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BRUNSNEWS Career fair on tap Thursday The Summer Jobs and Graduating Student Career Fair is taking place Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Currie Center. Around 35 employers recruiting from all departments will be present, including CIBC, AV Nackawic, GoodLife Fitness and the Government of New Brunswick.

Self-defence course being offered this month A R.A.D. self-defense is being offered on campus Feb. 12, 20 and 24 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.The women-only course teaches realistic self-defense techniques from nationally certified instructors.

Women at all levels of ability, age and strength are welcome and no previous athletic experience is necessary. For more information or to register, email Rad@unb.ca.

NBSA hosts advocacy week this week Student representatives from across the province are in Fredericton this week for the New Brunswick Student Alliance’s advocacy week.They are meeting with MLAs and members of all parties to discuss post-secondary issues, particularly student financial aid.

Call for nominations The Muriel McQueen Fergusson Foundation is calling for nominations for their MMFF award.The award, established in 1992, recognizes outstanding contribution to combating family violence.The winner will have a donation made to the charity of their choice from the foundation.

For additional details about nominations, contact call (506) 472-5085 or email Mmff@unb.ca. Deadline for submissions is March 21.

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AUNBT SAYS NEW DEAL IS A WIN

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to find that a good idea. The point is that we were making a case for what we thought was arguable and reasonAUNBT president Miriam Jones said able,” Jones the tentative agreement between the “But as I’ve said all along it wasn’t professors’ union and the university is just the numbers. I don’t know if a win for the profs. people believed us but it really is not Thursday afternoon both sides about the numbers. It’s about that core reached an agreement which would issue of us being comparable, us being give the professors a 2.5 per cent salary competitive, us being in the group.” increase per year for the next two years, The language Jones is referring to while any increase in the third year will within the agreement states that they be determined through arbitration. need to be tracking average salary inBut Jones said the victory isn’t in the creases within the comparable group of numbers, it’s in the language of the new universities. In the past, the university agreement. and the professors tracked the pay “The thing we’re really happy about increases at the comparable universiis we have the acknowledgement of the ties and increased UNB professors’ importance of us being comparable,” salaries accordingly, but Jones said the Jones said. “What’s really important is increases ran “parallel” to the other we’ve got acknowledgement that we’re universities. behind [in our pay with comparable “In recent years we’ve diverged off universities] and we need to catch up. so there’s a bigger gap between us than Those are the significant things for us.” there used to be,” Jones said. “So this The final dollar numbers in pay in- was why we felt such a sense of urgency creases is unclear since the increase in because at a certain point you’re never the third year has to go through arbi- going to catch up. On average that tration, but the 2.5 per cent increase for group goes up two to three per cent each of the first two years of the con- every year.” tract is well below AUNBT’s original The new language also acknowdemand of ledges that 25 per cent The thing we’re really happy the profesover fou r sors need about is we have the acknowyears, and to catch up ledgement of the importance also below to the other UNB’s offer of us being comparable, what’s u n iversiof a 9.5 per ties. Jones really important is we’ve got cent increase said it’s beo v e r f o u r acknowledgement that we’re be- ing called a years. hind [in our pay with compar- “catch-up” A d m itthan able universities] and we need to rather tedly, Jones a pay raise in didn’t expect catch up. Those are the signifiorder to acthe union to knowledge cant things for us. get its 25 per that there’s cent demand a target to but still feels the request was reason- catch up to. able.

That “catch-up” amount will be “No. I don’t think any of us thought determined through arbitration which that this administration would going has to start within the next six months.

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After a three-week strike, the university and the professors have reached an agreement.

Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan There are 14 other universities the AUNBT is comparing itself to. They are Dalhousie, Memorial, Concordia, Carleton, Queen’s, McMaster, Guelph, Waterloo, Windsor, Manitoba, Regina, Saskatchewan, Simon Fraser and Victoria.

With the 2.5 per cent increase over the first two years, Jones said it’s more complicated than just increasing everyone by the same percentage across the board.

“We’re not sure what it’s going to look like. People at the lower end of the scale, like the newer people, their salaries are even more behind than the

people at the top of the scale,” Jones said. “Probably starting people and junior people will be getting more [of the 2.5 per cent]. None of this is straightforward. It’s all full of footnotes and explanations.”

While both original offers called for increases over a four-year period – though the faculty also has two-year proposals at times – the tentative agreement is set for three years, expiring July 2016. Jones the agreement is shorter than the average of four years.

In comparison, St. Thomas University signed a three-year deal in 2008 to end its lockout and has since gone

through one successful round of collective bargaining in 2010, and is in the midst of ratifying a new agreement which the university and faculty signed before Christmas.

Students returned to class Monday and Jones said some professors anticipate their students to be upset with some of the faculty.

“Our members need to deal with that and get their heads around it and know how to respond,” Jones said. “I don’t know about the students but among our members, feelings are running pretty high, both good and bad.”

Changes to the academic calendar troubling students Emma McPhee News Reporter Although the faculty strike at the University of New Brunswick has come to an end, the resulting proposed changes to the academic calendar were a hot topic at council on Sunday.

An email from UNB sent out to students last Friday announced that pending senate approval, efforts to minimize the amount of class time lost during the strike will result in the semester being extended to April 17 and no March break. Exams will be condensed within the period of April 22 to 30.

This has raised many concerns among students and the UNBSU wants to make sure they are all con-

sidered before the senate makes its final decision.

“The student senators are getting together to look over all the student concerns and come up with alternative suggestions and solutions to try to accommodate these concerns. We’re going to try our best to represent the student perspective,” said Jenn Connolly, UNBSU vice-president internal.

Connolly said that out of the feedback she has received, students are most concerned about losing their March break. Many of their complaints came from a financial perspective.

“The biggest complaint that I’ve been getting has definitely been regarding March break. A lot of students are concerned with the fact that they’ve

already paid vast amounts of money to go on vacation and that might not be a possibility now,” Connolly said.

Other students will be unable to bring in the extra cash they were anticipating from working full time.

A discussion was opened at council to suggest alternative solutions and to bring more concerns to the table.

LGBTQ councillor Lee Thomas addressed the issue of mental health.

With the proposed changes, students will be attending classes for eleven weeks straight with no long weekends and a condensed exam period – something that promises to leave students over-stressed.

“Our Student Union has made a big push for pro-mental health and I think

our students are hoping to see us fight for their break,” Thomas said.

Other councillors suggested alternate solutions. Engineering councillor Liz Calvin said an alternative could be having no midterms or assignments due during the week originally set aside for March Break.

“I was wondering if it’s possible to negotiate that there’s no mandatory classes or midterms and assignments,” she said. “So that the people who want to go to class can go to class but the people who have other plans aren’t being severely punished.”

Other suggestions included negotiating for no assignments or tests during the last two weeks leading to exams.

Greg Bailey, UNBSU vice-president

external, said that while he has been speaking with student unions from other universities who have gone through similar circumstances, each situation is unique.

“We’re talking to our counterparts from other schools but they don’t have too many suggestions for us so I suggest everybody get creative,” Bailey said.

No date has been set for when the senate will meet but Connolly said they are pushing to have it as soon as possible.

“We’re going to be trying our hardest to represent the students and to make sure that the student voice is heard at the meeting,” Connolly said.

“The outcome might not be the best but we’ll be fighting hard for it.”

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One strike ends and another begins Cherise Letson News Editor FREDERICTON (CUP) — One university strike in New Brunswick may be ending, but another is just beginning.

Mount Allison University professors ended their first week of picketing last week. All classes have been suspended and no future negotiating dates have been set as of publication.

Mount Allison Faculty Association president Loralea Michaelis said the university’s proposals regarding workload, support for the academic mission, replacements for leave, salaries, pensions, benefits and pay for part-time faculty remained unchanged throughout the negotiation process.

“The employer is still sticking to proposals that our members have told us are unacceptable,” Michaelis told The Argosy.

However, according to a release from Mount A’s vice-president academic Karen Grant, the university isn’t proposing anything that limits professors’ academic freedom.

“The university has not put forward a single proposal that restricts, inhibits,

or compromises academic freedom or the control of individuals’ teaching or research in any way,” the release read.

“We have repeatedly asked the faculty association to tell us which proposals they take issue with. They have not responded.”

On Jan. 31, professors held a rally march around the university where they received a million dollar cheque from the Canadian Association of University Teachers.

“It’s great. We know the war chest will hold out . . . as long as it needs to,” Michaelis told The Argosy at the march.

Like the UNB Student Union, the Mount Allison Students’ Union has decided to take a neutral stance on the strike.

“At the end of the day, we feel that being neutral . . . is in the best interests of students,” said MASU President Melissa O’Rourke to The Argosy.

“For us to be able to continue enhancing the student experience at Mount A, it really is important that we’re able to work with both parties.”

With files from Christopher Balcom of the Argosy

Professors at Mount Allison University are in their second week of striking. Chris Donovan / The Argosy

Provincial NDP calling for changes in light of strike Cherise Letson News Editor FR EDER ICTON (CUP) — The New Brunswick NDP is calling for changes to how universities are run in the province.

In light of the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) recent strike, the party is proposing a Student Protection Act and changes to how universities are audited and how administration is paid. The Student Protection Act would be legislation that guarantees a refund of tuition and housing fees if a work stoppage shuts down classes for more than five days. It would also require universities to provide makeup instruction at no additional cost to students who may not complete their

program due to a work stoppage.

“There’s absolutely no reason why students should be the only group who are legally allowed to be charged for something and not receive it,” said Kelly Lamrock, the provincial NDP candidate for Fredericton-South.

“That doesn’t mean education is a commodity, but it still doesn’t mean somebody should be allowed to take your money for something and not give it to you.”

The NDP is also calling for universities’ audits to be completed by the provincial auditor general. Lamrock said this idea also was spawned from the UNB strike.

“The things that seemed to prolong here is that parties spent a good week and a half with fact statements that

almost seemed to be from two different planets,” Lamrock said. “Having a neutral source of information . . . that would set the record straight right from the outset would probably help get to the point where [an agreement is reached] quicker.”

The party is also wants university administration salaries to be based on the public sector wage scale, like in British Columbia.

“There’s no question, we need to be competitive to attract top talent to teach,” Lamrock said. “An overall public sector comparability would allow us to know exactly where the market is, so that we are constantly competitive, and offers government some predictability in funding.”

Pat Joyce, executive director of the

New Brunswick Student Alliance, said it’s good to see a move for accountability in universities. However, they need to hear the details.

“It’s always good to see folks starting discussions about how administrators are compensated and how there’s oversight for university spending,” Joyce said. “We look forward to seeing some of the specifics and what this means when it comes to the autonomy of universities.”

Joyce also said implementing these policies could be challenging.

“I think that you’d have to navigate the balance between the role the province plays in overseeing universities and making sure they’re being held accountable, and balancing that with the autonomy universities have,” he said.

However, Lamrock said putting these rules in place would be simple.

“After all, about 50 to 60 per cent of the budget for universities comes from the government. Government has some authority to direct basic rules and regulation and attach a condition to that funding,” he said. “The rest is just desire to research and compile statistics in the right way.”

He also said the policies would not be costly to execute.

“They’re not expensive propositions,” Lamrock said. “Rather than government sitting back and reacting when there’s a strike, [we’re] deciding that we’re going to put the right system in place to protect everybody.”

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All it takes to get fired is a single tweet Sarah Warne The Ryersonian TORONTO (CUP) — “Rick Nash is getting married at the resort and apparently it’s a big deal.”

That was the relatively harmless tweet made by Syra Dhaliwal back in July 2013 about Canadian hockey player Rick Nash. The tweet ultimately led to her termination at the Rousseau, a JW Marriott Resort & Spa in Muskoka.

The former Wilfrid Laurier University political science student’s shift began at 6:30 a.m. By about 2 p.m. she was called into her boss’s office.

According to her employers, her earlier tweet was a “massive security breach.”

Dhaliwal was eventually let go. They fired her only two days before her three-month probation period ended.

“I had had three days off work prior to this particular shift, so I guess I didn’t get the memo that we couldn’t post anything about it on social media,” says Dhaliwal. “I was working that day and on my way to work someone told me that [Nash] was getting married at the resort, so I tweeted.”

Dhaliwal claims her Twitter account was “protected,” but her bosses still managed to find her tweet.

Nowadays, many young adults are ruining their reputation and potential employment opportunities because they fail to maintain a professional

identity online. Perhaps deep in your Facebook history there’s a picture of you dancing on tabletops, or a filthy status update. Either way, when an employer doubts that you’re the best candidate for a job, you’re out of the running.

According to Hamza Khan, Ryerson University’s digital community facilitator, one in three employers will reject candidates based on something they find out about them online.

“Ninety-three per cent of employers in North America looked for candidates via social media, or at least scanned them once they entered the application process,” says Khan.

More than ever, people use social media on a daily basis. They post everything from their political views to pictures of themselves out at the club on Friday night with a bottle of vodka.

You can chat with friends, find long -lost family members, or maybe even find your long-lost high school crush.

This generation of students, however, doesn’t know where to draw the line with what they share on social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

In an age where everything is digital, if you think that when you apply for a job your prospective employer isn’t going to look you up on the Internet,

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Think before you tweet. Victoria Ferreire / The Ryersonian

LITTLE MENTION OF PSE IN STATE OF THE PROVINCE ADDRESS Cherise Letson News Editor FREDERICTON (CUP) — New Brunswick Premier David Alward talked about a lot of things during his state of the province address in Fredericton on Jan. 30, but post-secondary education wasn’t one of them.

Alward mainly spoke about the importance of developing the province’s natural resource sector: the fossil fuels industry, developing mining projects and a forestry plan.

“Developing a domestic oil and natural gas industry is the right thing to do because it will provide jobs and opportunity for our people and our local businesses right here at home,” Alward said in his speech.

He also spoke of the importance of fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in the province.

“At the heart of our innovation strategy, we want to encourage start-ups and intellectual property development, create the right environment for those brilliant people to flourish and then help export these ideas all over the world,” Alward said. “And we can do it all in jobs here at home.”

The role of post-secondary education (PSE) and universities in any of the government’s plans were not mentioned in the speech. But Alward did talk about expanding the province’s One Job Pledge program, a program where the government subsidizes the salary of a newly created position for a post-secondary graduate for one year.

“This initiative surpassed its initial goal of creating 650 jobs, and is nearing the revised target of 850 jobs,” Alward said. “And so we’re not looking to challenge ourselves and each New Brunswick employer further by expanding

David Alward focused on developing the oil and natural gas industry in his state of the province speech. Cherise Letson/ The Brunswickan the program’s target to 1,000 jobs.” ing the labour market. And that wasn’t Liberal leader Brian Gallant said really well-reflected in [Alward’s statethe party doesn’t agree with how the ment],” Joyce said. provincial government is approaching “But while we know government is innovation, saying universities need to doing some positive things for postbe more involved in it. secondary it wasn’t a major topic of “You have to invest in the funda- focus, which is unfortunate.” mentals and that’s what we’ve been Joyce said they would have liked proposing. That’s what we’re pushing,” to hear more about the government’s Gallant said. current review of student financial aid If elected premier in this year’s prov- and well as the work being done the incial election, Gallant said he would new strategy. cut parental contribution in provincial “I think it means that for everyone, student loans and work to link students post-secondary needs to be a bigger with jobs and opportunities in the priority and that’s something that we’re private sector. pushing,” Joyce said.

Pat Joyce, executive director of the From Feb. 4 to Feb. 7 the NBSA New Brunswick Student Alliance will be hosting a provincial advocacy (NBSA), said the premier’s speech week, where students will be meeting didn’t capture what they’ve seen from with MLAs and members of all parties the province in terms of PSE. to talk about PSE strategy.

“We’ve seen the province adopt a “We’re looking forward to meeting new Labour Force and Skills Develop- with folks next week and moving forment Strategy that has a lot to do with ward with each of the parties on advanpost-secondary and its role in develop- cing their PSE platforms,” Joyce said.

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ity was incredibly ineffective. Neutrality took away all the pressure that we, the student body, could have been putting I enjoy a return to living room fur- on either AUNBT or the administraniture as much as the next guy, but tion. If we did want the strike to end, “#getbacktothetable” was seriously which I assume we all did, neutrality flawed. The slogan, which became was probably the least effective way at the knee-jerk catch phrase from both achieving that goal.

UNBF’s Student Union and Graduate If UNBF’s major student organizaStudent Association (GSA), was been tions were to have publicly sided with employed ad nauseum to demonstrate the teacher’s union, the administraboth associations’ neutrality during the tion’s stone-walling of negotiations UNB strike. would have been seriously jeopardized, Why we even needed a hashtag is hastening their return to our beloved beyond me. This was not the Arab table. If we were to have publicly sided Spring. Personally, I don’t use Twitter with the administration, AUNBT’s because I find it’s impossible to use claims that they have the interests of the verb “tweet” without it sounding the students in mind would have been like something you do to a vagina. revealed to be full of faeces, therefore But the real problem with “#getback- hastening their retreat the aforetothetable” was that it only operated mentioned table. under the guise of neutrality, while Ironically, the one thing that neutralit was in effect entirely self-interested. ity achieved is that it allowed both the What both the Student Union and union and the administration to conGSA were actually saying in their de- tinue using the student body as a pupmands to pet, further Ironically, the one thing that ent renchget classes bac k up i ng each neutrality achieved is that it and runside in their allowed both the union and n i ng wa s, idealogical “ We don’t the administration to continue assurances. care if the If the using the student body as a administrat e a c h e r ’s puppet, further entrenching tion is corunion was rect and the each side in their idealogical to enforce university is a rest r icassurances. on the eve of tion on financial collapse. We don’t care if the how much a professor may work professors have to teach in burlap sacks. outside business hours, wouldn’t we apAll we care is that we can get the de- preciate the administration supporting grees we paid for so we can all go work our objection? If the administration in middle management at Target.” was to raise tuition despite evidence The official stance of both associa- that the university is in a financially tions was as “neutral” as a boy sitting stable state, wouldn’t we appreciate (if on Santa’s knee screaming that he not expect) our professors to stand with doesn’t care how much those elves have us in opposition? to work, he wants it all.

I understand that the issues at stake Even if the stance of the Student in the strike were complicated and Union and GSA was truly neutral nuanced, and that it may be difficult (which– –I really can’t stress this to garner a consensus as to which side enough––it wasn’t), a stance of neutral- the Student Union and GSA should

Neutrality was the wrong position to take

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UNBSU vice-president external Greg Bailey rallies outside of the AUNBT headquarters during a student demonstration. Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan support. But we could have had a university-wide vote. If URec is allowed to send me an email every time adult swim is cancelled, surely it would be possible to widely announce a student plebiscite.

For the first time in a long time, the rest of Canada knew that we existed.

Before the strike, I’d wager that most people in Toronto thought New Brunswick was an island. This was our opportunity to tell the rest of the country what we value. What we said is that we value ourselves; the rest was for the provincially appointed arbitrator to sort out.

Name your favourite Nobel Peace

prize laureate. Chances are, that person didn’t win for being neutral, but rather for taking a stand and putting their values at stake. In other words, doing something.

By remaining neutral, or at least under the veneer of neutrality, both the Student Union and GSA squandered any agency that they at one time retained. By remaining neutral, both the union and the administration were allowed to use us as pawns, saying that we supported them because we hadn’t said otherwise.

What was our fear with taking a side? Did the Student Union and GSA actually think that there would be

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academic repercussions if we were to publicly support the administration?

Furthermore, while characterizing President Eddy Campbell as a pre-Civil War land owner is one of my favourite pastimes, even I didn’t think that if we voiced our support for the union, he would make us all work eighteen hour shifts in his tobacco fields.

The only repercussion there would have been is that the next time the union and administration do battle in our university, both sides would work to gain our support, rather than just assume they have it or not care that they don’t.

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on What’s YOUR eek? w s i h t d min

How do you plan to cope with classes starting again?

Brandon Boudreau

Charlotte Bartlett

Derek Doucet

Diana Cocchiarella

Dylan Baker

“Coupla drinks.”

“Giving up my social life.”

“Go on strike.”

“Lots of coffee.”

“Be organized, study hard.”

Kristin MacKenzie

Kyle McMurray

Matt Stocek

Mitchell Milbury

Patrick Boyd

“Classes? I’m not familiar with that term . . .”

“Transfer to Mount A.”

“Worst case Ontario, go to STU.”

“It’s a catch-23 situation.”

“Start taking my professors on dates.”

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you’re mistaken. They will.

“Personally, I look for pieces of information that help me narrow down who you are as a person,” Khan says. “It’s very much a stalker culture.

“I’ll see what pops up in the first page of Google results and if you show up in the first page of results, I can tell that you’ve got an active digital identity and you’ve begun to tell a story about yourself.

Khan promotes the idea of having a “digital identity” and creating a polished and professional personal brand.

Digital identity, Khan explains, is the accumulation of all the things that you’ve done online for however many years you’ve been active on social media.

“It’s all begun to comprise a story about you,” he says. “And you are, as you are in real life, a sum total of your experiences. Digital identity is very much a sum total of what’s being said about you online.”

So your digital identity should be engaging and respectable and showcase your skills to employers.

Unfortunately, many take this to the other extreme and lie about their credentials in hopes that it’s what companies want to hear. Others are simply careless with what they post online. For instance, bad-mouthing your boss or

company is an easy way to get rejected or fired.

Helping job-seekers backpedal to safety before they harm their reputations is FireMe!’s job. FireMe! is an app developed by researchers at the University of Hannover in Germany, that automatically flags people’s tweets that mention how awful their job or boss is.

The app then sends a reply to notify the user they may want to reconsider their tweet. The app will also gauge your tweet’s destructive power on what is called a FireMeter!

Ricardo Kawase, the founder of FireMe!, isn’t 100 per cent sure if the app has “actually helped anyone from preventing work-related troubles,” but he does believe it has helped to trigger a surge of digital consciousness and responsibility.

“You should be careful of what you post,” says Kawase. “Everyone sometimes attends a party, has embarrassing moments caught on camera, and so on.

However, it’s not very hard to control what goes publicly online.”

As for whether it’s fair for employers to search out their applicants on social media, Kawase believes that’s within their rights.

“No boss would like to find out that one of his employees ‘truly hates his job’ or wants to ‘kill him.’ It’s bad for the boss, and especially for the company’s image, and consequently, its business.”

Still, others would rather not have to

maintain a professional identity online.

Mike Gualtieri, a fifth-year marketing student at Ryerson University, believes that some profiles are personal and shouldn’t interfere with his work life.

“What you post on Facebook shouldn’t matter,” says Gualtieri. “If you’re a hard worker and never bring in personal problems to work then an employer has no right to say anything, or even look at what you do.”

Regardless of whether you’re for or against employers stalking your personal life, it isn’t going to stop. Social media will only continue to grow, and become more all-encompassing and easy to use.

“In terms of where the future of social networking lies, the numbers of usage are only going to increase,” says Khan. “We’re going to find more and more ways to integrate (social media) into our lives.”

If social media really does continue to become a more integrated part of our lives, users are going to have to learn to be savvy, smart, and utterly, utterly responsible. It may be a boring way to live online, but it’s better than learning it the hard way.

“I’ll definitely be more careful now,” says Dhaliwal.

“I’m a lot more conscious of how I look to a potential employer because a lot of companies take it really seriously.”

scale and have a gradual progression.

Across universities, a full professor at the bottom to top end of salary scale will have about 15 to 30 years of post PhD experience and hence are comparable. On the other hand the term of the president across universities in a given point in time may be vastly different.

Hence using the salaries of presidents as a base to measure faculty salary will be meaningless. For example, Dr. James Downey after serving two terms as president at UNB served two terms at Waterloo (a comparable university).

But using the salary of Dr. Downey at the end of his 10-year term at Waterloo to UNB president who may be on his/ her first year is equivalent to eliminating 20 years of progression. At present, if one wants to compare the Dalhousie president’s salary – who is serving his third term – to that of UNB’s president, then for a fair comparison one should increase UNB president’s salary to what it would be at the end of 10 years from now (at a rate of eight per cent per year) and then take a ratio of professors’ salary today to that number.

Putting it differently, if Tim Cook of Apple were to pitch to its board that

his compensation should have the same ratio of CEO salary to employee salary that Steve Jobs had, not only Carl Ichan (the activist billionaire shareholder) will be outraged, even Mr. Brideau will pen (or key in) “Tim, you ain’t no Steve Jobs.”

Secondly, presidential salary at a point is a single observation and is the mean median minimum and maximum. It lacks the statistical properties that a metric from large number possess. Comparing this to average salaries of professors will be misleading.

Three presidential benefits that are passed through arms’ length entities may not be reported and the ones reported may not be easily comparable.

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UNB Art Centre shines spotlight on black maritime artists

ARTS arts@thebruns.ca

Marc Gagnon Staff Reporter Atlantic Canadians are no strangers to turning adversity into art – and none more so than our black communities.

Using needle and thread, black Maritime artists have turned ordinary quilts into ancestral tableaus and messages of aid. In The Secret Codes: Contemporary African Nova Scotian Narrative and Picture Quilts, the new exhibition running at the UNB Art Centre for the entirety of Black History Month, these works of art grant us an enigmatic yet vivid glimpse into the lives of ordinary black Maritimers.

While the quilts on display are newly made, their inception can be traced back to the 19th century, when the underground railroad of escaped American slaves fleeing to Canada was at its height.

According to folklore, black quilters would sew clandestine messages into their quilts, frequently hung outdoors to air. These secret symbols or codes would help direct escapees to safe homes or warn them of dangers ahead.

Taking these stories as inspiration, Trinidad-born Nova Scotian artist David Woods designed a collection of quilts that echoed the lives and struggles of black Maritimers.

“This collection shows that even among everyday families of the 18th and 19th centuries, quilt-making, painting, woodcarving and the like were all ways our people used to express

their creativity and their individual and communal visions,” said Woods in a statement read by event director Marie Maltais because he was not in attendance.

The quilts themselves, sewn by the Vale Quiltmakers Association of New Glasgow, N.S., are gorgeous to look at – a multitude of textures, patterns and colours working together to tell the story of a people who have often sadly been relegated to the fringes of Maritime history. Using only textiles, these artists create images of work, worship and celebration, combining the bright colours of their ancestral homeland with the pastoral imagery of the Atlantic provinces.

Darrell Butler, the chief curator and material historian at Kings Landing Historical Settlement, praised the tradition of quiltmaking amongst black communities as a unique combination of art and utility.

“Their prime objective was to keep their family warm. But look at them – there’s an expression of colour and texture and form that’s alive and functioning in the quilts,” he said.

“Their hands formed them, and used them. They connect us directly to these people.”

Butler spoke of The New Brunswick Connection, an adjunct show that details Kings Landing’s Leek-Taylor Collection – unique artifacts which belonged to early black settlers in New Brunswick. Begun in 2007, it took years to acquire the scant number of

The Secret Codes is currently on display at the UNB Art Centre in Memorial Hall.

Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan relics that survive today. It contains, among other pieces, the only known portrait of an ordinary black man, by a black man, in this province.

“We had slaves here in New Brunswick,” said Butler solemnly. “At some point along the line, that whole way of life got glossed over. It’s important that we never forget that.”

Woods praised the artistic community in Fredericton, and the UNB Art Centre in particular, for their efforts in bringing The Secret Codes to a wider

audience. While the black community here is smaller than that of Nova Scotia, Woods said that many black people in Dartmouth have family roots in Fredericton.

“We welcome the chance to share [The Secret Codes] with another city, another province, another group of people who take pleasure and inspiration in the artistry of women of black communities in Nova Scotia,” he said.

“I hope that Secret Codes is a beginning and not an end, and I look for-

ward to bringing other exhibitions to Fredericton and working with the New Brunswick Black History Society to further knowledge of African-Maritime heritage.”

The Secret Codes/The New Brunswick Connection runs until Feb. 28 at Memorial Hall. The galleries are open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and admission is free.

Noche Latina breaks the silence Tess Allen Arts Reporter Oscar Tecu knows the importance of breaking the silence.

Having been “evicted” by the Guatemalan government for their divisive advocacy work 12 years ago, Tecu’s family took up roost in Fredericton, where they have since continued their efforts to support Guatemalans struggling for political, social, economic and cultural justice through the MaritimeGuatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS).

These efforts have manifested themselves in a number of events and initiatives over the years. The annual Noche Latina, hosted jointly by the BTS and the Multicultural Association of Fredericton (MCAF), is just one of them.

“We chose [Fredericton] because we had friends on the east coast through

BTS, and the following year, my dad and good food, but also contributing started becoming really involved in to making a change in people’s lives,” the Noche Latina. I’ve been a part of it said Tecu, adding that the event works every year really without meaning to,” dually to support a good cause and raise said 20-year-old Tecu, now a co-organ- awareness about human rights issues in Latin Amerizer of the Noche You are purchasing a ticket to ica.

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“There enjoy a great night of entertainwill be live Offerment and good food, but also music, daning ever ything from contributing to making a change cers and a sia traditional lent auction in people’s lives.

Guatemalan that people can take part mea l to a series of Latin American perform- in.”

And, of course, there will be a ances – with proceeds going toward BTS initiatives and a special MCAF mouth-watering meal: a Guatemalan scholarship – the annual event brings feast set to feature everything from Frederictonians from all walks of life chicken to the traditional pico de gallo.

It’s an evening co-organizer Valerie together on the first Friday in February for a night of fun and fundraising. Kilfoil looks forward to helping present “You are purchasing a ticket to every year. enjoy a great night of entertainment “It’s a great evening that’s fun for

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families . . . [and] because we co-partner with the MCAF, there will be performers from all over,” said Kilfoil, who has been involved in the event as a main organizer for just around a decade.

“Last year was the first year we partnered with the MCAF because they’ve been such huge supporters of the event and the work we do in Guatemala. That was a big change for us, to co-share and keep the money locally.”

Kilfoil said the funds raised from this year’s event will go partly to the MCAF’s “Newcomers Scholarship,” a bursary that supports children refugees and immigrants who wish to continue their education at the university level, and partly to continued solidarity work with the BTS. Kilfoil believes the Noche Latina impacts the local and global community in more ways than one.

“For one, it helps us continue our

solidarity work, [but] it also helps the people here understand that the choices that they make in their daily lives can have a huge impact on what happens around the world,” she said, referencing such BTS initiatives as the promotion of free trade coffee. “[These decisions] can make a huge difference in the quality of life for people in other countries.”

Quite like choosing to attend this year’s Noche Latina, set to take place on Feb. 7 from 6 p.m. onward at the Wilmot United Church.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $25 for a family of two adults and two children, and can be purchased at Westminster Books, True Foods Organics, MCAF, or by calling 506-454-8292.

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Songs of the week.

by Sebastian Maynard

D.D Dumbo – Tropical Oceans The website for D.D Dumbo describes his music as blues, experimental folk, fusion and loop pop . . . whatever that is. But to describe “Tropical Oceans” as simply as possible, it is a man with his guitar and a drum machine. The drum machine provides a steady beat into which Oliver Hugh Perry (a.k.a. Dumbo) intertwines his voice and guitar, making each one mimic the other. His voice is a good one, with the hint of an Australian accent and a range that allows him to follow his guitar as high or low as he wants. The guitar itself does have a blues inspiration and it dances effortlessly overtop of the drums.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5 Women’s Gala: Raising Awareness of Violence Against Women. 6:30 p.m. at Connexion ARC, 440 York St. $10 suggested donation.

Petit Rochelle. 8 p.m. at Theatre Bernard-Poirier. Tickets are $25 regular and $12.50 for under 18.

THURSDAY, FEB. 6

J. Cole – Revenge of the Dreamers On Jermaine Cole’s 29th birthday, he gave and received. His Dreamville Records partnered with Interscope Records, he played a show at Madison Square Garden and he released an unexpected mixtape with his Dreamville mates titled Revenge of the Dreamers.

The title track is one of the standouts and features Cole rapping like he has something to prove. With all the debate between who should have won Best Rap Album at this year’s Grammys, Cole has all but been forgotten – and when he threatens “your reign at the top expires this year,” it is clear that he is not happy about it, as he released an album this year that was not nominated. Over his career, Cole’s production has caught up with his lyrical ability and this song is a staple for him: a melodic background with female vocals that he is able to smoothly and comfortably rhyme over.

Always . . . Patsy Cline Theatre Production. 7:30 p.m. at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. Tickets are $20 at the door.

Fubuki Daiko at the Fredericton Playhouse, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $30 regular, Student Rush tickets available.

FRIDAY, FEB. 7 Always . . . Patsy Cline Theatre Production. 7:30 p.m. at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. Tickets are $20 at the door.

Moby – Almost Home (Washed Out Remix) One of the standout tracks off Moby’s latest album, Innocents, which came out last fall, was “Almost Home.” The original featured the falsetto voice of Damien Jurado and sweeping synths that gave a musical translation to the lyrics: “wake up/we’re almost home.”

Washed Out has taken the sleepy drive home and added a more ominous and dizzy feel – the song slows down, speeds up, gets loud and quiets down – that gives the feel of someone coming back from a night out.

Noche Latina. 6 p.m. at the Fredericton Intercultural Centre, 28 Saunders St. Tickets are $12 per adult or $25 for a family. Check out the article by Tess Allen in this week’s issue!

Shane Koyczan. 7:30 p.m. at the Fredericton Playhouse.

Tickets are $28 regular, and $14 for under 19. Check out the article by Tess Allen in this week’s issue!

SATURDAY, FEB. 8

N.A.S.A. (feat. Karen O) – I Shot The Sheriff (Bob Marley Cover) Karen O is no stranger to covering iconic songs; in 2010 she teamed up with Trent Reznor to give an eerie rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” This year, she and production team N.A.S.A. have made an electronic version of Bob Marley’s “I Shot The Sheriff.” There are very few similarities between the two songs.

While the new adaptation does have a reggae inspired guitar strumming away, and the same words and melody, N.A.S.A. also incorporates hand claps, lasers, gun shots, layered vocals and plenty of synths to create a song that at first feels sacrilegious, but soon sounds just as natural as Marley’s original.

Dear

told him. How did he let you know he was cool with it without being too obvious?

Oh? You didn’t tell him you were straight? There’s some perspective for ya.

If he feels the need to tell you anything about his sexuality, he’ll do so if and when he’s ready.

You don’t need to pry, prod, or speculate. You just need to treat him in the same way that you’d treat any of your other friends.

If you have a question for Dear Ari, Respect his privacy!

Affectionately, email Arts@thebruns.ca with the Ari subject line “Dear Ari”, or tweet her @AskDearAri Dear Ari, My roommate thinks we’re BFF and wants to do everything Dear Ari, I think my roommate is gay, together. She’s nice enough but but he’s never actually told me. I have other friends (who don’t How do I let him know I’m really like her) and I just want cool with it without being too us to be roommates and that’s it. How do I tell her without obvious? hurting her feelings and making Sincerely, it awkward?

Straightguy Stan Sincerely, Tactful Ty Dear Straightguy, Your roommate thinks you’re straight, but you’ve never actually

Ari.

“Blossom, Don’t Burst” performance of local creative youth. 7 p.m. at Connexion ARC, 440 York St. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $5 cover.

Always . . . Patsy Cline Theatre Production. 7:30 p.m. at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. Tickets are $20 at the door.

Ice Sculptures at the Boyce Farmer’s Market, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Dear Tactful, Seeing as how your roommate hasn’t done anything offensive in wanting to be your friend, I’m not sure you need to explicitly “tell her” anything. If you don’t deliberately invite her along for any of your plans, she’ll likely get the hint eventually.

Try to figure out why your friends don’t like your roommate.

If the characteristics they dislike are hurtful or can be helped, that may be something to discuss with your roommate.

What’s awkward and hurtful is if you carry on with your roommate as though you are best friends. If your roommate initiates a conversation on the matter, you need to be open and honest with her. Emphasize how good of a roommate she is to you.

Be patient, and understand that her feelings may be hurt regardless of how delicately you address the situation.

Best case scenario, you’ll find room in your heart for just one more friend.

Affectionately, Ari

SUNDAY, FEB. 9 Old Man Luedecke and Jordie Lane. 8 p.m. at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. Tickets are $24.99 and available for advance purchase online.

MONDAY, FEB. 10 Monday Night Film Series presents Inside Llewyn Davis.

7:30 p.m. at Tilley Hall, UNB campus. $7 regular admission.

TUESDAY, FEB. 11 The University Women’s Centre Presents: The Vagina Monologues 2014. 7 p.m. at Marshall d’Avray Hall room 143. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the Student Union Welcome Centre, $12 at the door.

HAVE AN EVENT THAT YOU’D LIKE ADDED TO THE ARTS CALENDAR? EMAIL: ARTS@THEBRUNS.CA OR CALL THE OFFICE: 506.447.3388

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Award-winning poet comes to Freddy

Shane Koyczan will be serving up poetry “jambalaya” in his upcoming Playhouse performance. Submitted Tess Allen Arts Reporter Express yourself.

For some, it’s a tired slogan heard time and time again from middleschool guidance counsellors and after-school specials. For others, it’s a cliché complaint from a badgering wife or girlfriend. And for a select group of super-fans, it’s just a 1980s Madonna classic.

But for Shane Koyczan, it’s a way of life, one that he has shared with thousands of people across the world.

“One of the things I really love about my work is that people connect to it; there’s [just] something about that level of human interaction . . . where we’re able to be empathetic,” said the award-winning Canadian poet, author and performer who has presented his work everywhere from TED Talks to the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He also won both the U.S. Slam Poetry Championship and the Canadian Spoken Word Olympics.

“We live in a world that’s constantly trying to put our emotional selves on hold . . . [but] we are emotional creatures, and that’s what connects us.”

The spoken-word virtuoso should know. Since he first made his mark – when his influential anti-bullying video, the To This Day project, went viral in early 2013 – Koyczan has been dazzling audiences around the globe with his furious, political, tragic and side-splitting spoken-word performances.

“When I do shows, I like to bring

people through the full range of emotion,” said Koyczan. “I have a skeleton idea of what I’m going to do [in a show] but I don’t close myself off . . . [since] a lot of the times the audience will tell me where they want to go. It’s reciprocal; I think that’s what an emotional experience is.”

Koyczan’s prowess for invoking profound emotion, enlightenment and empathy out of his audiences is a skill he claims to have learned from some of the Canadian greats. The result? A “jambalaya” of exploration and expression.

“A lot of people say that as a writer, you have to find your voice. And I think what happens is your voice ends up being different parts of voices that you really love, and then that becomes your style or your voice. That’s what happened for me,” said Koyczan.

“I’m still tremendously influenced by a lot of Canadians; Al Purdy, Tom Wayman, Leonard Cohen . . . that’s where I come from. I’ve just adopted pieces of people’s voices that I really like, and I think that’s what it really comes down to.”

Koyczan compared what goes down once he hits the stage to “a good stew; something that’s made of a lot of different voices and experiences.”

But Koyczan’s literary concoction wouldn’t be complete without one key ingredient. When it comes to maintaining that same level of passion and conviction that he so fluently exudes at each and every performance, Koyczan said it must be a concentrated effort.

“I just want to write something honest and I want to perform it honestly.

A lot of the time that means stepping back into a place of remembrance . . . to moments that I don’t necessarily care to revisit. If I’m going to talk about it, I have to remember certain things and certain feelings,” he said.

“Before I start any piece, my rule is to take a second, remember where I was when I wrote this and why this is still true. And then perform it.”

And while even he is not entirely sure what will come out during one of his performances, Frederictonians can certainly expect to be wowed – and maybe even get in touch with their own feelings – when he takes the stage at the Fredericton Playhouse on Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m.

“Everybody wants that experience.

Everybody wants that return to [humanity], to touch that part of themselves that lets them feel again. Some people lose it; it’s almost beaten out of you. But it’s important to me,” said Koyczan, himself a sufferer of depression who calls his mental health journey a “long, long climb back to what many would consider normal.”

“The reason I was able to get through that [depression] was the realization that these things that I’m keeping at bay, these feelings that I’m just trying not to feel, just need to be let out. There’s no cork in the bottle here.”

Tickets for Koyczan’s Fredericton performance can be purchased through the Fredericton Playhouse box office at 1-866-884-5800, or online at Theplayhouse.ca.

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Huskie Josie LeDuc leading her team – and set up blocks.

The blocks and hits just weren’t enough for the Reds and they would fall to the Huskies 25-19 in the third set.

But once again they would come back with a fight, keeping the Huskies on their toes.

UNB would take the first three points of the fourth, setting the tone for the rest of the set. Rebecca Glancy would get a kill, followed by a service ace from teammate Taylor Hutchinson and another kill by Glancy, getting them an 8-3 lead.

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The Varsity Reds now sit in fourth place after falling to the Tigers and Huskies over the weekend. Bronté James / The Brunswickan

Women’s volleyball fall to top two AUS teams Bronté James Sports Editor The Varsity Reds women’s volleyball team fell 3-0 to the Dalhousie University (Dal) Tigers and 3-2 to the Saint Mary’s Huskies in their Think Pink Weekend.

Dal sits first in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) standings, and have clinched the first round bye into playoffs. The loss pushed the Reds from third to fourth in the standings.

“We fought hard and we left there with our heads held high after the

match,” said UNB head coach Jilliane Goulet. “I don’t think the 3-0 really spells the whole story on the match; it was a good match and just some errors at the wrong time.”

Despite the errors, Goulet said it was a good example of how they can play with the top teams in the league.

“I don’t think there’s a huge gap in the top of the league,” said Goulet.

Their second game would be against the second-place Huskies, where they would take them to all five sets.

“We didn’t go in thinking ‘oh, it’s David and Goliath,’ ”she said. “We

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THEY KNOW WHAT’S UP

Bronté James Sports Editor

Honestly, it’s anyone’s game right now. But, if I had to put my name on the line, I would go with Acadia.

They are a strong team, they’re consistent, and quite honestly I think they are more determined right now. But, like I – and most on this panel said – it’s anyone’s game who wants it badly enough.

just went in thinking ‘it’s going to be a challenging game, but here we go, let’s go fight.’ ” After a tough rally the Huskies would start the game off with a point in their favour. The score would be close until the Huskies got on a hot streak and got six points in a row, getting them an 18-10 lead. The Reds would rally back to get five more points, but they would fall 25-15 in the first.

The second set would be in their favour, however.

Trailing behind in points from the beginning, they would come back to

tie the game 8-8. From there, they would go back and forth leading and tying, but Celina Abba would get back to back kills, furthering the score 23-19 and 24-19.

The Reds would take the second set 25-20.

“They fought, they adjusted, they stayed aggressive and did what they could,” said Goulet.

The third set would be much like the second, where the score went back and forth, no one taking a dominant lead. Each team got a kill – Reds Rebecca Glancy having the most for UNB in the third, and

Do you think men’s hockey will be able to stay in first place in the AUS for the regular season?

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It’s a toss-up, but it’s theirs to lose.

Same deal with Acadia. It’s whoever can stay consistent and Acadia has the tougher schedule. The only difference is last weekend they played UPEI and lost, while UNB played StFX and won.

Aside from that, their schedules are identical. Consistency is key from here on out.

It’s going to be either us, or Acadia.

We’ve had a couple fluky losses, like when STU got away with a win, but in cases like that we rebound to win - like 9-1 in the next game. The V-Reds Hockey team has always found a way to win and be successful.

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With more blocks from Abba and Paige Paulsen, the Reds would never give up their lead in the fourth and would finish it 25-16, pushing it to a tie-breaking fifth set.

The Reds would trail until it was 9-6 and they would come back with a service ace, two rallying points and a huge kill by Abba to give them a 10-10 tie.

But it wouldn’t be enough, and the Huskies would take a 16-14 win over the Reds.

Fourth-year Abba said she is disappointed to lose the last two home games of the season, but was happy with how the team played and is looking forward to the next couple of weeks.

“We really wanted to beat them because winning this game might have helped up get third,” he said.

“So it was a little frustrating.”

Goulet said she is making sure the women don’t focus on the outcome of the game, but is getting the girls to focus on the upcoming weeks.

She said it was anybody’s game over the weekend and the standings don’t mean anything until the game is played.

“It’s a good sign that there’s some parody in the league,” said Goulet.

“There’s nobody that’s running away with things as far as teams being able to play with anybody at the top.”

The Reds travel to play the Acadia Axewomen on Feb. 8 and play the Moncton Aigles Blues the following afternoon.

“Starting Monday we have to get our grind on,” said Abba.

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Their only competition for first place is Acadia. Of the three games currently played between both teams, UNB is 1-1-1, with a -3 for goals in those three games. With their last regular season game against each other, I believe that will decide the first-place team. Sadly, my bet is on Acadia, who will be at home.

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Men’s hockey sit first in Atlantic standings Nick Murray Editor-in-Chief

The UNB Varsity Reds men’s hockey team grinded out a pair of wins over the weekend, and with some help from the UPEI Panthers who beat Acadia Friday night, the V-Reds took over first place in the Atlantic University Sport conference after it was all said and done.

Philippe Halley was the hero Friday night, dangling around the St. Francis Xavier defence before going top shelf on his backhand for the overtime winner, as UNB topped the X-Men 3-2 before 1,927 fans at the Aitken Centre on “Pink at the Rink” night.

Halley, who joined the V-Reds at Christmas after 15 games with the Gwinnett Gladiators of the East Coast Hockey League, has scored eight points in his first 10 games with the V-Reds. None of his goals were more pretty than the overtime winner though.

“It’s probably once in a lifetime,” Halley said on the game-winner. “I just faked the slapshot and then toedragged. I don’t really know what happened. It seemed like everybody cleared out in front of me. It looked pretty simple maybe at first but at the end of it I think it was a pretty nice goal.”

V-Reds head coach Gardiner MacDougall said goals like that are part of the reason why he brought Halley to UNB. “He’s a gamer. He works so hard,” MacDougall said. “It’s just his compete level and his work ethic. He’s just finding ways to get better every practice and every game. You have to have some trust and if [a play like that] works, you do. If he turns it over and they go the other way then yeah. But you can’t take that element out of skilled hockey players.”

StFX opened the scoring late in the

first period, with Jason Bast wiring a shot wide open in the slot for his seventh of the season. Bast has scored three goals in two games against UNB since being left off of the AUS all-star team, which won gold at the Winter Universiade in Italy over the Christmas break.

Rookie defenseman Matt Petgrave tied it for the V-Reds midway through the second, taking a Nick MacNeil drop pass and wiring it top corner for his third of the year.

Maillet gave UNB the lead two minutes into the third, but it was shortlived as UNB fell into a lengthy 5-on-3 after Petgrave went off for interference and Keevin Cutting for tripping.

Rob Slaney capitalized just 20 seconds into the power play, ripping a shot past UNB netminder Joel Vienneau, sending it to overtime.

Halley played on the top line this weekend with Chris Culligan, and former Victoriaville Tigers linemate Philippe Maillet, and said it felt good that coach MacDougall had confidence in him to send him out to start overtime.

“I think I gained his confidence last weekend when I played with Culligan and Maillet. I think the chemistry is going pretty well together and I think that’s how I gained his confidence,” Halley said.

Vienneau made 22 saves in his first back-to-back start of his CIS career, and followed it up Saturday night with a 19-save performance in a 6-5 win over Saint Mary’s.

Halley and Petgrave put UNB up 2-0 within the first five minutes, but SMU fought back with four unanswered goals to pull ahead 4-2 after the first period.

But the V-Reds responded with four unanswered of their own to open the second period courtesy of MacNeil, Maillet, Halley and Cam Critchlow

Philippe Halley, above, had a four-point weekend for UNB including the OT winner Friday night.

Brian Smith / The Brunswickan on a penalty shot. On Critchlow’s goal though, Taylor MacDougall was called for goaltender interference, giving SMU a power play after the penalty shot, and the Huskies capitalized less than a minute later with Matt Tipoff scoring his ninth of the season. But that’s as close as the Huskies would get as UNB stretched its winning streak to

nine games.

Speaking of streaks, Cam Braes picked up a pair of assists Friday, and another Saturday to stretch his point streak to nine games – 10 if you count the exhibition game in Maine two weeks ago. He’s now scored 13 points in his last nine regular season games.

With Acadia’s 5-2 loss to UPEI on

Friday night, UNB took sole possession of first place in the AUS with a twopoint lead over the Axemen.

The V-Reds are in town this weekend Friday against St. Thomas at the Grant*Harvey Centre, before taking on the Moncton Aigles Bleus Saturday at the Aitken Centre. Both games are 7 p.m. starts.

Tigers and V-Reds to fight for AUS title Nick Murray Editor-in-Chief

The V-Reds will be playing a best-of-three against the Dal Tigers in the AUS championships.

Fran Harris / The Brunswickan

For at least the eighth year in a row – it could be more but the Atlantic University Sport archives only go back so far – the V-Reds men’s volleyball team will be taking on the Dalhousie Tigers in the AUS championships.

The V-Reds could have clinched home court advantage last weekend with a sweep of their two-game homestand against the visiting Tigers, but lost a f ive-set heartbreaker (25-23, 17-25, 25-18, 16-25 and 12-15) Friday before 955 fans at the Currie Center.

Game 1 of the best-of-three series is this Friday in Dalhousie, before the series shifts back to the Currie Center for Game 2 on Feb. 15, but head coach Dan McMorran said not having home court advantage isn’t a huge loss.

“It really doesn’t matter to me where the first game of the AUS playoffs are. We have to play one down [at Dalhousie] and one down here and that stuff is just logistics at this stage. So we’re f ine with that,” McMorran said. “We know

we have to go down there and play in Dalhousie whether its game one or game two.”

Julio Fernandez returned to the V-Reds lineup Saturday night after missing two games with an ankle injury. He hammered home 14 kills, but he wasn’t playing at 100 per cent and committed a season-worst 13 errors. McMorran said while his injury is no longer a factor after he fired back with a game-high 10 kills in Sunday’s straight set win (25-18, 25-21 and 25-16), mobility was an issue in Saturday’s loss.

Logan Keoughan hasd a big game for UNB on Sunday with seven kills, and was stellar in the third set with three blocks, an ace and three kills including one on match point.

He said sweeping Dalhousie could build a bit of momentum going into the finals.

“We want to show them what we can do in our gym … we want to set the tone,” Keoughan said. “We know who they are. It’s momentum building for us and even more so, it’s just we know what happens when we stick to our game plan as opposed to letting them play the game they want to play.”

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Men’s basketball gets axed over weekend Philip Drost The Brunswickan

The Varsity Reds took on the first-place AUS team, the Acadia Axemen, in a double-header weekend, hoping to narrow the gap in the standings.

The first play of the game set the tone when Acadia’s star Owen Klassen got the ball down low, drop stepped around his defender, and threw down a two-handed dunk.

“He’s a very versatile big man,” said UNB’s Javon Masters. “We just wanted to limit his touches as much as possible throughout the game and try and get him frustrated.”

The task was much easier said than done. Klassen spent his summer playing on the Canadian national team with the likes of Brady Heslip and

Kevin Pangos, who are strong National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) players, with potential to make the NBA. He proved to be too much to handle, ending Friday’s game with 36 points and 11 rebounds. He also drew in UNB’s defence, which allowed Acadia to hit 12 shots from behind the three-point arc.

“When you rotate or trap on the big, on Klassen, you have to have other guys step up and rotate because you’re leaving your guy,” said UNB head coach Brent Baker. “We didn’t do that. We didn’t factor in for transition threes and they hit a bunch of them.”

Despite the strong performance from Klassen, UNB’s offence kept them within striking distance. The Reds were down around 10 points for most of the game, not allowing

Acadia to ease up. Masters scored two of his 36 points with four minutes left in the game, bringing them within six, but they couldn’t bring it any closer.

Acadia went on to win Friday night’s game 96-83.

Saturday’s game was more of the same.

Though Klassen didn’t have as dominant of a game, Acadia kept control and beat UNB 83-63. One of the Varsity Reds biggest problems on the weekend was their injuries. Three of their usual starters didn’t play in either of the games. The injured players include Matt Daley, Daniel Quirion and Ryan Smith.

“Those guys are sand paper guys – they’re the grit guys. Those are the guys that are going to win every 50/50 ball,” said Baker. “So any lose ball, any

rebound, those guys are going to win that contest. That’s where it really hurts us, at the defensive end.”

Masters recognizes the injuries have added some difficulty, but he doesn’t use it as an excuse.

“The next guy has to step in,” said Masters. “He needs to play just as the other guy who just went down. Injuries hurt, but you just got to keep rolling with it.”

Coach Brent Baker found his players did fight hard, and even though they were missing some key players, others stepped up. This way when his starters come back, his bench is going to be playing at a much higher level.

“It’s a loss, don’t get me wrong,” he said. “I hate losing, but we start getting some of our bench playing better and getting into this type of high intensity

environment, that’s a big plus for us.”

The weekend wasn’t only about basketball. It was Think Pink weekend at UNB, as money raised went towards the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. There were various pink items being raffled off, like a pink quilt and a giant cookie with pink M&Ms. Last year Think Pink raised 10,000 dollars, and this year UNB hopes to go above and beyond that.

The men’s team will take on the Cape Breton University Capers on Friday, Feb. 7, followed by the St. Francis Xavier University X-Men the next night. They sit fifth in the Atlantic University Sport standings.

The men’s basketball team has struggled since the Christmas break, losing six of its last eight games and falling to fifth place in the conference standings.

Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan

Women’s basketball sits last in AUS standings Philip Drost The Brunswickan The University of New Brunswick (UNB) Varsity Reds women’s basketball team played two very different games on the weekend against the Acadia Axewomen.

On Friday night, the Varsity Reds had difficulty putting the ball through the hoop, only shooting 24 per cent in the first half, but still were able to muster up a one-point lead at the end of the first.

“We just couldn’t get our shots to fall today,” said third-year post Rachel Cleary.

Cleary played a major part in keeping the game close in the third quarter.

Six of her 18 points came from back to back and ones near the end of the third quarter, and at the end of the quarter

the Reds still had a one-point lead.

In the fourth, Acadia took over.

“They hit some pretty tough shots down the stretch,” said head coach Jeff Speedy, whose hair was dyed pink in support of breast cancer. “And we’ve got to figure out a way to get those key stop in the fourth quarter when we need them.”

Abby Duinker dominated down low, leading the way for the Axewomen with a game high of 26 points. She also added five assists and six rebounds in the winning effort.

“We knew they were pretty big and that we could run on them,” said Cleary. “We just had to box out and hopefully that would be enough.”

It wasn’t.

The score was 69-66 for Acadia, and UNB had the ball with 29 seconds left, but they weren’t able to convert. Acadia

went on to win 73-66.

“I’m not sure I can put it into words how frustrating it is,” said Speedy. “It’s been the same movie seven games in a row. It’s getting tough to take.”

UNB’s strongest facet of their game was their work at the free throw line, hitting all 18 of their shots there.

“If we’re going to make a lot of free throws we better attack the basket more and stop settling for threes,” said Speedy.

The game was part of UNB’s Think Pink weekend, which raised money to fight cancer. Speedy’s hair wasn’t the only thing pink on the weekend: instead of their usual jerseys, the women wore pink jerseys and the games were played with a pink basketball. Multiple UNB athletes raised money and got their hair cut for the cause, including Cleary.

“I decided last year when I saw the girls doing it, so I just let my hair grow longer so I could do it this year,” said Cleary. “Hopefully this will help someone else.”

Cleary raised $385, and had her hair cut at halftime of the men’s game on Friday.

The second game of the weekend was a whole different story for the Varsity Reds. UNB once again played Acadia, but this time they came out ready.

“Our defence was a lot better than yesterday,” said Speedy. “We made them miss a lot of shots and did a good job rebounding when they missed.”

Their defense held the Axewomen to 49 points on 24 per cent shooting, which was 20 per cent lower then then the night before. UNB lead throughout the game, with a final score of

64-49. The win ended the Reds nine game-losing streak.

Cleary one again had a strong game, with 12 points and seven rebounds.

Fellow post Katelynn Mangold took home player of the game honours with 15 points and nine boards.

“I think our posts are one of our biggest strengths, so we got to keep working on getting our scores inside,” said Speedy.

The women play the Cape Breton University Capers on Friday, Feb. 7, followed by St. Francis Xavier University on the Feb. 8 in the annual Shoot for the Cure. They are sitting in last place in the Atlantic University Sport standings.

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Acadia takes a win and tie over Blazers

Bronté James Sports Editor Saturday’s game looked like it would go to the Blazers – leading 2-1 for majority of the game – but Acadia would come back to tie it.

“Seems like we’re getting a whole lot of ties lately, it seems to be our thing – a tie and a win each weekend,” said Blazers captain Karine Meunier-Pelletier.

But we played [well even though] we didn’t get as many shots as we wanted [and] it was a bit of a scramble.”

The first period saw the first three goals of the game. Brittney Carroll would take a shot from the slot, putting the Blazers on the board, followed by a goal from teammate Sasha Mooney with a shot from the point and then a rebound with an assist from teammate Meunier-Pelletier.

Acadia would answer the goal with one of their own from Maddie MacKenzie when Acadia came in on the left side and took the initial shot. The Weak side winger, Mackenzie, picked up the rebound and put it in.

Goalie Hale Dickinson would make a nice glove save with two minutes left in the first, keeping UNB in the lead.

Elisabeth Thomas looked like she was about to further the gap for UNB, but Acadia’s goalie would make the block and keep them in the game.

In the third period, Acadia’s Sam Hawes got a huge breakaway from the blue line, giving them an opportunity to score, but she would be unable to control the puck and would skate past the net. Trying to recover, she brought it around and pushed it in front of Dickinson, but Meunier-Pelletier would take it and push it down the ice.

The second would remain scoreless.

“We’ve always been the top two teams in the league, and it’s the rivalry,” said Acadia’s head coach Dave Ettinger.

“CBU is good, and Holland College is good, but us and Andy’s team, we really like playing each other – we match up really well, I think.”

Acadia’s Sam Hawes would tie the game with three minutes left in the third, after a huge scramble in front of the net gave her an opportunity to put it past Dickinson. The score would remain 2-2 for the rest of the game.

“I think once they tied it was just trying to keep it up and keep the mo-

One step at a time: letting go Scott Hems The Brunswickan Proving someone wrong is often the best part of any accomplishment.

But the truth is, you don’t accomplish something to berate others for doubting you. You need to want success for yourself and only you. Losing weight was the same idea for me.

It took a while to realize the secret is letting go. Life isn’t about being better than others - it’s about pursuing your dreams. If you really let go of what you hate most, you will succeed in life.

For instance, take the hate and abuse I dealt with in the sports world.

Abused by coaches, players, and spectators, I thought about how different I would be looked at if I weren’t fat.

They still don’t respect me, which is fine because I made it further in the athletic world than any of them did.

As much as I want to hate them for mistreating me my whole life, I can’t sink to their level. I needed to let it go.

They won’t change, but I will.

Sadly, people are going to put you down in life for no sensible reason.

Some people simply take pride in insulting you. You can choose to let it depress you and drive you insane, but there’s always a choice to just let it go. Never forget that on any day you can wake up, walk out the front door, and your life can change forever. So why waste your time hanging on to something you don’t need?

When I hit the finish line of the marathon, those people who beat

The Blazers still sit one spot behind Acadia in ECWHL after their double-header weekend. Bronté James / The Brunswickan mentum going, and try to score and get a quick one,” said Meunier-Pelletier.

“So we changed our lineup and that’s why we called a timeout. It was really just pressure it all to the net.”

Despite a poor start, Ettinger said he was happy with how the rest of the game played out.

“After the first period I think our club won the second and third period and tied it up in the third, so pretty happy,” said Ettinger.

Acadia outshot the Blazers 14-13 after their first two weak goals “we were just getting our legs, I thought they played a lot better,” said Ettinger.

The Blazers and Acadia University played again Sunday, with Acadia winning 3-1. Mooney scored UNB’s lone goal.

“We’re always pumped to go on the ice; anxious to beat them,” said Meunier-Pelletier.

the crap out of me and made me contemplate suicide when I weighed 320 pounds didn’t cross my mind at all.

I knew what I earned in the process, and that negativity, quite honestly, just isn’t useful. I didn’t lose weight to impress anyone – you shouldn’t ever reach a goal for anyone’s benefit beside your own. Once I let go of the hate, I never looked back.

I know many people deserve hate, and I know hatred of someone can push you really far with changing your life.

Everyone carries a burden.

But, remember that things happen for a reason. I could hate former coaches, former relationships, teammates and anyone who spat in my face instead of helping, but it’s just not worth it.

Let it go, because honestly, you’ll sleep better at night. The second, you chase a dream out of spite, they win.

Trust me, you’re better than that. You need to do it for yourself – you’re the one suffering for a dream, not them.

I didn’t lose 114 pounds thinking about what all those people did to me. Some people just aren’t worth it. There’s more to one than hanging on to the wrong things. If you really want to reach a goal, and lose weight, don’t spend another minute letting adversity win.

Let it go.

“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch up.”

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Brett LeDrew draws on family for inspiration Johnny Cullen The Brunswickan There is one person who keeps Brett LeDrew motivated over the years, and that’s his sister Claire, who suffers from Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), also known as brittle bone disorder.

“She has a physical disability so she can’t really play sports,” said the fourth-year men’s volleyball player.

“I didn’t want to take it for granted so I wanted to make the most of the opportunities. She inspired me to work hard for everything – she loves watching me play.”

But it’s also his cousin, a Memorial University Seahawk, who keeps him on his toes.

When first deciding which university to attend, LeDrew had to

choose between Memorial University (MUN), Dalhousie University, or University of New Brunswick (UNB), but the program at UNB eventually won him over.

“I wanted to experience something outside of Newfoundland,” said LeDrew. “It seemed like UNB was a good balance of school and volleyball.”

The 21-year-old from Clarenville, Newfoundland has gone head to head with his cousin, a year older than him, who played in St. John’s, Newfoundland and now attends MUN as a fifth-year student and volleyball player.

“I’ve always looked up to him,” he said.

With both playing the middle posit ion, and U N B and MU N scheduled to face off four times a

year, the cousins have had plenty of opportunities to unveil their friendly rivalry.

“I’ve played against him a lot, so we get matched up quite a bit,” he joked. “It’s fun and I’ve got the better of him most times.”

While playing against each other since grade seven, LeDrew said he and his cousin have played their last game together – at least for now – as UNB defeated MUN in two backto-back games at Memorial.

Going into his f ifth year next year, extending his schedule to get the extra year of volleyball, LeDrew plays an important role on his team as an upper year student.

A fourth-year chemical engineering student and a senior on the team, LeDrew has learned how to balance his busy schedule to ensure he can

perform well both in class and on the court.

With first-year players learning how to balance their own schedules, LeDrew tries to set a good example.

“I live with one rookie, Ryan Colpitts, so I try to show how to perform well in school and stay on top of things,” he said. “It’s important to show them good habits and hope they follow your lead.”

As he continues to be a leader on his team, LeDrew has one full year left.

Whether he continues with volleyball or heads straight into the workforce, he doesn’t know – he’s keeping his options open.

LeDrew plays middle for the V-Reds. Rob Blanchard / UNB Sports Information

Training like a V-Red

Ken Morrison is the strength and conditioning coach for the all of the V-Reds teams. Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan Bronté James Sports Editor Seventeen UNB varsity teams – eight women’s and nine men’s teams – means seventeen different training regimens.

Strength and conditioning coach Ken Morrison makes sure each one is suited to the athlete’s individual sport.

“Priorities for the athletes shift during the year, depending on where they are in their season,” he said.

“Maintenance of physical capacity and injury prevention is the strength and conditioning focus during this phase.”

Athletes are in a position of needing to have a regulated workout and diet in order to maintain their physical lifestyle.

Morrison oversees the gym throughout the day, meeting with V-Reds when they can fit the gym into their schedule.

Teams will either book a session, or have Morrison oversee their program.

“In season they don’t need to work out often but they do need to work out regularly to maintain their physical capacity,” he said.

The regular season isn’t the only time athletes need to focus. Keeping

athletes conditioned during off-season is key.

“Once we move into athletes’ offseasons it is important to look to improve on whatever performance variables we identify as priorities for that athlete or that team,” he said. ““During the off-season they need to have more regular workouts to make sure they can make the physical gains they need.”

But students don’t need to be a VRed to get the same physical abilities.

Many of the exercises given by Morrison are what students do every day at the gym.

“Often the difference is the focus of the exercise.”

He said the only real difference is some focus on strength while others focus on speed or power.

“A lot of our exercises are focused on developing athletes ability to produce speed and power,” said Morrison.

“Others are used to improve mechanics to make the athlete more efficient.”

Students can get their exercise at the gym, or other facilities across campus such as the gym, intramurals, the rock wall, the squash courts, the swimming pool or any exercise classes.