1961-62_ v2,n16_Coryphaeus

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO I

VOL. 2 NO. 16 _

. WATERLOO, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, FiB. 14, 1969

m SPECIAL’ISSUE m 1

E ngineering l m m “WINTER WONDERLAND” Anyone who has ever brav-

ed the winters’ elements on University Ave. will ‘by now be less concerned with a University name change and more interested in a change of Universits - sav Hawaii.

The En$neering Society Executive has however ador>- ted a more positive atiitude and in the spirit of “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” is presenting the “Winter Won- derland Weekend.” ’

Beginning this Fri. even- ing with a post-basketball game record dance and end- ing Sunday with a glorious but well-deserved hangover the “Weekend” will be clim- axed at the Sat. night Semi- formal and the crowning of the 1962 Miss Engineer. The lovely and charming Miss Karen English, the retiring ‘61 Queen will perform the crowning ceremony. Follow- ing this the reigning Queen and her entourage will re- ceive gifts from the many

t notable dignitaries who will be present.

Herb Alexander, the De- coration Committee Chair-

man, reports that the gym will be captured in a world of blue under a backdrop of twinkling lights. The main centerpeice although its ex- act geometry is still top secret, will, it is presumed, represent the Eskimo version of a 1 fallout shelter. The Queen’s throne and band- stand will be appropriately adorned to, the general decor of the “Wonderland” theme.

Of course, as with all such undertakings the talents of many people are required, and so the semi-annual plea for assistance in decorating and cleaning up the inevi- table aftermath. Prospectives should contact Herb Alex- ander 4A Mech. or be at the gym any time from 12.00 p.m. Fri. night through Sat.

We extend, our best wishes to John Makarchuk, Phil Thorn?, and the Engineer- ing Society Executive for the success of the “Weekend”. To those concerned with the many phases of planning and preparation go our sincere thanks.

/ Memolies of the ’ \ Engineering Class of 1962

Due to threats of being exposed, we have been forced to write this article. The obscure references in the following lines will only make sense to the engineering clas- ses of ‘62 and ‘61 and some of the original members of the faculty, although some parts may be of interest to the newer students.

There has been enough written about the early his- tory of the university, but nothing about the early stu- dents, professors and the conditions under which they worked. We will try to rectify this by reminiscing about these early years of university life.

Remember the two paper shacks (now the cafeteria and drafting room) that com- prised the university? The cracked walls, the heat, the flies? Remember drafting without our shirts? On Sat- urday’s yet!

ed Remember when we paint-

“BEER” on the water tower? When we hung a 20 foot sign saying “Home of the Engineers” on the Hotel Waterloo? The “food” in the cafeteria? The raids on Wil- lison Hall? The stealing and the painting of the O.A.C. fire truck? ,

Remember the eight o’clock classes? The church- service breaks at ten o’clock? The “Enginews”? Norm Les- sard’s and Les Kane’s car- toons? The Shovel”?

“Engineering “Uncle Lennie’s

Corner”? His advice on ex- ams . . . “Cheat”.

Remembe? the courses? Engineering methods (blow- ing glass tubes); instrumen-

tation arid measurements with Davies (firecrackers and the like) ; descriptive geom- etry? Dr. Cowan’s lectures in electronics in Pre-Eng. B?

Remember some fo the people? Like Harvey Brown and Bill Greene, whd always sat together just ~$0 confuse Dr. MacKay? Lennox and his Morris? Bill Greene and his beard? “Good luck Geor- ge”? Marilyn Cook in the early days of the Co-ordina- tion Dephrtment? Bev when she was young and Mr. Gordon when he was known as “General Sex”?

There are many other in- cidents that come to our minds. Remember the day there was a beautiful snow sculpture on the campus (by Ponzo, it was rumoured) - of a nude drinking a bottle of beer? The fi&ld trip in geology when 50 students attacked the walls of the Toronto Mubeum for fields samples? Ed Stoltz falling asleep in trig. class, his chair overturning, and Ed still sleeping? Mr. Oddson not showing up for eight o’clock classes? In vengeance we soaked his brushes so he couldn’t rub off the black- board!

N.P. - Remember the Student-Staff baseball gam- es. ‘We thought it fit to reprint Bill McGrattan’s de- scription of the summer 1959 contest: “I was at the stu- dent-faculty softball game that hot and sticky evening, watching as mottily a bunch of ‘ball players’ ‘as hqs ever congregated anywhere. The only teemin tumult evident

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FROM THE PRESIDENT.:.

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kt is again time for that short relaxation period known as the Engineering Weekend. After a succession of vibrant previous weekends I can predict with some degree of accuracy that the Engineer- ing students will return, tem- porarily, $0 his “ape-days”.

This ~11 be the eighth consecutive semi - annual weekend sponsored by the Winter-Summer term En-

gineering Society. It prom- ises to be the social highlight of this semester with the greatest campus dignitaries in attendance. All efforts are being expended to equal and perhaps surpass, the prece- dent established in the past. Indeed the lavish production being planned for Saturday evening would indicate that the Wonderland, Weekend will be bigger and better than any of its forerunners.

I would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of the Engineering Society Execu- tive, to invite everyone on campus to join us for’ the weekend’s activities, and ex- tend a special invitation to our fifth year members as this will be our last oppor- tunity for social fraternation. We look forward to seeing you all and trust that you will have a most pleasureful time. J. D. Makarchuk

FROM THE CONVENOR... '

MECHANICAL ENG. CLUB - the foilowing four man Ex- During the past few weeks

several interested Mechanic- ecutive:

Once again the semi-an- nual Engineering Weekend is upon us. In ,keeping with the wintry season the theme this year is Winter yonder- land.

The Weekend will start at Kitchener Auditorium with a basketball game between the Warriors and Western, A record dance at Seagram’s

Stadium will follow the game. Immediately after the dance decorating crews will begin the transformation of cement and steel into a winter scene.

Decorating will continue through Saturday until 6.00 p.m. when the scene should be set for the Engineering social highlight of the season. The dance will start at 9.00 p.m. with the music of Trev Bennett - the swinging sound of the Twin Cities. At 11.00 comes the climax, the crowning of Miss Engineer 1962.

Many thanks to all those who have helped thus far in preparing for the weekend, and to those who will be helping Saturday in decorat- ing Seagram’s Gym.-

May I be able to say, as did the now defunct Brighton Ensign, “A good t&g-was had by all.”

P. Thomas

al Entineerifin students have been for a Club

hying thee ground work Mechanical Engineering 1. A general meeting was

held at 12.00 noon on Tues- day, February 6, for the purpose of informing the Mechanical Engineering stu- dents of their findings.

The meeting began with a 30 minute film entitled “High Speed Flight” after which the fourth year Mechanical class president, John Phillips, pre- siqed. A preliminary con- stitution was passed out for discussion. General consensus was that details of such a constitution should be left to an elected executive. The Mechanical Engineering stu- dents present then elected

President, John Phillips, 4A Vice-President, I. T. Kent, 4A, Secretary, Herb Alexander, 4A. Treasurer, Mike McBirnie, 2A. The officers were directed

to study the present con- stitution and draft a new one suitable for a vote of club members. The executive will also investigate prospective items of interest to be dis- cussed at the next ‘club meeting.

The turn-o& was extrem- ely good for the first meeting and we hope that future club functions will be met with equal enthusiasm.

FROM THE DEAN... ' /

It is a pleasure again to welcome the arrival of the winter festivities held at the University of Waterloo. by the Engineering Society. The success of previous functions leaves no doubt regardirig the success of the “Winter Wonderland.”

In enjoying some good times this week, I think we can indulge ourselves a little bit on the strength of the t things that have affected us all in the past year here in Engineering at Waterloo.

My wife and I are happy ’ tit the pros all at the dp

ect of joining you ante on the 17th.

May I extend my best wishes that everyone involved enjoy themselves heartily.

D. T. Wright

First ,’ Engineering Graduates 1

Approximately sixty cqm- panies have visited the cam- pus within the past three weeks to interview and select students from our first grad- uating class in Co-0Perative Engineering. These iompan- ies had definite requirementti for eighty gradu&es and, in addition, many of the com- panies indicated that should they find suitable students these requirements could be expanded to double the above number. ,

Approximately 70 students will be’graduating and many of these will be continuing in graduate schools. Also, prior to the interview period, several of the graduating class had accepted employ- ment with the companies with whom they had worked during their co-operative work periods.

In practically every in- stance, where a student re- turned to his previous em-

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The: CORYPHAEUS ENGINEERING SPECIAL

Published by the undergraduate engineering student body of the University of Waterloo, under special authorization of the acting Board of Publications, Publications Office, Annex 2, the University of Waterloo.

Editors: Al Strong, Larry Barkley

Photographer: Mike McBirnie

Night Hawks: Bill Bowick, Jim Wilson

Special Efects: Peat Moss

Memories of the Eng. was the cloud of mosquitos attracted to the pools of perspiration, and the only skill epitomized was that of fast root beer drinking. The closest anyone came to grace was ‘Stretch’ Orava with his Pavola-like execution of a put-out at first base - one clip, two flips, a jack-knife, a belly crawl and finally the ball touched the bag. As far as speed was concerned, what about ‘Rapid Ralph’s’ para- bolic fast ball? He was pitch- ing in relief - relief that the ball actually left his hand. Some real speed was evinced, though - ‘Crash’ Near is now the only shortstop ex- tant whose territory ranges from left field to home plate:”

many unpleasant memories through the past five years - the long nights before the exams, the mix-up in courses and the poor lectures.

But then again, we have had the pleasure of watching a University, its student government and its student body grow and develop in size as well as in maturity. We have come a’long way from the two paper shacks behind the former Waterloo College cafeteria.

Remember Kerr-Lawson’s play in that game? Remem- ber the first Billionaires’ Ball at “Leisure Lodge” (August, 1958)? The Engineering-Arts (Waterloo College) basket- ball games ? Dr. Stanton’s boots? Mr. Barber’s send-off speeches? The Summer 1958 “Miss Engineer” contest in which Joe Eskritt and Pete Wozniuk placed high due to

, the impartial judging of Messrs. Stanton, Batke and Oddson?

Has it been worth the five years? There are many con- flicting opinions on this. Many people feel that as the first graduating class, we took an awful beating. For axample in the early days (1957, 1958) we had 35 to 40 hours of scheduled lectures and labs per week. What a change compared to the pre- sent 25 to 35 hours!

We also had to be guinea pigs for new courses, untried leeturers and courses they constantly changed. Friends who could have made .it at other universities did not make it here. Was it worth it?

Even some of the early lectures seemed more unin- hibited than now. For ex- ample:

Dr. Snyder in physics: ‘Most people think a slug is a measure of liquid.’

Dr. Batke in nuclear chem- istry: ‘How should I know what excites electrons? May- be they excite each other!’

Dr. Bexton in psychology: ‘I used to work with rats - the kind you keep in cages!’

Mr. Nicols in English: ‘In spring, sap runs from more things than trees 1’

Dr. Woolner in mechanics: ‘Every couple has its mom- ent!’

One can also argue the other way; that as guinea pigs we received a broader background than other uni- versities. This was proven by a letter we received from the Graduate School at Illinois. It said: “We are very much impressed by your broad background.”

One benefit we all must admit - if we had not come to Waterloo we would never have met the people we have had the pleasure of associat- ing with in the past five years - We might add that the class of ‘62 is the grandest bunch of guys we have ever known and we’d like to wish them all the success in the world.

Those are the pleasant Well, what do you think, memories - the Billionaires’ class of ‘62, was it worth it? weekends, the Weiner roasts, You bet it was! the stags, and the student Jack Kruuv, pranks. There have also been Class of ‘62

Class of ‘62 Cont’d.

DEATH OR INCARCERATION Montreal (CUP) - Re-

liance on capital punishment in the past has been based on emotional rather than on clear, rational approach to the problem.

This was the opinion of Frank McGee, M.P. for York-Scarborough as he ad- dressed members of the Loy- ola College Progressive Con- servative Student Federa- tion.

Mr. McGee, representa- tive of the largest constitu- ency in Canada, is known for his support of the aboli- tirnadf;Lthe death penalty in

In his speech, Mr. McGee claimed that at present pub- lic opinion is strongly against

capital punishment, but that this opinion is not reflected by the M.P.‘s. He said that they are afraid that abolition will be followed by an in- crease in violent crime.

Against this view, he cited the States in the U.S.A. which have abolished the death penalty, and where, in every case, there has resulted a decrease in crimes formerly punishable by death.

He also pointed out the impossibility of rectifying mistakes of judgment when the accused has been execut- ed. Incarceration for life, he claimed, would be equally efficient in protecting society from the criminal and in meting out justice.

FIRST ENGINEERING GRADUATES Cont’d, player, the salary offered was appeciably above the rates being offered to graduates of conventional courses. This premium varied from $15 to $35 per month, dependent upon the number of work assignment periods with the companies and the type of job available.

Comments from interview- ers, were most favourable and emphasized the mature approach by the students, indicating that the work experience gained by them had enabled them to ask specific and applicable ques- tions about the policies, pro- grams and future possibilities of the companies.

Many job offers have been made and have been accepted and it would appear that no graduate should be without a position if his interest is sincere and well defined.

A. S. Barber

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Ottawa (CUP) - Cana- da’s record in foreign aid is being blasted by students at Carleton University, and a request is made that the blast be made nation wide.

Students and faculty at the Ottawa University have formed a committee to chal- lenge students across Canada to join them in a protest.

In a letter to students councils across the country, the Carleton Challenges Can- ada Committee, asks that the protest be taken up, and “let it be known that we as university students and Can- adian citizens are dissatisfied with the attitude of our country in the general field of foreign aid and in the particular one of education.”

Explaining that the com- mittee wishes to rouse “Can- adians from their apathy,” the letter points out the challenge is not a prestige contest. “We .are disturbed at Canada’s shocking record in foreign aid, especially in the realm of educationi” states the letter.

MINUTES FOR THE E MEETING FEB. 6/‘62

The Engineering Society meeting on February 6 was held in Room C-136 with the President, John Makarchuk, presiding.

The agenda for the meet- ing was:

1. Minutes of the la meeting.

2. Treasurer’s report. 3. Dance committee re-

port. 4. NFCUS report. 5. Directory report. 6. Old business. 7. New business.

Minutes : The minutes were adopted

as read; moved by John Root, seconded by Eric Tay- lor. Treasurer’s Report:

Bob Watson reported that a profit of $127.00 was re- alized from the 2nd Tech- nical Session. This report was zlthusiastically accepted by

. Dance Committee Report:

Arrangements have been made to hold a dance after the basketball game on Fri- day night. Permission was obtained to have the piano at the gym tuned if it is found to be necessary.

NFCUS Report: Al. Strong reported that

the NFCUS committee on campus is planning a “Meet the Mind” series of discus- sions in which small groups of students will meet profes-

sors and discuss topics which are unrelated to normal sub- ject material.

Directory Report: , Art Harris reported that

the directories should be ready for distribution by the end of the week.

Old Business : A motion by Jim Ronback

that the Engineering Society supports in principle the concept of a unified jacket was seconded by John Root. The motion was carried.

Jim Ronback reported that there will be a graduation ball on the 25th of May. A committee has been set up and planning is under way.

New Business: ’ John Phillips moved that

the Engineering Society grant the Mechanical Engin- eering Club the sum of $10. This was seconded by Mike McBirnie. The motion was defeated. A second motion by John Phillips that the Engineering Society lend the Mechanical Engineering Club the sum of $10 was with- drawn after discussion. John Morris moved that the En- gineering Society would not consider application for funds from clubs unless they have a constitution, membership and executive. Financial as- sistance should be in the form of subsidizing only. This was seconded by George Dalbergs and carried.

Eric Taylor moved the adjournment of the meeting.

Jim Wilson, Secretary Engineering Society

THE SECOND ANNUAL TECHNICAL SESSION

A few weeks ago the Engineering Society held the second annual Technical Session. The response by the Engineering student body was slightly more than enthuisiastic and a very good turnout resulted. The details of the session are no longer news; however, we have just received exclusive photo- graphs depicting the highlights of the evening which should be of interest to those who missed some of the goings-on.

The speaker receives the unswerving attention oj the assembly . . .

It’s easy. You get pickles and mustard with the ham, the meat Eoaf comes with cheese and relish . I .