With a reputation as a high-
ly philosophical band, Our
Lady Peace has brought their
fans a new piece of work to

soos CHEW ON.
2 Only 14 months after releas-
=a ing Happiness... ls Not A Fish
i That You Can Catch, Our
@ Lady Peace is Already begin-

Our Lady Peace
Spiritual Machines

Columbia/Sony

#2 Spiritual Machines. In
ez between the two releases,
= Our Lady Peace scarcely
took a break. Two Canadian

= USA, as well as appearances
at events including the Much
Music Video Awards and

Junos, Webchats
and...READING.

Arguably, if it wasn’t for the
reading, Spiritual Machines
wouldn’t exist. Mike originally
began reading Ray Kurzweil’s
book “The Age of Spiritual
Machines - When Computers
Exceed Human Intelligence,”
a book which describes “a
world where the line between
humanity and technology
fades, and the computer ulti-
mately becomes our teacher,
companion and lover in a blur
of man meets machine.”

Mike’s energy eventually led
to Raine’s interest in the book

and the rest is history, with
Jeremy and Duncan absorb-
ing the concepts of Kurzweil
vicariously through _ their
bandmates. Spiritual
Machines evidents a number
of concepts found in
Kurzweil’s theories.

Raine himself explains,
“Lyrically, this album is about
finding the spirituality within
ourselves...the lyrics focus
upon how people tend to treat
each other as machines in
our day-to-day life.”

Kurzweil undoubtedly lit the
creative spark for Spiritual
Machines (he even reads

from his book in a few tracks),
but don’t let the potential
deepness of the lyrics deter
you from thinking that this
album is different from previ-
ous Our Lady Peace albums.
The token melancholy trade-
mark of Our Lady Peace is
still present with the careful
and confined presence of all
the original characteristics of
Our Lady Peace. This is an
album for former Our Lady
Peace lovers and for anyone
who is still left in the category
of those who haven't listened
yet.

A New
Hope

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you are busy or many of them
will cease to exist along with
their services. But more
importantly I’m tired of being
only one of five monkeys.

The University senate has
just approved a new bache-
lors degree program in
teacher education. The pro-
gram now must still be
approved by the British
Columbia College of
Teachers, the provincial gov-
ernment, and the UNBC
Board of governors. It is
hoped that the program will
accept its first students in the
Fall of 2002. The program will
hope to meet to the shortage
forecasted the last year by the
Ministry of Education estimat-

Colleen O’Grady
News Editor

So you want to be
a Teacher?

ed to happen in 2005. Paul
Madak the UNBC chair of
Education stated that, “We’ve
seen how a shortage of
skilled professionals can
affect our health system and
we want to make sure that we
have a program in place
ready to meet the. future
demand for school teachers
in the North” The program will
have northern and _ first
nations emphasis and will be

offered as well in two of the |

satellite campuses.

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