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Football Warriors regroup for new season

But coach Chris Triantafilou -- "coach Tri" to his players -- doesn't expect much to change. "We'll do what we do well, what we've been doing for a long time, just run the ball." While he'll be working on establishing "a good base again" with so many junior players, his ultimate goal is simply "to win."

While the varsity team has lost some 15 dressers, among them 10 starters including all-Canadians, team captains and all-stars -- not to mention coach Dave "Tuffy" Knight, who retired last year after leading the Warriors to a Yates Cup victory -- the team has the advantage of continuity provided by the coaching staff. Triantafilou worked closely with Knight as assistant coach, and the new assistant coach, Marshall Bingeman, has been one of the team's part-time assistant coaches for the past seven years. He even played at UW from 1986 to 1990.

Triantafilou believes that kind of consistency is a real asset. "It shows we're fundamentally sound, that we grow internally."

Attending training camp will be some 50 first-year hopefuls, as well as about 50 upper-classmen, in total "about 10 to 15 more than in previous years." For the frosh, there'll be "an orientation to drills and the philosophy of our style of play," then, along with the veterans, "work as usual" in preparation for the September 12 opening game with arch-rivals, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks. "We'll see where we're good and strengthen our weaknesses."

What Triantafilou asks of his players is simple: "Work hard in the off-season, learn something in the season, stay sound academically." And commitment. This is the only university he knows of that doesn't cut students from the program, based on their performance. "We take players who make a commitment. Some are quicker than others; some only play in their last year. Not all will be playing on the team this year, but you can't develop a student athlete if you cut them."

Accounting prof takes squash medal

The three-time Ontario Masters Squash Champion was not only encouraged by his finish, he was impressed with the performances of the other competitors. "It's awe-inspiring to see people in their 80s competing at this level, in almost a full slate of Olympic events." In the shot put, there was even a 101-year old contestant.

Armitage -- who played football for the Ottawa Roughriders -- learned squash in his twenties, living in Kenya. When not at the blackboard, he can be found at the Northfield Racquet Club, where he hones his technique, sometimes practising with members of the university squash team.

Already he has his sights set on the 2002 World Masters Games in Melbourne, and in the meantime, the World Masters Squash Championships next year in England. "It'll help keep me focused."

Positions available this week

• Department secretary, dean of engineering office, grade USG 5.
• Information systems analyst, information systems and technology, grade USG 9/10.
• Receptionist/secretary, electrical and computer engineering, grade USG 3.
• Scheduling assistant, registrar's office, grade USG 5.
• Secretary/assistant to admin. assistant, computer systems group, grade USG 4.
• Registered practical nurse, health services, temporary/casual position.

UW web site of the day

It starts off looking like an ordinary home page for a faculty member -- in this case Claudio Cañizares, of the department of electrical and computer engineering. There are links to the courses he teaches, where documents on power flow and induction motors are stored in PDF (Acrobat) format; there are pointers to work done by his graduate students; there are notes on office hours and lists of academic publications.

Then comes the second half of the page, titled "IEEE/PES Voltage Stability Report". It's a huge, five-section document prepared for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers by a group of experts, of whom Cañizares was the coordinator. Their purpose, the Introduction explains, was "to explain in great detail a variety of topics on voltage stability analysis of power systems, from theoretical as well as practical points of view. The document explains most of the material with a minimum use of complex equations to facilitate the understanding of the diverse topics discussed here. A large number of theoretical and practical examples are used to illustrate most of the ideas and techniques presented in this draft." Most of the chapters are provided in three different formats: PDF, Postscript, and Microsoft Word.

Says Cañizares about his page: "I just put it together some time ago to advertise our teaching and research work in the area of power systems, so that students and interested people get an idea of what we're doing and have 'easy' access to course material, our software, papers and other documents (in various formats). As for the design, nothing really, I just divided the information in teaching and research and added my picture, that's all.

The Voltage Stability Report, and my papers on-line, are the parts that attract most of the attention and praises from many people throughout the world."

Barbara Elve
bmelve@nh4.adm.uwaterloo.ca

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