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 24 issue 4 | 14 March 2002 http://iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca/ MoT and Semi- Co-op Tips - P.8 PCP: Should Feds sue Formal Pictures - P.10 the University? P.7 and 11 Playing and Acting in Our Engineering Society Re- Spare Time Election Systems) joked "The chicks dig it." What VP Finance: Dave Johnson, Grant Janna Hickson was clear from watching the group, how- he University of Waterloo’s Holohan ever, was that they truly loved what they TEngineering Society, seeing the nomi- WEEF Director: Erin Young were doing. nations and the vacancy in the VP Internal slot, decided to reopen the nomination Blurbs describing each candidate are on The play was not only a display of enor- period. These are the candidates for the page 5-6. 4B Systems mous dedication, but also skills. James six positions available: Rowe (Enviro-Chem), stood out in his There will be an election forum, where all n top of classes, these students were portrayal of Bob, an emotionally with- President: Josh Levitz the candidates will give their speeches and Olearning long soliloquies and doing drawn student. His delivery was both nat- VP External: Jeff Alfonsi answer questions on Tuesday, March 18th blocking. ural and convincing. Lisa Rehak (3B VP Internal: Amy Gill, Karim Lallani, and the election will be held on Systems) did a good job at balancing the Paul Paquet, Matt Strickland Wednesday, March 19th. How do engineering students manage to ditzyness of her character with a human VP Education: Jenn Bell, Emma Saask find the time to be in a play? aspect. She kept her character, which Please come out and vote! could have got annoying pretty quickly, One way that the group this term found entertaining. time to participate in this term's play, Moonchildren, is through 10pm practices. The math student Norman first appeared to Alex Matan (4B Electrical), who plays a be an extremely one-dimensional cliché. Market Researcher, added, "There was It was almost painful to see an engineering once a practice at 11am on a Sunday - that student portray such a negative depiction was the worst." of technical students. However, this char- acter developed a lot in the second act and Time isn't the only obstacle that the group was well-performed. had to face. They also had to be very mindful of the faculty of Environmental The characters overall were easy to relate Studies who generously let the engineer- to. Although the play is centered on a ing students use the "Green Room" for the group of graduating students living togeth- play. The students were required to com- er in an apartment in the 60's, they face pletely put up and tear down the heavy set issues which are not that dissimilar to con- after each of their dress rehearsals. This cerns of students today: impending war, made for some long nights. The stage relationships, parental expectations and manager, Sandra Lê commented.. "yeah, marks. we have to tear down everything, but you can't beat the price." Overall, this play is recommended. The 5$ is a fair price for the entertainment Why do they do it? Vasu Daggupaty, (3B value. Various Play Pictures:(All horizontal pic- tures from top to bottom, then the vertical picture) 1) Sandwiches for Protest 2) A guy reading a book, a girl blowing bubbles, and a musician. 3) Dick (Richard) speaks to Norman. 4) Merry Christmas to Ruth, from Mike and Cootie (Melvin) 5) Standoff between Dick and Bob. “Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner 2 Friday, March 14, 2003 Letter from the Editor pared what I wanted to do to what in it. Jonathan Ng I did do, I was pretty satisfied with The Newspaper of the University of myself. I could say I did some- 4) Sign off Waterloo Engineering Society 4B Computer thing worthwhile while I was here, and that to me is enough. Well, then, I’ll have to sign off for Editor-in-Chief another speed-editorial. I’ll Editor-in-Chief Hi! With this installment of my 3) Current Events promise to make the next one Jonathan Ng editorial I’ll have been the most longer. I hope you do well on Explorations was great (other than exams and projects. Assistant Editor sleepless cumulative in my entire Jay Liu 5-year career here in the the emergency with the barbecue). University of Waterloo. But this Campus Day was fun too. Gradball I’d imagine would be Photo Editor paper will still keep chugging on, Cindy Zheng-Ming Bao sleep or no sleep. great, but I seem to be the last per- Sung Hon Wu son on earth to get a table. There 1) Parking are going to be elections now, and- Layout Editor lots of people got pied. There’s a Hiu Lam Yau lot of stuff for people to do, and As I just realized, all the new Technical Editor buildings that have come up for it’s stuff that’s not always targeted Winona Tong (mostly) the Engineers’ benefit has to the same people. That’s a good a huge cost: space. It’s literally thing. Copy Editor John Olaveson impossible to have a event that 3) Spirit involves cars at the Davis Centre, Webmaster because there is simply no way to James Schofield park there. And as there was an Why is spirit important? I mean, emergency in the Explorations bar- it’s just people doing seemingly Distribution Manager Naoreen Hasan becue, I had to take precious time meaningless stuff, right? to get my car and get the buns Business Manager back. Luckily, nothing serious Well, it represents how well peo- Vacant happened while I was gone. ple work together. It’s very impor- tant for most engineers to work Staff Ryan Bayne My point is that space is at an together, because that’s what they have to do a lot of the time - most Ruchi Bhalla extremely high premium in the Jenelle Chen Engineering buildings now, projects are scaled so that it takes Kiran Dhaliwal because we’re building over that more than one person to do - even Joseph Fung space again, and again. This is the Hardware and Software pro- Jeff Henry jects. Janna Hickson going to work in the short term, Illan Kramer but what if we expand further? Sandra Lê I wonder what happened to José Penate 2) Looming End Electrical and Computer Kareem Shehata Engineering spirit? Do we have it? Was it there in the first place? The end is close. So close I can Contributors Why? taste it, see it, smell it. I’ll be Jeff Alfonsi done my Engineering degree in a Jenn Bell little more than a month from now. The reason I asked was that E&CE Dallas Card Having the end right in front of was having trouble filling out Dave Clegg Explorations and Campus Day David Johnson you is a lot different than having it Questions? Comments? booths. Afsheen Khan even one term away. You start to Josh Levitz dig up old memories, balance that We welcome letters and feedback Karim Lallani against what you wanted to do, These are very important issues, as from all our readers. Please email Daniel Martis and see if it matches up. And it they affect the very integrity of the us at: Mike McWilliam could. I found that when I com- program and the students who are Preya Mistry [email protected] Stephanie Purnell Dan Robinson Matt Strickland The Iron Warrior is a forum for thought provoking and informative articles published by the Engineering Society. Views expressed in The Iron Warrior are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Engineering Society. The Iron Warrior encourages submissions from stu- dents, faculty and members of the university commu- nity. Submissions should reflect the concerns and intellectual standards of the university in general. The author's name and phone number should be included. All submissions, unless otherwise stated, become the property of The Iron Warrior, which reserves the right to refuse publication of material which it deems unsuitable. The Iron Warrior also reserves the right to edit grammar, spelling and text that do not meet university standards. Authors will be notified of any major changes that may be required. Mail should be addressed to The Iron Warrior, Engineering Society, CPH 1327, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1. Our phone number is (519) 888-4567 x2693. Our fax number is (519) 725-4872. E-mail can be sent to [email protected] Friday, March 14, 2003 3 Opinion The Problems with IRS and IRC... What Does it Mean? Obviously, I was going to have to do er relevant. This way I still get to take part their approach will backfire. IRS is one of Kareem Shehata something about the references to God in the message, and the parts I didn't the few chances for us to let loose, if you 4B Electrical since that's simply something I don't appreciate didn't hinder me. put limits on that, what do they think the believe in. The second was that the whole reactions will be? Based on what I've seen thing seemed to revolve around mechies. What I don't understand is why did some from upcoming classes, I doubt they'll ased on what has happened over the Much fun as iron is, dedicating myself people take part in the ceremony if they have courtesy to use chalk.