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The SAIT library will soon launch a text message ser-vice to allow people to text questions to library staff.
“A few other places in Canada (such as Red Deer College) are texting, but no other library in Calgary is doing so as yet,” said SAIT Library technician Jim Gray.
The new service is in-tended to be the same as someone coming to the desk or phoning in, but adds a new option for com-munication.
Susan Brayford, library manager, said the service was brought in because students are most comfort-able with this communica-tion method.
“The text messaging service will be a point of contact,” said Gray, who ex-pects all kinds of questions to text a response, from hours of operation to how to book one of the library’s study labs.
Gray said if the answer to a query is too complex to be texted, students will receive further information on where to look, or be asked to phone or visit the library.
Gray said turnaround time for questions should be “very very quick, as soon as contact is made.”
Computer systems stu-dent Justin Hantos said he’s eager to see current technology bridging the gap between students and library staff. “I wish every-thing was like that,” he said.
“As a (library) service, texting is brand new and should be really exciting,” said Gray.
The text messaging ser-vice will be available to SAIT students, staff and alumni whenever the li-brary is open, including evenings and weekends.
Library staff hope to launch the service by Oct. 18.
The number to text is 403-805-2436.
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She has been called Afghani-stan’s final hope for peace and one of the bravest women in the world. She was named one of 2010’s most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
On Oct. 10, political activist Malalai Joya spoke at the Uni-versity of Calgary to a crowd of over 100 people about the problems Afghanistan faces and how Canada should not extend its mission in her coun-try.
“These bombs that are kill-ing my people are being made in Canada,” she said. “Harper is shamelessly wasting the blood of Canadian soldiers.”
Joya’s list of accomplish-ments is long and her journey is tumultuous.
In 2003, Joya shocked the world when she gave a three-minute speech in front of an assembly of the most power-ful stakeholders in Afghanistan and denounced them, calling them war lords, drug lords and criminals.
In 2005, she was elected as the youngest female politician in Afghanistan. She has public-ly spoken out against the Tali-ban and the Karzai, the current Afghan government.
Joya was thrown out of government in 2007 for her outspokenness, and has since survived four assassination at-tempts.
Her speech appealed to Ca-nadians to consider the effects of foreign involvement in Af-ghanistan.
Joya discussed her pride for her country, and her disrespect for those who continue to pur-sue violence.
“There are two kinds of mu-jahedeen in Afghanistan,” said Joya. “One kind fought for in-dependence, which I respect, but the other kind destroyed the country and killed 60,000 people.” Joya spoke also of the decades-long policies of U.S. governments to make war, and asked attendees to consider breaking the pattern.
“War-making has been the policy of every president,” she said. “In reality, the job of the president is simply to imple-ment it.”
Joya believes if North Ameri-can troops were to leave Af-ghanistan, her people would find a way to live in peace.
“In my heart, I really be-lieve that ordinary people can change this bleak reality,” she said. “Because when we don’t have freedom, we have noth-ing.”
Jared Fath, a fifth-year Geol-ogy Science major at the U of C, said Joya’s passion for her country was powerful.
“It was an eye-opener,” Fath said. “I think I had this naive assumption that we were doing good in Afghanistan and help-ing, but it seems to be a way more complex issue than I first thought.”
He said hearing from some-one who lives in Afghanistan was beneficial for him, but he would have liked to hear more real life scenarios that he could pursue to make change.
Scott Finney, a second-year Education major, attended the speech because he also op-poses the military presence in Afghanistan.
“History has shown that through activism and solidar-ity of citizens, you can make a change for the better,” said Finney.
“I agree that Canadian troops should just leave her country alone because through the presence of troops in Afghani-stan, it’s just an additional force working against them.”
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By emily kreiBergNeWS editor
What do SAIT’s Calgary campus and the Afri-can country Angola
have in common?The answer is close to 100
happy trainees. This August, as part of a six-month opera-tions and maintenance training program, 92 Angolan students came to learn and live at SAIT.
Isaias Quengue, 40, has en-joyed the experience so far, save for a few pesky details.
“Yeah, very well, I like Cal-gary,” he said. “I told friends and family, it’s a good place. Very nice. (My) only complaint is food. Fast food is no good. I do a lot of cooking on my own, and tell everyone to bring good food for when I go back.”
Quengue, like the other 91 Angolans he travelled with, works for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). The company sent its employees here to learn a com-bination of competency-based technical English training and technical training in mechani-cal, electrical, instrumentation and operations systems.
In class for up to 10 hours per day, the participants – most of whom have never travelled out of their country – are re-quired to study in English and gain cultural experiences by liv-ing in SAIT residence.
Quengue left his wife, two daughters, aged five and 10, and son, 14, to obtain his work-place education and he finds the separation difficult.
He’s never been outside of his home country, and under-standing Canadian culture is a gradual process.
“Living in residence is good,” he said. “But sometimes many people is making too much noise. I don’t like partying in Canada. I don’t like drinking or beer or loud music. I just like playing guitar in my room sometimes.”
With the workload Quengue
is carrying, it’s no wonder he wants quiet time.
“The program – the studying, the English – it’s hard. We study for a long time,” he said. “The program is ‘duru.’ It means hard like a stone. It’s hard, but it sure is worth it.”
Quengue’s classmate Luther King Jose agrees, but he’s just glad he was accepted into the program.
Angola has endured over 30 years of civil war, a factor which influenced Jose’s travel decisions, and made him grate-ful to come to Canada.
“As a teenager, my dream was always to fly around the world,” he said. “But because of the war, my parents lost every-thing and couldn’t pay for my travel.”
After making it through LNG’s screening process, Jose hopes to get the most out of his time here.
He’s excited to make Eng-lish-speaking friends, continue checking out Calgary’s attrac-tions, and especially to try ski-ing at Canada Olympic Park.
“I’m so scared. But I’m going to do it, for sure,” he said. “Once I get the time, I will do it. I will not lose the opportunity. Al-though I’m not here for a long time, I’m really enjoying it.”
Angola LNG sent another group of employees to SAIT in 2008. However, this group is by far the largest group to be taught by MacPhail School of Energy as part of the Workforce Nationalization Project.
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geNeSta Walz photoeleCtion JuBilation > Winner Douglas Braden celebrates SAITSA Students’ Legislative Council election results Oct. 7 at the Gate. The elections saw 10 representatives elected from five departments. Voter turnout increased this year with 6.39 per cent of eligible student voters marking a ballot compared to 4.95 per cent in 2009. The elected officials are: School of Hospitality and Tourism Zeeshan Shah; School of Business Kimberly Bosgra, Scott Graham, and Ravi Popatlal; School of Manufacturing and Automation Douglas Braden; School of Construction Matthew Armstrong, Colin Gutor and Clayton Logan; School of Information and Communications Technology Sakshi Arora and Danielle Montgomery.
Beth Bailey photoSTOP > Isaias Quengue stands outside the Tower where he’s been living since August after arriving from Angola as part of his training for LNG. ABOVE > Luther King Jose has only been speaking English for a year, and says he’s grateful to be studying at SAIT.
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By emily kreiBergNeWS editor
A mid-morning fire alarm in the Senator Burns build-ing on Oct. 6 disrupted classes for approximately 15 minutes while SAIT se-curity and the Calgary Fire Department assessed the cause of the alarm.
The culprit: a buildup of dust in an air duct located on the sixth floor of the building, said Paladin Se-curity manager Clarke Gay.
Campus security took approximately 15 min-ues to locate the cause of the alarm, assess the risk, make sure there was no actual danger and then reset the fire panel. He said for a campus with as many buildings as SAIT, non-emergency alarms are par for the course.
“It’s not something un-usual at SAIT. It’s some-thing, unfortunately, we just have to live with. I wouldn’t say they happen a lot, but they are a com-mon occurrence,” he said.
Last year there were 39 fire and smoke alarms on campus.
Gay said three campus buildings are currently equipped with the two-stage alarm system that was employed on Oct. 6. Due to their size and num-ber of levels, the Heart, Burns and Thomas Riley buildings have the two-stage systems.
“It depends where you are in the building,” Gay said. “If you’re in an area where the alarm was acti-vated, you’re told to evacu-ate immediately. If you’re in a different area, you’re told to stay where you are until further notice.”
The good news is alarms like Wednesday’s dust buildup are not classi-fied as ‘false’ alarms, which cost about $500 for Cal-gary emergency services to respond to.
“As one of the sensors actually detected a dust buildup, there was no charge for the fire depart-ment to come out,” Gay said.
Facilities management director Boris Dragicevic said a work order was is-sued to clean out the sixth floor duct to ensure the alarm is not reactivated. But with 12,000 work orders per year on their to-do list, facilities man-agement may not get the duct cleaned out immedi-ately.
All dust, no fire:non-emergency alarm disrupts
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By Janine morigeau
aries March 21 – April 20 You may be in a rare philosophical
mood this week. The old way of handling things needs a makeover. Try a diplomatic approach. Where your love life is concerned, be forewarned. Nothing in that department makes sense.
taurus April 20 – May 20 A sudden change of heart, something that meant so much
to you last week, can be dropped just like that. By next week, you need a diversion. Try doing the opposite of your usual routine. This should be interesting.
gemini May 21 – June 20 When it comes to keeping up appearances, you are a master.
The goal is simple: appear to be interested and even inspired by other’s ideas. By the weekend, you’ll be needing those same ‘others’ to back you up on something big.
CanCer June 2 – July 22 When was the last time you took a holiday? Even a short
road trip could cure the restlessness you’re feeling. Someone you ditched earlier in the year could start to look interesting again, but try to resist.
leo July 23 – Aug. 22 World-changing events are on the horizon. Travel plans are
coming together, but be careful who you let tag along. An important encounter will highlight this week. Don’t let someone else’s opinion change the way you feel.
Virgo Aug. 23 Sept. 22 Plans don’t always go smoothly this week. You might feel like
you are under pressure. Remember you are your own worst critic. Something you’ve been missing becomes available by the week-end. Hang on to it!
liBra Sept. 23 – Oct. 22 This may feel like a passive week of ‘being’ rather than
‘doing.’ Someone’s feelings could be hurt by week’s end. Try not to take someone personally. Romantic possibilities are everywhere if you pay attention.
sCorpio Oct. 23 – Nov. 21 This week may have gotten off to a lame start. Don’t let that
put you into a downer. Quite the opposite will reign by the week-end. Some mail might upset you, but a simple phone call could sort it all out. Consider this week a test of your ability to see the bright side.
sagittarius Nov. 22 Dec. 21 Someone or something may let you down, my optimistic
friend. You will need your best attitude to navigate this. All your efforts may seem futile by the end of the week. Be patient, fate has an awesome surprise for you just around the corner.
CapriCorn Dec 22 Jan. 19 You may need to delay your launch date. This will prompt
you to rethink an important detail. A proverbial ‘path through the wilderness’ will be discovered and things are looking up by the weekend.
aQuarius Jan. 20 – Feb. 18 You have a longing for something interesting to happen. You
want to shake things up a bit. Your time for action may have to wait till the stars align. Trust me, it’ll be worth waiting for.
pisCes Feb. 19 – March 20 This week has left you feeling introspective, even more so
than usual. Melancholy could set in soon. You enjoy those moods, Pisces, but you’ll need to snap out of it. An interesting, even rare, opportunity awaits you.
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sAit’s diversity not
bound by species
SAIT’s diverse student body grows each year. SAIT already has students coming from 125 countries. But this year, the polytechnic acquired another student whose background, culture and skin tone is totally unique.
The creature formally known as Jeff Dueck is the first zombie
to ever attend a post-secondary institution in the world, and has become renowned within his species for this achievement.
“Uuuhg uhg uuuuuuhg,” says Jeff Dueck. “Oowwaaaauuhhg!”
Dueck has come to SAIT to become a Dental Assistant, and says getting up close and per-sonal to a human skull, along with its tasty brain matter, is exciting for him.
In the future, Dueck wants to open his own practice. He says sedation dentistry is the only way to go because the pa-
tients won’t be able to feel him nibbling here and there as he works.
“It’s important that we start incorporating these creatures into our economy, consider-ing they are the earth’s future,” says Dueck’s instructor John Thomas.
“Zombie oral health is gener-ally very low, and I am glad that Dueck is the first of his species to begin studying in the area.”
–by Matthew Janz
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By angela tassoneWeal WeB reporter
Halloween is still a few weeks away, but don’t leave your plan-ning until the last minute. Let the Internet inspire you:cosplaymagic.com
Can’t decide whether to dress as Goku, Naruto, or the Tokyo Mew Mew Ichigo Momomiya Maid? It’s fun to ponder while
scrolling through hundreds of animation-inspired costumes.partydirectory.com
Someone has to plan the Hal-loween party. From party plan-ning tips and tricks to learning how to dance the cha-cha, this site has it all. It also has a great Bar Mitzvah party checklist.ehow.com
Trick or treating at your age requires one of two things: 1) kids, or 2) being ultra-creepy.
Assuming you’re escorting some little ones for free junk food, here’s a website with many safety tips. Just type in ‘safe trick or treating.’ If you feel really ambitious type in ‘levitation’ or ‘pet amputation.’extremepumpkins.com
Tom and his elusive drinking buddy Matt love to carve pump-kins, and they want to teach you too. Perhaps this could be-come your new hobby?
To go to class or not to go to class is a
choice plaguing SAIT students as they
head into flu season.
Even though staying in bed is the
healthiest option for a sick individual,
ill students might be overwhelmed with
the repercussions of their absence.
“I am very concerned with miss-
ing classes. My course is 70 per cent
practical. If you miss one day, you fall
way behind,” said professional cooking
student Kate Campbell.
“I had perfect attendance last year,
and have had perfect attendance so
far this year. I want to keep it per-
fect,” she said. “If other students or
instructors are coming to school sick, it
causes a snowball effect on everyone
else around them. It’s just not fair.”
Students, fear not.
Although SAIT’s policies indicate a
maximum of six absences before an
instructor can fail a student, school
guidelines protect the unwell.
If instructors are given a legitimate
reason for absences, accompanied
with a valid doctor’s note, it’s consid-
ered the quintessential ‘get out of jail
free’ card.
“If the student has a legitimate rea-
son for being away such as recover-
ing from surgery, I would allow them to
be absent for up to two weeks,” said
CALS instructor John Dodd.
But when it comes to his own health,
Dodd wouldn’t risk missing more than
three days. “I don’t want to fall behind,
but if I were contagious I would not risk
infecting my students,” he said.
This flu season, Alberta Health Ser-
vices offers city-wide vaccination clin-
ics beginning Oct. 12 and running until
mid-December.
undergraduate employed nurse
(uEN) Larissa Arthur said every per-
son should receive the shot. “(The flu
virus) is so contagious it is almost un-
avoidable not to infect those around
you,” said Arthur.
“The incubation period for an adult
infected with influenza is five days. you
will already be contagious a day before
you even begin to feel any symptoms,”
she said.
for individuals opposed to receiving
the vaccination, Arthur has a few tips.
“An additional, although less effective
preventive measure, includes proper
hand-washing techniques and fre-
quent use of hand sanitizers,” she said.
– by Alex Glazerman
Weal Writer
Flu prevention best defence against sick days
By tyler ostermayer
arts and entertainmenteditor reBeKah JarViS MUSiC, filM aNd artS for the Sait CoMMUNity
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friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesdayriverview artists – art show and sale
first Canadian place 350 - 7th avenue S.W.
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Birthday Boys gate 8 p.m.
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Maestro fresh Wes with Makeshift
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lights with Michael Bernard fitzgeraldMacewan Ballroom7 p.m.tickets $25 prime Box office
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By reBekah JarVisa&e editor
The Alberta Bound Tattoo and Art festival lands at Calgary’s BMO Centre this weekend and the festival’s founder, Steve Peace, says its flock of artists are flirting with the once stark-ly-drawn line between fine art and tattoo art.
Peace says the crossover be-tween the two artistic realms is increasing and making the tat-too community stronger.
“All the guys doing fine art as well (as tattoo art) are some of the best tattoo artists in the world,” says Peace.
While tattooing is develop-ing to include more aspects of customary visual art, the fine-art community may not be in-viting of the medium.
“They all look like badly drawn or traced outlines filled in with ink,” says Christopher Willard, head of the painting program at ACAD.
“I’ve never, ever seen a tattoo that impressed me as photo re-alism or even decent drawing. I’ve seen many though, that look like the type of drawings one does in high school.”
But artist and tattoo connois-seur Olivia Postic says the less-artful tattoos Willard regards as “cliché” are more the result of customer requests than mis-guided artistic inspiration.
“Unfortunately, a tattoo artist is often treated as a hired hand. Even if he’s really talented and has amazing ideas, often his role is to solve the problems a customer brings him,” says Pos-tic.
“A fine artist doesn’t need to solve anyone else’s problems. They do it solely for them-selves.”
In the final year of Postic’s painting major at ACAD, she gained a broader view of what could be done with tattoos. She sees definitive movements in tattoo technique and style mov-ing closer to the realm of fine art, but says a great difference lies in the way the two medi-ums are appraised.
“A big part of tattooing is that it’s private. Once the tattoo is on someone, it’s possible that it be unseen by anyone else’s eyes. (Fine) art is almost irrel-evant unless it has a viewer. It kind of needs public admiration and even criticism to breathe life into it.”
Academic tactics for analyz-ing tattoos might be a long way off since there is no formal schooling for tattooing avail-able in Canada.
“You really need to learn the trade by yourself,” says Postic. “It’s really surprising too, be-cause it’s quite serious to put something on somebody’s body using a needle. It’s kind of the
Wild West out there.”Peace says a big part of the
Tattoo and Art Festival is to pro-vide a more interconnected net-work of artists who will share ideas and techniques with each other. “That’s why people come here, to learn and get inspired,” says Peace.
The Alberta Bound Tat-too Festival runs Oct. 15-17. For more information visit albertatattoos.com.
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By Derek wilkinsonWeal Writer
A local film legend celebrates 75 years in showbiz this month.
On Oct. 23, Kensington’s Plaza Theatre marks its birth-day with special films, beer, pizza and live music, and the festivities won’t end until Nov. 11.
Pete Harris, Plaza manager and programmer, says the the-atre’s nostalgic appeal keeps it alive. “People love the char-acter of the theatre. It’s film (showing) like it used to be.”
The Plaza, located in Kens-ington just down the hill from SAIT, began as a stable in the early parts of the twentieth cen-tury, and would later become a do-it-yourself garage servicing the Ford Model Ts of the time.
In 1935, the theatre opened its doors to the public, showing the major Hollywood films of the time, and it’s been opera-tional every year since then.
Big-name British films be-came the mainstay of The Plaza until the ‘50s when it special-ized in the projection of Holly-wood films. During the ‘60s and
‘70s, the theatre began showing post-classical Hollywood films popular at the time.
But one fateful day in the ‘70s, the theatre found its cur-rent niche, independent and art-house films, and has contin-ued to show these films promi-nently since.
Today, The Plaza still prides itself on its approach to films and the entire cinema experi-ence.
Harris embodies the pas-sion and virtue of The Plaza. He says the focus should be on the film, not the advertisements beforehand, and he avoids any gimmicks like arcades in the lobby. Harris also believes in being “community-minded, by offering an affordable venue for local filmmakers.”
“I’m really proud and hon-oured to be here for the seven-ty fifth,” says Harris. All alumni and friends of the theatre are welcome to attend the Oct. 23 celebration, and tickets are available to the public.
For more information on this historic night, check theplaza.ca.
By matthew JanzWeal Writer
Canadian industrial designer Lawrie McIntosh has pushed design boundaries by creating new ways to produce items which we use every day. For that, he’s considered a pioneer of Canadian industrial product design.
But in the 1960s, he designed something way outside the box. McIntosh created a set of Cana-dian animal souvenirs for the Canadian Souvenir Competi-tion.
“I probably designed the ani-mals to show that I am not just an engineer,” said McIntosh.
Each was originally con-structed from a flat sheet of copper with etched fold lines.
Recently, the animal sou-venirs have come back to life through SAIT instructor Greg Ball.
Ball, industrial designer and Mechanical Design Technology instructor, used textbooks in the classroom that featured Mc-Intosh’s work. When he heard McIntosh was living in Calgary, Ball connected with the retired designer, and requested that he present some of his work to SAIT students.
“That’s where this all got started,” said Ball. “We got (all) this really positive feedback from people wondering how they could get a hold of them (the animal souvenirs), or buy copies.”
When someone suggested the design patterns could be sold on the Internet, Ball and McIntosh jumped into action.
For the past two years Ball and McIntosh have been adapt-ing McIntosh’s original designs
to PDF files so that they could be downloaded from the Cana-dian Design Resource (CDR) website, along with written as-sembly instructions and pho-tographs. However, the CDR found the written instructions were limited, and suggested de-veloping instructional videos.
That’s where two SAIT stu-dents, Michael Peel and Brent Gibson, came in. “At that time Michael and Brent had done an amazing video in my class for another project,” said Ball.
For about one year, Peel and Gibson have been making vid-eos to accompany the designs. They worked with various ed-iting software, even utilizing green screen technology.
“Working with Lawrie was an absolute pleasure,” said Peel in an email. “He is incredibly tal-ented and an icon of Canadian design.” Peel and Gibson are bringing a new perspective and energy to the historial work.
“After fifty years, to see these things come to life, that is fan-tastic,” said McIntosh.
Mechanical design instructor gives
iconic art second life online
TOP > Canadian designer Lawrie McIntosh created a series of souvenirs in the 1960s for a design competition. His original souvenirs were made from copper. “The (original) pieces were selectively tarnished. These objects are still stunning, remaining timeless and exquisite pieces of Canadian souvenir design,” said SAIT instructor Greg Ball on the Canadian Design Resource website. ABOVE: Ball worked with McIntosh to put the design patterns online so the souvenirs can be recreated. Deborah Powell PhoTo
the fine art of tattooing
Plaza turns 75
StephaNie zitKUS photo The Plaza Theatre celebrates its 75th anniversary by offering free movies, live music and popcorn.
photo CoUrteSy SteVe peaCeThe Alberta Bound Tattoo and Arts festival attracts tattoo artists and enthusiasts who want to learn what’s new in the industry.
I’ve never, ever seen a tattoo
that impressed me as photo
realism or even decent drawing. I’ve seen many though, that look like the
type of drawings one does in high school.
ChriStopher Willard
aCad head of paiNtiNg prograM
By alexanDra glazermanWeal Writer
Just when it seemed hippie activists have established all possible uses for hemp, Motive Industries Inc. introduces the Kestrel – an electrical vehicle dubbed “the cannabis car.”
Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) alumni Darren McKeage is the brains behind this innovative design. At only 29, McKeage is the co-founder and vice president of design for Calgary-based Motive In-dustries. He works side by side with his wife of 4 years Mea-gan McKeage, who is Motives VP of Operations
McKeage began developing his unique esthetic while at-tending ACAD, where he re-ceived his bachelor of design.
Following his graduation in 2005, he traveled across the pond to complete a master’s degree in automotive design at Coventry University in the United Kingdom. This almost didn’t happen as he was origi-nally set to attend university in Italy. “Meagan and I had everything underway to move to Italy until I was accepted at Coventry University in the UK. It only took a half hour to change our minds to go to the U.K. instead.”
“I learned a global under-standing of what design is to people,” said McKeage. “There
are so many Asian and In-dian influences that you just wouldn’t get here in North America”
Wanting to mentor local tal-ent including future ACAD and SAIT grads, McKeage plans to expand the design department at Motive in the next 5 -10 years. “An automotive interior designer, an exterior designer, a clay modeler and a couple Alias Autostudio CAD mod-elers,” will hopefully create a well rounded and creative design team. “There’s many talented people in Alberta and it would be awesome to help others realize their dreams and let them explore unique industries like automotive de-sign that don’t really exist in this area outside of what we’re doing.” said McKeage,
The Kestrel is itself a pioneering project, given that its body’s structural material is made of hemp fiber. “We never even really real-ized (that) this car is made of pot until we began to receive so much at-tention from the
media,” said McKeage.Drawing its inspiration from
the greyhound, the Kestrel runs purely on electricity, and features a spacious four pas-senger capacity. It hits zero to 60 in seven seconds, topping a maximum speed of 139 km per hour. But it’s not designed for distance, as its battery lasts for only 160 km. And Fast charge ports, an electrical “gas” sta-tion, are seldom found outside city limits.
Twenty test cars will hit the roads early 2012, which are equipped with cup hold-ers large enough to hold a big gulp (or a bong).
Electric “cannabis car“ gets spark from ACAD grad
The Kestrel, a four-passenger electric car, was unveiled in Vancouver at a trade show in September.
photo CoUrteSy MotiVe iNdUStrieS
aaroN CorBett photoDarren McKeage’s company Motive Industries Inc. will have 20 Kestrel test cars on the road by 2012. The electric car’s structural material is made from hemp fiber.
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After 50 years, to see these things
come to life, that is fantastic.
laWrie MCiNtoSh
CaNadiaN deSigNer
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editor JeNNa praNCe SportS NeWS aNd VieWS for the Sait CoMMUNity
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Thursday friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
the women’s hockey team take on the
rdC queens. 7 p.m. on the road
the men’s volleyball team take on the MrU Cougars. 2 p.m. at home
the men’s hockey team take on the
BC Clippers.2 p.m. at home
the women’s volley-ball team take on the
MrU Cougars. 1 p.m. at home
NBa preseason: the Miami heat and the Charlotte Bobcats
5:30 p.m.
the Calgary flames take on the
Nashville predators 6 p.m. Sportsnet
listen to the Calgary hitmen take on
Spokane on the fan 960 at 8 p.m.
Film
By ranJene mazumDarWeal Writer
Tales of a Golden Age is an amusing series of popular legends taken from Romanian life under Nicolae Ceausescu’s 1980s communist dictatorship, where characters navigate life in the context of strictly regu-lated laws. The title of the film exposes the central contra-diction of life as it was under Ceausescu, and life as it has been inaccurately represented for the sake of fueling false sentiment for the era.
Legends range from the comic to the absurd as families and strangers struggle to enjoy life with what little they have. One family decides to gas a pig
to death so the neighbors won’t envy their food supply, while two teenagers steal bottles from tenants so they can store and literally sell air.
Rather than the traditional scathing attack on the propa-ganda machine executed by heavier films on the subject, these legends express a certain simplicity and sentimentality for its characters. Their reac-tions to lack of freedom under-score a universal humanity that individuals fortunate to live in democratic societies will find poignant.
If history and politics of for-eign soils interests you, or if you appreciate films like Wolf-gang Becker’s Goodbye Lenin (2003), you’ll find the film worth watching for its social
commentary on the rise and fall of the communist Eastern Bloc alone. You might also be interested to apply the com-mentaries of these shorts to your reflections on our very own brand of propaganda-fu-eled post 9/11 America. Maybe we don’t gas pigs and sell air to survive, but we certainly have to reckon with pigs selling us hot air on a day to day basis. You decide which is worse.
Those in search of a film with substance and not easily swayed by the fast-paced blow-up doll style artifice of Holly-wood films will find Tales of a Golden Age is a good way to spend time.
It plays at the Plaza Theatre Oct. 15-21.
Rating:2.5/5
By JeFF ClemensWeal Writer
It’s one thing to dance like nobody’s watching, but it’s an-other thing to dance with your audience right up in your grill.
In its fifth year, The Fluid Movement Arts festival features a multi-disciplinary cabaret that begins suddenly from behind the bar at the Auburn Saloon. Dubbed the Physical Therapy cabaret, the performance ex-plores confined space by limit-ing the area between the audi-ence and the performers.
Dance is often performed with a disconnect between the audience and the entertainer. Performer Mark Hopkins says this won’t be the case at the Physical Therapy cabaret.
“Audiences have a specific idea of how their theatre ex-
perience will be,” says Hop-kins. “They go to the theater, sit down, watch the show and leave.” The cabaret tries to eliminate this by providing a unique opportunity for the au-dience to get involved and feel like they’re part of the show.
“It’s not for everyone. Some people like the fourth wall,” says Hopkins. “If you are in-terested in seeing incredible artists in a smaller venue, this is perfect. You are so close you can see the sweat on the per-formers.”
The Fluid Movement Art Fes-tival is a mixed-medium event with a focus on dance. Five ven-ues around the city, including the Auburn Saloon, play host to several events from Oct. 15 – 24. For more information, go to springboardperformance.com.
Gassing the propaganda pig tales of a golden age
By aDam BowenWeal Writer
Patrick Mead, a first-year Busi-ness Administration student at SAIT Polytechnic and setter for the Trojans men’s volleyball team, is the embodiment of the term ‘long-distance education.’ Mead is approximately 15,000 plus kilometres from his native country of Australia.
From Australia to Taiwan on a 12-hour flight, to another 13-hour flight from Taiwan to Van-couver capped off with a 10-hour bus ride to Banff, Mead finally arrived in Calgary, and settled into his role with the Trojans.
“Everyone’s a real tight group here. I’ve noticed it’s more like a family type set up here compared to back home,” said Mead.
Originally from Ayr, a “small country town,” Mead became interested in volleyball at a young age, and started playing in Grade 8. Along the way, he developed an amazing volley-ball career.
Aside from playing for vari-ous local and state teams in Australia, Mead had the honour of representing his homeland, and capturing a medal on na-tive soil at the Youth Olympics in 2009 held in Sydney.
“I played beach (volleyball) at the Youth Olympics, where I got a bronze medal,” said Mead, who describes the experience of playing for and representing Australia as “pretty cool.”
Originally contacted by Tro-jans coach Andy Hayer about a vacant setter spot on the Trojans team, and after talking with head coach Ryan Mars-den, Mead felt that the training program combined with the scholastic program at SAIT was the perfect fit for him.
Perhaps it was the experi-ence Mead possesses that has led Ryan Marsden, head coach of the Trojans volleyball team, to describe Mead as “a very dynamic player loaded with talent.”
Mead has stepped into a leadership role quickly and with ease, said Marsden, “(he) has quickly become one of our teams’ leaders who the guys look up to.”
Marsden believes adding Mead to the Trojans team will ensure the team is “contend-
Anaglyph Glass: The iconic 3D movie glasses.
These are passive 3D glasses. RealD 3D
glasses are also passive, but they use polar-
ization to eliminate colour alteration. Active
glasses use LCD technology to separate the
images for your eyes. They syncronize with a
signal projected by the media player and open
and shut hundreds of times a second to trick
your eyes to see a 3D image.
Figure 1 Figure 2
Convergence is the point at which your line
of sight of both eyes cross to focus on an
object. your brain interprets the information
processed by the eye to determine distance
to an object. figure one is natural sight, fig-
ure two is how 3D movies use convergance
to trick your brain.
Gaming: Nintendo announced their new
Gameboy 3DS at E3 2010. It’s the first
gaming device that doesn’t require glasses.
Playstation 3 has started pushing their
game developers to support 3D home
T.V.s. Titles like Killzone 3 and Gran Tur-
ismo 5 will support this format.
Nintendo 3DS
There are two methods to create a 3D movie.
1.filming natively with 3D cameras, which are
basically two cameras strapped together. 2.
Adding 3D effects in the post-production pro-
cess. Initial costs for filming in native 3D are
higher - Avatar’s budget is rumoured to have
exceeded $300 million - but the quality is much
greater and provides better depth. Post produc-
tion 3D is a labour intensive process that lay-
ers objects in the film to give the perception of
depth, but individual objects are still flat, like a
cardboard cut-out.
$ Vs.
ers for a repeat ACAC champi-onship and possibly another medal at CCAA Nationals”.
These sentiments are echoed by Tim Finnigan, a teammate of Meads’ on the Trojans. Finnigan describes Mead as “a great lead-er (who) brings the skill level up”.
In return, hopefully Mead’s new ‘family’ on the Trojans team has prepared this Aussie for his first Canadian winter.
game on, but where
to go?By Jenna pranCe
SportS editor [email protected]
Whether you are a diehard Flames and Stamps fan or even
an Oilers or Riders fan, you need a place to kick back with your buddies, a beer and hot wings to watch the big game.
With your face in a book, you may wonder where the good times roll. Luckily, you can head off campus (but not too far) to these three prime places to enjoy the games of the season.
Loco Lou’s: Literally a hop, skip and jump away from SAIT campus, Loco Lou’s is geared towards making game nights a good time with affordable prices.
Seventeen flat screen TVs (15 on the main floor and two upstairs) are positioned strate-gically to give patrons the best view. Whether you’re standing or sitting, you have a guaran-teed view of the game. And the ambiance screams student bar
Second-year Petroleum En-gineering student Mike McK-inna has been going to Lou’s for the past two years. He says he likes the “good music and cheap dinner.” Parking is mini-mal so make sure you get there early to snag a spot or grab an-other mode of transportation.
The Yardhouse: A train stop away and in the heart of Kens-ington, the Yardhouse is a great place to catch a game with a bunch of friends. The pub with a trendy edge has seventeen flat screen TVs featuring two differ-ent games – no matter where you sit you’ll be able to catch both of them. “Even our beer taps have TVs, there’s not a single place you can’t see a TV,” says bartender Adam Naaykens.
If it’s a big game night, be sure to snag an alternate mode of transportation. Lack of park-ing is an issue here.
Along with its edgy atmo-sphere, the Yardhouse has a classy vibe and a variety of customers, which always makes mingling fun.
Big ups from Down Under
geNeSta Walz photo Patrick Mead, a SAIT volleyball player from Australia, has quickly become part of the team.
see watCh the game, page 10
Intimate art invites you into the fold
photo CoUrteSy MoNgrel MediaTo avoid dangerous jealousy from their neighbours a family must lethally gas their food supply in Tales from a Golden age, a film that explores life in Romania under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
tyler’s take
Ice CubeI Am the West
How west coast is you? Ice Cube is totally west coast, and he doesn’t want you to forget it.
The former N.W.A.’er has put forth his eighth solo ef-fort to date, and it’s hard to tell if it will make a dent on the rap game.
The record starts off slow with lyrics about the smell of Cube’s cologne. It picks up eventually, but anyone who isn’t a diehard Cube fan probably won’t make it that far before changing discs.
Cube, like many celebs who have crossed over into film, is unfortunately harder to take seriously these days. You can’t record a tough-as-nails rap record, and then add a slew of comedic roles to your repertoire. It just doesn’t fit.
Still, you probably shouldn’t test your luck by calling the megastar a wuss or anything, but how can he expect anyone to think he’s still the same thug after starring in films like Are We There Yet or the beloved Fri-day movies?
However, Cube, like most rap stars with longev-ity, seems to be doing it all for the love of money. Fair enough, but it’s hard to shake in your boots when all you want to do is laugh at his chubby cheeks.
Despite all of this, he’s got balls. One lyric claims that Cube is a Blood and a Crip. After all the controversy sur-rounding these two rival gangs, the weight of these words can’t be lost on Cube.
If you grew up on Cube, then sure, buy this record. If not, pass.
– by Tyler Ostermayer
going cross-eyed over 3d? We break down the “magic” to explain the science of the human eyeby Casey Choy
3D demystified for the average coach potato
know YouR AussIe slAngAce!: Excellent! Very good!
Aussie salute: brushing away flies
with the hand
Avos: avocados
Bathers: swimming costume
Bingle: motor vehicle accident
Brown-eyed mullet: a turd in the
sea (where you’re swimming!)
Bush telly: campfire
Chook: a chicken
Coldie: a beer
Dinky-di: the real thing, genuine
Exy: expensive
Give it a burl : try it, have a go
Hooroo: goodbye
Jug: electric kettle
Milko: milkman
Mystery bag: a sausage
Oldies: parents
Prezzy: present
Root rat: somebody who is con-
stantly looking for sex.
Source: koala.net.com
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CoaChes Corner
Women’s volleyball coach Diana Bugler answers a few questions for the Weal.
How would you say this season is looking so far?
Our season is going really well so far. We have a strong class of rookies that will bol-ster our strong nucleus of returning athletes. Everyone has had the opportunity to contribute on the floor in our exhibition games. I am look-ing forward to continuing our progress as the regular season approachesWho do you think your biggest rival will be?
We have not had the op-portunity to play against the majority of the teams in our league yet. However, Mount Royal, Red Deer, Grande Prairie, and MacEwan always field strong teamsWhat games are “can’t miss” games for specta-tors?
All of them!Tell us a little about your last game.
Our last match was the
bronze medal game at the Medicine Hat tournament against the Briercrest Clip-pers ... We won the match in four sets, improving on our previous days performance in which we lost 15-13 in the fifth set.
–by Jeff Clemens
By DaVe stanDishWeal Writer
The SAIT Trojans men’s hockey team got the winter portion of the sports season off to a per-fect start with two impressive wins over the Grant MacEwan Griffins from Edmonton this past weekend by scores of 5-0 and 8-1.
For the four-time defending champions and their coach Ken Babey, who started his 24th season behind the bench, it was a quality start to the season but with things to work on.
“I told the team it was like one of my favourite movies, The Good the Bad and the Ugly,” Babey said after the home opener Friday night. “Our guys battled late to preserve the shutout and that’s the sign of a good team.”
The night after in Leduc, where the Griffins play their home games, rookies account-ed for five of the eight goals,
including two for Warren Muir, who joined the team from the Alberni Valley Bulldogs of the B.C. junior league.
“(He) played tonight with Thane Wood at centre and Gra-ham Dearle, and they had a re-ally nice line. They had three goals, and were all over the ice — good at both ends.” Muir had one more on Friday
The scores may have been worse if it hadn’t been for Grif-fin goaltender Shannon Szaba-dos, the gold medal winning starter for Canada at the Van-couver Olympics, who made 84 saves over the weekend.
“I give her a lot of credit. She made a lot of big saves for them,” said forward Shane Lust, who did score one goal on Sz-abados on a one timer from the slot on a pass from Mike Ullrich. “We had a lot more chances we should have buried if it wasn’t for her.”
As for Lust, after a shoulder
injury kept him out of the pre-season, he rejoined the team and picked up right where he left off with Ullrich, his line mate with SAIT and back in midget.
“It comes from playing with each other and knowing where the other is going to be on the ice. I fed him a pass (on Ull-rich’s goal) that I knew only he’d be fast enough to get to and he put it in.”
The Trojans already find themselves in first place in the ACAC with four points. This weekend they’ll have two home games against the Briercrest Clippers from Caronport, Sas-katchewan.
Coach Babey was honoured with a video tribute prior to Friday’s games honoring his achievement last March of be-coming post-secondary hock-ey’s number one all-time leader in coaching wins. The video is posted on saittrojans.com.
Men’s hockey team dominates in season opener
sports wrap
Men’s Soccer The Trojan men confirmed
they will not claim a third straight South Division regu-lar-season pennant after los-ing against the Mount Royal University Cougars 6-1 on Oct. 6. Head coach Grant Stevens says the Cougars are the better team this year. “They’re strong. They’re fast. They tackle well,” he said in praise of the cross-town rivals. Women’s Soccer
The women of Troy continue to be a work in progress. After losing 7-1 against cross-town rivals MRU Cougars on Oct. 6, the Trojan women were happy with their final 45 minutes of the game. “The girls came off the field smiling. We felt like we won that half,” said Trojan assis-tant coach Erica Balmer.
–compiled by Jenna Prance
Your basement/Rez common room/your one-room apart-ment:
Let’s face it, being a student you are almost always looking for ways to save on some cash.
And in reality your basement is a good alternative to a bar to catch the game with some friends.
Not only will you save money but the only people that will be there are the people you want there. No dealing with random drunk people and ser-vice or lack thereof. Just make sure y’all agree on which game you’re watching and you’re golden.
Harness your inner fanatic by wearing a jersey or team colours. With different friends come different elegancies so show your support.
To ensure sure your shin dig is a success make sure you have enough seats for your guests. Nothing’s worse than arriving at a fete and having to sit on a filthy carpet next to the lit-ter box. Ask everyone to bring their favourite appetizer so no one goes hungry. And request BYOB so you don’t go broke.
At the end of the day it doesn’t matter where you are watching the game but who you’re with. If you have the best company – the rest of the night will follow suit. hit us with your best shotWe want to see you decked out in your best fan gear. Send your fandamonium photos to [email protected]. We’ll post them on our new website, coming this month.
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JaMeS MaCKeNzie photo SAIT’s Michael Jordan lifts the puck over MacEwan goaltender Shannon Szabados’s stick for a hard-earned goal in the season opener on Oct. 8 in the Campus Centre. The Trojans won the game 5-0. The Trojans also went up against Grant MacEwan in Edmonton and came away with an additional win.
opinion
Battle of 3D technology: good vs evil
Weal writers Casey Choy and Cordell Blanchette debate the merits and the pitfalls of 3D technology
Blanchette: I’m not a fan of 3D. The format isn’t mature yet.
While products like the Ninten-do 3Ds and Intel’s peripheral free 3D TV are just a stone’s throw away, the public is swindled into buying overly ex-pensive equipment. A basic 3D setup for a family of four can cost upwards of $3,300.
Choy: Current generation 3D home displays are only expen-sive because they’re still a new technology and manufacturers are gouging the market. Savvy consumers can wait a few years for the hardware and software
to be better integrated and then purchase the TVs at a severely reduced price.
Blanchette: But the tech-nology won’t have the proper amount of time to drop to ac-ceptable price levels before a newer, better technology be-comes available. Planned obso-lescence is one thing, but when newer technology like Intel’s 3D property is merely months away, we’re taking it to unac-ceptable extremes.
Choy: I disagree. 3D enter-
tainment has proven its power to change hearts and minds on the validity of the format to enhance story telling. Avatar broke box office records after its release. According to boxof-ficemojo.com, it’s grossed $2.77 billion to date. The people have spoken with their wallets.
Blanchette: Avatar was a special case. Not every story lends itself to this kind of story-telling. Recent movies like Jack-ass 3D and Step Up 3D aren’t enhanced by the technology.
Shane innes asks the Sait campus:
What did your parents say when you got your tattoo?
3D is meant to immerse us in the environments of the movies we watch. Lately, this technol-ogy has become an excuse for companies to charge more.
Choy: Immersion into the story is still the main selling point behind 3D. It helps tran-scend the limitations of being an inactive participant and dis-solves some of the separation between the audience and the game or movie.
Blanchette: But is this really necessary in our own homes? The mass market is still coming to terms with the BlueRay for-mat, let alone being bombarded by whole new sets of technol-ogy. Not to mention the fact that outside a select handful of genres, 3D isn’t that entertain-ing.
Choy: Despite greedy studios hastily slapping post-produc-tion 3D onto any movie they can, actually filming a movie in 3D can be absolutely punch-you-in-the-stomach awesome! Similar to fiction writing, paint-ing or any other form of art or entertainment, 3D can be beau-tiful in the hands of a master.
What do you think? Email [email protected]. You can also write us about anything that gets your goat, rubs you the wrong way or ties your shorts in a sheepshank. But try to avoid clichés. They’re lame.
“They said it was nice,
they bought it for me.”
Shawna Battersby,
Travel & Tourism-1
“They were disappointed
and mad.”
Ashley Daoust,
BPA-1
“Why did you do that to
your body?”
Steve Smith,
PT-1
“We knew you were
going to get one.”
Nigel Midwinter,
IT
“They liked it.”
Daniel Broadhurst,
Electrical-1
“You realize that’s on
your body for the rest of
your life?”
Tegan Cochrane,
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