Note: This document is hosted here for archival purposes only. It does not necessarily represent the values of the Iron Warrior or Waterloo Engineering Society in the present day. 1 THE NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO ENGINEERING SOCIETY Volume 26 Issue 6 | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Stephen Harper LowRider tells you and the Jenga The iLife what you need tower Page 3 Page 11 Page 4 Check us out @ http://iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca/ Coming to a POETS near you! SHELDON PETRIE 4A MECHANICAL nother term is upon us and it is time Aonce again to welcome you all back for what will be a great term. For the term, the managers and pro- grammers have been working to come up with new ideas for the programming schedule and to find new uses for POETS aside from a movie theater. It is hoped that it can become more of a lounge again, where people can socialize, play cards, and, as always, study. But, first things first. The past 4 months have seen some big changes in a layout of POETS, most notably was the relocation of the large wooden table-tops from the sides of main seating area to the back where the dartboard and fooseball is, and to the upstairs study area. Also, the main bar has had some fantastic work done to the countertop, with labels of all the popular and not-so-popular beers served in POETS placed beneath a plexiglass cover. All of the work described above was Left: EngSoc Passport. Right: Fluid Mechanics. One of these books is fun. The other, not so much. done by the ever faithful B-Soc, but alas some work was also done by the A-Soc, mainly dealing with the sound system and EngSoc passport - Your passport to play! the running of conduit to all of the speak- ers to protect the wires, and to verify that are societies are separate, it would be very For the Waterloo passports, I’ve bor- all of the speakers were working. The new difficult to coordinate such a task. rowed UofS’ prizes. Similar to old letter- IRS clock has been delayed several weeks Furthermore, it’s very difficult to pre-plan man’s jackets, UofS’ EngSoc gives out the and will hopefully be up and running by event days, months in advance, inorder to letter “E” to people who can earn enough MOT at the very latest. It will feature the have everything in time for printing. I put points. If you are able to earn 150 points, old clock in a new housing, and a brand NICK LAWLER the project on the backburner until I you will get a gold letter “E” with the new 5-year countdown to feature all cur- PRESIDENT became your President in January 2005. term printed on it. 300 points gets you the rent classes countdown. B-Soc has also That same month I attended the 2005 ver- gold letter, plus a black one. These can be bought a toaster for patrons to use, so we hile I was serving as VP-External sion of CFES Congress, this time hosted placed anywhere you like, backpack, cov- can finally toast our C&D bagels! Also, back in 2004 I attended the CFES by UofT. At this conference the eralls, leather jackets, you get to decide. W new metal bar stools have been brought in (Canadian Federation of Engineering The Passport is like your personal P**5 and the old ones have been relegated to the Students) Congress in Victoria, BC. contest. If you can get to that level, you upstairs and back of the POETS. While talking about ways to emprove are honoured enough to wear the patch. Now for the programming changes we EngSoc events, spirit, etc., I was told You may be thinking, this Passport is are hoping to implement. Starting now, about an excellent program running at only for the hardcore EngSoc types. Well, “... go out and get your there will be no more than 4 days of Carleton University in Ottawa. They dis- no it’s not. It is a complete listing of our movie-based programming per week. tributed small booklets in all of their frosh Passport ... promote it events, so if you are only interested in a Alternate programming ideas are also kits. These booklets had all of the EngSoc few events, you always have a guide let- to your friends” being explored such as an all-music after- events for the whole school term (Eight ting you know about them, and maybe in noons, karaoke, SpikeTV day. In the event months, no co-op at Carleton). By attend- the process you can learn about others that that these efforts fail spectacularly, movies ing events you got your Passport stamped, you may like to do. will likely be returned, but we still would each valued a particular point value. By I call on every one of you to go out like to encourage people to come out to accumulating enough points you were and get your Passport, they are available POETS and have fun. As always, Bar able to purchase your “flight suit”, which University of Sasakchewan had made in the Orifice (CPH 1327) during business Services will be available on Thursdays are basically coveralls with the Carleton Passports, using Carleton’s idea. This hours. Plus promote it to your friends and and Fridays from noon till 4 pm. EngSoc logo all over them. It was a big inspired me to make it here at Waterloo. I classmates, the time you spend earning POETS is always available for booking privilege to been seen in your coveralls, knew it would be a difficult task, but I your undergraduate degree should be both after 5 pm most days. Please see Betty in since you earned the points to do it. knew my execs and I were up the task. As enriching and pleasurable. I’m sure you the Orifice to fill out a booking form. I thought that was a great idea. The a result we planned the entire term during remember the motto from Frosh Week, Comments and suggestions can be sent problem was doing it at Waterloo. Since the Winter co-op term, and pushed the engineers work hard and play hard, and to the POETS management at poets@eng- we are changing every four months, and Passports into production. this Passport is your passport to play. mail. 2 Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Letter from the Editor the main attractions of Key West is the before. I thought back to my first IW meet- series of bars that are present. ing, and tried to ensure everyone felt We also waded out into the Gulf of somewhat included through the barrage of The Newspaper of the University of Mexico with random bits of sea life, but as ASoc / BSoc jokes that I’m sure no first Waterloo Engineering Society none of my companions had any back- ear (or me) understood. More than once I DAVID YIP ground in marine zoology, they remained asked myself “Wow, how did Andre Editor-in-Chief EDITOR-IN-CHIEF random bits of sea life. Still, every vaca- [Previous ASoc editor] do it? It’s been an David Yip tion has to end, and Friday at 3 am saw me hour and I have three article ideas!” Minor ssue I. Issue I was a bit hectic. Having at West Palm Beach airport again. Taking panic occurred sporadically in my head, Assistant Editor Itaken an enormously enjoyable and irre- advantage of free wifi, I popped into my though hidden under the calm composure Charling Li sponible trip to Florida, I showed up on email boxes, and then it all began. MSN practised through a few games of Texas campus a week late, cutting into produc- messages from the Waterloo set spoke of Hold-em. “This leadership thing is no Photo Editor tion by week. The end result is what you the whisperings that occurred at BOT of joke!” I mused, in one of my deep intellec- Richard Hui see here, which I cannot say is too shabby, my disappearance. Emails asked when the tual musing sessions. But it is through having managed to fill 12 pages with extracurricular activities such as Layout Editor content. This is just as well, as BSoc school teams, papers, clubs and activ- Katherine Chiang editor James Schofield answered this ities that something happens that old- issue’s Iron Inquisition with “An 8- timers call “building character.” Technical Editor page Iron Warrior”. Pictures take up a Because really, anybody can develop [Vacant] fair bit of this issue, serving the pur- some sweet number crunching skills. poses of reporting a bit of news, Anyway we have respectable Webmaster indulging my photo habit, as well as issue on hand I think, a new Cindy Bao taking up valuable space. LowRider (Now with pictures!), a Now, the trip to Florida. Everyone somewhat odd description of how I Advertising Manager else on the trip was blissfully could be potentially stalked by one of [Vacant] unaware the world of co-op, and sum- the writers, a pair of album reviews (I mer for them meant summer in the also recommend “Heart” also by Distribution Manager traditional sense, that is, no school. I Stars). The dislike of PDEng is also [Vacant] was the only co-op student there, covered in both verse and prose in Offstream Editor-in-Chief meaning I was the only one with three What the heck is that? I had no clue. one issue; hopefully with feedback rapidly filling email boxes by the end during the the PDEng feedback ses- Dan Arnott of the trip, two personal ones and of course meetings where, when the deadlines sions, things will improve and future edi- the one of this paper.