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Red Bombers get first win
CANADA HAS GREEN POTENTIAL: MAY
Colin McPhail The Brunswickan
Under the Friday night lights at Chapman field, the UNB Red Bombers defeated the Moncton Raiders and celebrated their first home victory of the inaugural Atlantic Football League season. High scoring and entertaining football has the AFL off to a great start. “All the games have been exciting!” said Head Coach Mike Dollimore. The upstart Atlantic Football League has many doubters; however, Dollimore is seemingly very proud of the league and UNB’s team so far. “It’s an opportunity for local kids to stay home and play if they aren’t good enough or ready for the CIS.” With Moncton opting to receive the opening kickoff, Friday night’s game began with a Raiders possession and a Raider two and out. Moncton kept the ball when UNB fumbled the punt. From the home side’s red zone, Moncton scored the game’s first touchdown. When the Red Bomber offense finally got their hands on the ball, they kept their play-calling conservative and showed off their impressive ground game. UNB marched down to the Raider red-zone without passing the ball once. The running-back combination of Josh MacArthur and Tommy Broad carried UNB down field by taking delayed hand offs and running well executed misdirection plays that confused the Moncton defense. Running well in the open field but falling short in close, they could not find the end zone and UNB’s Zac Cann missed a chip-shot field goal. In front of a disappointing turnout, in comparison to the 2300 fans at first game of the year, the Bombers didn’t get much support when it came to crowd noise. As the game drew to a close and the cold began to force people to head home before the final whistle, most verbal encouragement for the Bombers came in the form
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Elizabeth May is the federal leader of The Green Party of Canada. She visited UNB recently to give a talk about the potential for a green democracy, and sat down with the Brunswickan afterward to talk about her move from Nova Scotia to Sidney, British Columbia.
Sarah Ratchford The Brunswickan
Moving from the Maritimes to Sidney, BC was the hardest thing Elizabeth May has ever had to do. May spoke to about 40 people in room 356 of Marshall d’Avray Hall on Friday, Oct. 16, where she gave a talk on the potential for a green democracy. After her talk, May gave 25 minutes of her highly demanded time to talk to the Brunswickan. The leader of the Greens moved to Sidney this past month, and she will reattempt what she tried to do in the last election: unseat a long-standing Conservative candidate. “Once you’ve been dealing with politics for a little while, you’re going to get attacked no matter what you do. Well, I’m still convinced I could have won there and we did really well. We got 32 per cent of
the vote, and came in second,” May says. May says she took her time deciding that Saanich Gulf Islands was her best bet. She says what ultimately made the decision for her was the fact that the area provided the best support for the greens in the polls. May has also spent time in BC working on campaigns, and got to know the area fairly well before she made the move. “It’s different to consider moving to a place because of politics. It felt very odd to me,” she says. The federal leader of Canada’s Greens says it was painful leaving her home in Nova Scotia. “I’ve lived in the Maritimes since 1973,” she says, “and my family still lives in Margaree Harbour. My dad, my brother and sister- in-law are still in a little village on the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, and my home base for years has been New Glasgow.” Politics in BC, she says, are different from anywhere else. “The electorate in BC is much more volatile. Politics there do tend to be a little different. The biggest difference I see there is that people are wide open to change.
“I used to describe my boss when I worked in the Brian Mulroney government as a genetic Tory. I couldn’t figure out why he was a Conservative at all; we seemed to agree on everything. If you grow up in the Maritimes you find that certain families are Liberal families, certain families are Conservative families.” She says this attitude is not prevalent in her BC riding, as many people have moved from other places; their families haven’t grown up in the same place for generations. “Because the politics in BC can be so volatile, it means voters do move around. Which is good for us,” May laughs. Having lived in Nova Scotia, May has specific advice to increase greenness in the Atlantic region. “For the Maritimes, we’re looking at energy efficiency, expanded renewables and a long term future for our natural resource industries—for fisheries, forestry and agriculture.” She says that none of the “current industrialized, globalized business models” will keep our natural resource industries afloat.
The current Department of Agriculture, May says, is too focused on cheap food and globalized agribusiness. She says if nutritious food is made the number one goal, policy could be changed in such a way that local agriculture would be supported. May says that we need to “make sure that Canada has the ability to grow enough food for Canadians, and export on top of that.” She also focused on the importance Maritimers attach to community, suggesting that we use the sense of community to support local farmers. In her talk, May mentioned the need for bus service in the rural areas of Atlantic Canada, as well as the need for implementation of high-speed rail across the country. “The technology [for high speed trains] is too good for us to continue to pass it up,” she says, “and it’s Canadian technology. Somebody is going to have the smarts, the way Sir John A. Macdonald did in 1867, I mean…that we’re going to have a train that links us east to west; we’re going to have a fast train that’s low-polluting that links us east to west.”
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Neville/Jones house making women’s lives bedder Lee Larrett The Brunswickan
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The men of Neville Jones House will be pushing this bed, complete with wheels, a steering column and railings, all the way from Saint John to Fredericton to raise money for Women in Transition House Inc.
The men of Neville/Jones House don’t shy away from a challenge, especially when it’s for charity. The 17th annual bed push for Women in Transition House Inc. will take place this Friday Oct. 23. Chad Ramsay, who coordinates this year’s event along with Matt McGowan, explained the event. At 8 p.m. on Friday a bus will pick up the participants from Neville and take the men and the bed to the Lancaster Mall in Saint John, the starting point for the bed push. From there a group of guys will start running with the bed, which has a steering column and sidebars. Whenever a runner gets tired they put their hand up and somebody jumps off the moving bus and runs to take their spot. “But the bus is going 15, so it’s not a big deal,” Ramsay pointed out. Up to 100 people will participate, Ramsay estimated. “It’s a good event, it’s really good to be a part of... the people that go through it build strong friendships from it. It builds a sense of community in the house,” he said. All the money raised goes to Women in Transition House (WITH), a place where women who have been abused by their spouse can come to restart their lives. The annual event does a lot to benefit WITH. “Sixty per cent of what they get in a year comes from us, so without us doing this they would have a hard time functioning as a successful organization,” said Ramsay. It’s also meaningful that an all male residence is raising money for a women’s shelter. “I think when they look and see that a group of guys pushed a bed from Saint John, raised money, were out every night raising money doorto- door, on top of that being students and student leaders it feels like it could restore a little faith and humanity to them,” Ramsay said. The women are preparing a welcome of sandwiches and drinks for the bed pushers when they arrive at the Farmers market Saturday morning to show their appreciation. This year the students in Neville/ Jones House have worked hard to raise money and support WITH. “The way I look at it is you have the coordinators, but the guys that really do the heart of everything are the guys that are on the teams and the group leaders, they’re the ones that are out there every night raising the money,”
Ramsay said. When the event started 17 years ago, “they raised $2,000, then $4,000, then $5,000, then $7,000 and it just gradually kept growing. The guys are getting more and more behind it every year,” Ramsay said. Their biggest donation raised in the history of the event was in 2007, when the men of Nevile/ Jones pulled in $31,000. Dwyer Penk, a group leader and the second floor proctor for Neville/ Jones, said that his job is to encourage his group and to go into the community with them to knock on doors and collect donations. “Seventy-five per cent of the houses knew where I was from, where the money was going, and how much they donated last year and they tried to one up themselves. It’s tough too in the economic times we’re in. It’s tough to see people who want to give $20 but can only give two because they simply don’t have it,” Penk said, referring to a canvassing tip on the North side of Fredericton. “The premise of pushing the bed is what really gets [people]. The fact that a group of guys are going to be pushing a bed from Lancaster Mall in Saint John all along the highway to Fredericton market, usually people are like ‘that’s crazy why do you do that’ and we’re just like ‘we needed to get something that would attract attention to this cause that we’re raising money for,’” Ramsay said. The weekend before the bed push, on Saturday Oct. 17, was the Drive for Five, where the goal was to raise $5,000 through canvassing. Ramsay says the men were able to collect well over their $5,000 goal. New this year is participation from other houses. Students from Tibbit’s, Lady Dunn, Neil and Joy Kidd Houses have all expressed interest in running. The response from Neville/Jones was an excited one: “If you raise money you can come with us by all means, the more people the merrier, that’s more money for the transition house, and it’s a little less demanding on the bodies,” said Ramsay. “The fact that other houses are getting involved and want to help out really means a lot to us and I think it really says a lot about the community that’s been built here in residence this year.” “I think the biggest thing is that it’s nice to see UNB students out doing something constructive for the community. I think there’s a negative image around us, that we just come to town and ruin things and do this or that. I think it’s nice for the community to see us out there doing this kind of work instead of the stereotypical pitching beer bottles around, getting arrested, because it’s not really like that to be honest. That’s just a negative stereotype,” Ramsay said. This year’s bed push is scheduled to take place on Oct. 23.
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Oct 21, 2009 • Issue 7 • Volume 143 • 3
Student parking woes continue
UNB gets new wireless network
Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan
UNB students now have the option to connect to wireless worldwide.
Sandy Chase The Brunswickan
Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan
1,400 parking passes were sold to students this year, although there are only 450 parking spaces designated specifically for students. Students struggle to find precious parking spaces in time to get to class, resulting in haphazard parking.
Hilary Paige Smith The Brunswickan
Nearly every student who drives to school has uttered a complaint about what they see as an undesirable parking situation on campus. There are roughly 3,000 parking spots on campus. Of that number, 450 are designated for student use and 1,600 are designated for general use where students with parking permits are allowed. 1,400 parking permits are sold to students throughout the year. Robert MacLean, traffic supervisor with Security and Traffic, said the majority of the problems with parking on campus for the department occur when frustrated students park in restricted areas, such as on roads and in landscaped areas. “There are a lot of major hurdles from the Security and Traffic end of it. A lot of it’s got to do with parking without a permit,” he said. “The reason why I say ‘without a permit’ is there is a lot of students and staff here that purchase their permits
and [those without permits] are taking spots away from these people who do buy their permits.” Ryan Brideau, Vice President External for the Student Union, also believes that parking is a problem for students on campus. He said that the easy solution would be to make more spaces available to students, but that it would not be a smart solution. “I think the smart solution would be to reduce demand through a number of initiatives, such as working towards a fully functioning public transportation system and also creating other initiatives such as carpooling, which puts money back in the hands of students as well, which is what the Student Union will be doing this year,” he said. The Student Union passed a motion on Sept. 21 to introduce a carpooling and ridesharing initiative for off- campus students. Results gathered from the 2009 Student Transportation Survey suggested that students are interested in having initiatives such as these. MacLean said that students should look at parking in the lot closest to the Aitken Centre, a place not commonly used by student drivers. He said that some students take issue with parking here because it is unpaved and a longer walk to the campus core. “At this point in time there is ample parking, but not always in the area of
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where [student drivers] want to be. We have the larger lot that’s there below the Aitken Centre that could be a substitute if they can’t be where they want to be,” he said. MacLean said there are tentative plans to have the parking lot near the Aitken Centre paved and lined for easier access within the next year. “I think a lot of students are backing away from [that parking lot] because on rainy days it’s muddy. It’s a little further to walk…I think five minutes from the parking lot to the Tilley area is not really that bad.” The VP External said he believes the issue is bigger than a lack of parking spots and an excess of cars. He said it is an issue that needs to be addressed at the public level. Brideau said that students expressed concerns in the Transportation Survey about the number of parking passes sold in relation to the number of parking spots available. “The ratio of the number of parking lots that we have to the number of tickets sold is far too high. People are purchasing parking passes that actually aren’t able to access parking spots when they arrive on campus.” MacLean concluded by issuing a warning that students without parking passes or students who park in restricted areas are subject to potential fines and towing.
Wireless internet has fast become one of the dominant technologies in our highly connected lives. Students may have noticed a new wireless network popping up on their laptops around campus last week named eduroam. Eduroam stands for Educational Roaming, and it is a new wireless internet connection program that is taking off in universities around the world. The new network is designed so that once you have an eduroam login, you can travel to any other university in the world that is eduroam enabled and login using your UNB ID and PIN without having to set up a guest account. “Normally if you go to another campus, like if you’re a student going to visit a friend up at McGill for example, you’d have to get them to give you their login information to get on the network. This way you’ll be able to take your own login information from UNB and log on to their network up there and vice versa,” said Matt Ashfield, a network analyst for UNB’s Information Technology Services (ITS). “The configuration is the exact same on your laptop... the configuration that you use at UNB will work at any of these
other eduroam sites.” Currently eduroam is active in 36 countries around the world, and although there are only 10 universities at the moment in Canada that are eduroam enabled, more are taking steps to activate the program. Dan Hurley, manager of Information Technology Services at St. Thomas University, said that they are looking into enabling eduroam on the STU campus soon, which means that UNB and STU students would be able to have wireless access wherever it is available on either campus. “If things go well we’ll do it before January, but possibly it will be closer to the middle of next term, and it could potentially be a solution to a lot of things for us. It might help with students coming and going from the Harriet Irving Library,” said Hurley. “[Eduroam] is a great benefit for UNB and STU cause we’re hosting Congress 2011, which is a huge conference, with over 6000 people... and so there’s going to be people coming from all over Canada to UNB and STU,’ Hurley said. ‘Everybody will have an iPhone, laptop, a netbook or something wireless, and so one of the big IT issues... is that we’ve got to get it so that they can go from STU to UNB easily. It was going to be a pain, but suddenly eduroam is going to fix everything as long as they have an eduroam compliant ID.”
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Res Life presents DrinkSmart
Council welcomes new members after by-election
Lee Larrett The Brunswickan
Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan
Katy Hutchison presented her story to students in the hopes that they would make smart decisions about their drinking habits. Her story focused on how drinking can elevate anger, sometimes to a fatal degree.
Hilary Paige Smith The Brunswickan
Bob Hutchison woke up every day and gave life 110 per cent, his wife Katy Hutchison told the residence community in a presentation. Hutchison lived his life to the fullest this way, until one day it was taken from him. His wife told his story to UNB students on Wednesday, Oct. 14. Hutchison was killed on New Year’s Eve in 1997 in Squamish, British Columbia. The athlete and happily married parent of two was checking in on the home of a friend, the site of a massive New Year’s party that evening. Two young adult men, angered that Bob wanted to break up the party, proceeded to knock him to the ground. One of the men, Ryan Aldridge, delivered four swift kicks to Hutchison’s head, severing blood flow to his brain and killing him. He was left dead on a bedroom floor. The presentation, co-hosted by UNB Residence Life and DrinkSmart, was only one of hundreds that Katy has done since her husband’s death. The
author and public speaker’s presentation told her husband’s story and tied in lessons about alcohol abuse, anger and social responsibility. “Stuff happens to all of us. Good stuff and sometimes bad stuff and sometimes when something bad happens to us there ends up being a great big mess that gets left behind,” Katy began her lecture. “When we come across a mess, we basically have a moral responsibility to clean it up and sometimes, when we’re cleaning up a mess, we may look up and find ourselves standing right beside the person who caused it and it’s in that instance that I believe there exists an enormous amount of power and possibility.” Katy found herself in this situation five years after her husband’s highly publicized death. After years of searching and undercover investigations, the police eventually found enough evidence to convict Aldridge for killing Hutchison. After Katy expressed interest in talking to Aldridge, the police suggested she make a video to be shown to him. After seeing the video, Aldridge wrote letters of apology to the Hutchison family and wanted to present them personally. Katy agreed to meet him and from there the strangest of friendships was born.
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“I couldn’t let Bob’s death be a tragic ending. I had to believe somewhere underneath all of that there was some kind of new and hopeful beginning,” Katy said, displaying a picture of herself and Aldridge on the large projector screen. Katy said that when the police questioned and arrested Aldridge, he attributed his crime to anger, an emotion that Katy says manifests itself in endlessly damaging behaviour. “Anger is an important emotion, it’s got a really short, useful physical lifespan and once that’s exhausted, people hang on to their anger…It was Ryan’s anger that got Bob killed to begin with. So the gift, it turned out to be an opportunity to break the cycle of anger with Ryan,” she said. Katy urged Aldridge to plead guilty to avoid trial, promising to stand behind him and support him if he did. He pled guilty and was sentenced to five years in a medium security prison, a place Katy called a “hell-hole.” “We have enough waste and enough loss in this story to last everyone’s lifetime. See, if Bob had had an opportunity to live his life as he was supposed to, Bob would have made a remarkable contribution. To my family, to my community and likely well beyond,” she said. “I can’t think of a more fitting legacy than for Ryan to do something positive and powerful with his own life… It would mean we had truly broken that cycle.” The cycle has been broken using the principles of restorative justice and First Nations talking circles, where both the victims and the community have a say instead of the traditional crime and punishment model. Katy showed Aldridge a presentation she had developed for youth about social responsibility and shortly after, he was given day passes from jail to present to schools with her. Aldridge was not at Wednesday’s presentation, for what Katy called “all the right reasons.” He has since given up on crime, drugs and alcohol abuse and is in a stable job and relationship. “Life is a series of crises, you’re all going to have them, but here’s the good news: crises offer many extraordinary opportunities to learn, to celebrate and to build community,” Katy said. “I believe the real measure of a person is the character they build, the resiliency they learn to tap into, as they move between life’s inevitable crises.”
There were plenty of faces around the council table this week as the revised budget was approved and the winners of the by-election started their term. Council began as Chair Chris Samuel welcomed the “new faces around the table,” the councilors elected in the recent fall by-election. Fellow councilors extended the welcome with their own form of applause: banging the tables. The sixth UNBSU meeting then got down to business with the Reports to Council. During the two weeks since last council meeting the Executive have been busy. Most reports were submitted electronically and not discussed at council. VP Student Services Stephanie Lord gave the highlights of her past two weeks which included a meeting with Industrial Alliance Pacific Insurance and Financial Services Inc., the company that underwrites the Student Insurance Plan. UNB has one of the highest rates of opting out of the Student Health Insurance Plan. This doesn’t help the SU budget, but Lord still feels that it’s positive news. “It’s less money coming our way, but my thinking was we don’t want to trick students into having it, we want those who actually want to have it,” Lord said. VP External Ryan Brideau reported on multiple things including a fiasco with Acadian Bus Lines. Brideau responded to a concern students had brought to him about Acadian bus lines having moved to its new location and claiming to have a shuttle service. When Brideau contacted Acadian they denied having a shuttle; he then organized for Safe Ride to be available to students on Thanksgiving Day knowing there would be a large number of students needing the service. It turned out that there were two shuttles that day, and Acadian Bus Lines had been circulating false information to prevent anyone from relying on the shuttle service. Brideau also started drafting a carpooling letter to bring to UNB administration. After looking at other Universities with a carpooling program he noticed that usually it was the University Administration funding the programs not the Student Unions. Following the Reports to Council, all councilors voted in favour of accepting the Chief Returning Officer’s recommendations for councilors in accordance with the results of the by-election. Joshua Bojahra, the only person running with opposition, was accepted as Arts Representative. Rachel McKinley is now the Forestry & Environmental Management Representative, Shannon Amey is now the Education Representative and Brad McKinney is now the Residence Liason. VP Finance Lisa Solte then moved to approve budget, revised using recommendations from the open budget sessions held on Oct. 8. The revised version included a student food subsidy plan increase of $1,500 from $4,500 to $6,000. The Social Issues
budget was bumped up from $3,000 to $3,500 and the Student Parent fund was increased from $2,500 to $4,000; there was an increase in lobbying and external campaigning from $2,000 to $4,000, and an increase in council projects from $2,000 to $5,000. This still leaves council with a surplus of just over $5000. Karlie Hanoski, Arts representative, asked if the budget committee had examined the cost of tenant’s insurance for students – an issue brought up at one of the Open Budget sessions. VP Solte responded that the committee will look into it over the course of this year. Ashley Wile, Science Representative, asked if the Student Parent fund would still be distributed in the same way, with each recipient receiving $500. VP Solte responded that she would see if there is a different way to distribute the funds. Tom Cheney, Arts Representative, voiced his concern that little goes into food subsidy and the student parent plan, and that more money should be put into these programs, and into organizing to make the programs more effective. Cheney commented that, “$50,000 is a lot of money to pour into student entertainment when people can’t buy groceries for themselves. This budget for me is still very inadequate.” The budget passed, with Tom Cheney voting against it. In addition, two clubs were ratified: The International Law Society, which provides an opportunity for non-law students who cannot be part of the Law Society to pursue their interests in law; and The Saudi Students Association which fosters friendships between Saudi students and others, and helps new arrivals integrate into Fredericton. Next, the Environmental Committee amended its policy to include two new ordinary members on its committee. President O’Kane then described what the Governance Review committee has planned. There will be three open sessions similar to the Open Budget Meeting. The first meeting will focus on representation – how council is structured, and how students have voices at the council level. The second will be about comprehensiveness – which topics the Student Union can work on and how they can go about doing this. The final meeting will be about voting – discussing elections and referenda, the benefits of online vs. paper voting, and other ways to make voting legitimate and effective. The information gathered at these open meetings will be complemented with research, discussion with stakeholders, and comparison to other Universities. New items on the agenda for this week included a suggestion from VP Lord for striking a committee to look at student need and how to better address it with the budget. She will consider formalizing the idea and bringing it to council next week. Just prior to adjournment O’Kane informed council of the Strategic Planning Committee which will determine the strategy for UNB in the future; he said, “it’s a great venue for any changes at all you would like to see.” There will be nine breakout sessions which students, faculty, or staff are invited to co-chair, to facilitate the session and submit summaries of the session to the strategic planning committee. Sessions for students to take part will be on Nov. 13 and 14 at the Wu Conference centre.
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Oct. 21, 2009 • Issue 7 • Volume 143 • 5
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A new take on feminism: what do men have to say?
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Through various waves of feminism over the past 100 years, women have worked to make their voices heard. They have attained everything from enfranchisement to the right to attend university. Now, it’s men who have to help the cause through understanding of feminist theory.
The Opinionator Nick Howard The Brunswickan has been full of dialogue on feminism and gender equality. It began with an article about the annual Take Back the Night event, which spawned dialogue on various topics under the theme of gender equality and feminism. Not coincidentally, all of the articles were written by women. Until recently, this female-focused feminism has made sense and the feminist philosophy and movement has achieved great things in gender equality in Canada. However, the time for female-only participation in dialogue on feminism is over. “It’s time for men to step up.” This is essentially what Judy Rebick, a leader in the Canadian feminist and pro-choice movement, said in a talk I attended recently on transforming power relationships. She was talking about the future of feminism, both as a philosophy and a movement for gender equality. In recent history we have seen massive improvements in the status of women in Canadian society; however, the ideal of gender equality is still far out of reach. While women need to continue to strive for equality, the future of the movement lies in a new generation of men. As Rebick said, women have carried the philosophy about as far as it is going to go; it is time for men to help put the teachings into practice. The change in focus will not be easy to achieve. It will be difficult for women to share a philosophy and a movement which has brought them so far. Yet, sharing (itself a feminist ideal) is exactly what must happen. The philosophy will inevitably change as well, as men learn how to incorporate feminism and its ideals into their lives. Pushing through our current culture of manliness will take understanding, time and effort. I believe that equality is worth it. Recognition of the impediments faced by men striving for gender equality is
absolutely necessary. Just as the definition of a ‘woman’ is stereotyped and socially constructed, so too is that of a ‘man’. Men are manly: they view life as zero-sum and resort easily and quickly to violence. How often do we hear, in response to a comment about violence, “Man-up!”? How often is the comment “Be a man!” used to encourage men to drink more beer, lift heavier things or complete other such ‘manly’ acts. We can celebrate manliness without stereotyping it. Beer and weights are not exclusively male domain; we can celebrate a love for both while being sensitive to others’ wants or needs. Manliness doesn’t need to be a tool for peer-pressure or dominance. We could be sensitive if sensitivity weren’t already negatively connoted in our culture of manliness. Most men feel the knee-jerk reaction of mockery after hearing the word ‘sensitive’. The commonly negative reaction to a simple and often positive word demonstrates the manly cage we have built for ourselves. The need for a feminist influence is clear, if for no other reason than to free men from their own manhood. Feminism, as Ms. Ratchford said last week in her column, The Looking Glass, is not necessarily about militancy, or even specific women’s rights. The often-held view of all feminists as militants is equitable to calling all Muslims terrorists – the idea, if thought through, is patently ridiculous. Feminism is a complex subject; as a philosophical theme it covers everything from political theory to advocacy. In its broadest description, feminist theory describes attributes commonly associated with the female gender (or, if based on a gender spectrum, the female side of the spectrum). Collectivity and communication are two examples of many traits described in feminist theory. Moving away from a culture of manliness does not require an outright rejection of manhood. Rather, it means incorporating the feminist ideals (equality, communication, a positive-sum approach, etc.) into what it means to be a man. We need to address the culture of manliness before we can advance the goal of equality. Until men are no longer telling each other to “man-up”, the feminist goal of equality will be unable to advance.
Jaques Landry The Brunswickan
Okay, very rarely do I lose it, but this time I did. First off, I want to make it clear that I am a firm believer in equality. With that said, let’s be honest. Some groups of people go a bit too far. Most of you probably don’t know that Georges Laraque, Montreal Canadiens’ enforcer, was featured in an online only ad for the alcoholic energy drink Octane 7.0. An ad with a hockey player about booze - can you guess what marketing strategy the publicists chose? If you guessed hot girls, you are right. We all know that sex sells, especially among males 18 to 35, which was the ad’s targeted market. To the majority of people this would go unnoticed, simply because advertisements are advertisements and sex is a common, effective way to advertise. However, a women’s group in Quebec was furious about the ad, calling it sexist. Alexa Conradi of the Federation des Femmes du Quebec asks why every time an ad is aimed at males 18-35, scantily clad women combined with racy angle shots are always used? On that one, Mrs Conradi, the question is the answer: because it’s males 18-35. Now, Laraque is not a macho man per se. Even though he is perceived as the NHL’s most feared fighter, he remains a gentleman off the ice. He has become vegan since seeing the documentary “Earthling” which he plans on narrating in French so that people like me can enjoy it as well. He always goes to team- planned hospital visits, putting a smile on the kids’ faces who do not smile often due to their health situations. Moreover, he decided to do the ad because it created a lucrative
payday for a charitable organization: he swore that he donated all the proceeds to an animal rights non-profit organization. Now, once again I’ll reiterate the fact that I believe in equality. I understand that women face barriers in the work place. Such barriers include pay equity, difficulties climbing the corporate ladder and the big problem of sexual harassment. Considering that there are much bigger fish to fry, why do we bother complaining about a perfectly legal advertisement using a marketing concept that has been proven to work since Adam met Eve? Another aspect of radical feminism that I feel acts as a diversion to fixing the real problems women face is the movement pushing for a rewrite of the dictionary and history books. By that I mean the Founding Fathers becoming the Founders. Spokesman becoming a spokesperson. Really? Well, I might not fully understand this since I am French. In the French language feminizing a word is easy-- you add an “e”. In all seriousness, are we not all part of mankind? Or should we start saying personkind? Ironically, as I am writing this article we are discussing sexual harassment in my business ethics class. Yes, I am writing for you readers instead of paying attention. Do not judge me. However in the moments that I am paying attention or even conversing with my neighbor, who is a woman, it is clear to me that the ideal of equality does not resemble anything we have today. Therefore feminist groups of women and men are needed to change things. That’s right, men can be feminists. However, such groups should be moderate in their behaviour so that the majority of people are able to take them seriously. While it is true, to a certain extent, that no publicity is bad publicity, when you are trying to change the way the world turns, bad publicity can definitely hinder your progress. In the case of the feminist movement, it is my belief that there is a need to focus more on issues that matter as opposed to alcohol commercials.
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To make a difference, you have to speak up
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Only 58.8 per cent of Canadians voted in the last federal election, a reord low in Canadian history. Can we still call ourselves a democracy? This was a question a student to Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada. May spoke to a room of about 35-40 people here at UNB last Friday, Oct. 16.
May’s talk was on the possibilities of a green democracy. More captivating, for me at least, was the extremely high number of empty seats in the room. No one at UNB cares about coming to hear what a federal party leader has to say? The number of people in the room was fewer than the number of students in my British Novel course. It was pathetic. We need to face the fact that, as university students, we are tomorrow’s young professionals and innovators. We are the ones who are going to create the world’s future. Mummy and Daddy are nearly done their stint with it, and now it’s our chance to turn it around. Whether you like it or not, politicians are the policy makers who can help, in a big way, to enact the changes we want. We need to make ourselves heard, as the people of Canada, if we expect to get what we want. Apathy does not prove a point; it is not a protest.
10/31/09
You can say you don’t care about politics, and that’s fine, neither did I before I was a news editor. But if you don’t vote, you are engaging in a destructively lackadaisical attitude. The only message you are sending is that you don’t care what direction the policies in Canada take. Not surprisingly, students showed just as much apathy when it came to our Student Union byelection. Only 2.9 per cent of eligible voters actually got out there. And by ‘out there’, I mean ‘clicked the “voting” tab in their e-services’. I was especially disappointed in my fellow arts students. Only 5 per cent of you voted. And yours was the only position for which more than one candidate cared to run. May was far more disgusted at Canadians’ failure to make their political voices heard than I am. She did, however, answer the student’s question with a
positive answer. She said yes, of course we’re still a democracy. ‘We have the ability to be here like this,” she said, “to speak like this. In some other countries, you’d be put in jail or shot.” I have to say I agree with May. Just because you hate all politicians—who doesn’t?—doesn’t mean you don’t have the responsibility to make your voice heard for what you see as the betterment of this country. It takes only a few minutes, there are convenient polling stations across campus, and we are the ones inheriting this mess. Do those sound like good enough reasons to speak up? The way I see it is if you’re too lazy to mark an “X” beside someone’s name on a ballot, you have no right to complain. Roads are shitty? Tuition costs are astronomical? Maybe you should do something about it.
Prayer not an acceptable part of secular institutions Ian Andreas Miller Submitted to The Bruns
I would like to join Sarah Ratchford in picking a gigantic bone with UNB. Immediately after reading Ms. Ratchford’s article in The Brunswickan on September 22 about the inappropriate nature of prayers in graduation ceremonies here at UNB, I wanted to congratulate her for saying things that needed to be said. As a committed atheist and an avid participant of the secular movement, both in real life and online, I just had to write a response to voice my opinion on this matter. Just when I had a response nearly ready, I read Nick Howard’s article about how prayer and religion are integral parts of understanding culture, with which I completely disagreed. And now I have two responses in one. I agree completely with Ms. Ratchford that although prayers said at convocation ceremonies are said out of tradition, they are in fact out of place. As this university is a public, secular institution, such religious references are inappropriate at its ceremonies. These references unfairly assume the existence of a deity in which all, or nearly all, graduates believe. As a public institution that benefits from the privileges of government funding and public sponsorship, UNB has a commitment to the greater community and to embrace these qualities. Moreover, these religious references deprive our professors and other instructors of deserved credit for the roles that they have played in the education of the graduates. The assumption made by these references unfairly links the “Creator” and religion with all (or, indeed, any kind of) knowledge, truth, and wisdom, and this is a
point with which many graduates, students, and faculty disagree. Ms. Ratchford and I do not make up some tiny, whiny minority at just one university. The references are outdated and not reflective of recent national surveys that found about 35 per cent of Canadians under 25 do not believe in a god. Since atheists, agnostics, and other freethinkers tend to be marginalized and “in the closet” (to borrow a phrase), I do not doubt that the percentage is actually higher. Other schools have moved away from religious references. For instance, not long ago, the University of Toronto and the University of Calgary eliminated religious references from their ceremonies. Last year, at the University of Alberta, the University of Alberta Atheists and Agnostics, the local secular group, gained a smaller victory by getting the role of religion toned down in its convocation speech. I want to have our school match what other universities have done. The fact that these religious references are kept for the sake of tradition is not enough to keep them. Mr. Howard’s article did not address Ms. Ratchford’s main point directly, but it does seem to defend the religious references by appealing to tradition. There is a big problem with this: His article makes arguments on mildly faulty premises. Just because people do not complain about the religious references is not a reason not to change the wording. When you move to a new area, you may have a choice to be involved in the religious culture of that area, but integration does not mean indoctrination. There is a difference between visiting a cathedral and being confronted with a prayer at a secular institution like UNB. Tradition is not necessarily a bad thing, and in fact, I am in favor of it in general. And, despite being a strident atheist, I am a fan of religious art. But I cannot stand by quietly and watch tradition being used to trump the secular values of a secular institution in favor of religious ones that are necessarily outdated and divisive. Ian Andreas Miller is the president of the Fredericton Freethinkers secular group.
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The old man rant Have you read the Face Book? a satire from Dave Evans
Jonathan W Salmon The Brunswickan
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’ve worked hard to get where I am in life. I went through a bunch of schooling, got a job, a nice car and a beautiful lady. Although I’ve accomplished a lot, have I contributed anything significant to society? Well, I pay my taxes, keep my neighbourhood free of hippies and rhubarb thieves, but I don’t expect to win the Order of Canada. I haven’t been in a military campaign and done an act of heroism, so I certainly shouldn’t win the Victoria Cross. I also haven’t singlehandedly done anything concrete to unite warring nations or fix the Middle East, thereby winning the Nobel Peace Prize. So, I ask you, how the hell did Barack Obama win? I always thought the Peace Prize was a pretty credible award, given to those who have toiled selflessly over decades to do pretty amazing things. Obama hasn’t even been President of the United States for a year! According to the Nobel Foundation, he won it for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Seriously, the guy went to Mexico and Germany a couple of times, I don’t know if that qualifies as promoting international diplomacy. Hmm...who else has won the award? Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, all these people (while probably lefties) have contributed huge amounts of book learnings and fancy peace crap over the course of their lives, while ol’ Barack has only recently become a politician. Of course, it’s not rocket science why he won the award. It’s pretty clear that half the planet believes Barack Obama is actually Jesus Christ or Kal-El of Krypton. God himself has sent Obama to the planet Earth to save us from ourselves. He will bring peace to the world through glorious revelation and selfless acts of heroism while stopping Lex Luthor. Seriously, what are these people smoking? The only silver lining in this is that Obama looked pretty shocked and/or pissed to have been chosen as this year’s recipient. I don’t blame the guy. He knows full well that he shouldn’t have even been considered for this, at least not for another few years. He was probably getting ready to announce a troop surge in Afghanistan, and the damn Norwegians figured they’d stop it by giving him the award. Now if he does it, he looks like a big dick. Heaven forbid that extra troops there might actually beat back the Taliban, increase stability in the region, and, by association, peace. My friends, look at what the mighty Left has wrought. Guess what, “5 random guys from the Norwegian parliament who are chosen to give out peace prizes”, keep an eye out for me. I plan on putting a video on Youtube in which I will tell you what I’ll do to foster world peace. I won’t give you specific timetables, any quantifiable results or any detailed 5-point plans. Obama didn’t do any of these either... but it seemed to work for him. Dave Evans is Online Editor of the Brunswickan. Tell him what you hate at online@thebruns.ca.
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Readers, I have one statement this week that will probably have the youth of today rioting in the streets and falling to their knees in disbelief: Facebook is not safe. Profiles are hacked left, right and centre these days. All a horny pedophile has to do to look at pictures of a grade nine girl on your friends list is consult Google; then he’s got himself a night of entertainment and slippery hands. So for those of you who pose scantily clad for your cameras in your rooms, maybe you should cover yourselves up. With the Golden Age of Technology upon us, privacy is now a forgotten lore. And even a kiss from The Grim Reaper cannot keep us from the public eye. An example of this horrible reality is that nine months ago, a young girl’s deceased mother’s Facebook status was updated. As if this girl wasn’t scarred enough: 1) her mother had Facebook, and 2) she succumbed to breast cancer. Now she has to deal with the fact that her dead mom is updating her status via Facebook mobile from beyond the grave. The status was updated to: “I’m 8-1/2 pounds lighter thanks to the FREE trial pack of this new colon cleanser that I got! Visit PurgeColon.net to get yours!” No shit you’re lighter, you haven’t metabolized anything in nine months. What kind of dark and depraved monster gets a rise out of something like this? Well, it is time for you students to come to the realization that humans are ugly beasts with minimum amounts of self-control. After visiting the cemetery with a spade and discovering no cell phone clasped in mommy’s hand, the little girl contacted the company and demanded retributions. The organization assured the irate Facebooker
Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan
The vast majority of students use facebook as a social networking tool, but some people overestimate its safety levels. that the ad would be removed, and an apology would be placed on the site. However, the = appeared in the form of another ad on the expired woman’s profile. Who would have thought that an enterprise with the name CleanseProXTeloxysTechnologiesLtd.would be reputable? They sell enemas for God’s sake. This year, Facebook had promised Canadian privacy officials that they would keep photos and personal information from invading third parties; however, Facebook is delusional if they believe they will be able to eliminate the threat of hacking from their prestigious site. Hackers are a diseased cancer who eat away at the progress of the technological advances of today. And the problem is that as technology continues to
evolve, these slimy bastards evolve with it. Facebook is much like cigarettes, and the youth of today are addicted. At least when having a smoke, a person is forced to go outside and inhale a couple breaths of fresh air… dotted with tar. Facebook keeps people inside. And studies have actually shown that when logged on, an influx of nicotine passes through the keyboard, into your fingertips and into the bloodstream. A truly ingenious way to hook more users. In order to understand this story more thoroughly, I tracked down the CleanseProX hacker. When asked if he had anything to say to the little girl he terrorized, he responded: “I Facebooked your Mom last night”.
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Student
Viewpoint.
What do you see in this image?
Let everyone know whats on your mind.
“A mythical creature.”
“An angel.”
Andrew Healey
Jeremy Kindervater
“An inkblot.”
Joseph Senechal
Joseph Roberts
“A different ink blot.”
“A face.”
Luke Foster
“A body.”
Peter Montague
“Ghandi with sunglasses.”
Nick Stillwell
“A little boy.”
“A trident.”
Ryan Shaw
Stu Simmons
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UNB has international profs, too
OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE (?)
Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan
Dr. Dirk Jaegar is a forest engineering prof who hails from Germany. He was asked to come and teach at UNB in 2002, and has made Fredericton home.
Danielle Bodie The Brunswickan
The city of Fredericton does not only play host to international students, but professors as well. Dr. Dirk Jaeger is a passionate professor who loves working at UNB and teaching students about Forest Engineering. He is originally from Germany and studied at the University of Goettingen. He then worked with the Hessian Forest Service before joining his alma mater as a faculty member responsible for diverse areas of forest engineering, teaching and research. In 2002, Jaeger was offered a job to work as a forest engineering professor at UNB. “It was like a dream because forestry plays such a big role here in Canada. It has 10 percent of the world’s forest. That’s
quite significant,” says Jaeger. Jaeger’s favorite thing about Fredericton is the easy access to nature it provides. “People may complain about Fredericton being too small. But it depends on what makes up the quality of life for you as a person. It’s not about the big shopping malls or going to the theatre every week, but it is about everyday life. That’s what I appreciate here. [Fredericton] is surrounded by the woods. There is so much to do outdoors. You have nature everywhere here, and you don’t see that in Europe,” says Jaeger. Dr. Jaeger is currently working with his students on a project that deals with preserving soil. “The big issue right now in forestry and forest management is, in order to be competitive with countries abroad, we need to use heavy machinery in our operations when harvesting timber. This is a crucial thing because soil is the medium
where all trees grow, so if I compact the soil I will get less production in the next few years,” he explained. The group is looking at ways to avoid the soil compaction caused by using machinery. They have explored protective mattresses made of branches and limbs to cover the ground of machine trails. The work that is done in the Forest Engineering Program aids in preserving the environment for future generations. Dr. Jaeger has made a home for himself in Fredericton and he says he enjoys his life here. “The people here are very friendly. Everyone lives by the pioneer mentality that you can’t survive on your own so you need to take care of your neighbor. I like that,” he says. Dr. Jaeger plans on staying in Fredericton for some time and continues to make an impact on the UNB and Fredericton community that he has learned to call home.
Why did Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize? Aida Al Barwani The Brunswickan
The Nobel Peace prize is awarded to people who have made extraordinary efforts in bridging peaceful relations between countries. President Obama has done this by extending the American “olive branch” to almost all the nations that the Bush administration destroyed relations with. The Peace Prize is a prestigious award that I think was awarded to a deserving man; however, President Obama was in office for a short twelve days before the deadline for nominees drew to a close; could someone have
foreseen the future? I mean really, twelve days in office, and someone foresaw the greatness that President Obama was destined for? I think that the award was given to him to inspire him to continue to pursue his peace efforts worldwide. It was a strategic move by the Nobel laureate institution to increase pressure on the President so that he would feel obliged to rebuild bridges burned by the previous administration. Obama was humbled and greatly surprised that he was awarded the celebrated prize, and he vowed to continue his pursuit of spreading hope, peace and mutual love amongst people
worldwide. A lot of world leaders have applauded the fact that the award went to President Obama and have said that he is worthy of such an accolade as he has achieved so much in such a short frame of time. I do agree to an extent; as I have said he has accomplished great feats with regards to his foreign policy, and in domestic policy he has made major progress pulling the U.S out of their recession. I wish him the best with his future endeavors and hope that this award elevates his desire for establishing an America that is reminiscent of the great nation Lincoln built.
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US President barack Obama was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Some people are questioning this due to the relatively short time he had spent in office before being given the prestigious award.
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Fiery mayhem inbound to The Cellar
Submitted
White Cowbell Oklahoma could make use of power tools - such as chainsaws - during their upcoming show at The Cellar on Oct. 27, if they feel that those in attendance “deserve it.”
Alison Clack The Brunswickan
Move over H1N1, because come next Tuesday you’re not going to be the only pandemic in town. Fredericton should be prepared because on Oct. 27, White Cowbell Oklahoma (WCO) will be bringing the raucous and hitting the stage at the
Cellar Pub. The sextet, who describe themselves as a “six pointed ninja star of rock and roll,” are notorious for their crazy on-stage antics and the mayhem their shows cause. And one can expect a lot from their shows. Even while talking to guitarist/ vocalist, Clem Clemson, screams of band members and crashing could repeatedly be heard from the other end of the phone. Clemson’s nonchalant, (assumedly) joking response: “Sorry, the rats got out of their cage.” He then proceeded to scream, “back
cd reviews by andrew olsvik. Together with fellow Chicago natives Pelican, Russian Circles have been at the forefront of the instrumental metal scene since their inception in 2004. Returning with their third full length album, Geneva, Russian Circles have crossed into new territory: disappointment. Perhaps the inevitable consequence of trying to avoid musical classification for so long, Geneva contains the clichéd crescendos of typical post rock and boring, rehashed riffs that lack the fierceness that characterized Russian Circles’s previous two albums.
Though unquestionably a folk album, William Elliott Whitmore’s Animals In The Dark fuses the aggressiveness of punk with the emotion of the blues and the honesty of traditional American folk music to create something truly unique. Inspired by the DIY punks of the 90s and classic hip hop, Animals In The Dark contains stark political messages and powerful personal anecdotes with a refreshing touch of optimism often not found in folk music. Artistic authenticity can be a rare quality but as Animals In The Dark demonstrates, William Elliott Whitmore boasts it impressively.
in your cages,” to whatever was on his side of the phone. The band is rolling through town as part of their 10th anniversary tour, or “The tenth anniversary of us playing in this plane of existence,” as Clemson describes it. The band claims that their “testosterone rays” are bound to make the show something to remember, but beyond that the audience should look forward to some of the more traditional aspects of a WCO show: power tools. The band is known for their habit of
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bringing power tools, including (but not limited to) a chainsaw, on stage. Clemson wouldn’t promise that a chainsaw would make an appearance during the show at The Cellar. He says that the audience needs to “deserve it,” and said that if Fredericton wants to see the chainsaw’s appearance audience members need to“bring gourds.” With this tour marking such a big anniversary for the band, the audience can expect a lot of mayhem, but they expect it from the audience in return. Beyond bringing gourds Clemson says
the band has had big reactions from the audience in the past. Stories of audience members getting naked and jumping on stage are commonplace at their shows and they expect Fredericton to be no different. Despite the intense party the show promises to be, the band doesn’t want it to stop there. Clemson encourages audience members to hold an after party for the band. And before you start planning make sure it’s going to be a party that’s remembered. “We do not just want Mark and Bobbie playing Nintendo. We want elephants, clothing optional, fiery-mayhem, and punch,” says Clemson. As an extra incentive to throw a great party Clemson explains that the best party thrown could gain the hosts some notoriety. Clemson says that there will be a film crew documenting their tour and whoever throws them the best party might have it be included in the DVD. Despite the nonchalance over possible repercussions, their ‘festive’ attitude has gotten the band in trouble in the past. During our interview Clem made an off-hand comment about no longer being welcome in Holiday Inns around the country for an incident that he said involved naked, drunk fans (he’s emphatic that it wasn’t the band), an early morning (9 a.m.), and a seniors tour trying to check-in. But it’s all just part of a regular day for a band that looks forward to playing at the Cellar because, “The Cellar actually is in the basement right? Good, because we play better when we’re closer to the underworld.” Fredericton beware. The pandemonium arrives on Tuesday, Oct. 27th. As a side note, Clemson has added that “everyone gets laid at a White Cowbell Oklahoma show.”
Nearly unnoticed this summer, amid hot celebrity gossip such as “Jon and Kate Plus Eight” becoming “Kate Plus Eight,” and overshadowed by serious pressing world events, a quiet saga unfolded that promised to forever alter the way that people behave online. France, the same country behind such modern amenities as democracy, the guillotine and the metric system, seemingly decided to reinvent copyright law, and by default, try to shut down the world wide wild west that the Internet had become. Previously nations had done their darnedest to stay out of sticky issues like copyright, preferring to allow these matters to be fought over in civil court and regulated through hard won and quickly forgotten legal precedents and common laws. But ever since French president Nicolas Sarkozy married his third wife, pop songstress Carla Bruni, it seems that he’s felt enormous sympathy and kinship toward the music industry. Following his 2007 election to the French presidency, he spent two years creating the piece of legislation most often referred to as France’s “Three Strike Law.” The new law proposed that should
an individual or organization be caught illegally downloading copyrighted content three times, their internet privileges would be suspended by the state for up to a year and they could be held accountable for up to €300,000 in civil damages. Suddenty it looked like copyright was going to become very, very enforceable, as individuals in violation of the new French law were soon due to begin receiving their letters of warning, and employers and public institutions prepared to secure their wireless networks from their own employees, whose bad habits threatened to jeopardize a year’s worth of business in a matter of days. However, while the music industry sighed their first collective sigh of relief since Napster first went offline nearly a decade ago, France’s Constitutional Council struck down the law. They asserted that, because access to the Internet is a fundamental human right, only a judge has the power to suspend it. Sarkozy, in his haste to protect the private property of the music industry, had circumvented French law and, contrary to the nation’s many constitutions, illegally created an agency independent of the judiciary that was capable of handing down criminal punishments. Before the controversial law could become legally binding, Sarkozy would have to amend it in order to allow for the appeal process. The world took interest. British legislators decided that a similar law would be good for their country. The British, however, decided that the French had gotten things a little backwards – how
could a government possibly expect the public to both respect, and be privy to, all the nuances of something as complex as copyright law? They concluded that the public shouldn’t be accountable for their behaviour online, but rather Internet service providers should be responsible for facilitating all that piracy. At the same time as the Europeans were debating over who was responsible for policing copyright online, another series of events was unfolding in the United States. Amazon.com, on the morning of July 17, under legal pressure from Penguin Books, “remotely recalled” dozens of pirated texts that they had illegally allowed users of their Kindle Reader to download – including, in all irony, George Orwell’s “1984.” Even though they vowed to never recall books again, Amazon.com had suddenly become Big Brother – reaching into peoples homes at night and stealing books, words, and by extension, thoughts. “Remote recall” wasn’t a feature unique to the Kindle Reader; literally dozens of companies around the world trading in digital movies, music and books, including the iTunes store, possessed similar powers. Private copyright holders could remotely access your computer and delete the offending content. Back in France, though, Sarkozy wasn’t taking any chances; a newly amended and constitutionally legal version of the three strikes law was passed at the end of September – the first of many such laws that are sure to come during the next year.
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A tidal wave is coming this week in fredericton.
From the Tubes
You Say Party! We Say Die! @ The Capital Bar Saturday, October 24 at 10pm
Doug Estey The technology revolution is incredible. It has brought us new careers, faster and more efficient ways of communicating, astounding new developments across industrial, medical and commercial fronts and beyond. But all of that progress stops with something we use every day: e-mail. We’ve been using it for thirty years. We have BlackBerry handsets and iPhones blowing peoples minds with push technology so we can get it faster, people sending links to other people, create reply & reply all confusion in offices across the planet, spam everywhere, and of course the “Sandy, those photos you e-mailed were too big and the message got rejected!” Luckily, people have started to take notice of the cumbersome nature of the electronic message. Google, the same company that brought you such wonderful things as, I don’t know, the search engine, the first widespread open source touchscreen phone and the best April Fool’s jokes of all time, is working on a replacement for conventional e-mail. Ambitious? You could say that, but most doubts or reservations you might have can quickly be dispelled by a glance
Experience the spastic and wonderful dance-inspiring groove brought forth by You Say Party! We Say Die!, hot off the press with their latest album, XXXX. Special guest Play Guitar will also appear. $8 at the door.
Attack In Black @ The Capital Bar Saturday, September 1 from 12pm to 5pm
Canadian rock ‘n roll favourite Attack In Black will appear at The Capital Bar on Friday with Bruce Peninsula and Yukon Blonde. Cover is $8 in advance, with tickets available at Reads Newsstand. Internet
Google Wave is currently under heavy development and is invite-only, but is expected to hit the masses at the end of this year. at the video the Google team has posted at http://wave.google.com. Wave is being developed as a (mostly) open source protocol based on a client/ server model that will be accessible to anyone. An individual wave can simply be described as a thread of communication between two or more people, in which photos, videos, audio, conference calls, links, snippets and pretty much anything else can be dropped. Think Gmail conversations that automatically use IM when a member of the discussion is online, are infinitely more mediacapable, and can be used by anyone - even outside of Wave. Similar to other open source superpowers like Mozilla Firefox and Drupal, the open nature of Wave will allow de-
velopers to easily create extensions to expand its functionality. A fully-supported API will also be made available. Moreover, participants can be added to waves at any time. Those joining the thread late can make use of a playback feature that will allow them to get up-tospeed on what’s going on. Contributors can have their words read as they type them, abolishing the cumbersome “soand-so is typing a message.” Further, those messages can be automatically translated in real time. Google Wave is attempting to merge the functions of e-mail and instant messaging by creating live, access-driven, interact-able streams of communication between any number of individuals. It’s expected to go live by the end of this year.
Halifax Pop Explosion @ Halifax, Nova Scotia Tuesday, October 20 to Saturday, October 24
Okay, so this isn’t happening in Fredericton. But you’re going to be hearing all about it in the Brunswickan coverage next week of MSTRKRFT, Girl Talk, Cadence Weapon, Ohbijou and more.
Sprengjuhollin @ The Capital Bar Tuesday, October 27 at 10pm
Witness Icelandic indie pop sensations Sprengjuhollin (above photo) on their first Canadian tour (and fresh from their Halifax Pop Explosion appearance on the 21st) at The Capital Bar here in Fredericton with the Immaculate Machine.
Fool for Love @ Memorial Hall
Wednesday, October 28 to Saturday, October 31 Theatre UNB proudly presents Sam Shephard’s Fool For Love. The performance focuses on the dark side of life in the west. Tickets are $10 ($6 for students) and will be available at the door. For more info, call (506) 447-3078.
David Adams Richards @ McCain Hall, STU Wednesday, October 28 at 7pm
As part of the New Brunswick Distinguished Lecture Series, author David Adams Richards will be presenting and opening up for discussion his new work, God Is, at the Kinsella Auditorium.
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UNB tramples over competition on opening weekend Colin McPhail The Brunswickan
The men’s hockey team was up to its usual tricks as they opened the 20092010 AUS season in a dominating fashion. The Reds handily defeated UPEI in the home opener at the Aitken Centre and followed it up by routing UdeM. UNB outscored its opponents 19-3. Head Coach Gardiner MacDougall cited the preseason campaign against American schools as a great way for the team to bond and to boost morale. The team was more than prepared for the upcoming season. Friday’s home opener was a special night for the Reds as they officially introduced the new look roster, raised their 2008-2009 CIS National Championship banner and UNB President Eddie Campbell presented the University Cup to the new UNB captain Kyle Bailey. The Reds, thriving off a moving opening ceremony, got an early jump on the UPEI Panthers and used an intense forecheck to create several turnovers and scoring chances only to be denied by Panthers netminder Jhase Sniderman. Twelve minutes into the first frame, the Reds managed to crack Sniderman as Hunter Tremblay cashed in on a rebound off a John Scott Dickson shot. UNB kept up the pressure and caught the Panthers on a bad line change and Dion Campbell was able to walk in to slip a nifty backhand through Sniderman’s pads. Shuttron would add another before the end of the period. He ripped it top corner off a pretty feed from Taylor Procyshen. The second frame was very similar to the first. UNB’s size and speed were too much for the UPEI squad and the scoreboard blatantly expressed it. The Reds added three more including two power
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Several VReds jumped in on this weekend’s scoring frenzy; including Daine Todd (above) who added two helpers, five shots and finished with a +2 rating. Including the nine preseason games, the Reds have only lost one matchup. play markers by Dickson and Tremblay. Dickson also scored his second of the night later in the period. Luke Lynes, Bretton Stamler, Lachlan MacIntosh and Tremblay all tallied in the third as well. The tenth and final goal gave Tremblay the hat trick. The Panthers could only muster 20 shots and goaltender Travis Fullerton was up to the task as he notched the 10-0 shutout. The fans were expecting a tighter, more thrilling match on Saturday as
UdeM came to town. However, UNB had other ideas. Big forward Chris Hodgson started the game off with two goals 22 seconds apart shortly into the first. Tremblay, building on his five point performance from the previous night, blew a powerful snap shot over the shoulder of UdeM’s Kevin Lachance on a shorthanded partial breakaway. Towards the end of the first, rookie Chris Culligan scored his first of the year. Tremblay, Procyshen and Culligan’s
second made it 7-0 before UdeM made it onto the board. The six goal deficit would be as close as they would get. The two teams traded goals from then on; including Culligan’s hat trick maker and a power play goal by Jonathan Harty to make the final score 9-3. Derek Yeomans picked up the win stopping 20 out 23 shots. Although this impressive display of speed and skill is largely a team effort, the exceptional play of UNB’s top lineup is worth noting. Tremblay, Dickson and
Culligan combined for 21 points, 23 shots and were a +16 over the weekend. The Reds’ special teams were also highly effective. They tallied five power play goals and scored an incredible three shorthanded goals. MacDougall was quite content that his penalty kill not only shut down any power play opportunities, but scored in the process. UNB is looking to keep this trend going as they travel to Nova Scotia this weekend to play Acadia on Friday and Saint Mary’s on Saturday.
Women still dominant in UNB Invitational Nancy Ward The Brunswickan
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Jillian Blanchard (above) has been an intricate part of the women’s volleyball undefeated run. The Reds were happy to have the veteran back in the lineup as Blanchard recently returned from the World Francophone Games in Lebanon.
It was a busy weekend for the women’s volleyball team as they hosted and won the UNB Invitational Tournament. Four other teams traveled to the Lady Beaverbrook gym to take part in the tournament: St. Francis Xavier, Acadia, Cape Breton University and Université de Moncton. The Reds put forth another impressive display by winning 15 sets and only dropping three. The Reds opened the tournament with two wins on Friday night against CBU and StFX, winning the matches three sets to none and three sets to one respectively. Saturday was another successful day for the Reds as they defeated UdeM 3-1 and followed that performance by sweeping Acadia 3-0 that evening. The Reds’ wins on Friday and Saturday put them into first place, giving them a bye to the finals on Sunday. The Reds faced Acadia again on Sunday in the championship match. Coming out with another solid effort,
the Reds beat Acadia 3-1 to capture the title. The Reds’ Jillian Blanchard and Jenna Wamsley made the all-stars team along with Megan Brown from CBU and Catherine Thorton from StFX. The Most Valuable Player of the Tournament award went to UNB’s Rebecca Glancy. Head Coach John Richard said the team was up and down all weekend, with good games on Friday and the team’s worst game of the year on Saturday against Moncton. The team was a little banged up but was able to claim a win from the weekend. Richard said “It was a positive result to have the win.” This was the second tournament win of the season for the Reds, having already captured the title at the Saint Mary’s University’s Huskies Cup. This home tournament was the first time the entire Varsity Red team has played together this season, with co-captain Jillian Blanchard returning to the team after competing in beach volleyball at the World Francophone Games in Lebanon. The Reds are looking to continue their winning streak throughout the remainder of the season even though they have already earned a bye for the first-round playoffs. Up next for the Reds is the Interlock Tournament on Oct. 24 in Moncton.
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the brunswickan presents
the panel
Will Alexander Ovechkin score 50 goals in 50 games?
voice your opinion
Colin McPhail
Tony von Richter
Jeff Amos
He’ll come close, but I say he doesn’t make it. Ovie will, without a doubt, reach and surpass 50 goals. However as the season progresses, so will the other teams, well most of them. Teams will focus on number eight and slowly shut him down. My prediction: 43 goals in 50 games. 62 overall.
It’s not out of the question but I don’t think he can stay on the pace he’s currently on for the entire season. At some point he has to slow down so 50 in 50 probably won’t happen. It’s certainly possible he’ll hit 50 before the 60 game mark though.
I don’t think he’ll quite do it, but I think he’ll be close. Maybe like 35 or 40 goals.
Sports Editor
CUP Sports Bureau Chief
Gardiner MacDougall
Sports Fan
Varsity Red
Yes, I think he will. He’s a streaking scorer, well actually a consistent streaking scorer.
UNB makes statement at Amby Legere Invitational Christopher Cameron The Brunswickan
Last weekend saw the UNB men’s and women’s swim teams open their season with the Amby Legere Invitational at the Sir Max Aitken Pool. DAL won in team points in the men’s swimming followed by UNB in second and MTA in third. In the women’s, DAL finished first, followed by UNB and Acadia rounding out the top three. Prior to the meet, UNB set two
goals: 1) Maintain a positive and supportive environment and 2) To outwork every other team. They achieved those goals, something Coach Daniel Monid was excited to see in his first meet as Head Coach. “Our team had two clear goals coming into the weekend,” said Monid. “Without question UNB was the dominant team in both areas. I believe that these two team characteristics will define our success this year. I am just ecstatic that every one of my athletes knows that they truly succeeded this weekend. It is an amazing thing to be a part of when you can be so successful as a group.” Top performers during the weekend were Danielle Losier (5 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze) and Danielle Merasty (4
Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze) both finishing with nine medals over the weekend. Jen Acheson finished with five (4 Silver, 1 Bronze) and on the men’s team Stefan Mader finished with seven medals (2 silver, 5 Bronze). Losier also was the first to qualify for CIS National Championship, qualifying in both the 100m Breast and 50m Breast. Losier is a first year Kinesiology student from Fredericton and is a former member of the Fredericton Aquanauts Swim Team (FAST). Danielle Merasty is a second year Arts student also from Fredericton and also a former swimmer for FAST. Stefan Mader is in his first year at UNB, coming from Trinidad and completing his third year of a business degree.
Red Bombers now sit at 1-1 FROM FOOTBALL PAGE 1 of insults directed at the other team from drunken guys standing close to the benches. The story of the first quarter can be summed up with two words: special teams. Kickoff, punt, and field goal play was less than special and muffed punts going more often as big gains for the kicking team rather than a change of possession. Late in the first half Moncton gambled with a no-huddle attack; it worked in their favour when Donovan Boucher launched a 30 yard pass to Pat Bannister for a touchdown to end the first half. Late in the third quarter UNB took the lead for the last time on a 34 yard touchdown pass from Andrew Hubbard that only traveled about six yards in the air.
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Head Coach Daniel Monid was quite impressed with his team’s performance in the SMA Pool this weekend. The Reds finished 2nd to Dalhousie in team points. “It’s called a hitch pass” commented Coach Dollimore “Basically a one yard throw, but it turns into a touchdown when you’ve got a guy like [Hubbard]” Matt Flosse returned an interception for a touchdown with 5:06 remaining in the third to give the Red Bombers a comfortable lead into the fourth quarter. With their two-headed monster at running back, the Bombers engineered a drive to burn off over eight minutes in the last frame and keep the lead until the final whistle. The final scoreboard read UNB 37, Guest 28. The Red Bombers will be back in action Saturday Oct. 24 as they travel to Shamrock Park for a 6:30 p.m. start against the UNBSJ Seawolves.
UNB also fared well in team relays. The women’s team won silver in the 200m Freestyle with Losier, Monica MacDonald, Merasty, and Jennifer Acheson participating. They won another silver in the 200m Medley, swum by Kate MacDonald, Losier, Monica MacDonald, and Merasty. The women’s last relay medal came in the 400m Medley as Kate MacDonald, Losier, Monica MacDonald, and Merasty claimed bronze. On the men’s team, they won bronze medals in three team relays. Mader, R ichard MacAulay, Ryan Steeves, and Morgan Millard finished third in the 200m Freestyle relay. John Barton, Ryan Steeves, Anthony Hickey, and Stefan Mader won bronze in the 200m Medley and 400m Medley.
Monid was all smiles when asked about the success of his team this weekend. “Our team showed that it is prepared to work harder then everyone else and that we will do it as a united group,” said Monid. “To be part of this type of atmosphere is something special. I have an elite group of student-athletes that I am honoured to be coaching. They are establishing the skills that will carry them to success in much more than just the pool this year. I know that if this group maintains their current course that they will become true champions of our community and will impact any environment they enter. I could not be happier with the way the team performed this weekend.” “UNB swimming has established that we are a force in the water.”
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Woodsmen anxious to compete Grant Virgin The Brunswickan The UNB Woodsmen team is back to participate in the 44th annual UNB Woodsmen competition. This year’s event is being held at Chapman Field, Saturday Oct. 24 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event, organized by the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, features nearly 30 teams including alumni teams and teams from eight different schools coming from as far as Ontario and Maine. The day begins with the pole climb, single-buck, super swede, log deck, axe throw, chainsaw up-downs and dry-land log burling (rolling) in the morning. After a quick lunch the teams are back in the afternoon to compete in the vertical and horizontal chop, team swede saw, and team crosscut. The contest concludes with the always-unpredictable kettle boil in which competitors are given two matches, a hatchet, and a block of wood and asked to boil a pot of water. The event is free of charge so observers can come and go as they please, there is plenty of parking on campus, and concessions are available. The UNB Woodsmen team is comprised of three separate teams: a men’s A and B team and a women’s team. This season the men’s A-team is vying for its third consecutive Canadian Intercollegiate Lumberjacking Association (CILA) championship, which included last year’s record-breaking win at UNB. With four of six members returning from last season’s title-win-
ning squad, expectations for this year are high. Former men’s B-team members Ryan Cameron and Pete Wright have stepped up to fill the A-team’s roster holes left after last season’s departures. Cameron will be competing in the pole climb and the horizontal chop while Wright specializes in the single-buck and quarter split. Team coach and member and 20082009 CILA MVP Mike Downing is confident this year’s crew of grizzled veterans can get the job done. “It will take a really strong team to beat us, we’re confident, we’ve been preparing since the beginning of the year, we’re ready to go. It’s important to us to try and win at home,” said Downing. With all A-team members included in the 2010 graduating class, this season marks the last time the core group from back-to-back championships will be competing together. “We’ve had great groups of guys over the last three years and winning a third straight title in my final year would be a thrill. It would be nice to go out on top, not only for ourselves, but to give next year’s team something to strive for,” said Downing. Hoping to dethrone the current
champs is McGill University, who prior to two seasons ago were five-time defending CILA champions. McGill is entering into its second year of a rebuilding program and will be fielding a promising young squad. At McGill, timber sports have varsity status and are coached and funded by the school, the exact opposite of the self-coached, self-funded UNB Woodsmen. In 2008-2009 the men’s B-team finished third overall in the CILA standings, the highest a UNB B-squad had ever finished. This year, with two rookies, they’re looking to improve upon last year’s record setting performance. The rookies are transfer student Peter Keddy and first year forestry student Chris Corbett. In the 2008-2009 campaign the UNB women finished fourth overall in the CILA standings and are looking to improve. With the addition of rookies Brooke Carten and Katherine Pelky, the women are looking to take a run at five-time defending women’s division champions Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSC). Downing said, “I’m anxious to see how the rookies will fare, the young guys and girls are a big part of the future of the UNB Woodsmen team.”
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He shoots, he tweets Jordan Hartshorn The Sheaf
SASKATOON (CUP) – When NBA players started flocking to Twitter, there was no need to abate my excitement. Giving pro athletes a global megaphone was somewhere between sleeping with spiders and peeing into the wind on my to-do list. I was not surprised by how banal most of the players were: Miami’s Dwyane Wade never seems to stop playing with his kids, and those who attended college make note of the happenings of their Alma maters’ sports teams. Whenever any of them writes “life is good,” I can’t help but feel like they are ignorant. Of course life is good, you make millions! The sports world doesn’t lack for platitudes, and tweeting players are not afraid to whip those out when life brings them a dilemma bigger than “What should I eat tonight, tweeps?” Take the Detroit Pistons’ Charlie Villanueva, for example. He offered this quote by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, after he and the Dominican Republic national basketball team were eliminated from world championship contention: “There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.” Villanueva’s use of the quote was a historical first: never before has a sports loss been publicly juxtaposed with one man’s experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Some praise players’ use of Twitter as offering the fans unlimited access to the game. But, as expected, the insight goes no further than the same platitudes players offer sideline reporters. Not to pick on Charlie again, but he was one of the first players to tweet during an NBA halftime. His commentary, aside from getting him reprimanded, was essentially useless: “In da locker room, snuck to post my twitt. We’re playing the Celtics, tie ball game at da half. Coach wants more toughness. I gotta step up.” Even Shaquille O’Neal, the court jester of the NBA and one the most followed people on Twitter, loses panache in his 140 characters. People often forget that the joy of Shaq’s character comes from his willingness to goof off during a press conference, an arena most athletes reserve for clichés and canned lines. As a result, I feel as disconnected from
the players as ever. Heck, as I am writing this New Orleans Hornets’ Julian Wright is posting about his frustration when valets fail to put his car seat in its proper place. Yet when I look past the awful syntax, their references to spending millions and their poor attempts at humour, there is something charming about the realism in their Twitter existences. It’s amusing to read about Houston Rocket Pops Menseh-Bonsu’s struggle to operate his television in a Polish hotel, only to post two minutes later, sheepishly, that he had neglected to activate the power in his room with his key card, as required in most hotels. Then there are Rudy Gay of the Memphis Grizzlies and New Orleans’ Chris Paul both agonizing over the fact that their favourite show Entourage would not be airing that week. Too often, sports figures get wrapped in myths of grandeur due to their abilities in their sports, so it’s refreshing to see them invoking such everyday concerns. The older generation of NBA players haven’t flocked to Twitter as readily as the youth. Even when the veterans do punch up a sentence or two, it is generally done in a serious, business-like manner. The youngsters offer a more unfiltered zest to their posts. There’s former Atlanta Hawks forward Josh Childress, now playing in Greece, whose Twitter account doubles as both a basketball diary and a travel journal. In the past, Childress would have vanished from the basketball world until he returned to American soil. Instead, the fan gets to go along for the ride and chart Childress’ progress. Anecdotes like Childress playfully chiding a new American teammate for attempting to order American-styled cuisine in Athens makes subscribing to his feed worthwhile. For better or worse, fans now get to experience the growth and maturation of the young players first-hand. Previously, the growth and maturity of a player used to be restricted to the court but now players’ growing pains are on full display. Miami’s Michael Beasley allegedly left a bag of marijuana in full display on a Twitter photo, while the NBA forced Denver’s J.R. Smith to deactivate his account after he was accused of associating himself with the Bloods street gang. Boneheaded moves? Sure. But then there are numerous rookies or players struggling to receive a contract who, via Twitter, broadcast the uncertainty and confusion of their lives as pro athletes. It’s as close as the fan is going to get to the life of a pro, without the perception of the athlete being filtered by a media spokesperson.
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Field hockey finishes their strong season in 2nd
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The Redsticks ended the season on PEI in 2nd and ahead of two varsity teams. In the first game on Saturday the RedSticks lost a hard fought battle to SMU 1-0 but they came out strong in the second game defeating Acadia 2-0. The win over Acadia advanced the RedSticks to the semi finals against Dalhousie where they went on to win 2-1. The final match was against UPEI where the RedSticks just couldn’t find the back of the net and lost with a heartbreaking score of 1-0. The girls walked off the field with their heads held high, very proud of their accomplishments this season.
UNB sweeps UdeM squads in weekend play Christopher Cameron The Brunswickan
Saturday saw the men’s and women’s soccer teams in action against Moncton under the lights at Chapman field. In the men’s match, UNB dominated, shutting down UdeM offensively. They opened the scoring early as William Allen had the ball bounce to his foot and he drove it into the yawning net in the ninth minute. UNB controlled Moncton’s play, finding the back of the net again, just minutes later. Galen Smith broke past the Moncton defence as defenceman Simon Lesage misplayed the ball. Smith was all alone against the UdeM keeper
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UNB’s women’s rugby club team battled Mount Allison this past weekend, but with a twist. This year the women decided to raise money for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation by playing a match in prom dresses. They raised over $500.
and made no mistakes to put UNB up 2-0. UNB kept the pressure up into the second half, finding the back of the net in the 74th minute as Benjamin Law tapped the ball in after a shot by Ken Morrison was dropped by the keeper. UNB soccer Coach Miles Pinsent is pleased with the result as the AUS regular season draws to a close. “We’re starting to find our offence at the right time of the year and starting to get the players back when we need them,” said Pinsent. “We’re hoping it will be an exciting remainder of the regular season for the team and hope to move up the standings a few positions.” Pinsent knows the three points gained Saturday are huge as they look towards the AUS Championship at DAL November 6-8. “Every game the points are very important for every team going down the stretch now,” said Pinsent. “When you look at the standings everything is so tight and all the teams are looking for maximum points. Looking at the standings this time of year you can drive yourself foolish trying to figure
out what they are going to mean three weeks from now.” Earlier in the day the UNB women
took on the sixth- placed UdeM. The score remained at 0-0, until UNB’s Robyn Potter broke the scoreless tie, finding the back of the net in the 76th minute. In the 80th minute UdeM responded with a goal from Gabrielle Babineau. UNB was not done yet. Another first year player, Kara Johnston, tickled the twine in the 89th minute. The ladies picked up their second win of the season as they held off Moncton with a 2-1 victory. Coach Andy Cameron was pleased with his team’s play. Cameron was worried that the team was going sit back after dropping to the bottom of the standings, but has steadily seen an improvement. “It was a worry that would happen,” said Cameron. “The team has seen improvement week to week. We’ve had a positive approach in training and the ladies keeping pushing themselves for the points.
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Get in shape in a personal way Alex Wickwire The Brunswickan
Back when HBO’s Entourage was still an up and coming series, one episode opens in a fitness center with all the boys hitting the machines. Johnny Chase takes it upon himself to be Vincent Chase’s personal trainer, only to have his ideas of beefing up his brother shot down with one line. “Bulk is so ‘90s, Johnny! It’s all about flexibility, don’t you think?” Vince’s female object of affection explains that it’s apparently in style for boys to be able to touch their toes. What does that even mean? In today’s society, what’s the norm when it comes to fitness? Gone are the days of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone movies giving males of our world an image to try and obtain. Not many are trying to build themselves into the Terminator, and Hulk Hogan’s 24 inch pythons are not the most popular goal for boys anymore. It seems that every month a new lifestyle craze comes around and that everything we do can somehow give us cancer. Why stay fit at all when Vogue magazine has been all over cable TV talking about “fat style”? Nothing in fitness culture seems to have any staying power, but the fact still remains that a well-conditioned body is truly the best way to live. Cosmo Kramer said it best on an old episode of Seinfeld, “I don’t argue with the body, Jerry. It’s an argument you can’t win!” Staying fit can be easy if you plan and fall into an exercise style that fits your personality. If you’re already an athlete, then you likely know yourself well enough to keep fit; however, those whose sports experience doesn’t go beyond gym class are rather different. Exercise is easiest when you’ve got a
personal goal in mind. There are three major approaches to fitness. Try to unite your mind and body, stack muscle on to look good at the beach or deepen your lungs and build a sleek slender frame. Become a “cardio-nut”, “muscle-head”, or “yogi.” Of all three, keeping fit as a muscle-head takes the most work. Monitoring protein intake, body hydration, workout reps and finding ways to get angry while powering through your dead-lifts are just a few of the issues weight lifters deal with. Excessive muscle soreness and varying appetite are symptoms of weight lifting. In short, weight lifting requires a lot of motivation for true success and is only something to truly take on if you‘ve got big intentions. Living the life of a runner to stay fit is very different than that of a weight lifter. Different diets and drastically different workouts leave the cardio lifestyle to those with a much more laidback approach to fitness. Running is one of the few things the body’s ancient design can handle in today’s society, and in the city of Fredericton the cross town trails actually make it fun. Those who practice yoga and take it seriously are likely the most physiologically sound people. If you’re an athlete, they probably won’t jump over you, beat you in a footrace or lift more weight than you, however “yogis” have the most efficient and healthy bodies of all. The gradual conditioning drawn from yoga fixes the inside of the body as well as the outside. Yoga is not for anyone with a short attention span. Its long history and many variations allow it to aid in both physical and mental aspects of life. The world of fitness is broad. Don’t limit yourself to weights, roadwork or meditation. What’s important is matching your own enjoyment with what benefits your muscles and heart. Try one or more of these stereotypes and you’re bound to find your niche.
Brian fights stress
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Avoid the consequences of stress by priotizing, exercising and realizing that you can do it all. Make time for yourself and always make time for sleep.
Brian Savoie The Brunswickan The library is full and coffee sales have doubled, it must be midterm season. Weekends once filled with parties, late night movies and sleeping in are now teeming with Tim’s, textbooks and too few hours to a day. This shift also comes with a dreaded side effect for most students: stress. Stress is something that is a part of human life and can even be a powerful motivator for getting things done. Stress helps people manage their time and get things done more efficiently. But like many things; stress in moderation can be a good thing, but when it is experienced in excess, the effects of stress can be detrimental to health. Stress can lead to sleep loss, weight gain or
loss (depending on how you cope), increased heart rate and a less effective immune system along with a long list of other side effects. So how do students cope with stress? The first thing that students should realize is that there is always going to be stress in their lives, whether from school, family, or relationships and the important thing is to achieve a manageable level. The easiest method to start off with is to know your own schedule. When classes are, when tests are, the dates of midterms and assignments. Knowing your own schedule will allow you to plan ahead and to manage time for when you need to get things done. Prioritizing the list of need-to-do items is very important. Another important factor is to make time for yourself. Studying and working all the time will lead to poorer productivity which will, in turn, lead to more time needed to accomplish tasks. This doesn’t mean take days on end to do whatever you want to do, but taking an evening aside to hang out
with friends or go to the gym might be what you need to let you relax. Exercise is also incredibly important in managing stress, taking your mind off of work is easy when you’re in the middle of your sixth kilometer or your fiftieth lap. If everything gets to be too much, then you have to take more pointed action. Talk to your profs, go and seek out UNB’s counselling services (453-4820), or better yet, look to your friends and family. It’s also important to stay away from harmful items; caffeine might be a good wake-me-up, but if it’s interfering with sleep patterns then you really should abstain. Turning to drugs or alcohol when you’re under lots of pressure is going to increase your chances of more serious abuse. Ultimately it’s up to you to take charge of your life and manage your commitments. If you find yourself spread too thin, it’s also up to you to look into the different avenue’s available and take action.