Re:UWCSC (Score 1)

Calum T. Dalek is the permanent honourary head of Waterloo's CSC. They needed a name to put on the ACM charter, and given that the composition of the CSC changes every four months (ain't co-op grand?) figured that one would do. He is the voice of the CSC. Mr. Mariani served on the executive of the CSC for a few terms during his undergrad career, so the fine dalek is drawing attention to a distinguished alumnus.

There were a few female members in the CSC when I was at Waterloo ('81-'87). Certainly not many, but a few. The CSC was a microcosm of folks fitting within the hacker culture described by esr in The New Hacker's Dictionary. And there were enough women in the math faculty that one CSC member cracked, "It's harder to find a free terminal in this building than a date for Saturday night!".

CSC members without other affiliations weren't as despised as WATSFIC (Waterloo Science Fiction Club) members or mathNEWS editors. But then, the truly cool are always misunderstood, sometimes even by themselves.