Issue 11, Vol 145, The Brunswickan

Volume 145 · Issue 11 • November 16, 2011

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A look inside the Student Union Building.

Hilary Paige Smith News Editor There are X’s marked on the floor of the Student Union Building, but you won’t find buried treasure beneath them. These X’s mark the spots where the ceilings leak.

James Brown, executive director of Residential Life, Campus and Conference Services, said building staff know which buckets go in which position when it rains. What isn’t known is when the roof will be replaced.

According to Brown, the cost to replace the asphalt shingles on the SUB roof is about $17,000. To replace the largest portion of the roof costs $56,000.

Both portions of the roof are due to be replaced in 2016.

“The problem is, no one has a budgeted plan to do that,” Brown said.

The building has around $12 million in deferred and unplanned maintenance. That means $12 mil-

lion in repairs that are needed or will be needed in the next 20 years, but haven’t been done or budgeted for. Mike Carter, director of Facilities Management, said $4.5 million of that number is deferred maintenance.

The cost to build an entirely new building is $17 million.

It is for this reason, Brown refers to the building as “an orphan” on campus.

The SUB broke ground in 1965 and opened its doors on Jan. 29, 1969. Like most buildings on campus, it was built to last 50 years.

“Generally, buildings are amortized over a 50-year period, but over that 50year period, what you’re supposed to do is maintain and renew them so it extends the life,” Brown said.

“That just means, if you don’t keep renewing the major systems, all of them would have expended their useful life within 50 years. It’s not a way of saying we should knock buildings down after 50 years. We don’t do that.”

The SUB was conceptualized as a place to house student activities and student government. It has served this purpose since it opened.

At any time of day, students can be found studying in the atrium, grabbing a bite to eat in the cafeteria, or meeting in the conference rooms. It’s also the hub of social activity among undergraduate students, whether that means sipping a pint at the Cellar or dancing under the lights at the Social Club.

The offices of the UNB Student Union and the St. Thomas University

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Frederictonians honour those who fought and fight for Canada Bronté James The Brunswickan Four soldiers stand at each corner of the cenotaph, keeping vigil, heads bowed in respect. A poppy is resting on his left breast, the crimson red standing out against the black of his pea coat. A gun is caught between his hands, and for a moment he is silent while remembering soldiers past and present.

It is the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, and residents from around Fredericton gather at the cenotaph to pay their respects to those who have fought and died in wars, past and present.

“Well, for myself, I’m from Newfoundland and it gives me a chance to look back on the past of having my relatives that fought in the war, First World War,” Captain Forrest Thompson said.

“My father was also a soldier in the regiment in Newfoundland so it gives me a moment in time to look at their contribution to the service.”

Despite the downpour of rain, a large crowd made its way to the ceremony to remember their loved ones lost, or currently at war. The rain was more than fitting for such a desolate time.

“Being from Newfoundland, Remembrance Day is a big thing and I’ve been to ceremonies all across Canada and there always seems to be a good turn-out no matter what the weather is like,” Thompson said.

Remembrance Day is now, unlike years previous, not just a time to mourn for those Despite the rain, the event drew a large crowd in remembrance. Photos by Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

lost in wars in past generations, but to pray for those currently fighting overseas. Afghanistan brings this day a modern meaning; it is no longer just for grandfathers who fought, but it is for the sons and daughters currently at war.

“This day has more meaning for me now than it would have before, because I have a friend currently fighting overseas,” Josh Bubar said, a second-year BBA student at UNB. “Because I know someone who is involved, I am able to relate more to those who have had family or friends taken from them in previous wars.”

Although Remembrance Day means something different to each person, whether it be a loved one lost, a lost friend, or someone who is currently fighting, it is a universal way of recognizing those for all they have done and all they have sacrificed.

Once a year the poppy is worn above the hearts of everyone in Canada, but it is 365 days a year they are thanked.

“It’s a time for people to stop their busy lives, take a second to realize all they have, and how it is that they are able to have it,” Private Alan Irvine said.

“It truly is a day of reflection. We have a lot to remember and be thankful for.”

The soldier raises his gun, salutes his fallen comrades, and makes his way off of the cenotaph. Bang. The sombre air is pierced by the explosion of a 105mm Howitzer. Left, right, left, right; with perfect formation, he marches down King Street and fades into the distance.

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SUB board of directors hadn’t met with quorum in more than three years

FROM SUB PAGE 1 Student Union are also housed in the building.

Jordan Thompson, president of the UNB Student Union, said there are definitely some legitimate concerns about the state of the SUB. “It’s no secret the SUB is not very high on the list of deferred maintenance. The university has like $110 million in deferred maintenance and they’re going to repair the academic buildings first. The SUB is obviously not the number-one priority for the university,” he said.

The SUB does have some problems with accessibility. Office space and CHSR.FM, the campus radio station, are not accessible to those with mobility issues.

There are also places where the building is in visible need of repair. There are cracks in the walls, gouges in the ceilings and cracked tiles on many of the floors.

“There’s definitely parts that you walk around and you’re just surprised by the rotting condition, or the terrible condition things are in,” he said.

The SUB is not alone. There are also classrooms in buildings across campus that have seen better days.

“It’s definitely a campus-wide problem. It’s definitely not isolated within this building,” Thompson said.

The university puts $4.5 million into deferred maintenance campus-wide every year. Dr. Eddy Campbell, in a recent presentation at a UNBSU council meeting, said, ideally $15 million should be spent on deferred maintenance annually.

Thompson said academic buildings have been a priority, which is great, but student experience does play a large role in university life.

“There is a focus on student experience as well, in the strategic plan, which is good, but ultimately it comes down to what’s your top priority as a university and it’s not something that is blamed, but money is scarce and it just comes down to prioritization.”

The university administration oversees the SUB finances. The SUB board of directors, which reports to the university’s board of governors, is supposed to set policies for the operation of the building, as well as advise and oversee the budget.

Prior to this semester, the building had not met with quorum for three years.

Gary Waite, faculty representative on the board of governors and chair of the SUB board, has been trying to get the board together since he took on the position of chair. He said the board had trouble meeting with quorum for years prior to this.

On Oct. 14, the board finally met with quorum.

The biggest problem with getting the board together? It’s size. There are 12 voting members: six from the UNBSU, three from the STUSU and three from the board of governors. The presidents of both student unions and the SUB director, Becky Sullivan, also sit as ex-officio members of the board,

but don’t have voting rights.

“We’ve suggested some changes to the constitution and to try and get a more workable group together, but even those changes still had to be approved by a SUB board that met under the old constitution which requires 12 members,” Waite said.

The board needs a two-thirds majority to make any kind of constitutional change, such as reducing the number of members needed on the board.

Waite is proposing the board reduce their voting members from 12 to eight, but keep the same proportions. He is also hoping to include a teleconferencing provision so members can Skype into meetings.

Waite said students have not had a voice in the operation of the building, apart from the informal voices of the student union presidents.

He also said Brown has done well in support of the building and going out of his way to find money to renew parts of the building.

“For any kind of renewal of the fabric, James has to make the pitch to Facilities Management. [For example] you can’t have these wonky steps because people will fall down and sue the university. That’s how repairs have been getting done up until now,” Waite said.

The SUB atrium was added in 2000. At the time, students paid a $25 expansion fee to support the cost.

When the mortgage for the expansion was paid off in 2008, Brown went to the SUB board with the idea of continuing the $25 fee to support the operating costs. The proposal was eventually rejected by the board.

Brown spoke at the Oct. 14 board meeting and again raised the idea of an ancillary fee to support the SUB. He said the idea was “not favourably entertained.”

“The idea that you borrow money to renew the building and then you pay it off and the mortgage is over; so that’s a naïve idea since the building has ongoing renewal costs … It’s not like you build the building and it’s good forever,” he said.

Brown said an ancillary fee for the building is his preferred outcome. He said other universities, such as York University in Toronto, charge students for the operation and renewal costs of their student union buildings.

Waite said it is a “delicate matter” to talk about any kind of fee right now.

“We’re really not broaching that at this point. The goal is to get a working board operating, revising the constitution in ways that bring it up to date and make sure the SUB board retains its voice, its directorship over matters relating to the SUB and then we can start to tackle some of the big issues,” he said.

Thompson said he’s unsure if he would be supportive of a fee. He said it would depend on how much the fee is, who administers the fee and what the fee can be used for.

Brown also said a fundraising campaign is an option, though there are no current campaigns in the works.

“To be fair, our development office has a whole bunch of priorities and they are pressed by me and every dean to engage in fundraising for their particular project,” he said.

Last year, the university contributed a total of $762,000 to the building.

The building’s operating costs totaled $704,000 for the 2010-2011 school year, which covers maintenance, cleaning and utilities. The building also brings in around $250,000 from leased operations and venue rentals, which directly support the operating costs.

Facilities Management spent an extra $300,000 on the building last year to renovate the ballroom and the balcony. They also fixed the steps leading to the cafeteria doors at the back of the building.

Come December, all of the chairs and tables in the cafeteria will be replaced.

Shortly after his initial interview with The Brunswickan, Brown happily announced the north side (downhill elevation) of the building will undergo extensive renovations in 2012. Facilities Management will be spending $500,000 on the project, which will include replacing all of the external doors and windows on that side of the building. The project is expected to begin next summer and wrap up before summer’s end.

Despite the strides the SUB has made in recent years as far as renovations go, there is still a lot to be done.

“What really needs to happen is renewal of the foundation needs to be dug up and the drainage needs to be checked. It probably needs to be recovered before we refill. There’s no plan to do that because there’s no budget to support it. What’s happened there is what’s typically happened with this building. It’s been kind of patched up, rather than fully renewed,” Brown said.

In a well-planned universe, Brown said necessary replacements would be made by their deadline. He used the example of the building’s hot water heaters.

“The theoretical life of the system, hot water heaters, for instance, has been exceeded… Even though it hasn’t failed yet, it’s exceeded its life it’s going to.

We haven’t replaced it, because what we’ll actually do is replace it at the point it fails.”

The idea of knocking the SUB down and starting afresh was the last gasp of last year’s board of directors meeting, Waite said.

But this year, apart from one person, there is a whole new crop of board members.

Talk of a new building was just dreaming.

“This year, we just mentioned that’s what the last group was talking about. It’s sort of dreaming, really. Yeah, that would be nice, but let’s get down to working with what we have. I think the major impediment to a new building, of course, is raising the money for it. We’re going to have to find ways to keep this one going until we can do that.”

SUB Timeline

1963 SUB was proposed as an expansion of the old Memorial Student Centre

1965 SUB breaks ground as an independent structure

1969 SUB officially opens on Jan. 29 after several delays

1981 SUB cafeteria undergoes major renovation

2000 Atrium expansion is complete, funded by $25 student fee, voted for by students

2008

James Brown proposes to continue $25 fee, rejected by board

Today Building has $12 million in deferred and unplanned maintenance

2012 $500,000 renovations to north side windows and doors

Some neglected spots in the SUB Photos by Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

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Small camp still Occupying Fredericton City Hall

There were a series of Teach-Ins held on various issues. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Damira Davletyarova The Brunswickan

Ally Dawn huddles in her Occupy tent.

Damira Davletyarova / The Brunswickan

A month ago, the slogans of inequality from the Occupy Wall Street movement swept across New Brunswick, inspiring people to get out on the streets and occupy public places. In a province with an unemployment rate of more than 10 per cent - almost three per cent higher than the national average - there is public dissatisfaction, especially among youth.

Last week, professors and union members held a Teach-In - a series of lectures and discussions on various political, financial and social issues - at the Occupy camp outside of Fredericton City Hall to raise more awareness on the state of the New Brunswick economy.

Bradley Cross, associate professor of the faculty of history at St. Thomas University, joined the crowd of 20

people on Wednesday to discuss the issue of public transportation and how it can be improved, so people will rely less on cars. In his view, the Occupy movement became a good venue for public forums, discussions and debates, because New Brunswickers have long been ignored by the government.

“I think they need to listen to the people of New Brunswick, to identify those problems rather than have our problems told to us by those who might not be experiencing them,” Cross said. “So part of this movement is also about listening to what people are saying.”

But according to UNB economics professor David Murrell, participants of the movement are misguided and taking the wrong direction.

“They copycat what’s going on in the United States,” Murrell said. “But the United States economic and financial situations are very different from what’s going on in Canada.”

Professor Murrell said the only way to change something in New Brunswick is to participate in the democratic process. People have to be involved in the government, lobby their interests, have proper demonstrations or protests against a particular issue - or just simply vote. Yet, in the last elections, to his disappointment, Murrell saw a different picture.

“The NDP views are close to Occupy New Brunswick, in terms of what they want,” Murrell said. “But what I’ve found out was - they needed more volunteers. I went to their office and there was only one person.”

Even though professor Murrell had a Conservative sign on his lawn during the last election campaign, he said he helped his friend and NDP candidate Jesse Travis deliver 450 leaflets.

But most importantly, Murrell said, the Occupy movement distracts young people from what is going on in the provincial legislature now. While people are camping outside of City Hall, the government plans to cut funding from crucial public services in an attempt to reduce the massive deficit.

“They are requiring elderly people to pay more for prescription medicine under the Pharmacare Medical Bill and that hurts a lot of poor elderly people,” Murrell said.

“The government is cutting community college education - I am against that, because one of the ways to escape poverty is to get a technical training.”

In Murrell’s view, New Brunswick is unable to create new jobs unless there is economic growth.

While there is some controversy about the movement, for Ally Dawn, 22, supporting Occupy New Brunswick is the only way to voice her despair. She went to college to become a pharmacy technician, only to graduate and find herself in debt and lacking employment. Dawn said pharmacy companies prefer to hire workers without a degree and train them, so they can pay them less.

“It’s unfair and it shouldn’t be like that,” Dawn said. “You should go to school, and when you go to school for what you love - that’s what you do after school.”

After feckless job hunting, Dawn had to return to Tim Hortons, where she had been working for six years.

“I know I am not going anywhere further,” Dawn said. “I want to have a child, but knowing where I am working now, I will never be able to afford to have a child.”

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Students frustrated with new email

Alanah Duffy News Reporter

After two years of planning, the University of New Brunswick unveiled a new email system for students last month.

Dave Totton, the director of client services for Information Technology Services (ITS), said that the switch to a Microsoft-based email system, called ConnectEd, was a result of student needs.

“We suspected for a long time that we weren’t able to keep up with email systems such as Gmail and Hotmail, which are great services with high quotas,” Totton said. “We wanted to come up with new ways to ensure that we’re able to give people the tools that they need to actually do their studies and work here at UNB.” After deciding in fall of 2009 that a new email system was necessary, the ITS department began a committee to determine which email system would be best to switch to.

Totton said that ITS also held surveys and focus groups comprised of students, faculty and staff to find an email system that would collectively suit the needs of people at UNB. The committee entertained options from Gmail, Novell Canada, Lotus, and Landisk, but eventually decided to switch to Microsoft.

“The Microsoft environment pro-

vided us with a full suite of what we needed for both faculty and staff and students,” Totton said. “We went with the Live@Edu environment for students because it allowed for tighter integration between the faculty and staff environment and the student environment.”

Totton said that the cost to switch over to Microsoft was minimal, aside from providing food to the committee and focus groups and some advertising costs.

“It cost nothing. It’s a free service provided by Microsoft,” Totton said.

“Our costs annually are actually going to reduce by $60,000 once we finish the complete migration.”

Since launching ConnectEd, Totton said that the ITS has experienced a few problems, specifically with SkyDrive, a program that allows users to edit Microsoft Word documents in an Internet browser. However, running Word as an application on the computer at the same time doesn’t work in sync with the online version.

Despite that setback, Totton said that the feedback from students has been positive so far.

“The migration had a 98 per cent success rate and the issues that we had were very minor. The feedback we’ve received was overwhelmingly positive,” Totton said.

However, students are saying something different. On The Brunswickan’s

Facebook page, a survey was put out last week asking what students thought of UNB’s new email. Out of 181 votes, 103 students said that they preferred the old email system; 36 people said they forward it to another account; 27 people said that it’s an improvement; and, 15 people said that they were indifferent to it.

Elizabeth Vickers-Drennan, a thirdyear physics student, said that she’s experienced problems with the new email system, especially when she has a slow Internet connection.

“Right now, I’m at my parents’ place and they have a really slow connection, so I have to wait for it to go through these really crazy processes before it actually gets to my inbox, which is frustrating,” Vickers-Drennan told The Brunswickan in a phone interview.

“They should minimize the amount of processes that you have to go through just to open your inbox. I’ve also had problems with formatting emails,” she continued.

Though she understands the need to switch to an email provider with a larger quota, Vickers-Drennan still prefers the old email.

“I was glad that they sent us an email instructing how to transfer our contacts from the old email to the new one, because I had not idea how to do that,” she said. “But, this new email is still not doing it for me.”

Provincial government surveying on tip differentials for restaurant servers Hilary Paige Smith News Editor The provincial government is circulating a survey to gather opinions on two-tiered minimum wage.

Right now, the survey is looking at servers in licensed establishments that serve alcohol. There are different surveys depending on whether you’re a server, an establishment owner or an interested party.

Marie-Josee Groulx, spokesperson for the department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour, said more than 1,200 people responded to the survey in its first week. It was launched on Nov. 2 and runs until Dec. 14. “[The results] are going to be used by government to make a decision on whether or not they are going to implement a tip differential for alcohol servers,” she said.

If a tip differential is implemented, servers who make both tips and wages could be making less in wages. In the section of the survey reserved for restaurant owners, it asks what they believe the difference should be between the server rate and minimum wage. Available responses range from $0.50 to $2, with an option to type in the amount they deem appropriate.

The survey stresses that in other provinces with a tip differential, wages were not reduced. Instead, they didn’t rise when minimum wage did for other types of employment.

Emma Pinfold, a server at a hotel in downtown Fredericton, has been serving for three years.

Her serving wages and tips are her sole income, both during the summer and winter months.

She took the survey and said she doesn’t believe the introduction of a tip differential would guarantee a minimum number of shifts like the survey asks.

“They bring people in based on occupancy in the restaurant,” she said.

“It’s stupid to have five servers on if there is only one table… Even if the

The survey is a tool the government is using to get feedback on the idea. madlyinlovewithlife / Flickr CC employer gets to pay you less, if they don’t need all the servers, they will send them home.”

Pinfold believes the restaurant industry in New Brunswick would lose over half of servers in the industry because many people work in the industry to make money from tips.

The server said she doesn’t believe servers who are good at their jobs should have to make less wages for earning more tips.

“I’ve worked with servers that make $50 in tips. I’ve worked the

same shift and walked out with $200,” she said.

Groulx said the survey results will be looked at in the new year.

The other provinces in Canada with two-tiered minimum wage are Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia. In Ontario, for example, servers in licensed establishments make $8.90 per hour, compared to $10.25 for those working general minimum wage jobs.

103 students surveyed disliked the new email.

Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan

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Some things we’d rather forget

Edward Dodd The Carillon (University of Regina) REGINA (CUP) — Regardless of whether or not you agree with our current wars, on Remembrance Day it’s important to recognize veterans’ contributions to our nation.

Unfortunately, there are often members of the military who are marginalized or ignored in the grand scheme of Remembrance Day. Too often, we forget about the minorities that fought in the war, especially First Nations soldiers who served in all branches of the military and continue to serve today. We also tend to equate veteran status with the Second World War, and that is far too simplistic. We have veterans not only from that war, but from a whole host of conflicts that Canada has participated in over the last half century, from Korea to the Balkans to Afghanistan, as well as various peacekeeping missions around the world. We must recognize their courage as well as the sacrifice of our soldiers who fought in both the Pacific and European theatres of war.

However, Remembrance Day shouldn’t be just about remembering the veterans. While the most common expression of memory on this day is acknowledging the hardships veterans went through, it is crucial to remember that it wasn’t just soldiers who were involved in the war.

Civilians were caught in the crossfire.

Were their lives any less meaningful than the lives of soldiers who died fighting? While much of the literature around Remembrance Day has to do with the hardships many soldiers faced, there is not much on what civilians went through when their lives were swept up in the vicious currents of war. Their stories should not be forgotten and their

voices should not go unheard.

Another thing that many may gloss over are the awful things that Canada did during the Second World War to Japanese Canadians. When Japan entered the war in 1941, Canada rounded up thousands of Canadians of Japanese ancestry and placed them in internment camps for the duration of the war. While it could be argued that these internment camps were comfortable places compared to the concentration camps of Germany or Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, they were hardly pleasant, and in hindsight were an awful infringement upon the rights of Canadian citizens.

Along with our domestic strategy, we participated in awful raids on German cities throughout the second half of the war, which resulted in the destruction of German cities and loss of civilian life on an atrocious scale. Our images of a bombed-out London might suggest that retaliation in kind was acceptable, but it is not reasonable to defend our actions based on the fact that we were not the first to commit such acts of wanton destruction. It should be a collective shame of the Allies that they participated in such a deadly campaign against civilians.

I’m not trying to denigrate what our soldiers did or place blame for the brutality of war. I am merely saying that Remembrance Day should not only be about remembering the aspects of war that place Canada in a good light. We must realize that we are not innocent of committing injustices. If we don’t recall the horrors of war on all levels and all sides, it becomes easier to repeat them in the future.

Remembrance Day: A social event

For some people Remembrance Day is a serious day of reflection, while others do not treat it in the same manner. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan good example for her young daughter, ber or a friend who was or is being Jennifer Bishop shushed the people who were talking. affected by war. Although the war in The Brunswickan This did more harm than good. She was Afghanistan is not our war and Canada Last Friday, people lined the streets to wearing her poppy on the wrong side of is currently not in a combative role, solwatch the parade of veterans, soldiers her jacket but had good intentions. diers are still overseas risking their lives. and cadets make their way to the cenoThere is always the argument that Many of folks chatting were middletaph in downtown Fredericton for the aged. These people are the age of our our soldiers shouldn’t be in AfghanRemembrance Day ceremony. parents. Didn’t they teach us that istan to begin with. It’s alright to Bystanders stood with loved ones Remembrance Day isn’t something disagree with our government and its as they remembered their friends and to take lightly and that going to the decision to involve our military in a war family who served our country and ceremony and reflecting on the past is that isn’t ours, but there isn’t a lot we lost their lives in the past, who are the respectful thing to do? can do to change that. currently in war zones and who serve The most surprising part of the cereMany university students take adin the military and risk the chance of mony was seeing military personnel, vantage of this day to remember as a being deployed in the future. dressed in full uniform, inconspicu- long weekend and a chance to party. If Then people spotted their friends ously – or so he thought – take out Remembrance Day means nothing to in the sea of raincoats and umbrellas his cell phone and start to text. This is you, fill your boots. Better to have you and the Remembrance Day ceremony someone who is part of the military – home with a hangover than disrupting became a social event. one of the people who citizens go to the others and being disrespectful at the People had conversations with cenotaph to honour. If they don’t show ceremony. friends they hadn’t seen in a while about respect, should anyone else? This is just Showing up to the ceremony isn’t their lives and what they’ve been up to, another example of the social event that good enough. If you are going to make only pausing for O’Canada, God Save has come out of this day. People should the effort to get up and get ready to go the Queen and for the two minutes be able to spend an hour without look- to the cenotaph, you should respect the of silence. ing at their phones. reason why you went there. If that isn’t One woman, who was trying to set a Almost everyone has a family mem- for you, don’t go.

Federal lobbying: Advocacy goals for the year of the two federal lobbying organizations that represents students across Canada.

Although education funding is primarily a provincial responsibility, Student Beat the federal government plays a large Jordan

Thompson role, as 60% of student loans come from the federal government.

The feds transfer money to the This week student union presidents provinces in the form of transfer and vice-president externals are in payments and also, copyright laws Ottawa to lobby federal decision are federal jurisdiction and have a makers on behalf of students. They profound effect on education. are all there under the umbrella of Each year, CASA delegates travel the Canadian Alliance of Student to Ottawa for the Lobby Conference.

Associations (CASA), which is one This is where students from across

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the country sit down with Members of Parliament, Senators, and senior policy officials to present advocacy goals for that year. At the 2010 Lobbying Conference, CASA met with more than 110 of those individuals.

CASA’s main advocacy goals for this year are: elimination of parental contributions on federal student loans; amend the Student Loans Program’s assessment of borrower assets to exempt ownership of one vehicle per student; lift the two per cent fund cap on the Post-Secondary Student Support Program; eliminate book importation regulations which

will lower the cost of textbooks for students; allow the circumvention of technological protection measures for non-infringing purposes; and to eliminate the $150 fee international students must pay to work off campus.

Each of these goals, if achieved, will ease the burden student’s face to study.

For example, the elimination of the book importation regulations is estimated to save students across Canada $30 million annually, with no cost to government. We all know that textbook prices have been increasing; between 1995 and 2007 textbook prices increased over 280

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per cent, far outpacing inf lation, which increased just 27 per cent!

For more informat ion about CASA and the role that the UNB Student Union plays in it, feel free to contact me at president@unbsu. ca or Joey O’Kane, vice-president external, at external@unbsu.ca. For more information about CASA in general and to view this year’s lobby document, check out CASA’s website: www.casa-acae.com.

Jordan Thompson is the President of the UNB Student Union. He can be reached at president@unbsu.ca

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You’ve got the skills, but do you realize it?

One thing I have learned is that many of the skills I learned in those jobs are To the Point transferable to others.

That is something we all need to make Christopher sure we showcase to potential employers Cameron when applying for jobs.

When working as a lifeguard, I had Applying for jobs is probably one of the to work with other people as a team. most painful processes I’ve ever had to Although that may seem minor, the deal with in my life. ability to work with others is something I have been fortunate enough to only that employers look for. work three jobs since turning 16, prior If you are a nursing student applyto working for The Brunswickan. In re- ing for a nursing position, who do you ality, I’ve had about 4-6 job applications think they are going to accept, or should in my life, but I always stress about them. they accept? I would say the person that Two of those applications were to be works best in a team environment. If you a lifeguard, one at Dalplex at Dalhousie have that skill, make it known. Show University and one for UNB’s Sir Max that you played team sports or that you Aitken Pool, which is quite a simple ap- worked a part-time job that involved a plication relative to other applications team environment.

I’ve been working on.

Another is time management. This is One thing I believe we worry about a skill that many students pick up and is as students when applying for jobs is vital when you work for a company. If our lack of experience and how to best you’re a student-athlete that is taking five show our skills on our resumés and courses while going to practices four to cover letters. five times a week, you have good timeYes, your experience at McDonalds, management skills. the Cellar or the Sir Max Aitken Pool You don’t have a certificate or degree may not be transferable to your job ap- in time management, but sometimes we plication for a job as an accountant or underestimate the skills we have learned a nurse, but there are some aspects of outside of the classroom. those jobs that will prove to be valuable I know this is not some earth shatin your career. tering idea or advice that I have for you,

Some of the most important skills I learned were outside of the classroom at my jobs.They are valuable when looking for a job after university. PB-PSBear / Flickr CC but after applying for a few jobs recently I just wanted to point out to students that you have experience that employers want you to have.

You’re going to have, or already have,

a degree in the field you’re applying for a job in, so make sure they understand you have all the experience to succeed with their company and the knowledge in that field, as showcased by the piece

of paper you received.

Christopher Cameron is the Editorin-Chief of The Brunswickan and can be reached at editor@thebruns.ca or in SUB room 35 throughout the work week.

Simple passwords without sacrificing security Andriy Drozdyuk The Brunswickan L et me g ues s you r pa s s word: “123456.” How about “qwerty,” or “password”?

These are some of the most common passwords that people use everyday for their e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, or any other online account they might have.

These are the passwords the hackers start with when trying to break into your computer, email or an online site. In fact, most of the passwords used by people are relatively easy to hack.

So what would a good password look like? Here is an example: 4fsa5C277AEA7032947E8310116CC04202CFCE0F4466893C11AB. Of course, nobody can remember such a monster, but having a strong password is easier than you thought.

You don’t have to remember obscure sequences of numbers or letters. Let’s compare two passwords: 3uN!8z and paperEatingOliveTable.

Which one do you think is stronger? Turns out that the second password is much harder to guess than the first.

If you think about it, it kind of makes sense. There are only six characters in the first, but there are 21 characters in the second.

You might say that the second only has simple words, wouldn’t it be easier for the hacker to crack?

Yes, it would; that is if the hacker knew that you were using only words and precisely 21 characters.

To t h e h a c k e r, y o u r p a s s word might as well be H2HoaGnHXYx#9hyU3V6Du. What’s more, they have no idea how many letters or characters there are in your password. So after they try all the common passwords like “123456” and “password,” the usual approach is to commence a brute force attack. The hackers start picking all possible passwords like so: a, aa, ab, ba, aaa, aab, aac, aba, aca, abb, abc, aca, aca, acc, etcetera.

If the hacker proceeds as above, and throws in a lot of computing power, how fast can they hack our passwords?

Let’s see: 3uN!8z - 0.007 seconds to hack and paperEatingOliveTable - 3.5 TRILLION centuries to hack according to an online brute force search calculator.

So our seemingly “simple” password is vastly harder to hack then the complicated looking one.

One rule to take away from this for creating passwords is that length beats complexity. In other words, the longer your password is, the better.

Try picking some words that don’t relate to each (i.e. are not synonyms) and jamming them together in a fun way.

Here are some more “good” passwords to give you ideas: EggsOf WinterSunrise (unrelated words

XKCD.com - hard to hack but easy to remember) Andy.................... (word followed by 20 dots - length beats complexity).

This article introduced a technique for creating strong passwords.

Creating passwords that are long and

easy to remember is a great way to ensure the security of your computer or online accounts.

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Student

Viewpoint.

What do you use the SUB for?

Let everyone know whats on your mind.

Alex Samson

Jon Harty

Matthew Macdonald

Chantel Whitman

“Hanging out in the blue room.”

“Creepin.”

“As a place to see and be seen.”

“To help serve students.”

Dwyer Penk

Ashley Hayes

Kevin Burke

Chris Milheron

“To study and focus on school.”

“The Sexuality and Welcome Centers.”

“Tim Horton’s.”

“Group Meetings.”

brunswickanarts Kim Voce Jones: The white room arts@thebruns.ca

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Haley Ryan Arts Reporter “My greatest inspirations come from hardware stores and outside,” says a petite blonde woman sitting cross-legged on the floor of the art gallery.

“When I’m looking for material, I’ll go to Canadian Tire. The way things are stacked and the order, and the pipes coming out is a beautiful installation in itself.”

She adjusts her silver glasses and looks around at the fibre shapes hanging from the ceiling, and islands of coarse salt below them. Stuffed rubber gloves lie in a pile on the edge of the main island, beside delicately intricate glass figures.

Kim Vose Jones is this year’s featured StudioWatch artist at the Beaverbrook Gallery. Her exhibit, “A Farewell to Flesh,” is an amazingly detailed modern art installation with some pieces looking enough like parts of your own body for you to recognize them, but just barely.

One of the most beautiful figures is a large, watery looking oval glass piece suspended on a wall by itself, with definite similarities to a vagina.

Across the room, huge sheer bags are partly filled with white pebbles or salt, the full end resting a meter or so away from the wall, appearing like sperm struggling to escape.

Vose Jones says her background in women’s studies, which she studied at Concordia in Montreal, works its way into much of her work. Although inspirations for the installation range from aging to neurons and the way our bodies work, she says many people comment on the sexual undertones in the pieces.

“My work is about life and death and you can’t have life and death without sexuality,” she says.

Kim Voce Jones is a Fredericton-based artist. Her exhibit “A Farewell to Flesh” is at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan The StudioWatch program is in its seventh year at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and chief curator Terry Graff said supporting and displaying the work of emerging artists like Vose Jones is important to the gallery.

Graff was able to watch Vose Jones’ entire creation process for the work as her supervisor for art courses that she’s taking long-distance from the Maine College of Art. “When I can see the artist is being

challenged, not just going through the motions and are fully committed to exploring ideas, that’s how an artist’s career evolves,” Graff said.

Graff said the work is also very tactile, which Vose Jones said is definitely deliberate.

The pieces are so intricate and the materials unusual, the viewer will be tempted to hold things just to figure out what they’re made of and if they feel as soft as they look.

“I don’t want people to touch it, but I

know people do and I find that kind of interesting... I think that’s why I make it the way I do, I like that attraction and repulsion, that self-policing that goes on,” she said.

She waves towards a long, felted shape in front of her hanging from the ceiling, and says she wanted everything to be white so people could really see positive versus negative space.

“We assume, with the way our brains function, that the objects are the shape, but in fact the space around those objects are

also shaped in reaction to those objects,” Vose Jones said.

“It’s called empty, but for me it’s not empty, it’s very full of something I can sculpt.”

“A Farewell to Flesh” will be at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery until Jan. 8, 2012.

Check out the gallery’s website for details on Vose Jones “Artist tour and Talk” tomorrow night at 7 p.m.

Patrick Clark: Master of the (back)stage Haley Ryan Arts Reporter For Patrick Clark, Christmas is coming a little early.

In the set he’s designing for a Calgary theatre company, photos of frost are being screen-printed onto vinyl so the actors will appear as if they’re in a world of constant ice.

“I’m doing my fifth Christmas Carol,” Clark said over the phone before a rehearsal.

“As a designer you get to do several of them in your life.”

The Fredericton set and costume designer, whose 30-year career in theatre was rewarded this November with a LieutenantGovernor’s Award for High Achievement in the Arts, still keeps one of the oldest houses in the city as home base.

Clark also has a UNB connection he’s very proud of, and says his “gentleman’s education” of different arts courses gave him a good foundation as a designer.

It was a theatre course he took in his first year as well as joining the UNB Drama Society that got him hooked on the creative process and atmosphere of the stage.

“What always fascinated me about the-

atre was you basically start with a piece of paper with some words on it, then come up with these images of what it looks like and put it on the stage,” Clark said.

Clark, who as a young man once spent his Christmas holidays painting lengths of fabric to be used for a costume, said although the pay wasn’t as good as it is today, the skill level and artistry was much higher.

Although Clark said he doesn’t have a favourite when it comes to designing costumes or scenery, he admitted scenery can be easier because actors don’t care too much about a doorknob, but can have issues with what they wear.

With his early years at Theatre New Brunswick (TNB) and UNB drama, Clark said he couldn’t really get away from acting a little bit, but has never wanted the spotlight for himself.

“Most people want attention and I never really wanted attention, that’s my personality, I was always a little bit in the background,” he said.

“I was also brought up by my grandparents who were shy people and I inherited that.”

Caleb Marshall, creative director of

TNB, has worked with Clark on many projects and was glad to be able to reel the in-demand designer back to Fredericton for a few of TNB’s shows this year.

Marshall said Clark’s Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for the Performing Arts was well overdue, and that the designer has a great deal of generosity besides artistic talent.

“In 2006 TNB was going through some restructuring and was having financial difficulty,” Marshall said.

“That year Patrick worked on one of our shows, The Graduate, and dedicated his designer fee back to the company.”

Clark said his initial reaction when he got the award was shock, but was excited.

However, he said he wanted to dedicate the award to all of the people behind the scenes he works with, who will never see the spotlight.

“You can do all the designs in the world but then there’s all the people who actually have to make that costume, build that body, paint that set,” he said.

“People say ‘oh, that was a beautiful design,’ but I always want to say ‘remember, some other people made it.’”

A costume sketch by Patrick Clark,TNB’s set and costume designer.

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Moustache ride, anyone?

Savoury salsa

The New Position

The Garlic Press with Alex Kress

Sarah Vannier This one is a very satisfying lowcalorie snack. You can make it as burn-your-mouth spicy as you please, and as garlicky. (If I had my choice amount of garlic in everything I ate, I could kill a vampire).

But garlic is very healthy for you.

In fact, so are the rest of the ingredients in this recipe. I made it twice in a row for parties and it was gone in a matter of minutes. It’s simple, vegetarian and vegan-friendly, and light.

I’ve also made this snack to take with me to work, as it’s easily transportable and fulf ills my midday cravings for savoury foods with a few tortilla chips without leaving me feeling heavy and lethargic afterward.

Here’s a snack you won’t feel naughty about eating. food_in_mouth/Flickr CC

Ingredients:

The Recipe:

4 plump vine tomatoes, cored 1 medium white (or red) onion, chopped 2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 or 2 teaspoons habanero peppers, diced and seeded 1/2 lime, squeezed/juiced 1 teaspoon sea salt 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, cracked

Chop up tomatoes, onions, cilantro, and peppers, keeping them separate. Mince garlic in a garlic press if you have one, otherwise dice finely. Boil three cups of water and pour it over the onions and garlic in a colander.

Combine tomatoes, onions, cilantro, and peppers in a bowl and squeeze lime juice over them. Add the lightly cooked onions and garlic and mix well. Add sea salt and pepper, stir. Serve immediately if you’re rushed, but it’s better to leave covered in the fridge for two hours so the flavours settle nicely.

We’re officially in the middle of Movember. As I sit in the library writing this, I’m surrounded by guys with furry upper lips.

There are regular moustaches and handlebar moustaches all around me. There’s even one guy who has a pretty epic “bad guy who ties helpless women to train tracks” moustache.

If you don’t already know, Movember is an annual month-long event designed to raise awareness and money for the fight against prostate cancer. On Nov. 1, men (a.k.a. Mo-Bros) all around the world go clean-shaven and commit to spending the next 30 days growing a moustache while collecting donations from friends and family.

But participating in Movember isn’t just good for men’s prostates; it can also be good for your love life (not that those two things are necessarily separate, but that’s a topic for another week).

Although opinions on the moustache are mixed, there are definitely people out there that love a good one. Some research has found that men with facial hair are rated as more attractive, harder working, more masculine, more mature and more competent at work.

There’s also some research suggesting that men use facial hair as a way to tell potential partners that they would make a good partner. Nigel Barber, an evolutionary psychologist, looked at changes in male facial hair trends in the UK between the 1840s and 1970s. He found that mous-

taches were more common during periods when there were more single women than single men.

In contrast, during periods when the single men outnumbered the single women,

the men were more likely to be cleanshaven. Barber concluded that the men were using their facial hair as a way to show that they were masculine, hardworking and would make good partners.

It isn’t just the moustache that makes a Mo-Bro sexy. It’s also everything else that the month-long moustache represents.

A guy who participates in Movember is committing to a month of an itchy upper lip and looking a little bit silly. That handlebar moustache might work for Hulk Hogan, but it doesn’t have quite the same effect when it’s on the guy behind the counter at Subway. A full-grown moustache might tell people that you’re masculine and desirable, but two weeks into the month and a lot of guys are still walking around with scruffy upper lips.

However, this also means that a guy sporting a half-grown moustache for a month doesn’t take himself too seriously.

He is willing to have fun and try something different, both of which are attractive qualities in my books.

Finally, participating in Movember means a guy is concerned about helping other people. In the research looking at what people want in a partner, things like kindness and compassion consistently show up near the top of the list. All of the money raised during Movember goes towards improving men’s health, and that silly little moustache is a sign that the guy sporting it wants to make a difference.

If you’re looking for a sexy, funny and caring moustached man to support this November, head on over to http://ca.movember.com.

brunswickanarts Eastwood’s J. Edgar captivating, but misleading Movie or not, is laughing at a gay relationship acceptable? Never.

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In Focus Alex Kress

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI, in J. Edgar. Screen capture.

Brandon Hicks The Brunswickan Clint Eastwood knows how to tell a story. The question about his newest release, J. Edgar, is: how accurate is it?

J. Edgar, a biopic about the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), hit theatres this past weekend. Rather than show a modern audience, which might be unfamiliar with the pioneer of investigative policing and forensic evidence, Eastwood instead focused on making the film a more dramatic study of Hoover’s life.

As is tradition with most biographical films, there is a certain amount of embellishing and filling in the blanks. But unlike most biopics, this film goes way beyond what is usual – even to the point of straight up lying at times.

The history takes a back seat to the personal life of the former director.

Characterization in the 2004 film, The Aviator, also staring DiCaprio, frequently comes to mind when comparing. The film, like The Aviator, is not a celebration of J. Edgar Hoover’s life but instead focuses on the faults and personal demons of the titular character.

The historical parts centre on the kidnapping case of the Lindbergh baby. The film’s presentation of this case is sporadic and confusing. One would, without prior knowledge of

this case, or even J. Edgar Hoover’s contributions to the field and the case, be confused by the way this is all portrayed. When Hoover’s contributions are mentioned, they are passed over quickly and almost with a sort of wink and a nudge to the audience, as if they were supposed to know it was coming.

The highlight, and arguably the most interesting aspect of the film, is the relationship between Hoover and his right-hand man, Clyde Tolson. Since the 1940s it has been speculated that the two were lovers.

The film takes these whispers and runs with them, causing it to feel a little bit like lying to the audience, no matter how loud the aforementioned whispers were.

Despite this, the taboo relationship is very well represented and well handled. The characters’ intimacy is believable, and DiCaprio’s performance shows the pain of self-loathing brought on by Hoover’s homophobic mother. Although this is over-embellished from the rumours, it does make for an interesting relationship dynamic for the characters.

However, there is a scene involving cross-dressing that seems to ignore the history altogether. The dramatic scene where Hoover wears his dead mother’s dress and pearls is fantastically performed, but it is uncomfortable to think it is being passed off as factual, where these traits in Hoover’s personality are unfounded.

this week in brunswickanarts New Brunswick Artists Emerge: FInal Show The Great Balancing Act from Moncton closes the NB-AE concert series at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre Thursday, Nov. 17 at 9 p.m. The band compares itself to 80s new wave group DEVO, and its philosophy is about the power of groups and individuals to change their reality from the inside out by thinking positively. Fredericton’s Motherhood opens the final show at 8 p.m. Admission is by donation.

The Divorcees This Moncton-based Americanastyle country group is a brand of its own. They don’t claim to be anything they’re not, and they’re not trying to sell you anything short of themselves. They play because they get pure enjoyment out of it. They’ll be playing new material from an upcoming album. Doors at The Capital are at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 the day of the show.

Delhi 2 Dublin Vancouver’s Delhi 2 Dublin bring their unique, genre-spanning sound to Nicky Zee’s this Saturday, Nov. 19. Since the release of their remix album Planet: Electrified in April, the band has constantly been on the road, including a headlining gig at Dublin’s legendary Whelan’s Pub. Doors open at 8 p.m.

Because of the lack of evidence surrounding Hoover’s sexuality, the film’s romantic scenes have become the subject of controversy. HollyScoop website said that because of studio pressure on Eastwood for not making the character “gay enough,” he decided to add a kissing scene between Hoover and Tolson.

Eastwood has compiled a great cast of actors. DiCaprio pulls off yet another accent beautifully. Judi Dench portrays Hoover’s overbearing, lonely mother, and steals every scene she’s in. Other stand-outs include Armie Hammer, as Hoover’s friend and probable lover, and Naomi Watts as his loyal secretary, Helen Gandy.

The technical aspect of the film, unfortunately, is bad and distracting.

Eastwood’s direction is great, but the effect work is not. DiCaprio’s makeup, used to make him look older, is very believable but that of the other characters is less convincing. Also, the contacts used to turn DiCaprio’s eyes from his natural blue-green to Hoover’s brown makes them look black and almost un-human.

J. Edgar is an entertaining film encouraging an intimate understanding of the character. The film offers an interesting, and often heartbreaking story, but if you want to know about J. Edgar Hoover and the history of the FBI, you might do best to pick up your history books.

During my viewing of Clint Eastwood’s most recent release, J. Edgar, I was horrified.

Not by the film itself – it doesn’t dabble in the supernatural or indulge in violent slasher culture – or even by the controversy stirred up by the embellishment of the real-life relationship between J. Edgar Hoover and his right-hand man, Clyde Tolson.

It was the audience that horrified me.

The better part of the Nov. 12 audience that attended the 6:20 p.m. showing of J. Edgar at Empire Theatres at Fredericton’s Regent Mall laughed through one of the most poignant scenes in the film: a serious climax point between J. Edgar Hoover and his onscreen love interest Clyde Tolson. And rest assured, this was not a comical scene.

At this point in the film, it’s clear that Hoover and Tolson adore one another in their own way, and not in the plutonic sense. The relationship isn’t portrayed explicitly, but there is some concealed handholding and moments where the subtext of heavy gazes is easily read.

The scene that got the most laughs, the poignant climax one, was an emotional confrontation between the two men. Hoover, who is depicted in the film as avoiding the company of any woman but his mother, casually mentions a woman he’s been seeing, actress Dorothy Lamour, to Tolson. Tolson is shocked and noticeably disturbed.

This escalates when Hoover mentions “it may be time for a Mrs. Hoover.”

It’s blatant denial and you can’t help but feel Tolson’s heart shattering in that moment.

At least, that’s what I was feeling.

And I expected to hear nothing but the silence that meant others were feeling it too.

Tolson begins screaming at Hoover, calling him out on his façade. They engage in a fistfight, drawing blood. I was feeling uneasy and sorry the pair.

The audience was erupting in laughter.

When I didn’t think it could get worse and was still trying to remove my jaw from the floor, Tolson kisses Hoover.

Well, here was the theatre’s climax.

There were “oooohs” and “whoooas” and more laughter.

Did I fall asleep and wind up in a southern state somewhere where homophobia is rampant and socially accepted as the norm?

Nope. I was in a theatre in the capital city of New Brunswick, Canada. What does this say about us?

This is not okay. What crosses one’s mind to find such a sad scene hilarious? Or to sit next to someone who’s in stitches and not say, “what’s funny?”

Most of the laughs came from the back of the theatre, but if I had been sitting next to someone who laughed, I certainly would’ve spoken up.

It didn’t stop there, either. After Hoover’s mother dies, he puts on her dress and pearls and looks into the mirror, trying to take on her bold character so he can make it through the pain of her death. His reflection embodies his mother as he says, “be strong, Edgar”.

More hoots and laughter.

This is a form of bullying. Indirect, perhaps. But it’s bullying. It’s a collective voice saying, “it’s alright to laugh at a gay couple.” Fictional couple or not, it doesn’t matter. It’s the principle of it that speaks volumes.

Those who laughed should be ashamed of themselves. But odds are they’re not.

All we can do is try to embarrass people in a situation like this, if we’re in a position to, by asking them why they’re laughing. I don’t think we can change what fundamentally makes up a bigoted person, but we can at least let them know it’s offensive instead of laughing along with them.

showcase your talents email: arts@thebruns.ca

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One-on-one with The Brunswickan:

Bradleyboy MacArthur

Alex Kress Arts Editor

A big, raw, blues-band sound is coming to town. And if you’re not paying attention, you could make the mistake of assuming you’re listening to an ensemble.

But he’s just one fella.

This one-man blues band, Bradleyboy MacArthur (comprised of Orono, Ont. -based Bradley MacArthur, 50) has been on the Canadian music scene for a while now, but says he didn’t start gaining blues notoriety until the Toronto Blues Society nominated him for best new talent in 2011. The competition came down to six performing finalists, and he took the title.

MacArthur opens for Elliott Brood next Wednesday, Nov. 23 at The Capital, and The Brunswickan talked with him on the phone about his sound and new record, Salt Gun. The Brunswickan: How would you describe your style of blues music?

Bradley MacArthur: My style that I play is a little more raw and rough.

To me, it’s a little bit more towards the old style of a lot of the blues players like Hound Dog Taylor, R.L. Burnside. Music needs to evolve and R.L. Burnside, when he did “A Ass Pocket Full of Whiskey” with John Spencer, it just brought a whole other side of that blues. A lot of people don’t really get to hear a whole lot unless they delve into it a bit more. We have more of this clean-sounding… and forgive me, but it’s like ‘beer-commercial blues,’ you know what I mean? A lot of long guitar solos… and it’s not about these songs. These songs are stories, and the stories for these guys, it’s their life. It’s what they lived. I think people are looking more for that real stuff again. I’ve always been of the mind, that I want to believe what I’m hearing. When somebody’s singing about something, man, you want to believe that’s how they lived. You know, they’ve lived that, they’ve experienced that.

Muddy Waters, when he first played his guitar on the plantation, his acoustic guitar ‘cause that’s all he had, and moved to Chicago he got the electric sound and then it just took on this whole other shape. It had this whole growling energy. Him, Howlin’ Wolf, Walter ‘Shakey’ Horton, Buddy Guy, Hound Dog Taylor, it brings that energy to it that makes people wanna get up and dance. But it has also that

ragged grittiness and you’re hearing these stories and you believe it. And you feel it. You can smell the beer, you can smell the sweat and it just draws you in. That’s what I feel has been missing from the music. Those real characters.

I think you also have to make the music relevant. It has to have a relevance to today, so it’s always this crosspollination that comes with it, that it has that familiarity and roots in it but it also has that edge where people just go, ‘I like that. That’s something different.’

B: All those greats who you just mentioned – are those your influences and have they shaped you to be the musician you are today?

BM: Yeah, totally. I listen to all different styles of music. To me, there’s good music in all music. I’ve been writing since I was 15, so I’ve written in all different genres like R&B, alt-county, bluegrass, pop, every style you can think of. But now, since I got into this one-man-band thing, when I started it was more acoustic, I had the banjo and stuff like that. But once I started bringing in the electric part of it and getting more of that grit, I don’t know, it brought something out in myself that musta been sitting in there for a while, waiting to come out. And now it’s coming out like a tap, it’s just flowing constantly. Of all the bands and things that I’ve played in, this has drawn the most attention.

B: So after all that, you feel you’ve finally come home?

BM: You know what? Totally. I’ve had a lot of musical friends who’ve known me for years and they’ve said, ‘B, this is it.’

B: Could you tell me a little bit more about your life pre-musician?

BM: I was an ironworker for 24 years. [My wife and I] are in a combined marriage so we have seven children.

I’ve always played and always recorded but there just wasn’t enough money to make a good living at it. So I developed a skill set, which was ironworking, and I did that to pay the bills and raise kids, and when I was around 40 that’s when I made the change and stopped doing ironwork full-time and devoted some time to music. I never really gave it a real good kick at the can. That’s when I started setting up the studio at the house, started playing, networking with people.

B: When you’re on stage on your own, can you explain to me what you’re

Bradleyboy MacArthur opens for Elliott Brood Wednesday, Nov. 23. He’s not your average opening act.

Caio Salvagno. / Submitted using up there in terms of instruments?

BM: I have an old suitcase bass drum, I’ve had suitcase bass drums for years. I have a studio at the house, and our home is a century house, so it’s a big live room with plain floors, tall ceilings.

I’ve always been more into handmade instruments, like washed-up basses, so I ‘m always looking for a good suitcase hollow cavity. I’ve also got a hi-hat, and just my guitar amp and some pedals.

When you’re a one-man band, the idea is to create a full-band sound, almost a sonic sound. I’ve had people walk in the club and they haven’t seen the stage, and then when they get down and see it they go, ‘that’s just one dude!’ No loop pedals, I’ve just created a sound. I have a cigar box guitar, which is a real cigar box made by a friend of mine locally.

It’s three strings, and then I’ve got my vintage harmony electric guitar, and I have my acoustic guitar.

B: What’s it like touring with Elliott Brood?

BM: They’re probably one of my oldest music friends. I’ve known them for about 11 years now. In Orono, I had them come out and play at the town hall. At that time I played in an

alt-country band so I opened for them, and our friendship has been there ever since. I’ve watched them grow in their success. I first saw them at The Horseshoe in Toronto and a connection was made there. We’ve always maintained contact and they’re just awesome, awesome guys. So when they asked me if I wanted to support them in their tour, the timing was perfect… It’s kind of this whole thing where we help each other, and they’re just so honourable in that way.

B: Can you tell me a little bit about the new record, Salt Gun, and the recording process?

BM: I love to record live off the floor. I like that on a record, when people experience that energy. Being a one-man-band is also about the live performance. That energy is infectious.

You also have to have that energy on the record when they listen to it. You want that energy to be there.

It was all done in one night. I just sat down and played all the songs, just one shot. Bang. Then we just mixed it down. I wanted this record to have that grit and some sonic sound to it and also to really bring the drama to the songs,

to really take people somewhere.

B: And how about the name of the record? What’s behind the name, Salt Gun? BM: I grew up in an area along the water in Toronto. I lived a Huck Finn existence out there cause I was always building rafts down by the lake and playing in clay pits, there was a quarry close by we used to play at. From the time I was three my mom couldn’t find me once I woke up, I was gone. There was this place down in the park bluffs and there was this house right down there. We had to go through this guy’s property to get to the clay pits. He’d hear us and he’d come out yelling ‘hey you kids, get off my property,’ and he had a salt gun. So we’d hear bang, bang, bang, bang. We’d hear the salt gun goin’ off and we’d be runnin’ like crazy. There were lots of people who grew up in that area who had stories of a man with a salt gun, so I thought that would be a great title for a record.

Salt gun, fact or myth, when it hits ya, it’s gonna sting.

Bradleyboy MacArthur opens for Elliott Brood Wednesday, Nov. 23 at The Capital. Tickets are $15, doors open at 8 p.m.

Get your dose of Canadiana with a warm cup of Elliott Brood Alex Kress Arts Editor Elliott Brood’s impact has risen to new and adorable heights of late; their fans have begun to make crafts for them.

“We’re finding on this tour that people have been making us stuff,” said guitarist Casey Laforet.

“A girl in Winnipeg made us these embroidered patches which were really beautiful. And then when we got out to Vancouver a girl made me a pair of socks with Elliott Brood on them. It’s kinda weird, but it’s very flattering. I think it’s really nice.”

It was also recently announced by CBC Radio 3 that they were nominated for “Most Canadian Song” and “Best Vocals” Bucky Awards, two of many awards given

by CBC3 to the best artists in Canadian independent music.

The Brunswickan ended up being first to notify the band during the telephone interview.

“I think that’s great! We love CBC very much, they’ve been very good to us. So when the listeners vote for us, that’s pretty awesome... hopefully they vote for us!”

Laforet said.

In all seriousness, though, the alt-country/folk/soul band is being taken seriously nationwide.

We caught up with them around the Thunder Bay point in their 30-hour straight drive from Regina to Toronto.

They were making their way back to Toronto from the Western leg of their tour of mostly sold-out shows and great crowds.

As far as scenery goes, the Northern Ontario backdrop reins Laforet’s personal favourite.

“I mean, the Rockies are obviously beautiful but personally, I like Northern Ontatio the best. Feels like home to me.”

Laforet said that because they spend so much time together, he and his other band mates (Mark Sasso, vocals, guitar) and Stephen Pitkin (drums) sometimes have “blow-ups.” But they’re never anything outrageous.

“We’re like a band of brothers, essentially, so every now and then we disagree on something. But we’re pretty lucky as a band in general. I’ve heard horror stories of bands who don’t get along at all. We actually have the same vision and it’s all good.”

And although they have a broad range of musical influences among them, they can agree on one Canadian musician.

“I think probably the most common thread between all of us is Neil Young,” he said.

“Mark and I grew up in Windsor and it probably doesn’t reflect in the music very much but Motown was a big influence

on us, and all the classic rock. Detroit had some really great radio where we grew up.”

As for modern influences, they share an appreciation for Grant Lee Buffalo and Richard Buckner.

Their newest release, Days Into Years, came out at the end of September and has been met with warm reception from critics and fans.

The men from Elliott Brood are especially pleased. Their last record, Mountain Meadows, helped boost them into a brighter spot on the Canadian independent music stage. Laforet said following that up has been a daunting task, but well worth the hard work.

“It’s been amazing, the reception’s been great. We’re playing almost the whole album on this tour,” he said.

“We have a lot of fans who like a lot of our older songs and want to hear those but the new songs have been going over incredibly well.”

And they were perfectionists during the recording process. There were a couple of cases when they changed the song completely from how it was initially set up.

They went back and re-did the arrangement and style of the song “Lines,” for example.

“We took our time recording it and anything we didn’t like we fixed. By the time it was a finished product we were sure of it.”

Elliott Brood takes over The Capital Wednesday, Nov. 23.

Vanessa Heins / Submited Elliott Brood will wrap up this tour at the end of November in St. John’s to make it back home for Christmas. Next year, they’ll head down to the U.S. and hopefully go to Europe to keep promoting Days Into Years.

Elliott Brood plays The Capital Wednesday, Nov. 23. Doors open at 8 p.m., Bradleyboy MacArthur is the opening act and tickets are $15.

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Men’s basketball squeak out wins to sweep weekend doubleheader

Sean O’Neill The Brunswickan When discussing the opening weekend of its AUS season, UNB head coach Brent Baker said that this was essentially the season in November.

Two four-point games against Memorial, who haven’t made the playoffs since 2006, could make or break the season before it truly started.

The Reds did pick up both wins, but with scores of 90-88 on Saturday and 94-92 in overtime on Sunday.

Baker still believes the team is a work in progress.

“When you have seven, eight new bodies it’s just really hard to get that cohesive defence,” Baker said after Sunday’s game. “But it’s coming.”

UNB lead the Sea-Hawks 65-45 with four minutes left in the third quarter and it looked like it would yawn its way to the victory. But Memorial kept scrapping and outscored the Reds 43-25 for the final 14 minutes of play.

Leading by six after Daniel Quirion sunk a free throw, MUN’s Robbie Habib jumped with 14 seconds left, and then scored again after Colin Swift turned the ball over on the inbound pass, which dropped the lead to two.

If there was another minute to play, UNB may have lost, but time expired and the Varsity Reds hung on by the skin of their teeth.

Michael Fosu led the V-Reds on Saturday with 24 points, with Alex DesRoches and Quirion each adding 19 apiece.

“Most teams always forget what gets them the lead and then they [want to] take the easy shots instead of running the offense and working the offense and keep working,” Baker said referring to his team’s victory the day before.

“It probably was us taking our foot off the gas and getting comfortable with the lead,” Quirion said about Saturday’s game. “But it’s definitely a

learning lesson for sure. I don’t think we’ll make that mistake again.”

The only difference on Sunday is, instead of a UNB near-collapse, the lead changed four times in the fourth quarter as the game went to overtime.

The V-Reds jumped to lead 90-83 and 93-85 in overtime, but the pesky Sea-Hawks wouldn’t stop scratching as they went on a 7-0 run of its own but couldn’t score anymore, as Quirion, who led the Varsity Reds with 24 points on the game, hit one free throw to make the final 94-92.

Baker was quick to praise Swift on Sunday after his gaffe at the end of Saturday’s game. He was inserted into the starting lineup and contributed with 13 points, shooting 4/6 from the field, including three from three-land.

“It was the turnover at the end of the game that I tried to redeem myself tonight,” Swift said on Sunday. “One mistake, bad time of the game,¬ but whatever, try to forget about it and try to play like I normally do.”

“I really think we have a lot of untapped potential as a team and we’re just starting to prove ourselves now,” Swift said.

Even with the potential, Baker wasn’t happy with the defence and knows that the team still needs some work in that area.

“We’ve got to understand the difference between containment, when you’re containing the ball, and when to help. And our guys don’t get that,” Baker said. “They think we should help on containment, which leads to a back-door pass which we got nailed on about eight times today.”

“A lot of us are used to helping out and we really gotta realize we don’t have to because our individual defences is as good as our team defence,” Quirion said after Sunday.

“It’s just a matter of time before we realize what our roles are.”

The Varsity Reds take their 2-0 record on the road to Nova Scotia next week where they will play the 1-3

Alex DesRoches pushes past a Sea-Hawks defender to put points on the board in weekend play at the Currie Center. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Saint Mary’s Nov. 18, who defeated the Reds 82-78 in the pre-season, and 1-0 Acadia on Nov. 19.

One injury note from Saturday’s game, forward Jordan Irvine came

out of the game after only one minute after dislocating his pinkie.

He said on Sunday that he wanted to play in the second game, but held out and he expects to play next week-

end on the road against the Huskies and Axemen.

Bombers win semi-final by point to head to AFL final

The UNB Red Bombers beat the UNBSJ Seawolves by one point to make it to AFL final this weekend.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan The weather itself wasn’t the greatBy the third quarter, UNB tied it K. Bryannah James est, but the Bombers knew what was up 14-14, but the Seawolves fought Sports Editor at stake, and they fought both Sea- back, and by the end of the third The UNB Red Bombers would have wolves and weather to win the game. quarter, they were leading the BombThe game kicked-off tightly- ers 22-14. to come from behind to beat the “It was pretty mind blowing. Never UNBSJ Seawolves 23-22 at BMO matched from the beginning. By the Centre to make the Atlantic Football end of the first half, the Seawolves thought it would be an outcome like League final at Holland College this lead the Bombers 14-7, but that didn’t that. You know, both teams played last long. well so that and the game a bonus for weekend.

us really,” said Red Bombers quarterback Brendan Cornford.

“Offensively we played awesome, defensively we played incredible, couldn’t ask for anything better, really.”

In the last few minutes of play, the Bombers struck gold. With an impressive touchdown followed by a two-point conversion, the team evened the playing field against UNBSJ to tie the game at 22-22.

“That tied it and then there was a couple back-and-forth, two-and-outs, two-and-outs, punt back-and-forth and then we luckily got the ball back with about 10 seconds left.”

In the last 10 seconds of play, slotback Cody Stewart punted the ball into the end zone. The field went quiet.

The Red Bombers had just won the semi-final, with less than a few seconds, bringing the final score to a 23-22 victory over the UNBSJ Seawolves, their long-time rivals and the Atlantic Football League champions from last year.

“It was awesome. We basically have been like rivals since the league opened so it feels pretty good to beat them,” Cornford said.

“We planned from the get-go to get to the championships and that’s what we had our mind set on all year long. We worked hard to get here.”

Every team has a superstition or tradition they hold too. The Red

Bombers are no exception. Before each home game, coach Dollimore brings in an old UNB Bombers helmet from the Proudfoot days.

“Everybody on the team just kind of taps it as we’re going out on the field. We’ve done that pretty much every home game since the league was formed.”

The Bombers are enjoying this victory, but they’re looking to and preparing for their game against Holland College, who finished first in the AFL this season.

“I think we’re basically on the same level. Honestly, I think every team in the league is basically the same level of play,” Cornford said.

“We can all score, we’ve all done well throughout all the games, PEI beat us once and we beat them once.

So I think it’s just a matter of whose going to play the best game.”

The Bombers have a couple tricks up their sleeves for the playoffs, as they have the number one receivers and running backs in the league with Cody Stewart, Eric Smith and Pat Forbes, respectively.

“Defensively, Tyler Doak is just a machine. He can’t be stopped and it’s just unreal playing with the boys that we’re playing with this year. I think this year’s our year to take it.”

The Bombers will take on the Holland College Hurricanes this Saturday at 1 p.m for Moosehead Cup.

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this week in brunswickansports Varsity Reds track and field holds open try-outs The UNB Varsity Reds Track and Field team has started practices in preparation for what promises to be a great indoor season . Only in their second year as a varsity team, the Reds are looking forward to an even better season than last year, when they came home from the AUS with an impressive 19 medals.

Practices are held at Base Gagetown Gym Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. and Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m. .Transportation can be provided.

For more information, check out the Varsity Reds website or contact Mark Sheehan, Throws coach at sheevog@rogers.com or 459-1580

UNB nursing lunch Are you having trouble balancing school work and a healthy lifestyle? Do you struggle with self-esteem? Is food always on your mind? If this is you, or if you are interested in knowing more about these topics you are not alone! Come to our UNB Nursing lunch and learn on November 16th at the women’s wellness center located up stairs in the Student Union Building. There will drop in times from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-2 p.m.. There will also be a presentation and free lunch from 12 p.m.-1p.m.. Hope you all can come on over and bring lots of questions!

It’s time to re-wire your...brain?

Tova Payne The Brunswickan November is Emotional Awareness Month, and there are a number of workshops and classes available for you on campus.

So I bring you this article, to add to your emotional body.

We often think about taking care of our bodies with food and exercise, but often we neglect our emotional bodies.

However, our life and well-being exist as a unit. As much as science wants to narrow things down to the most miniscule detail, it’s the totality of the details in our life that create our sense of well-being.

Any medical professional from the 80s, and maybe the 90s, believed the brain was a fixed phenomenon. This meant that the brain’s cells, such as neurons, and its connections and networks were fixed at a young age.

However, for the last two decades, research has been proving the opposite in a stream of inquiry known as “neuroplasticity.” As that name suggests, our brains are not as fixed as once was thought. It means the brain can adapt to environment.

So this means that even by scientific standards, we do have the power to re-wire our brains. We can re-condition our thoughts and our habits.

This knowledge is specifically vital when it comes to the habits and thoughts which bring us down. Knowing that we have the power within ourselves to re-wire our brains, and create new neural networks, multiple things can happen as a result.

If you’re habitually anxious, easily angered, sad frequently, or are constantly degrading or belittling yourself, you can harness the practice of positive affirmations, which will not only help you feel better in the moment, but will also cause an actual, concrete neural change inside your brain.

Many studies have focussed on meditation, and how the practice can change the gamma wave activity in the brain.

Gamma wave activity is related to sense

“Meditation brings your mind to an altered state of awareness. This is a state you can then use to practice positive affirmations.” Biology Corner / FlickrCC of awareness, increased focus and enhanced mood. So when you practice meditation, not only is it a powerful de-stressor, over time, if committed to the practice, your actual neural networks in your brain can strengthen, and you can train yourself to be a more peaceful person overall.

Previous articles have discussed how to meditate, but you can think of it as the practice of creating space between your thoughts.

To practice, I recommend finding a quiet place where you can sit uninterrupted. Set a timer for five to 20 minutes, if you like.

I recommend starting with the smaller time, in order to make sure it’s something you can sustain and maintain. Consistency is most important for change.

As you sit quietly, become aware of all feelings: physical, emotional and mental sensations. Notice any thoughts that arise, and instead of feeding into the thought or holding onto the thought – decide to let it go.

To help you let the thoughts go, shift your focus over to your breath or even repeat something as simple as “I am.”

The idea is, if you are focused on a

simple phrase or your breath, it will be much harder to think about anything else.

The by-product: you allow your mind to quiet down, inviting a clearer perspective into your life.

Meditation brings your mind to an altered state of awareness. This is a state you can then use to practice positive affirmations. If you have the time, after about 10 minutes of sitting quietly, take a few more minutes to repeat some positive affirmations concerning an area of your life that’s troubling you.

Affirmations are always helpful but more so after you meditate; your brain is in the most fertile state to create new neural connections. This means new ways of seeing and thinking.

This is a remarkable way to start the process of re-wiring your brain, which will not only feel pretty good if you take the time to practice it, but there’s even scientific evidence in the field of neuroplasticity to back this up.

I would like to thank Dr. Timothy McCall, M.D, The Washington Post and Dr. Brian Roet for educating and inspiring me to write this article.

V-Reds drop second game of season

Kyle Bailey getting ready to snipe one against Axemen goalie earlier this month at the Aitken Centre. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Heather Uhl Staff Reporter The Acadia Axemen handed the Varsity Red men’s hockey team their second loss of the season last weekend, following their victorious Friday night defeat of the Dalhousie Tigers, 9-2.

So far the Varsity Reds haven’t had a problem with both teams, having beat the Axemen 3-0 early in the semester, and the Tigers 10-1 and 9-2, the Reds weren’t expecting a loss against Acadia.

However, the UEPI Panthers showed their A-game last weekend when they clawed their way to a 4-5 victory against the V-Reds, handing them their first loss of the season. Now with this second loss in a row, the team will have to start asking themselves where they’re going wrong.

According to head coach Gardiner MacDougall, the loss can be taken away

with some positive points, such as a successful offence.

“The Friday night game was an offensive outburst for our group. I thought we had contributions from pretty well the whole team,” said MacDougall.

“We had some offensive Saturday night. So, from our offensive standpoint, it was a pretty successful weekend.”

The weekend began with a decisive win against the Dalhousie Tigers. UNB scored nine goals over the course of the game, where Dal only managed two.

The next night was something of a turnabout, where the Varsity Reds experienced stiff competition from the Acadia Axemen.

The Axemen wasted no time in scoring two goals in the first five minutes of the first period.

UNB V-Reds rebounded with their first goal of the night by Luke Gallant in the first period to try and turn the game

around. Second period saw UNB score three goals and the Axemen two.

The neck-to-neck battle continued into overtime, each tied 4-4.

Adding to the wild aspect of the game, the Axemen pushed the Varsity Reds into their first shootout of the season.

Liam Heelis scored the winning goal for Acadia, securing their first victory against the reigning CIS champions this season, in their second game of the semester against the Varsity Reds.

“To win, you have to be able to score.

And certainly, like offensive on the other side, you have to be able to shut teams down as well. So I think we can manage the puck better and not have as many turn overs and have a more defensive structure to our game,” MacDougall said.

With Travis Fullerton off of the ice for an undetermined amount of time, UNB is relying on goaltender Matt Davis to take some time in goal.

This upcoming weekend may shake the AUS standings a little. UNB will face UPEI on their home turf before coming back to the Aiken Centre to face UdeM who currently sit second in the standings.

UdeM trails behind UNB by only one point in the league, with eight wins and two losses and 16 points. UNB currently has eight wins, one loss and one shootout loss with 17 points, and sits at the top of the AUS right now.

“When you look back to the start of the season, we know how good the competition is in this league,” MacDougall said.

“That being said, we’re still a work in progress, there are still parts of our game that we got to get better at. But that’s the journey of a season.”

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Women’s basketball has achillies heel

Claire Colborne drives to the hoop, pushing past the Sea-Hawk defence. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Sean O’Neill The Brunswickan If the UNB women’s basketball team hasn’t hit a crisis point with its defence, the panic button should at least be hit.

The team picked up where it left off in the pre-season, where it gave up an average of 75 points a game and went 0-7 in its last seven games, by dropping both of its opening four-point games against the Memorial SeaHawks at home 80-69 and 82-64.

“I wasn’t astounded because we do it every game,” head coach Jeff Speedy said on Sunday, with clear frustration in his voice. “If you don’t work hard and you don’t do the little things on

the defensive end you get scored on.”

“We’re getting scored on at an alarming rate because we’re not guarding and until we start guarding we’re going to continue to be frustrated.”

“Everyone’s pretty frustrated,” fifth-year point guard Megan Corby said on Sunday. “I don’t think we really know, really feel what’s wrong out there. We just know it’s not good out there.”

When asked if the problems revolved around help-defence, communication, picking up the man, challenging shots or straight-up manto-man guarding, Speedy’s response was as quick as his last name.

“All of the above.”

The Seahawks drained a whopping 18 three-pointers over the two games, which the Reds couldn’t match.

UNB’s rookie-of-the-year from last year Claire Colborne, who averaged 18.3 points a game last year as a rookie, was held to 13 in the first game and 20 in the second, but on 28 per cent shooting by great individual defence by Memorial’s Robyn O’Rielly.

The Sea-Hawks’ balanced attack with four players in double figures on Saturday and nine scorers, all with at least five points on Sunday, gave more headaches to the Varsity Reds as they couldn’t figure out how to defend Memorial from any point.

UNB’s collective 36 per cent shooting isn’t good enough either when the team continues to give up 80 points on the other half of the court.

“We’ve played 12 games now and we haven’t defended well for 40 minutes in any of them,” Speedy said.

“I think communication is a huge part of it actually,” Corby said of the defensive struggles. “People taking initiative to pick people up quicker or we’re running back to the open player. They were shooting threes farther than the three-point line, really deep, so we have to get out on them.”

“I think we definitely need to take a group of leaders on our team to step up and try to keep everyone together.

It doesn’t feel like we’re on the same page out there.”

UNB takes its 0-2 record on the road next weekend with games against the 3-1 Saint Mary’s Huskies and potential league MVP Justine Colley on Friday. They will take on the 0-1 Acadia Axewomen on Saturday.

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Friday night the ladies took on the Nationally ranked No. 10 Dalhousie Tigers in the Currie Center. In the fourth top 10 poll of the year, the Tigers maintained their No. 10 spot in the country while being tied with the University of Calgary Dinos.

Earlier in the week head coach John Richard said the key to victory for his team would be passing the ball well, as they had not been doing that so far this season.

His team responded in the first set by passing the ball very effectively which led to an opening set win, 25-20.

Things didn’t go as well in the second set as the passing was a bit off, which transferred into some easy points for the Tigers, who rolled onto a 25-18 win.

The third set saw the Reds battling it out point-for-point with the Tigers, but eventually falling short 26-24.

The fourth set was very similar to the third as the Reds had another chance to pull out another victory, but mental mistakes were their undoing.

“We are struggling to keep the engine going but we have great glimpses of perfection, we’ll find it. I’m sure we will,” said Amanda Bakker.

The Reds looked flustered late in the third and fourth sets as easy passes became difficult ones, and free balls were not turned into points.

The Varsity Reds handed Dalhousie 34 points on errors alone.

“I think our match against Dalhousie was our best effort thus far this season,” Richard said.

“We came out strong and then in games three and four had a chance to win both.

The Varsity Reds dropped another two matches in regular season, a shaky start for the defending champions. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Despite holding game point in both of those sets, we weren’t quite sharp enough and couldn’t close. It was a step forward though.”

Fourth-year libero and team co-captain, Monica Jones, lead the way on defence with 18 digs, but it wasn’t enough to put the Reds over the top and into the win column, as they fell 3-1.

“It was a tough loss for us, we’re going to have to find some wins soon in order to compete this year,” said Bakker.

“The pressure is on.”

Sunday the team travelled to Moncton, still in search of that elusive first league victory of the season.

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“We showed a few signs of executing at the same level as Friday night,” Richard said, “but couldn’t hold on to push through late when it mattered. We need to finish which comes down to execution and being disciplined when things become tight late in sets. We’ll continue to work on that discipline as we head into another tough weekend.”

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Men’s volleyball split weekend against Dalhousie Tigers Bronté James The Brunswickan The UNB men’s volleyball teams split their weekend against the Dalhousie Tigers with one loss and one victory overall.

“We weren’t aggressive at the block, we weren’t aggressive on the defence,” said Head Coach Dan McMorran.

“To me there were times in each of these sets that there’s no way we shouldn’t be up four or five points on the team. We didn’t show up.”

The reigning AUS champions had to fight to keep in the game Friday, resulting in a 3-set loss, the majority of sets ending in a loss with less than 20 points in UNB’s favour.

“That’s discouraging at this particular point in time, I don’t know if this is quite our home court yet,” McMorran said.

Despite the loss Friday, the men came back strong in their second game, taking the match 3-1. The UNB men had to keep the Tigers on their paws to remain ahead in the AUS standings, and keep their spot above Dal. No. 5, Julio Fernandez, lead the team in the second game with 23 attacks, 7 digs and 2 blocks, helping keep them in the game and taking 3 sets in a row.

“Sometimes Julio tried to do a few too many things and especially when his ankle is about 80 per cent,” McMorran said.

“But I mean, you just gotta learn how to play with an injury and he definitely showed that he’s the best player on the floor.

He’s leading the Atlantic Conference and showed why on Saturday.”

The men’s game against the Tigers showed the driving force behind the team and that they are not willing to give up their AUS position, especially without a fight.

Making alterations to the roster, such as adding younger players to the starting lineup, McMorran changed the mentality

Julio Fernandez brought his A-game to the court during Saturday’s match, where the V-Reds defeated the Dalhousie Tigers.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan of the second game.

“The vibe didn’t change from the first night, so I made a couple of substitutions,” McMorran said.

“I put Jordan Brooks for Andrew Costa this set and I took off our captain Matt Sweet and I put in Marc White, a secondyear. The guys that finished out battled very well and pretty proud of those guys for picking up the slack there.”

By substituting a few of the senior players for newer players, such as Brooks and

White, McMorran is hoping to keep them on their toes and continually improving.

“I think there definitely has to be competitions amongst positions. That makes people continue to stay hungry and ultimately it makes a strong team down the stretch,” McMorran said.

Saturday’s game proved this to be true, with the second game being played hard and resulting in a win for the Reds.

After newer players stepped onto the court, the upper-years were forced to tweak

their weaknesses and the fresh arms and mentality of the younger line, ultimately led to their win.

With injuries taking place throughout the season, McMorran believes he needs to be able to substitute an injured player with someone that can get the job done. He is looking at the depth of his team.

“It’s not a personality thing, it’s a performance thing,” McMorran said.

“The guys who are going to be performing and are ready to go are the ones

that are going to be logging minutes.”

The UNB men’s volleyball team is currently ranked first in the standings, two points ahead of Dalhousie University.

“I think the competition it creates is exactly what the team needs,” McMorran said.

The men play their second interlock tournament in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where they will play Sherbrook, Montreal and Laval University.