University of Toronto Engineering Society - Skule Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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This year ' s Cannonball was held at the Old Mill and was a good time for all 220 students, guests and alumni that attended. The night was highlighted by the superb playing of the SKULE 111 Stage Band and an excellent performance by th e DJ. Other aspects of the traditional festivities included the resounding blast of the SKULE 1 1 Cannon, the cannon guard composed of women engineers and an appearance by the LOMB. I should like to take the opportunity to thank all those who helped to make the Cannonball the success it was. Grant McCracken Social Chairman I I

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If you can imagine how football would be played if the wide receiver were required to ride in an oil barrel with wheels, with the entire defensive line as blockers, then you have a pretty good picture of Engineering ' s infamous chariot race, In this event, the racer is placed in the chariot and is pulled around a set course on front campus by the pullers on his her team. Each team is permitted blockers, whose sole purpose is to attack other chariots and render them to useless junk while simultaneously defending their own chariot from those who would reciprocate in kind. The results are chaotic. This year, the race was punctuated by several dramatic spills. The f !rosh chariot was assailed at all quarters by the upperclassmen and apparently was maimed beyond repair. But no! The firosh managed to limp home anyways, only to be disqualified for lack of the proper number of wheels at the finish. ij 23

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This year ' s Professional Development Committee saw a lot of action on all fronts. The committee sent some of the largest delegate contingents in its history to a variety of wild and productive conferences. In company with this, we all watched as the Prof Dev budget expanded beyond our wildest dreams ( and Tom Mahut ' s wildest nightmares). The RESSA and APEO Conferences were completely successful and saw the birth of a provincial council of Eng Soc ' s called ESSCO (Engineering Societies Sued for Crimes of Obnoxiousness ) . In November, the committee proceeded to send eight people to the CCES meeting in Quebec City. Here, we completed the business begun in the previous year and spent the week fighting hard battles of politics and principle (Wayne lost his battle with a bottle of Tequila). As if this wasn’t enough, we were able to send 10 groups, encompassing 20 people to the OEDC in Guelph. It ' s extremely difficult to give full justice to all the things we did in this short space , but let it suffice to say that the Prof Dev Committee had a hand in a great many significant events this year, and provided many people with rewarding experiences as well as good, reasonably clean fun. Professionalism and Tequila! Jeremy Bateson I