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A Different Look

Carrier Calamity

Candidates Chat

Exploring cell phone provider options in N.B.

Hennigar returns to UNB as a New York Islander Sports, page 15

Two MP candiadates discuss their platforms News, page 3

Opinion, page 5

KEEPING THE SUB ALIVE

Travel service leaves campus Josh O’Kane

The Brunswickan

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

James Brown, Executive Director of Residential Life, Campus & Conference Services has proposed a $25 levy to be added to existing student fees. The levy would go towards subsidizing costs incurred for upkeep of the SUB. Brown doesn’t want to have students worried the building is “falling apart.”

Hilary Paige Smith The Brunswickan

University students from all over the world pay for their Student Union Building, so why shouldn’t UNB? Residential Life, Campus & Conference Services recently proposed to the Student Union that a $25 levy be added to student fees in order to support the upkeep of the Student Union Building. James Brown, the executive director of RLCCS, proposed the levy to the Student Union in a recent council meeting and reception of the idea varied from outrage to acceptance.

Brown was aware that his pitch to the Student Union was not likely to be warmly welcomed, but found himself pleasantly surprised by the Union’s open ears and calm deliberation of the topic.

The solution of a student levy is not new to UNB. Following decades of on-again, off-again student contributions to the mortgage, it was decided in 1994 that students would contribute $25 each to the expansion and improvement of the building.

The renovations were completed in 2000 and the student levy was lifted.

“I assure you the normal way of funding these buildings is through a levy. There have been levys in the past to sustain the building,” Brown explains. “What I’m asking for a consideration of is not something unusual or unique to

UNB. Generally the reason they’re called Student Union Buildings is that they are supported by a levy on students. That’s how they come into business.”

Though the concept of a levy is not entirely foreign, it still raises questions of principle; why should the students pay up when higherups with deeper pockets aren’t willing?

Brown answers the question on so many minds, “It is the university’s responsibility.”

The university maintains itself as an institution in two major ways: student tuition and government grants.

The deciding factor in the amount distributed by the government is the number of students that attend the university in question. To Brown, the deciding factor in imposing a levy on students is the value of the building

to those who use it.

“There is a particular building that exists to house student government, to maintain student activities, various kinds of club activities and social activities and to the extent that that’s valued by students it’s not unreasonable to say ‘this building is falling apart.’ It has no capital funding to maintain it. We, me in particular as this falls into my mandate, and you as students have a common interest in maintaining that building so that those activities can go on. How would you feel about contributing to that?”

The university currently contributes to the maintenance of the building and Brown assures students that even with a levy in place, the university will continue to contribute their share.

For the current school year

the university is contributing a total of $709,600 to the utilities, maintenance and capital renewal of the building. The university’s unbudgeted capital needs, or the most immediate areas for repair, total $944,096, with the two most significant areas being the leaking foundations and roof.

There are roughly 9,000 students at the University of New Brunswick and at $25 per student, the total amount raised by the levy would be around $225,000 for the SUB. That number when paired with the university’s contribution should near the cost for repair, at least for the moment.

A decision has yet to be made on the SUB levy, and it is currently not listed on this week’s student council agenda.

Beavers are back: Staying in the woodlot Sarah Ratchford The Brunswickan

Fredericton activist and UNB alumnus Mark D’Arcy is highly unimpressed with the state of UNB’s woodlot and the effects trapping has had on its beaver population.

D’Arcy is a spokesman for the activist group Friends of the UNB Woodlot.

Between Nov. 11 and Dec 26.

2006, 24 beavers were trapped and killed in the woodlot due to the University’s concern that their dams would damage infrastructure.

“There was a safety issue,” says

Dan Tanaka, Communications manager for UNB. It was perceived as such because “dams were causing flooding over roads,” he says.

D’Arcy deems this action completely unacceptable.

“UNB stated that it took responsibility to do inventories of its wildlife,” says D’Arcy. “Where are these inventories? Biology professors haven’t seen any results. When you ask how many beavers are living in those wetlands, no one knows.”

It is D’Arcy’s opinion that information is being withheld.

The activist says he wonders why UNB’s administration is not being held accountable for its actions.

He says that there should be no violence committed against beavers since Friends of the UNB Woodlot have offered to build anti-flooding devices, and engineers have proven that coverts can be built to make use of these anti-flooding devices.

To the university’s defense, Tanaka says that the university tried to combat the problem by using “limited fencing to keep the beavers out.” This tactic, however, “ultimately didn’t work.”

As a result, the university decided to seek another opinion- that of New Brunswick’s Department of Natural Resources. It was recommended that a licensed trapper be brought in to do some limited trapping in order to deal

with the safety issue, says Tanaka.

However, “UNB has experts in engineering, biology, and forestry who are not being asked to help. Why not?” D’Arcy wants to know.

Wetlands make up only a small percentage of our province at 4%.

In spite of this, however, they have quite a large role to play. Wetlands contribute to Fredericton’s drinking water. They also act as a form of insurance against climate change, says D’Arcy.

This works by an intrinsic, natural system, he explains. Because of the wetlands’ location at the top of the hill, they save Fredericton from flooding.

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“One acre of wetlands will absorb 1-1.5 gallons of rain,” says D’Arcy. “If they are compromised, Fredericton is setting itself up for a severe flood.”

Because of this risk, “wetlands in urban settings must be protected,” says the environmentalist. He cites statistics from Environment Canada as cause for major concern. “There will be a 30% increase in winter precipitation, more severe rain events, and two times more winter runoff,” he worries.

In the face of this severe weather, then, why would the university

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There’s an empty space at the entrance of the SUB as of this morning that already has several parties eyeing it.

As the age of the internet has virtually eliminated the need for walk-in travel agents, Travel Cuts has closed its office doors to go online.

“There was a time where we used to write all of our tickets manually, and then the internet came,” says Diane Aubie, Sales Manager of the Fredericton branch of Travel Cuts, which has vacated its SUB office as of this morning, Oct. 1.

“It was also a bit of an enemy, because people started booking tickets themselves online. That decreased our business.”

While Aubie says that she still is doing enough business to stay open, most clients opt to deal with Travel Cuts via email or telephone. She says there’s no need for a walk-in office anymore, and will thus will now operate the local branch of Travel Cuts out of her home.

James Brown, Executive Director of Residential Life, Campus & Conference Services oversees the SUB and says he’s already heard from several parties interested in acquiring the space, including the Student Union.

“The Student Union’s actually worked with the SUB Board to propose to the [UNB] Board of Governors that they take over the space,” says Brown. The SUB Board is the governing body of the SUB. As of the time of print, Brown says he has not met with Bethany Vail, SU President, to discuss the issue.

Vail says that the SUB Board, which met last Friday, agreed to recommend to the Board of Governors that the SU should take over the space.

The Board of Governors meets Oct. 23.

“What we got approved on Friday was that the Student Union is able to take over the Travel Cuts space and create a welcoming centre,” says Vail.

Brown doesn’t mind the SU taking over the space – but, given the financial situation of the SUB, wants rent to be paid.

Rent for the Travel Cuts office space is about $980 a month, says Brown.

“If they’re proposing that they would rent the space, then that’s a proposal that I’m completely open to,” he says. “If they’re talking about taking over the space for free, that’s going to leave a $12,000 hole in the budget – and they know I’m already going to them and asking to resume the SUB Fee.

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Engineers coast through once again

UNB hosts its biggest career fair Earl Denver Montañez The Brunswickan

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

The 34th annual Coaster Derby was held this weekend by the Student Society for Mechanical Engineers. Engineers stuck it out through the rain to showcase their skills.

Hilary Paige Smith The Brunswickan

Gentlemen, start your coasting.

The Student Society for Mechanical Engineers held their 34th annual Coaster Derby this past Saturday. Through Saturday’s damp weather, five teams and a handful of spectators and volunteers gathered to support the race.

The day began at 9:30 a.m. at the top of Mackay Drive with practice runs and time trials leading up to a free barbeque

for all at noon. The afternoon brought head-to-head slalom and closed around 4 p.m. with a free for all race.

The winner of the competition received $500 and ultimate bragging rights, with second and third place finishers getting $300 and $150 each.

This year’s winner was Nick Stillwell, a mechanical engineering student driving the vibrant “General Lee.” This year’s participants included four cars from mechanical engineering and one from biomedical engineering, which came in second place. Cars are welcome from faculties across campus, as long as they pass a

safety inspection.

As racers aim to be “King of the Hill” the scent of competition is in the air, but as SSME Event Coordinator Lee Everett can attest, it’s all in good fun.

“Even though there is a cash prize everyone is there to have fun.

People are more worried about increasing the performance of their car and testing their driving skills.

It does get a bit heated when there’s more than one car on the track, and sometimes the paint from one car may find its way onto another,” he says.

Driving skills are truly put to the test as they coast down the 900 metre street with a 13 metre drop in elevation. Tires line the roads

in places that the vehicles have potential to hit, but also as obstacles in the road so that steering skills are necessary.

Throughout the race there were three cars damaged to the extent that they could not race. Thankfully they were surrounded with people equipped to fix and even after the Biomed team’s car careened into a brick wall, it was still fixed in time to finish the day.

Despite the rain, Everett still sees the event as a success, “Even though everyone was soaked from the rain, the only thing I heard was how much fun driving was with everything wet. We’re even joking about having the next derby in January with hopes of snow.”

UNB makes its mark in Malawi sarah ratchford

The Brunswickan

Five UNB students from five different faculties have recently returned from a 12 week internship at the University of Mzuzu in the southern African country of Malawi. Four of the students received financial support from the Canadian International Development Agency. The group included Amy Welsh from the faculty of Kinesiology, Katie Scott from the faculty of Nursing, Amanda Colford from Forestry, and Tristan Goulden from GGE. Each student received $10, 000, which covered travel expenses, living, and fieldwork expenses

from June 1 to September 1. They were placed in different faculties at the University and supervised by faculty members from both UNB and Mzuzu.

Welsh, Scott and Colford met with the Brunswickan to discuss their experiences.

The three women decided to “live as much like the local people as possible,” making the conscious decision to avoid the cafeteria.

Instead, they bought food at the local market, attempting to concoct local dishes, and trying to become as integrated to local life as possible.

They did indeed become a part of campus life, picking up on African lifestyles.

“You become a whole new person,” says Scott. “North Americans have it so easy.” As a

nursing student, Scott had always wanted to visit Africa in order to help with the promotion of health and nursing. “It was a paid trip, so why not?” says Scott.

Welsh held a job as team manager for a women’s basketball team, organizing a tournament which included teams from 11 different African countries. She worked with the sports administration on campus, trying to get students involved with sports. She looked at how sports can change and educate people, fostering healthier lifestyles. This was translated to students in Malawi.

“I looked at how sport can influence the lives of Africans.

They do have a hard lifestyle,” she says.

As a forestry student, Colford helped to incorporate the issue of climate change into the forestry department at the University of Mzuzu. She traveled throughout Malawi, gathering support for her cause.

All of the participants agreed that the experience made them appreciate being Canadian, as well as forcing them to question some of our North American ideals.

The most marked cultural difference, agreed the interns, is the use of time. They said people in Malawi have no sense of time.

“They don’t even know what stress is,” says Welsh. They do not make appointments, they don’t rush around according to schedules as we do in North America. “Time doesn’t control their day,” says Scott.

There is also a strong sense of community. The interns agree that there is a friendly atmosphere in the African country. People invite

strangers into their homes, treating them as friends.

“They have nothing, but would do anything for you,” says Scott.

The program encourages independence and growth as a person. Of Malawians, Welsh says, “they think you have a lot of knowledge. They rely on you to do your thing. There’s no guidance.”

People in Malawi implore Westerners, “teach us,” Welsh says.

From a cultural perspective, it looks like they have more to teach us.

CIDA, the group that funded the students, is well-known to Malawians. Scott, who taught in a primary school, picked up a book one day that said “Funded by CIDA” on the inside cover. “People know what Canada is doing for them,” says Welsh. “Canada is present in Malawi,” says Welsh in closing. “There’s a good connection there.”

“Coming home was more of a culture shock than arriving in Malawi,” says Scott. “When we hit Paris we all started to feel weird.

We were walking around in dirty clothes, and there were all the Europeans in their high heels.”

Veronica McGinn, Project Coordinator of UNB’s Centre for Property Studies, says, “if there’s something you want to do, you have to take initiative. There was a huge selection process this year.

The students had to have a high GPA or we couldn’t send them abroad,” she says. “They had to be interested and come to me. I don’t go chase students, or what are they going to do in Africa?”

Of students from the University coming to study in Fredericton, McGinn says “it will come one day.”

With more than 110 employers and over 200 recruiters, the 2008 Fredericton Fall Career Fair is anticipated to be the largest career fair ever to be held at UNB. The event, organized by UNB’s Student Employment Service, will be held at the Aitken University Centre on Friday, October 3.

The career fair will showcase a mix of local New Brunswick companies as well as companies from across Canada. Anne Soucy, manager of UNB’s Student Employment Service, reports that most employers are coming from the province of New Brunswick. “[More than] sixty percent of the employers attending the career fair are from New Brunswick,” says Soucy. “[This is because] we are trying to retain [and maintain] recent graduates and students to work here in the province,” she adds.

Soucy says that the UNB Student Employment Service wanted to expand the career fair to offer various opportunities for each faculty. Students from all faculties can benefit from the career fair, she says.

“In our past career fairs, the employers were usually geared towards engineering and computer science,” says Soucy.

“This year, there is a bigger mix of employers coming from different professional disciplines,” she says.

There will be a variety of employers that come from corporations, and multinational companies that present job opportunities in various fields of business, forestry, education, science, arts, nursing and several other work settings.

“We wanted students to get involved and come to [this occasion], even first year students,” says Soucy. “[However,] we are targeting particular students, specifically the graduating students and recent alumni of UNB, to attend the career fair because it is their chance to meet with a recruiter one on one.

This is a student’s opportunity to network and speak directly with recruiters and let them know how they can be an asset to their organization,” she says.

Students will be able to engage in conversation with representatives from big oil

corporations like Exxon Mobil, Shell, and Irving Oil, as well as banking corporations like Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Canada Trust.

Therewillalsoberepresentatives from the local, provincial and federal government, such as the Fredericton Police Force, RCMP, NB Population Growth Secretariat, the Government of New Brunswick, & the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

“I am excited to go to the fall career fair and discover my options when I finish my degree,” says Danielle Maynard, a Kinesiology student at UNB. “I want to know more about the companies that I am interested in and being able to talk to recruiters first hand,” she adds.

The UNB Student Employment Services offers assistance to students who are planning to attend the career fair. Workshops are held weeks prior to the event to prepare students on how to present themselves to the employers they are interested in. “[The first thing I would suggest to a student] is visit the UNB Student Employment Services website and browse the different exhibitors who are attending the fair,” Soucy says. “There is a better chance of knowing what [a student] is looking for and for them to prepare a list of relevant questions for those companies they are interested in.”

Several companies that will be setting up booths at AUC will be accepting resumes on-the-spot and others will direct students to their website.

“It is essential that a student or alumni should prepare an up-todate professional resume,” Soucy advises. “Some companies ask you to follow up by sending a resume and cover letter referring to the date and location of the career fair. This helps the employer remember you and for you to keep track of your contact with the organization,” she says.

The fall career fair is a formal, professional event that encourages those who attend, especially students, to dress appropriately and abstain from wearing scents of any kind. “Students should know the importance of presenting a professional image,” says Soucy.

The career fair starts at 12:00 and ends at 4:30 pm on Friday, Oct 3. For more information, contact employment@unb.ca or call 506453-4620.

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kill beavers, thus eliminating wetlands?

“Beavers are remarkable in their engineering abilities,” says D’Arcy.

D’Arcy holds the opinion that development has something to do with the beavers being killed.

Tanaka says that all trapping was done outside of the development area.

The UNB woodlot takes up 3500 acres, says Tanaka.

“Only 8% of that is slated for development,” he says. “50% of the area is protected forever.

That percentage will never be open to development of any kind.”

D’Arcy explains that in the 1800s, the Aboriginal Peoples of northern Canada hunted beavers in great numbers.

“The percentage of water in wetlands dropped from 8% or

9% to 3%,” says D’Arcy. “This one animal has a huge effect on maintaining viable wetlands.”

“All of the storm piping in the world will never replace what nature is doing for free,” says D’Arcy. “Beavers find a source of water, maybe a trickle, and gosh darn, the little creatures will turn it into something beautiful.”

Currently, the evicted beavers are slowly coming back to live in the woodlot. “No one has seen any change in the policies of UNB’s administration” to protect the remaining beavers, says D’Arcy.

Tanaka notes that, in spite of the trapping that occurred in 2006, beavers have remained in some areas of the woodlot.

“Wetlands are a fairly special, unique habitat. They need to be protected,” D’Arcy says gravely.

“If you want to manage the wetlands in the woodlot, you have to manage the beavers.”

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Filling Scott’s shoes A sustainable candidate Karissa Donkin The Brunswickan

When former Liberal MP Andy Scott announced that he would not seek re-election in March 2007, the Liberal party began their search for someone to fill Scott’s shoes should Prime Minister Stephen Harper call a snap election. The search ended with the announcement of David Innes’ nomination that October.

The life-long New Brunswick resident will represent one of five choices on the ballot for Fredericton residents in the upcoming federal election on October 14.

Innes explains that his concern for “the direction that Canada is going in” drew him into federal politics. “I think this election is really important. The direction of the two main parties is really quite different,” Innes says.

“There is a stark difference between what the Conservatives are offering and what the Liberals are offering,” Innes notes, promising that this could be one of the “most key elections” of his generation with contentious issues like education, protection of the environment and a volatile economy on the horizon.

As a former student and Engineering faculty member at the University of New Brunswick, post-secondary education is a hot topic for Innes, whose party recently announced a massive funding plan for post-secondary education in Canada including easier access to student loans and an extended grace period to pay off student debt. “I understand what the issues for a student are.

Students are taking this election seriously. It’s all about them and their future,” says Innes.

University graduates who have difficulty finding steady and meaningful employment after graduating with a degree would have a much easier time doing so without leaving Fredericton if Innes was elected. “More jobs and opportunities, particularly for young people,” would be a

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David Innes is the Liberal MP candidate for Fredericton. He discusses his major issues, which include education and the economy. main priority, he promises.

In addition to his dedication to post-secondary education, Innes has also been a community advocate for French language education, having served as local Fredericton chairman for the Canadian Parents for French.

His community involvement does not stop there. “It’s been a long time, but I was involved in the Fundy Regional Solid Waste Commission,” says Innes, who also can add working on the incorporation of New Maryland to a lengthy resumé of community involvement.

Although this is Innes’ first official foray into politics, he admits that it was not difficult to decide which party he wanted to be affiliated with. The Liberals are the party that “sits down and deals with the major issues of our time,” Innes says, using the Old Age Pension, Medicare and Canada Student Loans as examples.

Innes also offers the Liberal party’s Green Shift policy, a crucial part of the Liberal

campaign, as an example of a way that the Liberals are trying to deal with a major issue campaign directly. He explains that the “carbon shift, certainly, is the biggest part of it [the Green Shift],” especially after New Brunswick residents and people throughout North America have faced more devastating natural disasters such as hurricanes in the past few years. The carbon shift changes the way that Canadians are taxed and is truly “meant to deal directly with the biggest environmental problem we have to deal with,” Innes proclaims.

Using a four person family in Burton as an example of how the Green Shift policy would benefit anyone and everyone, Innes explains that because the family would be taxed based upon pollution as opposed to income, they would save around $2,200 per year, as there is “very little in terms of carbon tax associated with their lives.”

This is the second of a series of profiles for candidates running in the Fredericton riding in the federal election.

Concordia bans Facebook Sarah Tooth The Link

MONTREAL (CUP) – Concordia University students in Montreal let out a collective sigh of relief when the school’s Facebook ban proved to be less extensive than it first appeared.

The ban on the popular website, implemented for the 2008-09 academic school year, is limited to hard-wired computers on the Concordia network.

Concordia’s Instructional and Information Technology Services says it’s a much-needed measure in order to ensure the reliability and performance of Concordia’s Internet service.

Andrew McAusland, associate vice-president of Concordia’s IITS, says it’s not as bad as some students have made it out to be. While Facebook can not be accessed from any hard-wired school computer, connecting through a wireless access point remains unrestricted. “[Facebook] has not under any circumstance been banned,” he said. “[Wireless] access to that service is completely undiminished.”

McAusland says the risk of jeopardizing the entire university’s network is too high. Facebook, known for its virus-riddled applications, would affect all of the

university’s 50,000 users.

“All of the university’s business is transacted on the core network,” McAusland said, and highlighted IITS’ mandate to “protect the integrity of that network.”

Morgan Krout, a first-year leisure sciences major, says it’s a precaution he understands completely.

“Students are supposed to be doing work while they are in the labs anyway, and I think we all know what a distraction Facebook can be,” he said.

Sarah Rogers, a third-year biology student, says the initial ban announcement was a scare she wasn’t prepared for. “[Facebook] is the easiest way for me to keep in touch with my cousin who lives in Vermont,” she said. Rogers, like several other Concordia students, logs onto the site frequently to check messages, which “became an everyday ritual for me.”

Larissa Dutil, Concordia’s Co-op Bookstore manager, says the ban scare made her realize Facebook was more than just a social utility, and opened her eyes to how useful and integral to her business Facebook is.

“Over the past six months we really began to use Facebook to promote what we do [and] reach out to our members,” she said.

“Facebook was really a tool that we started using and then realized it was a really powerful method

Business leaves SUB

FROM SUB PAGE 1 “That would be extremely unattractive to me, obviously.”

Flannery Jewellers, which currently operates in a more remote location of the SUB, has expressed interest in acquiring the space, as well as some individuals looking at opening up a new coffee shop.

The branch won’t be affected by the move , says Aubie.

“Basically, I’m going to be more portable,” she says. “I’ll be able to come here, people will still be able to come and book right at my counter.

Instead of having a desktop computer, I’ll have a laptop.”

Other Travel Cuts branches have also recently been closing shop.

“It is a trend. I’m not the first to be doing it. It has been happening gradually across the country.”

in community organizing, and getting people mobilized too.”

Dutil says Facebook not only provided a free method to promote awareness of the bookstore business, but was also a powerful way to encourage community activism and recruit new people.

“We have gotten so many volunteers through Facebook,” she said.

While Facebook may never again be accessible from school computers, McAusland assures Concordia students will always be able to access the much-loved website.

“I would never ban it,” he said.

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Mary Lou Babineau is the Green Party candidate for Fredericton. At the top of her priority list are PSE and, of course, the greater green.

Sarah Ratchford The Brunswickan

In recent years there has been a lot of hype surrounding environmental concerns. You’ve heard it - global warming, too much litter, etc.

Mary Lou Babineau is running for MP in the upcoming election.

As a member of the Green Party, she is concerned about the state of our environment.

Babineau was born and raised in Minto, N.B., which is actually a part of the riding that includes Fredericton. Because of this, Babineau is attached to the area on a whole other level.

Babineau tells the Brunswickan that she got involved with the Green Party upon meeting party leader Elizabeth May at a fundraiser here in Fredericton for the Conservation Council. The two environmentalists spoke, and May told Babineau that she was looking for a candidate to run in Fredericton. Babineau was asked to run, but at first she felt she might be too busy or inexperienced.

A few weeks later, they met again. Babineau read the platform, she says, and was convinced to run.

Elizabeth May is “extremely inspiring and very motivating,” says Babineau. “A lot of people think politics are for someone else, that they’re not the type, but everyone has a role to play,” she says.

“This is a critical time for our planet and our country,” the candidate states emphatically.

When asked about the virtues

of her particular platform, Babineau responds, “I can’t say enough good things about the Green Party’s platform. It covers all issues of importance to Canadians.” Among those issues, Babineau includes health care, education, aboriginal rights, families and childcare, women’s rights, immigration, culture and the arts, and foreign policy.

Also at the top of her list is, of course, the economy. There is a strong section regarding the economy in the platform, says Babineau, which addresses sustainability. She says that we need to prosper and thrive as a nation while remaining environmentally sustainable at the same time.

When questioned on her plans for Fredericton, Babineau gives a comprehensive response. She first points out that “the riding that is called Fredericton is actually very expansive. It involves a lot of communities.” She says, “people are always surprised at how large it is.”

“The plans I have are for all parts of the riding,” says Babineau. The environment is a top priority. “People are concerned,” she says. “They want to make the changes they need to make in order to live in a more sustainable way. People are saying, ‘Yes, I would love to have solar heat and wind energy but I don’t have enough money to make these changes to my home,’ ” says Babineau.

She says her party would implement a tax form to give

money back to individuals and families to build lower energy homes and make changes to preexisting homes.

“The carbon tax shift will create a lot of revenue,” says Babineau, and the revenue would be used to help people have their homes fitted for lower energy use.

They also plan to give money to communities for public transportation.

“The Green Party wants to aggressively combat dependency on fossil fuels,” says Babineau.

The development of small businesses and green industry are important as well. “Also,” she says, “There are quite a few challenges for immigrants.” Their credentials need to be recognized, and there are extremely long waits for residency for doctors, she says.

The Saint Mary’s aboriginal community has the basic need of housing, and along this same vein, residents of Chipman and Minto ask themselves the primal question, “How do we survive?

How do we stimulate our economy to create jobs for our children and grandchildren?”

“This is the most diverse riding in Canada, I think,” says Babineau.

Babineau also has a lot to say on the issue of post secondary education.

“My biggest concern about post secondary education is accessibility,” she says. “It’s a human right just like the right to housing and sustenance. With rising costs and student debt, it’s becoming a privilege more than a right.”

Babineau is concerned with the amount of debt incurred by students, emphasizing that they “graduate with such a heavy debt that they’re stuck with it for 40 to 50 years.”

The Green Party plans to combat the hefty amount of debt by simply forgiving 50% of it upon graduation from a post secondary institution. Since a lot of loans are federal or provincial, she says, the debt could be taken away.

The party also plans to increase the number of need-based scholarships and bursaries.

Mary Lou Babineau wants people to know that Green Party MPs are committed to working in cooperation with other parties.

“We’re not part of the partisan approach where we fight with other parties,” says Babineau.

“If another party puts forward a bill that we think would be positive for our communities and sustainable, we will help.”

This is the third of a series of profiles for candidates running in the Fredericton riding in the federal election.

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Surviving in the wireless trenches Tech perspective Doug Estey

Hate them or love them, chances are that you probably own a cellphone. The often annoying and very breakable pieces of plastic have worked their way into our daily lives to the point where if you don’t have one, you’re more than likely the odd one out.

Now that having a mobile squawkbox is commonplace, wireless carriers have had an increasingly important impact on our lives, and as such, choosing which one to go with isn’t just a walk in the park any more. This ain’t no MP3 player. If you aren’t careful, you can easily get stuck with a poorly put together piece of technology that will cost you an arm and a leg – especially if it breaks.

Someone living in Ontario or Quebec has a seemingly endless list of options, but here in our beloved Atlantic Canada, it’s a different story. As Maritimers in the 21st century, where do we stand? Which carriers are out to rip us off and which ones can be trusted? Which phones serve better as paperweights?

The answers may frighten you, but if mom and dad aren’t interested in looking after your cellular bill, then it’s time to start shopping.

Aside from the catastrophic problems that can arise from buying an LG Chocolate slider (and the handful of other nightmares that are bound to happen if you don’t do some Googling about your phone first), your major concern is which carrier you’re going to put your trust in. You’re signing a contract with these people, and it’s

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to Josh O’Kane’s opinion piece from Sept.

24 entitled “Know your hand before you play it,” in regards to the lead up to the upcoming by-election for the VP external position vacated last spring by Tim Ross and currently held by Jon O’Kane. While Mr. (Josh) O’Kane made some reasonable points, I feel the need to add some information that he either missed or misrepresented. In the interest of brevity I will limit myself to a few main points.

Firstly, while serving on the SU executive does generally require an extension of one’s time at UNB, it is important to note, that in the case of Renaissance College (RC) students, merely running for an executive position may force such an extension. An RC internship involves commitment to the partner organization months before the internship begins, as well as various commitments to familiarize oneself with the culture of the internship

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New Brunswick has a relatively slim number of cell phone carriers in comparison to other provinces – but that doesn’t mean you can’t shop around for a deal that’s not a ripoff. not something that can be taken lightly.

Here in the Maritimes, our choices are few and far between.

CDMA/HSPA carriers like Bell and Telus have reached out from their central Canadian cores.

Your other option is a GSM carrier, but if you go that route, your only move is to go with Rogers, which is infamous for its inhuman treatment of Apple iPhone wannabe customers and confusing data rate plans.

One of the more obvious options in New Brunswick is Bell Mobility (formerly Aliant Mobility/NBTel), a subsidiary of Bell Canada Enterprises.

Yes, Alexander Graham Bell started the company way back when. No, you won’t be paying your bills in cents, but you’ll

get generally better coverage in out-of-town areas (not to mention a much wider selection of phones than could be found in the early 1900s).

Telus, the third guy, is a more recent addition to the fray in New Brunswick, stumbling in to the competition between Rogers and Bell but offering something that the other two carriers have yet to bring out east: a discount brand carrier, Koodo.

The advertisements for it on TV might be more annoying than you can handle, but Telus-owned Koodo offers a limited selection of smart, contract-free phones that pay themselves off each month. Rogers’ Fido and Bell’s Solo attempt to do the same thing, but are currently unavailable to Atlantic Canadians

and therefore (in my book) cease to exist.

By far the worst obstacle you’ll face in the whole process of actually acquiring a cellular phone is dealing with the middleman. Consumer electronics chains like Future Shop and Cox Electronics are exactly what I’m talking about.

In August, when I finally got away from my parent’s family plan and bought my HTC Touch, I discovered that you can actually walk in to a Cox Electronics in Fredericton and pay over two hundred dollars (plus tax) for a phone that is listed as free ($0) with an identical contract on the carrier’s website.

Unbelievable.

Some day, we might live to see things like hidden charges, scams,

and flat-out rip offs die out in the Atlantic wireless marketplace.

But until the giants like Rogers and Bell are forced to step it up in the face of stiffer competition, it’s pretty clear that we have to fend for ourselves.

It’s something that often goes unnoticed, especially if your parents are fronting the bill, but the amount of money you spend on your phone each month can range anywhere from the cost of a pizza delivery to the cost of rent. So do your homework. You might find yourself living in a place – or at least going out to eat instead of stacking up the pizza boxes.

Doug Estey is Arts Editor of the Brunswickan. He can be reached at arts@thebruns.ca.

letters to the editor. destination and language preparation. A RC student can neither delay the planning of an internship till after an election, or back out of an internship once it is planned. Therefore an RC student would be delaying the completion of their degree even if they were unsuccessful in their bid for an executive position. As I understand it, this is not the case in other faculties. This serves as a serious deterrent to RC students to run for an executive position as they would need to delay their degree even if not elected.

If elected a RC student, like any other student, would likely need to take on a reduced course load, thus prolonging their degree – I have no qualms with this.

Further, it is important to note that internships are integral to the RC program, indeed they are a compulsory element (whereas summer courses and co-ops are not necessarily). Second year courses are designed to build on experience from the Canadian internships, and third

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year courses are designed to build on experiences from the international internships. While the occasional student does not follow this pattern exactly, doing the course elements in proper sequence is central to fully engage the academic material put forward in RC. Mr. O’Kane seems to hold the status quo as sacred. He fails to consider ways in which students can fulfill academic obligation, stay on track in their program and serve in an executive position.

One possible change that could be made to our current status quo is that students with a central academic commitment for part of the summer could run with a proxy who would serve in their stead while they were away.

Students would be aware of this and be able to weigh the efficacy of such a situation in deciding how to vote.

When it comes to student government we need a system that recognizes the diverse requirements of various programs.

Sincerely, Matthew Abbott

Dear Editor, Growing up in the Fredericton area, I have witnessed the slow deterioration of Fredericton’s York Train Station, a heritage railway station that was once known for not only its historical significance, but also for its superb architectural design. As one of the few buildings of its type remaining in New Brunswick it has been sad to watch it transform into nothing more than a health hazard and an eyesore.

Recent talk of owners J.D. Irving Ltd. and their willingness to restore the station leaves me with hope, and an agenda. As your local Federal NDP candidate for the upcoming election, I want to make sure that the Irvings follow through. At the moment they propose to pay for the material costs involved in this restoration and foot labour costs on tax payers’ dollars.

As a hard working tax payer, I see the responsibility that they have and I say “That’s not good enough.” I want to see the York Train Station restored into something that I won’t feel ashamed to walk by or afraid to stand too close to. And I want the Irving’s to stand up and take responsibility for a job that is theirs and a job that they owe, not only to the people of Fredericton, but to the city’s own historic roots. Together, we can continue to voice this message

to the Irving’s until they recognize it and respond. Let’s get development plans rolling and save York Train Station.

Sincerely, Jesse Travis NDP Candidate, Fredericton Riding

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Student groups ignored The changing nature in selection process of today’s media Student Beat Bethany Vail Over the years, students have fought for representation at every level of this university. We have not accepted being pushed to the sidelines in the decision making process; instead was have shown we have a stake at the table. Just a few years ago students successfully lobbied the administration for a vote on Student Standings and Promotions Senate committee, which is a committee that hears academic and standing appeals of students. It was viewed as a huge step forward in the student moment and taken as a sign that the administration values student input.

Currently, students have votes at the Senate and Board of Governors levels, which are the two major decision making bodies at UNB. When a vacancy occurs in a major position on campus, such as a Dean, the three student groups (Graduate Student Association, Adult-Learners Part Time Students and the Student Union) get together to decide which student should serve on the search committee. The chosen student is a representative for the entire Fredericton campus. This process ensures fair and equal representation of a cross section of students.

Midway through the summer, John McLaughlin announced that he will be leaving his term as President early – at the end of this academic year in fact. The wheels of the machine instantly started churning as the university prepared itself to undergo a search process to select the next President of this institution. This threw faculty and administration into an uproar about representation on the Presidential Search Committee.

It is a joint Board and Senate

committee, comprising of only six members from the Saint John and Fredericton campuses, representing administration, faculty, and students.

The composition of the committee is laid out in the University Act – a monstrosity that needs to be updated badly.

It is noted that one member of the six be a student, wherever possible.

According to the Act, the student needs to be either a Senator or Board of Governors member which leaves a pool of about twelve students to choose from. Typically, it is left up to the board to select a student from the board, which narrows the student possibilities down to three.

One would think that for a search committee as grandiose as the Presidential Search Committee, student groups would come together in similar fashion as for a Dean search to make a recommendation as to who they felt would best serve them in this important student role. Ultimately, it is up to each respective nominating committee of the Senate and Board of Governors to decide who gets placed where. However, this is the same practice with all committees and it has never prevented students from making recommendations before.

This time around, students were denied the opportunity to get together to make a recommendation to the Senates and Board because they were never informed in the first place that this committee was taking form.

No one from the Senates, Board, or administration notified the student groups as to what was going on or to what the proper protocol was for selecting a student. A simple e-mail to the student groups on both campuses would have sufficed, explaining that one single student will be selected from either campus. But no one was told.

Instead a Board of Governors Nominating meeting was held over the summer to decide without any student input whatsoever. They chose

the first student name that came up in the meeting and did not express reason as to their selection. Their only discussion was with regards to the need for a student to be on the committee, not about the merits of the student who should be there.

Although the Board and Senates followed proper protocol, I am bitterly disappointed in how they went about it. I appreciate that there was a tight deadline to form the committee; however I do believe that in this fast paced email crazed world there was time to notify the student organizations so they could put forth a recommendation.

This student will play an integral role in choosing the President who will make or break our institution is this upcoming time of change in post-secondary education in our province. We certainly do not want a token student just to say we have representation. We want a strong student voice with good judgment who will speak out for all students of UNB when it comes down to the crunch. I feel that by the Board and Senates bypassing the thoughts of students during the whole process, they have reduced us down to nothing than mere tokenism.

The student who has been selected has done a tremendous job thus far representing the thousands of students at UNB, however, the process is a questionable one. If it takes opening the University Act to ensure that students are heard and represented at every level, then that is something that must be done. I am not willing to sit in the backseat. I am willing to do what it takes to ensure fairness and equality in every decision that this institution makes and that means making sure students have a voice. This university should be willing too.

Bethany Vail is President of the UNB Student Union. Student Beat is a weekly column by UNB student leaders examining issues that are pertinent to students.

Mugwump Tony

von Richter

It’s a sobering thought, knowing that you work in a dying medium.

Unfortunately that’s exactly the reality that those of us in the print media are faced with.

Be it in the student realm or the more mainstream realm like the Globe & Mail and the Telegraph Journal, we’re all being forced to realize that at some point in the future these sheets of paper that we love and produce each issue will soon be gone, replaced by a series of intangible ones and zeroes.

Strangely enough this doesn’t bother me as much as it probably should.

When I say that the death of print media is a sobering thought, it’s not because of the loss of our physical pages, it’s because of the style of journalism that could be lost when newspapers finally disappear.

Last year when Peter Mansbridge appeared at the CIBC Business Plan Competition he spoke about the nature of the TV news business and particularly the reporting

philosophy behind The National.

Mansbridge went on to say that what appears on The National are just the headlines and people need to check out the Globe & Mail or some other newspaper for the complete story.

So what happens when there are no more newspapers to turn to?

If all we have left are media outlets that are interested in presenting the headlines and not providing any real depth to their stories, how will we ever get to the heart of any issues?

Unfortunately we’re already beginning to see the effects of this as more and more media outlets are moving to shorter pieces, desperate to grab people’s attention in the few minutes of spare time that they have available to them.

Is this a good thing though? I understand that people have less and less free time and that it’s a battle to get people to devote their time.

However, I think most people would prefer pieces that they had to dedicate a little more time to, provided that they got the complete story.

All too often now we only think of the short term consequences, the battle for people’s attention now, not the battle for their attention over the next few weeks and months by presenting a quality product that

leaves the reader significantly more informed than they were previously.

So why am I writing about this now? Simple, this weekend is the annual Fall conference for the Atlantic Region of Canadian University Press, and seeing as the Bruns is hosting we’ve dubbed the conference shARCUP 08 in honour of our mascot, Sharkey.

One of the big themes of the Canadian University Press this year is preparing for the move away from the traditional weekly publications printed out and distributed across town to a more fluid form of content like blogs, podcasts, and web exclusive stories that will help supplement our traditional products before they are finally retired.

While I fully embrace this move to supplement our traditional products, I think that we need to embrace the same standards that we do with our printed publications or we’re not doing justice to ourselves, our readers, or the subjects we cover.

I think that it is up to us, the student journalists, to set the standard in this new era, to ensure that the principles that we have based our organizations on for decades don’t die out along with our medium.

Tony von Richter is Managing Editor of The Brunswickan. He can be reached at managing@ unb.ca.

Living for yourself Bring it on home Josh O’Kane In the sixth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer. Writing novels was the coolest idea for a job I could possibly think of.

I even wrote a 40 page ‘novel’ for a class project based on characters from video games I liked, and I wanted to make it a full grown-up novel once I graduated.

By the time I got to high school, I was over writing and video games. My parents told me I was smart enough to be a doctor – and since I couldn’t figure anything else out, I decided I would be a doctor.

Easy enough.

My high school guidance counsellors agreed. While I was too lazy to read full-on novels and history books, I was pretty good at sciences. This meant that I was automatically categorized as a potential doctor, and told to apply to the sciences. If I was good at science then, I might as well be a doctor, right?

Without giving me time to think, I was immediately

categorized as a potential doctor, and, along so many more who have traveled down that path, enrolled in a science program at university.

I gave up becoming a medical doctor soon enough, but decided I wanted to be a chemistry research professor.

Though I did fine at chemistry, I never got any satisfaction out of the work I did, and every bit of homework and studying turned into a chore. Why would I ever want to do that in my everyday life as a grownup?

It hit me eventually, as I got further into my involvement with the Bruns, that I got most of my satisfaction from engaging the public.

My sixth grade dream to be a writer, in fact, came full circle. Suddenly I wanted to be a journalist.

Even through high school, my focus at the end of the day was in my extra-curricular activities instead of school. I always cared a lot more about interacting with people than I did with books.

I plugged through four years of university before I finally admitted that if I ever wanted to be happy, my career would need to be more interactive than pouring chemicals into different jars.

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But what if I had been encouraged to follow what I really enjoyed from the start?

I’ve spent my time as an undergraduate pursuing a degree in a field I don’t care about, and it’s looking like I will pursue a master’s degree in journalism at this point. While I don’t regret my time at UNB at all (in fact, I wouldn’t have fallen into journalism if I went elsewhere) it would have been nice to follow what I enjoyed from the beginning.

I fell into the rut I did because I let other people tell me what I might be good at. I might have made a good doctor, but would I have been happy? If you don’t follow your goals – if you follow someone else’s – how can you be satisfied in life?

If you need to question your future, you should question whether it’s the future you want.

If your parents tell you to be something, or your teachers tell you you’re good at something, that’s great – but don’t make a career about something unless you know it makes you happy.

A career can come with parental approval and a fat paycheque, but it might not always come with happiness.

Josh O’Kane is Editor-in-Chief of the Brunswickan. He can be reached at editor@thebruns.ca.

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The old man rant the brunswickan. an opinion from Dave Evans

Question: If you had beavers in your woodlot, what would you do with them?

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y friends, today we’re faced with an assault of forces that want to undermine the great moral underpinnings of society: terrorism, hippies, and rhubarb thieves.

However, there’s another threat that no one seems to want to talk about. One that’s corrupting our children and telling them that it’s okay to be heathens: Archie Comics. Oh yes, I’m talking about Archie, Betty, Veronica and the whole lot of miscreants. “But why?!” you say. “They’ve been delighting children for years!” Well let me tell you. Archie, the ringleader, seems to think it’s OK to have dirty sexual relations with every girl in his high school - all at the same time.

He’s dating Betty, Veronica, Cheryl, and probably your mother too, who knows. And the girls think it’s alright to share all these boys – it’s like some sort of weird pre-marital orgy. No good relationship values to found here. Next, we move on to Jughead. In a society that’s facing an obesity epidemic, he’s promoting gluttony! It’s OK that more than 20% of the country is officially overweight, I’m just going to tell kids to eat as many cheeseburgers as they can. Next up: Moose. He’s telling our kids that they can solve all their problems with violence. As big and strong as he is, he must be inadequate somewhere else, because his girlfriend Midge cheats on him every other day with Reggie, who is even more of a prick then I am. Boycott Archie, boycott his womanizing ways and ask yourself, won’t somebody please think of the children!

“Give them suits of armour and train them to fight.“ Brad McKinney

“Move them to a different enviroment.”

Brandon Wile

“Train them to do my homework.”

Christine Bissonette

“Trap them and send them to a national park.”

Coilin McPhail

“It’s a damn shame if you’re a beaver” Dave Bowman

“Cinnamon sugar beaver tails.”

Greg Melanson

“Beaver palace.”

Jamie Reynolds

“Make it a public attraction.”

Josh Bowling

“Trap them and unleash them in a log cabin.”

Justin Barber

“Keep at least one as a pet.”

Michael Cooper

“Trap them and relocate them.”

Tim Hood

“Train them and make a circus.”

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the atlantic regional canadian university press conference a weekend of journalism and fun october 3-5 at the SUB and Singer/Tilley Hall

featuring guest speakers Jacques Poitras (CBC), James C. Irving (Telegraph-Journal) and National Newspaper Award winner Marty Klinkenberg for more information, contact the bruns at 447.3388 or editor@thebruns.ca, or drop by SUB room 35

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Time warps & toilet paper

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A bittersweet review

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan

The Rocky Horror Show has a history of having a rather enthusiastic fanbase. The lobby of The Playhouse served as a legitimate showcase of this feature in the moments leading up to the show.

Kyle Stoddard The Brunswickan

For the last time, no, I have never seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show movie or the stage production it is based on (simply, The Rocky Horror Show). I had heard of it, sure; I had heard the legends of thrown food, live rain and motorcycles and how amazing the film is. But, somehow, in between my cult-film discoveries and theatre antics I neglected to give The Rocky Horror Show a try. But now, after having a few of its musical numbers spoiled by overzealous friends and having heard the hype, I was finally able to take it in, on stage, for the first time this past Friday at midnight.

Walking in 15 minutes prior to the show, I found myself surrounded by multiple copies of the play’s main characters.

Apparently, many of the fans of the show had created their own costumes. Far more people were

dressed up than I initially suspected but it only added to my anticipation for the musical to begin.

Finally, once I found my seat, another student (a proctor who traveled with our group) adorned in a maid’s outfit began passing around whistles and toilet paper rolls. I eagerly snatched a toilet paper roll, not knowing exactly what to expect. However, at about ten after 12 the lights went down and the director of the show Leigh Rivenbark introduced himself and welcomed everyone to the show. He also brought out the set designer Johnny Leroux to give the audience and Rocky “Virgins” a primer on when and where to throw your props including the aforementioned toilet paper. They also explained the time warp with Leigh and Johnny starting up and the audience following.

Moving on, the course of events that followed was in one word genius, not only because the show is campy and incredibly off-the-wall but also because of the discipline and talent of both the performers and the technical staff. The opening credit sequence is an example of where the director, performers

and technical crew came together to create an effect that utilized the space in a creative and efficient way.

There were lights cast from behind a silk screen that allowed the actors to form a posed “silhouette” as the actor’s and character’s names were projected onto the other side of the screen. All the while, the amazing Tania Breen belted out the song Science Fiction/Double Feature and who began the number simply as a pair of lips projected on to the same silkscreen before the credit sequence followed.

What followed after the opening was more like a rock concert than any musical I have ever seen. The audience were dancing in their seats. There were numerous shouts of “slut” and “asshole” which my neighbour quickly explained were to follow after people say the names “Janet” and “Brad” respectively.

There were flashlights shone, confetti thrown and numerous high tech special effects (such as the rocket ship flaps found in Frank ‘N’ Furter’s castle.)

Speaking of Frank ‘N’ Furter, Tony LePage completely transforms in the role of the crowd-pleasing transvestite. His main numbers

“Sweet Transvestite” and “I’m Going Home” rocked the audience out of their seats and at one point they rose to their feet in a standing ovation before the show was even over.

Everyone else in the cast was fantastic as well, with standout performances by each of the main characters. Riff-Raff’s final moments in the play are incredibly over the top and, as such, brilliant.

Janet is vulnerable and sexy and Brad is just the right amount of campy dork mixed with powersinger. The lovely but short lived Eddie also left a charismatic impression on me, due in part to his taste in motorcycles.

In the end, the best thing I can say about Theatre New Brunswick’s production of The Rocky Horror Show is that though it is Sunday morning as I write this, and I am past deadline, sick and have to study for midterms, all I want to do is see the show again, if only to hear Science Fiction/Double Feature and to Do The Time Warp one more time. I have reasoned that though I left the show completely satisfied, there can never be such a thing as too much pleasure.

Living the Goodlife – or not thing” – as a first-year student, my economical option was the oncampus gym, and I despised bussing home post-workout with mussed hair and no makeup. Plus, there was partying to be done, fascinating (if not vaguely pretentious) conversations to be had, and life to be lived.

But the itch returned, and I began to frequent the STU gym. I enjoyed it. It was clean, modern, and a beautiful facility with friendly faces.

Then, I graduated, and was at a total loss for where to take my workouts. I ultimately turned to a gym downtown (coincidentally, the

Visions of my mother’s Curves gym danced in my head. I could only imagine – gabbing on the weight machine instead of actually lifting anything; a single change room; an estrogen-fueled aerobics class. I thought of L.A. gyms, with their hyper-toned bodies and uber-competitive girl-jocks. I was worried.

My first few days there were actually pretty nice. The gym was new, had an adequate amount of equipment, and the classes seemed very popular.

But it wasn’t a “workout” gym, per se; it seemed more like a weight

really liked the all-female vibe there; it was nice, but it wasn’t what I looked for in a gym.

Pop “What? Why?” Tart Time was ticking and I wanted to get to it, so I brushed her off.

Ashley She changed tack and leaned in, Bursey conspiratorially: “When I first heard it was all-female, I didn’t want to When it comes to gyms, I tend to come here, either. I thought it was a be a bit promiscuous. I want to bunch of lesbians and I didn’t want try them all before I settle myself to be stared at like that!” into workout matrimony; a sort My jaw dropped. “That’s not of polygamous relationship with what I meant at all,” I said, floored. classes, weight rooms, and elliptical So much for the open friendliness machines. of the chick gym, I thought, I lived my entire life in almost turning around on the spot.

Newfoundland, and had a bit of a Really, in 2008, who the hell has rapport going with a local gym. the right to, firstly, presume They hosted birthday parties “Visions of my mother’s Curves gym the sexuality of anyone, and when I was a kid; growing up, secondly, completely disdain an danced in my head. I could only it only seemed natural to pop on entire sexual orientation – to try imagine – gabbing on the weight down to New World Fitness for to sell a goddamn gym pass? my workouts. But ultimately, machine instead of actually lifting It was unbelievable. I’m not they were sold and came under sure if it was just because she anything.” new management. The place grew up with a whole crew of looked distinctly less shabby, but rednecks, or if she was genuinely it just wasn’t the same. trying to commiserate with So I trotted myself to a 24same gym I had taken a ‘Sexercise’ loss facility than anything else. I the consumer, but perhaps this hour fitness facility, a bodybuilder’s class only two years previous with tried to do my usual three-sets of 12 particular employee should rethink paradise with rows upon rows of my friend Anna) and enjoyed it reps on one of the tricep machines her bedside manner – or maybe weight machines and free weights, there, but a move to Fredericton’s and was told by an employee, for move the heck out of Fredericton, multiple tanning booths, and a north side left me a bit empty. the first time, that I only needed a y’all. cardio room to die for. It was the Suddenly, it wasn’t so convenient to single set. I cocked an eyebrow and But she did her job, I guess. She ultimate in gym experiences. I join a gym downtown. continued with my usual three. definitely sold me on something: I was head-over-heels for 11 p.m.

When a friend asked me to tag And then, on the last day of my may still be on the lookout for a new workouts and grunting along with along to one of the Goodlife gyms free five-day pass, I walked in the gym, but I certainly won’t be living some of the biggest, baddest bodies in the city, I decided to take my gym door to a sales pitch. the good life there. in the city as I worked my glutes and relationship to the next level. We “So are you thinking of joining?” Ashley Bursey is a former Arts Editor obliques. suited up and approached something The yellow-shirted blonde behind of The Brunswickan and a graduate Then I came to Fredericton. For I’ve never before even attempted: a the counter asked, casually. I of St. Thomas University’s journalism a while, I gave up the whole “gym women-only gym. responded that I wasn’t sure if I program.

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St. Thomas professor Philip Lee localizes and personalizes universal themes in his new autobiographic book. self acceptance. His words have a calming effect, and his insight can Sarah Ratchford be applied to the life of virtually The Brunswickan anyone.

The story is steeped in deeply Divorce. In today’s world of profound wisdom. instant gratification and fickleness, “It took me many years to the D-word comes up quite a lot. understand that this thing we Marriage is no longer “for better called home is not a place on this or worse”; rather, it pretty much earth,” Lee writes, regarding his stops at “for better.” search for the perfect dwelling About half of my friends have in which to raise a family, “but a divorced parents, myself included. place of the mind and imagination Divorce no longer strikes terror where we can find love, friendship, into people’s hearts as a disruption and freedom.” of family life since it has become Philip Lee offers his own frank so common. We now have many interpretation of a variety of other different conceptions of the word issues which are essential to leading “family,” and the nuclear version a life of happiness, which he says, really doesn’t exist anymore. in agreement with Aristotle, is In Philip Lee’s latest book, the highest human aspiration. He Bittersweet: Confessions of a Twice- writes on gender issues in a new Married Man, he re-examines light, going so far as to admit that divorce and the reasons behind it his psychiatrist told him that men in a new and refreshing light. can become childlike in marriage The autobiographical novel is and not arguing with her. He also essentially a philosophical attempt suggests that in order to live the to define the nature of love. Lee best life possible, we must perform writes about the struggle of regular maintenance on ourselves, rebuilding his life and those of his our lives, and our loves, as well as children after his first marriage daily tasks. falls apart.

Lee’s story is set right here in Lee, a professor of Journalism Fredericton, with some references at STU, was educated at Dal in to Saint John, Bathurst, the Classics. He uses references to Mirimichi, and the shore of the Homer’s The Odyssey to drive Bay of Fundy. This alone makes home his points, using the story to the story really hit home, as draw parallels with his own life. virtually any Maritimer knows The professor is incredibly brave what it feels like to walk along the in publishing his very personal shore, the smell of salt in the air story. He poses rhetorical questions and pebbles crunching underfoot. such as “How could I allow myself The setting made it easier for me to seek happiness in my life when to apply what Lee had to say to my the members of my family were own situations. suffering because of my actions?”

The one downfall I found in at the beginning of the story. His Bittersweet had nothing to do feelings of guilt and sorrow are with Lee’s writing. The problem tangible. As the story progresses, was that he continually referenced however, Lee becomes at peace the works of great writers such as with himself. He is able to answer Tolstoy, Austen, and Coleridge. his questions about himself and The story will veer away from Lee’s life and love, and the answer to own narrative and quote these all of them is essentially the same: authors, which really isn’t necessary human beings are not perfect. to the story. Lee is a great writer No matter how hard we strive by himself, he doesn’t need these to make our lives perfect and other voices to tell his tale. fit cookie-cutter ideals, this just One gets the feeling that all isn’t going to happen. We are all of Lee’s most hidden, most individuals with both strengths painstakingly thought out feelings and shortcomings, and all we can and ideas are out on the page, do about our shortcomings is be written there in order to help aware of them and minimize them whoever is reading it. This is a selfas much as possible. help book in disguise.

Lee’s story is as much a tale Bittersweet is both a captivating of self-exploration as one of the tale of a humble, intelligent man, woes of divorce. The reader sees as well as a philosophical work him regenerate his life and allow which could help almost anyone to him to find new love and arrive at improve his or her life.

Doppelgänger Theatre UNB

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Fresh from a critically acclaimed run at the recent Vancouver International Fringe Festival, a New Brunswick play with a national reputation that originated right here at UNB is coming home for a pair of performances in Fredericton. Theatre Free Radical, in association with Theatre UNB, will present Doppelgänger, a play by UNB Director of Drama Len Falkenstein, Wednesday, October 1 and Thursday October 2 at Memorial Hall, UNB. Doppelgänger is a play about Alberta oil worker Adam Smith, who is taken captive in the Middle East and accused of being a shadowy CIA operative who has committed unspeakable crimes. As he endures

sleep deprivation and torture, plots escape and yearns desperately for a reprieve, the fabric of reality shifts and Smith travels on a surreal, thought-provoking, and often darkly comic journey into his past that forces him to confront the consequences of his actions and inactions.

The play combines text, music, movement and multimedia projections to explore the complex issues surrounding the oil economy, the ongoing military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the many recent sensational cases of prisoners held captive in foreign lands.

Doppelgänger will be performed at 8 PM Oct. 1- 2 at Memorial Hall with tickets ($12, $8 for students) available at the door. For more information, phone 458-7406 or email lfalken@ unb.ca

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A Saturday morning tradition Alison Clack

The Brunswickan

UK-based punk outfit Tat’s debut EP is a public service announcement of awful Amber Antle

The Brunswickan

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

The Boyce Farmers’ Market has occupied a large block of George Street for over fifty years in downtown Fredericton, and has been a staple of student life for much of that time.

the market a lot and they had their own theories for why.

“I think it’s the hands-on aspect; they can buy food and eat it right there. [Students can] get cookies and sweets and other study snacks - I get a lot of kids for stuff like that,” says Cochrane.

“Probably for the diversity of it. It’s also convenient,” says Kindervater.

Negotiations are currently being conducted by the province over the purchase of Boyce Farmers’ Market. While the province already owns the land which the market’s parking lot is on, this deal would see them own the actual land the market is on and the building itself.

While vendor’s aren’t completely sure what this will mean, some are trying to keep optimistic.

“I think it’s a good idea because then it ensures that the market is still going to be here. It’s our heritage and they’re behind it,” says Cochrane.

Rocking out at the SUB

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Slowcoaster made an appearance at one of the Halifax Pop Explosion warm-up shows with Grand Theft Bus, Rich Aucoin and I See Rowboats at the Student Union Building on Sept. 27.

Wednesdays @ 12:30 Room 35, SUB

to see friends and others who he hasn’t gotten to see in awhile is the reason why he enjoys working at the market.

And the social aspect was what a lot of vendors had to say they enjoyed about being a part of the market.

“The market is a friendly atmosphere. I really enjoy the people,” says Joyce Cochrane, owner of Joyce’s Home Baking, “It’s something that’s in your blood - hard to get out. There’s a big social aspect, you meet a lot of people and make a lot of friends.”

“I enjoy interacting with some of the customers that we see every week. I also work in an office now so I do not really get that anymore.

I like being able to see everybody and also being able to do my shopping at the same time,” says Amy Kindervater, who works at East Coast Candles.

The vendors have also noticed the university students from up the hill seem to enjoy coming to

Weekly Staff Meetings

If it’s a little early for you to be up, try visiting Specialty Blend Coffee Co. to wake you up. Didn’t have a chance to get your breakfast?

Try visiting Huskin’s Restaurant.

If you want a little something to brighten up your room a little bit – and cover up the smell of dirty laundry and split liquor from the night before – try East Coast Candles.

There are also jewelery stalls, butchers, fresh-squeezed juice vendors, bakeries, fresh produce, flowers, glass work, and many others.

Vadhat Samimi of Sam the Juice Man, believes that diversity has a lot to do with why people enjoy the market so much.

“All the food that’s in the market, all the arts and crafts,” says Samimi.

But it’s not just the market’s shops and wares that make people want to visit it again and again.

Samimi also mentioned the crowd and social aspect – getting

Before I even played This Is...

Tat, the EP by the obviously girlfronted Tat, I thought I had seen this disc before. It took me only a second to realize that the cover of the EP is basically the cover art for Paramore’s RIOT! save for worse fonts and a god-aw f u l cleavage shot.

Opening the case does little for the band’s image, with a complete copy of the cover cloned to the disc itself and only a white background behind that.

The first track on the disc, Pe ssi m ist , starts off with some generic lyrics: “give me your heart, I’ll give it back all battered and torn. See, every silver lining has its cloud; can I be yours?”

These are immediately forgettable and if not for the booklet which accompanies the EP, I would have never been able to write them down.

Lyrics aside, the vocals are

alright and the guitar is fast and fun. Unfortunately, the chorus hits soon thereafter and the background vocals completely drown out any real talent that might be hiding in Tatiana De Maria’s voice.

The guitar continues into the second verse and by this time, I’ve started to ignore the lyrics.

At this point, the song could abruptly end and I wouldn’t care.

But no, there is still a guitar solo left. Thankfully, it lasts a mere 20 seconds. Then the breakdown comes in and any bit of saving grace this song could have is thrown out the window.

Finally, we get to hear the repeated lines of “I’ll sit on your face and tell you I love you” and “I am the itch that you can’t scratch” which makes me think I might have missed the point of the song completely and that it may be a public service announcement for sexually t ra nsmit ted infections.

Things don’t start to look up from here, as the rest of the album follows almost the exact same Internet formula.

Sure, there is the acoustic track Stay Up and the surf-rock inspired Bloodstain, but both fail at distinguishing Tat from the bland, washed-out crap that is becoming far too common amount bands nowadays.

It goes without saying that I could live the rest of my life happily if I never heard this album again.

the brunswickan.

Next Saturday you might want to think twice before hitting the snooze button on your alarm.

Instead of rolling over and falling back asleep you should try getting up and visiting a rich piece of Fredericton’s heritage: the Boyce Farmers’ Market.

The Boyce Farmers’ Market is a staple in the Saturday morning traditions for a lot of Frederictonarea natives. But it’s not just the locals who are getting up early on a Saturday morning for the market’s eclectic mix of goods; students are a big part of the historic market’s clientele.

Boyce Farmers’ Market has been a part of the Fredericton area culture since 1951.

The market is named after an Englishman, William Walter Boyce, who moved to the Fredericton area in the late 1800s.

Boyce started out as a farmer who eventually gained enough wealth to buy multiple businesses in the area including a mill which allowed him to ship lumber from New Brunswick to buyers around the world. His wealth allowed him to be somewhat of a philanthropist within the city and he kept up the acts even after his death.

When Boyce died in 1950 he left $40,000 to the city with the intention that it be used to build a market. The municipal and provincial governments raised the rest of the money needed to fund the market and in 1951 Boyce Farmers’ Market opened its doors.

In the fifty-plus years since it opened, the farmers’ market has become the place to go for many people in the Fredericton area on Saturday mornings.

The market has dozens of various shops and vendors for university students to enjoy.

This CD is... terrible

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Hagerman’s Hoping it dies before it gets old happy horoscopes

Aries

Be prepared for a shock this week, dear Aries. Instead of waking up at 6:45 a.m. like you had planned, the clock will read 6:66 a.m. when you wake up. You have two options: either run or go back to sleep. These sorts of things only happen on Mondays anyway. Your lucky vegetable is asparagus.

Taurus

You may be feeling a bit more chilled than usual, dear Taurus. Either everything else is getting colder or you’re getting hotter. Since it’s always better to take the optimistic route, just assume that you’re getting hotter. By letting your friends know how cold it is out because of how hot you feel, you’ll open yourself up to some hilarious and totally original innuendo! Your lucky newspaper section is arts.

Gemini

A little bit of caution can go a long way this week, dear Gemini. In addition to a coat and heavy shoes, wear at least two layers of bubble wrap and construct a belt made out of an air bag, just in case you fall. You will be the start of a hip new trend, the focus of many jokes, or both. Your lucky liquid is mercury.

Cancer

You will feel especially energized this week, dear Cancer. You will now be able to charge batteries merely by thinking about how cool it would be if you could charge batteries. Before the sensation subsides, be absolutely sure that the energy will not give out during something important, like a test, a date, or cow tipping. Your lucky fictional sandwich is the Ampwich.

Leo

You may feel something special in the air this week, dear Leo. Is it excitement? Is it love? Could it be the fumes of cars passing you by? Only you will be able to divine this knowledge using the power of science to detect the presence of passing cars. Your lucky cat is Felix.

Virgo

You will feel very reserved and cool this week, fair Virgo.

As a result, your internal body temperature will drop 20 degrees. Instead of killing you, this will instead give you superpowers. Not lame ones like being able to add numbers really fast, but really awesome ones like being able to tell what time it is without looking at your watch. Your lucky coin is the dime.

Libra

Tensions will be on the rise this week, dear Libra.

Loosen your belt and your problem should be resolved. If you’re still feeling a lot of tension, the problem may not be with your belt, but instead your shoes, so loosen them instead. Just don’t loosen everything so much that it’ll fall off. Your lucky Billy Joel song is Uptown Girl.

Scorpio

Things may have been tough for you lately, dear Scorpio, but they’re about to get a lot better. You will find a lucky penny on the ground as you’re leaving to go to class. You will know it is lucky because it will have the year of your birth on it and be especially shiny. Don’t spend it all in one place!

Your lucky amount of blades on a razor is four.

Sagittarius

Expect to be looking your best this week, dear Sagittarius. You will be receiving all sorts of compliments, due in no small part to your wearing a funny hat. Contrary to logic, instead of making you look silly, it will instead make you the most desirable person on campus. Just make sure no one steals it from you. Your lucky milkshake is chocolate.

Capricorn

You will be overjoyed this week, dear Capricorn! The stars will align just perfectly and you will attain your true self and become ruler of all the cosmos. Just remember, when you’re all high and mighty, who told you it would happen first. Your lucky watch strap is made of metal.

Aquarius

You may be feeling slightly unsure of yourself this week, dear Aquarius. Whenever you have doubts when trying to figure out how to proceed, go with your third guess.

Not your first, not your fifth, but your third guess. It’s guaranteed to be the right one. Your lucky camera has both optical as well as digital zoom.

Pisces

Be careful when dealing with friends this week, dear Pisces. Not the drug kind of dealing, the “interacting with” kind of dealing. Your friends all think that you read these horoscopes too much. Instead of trying to listen to their reasoning, convert them to your point of view and have them read horoscopes too! Your friends will thank you. Your lucky cat is the lion.

The Final Score

Dan Hagerman Aside from rowdy drunkenness and blazing couches, the biggest complaint against students living in apartments was most likely Rock Band over the past year. And why wouldn’t it be? Rhythm-based music games are all the rage these days, and the original Rock Band took the great things about Guitar Hero and expanded it to include drums and a microphone as well, solidifying the notion of being a “real band” instead of just an awesome guitarist.

The social focus of the game, coupled with its (mostly awesome) licensed music and slick customizable characters, actually made the $200 price tag seem worth it; you could even add more songs to the game at the low, low price about a couple dollars at most per song.

So why am I going on and on about Rock Band when I’m supposed to be reviewing Rock Band 2?

By and large, they’re pretty much the same game.

But is that really a horrible thing?

The answer to that question varies on the individual gamer.

If you already own the special edition of the first Rock Band, picking up the software will cost you $60, giving you just about as many songs as the original. All of the downloadable songs you’ve purchased also just automatically work with it, so there’s no worry

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Rock Band 2 continues with exactly what people love about the game - more Rock Band. about losing out on something you’ve already purchased.

But what about all those songs on the Rock Band 1 disc? Does this mean you’ll have to swap disc every time you want to play a different set of songs? Heck no!

By purchasing a license key for the small cost of five dollars, you can transfer the vast majority of Rock Band 1 songs onto the hard drive of the system of your choice. From there, Rock Band 2 will automatically read from your stockpile of Rock Band 1 songs as well, doubling your song list right from day one.

So, in terms of added value in terms of songs, Rock Band 2 certainly seems to be worth it.

How about the graphics and gameplay?

The graphics themselves are largely either very similar or the same, except that they listened to my prayers and got rid of the grain

filter that caused everything to look fuzzy. Thus, the characters and environments look sharper.

Even with this extra visual fidelity, the game itself loads songs and environments a hair faster than the previous iteration of Rock Band.

The gameplay itself is almost literally unchanged. In addition to guitar solo sections there are also now drum solo sections for the neglected percussionists out there.

Also, when playing as a band, there are now more extra options than ever, including making a variety of very snazzy music videos, or selling out to somewhere like Hot Topic for more money but fewer fans.

My only gripe with the game is that it can be very difficult to calibrate your lag if you have an HDTV or expensive surround sound system, but with a little patience and tinkering most people can usually find settings that will

work for them.

Ultimately, if you were a fan of the original Rock Band, Rock Band 2 will be right up your alley. But there will also be an old favourite coming back to town as well: Guitar Hero.

Guitar Hero: World Tour will be released in October, and will feature a very similar design to Rock Band 2, instruments and all. There’s no way to tell if it will be better, yet, but there’s never been anything wrong with a little healthy competition. Thankfully, there have been reports that all of the instruments for these games will be cross-compatible, so you’ll only need one set of instruments to play a few different games.

The sounds of rock may replace the sounds of studying soon enough, but it’s never stopped sounding good.

Dan Hagerman is Copy Editor of The Brunswickan.

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brunswickanclassifieds bruns-ad@unb.ca

Classifieds are a FREE service for members of the university community. Please try to limit submissions to 35 words or less. Your name, student number, and phone number are required at submission, but will not be published. We can accept them at Room 35, SUB, 453-5073 (Fax), or e-mail: bruns-ad@unb.ca. Please do not submit by phone. We reserve the right to edit or refuse publication. All classifieds are subject to available space. For display advertising contact Bill at 447-3388. Classified deadline is Monday at noon.

WANTED The Blue Door restaurant (Downtown; 100 Regent St, corner of King) is looking for a dependable, hardworking, efficient person to join our team as a dishwasher. Day/ night and part-time /full time positions available. Contact Chef Peter in person.

We are looking for a babysitter for our fun and funny children ages four and seven. Times would vary, some day, afternoons and evenings. They enjoy playing outside, reading and painting.

Bedtime is 7:00 p.m. so there is lots of time to study. If you are interested please contact Debbie at 471-2295 to arrange an interview.

FOR SALE Corner cherry wood computer desk $99, caned seat rocker $50, four ft pine bench $35, toddler’s dresser $99, drop leaf table (Duncan Phyffe) $150, two Lyre back chairs $50 each, end table with drawer $99, bedside table $99, comlet set World Books $100 obo, brand new Blackberry (still in box) $00 obo, treadmill (like new) $450 obo, Weider weight bench $150. Call 454-6096.

1998 Chrysler Intrepid for sale: $2999, excellent condition, 290,000 km, rust proofed every year, well maintained, 2.7 L engine (34 MPG), fully loaded, spare set of tires and rims. Call 458-4401 (Joe) or e-mail: jmcculley@nbpower.com.

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Simmons Futon, wooden frame, removable taupe mattress cover, machine wash, excellent condition. $350. E-mail: b3wic@unb.ca.

I need these electronics vcrs ,camcorders,scooters older ones.

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Two dressers; three and four drawers (wood) $40. ea, three seater sofa with wooden frame $75. French Provincial sofa and matching chair (beautiful set) $250. 455-6450 ACCOMMODATIONS Apartment for female. Private room, electric heat, complete accommodations, internet, cable, T.V., washer, dryer. Ten minutes from UNB/STU. $300 monthly. Seeing is believing. Call 455-5298.

Room to rent: serious male student— furnished bedroom, separate kitchen, bath, laundry and entrance. Utilities included. Cable and Internet available.

Five minute walk to UNB. One room available immediately on Kitchen Street. Phone 455-1979 or 4512979.

Apartment. Living room, kitchen with fridge, new stove and dryer. Equipped for three students. Fully renovated bathroom. Furnished, freshly painted.

Three computer desks. Equipped kitchen. Bedding if needed. Utilities, cable and internet, storage space. Five minutes to UNB by car, on bus route.

E-mail: marianneduke@hotmail.

com or phone 457-0178 and leave a message. Reasonable rent, no lease.

Well-furnished room in a wonderful house to share. The house is quiet and clean with a great backyard and parking. $300 includes heat, lights, telephone, high-speed wireless internet, and cable TV. Available now. Call Patricia 454-6019 and leave a message after 6 rings or e-mail: himmys@nbnet.nb.ca. Located on Church Street.

Furnished bedroom. Sharing large kitchen, bath, and laundry with two others. Near universities. Mature, non-smoking student wanted. 4590002.

Female room mate wanted for female apartment in downtown Fredericton.

Close to University. New security building with W/D. $375 per month plus utilities. Call 506-847-2821.

Rooms to rent: January 1/2009.

Serious male students—two students will graduate in December/08. Two furnished bedrooms, separate kitchen, bath, laundry and entrance. Utilities included. Cable and Internet available.

Five minute walk to UNB. Two rooms available on Kitchen Street.

Phone 455-1979 or 451-2979.

PSAs Julien Le Blanc in Solo Piano Recital October 8. From the warm fiery sounds of the Mediterranean to the languid sorrows of Poland, pianist Julien Le Blanc invites you to take a musical tour of Southern Europe. The UNB Resident Musician performs Scarlatti, Granados, Poulenc, and Chopin on Wednesday, October 8, at 8:00 p.m. in Memorial Hall, UNB Fredericton. This concert is

part of Music on the Hill’s 2008-09 concert series. Tickets, $23 for adults, $21 for seniors, and $7 for students, are available at Westminster Books, The Paper Trail and at the door. Or save money by purchasing a series subscription. For more information visit our website at musichill.unb.ca or call 457-2233.

TWIG (Tuff Writing ­Interesting Group) is a friendly writing circle created to encourage the art of writing. We will meet on the third Thursday of every month, and both new and mature writers are welcome.

Participation in this writing circle includes submitting our own texts, and evaluating other participants’ work. There will be no ‘mother’ to make tea or coffee for us at our monthly meeting, though the kitchen will be available for individual forays in that direction. Every once in a while, TWIG will invite established writers to read us their work, and to share with us their thoughts on the process of writing. Every year, the poetry-reading series, odd sundays at molly’s, will invite TWIG members, as a group, to read their work to the public. TWIG is open to all who are interested in writing, in whatever form they practice their art. Bring pencils, paper, ears attuned to listening, and your love of writing. Info: acalvern@ nbnet.nb.

Free stuff Saturday at reNeu Boutique!

This October 4th, get ready to find yourself some free goodies...clothing, shoes, bags, jewellery, and such. This is a great chance to find a free costume for Halloween! So bring your reusable bags and take as much of the select items as you please...no strings attached. From 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 349 King St (in the Tannery)..

Bruns Staff Meeting Everyu Wednesday at 12:30 Room 35 SUB No Experience Necessary

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Reds: Living up to the hype Cameron Mitchell The Brunswickan

The men’s hockey team has history of success, and losing doesn’t happen often. But on Wednesday night, the team lost 4-1 to the Islander’s rookies. Even though it was a pre-season game, that loss couldn’t have sat well with the players.

“There is a standard here at UNB of what success is, and this is a new group. But now they’re going to have their chance,” said head coach Gardiner MacDougall in reference to this year’s squad.

Talking to coach MacDougall, he certainly believes that this year’s team can live up to UNB’s level of excellence.

“We’ve got good depth at each position, and now it’s just a matter of improving on our effort, and improving on our performances on a nightly basis,” said MacDougall.

On Friday, the Reds were greeted with another chance to live up to UNB’s standard of excellence when they began a weekend series against Trois-Rivières. UNB was hungry for wins, but Trois-Rivières refused to roll over, and the Reds had to fight hard through two characterbuilding games that may come to define this year’s hockey team.

Friday’s game was a penalty-filled affair that saw two gritty teams give it their all. The physical effort put forth by the Reds was indicative of a regular season game, but as coach MacDougall said, “they’re a hard working group.”

Despite out-shooting Trois-

Rivières 17-7 in the first period, UNB ended Friday’s first period deadlocked in a 1-1 tie. Scrappy play, and an all-star like performance by the visiting goalie highlighted the period. UNB went into the intermission knowing they had to start capitalizing on their scoring chances.

At 5:48 of the second period the puck finally went into the net.

Justin Decosta scored a power play marker and UNB took the lead.

They would add to their lead with another goal in the third period.

The game looked like it was in the bag.

However, Trois-Rivières would go on to score two unanswered goals and push the game into overtime. Going into overtime, the two teams had combined for 23 penalties and the Red’s were a beaten up and bruised bunch.

Overtime started out with the Reds flying. They had shrugged off the physical toll and dominated the extra period. The Reds’ hard work paid off and skilled forward Hunter Tremblay scored on a onetimer from the dot. UNB won the game 3-2.

Sunday’s game was another physical affair. Despite outshooting the opposition 27-11 in the first period, UNB just couldn’t find the net.

“I thought we had an outstanding first period, but we need to get more for our efforts.

We need to find a way to beat these goaltenders,” said MacDougall after the game.

Five minutes into the second the coach’s prayers were answered, as forward Lachlan MacIntosh scored an even strength goal. However, the Reds’ momentum wouldn’t last long and Trois Rivières scored two unanswered goals to take the

One-on-one with...

Matthew Lally

Favourite sport other than the one you currently play?

Lawn bowling and polo – both are extremely exciting.

Why did you choose UNB? UNB was the only Canadian exchange partner from my university in Finland.

What is your desired progrssion?

To be a professional sports agent.

What was your first job?

I was a children’s golf instructor.

What are your pre-game rituals?

Listening to soft jazz.

What’s the one thing you can’t go on the road without?

Kenneth Morrison and Brad Copperwhaite.

What’s your ring-tone on your cell?

“Hello Moto!”

The place I’ve always wanted to visit is…

New York.

What is your desired profession?

I want to be a financial manager.

What’s the one thing you can’t go on the road without?

Villasukat, which is wool socks that my Grandmother knit for me.

friday, September 26th

saturday, September 27th Women’s Volleyball UNB - 3 WESTERN ONTARIO - 0 UNB - 3 LAVAL - 0 Women’s soccer UNB - 0 St. FX - 0 Men’s Soccer UNB - 0 St. FX - 0 Hockey UNB - 3 UQTR - 2 Sunday, September 28th

Luke Perrin / The Brunswickan

The UNB Varsity Reds fight for the puck off a face-off during an exhibition match against UQTR on the weekend. The Reds took both games against the university from Quebec. lead at halfway through the third.

But the Reds fought back, and halfway through the third Dustin Friesen found the back of the net with a power play marker.

Shortly after, pre-season standout Kevin Henderson kicked it into second gear and blew past a TroisRivières defender to set up a beautiful one-timer goal by Jordan Clendenning.

“Obviously, on the winning

goal, Henderson made an excellent play. He’s had a real good preseason for us. It was good to see Jordan Clendenning score. That was a huge goal for us. And it was good to see MacIntosh get on the board.

“We need both of those guys to score for us if we’re going to be successful,” said MacDougall.

“There’s a lot of positives to bring out of the effort tonight

and to come from behind like that defines a bit about the character of the group right now.”

This weekend’s effort proved that the Reds are a physical hardworking bunch that will succeed with scoring.

They look like they are a solid mix of skill and physical play, and these are the two things that the Reds are going to have to continue to do to be successful.

Sports without the visual

Could someone actually stay atop the sports world without television?

Balls to the wall

Wake up, make breakfast, turn on the television – it’s a crucial routine. Many sports fanatics need their daily dose of last night’s happenings before they head out the door to attack the day.

But what if you no longer have access to the actionpacked programming you are accustomed to each morning?

In the past, the morning sport recaps were crucial if you wanted to know what was going on in the world of sports. It’s true, you can get all the information you need by letting the ticker inform you of last night’s scores, or by quickly scanning all the of the notable sports-exclusive channels for the top stories.

Recently, my roommates and I made the executive decision to terminate our cable services.

For the amount of television we actually watch, it just wasn’t a very intelligent decision on our behalf to be paying as much as we did each month. Besides, we all lead busy lives and didn’t think we’d have the disposable time to watch whatever the T.V. was trying to spoon feed to us.

At first, you almost feel like you’re missing something when you head out each morning. No, you don’t know how the Leafs fared last night and you didn’t hear about the latest transaction.

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Hockey UNB - 1 New York Islanders Rookies - 4

Women’s Volleyball UNB - 3 SHERBROOKE - 2

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Sport: Women’s Soccer Yr: 1

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Hockey UNB - 4 UQTR - 3

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I’ll admit that it’s a little difficult when you don’t get the goods you want. It hurts me when I find out top sports stories from a friend, or missing that highlight of Crosby scoring another unbelievable goal.

Last week, I even walked in on one of my roommates, sitting on the couch in boxers and holding a bowl of cereal, watching all of the TSN highlights online. I thought it was a pretty neat idea, but you could see his frustration as he waited for the video to buffer. I guess streaming videos aren’t ready to replace television just yet.

To top that, I overheard that two of my roommates were deciding to repurchase our cable package together, just so they can get the latest scores and maintain their sanity.

As a sports editor, I’m expected to keep up with the world of sports. I remember when I was hired for my position; the transition report said to “check TSN, ESPN, and CIS websites ten times daily.” I laughed at first, but yet here I am, constantly refreshing the browser so that I don’t miss anything I should know.

All of this raises a good question that I often think about: Can someone stay ahead on the world of sports without television?

Admittedly, I probably don’t watch enough sports a person in my position should. I don’t really have the time to watch the morning highlights anymore, nor do I have the patience to stream videos off the Internet.

Essentially, I read a lot to keep up with the ever-changing sports

environment. I’m a bit of an RSS feed junkie. What is an RSS feed? Essentially, it’s an online updater than informs me when a particular section of a website has been updated.

I’m subscribed to such sports websites as TSN, ESPN, CBC, and numerous others to help me stay on top of worldwide sports.

And without a lie, I check my Google Reader about three times an hour, if I can, to make sure I know what’s going on.

Even here, at the Brunswickan, we have made a shift to online coverage. Every Wednesday, our weekly issue is posted on the World Wide Web so that everyone can check out the latest news regarding their favourite UNB team.

Over the past few months, I’ve made due without television. I still know who’s in the race for the pennant, I do know what the new Toronto Raptors’ third jersey looks like, and I am well aware of the fact that UNB won both of their exhibition hockey games this weekend.

Someday, we may no longer need television in the mornings.

Perhaps we’ll see a rising number of people who wake up to check the latest in sports via their RSS feed. Or perhaps a number will wait for the NHL highlights to buffer, whilst in their bed wear.

Can someone actually keep up with the fast-paced sports world without watching television?

More and more each day, I think to myself that it is possible.

Now excuse me while I go back to TSN’s website - I just received an RSS feed update.

Mitchell Bernard is the Sports Editor of The Brunswickan.

Women’s Volleyball UNB - 3 McGill- 2 UNB - 0 MONTREAL - 3 Women’s Soccer UNB - 1 Mt. A - 1 Men’s Soccer UNB - 4 Mt. A - 2

Upcominig V-Reds Events Saturday, october 4th

Women’s Soccer ACA @ UNB 1:00 p.m. @ Chapman Field Men’s Soccer ACA @ UNB 3:15 p.m. @ Chapman Field Sunday, october 5th Women’s Soccer CBU @ UNB 1:00 p.m. @ Chapman Field Men’s Soccer CBU @ UNB 3:15 p.m. @ Chapman Field

Athlete of the Week

#3 Jill Blanchard

Volleyball 3rd Year Bachelor of Science Saint John, New Brunswick Jill Blanchard of the women’s volleyball team had an excellent weekend with the Varsity Reds as the team kicked off their season by travelling to Montreal to take part in the Montreal Carabins Invitational volleyball tournament. The event saw a field of eight teams, six of whom (Montreal, Sherbrooke, McGill, Laval, Ottawa, UNB) appeared within the CIS “Top 10” rankings last season

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Predicting the Future - Part II Breakin’ it down Alex Wickwire

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The NHL Western conference has a lot of depth for the upcoming season, as they look to challenge the young and feisty Eastern squads. Here’s a look how I think the Western standings will finish this upcoming season.

1. Detroit Red Wings: Much like the Canadiens, the Red Wings only made themselves better in the offseason by adding Marion Hossa.

The only concern for them will be between the pipes, but when you face less than 20 shots a game, it shouldn’t be tough.

2. San Jose Sharks: With a pair of new blue-liners in Dan Boyle and Rob Blake, look for the weight to be lifted off of Evgeni Nabokov this season. Goals will come early and often for this team boasting all-star calibre forwards Thornton, Cheechoo and Marleau.

3. Calgary Flames: The top line can hurt you both physically and on the score sheet. Expect another big season from Iggy and Kipper.

This team will be able to lock down defensively and be able to put the puck in the net, too.

4. Anaheim Ducks: With a pair of the NHL’s best defencemen in Pronger and Niedermayer, this team can shut down a lot of players.

With another year of seasoning, Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf will be lighting the lamp more frequently this time around.

5. Dallas Stars: Look for this defensive team to continue the tear they went on last season after acquiring Brad Richards. Marty Turco is ready to establish himself as an all-around goalie.

6. Chicago Blackhawks: Not only does this team have last year’s super rookies Toews and Kane, but also an off-season’s worth of new players. Brian Campbell will solidify the back end, and Cristobal

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With the start of the NHL season around the corner, the Detroit Red Wings are primed to take another shot at the Stanley Cup. Huet won’t be forced to play the majority of the games. The duo of Khabibulin and Huet will work wonders for the Hawks.

7. Edmonton Oilers: Eric Cole and Lubomir Visnovsky will really help this team. Getting Sheldon Souray back for the season will help as well. The only question mark is going to be how Mathieu Garon will hold up in his first season as this team’s starter.

8. Vancouver Canucks: The league’s best goalie will steal all kinds of games for this team. The loss of Naslund and Morrison is bound to hurt, but they were replaced by Kyle Wellwood, Pavol Demitra and Steve Bernier. The offense should be better this year.

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Columbus Bluejackets: Pascal Leclaire will need a repeat performance of last season in order

for the Jackets to have a glimmer of hope. Rick Nash will keep lighting the lamp, and the young guys will contribute, too.

10. Phoenix Coyotes: This team could have a line built solely on players who are younger than me.

There will be a little bit of pressure on these young guns, but Shane Doan and Olli Jokinen will take the brunt of the pressure.

11. Nashville Predators: Sporting four very young, yet very talented defensemen will make up for the loss of Alexander Radulov. This young team will be able to take care of things in their own end.

12. Minnesota Wild: It is going to be really hard to make up the 46 goals they lost this off-season in Brian Rolston and Pavol Demitra, but the Wild always seem to win, so you can’t completely count them

out.

13. Colorado Avalanche: Despite the off-season acquisition of Darcy Tucker and Andrew Raycroft, I really can’t see those two players helping this team all that much.

They will need much more than those two in order to win some more games.

14. Los Angeles Kings: This team is very young, and can’t be expected to be ready to win many games just yet. Give them a couple of years and they will be cup contenders.

15. St. Louis Blues: The goaltending duo of Chris Mason and Manny Legace will be expected to carry a very big load. The leadership of Keith Tkachuk and Paul Kariya will help the young players before their inevitable retirements.

On a hot and humid Sunday evening, squeaking sneakers and bouncing basketballs echo through the Lady Beaverbrook Gymnasium.

The Varsity Reds are preparing for the upcoming season, and as they get ready to hit the floor in October, another team is preparing for their own competition.

The “Hangmen Crew” is gathered in the UNB dance studio one floor above the basketball court. Daniel Blais, along with Kyle and Matt Gartshore, are laughing, grooving, and breakin’ down.

They are preparing themselves for “The DJ Olympics” hip-hop competition in Halifax. Dressed in jeans or gym shorts, the trio has been practicing “6-steps” and “Top Rock” for who knows how long, and it shows by the gallons of sweat pouring through their clothing.

A class was supposed to be going on, but due to lack of interest, it had to be suspended until next semester.

This doesn’t stop them from using their time in the studio. After all, practice makes perfect. With 14 years of break-dancing experience between them, it is evident that they are all serious b-boys.

B-Boy, standing for breaker boy or breaking boy, is the true term for someone who dances to hip-hop.

B-Boying is break-dancing, and being a B-Boy is living out hip-hop culture.

Hip-Hop culture is not what people see on television. The Soulja Boy dance and L’il Wayne’s annoying beats have almost nothing to do with the B-Boy lifestyle. Kyle “B-Boy Genesis” Gartshore sums it up very well with one sentence: “It’s fueled by hate to create positivity.”

He says to think of where it all began, in the New York housing projects. “Rather than find somebody in a dark alley then beat

up and rob them, at the next party, smoke them in a break-dance battle and embarrass them in front of hundreds of people.”

All the history aside, b-boying is an excellent way to stay in shape.

A typical break-dance workout is similar to a training session for a sport like boxing. It conditions you in three ways.

The most obvious is that it’s an aerobic workout. Like most dances, you will end up very winded if you push yourself to full speed.

If you’ve ever watched somebody break, then you realize that it is a plyometric workout in the sense that you have to be explosive when throwing your body around.

Lastly, b-boying is an isometric exercise simply because you need to develop brute strength to hold yourself in all those cool poses.

Like every physical activity, there is a risk of injury when b-boying.

“B-boys often have similar wrist injuries as gymnasts,” said Daniel “D-Blais” Blais. When asked about head injuries like concussions, his only reaction was a shrug and a headshake indicating that it’s probably more likely for a football player to get a concussion than a b-boy.

Breakers have sore knees, wrists and shoulders, but that’s something common with all athletes. The common conception is that everybody gets hurt when breaking, and it’s somewhat true given the way people get into it. Someone sees a head-spin on YouTube so they go out and try it. They get hurt, and break-dance gets a bad reputation.

It’s comparable to snowboarding in the sense that you don’t hit the highest jump on your first day.

Classes will resume next semester, and if you want to have some fun and learn new ways to move, keep fit, then definitely check them out.

It’s not only an aerobics class – these B-Boys can tell you tons of cool things about the history of hip-hop. Almost like a workout for the body and the mind.

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Sports Briefs Perfect warm-up for talented Reds

NHL Clubs Touch Down in Europe The Pittsburgh Penguins arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, this past Sunday morning. The team is set to open the NHL season with a two game set against the Ottawa Senators, this weekend.

The Penguins are practicing in Stockholm to start the week, before travelling to Helsinki, Finland, for an exhibition game with a team from the Finnish Elite League. They’ll head to back to Sweden on Friday, and kickoff the season Saturday night.

The Senators will practice in Goteborg, Sweden to start the week, and will face a team from the Swiss Elite League on Thursday night.

The New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning are in Europe as well this weekend. The two will face each other in back to back games, Saturday and Sunday.

The other NHL clubs will finish out their pre-season schedules, before the regular season begins in Canada and in the U.S. on Thursday.

Sabathia Leads Brewers to the Post-Season C.C. Sabathia pitched yet another complete game on Sunday, pushing the Milwaukee Brewers into the playoffs.

The big lefty was pitching on three days of rest, for the third consecutive game. Nonetheless, he was able to keep the Chicago Cubs to only four hits, while striking out seven batters.

With the New York Mets completing another September collapse, the door was open for the Brewers to squeeze into the playoffs.

Ryan Braun made it possible after jacking an eighth inning two-run home run. Sabathia (11-2 since being traded to Milwaukee) came out in the ninth to close things out, and did it in fine fashion.

The Brewers will travel to Philadelphia, where the Phillies will host the first two games of the series. The other National League playoff series sees the Chicago Cubs facing Manny and the L.A. Dodgers.

Favre Throws Career High Six Touchdowns Brett Favre threw a career high and set New York Jets record with six touchdowns in last Sunday’s game. Dressed in a retro blue jersey, Favre and the Jets crushed the Arizona Cardinals 56-35 in a game that resembled his glory days.

The Jets scored 34 points in the second quarter alone, after their defence came up huge, forcing three fumbles and catching two interceptions.

Favre, who was said to be bothered by an ankle injury, finished the game 24-for-34 compiling 289 yards. Laveranues Coles came down with three touchdown receptions, while Jerricho Cotchery had two.

The Jets, now 2-2, have a bye week, giving them some time for rest. They’ll resume action the following weekend, at home against the Bengals.

Yankee Stadium Closes after 85 Years The final out has been recorded at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees said goodbye to their longtime home last week with a 7-3 victory over Baltimore.

Many Yankee veterans and celebrities were on hand for the historical event. Several Yankee greats were honored in the pregame ceremony before Julia Ruth Stevens, the daughter of Babe Ruth, threw the ceremonial first pitch.

In a building where Babe Ruth hit the first homerun, Jose Moline managed the crank the final one.

He sent a pitch out of the park in the fourth inning, giving the Yankees the lead.

When the game concluded, Yankees captain Derek Jeter spoke to the crowd from the field.

Jeter thanked the fans for the years of support, before the team took a final lap around the field.

The Yankees will move across the street to the new Yankee Stadium at the start of next season.

View from the Sidelines Tony von Richter

What a difference a week makes.

Two weekends ago the Reds were back on the ice for their first exhibition games of the new season.

They looked like they would pick up where they left off last year, outscoring their opponents 11-1 over two games and generally looking unstoppable.

Fast forward to this weekend and despite peppering their opponents with number of shots they were only able to find the net seven times over two games against the University of Quebec at TroisRivieres. They came away looking frustrated and unable to capitalize on their chances.

With such a dramatic turn around, should Reds fans be worried? Have the defending AUS Champions lost their scoring touch?

Although the loss of Rob Hennigar means that UNB will not be the offensive juggernaut that they were a year ago, Reds fans have nothing to worry about. In fact, last week’s games, including the 4-1 loss to the New York Islanders prospects, were probably the best thing that could have happened to this team.

Rather than walking all over their opponents, the Reds played three tough games against teams that were able to exploit the few weaknesses that the team currently has. They presented an interesting challenge to what is arguably top team in the nation.

While the game against the Islanders was probably quite the learning experience for the Reds, I think the games against UQTR will benefit the team much more in

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Rob Hennigar awaits play during an exhibition match against UNB last Wednesday evening. UNB will be missing his offensive presence as they get set for the 2008-2009 season. the long run.

The thing that stood out most from this weekend’s games is that this team is going to miss Hennigar’s offensive touch more than anyone realized. Make no mistake, the Reds are still a talented offensive team and with a little more time they’ll have no problems finding the back of the net. But they’ve lost the dominating onetwo punch that they had prior to Hennigar’s departure.

Last season, the Reds had two offensive superstars in Hennigar and Hunter Tremblay. On the rare

occasion that one of them had an off game, the other would be there to pick up the slack. Now, it is left to Tremblay to carry the load and as the Reds have a void for a dominant number two scorer.

Thankfully the team has a few candidates who could step up and fill the role with Lachlan MacIntosh, John-Scott Dickson, and Kyle Bailey as the most likely suspects. Should former Medicine Hat Tiger Daine Todd join the Reds after he finishes training camp with the Phoenix Coyotes, he too would be a likely contender

to the second-scoring spot.

No matter who steps up to fill the void left by Hennigar’s graduation to the pro ranks, this year’s squad is talented all the way down the line. With over half the team in their second year of eligibility or lower, they should have no problem competing for the AUS and CIS title this year - and for the foreseeable future.

Tony von Richter is a former Sports Editor of The Brunswickan and is the current Sports Bureau Chief for Canadian University Press. Email him at managing@unb.ca

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