Daily Bulletin

Basketball and hockey playoffs

The basketball game tonight is a playoff contest against Lakehead, which starts at 8:00 in the Physical Activities main gym. Tickets are $7 (students $5). If the team can get past the Nor'Westers tonight, they'll qualify for the "Wild West Shoot-out" on Friday for the OUA West championship. Waterloo is hosting the tournament, whether or not the Warriors are in it.

Although the Warriors closed out the regular season losing four of their last five games, head coach Tom Kieswetter says they're ready for what lies ahead: "We are very confident that we can play with any team in our league, and we're looking forward to the playoffs." That was right after Waterloo's 84-67 loss to Western on Saturday night. At 7-7 on the season, Waterloo sits in third place in the OUA's West Division behind McMaster and Western.

As for the hockey team, Friday night's pair of games will be long remembered, says correspondent Kimberly Moser in the athletics department. The Warriors were leading 1-0 in the division semifinals, having beaten Western's Mustangs earlier in the week, and were hoping for a quick victory to win the series. But there was nothing quick about it:

Each team started strong, playing tough defense and trying to get as many shots on net as possible. Both goalies were outstanding, however, and the game remained scoreless until the third period when Western's Ben Alviano slid the puck past Joe Harris. Four minutes later, Waterloo's Dan McKinnon took a pass from Jeff Goldie and beat a sprawling C.J. Denome to tie things up. The game remained 1-1 until Western's Shawn Fairweathere shot one past Harris 90 seconds into the sudden death overtime period.

Due to the new playoff format, the Mustang victory immediately forced both teams into a 20 minute mini-game to decide the series winner. Western's Cam Law got things started, scoring half-way through the 20 minute mini-game before Waterloo's Mike McIlveen tied it up again 23 seconds later. With three minutes remaining, Western's Chris George put the Mustangs ahead 2-1, but Waterloo never gave up. With less than a minute left, Aaron Kenney scored on a pass from Mike Chambers and Greg Esdale to force an overtime period.

In the second overtime of the mini-game, this marathon match-up finally came to an end. After six periods of hockey and almost five hours after the first face-off, the game came down to a test of endurance. Waterloo, inspired by the enormous crowd and the stellar play of goalie Joe Harris, finally put an end to Western as captain Jeff Goldie scored the winner on a pass from Mike Chambers.

Waterloo hosts the second game of the series on Friday night at 7:30 at the Columbia Icefield. Tickets are $7, students and seniors $5.

Co-op students rank their jobs

The forms can be picked up in Needles Hall starting at 11:00 and are due back at 4:00. At the same time, employers are ranking the students they interviewed over the past few weeks. On March 9, the welcome answer will arrive for students who have been matched with jobs, and the rest of the students will get ready for more interviews.

During the main interview period, just ended, 1,025 employers conducted 9,113 co-op interviews on campus, says Olaf Naese of the co-op education and career services department. Another 165 employers held interviews with 827 students by telephone.

The co-op department advises that on this decision-making day, coordinators are available for consultation, "all day until 4 p.m.". Students who are not matched with a job can take part in the "Continuous Phase" of interviews. The first job posting will be up this Thursday, even before the regular matches are ready to be announced.

Another piece of advice: "A reminder to all co-op students leaving on work terms to print a copy of the work report guidelines from the CECS website before leaving campus. Note that Math work report guidelines are available from the Math Undergrad Office, 5th floor, Math and Computer."

Here are the winning engineers

Entrepreneurial Design:
1st. Diane Cameron and Kate Hoye, Systems Design Eng, for "Ergonomic Gynecological Leg Support System"

Corporate Design:
1st. Tyler Close, Elec. and Comp. Eng, for "Netune 2.0 GSM Handover Tuning"
2nd. Paul Bowles, Sheridan Ethier, Dan O'Connell, John O'Reilly, SDE, for "Waterloo Intelligent Crane Research"

Team Design:
1st. Winnie Leung, Emily Rimas, Jason Tham, Kevin Wong, SDE

Editorial Communications:
1st. Parker Mitchell, Mechanical Eng, for "After the Treaty: The Technological Challenges of De-Mining"
2nd. Tonya Sulley, Chem. Eng, for "Food Irradiation"
3rd. Timothy Burns, SDE, for "Information Technology and Flow: Do PCs in the Home Improve Quality of Life?"

Explanatory Communications:
1st. Parker Mitchell, ME, for "Data Encryption: How Safe Is Safe?"

Parliamentary Debates:
1st. Doug Suerich and Alex Pak, SDE
3rd (tie). Bruno Bratti (ECE) and Timothy Burns (SDE), Jason Worry and William Lee (SDE)

• CIIC (Canadian Industrial Innovation Centre) Project Potential Award: Diane Cameron and Kate Hoye (SDE)
• CODE (Council of Ontario Deans of Engineering) Technical Excellence Award: Tyler Close (ECE)
• PEO (Professional Engineers Ontario) Social Awareness Award: Diane Cameron and Kate Hoye (SDE)

Women's week, and other events

One is a (women-only) "Body Image Workshop", running from noon to 5 p.m. at the women's centre headquarters, SLC room 2102. It includes "body painting, plaster casting, T-shirt painting", and a 1 p.m. talk about body image.

The other event, open to all, is "Prof Night", starting at 6:30 in the multipurpose room. It's a panel of faculty members: Harriet Lyons of anthropology and women's studies, on "Adoption Triangles"; Vera Golini of Italian, on the UW women's studies program and "where the women are at UW"; Swani Vethamany-Globus of biology, on "Ying and Yang Make Only Ying"; Susan Wismer of environment and resource studies, on "Who's Missing? Working from the Margins in Environmental Studies"; and Sheila Ager of classical studies, on "Women and Democracy in the Ancient World".

Among the other things happening at Waterloo:

• Johnny Zuccon of Professional Engineers Ontario, on the role of the PEO and the profession, as National Engineering Week continues. He'll speak at 11:30 in Arts Lecture room 116.
• Student Emily Chadwick will talk about her internship with Canada World Youth in Uruguay and Alberta, at 12:15 in the "blue room" of Conrad Grebel College.
• The statistics and actuarial science department presents Jianguo Sun of the University of Missouri, on "Regression Analysis of AIDS Incubation Time", at 3:30 in Math and Computer room 5158.
• Anthropology professor Anne Zeller will speak at 3:30 (Engineering Lecture room 204) on "Why Anthropologists Study Primates".
• Graduating students in such fields as engineering, computer science, and professional writing are invited to a pizza party with the high-tech firm Research in Motion, which is looking to hire some bright folks. The event starts at 4:30 in Davis Centre room 1301.
• Tomorrow at 10:30, the career development seminar series continues with "Interview Skills: Preparing for Questions", in Needles Hall room 1020.
• Today through Thursday, the UW bookstore has a sale going on: "Save 50% off selected hardcover titles marked by a red dot." And the periodic sale of Springer-Verlag physics books is also under way at the store, in South Campus Hall.

CAR

Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
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