, staff, and materials. management of eye disease. WEB www.optometry.uwaterloo.ca

22 Bold graphics of eye chart letters in the foyer and irises looking out from the top storey signal the building’s function.

Above | The traditional eye chart inspired the graphics highlighting optometry’s new main entrance.

left | Optometry’s design, featuring channel-glass walls that wrap around three-quarters of the building, fills the interior with light.

Well schooled 23 24 The spaciousness begins with the glass-walled atrium.

School of Accounting and Finance

fter more than a decade of dreaming, planning, and hard work, and two years of construction, Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) officially A opened its new $12-million building in September. The airy, light-filled building designed by Robertson Simmons Architects, and linked to Hagey Hall, boasts the campus’s first accessible green roof – an installation that helps to reduce the school’s environmental footprint while providing a relaxing oasis. Other innovative touches include improved wheelchair access to tiered classrooms, and a way of supplying fresh air to classrooms through the floor rather than the ceiling, reducing fan noise.

At approximately 50,000 square feet, the building provides welcome elbow room for faculty and students. Space had become tight after years of broadening curriculum and growing enrolment. Six years ago, programs were expanded to include more financial management, along with public accounting. Three years ago, the computing and financial management bachelor’s program was introduced, offered jointly with the math faculty.

The spaciousness begins with the glass-walled three-storey-high atrium, and continues with six new classrooms and a 200-seat lecture hall. Classrooms feature excellent acoustics and horseshoe-shaped seating designed to minimize distance and enhance interaction among and between students and instructors. Whiteboards and electronic screens with dual data projectors are able to show a variety of media at once, and all classroom seats have power plug-ins for laptops.

The building has wireless connectivity throughout. It also includes a much-wanted student lounge, study rooms with power plug-ins, meeting rooms, and more office space. A café serving fair-trade coffee is planned for the ground floor.

WEB www.accounting.uwaterloo.ca

Above | University dignitaries and alumni cut the ribbon to officially open the new School of Accounting and Finance building on September 8.

left | The clean lines of staircases seem to float in space, overlooking the three-storey wood-walled atrium.

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Now more than ever, Waterloo is out in the world meeting new people, whether those are potential students from other countries, the expanding pool of adults seeking graduate education, or new research and industry alliances. And in all these circumstances, Waterloo needs to clearly express: what is Waterloo? And why should you want to be part of Waterloo’s future?

This university is not unique in its need to spend quality time discerning a set of values that everyone can support and promote, in common, across the institution.

As early as 2003, such branding initiatives were top-of-mind at American universities and made the cover of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Writer John Pulley concluded that universities “are competing among themselves and against non-educational institutions for state and federal appropriations, research money, and foundation grants and private gifts. Competition is heating up to land the smartest students, the best scholars, and the highest rankings in surveys of institutional quality.” »

right | Meg Beckel, vice-president, external relations, spoke about the University of Waterloo identity project at the October 2009 “town hall” meeting for faculty and staff.

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The university engaged Ove Design and Communication from “Waterloo has innovated, but off a base of strength,” Braide says. Toronto who partnered with consultant Mary Jane Braide. Braide, “It’s a much more carefully crafted institution than I thought, who says her work is to be “a midwife, rather than an alchemist,” and it’s not just engineering and math and co-op. Architecture was the primary investigator, doing extensive research and meeting is a great example: it has become the best school of architecture with more than 100 people, individually or in small groups, over in the country as it’s grown from an engineering base. The goal of the summer of 2008, from food services staff to President David the brand strategy is to demonstrate how those values that made Johnston, from current students to members of the alumni council. these well-known programs great are also shaping Waterloo’s work in environment and health and arts and business and At the same time, the university drew on a regular survey of entrepreneurial thinking.” incoming students and added reputation-related questions to a major alumni survey. As well, Waterloo hired Ipsos-Reid to conduct And while Waterloo started as an engineering school, it has a national reputation survey that polled the general public, plus been, from its earliest days, “a school driven by relevance to the guidance counsellors, parents, business recruiters, and university world around you,” she says. “Waterloo has stood back from the leaders. Although such surveying is now a common practice for big issues and said, how can we contribute to solving big problems, universities, this was the first time Waterloo invested in discovering, and contribute to contemporary issues such as wellness, health as scientifically as polling can provide, what people across the promotion, sustainability, and digital media?” country knew about Waterloo. All this research then informed deliberation, in fall 2008, and The answer, surprising to some, was, “not much.” consultation with 400 people in campus groups to refine a “branding framework”: the university’s promise (“to build the Looking at hard facts of geography and history, it’s not surprising Waterloo comes in 10th in “top of mind awareness” future through innovation and experience”), and its values: in Canada among the general public. The schools above Waterloo » to be selective and focused off a base of strength; are either much older or, as in the cases of York (in Toronto) and » to be relevant to the needs of today and tomorrow; Simon Fraser (in Vancouver), located in major urban centres. » to be rigorous, enterprising, and experiential.

Daniel Savas, the vice-president of Ispos Reid who led the survey, That was stage one. says that while Waterloo was not well-known outside Southern Stage two began when the new branding framework sat down Ontario, those who recognized Waterloo defined it by its programs, beside the university’s current logo, which is a mash-up of the “specifically engineering, high tech, co-op, mathematics, and shield from the university’s coat of arms and the university name computer science.” There was something else, though: something in a relatively traditional-looking font. The prancing lions and unusual. “The predominant image is that University of Waterloo chevrons may be historic, and are definitely what everyone is stands out for being ‘dynamic.’ People choose words like unique, used to, but they don’t instantly convey Waterloo attributes innovative, connected, going places, ambitious, applied learning. such as innovative, unconventional, risk-taking, and creative. There’s a sense that something is happening there, that you are So graphic artists at the university, in consultation with Ove, on the move.” started drafting concepts in late 2008. Their mission was not That “notion of motion” became key later, when the graphic artists only to create a new singular logo for Waterloo, but to come began to develop new visual expressions for Waterloo’s identity. up with a way to identify faculties and other units within a

The team working on the branding project wondered if the word coherent visual identity. “innovative” had worn out its welcome. But Ipsos-Reid proved the More than 100 rough concepts were tried out. Early on, the team Maclean’s reputation survey, which has ranked Waterloo No. 1 for agreed the focus should be on Waterloo as a name, rather than innovation for 17 years straight, is no fluke. “The question was, UW. There are plenty of UWs out there – Windsor, Western, name the most innovative university in Canada, and Waterloo Winnipeg, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Warsaw – but almost doubled all the other institutions named,” says Savas. only one higher-ed institution named Waterloo. “That says, to me, you own that category.” By May 2009, a prototype logo had been presented to more than 300 people in selected focus groups: high school students; current students; faculty and staff; business and research partners of the university. Reception then was, generally, enthusiastic as the design was set in context of the larger branding initiative. »

Making a promise 29 Reaction was particularly enthusiastic at The controversy was covered locally, and in some national alumni council. Chair Bill Watson (BA ’76) said and international blogs on branding. National Post blogger that, from his perspective, Waterloo in recent Evan Thor summed it up best: “Waterloo has been one of years had become more conservative and had the most innovative universities in the world for many years moved away from the entrepreneurial spirit of and the new banners that adorn the campus act as striking its early days. “I look at this new logo design reminders of this. In this respect, the university has done a and I think, that’s the Waterloo I remember.” marvelous job of portraying their forward-looking vision and it becomes obvious that they have put in a significant amount The senior leadership team at Waterloo of time and effort to get to this point. approved the design direction in May 2009 and work began to refine the logo and visual “But it appears that they failed to represent all of the other identity system, with the first step being to get aspects of the organization that its stakeholders value. faculties to agree on an identifying colour for Thousands of students have already said that the logo doesn’t each. Pink for math and green for environ- represent the academic tradition and quality of education at ment were easy. The rest followed: blue for the university. They feel it ignores the professionalism that engineering; teal for applied health sciences; the faculty work so hard to instill in every graduate.” orange for arts; and deep blue for science. The university used its internal Daily Bulletin, plus the alumni The plan had been to refine the visual identity e-newsletter, to communicate about the controversy to faculty, system, introduce some elements of the staff, and alumni, as well as responding to the facebookers, the design in new street banners mounted around Federation of Students, and the Graduate Student Association. campus in July, have a series of introductory The university would continue to use the traditional seal on and consultative meetings in the fall, engage diplomas and other official documents, these communications social media to introduce the new look, made clear: a new logo was for marketing and communications. “sneak peek” the new logo in this issue of Waterloo Magazine, and then start rolling “Some have wondered, would the negative reaction have out visual materials in January 2010, with happened even if the logo had been introduced in context? the move to a new look being a gradual one, We’ll never know,” Beckel said, several weeks after Logogate as budgets permitted. erupted. She committed to reconsidering the symbol and “engaging our stakeholders in the process more broadly, And then came “UW Logogate.” since they have made it clear they are keenly interested In July 2009, a copy of the prototype logo in how we market this institution.” – quickly dubbed the “pew-pew!” logo for its And so, in fall 2009 – continuing through when this colourful, radiating lines that reminded some magazine is being published – Beckel and her team are back of lasers – was leaked and passed among a in consultation mode. few students. Three set up a Facebook group called “Students and Alumni Against the New The whole branding exercise, in the end, “is about telling the UW Logo.” And Waterloo, once again, was Waterloo story, about being an exceptional academic university at the frontier … this time, of a social media that is also different: an innovative place that is unconventional phenomenon. Within days, thousands, from and risk-taking,” says Beckel. “Personal taste aside, the visual the curious to the passionate, had signed up. identity system must convey our story and strengthen our Hundreds of satirical photos and videos were positioning so that we can achieve our Sixth Decade goals posted. Waterloo students were demonstrating and get people asking ‘What is happening at Waterloo and that Waterloo attribute of “creative,” in spades. can I be part of it?’ ”

30 New pole banners in dramatic black and vibrant colours went up around the Ring Road and in nearby streets in July, introducing the new font and bolder look.

Would the negative reaction have happened even if the logo had been introduced in context? We’ll never know.

meg Beckel, vice-president, external relations

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1969 Motorola Cellular, Clarke Transport, and Hewlett-Packard, Mark also The Canadian Sleep Society has volunteered with organizations such presented its 2009 Distinguished as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Junior Scientist Award to Carlyle Smith (MA Achievement of Canada, and the what are you up to lately? ’69, PhD ’71) “in recognition of a scien- United Way. He is also vice-chair Let your classmates know what you’re up to by tist who has made significant contri- of McMaster University Business sending a brief update to [email protected]. butions to the field of sleep research Advisory Council. Or visit our uw alumni e-community to update in Canada.” A psychology professor at www.ccfcanada.ca your profile at alumni.uwaterloo.ca/ecommunity. Trent University, Carlyle is now retired from undergraduate teaching, but 1976 continues to do research with his “The last time I met some of you was grad students in Trent’s Sleep Lab. at our 25th reunion, where we had put www.css-meeting.ca/distinguished on a little weight and lost a little hair,” scientist2009.htm writes Hubert Coutts (BASc ’76). “But the warmth and friendship were still 1973 so strong. My children were younger Mark Lukowski (BMath ’73; MBA then, and shorter. My sons are now McMaster) is now CEO of the both over six feet.” Hubert’s daughter Christian Children’s Fund of Canada Laura has arts and education degrees; after serving as interim CEO for six son Daniel has a law degree and was months. Formerly an executive at called to the bar in June 2009; son

Create North America’s greenest Instead, innovatively designed mid-rise buildings cluster around neighbourhood. Build it under the courtyards. Future residents can walk to shopping, schools, and worst economic conditions in years. recreation facilities. Green roofs and heat-recovery systems decrease And complete it in time for the dependency on fossil fuels. And public spaces abound, set against a » world’s premier sporting event. breathtaking backdrop of sea and mountains. Planning city That’s the challenge director of city In many ways, this unconventional community embodies Toderian’s of future a planning Brent Toderian career. As a student at Waterloo, he found his vision of what planning challenge (BES ’92) and his team face as should be – a holistic approach that considers the heart and soul of a of Olympic Vancouver gears up to host the city, its environmental, economic, social, and psychological elements, proportions 2010 Olympic and Paralympic not just the skeleton of its buildings and roadways. Winter Games. By his 34th birthday, Toderian was head of centre-city planning But what happens after the athletes leave is even more important. and design in Calgary. His holistic view of city development, can-do That’s when the showpiece of the city’s preparations, the Olympic attitude, and a certain disregard for accepted practices (a favourite Village, becomes the core of an urban community unlike any other. Toderian-ism is “Never let a rule stand in the way of a better idea”)

Located near downtown Vancouver, the village will house up to 2,800 attracted attention and accolades. In 2006, Vancouver hired him to athletes and officials during the Games. Once the Olympic flame moves guide its explosive growth.

on, the village’s buildings will become a mixed-use community. It must be a crushing responsibility to shape a community that will

With its range of medium- and high-density units, this community remain vibrant and viable far into the future. But for Toderian, “It’s will house significantly more people than traditional suburban a dream job. We are still struggling with many tough issues, but the neighbourhoods. But this development looks nothing like the crowded learning has been tremendous. This knowledge will be the legacy of concrete jungles that mar so many cities. the Olympic Village.”

Text: Beth Bohnert | Photo: Wendy D Photography, Vancouver

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Conrad and his wife Aneesa are 1987 expecting their first child. Hubert and Paul Schultz (BA ’87; MEd ’88, his wife Naomi are living in Delhi, Western) has published The Fuhrer where he is director of engineering, Virus (Eloquent Books, 2009), a thriller India for the engineering consulting set during the Second World War.

company Hatch. » The history grad has taught at Empowering [email protected] Courtice Secondary School, in the Ethiopia 1977 Oshawa area, since 1988. Gary Burkhart (MASc ’77; PhD 1990 The young woman sat by the edge of the dirt road, a toddler at Windsor) has been appointed clin- The first architect ever to win the her side and a baby in her arms. Less than a metre away, the ical service chief of the Psychiatric Royal Architectural Institute of Medical Unit of Saint Mary’s Health traffic of a busy African town hurtled by. But the children Canada’s Allied Arts Medal and a RAIC Care, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was sat quietly as their mother begged for money to feed them. award for innovation at the same time consulting neuropsychologist at Pine approached the small family, is Paul Raff (BES ’90, BArch ’92). In Susan Barthos (BIS ’76) Rest Christian Mental Health Services, June he was honoured “for outstand- offering a ball to the kids, who grinned with pleasure. As she Grand Rapids, since 1999, after man- ing creative achievement in projects pressed money into the woman’s hand, Barthos felt a sense aging his own practice for 15 years. that inhabit the space between art and of kinship with her. 1981 architecture, including his sculptural glass piece, Cascade, part of his “I realized we were the same and yet so different. I too was a Kevin Duguay (BES ’81) was multiple award-winning Cascade single mother, but my situation was so much easier. I had the Peterborough’s land use planner House, Toronto.” The honourable from 1989 until he started his support of my family and former husband. I had an education. mention for Innovation in Architecture own company, Kevin M. Duguay She had nothing.” was awarded for his company’s louvre Community Planning and Consulting, façade system. Paul Raff Studio is A Nova Scotia-based consultant specializing in change management in 2006. He now also teaches an based in Toronto and employs several urban planning course at Sir Sandford and conflict resolution, Barthos promotes the empowering effect Waterloo alumni. Fleming College’s Frost Campus in of education through pro bono work in Canada and abroad. Her www.paulraffstudio.com Lindsay, Ontario. own education includes a Bachelor of Independent Studies degree [email protected] Lea Tassie (BA ’90) added two more earned at Waterloo in 1976; she later completed certification 1982 titles this year to her list of published through Conrad Grebel’s Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies. novels: Cat Under Cover and Double A Timmins native, Glenn Sheculski In 2008, she began volunteering with the Canadian Bureau for Image, both by Felinity Press. Raised (BES ’82; BEd Toronto, MEd Nipissing) in northern British Columbia, the clas- International Education; she has since made two trips returned home this year when he sical studies grad and accountant has to the Wolaitta zone in southern Ethiopia, one of the world’s became the new director of educa- sold real estate, worked in repertory poorest countries. tion for the Northeastern Catholic theatres in San Francisco and New District School Board. He will lead York, “and put in a brief stint as a Her task – training members of a grass-roots development Catholic education in the Cochrane stewardess on a small freighter association in building partnerships – was made easier by the and Temiskaming districts. Earlier, he sailing out of Jamaica.” Finding that Ethiopian tradition of sharing. Despite heartbreaking poverty, was superintendent of education with “seasickness was a fate far worse the Waterloo Catholic District School community members willingly contribute time, money, and labour than doing tax returns,” she returned Board for two years, following 21 years to the association’s projects, including a fund that residents use to to balancing books as well as with the Northeastern board set up micro-businesses, a public library, and schools and shelters writing them. She lives in Victoria, as a teacher and administrator. British Columbia, and writes full time. for children orphaned by the ongoing HIV epidemic. www.leatassie.com 1985 Her challenge was to overcome an education system where, Out of 20,000 IBM employees in 1993 even at the post-secondary level, material is learned by rote. Canada, Tim Vincent (BSc ’85) is only Jeffrey Marquis (BES ’93) and Angela “Information is disseminated, but not discussed,” Barthos says. the third to be named an IBM Fellow Marquis (Buter, BA ’93) recently “Students aren’t taught to think analytically.” – the company’s top technical distinc- moved with their three children to tion. Tim, who works with the IBM To combat this, she created training materials that emphasized Korea, where Jeff, who has a master’s software group in Toronto, was hon- degree in education leadership, is problem-solving skills. “It was like I’d given them gold.” oured “for his continued strategic and the high school assistant principal of technical DB2 (database software) Now back in Canada, she is raising money for science textbooks Seoul Foreign School. They have been leadership across the Linux, Unix and lab equipment for one of Wolaitta’s high schools. working in education overseas since and Windows platforms.” 1994 and lived in Brazil from 1998. If you are interested in learning more about Susan’s work, “We visit our cottage on Lake Huron please contact her at [email protected]. every summer to keep our Canadian roots intact!” Jeffrey says. Text: Beth Bohnert | Photo: Susan Barthos [email protected]

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CREATIVE NETWORK Contact: John Knapp eMail: [email protected] Phone: 416.488.1033 x35 Norman Vincent Peale may have “Mama refused to get sucked into negativity,” he says. “There’s coined the phrase “the power of a lot of Mama in me.” positive thinking” but Mac Voisin Much of M&M’s success stems from Voisin’s keen observations of (BASc ’73) lives it. family life. With a dramatic increase in single-parent families, or In 1973, when Voisin graduated those in which both parents work, the question “What’s for dinner?” from university, he couldn’t find a has become a daily source of stress. job. Instead, he took the analytical For many families, M&M is the answer. “Our goal is to provide people skills he’d learned in Waterloo’s with restaurant-quality meals and help them get out of the kitchen “phenomenal” mechanical engineering quickly,” Voisin says. program and built a successful career in real estate development. Caring for others is another Voisin value. Remember those nine children? The four youngest were once wards of the local Children’s In 1980, when he couldn’t find » Aid, adopted into the Voisin family, where there was always room restaurant-quality steaks at the Food, for one more. family supermarket, he decided to source and and market them himself. The result is So it’s not surprising that the M&M culture includes compassion for philanthropy M&M Meat Shops, now Canada’s largest people whom others may have forgotten. Indeed, the company is a specialty food chain. major supporter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada. Through its Charity BBQ Day each May, M&M has raised more than Voisin’s success is based on hope and hard work, values he learned $18.5 million to find the cause and cure of these debilitating diseases. around the family dinner table. With nine kids, mealtimes at the Voisin house were “like a Boy Scout camp,” he says. He remembers What advice does Voisin have for new grads who find themselves in how his mother, despite the never-ending task of tending a large the same dismal economy he faced 30 years ago? The answer is family, took the time to instil tolerance, teamwork, and, most predictably upbeat: “Find what you want to do,” he says, “and of all, optimism in her kids. pursue it with passion.” Text: Beth Bohnert | Photo: M&M Meat Shops

1995 1997 Cameron also foresees a role for Catherine Merritt (Wilton, BA ’00), the system in aiding breast cancer Jason Merritt (BMath ’00) and Barbara Zvan (MMath ’95) is one Humantech, a workplace improvement surgery and detecting and treating Julianna, 2, welcomed second daughter of four Waterloo grads included firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, prostate cancer. Leah Victoria Merritt on December 20, among Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 by has promoted Blake McGowan www.sentinellemedical.com 2008. They live in Waterloo. Catherine Caldwell Partners International this (BSc ’97, MSc ’01), to managing is on maternity leave from her job at year. In 12 years, Barbara, an actuary, consultant. Blake, a kinesiology grad, 1999 the Economical Insurance Group and rose from an entry-level job with the also received Lean Manufacturing Ryan Marshall (BMath ’99) is also one Jason is a consultant for the Waterloo Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund to Certification from the University of Caldwell’s Top 40 Under 40 this Region District School Board. her current position as senior vice- of Michigan. year. Eleven years ago he was a co-op president, asset mix and risk. Among student at Research In Motion, work- Keith Parker (BASc ’00) has won a other achievements, she helped to 1998 ing on the first-ever BlackBerry. In the bronze award for New Business of create a risk analysis model that A note from Jason MacDonald (BA years since, he joined the staff, helped the Year from the Ottawa Chamber of identifies the risks the fund is likely ’98) and Tabitha Burridge (BA ’01): to develop the device’s technology Commerce, and recently was named to face as it invests over 40 years. “We met as political science majors in and expand it into Europe — and now, one of the Ottawa Business Journal’s 1996. We got engaged in Dyer’s Bay, at age 32, he is RIM’s vice-president Top 40 Under 40. The awards reflect 1996 Ontario on June 18, 2009, and plan to of operating systems. the success of Keith’s company, Marlo Raynolds (BASc ’96; PhD wed on the Isle of Skye, in Scotland, the Proposal Centre, “as well as my Alberta) has also been named one in summer 2010. We’re sure our old 2000 involvement with my community of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 by UW friends would love to know that Renée I.A. Mercuri (BSc ’00) and her association and with City of Ottawa Caldwell. As executive director we are finally getting married, as we husband Joshua Tusin welcomed their advisory committees.” of the Calgary-based Pembina were so close throughout university.” first child, a son, Maxence Tao Mercuri www.theproposalcentre.ca Institute, Marlo leads the organiza- [email protected] Tusin, on April 6, 2009, born at home. tion’s research, consulting, and Renée and Josh married in July 2006 A profitable business began almost advocacy work on promoting Cameron Piron (BASc ’98), and moved back to Toronto in 2007 by accident for Amelle Gadsby alternative energy sources and co-founder and president of Toronto- after a year travelling in Asia and Shillington (BA ’00), a voracious adapting to climate change. based Sentinelle Medical, has been three years living in Josh’s hometown, reader, when she found herself with www.pembina.org named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under Chicago. Renée is on maternity leave too many books and decided to sell 40 by Caldwell Partners International. from her position as communications some of them online. Sales went so His core technology, the Vanguard associate with the Retired Teachers well that in 2003 she launched her system for using magnetic resonance of Ontario. own online bookstore, UsedIsBetter. imaging in breast cancer detection, www.pastabroccoli.net Her husband, Ryan Shillington continues to push company growth. (BMath ’99), a software developer

Who's doing what? 35 with IBM, provided technical help with Press Group before joining Coach Karen W.Y. Cheng, BA ’96, MAcc ’96 Tom S. Lucas, BASc ’73 the website. Today UsedIsBetter is in House. Evan also writes and illustrates Adrian S. Clark, MSc ’70 Christopher R. Lutz, BSc ’75 Amazon’s top 10 per cent of online his own comic book: The Amazing Michael A. Clough, BSc ’80 Susan McCann, BA ’94 used book sellers. Ame and Ryan Challengers of Unknown Mystery. William Coomb, OD ’50 Gordon McDonald, BA ’81 live in Austin, Texas, with their two www.idontlikemundays.com Donald C. Craig, BMath ’74 Verdun G. McGrath, BASc ’67 small children. Delmer Crawford, BMath ’74 John S. McIlwain, BSc ’74, MSc ’77 www.usedisbetter.com 2009 Alan G. Davenport, DEng ’86 Murray A. McLennan, BSc ’67 Mike Halinski (BASc ’09) and Jeff Gregory W. Durward, BMath ’69 Stephen McMaster, BASc ’80 2001 Rutledge (BASc ’09) spent two George H. Dyer, BASc ’89 Detlef Mueller, BASc ’72 The fastest Canadian runner in the months this summer cycling across James H.N. Eastwood, OD ’51 Wendy E. Mundell, BA ’90 2009 Boston Marathon was Stephen Canada to raise funds for Amyotrophic George Eno, OD ’50 Brian C. Paul, BASc ’76 Drew (BES ’01), who finished the Lateral Sclerosis research, in memory Irene Ferkul, BA ’84 Latchman Bob Ramsarran, BA ’75, 42-kilometre race in two hours, 22 of the father of a classmate who died Achille Ferrusi, BASc ’74 PhD ’86 minutes, and 15 seconds. He came of the disease. They left Victoria, William P. Fry, BES ’74 Faye L. Scott Rieger, MA ’79 21st overall among 22,898 finishers. British Columbia on June 16 and, after David Garton, BSc ’74 William O. Rothney, MSc ’67 Stephen, a Waterloo Region health 6,500 kilometres, rolled into Halifax George Gillen, ’54 (STJ no degree) Debra L. Slater, MMath ’82 data analyst, is also the University of on August 14. By then they had raised David Gosnay, BES ’83 Peter W. Somers, BES ’87 Waterloo’s assistant cross-country about half of their goal of $5,000. John R.M. Goyeche, PhD ’69 Eldon W. Spence, OD ’32 coach. He was a member of the cross- Their website has been left up for Earl A. Grubin, OD ’28 Pauline G. Spencer, BA ’77 country Warriors as a student; later he online donations. John Hamel, MASc ’89, PhD ’92 Patricia R. Starkey, BA ’69 ran with the Canadian National Half www.als.ca/events/mysite. Nicholas J. Hathway, BASc ’63 Heather J. Stewart, BASc ’99 Marathon team in 2004. aspx?fid=3350 Gareth Havard, BASc ’95 Terrence L. Sullivan, BASc ’72 Gerardus (Gerry) Hilhorst, BASc ’82 Milton A. Teitel, OD ’50 2003 John J. Homppi, BMath ’78 Michael S. Terni, BASc ’93 Evan Munday (BA ’03) leads a hectic In Memoriam Brian Irvine, BA ’68, BPE ’68 Terri-Lee Theakston, BES ’93 life as publicist for Toronto’s Coach We recently received news of Robert J. Jerrard, BMath ’76, Henry Towner, BA ’83 House Books, attending an average the following deaths. Our sincere MMath ’77, PhD ’80 Catherine P. Tracy, BSc ’80 of three literary events each week. condolences to the family and Shreekant Jha, MASc ’76 Derek Weiler, BA ’91, MA ’94 The English rhetoric and professional friends of these alumni. Terri Lynn Kristman, BMath ’81 Gavin K. Welbourn, BMath ’83 writing major studied publishing Barbara C. Kuehn, BA ’79 Gerald D. Wheaton, BASc ’81 at Centennial College in Toronto Beth Agnew, BA ’08 Alan Lacey, MASc ’71 John R. Williams, MA ’88 after83390_uwmag_ad.qxd:grad graduation, then worked with ad John 9/18/08 W.J. Armstrong 11:17, BASc AM ’69 Page 1Jack E. Leisch, MASc ’71 Illa Shingadia-Windsor, MA ’82 Cormorant Books and the Literary Anna Berwick, BA ’94 Dennis Lobsinger, BASc ’83 Frank C. Zinszer, BA ’76

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M heey treatser, B Amany’ condolences to the family and of the same neuromusculoskeletal conditions.Maur Repetitiveice More strainau, B A ’ friends of these alumni. injuries, for instance, are common in dogsW thatillia mcompeteO’Far inre agility,ll Jr., B A ’ fly ball, and field trials. Gary O’Grady, BA ’ Ain Allas, BES ’, BArch ’ Emil C. Orsini, BSc ’ AStewartndy T. Ahasnd alwayserson been, BA interested’ in the way things work. He Diana R. Page, BA ’ Kwasn’taren E accepted. Avela rinto, BM Waterloo’sath ’ electrical engineering program, Michael Pansolin, BA ’ Wbut. H ao wrelativelyard Av inewson discipline, OD ’ – kinesiology – allowed him to Cynthia J. Prescott, BA ’ Hexplorearald C systemslemen ands B aprocessesier, of a different kind: the mechanisms Kathryn L. Quinn, BA ’ of MtheA Shumanc ’ body. Howard K. Redman, BSc ’ Alfred Banholzer, BES ’ Upon graduation, Stewart found limitedE careerrica Rpathsicha forrd son, BA ’ Thomas J. Barr, BMath ’ kinesiologists. “You could either work in Ra ogymber ort S dote research,”ven Rud d, BMath ’ James Beechinor, BSc ’, he says. He chose a different route. David J. Schonberger, BSc ’ MASc ’ With his interest in biomechanics, nurturedJoh byn Mthe. Sinstructioncrimgeo u r, BASc ’ Dane Berry, BA ’ Barbara Sivak, MSc ’, PhD ’ Joofn aWaterloothan A .professorsBlock, O suchD ’ as Don Ranney, Bob Norman, and Gurnam (Sunny) Sodhi, RPatalp hBishop,W. B chiropracticoerke, BSc seemed’ a natural choice. Stewart BASc ’ Ajfoundit K. hisBo kinesiologyse, BASc ’ degree put him a few strides ahead of Mary Anne Taylor, MASc ’ Chhisa rclassmatesles K. Bo –t zhe, BwasAS alreadyc ’ familiar with the equipment James H. Templeton, Nand. St manyuart Bofo theyle concepts., OD ’ BMath ’ Thomas G. Bullen, BES ’ As Stewart’s practice grew, more of his patientsAlfred askedB. T hhimorn toe ,lookBA ’ Ladislaus B. Byenkya-Abwooli, at their pets, and he decided to pursue certificationJohn T. Tr aasy nano ranimal, BA ’ enhance toadvance chiropractor.MA ’ After completing the 200-plus-hourJack W iecourse,be, B Ahe’ now, M A ’ Doffersavid S his. C servicesarlile, BthroughSc ’ local veterinarians,Ronal ind Paddition. Willia tom s, BA ’ Crunninghristian hisC ahumanrls, B Apractice.Sc ’ George R. Wright, OD ’ Mario Carniato, BA ’ In some ways, Stewart finds working with animals easier and even Bernardus Celliers, MASc ’ Due to a keying error, the 1957 2007 more rewarding than treating people. Animals respond very quickly Woon Kim Chia, MSc ’ name of Gary Curdie, BMath ’86, to chiropractic treatment, enthusiastically show their appreciation Gary W. Clark, BA ’ noted in the fall 2008 In Memo- Continuing Education • 519.888.4002 when they feel better, and, he says, “they don’t talk back.” Robert H. Clarke, OD ’ riam section, was spelled incor- Text: Beth Bohnert | Photo: Chris Chapman (BSc ’95) [email protected] • ce.uwaterloo.ca James Crouchman, BSc ’ rectly. 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For information on attending or sponsorship, contact Jim Hagen at 519-888-4567 ext 35433 or [email protected] mark your CALENDAR upcoming events « upcoming events | mark your calendarlet’s get together your calendar | upcoming events | markThe Office of Alumni Affairs hosts events on campus and events | mark your calendar | upcomingaround the world for all alumni. For details of the following alumni gatherings, visit alumni.uwaterloo.ca/events

January Waterloo: Fantastic Alumni, Staff, Faculty & Retirees Day, on campus, January 30 Trinidad: Trinidad alumni event, late January/early February DECEMBER MARCH Toronto: Dress to Impress alumni event, Banana Republic, December 3 March 5 late January Fifth anniversary concert Where Are We? February Orchestra@UWaterloo, 8 p.m., Vincent Miller, University of Dayton, Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall, free. Ohio, on “Responsibility, Spirituality, Palo Alto: Palo Alto alumni networking event, GooglePlex, mid-February [email protected] and Place in a Global Age.” Siegfried www.orchestra.uwaterloo.ca Hall, St. Jerome’s University, Los Angeles: Los Angeles alumni networking event, Canadian Consulate 7:30 p.m, free. December 8 [email protected] March Davis Centre Carol Sing 519-884-8111, ext. 28289 Waterloo: alumni theatre night, on campus, March 10 UW Chamber Choir, University Choir, www.sju.ca/lectures.html Calgary: alumni @ Calgary Flames, March 23 and Chapel Choir: Christmas concert with sing-along, Davis Centre Atrium, March 11-20 Calgary: Calgary alumni networking event, late March noon, free. Arcadia Vancouver: Vancouver alumni networking event, late March [email protected] UW Drama presents Tom Stoppard April 519-885-0220, ext. 24226 play, 8 p.m., Theatre of the Arts, www.grebel.uwaterloo.ca/music Modern Languages Building. Tickets: UK: UK alumni networking event $12 ($10 students, seniors) Box Office, 519-888-4908. jANUARY [email protected] January 8, 15, 22 519-888-4567, ext. 35808 www.drama.uwaterloo.ca SJU Mini-Course In a three-part series, Peter Erb, Wilfrid Laurier University, on “Facing a Secular March 14-19 March 25-26 MAY Age: Notes for the Modern Sceptic.” Waterloo Unlimited Bechtel Lectures in May 10-11 Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome’s University, Design Enrichment program for Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies Canada 3.0 7:30 p.m., free. Grade 11 students on campus. From James M. Harder, Bluffton University, The second Canada 3.0 forum [email protected] architecture and the environment on “Mennonites and Development: will spark ideas, incite discussions, 519-884-8111, ext. 28289 to science fiction and virtual reality, The impact of the current economic and create connections to www.sju.ca/lectures.html you’ll explore the theme of “design.” crisis on our communities, countries, Application deadline: postmarked and churches.” Conrad Grebel Great advance Canada’s digital future. by December 15, 2009. Hall, 7:30 p.m., free. Stratford, Ontario. FEBRUARY [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 519-888-4567, ext. 38242 February 3-6 519-888-4567, ext. 35176 519-885-0220, ext. 24264 www.unlimited.uwaterloo.ca grebel.uwaterloo.ca/bechtel www.canada30.ca Commedia dell’Arte UW Drama presents Italian improv, May 16-21 8 p.m.; matinee Feb. 6, 2:30 p.m. March 19 APRIL Muted and Maligned Voices Waterloo Unlimited Studio 180, Hagey Hall. Tickets: $12 April 7 Joe Gunn, Citizens for Public Justice, Vision Enrichment program for ($10 students, seniors) Box Office, Aging at Home on “Public Justice and the Canadian Grade 10 students on campus. From 519-888-4908. St. Jerome’s University and St. Mary’s Churches.” Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome’s eyesight to imagination and fine art [email protected] Hospital Foundation present a University, 7:30 p.m, free. to flight, you’ll see “vision” in a whole 519-888-4567, ext. 35808 discussion on the challenge of where [email protected] new light. Application deadline: www.drama.uwaterloo.ca best to care for the aged. St. Mary’s 519-884-8111, ext. 28289 postmarked by March 1. General Hospital, Heasley Hall, 911 www.sju.ca/lectures.html [email protected] Queen’s Blvd., Kitchener, 7 p.m., free. 519-888-4567, ext. 35176 [email protected] www.unlimited.uwaterloo.ca 519-884-8111, ext. 28289 www.sju.ca/lectures.html

« the last word

“We are all simply people”

Two years ago, I had a panic attack on a trip to But then, I reminded myself, my friend had had an Afghanistan. Frantic, hand-shaking, I tried to enormous team working on his release. He came back hide-run-escape from kidnappers that were to comfort, psychologists, standing ovations – whereas figments of my imagination. It was clearly time routinely people just as innocent are inexplicably yanked to pack and go home. from the fabric of Muslim societies, tortured, and released (or not) as empty shells, adrift. As the swarthy demonized As I ruefully discovered, however, it takes time face of Western fears, the mask of violence is glued to to recover from terror of the imagined. I spent their broken bodies (such threats to world security!), a year feeling guilt, loss of fearlessness (loss of when in fact it is the violence of a system that can me), betrayal, powerlessness – incapacitated believe such treatment necessary or legitimate that when I had so prided myself on resilience. is monstrous. It was hardly a glorious end to seven years of research/work/advocacy in a foreign land And so I cry for my friend while at the same time that had briefly become home. recognizing his enormous privilege. And I am more circumspect when working for causes. A friend of mine was released recently after being kidnapped by a self-styled al-Qaeda cell. In the do-gooder world, I find, we often aspire toward He’d spent much of his life advocating for his purity. But it doesn’t exist: not in us, not in them. We abductors’ region, only to be taken hostage, in expect applause for our humanitarianism, not realizing mortal fear for months. Hearing him talk post- the help is on our terms, conditioned on their thankfulness release about the tactics he’d used to maintain and “progress.” We require them to be noble victims, not morale, I was moved by his powerlessness, by allowing for the glorious intransigence of incivility and the terrible uncertainty of being a walking bar- selfishness everywhere. Yet deep down, we believe them gaining chip. I’d planned to fight discrimination to be incapable, corrupt – unclean somehow. It is the against Muslims as my post-Afghanistan project, Madonna/whore dichotomy applied to have-nots. And in but I wavered before his suffering. He and his the process we are all defaced, made into our passports – family had deserved better than months of fanatical terrorists, immoral Westerners – when in the end terror and the longer recovery I suspected lay we are all simply people, with some of us lucky enough to ahead. How could I champion those whose have a family who would care, hurt, and ask why if we brutality had become tangible, livid, inscribed were to someday disappear. in their agony? Sarah Kamal

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