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DEALING WITH STUDENT DEBT

planning is key

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Emma McPhee News Reporter Students and debt go together like Red Bull and Jäger, but one is harder on the wallet.

According to the 2012 Canadian Universit y Sur vey Consort ium (CUSC) Survey of Graduating Students, the average debt of graduating post-secondary students was $14,453 – 63 per cent of which comes from government student loans.

Jennifer Kelly, a fourth year UNB nursing, knows the reality of these statistics too well. She’s looking at having to repay a loan of $10,000.

“I got a small student loan because my grandparents paid for half and then we got this for the other half. So it’s not a huge one but still it’s a concern,” Kelly said.

And she’s not alone. In the 20112012 annual report of the Canada Student Loans Program, full-time students in New Brunswick took out an average of $5,081 in student loans during that academic year.

This statistic was only slightly lower than the national average of $5,376.

Shelly Clayton, director of Financial Aid at UNB, said student loan debt in the province is too high.

“And I mean it’s simple math. We allow students to borrow more,” Clayton said. “We have a really generous bursary program through the provincial bursary as well as the Canada Student Grant program and students gain access to more resources in general.

However it also creates more debt at graduation.”

Clayton said that student debt isn’t only one problem. The economic situation in New Brunswick is another

factor.

“I think the issue in particular in this province is not just one single issue,” she said.

“It’s the fact that students are accessing government student loans and therefore they may have debt upon graduation with limited jobs.”

Kelly said that she was aware of this concern.

“There’s no jobs. Even for nursing, which is one of the reasons I went into it – because I thought there was going to be a market,” she said.

A 2013 BMO student survey found that on average students predict it will take them 6.4 years to pay off their debt.

“I don’t really [have a repayment plan] and that’s kind of stressful,” Kelly said.

UNB Financial Aid offers many programs to help students keep their debt from growing. The work-study program and bursary support are only some of these.

“I would encourage every student to talk with their financial aid office to see what’s available. I think the real issue is students really just don’t know what options are out there for them,” Clayton said. “If you can borrow less – that is the end game for every student here.”

Another step students can take to reduce debt is to establish a budget.

“I think the biggest mistake – and I can guarantee no [student] wants to talk to me about this – is establishing a budget,” Clayton said.

Though the idea of paying off student loans is terrifying, Clayton said student’s shouldn’t be afraid to ask for help.

“If they don’t know how to even begin, just come to Financial Aid once

Student loan debt is a cause of stress for many students. Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan and then we’ll set them up and from then on they’re running on their own.”

According to the 2011-2012 annual report of the Canada Student Loans Program, the average student debt at graduation has remained fairly stable

over the past decade.

Debt is a worry students like Kelly are all too familiar with. And as things stand now, it looks as if it will remain a concern for the foreseeable future.

“I feel like a lot of students are in

debt. Even I feel overwhelmed with my debt and I know some people who have $50,000 who are going to be in debt after their four years so I can’t even imagine,” Kelly said.

Unlikely professor strike or lockout could happen after Friday Cherise Letson News Editor As of this Friday, the idea of UNB professors going on strike or being locked out can become a reality. However, the president of AUNBT, the professor’s union, said if one was to even occur, it wouldn’t be immediately.

Since last March, AUNBT and the university have been renegotiating the terms of professors’ collective agreement. Last Wednesday, New Brunswick minister of post-secondary education and labour Jody Carr decided he would not appoint a conciliation board for the negotiations.

Miriam Jones, the president of AUNBT, said Carr’s decision of not striking a board is a good thing, for it

will avoid interference and will get the issue solved sooner.

“Conciliation boards create distance and prevent [the two parties] from having to get down to it,” Jones said.

“We’ve got a deadline now. We’re moving into dangerous territory.”

As of Friday, the options of a strike vote or a lockout become available.

However, Jones said that doesn’t mean either is going to happen.

“That doesn’t mean we’re going to go on strike. It means we’re willing to go on strike,” she said. “Most unions that end up taking a strike vote actually end up going on strike. It’s also a way to show how the members are behind the union’s position and everybody is in agreement.”

Jones said if a strike vote were to

occur, it wouldn’t happen immediately.

“In our constitution, we have to have a meeting beforehand. We have to give notice of that meeting . . . We aren’t planning on having one on the 29, to put it that way,” she said.

For either a lockout or a strike to occur, both parties must give each other 24 hours’ notice. Jones said the union doesn’t plan on taking any serious immediate action around exam time.

“We certainly think that would be a pretty serious move. I can’t imagine that our members are going to want to do that to students,” she said. “Even if we suggested it to them, I don’t think it would fly.”

The Brunswickan contacted UNB for a comment on Carr’s ruling and the

negotiations, and was told that because negotiations are still ongoing, they’re only sending media statements.

“The atmosphere surrounding negotiations has been constructive. There has been give and take on both sides since negotiations formally began last April,” the statement read.

“We are hoping for a negotiated solution and are continuing with the collective bargaining process at this time. We are encouraging people to visit Unb.ca/labour for updates.”

UNB is the only university in New Brunswick that has never lost a day of classes due to a strike or a lockout. Jones said if a strike or lockout were to happen, she hopes the trend will continue.

“Now certainly [things have] been reorganized, condensed or extended,”

Jones said. “Sometimes spring break gets cancelled. Things like that that are probably going to be aggravating, no doubt . . . but no one actually has ever lost a term.”

Jones said that strikes in the academic sector typically last around 19 days or less, time that usually gets made up.

“If there was a strike, and once it was over, I know in terms of our membership our first priority would be to sort things out with the students and minimize the chaos and get through the curriculum,” she said.

For more information and updates on the negotiations go to Unb.ca/ labour and Aunbt.ca

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Life with plastic - is it really fantastic?

Marc Gagnon Staff Reporter No cash for a movie? Charge it.

Need to get the new Call of Duty?

Charge it.

Buckets at the Social Club? Charge it.

Sound familiar?

Credit card use among students is rising at an alarming rate, and reckless spending has plunged many into debt.

According to a 2008 study by t he Fi na ncia l Consumer

Agency of Canada (FCAC), 72 per cent of Canadian youth have a credit card, with one in five preferring credit cards as their first choice for payment.

Six in 10 young Canadians currently have some debt – primarily from credit cards.

Almost four in 10 report that there has been at least one month in the past year when they were unable to

pay their bills, with 35 per cent who find themselves in this situation using credit cards to cover their expenses.

Dr. Eben Otuteye, assistant dean of UNB’s faculty of business administration and professor of finance, is blunt when it comes to students and credit cards.

“My first choice would be for them not to have [credit cards],” Otuteye said. “Banks say it can help you build your credit, but that is a very lame argument – I

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don’t think it’s a very good idea to get into debt just to build credit.”

While Otuteye does place some of the blame on banks’ marketing practices, he also believes students shoulder an equal responsibility to use their cards wisely.

“It’s wrong budgeting, a wrong way of thinking about money. [Students] just yield to the advertising that happens on campus. I don’t know how much [banks] explain to them,” he said Though Otuteye doesn’t recommend that students own credit cards, he does have a tip to help the many who do: get a working budget.

“That’s the number one law of successful business planning: know how much you are going to get, then how much to spend, and try to not spend more than you earn. With a low lim-

it, say $500, you can do most things that you want within the payment cycle,” he said.

“Before you get a credit card, have a budget, and live at least one year where you have proved to yourself that you can live within a budget. Then, maybe, you qualify to begin using credit.”

An informal survey of UNB students found that many do in fact have smart spending habits. Arif Atif, finance student at UNB, said many students don’t understand a credit card is a tool that must be used properly.

“I have a credit card with a $500 spending limit,” Atif said. “I charge my phone, my insurance, and my groceries. I keep a record, I make a regular payment on it, and I don’t spend more than I earn.”

According to Atif, those who have trouble managing their time will run into the same problems managing their money.

“It’s a good system,” he said. “People just need to learn to use it properly.”

International Education Week a success Brandon Ramey The Brunswickan Last week, UNB students got to think global.

The university hosted International Education Week, where students attended different events to learn about international opportunities and exchanges.

These events ranged everywhere from an International Opportunities Fair to a networking event for all of the International Student Associations.

Jenn Connolly, UNBSU vicepresident internal, acts as a liaison between the Student Union and the

International Students Association. She said she’s pleased with yet another successful International Education week.

“This week is to make students more aware of which opportunities are available for them. It will hopefully show them how these internships and exchanges can help them further down the road,” Connolly said.

Although the majority of the week had been geared towards Canadian students and the opportunities available for them, there were some activities that involved international students during this week.

Laura Fanjoy, Cross-Cultural Program coordinator, was in charge of

ensuring that both Canadian students and international students had the chance to mingle.

“We brought a group of international students to watch the UNB vs. STU hockey game on Friday, [as] sort of a little Canadian cultural experience,” Fanjoy said.

Fanjoy said although there are several international student groups on campus, it can be difficult to find something that interests all groups and this week has helped with that.

“We really like to promote the groups that have similar interests and objectives to work together towards the same goal,” she said.

Last week was also the beginning of a program that the international student groups will be working together to achieve: an international student fund.

International students often run into financial challenges while studying in Canada. Due to the international tuition and other costs there is little wiggle room in their budgets. This can become a problem for international students who end up having hospital bills or other last-minute emergencies.

“Students want to come together to create an international fund for international students who may be in financial distress, such as students in accidents, apartment fires and other

last-minute emergencies,” Fanjoy said.

Connolly said many students are still unaware of the international opportunities UNB has to offer. Whether through employers or educational programs, an international exchange will definitely set you apart from the pack.

“I think it’s a really great opportunity that I think more people should really be taking advantage of,” Connolly said. “I regret not going on an exchange and it’s a little too late for me now.”

THEBRUNS.CA Tuesday, December 3 at 7pm: Environmental Injustice Event at the Kinsella Auditorium, Margaret McCain Hall, St Thomas University.

Clayton Thomas-Muller (named "Climate Hero" 2009) and Gina Csanyi-Robah (awarded the Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012) will be holding a Conversation about First Nations and Roma Socio-Political Initiatives and Perspectives. The purpose of this event is to discuss how our environment - the place where we live - affects us physically, emotionally, and mentally. What happens when we are denied access to safe and adequate housing, clean air, fresh water, safe social spaces, and economic security? Why are racialized and low-income communities often located nearest to the most polluting industries and areas of environmental degradation? How can we mobilize our communities to fight for a safe and healthy environment? Free Admission For more information please contact socialworkandecology@gmail.com

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N.B. tied with N.L. for highest youth unemployment Emma McPhee News Reporter

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In New Brunswick, job hunting is a full-time job in and of itself.

According to October’s New Brunswick Labour Market Bulletin, at 10.7 per cent the province is tied with Newfoundland for the highest rate of unemployment in Canada.

The age group most affected by this statistic is those of 15 to 24 years. Nineteen point six percent of people in this category are unemployed.

For people 25 years and older, the unemployment rate is 10.5 per cent.

“The numbers are high, the rates for youth unemployment are bad,” said Dr. David Murrell, an economics professor at UNB. There are many factors that con-

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tribute to the higher unemployment rates in youth.

“Young people go to school and therefore are more loosely attached to the labour force, offering labour during the summer full-time and perhaps part-time through the year,” Murrell said. “Since they move in and out of the job market, it becomes tougher to find and keep work.”

Murrell said that competition with older, more experienced workers is another problem.

“Employers prefer experienced workers. They see training as a cost,” he said.

Although the unemployment rates for the 15 to 24 years age group declined from 20.2 percent to 19.6 per cent over the last three months, Murrell said this change wasn’t significant.

“Unemployed people must be actively looking for work, and not finding work, over the past three weeks of the survey,” he said. “For the most part, if [unemployment rates] decline, it means that there has been some job creation or some people have stopped looking for work.”

Anne Soucy, director of UNB Student Employment Services, said students who went back to school during the survey period would account for the decline. “[The labour market bulletin] is for this quarter so a lot of students went back to school in September,” she said.

While at UNB, Soucy said there are things students can be doing now to increase their likelihood of becoming employed.

“Students could start earlier developing some skills that would give

them the skills that employers would identify as being beneficial to the companies,” she said.

The Student Employment Centre also offers workshops to help develop employability skills and events such as career fairs that bring employers to students.

“Doing the research and knowing what’s out there is half the battle too,” Soucy said.

However, the main cause of unemployment in New Brunswick is the lack of jobs.

“New Brunswick has a slowgrowth economy, given that we have not had any big, new industries developing in our province,” Merrell said. “Because of this, there are few jobs being created for unskilled or semi-skilled young people, so the provincial government can’t create new jobs for the young.”

That reality leads to many students leaving the province upon graduating.

“There are few jobs available for graduating students, especially those outside of occupations with immediate demand. These students must migrate to western Canada for work,” said Murrell.

Soucy said students leaving is hurting the province overall. She said youth unemployment is a cyclical problem because it keeps recent graduates from staying in the province and becoming valuable citizens.

“Everybody recognizes that it’s economic times and a lot of things we’re trying to put in place to address some of those issues,” Soucy said.

“But the bottom line is the students are not going to stay if they can’t find a job.”

Student pushes for adoption of Bitcoin at SFU Esther Tung The Peak (Simon Fraser University) BUR NA BY (CUP) — Since its unveiling one week ago, almost $100,000 in Canadian dollars has been exchanged for Bitcoins at the world’s first Bitcoin ATM, located at Waves Coffee House on Howe Street in downtown Vancouver.

Bitcoin is a virtual currency which has been gaining traction as an investment asset and viable alternative to legal tender. In January of this year, one bitcoin was worth about $130. On the heels of several highprofile press stories, including headlines of a Norwegian man who forgot he had purchased $27 in bitcoins a few years ago and found that they were worth nearly $887,000 today, the value of one bitcoin has skyrocketed to $240 today.

Simon Fraser University (SFU) business student Michael Yeung, founder and president of the SFU Bitcoin Club, has put his school’s name in press outlets across the world with his involvement in promoting and facilitating the transition of Bitcoin into the mainstream.

He sees Bitcoin as a particularly strong disruptor of money services like Paypal and Western Union

Michael Yeung urges that Bitcoins would “put SFU on the world map.” antanacoins / The Peak (which currently hold monopolies in their respective markets) but also, eventually, for credit cards and others used for many of our daily transactions. Fees are much lower, at about one per cent compared to 3.5 to five per cent with existing financial services. The fee is returned to the persons who “mined” the bitcoin.

Yeung says that growing Bitcoin as

a mainstream currency will change the way people, particularly young people, think about money. According to Yeung, because there is only a finite number of bitcoins (21 million in total) that can be mined, “the value of a bitcoin will only grow.

This means that people are less likely to spend it unnecessarily.”

Yeung stated that this is the opposite of today’s economy, in which

governments stimulate the economy by putting more money into the circulation. “This means that the money in your bank account loses value, which incentivizes people to spend it before that happens.”

Currently, the goal of the SFU Bitcoin Club is to push for the implementation of Bitcoin infrastructure, such as point of sale systems at campus businesses and Bitcoin ATMs on

site. To this end, Yeung has begun approaching members of SFU’s administration.

Beyond simple transactions, Yeung has his sights set on SFU eventually accepting Bitcoins as payment for tuition fees, much like Draper University in Silicon Valley has recently done. Draper is currently the only university in the world that accepts Bitcoins, in addition to accepting other non-conventional payments, such as shares in a student’s business or an in-kind donation of skills to the university.

“Doing this would put SFU on the world map,” he said.

Barrier of entr y to accepting bitcoin payments is extremely low, requiring a merchant to simply register with a service, like Bitpay, and have their unique QR code on hand for customers to scan with their smartphones. A larger concern of merchants who may want to accept Bitcoin payments is the volatility of the currency.

There are several methods to reduce seller-side risk by protecting them from any drops in the value of Bitcoins – however, this protection also insures them if their value rises.

“Low risk, low reward,” said Yeung.

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Save your twenties – here’s 10 ways to save your money Connor Jay The Brunswickan So, you’re a few months into the school year and your student loan cheque has already run out, spent on booze and other tools for making those nights you can’t remember just that much more special.

But now you actually need that money? Everyone seems to forget about that part.

With a need to actually save money, have no fear; here are 10 tips to save money while at university!

1: Start cooking at home: Really though. A nd when I say cooking, I’m not talking about Hot Pockets and Kraft Dinner. Buy real food and veggies, and actually prepare that on your own. Yes, it takes longer, but everyone likes someone who can cook. Ladies, it is a well known fact that a way to a man’s heart is his stomach. Gents, well, the girls love a guy that can cook. So if your inspiration to cook at home draws from wanting to get lucky or to get frugal, it’s fine by me.

2: Cook for more than one: Make leftovers. This takes the stress off cooking multiple meals each day, and allows you to buy in bulk! Leftovers also allow you to take your own lunch, which is hands down cheaper than buying food on campus.

3: Ditch the car: Really, leave it at home. I also expect you’ve all got two feet and a heartbeat. Walk

places, ride a bike somewhere. You can easily save $100 or more right off the bat just by not buying a parking pass. I’m not saying don’t have a car, because cars are great, but when there are so many other options, why even bother taking it to campus?

4: Get drunk less: You don’t need to drink excessively every weekend like your life depends on it. As someone who doesn’t drink much, I can’t even fathom how people can afford to go hard every weekend. I also wonder how that doesn’t get boring, week after week, but that might just be a curious observation by me.

Imagine how much money you’d save if you cut your alcohol consumption down by even just 20 per cent.

5: Go to restaurants less: I find a lot of people go to restaurants as an excuse to hang out with people.

You’re willing to pay $15 or more to hang out with someone? Just invite them over to your place – it costs nothing for you! If you insist on having lots of food present for hanging out, have a potluck. Even if it’s a bag of frozen french fries, that’s way cheaper than eating out.

6: Don’t do delivery: This one just comes down to being lazy. I assume that when you order delivery, you could probably go get it, you just don’t want to. Change that attitude.

Even by car, you would not spend as much on gas going to get your item as you would by ordering delivery.

Think about it, you’re paying for

Leaving your plastic at home can make a big difference in your spending habits.

Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan someone else’s gas, and paying to employ someone.

7: Sign up for student banking: This one should be a no brainer.

Every major bank offers student banking and you might as well take care of it. They all come with different benefits, but why use a regular account when you can get free stuff?

8: Find a cheap way to do laundr y: My building charges

$1.75 to use the washing machine, $1.75 to use the dryer. That’s expensive. Makes friends with someone who has cheap laundry, or someone who lives at home.

9: Use cash more, cards less: This is some wisdom from my father, ol’ Reuben. You can physically see the money leaving your wallet as you use cash. With debit and credit cards, you don’t directly see the effect of

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your purchase. When buying with cash, this usually leads to smarter purchases because you’re actually giving away your money, where as with cards, you don’t directly feel your bank account being drained.

10: Pick up a FREE Brunswickan every Wednesday: It’s a free news source tailored to you.

Why read anything else? Plus, I write for it.

With Movember coming to a close this week, we decided to check in with some participants and meet their mustache’s before they (hopefully) meet the razor.

NAME: Adam Dickson

NAME: Alex McTiernan

NAME: Drew Garnett

NAME: Mike Martel

NAME: Rory Keys

MONEY RAISED: None

MONEY RAISED: None yet, but says he is hosting a party to raise money.

MONEY RAISED: None

MONEY RAISED: $45

MONEY RAISED: None yet

REASON FOR PARTICIPATING: “To show awareness.”

REASON FOR PARTICIPATING: “To change the face of men’s health.”

REASON FOR PARTICIPATING: “Because my dad gave me a great mustache.”

MUSTACHE NAME: “The Thigh Tickler”

MUSTACHE NAME: “The Tickler”

BEST PART OF HAVING A ‘STACHE: “The ladies pretend not to love it.”

BEST STYLE OF MUSTACHE: “The Frenchman.”

REASON FOR PARTICIPATING: “To help raise money for prostate cancer, a very common cancer.”

MUSTACHE NAME: “I’ll have to think of one.”

BEST PART OF HAVING A ‘STACHE: “Good looks of course! Yet, dirty looks from others.”

REASON FOR PARTICIPATING: “To raise money and to grow a terrible mustache.”

MUSTACHE NAME: “Houdini: it turns invisible when you’re 5 feet away.”

BEST PART OF HAVING A ‘STACHE: “It actually saves flavour.”

MUSTACHE NAME: “Turbo” BEST PART OF HAVING A ‘STACHE: The warmth.

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Richard Kemick Opinions Columnist High school gym class taught me many life lessons, such as that simply running up and down the field while bobbing your head is often enough to give the illusion of participation, and that your body is something you should always be ashamed of. Though perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that the idea of everyone all finishing equal is lie, a fib told to children to stop them from crying. And it is an important lesson because in sport, like in life, someone will eventually come out on top at the expense of the other. But that’s the name of the game.

Take the funding of your education, for example. Tuition keeps rising, making the shrinking amount of scholarships available even more cutthroat and winner-take-all. To better demonstrate how little financial aid this university has available, Maclean’s ranked UNB as fifteenth – dead last – based on how much of the university’s operating budget goes towards scholarships and bursaries. Fifteenth place. If there was a podium that recognized fifteenth position, UNB would be standing ten feet below ground.

Do you know who finished fifteenth in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics for men’s hockey? Nobody. Latvia rounded off the pack in twelfth. There are not even enough hockey-playing countries in the entire world for me to make an apt sports analogy here. If the Central African Republic convinced twenty people to strap on a pair of skates, the sub-Saharan country would still be guaranteed to finish in a better standing than UNB’s financial aid. In response, UNB president Eddy Campbell displayed his oracle-like foresight and said this shows an area where UNB can improve.

In the university’s defence, however, we did finish in first place for our library holdings per student. With that stat in

mind, it does then put our fifteenth spot finish in a different light. We can’t have everything; if the only way to keep our library, the heart of the university, well-stocked is to slash scholarships and bursaries, then that’s just the way it goes.

The problem is, however, that not everybody is expecting a reduced scholarship. In the past five years, the total amount of scholarships given to Canadian university athletes has doubled. I cannot think of a single thing that hasn’t been cut in universities within the past five years, let alone doubled. As far as post-secondary education goes, I thought the only thing that was allowed to increase was the student-to-professor ratio and the prevalence of STIs. UNB specifically has contributed around a half million dollars to their athletic financial awards. Furthermore, according to the New Brunswick Beacon, UNB’s men’s hockey teams gives out well over $100,000 a year to their athletes in scholarships. The team’s head coach, Lord Gardiner MacDougall, makes up to $100,000 annually. As of March 2013, that is almost the same salary as Mariano Rajoy, the Prime Minister of Spain. Who knew that leading a hockey team was the equivalent of leading a G20 country?

The average scholarship amount given to each hockey player at UNB is $4,783, according to the report from the New Brunswick Beacon.

Which is saying something, because at $6,007 per year for most programs at a full-time course load, that means the average UNB athlete hardly has to pay any tuition at all. I think even my Grade 10 gym coach would find this a bit extreme, and this is a man who once told me that glasses were a sign of evolutionary weakness.

I’m not saying that athletics should have no place within a university.

The discipline, strategy, and tenacity that sport teaches are the same skills

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Tuition breaks aren’t just for those who can score

According to reports, UNB student athletes were awarded more than $100,000 last season. Submitted needed to succeed in academia. The Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world, asks for applicants’ athletic history as well as academic. Cecil Rhodes sought scholars who were more than “mere bookworms,” instead wanting their intellectual capabilities to be combined with other talents as well.

(To learn more about Cecil Rhodes’s great humanitarian insights, consult the country of Zimbabwe.)

If it was financially possible for every UNB athlete to get reduced tuition, I would absolutely support that. Because I would absolutely support every UNB student receiving reduced tuition. In an ideal situation, I think we can all agree that this university would be on stable fiscal footing and students would never have to allow the financial costs of attending university dismay them.

But in reality, this university has been burdened with the salaries of execu-

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tives that model their lifestyles after Conservative senators. We have large bills to pay.

It is not that intellectual pursuits are more noble than athletic endeavors, but that a university’s first priority must be academia. Athletic scholarships need to be curtailed and reassigned; it is money that needs that the entire student body should be able to compete for – not just those who were never picked last.

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Checking something off your bucket list is priceless Nick Murray Editor-in-Chief Ever go on a spontaneous road trip?

I mean, a real spontaneous road trip.

The kind where you call up a buddy on a random Tuesday and say “Hey, want to go to Boston next week for the World Series?”

I did, and you should too. Maybe a sporting event isn’t your cup of tea, but now’s the time in your life where you should be knocking off at least a few things off your bucket list.

And I know some of you are feeling the strains of money and school. I get that. But being broke shouldn’t stop you from treating yourself to that backpacking trip across Europe you’ve always wanted to do – although if you ever look into going backpacking, Asia is the way to go.

But I digress.

I went to Boston last month for Game 2 of the World Series. Amazing as it was, I had to work to get there. For instance, the friend I went with lives in Halifax and couldn’t get a way up to Fredericton in time to leave for the game Thursday morning. So after my class ended Wednesday evening, I hopped in my rental car, drove to Halifax to get him, turned around and was in my bed by 2:15 a.m.

We were on the road six hours later after a quick stop at McDick’s, tickets in hand – which we paid way too much for on StubHub – and were outside Fenway Park by 4 p.m.

Yes, between the tickets, hotel, car rental, gas, food, overpriced World Series swag, reasonably priced Fenway Franks and beer, my 24-hour bucket list excursion made a nice little dent in my bank account.

But it was so, so worth it.

The way I see it is like this: I’m a huge Red Sox fan and seeing any World Series game is on my bucket list. But to see one at Fenway just puts the cherry on the sundae. But here’s the kicker: I don’t know when I’ll get another chance to see a game like this. Boston is only seven hours away, and the next time the World Series is relatively close, where will I be? I could be working or married with kids and might not be able to

Plan to save for that awesome trip you always dreamed of. Ian Froese / The Brunswickan

take off on a whim like I did. And that’s my point.

Money or no money, figure out a way. If you’re broke from going three rounds with Jack Daniels himself week in and week out – or other expenses not related to alcohol consumption – think of areas where you can cut back $5 or $10 a week. Maybe it’s not getting that last drink before last call, or organizing yourself better to not have to hop in an expensive cab ride. Maybe it’s not getting that second coffee

during the day or going to buy your groceries on Tuesdays when you can save 10 per cent.

Bottom line is, especially for us graduates, we’ve earned a nice vacation in May. You don’t need to hoard your Christmas loot, but you’ve got 18 weeks from Jan. 1 to the end of school, and if you find a way to conjure up a nice lump sum you won’t regret it blowing it all in one fell swoop.

Robert De Niro has a good line from the movie The Score: “Want

my advice? Make a list of everything you want, now, and plan on spending the next twenty-five years of your life getting it – slowly – piece by piece.”

Of course my interpretation of what De Niro’s character Nick Wells was saying was in reference to stealing things, but the same concept applies. In my humble opinion, start checking off your bucket list now because in 25 years, it may be too late.

But please, don’t let money dictate what you can and can’t do. I’m not saying to cram yourself into debt,

but even putting a third of your paycheque away can make a huge difference by May. When I told people how much I spent, I got the good old-fashioned “I’m going to list off all the things you could have got with that money” speech. Some of the interesting ones that came up were a new suit, a TV, part of my tuition and a seven-day Caribbean cruise, FOR TWO! No seriously, that last one was legit.

But none of those things are on my bucket list.

The 1968 Strax Affair: A Turning Point in UNB History David Frank The Brunswickan Anyone who was at the University of New Brunswick in 1968-69 will remember the tumultuous events that are known in the shorthand of history as “the Strax Affair.”

And anyone who wants to revisit the story, or read it for the first time, has the benefit of a short book by Peter C. Kent, published last year under the title Inventing Academic Freedom: The 1968 Strax Affair at the University of New Brunswick.

At the time of the Strax Affair, the author was a young history professor, as well as don of MacKenzie House and an assistant to the university president. Since retirement, he has taken the time to look back at those events and explain their place in the history of the university.

Big historical changes are often embodied in individuals, and in this story two of them stand out as archetypal figures of the times.

President Colin B. Mackay was the great builder of the modern university.

During his presidency UNB expanded from 70 faculty and 700-plus students in 1953 to more than 300 faculty and almost 5,000 students by 1968. The number of buildings on campus more than tripled. But old ideas about how the university should be run turned out be a lot slower to change.

For his part, Norman Strax was a Harvard graduate with a PhD in nuclear physics who arrived as an assistant professor in 1966. Although a shy man, Strax came to prominence as an organizer of buses to an anti-war protest at the Pentagon in 1967. A year later he emerged as, in Professor Kent’s terms, the “catalyst for the

radical potential that already existed” among students and faculty.

Both were flawed heroes, but the “troubles” cannot be attributed to Mackay or Strax alone.

What mattered most was that this was a time of change in the life of the university. Greater access to higher education was a major development for the people of the province. The university community was more diverse than ever before, and the traditional “presidential autocracy” was being challenged by new ideas about faculty and student participation.

UNB was ready to go on to its future as a force in provincial development and as one of the ranking research and teaching universities in Canada. But history is often driven by the flashpoints that occur when the old order is fading and the new one has not yet arrived.

In this case a small protest against identity cards at the library deepened into an overlapping set of crises: the suspension and later dismissal of the young professor; a student occupation of his office; a judicial injunction against Strax; and charges against the student newspaper that resulted in a jail term for one of the writers.

When the university finally accepted arbitration of the dispute, this was one of the early successes for the Canadian Association of University Teachers in setting standards of due process for academic employment in Canada.

Meanwhile, the president had already submitted his resignation, recognizing that he was not the right person to lead the university in changing times. He went on to play a national and international role in promoting higher education.

Strax himself lost his job and

became a martyr to the cause who, as Professor Kent puts it, “sacrificed his academic career to opposing the injustice of institutional oppression.”

He later taught at a small college in Indiana.

This is a memorable story in the history of UNB. It will also be read as a chapter in the history of student unrest in the 1960s and as a case study in the evolution of academic freedom in Canada.

For his part, the author has served UNB for many years as a teacher, scholar and administrator. With this book, written with compassionate objectivity about the institution and its people, Professor Kent has rendered another service to the university.

David Frank teaches Canadian history at UNB.

W E I V OINT P John Milloy

on What’s YOUR s week? i h t d n i m

Evan Cameron

If there was a Canadian $1 bill, who would you put on it?

Chantele Thibodeau

Hannah McBride

Anneke Latouche “Florence Nightingale, because she’s a mother of modern nursing.”

“Gene Simmons, because he married Shannon Tweed.”

“Rob Ford. He’s an important Canadian politician.”

“Jose Bautista!”

“Miley Cyrus, because I can’t remember the Canadian from the Hunger Games.”

Liam Guitard

Leanne Carruthers

Jill Pilgrim

Haley McLean

Swapnil Sule

“Ben Whitney, for his presidential appeal.”

“Ryan Reynolds, because he’s really hawt!”

“Jordan Eberle, because he’s a fantastic hockey player.”

“Ben Whitney, because he’s quintessentially Canadian.”

“The Queen. She’s still praised here.”

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Tess Allen Arts Reporter For Tina LeJeune, the path to a better Fredericton is lined with art.

“Artists make up so much of our culture here in the city, and if we can nurture that and promote it, then Fredericton will be a better place.”

LeJeune isn’t just all talk. From hosting public auctions in support of local art programs to showcasing live artists in store windows, the co-owner of Fredericton’s Isaac’s Way and M&T Deli makes it a priority to present and promote the works of local artists whenever and however she can.

“There’s always an art auction going on [at Isaac’s Way]. Right now we’re on our 19th auction and we’ve raised around $56,000 for kids who want lessons in the arts, be it music, theatre, dance or art,” said LeJeune.

“The great thing is that many artists are not featured in galleries so this is an opportunity for them to showcase their work to the public. They can take 50 per cent [of the proceeds] back but some artists will donate all 100 per cent.”

As for M&T Deli, it’s not just the art on the walls that pays homage to Fredericton’s many diverse artists.

“Every week there’s a new live artist in the front window, [either] doing painting, pottery, sketching, wood carvings, weaving . . . it’s just quite

a variety. The artists come and really value the opportunity to work in a live space environment where customers can stop and chat with them,” said LeJeune, adding that there are over 50 pieces of art hanging throughout the shop for sale.

For LeJeune, sprinkling the walls and windows of both downtown hubs with the work of local artists was a no-brainer.

“The reason we do it . . . is the connection we get with the community, knowing we are helping and contributing to the community. They’ve been really good to us and this is obviously a really great way to give back. The restaurant [also] gets a facelift every four months.”

M&T co-owner Derek Gallant considers this to be one of the chief benefits.

“All local artists need a place to display their art. I have a lot of wall space in my deli, and so rather than me decorate and redecorate and redecorate, I don’t have to do that anymore,” he said.

“It brings in some business because some people like to look at the art and it gives an atmosphere . . . and if it sells, it makes everybody a little bit of money.”

Katherine Adams, owner of Fredericton’s Sweet Belgian Desire, knows the feeling. Nestled conveniently within the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, the café offers a full display of local work.

“It’s not an easy life to be an artist.

M & T Deli is one of many Fredericton businesses that works with local artists.

Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan At [Sweet Belgian Desire], [we] have provides student rates for artists. We dollars. It’s where our interests lie and free walls and free space, and we don’t do that to try and help younger artists it’s what we’ve always done and it’s procharge anything. It’s a nice gesture,” to take their music to the next level.” vided a lot of return for us,” said Goodsaid Adams.

Roger said part of the inspiration for win, adding that the local business has “Usually the artist approaches us launching 2 Dogs Productions was the a partnership with the Charlotte Street and if we have space available, we hang sheer amount of talent brewing within Arts Centre and “we generally sponsor it up. They’re nice people and we like the Maritimes. the [Charlotte Street] Arts Centre, to a working them.”

“The Maritimes is renowned world- degree, all over the place.”

Record producer and audio engin- wide for having a lot of musical talent, “We’ve had a lot of little partnerships eer Gilles Roger couldn’t agree more, so having an opportunity to work with and our ear is always to the ground. If although his local business caters to a the people who produce this music is we’re associating ourselves and we’re different kind of artist. His Fredericton really nice,” he said. pushing it, we’ll put it through our recording studio, 2 Dogs Productions, “We only ask two things when social media channels and we’ll spread welcomes local musicians of all ages people come to see us: we want to make the word just as much as the artists. and stages. sure they want to have fun, and that The more we all pump it, the more we “I established 2 Dogs Productions they want to make some great music all digest it.” [because] . . . in the music community, and do whatever it takes to make music.

Goodwin said that while there are there’s a great need for more access and If they’re in, then we take them on.” a variety of reasons Picaroons helps more affordable services at the profesFor Dennis Goodwin of Fred- support the local arts community, one sional level. My goal was to establish a ericton’s Picaroons Traditional Ales, rises above all else. studio that would rival with studios in showing support for local artists and “It’s the same way we make beer; it’s New York, L.A. and Nashville,” said musicians comes in the form of promo- the craft of it, it’s honest, it’s creative, the retired member of the RCMP and tion, sponsorship and even hosting the it’s inventive, it’s down to earth. It’s just long-time musician. occasional gig. very New Brunswick.”

“We’re, as far as I know, the only “[Local artists] are where we invest company in New Brunswick that a lot of our time and our sponsorship

God of Carnage “pokes fun at human nature -- with a stick” Marc Gagnon Staff Reporter As anyone who frequents dinner parties can attest, there’s always an underlying current of animosity to pointless small talk. And when the facade of civilization starts to fade, it can get nasty.

Really, really nasty.

In God of Carnage, the new TNB production based on the Tony Awardwinning play by Yasmina Reza, a simple playground altercation between boys leads to a passive-aggressive get-together that would make Ricky Gervais cringe.

As yuppie helicopter parents devolve into misanthropic sots, we see the real shadows that lurk just around the corner in suburbia.

Barry McCluskey, director of the show and fourth-year drama student at UNB, relishes the opportunity to expose his audience to their own darker

tendencies.

“It pokes fun at human nature – with a stick,” he said.

“It takes the thoughts we filter through conversation and lets them loose, taking ordinary people such as ourselves and stripping us down to these basic, de-evolved, savage, nihilistic people with selfish intentions, who care nothing about more than if world revolves around them.”

The play is set entirely within the living room of Michael and Veronica Novak, two well-off Brooklynites whose son has his teeth bashed in by the child of another couple, Allan and Annette Raleigh. As the four parents meet to discuss the incident, polite compliments turn to veiled threats. As they progressively stuff themselves with food and drink, their kids’ conflict becomes a catalyst for their own personal demons to surface.

Fonya Irvine, who plays Annette, said that the role definitely challenged her as an actress.

“This is an emotionally charged play, where you do a complete 180 – there’s a scene where I’m laughing, and then within a nanosecond I’m crying hysterically. And that happens to almost everyone in the play,” she said.

Crystal Chettiar, who plays Veronica, agreed.

“There’s a lot of [emotional] ups and downs – we all have to figure out the fluidity of that, as a team.”

One challenging technical aspect of staging God of Carnage was its uninterrupted 90-minute running time.

McCluskey sang the praises of his actors for being able to maintain a high level of energy for the entire duration while staying in character. ”It’s certainly a sprint compared to other works; a show like this has its peaks

and valleys when it comes to emotion . . . the audience is going to become numb to what they’re watching, if everybody just stays at one level.”

McCluskey hopes that the black humour of God of Carnage will allow the more serious material to sink in, and allow the audience to see themselves in the characters on stage.

“It certainly touches on how we can blow things out of proportion, and on the silences that people have when we refrain from saying something,” he said.

“It illustrates the backlash from not filtering our thoughts; how we can just become a little destructive, a little savage, a little selfish.”

God of Carnage will be showing at Memorial Hall from Wednesday, Nov. 27 to Saturday, Nov. 30, starting at 8 p.m. nightly. Tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and $8 for students.

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Songs of the week.

by Sebastian Maynard

Chet Faker and Flume - Drop The Game

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27

On “Drop the Game,” Australian producer Chet Faker teams up with countryman Flume to deliver a dark, dance-inspired track. The release of the electronic/R&B song comes with an accompanying music video that features dancer Storyboard P moving through the streets of New York. “As soon as I heard it, I wanted to make something that had a dark and dirty undercurrent, with some haunting and beautiful elements crescendo-ing over the top,” said video director Lorin Askill. The video suits the song perfectly, where the eerie, catchy instrumental, combined with the beautiful singing of Flume, transfers to the dark, rainy streets of New York and the nonchalant dancing of Storyboard P.

You picked up a Brunswickan! Mini wave in celebration of you!

God of Carnage opens at Memorial Hall. 8 p.m., $8 for students. Check out the article by Marc Gagnon in this week’s issue!

THURSDAY, NOV. 28

Schoolboy Q - Man of the Year Schoolboy Q is probably never going to be hailed as “Lyricist of the Year” or “Rapper of the Year” like his friend Kendrick Lamar was by GQ, but Schoolboy makes his case for the title of “Man of the Year” in the best way he knows how: making a simple, catchy rap song. When you look at the formula for Q’s best known tracks, like “Hands on the Wheel,” “There He Go” or “Collard Greens,” “Man of the Year” fits right in. Q is more of a style rapper than anything; his bucket hat, tattoos and carefree songs are what have made him popular, both among fans and fellow rappers. His rhyme schemes are simple (“hands in the air/party over here/man of the year”), but he has a way of constructing songs that makes up for the simplicity. All you have to do is search for a live performance of his on YouTube, and you see how fans go just as crazy for his songs as they do for his labelmates in Black Hippy. While he may not receive the critical acclaim that some rappers do, Q has found a niche that is working just fine for him.

Shaun LeBlanc and Jess Healt at Wilser’s room. $8 at the door, 10:30 p.m.

God of Carnage at Memorial Hall. 8 p.m., $8 for students.

FRIDAY, NOV. 29 God of Carnage at Memorial Hall. 8 p.m., $8 for students.

Cinema Politica: The Carbon Rush at the Conserver House. By donation, 7 p.m.

Hiss Golden Messenger - Drum

Madrigal Players presents I’ll Be Home for Christmas musical dinner theatre at the Fredericton Inn. Buy tickets at the Fredericton Inn or by emailing madrigalmusicians@gmail.com. $32, 6:30 p.m.

November is a pretty dismal month. The leaves have fallen, the sun has disappeared, and we are all caught in the middle of getting excited for snow and missing the summer. This week, Hiss Golden Messenger gave us a song that bridges those two worlds, whether you want to be on a beach hearing the waves crash against the shore, or in a lodge with a fire crackling, preparing to hit the slopes. “Drum” is a mellow folk song that reminds lyrically of Jack Johnson and musically of Iron and Wine. There is a warmth to the track, and as M.C. Taylor sings “take the good news and spirit it away,” you realize that it doesn’t matter what season you are in, because a good song can take you to wherever you want to go.

Dear

boiling because of your roommate’s mannerisms, try to think of your own. Your roommate leaves the toilet seat up? Yeah, well you leave your dishes in the sink.

When you’re living in close quarters, it’s easy for tiny arguments to escalate. If you’re going to confront your roomie, be prepared for compromise. Being accusatory won’t help anything, especially since chances are your roommate isn’t even aware of his If you have a question for Dear Ari, little idiosyncrasies.

Tread carefully. Don’t forget email Arts@thebruns.ca with the you’ve got months left of living subject line “Dear Ari,” or tweet with your pal, and it could cerher @AskDearAri tainly be worse!

Ari.

Dear Ari – My roommate is driving me absolutely insane. He doesn’t do anything awful, it’s just like a million little habits that all add up and make me want to punch him. How do I keep myself from going crazy?

Sincerely, Cohabitation Carla Dear Cohabitation, Count your lucky stars that he doesn’t do anything awful!

Everybody has a unique, and yes, sometimes irksome combination of quirks and habits that makes them who they are. And you’re not excluded from that list!

Next time you find your blood

Affectionately, Ari

Dear Ari – It’s not even the end of the first semester and I have, like, no money. How am I supposed to make it through the rest of the semester and make sure this doesn’t happen next term?

Sincerely, Broke Brian Dear Broke, Get back to basics! Are you hungry? Do you drink enough non-alcoholic beverages? Do you sleep? Exercise?

Your answers should be no,

SATURDAY, NOV. 30 God of Carnage at Memorial Hall. 8 p.m., $8 for students.

yes, yes, and yes. If they’re not, it’s time to re-evaluate. When the finances fade, so can the luxuries.

You’ll need to compare your budget for the semester with your expenditures. Do the pizza guy and bartender know you by name? Were you the first one on the pre-order list for GTA V? You may want to look into applying for jobs for next semester.

There are plenty of opportunities on campus for employment, many of which involve working directly with professors and getting pertinent experiences to your degree.

For now, you may wish to consider becoming an Odd-Job Jack: “Sure I can review your essay . . . for a fee.”

“You missed a lot of classes, didn’t you? I took great notes, and I can help you out, but it’ll cost ya!”

It’s important that you make a strict budget for yourself for the upcoming semester, in which you overestimate how much you’ll spend on each thing, and underestimate how much money you’ll have for play.

Check your bank account on a daily basis – there’s usually an app for that.

Make friends with Pinterest, and become a DIY master.

May the funds be with you!

Affectionately, Ari

Readings of En el umbral . . . / On the Threshold by Nela Rio and La serpiente y la flor by Isabel Diez Serrano, hosted by the Ibero-American Academy of Poetry at the Fredericton Public Library. Free, 2 p.m.

Public talk by historian Bob Dallison: Fredericton’s Captain John Jenkins: A War of 1812 Hero and His Sweetheart at the Fredericton Public Library, 2:30 p.m.

Phillipine Culture Appreciation Day and Red Cross Typhoon Haiyan Relief Fund fundraising event at Shannex Parkland Fredericton. By donation, 3 p.m. – 4:30p.m.

La viree de Noel du Choeur de Soulanges at the Bernard-Poirier Theatre. $5 student admission, 7:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, DEC. 1 Nutcracker Tea at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. $15, 2 – 4 p.m.

La viree de Noel du Choeur de Soulanges at the BernardPoirier Theatre. $5 student admission, 7:30 p.m.

MONDAY, DEC. 2 Monday Night Film Series: The Hunt at Tilley 102. $7 non-members, 7:30 p.m.

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

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Arts activities for under $10

The Charlotte Street Arts Centre is currently hosting a free exhibit of Larry Holder’s photography.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan and the price of artwork will vary.

Cost: Free David Milley 3.

STU Musical Theatre presents 5. Monday Night Film Series preThe Brunswickan Love, Loss and Longing, a musical and sents one of the year’s most defining 1. Cinema Politica screens documen- spoken performance. The show is being and controversial films: The Hunt. The taries about social justice issues, both directed by Professor Dawn Sadoway film is open to all and will be screening at home and around the world. The and was developed by musical theatre Monday Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Tilley screenings take place every Friday students. It will be presented on Nov. 102. Cost: $7 for students. at the Conserver House, 180 St. 30 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the 6. The Just in Time for Christmas John St. More info can be found at Kinsella Auditorium in McCain Hall. Art Show will be going on from Nov. Cinemapolitica.org/fredericton. Cost: Cost: $3 for students and $5 for adults. 29 until Dec. 8 at the New Brunswick By donation 4. The Charlotte Street Arts Centre Provincial Archives Building located at 2. NBCCD is hosting its annual is presenting Point of Light, a solo ex- 23 Dineen Dr., UNB. The show will Christmas Craft Sale from Friday, Nov. hibit of the work of Fredericton artist be open Monday to Saturday from 10 29 to Monday, Dec. 1. The show fea- Larry Holder. The exhibit has been on a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sundays from 12 tures the brilliant work of second-year display since Nov. 5 and will continue p.m. to 5 p.m. Cost: Free ceramics, jewelry and textiles students until Dec. 9. Check out the exhibit from the college. Cost: Entry is free, in the Charlotte Glencross Gallery.

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The business of loyalty: Glover and Goose Lane

Tess Allen Arts Reporter Douglas Glover takes his time.

The University of New Brunswick writer-in-residence tends to be a perfectionist, and even he admits that he can be a “difficult sell” as a writer.

“I work to an internal rhythm that is mysterious even to me. I can be pretty easily interrupted if someone tries to impose an alternate set of priorities or schedule,” he said.

But Fredericton’s Goose Lane Editions clearly doesn’t mind. Since Glover joined their ranks several decades ago, officials at the small publishing house have become experts at the waiting game, knowing that the end result is always worth it.

That was the case once again this fall, when Glover returned to bookstands after a decade-long fiction hiatus with his latest collection of short stories, Savage Love, a move Susanne Alexander of Goose Lane Editions couldn’t be happier about.

She believes Glover’s long-time involvement with Goose Lane Editions has been instrumental in its growing success, especially since Glover’s Elle earned the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in 2003.

“Elle w inning t he Governor General’s Award was very good for us and our reputation. We were a smaller company then and we have grown considerably since that time . . . Douglas’s work has been an important part of that growth,” said Alexander, who first met Glover in the late 1980s when he was serving his first term as UNB writer-inresidence.

“He’s a slow writer, but he also writes stories like no one else. Other publishers may have wanted him to do write another novel quickly [after Elle] . . . but knowing what an interesting, important writer he is, we were prepared to wait for him.”

This symbiotic relationship is one Glover has cherished tremendously

Arun Budhathoki The Brunswickan

Writer-in-residence Douglas Glover has a longstanding relationship with Goose Lane Editions.

Submitted over the years.

“The publishing industry is notoriously fickle and difficult. Over time I’ve realized that personal relationships and a kind of loyalty that goes both ways is an extremely valuable thing,” he said.

“I’m one of the very few writers I know with all his backlist still in print, and that’s an extraordinarily positive thing; it creates a sense of home and loyalty that most [writers] don’t have.”

Glover added that along with that sense of loyalty, he appreciates a publisher who knows how to handle his particular style.

“Goose Lane has been very good at understanding the way I create.

I always come back to them, partly because they’re friends and partly because they do such a great job.”

While it’s difficult to tell this early in the game whether Savage Love will be as beneficial as Elle for both writer and publisher, Alexander has high hopes.

“It’s an unusual, challenging, imaginative collection of stories – stories that will stay with you long after you’ve read them,” said Alexander, who calls Glover “a challenging writer who challenges his readers.”

“Stor y collections are not as popular as novels . . . but our hope is that the people who embraced him and his earlier novels, particularly Elle, will return to him and read his

short stories as well.”

Glover is of a similar stance, simply offering a casual “Who knows!”

“I’ve been around for so long that I don’t hope. Truthfully, it’s just extremely valuable for me as a creative soul to have a complete book out there; it means I can now push on with the next project,” said Glover.

“I’ve gotten past the point where I think I’ll be rich and famous; it’s something I haven’t wished since I was 12 and haven’t thought of since I was 20. [Goose Lane] did a wonderful job designing the book and so when it comes down to it, that’s the most valuable thing to me.”

Godin. Démontrant la station de radio de CJSE qui offre les nouvelles et la musique country. Dans cette série de témoignages, les personnes figurant dans ce film mettent en valeur du langage familier et non prétentieux. Pendant tout le métrage, je ne pouvais pas m’empêcher de sourire grâce aux individus entretenus comme l’adorable Shirley Gaudet, une femme qui déclare que « des jours je ne suis pas trop shit hot » mais que quand elle station de radio CJSE elle se sent toujours mieux.

Le troisième et dernier film, « Emma fait son cinéma » suit une fille de « quasiment quatorze ans » qui a découvert ses talents en cinématographie très tôt dans la vie. Avec les enfants de la garderie de sa mère comme sujets, Emma recrée les films d’Hollywood avec un air d’innocence qui me laisse nostalgique. L’histoire d’Emma, qui inspire grâce à sa passion et à son

intensité, m’a rendue à la fois optimiste et triste, car je suis consciente du fait que la passion pour un talent peut s’estomper très vite. J’entends tous les jours mes paires qui regrettent leurs loisirs d’adolescence, ce qui est vraiment dommage.

Ce festival était une expérience très enrichissante pour moi, si bien que je tiens à transmettre ce message aux francophones et aux francophiles: Il faut que nous profitions des festivals et d’autres évènements francophones à Fredericton. Le français n’est pas seulement un outil pour obtenir un emploi. Un bénéfice du bilinguisme est l’occasion d’une immersion culturelle.

Pour plus de renseignements au sujet du Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie, visitez www.ficfa.com ou pour des évènements francophones à Fredericton, ou Centre-sainte-anne. nb.ca/.

Une critique du FIFCA Arielle Rechnitzer The Brunswickan FICFA: Le Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie a été organisé par le Centre Communautaire Sainte-Anne le 17, 18, et 20 novembre au cinéma Empire.

Quand j’ai essayé d’acheter mon billet, la femme qui les vendait ne croyait pas que j’étais là pour ce festival. Cependant, cela ne m’a pas surprise. Je suis clairement anglophone, et en entrant dans la salle, je me suis rendu compte que personne n’était plus jeune que moi.

En plus, il n’y avait qu’une trentaine de spectateurs.

Avant que le premier f ilm ne commence, je m’attendais à ce que quelqu’un de FICFA vienne le présenter. J’étais déçue que ce ne soit pas le cas et que la seule indication que le film allait commencer était de voir sur le projeteur quelqu’un qui cliquait « play ».

Money – a necessary evil

Chacun des trois films qui ont joué le 20 novembre étaient des documentaires. Le premier – « Grand-Pré – Écho de l’UNESCO », réalisé par Anika Lirette, consiste des entretiens intimes avec des Acadiens, mais également avec des anglophones de Grand-Pré conscients de la fragilité de l’histoire acadienne. Les images f ixes et panoramas du paysage enchantant donnent l’occasion à l’auditoire de refléter et à admirer la beauté de cette ville historique. J’ai beaucoup apprécié le témoignage d’une jeune femme qui semble partager mes perspectives: « Faut qu’on reconnaisse que c’est aujourd’hui ». Ce film fait un appel à notre génération. Nous avons la responsabilité de partager les histoires de nos aïeux. Il faut se rappeler que nous nous promenons tous sur la terre qui appartenait à quelqu’un d’autre avant nous.

Le deuxième film du soir était « Mon Radio, mon amie » de Karine

Money, unfortunately, is a necessity for consumption and survival – unless, of course, you live on an island where everything grows on its own and you don’t have to buy anything. It is also the root of nearly all anxieties, as our modern life and survival is deeply attached to it – whether we like it or not.

Although money can’t give happiness, it certainly does makes one tense with unwanted worries. This fear or inability to deal with money calls for professional tips and counselling.

Hence, we have courses, institutions and people working in that field. I, on the other hand, speak from personal experience by being an international student.

All of us dream of possessing an ATM that would never run out of money; in real life, however, your expenditure equals the emptying of the magical box. So it’s important to have that balance as we pursue our academic goals. Just like getting an A is not easy, saving money is a learned skill.

Ideally the best way to save money is to calculate your resources, compare with expenses and decide on savings.

After knowing the facts the important factor would be on spending money.

We all have desires and temptations but it’s realistic to make purchases according to the fatness of your wallet/purse rather than choking on credit bills later.

There’s a saying in Nepali: look at your throat’s size and swallow the bone. The basic principle is: consume what you can and how much you can.

As over-consumption of food is bad for the body, so is over-expenditure of money to one’s psychological, emotional and spiritual well-being.

I’ve always followed this rule: location, location and location. I like to set my priorities in location by researching, comparing and knowing what I’m going to buy.

First, go around and find about the stores and malls. This is the problem with capitalism; it offers too much and confuses us too. Well, after a bit of window-shopping you should compare the prices and figure out what is cheaper and where. Also, you should keep an open mind for discounts and stores either in the Regent Mall, downtown or on the north side.

There are several awesome places like Victory Meat Market and the Boyce Farmer’s Market that you should be visiting. I’ve heard there are a few Asian stores around town as well. So far my location is helping me to save money at least.

Eating out is alright occasionally, as it sometimes saves money and energy, but learning to cook can be a lifetime experience. Cooking regularly on your own saves a lot of money, and it’s a skill – when you graduate school you’ll have more than just your certificate!

Most importantly, keep check on your expenses on boozing, partying, dating and the rest. If we’re able to control our desires – sadly, it’s difficult – then we’re able to save money. But again there’s a Nepali proverb: money is the dirt of hand; it comes and goes.

So don’t worry too much; after all you only live once!

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Frosty and frugal fashion

Shopping for stylish winter clothes doesn’t have to break the bank. Allison Olsen / The Brunswickan Allison Olsen The Brunswickan Individuality is expressed in many ways. It can be expressed through your personality or your mannerisms, but also with your appearance.

Fashion has become an enormous part of everyday life for most

individuals, as your appearance is the first thing people judge. Are you dressed sophisticated, frumpy, sloppy or unique?

As university students, keeping up with the latest fashion is not easy. We are paying through the roof for our education, which means money is tight. To buy regular clothes is quite

expensive, but to buy winter clothing to survive the harsh Canadian winter while keeping in budget might seem like a mission impossible.

In reality, keeping up with the latest winter fashion is not actually that difficult. Most fall pieces of clothing can coordinate well with the latest winter fashion trends. This

means that you are already ahead of the game.

Most winter trends, for both genders, have four main staples of clothing: jeans, boots, a sweater, and a warm, stylish jacket. Other necessary pieces of clothing include hats, gloves and scarves.

Typically, the ladies’ winter fash-

ion trends consist of an oversized knit sweater, a scarf (infinity scarves are particularly in at the moment), a pair of jeans, a pair of boots and a cute jacket. The guys’ winter trend is usually a pair of jeans, a shirt, a warm sweater and a nice winter jacket.

There are many resources that can help a university student complete their winter look for less. Fredericton has many online yard sales and thrift stores that allow you to get numerous pieces of clothing for what you would pay at a retail store full price. Also, these second-hand options give you a chance to still get brand name clothing as well, if that is your personal style.

Also, Fredericton has many stores – such as Costco, Wal-Mart and Target – that allow you to get brand new, fairly good quality clothing (sometimes even name brands) for decent prices that won’t break the bank. These stores have low prices, price-match guarantees and seasonal sales that are worth looking into.

My personal experiences have shown me that many people still enjoy buying name brands directly from the specific retail store. This can become an extremely costly and unrealistic desire, but there are many ways you can still purchase a few pieces without going broke.

Shows such as Extreme Couponers follow individuals as they search for thousands of coupons in order to knock the price of their purchases down by a significant amount. This an ideal option when purchasing name brands on a budget. However, in Canada there are many rules to coupons (such as the fact that many of them cannot be doubled in a transaction), so ensure that you read the fine print.

My final suggestion when your desire is to purchase name brand clothing is to watch the flyers and subscribe to the emails and discount cards that promote specific deals.

Sometimes the deals aren’t fantastic, but every penny saved counts.

Following your budget and creating your own unique winter style is a great way to boost your confidence and look great. Don’t be afraid to embrace it!

Ethical consumerism and you Heather Cooper The Brunswickan Fredericton is city rich in local culture.

We have boutiques, locally-owned retailers, and magnificent farmer’s markets.

So when corporations show up in the form of giant retailers, like Costco and Target, why are we getting so excited?

Ethical consumerism entails more than trusting that the sweater keeping you warm was not made by a 10-yearold child in back of a dark industrial building. When a company states the production of their outsourced goods has adhered to labor laws, they are saying they are adhering to the labor laws of the country to which they have outsourced – which may not be

the standard that you would consider ethical.

If you honestly believe that bulk and cheap products are being produced in a manner that support a thriving way of life for all, you are wrapping yourself up tight in a blanket of denial.

It can be the seductive “cheap chic” fashion Target is offering, or how you can eat samples for supper as you roam the vast concrete land of Costco. What we are forgetting is that we are living in a society enslaved by corporate capitalism and debt, and the more we feed these giants the bigger they get.

Students in Fredericton may feel as though Walmart, Costco and Target are our saviors. They allow us to feed ourselves, dress the fashionable part, and own the newest technological

gadget, but they are supplying mediocre wage employment and supporting outsourcing and offshoring for cheap goods.

So how can one be an ethical consumer? How can the student living on $40 for the two weeks between paychecks say no to the most convenient and cheap prices in the city? It will take more effort, but it is possible to feed the towering giants a little less.

Start by taking advantage of the Farmer’s Market! It maybe harder to fall out of bed on a Saturday morning in order to walk in the cold, catch a bus or try find parking downtown, but at the end of the day you can feel great about your choice to stretch your last pennies to support your local community. During the week, know

your locally owned businesses, such as Victory Meat Market.

When it comes to buying clothes, try saving money and buying that more-expensive North American or UK-made clothing. The benefit to buying more expensive clothing that isn’t outsourced is more than a brand name; in fact, the majority of “it” brands do outsource their designs for mass production. In most cases clothes made closer to home are better quality and last a lot longer than that $30 pair of H&M jeans or $10 shirt.

Ethical consumerism is based on awareness. There are several documentaries, some available freely online, that shed light on what is really going on behind these giant retailers we think we love so much. Hop on the Internet and

you can find pretty much any corporation’s dirty secrets – the world is filled with whistle blowers if you are willing to hear them.

When it comes down to it, only you can make the choice to recognize the truth about where you shop and try and be more conscientious with your consumption. It can be a slow process, but simply choosing to, say, buy your eggs from a local farmer is one small step that despite what you may think does make a difference.

It is not all or nothing. One step toward change is better than no step at all, and you can take that step.

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Let it snow, but save your dough

Why spend copious amounts of money when you can have even more fun for free? Sledding is one of the best ways to have fun on a budget this winter.

Submitted / The Brunswickan out a sport that you’ve never played but with snow comes ice, and with The Currie Center, I’ve been months. You can keep running – or Lee Thomas told, has claimed the best hill, but even start running, if you’re a bebefore, because it’s intramurals so ice comes a big free public skating Arts Editor no one cares if you’re terrible. Note: rink at Officer’s Square. It’s a perfect the hills by McConnell and DKT ginner – in every season. The most You want to stay active during the sometimes you will have teammates place to go with a group of friends, are good runners-up. If you don’t important thing to do is layer up and winter, but baby it’s cold outside! who care about losing intramural together with your sweetie, or alone already have a sled, grab a meal hall keep your extremities warm. Try to What’s a dollar-savvy student to do? sports. They are the worst kind of for some relaxing solo skating. And tray – too soon? – or even a garbage wear a sweat-wicking layer closest Check out all these frugal and frosty people. while you’re downtown, you can bag, and get a running start! Make to your body, layer up according to winter activities that are all of the Sign up with your residence, stop by some of Fredericton’s ador- sure that there aren’t any cars or the temperature, and end with some merry and none of the money. through TownHouse or with your able coffee shops and get some fancy people in your path, because broken sort of windbreaker layer – and don’t 1) Intramurals: Whether you’re faculty! noses and dented doors are neither forget to keep your neck, face, feet, hot chocolate. in residence or not, intramurals are and hands warm! You don’t need 3) Sledding: Or “sliding,” as you free nor fun.

2) Skating at Officer’s Square: a great way to get involved with the I know it’s beautifully chilly and Maritimers say. Whatever you call it, 4) Winter runningIf you’re not fancy equipment, but because of the campus community. Winter intra- snow-free right now – and I’m des- it’s the most fun you can have with the group-activity type, don’t fret! shorter daylight time, you may also mural sports include broomball, perately hoping that that situation your (snow)pants on. This is the The snowy weather won’t force you want to invest in some reflective tape. basketball and indoor soccer, to doesn’t change before the print date one time where you can finally be to socialize, and you don’t need to name a few. It’s a great way to try of this paper, lest I look like a fool – grateful that our campus is on a hill. be stuck on the treadmill for four

PANEL

THEY KNOW WHAT’S UP

Do you think the men’s basketball team will make it to CIS playoffs this season? cellarpub.ca

Bronté James Sports Editor

I think they absolutely have the chance. With players like rookie Javon Masters or veteran Will McFee they have a finely honed team with a strong defence and offence. I think we’ll be seeing them at CIS playoffs.

Jonathan Fairweather Townhouse President

The men’s basketball team is sitting at the top of their league, with only one loss so far in the regular season. If they continue to improve their current talent and continue working as a team they should have no problem making it to the CIS playoffs.

Andrew Martel Business Manager

The men are at the top of their standings, however, some of these wins have come against some of the lowestranked teams. They will have a tougher challenge down the stretch. But if they can keep their gameplay and high scoring throughout the season, I strongly believe they can make the CIS playoffs this season.

Peter Ryan Sports Writer

Listen, I had to see the games this weekend – 1-1 vs. Acadia? Pretty solid if you ask me. I honestly think they can do it. They have the pieces to make a solid run in the Metro Centre, all they need to do is play their game. Mentality for the rest of the year? WHY NOT US? Ou’ kill ‘em.

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MEN’S VOLLEYBALL PLAYED HOST TO THE RSEQ INTERLOCK TOURNAMENT Johnny Cullen The Brunswickan

Men’s volleyball were able to take two wins of their three-game weekend. Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan

The Varsity Reds men’s volleyball team was host for the Atlantic University Sport RSEQ Interlock tournament this weekend.

The Reds opened up the weekend with a 3-1 win over the Université de Montreal Carabins on Friday night.

Saturday featured both a win and a loss as UNB swept the Université de Sherbrooke Vert et Or 3-0, and fell to the Université Laval Rouge et Or 3-2.

“This year in particular there are no slouches in the Quebec conference,” said UNB head coach Dan McMorran. “This is the beauty of these interlocks – that we’re able to play competition like that and gauge ourselves against them, and hopefully get better.”

McMorran is pleased with his team’s performance this weekend, especially on the defensive side of the ball, but says they still have some work to do.

“Our defense has improved a ton in the last month in particular,” he said. “In all the matches I thought we looked pretty good defensively.”

Notable standouts in the defensive department this weekend include veteran middle Logan Keoughan, who consistently came up big with crucial blocks, and second-year outside hitter Eivind Andersen who racked up a total of 25 digs in the interlock.

Montreal kept the V-Reds on their heels in Friday night’s match, keeping each set within a six-point deficit.

It was an even game for the first 10 points as both teams rallied back and forth, but no one could take the lead.

The V-Reds finally pulled out in front with some hard hitting at the net from Middle Craig Toonders and outside hitter Julio Fernandez, taking the set 25-21.

UNB came out strong in the second set with a string of consistent serves from Andersen. The Reds let their blockers work their magic against a relentless Montreal attack, and edged them 25-22.

A tight third set kept the teams on their toes. The score was tied up 18-18 late in the set, but it was the Carabins who would come out on top, taking it 25-23.

The final set of the match was in favour of the Reds from the start. An impressive display of blocking from Keoughan and Andersen kept UNB out front, opening up the court for Fernandez and White to finish off the set with a flurry of kills.

After getting the jitters out early in the second game, the V-Reds looked strong and confident.

The first set was in the hands of Sherbrooke until midway through the set when UNB took the lead 14-13.

Unable to penetrate the V-Reds’ defense at the net, the Vert et Or quickly fell behind on the score

board. Andersen unleashed a howitzer to end the set 25-18.

UNB’s net presence picked apart the Sherbooke attack. Second-year setter Mathieu Losier’s accurate passing helped Fernandez and Keoughan put up points, taking the second set 25-17.

The V-Reds took an early lead in the third set, leaving Sherbrooke scoreless for the first five points. It was once again UNB’s front-court players who were too much for the Vert et Or to handle, and Marc White ended the affair with a kill, giving UNB the 25-22 win.

The third and final match of the tournament was the most intense of all three games.

The V-Reds exchanged blows with Laval, but couldn’t break the Rouge et Or blockers at the net. The first of five sets went to Laval 25-19.

Keoughan cracked the code in the second set, getting UNB on the board with help from Losier. Libero Chhase McFarlane challenged the Laval attack with key digs to keep UNB in the tilt, taking the set 25-18.

UNB ran away with the score at the beginning of the third, finding themselves up 11-1 on the reigning Canadian Interuniversity Sport Champions. Both sides kept the ball in the air for exciting rallies, but it was UNB who ended the commotion off the hand of Toonders, claiming the set 25-12.

In a nail-biter of a fourth set, the Rouge et Or attack did a good job to hit the floor instead of UNB’s blockers, taking it 25-20 and sending the match to a fifth set.

The final set of the clash had both teams giving it their all in a race to reach 15 points. The climax of the weekend was tied up at 5-5 a third of the way through the set. Marc White stepped up with three kills for UNB, keeping them just one point behind Laval, but it wouldn’t be enough, and the V-Reds were slighted 15-11.

“It’s been a good weekend for us,” said Andersen. “We started out well against Montreal, and we had a good game today against Sherbrooke.”

But of the Laval games he said it “had ups and downs.”

Andersen said defense played a key role in the V-Reds’ success this weekend. Moving forward though, he thinks the team’s consistency needs work.

The V-Reds now have a break in their season until Jan. 17 when they will take on the Carabins at their home turf in Montreal.

McMorran said he is pleased with his team’s performance up to this point in the season.

“The guys are positive about getting better and trying to get a step up on the competition,” he said.

Now with over a month to recharge their batteries, the V-Reds will prepare themselves for the second half of the season.

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Women’s volleyball clear-cut Cape Breton Capers

Bronté James Sports Editor For the second game in a row, the women’s volleyball team was able to defeat the Cape Breton University (CBU) Capers in all three sets.

“I am just in euphoria right now, from winning,” said left-side hitter Jacqueline Sebetovsky. “I think at this point everything that we told ourselves we would work on we got to those points.”

The first set was an easy win for the women, taking it 25-11. Sebetovsky and Celina Abba would get the first point of the game in the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB’s) favour off a big block from Caper Tresyre Stevenson.

Sebetovsky would serve an ace, getting the ninth point, and a huge kill would follow it from Glancy and another from Abba, UNB leading 10-4.

CBU’s fifth point would come off an attacking error by Glancy after Reds’ Jodie McGill’s serve, followed by a kill from Caper Cassie MacDonald to get them six points – over half of their points for the set.

Vanja Mitrovic would get six service aces, giving UNB a 16-6 lead.

The final kill by teammate Glancy would end the set in UNB’s favour.

“Everything we trained for we pretty much executed,” said Sebetovsky. “I mean, we’re humans, we make mistakes, but I think it went well.”

But the next two sets would prove challenging. The Capers weren’t going out without a fight and in the third set they put the Reds to

For the second game a in row, the women took a 3-0 win over the CBU Capers. Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan the test.

The second set could have been taken by anyone. The score would be close, UNB only lead by three points for majority of the set.

It was tied 16-16 but a kill by Chantelle Zawila would give the Capers their first lead of the game. A bad set by Allana Rendell would end with a hit from Glancy and UNB would tie it 17-17.

An attack error by Mitrovic would give CBU another lead over the Reds, but they would once again come back and tie it up with a kill

by Abba off teammate Emily Mc-

Pherson.

The last tie of the game would be a kill by Sarah Jane Ferguson with a set from Rendell, but UNB’s Mitrovic would get a kill, followed by a kill from Abba and they would keep the lead for the rest of the set.

Glancy – leading the game with 12 attacks – would finish the set for the Reds and give them a 25-20 win over the Capers.

“They started to get behind our serves a little bit better,” said head coach Jilliane Goulet. “They found some sneaky plays, they found some spots in our defence they can take

advantage of, and we just didn’t have the pursuit to get some of those balls up on defence.”

Mitrovic would start the set with a serve, and with a quick rally they would get the point, starting the third with a lead. They would lead 6-1 and late into the set led 18-11, but the Capers inched closer with a 19-14 score after a block at the net from Rendell.

Looking to take a set to push the game into a fourth set the Capers battled back to take bring it to a 2420 score for UNB after a big block from MacDonald. But Glance would

Emily McPherson | Libero with a lion heart Bronté James Sports Editor

Three months ago she questioned whether or not she should try out for the team. Now, she can’t picture her life without it.

Emily McPherson is a rookie on the University of New Brunswick (UNB) women’s volleyball team and said she found a family here.

“I couldn’t imagine going anywhere else to school. This is a perfect fit for me,” said McPherson. “Playing volleyball for the Varsity Reds is great [and] I love it. I couldn’t imagine the experience without it, now.”

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she started playing volleyball at age six.

Start ing out playing to keep herself busy and spend time with friends – in particular her two best friends – it eventually developed into a passion.

But it’s not just the sport she loves, it’s the team dynamic.

“Having a team, the fact that it’s a team sport and you have those people to depend on and spend your time with,” she said. “It’s like a second family.”

Only in her first year of university she is still learning to balance her work in the faculty of arts and her time with the Reds.

Late nights have become a part of her routine.

Head coach Jillian Goulet says McPherson has a lion heart out on the court. Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan

“It’s challenging, sometimes,” she said. “But I like it, it keeps you on the ball and always doing something.”

For most people the challenge of balancing school and athletics would be the brunt of it. But McPherson has also been adjusting to going to school with men.

Going through high school at an all-girls school, St. Mary’s Academy, she is used to only having classes with other women.

“I was never in high school with guys, but that atmosphere is a little bit different,” said McPherson. “I don’t really know how to describe it.

It’s just different; the way people ask questions, the way people act. I’m getting used to it, slow and steady.”

She also said going to an all-girls school meant there weren’t as many fans at games compared to the filled bleachers at the Currie Center.

“So it’s weird now having a lot of fans and a lot of people watching you. I feel like there is a lot more weighing on games, it’s worth more.”

Over the course of her time with the Reds she feels like she made a second family. Being away from home, and tending to be shy, the women on the team have made it an experience for the libero.

She couldn’t imagine doing this at any other university.

Road trips, practices, games and just hanging out have brought her

once again get the final point for the Reds with the last kill, taking the set 25-20 and finishing the game 3-0.

“It’s never easy to go three and 0 to any team, it’s never easy to win a match in volleyball, period,” said Goulet. “So I feel great and I think a lot of the things we have been working on the last three weeks came out in the match came out today.”

The Reds won’t play another game until after the Christmas break. They take on the Moncton Aigles Bleus at home on Jan. 12.

out of her shell and made the transition to the university level easier for McPherson.

“Since there’s eight rookies on the team this year, there’s a lot of us, so we all have to do it together so it made it easier.”

Another quality that’s kept her with the team is the coaching. McPherson noted she has worked with difficult coaches in the past, but said head coach Jilliane Goulet points out mistakes and works to fix them.

“Sometimes coaches are just like ‘you’re doing it wrong’ and don’t really help you fix it,” she said. “But she’s really good at helping you fix it . . . which I find very good as an athlete.”

Goulet said she has had faith in McPherson’s abilities since day one and has no trouble throwing her right into the action.

“She’s a special player who’s got a lion heart and I’ve got a world of faith in her,” said Goulet. “I’ve had faith in her since day one, throwing her into the court and I have no problem doing that because I know she can handle it.”

McPherson came to UNB because she wanted to go to a medium-sized school where she wouldn’t “get lost in the shuffle.”

“So UNB was on my list and I had a tour here and that night I knew, I was like ‘I love it here’ and it just stuck with me ever since.”

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One step at a time | The broken pieces Scott Hems The Brunswickan Sometimes you need to be broken to truly appreciate what you have in life.

Why? Because you need to learn how to put yourself back together.

Weight loss is the same idea.

Remember, if you feel broken you’re just rebuilding something more powerful. You can break your leg or your heart, but not your courage. There’s more to you than that.

When you break something, there is still a piece of you strong enough to go on.

About one year ago, a Scottish woman named Katie White broke her leg five miles into a race. Unaware it was broken White finished an entire 26 mile-marathon in three hours – and won.

Manteo Mitchell broke his leg during an Olympic relay race. His heroic finish qualified USA for the f inals. I’m not saying when you break a leg, keep going, I’m saying that when you think you’re broken you have a choice to keep fighting.

When you think a dream is broken, it’s not. There’s a difference between a broken dream and an abandoned one.

I wouldn’t have lost 114 pounds if I were never broken. Two years ago, one of my best friends died, while my heart was torn out by a girl who abandoned me. I gave up and drenched myself in tears and junk food – like the days when I weighed 320 pounds. I felt fat, pathetic, and

Sometimes it takes something that breaks you to learn how to rebuild. Submitted / The Brunswickan went back to believing I was never good enough.

I was broken.

I thought I wouldn’t amount to anything and tried to end my life.

There was nothing left of me. I had nothing and felt I had no one.

I know some of you have felt this way and you’re not alone. Needing something to believe in, I decided I owed it to the deceased to drop a

few pounds, I wanted to make them proud looking down on me.

I started running again.

My weight was back up to 260.

I shut out the voices telling me I couldn’t do it, I couldn’t let her win.

I ran so much I forgot how bad I wanted to end myself. I worked my way down to 235. A lot of runs ended in tears, but each tear lead to a soft smile knowing what I accomplished.

After a broken heart, and several trips to emergency, I was back on my own two feet. I had no idea when I was dragged into a hospital that I would be here. I needed to experience that much pain, even if the only logical reason was that I could endure it.

It’s when we’re broken and putting the pieces of ourselves back together we realize just how valuable

each piece is. No matter how broken you are each piece is precious.

You are worth so much. And an incredible accomplishment is always a decision away.

“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” - Joseph Campbell.

Pair of weekend wins puts men back in first place David Kilfoil The Brunswickan Saturday evening, the University of New Brunswick’s men’s hockey team spotted the visiting University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) Panthers two early goals, and then roared back for a hard-fought 5-3 victory, their tenth of the season.

After a tentative back and forth start to the game, the Panthers shocked the crowd at the Aitken University Centre into silence with two quick goals within 27 seconds of each other. The first came at 4:06 when UPEI captain Mason Wilgosh jumped on a puck that was bouncing around in the slot, and the second soon after when Harrison McIver on the rush went five-hole on Charles Lavigne, and the retreating UNB goaltender’s momentum carried him and the puck into the back of the net.

Head coach Gardiner MacDougall immediately summoned Lavinge to the UNB bench to have a “chat” and sent rookie Joel Vienneau out to face the Panthers. However, 46 seconds later there was another stoppage and in a bit of a surprise, Lavigne was on his way back to the nets to finish the game where he started.

One of the maxims of hockey is a two-goal lead in the worst lead to have. UPEI head coach Forbie MacPherson tends to agree.

“There was 50 minutes left or so in the game and it was almost like we got into protection mode already,”

he said. “You can’t do that against any team, let alone UNB. When you get in that mind frame it gets you on your heels and then it’s tough to recover.”

MacPherson thought they did a good job on the recovery and said he would take a two-goal lead any time.

“But it can be scary too at times, and tonight it kind of woke them up and they were going then.”

UNB certainly did wake up, and UPEI did not get another shot on Lavigne until there was three minutes left in the period, and by then the V-Reds had tied up the game.

At 11:10 one of the referees had his arm up to indicate a delayed penalty, and UNB took advantage of the confusion to flood the Panthers zone and pass the puck back to rookie defenseman Keevin Cutting at the blue line, and he ripped the puck through a crowd for his first goal as a V-Red. Just over four minutes later the teams were four-aside due to penalties and captain Chris Culligan took advantage of the extra time and space to deflect a Ben Shutron pass past Mavric Parks in the UPEI net.

Just like that UNB had tied the game and overcome their horrible start.

UNB had 17 shots to UPEI’s 4 in the first period, and they kept up the torrid pace in the second period.

They were rewarded at 4:09 when rookie Philippe Maillet jumped on the rebound from fellow rookie JP

The men sit with a 10-2 record with three games left in the 2013 year. Bronté James / The Brunswickan Labardo’s shot to give the Varsity Reds their first lead in the game.

The tempo didn’t last in the third period, as both teams got bogged down in penalties. It ended up working to UNB’s advantage, when on the power play at 8:40 Thomas Nesbitt went hard to the net, and his wrist shot bounced off Park’s pads and fluttered up over the goalie and into the net.

The teams were once again fouraside just over four minutes later when defenceman Matt Petgrave - yet another rookie getting on the score sheet - made an acrobatic move

in the neutral zone to secure the puck and feed Maillet for his second goal of the game.

There was a little more breathing room for the home team.

However, the game can be cruel, and five minutes later Petgrave fired a no-look pass from behind the net that went right to the stick of Panthers defenceman Matt Maione, who was cruising through the slot, and he snapped the puck past a surprised Lavinge to make the score 5-3.

UPEI could not muster another goal in the final five minutes as UNB kept up their spirited puck pressure.

The final shots favoured UNB 37-19.

After the game Maillet was understandably pleased with his two goals and two assists.

“I think we had a hard time the last couple of games to put the puck in the net the way we wanted,” he said. “I guess we’re back on track the last two games. We just need to look forward and keep up the pace.”

Friday night in Moncton the VReds thumped the Aigles Bleus 9-2.

Combined with the win Saturday, UNB is temporarily back in first place in the AUS standings.

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Price check on a UNB student athlete, please

Bronté James Sports Editor The University of New Brunswick Fredericton and UNB Saint John spent $41,736 on athlete recruitment in the 2012-2013 season.

“I encourage them to go find the best student-athletes as possible,” said athletic director John Richard.

“If that means Australia it’s Australia [and] if that means in Oromocto it’s in Oromocto.”

The funding, however, only goes to varsity-level athletes and does not include club team such as Fredericton’s men’s swim team, the Ironmen rugby, women’s hockey, or other club teams.

“They would self-generate dollars to go recruit athletes, no different than wrestling or cross-country,” he said.

Recruitment includes times the coaches travel to recruit – including airfare, rental cars, hotels, meals on the road and taking the potential recruit to dinner in their hometown. Recruiting also includes bringing players to the university for campus tours.

Although there is no limit to the amount of non-funded visits a Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) athlete can make to universities, CIS regulations allow universities only one funded university visit within an academic year – it includes airfare, hotels, meals, and other costs.

“We’re after a certain brand of student-athlete,” said Richard. “And you certainly don’t get a top-level athlete without a campus visit and or coach’s visit [to the athlete].”

How the money is divided is different than a normal budget; it isn’t allocated to a certain percentage per team because it varies depending on the team’s needs.

There is a budget to take care of all conference requirements, which includes travelling to games, games at home, membership fees, telephone bills and other similar needs.

“My first priority is to satisfy conference requirements,” he said. “Our men’s basketball team [played] Acadia this weekend, that’s a requirement of the league, so once I price all that out . . . and pay all our staff with salary, there’s dollars left.”

The leftover funds go into the non-

league budgets, and a portion of nonleague budgets are spent on recruiting.

“I don’t dictate to a coach how much they can spend on recruiting, they have a pot of money and then they selfgenerate dollars,” he said.

Self-generated funds include fundraisers, 50/50 tickets at games, sportcamp programs – such as Adopt-A-Red – and other team-hosted events.

“They use that money for recruiting, but also for exhibition travel, equipment, stuff like that,” said Richard.

“But I don’t tell a coach [they] must spend $2000, or [they] must spend $6000 in a given year.’ ” Richard said the reason he doesn’t dictate to coaches how much to spend on recruitment each year is because of the constant change in rosters.

Each season there are players leaving and new players coming in, so the demand for players changes each year.

In some cases no players leave and in some an entire team is needed. “[It’s] a moving target,” said Richard. “That’s a question that I could answer today, but in a month it might be different.”

An example Richard used is the men and women’s soccer team, full of international recruits.

“To bring those student-athletes in for a campus visit it is an expensive venture . . . but it’s seemed to pay off for us.”

But budgeting the recruitment money and the recruiting process are two very different things.

“Recruiting is a 365-day-a-year job, and sometimes, based on where our individuals are from, it’s almost a 24-hour a day job, too,” said men’s volleyball head coach Dan McMorran.

“There are times when I was recruiting our Australian that his wake-up time is my bed-time.”

He also said it is one of the most crucial elements of any coach’s job. At a university known for balancing its academics and athletics, part of their job is to find an athlete who is competitive at the CIS level, but who is strong in the classroom as well.

“You can’t build a program on oneyear wonders,” said McMorran. “They get in here and are fantastic – good kids or good players – and then they fail out of school and don’t do well

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But they also look for a strong personality. McMorran said he looks for players who have strong character and can be a leader on the court.

“We have two or three captains on our team on any given year, but we have 16 guys on a roster and I’m looking for 16 leaders.”

McMorran said he goes on recruiting trips, on average, five to seven times a year. Trips to Ontario, British Columbia and other provinces aren’t out of the ordinary – and last about three or four days – but recruitment trips also include trips around the province and Maritimes and those are only a one- or two-day trip.

“A recruiting trip could be something as simple as seeing a club tournament here in the Atlantic provinces to travelling out west to take a look at national tournaments with club teams,” he said.

But it’s not just about meeting and developing relationships with the players – they also need to assure the parents their children are making the right decision.

With players travelling from B.C., Ontario, Newfoundland and as far as Australia and Norway, the parents play a major role in the decision making.

“I think it’s incredibly important to get the message to their parents that they’re going to be coming to a great place,” said McMorran. “And they’re going to know their son is not only play a great level of volleyball, but hopefully become a better person when they leave here. So I think it’s important to recruit the family as well.”

Skype has also made it easier – and cheaper – to help recruit top student-athletes. You can not only see and talk to players, but you don’t have to spend the funds on travelling.

Players such as Eivind Andersen, from Norway, benefited from this.

“I spent a couple of hours at a time Skyping with my [Eivind’s] family and developing that relationship, otherwise I would perhaps have to go over and sit in their living room.”

In reality, he said, it’s a competitive world and the competition between universities is tenacious. Mixed with the funding not being as “free-flow-

ing” as previous years, the recruitment process is that much more vital.

“Recruiting is probably the number one thing that we have to do,” said McMorran. “The recruiting is crucial to get those quality players in here – quality players, students, people and leaders.

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The one behind the whistle Bronté James Sports Editor

“Tweet,” “tweet.” One little sound with a whole lot of power.

The referee standing in the middle of it all is supposed to be, well, essentially invisible until the time calls for it.

But what happens when the refs decided to put themselves in the game and become the 12th player on the pitch, the seventh person on the ice, that extra player in the game who shouldn’t be there?

What happens is a poor excuse for “fair play.”

I have been covering sports for the last three years and have been playing for as long as I can remember. I may not

remember every play of every game, but I do remember the games where the ref played a crucial role in its outcome – which should only be the case if there is need for intervention.

Unfair calls, blatantly obvious fouls being overlooked and yellow cards being given when they were undeserved are things I have witnessed, and as an athlete, it infuriates me.

One particular instance was the 2013 men’s soccer nationals, which motivated me to write this rant.

Standing on the sidelines, I watched 11 games from the 30 and 40-yard line. I was right in the action. As both a former athlete and a sports journalist I noticed illegal tackles weren’t being called – or legal ones were being

called as illegal – and foul after foul was left unanswered. Moreover, the referees were not handling athletes in a completely professional manner and seemed to disregard the coaches’ pleas for proper calls.

Yes, coaches and players aren’t always the most calm, collected and respectful people in the world during a game – this is a known problem. But both coaches were calling for fair play for both teams, not just their own. They weren’t yelling for one side, they were yelling for both, showing an obvious need for something to be done.

There are signs, literally, seen at all levels of sport – from high school to professional – questioning why the referee wasn’t making calls. Signs like “Are

you pregnant? Because you just missed two periods,” or the less clever but still relevant, “Hey ref, get some glasses!”

It’s obvious everyone is seeing these unfair calls and they are not going to sit idly by.

Obviously the ref knows the game, otherwise how would they have made their way to his level? But that doesn’t mean they’re fair, it just means they worked their way through the ranks.

I’ve seen them be rude to players, talk down to coaches and believe they hold a higher level of authority than they really do.

Yes, there are some amazing refs who let the players play, make the right calls and do their jobs perfectly, but sadly it is not always the case. I think refs need

to put aside any dislike they may have for a player or coach, or dare I say, put their ego aside and listen to their colleagues – such as linesmen – and make the right calls.

There have been too many games, in my experience, dictated by a ref when they should only intervene if the players aren’t following the rules of the game.

They are not there to give an advantage to the other team; they are there to make sure a fair and proper game is played out.

So why aren’t some following the rules of the game when they are supposed to be the spokesperson for fair play?

“Tweet,” “tweet.”

THE V-REDS PLAYLIST

Athletes are infamous for blaring music through the locker room before a game to get them ready. Music can amp you up, and some need it as part of their ritual. This week we’re looking at what the men’s basketball team plays pre-game to get focused and get ready to play.

1. GO N’ GET IT – ACE HOOD 2. I DID IT FOR MY DAWGZ – DJ KHALED 3. BANG BROS – LIL DURK 4. JEALOUS – FREDO SANTANA 5. AIN’T ME – MEEK MILL 6. I B ON DAT – MEEK MILL 7. TRAUMATIZED – LIL DURK 8. ALI BOMAYE – THE GAME 9. ALL ME – DRAKE