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Keep the Landlord in line
The off-campus housing situation
in Waterloo has never been great. And,
with first year enrollment increasing
throughout the province, nothing is about
to change. While the University' s pro-
posed townhouse complex at Westmount
and Columbia may alleviate the problem
somewhat, the overall picture will no
doubt remain bleak.
And yet, finding a place to live
off-campus does not necessarily signal an
end to a student's housing woes. In the
Waterloo area, many landlords (and
landladies) take advantage of student
tenants. University students, with their
in'herentLy transient lifestyles, make
attractive targets for unjustified rent
increases, poor upkeep of rental units
and even illegal evictions, as illustrated
by the following examples.
Two summers ago, a townhouse
complex located near Sunnydale was
sold. At the time of sale, three of the six
units were occupied by students. The new
owner explained to the students that, for
a variety of unpleasant reasons,they
should consider moving. Although they
could legally remain in their homes (the
lease signed with the original landlord
was still binding), all of the tenants chose
to willfully terminate their leases. By that
fall, all the new owner/ s horror stories
turned out to be false, and the entire
complex was full of students - The rent
had almost doubled.
This past summer, six girls were
evicted from a house where they had
been living for years. The owner stated,
as his reason for the eviction, that he
required the use of the premises as his
own residence. The eviction was to take
place on August 31. On August 30, a
notice went up on the Campus Centre
housing board advertising that the house
was for rent, to Oriental students only.
The rent was increased by 75 percent.
These are likely not isolated
incidents. As student tenants ourselves,
we should be making sure that this sort
of thing happens much less frequent/yo
A first step is to become more
aware of landlord and tenant rights. A
good, concise source of information on
this topic is a book published by WPIRG
(find out what WPIRG is later in this
issue) titled " Kitchener-Waterloo
Tenant's Guide 1985". This book would
be useful to first-time and veteran
tenants alike. In the book, you will also
find a list of other sources of information.
But the real secret to eliminating
landlord abuse is communication. By
maintamlng a flow of information
between past, present and future tenants,
the chances of a landlord acting under-
handedly can be minimized. The campus
Legal Resource Office is taking steps
towards this by compiling a lease bank.
But you can do your part too. It' s not
very difficult to drop by your old place
next year to see how the new tenants are,
doing. If you can/t drop by, drop' them a
letter, or leave word with a neighbour.
Putting a stop to the abuse of
student renters is long overdue. Let' s
make a point of helping each other out
{rom now on.
See the World!
An engineer/ s education should
not stop upon convocation. Before
beginning their jobs, young engineers, or
an:y student far chat matuT. should see
the world.
Hitch-hiking around a country,
living in a different culture for a
finding out about different people all aid
in making a competent, well-rounded
engineer. A few months of travel can
open up your mind's eye to many new
aspects of everyday life and people.
According CO the new president
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME), HThe increasingly
complex world requires engineers who
understand not only technology, but its
impact ort the world and the world's
effect on technology". Dr. L.S. Fletcher,
associate Dean of the College of Engi-
neering at Texas A. & M. went on to
say that there Is a call for greater
emphasis on the human --non-technical--
side of engineers and engineering, urging
more attention to an, philosophy, history
and sociology. He stressed that engineers
should find out more about other people.
Travelling experiences can be,
more educational than -yeaTS of stud,
(and more fun). The experience is inva-
luable - ask anyone who has travelled.
An IBM Manager once
informed me that he believed a blank
time frame on your resume, travelling for
example, shows a Lack of direction. I
have to totally disagree. It shows that a
person is multi-dimensional and realizes
that there will be plenty 0/ time to push
mechanical pencils and play office poli-
tics in the future.
The travelling experience is not
simply seeing the sights; it' s meeting the
people, it's the adventure of being some-
where that you/ve never been and where
you know no one and it' s the challenge
of surviving with a back-pack and a
budget.
There are also many ways
around the expenses of travel. I, for one,
would much prefer to stay in a youth-
September 1985
hostel or a campsite than a hotel.
Cycling, hitch-hiking and youth train
passes are cheap modes of transportation.
One suggestion if you go abroad
- wear a Canadian Flag. We are not
Yanks. Canadian traveUers are welhe-
ceived in most countries and usually
serve as fine ambassadors. And there
are a lot of us. In a recent survey at a
New Zealand Youth Hostel, the number
of Canadians that entered was second
only to the youths of neighbouring Aus-
tralia. The number of Americans, with
ten rimes our population was, near the
bottom of the list.
Finally - doni .! wait too long.
It/ s easy to say that there will be plenty
of time to travel in the future . Even
though this is probably true, there is no
time like the present that we have total
freedom and very few commitments. See
the world.

Niraj Bhargava
Andre Roy
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Computer ees
POINT
by W.c. Lennox, Dean of Engineering
The editor requested that I
speak "for" the computer fee. I wish to
make it clear that I am "for" disarma-
ment, good government, a nuclear
freeze, and motherhood. I am "against "
discrimination of any kind and beauty
pageants. -
In my view, the issue of
increased fees and increased tuition is
an entirely different matter. I have
written articles about the concept of
the computer fee in three previous Iron
Warrior articles. For Engineering, the
problem is two-fold:
1. Cost of new technologies
2. Continued underfunding of the
Ontario University System.
The new technologies - com-
puter, computer-related, such as
CAD/CAM, robotics, etc., bio-tech-
nology, to name but a few - have had a
significant impact on engineering prac-
tice and, consequently, on.. engineering
education. It is imperative that, if our
graduates are to be productive, they be
familiar with these technologies. The
cost of introducing the above is stag-
gering. We were struggling with
increased obsolescence before this
"revolution" because of a lack of
equipment funds.
Much has been said about
university underfunding - so much per-
haps that one is tired of hearing about
the issue - but it is a fact and it is seri-
ous.
by Tom Fulton
That $1 B50 voucher that Don-
ald McDonald is proposing for students
reaJly impressed me. I can see it now:
50 cents off WPIRG, 75 cents off
Radio Waterloo. You get a special
bonus prize if you manage to unload all
your vouchers before t hey expire: a
- The 1981 "Fisher Report" on post-
secondary education recommended
increased funding. It was totally
ignored by the education minister who
requested the study.
The 1984 "Bovey Commission
Report" clearly recognized that the
"system was in jeopardy". No action
has been taken on that report, which,
again, was requested by the ministry.
The "Fisher Report" was an
internal study within the ministry. The
"Bovey Report" involved non-govern-
ment individuals from the private sec-
tor. It has been estimated that, if the
recommendations of the Bovey Report
were accepted, the increase in funding
to the University of Waterloo would be
of the order of $20 M per year! Even
the Federal Government has received a
report - The Johnson Report - which
shows that Ontario is not passing on
the funds it is receiving for post-secon-
dary education in the Federal Govern-
ment's transfer payments to provinces.
All of the above refers to the
university system on average. Programs
such as Engineering at Waterloo that
are at the leading edge of their profes-
sion - a fact recognized by industry and
other educational institutions, clearly is
handicapped by the present funding
system. Perhaps there are too many
engineering schools in Ontario, but this
is a political problem.
personal visit from Donald's brother
Ronald.
I wonder how much we'll get
off textbooks. I was worried that when
tuition went up 22.4%, the cost of
textbooks would foJlow. Luckily text
books only went up 22.2%.
Why don't some of these profs
get off their butts and start ragging at
McGraw-Hill. I don't know about you,
but I think I'd be able to live with soft
covers and uncoated paper. I don't
know what I'll put on the mantle shelf
at home, maybe I can get hardcover
and glossy Harlequin Romances.
Perhaps the university can save
some money by printing these vouchers
on the extra paper they buy with the
$100 computer fee. After all, with 8
Apples to share amongst our class of
86 students, I'm sure we won't have
time to use it.
If we wait for government to
act on the recommendations of its own
sludie , \ e will be well into the ne t
ice-age. The alternati e i to look 10
other source: indu tr, alumni and
tuden! .
Bovey indicates that tudenls
now pay approx. 18% of the cost of
their education. Both Bovey and the
recent McDonald Report recommend
higher tuition. 1 have no doubt that
students will pay more for their studies,
but, since tuition increases can only be
imposed by government, the alternative
is to resort to specific fee program.
Many schools now charge a
variety of incidental fees . I have listed
some of these in previous articles. Two
engineering programs - Queens and
McMaster - now require ("strongly
recommended") students to purchase or
lease micros - of the order of $2000. T
am sure we will do the same in one or
two years when the "3M" machines are
available. - 1 Meg, 1 million pixels and
1 MIP at a cost of approximately
$ 1000. In the meantime, we are doing
our best to provide an adequate equip-
ment and people - faculty and staff -
environment. In the past three years,
we have acquired over
$1,OOO,OOO-worth of equipment - gifts,
borrowed and bought. One
WATSTAR/PC (30 stations) costs
$200,000. Even a gift has maintenance
and operating costs. Thirty dollars of
the $100 fee will be used by Engineer-
ing to maintain and enhance our com-
puter environment. The remaining $70
is a university fee to offset the costs of
computing at- the university level.
Waterloo now spends more in this area
than any other university.
I believe the fee is justified
and I will keep you posted as to
expenditures regarding the $30 regu-
larly.
COUNTERPOINT
I shouldn't be so negative, but
as I recall this fee is for a maintenance
fund only, not a capital fund. 0 I ask,
how can 8 Apples use $8600 in paper
and repairs in 4 months? Actually,
that's not quite right. There's also, as a
special time limited offer, for abso-
lutely almost no extra charge, a free
bonus CMS account. We don't have
any assignments or project to do on it,
but that's beside the point. Never look
a gift Dean in the mouth.
It wouldn't be so bad if we
were actually learning something tan-
gible with these computers. In the four
years J've been here I've done two
things with them: plug data into ready-
written software on micros, and copy
my computer assignments from grade 9
and 10 into CMS accounts and run
them with new data.
One of the projects I had in
IndepetHhna,
owned end
operated
Molt - FrI: t 8m.' pm
a.t: lam-Ipm
Pulp and Paper on my last work term
was installing strain gauges on the legs
of a digcslor to monitor cookin' liquor
and wood clUJ) ratios. Good thing I
hadn' t leurned anything about inter-
facing. 11 would have tllken me twice
as long to cut through all the theoreti-
cui trash we would JUlVC been given.
Reality is funny thilt way.
Maybe ill> just the Mechanical
Engineering Department that's stili in
the dark ages. Do you folks in Electri-
cal/Computer Engineering or om-
puler Science think you're getting $100
worth of USEFUL computer educa-
tion? (After all, it you're not learning
anything, we don't need to maintain
the computers now, do we?)
Write a letter to the IW edi-
tors. Let's tell the Dean what we
expect to gel for our $100 since we're
gonna pay it no matter what!
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The Image
by Alex McGowan
It's been a long time coming,
and probably has a long way to go, but
I think that the public' s opinion of
professional engineers is actually
becoming less religious. [ may be
wrong, but allow me to elucidate by
offering some examples for your con-
sidera tion.
A few years ago (in my Cheap
Labour days), I was working on the
construction of an office complex in
British Columbia. For speed of
assembly, we were to erect the entire
girder framework first, with drywall,
glazing, plumbing, etc., to follow. The
sixth storey was almost done when
gale-force winds forced a stoppage in
construction. When we came back to
work, it was discovered that the entire
structure had been tilted out of align-
ment by a foot or two - just enough so
that none of the wall or floor panels
would fit into the framework. As a
result, all of the girder construction
had to be disassembled and rebuilt
with all-new material. See. this town
doesn't normally get heavy breezes, let
alone gales and the prevailing winds
don't come from that direction. So
when it came time to blame someone
for the extra cost and construction
delays, guess who took the heat?
Of course, the supervlslOg
engineer was expected to be able to
second guess the meteorologist and
Mother Nature. He should have fore-
seen the problem and taken steps. etc.,
hich j what engineer and engineer-
ing students have been told ever since
when. The point of this little anecdote
is that it happened in the mid-seven-
ties, around the time of the Hyatt
Regency skyway in Kansas
City (and around the time that the film
"The Truesteel Affair" came out). The
prevailing attitudes at that time are the
ones I came into university with: the
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Changing
Dean of Engineering at the University
of Alberta told me that "engineering is
the Supreme Art and Science of Man-
kind". Mind you, that was a few years
ago, when Deans of Engineering spoke
in upper case letters (this, too, may be
changing).
At that time, as had been the
case in the engineering profession up
until then, engineers were seen as
infallible demigods who could design
anything, anywhere, with any materials.
They never made mistakes and never,
ever, failed to do whatever was asked
of them, no matter how difficult. In
1960, as we all know, President Ken-
nedy gave NASA engineers thier own
Grail - to put a man on the moon by
the end of the decade (I'm sure that, jf
he were alive today. he' d say, "I meant
'a personllf). In the summer of 1969,
they did just that, thus reinforcing the
image of the superhuman engineer. A
little nationalistic trivia: most of the
engineers at NASA in the 60's were
Canadian, having migrated southward
after the Diefenbaker government
scrapped the Avro aircraft program.
So if the subject ever comes up at a
party, now you know. (Another aside:
you may notice how NASA cleverly
took the entire decade to accomplish
their task. This practice of stretching
a government-funded project out as
long as possible is known in academia
as Flogging the Grant, which in this
case had the added benefit of making
space travel appear difficult. Had the
NASA engineers done tbe job in, say,
two or tree ar , he w u n ver
have been forgiven - nobody likes a
show-off.)
After the handshaking and
lionizing were done, the dust settled
and the engineering profession found
itself in what Tom Wolfe called the
Me Decade. when public opinion of
engineers took a turn for the worse.
People began saying things like, "sure,
Al McGowan
President of the Engineering Society
engineers made Neil Armstrong
famous, but what have they done for
me lately?"
Some of the answers they
came up with weren't pretty. Engi-
neers were, apparently, responsible for
building nuclear fission reactors, atomic
warheads, low-level cruise ,missiles and
Ford Pintos. A kind of double-image
Frankenstein was created: engineers
saw their public image as Titans of
Applied Science suddenly turning into
a liability; while the public saw those
to whom they had entrusted the ste-
wardship of technology as betraying
that trust. After all, it was said, engi-
neers, of all people, should have known
better than to play with nuclear fire, or
to allow an automobile to be produced
with an exploding gas tank or.. . well,
you ge t e i ea.
So it has been for the past
decade or so, but r sense a change in
the wind. The latest trend in journal-
ism would seem to bear out this theory
and public opinion will surely follow, as
it always has. People are now saying
things like: "Wait a second. Maybe
public demand for cheap and readily
available products is one of the reasons
Words 'from the End of the Tunnel
by Ric Dunda. and Chris Omiecinski
The Price You Pay
Oh the price you pay, Oh the price you
pay
Now you can't walk away from the
price you pay
Now they'd come so far and they'd
waited so long
Jus( to end up caught in a dream
where everything goes wrong
Where the dark of night holds back the
light of the day
And you've gotta stand and fight for
the price you pay
Bruce Springsteen
The Price You Pay.,
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You know, if you look hard
enough or you Ii ten long enough, you
can always find omething in the Bo s'
lyrics that pertains to any situation.
And it seems like in this ong Bruce
has hit the nail on the head.
Frankly, we believe that "the
price you pay" sometimes gets a little
out of line. Now don't get us wrong -
it's not that we expect to get our edu-
cation for free or even at rock bottom
prices but lately it's been getting a lit-
tle hard to take.
We can sit back and reminisce
about the Glory Days when a textbook
t'hat cost $50 weighed 50 pounds.
Nowadays what you pay $50 for you
can put in a leuer-sized envelope and
mail for 34 cents. Damn, if we knew
back then the payoffs were so good we
would have gone into publishing. We're
sure you all remember well the feeling
of utter helplessness you experienced in
the line-up at the bookstore buying
your required texts. You can bet that
Prentice-Hall doesn't share these feel-
ings as they review the profits for the
lmporltrs
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around we' ve contributed enough
money to be major shareholders.
What really bothers us is that
what you pay for any sized engineering
text is AL WAYS more than what you
pay for the equivalent sized text from
another faculty. This seems a hard and
fast rule approached in reliability only
by Newton's First Law. Furthermore,
there appears to be a campus wide
conspiracy to force engineers to buy
more expensive hard-cover texts. Ever
see an arts stu'dent waltzing around
with an armful of hard cover books?
Looks like soft covers accompany soft
degrees.
Enough about text books ... how
about the incidental fees? We predict
that soon you'll be paying a fee just to
cover the cost of listing all the fees on
your tuition statement. As well, there's
likely to be an extra charge to pay for
the 8 1/2" by 17" paper that will be
required. And' another thing. How
many of you read all of the sheets of
paper that accompanied your tuition
statement? If you didn't you should
have because you payed for them. And
wasn't it nice of the university to pro-
vide you with an envelope to mail your
payment in? Hope you used it because
you paid for that too! Just WAT is
going on here?
Let's not get too cynical
September 1985
for high levels of acid rain. Maybe
high energy demand and rising costs
are the reasons for building nuclear
reactors. Maybe the production of
atomic weapons is a political decision,
rather than an engineering one," and so
on. Not many people are saying this,
you understand, but lately the newspa-
pers have been considering the remote
possibility that aircraft malfunctions
are not entirely the fault of the engi-
neer, and that some things are just
plain unpredictable, including the
weather conditions and terrorist
attacks.
Of course, engineers are
responsible individuals, and any
designer is obligated to produce goods
that live up to certain standards of
safety and performance. Engineers are
professionals, and as such are expected
to act professionally and competently.
They are expected to bear much of the
blame for allowing the proliferation of
nuclear weapons to continue as much
as any other member of our society,
with the ex.ception of Caspar Wienber-
ger. The decision to participate in
such affairs is a personal one, whether
the individual is an engineer or not.
As an example, one of my classmates
turned down a job offer from a com-
pany noted for its endeavours in the
production of military equipment. It
was not an easy choice, given his
financial situation, but he had the right
to make that choice, as did the indi-
vidual who eventually accepted the job:
this should be the case in any profes-
sion, and engineers should not be sin-
gled out of the crowd to take the fall
for the arms race (although, I repeat,
we are no less culpable than anyone
else).
Therefore, I think that the
perceived change in public opinion is
for the better. Sure, it's going to be
tough not having the adulation of the
masses, but at least we won' t have to
live up to expectations of superhuman
capabilities. Which makes it easier to
-get out of bed in the morning.
though. There are a few things around
the university you can get for free:
sports equipment loans from the PAC,
course calendars from the registrar's
office, books from the library, dis-
counts for being a "Fed", and a vote in
the Fed elections. Of course, you must
have your student card which you paid
$4 to have your smiling face on.
We don't want to be taken as
pessimists (cynics yes! pessimists no!)
but things could get ridiculous if cur-
rent trends continue. For instance, are
seat location fees far off? What will the
boys in the row do when they
have to pay a premium to see the pores
of the blackboard? Will it cost a quar-
ter to enter the classroom or a dollar
for 5 minutes of a T.A.'s time? The
possibilities are endless !!
As Bruce says, wOh the PriG,C
you pay!"
Next Issue: "Danein' in the Dark"
September 1985
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Orientation: the Frosh Speak
by Lynda Wilson and Jansje Franck
Uncertainty, fear, homesick-
ness - all disappeared during Frosh
week. Until it happened, we didn' t
know what to expect. Sure, we' d all
heard stories, but which were we sup-
posed to believe? Many of us had been
warned about the drenching we would
get during our class picture. We hadn't
been told it was just the beginning of a
wet week.
If a pail of water wasn' t
enough for one day, the feared "Edu-
cation Committee" entered some of us
in the fountain relay race. After this
welcome, some people might not have
come back. However, free beer, sym-
pathetic big brothers and sisters, and
our curiosity got the best of us. By
Wednesday's BBQ, we had already
started thinking like Engineers: hon-
ouring the TOOL, chanting the Plum-
mer's Hymn, pushing buses, and hunt-
ing Mathies' ties.
While Engineers are usually
indestructible, there are some places
engineering frosh should not walk
alone. Some of us got soaked in the
villages and the Math building. We
learned that Engineers always stick
together against the world. However,
A Frosh 'gathering' by the Math BUilding
there's nothing wrong with a little
inter-section rivalry - especially for
P*S points.
Everyone knows that Engineers
are hard workers willing to stay up all
night studying. Our quest for P**S
points led us to our first all-nighter.
The Havenger Scunt had us travelling
all over Toronto, Niagara Falls, Buf-
falo, and K-W in search of photos, bar
receipts, igloos and 4th year nurses. At
dawn, a parade of Engineers were
walking through wet grass to wake up
the students in residence.
No matter what campus people
think, Engineers really are caring peo-
Whiz kids with no time for fun?
by Sandra Jeppesen
Most of you by now have
probably read or at least heard about
the 'rave' reviews "Waterloo Univer-
sity" received in the Toronto Star of
June 29th. J read it on the beach at
Grand Bend, where about fifteen of us
from this Yuppie university were sip-
ping gin and lemonade, windsurfing,
swimming and sunning, but definitely
not having fun because we didn't have
any time for that.
The only conclusion we could
reach was that Jack Cahill, who wrote
this enlightening article about Water-
loo, must have formed his opinion of
our school before he even ventured
onto its "neat, orderly, efficient, cold,
business-like, somewhat overcrowded
campus" to obtain a few quotations
that would verify his preconceptions.
After all, he called us "Waterloo Uni-
versity", referred to the Feds as the
*Student Federation", and blatantly
misnamed our beloved Fed Hall "Con-
federation Hall". Furthermore, he
failed to even mention that we have an
excellent school of Architecture and
Environmental Studies, as well as the
only English-language Optometry pro-
gram in Canada. Perhaps these inex-
cuseable errors and omissions would
not have been made had his research
been more complete.
From his article I got the
impression that we are nothing more
than a herd of stampeding anti-socials
pushing each other aside in a mad rush
to be first in line for a job at IBM.
The profound remark of ex-Imprint
editor George Eliott Clark that "Mostly
it's a factory. You're in and you're out*
only added to the image or a school
filled with robots that obviously don't
care about each other, have no family
or friends, and couldn't find the beer
store from the corner of Albert and
Bearinger.
But wait! Jack does have a lot
of good things to say about Waterloo;
he just doesn't say them very nicely.
First he says that we have "none of the
Students obviously do not have 'fun'
at Waterloo
eliteism of Queen's or the country club
atmosphere of Western". Admittedly,
large numbers of Topsiders, OP garb,
Vuarnets, and yachts are notably
absent from our campus, and "Thank
God!" we say to that, with our collars
down and our minds open.
He also allows that we have
more research contracts than any other
university, the second biggest co-op
program in North America, and that
Honeywell has rated Waterloo first
among all high-tech schools in North
America. And aren't research and
reputation, not to mention graduate
employment opportunities, important
assets of any university? Well, not
according to this article. It claims
that these assets will only serve to
churn out a batch of inhuman gradu-
ates with not a single redeeming social
grace.
Aft<:r all, "Ioneliness IS one of
Waterloo's biggest lessons!" Somehow
because we move around a lot on work
terms, it necessarily follows that there
is "little chance of keeping friends".
But wasn't there a time when travelling
and seeing the world, meeting new
people and experiencing new things,
were admirable, interesting and even
educational things to do?
Oh, but I forgot, at Waterloo
we don't like to "improve the students'
minds, to teach young people to think
for themselves, and to challenge con-
ventional thought", or any of that airy
fairy stuff! We're all just "smart and
technically competent", rather than
"broadly intelligent" here on our neat ,
orderly, efficiently overcrowded cam-
pus.
We have no joy or spirit, not
to mention loyalty to faculty or clas ,
so if you've made friends with people
in your class or faculty, gct rid of
them. Right now! We don't stand for
that fraternization stuff around here.
Go home and pound on your computer
or something. Go to a basketball
game; you're sure to be alone there.
Better yet, try Confederation Hall on a
Saturday night. It's guaranteed to be
deserted. Those people tbat seem to be
lined up outside aren't real. They're
holographs. Actually, the "biggest and
best equipped student pub on any
Canadian campus" was really just
another acquisition in our relentless
Yuppie quest for status symbols here in
computer wasteland. Nobody really
goes there.
And yet, in spite of the hard
times, loneliness, insecurity, classless-
ness, and general social inadequacy
here, the University of Waterloo still
manages to be, in Jack's own words,
'wildly successful at producing suc-
cesses." Hard to believe, isn't it, that so
many successful people could come
from such a loser university?
But don't despair. Even yet
there may be hope. In the words of
our fearless an endlessly optimistic
leader Alex McGowan, who laughs in
the face of adversity and bad press:
"People recognize Waterloo as a very
good school and we will be proud to
have come from it."
And on that note, I, being an
anomaly, am off to Fed Hall for some
good beer, good friends, and just plain
good times. Make that DAMN good
times! Anyone care to join me?
pIe. Many of us sacrificed a whole
Saturday of much-needed sleep for
Shinerama. The University must have
had us in mind when they chose car-
wa hing as our fund-raiser . By this
time, we didn't care how wet we got.
We stripped down to T-shirts and
swimsuits to tackle the job.
Engineers are hard workers,
but we al 0 have a reputation as hard
partyers. At the Engineering and Arts
Soc party, we lived up to those expec-
tations. People were dancing constantly
and a few practised roat bacing, one of
the top engineering sports. 4
Trying to cram 4 2/3 years
into one week takes a lot out of a per-
son. On Sunday, we headed to Elora
Gorge for a calm day of sun, frisbee,
and swimming. By Monday morning,
the Engineering frosh looked as if they
had been here 4 months and had just
had a week of exams.
Frosh week was a memorable
week. One of those things you don't
tell your grandchildren about. We dis-
covered much about the informal side
of university life and learned one les-
son; "Don't wear your frosh shirt again
- you'll just get WET."
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IRON WARRIOR September 1985
Putting the Ivory Tower into the Marketplace
reprinted with permission from
Innovation Supplement to Canada Commerce
Business and universities can
work well together, even when you
throw government into the equation.
While some people may doubt thi s, it
has been proved profitably true at the
Waterloo Centre for Process Develop-
ment (WCPD) in-Waterloo, Ontario.
Founded with federal govern-
ment funding in 1978, the WCPD
functions much like a p"ivate consult-
ing and research centre, but one that
just happens to draw most of its staff
from the University of Waterloo's
Department of Chemical Engineering.
In fact, 18 of the department's
faculty members participate in the
centre activities and projects. An addi-
tional 40 research engineers and tech-
nicians are employed by the centre to
conduct the contract and project
research activities.
In many ways, it can be con-
sidered to be a sort of "business arm"
of the academic world - a place where
professors, scientists and researchers
regularly prove that they can fit into
corporate towers as comfortably as they
fit.into the "ivory" variety.
As proof, they point out that
. since 1981 there have been 34 patents
issued to the chemical engineering
professors who form the backbone of
the semi-autonomous organization.
These patents are assigned to the -cen-
tre which markets them and shares the
profits with the professors who per-
fected them.
The patents, along with
numerous processes and procedures
developed on a contract basis with
government and industry, have gener-
ated millions of dollars in new jobs,
new research funding and in revenue
through royalty payments and licensing
agreements.
The idea for the centre came
from Dr. Edward (Ted) Rhodes, chair-
man of Department of Chemical Engi-
neering and director of the WCPD,
who has been with the university for 20
years.
"When I became chairman, in
1976," recounts Rhodes, a specialist in
heat transfer, "we had 28 professors
publishing hundreds of papers and
producing a small number of patents. I
wanted to see a better use of our tech-
nology and knowledge; and I wanted
that use to be on a more practical
level. I wanted our developments - our
new technology and processes and pro-
cedures - to be developed to their full
potential. "
Both the university and the
department have had a long history of
working with industry, but not on the
E.B.Cross - Executive director of WCPD.
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level Rhodes envisioned, explains E.B.
(Ted) Cross, who became executive
director of the centre in 1982.
"The university is unique in
that respect," adds Cross, a graduate
chemical engineer with a great deal of
experience in business. "It has been
working with business for 27 years. The
centre is just the next logical step for
the university to take.
"One of the real problems
addressed by the centre is providing a
basis for a better understanding
between academics and businessmen -
and the reverse.
"It's like the generation gap.
But I like to call it the- professional gap
- a gap in the understanding between
professional professors and professional
business people. By creating a business
environment here at the university
we're helping bridge that gap. It's
working."
But before they courd start
doing it, Rhodes recounts, "we needed
an infrastructure. We needed to oper-
ate as a business if we were to work
with business. That meant we had to
be able to deal with lawyers, patents,
licensing agreements - and everything
else that the business world deals with.
"But the main problem was
money.
"We could not afford the nec-
essary infrastructure. We could not
afford to hire a 'business manager' . In
most cases, we could not even afford to
carry an idea through to the point
where we could demon trate it on a
large enough scale to prove to industry
that it would really work on a indus-
trial scale."
So, over a two-year period,
Rhodes talked to the government. The
government listened and in 1978 the
former federal Department of Industry,
Trade and Commerce (now the
Department of Regional Industrial
Expansion) decided to fund the
WCPD, giving it a total of $[ million
spread over five years to get it operat-
ing.
With the funding in place. the
centre started to pick its projects.
One of the first was the single
cell protein bioconversion process,
being developed at the time by Pro-
fessor Murray Moo-Young . .
Simply put, the SCP process
turns fibrous and potentially polluting
waste material, such as sawdust and
the residue from pulp and paper mills,
into animal feed.
The process has been installed
in a Vancouver pilot plant by Enviro-
con Ltd., which is licensed by the cen-
tre to use the technology.
In May 1984, that process was
singled out by the Department of
Regional Industrial Expansion for
excellence in technology transfer when
it gave the centre one of the first <2an-
ada Awards for Excellence.
One of the keys to the SCP
process, and to all the other processes,
procedures and inventions the centre
gets involved with, is approaching every
situation from a businesslike as well as
a scientific perspective.
Professor Donald R. Spink
kept business requirements in mind
when he developed his idea- for the
Waterloo Scrubber, rated by many to
be the most efficient "wet scrubber"
ever invented. Scrubbing is one way of
removing contamination from air.
Water is sprayed into the air to be
cleaned - often in a smokestack or
chimney - and the impurities are
scrubbed away.
"What I did", Spink explains,
"was look for the most efficient and
simplest way to do it. It has to be effi-
cient if you want it adopted by indus-
try. And in the process, I also made it
as simple as possible. "
The scrubber has received
, extensive testing on industrial pollu-
tants, especially in the pulp and paper
as well as the metallurgical industries,
and has been sold to corporations
ranging in size and type from EI
Dorado Nuclear, Inco and General
Motors.
Dr. Murray Moo-Young also
kept the business side of technology
firmly in mind when he developed his
SCP process. He says that what makes
his innovation process worthy of note is
not that it works, but that it works at a
cost which makes the final product -
protein - competitively priced.
Business and industry appreci-
ate the fact that the centre looks at the
financial as well as the scientific
mathematics of every project. They
also appreciate the fact that WCPD
understands government as well as it
does industry.
Several years ago, for example,
Gerald Dubrick, president of Canadian
Farm Tec Systems, went to the centre's
Gerald R. Sullivan to find out if a new
and efficient method could be devel-
opeg to dry grain, one of the most
energy demanding jobs in the agricul-
tural industry.
But the problem they had to
solve was more than just drying grain.
They also had to leave 15.5 per cent of
the moisture in the grain, no matter
how "wet" it was when it was har-
vested. In addition, they had to use as
little energy as possible in the process.
They did, and in doing impressed Farm
Tec.
"We're a small company,"
Dubrick explains, "with no research
staff and no experience in dealing with
government agencies.
"After one meeting with Sulli-
van, he and the WCPD took charge.
The centre started using its contacts
with government agencies to help us
get an Agriculture Canada research
grant to determine the feasibility of
developing a computerized grain drying
control system. Without the centre's
involvement, it is doubtful that we
would have been successful.
"Then the centre helped us get
a $195 000 grant/loan from the
Enterprise Development Corp. to
develop the hardware and software to.
do the job ."
Farm Tec is now marketing
the system across Canada and plans to
take it into the U.S., paying the centre
a royalty for each sale.
As an added bonus to all con-
cerned, the graduate student Sullivan
hired for some of the research and to
help install the prototype system has
oeen hired by Farm Tec as the com-
pany's first engineer.
This happens quite frequently,
Ted Cross says. "The people involved
in developing different projects for
different agencies and companies are
quite often creating jobs for themselves
with those same agencies and compa-
nies in the process. "
As Sullivan puts it "We
transferred the technology in the best
way possible - by putting it in the form
of a human body."
The centre also manages to
advance the cause of "pure research"
as well as profits in its work.
For example, when Ted
Rhodes created the Waterloo Ash
Monitoring System for the Canadian
Electrical Association, he explains that
he manages not only to develop a sys-
tem to prevent ash build-up in giant
coal-fired furnaces , he also wanted to
give people a better picture of what
actually happens inside a furnace when
it's operating at nearly 2 000 deg C.
The computerized monitoring
system he developed also makes it pos-
sible to study the patterns and effects
of the heat and of the different types
of coal used.
The "academic Knowledge"
gained in the process will probably by
found to also have some commercial
potential.
The commercial potential of
any project is analyzed before the
WCPD puts any of its own funding
into it, Cross explains, because "we are
looking for the projects that will pay
off - in terms of money as well as sci-
entific advancement.".
These projects have ranged
from the Waterloo Microwave Drying
Process - which utilizes microwaves in
the drying of commercial, industrial
and agricultural products - to the
Waterloo Proccess Control/Simulation
Software [SPEEDW ACS] which has
been adapted to a number of different
industrial uses.
And since a good portion of
the money the centre receives from its
various royalties and licensing fees goes
towards funding future projects, it is
managing to blend academics and
research into a thriving business.
September 1985 IRON WARRIOR
INDIA:
Politics and
Traditions
by Pavneet Arora
Arriving in India is to arrive as
a foreigner. This holds true irrespective.
of whether you have been there before
or have even originated from there.
Being out of the country for
even a few months invariably means
that you have forgotten the nuances of
its pattern of living. You may be less
naive in your expectations, but. no less
a foreigner. It will come out in the way
you talk, the way you dress and the
way you react.
Ask any driver of a taxi or
auto-rickshaw ( three wheel scooter ).
Better still, take a ride with him ( I
have never come across a lady taxi
driver in India ) to a place for which
you have an idea of the fare, and see
how much more ' he will ask for. For
prominent places, approximate fares
are posted at airports, and the differ-
ence in these fares and the fare you are
asked to pay is usually a good indica-
tion of how much a foreigner you
appear. A foreigner not only to the
country, but also to that city.
India today is confronted with
a number of threatening political
problems. Besides the problems in
Punjab, rioting took place to protest
against _ the increase in quotas of jobs
and university seats for minority groups
in the Western state of Gujarat, and
which evolved into communal violence .
between Hindus and Muslims.
Ironically these riots took place
mainly in Ahmedabad, the major city
near the birthplace of Mahatma Gan-
dhi.
I had occasion to travel into
both Punjab and Gujarat. I was in
lalandhar ( a major city near Amritsar,
Punjab) at the end of April, before the
tumultuous happenings of the summer.
This was long before the "Transistor
Bomb" incidents ( where bombs were
built into radios and left in public
places ) brought New Delhi to a
standstill; the historic signing of the
Punjab accord between the Sikh Akali
Dal leader Sant Longowal and Indian
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi; and the
subsequent murder of Sant Longowal.
Even the apprehension felt
over the possibility of violence breaking
out as the annivers.ary of the storming
of the Golden Temple, the Sikh holy
shrine approached, was a full month
away.
The journey into Punjab began
in the early morning quiet of New
Delhi railway station, before those who
use the railway platforms as homes had
awoken. The second class compartment
began as being comfortably warm but
progressed to become a broiler, as the
train travelled into the midday heat of
- the Punjab plains. Most of the car-
riages are not air-conditioned ( air-
conditioned carriage seats cost 4 times
the regular fare) and therefore are not
sealed. In those pre-monsoon days, the
all pervading dust used to enter the
compartment covering everything with
a dry grit. . "-
En route one passes through
the town of Khurukshetra, the location
of the ancient battlefield where the
The people of India - Forever struggling but maimat'ning pride.
discourse between Krishna and Prince
Arjuna is said to have taken place.
This was a discussion on the different
paths towards enlightenment, the
source of unhappiness, and the ephem-
eral nature of life which is transcribed
in the Hindu epic, Bhagvadgita ( The
Song of the divine ). It gives one a
sense "of awe to pass through such a
place being not only historically signif-
icant, but also being the place of origin
for a philosophic work which has had
such profound impact on the Indian
culture.
At Ambala, a town along the
way, police boarded the train and did a
luggage check. They went through the
crowded carriage choosing pieces of
luggage at random and examining
them. Having been subject to many
airport luggage checks, I can verify
that this check was far from being
cursory. The policemen brandished an
odd assortment of arms, from pistols
and machine-guns to what appeared to
be World War II relic Lee Enfield
rifles.
With the roads being poorly
linked and flying being too expensive,
most people travel by train in India.
The journey from New Delhi to
lalandhar takes about 8 hours. This is
considered a relatively short journey
and one has to take care in adjusting to
the Indian scale of time. When heavily
travelled routes such as Bombay-Delhi
or Delhi-Bangalore take about 20 hours
and 40 hours respectively by train, an
8 hour stint seems hardly significant.
In Jalandhar, I was caught in
the midst of a political rally while
walking through a market. Although
the slogan shouting and political fervor
were similar to those of political rallies
in Canada, there seemed to be the
uncomfortable feeling that an outbreak
of violence would not be unexpected.
Machine-gun wielding "guards"
surrounded the leaders and marched
with the crowd through the narrow
streets.
Is India then just another
country in strife, having not only to
come to terms with its many internal
differences in language and religion,
but the added threat of terrorism?
Memories of police checkposts in New
Delhi, and the daily news stories of
new incidents of violence certainly give
credence to such a view. However, I
cannot help pushing these images aside
in favour of the image of travelling in
that overcrowded train carriage while
returning from Punjab, in which seats
were shared so that no one was left
standfng, whether Hindu or Sikh; and
the memory of that Sikh auto-rickshaw
driver il) New Delhi who, amidst the
elaborate art work on his auto-rick-
shaw, offered as his only advertisement:
God is One.
Editors Note: The information in tbis
article is based on the personal experi-
ences of the author during a workterm
in India; it is not intended as a political
analysis but rather an observation of
India today.
7
An expanding
Computer
Industry
India's computer industry is
rapidly expanding in a pattern similar
to that cllperiencd in North America
about 10 years ago. The larger estab-
lished companies of both software and
hardware are facing increasingly stiff
competition by smaUer firms. Since the
consumers of computer equipment (
mainly medium to large scale busi-
nesses ) have become better informed
of computers in general, they are less
afraid to assess the services and equip-
ment of smaller firms.
In the past larger companies
have also been able to hire mOst of the
graduates with computer training, at
modest salaries ( Rl,1pees 1500-2000 per
month. about $200 ). Smaller compa-
nies interested in grabbing computer
professionals are offering much more
salaries ( Rs. 2500-3500 per
montb, about $300 ).
The most popular cotnputers in
India are Indian built IBM compatibles
in an XT or AT configuration. This is
not surprising when one considers the
consumer market which consists mainly
of businesses.
Universities usually have nEe
.pmeat. and ones I visited aU
used DEC System-IO'a 'l
Tops 10 operating systell'l.
Competition for entrance into a
computer pro8ramme at any of the
better universities is extremely stiff.
Out of the 70 000 aspirants writin, an
entrance exam for the Indian Institutes
of Tecbnology ( thoro are 5 of them
located throulhout the country ). about
the top I SO are offered entrance in
computer science. Depending on their
rank in the cxams. they are Offered
entrance into different departments.
With such small classes, the demand
for computins resources is therefore
usually satisfied. However as the com-
puter science classes increase in size.
the existing systems arc being replaced.
One of the interesting things
about the Indian computer illdustl')' is
that there are a number of supercom-
puters operating there. Tata Colllul-
taney services, a lar,e firm
has a <;OC-Cyber 20S. It is now work-
ing with Gene Amdahl, who worked
witb IBM on tbe design of of tho IBM
370. to produce a new SllpercompUlcJ',
the Tata-Elixir.
At the Tata R.eiearch Dovel
opmCftt and Design Centre In Pone,
formerly Poo... wbore I wu workina.
we operating ulld UNIX on a
amall smale user computer with a win-
dow managemeAt system inten<ied
mainly for CAD/CAM work. To this
was added a multiplexor whleh allowed
additioDal terminalJ hook in at dif-
ferent processes. and thue altowiog time
sharin,.
Most of the workin, at
TRDDC are bwolveid in
_ign. but there is . an inc}eUiq
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8
IRON WARRIOR September 1985
HUMOUR
The Great Faculty Hunt
by Anne C. Noakes
"Prepare to be violated" read
the sign over Highway 86. The first
message from my fellow plummers! It
held a great deal of promise.
Like that of most co-op stu-
dents, my universe is compact, highly
portable, and fits nicely in the trunk
and back seat of a Volvo. Delegated to
the back among my wordly goods, I
had become moulded to the right rear
door and carefully supported my
beloved low-maintenance houseplant,
Fraser, who hates to travel but rather
enjoys my lap.
I took a moment to reflect LC..--""'''''''-_->.;.. ....
upon my good fortune. Having spent
the entire previous year squirming in
the clutches of HKLS, I bad boldly
crossed the campus to join the non-nu-
bile in the omnipotent Engineering
Faculty. It was a switch fraught with
difficulty but I swam the Sea of Red
Tape with all the determination of a
horny salmon scaling an endless series
of waterfalls.
The plan to discover my true
destiny had undergone many rough
drafts (so it's an understatement!)
making family and friends somewhat
reluctant to lend their support to my
quest for admission to Chemical Engi-
neering. I could hardly blame them as
I might just as easily have left UW for
George Brown College's program and,
at this very moment, be taking motes
in Vegetables 101.
My cross-campus search for an
academic niche left me on a first name
basis with the ' receptionists of almost
every undergraduate office at UW.
During this exploration of all possible
outcomes, it suddenly occured to me
that at no point had I ever considered
being a Mathie. Eureka ! It was time
to wake up and smell the coffee.
(Freshly percgJated and wafting over
from Mark Wakulicz's Celebrity Tea-
room in West 6.) I was born to be an
engineer!
By late April there remained
but one vestigial trace of my former
commitment to Kin-easy-ology: A work
term in the far north {almost in Oril-
lia). Yes. It was Boot Camp. The
make-it or break-it work term experi-
ence in HKLS. A recreational summer
resort camp for kids with higher
allowances than my salary and ward-
robes worth more than the house I
grew up in.
The summer had hardly begun
when I realized just how indebted were
OP, Roots, and Beaver Canoe to the
Forest Hill section of Toronto.
Although hired as a riding instructor, I
doubled (tripled, quadrupled) as a
maintenance worker (keep those rakes
moving!), pantry staff (more beans
please!), and a counsellor (1 wanna go
home !). 1 learned to 'sing, dance, and
be foolish, sans alcohol, as a member
of "Arthur and the Campfire Girls".
The stables proved to be no
haven as it eventually became the
dumping ground of choice for a variety
of problem children such as the young
lad whom the camp sent home for
excessive growling, barking, and biting.
As the camping season drew to
a close, the effects of having taught
over 3000 camper-lesson-hours grew
apparent for everyone on the riding
staff. We became listless, burnt out
shadows of our former selves who
moped about the stables chewing hay
and complaining that the horses
crapped altogether too much.
September 1st marked the end
date of my contract and subsequent
grateful return to the . civilized world.
This was, however, a shortlived eupho-
ria as I moved back to Village I only
two days later. The first few weeks of
Chern Eng have confirmed that the
Great Faculty Hunt is over. The path
to true happiness surely lies in uphold-
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(519) 8"-9051
floor.
"Securing the rope at the
ground level, 1 went up to the roof,
swung the barrel out, and loaded the
bricks into it. Then I went back to the
ground and untied the rope, holding it
lightly to assure a slow descent of the
500 pOunds of bricks.
"You will note in Block 11 of
the accident report that I weigh 135
pounds.
"Due to my surprise at being
jerked off the ground so suddenly, I
lost my presence of mind and forgot to
let go of the rope. Needless to say, I
proceeded at a rather rapid rate up the
side of the building. In the vicinity of
the third floor, I met the barrel coming
down. This explains the fractured skull
and broken collar bone. Slowed only
slightly, I continued my rapid ascent,
the building. In the vicinity of the
third floor, I met the barrel coming up.
This accounts for the two fractured
ankles, and the lacerations of my legs
and lower body area. The encounter
with the barrel slowed me enough to
lessen my injuries when I fell onto the
pile of bricks, and fortunately only
three vertebrae were cracked.
"1 am sorry to report, however,
that as I lay there on the bricks, in
pain, unable to stand, and watching the
barrel six stories above me, I again lost
my presence of mind and let go of the
rope. The empty barrel weighed more
than the rope, so it came back down on
me and broke both my legs.
"1 hope I have furnished the
information you have requested.'"
not stopping until the fingers of my
right hand were two knuckles deep into
the pulley. Fortunately, by this til!le, I
had regained my presence of mind, and
was able to hold tightly to the rope, in
spite of my pain.
" At approximately the same
time, however, the barrel of bricks hit
the ground, and the bottom fell out of
the barrel. Devoid of the weight of the
bricks, the barrel then weighed
approximately 50 pounds .
"I refer you again to my
weight in Block 11.
II As you might imagine, I ,
began a rapid descent down the side of
September 1985 IRON WARRIOR 9
FICTIO
MURDER IN THE MANOR
by Peter Stubley
Well, it's about time! You
certainly have taken your own sweet
time in getting around to reading me.
I know, you probably have excuses-
everybody does. Most people blame it
on that lazy bum of an author for tak-
ing this long to get around to writing
me. Well, I'll deal with him later. I
suppose that the important thing is that
you r ~ finally here.
Before you actually start read-
ing me, there are a few things I think
we need to discuss. For example, do
you know how depressing it is to be an
unread story? Lord knows that poor
excuse for an author doesn't really care
if anybody reads me. He thinks he's
done his job just because he managed
to finish writing a story. Once you've
been created, you're on your own, and
your author has wandered off to work
on his next creation. I think it's some-
thing that's going to have to be dis-
cussed at the next meeting of the
International Union of Stories, Novels,
and Associated Literary Works, Local
357. And another thing, while I'm on
the subject-these so-called artists are
always trying to better themselves-the
next must be bigger and better than
the last. Now, I ask you, honestly, is
he ever going to do better than me?
I've always found it rather
depressing to be unread. Have you
ever thought about what happens to a
story when. you're not reading it? It's
about time that you did. Suppose you
are reading a story with a battle in it.
You' re working your way through he
battle-shells nying, things blowing up,
people dying, the whole bit--and when
you're about , half way through, your
mother calls. She wants you to come
and do the dishes, NOW! So away you
go, off to do the dishes, leaving the
battle half-done. What happens to the
battle? You know that when you come
back, the battle hasn't gone any fur-
ther, and you can get right back into
it, picking up where you left off. You
never think about what you just did to
the story.
Well, now I'm going to tell
you. Since you're not a story, and only
a reader, you'll never really understand,
but I will try to explain it so that even
you can understand. I guess the best
thing is for you to try to imagine that
you're in a dream. Actually, it's more
of a nightmare, one of those dream
where you are about to be eradicated
from existence by something distinctly
unpleasant. There is a typical Edgar
Alan Poe atmosphere: damp, and
chilling. You are perfectly conscious,
and you know that if you could just
move, if you could just speak, you
would be saved. But, unfortunately,
you are completely paralyzed and you
can't do a thing. As I hope you can
imagine, this situation would not warm
you with a pleasant feeling. If you
could only do something ....
Now, think about a story. The
story's whole point of existence, as far
as the story is concerned, is to get the
reader to the end. The story can't help
this-it was born that way. But the
story can't get the reader to the end,
b e c u ~ e the reader has gone off to do
the dishes. Imagine how the story
feels-it knows exactly what to do, but
the story is completely paralyzed. The
story doesn't even know if the reader is
ever coming back-for all it knows, it's
going to be "left paralyzed forever.
Thinking back to your dream, I'm sure
even you can imagine that this situ-
ation would not warm the story with a
pleasant feeling. If it could only do
something ....
Just remember this the next
time you are tempted to interrupt a
story. What gives you the right to
innict that kind of traumatic experi-
ence on a story? H's bad enough not
LO be read at aU, .but to be inter-
rupted.... When we're not being read,
we all hang around the Ready Room.
It's just like those Battle of Britain
movies. We all sit around waiting,
playing card or reading. Then the
Siren goes off, and one of us goes run-
ning out the door. Eventually, if we're
left unread for a long enough time, we
get what's like an honourable dis-
charge, and we go off to ' that Big
Library in the Sky. What if you
interrupt a story and then never go
back and finish it? The story never
makes it back to the Ready Room, and
we never hear from it again. h's like
being missing in action. The story is
left paralyzed forever, and it will never
get to Story-Book Heaven. Maybe,
now that you've been told, your man-
ners when reading stories will improve.
You readers are going to have to get
your priorities straight. And, now that
I have that off my chest, you can start
reading me now.
The drive up to Shermore
Manor is like crossing a barrier
between reality and an Edgar Alan Poe
story. . One can almost hear the voice
of Rod Serling inviting you to "enter
the Twilight Zone." Shermore Manor
is not a particularly pleasant place to
look at, and the old manor has that
typical Edgar Alan Poe atmosphere:
damp, and chilling. On the night in
question, there was even a nice rlttle
u ro in r ure--
party took place on the night of one of
the worst thunderstorms in recorded
history.
The party was given for and by
one Arthur Sherlllorc, in honour of' his
sixtieth birthday. Old Master Arthur
is a rather wealthy shipping magnate,
who is generally considered to be a bit
"eccentric." This. is a term often
applied to rich people who would oth-
erwise be called "obnoxious bastards" if
they were without money. rthur
always gave his own birthday panics,
because no one else would. The only
people who didn't hate his guts had
never heard of him, but no member of
. the upper crust could survive not being
asked to attend his soirees. This party
was no exce-.
Oh, the hell with it! I don't
feel like dragging you all the way
through to the end. Let me give you
the Reader's Digest version instead. In
case you haven't already figured this
out, I'm one of those whodunnit mys-
teries, where they don't tell you the
answer until the very end. The old
geezer Arthur dies on the night of the
party of severe lead poisoning inflicted
by a .357 Magnum. Some private
gumshoe who was at the party wanders
through several chapters littered with
clues, and eventually stumbles on the
answer, discovering that, yes, the butler
did it. It seems that the two million
left to him in the old man's will wasn't
quite worth the pain of serving Arthur
nti i ul
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IRON WARRIOR
What

IS WPIRG?
by Vivian E. Neal
"What is WPIRG?" Jf you ask
any three engineering students you/II
likely get three different answers.
Having used WPIRG/s resources a
number of times and having been on
the Board of Directors of C-OPIRG
(Carleton - Ontario Public Interest
Group), let me be the engineer who
steers you right.
WPIRG (pronounced double-
you-perg) is a student-funded, student-
directed organization which researches
and organizes events for the purpose of
informing the public (usualJy student s)
about issues which affect their lives.
Issues close to the hearts of engineers
include the impact of computer tech-
nology, the risks and benefits of alter-
native energies versus nuclear energy,
the problem of acid rain and its sol u-
tions, and occupational health and
safety.
Engineers are commonly
thought of as the movers and shakers
of today's industrially and technologic-
ally complex society. We design and
use devices and machines that have
changed almost every aspect of our
lives: our working environment, home
lives, even our entertainment. Yet we
are often so busy designing engineering
devices and managing projects that we
don't get a chance to see the non-tech-
nical ramifications of our work. It is
ironic, since we are some of the most
influential people in this age of rapid
technological growth, that we look so
briefly at t he effects of our work on -
our families, the person at the checkout
counter whose work is now more effi-
cient, the lake up at the cottage which
is dying from acid rain (due to the
pollution of smelting processes), or a
friend who wa's replaced by a robot at
the Ford assembly plant.
Technology has the potential to
do greater good and greater harm than
any other aspect of our society. I per-
sonally feel that every student should
become educated as to the use of
technology to meet the needs of the
society in which we live.
WPIRG has the resources to
help engineers learn about these issues.
For instance, WPIRG organized one of
the first Canadian conferences on the
Social Impacts of Computerization in
the spring of 1982. The proceedings of
this conference are used as the text-
book for GE 351 - Information Tech-
nology and Society. Also, the resource
library has been used by engineering
students for such projects as the work-
sl10ps in Systems Design. The library
includes sources you won/t find in other
libraries on campus and even contains
some original research by engineering
students.
WPIRG is funded by a $2.50
per term optional fee which is refun-
dable during the first three weeks of
the term at the WPIRG office. These
September 1985
fees pay for two full-time and o" e
part-time workers, research pubP(:a-
t ions, educational events and lib .. ry
acquisitions.
A Board' of Directors, elected
early in the fall by fee-paying mem-
bers, is responsible for the operation of
WPIRG. If you are interested in
becoming a member of the Board,
please visit the WPIRG office as soon
as possible to get more information.
The WPIRG office is located in the
Campus Centre, Room 217. The
resource library is open from 10:00
a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
In the mean time,
- Keep an eye out for posters advertis-
ing WPIRG events
- Come by and check out our resource
library
- If you have a report or project that
might interest WPIRG, drop by the
office and let one of the staff make a
photocopy for the resource library.
Job Market Improving
reprinted by permission of
Canadian Engineering' Manpower Council
After several lean years, the
job market for engineering graduates at
the bachelor's level appears to be
improving according to a survey of 568
members of last year's class which
found that only 12 per cent were
unemployed six months after gradua-
tion.
The survey was conducted in
September 1984 by the Canadian
Engineering Manpower Council and
followed an earlier survey implemented
in April.
The results of the September
follow-up survey contrast quite dra-
matically with the Council/s April sur-
vey which showed that 40 per cent of
the 1004 students contacted were
looking for employment.
This initial survey was carried
out with the cooperation of the Deans
of Engineering at 26 universities across
Canada who circulated 1,508 question-
naires to a random sample of final-year
undergraduates from all engineering
programs. The students returned 1,004
questionnaires for a response rate of 67
per cent.
The data collected were anal-
ysed by Dr. Dormer Ellis, P.Eng. of
the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education.
This initial survey found that
21 per cent had jobs, 40 per cent were
looking for jobs, 13 per cent intended
to go to graduate school, and the
remainder had temporary work or other
plans.
By comparison (see accompa-
nying chart), the September survey,
which was conducted by directly con-
tacting students who had volunteered
their names and addresses as part of
the initial survey, found a much higher
level of employment. The actual results
of the survey were: 55 per cent
ENGINEERING GRADUATES EMPLOYMENT SURVEY (0
BACHELOR'S LEVEL, 1984
RESPONSE
Accepted an engineering job.
Accepted an engineering job outside of Canada.
Accepted a non-engineering job.
Intend further education.
Intend further education if job not found.
Seeking permanent work, have temporary job.
Seeking engineering work.
Other.
APRIL
19%
*.
2%
13%
l2%
6%
40%
8%
SEPTEMBER
49%
1%
5%
17%
N/A
16%
12%
N/A
BASED ON REPLIES PROM 1.004 AND 568 GRADUATES RESPECTIVELY OUT OF A TOTAL
GRADUATING CLASS OF 6,668.
*. NEGLIGIBLE
N/ A NOT APPLICABLE
employed, 12 per cent unemployed, 17
per cent attending graduate school, and
16 per cent employed on a temporary
or part-time basis.
Among those who had found
jobs, it is interesting to note that The
students had completed an average of
10 applications for employment and
had attended an average of three
interviews.
Those students who had not
yet found employment reported sending
out an average of 30 applications for
employment which resulted in an aver-
age of two' interviews.
The average starting salary
reported by the employed graduates
was $24,500 although one student
reported a salary of $30,000 for a
position in Bahrain.
Ten per cent of the respon-
dents were women. Statistical tests
failed to find any significant sex dif-
ferences in the likelihood of a graduate
having obtained an engineering posi-
tion, being among those still looking for
such a position, or having enrolled in
post-graduate studies.
Eighteen per cent of the
respondents were francophones. No
difference was found between franco-
phones and anglophones in the likeli-
hood of having obtained a permanent
engineering position in Canada; how-
ever, a higher percentage of franco-
phones had enrolled in postgraduate
studies while a lower percentage were
still looking for employment. These
differences, while statistically signifi-
cant, were not great.
While it was not possible to
track employment success by engineer-
ing program in great detail, graduates
from electrical and engineering physics
programs fared better t han those from
chemical, civil, and mechanical engi-
neering programs.
Although every effort is made
to ensure that the questionnaires are
circulated to a random sample of
final-year students, it is very difficult
to control this situation in the case of
the follow-up survey. It is quite possi-
ble, therefore, that the results of the
second survey are biased because
employed students may be more willing
to reply than those still looking for
employment.
The Council's 1985 survey is
underway at the present time. This
year's survey will be circulated to
1,766 fina l-year undergraduates in 21
engineering programs. A follow-up sur-
vey will again be conducted in Sep-
tember with those results available by
November 1985.
AT TIi FO\.JNTAIN BoCKET
MlklN G CONTE. <::.i , "' .. , ..
SOR.RY. THER!!!.'!!) No ON ON
'tOUR NAME.O"JUMSo"
September 1985
BOOKS
by Francis Chow
The Integral Trees by Larry Niven
(Ballantine 1983).
The Integral Trees is a Larry
Niven classic. If you liked Ringworld,
you'll like The Integral Trees. The
book is a look at life (both native and
human) within a gigantic, habitable,
free fall environment forming a dense
gas torus around a neutron star. The
story takes place 500 years after the
gas torus is discovered and colonized
by the twenty member crew of a pass-
ing bussard ramship against the wishes
of her captain - a computer program
called Sharls Davis Kendy. Kendy has
been waiting impatiently just outside
the gas torus in the hope of bringing
mutineer' s descendants to justice and
continuing his ship's mission, but his
vigil is pointless. Within the virgin
environment of the gas torus the crew's
descendants have been breeding and
evolving so rapidly, they have become
more alien than human.
The Integral Trees is their
story, the story of a small band of
adventurers who are cast into the end-
less sky when their home tree (trees in
the torus grow many tens of kilometers
long, can support large human com-
munities, and look like integral signs) is
destroyed.
The book is a believable blend
of fantasy and science-fiction which
explores difficult themes at the leading
edge of the genre. It's not easy to write '
believable stories from the viewpoint of
a changed human or an alien, though
these are precisely the type of stories
with which science fiction should be
dealing. Happily, Niven has taken up
the challenge.
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
(1984 Panther Books).
The Empire of the Sun is a
moving story set in China at the time
of the brutal Japanese invasion of that
country in World War II. The story is
a thinly disguised fictional account of
the experiences of a young English boy
separated from his parents and interned
in a Japanese POW camp. In its pre-
face Ballard says, " Empire of the Sun
draws on my experiences in Shanghai
China, during the Second World War,
and in Lunghua c.A.C. (Civilian
Assembly Centre) where I was interned
from 1942-45. For the . most part, this
novel is based on events I observed
during the Japanese occupation of
Shanghai and within the camp at Lun-
ghua." Once started, it is a book almost
impossible to put down. Without fan-
fare, the author builds up an almost
hallucinatory picture of a world full of
the tensions generated by things which
are "impossible" to believe, but which
you know are true. It's a hard look at
the impact of a type of warfare which
mankind has probably abandoned for
more "antiseptic" methods, done with
almost no reference to actual combat.
There were no heroics in the war in
Asia, only men trapped - enduring
stoically a destiny both terrible. and
incomprehensible.
IRON WARRIOR

SUZUKI AT UW
courtesy of UW News Bureau on topics such as the impact of medical
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Scientist-6roa caster aVI of biomass energy. implications of oil.
Suzuki will be the featured speaker at shore oil agreements, the "jnformatiza-
a national student conference on the tion" of society, computer illiteracy,
impact of science and technology at the and others. About 100 delegates, all
University of Waterloo in September. undergraduates, from more than 30
Called "Science, Technology Canadian universities. are expected to
and Etbics: Implications for Canadian attend.
Culture and Society", the conference "We're expecting a lively
(Sept. 27-29) is being held in honour of round of opinion and debate", says
International Youth Year. McMullin. "The delegates will com
Suzuki will deliver his address prise from all the various faCo
to a combined conference and public ulties of our universities, so those who
session on Saturday Sept. 28, 1985. It are creating some of the new technol-
will take place in the UW Physical ogy, for instance, will be rubbing
Activities Complex that is capable of shoulders with those who will ulti -
seating several thousand people. mately be affected by ie
"We're delighted by the way McMullin feels that Suzuki
the conference is taking shape,H says will help focus attention on the confer-
Prof. Stan McMullin, director of UW's ence's central theme. One of the aims,
Canadian Studies program. "We're he says, is to make serious recommen-
very pleased that David Suzuki dations on the future roles of science
accepted our invitation. The students and technology in Canada. Another is
organizing the conference wanted to help in the preparation of new uni-
someone who is really involved with the versity courses in the area of science,
issues and who can communicate well technology and values.
with all kinds of people, university stu- The conference, being planned
dents as well as members of the gen- by a committee of UW and Wilfrid
eral public." Laurier University (WLU) students,
It's also appropriate that the got a big boost recently with the
conference will take place at Waterloo announcement that the Federal Minis-
for another reason. The university last ter of State (Youth) will provide
year established the Centre for Society, $20,000 for the event. It will cover
Technology and Values, a cross-disci- delegates' transportation costs.
plinary academic body dedicated to Support in the form of schol-
investigating all facets of technology'S arships or funding has also come from:
impact on society. So the conferenoe Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Inc.,
fits in perfectly with the centre's man- Northern Telecom, Philips Electronics,
date. General Motors, Texaco Canada,
"We're very pleased to be Imperial Oil, Digital Equipment Co.,
involved with the conference," says the Royal Bank, Rothmans, the uni-
philosophy professor Larry Haworth, versity itself, and the Ontario govern-
director of CSTV. "We'll be working ment.
out the details of our participation in For more information, contact
the next few days." Dr. Stan McMullin, Director of Cana-
Delegates to the student con- dian Studies, University of Waterloo:
ference will present and discuss papers (519) 885-1460.
11
Jay fans
Burned!
by Niraj Bbargava
Major League Baseball is not
making it easy for loyal Blue Jay fans
to follow their team to the World
Series. In an exclusive interview with
the Iron Warrior. Ed Durso, an
employee at baseball commissioner
Peter Ueberoth' office, revealed the
strategy that will be taken in terms of
ticket sales.
First of all, the ticket prices
will be raised up to 650% from the
regular season prices. The seats at
CNE stadium are priced at $4. to
$10.50 in the regular season. During a
World Series, the prices will rise to $26
to $52.
When asked where the extra
revenue will go, Durso explained that
sixty percent will go to a pool for the
players and the players association,
fifteen percent to the commissioners
office, twelve and a half percent to the
leagues and six. and a quarter percent
to each of the teams.
This season's playoffs could
gross the commissioner's office alone
over three million dollllr!;. Durso stated
that this money is used to offset 'oper-
ating cost .' of the office.
On top of that, choice ticket
are not available to the Jay fans. ven
season ticket holders will not necessar-
ily receive their scat. I nstead, families
of Major League Baseball employees
and players on non-competing teams
get fir t crack at the tickets.
Torontonians will have to sur-
vive a lottery to have a chance to pay
$26. to sit in the grandstands.
This type of thing is to be
expected in working with a large
American enterprise. Maybe we can
request one item from Major League
Baseball - someone who can sing our
National Anthem at the Jay's away
games.
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September 1985
NEWS BRIEFS
RING ROAD
registration at 8:30 AM in front of
Needles Hall. Racers can also register
in the EngSoc office prior to the race
day.
Ring Road will be closed to all
regular traffic for the duration of the
race and marshalls at all intersections
The Fall /85 EngSoc Bike
Race will be held this Sunday on cam-
pus. The event is sponsored by EngSoc
but is open to all students, faculty and
staff.
The race begins at 9:00 AM
and consists of 10 clockwise laps
(approximately 27 km) around Ring
Road. All participants must report for
Femme-Eng Obituary
Due to a substantial lack of
interest and participation in the last
winter term, Femme-Eng (Women in
Engineering) has been terminated.
Women are no 10nKer a small enough
minority to need a society like
Femme-Eng to represent them, espe-
cially when there are already a signifi-
cant number of women in the EngSoc
executive.
will help provide security for the cyc-
lists. A pace car will lead the front
pack in order to warn any pedestrians.
Bicycle helmets are strongly recom-
mended.
The 'race is a great way to try
some fun and competitive cycling on a
safe route. The race should also pro-
vide great entertainment for spectators;
the best places to watch are by the
PAC where the racers will be strug-
gling up hill, and also under the
pedestrian bridge by CPH where the
trickiest curve in the race .is located.
The prize for the winner will
be either an all-expense paid trip for
two to Paris, France or a beer mug ...
the organisers have yet to decide.
Rain date is one week later,
October 6, 9:00 - 10:00 AM.
Math Log for rent ???
The Natural Log, long time
mascot of U of W's Mathsoc can now
be rented. In fact, the Civil Serpents
class rented it this past weekend, to
collect a whopping 500 points in the
engineering Havenger ' Scunt. The
price ... a mere 2.5 cases of beer!!! How's
that for faculty pride!?
Win we. get
' .. fIJIY bear Dad?
Sure Son,
Sandford
Fleming always
gef .the job done.
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or any of its programmes, please contact:
The Sandford Fleming Foundation
Room 4332,
Carl Pollock Hall
888-4008 or 885-2011 Ext. 4008
Registered Charitable Organization {no.
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BIG BLACK NEMESYS
The 4A Systems Design class
(Nemesys) finished first in last week- :
end' s Havenger Scunt, with a very
decisive victory over 14 other teams.
The scunt is one of the major social
events of the term, and this win puts
Nemesys right on track for their goal:
winning this term/s puS title.
Resumes Due Friday!!! Don' t be Late
During the pa t summer term,
the Department of Co-ordination and
Placement began enforcing all ubmis-
sion dates, especially that for resumes.
If you ubmit your resume
late, it will not be accepted. This
means that the employers to whom you
apply through the Want Ads" and late
1.----------------1 postings will receive you Co-operative
Student Work Record and your mark
TA.s Improve Themselves
Teaching assistants for engi-
neering undergrad courses are are out
to do a better job this term. A faculty-
wide T.A. workshop was held for the
first time during orientation week to
discuss effective TA. methods and
guidelines.
All new graduate student TA.s
were invited to the one and one-half
day seminar which dealt with marking,
lecturing, and inter-personal skills.
Representative professors from each
department along with senior T.A.s
acted as mentors to provide real-life
examples (and horror stories) which
they hope will help the new TA.s.
but not your resume.
The change is necessary
because over the last few terms late
submissions have increased to the point
where the processing efficiency of the
records section of the department has
seriously deteriorated. This, of course,
has affected service to both students
and employers.
Resumes for co-op students
seeking employment in Engineering,
Science, Environmental Studies, and
Architecture are due Friday, Septem-
ber 27th by 4:30 PM.
co-op ENGINEERING - IMPORTANT DATES
DATE
Sept. 16
Sept. 27
Oct. 4
Oct. 7
Oct. 24
Nov. 14
Nov. 15
Nov. 25
Nov. 26 - 29
TIME
4:30
4:30 '
11 :00
4:30
11 :00
4:30
Take a look
at all the
sr
happenings.
Eat your
heart out

EVENT
Work Reports Due
Resumes Due
Want Ads Available
Job Applications Due
Interviews Start
Ranking . Forms Available
Rankings Due
Interview Results Posted
Confirmation of Employment Interviews
Debates
Emergency
Loan Funds
Sandford
Educational
Press
Medals
Teaching
Assistantship
Awards
Graduate Tuition
Grants
Work Term Report
Awards
Industrial
Visitors Programme
Photo -1872 Fleming
Party which explored the
CPR route from the
Atlantic to the Pacific -
from left to right: Frank
Fleming, Sandford
Fleming. George Grant
(Principal of Queen's
University) and Dr. Moren
(agricultural specialist).
P.S. Grant had no right
hand; that's why his hat's
off.