While You Were Out

If you didn’t already know you are on Society ‘B’ and while most of you (except for some of the ECE students) were away on co-op, Society ‘A’ was hitting the books on campus and I am going to attempt to make you relive their experiences through this article.

A notable omission from the regular group of students roaming the halls this term are the class of 2010,  who graduated last term.  IRS is a big part of the winter term and this year the date was moved back to it’s original February time slot instead of the late March date the previous year.  Only a few drinking in public tickets were issued and to my knowledge nothing major occurred on the Friday that IRS was celebrated on campus.  The fourth years enjoyed their rings for the rest of the term, and touched the Tool at every opportunity.

This winter marked the end of another executive term which means a new executive needed to be elected.  Only VP Finance and WEEF were contested with the others running unopposed. Your new ‘A’ Soc executive are Tim Bandura (President), Marc Tan (VP Finance), Leah Allen (VP External), Sean Walsh (VP Internal) , Eric Cousineau (VP Education) and Praveen Arichandran (WEEF).  Speaking of WEEF, it has been in existence for 20 years as of March 2010 and every expenditure they have ever made is listed on the big yellow banners which were erected in the CPH foyer for WEEF’s birthday celebrations.  The founder of WEEF made an appearance at the birthday celebrations and cake and t-shirts were given out to students.  Stay tuned for this term’s birthday celebrations.

Another event which only happens once per year which means once every two years for each society, is the annual Bus Push in support of the Canadian Cancer Society.  This year $5000 were raised by pulling a bus from campus to downtown Kitchener. Engplay was a little bit different last term, where a general outline was given to the actors and the rest was more or less improv. Mina and Andrea did a great job and the sometimes over excited Saturday night crowd was very well behaved.

The POETS managers had a few new things up their sleeves with a special Wednesday, green beer St.Patrick’s day celebrations as well as a Super Bowl party on Super Bowl Sunday where POETS was also licensed.

The rest of Ontario interacted a lot with Waterloo last term with such events as ESSCO Hockey and FYIC which provided an excellent opportunity to show other Ontario schools how awesome we are.  A major event which happened in the halls of Waterloo was the Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC 2010) which has been in the planning stages for around two years and was executed with only a few minor hiccups by a very dedicated team of volunteers.

Many of the events from last term can be seen on the new EngSoc YouTube channel with the username “UWENGSOC”.  You can also see Engplay from last term as well as old frosh week videos and the EOT video made by Anish Buttani.

It’s now up to ‘B’ Soc to make my next while you were out article awesome.