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the support they
need to succeed
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waterloo in tHe worlD pg. 6
from our co-op opportunities and exchanges to our
alumni and academic partnerships, waterloo’s
influence spans the globe.
playing it Clean pg. 14
waterloo athletes hope the lessons learned from
a painful steroid scandal will help younger
students understand the risks of appearance
and performance enhancing drugs.
beth Gallagher
eXpanDing tHe Digital Horizon pg. 20
students and researchers at waterloo’s new
stratford campus forge new understanding of
the emerging world of digital media.
kira vermond
suCCess story pg. 26
student success efforts at university of waterloo aren’t
about lowering standards — they’re about ensuring
students have the support they need to succeed.
christian aagaard
PlAyiNg it ClEAN pg. 14
127,857
Alumni in
Canada
SuCCESS
Story
pg. 26
India
163
ExPANdiNg tHE digitAl HoriZoN pg. 20
China &
Hong Kong
1,998
eDitorial pg. 2
Commentary pg. 3
HearD on Campus pg. 4
Japan
132
on THE covER
WAtErloo iN
tHE World pg. 6
United
Arab Emirates
137
talk of tHe Campus pg. 8
BeyonD tHe Campus pg. 32
Singapore
227
Class notes pg. 36
CalenDar pg. 42
Malaysia
145
Australia
346
Brandon eaket, a slotback with the
Waterloo Warriors football team, saw his
university gridiron dreams delayed by the
school’s 2010 steroid scandal. today, he and
other Warriors deliver an important message
to local elementary and secondary students:
true success doesn’t involve drugs.
PHoTo: JonaTHan biElaski
last worD pg. 44
What’s inside
1

Editorial
Understanding who we are
and who we want to be
By the time this magazine reaches your mailbox, your university
will be putting the finishing touches on a renewed strategic plan. This document
will detail our strengths, articulate our goals and chart a course for success.
Waterloo is a young, vibrant and dynamic school. Our growth over the past
57 years has been nothing less than astounding and shows no sign of slowing.
New programs, new partnerships and new buildings constantly spring
from the fertile minds that lead this university.
This institution is firmly rooted in the former farmland
where local business leaders sowed the seeds for a
new kind of higher education that was relevant and
forward-looking.
Revisiting our strategic plan is an opportunity for
Waterloo to measure its growth, to understand what’s most
important to us and to set goals for the future. It’s a time
for us to consider what needs to be nurtured, what needs
to be trimmed back and what new seeds we need to plant.
Many months of consultation, review and careful thought
have informed this renewed approach to Waterloo’s future.
Many of the priorities and values it identifies are reflected
in this issue of Waterloo Magazine.
With a growing reputation as a global leader in higher education and research,
this institution’s international impact is illustrated in Waterloo in the World
(page 6). This new feature highlights Waterloo’s global reach: More than 350
partnerships with peer institutions around the globe; more than 30 countries
where our co-op students bring employers new ideas and energy; and 143
countries where alumni proudly carry the University of Waterloo banner.
From academic excellence to co-operative education, students are at the heart
of everything we do at Waterloo. As a magnet for some of the highest-achieving
students from around the globe, ensuring that each has the opportunity to reach
their full potential is no small task, writer Christian Aagaard explains in Success
Story (page 26).
This university’s rock-solid commitment to integrity and to making a difference
were never more clear than in the wake of a football steroid scandal that rocked
the campus in 2010. In Playing it Clean (page 14), writer Beth Gallagher examines
how Waterloo Athletics turned a devastating loss into a victory built on ethics
and education.
In Expanding the Digital Horizon (page 20), writer Kira Vermond, explores our
new Stratford campus, dedicated to digital media, and Waterloo’s role as an engine
of new ideas and emerging industries.
Waterloo has so much to celebrate and is on the cusp of so much more.
Watch for details of the strategic plan revision on our website, uwaterloo.ca/
strategicplan, then share your pride, your questions, your stories and your own
vision for Waterloo with us at waterloomagazine@uwaterloo.ca.
Stacey Ash
Editor
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president’s message
students put university into focus
PHoto: JoNAtHAN BiElASKi
e=mc 2 .
Einstein’s theory of relativity is one of the most
consequential contributions to knowledge of all
time, drawing on millennia of human observation,
calculation, curiosity, trial and error, and an
unquenchable thirst for discovery. From nuclear
scientists to philosophers, it has entered into so
many minds, generating further thought.
It is the focal point — truly, the point of focus and
clarity — through which we can make sense of a vast
web of data and phenomena, and grasp something
profound about the nature of things.
As an academic institution, we take inspiration
from the work of great scholars and scholarship.
Sustaining an environment of robust academic
research and achievement is central to who we are
and what we do at the University of Waterloo.
And as a community rooted in scholarship, we know
the value of elegance; we thrive on bringing clarity
to complexity, and putting the profound into focus.
This is as true in the institutional sphere as the
academic sphere. Universities in the 21st century
are remarkably complex institutions with vast and
growing activities, each essential to the success of
the whole.
From academic programming to research funding;
from government relations to student success; from
community relations to undergraduate recruitment;
from co-operative education to graduate research
to technology-transfer and beyond, leading
universities are some of the most dynamic and
complex institutions in society today, producing
research and human capital in service to society.
For us at the University of Waterloo, our core
purpose — the organizing principle that brings
this enormous range of seemingly disparate activity
into focus — is developing successful graduates.
Successful graduates are ready to take and make jobs,
contributing to the advancement of our society in
many ways. They have deep and broad knowledge.
They’re communicative, team-oriented, aware, and
imaginative. Our eco-system of innovative educational
features like co-operative education, entrepreneurial
opportunities, and high-impact scholarship is designed
to stimulate our students’ full potential for success in
today’s globalized economy and society.
The results speak for themselves — and they speak boldly.
In the following pages, you’ll get a sense for Waterloo’s
steadily-growing profile as a global institution with
profound reach and range. Our relationships with
alumni, researchers, students, and entrepreneurs span
disciplines, sectors of the economy, and continents.
Our research impact is global and growing, and our
graduates are infusing organizations and industries all
around the world with the obsession for innovation
that this university instils.
As our international profile and presence steadily
expands, we must continue to constantly ask ourselves
how we can bring these successes to the service of
our students both before and after they graduate.
What new doors can we open for our students?
What networks can we establish with and for our
alumni? What partner organizations around the world
could add value to students enrolled in programs or
conducting research at the University of Waterloo?
It all comes back to one, simple organizing principle —
building and supporting successful graduates.
It’s not quite E=mc 2 , but it sure brings things into focus.
feridun hamdullahpur
President’s message
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heard on campus
incoming international space station
commander makes contact
on feb. 15, students, faculty and staff gathered
in the Humanities Theatre for a rare opportunity —
a question-and-answer session with Canadian
astronaut Chris Hadfield. Waterloo was the first
university to enjoy such an opportunity with Hadfield
on this mission. The International Space Station
(ISS) carries two Waterloo experiments co-ordinated
by Prof. Richard Hughson to tell us more about the
human cardiovascular system. What is discovered
up there could change lives down here.
The session, through the Mission Control Centre
in Houston, Texas, lasted about 20 minutes. Here is
an edited sample:
lakshmi venkatesh: Can you describe your
feelings … as you left Earth’s protective horizon
on this mission?
chris hadfield: I was more concerned about
not going to space because there are so many
complexities in trying to safely leave Earth …
So, it was with a great sense of buoyant energy
and readiness that I left Earth’s protective sheath …
I visited space twice before, but this time to live
here — the ability and the time to absorb it and
wonder about it and internalize and think about
it — is magnificent.
andrew roBertson: Can you tell us about some
of the exercises used throughout your mission to
minimize (accelerated aging) and prepare your body
for return to gravity?
chris hadfield: “We have both a treadmill and an
exercise bicycle, and those get our heart lungs running
and the blood coursing … We have a resistive exercise
device where you’re pushing against big cylinders …
For two hours a day, we work hard to keep our bodies
in shape, to keep our muscles strong so that if we have
to go outside and walk we can operate the space suit.
And when we land back on Earth again we’ll be able
to walk and our bones will be strong.
amBer nicholson: With your unique vantage
point in space, are you able to see any evidence
of environmental degradation on our planet?”
chris hadfield: We sure are. Like the Aral
Sea (in central Asia) which, because of irrigation
changes … has basically dried up to nothing …
And we’ve been taking a lot of pictures (over)
Patagonia of the glaciers as they exist right now
to compare (them with) historic photographs.
roBert henderson: What is the most difficult
experiment being conducted during your mission?
chris hadfield: One from the University of
Waterloo has complexity to it. We take these leg
cuffs … put them on our upper thighs, then pump
them up, then release them. It’s almost the same as
coming from weightlessness and suddenly putting
gravity back so that the blood suddenly (rushes) into
the legs … We can study how the body regulates
blood pressure, how it regulates the blood flow, and
use that, of course, for astronaut health but also for
the health of everybody on Earth who has blood
pressure regulation problems.
aleX lee: How does the internet work on the ISS?
chris hadfield: We don’t really have internet,
or just barely have internet, on the space station.
But we have multiple links to the ground … When
I tap on my keyboard up here it goes through that
long trail … It’s slower than dial-up so I can’t watch
videos or anything, but it’s good enough for Twitter.
It’s been a wonderful boon for me to be able to help
communicate this experience to the ground.
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24%
top
12
countries
alumni call home
Canada
127,857
Germany
285
(including Canada and the u.S.)
more than
163,000 graduates
United States
7,838
Trinidad &
Tobago
161
United
Kingdom
544
in 143 countries
from our Co-op opportunities
anD eXCHanges to our alumni anD
aCaDemiC partnersHips, waterloo’s
influenCe spans tHe gloBe.
waterloo
in the world
international research and Joint academic agreements
More than
partnershi
hips
in
China & Hong Kong
27%
The Middle East
Africa
27%
10%
7%
The Americas and
the Caribbean
7%
countries
Europe
26%
Asia
24%
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international
Exchange
Programs
China &
Hong Kong
1,998
India
163
Australia &
New Zealand
Japan
132
The Americas &
the Caribbean
Asia
Europe
United K
United
Arab Emirates
137
Malaysia
145
Singapore
227
Australia &
New Zealand
The Americas &
the Caribbean
Australia
346
Asia
Euro
international
Co-op terms
Africa
5
The Middle East
26
Australia &
New Zealand
The Am
the Car
Asia
108
Caribbean
13
Australia &
New Zealand
The Americas &
Asia
the CaribbeanThe Americas
375
Europe
United Kingdom
Europe
59
17,098 alumni have
university of Waterloo
2 degrees 3
1,176 alumni have
university of Waterloo
Australia &
degrees
New Zealand
The Americas &
the Caribbean
As
Just the facts
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Waterloo recognized
for leadership in giving
The University of Waterloo was named
the recipient of the Leadership Giving
Award at the United Way Kitchener
Waterloo and Area’s Community Spirit
Awards ceremony.
Curlers bring home national gold
The Waterloo Warriors brought home the university’s eighth national
varsity championship in March, when the men’s curling team defeated
the Alberta Golden Bears 7-5 at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport
gold medal match, held in Kamloops, B.C. The team, led by skip Jake
Walker, lost to Alberta in the 2012 final. The win came on the heels
of a surprise appearance by the Waterloo men’s hockey team at the
national hockey championships in Saskatoon, where the team fell one
victory short of a chance to play in the final.
The Leadership Giving Award “recognizes
an organization that most successfully
organized an exceptional Leadership
Giving Campaign through motivation
and encouragement of giving personal
gifts of $1,000 or more.” The University
of Waterloo was nominated alongside
Economical Insurance, Equitable Life,
FEDDEV, Stantec, and Teledyne DALSA.
The university’s United Way campaign
raised $238,000 in 2012.
Credit: Daily Bulletin, Mar. 1
WEB see Giving at
uwaterloo.ca/alumni/links
WEB see Champions at uwaterloo.ca/alumni/links
HEAlth ServiCE CoMPlex oFFErs
more serviCES, grEAter privACy
Waterloo’s newly renovated and
expanded Health Services Complex
opened on February 11.
Students backed the project in a
referendum and construction began
late November 2011. Designed by
Kearns Mancini Architects Inc.
with John MacDonald Architect Inc.
The building features:
» 21 exam rooms
» Second-floor dedicated to mentalhealth
care and health education
» Privacy. No need for hallway
consultations with visitors
» Plenty of natural light
» Collaboration spaces where
nurses and doctors can discuss
cases away from visitor traffic
The old building will be renovated
into a wing that will house a
family-health clinic.
WEB see Health Services at
uwaterloo.ca/alumni/links
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Cognitive science
researcher wins
Killam Prize
Paul Thagard, a professor of philosophy
in the Faculty of Arts, is the winner of the
2013 Killam Prize for the humanities.
The director of the University
of Waterloo’s cognitive science
program uses computer
models to develop new
models of human emotion
and consciousness.
Thagard is the fourth University
of Waterloo researcher to win
the $100,000 prize, and the
second in two years from
Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts. Thagard
recommended to the awards committee
that the university nominate Mark Zanna
for the 2011 Killam Prize in social science
for his groundbreaking and influential work
in the field of psychology. Previous winners
include Ming Li, a professor of computer
science, and William Tutte, a professor
of combinatorics and optimization.
Ophelia Lazaridis, Mike Lazaridis, Feridun Hamdullahpur,
Terry McMahon, Bill Power, and Diana Kim break ground for
the new science teaching complex.
Breaking ground for SciENCE
tEACHing Complex
The ground may have been frozen, but the shovels still went in as a ceremony
marking the new Science Teaching Complex took place on December 6.
The earth was turned to mark the new home for undergraduate studies in the
Faculty of Science — a five-storey, 120,000 square-foot building that will be
located between the two current Biology buildings. The complex will be
dedicated to the undergraduates, providing resources they need to succeed
while they study at Waterloo, and reflects the growth in demand for the
faculty's successful undergraduate programs in recent years.
Construction of the new building was made possible with the generous
support of $10 million by Mike Lazaridis, co-founder and former vice-chair
of the board at Research In Motion, now BlackBerry ® , and his wife Ophelia.
Bondfield Construction Company is expected to take roughly two years to
complete the building, with a target opening of April 2015.
WEB see Groundbreaking at uwaterloo.ca/alumni/links
WEB see Killam at
uwaterloo.ca/alumni/links
Identity refinement will see return of the shield
Refinements to the university’s visual identity
are underway with the return of the shield.
Several factors inform the return of Waterloo’s
distinctive shield, including:
» Quantitative research providing insight
into our profile and reputation in Canada
» Recruitment surveys and research
conducted to inform undergraduate
recruitment programs
» Student input on design of University
of Waterloo diplomas
» Feedback from the recent Mid-cycle
Review consultations conducted with over
3,400 students, faculty, staff and alumni
Going forward at Waterloo,
the shield will be aligned with the
existing wordmark to create a more visually powerful logo.
Our bold wordmark continues to represent our core attributes,
including innovation, daring and unconventionality, while the shield
situates Waterloo among an elite group of institutions of higher
education around the globe. This is especially important as we look
internationally for partnerships and to attract the best students,
faculty and staff. Beginning in the spring term, the newly refined logo
will be applied across all University of Waterloo communications,
as part of an overall marketing and communications plan to raise
the profile and build the reputation of our institution nationally and
internationally, in support of the university’s strategic goals.
WEB see Identity at uwaterloo.ca/alumni/links
What’s going on?
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Joe Paopao
joins Warriors
football as
full-time coACH
The University of Waterloo’s Department
of Athletics named Joe Paopao as the
full-time head coach of the Waterloo
Warriors football program.
Paopao served as offensive co-ordinator
and assistant head coach prior to
assuming the interim head coaching
duties last season. He led the Warriors
to a 2-6 record last season including
a dominant 48-29 upset over the
Windsor Lancers in the last game
of the season.
Paopao enjoyed a 12-year CFL career
before becoming a highly respected CFL
coach and subsequently a coach with
the Waterloo Warriors in 2007. In 2006,
he was the offensive co-ordinator for
the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. From 2001 to
2005 Joe served as head coach of the
Ottawa Renegades. He has also coached
with Edmonton, British Columbia and
Winnipeg in the CFL.
WEB see Paopao at
uwaterloo.ca/alumni/links
photo: University of Waterloo athletics
McBoyle returns
AS acting provost
“I am pleased to advise that Geoff McBoyle has agreed to serve
as interim Vice-President, Academic & Provost,” President Feridun
Hamdullahpur wrote in a memo circulated to the Board of Governors
and the university’s Executive Council on January 23. “As a long-time
faculty member and senior administrator, he is well-attuned to the
academic strengths of our institution, and the steps we must take
to build on our success as an international leader in research and
teaching excellence.” The role is familiar territory for McBoyle, who
was appointed acting provost in October 2010 when Hamdullahpur
became interim president. McBoyle remained in the position until
May 2012, when he was succeeded by Sallie Ann Keller. Keller stepped
down in January to refocus on research and teaching.
WEB see Provost at uwaterloo.ca/alumni/links
New 3-D print centre
brings rapid prototyping
to Waterloo
Engineering’s new 3D Print Centre which opened on February 27 is
the first facility of its kind at Waterloo, offering rapid prototyping
and manufacturing services to the campus. The star of the show is
the Fortus 360mc, a “fused deposition modeling” (FDM) machine
that builds parts layer-by-layer using polycarbonate and ABS
plastics. Available in a variety of colours and surface finishes,
the finished products vary in strength and durability (depending
on the materials used), and have already been put to good use
by Engineering’s student design teams. Purchase of the Fortus
was made possible by a $100,000 grant from the DENSO North
America Foundation to the Student Design Centre, combined with
generous discounts from Stratasys (manufacturer) and Cimetrix
Solutions (supplier). Any Waterloo student, staff or faculty
member can submit design work for print production at any
media.doc location. Costs range from $5 to $10 per cubic inch.
Find out more at eng.uwaterloo.ca/3dprint/
Credit: Russ Wong, FACulty of Engineering
WEB see 3D Print Centre at uwaterloo.ca/alumni/links
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AWArds and honours
» Kevin Resch, an experimental
physicist at Waterloo’s Institute
for Quantum Computing was
awarded the EWR Steacie Memorial
Fellowship from the Natural
Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada.
» Environment 3, the newest building
at the University of Waterloo's
Faculty of Environment, has
earned platinum status for
Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED).
The third-party certification,
administered by the Canada
Green Building Council (CaGBC),
is an internationally accepted
benchmark for the design,
construction and operation of high
performance green buildings.
» Claudio Cañizares, a professor
in the department of electrical
and computer engineering in the
Faculty of Engineering, was named
a Royal Society Fellow under the
society’s Applied Sciences and
Engineering Division.
» Jennifer Clapp, a professor of
environment and resource studies
in the Faculty of Environment,
was named a new Tier 1 Canada
Research Chair in Global Food
Security and Sustainability.
» Pavle Radovanovic, a professor of
chemistry in the Faculty of Science,
was renewed as a Tier 2 Canada
Research Chair in Spectroscopy
of Nanoscale Materials.
» Arthur Carty, executive
director of the Waterloo
Institute for Nanotechnology,
was appointed Chair of the
Council of Canadian Academies’
Expert Panel on the State of
Canada’s Science Culture.
» Matteo Mariantoni, an assistant
professor at Waterloo’s Institute
for Quantum Computing,
received a Sloan Research
Fellowship from the Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation.
» Ron Schlegel, a former
University of Waterloo
professor and driving force
behind the Schlegel-UW
Research Institute for Aging,
was named an Officer of
the Order of Canada for his
commitment to helping others.
» Henry Shi, a second-year
computer science student,
was named National Co-op
Student of the Year by the
Canadian Association of
Co-operative Education
for his work developing
statistical software with
Bloomberg Sports.
» Caity Dyck, manager of the
Engineering Science Quest
program, received the Women
of Waterloo Region award for
Science and Technology.
Waterloo faculty, staff, students,
graduates sparkle among Diamond
Jubilee honourees
It seems like scarcely a week went by in the
past six months without word that another
person affiliated with the University of Waterloo
had received Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee
Medal. The medals speak to outstanding public
service, and the sheer number of Waterloo
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a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing, held by Professor David Cory. Universities
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playing
it Clean
the decision to test the entire team and
suspend competition for the season was extremely
difficult, courageous, and a lightning rod for change.
in the fight against doping in football, i hope others
follow this example in support of transparency,
integrity, and ultimately, concern for the health
of young, impressionable athletes.
dr. Jack taunton, cHaiR of THE 2011 canaDian
cEnTRE foR ETHics in sPoRT Task foRcE on DRuG
usE in fooTball, cHiEf mEDical officER, vanoc
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lEArNiNg FroM tHE PAiNFul lESSoNS oF
WAtErloo’S loSt FootBAll SEASoN, AtHlEtES
JoiN ForCES to dElivEr A SiMPlE MESSAgE:
TRuE succEss DoEsn’T involvE DRuGs
warrior football player Brandon
eaket is in a high school auditorium
talking about the dangers of doping:
He paints a frightening picture of the
side effects of steroid use — liver damage,
impotence, premature heart attacks
and depression.
If you would have told Eaket a few years
ago that he would become a leading voice
in the fight against steroid abuse he would
have said you were crazy.
After all, it was only three years ago that
he was sitting in a high school classroom
himself, a Grade 12 student and talented
slotback receiver looking forward to
playing for the Warriors.
However, in March 2010 he received a
text that would change all that.
The text was from a friend who played
football for Waterloo; something about
steroids. After the class, he got a phone
call. The news was bad, he was told.
“Be ready for more to come.”
By the end of the day, Eaket learned that
a Warrior football player had been
charged with trafficking steroids.
The news hit him hard. “I had just signed
and committed to the University of Waterloo,”
Eaket tells the rapt students. “All of a sudden,
everything was going downhill.”
The football season was eventually suspended after a
team-wide testing mission uncovered nine adverse doping
results. Suddenly, Eaket was caught in the middle of what
would become the biggest doping scandal in the history of
Canadian university sport.
So, when Eaket decided to be part of an innovative education
program called Succeed Clean, he tells a story that goes
beyond the sobering health effects of appearance and
performance enhancing drugs (APEDs). “The amount of guys
it affected, beyond the nine guys, was tremendous,” Eaket says,
“It affected other team members, alumni and the university.”
Succeed Clean, a Waterloo region initiative designed to reach
1,000 students from Grade 7 to 12 this year, is part of an effort
to teach young people about the risks of using APEDS. A recent
study published in Pediatrics revealed that 5.9 per cent of
students surveyed had used steroids to build muscle.
Silence descends in the high school auditorium when a video
begins playing on a large screen. In the video, Eric Polini,
a former Warrior football player, talks about how using steroids
in 2010 got him banned from playing varsity football for two
years and ended his dream of playing professionally. Ironically,
Polini started taking steroids to increase his chances of making
the CFL: “I felt this was a last resort . . . I had two years to prove
myself,” he explains.
In the video, Polini describes breaking down in tears when
he admitted to his coach that he was abusing steroids. He also
recalls his own father crying when he told him, and the shame
he felt telling his younger brother that he had cheated. “You
don’t want to make this mistake,” Polini says on video.
When the lights go up, Eaket tells the crowd: “Watching that
video makes me queasy because I know what a good guy Eric is.
»
tExt Beth gallagher
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It was a Friday that I got the call about the
arrests and seizure of these steroids.
That was a pretty sick feeling.
BOB COPELAND
Director of Athletics, University of Waterloo
“Eric could have made it to the CFL — the
clean way.”
Eaket actually didn’t know Polini back in 2010.
But the connection between the player on the
stage and the disgraced athlete on the screen
shows the wide swath that is cut when elite
athletes use appearance and performance
enhancing drugs (APEDs).
The anatomy of a scandal
Eaket’s connection to Polini began on that
March day in 2010 when Eaket received that
first text about steroids. As a foster child who
had been removed from his birth family when
he was five, Eaket never thought he’d get to
university. Few foster kids ever do.
He and his older brother were placed with
a foster family after abuse was discovered.
While Eaket had a few opportunities to be
adopted, he refused them because the potential
adoptive families didn’t want to adopt his older
brother who has cerebral palsy. A foster family
came forward to raise the two Eaket brothers
together when Brandon was nine.
So, by the time Eaket received that text message
he was a teen who had learned to rise above
more than his fair share of disappointments.
On that same day, back on campus, the University
of Waterloo’s athletic director also remembers
a call he received like it was yesterday.
“It was a Friday that I got the call about the
arrests and seizure of these steroids,” says Bob
Copeland. “That was a pretty sick feeling.”
The case that would become one of the biggest
doping scandals in Canadian university sport
broke, unbelievably, at a local McDonalds
drive-through.
Police arrested then-Warrior football player
Matthew Valeriote after a stolen credit card
was used at the fast-food restaurant. His
arrest led police to search Nathan Zettler’s
home in Waterloo. Zettler, a fellow Warrior
wide-receiver, would become the centre of the
scandal when investigators discovered a closet
filled with steroids, vials and large bags of
needles in a closet. Police were investigating a
series of break-ins on campus and in Waterloo
neighbourhoods at the time.
Zettler pleaded guilty to multiple steroid and break-in
charges this past January. Among other charges, Zettler
admitted to possession of six kinds of steroids for the
purpose of trafficking: nandrolone, stanozolol, testosterone,
trenbolone, metandienone and praterone. He also admitted
selling tamoxifen and clomiphene, drugs typically taken to
counteract the effects of steroids.
Zettler faces sentencing in June.
Valeriote was sentenced to a year’s probation in 2010 and
given a $200 fine for his part in the break-ins of March 2010.
The fourth player involved, Eric Legare, was not charged
with any drug offences, but he pleaded guilty to break-ins.
He received a nine-month conditional sentence and one year
of probation in 2011.
The conditional sentence meant Legare avoided jail time.
He was ordered to serve his sentence under a curfew, abstain
from drugs and alcohol. At sentencing, the judge was moved
by Legare’s desire to turn his life around after a difficult
childhood.
Zettler’s roommate at the time, Brandon Krukowski, was
acquitted in 2011 of selling steroids to his teammates.
While police were busy with the criminal investigation,
Copeland, with the support of senior administration at the
university, made the controversial decision to initiate a
testing mission by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport
(CCES) for the entire Warrior team.
More than a dozen people from the CCES showed up in
Waterloo and a secretive process began that included a private
meeting among all parties involved in the testing mission.
“We were actually sequestered in a meeting room at six
o’clock in the morning because we didn’t want the players
to see what was going on,” says Copeland.
“It wasn’t one of those ‘wink, wink’ things when athletes
actually hear ahead of time that testers are coming. The
players didn’t know. That’s key to the process. It has to be
a surprise test.”
When the football team arrived for a meeting, the players
were officially notified and told that anyone who left would
be ruled an adverse test. Copeland remembers the players
as being shocked: “It was very quiet.”
Luke Balch, the quarterback and captain of the team,
remembers arriving on campus to find coaches and police
assembled in a room. Every player was told to sign in and
then the team was notified. “When I looked around there
were some concerned faces, to put it lightly,” says Balch.
“People were caught off guard. Players were upset.”
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“It was at that point I knew that this steroid
issue was going to get bigger.”
Photo: waterloo athletics
For Balch, who decided to stay with the Warriors, it meant losing
many of the new recruits for the team and most of the senior
starters who went to play at other universities. “These guys were
my best friends. We were also roommates,” says Balch.
The media frenzy missed a story about a Kitchener kid who had
signed on to play for the Warriors: Brandon Eaket couldn’t leave
town to play at another university. As the legal guardian for
his disabled brother, he wanted to stay in Waterloo so he could
support him.
When Copeland reflects now on the decision to scrap the 2010
season, and the impact it had on the university and the players,
he says: “Often the most difficult decisions are the most
courageous. It was about the health of the athletes and the
integrity of the institution.”
For Copeland, who later became the chair
of the Ontario University Athletics (OUA)
performance enhancing drugs education task
force and a member of a national task force on
the use of performance-enhancing drugs in
football, the testing mission was as much an
attempt to clear the clean athletes as it was to
nab the steroid users.
“It was a gut feeling that it was absolutely
the right thing to do,” Copeland says. “I was
thinking about the majority of the players on
the team who, without question, would be
clean. We didn’t want them looking over their
shoulder their entire life. Especially the biggest
guys on the team, we didn’t want people
saying, ‘I bet you were on the stuff.’ ’’
The results of the testing mission, revealed
in June 2010, found nine doping violations,
including the first North American athlete to
test positive for the human growth hormone.
The results prompted the university to suspend
the football program for one year.
That controversial decision set off a storm of
criticism and a media frenzy that would make
headlines in the New York Times and on ESPN.
Reporters showed up at the university’s spring
athletics awards banquet looking for comment.
The coverage included stories of senior-year
players who would lose the opportunity to play
professionally; fears that the football program
at the University of Waterloo would be dead
forever; sympathy for players who would have
to scramble to find another university to play
for to save their football careers.
Copeland still has the 4,000 e-mails he received during the
scandal, many of them highly critical of a decision that would
affect not only the players on the team, but future players and
students like Brandon Eaket.
Focusing on education
“Ever since the episode happened, we’ve been focused on
education,” says Copeland, a driving force — with retired school
principal Chuck Williams — behind the Succeed Clean program.
Williams says an important part of Succeed Clean is the research
being conducted by the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier
University. In addition to the presentations by elite athletes,
research is being done to examine student attitudes about APEDs.
Williams has also led several “community conversations” with
parents, teachers and coaches.
The Waterloo athletes work alongside Ontario Hockey League
players from the Kitchener Rangers and varsity athletes at Wilfrid
Laurier University in Waterloo. Succeed Clean is also supported
by the Waterloo Regional Police Service and has been embraced
by the region’s public and Catholic school boards.
Copeland’s push for education happened, in part, when a man
from Texas called to talk about the Waterloo situation. Don
Hooton is the president of a Dallas-based organization that has
been going into U.S. schools for almost ten years to talk about
the dangers of APEDs.
Hooton established the Taylor Hooton Foundation after his own
son, Taylor, killed himself in 2003 after abusing steroids.
Hooton didn’t know his 17-year-old son, a promising baseball
player with dreams of playing professionally, was using steroids.
He also didn’t know depression can be a side-effect of doping.
Through his organization, Hooton hopes he can prevent other
young people from abusing APEDS, and alert parents to the
side-effects of the drugs.
Keeping it clean
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Taylor Hooton, 17,
dreamed of playing
professional baseball.
He committed
suicide in 2003 after
abusing steroids. His
father, Don Hooton
established the Taylor
Hooton Foundation to
combat steroid use
in U.S. schools.
For Hooton, Waterloo’s decision to test the
entire football team and ultimately suspend
the Warrior football season was as unusual
as it was admirable.
“When someone tests positive, the typical
experience for colleges in the U.S. would be
for the athletic director to explain to the
senior administration that it was just one
athlete, a rogue athlete, and to circle the
wagons,” says Hooton.
Hooton says too often universities are more
focused on the win-loss record and the
university’s reputation rather than on the
well-being of the athletes.
Copeland believes that Succeed Clean is part of
the answer to the doping problem in elite sports.
“Whether it was through research or just
anecdotally hearing from kids, we found that
nobody talks to athletes,’’ he says. “Players on
our team told us that nobody had spoken to
them about steroids when they were younger.’’
Hooton, whose organization reached 175,000
people last year, says, “If you’re waiting until
these athletes get to college . . . you’re waiting
way too long.”
Ali Barras, the Waterloo cheerleader who
works with Eaket on Succeed Clean, told the
high school students that she worked out with
Eric Polini, the Warrior who admitted to using
steroids. And while most people picture football
players and body builders when they think of
steroids, she says the fastest growing group of
steriod abusers are young women — “Young
cheerleaders trying to look a certain way.”
While competitive cheerleading demands a high
level of athleticism, she pointed out teens not
involved in sports are also using steroids. They
are referred to as “mirror athletes” because they
want to look better, not perform better.
When Barras and Eaket warned the students about the risks of using
APEDs, they gave a sobering list of possible side-effects: acne, bloated
appearance, premature heart attack, liver damage and clotting
disorders. Males face the risk of reduced sperm counts, impotence,
breast development, shrinking testicles and premature baldness.
Side-effects for females can be facial hair, deepening of the voice,
breast reduction, menstrual cycle changes and abnormal muscle
growth. Students were also warned about the effects on the
brain — “roid rage” and depression.
Barras warned that underground APEDs bought over the Internet
are made in unsanitary labs and cut with such substances as motor
oil. She also reminded the students to be cautious with all products
they are buying. Everything from protein powders, to vitamins, to
diet pills can be harmful to their health. She said following Canada’s
Food Guide will do more for building muscle than any synthetic pill.
“Save your money,” Barras said. “Buy real food.”
While the university cautions its athletes about the risks posed
by supplements, Eaket told the crowd, “It’s up to you guys to know
what you’re putting into your body.”
More than education
Although education is part of the solution for doping, Copeland
points out that random testing of university athletes has
unfortunately been cut back, despite the fact that research
shows it helps reduce APED abuse.
“The cuts to testing are counter to one of the key recommendations
of the national task force,” Copeland says.
The cuts to university testing were confirmed by Paul Melia,
president of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES). He
says the federal government wants the CCES to focus resources on
Olympic athletes, which means a reduction in tests done on university
athletes. “We’re not doing as much as we need to do,” says Melia.
While he hopes to expand the Succeed Clean program across Canada
one day, Melia admits that the use of APEDs among young people is
a complex health issue. He would like to see the RCMP, local police
and border officials communicate better to protect young Canadians
from the illegal steroids making their way across the border.
He also acknowledges that university football is particularly
vulnerable to the doping subculture. Melia said one of the more
surprising things that came out of the Waterloo scandal was the
fact that clean athletes actually respected the athletes who were
found to be using steroids. “There was a sense that the clean
athletes were in admiration of the athletes who were really taking
risks to make the team better . . . there was that kind of distorted
thinking,” says Melia.
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HoW To fiGHT THE PRoblEm
The 2011 canadian centre for Ethics in sport (ccEs)
task force on drug use in football made several key
recommendations. Two years later, several
recommendations are being explored by various
stakeholders in canada, but only one — mandatory
education about performance-enhancing drugs for
coaches — has been put into place nationally.
a disappointment for bob copeland, university of
Waterloo’s athletic director, is that testing for appearance
and performance-enhancing drugs (aPEDs) has actually
dropped since the national task force recommended
increased testing to help curb abuse.
“The larger issue is that these kinds of drugs are still not
getting the same kind of attention as the hard-core street
drugs,” says copeland.
from the ccEs perspective, the 2011 recommendations are
part of a long-term strategy to change behaviour, says
chief operating officer Doug macQuarrie. He points out
that some of the recommendations are “fantastically
expensive” at a time when “resources available in canadian
sport are taxed . . . the willingness of public officials to open
the pocket books for these kinds of strategies” is not there.
PHoto: JoNAtHAN BiElASKi
Warriors football player Brandon eaket and cheerleader ali Barras take
the Succeed Clean message to local senior elementary and secondary students.
the fastest-growing group of steroid abusers are young women, Barras says.
Balch says he’s been questioned over and over by media and friends about
whether he knew players were using steroids: “Guys aren’t doing it in the
change room. You’re not going to show other guys that you’re cheating,”
says Balch. “You’re not just competing against other teams, you’re
competing against your own teammates for a spot.”
Ironically, the football subculture that Melia says can push young athletes
to a breaking point also has a supportive side. Brandon Eaket knows the
value of this other aspect — the one filled with mentors and coaches who
have stepped up to help a young man who not only wants to stay clean but
also support his older brother. It includes coaches who cut him a little slack
when he needs to attend to the responsibilities of being a legal guardian.
“Waterloo shows a genuine care for my needs,” says Eaket. “They really
stepped up and helped me in situations. They know I have responsibilities
outside of football.
“Playing football at Waterloo has meant everything to me. If it wasn’t
for football, I probably wouldn’t be at university.”
weB See lost season at uwaterloo.ca/alumni/links
Here is a look at the status of the task force’s key
recommendations:
» mandatory training for coaches: canadian interuniversity
sport (cis) has implemented mandatory online aPED
training for university coaches in all cis sports.
» more testing: While the task force recommended more
testing, the number of players tested annually has
actually dropped in the past two years.
» Doping hotline: a hotline for people to report cheating in
sport is being explored, however, canadian officials are
still examining how hotlines have worked in other
countries before establishing one here.
» more sanctions: The legality of imposing further
consequences for teams and institutions is currently
being reconsidered after a court case called into
question whether institutions can impose sanctions
that are outside the ones mandated by the World
anti-Doping code.
» cost-sharing agreements to offset expensive tests:
The cfl (canadian football league) now pays for
aPED testing for the 80 top football prospects playing
at the university level.
» Education incorporated into provincial school
curriculum: ccEs is hoping pilot programs like succeed
clean, an anti-doping program pioneered in Waterloo
Region, will be expanded into schools across canada.
Keeping it clean
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Waterloo’s new Stratford
campus merges business,
technology and art.
Back in May 2006, Dan Mathieson found himself
sitting in the front row of the Southwest Economic
Assembly in Stratford, Ont., beside David Johnston,
who was then president of the University of Waterloo
and is now Canada’s Governor General.
Over lunch that day, Johnston asked Mathieson
what he hoped would come out of the day’s talks.
As Stratford’s mayor and the event host, Mathieson
was not one to waste an opportunity.
“I said, ‘David, forget the conference. I mean, this
is great, but why don’t we talk about having a
Waterloo campus here in Stratford?’”
According to Mathieson, by the end of the day the
two had driven around the picturesque city for over
an hour, considering potential locations for a future
campus. By the next day, other Waterloo leaders
joined the conversation.
Within months, they signed a memorandum of
understanding that would bring a Waterloo satellite
campus to Stratford, a small city of about 32,000
known as the home of the Stratford Festival. The
university chose to make the campus a hub for
the emerging field of digital media. »
Stratford Mayor Dan Mathieson sees digital media as an emerging area of strength
for this theatre city. As executive director of the University of Waterloo’s new Stratford
campus, dedicated to digital media, Ginny Dybenko aims to make that vision a reality. »
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Expanding the
digital
horizon
TEXT kira vermond | PHOTOGRAPHY JONATHAN BIELASKI
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It’s becoming clearer and clearer
that it’s really necessary now
for us to start to put the human
back in the technology.
Who better to deliver that
than an arts faculty?
Ginny Dybenko, executive director
of Waterloo’s Stratford campus
It made sense. The world is experiencing a media and technical
revolution like never before. Companies see a skills gap —
technology exists, but few employees have the knowledge to
realize its full communications potential. Stratford’s reputation
as a wired, arts-driven community made it an ideal fit.
“Stratford has been at the forefront of theatre. Now we want to
morph into more digital technology that’s going to be prevalent
in the next generation, if not longer. Waterloo is going to help
us get there,” says Mathieson.
Opening doors
Fast forward to 2013. A lot has happened since those early
blue-sky times.
In September 2012, Waterloo opened its new 42,000-square-foot
campus that boasts a towering, three-storey-high wall covered
in 150 MicroTiles created by Christie Digital, a Kitchener-based
manufacturer. When fired up, the atrium’s interconnected
display tiles are vibrant and sharp. The 30-cm by 40-cm tiles,
arranged five units wide by 30 high, come to life in a blaze
of colour and content, even when placed beside a wall of
windows. Students, researchers and outside industry can
use them for research, build new ideas for companies and
create more opportunity.
In January 2013, using a downlink from the Waterloo
main campus, the “wonderwall” was used to show a webcast
of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield speaking from the
International Space Station. More recently, it won gold in
the 2013 Apex Awards competition in the education and
healthcare category.
The rest of the building is just as impressive, with its seven
fully-wired classrooms, 16 project rooms, three video editing
suites and an audio editing suite that would make commercial
radio stations jealous. There’s also plenty of space for students
to meet and mingle in the bright, open-concept outer rooms.
The school has also found its footing in terms of what it teaches.
At the graduate level, it offers a Master of Digital Experience.
Undergraduates can earn a Bachelor of Global Business and
Digital Arts. They complete team-based design projects and
take advantage of high-end software for graphic design, sound
and video editing suites, and team project rooms scattered
around the building.
«
The atrium of the new Stratford campus comes to life in a blaze
of colour, thanks to a three-storey wall, covered in 150 MicroTiles
manufactured by Christie Digital.
The programs have proven to be more popular than anyone ever
predicted, says Douglas Peers, dean of Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts.
The campus is also finding strong support in the community,
with an open house in the fall drawing a full house, he says.
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The field of gamification,
which taps into the intense
engagement that can make
video games so addictive, is
the focus of research by
Kevin Harrigan, left,
a professor of digital arts
communication, and head
of Waterloo’s gambling
research lab, and Neil
RandaLl, a professor of
English and director of
Waterloo’s Games Institute.
“I’ve been in a number of educational institutions and I can’t
remember seeing that level of popular public support for an
initiative. It’s humbling in many ways,” Peers says.
The new program attracted almost 100 undergraduate students
and 20 master’s students. Graduate students arrive for class each
afternoon. In their first and second year, undergraduates take most
of their courses at the main Waterloo campus, and are bused to
Stratford one day a week. In years three and four, they’ll study
in Stratford full-time. While the campus is quiet from Monday to
Thursday now, that will change when the inaugural undergraduate
class comes to study full-time.
Christine McWebb, associate professor in the department of French
and director of academic programs at the campus, agrees that the
recognition the fledgling campus has garnered has been great for
morale. Not just for the students, but the professors and staff too.
“It’s so uplifting to be involved in something new that has attracted
so much interest. The enthusiasm in the place is just wonderful,”
she says.
Ginny Dybenko, executive director of the Stratford campus, says
arts students are well-placed to lead the way in the field. Having
spent many years in industry and as the former dean of the
Wilfrid Laurier University School of Business and Economics, she
remembers when technology wasn’t easily accessible.
Times are different now. Today people are just as comfortable
turning the virtual pages on their iPad as they are flipping through
a paper book. Understanding how people think, feel and act is
important when designing the technology of tomorrow.
“It’s becoming clearer and clearer that it’s really necessary now
for us to start to put the human back in the technology,” she says.
“Who better to deliver that than an arts faculty?”
Gaming the human system
Gamification is one area where Waterloo
is expected to lead over the next few years.
An emerging buzzword in business and
industry, gamification takes what makes
video games so addictive and engaging —
challenge and reward — and applies it to
non-game settings. Think work, school,
hospitals and even the mall.
Its recent popularity is no accident, says
Neil Randall, a professor of English and
director of Waterloo’s Games Institute who is
launching the Stratford Campus gamification
hub with Kevin Harrigan, associate professor
and head of the Waterloo gambling research
lab. The hub is designed to bring together
researchers, industry partners and even nonprofit
sectors to explore how to use game
thinking to get results.
“When you watch television, listen to
music or read at night, you fall asleep. But
if you play a game, you’re up all night,” says
Randall. “How do we tap into that intense
engagement?”
One U.S. technology firm, Gartner
Inc., estimates that 70 per cent of large
corporations will use gamification in some
way by 2014. Others predict it will become
a $938-million US industry by next year, up
from $100 million in 2011.
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and looking into
the unknown.
« Master’s student Abram Chan
was looking for a way to give his
career relevance when he enrolled
in the University of Waterloo’s
digital experience program.
Chances are you’ve already encountered
gamification, which doles out progress bars,
virtual gifts, badges and leader boards.
LinkedIn, for example, displays a progress bar
that indicates how much of a user’s profile still
needs to be filled in.
Gamification done well means even mundane
tasks become more exciting. So exciting that
they can become downright addictive, says
Harrigan, who hopes to apply what he learns
in his gambling lab to real world applications
through the Stratford hub.
For instance, recently he’s been looking at the
latest generation of slot machines that offer
multiple win lines. Unlike older machines, in
which three jackpot symbols lined up show a
winning spin, the new machines offer dozens
of opportunities to feel like a winner.
These machines reward users with all the
traditional gifts for winning — the flashing
lights, bells and sirens — even when the
gambler is actually losing cash. The user might
wager a dollar, but with a push of a button,
she “wins” 20 cents. It’s a loss of 80 cents, but
you would never know it from the way the
machine responds.
“You might be rewarded 150 times an hour . . .
for losing,” Harrigan says.
Those rewards are powerful. Monitoring sweat
and heart rate while people play these new
games, his team has discovered that they react
to the fake wins, too. They play longer and
often lose more money.
Taking that information, the researchers hope
to explore the flipside of the equation.
“How can we use some of these terrible techniques
from gambling to encourage people to exercise and quit
smoking?” he asks.
This kind of research is important, Randall says. Although
gamification is already being applied in many settings, few
people are actually researching it. A conference hosted at
the Stratford campus next fall will bring together relevant
academics, industry and researchers.
Until then, the team will continue to work with The Stratford
Festival to gamify its digital presence. Already, Waterloo
students have built online games and digitized artifacts from
past plays. They’re looking for ways to bring some of the
games to market, too.
“We haven’t even begun to explore gamification, as far as
I’m concerned,” Randall says.
A new digital day
It’s that kind of innovation in research and business that drew
Abram Chan, a master’s student at Stratford, to the program.
A recent Waterloo psychology graduate, he was looking for
some way to give his career relevance.
After working with a theatre company in Kitchener for the
summer, he says he wished he had business and digital media
skills to be more of an asset to the organization.
“Then I saw this program and thought, ‘This is so perfect,’”
he says.
Two-thirds into the school year, he has already helped a
local food co-op digitally audit all its assets. Later, he’ll do
an industry project placement, too. Companies actually
approach master’s students with problems needing solutions
and students choose which ones to tackle. With so many
opportunities on the horizon, Chan says he’s excited about
the future.
“I’m looking forward to taking everything I’ve learned here
to a company and mentorship environment,” he says. “I’m
taking risks and looking into the unknown.”
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Campus-wide approaCH about building support,
not lowering standards
The boarding schools Seun Balogun
went to in Nigeria and Hamilton, Ont. neatly
set out his instructional day.
“It wasn’t complicated, I always I had
my schedule set up for me,” says Balogun,
now a third-year student at the University
of Waterloo.
Then, in his early days as a first-year student,
he picked up his course plan, saw wide gaps
between classes and wondered what he
would do with all that free time.
That airy schedule started to become an
abyss as he struggled with the new person
he had so quickly become: An independent
adult responsible for the choices he made
to fill his day.
“I panicked a lot,” Balogun says. “The thing
is, you learn to deal with it. Now I don’t have
as much time, but I’m doing more stuff.”
Balogun’s story of shock and adjustment
is typical among first-year students, and a
key reason why Waterloo sets up an array
of supportive programs for young men and
women who find themselves edging toward
that abyss, if not slipping into it.
Balugon credits his don, friends he made
in the African Students’ Association, course
advisers, his family and friends of family
for helping him find his path. They often
pointed him to on-campus support services.
Six weeks into school he changed programs,
dropping computer science for a choice
that has made him a lot happier — math
and economics.
Today, others seek him out when they feel themselves
losing traction. For two years, Balogun has been a
SHADOW — Student Hosts and Delegates of Waterloo —
helping international students deal with the social and
academic challenges of learning in a different land.
Starting in 2013, the name of the program has changed
to International Peer Mentors.
Different needs, different services
While they change in name and form, student support
programs begin at recruitment and follow the student
until he or she leaves the university community.
Services weave across academic and administrative
departments. They range from faculty advisers offering
counselling on course selection, to mentors helping
entrepreneurial students develop an idea into a
marketable product.
They ease students into campus life by providing a
package of ice-breaking events during Orientation Week.
Co-op, which lies at the heart of the learning experience
for 16,500 students in 120 programs at Waterloo, provides
its own package of support to prepare students for work
placements. Most of this is done through the Co-operative
Education & Career Action Centre.
A recent review placed mental-health care as a key
component in the university’s push for excellence. Through
Campus Wellness, students find care and comfort when they
face problems beyond anyone’s scope to manage alone. Most
of the assistance available on the second floor of the new
Health Services Centre is focused on mental health.
Students come to university at an age when mental-health
problems are most likely to surface. Research indicates that
one per cent of first-year students in Canadian post-secondary
schools attempt suicide. Six per cent give it some thought. »
« Seun Balogun, right, knows the social and academic challenges students can face when they first set
out on their own. He’s made it his mission to provide advice and guidance to incoming students, including
Behrooz Shafiee Sarjaz, as part of Waterloo’s International Peer Mentors program.
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« Progressive schools don’t take a sink-or-swim approach
with students, says Sean Van Koughnett, director
of Waterloo’s Student Success Office.
Easier access
Some of the ways
Waterloo supports
student success
» Working with the Federation of Students and
faculties, Student Success helps about 6,700
students flow into first year
» Support services — including SHADOW, now
known as International Peer Mentors — are
offered to about 4,500 international students
» The Writing Centre assisted 2,000 students —
under-graduates and graduates — with
assignments in 2012
» VeloCity enables entrepreneurial students to
live and innovate collectively as they try out
ideas for new products
» Success Coaching, launched in 2011, offers
one-on-one mentoring to help students set
academic, career and life goals
» Connecting with students online or through
group sessions keeps administrators tuned into
state of the student experience at Waterloo
Student well-being is so important at Waterloo
that a number of key services have been brought
together — and new ones developed — under a
recently formed administrative department, the
Student Success Office.
That process began in 2010. By September 2011,
the re-organized office on the second floor of
South Campus Hall was ready to help.
Incoming students at Waterloo are demographically
different than the same group 20 years ago.
They are younger, on average, by a year. The last
Grade 13 class graduated with their Grade 12
schoolmates in 2003.
“That can be huge in terms of maturity,” says
Sean Van Koughnett, director, Student Success
Office. “Maturity can be as important to success
as academic ability.”
Changing demographics in Canada, and Waterloo’s
focus on attracting international students, also
means the cohort is more ethnically diverse.
Many incoming students, meanwhile, try to fit
paying jobs into their schedules, just as they did
in high school. Most bring with them the high
expectations of parents.
It amounts to a lot of pressure, says Van Koughnett,
and progressive schools don’t take a sink-orswim
attitude. Giving students what they need
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The Right Fit:
Feeling at ease in
residence is as important to success
as feeling good in class
for success is a key element of President Feridun
Hamdullahpur’s leadership, he says.
“This in not about lowering our standards,” Van
Koughnett said. “It’s about maintaining our standards,
while providing supports.”
Waterloo’s Department of Athletics uses a form
of success coaching to support the 600 students
competing under the Warriors logo across 32 teams.
They face some added challenges, says Chris Gilbert,
interuniversity sport manager. Besides keeping up
with their studies, they’ve got practices to attend
and games to play.
“If they are going to be successful, especially with
the rigours of a Waterloo curriculum, those challenges
need to be identified quite early,” Gilbert says. “We
tell them to map out their term right now. In three
weeks, they’ve got a mid-term. And it’s not the same
as high school.”
Athletes are generally good about time-management
because they’ve grown up with schedules, he says. But
as top performers, they may be reluctant to admit when
they’re overwhelmed. During orientation, Gilbert says,
athletes are told about support services and encouraged
to seek advice from senior teammates and coaches. The
department tracks marks so that it can advise coaches
to check in with players whose grades start slipping.
Great expectations
Waterloo sends representatives overseas, across
Canada and to 600 secondary schools in Ontario to
talk to senior students about what the university offers.
Its booth at the annual Ontario Universities Fair, a
three-day event in Toronto at the end of September,
covers 3,000 square feet. 
The fair attracted 118,000
people last year.
“We don’t try to hide the fact that we are a rigorous
place to study,” says Julie Kalbfleisch, associate director
of communications, Marketing and Undergraduate
Recruitment.
Face to face or online, Waterloo presents itself as a
strong academic institution with a lively campus life,
and lots of support for success.
“We have high admission averages, and that’s
something that’s known about us,” says Kalbfleisch.
“So we attract the best students. Then all of sudden
they’re here, and I think it’s challenging because they
are surrounded by the best of the best. It can be tough.”
Sometimes he’s a mediator.
Sometimes he’s resumé coach.
He is always a good listener.
For five terms, Amer Abu-Khajil
has been a University of Waterloo
don, an upper-year student who,
besides working toward a degree,
helps other students cross rough
terrain on their own way to success.
“A lot of our role is pointing
students to resources — I’m not
a counsellor,’’ says Abu-Khajil,
a fourth-year civil engineering
student. “A big part of what we
do is follow-up: ‘Did you have
a chance to see somebody?
What was the outcome? Is there
anything I can do as a don?’”
This year, Abu-Khajil is among
almost 100 dons at Waterloo. He
lives in Columbia Lake Village South,
which has a mix of first-year and
upper-year students. It’s one
of five on-campus communities.
Dons are supported by residence
life co-ordinators, community
co-ordinators and other staff
at Housing and Residences,
the department providing
on-campus housing for more
than 5,000 undergraduate and
graduate students.
Together they keep the link between
housing and achievement taut and
secure. The department’s lead
brochure bears the title, Students
Success, and staff operate under
a theme — “The Right Fit,” with
a mission statement that stresses
personal and academic success
for students. Students have people
to talk to, outlets for stress relief,
opportunities to live and study with
classmates in similar programs, and
lots of internet connectivity.
“Residence life is one of the
most recognized elements of
the university experience,’’ says
Alex Piticco, director, Student
Development and Residence Life.
“One thing that hasn’t changed
over the years is the importance
of peer mentors — students who
have been through it.”
Abu-Khajil and his residence-life
teammates organize such events
as karaoke nights, coffee houses
and movie nights to build a sense
of belonging. Drawn into a conflict,
they urge each side to view the
issue from the other’s perspective,
then encourage both to come up
with a joint solution.
Besides taking away a bachelor of
applied science degree, Abu-Khajil
expects to leave Waterloo in April
with a solid set of people skills.
“When they finish here, they
are very capable, competent
professionals,’’ Piticco says of
his team of dons. “They, at times,
deal with very heavy stuff.”
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It’s nice seeing
things through another
student’s perspective.
Danlynn tang, blogger
« Gabriela Houston,
Danlynn Tang and Marta
Kocemba belong to a group
of first year students who blog
about their experiences at the
University of Waterloo.
Blogging for the soul
Last year, Kalbfleisch lined up several
students who started at Waterloo in
September to blog about typical first-year
experiences.
Posts deal with such issues as assignment
pressures, the joy of a snow day and how
to clean a “gross” shower head.
“It shows the real picture, but it gives
students the understanding that things
can work out, even if they didn’t start out
the way they thought they were going to,”
says Kalbfleisch.
Danlynn Tang says she gets as much benefit
from blogging as others do relating to her
posts. A first-year math and accounting
student who came to Waterloo with an
average in the nineties, Tang said her
course load, distance from home (Ottawa)
and natural shyness occasionally pushed
her to tears in the busy weeks following the
thrill of orientation.
Blogging, she says, widened her comfort
zone, and she found a network of support
among fellow bloggers.
“It’s nice seeing things through another
student’s perspective, how they’re coping
with the transition, and comparing their
experience to mine,” she says.
Tang says she sees a big difference in the
person she was in September and the
person she has become.
“I just never imagined myself calling banks and arranging
housing,” says Tang, as she looks ahead to her second year.
Most first-year students return to Waterloo. Retention is just
above 90 per cent.
But, says Van Koughnett of the Student Success Office,
retention is but one indicator of student success. The level
of engagement and satisfaction students have throughout
their experience is equally important. All these measures are
impacted by the entirety of the student experience, not just
what happens in the classroom. The approach to engaging
and developing our students is a holistic one, grounded in
research that shows that success in academics and life are
dependent on not only “what you know” but “who you
become.” Attributes such as maturity, confidence, integrity,
perseverance and work ethic are developed through a range
of experiences both inside and outside the classroom.
In the end, retention, engagement and satisfaction all come
down to fit — whether the academic, career and social
environment is one that matches the goals, abilities and
motivation of the student. Sometimes, Van Koughnett says,
coaching a student to success may mean that the student will
conclude that there is a better fit somewhere else.
In the meantime, the Student Success Office counts on people
like Seun Balogun to help students feel at home at Waterloo.
As an International Peer Mentor, he meets regularly with his
assigned students — one from Iran, two from China.
Their talks over dinner or coffee range from the joys and
frustrations of courses, to making sense of jokes in English.
Balogun says he has grown from the experience, too,
gaining leadership skills, a broadened cultural outlook
and something else.
“It’s the satisfaction of helping somebody change their
outlook on university,” he says.
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game changers and difference makers!
Alyson Woloshyn (BA ’00)
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Alumni Achievement Award
Adil Bhatti (BSc ’05)
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Young Alumni Award
Wayne Fox (BA ’71)
Faculty of Arts
Alumni Achievement Award
Natalie MacNeil (BA ’08)
Faculty of Arts
Young Alumni Award
Reza Chaji (PhD ’08)
Faculty of Engineering
Young Alumni Achievement Medal
PLANT Architect Inc., Faculty of Engineering
Lisa Rapoport (BES ’85, BArch ’88), Chris Pommer (BES ’86, BArch ’88),
Mary Tremain (BES ’84, BArch ’86), Team Alumni Achievement Medal
Jim Davidson (BES ’80)
Faculty of Environment
Alumni Achievement Award
Geeta Tucker (BMath ’95)
Faculty of Mathematics
Alumni Achievement Award
Brendan Calder (BMath ’69)
Faculty of Mathematics
Alumni Achievement Award
Thomas Valcke (BMath ’85)
Faculty of Mathematics
Alumni Achievement Award
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Faculty of Mathematics
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professions, communities and the world. The Alumni Achievement Awards
recognize these individuals and their efforts to build a better world.
Anish Chopra (BA ’94, MAcc ’94)
School of Accounting and Finance
Alumni Achievement Award
Elaine Lee (BA ’03)
School of Accounting and Finance
Young Alumni Award
Ilia Kaufman (MASc ’69, PhD ’71)
Faculty of Engineering
Alumni Achievement Medal
Michael D. Watkins (BASc ’80)
Faculty of Engineering
Alumni Achievement Medal
Ilya Grigorik (BCS ’07)
Faculty of Mathematics
Young Alumni Achievement Award
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Faculty of Mathematics
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Faculty of Science
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Faculty of Science
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1967
Bryce Walker (BMath ’67,
Mathematics) was appointed
vice-chair of the Healthcare of
Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
Board of Trustees.
1973
R. John Gibson (PhD ’73, Biology)
research associate in the History
and Classics Program, University
of Tasmania. He also received
the Agnes Macphail Award for
community volunteerism in East
York, and the Cruikshank Gold
Medal for performing with
distinction on behalf of the
Ontario Historical Society.
1980
Mark Zuehlke (BA ’80, History)
published Tragedy at Dieppe:
Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942
in the fall of 2013. The book is the
tenth volume in his award-winning
series documenting major battles
and campaigns conducted by the
Canadian Army during the Second
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earned a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond
Jubilee Medal for his contribution
to environmental work related to
freshwaters, and his work on the
Fluvarium, an exhibit of stream
ecology in St. John’s, N.L.
1974
John Carter (BA ’74, History; MA
’77, History) retired as the senior
museum adviser for the Ontario
Ministry of Culture. He is now a
1975
Mit Tilkov (BSc ’75, Earth Sciences)
is the new general manager of
Condormining Corporation by the
Ecuador Gold & Copper Corp.
1978
Charlotte Arbuckle (BSc ’78,
Kinesiology) has received the
national Outstanding Principals
of 2013 award.
World War. Tragedy at Dieppe is
Zuehlke’s 26th published book.
1981
Susan M.W. Cartwright (MA ’81,
Geography) was the 2013 recipient
of the Government of Canada’s
Outstanding Achievement Award,
an award considered the highest
expression of recognition for
senior public servants in the
Public Service of Canada.
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Once upon a time. For centuries, storytelling began with
this iconic phrase being read from a book. Today, thanks
to the work of CALVIN WANG (BMath ’95, computer
science) and Loud Crow Interactive, the Vancouverbased
company he founded in 2010, children and adults
around the world experience classic stories in a whole
new way.
It all started when Wang picked his daughter up from
school and found her mesmerized by the pull-tabs and
spinning wheels in a book.
“It was a light-bulb moment,” he says. “I thought about
how cool it would be to take a very tactile experience and
translate it into the digital medium. The end result could
be highly interactive content that’s rich and engaging.”
Releasing the company’s first interactive digital book,
PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit, in October 2010, Loud
Crow quickly gained acclaim for producing an app that
enhanced the reading experience. Finger strokes make
leaves seem to pop off the page; gooseberries roll when
the reader tilts the screen.
“Within weeks, the app was garnering a lot of attention
because of the unique treatment style it gave to Beatrix
Potter’s classic story,” Wang explains. “Apple named it
App of the Week and in 2011, inducted it into their
App Store Hall of Fame.”
Loud Crow has since partnered with other publishers
and best-selling authors.
It has produced apps for four of Sandra Boynton’s
board books, and an app for Margaret Wise Brown’s
Goodnight Moon. Its app for A Charlie Brown Christmas
was recognized as the Best Kids App in the 2011 Best
App Ever awards.
Loud Crow also produced the first fully interactive comic
book app for Marvel.
“Not a week goes by that I don’t talk to someone who
has downloaded one of our apps,” Wang says. “It’s a really
cool feeling to know that our commitment to creating
high-quality content that works with the capabilities
of the device, and provides users with an unrivalled
experience, is having an impact in the world.”
Today, Calvin and his family live “happily ever after”
in North Vancouver.
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Brigitte Shim (BES ’81, Pre-professional
architecture; BArch ’83, Architecture) was
appointed to the Order of Canada by
David Johnston, Governor General
of Canada.
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1982
Horst Hueniken (BASc ’82, Mechanical
Engineering) has been appointed to the
board of directors at Xylitol Canada Inc.
Daniel J. Miehm (BA ’82, Liberal Studies)
has been appointed auxiliary bishop in
Hamilton by Pope Benedict XVI.
Robert Town (OD ’82, Optometry),
University of Waterloo Hall of Fame
member, talked about his sports resumé,
including his run to make Canada’s track
team — in decathlon — in the 1980 and
1984 Olympics.
1983
David H. Y. Ho (BASc ’83, Systems Design
Engineering; MASc ’89, Management
Sciences), chairman of Kiina Investment,
has been elected to Air Products’ board
of directors.
Fram Moos (BSc ’83, Applied Earth
Sciences — Geology Option) is a director
at Newton Energy Corporation.
Howard Sutcliffe (BES ’81, Preprofessional
Architecture; BArch ’83,
Architecture) was appointed to the
Order of Canada by David Johnston,
Governor General of Canada.
1984
Bill Birdsell (BES ’82, Pre-professional
Architecture; BArch ’84, Architecture)
became president of the Ontario
Association of Architects.
Jane MacCaskill (BMath ’84, Math/
Chartered Accounting) is Halton Region’s
new Chief Administration Officer.
J.P. Wiser began producing Canadian whisky about 100 years before the founding
of the University of Waterloo in 1957. More than 150 years later, the legacy
of the Canadian spirits pioneer lives on in Hiram Walker & Sons’ Master Blender,
Don Livermore (BSc ’95, Biology).
One of only a handful of master blenders in Canada, Livermore attributes his
fascination with microbiology to his undergraduate studies at Waterloo.
Today, Livermore is a microbiologist with an MSc and PhD in brewing and distilling.
He is aware of the rich history influencing his work.
There’s a big difference between Canadian whisky and barley-based, single-malt
whiskies from Scotland or Ireland.
“Canadians were the innovators of their time and developed blended recipes using
corn and rye whiskies,” he says. “They were resourceful, and fuelled by the demand
caused by the American Civil War, Canadians continued to innovate. Not surprisingly,
they were the first to mandate that whisky be aged.”
An innovator in his own right, Livermore has seen the near-infrared (NIR) technology
he developed in the late 1990s improve precision in scientific measurements conducted
in the ethanol and alcohol industries.
“Using NIR, industries are able to rapidly measure the level of alcohol or organic
materials such as fats, oils and proteins in a particular ingredient,” he says.
Livermore wrote about the technology in the fourth edition of the Alcohol Textbook.
“Yes,” he says, “there is such a textbook, and it’s a great read!”
Livermore talks to whisky connoisseurs, every-day consumers, product consultants
and whisky purists about what makes Canadian-made whisky so unique.
“As it was in the 1800s, today’s Canadian whisky is largely composed of corn whisky
mixed with rye whisky to add a hint of spice to the corn’s sweet and creamy taste,’’
he says. “The taste of the final product is influenced by factors such as how it’s distilled,
the type of cask used and the yeast fermentation.
“I want Canadians to understand and appreciate that all of this combined makes our
whisky unique and something to be proud of.”
When he’s not on the road or in the lab, Livermore can be found at the hockey rink
with his kids, or enjoying a game at home with his favourite drink, Wiser’s Legacy.
Text: Emily Huxley Osborne
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The Burgeoning Boutique
of veterinary law
Growing up in Fergus, Ontario, Douglas Jack (BA ’77, English)
knew he would one day pursue a law degree. What he didn’t know was
that he would specialize in the legal matters pertaining to the practice
of veterinary medicine.
“I didn’t think for an instant that I would be narrowing my practice to
what is considered a boutique area of the law,” he says. “I’d like to say
it was careful planning and strategy, but it wasn’t.”
Jack credits his career path to a lecture he gave to a group of
senior veterinary students at the nearby Ontario Veterinary College
in Guelph.
“Having been invited to speak about general business law, it became
quite evident to me that while these students were extraordinarily
bright scientists, they knew very little about business,” Jack says.
“That really had an impact on me.”
After undertaking a self-study of the veterinary profession, Jack
quickly became one of Canada’s few veterinary lawyers.
“I’m regularly called upon to represent veterinarians when a
complaint has been filed against them through the College of
Veterinarians of Ontario,” he says. “However, my practice primarily
consists of general commercial law matters. I take a lot of pride and
satisfaction in being able to help young veterinarians purchase a
clinic or establish their own practice.”
Inspired by the lecture that started it all, Jack developed a course on
veterinary jurisprudence and teaches at four of the five veterinary
colleges in Canada. He put his English degree from St. Jerome’s at
the University of Waterloo to good use when he wrote two books
on the legal aspects of managing a Canadian veterinary practice.
“If there are two skill sets every lawyer needs, it’s the ability to read
and the ability to write,” he explains, “and that’s what my English
degree afforded me the ability to do.”
Jack enjoys travelling with his wife Debbie, sometimes taking along
Fergie, their Havanese. An avid baseball fan, Jack has watched a game
in all of the major league ball parks in North America.
Text: Emily Huxley Osborne
1985
Sonia Bot (BMath ’85, Computer
Science) was selected for the honour
of Innovators & Entrepreneurs by
the Institute of Biomaterials and
Biomedical Engineering at the
University of Toronto.
Alison Brooks (BES ’85, Preprofessional
Architecture; BArch ’88,
Architecture), owner of Alison Brooks
Architects, received the Building
Design 2013 Architect of the Year
Award and Schueco Gold Award.
Durgamadhab (Durga) Misra
(MASc ’85, Electrical Engineering,
PhD ’88, Electrical Engineering) is
currently a New Jersey Institute of
Technology professor. He is also
associate chair for graduate programs
in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Newark
College of Engineering. He will receive
two Division Awards next May: The
2013 Electronic and Photonic Division
Award and the 2013 Thomas D.
Collinan Award from the Dielectric
Science and Technology Division of
the Electrochemical Society.
Edwin S. (Ted) Hanbury (BASc ’85,
Civil Engineering) is vice-president
of engineering at Painted Pony
Petroleum Ltd.
Perry Josey (BMath ’85, Mathematics)
is vice-president of sales at
WellAware.
1987
Barry Cross (BSc ’87, Science) is a
professor of operations management
at Queen’s School of Business in
Kingston, Ont. In January, his book,
Lean Innovation: Understanding
What’s Next in Today’s Economy,
hit top spot on the Globe and Mail’s
bestseller list for business books.
George Kosziwka (BMath ’87, Math/
Chartered Accounting) is chief
financial officer of InnVest Real Estate
Investment Trust.
1988
Michael A. Mitgang (BASc ’88,
Systems Design Engineering) joined
The Spartan Group LLC (TSG) as
the managing director and head of
technology investment banking.
1991
Dona Massel (BA ’91, English) has
written a play, On the Inside, which
tells the story of a boy, his teacher
and the first hanging in what was
once Berlin, Ont. (now Kitchener).
The play is being staged by Lost &
Found Theatre.
Rob Meikle (BMath ’91, Computer
Science/Information Systems) is
chief information officer for the
City of Toronto.
Steven Woods (MMath ’91,
Computer Science, PhD ’96,
Computer Science) is joining
the advisory board of OMERS
Ventures.
1993
Marshall Erickson (BA ’93,
Economics) is director, teaching
and learning resources at
Confederation College. He is
responsible for the Paterson
Library Commons while continuing
to manage the Teaching and
Learning Centre. As a volunteer,
he established the college’s first
female hockey program. He is
general manager and head coach.
Last October aboard HMCS Griffon
in Thunder Bay, Marshall received
the Canadian Forces’ Decoration
(CD) in recognition of 13 years of
military service.
1994
Mike Morley (BASc ’94, Geological
Engineering) is Principal of Matrix
Solutions Inc. in Calgary, Alta.
1996
David Crow (BSc ’96, Kinesiology)
was appointed Evangelist in
Residence at OMERS Ventures.
1998
Sonya Hardman (MA ’98, Political
Science), formerly employed
with the City of Peterborough
as the community social plan
co-ordinator, has accepted a position
with the Regional Municipality of
Durham as a policy and research
adviser to the regional chair and
chief administrative officer.
Jean Giannakopoulou Creighton
(PhD ’98, Physics) earned the
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Academic Staff Outstanding
Performance and Service Award
from the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee for her outreach work
as director of the Manfred Olson
Planetarium. That same week
in October, she was presented
with the Great Lakes Planetarium
Association Fellow award for her
contributions as a member.
1999
Kingsley Fregene (MASc ’99,
Electrical Engineering; PhD ’03,
Electrical & Computer Engineering)
is the U.S. 2013 Black Engineer of
the Year (BEYA) Outstanding
Technical Contribution award.
Kingsley is currently a principal
scientist with Lockheed Martin
Advanced Technology Laboratories.
Ryan Mounsey (BES ’99, Urban &
Regional Planning), a development
planner for the City of Waterloo,
shares his passion for urban design
by talking about his favourite
buildings while giving guided tours
of uptown Waterloo.
2000
John Baker (BASc ’00, Systems
Design Engineering) has been
appointed to the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council
of Canada (SSHRC). SSHRC is
a federal agency that promotes
and supports post-secondarybased
research and training in the
humanities and social sciences.
Ashish Kapoor (BA ’00, Chartered
Accountancy; MAcc ’00, Accounting)
is chief financial officer at DealNet
Capital Corp.
2003
Soheila Esfahani (BA ’03, Fine
Arts) and Brendan Tang explored
the theme of crossing cultural
boundaries in Ornamental
Boundaries, a recent exhibition at
the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.
2004
Kurtis McBride (BASc ’04, Systems
Design Engineering; MASc ’08,
Systems Design Engineering),
co-founder and chief executive
officer of Miovision Technologies,
received the K-W Chamber Young
Entrepreneur of the Year award.
2006
Jeff Lai (BA, ’06 Economics)
co-founded Brobo, a new toy and
entertainment property, which
has been featured in Parenting
Magazine, Global TV and the
Calgary Sun and is carried by
specialty toy retailers in downtown
Toronto. The first run of dolls sold
out over the Christmas season.
2008
Ringo Ka Long Ng (BASc ’08,
Environmental Engineering) is one
of 20 nominees for ASHRAE’s New
Faces of Engineering recognition
program, which promotes the
accomplishments of young
engineers by highlighting their
engineering contributions and the
resulting impact on public welfare.
ASHRAE is the American Society
of Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning Engineers.
Aliya Kanani (BSc ’08, Science;
BA ’10, English Literature) is a new
reporter at The Norwich Gazette.
2009
Dr. Alan Ulsifer (OD ’90,
Optometry) is CEO, president,
and chair of FYidoctors, and was
the Prairies 2013 Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year winner.
2010
Joshua Gilgan (BSc ’10, Health
Studies) has been hired as a
physician assistant at Ross
Memorial Hospital, City of
Kawartha Lakes. He works in
the emergency department.
Dr. Tanner Udenberg (OD ’10,
Optometry) spoke with the
Vernon Morning Star (Vernon,
B.C.) about his work in Nicaragua
with Volunteer Optometric Services
to Humanity.
2011
Kurtis Lubbers (BASc ’11, Civil
Engineering) was named coach
of the year by The Wallaceburg
Sports Hall of Fame. Lubbers was
player-coach with the Wallaceburg
Sting soccer team this season.
He has played for the team for
four seasons.
Patience plus programmer
equals savvy politician
There are times when the distance between Waterloo and Guelph gets
so much longer.
“I swear every blizzard occurred on an evening when I had a night
course,” says LIZ SANDALS (Mmath, ’71), recalling her commute to
the University of Waterloo. “So this probably served to really improve
my winter driving skills.”
The gusts and squalls she faces these days are often stirred up by
conflicting political fronts. Appointed Minister of Education in
February, Sandals has been Guelph riding’s Liberal MPP for 10 years.
Her legislative resumé includes roles as parliamentary assistant to
several different ministers. Reports filled with graphs, numbers and
possible outcomes often land on her desk.
This, she says, is where studies in computer science and math at
Waterloo and the University of Guelph have served her well.
“It means that when somebody says, ‘Here’s a budget for several billion
dollars, and the formula we’re going to use to get there,’ I don’t find
that intimidating.” Sandals says. “The ability to look at charts and
trends — I’m comfortable with that.”
A computer programmer and instructor, Sandals began her political
career in 1988 as a public school board trustee. She earned the
confidence of voters four more times, and served as head of the
Ontario Public School Boards’ Association from 1998 and 2002.
Sandals recalls the large, advanced mainframes that Waterloo had in
the early 1970s, and the chattering that computers of the day made as
they sifted through punch cards. One small mistake could ruin a single
program that took days to run.
Sandals says programmers came away with good analytical skills as
they laboriously hunted for problems in thickets of code. She would
like to see young learners, used to quick, search-engine solutions, gain
that kind of patience for deep reasoning.
“They need to be able to understand things and think about things
critically, rather than just accepting the surface,” Sandals says. “Just
because you saw it on your computer screen doesn't mean it was right.’’
Sandals and her husband David have two children and two
grandchildren (the arrival of a third pending as of publication).
They take shelter from storms at a cottage in Muskoka.
Text: Christian Aagaard
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Andrew White (MBET ’11, Business,
Victor Bedford, OD ’45
Guido Haas, BSc ’89
Linda Riva, BMath ’70, MMath ’72
Entrepreneurship and Technology),
president of CHAR Technologies,
was one of five recipients of the
Spin Master Innovation Fund
this year.
Virginia Begley Faubel, BA ’76
Ellen Bentzen, MSc ’86, PhD ’91
John Brown, MASc ’69
Diana Cantarutti, BMath ’85
Peter Cheatley, BES ’75
Stephen Ireland, BA ’69
Laurie Johnston, BES ’78
Aivars Lagzdins, BA ’89
Helen Lane, BA ’99
Brian Lee, MASc ’87
Frederick Rolleman, BA ’77
Chris Ruhig, BES ’83
John Scholl, BMath ’70
Ernest Shumsky, BASc ’79
Robert Siemon, BASc ’73
Mike McCauley (BASc ’11,
Mechatronics Engineering), Aditya
Bali (BASc ’11, Mechatronics
Engineering), and Jay Shah
(BASc ’11, Mechatronics Engineering)
launched BufferBox Inc., in 2010.
The company, which provides pickup
lockers for online shoppers, was
acquired by Google in November.
Robert Clark, BA ’89
Richard Cook, BA ’79
Brian Cox, OD ’50
John Cruickshank, BSc ’63, BPE ’65
Linda Cummings, BA ’75
Lynaldo de Albuquerque, LLD, ’84
Tracy Deslaurier, BSc ’94, BSc ’94
Alexander Devon, OD ’44
Wayne Dickson, BPE ’66
David Doran, BASc ’84
Olivia Lee, BSc ’00
Joseph Lehman, BASc ’74
Gregory Lewis, BSc ’75
R. Luce, DMath ’07
Gordon MacIntyre, BA ’71
Steven MacMillan, BASc ’71
Harold Martin, BASc ’75
Mary Martin, BA ’69
Gary McMann, BASc ’71
Edward Moloy, BSc ’76
David Snaith, BASc ’69
Michael Stadnyk, OD ’50
Charles Stevens, BASc ’71
Barbara Stewart, BA ’89
Stephen Strathdee, BASc ’86
Justin Stricker, BA ’07, MA ’11
Calvin Strong, BA ’94
Mary Thompson, BMath ’85
William Thompson, BSc ’75
Chang-Lin Tien, DEng ’95
Michele Doto, BA ’84
Krisha Moore, BA ’99
Michael Unsworth, BSc ’73
Arnold Dyker, BSc ’70
Walter Morningstar, BASc ’65
Mary van den Broek, BA ’76
In Memoriam
We recently received news of the
following deaths. Our sincere
condolences to the family and
friends of these alumni.
Carolyn Ellington, BA ’90
Margaret Epp, BA ’67
Carl Evans, OD ’52
Max Ferguson, LLD ’91
Dawna Fiddes, BA ’81
Barbara Frank, BA ’69
Ashwin Muzumdar, MASc ’77
Bradley Oesch, BA ’93
Tae-Joon Park, DEng ’91
David Pickett, BA ’85
Vernor Pimiskern, BA ’75
Richard Poremba, BMath ’76
Nicolas Van Der Meulen, BSc ’67
Norman Vanderburgh, BA ’76, BA ’85
Jane Watson, BA ’96
Gregory Welstead, BASc ’90
Mark Whitney, BA ’78
Glen Wightman, BSc ’80
Margaret Aldridge, BMath ’76
Margaret Gaukel, BA ’82
John Putnins, BASc ’66
George Williams, OD ’50
Julian Anders, BASc ’67
Michael Greenspoon, BA ’70
Millie Rider, Dip Geron ’92
Donna Baba, MSc ’81, PhD ’86
Ellen Griswold, BSc ’87
Rhoda Riemer, MA ’70
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JUNE 3
june
President’s Golf Tournament
Westmount Golf and Country Club.
Contact Jim Hagen, marketing
manager,
University of Waterloo
Athletics, 519-888-4567, ext. 35433 or
jhagen@uwaterloo.ca. Find out more
at uwaterloo.ca/alumni
JUNE 22
A Day in Stratford for Alumni
Tour and attend a reception at
Waterloo’s Stratford campus and
take in a show at the Stratford
Shakespeare Festival. Free admission
to Stratford campus; discounted
tickets available for The Three
Musketeers (2 p.m. show) and
Romeo & Juliet and Tommy (8 p.m.
shows). Details at uwaterloo.ca/
alumni/events.
july
July AND AuguST,
VAriouS DATES
Engineering Science Quest
Engineering and Science offers
programs for campers entering
Grades 1 to 9 and Technology camps
for youth entering Grades 3 to 9.
Camps run the first week of July
to the second last week of August
$165-$250 per week. Available at the
Waterloo, Cambridge and Stratford
campuses, as well as in Brantford,
Chatham, Orangeville and Owen
Sound.
More information can be
found at esq.uwaterloo.ca
July 6
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Bring the kids to our annual alumni
family event to watch the Toronto
Blue Jays take on the Minnesota
Twins at the Roger’s Centre. Details at
uwaterloo.ca/alumni/events.
august
AUGUST 13 TO 15
CEMC Conference for
Computer Studies Educators
A conference to support teachers
with the implementation of
curriculum in secondary school
computer science and computer
technology takes place at the
University of Waterloo, MC/M3
buildings. Conference cost is $150,
including accommodation and meals.
Contact Sandy Graham at sandy.
graham@uwaterloo.ca. Find out
more at csteachers.ca
AuguST 20 TO 22
Math Teachers’ Conferences
Conferences for Grade 7 & 8 and
Grade 9 to 12 math teachers at the
Mathematics and Computer Building
on the main Waterloo campus.
Registration $150, includes meals and
dormitory accommodation. Contact
Dean A. Murray at d3murray@
uwaterloo.ca. Find out more at
cemc.uwaterloo.ca/events/
mathteachers.html
AuguST 23
Fretz Bow Tie Gala
Conrad Grebel, along with Mennonite
Savings and Credit Union, will honour
the legacy of our first president
and a founding member of the
MSCU. Hosted by John Rempel, this
evening will feature music, food and
a silent auction. The event supports
a $50,000 fundraising goal to name
the Fretz Seminar room in the MSCU
Centre for Peace Advancement.
Conrad Grebel Dining Room,
6:30 p.m., $100 per ticket ($70
charitable receipt). Contact Alison
Enns at 519-885-0220, ext. 24217,
aenns@uwaterloo.ca. Find out more
at grebel.ca/50th
AUGUST 24
Conrad Grebel Sixties Era Brunch
A chance for pioneers of Conrad
Grebel to reconnect. Ed Bergey will
host a program, share slides, and
reminisce. Conrad Grebel Dining
Room, 10:30 a.m., $12/person. Find
out more at grebel.ca/50th
Conrad Grebel 50th
Anniversary Reunion
Join Grebel alumni from every era,
as well as from the Music, PACS,
and MTS programs, as we celebrate
Grebel’s 50th Anniversary. There
will be decade rooms, kids activities,
an ultimate Frisbee tournament, a
Chapel Choir reunion practice, a BBQ
supper and a classic talent show.
$20/person, $50/family. Find out
more at grebel.ca/50th
AUGUST 25
Conrad Grebel 50th
Anniversary Celebration Service
Alumni across the decades will tell
the Grebel story. Participate in an
“act of community” and listen to the
reunited Chapel Choir. All are invited
to a light brunch afterwards, to
delight in your favourite Grebel
treats. Theatre of the Arts, ML,
10:30 a.m. Free.
september
SEPTEMBER 18
Waterloo Lectures
The Waterloo Lectures at the
Stratford Public Library,
19 St. Andrew St., Stratford, bring
leading scholars, forward thinkers,
and experts from the University of
Waterloo to the City of Stratford to
address an eclectic range of topics.
Waterloo lectures take place from
7 to 9 p.m. and are free. Contact
Brandi Gillett at bgilett@uwaterloo.ca,
519-888-4567, ext. 23006. Find out
more at uwaterloo.ca/Stratfordcampus/events
SEPTEMBER 21
Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis
Quantum-Nano Centre
Open House
Peer inside the world of quantum
and nanotechnology research
as part of Doors Open Waterloo
Region. Event runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
with free parking in M lot. Contact
Kim Simmermaker at kimberly.
simmermaker@uwaterloo.ca.
Find out more at iqc.uwaterloo.ca/
news-events/calendar/doors-openwaterloo-region
SEPTEMBER 27
St. Jerome’s Feast
Event begins at 6:30 p.m. at
St. Jerome’s University. Cost is $125
per person. Contact Kelly Macnab at
519-888-8111, ext. 28301, kmacnab@
uwaterloo.ca. Find out more at sju.ca
SEPTEMBER 28
Reunion
Revisit campus, reunite with
classmates and friends, and relive
your fondest Waterloo memories.
Watch for updates on events taking
place throughout the day and be
sure to register early at uwaterloo.ca/
alumni/events/reunion.
SEPTEMBER 28
28th Annual AHS Fun Run
Celebrate active living by running or
walking 2.5 or five kilometres around
Waterloo’s Ring Road. No registration
fee, bib tag timing available for
five- kilometre event. BMH and
Ring Road, University of Waterloo,
9 a.m. to noon. Contact Mari-Beth
Davis at mbdavis@uwaterloo.ca,
519-888-4567, ext. 32610. Find out
more at uwaterloo.ca/applied-healthsciences/alumni-friends/events/
fun-run
SEPTEMBER 28
Applied Health Sciences Class
Reunion Banquet
The 20th, 25th, 30th, 35th & 40th
anniversaries of Health Studies,
Kinesiology, and Recreation & Leisure
Studies Alumni at the Waterloo Inn,
5:30 to 11:30 p.m. Dinner & music,
ticket price TBA. Contact Mari-Beth
Davis at mbdavis@uwaterloo.ca,
519-888-4567, ext. 32610.
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SEPTEMBER 28
Reunion Football Game
Warrior Football vs. Guelph Gryphons
at Warrior Field. Contact Jenny
Mackay, Marketing and Events
Co-ordinator jmmackay@uwaterloo.ca.
Find out more at gowarriorsgo.ca
of sustainable architecture. The
event is supported by the research
networks of the University of
Waterloo, University at Buffalo, SUNY,
and the University of Nottingham
working in partnership with The
London Building Centre Trust.
november
6th Annual Warriors Think
Pink Campaign
Come support the Warriors as they
raise money and awareness for the
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation-
Ontario Region. The campaign has
donated $90,603.89 in the past
five years. Contact: Jenny Mackay,
Marketing and Events Co-ordinator
at jmmackay@uwaterloo.ca.
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october
OCtoBER 17 TO 19
Peace and Justice Academic
Conference
Peace Studies between Tradition
and Innovation,
hosted by Peace
and Conflict Studies at Conrad
Grebel and Global Studies at Wilfrid
Laurier University. Find out more at
peacejusticestudies.org/conference/
OCTOBER 23
Waterloo Lectures
The Waterloo Lectures at
the Stratford Public Library,
19 St. Andrew St., Stratford, bring
leading scholars, forward thinkers
and experts from the University of
Waterloo to the City of Stratford
to address an eclectic range of
topics. Waterloo lectures take place
from 7 to 9 p.m., and are free.
Contact Brandi Gillett at bgilett@
uwaterloo.ca, 519-888-4567, ext.
23006. Find out more at uwaterloo.
ca/Stratford-campus/events
OCtoBER 24 to 27
ACADIA 2013:
Adaptive Architecture
Adaptive Architecture at the
University of Waterloo School of
Architecture in Cambridge will include
a focus on computational design
of environmentally responsive,
intelligent, interactive, and
reconfigurable architecture. Research
papers and exhibition submissions are
invited across a range of topic areas
that include distributed interactive
systems, complex and generative
systems, standards of Passivhaus
design and performance implications
NovEMBER 13 to 16
Richard III by William Shakespeare,
directed by Jennifer Roberts-Smith
at the Theatre of the Arts (Modern
Languages Building). Show begins at
8:00 p.m., admission is $17, students
and seniors, $13. Contact the box
office at 519-888-4908 or Janelle
Rainville at 519-888-4567, ext. 31154 or
jrainvil@uwaterloo.ca. Find out more
at dramaandspeechcommunication.
uwaterloo.ca/drama/productions.htm
NovEMBER 20
Waterloo Lectures
The Waterloo Lectures at
the Stratford Public Library,
19 St. Andrew St., Stratford, bring
leading scholars, forward thinkers
and experts from the University of
Waterloo to the City of Stratford to
address an eclectic range of topics.
Waterloo lectures take place from
7 to 9 p.m., and are free. Contact
Brandi Gillett at bgilett@uwaterloo.ca,
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the last word
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great leap forward
When I was born, the doctor told my mother I would
probably never walk; he didn’t say anything about “dance.”
While a student at the University of Waterloo, I was the
first wrestler to be named Athlete of the Week, and I was
invited by the Ontario Wrestling Olympic Committee to
compete internationally. That same year, I took my first
dance class to improve my balance and agility. I found my
future, my true breath, my vision! I had never experienced
such a dynamic sense of creative self and purpose.
I had no idea that dance existed as a profession. I came
from a working-class family — my father was a butcher
from the “old country.” He thoroughly disapproved of my
choice of study and cut off all support. My mother quietly
encouraged me to pursue my passion, attending every
production she could, until her passing in 2003.
In 1981, I was accepted into the prestigious School of
Toronto Dance Theatre (STDT), but two years later I was
kicked out and instructed never to enter the building
again. I was too independent and was participating in
unrecognized dance forms. In 1991, my wife Karen Kaeja
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need to know how to take risks, fly and improvise.”
allen kaeJa is an internationally recognized
choreographer and co-artistic director of Kaeja d’dance
with his wife karen kaeJa. their latest production
x-oduS and Crave, ran May 7 to 11, 2013 at toronto’s
Harbourfront Centre.
Throughout our choreographic explorations, Karen
and I began to develop a partnering style unique to our
contemporary dance world. We now have over fifty
“Elevations” in our vocabulary, which are accessible
and not limited to gender, physique or experience.
Over the course of 32 years in dance, it has become
apparent to me that to pursue this ever-fulfilling
profession, it is best to be absolutely passionate, absorbed
and insatiably curious. It’s not enough to just hone one’s
craft — one must continuously push the boundaries of the
accepted, pursue the realms of the unknown and TAKE
RISKS. I often tell young dancers that they are the future
of the form, and that they have to design it as they want
to experience it.
Karen and I continue to examine, invigorate and propel
each other and our company, Kaeja d’Dance, into new
directions. We are voracious, supportive of our community
and, ultimately, living our lives true to the core while
raising two amazing daughters.
allen kaeJa
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