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Kiddstock will rock the courtyard for a cause this weekend Alex Kress News Reporter Joy Kidd House, UNB’s largest campus residence, is set to rock students’ Last Class Bash experience – and raise over $3000 for Habitat for Humanity.

The second annual Kiddstock charity concert will take place in the Joy Kidd courtyard on Thursday, April 7 from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. with entertainment provided by eight bands and a DJ. Music genres range from indie pop to house music and bands include The Midnight Ramblers, the Matt Pearson Band, She Roars!, Heroes On Standby, Tyler Lombard of the Arka Teks, Barratte Bleue, Relentless Divide, The Yetis and DJ Syrus. Admission is a minimum $2 donation.

Matthew Macdonald, don of Joy Kidd House, said the acoustics of the courtyard show are remarkable already, and this year they’ve got professional sound equipment to boost it further.

“The house is like a natural amphitheatre. Last year you could hear music clear as a bell over at the library, so it really magnifies,” he said.

“This year we decided to establish the event and go up market, better bigger bands, better bigger sound and lighting and really give the crowd something to go, ‘Wow’.”

Last year they raised $2200, but this year they’re expecting to draw a larger crowd of over 500 people, compared with last year’s attendance of about 200. They’ll have band merchandise, a barbeque for the campus and there will

be sports in the quad such as ultimate Frisbee, soccer and rugby.

The front courtyard is fully licensed so students can bring their own drinks and bands will play down to the courtyard crowd from the balcony. In the case of poor weather the event will be moved indoors, but that will limit the crowd capacity.

Joy Kidd is the largest house on campus with over 200 students. Funds for the higher quality equipment came from student fees and money from Residential Life. They were also conservative with hosting events all year in order to save money for Kiddstock.

There will be designated alcohol and alcohol-free zones. Alcohol will not be sold because of the continuing ban on campus wet/drys, but people can bring their own drinks. Sober representatives from the house committee and campus security will be present to monitor the crowd.

There are about 15 people who have volunteered to help out with the event from operating the barbecue to selling merchandise, to working the door and collecting donations.

Reba Stewart and Michael Roy, house social representatives, are two volunteers who have put some hard work into planning Kiddstock. Roy designed the Woodstock-themed posters you’ve seen around campus and Stewart has been organizing volunteers.

Macdonald said other houses generally raise more money than they do, despite having fewer residents.

“So this is why we’re now building this

Joy Kidd staffers plan out the event. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan event. We want it to continue and grow.”

He said the house would like to see the event become a large multi-stage event in a few years.

“UNB is about community, we believe in fostering and building it at every stage... we should always try to give back and Joy W. Kidd has always embraced this philosophy. Our concert, in support of Habitat for Humanity is our way doing just that, giving back to both the UNB residence community and the larger community of Fredericton.”

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UNB professor awarded national teaching honour

Hilary Paige Smith News Editor Teaching matters.

That’s Diana Austin’s motto.

Austin, a veteran professor of English literature at UNB, is the recipient of the prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship this year. She is one of just ten undergraduate professors from across the country to receive the honour.

The Brunswickan sat down with Austin earlier this week to discuss the fellowship and her passionate work in the classroom.

When Austin first learned of her win, she had just returned from teaching a class. Because it was already so late in the semester, Austin didn’t expect to hear from the selection committee and assumed she wasn’t receiving the award.

“I had completely dismissed it from my mind. My husband and I clinked a glass of Prosecco; that’s our way of celebrating, and decided, ‘Hey, that’s that,’ she recalled.

Austin had just accepted the idea that she didn’t win the fellowship when a man called from the committee.

“I was sitting here. I’d just come out of teaching a novel class, which is all about people knowing and not listening to each other, so all sorts of misunderstandings of a terrible sort ensue, and I did exactly the same thing… I reassured him I appreciated the call to tell me I hadn’t won,” she said.

“He laughed very hard and reiterated that I had won. And it was at that point I said that very non-eloquent, non-English professor comment, ‘NO WAY!” Austin’s enthusiasm emanated as she provided endless anecdotes about

her time spent with students. Austin stressed how important students are to her teaching process, and said she gets a lot of engagement and information sharing from her classes.

Austin’s students come first.

“Although graduate studies are very important and research is very important, in those first four years in the classroom it’s what is happening between those students and teaching,” she said.

One of the many anecdotes Austin referred to on Monday afternoon was about a former student who is now an extremely successful CEO of a large health region in Ontario.

“He talks on his careers page profile about how it was just an undergraduate poetry course that gave him a way of thinking imaginatively that he could apply to the scientific field.”

“That’s the thing. I hope the 3M (award) always gives a chance for the public to realize that every student sitting in a first-year classroom, secondyear class, third-year class, fourth-year class, all of these students… We have no idea what skill they’re suddenly going to discover they have.”

Austin said if students aren’t taught well in moments they aren’t engaged, they will never get as engaged as they could be. For her, the 3M award is a chance to recognize the importance of undergraduate teaching across students.

“There are tens of thousands of students, hundreds of thousands across this country in undergraduate programs, and what are we doing with them? How are we trying to draw out what those 18-year-olds may be capable when they become 25-year-olds? The only way we can do that is by teaching

One Love; clubbin’ it up for Japan tsunami relief Hilary Paige Smith News Editor It’s not your regular party at the Social Club, it’s a party for a cause.

One Love, a benefit to support earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan, will be held on Saturday evening at the Social Club. The event has been organized by various international students across campus as well as the UNB Business Society, the African Student Society and the St. Thomas University Student Union. The STUSU has agreed to match funds raised up to $1500.

The event is called One Love, to promote solidarity and awareness in the UNB/STU community.

Brendan Lee Young, a UNB alumnus, and Gustavo Chavez, a student at St. Thomas, are among those organizing the event.

Chavez said people had been pressuring him to throw a party all year and he finally gave in and started planning after tragedy struck in Japan.

“Now we have the motivation. It’s a party for a good cause. It gives a bit more incentive too because all the proceeds

go to Japan.”

Cost of the event is $5 per person and tickets will be sold both in advance and at the door. Tickets can be picked up at the UNBSU Welcome Center and people who pay in advance can skip the line. There will be door prizes from the J.B. O’Keefe Fitness Centre at STU and from Pepsi, Boston Pizza and the Social Club. The Social Club is also offering drink specials in honour of the event.

The pair is expecting a big crowd at the event, and hopes to raise at least $3000. The Social Club, at maximum capacity, can hold 300 people. Even some of the staffers at the event have agreed to donate the evening’s pay to the Canadian Red Cross for relief efforts in Japan.

Chavez acknowledged that some UNB students will already be in the exam period, but said there are no exams on Sunday and the event will be a good stress reliever.

As of Monday, more than 200 people were attending the event on Facebook.

For more details, visit the Facebook page under “One Love – A Fund Raising Party for Japan.”

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Diana Austin is passionate about teaching and helping students learn. Mike Erb / The Brunswickan them as well as we can.”

Austin’s method of teaching is strict, but fair. She stresses attendance and good grammar, but always offers extensions to students, no “dog ate my homework” excuses needed.

She also tries to bring relevant examples from outside the classroom into her course work. Just the other day,

Austin used an example from an episode of The Big Bang Theory to explain the concept of labels to her students.

She believes in her students and staunchly defended them against the idea that students are lazy and meanspirited.

“I’ve been teaching (students from this generation) for a few years now,

and I don’t see it. If we used that stereotype about any other group, we’d be ashamed of ourselves. Yet we think we can stereotype students and not be ashamed of ourselves.”

“I think today’s students, if you ask them, they will engage… If we don’t invite them in, why should they think they’re welcome?”

“Not the sex talk;” next up in Ideas series Hilary Paige Smith News Editor Lucia O’Sullivan was clear. Her upcoming lecture in the Ideas that Matter series is not the “sex talk.”

It’s about technology.

O’Sullivan is a professor in the psychology department at UNB. Her research is primarily in the realm of adolescent sexual health in eastern Canada. Her talk “Tweeting, Texting, Teens and Chat: The Internet and Sex in the Lives of Youth” takes place tonight at 7 p.m. in the Tom Morrison Theatre at Fredericton High School.

The talk is taking place at FHS to maximize the number of parents who will be able to attend. The Ideas that Matter series isn’t just geared toward academic types. It’s meant to engage the community in provincial issues.

O’Sullivan will touch on sexting, cyber-bullying and internet communication.

“I think it’s fairly obvious that the internet world has really inundated our lives with computer mediated communication. Every day almost there is some story in the news about the impact of the internet on the sexual lives of young people and, as you might guess, there hasn’t been much research because it’s changing so quickly.”

O’Sullivan is in the process of researching the impact technology and its everyday use has on the sexual lives of youth.

The talk is primarily geared towards parents because there is a lot of hysteria and panic surrounding sex and technology from parents of teenagers.

O’Sullivan hopes to moderate some of the fear parents are expressing and give an update from her research.

“I never think there’s room for panic,” she said. “There’s always a

lot of hysteria and panic around adolescent sexuality anyway. It is easily fueled by media stories indicating that children are vulnerable or victims of predators and stalkers and the like, when in real life, those events are really rare.”

The psychology professor believes parents should be involved and interested in these topics, but there is no need for panic.

The Ideas that Matter series is

designed to shed light on topics that are important to New Brunswickers.

O’Sullivan said New Brunswick has a decent track record for sexual statistics, as far as declining teen pregnancy and abortion rates go. Sexual lives in New Brunswick are not vastly different than other provinces across the country.

For more information on the Ideas that Matter series, visit www.unb. ca/ideas.

Lucia O’Sullivan speaks tonight in the Ideas that Matter series.

Mike Erb / The Brunswickan

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Shannon Carmont-McKinley has done an excellent job this year communicating student issues to students, as well as communicating with different levels of government. The UNBSU consistently sent out press releases to students this year. Carmont-McKinley also lobbied extensively with the provincial government, taking on her own role and the role of vice-president external when the former vice-president external, Brad McKinney, didn’t fulfill his role. When asked, McKinley said she wished she’d gotten around to reviewing their approach to the ratification of clubs and societies on campus, notably concerning areas of funding, advertising and expectations. Council also had some major issues meeting quorum this year, with several councillors removed or almost removed from council due to poor attendance.

It was a pretty good year for Ashley Wile. She implemented the first-ever Book Buy and Sell to have a debit machine and computerized spreadsheet system which proved very popular and very successful; however, students were not reminded about when to pick up their books. The Success Fair, an information fair designed to promote resources on campus, ended up being a bit of a “Fail Fair,” but not for a lack of trying on Wile’s part; students just weren’t interested in attending. Wile also worked with the Senate and environmental committee on campus. While she didn’t recruit as many students to Senate seats as she’d hoped, the vice-president internal had some success on the environmental committee, which hired a co-ordinator and made some headway on a RideShare initiative.

Brad McKinney resigned from his post midway through second semester.

Inc. UNBSU VP Finance

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Jordan Thompson spent much of his year planning the budget. He held a number of open budget consultations that were very poorly attended, however, budget consultations have always been poorly attended in the past. Thompson’s budget did create controversy among some students, but the budget was revised just days prior to deadline and carried over without complaint. The SU successfully managed to increase their fees to $47.50 per semester, a decision that passed without much complaint from students. Thompson should have put in more work on the requirements of clubs and societies after a number of questionable clubs and societies were ratified and granted funding this year.

Julia Coleman’s biggest success by far this year was the implementation of a second SafeRide vehicle. The second van has been extremely popular and an estimated 100 students get a free, safe, warm ride home every evening. Where Coleman was lacking was in planning student events. The SU had some difficulty with the wet/dry hiatus, but so far the Student Union has been lacking in events. The biggest this year were Yuk Yuks and Tony the X-Rated Hypnotist, without any major musical acts. In previous years, the Student Union typically throws a major concert to celebrate both the beginning and ending of the school year.

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What the hell, Alward? Post-secondary education took a massive hit in the provincial budget released on March 22. The tuition freeze has been lifted, allowing for a total increase of $200 per student across the province. This wasn’t unexpected. What was unexpected was the reintroduction of the parental income requirement on New Brunswick student loan applications. This is bound to hit students hard, especially students from middle-class and upper-middle class families. Now, students will have to count their parent’s income when making decisions on their personal education. It doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. Enrolment numbers were looking up for the coming year, but they may take a hit now that some students will no longer be eligible for student loan dollars. Now, even students who have completed and paid for a portion of their degree won’t be able to finish it. It’s not a pleasant thought. To the provincial government’s credit, they did increase universities operating grants by two per cent.

UNB Student Health Centre stepped it up a notch this year by introducing changes to their appointment making policies. Now it’s easier for students to get an appointment and organized much more efficiently. Before, students would pile up early in the morning, attempting to get afternoon appointments. Now, students can get appointments a day in advance. This was pretty successful; however, phone lines still got congested around mid-afternoon, making it difficult to make an appointment at certain times during the day.

We don’t know anyone who will tell you they’re satisfied with parking at UNB. But, according to an interview with Security and Traffic director, Bruce Rogerson, parking is only due to get better. Next year, more than 300 new spots will be paved and added to campus to improve the state of parking.

The Chapman Field dirt lot will be paved, and some spaces will be paved and lined behind the Aitken Centre to accommodate the influx of NBCC students expected in the fall. There will also be spaces added by the Currie Center.

But, this year parking was not great. Every morning, students clustered in cars waiting for a spot, often circling lots for 15-20 minutes at a time. There is also a serious lack of spots close to the campus core. It turns out students owe UNB tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid parking fees. The SUB parking lot is atrocious and a person could be swallowed whole by the dips and potholes in the half gravel, half paved tilted mess. It doesn’t look like that lot will be paved, lined and greatly improved anytime soon.

This year was a successful one for Residential Life and students in residence as a whole. Neville/Jones was shut down for the year to renovate and regroup and, despite it’s absence, former residents and Residential Life teamed up for an extremely successful Bed Push event, sans headquarters and raised over $12,000 for their house charity. Residential Life also announced their decision to close Tibbits Hall for the coming school year and unveiled a renovation strategy designed to improve the look and feel of residence, and attract more students to the heart of campus. Town House, the community for off-campus students, was also successful in garnering office space on campus to help their 300-some members. Residence numbers were up this year, and Residential Life successfully stomped a contingent of nasty bed bugs in their tracks before they could spread throughout Lady Beaverbrook Residence.

Residences also took part in a very successful water conservation challenge.

It was a busy year for Counselling Services at UNB. Right now, their waitlist is over a month long, including the influx of graduate students and social work students who have taken on hours. In an interview earlier this year, the Brunswickan was told there is a need for more counsellors but funds allocated by the university just don’t allow an increase. It’s not the fault of Counselling Services that there is an increase in those needing service, but something does need to be done about the increase. They may be looking at restructuring how appointments are made, as well as how many appointments will be allowed per student, per academic year. For now, students in need have to deal with the wait, or seek help elsewhere. There’s no denying Counselling Services is a valuable organization on campus and provides a helpful outlet for students dealing with stress and mental health problems, as well as career counselling.

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Colin McPhail Outgoing Editor-in-Chief Time flies.

I vividly remember the first day I arrived on campus. I was a fresh-faced frosh with high hopes and many aspirations. Now, as I leave this community as a slightly jaded journalist, I can hardly believe how quickly time sped by.

Like many, my dreams were quickly squashed because of my standard first-year antics. So, I settled for The Brunswickan.

I’m kidding. Entering The Brunswickan newsroom was one of the best decisions I will ever make.

My time working for this newspaper has opened my eyes to the world of journalism, and, more importantly, a career. I was a lost puppy in my first few years of university, but this hobby had potential.

I strongly urge you to check it out. You never know what or who you might find there (trust me, I know). It’s a fantastic atmosphere and next year’s Ed. Board is an incredible ensemble of young, enthusiastic journalists.

Led by Christopher Cameron, The Brunswickan is on the right track to big things next year.

I’ve been blessed being surrounded by such an exquisite group of colleagues this year. We did some great things this year and I’m proud to have work alongside them.

Thanks for the great work, Brunsies.

Thanks for another University Cup, Reds.

Thanks for keeping me sane, Alex Duncan.

Thanks for the memories, UNB. Take care and best of luck.

Pleasure wars: Return of the foreskin Kay Sex Columnist Did you know that the average size of an erect penis is six inches? Did you know men with larger flaccid cocks tend to grow less when they get hard whereas men with smaller flaccid cocks tend to grow more? Did I say at the beginning of 2011 that I was going to come back to the topic of penis size - or was that about circumcision?

Circumcision is actually a much less common practice these days than it was over 30 years ago. You may know this from seeing many fewer circumcised penises. Only about 10 per cent of Canadian infant boys are circumcised and the practice is tied to specific cultural and religious practices as opposed to medical practice. In recent history, the spread of HIV raised the question of whether there were heath risks associated with leaving foreskin in tack. The issue is that the foreskin can, kind of, act like a pouch carrying bacteria and viruses that can then be sexually transmitted.

However, after thoroughly reviewing all of the research, the Canadian Pediatric Society maintained its stance that there were no medical indications for circumcision in their 2009-10 update of their position. If you ask me, this is a long-term bonus for people who enjoy penetrative sex with penises. See, the added skin can create additional interior friction during penetration (bonus stimulation).

Not to mention a little bit of extra something to play with during oral sex.

Some opinionated individuals, like myself, have pointed out that the inside lining of the foreskin is made of very sensitive cells. It also protects the most sensitive part of the penis.

Thus, it seems like uncircumcised men would experience more sexual pleasure than circumcised men.

However, research out of Quebec found no difference between how sensitive circumcised and uncircumcised cocks were to touch (Payne et al., 2007). Yet, to really know the answer, the best comparison would be to measure sexual pleasure in a man who is uncircumcised and has no barriers to great sex (e.g., no physical or mental health prob-

lems) and then circumcise him and measure his post-circumcision sexual pleasure. There are obvious ethical issues present in that research design, not to mention potential surgery complications. I personally think we should leave this one question in the arms of speculation.

Did you know that there is something to measure regarding a woman’s clit too? In the book Bonk, Mary Roach describes how one historical female researcher postulated that the length between a woman’s clitoris and her urethral meatus (where pee comes out) was related to whether she could have intercourse or not.

Flash forward to 2011 and what-do-yaknow, Emory University professor Kim Wallen and colleague Lloyd have done the math to support this idea. The thing to remember is that it’s specifically woman’s ability to orgasm during intercourse that is related to the distance between her clit and urethral meatus. From the abstract it looks like Wallen hasn’t quite figured out why yet.

Here’s my guess: The urethral meatus lies between the clit and vaginal opening. If the distance between the clit and urethral meatus is shorter than it follows that the distance between the clit and vaginal opening is also shorter. During intercourse, the penis slides in and out of the vaginal openwopening, the better the chances of the penis sliding over the clit, the better the chances of clitoral stimulation, which ultimately what leads to female orgasm.

Voila! So get your rulers out ladies – it’s time for you to start comparing in the mirror as well!

I can’t believe it is the end of the year already! I haven’t even had the chance to give you Kay’s tips on trying out anal sex, or how half of us are interested in kinky sex or encouraged you to participate in the cybersex study being conducted by UNB researchers (Oh, I guess I just did!). I guess I’ll have to hope for another season next year to throw in my two cents on fluid sexual orientation.

Have a great exam period and summer everyone!

Christopher Cameron Incoming Editor-in-Chief After hiding at the back of The Brunswickan for the year, I guess I should re-introduce myself as this year’s Sports Editor and the next Editor-in-Chief of this historic paper.

Coming into this job is something that is terrifying, exciting and so many other emotions. After watching Colin McPhail and Alex Duncan do such a great job over the past year and it will be tough to top what they did.

Next year I hope to continue working on some of the things they started, but also hope to work on multiple other projects.

One of them is to continue to increase our paper’s presence online, whether it is Twitter, Facebook or our website.

As students we all want our news quickly and as a student publication we want to

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan provide the best coverage of student and community news possible. I would also like to make sure we represent our campus in the best way by getting feedback from the student body on what they want from their paper.

Part of this being successful will be the great Editorial Board by my side. They are one of the most talented groups of journalists I have seen, and although there is turnover from this year I have no doubts they will be represent you (the students) in a near perfect manner.

That being said everyone is free to volunteer. We’re very welcoming and story meetings on Wednesday will give you a chance to contribute to what goes in your paper.

Best wishes to graduating Brusies and I’m glad to be back at UNB as a student after a few years at STU. I hope to serve you well.

Maybe Canada isn’t as righteous as it seems Simon Shakibaei An Opinion One issue that will never come up in this federal election is the case of Omar Khadr, and for good reason.

The issues foremost on the minds of Canadians are jobs, health care and the environment. You would expect the major political parties to tailor their platforms accordingly.

Yet for those concerned with Canada’s role in adhering to international law, particularly as it relates to human rights, Khadr’s story is a cautionary tale of how not all Canadians are treated equally by our government.

While only 24-years-old, Khadr has spent over a third of his life in U.S. custody at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. In October 2010 he was sentenced to eight years in prison for the murder of Sgt. Christopher Speer.

The Pentagon alleged Khadr threw the grenade that fatally wounded Sgt. Speer during a firefight in Afghanistan back in 2002. As part of a plea bargain, Khadr will likely serve only a year in the US, after which he will be transferred to a Canadian prison.

Notwithstanding the fact that Khadr is a child soldier, according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) his detention and treatment at Guantanamo was in violation of a number of international human rights instruments.

According to the UNCRC, detention of children must be used only as a last resort and for the shortest period of time possible.

They are not to be subject to torture or other cruel and degrading treatment and the essential purpose of their detention should be to promote their reintegration into society. Yet Khadr was afforded none of these protections.

He was held at Guantanamo for over three years before ever being charged with any crime. He was afforded legal council only two years after his capture.

Despite his status as a minor, American officials refused to separate him from the adult prison population, like they had done with other child prisoners. His family has never been allowed to visit him.

He was subject to a number of “enhanced” interrogation techniques, or torture light, including the “Fear Up,” “Love of Freedom” and “Fear of Incarceration” techniques.

The Martin and Harper governments did very little to obtain his release, despite the fact that other NATO countries had their nationals repatriated.

His own mother did very little to help, however. Among other things she has publicly expressed her admiration for bin Laden and her animosity toward Canadian social influences, while greatly benefitting from its generous welfare programs.

Yet for some reason, I feel as though the sins the family should not be visited upon the son. Canada is still a nation of laws and as a citizen of this country Khadr is entitled to certain rights and freedoms. What is troublesome is Canada’s culpability in the mistreating and abusing of Khadr.

Canadian intelligence officers, under the ruse of trying “to ascertain Khadr’s wellbeing,” had interrogated him. The information they obtained was then handed over to American officials and used against Khadr in his subsequent military tribunal.

Prior to their visit, Khadr was deprived of sleep and moved to a new cell every three hours for 21 days. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the government had acted illegally and that participation in Khadr’s interrogation at Guantanamo violated his rights under the Charter.

Canada has always worked towards building a just society at home and being a force for peace and stability abroad. Yet with Omar Khadr, the Canadian government has stood for neither.

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Student

Viewpoint.

Let everyone know whats on your mind.

“High: Exam time. It’s time to get to work.”

Handsome Dave

“High: The hockey team.”

Andrew Guest

“Low: Increased beer prices.”

Ben Shutron

“Low: Tuition.”

Josh Ogden

“Low: Studying. “

“High: Graduating.”

Erin Fraser

Matt Havenga “High: Meeting new people here.”

“High: Getting to go home.”

Emily Dicks

What are the highs and lows of the school year?

Corey McMillan

“High: CIS Nationals.”

Daniel Crouse

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Hobo stops begging; demands change Books down, drinks up: Last Class Bash

Matt Belyea Arts Reporter If you listen closely you can hear the stir of quiet excitement rustling around campus. It’s the sound of students fluttering through dry pages of eye-bulging homework and sipping on coffee, awaiting the end of the semester.

In the upcoming days we’ll go about our business like innocent mice, totally unaware of the inebriated and overflowing chaos that Last Class Bash is sure to bring. This week is the calm before the storm.

Alejandro Bernal is an international student from Chihuahua, Mexico who spent this past semester at UNB. “Canada has given me lots of new and wonderful experiences and I’m really looking forward to Last Class Bash and partying with the friends I’ve made over the semester,” he said.

He will be joining the mass of UNB students on Thursday to celebrate the end of the school year. There will be plenty of opportunity to get out and get your groove on from Thursday to Sunday, and here’s some of the action to come.

The second annual “Kiddstock: Concert in the Courtyard!” hosted by Joy Kidd House will kick off on Thursday at 4 p.m. There will be live music by the Midnight Ramblers, Matt Pearson Band, She Roars!, Heroes On Standby, and a live DJ. There will be a BBQ and outdoor activities including Frisbee, washer toss and football. All proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity.

The Cellar is for those of you who have an ear for good music. The first 200 UNB students that have a student ID and proof of +19 will get in free all three nights. Drink deals throughout the weekend will be $3 specials and $10 pitchers. Thursday night has a jam packed lineup of musical acts including the lively six piece Oh No, Theodore!, the heavily admired Belle Comedians and folk sensation Owen Steel. Friday night will host the four-piece rock and roll force Sleepless Nights, the original sounds of The Waking Night and solo artist Ed Legge, and Saturday will usher in spring with performances by Weak Size Fish and The Jessica Stuart Few. Doors open at 9:30 p.m. all three nights and cover will be $5.

The Capital Complex is another venue that is sure to offer top-notch live music. Thursday’s show includes The Arka Teks and Saint John’s The Playdates as well as a Student Retro Night in the Phoenix. Students with a valid ID get in for free. On Friday there will be music by Three Sheet and Saa Andrews and Saturday will host the Midnight Ramblers as well as Heat and Lights. There will be an additional show on Sunday night at 8:00 p.m. in the Wilser’s Room by the Paper Beat Scissors and Year of Glad. Admission for that show is a donation and doors open at 7 p.m. All other shows start at 11 p.m. with doors opening at 10 p.m. and include a $5 cover.

Stay at home with friends or head out to F-Studio, The College Hill Social Club, Nicky Zee’s, Boom or Dolan’s to shake off that post semester stress.

Jason Eisner’s controversial Hobo with a Shotgun was released March 25 in Canada. First shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January the film will see limited release in Europe throughout the summer. Submitted Matt Belyea Arts Reporter An archetypal vigilante with a shotgun is leaving blood stains on box office carpets this spring.

Rutger Hauer is a hard-as-nails hobo with a conscious bent on restoring order to the chaotic wasteland he trainhops into. After befriending a hooker named Abby, he sets out blasting anyone who stands in his way.

This mega-thriller is set in a gritty, apocalyptic ghetto where crime and gangs have a hold on the streets, and the authorities.

The setting could be a caricature or exaggeration of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where it was filmed. But although it was filmed in Halifax, its New Brunswick ties aren’t hard to find. Its producer Robert Cotterill and its first assistant director Jason Shipley are both UNB graduates.

Shipley’s job was to break the script down into scenes and organize a shooting schedule that includes stunts, effects, props and extras.

“The biggest challenge of Hobo With a Shotgun was filming it here, with our people and on the budget that we had,

because, really, the budget should have been two or three times what we had.

So we had to be really creative, efficient and effective in how we did things,” said Shipley.

He said that the low budget was balanced out by the support they received from the Halifax community and the creative freedom granted to them by the producers.

“I’ve never my in life seen a movie where the producers allowed us to have so much creative control. They basically got the money and let us do whatever we wanted with it. I’ve been working as an assistant director now for 14 years and I’ve never seen that before.”

That control resulted in a film that flourishes with ridiculous hilarity and spectacular imagination. Its edges extend beyond the usual boundaries of mainstream cinema.

“That’s what goes wrong with most horror and action movies. They sink so much money into it and they want to make so much money off it so they soften all the edges to make it appeal to the widest possible audience. And especially to get that much valley hooed PG-13 rating. That was never the desire of anyone involved with Hobo With a

Shotgun.”

From the pain arcade to glass eating, to a school bus of burning children, this is blood and guts at its extreme.

Robb Wells (Trailer Park Boys) makes an appearance until he gets hung by a sewer cover and decapitated by a barbed wire noose. George Stroumboulopoulos acts as news broadcaster until he meets the wrong side of a hockey skate.

Hobo With a Shotgun is truly a film that doesn’t try to be anything other than it is.

“If no one ever saw this movie at least we knew that we would make a movie that we wanted to see,” said Shipley.

Because of this, the retro grindhouse flick has created a of people who either love it or hate it.

“You’re going to get that kind of a split. The people that get this movie really get it and get the sense of humour behind it. The people that don’t, well you’re not going to convince anybody that a pedophile Santa Clause is funny if they’re not down with that.”

But there might be more to this film than just bullet holes, bloody carcasses, the vulgar and grotesque. Its protagonist, who is both homeless and old,

represents two of the most vulnerable peoples in our society. This is why in the name of justice and community Rutger Hauer’s character surfaces as the ultimate vigilante fighting for the oppressed in scum town. The film encapsulates real corruption that we can all see and relate to.

Hobo With a Shotgun started with a grindhouse trailer contest funded by the SXSW festival and Robert Rodriguez. Jason Eisener shot the now famous fake Hobo With a Shotgun trailer without a permit over six days in Halifax with a bloody hobo and a real shotgun. The trailer had a $150 budget that was admittedly spent mostly on pizza and cigarettes. But that was enough; the trailer won the contest and also made an appearance as an actual preview to Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 doublefeature, Grindhouse. From there it gained popularity until it became the feature film we see today.

Hobo With a Shotgun is a visual assault and roller coaster ride filled with sadistic fun and endless one-liners. If you’re not scared of a little blood and you feel the need to escape the mundane, then this is a film for you.

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When someone great is gone

beer snobs.

Best of the Rest: Your favourite friends from around the world

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

Sapporo

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Belgium, 6.8%

Japan, 5%

Hilary: “This is not so poor.”

Christian: “It ’s okay, but it has a bad aftertaste.”

Alison: “Light on flavour, but not a bad summer beer.”

Colin: “Smooth with a bit of bite, once again the Japanese outdo the Americans.”

Gosser

Alison: “Really light and sparkling, but kind of tastes like incense...”

Hilary: “It really does.”

Christian: “It’s like carbonated water.”

Colin: “It goes down smooth, but there’s nothing to it.”

Foster’s

Austria, 5.2%

Australia, 5%

Alison: “Similar aftertaste to the other one but way more watery.”

Alison: “Tastes ger. It’s good.”

Hilary: “Tolerable, but just that.”

Christian: can beer.”

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LCD Soundsystem played their last show in NYC April. 2. They played Toronto (pictured above) last May. Josh O’Kane / Submitted Josh O’Kane Canadian University Press NEW YORK (CUP) — Wearing a black suit, an untucked shirt and his late father’s watch, James Murphy almost couldn’t finish what he started.

He tried. He’d make a quick quip, he’d tickle a keyboard, but he couldn’t start.

“New York, I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down.” Once he started that song, he had to finish it. And finishing that song meant closing the book of the last 10 years of his life.

Murphy has made it clear for the past year that his band, LCD Soundsystem, was almost done. Even before they put out 2010’s This is Happening, he declared the band would tour the world once more and that’s it.

LCD, then, became master of their own fate — rather than burn out or fade away, they would simply stop being LCD Soundsystem.

It meant for a bittersweet year, and a more bittersweet farewell. The band booked Madison Square Garden, defeating the odds imposed on them by their otherwise no-pretension, no-bullshit, DIY attitude. Once they booked the Garden, the odds stacked further out of their favour: Scalpers allegedly nabbed almost all of the show’s tickets within a moment of them going on sale.

But the Garden filled and people came from around the world, no matter the cost — from Los Angeles to Brooklyn, from Toronto to Dublin. At the request of the band, many dressed in black and white to respect the show’s funeral-party theme.

At four hours (long? KM), it was a funeral fit for royalty.

LCD plowed through three sets and two encores, paying tribute to their entire discography. Murphy’s troupe has always escaped musical definition, though dancepunk has always fit them best: a band whose purpose was to make people dance, but defying any rules that come with that label.

The band played their set without reservations. They hit the stage to “Dance Yrself Clean,” a build-up opener built up even more by a surprise men’s choir appearing from the bleachers behind the stage. They blasted through more of the beginning of This is Happening, with the realization of the band’s end largely disregarded except for Murphy’s thankful banter and the screams

of some 14000 fans. They played hits — “Daft Punk,” of course, and a mind-blown, audience-riling version of “All My Friends” — and old favourites, inviting original LCD guitarist Phil Mossman on stage for “Too Much Love.”

The centrepiece of the second set was perhaps one of the band’s least-known songs, though one of their best: “45:33,” a track whose title reflects its length, and which sports giant Nike commissioned Murphy to write. LCD’s longest composition, the band played it through (minus the section that became “Someone Great,” replaced instead by “Sound of Silver.”) (what does the band play through? KM) The troupe was joined by an enormous cast of supporting players throughout the evening, from a horn section and men’s choir throughout, to Reggie Watts, Shit Robot and the Juan MacLean for “45:33.”

During the third set, members of the Arcade Fire — friends of LCD’s from a previous tour (they even released a split 7-inch together) — joined the band on stage for “North American Scum,” which LCD hadn’t played in years.

LCD closed the third set with a trio of old hits, ending with “Yeah,” their funkiest jam. They returned to the stage with “Someone Great.” It’s a song with blunt force, sentimental imagery about losing someone important and the audience did not hesitate to go ape shit over its metaphorical meaning on this night.

But it was the second encore that incited the most emotion. After “Losing My Edge,” after “Home,” after “All I Want,” after Harry Nilsson’s “Jump Into the Fire,” Murphy finally got emotional.

The band kept their composure all night, relying on excitement over sadness to drive their energy.

But as Murphy introduced his friends and family, including his siblings and their kids, his emotion got real. He told the audience about his father’s watch. Suddenly he struggled to finish what he started. He had one last love letter to send to New York, though, and after a few false starts, he was ready to seal the envelope: “New York, I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down.”

Starting slow and building up, Murphy sent his letter off with a bang — and thousands of white balloons. And as the band played their final chord and left the stage, he sauntered behind, having finally finished what he started.

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Dyeing to make your aquaintance: Dara Simonds Alison Clack Arts Editor What is art? It might encompass more than you think.

When the ‘layman’ thinks of art, he (or she if you’d rather) often thinks singularly of fine art. In our manufactured world we tend to forget the effort and creativity required to design, dye, weave and work with textiles.

Dara Simonds, a UNB/NBCCD student in the Bachelor of Applied Arts Program, is studying Surface Design at the craft college downtown.

Simply put, Simonds designs and dyes textiles.

“We learn how to make patterns and designs and hopefully one day be able to sell them to companies that can take those designs and put them on anything from shower curtains, to bedding and lunch boxes. You’re basically making a design for manufacturers around the world to buy and use for their products,” said Simonds about the focus of her program.

Art has always interested Simonds but she didn’t make it a priority until the past couple of years. She originally attended St. Francis Xavier University and minored in Fine Arts which lead to her realizing

her true passion.

“I took a course in a technique called Batik where you use wax as a resist. You can do it on either paper or cloth and wherever you put the wax the dye won’t go there.”

“My very first class of Batik was a big one. I knew right away, before I even tried it myself, when the teacher was just giving the demonstration I was going to love it. That was kind of my A-ha moment, when I knew that this is what I’m supposed to do.”

And Simonds didn’t sit on laurels once she’d made her mind up to switch to the craft college. Before she’d even started classes at NBCCD she started work on getting her name out in a new town.

“I’ve taken it upon myself to do it on my own. The summer before I went to the craft college I went down to Bejewel and set something up there. When I walked out of Bejewel and they said that I could sell my scarves there it was just a huge moment because I didn’t think at all that they would ever sell my stuff. It was such an exciting moment for me.”

It’s not the only project that Simonds has going on at the moment; she’s designing some accessories for men as well.

“I’m also dyeing some silk ties for men right now and I’m trying to sell them to high school students for prom. I went to

Leo Hayes High School and sold a few there and I’ve gotten a lot of response so far over Facebook.”

Simonds’s hard work and determination is equally matched by her passion for art.

“It pretty much just is my life. Colours are what make me happy; I can’t imagine not having colour. I find even when I’m doing something that doesn’t have a lot of colour – I don’t know – it’s just not fun anymore. I’m a server at the Hilltop and I always like serving supper more than lunch and breakfast because at breakfast you only have yellow, brown and white as your colours.”

Simonds’s burgeoning success is a testament to what hard work can achieve.

Before even finishing her degree (or diploma) she’s selling her work in a downtown boutique.

“Don’t think you can’t make a living as an artist! You might need another job on the side until something big comes along, but there’s always hope that something big will come along,” encouraged Simonds.

“As long as you’re passionate about what you’re doing and you work hard at what you do you can make something of yourself no matter what it is you’re doing.”

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TUNB

A standing ovation should be given to the UNB students making up Theatre UNB this year. Director and professor Len Falkenstein has lead the group in a number of impressive productions this year. From the large ensemble cast of Departures and Arrivals (a joint production between the first and second year theatre courses) this past autumn to the emotion-driven, historical reproduction Fanshen that ran this past week, the cast and crew making up TUNB have put on some impressive shows. For taking risks and moving TUNB’s performances to a whole new level, Falkenstein and his crew of students this year deserve to be applauded.

Picaroon’s Fredericton’s favourite micro-brew has seen a huge burst in popularity in recent years but no one expected the incredible boost they would see with the introduction of growlers this past winter. With a shiny, brand-new brewtique on Queen Street that is a part of the Atlantic Économusée Network of artisan and the moonshine-like, 2L growler bottles selling out almost as soon as they’re stocked. Picaroon’s has seen an incredible boost this year and deserves a whole-hearted (and slightly drunken) cheers from Fredericton.

Gallery Connexion Gallery Connexion has solidified its role as one of Fredericton’s most prominent art galleries this year by bringing in all sorts of art forms from blood-stained installation pieces to performances by indie artists including Julie Doiron and Rae Spoon, to film screenings and fine art exhibitions. They’ve also partnered with a number of spaces around town including the Playhouse and The Cedar Tree Cafe to show even more exhibitions. Despite being plagued with flooding again this year (they moved from their previous location for the same reason in 2008) the gallery has still managed to help diversify Fredericton’s art scene in the past year.

Harvest Jazz and Blues While this year’s lineup wasn’t the most impressive compared to past festivals, one has to keep in mind that the organizers had several headliners drop out in the months leading up to the festival. Headliners Greg Allman and Johnny Lang both dropped off the lineup and organizers scrambled to fill the headlining spots. Aussie Xavier Rudd put on a great performance to a packed Blues Tent and the buskers this year were better than ever before. For pulling off a great festival despite adversities Harvest Jazz and Blues get an A grade.

Credit not receieved:

UNBSU Entertainment This year’s entertainment provided by our UNBSU has been a little lacking compared to previous years. Going back through the SU’s event calendar the only entertainment they seemed to have brought in all year was Yuk Yuk’s and Tony the Hypnotist. In the past the SU has brought in dozens of great Canadian acts from Metric to Joel Plaskett, where are those artists now?

This year’s budget for entertainment was roughly $50,000; in actuality they only spent approximately $37,000 on entertainment. Where did that go? We don’t even have a Last Class Bash event planned by the SU this year, why didn’t they use the surplus to throw a great LCB event?

Canadian ISPs Canadian Internet Service Providers made a huge misstep this year thinking that internet consumers wouldn’t mind (or notice) a bandwidth cap and outrageous overages charges. The major ISPs even went so far as to push the limits on smaller ISPs who “rented” bandwidth and sold it at a reduced price.

OpenMedia.ca and a unanimous “WTF” from consumers across the country eventually shamed the companies into backing down, but the blatant moneygrab won’t be forgotten for awhile.

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A year in review

By Christopher Cameron - Sports Editor

“If you want to see the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with a little bit of rain.”

This statement is how Varsity Reds athletic director Kevin Dickie summed up the program’s progress since 2007, when resources were downsized and refocused.

Dick ie sa id t he program wouldn’t have achieved the success they had this year without downsizing the program.

“It’s just that simple. It’s absolutely resources. It’s scholarship dollars or just operating dollars and it’s being able to do more with less. That’s what we accomplished,” he said.

“If we had to butter two pieces of bread with the same amount of butter it just wouldn’t have resulted in excellence this year, let’s put it that way. It allowed us to really provide some focus with our resources.”

Aside from the success of the varsity teams on campus, the UNB men’s wrestling team finished second in the country and the women’s hockey team won a Maritime championship.

“It’s like I said back in 2007, things could actually get better in the whole spectrum of club and varsity sport and at times I felt like I was on an island by myself,” said Dickie.

“With that said I thought that our year like this would come and it wouldn’t have if we didn’t make the alterations we made.”

Turning the focus back to the Varsity Reds varsity teams again and this season has been one of the most successful in the history of the school according to Dickie.

“If you’re looking at the results part, we know that for the past number of years it has been tough enough to win one championship, let alone accomplish what we did this year.”

Of their eight team’s remaining under varsity status, four of the seven team sports competed on the national stage, while five swimmers made it to their national championship.

“It is a result-based industry,” said Dickie. “We obviously achieved those results this season, with our results being outstanding and probably for a school our size as good as anyone in the country.”

“We had more than 50 per cent of our teams get past the AUS championships this season with men’s and women’s volleyball, men’s hockey, swimming and women’s basketball attending the national championship through regional qualifier.”

The results were great regionally, but the only success on the national level came as the men’s hockey team hosted and won the University Cup, their third title in five years.

Dickie said the difference between success and failure is attributed to recruitment.

“It is very fragile if you look at the teams here,” he said. “If Claire Colborne chooses to go somewhere else over UNB or Nick MacNeil, Celina Abba, Matt Sweet choosing to come back to our men’s volleyball team, Will Allen, and I could keep rattling off names.”

“How fragile it is, is that recruiting is the bloodline to your

success and if we don’t recruit these athletes that we did, we’re probably not having success we’re having.”

Although they had astounding success this season, he said varsity athletics are very cyclical.

“We caught everything on an upswing here for a lot of teams. I think the other part to it too is we’re proud of what Danielle Losier and people like that are doing in the pool on an individual basis.”

Dickie continued discussing the success of the program aside from the teams that won an AUS or CIS championship.

“Finally the men’s basketball team has taken strides in the right direction, making it to the Atlantic championships for the first time since 2006,” he said.

“That is as big a deal as anything right now within our program.”

Having success can go to a team or program’s head, but Dickie said it will not be an issue at UNB. “We’re not so naive to think that all of a sudden that this is going to happen every year, but I also know that in the last six years we’ve had seven student athletes that have been James Bayer winners or BLG nominees,” he said.

“Again you can’t guarantee you’re going to win championships, but you can guarantee you’re going to do things that championship teams and championship programs do.”

“Right now we’re at that level where it is about striving for excellence. We used to run with the Academic All-Canadians thing and that’s where we used to hang our hat but now we’ve got 33 per cent Academic All-Canadians, but we’re also having a ton of success in the sports arena right now.”

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Reds cheerleading finish second at Cheer Expo

Christopher Cameron Sports Editor After finishing first in all other competitions this year, the Reds Cheerleading team would have to top some tough competition at Cheer Expo if they wanted to have a third, first place finish.

Up against teams from SMU, Dal, MUN, StFX and Acadia, they finished second with 342 points, behind MUN’s 376.50 and ahead of Dal’s 341.50.

Brandi Riddoch, team member and public relations representative, was pleased with what they saw from their team relative to last year at Cheer Expo, the largest cheerleading competition in Atlantic Canada.

“Considering we came second out of three teams last year and our scoring has vastly improved from last year, we’re happy with what our group achieved this year,” she said.

At the end of the first day, the UNB team was ranked fourth and suffered from injuries as one of their members landed in the hospital with a neck injury. As a result, Riddoch said the team had limited practice time and had to step up their game on the second day.

“The biggest thing for us improving in day two was we went over the fine details and things that could be changed within a day,” she said. “Believe it or not, smiling makes a huge difference and we jumped

up a quite a few points because every team member smiled the whole time.”

“We also changed some of our counts last minute to take out the stunt that caused our team member to fall.”

Riddoch credits the team’s success back to their new coaches.

“In the weeks between the first competitions and then the Cheer Expo we actually managed to get all of our flyers to be able to do level six stunts together as opposed to some having it and some not,” she said. “We actually did not have all the stunts we need for the level six competitions when our coaches left and after our new coaches stepped in and we noticed a major difference.”

One positive for the group as they look to improve and finish first next year at Cheer Expo is the majority of the team is returning.

“Not a lot of us are leaving, but we had a small team to begin with,” said Riddoch.

“One thing we’re definitely going to be pushing next year is recruiting and we’re hoping to get a lot of male recruits. That would require less stunt groups to be on the floor.”

Riddoch further said it was not only males they are looking for to improve the team but more members in general.

“If we had a significant number of team members then we could do the same thing

The UNB Reds Cheeleading team finished second at Cheer Expo, finishing behind MUN.This was their lowest finish of the season after winning their first two of the year. Wayne Miller (as if they had more males),” she said. that most people don’t know we exist, so Riddoch feels good about this as they when it’s brought up it’s not even ‘You’re a had a large number of spectators for their cheerleader?’ it is ‘UNB has cheerleaders?’ showcase last week.

I think that is changing now.”

“That was a real motivator,” she said.

Tryouts will take place during the first or “We had about 75 to 100 people that came second week of September. If you are interout to view our showcase, so that was a real ested in joining the team more information boost for the team. We have not seen that can be found under their recruitment group much interest from the UNB commun- on Facebook by searching “Reds Cheerity before. We’re the surprise group in leading Recruitment 2011-12.”

Hanging around with some “rock stars” Brian Savoir Sports Reporter My hands are covered in chalk and I’m wearing shoes two sizes too small. It’s time to go rock climbing.

To put it mildly, rock climbing is an extreme sport. It involves the use of your entire body, including muscles you might not know you have, and requires both physical and mental strength.

I went down to the rock climbing wall here at UNB to find out exactly how intense this sport is. After all, how bad could it be?

It didn’t take me long to realize that despite my daily trips to the cardio and weight room, I had nothing on any of the regular climbers. The upper body strength and flexibility needed for this sport is second only, perhaps, to gymnastics. I also realized it’s sports like this that can take athletes to the next level of fitness, especially when things like treadmills, free weights and chin-up bars aren’t cutting it.

John Bowles has been an avid rock climber for 13 years and is a rock climbing instructor at UNB. He has won the Atlantic rock climbing championships numerous times and is a North American champion speed climber. Bowles offered some advice to people who want to get involved with the sport.

“It helps coming into this sport coming with a base level of fitness and being in relatively decent cardio shape,” said Bowles.

“It’s a body weight sport so the stronger you are per pound, the better.

However, you really don’t have to be that strong if you have good technique. People with good hand-eye co-ordination tend to do quite well.”

Bowles explained that women generally have an easier time than men the first time. Men try to use their arms too much whereas women focus on technique and foot positioning.

Rock climbing, unlike most other sports, has large elements of danger and fear.

“Climbing is mental, it’s all mental.

There is fear involved, there is actual real risk,” said Bowles.

“You can always hurt yourself with every sport, but with climbing at extreme levels, there is real risk. Climbing is different; it’s as much mental as it is physical.”

Bowles also commented on challenges his students often face when they first start to climb.

“80 per cent of the time it’s not fear of falling or fear of heights; it’s the fear of failure. Caring what other people think.

You need to shut off your mind and focus on what you’re doing,” said Bowles.

For students and members of the community wishing to get more involved with the sport and push themselves to the next level, this is by far one of the best ways to go.

The UNB Rock & Ice Climbing Club is the perfect place to learn the basics and get involved in the climbing community in Fredericton.

The club is one of the most active and well-attended clubs on campus. More than 150 regular members and a core group of 20-30 avid rock enthusiasts can be found scaling the wall most evenings and at events.

The number of people who frequent the wall is a testament to the popularity of the sport and the club on campus.

The rock climbing wall is located in the Lady Beaverbrook Gymnasium and is open most evenings until 9 p.m., except on Saturdays. Students are encouraged to try it out.

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Christopher Cameron brought to you by:

Men’s basketball Record: 8-12 Finished: 5th Playoffs: AUS quarter-final Coach: Brent Baker

Women’s basketball Record: 14-6 Finished: 2nd Playoffs: CIS regional semi-final Coach: Jeff Speedy

Men’s volleyball Record: 11-6 Finished: 1st Playoffs: AUS champion Coach: Dan McMorran

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Women’s volleyball Record: 11-7 Finished: 2nd Playoffs: AUS champion Coach: John Richard

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Josh Fleck Sports Writer

Rob Williams Sports Writer

B-. Baker’s boys got the job done this season and met their goal to make the playoffs. Although they did that there is still a ways to go before this team is feared when they’re played game in and game out.

B. After winning a total of three games last season, the eight from this one is a major improvement. Playoffs were a gigantic step in the right direction and there is a lot of undiscovered potential left to be unearthed on this team, so next year has a lot in store.

B. Showed some serious improvement, especially on the bench and had more wins than most (if not all) of us expected.

With another solid piece added to the puzzle, this team could be good.

A. Beating CBU at home, then nearly winning against them in the AUS final is huge. This team will have some major shoes to fill next season with Amanda Sharpe and Leah Corby graduating. Relying on Claire Colborne will be the up and coming star for sure, but I’m unsure if the Varsity Reds will be good enough without Sharpe in the post position.

A. After missing out on the playoffs last year, coach Speedy got the most out of his girls as they were ranked as high as No. 6 in the country at one point.

There was a slight disappointment at the hands of CBU, but a very good improvement from last year and a lot to look forward to in the upcoming season.

A-. Had the best year of their recent history and finished in second place in the AUS. The talents of Claire Colbourne, the Corby sisters and Amanda Sharpe have propelled this team to the top of the AUS.

A. Well to say that this season for the Varsity Reds was great hits the nail on the head nearly perfectly. Winning their first AUS title in 25 years is wonderful obviously, but that being said they were not perfect in their interlock tournaments and for this program, although they moved in the right direction they need to pick it up there to be taken seriously on the national stage.

A+. That gigantic monkey is finally off of their backs. Dalhousie is no longer the talk of AUS men’s volleyball. Bringing home the AUS banner for the first time in 25 years, as well as garnering national recognition with coach Dan McMorran winning CIS Coach of the Year honours and Jacob Kilpatrick being named first team AllCanadian.

B+. AUS title winning team for the first time in 25 years, finally beating the monster that is Dalhousie volleyball, but were crushed on the national tier. Enough returning players to make another serious push for the title again and maybe better results on the national stage.

A-. Congrats on the AUS championship banner. The only negative is the fact that this team is losing three players next season. This was the year to make a push not only in the AUS, but also the CIS.

A. The women were hanging around the top of the standings again this year and finished off the season with one of two AUS volleyball banners. Fifth year powers Jill Blanchard and Erica Hay made sure they were leaving the team with an AUS banner.

A . Also an AUS winning team, but were also crushed at nationals. Team persevered through losing their captain and one of their best players to injury, Monica Jones, and played very well as a team.

brunswickansports Men’s soccer Record: 6-5-2 Finished: 5th Playoffs: AUS quarter-final Coach: Miles Pinsent

Women’s soccer Record: 4-7-2 Finished: 7th Playoffs: Missed Coach: Andy Cameron

B+ D

Swimming Men: 4th place at AUS Women: 2nd place at AUS Coach: Paula Stewart

Hockey Record: 23-5 Finished: 1st Playoffs: CIS champion Coach: Gardiner MacDougall

C

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B. This team won their way into the playoffs in the final game of the regular season and unfortunately they lost in the AUS quarter-final and it all comes down to one game, they were unfortunate in coming up short in that game with terrible whether putting a damper on their success.

C. After finishing 7-2-4 the season before this past one, the team took a step back by losing five games and barely making the playoffs. On the upside, the team is really young and has tasted the playoffs so there is a lot of potential.

C. This team has been slipping a little bit as of late. The last two seasons have each held worse fortune than the last with fewer and fewer wins, with the team claiming the last spot in the AUS playoffs this year.

D+. As the light at the end of the tunnel draws nearer for Andy Cameron’s team this grade is based on the final record at the end of the season. To be fair this team is close to breaking out of this and back into the playoffs.

They will definitely be back in the playoffs next season as this young squad continues to grow.

D. Finishing dead last in the AUS can mean only one thing, there is a lot of room for improvement. A three spot jump in the standings is huge for this program, but they are still the owners of a losing record, so next season will be a test of whether they can build on momentum from this season.

D. They attempted to make a playoff push, but that ultimately failed. They finished with a losing record and since 2006 have not put together a winning squad. They managed to double their wins from last season, but still need to improve.

C+. Well when you look at this team there are a few positives compared to last season.

They have shown improvement as their AUS result on the women’s side was vastly improved when it came to team points. The men’s not as much.

The main negative is the same number of swimmers as last season making it to the national stage. That is where I focus my decision for my mark. Next season with some talented young females showing they will be strong athletes, we should see more going to CIS.

C. Danielle Losier had another outstanding season and multiple rookies showed they will great up and coming swimmers.

That being said, the number of athletes going to the national championship did not increase.

Hopefully in the next few seasons this number will be on the rise. This program is “quality over quantity”, but at the same time a few extra swimmers would be great.

D+. The swimming team has had a little bit of success with five of its members making it to the CIS championships this year. Only one member of the men’s swimming team managed to make it to the nationals. Although there is more emphasis on the women’s team here at UNB, the men’s side really needs to step it up next season to be successful.

A+. It’s really hard to argue with the results: AUS banner, CIS banner and another pro contract. To go along with the final result, you have the improvement from last year’s disappointing finish to StFX. Coach MacDougall and the boys will have a lot to live up to next season.

A+. Showed major resilience after being upset in the AUS playoffs a year ago and won the CIS title. The team is also good enough to have a shot at repeating as champions next year as well. Seriously deep.

A+. CIS champions. They may have lost more games than last season, but had more injuries than last season. They got the job done. Wasn’t the easiest way to do it, but they have the University Cup sitting in the Aitken Centre now. ‘Nuff said.

Grading Scheme A – AUS finalist or champion B – Winning record or showed improvement from last season C – Winning record, but did not improve from last season D – Losing record, but showed improvement F – Losing record, did not improve

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briefs Hunter Tremblay signed

by Oilers The Edmonton Oilers have signed Varsity Reds forward, HunterTremblay, to a one-year two-way contract. He was the only player in the country to average over two points per game (2.11) and led CIS with 8 gamewinning goals, 5 short-handed goals on the way to leading his team to a 27-1-0 record.

Varsity Reds athletic banquet April 6 The UNBVarsity Reds Celebration of Excellence which will take place on Wednesday,April 6th.

Beginning at 6:00 pm there is a reception for graduating athletes and special guests hosted by the UNB Associated Alumni at the Crowne Plaza followed by the Awards Gala at the Playhouse at 7:00 pm.

Legutky joins women’s volleyball team Katarina Legutky, a 5’11” left-side player, from Calgary, Alberta, has committed to the UNB program.

Last summer as a member of Team Alberta she helped her province to an impressive fourth place finish at the National Team Challenge Cup. She currently plays within the Calgary Dinos volleyball club.

Daley to join men’s basketball team TheVarsity Reds men’s basketball program is pleased to announce that Matthew Daley of Bathurst High School will be joining the squad next season. He helped lead the Bathurst High School Phantoms to a 39-2 record and the 2011 AAA NB Provincial High School Championship. He averaged 20.8 pts, 9. 3 rebounds and 6 steals per game over the course of the season.

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Lacrosse: Canada’s national sport?

The University of Vermont Catamounts line up against the St. John’s University Red Storm in an NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse game. Jaehoon Kim/The Fulcrum Jaehoon Kim Great White North for recruits. Vermont “We have more fans now that we’re The Fulcrum (University of Ottawa) men’s lacrosse head coach Ryan Curtis winning. It’s good to see,” Masson OTTAWA (CUP) — According to the admitted that he was also on the lookout added.

Despite the Catamounts’s newfound National Sports of Canada Act of 1994, for Canadian players.

“The [Canadians] have actually made success, their games are rarely televised lacrosse is our national summer sport; however, Canadian Interuniversity it a little bit easier for us, where they come nationally, partially because Vermont is Sport doesn’t even officially recognize down to the States and play in camps and a part of the America East Conference recruiting events,” Curtis said. “We get a — which is not considered to be one of the game.

Individual conferences are free to or- chance there to see them without always the major “power” NCAA conferences.

On the same day of the Vermont-St. ganize their own leagues, but there is no necessarily having to go up to Canada. It’s Canadian lacrosse championship to fight definitely something that we’re making John’s game, ESPNU decided to televise a match between the Johns Hopkins for. In Ontario University Athletics, there more of an effort to do.

“Obviously, with [Masson], he’s a Blue Jays and the Big East Conference’s are seven varsity lacrosse teams — none major contributor on our team, and if we Syracuse Orange instead. of them for males.

“It’s improving,” Curtis said of his So what’s a top Canadian lacrosse could have 20 more of him we would be team’s media coverage. “I think lacrosse athlete to do when they graduate from doing pretty good.”

During a match between the Cata- in the state of Vermont is still pretty new, high school?

A five-hour road trip to the University mounts and the St. John’s Red Storm of but it’s growing. Nationally, we have to of Vermont, located in the state’s largest the Big East Conference on March 19, do a little bit more as a team to get nocity of Burlington answered my question. Masson was named player of the game. ticed. I think people have started to notice The best lacrosse players in Canada do The second-year biology major scored some of our successes [now], but we’ve have a viable alternative: To go play for two goals and added three assists as Ver- got to build on that and keep going.” mont cruised to a 14–9 victory.

On my way out of the stadium, I was an NCAA school in the United States.

It’s true that NCAA men’s lacrosse greeted by the Vermont Catamounts’s A.J. Masson, a sophomore attacker from Newmarket, Ont., is a proud mem- is not as popular as college football or mascot and many knowledgeable Verbasketball, but an energetic crowd of mont fans who were discussing the team’s ber of the Vermont Catamounts.

“It’s definitely a more competitive about 400 fans showed up to watch the fast start to the season. Lacrosse may be league in the NCAA. Also, they can Catamounts defeat the Red Storm on a Canada’s national sport, but universityprovide athletic scholarships for students chilly, windy day. Vermont improved to level lacrosse is starting to become as — those are the two big advantages of 4–3 after winning just three games all American as apple pie.

“Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing coming to school down here,” Masson of last season.

“I think the town as a whole is very sports in the NCAA. It’s definitely getexplained. “I love it here [in Vermont]. supportive of the university, which isn’t ting a lot more recognition and I think it It’s a great location.”

There are 61 NCAA Division I schools something that you always see at most has a bright future,” Masson said.

And that’s one thing you can’t say with lacrosse teams, and an increasing places. Here, it’s definitely an advantage,” about Canadian university lacrosse. number of them are looking toward the Curtis said.