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CASA national director visits UNB on tour of member schools Cherise Letson News Editor

CASA national director Jonathan Champagne gave a presentation to UNB students Sunday night.

Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan

Student mental health and funding for Canada Student Loans and grants are some of the main goals for the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) this year, said national director Jonathan Champagne.

Champagne paid a visit to the Maritimes this past week to visit CASA’s members in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. They met with the UNB Student Union Sunday evening.

“CASA has 21 members associations. A significant number of those do come from Atlantic Canada,” Champagne said. “Since I’m fairly new to the organization, it’s important that I’m able to come and visit each of our member associations, their campuses and make presentations to their councils, their executive or their student bodies.”

CASA is a student advocacy organization that lobbies on the federal level. Champagne said CASA’s goals are driven by its members and one of the focuses this year is mental health.

“That includes campaigns against the stigmas associated with mental health. What we’re doing specifically with that right now is we’ve partnered up with the Mental Health Commission of Canada,” he said.

“As well, our policy and research officers are doing research, getting some of the data and statistics regarding mental health and mental illness on campuses, and we will be bringing forth a cohesive policy on that.”

Another focus is Aboriginal education. CASA has plans to lobby for the federal government to eliminate the two per cent increase cap on the PostSecondary Student Support Program, a program that provides financial assistance to Aboriginal students.

CASA also has plans to advocate for changes to Canada Student Loans, which according to Champagne funds approximately 60 per cent of all student loans.

“The amount available from the federal portion of the student loans program hasn’t increased since 2004.

We’re calling to increase that amount and index those,” Champagne said. “[Also] Canada Student Grants

to help students who come from the lowest income families or who have the most need, those amounts haven’t been increased either so we’re calling for an increase in student grants as well.”

Champagne said CASA will also be pushing to eliminate the penalties for students who are working. For some working students, after working a certain amount of hours, their student loan decreases because they make “too much money.”

“Let’s eliminate that all together.

Especially when the amount of loans hasn’t increased, cost of educations has increased, that gap needs to be made up somewhere and a lot of students are having to work to make up that gap,” he said. “They shouldn’t be penalized for working.”

Unlike some other student lobbying groups, CASA takes a policy-based approach to advocacy. This is an approach UNBSU vice-president external Greg Bailey said is necessary for good student advocacy in any form.

“The way I look at it is, policy should pretty much be a perquisite to doing anything, because effectively what you’re doing is showing the facts support whatever your argument is,” Bailey said. “Whether or not you want to take to the streets or you want to go to meetings, it should be based on fact and not just whatever you feel like that morning.”

UNBSU president Ben Whitney said CASA is an excellent resource the UNBSU may not have taken full advantage of in previous years.

“It’s something we’ve always been involved with. It’s something Greg and I are particularly interested in, the policy side of things. It’s an amazing resource that we have at our disposal that we can use,” Whitney said. “It’s the bigger part of the picture in getting students more engaged on campus, making people more aware of the things that we do.”

He said Champagne’s visit helps make their involvement with CASA more personable.

“It’s good to put a face to the name.

We say we’re a part of CASA and do a lot of work, but to have the national director come in to meet people is excellent.”

Engibeer: Engineering students participate in brewing competition Connor Jay The Brunswickan Ever gone into to a bar, saw what beer was available, and cried a little?

There’s always a load of big brand beers that are usually pretty bland, but never any craft beers. Wanting to spice up your life, and make your own beer?

Picaroons and the UNB Engineering Undergraduate Society are doing just that.

They’ve teamed up to have their own brewing competition, and to bring this

student-made beer to you.

The event came about when members of the society were looking to pick up some kegs and Sean Dunbar of Picaroons made the suggestion of a brewing contest.

“A lot of students are interested in brewing their own beer but either don’t have the access to the ingredients or the equipment to do it, so this way they can experience brewing on a larger scale with the help of Picaroons,” said Greg Armstrong, an engineering student and one of the organizers of the event.

“And of course, getting to drink beer is always a bonus.”

Engineering students formed teams of four and then created their own recipes. Picaroons will select the four best recipes out of all the submissions, and the selected teams will get to go and actually create their masterpiece.

There will be a blind tasting event that will decide the winning beer at one of the Pillar Pubs.

Brewing ingredients include grain options, such as locally grown New Brunswick malt. Vanilla bean, coffee

bean, licorice root, rooibos tea, chili peppers and ginseng are also on the list.

They’ll be using exclusively leaf hops, as this is all that is used at the Brewtique.

Extras of each teams’ brew will be sold in growlers down at the Brewtique.

There are also plans to get some of the beer to the Cellar Pub, however, details have not been finalized.

While it may seem like something less competitive than a hockey tournament, or some of the other society’s events, the plan is for this competition to be just as competitive.

Armstrong believes the event will bring out a broad range of students due to the fact that everyone can brew beer.

“There are always great rivalries between each engineering department, be it in our yearly hockey tournament or other events,” Armstrong said.

“And this is just another competition that creates that competition-like atmosphere on a more relaxed and intellectual basis.”

Judging will take place near the end of November, once all the batches have been brewed.

BRUNSWICKANNEWS “The rent is too damn high!” | UNBSU negotiating rent for Welcome Center

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The UNB Student Union has been in negotiations with Student Union Building Board of Directors about rent for the Welcome Center. Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan Emma McPhee News Reporter The Student Union Welcome Center’s doors will remain wide open as negotiations on a rent increase draw to a close.

Last winter, the UNBSU received a proposal from the Student Union Building Board of Directors for the rent of the Welcome Center to increase by 10 per cent annually over a five-year lease. The Student Union has been negotiating for a lower rate since then.

“When it was proposed to us we responded no; it’s ridiculous,” said Ben Whitney, president of UNB Student Union. “Every other tenant pays a three per cent per year increase.”

The Welcome Center’s rent had been

frozen at $7,500 annually up until its contract ended last winter. This rate was 40 per cent lower than the average rent space in the building.

James Brown, executive director of Residential Life, Campus and Conference Services said that an increase in rent was necessary to offset the costs of upgrades to the building.

“The director of the building uses the limited revenues from rents to make some of the necessary repairs and improvements to the building,” Brown said.

“We’ve been able to make some real improvements in upgrading [such as] the Blue Room. And there’s a lot more that could be done to improve the building for student use.”

The rent increase proposal was problematic for the Student Union because it meant taking money away from their yearly operation budget.

“The case we made against the increase was that its money that’s coming out of our own pocket and operating budget. That’s money that takes away from student services,” Whitney said.

Originally the UNBSU wanted the rent reduced to only a dollar annually, a rate most student unions in the Maritimes pay.

“That didn’t fly so well,” Whitney said.

“The final terms we’ve settled on right now are a five per cent increase in year one and then a three per cent increase every year after that as every

other tenant does.”

The five per cent increase in the first year is due to the six months of negotiating time where no increase had occurred.

“It’s not ideal but we understand that it’s what every other tenant in the building pays. So we’re willing to negotiate on this point,” Whitney said.

“Based on the discussions and what we have right now it’s reasonable.”

Brown said that the rent increase won’t affect the fees students are currently paying.

“Failing to increase the revenue from rent only limits the opportunity to continue to make improvements [to the building],” he said.

Although the rent increase is rela-

tively minor compared to the Student Union’s overall budget, Whitney said it’s the principle of taking money away from the students that’s the issue.

“In terms of our general operating budget you won’t see anything really change, but again it’s the principle that this is money that could be going into different student services,” he said.

“The rent increase isn’t ideal obviously but it’s something that, based on the discussions, at the present time we’re comfortable with.”

Whitney said he’s hopeful the negotiations will wind up within the next week.

UNBSU budget gets second reading this Sunday Cherise Letson News Editor External lobbying and promotion both experience cuts in the UNB Student Union’s budget this year.

The budget, which will be presented at council this Sunday for its second reading, shows Student Union campaigns and promotions which was $18,000 last year, will be slashed to $7,835 — ­ a $10,165 difference.

UNBSU vice-president finance Marc Gauvin said the reason why the promotions line was cut so much was because the UNBSU will be receiving some free advertising from The Brunswickan. They also used to be charged for having their logo on student IDs. However, the logo isn’t present on the

new ID cards, therefore, they will not be paying for them. “[The logo] is not on them anymore.

We asked if there was an agreement somewhere of why we’re paying this, they couldn’t find anything so that came out of the line too,” Gauvin said.

Last year, the UNBSU also helped fund some of the patio furniture in the Student Union Building atrium.

The funds for it also came out of the promotions line.

“Just by eliminating a couple of those [expenses] we brought it down to a more reasonable figure,” Gauvin said. “That being said we’re still going to be using that campaign promo line to its fullest and you’re not going to see a difference.”

UNBSU president Ben Whitney,

who ran on the platform of increasing student engagement, said this year’s promotions line more accurately reflects what the UNBSU spends on promotions. He said the money saved from the ID cards and patio furniture has gone to other parts of the budget.

“We began to realize that posters do not equate to engagement, which is the very realistic picture,” Whitney said. “This is a more accurate reflection of what we’ve used in the past for the line, and we’re focusing a lot more on actually getting out, talking to people, getting involved in the community and spending more money on actual events and services that are going to get people engaged.”

Another noticeable change in the budget this year is under external lob-

bying. Though the UNBSU dropped down to associate member status in the New Brunswick Student Alliance (NBSA), the UNBSU is actually paying more this year than when they were full members last year. Last year the UNBSU paid $7,425.00 for full membership. This year they are paying $8,970.00 for just associate membership.

Whitney said the increase is because NBSA membership fees have gone up in order to subsidize the new executive director position and other initiatives, and the membership fee is now more on par with other student lobbying groups.

The UNBSU’s personal external lobbying budget, which is used by UNBSU vice-president external Greg

Bailey, was also cut from $1,000 to $500. Gauvin said the line was cut because Bailey has plans on using for the resources offered by the organization the UNBSU is paying for.

“He’s really focused on using the NBSA and CASA (Canadian Alliance of Student Associations) and using the resources we have available there along with our [policy research officer] that we have working,” Gauvin said. “So there wasn’t a necessarily a need to fund that line fully.”

The budget will have its second reading at council this Sunday where it will be debated and possibly passed.

If students wish to see a copy of the budget, they can contact a councillor or the UNBSU executive.

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UNB gets re-wired with new wireless

Johanna McPhee The Brunswickan The wireless at UNB is getting a name change.

Starting Oct. 7, students will need to switch their UNB wireless from “Wireless@UNB” to “myUNB WiFi.” The name change marks the final step in replacing UNB’s previous wireless of eight years to a brand new one, a process that began last year.

“Over the summer, ITS in Fredericton and ISS in Saint John replaced every wireless access point on both campuses,” said Dave Totton, director of Client Services of Integrated Technology Services at UNB. Students actually started using the new wireless when they arrived in September and Totton said they should have noticed a difference.

“Effectively, students are already using the new wireless technology; we just haven’t implemented the full service yet.”

The full service will begin deployment Oct. 7 for all students, faculty and staff.

Improved wireless is something many students have been asking for.

“We received over a hundred submissions last year indicating [students] wanted to see improved wireless,” said

Totton.

And he said the new wireless will deliver.

“Students will now be able to come on campus and not have to worry about whether or not they will have [wireless] access when they need it. They will be able to connect all of their mobile devices simultaneously. It will also be faster.”

The new wireless was chosen from prospective vendors that had been narrowed down to two last year, which were tested in the SUB last year. Totten said there were some issues during the tests that needed to be resolved before implementing the chosen wireless solution.

“The issues we experienced were all based on finding the proper settings within the equipment to work on campus. Once we fine-tuned the equipment settings, the test [on the chosen option] was successful,” Totton said.

Oct. 7 is the first day of a threeweek transition period during which students can switch their UNB wireless network from the old one to the new one.

“The three-week timeline is basically just so [students] can do it when it’s convenient for them,” said Melissa Hannah, communications manager of ITS at UNB.

Students will need to switch to UNB’s new wireless connection next week.

Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan To switch names, students can look up instructions that will be posted after 4 p.m. Oct. 6 on the ITS website, Unb. ca/its. Feedback and questions can be sent to helpdesk@unb.ca.

Totton said that students shouldn’t worry if they forget to make the switch during the three-week transition.

“After the Oct. 23 the old wireless name will go away and [myUNB WiFi]

will pop up as a wireless option.”

The new wireless update isn’t the only changes ITS wants to make to UNB’s wireless services.

“We’re actually looking at eventually augmenting the wireless service to go to select outdoor locations,” said Totton.

For now students can enjoy the benefits that the new wireless will

provide.

“Without question, the new wireless solution offers better stability, capacity, coverage and speed,” said Totton. “Just improvements across the board.”

If you want to provide your own feedback and ideas technology-wise, students are encouraged to make a submission to the Student Technology Fee at Unb.ca/its/students/techfee.

rUN Buddies running again for a cure Emma McPhee News Reporter

Christy Stephenson and Ashley Stuart are UNB’s abassadors for CIBC’s Run for the Cure.

Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan

On Oct. 6, students, staff and faculty of UNB are invited to step up and support breast cancer research.

This year UNB will once again be participating in CIBC’s Run for the Cure through its rUN Buddies team. “[rUN Buddies] is essentially just the UNB Run for the Cure team and that encompasses anybody who’s associated with UNB,” said Ashley Stuart, one of UNB’s ambassadors for the Run for the Cure post-secondary challenge.

“That means anybody in the residence community, any faculty, staff and any student off or on campus.”

Registration can be done online by going to the Run for the Cure website and searching “rUN Buddies.”

Although it’s too late to get a team T-shirt, people can register up until the run begins and there will be a signup booth on site Oct. 6.

“It’s really easy to sign up,” Stuart said. “And if people don’t want to register on the website or they don’t have a credit card, they can register at any CIBC branch.”

Registration costs $40 per person and participants are expected to fundraise on top of that of they can.

The goal for the team is to raise $2,000. They are currently at $965.

RUN Buddies was started six years ago by a UNB student, Nicola Cassidy. UNB has entered a team every year since.

“Anyone can do the race as an individual. We just think it’d be more fun as a team,” said Christy Stephenson, UNB’s other ambassador.

“It’s nice to be associated with a team,” Stuart said.

The bonus to joining rUN Buddies is that participants are eligible

to compete in the Run for the Cure post-secondary challenge. The top individual fundraiser will be awarded a $2,500 scholarship.

Stuart and Stephenson have been working with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation since the summer to organize the event.

However, because the UNB team covers such a wide demographic of people, Stephenson said it’s been difficult to coordinate fundraising activities.

“Mostly what we’ve been doing is spreading the word and trying to get people involved,” she said. “We hope everyone can come.”

Stuart said she was approached by last year’s ambassador and immediately knew it was something she wanted to do.

“When I was asked to be the ambassador, I said yes right away because I have personal ties to breast cancer and so I’ve done Run for the Cure in the past. It has just personally touched my family. So to be a part of it is great,” she said.

Stephenson said it was the opportunity to be involved in the Fredericton community that drew her in.

“I wanted to do it because it’s not just a great fundraiser for breast cancer but it’s also a wonderful community event to get everyone out together.

Especially in a university town because it’s something for both students and non-students to get together and do,” she said.

“It’s pretty powerful.”

The event will begin Sunday Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. at the Government House, 51 Woodstock Rd. More information can be found on the Run for the Cure at UNB: rUN Buddies 2013 Facebook page.

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BRUNSWICKANNEWS STUDY PROJECTS TUITION TO INCREASE FASTER THAN INFLATION OVER NEXT FOUR YEARS Jane Lytvynenko CUP Ottawa Bureau Chief

Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May stopped by the Charlotte Street Arts Centre last Thursday as part of her Save Democracy from Politics 2013 tour. May spoke about her concerns about democracy in Canada and engaged in disscusion with members of the Fredericton community.

OTTAWA (CUP) — A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives projects a 13 per cent increase in tuition over the next four years. Coming on the heels of Statistics Canada releasing the 201314 tuition prices, the report shows tuition fees across the country rising faster than the rate of inflation.

“Canadian full-time students in undergraduate programs paid 3.3 per cent more on average in tuition fees for the 2013/2014 academic year this fall than they did a year earlier,” reads the StatsCan report. “This follows a 4.2 per cent increase in 2012/2013.”

Nigel Wordich, a university student and contributor to the CCPA report, said the provinces are investing less into post secondary education, passing the cost onto students. According to Wordich, the fiscal strain of recent years is one of the reasons for decreased funding.

The CCPA says most relief for university costs come in form of grants and rebates rather than direct funding — something Wordich says is problematic. This form of aid doesn’t support all students and bars those coming from low-income backgrounds from entering college or university.

Dan Harris, the NDP post-secondary education critic, says this increase is a continuation of a long-term, 20-year trend. Harris says the steady hike in costs puts the “affordability of education out of reach.”

“Direct funding to education has a multiplying effect,” he added. “It’s going to lead to greater economic success and better revenues for the government. The money is going to come back.”

Direct funding is one of the primary recommendations of the CCPA

report. They cite the example of Germany, where participation and student retention are high as a result of publicly funded education. Wordich said while Canadian tuition rates are lower than in the United States, we need to look elsewhere for postsecondary education models.

“Oftentimes we compare Canada to the US, but if we look at European, North American and Asian countries in general, Canadian provinces have some of the highest tuition rates,” he said. “Public education and tertiary education has a collective benefit for all of society and for that reason it should be collectively funded.”

Harris said with the current average $20,000 debt upon graduation and youth at double the unemployment rate of the rest of the country, students who finish school can’t get on with their life and contribute to the economy. With the $15-billion borrowing ceiling removed by the Conservative government, the graduation debt is only increasing.

“It’s a really frightening prospect for young people today,” said Harris. “When we’re told time and time again that this is the first generation that’s going to get less than what their parents had, that’s when we have to strive to do more and be better, we have to demand more.”

Wordich, who is a third-year student at the University of Ottawa, said “the discussion on tuition rates is hitting critical masses.” He points to Quebec, where the student protests last spring made national news in demanding lower tuition fees.

Harris said students need to get active and engaged, adding they should make their voices heard in the 2015 election.

“We need to make sure students that come from all backgrounds have an equal opportunity,” added Wordich

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The many faces of sexual assault

THE BRUNS OPINION editor@thebruns.ca

Sexual assault against men is sometimes lost in the discussion of rape culture Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan Karsten Saunders Staff Photographer It seems that every time I feel compelled to open my mouth about discriminatory events in this town, they tend to revolve around gender issues.

I self-identify as an “equalist”­­— I want everyone to be equal regardless of race, class, sexual orientation, religion, gender, sex and all the other good things you can possibly think of. I’m really into the “let’s all fight for everyone’s rights, and everyone will fight for ours” philosophy. Sadly, it appears that I’m fairly isolated in my unconditional love for humanity.

Last year I wrote an article that spoke against the campus eating disorder help group for excluding men; they implemented a co-ed

group the term after. I had an extended dialogue with a less than polite representative from campus security about how the self-defense course for sexual assault offered last spring was restricted to women; they agreed to add a men’s class if there was enough interest.

The recent “Take Back the Night” march is my newest sore spot. Reading the article on it in Issue 3 of the Bruns, it is described as an event to fight rape culture, especially in terms of victim blaming. Though an amazing idea, this event has one obvious f law. “Many women are taught by society to believe that it’s their fault,” wrote Nikki Chapman.

Blaming the female victim is wrong. Period. Do not even try to argue that.

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But what about the male victim?

Wait? Male victims?

Yes, as much as I regret to say it, men are victims of rape.

“Oh you terrible MR A, men are not victims of rape.”

No matter how much I wish it weren’t so, that is rape culture talking. Just because it tries to tell us that men aren’t victims does not make it true. Men are the victims of rape and sexual assault at the hands of both women and other men.

The article went on to quote Jenn Richard of the FSACC as saying that “We ask that [men] hang back . . . as opposed to marching with us,” and that the event “is specifically for women and children.”

Despite the strong opinions out there, it is unclear as to how fre-

quently men are raped. Depending on the study, you could see rates ranging from equivalent to those of women all the way to zero. No matter the number (which is probably in the middle of those two extremes), the obvious way in which society makes us think that men cannot be raped is simply absurd. In many areas, the term “rape” may only be applied to an individual who penetrates another sexually. I may not be a biology student, but last time I checked it was fairly difficult for a woman to do that to a man. Not only that, but men are often scorned when they try to come forward about such ordeals. Society tells us that it doesn’t happen to men, so they need to suck it up.

Even if we don’t talk about the

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frequency of rape by sex, why does society view the rape of women as more meaningful than that of men?

A man who is raped suffers just as much as a woman who is raped.

Many female victims are blamed for their own hardships, while males’ experiences are flat-out denied. Where is our compassion for the suffering and hardships of the downtrodden?

I firmly believe that being raped is one of the most traumatic events that can occur to an individual. To deny, and even vilify, these men and women is nothing short of a crime in my eyes. Though I by no means wish to minimize the experiences of female victims, I find it to be terribly hypocritical to ignore those of men.

If you would not stand beside a person who is raped, regardless of sex, then as far as I’m concerned you have no regard for humanity.

Additionally, if you are unwilling to stand up for these individuals, then I NEVER want to hear you say that you care about equality, because it will be a blatant lie. Go get your ego trip elsewhere, because this is serious business.

I hope that in the future we all come to realize that anyone could be a victim of sexual assault, and hopefully wonderful events like the Take Back the Night walk will come to reflect this as well. I also hope that you, as a reader, take a moment to think about this before you start sending me hate mail. If I can make the life of even one rape victim easier by publishing this article, then that is worth all of the hate that this readership can afford me.

My heart goes out to all victims of sexual assault, regardless of gender, and I hope we will eventually live in a world free of rape culture where such atrocities will be seen for the heinous crimes they are, and eventually eradicated. If you or anyone you know has been a victim of rape, then please report it. UNB offers counselling services for any student who needs to talk about her or his problems.

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on What’s YOUR week? s i h t d n mi

What is one thing you do to help the environment?

Angelina Bosma

Bradley Parker

Ian Smith

Mike Whitcomb

Stewart Hillhouse

“I turn the shower off while I shampoo my hair.”

“Changed my Res bookkeeping to digital. SAVE THE TREES!”

“I walk instead of cabbing.”

“I don’t throw out recyclables in my room.”

“I poo in the woods rather than wasting water.”

Austin O’Donnell

Brandon Scoot

Joe Lee

Sean Boucher

Wesley Ireland

“Recycle!”

“I recycle.”

“Going around the house turning lights off in empty rooms.”

“I use a hand towel to dry my hands in my residence.”

“I save pop can tabs.”

BRUNSWICKANOPINION letters to the editor A response to “Bookstore is not here for students” Last week’s opinion piece by Richard Kemick on the University Bookstore was full of inaccuracies. Even if this wasn’t a “news” story, I was disappointed by the failure to fact-check.

For example, the university has not “given the bookstore, and the sole rights to have stores on campus to a company called Follett.” The university does rent the bookstore space to Follett—just as it leases space to a number of other “stores” and businesses elsewhere on campus, including the Campus Convenience Shoppe, Flannery’s Jewellers, SUB Styles, the Social Club and Subtowne (Clothing).

None of these have any connection to Follett. Nor has the university “allowed Follett to hold a campuswide monopoly” on branded clothing: the Subtowne store also sells branded clothing. In fact, Subtowne’s “Ballroom Blitz” – made up almost exclusively of branded clothing – is actually advertised in the same issue of the Bruns as this opinion piece. Nor does the bookstore have a monopoly on the sale of books on campus: the Student Union runs a very good used book sale every year; professors are not required to order books through the bookstore; students are not required to buy (or sell them back) there.

Also, our bookstore’s practice is exactly the same as the one praised at UVic: our bookstore pays 50 per cent of the retail price on used books for

the upcoming term. If Richard sold his $80 text back for $7, then it was not a text adopted for next term—and if he wasn’t happy with $7 he was free to sell the book privately or in the Student Union sale.

It is true that the bookstore “buys wholesale but charges retail” as does every retail operation in the world— including those that might be run directly by universities. In fact, our bookstore sets retail prices 20% above their cost for books—and they use that 20 per cent to pay the expenses of operating a retail outlet. In retail, 20 per cent is a modest markup.

The university thinks it IS in the best interests of students to have a physical bookstore on campus and to encourage faculty members to order through it so that students have the convenience of one-stop shopping for texts, but students are not required to use it.

On the most recent survey related to bookstore satisfaction (which received over 400 responses, mostly from students), the satisfaction rate related to the selection available for textbooks, office supplies, computer products, course related supplies, academic reference titles and apparel ranged between 3.5 and 4, on a 5-point scale.

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Legislative walkway > literacy?

Richard Kemick Opinions Columnist Just a couple days after the Alward government said it was letting 75 healthcare workers go, the clerk of the legislature, Don Forestell, announced the province was spending $550,000 on a new walkway in front of the legislature in addition to planting a couple of bushes and shit. Forestall defended the upgrade by saying that it had been planned about eight years ago.

Well, whoop-dee-fucking-do, Don! In 2005 I was planning on dropping out of high school the following year to get a full-time position as an assistant manager at the Cheesecake Cafe. Good thing we aren’t married to every single plan we’ve ever made in our lives. If we were, I get the feeling there would be a surplus of hockey players, ballerinas, and professional video game testers in this country.

When you put this decision in the scope of the government’s other ideas, it gets even bat-shittier. Out of all the Alward government’s promises, such as reinvesting in health care, stopping the hemorrhage of people leaving the province and balancing the budget by 2014, giving the legislature a boob job is the one thing they just can’t walk away from. God forbid that the trickle of tourists coming out of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery has to make eye contact with a peasant-style sidewalk.

I live in New Brunswick and I don’t find the legislature embarrassing at all. What I do find embarrassing is the literacy rate. Do you know that New Brunswick has the lowest literacy rate out of any province in Canada? If you didn’t know that, that’s okay, because our provincial government obviously doesn’t know that either. According to Statistics Canada, over 56 per cent of people aged 16 or over are not functioning at an adult literacy level. In other words, if you walk around New Brunswick blindfolded for a bit and then take the blindfold off and point to two people, chances are one of them is a functioning illiterate. (Warning: If you have taken your blindfold off in front of the provincial legislature, put it back on quickly before you are turned

to stone by its Medusa-like hideousness.) You can talk all you want about “representing the province well,” Mr. Forestall, but if the illiteracy rate here gets any higher, people are going to start assuming the Miramichi was the set for Deliverance.

Furthermore, the literacy rate (or lack thereof) in this province cannot be blamed on its large demographic of citizens living far from urban centres — the Yukon has one of the best literacy rates in the country. New Brunswick’s literacy rate also cannot be blamed solely on the unemployment rate of this province, as Prince Edward Island has both significantly higher unemployment and literacy rates than we do. Though instead of making the financial investment needed to solve this problem, we are putting hundreds of thousands of dollars towards the equivalent of applying eye shadow on someone who’s drowning. The provincial government can be run out of some guy’s basement for all I care.

Though perhaps I am blowing this half-million-dollar upgrade a bit out of proportion. In the context of running a province, half a million dollars will not get you that far. UNB President Ed Campbell makes that by just rolling out bed in the morning. In all fairness, however, Eddy has been reported to store his mountains of cash in his mattress, making his climb out of bed quite the trek.

What is important here is not the money itself but what value the money demonstrates.

Alward’s government needs to demonstrate that every available dollar they

have is going to go towards reversing the debilitating economic and cultural effects of illiteracy and the culture of acceptance it has produced. The legislature’s needless upgrade comes in the wake of the province refusing both to increase funding to universities and do something when universities break the tuition cap policy. This government has established a track record of treating education like it’s the province’s diseased cat: hoping that if they just stop feeding it, it’ll either go away or eventually get tortured and killed by the neighbourhood youth.

But this is not just a Conservative problem either. The Liberals, under the dreamboat Premier Shawn Michael Graham, shat the bed on this issue too, making illiteracy in this province a systemic problem. New Brunswick has a history of having a large sway in the ballot box from one election to the next, oscillating between Liberal and Conservative governments. The only thing that remains constant, however, is the amount of people that cannot actually read the ballot.

With a functioning illiteracy rate of 56 per cent, the current unemployment rate of 10.7 per cent seems like a miracle. The province needs to show that it recognizes the fact that wanting a functioning economy while having a predominantly illiterate population is like wanting your car to run well when you fill up the gas tank with toothpaste.

How can this government think it is possible to do anything in the way of economics if the majority of people in this province cannot even read the job listings?

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Lee Thomas Arts Editor In June of 2013, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s hit song Same Love, featuring Mary Lambert, has more than 81 million views on YouTube.

These instances, and many more, show how far LGBTQ rights have come, and how widespread the acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender people is.

But is it, though?

In September 2011, in the Canadian House of Commons, Bill C279 was introduced by NDP MP Randall Garrison. Bill C279 would entrench “gender expression and gender identity” into the Canadian Human Rights Act, which currently has explicit protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, race and religion, among others.

The infamously dubbed “bathroom bill” soon gained national attention as Conservative MP Rob Anders insisted that the ruling would allow sexual predators to access women’s washrooms under the guise of being transgender. The bill had passed in the

House and was in its third reading in the Senate — on the verge of becoming a law — but was not voted on before they broke for summer.

Because of Stephen Harper’s recent announcement to prorogue Parliament, the bill will be set back to the first Senate reading again. Harper and most of his front-row MPs voted against Bill C279, by the way.

So what’s the big deal?

Well, while everyone is celebrating that gays across the border can now marry, transgender people at home are struggling for the right to pee.

Alex Banks* is a transgender student in her second year at UNB. “When I first started transitioning it was so uncomfortable going into the bathrooms. People gave me such dirty looks. If I had to pee I would hold it until all of my classes were done — a total of about six hours,” she said in an email interview.

“I would try to sneak into the staff washrooms which were single [stall], but that rarely worked.”

Dylan Samson and Bowen Xu, the executive director and executive officer of Spectrum, respectively, said concerns over the lack of gender-neutral washroom availability at UNB has arisen during meetings.

“From my experience, there aren’t

enough gender-neutral or single-stall washrooms on campus, and even the ones that are [available] are not publicized,” said Samson.

It’s experiences like Banks’s which prompted LGBTQ allies at Dalhousie University to create a list of single-stall washrooms on campus, which is published on the university website.

“We were getting stories that some [transgender and genderqueer] people were not feeling comfortable using the wa sh ro om s ,” said Clement Mehlman, a founding member of the Dal Allies project, which publicizes a list of more than 180 Dalhousie University staff who are explicitly supportive of the LGBTQ community.

“It’s important to have students feel like they’re safe, and not being judged on their presentation of themselves, and not being harmed,” said Mehlman.

“It’s about safety and privacy.”

The initiative now has an agreement with the Dalhousie University that new buildings will all be built with

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single-stall provisions, such as their new Grad House which has two single-stall facilities simply labeled “washroom.”

Shirley Cleave, UNB’s associate vice president academic, said that the university ensures the construction of single-stall washrooms in all new “major renovations.” Currently, she said, there are about 17 washrooms on campus that fit this description.

However, none of them have explicitly transgender- or genderqueer-inclusive signage.

“We haven’t done any differentiating signs, except to indicate that they’re available to anyone by putting up both genders. Some might be labeled just ‘accessible’ instead of male or female,” she said.

Shane Gunter, who is the coordinator of the Safe Spaces program on the UNB Fredericton campus, said that publicizing a list of gender-neutral washrooms, as well as creating more of these spaces, will be a main initiative of Safe Spaces this year.

“It makes you feel unsafe because you can never predict how people will treat you in those scenarios”

“Our goal is to get a sign, in addition to [the wheelchair glyph], that says ‘gender-neutral,’ ” said Gunter.

“People don’t really understand what’s going on with gender identity because there’s not much awareness about it. At UNB we don’t have a huge transgender population, but it’s still a population that’s here and relevant.”

Gunter added that because of the small population, it’s important for there to be extra support for the transgender and gender-variant community at UNB. Samson agreed that extra support is required, and pointed out that transphobic attitudes readily contribute to higher rates of mental health problems among LGBTQ people, especially LGBTQ youth.

“A lot of students who are nonbinary have a lot of trouble going to the bathroom because they feel the stigma of walking into the wrong one,” Samson explained. “That causes a lot of confusion, and it can cause depression and a lot of psychological problems as well, which is a big concern especially since [the university is] supposed to tailor to the needs of every student possible.”

Banks echoed this sentiment, and said, “The fact that you can’t use the bathroom without getting dirty looks

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delivers quite a hit to your self-esteem and makes you feel really insecure.”

Indeed, Statistics Canada states that “an individual’s level of self-confidence can . . . be a measure of their mental health.”

According to an Ontario student of transsexual, transgender, and gendervariant people aged 16-24, 47 per cent reported having “seriously considered suicide in the previous year,” and one fifth attempted suicide, significantly above the national average for that age group.

“In an ideal world, I’d like to see the fact that you can go into the bathroom of their identity without concern. But unfortunately it’s not like that at this point in time,” said Samson, who occasionally dresses in drag as part of his gender expression.

Xu said to envision the struggle of transgender people, put yourself in their shoes.

“Imagine you have to hold your pee, or whatever your biological needs are. To walk a few buildings over just because there is no washroom for you,” she said.

Banks believes that the provision of gender-neutral washrooms would play an important role in making transgender students feel included and valued at UNB.

“The lack of gender-neutral washrooms makes me feel as though the university doesn’t notice the issues that transgender people have to live through every day. Or they notice and simply don’t care,” Banks said.

This is reflected in a 2011 study of LGBTQ youth by Statistics Canada, where 69 per cent of transgender youth and 45 per cent of LGB youth disagreed with the statement “I feel like a real part of my school,” compared to only 25 per cent of their non-LGBTQ peers.

“It makes you feel unsafe because you can never predict how people will treat you in those scenarios,” added Banks.

In a 1997 San Francisco survey of transgender men and women, 84 per cent of the individuals “reported verbal abuse because of their gender identity or gender presentation,” and more than 30 per cent reported experiencing physical abuse.

The National Coalition of AntiViolence Programs released a 2011 report that demonstrated that transgender individuals, particularly women, people of colour, and youth are at “a disproportionately high risk” of being victims of hate violence. They noted that there has been an upward trend in anti-LGBTQH – the “H” stands

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for HIV-positive – murders in the US over the past 3 years, and 45 per cent of those hate murder victims were transgender women.

Initiatives such as Safe Spaces try to tackle these issues head-on.

“We want to ensure that UNB is a safe and welcoming space for all students, faculty, and staff — regardless of sexual orientation or gender identification,” said Gunter.

Banks said that in addition to preventing awkwardness and possible gender identity-based violence, genderneutral washroom signage would help transgender people to simply “be able to live their lives without worrying about that they may encounter in daily tasks that should be simple — like using the bathroom.”

The practical application of a genderneutral washroom initiative, particularly in older buildings such as those at UNB, is a complex undertaking.

However Mehlman points out that single-stall washrooms meet the need of many students, including any students who prefer a private bathroom space for medical or religious reasons.

“There are still a lot of male/female washroom spaces,” said Mehlman, “but having even one [single stall bathroom] within the building is helpful.”

Although most UNB residences *supplied by the UNB Safe Spaces project

have single-stall or fully gender-neutral washroom facilities, the campus is still lacking single-stall or gender-neutral bathrooms in many significant buildings, including the Student Union Building and McConnell Hall.

“There should be one in every building, especially here in the SUB. I mean, it’s the Student Union Building. It’s where every single student comes to get things. So the fact that they would have to leave to go to a bathroom in — where’s the closest one, Tilley? — that’s just preposterous,” said Samson.

“If you cannot go to the bathroom, it infringes on your basic human needs.

And by not allowing a student to go to the bathroom, because they’re not comfortable — and by not addressing that fact — is a huge problem.”

Cleave said that no one had raised concerns about genderqueer-inclusive washrooms on campus prior to The Brunswickan’s call, but said that it would be “worth considering” to look into gender-neutral washrooms in buildings like the SUB. “I think that as we continue to make our spaces more accessible in all sorts of ways, both physically and based on gender, we’ll continue to pay attention to making sure we have facilities that are available to anyone,” she said.

Xu added, “Not everybody knows

*Editor’s note: Alex Banks’s name was fabricated in order to protect the identity of the quoted individual.

list of single stall washrooms on campus:

transgender: someone who does not identify with their birth-assigned gender* transsexual: someone who has, or is in the process of changing their outward gender to match their spiritual and emotional gender * two-spirited: an aboriginal term to describe someone who contains aspects of both the male and female spirits* genderqueer/non-binary: someone who does not identify as being either male or female cisgender: someone whose gender identity aligns with their birth-assigned gender gender identity: the internal sense of being spiritually a man or woman gender expression: the external manifestation of someone’s gender identity LGBTQ: an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/two-spirited, and queer/questioning; ideally, it encompasses everyone on the gender and sexuality spectrum, including but not limited to asexual, genderqueer and non-binary people.

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about this issue, so we need to raise awareness. We don’t think about this every day because it’s not a daily concern. But for some people, it is.”

“I think the university does what it can with what it has,” said Samson.

“But it’s not enough.”

The university’s Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities states that “the University of New Brunswick is committed to providing a positive learning and working environment, one in which all members of its community are respectful and respected as individuals. We strive to foster a welcoming and supportive community, where every person feels empowered to contribute.”

With gender-neutral washrooms, the university may be one step closer to fulfilling that mandate.

Resources for LGBTQ community members can be found by emailing sexuality@unb.ca, spectrum@unb.ca or safespaces@unb.ca, or by visiting the Sexuality Centre on the third floor of the SUB.

-supplied by associate vice president academic Shirley Cleave

Bailey Hall Ground Floor – Room 39 Carleton Hall 2nd floor – Room 220 Carleton Hall Elevator – Room 308 Tilley Hall Ground Floor – Room 34 Tilley Hall 1st Floor – Room 126 Toole Hall 1st Floor – Room 138 Toole Hall Ground Floor – Room 28 Head Hall B Level – Room B33 Head Hall C Level – Room C12B HIL 1st Floor – Room 136 Ludlow Hall Ground Floor – Room 18 MacLaggan Hall 1st Floor – Room 151 CC Jones 3rd Floor – Rooms 307 & 308 CC Jones 2nd Floor – Rooms 223, 214, 211

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Tess Allen Arts Reporter For a chemistry major, Justin Rent sure has a way with words.

It is a gift the 23-year-old Rothesay native has honed from his humble beginnings as an Eminem wannabe in high school, and one which has travelled with him throughout his journey as a rising rap artist in the region.

“The evolutionary path that my sound has taken has followed my personality. Until [I got out of high school], I had judged the merit of my songs based on how close they sounded to Eminem,” said the fourth-year University of New Brunswick student.

“Nobody knows who they are in high school, and it comes across in the sound.”

Sounding identical to his former idol is not a concern that plagues Rent anymore when he steps up in the booth or stands before a crowd of screaming fans. Today, the local rapper harnesses his wordsmith ways in a style that is entirely his own.

“Basically the only real underlying theme is the fact that I use a lot of wordplay – it’s my thing,” said Rent, who never had much of an interest in English class despite admiration and encouragement from his teachers.

“I’ve been doing it since middle school with friends, making up random jokes and plays on words. When we started doing it, it was horrible and as we progressed, we got more and more witty with it. It’s a learned skill.”

It’s a skill Rent now showcases on stages across the region, most often

Dropping beats with Justin Rent alongside fellow Fredericton rapper/singer and University of New Brunswick engineering student Sam Anderson, with whom he struck up a friendship upon entering his first year of studies at UNB. It is a relationship Rent credits for looping him back into the local rapping scene after hanging up his microphone post-graduation from Kennebecasis Valley High School.

“I was actually quitting [rapping] a few years ago. I sold all my recording gear and I thought I was 100 per cent through with it. It was just a solitary thing for me for years, and I just got bored,” said Rent.

“Then I met Sam. He found my music on the internet and he emailed me to ask where I was. We were both at UNB so we met up and he dragged me back in. It’s still a hobby but we’ve been able to do some pretty high-profile shows,” he said, referencing such gigs as this past summer’s Evolve Festival in Antigonish.

But a slate of prominent shows isn’t the only thing Rent and Anderson have collaborated on since their introduction three years ago. In April 2012, they released their first album together, Subject Matter.

“We were just going to a studio for fun, because I sold all my recording gear. We realized we had enough material for a decent album. It was my first and only album at this point and I was happy with the way it turned out,” said Rent.

Justin Rent is both a chem student and a talented rapper. Submitted While Rent himself does not have any big plans for upcoming albums or shows – other than an unfinished work between himself and Anderson – he can be heard on Andersons’ new album, Brainstorm, this fall.

“I’m not really going for [fame]

Every diva needs a cup Sarah Dominie Copy Editor When it comes to managing menstruation, some people prefer pads. Some people prefer tampons. And most people have been told that these are the extent of their options.

What if I told you that rather than having to choose between “terrible” and “less terrible,” you could have something that’s great? This article aims to educate you on why you should really be using a menstrual cup. (And I’m going to be frank with the correct language here – so if you’re too sensitive to read the word “vagina,” then tough titties for you.)

Before I get into why you should make the switch, I should first explain what a menstrual cup actually is. It’s a small, soft silicone cup a bit smaller than a chicken’s egg. It’s folded up and inserted into your vagina, where it opens and is held in place by the suction it creates when opening. It has ridges and a stem on the bottom to make it easy to grab when you need to remove and empty it. And the main detail: it is not a disposable tool. Once you are ready to change it, you dump out the contents, wash it with mild soap, and put it back in so it can resume catching blood and tissue.

Why the hell would you want to reuse something that has been inside your body? Well, don’t you wear the same contact lenses for 30 days? How

old is your dental retainer? And I’m pretty sure you’ve had your own fingers in there more than a few times.

You’re taught from a young age that menstrual blood is something dirty that you should be ashamed of. Brush off that silly patriarchal myth and get over it: as long as you clean your cup and hands properly, you’re doing no harm to yourself or anyone else.

But what are the actual benefits of using a menstrual cup? Let’s start with contents: Tampons are made of cotton, which means they can go in and soak up liquids. This is unfortunate, because it means that they not only are incapable of holding onto any tissue that you are shedding, but they also absorb the things you want to keep – mucus and natural fluids that keep everything clean and balanced. Menstrual cups catch everything that’s falling out – namely blood and tissue – while keeping your vagina’s normal fluids where they want to be. And the fact that the tissue can get out properly means that your cramps could become less severe!

And let’s not forget that in order to give them a cleaner appearance, pads and tampons are whitened with bleach.

Yeah. Bleach! In your membranous and fragile vagina! Do I even need to go into detail on this one?!

It is recommended that you replace your cup every year, but as long as they don’t show deterioration or extreme discolouration, they can last up to ten.

It’s easy to imagine the enormous pile

of tampons, pads, wrappers and applicators that you’re no longer contributing to landfills, the energy to make them that isn’t being expended, and the money that’s staying in your pocket.

The main selling point for me was that it’s safe to leave it in for up to 12 hours. No more awkward shuffling in dirty school washroom stalls – as long as your flow allows it, you only need to care about your period twice a day: once when you wake up, and once in the evening. If your flow is too heavy to go a full day without emptying, don’t worry about having to clean it in the public sink with people watching.

As long as you cleaned it last time, and vow to clean it next time, you can skip this once and reinsert without leaving the stall.

And as long as you read the directions and insert it correctly, your menstrual cup will never leak. Ever. This means you aren’t going to accidentally ruin your cutest underwear with the giraffes on it, or be paranoid to stand up at the end of class. That’s the power of suction, baby.

Now that I’ve got you sold on the idea, let’s get into the buying. There are a few brands available, but the only one readily available in Canada is the Diva Cup. They’re sold at Lawton’s Drugs for $40, and come with a little storage bag and a pin to wear proudly.

They come in two sizes, 1 and 2. There are a few criteria to determine your size. If you’re over 30 and/or have

delivered a child vaginally, then the larger size 2 is recommended. If not, go with size 1. (Some brands use vaginal intercourse as a criterion for size 2, but this is not at all a good indicator of size. Go with the first two.)

Menstrual c ups , de spite hav i ng ma ny advantages over their disposable counterparts, are an incredibly wellkept secret. It’s time you did your research and made informed choices about your menstrual health. And spread the word to your friends!

anyway. It’s just a hobby for me and if I can get free stuff out of it, like going to shows and being able to perform and just hanging out, that’s good enough for me.”

Rent’s music can be heard for free on Bandcamp.com.

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Anal sex | fact vs. fiction Billy Mann The Brunswickan Anal sex is one of the most misunderstood sexual acts, particularly in North America.

In some cultures, anal sex is an alternative that women use to preserve their “virginity.” So why is there such a stigma in our culture towards this form of pleasure seeking?

There are numerous myths out there that some of us were, or are, still being exposed to that influence our perception of anal sex.

First things first, if you are uncomfortable with the idea of a new sexual act, then don’t try it. However, by having an open mind there is great potential for elevating your sex life to new heights.

I’ve composed a list of three myths that fuel the fire to the negative views on anal sex. Hopefully my explanations can help erase the negativity.

MYTH 1: Feces come from our anus, so it must be dirty and germy!

True, your anus can get dirty if you don’t clean it. With steady daily hygiene and a few additional steps, you will be fine.

Remember to avoid any contact between the anus and the vagina.

Your butt has its own natural bacteria that can cause infections in

your vagina. Although more rare, a person can also acquire infections if they transfer bacteria from their anus to their penis.

When engaging in anal sex, don’t switch to vaginal sex – if anything, start off with vaginal sex and end with anal. That way, you avoid transferring any bacteria! And, as always, a condom will significantly decrease any chances of infection.

Just remember to change the condom between orifices!

MYTH 2: It really hurts to have something penetrate your anus.

Your first time having anal sex may cause some discomfort, but that discomfort goes away with simple preparation and practices. The key is to educate yourself on proper techniques that will reduce or eliminate discomfort.

Your anus has an external and internal muscle. Your job is to gain control of your external muscle and learn how to relax that muscle. Don’t tense up before allowing objects to penetrate, otherwise your efforts will prove futile. First, let any tension leave your body, and take relaxing, calm breaths. Secondly use lots of water based lube and allow your partner to ease in. Once a comfortable rhythm is initiated, you can progressively change the pace and

how deep the penetration is.

If you are still apprehensive, try using smaller toys to help train your anus, and to utilize more control over your external muscle, before moving on to bigger things.

MYTH 3: Anal sex is unhealthy and harmful.

If you follow the correct procedure and preparation, there is no reason for you to worry! If you are concerned about sexually transmitted infections, it’s in your best interest to always wear a condom while partaking in any sexual act.

For anal sex, avoid condoms with spermicides, as they can cause irritation in that very sensitive part of your body.

If you follow these steps, anal sex can be one of the most pleasurable sexual acts. Your anus contains numerous nerves, and is one of the body’s most sensitive erogenous zones.

And yes, it is possible to have an orgasm from anal sex!

Like any other sexual act, anal sex should be consensual and protected. The Brunswickan

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Songs of the week.

The Paper Kites – “Malleable Beings” After releasing their debut album, States, in their home country of Australia last month, The Paper Kites are getting ready to do the same here next week. “Malleable Beings” is the opening track on the album, and sets the mood for what is to come. More than just an indie or folk band, the five bandmates blend male and female vocals with horns, banjos, electric guitars and crashing cymbals to create a complex, yet mellow, sound. They will be opening for City and Colour this fall on a tour across North America, but unfortunately no stops will be made on the East Coast.

WEDNESDAY, Oct 2 You picked up a Brunswickan! Congratulations!

Fredericton Playhouse presents Classic Albums Live: Rumors 7:30 p.m. at The Playhouse.

Drake – “The Language” After much hype, Drake’s third album, Nothing Was The Same, was officially released this week. The album is filled with the R&B/ rap fusion that has made the Canadian artist famous, and one of the standouts comes halfway through the album: “The Language.” The beat is one of the more aggressive on the album, but with a heavy bass and drum machine Drake still manages to flow between rap and singing smoothly. Just like the beat, he comes with something to prove on this song. With a fast delivery he forgets his sentimental side for a moment and addresses other rappers, women and of course, money.

THURSDAY, Oct 3 Patt LePoidevin, Banded Stilts and Josh Bravener play at The Capital. 10:30 p.m., $5 cover.

Alden Nowlan Literary Festival kickoff: Wayne Johnston reading, 8 p.m. at Memorial Hall. Admission is free.

Albert Hammond, Jr. – “Rude Customer” Best known as the guitar player for The Strokes, Albert Hammond, Jr. put out another song in lead-up to his next solo release, AHJ. The song is a fast paced one that lasts just over two minutes, but packs in a catchy chorus, guitar solo and lyrics dealing with the everyday problem of interacting with waiters. Though the scenario sounds like it could be a Seinfeld episode, it reminds fans of what they saw in The Strokes in the early 2000s, and gives hope that maybe the band can return back to form.

Feist – “Don’t Give Up” (feat. Timber Timbre) [Peter Gabriel Cover] One of the final additions of Peter Gabriel’s newly released cover album, And I’ll Scratch Yours, Feist and Timber Timbre give their take on the original by Gabriel and Kate Bush. The song follows the melancholy tone that had been set on Feist’s latest record, and allows her voice to be the main focus, with little musical accompaniment during the verses. On the chorus, the baritone voice of Taylor Kirk, Timber Timbre’s lead singer, juxtaposes both with Feist’s high pitched singing as well as with Kate Bush’s original interpretation.

By: Sebastian Maynard

FRIDAY, Oct 4 Cinema Politica screening: United States of Africa 7 p.m. at the Conserver House, 180 St. John Street.

Fredericton Fall Craft Show at the Capital Exhibit Centre Oct. 4-6. Admission is free, visit Frederictionfallcraftshow.com for more info.

Dear

Ari.

Dear Ari – I’m in a class with my boyfriend.

School is really important to me and I tend to actively participate. My boyfriend spends the whole time playing Solitaire and he thinks I take school way too seriously. But then he asks me to help him study before midterms.

How can I tell him to get his shit together, without hurting his feelings?

Sincerely, Academic Annie Dear Academic— First and foremost, remember that you’re at school to learn. We’re all paying far too much money to be here to not make academics a priority, so I think you’re on the right track.

Be direct with your boyfriend. Remind him how important school is not only to you, but to him too. Reiterate to him what his goals are and how crucial academic success is in achieving these goals. Be clear on your limits—you’re not his teacher. He can feel free to study with you, but don’t let him take advantage of your good habits.

A healthy relationship involves two people who are supportive of each other. If he can’t respect how driven and motivated you are, he may lose more than just his grades.

Affectionately, Ari

Bussy Sainte-Marie at the Fredericton Playhouse 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, Oct 5 Poetry Weekend: readings at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. at Memorial Hall, and 2 p.m. at Gallery 78. Free admission.

Ria Mae and Chris Velan perform at The Phoenix. 10:30 p.m., $5 cover.

SUNDAY, Oct 6 Poetry Weekend: readings at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 8 p.m. at Memorial Hall, free admission.

Marina Jay: Prisoner of Time. 7:30 p.m. at The Playhouse.

MONDAY, Oct 7 Check out some of the ongoing galleries at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Gallery 78!

TUESDAY, Oct 8 Alden Nowlan Literary Festival conclusion: Thomas King reading, 8 p.m. at Memorial Hall. Free admission.

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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Weaving yarns with Douglas Glover

Tess Allen Arts Reporter Canadian novelist Douglas Glover may have read passages from his latest work within the confines of Memorial Hall on Thursday night, but audience members were transported to a whole other world – or, perhaps more accurately, six other worlds.

Indeed, the minds of captivated spectators young and old travelled far beyond campus as the University of New Brunswick’s newest writer-inresidence delivered a public reading from his latest collection of short stories, entitled Savage Love.

From a cannibalistic love story (“they live happily ever after!”) to a side-splitting yarn about infidelity, head injuries and dead hamsters (it’s funnier than it sounds), Glover had the 50-odd spectators who packed Memorial Hall’s East Gallery cringing at times and quaking with laughter at others.

Glover’s enchanting language and spellbinding fables were only augmented by the bestselling author’s expert oratory skills. With a voice and manner made for storytelling, Glover entranced his listeners every step of the way, luring them into the worlds

inside his mind and on the page.

It’s no wonder Glover snagged this year’s coveted role of UNB writerin-residence. One look at the sea of beaming, hooting and wincing faces in the audience on Thursday evening was testament enough to Glover’s talents.

As the author of six story collections, four novels, two books of essays and book The Enamoured Knight, as well as the recipient of the 2003 Governor General’s Award for fiction for his bestselling novel Elle, Glover was a natural fit for the title.

Glover was also a finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and in 2007 won the Rogers-Writers’ Trust of Canada Timothy Findley Award. Since 2010, he has published and edited the online magazine Numéro Cinq.

UNB writers-in-residence have an office in the department of English where they meet with students and community members to provide feedback and guidance on their creative writing.

Glover will be available for consultation with students and the public throughout the school year in Carleton Hall room 242.

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Banded Stilts stand tall Ryan Belbin The Brunswickan When he launches into the delicate falsetto refrain of “Stars Go Down,” Steve Haley sounds positively Harvest-era Neil Young, but Halifax troubadours Banded Stilts only take the twang so far.

Little Village is the band’s fulllength follow-up to their 2011 EP By the Back Stair, a collection of songs that sound more like snatches of stories and conversations put to a sombre, alt-folk rhythm. The new album might be less carefree than their earlier release, but it’s also more layered and concentrated, as if they took the rustic pulse of homegrown Canadian groups All The Wiles or Great Lake Swimmers and jilted that straightforward core every so often with the lofty flourishes of Fleet Foxes.

The usual arsenal of East Coast folk elements are here at Banded Stilt’s disposal – the guitars, violin, banjo, and a sense of character and story – but there are enough turns of phrases and mellow song structures to set this group apart from what you’d expect of a crowd of folk musicians growing up next to the ocean.

Little Village opens with a lonely piano melody, a glimpse of vulnerability that’s quickly forgotten when the acoustic guitar starts strumming and the horns start in the background.

Banded Stilts will be playing at the Capital on Thursday. Submitted Still, it’s a fitting reminder of what’s just beneath the surface of the whole record.

The indie production floats you somewhere away from the simple seaside town on the album’s black and white cover, but the ripples you feel are from the simple lives of those simple people that live in that simple town. Simple as in human: capable of love, capable of loneliness, and capable of beauty.

The album is officially being released on Oct. 8, but you can preview the tracks at Bandedstilts.bandcamp.com – be sure to check out “Stars Go Down,” the bittersweet moving-on of “The End

of February,” and the cool accordion melodic line that carries “The Squid and the Ghost Town.”

Or, if you’re real smitten, hear the songs live and up close when Banded Stilts make a stop downtown at the Capital this Thursday evening, converging with British Columbia native Pat LePoidevin (whose fifth release, American Fiction, is almost as new as Banded Stilts’) and local singer-songwriter Josh Bravener. Whether Fredericton is home or just the little village you happen to have found yourself in, there’s a song there worth singing.

doing book tours and running youth seminars.

“Being scared of real jobs keeps me busy,” they joked.

Rae played on Friday the 27th at Gallery Connexion to an intimate crowd. A local act, Goofe Troope, opened with their art-punk high school vibe and tropical t-shirt uniform, eschewing a bass in favor of a microKORG synth. Up next was Glor ious Moon Rockets, a subdued, thrashy, busy-bass, twot hirds-bearded-dude-rock k ind of outf it from Ottawa on their eastern-Canadian leg of a tour. Both bands have music available on their respective bandcamp pages and are worth checking out.

Rae set up with a computer, a guitar and some stompboxes, opening with the single from their album, I will be a wall. Rae effortlessly moved between compelling narratives, like the lyrics of “I Can’t Tear it From Me”: “my mother is a steeple, and my father is a stalker”, to perfect dance numbers such as “I Want”, a tune about queer prom complica-

tions: “I want you. I want something real.”

Rae discussed a fascination with putting dark folk songs in the middle of dance music; “Curse On Us” features an interlude where Rae howls through an oscillating vocal effect, and calls back with an anxious guitar solo. By the last four songs of the set a dance party had started in the corner. Throughout the set Rae was humble, comical, and always singing with a cosmic sort of certainty.

R ae ended on an older tune, “Come On Forest Fire Burn The Disco Down”, a much-loved track in my own library. However, my favourite track of the evening was undoubtedly “Message From the Queer Trans Prairie Tourism Co.”, which brought a scathing (and apt) critique of backward Albertan provincial politics to light.

Like Rae, I do love some things about our prairie home, but am aware it’s far from faultless. It seems Rae has cultivated their own sense of home within a tireless work ethic, a quality catalogue of diverse releases, on the road, and just maybe, a leather bar or two on the way.

Rae Spoon | music with a message Benjamin Dugdale The Brunswickan Rae spoon is a mammoth. There’s no one quite like them, and you feel the quake of their every footstep. Rae is originally from Calgary, just like me. We’ve even been to the same leather bars, one of which Rae played at with a country band.

Picture it: gay porn on the big screens, with tunes about becoming

wolves bursting from the monitors.

Rae is a transgender musician with a cause dear to my heart: the critique of oppressive structures such as the gender binary. Rae formerly played

folk music, but moved to dance music with their last few releases.

Rae’s lyricism sticks with one the same way Woody Guthrie’s does, a good story with a lingering moral.

Rae has also recently released their debut collection of short stories, First Spring Grass Fire, and is releasing another book next spring with fellow gender activist, Ivan Coyote.

The National Film Board and Chelsea McMullan have also put together a musical documentary about Rae’s experiences growing up queer in the ‘90s’ prairies, simply entitled My Prairie Home.

Rae also scored the film, and is touring in support of the soundtrack. My Prairie Home debuts September 29 at the Vancouver International Film Festival. I asked Rae how they managed to stay on top of being so busy between writing,

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V-Reds cruising through pre-season Rookie MacLise nets first goal

The UNB Varsity Reds defeated the Carleton Ravens 3-2 in a pre-season home game Friday night Naseem Yaqzan / The Brunswickan Nick Murray Editor-in-Chief Cam MacLise has had a rather quick adjustment period to the life of a university hockey player – though he seems to be handling it well.

The 21-year-old Lacombe, Alta. native got his first taste of V-Reds hockey two weeks ago against the Windsor Lancers, then netted his first goal in a UNB jersey Friday, in a 3-2 win against Carleton University.

Even though it was only a pre-season game, UNB was tested against a strong Ravens team and MacLise said it was good to get that first-goal

monkey off his back.

“I wasn’t sure how it was going to be as far as comparing it to junior-A and being able to get scoring chances and stuff like that,” MacLise said, “but it was definitely nice to get the first one out of the way.”

MacLise captained the Brooks Bandits of the Alberta Junior Hockey League to the team’s first RBC Cup – the national junior-A hockey championship – in May, and was named the Canadian Junior Hockey League’s most valuable player last season.

Before his debut against Windsor, MacLise was vying for a spot with

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the Los Angeles Kings as he was invited to their development camp.

At this time last year MacLise had set out to simply get on a university roster with a scholarship.

He was cut by the K ings two days before his V-Reds debut but returned to UNB rather than going to play in the American Hockey League. He said going to Los Angeles was a good way to see how he measured up to some of the top prospects in the NHL. You couldn’t tell by looking at him, but playing Atlantic University Sport hockey has brought a new adjustment for the six-foot-four winger,

in that he doesn’t tower over players like he did in junior hockey.

“In junior-A, I was one of the bigger guys and now I’m just more average, so it’s a bit of an adjustment but it’s been good so far,” MacLise said. “It’s just getting used to practicing with our guys and the more games I play the more I’m going to get used to it. Being able to work out more and build on strength during the week isn’t something you get a chance to do in junior because you’re playing so many games.”

Head coach Gardiner MacDougall called MacLise “a diamond in the rough” and said he was an

unexpected find when MacDougall went to scout at the RBC Cup. He also compared MacLise to Nick MacNeil coming out of junior.

But MacLise is the only junior-A product on the team while the rest came from the major-junior ranks.

Dion Campbell was the last V-Reds player to come out of junior-A, and by many accounts was the fittest player on the team. While it’s not his main focus, MacLise is out to prove junior-A players can produce just as well as anybody.

“I guess it comes into my mind but I try not to think about it,” MacLise said. “I think junior-A guys can do just as well as any other guys who come into this league. But yeah I guess if I do have a good year and make an impression then it will say something for junior-A hockey players.”

The V-Reds have won all but one game on their pre-season schedule so far – losing 4-0 to the AHL’s Portland Pirates last week – but beat each of their university opponents.

Tyler Caroll and rookie Matt Petgrave each scored in the win against Carleton over the weekend, while goalies Charlie Lavigne and Joel Vienneau split the game in net and combined to stop 22 shots.

The defending University Cup champs will have a different test of university-calibre hockey this weekend as they’ll be in Colorado for exhibition games against Colorado College, the University of Denver, and the United States Air Force Academy.

UNB opens its AUS regular season at home on Oct. 18 against St. Francis Xavier University.

What is the best/worst cliché to be used during a sports event? cellarpub.ca

Bronté James Sports Editor

I have interviews with coaches and athletes every weekend, and every weekend at least two clichés are used per interview. One used time and again both at the CIS level and professional level, and my personal favourite, is “they brought their ‘A’ game today.” Well . . . I would sincerely hope so.

Josh Fleck

Sea Dogs Announcer

“We just went out tonight and gave 110 per cent, and luckily everything fell into place and we got the win.”

Come on, put some heart into it and stop watching SportsCenter for lines.

Andrew Martel Business Manager

Favourite: Anything said by John Madden, such as, “If this team doesn’t put points on the board I don’t see how they can win.”

Peter Ryan Sports Writer

Clichés have got to be one of the worst parts of sports in my opinion. If I have to say a favorite and a least favorite, my least favorite would go to “Just gotta take it one _____ at a time.” (Set, shot, shift, whatever floats your boat.) My favorite sports cliché would be nothing. I don’t have one. Because ‘Murrica.

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HOW TO BE A SPORTS ANNOUNCER

SPORTS CLICHÉS FOR THE EVERYDAY FAN

BY ANDREW MARTEL

THIS WEEK’S SPORT:

HOCKEY

Sports announcers have been around for years and the same sport clichés have been used over and over again.

So with a new V-Reds season upon us, here is a look at possible new sport clichés for announcers, young and old.

After a huge save:

We must be in Salisbury, ‘cause that was a BIG STOP!

When a big hit occurs:

Delivery from Central Europe . . . it’s a CZECH!

When the game is going to overtime:

Ask your boss for time and a half, cause it’s OVERTIME!

Scoring on a slap shot:

He winds it up like a toy car he just got on Christmas from a relative who really doesn’t know him that well — so they think he’s into cars — when really, he knows nothing about them — AND SCORES!!

If a penalty is missed by the referees:

Hey ref, why don’t you go to the corner store, get minutes for your phone and MAKE THAT CALL!

When a penalty is called:

I haven’t seen such dirty play since the Icelandic team in D2: The Mighty Ducks!

After a victory:

Open up Excel, find the W column and add another 1, cause we just won!

During a UNB vs. STU game: Ha! You suck, STU.

From the court to the turf Graham Leupp The Brunswickan For varsity soccer player Jason Rouse, the joy of the sport doesn’t necessarily come from the victories, but from the teamwork.

Rouse played basketball for the University of New Brunswick (UNB) Varsity Reds for two years before making the decision to switch to the men’s soccer team.

“I just wasn’t really getting what I wanted out of basketball,” said Rouse.

“I mean, it was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed it a lot, but there was just something that it wasn’t giving me. I always felt like I liked soccer more, and eventually I just wanted to make a change. It’s funny, because I wasn’t even planning on playing UNB soccer.”

What prompted the six-foot-four former basketball forward-turnedfullback to switch sports, was head coach Miles Pinsent.

“I was playing in the dome, with the league there, and eventually I was approached by coach Miles, who asked if I wanted to come and train with the team in the wintertime, so I started doing that,” he said.

From there he traded his sneakers for cleats.

Rouse is in his fourth year of eligibility for Canadian Interuniversity Sport, having played two years of basketball and in his second season with the soccer team.

His most memorable moment in soccer so far was the Atlantic University Sport final last season. “[We] were down a man, and to make it worse they tied the game up.

In the seconds before the game went into overtime, we scored.”

For Jason, the best moments of his game come not from performing well as a single player, but from the teamwork and camaraderie the team has.

His decision to come to UNB was largely influenced by being a Fredericton native.

“I’ve lived here for my whole life,” he said. “I really like Fredericton, and I didn’t want to leave it, so I decided to try out for the basketball team.”

Of course, basketball and soccer are

Jason Rouse played two years with Varsity Reds Basketball before joining the men’s soccer team. Bronté James / The Brunswickan two very different games. Rouse saw you get kicked, you get tackled and you a drastic difference in sport when he get head-butted. Sometimes two guys moved from the court to the turf. will kick for the ball and they’ll smash Teamwork was the main difference their shins together.” he noticed.

The future is still uncertain for this “In basketball, it’s totally possible Varsity Red, but he will be graduating for one guy to just dominate the entire with a business degree and hopes to game. The rest of the team is there, but pursue soccer professionally. not really able to play,” he said. “In “To get paid to play a game that soccer, it’s almost impossible to play the you love playing, there’s just nothing game and do well all by yourself. You better,” he said. still have guys that make a huge impact, Rouse thanks his team and coach but overall, you’ve got to have players Pinsent for his time with them on the around them to set them up for those turf, and for the time still left to play. opportunities.”

“Thanks for playing hard and makThe other main difference Rouse ing playing soccer so much fun,” Rouse saw was the physicality in both sports. said. “To my coach, I would have to say He said soccer comes with a lot more thank you, not just for the opportunity opportunity to get injured. to play but for always looking out for “In basketball, yeah you get shoved me. I’ve really enjoyed being part of and elbowed sometimes, but in soccer the Reds.”

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Red Bombers drop homecoming game Bronté James Sports Editor The University of New Brunswick (UNB) Red Bombers fell 47-14 in their homecoming game against the Saint John Sea Wolves.

“They’re a good football team, there’s no question. They run the ball hard inside and then they started to connect with the pass too, which hurt us,” said head coach Mike Dollimore.

The Bombers are 0-3 in the standings, with only three games left in the regular season.

Despite the loss, fans, players and alumni came out to support the Bombers in their home opener.

“Obviously we’re down, it’s not the way you want to open at home,” said UNB Bombers slotback Matt Jay. “Opening the season 0 and three is even worse, so Monday it’s back to the drawing board to try to figure something out so can we can get a [win].”

The game started off with the Wolves leading 7-0 early in after scoring a touchdown.

The Bombers struggled on special teams.

They missed a kick and started on their five-yard line.

Later on the Bombers also fumbled on a punt but were able to recover.

They didn’t get onto

the scoreboard until the second quarter, getting a touchdown and tying the Wolves.

Only 13 minutes later the Wolves scored another touchdown. The Bombers returned in the third quarter when Cory Stewart scored a touchdown, but it would be the last time the Bombers scored.

Wolves Rane Giffin, Nick Gillespie, Jason Doucet and Nigel Sisk each scored a touchdown, and with a 32yard field goal in the mix, it gave the Wolves a final score of 47-14 over the Bombers.

“We were pretty thin in troops this year and we started getting quite a few injuries, so we had a lot of substitutions,” said Dollimore.

“A lot of second-string guys and they were going both ways on offensive and defence, and on a day like today with the weather, it really caught up with us and our guys were extremely tired.”

Injuries played a factor in who played what positions. While the Wolves had 53 players, the Bombers had only 27, and with injuries it took some players out of the equation.

The physicality of the game only furthered the injury list, in particular, Matt Jay going off after a shoulder to the back of the neck knocked him unconscious.

“When I was conscious again I couldn’t lift my head off the turf kinda scary.

The injury took Jay out of the rest of the game.

“It sucks. You want to be out there with the team, you want to be hittin’

The Bombers are standing 0-3 with three games left in the regular season. Adam Travis / The Brunswickan

the Sea Wolves and it just sucks being up on the side line not being able to do anything.”

Jay is now under watch for possible concussion symptoms.

The game against the Wolves wasn’t the only focus of the day. Bombers alumni came out to support the new players and see old friends and teammates.

Former UNB athletics director and former football and wrestling coach Jim Born, and former head Bombers coach Dan Underwood attended the game.

“A lot of the guys that both Dan and I coached are back, and so it’s kind of a neat opportunity for everyone to get together [and] support the football club,” said Born.

“We have so many friends and memories here that it’s just wonderful to be back here,” added Underwood.

Born and Underwood both said they enjoyed seeing the students’ school spirit and support for the program.

Both being American, where football is coveted sport, the homecoming festivities reminded them of home.

“To see something like this taking place just reminds us what the game of football is all about,” said Born.

“It brings back great memories. Just looking down here, it’s nice to see the stands are full again. We are part of that, and we’re just proud we are part of the Red Bombers,” said Underwood.

The Bombers take on Holland College at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5 at the BMO Centre.

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Working up a sweat | the pickup technique you may have overlooked Bronté James Sports Editor You’re sweaty, and we like it.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying you drenched in sweat is making us run after you in a haze of lust, but a little post-gym sweat is always a good thing.

Now I know most of us won’t come right out and say “you smell amazing” to a guy right after a gym – and why would we – but ladies, let’s be honest, it is a bit of a turn-on.

But why is it we are attracted to guys post-gym?

A study by Dr. Denise Chen, assistant professor of psychology at Rice University in Texas shows there really is a connection between men’s sweat and our attraction to them.

In the study, she had two types of male sweat which were introduced to 19 women in their 20s. One type of sweat was gathered while the male participant watched an educational video – this was labeled “normal.”

The ot her sweat was labeled “sexual” and was gathered while the participant watched an erotic video.

The females being studied had their brain activity monitored while smelling the sweat. The “sexual sweat” had the most reaction and it lit up different regions of their brains.

Part of this is due to pheromones.

An odorless chemical, not just given off by men but women too, and are part of nature’s way of creating a purely physical attraction.

This helps in proving there is a connection between your sweat and our sexual arousal. It’s biological; we can’t help it.

Is it all that odd to think we are attracted to men based on their sweat? I don’t think so. In the animal kingdom horses and bulls turn up their nostrils when they’re sexually attracted, dogs pee to mark their territory, and hey, we have advertisements dedicated to showing the connection between scent and attraction. AXE commercials coming to mind, anyone?

So it’s not so far-fetched to say a couple sprays of cologne can really help you win over her heart.

Scent is one of the most evocative of the associative stimuli. Just as music can relay a memory and association to a particular moment, so can scent.

The nose wants what it wants.

So guys, the next time you’re wondering whether or not you should hit the gym, or play that pick-up game of basketball, just keep in mind we ladies may stick around to talk to you in your post-workout glow.

And hey, the view isn’t terrible either.

The art of seduction isn’t restricted to bars — the gym is an untapped market to woo the ladies.

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Ironmen defeat STU Tommies in a blowout Johnny Cullen The Brunswickan The University of New Brunswick Ironmen added another win to their record this Sunday in mid-season action against Saint Thomas University Tommies, with a 55-3 score.

Tries came from UNB’s possession of the ball as a result of solid technical work in the forwards and overlaps on STU’s backfield early in the game.

“We won a lot of the lineouts,”

said UNB hooker Cruise Goddard.

“A nd our counter-ruck ing was great”.

Goddard feels that UNB’s execution of set pieces ultimately contributed to their win on Sunday.

Stealing many of STU’s lineouts, the Ironmen were able to keep the ball in their hands and improve their likelihood of scoring.

Discipline, however, is something the team needs to focus on moving into the remainder of the season.

“Taking penalties really hurt us

The Ironmen took a second victory against the STU Tommies.

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in the first half,” Goddard said. “At one point, it was one after another, and as soon as we gained ground, we would get another penalty.”

On the other side of the ball, St. Thomas fly half Alex Joannides felt his team put in a solid effort, but it would have been a much better game for the Tommies if they were not struggling with injuries.

“I thought we played hard and put everything we had on the table – especially considering we had quite a few guys on the injured list,” said

Joannides.

He said STU’s tackling “was not where it should’ve been, and UNB capitalized on our mistakes.”

UNB’s possession of the ball made it difficult for STU to attack with their backs. Joannides said, “It was definitely a forward’s game, but we need to utilize our backs more – we need to get the ball out wide.”

This is something that the Ironmen did well.

W h ile U N B’s for wa rds were crashing and sucking the Tommie

defense, the backs were staying wide and attacking with speed. Many of the overlaps caused by the Ironmen were a result of communication breakdowns within STU’s defense.

Simple rugby is the main focus of the Ironmen. Consistency in set pieces, hard running from the backs, and solid team play are aspects of the game that UNB does well.

If they can execute on all of these fronts, they will find much success in the remainder of the season.

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