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In keeping with our reckless, devil-may-care image, our of-fice has absolutely no concrete information on the Carillon’sformative years readily available. What follows is the storythat’s been passed down from editor to editor for over fortyyears.

In the late 1950s, the University of Regina planned the con-struction of several new buildings on the campus grounds.One of these proposed buildings was a bell tower on the aca-demic green. If you look out on the academic green today,the first thing you’ll notice is that it has absolutely nothingresembling a bell tower.

The University never got a bell tower, but what it did getwas the Carillon, a newspaper that serves as a symbolic belltower on campus, a loud and clear voice belonging to eachand every student.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

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THE CARILLON BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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It’s the last Carillon of Volume55, and you know what thatmeans - hate and laughter.Check out page 12 for ouryearly hate feature, and checkout this year’s spoof, Depot. Wehope we are ridiculous enoughthis issue to carry you throughuntil our summer issue.Well, that’s it, kids. It’s beenswell. Au Revoir!

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The SK budget dropped, andU of R president, VianneTimmons, announced that thenext few years will be a timeof lean spending. With contin-uous cuts to post-secondaryeducation across the country,where does the future of stu-dents lay?

What were formally called TheCarillony’s have been renamedThe Dickies, the most presti-gious sports awards of theyear. In honour of athletics di-rector Dick White, members ofthe Carillon staff have givenathletes and teams very legiti-mate and well-deservedawards.

Well, there's not much else todo when it's cold as fuck out-side other than write a record.At least, this is the motto ofRegina band Coldest Night ofthe Year who, having juststarted playing together inNovember, are set to releasetheir first EP on April 5.

The Sask. Party recently inter-vened to alleviate the anger ofmotorcycle hobbyists over in-surance rate increases becausetheir concerns were heard"loud and clear." Where wasthe Sask. Party when the FilmIndustry was speaking loudand clear about the tax credit?Obviously, Brad Wall is se-cretly a motorcycle. Obviously.

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the carillon | March 28 - June 6, 2013newsCruel, unusual, and inhumaneTransgender women face assault and abuse in Canada’s prisions

When it comes to breaking thelaw, people are classified into gen-der segregated prisons based ongenitalia rather than if a personconsiders themself to be a man ora woman.

The U of R Justice Studies de-partment held a screening inJanuary of the documentary Crueland Unusual which depicted theexperiences of transgenderwomen in American male prisons.

Transgender inmates face asimilar situation in Canada.

“We don’t have anything thatwould protect those who are go-ing through the transgenderprocess, to assure that they wouldbe placed in the prison which theywould be transitioning into,” saidAlisa Watkinson, professor of so-cial work at the U of R campus inSaskatoon.

Watkinson is also a 20-yearboard member of the ElizabethFry Society in Saskatchewan,which advocates for the care andsupport of all criminalizedwomen.

“You could have someonethat’s in conflict with the lawwho’s going through the processof transitioning to a woman, couldbe on the hormones and so on, butby the time they get sentencedand sent to a prison, if they’ve gota penis they go to the men’s, ifthey don’t, they go to thewomen’s,” she said.

Cruel and Unusal revealed how

transgendered women - male tofemale transition - are mistreatedand sexually abused withinprison cells by other inmates. Inthe United States, hormone treat-ments and sex reassignment sur-geries (SRS) are withheld fromprisoners undergoing the transi-tion.

While Stephanie Cox hasnever been to prison, as a trans-gender woman, she has experi-enced the discrimination andridicule that comes along with

transitioning from male to femalefrom interactions with other peo-ple in public washrooms. With afear attached to men assaultingwomen in the washroom, Coxsays the only purpose of thewashroom is to urinate.

She imagines treatment oftransgender women in prisonwould be worse, because inprison, inamtes aren’t able to runfrom the abuse.

“A transwoman will go herentire life seeing her body as fe-

male, and she might not have sexreassignment surgery because itcosts [as much as] $25,000,” Coxsaid. “Society will continue toview her as male. A transwoman,who sees herself as female, willbe placed with other men. That’shumiliating and embarrassing be-cause you’re treated as male. Youmay have seen in the [documen-tary] that hormones are takenaway, so they’ve now taken awayyour ability to make your bodyconform with how you view

yourself. How your brain viewsyourself. And it’s also put you ina dangerous situation.”

The documentary explainsthat many transwomen become“prison wives” and are sexuallyabused, in order to have protec-tion from other male inmates. Thefilm also explains how these trans-gender women are placed in seg-regation within the prison. Theisolation prevents the prisonerfrom being assaulted, howeverthe solitary confinement can beharmful to an individual’s mentaland physical well-being.

An exact number of transgen-der men and women in prisons inCanada isn’t known.

“We have no idea how manytransgender women we have inmen’s prisons nor do we knowhow many men are in women’sprisons,” Watkinson said.

Watkinson said the last num-ber she found on the CorrectionalServices Canada website included13 prisoners that identified astransgendered.

Statistics Canada released a re-port in 2010 which revealed howmany Canadians consideredthemselves to be gay, lesbian orbisexual. Transgender peoplewere included in the category,however no information waslisted for the group.

kristen mcewen news writer

Waste generation on campusU of R engineering students conduct large student survey about sustainability of U of R

Solid and hazardous waste man-agement in Canada continues tobe a problem, having a detrimen-tal impact on human health andthe environment.

The composition of solidwaste includes organics, paper,glass, metals, wood, textiles, and

minerals. For instance, when youdry your hands with paper towel,or unwrap that sandwich forlunch, you’re generating waste.

From an environmental per-spective, the most ideal approachto dealing with waste is sourcereduction - that is, to prevent aproduct from becoming waste.However, today, the most com-mon and unsustainable methodsof waste elimination are being

used - incinerating waste, ortransporting it to landfills.

A recent study by theConference Board of Canadashows Canada as one of the high-est waste generation countries inthe world. An average Canadiangenerates approximately 777 kgof waste a year, or 15 kg a week.This is twice the amount ofgarbage a resident in Japan gener-ates.

In early March, several envi-ronmental engineering studentsconducted a survey with 509 U ofR students, asking them abouttheir thoughts and suggestions onthe University's current wastesystem.

Not surprisingly, the mostcommon answer amongst stu-dents - 247 responses - was theneed for more recycling bins.

One way to increase theamount of bins is to increase stu-dent fees by $2 per semester, to al-low for the funding of a full andfunctioning recycling program.

URSU President, NathanSgrazutti, said the idea couldwork.

“That would be approxi-mately $26000 a semester,” hesaid. “The problem is thatgarbage bins are more plentiful,and if a garbage is there, studentsare just going to toss their mate-rial in the garbage bin.”

While some students may notappreciate an increase in studentfees, third-year science student,Melissa Berti says $4 is worth it.

“We have so many students,and if all that money actually goesto properly funding an efficientrecycling program, it could be po-tentially a productive program,”she said.

Pat Patton is the director of

security and operations inFacilities Management at the U ofR. When asked if offering an in-centive to students would help inproducing less solid waste, Pattonsaid it’s certainly something toconsider.

“We are always open to ideasand different ways of doingthings. That’s one of the advan-tages of working at a university.You have the opportunity to workwith students, and with youngpeople, and all kinds of peoplefrom different walks of life,”Patton said.

Ultimately, the U of R willhave to closely look at its sustain-ability plan, and reflect on whatneeds to be done to reduce wasteon campus. In the meantime, in-vesting in recycling bins seemslike a step in the right direction.

Chelsea Laskowski

Regina’s landfill, a wasteland that could potentially be reduced or eliminated

rabiya abdulkadircontributor

Morty

Jail is already bad enough, imagine having to also live with the fear of assault in jail

The University of Regina’s night-mare scenario is now a reality.

The provincial government re-leased the 2013-14 budgetWednesday. Post-secondary insti-tutions will receive a 2.1 per centfunding increase to their operat-ing budgets, equaling $9.2 million,and well short of what they hopedfor.

The U of R alone requested anincrease of five per cent; the in-crease it got amounts to millionsof dollars less

The funding shortfall will“significantly impair theUniversity of Regina’s ability tomaintain the quality of its pro-grams,” according to the U of R’soperations forecast document.Saskatchewan ranks seventhamongst provinces and territoriesin post-secondary spending, rela-tive to its GDP. Wednesday’s an-nouncement means moreprograms and faculty positionscould be cut.

“We have told post-secondaryinstitutions around the provincethat this is going to be a leanyear,” said Don Morgan, ministerof advanced education. “Resourcerevenue is down, so there will nat-urally be a leveling off. We thinkthat this is an appropriate thingthat we are doing.”

U of R president VianneTimmons expressed measured ap-preciation for the funding increase

while speaking to a cluster of re-porters after the announcement.Timmons said the U of R’s shareof the $9.2 million amounts to lessthan two per cent of the totalbudget.

“An increase of under two percent means that we have to findways to save money on our cam-pus,” she said. “Through attrition,we have been reducing our work-force and will continue to do so.”

The U of R’s 2012-13 budgetalready accounted for the lack offunding, which was predicted byuniversity administration long be-fore budget day.

Administration eliminated 25faculty and staff positions in the2012-13 fiscal year, and cut theuniversity’s budget by $3.4 mil-lion.

Further cuts this year will al-low the university to balance thebooks, however most facultybudgets will not cover inflation-ary costs for supplies and materi-als. According to the U of R’soperations forecast, staff layoffswill account for some savings, butwill result in enrolment reduc-tions, which “compounds the rev-enue challenge” by reducing theuniversity’s income from tuition.

“What we are going to see isstudents paying more for less,”said Warren McCall, legislativemember of the NDP, and critic ofadvanced education. “If the qual-ity of the education is diminished,and the ability for students to ac-cess it is curtailed, that is a prob-lem.”

The U of R has almost com-

pletely exhausted its ability to re-duce costs through staff layoffs,and students can expect a higher-than-normal tuition hike next yearto make up the difference. For in-stance, business students can ex-pect an increase of nine per cent.Without a high tuition hike, theuniversity would have to cut over$5 million in 2013-14.

“Student debt is already at anaverage of $37,000, that is a lot ofmoney,” said Kent Peterson, na-tional representative of CFSSaskatchewan. “[Tuition in-creases] make education evenmore inaccessible to folks. It willhave detrimental effects, espe-cially on Aboriginal learners.”

The provincial governmenthas told university administrationthat this level of funding increasewill become the norm for years tocome; when coupled with the riseof inflation, further budget slash-ing could be in store for Regina’sonly university.

“It is getting really tough,”Timmons said when asked aboutthe possibility of making addi-tional budget cuts. “We havepretty well cut almost everywherewe can in terms of efficiencies. Weare a very lean institution. If this isa trend, we’ve got some toughsluggin’ ahead.”

The Fallout

Tough times ahead could spelldisaster for some programs, andcould be a death blow for others.

The U of R’s English depart-

ment looks to be in particulartrouble if further cuts are made.During the University Councilmeeting several weeks ago, SusanJohnson – an associate prof. ofEnglish – noted that last year, theEnglish department receivedenough money to hire 25 sessionalteachers, this year, they were bud-geted for only five. In addition, adocument sent to administrationby English department head,Nicholas Ruddick, outlined thatthe three per cent cuts they are be-ing asked to make will reduce thenumber of English 100 courses by50 per cent. If this happens,English 100 class sizes will bal-loon to unmanageable levels.

Other courses have felt the hitas well. Next year the departmentof psychology will be offering in-troductory classes with 600 open-ings for students in a single class,400 more than previous years.

“It is worrisome when westart seeing class sizes get thatlarge, that is a problem,” saidMike Young, URSU vice-presidentof student affairs. “The Students’Union is always concerned whenwe see class sizes get that large.For us, we would like to see thestream of finances move awayfrom things that are non-academicand flow back into academics.Because, remember, the academicmission of the university mustcome first before anything else.”

Debates have raged acrosscampuses at both the U of R andthe U of S as to what part of uni-versity budgets should be cut.

At the U of R, most of the dis-

cussion has centred on adminis-trative costs. According to the uni-versity’s own budget data,administrative salaries have in-creased 70 per cent since 2004 . Now the U of R spends the sameamount of money on administra-tion as academic staff.

In addition, from 2006-2011,only three new academic posi-tions were created while adminis-trative jobs increased by 89.

“My view is that the govern-ment is looking at the Universityand saying ‘you have five per centtuition increases every year, weare giving you two per cent in [in-creases] to your operating grant.How is it that you guys can havea shortfall?’” said Young. “I thinkthat the government thinks thatthe university has to spend itsmoney better.”

This year, student groups suchas URSU, Students AgainstAusterity, and CFS Saskatchewanhave campaigned for cuts at theadministrative level. The U of R’spresident maintains that althoughadministrative costs are high, theUniversity remains below the na-tional average in terms of admin-istrative costs, leading some tobelieve that the majority of thebudget cuts will be to the aca-demic side of the university.

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University must slash millions from 2013-14 budget

‘We’ve got some tough sluggin’ ahead’

Julia Dima

President Vianne Timmons discussing the provincial budget with CBC’s Sheila Coles

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“We have told post-secondary institutions around the province that this is going tobe a lean year. Resource revenue is down, so there will naturally be a leveling off. Wethink that this is an appropriate thing that we are doing.”

Don Morgan

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““We are tight right now. This is avery lean institution in terms ofadministrative costs,” Timmonssaid. “We are significantly belowthe national average, so everytime this happens, it get tougherand tougher. Our administrativecosts are very low.

“I have to credit the faculty fortheir strategies for cutting costs.”

However, more cuts will needto be made.

Young said that the fundingshortfall is the provincial govern-ment’s way of sending a messageto university administration.

“I think they want the univer-sity to do belt-tightening,” he said.“And I think they want the belt-tightening to come at the adminis-trative level and not the academiclevel. So far, we have seen the ma-jority of the impact on the aca-demic side of things.”

How the university will makethe appropriate cuts remains to beseen. However, no matter wherecuts are made, public backlashwill probably occur, in some formor another.

“Everyone seems to be con-cerned about what the provincialgovernment is going in terms ofgiving us money,” Young said.“What URSU says is ‘the govern-ment is going to give us what thegovernment is going to give us.’What URSU is really involved in,and what we are looking at, ishow the management of this uni-versity spends the money that wehave.

“If they are going to be hikingour tuition, which we believe theyare going to do, it is our view thatthe administration should be very,very, careful about how theyspend that money. And we willbe watching how they spendevery penny.”

It is not as bad as it could havebeen

Despite a funding increase of lessthan two per cent – solidifying ayear of hardship for theUniversity of Regina – U of R ad-ministrators were in an apprecia-tive mood on budget day.

“It is going to be challengingfor us, but I think we are going tohave the same problems that therest of the province is going tohave. And we got an increase,”said Timmons with excitement.

“What I’m pleased with is that theprovince, and the Premier, seespost-secondary education as im-portant enough to invest in, andas an economic driver for theprovince. I hope that continues.”

“I gotta say, I saw what hap-pened to the University ofAlberta, getting a decrease of 7per cent,” said Paul McLellan,chair of the U of R board of gover-nors. “Considering all that, Iwould say that we were very for-tunate.”

The Saskatchewan provincialbudget announcement comes justone week after the provincial gov-ernment of Alberta decided toslash 6.8 per cent – equivalent to$147 million – from post-second-ary funding. The massive cut wasunexpected, and University ofCalgary president ElizabethCannon said she was “surprisedand extremely disappointed” atwhat the Government of Albertahad done.

Although the ultimate effectsof post-secondary cuts in Albertaare still unknown – as it appearsthat no one saw them coming –the U of C has already said thatthis will result in massive staffcuts across the board. Faculty atthe U of R have expressed theirown concerns regarding staff lay-offs, as faculty salaries make upthe largest portion of the univer-sity’s budget, and represent theeasiest way to cut costs.

Raphael Jacob, a University ofAlberta Students’ Union execu-tive, told the Gauntlet in an inter-view that students wereblindsided by the hard cuts im-posed by Alberta’s provincial gov-ernment.

“We cannot speculate how theuniversity will be recouping saidcosts, but we do know that staff isthe single largest budget line thatthey have, so reduced faculty andstaff will result in larger classesand fewer choices of classes,” hesaid. “It is certainly unfortunatethat we are getting such a cut. Itwas also very shocking becausethe cut was much worse than wehad projected.”

Before she was elected as pre-mier of Alberta in 2012, AlisonRedford promised students thatshe would increase funding topost-secondary education by twoper cent each year – roughlyenough to keep pace with the rateof inflation. Instead, post-second-

ary got $189 million less.The situation in Alberta is con-

cerning to members ofSaskatchewan’s post-secondarycommunity because of the simi-lar economies both provincesshare. Both Alberta andSaskatchewan are heavily relianton resource income to fuel theireconomies, and resource revenueis traditionally unstable.

Alberta took a $1.4 billion hitto their resource revenue, prima-rily due to a lack of market accessas a result of stalled developmentof the provinces pipeline projects.Saskatchewan’s resource revenueis slightly more stable. While al-most all of Alberta’s resource rev-enue is tied into oil, Saskatchewanpulls its cash from oil, potash, anduranium.

With that said,

Saskatchewan’s own resource rev-enue is down this year – to thetune of about $400 million – andin order to balance the books on aprovincial level, several sectorsare going to be asked to tightentheir belts.

“The jury is still out on whatthe effects of this are going to be[on post-secondary education],”said McCall. “I think that the rel-ative context makes it look prettygood, but I think the reality is thatyou are going to be seeing pro-grams slashed, tuition go up, andsessionals cut.

“Could it have been worse?”he continued. “I guess so. But thisis not going to do much to turnaround the difficult situation thatour universities find themselvesin right now.”

While this year, post-second-

ary institutions will manage tosneak by on their tight pocket-book, the provincial governmenthas already told the U of R to ex-pect this every year.

“I think that is astonishing,”McCall said. “Post-secondary ed-ucation has always been one ofthe great levelers in our society. Itis one of the ways to make youreconomy more innovative andproductive, and for families tomake a good income. I think forthe government to be sending thatsignal...to what is such a valuablesector of our economy is wrong-headed.”

Julia Dima

Good things can be hard to comeby.

Throughout the year, theCarillon has been covering vari-ous issues - locally, nationally, andinternationally - ranging from pol-itics, to student activism, to eco-nomic disparity. From bad toworse, news tends to be the spotto unravel depressing and frus-trating stories.

But, more than just dark anddepressing news stories, theCarillon has also covered storiesof this year’s crucial and unset-tling shifts at the U of R. The pa-per has heard from students whofeel that this institution has be-trayed them, has left them in thedark, and has forgotten them inthe decision making process.

Increases in tuition fees, cutsto program funding, possible lossof academic freedom, and manymore uncertainties have been thedefinition of 2012-2013.

Yet, amidst these unknowns,students continue to move for-ward, fighting for their right toeducation. Students have not losttheir raging flame to demandwhat rightfully belongs to them.And, while at times, apathy seemsto have hit hard across the cam-pus, wiping student care with it,there still are a bright and brilliantfew who continue to fight back,re-energizing the campus, and re-lighting the burnt-out flame.

For this last issue of theCarillon, let us take a moment tocelebrate inspiration. Because, re-gardless of bad and terrible thathappens, there still seems to bethat hope, and that light of inspi-ration - sometimes found in theoddest and most unexpected

places. We asked students to send us

a blurb of what or who inspiresthem, and what keeps them go-ing, despite these unsettling times.Here is what some had to say.

As for the Carillon, we dedi-cate this page to the students - be-cause you are what inspire us tobe better and do better.

Kristen McEwen is inspired byan important person in her life,her mother

This is going to sound like a copout answer, but my mom defi-nitely inspires me. I’m originallyfrom Prince Albert, a place with areputation of high crime rates. Mymom used to be a vice-principal atone of the community schools thathas a high population of studentsthat come from low-income fami-lies. The only way some of thesekids get to school is because theytake it upon themselves to get toschool. Some kids come to schoolwithout lunches. The school has asnack and lunch program, butmore often than not, my momwould pay out of her own pocketto buy lunch for some of them.She would stay after school tomake sure kids got home, some-times driving them home herself.But she never complained aboutthe extra time she put in. My momwasn’t the only teacher at thatschool that bought lunches ordrove kids home. The effort thatmy mom and the other staff putin, inspires me to this day. It’s aconstant reminder that people canbe decent and put other’s needsbefore their own.

Kristen McEwan

Kay Niedermayer is inspired bythe student-run campus garden,the Green Patch

Let’s face it, this past year was apretty grim one. Looming cuts toacademic programs were mixedwith other dark and murky con-spiracies of misplaced funding atour institution. Not to mentionmore omnibus bills, pipelines, andviolations of other rights and serv-ices. But, you know what was theshining light guiding the waythrough all this gloom? TheRPIRG Green Patch. The GreenPatch joined the ranks of otherEdible Campus gardens by theFirst Nations University ofCanada and the Institut Francais.Volunteering in the garden lastsummer was a highlight of myyear. It was an opportunity tolearn and teach others about foodsovereignty and gardening strate-gies and techniques. The successof the Green Patch goes beyondthe number of volunteer hoursspent working with the earth, orthe pounds of food donated tostudents and community mem-bers. As plans to expand campusgardens in the coming years con-tinue, its clear that this campus ismaking progress towards achiev-ing food security. And so, despiteall the rest of this financial mess,there is a hidden gem, in it all,that we can be proud of.

Kay Niedermayer

Taneal Brucks is inspired by thework of students at URSustainability

UR Sustainability formed in theFall of 2012 when a group ofhopefuls sat down at theAcademic Green to discuss theirvisions of a “greener” world. Fastforward to March 2013 and theclub is now a newly approvedworking group under RPIRG. Itis quite fantastic how far URSustainability has come in thisshort space of time. The club’smain objectives are to promotehome grown food on campus; en-courage efficient waste manage-ment and water conservation;facilitate ride sharing opportuni-ties; urge facilities management toinvest in eco friendly infrastruc-ture; promote sustainable interna-tional development, and mostimportantly, develop a hub forstudents, faculty, staff and com-munity members, to work on sus-tainable initiatives together. Ourultimate plan is to create a"Student Centre for Sustainability"on campus. Through out theyears, several environmentalclubs have come and gone, andefforts on campus to promote sus-tainability is often inconsistent.This office will act as a central hubto connect students, faculty, staffand community to work togetheron initiatives.

Taneal Brucks

Nadia Akbar is inspired by vol-unteering with the people at theWorld Partnership Walk

Last year, many University ofRegina students volunteered inthe World Partnership Walk - awalk dedicated to raising moneyfor the Agha Khan Foundation,which provides social develop-ment programs in Asia and Africa.My inspiration is the U of R stu-dents who not only strive for suc-cess in academic life, but alsodonate most of their time for thebetterment of people aroundthem. Close to $60,000 was raisedin the province of Saskatchewan,when Regina hosted its first walkin 2012. Please come and join usthis year to end global poverty onMay 26, 2013, LegislativeGrounds, Wascana Park at 10 a.m.Please consider visiting the web-site to learn, become an ambassa-dor or to donate.

Nadia Akbar

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Students share what inspires them, and pushes them to be better Despite the gloom, there is hope

Taouba Khelifa

Inspiration can come from the smallest of things

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“ despite all the rest of this financial mess, there is ahidden gem, in it all, that we can be proud of.”

Kay Niedermayer

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The federal government has beenmaking many changes to immi-gration and refugee polices in thepast few months.

In July 2012, ImmigrationMinister Jason Kenney announcedmajor changes to the InterimFederal Health Program. Thesechanges included taking awaysupplemental health benefits suchas vision and dental care, as wellas prescription coverage for manyof Canada’s refugees. The changeshave left many refugees with min-imum health coverage.

The impact has been closelymonitored by the CanadianDoctors for Refugee Care whohave seen large numbers ofrefugees denied necessary surger-ies, immunization, medicationsand treatments. Only if publichealth is in jeopardy will refugeesreceive the necessary care.

Despite public outcry, theConservative government has de-fended these cuts, stating that the$84 million program will bring eq-uity to the system, and deter un-found refugee claims. Thegovernment also stated that thecuts will save taxpayers $100 mil-lion over five years.

On June 18, Doctors forRefugee Care partnered with theCanadian Association of Refugee

Lawyers, to hold a national Day ofAction. The Day of Action led tothe two organisations, along withthree patients to take a legal actionagainst the government’s changeson Feb. 28. An application wasfiled to the federal court askingfor judicial review of Kenney’scuts to the Interim Federal HealthProgram.

Along with changes to refugeehealth care, a new immigration

system will take affect May 4. Thisnew ‘points’ system involves alarger emphasis on youth, workexperience, and English or Frenchlanguage skills for the FederalSkilled Worker Program.Immigration applications will alsobe capped, at around 240,00 to265,000.

While immigration rates fromthe Philippines, India, China,France and Iran remain high, fam-

ilies may find it difficult to bringtheir loved ones to Canada. Thechanges will also eliminate the oldwaiting for skilled immigrants, af-fecting any individuals who haveapplied previous to Feb. 2008.

In November, Kenney said hehoped the changes will help di-minish the backlog of immigrantsin the system, making the processmove a lot quicker. Prior to thechanges, the backlog would not

be unclogged until 2017. The newsystem will end up terminating98,000 skilled immigrant applica-tions.

In India, a group called BackLoggers Pre-2008 Association wasformed last year. The group ismade up of people whose immi-gration applications would beeliminated from the new system.Represented under the CampbellChoen Law Firm, the BackLoggers have taken their case tocourt, demanding that Canada lis-ten. The case is still waiting to beresolved.

On to of the changes, publicconfusion, and frustration,Canada’s image was tarnishedfurther when Federal Minister ofPublic Safety, Vic Towes, endorsedthe filming of a Cops-like realitytelevision show on immigrationraids.

The series will show Canadianborder agents making border im-migration raids on illegal immi-grants in Canada. Documentswere leaked days after a raid wasfilmed in Vancouver, showingTowes’ approval for the show.

The show, Border Security willbe aired on the NationalGeographic Channel, owned byShaw Media. An online petitionhas been created to cancel theshow.

Alan Dowty, professor emeritusfrom the University of NotreDame, came to the University ofRegina on March 21 as part of hisWestern Canadian speaking touron the topic of “The Fourth Stageof the Arab-Israeli Conflict.”

Dowty’s lecture in Regina washosted by the CanadianInternational Council, the PoliticalScience Students’ Association, andthe Center for Israel and JewishAffairs.

The lecture presented anoverview of what Dowty calls the“Arab-Israel conflict,” which hesees as having four distinct stages.

“First from [the] 1880s untilthe formation of Israel in 1948.[The second] an inter-state con-flict between the new state ofIsrael and the neighboring Arabstates...[This] gradually gave wayto [the third,] in which thePalestinians reemerged as a majorparty opposite Israel in the 80sand 90s.” The last stage, saidDowty, has been taking placesince the turn of the century – ashift in the power balance of theregion, as opposition groups inPalestine emerge.

Publishing widely on both in-ternational relations and this con-flict, Dowty has not fallen intosome of the same dire straightssome of his fellow scholars share.

Most notably is the case of

professor Norman Finkelstein, apolemic writer on the conflict. Hisbook, The Holocaust Industry, ex-plores his “reflections on the ex-ploitation of Jewish suffering,”and caused much outrage leadingto his subsequent tenure denial atDePaul University.

When asked aboutFinkelstein’s case, Dowty himselfsaid he hadn’t felt any repressionwhen he spoke about the conflict.

“I think if you write scholarlyarticles or books, and they arejudged by scholarly standards,then that shouldn’t enter into it. Icertainly have not had [repercus-sions],” Dowty said.

Another famous book on thistopic, The Israel Lobby and U.SForeign Policy, written by John

Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt,which had been endorsed byOsama Bin Laden, also garnered alot of criticism that affected theauthors’ lives.

At a lecture in Montreal in2008, Mearsheimer pointed outthat Finkelstein was denied tenurebecause of his views.Mearsheimer added that he andWalt did not get into as muchtrouble specifically because theyhad tenure at their respective in-stitutions.

According to Dowty, however,The Israel Lobby and U.S ForeignPolicy was flawed.

“I happen to think that thatparticular book was not very care-fully done. I mean, there are manyflaws with it from a scholarly

point of view. [The book was] de-signed to attract publicity and no-tice in a very dramatic way,” hesaid.

Dowty’s lecture came only afew days after Israel ApartheidWeek (IAW) had ended at the U ofR.

“I find the analogy [ofapartheid] sort of extremely inap-propriate ... I think anybody whosees Israel as an apartheid stateeither doesn’t know much aboutSouth Africa, or much about Israelor both,” he said.

The United Nations definitionof apartheid is “inhuman actscommitted for the purpose of es-tablishing and maintaining dom-ination by one racial group ofpersons over any other racial

group of persons and systemati-cally oppressing them.”

However, according to theHuman Sciences ResearchCouncil of South Africa, a 15-month based research and ex-haustive review of Israeli policiesfound that Israel’s laws and po-lices in the Occupied PalestinianTerritories “fit the definition ofapartheid. Israeli law conveysprivileges to Jewish settlers anddisadvantages Palestinians in thesame territory on the basis of theirrespective identities. A policy ofapartheid is especially indicatedby Israel’s demarcation of geo-graphic “reserves” in the WestBank, to which Palestinian resi-dence is confined and whichPalestinians cannot leave withouta permit. The system is very sim-ilar to the policy of “GrandApartheid” in Apartheid SouthAfrica, in which black SouthAfricans were confined to blackHomelands delineated by theSouth African government, whilewhite South Africans enjoyedfreedom of movement and fullcivil rights in the rest of the coun-try.”

Despite this, Dowty arguesthat apartheid does not exist inIsrael.

“There’s nothing vaguelycomparable to South Africa there,which is where the term apartheidcomes from ... in Israel itself, itsimply doesn’t apply.”

A look at the immigration and refugee changes that will impact CanadiansAn overview of changes

Apartheid doesn’t exist?Guest professor Alan Dowty chats with the Carillon about his research andwork in the ‘Arab-Israel’ conflict

Rania Matar

Taouba Khelifa

Many hopeful immigrants and refugees may be denied access to the country, with new laws and policies

michael chmielewskicontributor

rikkeal bohmanncontributor

On March 16, a Global March forSyria was held in Victoria Park insupport for those fighting againstthe oppressive Assad regime.

This march marked the secondanniversary of the Syrian upris-ing, which began on March 16,2011.

Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad has been in power since2000, when he succeeded his fa-ther, Hafez al-Assad, who hadruled the country since 1970. Bothfather and son have been accusedof numerous human rights abusesduring their rule.

Tens of thousands of peoplehave been fleeing Syria since thefighting began. Refugee campshave been set up in neighbouringTurkey and Jordan. As of March2013, the UNCHR has registered776,008 refugees, with the UN es-timating more than 70,000 causal-ities.

Cheghaf Madarati is a Syrianstudent who is studying healthstudies at the U of R. WhileMadarati and her family live inCanada, she left many relativesbehind in Syria.

“One of my uncles is in arefugee camp in Turkey. The con-ditions are really bad there be-cause this refugee camp doesn’tget all the benefits the otherrefugee camps do,” she said.

Madarati explained that theseconditions are due to lack of fund-ing and that the camp is close tothe border where a lot of fightingoccurs.

While the uprising began insearch of freedom, a year and ahalf into fighting, the internationalcommunity deemed it a civil war.Madarati, like many Syrians andactivists, disagree with this label,calling on the community to call ita revolution for freedom and jus-tice for all Syrians.

“When it started, it was a civilwar. There was a division betweenthe Shias and the Sunnis and peo-ple wanted to call it a civil warfor that reason. The internationalcommunity was very slow at call-ing it a civil war though, and bytime they called it a civil war, itwasn’t a civil war anymore,”Madarati explained. “When youbomb a city or a village, everyoneis involved…now everyone suf-fers from the regime’s atrocities.”

Originally, the Alawite minor-ity, a sect of Shia Islam, have sup-ported the Assad regime. Theymake up about 12 per cent of thepopulation. The small SyrianChristian minority has also sup-ported Assad, due to the beliefthat he is more secular.

In Nov. 2012, Syria’s opposi-tion to Assad formed a unifiedgroup called the Syrian NationalCoalition. Mouaz al-Khatib waschosen as the first prime minister.In December, most of the interna-

tional supporters of the revolu-tionary forces have officially rec-ognized Khatib’s group as the truerepresentation of the Syrian peo-ple. Canada has not yet officiallyrecognized this.

However, in a turn of events,Sunday, March 24 saw al-Khatibresign from his position as leaderof the coalition out of frustrationover the international commu-nity’s inaction towards Syria.

“I announce my resignationfrom the National Coalition sothat I can work with a freedomthat cannot possibly be had in anofficial institution,” al-Khatib saidin his resignation statement. “Forthe past two years, we have beenslaughtered by an unprecedent-edly vicious regime while theworld has looked on.”

Syria’s uprising has left aneconomic toll on the country,along with the destruction andloss of many homes and liveli-hoods. Along with the economicstress, the cruelty of the Assadgovernment weighs heavily onthe Syrian people, both emotion-ally and physically.

“I have a childhood friend, sheis probably now 22. She wentmissing last year and was kid-napped by the Assad forces.Normally when the women arekidnapped they are raped. Wehear a lot about raping of women.There are roadblocks everywhereyou go. Every five minutes ofwalking you will be questioned. If

they decide they don’t like you,they will shoot you. Bodies are ly-ing everywhere...the free Syrianarmy hasn’t had a chance to movethem because of the fighting, andsometimes they are left to rot. Myfamily members have to witnessthat. It is pretty emotional.”

The setbacks of everyday lifein Syria are coupled with the hor-rifying prison system that sur-vives under the Assadgovernment.

“Syrian prisons are known fortheir torture and how cruel theyare … My cousin was protestingin Syria and was captured abouttwo years ago. He went in andthey started torturing him, and hewitnessed other people being tor-tured. But, his dad had so muchmoney that he bought him out ofprison. This is a new trend inSyria, where they kidnap youngpeople and they harass their fam-ilies for money … this is anotherway to fund the regime’s activi-ties.”

The international communityhas been divided on what to doabout the conflict. The UNSecurity Council has remainedsplit, with China and Russiablocking western countries frompressing hard sanctions on Syria.Specifically, Russia has been a ma-jor ally of Syria because of the re-lationship the two countries havein international arms export -Syria is one of Russia’s top cus-tomers.

Madarati believes more inter-national help needs to be taken.While the United States, for in-stance, is providing food and non-lethal aid to Syria, Obama hasstated that American would notbe providing military help unlessAssad crosses the “red line” andbegins using chemical and biolog-ical war weapons on his people.

“I think [an] international ef-fort needs to be made to help thefree Syrian army to outpost[Assad’s Regime]. They need tohave the capability to take out the... Assad without spilling anymoreblood,” Madarati said.

“This inaction is causing manydoubts for the Syrian people andcreating more conflict. Because ofthe inaction, Syrians are believingthe international community issiding with Assad and they wanttheir death. It’s a problem becausea lot of Syrians are upset andhopeless now. I guess they appre-ciate any international help. Wedo recognize there has been a lotof help for the refugee relieffunds. But that’s about it.Especially after they started la-belling our freedom fightergroups as terrorists, the Syrianpeople have lost hope in the inter-national community because in-stead of helping they have startedlabelling.”

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Syria’s uprsing hits its second anniversary

Two years later, still fighting for freedom

Taouba Khelifa

Regina residents gathered in Victoria Park on March 16 for the Global March for Syria.

rikkeal bohmanncontributor

“ I have a childhood friend, she is probably now 22. She went missing last year and was kidnapped by the Assad forces. Normallywhen the women are kidnapped they are raped. We hear a lot about raping of women…There are roadblocks everywhere you go…Every five minutes of walking you will be questioned. If they decide they don’t like you, they will shoot you...Bodies are lying every-where...The free Syrian army hasn’t had a chance to move them because of the fighting, and sometimes they are left to rot. My fam-ily members have to witness that. It is pretty emotional.”

Cheghaf Madarati

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the carillon | March 28 - June 6, 2013a&c

Canadian University Press ruins ChristmasHorror villains’ tory votes are no laughing matter, CUP

This being the final issue of theyear and, as such, the last editionof “I’m Not Angry,” I decided thatall of the rage I have left in mytwisted, black heart should bewell directed at one specific body.

A couple of weeks back, Iwrote about how horror movievillains have been perpetuatingConservative political paradigmsby slaughtering drugged-up, sex-crazed adolescents. Satisfied withmy work raising social awareness,I let the matter rest. Let it rest un-til last night, that is.

See, the Carillon is a part of alarger governing body, theCanadian University Press (CUP).As a service to its member news-

papers, CUP operates what it callsthe newswire, a collection of someof the finest writing from themember papers across Canada. Iwas pleased to see that particularstory made lead Arts news for theweek.

“Good,” I thought. “Now,thousands of students have thepotential to recognize this prob-lem!” I decided to celebrate with ajolly good laugh from CUP’s hu-mor section. What I saw literallysmacked my gob. There was mystory about Conservative-mindedhorror villains as the lead story inhumor, too. I sat seething in silentfury before throwing this articletogether.

I don’t think the editors atCUP realize the gravity of the sit-uation that has been unfoldingsince the early 1970s, and I find itappalling that it was taken as a

joke to some people.“What sort of motherfuckery

is this?!” I roared, jumping upfrom my chair. “That wasn’t ajoke! Nothing about that articlewas remotely funny! This is seri-ous business!” By reducing my ar-ticle to a mere mockery ofsociopolitics, you’ve removed allof the strength of the argument!Well, I hope you’re happy, CUP.Not only can I now never showmy face at a comic conventionever again, but now my pariahismis all for naught. TheConservatives will continuepulling on the leashes of theirchained dogs, and many liberal-minded politicians will be slaugh-tered senselessly. And all becauseyou at CUP wanted a laugh. Wellguess what? I’m actually angry,now.

Kyle Leitch

i’m not angrykyle leitcharts writer

Some people just make it look easyColdest Night of the Year to release self-titled EP April 5

Half a year ago, Regina bandColdest Night of the Year didn’texist. Yet, since their inception inNovember, they’ve become one ofthe most talked-about bandsaround town, and they have arecord ready to be released. OnApril 5, the six-song, self-titled EPwill be made available at theband’s record release show at theExchange.

While still a relatively newband, the idea is something gui-tarist/frontman Chris Matchettand bassist Wolfond have beenthinking about for some time now.

“Me and Jon had been talkingabout getting a band together fora long time, and it just never reallyworked out ... then, one night, Iwas playing a show opening for

Everlast at the Pump, and Iwanted to get a band together,”said Matchett.

Wolfond also said the bandhas been able to churn out mate-rial as quickly as they have be-cause “it’s really easy to writewith these guys.”

Although, not everyone in theband has found it to be as easy asWolfond.

“It hasn’t been easy. It’s beenmanageable, but I think it’s justchemistry. We’re all good friendsand have known each other foryears and years. It was somethingwe were all looking for; Carl[Johnson] wanted a break fromwhat he was doing with LibraryVoices, and I just wanted to dosomething with somebody else,”said Matchett.

Along with the inevitable hardwork that goes into playing in aband and writing a record,

Matchett said the collective expe-riences of the members’ playingwith different groups throughoutthe years has also made thingscome together as smoothly as theyhave.

“We’ve been working reallyhard getting the songs down,working hard in the studio. We’veall been doing this separately ortogether for a long time, so weknow what’s up. We took all ofour combined experience and putit towards a single goal,” saidMatchett.

Save one song Matchett hadwritten prior to the band’s exis-tence, every song on the EP “is theproduct of us writing together asa band over the last couple ofmonths,” said Matchett.

“Most of the songs on therecord are the first songs wewrote, the first couple of jams,”Wolfond added. “We’ve only been

a band for five or six months, butwe haven’t had to toss a songaway yet. Everything we write wefeel strongly about.”

Even during the interview,both Matchett and Wolfondseemed a bit surprised with thepop hooks permeated in theband’s tunes.

“We want to move units,”Matchett said with a laugh. “Artfor its own sake is good, but...”

“We never had that in ourminds when were writing. Wenever thought we were going towrite something for a specificgroup of people or anything, butthat’s how it turned out,”Wolfond added.

It seems terribly far away withthe amount of snow that’s stilloutside, but Coldest Night of theYear already has some plans forthe summer, including moreshows and prepping their next re-

lease.“We’re going to spend the

summer doing gigs and writing,and we want to do a full-length inthe fall,” said Matchett.

“We’re hoping to go out west,hoping to do some festivals,”Wolfond added.

Coldest Night of the Year’s EPrelease show is at the Exchangeon April 5, with Nick Faye & theDeputies and Gunner opening theshow. Tickets are $10 and will beavailable at the doors, which openat 8 p.m.

Tenielle Bogdan

paul bogdanarts editor

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Moshing is a misunderstood phe-nomenon. As with most unfamil-iar practices, such as religions,sub-cultures, or other such move-ments, the behaviour of thosegroups is alien to people on theoutside, and this is the case withmetal and its rituals. The “nor-mal” culture looks at metal andshrugs its shoulders with a con-fused stare, and this mystery ispersonified in the mosh pit,metal’s most important ritual.

Why are a group of people,who are almost always men wear-ing black, running around andsmashing into one another?What’s the point?

In an article by NationalGeographic outlining moshing andsome scientific and anthropologi-cal work that has been done onthe ritual, Nicholas Mott likens itto spirit possession and to herdbehaviour found commonly in an-imals, including you, me, and thatguy in line and Henderson’s –mammals. Although moshingmay only be familiar to our cul-ture from the last few decades, thepractice’s roots lie deeper in hu-man behaviour and history.

As a metalhead myself, I’vebeen going to shows in Reginaand the surrounding area for fiveyears, but I never moshed until ayear ago. For four years mosh pitsnever particularly enticed me.Truthfully, it seemed a little im-mature, and I was there to learnthings on guitar that I could applyto my playing and just to enjoysome loud music. Yet, it alwayshad my curiosity, and there was aphysical element to it too; fiveyears ago I was 15, and thosedudes moshing were big men, sofor life and limb I stayed awayfrom the front middle part of thevenue.

Eventually, I got over my orig-inal apprehension, growing to amighty six feet three inches and230 pounds, and I felt more confi-dent to throw it around with thebest of them. My first mosh pitwas last year at the Metal Alliancetour, which came to the Riddell

Centre. Three Inches of Blood wasplaying, and towards at the end oftheir set they played “TheGoatriders Horde” which is notonly my favorite Three Inches ofBlood song, but one of myfavourite metal songs ever. So, Iwas suddenly compelled to mosh.Everything was set in place. It was

primal, and almost felt like a reli-gious experience.

I ran in and started the ritual.When the song finished I feltamazing. I hadn’t sustained anyinjuries (beginner’s luck, I know),and I honestly felt like I had got alot of stress off my mind fromwhat was then a brutal semester.

Every metal show I’ve been tosince I’ve moshed, which has ledto many bruises and a couple mi-nor injuries, cuts here and bustedknees there.

You’re thinking, this soundsfucking stupid. But wouldChristian prayer and ritual lookstupid to the Atheist? Does not

western over excess appear vainto rest of the world? Everyonethinks their practices, their beliefs,and their rituals, are the ones thatare logical and the natural state ofbeing – but there is always some-one else that thinks it is irrational.

In general this phenomenon isrooted in a sense of belonging, orguidance, which underpins all re-ligions, quasi-religions, and sub-cultures. This feeling, and therejection of counter beliefs, hasbeen with humans for longer thanrecorded history.

As for myself, my journeythroughout metal’s “spirituality”has evolved, because now I playand write music in a metal band.When I play shows, I see peoplemoshing to songs that my bandand I wrote, and seeing thatevokes in me a feeling better thanmoshing itself.

Sometimes shoving means lovingMoshing a circle pit of friendship

Roger Kisby/Getty Images

One big, happy, metal family


“When the song finished I felt amaz-ing. I hadn’t sustained any injuries (beginner’s luck, I know), and I honestly felt like I had got a lot ofstress off my mind from what was thena brutal semester.”

Michael Chmielwski

1. Do you pay attention to theJUNOs? Will you this year be-cause they are in Regina?

PB: I generally don’t, but I sawthere were a few acts I enjoy onthe nominee list, and not to men-tion I’ll be covering the JUNOs forthe Carillon, so I’ll be paying atten-tion this year for those reasons.

MC: No, and no I won't. I thinkit's good that they're in Regina thisyear, that's pretty cool.

KL: Not generally, but I too amworking for the JUNOs this year,so I should probably start.

2. Who would you like to seewin some awards? Who do youhope goes home empty-handed?

PB: I don’t care as long as I getsome red-carpet selfies.

MC: I'd like to see The Sheepdogswin some awards, I dig thoseguys. I hope Bieber goes homeempty-handed. What he worewhen he received the DiamondJubilee Medal made me lose morerespect for him then I thoughtpossible. Punk.

KL: I would be all right if theSheepdogs won something. Dittofor The Deep Dark Woods. Otherthan that, I really don’t wish foranyone to not win, I guess.

3. Is there anyone not on the listof nominees that you thinkshould be?

PB: Tons of the people on theJUNOfest roster could be.

MC: I can't really think of anyone.

KL: For the amount of artists at-tending JUNOfest events, thereseems to be a pretty shallow poolof actual nominees.

4. Will you be going to any ofthe JUNOfest shows?

PB: This is probably the best thingabout the whole JUNO ordeal,even if most of the bands I’mplanning to see are from this city.Good music is always good times.

MC: No.

KL: Unlikely, I’m afraid. If I getthe chance to attend, I’ll gladly go,but it’s more likely I’ll be working.

5. Is there a place for awardsshows in art?

PB: I don’t know. It’s nice to rec-ognize good works (not that allawards shows do), but what I likeis the events leading up to it thatdo showcase a lot of solid musicaltalent.

MC: I think there is for sure, it'sjust a matter of how it's done.Whether or not the JUNOs aredone well I can't really tell you.

KL: I suppose so. It always seemsto help artists out when theirwork is recognized.

A WEE ARTS ROUNDTABLEkyle leitch, paul bogdan,michael chmielewskithis week’s roundtable

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THE HATEIt’s everyone’s favourite timeof the year: the hate issue.Here are the things at the Uof R that we most hate.

Tuition should be URSU’s first priority, and it shouldn’t takesome sort of visionary genius descending from the academicheavens to come to this apparently opaque conclusion. Insteadof fighting for a freeze, the solution URSU’s come up with isto work on “managing tuition increases.” Well, given thatwe’re facing yet another increase next year of five per cent, ontop of a four per cent increase last year, and consistent yearsof tuition increases since the freeze ended, we’ve got to eval-uate just how fucking well this is working out. I understandthe political landscape here isn’t the same as the mid-2000s,but our students’ union has been successful in getting a tuitionfreeze in the past, so completely ruling out the solution wouldbe foolish. And who’s to say we can’t fight for a tuition freezeand then settle on actual manageable tuition increases?Because currently, “managing tuition increases” has thus farbeen analogous to saying, “please sir, don’t” while the govern-ment’s foot comes crashing down on our collective tuition-balls.

If we haven’t been getting manageable tuition increases(that is, giving URSU the benefit of the doubt that they’ve ac-tually been working hard on this), don’t just turn back to usand say, “Well, that’s how she goes, I guess”. URSU is a union;need I remind you? You have 13,000 members. Use thosenumbers to your advantage to work out a reasonable tuitionprice and that can be tied to inflation.


URSU’s stance on tuition

Board of Governors’ meetings are still closed

I wrote about this a few weeks ago, but I’m not going to stophounding this until this it’s fixed because this is some seriousbullshit. They don’t have to follow the recommendations fromUniversity Council, and they don’t have to give a reason why.This is where the decisions happen at this university, andyou’re excluded from them, from hearing the rationale behindthem, from seeing who votes in favour or against them. But,I guess if I think about it, I can see the concerns of the Boardof Governors; I mean, someone attending a meeting, likely noteven speaking during it, and taking notes and reporting onwhat happened! The horrors of transparency! The nerve ofthose 20-somethings! Sometimes I forget how big and scarystudents can be.

When things go to shit on this campus we tend toblame each other instead of our administration orboard of governors. It`s easier to blame the shitheadplaying bejewelled beside you in a lecture than abunch of faceless people making decisions with yourmoney. We tend to turn on each other`s faculties.Arts students blame business students, engineersblame science students, fine arts students blame ed-ucation students, etc. Every education has value. Noeducation should be more valuable than another,and that`s what we need to tell our university. Weneed to stop screaming at one another, and startscreaming at who`s refusing to hear us.

julia dimaproduction manager

faculty hate


This has been a soapbox of mine for a while, but why don’tstudents have 24/7 access to this campus? I’m fine with doorsbeing locked, as it’s a safety thing, but even with a valid stu-dent ID, if you call campus security to let you in after 11 p.m.they can deny you access. Never mind that we pay some of themost expensive tuition in the country to attend this university,we don’t even have the right to use it whenever we need it,and our right to access it is based on the judgement call ofwhoever is working security that night.


no access campus

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FEATURE 2013

Of all the seemingly insur-mountable problems to hateat this university, I hate onethat is really easy to solve, orat least it seems that way. Theposter policy here is ridicu-lous. I don’t know how it is atother universities, and I don’tcare. If I wanted to advertisethe show my band had at theGerman Club a couple weeksback, I would get a reduced

amount of posters approvedand a fee for the ones thatwere approved, all because itisn’t at The Owl. It’s not mewho sunk The Owl into thered last year, and I’ve donemy fair share of beer drink-ing to help the cause. Theposter policy is not what hin-ders The Owl; it’s misman-agement.


URSU poster policy

So, your class syllabus onlystates what the assignmentsare and when they’re due,huh? Well, you’d better justtry your hardest, and gaugewhat the professor’s markingon. What’s that? You nearlyfailed? The professor’s com-ments said that the criteriafor marking were clearlystated in the syllabus? Butdidn’t the syllabus just saywhat the assignment was and

when it was due? Well,model your next assignmentafter those remarks. Surely,you’ll get a better grade thisgo around! You nearly failedthe second assignment too,huh? Well, I’ve got nothing.A wise man once said that“Ds get degrees.” You betterhope that old adage holds astrue, Bubba.

kyle leitcharts writer

course ambiguity

We’ve been picking onTimmons and Chase this yearfor good reason – becausethey are doing a poor job ofhandling the funding crisis atthis university. From the se-cretiveness surrounding theAPR to somehow turningrecord enrolment numbersinto a reason to cut thebudget by three per cent, thesenior administration did notshow much concern for thepeople they should havecared about most – studentsand faculty. It’s time to getserious and be critical of thegovernment, or at least bringthe students and faculty di-

rectly to the government sothey can advocate for them-selves. I get not wanting tobite the hand that feeds you,but seriously, the hand is notfeeding us enough to survive.The “town halls” were agood start, but if you don’twant to be mentioned in nextyear’s hate feature, you’regoing to have to keep con-sulting, preferably before youmake big decisions instead ofthree years after.

edward doddop-ed editor

the U of R’s senior administration

Isn’t it odd that wheneverour students’ union thinks ofsustainability, they only evermention recycling programsas the basis of what theyhope to implement and im-prove on their platforms?Don’t get me wrong, recy-cling is important, but we re-ally need to be implementingmore to create a sustainablecampus. Why not encouragestudents to compost by pro-viding compost bins in

Riddell? Why not drop theprice of beverages for stu-dents who use their ownmugs and bottles? We don’tneed leaders who will repeatthe same line of “we will im-prove recycling on campus”when asked about campussustainability. We need lead-ers who are willing to thinkcritically, engage in the dis-cussion, and educate them-selves and the student bodyalong the way.


sustain what?

Come on guys, we are alladults. We can keep thewashrooms clean, right?Apparently not. Yesterday, Iwalked into a washroomonly to find it decorated topto bottom with toilet paper.Literally - toilet paper washanging from the toilet seats,from the wall, and from thegarbage. Other times, the

washrooms are much worseoff. Let’s make FacilityManagement’s job a little eas-ier, and keep the washroomsclean. And, let’s also keep it acommon courtesy, to the nextperson using the stall afteryou, to leave things some-what presentable? Can weagree on that?


dirty washrooms

There is no reason why a prof should not be allowedto distribute excerpts from a novel to their class.Unless literature classes became the dangerous newfront for illegally sharing copyright material, profes-sors should receive legal and university protection toshare material with their students for the purposes ofstudy or analysis. That's a reasonable line of reason-ing, right? That's why deranged legal policies get inthe way. This isn't a problem that reared its trade-marked head recently; this was a problem years agowhen a prof told the class that he would love toshare a novel excerpt with students “But I can't giveyou handouts because copyright law forbids it.” Iparaphrase but that was the sentiment, and I remem-ber it vividly.

It's incredibly worrying when professors are nolonger able to do their job because the myopic poli-cies and laws (that come from a failure to understandpiracy's nature) prevent it. Imagine cases where pro-fessors have had to adjust their syllabus becausethey couldn't share a video or excerpt with theirclass; copyright laws are not inconvenient, they maybe doing major damage to our education. Piracy isa rampant issue, but current haphazard laws don'tcurb the theft of copyright works; they force stu-dents to scour YouTube for clips from a documentary.Copyright laws act as a nice microcosm of the prob-lems developing in the relationship between leaders'reactionary decision making in spite of oppositionand outcry from an ostensibly acknowledged public(or "subjects").

ethan steincontributor

copyright laws in university

The academic advisors on campus and I have neverseen eye-to-eye, and to be honest, I think that I comeout of every meeting with them knowing less. It isdue in part to their lack of listening ability that Ihave five extra classes that I cannot use towards mydegree. Last year, they tried to convince me not to gointo a program by telling me that it was no longer ac-cepting students, however; once I began to cry itwas amazing how quickly the program becameavailable and how much more they could suddenlydo for me.

autumn mcdowellsports editor

academic advisors

The worst place to eat on campus is easily anywhere ownedby Chartwell’s. The food is terrible! I’ve bought muffins onmore than one occasion where the centre was still batter. And,this isn’t the only problem with the food quality. BYOB bunsare usually stale and fall apart, the sweet potato fries arebarely cooked – some of them still cold and limp, and the sal-ads are usually full of lettuce that is about to go bad. And theworst part about all this is that they charge exuberant amountsof money for half-assed shit that my dog wouldn’t even eat. The sad part is students need to eat – especially those who liveon campus – and Chartwell’s knows this, so they completelygouge us for food that they know is shitty quality. But, whynot serve crap and charge a fortune when you know you canget away with it? Bon appetite.

michelle jonescopy editor

Chartwell’s

All Photots taken by Arthur Ward

Sports Editor: Autumn [email protected]

the carillon | March 28 - June 6, 2013sportsROUNDTABLECougars and Rams put their gear away for another season

What was your favourite U of Rsports moment this year?

Dupuis: The Rams’ season prettymuch had it all: big plays, hugehits, comebacks and upsets, butin the end I’ve got to go with thewomen’s b-ball team hosting na-tionals. The atmosphere was un-real, and it was great to see thatmany fans come out to supportCougars athletics.

Klein: I’ve got to say that my fa-vorite U of R sports moment wasthe playoff soccer game againstthe much-hated University ofSaskatchewan. It had it all - pinkonezies, dance, crying girls, terri-ble refs, and an epic finish thatyou could only be a part of to un-derstand.

Gray: My favourite moment ofthe school year was seeing theCougars perform at the CIS cham-pionship. While they didn’t win, itsure was exciting to watch.

McDowell: Seeing teams actuallymake the playoffs this year wasgreat, but I think as a single mo-ment, the semi-final game of theCIS women’s basketball champi-onships was awesome. Everyonewas drunk and having fun, withhilarious “overrated” chants. Notto mention, we won that game,and I got to enjoy it with somegood company.

Which mascot do you like better:Reggie or Rampage? Life ordeath, pick one.

Dupuis: Rampage wins based onname alone. ‘Reggie’ sounds likethe name of a creepy old pe-dophile. Come to think of it,Reggie sure does spend a lot oftime hugging small children. I’malso pretty sure I saw him mas-turbating at the CISChampionships the other week-end. I’m on to you, Reggie.

Klein: A cougar or a ram? Well inthe animal kingdom a cougarcould very well kill a ram. But aram could also stick its foot up acougar’s ass and send him pack-ing so I’m going to say both areawesome. And if I get in troublefor saying ass in the school paperI think I might lose it.

Gray: I’ve gotta go with Rampage.The man has the sicker namethough, but in a prison rules fightI think Reggie would manage towin that one.

McDowell: I really like the look ofRampage, what with his littlehorns and hooves and whatnot.However, as far as performance,the choice is easy and Reggie winshands down. Reggie has muchbetter dance moves, I think hemight shake his booty better thanI do, which is saying something.All Rampage does is flex. The firsttime it was funny; by the eighthtime, I was ready to rip his headoff. Also, secretly I have alwayswanted to be the mascot.

The Stanley Cup hasn’t been onCanadian soil since the MontrealCanadiens won their 24th Cup in1993. Do you think the StanleyCup will finally be back inCanada this year?

Dupuis: Twenty years removedfrom their last Stanley Cup vic-tory, the Montreal Canadiens

bring the cup home to Canada af-ter disposing of the Blackhawksin five games, and I proceed toparty naked in the streets. Youheard it here first.

Klein: This is too tough to call, tobe honest. Winnipeg is starting tocome together; Montreal came outof nowhere and surprised us all.Vancouver is as good as always.It’s too tough to call right now.The only thing I’m concernedabout is Iginla getting traded tothe Bruins so he can finally winhis Stanley Cup.

Gray: I don’t see it happening thisyear, with the way the Ducks andBlackhawks have been playing, Isee it going to one of them.

McDowell: I’m going to go with aresounding no. Chicago looks sodominant, almost too dominant,and they are probably settingthemselves up for a first-roundupset loss. While I do think theJets will make the playoffs, theyare hardly championship worthy.All that said, go Pens!

What is your favourite sport todo in the summer? Yes, beer dartsis a sport.

Dupuis: It’s a toss-up betweenhorseshoes and croquet. I likeanything that I can play whiledrinking copious amounts of beerand exerting a minimal amount

of energy. Honourable mentiongoes to swinging leisurely backand forth in a hammock.

Klein: Well since I get in troublefor EVERYTHING I say in theCarillon I can’t technically say beerdarts. So I’m going to go withsummer hockey. I cannot go with-out playing hockey for more thana couple months before I go crazy.And yes, summer hockey is con-sidered a summer sport everythough its indoors.

Gray: Beer darts and beer pongare the way to go, especially onthose hot summer nights. Forthose sport purists out there, beerleague softball is always a goodchoice.

McDowell: I’m always up for arousing game of catch; football,not baseball, obviously. Little doyou people know that I have akiller arm and was once the quar-terback of my co-ed touch foot-ball team. I also played receiverand caught the first touchdown ofthe season. Football: Teacher,mother, secret lover.

The Regina Red Sox have wonback-to-back WMBL champi-onships. Do you think they canmake it a three-peat this year?

Dupuis: There it is. The lastroundtable question I’ll ever haveto dodge due to a severe lack of

interest or usable knowledge.How should I approach it? An ir-relevant, profanity-laced rant? Aself-deprecating non-sequitor? Ahalf-assed movie pitch starringKobe Bryant? Any of those woulddo, but it appears I’m out of room.You’ll just have to use your imag-inations, friends.

Klein: Well they’d better, becausethe goal of mine this year is to ac-tually go and watch a couplegames. Go support our Red Sox,people, if your willing to spend$20 to go watch the Pats lose youcan cough up $12 to $15 to gowatch some championship base-ball.

Gray: Yes, they have proven timeand time against that they are thebest team in the league andshould have no problem winninga championship again.

McDowell: Yes, I believe theywill. Probably the best thing goingfor this team is that only two of itsmembers are actually fromRegina. Most of them are collegeball players, and the vast majorityare not Canadians, which accord-ing to the players last year, theless Canadians, the better. Yay, forthe Canadian baseball program.

braden dupuis, kris klein,britton gray,autumn mcdowell

this week’s roundtable

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While the CIS is largely consid-ered as the top amateur footballprogram in the country, with moreand more players making thetransition from junior football toprofessional ranks, people are be-ginning to realize the potentiallong-term benefits of spendingtime in junior.

When a player graduates highschool, he is faced with the toughdecision of whether to play juniorfootball or make the jump to uni-versity, with arguably bigger,stronger and faster athletes.

One of the biggest elementsthat attracts young football play-ers to play junior football as op-posed to making the jump to CIS,is that they can spend more timeworking on their football skills,while not having the added stressand pressure of a full universityworkload.

“The Canadian Junior FootballLeague (CJFL) gives players flex-ibility with their careers and edu-cation,” said Brin Werrett,president of Regina Thunder.“About 50 per cent of our playersare pursuing secondary educa-tion. Some are SIAST students,many are U of R students andmany are working while going toschool as well. Junior footballplayers have the flexibility tochoose, unlike CIS players whomust be full time students.”

Besides the increased flexibil-ity, another benefit to playing jun-ior football is that it can provide aplayer with more time to developtheir playing ability. Althoughmany players do elect to play CISfootball directly out of highschool, this often results in sittingon the sidelines as a red shirt forthe first year, time that may beused more valuably with a year ofhands-on playing experience injunior.

“I think the benefit for anyplayer that elects to take that [jun-ior] route is to grow as a player inregards to not having to jumpright into the CIS ranks rightaway,” said Mike Thomas, tech-nical director of FootballSaskatchewan. “For some players,they would like to make sure thatthey are prepared physically andmentally for the leap to univer-

sity.”However, while it is clear that

junior can be used to further de-velop a player’s talents, accord-ing to Jim Donlevy, Convenor forCanada West football, he believesthat playing junior football maybe detrimental to a player.

“I think that if good-qualityplayers stay too long in the lowerlevel, which is junior. Let’s not kidourselves here, they develop badhabits because they are superiorathletes at that level and then theystart taking short cuts and aren’tas disciplined as they have to be toplay at the next level,” he said. “Ifthey are ready to make the move,they shouldn’t stay as a big fish ina small pond. That’s not good fortheir development.”

Many players elect to use jun-ior football as a stepping-stone toprepare them to eventually transi-tion into CIS football. Because thetwo leagues offer a combinedseven years of football eligibility,it allows many players take ad-vantage of the increased playingtime.

“The CJFL allows players toplay up until they are 22 – fiveyears after high school. CISFootball allows players to havefive years of eligibility, however,this must be done in 7 years of

graduating,” Werrett said.“Combined, you are allowed toplay up to a combination of 7years between both leagues. Forexample, if a player plays in theCJFL for five full years, theywould still be eligible to play an-other two years in CIS – or anyother combination. This careerpath gives a player more opportu-nity to play football and transi-tion to a CIS league with moreexperience. It’s a path that manyof our players take.”

If executed correctly, playerscan gain valuable experience andknowledge from both leagues,which they then hope to carry intoa career in professional football.For CFL prospect KoltonSolomon, he is reaping the bene-fits of spending time at both thejunior and CIS levels.

“Kolton was a classic case ofa kid that was very talented butbeing an 18-year-old kid cominginto the CIS he was definitely ableto play at that level on the fieldbut it’s the off the field part that issometimes difficult and I thinkthat is where it caught up withhim,” Thomas said. “Having thefall back option to being able toplay junior I think really helpedhim in terms of maturing bothphysically and mentally to be able

to better prepare himself for whenhe did return to the U of R.”

The University of ReginaRams product spent time withboth the Vancouver Island Raidersand Regina Thunder before re-turning to CIS, and recentlysigned his second contract withthe Saskatchewan Roughriders ofthe CFL.

“Kolton is a great example ofa player who has played in bothleagues and had the opportunityto move into the professional levelunder both systems,” Werrettsaid. “The CJFL gave Kolton anopportunity to gain additionalplaying time and develop an ini-tial relationship with theRoughriders organization. He wasable to continue to develop andcreate opportunities by playingwith the Rams as well.”

For players like Solomon,who are eventually looking totake their talents to a professionalfootball career, both leagues havethe ability to get players there, butthe route players take will beslightly different.

“What’s unique about theCJFL is that CFL teams have terri-torial rights to players within thesystem,” Werrett explained. “Forexample, the SaskatchewanRoughriders have the rights to

any player currently playing foreither the Saskatoon Hilltops orthe Regina Thunder. Once aplayer plays one game in the CISsystem, they now must gothrough the CFL Draft where anyteam can draft their rights.”

In recent years, the ReginaThunder has sent many playersdirectly to professional footballwithout spending any time in theCIS, including Dan Clark, ZackEvans, Stu Foorde, Clay Cooke,and more. However, they havealso sent products to the CIS forfurther development, like ChrisGetzlaf, Jason Clermont, RoryKohlert, Paul Woldu, and BryceMcCall all of whom spent time inboth leagues before making theirprofessional debuts.

As Thomas points out, what-ever path a player chooses, it willbe their determination and workethic that is the biggest factor forwhether they play at the nextlevel, not the path in which theychoose to get there.

“Kids see that there is an op-portunity for them and going ei-ther route will get you there; itjust depends on the time that it isgoing to take.”

A comparison of the top amateur football leagues in Canada

Junior versus CIS

reginathunder.ca

Thunder jerseys should have name plates. Just sayin.

autumn mcdowellsports editor

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The DickiesIn honour of athletics director Dick White, athletes receive legitimate awards

It’s been quite a year for Cougarathletics at the University ofRegina.Some teams got better,others got worse, and somestayed about on par with lastyear.

It was a year filled with highsand lows; with heartbreak and tri-umph; with sports clichés ofevery make and model.

While some of our athletesmay have been upset with theperceived negative coverage theyreceived from certain publicationsthat may or may not be this exactpublication, to them I would say:better luck next year.

To those who don’t take them-selves so seriously, we presentyou now with the 2012-13Dickies: The awards article someaningless and meandering youwould think that we just made itup as we went along. We totallydidn’t though.

So without further ado, here itis. The article you’ve been waitingfor all year. The last one.

‘Freak of Nature’ award: KellyWiebe

Does Kelly Wiebe ever stop run-ning? I got an email today tellingme he’s competing for TeamCanada in the World CrossCountry Championships inBydgoszcz, Poland. Once mybrain recovered from trying tosound out that hideous name, Iwondered aloud how long it tookhim to run there. Five hours later,

I’m still laughing at my awesomejoke. My neighbours must bepissed.

Brightest shoes: LindsayLedingham

At the CIS championships some-one pointed out to me how brightLeddy’s shoes were. I was prettydrunk, and I’m also colour blind,so I’m just going to have to taketheir word for it. From what Ihear though, they were prettydamn bright.

Cleanest shave: Paul Gareau

After more than a year of beingthat big, tall guy on the basketballteam who also happened to sporta massive beard, Gareau did theunthinkable and shaved his epicface bush. Now he’s known as thebig tall guy who is no longer onthe basketball team and no longerhas a massive beard. Way to go,Paul. Now you’re just tall.

Toughest mom: Jasmine Slinn

No, this doesn’t mean thatJasmine Slinn has the toughestmom of any of our student ath-letes (though that may be as safea bet as any). It means that she ISthe toughest mom. After takingmost of 2011 off to have her firstchild, Slinn finished off her U of Rcareer this year by helping leadthe women’s wrestling team to arespectable sixth place finish atthe CIS championships inLondon, Ont.

Most undervalued team:Cougars Handball

“Dirty” Mike and the boys fought

with a lot of heart this year, butyou wouldn’t know it by check-ing their attendance numbers –many times I felt like I was theonly one watching their matches.The Cougars website has no men-tion of stats or even their startingroster. This team is so underval-ued, the university won’t evenspring for uniforms or a regula-tion handball. How do you sleepat night, Vianne?

Best new U of R sports writer:Braden Dupuis

I’ve read most of the things I’vewritten this year, and I have toadmit that, damn, I’m good. I re-ally feel that I deserve this awardthat I just now made up andawarded to myself. I’m alsomildly good looking in low-lightsituations, and I’m a heck of abowler when nobody’s watching.Congratulatory phone calls andletters of admiration can be di-rected to my mom’s house. Sheloves that shit.

Most hate for the Carillon:Women’s basketball

Certain members of the women’sbasketball team have always hadit out for the Carillon, often com-plaining that we didn’t coverthem enough and then complain-ing about the coverage that wedid give them. I’m sure they willtweet a picture of this – they lovethat.

Best dance moves: Women’shockey

This year, the women’s hockeyteam released a Harlem shakevideo to stir up excitement for theplayoffs, and boy did it work. TheCougars got tons of fans out fortheir semi-final matchup againstUBC, but more importantly, Imust ask the question that isburning in everyone’s minds:who was rolling around insidethe hockey bag? Classic.

Best hate mail: Sylvain Pineau –swimming coach

Throughout my years as sportseditor, I have received manytouching articles of hate mail, butby far the best one was the three-page email I received from theswimming coach. I apparentlylearned nothing from this piece,as he sent me another oneroughly one week later. They lookincredible in the frames I boughtfor them.

Most overworked staff member:Braden Konschuh – sports infor-mation director

Between making an appearanceat roughly every Cougars homegame and putting up timely re-caps, Konschuh is surely the mostover worked – and I assume un-der paid – staff member in theathletics department. I’ve seri-ously been wondering if he waspart of some cloning experiment;he’s everywhere.

Best flow: James Friedel

During the season, men’s hockey

team defenceman Friedel had oneof the sickest flows to walk thehalls of the U of R in a long time.However, Friedel made the horri-ble judgment to cut that flow intoa respectable haircut. This onedoesn’t even stick out of his hel-met on the ice, what good is that?This award may be transferred toteammate Sanfred King, as heseems much more committed tokeeping his flow.

Most likely to succeed: StefanCharles

Rams defensive lineman Charlesis projected to go first overall inthe CFL draft. He recently partic-ipated at the combine, where hewas somehow able to levitate his6’5”, 324 lb body 37 inches off ofthe ground. Scouts were so im-pressed by this magic trick thatthey made him measure his reachagain. Become friends with thiskid now, so that he can forgetabout you when he’s rich and fa-mous.

Most selfied athlete: Lex Ewen

How Lex has even managed tofind the time to win two CISCanada West gold medals in be-tween Instagramming countlessselfies is pretty astounding. Stillwaiting on the mid-record-break-ing-jump selfie though.

braden dupuissports writer autumn mcdowell

sports editorpaul bogdana&c editor

Arthur Ward

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Last year at this time, I wasstrongly considering – actually, Iwas positive – that I would not bereturning as sports editor thisyear. But here I am, suckers.

When we were required towrite a page for our legacybinders last year, describing whatour job entails and what our jobswere actually like, so that the suc-cessors of our positions wouldknow what they were getting into,I wrote “you are about to start hat-ing your life.” Then I decided tore-apply, because I must be stu-pid.

Originally, I did not want toreturn because I was putting in aninsane amount of work, oftenwriting four to six articles perweek, while only getting paid forwriting one of them. I’m suremany of you can understand whythat frustrated me and are proba-bly scratching your heads rightnow, pondering why on earth Iwould agree to what would workout to an hourly wage of $3.

While I did, and still do, havea passion for sports I was not surethat it was mentally safe for me tocontinue with that work load, didI mention I was also in fourclasses and working another job atthis time?

Still, while I was certain that I

was not going to be returning, Isimply could not sit back andwatch the sports section crumble,which could have very well hap-pened had I not decided to return.At one point the option of nothaving a sports section if I didn’tcome back was a very real possi-bility, but I simply could not letthat happen. I worked too hard tosee it disappear.

In all actuality, once I got usedto receiving hate mail on a weeklybasis, almost getting to the pointof enjoyment upon its arrival, my

job became much more tolerable.People often wonder why I

don’t promote University ofRegina sports to an almost obses-sive and disgusting level, congrat-ulating them, no matter how wellor how terrible they do; but that isjust not my style, folks.

While I do try to give everyteam some coverage in the paper,and I do enjoy going to as many ofthe Cougars and Rams games as Ican, I am a reporter, not a cheer-leader.

I also wrote into my legacy

binder, “at least three teams hatedme because I pointed out that theysucked in a rather sarcastic way.You will learn to love that feel-ing.”

The way I see it, if a team losesby hundreds of points, it is my jobto point that out. Perhaps I canget carried away with sarcasmsometimes, but that’s just mysense of humour. Sorry, but I can-not congratulate a team for losingby such a hideous margin, and Idon’t think teams should be OKwith being given mercy articles

and participation awards. It’s notmy fault you suck. I’m sure thehate mail will be streaming in af-ter that one.

I don’t want to be like theother sports writers out there.That possibility went out the win-dow the minute I was born a girl.From that moment on it becameobvious that I was not going to beyour average, run of the millsports reporter.

Besides the obvious, I also be-lieve that I have a rather uniquewriting style. I have recentlylearned that people know me bymy writing, which is slightly ter-rifying. If you saw me in the hall-way, I’ll bet you would neverguess that this little girl came upwith such sarcastic articles.

I hope that I have turned thesports section into something thatis fun and interesting to read, andif it evokes emotions in some ofyou, be that positive or negative,then I feel I have done my job.

Having said all of that, al-though this job can be frustrating,it can also be very rewarding andbarring anyone coming in andtaking my job – which manyteams are probably hoping for – Ihope to return to give more ade-quate and realistic reporting ofcampus teams.

See you next year, kids.

OTTAWA (CUP) — The stereo-type of the dumb jock has consis-tently been perpetuated bymainstream media. Some peoplecan’t help but wonder, “All thesepeople do is skate around a rinkor kick a ball, so how smart canthey really be?”

According to a recent study byJocelyn Faubert of the Universityof Montreal, professional athletesactually learn more quickly thanthe average student population.

The study showed that profes-sional athletes get to where theyare not by being big, athletic pow-erhouses, but by possessing highbiological motion perception – or,the ability to track multiple fast-moving objects simultaneously.

Think Wayne Gretzky orSidney Crosby: they are not neces-sarily the biggest players, buttheir ability to anticipate the playand know where the puck is go-ing sets them apart from the rest.

“Biological motion perceptioninvolves the visual systems’ ca-pacity to recognize complex hu-man movements when they arepresented as a pattern of a fewmoving dots,” Faubert states inhis study.

In his research, Faubert hap-pened upon a trend, which indi-cated that athletes tended to bequicker and become adjusted tonew patterns at a faster rate than

the average individual. This ledFaubert to conduct a study withCogniSens Athletics, a lab that hasaccess to professional athletes inthe National Collegiate AthleticAssociation, the National HockeyLeague (NHL), and Major LeagueSoccer. Faubert’s study found,with almost no ambiguity, thatathletes do learn more quicklythan the average university stu-dent.

This doesn’t mean that ath-

letes are smarter than students inevery way – to be smart can meanmany things. Einstein was a bril-liant physicist, but might not havebeen a 50-goal-a-year scorer in theNHL, had he laced up his skates.Some intelligence relies on quick,instantaneous learning and hyper-focus, while other intelligence re-quires long-term concentrationand rational induction. An NHLplayer, though, will generally beable to focus intently for the five

to eight seconds necessary tomake that outstanding play no-body else could have seen.

Félix Morin, a master’s of sci-ence student at the University ofOttawa and a member of four in-tramural hockey leagues, said be-ing an athlete has a positiveimpact on his schoolwork.

“Although [sports] takes timeaway from school work, I think ithas a positive effect. If beinghappy makes me more efficient at

school and if doing sports makesme happy, then exercise is clearlypositive,” said Morin.

As to whether being a strongathlete on the ice makes a persona faster learner, Morin was skepti-cal.

“I don’t know if I am a fastlearner or not,” he said, laughing.“I think I am quicker in somefields, but not as much in others.”

Faubert’s study highlightedthat “professional athletes as agroup have extraordinary skillsfor rapidly learning unpre-dictable, complex dynamic visualscenes that are void of any spe-cific context.” It also found thatathletes tend to learn quicker thanthe average student in kinetic in-telligence, as well as in classroom-like settings where the athletesprocess random information.

Now this is no reason for usnon-athletic university studentsto despair. Crosby or AlexanderOvechkin would probably provequite unable to carry out scientificexperiments or lead a political de-bate in the same way many U of Ostudents can. However, ifthey faced off against us in a testof processing multiple events in asmall period of time, these twoguys would most likely put us allto shame.

Nothing beats the smell of hate mail in the morningThis is my life

Harder, better, faster, stronger...smarter?Smart and athletic? Well that’s not fair.

Arthur Ward

I is so smart, S-M-R-T

Natasha Tersigni

Me and my boy Wheeler

Dan Leroy The Fulcrum (University ofOttawa)

what the puck?autumn mcdowellsports editor

en françaisUn nouvel album pour Caroline Savoie

MONCTON (PUC) — Lachanteuse et étudiante àl’Université de Moncton CarolineSavoie a lancé hier, mardi 12 mars,un mini-album de six chansonsintitulé Laisse-moi rêver. Le lance-ment a eu lieu à la Salle Empressdu Théâtre Capitol.Afin de présenter la totalité deschansons de son nouvel album,Caroline s’est entourée deplusieurs musiciens, soit DannyBourgeois, Christien Belliveau,Robin Anne Ettles, PhilippeDesjardins, Roland Bourgeois etAndré LeBlanc.

J’ai vraiment hâte », expliquaitl’artiste, quelques jours avant lelancement. « C’est mon premierEP en français. J’ai hâte de voircomment le monde trouve ça. »Les six chansons de l’album sontécrites, composées et chantées parla musicienne. Elle explique faireun mini-album pour offrir un pro-duit de qualité supérieure. « Cessix chansons sont les meilleureschansons que j’ai écrites enfrançais. Avant de faire un albumcomplet, je veux prendre le tempsd’écrire plus. Je veux avoir dutemps pour travailler mes chan-sons. » Elle précise tout de mêmevouloir faire un album completéventuellement.

Malgré son jeune âge, lachanteuse en est déjà à son deux-ième album. En octobre 2011, elle

avait sorti un premier mini-albumanglophone intitulé Just Sayin’.

C’est pas plus dur écrire enfrançais qu’en anglais », expliquel’artiste qui avoue aimer chanterdans sa première langue, lefrançais.

Avec mon premier album, jene savais pas vraiment où je m’en

allais musicalement. J’avais juste16 ans. Depuis, mes goûts se sontdéveloppés un peu. Je sais plusoù je veux m’en aller. J’ai fait plusde spectacles aussi, je connais plusle son que je cherche. »En plus de quelques spectaclesdans la région, Caroline se rendraà Montréal en avril pour faire une

vitrine seule, et une avec Les ren-contres qui chantent au Festivalvue sur la relève. Elle profitera deson séjour dans la métropole pourfaire un deuxième lancement deson nouvel album. Le tout se ferale 11 avril au Divan Orange sur larue Saint-Laurent.

Pour cet été, Caroline espère

faire le plus de spectacles possible.C’est ce que j’ai fait l’annéedernière, et j’aimerais faire assezde spectacles pour avoir çacomme un emploi d’été, explique-t-elle.

Quel qu’en soit l’avenir, pourle moment Caroline élargie sonauditoire et se fait connaître enprenant part à de nombreuxévénements culturels tels que laSemaine de la musique de la côteEst et les ECMAs, qui ont eu lieuà Halifax cette fin de semaine.

Avec les ECMAs en fin de se-maine, j’ai pas vraiment eu letemps de penser à mon lancementpartage l’artiste très sereine,quelques jours avant son évène-ment. « Mais en même temps, auxECMAs, j’ai joué avec trois desmusiciens qui seront avec moi aulancement. C’est une petite pré-paration.

Suite au lancement, l’album deCaroline Savoie sera disponiblesur iTunes. L’album Laisse-moirêver est une réalisation de JesseMea, enregistré au studioPumpk’n Patch à Memramcook,et il est le premier album àparaître sous le tout nouveau labelacadien Le Grenier musique,lancée par la gérante d’artistesCarol Doucet.

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Plus vite, plus haut, plus fort… plus cher?

SHERBROOKE (PUC) — Pierrede Coubertin doit être en train dese retourner dans sa tombe. Lerénovateur des Jeux olympiquesde l’ère moderne doit bien se de-mander qu’est-ce que se passeavec ses Jeux. Après le succès decet été à Londres, les nouvellescontroversées se multiplient, avecles Jeux de Sotchi qui seront lesplus chers de l’histoire, le retraitde la lutte qui ne fait pas du toutl’unanimité et l’accusation pourmeurtre d’une figure embléma-tique des Jeux paralympiques.Déjà que le CIO en avait plein lesbras avec Lance Armstrong…Au début du mois, on a lancé lecompte à rebours des Jeux d’hiverde Sotchi, en Russie, qui sedérouleront l’hiver prochain. Lecomité organisateur russe, paspeu fier, a annoncé que ce serontles plus grands Jeux de l’histoire,rien de moins, et qu’il avait in-vesti une somme record pour yarriver.

Le vice-premier ministre a an-noncé qu’ils coûteront 50 milliardsde dollars américains. 50 milliardspour deux semaines de compéti-tions sportives. Pour des Jeuxd’hiver en plus, qui sont moinspopulaires que les Jeux d’été,moins achalandés et qui présen-tent moins d’épreuves.50 milliards, c’est 25 fois le budgetdes derniers Jeux d’hiver, auCanada. On le trouvait élevé lebudget, imaginez la population

russe. C’est 3 fois le budget an-nuel de la santé en Russie. Jusqu’àprésent, 37 milliards ont étédépensés, dont 25 proviennentdes fonds privés. Le reste provientdes contribuables. On est loin duColisée de Québec, mettons.

Je pensais qu’on avait atteintl’apogée du ridicule lors des Jeuxde Pékin en 2008, qui avaientcoûté quelque 44 milliards.Dépenser autant d’argent pour

une compétition de deux se-maines demeure un non-sens, àmon avis, peu importe les re-tombés économiques, le prestigeou la fierté que ça peut apporter àune ville.

Bref, ces Jeux risquent de faireparler beaucoup d’ici février 2014.En plus des importants retards deconstruction (qui rendentVladimir pas trop content), le cli-mat de Sotchi commence peu à

peu à soulever des questions.Voyez-vous, la moyenne de tem-pérature pour Sotchi à ce tempsde l’année est de… 9 degrés. Ilpeut neiger à Sotchi, mais ce n’estpas la norme, qu’on dit. Des Jeuxd’HIVER.

La cerise sur le sundae : l’or-ganisme Human Rights Watch adénoncé les conditions de travailhorrible des travailleurs deschantiers de Sotchi. Bref, tout va

bien.

La lutte olympique en peril

Le monde de la lutte (la vraielutte, pas Hulk Hogan) s’estsoulevé lorsque le CIO a annoncéson intention de retirer le sport envue des Jeux d’été de 2020. Lalutte, un des sports fondateurs desOlympiques modernes et mêmeantiques, pourrait ne plus fairepartie des compétitionsolympiques.

Pour y rester, elle devra lutter(sans faire de jeu de mot plate)avec 7 autres sports qui tenterontd’entrer aux Olympiques : lesquash, l’escalade, le karaté, lewushu (art martial), lebaseball/softball, le wakeboard etles sports de roller.Je verrais très mal la lutte se faireévincer au profit du roller. Il y apeu de chances que ça arrive, maisimaginez la face du gars qui ap-prend que son sport est exclu etqu’un autre prend sa place enfaisant des ronds en rollerblade.Pour le sport, ça serait une catas-trophe.

Le squash est probablement leplus sérieux rival de la lutte.Roger Federer, vedette du tenniset ancien numéro un mondial, aannoncé qu’il ferait campagnepour l’entrée du squash au JO de2020.

La décision finale sera prise enseptembre, en même temps que lechoix de la ville hôte. D’ici là, lesorganisations de lutte promettentde mettre de la pression poursauver leur sport.

vincent régis Le Collectif (Université deSherbrooke)

Le Collectif

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Maybe we'll even get tossed outfor punching Ben Mulroney. Who knows?

For this particular URSU election, I see adouble-edged sword. On one hand, I thinkit is great that we had an URSU campaignperiod that wasn’t ridiculous, petty, politi-cally partisan, or crass; and none of thecandidates had an ulterior motive to abusethe privileges that comes with beingelected to URSU.

On the other edge of that sword, the ex-pected lower voter turnout this year it isalso a bad thing. The voting numbers havenot been released yet, but of a few thingswe can be certain. The voter turnout will befar less than half of the student populationand that most positions were won by accla-mations while others remain vacant.Apathy has, unfortunately, struck again.

Apathy sucks (it really does), but Ithink I understand why people don’t takepart in voting. Like any other trend, inter-est in voting or being a part of an activistmovement (be it social, political, or humanrights) comes and goes in sharp spikes andsteep declines. For example, interest in stu-dent politics and activism increased in 2011when URSU attempted to separate fromthe Canadian Federation of Students. Theseparation attempt ended up being a cata-lyst for participation in student politics.

However, many students, voters andnon-voters became polarized by the im-plied partisan stances affiliated with each

side of the issue. Since then, total votingpercentages have increased, but now thatthere is no longer a threat of a politicallypartisan fanatic running for any of the

URSU exec positions this year; perhapssome students felt there was no need tovote.

Maybe the next generation of post-sec-

ondary students don’t care about how theiruniversity community functions to thepoint of living by the philosophy, “I don’tcare. Someone else will step up and takecare of it.”

Which now brings us full circle. If noone does step up in becoming involvedwith URSU or any other sphere in politics,that leaves our political apparatus suscep-tible to abuse of tyrants-in-waiting and hor-rifying results. While the results of this yearwill probably be beneficial for URSU for thenext year, that does not mean URSU is safefrom what we saw happen two years ago,if students continue to be apathetic.

jordan palmercontributor

Congratulations, but don’t feel too good

Education before profitsWhat in the world does Big Rig BountyHunters have to do with history?

The History Channel thinks it has a lotto do with it. It also thinks that the tenuousconnection between Pawn Stars is goodenough to merit numerous marathons ofthat show. Never mind a historical explo-ration of the origin of the word“marathon,” we can watch the manufac-tured drama of Ice Road Truckers and ig-nore history completely.

Sadly, the only thing of historical valuethat History Channel really offers anymoreis a cultural record of how vapid the gen-eral public is when it comes to anything ed-ucational, and that won’t even be valuableuntil historians look back on this time pe-riod and analyze our popular culture. Thesad truth is they’ll probably find a societydedicated to mindless entertainment forthe sake of profit at the expense of educa-tion.The worst thing is, history is not boring byany means. So why does the HistoryChannel strive so hard to do away with it?Even the recent turn of the History Channelback to things that are arguably historical isnot really a return to the original goal of ed-ucating the population about history. Itswidely-touted new historical drama Vikingsstill entertainment first and education adistant second, with several historical inac-curacies that can potentially misinform thecasual viewer as to what is historical andwhat is purely imagined by the writers ofthe show.

This is obviously not limited to theHistory Channel, as Discovery, NationalGeographic, and the very inappropriately-named Learning Channel broadcast thingsthat are anything but educational. The onetime I watched Honey Boo Boo I could feelmy IQ dropping.

National Geographic’s biggest hit cur-rently is Doomsday Preppers in which crazypeople are featured planning for the sup-posedly imminent apocalypse. This sort oftelevision adds nothing to education, sim-ply looking to play off humanity’s basestexistential fears. It also encourages peopleto fear the world rather than embrace itwith curiosity.

It is obvious that History Channel andthe other formerly-educational channelsvalue ratings and thus advertisement prof-its over legitimate education. But this sortof decline of education television channelsis not simply a unique problem of televi-sion, but a sad result of determining thatprofits are more important than educationin general. History, Discovery, NationalGeographic, and TLC have all abandonedtheir position to teach first and profit sec-ond and the result has been a slew of mind-less entertainment at the cost of creatingthings of education value.

How is this different than the govern-ment capitulating on its responsibility tofund universities properly and forcingthem to go begging to private industries forfunding? The educational mission of theuniversity will necessarily be subverted tothe pursuit of profit which is only attain-able by operating not for the best interestsof students and society, but for the best in-terests of industry.

If we decide that the university mustoperate like a corporation – funding itselfon exorbitant tuition fees and catering toevery whim of industry in the hopes thatthey will provide additional funding – thenwe are on the dark path to a shared futurewith the History Channel. We’ll have tocontinue to draw funds that used to go toacademic work to market our universityto draw people in. We’ll have to create

larger and larger class sizes to maximizethe tuition we bring in while placing profitahead of education. Eventually, the originalgoal of educating students will fall to thewayside (if it hasn’t already).

We must not be willing to simply man-age the decline of our university as it goesfrom Turning Points of History to Pawn Stars.We have to clearly articulate an alternativevision of university where education comesfirst, and profits are not a consideration.That means we need stable funding fromthe government – the only place that canguarantee such funding.

If we don’t restore proper funding tothis institution, and if we don’t break out ofthe idea that the university is simply aplace to get a piece of paper to get a job,

then get ready for a required fourth-yearcourse on advanced resume padding.Maybe we’ll be able to film each class andcreate a new show for History Channel.

edward doddop-ed editor

Op-Ed Editor: Edward [email protected]

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Edward Dodd

URSU

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Did you know that the school is undergo-ing an Academic Program Review? Didyou know that the university is being au-dited for its commercialization of research?Do you know how much the administra-tion gets paid? Are you aware of the budgetcuts that the faculties are taking?Heck, do you even know how much yourtuition costs?

You may be up to date with respect tothe different and innovative ways thisschool is screwing us over, but chances arethat you aren’t. You live under rock, hopingto get into med school, or studying busi-ness or something. It seems to me that noone goes to university to get an educationanymore, but rather people come here forthe degree, the marks, or because ofparental pressure.

University used to be an open forumfor the sacred transmission of knowledgefrom scholars to eager students, a platformfor community and global activism, an op-portunity to grow as an individual.

But as with everything in the world,graduates are mass-produced and knowl-edge now has a hefty price tag. What’smore is that the equation remains unbal-anced. Tuition rates are rising, the univer-sity gets funding increases, yet the level ofeducation has not improved. If anything, itis sinking to a level that should be unac-ceptable. And that’s the problem. Very fewpeople care, or even know. We’ve lost theability to be critical and vocal. We’ve suc-cumbed to the powers that be, willinglybeing screwed by a system that serves theelite at the cost of 99 per cent of us.

I should be honest with you. Icome from a privileged background. Mytuition is paid for and I drive one of thenicer cars in the M lot. People regularlydraw penises on my car, but they do not re-alize that I actually appreciate what I have

and I respect those who have to work threenearly full-time jobs to sustain their livesand education forever bound by the sys-tem’s chains of financial debt.

In addition, I’m aware that some peoplein the world have to walk miles in scorch-ing heat in order to realize a very basic andcrude education that will never grant thema higher education or a job. In a way, I envythose people. They are living a real life,and what little they have makes their day,while the rest of us live fake lives, wherewe only dress to impress and are never sat-

isfied with what we have. My point here is that if you don’t

have to work to pay for school and such,then you have more time than others tocare about the issues that affect all of us.Whether you drive a BMW or a Civic, youshould read into the issues that affect ouruniversity and the global community. We should talk about ideas, innovations,real issues that affect real people and notabout ourselves in an egotistic fashion. It’ssad that people would rather talk aboutsome stupid party they had last weekend,

or gossip about others rather than discussmodern day slavery or how much we con-sume and waste as a society.

Every student should be an open-minded activist, whether you are in pre-med or business. We must kill our selfishway of thinking and push for a world thatis just for all.

Do you know anything?

mhmoud essalahcontributor

Canada feels so betrayed

What constitutes a betrayal of Canada? To most people it would be the radical

things, such as treason, homegrown espi-onage, etc.

But Alison Redford, the current Premierof Alberta, called NDP leader ThomasMulcair’s visit to Washington to lobbyagainst the Keystone XL pipeline a “funda-

mental betrayal of Canada’s long-term eco-nomic interests.”

This is a serious accusation, for Mulcairto jeopardize, let alone betray, Canada’seconomic prosperity would be an act be-traying Canada itself.

On his trip to Washington, Mulcair out-lined his plan to sabotage Canada’s econ-

omy, firstly by being concerned about theenvironment in which we live. That’s a nobrainer – the environment must be disre-garded, or at least given lip service to keepthe hippies at bay, so that the economy con-tinues to grow, as it has in Alberta.

Next, Mulcair said he wanted to pro-duce jobs in Canada by keeping thepipeline here, west to east. This, too, is trea-sonous, because any consideration otherthan giving oil over to the United States isa betrayal of Canada and her interests.

Lastly, Mulcair pointed out that export-ing raw oil to the States is neither good forproducers nor job creation. That, too, is abetrayal of Canada. If the United States de-mands oil from Canada, Canada musthand it over. It’s the only way. For Canadato do otherwise would be similar to BritishNorth America not exporting furs back tothe United Kingdom. Colonies have littlechoice when it comes to the economy.

So, what in the Redfordian sense, is nota betrayal to Canada?

Firstly, according to the National Post,Alberta is finally joining the ranks of itsfellow Canadian provinces by running adeficit, borrowing $12.7 billion. Perfect!

This hearkens back to when Mulcairwarned of Canadian Dutch Disease, a phe-nomenon where an increase in the resourceexporting sector directly impacts the in-dustry base of the economy because thedollar rises in value, making industry lesscompetitive.

It seems this has, in a sense, heightenedsince Mulcair first prophesied it, because,again, according to the National Post, “adecline in bitumen prices brought on bydecreased pipeline capacity has thrown theprovince’s finances off the rails.”

So that was it, a very small change hasdone enough damage to merit deficit fi-nancing and a $12.7 billion loan.

Were there no ways this could havebeen prevented? Is there no way in whichthe Canadian and Albertan economy couldhave had capital invested in other sectors?No, because that would be a betrayal ofthe Canadian way.

Indeed, Redford and her governmentexemplified the Canadian way by takingout an ad in the New York Times that high-lighted the similarities between Albertaand the United States, costing $30,000 tomake the comparison.

Fundamentally, none of this is a be-trayal to Canada, and Redford only usesthis term to smear a potentially powerfulopponent merely on the grounds of ideol-ogy and party lines, and not on pragmaticpolicy making for what is truly best for thiscountry. Character assassination of this sortis all too common in Canada, and in politicsaround the world. This Westminster bicker-ing is what effectively chokes this country,and prevents it from finding the best policyin situations such as this. Imagine if Mulcair and Redford could sit atthe same table and discuss this matter likeadults. Unfortunately, this would not bethe Canadian way, but probably would bethe best way.


Julia DimaMulcair, seen here betraying Canada by talking to a student newspaper, is a traitor to Canadafor not supporting the Keystone XL pipeline.

Arthur Ward

Oh 1963 Carillon, if only you were right!

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More! Give Me More!Mars, Kit Kat, O’Henery, gummies,

chips, yumm! All of the delicious sugarsyou can eat!

Just because you can eat them, though,doesn’t mean we should have them all thetime. Yet we do! We reach for a bag of chipsover an apple, we put gas in our vehiclesand walk out with candy. It’s an addiction!We just can’t help it.

Why bother running to the store forfruit when the gas station with chips iscloser? Because candy is delicious!Chocolate gives us sugar and instant en-ergy that gives us that last push we need.Chips are something we can continuallyeat when we are bored. Many people dothat, just eat and eat and eat because theyare bored.

But if you are not hungry, why keepeating junk food? Why not continually eatgrapes or strawberries? Don’t get mewrong, some people do, but the majoritywould grab the chips first. Junk food tastesgood and satisfies quickly. But, in the longrun, it gives you exactly what you do not

want or need. All of the chocolate has tons of sugar

which, when your body doesn’t need it, isjust stored away. Same with all of the sugarin gummies. All of the chips you eat containtons of salt and sugar in them, layered ontop of carbohydrates. All of that gets storedin your body if your body doesn’t need itimmediately.

All of that sugar, salt, and carbs – knowwhat it becomes? Fat, plain and simple.The more you eat of it the bigger you willget eventually, unless you’re one of thoselucky people that can eat whatever theywant and never gain weight.

The more candy you eat, the sloweryour body will get because it won’t havewhat it needs. Try eating as little junk foodas possible for a week, and see the effect ithas. I can bet it will be positive.

Human up

raenna gohmcontributor

Maclean’s recently put out an article a fewweeks ago, titled “Man Up” with a photo ofa beautiful woman shaving her face. Theheader on the front page is extremelyprovocative, which seems to be Maclean’sgimmick since they stopped actually striv-ing for high quality journalism. It reads,“Stop blaming the glass ceiling. Or the kids.High-powered female execs now saywomen should be more like men if theywant to get ahead.”

Now, bear with me. I haven’t read thearticle, in all honesty because I misplacedthe magazine, so I won’t go too in depthinto what I think it might say as that’s notfair, but the cover itself with worthy of crit-ical examination.

My issue before I even had a chance toopen the article was that Maclean’s is stillusing gender-based language to make ref-erence to character traits that have ab-solutely nothing to do with biological sexor perceived gender. The headline suggeststhat the article is calling for women to showmore manly characteristics to achieve suc-cess in the workplace, and stop blaming“female” issues, like the glass ceiling orchildren. So, Maclean’s is telling us that suc-cess is “manly.”

But success, as far as I understand it, in-volves an element of determination, hardwork, having a tough skin, being organ-ized, balancing responsibilities, and han-dling stress. You don’t actually needtestosterone or a penis to do this, interest-ingly. If we want to talk about workinghard and balancing responsibilities, wehave to remember that most women whoenter the workplace are dealing with earn-ing about 25 cents less on the dollar to men,an overburdened childcare sector, misog-yny, a higher rate of workplace sexual ha-rassment, and the social stigma of being a“bad mother” if they put work first.

Somehow, though, women deal withthose setbacks that men do not deal withand still succeed. This has nothing to do

with manliness, this has to do specificallywith the fact that women are not men andas such have additional issues to overcometo be successful. Manliness is a social con-struct in this context, and it is offensive forMaclean’s to run an image of a womanshaving her face to show manliness.Testosterone, and the bodily tendencies as-sociated with the hormone – like facial hairgrowth – have nothing to do with beingsuccessful, and it’s a brash way of sayingthat success is inherently tied to hormonesand chromosomes, not personality, socialstructures or gender stereotypes.

As a woman, I know that my successdoesn’t come from being manly: it comesfrom challenging stereotypes. Learning todeal with the barriers a male-dominatedculture and field of journalism has placedin front of me for being a woman, and fortelling my fellow women they need to bethemselves, not some constructed conceptof “men.” We simply need to be hardwork-ing, smart, and achieving.

I don’t shave my face, and I shouldn’thave to wear a suit and tie to be taken seri-ously, nor should any man.

These social constructions of genderhold us all back by implying that we canonly be successful if we live up to the con-cepts of manhood, concepts that have beenentirely socially fabricated. To be success-ful, men and women alike need to “humanup” – to let go of gender as a social defini-tion and move out of the past where girlswear pink, boys wear blue, and “man” is allpowerful.

Junk diet


Wall-o-cycleThis may shock many of you, but workingfor the student newspaper doesn’t exactlymake one a millionaire. In order to pay allof the bills that such an unremitted badassas myself inevitably accrues, it is often es-sential to hold down two or even possiblythree jobs.

One such job happens to be at a local in-surance agency. As such, I found myselfon the unfortunate frontlines during whatwill forever be known as, That One TimeSGI Planned to Jack up MotorcycleInsurance Rates, Like, 200 per cent.

See, the way SGI currently operates,motorcycle rates are ridiculously low. Solow, in fact, that every time a motorcycleclaim was submitted to SGI, they operatedat a loss. A recent internal study found thatloss to be something to the tune of $9 mil-lion per year. Any government agency thatoperates at a $9 million a year loss is boundto make some drastic changes.

Enter the proposed motorcycle rate in-crease.

As any drastic increase to what peoplepay for is wont to do, the more vitriolicand vocal (read: fun) citizens took to thestreets to voice their concerns.

“No one will be able to ride motorcy-cles!” the angry bikers roared. “This is un-fair!” Of course, the people who don’t ridemotorcycles, the people who operate stan-dard four-wheeled vehicles, were okaywith this proposed rate hike as they’vebeen subsidizing the cost of motorcycle in-surance for years, now.

But what’s that? Off in the distance, juston the horizon? He’s riding a motorcyclefashioned out of mangled Bolex cameras,

fuelled by the hopes and dreams of post-secondary students. His balding head isaflame, like a shining beacon of deceit andpetty squabbling. Why, it’s Ghost Wall! Oris it Brad Rider?

The “Right and Honorable” spirit ofmediocrity comes burning down the high-way, fixing to punish SGI for their reason-

able suggestion. With a quick whip of thelegislative assembly, SGI is forced to captheir proposed motorcycle increases. Wallrides off into the distance, and the walletsof literally every other motorist in theprovince commit honorable seppuku.

What I don’t get is why. Why is BradWall allowed to and applauded for inter-

vening to squash a viable solution to aproblem, despite mounting evidence thatthe current way of doing things is notworking? Why is it that Brad Wall isslapped on the back and called the bestpremier in Saskatchewan’s history for slit-ting the throats of Saskatchewan Film andthe universities of Regina and Saskatoon,even going so far as to ban people fromthe Legislature for disagreeing with himbased on existing evidence? We wouldn’tcondone or tolerate such stubborn behav-iour from a two-year-old. Yet here we are,giving Brad Wall more and more of ouradoration and support.

In reality, that’s all Brad Wall is; a stub-born child, crossing his arms and stickinghis tongue out at you until he gets what hewants. So, I say give the baby his bottle. Lethim have his fun while he can. Just put allthe breakables up on a higher shelf and in2015, maybe responsible babysitter CamBroten can put this entitled little shit downfor a long nap.

kyle leitcharts writer

Edward Dodd

This action on SGI can only be explained by one thing – Brad Wall is a motorcycle

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