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Orientation and Back-to-School Barbecue 2
Large crowd for Ajax discussion 4
THEΩMEGA
VOLUME 22ISSUE 2
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
TRU’s Independent Student Newspaper
Deadlines to meet
Women dominate opening weekend 10
September 12, 20122
ON THE COVER:While students might not be excited about the return of deadlines, they were excited for Arkells who headlined Tunes Against Tuition on
Sept. 8 held on the Campus Commons. PHOTO BY TAYLOR ROCCA
News
That’s what you saidFor this week’s issue, we patrolled the grounds looking for your answers to this question:
“I’m from here, so it’s definite-ly easy to come here. It’s more af-fordable to stay in town.
“I’ve heard good things about the science program here so that also helps.”
“Because it’s a beautiful school and [a] beautiful city.
“I went [to the University of British Columbia before.] I also wanted variety.”
“Because of the engineering trans-fer program they have. I did a lot of research into it. There’s a really high level of graduation from it. As well, it transfers to most of the schools I’d like to go to afterwards.
“It gives me the chance for small-er class sizes for starting out and then I already have my foot in the door for going to the large universi-ties to finish.”
Why did you choose TRU?
First year sciencesJulie McNutt
First year lawAlex Buonassisi
First year engineeringRaphael Jamin
Distinctive emergency phones installed
Those returning to TRU may have noticed the hard-to-miss yellow poles with blue lights placed in parking lots and along paths.
The poles contain state-of-the-art, emergency blue-light telephones, four of which have been installed on campus grounds over the summer holi-days with another waiting to be added, said Warren Asuchak, the university’s assistant facilities director.
“It’s all about safety and mak-ing people feel comfortable about walking on campus,” he said. “We think they’re awe-some.”
The distinct phones have few buttons, allowing easy access if somebody runs into trouble. They also indicate when some-thing is wrong with a f lashing blue light.
Each phone costs approxi-mately $5,000, Asuchak said.
The f irst two phones were in-stalled in Lot N, located behind TRU Residence and Conference Centre.
Because the parking lot was in an outlying area, TRU adminis-tration was concerned about stu-dent safety.
“Security was really impor-tant to administration,” Asuchak said, “so they wanted to make sure we lit the lot very well so it has excellent lighting and we
wanted to make sure the emer-gency phones were accessible.”
Those two phones sparked a reaction from TRUSU.
“We went to the institution and we said we’d like to see more of these high-tech phones and they listened,” said Dustin McIntyre, the students union president. “No one’s approached us [with concerns], but it’s better to be proactive than reactive on this.”
The students union identif ied more than 20 “great” locations, Asuchak said.
“We’re just going to work to-gether with TRUSU to try to up-grade to these new phones,” he said.
After talking with TRUSU, the university purchased an ad-ditional three phones.
Two of those phones were in-stalled in areas that have had increased foot traff ic due to the expansion of the university. One was installed at the new bike rack located south of the Brown Family House of Learn-ing, while the other is located in the Campus Commons near the International Building.
The remaining phone has yet to be installed. More phones will be purchased as additional money and resources become available.
The emergency blue-light telephones are used on other campuses. There are 39 at Si-mon Fraser University and other campuses around the province have implemented similar safety measures.
Ω News EditorDevan C. Tasa
One of the new security phones on campus is located behind the Brown Family House of Learning beside the newly in-stalled bike racks. —PHOTO BY DEVAN C. TASA
Orientation Day and the Back-to-School Barbecue were two in-formative and entertaining events for TRU students last week.
The Centre for Student Engage-ment and Learning Innovations, TRU’s newest department was responsible for Tuesday’s orienta-tion presentation at the Tourna-ment Capital Centre (TCC) and the resource fair at TRU’s Cam-pus Commons.
“This was the most successful orientation ever,” said Sukh Heer-Matonovich, manager of student engagement and retention. Based on the number of t-shirts given away at TCC, Heer Matonovich estimated 1,340 new students at-tended orientation while approxi-mately 1,000 visited the resource fair.
Heer Matonovich said the goals of the centre are to encourage in-teraction between students and faculty. This is based off of re-search by the National Survey of Student Engagement, whose find-ings suggested students wanted more engagement with their insti-tutions.
Another challenge the new divi-sion attempted to tackle was the information and support staff are able to provide to students, ensur-ing information is up-to-date and consistent across all TRU staff.
The day’s barbecue saw 140 ki-lograms of meat given away in hot
dog and hamburger buns, includ-ing vegetarian patties.
After a successful Orienta-tion Day on Tuesday, tables were erected again Friday for the Back-to-School Barbecue hosted by Thompson Rivers University Students Union (TRUSU). Kris-topher Ruston and Paul Filek pro-vided the entertainment on-stage at Campus Commons.
There were approximately 120 groups and organizations tabling to new and returning students,
which TRUSU president Dustin MacIntyre estimated to be around 4,000.
“The first week was well coor-dinated,” Heer Matonovich said, adding that the two events as well as the upcoming Clubs Day work well together to reach out to new students.
This year’s orientation was different from previous years in that the aboriginal and interna-tional student orientations were not separate.
Back to our futureOrientation and barbecue welcome students to campus
One of the new security phones on campus is located behing the Brown Family House of Learning beside the newly in-stalled bike racks. —PHOTO BY SAMANTHA GARVEY
Ω Roving EditorSamantha Garvey
Congratulations to Tim Unaegbu
for winning himself a 500GB
external hard drive for headlining
the back-to-school festivities
article. Get in touch, Tim.
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A whole lot of people closely follow the doings of celebrities.
Some are admired for their acting or musical talents — though just as often people pay attention to them simply because they’re physically attractive — and for some reason that makes them worth the attention.
The downfall for the celebri-ties is that because of their pop-ularity — no matter the reason for it — they are scrutinized for their actions. Sure, they get their extra attention when they’re do-ing admirable things, but they’re also analyzed when they do things that are — let’s say “less than admirable.”
I propose we turn this atten-tion towards our police off icers.
Many of these people do a dan-gerous job to try and keep our communities safe for us. This should be admired and celebrat-ed. We should consider these ac-tions and commend these people for them.
Doesn’t that make more sense than dissecting the reasoning behind a Hollywood break-up, or praising a multi-millionaire musician for giving some money to relief efforts after a tragedy?
Unfortunately for some of these off icers, it will mean that we’re also paying attention when they do things like…you know…kill people or treat women like shit.
Maybe people like British Columbian RCMP member Cpl. Benjamin (Monty) Robinson, who was recently issued a con-ditional sentence (meaning he will serve no jail time for his ac-tions despite being found guilty) for obstruction of justice, would think twice about drinking at a party, getting in his car, killing a motorcyclist with it and leav-ing the scene to go have some more drinks so it couldn’t be proven how intoxicated he was before the accident (which by his own admission is true) if he knew people were watching him
like they watch for Snooki or someone from Dancing With the Stars to stumble out of a bar.
Maybe they wouldn’t tazer people to death in airports.
Maybe they wouldn’t harass the women in their ranks to the point where some of those wom-en suffer breakdowns, wrecking their lives.
Why don’t we start paying at-tention to them while they’re doing good things like chasing down thieves, hunting for child abductors and protecting our communities, and praising them wildly for doing so?
Maybe if we gave them the ku-dos they deserve when they do their jobs right, they’d assume we’d also watching be watch-ing if they do something wrong, and reconsider their possible ac-tions.
I don’t care that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes broke up, I re-ally don’t. I care even less that Chad Kroger and Avril Lavigne got together.
What I do care about is that our police are doing what we pay them to do, which is keep us safe from those who don’t want us to be. I also care that they’re not doing what I don’t want them to do, which is being terrible hu-mans.
Mike Davies Ω Editor-in-Chief
Editor’s Note
TMZ for policeMaybe if they know we’re watching....
Week one has come and gone and we’re now edging closer and closer towards the middle of September. It’s amazing how time f lies when you’re having fun.
Last week I talked about the disappointment I found last aca-demic year after discovering the extreme lack of a vivid campus culture, plum full of life and en-ergy at TRU.
Last week I talked about how students should get out, get in-volved and make their campus a place that students want to be outside of class hours.
What I failed to mention is that our students union also holds a stake in ensuring students feel at home and engaged on campus, whether that is courtesy of ex-hilarating events or informative,
educational sessions. I would like to take the time to
personally thank TRUSU presi-dent Dustin McIntyre and the rest of the TRUSU executive for organizing a stellar start to the 2012-13 academic season. Tunes Against Tuition was a rocking success with approximately 600 students in attendance during a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Campus Commons.
For those who don’t remember, aren’t aware or simply weren’t at TRU in 2011, the back-to-school concert was... underwhelming to say the least. In fact, it was so poorly advertised and publicized that only a small handful of stu-dents attended. Sure, you could argue that Daniel Wesley, last year’s headlining act, doesn’t hold a f lame to the Arkells, but he is still a very respectable name when it comes to the Ca-nadian indie-music scene. Sure you could argue that the weather wasn’t nearly as favourable as it was this past Saturday, but damp weather will rarely scare students off from a free concert featuring a reputable act.
Plain and simple, TRUSU did an exceptional job at organiz-ing and promoting this event in 2012. And they should be com-mended.
Now, I have only been at TRU for approximately one calendar year and apart from the night with Peter Mansbridge, this is by far the most well-attended
student-oriented event I have been witness to, or aware of.
I even hesitate to say Peter Mansbridge was a well-attended student-oriented event because, while it was most definitely a packed house when CBC’s voice of The National strolled into Kamloops in January 2012, the vast majority of that audience seemed to have seeped in from the greater Kamloops communi-ty as opposed to the TRU student community.
It’s encouraging in the early weeks of the school year to see not only a successfully run and well-attended event, but an event that was met with enthusiasm and energy from the student body.
Shows like this are just a part of what TRU needs in order to build a fruitful campus culture. Without that campus culture, it will continue to be nothing more than a smattering of buildings f illed with classrooms and stu-dents who only show apathy for anything outside the classroom, whether that be student politics, Wolf Pack athletics, the campus community radio station or even this very publication.
Kudos, TRUSU. Hopefully Tunes Against Tuition will in-stil a lasting impression with the student body. I know it did with me. Hopefully it is a sign for more great things to come in 2012-13. I know it has raised my expectations.
Time flies...(you know the rest)
Taylor Rocca Ω Copy/Web Editor
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SASKATOON (CUP) — I don’t understand school spirit.
I mean, sure, I should care about the school I’m attending and sup-port it, if only because if no one did the school would be unable to keep up the budget to maintain classes that I am interested in.
But besides that basic financial interest in my school’s well-being, what is really confusing to me is why anyone on this earth would want to attend school functions.
Dear lord, the last thing I want to do after my classes and studying in the library is spend more time on campus. Why would I do such a thing when I could be watching the Rush Hour trilogy on cable televi-sion for the rest of the day? I know it’s unfair to compare campus ac-tivities to the golden standard that is Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker together on film, but too late.
I’m sure that for those of you who live on campus it is a nice social place to meet new people and other pleasant things. Just don’t go and try to convince me of that by texting something like, “BUT DUDE BEER GARDENS. BEEEEEEEEEEEER.”
I don’t care how many e’s you put in there, I don’t give a f lying Jackie Chan about it. Unless there is some magical garden that ac-tually grows canned beer, which would increase my interest consid-erably.
This is the part where you start thinking, “Nick, aren’t you being a little anti-social?” My answer to that is: I have a social life beyond campus and so should you. It’s great that the school holds fund-raisers and it’s a good thing to sup-port it, but I can’t handle spending all of my days and nights in the same place.
I’ll give you an example the only way I know how. Rush Hour.
Going to school events such as Welcome Week are like the Rush Hour trilogy. The first one you at-tend is fresh, there are a lot of new faces and you chuckle your way through it, even if in retrospect it wasn’t that exciting.
Your second time at one of these school events is like Rush Hour 2. You know a lot of the faces and ev-erything is very familiar but you still have fun catching up with old friends.
Finally, the third time you go to a campus social event it is al-most identical to the experience of watching Rush Hour 3. You notice everything is tired and old, trying too hard and those familiar faces aren’t even close to fresh anymore; you know them far too well. It’s just the same old thing over and over. You should have stopped at number two.
So go ahead and attend a school event. Just know that once you have been to one, you have been to them all. I apologize to the organizers; there is nothing you can do about it besides move those school events to a place other than campus. And even if you did I still don’t think I will be capable of caring.
School and party just don’t go hand in hand for me.
A bit of a downerThe Sheaf (U of S)Nicholas Kindrachuk
September 12, 20124
Students won’t have to leave campus to vote in the next pro-vincial election if a lobbying ef-fort by TRUSU is successful.
The students union has been in contact with Elections B.C. to try to have an advance polling station at TRU a week before the May 14, 2013 election.
“This upcoming election is a really great opportunity for stu-dents to make post-secondary ed-ucation a really important issue,” said Dylan Robinson, TRUSU’s vice-president external. “If stu-dents want to inf luence the po-litical process, they have to vote. Politicians won’t listen to you un-less you’re going to vote.”
TRUSU sent a letter to Elec-tions B.C. asking for a polling station in May, with a reply re-ceived in July.
The reply told the students union that Elections B.C. was willing to send a voter registra-tion team and have the chief elec-toral officer speak at TRU but the decision to locate the polling station would rest with a locally-based district electoral officer.
The students union sent anoth-er letter in the third week of July to determine the contact infor-mation for the district electoral officers for local constituencies Kamloops – South Thompson
and Kamloops – North Thomp-son, but has yet to receive a re-sponse.
Robinson said he’s hopeful something will be worked out.
“I was really pleased with how receptive they seemed at this idea,” he said. “They seemed re-ally excited and obviously that’ll make working with them very easy.”
The effort to get a polling station on campus is part of a greater campaign, called Vote Education, to encourage students to vote in the next election with post-secondary issues in mind.
“I should mention the cam-paign is non-partisan,” Robinson said. “The campaign has taken a position on tuition fees and af-fordable and accessible educa-tion, but that’s it. We don’t pro-mote any one party.
“We take the platforms of the parties and what they have prom-ised what they’re going to do for post-secondary education, pres-ent that to the membership and that’s all we do.”
The campaign was launched at Sept. 8’s Tunes Against Tuition, where students were able to reg-ister to vote and pose for a pic-ture advertising their intent.
There will be many events for both students and community members to promote the cam-paign over the next school year, Robinson said.
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Opposition to the proposed Ajax mine dominated discussion at a public forum held at TRU’s Alumni Theatre on Sunday after-noon.
The forum, organized by the TRU Facility Association, was held to encourage discussion and debate about the proposed Ajax mine. Concerned Kamloops citi-zens filled the 212-seat Alumni Theatre.
The open pit copper and gold mine would be located south of the city, with some portions of the facility located within city limits. At its northern-most point, the mine would be 1.5 ki-lometers away from the nearest housing development.
Eight presenters spoke at the forum, including coun. Donovan Cavers, TRU professors, local environmentalists and a trio of raging grannies singing songs in opposition to the mine. Only one presenter, unaffiliated with min-ing company KGHM Ajax, spoke in favour of the proposed project.
Forum organizer and political studies instructor Derek Cook said both pro- and anti-mine voices would be able to speak if they registered in advance and were willing to answer questions from the audience.
“I was surprised, actually, that I didn’t get more pro-mine people asking to speak,” he said.
Speaking in favour of the mine,
TRU finance professor Shahriar Hasan said according to Statis-tics Canada, Kamloops’ popula-tion growth was low, there were fewer jobs for younger families and unemployment was around 8.5 per cent.
“All of these numbers leads me to think: what’s the best way to energize the economy?” he said.
The 870 jobs the mine could provide would only be a first step in reversing that trend, Hasan added.
The other speakers weren’t convinced the potential econom-ic boost would counteract any negative effects.
Elma Schemenauer, a chil-dren’s book author, said she was concerned dust from the mine would blow into the city and ex-pose the developing bodies of children to heavy metals.
“Dad or mom might make good money in the mine,” she said, “but is it worth it if our city’s children gasp for breath, struggle with school and strain the health care system challenged by a loss of doctors that moved their fami-lies to cleaner, healthier commu-nities?”
Frank Dwyer, a fisher that’s been involved in naturalist orga-nizations, feared the amount of water the mine would take from Thompson River would further harm the salmon fishery.
“The Thompson is a river that is on its knees and Ajax’s impact will probably drive it into the ground,” he said.
Other concerns expressed in-cluded the effect the mine could have on the city’s image, the will-ingness of international students to locate to TRU, a potential for the side of the pit to collapse in a mudslide and the ability for the city and local First Nations to participate in the environmental assessment process.
Bronwen Scott, local environ-mentalist, reminded the audience the decision to go ahead with the mine hasn’t happened yet.
“We’ve beaten these things. We beat the Hat Creek coal proj-ect. We beat the Ashcroft toxic waste incinerator. We’ve got f lu-oride out of Kamloops drinking water,” she said. “We stopped the creosote burner and we can stop this.”
Coun. Donovan Cavers, one of two Kamloops city councillors opposed to the mine, was asked if the city would have a referendum on the issue.
It is possible to have one, but the chances were “very low,” he said, adding he was told it wouldn’t be binding if there was one.
Cook said it was important to hold the forum.
“In a democracy, people need to get together and express their views and their will to the elect-ed politicians,” he said. “The people, as we saw today, have views on this.”
The forum was the first in a se-ries about mining. The next one will take place on Oct. 7 at the same location.
Mine opposition dominates forumΩ News EditorDevan C. Tasa
Ω News EditorDevan C. Tasa
Childrens’ book author Elma Schemenauer talks about the po-tential effects of the Ajax mine on children at the forum Sept. 9 at the Alumni Theatre at TRU. —PHOTO BY MIKE DAVIES
VICTORIA (CUP) — Two unions representing University of Victoria employees served strike notices to the university on Aug. 31 after al-most two years of negotiations. Em-ployees among these groups include library assistants, ground workers, security officers and others.
Canadian Union of Public Em-ployees (CUPE) Locals 951 and 917, which represent approximately 1350 workers at UVic, have been in nego-tiations with the university since fall 2010 after their previous agreements expired in March of that year. The groups brought in mediator Mark Atkinson this January to help close the gap between the university and the unions.
But after extensive negotiations throughout June, when the univer-sity made a formal offer of wage in-creases of 2.0 per cent in 2012 and 1.5 per cent in 2013, the unions de-clined to make a counter-proposal.
“We still haven’t received a re-sponse to [the offer] as of yet,” said Bruce Kilpatrick, UVic’s director of communications. “The offer was ta-bled in late June, and the only thing the union did after having received that offer was to serve the university with strike notice.”
Under 2001 legislation brought in by the B.C. Liberal government, be-fore any job action such as a strike can legally take place at an academic institution, the B.C. Labour Rela-tions Board (LRB) must designate which services and facilities are nec-essary “to prevent immediate and
serious disruption of educational programs.”
On Aug. 31, the LRB made its de-cision and outlined the positions that must remain active even in the event of a strike. The list includes security personnel, computing facilities and payroll, but not food services for some 1 800 undergraduates in on-campus residences. Cleaning servic-es may also be reduced significantly.
The unions gave 72-hour strike notice on Aug. 31. They have stated that it is not their intention to disrupt students’ lives. Instead, the types of job action that will take place in-clude refusing overtime work and picketing administrative buildings.
“We’re not looking to disrupt students in any way,” said Doug Sprenger, president of CUPE Local 951. “Only in the eventuality that the university does not come back to the bargaining table to negotiate a fair and reasonable agreement would we have to consider broader action that would have a greater impact on stu-dents.”
Sprenger blames the provincial government’s deliberate “starving” of post-secondary funding as the main reason behind the failed nego-tiations. He said the government’s plan to privatize parts of the uni-versity sector, which was revealed in government documents that sur-faced last month, is putting the mem-bers of his union at risk.
According to the government document posted on CUPE 951’s website, the provincial government is looking to fast-track its “Admin-istrative Service Delivery Transfor-mation Project” — a program that
would see post-secondary institu-tions share back-office and admin-istrative duties. Although the gov-ernment says it has not made any final decisions yet, Sprenger said the proposed program is making many positions unnecessary, threatening job loss for members of his and other unions.
“Our main issues during the ne-gotiations have been improved job security, classification of union jobs and keeping up with inflation, with job security being the most impor-tant” he said. “When the university came to the table in June with the wage increases, we said, ‘You can offer us whatever you want, but let’s talk about job security first,’ and they didn’t.”
The university disagrees with the assertions made by Sprenger and stated that there is already strong job security language in the collective agreement and that it has no inten-tion of tabling anything that would erode those strong measures.
Kilpatrick does, however, agree with Sprenger’s assertions that a lack of funding due to the B.C. govern-ment’s co-operative gains mandate has made this round of collective bargaining more difficult than it should be.
“The mandate says to all the orga-nizations in the public sector that if you’re going to put wage and benefit increases on the table, you’re going to have to find a way to pay for that yourself through savings, because it’s very clear that the provincial government will not be providing additional funding for any wage in-creases,” he said.
CUPE unions at University of Victoria serve strike noticesThe Martlet (UVic)Jory MacKay
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Attn: TRU StudentsThe Shayla Rae Dawn Driver Memorial BursaryThe following was created by Shayla Driver’s mother, Tonya Alton
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Visa issues delay studies for international students in B.C.
VANCOUVER (CUP) — An in-crease in visa application numbers and worldwide visa office closures is caus-ing uncertainty for more than interna-tional students intending to start uni-versity classes in B.C. this September.
More than 80 international students at UBC, 30-40 at SFU and at least 10 at UVic are still waiting to find out if they will have their visas processed in time to start classes, or if their studies will need to be delayed until January or even next school year.
Bulletins put out by Citizenship and Immigration Canada listed closures of offices in Syria, Tokyo, Berlin, Iran, Belgrade and Buffalo, NY since Janu-ary 2012.
Immigrations maintains these clo-sures are not the problem, and that pro-cessing times — in most cases —have returned to what they were prior to the closures. They blame an increasing number of applications.
“The overall increase in process-ing times is due to the high volume of applications across the entire visa processing network,” said immigra-tion department spokesperson Danielle Vlemmiks in an email response. She said the closures are part of the depart-ment’s mandate to modernize their network by streamlining programs and operations and moving processing to where capacity exists.
The increasing number of applica-tions from this province may be related to the recent push to increase the num-ber of international students in B.C. In Christy Clark’s job plan, revealed last year, her plan was to increase the num-ber of international students by 50 per cent in four years. There were approxi-
mately 94,000 students in the province when the plan was revealed.
UBC VP students, Louise Cowin said the university is working with the provincial and federal government to try to solve the problem as quickly as possible. UBC has also expressed interest in increasing international stu-dent numbers.
“UBC remains certain that interna-tional students enrich our community and that international students are good for the province and [the delays are] an unintended outcome,” said Cowin.
First year student Elham Abouei from Iran was able to get her visa in time and made it to the first week of classes at UBC. But she said she has two friends back in Iran who are still waiting. One of them has already can-celled their flight.
In the case of Iran, visa operations were moved to Turkey.
“We all understand the government is needing to save some money be-cause of the economic situation,” said SFU AVP students Tim Rahilly. “We’d like to find ways where these students could find a way to get their visas pro-cessed in time for the school year.”
Immigrations claims that students will soon have the option to apply for visas online and they hope to expand their network of visa application cen-tres around the world to 150 by 2014.
But for the students who are not able to get their visas processed in time to-day, they will have to wait for immi-grations to catch up to the increasing demand.
Editor’s note: Are you (or do you know of) a student encountering dif-ficulty with a situation like this here at TRU?
Let us know at [email protected].
CUP B.C. Bureau ChiefMicki Cowan MONTREAL (CUP) — Despite a
Parti Québécois victory in last week’s provincial election, student leaders say the movement is far from over.
This is despite the party’s headlining promise to abolish the university tuition hikes that prompted the protests that dominated Quebec the past year.
“This is not a complete victory,” said Elaine Laberge, president of the Fédéra-tion étudiante collégiale du Québec (FECQ), on election night in a down-town Montreal bar as the news of the PQ and Marois’ victory came in. “It’s going to be a complete victory when the Parti Québécois is going to cancel the tuition fee increases.”
Speaking at the election result party hosted by two of the student federations which represented students over the course of the general strike, president of the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec (FEUQ) Martine Desjardins expressed doubt that the election was an end to student mobilization.
“It’s only a baby step,” she said. “This is not the end of the mobilization. Our goal is not obtained yet; we need a reso-lution and a real outcome.”
Jérémie Bédard-Wien, an executive of CLASSE, the largest student body representing students throughout the strike, said that, for students, the main course of action in the coming days would be to “keep the pressure on the government” to ensure the PQ follows through on its promises concerning education.
“It’s really important to consider this repeal of the tuition hike not a victory of the electoral process or a particular political party,” he said.
“The Liberal hike has been cancelled however the PQ’s vision is very similar to the Liberals and we expect them to propose an indexation of the fees on the
cost of living. This is not something that we consider acceptable,” said Bédard-Wien on the PQ’s proposed education policies.
At the strike’s peak on March 22, over 300,000 Quebec students were on strike with demonstrations numbering in the hundreds of thousands becoming commonplace in downtown Montreal. Costs accrued by police throughout the seven-month-long strike in Montreal alone amount to $15 million.
The day after her election, Premier Pauline Marois stated in a press confer-ence her intention to order by decree the abolition of the Charest government’s tuition hike, to abolish the controversial Law 12 and convene a summit meeting to discuss higher education. The same day Marois reportedly called Desjardins personally to state the importance of settling the student conflict for the PQ.
Whether the PQ will be able to imple-ment its promises remains to be seen ac-cording to Concordia political science professor Harold Chorney who special-izes in public finance and policy.
“They’re a minority government. Minority governments cannot behave the way majority governments do,” he explained.
The economic viability of abolishing the tuition hike is realistic to Chorney, but he noted that the details of the “fi-nancing formula” could cause problems — particularly if the province’s budget, passed by the National Assembly every March, runs a deficit as a result.
“Governments have to present and get approved in the assembly a budget and if you stand outside of the budget you are in political trouble,” said Chor-ney.
Marois promised to abolish the tu-ition hike through an order in council, a process that, theoretically, could be issued by the Minister of Education uni-laterally.
“It’s an interesting gambit that Pau-line Marois is going to try to play and
something I actually agree with — I think there ought to be what she sug-gests a tuition fee hike freeze until they figure out a better way of financing higher education, that’s a good idea — but that doesn’t mean that’s going to be politically winnable, we’ll see.”
Chorney also noted the potentially powerful position the upstart Coalition Avenir du Québec (CAQ) could hold with its 19 seats. The PQ occupies 54 of the 125 seats in the National Assembly. The Liberals occupy 50.
With the defeat and subsequent resig-nation of former-premier Jean Charest, Chorney pointed to the state of internal disorganization within the Liberals as unlikely to try to defeat the PQ govern-ment unless a coalition with the CAQ is likely.
In the view of others such as another Concordia political science professor Guy Lachapelle, a coalition between the PQ and the CAQ is the more likely pairing.
Regardless, Corina Kajugiro, a cégep student at Cégep Rosemont, said after the election results were in that she felt the PQ would be unable to handle the problems in bed with the student con-flict alone.
Marois’ final promise in her first address as premier was a promise to convene a summit on higher education — a step that university rectors and staff have wanted to take for years, according to Lachapelle.
“We never had the debate about the place of education in our society and I think that’s very important,” he said. “It’s a question of education in our so-ciety.”
“I think it will be very interesting to watch – to see who’s nominated to be the chair, to sit on the commission,” Lachapelle added. The details of the summit have yet to be made public.
CUP Quebec Bureau ChiefErin Hudson
PQ win represents partial-victory for the student movement
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One of the biggest buzz bands of the indie-music scene in Canada this summer was Japan-droids.
The duo from Vancouver re-leased their second proper al-bum (kind of third) this sum-mer. Called Celebration Rock, it impressed most critics, though the f inicky NME rained on that parade.
Their style is upbeat, punky, low-f i and loud. With the spread of musical duos in this genre, you could say they’re copying the Black Keys or Death From Above 1979, but each group brings their own style. Japan-droids are actually more akin to Tokyo Police Club, though
loader, and a lit tle dir tier. They don’t seem to want to sound like just two guys, so there’s a lot of stuff going on between them.
A par ty rock band if there ever was one, the upbeat, positive sound is anthemic at times and beats out the chaos and noise to come out on top. If people are looking for some pump-up mu-sic before a night on the town, this is the material to suggest. Maybe not one to sing along to in the car, a la “Bohemian Rhapsody,” more just to bang away at the back of the seat in front of you.
Japandroids track to check out is “The House that Heaven Built.”
Hailing from the Centre of the Universe in Toronto, Ont., Austra provides listeners with the feel-ing of sailing through the stars.
Noted for an airy, space-pop sound, the trio is driven by the eerie female vocals of Katie Stelmanis, who might remind some listeners of an edgier, un-polished modern-day version of Stevie Nicks (of Fleetwood Mac fame).
With distinctive electro-alter-native beats that at times sound inf luenced by Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails fame), Austra is certainly a unique act within the Canadian music scene, but have quickly been gaining recogni-tion, having been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize in 2011.
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Arkells headline the Tunes Against Tuition concert on Sept. 8 at the Campus Commons. The Hamilton-based group was the last of four bands to perform at the close of back-to-school week. The show is meant to show support for dropping tuition fees for post-secondary education. —PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA GARVEY
Canadian rock band Arkells electrified a student-body crowd of 600 for the Tunes Against Tu-ition event on Saturday at TRU’s Campus Commons.
The Hamilton-based group was the fourth band in a lineup that filled the afternoon show. July Talk, Good for Grapes and Young Pacific were three other Canadian bands that warmed up the crowd.
Throughout the four-hour event, the noise level grew with the size of the crowd. By the time the headliners took to the stage, a pack of 600 dancing rock fans had formed at the foot of the stage.
Laced throughout the acts were Thompson Rivers University Stu-dents Union (TRUSU) president Dustin McIntyre with messages about the activities of the union and importance of voter registra-tion.
Tunes against Tuition is an event unique to TRUSU. Its pur-pose is to create recognition of how tuition fees are a barrier to those seekingpost-secondary edu-cation. Reducing tuition fees is the major goal of the Canadian Federation of Students, the um-brella body TRUSU belongs to.
TRUSU lobbies all levels of government and for that reason, set up a table to register voters in the provincial election next spring.
Dylan Robinson, TRUSU’s vice-president external, said it’s important for students to inform provincial politicians that post-secondary issues should be a ma-jor focus. Other issues include high student unemployment rates and food bank use in educational institutions.
The key is mobilizing our mem-bers, said Robinson. If students are from out-of-province, they are eligible to vote if they’ve lived in B.C. for six months prior to the vote. The election date is May 14, 2013, meaning students joining TRU in September are eligible for the B.C. vote.
“It’s not a niche issue,” said Robinson. “It’s a community is-sue.”
Post-secondary issues are par-ticularly relevant to the economy, said Robinson.
The funding for the show was passed in the last budget in May, when TRUSU began planning it shortly after.
“The Arkells were in the neigh-bourhood,” said Robinson about the success of the landing a big name as headliner.
Ω ContributorSamantha Garvey
The battle over tuition gets loud
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Montreal-based Canadian in-die-pop band Stars released a brand new album entitled The North on Sept. 4, pairing tell-tale vocals with thought-provoking lyrics.
The North entertains hints of many different genres, featuring a few songs with an electronic spin to them. The first single from The North, “Hold on When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It,” highlights the unique sounds of harp and is quickly becoming another defining track for Stars.
As with all of Stars’ previous albums, The North features songs that have substance to their lyr-ics, each telling a story instead of repeating mundane phrases over and over.
A fairly balanced mix of vocals shine through between Torquil Campbell, Stars’ lead male vocal-ist, and Amy Millan, lead female vocalist.
Each of the album’s 12 songs has a significantly different feeling to them. For a band with six full-length studio albums, The North still provides a fresh listening ex-perience.
It has a striking similarity to Metric, except Canadians can take pride in its uniquely Canadian roots. It is safe to say that Met-ric fans interested in branching out will find a perfect fit with The North. Stars band member Evan Cranley actually considered join-ing Metric before he joined Stars.
It’s often a challenge for art-ists to combine a happy medium between mellow songs, and up-beat songs, although this does not seem to be a problem in The North. Stars has hit the mark once again, releasing a quality album just in time for their upcoming tour.
For fans interested in watch-ing Stars open for Metric, the two bands will be passing through the area with a show in Victoria on Nov. 9, and a show in Kelowna on Nov. 12.
Ω ContributorLauren Gagatek
Album review: The NorthStars is an easy bridge to cross for fans of Metric
An enthusiastic crowd at the Blue Grotto was treated to the flawless floor show that is the Jezabels Mon-day night.
The Australian four-piece played to a crowd of 75, including many TRU students. The group easily maintained a deep connection with the audience with a palpable sense of urgency.
“The shows, they’re all a bit dif-ferent because we draw our energy from the crowd,” said lead singer Hayley Mary.
She was mostly responsible for the crowd’s captivation. She stared fixedly outward, seemingly mak-ing eye contact with everybody at once.
Mary and bandmates Heather Shannon on piano/keyboard, Nik Kaloper on drums and Sam Lock-wood on guitar met at the Univer-sity of Sydney in Australia and released their first EP The Man is Dead in 2009.
Success from there has been climbing ever upwards. They’ve since had three titles on the popu-lar Triple J Hottest 100 countdown, a people’s choice of best songs re-counted on Australia Day on the national youth broadcaster. Their track “Mace Spray” cracked the top 20 of the countdown in 2010 and last year “Endless Summer” was the ninth-most popular song.
Already this year, the group has played nearly 100 shows according to Mary, from major festivals in Australia, to bookings in Germany and even Kamloops and other Ca-nadian dates. But gaining audienc-es internationally is still a work in progress.
“It’s funny. We are at this em-bryonic stage at every place except Australia,” Mary said.
The band’s sound is hard to put a finger on. Perhaps the most accurate moniker is “intensindie,” which was put on their Facebook page by Lock-wood and seemed to stick.
“It sums up a little bit of our at-titude in that it’s kind of funny, but true and serious at the same time,” said Mary said. “Depending on the show we can get a little bit forceful on stage.”
Although not a packed house, the performance’s hold on the audience was unflinching, even through oc-casional light banter. Mary joked that they were almost not permitted across the Canadian border.
After three EPs, the Jezabels put out their first album in September of last year, Prisoner, which was voted sixth in the Triple J Album Poll in Australia. Mary said that
all group members work together to have some contribution to every song. But only to a certain extent.
“I still won’t actually let any-one contribute to lyrics,” Mary said, “because I feel like I need to be able to have a personal con-nection to them to sing them con-vincingly.”
Everyone was convinced of her conviction for the songs.
As for future plans, the strategy hasn’t changed. “We, for some rea-son, had this blind commitment to taking opportunities as they came up ... And they keep presenting them-selves so we keep taking them.”
Ω Roving EditorSamantha Garvey
Intense indie Aussies Coming soon to a venue near you
54•40 – Sept. 13
Sagebrush Theater, doors @ 7 p.m., show @ 7:30, $48.50
54•40 is doing another tour of Canada. The longtime band is celebrating more than 30 years together, with a number of hits and radio success stories on the resume.
The veterans take to the stage for an earlier show, which will no doubt include a number of fan fa-vourites from their catalogue of mainstream and alt-rock reper-toire.
Hey Ocean! – Sept. 18with Family of the Year
The Blue Grotto, doors @ 8 p.m., $17.71 (some fees included)
Darling is a strong word, but right now Hey Ocean! is the dar-ling of Canadian indie music. With songs and albums all over college radio and the CBC’s Radio 3, there’s a pretty strong buzz for fans of the indie-pop, fun genre. The Vancouver trio has been around for seven years and seems to be growing stronger each year, still touring on the strength of 2011’s Is.
Emberfield – Sept. 22
The Art We Are, show @ 8 p.m., $6
If looking for a less crowded, mel-lower night out, Emberfield should fit the bill. The North Vancouver quartet dabbles in a pretty chill area of music with acoustic guitars and some subdued drums. This will pro-vide a slow down if students have been going hard after frosh week.
With food and warm drinks, the show will have more of a café feel to it than at the clubs. This means rather than trying desperately to avoid a sweat-shower from the tall, hairy guy in front, concert-goers will have the opportunity to truly engage in the music.
Dragonette – Oct. 2with Young Empire, Data Romance, Nouveau
Cactus Jacks, doors @ 9 p.m., $16.37 (some fees included)
Electro-pop may not be the big-gest genre out there, but it’s a dy-namic one and Dragonette is one of the bigger names associated with it. Lead singer Martina Sor-bara has carved out a recognizable niche, with racy tunes built for club performances. This show will be occurring just after the release of their newest album, Bodyparts, so there’s a chance some new sin-gles will be seeping into your ears over the coming weeks.
Ω Arts & Entertainment EditorBrendan Kergin
—PHOTO BY SAMANTHA GARVEY
Blue Grotto hosts Jezabels for appreciative audience
Human Genome
When the Human Genome Project wrapped up its mapping project in 2003, there seemed to be some excess at the end of a person’s genetic code.
At least some of those sections are being looked at closer and a study released in the journal Science appears to have found a purpose for those extra bits. In-stead of each gene being an on/off switch for different traits, it seems that sections of the code do this and each variation gene has a much more subtle affect on the overall organism.
This may help clarify an issue genetic disease researchers have been looking into for some time.
Once the genome could be mapped, they started looking for common variations that would explain who got certain diseases.
There had been little success in this.
Now there is the possibility a section of code with a few differ-ent combinations can lead to dis-ease instead of one gene having the variation.
Read more at sciencenews.org
Fast Robot
There is a robot that runs faster than you.
The United States Defense Ad-vanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has developed a ma-chine capable of running on four legs, with the front two legs syn-chronized followed by the back two running together.
It recently hit 45.5km/h (28.3 m.p.h.). Luckily for humans wor-ried about a Terminator/Matrix future, the bot ran on a treadmill in a straight line, was contained in a lab and wasn’t completely wireless.
The project is working on the
robot (called Cheetah) in an ef-fort to create a robot not reliant on wheels.
While in the ocean or air, drones and bots don’t have to worry about tricky situations like stairs, or rubble, but in most of the places humans live there’s usually debris or unusual surfac-es we use our feet to navigate.
Wheels and tracks used in the field are good, but can be limit-ing or thwarted by a short fence. While some robots have had the ability to walk for a while, the pace has never been very quick.
There is a video of Cheetah making the run. While it looks goofy in motion and more like it’s grasping with claws at the ground, it doesn’t take too much imagination to see it actually working.
Cheetah is still in the lab and not field-ready by a long shot, but this is a notable and symbolic landmark for an expanding field.
Read more at phys.org
Ω Arts & Entertainment EditorBrendan Kergin
Science and Tech: Human genome and a robot that is faster than you
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Sports
Women dominate on opening weekend
It was a tale of two teams on the soccer pitch this weekend for the TRU WolfPack — a women’s team that dominated and a men’s team that struggled.
The women trounced the Doug-las College Royals 4-0 on Sat-urday and followed up with a 4-1 victory Sunday versus the Kwantlen Polytechnic University Screaming Eagles.
The men came back from a one-goal deficit in an exciting game Saturday to secure a 2-2 draw versus Douglas College.
Sunday was not as kind as the men lost 2-1 to Kwantlen Polytechnic Univer-sity.
Both teams had strong moments throughout the weekend, but it was the women who clearly stated they would not be bested on their home turf.
“I think our fitness was huge and our passing was very good,” said head coach Tom McManus after Saturday’s game versus Douglas College. “The girls were looking for each other well and our recruits, Courtney Daly and Kelsey Martin, were just phenom-enal. They came out and did a su-per job for me, so I’m really happy with that.”
The rookies of the WolfPack women’s soccer team were cer-tainly the story of the team’s first home stand of the PACWEST season. Courtney Daly had a strong game against Douglas Col-lege using speed and strength to
notch her first regular season goal. Kelsey Martin scored twice Sunday against Kwantlen and secured player-of-the-game hon-ours following the victory. This weekend’s performances are a testament to the skill of the new additions and the strength of the WolfPack’s recruiting efforts.
“It felt really good,” said Daly, when asked how it felt to score her first PACWEST goal so early in the season. “I was really nervous going into the game, but once I got [the goal] I just shook off all the nerves and kept playing.”
The weekend started off on a positive note for the men as well. The WolfPack played a strong game Saturday against Douglas College, scoring early and secur-ing the draw on a penalty kick from forward Oriol Torres. Torres was a menace on the field for the WolfPack, playing a big part in the team’s offensive efforts with penalty-kick goals in back-to-back games. He was named player of the game in Sunday’s losing effort.
“I need to start playing at my level,” said Torres, after scoring Saturday. “I always score, well I used to score and in the last three or four games I didn’t. So hope-
fully from now on I can keep my standards [of play] up.”
The men were unable to main-tain their same level of play Sun-day versus the Screaming Eagles. The game was played evenly to the half, but the WolfPack sur-rendered the lead after halftime. Kwantlen scored to bring the score to 2-0, before Oriol Torres netted his second goal of the sea-son on a penalty kick.
The WolfPack’s efforts to tie the game came too little, too late; it was a disappointing effort after a strong showing on Saturday.
“Well it was the tale of two teams. Yesterday we came out and battled with probably one of the best teams in our league and today we came out and were sub-par,” said co-head coach Sean Wallace after Sun-day’s game.
“I think we’re go-ing to have to look at our fitness, we’re going to have to
look at battling a little harder. I think we took this team for grant-ed and it showed. They battled all over the field and we didn’t match their intensity.”
Wallace described his team as “overconfident” Sunday and men-tioned that he believes his team is still “trying to find its identity.” While the season is relatively young, the men will need to fig-ure things out soon if they hope to keep their season on track.
Both teams head to Squamish and Vancouver next weekend, fac-ing off against Quest University and Langara College.
The women will have to make some adjustments of their own this week, though it certainly won’t be anything drastic. With eight goals-for and one against this weekend, the team was strong in its debut, but there are always tweaks to be made.
“We played sporadically to be honest,” assessed coach McMa-nus. “The wind was a major fac-tor for both teams. We controlled the first half against the wind and played very well. In the second I think we relaxed too much to be honest and got a bit sloppy at times. But the girls did a good job and scored another four goals, so I gotta be happy.”
The WolfPack return to Hill-side Stadium Sept. 29 and 30 when they face off against Kelow-na’s University of B.C. Okanagan. Kickoff for both games is 1 p.m.
Ω Sports EditorAdam Williams
Men’s team manages a draw against Douglas College, “trying to find its identity”
ABOVE: The WolfPack’s Kindra Maricle looks to take position in Saturday’s game against the Douglas Royals.BELOW: TRU forward Oriol Torres evades a defender in Satur-day’s game where they played to a draw against Douglas. —PHOTOS BY ADAM WILLIAMS
FridayMen’s BasketballEastern Washington University: 87, TRU: 70
SaturdayWomen’s Soccer: 4-0 Win vs. Douglas RoyalsMen’s Soccer: 2-2 Draw vs. Douglas
SundayWomen’s Soccer: 4-1 Win vs. Kwantlen Screaming EaglesMen’s Soccer: 2-1 Loss vs. Kwantlen
Golf (Totals are for 36 holes)
Team finished seventh with a total of 627.
Natasha MacKenzie finished 4th in women’s with a total of 179.
Nic Corno finished in a four way tie for 23rd with 154.
Chase Broadfoot was tied for 29th with 158.
Sean Cameron and Matt Greveni-tis were tied for 31st with 159.
Results for Bobby Armstrong were unavailable by print deadline and Tim Birk did not play.
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“They came out and did a super job for me, so I’m really happy with that.”
—Tom McManus
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