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LettersJan. 821, 2009

An open letter to the FGPS

DEAR EXECUIVE COMMIEE o the Fac-ulty o Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies,

Your membership on the Executive Com-mittee o the Faculty o Graduate and Postdoc-toral Studies shows that you are committed toupholding the academic values that sustain

reedom o inquiry, reedom o expression, andproessional independence in the academic en-

vironment. Your presumed commitment willsoon be tested.

You are being asked to take part in an egre-gious, unprecedented, and indeensible viola-tion o these academic values. How you proceedwill indelibly, and publicly, refect upon not onlyyour committee but upon each one o you as in-dividuals. You will soon be evaluating my super-

visory skills or the direction o graduate thesesin my discipline.

Your evaluation is proceeding in the absenceo any student complaints about my supervisoryskills and in the ace o unanimous student testi-mony to the contrary, in the context o a recog-nized and productive multidisciplinary NaturalSciences and Research Council o Canada-und-

ed scientic research group. Te exercise o thepresent review has been an egregious violationo academic norms and an indeensible attackagainst academic reedom.

Since your committee is the nal authority inthe matter o my membership review, I ask thatyou answer these simple procedural questions:

1. What are the criteria or e valuating the su-

pervisory skills o a ull proessor and active re-searcher with several graduate students?

2. What are the criteria or involuntary termi-nation o such a proessors privilege to super-

vise graduate students?3. What are the precedents, i any, o active

ull proessors being terminated on the basis oinsu cient supervisory skill s?

4. Which o the criteria were obtained in theprecedent cases, i any?

Tese are the relevant questions in a air andtransparent process.

I ask to be heard at your committee meeting andI suggest that you enquire about all the documentsthat have been excluded rom consideration in theprevious committee despite my requests.

Denis RancourtPhysics professor

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by Megan OMearaFulcrum Staf

A A CIY Council meeting on Dec.8, ollowing months o presentationsand lobbying eforts by representa-tives rom the University o Ottawaand the Student Federation o the Uni-

versity o Ottawa (SFUO) in avour oa universal bus pass or students, Ot-tawas city councillors amended theproposed $125 cost o the potentialU-Pass to an inated price o $194.

According to the SFUOs Decem-ber bulletin, this meeting was heldwithout student representation. TeSFUO had planned to attend a Dec.10 meeting to witness the citys deci-sion but were surprised to hear thatcouncillors had already made up theirminds days beore.

We were not given any notication

that they were going to do that, saidSFUO President Dean Haldenby. Hadwe been [aware], we would have beenthere in orce. It disappoints me thatthey brought it up earlier without noti-ying us, and also that theyve approvedsomething that we dont eel is right.

Te combined eforts o the SFUOand the U o O to establish the U-Passhas been a years-long process, andthose working on the project are notsatised with the citys latest ofer.

Jonathan Rausseo, the U o Ossustainable development coordinatorwho has been involved in the U-Passproject since its early stages, claimedthat the city has not given them clearreasons or the inated price.

Were still looking or the reasonsto make sure that it wasnt a techni-cal error, he said. We spoke to onecouncillor who wasnt exactly surewhat it meant and it hasnt been listedin any minutes rom the budget pro-ceedings yet, so weve been tryingclariy that $194 is the actual pricetheyre [proposing].

Knoxdale-Merivale Ward Council-lor Gord Hunter, who indicated hissupport or the U-Pass but said heonly voted against it or its nancialrepercussions, explained that the $194

number came rom OC ranspo. Hesaid they took into consideration thenancial implications o current rev-enue rom students through tickets,passes, and cash ares, compared to a$125 U-Pass that only ull-time U oO undergraduates would pay into.

Its very important or the contin-uation o the project behind the pilot

project stage that you cost it at theright price point right away, he said.Te suggestion was $125theres no[point] in having that i thats thencosting the city bus company a losso several million dollars in revenue,and we cant aford to sustain that.

A number o councillors at theOct. 15 ransit Committee meeting

had made it clear that makingPass revenue neutral was a pAt that meeting, city represenexplained that a $125 per seU-Pass would potentially coranspo and the City o Ottawmillion, although the committed up supporting the pilot proj

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by Jolene Hanselland Emma GodmereFulcrum Staf

UNIVERSIY OF OAWA studentsliving of-campus and away rom thedowntown core have returned romthe holiday break to nd the same sit-uation they experienced during De-cember exams: no OC ranspo busesdriving down any city roads.

Te city o Ottawa has been withoutbuses since Dec. 10, and thousands o

students must continue to cope withan absence o transit services or atleast the rst week o second semesterclasses. In an efort to help studentsmake their way to campus or the rstour days o classes, the U o O andthe Student Federation o the Univer-sity o Ottawa (SFUO) have reinstatedthe hourly shuttle service that was inplace or much o the exam period.

Right now, whats conrmed isthat the shuttle will go on [rom Jan.]69, and the reason or putting thisshuttle in place was to accommodatestudents as they come back or thenew session, said Gisele Charlebois,assistant director or the Parking and

Sustainable ransportation Divisionat the U o O. Aer that, or the timebeing, there will be no additionalshuttle ollowing [Jan.] 9.

According to the Parking andSustainable ransportation Divisionsection o the U o O website, noemergency shuttles will continue tobe provided, or the University oOttawa, as any other institution andworkplace, must respect that the OC

ranspo workers are on strike.SFUO President Dean Haldenby

explained that there are still otherpossibilities being considered to helpstudents get to campus aer Jan. 9.

We looked at a couple o optionsbeore we made the decision to putout more buses or the our days, andthe other option was to make it sothat the proessors would adjust in acertain way to not having the students

in the classroom and using technol-ogy to our advantage, he said. Tatis still an option, should the vote ail,so were open to that and the univer-sitys open to that as well.

Te over 2,000 members o Amal-gamated ransit Union Local 279the union that represents OC ranspodrivers, mechanics, and dispatchersare obligated to vote on the latest othe citys contract proposals by Jan. 9,

adhering to a Dec. 31 ederal gment decision to orce a vote.

ransit workers o cially wstrike shortly aer midnight o10six days into the U o Operiodaer contract talks down, primarily over schechanges or drivers that were rproposed by the City o Ottaw

While Haldenby pointed ohe wants to see an agreement rsooner rather than later, he inthat the SFUO is in supportstriking union.

Ultimately, we want to see anment [between both sides]. Howe are a union and we do supptransit union, he said. We see tthat the City o Ottawa has treand it wouldnt be highly unlikthis is the same type o manntheyre treating the AU memb

ultimately, we want to see anment come out o it, but we wmake sure that its the right theveryone involved.

Charlebois indicated thatshuttle service will not be contaer Jan. 9, several parking campus are ofering reducedor students wishing to driveuniversity, and those reducedwill be maintained throughostrike period.

For more inormation about thgency shuttles ofered by the unvisit protection.uottawa.ca/en/shuttles.html.

No buses in back-to-school commuteSFUO supportsstriking transit

union as additionalshuttles are oferedor rst week back

City rejects U-Pass, SFUO rejects cityCouncillors amend

proposed pilot

project cost to

$194 per semester

The Campus bus station has seen no passengers nor buses since the transit strike began on Dec. 10.photo by Martha Pearce

illustration by Alex

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by Amanda ShendrukFulcrum Staf

JOB PROSPECS FOR the class o2009 may not be as dismal as a risingnational unemployment rate and a re-cent increase in layofs suggests.

With 71,000 Canadian jobs cut inNovember66,000 o those in On-tario aloneupcoming graduates arele wondering whether or not the jobmarket will take them in.

Tere will be jobs, assured AnneMarkey, executive director o the Ca-nadian Association o Career Edu-cators and Employers. Will they beeasy to nd? Will they be exactly whatgraduating students want, or will it bein the location they want? Maybe not,but there will be jobs.

Recruitment agencies in Ontario

have seen an increase o new appli-cations ollowing massive job cuts inboth the manuacturing and the ser-

vice sectors.Absolutely there has been an in-

crease in the number o candidateslooking or something else, saidPierrette Brousseau, owner o the Ot-

tawa ranchise o Hunt Personnel, anational permanent and temporaryemployment agency.

She sees very ew applications romrecent post-secondary graduates,however. A lot o students end up

getting jobs in their elds, so theydont require our services, she said.Even beore the global nancial

crisis, which suraced in September2008, companies have consistentlyhired recent graduates, explainedDavid Rodas-Wright, coordinator oemployer relations at the Student Ac-

ademic Success Service (SASS) careercentre at the University o Ottawa.

Tere are companies out there,especially some o the big companies,[or whom] its not as much money tohire new talent as it is to maintain se-

nior talent, he said. So they continueto look or new graduates.Hiring young people also serves as

a way to reresh and renew the ace oa corporation, according to Rodas-Wright.

Companies across the countryseem to be conrming that asser-

tiondespite economic di culties ,many have maintained or even in-creased hiring rates.

Were not cutting back at all onhiring, said Louisa esta, executiveassistant at Ottawas Investors Group,

a nancial planning company. Actu-ally, weve hired more in the last ewyears than in the past.

Te Public Service Commission,the ederal government branch thatsupervises post-secondary recruit-ment, has also recently increased hir-ing o recent graduates.

Te economic situation sehave afected recruitment in teral public service in an inteway: post-secondary recruitmin act increased since last yeaMarilyne Guvrement, manamedia relations at the Public Commission.

In November 2008, MilleResearch Group, Ernst & You

Bank, and BP Canada Energyassured Globe and Mailreaderarticle about job prospects thwould not be scaling back poondary recruitment eforts.

On-campus career airsthO ofers nine in the 200809yearprovide efective mpoints or employers and stude

I got a ew replies rom comsaying given this current econouation they [would not be] paring this year, said Alain Boudthe eler School o Managemelic Relations and Career Serviceit hasnt afected too much so a

Te U o Os all public secreer air was its largest ever.

We saw an excellent turnouRodas-Wright.He also noted that SASSs a

engineering and high-tech carwas increased to a two-day eventrst time, with nearly every spot

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Upcoming recruitment airs maybe more afected by the economicdownturn than those in the all, butas Boudreau explains, there is no wayto know how each organization willreact.

It really depends on the company,he said.

Rodas-Wright has no-ticed that, in general, smallercompanies have been mostafected.

We actually just learnedtoday that [the Ottawa Cen-tre or Research and Innova-tion (OCRI) career air] hasbeen cancelled or 2009, hesaid. Te air eatures smallto medium-sized technology com-panies, each employing between 100and 150 people, who told organizersthat due to economic di culties theywouldnt be hiring in the upcomingyear.

Although SASS assures studentsthat corporate registration has re-mained steady or upcoming U o Ocareer airs and that companies arenot drastically limiting recruitment,they warn that the job search is not

a guaranteed walk in the park or stu-dents.

Even without this economic situ-ation, [the market] is competitive. Its

very hard to, right out o university,get that rst job i you have no ex-perience, said SASS career and em-ployment counsellor Marie Mitsou.I always tell people its not just yourdegree, its what you do during yourdegree that is going to make the di-erence.

Mitsou recommends getting ex-perience beore graduating by nd-

ing degree-related part-time work, volunteering on or of campus, orparticipating in intern or co-op pro-grams.

Markey also recommends gettinginvolved in areas outside o academ-ics beore graduation as a means ogetting a step-up in the competitive

job market.I youre graduating this year,

maybe its going to be tougher. Butwhat you can do or students that

are not graduating this year [is] takeadvantage o every work opportunitythat you can as part o your program,she said. Should [students] be con-

cerned? Should they be starting theirjob search early? Should they be tak-ing advantage o every opportunity tomeet an employer on campus? Abso-lutely.

Students hoping to take advantageo internship and co-op opportunitiesduring their academic careers may inact benet rom the economic down-turn.

What oen happens intough economic times is thatthe number o positions orco-op and intern studentsincreases, said Markey, ex-plaining that employers al-ways have tasks that need tobe accomplished, but duringtough economic times arereluctant to commit to hiringpermanent employees.

According to the Bank o Canada,the nations economy should recoverby 2010. In the meantime, graduatesshouldnt panic.

I think students need to pay closeattention to whats going on, saidRodas-Wright. But certainly wewouldnt recommend that they jumpinto an employment opportunity justor the sake o having a job. Tere [arestill] opportunities ofered or a lot odisciplines.

For more information about careerservices and fairs at the U of O, visitsass.uottawa.ca/careers. illustrations by Alex

Will [jobs] be easy to find? Will

they be exactly what graduating

students want? Maybe not, but

there will be jobs.Anne Markey,

executive director of the Canadian Associationof Career Educators and Employers

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MORE HAN HREE weeks have passedsince the disappearance o Robert Fowler,64, a United Nations envoy and senior el-low with the University o Ottawas Gradu-ate School o Public and International A-airs, and there remain no concrete leadsconcerning his whereabouts.

Fowler, who retired rom public servicein 2006 aer a ca-reer lasting nearly40 years, has beenmissing since Dec.14along withCanadian diplo-mat Louis Guayand their driverwhen their car wasound abandoned

on the roadsidenear Nigers capi-tal, Niamey. Teormer CanadianAmbassador to theUN rom 1995 to2000who wasalso a oreign poli-cy adviser to primeministers Pierrerudeau, Johnurner, and BrianMulroneyhad been named special en-

voy to Niger in July 2008 by UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon.

[Te university] actually [went] to or-eign afairs and told them that o coursewe are standing by to do anything we can

to help, said U o O President Allan Rock,who also once held the position o Cana-dian ambassador to the UN, our years a-ter Fowler.

Ive spoken with the UN mission inNew York as well, continued Rock, whomaintains strong connections with theUN. Teyre working very hardin act,theyre working around the clock andthrough the holiday on this, both in [the

Canadian Department o] Foreign A-airs and in New York at the UN mission.I dont think theres much we can do, butI just want to make it clear that i theresanything that we could do, wed be happyto help [in] any way we can.

Robert Asselin, assistant director orthe School o Public and International A-airs, explained that most senior ellows atthe university are retired public servantsand ormer diplomats who give lecturesand speak on panels at the request o the

school. Asselin indi-cated that Fowler hasbeen an esteemedmember o the U oO community orover a year.

Hes quite an as-set or us because hesone o the ew thatserved abroad, as

ambassador [to] theUN, he said. Also,he was a deputy min-ister at National De-ence, which makeshim quite specialbecause [there arent]many diplomats whohave also deence ormilitary experience.

Don Hubert, anassociate proessor at

the school, also highlighted Fowlers valueto the university.

I think hes one o the more active othe senior ellows, he said. Certainly,whenever Im looking or something orhave a question, he responds quickly and

stops by requently.Fowler was in Niger to explore the pos-

sibility o peace talks between the Nigergovernment and rebels rom a semi-no-madic minority group known as uaregs.Te uareg region o Niger has been ina state o emergency since August 2007when the Niger Movement or Justice, auareg-led rebel group, took up arms aerthe government sectioned of portions o

the region or uranium mining.A splinter group o the uaregs move-

ment, the Front des Forces de Redresse-ment (FFR), rst claimed responsibilityor the kidnapping and then denied it, u-elling conusion over who may have cap-tured Fowler and his companions. Sincethe disappearance, Canadas Departmento Foreign Afairs has been working withthe UN and the government o Niger tosecure Fowlers return. Te governmentsays that it is cooperating with the UN insearching or Fowler, though urareg-ledrebel groups claim that the government isagainst the peace talks and may also be a

suspect in the kidnapping.Hes really quite a remarkable diplomat,

one o our best, said Rock. Were all veryconcerned about him, and at the same timeoptimistic because hes so knowledgeableabout the issues, about the people, aboutthe parties, and the dynamics. [I theres]anybody who can handle himsel in thiskind o di cult, complex situation, itsBob Fowler.

[If theres]anybody who can

handle himselfin this kind of

difficult, complexsituation, its Bob

Fowler.Allan Rock,

U of O President

U of O senior fellowstill missing in Niger

Robert Fowler has been missing sinceDec. 14.

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SFUO Board o Administration directHorton, who has also been involved withPass or over two years, noted in an emOC ranspo seemed to have based thiprice on old data.

City Councils reason or the $194 psomewhat hazy. Tey were inormed ranspo that $198 was the only price threvenue-neutral, but approved $194, exHorton.

Tis was based upon 2003 numbers, more recent 2008 studies by the [U o O ratation Demand Management] and Sustaidepartments showing this to be incorrect.

Te SFUO is in power when it comescepting or rejecting the citys proposaresults o the 2008 reerendum essentiallthe pass to be $125 or not be introducedthe SFUO will be unable to accept this oany other that is above $125 without holdother reerendum.

Haldenby shot down any possibility oerendum in the near uture.

At this point, we are not going back erendum at $195; thatd be an insult to odents, he said.

Compared to current universal bus pain universities across Canada, even the o$125 would be the most expensive in thetry. Te citys proposed cost o $194 woapproximately triple the national average

SFUO VP Communications Julie Sg

plained that the SFUO and the universound through their analysis that $125 wbenecial or both parties.

It was proven in the analysis that wathat at $125 students would save a lot o and so would OC ranspo, because enothe people who get a U-Pass dont usemuch so they would get their moneys too.

Rausseo added that he believes the strcost the OC ranspo its riders. He hopthis will help the SFUOs cause since the will encourage more students to use publsit and help boost ridership.

A program like this puts people on guaranteed, so that might be a nice way city to be able to bring their [riders] bagarner a bit o goo dwill with the rest o th

said Rausseo.Haldenby was also optimistic, indicat

belie that the city will ultimately pass thproject at $125 sometime in the uture.

Eventually the city will come to the reathat this is the proper way to go and that swant a air price or their universal bus pawell get that, Im condent, he said.

Vote of confidence

So this is the new year, and I think it can be different

Emma GodmereNews EditorIS BE EN EIGH months since I o ciallytook over this job. I may not be nished yet,but I eel theres already so much that this posi-tion and the responsibility that tags along withit have taught me.

One o the most meaningul elements o thisnews section, to me, is relevance. A story onlyreally matters i it strikes a chord with the read-er. It seems that many o the same issues havecome up over and over again, and have perhapsle readersand even writerseeling smoth-ered and uninterested in unortunately redun-dant ongoing stories.

While many o my hours were dedicated to

much-needed sleep over the winter break, I stilltook some time to think about improvement,

since thats what most New Years resolutions areconcerned with. But instead o the typical sel-improvement, I thought about changing thissection or the better. A new semester brings aclean slate or many in the U o O community,and I think the Fulcrums news section can ben-et rom the same sort o thing.

Ive used this space to speak several timesabout being both aware and inormed, perhapswithout properly ofering the stories, proles,and conversations that should be present in anews section to invite a reader to actually be-come inormed and aware about the university,the campus, and Ottawa.

So Im appealing to you, readers.Being a university student normally means

being passionate about something, or even sev-eral things. Our campus, I eel, is one o themost diverse in terms o the variety o outletsstudents have created and ound to share theirinterests. I believe the Fulcrum can and shouldbe one o these outlets.

Im opening up the oor. I want to hear romyou about what you think we have missed inthe past several months, and what you wantto see in these pages. I want to hear rom youabout what you want to see on your campus. Iwant to hear rom you about what you think

people should be talking about, listening to, ortaking action against, and why its just not hap-

pening yet.Te news section shouldnt just be about stu-

dent politics and the university administration.Tis campus is ull o signicant issues, and notall o them are so easily visible all o the time.Its important to dig deeper and start thinkingabout the tens o thousands o individuals onthis campus. You can talk about student debt,but what about the students who cant afordood, and must use the student-run ood bank?You can talk about accessibility, but what aboutthe student whose ees go toward gym serviceseven though they wont have the opportunityto use the acilities? You can talk about the Stu-dent Federation o the University o Ottawa orthe Graduate Students Association, but whatabout the hundreds o smaller clubs and com-munities that are taking even more signicantaction on our campus?

Its a new year, and with it comes a new o-cus or your weekly news. I invite you to emailor call me with your suggestions or your newssection. Whether you want to shed light onsomething through writing or make sure weshed the light or you, drop me a line.

Its a new year. ry something new. Start bywriting to the Fulcrum.

news@thefulcrum.ca613-562-5260

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Arts & CultureJan. 821, 2009

Peter HendersonArts & Culture Editor

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by Peter HendersonFulcrum Staf

AR AND SCIENCE dont usually mix, but lo-cal artist Matthew Kennedy bridges the dividebetween empiricism and creativity. Kennedy isa painter and visual artist who just nished hismasters degree in Biomechanics at the Univer-sity o Ottawa, and he enjoys exploring both thehard science o anatomy and the imaginative ex-pression o his artwork.

I love having the balance o both o them,Kennedy says. Its a relie. I I was ully sub-merged in either culture, it would be sufocat-ing, but being able to it rom one to the other isreally rereshing.

Kennedys artwork will be shown at two ex-hibitions, one at Ca Nostalgica (603 Cumber-land St.) rom Jan. 531, and another at NormlClothing (184 Rideau St.) rom Jan. 12Feb.8. He has been drawing since his youth, andquickly ound that art was his perect creativeoutlet.

Way back, as a little kid, I used to drawmake little worlds with my buddies, Kennedyexplains. A big part o my childhood was draw-ing and making up creative worlds. With paint-ing, I started that up in high school. I loved it,and Ive been doing it ever since.

Kennedy primarily paints and sketches, buthas dabbled in sculpture as well. His paintingsare mostly oil or acrylic on canvas. O the two

media, Kennedy preers the exibility and or-giveness o oil.

One o the pros o oil is how long it takesto dry, he says. You have a lot more time toplay with it and blend the colours together. Telength o time oil takes to dry is awesome andallows or a lot o potential, but it can be rus-trating. For the show at [Ca] Nostalgica, Imnot entirely sure i two o my most recent oneswill be entirely dry. I just hope no one pushes inand [touches] one.

Unlike some artists who stick with one styleor theme, Kennedys work varies rom the bi-zarrely surreal to the conventional. He has cre-ated landscapes in the classic style o the Groupo Seven, as well as otherworldly explorations oheaven and hell that have more in common withthe work o Spanish master Francisco Goya orTe Matrix.

I think it probably just comes rom havinga wide variety o interests, Kennedy explains.In terms o learning the basic, general ru les orpainting or drawing, [aerwards] I think it be-comes possible to play with them a little bit. Youknow how to play with [art] a little bit, and stillhave the outcome be airly aesthetically pleas-ing.

Kennedys masters in Biomechanics and hisundergraduate degree in Human Kinetics, alsorom the U o O, provide him with a knowledgeo anatomy that comes through in his lie-likegures and realistic portraits.

Anatomy courses and just dealing with thehuman body really helped me, Kennedy says.When you know whats going on inside thebody and underneath the skin, its a lot easierto show it on the outside. Once you know theoundation, the units that make up the body,its a lot easier to contort the body into diferentcongurations.

Kennedy held his rst exhibition in 2004, a-ter taking a year of school to travel and develophis artistic skills.

I lived in South Carolina or ve months,and that gave me an opportunity to try paint-ing. Tat was the rst time I got a body o worktogether, and then I had my rst show.

Tis time of allowed Kennedy to develop anextensive portolio, and his artwork began tosell. Much o his work these days is commis-sioned, but he enjoys the challenge o creating apiece o art or a client.

A lot o the stuf has been paintings that Ivedone that people have liked and bought, he ex-plains. But the majority has been people askingspecically or [something]. Sometimes its gen-eral, like a landscape or music-themed painting.Its actually kind o un when theres [guide-lines]. When its just an open-ended theme thatI already nd interesting, I like that. It pointsme in a direction, and I can use quite a bit oartistic reedom. It can be challenging, but in agood way.

Kennedy isnt immersed in the artistic com-

munity in Ottawa, mostly due to his acobligations. Te two exhibitions at Normling and Ca Nostalgica came about thsel-promotion, but Kennedy hopes to his portolio and expose as many people sible o his art.

[Getting publicity comes rom] around, going around, showing my poat [diferent] places. Its been really hardthat during school. Not only is it opposin terms o [balancing] science and arts,

very time-consuming. Its hard to get a bwork together, especially when youre things here and there.

Kennedys paintings arent the only thwants to develop, however. His plans orture include other orms o artistic exprincludingoddly enoughchildrens bo

Im really interested in the possibwriting some childrens stories, KennedAnd doing some Dr. Suess-on-acid itions; maybe not quite that extreme, butthing where its really imaginative. Terno real boundariesyou can do whatevwant. I think its really important, especa childrens book setting, in terms o oimagination.

Imagination is something that Kennedyspades, and it coexists peaceully with hication to the lie sciences. Kennedy provthe disparate worlds o art and science aresome would claim, mutually exclusive.

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IN A YEAR that saw the overdue return o classic bands like Guns NRoses and the Eagles, and a great selection o new bands like VampireWeekend and Fleet Foxes, there were fve albums that rose above the restto make the grade as the Fulcrums best albums o 2008.

Beck Modern Guilt

Becks best album in a decade suers onlyrom one thingits length. Clocking in at

just over 30 minutes long,Modern Guilts10 short tracks leave listeners wantingmore. Te material shows a reinvigo-rated Beck merging the weird, signaturesounds o his 1996 classic Odelay with thequieter vibe o 1998sMutations, demon-strating more strength and confdencethan ever beore. Tis is especially evi-dent on the spy-theme-sounding Gamma Ray and the reverb-drenchedChemtrails, both o which are based on his classic, genre-transcendingunk-olk sounds but create something new without stretching too aroutside his comort zone. Both lyrically and musically, Beck is doing whathe does best on Modern Guilt. Unlike 2006s Te Information, he doesnt

sound like hes on autopilot.

Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs

Reining in the introspective vibe o ear-lier albums like 2005s Plans and turningup the volume, Death Cab or Cutie hasmade their best album to date with Nar-row Stairs. Its not a complete reinven-tion, just the sound o musical growth asthe band enters their 11th year together.Songs like Pity and Fear and Te Iceis Getting Tinner provide deeper, morecomplex instrumentation and melodies than previous Death Cab songs,and the album as a whole sounds more mature and laid-back, best evi-denced in the lead single I Will Possess Your Heart. Troughout the al-bum, singer and lead songwriter Ben Gibbard sounds less sel-righteousand juvenile, and Death Cab has never sounded better.

Lil Wayne Ta Carter III

With Kanye West abandoning hip-hopand making an album that sounds likehes singing into a an, and most otherrap releases sounding like sub-par Va-nilla Ice records, the genre had to fnd anew poster child. Enter Lil Wayne withTa Carter III, one o the best-selling

albums o the year and one o 2008s most critically acclaimed discs.Combining creative rhymes and a messy but catchy soundas well asboasting guest-stars like Jay-Z and Busta RhymesTa Carter IIIis theonly great hip-hop album o 2008. With production help rom the likeso Dr. Dre and Kanye West, Lil Wayne cras a hip-hop style that is trulyhis own. His hectic, ree-orm style o rhyming fts perectly over bothbass-heavy club anthems and laid-back grooves, both o which are in

ample supply on Ta Carter III. Wayne doesnt ocus on the s tereotypicalhip-hop ideas o women and money, and doesnt emulate the sounds hispeers make: A Milli is built rom a clipped vocal track instead o drumsamples, or example. Ta Carter IIIis a shot in the arm or a genre thatthreatened to stagnate this year.

Coldplay Viva La Vida, or Death and All His Friends

Coldplay became one o the worlds best-selling bands with 2002sA Rush of Bloodto the Head. In 2005 the band returnedwith X&Y, a polished, radio-riendly al-bum that lacked all o their earlier origi-nality. With Viva La Vida, or Death and

All His Friends, rontman Chris Martinand the boys have made an album thatsnot as catchy and poppy asX&Y, but theybring in so many new sounds and subtle

textures that it results in a much better al-bum. On songs like Lost and 42, the band revels in eastern inuences,and an art-rock sound is present throughout the album thats reminiscento the inuential 1970s English band Roxy Music. Tis is to be expected,as Roxy Music keyboardist and genius producer Brian Eno producedthis album. Viva La Vida still sounds like Coldplay, but theyve gone pastthe basic piano + drums + emotions = airplay sound and have createdsomething that sounds triumphant, complex, and or the frst time since1999s Parachutes, honest.

Al Green Lay It Down

Its been a long time since his heyday inthe 1970s and Al Green has never quitetopped love songs like his 70s hits LetsStay ogether or ake Me o Te River.However, Green, with the help o drum-mer and producer ?uestlove, returned tothe oreront o R&B, outshining modern

pretenders like Ne-Yo and -Pain andmaking the best album o 2008. Its classicGreen, but it doesnt eel orced or nos-talgic. His smooth, seductive tenor voicehasnt changed a bit and the music has the classic 70s unk-gospel eel, butit sounds wiserits still sensual but theres a spiritual undertone in boththe lyrics and in the sound o the album, most evident on songs like ooMuch and the title track. Tis album is an excellent, i not surprising,return to orm by a legend.

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by Hisham KelatiFulcrum Staf

2008 WAS A challenging year ormovies. Piracy and the nancial cri-sis threatened worldwide box-o ce

receipts, which dropped or the rsttime in three years. Quality didntsufer, though, and these ve lms re-minded us why we go see movies inthe rst place.

Gran orino

Gran orino is an old-ashioned taleo redemption. Clint Eastwood di-rects and stars as the curmudgeonlyand racist Walt Kowalski, a KoreanWar vet and retired auto workerwho inds himsel pulled into theunlikely role o ather igure to theAsian teenagers living next door.Eastwood directs the movie beauti-ully, with scenes lowing into one

another easily in a minimalist style.he script explores themes o racismand violence in a mature and intel-ligent way, and Eastwoods Kowal-ski is a sight to behold. No one elsecould growl Get o my lawn! withthe same menace. Eastwood mixesequal parts Dirty Harry grit and

Million Dollar Baby tenderness intoan instant classic.

Rachel Getting Married

Tis lm should have been called

Disaster Movie. Rachel Getting Mar-riednds Kym (Anne Hathaway), anaddict recently released rom rehabwho descends like a hurricane onto

her sisters wedding, unleashing in-discriminate emotional destructionon her amily. Te awkward tensionand incoherent screaming betweenthe amily members, as well as themasterul perormances by the cast,cause an emotional audience reac-tion that strikes close to home oranyone whose amily isnt perect.As or Hathaway, shes denitely ma-tured as an actress since her timesas a Disney star. Shes brilliant here,playing a nearly irredeemable wretchlike no one else in her generationcould.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

What happens when you mix toilethumour with heartbreak? Te an-swer is the unconventional love storyForgetting Sarah Marshall. Peter Bret-ter (Jason Segel) is unceremoniouslydumped by his V-actress girlriend,the titular Sarah Marshall (KristenBell). He attempts to recuperate by

vacationing in Hawaii, only to bumpinto Marshall and her British lothariorock-star boyriend (Russell Brand).With a cast that has bullseye comicdelivery and a lead actor who playsheartbreak with relative ease, whatcould have been a childish and im-mature waste o two hours is a genu-inely romantic comedy. But the truemajesty o the movie is the scene-stealing British comedian Brand, who

perorms with a maniacal grin on hisace and a pocketul o insanely unnymonologues.

Te Curious Case ofBenjamin Button

Benjamin Button is a baby with a

strange alictionhe was born oldand grows younger. he ilm ol-lows Benjamin through his back-ward lietime, which is centeredon the complex love story betweenthe adult Button (Brad Pitt) andhis long-time riend Daisy (CateBlanchett). heir relationship iscontinually tested by the chang-ing times and Buttons strange bio-logical law. Moving rom the early

1920s to 2005, the ilm explores theissues o each decade through thelens o the on-again, o-again cou-ple, including war, racism, and cul-tural revolution. he story is simplebut deep, and he Curious Case ofBenjamin Button is a truly epic lovestory thats worth every moment.

Te Dark Knight

Te years greatest movie is a sethe antastic Batman Begins, wrector Christopher Nolan returthe helm. Te Dark Knightdelvdeeper into the twisted mind o (Christian Bale), by having hion his greatest enemy, the JokerLedger). Te Jokers utter lack o rand the joy he eels at watching

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Peter HendersonArts & Culture Editor

HE NEW YEAR is a time or renewal, reju-venation, and rebirth, and Im proud to see myavourite city embracing some o that New Yearspirit. Ottawas back, baby, and its arts and cul-ture scene is here to kick ass and ride the busbut were all out o buses.

My six months o experience as arts & cultureeditor have given me great hope or Ottawascultural uture. In that time, the city has seenthe birth o a new, permanent theatre companyat the Gladstone Teatre to replace the GreatCanadian Teatre Company, who moved to theIrving Greenberg Teatre Centre; the fowering

o an art scene that was celebrated at the re-invigorated and well-attended Golden CherryAwards; and the death and resurrection o twoo Ottawas oldest cultural landmarks, Bar-rymores Music Hall and the Mayair Teatre.Tese were just some o the momentous eventso the latter hal o 2008, not including the hugenumber o amazing and engaging shows, galas,and exhibitions that showcased both local and

international talent. Despite its reputation as aboring city, the Ottawa Ive seen is a great cul-tural destination.

Te arts scene in our city is better than ever,not least because the people who care about cul-ture have been orced into community actionby the indiscriminate unding cuts proposed byboth our local and ederal governments. Noth-ing makes a community stronger than havingsomething righteous to believe in and some-thing to ght against. Ottawa (and other artscommunities) came together through Facebookgroups, protests at City Hall and Parliament Hill,and other coordinated political action to opposethe philistines and bean counters who think thatarts unding is a rivolous waste.

Some political pundits have pointed to thearts unding controversy that erupted during

the recent ederal election as the reason StephenHarpers Conservatives did not get the major-ity they hoped or. Canada cares about the arts,whether our politicians think so or not, and byignoring this act those same politicians man-aged to unite thousands o artists and art loversagainst them. Teres nothing like the threat odeath by a thousand cuts to bring a communitytogether.

But Ottawas cultural renaissance requiresmore than just a dedicated community o artists;it requires an audience as well. Te people whoought or a continued artistic presence in thiscity need your help and support, so get o yourass and go support them. Tere are challengingand innovative shows by local artists almost ev-ery Friday night at La Petite Mort Gallery, just ashort walk rom campus at 306 Cumberland St.Te Arts Court at 2 Daly Ave. houses the SAWGallery year-round, and plays host to numeroustravelling arts events. Te Mayair Teatre at1074 Bank St. is back with new programming,including a whole month o James Bond doublebills. Teres live music everywhere you turn inthe ByWard Market, including the Avant GardeBar at 135 Besserer St. and the Live Lounge at126 York St. Tese are just a ew o the many

awesome venues around the U o O camthere has to be something or you.

I you want to get in the know buknow where to start, theatre critic Jessiano, a Masters student at the U o O, pa monthly email and Facebook newsletthighlights many o the upcoming arts around the city. Visit her blog at jesano.wordpress.com, and sign up to get

in your inbox. Unlike the listings in tharts papers, Ruanos newsletter gives cand descriptions or the events. Hell, iup or an adventure, open the listings pthe Xpress, Capital Xtra!, or another lopublication, cover your eyes with oneand randomly pick an event with yourI you avoid the phone sex ads and picksel an Ottawa arts event, I know you wdisappointed.

A ew years ago, most people were calltawa a cultural wasteland. Now its on itsbecoming one o Canadas great cultural cHelp the arts community, Ottawa citiyoure our only hope.

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ORH AMERICAN ANIMAION has come a long way since asinging Snow White bit into the frst echnicolor apple in 1937. Ad-

justed or ination, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has grossedUS$771 million in the United States alone since its release, and is

the 10th-highest grossing flm all-time in North America. A total o eight other

animated eatures are eatured on that list, rom Disneys Pinocchio to modern-day are such as DreamWorks SKGs Shrek 2. Movie-going audiences, youngand old, have always been drawn by animation. Major animation studios suchas Disney Pixar and DreamWorks have consistently tried their best to stay onestep ahead o their ravenous audiences, doing whatever it takes to remain rel-evant while urthering the possibilities o the medium.

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Your grandparents generation

In 1906, Vitagraph Studios introduced NorthAmerica to animation with its flm HumorousPhases of Funny Faces. Shown in stop-motionstyle, the silent three-minute short eatured acartoonist drawing aces on a chalkboard, withthe aces then springing to lie. It amazed audi-ences who had never seen anything like it. Tisnew technology became a viable industry un-der Max Fleischers Fleischer Studios in 1926.Fleischer recognized the audiences attractionto animation. Disney soon ollowed suit andormed animation powerhouse Walt DisneyProductions in 1929.

Cartoons achieved widespread popularityin the early 1940s when animated shorts beganplaying in cinemas beore the main eature, at-tended mainly by adults. Te studios saw theshorts as a surefre way to gain the publics at-tentionand it worked.

Madeleine Levesque, director o originalproductions at V network eletoon, spoke tothe Montreal Gazette in 2005 on the birth o

animation.Historically, animation did not be-gin as a kids genre, she explained.

In her opinion, the short cartoonsrom the Fleischer Studios serve

as the perect example. One

o the studios most endur-ing characters, Betty Boop,made her debut in 1931. A voluptuous cabaret singer

wearing skimpy clothing,Boop was eatured los-ing her top altogether in

Any Rags (1932) and PoorCinderella (1934), expos-ing her bra to cinema-goers. In a cameo appear-ance or the frst Popeyecartoon, Popeye the Sailor

(released by Fleischer Stu-dios in 1933), she was pro-

vocatively drawn wearingonly a lei and a grass skir t.Te Popeye cartoons released

during the same period by Fleis-cher Studios were also o a more adult

nature. Featuring a streetwise lead charac-ter, the Popeye cartoons dealt with workingclass lie.

Te cartoons were able to get away withmore than the live-action eatures becauseanimation was seen as the perect medium tocover grounds deemed too risqu to explore inlive-action flms at the time. As the characterswere merely drawings, studios had more ex-ibility concerning sexual rights and wrongs.

Te U.S. government soon began to takenote o this late-20s trend as Hollywoodgained a reputation as a place o loose morals.When several actors died o drug overdoses,the government quickly stepped in. In 1933,the Hays codenamed aer its architect, Wil-

liam Hays, president o the Motion PictureProducers and Distributors o Americawasimposed on the motion picture industry. Tecode enorced three major (and vague) prin-ciples: no flm should lower moral standardso the viewer, human or natural law shouldnot be violated, and the flm should adhere tocorrect standards o living. Te code specifedrestrictions on nudity and suggestive dancing,as well as the depiction o murder, drug use,and scenes o passion.

Te code was in eect until 1968, when itwas replaced by the Motion Picture Associa-tion o America rating system used in the U.S.

today. Te code caused cartoonists to targeta wider audience by toning down the risqucontent, paving the way or animation o amore wholesome variety.

Snow White emerges

Disney was the frst studio to release a ull-length animated eature in 1937: Snow Whiteand the Seven Dwarfs. In stark contrast to thepopular cartoons released by Fleischer Studios,Snow White was a traditional Brothers Grimmairy tale. In this flm, sexual innuendo andcultural commentary were cast aside. How-ever, renowned animation historian and edi-tor o animation journal Funnyworld, MichaelBarrier, revealed to the Fulcrum that SnowWhite was not solely a childrens flm.

When Snow White was released, it appealedenormously to children, o course, but also toadults, he said. It appeared at a time when mostflms tried to reach a broad and varied audi-ence.

Barrier argued that Snow White was onlyclassifed as childrens areollowing the rise o pre-code adult flms with moreexplicit sex and violence. Inact, Snow White was ratedunsuitable or children in

some places due to the earit evoked during the trans-ormation o the Queen into an old hag andthe awakening o the trees in the orest. EvenBritain had a partial ban on the flm at frstrelease or children under 12. In Sweden, theunedited flm was not released until 1992.

Disneys eort to market their frst eature toa varied audience was wise. Te flm recoupedthe hey cost o the production (US$1.5milliona massive sum or a eature at thetime), and made Disney the undisputed kingo animation. Te studio was even awardedan honorary Academy Award and given onenormal-sized statuette along with seven min-iature ones. Noted flm critic or Te New Yorkimes, Frank S. Nuget, hailed Snow White as acinematic masterpiece.

[Snow White is] as important cinematicallyas the birth o Mickey Mouse I you miss it,youll be missing the 10 best pictures o 1937.

Te disappearing and reappearingmusical fairytale

For 13 years aer Snow White, Walt Disneystruggled to recreate the success o his 1937 hit.Bambi (1942) and Dumbo (1941) were box o-fce ops upon release. Like Snow White, bothflms told the story o a characters struggle inthe ace o di cult circumstances . However, asignifcant dierence was the way in which thestories were toldthey were not musical airytales.

With Cinderella in 1950, Disney made amove back to the ormula that catapulted

them to success. By simply adapting a amil-iar airy tale and thus evoking the approachtaken with Snow White, Disney succeeded inreclaiming its audience. Following the end oWorld War wo in 1945, audiences were crav-ing tales that oered an optimistic message.Cinderella was just the ticket. Te success oCinderella allowed the studio to continue tothrive throughout the 1950s.

By 1959, however, Disney tinkered with theprincess industry they had been creating, a-

vouring style over content with the release oSleeping Beauty in 1959. Upon release, the flmreturned only hal the invested sum o $6 mil-

lion, nearly bankrupting the studio. As Barrierpointed out, the ailure to attract cinemagoerswas due to the flm, and not the airy tale mu-sical ormula that Disney had previously hadsuch success with.

I think the problem was mostly the flm it-sel, he explained. Disney departed rom theSnow White/Cinderella template not by fndingnew ways to tell the story, but by emphasizingits design, the look o the flm.

A 1959 ime article entitled Te New Pic-tures, bashed Disneys eort, claiming, I[Sleeping Beauty] could see what has happenedto her in this ull-length eature cartoon byWalt Disney, [she] would wake up screaming.

Te disaster that was Sleeping Beauty putDisney o animation or some time, when hitslike Te Parent rap in 1961 and Freaky Fri-day in 1974 returned to the conventional flmorm.

While the studio saw a renaissance o themusical airytale with Te Little Mermaid(1989) and Beauty and the Beast (1991), thepublic ound itsel bored with the story o a

distressed maiden. Disney hit an all-time lowwith the release oPocahontas in 1995.

[Disney] got careless and arrogant, as ex-emplifed by the choice o stories such as Poca-hontas and Te Hunchback of Notre Dame thatdemanded a ar more sophisticated treatmentthan they got, explained Barrier. Tey evenmishandled stories that were within their stu-dios capabilities.

Jerry Beck, noted animation historian, or-mer Nickelodeon and Disney executive, andpublished author o several books on anima-tion including Te Animated Movie Guide andTe 50 Greatest Cartoons, spoke with the Ful-crum about Disneys uctuating success ratewith musical airy tales.

[Te Disney studio] was in a rut. Tey didhave a ormula. It was the same thing everyyear, Beck said. Te songs, the musical score,the Happy Meal. No one was really reinvent-ing the feld. Te Hollywood moguls, as muchas they want something amiliar, they wantsomething new and dierent, Beck contin-ued. Tings were getting tired and stale. Youtry something new when youre desperate, andthats what seemed to happen.

Te pixel generation

Te reemergence o Disney as an animationpowerhouse came in the orm o pixels. Com-puter animation oered a new way o tellinga story, employing amiliar storytelling tech-niques with modern, jaw-dropping technology

that wowed audiences. Pixar Studios, a comput-er-generated imagery (CGI) company, collabo-rated with Disney to release oy Story in 1995,the worlds frst computer-animated eature.

Te flm brought toys to lie and awakeneda sense o awe in children while tweaking nar-rative conventions to appeal to adults. In ChrisHewitts Beyond Butt Humor, a June 2003

Montreal Gazette article, he echoed this ideawith a specifc example rom oy Story, whenlead character Woody comes to the realizationthat he cant just be a toy but a parent fgureas well.

Hewitt argued in the article that the Pixar

flms that soon ollowed were a return to theoriginal world o animation, catering to adultthrough Monsters Inc. (2001), Finding Nem(2003) and Te Incredibles (2004).

Te protagonists in all the movies aradults. Te actors who supply the character

voices are actors whose names mean something to adults, not children, he said. AnPixar themesloss, loneliness, loyalty, compassion, trustare themes adults ponder.

But while Hewitt believed that this new aco animation had adults interests primarily inmind, he admitted that the flms appealled tokids as well.

Pixar movies expose children to [theseimportant themes and present them so thathey make sense to kids, he concluded.

Following in the steps ooy Storya massive hit with all ageswhich grossed US$35million worldwide, the computer animationindustry skyrocketed. Film studio DreamWorks entered the animation market whenormer Disney CEO Jerey Katzenberhopped on board. Teir frst CGI flm, Ant

(1998), was a moderate success, taking in $17million worldwide, less than hal o what oStory earned three years prior. With the releasoShrek in 2001, DreamWorks had created eature that could r ival Disneys success.

Adults embraced the message o beautresiding within, while kids laughed hysterically at the art jokes. Te defning actor thaseparated Shrek rom the pixellated bunch inoy Story and Antz however, was the satirizing o Disneys airy tale conventions withmodern-day reerences. Shrek was a hit acrosthe globe earning US$485 million worldwideand the series has continued to be a hit withaudiences.

Change is coming

Te animated eature has come a long way. Gonare the days o recounting airy tales to audiences o all ages through music and song. Te children who watched Shrek and were ed satirized

versions o beloved airytales are now almoully grown. Another DreamWorks picture

Madagascar(2005), contained sly reerences tPlanet of the Apes and Chariots of Fire, flms thawere released when its pre-adolescent audiencmembers hadnt even been conceived.

Animation is evolving, however, with separation between adult and child animatioflms already occurring in North AmericaWhereas animation or children continues tbe defned by major studios releases, adult audiences have the independent animation mar

ket to look to as Beck revealed.Tere is a rise o independent adult animated eatures, Beck said. Tese are independent flms, themed [or] grown-ups, andone o them will break through.

It is also rereshing to observe the development taking place in childrens animation. Tipast year, Wall-E raised themes that childrenshould be made aware o, such as the state oour planet and the eects o our consumeculture. But it did so by teaching and inspiring awe, and not by barraging youngsters witdigs at pop culturemany o which will meannothing to uture generations.

Computer animation brought in a new way of telling astory, employing familiar storytelling techniques with

modern jaw-dropping technology that wowed audiences.

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A mega-fop in terms o style, story, substance, and com-mon sense, Te Mummy: omb of the Dragon Emperoris the worst movie o 2008. While there were other vi-able contenders or this prestigious title (yler PerrysTe Family Tat Preys, 10,000 BC, Disaster Movie), thethird Mummy lm stands out rom the rest b ecause o itspersistent ability to suck at every moment. omb of theDragon Emperor is a letdown to the Mummy ranchise,trading in its predecessors ormula o Egyptian mum-mies, explosions, and derring-do or a script that oozescheesiness rom every line. Te lm has armies o CGIwarriors, yetis, mummies, and enough fashing lights toinduce a seizureyet it still wasnt interesting enough tokeep people engaged. Brendan Fraser is moderately en-

tertaining in the lead role, but the scripts crushing lacko imagination dragged it down into unbearable territo-ry. Rachel Weisz wisely decided not to reprise her role asEvelyn Carnahan, and she was replacedin a disaster oa casting moveby a criminally terrible Maria Bello. Ev-eryone who worked on Te Mummy: omb of the DragonEmperor should be ashamed o themselves, because itsunbelievable that they thought theyd actually made amovie worth watching.

Hisham Kelati

Fun nearly died in Ottawa in 2008. Barrymores MusicHall lost an owner and almost went under, and the May-air Teatre was almost replaced by yet another condo-minium complex. It seemed that Ottawas youthul spiritwas being crushed aster than that o a newly recruitedpublic servant. Luckily, there was a public outcry overboth losses and the two venues survived to ght anotherdayBarrymores ound a new owner, and the MayairTeatre became a heritage building. Long live Ottawasmusic and theatre establishments!

Ben Myers

Tis album is a stupid idea executed poorly, a concept al-bum gone so horribly wrong its a wonder the label didntburn the master tapes aer hearing it. Beyonc, or someunathomable reason, decided to create an alter-ego

named Sasha Fierce who takes over the vocal duties onone album o the two-disc set. Te albums are supposedto sound distinct, but you could mix and match songsrom each and no one would be the wiser.

Beyonc changes into Sasha Fierce onstage by don-ning a titanium glove and dancing slightly dierentlythe echoes o a post-talent Michael Jackson are deaen-ing. Te music itsel is the passable rhythmic pop thatBeyoncs been making her whole career, but theresreally no dierence between her work as Beyonc andher work as Sasha Fierce. A completely unnecessary gim-mick, I Am Sasha Fierce is the most pointless experi-mental album since Pat Boone released a collection ometal covers.

Peter Henderson

Somehow, om Cruise has managed to bounce backrom that whole jumping-on-Oprahs-couch debacleand reclaim sane-human status. His latest publicitytour proved that the man can give an interview withoutbiting anyone. Dancing around in a at suit in ropicTundermay have been the best public relations moveo Cruises career, proving that he has a sense o humo urabout his own image. A poor perormance in Valkyrie,his rst major starring role since the couch-jumping,could have cemented his image as a Hollywood pariah,but his s olid work and surpris ingly good box-o ceresults helped Cruise regain the respect o the movie-going public.

Ben Myers

It turns out Kirk Hammet still knows how to play gui-tar. Metallicas lead guitarist le solos o 2003s St. An-

ger, but brought back some high-speed shredding or2008s Death Magnetic. All the songs have great ris andmost o them are over seven minutes long. Teres even a10-minute instrumental epic, Suicide and Redemption.Te End o the Line has a unky chorus reminiscent oRage Against the Machine, and Te Judas Kiss speedsrom verse to verse with the viciousness o some o Me-tallicas best work rom the 80s. Members o Metallicamay be in their 40s, but rest assured that their deaths willbe rom an overdose o metal, not natural causes.

Ben Myers

The year in arts & culture

The best, worst, andweirdest of 2008

Most mind-melting, devastatingly stupid movieThe Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Best near-death experienceTie: Barrymores Music Hall and Mayfair Theatre

Worst gimmick, worst album, and worst dance moves

Beyonc I Am Sasha Fierce

Best PR comeback

Tom Cruise

Best heavy-metal comebackMetallica Death Magnetic

2008 WAS A year o transition. DVDs gave way to Blu-Ray aer the death o HD DVD,Heath Ledgers premature death cut short a great career, and the Internet continued itsascent to media dominance. Here are some o the highlights and lowlights o this year

in popular culture.

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The Fulcrum Publishing Society

The Fulcrum Publishing Society will be having its annualgeneral meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 6 in Desmarais

Hall, room 1160. Pizza and refreshments will be provided

The meeting will be dealing withthe Societys audit, the electionof five (5) student directors tothe FPS Board of Directors forthe 200910 year and proposedamendments to the Societysbylaws.All U of O students have a vote,

so come and use it!

All proposed motions will beposted at www.thefulcrum.ca/business seven (7) days priorto the meeting. Visit the site formore information, or contactpresident@thefulcrum.ca.

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HE HOLIDAYS ARE over, meaning its timeor the second hal o the varsity season. Allfve Gee-Gees teams with games still to playare in a position to compete or playo spots,though some will have an easier time thanothers.

Mens basketball

Arguably the best o the Gee-Gees varsityteams, the mens basketball team opened theseason with a 7-1 record and will likely duelwith the Carleton Ravens or frst place in theOntario University Athletics (OUA) East divi-sion.

Te Gee-Gees will ace some tough oppo-nents in their 14 remaining games beginningwith the Ryerson Rams on Jan. 9 and oron-to Varsity Blues the next day. Tey will alsosquare o against the Ravens (tied with the

Gees at 7-1) twice, frst on Jan. 28 in the Capi-tal Hoops Classic at S cotiabank Place and thenin the regularseason fnale on Feb. 21.

o win the division, the Gees will need tocontinue to have strong perormances rom

veteran players Josh Gibson-Bascombe andDax Dessureault, who have each averagedover 17 points per game. Meanwhile, rookieguard Warren Ward and guard Josh Wrightarecently activated transer rom the NationalCollegiate Athletic Association Division 1Syracuse Orangemenwill need to contributei Ottawa is to be successul.

David McClelland

Womens basketball

With the womens basketball team sporting a

winning record or the frst time since 2004-05, the season should already be considereda success. Te team will contend or a playospot, and provided they can carry over theirconsistent play rom the frst hal o the sea-son, they should be able to make their way intothe post-season.

Te Gee-Gees, who have a 5-4 record, will

ace both the best and worst teams in theirdivision in 2009, and will kick o the yearagainst the Ryerson Rams on Jan. 9. Tey willalso tip-o against the frst-place CarletonRavens on Jan. 28 or the Capital Hoops Clas-sic at Scotiabank Place, which will surely be a

vital match i the Gees want to challenge orfrst place.

Guards and leading scorers Melina Wishartand Emilie Morasse will play a major role inensuring the Gee-Gees good ortune in thesecond hal o the season, and both will haveto work well with second-year centre Han-nah Sunley-Paisley. Te team will also need toavoid injuries, as they have a relatively smallroster thanks to a lack o o-season recruiting.Te lack o depth past the starting fve couldcost them their playo hopes.

David McClelland

Mens hockey

Te University o Ottawas mens hockey teamhad a winning record in the all o 2008, butin 2009 the squad will need to be a cut above.Despite sporting a 6-6-3 record through theirfrst 15 games o the season, Ottawa remainstied in points with McGill at the bottom o theOUA Far East division. Te division is argu-ably the most competitive in the country, asevery team has a winning record. With a 15-1-1 record, the Universit du Qubec rois-Rivires leads the division and is ranked sec-ond in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, behindthe Alberta Golden Bears.

Te Gees dont have any conspicuous weak-nesses, but they are the only team in the di-

vision with a negative goal dierential. More

oensive support to team scoring leaders DanMcDonald (21 points), third-year le-wingerYanick Charron (17 points), and rookie le-winger Matthieu Methot (16 points) is re-quired i the team hopes to make a splash inthe second hal. Te team must tighten up de-ensively and provide more support to second-year goaltender Riley Whitlock, who has done

his part in compiling a .907 save percentage.

Ottawa has been a streaky team, alternate-ly winning or losing at least two games in arow virtually all season. More consistency isneeded i theyre going to make the playos.However, the Gees remaining thirteen-gameschedule is challenging: nine games are againstteams with winning records, our are againstdivision leaders, and only six games will beat home. Ottawas winning record will onlybe kept i the team has success away rom theSports Complex.

Andrew Hawley

Womens hockey

With a 4-3-1 record and a three-point leadover the Carleton Ravens or second place inthe Quebec Student Sport Federation (QSSF),the Gee-Gees womens hockey team will needto continue to grind out points down thestretch in 2009.

Te team will ace the last-place ConcordiaStingers on Jan. 10 in Montreal to begin thesecond hal o the season. Concordia has wononly two o their nine games, one o whichcame against the Gee-Gees. Meanwhile, theGees, along with the other two teams in theQSSF, have yet to beat the unstoppable McGillMartlets this season. Ottawa will ace themour more times this season, meaning thatthey will have to perorm well against Con-cordia and Carleton to make up or any lossesagainst the Martlets over their 10 remaininggames.

Much o the teams scoring has taken placeby committee, with fve players tied or the

team scoring lead with fve points, inc

rookie orward Fannie Desorges and vorward Kayla Hottot. Fih-year goalie Audet has had a solid fnal season ovear with the team, with a .886 save page. Te Gee-Gees certainly have the tastay near the top o the standings, but question will be i they can match the Monce the post-season rolls around.

Megan O

Womens volleyball

Te womens volleyball team is in anlent position going into 2009. Tey cuhold an 8-3 record, and will likely be lto solidiy their hold on second place aseason resumes.

Te Gee-Gees will ace a mixed scover their eight remaining matches their season, playing both OUA divisioers, as well as a couple o the provincement dwellers. Te most signifcant gambe those played against teams near themstandings, such as the oronto Varsitywho are currently third in the OUA Eaa 6-4 record.

Te Gees will need key players such asyear setter ess Edwards and fh-year and rightside hitters Karine Gangon anronique Yon to put up solid numbers hope to win in the latter hal o the sTe team will also have to execute consii they want to go deep into the post-sas unorced errors were a recurring prthroughout the frst hal o the season.

David McC

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by Anna RocoskiFulcrum Staf

AFER AKING ADVANAGE o theirparents ridges over the holidays, manystudents come back to university lookingto lose some weight. While or some thismay mean visiting a health ood store orhitting the gym, or others it means goingon a diet.

Dieting is seen as a quick and conve-nient way to lose weight, but does it ac-tually work? Diets can include drasticchanges in ood intake, special dietarysupplements, and oen lead to large, sud-den changes in weight. What many people

dont know is that dieting can sometimesbe dangerous.

An April 2007 CBC article investigat-ing dieting, notably citing a study by Uni-

versity o Caliornia social psychologyproessor raci Mann, shows that diet-ing can actually lead to a weight-loss andweight-gain cycle that can be harmul tothe body. Mann led a team o researcherswho looked at about 30 long-term studieso diets.

We concluded most o them wouldhave been better of not going on the dietat all, Mann said in the article. Teirweight would be pretty much the same,and their bodies would not sufer the wearand tear rom losing weight and gainingit all back.

A ew well-known diets such as the At-kins diet and the South Beach diet canlead to this weight-loss and weight-gaincycle. Tese diets all encourage high in-takes o protein (meat products, nuts,dairy products, etc.) and low intakes ocarbohydrates (bread, ruit, cereal, etc.).Te American Heart Association does notrecommend low carb diets as they can re-strict oods needed or a healthy diet.

Many people turn to weight-loss sup-plements to speed the dieting process.Te number o supplements available athealth ood stores is endless and includesappetite suppressants and cleansers, all in

the orm o pills, powders, and teas, amongother things. Appetite suppressants work torestrain the urge to overeat, or in extremecases, eat at all, while a cleanser is a ormo detox thataccording to their manuac-turersworks to ush harmul toxins romthe body. Unortunately, the efects o manyo these supplements are unknown due to alack o long-term studies.

Some supplements can even be dan-gerous. A drug called ephedrine has beenlinked to serious health problems anddeath when used as a weight-loss aid, andcan only legally be sold in Canada or useas a nasal decongestant. However, a recentstudy published in the University of West-

ern Ontario Medical Journal ound thatwhile the partial ban has reduced ephed-rines usage, it is still easily obtainable inmany products. It is always important toresearch health products careully beoreconsuming them, as they can oen havethese unknown side efects.

Te trouble with many diets is that thereis a lot o conicting inormation available.In a 2004 interview with Harvard MedicalSchool epidemiology and nutrition pro-essor Walter Willett conducted by CBSsFrontline, Willett comments on the conu-sion that circulates around nutrition anddieting.

Te academic community has toldpeople that they should do one thingsay,avoid eggs or eat lots o margarinewhenthe evidence was really very minimal, inact almost nonexistent in some situa-tions, Willett said in the interview. Butyet it was presented as though this was theabsolute truth. Ten when science doesmove orward [and] gets some concreteevidence, sometimes it doesnt conrmwhat people are told, and theres obviouslygoing to be some conusion generating outo that.

o avoid conusion, its a good ideato research nutritional inormation us-ing reputable sources. Te Canada FoodGuide (hc-sc.gc.ca/n-an/ood-guide-aliment/), which is compiled by Health

Canada, is an excellent source o inor-mation on health and nutrition. As well,MedicineNet, an online health portal runby US physicians, has a comparison onumerous popular diet programs locatedat medicinenet.com/diet_plans_and_pro-grams/article.htm.

Overall, the best thing you can do is vis-it a doctor or nutritionist, and ask them tohelp you discover what nutritional plan isbest or you. Generally, ollowing the Can-ada Food Guide and exercising regularlyis the best way to maintain a healthy bodyweight, and visiting a proessional can helpyou rene this approach to make it evenmore efective. Knowledge and researchare your best weapons when it comes toaltering your diet to become healthier.

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The dos and donts of dieting

Bronze medal I

HE UNIVERSIY OF Ottawa mensbasketball team travelled to Winnipegover the holidays and earned a bronzemedal at the eight-team University oWinnipeg Wesmen Classic tourna-ment Dec. 2830. While they wereunable to qualiy or the nal game,the Gees still managed a podium n-ish in the three-day tournament.

Recent transer Josh Wright, a guardrom the Syracuse Orange, put 20points on the board or the Ge e-Geeson Dec. 28 against the SaskatchewanHuskies, making a name or himselin the rst game o the tournament,which was also his rst game with theGee-Gees. Although the Gee-Geeswere down 37-30 at halime, theybounced back and were able to deeatSaskatchewan 82-67, earning them-selves a place in the seminals.

In their seminal match the ol-lowing day, the Calgary Dinosaurs

deeated the Gees in a thrilling, last-minute decision. Despite leading 35-27 at the hal, Ottawas lead evapo-rated, and the Gees were sunk 74-73by a Calgary basket with two secondsremaining in the game.

In the bronze-medal game the ol-lowing day, the Gee-Gees were trium-phant in a close battle and beat outthe Alberta Golden Bears in overtime78-75. First-year orward WarrenWard was a key player in the third-place match and was named player othe game aer scoring 18 points orthe Gee-Gees.

Te Gee-Gees kick-of the secondhal o their season on Jan. 10 whenthey host the Ryerson Rams at 8 p.m.in Montpetit Hall. ickets are $4 orstudents.

Megan OMeara

Bronze medal II

HE WOMENS HOCKEY team

started 2009 strong, winning a bronzemedal in the 41st annual ConcordiaTeresa Humes tournament in Mon-treal Jan. 24.

Te team aced the Guelph Gry-phons on Jan. 2 and came away witha 3-2 victory in a shootout. Fih-yeargoaltender Jessika Audet stoppedour shots in the shootout, whilethird-year orward Joelle Charleboisand rookie orward Alicia Blomburgscored or the Gees.

Moving on to the seminals thenext day, the Gee-Gees aced theMcGill Martlets, who have an intimi-dating 7-0-0 record in regular sea-son play this year. Ottawa has yet todeeat the Martlets this season, andagain were unable to best them, los-ing 8-2. While the score was tied at1-1 midway through the rst period,McGill poured goal aer goal intothe Gee-Gees net in the nal 50 min-utes. Charlebois and rst-year centreSamantha Delenardo scored or theGees.

Te loss le Ottawa to competeor third place on the nal day o the

tournament against the ConcordiaStingers. Te Gee-Gees were able tosecure the bronze medal with a hard-ought 3-2 win. While second-yearorward Erika Pouliot and Charleboisboth scored in the rst period or theGees, the Stingers were able to answeror both goals. Tird-year centre Kay-la Hottot scored the tie-breaking goalin the third period to seal the Ottawa

victory.Te Gee-Gees play next on Jan.

10, when they host Concordia at theSports Complex arena at 2 p.m. ick-ets are $4 or students.

Megan OMeara

Mens hockey cant win in Toronto

HE GEE-GEES mens hockey teamcouldnt locate their A-game in theirrst two games back rom the holi-day break, losing 6-2 to the orontoVarsity Blues and 5-3 to the RyersonRams in oronto.

Playing the Varsity Blues on Jan.3, the Gees ell behind early, allow-ing three goals and scoring none in

the irst period. he Blues another marker in the secontwo more in the third. Ottawshut out until the inal rameirst-year let winger MMethot and second-year dePhil Devaul both beat orontie Russ Brownell.

he next day, the Geplayed a more competitiveagainst the Rams. By the thriod, the teams were lockepitched battle and a tied 3-3But with just under our minumaining in the game, Ryersowinger Donivan Munro was beat Ottawa goalie Riley Whbreaking the tie and sinkiGees. Forward Brent Small the victory or the Rams jseconds later.

Te Gee-Gees now have a 6-cord, leaving them last in the OUniversity Athletics Far East dTey play next on Jan. 10, whhost the Brock Badgers at 7 pthe Sports Complex.

David McC

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by Andrew HawleyFulcrum Contributor

AS HE NEW year begins, so toodoes the annual attempt o trans-orming talk into action and hopeinto reality. Many people make NewYears resolutions dedicated to get-ting healthier, but these ofen end upresulting in little more than talk andorgotten goals. However, i you havedecided beorehand what changesyou want to see in yoursel, you willlikely make good on those resolutionsover the upcoming year.

Te goal o a proper workout isto maintain or improve ones health.o do either, one must ocus on twoelements: cardiovascular tness andmuscle strength. I your goal is tomaintain or improve your generallevel o tness, you must design aprogram that includes both elements

equally. I your goal is more speci-icto lose weight, or exampletheprogram would concentrate more oncardio tness than strength. Te goalo a ootball lineman would likely in-

volve a program concentrated more

on strength, while a runner wouldocus on cardiovascular tness. Temost important thing is to start withan obtainable goal, such as being ableto lif a certain weight or run a prede-termined distance without stopping.

o maintain good health and re-duce the risk o chronic disease, amoderate-intensity cardio work-out or 30 minutes a day ve days aweek, or, vigorously intense cardio 20minutes a day or three days a weekis required, according to the 2007guidelines laid out by the AmericanCollege o Sports Medicine (ACSM).Moderate-intensity cardio meansworking hard enough to raise yourheart rate and break a sweat, whilebeing able to carry on a conversation.Tis includes brisk walking, moder-ate cycling, relaxed swimming, bas-ketball, and tennis. Vigorous cardio,on the other hand, is any activity thatraises your heart rate signicantlyand orces you to breathe rapidly.Tis can be achieved by hard runningor cycling, intense sports like hockeyand raquetball, or group activities likespinning. O course, i you want to

lose weight and improve your overallhealth, you will likely need a more in-tense cardio workout than the guide-lines recommend.

Tis means all you really need tomaintain cardiovascular health is a

pair o running shoes. But or thoseseeking more, the University o Ot-tawa oers many programs such asswimming lessons, aquatness, com-petitive clubs, intramurals, grouptness courses, and best o all, reeaccess to the Montpetit Hall Fitnessand Aquatic Centres and the SportsComplex Health and Liestyle Centre.For more details on whats available atthe U o O, visit geegees.ca.

ACSM studies have also deter-mined that to maintain good healthwe must work out or increase mus-cular strength and endurance aminimum o two non-consecutivedays a week. Te best way to do thisis through weight training. Onceagain, how to weigh train properlydepends upon what your goals are. Iyour aim is to bulk up and increaseyour strength, then youll want tobe lifing a airly heavy weight 812times or every set you perorm.Conversely, i you want to improveyour muscle endurance (also knownas toning), then its a good idea touse less weight, but do more repeti-tions in each set, around 1215. Ei-

ther way, you should also be careulnot to overwork your muscles, sogive them at least 30 hours betweenworkouts to recover to avoid injury.

o learn more about tness andhow to get in shape, visit ascm.org.

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by Michael OlenderFulcrum Staf

LISEN, MARKS MAER to me. Some allsession grades can already be ound on In-oWeb, but complete all-term grade reportsshould be available towards the end o January

and I assume proessors are working on input-ting marks during these next ew weeks, so Ijust want to make one last push or the A+.

I dont know how it works in each depart-ment, i there is an incentive to give severalmediocre marks to meet quotas or to makesure class averages