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Investment in innovation; Alumni contribute $5 million Hilary Paige Smith News Editor Two UNB alumni are investing $5 million into a centre for entrepreneurship and innovation at their alma mater.

The Pond-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is modeled after the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. The benefactors, Gerry Pond and Gururaj (Desh) Deshpande, have impressive resumes, with experience in entrepreneurship, investing and global philanthropy. Deshpande co-chairs President Barack Obama’s national advisory council on innovation and entrepreneurship.

On investing at UNB, Deshpande said “UNB is the best place there is.”

“I think UNB is really ready for us. I’m really excited about how people are coming here to do things,” he said.

The centre will be housed “everywhere and nowhere,” according to the benefactor. It will not be housed in a specific area on campus to ensure it isn’t too closely associated with a particular faculty.

The announcement was made last Wednesday to a packed auditorium at the Wu Centre. The group included students, business leaders and UNB

faculty and staffers.

The crowd rose to their feet and applauded after the announcement was made.

Dr. Eddy Campbell, president of the university, said he hopes the centre will attract students from all corners of the university.

“Ideas that have relevance to real world problems are what we’re trying to get people to think about and expose. We want to support those ideas that will really have the most impact and they can come from anywhere. It’s important not to put a fence around it,” he said.

The centre is expected to connect budding entrepreneurs with Atlantic Canadian social and economic entrepreneurs, as well as support innovation that will address the challenges of the region. They will also partner with philanthropic organizations, provide mentors, accelerate product development and support access to venture investment capital.

The Deshpande Center at MIT has awarded more than 80 grants to support emerging technologies in the fields of biotechnology, biomedical devices, information technology and energy innovation, among others. Twenty-three companies, collectively raising over $300 million

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Gerry Pond, UNB president Dr. Eddy Campbell and Gururaj (Desh) Deshpande smile together following the announcemment. Rob Blanchard / Rob Blanchard Photography

Hitting cancer below the belt; Students start awareness campaign Cherise Letson Staff Writer

A team of nursing students and the Sexuality Centre are spreading awareness about “below the belt” cancer. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

The UNB Sexuality Centre and a group of nursing students are aiming below the belt this week.

Below the Belt Awareness week is an event organized by a group of nursing students who partnered up with the Sexuality Centre as part of their clinical work. The goal is to raise awareness about testicular and cervical cancer.

Keri LeClair, one of the nursing students, said they wanted to raise awareness about something that many students don’t know about.

“We figured that below-the-belt cancer was something that people just don’t talk to youth about. So we figured fine, people don’t have the

information on this. There might not be as much access to it, so let’s make a week were we can have as much access as possible to this information so people can know about it,” LeClair said.

Testicular cancer hits men between the ages of 15 and 40. It is 95 per cent curable if caught early. However, if it is not caught early, treatment gets complicated. It spreads quickly and can eventually cause death.

Seventy per cent of cervical cancer cases are linked to Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Every six hours, a woman is diagnosed with cervical cancer. One woman dies every day from it. Women between the ages of 15 and 29 are most at risk for HPV. Four out of five females are infected with the virus during their lifetime. In many cases, HPV shows no

symptoms and goes away on its own.

However, if it is a high-risk type, it can lead to cervical cancer.

LeClair said that the week will have a focus on early detection.

“Something we are really going to be hitting hard on is testicular examinations, and going to your doctor and getting that pap test every year, as you should be getting,” LeClair said.

The week will include residence presentations, which will consist of trivia games, free condoms and pizza. Also, throughout the week they will be giving away information and freebies such as pins to help raise awareness.

The Cellar will also have themed

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Cellar will be hosting a themed competition FROM BELT PAGE 1 meals and drink specials all week. Including a Mr. Big Balls competition, where people compete to see who can eat the most hamburgers, made out of meatballs, happening Friday night. The cost to compete is free.

LeClair hopes that the week will help make students aware they are at risk.

“The biggest goal for us is to have people know: yes, you can get cancer here. Yes, it is a lot more common than

you think it is,” LeClair said.

“The university population actually ages from 18-30, which is the age we’re going at, is the most common age range for males to get testicular cancer. So I guess what we really want to do is just get the information out there and have people aware,” she said.

Jason Retallick, the Sexuality Centre coordinator said this week is important so students can start thinking more about their health.

“Cancer is something that is really not on the mind of students among

the university populations and there are cancers that effect young people . . . so it is really important that the student body is aware of these cancers and is on the look-out for them, because mostly they are treatable if found early,” Retallick said.

“Basically, when it comes down to it, cancer doesn’t fight fair. We’re a university group, working for university students. If this wasn’t an issue that concerns them it wouldn’t be on our agenda,” he said.

signs and symptoms below the belt For men: See a doctor if there is...

- Thickening of the scrotum - Any new lump, painless or uncomfortable - Testicular enlargement or swelling - A sensation of heaviness or aching in the groin or abdomen HPV facts and information - Regular pap tests are important because HPV can still be active for years after an infection occurs - Almost all cervical cancers are caused by HPV - HPV may have no symptoms - HPV can cause genital warts

Director to be hired within weeks FROM INVESTMENT PAGE 1 in capital, have been launched from these grants.

Deshpande said the centre is about what students can do for the region.

“I think it’s really getting people a taste of being entrepreneurial and when people get a taste of actually doing something. Then they get hooked on it and they want to do more and more of that stuff. If you have great ideas and great entrepreneurs and when they come together, then if you facilitate some capital formation and so on, good things happen,” he said.

Campbell was thrilled with the announcement. “ W hen we were w rit ing t he strategic plan, what I could see is that the university had several areas that were really, really good, but we didn’t have any way of talking to each other. That’s what this provides and that will really advance the cause within our university,” he said.

Pond and Deshpande contributed equal amounts to the centre.

Campbell said the centre at MIT has been active for nine years and

operates with three employees.

“This is not to be a large operation, rather it’s job is to work with all the existing structures inside and outside the university to make things happen,” he said.

Pond is the chairman of Mariner Partners Inc., a company he co-founded in 2003 that provides consult ing and professional IT services across Canada. He also cochairs the New Brunswick Economic and Social Inclusion Corporation, a poverty reduction initiative for the province and directors numerous agencies in Atlantic Canada.

Deshpande is the co-founder of Sycamore Networks, Inc., an optical networking company based in Massachusetts. He serves as a member of the MIT board and founded Cascade Communications Corp., a market leader in ATM technology.

Deshpande and his wife Jaishree also founded the Deshpande Foundation, which fosters entrepreneurship at the non-profit level in India.

Campbell said the university is currently advertising for the position of executive director of the centre.

“Once that person’s in place it will be a-go. That’s not going to be next September. We hope it will be a few weeks.”

Correction to “Just how long are we going to be paying for the Currie Center?” as published Oct. 19, 2011 The following statement is incorrect: “There was no student consultation on whether students would think the $62.5 million building necessary, even though the university was asked to refer the issue to a referendum. The university has not been financially strong in recent years.”

Two students were consulted in the process of deciding upon a ancillary fee towards the Currie Center, but the student body as a whole was not consulted through a referendum or other processes.

Clarification: The $150 ancillary fee, implemented in the spring of 2011, does not go into the university’s operational budget. The fee was incorporated to fund recreational services on campus and operational costs of the Richard J. Currie Center.

Furthermore, the first name of UNB president Eddy Campbell is not spelled “Eddie.”

The corrections have since been amended online at thebruns.ca.

The Brunswickan regrets the error and apologizes for any embarrassment it may have caused.

brunswickannews Calling all students - Recyle old cellphones Derek Ness The Brunswickan The UNB Student Union’s environmental coordinator wants students to be dialed in on waste reduction with a new campaign.

Shannon Adams, a second-year environmental and natural resources student, believes the university community can work towards a greener campus with the incorporation of more recycling programs.

“In order for people to become interested in recycling, they need to witness others participating and it needs to be made as convenient, accessible and easy as possible,” she said.

Last week marked Waste Reduction Week and the commencement of Adams’s first environmental campaign for the year. Called Recycle My Cell, the campaign was brought to Adams’s attention by fellow student, Jenna MacQuarrie. It began last Monday and will run until Nov. 17.

“The purpose of the program is to recycle old, unusable cell phones and [their] accessories, regardless of their age,” she said.

Students can deposit their old,

unusable cell phones and the associated accessories in a box located in the Student Union Welcome Centre in the SUB lobby daily from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. At the end of the month-long campaign, Adams will gather all of the collected materials and send them away to be recycled in what she deems a proper and efficient manner. Adams said, “this will prevent the materials from entering our landfills and damaging our environment.”

Her interest in the environment stems from having grown up outside in the rural community of Rusagonis, NB. “Because of my constant exposure to the outdoors, I’m a strong believer in recreational and educational activities that support strengthening knowledge and understanding of just how important our surroundings are,” she said.

Similarly, “practising what you preach” is one of Adam’s mottos.

Adams was hired through the work-study program for the position.

This is the second year for the position that carries a mandate of achieving a greener, recycling friendly campus through advocacy, awareness and promotion. Adams is enthusiastic about

her environmental work and hopes to maintain the position throughout her university career.

Aside from the Recycle My Cell campaign, which Adams is really excited about, she is working towards making a generally greener campus, with such simple things as obtaining more recycling bins to strategically place around campus in frequented areas.

“Think of being in the SUB café,” Adams said. “The blue bins are off in the corner against the back wall, and well out of the way.”

This particular problem is discouraging and frustrating to the Environmental Coordinator because it renders using the bins difficult and, at times, inaccessible in comparison to the waste bins located in several central isles in the cafeteria.

Adams stresses the importance of paper recycling; her hopes are to place blue recycling bins in all campus computer labs and residences, two areas where they are lacking.

Adams is open to giving presentations in an effort to spread the word and to help set up other environmental programs. She can be reached at envcom@unb.ca.

Shannon Adams drops off an iPhone at the Welcome Centre. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

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New centre will employ 30 people on campus

UNB and IBM representatives are excited about new centre.

Rob Blanchard / Rob Blanchard Photography Alanah Duffy News Reporter Fredericton has joined ranks with four major Canadian cities to create a new advanced studies program.

The IBM Centre for Advanced Studies has started its first location in Atlantic Canada, which will be located at UNB. Other Canadian cities to have an IBM Centre for Advanced Studies are Victoria, Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa.

“The centre will help us build up expertise for UNB to work with other local companies and it can also be used by graduate students to help them advance later on in their careers,” said Ken Kent, director of UNB’s Information Technology Centre (ITC).

In its first three years, the $5 million research centre will employ about 25 fullpaid graduate students and five faculty members. IBM contributed $2 million for the venture and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) contributed $3 million.

The first project that the centre will undertake will be to work with and improve IBM’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Java is a programming language and the virtual machine compiles binary code for a computer’s processor in order for a computer

to perform a Java program’s instructions.

“Java is a critical tool in some of the hardest problems that IBM and our customers are trying to solve today,” Graeme Johnson, an IBM Software Group Java Developer, said at the Centre’s launch Oct. 14.

Apart from its $2 million contribution to the centre, IBM is also donating $300,000 for graduate student scholarships and about $50,000 in equipment for students to use.

The funding for graduate student scholarships will be allotted to three graduate students undertaking thesis research at UNB Fredericton.

“This centre is great for the students because of the financing available to them,” Kent said. “They will be working for IBM and will have access to IBM’s problems and what they’re doing to solve them.”

The Centre for Advanced Studies at UNB started planning in the spring of 2009 and is located in Head Hall.

Kent said the centre is great for both UNB and IBM. “This project is unique because the graduate students will have full access to IBM intellectual property,” he explained.

“IBM can come to us and say, ‘we have this problem, is there anyone [at UNB] interested in working on it?’ Or we could go to IBM and ask them if they’re interested in one of our projects.”

50 fountains already replaced after high lead results Alanah Duffy News Reporter Students at the University of New Brunswick who drank water from a fountain on campus have no reason to worry about possible lead poisoning, a medical expert says.

Dr. Cristin Muecke, a medial officer of health with the government of New Brunswick, said that short-term exposure to lead through drinking fountains shouldn’t pose health problems to students.

“If you’re a student who’s taken the occasional drink of water [from a fountain] and it’s your second or third year

at the university, it’s extremely unlikely that you would have been exposed to a level where we’d be concerned about your health,” Muecke said. “People just need to take it with a grain of salt in that respect.”

Lead was found in UNB’s water fountains last month, after a project done by students to promote a more sustainable approach to water consumption resulted in lead findings on campus.

Muecke was speaking on behalf of the government at an open house organized

by UNB last Tuesday. The sparsely attended event also had representatives from UNB’s Facilities Management and UNB’s external consulting firm.

Barb Nicholson, associate vicepresident of Capital Planning and Property Development, said that the university is now developing a testing protocol to prevent future incidences of lead exposure on campus. The protocol will include details of how often to test water for lead.

Nicholson explained that Health Canada’s testing protocols for lead include what she called a first-grab test, where water is taken from the fountain as soon as it is turned on, as a person would take a sip. The university ran those tests as well as a five-minute flush test, where water is sampled after running for five minutes. First-grab results

are being compared against five-minute flush results.

So far on campus, 50 of the water fountains that were found to have lead in them have been replaced with new fountains with filtration systems. Other fountains with above regulation lead levels have been shut down all together.

Nicholson said she is not sure what the source of the lead is.

“As far as we know, we have no lead pipes on campus facilities,” she said.

“But, there can be lead in solder, which connects the pipes together.”

Muecke said that health guidelines regarding the exposure of lead take into account acute exposure to lead over a

long period of time.

“We’re talking about people drinking eight to ten glasses of water a day for 70 years,” she said. “The guidelines are meant to protect even people who drink that much water over that period of time for any potential health effect.”

Muecke described lead exposure as a “dynamic situation” and UNB is taking steps in the right direction to avoid another incident of lead exposure to students.

“The guidelines are estimates to a certain degree and are based on a variety of safety factors,” she said. “They take into account all different types of people and all different types of exposures.”

Dr. Eddy Campbell said September is one of the greatest times of year. Submitted

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Coffee with campus administrator Jennifer Bishop Staff Writer

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Tuesdays with Tony is about trying to change the little things.

For the past two years, Tony Secco, vice-president academic of UNB has been setting up a table in the Student Union Building every Tuesday at noon.

He sets up a sign to let students know he is there and waits for them to approach him with opinions and concerns about what is and isn’t working at the university.

The idea for Tuesdays with Tony came from Secco’s love for teaching and interacting with students after classes.

“Students would come up [after class] and they’d tell me things and so on and so forth about how the university should fix this, do this, do that,” he said.

“We thought well look, if you come on up and have a chat with the vicepresident, you get coffee and a donut.”

When students are looking to talk to Secco about anything regarding the university or university atmosphere, they can look for the sign that says “Tuesdays with Tony, Talk to the Vice President, Get Free Stuff.”

“That usually attracts students but students are a lot shyer than I thought, because students come by, read the sign and then walk to Tim Hortons and get a donut,” he said. “What I’m trying to do is provide an opportunity for students to talk. I’m not forcing students to talk.”

Because Tuesdays with Tony is generally

Tony Secco has been sitting down with students to chat about their university for the past two years. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan set up in the SUB, Secco feels like they are only reaching one group of students.

This year he said that they are looking into solutions to be able to reach more students.

“We have done it at HIL, okay, and what we’re looking at is moving it for example to the foyer of Tilly and doing it at the Head Rest, just trying to connect with different people because when you go to one place, you tend to see, on Tuesdays at noon, one group clientele,” he said.

Secco says that what he’s trying to accomplish is giving students a place and time where they can speak to senior management at the university to voice concerns and opinions. He says they deal with miscommunications that are brought to their attention differently because certain issues only target certain groups of people.

“Parking is an excellent one. There’s not enough parking here, well there is enough parking and I know it, but apparently students don’t know it,” he said. “So there are articles that get written in The Bruns, there are leaflets that we design to educate and inform, so we get it out there, we get it out in e-news.”

Secco said he wouldn’t want other faculty to see this as an imposition, but this approach could definitely be used in other departments of the university.

“The more we’re communicating, the more we’re in tune with what’s going on around us, the more engaged we are, the more fun we have, and the more we get out of the environment we’re in,” he said.

“That’s what I’m trying to get to and if others can do that, I think it would be absolutely wonderful.”

UNB students win national award Damira Davletyarova Staff Reporter Six UNB geological engineering students are getting national attention for their earth-shaking research.

The group won the National Team Design Project Award from the Canadian Geotechnical Society.

John Nichols, Jennifer Pellerin, Sonia Hachey, Sean Legassie, Brandon Love and Brad Copping mapped Fredericton’s downtown area, predicting where earthquake waves have more amplifications and resonance.

Last year, the Geological Survey of Canada offered a fourth-year geological engineering class, taught by professors Karl Butler and Tom Al, the opportunity to test a new tromograph - equipment that measures ground noises, from cars, to people walking, to ocean and seismic waves.

“It’s a new technology, a new development - a new system to test the resonance of soil,” said Nichols, one of the members of the group.

During the study, students were overloaded with learning new material and data collection.

“There was a sharp learning curve at the beginning, and it actually took quite a while for us to get interested,” Pellerin said.

Butler agreed that students had to

put a great amount of time into the experiment without knowing what to expect in the end.

“They had to take a lot of measurements out in the cold, waiting for half an hour at every station with a little box on the side walk, measuring vibrations - and it was kind of boring after all,” Butler said.

Yet, the harder students worked, the more engaged and attached they became to the project, especially when observing how collected numbers shaped the map of downtown soil resonance.

“Once we started making a map, we got to see how it developed, we started to see contours and all that, then it became interesting. People [the team] wanted to get more details,” Nichols said.

Students said because downtown Fredericton is situated alongside the river, it lies on the sediment that consists of clay, sand and gravel. In some parts, the depth of such sediment could reach up to 30 meters.

This is why their study is important to look at before any construction could take place, they said.

“If you have earthquake really far away, it tends not to shake as much on solid rock. But if you’ve gotten onto soft soils, then sometimes, if it’s at the right frequencies, it will

This group of students mapped Fredericton’s downtown area in their earthquake research. Submitted.

add up, and it will start shaking more and more, because it starts bouncing back and forth between the layers,” Pellerin said.

The UNB students’ study is the first quantitative study of earthquake effects done in Fredericton, Butler said.

Similar studies are conducted across Canada and around the world.

Other Canadian cities like Ottawa, Quebec City, Montreal and Vancouver have soft sediments, which present earthquake hazards.

“People have recognized that there was a potential for resonance and for amplifications, but nobody had calculated or measured it. So we now have put some numbers that can be used in engineering and design studies,” Butler said.

When Jennifer Pellerin found out the report won an award, she was on her way to a field trip. It was there she also heard that waves from Virginia’s 5.8 magnitude earthquake reached Fredericton and resulted in evacuation of several downtown buildings.

After realizing that nobody was hurt and nothing was damaged, Pellerin became excited - it was a real proof that their recent study was valid, and their predictions were accurate.

Both students, Nichols and Pellerin, said they are proud that they took part in the experiment and submitted a report to the Canadian Geotechnical Society competition.

“It was gratifying to see that our work at UNB can be compared to all universities across Canada and we were right at the top,” Nichols said.

However, the students said, they could never undertake such experiment and win an award, if not for all the enthusiasm and motivation that came from their professors.

“Karl was a driving force behind the technique, geophysics. And Tom Al was a guidance - he kept Karl and us in check,” Nichols said.

UNB Geological Engineering program is jointly run by the faculty of science and civil engineering. All six students expect to graduate this year.

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Don’t vote. Oh wait, that already happened To the Point

Christopher Cameron

So last week, in case you didn’t check your e-services or a copy of The Brunswickan, only 2.6 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot in the UNBSU byelection.

I do not understand this. Not whatsoever.

The big debate on campus is how students wanted a referendum on the $150 ancillary fee, which funds recreational services on campus and operational costs of the Richard J. Currie Center.

Let’s go hypothetical for a moment. Let’s say there was a referendum about this fee in the most recent byelection (there wasn’t, just to clarify) and the only way you would know about it is by going on your e-services and voting. Only 2.6 per cent of students would have known what was up.

Generally speaking, students want their voices and opinions heard but don’t want to have a say in their faculty representatives are.

At St. Thomas had a 11.9 per cent turnout this year, according to the election results posted on the STUSU website. Although it is nothing earth-shattering, it has something on UNB. Something really hit me while I was in Sackville, NB this past weekend for a conference. I picked a copy of The Argosy, the Mount Allison student newspaper, and read a story about their byelections.

There was 52.5 per cent turnout.

In the story, the line following this

UNB only had a 2.6 per cent voter turnout in the most recent byelection, up 0.7 per cent from last year. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan statement was “In the last SAC election, only 43 per cent of students voted.”

Only 43 per cent of students voted! Only!

Obviously we have a different outlook on what is a reasonable turnout. Last year we had a 1.9 per cent voter turnout. We improved 0.7 per cent this year, better than going backwards I suppose, but we have a long way to go to reach the ONLY 43 per cent.

It is ridiculous to think that we see this as an acceptable turnout and don’t do anything to change it.

On a side note, if we improve student turnout by 0.7 per cent, per year, to get to Mount Allison’s 52.5 per cent turnout, it would take us 71 years to reach them. It is possible. I may never see the day, but just maybe we can do it.

Think what you may but how about we as students take a taste of our own medicine. You want a say

in things that are important to you and that affect your time at UNB, for example a referendum on the $150 ancillary fee.

How about you vote on who will represent your faculty, something that should matter to you. I hate to compare apples (referendum) to oranges (byelection) as they aren’t quite related, but maybe, and just maybe, I would respect students wanting a referendum more if they cared more about what is happening

on their campus than just when there is a fee increase.

You seem so concerned about your voice, well start using the one you have before you go whining about not having one.

1977.

Also, the New Brunswick government, with the reintroduction of parental income contributions, has made student loans less accessible.

Students in New Brunswick also have higher student debt levels than the national average. According to a survey conducted by the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, New Brunswick student debt averaged $32,000 while the national median student debt was calculated as $20,000. All these statistics, I believe, lead to the conclusion that students cannot afford any increase in tuition.

That brings us back to the MOU. The province needs to make an in-

vestment into PSE to ensure a bright future for both the province and its universities. New Brunswick needs to invest in its people and train its citizens.

We are no longer competing with other Atlantic Provinces and New England. The economy is global and we need to compete with the rest of the world. The knowledge economy is here and we need to embrace it.

One way to do that is for the province to support the universities and the people of the province who wish to pursue a higher education.

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.

MOUs, operating grants and tuition per cent comes from tuition fees (CAUBO NB Public Universities Operating Budget Revenue Profile 2008-2009). With university inflaStudent Beat tion running at approximately 4 to Jordan 6 per cent, per year, an increase is Thompson needed in university revenue. This increase can come from either an increase in operating grants or an The provincial government and the increase in tuition. four publically-funded universities UNB is currently running a tight in the province are currently nego- fiscal ship. The administration is baltiating a four-year Memorandum ancing the budget and paying down of Understanding that will set uni- UNB’s debt, while also tackling the versity operating grants and tuition large amount of deferred maintenlevels for the next four years. ance on campus. In the past five Approximately 56 per cent of years, $18 million has been cut out university revenue comes from the of the university’s operating budget. provincial operating grant and 37 Not much more can be cut with-

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out sacrificing the academic integrity of the university. Needless to say, UNB relies heavily on the operating grant provided to it by the province.

Currently, New Brunswick students face, on average, the second highest tuition fees in the country.

Any decrease in the operating grants will mean one thing for students: tuition increase. Can students afford any increase in tuition?

Let’s look at some statistics. According to Statistics Canada, the summer 2011 student unemployment rate (15-24 year-olds) was 17.2 per cent, up from past years. Students are working approximately 24 hours per week in the summer, one of the lowest levels of hours worked since

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How to make the most of a music festival schedule Jonathan Briggins Special to The Brunswickan It’s hard not to get excited when a music festival lineup is announced.

You get to see some of your favourite bands, bands you’ve always wanted to see and bands that might be your new favourite. But then reality sinks in; you’re going to have to make choices.

Festivals are great for giving you lots of options. Multiple venues and multiple bands mean you are guaranteed to find something you like, but with options there come limits. You can’t be everywhere at once.

When it comes to planning out my schedule for a festival, I first look for a few bands that I know I don’t want to miss. For example, at Halifax Pop Explosion this past week, there was no way I was going to miss Dan Mangan playing an intimate show at St. Matthew’s church. From there, I like to build a schedule around those must-see artists. It may mean choosing to stick around at the same venue or stage for most of the night, or picking shows that are in close proximity to the others.

Usually the bands that play at a show aren’t just randomly selected.

If you’re going to see a singer-songwriter, you can expect similar artists to share the stage with them. It is a

good chance to find new bands that match your musical taste.

Sometimes the amount of options can be overwhelming, especially if there are a bunch of artists you haven’t heard of.

Most festival websites will have links that will take you directly to the artist’s Myspace, Bandcamp or other website where you can listen to their music. If something jumps out, go check them out. You could end up with a pleasant surprise.

The downside of having so many options is that you can be left wondering whether you’ve made the right choice. It can be distracting standing at a show knowing that another band you really wanted to see is performing a few blocks away but you can’t be there.

When it comes down to deciding between two bands playing at once, it can be good to consider if you think you’ll ever get to see them again.

This past weekend at Halifax Pop Explosion, there were a handful of American bands that will most likely never come back to the city. When trying to decide whether to see a band like Titus Andronicus from New Jersey or a local artist that plays shows all the time like Jenocide, the choice becomes much easier.

The most important thing is to

Jonathan Briggins / The Broken Speaker enjoy whatever you chose to go see.

You can never really know if you made the right choice.

If you end up going to a festival

show you don’t like, you know you won’t be suffering for long. With such a high quantity of bands, you know they only have time for a short

set and then it will be on to the next band. The other option is leaving for another show. The choice is all yours.

Don’t listen to Mark Zuckerberg Anonymity and privacy still have their place

Brianna Whitmore / The Sheaf Ishmael N. Daro The Sheaf (U of Saskatchewan) SASKATOON (CUP) — There was a time when most email addresses included references to princesses, sparkles or surfing.

Perhaps you remember this time, when MSN Messenger was king and MySpace was still a pedophile’s best friend.

People’s online identities are no longer divorced from their offline lives. It’s likely that the email on your resume is something that identifies you by name — something that “surferpunk88@hotmail.com” never quite did.

The trend toward real identities online has undoubtedly been bolstered by Facebook. The social network insists on people using their real names and founder Mark Zuckerberg is a well-known foe of anonymity.

“The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly,” he told David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect. “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”

Zuckerberg has financial and philosophical reasons for this position. Each tidbit of personal data we feed into Facebook allows him to sell ever more targeted advertising on the site — which has helped make the Harvard dropout one of the youngest billionaires in the world. But Zuckerberg also

thinks anonymity leads to bad behaviour, letting people get away with things they would not otherwise say or do.

There’s some logic to this. Think of any website that allows anonymous comments and the level of discourse found there. Trolls are, unfortunately, a part of the Internet, and making people stand behind their words with their real identities helps to cut down on the stupidity.

When the technology blog TechCrunch switched over to only allowing comments tied to Facebook accounts, two things happened. First, it led to much more intelligent discussion. Second, the number of comments dropped by about half.

Therein lies the crux of the matter.

Making people put their names down may improve manners, but it can also lead to less participation. Free speech can be messy and sometimes dangerous. You can’t always say publicly what you feel privately, as dissidents in Iran and China sometimes find out the hard way. There needs to be room to anonymously march against injustice or, if need be, call someone a Nazi on a message board without every act coming back to haunt you.

Jeff Jarvis, author of Public Parts, writes that the two forces at play are identity and reputation: “Our identities are the first-person expressions of ourselves. Our reputations are others’ third-person views of us. Thanks to our increasing publicness, the two are coming closer and sometimes

into conflict.”

People have a right to their secrets, as well as to the various parts of their personalities that they may share selectively with different people. It’s not a sign of “a lack of integrity,” as Zuckerberg suggests, but rather a sign of being human. If you truly act the same way around every person you know, you either don’t know many people or you’re insane.

The centralization of all our personal data in the hands of a few powerful interests should worry us. No amount of browsing history truly represents your full personality, but it can reveal many embarrassing things. Your health records, in the wrong hands, could paint a very warped image of you. Your text messages may show you hopelessly addicted to sexting. Your credit card company might think that all you do is watch Vietnamese porn.

Consider the $1-billion security pact being worked out between Canada and the United States. The proposed deal could give American border agents a deep look into your personal information. They could then bar you from travelling into the U.S. for trivial reasons.

If everything we do gets tagged, uploaded and tweeted, we will lose our ability to make mistakes or keep our secrets. There is no need to be paranoid about this, but as information flows more freely in a wired world, we may soon find unwanted bits of ourselves swimming in the digital stream.

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What are you dressing up as for halloween?

Caroline Larlee

Cedric McIntosh

Elisabeth Gomes

Kristy MacQuarrie

“Alien.”

“Your mom.”

“Pam Anderson.”

“Sporty Spice.”

Melissa Thompson

Mike Kilfoil

Travis White

Victor Karosan

“A sheet ghost.”

“A pedophile.”

“The guy who brought Casper back to life.”

“Steve Jobs.”

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Cinema Politica review:

BAS! Beyond the Red Light: Doc sheds light on child trafficking in Mumbai

BAS! Beyond the Red Light is a documentary that explores child trafficking in Mumbai. Screenshot.

Lee Thomas Staff Writer The f ilm opens with a shot of a dance class. The dance instructor is speaking, telling the girls they are beautiful.

“Look up. Be proud.” They are coached, encouraged, as each girl walks to the camera and says her name. They could be any girls, in any dance class, but their eyes betray

how much they have seen. As the girls look into the camera, a collective chill runs down the audience’s spines. Their gazes are haunting in their depth.

In her 2010 documentary BAS! Beyond the Red Light, Montrealbased director Wendy Champagne explores the harsh realities of the child-traff icking industry in the world’s largest red light area: Turbhe district, in Mumbai, India.

The documentary, which won best documentary at the L.A. Femme International Film Festival last year, was shown at Conserver House Friday night as part of the Cinema Politica documentary film series.

It was co-hosted by the UNB/ STU Women’s Centre as part of their commitment to equality and social justice for women around the globe.

The film follows the stories of former victims of child prostitution

at the aptly-named Rescue Foundation in Mumbai. Nancy Leduc, a Canadian choreographer, helps to rehabilitate the girls at the Rescue Foundation with the healing powers of bhangra dance.

“You have the right to choose your own life, to choose to say yes or no,” she tells her pupils. The empowering message resonates with the group.

The girls’ hopefulness for a brighter future is palpable.

However, many admit to being fearful, as crippling social stigmas threaten to impede their abilities to secure husbands and employment.

Many former child trafficking victims cannot overcome the horrors of their past, and fall into substance abuse or similarly destructive lifestyles.

“When you go inside [Turbhe], there is no way out. It’s a dead end,” explains a faceless trafficker. His gold watch shimmers, nauseatingly, in the darkness.

Footage of a police raid on a brothel brings us inside the horrific reality of life in “Turbhe town.”

Dingy tiled walls, cramped rooms and filthy passages for smuggling people through the ceiling . . . It is impossible to imagine the glowing girls of the dance studio existing in such conditions.

In the particular raid shown,

25 girls under the age of 18 were rescued from a single, tiny brothel.

The audience breathes a sigh of relief that those victims are safe, but can’t help but wonder how many more are still trapped.

A police officer who specializes in child trafficking and prostitution tells us that more than 300 girls between the ages of 12 and 16 are reported missing annually. Most of them will eventually end up in Turbhe.

“The film really brought to my attention how bad the child trafficking situation is in India,” said Meghan Miller, a first-year UNB student who attended the screening.

“It’s not something I ever really thought about before. As Canadians, we’re fortunate enough to not experience things like that, but for these girls it’s a reality. I think it’s important to see films like this to raise awareness.”

An NGO from Montreal, Child ren’s Ca re I nternat iona l, has teamed with the Rescue Foundation to build a school in Mumbai.

The school will provide a quality education for rescued child trafficking victims, including the girls in the film.

For more informat ion about BAS! Beyond the Red Light, visit www.bas-doc.com.

Halifax Pop Explosion: A Fucked Up Miracle Fortress of Timber Timbre

Fucked Up and fantastic Haley Ryan Arts Reporter The guitar player and drummer look at each other in a panic. The bassist searches the crowd, her hand shading thick glasses against the bright stage lights. They laugh awkwardly and start playing a meandering, light melody as they wait. A microphone at the front of the stage stands empty.

Suddenly, the crowd parts to let a shirtless, heavy-set guy jump back on stage, amid cheers and an approving drumroll. He grabs the hand-held mic and apologizes for disappearing.

Fucked Up, winners of the coveted Polaris Prize in 2009, performed at the Palace nightclub in Halifax last Saturday during the city’s 19th annual Halifax Pop Explosion music festival.

Damian Abraham, lead singer of the Toronto-based hard rock group, stole everyone’s heart with his dedication to the music and individual fans, like the young guy he wanted to protect who got in trouble with a bouncer, leading to the unplanned intermission.

Abraham also left the stage a few times to mingle amongst fans, yelling

into the mic while giving one-armed hugs and high fives to everyone pressing in around him. He eventually made it to the balcony above the dance floor and straddled the railing, tipping his balding head back to unleash passionate lyrics.

Sometimes it was difficult to make out exactly what Abraham was saying, but his harsher voice over the catchier indie rock sounds created a harmony that made up for it, commanding your body to jump and sway.

At the end of the show, the dance floor was reclaimed in five seconds by a swarm of dancers, as if the hard rock band had never appeared there, but in front of the stage Abraham had a circle of admirers. I edged closer to the lead singer, but people kept rushing by me to take pictures or chat with him.

After a few minutes, there was an opening around Abraham, and he spied me hovering a few feet away. He waved me over with a big “hey!” and pulled me into the sweatiest bear hug of my life.

It was amazing.

I ran triumphantly back to my boyfriend, yelling “I have Polaris-worthy sweat all over me!” and grinning like a maniac.

Damian Abraham (right) of Fucked Up encourages crowd participation. Patrick Wilkins / Flickr.

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Timber Timbre keeps on creepin’ on

Mika Bosen (left),Taylor Kirk (centre) and Simon Trottier complete the Timber Timbre trio.

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Timber Timbre set a sinister scene at St. Andrew’s Church.

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mon Host”.

It was clear why the band was twice nominated for the Polaris Music Prize, one long-list (2009’s Timber Timbre) and one short (2011’s Creep On Creepin’ On).

It wasn’t all dark and serious, however. In one of the few occasions Kirk spoke to the audience, he mentioned his fondness for Reflections, a local gay and lesbian nightclub, jokingly describing the startling amount of shirtless men he witnessed.

“There were a lot of strong men,”

Eerie, poignant and beautiful.

Timber Timbre’s performance at the sold out St. Matthew’s Church venue during the Halifax Pop Explosion was all of the above and more.

The Brooklin, Ont. indie-folk trio, bordering on spook-rock, stepped onto the stage and stood in a haze smoke and red light as the sound of guitar reverb and strings filled the air until they broke into “Bad Rit-

ual”. The red and black silhouettes underneath the mammoth circular stained-glass window 50 feet above, coupled with the low, velvet voice of Taylor Kirk, created an atmosphere nothing short of sinister in the dimly lit church.

The sight was as perfect as the set.

Accompanying Kirk was Simon Trottier’s lapsteel echoes and the talented Mika Bosen, whose violin sent chills down your spine when she wasn’t playing the steady, ominous keys.

When they weren’t frightening the crowd, Timber Timbre was delighting them on every level. After the opening track, the group led into a moving rendition of their new hit and album namesake “Creep On Creepin’ On”. The sweet strings and twang of the lapsteel was simply perfect.

Even though the set list was comprised mostly newer songs, the old favourites weren’t far. A chorus of cheers erupted to the first mournful “oh” of the renowned single “De-

Show stealers: A Miracle Fortress of new wave and light

Montreal’s Miracle Fortress captivates the Olympic Hall crowd. Jonathan Briggins / The Broken Speaker.

Alex Kress Arts Editor Lights were low in the Olympic Community Hall as Montreal’s Miracle Fortress took the stage to warm up a sold-out Chad VanGaalen crowd Saturday night.

And man, were they ever a beacon.

The two-man band was third of four bands on the bill, and with my bird’s eye view from the balcony, it was clear they had the crowd in a dizzied dancing frenzy in no time at all, from gypsy girls (both in style and swagger) to freshly-19 boys who staked their claim to the edge of the stage three hours before Miracle Fortress even began.

Regardless of personality type or dance style, this crowd was hypno-

tized by the sounds of synthesizer and looped samples accompanied by live drums (Jordan RobsonCramer of Sunset Rubdown and Magic Weapon). We sat through the Meligrove Band and Suuns beforehand – which were fine and well – but Miracle Fortress was a force to be reckoned with. I immediately perked up and started moving emphatically in my seat; the attraction was instant.

I have an extra soft spot for 80s new wave and synth-pop of all decades, which is why this duo resonated so strongly for me. They were a complete surprise.

I felt as though I was in my basement at home getting lost in the dreamy alternate universe that is Simple Minds or the Talking Heads.

In fact, their performance of “Every-

thing Works” from the new album Was I the Wave? could’ve easily been a Talking Heads creation.

Their use of light was minimalistic but effective – all dark save for a lighting effect that made me feel like I was in an 80s music video with disco spots of only blue, green and red.

M i racle For t ress del ivered a unique tone that not only set them apart from the others on the bill, but from all other HPX artists. It’s no wonder they made the 2011 Polaris Prize longlist, and it won’t be a wonder if (and when) they make the shortlist.

This set made the trip to Halifax worthwhile.

he laughed.

“I’m going to go back with my shirt off.”

It was back to business immediately, though, as the chilling melodies from the villains of indie rock wafted back in the air.

From the first chord to the last beat of the bass drum, the crowd was on the edge of their respective seats, mouths slightly open, craving more.

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Halloween: To Bee or not to Bee? The New Position Sarah Vannier Halloween is right around the corner and it seems like it’s the same story every year.

I spend weeks looking for a fun costume, but I end up swimming in a sea of “sexy.”

So far I have decided against being a sexy nurse, a sexy cop, a sexy batgirl, or a sexy bee.

First of all, what’s with the whole sexy insect thing anyway? Second, aren’t we forgetting what Halloween is supposed to be about? Halloween is supposed to be scary!

Fortunately, scary and sexy are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they seem to go hand-in-hand and it turns out that being scared actually makes us find people more attractive. To test out the link between scary and sexy, researchers at the university of Texas, (Cindy Meston and Penny Frohlich) went to Six Flags amusement parks and approached people who were either getting on or off a roller coaster. They asked these people to rate black and white pictures of people of the opposite sex.

As compared to people who were about to get onto the roller coaster, the people who had just gone on the ride rated the people in the pictures as much more attractive.

So what’s going on here? The researchers’ explanation is that after we do something scary, like riding a roller coaster, it takes a little while for our body to relax.

Your heart is still beating harder, you’re breathing faster and you might be sweating a little.

When you see someone, like the person in the picture or the person you are on a date with, and you still feel excited, you might think that they’re the reason your heart is

beating fast and you can’t catch your breath.

Bam! Instant attraction!

Unfortunately, there aren’t too many roller coasters around Fredericton this

time of year. The good news is that a flip through Netflix might do the trick. Sure, watching a scary movie on a date might be a little cliché, but research at the University of South Florida suggests that it can do more for you than just giving you an excuse to cuddle on the couch.

These researchers (Brett Cohen and colleagues) watched couples leaving the movie theatre. Some of the couples had just seen a documentary and some had just seen a thriller about murder and blackmail. The couples who had watched the thriller were more likely to be touching each other and talking to each other.

The researchers concluded that the thriller movie made people more aroused (aka: heart beating fast, breathing faster) and led them to be more interested in their partners. More proof that scary does equal sexy.

Of course there are limits to how scary you want to get. I once had a boyfriend get up from the couch to get a snack in the middle of a Nightmare on Elm Street marathon. He thought it would be a fun idea to put on a Freddy Kreuger glove he had from an old Halloween costume, crawl back to the living room on the floor and grab me from behind. Needless to say, it was a good thing I already found him attractive, because that’s probably not the best way to capture someone’s heart on a first date . . .

So get out there and be more creative with your sexy Halloween moves. Grab that cute guy/girl and rent a scary movie, check out a haunted house, break out a Ouija board, or light a few candles and read a few ghost stories.

And hey, if none of these things work, you can always go with sexy bee.

brunswickanarts Skate Proof: Putting a dream in motion (picture)

Fredericton-based filmmaker Jesse Anthony is working on his first feature film. Matt Carr / Submitted Brandon Hicks Staff Writer In an uptown Fredericton apartment with a floor covered in clothes and props, eight people joked and laughed loudly. If it weren’t for the two light stands, microphone and a camera in Jesse Anthony’s hand, you’d think it was a regular hangout.

But then the clapperboard snapped and everybody in the room shifted into “film” mode.

Two actors, who only seconds ago were just kidding each other, began to prepare for a dramatic confrontation. The apartment suddenly fell silent.

“Ready?” Anthony asked.

“Action!”

Skate Proof is 25-year-old Anthony’s first feature film. The Fredericton-based filmmaker has been skateboarding since he was 12, and he wanted to make something about skateboarding and its culture “before I get too old,” he said.

The film is being made on a credit card

budget of about $2,000. That covers food for the cast and crew and gas for travel to film in Saint John. The equipment is available through a grant given by the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-op.

It follows a skateboarder who sees his close friend shot. Struggling with the death, he seeks revenge on the killer.

With a volunteer cast and crew – including actors Josh Palmer, Mark Feero and Whitney Slipp, assistant director Victoria Clowater, camera assistant Matt Carr, sound technician Mike Allain, and lighting technician Scott Veysey – this movie is purely a labour of love for everyone involved.

“Ok, cut,” Anthony said.

“I hate to put more on your plate then you already have, but we’re about an hour behind,” Clowater said to Anthony.

After the close-ups, they realized that Palmer needed to have a black eye for the next scene. Since the person in charge of make-up was not present, Slipp took out her mascara and began performing the movie magic required to make Palmer

look injured.

This is typical, and necessary for the cast and crew, performing out of their element on a whim to cut time and budget, both of which are crucial to the success of the project.

Anthony began writing the script last December and had it finished by July. They began shooting during the first week of October in Saint John and Fredericton, and they expect the final edit to be done

by January or February.

Anthony is unsure about how the film will be distributed but said it will likely be via an outside distributor, or self-distributed across Canada and the United States.

After the second scene was finished, Anthony turned off the camera and realized they were ahead of schedule.

“Perfect,” he said.

“Let’s get a pizza.”

There is a teaser trailer available on their website, www.skateproofmovie.com, and on the Facebook page. The filming progress can also be traced on Twitter @SkateProof.

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By: Alex Kress

1. The Shining

(1980, Stanley Kubrick)

As the years pass, will the classic horror films reign victorious?

I anticipate each Halloween with the giddiness of a young trick-or-treater clad in a costume complete with a stifling snowsuit – but it’s not the candy I’m excited about.

It’s the classic horror flicks.

I can watch them any time of year, sure. But there’s a certain macabre charm when they start showing up in droves on cable television the week leading up to Halloween.

I’m lucky I began working on my collection before I became too frugal to buy cable while in school. Not only will I not be missing out on the cable line-up, but I’ll be assembling my own movie-marathon for Friday night that will include some of the following titles:

This chiller-thriller still sends shivers up my spine and remains my favourite horror movie of all. Although it starts slowly, as horror films often did during the decade before its release, there isn’t an unnecessary scene in the whole thing. After many views I can assert that with confidence; it’s full of brilliant subtleties that are each effective in foreshadowing the mental demise of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson).

Based on the Stephen King novel, it’s frightening because of its disturbing factors and the overall anxious, uneasy feeling it evokes – not because of cheap scares from loud noises that lack equally scary follow-through. The last half hour is a free fall into chaotic, horrifying insanity.

2. Carrie

(1976, Brian De Palma) Here’s another successful adaptation of a Stephen King novel to the screen – and it’s creepy as hell. I would imagine it’s a pretty satisfying vicarious experience for anyone who’s been bullied, too. This one, in my opinion, will always reign victorious over any of the shit plowing through theatres now.

Why? There’s nothing else comparable, I’d argue. It’s original and genuinely unsettling, especially with the use of characters like Carrie’s mother, the sick, religious fanatic, and Carrie herself, the meek but tortured soul who’s pushed way over the edge. The final scene is still one of the best uses of classic shockterror I’ve seen.

3. Psycho

(1960, Alfred Hitchcock) This Hitchcock flick boasts a visionary accomplishment in its genre. Again, like The Shining, this one starts slow – but the early and unexpected, gruesome slaughter of the protagonist makes up for any premature yawning. The suspense only builds from there as we take a deeper look into the twisted existence of motel owner Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and explore an Ed Gein-esque mother-son relationship. Also, the score is famous for a reason. I think a strong indicator of a classic horror movie is when the score scares the shit out of you so badly that it wouldn’t matter if there were film to accompany it. The Exorcist is another prime example of a killer score.

4. The Exorcist

(1973, William Friedkin) I’ll be catching this film history landmark on Monday night (Hallow’s Eve) at Empire Theatres on the big screen. The first time I watched this movie, I was 10 and at a birthday party during the day and had to stop watching. Little Alex couldn’t handle it! Of course I’ve watched on several occasions since at all times of day and am rather desensitized to the vulgarity, but this is still a top pick for its sheer shock value and inventive mastery of the craft. When it first hit theatres, people were so affected by what they saw that their fear manifested itself physically (some fainted, some vomited). Linda Blair, who played the possessed Regan, had to hire bodyguards after the film’s release after death threats started to mound. The parts that still get me are the quick, terrifying flashes of a black and white face of Pazuzu, devilish, mythical king of demons.

5. Insidious

(2011, James Wan) While I’m generally overwhelmed with distaste for most horror movies released after the 90’s (pretentious? Legitimate.), this gem took me by surprise. There were only four people in the theatre at the time, which added to my distress while watching, but also provided a safe haven for me to enter full jackass mode and flail around in my seat, screeching.

Thank goodness for that. The sinister scenes throughout make one wonder how such bone-chilling sounds and images could all end up in one place. I almost left the theatre and checked behind every door when I got home. And I’m the girl who makes fun other people for doing that.

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Only home swim meet a success for UNB

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The Varsity Reds swim team held their first home meet of the year, the Amby Legere Invitational, where both teams and individual swimmers accomplished personal bests over the weekend.

“I think it went really well. Scores weren’t that important at this time of year, we were aiming for good races and getting close to personal best times. So we didn’t make a strategy to try to make more points,” said head coach Robin Ferdinand.

The Amby Legere Invitational, says Ferdinand, wasn’t as much about the score, as it was endurance, swimming quickly and allowing swimmers to dapple in preferred individual races.

“I’m happy to get that first meet under my belt, because I was a bit nervous. I haven’t been a head coach at a meet for six years, so it was good to get that first meet done,” said Ferdinand.

“And the team, they swam well and they’ve been training well and work really well together as a team.

It’s looking good for the rest of the season, I’m pretty excited.”

The team placed second overall by the end of the weekend with 199.5 points in team standings, with the women’s team finishing second with 145. The first place seat however, goes to DAL in the team standings who beat UNB by 537 points in the team standings, their women’s team ranking first with 333.

The Va rsit y Red men’s team ranked fourth overall with 44.5, coming close to Mount Allison’s

Brittany Harvey competes in the 100m breaststroke on Saturday morning. The Varsity Reds finished second overall to the Dalhousie Tigers.

Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan 48 points, but falling short to both Acadia University with 69 and the Dalhousie Tigers who placed first with 385.5.

“DAL is the perennial powerhouse. They won the AUS championships for the past 10 years on the women’s side and the past 11 years on the men’s side. They just have the numbers,” said Ferdinand.

“They have 18 males and 18 fe-

Swimmers Jessica Leblanc and Zach Hilchey watch their team mates during the meet. Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan

males every year. So even if we have an event that we come first and third, then they’re coming second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, so they’re getting a lot of points. They have a lot of depth.”

Although DAL swept the podium statistically, UNB has one advantage and swimmer over the Tigers, Danielle Losier.

Losier, who has been the AUS swimming champion for the past two years and qualified for CIS in both years, swam her way into the first place rankings in the 50m breast stroke, qualifying for CIS championships again, this coming February.

Sunday Losier finished first in the 100m races with an entry time of 1:08.14 and a final of 1:07.16. In the 50m-breast stroke, she topped the charts with an entry time of 32.43 and a final of 33.51 with nine points.

“She’s been the AUS champion and qualified for CIS the past two years so she’s just a really talented swimmer and she’s a really hard swimmer too,” said Ferdinand.

“She did the full training right up until the end of July. There’s really only a month where she wasn’t in

the water.”

As for the rest of the team, other swimmers achieved personal bests, such as Kaitlyn Young who placed seventh in the 100m swim on Sunday, with a final of 1:11.28. In the 50m swim she had an entry time of 36.29 and a final at 37.14.

Chris Garcelon, of the men’s team placed high in the rankings as well on Sunday, with a 1:05.19 seed time in the 100m and a final time of 1:03.26. In the 50m he had a final time of 31.97.

Collectively, Ferdinand says, both teams have swimmers who are up to or above DAL’s level of swimming, but she would like to see the team rise as a whole to the same level as DAL in the next few years.

“Our biggest thing probably that we can work on is our technical skills.

Like our starts, so coming off the block and our turns are something we’re really going to focus on in the next few weeks,” said Ferdinand.

Some of the ways the team is looking to improve is through a series of tests and exercises, each of which falling within six week cycles. With these records, Ferdinand is looking

to see improvements both individually and collectively with the team.

“If you can swim fast that’s one thing, but if you’re losing a half a second on every turn, then it’s hard to catch up to someone you know (gains) five tenths off every turn, when we can be even with someone on every turn and beat them on the swimming.” “(But) there’s def iantly been improvements since the start,” said Ferdinand.

The next major meet the Varsity Reds are looking forward to is the AUS Invitational the weekend of Nov.19, hosted by Dalhousie. Here the V-Reds will look to improve against the top ranked swimmers in the conference.

“It’s basically a really good gauge on where we are compared to other teams. It’s our focus meet of the first term, so we can see what we have to work on and get ready for the AUS championships in February.”

Building towards the CIS championships, Ferdinand believes 8-10 sw immers from t he men’s a nd women’s teams combined will qualify for the national championships.

Not an ordinary walk in the park: UNB hosts AUS X-Country finals K. Bryannah James Sports Editor The AUS cross country championships will be held this weekend at Odell Park, as the best runners in the region come to compete in the AUS finals.

“The cross country seasons starts as soon as the previous one ends, so right at the end of November is when you start running,” said assistant coach Chris Gairns.

Cross country is a year long sport, and this weekend is the long awaited race for the Varsity Reds, as they’re about to put the last 11 months to the test.

“Track season is in the winter, and over the summer it’s a lot of road races and once the fall rolls around it’s cross country, so this comes back together.

You work out four or five times a week.”

Intense training and dedication are key factors in the success of UNB’s cross country team. Most teams break during the summer and pick up again in the fall, however these runners go full-force for 12

months of the year.

On the men’s team, Alex Coffin from UNBSJ will be one of the major competitors during the finals, after finishing a half marathon a week prior in Moncton, as well as team captain James Murphy.

On the women’s team, team captain Keely Campbell is a strong force to be reckoned with going into the race as well as Tri-Athlon veteran Rachael McCarvill.

The team, whose accustomed to running in Odell Park where they train, hope to use the home terrain advantage going into this weekend.

“It’s a good advantage for us, because the AU’s are on our home court, where we practice a lot, which hopefully will reap benefits,” said Gairns.

“Twice a week we’re in Odell Park, the other days we’re running around town and along the trails in the city. We will do two, maybe three, if there’s no race we’ll do three hard work-outs a week, and the other ones will just be easy work-outs with core strengthening.”

There has also been a number of league

meets over the fall in both Moncton and Halifax as they’ve prepared for AUS finals.

Overall, UNB placed in the top five during these races, coming close to Dalhousie’s runners.

This weekend is going to see a lot of strong competition coming in from the Atlantic conference, as many talented runners hope to beat personal and team records.

“Well StFX has got the best guys and girls team by quite a bit, they’re one of the best teams in the country, maybe top three,” said Gairns.

They’re the heavy favorites, we’re battling for positions. Dal is also pretty strong too. It’d be incredible to catch them for second, but we’ll be battling with MUN for third place.”

Both squads have the potential and the talent going into the finals, with over five different athletes vying for CIS positions.

The races this weekend are at 12:00 p.m. for the women’s team and 12:45 p.m. for the men’s.

For the first time in four years, UNB will be hosting the cross country AUS championships. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

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Women’s soccer lose weekend games

K. Bryannah James Sports Editor The AUS soccer playoffs are just around the corner for Varsity Reds women’s soccer team, but their past couple of games haven majorly affected their chance to move up the standings.

As of Sunday the V-Reds are respectively 3-3-1 in standings for home games and 0-4-1 on the road. Of the 12 games the team has played so far, seven of them have been major losses, two of which came this weekend against StFX and UdeM. “I think we played against a good team (StFX) and we were well-organized in the first half and it was zero-zero at halftime. I thought we created some good offensive opportunities but weren’t able to capitalize on them,” said head coach Andy Cameron.

“And they scored a couple of shots, good shots, from long range and that made the difference.”

Although the Varsity Reds held their own in the first half against StFX in Saturday’s game in Antigonish, the Reds were unable to put any numbers on the board.

“I think we did a good job of keeping the play in front of us and at the end of the day there were a few good shots that beat us, but defensively I thought we played very well,” Cameron said.

Even as the Reds controlled the play in the first half, StFX opened the scoring in the second half, pushing UNB down to 4-0 by the 90 minute.

Under the netting, goalkeeper Jackie Blank helped keep the Reds in the game by saving 50 per cent of StFX shots, after the X-Women broke through UNB’s defensive line.

“Jackie let in four goals, but there’s ten players that play in front of her, so there’s eleven players that defend and eleven players that score goals. I mean people always point the finger at goaltending but there’s other issues that are involved in allowing shots to be taken,” Cameron said.

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Brianna Ford challenges StFX for the ball, following which she scored for the Reds. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan “Jackie was frustrated with letting in four goals, but there’s a team in front of her as well.”

The Varsity Reds opened Sunday’s game with a goal within the first 10 minutes of play as Brianna Ford scored in the 8th minute for UNB, giving them a 1-0 lead.

However, the lead didn’t last long as UdeM came back and scored two goals right before the half, putting the Reds down 2-1 by the 45 minute.

“We had a good start and we started well and then the middle part of that first half they had a little bit of the play and they scored on a great shot that was unstoppable,” Cameron said.

“And then in the last minute in the half we gave up a goal on a free kick that was confusing as to which way it went and we weren’t organized. We went into the dressing room down 2-1 when we could have been up three or four nothing.”

As the V-Reds took to the field by the second half, they couldn’t get the right footing on the field, and lost to UdeM in a 5-1 defeat, coming out of the weekend

For the first time in twelve years, the UNB men’s soccer team is out of a spot for playoffs. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

For the first time in more than 12 years, the Varsity Reds men’s soccer team won’t be going to playoffs. They closed the weekend in seventh place in the AUS standings.

Even if the V-Reds win their upcoming game against Mount Allison, they cannot move up enough in the standings. Making it an unusual prospect as they faceoff in their final game. Win or lose, the V-Reds’ season is over.

“This is a new experience for me.

In 12 years of coaching varsity soccer we’ve never missed the playoffs,” head coach Miles Pinsent said. “I’m not sure what our focus will be. I’m not sure it’s going to change anything

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“I think this time of year every team is well-organized so tactically you have to create opportunities and you can’t just wait for the other team to make mistakes.

I think we’re attacking better as a unit and we’re getting opportunities down the right and left flank,” Cameron said.

“Then we ended up giving up a few goals late in the game and that cost us.

But we’ll put that all behind us and concentrate on Mount Allison this weekend and playoffs the following weekend.”

As of right now, UPEI has secured first place standings with a respective 6-0-0 home game record and a 4-1-0 away game record. Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s hold onto the second and third place standings, each with 25 pts.

“I think the thing is that we’re continuing to improve week by week and tweaking things that need to be worked on for the playoffs and in the next two weeks we’ll put those final touches to it and hope that we’re ready.”

Next weekend the Varsity Reds will take on the Mount Allison Mounties in Sackville on Saturday.

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dramatically.”

“I think all along our message has been consistent with this team: we continue to try and improve in the areas we think we need to. We’ve made strides.

We’ve gotten better in certain areas as the year’s gone on.”

The V-Reds lost to the StFX X-Men 2-0 on Saturday and won against UdeM, 2-1 Sunday afternoon in Moncton.

Saturday pitted the Varsity Reds against the X-Men in Antigonish, NS. The first half of the game saw the XMen score a goal before halftime off the foot of Miroslav Novak. Though the V-Reds attempted to recover the game, StFX scored another goal in the second half from Michael Marousek, handing UNB a 2-0 loss.

The Varsity Reds head coach created a specific game strategy to counteract the X-Men’s traditional moves and plays. StFX sits in second place in the AUS standings.

“We stuck to the game plan. Did quite well, created a number of good chances so I was quite pleased with how we played,” said Pinsent.

“It literally came down to, we made a mistake. We turn the ball in the middle of the field and they’re [StFX] just a good enough team to punish you for that mistake.”

In their second match of the weekend, the Varsity Reds would go down 1-0 again as the Aigles Bleus opened the scoring in the fourth minute with a goal by Michael Marousek.

Not to take one lying down, the Varsity Reds promptly scored a goal in the fifth minute off the foot of Alex Haiart. In the second half the V-Reds built on their momentum and broke the tie with the game-winning goal

by Yassin Chehab El Din in the 74th minute to win the game 2-1.

“I don’t think my focus is going to be anything different than what it has been in previous weeks as we play through a game. I really hope the players have the same focus going into the game against Mount Allison,” Pinsent explained.

“We still have other areas that we have to focus on in the off-season.”

The AUS men’s soccer championships are being hosted by Cape Breton University in Sydney, NS, running Nov. 4-6.

The Varsity Reds men’s soccer team has its last game of the season against Mount Allison in Sackville, NB on Oct. 29.

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How to stay active as a student Tova Payne Staff Writer Moving our bodies is a fundamental, natural and necessary process. Every muscle in our bodies do so much for us on a daily basis, so the very least we can do is give back to our muscles, bones and hearts with movement.

There are different forms of movement, each serving a different purpose. In other words, there is movement for our heart health, and movement for our muscles.

You can get both in at once, and certainly the two are at times inseparable, but as you will see, some types of movement are more specific for one than another.

Whenever you get your heart rate up to about 75 per cent of your maximum rate, over a sustained period of time (about 30 minutes), you are giving your heart muscle what it needs to work efficiently. In turn, you’re able to deal with stress more effectively.

Alternatively, when you focus on specific muscle group, it helps your body’s ability to sustain itself, either by helping maintain and building your muscle mass, or by preventing the weakening of individual muscles.

One way you can incorporate the two types of movement is riding a bike for about 20 km/h (minimum of 30 minutes for your heart), and then taking15-20 minutes to do push-ups, core exercises, back exercises, lunges and squats, all of which help you strengthen each area with specifically targeted movements.

The most cohesive and natural way I have witnessed strength and building methods of your own body weight is through most Flow and Power yoga classes. On top of focussing on strength development, it also helps release tension from your muscles.

You can also incorporate movements from yoga, without taking a full class or

watching a video, through regular callisthenic movements to focus on specific areas. The healthiest way to take care of your body is to spend some time on each area.

Moreover, there is a multitude of equipment at the gym that will allow you to focus on specific areas, using more weight than just your own body weight.

I add my own editorial here to say that in terms of your health, you only need to focus on strengthening movements which will help you lift your own body weight. Can you think of anything more important than the ability to lift yourself off the ground?

As many people age they lose this fundamental ability, so by taking care of your muscles now, it will set in motion a natural habit of taking care of your muscles from the start.

Notice how push-ups and planks can build as much strength as lifting dumbbells.

However, experiment with different forms, so that you will find the one that is most enjoyable to you, as enjoyment is imperative if you plan to stick with a complete fitness and wellness routine.

My last editorial here is (and I know there are many fitness trainers that will disagree with me and uphold the virtue of weight-lifting) a subject of much debate and ultimately you should decide for yourself what feels best.

At the end of the day, if you take about 20 minutes to focus on strengthening exercise and 30 minutes to focus on cardiovascular health, you will have cultivated a healthy balance.

You can definitely incorporate longer periods of time if you have it, but as a minimum, remember that caring for your muscles and caring for your heart are equally important.

Beyond that, remember to take some time to stretch after every workout to prevent injuries, release tension and maintain the elasticity and health of all your muscles and joints.

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No walk in the park for coach Baker

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Christopher Cameron Editor-In-Chief Rebuilding a team is one thing, but for men’s basketball head coach Brent Baker the process is going to be more of an uphill battle this year than in previous years.

Winning only one of their three games in the Eric Garland basketball tournament does not look like a great result. But with one of their losses against the Carleton Ravens, one of the top teams in the CIS, and the other a five-point loss to Saint Mary’s, there were many positives to take out of the weekend.

Many of the positives from the opening weekend of exhibition play began to disappear last weekend as the team, plagued with injuries, lost 95-69 to UPEI in exhibition play in Monc-

ton, a much needed wake-up call.

This weekend, Baker and the team will travel to the University of Ottawa for the Jack Donohue Tournament. He expects his team will be successful, but injuries will be a hindrance.

“Heading into this weekend we have three guys out,” Baker said.

“We have Michael Fosu who is out for awhile with a tear in a ligament, Aaron O’Brien from Newfoundland has the radial bone in his elbow broken so he is out for awhile and we have Peter Goggin out with a knee injury.”

“We’re down a few bodies and didn’t play exceptionally well on the weekend. We shot our quota in the first half for three-point shots. We usually only average about 12 or 15 in a game and we took 17 in the first half, so I don’t think we answered the

adjustment to attacking their zone very well.”

With so many guys out, Baker could be concerned, but he feels they can have a good showing this weekend and believes having key players out can allow other players to get more time on the court against teams like Ottawa, Laurier and McGill before the regular season.

“I think we have enough fire-power to get a win or two. I’m not worried about that end of things,” he said. “It’s just frustrating right now trying to get a little more cohesive and get our play refined a little bit and get on point a little bit better with each other. I don’t think we’ve got there yet.”

“It’s gonna be good for those young guys to get some minutes and get to play a lot this weekend though.”

Next weekend, on Nov. 6, UNB will take on Lee Academy in the Currie Center for its last pre-season game before hosting Memorial in the regular season opening weekend on Nov. 12 and 13. As this is the first year in the Currie Center, Baker says that it will be important to get more time in there before the regular season so it becomes more of a “home court.”

“We want to make home court a disadvantage for people, but you can’t do that if you don’t have some experience in the gym itself,” he said.

“That’s the big thing we have to do is get in here and get a few games under our belt.”

“It’s a whole new experience. You don’t have the same – this is where we warm up, this is where we do this and this is where we do that. Everything is a brand new experience for your team, so it’s not a home-court advantage until you get that comfort with your home court.”

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Men’s hockey remains undefeated in regular season

Christopher Cameron Editor-In-Chief Although the UNB V-Reds are the reigning CIS men’s hockey champions, taking on the second and third place finishers in the AUS from last season did not give the reigning champions an easy start this year.

After defeating the Saint Mary’s Huskies and StFX X-Men in their first weekend at home, the V-Reds traveled for back-to-back road games against the Huskies and X-Men this weekend.

The Varsity Reds would edge the X-Men 7-6 on Friday night followed by a 4-2 win over the Huskies on Saturday.

Men’s hockey captain Kyle Bailey knows picking up these wins against tough competition early in the season is vital to making a successful push towards another AUS championship title.

“It’s huge, you can’t underestimate how big those games are,” Bailey said. “I kept referring to them as an investment. When you win those games, you know those are two teams that are going to be there in February and March and knocking at the door.”

“All four of those games are important for points and the talk is that the league is going to have a lot of parity and any team can win on any given night.”

In his fifth season with the Varsity Reds, Bailey decided to come back late in the pre-season after spending time with the Saint John’s IceCaps before being cut.

Although he did not make the roster, the time spent at a higher level allowed him to bring knowledge back to the team to help them improve.

“Anytime you move up a level and get the opportunity to taste a little bit of pro hockey, there’s certain things you’re going to take from on the ice as an individual I can improve on,” he said. “I think one of the biggest things is just how much I enjoy it here at UNB. That’s not taking anything away from professional hockey or the Saint John’s IceCaps organization.”

“It was fantastic there and a fantastic

Antoine Houde-Caron challenges Saint Mary’s Huskie Kyle Wharton. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan experience. I just enjoy it so much here and it’s a great place to play hockey. It’s a great place to go to school and I couldn’t be happier to be back and bring some of my knowledge to the team as a whole and to my game specifically.”

This season Bailey sees a work ethic that is higher than last season, something that he believes says a lot about where the team is going this year.

“I’ve only been back for a couple weeks now so I’m still getting a feel for the team,” Bailey said. “Obviously it’s an interesting group, there’s a lot of new faces, a lot of young guys. I think one of the really interesting things about this team so far is that, we still have a ways to go, but the

foundation is set, the team works really hard in practice.”

“Not that we didn’t work hard in practice in years past, but it looks like we have a lot of guys that are willing to compete in practice, which is one of the ways as a team we need to learn how to improve.”

Although Daniel LaCosta has only played one of four games for UNB this season, Bailey sees the dynamic between LaCosta and Travis Fullerton as important to the team’s success.

“It’s massive (having Fullerton back),” he said. “He’s the guy that may be the ultimate under-appreciated guy on our team. There’s a lot of guys, myself included that get a lot of press time and a lot of credit, but he’s an

unbelievable goalie and more so than his skill set in goal, you just know that when he’s in net if he’s going to get scored on they deserved the goal.”

“It’s huge having LaCosta there to help him a little bit. They’re going to be a good tandem to push each other, but I can stress how big of a confidence boost it is having Fullerton back.”

Knowing they’re hosting the Cavendish University Cup again this year, the focus is not making sure they get the win every night. Instead it is on improving each game and being the best they can be in March.

“You’ve got to find ways to improve and we have enough experience on the team now. I think that we’ve got an understand-

ing that you have to continually improve,” Bailey said. “It’s just one of those things that I always say. If we play the exact same way in March that we’re playing now, and I mean we’re playing good hockey right now, if we play this way in March we won’t be national champions.”

“It’s just a fact. You have to find ways to improve and grow as a team. We had a bit of adversity losing a couple of games down south, but it’s not the worst thing in the world. You have to realize the pain of losing before you can really realize the glory of winning.”

The Varsity Reds men’s hockey team will play this weekend at home on Friday against Acadia and Saturday against Dalhousie.

Women’s basketball team need to improve after rough weekend K. Bryannah James Sports Editor The UNB women’s basketball team dropped the ball this past weekend at the Don Grant Classic in Moncton, finishing with an 0-3 record by the end of the tournament.

“Well it’s early and we’re a fairly young team, still trying to find our way.

I wasn’t really too concerned with wins and losses, I was just concerned with us playing better than the weekend before out in British Columbia,” said head coach Jeff Speedy.

The previous weekend, when the Varsity Reds played at the BDO Dunwoody Basketball Classic, in Kamloops British Columbia, where they went 0-3 as well; losing 66-72 to Thompson Rivers University, 63-78 to UofA and 58-88 against McGill.

However, the 0-3 record at the Don Grant Classic shows the drastic change in numbers, as the Reds lost by fewer points than at the Dunwoody Classic.

The first game against Laval saw a 64-58 loss, but the V-Reds held their ground, only losing by a small margin in comparison to the wide gap against McGill.

Some of the key aspects the Varsity Reds showed during the Laval game was in rebounding in the first half of the game, but failed to keep the consistency by the end.

“We had two very solid showings in our first two games, Laval is one of the best teams in the country and one of the best teams in Quebec for sure, and we lead them for 35 minutes in the game against them it says something,” said Speedy.

“Saskatchewan is a very powerful team from Canada west that had a very successful season last year and

you know to be losing to them in the fourth quarter and sending the game into overtime was another very positive outcome for us.”

Although the V-Reds pushed against McGill and the University of Saskatchewan, they were no match for McGill, who bounced the Reds off the court with a defeat of 30 points during Sunday’s game.

“We did lose three times but there were a lot of positive from it, especially the first two games. There isn’t a lot of positives I can take from Sunday’s game, I think that was us just being a little fatigued and a little over-confident,” said Speedy.

However, in comparison to the Dunwoody tournament, the level of play the Reds showed had improved considerably this past weekend, as they pushed harder on the physical front.

“I thought we competed really hard in the Laval and Saskatchewan games, both teams were bigger than us, both teams were more experienced than us, and I just thought we competed well,” said Speedy.

“We got behind in the fourth quarter in both games and had some adversity with foul trouble and injuries and I just think really competing was the most physical thing.”

The Don Grant Classic also allowed rookie players Colleen Daily and Rachel Cleary the opportunity to show their level of skill, as their consistent level of play throughout the tournament helped the team with it’s ability to keep a closer game in comparison to last weekends losses.

“I thought Joanne Holstein, fourthyear player from Calgary, number 11 had a good weekend, I thought Megan Corby our point guard had a very strong weekend as well,” said Speedy.

V-Red Claire Colborne pushes past a Laval defender as she drives to the hoop, during the Helen Campbell tournament at the Richard J. Currie Center. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Although it’s only pre-season, Speedy is looking at it in a positive light, as he and the team continue to build. They’re young in numbers this year in comparison to previous years.

As the Varsity Reds prepare for

the AUS season opening weekend against Memorial University on Nov. 12, they’re going to take what they’ve learned over the pre-season in order to better prepare for the regular season.

“I’m glad we don’t play today be-

cause we still have a lot of work to do, I wouldn’t say we’re prepared yet, but I would say we’re moving in the right direction and we’ve got one more exhibition game and a couple of weeks practice.”

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