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<div align="left">There are two events that you should be aware of.
First, we would like to remind you of the <b><i><span
style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="EN-GB">Anthropology
Silver Medal and Sal Weaver Awards. </span></i></b>Please view the
official invite for the silver medal awards below.<br>
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<p>Secondly The Anthropology society would like to invite you to an
informal Halloween get together to be held on Monday October 31st
starting at 7PM. Come in costume!!<br>
Potential activities: <br>
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<blockquote>Pumpkin carving (good practise for forensics)<br>
Movie watching (cultural observation)<br>
Candy consumption (studying release of endorphins)<br>
<b>Be</b>v<b>er</b>age consumption (ritualistic)<br>
Games<br>
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RSVP for the secret location. (Near Uptown)<br>
Warning" Canus Domesticus will be present.1<br>
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="EN-GB">Department
</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="EN-GB">of Anthropology<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="EN-GB">University of Waterloo<o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="EN-GB">invites you to <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="EN-GB">The Anthropology
Silver Medal and Sal Weaver Awards</span></i></b><span
style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">at 4:00 p.m. on Friday,
October 28, 2005 in AL 105<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">Guest speaker will be </span><b><span
style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="EN-GB">Dr. Marcel Danesi </span></b><span
style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">from The University
of Toronto</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><br>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">His lecture is entitled</span><i><span
style="font-size: 17pt;" lang="EN-GB">:<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span
style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="">A</span></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB">The
X-Factor: <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span
style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB">The
Unconscious Power of Pictograph in Pop Culture</span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="">@</span></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Shruti;mso-ascii-font-family:
Shruti;mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>ADVANCE \d4</span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Shruti;mso-ascii-font-family:
Shruti;mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB">Everything
from movies to sports names are being named, marketed, and
conceptualized with
the same twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet</span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="">C</span></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB">the
letter </span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="">A</span></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB">X.</span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="">@</span></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB"> There</span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="">=</span></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB">s
Nissan</span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="">=</span></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB">s
X-Terra model; there are X-treme sports; there</span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="">=</span></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB">s the movie
action hero </span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="">A</span></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB">Triple
X;</span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="">@</span></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="EN-GB"> there
are XXX movies; and the list could go and on. The letter X has become
synonymous with youth, danger, and all the X-citing things that our
modern
culture makes available (pun intended). But is that all there is to
this
simple, yet apparently powerful, sign? This lecture will look at the
meanings
of X as used in pop culture and advertising as a template for
evaluating modern
society. </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Shruti;"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span>Following
the talk and presentation of the
Silver Medal, a Reception will follow in PAS<span style=""> </span>3005,<span
style="">
</span>5:00-6:30, at which the Anthropology Section will announce the
2005
winner of<span style=""> </span>the <i><span style=""> </span>Sal
Weaver Memorial Tuition Scholarship</i> in
honour of our late colleague and friend,<span style=""> </span>Sal
Weaver, who taught in the Anthropology
Department for over 25 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 13pt;"
align="center"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 13pt;"
align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="EN-GB">ALL ARE
WELCOME</span></p>
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