Greetings, AOE sisters! This is the Eta "Pub Rep" and webmaster speaking.

This year has been fun so far, I must admit. Camping in the summer, rush, events with Sigma Phi Delta and the memorial in first term, and upcoming events in second term including a brunch with all the Eta sisters' mothers and the annual physics olympics!

-Rhonda

Messages from the sisters

Hey there everyone. This is Donna, Eta Chapter's Social Co-ordinator, Sigma Phi Delta Communications Officer, part-time recording secretary and general participant. This year I've been really happy to continue with group tickets to the UBC theatre, and am in the process of booking an all-you-can-eat dessert buffet for Founder's day. Activities with SPD such as "Murder Mystery Night" are in the works, as well as a day away, potentially at an awesome ranch. Education wise, I am finishing off my third year of Electrical and Computer Engineering (wow, there are a lot of group projects!) and will be going on my final eight months of co-op starting in January. I hope all is going well with everyone across the continent and good luck with final exams!

Donna Chang

Hi everyone!

For the 2001-2002 school year, I'm Eta Chapter's new treasurer. Currently, I'm in my third year at UBC, studying Engineering Physics (specializing in Electrical). It can be a lot of work, but lots of fun! Over the summer, our class took a first-time-run-at-UBC Robotics course that introduced us to a wide variety of practical, hands-on experience with electronics and mechanics. I was Team Leader of the SRUFS (Supreme Rulers of the Universe a.k.a. Flying Sheep) and our robot was deemed "most reliable". But of course (I suspect Murphy's Law has something to do with this), 12 hours before the robotics competition, our robot completely broke down and we ended up pulling an all-nighter to fix it. It was until halfway through the competition we got it up and running, and suprisingly, we made it to the semi-finals! Yay!!

Anyway, enough about school...

Pledge Night was a fantastic time and we now have 6 awesome new pledges! They all seem like great people.

Doris

HI! I think that I currently hold the title for Eta chapter's "Furthest Away" sister. I am taking a break from the rigors of Engineering by studying Icelandic Language and living in Siglufjörður, Iceland.

Last year I completed my second year of engineering in UBC's brand new program, Integrated Engineering. It is a multidiscipinary program with an emphasis on design. It is very cool!! I was very actively involved in creating and running its student club, officially as the Social Co-ordinator. My design project for the second semester was to design and build a simulated environment bio-reactor used to grow and harvest a cold water algae native to our area.

After my first year of engineering at UBC I spent six months sailing on the Lady Washington Tallship. It was a very exciting experience to sail from the northern-most point of the Washington State to the southern-most point of California.

Sæl og blessuð,
kym

I'm Arleigh Jamieson, a membership candidate to the U.B.C. chapter. U.B.C. is my fourth post secondary institution (of education, ignoring some rather obvious hints, I've never been in the other kind of institution) and my Applied Science degree will be my second Baccelaureate (the first was for Biochemistry). In short, I am possibly the most pointlessly overeducated person you'll ever meet, a distinction I've learned to deal with by embracing my inner nerd.

Arleigh

Events

Summer camping

This past May Long Weekend, the 2nd Annual AOE 'n Friends camping trip took place. After much rushing and cell phone communication, we ended up with a terrific double site at the Chillwack Lake "Radium" Camp Grounds. We owe a big thanks to Andrew Preston, a friend who went up early and spent the whole day alone to reserve the sites.

As usual there were campfire songs, crazy stories and delicious marshmallow treats every night. The big difference from last year was the weather! Unlike the rainy/cold fun of last year, the weather decided to co-operate and provide us with some warm/sunny fun. The only time it rained was when everyone went to bed, and it let up as soon as people started stirring... that rain was actual welcome because we could feel justified for having put up our "color-coded" tarp protection.

The gorgeous sun let people hike comfortably (besides the getting lost part) and even led to a few sunburns on those lazy people that stayed behind and slept in the hammock.

All in all it was a wonderful trip. There were still more "friends" than "AOE", but with the way we all talk about the fun times we had that trip, we might even need another site this year!

14 Not Forgotten memorial

For the last few years, AOE has organised the annual 14 Not Forgotten memorial, to remember the 14 women killed at l'école polytechnique in 1989.

On December 6, 1989, a young man entered a classroom filled with engineering students and ordered the women to one side of the room and the men out. The students laughed and stayed where they were, thinking it was a joke. When he pulled out a semiautomatic and fired into the ceiling, the men left the room without protest. When one of the women tried to leave with the men, he started shooting into the group of women.

In the next 20 minutes, until he shot himself, Mark Lepine entered two other classrooms and the cafeteria, shooting a total of 27 people and killing 14.

From his statements in the first classroom, his history, and his suicide note, we know that the women were killed not just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, not even just because they were women, but because they were women who dared to attempt a "man's job", who dared to be intelligent and competent.

We hold the memorial because, as women in engineering ourselves, we do not want the event forgotten - or repeated.

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