UW Clean Snowmobile Team on Fire
Kristen Sperduti - UW Clean Snowmobile TeamPosted on: May 22, 2013
No words can explain the feeling of jumping in a big pickup truck with a team of young, eager engineering students, pulling the result of a year’s worth of hard work in the trailer behind them, 14 long hours of road ahead, and a week of epic adventures awaiting. Nick Mulder, Vangie Rose, Casey Palermo, [...]
Social Media in the Boston Marathon Bombing
James MacLean - 3A NanotechnologyApril 15 was a Massachusetts state holiday and many of its residents were out enjoying the weather. Unfortunately, I was stuck working at my co-op position at a hospital in downtown Boston. Around 3pm, I had decided to settle down at my desk for a quick coffee break. Logging onto to Facebook, I saw a [...]
The End of the Elizabethan Era: Where Does Canada Stand?
Spenser Good - 3A MechanicalAmazingly, and unbeknownst to many citizens, Canada has had the same head of state for 61 years. Queen Elizabeth II has been the reigning monarch of the British Commonwealth and the Queen of Canada since February 6, 1952. In this time, the Queen has conferred over 404,500 honours and awards, she has sent 175,000 telegrams [...]
Bangladesh: One Tragedy, Global Responsibility
Leah Kristufek - 2B ChemicalIn many parts of the world, poverty is recognizable by the number of sets of clothes you own. The more articles of clothing you own, the less poor you are. Cheap, affordable clothing for some people can be a status symbol, while for others it is an important part of expressing yourself. No matter what [...]
Counterpoint: It Should be Illegal to 3D Print Guns
James Maclean - 3A NanotechnologyEarlier this month the company ‘Defense Distributed’ released the design for a 3D printable pistol. This announcement comes at a significant time. South of the border the debate over gun control has flared up after a series of fatal school shootings. The gun has been named the “Liberator” and has been released for anyone to [...]
Point: It Should be Legal to 3D Print Guns
Lucas Lim - 3A NanotechnologyDefense Distributed revealed their 3D printable gun, named “Liberator,” earlier this month. The 3D printer blueprints for the gun were downloaded over 100,000 times within 2 days after their release, before being seized by the US government. For Cody Wilson, CEO of Defense Distributed, the Liberator is a more than a gun: it’s a new [...]
Students Suspended on Lack of Immunization Paperwork
Nancy Hui - 3N CivilThousands of high school students in Ontario face suspension for having incomplete immunization records, despite repeated reminders to complete their records. The Ontario Immunization of School Pupils Act ((R.S.O. 1990, c. I.1) requires that “The parent of a pupil shall cause the pupil to complete the prescribed program of immunization in relation to each of [...]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Disregard the Leafs
Edward Blake - 4Z HandsomenessI am not some kind of hockey-hater, but I am also not a fan. I am just a person from the Greater Toronto Area who is tired of being called less of a Torontonian for being indifferent towards the Toronto Maple Leafs (I am less of Torontonian for being from the ‘burbs). So this is [...]
VP Education – Drew Dutton (CV’s, Co-op and Counselling)
Drew Dutton - VP EducationWelcome back A-Society! Hope you all enjoyed a great co-op term! How awesome was uploading your JobMine resume in PDF this term!?! Hopefully that freed up some time to enjoy the lovely spring weather we’re having. Even more exciting than the PDF resumes, CECA has recently signed a contract with Orbis, who will be replacing [...]
President – David Birnbaum (Well Hello There!)
David Birnbaum - PresidentOh hai there, didn’t see you (for four months). I hope you all had a great co-op term, and are super excited for this Spring term! My executive team and I got up to quite a bit over the co-op term and have a lot planned for the next few months. I will try to [...]
VP Finance – Kevin McNamara (Money, Money, Money!)
Kevin McNamara - VP FinanceHey Everyone! Hope that you all had an awesome co-op term, and are looking forward to being back on campus this spring! The weather is great, and it’s going to be an awesome term, including some cool finance related stuff! Budgets: All directors should be working on their budgets NOW! They are due on May [...]
VPs Internal – Brendan O’Hanlon & Annamaria Reda (Fwunderful Times Ahead!)
Brendan O'Hanlon / Annamaria Reda - VPs InternalYou read it right, there are so many exciting events planned for this semester that no single word in the English language can convey how sensational it will be! We’ve already had an upbeat BOT party, a Dyson Award info night event, a pair of résumé critique sessions, and an exchange student welcoming. All your [...]
VP External – Leila Meema-Coleman (Purpling, Conferences and New Things!)
Leila Meema-Coleman - VP ExternalWelcome back Waterloo! I hope you all had as exciting and productive co-op terms as I did and are excited to be back on campus! This term is going to be jammed packed, so watch out for lots of exciting new initiatives! To update you on what I was working on over the winter term… [...]
Spring 2013, Issue 1 – Letter from the Editor
Lucas Hudson - Editor-in-ChiefGOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The first issue of the Spring term is finally out and there is no looking back. Undoubtedly this newspaper is not perfect, but I am proud of all the hard work The Iron Warrior staff has put into this issue. My name is Lucas Hudson, the 128th Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of The Official [...]
Random Access Memories: Review
Lucas Lim - 3A NanotechnologyThe French duo Daft Punk have finally released their highly anticipated album Random Access Memories, but does it live up to the hype? Here’s a track-by-track review. 1) Give Life Back to Music An eclectic mix of glittering synth and 70′s rock gives way to a funky, upbeat guitar track undoubtedly played by Nile Rodgers [...]
Tube In To This: LBD, Squaresville, Hipsterhood
Nachiket Sherlekar - 2B NanotechnologyGreetings. We are the Millennial Generation, raised on cartoons, and consumers of fake ketchup and indie rock. Over the past couple of decades, there has been a dramatic change in the way that we create and absorb content, the most significant being the rise of the internet as an accessible form of media. In particular, [...]
Madatory Small-Talk: The Sun Spot Cycle – The Year of the Solar Cycle Maximum
Ioana Craiciu - 3T NanotechnologyThis moment is brought to you by the sun. That hot, trembling ball of plasma, which you probably mentioned at least once today in your mandatory small-talk about the weather, is certainly the cause of both humanity and the weather. The star we call ours is located about 27 light years from the center of [...]
KIM DOTCOM “Mega” Legal Action
Anjida Sripongworakul - 2B ManagementMegaupload died in January 2012, but the story of the man behind it, Kim Dotcom, continues. The US Attorney General Eric Holder’s May 2013 visit to New Zealand, where Dotcom is currently based, for an annual “quintet” attorney general meeting has raised activity from Dotcom’s side. The meeting is also attended by attorney generals from [...]
Robo Interrogator 1.0
Leah Kristufek - 2B ChemicalHow often have you lied and gotten away with it? Conversely, how frequently does everyone seems to think you are lying when you are actually telling the truth? Between 1759 and 1962 approximately 710 Canadians received the death penalty and were publicly executed, over twice that number were given the death sentence. In 1976, the [...]
T Cubed: The Move to Subscription-Based Services
Jacob Terry - 3A NanotechnologyAdobe surprised many at its Max conference earlier this month when it announced that it would no longer be selling Creative Suite, one of their most popular products, which offers Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and other professional design applications in a bundled, one-time purchase. Instead, Adobe is suggesting people move to its relatively new Creative Cloud service, [...]
A Different Angle on Child Abuse
Anjida Spirongworakul - 2B ManagementThe Spanish children’s advocacy group, Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk (ANAR) foundation, has teamed up with an ad agency, The Grey Group, to distribute an ad aimed at increasing children’s confidence to speak out on being abused. The ad displays the face of a little boy and employs lenticular printing (a technique normally [...]
Myriad Genetic’s patent on BRCA1 and BRCA 2 gene detection is before a US court again
Nancy Hui - 3N CivilA patent is the right for its holder to exclude others from manufacturing, using, or selling an invention for a certain period of time, usually twenty years. The word “patent” brings to mind inventions like lightbulbs, motors, circuits: human-made devices and processes that do not exist in nature. The patent system was designed to reward [...]
Chris Hadfield’s Space Renaissance
Jacob Terry - 3A NanotechnologyThere are no visits to the moon nor high-profile Space Shuttle launches, but stories about Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield have become so prolific that he has become a household name. This is a major feat for an industry that dramatically quieted down after the cancellation of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. Outside of the [...]
Out and About on Campus: You Too Can Explore the Galaxy
Leah Kristufek - 2B ChemicalDo you remember those summer nights in your childhood, lying in the grass looking at the great expanse of starry sky, and marvelling at how long that light had travelled to reach your eyes? Things take on a new perspective when you are confronted with all that lively darkness and your own fleetingness… don’t they? These days [...]
The Short Short Review: The Raven
Joshua Kalpin - 2B SoftwareHello readers of the A-Society and welcome to the first edition of the Short Short Review this term. Just as a refresher, in this column I attempt to review a short film or story in a really short number of words. To start things off this term and because I saw an awesome concert sort [...]
Blow on my Dice: Resistance
Dewek - Chaotic GoodGood day my fine readers. Today I would like to introduce to this (hopefully) new column in our fine paper news receptacle (The Iron Warrior). The goal of this column is to both introduce new board games and report on my personal experience playing said game! All that out of the way, let’s get down [...]
Take Five: Losers
Nancy Hui - 3N CivilLast Monday’s game was soul-crushingly awful. I panicked every time the Bruins got near the net in the third period and it was clear that the Leafs did too. But I don’t know what else I expected from the Leafs, most of whom have never seen the playoffs, against the Bruins, who won the cup [...]
While You Were Gone – Adventures With B-Soc
Joshua Kalpin - 2B SoftwareHi fellow members of the awesome A-Soc and welcome back for another wonderful (except much warmer) term here at UW. For those of you who were working in Waterloo and hung around campus last term, this article is going to be a rehash of what you know already last term. For the rest of you, [...]
How to NOT get Your Bike Stolen
Leah Kristufek - 2B ChemicalFor many students, bikes are the quintessential cheap mode of transport. However your bike can also be used by thieves to make an easy buck at your expense. Though bike theft is uncommon relative to the population on campus it is still a reality. Between 50 – 100 bikes are stolen every year and if [...]
Winter is Gone, Summer is Comming
Leah Kristufek - 2B ChemicalThe evening was festive and not the least bit incestuous at the Beginning of Term (BOT) celebrations which took place Friday May 10. Unlike the houses Baratheon, Lannister, Stark and Targaryen the approximately 100 students and recent grads in attendance did not fight or squabble. However, name tags were circulated and attendees were forced to [...]
Engineering Wellness: Stressed, Anxious, or Nervous? You Aren’t Alone
Anjali Gopal - 3T NanotechnologyDealing with mental health is a lot like dealing with money: many of us only realize how important it is once it’s gone. However, trivializing mental health issues don’t make them go away, and students and faculty both need to realize that mental health is a crucial part of a student’s life. Let’s start by [...]
Food Safety: How to Store and Reheat Leftovers
Nancy Hui - 3N CivilFood safety is important, so that you don’t maim or poison yourself in the kitchen. In this column, I will tackle seemingly-intuitive food preparation techniques that I have gotten wrong before. The easiest and most common food preparation technique shall be first: storing and reheating leftovers. After cooking food, anything not immediately consumed should be [...]
A Highly Variable X Recipe: A Moderately Variable Chocolate Banana Cake Recipe
Caitlin McLaren - 1T ChemicalThe term has begun! You are facing new challenges every day, and loving every moment of it (Right?). You’re feeling up for anything. How about a little baking challenge? This cake is a chocolate banana cake, so first get yourself some chocolate… and eat it, since the cake actually doesn’t have any chocolate in it. [...]
Topz (With a Z): Top Reasons the Past was a Blast
Wade Wilson & Edward Blake -Been spending most our lives living in a pastime paradise; churned butter once or twice, living in a gangsta’s paradise. Yes, the past is an era that we all hold dear in our gangsta hearts, the farther back, the better it was. Mankind has never quite regained its time of perfection, roaming the Garden of Eden with [...]