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Post-secondary education Major questions for engineering faculty funding talks begin Hilary Paige Smith News Editor Dr. Eddy Campbell says he has to preserve the quality of education at UNB, even if it means another tuition increase.

The president of the administration made a presentation and took questions at Sunday night’s UNB Student Union meeting. He was primarily there to answer questions about the Memorandum of Understanding.

The Memorandum of Understanding is a four-year funding agreement for universities in the province between the government and the presidents of each university.

After speaking before council, he was asked several questions about tuition, enrolment, strategic planning, and the Memorandum of Understanding.

Science representative Adam Melanson asked Campbell if he would refuse to sign the Memorandum of Understanding if the agreement calls for a tuition increase.

Campbell said “I can’t name such a commitment,” but said he is committed to moving the province up from the bottom of the post-secondary education pack.

Campbell also addressed the issue of aging infrastructure at UNB. The university spends $4.5 million annually on deferred maintenance for the upkeep of campus facilities.

“I believe we need $15 million a year to stay level and have a bit of catch-up,” Campbell said. “That’s a moving figure.

If you do nothing, it gets bigger.”

Campbell also said the university has plans to double the financial aid they offer to students over the next five years.

“There will be a fundraising campaign,” he said. “I would expect that our top priority will be student financial aid.”

Of the university’s total $175 million budget, $108 million comes from the province and the rest, save for roughly $6 million, is funded by tuition dollars.

Campbell said the administration hopes to increase that $6 million in the coming years.

Of that $6 million, $500,000 comes from the UNB Heritage Development Lands, a 3,800-acre property situated near the south side of the city. The property, more commonly known as the UNB Woodlot, is divided into two halves – one to be preserved and the other identified for possible development.

Campbell expects money from the Woodlot to increase in future.

“Costco is open and generating revenue. Stores attract other stores,” he said.

UNB has plans to develop 270 acres of the property. The plan has been in place since 2004 and Campbell hopes it will “bring us significant new revenue.”

Negotiations for the Memorandum of Understanding begin on Nov. 18.

More than 150 students showed up to listen and voice their opinions on Monday night.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Hilary Paige Smith News Editor

Campbell spoke to council on Sunday. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

The first town hall meeting for the engineering faculty drew a crowd of close to 150 students on Monday night.

In late October, dean of engineering David Coleman sent out a message to professors, staff and students in the faculty about the need for restructuring. UNB’s tense financial situation and budget cuts have left the engineering faculty looking at its options.

Administration in the faculty are suggesting a single-department model, or a three-department model.

Monday’s meeting lasted two-anda-half hours, with Coleman taking dozens of questions from students of all departments, programs and ages.

Students at the meeting were concerned about the restructuring, particularly what it could do to the

quality of their degrees, as well as the reputation the faculty has with employers. They also offered suggestions to the dean, such as gathering a task force to tackle specific issues and allowing students to see a detailed budget breakdown for the faculty.

“There were some good questions, not all that I had answers for, and some good suggestions,” he said.

In the past 12 years, the faculty has seen 10 professors retire and not be replaced. In an earlier interview with the Brunswickan, Coleman said there is the potential for laying off staff members. He stressed that no professors will be laid off.

“Even if there were, that’s a whole different set of conditions … There has to be a series of conditions in place that aren’t in place right now,” he said.

Representatives from the computer engineering program are recommending the faculty suspend

enrolment to incoming students in the program. The program only has 33 undergraduate students.

“We’re still committed though, even if, and I say if because it takes a wider faculty council vote on computer engineering if that goes through,” he said.

Coleman also dismissed the idea that the faculty has been inefficiently using student funds. Engineering students pay an additional $1,000 engineering program fee, bringing their tuition to $7,500.

“This isn’t a matter of inefficiency.

The fact of the matter is we are going to have – this is not a matter of savings. We are going to be faced with reduced funding and we are going to have to figure out how to not just keep our programs sustainable, but survive in an environment where

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“These consultations take time.”

brunswickannews Pro-lifers looking for recognition as campus club Hilary Paige Smith News Editor

Students offered suggestions and voiced their concerns. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

FROM ENGINEERING PAGE 1 there is reduced funding,” he said.

“People are working to the best of their abilities. Do I think that we have to take a second look at what we’re doing? Yeah, I do.”

There was no one taking minutes at the meeting, but Coleman said, “this was a town hall meeting. We

had an advertisement. We filled the place. These people here know that.”

He said the meetings with a formal record of minutes will be those of the faculty council. The first meeting is to be held in late November or early December.

The faculty council consists of all members of the faculty, student representatives from each of the societies within the faculty and graduate

student representatives.

“They can vote on other aspects.

I would assume the student reps would be able to vote on the organization issue too,” Coleman said.

The dean said the student consultations are important.

“These consultations take time on all people’s part. It takes these discussions to get ideas like this out.”

The ratification and recognition of clubs and societies at UNB Student Union council meetings doesn’t normally cause a stir. But on Sunday night, when vice-president of clubs and societies Andrew Martel moved to recognize the UNB Students for Life club, there were audible gasps around the council table.

According to its description, “The University of New Brunswick Students for Life club is committed to proclaiming, celebrating, and defending the dignity of all human beings from conception to natural death. The club works to educate and inform the students and faculty at UNB, and the public, on current life issues, directing them to various pro-life resources, such as crisis pregnancy and post-abortion counselling centers.”

Martel stressed he was moving to recognize the club so council would have the opportunity to discuss it before voting for or against recognizing it.

UNBSU president Jordan Thompson said clubs and societies like this often catch council off-guard. He suggested tabling the motion until the next meeting of council to allow members to think further on

the issue.

“This is a very touchy subject. This is a group that I’m surprised hasn’t come up before this,” Thompson said.

Megan Glenwright, arts representative and women’s liaison, is an escort at the Morgentaler Clinic downtown. The clinic is the only one in New Brunswick to perform abortions.

She openly opposed the idea, but voted to table the motion to allow further discussion.

“I feel this group is negative and should not be recognized. I don’t think they should have the support because of the harassment [at the clinic]. I don’t like the idea at all,” she said, adding they need more information on the group.

Pro-life protestors have been gathering in front of the Morgentaler Clinic for years, harassing women who are entering the clinic. It is not clear if the UNB group has any links to the group that gathers downtown.

If the club were recognized, they wouldn’t be granted clubs and societies funding because of the nature of the group. Political and religious groups are also not granted funding.

Council moved to table the discussion until their meeting on Nov. 20.

Thompson moved to table the motion until the meeting on Nov. 20.

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Sting operation successful NDP frontrunner makes campus stop in nabbing theft suspect Derek Ness The Brunswickan After a rash of thefts at the Harriet Irving Library, a suspect has been apprehended.

John Everett Tranquilla, of no fixed address, was caught by Fredericton City Police during a sting operation at the library on Oct. 28.

The thefts, totalling 17 similar incidents, took place from Oct. 5 to 28.

Bruce Rogerson, director of UNB Security and Traffic, said the most commonly targeted items were purses or wallets. “[The items] had been left on a desk or in a backpack within the study areas and it didn’t matter which floor,” Rogerson said, adding in most cases the student victims had left their study area for upwards of half an hour, during which time the person accountable would have had ample opportunity to wander the area and remove the items. All but three victims were female.

“The ironic part was they weren’t taking iPods and stuff like that, so they were targeting money,” Rogerson emphasized. This series of crimes of opportunity amounted to the removal of $108.

An increased uniform presence of campus security personnel within the HIL did not seem to deter the thief.

Eventually, UNB Security was able to acquire the description of a male suspect, described as “in his late twenties or early thirties, dressed in beige or brown, wearing a ball cap, and carrying a backpack.” After sending out various alerts, UNB Security began receiving reports of a gentleman who appeared to be watching them for considerable lengths of time. Under Rogerson’s

direction, UNB Security decided it would be best to set up a sting operation.

Though the suspect has been arrested, UNB Security’s investigation is ongoing in an effort to determine if there are further victims and how best to reinforce security services on campus. It is not certain if Tranquilla is responsible for all 17 thefts.

A group of students working in the HIL said they are not overly surprised by the rash of thefts because students do tend to underestimate their vulnerability in campus facilities and do not adequately protect their belongings.

Chelsea Thibault and Jeremy Murray, who are respectively in their third and first years of Kinesiology at UNB, were studying at the SUB and indicated their discomfort surrounding the recent thefts.

Thibault admitted she was not all that aware of the particular situation. She and Murray agreed that “the library itself should be on a swipe-card system to cut down on the non-academic use.” They said access limitations of particular campus facilities may cut down the amount of campus crimes and give students a reinforced sense of security.

Rogerson asserted the rash of thefts at the HIL and the electronic thefts at Head Hall from midsummer until early Fall are completely unrelated and the suspect in the Head Hall case had previously been apprehended.

He stressed that, “students need to be cautious and protect themselves by keeping their belongings with them at all times or under the careful watch of others, and [that they need to] report any suspicious activity, regardless of how significant it seems at the time.”

There were 17 known thefts at the HIL. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Mulcair speaks to crowded room at the Grad House. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Colin McPhail The Brunswickan Jack Layton’s shoes are mighty big, but Thomas Mulcair is set on filling them as much as he can.

The Outremont MP, who was the first ever New Democratic Party candidate to be elected in Quebec, is one the front runners to take the reigns of the party flushed with success off the shoulders of its late predecessor.

In an effort to improve his leadership bid, Muclair, 57, headed east and made the first appearance as an NDP leadership candidate, after officially entering the race.

He said there is now a need for expansion outside Quebec, citing the best showing the NDP had in a federal election before 2011 as producing 43 seats – none from Quebec – under Ed Broadbent in 1988.

In the 2011 election, the NDP amassed a record 102 seats – 59 of which came from Quebec, leaving 43 from the rest of Canada.

Suffice it to say, his comments were well received by the crowd filling every foot of The Grad House last week.

Continual nods of agreement and hearty applause confirmed the audience’s approval of Mulcair’s vision for the NDP and Canada.

“We’re putting the ‘new’ back in New Democratic Party,” he said.

Corniness aside, the statement rang true in his replies to the many questions thrown his way. The main theme being that he’s going to raise hell in the House of Commons.

“To make their lives miserable,” he said.

“Make them not want to go to question period. That’s my goal.”

Here’s where he stands on New Brunswick-related issues:

Post-secondary education: “The average student that graduates with an undergraduate degree finishes with $25,000 debt. That’s absolutely inadmissible. No student who has the ability to pursue those studies should be turned down for lack of resources…

You are paying more than anyone has ever paid in Canadian history to get your studies done.”

“The people of my generation got those studies done at a reasonable rate and got on with their lives. Finishing with a $25,000 debt for your undergraduate degree and another $14,000 or $15,000 for a master’s degree, it’s just not affordable and that’s not fair.”

“We are one of the richest countries in the world and we’re just doing a bad job of distributing it.”

Hydrofracking: “I’ve taken a very, very strong stance against fracking. That is one of the worst things we’ve ever seen.”

“There are two places in the world where these companies have been literally thrown out; it’s Quebec and France…

There are decent families who are in their fourth century of farming the same land and these companies come in under Canada’s quasi-colonial rules that we apply to the mining sector… They’re pumping into the ground toxic chemicals, most of them carcinogenic, and they don’t give the formula because it’s and industrial secret…

They were literally run out of town by average Quebecers. The government, which was very pro-development, had to retreat.”

“It’s not Nigeria; it’s Canada. We can stand up to them.”

The new federal crime bill: “We would roll it back immediately.

There are things in that bill that are beyond stupid. They’ve put in dumb things

like it’s an automatic sentence if you have more than three plants of marijuana.

How’s that going to be interpreted by the average 17-year-old? ‘I’m allowed to have two plants.’”

“It’s incredibly stupid because there’s going to be more prosecutions and the provinces are going to get a huge bill…

The crime bill is downloading to the tune of billions of dollars. You say you’re going to have minimum sentences, but they’re all under two years. So, over two years you’re in a federal pen and under two years you’re in a provincial prison and it’s you who’s paying it, provincially.”

Youth participation: “The thing that terrifies me the most as politician is the following statistic: in the 2008 federal election and the following 2011 general election, two thirds of Canadians aged between 18 and 25 stayed home.

“That’s my generation’s fault. We haven’t been able to light a fire or be a beacon. It’s beyond me where we’ve got to a situation in Canada, where we’ve turned people off that much… Stephen Harper has formed a majority government with 23 per cent of Canada’s eligible voters. Only 59 per cent of eligible Canadians in the last election bothered to vote, and he got 39 per cent of that 59 per cent. That’s less than a quarter, but it’s a legitimate government.

“Imagine how easy for us it would be if we got half of those 18 to 25-year-olds to come back to the polling stations. I see more and more people turned off by the tone of the political process. I don’t care if you’re friends in school take a Liberal card or a Green card – preferably you’ll take an NDP card – at the end of the day the most important thing is to stay connected. The decisions that are being made now will affect you for the rest of your life.”

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Most students want a bus pass, survey says

UNB last in Maclean’s for scholarships and bursaries Alanah Duffy News Reporter According to the 20th Annual Maclean’s University Rankings, the University of New Brunswick is one of the least generous schools in Canada.

UNB ranked 15th and last among other universities in its category for the percentage of total operating expenditures devoted to scholarships and bursaries, with 3.4 per cent set aside for this cause.

“What Maclean’s is reporting on is the percentage of the operating budget. That does not give the total picture in terms of student support,” said Kathy Waugh, associate registrar of undergraduate awards.

“The piece of the puzzle that’s missing is the role that’s played by donors.”

Waugh said that more than half of the scholarship program is funded through donations, something that the rankings do not evaluate. Waugh said that last year, $5.5 million was set aside for scholarships, with $3 million of that money coming from donors.

“Donors want to help students – it’s something that they get great satisfaction from,” Waugh said.

Despite the support from donors, Waugh said that she’d like to see more money set aside for scholarships, but acknowledges that this is a hard task.

“I’d always like to see a healthier scholarship program, no question,” she said. “But we have to do it and think wisely.”

“If we take without having any more influx of revenue, then something else has got to give.”

Waugh said that the university does look into the ratings in Maclean’s, but the ratings don’t drive the scholarship program.

In the 2010-2011 school year, 2375 students received scholarships from the university. That number includes both donor-funded and budget-funded awards.

“Essentially, the operating budget is used last. I use the funding from donors first for a couple of reasons, the obvious being saving the operative budget,” Waugh said.

“The other reason is the donors; there’s an important connection between donors and students. I’m going to find the absolute best candidate for a donor-funded scholarship.

When that’s said and done, the university fills in the holes.”

Waugh said that all scholarships are academic based and the value depends on how good the grades are. She said that the majority of donor-funded scholarships are dedicated to students who are in second year or higher at university, while the operating budget is devoted to high school students.

“How I envision the scholarship program is that the university’s role is to get the students here to show them how great of a place it is,” Waugh said. “We have to get top students to the institution to keep the quality of the classroom at a high level, so we need to be on the same attraction level with other universities when attracting students.”

Most of the scholarships given at a high school level are renewable throughout a student’s university career, so money from the operating budget is set aside for that purpose.

Waugh said that students who are beneficiaries of scholarships should think about where the money comes from. “[Donors] are taking money out of their pockets and giving it to a student and sometimes we lose sight of that,” she said.

“I’ve seen a thank-you note turn into tens of thousands of dollars for future students.”

Despite UNB’s low rankings in the area of student scholarships, it ranked sixth out of 15 for best university in its class. The university is ranked as a comprehensive university for having a large amount of research activity and a wide range of programs at the graduate and undergraduate level.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Eighty per cent of survey responders said they’d vote for a bus pass. -Tripp-/ Flickr CC Alanah Duffy News Reporter A universal bus pass for University of New Brunswick students is getting closer to becoming a possibility for next year.

On Oct. 11, a survey was released by the Student Union (UNBSU) to measure interest in having a universal bus pass for the 2012-2013 school year. The survey was promoted mainly through social media and 575 undergraduate students responded. Almost 80 per cent of respondents said they would vote yes to a bus pass if a referendum were to be held on the issue.

“The survey was market research to see what students are looking for in a bus pass,” said Joey O’Kane, vicepresident external of the UNBSU. O’Kane said that a bus pass referendum will not happen until negotiations with Fredericton Transit have begun to determine whether some improvements to the current bus system can be made.

In a report released by the UNBSU on Oct. 28, the five most important improvements to the bus system as ranked by survey respondents were: a higher frequency of busses running and Sunday service, more routes, busses running later into the night, more stops on campus, and Wi-Fi on busses.

O’Kane explained that a group of city leaders, collectively referred to as

the mayor’s working group, will have a meeting this week to discuss the results of the survey.

“Once we see the minutes from that mayor’s working group meeting, we can present our findings (from both the meeting and the survey) to Fredericton transit and start negotiating with them,” he said.

“We want to work with Fredericton Transit and get the best deal for UNB students. If we can’t negotiate a different deal than what’s in place now, then I won’t bring forward a referendum.”

Gordon Mihan, a second-year business student, said that he would fully support bringing in a universal bus pass next year.

“Last year, I took the bus and it cost me so much money to get to school,” he said.

The cost of one ride on city transit is $2; a monthly bus pass for students is $42. If brought in next year, the universal bus pass would be a $100 ancillary fee and students would be able to use it year-round.

“I get drives to campus with people now,” said Mihan, who lives in Southwood Park. “I had to stop taking the bus because it cost too much money.”

Robert Cole, a first-year arts student, said he would use a universal bus pass and would probably travel around the city more if he had one. He said it would make things easier when trav-

eling with a student from St. Thomas University, where students have a universal bus pass.

“If UNB students are talking with STU students and they decide to go out somewhere together, it’s inconvenient for UNB students when the others can just grab the bus,” Cole said.

“A bus pass would be useful. I know a lot of people who take the bus now and I would take it if it were more convenient,” he added.

While a bus pass is useful for some, those who drive to school every day don’t want to have to pay extra money on top of the fee for a parking pass.

“It’s $100 that I would have to spend for something that I’m not even going to use,” said Katrina Folkins, a secondyear science student, who lives outside of Fredericton and drives in every day.

“We should have the option to pay for either a bus pass or a parking pass.”

O’Kane is hopeful that a deal with city transit can be reached to bring the issue to referendum during the UNBSU’s general elections, held in March.

“The bus pass could make things more convenient for students. Things like grocery shopping and getting where you need to be will be easier,” he said.

“Bus passes can be good for everyone; it’s good for the environment and potentially your wallet.”

Career counselling on campus Christopher Cameron Editor-in-Chief After receiving a B- for career preparation and B for reputation with employers in the Globe and Mail university report, UNB’s Student Employment Service feel they are doing the best with what resources they have.

With only four people on staff at Student Employment Services, their director, Anne Soucy believes they are reaching students in the best way possible.

“We try to be out there as best we can and we think we do a good job,” she said.

“We’re more of the connect to the employers as best we can and bringing as many people on campus, but again when we have a very small and miniscule budget, and a very small number of people there is only so much we can do.”

Student Employment Services offers multiple career fairs throughout the year, online job bank, employer

information sessions, amongst many other resources. Recently Counselling Services and Student Employment Services put on a session in the SUB focused on arts students.

Dr. Rice Fuller, director of counselling services, believes they have been doing a better job of making students aware of their service with events like their “So you’re pursuing an arts degree … what’s next after graduation?”

“We’re making a special effort with the arts faculty, which is the largest faculty on campus to bring more specialized career program to the arts students,” Fuller said. “They are the students that are wondering ‘what am I going to do with an arts degree today’ so that is one of the things we’re doing.”

“At the event today we had about 75 students and we’re going to get feedback from that,” Soucy said. “If somebody is looking for something in particular, we’re always ready and willing to develop those new options.”

Fuller said 60 per cent of students

that used their service last year reported that the service was very helpful or extremely helpful. He is pleased with that response from students.

“What this number means is close to two-thirds of students, so the vast majority (found the service extremely helpful),” he said. “If we saw somebody win an election with 60 per cent of the vote we would say it was a landslide, so to put it in context, those numbers are excellent.”

Although Fuller is pleased with the positive feedback from those that have used the service, he knows many more students could benefit from it if they knew about it.

“Part of the problem is we still don’t have that many students coming in for career counselling and those numbers have jumped dramatically over the past few years (roughly 431 last year).

I think if more students knew about services we offered, ideally they would be using it.”

Anne Soucy, director Student Employment Services.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

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Lest we forget: A reflection on Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day has different meanings to everyone. Bryannah James tells what it means to her. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan K. Bryannah James Sports Editor On Monday, before heading to the Brunswickan office, I was grabbing the last few things to throw into my schoolbag: an apple, some pens for work, making sure I had my glasses, and my keys.

I put on a lighter jacket because it was warm outside and then headed out the door. I shut the door, and just before I locked it, I realized my poppy was on my other jacket.

I went back into the house, took the poppy off my winter coat and put it on the lighter jacket I had on. It bothered me, the thought of not wearing my poppy.

To me, wearing the poppy is a sign of respect for our troops, past, present, future, and fallen. It’s a way of saying thank you to the many who have put their lives on the line in the name of freedom.

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Canadians far and wide come together, at cenotaphs, war memorials, legions, and gymnasiums.

We gather as family, friends and as a country to pay tribute and respect to those who fell while serving under the Canadian flag, and to those who still fight today for the freedom it represents.

Earlier this year a very good high school friend of mine came back from Afghanistan.

I remember sitting with her in my living room back home, while she told myself and my family stories from her tour.

It struck me, after she left that, at the age of 21, she was a war veteran. It also hit me, how lucky I, her family, fiancé, and her friends were, to be sitting and laughing with her, instead of mourning her loss if she had been killed during combat.

Whenever I see a soldier in uniform, whether it’s downtown, on the base, at the grocery store, or in a local coffee shop, I always smile at them, or nod my head.

I often think about the Boer War, both World Wars and Korea when it comes to Remembrance Day. We often forget about Korea, but that was also the war in which American’s first honoured a foreign unit for bravery.

Those were our Canadians.

I wonder what it felt like to hold your mother or father, to kiss your husband, and question if that would be last time you did so.

My heart aches for the spouses who softened their fears by telling themselves their husbands were only going on a peacekeeping mission and yet were paid a visit from the Chaplin telling them their husbands had been killed by landmines.

What did it feel like in the muck and mire of the trenches? To look into the eyes of your enemy who sometimes were only yards away? What did it feel like to come home and hold your loved ones again, or God forbid, receiving the telegram telling them their loved ones wouldn’t return?

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During those wars, if you were lucky enough to receive a letter from your loved one, the time which it was written would already be history by the time it reached you.

I still wonder what it feels like today. I know when I said goodbye to my friend I questioned if that would be the last time I ever saw her.

When I would flick on the news, I’d pray her wouldn’t come up on the list

of soldiers who’d died in Afghanistan.

When her name didn’t come up, I’d breathe a sigh of relief, but I still mourn the loss for the families of soldiers I didn’t know, who come home with the air force escort and then travel the Highway of Heroes to their final resting place.

These are but a few of the reasons we wear the poppies: respect, memories, heroes. I know I couldn’t stand on the front lines, but I value the Canadians

that did so I may live in peace.

To me, Remembrance Day, the poppy, the moment of silence, is a time to remember the people who fought for you before you were born, while you’re alive, and so future generations don’t need too.

My moment goes to those individuals who have and who had the courage to fight for our country, and for those who died trying to protect it.

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this is your soap box. make some noise.

Things you can’t learn in a classroom

editor@thebruns.ca Getting involved on campus is one way to learn things outside of the classroom.

Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan way to be a part of the planning process legendary, but looking to the bright side is Brad McKinney and being as involved as possible. I love always brownie points in people’s books.

The Brunswickan nothing more than helping, and that People don’t want to be around a I have been a student at the University warm, fuzzy feeling of accomplishment “Debbie Downer”; they want to hang of New Brunswick since 2007. Over my is irreplaceable. That’s probably what I’ll out with “Frankie Friendly.” nine semesters here at UNB, I have had miss most.

Don’t sweat the small stuff. If a paper my ups, and I have had my downs, but Whether it’s being a Redshirt, being is due in a few days, don’t complain about everything I have encountered has made on House Committee, a councillor in the it, do it. me the person I am today.

Student Union, nothing will ever replace If your friend kissed your (boy/girl) I would not say I am the most experi- the feeling of gratitude, that feeling of ac- friend the night before, deal with it on enced student here at UNB, but I would complishment. To be a part of a planning your own terms. People don’t like drama, say I have been all over the spectrum of committee, and seeing that event succeed and despite the cameras on this campus, this campus. I lived in residence for four beyond your wildest dreams is something your life is not a soap opera. years, being on House Committee for I’ll never forget.

It has truly been a treat to be here at two of those. I was a Student Union Everyone is Important UNB for as long as I have. I may not representative for two years. I went Over the last few years, I’ve found that have graduated on time, and I may not from a shy first-year, to a controversial the people you meet here on campus, have been the most popular person on fourth-year. you’re bound to bump into them again, this campus, but I have made so many I founded the UNB Sweatervest Soci- and they may be in a different position lasting friendships, and met so many ety. I have met thousands of people, all of than beforehand. amazing people, and it gives me pride to which have a different story, all a different Not to toot my own horn, but I doubt know that I have made an impact on a path in life. I have been the quiet student, that people who knew me as a frosh select few people. blending into the crowd. would have ever expected to see me as The question for you, the reader, is “have I have been the centre of attention, on VP external of the UNB Student Union. you made an impact on someone’s life?” stage hosting the game show, or the main Every person on this campus has a story We live in a society where the focus story of The Brunswickan’s spoof issue. I to tell, it’s just a matter of being one of is on the individual, where we are only may not have been the best student, but those honoured to hear it. concerned with our own lives, our own I’d like to think that I know keys to makIt does not matter who it is, everyone problems, our own situations. It’s time to ing the best of your university experience. has fought to be where they are and you lower the blinds. It’s time to help others Get Involved never know when you may have influ- before we all grow up, and have to be This one’s the most clichéd, but it’s enced someone. Every connection you self-absorbed in the workplace. also the truest truth I know. In my first make with a person will make a lasting Don’t rush into growing up. All that’s year, I got involved with things as soon impression, and you want that encounter on the other side of our education is a 9 as I could. to be a positive one. a.m. - 5 p.m. job and student loan repayI was called the 11th member of House Stay Positive ments. Enjoy it while you can. Broaden Committee. I sat in on every meeting. I A positive outlook, no matter what your horizons, and enjoy the world knew how events were planned, and what is happening, is something that people around you here on campus. You will to expect even before I’d experienced it. will remember about you. Don’t get me not regret it.

I have been known to go out of my wrong, my sarcastic, wise-ass remarks are Live it. Love it. Wear a sweatervest.

Can’t always get fresh at Tim Hortons Laura Beeston The Link (Concordia University) MONTREAL (CUP) — In late September, Riley Duckworth and her partner Patricia Pattenden exchanged an embrace outside a Blenheim, ON Tim Hortons window and were promptly asked to leave the premises.

The person who was “uncomfortably distracted” by their kissing — which, it should be noted, was done in the presence of Duckworth’s parents — was Eric Revie, a Pentecostal assistant pastor at the Glad Tidings Community Church.

Revie told Canadian queer magazine Xtra that the women were “being disgusting … tongues locked … grabbing genitals,” while the women denied anything lewd went down in front of their folks.

They told the CBC the incident was a manifestation of the “rampant homophobia” that occurs in Blenheim and that the queer community was “feeling the chill.”

Upon Revie’s complaint, a Tim Hortons manager asked the couple and Duckworth’s parents to leave, saying that the coffee chain was a “family friendly” establishment.

Despite the irony of the situation — that the girls were frequenting the coffee shop with their family — they left and told their story. An “Occupy Timmies” sprung up on Facebook, resulting in the staging of a “kissin” against the coffee-brewing corporation.

This isn’t the first time Tim Hortons has

felt the heat for questionable queer politicking. In 2009, the corporation came under fire for nearly providing 250 cups of free coffee for a “Marriage and Family Day,” in Rhode Island, which was organized by an anti-gay National Organization for Marriage group. Many Canadians weren’t happy with it.

For many, kicking out the Ontarian lesbians confirmed that Tim Hortons — and, by extension, the very cultural fabric and values of this nation (if we are to believe Timmy commercials, anyways) — is “no homo.”

On Oct. 24, nearly a month after the original incident, the company apologized, and the reverend has since said he didn’t know the orientation of the couple.

So hold the Timbit: you’re telling me an incident was perhaps blown out of proportion because a member of the church was being judgmental? Shocking.

What’s interesting about this story, however, is that when some of the LGBT community of Blenheim— which is said to have only three or four “out” members, but many allies — rallied behind the women and created an “Occupy Timmies” sit-in, the local Chatham-Kent LGBT community group said that, while they supported the women, they weren’t interested in attending.

A man who only would go by “Randy” came out in full force, however, holding a

sign that read: “It’s not gay, it’s not straight, it’s GET A ROOM.” Despite the national press coverage and the homophobic heat this particular story generated, the incident in question may actually have nothing at all to do with the sexual orientation of the women.

Perhaps this is why Pride Chatham-Kent gracefully bowed out of the spotlight and Randy may have actually got it right: this has everything to do with a Pentecostal brother being a prude. It also says something about the unspoken rules of public displays of affection.

Keeping lesbian love — or love in general, if we are to believe the Reverend didn’t know the girls were girls — behind closed doors seems to be what this issue boils down to.

In what spaces, in 2011, is it acceptable to show affection with your partner? Does PDA warrant banishment from a fast-food chain? What are the rules of public affection? Does it depend on whether or not there’s a Holy Man in the building? How much tongue, or how little, necessitates denial of a double-double?

The women hope their story will start a necessary conversation about homophobia in Blenheim. Still, until we know more than this “he said, she said,” a dangerous precedent has been set: the only French acceptable in Tim Hortons is a French Vanilla.

You’ve been warned, Canadians.

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“I use gmail instead.”

“I don’t like it, It’s confusing.”

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Caleb Marshall is the artistic director for Theatre New Brunswick. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Heather Uhl Staff Reporter Theatre New Brunswick and NotaBle Acts have teamed up to produce this year’s New Voices, an opportunity for playwrights to make it to the stage.

“I felt TNB needed to start doing more new work, start representing more

local content and giving more professional opportunities for local playwrights,” said Caleb Marshall, artistic producer of Theatre New Brunswick (TNB).

New Voices allows for playwrights to submit one-act plays about New Brunswick stories to be read at NotaBle Acts summer theatre festival and produced as Opening Acts at TNB. These plays will also be work-

shopped, and fine tuned, by NotaBle Acts.

“If they didn’t get selected as an opening act, the work didn’t just disappear.”

The push for the plays to be true New Brunswick stories stems from Marshall’s background and his views that the province is full of compelling stories.

“New work or unknown works are a big risk and certainly something that’s poten-

tially a little nervous-making for a board of governors,” Marshall said.

“I launched opening acts because it gave us all of that but there wasn’t really much risk, sort of a bonus show, an extra show, and it creates a broader, more diverse theatrical evening.”

TNB teamed up with NotaBle Acts partly because of its mission to enable New

Brunswick voices for the past 10 years, and partly because Marshall is unable to dedicate the necessary time and work for the new plays.

New Voices allows for playwrights to gain experience and learn how to produce their plays.

Marshall explains, “it’s great to get short plays submitted that I feel that we can produce or develop, but I also wanted a support system or a possible outlet for the people that didn’t necessary get chosen to be on the main stage.”

New Voices have brought notable works to the stage such as LaTour by Norm Foster, Bad Water by M. Anne Mittion, The Truth is a Hard Flat Surface by Bruce Allen Lynch, The Marketeer by Step Taylor and The Smokey Mokes by Rick Merrill.

“People should write what they know, or write what intrigues them, write what they’re drawn to, and that would be my first advice. My next advice, for any young artist or emerging artist, you absolutely have to have an openness to learn and be wary of an arrogance that you’ve already arrived,” Marshall said.

“But at the same time, I see a lot of young artists that pretty quickly start apologizing for their work. So my number one advice is don’t apologize for your work.”

Details on the requirements and submission deadlines for New Voices can be found at www.tnb.nb.ca “The Arts is a difficult business to get into and I think you have a start, first and foremost, by understanding who you are as an artist and if you stand by your work and don’t apologize for it.”

Interested in getting involved, but need some inspiration? Caleb Marshall has a bag of stories up for grabs and you can contact him at artisticproducer@tnb.nb.ca.

Miss Representation representing misrepresentation of women Alex Kress Arts Editor The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker, author of The Colour Purple, is famous for saying this.

It’s also a quote that the film Miss Representation opened with at the UNB screening Friday night.

The 2010 documentary was written and directed by actress Jennifer Siebel Newsom to showcase the misrepresentation of women in politics the media in the United States.

The film begins with a short, personal background of Newsom. When she was 12, her older sister died in an accident, which she said she blames herself for. She spent her adolescence “trying to be two daughters” to make up for the loss of her sister and was eventually violated by a trusted coach. She’s vague about the details, but it works for the film because she isn’t the focus of it.

Her hook, however, is that the abuse caused her to develop a severe eating disorder.

Once she grew up and out of the disorder, her eyes were open. Other girls and women were struggling like she had, and at an alarming rate.

According to figures presented, 53 per cent of girls will be unhappy with their bodies by the age of 13.

By the age of 17, that number soars to 78 per cent and of those girls, 17 per cent will self-mutilate. Depression rates doubled between the 2000 and 2010.

Miss Representation attributes these responses to one collective culprit: the media and advertising.

But it’s not as simple as the tired blame game that’s been circulating

for some time now; this goes much deeper.

Throughout the 90-minute film, the audience is shown a barrage of clips featuring the objectification of women in music videos, on cable news and in print media.

“The fact that media are so limiting and so derogatory to the most powerful women in the country, then what does it say about media’s ability to take any woman in America seriously?” says Jennifer Prozner, executive director or Women in Media and News.

The audience is hit with statistics about the incredibly low numbers of women involved in politics (women comprise 51 per cent of the U.S. population, but only 17 per cent of Congress), and it was pointed out on several occasions that the women who have made it into politics (Hilary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi) have been villainized.

One male news anchor said in a clip that when men see a man in politics, they hear, “take off for the future.” When they see a woman, they hear “take out the garbage.”

And the number of women in positions of power in telecommunications, entertainment, publishing, and advertising? Three per cent.

The U.S. spent $235.6 billion on advertising in 2009, which exceeds the GDP for 80 per cent of the world’s nations. The women and girls in the film assert that this concentration on targeting young women in advertising contributes to objectifying them, but also leads to self-objectification – learning to see themselves in a certain light so they become conditioned to see themselves as objects, naturally. Without a second thought.

Miss Representation sheds light on the objectification of women in the media and advertising.

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The result of this, the film says, is that it affects women’s ability to take part in the political process. They aren’t getting involved because they don’t believe they can, and this is not exclusive to politics; it extends to all reaches of business and positions of power and influence.

There is an element of danger when presenting information about a subject one is passionate about, but Newsom’s film hits the nail on the

head: the state of affairs is “harming both our daughters and our sons”; everyone is vulnerable.

Katie Couric is one of many notable women speaking to the issue in the film, alongside Geena Davis, Jane Fonda, Margaret Cho, Rosario Dawson, Lisa Ling, Condoleeza Rice, Rachel Maddow and Gloria Steinem.

The film draws to a close as Couric drives home what is perhaps her most profound point in Miss Representa-

tion: if women spent one tenth of their time helping a sick neighbour or volunteering at a homeless shelter than they do worrying about their weight and appearance, we could make a real difference in this world.

So, why aren’t we?

For more information on the film, visit www.missrepresentation.org. or you can catch the film there this Saturday, Nov. 12 at noon on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

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Lively lesbians hit the road in Cloudburst Haley Ryan Arts Reporter A waitress with tired hair and too much makeup asks the skinny person in a cowboy hat if “sir” wanted any dessert.

A plump woman nudges her friend in the ribs.

“Stella, do you want anything?”

The waitresses’ mouth gapes open in a silent laugh, and apologizes to Stella for mistaking her for a man.

Stella pushes the hat back off her forehead and squints up at the waitress.

“If that skirt was any shorter, you’d need another hairnet,” she smirks. Colour drains from the server’s face.

Crass, honest and lovable, Olympia Dukakis’ character Stella is the backbone and driving force of Cloudburst, an independent film shown at Tilley Hall Sunday as part of the Silver Wave Film Festival.

The diner scene above takes place in the middle of the film, after the audience has bonded with Stella and Dotty (played by Brenda Fricker), a lesbian couple who have lived together for 31 years.

The action of the story is set in motion

by Dotty’s interfering granddaughter who sends her to a nursing home in Bangor after the older woman hurts herself in a fall, forcibly taking her from the cozy home she shares with Stella.

What follows is a touching and hilarious road trip on which Stella breaks into the nursing home to get her partner out, and the couple drives hundreds of miles to Canada to be legally married.

On the way they pick up a handsome young hitchhiker, Prentice (Ryan Doucette), who becomes their Canadian compass once they learn he’s on his way home to Nova Scotia to see his sick mother.

The relationship between Prentice and the leading ladies becomes very close with the mishaps along the way, his drunken “best man” speech the night before their wedding showcasing how much they mean to him, especially sweet Dotty.

If Dotty is the sweet, Stella is most certainly the sour. Wonderfully sour. Many of the best lines in the movie are delivered by the foul-mouthed “old dyke,” as she calls herself multiple times, and had the audience at UNB roaring with laughter.

A few scenes especially stick out, such as when Stella gets kicked out of a car she’s hitched a ride in, because the religious man who’s driving can’t handle her potty mouth anymore.

This followed Stella’s declared love for multiple words for vagina, and her statement that she loves to be with a woman who’s “stretched out” so she can “crawl inside and do yoga in there.”

If Dirty Harry had a female counterpart, I don’t think she’d be far off from Stella.

The cinematography and scenery of the film especially helped elevate what would already have been a great comedy, to something much more emotional and special.

Some of my favourite shots were ones where you see the world through Dotty’s nearly blind eyes. The colours of water and sky blended together with pin-pricks of white that danced across her vision in a

OLYMPIA DUKAKIS

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CLOUDBURST Olympia Dukakis stars in a charming and refreshing story of a lesbian couple’s adventure to get married in Halifax. Submitted haze, and the shadows of Prentice dancing were enhanced and magical.

Halifax director Thom Fitzgerald, who originally wrote the story as a script for the stage, said in an interview with the Vancouver Sun that he wanted to show

aging lesbians in a positive and realistic way.

“I think that’s the kind of hero I want to see on the big screen. And we never see protagonists like that. I think an old dyke is the perfect romantic heroine.”

Cloudburst will be out on DVD mid-

2012, but until then you can check their Facebook group “Cloudburst the Movie (2010)” to see if any showings are happening in your area.

Mark Kozelek: On Tour: a peek at the lonely life of a touring homebody operated convenience store coffee. It isn’t the story of a life of luxury. It’s lonely and grey.

“There’s things I love about being overseas and there’s things I absolutely hate about it,” Kozelek says in one of his hotel rooms.

The long flights and jet lag are tedious and disorienting. He says he’s come close to being hit by cars and trains in places like London, Spain and Portugal where the roads are very narrow and cars are zooming past on the side of the road that he isn’t used to. We get this sense of the dizzy daze he often finds himself in when all the scenes begin to blur together; all the airports look the same, and the concert halls, and the hotel rooms.

The audience isn’t to be mistaken to believe that Kozelek despises touring – he loves performing and is brilliant at it. But he prefers to be on home soil.

“I’m at an age in my life where I’m 44-years-old and my parents are getting older.,” he says.

“When I travel, when I know that I’m going abroad, I get a real sense of doom. I feel like something bad’s gonna happen.”

Four hours after a show in London, Kozelek got a call that his 16-year-old cat had stopped walking. He was able to make it home the night before the cat died, but

it was a painful reminder of the distance between himself and his loved ones when he’s on tour. His guitar is his one true companion on the road.

The mundane parts of being on tour are all caught on film, like the numerous sound checks Kozelek does, waiting on street corners to go to the airport and sitting in a car for hours (often edited to be sped up significantly). But the 23 songs featured and performed in the two-hour documentary are mesmerizing; there’s something extraordinary about this man and his diamond-in-the-rough voice.

There isn’t a lot of dialogue in On Tour, or even interview material. This blankets the viewers in a kind of hypnosis of song accompanied by images of road, air and theatre.

A beautiful moment exists on a ferry when we see an oceanscape with grainylooking raindrops and a silent, pensive Kozelek. It gives the impression that the only time he ever opens his mouth is to drip sweet, echoey honey embodied in song from his lips.

Near the start of the film, he plays a beautiful rendition of “Katy Song,” one of the more poignant (although there are many) pieces he recorded with the Red House Painters, and the pain in the lyrics is palpable when he sings, “glass on the pavement under my shoes/without you SIDNEY KIMMEL ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS AN EMOTION PICTURE

is all my life amounts to.” Later, we see a performance Sun Kil Moon’s “Carry Me Ohio” that is equally gut-wrenching lyrically, as he sings, “can’t count to all the lovers I’ve burned through/so why do I still burn for you/I can’t say.”

Kozelek is mostly introverted, but in the final scene of On Tour, he addresses a drunk heckler at a show in Toronto who asks him what his favourite Modest Mouse song is (he recorded an album of Modest Mouse covers, Tiny Cities).

He retorts sassily with some advice for a Google search term: “girlfriend.”

“I have like 20 albums, and that’s what you wanna ask me?” he says, exasperated but laughing.

In an interview with director Cameron Crowe (Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous), he said, “song requests are one thing, but there’s a time and place for more involved questions!”

“There are just some attention-needy people out there and I just deal with them in the moment … To me, audiences are like dates. There are good ones, bad ones and drunk ones.”

Kozelek is a headliner for the 2012 Shivering Songs Festival here in Fredericton taking place between Feb. 3 and 5. Tickets are on sale now at www.shiveringsongs.com.

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CASTING DIRECTORS MARK BENNETT SHEILA LANE COSTUME DESIGN JAMES A. WORTHEN LAURIE DELANEY ORIGINAL SCORE JASON MICHAEL MacISAAC WARREN ROBERT

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Mark Kozelek will be in town in February for the Shivering Songs Festival. Submitted Alex Kress Arts Editor A seagull is perched thoughtfully beneath an American flag on a boat in a San Francisco harbour, home to singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek. He might as well be the solitary bird sitting peacefully at home, waiting to take flight.

Mark Kozelek: On Tour is a fly-onthe-wall documentary, shown at Gallery

Connexion on Friday evening, exploring the traveling world of the solo artist and front man for Sun Kil Moon and the band he began his career with in 1992, the Red House Painters. It’s an honest and unadorned account shot in black and white, which compliments the tone of Kozelek’s songs and his reserved nature.

The film is a never-ending stretch of road, airport terminals, luggage, hotel rooms, takeoffs and landings, and coin-

Midnight Madness: Prick, chilling and impressive

Brandon Hicks The Brunswickan

An encounter with monsters, killers, zombies, and babies, all in one night.

This is what the 11th annual Silver Wave Film Festival “Midnight Madness” screening had in store for viewers Friday night at Tilley Hall.

There were 10 films displayed, predominately featuring violence, horror and monsters.

The festival was created by the board and staff of the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative (NB Co-op).

The Midnight Madness screening was not solely about showing the films, but it was made into an event, with people in costumes giving away

prizes. “Igor” brought a bag of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings action figures and other toys to give away in a draw.

The filmmakers and some actors were present to give a quick introduction before the films were shown.

The directors, and others who were involved with the films, explained their inspirations, vision and the process it took to make the movies, to the audience.

The opening film of the night was Prick, followed by Survival, Blood Relative, The Haunted Woods, Resurrection, The Last Day Of Harold Fishman, Purgatory, Like Father and Hell Dog. The films, while sticking to a common theme of fear, were varied in their topics dealing with subject such

as murder, metamorphosis, revenge, entrapment, and other things meant to disturb and amuse.

Prick, an eight-minute thriller written and directed by Colin Berry, was Berry’s first short film and directorial debut to the festival.

It starts with a black screen. The film’s title slowly flashes across and the audience laughs at the name.

The picture is crystal clear, and while music plays, the film is without dialogue. A woman falls dead after coming into contact with a man (Ian Batt). The man is a murderer, and the film shows him creating his poisons in an eerie fashion reminiscent of the 1931 Frankenstein film. One by one, his victims suddenly die. The killer counts them with pins.

A baby is placed on his doorstep.

In a moment of revelation, the killer finds the value of life in caring for the child.

Even with a running time under 10 minutes, it manages to invoke unease in its viewers by keeping an air of mystery. Who is the killer? What is the baby? What really happens? The film’s ambiguous approach to these questions encourages the audience to have their own interpretations of the film and its message.

The effect work and the quality of the cinematography are top of the line. Even with a low budget of an estimated $2000, the film could easily be mistaken for a studio-quality short.

Prick, a film directed by Colin Berry, was shown as part of the Midnight Madness at Silver Wave. Submitted

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No, it’s not Phil Collins of Genesis, but Toronto artist Charlotte Cornfield who will be dazzling your ears will her drumming skills and warm voice.

You’ll see Cornfield play twice this Friday night at The Capital, where she’ll be singing and performing her own material before taking the drummer’s seat to help Ben Caplan’s set.

Cornfield said she doesn’t usually play drums when she sings her own songs, so both her trip to Fredericton and her focus on this instrument are firsts.

The folk-pop artist studied drumming at Concordia in Montreal, where she’s lived for the past five years. She said this background helps her with whatever she’s performing.

“Drumming is applicable to every instrument, like the basic things of time and rhythm and I just feel like it totally relates to everything else I do in music,” Cornfield said.

The two cities in Cornfield’s life,

Toronto and Montreal, also provided some of the inspiration for her first full-length album, Two Horses, which came out this October.

“The album looks at a complicated romance from a bunch of sides, and the two horses imagery is two people being pulled in different directions,” Cornfield said.

“It’s about the life decisions and forces in life that draw you to different places and the difficulty and emotional trajectory of that.”

Cornfield said she felt the need to return to her hometown of Toronto to make this record because she had been away for so long and really wanted to call on some musician friends in that city (nine or so) to play on it.

The record has other references to the idea of pairs and duos - like how Cornfield planned the songs with an A and B side in mind for vinyl - and reflects the duality of the musician herself.

When teenage years filled with catchy 70s rock bands collide with intimate lyrics penned alone in a room with just a girl and a guitar, you get Charlotte Cornfield’s sound.

“It’s so powerful when you can write a sad song and really move

people, and there’s something beautiful with just the guitar and voice . . . but at the same time it’s nice to have the energy of everyone, so I wanted to put that all together,” she said.

Cornf ield, who began playing music on piano when she was 13, said she first met her touring mate, Ben Caplan, on a chance encounter in Halifax the morning after one of her shows.

“He biked by, and I saw this crazy bearded guy when we were unloading our stuff, and he was like ‘Charlotte Cornfield! I need to speak to you!’,” she said, laughing.

Caplan gave her a copy of his album and they started emailing back and forth once they realized they had the same publicist. Caplan originally came up with the thought of a tour together, and Cornfield agreed it would be a good idea.

“He has fans in the East and I have fans in Ontario, so we can share fans and see how it goes, and share a ride,” Cornfield said.

Charlotte Cornfield (performing with and without Ben Caplan), will be at The Capital this Friday, Nov. 11. Doors open at 9:30 p.m. with $5 cover at the door.

Lusting for laughter The New Position Sarah Vannier The first time I saw Dane Cook do a stand-up routine I didn’t think he was particularly good looking.

However, after 30 minutes of jokes that had me laughing so hard I was fighting back tears, I turned to my roommate and told her that I thought he was kind of hot. Not surprisingly, she agreed. Also not surprisingly, we both have a history of dating pretty funny guys.

What is it about a guy with a good sense of humour that makes him more attractive?

One theory explaining the link between humour and attraction says that being able to make people laugh lets others know you have all sorts of great qualities that would make a good partner. To be funny you need to have a few other skills.

You have to think on your feet, play around with double meanings and understand how other people will interpret what you say.

In a way, humour acts as signal to let you know if someone is intelligent, whether one knows how

others think, and if they’re warm and sociable. These are pretty attractive qualities in a potential partner.

So it’s pretty clear that being

funny can bump you up a point or two on the hot scale. But is it just me, or does it seem not to work quite the same way for funny women? Bad news ladies; it isn’t just me.

A recent series of studies done

by Christopher Wilbur and Lorne Campbell at the University of Western Ontario sheds a little more light on the way men and women use humour differently.

First, they asked students what types of “humour strategies” they are most likely to use when they meet someone they want to date. Men were much more likely to say they would tell jokes and try to get the other person to laugh. In comparison, women were much more likely to spend their time trying to figure out if the other person is funny, or by showing the other person they’re funny by laughing at jokes.

This kind of behaviour even extends to the world of online dating.

These same researchers found that when creating online dating profiles, men are more likely to write things like “I can make you laugh” or to describe themselves as witty or comical.

In contrast, women were more likely

to write things like “I want someone who can make me laugh.”

Overall, it does seem that men tend to use their sense of humour as a selling point, and women use humour as criteria for picking partners.

But is this really because humour acts as a signal for all sorts of other good qualities we want in a partner?

It seems like it is.

As a grand finale the researchers had students read two sets of fake dating profiles; one set that included funny jokes and one set that did not.

Then the students rated the people in the profiles on intelligence, warmth and how interested they were in dating them. For the men, it didn’t make any difference if they read a funny profile or not. However, for the women, the people with funny dating profiles were rated as smarter, warmer and more desirable than people with standard profiles.

So, what can a funny girl do? The good news is there is no research showing that funny women are less attractive. Plus, anecdotally, I know a lot of guys (and most of them smart and pretty funny themselves) that would place sense of humour high up on their lists of things they are attracted to in a partner.

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Which came first,

College binge drinking or the college drinking flick?

Clinton Hallahan CUP Arts Bureau Chief VANCOUVER (CUP) — The portrayal of the college experience in movies seems to be a self-fulfilling prophecy: a populace enslaved to the almighty Degree as the new price of admission to Life grows up seeing celebrities get blitzed at parties spilling out onto manicured Ivy League lawns and expects the same in the time before they toss their mortarboards. Upon climbing those ivory towers and finding that an education (gasp) makes attempts at relevance, committees are struck by the politically minded of them in attempt to reinvigorate “student life.”

Pretty soon you have a student population way more interested in the party than the knowledge. Expectations have to be lowered so professors don’t look bad and, suddenly, coupled with that damn G.I. Bill and its inflation of the value of a college degree, your B.A. looks like soggy receipt paper in a job interview. Kids watched and re-watched Dazed and Confused before they even got to college, so admission standards have to be lowered to let in the stoned twelfth-graders. Nobody learns anything after high school and then they all get elected to parliament. Now we have a nation that reads Italian Vogue for a challenge and no mandatory long-form census. All of this because John Belushi pretended to be a zit that one time in Animal House. Get it?

Is he joking? Of course. Even when German statisticians use their fancy Chisquared tests to find that adolescents allowed to watch R-rated Hollywood films drank, on average, more alcohol than those that were not, it’s tough for me to swallow the bitter pint that film might just influence the way we drink. As someone who has watched hours of My Little Pony and learned nothing about friendship, it’s just hard for me to understand. But let’s just say, for a moment, that mass culture creates expectations and then youth decide to make those expectations a reality. What is Hollywood teaching us about social drinking habits in college? What reality are they recreating? The easiest answer — one of excess.

Remember, kids, sipping port wine is for the weak and the old. A young person does whatever they can to get the largest amount of the strongest liquor possible into their digestive system to maximize fun times. Alcohol poisoning is just something “the man” made up to keep young people down in the ’60s. If someone gets hurt by excess, it will make for a hilarious anecdote to fill them in on as you explain the saline drip coursing through their veins.

Movies about college (and college parties, more specifically) experienced a kind of arms race around the time Revenge of the Nerds hit theatres. Not content with the average party where the only casual-

Oh No, Theodore!

This Fredericton-based six-piece band takes to The Capital stage this Wednesday, Nov. 10. They were nominated for five Music New Brunswick Awards this year and have made noteworthy strides in the year and a half they’ve been making music officially. Here Magazine said,“lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Jeremy McLaughlin’s raw lyrics and signature vocals soar, harmonizing with keyboarder and singer Gemma Marr’s delicate tenor in a matrimony of pure pleasure.” Doors open at 9:30 p.m., $7, or $5 for students with I.D. John Belushi in Universal’s 1978 flick Animal House.

(Image courtesy of imdb.com) ties were the dignity of co-eds and the movie about the college social life has occasional acoustic guitar that totally had been a variation on that theme. Road Trip it coming, producers and writers made introduced a bus and cross-country infidelexcessive drinking the basic unit of the col- ity, The Graduate introduced post-school lege experience, and then festooned it with malaise, PCU made fun of your pet cause escalating hijinks. To wit: if your party does and your band t-shirt and Dead Man on not feature foxy boxing in a kiddie pool full Campus brought in some light murder. of intimate lubrication, a road trip to get the At their core, however, they highlight virgin in your party some action or farm one theme: college is about anything but animals, you have failed to drink enough. academics, and drinking is the order of the In the same way that the adventure film day. Even The History Boys, a recent film gave way to producers excising their action concerned with students actually interested set-pieces and stretching them to feature in their studies and college futures was length, hijinks became the only notable mostly about homoerotic experimentation feature of college sometime around the when you get down to it. Studying makes Nixon administration. Academia was a for poor drama, and if we’re taking our cues pursuit not even the nerds bothered with. from Hollywood it’s no wonder there are The problem (or not, depending on such things as “party schools.” how much you like booze) is that the idea The formula made one stab at Oscar of a social drinking occasion is almost glory previously (but included more Mrs. wholly dismissed. In fact, only the stuffiest Robinson than was palatable) but reached of squares choose sipping over chugging, its critical and philosophical conclusion and films lionized those who could hold just recently in The Social Network. The their liquor best. Sure, Bond movies imply implication? Pursuing this degree is a waste that real men can chug a martini, make of time, you drunken secret-genius. Make love to a woman and disarm a death ray your masterpiece to get back at a girl who over lunchtime, but the badge of honour spurned you while half in the can and then bestowed on the college souse is made to be watch everyone line up to kiss your feet. an attractive university credential. Combine Again, they sidestep the idea that academic that with films about adulthood portraying success is the priority. Genius, athleticism the perpetually pickled as either pathetic and the pursuit of cougars are the orders losers or dangerous psychos (or Irish) and of the day. you have a confusing message coming from There’s no interesting argument to be the leading provider of mass culture in the made on whether or not the portrayal of Western world. drinking in college movies is substantially Funny thing is, I haven’t even directly contributing to how much liquor is becited a single college drinking film yet. The ing consumed, but the uniformity of the college movie formula is so set in stone that portrayals is troubling. Academics are a child could write it (and it often feels like meaningless in these documents of the one did). Take one band of outsiders, one human experience. A good time trumps all. very literal journey or challenge, enough At one point the cold stone and cloisters intoxicants to stop the Grand Army faster of sacred learning halls were probably separthan a Russian winter, shake and pour over ate from the social, but who can remember ice. Garnish with a Slim Jim. when? The question is fowl: What came Animal House established the formula first, college binge drinking or college and made John Belushi a star, but every drinking movies?

Looking fresher for winter Susanna Chow Special to The Brunswickan The face: With the frigid cold approaching, it’s tempting to eat more just to stay warm.

When you do devour abundantly, it’s helpful to focus your makeup on the eyes and leave the lips nude. By ‘nude’ I mean use a lip product that’s beige, champagne or neutral in colour.

The reason: if you’re at a function (BBQ, buffet, etc.) where you know your lip wear will fade quickly from the feast, you won’t need to worry about the lips – the spotlight will be on your eyes.

Should you choose to emphasize your lips instead, work with a lip liner (to fill in the lips) or a matte lipstick.

Both last long on the lips. Though, without gloss they might feel too dreary for winter.

Solution: Dab clear gloss onto the middle of your bottom lip after applying the colour. You will need to re-apply

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this gloss, of course, though there are lip glosses that have a high staying power (often a little more expensive).

A word on lip gloss: The middle of your bottom lip is where light hits, so you want to dab it there. If you’re using a coloured gloss, then fill the lips entirely but put an extra amount onto the middle of your bottom lip for a plump look.

And no need to smack those luscious lips because that will mitigate the shine – smack when you use lipsticks (to blend the pigment since they are not as fluid as gloss).

The rules in makeup are debatable, but this is one golden rule: the eyes and lips must never compete. A nude lip will complement a dramatic eye (smokey or vibrant) and a nude eye will escort a feisty lip (ie: bright or sultry dark).

Logically, a neon blue eyeshadow will fight a shiny Pepto-Bismol lip. This will make sense when you look in the mirror.

The eye-focused approach serves

better in a bright setting. A dark bar or a club will not have lighting to allow one to see your eye makeup, never mind accentuating it – so it would be more effective to put on a bold lip.

Sound like work? A national Dior makeup artist once worked on my face and asserted that there are no ugly people, only lazy people. And those lazy people are missing out on fun!

What to wear?

With the clothing being thicker at this time of year, accessories come to the visual forefront. Think leather gloves, long earrings, scarves, gigantic rings. Accessories generally are best when they complement the clothing in size: a giant ring or heavy scarf in winter when you wear a bulky sweater. A big purse, which really then becomes a bag, can be very stylish. A scarf is wonderful because this one thing can impact the entire outfit tremendously with its fabric, colour and pattern. Remember, you can still be glamourous under that puffy jacket!

Comedian Ron James Canadian funny man Ron James devotes both Thursday and Friday evening to leaving a Fredericton audience in stitches. He’s been part of the writing team for This Hour Has 22 Minutes (for which he won a Gemini Award), and is in the middle of the third season of his CBC series, The Ron James Show. James’ Fredericton shows are Thursday, Nov. 10 and Friday, Nov. 11. Tickets are $48, and the show gets started at 8 p.m.

Paula Keppie Artist Talk in Memorial Hall Next Wednesday, Nov. 16 at noon, artist Paula Keppie will speak about her exhibition, CODE, showing at the UNB Art Centre until Nov. 29.

Keppie creates a multi-sensory environment with new codes, patterns and layered meaning. The UNB Art Centre is open Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.

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Battle of the cats; Tigers beat Panthers for AUS title

Heather Uhl Staff Reporter BMO Centre played host to the AUS women’s soccer championships last weekend, where the Dalhousie Tigers clawed their way to the championship banner.

The Tigers, whose first game was against the UNB Varsity-Reds in the quarterfinals, went on to sweep the tournament and be crowned AUS champions.

The championships started off with an opening ceremony parade of flags and the names of the universities participating.

The ball hit the field quickly after and the V-Reds and Dal Tigers clashed on the field.

“We got everything we asked out of the team. We created a lot of chances in the first half, we played with commitment, we did what we wanted to do tactically,” head coach Andy Cameron said. “We played the best game that we played this season.”

Despite being the “best game” of their season, the Varsity Reds lost 2-0 to the Tigers.

Starting with a first half, the Varsity Reds were scrambling to find their footing.

There were a few moments where the ladies nearly fell back into their usual antics when Dal Tiger Doriana Homerski scored the first goal of the game.

The goal seemed to be a fluke, and first-year goalkeeper Jackie Blank proceeded to keep the ball far from net.

By the end of the first half the Varsity Reds were picking up momentum and keeping the ball in Dalhousie’s end more often than in their own.

The UPEI Panthers fell 2-0 to the Dalhousie Tigers this weekend in the Subway AUS women’s soccer championship final.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Alas, none of the attempted goals on Dal’s net went in and the half ended in the Tigers’ favor.

The momentum was lost in the second half and whatever ground was

The Tigers defeated UNB during the quarterfinals, Friday afternoon at the BMO Centre. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

gained in the first half was gone. The Dal Tigers kept pushing into the VRed territory until finally scoring the last goal of the game.

Directly after the UNB game, the reigning champions, the Cape Breton University Capers took to the field against the StFX X-women.

It was a game that saw a decisive victory for the Capers, propelling them forward to the semif inals against UPEI. The Panthers entered the championship seeded number one.

The following day saw UPEI defeat the Capers 1-0, while Saint Mary’s Huskies lost against the Dalhousie Tigers, 3-2.

The championship match took place Sunday where the UPEI Panthers and Dalhousie Tigers faced off.

The game began with a quiet first half - neither team scoring but the Tigers clearly dominating.

In the second half the tide changed and the Dalhousie Tigers scored a goal early in the second half in the 46th minute. Moments before the game ended, the Tigers scored on an open net, solidifying their place as champions.

When the final goal was scored it was hard to tell which was higher - the

clouds or Tigers.

Prior to this game the UPEI Panthers had been untouchable, entering into playoffs with 11 wins, one loss and one tie. Dalhousie Tigers boasted nine wins, three losses and a single tie.

“We had a lot of faith in these girls.

They were young when they came,” Jack Hutchison, head coach for the Dalhousie Tigers, said. “It was important, they wanted it.”

“I think the biggest thing was there’s no one person, if you look at the scoring over the time, there’s just no one person. Everybody chipped in.”

Dalhousie Tiger Doriana Homerski - one of many screaming and jumping soccer players on Saturday said, “it’s overwhelming - it’s insane.

We never expected to come this far and win. It’s amazing. Just amazing, these girls were amazing to play with all season and we really stepped up and really took it to them.”

The weekend was also the last time Varsity Red Elise Arseneau would take to the soccer field for UNB. The fourth-year midfielder played her last AUS game on Friday.

“Honestly, I don’t think we could have played any better,” Arseneau said after the quarterfinal game.”

“We’ve improved so much over the course of the year, over the course of my four years here, that I can’t look back and have any regrets whatsoever.

Everything’s positive and I’m just kind of sad that I don’t get to play anymore.”

Arseneau recalled some of the shining moments of her time with the Varsity Reds.

“Well, my first year I was part of the back line, and we had 11 ties. We had five games with clean sheets - nil-hill sheets - and that was a good way to start my career here.”

While the V-Reds women’s soccer team made the difficult goodbye to Arseneau that game, the game was the start of new beginnings. It was the first AUS playoff game for V-Red goalkeeper Jackie Blank.

“It was absolutely amazing. The school support and also the kids from the community coming out just cheering us on was phenomenal,” Blank said.

“Even though I’m the last player back, I always know that I have their support.”

It has been 10 years since the Dalhousie Tigers last won the AUS Women’s Soccer championship.

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UNB rugby, Maritime University champions 18 times over Bronté James The Brunswickan Red jerseys with team logos stitched into their left sides, they the look of an army. The ferocity of 50 men on their side, they are an army. The fans sit on the bleachers, anticipating another victory from the Ironmen platoon. They spread out across the field, every yard covered.

“3-2-1, IRONMEN!” they cheer.

With this, the game begins.

The UNB Ironmen went undefeated this season with a 6-0-0 record. Defeating the Dalhousie Tigers with a final score of 26-24 on the A side, and the St. Xavier X-men 32-24 on the B side. They were able to claim the first-place title and bring home the Cockburn-Carty Cup for the 18th year since 1968.

“Last year we beat Dal in the finals, and after losing to them in the season. We didn’t play them during the season this year but played them in the finals and won,” said Sam Murray, prop position of the B side.

Holding the title of Maritime University Champions 18 times over, they have claimed this title the most out of all the universities in the Maritimes.

“A lot of it had to do with returning players. We played pretty well last year and got better every game. We really built on what we had built last year and continued,” said Chris Burt, the tight-end prop for the A side.

“You could tell, even from our first game together, we would be on an absolute role this year, and nobody would really be able to stop us.”

“We also had a nice, good group of young high school students come through. They helped push people for spots on A and B. Especially Oromocto High School; they had eight students come through. One

(Left to right) Ryan Vokey, Chris Burt, Colin Alexander and Sam Murray holding the Cockburn-Carty Cup. Bronté James / The Brunswickan of them started for the finals in the A team,” said Colin Alexander, inside centre for the A side.

The Ironmen played the season with torn MCLs, broken ribs, displaced shoulders, broken noses, and a multitude of other injuries, but none of this stops the Ironmen.

They battle through these wounds and find a way to play through the pain, and continue to come out victorious.

Yelling, chanting and sport-oriented vulgarity are but a part of their pre-game ritual to get the team in the proper mindset. With the amount of injuries working against them, the mentality to win is just as crucial as the physical ability.

“Colin is our captain and gets everyone on the same page. Then I go and just start yelling random obscenities,” Burt said.

“Get people angry,” added Ryan

Vokey, who plays the standoff position.

“Get people amped up, then we go out. It’s the only time you can legally kick the shit out of someone and not get arrested for it,” Burt finished.

The Ironmen are travelling to Montreal this Remembrance Day weekend to play McGill University in the Unofficial Eastern Canadian Championships.

They are preparing for a strong

fight for the title, and are hoping to take home another title to add to their repertoire.

“It’s an exhibition game, but it really puts a cap on our season,” Murray said.

Rugby is chiefly defined as a combination of both soccer and football, but to the UNB Ironmen it’s so much more. It is a way of life. It is a team and brotherhood that lasts a lifetime.

Women’s basketball look to improve on defence Sean O’Neil The Brunswickan With a few days to go before UNB begins its 2011-12 AUS basketball season, women’s head coach Jeff Speedy is sleepless at the thought of his team’s poor pre-season performance filtering into the games that actually matter.

“We’re a bad defensive team and until we start committing to playing hard all the time defensively, we’ll stay a bad defensive team,” Speedy said.

He acknowledged the fact that his team has not played a complete 40-minute game yet, and when asked what will it take to get to that point when the team will, Speedy said, “I don’t know man.”

“That’s why I’m getting four hours of sleep a night right now.”

After going 2-1 and giving up an average of 57 points a game in the Helen Campbell Tournament at the Currie Center on Thanksgiving weekend, the Reds crashed during the rest of its preseason, giving up a whopping 75 points a game and going 0-7 in Kamloops, Moncton and Maine.

“The number of times we give up points in the 70 or the 80 is staggering,” Speedy said, “so until that’s fixed it’s going to be tough for us.”

UNB begins its AUS campaign Nov.12 and 13 at the Currie Center with two four-point games against the Memorial Sea-Hawks, who started the season last week by going 1-1 against Saint Mary’s.

While the Hawks lost Alexandria Forsey and Brittany Dalton who

combined for 24.5 points a game, the rest of its roster remains intact from last season’s team.

However, the Varsity Reds are still coming to grips with the loses of AUS MVP Amanda Sharpe, Leah Corby from last year and Laura Fowler with her blown knee.

“They’re pretty much the same team from last year,” Speedy said about Memorial, which went 3-3 in the preseason.

“They’ve got two post players (6’2 Tiffany McMillon and 6’2 Ally Forsey) that are bigger than anybody we have and a (second-team) AUS all-star (Grace Fishbein) in her fourth year.”

As dark as Speedy painted the picture, there are some rays of light that have him optimistic.

“Our team chemistry is amazing,” Speedy said. “It’s as good as it’s ever been since I’ve been here.”

“Emma Russell is having a very good year. She has more of a scorer’s role than she did last year and has had some very good rebounding games as well. Colleen Daly has contributed every single game she’s played. She’s been forced to play some back-up point and she’s a very good shooter.”

“Meg Corby continues to be one of the best point guards in the league in my opinion, and when she’s distributing the ball well our fast-break is a thousand times better, which allows us to be a lot more successful.”

“And Claire [Colborne] is doing what Claire does,” Speedy said; meaning the second-year small forward, who finished fourth in scoring in the conference as a rookie with 18.3 points per game, is still scoring.

Varsity Red Jordanne Holstein trying to get past York’s defence, in a pre-season exhibition game.

Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan Speedy thinks the team will be better after the Christmas break than before it, “but if we’re not a good basketball team until mid-February, it’s probably too late. So we gotta get

better between now and then.”

And with 20 of 56 available points in the standings in games before Christmas, how quickly the team improves will make or break the sea-

son. The Varsity Reds tip off against Memorial at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov.12 and 1 p.m. the next day.

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UPEI Panthers kill UNB men’s hockey winning streak

V-Red Jonathan Harty takes a shot on UPEI goalie Mavric Sparks during Saturday nights game against the Panthers.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan stomach, and was penciled in for an emerDavis was added to the roster on Friday 3-1 with a power play goal. The story of the Josh Fleck gency appendectomy on Friday, sidelining and was between the pipes that night game through two periods was that Davis The Brunswickan him for the weekend contests against the against the UdeM Aigles Bleus. faced only eight shots.

A lot of the early season success of the Var- UdeM and UPEI. Davis was greeted by UdeM with a quick In the third period the Aigles Bleus sity Reds hockey team can go to the credit With Fullerton out and backup Dan first goal in the tilt. However, it didn’t take forced the issue as they fired everything of the hot goaltending of third-year goalie, LaCosta out with a “groin tweak,” the long for Dion Campbell to answer right they could at Davis in an attempt to solve Travis Fullerton.

Reds were left scrambling for a goaltender. back, followed quickly by defenceman the keeper in his first start of the season.

The team got a little bit of a scare on Cue Matt Davis, the former goalie for Bretton Stamler, giving them a 2-1 lead by They managed to do so twice to even Thursday night as Fullerton was admitted cross-campus rival St. Thomas University, the end of the first period. up the contest. to the hospital with some discomfort in his who is now enrolled at UNB for his MBA. Captain Kyle Bailey pushed the lead to Chris Culligan, Jeff Lee and Bailey

rounded out the scoring as the Reds took the decision 6-3, giving Davis his first win in the AUS since the 2008-2009 season.

Up next were the UPEI Panthers, who had just come off a 6-3 loss to the St. Thomas Tommies.

Davis got his second start in a row, and for the third game in a row the Reds started off the game by giving up the opening goal.

UPEI forwards Jared Gomes and Matt Carter opened the scoring to give their squad a 2-0 lead over the number one ranked team in the country.

“We were pretty off in the start of the game, whether it was mental, or us being tired, but there is no excuse for it. It was obvious we weren’t ready for the game,” Culligan had to say about how the Reds came out of the dressing room.

Reds assistant captain Jordan Clendenning cut the lead to one as he rifled a one timer from Culligan past Panthers rookie goalie Mavric Parks.

Carter soon struck again for the Panthers as he potted one past Davis.

The back and forth game continued as Josh Kidd brought the lead back to within one with a blast from the point.

But the lead was soon restored to two as Carter ripped a shot from the slot that Davis couldn’t hold onto and Panthers forward Jordan Knox slipped the loose puck into the empty cage.

Jon Harty got the crowd fired up, as he snuck back door and fired a one timer past Parks to bring the Reds within one, but Panthers forward Mike MacIssac and Reds defenseman Luke Gallant traded goals as the Reds dropped their first game of the season, 5-4.

Reloading not rebuilding Josh Fleck The Brunswickan No one said this season was going to be easy on the Varsity Reds women’s volleyball team.

They were moving into a new building, losing their top two attackers to graduation (Jill Blanchard and Erica Hay) and their starting middle blocker to a pro contract in France (Tanya Paulin).

Head coach John Richard also accepted the job as athletic director of UNB. I don’t think anyone expected it to start like this though.

At this point in last year’s season (13 games in) the Reds were a great 9-4 in games played.

That is a stark contrast to this season’s 1-12 record. With the loss of arguably his three best players, coach Richard isn’t about to call this season a rebuilding one.

“I kind of hate that term (rebuilding).

If you run a quality program, you just sort of reload. There will be years where you

don’t have as much experience or depth.

If you have third and fourth year players and you are calling it rebuilding, what does that say?”

Last season was literally a banner year for the Reds as they took home the AUS title. Returning from that team are four of the seven starters who started the final match as well as some key role players, so Richard and his coaching staff are very optimistic about this upcoming season.

The team has shown some glimpses of dominance so far this season and Richard feels there are players ready to step up right now to fill the void of some of the departed players.

“Rebecca Glancy who was captain with Monica Jones last year will be counted on a lot, along with Emma Hunt. Amanda Bakker was one of the top setters in the league last year, and I think she will be again this year”.

Along with the aforementioned Bakker, Hunt, Jones and Glancy, will be some first-year flavor with the team.

Making a splash so far this preseason has been left side hitter Katarina Legutky and right side hitter Vanja Mitrovic. They have instilled some young power to this team, which now has one of the youngest starting lineups in the AUS. This season the team will need to get back to the basics of fundamental volleyball if they want to be successful.

Richard feels that the 1-12 record so far can be greatly attributed to the first pass.

“We haven’t been passing the ball really well, and if you can’t pass the ball, you can’t play. That’s where we have been struggling in the preseason and early on.

Until we can pass the ball, we can’t take advantage of having one of the best setters in the league (Bakker) and a diverse offense. But it doesn’t really matter if your first contact isn’t there.”

Richard feels there is a lot to fine tune, but the basics will be enough. Look for the Reds to shape up as the face off against Dalhousie on Nov.11 at 6 p.m.

V-Reds see shaky start with the loss of last years starters.

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Fredericton men’s ball hockey league to finish last season Chad Betteridge The Brunswickan On Sunday, Sept. 18, 2005, the Fredericton Men’s Ball Hockey League began its first season. The début match was the “Numbers” against the “Cobras,” which ended in a 5-4 victory for the latter. There were13 participants in that game, nine of whom still play in the league today.

Doug Taylor, 42, has been president of the league since its creation. In fact, Taylor was the draft picker and team captain of the victorious Cobras.

Now going on seven years, the league has long been a source of physical activity for men of all ages within the community.

The league received bad news before the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year, when District 18 informed them it would - starting in December of this year - no longer be permitted to use the New Maryland Elementary School gym as its venue.

The league fired back immediately,

starting an online petition in the hopes of reversing the decision and referring to the district’s choice as an “act of discrimination,” and that it works “against the initiative of health and well-being.”

However, Garth Wade, director of education and 32-year employee of District 18, dismissed these accusations.

“There is no discrimination. We would respond to any outside group that would be creating an issue with our facilities. Ball hockey can be played in physical education and intramural programs in our district schools as long as the NB Safety guidelines for Physical Education are followed,” Wade said.

“But the composite sticks used in the activity are marking and scarring the floor surface. We recognize the value of ball hockey as positive physical activity, but cannot continue to cover the costs to repair facilities.” “[The league has] been playing on the school gym floors going on seven years and they never said anything to us until now.

Other user groups are still playing on the floors and we have yet to see the evidence that the damage that they claim exists was caused by our ball hockey groups,” said Doug Taylor, who remains sceptical about these claims.

On Sept. 12, representatives from the District and the league – as well as three MLAs – held a meeting in an attempt to rectify the situation. Wade came away from the meeting feeling that it “was good,” and that “both groups outlined their positions and a discussion was held regarding potential alternatives.” Doug Taylor, on the other hand, does not feel as optimistic.

“The meeting went well for District 18.

Their main focus was to get us into another facility so that we would get off the district’s back and the issue would be resolved, in their minds. But finding another location to play ball hockey is only a temporary fix and not a long-term solution,” Taylor said.

“They figured if they helped us find another location to play, that would satisfy us and shut us up, but that is not the case.

We are not the only ball hockey group that is affected by the district’s decision and we will try to continue to be heard and let the public know what the district has done, in order to gain support for our cause.”

During the meeting, the representatives from the league offered to pay their share of a damage deposit to have the facility floors refinished.

“There was discussion regarding payment for damage,” confirmed Wade. “[However] the approximate cost for refinishing the surface is $16,000, [and] I am not sure the group would be in a position to cover [that]. It should be noted that by continuing to use the gyms for ball hockey, the floor would have to be refinished again in a few years.”

The online petition, now containing 114 signatures, has served as somewhat of a final glimmer of hope for the league as they scramble to find a suitable replacement venue for its games.

“I am hopeful but highly doubtful, because certain people in certain positions

are trying to exercise their authority without any concern for the people who their decision is adversely affecting,” Taylor said.

“Their main concern is that they look good in the eyes of their superiors, for whom they are trying to prove fiscal responsibility. We are prepared to picket, but that will be a last resort.”

On Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, the Fredericton Men’s Ball Hockey League started its seventh and latest season.

The matches took place at the Harvey Recreation Centre, just one of the many venues the league will play in within the year. Despite his displeasure with the recent turn of events, Doug Taylor is trying to remain positive.

“We believe that the most important responsibility of any community is to promote its members’ health and well-being, to help them thrive as individuals and as a collective,” Taylor said. “Hockey in general is part of our culture, whether it’s ball, ice or street hockey.”

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Nov. 9, 2011 • Issue 10 • Volume 145 • 15

time to take a stretch in the right direction Men’s hoops team tips-off It’s How to take care of your spine with heavy hearts Tova Payne The Brunswickan

The UNB men’s basketball team is on the right track, after a good pre-season performance. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Sean O’Neill The Brunswickan Back on Oct. 2, roughly 10 minutes before the UNB V-Reds were to take the court in its final game of the Eric Garland Tournament at the Currie Center against Laval, head coach Brent Baker was told news that no coach wants to hear and no man wants to break to anybody else.

Assistant coach Kirt Mombourquette, who played basketball at Cape Breton and UNB and taught physical education at Connaught Street School, had passed away unexpectedly.

He was 37 and is survived by his wife and three children.

Baker decided to wait until after the game to tell the team, but during the game he worried someone in the crowd would tell one of his players before he could.

After the final buzzer of his team’s 77-71 victory, Baker told his players to go straight to the locker room.

“The irony is they thought they screwed up,” Baker said. “They didn’t understand why I was forcing them to go to the locker room without talking to parents and girlfriends. [That] was the hardest thing about it.”

“They were like, ‘man, we just won!’”

“It was very emotional, very hard and it was a tough thing to do, “ Baker said about telling the news. “You don’t want to ever have to break that kind of news to anybody.”

Baker remembers his friend as a “very passionate guy, he brought a lot of energy” to the program, and credits the university for having the counseling services ready to help the team out through the difficult time.

“They’ve rebounded pretty good,” Baker said, referring to how his team has handled the news, “and they’re a resilient bunch.”

There’s no easy transition to make between loss of life and the beginning of a basketball season (and if more proof was needed that basketball isn’t just a game, this is it) but the Reds will begin its AUS season next weekend against the Memorial Sea-Hawks, who started its season last week by going 1-1 over Saint Mary’s.

While UNB’s 2-6 preseason record is

now in its proper context, dropping either of the four-point home games against a Memorial team that has missed the AUS playoffs five years in a row would be a bad way to start the year. Baker isn’t taking the Hawks for granted.

“They have five returning players and two or three of those guys are fifth-year guys and the thing about MUN is they’re always in games because they shoot the three-ball and they shoot the ball well,” Baker said.

“Those two fifth-year guys, [Robbie] Habib and [Justin] Sheperd, can shoot the crap out of the ball; they’re going to be looking at coming in here and lighting it up.” “[Saint Mary’s head coach] Ross Quackenbush said to me this year, ‘I’ve never found them an easy out.’ And they aren’t.”

The Reds will come into the game banged up. Michael Fosu strained his MCL and Aaron O’Brien has a small fracture of the radius bone in his elbow.

Baker is hoping both will be ready to go against Memorial.

If the Reds can stay healthy, UNB should be able to make waves in an AUS that is going through some major transition.

Cape Breton head coach Jim Charters abruptly resigned last week, Quackenbush is retiring at the end of the season and the Huskies must replace league-MVP Joey Haywood. StFX lost all-stars Christian Upshaw and Will Silver and Dalhousie lost former playoff-MVP Simon Farine.

Using the eyeball-test, the Varsity Reds are faster, deeper, more talented and athletic than last year’s team that went 8-12 last year, and they will add last year’s AUS rookie of the year Will McFee after Christmas.

Baker knows this league is wide open.

“Usually you have the four haves and the four have-nots in our league, and those latter four are always competing for the fifth and sixth spot,” Baker said. “I don’t think that exists this year.”

“I think we’re getting there, we got a couple more players to add, but by next year, I think it’s safe to say we’ll be in a go-time mode. You always want it to be a little faster. It’s a process.”

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You won’t find any equipment in the gym for your spine, or your toes or hips for that matter. The simple reason is, it does not affect you aesthetically, and unfortunately much of fitness today is appearance-focused and not health focused.

But without your health there is very little you can enjoy, and back pain is a top area of discomfort for people of all ages.

There’s a multitude of reasons to take care of your spine. Primarily it keeps us upright, it supports us in every waking activity of our lives.

Your spine is also connected to your spinal cord, which is part of our central nervous system, so to keep this short: The health of your spine affects your mood, since every feeling you have is directly related to the neurotransmitters released from your brain that travel down your spinal cord, and these main neurotransmitters are serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine which keep us happy, relaxed, centred, focused and energized.

So exercising your spine has physical and emotional benefits. The rest of this article will describe some simple basic exercises to do a few times a week, or even daily if you actually suffer from back pain.

Remember, this is not a prescription;

I am certainly not a doctor, and with all physical exercise you should always consult your medical doctor when embarking on a new exercise program.

However, from seeing the changes in myself and many clients over the years, I highly recommend some of the following movements and exercises.

1. Get some sort of exercise, yoga or camping mat to lie down on since you want to protect your hips when you lay down on your stomach. So, lie down on your stomach and stretch your hands out in front of you.

2. Check your breath. Keep a very deep and fluid breath to protect you. If you find that you cannot breathe easily, it is your body telling you that you have gone too far/too deep into the exercise.

To keep yourself safe, back off a little from the intensity of the movement, until you can breathe with ease and sustain a deep fluid breath the whole time you are engaged in the movements.

3. Actively reach your fingers (which are stretched out in front of you) away from your toes so that you focus on creating a stretch and lengthening of your spine, specifically the space between your vertebrae. Stay here 5-10 deep breaths, rest a few breaths.

4. Stretch your arms out to the sides like airplane wings and consciously lift your chest, arms and legs off the ground to a point where you can still breathe deep. As you lift your arms up, you

should also feel a nice squeeze between your shoulder blades which will help release tension from your shoulders as you exercise your spine and back. Stay here 5-10 breaths, and then rest a few breaths.

5. Take your arms back alongside your ribs like jet airplane wings, gently roll your shoulders towards each other and lift your chest, arms and legs off the ground. For a deeper shoulder stretch take your arms behind your back, and interlace your fingers, squeezing your shoulder blades together, as you breathe deep into your spine. Take 5-10 deep breaths, then rest.

If you do this series even once, you will have done something amazing for your spine. You can certainly repeat it three or four times. I would recommend this series a minimum of three times a week, but you can definitely do it daily.

Make sure that you are listening attentively to your body, and any pain, or difficulty in breathing is your body telling you to back off from the intensity, and be a little more gentle, or perhaps not to hold the position for so long.

Start taking care of your back health today. Not only is this preventative medicine for the future, but by strengthening all the tiny muscles that exist between your vertebrae, you are helping your back today, and as a side benefit you may even notice an improvement in your mood.

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UNB swimmer Danielle Losier qualifies for Olympic Trials Bronté James The Brunswickan Hand-entry, catch, pull, push, recovery.

To many people these are a few random words strewn together, having no real meaning, but to Danielle Losier, these words represent one of the main aspects of her life.

Loiser is a second year Kinesology student at UNB, a lifetime swimmer and both a member and continious contributor to the success of the UNB Varsity Reds swim team.

She’s qualified for the CIS championships for the third year in a row.

Losier got her feet wet at a very young age. After trying out many other sports, she found she felt most at home in a swimming pool.

“I have been swimming since I was eight or nine, but I started really getting into it at age 12. I knew that was what I wanted to do,” Losier said.

“As a kid I was trying out different sports and I really enjoyed swimming. A lot of my friends were in it, but I just seemed to excel in that more than the other sports. I just sort of stuck with it,” Losier said.

“Neither of my parents ever swam but once I joined swimming, they were extremely supportive. They always drove me to my morning practices when I didn’t have my license.

They were very, very supportive.”

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Losier can be found practicing at the Sir Max Aitken Pool in the mornings and at night.

On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays Losier is practicing not just in the pool, but on dry land as well to keep her place in the CIS qualifiers.

Having qualif ied for the CIS

championships in Montreal in February, Losier has been practicing hard in hope of placing in the top four this season.

“First year I came top eight, and then I came top six, so top four medal would be ideal but I’m getting up there. Hopefully by the time I am done here at UNB,” Losier said.

Due to the intense practice schedule she’s had to learn how to manage both her school life and her athletic life.

Between practices, school work and her social life, Losier finds random times through her days to take quick naps and re-energize.

“You get used to it early on in your swim career because the practices are vigorous. I started training that much in grade 10. You get used to it in high school and it gradually evolves to university and a lot of classes,” Losier said.

“They are pretty hard, but I think all swim practices are hard. I think the sport itself, it is just tough.”

Although Losier qualifies for the Olympic trials this year, which she will be attending, she has no anticipation of making the team.

“I think if I were to have Olympic aspirations, I would have had to decide that a while ago, to focus solely on swimming and not school. I did qualify for Olympic trials, so I will be going to Olympic trials this year, but I don’t have any expectations to make the team. Just do my best there.”

Losier has dedicated most of her life to swimming and will continue to in the years to come. Whether it be CIS for a fourth year or making the Olympic team, Losier will continue to swim as a means of happiness and

UNB Varsity Red Danielle Losier has qualified for CIS for the third year in a row.

Bronté James / The Brunswickan not simply as a means of competition.

“It has taught me so much beyond the sport. Really, I think it’s helped with my school work because I have a certain time allocated to everything so it really makes me work when I need to work,” Losier said.

“It’s helped me so much with responsibility and leadership. I just really think it will serve me a lot in life, beyond swimming.”

As of right now, Losier is ranked second i n t he cou nt r y for t he women’s 50m breast stroke and first in the AUS.

“I did qualify for Olympic trials, so I will be going to Olympic trials this year.”

Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan