Issue 24, Vol 144, The Brunswickan

brunswickan Volume 144 · Issue 24 • March 23, 2011

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Raising funds for RAWA

UBC students leave Japan Micki Cowan The Ubyssey (UBC)

The fifth annual fundraiser for RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) took place on Saturday at Gallery Connexion. Mike Erb / The Brunswickan

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VANCOUVER (CUP) — Though the University of British Columbia’s response to the danger in Japan has been swift, at least one student isn’t happy to be sent back home.

UBC decided Friday to send 19 students from what the Canadian government has deemed level three and four risk areas in Japan back home in urgency. The flights have been arranged and paid for by Go Global, and their return is mandatory.

Elsa Chanez, a student who was on exchange at Sophia University in Tokyo, said she feels she has been given no options.

“I do understand their decision, but when I see that my European friends are given the choice to either stay or go, I feel patronized. I have no voice and it’s a bit upsetting.”

Chanez said it is hard to watch the news in Tokyo and wonder if the decision they made was too rash. She had been told the decision would be made on Mar. 21 rather than on the 19th.

“Some of my friends in Tokyo are telling me the situation is fine and that we could have come back with no problems.

Once again, we cannot be too sure, but I feel time would have been able to tell us. But we were not given the option to wait,” she said.

Janet Teasdale, senior director of student development and services at UBC,

recommended on March 17 to require UBC students to return home under a policy that gives the university the right to remove students from high risk areas overseas.

“I think you see all universities, all organizations, all governments working to get their citizens and students out of the area,” she said. “We also look at the assessment other countries make — Italy, France, the U.K. — these countries have different kinds of ways of making these assessments. Some are more or less conservative.”

Teasdale said the level of urgency increased with the nuclear reactor situation at Fukushima. Those who are not in high-risk areas will be allowed to stay, but also assisted if they choose to return home.

“We really quickly removed any barriers so that if a student anywhere in Japan wanted to return home or to Canada, they could do that immediately,” she said.

Students that were taking advantage of Japan’s mid-semester break to travel throughout Asia were asked to remain where they are and not to return to Japan.

After the quake, Chanez’s parents flew her to Hong Kong temporarily. When Go Global contacted her, she discovered that she was not allowed to return to Japan at all to pick up her belongings or say goodbye to her friends and was to immediately fly back home to Marseilles.

Chanez said that her year in Japan was the best of her life, and she was upset at having to leave so suddenly.

“I tried arguing with the adviser, but she said the ‘situation was final.’ Since I left Tokyo in a hurry, all my belongings are still there. I could not say goodbye to my friends, I still have a bank account and a phone to take care of — these may seem trivial, but [they] will become annoying things in the future,” she said.

Teasdale said that while the university is working with Japanese counterparts to ensure the safe return of belongings, the scale of UBC’s actions is unprecedented. “[Of] decisions in the past 10 years, we have never refunded tuition, arranged for travel and required students to leave an area,” she said. “For the most part, the students have been great in understanding the situation and quickly mobilizing themselves in what is a very distressing situation for many of them.”

Students who were planning to leave for Japan were asked to remain home.

For these students, and those who were going to start their second semester in Japan in April, it means a semester of classes will be lost.

“We all just lost a semester since we cannot take courses at UBC now until the summer semester,” said Chanez.

But Teasdale said the university still made the best decision for the safety of students.

“The university moved quickly and appropriately. Obviously there are some students who are upset that their ideas of studying abroad so quickly ended. But we can work with them on alternate arrangements and alternate plans.”

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2011 Valedictorian Elections

Selection of this year’s valedictorian candidates will be weighted both by student votes, as well as a presentation by each before a panel of judges. Voting on e-services begins at 4 p.m. on Friday until Mar. 31 at 11:59 p.m.

Shannon CarmontMcKinley(CEREMONY A) Most of you already know me as President of the Student Union, and I don’t really want to bore you with the details of my resume. I think the best way to explain why I think I would make an awesome valedictorian is that I am like you. I have enjoyed my undergraduate experience and like you I am so excited to be graduating and moving on to the next adventure.

I’ve had my own ups and downs throughout my time at this university and as a result have grown into a stronger person. I have grown to love UNB for all its strengths and quirks. I have played a large role in shaping this campus and this university throughout my degree and I would be honoured to play a special role in our graduation. It helps that I also enjoy public speaking and have experience doing so. I hope you support my campaign. If you are a graduating student, voting begins Friday, March 25 at 4:00 p.m. and ends March 31 at 11:59 p/m.

Elizabeth Hallett (CEREMONY B)

Elizabeth Stirling (CEREMONY A)

Hello everyone, my name is Elizabeth Stirling.

During my time at UNB I have been elected as the Student Union Nursing Representative for the last 3 years; I have been involved in the UNB Redshirts, Peer Mentors, the Woman’s Centre and the Nursing Society.

I am currently working on the Nursing Graduation Committee, various faculty committees and am a member of the Canadian Nursing Student Association Committee that is looking to bring a chapter membership to UNB in the fall. I have spent time overseas working with the UNB Students for Development and am a continuing member of the International Nursing Group on campus.

These are some of the reasons I chose to run for valedictorian. My experience at UNB has been exceptionally positive, in extracurricular and academic life, and has helped me to grow as a person and as a professional. I would immensely appreciate the opportunity to address the graduates of 2011 so we can all reflect on the positive impact UNB has had on our lives as we move forward.

Stephanie Lord (CEREMONY B)

My name is Elizabeth Hallett. It would be an honour to be your valedictorian for graduating Class of 2011, Ceremony B. My time here at UNB has been a lifeenhancing experience. I have met many lifelong friends and look forward to keeping in touch as we embark on different paths. I have enjoyed being involved in various activities such as UNB Cross Country Running, UNB Student Union, Residence Proctor, Peer Mentor and a variety of volunteer work. I have had the pleasure of sharing my experiences with a truly wonderful group of people: old friends and new ones.

I believe that the many opportunities I have had in university life will allow me to include the memories that many of us share in your valedictory address at graduation. When you vote, I encourage you to reflect on your favourite moments at UNB. I hope you will vote for me; remember all of the good times you’ve had and help me make one last memory that we will remember for a lifetime.

I am a UNB junkie. I came to Fredericton from Ottawa and had no idea just how drastically this school would change my life. I enrolled as a chubby kid who partied too much. I decided to make a change. I began getting involved on campus through Joy Kidd as Charity Representative and HOC. Next, I decided to invest in the Student Union holding the positions of Residence Liaison, Education Representative, Student Senator (three years) and Vice President Student Services (two years). I’ve served on numerous selections committees; Dean of Arts, Dean of Education and Associate Dean of Education. Last year I wanted to be a cheerleader so I zipped up a Reds uniform and rocked it. I was the 2010 Grad Class President when I graduated from Arts last May and spent my summer as the 2010 Orientation Chair. Currently, I sit on the UNB Board of Governors. In 1921 my great-grandfather was the UNB Valedictorian.

This May, I want to be on that stage talking about our years at this amazing school and reminisce with each and every one of you about the journey we’ve taken and just how far we’ve come. 2011 is our year.

Michael Lewis (CEREMONY C)

Kathy Moulton (CEREMONY C)

As a valedictorian candidate for Ceremony C, I’d like to briefly summarize my experiences at the university and detail why I would make a favourable valedictorian.

I’ve spent the past five years at the University of New Brunswick and while there have certainly been moments of stress, panic and long nights, I still look back in earnest as the great times vastly usurp the less enjoyable.

Over the past five years, my time as a student, as well as my involvement with the UNB community has changed myself as a person.

Call it social skills, or life skills, but while the UNB experience is academic, it is also so much more. It is in recognizing the merit of the student experience that one becomes a well-rounded UNB alumnus and as a valedictorian I feel I embody those traits.

In choosing me as your valedictorian, I intend to address the graduating class of 2011, Ceremony C as a peer, a friend and a proud UNB student.

Hi! I’m a third year law student from St. John’s, Newfoundland. I have truly enjoyed my time at UNB and I thank my fellow students for nominating me as valedictorian. I am grateful for all of the opportunities that UNB has provided to me and I am proud of my contributions to the community. In 2009, I created the Family Law Legal Information Project, a partnership between law students and transition houses for survivors of domestic abuse. I was the Co-ordinator for Pro Bono Students Canada and the Student Legal Information Centre. Currently, I am the Clinic Manager for the Fredericton Legal Advice Clinic as well as the Executive Director of NB Pro Bono Inc. I have represented UNB nationally at two competitive moots and I have helped plan a variety of speaker events and conferences with the International and Aboriginal Law Societies. Recently, I have been able to teach a free yoga class to my classmates. I am dedicated to community service and improving access to justice and I look forward to using my law degree for these purposes. I would be humbled by the opportunity to give the valedictorian address and I thank you for your support!

Dino Bernard (CEREMONY B)

Hello. My name is Dino Bernard and I am seeking your vote for valedictorian. I am graduating this spring with an honours degree in accounting. I was born in northern New Brunswick and have lived here most of my life. I originally came to UNB in the early 90’s and am finally completing my degree, a long awaited dream of mine.

I love UNB and am going to miss school. I currently run an accounting help centre for financial and managerial accounting. I get a real satisfaction with helping students to not dislike accounting as much as they otherwise might. I have also represented UNB at two different accounting case competitions, winning one in Waterloo last year. I do have some experience in public speaking and would hope to be able to represent our faculty well at graduation this spring. My parents have always wanted me to return to school and I hope to make them proud. Enough about me! I hope to have your support in the upcoming elections for valedictorian.

Janessa Vandenberghe(CEREMONY B) My name is Janessa Vandenberghe and I am finishing my fourth year of business administration. I will be graduating with an honours in human resources and a concentration in marketing. Please check out my Facebook Event page for more information regarding my UNB experience.

To me....The valedictorian position presents the opportunity to unite the graduating students of 2011, yet, at the same time, it should inspire each student to reflect on his or her own individual experience at UNB. I believe that the ideal candidate for valedictorian realizes that we have all worked very hard to get to this point in our lives, and is someone who genuinely wishes to congratulate our efforts in a celebratory farewell.

I am so excited for what is to come after graduation, and I expect those of you graduating are feeling the exact same way. It’s our turn to shine in front of our friends and families and look to the next phase of our lives.

Joanna Saunders (CEREMONY C) Hi all! I am in the fifth year of my BA/BEd program and sadly my days down the hill are coming to a close. I have enjoyed the last five years at UNB, working on my French minor, history honours and taking education courses as well as fitting in as many political science courses as possible. I would love to return for a master’s degree in history, but have to finish my education degree first. I got the wonderful opportunity to study abroad for a semester in England but was happy to return to our beautiful campus. I am currently the secretary of the History Society Executive - “Maybe I saw you on the recent pub tour?”

I’ve really enjoyed being on the society and planning events; hopefully we’ll be having a couple more before the end of the year.

I am very used to public speaking and by chance I will also be graduating with my sister in law school. I have loved my time at UNB and have stayed active in student life for the past five years, so I would love the opportunity to speak at our graduation and feel I can fairly represent our class.

Julia Coleman (CEREMONY D)

Ash Furrow (CEREMONY D)

This May, I will be graduating with my degree in civil engineering.

Over the last five years, I’ve been involved in a wide array of activities, from football to the student government, and have organized and participated in countless student social events. I’ve prided myself in contributing to life at UNB and have met so many amazing people along the way.

I’m running for valedictorian because I am so proud to be a part of UNB and want to share this with our graduating class. I have always been extremely involved at UNB and truly value all of the lessons I have learned during my time here. I sincerely hope that ever yone graduating with me feels as if they have gained as much from their time here as I have.

I would cherish the opportunity to speak to all of you during our graduation, making some of our last moments at UNB as memorable as possible.

My name is Ash Furrow and I’m running for valedictorian because over my years here UNB has become my home.

I’ve made amazing friends, been engaged in student life and have given back to the university community whenever I can.

I’ve been planning on running for valedictorian for over a year now. Since UNB has left such an impression with me, I want to send off my fellow graduates as we embark on our graduate and professional careers.

For these qualities and my experience speaking on behalf of students I feel I’d make the best valedictorian.

Rachel McKinley (CEREMONY D) No write-up submitted.

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briefs Tax return clinic The UNBSU is hosting tax return clinics from March 23 to 26 for students who need assistance with their tax returns. The clinic will be held in Room 103 in the SUB.

Excellence in teaching Nominations for excellence in teaching at UNB are due this Friday. Students can nominate their favourite teachers for an award.

Nomination forms are available on www.unbsu.ca, and can be submitted by emailing internal@ unbsu.ca

JOBS The UNBSU is looking to hire Orientation executives for the coming academic year. Applications for both positions are due on March 28.Visit www.unbsu.ca for more details.

brunswickannews Enrolment numbers up for coming school year

Alex Kress News Reporter Enrolment at UNB has suffered in recent years, but a small increase in numbers indicates the campus population is growing again.

Tony Secco, vice-president academic, said things are looking promising in terms of applications from graduating high school students this year compared with last year.

Applications are up nine per cent from within New Brunswick, 11 per cent overall from across Canada and 10 per cent internationally. Regionally, so far UNB has received 15 per cent more applications from Nova Scotia, almost 30 per cent more from P.E.I. and three times as many from Newfoundland. Interest seems to have increased among Nova Scotian students especially, as 50 per cent more students applying from Nova Scotia have confirmed compared with last year.

In terms of overall confirmations, where applicants have indicated they’ve accepted offers, numbers are around the same if not a few below last year’s, but it’s still early and people are still deciding where to go.

“The anticipation is we’ll do as well or better than last year,” said Secco.

He said his hope for an increase rests on the university’s recent focus on recruitment. He said funding for recruitment was increased last year by between $150,000 and $200,000 which has allowed recruitment officers to attend a higher number of fairs and schools and more frequently.

It has also allowed for an increase in personnel. The university plans to continue adding funds to recruitment on a yearly basis over the next five years.

Susan Mesheau, executive director of U First: Integrated Recruitment and Retention, said there are five recruiters who

recruit for Fredericton in Canada, four of whom are based in Fredericton. Each is responsible for a different region, including western New Brunswick, eastern New Brunswick and P.E.I., Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, online and Ontario and western Canada which is based out of Toronto.

They are in the process of hiring one more full-time recruiter for Ontario and western Canada to be based in Toronto or Ottawa, as well as one part-time recruiter for Atlantic Canada, which will be based in Fredericton. Secco said covering regions with a specific recruitment officer is important because prospective students appreciate the approachability and familiar face.

“If you’re looking at a school it’s nice to have that same contact rather than being shifted from hand to hand from one person to the next. So this is working in our favour and it seems to be successful,” he said.

Although New Brunswick universities have the second highest tuition in Canada, Secco feels lowered enrolment over the past few years isn’t because of deterred students. He attributed it to the “double cohort” in Ontario when they did away with Grade 13, because at that point there was double the regular amount of undergraduates; there were two graduating grades entering the university. The increase was from Ontario students attending school elsewhere like UNB because they were unable to get into Ontario schools.

“After that wave went through - it takes three or four years - what happens is you revert back to the steady state.

And it kept decreasing once people were able to get back into Ontario schools,” he explained.

“Also, the demographic, the numbers

Tony Secco, vice-president academic, said enrolment numbers are up for the coming year based on application rates. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan are less. Yes, the numbers in grade two or three are up, but that’s another nine or 10 years ago before we see them.”

The university’s strategic plan states it aims to increase student retention, but Secco said he prefers to describe the initiative as “reducing the attrition rate,” which means decreasing the amount of people leaving.

On the Fredericton campus there are just under 7,000 students, which includes undergraduate and graduate, part-time and full-time, and domestic and international. Including the Saint John Campus, there are about 9,000.

“We’re really sensitive to the cost of education, there’s no question about that. We do everything in our power not to raise fees in any way, shape or form.

But in many cases, we just don’t have a choice,” he said.

Secco mentioned the looming structural deficit and said the university has to cut a fair amount of money out of the

operating budget. They only have two sources of money, and it is split 60/40 from government and tuition.

“Whatever government doesn’t provide, then we’re left short. Where’s that to come from? Whatever tuition doesn’t provide then we’re short on the government side. Can the university afford not adjusting tuition? The money has to come from somewhere.”

He said students must keep in mind their education is an invaluable investment for their future. Increases in tuition are so tough for students to accept because they don’t have a steady income to offset them and have likely never had such a significant debt to pay off.

“But how do I tell that to somebody who’s not eating well and not sleeping well because they’re worried about how they’re going to pay things off? But buying a home, buying a car, investing in the stock market...these are not investments compared to what an education does.”

brunswickannews Speakers use their muscles in support of muscular dystrophy research

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Alex Kress News Reporter There are over 600 muscles in the average human body, but it only takes 11 to speak. For some with muscular dystrophy, using just those 11 muscles isn’t easy, or even possible.

The UNB Master of Business Administration students have chosen to feature muscular dystrophy, which includes several progressive and degenerative neuromuscular disorders, for their professional development class project. Janice Wopling is a student on the steering committee and is delighted to be part of such a “very inspiring and original project.”

The project-turned-event is scheduled for Apr. 1 at the Fredericton Convention Centre and is in support of muscular dystrophy to raise awareness about the challenges attached to living with it.

Inspired by TED Talks, a global conference series based on idea sharing, 11 Minutes 11 Muscles is drawing on 11 minutes each of inspirational words from six esteemed speakers including author and playwright David Adams Richards, international program director for Journalists for Human Rights Rachel Pulfer and Brian Duplessis, executive director for the United Way, among others. A

silent auction will follow the speakers.

David Adams Richards doesn’t have a direct personal tie to muscular dystrophy, but eagerly accepted an invitation to speak at the event because he feels something like this is always a worthwhile cause to support.

“I’ve known people with ALS... and all these diseases are not only lifethreatening but also debilitating in so many ways,” he said.

He’s pleased to be part of the inaugural event and has high hopes for the event’s turnout.

“New Brunswickers can give what they can give, and I’ve always found that New Brunswickers tend to be exceedingly generous. It doesn’t matter if it’s on the local level, municipal level or provincial level. They always have seemed to come out and that’s always a great thing.”

Wopling said those with advanced cases of muscular dystrophy who are on ventilators are looking at $26,000 or more for a motorized wheelchair, so they’re not exactly cheap. In New Brunswick and the Atlantic region, there are only a small amount of people working to help buy the specialized wheelchairs and equipment that these people need.

There is a local chapter of Muscular Dystrophy Canada here in Fredericton and their clients use the Stan Cassidy

Centre for Rehabilitation. But the consensus is the community should be involved and inspired to help do more for those suffering.

This is why the professional development class at UNB chose to focus on them, and about 45 graduate students have collaborated on the promotion, booking, scheduling and production of the event.

The class is one of 10 mandatory classes the students do in their first year and it teaches both academic and professional skills such as workplace etiquette and entrepreneurship.

For his speech, Richards is trying to choose between a few topics relating to overcoming adversity, but couldn’t divulge what he’ll be speaking about; it’s a secret. To find out how he and the other five speakers will use their 11 minutes, buy a ticket at the Faculty of Business Administration Office, the campus bookstore, Singer Hall Room 255, off campus at Read’s Newsstand and Café at 455 King Street and the Muscular Dystrophy Canada Office at 56 Avonlea Court.

Tickets are $30 for students and $50 at regular price and the event will take place Friday, April 1 at the Fredericton Convention Centre, 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.11minutes.ca

UNB prof vying for Parliament Hill Justin Marshall The Brunswickan Wendy Robbins, a women’s studies and English literature professor at UNB, is reoffering her name to become federal Liberal candidate for the Fredericton riding.

The popular UNB professor plans to focus her campaign on making postsecondary education affordable, creating sustainable full-time jobs and accelerating access to health care.

Robbins said her plan for creating these sustainable full-time jobs is to build a medical research program.

“Medical research is far more lucrative then humanities because they tend to have teams of researchers and buy equipment,” said Robbins.

“We can bring in federal money that would bring medical research in New Brunswick to benefit the university community and create these sustainable full-time jobs for students,” she said.

Robbins wants to accelerate access to health care by cutting wait times at hospitals and improving service.

“It’s not a one person job to cut wait times down at hospitals, but I’m working with Carolyn Bennett who is the Federal Liberal health critic and I want to improve access to getting hip replacements,” she said.

“Our hospitals are being used for nursing home care, so part of the wait time problem is that we need to provide more nursing homes for seniors, which will free up more hospital beds.”

Robbins said she wants to provide more wellness programs because part of the problem with people needing hip replacements is many of them are overweight.

“I want to provide more access for young people to get involved in sports and I support the program put in place by the current government for giving a $500 rebate for kids to join sports,” she said.

Robbins said she wants to make postsecondary education more affordable and said Liberal leader, Michael Ignatieff, has already promised a program called “If you get the grades, you get to go,” which Robbins supports.

Ignatieff addressed the issue of student debt at the University of Victoria last September and discussed the program.

According to The Martlet, the University of Victoria’s student newspaper, Ignatieff said, “‘It has to be an objective of any Liberal government to take the issue of access off the table, so everyone who is qualified doesn’t have any financial obstacles to get there’…Canada needs ‘student grant systems that don’t bury students in debt’ and ‘schedules for [debt] repayment that don’t shut you down’.”

Robbins believes if we were to get rid of fighter jets, corporate tax breaks and stop building American-style prisons, then we would have more money to fund post-secondary education.

Robbins created the campus childcare system at UNB and wants to continue to improve this service for students.

“Affordable child care is another commitment for myself and the Liberal government. This will benefit student parents on campus,” she said.

There is still no word on when the Liberal candidate nomination convention will be.

UNB professor Wendy Robbins is pursuing a seat on Parliament.The women’s studies professor is referring her name to the federal Liberal party. Submitted

David Adams Richards is one of six speakers who will be presenting on April 1. Submitted.

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Who’s the next superpower? Ted Sprague says it the Asian economic power, China. Tom Acker / The McGill Daily Ted Sprague The McGill Daily (McGill University) BEIJING (CUP) — Last night I walked along Wangfujing street, in a shopping district just a stone’s throw away from Tiananmen square.

More than 100 international brand stores line the street to feed the appetite of the growing base of Chinese consumers.

I asked myself, “Would Mao — lying not far away from here — be proud of this?”

Last summer China overtook Japan as the number two global economy. While the whole world is still sluggishly recovering from the financial crisis, China registered 10 per cent growth in 2010. Not even the almighty Communist Party can doctor these economic statistics — the usual Stalinist practice in the past — when the Chinese economy is already so immersed

in the world trade.

But China is not stopping there. By 2025, it is projected to surpass the U.S. according to the World Bank, Goldman Sachs and many others. It is true that its GDP per capita is only one tenth that of Japan. However, given where it started, once “a sick man of Asia,” China has climbed over the wall separating the third world from the first.

With two recent world exhibitions, the 2008 Olympics and the 2010 World Expo, China is flexing its muscles, showcasing its achievements to the world, as if to say, “Look at me!” And people pay attention as it grows by leaps and bounds, even in the deepest recession. China alone carries the whole world economy as others slump.

How could China rise at such a maddening pace? It couldn’t be just because of

the knock-offs and cheap labour. Indonesia, India and Cambodia, to name a few, are also notorious for their sweatshops, yet they are far behind China in almost all respects.

If there is one difference, it is that China underwent a socialist revolution in 1949 that brought about a planned economy, albeit a deformed one, and one far from the conception put forward by Marx. The remnants of this planned economy can still be seen in China’s economic policy: The pegged Yuan and the way China runs its state bank have drawn the ire of many U.S. policymakers. But other than a few residual signs of its socialist past, China is now a capitalist country.

China is not a paradise. There are many social contradictions inside this behemoth.

Here we have a so-called socialist country that treats its workers no better than many

capitalist countries, where the ruling party cannot yet openly abandon socialist rhetoric and embrace capitalism like their counterparts in Russia.

“Hold high the banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics,” proclaimed Hu Jintao at the party’s 17th Congress; this is when multi-million-dollar capitalists are being born each second in the country.

The world is a different place now, for us in the West, and also for the hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants who for the first time see the glimmering light of Beijing and are then immediately stuffed by the thousands into Dickensian factories.

We are quickly moving from one epoch to the other, one filled with turbulence just like the bustling streets of Beijing.

But if you can make it here in Beijing, you can make it anywhere.

Getting what you want and giving some too

Kay explores sexual self-disclosure in her fourth and final column on sexual communication

Kay Sex Columnist In mainstream media, telling our sexual partners what we like often fits in a long list of sexual techniques aimed at having mind-blowing sex. Yet, no technique is as good or as consistent at getting your partner off as hearing them say out loud, “Oh gawd, I love what you are doing.”

Up to now I’ve pretty much ignored the idea different types of communication. I’m a proponent of open, honest, direct verbal communication. This style gets rid of any guess work, resulting in a better chance that your intended message is received (read, you are effective). Plus, UNB researchers O’Sullivan and Byers suggested long ago (1992) that men and women are not very good at picking up on their partners indirect communication whether it is verbal (i.e., ‘I’m going to have a hot shower’) or non-verbal (i.e., giving a back rub). So I strongly suggest sticking to direct.

Sexual self-disclosure is the term for divulging information about your sexual self, including your sexual likes and dislikes, to someone else. It is not surprising that researchers have found talking about what you do and don’t like not only leads to more satisfying sex immediately and in the long-term (because your partner learns about your preferences), it also increases intimacy in the relationship (McNeil & Byers, 2005).

Plus, you talking about sex is highly likely to be reciprocated - so that your partner can have great sex too!

But how do we do this? Body language can feel safer and more comfortable.

Sometimes it works. Like the naked man from How I Met Your Mother (2 out of 3 times). Other times, the message is less obvious. Is my pelvic tilt my way of saying penetrate deeper or am I ever so slightly pulling myself away because I am uncomfortable? How about that grimace on your face – are you in pain and I need

to change what I am doing or are you about to cum and I best keep with this stimulation? Even the most astute partner is left guessing Ready to put sounds to those words?

How about start with a little dirty talk?

It’s a little less vague and maybe not as intimidating as directing your partner through a connect the dots sequence of your preferred bodily stimulations.

Slower, faster, softer, harder. Now shift into a couple sentences. “I want to fuck you,” “I want to have sex on and off all night.” Ready to get more steamy – try describing a fantasy to your lover before you get naked. Cat got your tongue? Take a step back and type out your fantasy story into an email and send it to your partner.

Sexting is not just for horny teens!

A few words to the wise: 1) use typing to express both likes and dislikes, 2) try not to get carried away into a fantasy game that makes you want to hurl in reality – that would be sending the wrong

message and 3) use this as a gateway to verbalizing (perhaps first over the phone) not as your only form of sex talk.

Now a word from our sponsors (a.k.a, Kay), have a positive sandwich. It goes like this: 1) express a positive feedback, 2) express the negative feedback and 3) express a positive feedback. “Last night, I was so excited by your passion when we snuck away from the party to have sex in the car (positive). Sometimes I feel like we have sex because that’s what we are supposed to do (negative). The look of hunger in your eyes and the intense desire I felt in you instantly turned me on (positive).”

Notice also how I phrased my feedback: I-statements and focused on something specific and recent. I also don’t criticize or blame when stating what I don’t like. This approach leaves less room for initiating defensive reactions.

The take-away from this 4-part series?

New Year’s Resolution #5 (or is it 6?): Practice talking to my sex partners about sex.

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Beating cancer with every bite include liver, spinach, kale, cilantro and thyme.

Vitamin C foods include oranges, as well as papaya, strawberries, lemons, cauliflower, broccoli and more. Their cancer-preventing qualities were discovered by a team of Johns Hopkins University scientists who found that antioxidants may destabilize a tumour’s ability to grow under oxygen-starved conditions, an effect of vitamin C. While good for your health, it should not be taken in excess as a means of cancer prevention.

Quick Tips Shopping: The rule of thumb when choosing your fruits and vegetables is to go for those that are rich in colour.

These tend to have the most nutrients and a higher ability to fight cancer.

Examples include broccoli compared to cauliflower. While cauliflower contains vitamins C and K along with potassium,

broccoli could help reduce cholesterol, contains beta-carotene and has the highest amount of vitamins compared to any other vegetable.

Foods: Healthy fats: Walnuts, almonds, olive oil, avocados, pistachios, pumpkin seeds, olives and salmon.

Antioxidants/anti-inflammatory: Foods rich in quercetin include black and green teas, capers, apples, red onions, red grapes, citrus fruit, tomatoes, broccoli and other leafy green vegetables, and a number of berries, including raspberries, cranberries and blueberries. Dark chocolate and cinnamon are another good source of antioxidants.

Vitamins: Vitamin A is found in carrots, sweet potatoes, spinach, mangoes, apricots and butternut squash, liver, spinach, kale, cilantro and thyme. Vitamin C foods include oranges, papaya, strawberries, lemons, cauliflower and broccoli.

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According to a study from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer published in the European Journal of Cancer, only five to 10 per cent of all cancer cases are caused by genetic defects. The remaining cases are linked to lifestyle factors including smoking, diet, alcohol, physical inactivity, obesity and sun exposure, as well as infections and environmental pollutants.

While there is no one miracle food that can be consumed to lower the risk of cancer, being aware of what ingredients go into your meals and making certain lifestyle changes can reduce your chances of becoming a cancer patient.

Lifestyle changes to make before changing your diet: 1. It is time to cut out the smoking because it keeps your immune system from reaching its maximum strength, which can bring on cancer.

2. Next is cutting out the excessive tanning.

3. Finally, it is important to limit the amount of alcohol your body consumes.

Understanding the diet First things first, you need to be introduced to some Super-Food lingo: Antioxidants, beta-carotene, fibre, protein, vitamins. A diet comprised of all these cancer fighters, along with the lifestyle changes mentioned above, will be the healthiest and most effective way to prevent cancer.

This kind of diet will also boost your immune system.

“The body needs to have all the necessary elements, like vitamins and minerals, to be able to produce antibodies and other defence mechanisms used by the human body,” said dietitian Marta Grzegorczyk, who founded Info Nutrition, an in-home nutrition service. “Without these elements the body cannot function properly. Antibodies that protect the body’s cells against free radicals have a positive effect on the immune system.”

Fats and preservatives Limiting fat intake is important, said Grzegorczyk, especially saturated and trans fats, as they are linked with numerous health problems.

“It is also important to encourage the consumption of unprocessed foods, as some of the chemicals used as food additives can be harmful to the body and could trigger cancer cells production.”

Our bodies do need fats though, but, preferably the healthy fats (yes, they do exist). Walnuts, almonds, olive oil and avocados are full of monounsaturated fats. Instead of reaching for a bag of chips, go for a hand full of walnuts or pistachios. For those allergic to nuts, pumpkin seeds, olives and salmon are suggested replacements.

The Canadian Cancer Society also lists food additives like preservatives as dangerous to your health. On their website, they write: “When meat is preserved by smoking, curing or salting, or by the addition of preservatives, cancercausing substances can be formed.

These substances can damage cells in the body and lead to the development of colorectal cancer. Research shows that eating processed meat increases the risk of cancer. Save processed meat for special occasions, such as ham for a holiday dinner.”

Antioxidants and anti-inflammatory COX-2 is an enzyme that could lead to inflammation and pain. It also could cause tumour cells to grow. By counteracting COX-2, you could prevent cancer cells from growing.

Howard Epstein, the director of Technology and Business Development at Cosmetic Actives and Bio Active in New Jersey who has done research on food and cancer prevention, said that “quercetin found in red onions and various fruits and vegetables suppress COX-2 enzyme.”

Quercetin is a flavonoid, a plant chemical that can act like an antihistamine and anti-inflammatory. It is also an antioxidant, which is vitally important, said Grzegorczyk.

“Antioxidants help to prevent oxidation of molecules caused by free radicals, this means that they help to slow down or prevent damage done to cells in our body. Oxidative damage done to cells contributes to health problems like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.”

Antioxidants can be found in a fruit as tiny as a blueberry, but can protect you from cancer. Dark chocolate contains antioxidants said to prevent skin cancer.

Antioxidants can also be found in spices, one of the most powerful is cinnamon.

Cinnamon functions as an anti-inflam-

matory as well as an antioxidant and has the ability to prevent blood clotting, to prevent bacteria like fungi from spreading, and to regulate blood sugar levels and to lower blood pressure.

While cinnamon is great for the body, its partner in deliciousness — apples — also has beneficial properties. Apple peels, especially the darker in colour, like the red delicious apple, have “cancer preventers” in them like antioxidants, vitamin A and C and minerals like calcium, potassium, and iron. According to a 2007 study at Cornell University that was published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, apples peels cannot only destroy cancer cells, but can also prevent them from spreading.

Rui Hai Liu, senior author of the study, told Science Daily, “We found that several compounds — phytochemicals, more importantly flavonoids and phenolic acids — have potent antiproliferative activities against human liver, colon and breast cancer cells and may be partially responsible for the anti-cancer activities of whole apples.”

Vitamins Vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin E and beta-carotene are also important elements of a cancer diet. While many of us would search for these in supplements, Grzegorczyk said that is not always the right choice to make. Rather she said it is better to eat whole foods that contain all the vitamins and nutrients. The reason is that dietary supplements often only provide one component, whereas in food you get a multitude of different components.

“Supplements can also be deceiving because they give the consumer a false impression of healthy eating. The consumer presumes that because they are taking vitamins, they do not have to eat as many healthy foods,” added Grzegorczyk. “If you rely on nutrition alone to make sure you have all your essential dietary components, you are much more prone to make healthy food choices and have a balanced diet.”

Beta-carotene is an organic compound best known for giving fruits and vegetables their red, orange and yellow pigments. It can provide approximately 50 per cent of the vitamin A needed in a daily diet and is said to be effective in preventing cancers, especially breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

It is found in carrots, sweet potatoes, spinach, mango, apricots and butternut squash. Other foods high in vitamin-A

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Let everyone know whats on your mind.

“I don’t care.”

Kevin Vos

Scott Facey

Jenna Henry

“I don’t drink beer.”

“It’s not cool.”

Jessica Seguin “People will pay for it anyways.”

“I don’t drink beer.”

“Speechless.

I’m in shock.”

Sean Hutchins

Leanne O’Rielly

“Sad Panda.”

Karlie Hanoski

What are your thoughts on the projected increase in beer prices?

“People are going to spend way more at the bar.”

“I’m in shock.”

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Donnie, Donnie, Donnie: Fredericton, whaddaya want?

Hilary Paige Smith News Editor Donnie Dumphy, the Newfoundlander notorious for havin’ a time, kicks off a 29-day tour across Canada today. After stopping in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the Dumph will land at Nicky Zee’s in Fredericton on April 1.

“Well, you know. (I just) want to bring everyone together and have a good time, as usual right? I’m all about putting smiles on people’s faces and gettin’ a bit jiggy with it,” he said.

Dumphy is a fictional character created by Leon Parsons and Nik Sexton.

The YouTube sensation will be bringing his own brand of “gib rap” and troupe of b’ys to pubs and clubs from here to Alberta.

On April 1, Dumphy said his audience should be ready to give ‘er.

“You’ve got to be ready to go all out.

You’ve got to be ready to go to jail or end up in the hospital, or something.

You’ve got to be ready.”

This is the first time Dumphy and the b’ys will be touring the country in one go. The group normally breaks the trip into sections, touring the Maritimes and Alberta separately.

He said the craziness of his shows depends on how willing his audience is to go wild and go flat out.

“If there’s a lot of people there, then obviously everyone’s going to get all rowdy and crazy and I’ll get rowdier because people just feed off each other. Little pubs here and there, when they’re packed, it’s the funniest thing to play,” he said.

“It’s all fun right? Big cities are different, little towns and pubs are really cool. I love it and hope to bring the big party to everybody.”

In his tours across the country, the colourful character has made some friends and is most looking forward to connecting with them again.

Get at him, wolf! Newfoundland’s own pioneer of ‘gib rap’ will be coming to Fredericton’s Nicky Zee’s April 1st. Submitted Apart from touring, Dumphy is in the process of finishing up a second album and writing a screenplay for a movie. The production team recently received a government grant to get the film underway.

He paused to puff a joint and said, “We’re going to do that in the sum-

mer and if they (the government) like it, which they’re gonna do, they’re gonna love it, they’re gonna give us more money and we’re gonna do the movie.”

The film is to be set in St. John’s and all of Dumphy’s b’ys will make cameo appearances. He revealed little

else, keeping the plotline under wraps.

“It’s just gonna be a good, heartwarming story. That’s all I can tell you.”

Dumphy is looking forward to getting back to the capital city.

“Anybody who wants to come out to the shows man, come out. It will

only be five or ten bucks. Get a picture with Dumphy, have a little time. Do a few shots. Drink a few beers. Talk about Newfoundland.”

Dumphy will be taking the Nicky Zee’s stage on Friday, April 1 at 10 p.m. Tickets are $10.

Don’t expect a nice, cold beer with this weather Alison Clack Arts Editor There’s another item to add to the least of growing concerns caused by global warming – as if there wasn’t enough.

With temperatures in Europe blazing to all-time highs and world-wide heat waves it’s not surprising certain crops didn’t meet their usual yields. Our home and native land wasn’t resistant to the damage either. The third hottest summer in Canada’s history caused a failure in the season’s barley crop, a shortage that could lead to some problems for your pocketbook and your suds.

Shaun Fraser, owner of Pumphouse Brewery in Moncton, NB, said that the failure of the barley crop could affect us in a number of ways.

“A couple things are going to happen. Basically, lower grades of barley are going to be available to brewers which means we’ll have to change our techniques a little bit to get the best out of it.”

The second, major effect, depending on your standards, is arguably the scarier outcome.

“They’re saying the price [of barley] will go up as much as 30 – 50 per cent, that makes up about 10 – 20 per cent of our costs in making the beer so you’re going to see about a 5 per cent rise in the cost of beer just from that.”

Don’t buy out the local stock of your favourite beer just quite yet though, Fraser explained that repercussions haven’t fully worked themselves out. As it stands the market could go a couple of different ways.

“I’m not sure how it’s all going to assimilate out because those things have an effect on a lot of other things. It depends on how things happen around the world. Barley is a northern grain, but there may be some barley coming in from Australia or Argentina. Another thing is farmers may find that they’re not making as much off of a field of barley they might switch over to something

that brings in a little bit more money,” explained Fraser.

If you’re a lover of craft beer and micro-brews you might have more reason to worry than the average Molson drinker.

“I think everybody’s going to be affected, but the worst part of it is that micro-breweries don’t have the buying power or the clout that the big guys do. Basically, we’re the beggars at the table. We may end up with getting lower quality grain than we want to,” predicted Fraser. “We don’t have big barley contracts or hops contracts, and even if we did we’re not going to be treated the same as one of the big guys.”

It isn’t the first time beer has been threatened by a market change in one of its principle crops. Only a few years ago the price of hops dipped and soared drastically.

Fraser explained that the price of hops had decreased and fewer farmers were

continuing to plant the crop when, all of a sudden, “the big guys bought up a whole bunch of hops to try and drive up the price,” causing more farmers to began to plant more hops again.

It seems as though the market can’t yet be fully predicted, but even harder to guess will be next summer’s weather conditions.

“We’re going to have to wait and see how the farmer’s will react and, of course, what the weather’s going to be like,” said Fraser.

As it stands the Old Farmers’ 2011 Almanac is predicting that Atlantic Canada will receive a drier summer than usual this year with slightly below-normal temperatures, the hottest of which will occur during the late July and early August period.

Don’t think that the next few months will be all doom and gloom for beer’s future. You can look forward to a few new flavour from Pumphouse in the future.

“We’re experimenting with a lager

right now. So, we’ll be the only microbrewery in eastern Canada with a lager coming out,” said Fraser, who also revealed they’re looking at adding cans to the brewery’s repertoire. “We’re working fervently to, hopefully, get a canning unit up this year.”

As far as a timeline goes, Fraser didn’t want to make any promises but said that we should be seeing both by the end of the year.

“Definitely it’s going to be summer to fall for cans; for the lager it’ll probably be out before that. It’s a complicated procedure though, so I don’t want to say a date if it’s not going to be right.”

In the end, Fraser said he hopes people continue to support their local breweries.

“Think global, drink local. We are the guys who keep jobs in the neighbourhoods here, we are sustainability; whereas the big guys take their money and it goes over the hill to somewhere else.”

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beer snobs.

Strong Beer: these strongarms will leave you flat on your ass.

Hilary: Pale Lady Alison: Irish Red Colin: Drunkard Christian: ‘Beer’ded

Picaroon’s FeelsGood Imperial Pilsner

Faxe Extra Strong

7% Style: Pilsner

Alison: “Really hoppy, but it ’s a nice Strong flavour for a strong beer.” bitterness.

Christian: “It ’s tasty!”

Hilary: “Waaaaaaaaan!”

Colin: “An unfortunate deviation from the typical Picaroon’s brew.”

Victoria Westcott (pictured) and her sister Jennifer found the funding for their movie through Kickstarter.com. Submitted.

Karolina Kara The Martlet (University of Victoria) V ICTOR I A (CUP) — Victoria Westcott likes her social media. She likes to go on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, especially when she’s talking about Locked in a Garage Band, the movie she’s producing.

And it’s pretty obvious why. Thanks to social media, Victoria and her sister, screenwriter and director, Jennifer Westcott successfully raised $20,000 to fund their film earlier this month.

This wasn’t your everyday fundraiser. This was crowd funding on Kickstarter.com. The Westcott sisters became the first successful Victoria, B.C. crowd fundraiser.

K ickstarter is an online pledge system for funding creative projects, like indie films and music endeavours.

Project owners choose a deadline and a minimum amount of funds to raise.

The catch is that if the chosen target is not gathered by the deadline, no funds are collected.

On March 3 — the second-to-last day of the campaign through the website Kickstarter.com — the Westcott sisters only had $7,430 of the desired $20,000.

“It was extremely last minute; it was in the last 10 hours,” said Victoria of the final fundraising push. “My sister and I literally started tweeting at 7:30 in the morning until 9:52 that night, when Twitter kicked me out because you’re not allowed to tweet more than 350 times an hour.”

The tweeting was with strangers around the world, and each donation received a personal, if not silly, thank you from the duo. Jennifer would write rhymes that rhymed with the donor’s name, Victoria offered to name her firstborn after one donor — either Zamba from the Czech Republic or Zuke from L.A. “[The donors were] people around the world that we never even met that just loved the idea of the movie and these two sisters who are following their dreams to make a movie

together,” said Victoria. “It was the best day of our lives.”

The movie, as the title suggests, is a coming of age comedy about a high school band that gets locked in a garage. The band, on the verge of breaking up, is then forced to face the various tensions in its relationships.

Drawing inspiration from the 1980s classic The Breakfast Club, the movie is set almost entirely in one location — the garage.

The Westcott sisters also wanted to bring back the 1980s teenage movie vibe of what Victoria calls “the smarts.”

“There are smart kids out there that get witty sense of humour. We have to get them more credit. We have to give our audience more credit. It’s not just about sex and masturbation in movies,” she said.

Jennifer wrote and is directing the film, while Victoria is producing, dealing with the budgeting and behind the scene aspects of the film. Filming begins in June, now that the necessary funding is ready. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Silent Hill star, Jodelle Ferland, has officially signed on.

Victoria said that she and her sister consciously did not go to the Canadian government, not because of the arts funding cuts over the years, but rather because Victoria thinks the government wouldn’t be as keen to help as much as her audience.

“If we make a really kick-ass movie, people will want to see it,” she said of the decision to raise money through crowd funding.

While Victoria and Jennifer are including their brother in the project with the score writing duties, Locked in a Garage Band will also look to feature unsigned indie garage bands as part of the soundtrack.

“We really want to have independent garage band music as part of our soundtrack where we’re helping to discover some really great musicians from across the country,” said Victoria.

They are planning to hold a contest where winning bands will be featured in the movie.

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Christian: “I kind of like it, it tastes like bananas.”

Colin: “Why?” Alison: “All I tastes is the burn.”

Hilary: “Maybe I’m drunk already but it really doesn’t taste like much.”

Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock

8.6% Style: Lager

12% Style: Wheat Ale

Alison: “It tastes like fruit in a really unpleasant way.”

Alison: “...ew, rotting fruit.”

Hilary: “It tastes like someone drank a lot of beer and peed in apple juice. Yes that was graphic.”

Christian: “It tastes like bananas, so like it.”

Christian: “ It’ll do the trick...”

Colin: “Moosehead: you should put this beer on strike.”

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Colin: “It

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definitely lives up to its strong beer name. Be warned.”

Hilary: “That’s the worst.”

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Carmen Townsend - Waitin’ and Seein’ Mike Erb Staff Photographer Waitin’ and Seein’ is the latest release from Cape Breton’s Carmen Townsend, but don’t expect to hear similarities to Rita MacNeil or traditional Celtic music. Townsend has created a sound that is so powerful it will knock you on your ass, and repeatedly run you over.

The album features a dynamic range of song writing. “R iver Rat,” “Open Sea” and “Hands and Mouths” feature dynamic drumming, groovy bass riffs and such a diverse vocal range it will blow you off your feet. The guitar tracks are so thick you couldn’t cut them with an axe.

Townsend can go from one extreme to another and keep the album consistent. “Nothing Lasts Forever” delivers that same punch, but is driven acoustically.

The combination of an Orange half stack and hollow body guitar creates some of the most pleasing guitar tone my ears have ever heard. Check it out.

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Radiohead -The King of Limbs Matt Belyea Arts Reporter R adiohead’s The King of Limbs was released “out of the blue” last month leaving tidal waves of devoted fans rushing to record stores to buy their eighth album.

But dedicated followers of the English five-piece didn’t need to leave their homes and venture into the cold on Feb. 18, 2011. Radiohead recorded the album in secret and distributed it online for download by donation five days after publicly acknowledging its existence.

It’s not unusual for the old-timers to come up with and spring such a progressive and forward thinking idea on the public. Their last album In Rainbows (2007) was released under the same format. A physical CD and vinyl copy of The King of Limbs will be available on March 28.

Along with being their eighth album it is also their shortest, running only 37 minutes with eight tracks.

But don’t mistake the length for quality, because The King of Limbs is concise because it’s focused.

Its name, The King of Limbs is possibly alluding to an oak tree in Wiltshire’s Savernake Forest that is thought to be around 1,000 years old. Like the title, Radiohead is also looking to break the standards of time in the music industry.

A friend once told me that he could never pass judgement on Radiohead albums after his initial listen. There’s something about their music that tends to grow on him through time.

Their ability to bloom instead of just exist has been a common feature of their music. It looks as if you’re drawn in by the interesting only to become eventually infatuated by the weirdness. The way in which they constantly push the boundaries of genre and go against the grain makes for a splendid combination of guitar driven art.

This album and especially the track “Feral” contain a large electronic dimension. The tempo is characteristically fast and most of Phil Selway’s tight beats are complimented by pre-programmed drum loops; a lot of critics are calling it their most rhythmic album yet.

A lthough heavily layered, The King of Limbs doesn’t do much exploring; it develops an eerie mood and sticks to that one party line throughout.

Thom Yorke’s vocals have developed to the point where the band’s wide ranging melodies are controlled through his aperture and even guide the experimental sounds to their resting place.

Radiohead has been tagged as being a band that’s not for the people in a lot of ways. Some fans have been noted saying that they wish this album was less abstract and straighter forward. The fact is, Radiohead makes music that is always one step ahead of the game, and although their sound is unmistakable it retains a quality that deems it fresh.

The King of Limbs demands more than one listen, and eventually its ability to stay fresh and changing will arise. Hopefully for the next 1,000 years.

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The Sheen machine: Why Charlie Sheen is my idol Matt Belyea Arts Reporter You’ve already made a decision on whether you think I’m crazy or sarcastic, but Charlie Sheen is really my idol and let me tell you why.

1. “Duh, winning.”

When everyone started making fun of Sheen for his obscene comments on national television and radio, he didn’t stop and re-evaluate himself like a normal person. Instead he drove full steam ahead.

He just became the fastest person to get 1,000,000 followers on twitter.

The tweet that put him over the mark; a picture of him and Natalie Kenly smiling with their new custom made t-shirts with the words “DUH, WINNING” printed on the front. Sheen is my idol because he’s been practising Zen and the art of ‘I don’t give a fuck’ for a long time.

2. He has tiger blood.

Not everyone has tiger blood. This is something that has to be earned by demonstrating a unique ability to party like an animal. Like Sheen says, “The run I was on makes Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.”

I’ve gone through a full university career of bingeing and have never encountered anybody with his kind of resilience to drugs.

His use of language also displays an extensive and well-rounded vocabulary. His creative and expressive side can also be studied in his book of poetry titled, A Piece of My Mind.

Sheen is my idol because of his fantas-

tic use of the metaphor.

3. The Goddess’.

Remember that guy in high school that had everything in the world and you and your friends made fun of him, but secretly wanted to be him?

That’s Charlie Sheen.

People laugh at Sheen because he has one model girlfriend and one porn girlfriend, but who doesn’t want that? Major American news industries demonize him because he doesn’t conform to the traditional model of monogamy. Sheen is my idol because he has superb taste in women.

4. His “big, beautiful warlock brain.”

Last weekend my roommates and I sat in front of the TV with beer and drank every time Sheen said the word “winning.”

As I watched the interview part of me thought, “Yes, he is a crack head,” he does “bang seven gram rocks,” but another part of me couldn’t help but identify with his honesty. As the interview went on, it was obvious to me that the interview was set up to make him look bad. The truth is, Sheen has been outspoken for a long time and his criticisms of the media and government aren’t limited to crack-fuelled rants.

Unlike some other notorious celebs, Sheen thinks we should question our government.

“That we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public,” he said in response to Britney Spears’s comments on the subject. I think

Charlie Sheen has recently come under media fire after a number of notorious run-ins with drugs and prostitues as well as his unabashed recounting of his drug use and life style. Angela George / Flickr CC ABC’s attempt to discredit Sheen might have worked, but it also gave him an abundance of attention he might have not otherwise received.

Whether you think Sheen is hero,

a low-life, a spoiled overpaid actor or drug addict is up to you. But one thing is certainly clear.

He may or may not be from this particular terrestrial realm.

The Return of Much Music’s The Wedge Josh Parsons The Silhouette (McMaster University) HAMILTON, Ont. (CUP) — When it comes to finding new tunes, Much Music isn’t one of the first choices for an even half-educated Canadian music aficionado.

Hell, by the time I was 13 I realized this. There was something about it that just didn’t jive with the whole Sid Vicious wannabe vibe I was going for at the time.

In my preteen years, though, I’ll admit I spent hours with my eyes glued to the countdown and video flow. Those were the days when teenstars stripped down, wearing next to nothing and singing unabashed anthems dedicated to the pleasures of promiscuity.

But as awesome as sex can be, it’s disheartening when a previously semi-respectable music source succumbs to the lure of the corporate dollar and peddles only generic TV sexuality and empty celebrity banter.

Over the past decade Much Music has become the wannabe younger sibling of North America’s shittiest television channel, MTV. But don’t run yet, this isn’t entirely another angry student rant condemning the sorry state of the music industry in 2011. Instead, to the certain disbelief of many, I’d actually like to defend the reputation of one measly hour of weekly programming that has been floating amid this sea of crap for nearly two decades. Namely, I like to defend Wednesday night’s weekly update on anything alternative, The Wedge.

The Wedge arose way back in 1992 and was once a Monday to Friday update on the indie-rock revolution that was then just beginning to crack the mainstream. In the mid 1990s, as grunge was rising to the

top, falling suddenly and subsequently splintering into one million sub-genres, The Wedge was one of the most popular programs aired on Much Music and kept a legion of devotees on the cutting-edge of indie knowledge.

The show was originally hosted by ex-VJ Sook-Yin Lee, an extremely talented media personality who has since worked extensively with the CBC, directed movies, recorded albums, along with enjoying a flourishing career in acting.

But when Lee left both The Wedge and Much Music in 2001, the once daily update on the behind-thescenes of the music industry was reduced to a weekly program jammed in late on the Friday night slot. Much Music’s new musical agenda was clear and evident.

For the next decade, The Wedge rested comfortably in its late nighttime slot. But without a host, the program served as merely a block of alternative music videos and seemed to lack the coherence and optimism about the indie community that Lee had brought to the show. One was left to wonder why they even aired the show at all.

But digging in a little bit I managed to find out why. For the past decade, The Wedge has been supported by the extremely active and tight-knit community on Livejournal. The mass of flannel-clan grunge-rockers went digital and clearly had a hand in influencing Much Music’s decision to continue airing the show, despite the lack of host and inconvenient timeslot.

Within the past year, this blossoming online community as well as a growing discontent with the music industry in general must have caught the eye of Much Music executives.

This culminated in their decision to

re-launch The Wedge this past January with a new format and finally a new host. Thankfully, Much Music did their research and picked the perfect host, Canada’s punk-rock teddy bear, Damian Abraham.

Now if you’re unfamiliar with the versatile collection of Abraham’s output, do yourself a favour and check this dude out. Abraham, also occasionally going by the moniker Pink Eyes, has served for the past several years as the front man for Fucked Up, Canada’s greatest contribution to the global punk community. Fucked Up received the 2009 Polaris Prize and the group has been argued as single-handedly carrying the entire genre of true bone-breaking hardcore punk on their backs, do-it-yourself

ethic and all.

Outside the band, Abraham has become known in the music community as an outspoken supporter of almost anything artistic. His appearance on several music panels as well as his frequent appearances on CBC Radio has certainly helped to raise the credentials of his media persona.

Abraham’s impressive resume has helped to plug life support into the program and he has begun recapturing the glory days of The Wedge. The show now boasts an expanded format, featuring interviews, indie updates, live performances and, of course, the best alternative videos.

Stay tuned for weekly episode of The Wedge, airing Wednesday at 10 p.m.

this week in arts.

Eco Film Festival @ STU March 24 – 26

Students for Sustainability Fredericton will be bringing the 5th annual Boost Your Eco Film Festival back to Fredericton this week. The event will conclude Saturday evening with free performances by the Downtown Blues Band and the Calithumpians among others at the Boyce Farmers’ Market.

TUNB presents Fanshen March 30 – April 2

Theatre UNB will be presenting their final play of the year, David Hare’s Fanshen, next week from March 30 to April 2. The play is a documentary drama that is set in a small Chinese village in the late 1940s, during the time of the Chinese Revolution and civil war.

House Art on Smythe April 8, 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Come check out a different house party at 322 Smythe St. Dozens of local artists and a number of musicians will be showcasing their art to the public for a minimal cover of ‘pay what you can’ so check it out and support local art.

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Red Blazers capture fourth leg of Challenge Cup

The UNB Red Blazers women’s hockey team won the fourth tournament of the Maritime Intercollegiate Women’s Hockey Challenge Cup over the weekend, downing CBU 4-3 in the championship game.The final tournament of the year is at Acadia this weekend where UNB hopes to come home with the league title.They are currently in first, nine points ahead of the second place Acadia Axewomen. Andrew Meade/The Brunswickan Christopher Cameron Sports Editor With only two tournaments remaining in their season the UNB Red Blazers women’s hockey team had their hands full this weekend at home as they looked to hold onto top spot.

Kicking off the fourth tournament of the Maritime Intercollegiate Women’s Hockey Challenge Cup, UNB was up against the second place Acadia Axewomen.

The Red Blazers came out on top with a 4-0 shutout to hold onto first place, even after a scheduling change shifting the tournament from the Aitken Centre to the LBR. Head coach Andrew Lavoie said being at the LBR made no difference to his team, obviously having no effect.

“We typically don’t have a home rink,” he said. “We practice out of this facility (Aitken Centre), but the way our schedule is made up there is four other tournaments aside from our own. So

we basically do up our dressing room to make it our home away from home no matter which rink we’re in.”

UNB’s second game also went Friday night, with another win coming 4-1 over Université Sainte-Anne.

With the first day of the tournament over, the Red Blazers were off until they met CBU for their first game on Saturday where they picked up their second shutout of the weekend 5-0.

Bishop’s University gave the Red Blazers their final game prior to the tournament championship game.

Although the game did not affect the standings, UNB still played strong as they won 7-0, setting them up for the championship game against CBU. Unlike their first meeting earlier in the day, CBU brought a completely different game to the table. UNB opened the scoring with a goal by Ashley Praught less than three minutes into the game, but CBU bounced back with a goal midway through the first period from LeeAnne Haire to even the score.

Entering the second all tied up, CBU came out firing in a period that saw only three UNB shots, as Nicole Forward and Haire scored for CBU to Brandy Richard’s only goal for UNB to take a 3-2 lead into the second intermission.

Lavoie said there was not much they told the team in the dressing room to encourage them going into the third.

“I didn’t really say a whole lot,” he said. “I left it up to my assistant coaches for the first little bit and then basically we were starting the third period with a power play and put some players in place to put some pressure on them right away and get them back on their heels again.”

“The biggest thing we tried to tell the girls was to come out, don’t be flat, play with some intensity and we felt that in this game we lost our intensity and that’s why the game was 3-2 (after two periods).”

Coming out with a completely different mindset Shelby Lyons helped

the Red Blazers even the score early in the third, before Charity Walls scored the game winner with 3:33 remaining in the game to give UNB the tournament title.

Although the Red Blazers won, Lavoie said that it was no easy feat and was slightly frustrating for his team.

“Typically we’re a team that averages around 40 shots a game, so this one was a little different where we only had around 28 shots,” he said.

“It was a little bit frustrating at times, but again that second period is what hurt us, especially since we only had three shots. That’s where our shortfall was and it was just a lack of intensity and loss of focus in the second.”

Going into the final tournament next weekend at Acadia, Lavoie knows it will be tough for his team to prepare as they currently do not have ice time. He does give them credit in that they will still remain focused even if they do not get the ice time they want.

“Again we can’t lose focus. This

week we don’t have any ice time for practices,” said Lavoie. “We’re currently trying to find some. We need at least two practices this week and if not we’re going to have classroom sessions and try to remain focused.”

They have now stretched their lead in the league standings to nine points over second place Acadia. Lavoie said that although Acadia will have home ice on their side, his team is just going to keep focused as they have all season.

“It is an advantage for them for sure especially knowing we are playing CBU then off for an hour and then playing them,” he said. “It is a little bit of a disadvantage, but, the way this league is set up, this isn’t uncommon for us just to have a game break (one game between). We know what our focus is going into this game and we have been successful each tournament in reaching our short-term goals and I guess with our long-term goal we only have one more tournament to bring that banner home.”

Reds Cheerleading off to Cheer Expo Christopher Cameron Sports Editor After winning their first two competitions of the season, the UNB/ STU Reds Cheerleading team is off to Halifax with hopes of continuing their success.

Cheer Expo, the largest competition in Atlantic Canada, will showcase six teams including UNB, who finished second at last year’s expo. Up against SMU, Dal, MUN, StFX and Acadia this weekend, the Reds Cheerleading team is ready for the competition. “…We’ve re-vamped our routine with new stunts and transitions that will definitely give us an edge. Last year we placed second for our level, and we’re hoping that we’ll do the same or better,” said team member Brandi Riddoch.

In their first competition that they won, their coach left the team just prior to it, which speaks volumes for the team’s resolve.

“It says a lot about the individuals, for sure,” said Riddoch.

“The most surprising thing about our coach leaving was the motivation that it gave the team. Instead of giving up and waiting for the next competition the entire team pulled together and worked their hardest to deliver one of the best performances of Reds Cheerleading. Many of the individuals on our team lead very busy academic lives and are members of other sporting teams or haven’t cheered before and this made our success just that much sweeter.”

Although the group has seen success this year, they feel they are not well received by the UNB community.

“One thing that has left a bit of a sour edge on our practices is the comments from people in the UNB community who observe our practice time. Whether it is people checking on the gym or waiting for their scheduled time, we’ve heard some hurtful and uneducated things,” said Riddoch.

“After spending two hours conditioning, putting people in the air, doing hard cardio and running routines, we’ve been laughed at for being cheerleaders, individual members of our team have been ridiculed from the sidelines and people who really don’t know just how much work goes into a practice scoff at what we’re doing.”

“Yes, we may not be considered a ‘sport,’ but we do just as much work as any other sporting team at UNB. I’m not going to say that people will miraculously change, but it would be

nice if these people would keep their comments to themselves.”

Riddoch did discuss that although they are not always thought to be a legitimate group on campus, being a part of the team is definitely rewarding in different ways.

“The family feel of it and knowing just how hard it is,” said Riddoch in reference to what is most rewarding about being on the team. “Many people envision cheerleaders as being catty and airheaded, when in reality we’re a close family that works extremely hard.”

“As someone who has played rugby, ran track and cross-country and swam (all competitively), I can sincerely say that cheerleading is one of the hardest things I’ve done. Every person is constantly doing something and a single member not being present can

stall an entire practice. We dance faster than most people can count, jump (usually with weights), cheer, tumble and throw people 25 feet in the air.

Riddoch is also proud her team’s mental resilience.

“Many of us major in areas that require long study hours, and many of us are involved in more than one team or executive group on campus.

I have yet to see cattiness between members or even teams, and the level of sportsmanship between members of the cheerleading community is astounding.”

Although they do not have any competitions here in Fredericton, there will be a Reds Cheerleading showcase on March 29 from 7:30 – 8 p.m. at the LB West Gym. All people are welcome to see what this club has worked on throughout the year.

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After a hard-fought four games to begin the AUS finals, UNB came out on top in Game 5 on Friday night at the Aitken Centre in overtime, with captain Kyle Bailey being the hero. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Christopher Cameron Sports Editor When you talk to any coach it seems that they all will touch on the fact that in order to win you need your big players to play big; that is exactly what the Varsity Reds saw in Game 5 of the AUS finals.

After splitting first two games of the series at home, followed by a split on the road at StFX, the Varsity Reds were home Friday night looking to avenge last season’s early exit from the playoffs at the hands of StFX. That they did, winning their second AUS title in four years with a 5-4 overtime victory in front of a sold out Aitken Centre.

Although throughout the series they struggled with being the first team to score, UNB had no issue Friday night as Hunter Tremblay found the back of the net twice in the first period to give his team a 2-0 lead after one period.

As if the tides had turned during the intermission, the X-Men were fast out of the gate in the second scoring 1:30 in off the stick of Bryce Swan. The Varsity Reds were held off the score sheet for the remainder of the period, while StFX found the back of the net midway through the period to square the game at 2-2 going into the second intermission.

UNB head coach Gardiner MacDougall admits his team did not have a strong second period.

“It was good to see Hunter give us a lead,” said MacDougall. “But when you look at the game, in the second we’ve got to be much better, but that’s next week.”

Captain Kyle Bailey admits he that he discussed StFX’s resilience during the second intermission and how they always battled back.

“If you look at their history in the playoffs they came back a lot. Between the second and third periods, I wasn’t trying to scare anyone but I mean it was sort of their MO of the playoffs, they came back a lot and

their team showed a lot of resiliency.”

The third period was a back and forth affair with StFX going goal for goal with UNB, with both team’s coming out of the period tied 4-4; needing more time to determine the winner.

Tremblay discussed how his team showed resolve each time StFX bounced back.

“Even though they just tied it up (4-4), it’s still 0-0, it feels like they’re up ahead one; that’s the mental process,” said Tremblay. “I give our guys a lot of credit, they stayed mentally focused and kept coming back. It’s not an easy thing to do.”

In the overtime period UNB was relentless, not allowing StFX to have a shot on goal, putting the pressure on StFX goalie Joseph Perricone.

The X-Men did not help themselves, taking a penalty 2:42 into overtime, setting UNB up on the power play.

Putting out their arsenal of players, UNB had Tremblay, Bailey, and Chris Culligan up front looking for the game winner.

Bailey ended up finding the net to give his team the AUS title.

The goal came on a long shift for the captain, 59 seconds into the power play after Culligan and Tremblay had already changed. After the game, Bailey discussed the goal, but also pointed out that MacDougall was calling for him to change.

“I was out a little bit extended, we had the power play and then we dumped it and turned back and I heard Gardiner yelling at me from the bench to change, but I just thought maybe I could find some space and Jordan made a great pass to me,” said Bailey.

“I think I may have fanned on the shot a little bit, but luckily it snuck in.”

Although he was calling for Bailey to make the line change, MacDougall said the goal could not have gone to anyone more worthy.

“I thought you lead by your captain and he had an outstanding game,” he said. “To score the OT (goal) couldn’t happen to a better guy in what he means to the program and what he puts in.”

This now sets up the Varsity Reds to play Calgary Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the Aitken Centre. Full Cavendish University Cup details can be found in the University Cup insert.

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Women and weights: Intimidation in the gym Brian Savoie Sports Reporter The weight room is full of things. It’s full of wei0ghts, it’s full of machines and it’s full of sweaty people working out, but the one thing that it’s very rarely full of is women.

The weight room at the UNB gym is no exception. If you peek into the weight room at any given time there is roughly half a dozen to a dozen people working out, usually men of various ages. On the odd occasion you’ll see a couple of female gym-goers among the men.

But if you just walk over to across the hall into the cardio room, more often than not it is a fairly even split between the respective sexes. So what is it with the weight room? Lifting weights and resistance training is great and should without a doubt be part of any physical activity regime. Why aren’t more women using the facilities that UNB has to offer them?

To get down to the bottom of this, Sarah Olsen, a graduate of kinesiology who wrote her thesis on this exact topic, “Are women hesitant to participate in weightlifting activities?”.

“I did find that they were quite resistant,” said Olsen. “A lot of the women I interviewed were sort of scared or apprehensive of becoming too large in terms of musculature.”

People look into the weight room and see guys that have shoulders that are exploding out of their skin and assume that after a couple of weeks of intensive training that they would be like that too. In reality it takes and incredible amount of dedication, time and strict dieting to even begin to look like a body builder. This is even truer for women who have lower testosterone levels that require even more dedication and time to become body builders.

On the other hand, the fear of becoming an overgrown, musclebound person unable to fit in doorways is present in the minds of many.

However, becoming too bulky from lifting weights wasn’t the only concern women had about entering the weight room.

“What was even more important,

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The question of why most women don’t enjoy going to the gym to do weights is something that is a popular topic. Kinesiology student Sarah Olsen discusses why this is the case. deanetr/Flickr CC they were also just very apprehensive of just going into the weight room because there were men in there,” said Olsen. “They weren’t comfortable in the space where they could do and practice resistance activities.”

It was more than just the simple presence of men in the weight room that was turning the women away from even entering it. After all, there are men in the cardio room and it doesn’t seem to deter women from entering it.

“It was the fact that men, whether they were really thin or were really big, knew what they were doing,” explained Olsen. “These women were thinking ‘I don’t know what exercises to do; I don’t know what that machine is for.’ It was an issue of ignorance and not understanding what to do in there and feeling really stupid just standing there. Some of them brought up the fact that because there are mirrors, they were concerned that other people are going to be looking at them.”

Olsen went on to say that the women weren’t apprehensive about being “checked out” or “harassed” via

the mirrors. They were actually scared to be judged on why their form was ‘this way’ or why they were doing that particular activity and not another.

Although Olsen’s thesis didn’t cover ideas or options of overcoming these issues of lifting weights and resistance training, simply knowing the benefits could help sway some women into entering those doors said Olsen.

“Weightlifting is really important to maintain bone mineral density. These types of activities have to be done is teenage years and in the early twenties to solidify, create and generate an appropriate level of bone marrow density for your later years. Women need to do it if they want to keep their bones strong.”

This directly ties into reducing the risk of osteoporosis in a woman’s later years and having strong bones is in itself a good thing to have. The benefits of regular resistance activities don’t stop at your bones either. Olsen went on to list a cornucopia of positive outcomes from improving vascular function to decreasing insulin resistance in the body.

Brittany Harvey is one of the few fresh faces on the women’s swim team this season. She hails from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and has come a long way over these past few years in her swimming career. Her background in sports is a dynamic one and she has high aspirations for her coming years here at UNB. She discusses how she got into the sport and what goals she has set for her future here.

The Brunswickan: When did you first get into swimming?

Brittany Harvey: Competitively, since I was about 12, but I’ve been swimming since forever. I’ve always liked being in the water. My parents just put me in a program, just to try it out and I loved it.

B: What sort of sports background do you have outside of swimming?

BH: I did high school sports like basketball, volleyball, figure skating and soccer. Gymnastics was also another pretty big one.

B: What sort of successes have you seen with swimming before coming to UNB? BH: In grade nine I made age group nationals and western Canada summer

games. In Grade 12 I made age group nationals. I made provincials every year.

B: What made you choose UNB and what other schools were you looking at?

BH: I was looking at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina and also Lethbridge in Alberta. But Paula Stewart [UNB swim coach] contacted me two years ago and it sounded cool. My dad and I came here last year to check it out and it just sold me being here, I loved it.

B: What are you preferred strokes?

BH: I swim breaststroke, but I’m not bad at IM and fly. At competitions I swim breaststroke for the 50, 100 and 200 metres.

B: What assets do you bring to the UNB women’s swim team?

BH: I have a positive attitude. I think that’s really important for a team because if you’re negative it just brings the whole team down. And I’m a very hard worker.

B: How do you think you’ve changed and grown this past year?

BH: I’ve become much more independent and gotten used to being alone at swim meets without my parents being there for me.

B: What are some of the differences you’ve seen in the competitive level you’ve experienced at UNB compared to past experience?

BH: Swimmers are much faster at this level and they’re more specialized.

So the people who swim with you are doing that specific stroke, they’re not doing a whole bunch of things. It’s a lot more supportive in practice, we cheer for each other all the time here in practice where we never really did that at home.

B: What are some goals you have for next year?

BH: I want to make CIS next year. I was close this year but not quite. I want to train hard and train all summer. I’m not going to miss any practices and do a lot of dry land training this summer.

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welcome the nations best

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Christopher Cameron Sports Editor As with any national event that takes place it benefits an array of businesses, groups and the team or program involved in the program and this year’s CIS Cavendish University Cup is no different.

UNB Athletic Director Kevin Dickie discussed what hosting this championship does for the program, bringing it back to it only being a piece of the puzzle in having a successful program.

“I think to be a nationally recognized program four things need to happen. You (as a program) need to be successful and we have been this

year,” said Dickie. “We’ve had AUS champions and people knocking at the door and we do it the right way with 33 per cent of our athletes being Academic All-Canadians.

“The second thing is hosting well received national champions makes a difference across the country. The third thing is the facilities that you have. I think our facilities will be as good as anywhere as of April 4 and fourth when your athletes win national awards.”

“I think all four of those areas lend to us being recognized as a nationally recognized program and we’re hitting all of those marks right now and hosting this national championship is

a huge part of that.”

Dickie continued to say this year’s championship was a major boost for the men’s hockey team in making a statement in every game all season.

“For me it has been about the journey, about trying to be successful during the regular season, which they were coming in first, number one ranking in the country,” said Dickie. “Striving so hard to win Game 5 against StFX and come through the front door. That team is running at such a high level right now we want to do everything we can to finish the deal in a week’s time.”

He also discussed how alive the campus was for Game 5 of the AUS f inals and how this tournament

magnifies that effect.

“First of all for the campus in general; Friday night was unbelievable. The arena was full of all kinds of different groups of people. If that happened at an AUS championship where you already knew both teams would survive and play the following week, the national championship just transcends all of that.”

“When we won the national championship in 2007 in Moncton, which to me will always stand out in my memories, I’m trying to picture 2,500 people or whatever it is with red and black on filling an arena 185 km from here. I’m just trying to picture what it will be like this weekend here,” said

Dickie.

Another major initiative UNB is working on is to have a green championship in many different ways; something Dickie said is hard to touch on with anything in particular.

“One of the big additions to our steering committee this year has been Alycia Morehouse from the City of Fredericton, who has really co-ordinated our green initiative and been our moral compass at times in terms of doing the right thing,” he said.

“All of a sudden here over the past year we’ve all become engaged in this process. There are so many different areas it’d be hard to touch on anything in particular.”

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Behind the Red: Kyle Bailey

Rob Williams Staff Writer Scoring an overtime winner feels good any day of the week. Scoring an overtime winner that gets your team a championship banner, that’s hard to beat. Kyle Bailey scored just such a goal during Game 5 of the AUS hockey finals.

The Brunswickan sat down with the Varsity Reds captain to discuss the goal, the upcoming nationals and a little reflection of his time at UNB. Brunswickan: How good did it feel to score the series winning goal?

Kyle Bailey: It was awesome, really awesome. I guess surreal is the cliché word.

Being the captain of the team, you take a little bit of personal responsibility in the success of the team. To score a big goal like that, it meant a lot to me and it meant a lot to the team too I think.

B: What does having the hometown crowd do for the team at nationals?

KB: It’s just excitement. When we found out a year and a half or two years ago that we were getting it, it was hard not to look ahead then. I still remember Todd Sparks coming into the room and telling us that we won the bid one afternoon and I was ecstatic. It was just so exciting. It’s going to be awesome. Like that game last night, when you get a crowd like that, it’s unbelievable. Hockey’s a fun game with no one in the stands, but with that it’s awesome. I couldn’t ask for more.

B: If someone asked you to describe your experience at UNB in one word, could you do it and what would it be?

KB: Awesome, I guess. I’ve loved it here since the first day I came here on a recruiting trip. It was an easy decision for me to come here and it’s been everything I thought it was going to be. Which is a whole lot more than one word, so I guess awesome would be my one word.

B: How did it feel to be named captain

of this team?

KB: The first thing I thought was that it was tough because I was taking over after Dustin Friesen. He’s a guy that I’ll forever admire just for the kind of person he is and what he brings to the table as a hockey player, as a leader, as a husband and a dad.

He’s not that many years older than me, but he’s someone I really look up to. He’s an unbelievable guy and to hear that I was taking over as captain after him, I felt like I had about size 30 shoes to fill.

B: What has playing for UNB done for you as a player?

KB: I’ve told [head] coach [Gardiner] MacDougall a few times that there is no where that I’ve improved more as a player than I have here. We’ve got so many good players that it’s hard not to improve. I’ve gotten stronger, become a better skater, been relied on in a more offensive role here than I had in junior. Just pretty much everything I’ve improved as a player.

B: And as a person?

KB: It just gives you the opportunity to turn into an adult. I moved away from home when I was 16 years old, which was tough. But you’re spoon-fed a little in Major Junior. Here you’re off on your own and it’s sink or swim. It’s helped turn me into an adult pretty quick.

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Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan B: What was your proudest moment as a Varsity Red? KB: It’s hard not to say last night. I’ve been fortunate enough to win a national championship and I would never, ever devalue a national championship because it’s obviously a very glamorous title. But after playing in this league for four years, you really come to respect how much an AUS title means. And again, I’m not trying to undermine what the nationals mean, but to beat StFX and the way we did, after coming off the disappointment last year against that same team, I was just really proud of the guys. I was really happy for the guys to be able to come back and have a little bit of redemption, but the journey’s not done.

We’ve got some work to do.

B: Who has been most influential to you in your career?

KB: I’d say probably my older brother. I think one of my biggest attributes as a hockey player is my competitiveness. I got that from playing with him and being a younger brother. I always wanted to beat him and I always got so mad when he beat me, even though he was a year and a half older than me. I always wanted to beat him. I learned at a young age how to be competitive and how to really want to win. I think he still influences me a little bit today with hockey.

Christopher Cameron Sports Editor The University Cup tournament format has evolved significantly over the years, but there’s a question continually being asked: ‘Is this the best way?’

As with the women’s format, which is similar, there are two pools. Pool A has teams ranked first, fourth and sixth, with Pool B having the second, third and fifth ranked teams.

The top teams from each pool advance to Sunday’s final based on wins and losses, with goals for and against acting the immediate tiebreaker.

Although this format is similar to the women’s championship, they have brought back the bronze-medal game, something Michel Belanger, CIS Manager of Communications & Media Relations, believes will come around again in the future at the University Cup. “We brought it up with all the respective coaches associations and I don’t remember exactly how we ended up not bringing it back the bronze-medal, but it didn’t pass (with men’s hockey),” said Belanger. “ We are trying to push it. We brought it back with men’s basketball this year for the first time since 1986 and so down the road we really want to bring it back for men’s hockey.”

With this topic on the rise with women’s hockey bringing it back, Belanger said it is definitely not a unanimous decision.

“I think people are split 50-50,” he said.

“And you can understand the coaches. The way the coaches may see it is if you have to play for bronze on Sunday it is because you suffered a heartbreaking loss on Saturday most likely. You just saw your chances of winning a national championship go out the window and then you have to compete for bronze. From the coaches perspective I

Who is going to win the University Cup?

would say that most are not in favour of it.”

Belanger continued, looking at it from the other viewpoint.

“Looking at it from an organizations perspective, if you look at the big picture, we look at the Olympics and we say, ‘Well, look guys, if they can play for bronze at the Olympics, I mean surely they’re heartbroken when they lose in the Olympic semi-finals, so if they can play for bronze at the Olympics I’m pretty sure you can play for bronze in CIS men’s hockey, right?’

These are the two arguments on each side.

People are kind of 50-50.”

“As much as you don’t really want to play for bronze after losing on Saturday, if you take UBC, they just won bronze in men’s basketball in Halifax two weeks ago.

I’m pretty sure that in two, three, four, five years down the road they’re going to look at it and say, ‘Hey, we finished third in the country, we had CIS bronze.’”

This is something that is being looked at and when asked if there was something else being looked at with regards to format, Belanger said there are always multiple ideas that come up. He continued to say there was only one that really is being looked at seriously right now.

“I remember last year at their coaches meeting they looked at a format where instead of just one team coming out of Pool A and one team out of Pool B and them meeting in the finals, they wanted to add an extra day to the championship where the top two from each pools would advance.

Then you would play semi-finals and then you would play the final,” said Belanger.

“What people don’t like with the format right now is sometimes depending on the results, you end up with teams with a 1-1 record, so then you get into a scenario where teams need to win by a certain amount of goals that they need to win by.”

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I’ve been watching this UNB squad for three years plus and although they were not as flawless as last season, they have shown this season that they know how to battle through tough times. Injuries plagued them in the first half of the season and somehow they still survived, going into break in first place in the AUS. They dropped Alberta with a

healthy squad, showed they were too much for Calgary and StFX throughout this season as well as McGill. The only team they have yet to face this season is Western and all I have to say is watch out. I know saying the hometown team is going to win sounds terrible, but lets face it. This team is the real deal. If you don’t believe it then watch them play this week and you will see their effor level is above any other team on the ice. For that I cannot help, but say they will take the CIS title Sunday, likely against Alberta.

Colin McPhail EIC

It’s experience vs. youth. Size vs. skill.

Speed vs. strength. Who wins? The team that possesses all of these qualities – plus, home-ice advantage. UNB is a team that not only ices four lines and six blue-liners that play efficient two-way hockey but carries a wealth of experience onto the ice as well. The difference between an NHL franchise

UNB is a very very good team and I think they have what it takes to bring the University Cup back to Fredericton. Why do I think this? Well a couple of reasons. First, a guy named Gardiner MacDougall is behind the bench leading the team. I was completely surprised that he did not win AUS Coach of the Year after UNB’s performance in the regular season, especially since

the performance is consistent year to year. Another big thing is the trio of Hunter Tremblay, Kyle Bailey, and Chris Culligan. The three of them comprise the forward unit on the first power play line. It is lethal. Aside from that, the team is four lines deep, and have the ability to play two ways as an entire team. The defense corps can play forward, and the forward lines can play defense. They play the ultimate team game. The biggest point I’d like to make though, is the drive this team has to win the tournament on home ice. It is going to be key for the team to feed off the crowd. And they will feed off it, and they’ll win.

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and a university hockey club is constant turnover. These CIS players have five years to get the job done – maybe less. The Varsity Reds are in the rare position where the kids they invested so much in are now elite, veteran players that have played on the national stage. Some teams have speed and skill; some have size and strength.

UNB has both. That being said, some high-calibre clubs will be arriving in Fredericton. Any team could raise the University Cup at the end of the weekend. However, UNB definitely has the edge.

I think UNB and UofA will make it to the championship game on Sunday. Considering UofA made it to the championships last year and lost in OT to SMU, they are going to come back strong and want to replace a second place win with a title. However UNB has been on fire all year, and after beating StFX in Game 5 of the AUS final, they are even more locked in on the

CIS banner. I think with the home rink advantage and the massive support system, UNB will have all Frederictonians fuelling their drive to win. Evident is their stamina in the third period and their ability to get in deep to the net and score. With Fullerton and Yeomans in net and strong defensive lines that gel well together, the Varsity Reds are ready to fight for first. Consequently, I wouldn’t underestimate St. FX. They have had a strong presence on the AUS scene all year, and after pushing UNB into OT this weekend, they will be hungry for a national banner; and I would go as far to say, the underdogs of CIS.

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B 4 • Mar. 23, 2011 • Issue 24 • Volume 144

UNB Varsity Reds

Western Ontario Mustangs Calgary Dinos

AUS champions

OUA finalists

Canada West finalists

head coach:

head coach:

head coach:

Gardiner MacDougall

Clarke Singer

Mark Howell

Regular Season: 23-5-0

Regular Season: 20-3-5

Regular Season: 17-8-3

Conference titles: 11

Conference titles: 3

Conference titles: 8

CIS titles: 3

CIS titles: 1

CIS titles: 0

by colin mcphail The nation’s top ranked squad is sitting comfortably and confident on home ice as they begin their pursuit of a fourth CIS Championship.

The UNB Varsity Reds plan to welcome their five CIS counterparts to the Aitken University Centre with furious physical play and a high-octane offence. The tournament will mark the club’s fourth trip to the nation’s premiere event for university hockey in five years, a strong asset according to head coach Gardiner MacDougall.

“I think it helps when you’ve been there before,” said MacDougall. “We’ve got players in the dressing room that have won two national championships and we’ve got players that know the bitterness of getting to the finals and not winning. And we’ve got a younger group that’s excited to make their mark on the tradition.”

Under the guidance of MacDougall, the Reds skated to a 23-5 regular season record to finish atop the AUS standing on their way to an 11th conference title. The feat was done in style by capping off a hard-fought playoff run with team captain Kyle Bailey’s OT winner over StFX in Game 5 of the AUS Championships.

“We were fortunate to get the OT winner,” said MacDougall. “It was a huge goal for the whole team. It’s a good kickstart to the nationals, but there’s still a lot of work to do in their practices.”

In a weekend where every shift counts, fatigue from the extended AUS playoffs could have detrimental effects to the team’s performance. However, the UNB coach remains confident in his squad and doesn’t see fatigue as an issue.

“You’re in a competitive mode and I think at this point that takes over.

I think, when you get to the nationals, every shift is important. So you’re not really looking at how many games. You’re trying to win your shift and if you win enough shifts, you win a period. If you win enough periods, you win a game.”

“That’s the mentality you have to have when you get to this stage of the season,” said MacDougall.

Leading the Reds into the final weekend of CIS action is their offensive attack. The one-two punch of Hunter Tremblay and Chris Culligan has devastated their AUS opposition all season. Tremblay led the league with 22 goals and 44 points, while Culligan sat fourth overall with 38 points. The pair was a combined plus-46 during the 2010-11 campaign.

Being such a high-profile threat does attract the spotlight. But if teams focus on the Reds’s dynamic duo, the UNB bench can pick up the slack as it’s loaded with an offensive arsenal of forwards and defencemen that can produce. UNB has six blue-liners in the top 20 of the leading defencemen scorers.

MacDougall prides himself in having four lines and six defencemen that can score and sees his squad’s depth as a cornerstone of their success.

“Our scorers have to play a two-way game and our grinders gotta contribute offensively. We’ve been fortunate this year. We needed all four lines and we needed all six D. In fact, we used 11 players as defencemen this season.

So the depth has certainly helped.”

In their quest to raise another CIS banner in the rafters of the AUC, the Reds coach simplified matters in order to prepare his club mentally.

“You have to be ready to play every shift and every period. It goes down to that singular focus,” said MacDougall.

“You have one opponent Thursday and you have to keep your focus on that. It’s not so much even your opponent. You just want to bring your best effort forward.”

After going 14-0 on home ice during the regular season, hosting the national championship is something MacDougall is looking forward to.

“It’s the best CIS environment in Canada.”

The head coach went on to thank all the organizers, the athletics program and the fans for their hard work.

“It’s privilege to host the national championships and a lot of people put a lot of work into this.”

MacDougall credits their success to everyone involved with the team and feels “an anticipation and an excitement in the dressing room.”

“We were strong to start the year and we’ve got stronger throughout the year. It’s an enthusiastic and committed group that’s need to take the next step now.”

by k. bryannah james The University of Western Ontario Mustangs are seated nicely going into weekend as fourth seeded contenders for the Cavendish University Cup. UWO finished first in the western division of the OUA, having only lost three games in the regular season and with their strong track record and a lot of ice time for younger players throughout the season the team is ready for nationals.

“We’re really excited about coming down to UNB and Fredericton and getting the opportunity to play hockey against some of the best schools in the country,” said Mustangs head coach Clarke Singer.

The Mustangs, a young team compared to such rivals like McGill and UNB, have worked hard over their regular season to maintain a 20-3-5 record.

This year the Mustangs hosted the 100th annual Queen’s Cup hockey tournament, where they lost 6-2 to McGill University who are ranked second going into the University Cup. Although Western may not have the same experience as the older teams heading into nationals, Singer believes the youth of his team is as much an asset as a weakness.

“We’re a pretty young hockey team. We’ll have probably nine first-year guys in the lineup out there,” said Singer. “I mean you know we do have a number of guys who have played at that stage before a couple years ago, but we have a number of guys who haven’t. So our youth is something that is a positive and a bit of a negative for us.”

The few seniors on the team, Singer said, have been role models to the younger guys and helped bring the team to where it is today.

The Mustangs have suffered a few injuries over their regular season, such as losing Aaron Snow, a left-wing leading scorer who was hurt in mid-January and will not return for the rest of the season.

“I’ve been happy with our group because we’ve played without a number of our key guys, and that just means more ice time for some of our young guys. That hopefully adds to the experience of what they have in preparation for coming to Fredericton,” said Singer.

The OUA conference holds a lot of talented teams in its division, which Singer believes is one the key ingredients to the Mustangs’s success.

“There’s a great deal of parody, so I mean you have to play well every night to win it in this conference and that has really helped us as we’ve grown as a team throughout the season.”

On top of talent, youth and drive, the Mustangs are a team that Singer describes as a character group, who have worked hard to get to this point.

It’s not just the Mustangs’s depth at the net that has brought them this far, but key players such as captain Kyle Lamb and secondteam all-star Scott Aarssen as well as their strong and focused goaltender Anthony Grieco.

“There are so many great teams out there and I’ve had the opportunity this year to see most of the teams play, but when you get to a tournament like this and you look across the quality of opponents out there I think the tournament is pretty wide open.”

One of the teams Singer said would be a favourite in the tournament was UNB; not only for their home ice advantage, but for the strong team Varsity Reds head coach Gardiner MacDougall has built over the years and their skill and experience at the CIS level.

“I think there’s a lot of great hockey teams out there and I think it’s really going to depend on who is playing well that particular weekend of the tournament,” said Singer.

by rob williams The road to the Cavendish University Cup was far from easy for the Calgary Dinos. It started two years ago when they decided to hire a decorated coach and general manager of Major Junior success, Mark Howell.

Howell had to rejuvenate a Dinos team at a fundamental level and it has certainly paid off for them this season.

“When we came in two years ago, I talked to a number of people around the city within the hockey community and figured out where the program was at,” said Howell. “Our biggest thing was just establishing a culture and a team identity that could help us become a championship program.”

The Dinos season came down to the wire and the team needed that character and grit culture to keep them in the race. Coach Howell recalls the last weekend quite well.

“It went right down to the last weekend of who was going to make the playoffs, what position you were going to be in. It even went down to the Saturday night, the last game of our regular season. Lethbridge was still in the hunt. Us, Manitoba and Saskatchewan were all vying for second, third and fourth. Lethbridge was vying for fourth as well and we were all playing each other so it was extremely difficult and challenging every single weekend to make sure you brought a very good effort to seed yourself properly.”

The young Calgary squad is getting their first crack at the title as a group, and much of the coaching staff is making their first trip to the CIS title shot as well.

“I think it’s going to be a great experience for everybody. It’s exciting to be recognized at a national tournament and go to those events. And yet, the big important part is just understanding that it is a business trip,” admitted Howell.

“It’s not a social holiday, we’re going there for a reason and we want to be successful and put ourselves with a chance to win every game,” he continued. “If we can come out of there successful and raise the trophy, we’d be thrilled, but knowing that there is a ton of work to get to that point.”

According to Howell, readiness to work is what sets the Dinos apart from the pack in this competition. He is no stranger to highlevel national competitions and said he, his staff and his players are ready for the challenge.

“The one thing we have worked a lot on is our work ethic, but also our level of compete and making sure we’re honest hockey players everyday and we battle for pucks,” said Howell.

One thing that always helps a team in these high-pressure situations is experience. As stated before, none of the players on this Dinos roster have University Cup experience, but they do have plenty of experience from junior that should come in handy.

“We’ve got three or four guys that played in Medicine Hat with the Tigers that won a league championship a couple years ago. We’ve got a couple guys that have won Junior A championships. We’ve got some guys that played in real good programs in the Western Hockey League, but didn’t quite win,” said Howell.

“They went deep in the playoffs and played for respectable coaches.

We’ve got enough guys that have been in important situations that they can build from that experience.”

But in Howell’s mind, the winner of this tournament will have to be the best of the best; there aren’t any teams who are a runaway favourite and all of them have a decent chance.

“I think anybody that’s going to win the national tournament, us or whoever it is, is going to have to be very, very good and not play a sloppy game,” said Howell. “That’s the beauty of being at this point of the season for everybody; knowing you’ve got to bring your A game to win hockey games, and if you don’t, you don’t deserve to win.”

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Mar. 23, 2011 • Issue 24 • Volume 144 • B 5

McGill Redmen

Alberta Golden Bears

OUA champions

Canada West champions

AUS finalists

head coach:

head coach:

head coach:

Kelly Nobes

Eric Thurston

StFX X-Men Brad Peddle

Regular Season: 24-2-2

Regular Season: 19-6-3

Regular Season: 17-10-1

Conference titles: 15

Conference titles: 48

Conference titles: 24

CIS titles: 0

CIS titles: 12

CIS titles: 1

by christopher cameron

by colin mcphail

by colin mcphail

After finishing 0-2 at last season’s CIS championships at Lakehead University, the McGill Redmen are back on the national stage, ready to show why they are ranked number two.

Although they come into this week’s University Cup ranked number two, it was no easy route to get where they are.

Similar to the hometown UNB Varsity Reds, the Redmen were hit with multiple injuries this season, but the bigger issue came when three of their athletes were also away for the FISU games.

Head coach Kelly Nobes said it was the biggest obstacle his team had to overcome this season.

“I think missing a lot of our key guys through the FISU games and having the amount of injuries we had at the same time was probably one of our biggest challenges as a team this season,” he said. “The FISU games took three of our players and at the same time that was going on we had a number of guys that were not in the lineup. There were several games we couldn’t even dress a full lineup, but somehow we pushed through it all.”

Having his full team with him for the final and most crucial weekend of the season will make a huge difference in preparation, but he also said playing some of these teams throughout the season will pay off as well.

“First and foremost we prepare ourselves and make sure we’re ready to play our game and we make adjustments for our opponents based on our work in the video room,” said Nobes. “Keep in mind, we played Western Ontario twice and UNB and StFX once each so we have a good idea what to expect. Everybody that’s there deserves to be there and they’re all outstanding teams. There’s teams to beat in UNB and Alberta, but everyone there is capable of beating each other.”

Being in a pool with a StFX team, who that had their semi-final and final series go five games, on top of finishing six days earlier, the Redmen may or may not have the upper hand. Nobes said it is debateable as to whether there is an advantage to playing late or having time off.

“That is a cyclical argument. Does playing late prepare you better for the tournament or does it tire you out? It’s hard to say, so we’ll find out,” he said. “We were done early so therefore we will make sure we use that in the best way to our advantage.”

With the time off Nobes has mixed up how his team prepares.

“We’re doing a lot of different stuff,” he said. “We’ve had people talk to us in preparation; we’re having a three-on-three tournament and practicing in a variety of different ways. Basically doing a lot of different stuff.”

Coming in he also feels his team is in a good position to succeed, if they continue doing the things they have been all to succeed all season.

“We’ve got good team speed and our discipline is very good,” said Nobes. “We were 12th out of 19 teams in penalty minutes this season. We had no suspensions, no major penalties and a game where we didn’t have a penalty against us. We’ve got a very disciplined group, so that’s key for us and our work ethic and our relentless play are huge. We call it our skill, our will and our discipline.”

Defeating Western Ontario handily 6-2 in the Queen’s Cup, McGill had no problem making it to the national championship in the conference final, while the AUS was a hard fought five game series.

Nobes attributes the easier wins to the fact they have more teams.

“The fact of the matter is we have 19 teams, so there’s going to be a few weaker teams. We still get competition here in the OUA for sure.”

Finally Nobes made it clear for this Redmen team to take home the University Cup it is going to come down to execution.

“We’re going to have to play at the top of our game without a doubt. I think execution is going to be critical. Our skill, our will and our discipline will be keys for us.”

When asked about what his thoughts on challenging one the top teams in the country in the house of the number one-ranked team, Alberta Golden Bears head coach Eric Thurston humbly responded, “It’s a daunting task to say the least.”

Humble being the optimal word as the Golden Bears can be considered the kings of CIS hockey with 48 conference titles and 12 national championships, four of which were won since 2000.

On the road to another appearance at the national tournament, the Golden Bears finished the regular season in first with a 19-6-3 record. While their Canada West opposition kept pace, Thurston’s club jumped to the next level during the playoffs. The Bears went undefeated and outscored Calgary 11-1 in the championship series.

Thurston was extremely pleased with his team’s play, but does expect a stronger Calgary squad in Fredericton.

“That was a one-off for Calgary. I know they’ll be refocusing and they’ll be really looking to make a statement.”

As the Golden Bears prepare to travel east, the head coach is ensuring that his team knows stumbling out of the starting gate can be fatal.

“You play every game as a best-of-one and there’s no chance to get your feet underneath you again to hope you have a second game to build off of; there’s no moral victories,” said Thurston.

“It’s such a tough tournament to win, but the team that comes in and wins three and has that mental toughness and mindset really deserves to be champions.”

Thurston admits the Alberta squad isn’t blessed with size, but is confident his players’ speed and skill will pay dividends against the physical eastern teams.

“If you go through our lineup, our guys aren’t big, but they skate well. There is the skill level there. Even though they aren’t big, they are certainly ready to compete.”

The skill level of this club was evident throughout the regular season as the Bears finished with three players in the top five of scoring. Derek Ryan led the league with 17 goals and 47 points, while being followed closely by teammates Chad Klassen and Sean Ringrose with 46 and 27 points respectively.

Thurston’s defensive unit is not to be outdone, however. Rookie netminder Kurtis Mucha notched a 13-4 record with a 2.45 GAA and a .911 save percentage.

“I really like our goaltending. Kurtis Mucha has been great for us. And I like the way our defence moves the puck. It’s something we like having in our repertoire, having defencemen that can skate and move the puck.”

Even though the Golden Bears have a long, illustrious history in the CIS, they enter the weekend with plenty of youthful players with no experience on university hockey’s national stage. Alberta has nine first-year players and four second-year players.

Thurston isn’t too concerned with this fact and sees this as an opportunity to development the program.

“We have a real young team coming in, but that type of experience that you’re able to get at the nationals is two-fold in their development. Players see how great the competition is out in the east and we’re just hoping to build off that experience.”

The Golden Bears are forced to wait and see if they play StFX or McGill first, but Thurston remains resolute in mentally preparing his squad. Their plan is simple – no matter the opponent.

“You’re best players have to be your best players. If not, you’re sort of playing Russian roulette. There are so many swings in momentum and emotions and you’ve got to control that. I think that’s an important thing from our veterans to show our young guys.”

When asked on how his squad matched up against the other five clubs, the Alberta coach returned to his humble roots.

“There are too many other great programs out there. We’re just honoured to be back at the CIS Championships.”

The StFX X-Men were a goal away from AUS glory until UNB captain Kyle Bailey dashed their hopes with his series-clinching goal in the first period of overtime in Game 5 of the AUS Championships. Undeterred, the X-Men will return the Aitken University Centre primed to exact their revenge on their bitter conference rivals, the Varsity Reds.

X-Men head coach Brad Peddle remembers the sting of defeat and the feeling on the long ride home afterwards. However, granted with a second life, Peddle and his club are gearing up for a tournament where any team can emerge triumphant.

“We talked a lot about it on the way home and they’re excited that we have another chance,” said Peddle. “When you lose the AUS championship and you’re fortunate enough to go the CIS Championships, it’s a good thing. And our guys are obviously excited for it and looking forward to a good tournament this weekend. “ The X-Men are quite familiar with the AUC and comfortable playing in Fredericton. StFX has been thorn in the side of the Varsity Reds for years. Through stellar goaltending and strong, defensive play, the X-Men shocked the Reds in last season’s AUS semi-final series and were one lucky bounce away from stealing this year’s AUS title.

StFX won their only national title at the 2004 CIS Championships held in Fredericton.

“We certainly enjoy playing in Fredericton. There’s a great rivalry between both clubs and I think we certainly saw that in the AUS finals.

But our mindset right now is not about the rink, it’s about the opponent. The only we can concentrate on right now is McGill on Thursday and Alberta when we play them.”

It is far from an easy road to the their second national championship. Coming off a lengthy, hard-fought series against the Reds, the X-Men are faced with McGill and Alberta, two squads known for their speed and skill.

“We’ve got our work cut out for us in preparing for both these teams.

We know both teams are very skilled and rely on their speed, but we just have to focus on doing our things well that we saw in our playoff run.”

The centerpiece of their AUS playoff run was netminder Joseph Perricone. The third-year California native was also instrumental in achieving their 17-10-1 regular season record and posted a 2.37 GAA, a .925 save percentage and 14 wins in 19 games.

“I’ve yet to see a team go to national championship or deep into the playoffs in any league, amateur or pro, without a good goalie. That’s the story there,” said Peddle. “[Perricone] has been rock-solid for us, but our guys have been playing solid around him. Any team with goals for a national championship needs a top notch goaltender and we certainly have that.”

StFX is no slouch offensively, however. Peddle will ice six forwards in the top 25 of AUS scoring. Chris Hulit led the team with 15 goals and 31 points to sit ninth overall.

Having such a diverse offensive attack is an asset, but Peddle asserts the real key to success is mental toughness.

“I think we have to focus on our game. We have to focus on how we’ve been playing through the playoffs and bring that into each and every game. There’s no room for error. There’s no room for sitting back and not having your best game. You’ve got to bring you’re A-game every night.”

The X-Men will travel to Fredericton with limited experience on the national stage, a fact that would trouble most coaches. However, Peddle remains confident in his team’s ability to stay focused on the game and block out the rest.

“We have to focus on being in the now and not worrying about who’s watching, big crowds and TV. That’s not our style; we’re not that kind of team. We don’t let those things get to us and we have to come in there and put it all aside and not play it like it’s any other game,” said Peddle.

“We realize that each game is a Game 7. It’s pretty much a do or die. That’s our mindset.”

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B 6 • Mar. 23, 2011 • Issue 24 • Volume 144

Road to NHL goes through UNB

Hunter Tremblay: the quiet hero

After going undrafted through Junior, Darryl Boyce came to UNB and in the process caught the eye of some NHL scouts and now plays with the Toronto Maple Leafs. UNB Sports Information Rob Williams Staff Writer When the Varsity Reds recruited Darryl Boyce, they had no idea how important it would be for both him and the team.

His start in hockey was typical. The kid didn’t really have a choice whether to play or not growing up. He just did.

“I don’t know if it was a start,” said Boyce. “I think I was just put in like everybody else. My parents wanted to get me active and I think hockey I took a growing to and found a real passion for it.”

That passion has developed into something very big. It’s how he makes his living now.

The goal for all hockey players is to be drafted into the NHL, but the reality is the majority of players in junior hockey don’t make the NHL. That’s where UNB comes in.

For those players who go undrafted, there is another door that opens - the option to continue playing hockey while getting an education. Boyce was one of those players.

“I went to UNB, I didn’t know I was going pro at all,” says Boyce. “It was sort of the opposite. I was just going to school.

I didn’t really think I was going to go pro. I just sort of found out once I played my first couple years at UNB that I could go pro.”

Boyce recently signed a National Hockey League contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs in December, allowing him to be called up to play in the big show.

Boyce clearly remembers getting the call.

“This was my first NHL contract. It was at Christmas time and my sister and I were walking around, I think it was Bed Bath and Beyond or some sort of store with bedding, and the Leafs Assistant General Manager called me. It was Jeff Jackson at the time. It was really weird. It was Dec. 28 and he was asking me if I wanted to sign with the Toronto Maple Leafs. I couldn’t believe it was happening. The Leafs were so far away from me, I was just worried about playing with the Toronto Marlies and having a good year. Sure enough they called me and wanted to sign me. I think my family and I went out to dinner or something after.

Nothing out of the ordinary. “ This holiday season was a big one for

Boyce. He was signed on Dec. 28, 2010, played his first full NHL game on Dec. 30, notching his first NHL point with an assist, and then scored his first NHL goal on Jan. 1 against the Ottawa Senators.

The Leafs framed the goal as a commemorative gift to Boyce. Since the insanity, that he called the Christmas break, Boyce has been a supreme third line, two-way centre for the Maple Leafs.

He has played 38 games with the big club and has 12 points and is currently plus-8 as of March 21.

Boyce said UNB played an important role in getting him into such good shape for professional hockey.

“I found it gave me an opportunity to play different roles. At UNB I played on the power play and was a more offensive type of player rather than my junior career, where I was more of a defensive, checking type of forward. I got to round my game.”

Boyce even went so far as to say he regretted not being able to play more years with UNB, having built such a strong connection with so many players and the city of Fredericton.

When asked if he missed the city and his team here, Boyce was quick to admit he missed UNB hockey.

“My years there were unbelievable. I truly do wish I would have played a couple more years there but as they say, timing is everything. [The Leafs] wanted me to sign my first year, but I waited one more year.

They wanted to sign me again, so I couldn’t turn it down twice.”

Aside from teammates, every player has specific people who have helped influence their behaviour, both on and off the ice.

Gardiner MacDougall had the biggest influence on his play here at UNB. “He just sort of always encouraged us. I think encouragement is a great factor. Also, Greg Gilbert and Dallas Eakins, two of my Marlies coaches, never say a negative word.

They’re always positive and upbeat.”

Boyce helped UNB to appear in consecutive CIS Nationals, was an alternate captain and managed to grab the Male Athlete of the Year honours in his rookie season. His play of late with the Maple Leafs has been exceptional and if he keeps it up he will have no problem staying in the big leagues.

In his fourth season with the Varsity Reds, Hunter Tremblay continues to be the impact player UNB expected him to be when they brough him to Fredericton. Although Tremblay tied for the league scoring title this season, the Timmins, Ontario native has grown as a person throughout his hockey career.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan K. Bryannah James Staff Writer The trophy sits in their living room, 13 years old but a sparkle in the shining moments of their son’s hockey career.

It’s the most valuable player award for the Northern Lights Hockey tournament in Spruce Falls; Hunter Tremblay was the recipient.

Tremblay’s career began when he put on his first pair of skates and stepped on the ice. He may have been young, but the natural ability to play hockey grew with him as he got older.

“He didn’t want to be a superhero or anything like that,” said Hunter’s father, Jacques Tremblay.

“He’s an unselfish player, I remember one tournament he was in he kept getting MVPs in different games and he finally said, ‘I’m not going to accept anymore MVPs’ and they gave him another one for another game he was on, so he gave it to who he thought was MVP on his team.”

Never one to live off the spotlight, Hunter was a team player and his teammates recognized it in him. During one tournament in Atom, Hunter was given a trophy, an award he believed belonged to his defensive partner who played a good game, and gave it to him instead.

“That defenceman, the kid doesn’t play hockey anymore, but I know to this day he’s still got that trophy in his room,” said Jacques.

When Hunter was younger he played hockey alongside his brother Forest. One year they made the Midget AAA hockey team and went to nationals in Bathurst,

New Brunswick. However, as the boys got older they became individual hockey players.

“Hunter wouldn’t mind just sitting down, going in the back rink and practicing his shot. Or going in the basement and doing the repetitive stuff to get better you know, so that’s one of his character traits,” said Jacques.

Hunter’s athletic talent went beyond hockey, he has trophies at home from basketball and other high school sports; but as he got older and began playing bantam and midget, he had to put those aside so he could focus on his love of hockey.

“I think that’s our biggest contribution, just allowing them to play the game they love to play you know,” said Jacques.

From 2002-2007, Hunter played in the OHL for the Barrie Colts and secured the record for most game for any franchise. He was drafted 17th overall in Major Junior A, but without a draft pick from the NHL, he began looking towards post-secondary education.

“He was invited to a lot of minor league teams, East Coast Hockey League and different places. We thought it was a pretty mature decision on his part to go the university route,” said Jacques.

“When he chose university hockey over going to the ECHL, which would have been a more direct route to the pro leagues, we knew that took a lot of soul searching… So when he said, ‘You know Dad, there’s no real downside going to university,’ I said, ‘Hey, man you have my backing.’”

By fall of 2006 Hunter changed his Barrie jersey for a red and white one, although he came to university, Hunter’s

drive, natural ability and understanding of the game continued to mark him as a team player and an all-star athlete for the Varsity Reds.

In 2007 and 2009 UNB won the CIS championships, and in 2010 Hunter was named the CIS men’s hockey player of the year as well as the AUS point’s leader. Most recently in February of this season he passed Rob Hennigar’s record of total career points in regular season with UNB, among other countless accomplishments that have been attached to his name as a Varsity Red. Hockey is a family affair in the Tremblay family and Hunter’s relatives show their support in Canada and in the USA. “I have a couple brothers one in Calgary and one in DC and he spends his winters down in Arizona with his wife. And my father is in Calgary too, so a lot of the game especially the uncle in Arizona; we watch every game, so we’re comparing notes after the games. So it’s a whole family support system there,” said Jacques.

The Tremblay family were excited fans in the stands when UNB took silver in Moncton and the CIS banner in Thunder Bay. Now they’ll travel to Fredericton to watch Hunter play in another national tournament.

“The whole family’s going to be down there. My wife and I are driving down; my wife’s parents are going to fly down.

Forest and Hunter’s sister Tanya are flying down, Forest is going to fly down his girlfriend, so our whole family is going to be down there … a lot of Hunter’s friends are coming down from Ontario,” said Jacques.

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