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championships in Charlottetown, P.E.I. trying to improve on their fourth-place finish of last year. —PHOTO BY ADAM WILLIAMS

CBC may be the grandfather of broadcasters in Canada, but it’s not quite ready to yell at kids to get off its damn lawn.

In fact, with CBC Music, it seems to be inviting kids over to its lawn to sit around and listen to music.

What is it?

The online music service launched in February, though its roots go back further.

In that short pe-riod of time it has integrated its past incarnations into a much more varied and vibrant online music scene.

Steve Pratt, di-rector of digital music for CBC and Radio 3, said the goal of the site and service is to connect Ca-nadian fans with the music in a unique way – moving away from traditional broadcasting to something only the internet can deliver.

“We have 48 web radio sta-tions on there, whereas we have one [CBC] Radio 2,” Pratt said. “So we can’t please everybody with one radio station. We have Radio 3, which is another really terrif ic music service, which is designed to focus around Cana-dian independent music.

“For lots of people that’s won-derful, but if that’s not your thing we haven’t been able to do anything else about it. There’s been a whole bunch of music that’s important to Canadians that we haven’t been able to showcase until we had CBC Music for it.”

While CBC Music is rela-tively new, it’s had a strong start with mu-sicians up-loading music.

The website hosts 30,000 art-ists and 150,000 songs, accord-ing to Pratt. What makes CBC Music different than something like MySpace is not the amount, quality or genres of those up-loading music, it’s that there is curation.

“I think we saw a pretty unique spot for ourselves in the marketplace,” Pratt said. Some-thing we feel CBC has had a core strength at, in a lot of different areas throughout our history, is

context and curation.” He added that if you look at

where the music universe is go-ing, the services that are devel-oping are simply unlimited juke-boxes.

“One of the biggest challenges with that is f iguring out what to listen to and what music is good… It’s our job as CBC to help Canadians make sense of that and f ind the good stuff and provide some context to it.”

Radio 3 is the central stream to the station with hosts like Craig Norris or Grant Lawrence play-ing bigger artists in the bigger

indie music genres, which includes sing-e r - s o n g w r i t -ers and gui-tar, bass and d r u m - b a s e d bands.

There are nearly 50 addi-tional streams covering less popular styles such as ba-roque, classic soul and ab-original.

“The rest of [the online services] are m u s i c - o n l y channels, but there are ex-perts in those

genres of music who are choos-ing all the songs and schedul-ing them,” Pratt said. “It’s not a random mix of songs; it’s very much a curated and programmed station.”

Radio 3

Radio 3 is still a big part of CBC Music. Started in 2000 as a web-only broadcaster, it has been constantly evolving. Now broadcasting on SiriusXM and

podcasting, it had been the preferred a site where artists uploaded their mu-sic. Now it plays a more auditory role with shows and hosts. Craig Norris is one of those on-air personalities, and has a band of his own.

“When some-thing new comes along, people wor-

ry about new things, you know? ‘Oh, I don’t understand this.’ Like when CBC Music came along and everyone thought it was swallowing Radio 3, but that wasn’t really the case,” Norris said. “There wouldn’t be a CBC Music without Radio 3.”

Pratt agreed, describing Radio 3 as a place for CBC to f igure out how to be rel-evant as a public broadcaster on-line.

“Radio 3 has been a huge, huge part of the backbone of CBC Music. Radio 3 has had quite a long his-tory now: it’s over 10 years of reinventing itself over and over,” he said.

Norris said, as a musician, he sees Radio 3 in a different way.

“I think about my band, and I think ‘Holy sh*t, if Radio 3 had existed when we were starting 22 years ago, oh my god, things would have been so much differ-ent,’” Norris said.

“We will never take credit for anyone’s success, but there are bands that will tell you, like Two Hours Traffic, or even guys like Dan Mangan, who no one was playing outside of campus radio. Campus radio is great regional-ly, but we’re like a campus radio

station that is on steroids, in a good way.”

R3-30 is a weekly countdown show hosted by Norris that in-cludes the most popular songs on CBC Music using internal met-rics, some interview clips and a second countdown discussed online the week before.

“A chart show is a pretty great concept because you know you’re getting the best, the top 30 songs,”

Pratt said. “If you want an entry point coming into a world of mu-sic that you may not be familiar with, being able to hear a top-30 is a great way to bring people in the door.”

Norris agreed, suggesting that the concept of a countdown is something that is easier for new listeners to get into.

“The format of a countdown is very mainstream FM radio. To that end it’s really accessible. People go ‘Oh, I know what this is,’ even though they may not necessarily know any of these artists or songs, at least it feels like they get it,”

Norris said. “The music we play on the R3-30, by and large now, it’s the music that is more acces-sible. It’s a really good gateway to getting into maybe some more ad-venturous music.

“And to that end it has been gangbusters.”

Music now

Neither man takes credit for the music that’s being produced right now. Both admit CBC Music wouldn’t have good songs to play were it not for the people creating that auditory art.

“It starts with … the advent of high-quality home re-cording and the fact that now bands can record pretty kick-

ass sound and records with amp simulators and mike simulators and they can record those in their rehearsal hall,” Norris said. “That alone is going to keep this sort of f low of creativity. It’s so much eas-ier to work.”

“Personally, I feel like we are in a really nice golden age of Ca-nadian music where there is just a ton of great stuff coming out from all over Canada in really wide variety of genres and a lot of it even defies being able to put it in a traditional genre,” Pratt said. “It’s just really creative work and amazing music.”

Ω Arts & Entertainment EditorBrendan Kergin

CBC champions new medium for Canadian musicCanada’s public broadcaster is working to stay relevant in the age of digital music.

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“Personally, I feel like we are in a really nice golden age of Canadian music.”

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“...we’re like a campus radio station that is on steroids,

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—Craig Norris, CBC Music

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As of 2011, according to the Canadian Cancer Society’s pub-lished annual statistics, when you average out the number of people diagnosed and dying of cancer in this country it equals 20 diagnoses and eight deaths — per hour—and this number is only expected to increase.

This is unacceptable.We can stop this. I refuse to accept that cancer is

how nature thins the herd of an overpopulated planet. I refuse to accept that cancer is caused by smoking, or cellphones, or hydro “smart meters,” or genetically modified foods or any of the oth-er plethora of things that people blame for its formation in a body.

I will accept that we don’t fully know why cancer happens and that we can figure it out.

I know it takes good people from the Earth before they’re done and that we need to find out why.

I believe if we can land a car equipped with our best scientific research methods and resourc-es on a planet 36 million miles away (at the closest points in our respective orbits) and we can figure out how to lift a man 24 miles into the air and drop him safely back to the surface of the planet and we can create a pill that keeps a man’s penis erect for days, we can figure out why can-cer continues to kill us.

According to a report released in January by Statistics Canada, the measure of cancer prevalence — which is used to study the bur-den of a disease in a population — shows that new cancer diagno-ses are increasing, but so are the survival rates.

So while cancer isn’t going away — and in fact is taking hold in more people than ever — as a society we’re getting better at fighting back.

I fully support this fight.I shave my face once a year in

recognition and support of the fight against prostate cancer and other men’s health issues through a movement called Movember.

It’s not that I don’t support the fight against breast cancer, ovar-ian cancer, lung cancer, melano-ma or any of the other terrible and terminal (or non-terminal) forms of the disease, but this is the one I can support with my face as well as my heart (and wallet).

So when you don’t recognize me for the first week of Novem-ber because you’ve never seen me without facial hair -- or at least have forgotten what I looked like for the first week of November last year -- maybe think about pitching in so we can keep bring-ing these numbers down.

While it’s true that not ev-ery problem in the world can be solved by throwing money at it, it’s also true that research is ex-pensive and that this is a cause worthy of the cost.

Contact me at the email ad-dress below if you need a guide to supporting these battles, but I’m sure you can find your own way and I will see you there.

I’ll direct you right to the place where you can contribute to my personal facial-hair-growth rep-resentation of the cause — but wherever or whatever your can-cer fight is, I’d be happy to join you in arms and together we can conquer cancer.

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Mike Davies Ω Editor-in-Chief

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Humans are too good for cancer to win

One in four Canadians will die from cancer, while one in sev-en men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime — and every 15.6 minutes, a man dies from prostate cancer, ac-cording to the Movember Health Checklist (ca.movember.com/mens-health/).

I’ve had the unfortunate expe-rience of losing my grandmoth-er to a seven-year battle with ovarian cancer. Recently my fa-ther fought off prostate cancer. Thankfully he has since been given a clean bill of health.

Because of my close family ties to the war on cancers below the waist, Movember and the fight to raise awareness about prostate cancer and men’s health is one cause I hold close to my heart.

This will be my fourth year engaging in the Movember cam-paign. So what exactly is Mo-vember?

Movember is an awareness

campaign aimed at educating people on destructive illness and disease, specifically prostate cancer and men’s mental health. Another clear initiative for the movement is to raise funds to help advance research in these areas of men’s health.

So why the focus on prostate cancer and men’s mental health?

According to the Movember Health Checklist, there will be 26,500 new diagnoses of prostate cancer in Canada during 2012. Think that number is signifi-cant? How about this — 4,000 of those diagnosed in 2012 will eventually succumb to their can-cer. The Interior Savings Centre (ISC) here in Kamloops has a seating capacity of approximate-ly 5,500 people.

The Kamloops Blazers, the primary tenant of the rink, have an average attendance of 4,513 so far through their thus far un-defeated 2012 regular season. The 4,000 men who will eventu-ally perish at the hand of a 2012 prostate cancer diagnosis nearly fills the ISC and almost match-es the average attendance for a Kamloops Blazers home game. Scary, or what?

If those numbers don’t fright-en you enough, how about the alarming statistic that one in four cancer patients also experi-ence clinical depression?

Here is where the mental health aspect of the Movember campaign comes in.

At that rate, 6,625 of the 26,500 men diagnosed in 2012 could not only be faced with prostate can-cer, but could also be tasked with fighting off clinical depression along the way.

I have approached this cause with gusto in each and every year since my father was f irst diagnosed in 2009.

While I obviously have a close tie to the cause, I truly believe that everyone is tied to this cause.

Had there not been others out there working to raise awareness about this men’s health initia-tive, my father might not have been lucky enough to get an early diagnosis and successfully defeat his prostate cancer.

I might not be lucky enough to be telling you all about how I can still have a beer with my dad, or how him and I can talk about why the Calgary Flames needed to f ire their coaching staff, or how the Calgary Stam-peders won’t win a Grey Cup with Kevin Glenn calling the shots under centre.

I’m thankful that someone else out there had the foresight to do this work and help my dad win his war.

That sense of camaraderie is something that most people ap-preciate in their lives. These terrible diseases tear away this camaraderie far too often.

We need to be proactive in f ighting back — in a way I may not have been prior to my dad’s diagnosis.

I try to be proactive on behalf of others in order to pay forward the hard work that contributed to my dad’s defeat of his cancer.

Whether you’re being proac-tive or f ighting back because of some impact in your life, I hope you join me.

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Taylor Rocca Ω Copy/Web Editor

TRUe Thoughts

One day a young girl made one mistake that sent her life spiralling out of control. As she lost control in her life she turned to drugs and alco-hol to ease the pain. In the end she decided to end her life.

Today we are going to talk about Amanda Todd. Not the media the sensation but the girl behind the sto-ry, taken from her own words. The only way to stop a repeat of this trag-edy is to understand what actually happened in this girl’s life.

Amanda went looking for atten-tion in an Internet chat room, just like many people do.

She suffering from low self-esteem and wanted to feel better about her-self. However, what she found was a cold-hearted sexual predator.

He built up her confidence to the point she was willing to do whatever he wanted. In a moment of weakness she made a mistake and exposed her-self on web cam. She thought she was in an anonymous situation and no one would ever find out.

A year later the predator was back to exploit Amanda again. As she re-fused to show him more he posted a picture of her everywhere including Facebook. One simple moment in her life just changed everything.

The media has done an incredible job of dehumanizing Amanda.

Through this process Amanda is seen less and less as a person and more of a fictional character.

The more we hear this story the more we become desensitized to it. By turning this story into an anti-bul-lying campaign, they have been able to win over public opinion and keep this story constantly in the news.

All the interviews from her closest “friends” are an example of how her story has been manipulated. If you watch her video they would see she had no real friends, and this was one of the many causes of her depression. All the work by the media has been to keep the story alive and to sell their product. The message Amanda died to get out has been lost.

The online attacks have continued even after her death.

The comments you can read online about Amanda are disturbing. Most of these individuals are making the exact same mistake Amanda made; they assume that online gives them anonymity.

These comments seem to be more of a contest to see who can post the worst possible attack.

These individuals have to learn the simple lesson Amanda learned: once it’s online you can’t take it back.

Clearly, in order to stop a repeat of this tragedy, we have to understand what actually took place.

A troubled young girl trying to es-cape her emotional abyss lost every-thing.

She called out for help for three years to no avail. In a final attempt to take back control of her life she wrote her story on cue cards and made an-other webcam video.

Amanda committed suicide short-ly after posting her story online.

To bring an end to her pain she went back to where it all started, on her webcam. Imprisoned by lone-liness and silenced by her peers, Amanda hopes the world will under-stand her final message.

Wayne Mernickle, f irst year social work, TRU

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Approximately 150 people ral-lied outside the off ice of Terry Lake, Kamloops-North Thomp-son MLA, to oppose the pro-posed Enbridge Northern Gate-way pipeline and tanker project on Oct. 24.

The rally was a part of Defend Our Coast’s day of action, where 75 communities and over 7,000 people rallied at MLA offices across the province, according to Calvin deGroot, Defend Our Coast outreach coordinator and Capilano University student.

Defend Our Coast is a coali-tion of different environmental and social justice groups from across British Columbia.

“The purpose of the decentral-ized actions all over B.C. was to harness the momentum from the rally in Victoria,” deGroot said. “We kept Defend Our Coast in the media for four days. We wanted to prolong the move-ment.”

Oct. 22 saw 4,000 people gathered on the lawn of the B.C. Legislature for the Defend Our Coast day of action that led to Wednesday’s province-wide rallies. In total approximately 11,000 people attended the two separate days of action against the pipeline project according to deGroot.

Maude Barlow, author, activist and chairperson of the Council of Canadians, made a special appearance and spoke to the crowd at the Kamloops rally. Now 65 years old, Barlow was still able to ignite the crowd.

“The answer for all of us is to stay strong, to defend our coasts, say no to the pipelines, no to

tankers and to say to these en-ergy companies when they come to our territories: you will not pass,” she said.

A number of TRU students at-tended the rally.

Drew Dochstader, an adven-ture guide diploma student, took the microphone and shared his support of Defend Our Coast with the crowd. According to Dochstader, the adventure tour-ism students are very knowl-edgeable on the subject and con-cerned for the future.

“We have an extremely strong

tourism industry and for that to be destroyed would be a huge blow to the British Columbia economy,” Dochstader said. “It would even jeopardize the pro-gram at our school. Our future is at stake.”

Dochstader would like to see a greater response from TRU stu-dents.

“If we put our numbers togeth-er it could really be a deciding outcome for us to really make a difference,” Dochstader said. “People underestimate the pow-er of the human voice.”

Anne Grubbe, Kamloops rally organizer, discussed the next step for those in opposition to the pipelines and tankers.

“The government is thinking that these people will just give up after a while, but I don’t think they will,” she said. “There will be more opposition.”

“It’s definitely not over yet, it’s really just the beginning,” deGroot said.

“We are getting louder and the more our politicians refuse to listen to us, the louder Defend Our Coast will get.”

Citizens rally against pipelines, tankers

Ω ContributorMason Buettner

MLA Terry Lake’s office sees large gathering as people extend the Oct. 22 protest at the legislature in Victoria to smaller communities

Approximately 150 people gather outside Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake’s of-fice in protest of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline project Oct. 24. —PHOTO BY MASON BUETTNER

Career Mentoring and the TRU Alumni Association held their fourth annual speed-dating style network-ing event, Tuesday, Oct. 28, that gave students first-hand insight and advice from industry professionals.

“Every person who has made something of themselves owes it to his or her interactions,” said Michael Cohen, one of the professional repre-sentatives at the event and past TRU graduate.

Cohen opened Networking 411 with a speech that encouraged stu-dents to value networking and take advantage of the opportunity.

There were 150 students who at-tended and had access to 46 pro-fessionals from various disciplines including business, arts, science, tourism, information technology, journalism, architecture and engi-neering.

Throughout the 90-minute event, students were given 10-minute ses-sions to speak with industry profes-sionals about how to find a job, the transition from school to the work-force and labour market changes.

Organizers at the event gave di-rection about which professionals to speak to as well as conversation start-

ers in order to break down barriers between students and professionals.

“This workshop has success sto-ries,” said Susan Forseille, Student Employment Coordinator at TRU.

“There was a student a couple of years ago who is now in the process of applying for a job with one of the mentors she met at this event.”

Alexander Osipov, a second-year bachelor of business administration student, was invited to Networking 411 by friends and decided to check it out.

“The event was helpful, but next time there needs to be more food,” he said.

Michelle Butterfield used net-working to land a position as an edi-tor at the Calgary Herald and is now associate news editor for The Huff-ington Post.

“Networking is the future,” she said in early October.

“To be able to network effectively, you have to take risks.”

Butterfield said she is an avid so-cial media user and makes effort to call contacts and arrange meetings.

Program-specific networking workshops will be the next event hosted by Career Mentoring and the TRU Alumni Association. Students can expect those in the spring.

For more information visit tru.ca/alumni/mentoring.html.

Ω Incoming Roving EditorCourtney Dickson

Aspiring professionals take advantage of networking opportunity

The university and the sup-port workers represented by Canadian Union of Public Em-ployees (CUPE) Local 4879 are close to signing a new contract.

The four-year contract is backdated to 2010 and will last until April 1, 2014, but it has to be approved by a vote of the union’s membership before it becomes off icial.

“We’re extremely glad to come to a fair and sustainable agreement,” said Christopher Seguin, TRU’s VP advance-ment.

No representative from CUPE 4879 was available for comment before press deadline.

In the f irst two years, union members won’t get any increas-es in wages.

This follows the provincial government’s net zero mandate in those years, in which no gov-ernment workers were supposed to get wage increases.

For the f inal two years there will be a two per cent increase each year. The union hasn’t giv-en any concessions to the uni-versity.

According to a press release from the provincial govern-ment, it has given no extra mon-ey to fund increases in wages.

“It’s a mixture of cost-savings and revenue generation,” Seguin said, when asked where the ex-tra money would come from.

A press release from CUPE 4879 said a contract wasn’t signed until now because of the provincial government’s infer-ence. The last contract ended in 2010.

“The smallest items that in-cluded any monetary element had to be sent to the government for approval,” said Lois Rugg, CUPE 4879’s president, in the release, “and then we would have to sit and wait and wait and wait for a reply from them.”

“I wouldn’t identify it as in-ference,” Seguin said. “We’re a public institution with a pro-vincial mandate that we have to work within.”

The tentative contract is simi-lar to ones proposed at other universities.

CUPE Local 116 at the Uni-versity of B.C. and CUPE Lo-cal 3799 at the University of Northern B.C. are both seeing no increases to their wages in the f irst two years followed by a increase of two per cent each year in the last two years.

CUPE 4879 said in its release it would be preparing to negoti-ate the next contract.

“We will be back in bargain-ing as early as next year for the next contract and we will be looking for whoever is in power to respect our collective bar-gaining process,” Rugg said.

The contract ends after the May 2013 provincial election.

Ω News EditorDevan C. Tasa

Vote final step for deal with union, university

Students gain networking skills at the fourth annual Net-working 411 event put on by TRU Career Mentoring and the TRU Alumni Association Oct 28. —PHOTO BY HUGO YUEN

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New ski goggles will change the way you look at a mountain

The new Airwave ski goggles by Oakley give you instant in-formation of the mountain and your run via a built-in heads-up display (HUD).

The Airwave goggles use what Oakley is call-ing “prism” technology to give you a wide range of information that will show up in the bottom left-hand corner on a small screen. The screen will look as large as looking at a 14-inch screen at f ive feet.

A built in wrist con-troller will allow you to manipulate the informa-tion you’re receiving. The screen will show you a map of the mountain along with the runs on it and the location of all your friends currently on the mountain.

The goggles will also contain information on your speed, both maxi-mum and time for runs, air time and height for jumps and comparisons on all these metrics to your previous runs.

The goggles also links to your smartphone so you can manage your music and texts via the wrist controller.

The goggles go on sale Oct. 31.

For a full breakdown go to: news.cnet.com

Deciphering the oldest mys-tery in writing

Crowd sourcing could be at the heart of understanding the oldest untranslated writing system in the world.

The written language, known as proto-elamite, is 5,000 years old

and belonged to a Middle Eastern society based in southwest Iran. Proto-elamite is believed to have been inspired by the Mesopota-mian language but the symbols have all been changed.

The key to unlocking this mys-tery is the new way in that these stone tablets, which the writing is on, are being photographed. These tablets are being placed inside a device called the ref lec-tance transformation imaging

system, which uses 76 separate photographic lights to record the tablets.

The result from this process is an extremely clear digital image of the tablet that can be rotated and viewed from every angle.

The images will be made pub-lically available online with the

intent of using the widespread academic audience to help crack this 5,000 year old code.

Where you can find out more: www.bbc.co.uk

Genetically modified bomb detectors

Laboratory mice are being genetically modified to be able to search out TNT-based explosives.

Scientists in New York City have modified mice to have a sense of smell that is 500 times more susceptible to DNT, a closely-related chemi-cal to TNT. The mice will then have a microchip im-planted under their skin that will wirelessly report back to a computer.

The idea of having mice searching out explosives to save human lives is not new.

A Belgian company has already trained giant African pouched rats to search out landmines.

The advantage these new mice bring is an inherent super-sensi-tivity to DNT, thanks to genetic modification. Combined with the ease of breeding mice this could result in large quantities of easily trainable, tiny, bomb detectors.

Where you can f ind out more: www.huff ingtonpost.com

Ω ContributorMark Hendricks

International IntonationComputerized ski goggles, a really old

language, and bomb sniffing mice

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The local United Way fund-raising campaign at TRU has seen professors get pies to the face – but it’s not over yet.

From Oct. 20 to Nov. 2, stu-dents will be able to support the Thompson Nicola Cariboo Unit-ed Way’s campaign by buying a cup of soup at the Culinary Arts cafeteria and going to the basket-ball game against the University of Northern B.C. Timberwolves Nov. 2.

The campaign was launched Oct. 22. On Oct. 24, students could, for a fee, pay to shove a cream pie in the face of TRU pro-fessors and administration. On Oct. 25, students could talk to 13 local charities at a non-profit in-formation fair in Old Main.

“The main purpose of the Unit-ed Way, first off, is to fundraise for local non-profits,” said Unit-ed Way resource development staffer Geralyn Beaton.

The United Way generally doesn’t provide front-line servic-es. Instead, it distributes grants to organizations like the Kam-loops Brain Injury Association and the Elizabeth Fry Society, which provides housing and legal support.

Last year, the United Way’s campaign at the university raised $57,000 from students, faculty

and staff. Most of that came for voluntary payroll deductions, Beaton said.

“All of the money that is raised during the campaign, which was almost $2 million (for the Ka-mloops Area) last year, all that money stays in the community,” she said.

This year, the goal is $60,000. Beaton said she was pleased how the campaign has been doing so far. While students might not have a lot of money to donate, there are other ways to help the United Way.

“I think that, obviously, they may not be in the position right now to donate, but at the same time there’s a lot of ways to get involved,” she said. “Participa-tion, no matter how that actually looks, is the thing we are pushing the most and we’d love for peo-ple to get involved whether it is through donating, through volun-teering, or just through support-ing the organizations that are in the community.”

One way to do just that can be found right on campus.

“We actually have a youth club on campus that really provides volunteer and leadership oppor-tunities for students to get in-volved with.”

Those interested in donating or getting more involved can go to http://www.unitedwaytnc.ca or contact the youth club at [email protected].

Ω News EditorDevan C. Tasa

United Way’s annual campaign hits TRU

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Location: Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. Term: January 6 to June 27, 2014

Remuneration: $21,997 for six months

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The BCLIP is an educational six-month opportunity for Canadian university graduates to work in British Columbia’s parliamentary system. Your academic training will be enhanced by exposure to public policy-making and the legislative process by working in the executive and legislative branches of the provincial government at the Parliament Buildings in Victoria. B.C. residents are eligible to apply if they have received their first Bachelor’s Degree from a Canadian university within two years of the start date of the 2014 program.

Russell Currie, TRU’s dean of business and economics, pre-pares to shove more cream pies in Dennis Olson, associate dean of faculty, students and research, and Tony Bell, ac-counting professor. —PHOTO BY SAMANTHA GARVEY

Puzzle of the Week #8 – The New Job

Degree proudly in hand, you have just landed a job. There are two waysyou can get paid. Plan A is that you start at $40,000 per year with raisesof $4,000 per year every year. Plan B is that you start at $40,000 per yearwith raises of $2,000 per year every six months.

Does it matter which plan you select? If so, which is the better deal foryou?

This contest is sponsored by the Mathematics and Statistics department. The

full-time student with the best score at the end of the year will win a prize.

Please submit your solution (not just the answer but also why) by noon next

Wednesday to Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]>. Submissions by others are

also welcome. The solution will be posted the Wednesday after that in the Math

Centre (HL210A). Come visit: we are friendly.

October 31, 20126

That’s what you saidFor this week’s issue, we patrolled the grounds looking for your answers to this question:

“I went to the ISAP event. I went as Jessica Rabbit.”

“I’m going to put my hair straight up and wear the mask of a skeleton and I have special shoes with Homer Simpson’s face on them.”

I wanted to go as a Teenage Mu-tant Ninja Turtle but I ran out of time. Then I thought about buying a one-piece and a banana hat and going as Banana in Pajamas but couldn’t find the banana hat. So I’m going to wear a blue towel with my face on it and go as Towelie.

What are you dressing up as for Halloween?

Third year tourismElena Tsvetkova

Post baccaleurate accountingAsif Haque

Second year natural resource scienceAaren Ritchie-Bonar

Most students at TRU may never know what it is like to go hungry. For some, they go day to day trying to main-tain the busy life of a student without the resources for the most basic necessity of life.

This year the Kappa Sigma fraternity at TRU will once again host the Trick-or-Eat fundraiser on Halloween, when volunteers go door-to-door and ask for non-perishable food item donations.

According to Food Banks Canada, 867,948 Canadians relied on food banks in 2011. In Kamloops, 6,810 residents used the local food bank including 804 children, according to the Kamloops Food Bank website.

TRU has its own food bank through the students union as well as its own population of people in need.

“For a specific period of time in early January we were essentially scrambling to purchase food,” TRUSU’s executive director Nathan Lane told The Omega last February, indicating students had been turned away. According to him, the students union had been expecting a contribution from the campaign.

But there was a mix-up and the TRU-SU Food Bank didn’t receive its expect-ed donation.

“I’m making sure … we’re definitely giving to the TRUSU Food Bank (this year),” said Kevin Hendricks, Kappa Sigma’s grand master and second-year bachelor of business administration stu-dent. He added he wasn’t sure what the percentage would be.

Last year the event raised $22,000 in donations, up from $16,000 in 2010 when Kappa Sigma first hosted the drive.

The goal this year is $30,000 in com-bined online donations and door-to-door contributions (which are counted as two

dollars per pound of food). For Hendricks, the feeling of going

hungry is a recent memory.“I know what it’s like as a student to

go hungry and wait till pay day, or to not have a pay day coming,” Hendricks said. “There’s been times when I had five packs of Mr. Noodles and six days till pay day.”

For several years, the Kappa Sigma team always had the most members participate on Halloween night and usu-ally came back with largest donation from trick-or-treating. After 2009, the fraternity was asked if it would take on the leadership role. Hendricks explained that community service is an integral part of the group and they happily ac-cepted.

“It’s a nice opportunity to give back to community that has given us so much,” Hendricks said. “And to show we’re not what you see in the movies.”

Along with fellowship, leadership and scholarship, service is one of the four pillars of Kappa Sigma, which be-gan at TRU in 2004 and became official in 2006. It is part of the larger network of 282 chapters and 250,000 past and pres-ent members.

Hendricks became a brother in 2010 and has felt the camaraderie of the group ever since.

“I’ve never had a day that I didn’t eat (because) the boys wouldn’t let that happen,” he said, adding his fraternity-brother roommates would take him di-rectly to the grocery store. “They’d say, ‘Dude, why didn’t you ask?’”

Nine teams have already registered but organizers will be accepting people all the way to the date. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Thompson Hotel downtown at 4 p.m. and will be collect-ing until 9 p.m.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Hendricks said. “It’s fulfilling.”

For more information or to register to volunteer, visit trickoreat.ca.

Ω Roving EditorSamantha Garvey

Trick-or-treat for a cause

Life & Community

Costume contest!Send us your photos from Halloween, and the best costume(s)

will receive a prize. Get your photos in by 5 p.m. on Friday Oct. 26 and look in

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Your 2012 PACWEST Champions, the TRU WolfPack. —PHOTO COURTESY TRU ATHLETICS

A year ago Alanna Bekkering was celebrating being named PAC-WEST playoff MVP and scoring an overtime goal that secured a provin-cial championship for the WolfPack women’s soccer team — this year she celebrates the same accolades.

Bekkering was the lone goal scor-er in her team’s 1-0 victory versus the University of British Columbia Okanagan Heat Oct. 27 in the PAC-WEST championship final in Squa-mish, B.C.

“I thought for sure that we were going to score another one, I didn’t think that it was going to end 1-0,” Bekkering said. “It’s really nice, it’s always an honour to get those goals and keep the team motivated with that one goal. We did come out very hard in the first half and we were playing very well, but I know that after we were up 1-0 our motivation just got stronger and we pushed even harder to keep that lead.”

The WolfPack took an unortho-dox route to the final, initially fall-ing behind 2-0 to the Langara Col-lege Falcons in Oct. 26’s semi-final match. The ‘Pack battled back in the second half to secure a 5-2 victory and a berth in the final.

“We totally dominated the game actually, it’s the best we’ve actually played all year as far as possession goes but we just weren’t finishing,” said head coach Tom McManus. “I walked into the dressing room [at halftime] and stayed calm and

said, ‘We’re not going to lose so don’t worry about it, continue to do what you’re doing and we’ll come through.’ So we tied the game up 2-2 and in overtime we scored the three goals to make it 5-2.”

Bekkering wrapped up another outstanding PACWEST season with the close of championship weekend, one in which she was awarded the PACWEST Player of the Year title, her second playoff MVP title, the top striker title, her second-consec-utive first-team all-star honours and managed to score the game-winning goal in the championship final for the second year in a row.

“She had a phenomenal week-end, she’s just a joy to behold and a true team player,” McManus said. “I asked her if she would do runs to pull the defenders away and she con-stantly did it and created space for her teammates who were scoring the goals. It was great to see such matu-rity in a player.”

Bekkering, who has one year of eligibility left with the team, will return next year and be named one of the team captains according to McManus.

Bekkering has always prided her-self on her leadership abilities and spoke at length of how humbling it has been to receive so many hon-ours.

For some, it would be hard to find continued motivation to play af-ter winning almost every personal award available, but not for Bekker-ing.

“[Blair MacKay and I have]

known each other since kinder-garten and played soccer together since we were 10,” Bekkering said. “Knowing that it’s her last year, I kind of want to do it for her and go out with a bang for her. Not only that but I just know that this team has such a strong potential to win the national title.”

The WolfPack will now move on to the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association championships in Char-lottetown, P.E.I. Nov. 7 to 10. This will be the ‘Pack’s second-consec-utive appearance at nationals and they will be looking to improve on

their fourth place finish from 2011.“The big thing I said to the girls

the other day,” McManus said, “I said, ‘You remember what it was like when we won provincials last year?’ And everyone said, ‘Yeah, we were playing so great,’ and I said, ‘Now what happened when we got to nationals and we went to Quebec City?’ And it was kind of silent and I said, ‘Exactly’. I said, ‘You went in there, happy you were in Quebec City, but you forgot the reason you were there was to win the games and this year we’re going there to win the games.’”

Bekkering echoed McManus’s thoughts on the 2011 nationals and said her team focused too much on the experience - sightseeing, shop-ping - and not the soccer games ahead of them. This year the focus is on placing in the top three at the very least, but more optimistically coming home with a gold medal around their necks.

“I’m just so excited. I want ev-eryone to see and know that TRU women’s soccer is a tough team to beat and to watch out for us because this is the strongest team I’ve ever played with.”

Ω Sports EditorAdam Williams

Revelling in a repeatWolfPack women’s soccer bring home their second PACWEST title in as many years


Swedish electro-house duo Dada Life performed at Cactus Jacks Monday, Oct. 22, showing fans in Kamloops what their fa-mous energy is all about.

Hailing from Los Angeles, opening act 12th Planet did a great job of priming the crowd with electric dance music (EDM).

Dada Life members Olle Corn-eer and Stefan Engbliom then burst on stage and manned the turntables for what would be a night of high-energy fun.

For those unfamiliar, Dada Life has amassed a markedly larger fan base since their debut in 2006. These fans have become welcomed citizens of “Dada Land,” where their electronic, bass-ramped beats are anthems for fun. As the kings of this fantasy empire, Dada Life has also created a list of “Dada Rules” which prescribe certain behaviour for admirers and show attendees. Monday’s performance proves the duo isn’t just talk – they practice what they preach.

Rule #35 – Never bring your brain into the club. Inf latable bananas and champagne bottles swirled across the dance f loor, while several fans dressed as ba-nanas fist-pumped their way to the front. Fans even brought their own bananas, hurling the fruit on stage. To an outsider unfamiliar with the pair’s trademark gim-mickry, this all appears moronic. That’s just the point – the club isn’t for your brain and it certainly

isn’t for thinking. Both members of the duo even picked up some of the fruit, peeling them back for a mid-performance snack.

Rule #12 – If you don’t want to get wet, you don’t want to have fun – and get wet show-goers did. The pair popped at least three bottles of champagne and drenched half the dance f loor in the bursting bubbly.

Rule #9 – If you’re stuck, there’s only one solution: go harder. From beginning to end, Dada Life filled Cactus Jacks with their charac-teristic, energy-driven sound, playing fan favorites like “Kick Out The Epic,” “Rolling Stones T-Shirt” and fellow DJs Bingo

Players’ “Rattle” (arguably one of the most popular EDM tracks of 2012). The harder it was, the loud-er it sounded and the faster it got fans moving, the more Dada Life let it play.

The show gave fans exactly what they wanted. Cactus Jacks became Dada Land, and the rules of Dada were strongly enforced. Overall attendance was small, but the fans that were present made up for the lack of numbers with their energy and enthusiasm.

If potassium-infused, bottle-poppin’ fun is something you’re into, make sure not to miss the duo next time they slide through Kamloops.

Ω ContributorKassandra Mitchell

Beats, bananas and the bubbly

These days, TRU chaplain George Feenstra’s life is peaceful. Sitting in the chaplaincy office at TRU, this weath-ered minister looks kind of like a sage far removed from his days as a rebel-lious church outcast. He’s more an in-tellectual thinker now, who ponders the role of the church in social organization through the first half of the 20th centu-ry. He also thinks about the life of Jesus Christ, who he says fought against the power structures of the day to better the lives of common people.

“If the Christian faith has anything to offer, it’s the critical nature of Jesus who fought against the religious insti-tutions and political structures,” said George Feenstra, a United Church min-ister. “As a minister, I am just another capitalist wage earner. The church itself has become the benefactors of a system it should be criticizing.”

Feenstra and his small United Church congregation in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood near Vancou-ver’s Commercial Drive, fed porridge in the mornings and soup in the eve-nings to sex trade workers after police pushed them off downtown eastside streets in preparation for of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

“We had guests and you treat your guests well,” Feenstra said as he shifts in his chair at the small Interfaith Chaplaincy office carved out of the wall off a hallway in Old Main on TRU campus.

The influx of street people from depressed areas of East Hastings and Main Street neighbourhoods in the late 2000s didn’t sit well with a local com-munity watch group, who Feenstra said called police and the United Church to complain.

“The United Church gave the police permission to drive the street people away from the church,” Feenstra said. “It was a gross act of social injustice.”

The 62-year-old TRU chaplain was a street person himself at one time. He dropped out of high school and lived a transient lifestyle until he decided to enter the United Church as a minister. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree, he attended the Vancouver School of Theology and obtained a master of di-vinity.

“It takes courage to be who you are,” Feenstra said, reflecting on his life journey, adding he finds comfort in the teachings of Buddha and Socrates. “I admire them because they were unique.”

Uniqueness is a longstanding issue for Feenstra who suffered exile when he was asked to take a leave of absence from the United Church ministry after police arrested him during a peaceful protest in Vancouver, an event that was followed by the Mount Pleasant de-bacle.

“The people were unhappy Gordon Campbell was playing up the sponsors of a daycare that was privatized,” Feen-stra explained.

The community members gathered at the daycare where Campbell was set to give a photo-op. Feenstra decided to try and go into the daycare. When he was denied entry the first time, he was arrested the second time and charged with assaulting a police officer, resist-ing arrest, and inciting a riot.

“When the crowd shouted for the police to let me go, they charged me with unlawful assembly and uttering profanities,” Feenstra said. He denies he swore and said the gathering was peaceful.

Feel free to visit him in his office just off the main intersection of Old Main.

David Nasz plays bass alongside Lewis Jay on guitar for their band FAMINE at the Little Big House show on Oct. 10. —PHOTO BY SAMANTHA GARVEY

Ω ContributorJohn King

The accidental chaplain

Life & Community

Dada Life brings their “anthems for fun” to Cactus Jack’s Saloon

Matt Mays brings East Coast rock westMatt Mays at the Blue Grotto with Gloryhound and the Meds

“We got a triple threat of East Coast rock,” Evan Meisner shouted at the beginning of Glo-ryhound’s set, the f irst band of the evening.

Truth be told, on Oct. 22 the Blue Grotto was host to one of the biggest gatherings of Mari-timers that Kam-loops has had in some time.

Gloryhound, of Halifax, opened the evening, while C h a r l o t t e t o w n’s The Meds played the middle set. Juno nominee rock star and Cole Harbour, N.S. resi-dent Matt Mays wrapped things up.

Gloryhound’s f irst trip to Ka-mloops was a raucous success and while they weren’t so coun-try/folksy as the later groups, they played aggressive rock, similar to mainstream fare but with a serious edge.

The Meds followed up quickly. While they lacked some onstage energy, their style involved a lot more participatory action, with sing-a-longs and clapping.

A rocky start at f irst, they warmed up well and the crowd warmed to them.

The real reason most people were there was the headliner. Matt Mays has been a solo artist for 10 years.

Before that he was a part of East Coast folk-rock act The Guthries, but he didn’t touch that material.

With f ive studio albums to his

name, virtually everything was original, from new work off his 2012 release, Coyote, to his f irst single, “City of Lakes,” from 2002.

Mays is a man comfortable on stage.

While there were six men on stage, he had all the attention but not in an arrogant way.

His enjoyment of the stage and songs was evident.

Shaggy-haired, face painted with red and white streaks down his cheeks and without socks, he

may have been having more fun than anyone else in the Grotto.

His comfort on stage was evi-dent when he took to the mike as well.

According to Mays, good jeans can be found in Great Slave Lake, a good show requires plen-ty of smoke, but not too much.

Not only is he comfortable in front of a crowd, he seemed fine being part of it as well, pulling

one lucky fan on stage for the last song before the en-core and then leav-ing through the crowd.

Starting off with the lead track off Coyote, “Indio,” the f irst big song

of the night was “Take It On Faith,” Coyote’s f irst single. While mostly off the new album, he selected a few of his older tracks to f ill out the 20-song set.

“Terminal Romance,” “On the Hood” and “Tall Trees” all got time in the spot light.

By the end, the crowd was chanting for 2005 hit “Cocaine Cowgirl.”

They weren’t let down either, with the track taking the place as part of the big, rousing end encore.


“We got a triple threat of East Coast Rock.”

—Evan Meisner

Matt Mays (pictured) brings out the new stuff from Coyote, as well as the olf favourites like Cocaine Cowgirl to gear up the crowd at the Blue Grotto Oct. 22. —PHOTO BY KARLA KARCIOGLU

October 31, 20128

One of the worst birthdays just happened. Singer-songwriter Aidan Knight was on the road, heading to Regina, when his tour van hit black ice and skidded into a snow bank. No one was hurt, but they had to cancel the Regina show, which is a shame for fans of Knight’s dreamy, folksy style.

Based in Victoria, B.C., he spent some time playing with other more established artists, such as Maurice and Dan Man-gan, before striking out on his own. In 2008 he released a cou-ple singles but it was his f irst al-

bum, 2010’s Versicolour, which really introduced him to crit-ics and fans. He released Small Reveal, his second full-length album this year, the day of his birthday and van accident.

A softer sound, without the twang and thump of many other folk bands, Knight produces a much more polished sound. This is partly due to his vocals and quiet, thoughtful voice, which is much less forceful than others. It’s not music made for big clubs or arenas, it edges on shoe gazer with the slightest touch of Dave Matthews at times.

Check out his new single, “A Mirror,” for the evolving Knight, as he’s expanding his sound to include a band.

Formed in 2006, Silvergun & Spleen pistol-whips listeners with a gritty brand of rock ‘n’ roll that screams, “Hell yeah!”

Driven by heavy guitar and a fe-male vocalist dripping with attitude, Silvergun & Spleen follows a long line of Canadian bands, such as Mother Mother and Hey Ocean, to make it big while featuring strong female vocals. The one difference is that Silvergun & Spleen’s brand of rock is much more aggressive than that of Mother Mother or Hey Ocean’s indie-pop efforts.

Lead singer Marie-Eve Mallet strives for and succeeds in inject-ing a sassy personality and vocal track oozing alternative hipster-rock sexiness. Her presence on the band’s

latest album draws the listener in, leaving them wanting more despite already being more than satisfied.

The band also features the sister of Marie-Eve, Veronique Mallet. The two raven-haired, dark-rimmed-spectacle wearing ladies take control of the guitar tracks while Chris Page handles duty on the bass. John (El Conquistador) Lenherr brings Silver-gun & Spleen home with a crisp and confident drumline.

Silvergun & Spleen’s latest album, Semi Truck, is a nine-track pleasure ride aboard a runaway 18-wheeler. It’s a fast-paced adrenaline rush best exemplified by tracks such as “Kiss & Tell,” “Just Enough to Dance,” “An Eye for an Eye” and the lead single off the 2012 release, “Crack.”

Prior to the release of Semi Truck, Silvergun & Spleen broke on to the scene with the release of its 2011 EP, Through My Skeleton.

Ω Copy/Web EditorTaylor Rocca


Arts & Entertainment

Carolyn Mark’s newest album, The Queen of Vancouver Island, is an adventure in genres, with 12 tracks ranging from country/folk to jazzy/burlesque.

There is also a healthy dose of humour and some songs sound as if they came straight from a Quentin Tarantino f ilm.

I started out pretty skeptical, considering I’m not a big fan of the country twang but the more I listened, the more it grew on me.

I really liked the f irst track, “Poor Farmers,” with the distant echoing vocals and the acoustic guitar.

The title track, “The Queen of Vancouver Island,” wasn’t my favourite, but it had joyful charm to it and had a plethora of talented musicians and support vocals.

In fact, I counted 30 different people that contributed to the al-bum.

“Flaming Star,” an Elvis cov-er, is a lot of fun and well done. It reminded me of Johnny Cash, but be warned, it will definitely get stuck in your head.

“Nobody(‘s Perfect)” is prob-ably my favorite track, an in-credibly cleverly written, darkly humorous and easy track to lis-ten to.

“Old Whores” is emotional and poignant and has a lovely piano solo. Bet you weren’t ex-pecting that.

“You’re not a Whore (If No One’s Paying)” has a burlesque feel; you could picture Mark sing-ing in a smoky club with a chorus line kicking high behind her.

I could have lived without the gurgling though (insert joke

here)…Carolyn Mark is clearly an in-

telligent and thoughtful writer unafraid of sarcastic wit and self-deprecating humour.

If you’re looking for tunes that are formulaic and predict-able don’t buy this album, but if you’re adventurous, quirky and appreciate unbridled creative expression then take a chance.

Ω ContributorJess Oja Andrews

Album Review: Queen of Vancouver Island

—IMAGE COURTESY MINT RECORDS

Canadian Music Corner

Marianas Trench w/Down With Webster – Nov. 3

Interior Savings Centre, doors @ 7 p.m., $46.75 to $54.75

Canada has had a string of successful pop-punk bands and Marianas Trench are one of the top, with a string of hits dur-ing their ten year career. An upbeat, accessible sound which cracked the charts with songs like “Shake Tramp” and “Ce-lebrity Status.” Openers Down With Webster promise a high en-ergy set as well with their brand of pop-rap-rock.

Lost in The Woods, Simon King, Mike Wolfe – Nov. 9

Bailey’s Pub, 8 p.m., $10 ad-vance or $15 at the door

A night of live comedy with a twist of music. Lost in the Woods, folksy rockers from right here in Kamloops, will be playing a set with a pair of comedians.

While they will be provid-ing songs reminiscent of the Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Simon King and Mike Wolfe will be offering up jokes. The edgy King has had some success lately, including an appearance on CTV’s Com-edy Now and a contract with Uproar Entertainment, a comedy talent label.

Kamloops Symphony Orches-tra does Elton John – Nov. 16 & 17

Sagebrush Theater, doors @ 7 p.m., $37

For fans of one of the greatest pop acts of all time, the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra will be doing a pair of nights in honour of Elton John. Classic pop and classical will probably not clash, but meet up in a perfectly civilized manner and spend the night drifting through a 50-year career. The Kamloops Symphony Orchestra Choir will be providing vocals for hits from “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” to “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting.”

Xzibit – Nov. 28

Cactus Jacks, 10 p.m., $25 ad-vance or $30 at the door

The rapper and car enthusiast will be hitting Cactus Jacks sup-porting his new album Napalm.

Xzibit is a heavy-duty rapper with production more akin to metal than most of his Californian coun-terparts. With a recent video shot in Iraq, this is sure to be a loud, intense show, but as many saw on his MTV show Pimp My Ride, he’s got a sense of humour too. Expect the crowd to be edging on mosh pit more than they would at a Snoop Dog show.

Concert Listings: November

Coming from the East Koote-nays of British Columbia, Fer-nie’s Shred Kelly visited Kam-loops on Wednesday, Oct. 24 as part of their Fall Album Release Tour to perform songs from their second album, In The Hills, re-corded in May and released in September.

Heroes Pub was more full than what could be expected on a cold Wednesday night.

Supporting local band Van Damsel warmed up the stage of-fering a 40-minute set of their energetic indie-rock songs.

Shred Kelly started with the title track from its latest album, following that up with “Goodbye July.” The audience fervently joined, clapping and tapping to the mixture of folk, rock and country.

The audience was divided be-tween people that already knew the band and new listeners, but all of them were easily conquered by Tim Newton’s brisk banjo.

The party went on among the crowd at Heroes, with two more songs from the new album, “Cabin Fever” and “New Black.” Female vocalist and keyboardist, Sage McBride, took the lead role on “Leaving Town,” followed by “Ghost Inside My Head.”

By the time audience joined the chorus of “I Hate Work,” a great night of live music was guaranteed, both for the listen-ers and for the band, who was surprised by the reception of their live show in Kamloops.

The band maintained high spirits with a pack of new songs — the powerful start of the ban-jo in “Time is Passing,” the qui-et and tender start turning into a crescendo in “Rowed Away,”

a vigorous boy-girl chorus in “White River,” the pianistic background of “The Bear” and the powerful drumming in “The Cold.”

The great f inale for the show had been awarded to the mighty “Tornado Alley.”

After this more than six-min-ute-masterpiece, the audience still wanted more and Shred Kelly ended up playing two more new songs, f inishing with a singalong chorus — one that the audience was still humming on the way back home.

Ω ContributorOriol Salvador

Shred Kelly folking on Heroes

Shred Kelly (pictured) from Fernie teams up with local band Van Damsel to continue the Heroes Concert Series, running Wednesday nights. —PHOTO BY ORIOL SALVADOR


Zombies, hammers and blood all stumbled, struck and splattered their way across the big screen for the Fake Flesh Film Fest.

On Sunday, Oct. 28, the Paramount Theatre in downtown Kamloops host-ed more than 300 people for two show-ings of Kamloops’ first horror film fest.

Seven of the 14 films aired were made locally, most without budgets, all from the passion and creativity of their makers.

Darryl John organized the event and also had two of his shorts aired, which he completed before he began to plan the festival only a month ago.

“I thought it went pretty g*d d**n awesome,” John said. “Everyone was really happy.”

He made his first film when he wanted to attend the Whistler horror film fest three years ago, “[Because] the only way to get in is to make a movie.”

He said he knew many others in Kamloops with similar interests be-cause when he would ask for help on his projects he received overwhelming responses. When Whistler cancelled its festival this year, John went to work on Kamloops’ first annual.

His films received huge roars from the crowd. In the first film of the night, John played a man on a murder spree, beginning with a friend’s daughter who he ended with scalding water and a lawn mower.

After making his first film spontane-ously a year ago, Corey Rajala entered his latest project, a 16-minute narrative that he began making in August. It re-ceived enormous applause and cheers from the packed audience.

“It’s got everything,” he said about

Night of the Ooze. “It’s funny, grossed out, kind of emotional. At one point you might cry.”

Not to mention the appearances made by zombies, an ooze monster, a cheesy girlfriend death, a UFO, grave-yards and a mad scientist, who was ac-tually played by Rajala himself.

In addition to starring in his film, Rajala wrote his script, titles, music and did all of the editing, narrating and filming behind the camera.

The final cut had a lot of help, all friends of Rajala, who put their own time and expertise into the zero-budget project.

In fact, many of the stars of all the local submissions could be seen in the crowd, apparently de-zombied and cured of their murderous tendencies.

Kamloops residents in the theatre would recognize familiar sights around the city, such as the Pleasant Street Cemetery, which was featured in sev-eral movies, as well as Riverside Park and Kelly O’Bryan’s.

Also local was the sponsor, Moun-tain High Pizza, and the host for the evening, comedian Dan Jakes.

“Enjoy yourselves, you sick f***s,” he addressed the crowd to kick things off.

The night was gory and disgusting the whole way through. Making the final cut was zombie death squads, literal blood showers and a killer boob on the prowl, resulting from a botched breast-enhancement surgery. Perhaps the most over-the-top horrific images were from the animated film where an overweight man and a baby were at-tacked by ever-expanding, flesh-eating killer hamburgers.

Due to the night’s success, John plans to make the event annual.

“Next year, I’m going to take it on tour, hopefully four or five stops,” he said.

Arts & Entertainment

The first words to describe Cloud Atlas would be expansive and epic from start to finish. Edging towards three hours long, the film takes six plots from six periods of time and intertwines characters, character-istics and the very basic pieces of humanity. Themes include, but are not limited to, love and fear, cow-ardice and courage, truth and jus-tice, strength and weakness, faith, racism and kindness.

For a film as huge as Cloud At-las, the audience needs to go in with a mind prepared for some-thing big. The six plots occur con-currently on screen, that is, even though they relate to each other, the film jumps back and forth through time, moving all the plots forward at the same speed, so that they all finish at the end.

Characters appear in multiple plots, and the souls of some char-acters appear in all or many of the plots. That’s the central point to the film; the criss-crossing of these characters souls over hundreds of years.

There are the two protagonists, two souls that repeatedly find each other over time, and a villain. The same actors portray characters in many of the plots, but not always the same soul, which can be con-fusing, but lends to the theme of repetition.

Through out the film there are strong performances by many ac-tors. Tom Hanks as the post-apoc-alyptic Zachry stands out, as does Ben Whishaw as pre-Second World War composer Robert Frobisher and Doona Bae as Soonmi-451.

As there are six plots with two or three main characters each, many actors have memorable moments,

especially as the climax to the plots lasts much longer than the average film. As a film of theme and philos-ophy, it’s not action battles that make up the majority of the conclusion, but characters discussing rhetoric. They muse in speeches or letters on hope, love, justice and rebirth as they choose their path in life.

Production-wise, there are few flaws. Arguments could be made about the amount of make-up in-stead of just hiring different actors, but the repetition of faces is part of the theme.

The bigger issues for filmgoers will be following the plot and letting go to the screenplay. It’s such a big view on human nature that some of the details can get lost. Fans of the book Cloud Atlas, which this film is based on, might have an issue with the translation onto screen, but that always happens and with a story as big as this, there will be issues.

Ω Arts and Entertainment EditorBrendan Kergin

Film review: Cloud Atlas

—IMAGE COURTESY CLOUD ATLAS PRODUCTIONS

B-grade horror fest full of flesh-crawling funΩ Roving EditorSamantha Garvey

The Fake Flesh Film fest goes off with a scream. —IMAGE COURTESY FAKE FLESH FILM FEST

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The WolfPack men’s soccer team was hit with disappointment Oct. 27 when they were defeated by the Vancouver Island University (VIU) Mariners 4-0 in the PACWEST semi-final.

“It was experience versus inexpe-rience and the vets won out,” Wolf-Pack co-head coach John Antulov said in a press release from TRU Ath-letics. “Unfortunately, the score was indicative of the play. We just didn’t come up with a strong effort.

“This was a good learning experi-ence for our young guys.”

Down but not out, the team notched a 6-2 victory against the Kwantlen Polytechnic University Eagles Oct. 28 to come home with a the bronze medal.

“Obviously our sights were set on beating VIU and earning a position at nationals,” said co-head coach Sean Wallace. “It just wasn’t meant

to be on that given day. VIU is a strong team so they were deserving of the victory on Saturday. The boys showed a lot of character in the way they bounced back and prepared for our game on Sunday.”

Oriol Torres led the ‘Pack with a hat trick against the Eagles as Kyle Fertile and Colton Walker had strong games as well. Sebastian Gardner, one of the WolfPack’s captains, spoke to the team before the game and urged them to win the game for Justin Smeaton who was playing in his final PACWEST game. Coach Wallace said it was a fitting gesture for a player who has given so much to the soccer program over the course of his career.

The WolfPack will remain largely intact next season, with Douglas Col-lege and VIU losing a significant portion of their rosters to gradua-tion. Wallace believes the team has the hunger and depth to have an even better season next year.

“This is something to build on for next year.”

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Volleyball season opens at the TCC

“It was really good. Obvious-ly we were a little shaky in the f irst set there, in front of the big crowd, a lot of guys’ f irst time playing at TRU, but it was really good.”

Setter Colin Carson’s assess-ment of the Wolf Pack’s f irst match on Oct. 26 was dead on — the team was nervous, but managed to battle through it and secure a commanding win.

More than 300 fans came out to watch the action as the ‘Pack took on their regional rivals, the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) Heat, in their season and home opener at the Tournament Capital Centre.

The men secured a straight-sets victory, while the women dropped a straight-sets loss.

Nerves characterized both the men’s and women’s matches.

The men’s victory came in three straight sets, as they won 25-22, 25-18 and 25-16. TRU se-cured the momentum after win-ning a close f irst and didn’t look back.

“I think that’s always key,” said head coach Pat Hennelly. “You could sense the nerves on both sides of the court, home-opener, new year.

“We talked about that after the timeout, said ‘listen we’re going to play a lot of ball tonight, even if we lose this let’s get back to how we felt last weekend.’ That was a big key for us and I thought we ended that set pretty good.”

The men were led on the court by outside hitter Hardy Wooldridge, who had nine kills and two service aces, as well as Carson, who had 28 assists and 8 digs. Hennelly also had praise for middle Mohamed “Manny” Ab-del Rehim’s role in the first set.

“I thought Hardy had a really stable game, both from the ser-vice line and back court passing and hitting,” Hennelly said.

“Manny was very instrumen-tal for us early, got some big kills...and then went on a serv-ing run himself.

“I thought those two guys showed some leadership when it was a little bit unstable and Colin Carson did a good job of making sure everyone was a part of the offence.”

The women were on the wrong side of a three set match earlier in the evening, as they fell to the Heat 25-15, 25-9 and 25-18.

Head coach Keith Lundgren spoke about the nerves and in-consistency that were clear in his team’s play, but pointed out some positives his team could

take from the game.“The numbers from our f irst

set match the numbers, aside from the errors, of their second and third sets,” Lundgren said.

“So we just got to keep our numbers up consistently and that’s one thing that we’re work-ing on and going to get good at.”

The women come into this season as a rebuilding club.

In a recent poll of coaches around the CIS, the Wolf Pack women’s volleyball club was predicted to f inish dead last in the CIS.

Unfortunate as it may be, it’s not necessarily a surprise with a club as young as the Wolf Pack’s, who have only three returning players. With second year out-side hitter Brianne Rauch cur-rently out of the lineup with a shoulder injury, the team on the court is even younger.

“We’re working on court bal-ance,” Lundgren said. “We’re working on being in the right spots, right? So obviously it’s a learning curve with that kind of stuff. I think some of the errors are definitely on our inexperi-ence.”

The men put together another strong performance the next night, defeating UBCO 3-0 in Kelowna, while the women were again defeated 3-0.


Men’s soccer brings home bronze Ω Sports EditorAdam Williams

Setter Colin Carson sprawls for a dig in the WolfPac’s straight-set victory over the UBCO Heat Oct. 26.

—PHOTO BY ADAM WILLIAMS

Forward Rigby Burgart fights for position in front of the Spartans net on Oct. 27 at Memorial Arena.

—PHOTO BY ADAM WILLIAMS

Bounce back win for WolfPack hockey

The WolfPack men’s hockey team worked their way back into the win column Oct. 27, with a 5-2 victory over the Trinity Western University (TWU) Spartans.

The ‘Pack fell behind midway through the first period when Douglas Gordon of the Spartans scored a power play marker from along the goal-line. That was as far as the Spartans would get how-ever, as the WolfPack answered less than four minutes later and never looked back.

“I thought we had a pretty solid first two periods,” said WolfPack head coach Don Schulz. “I thought we took the foot off the throttle a little bit in the third - not too bad - but give them credit, they always work hard right until the last sec-ond and that’s the same sort of

work ethic we’re trying to instill with our guys.”

WolfPack forwards Tyler Jack-son and Nathan Michaels led the team with three points each and captain Curtis Tonello had a strong game on the back end with two goals of his own. Jackson scored the eventual game winner.

“Tyler’s got good speed, he’s got really good work ethic and when he works inside and within the system he can be very, very effec-tive,” Schulz said. “He may not be the biggest guy in stature, but he’s got a lot of heart, so you have to really respect the way he plays.”

Heart is a word that might be used to characterize the entire team’s play Oct. 27. The ‘Pack was handed two embarrassing de-feats last weekend in Castlegar, 11-0 and 8-1, at the hands of the league-leading Selkirk Saints. It’s a pattern the team could have al-lowed to continue against TWU

this weekend but instead hard work and physical play led the team to victory.

Schulz said the team went through a long week of hard prac-tices and battle drills in prepara-tion for this weekend’s play and not one complaint was uttered when things got tough.

With TWU now firmly in the rear-view mirror, the focus shifts to next weekend, when the Wolf-Pack will have the opportunity to exact revenge on the Selkirk Saints at the Memorial Arena in Kamloops.

They will also get their first look at the Eastern Washington University Eagles, who sit just one point behind the WolfPack in the BCIHL standings.

Both games have important im-plications on the young BCIHL season and the WolfPack will be counting on hard work and heart to carry them through.


Your 2012 PACWEST bronze medalists: the TRU WolfPack

—PHOTO COURTESY TRU ATHLETICS


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