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volume 141 issue 4 • canada’s oldest student publication • UNB fredericton’s student paper • Sept. 26, 2007

Shine Day hits goal

Reds crush Tommies

by Lauren Kennedy

Number of volunteers Shinerama brought out: 400 plus.

Money Shinerama raised on Shine Day alone: $26,000.

The feeling of accomplishment for the coordinators, volunteers, and the Student Union: priceless.

With a Canada-wide goal of $1,000,000 and a personal UNB goal of $21,000, organizers of the 2007 UNB Fredericton Shinerama campaign were hopeful they would attain as much.

Turns out, they did just that. This year alone was a record-breaking year for UNB, as the Shinerama campaign raised a total of $30,000, including funds collected during the summer.

“We just blew it out of the water this year and I couldn’t be happier,” said Shinerama Coordinator Jessica Holmes.

“We initially had a few concerns regarding the potential lack of volunteers or that we wouldn’t reach our goal, but when I walked into the Atrium and saw all the residence houses showing their support, my jaw dropped.”

Shinerama had less than 300 volunteers in 2006 due to it being the first year it was moved to the end of Orientation week, although this year the turnout brought over 400 volunteers and participants, despite the same timeframe.

see Shinerama page 2

Post-Secondary Education Report recommends studentoriented system, improved financial aid and renewed life for community college system

by Josh O’Kane

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

by Tony von Richter

One of the great intrigues of the sporting world is how a championship team performs the season after they capture their title. Will they continue their

winning ways and perhaps turn into a dynasty, or was the team and its players happy with last year’s title and don’t feel the need to repeat the performance?

If the UNB Varsity Reds men’s hockey team plays more games like they did Friday night at the Aitken Centre, Reds fans won’t have to worry about their team’s chances of success this season.

From the last five minutes of the opening period, the UNB Varsity Reds – ranked fourth in CIS preseason rankings – dominated their cross-campus

The Minotaur and the sea Two art exhibitions at Memorial Hall are visually striking and subtly political

by Meghan E. Loch In light of the fact that art exists so close to our everyday lives and asks so little of us, only that we observe, I challenge students on the hill to give it what it asks for this month. You’ll be well rewarded.

Fredericton photographer Eleni Bakopoulos’ Minotaur Series, in the West Gallery of UNB’s Memorial Hall, and artist Audrey Nicoll’s exhibit, ‘Value Load: A Tragedy of the Commons’ in the East Gallery, are only minutes away from your classes. These visually striking and intellectually engaging pieces offer an opportunity for a moment of quiet awe amidst the rush of the new school year.

Bakopoulos, who completed her Master of Fine Arts in photography and painting at York University, has created a stunningly subtle story in sepia toned, large-scale photographs, based on a series she viewed in Ottawa by Pablo Picasso, in which the artist featured himself raping a young girl.

Bakopaulos’ series focuses on the feminine side of this image, with the central figures in the story, a veiled bride and a minotaur-masked man, appearing out-of-focus, shadowed, behind a veil, or in flashes at the edges of the frame.

The lighting is serene, simple, and beautiful; an artful use of stark shadowing in ‘Bride’, the first photo I viewed, sets the tone of quiet, contemplative mystery.

The artful use of shallow depth-of-field and over-exposure, most noticeable in ‘Sacrificial Virgin’, transports the viewer into the bright African surroundings and mythology of the labyrinth.

The entirety of the exhibition is a small journey into the otherworld Bakopaulos offers us, and the small details

The good in PSE report

make for an almost spiritual experience.

The almost imperceptible shift in expression from the young girl’s face in ‘Minotaur Africa’ to ‘Defiant’, displayed in sequence shows Bakopaulos’ mastery of perfectly descriptive language, as well as her skilled eye.

Mythology is not the only purpose of the minotaur/victim symbolism.

The artist is also commenting on male dominance in society and the practice of child marriage and pregnancy in African culture. Rich, beautiful, and meaningful, this exhibit brings together real issues of modern female culture and ancient mythology to present artistic,

picturesque waterfronts that sell so well on postcards; but in dark, ominous colours, dripping textures, and, most noticeably, overlaid with the real statistics of economic and environmental impact on traditional images.

Nicoll challenges her audience to think about the political implications of the choices we make in both local and global communities by focusing on the impact of the modern obsession with ‘museum culture’.

Nicoll, who has degrees in both Fine Arts and Education, describes her work’s intent in a statement, saying, “Value Load engages… not with the

Christian Hapgood / The Brunswickan

Audrey Nicoll’s ‘Value Load: A Tragedy of the Commons’ shows at Memorial Hall until Oct. 29. political and spiritual insight into modern problems.

Across the foyer in Memorial Hall, Audrey Nicoll’s ‘Value Load: A Tragedy of the Commons’ is a portrayal of the Maritimes without the comfortable kitsch. Very focused on the reality of a struggling people and economy, the artist’s work is a series of large-scale, heavy mixed media, which takes the time to really get into the soul of the East Coast.

The works all feature familiar oceanic imagery, especially the boats, docks, the

assumption of providing answers, but with providing opportunity for dialogue and awareness and encouragement to move forward.”

Since it’s very true that a picture is worth a thousand words, I hope this has been an inadequate description of two fantastic exhibitions and you feel you’ve learned just enough to want to take a walk to Memorial Hall sometime in the next month.

The exhibition will be open from 9:00am to 4:00 pm, Monday to Friday, until October 29.

opponents, seemingly getting all the bounces and controlling the play for the vast majority of the game.

“It was a positive start for the hockey club. It’s the preseason and what you’re trying to do is establish habits,” said Reds Head Coach Gardiner MacDougall about his team’s play on Friday night.

In addition to the team’s effort against the Tommies, Coach MacDougall also thought that the Reds 3-1 victory against the New York Islanders

rookie squad earlier in the week was key, saying that “it was a huge experience for our guys, kind of like Christmas in September.”

Leading the way for the Reds were returning CIS All-Star Rob Hennigar and new recruit Luke Gallant, formerly of the St. John’s Fog Devils of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. They contributed two goals each, with Gallant also adding an assist.

see Hockey page 16

Student Union delves into new year

by Jessica Grzesik, with files from Jennifer McKenzie

After a busy summer, the Student Union’s executive is ready to get back into the routine of a new semester. According to Student Union President, Brad Mullins, each member of the executive has worked hard all summer to provide students with the proper tools to maintain a healthy lifestyle at university.

Every position on the executive has been involved with their own separate portfolios; currently, the Union is getting everyone organized to go over long term goals as an entity. Last weekend, the Union had their annual retreat.

The weekend’s goals were to create an agenda for the academic year, discuss the Union’s long-term vision, and help all council members gain understanding of the rules, regulations and practices of the Student Union. Mullins is also looking to set in place a five-year plan for the Student Union.

Individual portfolios, such as VP External Jordan Graham’s, are multifaceted. He has been concentrating on the Post-Secondary Education Report, and has thus been speaking to the media regarding the Student Union’s thoughts on the report.

Graham is also pushing forward with hopes of having a pedway across Highway 8. Another folder of Graham’s is off-campus housing, which encompasses summer housing inspections.

Graham’s position is research-heavy, according to Mullins. Graham spent the first couple months of the summer researching and meeting with people to visit potential issues with regards to off-campus life.

Bethany Vail, VP Academic, has been looking for student representatives to participate in numerous committees and according to Mullins, has been able to get most of these positions filled. Vail also spent a large portion of her summer planning the Book Buy and Sell. Last year, for both the fall and winter sales, the SU was able to raise approximately $23,000 for the students. Vail, in the last week alone was able to raise $28,000.

Other members of the executive have been keeping busy over the summer, as well.

Mike Stockford, VP Finance, is working with clubs and societies to involve and train the representatives by having them participate in a risk management seminar. This is the first year the Union has looked at doing this, and it’s key to keeping students safe. “We give them the seminar on how to properly run a safe event… Looking at what risks to watch out for so we do not have any incidents arise from the events put on by the clubs and societies. It involves enforcing some policies to keep everyone safe.”

Keely Wallace, VP Student Services, has a varied portfolio. Over the summer, she worked to have the Fox Files designed and printed; she has also organized the Heath and Wellness Program.

Another item on her agenda is her hope to plan a trip during the March Break.

Although it is still in the planning stages as of late, she hopes to provide an allinclusive trip to a southern country for students, at a good price.

A common thread within the executive is the desire to promote more entertainment and events for students to attend.

“We have a respectable budget line for entertainment venues, and if we can set it up in such a way that the shows are breaking even, than the budget line will never diminish, so we can continue to bring in acts people want to see,” says Mullins.

see UNBSU page 3

University and college students across New Brunswick have been uneasy for the past few weeks due to a possible restructuring of their education system in the province that would affect everyone.

The Commission on Post-Secondary Education in New Brunswick has recommended in its report ‘Advantage New Brunswick’ to convert the UNBSJ campus, as well as two satellite campuses of Université de Moncton into polytechnic institutions that would focus on training skilled industry and technical workers. Many students are disappointed at the recommendation of UNB’s campuses and abroad.

The recommendation to convert the campuses to polytechnic institutions is only one small proposition within the Report, though; the Commission’s 56page report advises changes regarding a variety of pressing issues for postsecondary education students in New Brunswick.

The commission was headed by Rick Miner and Jacques L’Écuyer.

The overall vision of the Report is one of a bilingual education system, which would be accessible to persons across the province, integrated and consistent, as well as to “be student-oriented, and will have mechanisms to provide students with information, help them find their way and facilitate their progress in their post-secondary studies.”

Thus, (despite the controversy arising from students across the province) the Report specifically argues that its purpose is to make the educational system in New Brunswick more focused towards the students.

The Report also recommends that senior officials of the province’s postsecondary institutions carry on a forum to discuss provincial problems: A post-secondary ‘Presidents’ Council’.

This would be included in the overall restructuring of the governance system of the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour.

The section on institutional changes begins with the introduction of a system new to New Brunswick: the polytechnic school that is recommended would essentially combine university and college activities into something “greater than the sum of the two parts.” This technically-focused class of school would put its focus on student-based learning and, according to the Report, be shaped to meet the labour demand of local industry and business.

It is this type of school that is being proposed for Saint John, Shippigan, and Edmundston. The controversy stems from the potential removal of established universities and colleges instead of from the creation of the proposed institution. The report even argues that the Dalhousie medical school scheduled to begin construction in Saint John in 2009 will help reinforce the benefits brought by a polytechnic institution there, which would have a focus on health industry education.

The current 11-community college system is recommended to turn into a five-college organization, resulting from adding a central Fredericton campus and reorganizing the remaining ones, some of which would be combined with universities or other colleges.

see Commission page 4

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Aitken House wins Wii

Anonymous message sends University of Winnipeg into panic Threat spurns increased security on campus, ideas for permanent measures

by Ksenia Prints CUP Central Bureau Chief

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

from Shinerama page 1 Holmes attributes the larger turnout this year to the incentive of a Nintendo Wii that was being donated by the Student Union to the residence house that had the highest turnout.

Holmes said it was a close race, but in the end Aitken House was the victor and won the Wii donation for their house.

House President Brian Beaudette explains that while the Wii was a great prize to be won, it’s not all about fun and games.

“Aitken has strength in numbers, and while it did involve a lot of dragging people out of bed, it was really nice to see all the guys behind each other and behind me, showing our support. All the

guys were really happy about winning the prize but they were happier that they could make a difference,” he said.

Holmes says that when she first arrived on site, Aitken was easy to spot right away.

“As soon as I walked in, Aitken House was easy to see, they were so loud and ready to go and when I drove downtown to see how the groups were doing, I saw the Aitken guys doing anything they could to get donations from people. It was great,” she said.

For Brad Mullins, President of the UNB Student Union, he said it was great to see all the students out there helping other students and working for a great cause and showing that this really meant a lot to them.

Mullins said that with the way the

schedule worked this year, there were worries of having the concert fall on the night before Shine Day and that it could hurt the turnout numbers for the next day’s events. While he explained the concert was great and it was nice to see people go to that, there were more students out for Shine Day than there were at the concert the night before.

“With the recent talk of how students are perceived in the media as just partying all the time, it was really nice to see that type of turnout. When I walked into the Atrium and saw it full, it was just amazing,” says Mullins. “You just can’t help but be emotional when you see that type of thing. It was really a history-making event for UNB and shows how much power students have when they work together.”

WINNIPEG (CUP) -- An anonymous message on a bathroom stall has sent the University of Winnipeg into a state of heightened security, one which might be permanent.

The threat, which mentioned the date Sept. 26, was found in a bathroom stall in a high-traffic area of the University of Winnipeg on Sept. 19.

The area was immediately sealed off for police investigation.

The message allegedly threatened an event on Wednesday, Sept. 26.

According to Dan Hurley, Executive Director of External Affairs at the University of Winnipeg, it was directed at the university community in general and not at any particular group.

No additional reports of the mes-

sage’s content have been released, following police instructions.

The veil of secrecy has some members of the university community confused, and rumours are spreading like wildfire.

“In a case like this, it’s really important to have everyone on the same a page,” said David Jacks, president of the University of Winnipeg’s student union. “The worst thing that can happen is panic … [but] the police has a reason for its official version.”

Students were initially alarmed at the news, but responses cooled off in the following days.

“I was shocked at first,” said Rona Mariano, a third-year student in the criminal justice program. “You know it can happen anywhere, just not so close to home.”

“Students are nervous, but it hasn’t stopped them from coming,” said Jacks, who believes the university was full in the days after the event.

The university took immediate steps to avoid rumours and fearmongering. A mass email was sent to students on Sept. 20, and updates were sent regularly in the days following.

Not all students got the message.

“I found out through a text message,” said Mariano, who got most of her updates from the university’s website.

“It is up to the university now to

make sure students know what is going on,” said Jacks.

Security on campus has been boosted with an increased presence from the Winnipeg Police Service.

Security services and police are scheduled to remain on full alert on campus even after Sept. 26.

A security office hotline, a TIP line and a TIP e-mail have also been established. Counselling services have been briefed on the situation.

“We’re taking added measures to make sure the university community is protected,” Hurley said.

“It makes me feel safe security measures are in place,” Mariano said. “Now we know it won’t happen next Wednesday, because they’ve taken all the measures they can.”

The University of Winnipeg has since announced its plans to install additional cameras and wide-screens around campus. It is also seeking funding for an in-house security service.

“In this day and age, you can’t take these things lightly,” Hurley said. “[We have to find] a balance between ensuring security on campus and keeping the campus open and accessible.”

Jacks reports students are generally happy with the university’s response and the preventive measures that are being taken.

“The university is being very open with all the info it was given and what it is doing,” he said.

Fredericton Mall rebranded into Uptown Centre

by Jordan Gill

Going along Prospect Street, it isn’t difficult to notice the construction site where the Fredericton Mall used to be.

The mall and surrounding area is now branded the Uptown Centre.

The Centre is expected to be completed next year, with a variety of businesses opening up in mid-October.

Property Manager of the new Uptown Centre, Ryck Bourgette, is optimistic about the revamped Fredericton Mall, noting it as a “power centre.”

He says the construction is going far better than expected.

“We thought this would be about a two-and-a-half to three year phase-in, and we’re into an about 18 month phase-in,” says Bourgette.

Though it could be expected that noisy construction could lead to decreased sales, Bourgette says that’s not necessarily so.

“There is always going to be a lull

with regards to sales during a construction period, although business picks up halfway through because interest levels rise… After the stores are open there will be a honeymoon period that will more than satisfy the down period that they experienced during the construction phase.”

He claims that some businesses have already started to do better because of the new layout, noting grocery chain Sobeys in particular.

“Their numbers are way up. That is because the liquor store opened up next to them, and that flow-through

traffic has created a greater experience.”

Zellers Store Manager Chuck Nearing shares similar views.

“We’ve had fewer customers coming to our store,” says Nearing, “but the customers who are coming are spending more than before – to the point that it almost offsets the decrease in customer count.”

One new feature of the Uptown Centre is the absence of buses coming into the centre, although Nearing doesn’t see it as a problem.

“We’re really not that far off the

road. It’s not like some stores I’ve been in where customers must walk through huge parking lots before even getting to the building. Here, we’re not too far from the road, so I don’t think it’s a long, long walk. I don’t think it’s affected us too much.”

Bourgette says he can’t see a down side to the new layout, which has been thought through for some years now.

“This has been in the works since about 2000 or 2001. We’ve been thinking about the process of moving towards this particular idea of going

to a large power centre to complement the market place for Fredericton. It is the only decision that made sense.”

The shopping center’s land will stretch from both ends of the old Fredericton Mall to the highway on one side and to the Hilltop on the other. Much of the space is already accounted for, but Bourgette says but there are still a few spots left and that there are some “very serious stores” looking into them.

The Uptown Centre will be completed next year with many stores opening before year’s end.

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Upcoming SU changes from UNBSU page 1

Some of the acts the SU are looking to line up for the semester include the cast from Mythbusters, Ghost Hunters, and several different guest speakers. The executive is looking to bring back Sue Johanson, who is famous for her television show, ‘Sex with Sue’. They are also exploring the idea of having the host of ‘The Hour on CBC’, George Stroumboulopoulos, come in for a show. The Union explains the more popular the guest speaker, the more it will cost to bring them in to perform. Currently, a hypnotist is booked to perform on campus, but other acts are still in the early stages.

“We want students to know entertainment is a strong issue for the Student Union, by this time last year they had acts lined up but the SU wants to get a feel of what the students really want to see,” Mullins explains and adds that the Union is looking to provide greater visibility and publicity for their events across campus.

Mullins wants to plan and execute additional ideas to bring entertainment to students, like contests and weekly or monthly mini-competitions with prizes for the winners at the end of the year, and is always looking for student input and ideas.

The electoral process is going through some serious changes, which is another thing the SU executive has been working towards.

“Most of the changes are recommendations from Clare [Henderson].

She took over the election last year and was our CRO the year before. A lot of [the recommendations] are temporary regulations she had enacted previously,” explains Mullins.

A lot of the constitutional changes are grammatical, which will hopefully clarify all electoral regulations to make things more logical, while other alterations are more substantial.

Women’s Centre is open for business

“It’s going to be written into the by-laws that we have to have a DCRO (deputy chief returning officer), as well as guidelines and deadlines for items such as the appointing of the Chair, the date by which the Appeals Board must be running, and hiring the CRO and DCRO”.

Currently, the changes are at the second stage of the process, where they will be going through a second reading at council on Wednesday, September 26.

By then, it is the executives’ objective to begin the by-elections by the second or third week of October.

There are currently seven available positions on council, five of which have been reopened due to summer resignations. “It was just a strange thing that happened. They all had different things going on… It wasn’t that they all just quit. One of the reps wasn’t coming back to school this year, another was accepted into medical school,” clarifies Mullins.

Council representatives for the Kinesiology, Nursing, Renaissance College, Arts, Computer Science and Law faculties will all be up for grabs, as well as a Residence Liaison, during the fall by-election.

“The overall objective is to prevent the same things that happened last year from reoccurring. We want to streamline the whole thing and set up timelines and clear expectations,” explains Mullins.

Mullins is also pleased to announce another big change: “The Paper Trail is getting a new colour photocopier, which will allow the potential for the SU to provide a service that offers some of the cheapest colour copying anywhere in the Fredericton area, regardless of paper size.”

SU council meetings are Thursdays at 4 pm, in room 103 of the SUB. Students wishing to involve themselves or learn more about the goings-on of their student government are urged to attend.

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Prisoners in their own home

by Jes Ellacott, the Charlatan (Carleton University), with files from Katherine Ellis

OTTAWA (CUP) -- Everyone has a daily routine that they follow more or less unconsciously. Wake up, shower, eat breakfast and go to work.

For Mohamed Harkat and his wife Sophie, the concept of a daily routine has taken a whole new meaning.

Most of their daily activities must be pre-approved by the Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA), allowing no room for spontaneity.

They are constantly monitored by video cameras placed outside their home.

During the three four-hour outings they are permitted per week, they are accompanied everywhere by walkietalkie-toting, bulletproof vest-wearing, CBSA agents.

In short, Harkat and his wife are prisoners in their own home.

“I thought I was going to be free, go outside anytime with [my] family [and go] shopping anyplace,” said Mohamed.

“Everything is very strict.”

In 2002, Mohamed was alleged to have terrorist ties. He was not charged with any offence, but was detained for three and a half years under a security certificate.

Mohamed was released under house arrest June 21, 2006, but the strict conditions of his bail package cause frustration for him and his wife.

Harkat cannot use cellphones, the Internet or a BlackBerry.

Any visitors to his house must be pre-approved by a security check, which can take up to 48 hours. This includes family members. They only have one hour a day for exercise and are followed

by CBSA agents during this time. “[We] always have two people on our ass, following our every move, which really pisses us off,” said Sophie. “[The agents] are really loud and annoying. You always know they are there.

The walkie-talkies are so loud. You just don’t have any personal space.”

Mohamed has three sureties: his wife, his mother-in-law, and her partner.

A surety is someone pre-approved by CBSA to accompany the prisoner. Mohamed must be watched 24 hours a day by at least one of his three sureties.

Sophie said she sees herself as her husband’s jailer. “[I] don’t see the role of a surety. [We are] trusted within our residence and yard, but not while on outings,” she said.

If other sureties are not around, Sophie cannot even go out to do something as simple as deliver a letter or pick up food.

“It’s pretty insulting, I feel my rights are violated,” she said, although response from the community has been encouraging.

On their first or second outing, Mohamed and Sophie went to renew his driver’s license.

“An older lady approached us. She was around 75 years old,” said Sophie.

“She came up to [Mohamed] and put her arms around him and gave him a big hug, and said ‘I am so happy you’re out’.”

Another time, when they were in a Sears store, someone approached them and called them superstars.

“It’s encouraging,” said Sophie.

When they are not on one of their outings or using their hour of daily exercise, Mohamed and Sophie keep busy with projects around the house. “[Mohamed] is a big consumer of tomatoes and cucumbers. He works in the yard, reads his Koran, exercises two hours a day on top of biking [...] and prepares for supper,” said Sophie.

“He cooks well and likes to barbecue and work around the house. He’s a fixer-upper.”

Mohamed said that it is obviously much better to be home with his family rather than in prison, but all the precautions and conditions make it so he can never forget his situation.

He wears an anklet bracelet when he is in the house, and neither he nor his wife can work. Essentially, he is never alone.

When outside the house, he wears a two-pound GPS tracking device that clips to his belt.

Mohamed says he feels as if he is not human. He has few rights in Canada under the restrictions of his house arrest.

“Your life is controlled by CBSA, by [the Canadian Security Intelligence Service],” said Mohamed. “My life is in the hands of somebody else.”

by Lauren Kennedy

Despite rumours about the potential closure of the Women’s Centre located in the Student Union Building, Chair of the UNB Women’s Centre, Lee-Ann Myers wants people to know that they are open and are there as a resource for students on campus.

There was buzz around campus that the Centre was closed for business, as the rumours speculated the difficulty in forming a board, permanently shutting it down. Myers explains that the gossip was false, and was shocked to hear it.

She explained how last year’s board was unable to meet due to certain circumstances, and as decisions regarding the Centre were made democratically, incentives were never voted on, thus disallowing change of any kind. Myers assures students that this year is different.

“The slowest process has been putting the board together, but now we have six student representatives from different faculties, a faulty member, and various organizations such as the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Family Violence Research Centre and the Sexual Assault Centre here in Fredericton, and we are planning on meeting once a month.

We’re going to get things done,” said Myers.

Currently, an executive formed of Myers as the Chair, a treasurer, a secretary and a vice-chair, runs the centre and runs the day-to-day operations, although for the most part, the Centre

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Many students walking by the Women’s Centre think it’s closed, but in reality there is just a lack of volunteers. relies heavily on volunteers.

“We are completely not for profit and last year we had about 40 volunteers,” explained Myers. “If the doors are closed it’s because our volunteers are not around as they are here on their own time and we don’t require them to have set hours.”

She says that the biggest struggle for the Centre is getting the students to be aware that they are available and willing to be a resource for students.

“You can’t ask someone to commit a certain amount of hours when they are

volunteering. When people walk by and the door is shut, it’s not that we are closed, it’s that we can’t get a volunteer for that time. It really is a hit or miss situation.”

Myers urges the people who complain about the door being closed to volunteer so they can be an active part of the solution.

The Women’s Centre first opened its doors in 2002 after sexual assaults were reported on campus. Myers comments that most students have forgotten why the Centre was conceived.

“Women on campus have to remember that if this Centre wasn’t here, there would be no voice for them on campus,” she said.

This year alone, there were three sexual assault reports on campuses around Canada during a two week period. Myers sees this as just one more reason for the Centre to be available for the women around campus.

“We are a relatively safe community, but it’s scary that something like this could still happen. The Women’s Centre is here to meet those needs.”

Ontario municipalities crack down on off-campus parties One student seeking legal counsel after being shocked by Taser

The Cord Weekly (Wilfrid Laurier University)

by Margaret Sheridan, (Interrobang) and Dan Polischuk (Cord Weekly)

WATERLOO, LONDON (CUP) – Police in at least two Ontario municipalities are cracking down on off-campus partying with stronger patrols and hefty fines.

Emily Marcoccia, a spokesperson for Ontario’s Fanshawe College in London, Ontario said that several parties on one street amalgamated on the evening of September 9.

“People gravitated towards one or two major addresses and there was some type of, what the police called, ‘aggressive behaviour’ by the students,” said Marcoccia.

A group of students allegedly threw beer bottles at the police officers arriving on the scene and taunted them, calling them “pigs.”

After trying to break up the party on Fleming Drive without any success, London police called in backup.

According to authorities, an estimated 30 officers were called on site to clear students out of the area.

By 1:30 am, four people had been placed under arrest; two criminal charges had been laid along with a handful of non-criminal charges including breach of peace. One Fanshawe student had even been neutralized with a stun gun.

But down the road at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, police are taking a preemptive strategy. Waterloo police are also cracking down on house parties and handing out fines to prevent a similar incident from taking place.

Ashley Clerici, a third-year student at WLU, has already accumulated $600 in fines as a result of revamped noise by-laws.

According to Bryan Larkin, Executive Officer of the Waterloo Regional Police, the force is trying extra hard this semester to “send a powerful message that there’s a certain level of [behaviroual] expectation.”

“Often, traditional methods of giving a warning … have not necessarily been successful. So really, it becomes a balance of education, community awareness and enforcement,” said Larkin.

His explanations were echoed by Mary George, Acting Manager of Bylaw Enforcement for the city.

“Things have been done in the past,

but this time the police have extra staff and we’re sticking with the strict enforcements. No warnings – that’s the difference.”

But students in both municipalities are feeling that the new enforcement tactics are too heavy-handed.

“I almost think we were taken advantage of,” said Clerici, noting the heavy fines accumulated on her street that she estimates to be in excess of $3,000.

Dave Kutner, a fifth-year Applied Economics student, is in the same boat.

With “a really small party” going on in his backyard, Kutner was given a fine with “no explanation whatsoever.”

Kutner also said that officers denied him an explanation of how to avoid being fined in the future.

“That was our biggest complaint,” said Kutner.

In London, students who weren’t even part of the problem parties found themselves under the thumb of the law.

First-year Landscape Design student Chris Guerin, who was charged with breach of peace, resisting arrest and shocked with a stun gun, believes that police may have handled the situation badly.

“I had some people up from home, and we were in my house drinking and we saw some twenty-odd cop cars roll up,” Guerin explained. “And of course there had to be a reason for it, so we decided to go take a walk down the street.”

According to Guerin, he was the given contradictory instructions from two different officers. One told him to continue walking, while another told him to stop and wait.

Then, according to Guerin, the first officer started yelling and approached him about not having listened to the previous instruction.

“I put my hands up in the air and then four cops put me to the ground and they started to kick and punch me in the back. My head hit the ground and that’s when that occurred,” said Guerin, pointing to a bruise above his left eye.

“I pulled my hands from behind my back to put on my face, as a barrier between the ground and my head, and that’s when they Tasered me.”

Guerin is now retaining legal counsel and intends to fight the charges. He later hopes to file a civil suit against the London Police.

“I understand that they have to take action, but the way they [did it] was not the best,” Guerin explained. “I was on the sidewalk, didn’t have a beer, wasn’t totally intoxicated [and] I wasn’t at the party. You can’t just go and take it out on anybody. For them to paint us all with the same brush because some people on Fleming were throwing beer bottles at them is not right at all.”

Indeed, having all students painted with the same brush as the loudest partiers is what students in Waterloo find the most unnerving.

City councillor Ian McLean, who

oversees the ward in which the university is located, said that “a classic example of about 2% of students giving a bad impression for everyone else.”

But, upon reflection, he doesn’t believe the enforcement is “totally unreasonable.”

“If you adhere to the by-laws then you don’t get ticketed, right?” said McLean.

With student frustration reaching high levels, WLU Dean of Students David McMurray has already made plans to meet with Waterloo Manager of Community Relations, Kaye Crawford, to discuss a possible student-supported by-law awareness group.

This “structured program,” explained McMurray, would “get students involved” in helping out their fellow peers, rather than relying on the more intimidating Regional Police door-todoor program.

McMurray is interested, first of all, to simply get “all the parties together” to follow a model that was successfully implemented at the University of Western Ontario in 2000.

Meanwhile, George is guaranteeing “strict enforcement all year round” and Larkin is assuring students that the force intends to “set the tone” in September and October.

“We want [students] to have fun and enjoy the university life … but we have citizens who are saying that there needs to be a line drawn in the sand here,” said Larkin.

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Fate of three New Brunswick Universities in the air

UNB Students experience France

Report recommends transformation of universities into polytechnic institutes, revamp funding process

by Angela Wilson, CUP Atlantic Bureau Chief

Submitted

The directors of the inaugural year of the UNB travel study program were two UNB faculty members: Professor Robert Viau from the Department of French Studies and Professor Constantine Passaris, Chairperson of the Department of Economics. This bilingual travel study program offered students two courses one on Paris in Literature and the other on Canada and the New Global Economy. The courses included visits to literary, economic and political sites and were held in two different locations, starting with Poitiers, the ancestral birthplace of New Brunswick’s Acadian community followed by an extended stay in Paris.

The news, briefly

by Bruns News Department

A dollar for a dollar For the first time since 1976, the Canadian dollar has hit par with the US dollar, reaching 100 US cents this past Thursday.

While the rise of the loonie is great for Canadians heading to the US, it is the opposite for our southern neighbors to shop here. The rise of the dollar and other factors, such as the increase in border congestion and the removal of the GST visitor rebate, has caused a major decline in the number of annual visits to Canada from Americans. The decrease went from 45 million to 28 million.

No more bottles of beer on the wall Unidentified suspects made off with two trailers full of bottled and canned

Moosehead beer in Ontario.

One carried more than 69,000 cans, while the other held over 44,000 bottles.

These full trailers were valued at about $190,000, said a spokesperson for the company.

In 2004, a similar incident happened where a truck of 50,000 cans of beer was stolen and headed to Mexico. A jury convicted Wade Haines and sentenced him to 19 ½ months in jail. At that time, only 14,000 cans were recovered and those recovered were destroyed. The Moosehead Company confirms that if any are recovered this time, they will also be destroyed.

UNB students safe offcampus

In light of recent questionable activity on the College Hill, the role of UNB in disciplinary action for students off-campus has been called into question. UNB’s disciplinary code currently accounts for students partaking in all university-related events, but some members of the community have been seeking that this be extended further.

UNB has issued statements explaining that within Canadian law, they cannot extend their code of conduct to situations where they have no legal jurisdiction.

A sub-committee on communityuniversity relationships, entitled ‘Good Neighbors, Good Neighborhoods’, was created last week, which UNB has agreed to be a part of.

Take back the night The Fredericton Sexual Assault Crisis Centre is hosting a ‘Take back the night’ march Friday night at 8pm in front of City Hall, as a venue for women to band together and speak out against sexual assault and aggression.

The Centre will also be holding a workshop tonight, Wednesday night, from 6-9pm for females aged 12-17 (and relatives) to debunk myths related to sexual assault. Interested persons can contact the Centre at 454-0460 or by email, fsaccadmin@nb.aibn.com

WOLFVILLE (CUP) – Students, faculty and university administrators in New Brusnwick are figuring out whether or not to panic.

The recommendations of a recent commission on post-secondary education in New Brunswick have left some institutions even wondering if they’ll be considered a university much longer.

More than a thousand students, alumni, and community members marched through Saint John, New Brunswick on September 17 to protest the suggested transformation of the University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus into a polytechnic institute.

The report, commissioned by the provincial government, calls for UNB Saint John’s campus, along with the Université de Moncton’s Shippagan and Edmundston campuses, to be converted into polytechnic institutes.

According to the Report, the shift would mean an education system “that embraces many aspects of a traditional university but grounds it in a more practical approach that is quite easily meshed with college programs.”

The Report comes in the face of declining post-secondary enrolment across the province and the growth of community colleges. The Report cited a need for a shift to education that is more “community-based, learner-focused, industry-connected, and global in perspective.”

Eric Savoie, a spokesperson for the student’s council at UNB Saint John said that they are strongly opposed to the recommendation.

According to Savoie, the recommendation raises issues of access to education. “Limiting access to university education limits choice,” he said.

At the rally through Saint John, Savoie said that students “sent the message that, while agreeing that change needs to happen, if UNB’s Saint John campus loses their university standing, it would not be a positive step for the university.”

Kathryn Hamer, Vice-President at UNB Saint John, said that the University of New Brunswick is also opposed to the recommendation.

“Rather than a polytechnic, which would severely limit access to liberal arts and science programs, there are other ways to meet the goals of accessibility, affordability, transferability and choice for students, building on the strengths of existing institutions: the community college and the university campus first and foremost,” said Hamer.

According to Hamer, the university believes that they can effectively respond to new challenges by continuing partnerships among institutions that are adequately funded and supported.

She said that existing programming partnerships that UNB Saint John has developed with the city’s community college have proven the effectiveness of that approach.

The New Brunswick Ministry of Post-Secondary Education is not responding to the Report quickly.

In a release, the ministry announced that the government will take the necessary time to reflect upon the Commission’s work and will provide a comprehensive response once the document has been thoroughly discussed and the final decisions have been made.

University administrators, students’ unions and lobby groups are eager to be a part of that decision-making process.

“Much effort has clearly gone into this ambitious Report, which, if adopted by the government, will have significant repercussions for the four public uni-

versities in the province,” said Mount Allison University President Robert Campbell.

“There are some areas of the Report we would like clarification on, and we look forward to consulting with the New Brunswick government and key community groups about some of these consequential recommendations,” Campbell said.

Aside from the recommended polytechnic institutes, the report also forwarded suggestions on a number of other issues, the most notable being how students pay for a post-secondary education.

Justin Robichaud, President of the New Brunswick Student Alliance, praised the suggestions on financing post-secondary education, saying that they “believe that the government should act on the financial aid suggestions as soon as possible. We are lobbying the government to push those issues onto the agenda quickly so that we can have those elements in the next provincial budget.”

The report advocates the re-regulation of tuition fees, provided that universities turn some of the excess revenue into student aid packages. It also provides recommendations for a “three-pronged” student aid program.

It would cap the amount of debt a student is allowed to accumulate at $7,000 per year and reduce tuition fees for low-income students. It also calls for the introduction of an improved debt management program.

The province is currently in the process of analyzing the different recommendations made in the report. Until a decision is made, Savoie is hopeful that students will continue to be at the centre of the process.

“The government seems adamant that the primary goal is for the results of the Commission Report to be beneficial to students. Our hope lies in students being at the centre of the decision-making process,” he said.

Other side to Commission report from Commission page 1 reorganizing the remaining ones, some of which would be combined with universities or other colleges.

The report also notes that the apprenticeship program the province offers is noted as “one of the best apprenticeship systems in Canada.”

“Concerted action is required now,” the Report states about the integration of international students into the province’s schools and communities. It recommends that international students be supported and given assistance in language training, community integration, and attaining employment. It also advises for a more comprehensive method to address the needs of First Nations citizens in the education system.

In what is probably the best news for students, financial aid is a big ticket item in the Commission’s Report. The Report states that as it stands, New Bruns-

wick university students are paying the second highest tuition fees in Canada, with an average government loan debt of $32,000, versus the $20,500 owed on average across Canada.

The recommendation with regards to government financial aid is to cap the maximum loan at $7,000 or less, with the difference in student need being covered by bursaries or grants. This would cap the maximum university student debt, for a four-year undergraduate program, at $28,000. The report also recommends a restructuring of the loanrepayment program and application process, to allow for greater flexibility for students.

The $2,000 grant for first-year students implemented last year by the Graham government is said to “suffer from serious impediments,” in the Report. The Commission recommends that the grant, along with the tuition tax cash back credit, be removed and the proceeds put toward a student assistance program, partially geared towards recouping the government’s loss caused

by capping student loans.

The Report is varied in its arguments’ jurisdictions, but the commissioners do make it clear that the intention of the recommendations is to make the New Brunswick post-secondary education system more accessible for students – including the restructuring of several university and college campuses into proposed polytechnic schools.

When spoken to on the day of the Report’s release, UNBSU President Bradley Mullins and VP External Jordan Graham said that despite the proposed axing of a UNB Saint John campus, many of the details noted above are beneficial to students.

Graham also noted, however, that Commissioner Miner mentioned in the press release that his recommendations were an all-or-none deal. Whether or not a compromise will be found to keep UNBSJ is yet to be seen, but the commissioners argue that it is best converted to a polytechnic school.

Comments & Letters It’s not me, it’s you.

What if it said “Close UNB Fredericton”?

Rousing The Rabbles

by Nick Ouellette

Internet

by Jennifer McKenzie

I love Wal-Mart. I love shopping at Wal-Mart. My mom complains about how busy, loud and bright it is and doesn’t shop there because of it.

I disagree. I think it is a wonderful shopping experience. I love the look of the blue signs with the yellow smiley faces; I enjoy a good price Rollback. It was a rare occasion for me to walk out without at least one shopping bag.

Hair products are my downfall, but I also have a soft spot for makeup, CDs, and clothing. Scrap booking supplies, however, are deadly for me. It is nearly impossible for me to walk by a display or a shelf of stickers, paper, or albums without picking something up. Ribbon, glue and hole punches fall into the same category. I just need to have them, and Wal-Mart is top notch when comes to the scrap booking.

I, in the past, have gone so far as to have my hair cut at Wal-Mart; I have a pair of glasses with the Wal-Mart tag, my contacts are the same.

And then, a few months ago, a horrible thing happened. It was late at night and I was lonely, so like anyone

else, I turned to the Internet. Things went downhill when I chose to watch a documentary, instead of my usual five or six episodes of Corner Gas. ‘Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price’ was the beginning of the end of my love affair with Wal-Mart.

The next hour and thirty-eight minutes that I spent watching and learning about Wal-Mart’s business practices and employment policies would be life altering. I would have to give up the Rollback, I would have to give up on Wal-Mart.

Yes, a few months ago, I walked out on that relationship. I gave up on cheap shampoo, electronics and Doritos. Halfprice post-Hallowe’en candy was no longer an option for me.

I decided that I could no longer shop somewhere that so clearly lacked a social conscience.

Now I’m not going to try and pretend I’m some sort of an activist or social advocate. I don’t recycle, I love the GAP, live for Nike shoes, and I can’t wait for the UNB Woodlot to be torn down so Michaels can move in.

Yet, something about being the single biggest company in the world, and still cheating your employees out of basic healthcare irks me. I struggle with a monopolizing company, which while wiping out entire communities, still searches for tax breaks and hand outs.

Or that they so blatantly ignore labour regulations and exploit their workers – who are underpaid and often impoverished, something about that just pushed the wrong buttons for me.

I believe in a capitalist market, and clearly enjoy reaping the benefits. On the other hand, I truly believe that with great power comes great responsibility.

And Wal-Mart holds that power. They have the responsibility to treat their employees respectfully. They have the responsibility to practice proper business ethics.

I am not here in an attempt to assert some sort of moral authority. My shoes are a very odd place to moralize from: I leave the tap running while brushing my teeth and my dream car is a mothertrucking SUV. I made a choice for myself, a choice that many say doesn’t make a difference and is futile. Wal-Mart is this multi-billion dollar corporation and I am just one person.

That is absolutely true. I likely won’t make a difference, but I would rather spend the extra dollar on ketchup somewhere else, and feel okay with who I’m supporting. This isn’t a dramatic social statement, just a break up.

So I’ve given up the bright lights and yellow happy face. I broke up with Wal-Mart and everyday it’s getting a little bit easier.

Almost two weeks ago, speculation cemented itself in reality as New Brunswick’s Commission on PostSecondary Education released its report suggesting that the province sever UNBSJ from this university in favour of a polytechnic in the port city.

Defence fortifications went up almost immediately. More than a thousand people rallied together in Saint John’s uptown area last Monday with cleverly worded placards, boisterous speeches, and a march of solidarity. Their feverous message: Keep UNBSJ as it is.

In stark contrast, the Fredericton campus lies more or less dormant on the issue. True, UNB President Dr. John McLaughlin and other administrators have advocated the preservation of UNB’s bi-campus structure since the Commission began meeting with public stakeholders early this year. The President and VP External of the Student Union are now attempting to echo their message.

But where are the students? Perhaps we would be more intrigued if the report suggested closing UNB Fredericton.

Since arriving here in 2001, I have

The questions do not focus solely on whether we think UNBSJ should remain part of UNB—although critical consideration of that question is part of a healthy analysis of the Commission’s report. Although as a university we might wish to remain as one entity, we must consider whether UNB and UNBSJ together best serve the interests of the province. That it is a bad idea to divide UNB is not a foregone conclusion.

The Student Union has made some attempts at involving students in this discussion, but more is needed. Its effort to organize a group of Fredericton students to travel to Saint John to join in the rally failed spectacularly—the effort amounted to one email sent via the student e-newsletter that arrived in many students’ inboxes after the rally had concluded.

The Student Union Council held its retreat last weekend to develop its long-term strategy for the year, and the Commission’s report was surely a focal point. Now, beyond the message the Union intends to take, it is necessary for the Union to discuss how to involve students in the tailoring of that message.

The task of coordinating the effort falls to the Student Union President, Brad Mullins, and its VP External, Jordan Graham. The effort to determine the message, however, falls to students collectively.

The PSE Commission report is accessible online by Googling “PSE Commission”.

Nick Ouellette has served on the UNB Student Union Council and the UNB Board of Governors, and now serves on the UNB Fredericton Senate and as an Assistant Don in UNB’s Residence Community.

Wholesale submission

by Alicia R. Del Frate

I am successful. I know it. I am respectable, approachable, intelligent, and apparently do not suffer from a lack confidence (really?). I am surrounded by good people (who at times, might even be better than me), and know how to have a good time.

So what’s the problem? It’s the pressure, man. My intentions are clear, and have usually always been: Maybe, just maybe, I could want things for myself that are seen as blasphemous to the people who care for me. Maybe I would like children some day, and a husband, and some sort of disciplined domesticated animal (do these things come cheaper as a package?). Maybe I would like to stay home and raise these hypothetical children while someone else (wink, wink!) brings home the bacon.

“But Alicia, you’re so smart… You have so many things going for you!”

Thanks, Mum. Bless her heart, she’s

worked a full-time time job all her life and managed to raise two (pretty cute) daughters, isn’t divorced, and folds laundry during her downtime.

Plus, she’s in better shape than I am and makes the most delicious treats I have ever laid my mouth on. Fantastic, eh? The do-it-all, no holds-barred woman of the twentyfirst century.

It makes me sick.

I love her. To death, even. She’s my mother, for God’s sake! But upon further inspection, she’s tired, and she would love, just love, to go shopping with me and tend to the garden and celebrate her twentyfourth marriage anniversary with my father, but that laundry doesn’t fold itself.

I want it all, too. Of course I do. The difference is my definition of ‘all’. It seems that to be a ‘real woman’, I need to fulfill the duties women have traditionally performed (swell up with babies, and as soon as possible, Sweetheart) and accomplish the obligations that men have conventionally carried out (getting calluses and such, right?). And that laundry still isn’t washing itself!

It’s ludicrous to believe that I can successfully devote myself to both areas while disallowing either of

them to suffer, and it’s not from a lack of faith in my ability to juggle priorities. It seems foolish to inflict so much stress on yourself that you are unable to spend time loving your offspring. It is also nonsensical to devote yourself to a career path you love, while forcing yourself to abstain from the passion that keeps you going.

I understand that some people just don’t have the choice. I might not have the choice to live out this singlecareer dream of mine, if money is not as readily available as expected.

But if I have the choice to choose between one or both, the singular option is calling my name (use the collect-call option in this scenario.

I’ve got money, remember?).

I know my mother leads a great life, but would she have done things differently? She’s a lady! She would never tell me the truth, although I am fairly certain that I will not be inclined to follow in her footsteps.

“But Alicia, you’re so smart…

You have so many things going for you!” Thanks, Mum. My children will be proud to know I made the choice that I felt best suited for, which will allow me to devote my life to something just as tangible and respectful as a paycheck.

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not found our campus to be a particularly activist one. We might be generally aware of recent news, but with few exceptions, we are content to complain once or twice to our friends and then move on with our lives.

As a play on our apathy, a candidate for President of the Student Union ran a campaign a few years ago asking simply “Do you care?” He won, but the campaign was not a very lively one.

In fact, the most lively election campaign in recent memory took place last year—the results of the fall by-election were thrown out due to computer glitches, and the spring general election was cancelled and started anew when the CRO resigned amid questions of his competence in running an election. But the ‘liveliness’ focused on students’ annoyance with process rather than on definite questions of policy.

It seems to take quite a bit to get more than a few students at UNB Fredericton concerned over anything.

It remains to be seen whether the suggestions by the PSE Commission—and not just the idea that UNBSJ should leave the UNB family—are enough.

Repeatedly, I have heard students gloss over the Commission’s report with a snide “Oh, they want to close UNBSJ—so what?” Such a lax approach to proposals that stand to recast the nature of post secondary education in New Brunswick is feeble minded.

Government implementation of the Commission’s recommendations will affect education in New Brunswick for decades. Will our tuition increase if UNBSJ becomes a polytechnic?

What about UNB’s national accreditation? Professors at UNBSJ will not necessarily begin teaching at UNB Fredericton. For that matter, students in Saint John are not guaranteed to flock to our campus. Can we even handle that many students in Fredericton?

Even though the Commission has released its recommendations, New Brunswick’s conversation about universities and colleges continues. Now is the time for students to raise the questions of how the report will alter their place in New Brunswick.

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Sketchy Comic #2

VICTORIA (CUP) -- By Mel Friesen: Nexus (Camosun College)

Winnipeg must act to protect Not quite ‘Animal House’ the lives of prostitutes

by Jesse Beach The Manitoban (University of Manitoba)

WINNIPEG (CUP) -- A lonely stretch of field in northwest Winnipeg, far from houses or people, is now an unmarked grave for Winnipeg’s victims of the sex trade industry. The latest was found late last month and identified by police as Fonessa Bruyere, 17, a known sex trade worker.

Bruyere is just one in a series of victims dumped in or around the same field. Two other known sex trade workers were discovered within kilometres of Bruyere’s body . The decomposed body of Therena Silva, 36, was discovered by a man walking his dog in the area in December 2002, while the body of Aynsley Aurora Kinch, 35, was found just last June. Both cases remain unsolved.

That three women, all of the same profession and found within kilometres each other gives rise to the terrifying possibility a serial killer in our already crime-ridden city, is on the loose.

And it appears the Winnipeg police and the general public have no interest in the lives or murders of mere prostitutes.

Recently Sgt. Kelly Dennison of the Winnipeg Police Department told CBC news that it’s difficult to investigate the murders of these women because of their irregular hours and underground movements.

Winnipeg is just one city in Canada to have problems with multiple killings of sex trade workers, yet I seldom hear cries of outrage from other cities concerning the dangers of Canada’s prostitution laws as Edmonton and Vancouver both have a special task force to investigating these types of homicides. Vancouver is also home to a group of volunteer law students attempting to change the controversial prostitution laws in Canada.

Canada’s prostitution laws are in place to serve the patrons of the practice, but not the women forced to walk the streets. While prostitution is not

illegal in our country, communicating the intent to buy sex from a prostitute is. Wording of this law forces these women away from permanent public locations, or “bawdy houses” and into more dangerous neighbourhoods where they are less likely to be seen, and where their clients and potential killers, are less likely to be identified.

Though I don’t suggest prostitution be legalized, as that comes with its own set of problems, it’s obvious that it becomes unnecessarily dangerous for women to work in the sex trade. It’s equally useless to change the wording of the law to make prostitution illegal outright as that would change nothing.

While the general public may feign interest in the subject, a new system must be put in place. One that does not wholly favour the clientele while condemning the proprieters to certain danger or worse, death. Whether a change in law, the development of a special task force or just an increased patrolling of more dangerous neighbourhoods, Winnipeg must take action against the persistant murder of its citizens, even if they’re considered “second-rate”.

By Mike Wajngarten. Excalibur (York University)

by Alison Clack

Loud music, kegs, broken glass, letterman jackets, pretty sorority girls and macho fraternity guys passed out on the ground; toilet paper hanging from tree branches and lawns littered with empties and reeking with the smell of stale beer bottoms; young girls going home trying to forget mistakes from the half remembered night before, guys going home bragging to their buddies of how far they were able to go and what they had achieved; all of these are part of the stereotype built up by the media to describe a typical university party.

All over North America children and adults watch movies and television shows where this, a negative stereotype of university partying is reinforced.

Many people here in Fredericton would also say that a new, unfair portrayal of university students, and their parties, is being painted by certain residents, including at least one member of City Council.

Graham Avenue. When I first came to Fredericton I was told that it was a ‘sketchy’ area, yet having walked around there and along the road itself I can not

really see why; there is nothing that one can see when walking around during the day that really stands out in the mind as ‘sketchy’, it seems like typical student housing. Even having walked along the street at night I did not really notice anything that would put me on edge about the area. No loud parties, no burning couches, not even a drunken group of people falling over themselves and coming home from a party, only a seemingly unnecessary abundance of police cars patrolling the outwardly quiet area.

Inhabitants of the street are starting to really feel the pressure of the unwanted stereotype being pushed.

“Everyone’s like, ‘you live on the party street’,” says Katie O’Shea, a resident of Graham Avenue. “I live on the street and I don’t feel threatened, people say things and don’t live here, they don’t know. I don’t hear anything!” What seems to be increased patrolling by the Fredericton police in the area is also putting some of the residents of Graham Avenue and the area on edge.

“Graham’s always been like this and just because of the media coverage the cops are everywhere. There are parties everywhere around Fredericton,” notes O’Shea. Even walking down Graham Avenue and the surrounding streets on any given night one can see several police cars pass by on patrol of the area.

Recent ideas proposed by City Council members about converting the student housing and rental properties back into single family homes for young

professional couples have brought on some resistance from some of the university students living on Graham. “It’s a horrible idea, this is right beside the university; students should get priority over young professionals for the area.

Why would they want to live here, it’s right beside the university,” says O’Shea. Comments by Councilor Cathy MacLaggan that “rooming houses basically make a hole in the neighborhood,” and have a detrimental effects on the neighborhood have also upset O’Shea.

“This is a student neighborhood, this is student housing, there’s no negative effect on the neighborhood; it’s a university community.”

The stereotype in the media for university students’ parties has never truly been a good one; in movies and television shows something bad always seems to happen at one.

Local officials paint Graham Avenue as a war zone, unsafe and full of dangers one would only assume to see in a ghetto, but what portrayal does this stereotype paint on all university students? Most residents on Graham Avenue will tell you it’s not about big parties and burning couches maliciously there, “it’s just a bunch of students having a good time, loving life. It’s not dangerous,” claims O’Shea. University students are not consciously trying to ‘ruin’ a neighborhood in Fredericton, they are trying to live on their own for the first time, with all of the freedoms that warrants.

Comments & Letters

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Alternative ways to fund your tuition What are your thoughts on the UNBSJ situation?

Absolutely ridiculous.

David McSwain

I don’t agree. UNB is good, why change it?

Justin DeMerchant

SJ doesn’t need another technical institute.

Matt Harty

That wouldn’t work out. Leave it as is.

Zach Till

I really don’t know much about it.

Caleb Dobson

If you fall over a dream, you might get lost.

Matt Perks

by Alex Kozaris, The Cord Weekly (Wilfrid Laurier University)

WATERLOO, Ont. (CUP) -- Students are, typically, broke. We come to rely on credit cards that trip us up on interest charges. And thanks to our friends in the Liberal party, we cannot declare personal bankruptcy for 10 years after we graduate. It seems the cards are stacked against us before we even choose a school.

According to Statistics Canada, the average undergraduate amasses a debt of $25,000 over the course of a four-year program. Maclean’s magazine estimates that by the time we’re paying for our children’s education, the cost of such a program will exceed $150,000.

In order to help alleviate the enormous financial burden of schooling, you may have contemplated getting a part-time job. There exist many opportunities for employment, with quite a few on campus, and hundreds more in local restaurants, bars, and retail stores.

I don’t think it’s a good idea.

Drew McConnell

Every college or university should have a second campus.

Chris Treffry

staple items. Why should you stand for it? You can lose weight, and even fight for a cause by calling it a hunger strike.

Don’t have a cause? Make one up!

Put off laundry day for one more week. Underwear and socks can be worn twice by turning them inside out, and you can rotate your wardrobe by using an item as outerwear one day and innerwear the next.

Don’t buy textbooks. Instructors often make a copy of the text available in the library on reserve, so go find it and photocopy the necessary sections when nobody’s looking. Some authors (e.g. philosophers like Socrates) are too dead to collect royalties, so Google them.

Get drunk before you go to the bar.

It’s cheaper to buy your own, especially if you drink budget beer. Better yet, open up your own bar. Liquor licenses are for wimps.

Retro is always cool, so adopt a fun ‘80s style. You can get your clothes for $2 at thrift stores and your music in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart. Besides, you don’t need an IPod to listen to your Run DMC or Boy George tapes.

Meeting your financial obligations can be the hardest part of earning your degree, perhaps even harder than the actual work. It’s not easy, but that’s what distinguishes you as an educated, capable person. Remember, you can do it. It just might cost you a vital organ.

Our food needs more thought

by Jeremy Tremblay, The Cord Weekly (Wilfrid Laurier University)

No.Halfthe places need university degrees now.

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However, many other options also exist to help finance your education.

One way to raise money is to ask your mother if she could have an advertisement for an online casino tattooed on her forehead. It worked for Kari Smith of Bountiful, Utah, who received US$10,000 for her son’s education.

In return, little Brady promised to get good grades. Hopefully Mom is feeling lucky.

You could also ask a diplomat.

Claude Laverdure, Canada’s ambassador to France, expenses the value of your house each year for travel costs.

Tell him his accent is delightful, and who knows, he may throw you a bone.

If all else fails, there’s no limit to what people will buy on EBay. That furniture is not old, it’s antique. Your books are not worn, they’re authentic.

Get a well-known musician to sign that beat-up guitar you’ve got in the basement. Create collections of things, from turkey neck bones to AOL trial discs.

And what’s the chance you’ll need that second kidney?

While raising money is important, saving money is also critical. Remember, a penny saved in a penny earned.

There are plenty of ways you can conserve your resources and save money.

Don’t eat. Food costs a lot, and farmers collude to artificially set prices on

WATERLOO (CUP) -- In 2004, the American documentary film Super Size Me grabbed and spun much of society against fast food giant, McDonald’s. This lead many to avoid and denounce the franchise, despite criticism of the methods used by the documentary’s producer and star, Morgan Spurlock, while mak-

ing the film.

It’s now three years later and the film’s narrow message has been forgotten. Nowhere is this more apparent than on a university campus, where fast food wrappers are strewn across tables, floors and overflowing out of garbage cans.

While we shouldn’t fear fast food, we should be paying more attention to what we eat. The purchase of organic foods is on the rise in Canada, with 34 per cent of Canadians purchasing organic foods, according to a Neilsen study quoted by a Nutrition Action Health Letter. The primary reason for choosing organic? They’re pesticide-free.

Or so it seems. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced its organic food regulations in December 2006, which are being phased in until December 2008. At that point, all organic food for inter-provincial and international trade in Canada will have to be certified, bearing a Canadian Organic logo.

Despite this initiative, organic foods continue to become less of a solution as factory farms increasingly take control of the organic market.

The cover story of an October 2006 issue of Business Week magazine, titled “The Organic Myth,” tells how big businesses have strayed from the organic movement’s roots to bring organic to the mainstream.

Back in 1986, Carlo Petrini founded the Slow Food movement in Italy which became an international association in 1989. The movement is based on an idea known as ecogastronomy, which looks to return the way people eat to an appreciation

of tradition and local produce. The Slow Food Canada website defines the movement as supporting a new model of agriculture that is less intensive, healthier and founded on the knowledge and know-how of local communities. It encourages people to shop locally and rediscover the pleasures of food.

Growing all our food in local communities is an impractical proposition here in Canada. But producing our own food whenever possible instead of importing foreign rations, an occurrence particularly common in processed foods, simply makes more sense. In Canada, we have more control over food-safety and fewer fossil fuels are needed to transport foods which is good for the environment. A shift away from factory farming would benefit the our food’s quality and help the failing family farm.

Slow Food allows us to reject the corporate image that food is merely fuel for humans. Standardization is unimportant compared to quality, and variety should be embraced.

The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs promotes many ideals of slow food with its Foodland Ontario program. The Foodland Ontario program brands and promotes Ontario products that are in season and highlights the benefits of purchasing them.

With Slow Food’s growing presence and government programs providing us with knowledge of local foods at our fingertips, we owe it to ourselves to escape the conveniencefood mentality. Slow Food is a welcome shift in a new direction.

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FOR SALE Igloo bar fridge. Stainless steel front, mint condition. Phone Barb at 4543107. $140, less than one year old.

One Sony STR-D1090 Receiver, one JVC PAM 1.21 100W power subwoofer, one Yamaha NS-AC80 centre speaker, two SP 50655 surround sound speakers. All for $175. Call 457-2911.

Chesterfield (heavy wooden frame, multi colored) $100. Large overstuffed sofa sectional with Hide-a-bed $200. Loveseat with brass frame (floral upholstered seat) $50. Armchair (gold and brown striped) $25. Double bed, box spring & mattress, frame $100. Double bed, metal spring dark metal footboard & headboard $90.

3/4 Bed, box spring 7 mattress $100 Single bed, mattress, metal spring $65. 19” Insignia TV $65. Computer chair (black) $35. Two end tables $15. each. Large desk with drawers $50. Four drawer metal filing cabinet $60. Several lamps $5. Please call 455-6450.

Furnished room for rent in a three bedroom apt, five minute walk to campus in skyline area. Bright, clean and spacious apt includes heat, lights, cable plus, high speed internet, washer/dryer, parking and shared phone.

This is available to a mature, quite, non-smoking female tenant. Rent is $350 monthly, and 8 month lease is available. Please call 454-4411 or email: veronica.fequet@unb.ca.

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One room in a four bedroom house on Graham Avenue available for rent.

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Room C 127, UNB. The September Club Competition will be held at this meeting. Everyone welcome.

The 22nd annual Take Back the Night March sponsored by the Fredericton Sexual Assault Crisis Centre, will be held Friday, September 28 beginning at 8:00 p.m. starting at City Hall. This annual event is held all across Canada and the world to protest violence against women and children.

CIBC Run for the Cure, September 30. The 10th annual CIBC Run For the Cure will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on September 30 starting and finishing at Old Government House on the Woodstock Road. This 1K and 5K run/walk/wheel event, which includes an opening ceremony at Old Government House, raises funds for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. The route begins at Old Government House; goes out around Wilmot Park, back to Woodstock Road via Odell Avenue and onto Pointe-Sainte-Anne Boulevard, to the corner of Queen and Regent streets.

At this point participants will travel on the sidewalk portion of Queen Street, past the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, turning onto the walking trail, up Limpert Lane and back to Old Government House.

The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Fredericton is looking for male and female voices to sing in the chorus for the Fall Cabaret, “The Unlucky Leprechaun”. The show, consisting of

Bachelor apartment for rent at 278 Westmorland Street. Bright clean and spacious apartment in a quiet building.

Includes hot water, partial heating, a private salarium, and parking. Large kitchen with separate living/bedroom. Walking distance to shopping and university. Available immediately.

Rent is $450 per month. Please call 474-1126 or e-mail: k359i@unb.ca.

PSAs Photo Fredericton will meet on Tuesday, Sept 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Gillin Hall,

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Weekly staff meetings at 12:30 in room 35 of the SUB every Wednesday. Email eic@unb.ca for more information.

many well know Irish Songs, such as “Too Ra Loo Ra”, and “When Irish Eyes are Smiling”, will be performed in December. No auditions are required -Next rehearsal is at 7:00 p.m., Wed. Sept. 26, at Marshall D’Avery Hall, UNB. We meet in the first room to the left as you enter the main entrance.- For more information or to register, call Karen Frampton 4593141, e-mail: Samjamian@hotmail. com or Mary Patterson 450-0319, e-mail: Marylp59@hotmail.com.

of special interest to all family physicians, nurses, pharmacists, caregivers, both professional and family, as well as anyone living with Parkinson’s, their friends and family. Everyone welcome, Reception to follow.

Annual Student Bed Push for Fredericton Women in Transition House 15th Annual Bed Push, October 1920. The 15th Annual Student Bed Push for Fredericton Women in Transition House will begin in Saint John

Music on the Hill launches its 50th Anniversary season with a performance September 26th at Memorial Hall by the University of New Brunswick’s Musicians in residence, Julien Le Blanc and Geoffrey McCausland.

The two acclaimed rising stars will present a program playing Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Beethoven and Brahms. The lunchtime performance, part of a series that runs through April, begins at 12:30 and has no admission fee. For more information call 4572233 or download the season program at www.musichill.unb.ca.

Parkinson Society Maritime Region in cooperation with the local chapter will host a public forum – Parkinson’s: A Neurologist’s View, guest speaker will be Dr. Kyna Squarey, Neurologist with the Moncton Hospital. This free forum will be held Tuesday Oct 2, 2007, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital Auxiliary Theatre, Fredericton. This information session will be

October 19 and end in Fredericton the next day. The proceeds from the fundraising event will go to the Fredericton Women in Transition House.

To date, the bed push has raised more than $150,000 in charitable support, raising $25,500 last year alone.The bed push begins at 10:00 p.m. at the Lancaster Mall parking lot in Saint John on Friday, October 19, and finishes at the Boyce Farmers’ Market in Fredericton around 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 20.

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bruns.arts@gmail.com • September 26, 2007

The pen is mightier than the Blades An Odd twist on an old favorite

kind of neat.

“I didn’t know any writers at the time, and again, there were writers in the community. I’ve since found out and met lots of them over the years…but at the time, I didn’t know any writers, and that’s one of the reasons I like doing these random acts and going into schools and other places. It shows people that you can write and you can do something with it.”

Blades graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and has been publishing his work for almost thirty years. A writer, artist, and founder of Broken Jaw Press, Blades exhibits his pieces across Canada and Europe. His poetry and art has appeared in over 55 trade and chapbook anthologies, and in numerous periodicals, and he’s also been the editor of a number of other literary works.

But it’s not just the written word; the oral tradition holds strong for him, as well. Blades has his own radio show on CHSR, with the three-time Barry Award-winning Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Art Show. And he’s part of the local BlackTop Motorcycle Gang, a literary group who hold ‘Read Riots’, or planned acts of poetry recitation, the last of which took place outside City Hall.

“The commissionaire didn’t know whether to kick us off [the fountain] or not, but figured we were probably less threatening than some of the punks under the trees,” Blades (alias Broken Joe) laughs.

“It’s all relative. Some of the people around were quite encouraging. It’s always a mix, but there are generally people who just love the idea of doing it, and this sort of thing does have roots

that go way back…even more recently studying guerrilla theatre, where you pop up and act out a piece. That’s not quite what we’re doing; instead of doing a short little play that has a message, [we’re reading poetry].”

For Random Acts, Blades has big plans. When I ask him where he’s going to be, I can almost hear him shrug over the phone line; I guess I missed the word ‘random’ in the title.

“Walking up to strangers, people, commissionaires putting up parking tickets, people in cafes and stores, and that sort of thing. Gas station workers, bank tellers, whomever,” he says. “It’s just wide open on that end…just to get people in public.

“It’s actually better if it’s people who aren’t normally expecting to hear poetry readings. I know over the years they’ve done some really unusual ones, read to seals at the zoo and things like that. You never know what can happen.”

Although maybe the seals might not appreciate it as much as some of their more literary-minded counterparts, it’s the idea that counts; bringing poetry out of the “garret”, as Blades says, and making it contemporary, chic, or colloquial.

“The main thing is that [anyone can write] and it doesn’t have to rhyme. It doesn’t even have to make sense, and you can leave the grammar police elsewhere,” he says.

For kids, especially, poetry is a practical creative outlet.

“Some are really enthusiastic. The teachers usually come away surprised… writing abilities or that they wrote at home or wrote songs, it’s amazing what comes out when we talk. It’s really great that way. I think it’s one of the reasons the writers in the school programs they have are so successful…we might be upsetting their methodology a little but we’re there to help the kids express themselves.”

Random Acts of Poetry will be everywhere and anywhere starting next week, with French and English readings, as well as some yet-to-be-determined on-campus activites.

“It’s just that you never know,” Blades says. “It’s almost like that Monty Python skit about the Spanish Inquisition – you just don’t know when a Random Act of Poetry is going to happen.”

2008 event will feature the return of the following exciting Showcase stage opportunities: The Rock Showcase, The Roots Room, The Rising Star Showcase, and The Songwriter’s Circle. Submission deadline on all showcase stages is Wednesday, September 26, 2007.

The Soundwaves Youth Program has been revamped for 2008 and is designed to connect artists with the ECMA host community and area through performances in schools and community venues in the months leading up to the event. It also encourages young artist/ group participation through the integration of the former Sound-Off Program, which will see area bands work with leading Soundwaves artists for the right to compete during ECMA 2008 festivities. The Soundwaves program submission deadline is Wednesday,

September 26, 2007.

The ECMA also presents numerous awards in three categories: Music (29), Industry (16) and Honorary (5). All East Coast artists who have released recordings between June 1, 2006 and October 15, 2007 are eligible for submission to be considered for an East Coast Music Award. All submissions for Music and Industry Awards must be received by Monday, October 15, 2007.

Submissions are also being ac-

cepted until Monday, October 15, 2007 for the Stompin’ Tom Awards, which recognize musicians who have made a long-term contribution to the East Coast Music Industry. Artists wishing to perform on the newly revamped Discovery Stage (formerly the 72-hour Jam), a two day, 12-hour per day musical extravaganza open to all genres and levels of musical experience, must submit

by Wednesday, November 14, 2007.

All submission details and forms can be found on www.ecma.com.

Random Acts of Poetry take over the country come October

by Ashley Bursey

National Random Acts of Poetry Week, beginning October 1 and continuing through until the 7, features published poets from across the country stopping sporadically in different locations to recite their own works: in a school, near City Hall, on the street, at the mall.

And for Fredericton and Oromocto, Nova Scotia-born poet Blades is the one to watch out for if locals are interested in hearing some fantastic original work.

With four anthologies of poetry to his name, as well as countless other publications, workshop accreditations, and accolades, Blades is all about bringing poetry and other creative writing to the forefront.

“There’s always that perception about writing that it’s something done on your own in the garret or the closet or whatever,” Blades says. “[Random Acts helps] to keep poetry in the public eye.

It’s always perceived of as being a dead art at school, just studying Tennyson or Shelley or some of those people. They’re not exactly poets walking amongst us in the crowd.

“Most [poets], we’re the people in the coffee shop or at the next table at the bar, so it’s good to know there’s writers out there, the way there are musicians everywhere; they’re just more obvious.

But in Europe, [there are often] people telling stories all night [as a social activity]; it’s kind of a neat thing.”

For Blades, it’s always been about writing.

“I know there was one day in particular [as a teenager] when I was working on a drawing to give to my sister for her birthday, and I just had to stop and write some poems,” he remembers. “To just write on one’s own is a big step forward, whether it’s any good or not. Just doing it and saying, ‘look what I did!’; that’s

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Fredericton poet Joe Blades will read aloud from his original works during national Random Acts of Poetry Week from Oct 3-7.

Fredericton to rock out with ECMA

by Ashley Bursey The 2008 ECMA are coming to Freddy Beach! From February 7-10, the city will be alive with the sound of great East Coast music as the awards, gala, and surrounding concerts hype the city to appreciate Maritime tunes.

Last year, The Playhouse was just one of Fredericton’s own to be honoured at the awards; this year, musicians are encouraged to get ready to submit for the Showcases and Soundwaves portions of the awards, since deadlines are coming up quickly.

The Award & Showcase Submissions deadline has also been announced. The

by Ashley Bursey

Allison Calvern is just one of dozens of local poetry aficionados who gets her hit every second Sunday at Molly’s in downtown Fredericton.

“Poetry is the jewel [of writing],” she says, leaning forward over a park bench outside the restaurant, silver necklaces sparkling in the late summer sun. “It’s the purest form of the drug, is what I say – of the literary drug.”

Calvern is the founder and organizer of Odd Sundays at Molly’s, a biweekly poetry reading on the first and third Sundays of every month. Held at its namesake on Queen Street, it’s the longest-running poetry jam in the city, featuring well-known and published guest readers, as well as newbies taking

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The next Odd Sundays featured reader will be Raymond Fraser on Oct 7. their turn at the microphone for the first time.

“This literary reading belongs with characters, and Molly has character,” Calvern says.

“So it seems right. I mean, I like that it’s beer at the same time…there’s something about beer and poetry that work really well together, especially when you get to the presenting part of poetry.”

She laughs. “Yeah, beer. I mean, it could have been Odd Sundays at Chapters, but, no. Molly is very organic, and she has real good food.”

Calvern herself dabbles in the literary arts; she began writing after attending a workshop in Paris when her eldest daughter, Jennifer, came home after doing “really cool things with writing” to Scotch-tape on the fridge.

“When I was a little girl, I kind of thought that I would like to be a writer, but I really didn’t think I could,” she admits. “I thought writers had to be

Sheet Music

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Calvern laughs, “It’s better than sitting at home and watching football on TV.” This is especially true for first-time readers, who Calvern always welcomes with open arms.

“First of all, just the energy of someone going up there and reading. When it’s the first time, that’s just a real gift, to hear people read for the first time. It’s very, very wonderful for them as well.

“And it’s good for other people to see them, and become inspired, encouraged by how other people are doing. There’s a fear of reading in public, and the overcoming of that fear is valuable for everybody.”

She adds, “it’s just to listen,” she says, “not to judge what’s good, bad, or whatever. We’re just letting people write and then present it.”

Odd Sundays at Molly’s happens at 2 p.m. on the first and third Sunday of every month at 554 Queen Street.

“We love that they love the music we love” Vetch is a five-piece band from Fredericton who will be releasing their new full-length studio CD, Osiris, at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Friday, September 28, at 7:00.

In-Flight Safety, out of Halifax, took home the Galaxie Rising Star award at the 2007 ECMA.

kind of smart or special, or somehow endowed, and I never had that sort of sense of being endowed with anything.”

But her daughter pushed her to pick up a pen, and she began scribbling poetry about fifteen years ago, as well as returning to Fredericton to get two degrees, both from UNB. At about the same time she graduated, Odd Sundays at Molly’s really began taking shape, and has been growing steadily every since, bringing in five to two dozen people every session.

And it’s not just poetry. Odd Sundays will let anyone pen-happy take the mic.

“The open set is quite vigorous, usually, six or seven or as many as 10 or 12 [readers],” Calvern says. “Six is usually a good number. People read for two or three minutes each, and they read either poetry or fiction or essays or – one fellow is a great letter writer, letters to the editor, so public commentary – we get that, too.”

Musicians around here are an odd lot. This is a smallish town in a smallish province in a smallish region, and like many such communities there’s a strong arts scene. You’ll find a treasure trove of music if you do a little exploring. We’d like to talk, in particular, about bands in these parts.

It pays to ask yourself why people do it here. There’s not much money in it. Rehearsals aside, the amount of preparation that goes into a single set usually works out to members of a band getting paid less per hour than they do for their day job. Yes, most of us have day jobs. A lot of the musicians you see playing around have worked all day, and are working all night. True, it’s called playing, and certainly they love to do it, but for anyone who takes it seriously, it’s work. No one enjoys a bad performance.

There are a couple who do make a few bucks on it, even around here. To do that, though, you become as much a businessperson as rock star. Register the business. Paperwork. Always on the phone and the computer (usually at the same time), using business-y terms like ‘networking’ and ‘market share’. Making business plans, composing flowcharts.

You get the idea.

A lot of the cannier members of this crowd learn that it’s more economically sustainable to strike out as a solo musi-

cian. What could be better? You get full musical control, cheap set-up, easy transportation, and no split of the earnings!

Many of the people who make a career of it are these solo types, although when it comes time to make a CD or play a big show, usually some other musicians are included in the performance (though not the billing). It would be a rarity, for instance, to just see Sarah Harmer at a Sarah Harmer show.

So bands are the craziest in a crazy musical world. We know this first-hand: Vetch began as a solo act, then grew into a duo, then a trio, then a five-piece.

There’s a lot of art to be made in a small ensemble, but after a while many musicians want to be a part of something larger than the sum of its parts. Despite the questionable economics of such a venture, the payoff for bands around here, we think, is the fabulous fans. We love our fans. We love that they love the music we love. That’s why we make it.

If they stopped coming, we’d stick to our day jobs (most of us love our day jobs, too).

Fredericton has a surprising array of original, professional music going on.

There’s rock, metal, dixie, reggae, country, folk, punk, classical, hip-hop, big band, funk, blues . . . enough for anyone’s varying taste. Your support means more to a local band than a whole city’s support does for one of the big internationals.

Your five-buck cover or your purchase of a CD or a t-shirt makes a huge difference to these bands.

It means they’ll decide to keep doing it.

These are folks you’ll be able to say hi to on the street or bump into at a coffee shop or bar: in other words, this is the real community deal—it is the community. If you’re new in town and you’ll be staying for a while, consider venturing out to discover whether that music you always wanted to hear but never could quite find on the Internet might be being made right here around you by people with familiar faces. You might be surprised what a little looking and listening will turn up.

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A spirited introduction to the world of whisky Popping the cork Local whisky festival promotes nosing and sipping – and a really, really expensive bottle of the good stuff

This John Stewart definitely doesn’t have his own political-commentary TV show, but he’s definitely got the chutzpah to make a commentary of a different sort. John has worked in the food industry for years.

He’s found an eager-to-learn palate in his daughter, Essmaie, who will be helping him sample restaurants around Fredericton in the coming months.

John begins this week as the Brunswickan’s biweekly food columnist, touching on everything from easy student meals to making the perfect broth to restaurant critiques with a well-seasoned edge.

To start, he’s taking a page from Frank Scott’s book: a nice, light, cut-out-and-tapeto-your-fridge guide on pairing wine with meals for the perfect, impress-your-girlfriend dinner date.

by Ashley Bursey The nose knows, and this weekend, Frederictonians will have the chance to sniff and sip to their hearts’ content at the 12th annual Whisky, Spirits and Liqueur Festival, held at the Delta on September 27 and 28.

Festival chairman Frank Scott is no stranger to what he calls the “finer things in life”; he first took a liking to spirits – which is distilled, rather than fermented, alcohol – as a companion to healthier living a few years back.

“I started out drinking Scotch because I was on a diet. It’s a great diet drink,” he says, and laughs. “It has the least amount of calories out of any spirit, so I decided I would try it. As a beer drinker and a big guy, I was trying to cut back. I didn’t particularly care for the flavour at first, so I added a lot of water and just cut back on the water and eventually found an appreciation for the product.”

As co-owner of the Lunar Rogue pub downtown, Scott is no stranger to purchasing and serving fine spirits. The Rogue was named by the U.K.’s Whisky Magazine as one of the greatest whisky bars in the world, along with three other Canadian bars, and Scott boasts it has the largest collection of single-malt Scotches in the East Coast.

“You’ll find the flavours are quite unique. Scotch is the most multi-faceted spirit in the world,” he explains. “An easy analogy [is] of an onion: when you nose Scotch, you get a bouquet or a nose of maybe vanilla. Take another layer and go back and you might get raisins or dried flowers or lemon zest.

“And every Scotch is different. Some are peaty and smoky, some are lighter and sweet and floral, some are very honey and sherry and fruity, like a dried Christmas cake, raisins and sultana and

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cinnamon. The older ones happen to have a lot of rich character and they’re just amazing for slowly sipping.”

But most people in New Brunswick have been weaned on rum or other, less high-end products, says Scott, especially the growing student population, who tend towards easy-to-mix drinks, beers, or coolers.

Scott attributes this, in part, to the habitual occurrence of rum-runners using the Atlantic provinces as safe havens for bootlegged liquor, bringing it from as far as South America to keep under cover in places like Newfoundland or P.E.I. The prohibition of the day found many a sympathetic ear in locals, who made more running a load of rum than they might have in a year running a fishing boat.

Nonetheless, Scott says education and knowledge of a variety of spirits, beer, and wines is essential to a wellread palate.

“A lot of people say to me all the time, ‘Frank, I don’t like Scotch’. And I say, ‘You probably don’t like it because

Books & Bytes from the UNB Libraries Fall Hours @ UNB libraries

Fall hours of operation are now in effect in all UNB libraries, which run from September 4 to December 18, 2007.

Please consult the library website (www.lib.unb.ca) for the complete listing of fall hours, or pick up a bookmark from any of the campus libraries.

Learning Commons – Harriet Irving Library (HIL) Have you taken a peek at the new Learning Commons space in the HIL? The first floor space is receiving lots of positive feedback from faculty and students about the open, modern design.

Drop by, grab a coffee and take a look.

New in the Commons this week: • Comfy, dark-green armchairs; • New PC workstations with the latest software are up and running (in the Research Help Desk area); • New group study rooms are available for booking at the Commons Services Desk; IT Help Desk is staffed from 10:00am until close. Drop by to see the IT staff if you are having any problems connecting your laptop or PDA to the UNB network.

New Research Databases

UNB libraries have purchased several excellent new research databases for faculty and student use: • BRDP – Book Review Digest Plus • ECCO – Eighteen Century Collections Online • IMBO – International Medieval Bibliography Online Book Review Digest Plus is exceptionally cool. It offers reviews of fiction and non-fiction books from 1905 to the present. Take it for a test drive and see what you think.

Access is available from the library website www.lib.unb.ca >> eResources>>Indexes & Abstracts>>select the title from the drop-down menu.

Off-campus users will need their login and PIN. Cool Tools @ UNB Libraries UNB Libraries is offering students free sessions on topics such as: introductions to academic research, ‘RefWorks’, finding journal articles, Internet searching, finding legal information, avoiding plagiarism, and much more. You can register for a session online via the Cool Tools @ UNB libraries link at www.lib. unb.ca.

you’ve never been taught how to drink it properly’,” Scott says. “When [the Festival] started, I think we attracted people who were interested in higherend products, [but we also] attracted a lot of university grad students, who are starting a career in the business world, and working the business deals; a lot of high-end products are part of the whole business culture.

“When you go out in the business world, if you go out in the Orient or Japan, a lot of socializing involves malts or high-end spirits. It’s expected. And this is a great way to learn. Beer and wine are great drinks, but you sometimes have to know a little bit more about the finer things in life.”

If the festival, which will present more than 18 exhibitors and over 80 varieties of Scotch, whisky, bourbon, rum, liqueurs, and whisky cocktails, were to have a mandate, education would be it.

On Saturday at 6 p.m., there will be an introduction to whisky nosing and tasting, to help ease new drinkers into

enjoying single-malt Scotch, which Scott says is the largest-selling spirit in the world. As well, there will be well-nosed connoisseurs on hand to answer any questions.

And the event, where chocolatiers and others will offer appetizers to complement the whisky, will give patrons the chance to buy bottles of the good stuff – including a rare $2,500 bottle of 1959 Glenlivet, one of three hundred made.

Although the demographic is decidedly older than the Friday-night houseparty crowd, Scott still sees quite a few young people amongst the 400 or so who generally attend. And for anyone who thinks Scotch is his or her dad’s drink – well, think again.

“Don’t be narrow-minded, because if you went to Spain or England or Scotland or Greece or Brazil or Russia, all the students would be drinking Scotch, because it’s sophistication,” Scott says.

“It’s cool to drink high-end products like Scotch. I think students get caught up with the idea that it’s a beer drinkers world, with the beer advertisements and

the coolers; the easy drink. [Scotch] is an expansion of the palate. It’s not easy to take at first.”

Scott says the European sensibility of alcohol as a meal complement, and less as a social drink, is part of the problem.

“I think a lot of it is that we do a very poor job in our school system teaching about alcohol and abusing it. When people turn 19, they figure it’s a floodgate – they can now rush to a liquor store and start drinking,” he says. “In Europe, it’s much different.

Young people are educated at a much younger age about wine with meals and dinner, and they learn to appreciate it.

It’s not a beverage to get high or drunk, it complements a good meal, and exactly what we need to do here is try to get young people more aware of appreciation and education.

“I think in today’s society, people should be enlightened with knowledge and education, and we have to change the way we look at spirits and drinking.”

Wine Guide

John Stewart and Bruns Arts Appetizers: order a dry rosé (these wines are, in most respects, white in character and flavour, with only the tinge of red and some subtle taste differences belying the difference; often called a ‘crisp summer wine’); Anything you might eat with lemon or lime (shellfish being one example): order an unoaked white, such as a sauvignon blanc; Spicy foods: Order a low alcohol wine; Rich red meat: Order a tannic red, a full, heavy wine; Lighter meats, such as chicken: Order a wine paired with the sauce on the meat; for example, a wine-based sauce would require a bottle of the same type.

A light sauce, like lemon and thyme, would require a crisp Chardonnay; a heavier sauce, such as a tomato sauce, might require a medium-bodied red; Desserts: Order a lighter wine, such as a sweet, late-harvest wine, or perhaps veer from the norm and order a glass of port.

Arts & Entertainment

12 • September 26, 2007 • Issue 4

Culture Crawl takes its last lap of the season Named the year of the craft, the 2007 Downtown Fredericton Cultural Crawl takes its last bow on September 27

by Naomi Osborne

It began last year for the first time with modern and contemporary sculpture exhibitions. There was everything from Rodin’s impressive, sensuous, human-like figures to Beaulieu’s contemporary pop culture superheroes.

Downtown Fredericton, along with the city of Fredericton, is once again pairing up to bring the Downtown Cultural Crawl back to the streets. This year the crawl’s theme is slightly different, since 2007 has been named ‘The year of the craft’.

The crawl is a self-guided tour through 14 galleries and studios along the downtown area, and takes place on Sunday, September 27 from 5pm to 8pm. This is the last of five cultural crawls that began on May 24.

The best part of the event is the price: It’s completely free and open to the public.

Angela Watson, the Cultural Development Officer for the City of Fredericton, has spearheaded the event since it began last year. She wants part of the focus this year to be on university students and getting them out to experience different cultures.

“It is a perfect opportunity for students to get off campus and get to know the city a bit better,” she says.

This is the last crawl of the year, and consequently the last chance for people to get out and see what talent the city has to offer. There is everything, from fine crafts and jewelry to traditional paintings and maritime art.

“University is a time where people are learning new things and also a time when they can learn about art,” Watson says. “University is all about enlightenment, and so is art.”

There are many interesting exhibits with open-house tours and fine craft demonstrations. The Bejewel Gallery is featuring their unique, colorful, hand-

made jewelry along with the work of other Canadian artisans.

The 2007 Grad Class of the NB College of Craft and Design will also be presenting a selection of their best works in the NBCCD gallery.

As well, an exhibition of ten contemporary glass sculptures from the Sandra Ainsley Gallery in Toronto opens in the Beaverbrook’s Annex Gallery, and an exhibition of antique purses continues at the York Sunbury Museum, featuring a private collection of 150 purses dating as far back as the early 19th century.

Mazerolle Gallery’s exhibition of brightly painted Whimsical Trees and Women on Board continues, and as an interactive experience, Aitken’s Pewter will demonstrate pewtersmithing techniques.

Other galleries include the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Charlotte Street Arts Center Gallery, where people can enjoy a glass of sangria while looking at the spectacular paintings; and the Barracks Fine Craft Shops, featuring an Artist-in-Residence series.

“We wanted to create an environment where people felt comfortable to go down and check out the galleries,” says Watson.

In the future, there are plans to make the crawl more frequent to Fredericton so that people can see these galleries whenever they wish.

Shasta Stairs, the Marketing and Communications Manager of Downtown Fredericton Inc., a business improvement area that helps to promote and encourage businesses within the downtown area, feels the crawl is a perfect opportunity for people from all over to come and experience the artistic talent Fredericton has to offer.

“It is a really good opportunity for a lot of galleries to open up their doors to a group of people who wouldn’t necessarily come down” said Stairs. “I know that a lot of institutions in this city see the same crowd come in and out quite frequently.”

Brochures are available at Aitken’s Pewter, Barracks Fine Craft Shops, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Bejewel, Botinicals Gift Shop Inc., Charlotte Street Arts Centre Gallery, City Hall Gallery, Gallery 78, The Gallery at NB College of Craft and Design, Ingrid Mueller Art + Concepts, Mazerolle Gallery, Sue Lawrence, and the York-Sunbury Museum.

Not just furs and opera glasses anymore The Playhouse reaches out to the younger, thriftier set with innovative, free programs

by Jessica Grzesik The word ‘free’ usually grabs the attention of penny-pinching students around campus, and The Playhouse wants to take advantage of those students who appreciate any event at which the cost is… well… nothing.

The Playhouse, in conjunction with their Education Outreach Program, is putting on a series called ‘Create, Learn, and Play’, a program focused on grabbing Fredericton students’ attention and other young people interested in education and enrichment. The three separate series in the Education Outreach Program also include ‘In Conversation’ and ‘The Master Class’ series.

All consist of inventive workshops and enrichment activities that take place in conjunction with performances offered in the 2007-08 season. Each series is meticulously planned to involve all aspects of the arts, theatre, and performance.

The Create, Learn, and Play series, however, is special as it has one particular event that is sure to catch the attention of students on campus. The Playhouse is proud to offer a documentary film screening entitled ‘Pink Floyd in Their Own Words: Reflections on The Wall’.

The screening is only one of the performances involved with the series and is set to show at 7 pm. Thursday, September 27, and frugal students won’t have to worry about reaching for their wallets: it’s totally free.

The Playhouse has been working hard to integrate the arts and student life, as Marketing Director Victoria Pottle stresses.

“People tend to think of The Playhouse as gems and furs, [but] we want people to see The Playhouse as jeans and tees, too.”

“We love to introduce students to The Playhouse, and the Outreach Program helps those students access such performances and activities,” says Amani Wassef, Coordionator of the Education and Outreach Program.

The documentary is about the making of The Wall and includes a critical review done by professionals, which may interest music-minded students.

Pink Floyd was chosen by The Playhouse due to their influential style throughout the decades.

As a follow-up to the Education Outreach film screening, The Playhouse will be covering The Wall as part of their Classic Albums Live series, which is a cut-for-cut performance of the album.

This particular series however, will come at a cost, but Pottle is hoping to get a package together for UNB students.

“We’re excited to have the support of the university,” she says. “We have been talking to the Residential Life representatives and are offering a package which will include three shows at the Playhouse at discounted prices.”

Student prices at The Playhouse will typically never run more than $45, which might be a bit pricey for some students, but shows through Education Outreach, and the promotions through UNB, are free.

The Playhouse will be presenting four

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upcoming shows as part of the UNBelievable Performance series as well, which offers discounted tickets to UNB students. The first show in the series is ‘Classic Albums Live Pink Floyd: The Wall’ on October 30. Tickets are on sale for $20 at the Residence Administration Building’s front desk, 20 Bailey Drive, between 8:30-4:30.

The night of the show, complimentary taxis will be available in the Res. Admin parking lot, starting at 7:40 to take students to the 8:00 performance.

Students are responsible for finding their own way home. The other shows in this series are Corb Lund on November 23, Mocean Dance March 7 and Theatre New Brunswick’s The Love List March 13.

For more information visit www. theplayhouse.ca.

Weak Size Fish pack Capital like sardines The Fish fail to disappoint, but will they survive out of water?

by Alex Stevens

I was hammered at the show on Saturday, but I’ll dredge up the messy details as best I can. I was excited for my first real Weak Size Experience since they took it up a notch and lost the campfire/ jam gig that won over the hearts of so many young female residents at UNB. Unfortunately I wasn’t too happy when I arrived around 11:30 and the opening band Fugato was still playing.

The Fish weren’t to hit the stage until 12:30 or so.

Call it what you will, a party or a show, but if I’m paying for a local band

to headline, they better get on stage and play their hearts out all night. You aren’t allowed to be that late until you can say, “What are you going to do about it?” without having to worry about your paycheck clearing in the morning.

Bitching aside, I enjoyed myself, and to the credit of the band, the place was jammed. The Capital isn’t exactly the hardest place to pack, and probably a shitty venue for a five-piece band, but kudos regardless.

The tough question is, does Weak Size Fish have any mass appeal that can catapult them out of the university fishbowl life? That will win over potential fans with shows where they won’t be able to count on 100 friends showing up to keep the bar owners happy?

Although their original mix has a tasty flavour that keeps your feet moving and your head bobbing, until these boys put some more work behind the business, they are going to find it hard to move forward on the music scene.

Nick Mazerolle, who would be considered the front man of the band, does well to please the crowd with his quick tongue, smooth voice and nimble hands (onstage, I mean). I’ve been skeptical of bands with more than two guitarists my whole life, but I have been proven wrong on many occasions. However, I believe that a sign of a good band is to know when to put down the guitar for a song or two and sing.

This, unfortunately, did not happen.

With all three guitarists vying for a spot in the rhythm, it becomes harder to justify the lack of space on stage. And who was the guy who guest-played? I vaguely remember two things about that: it was near impossible for him to get to the stage, and his presence just seemed to cramp things up there even more.

Expecting supple harmonies from the Bernard twins, I was treated to barely a peep (Mind you, when they did peep, it was in all the right places). If there is going to be a mic in front of you all

night, you better damn well use it or get rid of it. We need to hear more from those boys if people are to appreciate the show on a higher musical level.

I have one nitpicky thing to say about appearances: free beer hats don’t make great stage decorations, especially if they’re on your head. You don’t see too many artists sporting their favorite brand on stage – well, maybe except for the oft-present Jack Daniel’s tee. My point is, if you want to look professional, leave the Bud Light hat at home. That drunk bastard who was crowd surfing on Saturday might not have noticed, but the right people will.

My parting comments: undoubtedly Weak Size Fish will be able to survive off the student body’s willingness to party, but growth is required in order to move beyond the college set. For those of you on the fence, go see them. The show will be a lot of fun and they’re no slouch, just don’t expect to be blown out of the water.

Doors Open Fredericton lays out the welcome mat Fredericton’s inaugural Doors Open Days happens this weekend

by Ashley Bursey

About a month ago, I was working at a media outlet in St. John’s, Newfoundland, when a neat event came to my attention. It was called Doors Open Days, and it had been happening for a year or two already. The event promotes community inclusion by throwing open the doors of local, little-visited (or usually costly to access) buildings in the area for folks to spend a day peeking inside and exploring a building they might never otherwise see.

Intrigued, I put the groundwork in place to create a story about the event, focusing on several buildings in the area that I thought might interest the general public: a mosque, a stable, a tattoo parlor. The event is always a hit, pulling in thousands of people at the different

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The Brydone Jack Observatory was built in 1851 and displays a sevenand-a-half-foot mahogany and brass achromatic telescope. venues over the two-day period. the city’s oldest buildings, right here on So when I got to Fredericton and the UNB campus. As an added bonus realized they were having an inaugural for people who want to participate, but Doors Open Days right here, I was might not be well-versed in the history totally psyched. of the city, there are guided tours at some September 30, from 1-4pm, there of the buildings at certain points in the will be 13 buildings in the Fredericton afternoon. area with free admission for people to In the downtown core, it will be wander through, including some of interesting to take a guided backstage

tour of the Playhouse. I’ve seen concerts there, and as a theatre nut, I’d love to check out the dressing rooms, the lighting, and generally just take a peek ‘behind the scenes’ of Fredericton’s most renowned theatre.

On a different note, it’ll be a blast to take in the York Street Fire Station (firemen calendar, anyone?) and perhaps even try on a helmet or two (but don’t quote me on that – I’m just dreaming, and I was definitely one of those kids who wanted to grow up to be a fire-person). Or even the Fredericton Lighthouse, which I somehow never seem to get a chance to visit (and I hear they have delish ice cream there in the summertime!).

But for me, the exciting thing will be to check out Alden Nowlan’s house on the UNB campus. Although it’s a fairly accessible building, the chance to wander through it with other Nowlan fans will be a bit of a treat. Nowlan, a Nova Scotia-born newspaperman and writer (publishing plays, poetry, and short stories) spent much of his literary career in New Brunswick. He won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1967. A writer in residence at UNB in 1969, much of his poetry reflects deeprooted regionalism, and consequently, his own Maritime roots.

Sites

• Playhouse, 686 Queen St., backstage guided tours* • St. Anne’s Chapel of Ease, Westmorland St. at corner of George St. • York Street Fire Station, 520 York St. • Fredericton Water Treatment Plant, 101 Smythe St., guided tours* • Fredericton Lighthouse, Regent St. • City Hall, 397 Queen St., Council Chamber and historic tapestry tours University of New Brunswick Campus: • Sir Howard Douglas Hall (formerly the Old Arts Building), 3 Bailey Dr. • Brydone Jack Observatory, 5 Bailey Dr. • McCord Hall (former ice house), 7 Bailey Dr. • Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Dr. • Burden Academy schoolhouse, Windsor St. • Provincial Archives, 23 Dineen Dr. • Alden Nowlan House, 676 Windsor St. * Due to safety issues at these locations, limited guided tours will be offered at 1, 2, 3pm. First come, first served admittance.

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Start at any of the above locations.

Brochure with map will be available at each of the buildings.

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Rock for a cause

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He knows how to pick ‘em. lmfao.

The Final Score

by Dan Hagerman

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A benefit concert for Mike Fitzgerald brought local Fredericton bands to the forefront, including We, The Undersigned and The Dead Divine, and raising more than $4000 for grade eleven student. “I could never leave these people,” he said, overwhelmed, at the show. Proceeds support Fitzgerald and his family as he undergoes cancer treatment.

CHSR 97.9 FM top ten list On The Wire We’ve all spent a few nights a week listening to CHSR 97.9, the campus radio station with everything from spoken word performances, to Kanye, to the Descendents. As their website states, “CHSR FM’s primary goal is to provide access to the public airwaves to promote free artistic, cultural, and sociopolitical expression by members of the community through participatory radio...” which most certainly includes highlighting the top tunes of any given week for devoted listeners.

1. M.I.A. (XI) – Kala 2. The Go! Team (Secret City Records) – Proof Of Youth 3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Interscope) – Is Is Ep

4. The New Pornographers (Last Gang Records) – Challengers 5. Taken By Trees (Rough Trade) – Open Field 6. Matthew Good (Universal Music) – Hospital Music 7. Eisley (Reprise) – Combinations 8. J.V. Dixon (G-three) – Peace of Mind 9. Shitdisco (Fierce Panda) – Kingdom of Fear 10. Cake (Upbeat Records) – B-side and Rarities Charts are from the week ending September 17, compiled by CHSR’s Music Director, Sarah Robinson. You can always hear CHSR at 97.9 on your FM dial in the Fredericton area, or check out ww.chsrfm.ca for the online Shoutcast. If you’d like to be involved, check out the station in the Student Union Building to sign-up for a training session or pitch a show idea.

Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure (SNES) To start off with: No, I did not invent that subtitle myself, it’s written right on the game box. Without even seeing any pictures of this game or having heard anything about it beforehand, the title tells you exactly everything you need to know about this game. You will know that it stars a superhero named Boogerman. You also know that, via the awful play on words in the subtitle, that it will be an adventure game that thinks it will be funny.

The game puts you in the role of Snotty Ragsdale, an eccentric millionaire

La Vie En Rose La Vie en Rose, a French drama that explores the often-troubled life of the singer Edith Piaf, plays at Tilley 102 this Monday, October 1st.

According to Marlene Dietrich, chanteuse Edith Piaf’s voice was “the soul of Paris.” This film follows the singer as her fame took her from the City of Lights to America to the South of France. Abandoned by her mother, Piaf grew up in her grandmother’s brothel and her father’s circus, which is hardly the fun one might imagine. While singing on the streets of Paris as a teen, Piaf (played as an adult by Marion Cotillard, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT) is discovered by club owner Louis Leplée (Gérard Depardieu), and this chance encounter changes the woman’s life. Like WALK THE LINE and RAY, this biopic creates a fascinating picture of an artist whose songs only begin to reflect the singer’s painful life.

Monday Night Movie Series Info General Information The NB Film Co-op presents the Fredericton Monday Night Film Series. The series partners are the Film Circuit, a division of the Toronto International Film Festival and the UNB Faculty of Arts.

The series presents limited release, independent foreign and Canadian film for one night screenings, with the goal of diversifying local access to cinema. These films are new or recent releases, which would not otherwise be available to Fredericton audiences on the big screen.

Tickets and Membership The film series is open to everyone. Regular admission is $7.00 per screening. Memberships are avail-

Gameplay: This is clearly a game designed for elementary school kids or younger.

Why? Because the superhero either vanquishes enemies by burping really loudly at them or by picking his nose and throwing mucus around. He finds items by digging through trash. He also collects plungers. He flushes himself down toilets as transportation. I wish I could make myself stop playing, but I have to continue.

The gameplay itself is really easy and it won’t take you long to finish the game, even if you don’t regularly play games.

However, regardless of whether or not you play videogames regularly, it’s a fair bet this won’t be one of them.

Sound: I can’t complain too much about the music in the game, it does its purpose to make noise so that the player is not bored by the simplistic gameplay.

However, the sound effects, particularly the voice samples, make me cringe.

Pressing the X button on the SNES controller will make Boogerman raise one finger and proclaim loudly for all to hear, “Booger!” I’m pretty sure that

it’s his battle cry or something, because screaming “Booger!” at the top of my lungs is actually fairly useful for scaring away my enemies. Not that I’ve ever done that…

The Final Score: I cannot explain to you enough how bad this game is. Whatever marketing suits thought this would be a good game were clearly not thinking straight.

I’ve played games where you have to hit certain buttons at exact moments or you instantly lose, and those are more fun than this. Good animation or not, this game should be left out in the sun, submerged in fluid, and all of those other things the instruction manual warns you against doing.

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Harry and the Potters: Wizard Rockers From Quidditch in New Brunswick to Harry and the Potters in Toronto, Pottermania is still alive and well

by Laura Godfrey, Excalibur (York University), with files from Renata Valz TORONTO (CUP) -- What if your favourite literary characters were real and they started a rock band? Well, for Harry Potter fans wondering where they can get their next fix of Hogwartsrelated goodness, the answer could lie in a little-known craze that has been going on under our noses for some time now: Wizard rock.

Yes, it’s true. The phenomenon that started with J.K. Rowling’s series of books, and moved on to include a matching set of movies, now boasts a range of independently formed rock bands based on characters from the Harry Potter series. The biggest name

Monday Night Movie Series But director-writer Olivier Dahan (LA VIE PROMISE) doesn’t take the traditional biopic route with LA VIE EN ROSE. Instead, the film jumps between various moments in the singer’s life, with little concern for linear narrative.

140 minutes, France/UK/Czech Republic, 2007, French with English subtitles.

not unlike Bruce Wayne, who from time to time dons the cape and tights of Boogerman, crimefighter extraordinaire. And by ‘crimefighter extraordinaire’, I actually mean that this character gets my vote for the worst superhero of all time. I’m more of a superhero than Boogerman is.

Graphics: As much as I can rip on this game to my heart’s content, I have to give it a sole credit: the animations in the game are actually pretty well done. When you picture in your mind what an overweight man with a massive chin in tights and a cape would look like while running, this game pretty much gets it right. It doesn’t matter how grotesque or wrong the enemies or even the main character himself is; they actually look like they took the time to draw out fluid movement for these characters.

That being said, everything else in the game in the graphics department is not so great. All of the levels in each major area start to look the same, to the point where you can’t tell if you’re in the first or third level. The special effects for the ‘attacks’ are also pretty minimalist.

able that reduce admission price to $3.00 per screening.

Full-Year Memberships Regular: $30.00 Students/Seniors (65 years and up)/NBFC Members: $18.00 Half-Year Memberships Regular: $20.00 Students/Seniors (65 years and up)/NBFC Members: $12.00 Tickets and memberships are available at Tilley Hall, Room 102, UNB on Monday Nights. Membership cards are also available at the NB Film Co-op Tel: 455-1632 Co-op’s New Address: 732 Charlotte Street (Charlotte Street Arts Center) info@nbfilmcoop.com www.nbfilmcoop. com/fs.htm.

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in wizard rock, not surprisingly, is Harry and the Potters. The band consists of two brothers, Joe and Paul DeGeorge, who take the on-stage personas of Harry from year four and Harry from year seven.

“We didn’t want to fight over who got to be Harry,” joked Joe. “So we figured we could both be Harry from different points in time.”

Although it started off as a lastminute backyard show for friends, the brothers from Boston soon found themselves booking shows in local libraries and increasingly larger venues. Many of the audience members are young fans of the series, and the DeGeorges embraced the idea of using their music to promote literacy. “[Harry Potter has] gotten a lot of kids—and adults—really interested in literature and reading,” said Joe. “We’ve heard so many stories about kids who didn’t read at all, then picked up the books and they’ve been the gateway books to the world of literature for them. And I think we have to emphasize that aspect of the phenomenon: get kids involved, get kids going to the library for a rock show, and maybe

[they will] read a couple of books at the same time.”

At their Toronto show in August however, it was clear that their act has managed to reach an audience of not just the young, but the young at heart.

The small downtown venue, the Whippersnapper Gallery, was teeming with university-aged, music-loving bookworms who shared the Potter love and weren’t ashamed to show it.

Harry and the Potters showed an uncanny ability to engage the audience, entering the thick of the crowd for one song and offering high-fives all around for the next. Part of the audience joined the two Harrys in a rousing chorus of ‘Voldemort can’t stop the rock’, and ‘We’ve got to save Ginny Weasley from the Basilisk’. By the end of the show, spirits were high; everyone in attendance was dripping with sweat and smiling from ear to ear.

Since they started playing five years ago, the band has inspired a whole slew of wizard-rock bands, including The Parselmouths, The Whomping Willows and onstage rivals Draco and the Malfoys. The latter has opened several shows on the Harry and the Potters tour, and

the back-and-forth quasi-bitter banter between the two bands is truly a thing of beauty. Decked out faithfully in Slytherin colours, half-brothers Brian Ross and Bradley Mehlenbacher encouraged the crowd to “party like you’re evil,” and surprised the audience with an energetic cover song, ‘99 Death Eaters Go By’.

Of course, now that the seventh and final book has been released, these wizard-rock bands face an uncertain future.

How long can this phenomenon last?

Can wizard rock live on if the books do not survive?

Draco and the Malfoys are optimistic.

“This is the best job we’ve ever had in our lives, so we’re going to keep doing it until people stop showing up,” says Brian. “There’s also a [Harry Potter] theme park coming in 2010, and the fact that they’re going to invest millions of dollars in a theme park — which is not a temporary establishment — means that people are going to be interested in these stories forever. At least the rest of our lifetime.”

For more information on these bands, visit eskimolabs.com/hp or evilwizardrock.com.

Sports

brunswickansports@gmail.com • September 26, 2007

V-Reds men’s soccer beat up on MUN

Upcominig V-Reds Events Weekend Tournaments September 28th Through September 30th Men’s Hockey Brock University Tournament Women’s Volleyball SMU Husky Cup Saturday, September 29th Women’s Hockey UNB @ STU 7 PM at the LBR Cross Country UNB @ Maine-Orono Exhibition 12:00 PM Sunday, September 30th Women’s Soccer UNB @ CBU 1:00 PM Men’s Soccer UNB @ CBU 3:00 PM Women’s Soccer UNB @ STFX 3:00 PM

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UNB’s Michael O’Brecht plays a ball again a Memorial defender. The Varsity Reds dominated the Seahawks at College Field on Saturday, registering an impressive 3-0 victory. O’Brecht scored for the home side, along with Ken Morrison and Adolphe Iraguha. UNB did not fare as well on the road Sunday in Charlottetown, dropping a 3-0 decision to the UPEI Panthers.

by Naomi Osborne The UNB Varsity Reds men’s soccer team dominated Memorial University on Saturday, recording a 3-0 win over the Seahawks at College Field.

V-Reds fans showed their appreciation for the solid play of the club this season, as they filled the bleachers with

anticipation as they watched the team play its third game of the season at their temporary home field.

The V-Reds began the game with a strong effort and were soon able to overcome Memorial’s strong defense.

Reds’ striker Adolphe Iraguha scored the first goal of the game in the 14th minute, giving UNB a 1-0 lead that they carried until the end of the first half.

Midfielder Ali Devereaux, who has been named UNB’s Male Athlete of the Week for the past two weeks, showed

Sea Dogs roughed up at the Station

by Brian Munn It was a night to forget for the Saint John Sea Dogs, as they were destroyed 6-1 by the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles in their first game on home ice this season.

Expectations were high for a Saint John club that has taken great strides to improve over the off-season, but the Sea Dogs could not maintain consistent play throughout the game.

Cape Breton, backed by a 26-save performance from 16-year old goaltender Olivier Bellevance-Roy and a hat trick from Jonathan Laberge, controlled the play for much of the game and took advantage of their special teams’ opportunities. The Screaming Eagles managed to convert on four of the eight power play opportunities, while the Sea Dogs went 0-for-seven with the man advantage.

Assistant Coach Jim Midgley was less than thrilled with the result of Friday night’s game, and was especially concerned with the number of penalties his team took.

“Obviously we can’t kill them all off,” he said. “Our all-around game wasn’t great and I think that was evident.”

“This was a very disappointing way to open our home schedule,” Midgely added. “The best thing for us now is to put this behind us and focus on [our next game]. That’s what playing at this level is all about – taking what you can from losses and moving on to the next game.”

The Sea Dogs got the first scoring chance of the game on Friday, with Keven Charland and Alexandre Leduc each getting off shots from close range near the six minute mark of the opening frame. However, Bellevance-Roy was sharp, turning aside both attempts to keep the home team off the scoreboard.

Sea Dogs goalie Robert Mayer faced his first big test in the form of a solid wrist shot off the stick of Nicholas Chouinard. The speedy forward unleashed a rocket while breaking down the wing, but Mayer was up to the challenge and made an impressive save.

The Sea Dogs were then awarded a 5-on-3 power play chance with twelve minutes remaining in the first, but were unable to beat Roy on any of their four shots.

As Jonathan Laberge exited the penalty box at the conclusion of the Sea

Dogs’ 5-on-3, he was sprung on a semibreakaway by Dean Ouellet. Laberge, a former Sea Dog who was traded to Cape Breton last season in exchange for Matthew Stoddard, made no mistake on his one-man rush, beating Mayer with a hard shot to the blocker side to give the visiting squad a 1-0 lead at the 10:10 mark of the game.

Laberge’s marker proved to be the only goal of the opening period, and Cape Breton entered the first intermission with a 1-0 advantage despite having been out shot by Saint John, 13-6.

The Sea Dogs were quick to tie the score in the second period, with thirdyear winger Ryan Sparling finding the back of the net 0:31 into the period.

Payton Liske and Chris DiDomenico picked up the assists on Sparling’s goal.

The tie was short lived, however, as Cape Breton retook the lead when Kyle Mariana wired a one-timer past Mayer on the power-play to put the Screaming Eagles up 2-1.

Mayer made a series of huge saves near the midway point of the second period, capped off by a flashy glove save to deny Cape Breton’s offensive flurry.

Mayer could only hold down the defensive zone for so long, and Cape Breton doubled their advantage with 2:31 remaining in the middle frame.

Laberge registered his second tally of the night, this time on the power play, as Cape Breton continued to dominate the play with a one-man advantage.

The third period opened with another power-play marker for the Screaming Eagles, with Kyle Mariani scoring his second of the night to make the score 4-1 for the Screaming Eagles.

Nick MacNeil added a power play goal of his own later on in the third, and an even-strength tally by Jonathan Laberge both put the finishing touches on a hat trick for the former Sea Dog and put the Screaming Eagle up by five with just over three minutes remaining in the game.

The only excitement of the third period for the Saint John fans came with 1:15 remaining, when Mike Thomas of New Maryland laid out a Cape Breton player in front of the Saint John bench.

The hit sparked a fight between Thomas and Olivier Dame-Malka, which Thomas dominated.

Thomas easily won the fight, sending the remaining fans at Harbour Station into frenzy.

It was a poor opening effort for the Sea Dogs, who had a record of 1-2-0-0 after the game.

an impressive effort once again, leading UNB’s offensive attack for most of the game.

Devereaux, a fifth-year student from Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, is leading Atlantic University Sport in scoring with four goals in four games this season.

The second half started off rocky for UNB, with Graham Ashworth taking a blow to the face on a rough challenge from a Memorial player. The men quickly regained their strength, however, with another goal to increase

the V-Reds lead to 2-0. Hometown striker Ken Morrison scored the goal on an impressive free kick from just outside the box in the 52nd minute.

Memorial tried to stage a comeback in the second half, but failed when the V-Reds scored their final goal of the game in the middle of the second half.

Midfielder Michael O’Brecht scored the Reds’ third in the 68th minute, converting on a cross from Eric Karosan.

UNB keeper Matt Lally recorded the shutout, solidifying the team’s back line

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while turning away a number of MUN chances.

The team’s 3-0 win on home turf was a satisfying victory over Memorial, giving the team a 3-1-1 record on the season.

This great start to the season and their performance has given them the eighth ranking in the CIS Top Ten standings.

The team’s next home games are scheduled for the weekend of October 13 and 14, to be played at the newly renovated Chapman Field.

Harrison, Potter help out the Children’s Wish Foundation

by Naomi Osborne

A game where broomsticks, quaffles, bludgers, and garbage cans are involved can only mean one thing: Quidditch.

The fairytale game of Quidditch came to life from the Harry Potter books last Saturday, and it had everything but the magic.

Harrison House headed the ‘Muggle Quidditch’ tournament, which was underway around 1 pm on the Quad, with 16 teams registered for the event.

The event was put together to help raise money for the Children’s Wish Foundation, which is Harrison House’s official charity. This is the first year that Harrison has done a tournament like this on the Foundation’s behalf.

There was a $10-per-person entrance fee for each team to register, and a barbeque was set up that supported the cause.

Aitken House beat out Harrison in the final round for the cash and the straw broom trophy. Aitken then donated its $600 winnings to the Children’s Wish Foundation, but opted to keep the trophy broom as a reminder of their accomplishments.

In the semi-final rounds, Aitken House also beat out Lady Beaverbrook residence for a spot in the finals. Harrison House received second place, followed by ‘The Snake Team’, a team also from Harrison, who left the tournament with third place.

Nick Larade, a proctor from Harrison who organized the event, feels the tournament went smoothly and was a great success. “Everything went really well for people just picking up the rules that same day,” said Larade.

Each team played three games that lasted for twenty minutes each.

Aside from the teams involved in the tournament, however, Larade says there wasn’t much in the way of spectators out at the event.

For all the Harry Potter fans out there who are wondering how the ‘snitch’ was incorporated into the game, the truth is that they decided not to have one. The concern was that it might be too confusing and crowded in such a short game.

“The whole game was really close

and it went back and forth a lot,” said Larade. “If we had of thrown in a snitch, it would have made the game too confusing since they are only twenty minute games.”

Despite being so new to the game, everyone seemed to catch onto the rules quickly. Larade explains that once the first few games started going, people really got into it.

“Everyone put effort into it and they all played really well,” said Larade.

The game itself is not completely foreign to students, especially for those who have read the Harry Potter books or have seen the movies.

The game has elements of dodge ball and basketball in it, making it easy for students to familiarize themselves with the basics.

Larade, along with two representatives from the Children’s Wish Foundation, took turns refereeing the tournament.

The tournament lasted all afternoon and finished around 6:30 that evening.

The money raised for the Wish Foundation this year was a real accomplishment, considering it was the first time that Harrison hosted an event like this.

Regardless, there are still hopes that the numbers will continue to increase each year.

“I am hopeful that we will be able to do this tournament again next year,” said Larade.

And once again, for all the Harry Potter die-hards out there: Who knows, maybe they will even be able to incorporate a snitch for next year? And, of course, a little bit of magic.

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Cricket takes over UNB’s South Gym

by Kumaran Thillaindarajah and Ameya Bhandarkar

The University of New Brunswick Cricket Club (UNBCC) gave a cricket demonstration last weekend at the South Gym. With an estimated attendance of 50, the event was a moderate success for the club.

The demonstration included a presentation by Club Secretary Kumaran

Thillainadarajah, as well as a hands-on exercise. People were paired up between experienced and inexperienced players and started playing a match.

With music by Joy Kidd’s own DJ Salman, it was quite a colourful atmosphere at the South Gym. The UNBCC has come off a successful outdoor season this past summer, winning three of their four matches played. The club played against teams from Saint John and Halifax.

The club has been trying to promote the game and gain membership on campus, and with a current membership of approximately 40 and new members keen on joining the club, things are looking good.

The new administration at the club, under the leadership of President Ameya Bhandarkar, has been emphasizing not only playing the game, but teaching it and spreading cricket’s popularity in the community.

“Cricket is mostly viewed as a sport played by foreigners in Canada, and this is quite unfortunate since Canada was part of the first ever international cricket match,” said Bhandarkar.

“We want to change this by making cricket accessible to more Canadians on campus.”

With plans of an indoor tournament in the works, exciting times lie ahead. When asked about the toughest challenges of promoting the game in

Fredericton, UNBCC’s Vice-President External Jeff Mott said “I think many people associate the game with being boring, long and drawn out, and that’s simply not true.”

“I think if people put their biases aside and give the game a try, they will be really impressed by the game’s appeal.”

Anyone interested in participating in the indoor tournament is encouraged to get in touch with the club. Players, teams, or anyone interested can contact the Club Secretary, Kumaran Thillainadarajah, at kumaran.t@unb.ca.

To learn more about the club and its activities, visit their website at http://unbcricketclub.googlepages. com

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Jays feeling blue

Issue 4 • September 26, 2007 • 15

UNB women’s soccer weekly wrap-up

by Bruns Sports Department

by Steve Boutilier The Carillon (University of Regina)

REGINA (CUP) -- Oh, the Blue Jays.

Every year is “the year.” Every year they tease us so. They sign a Frank Thomas, but then we remember that this isn’t 1994, and we become sad. Then we get Troy Glaus, and we find out he was likely on HGH, among a pharmacy of other things. We break the bank for A.J. “DL” Burnett.

Why, JP Riccardi, why?

The simple fact of the matter is that the Jays are in trouble. They’ve been built in the so-called “money ball” model — getting men on base, saving money where they can.

But Oakland has shown us that careful spending only goes so far. The Jays need more.

John “I always look like I’m gassy” Gibbons manages a team which has consistently underperformed, and it’s starting to get to me — I am one angry sports journalist. In fact, there’s an entire city made up of disgruntled sports journalists who are mad at the Jays. We like to call it “Toronto.”

So what happened this year? The Jays have built their team around Roy Halladay and Vernon Wells, but they alone do not make a team. Sadly, Roy Halladay can only pitch once every four or five days, and the days in between are one hell of a ride. Vernon Wells is a solid centre fielder, but in reality, he’s a number two type hitter, who is quite possibly the most over-rated player in baseball.

The owners need to realize that whatever they’re doing isn’t working.

You can only complain about being in the AL East for so long.

“But … but … the Yankees! The Red Sox!” Toronto’s team salary is $72 million. Boston’s is $120 million, and the Yanks are at $172 million. The payroll argument is a valid one, but remember that huge chunks of those payrolls are completely wasted. Mike Mussina, Roger Clemens, Kei Igawa and Carl Pavano, who are all hurt or struggling, come close to making up the salary gap between the Yankees and the Jays. For the Sox, subtract Matt Clement, J.D. Drew, and Eric Hinske, and you also wind up close.

The salary gap is not to blame – we’re just not landing big names.

Player development from within is spotty at best, with no real signs of improving. Yes, the MLB draft is a crapshoot, but the farm system is where the talent is developed, and it desperately needs revamping.

The team has a strong core, but lacks a true clean-up hitter, a true lead-off man – I’m sorry, but Reed Johnson isn’t good enough – and maybe a 4th and 5th starter.

The roster isn’t the whole problem though. The front office is also to blame.

I’m calling for the heads of Gibbons, Riccardi, and anyone else who looks at me cock-eyed. Riccardi has proven to us beyond a shadow of a doubt that he cannot build a winning team.

The experiment’s over. Play ball.

The UNB V-Reds women’s soccer team hosted Memorial University on Saturday at College Field in a vitally important four-point game.

Memorial came into town after beating Mount Allison on Friday night, as they were in the middle of a weekend worth 12 points.

The game started with UNB showing some confidence and really pushing the ball around early in the first half. In the first 20 minutes, UNB had several chances, but they were unable to score.

Ashley McAllister, the leading scorer in Atlantic University Sport, got in a few minutes later on the left side to hit a ball across the box that barely got over the goal line to put UNB up by a goal.

From that point on, Memorial started to get back into the game, tightening up their defense and playing a solidified game. For the rest of the half, the play seemed stuck in the middle of the field as neither team could put together a quality attack or chance on goal.

In the second half, the V-Reds came out with confidence, but the game

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just seemed to slip away from the host team.

Memorial became very direct in their play, and managed to get a player free behind the UNB defense. Memorial capitalized on the chance, tying the game at 1-1.

Although UNB attempted to establish a charge, they were unable to really put anything together in the offensive third of the field.

Memorial made the best of one of their few chances, putting them up by a goal with 15 minutes left in the game.

With time winding down, UNB put another player up front to push for the tying goal. Although UNB had good pressure on the MUN back line and several chances, it was Memorial that ended up with another goal on a counter attack that put the game away for the visiting team.

The final score was 3-1 for Memorial.

Hoping to regroup from a tough loss, UNB traveled across the Confederation Bridge on Sunday to take on UPEI. Under sunny but windy conditions, UNB were determined to get a better result than the day before.

The game started with the V-Reds showing confidence and building out of the back. At the ten-minute mark, UNB played a ball forward into the box, and Ashley McAllister was able to get a foot on it and redirect the ball into the UPEI goal.

The goal was a result of some good possession on the part of UNB, as the team was very much under control and organized at the back.

With no real chances given to UPEI, the V-Reds ended the half with a 1-0 lead.

Within a minute of starting the second half, Jena Fox took a long throw-in in UPEI’s end to have the ball cleared on to the foot of Amy Vaillancourt at the top of the box.

Vaillaincourt made no mistake as she struck the ball past the keeper for UNB’s second goal of the day, pushing the lead to 2-0.

The tempo of that game quickly changed, however, as UPEI went on the

offensive over the next 30 minutes.

UPEI got on the score board when a mix-up between V-Reds keeper Jackie Fitt and one of the defenders. The ball was cleared poorly, and UPEI was able to play the ball into an open goal.

The goal seemed to wake up UPEI, as they really began to pressure to win the ball.

They were rewarded with a turnover in mid-field that they countered with, managing to take advantage of a spread out UNB defense and registering their second goal of the day to tie the score at 2-2.

Ten minutes later, a similar turnover in midfield led to another counter attack by UPEI, which resulted in the go-ahead goal.

The V-Reds continued to pressure, however, and with ten minutes left in the game, Ashley McAllister was in alone on goal but the UPEI keeper did well to come off her line to make a solid save to secure the win for UPEI. The final score was 3-2 for UPEI. The V-Reds travel to Cape Breton this coming weekend to take on the leagueleading Cape Breton University Capers.

This will be the team’s last game until after Thanksgiving, when they will open the second half of the season on their new turf home at Chapman Field.

Thoughts on the Varsity Reds, UNB Baseball, and Barry Bonds View From The Sidelines

by Tony von Richter After a seemingly endless stream of shocking news coming week after week for the past few months, the past seven days have been a bit of a slow news period for the sports world (not counting that whole O.J. thing, which, wow, I’m not going to touch that one) so I figured it would be a good time to talk about a couple of random topics from the last week.

First up is the dominating performance put in by the UNB Varsity Reds Men’s Hockey team this past Friday in their 8-1 victory over the St. Thomas Tommies in the 2nd annual President’s Cup game.

The two standout players on Friday were fourth-year forward Rob Hennigar and new defensive recruit Luke Gallant, formerly of the St. John’s Fog Devils of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

Hennigar got off to a quick start scoring just over seven minutes into the game, showing why he was named as both an AUS and CIS All-Star last season and will be a key piece of the Reds bid to defend their national championship this season.

Defenseman Luke Gallant arrived at UNB amongst a fair amount of hype as he garnered 97 points (35 goals and 62 assists) over the past two seasons as one of the top offensive defensemen in the QMJHL. On Friday Gallant showed off his offensive talents, scoring two goals

in the second period to give the Reds a three-goal lead and put the game out of reach for the Tommies. If Gallant continues to perform as he did against STU, then he will most likely join Hennigar as an All-Star this season.

Shifting away from the rink and onto the diamond, UNB’s most successful team, not to mention our best-kept secret, the Cougars baseball team, are continuing their winning tradition as at press time, the team was 6-3 in the Atlantic Conference, only a half-game back of the division leading Atlantic Baptist University Mets.

The Cougars sit second in league history with 8 conference titles, taking the Atlantic crown every year from 1998,

with the exception of the 2005 title, which was won by the Dalhousie Tigers.

They also won the National Championship in 2003.

With ABU hosting the national championships, the Atlantic Conference will send two representatives (the host Mets, and the Atlantic Champion, or the second-place team if ABU wins the conference title) to the tournament so there’s an even better than normal chance that the Cougars will be competing for a second national title this October.

While the Cougars will probably be playing baseball in October, one team that won’t be is the San Francisco Giants, who announced this week that they

won’t be resigning embattled slugger Barry Bonds, making him a free agent this summer.

Everyone knows about the controversy that has surrounded Bonds for years, which I believe is part of the reason that the Giants decided not to re-sign him.

He was on a one-year contract for this past year, partly because of his age, but I think a bigger reason was that ownership wanted the coverage and benefits of Bonds breaking the all-time home run record, tainted though it is, in a Giants uniform, after which they had no further use for him, hence announcing that they were cutting him loose at the end of the season.

So if he’s not going to end his career

in San Fran, a stated desire of his, what’s next for Barry? Even though he can barely move enough to play the field anymore, he’ll still command upwards of $17 million per year, meaning only a handful of teams can afford to sign him.

Due to his lack of mobility, the best place for Bonds would be as a designated hitter, and combining that with the media circus he attracts and his high price tag, it seems obvious that Bonds will end up in Yankee pinstripes this winter.

It would be a fitting way to end a controversial career, with the player who receives more media coverage than anyone playing his last games in the media capital of the world.

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Reds broke game open in third period

back in UNB’s favor.

Then, with just under ten minutes to play, the floodgates opened.

New Reds forwards Kevin Henderson and Lucas Madill scored 24 seconds

apart to give UNB a six-goal lead and then just over a minute later Rob Pierce combined with Brad Efthimiou and Kyle Bailey on a beautiful tic-tac-toe goal from around the St. Thomas crease to

give the Reds a resounding 8-1 victory and the President’s Cup. In an otherwise spectacular performance, the only negative for the Reds was the apparent injury to forward Denny Johnston who headed straight to the dressing room after being slashed on the hand with a little over three minutes left in the game.

As of press time, Coach MacDougall said that Johnston was going for x-rays and that they would know more later in the week.

In addition to the battle for the President’s Cup, the game was also about Leo Hayes High School Athlete Mike Fitzgerald. Proceeds from the 50/50 draw went towards the medical costs he has had to endure during his fight against a brain tumor. $1,000 was raised to help Fitzgerald, with the winner of the 50/50 donating some of his prize money back into the fund to help raise the amount.

The next games for the UNB Varsity Reds are this weekend in the 2007 RBC Dominion Securities and RBC Asset Management Steel Blade Tournament at Brock University, which also features the Brock Badgers, Guelph Gryphons, and the sixth-ranked Waterloo Warriors.

in the playoffs.

So now, it’s fair game. Taking AL East would be sweet, but to be honest, it doesn’t matter. It’s either Boston vs.

Cleveland on the road, or Boston vs. Los Angeles of Anaheim (of Orange County of California of America) on the road.

If my dribble has enough galactic influence as to realign the stars and facilitate a New York charge that sees the Yanks win their 327th AL East title, at this point, I don’t care.

The Sox clinched a spot, and the Yankees haven’t, so here we go: Eric Gagné sucks. I don’t care that he’s Canadian.

He’s terrible.

The Sox didn’t really trade much for him, of course. David Murphy probably won’t be better than a fourth outfielder.

Kason Gabbard is a pretty solid lefty, but Boston has better young arms in Jon Lester, who is on the comeback trail after a battle with cancer, and Clay Buchholz, who… well… no hitter, anyone?

For being one of the best closers in the game over the past few years before being derailed by injuries (and by injuries, I mean the closing of BALCO), this

guy is rotten.

Certainly moving from the closer’s spot to being the co-setup man would take some time to get used to, but this is ridiculous.

Terry Francona sucks. Well, he doesn’t suck, but sometimes you really have to wonder.

The guy is relentless in his support of players that, at times, don’t deserve it.

Case in point: Eric Gagné still pitches in close ball games. The team has three other righties: Manny Delcarmen, Mike Timlin, and Kyle Snyder, who are more than capable of pitching in the eighth inning, and have proven it over and over again all season.

It’s not only his handling of the bullpen, though. It stretches to the outfield.

JD Drew is still starting in right field. He’s making more money than Jason Varitek, and has comparable stats.

Except Varitek is the best catcher in baseball (I’ll debate it) and is the most important factor behind the success of Boston’s pitchers.

And Drew? Well… he just plain sucks.

He brings nothing to the table. Worst

contract in baseball? Arguably, yes.

Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia, and Clay Buchholz don’t suck. Not even a little.

One of the most intriguing things about the Sox, and most impressive, is that while some big name, big money players are faltering, the rookies are shining.

Jacoby Ellsbury will be the best centerfielder in Boston history. The kid is unbelievable! He can hit .320, has unreal defense, and is fast. Fast, like, can score from second base on a passed ball fast.

Dustin Pedroia is hitting .326, is a solid second baseman, and will win the Rookie of the Year award. And he provides stability for Boston at a position that is notoriously unstable.

Clay Buchholz threw a no-no in his second-ever start. He also out-dueled Roger Clemens while pitching with the Portland Sea Dogs during Clemens’ rehab stint with the Trenton Thunder.

So there is hope. And for a Sox fan, that’s usually all there ever is.

The team is in the playoffs, whether as AL East champs or as the wildcard.

But they won in 2004 as the wildcard,

from Hockey page 1 Coach MacDougall was pleased with the pair’s performance, referring to Rob Hennigar as “the guy that makes us go,” and “one of the top players in Canada,” and saying that “Gallant moves the puck well and has good instincts,” and that he is also a solid two-way defenseman.

The Reds dominated the first few minutes of the first out chancing the Tommies and scoring the period’s only goal just over seven minutes in when defenseman David Bowman passed the puck into the high slot and Rob Hennigar deflected it past a downed Tommies goaltender Matt Davis to put UNB into the lead.

In the second, UNB continued to improve, and at times completely dominating the Tommies while outshooting them 14-4 during the frame, and getting two goals from star recruit Luke Gallant to take a 3-0 lead into the third.

In the early part of the third period the Tommies appeared to have turned things around, and were no longer allowing UNB to dominate the play. But with 13 minutes left, UNB’s Josh Hepditch scored and swung the momentum

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UNB V-Reds Athletes of the week Jena Fox, Soccer BScKin 5th year Fredericton, N.B. #17, Full Back MUN 3 – UNB 1 UPEI 3 – UNB 2

Luke Gallant, Hockey 1st year BBA student Bedford, N.S. #5, Defence

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Jena plays as one of UNB’s central defenders for the Varsity Reds soccer team. On Saturday as UNB took on Memorial at College Field, Jena was steady at the back as she cut out the other team’s attack and initiated UNB’s play forward. On Sunday UNB travelled to UPEI and although UNB lost the game Jena was outstanding in her performance individually and in her role of communicating with other players around her.

“Jena showed the experience and competitiveness of a fifth year athlete with her composure and leadership on the field,” stated coach Andy Cameron.

Luke made a successful home debut for the Varsity Reds as he fired up two goals including the game winning goal in an 8-1 victory for UNB in their Annual President’s Cup Challenge against St. Thomas. Gallant who had three points versus the Tommies had earlier added a single point in a 3-1 win over the New York Islanders’ rookies.

The former St. John’s Fog Devil is off to a good start in his career with UNB. “Luke has made a great first impression with our team, he came in very good physical condition and this has resulted in strong efforts in his first game,” commented coach Gardiner MacDougall.

so it’s not like not winning the East is the end of the world.

And if Manny comes back, they can move Mike Lowell to the number five spot, and put Drew back to number six or seven. And then, when Youkilis is back from a wrist injury, the team will be firing on all cylinders.

I still hate Eric Gagné and JD Drew.

Julio Lugo is questionable at best, since he can’t hit or field. Meanwhile Alex Gonzalez and Orlando Cabrera – both former Sox shortstops who the team let go – are continuing their solid play with the Angels and Reds.

And Terry Francona? The guy goes from Bill Belichik to Mike Keenan not only over a season, but sometimes, during a game.

But no amount of overpaid players and ridiculous managerial decisions can quiet talent. Or Big Papi.

So there it is. That’s the rant I’ve wanted to get on paper. Oh, and one more thing…

It’s a Red Sox Diamonbacks World Series this year. Sox take it 4-2, and Dustin Pedroia is the MVP. You heard it here first.

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by Brian Munn

Until now, I’ve steered clear of commenting, or rather, ranting, about the plight of the 2007 Boston Red Sox. With the Red Sox slowly losing ground in the American League East to the Evil Empire, I couldn’t bring myself to write about Beantown’s slow, painful crash and burn, for fear of jinxing them and perhaps expediting the process.

But now, after an 8-6 win over the lowly Tampa Bay Devil Rays on the power of a late two-run bomb by Julio Lugo and a 1-2-3 shut down by Jonathan ‘Eat It, Rivera’ Papelbon in the ninth, the Sox have clinched their spot

Three strikes and you’re out, unless you’re a pro athlete Pulling the 50/50

by Brad Conley

Right now is the greatest time of the year. I know what you’re thinking. You are back in Fredericton. You get to see all your friends again, and the parties have begun (unless you have tenants upstairs that don’t like that sort of thing). But no, that’s definitely not what I am talking about.

In the next week or so, I will be in full sports mode. There are many tight races for the playoffs in baseball, football just began, and the defending Superbowl Champions, my Colts, are 3-0, the

QMJHL and OHL are just beginning, and the NHL is set to begin.

Life is about to get good.

But the more people I talk to about this fabulous time of year, the more people tell me they have lost interest in sports.

Come again? How can you lose interest in sports? I think I may have the answer.

This summer, three strikes and a foul ball were thrown our way.

To begin with, Michael Vick was caught running an illegal dog-fighting ring. Animal rights activists were, and still are, going crazy. After lying to anyone that would pay attention, Vick admitted to running this ring and is now going to jail for a few years.

Almost all football fans were shocked.

I can remember driving in Toronto when the news broke and all that was being discussed on the Chuck Swirsky Show was how disgusting Vick’s actions were.

Vick has punched the sport of football

in the eye, and left one heck of a shiner.

Why would anyone want to watch a game that pays someone like Vick to play it?

Strike one.

Another big scandal that broke over the summer was the match-fixing crisis in the NBA. Tim Donaghy has admitted to betting on games that he worked.

What fans would like to watch a sport in which some of the games may or may not be fixed? Not I, and most people will agree.

Strike two.

This summer, Mark Bell, one of the newest additions to my beloved Leafs, was convicted and sentenced to jail for his part in a hit and run DUI incident.

He has, unlike most pro athletes, taken the right approach to what has

happened. He has accepted full responsibility for his actions, and is trying to turn his life around. Good for you, Mark. It’s about time we have a success story like this one in sports.

Whether we like to believe it or not, this act of remorse does not change the fact that Bell broke the law, and then left the scene.

At least this athlete has been brave enough to step up to the plate and take the hit.

This can be a foul ball with a 0-2 count. We’re still alive.

Strike three, appropriately, has been saved for our baseball scandal of the summer. One last time, it’s all about Barry Bonds.

Bonds surpassed Hank Aaron’s record of 755 career home runs this summer, but did so with much controversy.

Many people believe that during his career, Bonds took steroids to enhance his performance, and these ‘performance enhancers’ made him into a home run hitter.

Earlier on in his career, Bonds was a great contact hitter and had a gold glove in the outfield. Then, all of a sudden, he was a prolific home run hitter.

Most people believe that Bonds breaking the record has been a huge black mark to the sport of baseball.

Personally, my favorite quote related to the situation came from Lewis Black on the Daily Show. “People hated Hank Aaron because he was black,” said Black.

“People hate Barry Bonds because he is a cheating douchebag.”

In the end, it doesn’t matter if he did it or not. There are so many athletes, not only in the MLB, but in many

other sports that are on performance enhancers.

In baseball, it takes three strikes for a batter to strike out. In this case, our batter is pro sports. People hate the fact that there are cheaters and criminals in pro sports now.

These athletes are the people I wanted to be when I grew up. Now that I am semi-grown up, I realize that I am nothing like them, and proud of that fact.

Who cares if I can’t score 50 goals in a season, or I can’t hit 40 jacks a year? The one thing I can do is hold some dignity to my name, and abide by the law.

So until all pro athletes can say these things as well, more and more people will turn off the television, and go play pickup, and dream about making it to the Bigs, and doing something good with the opportunity.