In This Fishue SPECIAL HALLOWEEN EDITION

SPECIAL HALLOWEEN EDITION
FALL 2010
FISHUE 3
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
Exposing UVic engineering students
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In This Fishue
PHOTO OF THE WEEK:
Upcoming Events ................2
UVEC .................................3
Wind Energy .......................4
Dating Advice .....................5
BugPush Recap ..................5
The Ticket Booth ................6
FSAE Update ......................7
Double Rainbow Recap ........8
Beer Review 2.0 ................8-9
Gainer Tutorial .............10-11
Ham Radio ....................12-13
Diversity Social Recap .......13
WEC... What? .....................14
Whitespace ........................14
Dec 6th Memorial ..............15
Hockey Pool Standings .....16
FooLadda Standings .........16
THE FUN PAGES:
Submitted by Kevin Lavery
Simple Crossword .............17
ENGR-scopes ....................18
10 Differences .................19
Comic ...............................19
Sudoku ............................20
Editor’s Note ...................20
Heard a prof or fellow student say something embarrassing or incriminating? Send it to [email protected]
“I’m pulling out! I can’t do anything else.” - S. Nandi ELEC 365
“Does that make sex?” *shakes head* “Sense...” - Curran Crawford MECH 360
“Unknown unknowns are the scariest unknowns.” - Zac Brown 3B MECH
“I often do go below the line, but that’s none of your business” - Reinhard Illner MATH 200
“Yeah, you’ll be required to hold your shaft during this lab.” - Jian Wu MECH 380 Lab TA
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this paper are by no means the views of the UVic ESS or any member of the UVic Engineering department and therefore, should be taken solely as opinion rather than policy. ERTW
Mondary, Oct. 25th 2010
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!!!!!!!!!!!!UPCOMING EVENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hockey Night!
Arcade Outing!
WHAT: A night of ice-hockey awesomeness!
WHEN: October 29th, 11:30pm-1:00am
WHERE: Oak Bay Rec Center
Skates can be rented on location, helmets and gloves
are optional and you have to bring your own stick!
Tickets are available online or at the ESS office.
WHAT: Arcade Fun
WHEN: Some time in November
WHERE: The Zone (formerly known as Johnny
Zees, beside Capitol 6)
WHY: Because there will be pizza, a heck load
of tokens and who DOESN’T like playing video
games and DDR?
HOW: Stay tuned for more info!
MOVEMBER
Halloween!!!
I’m allowed to say Halloween
is an event, right? No? Well
too bad; it’s an event for me!
It’s almost here...
Attention all Lady Engineers!
WHAT:
Girls Night!!
WHEN:
Friday, November 5th
TIME:
5:30 till the night ends!
WHERE: We will start off with a Dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory
at 6:00pm, then head on over to the Oak Bay Rec Centre where we will
ice-skate for a bit, and then head off to an undisclosed location to enjoy
the night away!!
COST:
The ESS will take care of skating fees and rentals, and post
skating celebration extras (but if you have your own skates bring them!)
just make sure to bring money for the dinner and drinks at the Spaghetti
Factory, and your bus pass!!
RSVP:
Please RSVP Tiffany at [email protected] or join the Facebook
group “Girls Night” and RSVP so we know our numbers. We will be
meeting in the ESS office at 5:30pm to bus downtown. Sorry boys, this is
open to Engineering Girls only, unless you can pass off as one.
Rumours flying around the ESS - Drink and Dodge? Movie Night?
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University of Victoria Engineering Competition
Registrations have now opened for our annual engineering competition, UVEC. We will be hosting the
following competitions:
Senior Team Design: In this category, third and fourth year students are confronted with an engineering
design problem. Each team is given a week prior to the competition to research the given problem. Then,
on the competition day, they have 12 hours to implement their solution with the materials provided.
Junior Team Design: Exclusive to first and second year students, the Junior Team Design category challenges teams of four students with a physical engineering problem. Each team is given four hours and the
materials to come up with a solution to the given problem.
Innovative Design: This category requires the competitors to present an innovative and commercially
viable solution to a problem of their own choosing. They are expected to carry out market research and
feasibility studies as well as draft a business proposal for their product. The competitors are also required
to promote their product at a booth for the public and other attendees of the competition.
Consulting Engineering: The Consulting Engineering category gives teams of four participants five
hours to devise an innovative solution to a real-world problem prescribed by a hypothetical client. Each
team is expected to assess the economic and social aspect of the problem and present a proposal to a hypothetical client.
Engineering Communications: In the Engineering Communication category competitors are asked to
describe a technical subject in lay-man’s terms and present a structured analysis of its societal and environmental impacts. The competitors are judged on their presentation and verbal skills.
Impromptu Debate: The Impromptu Debate category challenges participants to defend, from a given
viewpoint, a topic disclosed just before the debate. Each team is composed of two members and they are
expected to present a structured defense of the assigned topic.
The competition is being held Saturday November 20th, 9:00AM and will run through basically the entire
day. All participants will receive a free lunch and prizes will be awarded to the winners of each competition. Winners of the competitions will also qualify for WEC, the Western Engineering Competition, which
is being help in Saskatoon.
Fire up those engineering brain cells and sign up your team. Registrations are open until November 15th
and are available online. Search facebook for ``UVEC 2010`` or google ``ESS Uvic`` to find the registration form.
Any questions or concerns can be e-mailed to Austin Warren, [email protected].
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Airborne Wind Energy Conference Recap
What’s that up in the sky? It’s a blimp; no, it’s a kite, or a glider! Actually, it’s a range of concepts that
are being developed to harness what is generally being referred to as “airborne wind energy.” Starting
in earnest a few years ago, inventors realized that there is a tremendous amount of energy available in
winds above that which conventional wind turbines harness (up to about 200m at the tips of the biggest
5+MW machines). The original moniker was “high-altitude wind power,” as some of the early concepts
aimed to tap in to the jet-stream at around 10km of altitude. I recently attended the second annual Airborne Wind Energy Conference held at Stanford University where a range of technical concepts and
business models were presented. The idea of using the higher wind speeds aloft has been around in
patents for 50+ years; however, the prime mover, control and electrical generation components to make
these systems operational, has only recently become available and rekindled interest. The concepts
presented ranged from pumping-mode tethered kites and gliders that run generators on the ground, to
parachutes that cycle along taught tethers, to various forms of spinning blimps, aircraft, autogiros and
multi-rotor helicopters with on-board generators transmitting power through a tether to the ground.
Discussion topics varied from ideas of how to finance the scale-up of these concepts from the start-up
companies developing them, to lessons that could be learned from the conventional wind community;
there were even FAA representatives talking about certification and airspace restrictions. The latter is
obviously one of the key constraints of these projects, which is why most proponents are now flying below 1000m, where the earth’s boundary layer still has much increased wind, but without stringent flight
restriction. Luke and Heshan, two undergraduate honours thesis students in my Sustainable Systems
Design Lab (SSDL), are developing simulation and optimization models of a pumping-mode kite-based
system to determine the optimal parameters for such a method and assess its potential. It’s early-days
yet for airborne wind energy, with multiple technical, social, financial and regulatory challenges ahead,
but the vast wind resource at altitude makes the effort worthwhile. And really, what could be more fun
that going out and flying computer-controlled kites?!
- Curran Crawford, Ph.D., P.Eng
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
Dating Advice For
MENgineers...
A stellar first impression requires
an equally impressive follow-up.
You’ve dazzled her with your
linguistic skills, astounded her
with the depth of your personality
and blown her away with your
impressive breathing; the first
date is a time to show your more
thoughtful side.
Today’s theme: Dinner Date
1. Hit on the waitress/waiter.
This one is very versatile.
If the former, she will love
the excitement of a little
competition. If the latter,
you can keep her on her toes
wondering why you asked her
out in the first place.
2. If she happens to order a soft
drink, change it to diet. It’s
likely she just forgot she was
dieting. How sweet of you to
remember that for her!
3. If you are cooking her
dinner, make sure it is not too
ostentatious. Women thrive
on consistency and stability. A
bowl of Mr. Noodles or some
pickles will be comforting and
familiar, whereas something
like a roast, or soufflé, would
just shock and unnerve her.
-Interpersonal Chemist
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I Did it for the Sick Children...
Yes, that’s right!! I did it for the sick children. Or must
I say, WE did it for the sick kids. Is it sick kids or poor
families? I actually don’t know. Either way, we raised
$2,075 for the United Way which is IMPRESSIVE
to say the least. WOW! Last year we raised about
$1200, so a $900 improvement is definitely great.
Besides Order of Pi, this is one of the charities that I
definitely look forward to the most. Not only do I get
a good workout pushing a Volkswagon, or sharpening
up my driving skills, but we, UVic Engineering, did
something good and gave back to a charity. We all
deserve a good pat on the back for our hard work! The
dear putrid-lime coloured Bug was worked from 6am
to 6pm, statistics wise we pushed it a total of 97.2 km
, which is 51 laps. Who said engineers were unfit? Oh
right, the artsies. I would like to give a shout out to
the power team of 17 people who completed a lap in
6:40 at speeds of up to 25km/h. You don’t know how
enjoyable driving that thing was at a top speed like
that. Man I wish I knew how to drive that fast! An
article of the bug push in the Times Colonist can be
found at http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Push+rais
es+small+accomplishment/3685779/story.html
Or just go onto the website and search “University of
Victoria” or “United Way”.
Next year, our goal is to exceed 100km/h. Let’s start
training to hit that mark!!
Tiffany Yu
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
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The Ticket Booth
It’s Monday morning, you’re sittin’ in your seat and thinking to yourself, “man, I spent way too
much money this weekend!” What’s the difference between me and you? I’m sittin’ in my seat wondering what currency counter I should buy to count all the money I made this weekend…again. Lucky
for you, I’m about to tell you how. It’s called Sports Action, where you can bet on just about anything
sports related. With a pocket full of loonies and my advice…well, let’s just say a heating blanket won’t
be the only thing keeping you warm at night…
The first step is to grab some change, five bucks is a good start. Head to a lotto center to place
your bet, but before you put your hand out to open that door and take that first step inside, stop for a
moment to compose yourself. Take a deep breath and strut in like your walking to the high stakes craps
table at the Bellagio, its all about confidence. You’re here for one reason and one reason only, and
that’s to make money. Hit the cashier with a quick and cool “sup” but do not make eye contact, this
is critical…remember, you are the one about to place the big wager, its all about you now. Grab a pen
and the card that says “Oddset”. It is time to pick the winners.
Bet on three games, and you must win all three to win your ticket. How much money will you
make? Whatever you lay down (five bucks) times the odds of every game you bet on (winning usually anywhere from $40-200). Who should you bet on? Let me tell you. Scan down the sheet with the
odds until you find the Calgary Flames. On your Oddset card, fill in whoever the other team is for the
win. This is as good as a guarantee and nothing makes me happier than winning money while watching the Flames get lit up. Don’t get me wrong, I do like Iginla, but hey, it’s hard to soar with the eagles
when you’re surrounded by turkeys. Next, find the Canucks and mark it down, just hope it doesn’t go
to a shootout (unfortunately there are no odds for a Rypien to tussle with an idiot fan). Your last pick
this week should be the Tampa Bay Lightning. Stamkos is red hot and the odds for Tampa wins are
good right now, but won’t be for long.
When your ticket is complete (Flames lose, Canucks and Tampa win), walk it up to the front and
slam it on the counter, at the same time letting loose with a huge “WHHHEEWWW!!” That ticket in
your hand is as good as cash (you’ll just have to wait until the next day to cash it in). The cashier may
give you a weird, confused and even condescending look, just remember, while their busy pumping
gas, you’ll be busy passin’ Courvoisier to the Sedin twins while you’re VIP at the Roxy. Just one thing,
how are you gonna get to Vancouver to hit the Roxy?
Like my man Biggy once said: “mo money, mo problems.”
That’s all for this week… be sure to check back next time for more
great ways to beat the odds. Together we will get rich, or die tryin’.
Yours truly,
The Big Ticket.
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
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FSAE Update
This semester the FSAE squad has been very busy designing a new car, and acquiring new participants.
The team has recently gained some promising new members who have been working away on research
projects for the FSAE team. These people all seem very committed as they have actually volunteered
for team homework.
The team has recently registered for Formula SAE California held at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California in June. Thankfully this will be a much shorter drive than the 48 straight hours it took
to get to Michigan this summer. Our new car, UV11 has been designated lucky #13 which is not a problem as the team makes its own luck.
The design for UV11 is entering the final revision stages and construction of the frame will be starting
as soon as the material arrives. One of the design goals of this car was to have every component modeled in SolidWorks to perfect the design before anyone picks up a tool. We recently held a marathon
design review to sort out all of the last minute details. It has definitely been challenging as there are different people designing different parts of the car from across the country. Final details have been hammered out and we will soon begin fabricating the frame.
This is the first year that the team is having the frame members laser cut by Cartesian. This process
uses the information from the solid model and allows them to cut each member exactly to size with the
perfect contour at each end to match the joints. Once the pre-cut tubes arrive, the frame will be welded
together and parts will be sent out for machining at Prototype Equipment Design. This Victoria based
shop has supported the team for many years and continues to supply us with excellent machine work.
We are also looking to continue our relationships with Honda Canada, Lordco, Telus, VanGear and Profile Composites who have all supported our team throughout the years.
The goal is to have the car completed at the start of next year, which will give us the spring to test and
tune. We are also currently running our test engine and completing our in-house engine dyno to fine
tune the engine map as well as the intake and exhaust.
For more information check us
out at www.fsae.uvic.ca
8-Ball Paul
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
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Double Rainbow Recap
As some of your may have heard, there was an “engineering night walk” that took place two Fridays ago.
For all those who remember, those suffering from slight amnesia, and the unlucky ones who did not attend, here is a short and sweet recap of the happenings of a very intense triple bus excursion:
An Aussie friend was kind enough to lend his house out to a nearly 200 person kegger taking place close
to campus. Needless to say his neighbors were not impressed, having to deal with 200 inebriated engineers and their cohorts as they drank from 5:30pm onwards. Expecting 3 buses to show up around 7
o’clock, many were shocked to find 7 cop cars greeting the rowdy and loud engineers as they piled onto
the buses. Leaving the premises, the engineers sang their way to a pub in Esquimalt. The Carlton: good
music, drinks, pool, and indoor umbrellas made Carlton’s a great time. As with most pub crawls, the stay
at Carlton’s was short and sweet, and the Engineers soon found themselves in Karma, which conveniently
neighbors a little place named Monty’s. To my amazement, only a few brave engineers ventured inside
those walls, and most found some fun inside Karma. While mentioning Karma, I must digress; stairs
have no right to be located in any place of drinking. They’re confusing, irregular, and outright dangerous,
especially those freaking single step raises that are only there to look cool. I say to you stairs in pubs and
clubs: get a job. The nightclub Touch, also containing stairs, seemed to be a blur of colour and dancing, as
mostly engineers filled the fairly classy establishment. Were women scared of returning? Yes. But we had
a good time, and that’s all that matters. It was easy to say that this pubcrawl was intense all the way to the
pass-out or blackout.
- P. Root
Beer Review 2.0
As per my sign off last issue, I mentioned a bender. I try not to disappoint so things were bent and beer
was had. My liver hates me for it but damn, there is some fine beer in this town. This issue (and others
if my liver can keep up) will go over a few local breweries for the new initiates as well as some imported
stuff for the adventurers. I’ll start with Phillips and Vancouver Island, the two larger breweries in Victoria.
In short, you can’t go wrong because they’re fantastic. In long, I shall pull the old engineering standby
and use a table (how one would graph this in any meaningful way I wouldn’t know).
Now, I could just use a standard base 10 system for rating the beers but, to spite Gordon Tulip who hates
the imperial and old English systems of measure more than that insightful and very accurate person last issue hates Azuma sushi, my system of rating will be based out of 17. And for no better reason, bronze will
be my unit. 17 bronze is a damn fine beer and 0 bronze is not worth the money some jackass paid you to
drink it on a bet. For example, Molson’s Canadian rates about a 3 because it actually tastes bad, Budweiser
5 because it’s bland. Bowen Island Pale Ale would be 6, their Irish Cream around 9 (but damn they’re
foamy). 10 is a decent beer but I wouldn’t write home about it. Anything above 14 is an excellent beer
and I’m just being picky.
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Beer Review 2.0 Continued
- Beerboy Burton
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(Diving Board/Parcour) A Step by Step Guide on
Learning How to do a Gainer
What is a gainer?
A gainer is an impressive flip usually done on a diving board. Doing a gainer means running forward,
jumping forward and doing a back-flip. Gainers can be done by people of all body shapes and sizes provided you put an appropriate amount of force in your spin. The main obstacle beginners have to face when
learning to do the gainer is the mental block created by doing a movement which is hard to imagine. This
guide has the intention to make the learning process more gradual, and therefore less overwhelming/scary.
A forward jump and a backflip
Before trying a gainer, it is a good idea to get good at doing backflips.
How to do a backflip:
1. Stand at the end of the board. Your feet do not have to be on the edge.
2. Jump backwards. Don’t go into a ball yet, but do try to reach a position where you are laying down in
the air. Body open, stomach pointing upwards.
3. At the top of your jump, when your stomach points upwards, bring your knees into a ball to begin
spinning.
4. The landing should come naturally. Try to fall feet first, straight down into the pool without spinning as
you hit the water.
After having a good grasp of the backflip, you can begin trying to do a gainer.
How to learn to do a gainer on a spring board:
1. I recommend beginning while standing halfway across the diving board.
2. Take a few steps, then when you are near the end of the board,turn your body to face the left using a
bounce, land near the end of the diving board and pull off a backflip with your side facing the pool. If
you properly gave yourself a running start, you should continue flying forward. If you hold back, you
might just do a backflip at the side of the board. If your pool is small do not try this. If you can’t do
this, try to do a half backflip and end in a dive. Try to jump higher to give yourself more air and also
try tucking in tighter if you can’t spin fast enough to land feet first.
3. Repeat this process, and every time try to point your feet
If all works well, you should after a bit of practice be able to do
gainers straight forward. This is a good way to learn, because you
are less likely to hit your head against the board by jumping
sideways until you get good at it.
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How to learn to do a gainer on a platform that does not bounce:
Like the spring board gainer, you should begin doing the move sideways, then slowly turn forward.
1. Get a running start
2. Jump with power using your left foot. (if you are right-footed)
Try to shoot diagonally.
3. In the air, kick your right foot forward. (if you are right-footed)
4. If you kicked well, your body should now be flat in the air:
stomach pointing upwards. At this time, just bring your knees
is a picture of a soccer player doing a celin like you would in a backflip. You may have to bring them in This
ebratory backflip. See how he jumps using his
very tight if you jump from a low height.
left foot, and kicks with his right leg?
BE CAREFUL!
You must jump far enough so that you don’t hit your head against the board. Learn this move at a pace
you find comfortable. Always obey the pool & lifeguards’ rules. Use your head. Don’t try to do this
while under the effects of drugs which effect your judgement and/or coordination. If you have back
or leg problems, ask your doctor if it’s safe to do this.
If you mess up and hurt yourself, it’s not my fault. Don’t get ahead of yourself.
PS: Anybody up for an ESS Commonwealth Pool meet Monday/Tuesday evening 7:30-10:00pm?
By Nicolas Guillemot - [email protected]
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
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Amateur Radio
Getting an Amateur Radio License
You’ve probably heard of amateur radio (also known as ham radio) before. It’s a staple in movies: some
bearded conspiracy nut in the heart of Appalachia talks over his large, unwieldy amateur radio rig to other
bearded conspiracy nuts how to best make moonshine from corn. This causes a lot of us to immediately
dismiss amateur radio as a potential hobby. This is unfortunate, because amateur radio is actually pretty
interesting.
What is Amateur Radio?
Amateur radio is a communicate that allows people with amateur radio licenses to communicate. The
amateur radio service is interesting because it gives its licensed users a lot of spectrum and power to communicate with. On a Basic license with an HF rating, it’s quite easy to make contacts on a good night with
another amateur operator as far away as Hong Kong or Venezuela.
There are a lot of other things you can do with a license. You can learn morse code, and try for even
farther, fainter contacts. You can latch into a local repeater and talk with other operators in the area. If
you’re lucky, and keep a close eye on the orbital passes, you can chat with astronauts on the International
Space Station. On the more experimental fringe of things, you can even form a “hinternet” – an extended
range, high-power WiFi network reaching for dozens of miles built by modifying off-the-shelf wireless
adapters for use with ham amplifiers.
Getting Licensed
Interested? Your first step is getting a license to go on the air. With a license, you’ll be granted all the
regular operating privileges as well as a callsign. A callsign is a five or six character string of letters or
numbers that identifies you over ham radio. For example, mine is VA7UZI.
In Canada there are three classes of license: Basic, Advanced, and Morse. To get started, you’ll need a
Basic license. A Basic license will grant you 250 watts of transmit power and the ability to operate on all
bands above 30MHz. As most contacts in this band are on VHF and UHF, this pretty much limits you to
near line-of-sight, local operation.
However, if you score over 80% on your exam, you’ll be considered “Basic with Honours” and unlock all
bands below 30MHz. This area of the spectrum is known as HF or shortwave. This is where it becomes
possible to make the crazy-long contacts I was talking about earlier: these signals can reflect off the ionosphere and hit areas far beyond mere line-of-sight.
Getting licensed is generally straightforward: you write a test with a certified examiner present, and if you
pass with at least 70%, your license comes in the mail three weeks later. The Radio Amateurs of Canada
(RAC) maintains a list of examiners by city on its website at www.rac.ca, along with a set of study materials to help you prepare. Typically licensing costs about $20 but varies from examiner to examiner.
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Your First Radio
Once you have a license, you’ll want a radio. This is a stumbling block: radio gear is expensive. You are
a university student: you cannot afford to drop $600 on a radio.
Fortunately, the Nestle solution to this problem applies here: outsource to overseas. The Quansheng
TG-UV2 hit the Hong Kong market early this year. It’s a small five-watt handheld VHF/UHF radio that’s
just perfect for getting started. Better yet, it comes unlocked, so you can use it out-of-band if you need
to. It costs $92 shipped from DealExtreme.com (sku #41818). I own this radio, and highly recommend
it. You’ll be able to make some good voice contacts on repeaters, and it can double as a makeshift scanner
when you’re driving and want to hear what the local police have to say.
So by now, you’ve got your license and a radio. What to do from here? Well, experiment – that’s what
amateur radio’s all about. Hit up QRZ.com, do a little reading, then try to find a repeater in the area and
make your first contact. Mention you’re young and new to the hobby, and I guarantee they’ll welcome
you with open arms. Good luck, and have fun.
- Peter Kazakoff
Recap on First Diversity Social
The first diversity event took place last Tuesday in ECS 668. The intention of this event was to have engineers and computer scientists come together, socialize, and for this to mark itself as the first event held by
Diversity in Engineering and Computer Science. First off, I would like to thank all those who showed up.
I’m sure most people had no idea what this “socializer” was even about, but they fearlessly came out anyways. Yes, there was a lot of good food there as an incentive, but the important part that I and many others
found most beneficial was the discussion that came in the end.
The event started with some socializing between students in the beginning of the event, followed by gorging on samosas, sushi, dolmades, cookies, chips and hummus. A video on discrimination was presented
followed by a very heated discussion on topics regarding racism, standing up for yourself, self rights,
and cultures. I’m sure that most students who attended this event and stayed for the entire duration found
that the discussion deemed to be the most interesting, beneficial and effective portion of this event as we
touched very heated and personal topics.
I would like to see another diversity event happening in November. This time, the topic will most likely
be on cultural differences and a look into the Hijab and why women wear it. I’m sure many of us do not
even know what the Hijab is, or of its significance (for those who have no idea, it is a head scarf worn by
Muslim women). If we became more educated we could learn to respect others of different backgrounds,
better our understanding of one another, and create a more positive atmosphere within our faculty.
In order to accommodate as many people as possible, I would like to invite you to visit this website http://
www.jotform.com/form/2951650251 and take a moment to vote on the best possible time, and also to give
input into what topics you would like to see in the future. Events usually last about 2 hours. If you have
any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to email me at [email protected]
- Tiffany Yu
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
WEC... What?
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I Really Like Whitespace
Some time ago, two bright fellows named Jeremy
and Nigel decided it would be a good idea to put together a bid for UVic to host the Western Engineering Competition in 2013. As most tales start, they
worked hard, putting in to come up with ideas for
the activities, scoping out sponsors, saving gorgeous
women from tall towers and collecting proposals
from various hotels across downtown Victoria. And,
as most tales end, we were successful in securing
Victoria as the host city for WEC 2013!
For those of you unfamiliar, WEC is a meeting of 9
schools from Winnipeg west to compete in 6 different engineering and communications competitions.
They usually see about 20 or more delegates from
each school totaling over 200 excited, ambitious,
rarely sober competitors competing to win a trip to
Toronto and the Canadian Engineering Competition.
This is where I (and I assume my co-chair Jeremy
did as well) had to stop and take a breath... We have
organize all this?!?
This is where you come in. Despite my awesomeness in everything I do, and Jeremy’s avid skills at
Tetris, we can’t do this alone, we need help, and lots
of it. Though the big day is 2 years, 3 months and
2 days away (not that anyone is counting) we need
help now.
Anyone interested in helping out and getting some
organizational skills under their belt is asked to
meet after the ESS meeting on Tuesday at around
7:30pm (if you can’t make it just email interest to
[email protected]) we will be needing some volunteers
immediately, but mostly we will be looking to take
down some email addresses for the future. Students who will be graduated by 2013 (as far as they
know) are still welcome
to attend.
It’s true.
Nigel Syrotuck
- Chris Greig
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
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Montreal Massacre Memorial
On Friday December 3rd (the last day of classes), from 11:30-12:30pm all classes across Campus will be
cancelled. This is due to the fact that students all across Canada will be taking a moment out of our studies
and busy lives to remember the 14 women killed during the cold, fateful day at l’École Polytechnique de
Montreal.
On December 6th 1989, Marc Lepine, an anti feminist, walked into the university with a gun. He had one
single intention; to punish feminists and to take as many down with him as possible. Purposely walking
into an engineering classroom, he separated the women and men to opposite sides of the classroom, ordered the men out of the room and then shot all 6 women. Afterwards, he walked through the school killing another 8 women and injuring another 13 people. Then he pulled the trigger on himself shattering his
own skull.
I would like to ask you to pause for a second and take a moment to imagine this. What if this happened at
our own school? Isn’t this injustice? How brutal the aftermath must have been for not only the families of
the massacred students, but all those other students who witnessed the killing, the men in that engineering classroom who must have felt guilty for leaving the women alone, the mother of the killer who had
no idea her son had committed such an act until the next day, and for the lives affected by those who died.
What should this mean to us engineering students? Is it wrong that women are venturing out of their traditional stereotypical roles to pursue typically male-dominated careers? Why did it have to be engineering
women that were targeted?
I would like to encourage every single one of you to attend the Dec 6th memorial taking place outside the
McPherson library on Dec. 3rd. Not only is this day commemorative, it also marks 21 years and this day
also feature the grand unveiling of a Plaque, created in honour of the 14 women killed. This plaque will be
placed on the side of the ELW facing Ring Road. Coming out to this event will not only show support for
those killed, it will also show support for women who have long been tormented by the media and stereotyped for centuries, and to celebrate how far we as women and men have come as a society in equality.
Now think: engineer or not, what does this mean to you?
Tiffany Yu
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
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Hockey Pool
Hockey Pool Standings
1. Angus Hudson - 94 pts
2. Spencer Yaredic - 90 pts
3. Ryan Petty - 86 pts
FooLadda Standings
1. PETER & NESBITT
2. TEAM #1 NAT & ZAC
3. DAN/JEFF
4. TRISTAN/TREVOR
5. MARSHALL & JUSTIN
6. BUTT-FLASH (Liam and Flash)
7. KEN/KERRY
8. Aaron + Matt
Top Performers
1. Martin Brodeur (16 pts)
2. Steven Stamkos (14 pts)
3. Ryan Getzlaf (11pts)
9. THE PACIFIC RIMMERS
(RAJ ‘n’ O. G.)
Top Busts
Mike Green (1 pt)
Ilya Kovalchuk (5pts)
Taylor Hall (1pt)
Haha, pun!
Congradulations Angus, come to the ESS to
receive the bi-weekly prize!
Topical Halloween
Themed Clipart
Neato!
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
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Easy Engineering Crossword
P. Gordon
Fill in the boxes - if you can, you whiners.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Across
2 hardware you can click
and with which you
move the cursor on a
computer screen is
called a ______
7 an electrical component
for introducing more
resistance to a circuit
9 coordinate system by
Cartier
10 L in LED stands for
______
12 to get the sum of
numbers you use
________
Down
1 the answer is 'VECTOR'
3 thermodynamics deals
with work and that
warmness called ____
4 a word that starts with F
and rhymes with horse
5 log is short for ________
6 to know how many of one
number will fit in another
use ________
8 a structure that allows
passage over an area, like
a river, previously
unsuitable for easy
crossing
11 perpendicular describes
lines which meet at a 90
degree angle: true or
false?
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
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ENGR-SCOPES by P. Gordon
Aquarius (Jan 20 - Feb 18)
You have a lot of catching up to do, karma-wise.
Hold the door, plant a tree and high-five as many
orphans as you can find. You don’t have a lot of
time.
Leo (Jul 23 - Aug 22)
You are the bravest sign - but also the most
pathetic: having to get your confidence
from silly, badly researched horoscopes.
Pisces (Feb 19 - Mar 20)
You will accidentally trip someone who will
stalk you in a quest to trip you back. Maybe
consider being less of a clumsy jerk?
Virgo (Aug 23 - Sep 22)
You enjoy a challenge, so you must really
be living the dream. (You’ll be happy to
know it doesn’t get easier.)
Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 19)
You are attending Alex’s wedding tomorrow.
If this doesn’t ring true, it’s time to talk to your
parent(s)/guardian(s) about why they’ve been
lying to you about your birth date.
Taurus (Apr 20 - May 20)
Stubborn and broad-shouldered Taurus. You
should find all the nearby Capricorns and
give them back massages. You’ll get stronger
and they’ll get better massages. Win-win.
Gemini (May 21 - Jun 20)
There in an important decision coming up for
you, and hundreds of inconsequential ones.
Cancer (Jun 21 - Jul 22)
A computer will upset you this week.
Try not to take it out on the machine,
because it will have been your fault.
Libra (Sep 23 - Oct 22)
If you can’t take the heat, find your
true calling as a hotel elevator operator. One day, Libra. You cannot
escape destiny!
Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21)
A small, disappointing celebration for you has
either just happened of will likely happen in
the next 30 days or so. Don’ worry, there’s
always end of term to get excited about.
Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 21)
You are struggling to cope with a lot
of guilt. If not, you should be, you callous monster!
Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 19)
A life-changing moment will occur in the coming
week, but you will be too busy to notice.
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
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SPOT ALL 10 DIFFERENCES
After more than a few people approached me regarding the difficulty level of
the last “10 Differences”
puzzle, I’ve tried to make
this one more reasonable
- and topical! Because
it’s Halloween, see? The
whole “Special Halloween
Themed Issue?” Yeah, it’s
all coming together now...
PIPES
Monday, Oct. 25th 2010
Editor’s Note
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Sudoku!!!
If you haven’t been able to tell, I’ve been having some issues with the photocopier, and I’m
finding it very difficult to dissuade myself from
re-creating a certain scene from the movie Office
Space... But, aside from that, all is well. HAHAHA, JOKES! “FishWrap deadline” is becoming
synonymous with “all-nighter,” and this would be
the second all nighter for me in a row (I did pass
out today from around 7:30AM to 1:30PM, but I’d
hardly count that as a regular sleeping schedule).
This publication is slowly eating away at my soul!
I have a midterm in... four hours!! GAH! Have I
studied for said midterm? No. Yay me.
These past couple weeks have been INSANE,
Both in the good sense, and the horrible, eyegouging, saddist sense. The Double Rainbow
Evening Excursion was absolutely AWESOME,
and Nat is now my hero. The BugPush went exceedingly well, and lots of money was raised. And,
more recently, midterms have begun to rape what
was left of the collective social life of our faculty.
Hazaa for engineering!!
This Week’s Contributers
Geoff Burton
Tiffany Yu
Piper Gordon
Tristan Sealby
Nigel Syrotuck
Chris Greig
Curran Crawford
Graham Melton
Peter Root
Paul Yannacopoulos
Krista Morrow
Peter Kazakoff
Brendan Zrum
Flash Gordon
Nicolas Guillemot
I’d like to take a moment and pat myself on the
back for compiling the first ever 20 page FishWrap... Ever! Sure, I may have had to stretch some
of the pictures here and there, but it’s pretty legit.
Austin Warren
If you encounter any of the above-mentioned people,
I’d also like to thank everybody who sent in arplease give them a high-five. Thank you.
ticles this week, as it prevented me from having to
write anything myself - for the second time! Keep
NEXT ISSUE:
up the good work everybody; keep sending me
Updated leader board for the Hockey Pool & FooLadda
your articles, your quotes, and your love! I’m so
More dating advice for heartsick engineers
desperately lonely...
Prof look-alikes by Jacob Gulliver
A suicide note from the editor. Just kidding. But not really.
Sorry I didn’t have time to do any comics this
week; I’ve been more than a little swamped. If
I’m still alive in two weeks, I’ll make sure to have
some gooders. Have a great Halloween everybody, and stay safe out there. Engineering is hard
enough as it is without firework and alcohol related injuries.
Flash
[email protected]
HAPPY
HALLOWEEN!