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General Dallaire questions the world’s priorities I Friday, aMPRpril 1, 2011 Vol 33, no 33 I NT imprint .uwaterloo.ca Ron Tite provides a lot of laughs and good advice on Bomber stage Co-ordinators celebrate the past and look to a better future Friday, MMPRarch 18, 2011 Vol 33, no 31 I NT i M print.uwaterloo.ca I Fefe Dobson gives UW intense performance 5 days of living homeless photos by gina racine Ron Tite, vice president of innovation practice at Euro RSCG, made an appearance at the University of Waterloo on robert dziarmaga Tuesday evening at an event hosted by the Waterloo Advertising and Marketing club (WAM). Lt. General Roméo Dallaire spoke at uWaterloo’s Humanities Theatre about his experiences in Rwanda and humanity’s role in preventing humanitarian crises. Eduardo E. Ramirez The former received a quick response “with importance of democracy in order to survive dallaire expressed concern that, given pres- Gina Racine but also informative for those looking to “There is an entire army of choreogra- Asst. News editor all sorts of resources,” while rwanda was largely in this new century. ent policies regarding foreign conflicts, more editor-in-chief explore a career in the field he has clawed phers, and stylists, and musicians, and dJs, his way on top of. to which she refers to as the ‘haus of Gaga.’ ignored until it was too late. The western world lt.-Gen. dallaire was in charge of a failed powerful nations will not react quickly enough to had no interest in saving rwandan’s because 1994 un peacekeeping mission during the help the people in places such as libya, darfur, ccording to advertising guru ron “a lot of people think that branding it’s not, ‘they’re my schleps, they’re my team,’ ow do you measure someone’s level there weren’t any benefits for them, Dallaire rwandan genocide. he later wrote a book and congo. he said that until now, governments Tite, creating your personal brand is is advertising, but that’s bullshit, it’s not. they are in the house of Gaga. and there’s of humanity? according to retired brent golem claimed based on the mass slaughter called have only acted out of crisis management and about being honest, open, transpar- advertising is a component,” Tite told uW not just a lady in the house, there’s a bunch lieutenant-General roméo dallaire, Shake Hands h in his lecture “a communion of humanity with the Devil. that must change. “responsibility to protect is a students and others in attendance. of other people,” he said. humans have the global responsibility of Participants of this panel included service co-ordinators Zoe Miller and Kaythusha Sotheeswaran of the Women’s Centre, Shannon Dea from the Status of Women ent and genuine. preventing humanitarian crises and aiding the and the planet” lt. General dallaire explained he recently released a new book, They Fight a new concept,” he said. and Equity Committee, Derek Lindman from Male Allies Against Sexual Violence, Dave Mackay from Counseling Services, associate provost, students, Bud Walker, if you try to hide who you really are behind “The wardrobe you wear today is not you another key reason to Gaga’s success, a professional facade, people will eventually the person, it’s simply the clothes you wear.” according to Tite, is that she consistently developing world during times of struggle and to a room full of students the significance of Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and told the on a positive note, dallaire pointed out that director of UW Police Services Dan Anderson, and Ashling Ligate of the Sexual Assault Support Centre. see right through it anyway, he claims. When talking about the importance of puts her customers, or little Monsters as tragedy. leadership. uWaterloo crowd that war has changed and the there was real power in nGos, run by people on Tuesday evening, Tite took the branding, Tite used an ultra popular example she refers to them, first. The world did not listen to roméo dallaire “you can lead. you must lead – you must be enemy no longer respects rules outlined in the who are working in the middle of conflict and Gina Racine posters on top of female candidates’ posters school’s video cameras to try and determine point in time. “We’re still playing it by ear [and] Bomber stage for an event called you are of what he believes is an incredible personal “she has that tattooed on her leg! now when he warned the Western world about the engaged – you’re the leading edge of revolution Geneva convention. who can relate to the affected parties in a civil war. in being able to communicate with the world... during his lecture, dallaire also addressed he also squarely addressed the young people editor-in-chief in the recent election, in conjunction with not who is hanging the posters up. hoping by the end of reading week we can have your Brand, don’t f#&% it up, hosted brand — lady Gaga. i’ve got Kraft as a client. i would never get possibility of a rwandan genocide. The in- getting proper authorization for the hanging of “We’ve enhanced or increased the number of it open again,” she said. by the Waterloo advertising and Marketing “at the core, at the centre of her brand, ‘premium plus’ tattooed on my ass. it’s not naction resulted in hundreds of thousands of with humanity,” he said. the severe issue of child soldiers, particularly in the crowd, pointing out that only 15 per cent in his concern for humanity, he declared girls, who make up 40 per cent of the combat- of their population usually turned out to vote. number of groups participated in a those posters, would be considered mischief patrols that we’re doing through the buildings “The fact is we are easily accessible and club (WaM). is that she stands for something... what she going to happen,” he joked. gina racine rwandans being slaughtered, including more than 3,000 children. that the responsibility of global citizens was to ants recruited. if young people ever decided to consolidate, discussion panel on feb. 18 hosted by under the criminal code. to try and identify who is doing this and we are that’s the problem. people know where we are not only was Tite sucessful at educating stands for, and it’s been written 4,000 different Tite’s appearance was a free event brought GLOW and the Women’s Centre celebrated with cakes for their anniversaries in the Great Hall on Tuesday. the university of Waterloo and feds on “We’re investigating it at that light and also in- asking anyone who has any information that and most people can find us easily and we don’t his audience on advertising and branding, ways, but the way i think what she stands for to uW by WaM as they hope to get more lt.-Gen. dallaire wondered aloud if the “establish a communion between what humans unlike the boys, these girls serve multiple their influence could affect generations to a vestigating it on impersonation. When whoever may be relevant to this to contact us. i am sure want to be targeted. i want to protect all of world has learned anything from that tragedy. need and what we are able to be provided from roles, as cooks, sex slaves, and soldiers, dallaire come, he said. the recent sexism acts on campus. anecdotes of his personal experience in the is that people should have the freedom to be students involved in their on-campus mar- Greg Beneteau longest continuously operating queer university group in canada. “We pretty much don’t exist without the other. We’re best The panel came about after a number of sent the email purporting to be the president, that there is someone, or some people, out there our volunteers and people that use the centre advertising world provided a night filled and express themselves — that’s what she’s keting club. “are all humans, human?” was the question the planet.” explained. dallaire ended his lecture with a powerful incoming editor-in-chief for a time on Tuesday, the Great hall in the student life centre friends,” Miller said. since it opened in 1981, Women’s centre acts of hate speech in the form of sexism and and sending out those posters, would be, again, who will have some information and the more as a safe space.” with laughter. about. now going from that to i’m going to for more information about WaM, visit lt. General dallaire asked over and over to a dallaire appealed to students by declaring a liberal senator since 2005, dallaire has quote that summed up the power of democracy became a party hall, complete with an inflatable bouncy castle, has offered a safe space for women and trans women on campus full auditorium at the university of Waterloo’s that they need to “shape the future – don’t just worked closely with the canadian international in our modern world: “you hold the balance misogyny occurred on campus.