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UNB STUDENTS TAKE THE PLUNGE

The Bridges House Polar Dip is an annual event in which UNB students dive into frigid water in support of the IWK.The event raised $1,000. Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan

Off-campus students up Residence Life presence Tamara Gravelle The Brunswickan Off campus students now have their own piece of real estate at UNB. With more and more students are getting involved in Residence Life at UNB this year, it was about time for Townhouse, the body representing off campus students, to get their own office on campus.

Townhouse is an off campus organization that started close to five years ago with a group of friends who wanted to get to know other off campus students. Townhouse has been growing ever since and this year about 300 firstyear students signed up for Townhouse during Orientation Week.

Townhouse recently became inter-

ested in becoming a part of the Residence Life community.

Melissa Rousselle, Townhouse secretary, said being a part of ResLife puts Townhouse on the same level as the rest of the residences.

“Just to be taken more seriously rather than just a group of friends hosting formals and dinners is really nice,” Rousselle said.

Being a part of ResLife will be beneficial for Townhouse. They will be able to participate in the on campus events they weren’t able to go to before.

“We will get to go to Bridging Day and plan events with other residences,” Rousselle said.

SEE TOWNHOUSE PAGE 3

Canada and the internet: WTF Recent CRTC decision has Canadians fuming over forthcoming internet rate change to usage based billing

Alison Clack An Opinion The world is moving into a digital era and just because we’re the Great White North doesn’t mean we aren’t following suit.

Recent estimations have shown that Canadians are some of the biggest internet users in the world ranking 12th overall among countries, with roughly 28 million people (84% of the population) using the internet.

Maybe that’s why some internet service providers (ISPs) are pushing to introduce usage-based billing (UBB) to Canadian internet users.

UBB is the practice of charging internet users per use. In the past internet billing has been based on

broadband speed, the faster the more expensive. However, UBB isn’t an entirely new concept to Canadians.

Rogers has had bandwidth caps associated with their internet for a while now, when you go over the cap you’re charged more, a bit like going over your minutes on your cellphone.

In the past year, a number of other Canadian ISPs including Shaw and Bell have hopped on the bandwagon and are saying that high internet usage is taxing the system and they would like to put UBB in place to discourage over use and the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) supports them.

In fact, the CRTC has passed a rule that these companies can also

pass on similar fees to their wholesale customers, namely smaller, independent ISPs forcing their customers to pay UBB as well.

In light of these fees being pressed on consumers, one has to wonder why there is a strain on the system at all. For years internet providers have been the ones pushing the upgrade to higher speed internets. Aliant pushed bundles this fall in Fredericton for their Fibre Op lines with lightning fast connections. But, why are they pushing faster (not to mention higher priced) internet if they don’t want people to use more internet?

Isn’t the point of getting faster

SEE CRTC PAGE 9

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UNB Woodlot development stirs controversy Potential drive-thru in the area could cause traffic issues

Colin McPhail Editor-in-Chief The university’s proposed development of the UNB Woodlot has received some stiff opposition.

The conceptual plan to develop a 16acre piece of the 270-acre property has received some harsh criticism from both city councillors and environmentalist groups.

The plan was criticized during a city council meeting last week when councilors noticed a drive-thru drawn into the conceptual plan. Concern over heavy traffic flow was brought forth since drive-thrus are causing problems in various parts of the city. The root of the concern derives from a potential Tim Hortons location in the 16-acre development.

John Bigger, UNB’s manager of real estate and property development, dismissed any concern over the matter and noted that the university was not in contact with the restaurant chain.

“In reality, the hotel development is the endowment we’ve been talking about this time,” said Bigger. “Unfortunately when it went to city council, because [the city] has issues in other areas with drive-thrus.

There is one part here that shows a drivethru. It’s not necessarily a Tim Hortons.

We’re not in discussion with Tim Hortons at this point in time.”

The university drew up a conceptual plan in 2003 for a mixed-use development of the 270 acres. Barbara Nicholson, associate vice president of capital planning and property development, said the idea was produce an area for retail, commercial and

residential development and the revenue generated from the property would be reinvested back into the university.

“Currently [the university] is looking at a 50-50 split,” explained Nicholson. “50 per cent kept for conservation purposes, teaching and research, and 50 per cent kept for potential development. The window to do that development is potentially hundreds of years.”

The idea of half the Woodlot being developed has a number of environmental groups up in arms, including the Friends of the UNB Woodlot. The group believes the development would diminish the standard living for the community and increase taxes.

On the contrary, Nicholson believes this development is unlike any other in the area.

“I believe development done in an appropriate manner will only enhance lives and not detract from life. The key is finding the appropriate balance. We’re cognizant of the fact that there’s a much broader and larger landscape. We’ve been working with engineers and environmentalists who are offering us their expert opinions based on their analysis and they do not feel that there is any detrimental effects to what we’re doing.”

Bigger echoed Nicholson’s stance in assuring that the university is well within the bounds of the province’s environmental regulations.

“We’ll go beyond what [the Department of Environment] has requested that we do. For instance, we have 80-metre

buffer from the brook, which is more than legislated. Environment has some pretty stringent rules and as a university we have to stay within those or even do better than what those requirements are.”

Mayor Brad Woodside is confident the development does not infringe on any environmental regulations and is ensuring the city carefully analyzes the situation before breaking ground. Woodside advocates that Fredericton has been quite successful in it’s environmental ventures and is mindful of the community’s green sustainability.

The mayor said the development of the Woodlot offers other positive benefits, including financial prosperity.

“The whole idea was and it has been known all along that there would be an infill and when that happens that’s good for the university because that generates revenue for them and they badly need it,” Woodside said.

“I have been on record as supporting development of the Woodlot in that particular portion which leaves in perpetuity the vast majority of the Woodlot for future generations and the public to enjoy,” continued Woodside.

The conceptual will once again be brought to city council on Feb. 28. Nicholson assures the university will take the proper steps during development, which will take place over the next 10 years.

“UNB’s objectives are to balance our development not only from a financial perspectives but also from an environmental perspective and to be a good neighbour.”

Open forum poorly attended by students

The open forum was very much ignored by the general student body. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Alex Kress News Reporter If attendance at the Student Union open discussion forum was any indication of students’ interest about the proposed $6 fee raise, it seems they’re unconcerned.

Jordan Thompson, VP Finance for the Student Union, waited two hours for students to arrive. He was disappointed with the lack of turnout for his presentation, but not surprised.

“Traditionally attendance has been very low for forums like this,” said Thompson.

“A lot of it has to come down to students being busy. But in the feedback forum online there have been opinions submitted with mixed feelings.”

Thompson received 23 emails with responses ranging from full support to complete disagreement. Student council has the final decision on the fee raise.

“Asking for a fee increase is controversial with council. No one wants to see it. But it’s a reality we have to face.”

Lauren Vail, business councillor for student council, said she thinks students just don’t mind the increase because it’s relatively small.

“Six dollars isn’t that much, especially since it’s been five years since the last increase,” she said.

“You know, students can buy three coffees for that.”

She also said one explanation for no attendance is people don’t always want to go to events like this in person.

“I think if we were asking for a $20 increase or something, we would get a much more overwhelming response. I

think they see it’s reasonable just like we see it’s reasonable.”

She feels council and the executive need to make their presence more known, but said it’s a slow process. Vail suggested holding the forum to show transparency and to deal with any negative backlash.

“Students know about our services but they don’t always know who’s behind the organization and what exactly they’re doing behind the scenes,” she said.

“I think that’s a hurdle the executive needs to work on, especially going into a new election.”

Former VP External Ryan Brideau was on the executive last year, and said he’s never seen a student attend a union meeting that wasn’t “either the friend of a councillor or who had run for council in the past.”

“A meeting like that just isn’t worth the students’ time if they haven’t been following council all year,” he said.

“I’d be interested to see them actually go out and sit down with people at the cafeteria or do something in person. If you set up camp somewhere and expect people to show up, they simply won’t.”

He said it’s been demonstrated year after year with every Student Union.

“I think it’s about time the Student Union got creative at looking how to reach students.”

He suggested operating online surveys to engage students more effectively. Last year, his survey about transportation got about 1,500 responses.

“It’s about making it convenient for students,” said Brideau.

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Council passes $6 SU fee SU election nominations open this Friday without debate Hilary Paige Smith News Editor The UNBSU’s proposed $6 fee passed without issue at Sunday night’s council meeting.

In fact, the motion passed with only one councillor, Law representative Julian Williams, in opposition.

The decision to up the annual fee from $89 to $95, with students paying half the total each semester, comes after a poorly attended public forum.

The UNBSU executive cited low enrollment, rising minimum wage rates and increased costs as reasons for the fee increase.

Ash Furrow, Computer Science representative, was pleased with the number of students who responded to the UNBSU’s online call for feedback on the increase. 23 students filled out an online form and submitted their questions and concerns about the fee prior to council. 23 may not seem like much, but no students, aside from council and senate members, attended the discussion forum on the fee last week.

Furrow recommended the UNBSU

make use of online forms like this in the future to generate more feedback.

In other council business, the group is now operating with two less councillors.

Aaron Farkas, formerly an Engineering representative, submitted his resignation to UNBSU president, Shannon Carmont-McKinley last Friday. His reasoning was not disclosed.

Attendance issues have been a major concern for UNBSU council members this year, with the group receiving more than one warning about frequently missing meetings. Kristina O’Brien, the Education representative elected in the October by-election, was officially removed from council on Sunday night for missing too many meetings.

O’Brien’s term as councillor spanned seven meetings, of which she only attended two.

Carmont-McKinley said O’Brien had been warned about her frequent absences from the council table, but refused to answer emails. Her removal from council passed unanimously.

The UNBSU president said she “hates being the bad guy,” but wants to keep the UNBSU accountable for their work.

Elwyn Peters, CRO for the UNBSU, is encouraging student engagement in this year’s SU elections. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Hilary Paige Smith News Editor Nominations for the annual UNBSU general elections kick off this Friday.

The Student Union is looking for students to fill 25 councillor and executive positions, as well as seven liason positions. There are also five senate positions and two UNB Board of Governors positions up for grabs.

Elwyn Peters, this year’s Chief Returning Officer, said he hopes this year’s election is more exciting and engaging than the last. The election for the 2010-2011 council drew a poor voter turnout and many members elected by a yes/no vote only.

Peters said it’s important for students to stay engaged in their student union because they pay for it.

This year’s race won’t bring any voting and election policies, but students on campus will be able to vote at an electronic polling station to be parked in the main hall of the Student Union Building throughout the voting period.

Peters also plans on bringing back the presidential debate, a once-popular event for presidential candidates to go head-to-head.

Council met on Sunday to discuss the proposed fee, attendance issues and make general announcements.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

On campus presence will be “beneficial” FROM TOWNHOUSE PAGE 1 “So we will have a lot of other people that we can talk to about their experiences and their events.”

Townhouse is also going to be forming a committee to help plan these events and to make Townhouse more like a residence.

“The ResLife community will realize that we are not just off campus students, we’re still a part of the university,” Rousselle said.

“A lot of people off campus do feel left out and it’s nice to have that family residence feel.”

Townhouse has quite a few events planned for this semester for students involved with the group. On Feb. 20 they are going to have a Townhouse Beach Party at Boom and they are also planning a few

pub-crawls and a snow day for students. Once the office on campus is available, they will also be having a BBQ for all students to celebrate.

Next week Townhouse is getting the keys to their office space in Harrison House, right inside the first doors of the residence on the left.

Once the office is up and running there will also be a sign to make them more visible. Any student who would like to talk to them can go to the office during their hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Students can still get involved with Townhouse if they want to. All they have to do is email them at townhouse@ unb.ca to be put on the list. Townhouse can also be found on Facebook and at their website, www.unbf.ca/ townhouse.

The presidential debate hasn’t been held since the 2009-2010 election when two separate platforms ran for SU office. Peters said he has yet to hear any buzz about separate platforms running this year.

The presidential debate will be taking place in late February, either the 22 or 23. The official date has yet to be confirmed.

Beginning on Friday, students will be able to pick up nomination forms in the Welcome Centre on the main floor of the SUB. The deadline to submit nominations is February 11, at 12 noon. Students are advised to double check and make sure the nomination form they pick up corresponds to the office they plan on submitting for. A mandatory all-candidates meeting will be held that same day at 4 p.m.

From then onwards, the campaigning period takes place, wrapping up March 4 at 11:59 p.m.

Voting will run from 12:01 p.m. on February 27 to 11:59 p.m. on March 4.

Any students with questions about nominating, campaigning, voting, as well as dates and deadlines, are advised to contact Peters at cro@unb.ca.

Candidates are also advised to consult the UNBSU by-laws posted online at unbsu.ca for campaigning regulations.

Available positions for the 2011-2012 school year President VP External VP Finance and Operations VP Student Services VP Internal Arts (4 seats) Business (3 seats) Computer Science (1 seat) Education (1 seat) Engineering (3 seats) Forestry and Environmental Management (1 seat) Kinesiology (1 seat) Law (1 seat) Nursing (2 seats) Renaissance College (1 seat) Science (2 seats) Liasons: International, Women’s, Differently-Abled, LBGTQ, Residence, OffCampus, Aboriginal

Survey to measure student engagement Colin McPhail Editor-in-Chief As the university aspires to create a more fulfilling and enriching atmosphere on campus, the administration is turning towards the students for help.

UNB is utilizing the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) for the fifth time since 2005. However, Tony Secco, UNB vice president academic, is striving for an increased participation rate this year. Secco is encouraging all first-year and senior-year students to take 20 minutes out of their schedules to help better UNB. Although the project is spearheaded by Secco, there are a number of UNB faculty and staff working diligently on producing optimal results for NSSE, including CETL Educational Analyst David Kilfoil.

“The overarching goal of the Strategic Plan is to become the best teaching and learning school in Canada,” explained Kilfoil. “The first objective is to have an exceptional and transformative learning experience and one of the things in that is that they’re using NSSE to see where we’re at.”

The popular assessment tool, used all over North America, is designed to measure student engagement, which Kilfoil defines

as “basically what students do in class and what the university does.”

The confidential survey is administered through email and is only sent to a list of all first-year and senior-year UNB students from a research institute at the University of Indiana. The survey is comprised of 80 questions, 41 of which are engineered to display the university’s progress in five benchmark areas.

The benchmark areas include level of academic challenge, active and collaborative learning, student-faculty interaction, enriching educational experiences and supportive campus environment.

The increased scores are encouraging to the UNB administration. However, low participation rates are an area of concern, as the sample may not act as an appropriate representation of the student body.

Typically, 39 per cent of students respond, yet Kilfoil asserts that the administration would be more comfortable with rates closer to 50 per cent.

“Our participation rate has been good.

But the more voices we get, the better it is,” said Kilfoil. “Don’t delete the email. If you don’t want to do the survey, that’s your choice. But please read the email and think about doing the survey. At the very end you

do get an opportunity to say whatever is on your mind and I guarantee to the students those get read.”

Upon receiving the information, the University of Indiana will compile the results and report back to UNB in late August. At that time, faculty and staff will sit analyze the findings.

“The strategy for the university is to see where we’re at, where can we be better and then present it to the faculties and ask them, ‘What do you want to do?’” said Kilfoil.

Once the information is presented, the faculties will implement new policies according to their individual mission plan.

NSSE is also used to compliment UNB’s Student Engagement Wiki. The survey enables the measuring of the benchmarks to let the university understand which articles need to be promoted. Kilfoil sees NSSE as an integral part of the wiki and encourages the university community to take part.

Although NSSE is often seen as ranking tool and is used by Maclean’s and USA Today in a similar fashion, Kilfoil stays resolute on the fact that it’s here to better UNB. “It’s building upon all sorts of research over the years and seeing what’s best for students.”

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Adam Stacey, a Joy Kidd House proctor, has challenged all UNB students to keep off “The Book” for the month of February. Mike Erb / The Brunswickan

Alex Kress News Reporter Many of us are housebound from the frigid cold, creeping the Facebook pages of our friends and acquaintances.

But Adam Stacey, a proctor in Joy Kidd House, hopes we won’t be signing on for the month of February.

Stacey started the program “Facebook Free February” to encourage a change in attitudes amongst UNB students who find themselves distracted by the social networking site. He praised Facebook for its useful applications like making connections for jobs and communicating longdistance, but stressed the large amount of time wasted by browsing status updates and page creeping.

He deactivated his Facebook account in November and through December until his exams were finished because he noticed how he began habitually opening the site before starting anything else. He likes to take notes on his laptop in class and realized one day he was lost in a forest of Movember updates.

“Movember’s great, I think it’s a great

cause, but I was thinking about how stupid it was that I was paying to be in class but instead I was reading about peoples’ moustache growth,” said Stacey.

“It didn’t seem productive.”

House proctors are required to run both passive and active programs every year. Active programs might include organizing hall dinners or trips to TreeGo and passive programs include poster boards with study tips or information about sex issues.

“Facebook Free February” is an active program and attendees are required to deactivate their accounts through their settings. Once everyone deactivates their accounts, they won’t show up on the Facebook event list, which is how they will be monitored. The deadline for attending the event was Jan. 29, so Stacey could make a final list to draw from at the end of the month for a free iPod Shuffle, paid for by a $75 proctor program fund.

A friend of Stacey’s offered to monitor the event so he could completely abstain.

So far, Stacey has received a lot of feedback ranging from “I can’t live without Facebook” to “I think this is a really cool idea and I’m going to do it.” One student

even posted “I can’t do it! I admit it! I can’t go 6 hours without Facebook! I’ll never make it a month!” But Stacey believes those who do commit to the challenge will quit all together.

“I think it’ll be like the honour system, I don’t think anyone’s going to lie about it,” he said.

Stacey knows it will be difficult to change behaviour, but said the overall goal of showing people they don’t need to rely on Facebook is worth the initial discomfort.

“When I did it in November and December, the first week was kind of difficult, but just habitually difficult,” he said.

“I don’t even know how many Facebook friends I have and I definitely don’t talk to that many people. Like I maybe actually communicate with 20 of them on a regular basis.”

Stacey said he wants to challenge the general movement of social life transferring online. He wants to encourage an attitude shift that allows for more face time with friends and better time management.

“I think that’s why it’s so successful because it is super useful. But is it necessary?

No. I think that’s an important message to get across to people.”

Do you know a member of the UNB community who deserves special recognition? Let us know.

Let’s celebrate the UNB 15.

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Editor-in-Chief • Colin McPhail Managing • Alex Duncan News • Hilary Paige Smith Arts • Alison Clack Sports • Christopher Cameron Photo • Andrew Meade Copy • Kristen MacArthur Production • Christian Hapgood Online • Sandy Chase

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As the Earth’s population continues to increase without an end in sight, the space for everyone to live is slowly, but surely, shrinking. Kevin Penny takes a look at the scary reality of overpopulation. Photo by Mike Styer/Flickr Kevin Penny Intercamp (Grant MacEwan University) EDMONTON (CUP) — This world really isn’t big enough for the both of us.

In 2011, you will be one of the seven billion people living on Earth. This might seem insignificant at first glance, but we are going to have to face the fact that there’s only so much room on the third rock from the sun.

While you take a minute of your time to read this article, over 200 new babies will have been born around the world. It’s a startling fact of how quickly our population has boomed since the industrial age.

After all, we were only at a mere billion

a century ago. Now, with advances in agriculture and medical care, people are breeding like never before.

To be fair, Canadians aren’t a big source of the problem. The state of California has a bigger population than our whole country, so we’re not in any immediate danger of running out of room. In fact, Canadians have a declining population with our birth rate at a measly 1.5 kids per family. This doesn’t mean we won’t have to face the consequences of overpopulation, though.

The more people we have on Earth, the more food and water we will need to survive. This means more land has to be devoted to agriculture, and more water

reserves to be tapped. If we continue to deplete our resources in order to feed more and more people, the Earth’s soil won’t be able to sustain our continued ravaging.

Whenever I think of overpopulation, it takes me back to my high school days in biology class drawing graphs of elk populations. My teacher would always tell us how overpopulation of the elk would lead to resource depletion, environmental stress and an eventual crash of the population due to disease and starvation. It never occurred to me that humans could have replaced the elk in that graph, but now I’m starting to think we have.

So what is the solution, you ask? There is no easy answer. We could try eugenics

again, but last time it was openly praised, a world war broke out. Maybe cannibalism could help, but I don’t think humans have enough nutritional value to be a part of the daily diet. It seems we are stuck with an ever-increasing population, so maybe it’s time to go back to our roots and start colonizing — outer space, that is.

Space is big, really big. It’s been over 40 years since we put a man on the moon, so why can’t we go back and plant a condominium next to Neil Armstrong’s footprints?

Lets face it, the world isn’t big enough for our population to keep increasing; it’s time we start expanding our horizons on where we will live in the next hundred years.

Fighting for PSE: A call to action from SU Prez UNBSU Student Beat The provincial government will release their budget for the 2011-12 year on Mar. 22 and the Conservatives have talked about cutting all department budgets by two per cent.

They’ve talked about balancing the budget and bringing us out of a deficit scenario. They’ve talked about protecting Health Care, exempting it from the two per cent projected cuts. They’ve talked about engaging the province in a dialogue about responsible spend-

ing. What they haven’t talked about is whether or not investments will be made in post-secondary education.

Whether or not student financial aid will be protected. Whether or not providing access to PSE for all New Brunswick students is a priority.

Budget season brings with it a great deal of uncertainty. So much depends on the outcome of Mar. 22 and it seems sometimes as though we are helpless to prevent cuts, which may be inevitable. As your Student Union, we are doing all we can to ensure that you are protected in this budget from tuition increases and cuts to your financial aid

programming.

There is, however, only so much that we as an organization can do. What we need is for you to take a stance. We need students blogging, tweeting (#nbpoli) and writing letters to the editor for the local papers expressing how important investments in PSE really are. We need students to connect with their hometown MLAs to talk about how important PSE is. We need you to be vocal!

We have an opportunity this week to make a stance. The government is holding open consultations to ask the people of NB what is important to them. This Thursday night, Feb. 3 at

7:00 p.m., one of these meetings will be held at the Kilarney Rotary Lodge on the north side here in Fredericton.

The Student Union will be sending SafeRide to drive students to and from this event.

If you are free and you want to have a presence at this consultation, send me an e-mail at president@unbsu.ca and meet us at the SUB front entrance at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow night. We need to make a statement that students are contributing members of this province and that the budget cannot be balanced on our backs. Join me tomorrow night as we make our stand!

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Correction

brunswickanopinion Shooting for the big ‘O’ or enjoying the ride?

The story “Underage drinking risk ruins campus wet/ drys”, found in issue 17 of The Brunswickan printed on Jan. 26, 2011, incorrectly stated that the Student Union owned The Cellar.

The Cellar is a separate, independent business that does not belong to the Student Union.

Are you goal-oriented or process-oriented when having sex? The Bruns sex columnist, Kay, offers an interesting insight into the mental aspect of intimacy. NeoGaboX/Flickr CC

Kay Sex Columnist Sometimes I notice that the person I am speaking to does not understand a sexual word or concept I use. There is one that comes out in situations when I feel like all my partner is doing is trying to cum – or to make me cum.

Their movements, facial expressions, touches, everything screams “hurry up and get this done.”

Take me to bed (or couch, or car, etc.) with this mentality and you will experience Kay’s seductive lean in, brush against your check and whisper in your ear: “Slow down, focus on me, on the process, let go of the goal.” When I had a partner finally say to me, “I have no clue what you mean,” it occurred to me that my selection of words – though obvious in my mind – did not ring clear for many others.

We readily associate the terms “goaloriented” and “process-oriented” with business approaches or personality characteristics. A great differential description I found online is that goal oriented means the destination is more important than the journey, whereas process-oriented means the journey is more important than the destination (credit goes to whoever came up with this first, ‘twas not me). Behaviour can also be goal-oriented; that which is organized towards achieving some particular end. Behaviour for the sake of behavior is

essentially process-oriented.

Now, let’s bring these concepts into the bedroom (or wherever you like to have sex most).

Here is where I’m going to lean on some basic anecdotal information. Many people, make that most people, are goaloriented when it comes to sex. And the goal is orgasm.

Process-oriented sex is not anti-orgasm.

In contrast, process-oriented sex is very likely to lead to orgasm. However, it is not focused on orgasm. It is focused on the sexual journey. On the physical, emotional, sexual, sometimes even spiritual feelings that can be created while having sex. It is about getting pleasure and enjoyment in what you are doing, what you are seeing, what you are hearing, what you are touching and feeling.

These descriptions probably seem very intimate don’t they? News flash – sex is intimate!

Whether you are having sex with a long-term partner, or someone you met 20 minutes earlier at the bar or on your smartphone, sex is intimate. Embracing that intimacy, using that intimacy, will bring sex to a whole new level. A level that may also bring orgasms (pluralized on purpose) and will most definitely bring a greater level of sexual fulfillment and satisfaction.

Let’s pause for a moment and clarify. I do not actually think that goal-oriented sex is all horrible. Sometimes, wanting nothing more than a quickie in the back seat is awe-

some or even a fast fuck in the bathroom at that party last weekend. Evidently, the goal of ‘git-er-on and git-er-done’ can be not only appropriate but also a ton of fun.

Goal-oriented sex becomes problematic when it takes over your focus. When getting an erection, or getting wet, or having an orgasm, or giving an orgasm, or proving to that partner you are a sexual god/goddess/vixen/Reynard or.. here it comes… hitting that G-spot… takes over your focus in the act.

Sex therapist use the word ‘spectatoring’ to refer to that feeling that you are putting on a sexual performance, that you are being judged and need to evaluate your skills and abilities while having sex. They also use the term ‘performance anxiety’ to refer to the anxiety that focusing on one’s performance can cause. Both of these things are related to sexual problems and dysfunctions such as erectile difficulties, troubles having an orgasm and low sexual desire.

Sex therapists also widely suggest that to avoid sexual problems, people can focus on the giving and receiving of pleasure and on relaxing and just enjoying oneself. Will relaxing and enjoying sex always lead to the end-goal, to orgasm? Not likely. It will lead to greater sexual satisfaction. Eventually, practicing process-oriented sex will decrease your focus on orgasm because you will come to enjoy sex for sex sake. Not just sex for orgasmic tension release.

Go forth and multiply…your sexual satisfaction.

Do you know a member of the UNB community who deserves special recognition? Let us know.

Let’s celebrate the UNB 15.

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Student

Viewpoint.

What do you think about the CRTC Usage Based Billing?

Let everyone know whats on your mind.

Kyle Clark

Alex Fox

“It should be a free market.”

Dimitri Tikada

Brent Corbin

“The CRTC’s whole function should be regulating the CBC.””

“What do they expect me to do, make my own porn?”

“I haven’t heard of it.”

Holly Poirier

Claire Gillivan

“Just sell ISPs, they’ve been misleading for too long.”

“That’s ridiculous.”

Joshua Probert

“I’m not aware of it.”

“Shouldn’t it be free.”

“It’s shit.”

Wez Jamison

Paul Kennedy

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Beating the winter blues Tomi Gbeleyi Online Reporter Adaptation to the environment for new international students is especially important in the month of January when the temperature drops and academic work becomes more demanding.

Some international students, for various reasons, begin their academic year in January and the weather conditions here in Canada can be a major adjustment for students from less temperate regions. As an international student, I began my academic year in January as well and what helped me get through the significant adjustment in culture and environment was meeting new people, playing in the snow (with warm clothes on) and getting involved in International Student Advisor’s Office Programs.

The International Student Advisor’s Office is hosting a program today at the C. C. Jones Student Centre for current international students to exchange ideas and information with new international students concerning how they dealt with cultural and environmental adaptation.

Programs like this are useful to new international students as these programs help with fighting the winter blues and are a great way to meet new people. Apart from ISAO events, getting involved with cultural groups on campus such as the ASU(African Student Union), OCSA (Overseas Chinese Student Association),ISA (Indian Student Association) and other groups provides fun cultural activities to do during the winter months.

Another great way to have fun this winter is to embrace the weather conditions and engage in activities such as skiing, curling or skating. If you are not feeling bold enough to try these activities simply playing in fresh snow

Canadians help fund second Gaza flotilla Michael Bramadat-Willcock The Link (Concordia University)

Canada’s harsh winters can often be too much for many Canucks who already braved a number of icy days. Imagine how students not used to the bitter cold feel? Tomi Gbeleyi offers some insight into staying warm. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan can be exciting. On a very cold night, a cool and fun trick is to throw boiling water in the air and see what happens to it. Aside from external activities you can beat the winter blues by boosting your internal system too by having some feel good foods. Carbohydrates are known to boost serotonin levels

however remember to keep portions moderate. Sources of vitamin D such as milk and dairy products like yogurt and cheese are also great choices during this season.

Have fun this winter and do not let the cold days and workload get you down.

MONTREAL (CUP) — Activists who tried to storm the Israeli blockade on Gaza last year have announced that plans are underway for a second try.

On May 31, 2010, Israeli naval commandoes intercepted a flotilla of ships en route from Turkey to the Gaza strip.

The flotilla was organized by a group of activists protesting the Israeli embargo of Gaza that Israel says is necessary to prevent smuggling of weapons into the enclave. Activists say this is denying the basic necessities of life to the citizens of Gaza.

Since their return, organizers of the Canadian Ship to Gaza campaign have raised enough money to add a ship to join the second international flotilla this spring.

The organizers announced to supporters that their fundraising efforts were a success by email and restated their intent: “To challenge the blockade both internationally and, more important, locally within the context of the Canadian political scene.”

By sending a Canadian boat to participate in a second flotilla, they hope to shed light on what they see as the Canadian government’s “shameful support of Israel and its atrocities.”

Canadian activists Kevin Neish and Farooq Burney, who were onboard the flotilla vessel when it was boarded, had already announced their plans to help promote more Canadian participation in “the next flotilla” in Montreal not long after being deported from Israel following the capture of their ship.

The group raised over $125,000 out of their $300,000 goal so far. Some members have complained of being questioned by the Canadian Secret Service as to the nature of their activity.

Concordia University Hillel president and former Israeli soldier Tomer Shavit disagrees with the activists’ methods.

“If these activists want to send a flotilla to Gaza to create violence and chaos, it must be made obvious that Canada does not support this and that this is viewed as a misguided initiative,” he said.

Making clear that he supports a twostate solution to the conflict, Shavit said, “A free peaceful Palestinian state is an end goal that is in the best interest of the Palestinians and the best interest of the Israelis.”

Neish and Burney fought tears while recounting stories of their ordeal onboard the Gaza bound vessel. They maintained that their intentions were peaceful, that they had no desire to incite violence, but they reiterated that the blockade on Gaza “must be stopped.”

Neish justified his involvement saying that he is not “picking on Israel” for any reason other than his sympathy for the suffering of Palestinians and his dislike of governments that he sees as “bullies.”

They noted that some of their shipmates used parts of vessels to improvise weapons in order to fight back against the commandoes who, according to reports, were armed.

While they did not set an exact date for the launch of the Canadian boat to Gaza, they hope a second attempt at storming the Israeli embargo will force the State of Israel to acquiesce to international pressure to end the embargo.

The radical side of higher learning

Alexandros Mitsiopoulos The Cord (Wilfrid Laurier University) WATERLOO, Ont. (CUP) — A sense of urgency has befallen students attending post-secondary institutions in the United Kingdom as enrolment soars to 335,795 applicants thus far for 2011.

Prospective university students in the U.K. are now facing the realities of a government budget cut that will effectively triple the cost of their tuition — an issue that has led to mass protests amongst students.

“It’s not about the people that are currently in the university system because the changes won’t actually come into play while they’re students,” explained Griffin Carpenter, a Wilfrid Laurier University alumnus studying environmental policy and regulation at the London School of Economics.

“It’s more about the current high school students.”

The tuition increases are projected to take effect in the fall of 2012. As such,

many students are rushing to complete their applications before the increases take place.

The Guardian reported that enrolment has increased by 2.5 per cent when compared to statistics during the same period just last year.

In November, enrolment had climbed to 20 per cent compared to last year’s average, which translates to an additional 8,000 applicants competing for the same positions.

The rise in tuition costs come as a reaction to new austerity measures introduced by the British government.

Students will now be required to cover more of their university’s operating budget with their tuition payments.

“The government is ending teaching grants to non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, medicine, math) subjects, so soon LSE will lose almost all its funding for professors, including mine,” Carpenter explained.

“The government is prioritizing sectors in these economic times in very real and explicit ways.”

The tuition increases in the U.K. may prove to invariably affect enrolment abroad as well.

Students fear that budgetary cuts will adversely affect the quality of their education, and enrolment in better-funded universities outside the U.K. has become much more attractive.

David McGuire, international student recruitment manager at Laurier explained that recruitment of U.K. students to Canadian universities may prove to be more challenging.

“Mobility agreements make it a little bit more difficult in Europe because a student in the U.K. can very easily go to France, Poland or even Germany where tuition costs just 500 euro,” he said.

For Canada, however, McGuire added, “Here, we’re just shy of $19,000 for international students. That’s a pretty tough sell.”

“In Canada, international students bring in $6.5 billion a year of foreign money,” McGuire said.

Recruitment at Laurier focuses pri-

marily on parts of the world that yield immediate results for enrolment, such as China or Korea.

The rise of tuition increases sparked protest in London taking place on Nov. 24, 30 and again on Dec. 9.

It was estimated that approximately 30,000 to 50,000 students attended the rallies.

“A lot of students are starting to rethink the program they are taking because when you put a price tag on education like this, you have to think about it within those financial boundaries,” Carpenter said.

“The transition to an academic environment is not an easy one, especially when you have a load on your shoulders that’s now going to be three times as large.”

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TUNB presents Pulitzer Prize winning play

FROM CRTC PAGE 1 internet to download high quality albums and to stream HD movies faster? The same HD movies and TV shows, which are bigger files requiring more data transfer, using more bandwidth and which are supposedly clogging the tubes.

Huh? Why would they push faster internet if they didn’t have the infrastructure to support more internet use?

Even if you don’t have the fastest internet on the market you could still be facing a hefty bill in the future.

Every photo you upload on Facebook, every game you download off Steam and every video you stream off of YouTube will be counted against you on your internet bill.

How many viral videos have you watched in the past month?

Seriously, think twice about your internet usage, you might be more likely to have some extra charges to your bill then you think. So, you don’t sit around all day playing World of Warcraft, but that doesn’t mean you’re not using at least as much internet as an avid gamer.

In 2009, Statistics Canada reports that 31 per cent of Canadians said they downloaded TV shows and movies on the internet. A year later Netflix Canada was introduced with a free one month subscription offered as a trial and a cheap monthly subscription a number of people signed up for the service this fall.

But, that $8 a month subscription to Netflix could cost a lot more soon. With the average Netflix movie streaming in at about a 1GB of data in standard definition some financial analysts have said Netflix could potentially raise your broadband usage by 20GB of data a month.

Don’t give up completely on seeing a lower internet bill in the coming future. A number of organizations across the country have grouped together to form OpenMedia.ca, a group that works to protect and foster freedom and innovation in the Canadian communication system.

The group has also created an online petition addressed to Industry Minister Tony Clement (and CC’d to the Liberal Digital Critic as well as a number of party leaders). The petition is steadily growing in popularity, as of last Sunday the petition was sitting at roughly 150,000 signatures.

This petition can help send a message to Ottawa that Canadians aren’t willing to let ISPs and big telecom companies stifle the innovations the internet has seen in recent years. It can show that Canadians want to see consumer choice remain and competitive rates, not a monopoly, when choosing their ISP. If you want to help stop the meter on your internet sign the petition, go to: http://openmedia.ca/meter.

You can also sign the petition on the OpenMedia.ca Facebook page.

TUNB will be opening their first performance of the new semester Wednesday, Feb.2, it will run until Saturday, Feb. 5.The group will be performing the well loved and critically acclaimed play, Buried Child, by Sam Shepard. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Matt Belyea Arts Reporter A family can have skeletons in their closet, or in this case in their backyard. Buried Child is hitting the TUNB stage this week at Memorial Hall from February 2-5.

Professor of English and TUNB director Len Falkenstein has been waiting for the right time to direct Buried Child. He saw a rendition of the play years ago in Edmonton, Alberta when he was doing his PhD and was struck by its power.

“It’s one that I’ve liked for a long time; I’ve always been a fan of [Sam] Shepard’s work,” said Falkenstein about the play which was the 1979 Pulitzer Prize recipient for Drama.

“I’ve seen hundreds and hundreds of plays in my life and lots of them I just totally forget, but this is one that stuck in my head.”

Buried Child is a chilling portrayal of familial intimacy and frequently travels into the most private sectors family life.

It’s a deep and dark journey through both

the real and symbolic emotional turmoil of a late ’70s American family. Its strength arises in how it takes something simple, like the nuclear family and delineates its extreme complexities. Its true that what is said about the family in this play is also said about the nation.

“It spoke to its particular era in American history. This was a time of great disillusionment in America in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate where there was a lot of soul searching going on. Those political and historical facts aren’t explicitly mentioned in the play, but it is this depiction of the family in disarray that doesn’t make it hard to make the extension from the family to the nation.”

The set sits well within the interior of Memorial Hall where you’re brought inside the living room of Dodge and his wife Halie. It’s filled with everything that makes a house a home, from an antique clock to a wood framed sofa. Just like the family inside, the walls are showing signs of damage.

Buried Child questions morality over

and over and it’s this unconventional aspect of the play that has Falkenstein excited about its performance.

“I think its the mandate of companies like Theatre UNB to do plays that are less mainstream than what professional companies in the province are doing. [Plays] that are a bit more challenging and a bit more intellectual and daring in their subject matter. I strongly believe that theatre should provoke questions and not just be a comfortable and entertaining night out. Good art makes you ask questions and reflect on your position in life,” explained Falkenstein.

The play is driven by dialect and it’s the arguments and subtleties that make it convincing. Dodge is a hard and stubborn drinking old man played by Cody McKay and will make you think of your grandfather. His character is concerned with the whiskey under the sofa and the terrifying thought of getting his haircut. His youngest son Bradly, played by Jon Quinn, has a sadistic and strong presence as he torments his father and transforms into a mad and hysterical barber.

“I’m the monster of the family, the scary one,” says Quinn. “I’m an amputee who cut his left leg off with a chainsaw, so now I have a prosthetic leg. Without it I turn into a baby, but when I have it I throw my weight around.”

A tension between outsider and insider becomes explicit when Dodge’s grandson Vince and his girlfriend Shelly intrude into the closed circuit world and begin to uncover a horrific anomaly. The ambiguity that is witnessed between Vince, his father Tilden and the buried child is intentional and as the story unfolds some of that abstraction becomes clear.

Buried Child depicts the fate of a son born out of an incestuous relationship.

Its mood is complimented by the visceral acoustic sounds of guitar man Ian Goff.

Even though it speaks to a particular era, it’s a timeless and universal play.

“Its confronting ugly truths, that are literally buried in the backyard,” said Falkenstein.

This house is everyone’s house, including yours.

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kooking with karlie

JULIE DOIRON @ GALLERY CONNEXION

Karlie Hanoski

The Best Grilled Cheese Ever

I’ve recently discovered a new blog called Grilled Cheese Social. Along with some mouth-watering photos worthy of being called food porn, it ’s given me lots of delicious inspiration for my own grilled cheeses.

2 slices light rye bread butter or margarine 2-4 slices old cheddar 2-4 slices avocado pepper (to taste)

This past Thursday evening, Gallery Connexion hosted Sackville native, Julie Doiron who dazzled the crowd with an energetic and entertaining set. Opening up for Doiron was Toronto’s Baby Eagle.The much anticipated bands played to an enthusiastic and sold out audience.. Ashley Theriault / The Brunswickan

SHIVERING SONGS HITS FREDERICTON

Start by buttering the outsides of the bread.

Layer your cheese, avocado and pepper inside the sandwich. I n a pan, the grill your sandwich until bread is crisp and the cheese is melted. Cut in half and dig in!

Try playing with the different cheese you use as well. Havarti, goat ’s cheese and mozzarella are all creamy cheeses that melt beautifully. You can also try baking your sandwich in an oven or grilling it in a panini press for something different.

Olympic Symphonium had a great performance and impressive attendence at their CD release show for The City Won’t Have Time To Fight at the first annual Shivering Songs Festival this past weekend..

Mike Erb / The Brunswickan

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Brunswickan Presents a lesson in cooking with herbs

By Alison Clack - Arts Editor

Basil

You know it from: Bruschetta and pesto Flavour profile: Slightly peppery to start

did you know...

Rosemary has been found to be high in fibre, Vitamin C, calcium and iron.

Rosemary

You know it from: Lamb roasts, roasted veggies and herbed breads Flavour profile: Strong pinelike taste with a hint of citrus

Ballin Recipes Roasted Potatoes with Rose mary

2 cups red potatoes, chopped 2 tbsp olive oil 1 ½ tbsp balsamic vinegar 2 cloves of garlic, minced 1 ½ tbsp fresh rosemary, minced ½ tsp course -ground pepper pinch of salt

Preheat oven to 410°F. Combine

all ingredients in a bowl and toss until potatoes are coated. Transfer potatoes onto a shallow baking pan and place in oven for 30 - 40 minutes or until insides are tender.

Serves: 2 – 3

Cilantro

You know it from: Common ingredient in Caribbean, Thai and Latin American dishes Flavour profile: Distinct, bright citrusy flavour with some earthiness

Honey- glazed Carrots with Thyme 3 – 4 large carrots, peeled and quartered 2 tbsp honey, melted 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp thyme pinch of salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 425°F carrots in honey and olive oil on baking pan. Sprinkle thyme, salt and pepper. Place in oven and roast for 25 – 30 minutes until tender, but not soft.

Coat

did you know...

Thyomel, the essential oil in thyme, is also the main active ingredient in Listerine mouthwash.

Thyme

Common pairings: Roasted veggies, herbed breads and stuffing Flavour profile: Strongly flavoured, savoury, clove-like

Serves: 2

Caprese Salad 4 vine ripened tomatoes, diced 2 cups fresh mozzarella, cubed 1 bunch fresh basil olive oil (extra virgin is preferable)

Mint

You know it from: Mojitos, teas and many desserts Flavour profile: Sweet, cool and refreshing

balsamic vinegar salt and pepper

Combine

tomatoes, cheese and basil leaves in a bowl. Lightly drizzle with olive oil and vine gar. S eason salad with salt and pepper to taste.

Serves: 4

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Bringing back the zine: Micah O’Donnell Matt Belyea Arts Reporter Micah O’Donnell is the founder and co-editor of Fredericton’s independent creative writing magazine called Nonymous.

He warmly invited us into his apartment on Connaught Street last Friday to show us where all the literary magic takes place.

Donnell, a UNB student and Fredericton native is one of the only people doing what was once a popular part of Fredericton culture.

“In the ’70s there were three or four tiny things just like this, people printing them off on their own, stapling them and putting them out,” said O’Donnell.

Other creative writing magazines that are in the city right now like Qwerty and Stuart have connections to the university, while Nonymous remains independent.

“At the beginning, the first three issues were out of my own pocket.

The money was initially from myself, and what I profited from the first issue was something like 80 dollars.

I invested that into making a bigger print run the second time, and then eventually I made enough money to buy a Duplex Laser Printer.”

O’Donnell, who grew up on the Woodstock Road, started Nonymous in 2008. Noticing the end of another creative magazine, Naked East, fuelled his project.

“I think they put out one more issue that summer and then it was done. We wanted to do something like that but that was more intentional and submission based.”

He started by making cheap busi-

ness cards and acquiring a large database of submissions.

“People were really excited about it, people want something like this, they want something to be happening. It does contribute to a culture, to Fredericton, as far as some kind of identity. Actually, I wouldn’t go that far, but if there were lots of this stuff going on it would be a lot more interesting.”

The magazine has changed faced over the past few years, and now prints four issues of only poetry with one issue solely for short fiction.

“I wanted something that was smaller and more to the point, and I have someone helping me out now too,” said O’Donnell speaking about his co-editor Angus Fletcher.

Nonymous aims to give a voice to writers who are in between being published and not being published, offering them an opportunity to see their work amongst other people’s work.

“As much as I enjoy writing, I don’t think that means I’m a writer. What I like doing rather is dealing with other people’s writing, I prefer to be publisher, doing this, editing and encouraging other authors.”

When away from the magazine, O’Donnell concentrates on school and taking care of his two year old son named Emile. Emile joined us for the interview and although soft spoken and busy playing Lego, seemed proud of his father and his literary accomplishments.

We asked O’Donnell about some of the things he’s learned since getting his magazine started.

“I’ve learned how to nicely write rejection letters,” he joked.

Fredericton native, Micah O’Donnell printed the first issue Nonymous in 2008 and paid for it out of his own pocket, three years later the magazine has earned a a greal of success. Mike Erb / The Brunswickan But the magazine has also helped prepare him for the future interest he has in publishing.

O’Donnell showed me a copy of the new issue which should be out in a week or two. Its front cover, which is a drawing of a person’s teeth, is original artwork done by Celine Gorham. The new issue contains work

from six poets in the Fredericton area.

Nonymous is currently sold at Westminster Books, reNeu Boutique, Backstreet Records and the Owl’s Nest. Magazines like this one, sharp and independent, carry cultural

weight and imagination from the closets of anonymous citizens to the shelves of public significance.

O’Donnell carries on one issue at a time, alone in his pursuit with his independent magazine.

arts in brief.

Fresh @ Gallery Connexion Feb. 5, 6 p.m.

Gallery Connexion and Cedar Tree Café are teaming up to present the film Fresh by Ana Sofia Joanes. The film follows several groups of people across the United States who are working to create a healthy and sustainable food system. Refreshments will be provided by Cedar Tree and made from locally produced foods. Tickets are $7.

Bob Marley Tribute @ The Capital Complex Feb. 10, 10 p.m.

Bob Marley tribute band, House of David will be heading out for their 3rd annual Bob Marley Food Drive and Black History Month Tour. The show features three sets of live music and a DJ, who will keep the music going during breaks. Tickets are $12 or $10 with canned food donation.

Another Stoopid Music Festival @ F Studio Feb. 18 – 19, 9:30 p.m.

F Studio will be hosting two nights and a dozen metal and punk acts from around the Maritimes Feb. 18 to 19. The acts include The Motorleague, The Welfare Boys and Hellacaust. Tickets are $10, doors open at 9:30 p.m.

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Women’s basketball snap three-game losing streak

Sean O’Neill Staff Writer The UNB’s women’s basketball team’s season had been going swimmingly until it hit the road last week, and then it looked like the team had hit a wall.

After losing in Antigonish to StFX 91-73, and in Halifax to Saint Mary’s 82-73, the X-Women came to the Beaverbrook Gym for a double-header, with the Varsity Reds hoping to get back in the win column.

Head coach Jeff Speedy preaches getting better every week as opposed to the results because if the standard of play is high, the results will take care of themselves. But he knew that StFX did pose stylistic problems for his team.

“They hold and they push and they clutch and they grab,” said Speedy, “and we’re kind of a finesse, free-flowing runand-gun team. So that really doesn’t help us much. It kinda makes us unable to do what we do.”

“We match up poorly against their style of play defensively.”

Even though offensively the team still scored, X’s rugged defense did its job in the first game as StFX came out on top of a double overtime thriller 96-93.

After starting on a 7-0 run and taking a 39-29 lead into the break, X came out flying in the second half and grabbed its first lead of the game at 6:30 of the third. Amanda Sharpe played like an MVP the entire game. Her blocks and rebounds fueled UNB’s up-tempo attack as the rest of the game turned into a scoring fest.

However, X’s Ashley Stephen nailed a jumper with one second left to send the game to overtime. At the end of the extra frame, with the Reds nursing a two-point lead, X hit another clutch shot to equalize the Reds, this time from Donisha Young with 10.2 left on the clock. The X-Women won the second overtime handing UNB its third loss in a row.

“We played a great game yesterday and had nothing to show for it in the standings,” said Speedy.

Sharpe ended the game with 35 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and two blocks. Sheryl Chisholm paced X with 21 points, including a clutch three

UNB forward Melissa Foster drives past two StFX defenders in weekend action at the LB Gym.The women’s basketball team split the weekend, losing in double-overtime Saturday 96-93, followed up with a 69-55 win on Sunday. Bronté James / The Brunswickan towards the end of regulation to keep StFX in it.

Whether it was tiredness or familiarity factor with the opponents, the second game wasn’t nearly as exciting, more defensive, but the result crucial for UNB as it snapped the mini-slide with a tough 69-55 victory.

“We needed it,” said guard Megan Corby. “We had an awesome week of practice and a tough loss last night so we really needed to just to help our spirits.

“Even though we played well last night we just needed the confidence

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boost to get back on track because we had three loses in a row.”

Speedy attributes the drop in form to a dip in practice habits. But the team hit the court running in the build-up to these games and the performances were much better.

“We just had a bad couple of weeks where our chemistry seemed to be off, our work ethic seemed to be off and I don’t think it was anything chronic or long term; it was just a bad couple of weeks,” said Speedy.

The Reds are back on the road next

weekend with two four-point games against struggling Acadia and Dalhousie, who are currently battling for the sixth and final playoff spot in the AUS. But both teams are coming off an impressive run of results that should keep UNB worrying.

“If Dal can beat Cape Breton and Memorial, they sure as heck can beat us.

And they’re four-pointers so we gotta make sure that we’re a better team going to Halifax, Saturday than we are today to take care of business,” said Speedy.

Before the second game, guard

Who is going to win the Superbowl this weekend; Steelers or Packers?

Christopher Cameron

Colin McPhail

Josh Fleck

Steelers. This is probably not going to be liked by my panel counterpart Colin McPhail. Although he may like the Packers and Aaron Rodgers to take Superbowl XLV, it is all about Big Ben and the boys from Pittsburgh. The defense the Steelers possess is by far the top in this game and the experience of Big Ben in Superbowl games will pay off in a big way when crunch time comes. Score: 21-14 for the Steelers.

Sorry Colin, maybe next year?

Packers 24-14: The Pack is back.

The two squads are quite similar with good QBs and even better defences. However, Green Bay has been the quarterback killer this year.

Vick, Ryan, Cutler: all shutdown. Big Ben is next paving the way for #12.

Favre who? Rodgers is going to lead this squad to glory.

I really like the Packers. Aaron Rodges has played phenominal in the playoffs thus far and is showing now signs of slowing down. It’s tough to say what will happen when they hit the Pittsburgh Steelers defense, but I think that Rodgers will come through in the clutch.

Sports Editor

EIC

Sports Writer

Packers 27-14 over the Steelers.

Megan Corby was awarded the Joyce Slipp Endowment Scholarship that is named after the long-time coach of the women’s basketball program at UNB. The award is designed to go to a student with community involvement, a good academic standing, and hard working veteran player.

“It means a lot. Joyce coached here for a long time,” said Corby. “It’s for academics and that means a lot to me because I definitely have improved there and just being honored as a studentathlete is pretty awesome.”

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Rob Williams Sports Writer

The Pittsburgh Steelers are going to win Superbowl XLV. Aaron Rodgers has a bad shoulder. That’s enough to lose this game on it’s own, but, Ben Roethlisberger is also up to win his third Superbowl and is healthy and is on a tear. Pittsburgh has a better offense. But that being said, the Packers are playing great run defense. As much as Colin likes defense, offense will win this game for the Steelers.

37-28 will be the final score in this Superbowl.

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Everybody poops, but nobody talks about it Brian Savoie Sports Reporter We all do it. From our little old grandmothers to tiny toddlers, it is probably one of the things that everyone has in common in the world. OK, maybe that’s going a bit far, but realistically everyone does it, so why can’t we talk about it.

Pooping is important, the frequency and consistency of our poop is a big indicator of our overall health. To answer some questions about pooping, UNB’s on site dietician Ellen Macintosh was able to take some time to discuss it more in depth.

“I see more people for digestive related disorders than any other issue,” said Macintosh when asked about her experience relating to pooping disorders.

She went on to list the major culprits as diarrhea, gastric pain, constipation and irritable bowel syndrome as reasons why people seek her out.

Before we start diving into the various issues surrounding our poop, perhaps we should define what exactly is normal.

How often should a person poop and what should it look like?

Well those are difficult questions to answer because everybody’s digestive system is unique. The bottom line is that you are having healthy poops if you are going no less than once every other day and your poop itself should be in the shape of a log with a darker brown color.

The two big issues that people tend to have with their bowel movements are diarrhea and constipation. Both can be indicators of more serious conditions if they are persisting for multiple bowel movements.

Constipation is when a person is unable to have a bowel movement

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and if the condition persists for several days can lead to a multitude of other problems.

“Issues can include abdominal pain and discomfort,” says Macintosh. “It can even lead to a decrease in an appetite. Long enough constipation leads to diarrhoea as the bowels seek to empty.

People can be keeling over in pain.”

There are a variety of causes and factors that can cause someone to become constipated.

“The meal schedule [of students], to go long periods of the day without eating; five, six or even seven hours,” said Macintosh when asked about major contributing constipation factors for students. “Long breaks between eating reduce the peristalsis of the digestive systems. It can lead to slow transit time through the digestive system.”

The other big issues Macintosh says is not getting enough fibre and not getting the right servings of the food groups along with just general stress from life. Fibre is by far one of the most important things that a person has to include in their diet if they wish to stay healthy and regular.

“It is like a sponge,” says Macintosh.

“It is the indigestible part of the plant that goes into the colon. It has a high osmolarity and draws water into the colon and reduces the intraluminal pressure.”

Not only does fibre help keep the average person healthy and regular, it has a host of other benefits associated with it as well. “[High fibre diets] have the added benefit too of protecting our body against cancer, colon cancer, heart disease,” said Macintosh.

The minimum amount of fibre that a person should ingest is 25 grams with the upper recommended amount being 38 grams. There are consequences Women’s hockey team have successful weekend UNB Red Blazers Women’s Hockey team defeated the FYHA Midget Devils in exhibition play at the Aitken Centre on Friday night 2-0. Shots on goal was 2621 in favor of UNB. Next up for the Blazers is a game against the FYHA Midget Islanders on Friday, Feb. 4th at the Aitken Centre.

Game time is at 6:30pm.

to eating too much fibre as well, warns Macintosh.

“If a person is going to the bathroom too frequently, food is flying through too quickly, it won’t get absorption of all your nutrients.”

Macintosh also wanted to remind people that when someone does increase their fibre intake, they must also increase their water intake as well, because water is needed to ensure that the benefits of fibre are being felt.

For people looking to stay regular and have those healthy looking poops, Macintosh has a plethora of ideas of people.

“Activity level. One of the things to do, every time you eat a meal, get up and take a walk. Getting the blood flowing, increasing the blood to all organs. Exercise is huge,” says Macintosh “Cold foods, blueberries, increasing fruits and vegetables in general, increasing whole gains, adding high fibre cereal to your breakfast. All will help someone stay regular.”

And for people struggling with diarrhea, Macintosh also said that there are certain types of high fibre foods out there that will actually combat that. “[There are] certain types of fibre which will actually reduce diarrhea.

The soluble fibres like oatmeal, applesauce, bananas... These foods are better for treating diarrhea.”

For people looking to avoid the dreaded loose stools, Macintosh suggested staying away from sweetened juices and drinks, coffee and alcohol.

The moral of this story is that whatever you put into your body, you will pay for later on, on the toilet.

Ellen Macintosh is a registered dietician, employed by UNB part-time.

Her office is located on the third floor of Jones House.

Babin and Kelly win NB women’s curling provs Jillian Babin (second) and Andrea Kelly (skip), both UNB students won the NB women’s curling title on Jan. 30 in Moncton.Also on the team is Denise Nowlan (mate) and Lianne Sobey.The team will represent NB at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Charlottetown, PE on Feb. 19-27.

Antibiotics may treat heart failure Bryan Saunders The Gateway (University of Alberta) EDMONTON (CUP) — Antibiotics can do more than just treat infections.

A University of Alberta study has found they can also prevent injuries to the heart.

Rick Schulz, professor of pediatrics and pharmacology, who co-authored the study with graduate student Mohammad A li, explained that many heart-disease and heart-attack patients experience something called a reperfusion injury following their treatment.

“Paradoxically, when you put back oxygen in a heart muscle area that’s had very low oxygen — which you think, ‘That’s got to be good, you’re giving it back something that it needs’ — it sets up a scenario where some of that oxygen is turned into toxic free radicals,” Schulz said.

Some of these free radicals are reactive oxygen species that, in the heart, end up turning on an enzyme called Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2). This is alarming because, as Schulz and his team discovered in their research, these activated MMP2 enzymes start attacking and cutting up long, elastic-like proteins in the heart muscle called titin.

Normally, titin proteins act as the springs that give heart muscle cells the ability to stretch and contract. A reperfusion injury results in part when these titin proteins are destroyed.

“If you can imagine that the spring that’s in your heart cell is cut up and damaged, obviously that heart muscle cell will not work very easily,” Schulz said.

With this in mind, Schulz and his team began looking for molecules that could block MMP-2 enzymes from being turned on, and prevent this damage from occurring.

Tipped off by the decades-old research of Canadian periodontist Larry Golub, Schulz looked to a class

of antibiotics called tetracyclines and found that doxycycline, an inexpensive and historically safe antibiotic, was perfect for keeping MMP2 enzymes turned off.

“The interesting thing is that you need a much lower concentration of the drug to act as an anti-MMP drug.

It’s about a five times lower dose than you’d need as an antibacterial dose.

That’s very exciting because everything we know about drugs says that the lower the dose, the lower the risk of side effects.”

Overall, Schulz said he’s hopeful that doxycycline will prove to be a safe and inexpensive treatment for a number of different heart problems.

He was, however, careful to point out that doxycycline hasn’t been proven to be 100 per cent safe yet in heart disease patients, and that MMP enzymes may even serve a useful role in the body that researchers don’t fully understand yet.

Even getting a clinical trial done on doxycycline to make sure that it can be safely used in heart disease patients may be challenging, according to Schulz.

“It could be difficult to do clinical trials because there’s no money in it for the drug companies. To do proper clinical trials takes millions of dollars, and this is a very inexpensive, generic drug.

“Luckily there are some [public] funding agencies like the Canadian Institute for Health Research who have these small pockets of money to test these things.”

In the meantime, Schulz said he intends to take a sabbatical working on research in Brazil next year to see if MMP-2 inhibitors such as doxycycline can be used to prevent heart failure caused by Chagas disease, a tropical illness caused by the parasite T. Cruzi.

The disease kills tens of thousands of people in rural areas of South and Central America every year and infects anywhere between 10 and 20 million people.

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Men’s hockey clinches first-round playoff bye

UNB forward Jeff Lee battles through STU defensemen Keith Wynn and Kyell Henegan in Friday action at the LBR. UNB won 7-1. Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan Christopher Cameron Sports Editor Being the first team to clinch a playoff spot after last weekend at home, the Varsity Reds were in no mindset to sit back as they were on the road against the St. Thomas Tommies and UPEI Panthers.

The Varsity Reds were down the hill ready to ruin a special night for the STU Tommies as they played host to their annual Lou Chabot Memorial Game.

After a back and forth penalty-filled first period, UNB broke the scoreless tie with 20 seconds left in the period on the power play as Kyle Bailey found the back of the net.

STU would even the score early in the second period, but that was the closest they would get as UNB’s scoring arsenal came out netting two more goals in the second, and four more in the third, picking up at 7-1 win.

Leading the Reds on the score sheet was Hunter Tremblay with three goals and an assist, not to take away from linemate Chris Culligan who picked up three assists, and one goal.

Tremblay gives credit to his success to his linemates, especially Culligan.

“He’s a smart player,” said Tremblay.

“It’s our second year together now playing together. We know each other fairly well.

Like I said it’s nice for us to get a breather and get some pucks in the back of the net.”

Picking up a hat trick was also huge for Tremblay, who has been struggling to find his groove lately.

“I’ve been struggling a little bit as of late, so it’s nice to get rewarded. It feels good obviously. I got a lot of shots. When I shoot a lot obviously I get more chances so I try to concentrate on that.”

Head coach Gardiner MacDougall knows that although STU is last place in

the AUS, it is always hard to beat a team on the road.

“It was a highly emotional game,” said MacDougall. “It was highly emotional, both teams played hard. It was a good environment. At the LBR, it’s a lively rink.

We got that key power play goal with 40 seconds left in the first, then we got a big shortie.”

Saturday night the team was in Charlottetown to take on the fourth place UPEI Panthers.

A close game ended with UNB coming out on top 3-1, with two more goals on the weekend from Tremblay.

MacDougall knows that Tremblay had a huge weekend for the team, one of his best of the season.

“It’s a process when you’re a fourth year veteran,” said MacDougall. “In the second half he’s had a point per game at least. I thought this weekend was one of his best of the season. One neat thing about good players is they learn how to get better and improve parts of their game. He’s a student of the game.”

“He’s always one of the last guys off the ice and it’s nice to see him get rewarded for that.”

Picking up both wins over the weekend, playing the last four games for the Varsity Reds was Travis Fullerton. When asked about the goalie situation, MacDougall said it was no reflection on the play of Derek Yeomans, rather Fullerton having phenomenal stats in recent games.

“A .950 save percentage, four games in a row,” said MacDougall. “We’ve been happy with both our goalies. Derek has played exceptional, as has Travis. That has to be a key component of our game. You go as far as your goalies and they’ve both been exceptional.”

“It’s not to give Fullerton a rest (when Yeomans starts), he earns everything against Derek.”

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Men’s basketball get unexpected split with X-men Sean O’Neill Staff Writer After getting smashed by the bigger, faster, and more athletic StFX in the opening match of the weekend doubleheader, Varsity Reds head coach Brent Baker put three words on the board in the locker room before the second game.

Energy. Execution. Discipline.

“I said we do those three things and we’ll take care of it today,” said Baker.

Did they ever.

The V-Reds lost the first game on Saturday night 102-85, and were down by 22 at half. Losing by 17 seemed like a moral victory over a veteran-heavy X squad that was ranked fifth in the country coming into the weekend.

“It was very, very frustrating last night when we came out with that kind of effort and we played scared instead of playing aggressive,” Baker said the next day.

One thing did go well for UNB in the first game was their three-point shooting, nailing 11 of its 22 attempts.

No matter how overmatched physically a team is, hot shooting is basketball’s great equalizer. UNB kept some for Sunday.

The X-men took a four-point lead to the locker room at half and it never returned. Dustin Anthony, Dan Quirion and Alex DesRoches came out on fire from behind the arc as a 32-point third quarter stood for the rest of the game as the Reds won a game nobody would have expected 94-82.

“It’s a big win for these guys,” said Baker. “We’re on a hunt here for the playoffs and it’s really big.”

“As I preached to these guys, it’s

After a split last weekend on the road, the men’s basketball team split their doubleheader at home against StFX losing 102-85, but following it up with a convincing 94-82 win Sunday.

Bronté James / The Brunswickan about having level of play. If you have level of play that’s championship caliber then you have a chance to win every night. And that’s what we’re trying to build here.”

“We can do this every night if we practice, and bust our asses off,” said DesRoches who led the team on the day with 19 points and 11 rebounds.

“It’s like what Coach said after the game, ‘this is nothing new to us.’ We know we’re capable of doing this and it’s just being able to execute it. We gotta show up and be ready to play. They beat us two out of three times by 20 this season, and we know we can play a lot better and tonight we proved it.”

The two-point win over X puts the Reds in fifth place in the AUS. Even though they’ve leapfrogged UPEI and

Acadia, the lead is only two points over the Panthers and Axemen. The Varsity Reds travel to Wolfville and Halifax next weekend for two massive four-point games against Acadia and Dalhousie.

The game against Acadia and the twogame homestand against UPEI the next weekend will have one of these teams on the outside looking in when the AUS championship takes place in Halifax in early March.

“We just keep building,” said DesRoches. “This isn’t a time to slow down. It’s shown that after every time we win we usually decide to pump the breaks, but this is no time.”

“It is the middle of the season, we gotta keep going. Two games, four points [each] those are big wins for us, we wanna make the playoffs.”

Black Bear wrestlers win UNB Invitational K. Bryannah James Staff Writer As the CIS championships are fast approaching, the UNB Black Bears continued to prepare for some of the best teams in the country as they hosted the annual UNB Invitational.

Throughout the event the team performed at a very high level and were able to secure a number of wins, as well as focusing on what needed to be worked on for the upcoming championships in Thunder Bay. “This is the best team I have probably coached in the last twenty years here,” said Black Bears’ head coach Don Ryan.

Ryan believes one of the advantages the team has going into the championships is individualism.

The team is made up of people from different club backgrounds, but the diversity is what unifies the Bears.

“Some kids from Ontario, some kids from New Brunswick, kids from PEI, kids from Nova Scotia, so they all get together well as a team.”

During their weekend meet, the Bears owned the podium, dominating nine of the 11 weight classes. The key to their success lies within the team’s drive and hard work ethic both on and off the mats, at practices and tournaments.

The biggest competition the Bears

Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan face going into the CIS comes from the western front.

“It’s hard to tell who the other athletes [are and] who the other universities have on their teams, so we know who we have and I’m pretty confident in the team that we have this year,” said Ryan.

The University of Regina, University of Guelph and Lakehead University show the most rivalled competition against the Black Bears, but UNB’s team has an advantage.

Most universities send in three dominant players going into the finals, however the UNB Black Bears, are sending in ten strong wrestlers to help bring home the team title.

“The team has a great shot at winning the team title, so it’d be great to win as a team and I’m really excited,” said two-time

national champion Vincent Cormier.

Cormier was injured two weeks earlier, when he broke his hand in a tournament.

Although he was unable to compete this past weekend it won’t stop him from competing at his third national championship.

“It’s only a two week recovery after surgery, so I’m going to save myself for nationals,” said Cormier.

Alongside Cormier, the team houses two other national champion athletes, and seasoned wrestlers that will help contribute in gaining the CIS team and individual titles.

“We’re firing on all cylinders, a little banged up, but we’re looking to come home with our first national title,” said Ryan.

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Woodsmen struggle at McGill tournament Brian Savoie Sports Reporter Going into the McGill University Intercollegiate Woodsmen Competition, the UNB Woodsmen teams had high expectations, but struggled to live up to them with tough competition putting the pressure on them.

UNB sent three teams, UNB Men’s 1, UNB Men’s 2 and UNB Women’s 1 to represent the university, with the UNB Men’s 1 and the UNB Women’s 1 teams placed fourth overall in the competition.

Team coach Charlie MacPhee weighed in on what the issues were for the team over this past weekend.

“Weather wasn’t a factor. We’re coming off a very long break, three months off. We need to regroup and get back into the form we were in last semester. We lost a bit of our intensity and a bit of our edge.”

Although fourth place doesn’t sound like a bad placement, especially when there are 10 teams in the men’s division and seven teams in the women’s, UNB has historically been on top when it comes to these competitions. The UNB Men’s 1 team is the reigning Canadian Intercollegiate Lumberjacking Association men’s champion and this competition is the first one this year that they did not finish in first or second place.

“The competition from last year to this year has gotten a lot stiffer.

This season has been very competitive in general. We’ve had more suc-

cess earlier [in the season] because we performed a little better. At this show all the main CILA teams were performing well,” said MacPhee.

The UNB Men’s 1 team struggled through most of their individual events at the competition, only placing top two in seven of the 14 events.

MacPhee felt that the UNB Men’s 1 and Women’s 1 teams weren’t meeting their potential when it came to the singles events.

“Overall I’d say our singles performances were suffering, as a whole our teams didn’t perform in our single events,” said MacPhee. “As a team our single performances are lacking. It’s going to be a big focus for us and keeping them up to par with the rest of them.”

MacPhee called this competition a character building show and that the teams learned a lot of tough lessons for the final competition in Truro, Nova Scotia at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College on Feb. 12. He was also quick to say that the UNB teams are going there to win that competition and come out on top in the league.

“We’re in the hunt for the championship,” said MacPhee. “There are lots of good things to take home from this show and things we know we need to work on. But if we perform at our best, we are the best. We’ve worked for it and earned it.”

The UNB Men’s 1 team are going into the final competition in first place, but it is by no means going to be an easy feat for them to defend their title, with the Nova Scotia Agricultural College just a few points behind. The UNB Women’s 1 team is in third place based on total point scores thus far, but MacPhee was still optimistic about their chances.

“If they can perform their best, they can be the best,” says MacPhee.

The UNB Woodsmen team was in Montreal over the weekend for the annual competition held at McGill University. Submitted

Women’s volleyball move into second place in the AUS Christopher Cameron Sports Editor Although the women’s volleyball team struggled before the break and lost Monica Jones early in the second half of the season, they are showing no signs of letting up as they moved into second place with two wins over the weekend.

In their only two road games of the semester, the team travelled to Moncton and Wolfville to face a pair of the lower ranked teams in the conference.

On Saturday the Varsity Reds took on the Aigles Bleues in test that did not raise any major concerns for UNB as they took the match in three straight 26-24, 25-18, and 25-20.

Head coach John Richard felt his team played great against a team that always seems to cause UNB trouble.

“Against Moncton I thought our team had one of our top matches of the season thus far,” said Richard. “It is always tough playing Moncton, in Moncton and our team responded by digging a lot of good shots and our transition game was strong all afternoon.”

Kicking off the weekend on a winning note was good, but the weekend was not over as the Reds travelled to Acadia to take on the last place team in the AUS. The Axewomen had only one win going into the match, which would lead you to believe another three straight set win would be in order.

Acadia had other plans as they came out firing winning the first set 25-20, surprising the Varsity Reds squad.

UNB bounced back winning the next set 25-18.

The third set showed how tough this Acadia team can be to play against as they controlled the set getting out to a 21-14 lead. UNB bounced back with a 12-3 run to finish off the set to take it 26-24.

The Varsity Reds would finish off the match with a 25-14 win, to take the match 3-1.

Coach Richard believes his team was complacent in believing this match was an easy win.

“I thought at Acadia we ‘believed’ we could do it despite not executing really well at times,” said Richard. “Coming back to steal that third game was the turning point and any time you can go 2-0 on the road you need to take it and run, which we did.”

UNB currently have second place to themselves and with only three games left, all at home they will look to hold onto the first round playoff bye.

“The schedule is in our favour with all three at home, so that’s a good thing,” said Richard. “Like I told our girls in October, ‘if we can go .500 on the road we’d be in good shape’. That’s really positive and it’s set the table for us to take care of business here at home.”

“Two of the three wins will probably get us the bye; one of the three may get it, but we’re banking on winning at least two of the final three with the aspirations of winning all three.”

With three games left the team seems to have made the right adjustments without Jones in the lineup. Richard knows next weekend against StFX and CBU will be a tough test.

“We’re definitely a different team without her. We miss her skill set and talent, but it’s more the emotion and presence she brings as a cocaptain,” said Richard. “Some girls have had to step in that leadership piece, which in the long run will be a positive for our team.”

“Cape Breton is a tough team, but we stole a five setter in their gym in the first half after going down 2-0, so I think both teams are different then where we were last semester, but I feel good about how we look.

That was a long time ago and I like the way our team is right now.”

This weekend UNB only has one game, Friday night at home against UdeM, a 7:00 p.m. start.