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Frost Week fun b eats the blues

DC athletes honoured

BY TREVOR CAIN Chronicle staff

P. 3 See Spof Run Montreal band rocks

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P. 17 lords rule Men’s basketball team snaps losing

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space Time/or students to

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BY LINDSAY STEPHENSON Chronicle staff

Frost Week 2000, Jan. 31 to Feb. 5, added some excitement and fun to stu- dent’s lives to help beat the winter blues. The week kicked off with Passport

Bingo at noon in EP Taylor’s on Jan. 31.

Players who had Frost Week pass- ports played to win Extreme Seats to the I Mother Earth concert on Feb. 5, other bingo players had chances to win hats, T-shirts, phone cards and Frost Week passports. Ryan Shannon was the lucky player

who won the Extreme Seats. Shannon said that although he was excited, he wasn’t sure whether or not he would be able to attend the concert.

Other winners included Jennifer Dickson, who won a baseball hat and a phone card, and Lana Briden, who won a T-shirt, a phone card and a Frost Week passport. On Feb. 1 there was a Trivia Game

Show at noon in EP Taylor’s. Contestants played for tickets to The Laugh Resort, Extreme Seats for the I Mother Earth Concert as well as hats and T-shirts. The game was hosted by Yuk Yuks

comic Justin Landry, and players were asked questions in much the same way as on the TV show "Family Feud" where the correct answer is the one that was most popular among people surveyed. Each time a player got a cor- rect answer they were awarded 10 points. The first person to reach 100 points was declared the winner. The questions ranged from "Name a

famous Robin," with the answer being "Robin Hood" to "Name a word that starts with the letter Z," with the answer being "Zebra". The winner of the first round was

John Patterson. He won a free beer, two passes to the Laugh Resort and a Coors Beer hat.

"It’s a hoot," he said about getting up on stage trying to answer the goofy trivia questions.

Al Frewer, winner of the second round, won a Coors Beer T-shirt. Sean Crandles won the third round, getting two tickets to AMC 24 to see the Justin Landry Show.

"I was just a little nervous," Crandles said, but added that he had a good time.Christine Parsons also played in the third round. "It kind of made me embarrassed," she said. "But it was so much fun," The fourth round of the game was

played by the winners of the first three rounds with Justin Landry filling in as a fourth player.

Al Fewer was the big winner of the day. Fewer won the Extreme Seats to the I Mother Earth Concert. "I went up just to have fun" he said. "It’s pret- ty cool, now I have four tickets to I Mother Earth. I don’t know what to do with them."

As an added bonus for being good sports in the game, the three runners up in the fourth round also got tickets to see I Mother Earth.

Other events at noon in EP Taylor’s during the week included Karaoke on Feb. 2, comedy In the pub with Russel Peters and Jean Paul on Feb. 3 and Two for the Show on Feb. 4.

The OCAA recently announced its selections for its all-millennium basketball and volleyball teams, and seven of Durham’s best were chosen.

In volleyball Carol Cruwys and Joanna Van Dyke were named to the women’s team, while Martin Kertsens was named to the men’s side.Julie Goedhuis, and Marcy Skribe were the women’s basketball selec- tion Augusto Duquesne and Bill Crowdis

were the men’s bas- ketball selections.

Cruwys was an active Lord from 1984 to 1987, and was a female athlete of the year at Durham, along with being an all- Canadian during her career. She has been inducted into the DC Hall of Fame. Van Dyke’s

career lasted from 1995 to 1999, during which she was named Durham’s female athlete of the year twice, and led the Lords to an OCAA crown (in ’99). Both ladies have had their uniforms retired.

Kertsens’ OCAA playing days were at Sheridan, but he was a Lords volleyball coach. Duquesne and Crowdis led the Lords to a CCAA championship in the 1997-98 season, and both have been Durham’s male athlete of the year (Crowdis twice - ’98, 99). Duquesne was an active Lord from 1994 to 1997, and Crowdis played from 1996 to 1999. Their jerseys have both been retired.

Goedhuis played basketball at DC from 1993-97, and was named an all-Canadian twice. Her number has been retired.

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2 THE CHRONICLE Febrary 15, 2000

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C op s love the ir new chop p er BY MURRAY BARNES Chronicle staff

Durham Regional Police now believe they liavc the upper hand in fighting crime in Durham Region. The new Durham police helicopter trial is almost over and crime statis- tics have led local authorities to believe crime in the region lias fallen.

"It’s too early to mark it in stone, but all the information so far has shown that the use of the helicopter has been an overwhelming success," said Staff Sergeant Ron Rollauer, who heads the new Air Support Unit.

Early In 1999, the Durham Regional Police and York Regional Police combined to conduct a joint trial in the use of a helicopter for law enforce- ment. Once approval was granted from each of the police services boards and funding secured from several provincial government grants, the six-month helicopter trial began.

"The trial has been a success on two fronts � operationally and from community response," said Rollauer. Crime statistics gathered by the Durham police over the six-month trial show the heli- copter was directly involved in 45 arrests, assisted in 39 others and saved the service an esti- mated 4,270 man hours.

Only two complaints were received during the trial and both of those were resolved. Rollauer said both complaints were about noise of the air- craft at night.

"Once those residents were made aware of the circum- stances of the noise they actu- ally thanked me and gave us support for further use of the helicopter In their area," he said.

Constable Todd Petzold, the observer in the helicopter, said, "Students can rest assured that we are only min- utes away after being called to help. Once we are over the college, we can light up an area with our 30-mllllon-can- die searchlight, which is equivalent to a large city block."

This should be good news to resident students who are weary of the walk to and from the college after nightfall. "We can cover an area equal

to what 10 police cruisers are capable of," said Petzold. "Hopefully this should act as a big deterrent to local crimi- nals."

Recent surveys on the Internet by the Durham police showed local residents were overwhelmingly in favour of the helicopter trial. Ninety-six percent of respondents believed the helicopter improved the safety of the

Photo by Murray Barnes

DURHAM REGION CHOPPER: The Durham Regional police helicopter landed on Durham College’s soccer field two weeks ago to promote the program.

community and police offi- cers.

Rollauer said any Durham law enforcement students interested in a career within the Air Support Unit should start by taking flying lessons. The helicopter is piloted by civilians and crewed by observers who are police offi- cers.

"It just so happens both our observers have their aircraft licence, but we prefer to have a civilian flying the helicopter. This allows the pilot to control

the aircraft and leaves the observer (police officer) free to advise on tactics where neces- sary," explained Rollauer. The observer’s role is far

more difficult than most peo- ple believe. The job involves talking to several airport con- trollers and, police dispatch- ers, and advising the pilot of directions - all at once. Adding to the confusion, the observer has to continually look down for landmarks and activity on the ground.

"This is not a job for those

who get airsick," said Petzold. The trial was to officially

end in January, but was extended for a further three months. Rollauer said the implementation of Durham’s first law enforcement heli- copter has been very reward- ing. "We knew that once we

could get the helicopter in the air, the whole project would sell Itself. The statistics have proved its value, and more importantly, the community has welcomed it."

E-commerce coming in waves BY MALCOLM MORUM Chronicle staff

Look out, it’s an e-wave! And Durham Region is about to jump on

the electronic surfboard called e-commerce. Or is it?

Like the rest of Canada, Durham is behind the e-commerce boom that seems to have hit the United States and other parts of the globe. On Jan. 22 The Toronto Star reported that

only 12 per cent of Canadian Internet users have made an online purchase, compared to 39 per cent of Americans, even though Canadians spend more time online and are online in greater numbers. The Star reported that 40 per cent of

Canadians are online, compared to 32 per cent of Americans, and half of the online pur- chases Canadians made were outside of Canada.

But there is good news. In a 1999 survey, international consulting

firm Ernst and Young reported that e-com- merce will see rapid growth in Canada over the next few years. . However even with the predictions of

growth, businesses in Durham Region have been tentative about getting their feet wet.

"Although Durham has a lot of companies that should be on the Internet, we find that most of our business is still Toronto based," Courtney McLaren, director of marketing for Oshawa based Ethnika Communications, said.

Ethnika helps businesses develop web pages and provides other online resources.

Hassan Alhiraki, director of development for Ethnika, said that right now e-commerce requires a lot of investment in money and time, and many small companies in Durham Region don’t have that kind of resource.

Hassan said it costs money to register an c- commerce web site, and it takes an enormous amount of time to set up, advertise and

update the site. However, Alhiraki remains optimistic. "E- commerce will take off within five

years, but it’s going to take awhile because of the mentality of [Durham Region’s] popula- tion," he said.

In fact, Alhiraki and McLaren say they already have been approached by two busi- nesses in Durham about e-commerce, but will not give any names.

Bob Malcolmson, executive director of the Greater Oshawa Chamber of Commerce, said over one-third of their members use email and have web sites, but no one has men- tioned e-commerce yet.

"[E-commerce] is developing in the area," Malcolmson said. "Chances are within the next six months to a year [Durham business- es] will be certainly moving rapidly. "Many of the small businesses will have to

look towards the future," he said. And many small businesses in Canada are

at least moving online. According to a survey conducted by SES

Canada Research in May 1999, the SES web Entrepreneurship Survey of 1,000 Canadian small businesses found that 61 per cent of Canadian small businesses are using the Internet; 78 per cent believe the impact of the Internet will be positive; 72 per cent believe the Internet opens new business opportuni- ties for them; 27 per cent of Canadian small business owners have conducted financial transactions online in the past year; and 41 per cent are planning to do so in the coming year, Jeremy Wilkins, solution provider at

Durham Net, a local Internet provider, agrees that e-commerce is on its way. He said there are some people who have

already requested web pages for e-commerce from Durham Net.

"Right now e-commerce is in baby stages in Durham Region, but I can see it breaking ground fairly soon," Wilkins said.

Student info going online

BY MALCOLM MORUM Chronicle staff

Durham College plans to place students’ persona! information online, begin- ning April 1.

Over the Christmas break, students could access their timetables from the Durham College web site as a trial for future online applications.

Over the next three years, DC will provide web services for students. Students will access timeta- bles, transcripts, grades, class lists and demographic information, and eventual- ly students will register for courses online. The information will be

available anywhere there is a computer with Internet access.

Gerry Pinkney, executive director of Information Technology, said student information will be guarded by the same information security that banks use for online transactions.

"The standard Internet security will be provided, and student Information will be encrypted," Pinkney said.

Anyone trying to access

- student information with- out the password will get garbled type. Students will also access their informa- tion using a pin number and a student number.

In November 1999, DC class presidents agreed.to an information-technology fund increase that would see IT fees raised to $115 by 2000/2001; $135 by 2001/2002; and $155 in 2002/2003. Some of the money from the IT increase will go towards the online applications.

’^Once the budget is available we will be spend- ing money that the students and the college has commit- ted to," Pinkney said. A secure intranet for both

students and teachers is also planned for 2000/2001. The -intranet will support stu- dent communication and will include campus news and events, and email.

Pinkney said the focus of the intranet and the online student applications is to have a more personal and faster service for students.

Pinkney said there will be a reduction in student line- ups and better communica- tion overall for Durham College students.

Frost Week beats the winter blues

Photo by Talla Mathels

SEE SPOT ROCK: Chris Brodbeck (right) and Reggie Bennett of the band See Spot Run show off their musical skills to Durham College students at EP Taylor’s.

Pholo by LIndsay Slephenson

FEELIN’ GOOD: A student at EP Taylor’s Is happy about the extreme seats to an I Mother Earth Concert. He won the tickets by , playing Passport Bingo during Frost Week.

Students show off their talents BY LINDSAY STEPHENSON m

EP Taylor’s was full of tal- ented students on Feb. 1 when the Frost Week Talent Show took place. The show was held at 9

p.m. and was free to people who had Frost Week pass- ports.

Although the crowd was small, the performers on stage did a great job. The evening began with

Dave Warner, VP of Social Affairs for the DCSA doing a drum solo.

"I’ve been drumming for about 12 year’s, he told the audience, and proceeded to wow the crowd with a solo that had everything from rock to swing. The second act of the night

was a band called 6th Edition, made up of Lauren Coyle on bass, Matt Crowder on guitar and vocals, and Joe McGowan on guitar. They played well and the

show was relaxed, with the band talking andjoking with the audience between songs.

"It’s called Freon or some- thing like that," Crowder told the audience as he Introduced their second song.

"Joe and I’ve been jamming since we were little kids, like 15 and 17," Crowder said. "But this band’s only been together since the weekend before the last talent show,"

Although they sounded great, they were critical of their performance. Crowder

Pholo by LIndsay Slephenson

WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?: (left to right) Sean Crondles, John Patterson, Justin Landry and Al Frewer played the game show Participation for I Mother Earth tickets.

said afterwards that he had some trouble on stage, "In mid-show, I forgot everything. It was an awful thing to do."

"Usually that’s the case at these shows," McGowan said. "Usually your self is your worst critic."

The third act was Maura Kearney playing acoustic gui- tar. She played covers of Sheryl Crow, Jewel and Emm Gryner, and did a good job in spite of being a little nervous.

"I’ve been playing about

three years," Kearney said, "and I was in the last talent show."

She said she got Involved just to get out and have a good time.

Nick Daniels was next up, under the name of Buster McLean, and he played a few original compositions on acoustic guitar, as well as a few covers, Including a cover of Nell Young’s "Goldrush".

"I’m prepared, I’m a boy scout," he told the audience,

and showed off a sheet of lyrics and the songs he was planning to play just in case he forgot what he wanted to play.

Daniels said he has played about 10 shows in Toronto, at various clubs, including Lee’s Palace, under the name of Buster McLean. "It’s fun," he said. "I play for friends and stuff a lot; it’s nice to have an audience."

Daniels said more people should come out to the talent

shows because there’s a lot of great talent around Durham.

Andrca Goforth sang sever- al Celine Dion songs. She said she takes part in compet- itive singing on a regular basis and has won two French singing competitions in Oshawa. "Being a part of the show was definitely a good time," she said.

Creed in 3, made up of Jeff Atwell on acoustic guitar and Pete Finlay singing, was the next act. "I always sing Karaoke," _ Finlay said, "and Jeff has always wanted to get up, so we said if there was another talent show, we’d do it."

"We’ve been together for along time, a whole week," Atwell said. "Some guy in Res helped us out with the name."

The last act was Charles Majic playing original com- positions on acoustic guitar. He said he’s been playing for about eight years. He signed up for the talent show because he missed perform-

ing. "I used to be in a band," he said. "And it’s nice to be in front of people."

Dave Warner, the VP of Social Affairs for the DCSA, said although the crowd for the talent show was small, it didn’t matter. "It went well for the performers," he said. "It wasn’t a total success, but it was a success for the musicians themselves. I think everyone did excellent and everyone had fun,"

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Drive Clean needs big changes Over the past few months, the

greater Toronto and Hamilton- Wentworth areas have been in full swing with the new Drive Clean emis- sion testing program.

Although (lie drawbacks to such a program arc just as evident (and obscure) as the benefits, we have to start somewhere.

For environmental connoisseurs, this program is a step in the right direc- tion of a long crusade to end the use of fossil fuel powered vcliicles.

Most would agree that the reduction of pollution would do far more good for everyone than it would harm. But the reality is, if this thing makes it big, then auto manufacturers will be put under more and more pressure to make cars that blow cleaner exhaust than Detroit air. And that can get costly.

In California, emissions testing is far more strict than our current program, and every car has to meet the California Low Emissions Vehicle (LEV) standard before being road wor- thy in that state.

Just as technology increases, so do emission specifications. Which is where auto manufacturers come in. With the technology that exists today, engineers are able, one would think, to build a car that drives so clean, no pun intended, that an emission test would be a simple formality if that car was properly maintained.

But they won’t build it. Not yet any- way.

Not until the pressure comes to do so. The difficulty with the emission

testing in Ontario, is that there is no industry specification.

Every business that has the equip- ment.and trained (hopefully) person- nel to perform these tests does some- thing differently than another place that does them. Those minor differ- ences can mean a world of difference in the outcome of the test.

In an Automobile Protection Association (APA) investigation reported by the Toronto Star, a test car was taken to 20 different Drive Clean test centres. It passed 11 times and failed nine times, with results varying as much as 800 per cent.

During one day of testing, the test car, a 1988 Pontiac Sunbird, failed mis- erably at 10:56 a.m. and later that day at 3:22 p.m. it passed with remarkable ease.

Hydro carbons (parts per million) and carbon monoxide were at one third tlie level they were at in the morning test while oxides of nitrogen were one quarter the level in the previ-

ous test. Needless to say the glaring differ-

ences are not what the ministry had in mind when they introduced this test.

This is where the customer gets the shaft. Which test was right? For the test facility, the obvious

answer is the failed test because there is the opportunity to sell hundreds of dollars of repair work. But the cus- tomer wants the pass. Why do tests on the same vehicle

offer such drastically different results? Many reasons contribute to this. One thing that could happen is that

unqualified personnel performed the tests and caused an incorrect pass or an incorrect failure, costing customers more money in unnecessary repairs. An advantage to the shop owner, but an obvious disadvantage to the cus- tomer. To administer the test, a Drive Clean

emissions inspector certificate Is required and to fix the problems, a repair technician certificate is required.

But what is to stop employees who failed the course from performing the emission tests? To avoid this, each certified Drive

Clean inspector has his/her own card to activate the test equipment. However what Is to stop a tester from using another tester’s card to perform the test?

Another factor is the procedure. Before the test, all cars are supposed

to go through a preconditioning process, which involves heating up the car to normal operating temperature. Without this preconditioning, even a clean car could fail. And as the results from the APA investigation showed, only three of the 20 garages performed it.

Again, training could be at fault but as any mechanic worth his certificate knows, emissions are cleaner when the "car is hot. .But the incentive for facilities to.

pass the vehicles isn’t very high. A pass means no more than a $30

fee. Twenty dollars of that goes to the government and the remaining $10 goes to the garage. ’

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The $10 the garage receives doesn’t cover thecost to actually perform each test.

In one example, Canadian Tire stores pay their technicians .3 hours of labour ($20.10) to perform a Drive

Clean test, but it takes a half hour to complete. Most places have the hourly. less experienced technicians doing the drive cleans so the certified mechanics don’t lose money. The remaining $20 goes to the gov-

ernment, GST included. But, if repairs are required (some-

thing as simple as installing a four dol- lar PCV valve) then everything, test and parts, is subject to GST and PST.

Garages are also required to pay for a block of tests in advance.

Convenient isn’t it? In a press release the ministry said

that in the first year 84 per cent of cars passed the first time.

That is a very good number, but the reasons they passed could be that no one was familiar enough with the pro- cedure to test correctly.

In the same release, Ontario Environment Minister Tony Clement admitted changes may be in the works for the program. Wliat those changes might be is still a mystery. Judging by the current status of the

program changes are definitely needed but even when they are made, errors will continue to pop up causing undo expense to car owners.

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Operation True Blue is not so true When the Toronto Police Union began raising

funds to increase their political power, the move threatened to change a peaceful city into a police state. The Toronto Police Union, lead by Craig

Bromell, had stubbornly pitted itself against the public, Toronto City Council, the Police Services Board and their own police officers to wage Operation True Blue, a campaign that raised chaos in Toronto not seen since last year’s snowstorm,

Just $100 for a gold sticker, $50 for a silver stick- er and $25 for a bronze sticker to go on the front windshield of a car. Stickers so the Toronto Police Force could raise money to sack or keep track of politicians that went up against them. Money, It seems, so the police could wage a campaign that some argue was aimed to end democracy as we know it, or at least give the decal owner a liltle leniency when he or she was pulled over on a cold February night.

I suppose you’re wondering what this had to do with Durham College students? And It all depends on how often you, or somebody you know, traveled into the metro Toronto area. If what some people said was true, and you didn’t have a decal attached to the front window of your car, you could have faced police discrimination. At least until they found out you were not from Metro, The union argued there would be no discrimina-

tion, but one can’t help wondering what may have gone through a police officer’s mind if he or she saw a sticker that showed support for the police

force. Would they have been a little more lenient, even subconsciously?

As for the political motive, we should have all been a little worried. Police wield a large amount of power, and when political Influence is added In it begins to make people afraid, and for good reason.

Malcolm

On Jan. 28, The Toronto Star reported that Toronto City Council unani- mously condemned the Toronto Police Association’s fundraising campaign as an affront to democracy. The council also proposed to have their offices scanned for listening devices, fearing the police union might have planted them. Even TV can’t beat that kind of paranoia.

Morum

Wouldn’t you be paranoid if the police wanted to purchase a computer that listed politicians who agreed with their political Ideals and those who voted against them? If such a computer had been in use, politicians may have changed their minds on a political decision if they knew they could have gone on a police black list. That simply would have given police too much power.

Even the union’s police officers didn’t like the idea of continuing the campaign.

On Jan. 30, The Toronto Sun reported that a petition by Toronto Police officers found 90 per cent were against Operation True Blue, according to police sources. The police union argued any money raised by

the campaign would go towards a political push for tougher penalties against young offenders and parole violators, and everyone else argued it would hurt the public’s relationship with the police, it would lead to placing too much political power in the hands of police and It placed politicians in the position of obvious paranoia. The Police Services Board, led by Chief David

Boothby, pitted itself against the police union in a struggle to stop the campaign, and there were threats of legal action on both sides. On Feb. 3, Craig Bromell, president of the

Toronto Police Association, gave in to internal, public and political demands, abandoning the True Blue Campaign. On Feb. 5, The Toronto Star reported that the

Toronto Police Services Board will press ahead with legal action in hope that any future telemarkcting campaigns by the police union will be stopped.

Bromell seems to have gone into hiding. The man who spearheaded the campaign avoided react- ing when Toronto Mayor, Mel Lastman spoke out against him at Nathan Phllllps Square.

But you can guarantee Bromell won’t stay In hid- ing very long. His abrasive style of leadership is sure to raise the backs of Toronto politicians and the public soon enough.

Too good to be true? Web-users beware

So there I am, sitting in front of my "trusty" computer, a few min- utes early for class, (which is no small miracle after the drunken stooper I came home in last night) and I figure I’ll check my e-mail before I start working.

Let’s have a look at the ol’ inbox... mail from the best friend back home, and oh my god look at this - the mother is getting com- fortable with the computer, and has sent me a letter... Then it hits!

The garbage for- ward.

It seems that Microsoft will give me $125 for forwarding this mes- sage to everyone I know, the Gap can hardly wait to give me free clothes to forward their message, and if I don’t forward this message to everyone I know while all the stars and planets are in a certain alignment, I will die multiple infi- nite, painful, fiery deaths.

Does this sound familiar? What is with people forwarding

these ridiculous messages which eventually pollute my inbox?

I’d really like to think that peo- ple out there aren’t naive enough to think that Bill Gates is sitting at home thinking to himself "I feel like giving away all my money to everyone in the world who can fig- ure out how to forward an e-mail".

You’d think people would realize that Gap probably isn’t going to give free-clothes to every nimrod

Trevor

Cain

out there who clicked "forward" on their e-mail. As for the "you will die if you don’t forward this mes- sage" bit, I’m not even going to dig- nify that by addressing it.

I mean, think about It - if Microsoft and Gap just gave away money and clothes respectively to everyone who forwarded their mes- sages, do you not think that they’d go pretty belly up in a hurry? Someone could stroll in to any place of business, get an e-mail

directory, mail everyone on it, and make the easiest million dollars that ever happened. and pick up a new wardrobe while they were at it.

I guess it comes down to one truism. Common sense is not common. There’s so many better

things we could do if we didn’t waste each other’s time with these garbage forwards. Anyone so short on money that

they’re depending on forwards as a source of income, should spend the time it took to read and forward the message calling their parents for money. They could e-mail someone you

haven t talked to in a while to see how they are. They could have a look at the honey sitting beside them - hell, they could probably have a beer.

If nothing else, I’m sure the world would turn that much easier without these Idiotic forwards. Do the world a favour. If you get one, delete it, and don’t waste anyone else’s time with it,

A piece of Crosby lives on: fathers Ethridge’s children Oh how we love another rock and

roll surprise. Whether it’s Mick "Help I’m stuck

in a 50 year olds body" Jagger impreg- nating a young Brazilian supermodel or a "Hey is that the LA Times in your pocket" George Michael, we always live for some tabloid-making contro- versy.

But this is an interesting one. In the current Rolling Stone,

Grammy winner/rock star/lesbian Melissa Etheridge reveals her ’Little secret’ announcing that one David Crosby is the mystery sperm donor behind her and partner/filmmakerjulie Cypher’s two children, Bailey, 3, and Becket, 1. "We just got so tired of this

secret," Etheridge said. "And keeping this big secret goes against how we are choos- ing to live our lives - very openly."

Well good for Crosby. One of the greatest hip-

pie burn-outs of his era, Crosby, 58, of newly regrouped Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (and Ohio and American Dream fame) was really a sur- prise choice when you consider rumours that Brad Pitt, Bruce Springsteen, or Tom Hanks might have been the father.

Although Viagra has not officially approached him to be a national spokesperson yet. when you think of all the ’could-be’ sperm donors out there, Crosby Isn’t really so bad.

What’s a worse case scenario? Little Bailey finding Papa Crosby’s rolling machine and papers while rummaging

through a closet of hair elastics. Just make sure Uncle Neil doesn’t

visit too often. One would be in horror if Keith

Richards turned out to be the donor and young Bailey was smoking three packs a day and drinking two bottles of whisky by the time he was seven.

Or what if Richard Simmons hap- pened to be the father and Bailey turned up for football practice in a black sequined tank-top and bum-hug- ging shorts hoping to grant everyone’s wish. Ah... tight end anyone? What if the guy that played Boss Hog

on the Dukes of Hazzard turned out to be the donor? Bailey and family would be relocated to Georgia to live on a

steady diet of fried chicken and bourbon while Bailey called for the death of the poor blond and dark haired boys next door.

Derek

Nawrot And if Old Dirty Bastard or any WWF

wrestler donated, the poor kids wouldn’t stand a chance � let alone any member of the Kennedy family.

The truth is Crosby contributed to a lovely lesbian couple that wanted to raise kids and he deserves a full applause.

His wife supports him fully, he does- n’t plan to help raise Bailey and Beckett, and he can still rock on his last legs.

I just hope Stills, Nash, and Young didn’t have anything to do with the

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NEWS

Ai ding tho s e in grief Crusade for Christ coming to DC? BY JEANNE BENETEAU Chronido stall

the position after they have completed a telephone screening interview and a facc-to-facc registration meeting.

DISTRESS CENTRE SEEKING HELP FROM

DURHAM VOLUNTEERS BY VANESSA COLSON Chronicle staff

said Kehoe. "It’s an on-going need." The volunteers will be asked to com-

mit a year of volunteer services, and to dedi- cate 16 to 20 hours per month. They will also be asked to work one eight-hour overnight shift.

Kehoe suggests that anyone interested In volunteering get an application and send it in to tlie centre as soon as possible because training registration is limited. The next two- part training workshop will be held March 5 and March 12.

For further information on becoming a volunteer with the Distress Centre Durham contact Victoria Kehoe at 723- 4461.

"We train the volun- teers in active listening, crisis and suicide inter- vention and prevention techniques," said Kehoe.

� We look for people that are non-judgmental,

� empathetic listeners and responsible.

Volunteers must be able to handle a variety of calls."We get roughly 400 to 500 calls a month," said Kchoc. "Eighty-five per cent of tlie calls come from peo- ple wlio are having diffi- culty in a relationship or because they are lonely or just want to vent."

The Distress Centre Durham is look- ing for volunteers for the centre’s 24- liour telephone helpline. To be considered eligible for the vol-

unteer position one must be 18 and have the key qualities that the centre is look- ing for in a volunteer. "We look for people that are non-

judgmental, empathetic listeners and responsible," said Victoria Kchoe, administrator of volunteer resources. The centre will train those clioscn for

? Victoria Kcftoe

The centre has no limit on the num- ber of people who can apply to be a vol- unteer.

"As many as interested can apply,"

Campus Crusade for Christ would like to sec a full-time ministry become a reality at Durham College.

"Right now, the Crusade for Christ has clubs at 40 colleges and universities across Canada," said Tim Bruneau, a member of the crusade’s Student Link. "I’m one of four people contacting (he colleges and university in southern Ontario, raising awareness and interest for the Campus Crusade for Christ." The organization Is multi-

denominational but members share Christian beliefs. "We are young people that

love the Lord," said Bruneau. "Our mission statement is to help people know God in a personal way and change the world."

Bruneau became involved with the group while attend- ing the University of Guelph.

"I am participating in a Millennium Pledge, a one-year ministry to spread God’s word and encourage the growth of the organization," he said.

Bruneau said the philoso- phy behind the crusade is "win, build and send."

"The first step is to win peo- ple over to Christ, to help them find God personally," he said. "The second step is help- ing their training as Christians through bible studies. And the last step is to send them out, sharing the word of Christ with others." Dan Touma, a first-year

electronic engineering stu- dent, is the Campus ’Crusade for Christ contact at Durham College.

"A friend told me about the group, and I had a chance to attend one of their weekend conferences in Toronto," said Touma. "I was really impressed with the speakers and the enthusiasm within the organization."

According to Touma, the Campus Crusade for Christ helps .strengthen existing Christians in their faith.

For further information, contact Dan Touma, (905) 428-7024, or Tim Briineau, (519) 725-5055.

Job Fair 2000 Worried about whether or

not all that tuition money you spent at college will finally pay off?

Well fear not, the Job Fair 2000 is on its way to Durham College. The job fair will allow students to meet job recruiters and make a good impression on them. The fair will be held on

Thursday, March 9, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the gym at the Oshawa campus,

Australi a is waiting for you IF YOU WERE IN AUSTRALIA, YOU

WOULDN’T BE WORRIED ABOUT THE

SNOW.

IT’S SUMMER! BY DEREK NAWROT Chronicle staff

Wouldn’t It be nice to live In Australia for a year and earn a univer- sity degree?

For those who are looking for a new outlook on life or who have just had it with long, bone-aching winters, Durham College offers a one-year exchange with the University of Western Sydney that allows you to earn a full university degree. The only catch? You must have suc-

cessfully completed your DC diploma. Sue Kelly, one of the co-ordinators

of the exchange, explains that any student with a three-year diploma is eligible to enroll in the third year of a relevant degree course at UWS, thus earning a full university degree. Those who have completed a two-

year diploma are given a year and a half credit toward a relevant degree commencing in the second year, sec- ond term of a three-year UWS degree. UWS offers degrees ranging from

Engineering to Business to Fine Arts. "It offers a student a very quick and

well-defined path towards a degree," said Kelly. And you are studying under the

" The Australian dollar is

almost at par with that of the Canadian

sunny skies of Sydney and among some of the friendliest people in the world.

Although there are more cultural similarities between Canadians and Australians, the Aussie culture tends to be more relaxed and laid-back.

But don’t expect a nation full of Crocodile Dundees.

Kelly said some people experience culture shock when they discover that the Aussies get up in the morning, go to work, and eat three meals a day instead of rushing off to the surf and drinking beer 10 times a day.

"People have built a picture of what it is going to be like, and often times It is slightly different than their expec- tations," said Kelly. From a cultural and human per-

spective, studying in a foreign country is a very important growing process that lets one experience the numerous benefits of living overseas,

April-Dawn Blackwell, a graduate of Business Admin. at Conestoga College, recently returned from a year at UWS, where she lived a life filled with new friends and adventures. "Why not?" she said, laughing,

when asked why she decided to study in Australia for a year. While attending UWS. Blackwell

worked in a pub, which she called the quickest way to meet the true Australian people, earning $13 an hour.

SUE KELLY

The Australian dollar is almost on par with that of the Canadian.

"Wages in the hospitality industry are definitely a lot better because it is

not tip-based," said Blackwell, noting that she received about $16 to $19 an hour on Saturdays and Sundays.

Kelly said there is no minimum wage, and students are permitted to work up to 20 hours a week during school and full-time during vacation,

Funding is also avail- able from OSAP, and Kelly says that when you compare the cost of studying in Australia to continuing on

to a university degree in Canada, the Australian option is much less expen- sive. With the money she

earned working full time in December (Remember sea- sons are opposite and it’s about 35 degrees In Sydney during summer) Blackwell used the months of January and February to explore the country.

"Travelling is the best part," said Blackwell, rhyming off exotic locations such as Melbourne, Perth, Gold Coast (Australia’s

and the Daytona

Beach only much nicer) that she has visited

She said she was fortunate to travel as much as she did because it is fairly inexpensive with student discounts.

What impressed her the most was the friendliness of the Aussie people.

"They are so much more open to the idea of being a tourist and that you’re there to sec their country. They appreciate that," said Blackwell. One of her greatest memories Is

having a full Christmas men! and then going to the famous Bond! Beach the next clay, An exchange is not for everyone

and there are minor problems that arc bound to occur.

Blackwell said the unfamiliarity of the surroundings (e.g. not knowing where to get things) and being so far from her family and friends were minor discomforts.

After the initial culture shock, Blackwell went on to meet "fantastic people and some of the closest friends

I’ll ever have." She said that

if you go with the mind set that it is a learn- ing experience, that it will give you a new per- spective on life and an under- standing of dif- ferent people, then absolutely go.

"Truthfully," she said, "It’s as fun as you make

it."

SUE KELLY

Blackwell said she breaks the year down as spending the first two months wishing you were back home, eight months enjoying the experi- ence, and the last two months worried about going home.

^ But don’t expect a nation full of Crocodile Dundees

?

8 THE CHRONICLE February 15, 2000

Mac lab servers full BY MELISSA CLEMENTS Chronicle stall

Servers used to store student work in the Maclntosli labs arc filling up, causing prob- lems for stu- dents trying to save their files.

There arc two servers avail- able, one for Graphic Design and one for Communication

WORK, WORK, WORK: DC’s students filling up the Macintosh lab server with all their hard work

Arts. Each has two volumes designated for students.

Brent Hudson, Mac lab technologist, said the prob- lem could be fixed if students kept their files to a minimum and deleted old files.

"The main message is use the server as back-up and save your work on a zip disk or

"V, he said. The problem is more the number of students than the amount of space.

There lias been an increase in the amount of space used up on the Communication Arts server. "We buy more space and

students just gobble it up," said Hudson.

The problem was noticed last semester but the amount of space has always been an issue. The school

buys more space on the server every year but as the

Pholo by Mollssn Clomonis amount of space increases, so docs the amount of

worked saved. Chris Hinton, network

administrator said, "It’s kind of unpredictable the amount of space students use."

If the server remains full, Hinton could delete old unused files.

"People have to learn to back up their files," he said. "It’s a shared environment".

Purple pit to host art show BY AMANDA GAGNON Chronicle slaff

Visual Art and Design Fundamentals will be holding a student art show on Feb. 21.

The show, held in the pur- ple pit, will be a display of the students’ artwork.

"This is the first year this program was offered at Durham," said Trina Boos, a student and one of the orga-

nizers of the show. "It’s mainly to show the

school the experience we have, not only from this year but from previous years as well," she said. "It will be a fun thing to do."

DC student offers help to jail inmates who need it BY LYNDA RICHMOND Chronicle staff

Dan Duller is a driven man. After retirement from 34 years at General Motors he is going to Durham College and on to university.

"I don’t have any barriers as to where the future will take me," he said. At present he is taking a diploma course in Human Resources. He plans to attend university to attain his doctorate in this field.

Buller has been a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for ,17 years and Emotions Anonymous for 16 years, and lias been involved in many other such programs.

"The principals and the basics are the same’in all of the programs," said Buller. "When I was in recovery from Alcoholics Anonymous and some of the others I found I had emotions that were the root of my problems. But without my AA program the emotions would be buried in alcohol or some other addic- tion."

Buller preaches what he practises. He follows his pro- gram. He is one of the many volunteers who go Into the Whitby Jail with the AA and

EA programs. He also is tak- ing anger management into the jail,

"Anger is neither good nor bad," said Duller. "It’s how you react to it." When people are ’In jail they are given the chance to participate in pro- grams like AA, EA and anger management.

Anger management has not been around as long as some of the other programs. When someone comes to anger management they are given three basic guidelines: understand their anger, understand and see what anger does to them, and understand how to deal with the anger. There are some positive results from this pro- gram. "I only plant the seeds," said Buller. The grow- ing Is up to the individuals taking the programs.

In the future Buller would like to counsel the elderly. People are living longer and substance abuse is a problem. "1 feel 1 can help because I can relate with these problems," said Buller. There are basic principals: people helping people, and sharing with oth- ers in the same or similar situ- ations,

"I’ve been where some of these men have been and I moved on with help," he said.

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NEWS,

GROUP AIMS TO PROMOTE ACADEMIC AWARENESS

Acad emi c c ouncil exp o s e d BY MATTHEW SITLER Chronicle staff

You’ve seen their work splashed across the walls of the school. They have helped cause your heart to race at mid-term. They have been keeping track of your success as a student as well. Some shadowy cult hidden within our midst? A secret cabal of fact-seeking bureaucrats per- haps? No, but the human face of Durham College’s Academic Council has changed and has come out of hiding. The academic council is a

group of faculty, staff, student and administration represen- tatives from across the college. Their mandate is to provide leadership for the achieve- ment of academic excellence. The group meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month to develop strategies to help stu- dents.

Recently, the council voted in two new co-chairs, Miriam Terry from the Health and Human Studies department, and Martha Finnigan from Business Admin; "What we do is deal with

any issues that concern the way the school operates," said ,

Terry. "The way that the pro- grams operate, things like time-tabling and the interim grade reports."

Student success is a big issue. The council aims to pro- mote awareness of what it

Pholo by Matthew SItlor

NEW CO-CHAIRS: Miriam Terry and Martha Finnigan develop stategles to help students find success.

takes to be successful at the college, and to help address academic issues that affect everybody. "We look at existing poli-

cies and make changes to them," said Finnigan.

"Anything that affects acade- mic policy." The decisions or recommendations made by the academic council are all decided upon by the college’s policy and planning commit- tee.

Communication among all facets of the school regarding the council’s purpose is a high priority for the new chairs. It seems that until recently, not many people around the col- lege knew what the council

docs. "There are staff here that are

unsure of what academic council does," says Terry. "The students need to be aware of what is going on, too, because everything that we do impacts upon them." The council has created

"academic council" posters that are on walls around the halls and classrooms. They hope students take the time to read them, and welcome input from students. "We can sit in the meeting

and talk, but it’s really inter- esting to have a student come and say ’What were you think- ing?’" said Finnigan.

As acting co-chairs these women have their work cut out for them. "We do look at all of the

issues that need to be dis- cussed and prioritize them," said Finnigan.

Terry adds "We lead the meeting. Making sure that the issues we are discussing are known, and that everybody is aware about any decisions that are made."

Issues that have been dis- cussed by the council include ESL (English as a Second Language) student time- tabling, mid-term report cards, and raising the profile of the Learner Centre. "Anything that helps a student to be aca- demically successful is what we are working on," said Terry.

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Environment said the Drive Clean program was put in place because cars, trucks, and buses emit pollutants that con- tribute to smog. Drive Clean will help ensure that the emis- sion systems for vehicles arc maintained to the standards for which they were designed. When you take your car to

an accredited Drive Clean test facility, a certified test inspec- tor accelerates your vehicle to 40 kilometres per hour on a treadmill-like machine called a dynamometer. A probe is placed in the tailpipe and sends readings on the pollu- tants in the exhaust to a com- puter. The computer averages the readings and compares them to the emission stan-, "dards. for the vehicle’and ’Its? year. For example: An ’87 model car will be tested against ’87 emissions standards. Some people believe the test*

inspector can alter the test, but it is impossible for that to hap- pen, said Darcy Mason, auto- motive technician and certi- fied test inspector at Frank’s Auto Service. "We own the machine, but

we do not have keys to get into the program itself," Mason said. "It’s actually failsafe. If we even tamper, with the door, it shuts the machine down. We cannot alter any specifica- tions for the vehicles." Mason said once the

machine is hooked up the car is on its own.

"All we do is drive it," he said, "We only look at the out- put of the emissions from the vehicle." Many people have heard

that a vehicle can be tested at one test facility and fail the emissions test, and then taken to another facility and pass. Mason said one reason this happens is because the vehicle is not at operating temperature before the test is done.

"I have a thermal gun that I use to check the catalytic con- verter and the engine," he said. "When the thermostat opens up at 196 degrees and the fan comes on between 200 to 220 degrees, then I know it’s at operating temperature." Mason said a catalytic con-

verter that is on the verge of going or an oxygen sensor that is clouded and doesn’t respond quickly enough, can also alter results from one facility to another.

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AjWHffiNBVS Drive Clean Program

Fore ign sub stanc e s a conc ern Continued from page 10

A major concern for test inspectors is the foreign sub- stances people put in their gas tanks to trick the computer Into passing the vehicle.

Frank Puglisevich, automo- tive technician and owner of Prank’s Auto Service, said some people have resorted to putting moth balls, transmis- sion fluid or bleath in their gas tanks to ensure a favourable reading. He said when people use

these remedies it doesn’t harm their vehicles, but it can cost a lot of money to diagnose where the problem is. "When you are trying to

diagnose the vehicle and you’re taking for granted that you’re working with good gas, you try to get the results by adjusting something else," he said.

"Nine times out of ten you spend half a day working for nothing. And they’re paying for all of this because they’re so paranoid about the car not passing. They forget the one simple thing that has any meaning and that’s that they’ve been driving the car

remainder of 2000. According to the Ministry of

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Hooking up for LASA BY MATTHEW SITLER Chronicia staff

Calling for backup from students in Law and Security programs, the second annual Law and Security Career Fair will be held on Thursday, February 17th from 9 a.m. to noon. The event will give Law

and Security students an opportunity to network with professionals in their fields.

"At the present time we have 13 different agencies that are corning." says Lynne Scott, coordinator for the

BY LES LINDER Chronicle staff

Thousands of people are being hospitlizcd and having their lives shortened by the air they breathe, said a group of Medical Officers calling for action against air pollution.

Medical Officers from Durham, Toronto, Middlesex- London, and Windsor, said in a press release that they will express their concerns at the Canada-U.S. Air Quality

Law and Security program. "Provincial Corrections, Hydro, and Inteliguard are coming, just to name a few."

Students may hook up contacts and land jobs as a result of meeting with reps from these and other agen- cies.

"Last year it was quite suc- cessful," says Scott. "We had seven agencies and there were a number of jobs that came out of it."

For’second-year Law and Security students who get to do a field placement with agencies of their choice, the

Agreement negotiations in Ottawa on Feb. 16.

"As doctors, we are deeply concerned about the inaction demonstrated by the senior levels of government on air quality," said Dr. Robert Kyle, Durham Region Medical Officer of Health. The Medical Officers of

Health are concerned that recent decisions on air quality at the provincial and national level are inadequate and leave little incentive or bargaining

career fair helps them to decide what agency they will choose.

"The fair is open to first- and second-year Law and Security and Police founda- tions students," says Scott. The fair will take place in

G213 (the old dining hall). There will be a lunch served afterwards for the agencies who attend and students who would like to interact witli agency reps.

"All aspects of law and security and law enforce- ment are covered with this career fair," says Scott.

power when negotiating with the U.S. on ozone. The federal government has

estimated that air pollution leads to 16,000 premature deaths in Canada each year.

"Fifty percent of ozone that affects southern Ontario resi- dents comes from coal-fired power plants in the U.S. " said Kyle. "How can we ask Americans

to enforce stricter controls when we are not willing to do so ourselves?"

Fighting the good fight against harmful air pollution in Canada

Pitching in for children with special needs

BY LYNDA RICHMOND Chronicle staff

Reinvest in your communi- ty. Help purchase equipment for children with special needs. Funds arc needed to expand Variety Village in their scliool outreach program.

The Royal Bank is raising money for Variety village, a program for children with spe- cial needs, located in Toronto. This Is the first Variety Village Durham winter games. The sledge hockey tourna-

ment is played with a sled on skates.

It will be held from noon to 2 p.m. on Feb. 20. at Iroquols Park in Whitby.

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The bank is organizing tills event and calling it "Mayors Challenge of the Towns." This will involve corporate teams representing: Ajax-Pickcring, Whitby, Oshawa, Port Perry and Clarington.

Hockey pucks and mini hockey sticks are now on sale at the Royal Bank. The price is $5 each. If bought in advance this would pay for your admis- sion. Join as a corporate spon- sor or to cheer on your com- munity on the 20th. There will also be entertain-

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Headliners invade E.R Taylor^s

I Mother Earth wow the crowd BY TALIA MATHEIS Chronicle staff

I Mother Earth performed to a sold-out crowd at E.P. Taylor’s on Feb. 5, as the finale of DCSA Frost Week, The show opened with a

band out of Montreal called Sec Spot Run.

With songs like Weightless, Lucy and Terrified, they got tlic crowd pumped and ready for I Mother Earth.

1 Mother Earth took stage with One More Astronaut, which was met by huge crowd applause.

It was-interesting to watch the band’s new front man Brian Bryne, who is an excel- lent addition to the group. When Edwin left the band,

fans were questioning how a new lead vocalist could improve the sound that Edwin had made famous.

Bryne’s vocals Fit the band well and his stage presence was overwhelming.

( People were dancing, mosh- ing and there were a few attempts to crowd surf /

Photo by Talia Malhals

I MOTHER EARTH: Brian Bryne belts it out at E.P. Taylors on Feb. 5 as a finale for Frost Week events.

’Concert goers were fortu- (am session complete with nate to experience a kind of maracas, bongo drums and

Jagori Tanna wailing on the guitar.

I Mother Earth has a very complex sound and it showed through the numerous instru- mental solos and songs they performed throughout the show.

People were dancing and moshing, and there were even a few attempts at crowd surf- ing (security intervened for safety reasons).

I Mother Earth finished with a three-song encore, the

last song being Levitate. The crowd was screaming

and jumping along with Bryne, whose energy was still at ;i high.

Overall, it was an amazing, adrenaline-rushing, over- whelm ing experience for all who attended.

I Mother Earth declined to be interviewed.

I did however, get a chance to meet Jagori and Brian.

You would assume that with all their "rock star" fame, that they’d be cocky and arrogant. Not the case.

After speaking with Brian, off the record, I realized that they are down to Earth guys whose goal is just to perform a quality show, give the fans a memorable experience and have fun while doing it.

I Mother Earth tries to per- form a little harder and more aggressively to show everyone that they aren’t your typical Canadian band just out to make a buck.

They came, they played/ they conquered BY SEAN VANDENBURG Chronicle staff

Once again a Canadian band has come and gone from Durham College and left their mark in a convincing fashion.

See Spot Run played to a busy E.P. Taylor’s on Saturday Feb. 5 and did a bang-up job of it too.

Performing songs from their debut album Ten Stones High and the follow up release Weightless, they had the crowd screaming for more.

Randy Bowen and Reggie Bennett, guitarists, and Chris Brodbeck on bass and vocals, kept the stage alive with their inter-song antics like leaning on each other and hamming it up’for the audience and the camera.

This was the bands first show . in Oshawa and Brodbeck said that they can only judge a town by the crowd as they are never around long enough.

Twenty-year old Jamie Regin agreed.

"I’ve been listening to them since they were playing in Montreal bars.

I love their music and I hoped they would play a little longer," she said.

But the opening band’s job is top warm up the crowd for the feature and that they did.

From the opener, Terrified, to the closing title track, Weightless, Spot had the crowd singing along and dancing to every song.

Photos by Scan Vandenburg

SEE SPOT PLAY: Band member Randy Bowen, left, has some fun with lead singer Chris Brodbeck

"When we’re playing and Spot, signed to Toronto- domination is an Idea for raising my hands," he said. they’re ( the crowd) getting based Loggerhead Records, is their own comic book called Bannett’s alter ego could be into It. It makes us give a bet- selling 700-800 copies of the Young Fantastlcs in which the Sun King, spreading ter show and in a way more Weightless per week and each band member would warmth to all the cold people energy," Bennett said, recently appeared on 102.1 have an alter ego and a super of Canada.

After the show the band the Edge with Humble and power to go along with it. "And to all the people that made themselves available for Fred. are mean, no warmth," says autographs and-pictures and Just a couple of stops on Bowen plans to call himself Bennett. few If any were disappointed, their way to world domina- Raoul. , "We haven’t got it all fig- One of those autograph tion. "My super power is to ured out yet," Brodbeck

hounds happened to be me. Part of Part of that world spread love all over just by laughs.

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OLP brings Raine of "Happiness’ to ACC

BY LINDSAY STEPHENSON Chronicle staff

The Travelling Sex Show with Sue Johanson dime to EP Taylor’s on Feb. 8 and was an arousing success.

All of the money made from admis- sion to the sex show was donated to the AIDS Committee of Durham. Dave Warner, VP of Social Affairs for the DCSA, said they just decided that they wanted to do it. The pub was packed with people

when Sue Johanson made her way out on to the stage and was met with wild applause from the audience. "RRRRrrr," she purred, rubbing her microphone, "this is my phallic sym- bol." Then she got down to business. For

the first half of the show, Johanson talked to the audience about sexuality and the fact that many people are not properly educated about sex. She kept the mood light, joking about myths people believe and the things the human body does - "The average guy has an erection every five minutes," she said, "AH day long) Is it any won- der they’re tired all the time?" - but at the same time making sure people are aware of how important a good sexual education is. She also stressed the importance of safer sex. "Like it or

BY RODNEY WILSON Chronicle staff

Our Lady Peace, one of Canada’s most popular bands, came to Toronto on Feb. 1, playing at the Air Canada Centre in front of 10,000 fans. And they were happy to be there. "It’s truly unbelievable to be back

home again, " Raine Maida, lead singer of OLP said. The thrilled fans respond- ed to the comment by screaming and clapping. OLP played a combination of songs

from all three of their albums: Naveed (1994), Clumsy (1997), and their newest release, Happiness... Is not a fish that you can catch (1999). The alternative band consists of

Raine Maida on vocals, Mike Turner on guitar, Duncan Coutts on bass, Jeremy Taggart on drums, and new member Jamie Edwards on keyboard.

Stereophonies, a three-member band from South Wales, opened for OLP. Kelly Jones on vocals and guitar, Richard Jones on bass, and Stuart Cable on drums, make. up one of Britain’s most popular rock bands, which bears a slight resemblance to Oasis. The threesome, who went triple

platinum in the UK, played for 45 minutes. The crowd, however, was lifeless as many fans had not yet arrived and most of the people who were there had never heard of the British band before.

But fans jumped to their feet when OLP came on stage and performed Dirty Walls. They continued with The Birdman,

Automatic Flowers and the hit single One Man Army, which was one of the many crowd favourites. Two more songs from their latest

CD, Potato Girl and Thief, followed. Then, OLP played the very popular

4am. The crowd stood and sang along

not," slie said, "safer sex is the survivor skill for (lie new millennium."

Ideally young people would get a good sexual education at home, she said, but that just doesn’t happen because people are embarrassed to talk about sex with their children.

"I can talk to everyone else’s kids about sex," she told the audience, "but my own kids, that’s different. As Mom, I’m embarrassed to talk to my kids about sex."

She said parents rely on the schools to teach their kids about sex. Unfortunately, schools tend to focus on anatomy and physiology; they don’t get into what kids need and want to know, which is love and all the other things that come with sex.

For the second half of the show, Johanson answered questions from the audience that were written on cards handed out before the show.

Questions ranged from the G spot and orgasms to toys. anal sex and health issues. Nothing seemed to faze Johanson as she read the many ques- tions the audience had, answering each with the same openness and frankness.

Johanson, a nurse by profession, started in the sexual education busi- ness in 1970. "I started a birth control clinic for kids," she said, "and it went crazy. It was a school-based clinic in the health room of a high-school in

for the entire number. The next five songs each had their

own video, directed by the band mem- bers, which played on the giant screen behind the band. Naveed, their first big hit, was followed by Carnival, Stealing Babies, Clumsy, and Blister. An unexpected song was next as

OLP played Teardrop, originally per- formed by Massive Attack.

It was interesting how the ending of Teardrop turned into the beginning of a completely different version of Hope.

During Hope, Maida asked the crowd to sing along, and at one point he jumped into the stands and let a teenage girl sing a few notes.

Before the next song, Maida told the crowd how happy OLP was to be home again in Canada, specifically in Toronto.

They then played Starseed, which also had a video on the screen in the background. The crowd stood and cheered; they stayed on their feet for the remainder of the concert.

At the end of Starseed, Maida said ’good night’ to the crowd and OLP left the. stage. The crowd stood and cheered in

anticipation of an encore; a couple of minutes later, OLP was back on stage to finish the show. They played Is Anybody Home?,

their current smash hit on Much Music.

Their final song of the evening was Superman’s Dead, arguably their most popular song to date. The atmosphere during the final

two songs was electrifying. As Superman’s Dead came to an end

OLP left the stage at a standing ova- tion.

Their cross-Canada tour, which started Jan. 29 in Halifax, will contin- ue this month. It includes stops in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. It ends Feb. 20 in Ottawa with their 13th performance in less than a month.

Toronto and it just went nuts. I real- ized that kids were having sex and they didn’t know what they were doing." Johanson decided it was time that someone should start teaching good sex education.

She said they were teaching sex edu- cation in the high sctiools. "But it was primarily the plumbing. There was nothing about getting horny or stuff like that. The good stuff that kids want to know."

It was then that she started teaching. She went back to university and from there the media caught on, she said.

"I was doing interviews for Canada AM, and Dini Petty show and City TV and CBC, and that grew like mad, and along came radio, rock radio Q107, and I did the Sunday Night Sex show, and along came Rogers Cable TV, and I’ve been involved with that for 11 years."

She said that at that point, she began working at the university and college level. "That has just gone like topsy," she said. "Now I do almost every college and university In Canada. There’s some northern ones that there just isn’t time to get to, or the weath- er’s too bad, you can’t get there." Johanson said there are a lot of rea-

sons why students don’t get embar- rassed tafking to her. "I’m older. I do NOT get embarrassed. I’m safe. It’s con- fidential. I’m not critical and I’m not judgmental. And I’m free. That helps a lot." She also said she thinks young peo-

ple like the show because she uses the terminology of youth. "A blow job is a blow job," she said. "When I’m not

embarrassed, they’re not embarrassed. I am unabashedly comfortable with sex." A lot of the show, she said, comes

directly from the question cards she gives out to the audience before each show starts.

"I’ve taken those question cards and sorted them out, and figured out how many questions there are about mas- turbation. What is the most common

Suestion about masturbation? What o kids really want to know?" She said she takes all of the most

common questions about everything and incorporates them into the show. And in her time as host of the

Sunday Night Sex Show she’s heard a few strange questions. "Last week there was one: ’My boyfriend likes to come in my ear.’" she said.

She says the important thing with questions is to look at why, where does an idea come from, and then help the person decide what the best course of action for them will be.

"It’s easier to be honest about things right up front," she said. If someone doesn’t like what his or her partner wants to do, it’s Important to tell them that up front, and not wait until five years down the road. Johanson said she plans to remain in

this business for some time. "I love it," she said. "I’m a ham, so I really enjoy being on stage and I love working with kids, so for me that’s very, very com- fortable."

She said she will also remain on tele- vision. "We have a contract for next year, and I’m not moving or changing channels."

THE CHRONICLE February 15, 2000 17

What d o you me an S ting? VAZQUEZ, SAVAGE LEAD LORDS TO

CRUCIAL

VICTORY

BY BRENDAN MCCULLOCH Chronicle slalf___________

The Lords men’s basketball team made better percentage shots and played with more enthusiasm and desperation at home in a conference game against Seneca on Feb. 4, snap- ping a long losing streak and continuing their quest for the fourth and final play-off spot in the Central Division.

Brendan

McCulloch

"Our play-off hopes are still alive, so we need to beat Centennial on Tuesday and then we have to go to George Brown the following week and win that game, and if every- thing falls into place, we are going to make it," said Lords head coach Ernie Armstrong. The Lords almost looked

like a .completely different team in the first half of the game’ as they dominated against Seneca, forcing them to take tough shots and stay- ing out of foul trouble.

The whole team got involved in the offence and took advantage of their many free throw opportunities. The score at the half was 45-26 for the Lords.

In the second half the Lords’ shooting percentage was not as good but they played disciplined basketball and made Seneca earn their baskets. The Lords also moved the

ball around better and contin- ued their success at the line.

Seneca-made a late charge in the fourth quarter, closing the gap to as little as 10 points with about four minutes left, but the Lords showed some composure, swinging the momentum back to their side for the rest of the game, and won 81-66.

Forward Juan Vazquez Mprejon led the. way for the -Lords with good shot selec- tion, going 6 for 16 from the line and knocking down 22 points overall. It was the first time Vazquez has led the team in points scored in a game since he joined the team on Jan. 19.

Lords guard/small forward

Pholo by Brendan McCulloch

WE’LL GIVE YOU THAT: Juan Vazquez and Quado Service allow an unidentified Seneca Sting player an off-balance, low percentage shot while Nigel Pennie gets a good look. The Lords went on to win the game 81-66.

Donald Savage played another good game, with some smart shots in the paint and some key offensive and defensive rebounds. He ended up mak- ing 6 of 14 free throws and scored 18 points in the game. Savage said the Lords changed their offensive strategy as they moved the ball around better.

"Seneca had a pretty small team tonight and we just got up to the line and got all those free throws in and took it from there," said Savage. He said the team got some

key steals on defence and con- verted on their fast breaks. "We just played 100 per

cent and it worked to our ben- efit."

Savage said that in their last game the Lords did not have any defence but in this game the team picked up the inten- sity level. "We did have the ball more

often and we finished all our shots and we played better offensively and defensively."

Lords forward Adam Farr also got in on the action, play- ing tough defence, and had his best game offensively with an impressive 17 points.

Point guard Nigel Pennie played well all around on offence as he controlled the ball and got the rest of the

offence more involved. He led many fast breaks that resulted in some key baskets. Pennie had the best free throw per- centage on the night for the Lords, going 6 for 9 from the line, and tallied 16 points. Pennie said the team won because they worked the ball around better. "We played more as a team

and everyone helped to con- tribute to winning the game," said Pennie.

Armstrong said it was nice to beat Seneca because they had beaten Durham twice ear- lier in the season. He said the Lords scored more baskets and thought the team did a better job in all aspects of the game on offence.

"I thought Adam (Farr) real- ly helped us out on offence tonight because they (Seneca) didn’t have any size and Adam took advantage of that, and Juan (Vazquez) played a very good game."

Armstrong said Donald Savage is the most consistent player on the team and played well again for the Lords. He said shooting guard Quad? Service rebounded really well.

"Quado always contributes, whether he scores or not."

Service said the biggest dif- ference in this game for the

Lords was being able to keep the turnovers down. "We passed the ball around

more and made sure everyone got in touch," he said.

Adding that for the team to continue their success they. will have to hustle more and grab more lose balls. "We have to make sure we

get every rebound and try to keep the turnovers down."

Lords assistant coach Peter Gordon thought the team played a solid 40 minutes worth of basketball. "We were short with play-

ers tonight and we told the guys that we definitely had to rebound well, and that if we stayed out of foul trouble, we would be okay, and that’s wliat we did," said Gordon.

Gordon said the team did not play with as much intensi- ty in the second half as they had in the first half. "We didn’t execute as well

as we did in the first half, but that is the first time we have ever had a big lead at half time, and I think the guys weren’t used to it."

He said it is hard to play with intensity for the rest of the game after the way they played in the first half.

"Every game from now on is a play-off game, so it is going to be a big test for us."

Gordon said the team passed the ball much better, rebounded the ball better, did not commit as many turnovers, and shot the ball with more accuracy.

"In the last game, we only made two or three perimeter shots whereas tonight we did make some jumpers." With the victory over

Seneca, the Lords moved their conference record to 3-9 and their overall record to 11-19. The Lords must now win at least two of their three remaining regular season games to hope to qualify for the play-offs.

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SPOKFS NWS. NH L fantasy i s for the fans

BY JON KUIPERIJ Chronicle staff

It’s always hard to get hockey tick- ets in Toronto, so securing a ducat for the 50th NHL all-star game was impossible for almost everyone.

However, thousands of hockey fans of all ages were able to experience the excitement of the 2000 National Hockey League all-star celebration by attending NHL FANtasy, an interac- tive and fan-friendly event organized by the NHL, last week in Toronto. The 500,000 square foot event fea-

tured more than 30 hockey attrac- tions, including virtual-reality hockey games and tests of different hockey skills.

"The goal of the event is to allow fans who may not necessarily have a chance to go to the all-star game to experience the all-star festivities through a series of interactive events, fan-friendly attractions and activi- ties," said Sandra Carreon, Manager of Corporate Communications for the National Hockey League. "There’s something for everybody." NHL FANtasy activities ranged

from in-line hockey to hardest shot competitions, and there were many attractions including a display featur- ing all NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup.

"It was a lot of fun," said Andrew Whiting, a 10-year-old hockey fanatic from Brantford. "The in-line hockey was my favourite."

This was the fourth year that the league has staged the travelling theme park, originating in 1996 at the all- star game in Boston.

ALL-STAR FEVER: Mark Recchi (left) and Valeri Sure (right) battle for the puck In the 2000 NHL all-star game in Toronto.

Carreon said the precursor to NHL FANtasy was "New York Skates", held in Manhattan in 1994 when the Rangers hosted the mid-season clas- sic. The marathon hockey game was a

new event. Five squads participated in a pick-up hockey game at Nathan Phillips Square in downtown Toronto

in an effort to raise money for charity and set a new Guinness World Record for the longest hockey game ever. The winning team played for 19

hours and 20 minutes, in an average temperature of minus 10 degrees cel- sius.

In total, the five teams played for a combined 72 hours. Labatt’s donated

$10,000 to the NHL and the NHL Players Association for Hockey Fights Cancer.

Hockey fans from all over Ontario Hocked to NHL FANtasy, which was held in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

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BY JON KUIPERIJ Chronicle staff

With the All-Star break having come and gone, the NHL’s unofficial second half has begun. The first half of the season has fea- tured some surprises, some disappointments and some interesting developments.

Is it just me or has Marc Crawford’s hair gotten a lot more gray since he started coach- ing the Canucks...Boston GM Harry Sinden may have a notorious reputation for being tight-fisted when it comes to money, but he was right about Dimitri Khristich. Imagine, Khristich’s history dictates that he will play even worse in the playoffs. Yikes...Remember when Penguins coach Herb Brooks wigged out at a Colorado broad- caster who said Matthew Barnaby had a "ten- dency to embellish"? It certainly was unfair to single out Barnaby as an embellisher. A more accurate analysis would be to say that the Penguins team, with Barnaby, Jaromir Jagr and Martin Straka, had a "tendency to embellish". Word is Pittsburgh is thinking of changing the team name from the Penguins to the Possums...Is there any worse team in the history of hockey than the Tampa Bay Lightning...Of course, the Atlanta Thrashers aren’t exactly a dynasty in the making either. Any team that relies on Kelly Buchberger for offensive contributions is doomed,,.The MVP of the league so far has got to be Pavel Bure. When he plays, the Panthers win.

When he doesn’t, the Panthers lose...Two teams going in opposite directions: the Sharks and the Captials. San Jose started great but sit below .500 at the season’s mid- point, while the Capitals stunk out of the gate but then ran off 11 games without a loss to get back in the playoff picture...Another team that started out well and then slipped was the Los Angeles Kings. The difference between the Kings and the Sharks is that Los Angeles had an excuse: injuries. It’s hard to win when you’re missing Jozef Stumpel, Luc Robitaille, Stephane Fiset and Ziggy Palfry for any period of time...How about the Calgary Flames? They’re better than last year’s team (with Theoren Fleury) for two reasons: Fred Brathwaite and the new overtime format this year...What happened to Fleury anyway...A lot of people expected the Leafs to come back down to earth this season. It doesn’t look like it’s going-to happen any time soon. Everything GM/coach Pat Quinn touches seems to turn to gold, like Jonas Hoglund...Without Dominik Hasek most of the season, the Buffalo Sabres have been exposed as what they really are: a one-man �

team...Just a hunch, but look out for the Blackhawks as a sleeper pick to make the playoffs...If the way to win the Stanley Cup is to play like the Dallas Stars, I hope the Leafs never win it. By the way, my mid-sea- son pick is the St. Louis Blues, especially if they play a Canadian team in the finals. At press time, the Blues h’adn’t lost to a team north of the border yet this season.

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Photo by Joanno Donotoau

SOCCER ANYONE: Dave Staley, a former DC athlete of the year, instructs young soccer players from the Darlington under-16 soccer team.

Staley is soccer coach BY JEANNE BENETEAU Chronicle staff ____..

"Soccer has been good to me. My education, my days at Durham College... it’s been just great. Now it’s time to give something back."

� Dave Staley, Durham business graduate and male athlete of the year for 1998 and 1999, is the volunteer coach of the Darlington Under 16 Boys soccer team. When Staley took over the team at the beginning of last season, he knew he had a tough road ahead.

"The previous year, the boys never won a game. Their confidence level was so low. They were used to losing," said Staley.

Although there were talented soccer players on the team, the young men lacked a firm foundation in basic soccer skills.

"That’s what I concentrated on...building on the basics and boosting their confidence," he said. And the hard work has paid off. The team

won five games last season, tied four, and went on to two tournament semi-finals.

"Watching the turnaround has been fantas- tic. The boys worked their butts off and they are a great bunch of kids. The talent was there. All they needed was coaching," he added.

Staley is so impressed with his team that he is taking them to England to play in the Newcastle Millennium Cup Tournament at the end of July.

"It’s a chance of a lifetime for the boys," he said. "That’s one thing I never got to do as a soccer player...to do the European experience."

Staley has arranged for players and develop- ment coaches from the Leeds United soccer team to do. a training session with the team.

"Even if the boys never go any farther is soc- cer, the chance to train with world-class players and coaches is something they will remember

all their lives," he said- In addition to his work with the Darlington

team, Staley is a technical goalie trainer for the Durham Soccer Academy, a school that teaches soccer skills.

"Right now it’s the off-season and I’m run- ning goalie clinics just on Sunday but In the summer it will be full-time." he said. "I’ll be travelling around the region, holding week- long clinics."

Staley is a level two coach in the Canadian ranking but is heading to Scotland in September, courtesy of the Durham Soccer Academy, to get his level one European goalie license.

"It adds to my coaching credentials," he explained. "It’s my goal, somewhere down the road, to coach soccer at the college or universi- ty level."

Staley is also playing soccer for the Inter Oshawa team. which is part of the Toronto District Premier league.

"I’ve been offered a spot on the Toronto Flames (a professional soccer team in Toronto), but there’s not enough money involved," he said. "Canada’s not the greatest place to go far- ther in soccer."

At this point in his life, Staley is right where he wants to be.

"It’s my dream job, what I have right now-," he said. "Coaching kids, making them bet- ter...it’s almost a high to see a team improve."

Staley has been training his team indoors since January and has high hopes for a success- ful season.

"They work hard," explained Staley. "I’ve got three months to get their fitness level up but just playing together, getting used to each other, building enthusiasm...they can be a win- ning.team."

Senior boys basketball tournament is a blast BY NATHAN JANKOWSKI Chronicle staff _________

Durham was a busy place over the week- end of Feb. 5 as the college played host to the 19th annual Harvey’s Classic senior boys bas- ketball tournament. Among the 12 high school teams that competed were four

schools from Durham Region. Twenty-four games took place here at the

athletic centre, and the final game was between Dunbarton High School of Pickering and Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School from Scarborough.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier won the game 61-53.

Lords win again BY BRENDAN MCCULLOCH Chronicle staff

The Lords men’s basket- ball team is one step closer to clinching a play-off’spot after they narrowly defeated Centennial College in over- time 74-73 on Feb. 8 at Centennial.

It was a do-or-die game for the Lords as a loss to Centennial would have ended any play-off liopes the team had. The Lords are now tied with Centennial in wins with four. Durham is fighting for their play-off lives as they are looking to beat out Centennial for the fourth and final play-off spot in the Central Division.

Lords guard/small for-

ward Donald Savage came up big once again with 21 points. Cuban sensation Juan Vazqucz Morejon also contributed with 19 points. The Lords have two

games left (both on the road) against George Brown College and Sheridan College.

If Durham and Centennial are tied in the Central Division by the end of the regular season, then the Lords would end up making the play-offs, hav- ing won the season scries 2- 1. The Lords will need some help from Centennial’s opponents to clinch the final

. play-off spot in the Central. The next test for the team

will be on Feb. 16 when they visit George Brown.

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Lords go 2-1 in recent homestand BY MALCOLM MORUM Chronicle sla(f

The Durham College wom- en’s basketball team has a good chance of placing third overall in their league after their latest win against Seneca College, The Durham Lords are cur-

rently fourth place, only two points behind the Seneca Sting. The Lords have 16 points with an 8-6 record in conference play while the Sting are at 18 points with a

9-4 record. On Feb 4. they beat num-

ber-three Seneca 59-56. The women made strong

passing plays and worked together to defeat the Sting. The two teams were closely matched and traded leads near the end of the second half.

With a strong showing by Sarah John and solid team play, the Lords inched ahead. John scored 30 points and

was recognized as the female athlete of the week by the

Ontario Colleges Athletic Association.

Mead coach Craig Andrews hopes to clinch third place in the conference, giving the Lords home court advantage.

In their games against the top two teams of the league the Lords weren’t as success- ful. They lost to number-one

Humber and 86-59 on Jan. 28, and on Feb 1, they lost to number-two team, Fanshawe College, 65-33.

Facial! Tina Robinson

shoots an easy lumpier over an unidentified Seneca player; ’ The Lords went on to win the game 59-56.

Briefly All-millennium team announced

b/ OCAA DC had seven of its best ever

athletes placed on the OCAA’s all-millennium basketball and volleyball teams. Carol Cruwys, Joanna Van Dyke, and Martin Kerstens were named to the volleyball teams, and Augusto Duquesne. Bill Crowdis, Julie Goedhuis, and Marcy Skribe were named to the basketball teams.

DC rookie leads OCAA

Durham men’s volleyball team rookie sensation Nat Ovsenek leads the OCAA in points per game at 5.2 points per game. In his last game had 25 kills, 8 blocks and 2 aces.

4 on 4 Basketball A four-on-four basketball

tournament on March 1 1. The tournament is available to DC students as well as anyone else that wants to participate. Prizes will be available for the teams. Sign-ups can be done at the DCSA office or the gymnasium and must be done By March 1.

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on right now at Durham College and those who are interested can still sign up. The cost is $50 per person.

If you would like to register, or would just like some more information about the classes contact Lynn Tulloch at 721- 3040.

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L ord s hop e to fini sh strong to THE DURHAM MEN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM IS FLIRTING WITH PERFECTION

BY TREVOR CAIN Chronicle staff

On Feb. 4 the men’s volley- ball team had to deal with something they haven’t encoutntered in a long time - an actual game.

In their first non-laugher in a few games the Lords beat Algonquin 3 sets to 1 by scores of 26-24, 22-25, 29-27, and 25- 14. Although

this game

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was tighter than many of the matches the Lords have had this season Coach Gord

. Williamson doesn’t feel that it was all necessarily due to Algonquln’s play.

"There were a few contro- .veslal calls that didn’t help," he said.

Power hitter Jason White also thought that .the game was closer than it really should have been. "We gave them a lot of easy

points," he said There were other circum-

stances which likely con- tributed to the Lords carrying Algonquin through to four sets. Although Willamson and the rest of the team would be reluctant to say so, the lengthy trip to Ottawa probably does- n’t help matters. This coupled with the fact that the Lords really haven’t been challenged

by a team even remotely close to their own talent level in their past few league games makes can make things tougher than they normally would be.

The game was close, � however, circumstance or not until the fourth set, where Williamson made the decision to make some posi- tional switches with key sophomore White, and veter- an Mike Sperling.

White moved from power to offside to put up a little bit of a bigger block, while Sperling moved from offside

Photos by Al Fournlor

A LITTLE BANGED UP: Power hitter Jason White (left), and setter Chuck Bunn (right) hope to get healthy and happy again very soon.

to power to pick up the pass- ing load. The move seemed to work

for the Lords, as they won their easiest set of the match.

"In the fourth game after the switch we just seemed to be killing them," said White.

Rookie phenom Nat Ovsenek continued his pillag- ing and plundering of the OCAA with 25 kills, 8 blocks, and 2 aces. White threw in 11 kills. Ovsenek continues to

lead the OCAA’s top ranked Lords, and the OCAA itself in scoring at 5.2 points per game. while the team itself remains undefeated at 13-0. An undefeated season is

something the Lords are look- ing at achieving. In reality, with a playoff berth already secured, an undefeated season is about all the Lords can real- ly centre on to stay sharp going into the playoffs.

"I don’t know If a Durham Men’s volleyball team has ever been defeated, but that’s a goal we have," said Williamson. "It will help us maintain our mental focus."

Another of the team’s goals will be to send a message to Loyalist. The Lords have beat them already in league play here at Durham, and have beat them in tournament play at Loyalist, but have yet to beat them in league play in their

Own barn. "We want to prove to

Loyalist that we can beat them in their own gym," said Williamson.

Achieving these goals may be harder than the Lords would really like, because they’re dealing with a lot of nagging Injuries. Setter Chuck Bunn, Ovsenek, and White just to name a few are all deal- ing with back problems right now. White had to miss prac- tice last week, and their may soon be others in ’need of a couple nights off which can throw a team off.

"It may have been the long trip to Algonquin," said Williamson. "We haven’t had any bad backs all year, but the four hours on the road fol- lowed by two hours of game play and four more hours on the road can take its toll."

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NHL all-star same a j oke BY TREVOR CAIN Chronicle slafl_____

Once again a higher power has said it was a professional athlete’s time. Has there ever been a year where we’ve lost so many of sport’s best. The NFL is one linebacking legend short now with the passing of Derrick Thomas. The NHL’s all-star weekend

has come and gone again with its usual debate over the game itself. A lot of people would say that the game is somewhat lack-lustre to say the least, and they would be right. The game is anticlimactic compared to tlic rest of the weekend. The skills competition is entertain- ing, the legends game is always fun to watch, and we were treated this year to the build- ing rivalry between the Canadian and American wom- en’s national hockey teams. Then the all-star game hits (without any), and puts every- one to sleep. The NHL needs to do something about this. Everything about the game itself is wrong. If 1 wanted to see guys skate circles around centre ice all night, I’d go down to the local rink and watch public skating. Why they even put on equipment I

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don’t know, case in point: Dmitry Yushkevich. He almost liad a heart attack from being so surprised by Jeremy Roenick actually running him into the boards. This game takes out the one aspect of hockey which all of its fans love - the physicality. The NHL all-star game is like Starsky without Hutch, Kariya without Selanne, Homer with- out "Doh!" - it just isn’t right. A lot of people blame the lack of effort on the players. This isn’t fair. Think about it. These guys are all playing for a championship (and a ton of money) and are only half way though their season. They shouldn’t be expected to risk injury because that’s not fair to anyone in their respective organizations. Maybe instead of accepting the all-star game for what it is now, boring, maybe the NHL should take a page out of the NFL’s book, and have the all-star game at the end of the season, in order

to make it a real hockey game. Then there’s the "fans" at the game. This is another thing about all-star weekend which is very wrong. Did anyone else notice just how quiet the ACC was? It wasn’t for lack of prop- er sound equipment, it was because the only real hockey fans were standing where no one could hear them for $100 :a ticket. Instead of all the cor- porate big-wigs, maybe the NHL should start thinking about putting the all-star game on for those who make it pos- sible - the true, average, every day fans.

Vince McMahon, owner of the WWF has announced the formation of his own football league, the XFL, or eXtra Fun League. Look for the clothes- line tackle, facemask, player- favourite leg whip, and pile driver to become very popular on the gridiron. An interesting fact about this announcement is that WWF stock dropped about four dollars following this announcement. Apparently Wall Street didn’t smell what the Vince was cookin’.

This brings us to "real" foot- ball. The way things are going right now the NFL will be start-

ing a new football league of its own that could also be called the XFL, only this time it would stand for eX-con Football League. It’s probably because they’re under a media microscope right now, but NFL players can’t seem to stay out of trouble these days. But who could really blame Wayne Chrcbet, and Keith Ellas. � I mean, when you only have a couple million bucks in your pocket what else can you real- ly afford to do for entertain- ment except for get in bar brawls?

Ken Griffey has been quite the hot topic of conversation tliese days hasn’t he? I guess if I demanded to be traded to another newspaper which would likely sign me for around $100 million I’d be talked about too. People have a problem with his demanding to be traded, and this isn’t right. If someone told you that you could only work in (gulp) Oshawa, you’d probably tell them to take that idea, turn it sideways, and shove... well you know the rest. The problem lies in how he’s said he will only accept a trade to Cincinnati. This pretty well ensured that a Mariners - Reds

trade woul be a severe case of highway robbery - which it ; was - three no names, and the infamous player to be named later to possibly get Jim �

Edmonds from the Angels.; Bottom line: it wasn’t fair for Griffey to put the Mariners in �

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competition!!! NBA all-star, weekend was starting to seem like the NHL all-star game... just not quite right. You had to like seeing the likes of Vince Carter. Tracy McGrady, and Steve Francis (unless you’re in Vancouver in which case you just kept booing your TV) do bad things to an innocent rim. The game Itself was entertain- ing even with its glaring omis- sions, and the looming possi- bility of captain bitter also known as Karl Malone not playing because of whatever hissy-fit he was in for whatev- er reason. David Stern must be a happy camper, as Dennis Rodman has made his return to the NBA with the Dallas Mavericks. It should be pretty hard for the Worm to screw up this time. with all the special privileges he’s been given. But make no mistake about it, he will find a way.

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