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Volume 145 · Issue 17 • January 19, 2012

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UNB looking to improve student dropout rates

Scott Duguay says financial planning and time management are the foremost reasons why students leave school early. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Colin McPhail The Brunswickan The Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission reported in a recent survey post-secondary institutions in the Maritimes lose about 33 per cent of students at the end their first year. Of that, the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences faculties endure the lowest retention rate, with only 73 per cent of students returning for year two.

It’s a trend Scott Duguay is all too familiar with.

The special assistant to the vice=president Academic at the University of New Brunswick watched enrollment rates etch a consistent path up and down graphs for the past decade – UNB rounding out at just over 12,000 for the Fredericton and Saint John campuses. The rates haven’t fallen, but, more importantly for Duguay, they haven’t gone up.

This is why the university administration has pledged to enhance the student

experience and boost retention through a number of initiatives falling under the Student Experience Measurement Plan.

Duguay, who is spearheading the project, has scoured the MPHEC database in search of trends and a possible answer to increasing student persistence.

However, the figures only tell part of the story. It’s the why’s that get him.

“If you’re looking at retention, you could say how many students do I have in a program and then how many students do I have in the program next year,” he said. “But they could be completely different students.”

Duguay said with universities exchanging transfer students, the numbers can be misleading. He wants to know what prompted the transfer? What made them dropout? What can be done differently?

UNB’s own research demonstrates the most popular factors in students leaving fall outside the academic realm. Financial planning and time management top the list of many, Duguay said. However, the need for a more in-depth and accurate

depiction remains.

“If we can start narrowing it down to the why’s and start focusing on the groups with similar issues, then that’s when we can start targeting the programs to help students directly,” Duguay said.

His team has been mining data from the past decade, following student numbers to see what trends exist. He said it’s important to see where transfer students end up to have better grasp on what the university’s programming might be lacking.

Duguay hopes to start answering questions within a year.

As for student persistence, the university enlisted the services of a firm specializing in survey engineering and questionnaire development and assessment to get real time feedback through new media. Duguay said they would be getting the information from “the experts” themselves.

“The experts, if you will, on the UNB experience are students, faculty and staff – those who are actually getting the experience,” said Duguay. “So, this

program we’re launching is getting the feedback back to us.”

Among the various group monitoring situation includes the VP groups on student experience, led by VP Academic Dr. Tony Secco, a collection of administrators analyzing student satisfaction.

“The idea is to bring all the good work that is happening on campus in pockets, if you will, into a strategic focus plan moving forward and communicate back to the community what our retention priorities and student persistence and that sort of thing,” said Duguay.

The need for stable or increasing retention rates is pertinent to the financial administrators as well. The university uses a predictive number to account for the level enrollment when outlining the annual operating budget. Tuition fees account for roughly 30 per cent of the budget, and a significant drop could lead to a shortfall.

Jordan Thompson, president of the UNB student union, said addressing the needs of first-year students from the start

is paramount in producing stronger rates.

“It’s very important to have sessions during Orientation Week to help transition students to university life,” he said.

The student union works with the university in planning academic orientation, and, despite not having a specific program dedicate to student retention, the union has several members sitting on various groups dedicated to improving the student experience.

Duguay offers a transitioning workshop for first-year students in multiple faculties during academic orientation as well.

“Bringing expectations and reality together is key to a student’s success,” he said.

Although keeping students is at the forefront of the Student Experience Measurement Plan, the core concept is improving student life and services for everyone at UNB. “It’s one thing to retain students, it’s another to increase the experience of those who would stay anyway,” said Duguay.

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Students for Life gets mixed reaction Tamara Gravelle The Brunswickan

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Controversy has been buzzing across campus over the UNB Students for Life becoming an official student club.

While talking to students, it was evident the topic of abortion is a difficult one to discuss. But first-year student, James MacLean, feels like UNB Students for Life will be able to debate about it in a strictly professional setting.

“I think it’s important that we don’t give in to our pre-conceived ideas about what this club would be like,” MacLean said. “The club will be opening the door to some interesting debate.”

Reba Stewart, a second-year UNB student, believes that if the group is able to debate both sides of the issue then it would be appropriate.

“I think that [ UNB Students for Life] can discuss but only as long as it shows both sides of the issue,” Stewart said. “I don’t think it’s wise to take a stand on it.”

Stewart also thinks that it is good that the UNBSU is able to support the group.

She goes on to explain that UNB is here for its students and the fact that this group is able to be formed reflects that.

Second-year nursing student, Juliana Zanatta is upset about UNB Students for Life becoming an official group. It is her opinion that topics like abortion are personal and should not be discussed in a professional setting.

“To me it says that the university has some distorted ethics,” Zanatta said. “I’m

sure that if someone came up with a proabortion club they most likely would be shot down pretty quickly.”

In her nursing program, Zanatta has been repeatedly taught that her and her fellow students have to “pocket” their biases to build a proper and professional relationship with their patients. She feels like this group needs to do the same thing.

“They can have their opinion on the debate about abortion,” Zanatta said, “but they need to realize that it’s just their opinion.”

David Hourihan, another student, said he’s indifferent about the group’s message, but doesn’t like the fact the UNBSU is funding it.

President of UNB Students for Life,

Amanda Magee, said that the group has gotten reactions from students who would like to join the group. But they have also received a lot of opposition from the Student Union.

“The Student Union has the responsibility to the student body to allow a group like this on campus,” Magee said.

“It was very hard for many members of the Union to put their personal beliefs aside and see that we had the right to be a group on campus.”

The group hopes to gain the respect and esteem that other clubs have on campus. They want students to be educated, open minded and understanding when it comes to the discussion of abortion and encourage anyone to join, according the group’s president.

Amanda Magee presenting to the UNBSU. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

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brunswickannews UNB Fredericton playing catch up to UNB Saint John’s mobile application

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Alanah Duffy News Reporter The University of New Brunswick Fredericton is trying to catch up to the Saint John campus in technology.

In 2011, the Saint John campus launched a mobile phone application that gave users access to basic information about UNB, such as class cancellation, exam schedules, and emergency information.

The free app was first available on iPhones and became available to Android users in December and BlackBerry users earlier this month.

Karen Keiller, director of Information Services and Systems at UNB Saint John, said the app was a response to student need.

“Everyone is talking about and everyone kind of knows that many, many students have smartphones. I was definitely aware of the importance of providing services that way,” Keiller told the Brunswickan.

The almost $7,000 project, which was funded by the UNB Saint John Student Technology Fee, was worked on with the company Desire2Learn.

The Fredericton campus is now looking at ways to make the UNB website more-mobile friendly to students.

“If [the app] proves to be a huge success, we definitely would be looking at deploying a similar app at the Fredericton campus,” said Terry Nikkel, associate vice-president of

Information Technology Services on the Fredericton campus.

“We’re very glad that Saint John has done this first, because if takes a lot of learning to know what people like best,” he added.

A Mobile Strategy Committee has been developed at UNB Fredericton to determine the best way to provide mobile services for students. The committee is comprised so far of Information Technology Services (ITS) employees, and is looking for a student perspective and an academic perspective.

David Shipley, the senior enterprise web strategist at UNB Fredericton, said that the Fredericton campus isn’t necessarily looking at developing just an app, but also a more mobilefriendly website.

“UNB’s website has been developing and we’re trying to make it accessible for mobile technology, but it really is a moving target in the sense that technology keeps getting better and better for mobile phones,” Shipley said.

Both Shipley and Nikkel said that they hope that UNB students will one day be able to complete transactions like buying books and food at meal hall with just the scan of their cell phone.

The Mobile Strategy Committee will be deciding within the next six months whether they will develop another app, develop the same app that the UNB Saint John campus has,

David Shipley and Terry Nikkel are following UNBSJ’s mobile app with “great interest.”

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan or deploy other mobile tools.

Keiller said that the UNB Saint John app has been met with some criticism since its release, and are working to develop the app to respond better to student needs.

“We wanted to get something out there that people could use, respond to, and give us more ideas about what

we should be doing,” she said.

“I think it’s a fair criticism that a lot of the things that the app does are really just things that you could do on the website. It’s a good start, but we need to see more functionality to it,” Keiller added.

Nikkel said that the Fredericton campus is following the UNB Saint

John app with great interest and will be developing a mobile strategy around feedback from that app.

“We’ll get there when the time is right,” Nikkel said. “People will think that we’ve reached a time where a mobile app is essential to function, and we’ll be there and ready to help them.”

UNB taking part in out of this world study on space weather

Dr. Richard Langley is a professor of Geodesy and Precision Navigation. Tim Lingley / The Brunswickan Damira Davletyarova The Brunswickan Professors at the University of New Brunswick are doing research that is out of this world.

Research on space weather and its influence on global navigation systems conducted by the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics and the Physics Department are attracting worldwide attention. UNB is one of just two universities outside of Europe that will train PhD candidates

and post-doctoral students from abroad.

This year, UNB was invited to take part in the project dubbed Training Research and Application Network to Support the Mitigation of Ionospheric Threats, shortened to TR ANSMIT. The European Commission granted more than $5 million dollars to the project, so the world’s leading experts and organizations can train future researchers.

Dr. Richard Langley, a professor of Geodesy and Precision Navigation, said

the goal of the project is to train future researchers in ionospheric effects on Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to improve the capabilities of satellite navigation systems.

The project has emerged amid realization that the current navigation systems are too disruptive for our high-tech world. There is a dire need for precise navigation technology.

As Dr. Langley explains, while satellite signals make their way through the upper layers of atmosphere - the ionosphere - to the Earth, they are easily affected by space weather. Solar radiation or flares can cause inaccuracies, disturbances and even black outs of signals. Experts around the world monitor space data in order to protect infrastructure.

“Space weather can affect certain infrastructures like electricity, distribution systems and pipelines, but if we have a warning that a significant space weather event is coming, certain activities can take place,” Dr. Langley said.

The TRANSMIT commission has already chosen 16 participants and depending on their research areas, several of them will travel to Fredericton. They will spend two weeks learning about how the research is done at UNB. The training will be rigorous.

In one of his labs in Head Hall, for example, he has six receivers that collect space data using the roof antenna. It is monitored and stored on the computers in the lab. Faculty can use it for their research. The data is also shared with NASA, space research organizations and other universities. In total, the receivers collect data from 61 satellites - including those in the United States and across Europe and Russia.

Meanwhile, at the Department of Physics, Dr. Jayachandran studies solar winds, magnetosphere and ionosphere, the understanding of which is crucial to designing better navigation systems.

With the help of dozens of receivers in his lab, and six radars in the Arctic one of the largest monitoring networks there - Dr. Jayachandran collects and monitors the data for the Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network (CHAIN).

“Our group is one of the few groups in the world that operates these kind of systems, and that is very valuable for them [trainees] in order to understand the effects of ionosphere on the GPS signals,” Dr. Jayachandran said.

Dr. Jayachandran was not surprised when he heard the news that UNB will partner in the TRANSMIT project.

“UNB has a very good reputation for GPS research and most of the

time we - Dr. Langley from engineering and myself from physics - get involved in this type of collaborative work,” Dr. Jayachandran said. “And that’s the good thing in terms of exposure of our strength to the world community.”

Indeed, the achievements of these two departments are better known to the scientific world outside of New Brunswick. Dr. Langley says UNB was always and still is at the forefront of GPS and GNSS research.

In 1986, Dr. Langley and his colleagues wrote a textbook on the GPS, which became a technical bestseller with 11,000 copies sold and translated into multiple languages. The program’s graduates work around the world. For instance, one of the postdoctoral students is now working as an ionosphere expert for NASA. The research he has done for his doctoral dissertation at UNB landed him the Governor General’s Gold Medal Award for academic excellence.

Just recently, UNB faculty in conjunction with the Canadian Space Agency and University of Calgary have built an instrument for the CASSIOPE satellite that will help to further study space weather effects on navigation systems. The Canadian satellite is expected to fly on the US Falcon 9 rocket this March.

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Studying the media and disabilities Derek Ness The Brunswickan

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Combining the study of women, physical disabilities, and fine arts may not be common but one Fredericton woman, Rachel Watters, is taking it on.

Watters, who is a masters student in Interdisciplinary Studies at UNB, has studied a wide variety of interests over the course of her post-secondary education, including photography and women’s studies.

Living with two disabilities – a mild to moderate case of Miller’s Syndrome and a mild hearing impairment, Watters has always been interested in, “f inding out how others with disabilities think and react to others with disabilities, particularly with respect to media representations.”

Her interest in the fine arts derives from her studies at NSCAD University, where she studied photography, and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, where she studied graphic design.

Her passion for women’s studies comes from her time at St. Mary’s University, where she was enrolled in the Master of Arts in Women’s Studies program.

Watters came to UNB after getting some positive feedback from the assistant dean of the faculty on her idea of incorporating fine art imagery in a thesis.

Watters explained that her current research will, “explore the representations of women with physical disabilities in the media then subvert and challenge those representations through the construction of new photographic imagery.”

Watters is currently trying to locate as many as ten participants for her study. Qualified individuals would be eighteen years of age or older, female, and self-identify as physically disabled. The participants will be asked to participate in a focus group where media images will be discussed with respect to how they represent females who are physically disabled.

Watters explained that her study aims to answer several main questions: How are women with physical disabilities represented in photographic images found in the media?

How do women with physical disabilities respond to these images?

How do the images contribute to the construction of their identity, or sense of self? How would women with physical disabilities represent

themselves?”

She said her ultimate goal is to, “allow women with physical disabilities to take part in the research process, work collaboratively with [her], and challenge how women with physical disabilities are typically represented.”

Another goal of the study is to encourage individuals with disabilities to “not be afraid to discuss their disabilities; it is not shameful or something to be afraid of [to be disabled].”

Watters hopes that once her current research and studies are completed she will be able to go onto a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, which she is hoping to take through a distance program at Memorial University. She also hopes to continue studying the representations of people with disabilities in her next degree.

Anyone with questions about this study or who is willing to participate in the study should contact Rachel Watters directly by e-mail: rachelwatters@gmail.com.

This study has been reviewed and approved by the UNB Research Ethics Board.

What are you doing next year?

Alanah Duffy News Reporter Since I began my fourth year in September, I have been plagued by The Question. If you’re graduating, then you are undoubtedly familiar with this question. It’s the question asked by family members, friends, and even strangers: what are you doing after you graduate?

I cringe when I get asked this question, because I really have no idea what I’ll be doing after I graduate. At the beginning of the school year, I realized I should get a clue and applied for graduate school.

For those of you who have been through the application process or are planning to apply to grad school in the future, it requires a bit of time and dedication. One of the most important things in any graduate program application is the personal statement, which basically details a bit of information about yourself, your achievements as an undergrad, your research interests, and why you want to pursue a graduate degree.

John Ball, a professor and the acting associate dean of arts at UNB gave me some ideas for writing a personal statement.

“Tailor your statement to the specific school or program that you’re applying for; know its strengths, its professors and tell them why you want to go there specifically, and imply that it is your first choice, even if it isn’t or you’re not sure yet,” Ball said.

Ball added that it’s a good idea to name a couple of professors from the faculty at the graduate school that you’re applying for that you’re interested in working with, and demonstrate that you’re familiar with their work.

Also, when writing about your background in the personal statement, stress your academic work as well as relevant life experience that you believe has prepared you for a graduate degree.

Before sending it off, ask for a second opinion.

“Ask professors in the field to look over your statement and give you tips – the professors writing letters

Alanah Duffy gets some tips on applying to graduate school.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan for you would probably want to see it anyway – and they have probably read many examples of the genre,” Ball said.

Professors that you’ve been learning from for the past few years can also give you great advice on which program might be right for you.

Ball advised to ask UNB professors who teach the subject that you’re interested in pursuing at graduate school for their thoughts on graduate programs and institutions.

More great advice Ball offered that I hadn’t considered before was to get in touch with a student or recent graduate of the program you’re interested in pursuing at graduate school.

“Ask the director of graduate students for any program you’re serious about, if she or he can put you in touch with a current student or very recent graduate who would be willing to talk about their experiences,” Ball said. “Ask professors here what they know – find out how funding works and when it is announced,

if this isn’t clear from their official materials.”

Of course, not everyone is applying for graduate school, so I also asked Ball for job-hunting and networking tips.

Ball told me the story of how he was told to streamline his resume for the field he was job-hunting in, but decided to leave in a description of the late-night radio host job he had held in his undergraduate years.

Although this wasn’t related to the field he was job-hunting in, it helped him get a job.

“So, the lesson there is, within reason let your resume reflect your full range of skills and interests and potentially relevant experience, not just those that you guess are specifically applicable for what you think they’re looking for,” Ball said. “You don’t know exactly what they’re looking for, and sometimes they don’t either, and the more possible connections you can make with them, the more likely that the spark will go off.”

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Hearing one voice gives you significant info, but is it enough To the Point

Christopher Cameron

I had just landed in the Toronto airport en route to Fredericton, after leaving Victoria.

In my email I had multiple messages asking when I was available and if I could return the messages or make some phone calls. Suddenly I was the spokesperson for the Brunswickan about the norovirus outbreak at the Canadian University Press conference, which many of our staff had attended.

To give some background we were there from Jan. 11 to 15 for the conference with the outbreak beginning Saturday night. After dinner there were the annual JHM Awards and then a keynote speaker.

Once those were over there were buses waiting to send us to the University of Victoria for the post-gala party to end the conference. En route to UVic there were multiple students that threw up on the bus and eventually the event was cancelled and all students were brought back to the hotel.

At first it was suspected that it was food poisoning, but eventually it became clear that it was the norovirus.

An unofficial quarantine was put in place to keep it from spreading and to keep students in their rooms.

Although this was the case six of the Brunswickan flights were scheduled for 5:35 a.m. Sunday morning and as none of us were sick at the time, we planned on heading out.

Unfortunately one of our staff members did get sick and had to stay behind, but I did not expect the interest as to how our staff was doing to be sought after by the media as it was in Fredericton, not that it is a bad thing.

I say that because I did multiple

Chimamanda Adichie did a TED talk on “The danger of a single story” making me think about what people have hear and how they see things in the world. bbcworldservice / Flickr CC interviews for the Brunswickan.

In Monday’s Daily Gleaner I said I thought the situation was blown out of proportion. Twitter made a lot of people paranoid. I’ll admit that I felt uneasy and my stomach felt terrible until I left the hotel. The hype around it did make a lot of healthy people feel uneasy, obviously.

There is a lot of paranoia around things like this and I understand how there is a lot of worry, but I just thought some of it was unnecessary.

I believe it made people believe they

might be sick. I don’t know about them, but sometimes I get all worked up it and that is what makes me sick and or makes me throw up (symptom of norovirus).

Going back to me thinking it was blown out of proportion, I realized the next day that I’m the voice of the Brunswickan and my staff may not have thought that. Although it is still my name there I realized they could have thought I underplayed it.

For the staff member that was sick, she probably didn’t think the whole

Delegates at the Canadian University Press NASH 74 conference became victims to a norovirus outbreak last week in Victoria, BC including members of the Brunswickan.” Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan

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thing was blown out of proportion. It’s something that needs to be looked at from multiple perspectives to get the full picture.

I will say that this has shown me that not only in our situation, but for any company, the voice that is in the media for a corporation may not and probably does not reflect that of all the employees.

Sometimes we may judge someone because of how their employer is portrayed. For example, if your friend works in an office at Nike, you may judge them because you think their corporation is greedy and uses workers in third world countries to maximize profits. That being said, it is not their decision as to what the company does ethically.

Being the “communications” person for the Brunswickan this week has shown me that some of my judgments of people based on what their media or communications person says is not right.

After debating about how it felt to be the public voice about the Brunswickan this week, I watched a TED Talk by Chimamanda Adichie entitled “The danger of a single story.”

She discussed how important it is to have more than one story. Being from Africa and moving to the United States to study the roommate only had one story concerning Africa, “a single story of catastrophe.”

Adichie said that if she had grown

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up in the United States she would have had the view of Africa as a place with “beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and Aids and unable to speak for themselves…waiting to be saved as a kind, white foreigner.”

Although my case isn’t anything major and me saying I thought the norovirus outbreak was blown out of proportion is not a huge deal, I think looking at who is speaking in a story is something I will look at more carefully both in my reading and writing in the future and hope you, as students, would do the same.

Behind every story are multiple voices, voices that will help us further understand the story, voices that shed light on things that do not make it into a news story you may read. Sometimes if we would like to learn more, it takes looking at multiple voices and learning more about what you are taking in.

I would like to finish by saying that regardless of what anyone thought about how the situation was handled in Victoria, the Canadian University Press staff did a great job in handling the outbreak as quickly and thoroughly as they did.

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.

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When you know it will find you

How to make Google work in your favour Lauren Strapagiel The Eyeopener (Ryerson University) TORONTO (CUP) — Sometimes I envy all the Lisa Smiths and Mark Williamses of the world. Your dull and generic names protect you from the all-seeing eye of Google.

To an employer, a search of your name may just prove an exercise in tedium as millions of your generically-named brethren are displayed.

Your cookie cutter names shelter your awkward drunk Twitter updates and DeviantArt page of “artistic” macro photography.

I’m not that lucky.

I am the only Lauren Strapagiel in the world. There aren’t many Strapagiels out there, and most of them have Polish first names with more consonants than I’m capable of pronouncing. Having a unique name and associated history is great and all, but it also leaves me with the burden of keeping my online presence squeaky clean.

Google my name and you only get me. And speaking as someone who learned to build websites at an early age and possibly once had a thing for fan fiction (don’t judge me), that’s a damn dangerous thing.

I’ve learned some tricks for keeping my online entity clean; for my fellow uniquely-named users, these may prove invaluable.

First, if you are going to engage in unprofessional internet activities, do not attach your name to anything.

Ever. As a tween, I once built a website that included a collection of pixel dolls (remember those?) and a special section professing my love for

my favourite band, AFI. That mess of angst and sparkling gifs still exists, but you’ll never find it. My real name isn’t on it anywhere.

This applies to your email too.

Don’t use your fancy, “professional” Gmail account to sign up for those Harry Potter/Twilight crossover forums. You will be found.

Second, make Google work for you by giving the search monster what it craves. Buy your name as a domain. Aside from being a great self-promotion tactic, URLs are high up on Google’s search algorithm, meaning your personal website is going to show up at the top of the results. Load that domain up with professional information — the more pages, the better.

Google also loves links, so help it out. Fill your website with links to your LinkedIn, your Twitter, your program’s homepage, your projects and clippings, your sanitized, workversion Facebook profile. Anything.

Then link those back to your website. Google will pick up your linkcest and push those pages higher up on your results, putting you back in control.

All that being said, my search results still aren’t perfect. A little digging finds the high school newspaper that I ran. Not exactly my finest journalistic work.

Which brings me to my final tip: keep your passwords. My eleventhgrade musings will live forever because I’ve forgotten my login info.

Although I suppose it could be worse. No one’s found my teenage MySpace pictures … right?

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The forgotten territories Jeanette Carney The Fulcrum (University of Ottawa) OTTAWA (CUP) — I was born and raised in Yukon. Growing up, I learned about all the different provinces and territories of Canada, as did anyone else with a Canadian elementary school education. I knew the territories’ population represented less than one per cent of our country and that we were a demographic minority. Still, I figured I lived the same reality as anyone else in Canada.

Then I moved to Ottawa in 2010, in the province of Onterrible. That’s when I realized that after Grade 2 social studies, the rest of Canada forgets the territories exist.

In my classes, every time a professor or student referred to Canada, it was always as “the provinces of Canada,” forcing me to mutter “and territories” under my breath. This gives me the impression people don’t think the territories matter — but they should.

Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories make up 40 per cent of Canada’s land mass, and the mega projects that take place in those nonprovinces bring in billions of dollars to the Canadian economy annually.

Is that not enough to make them matter? Sorry, Ontario, but you haven’t been holding up your end economically for the past 15 years, and we don’t forget to mention you.

I can handle a few “Canada and its provinces” every once in a while — just like I can handle it when my best friends offer me milk even though I’ve been lactose intolerant for three years. But when entire articles are written about Canada’s regions that don’t mention any of the territories?

That’s like offering me a four-course meal dripping in cream, four-cheese

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Open Letter to the UNB Student Union Dear Student Union, I am the coordinator of a sexuality and sexual health awareness and information centre, and I routinely help women who have been harmed by crisis pregnancy centres, and pro-life advocates. I was deeply dismayed to discover the ratification of the UNB Students for Life Club, whose stated agenda is anti-woman. I had initially applauded your decision to deny the application, but was dismayed that upon submission of further information, you decided to ratify the group. I have a copy of the information submitted to the Student Union and would like to take a moment to explain the significance of it.

The UNB Students for Life Club is committed to proclaiming, celebrating, and defending the dignity of all human beings from conception to natural death. The Club looks to educate the students and faculty of UNB and the public on current life issues, directing them to pro life resources such as crisis pregnancy and post abortion counseling centres.

I can only assume that you are unaware of what the purposes of crisis pregnancy centres and associated post abortion counselling centres are. The vast majority of crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs) are run by pro-life activists who hold radical fun-

The Yukon is one of the places that is commonly forgotten by Canadians. Zoop/Wikimedia Commons alfredo sauce and milk chocolate.

For a country that boasts about its inclusion and multiculturalism, we seem to forget about the 100,000 people living in the North a lot of the time. If this kind of widespread ignorance was directed at another group, it would be all over the news, House of Commons, radio, streets — everywhere. People would be outraged, up in arms and giving the finger to Stephen Harper.

The territories should not be forgotten. We are lucky to have these hidden gems, just as America is lucky to boast Hawaii and Alaska. Amer-

icans see Alaska as their treasure, and even Sarah Palin can’t ruin that for them.

Regardless of the fact that few Canadians will ever make their way up to the territories because of how expensive they are to visit, they’re part of Canada, they’re part of who we are — and we can’t leave them out.

Next time you’re talking about Canada and its different regions, just take the extra 0.8 seconds to mention the territories. You’re sure to be making at least one Yukoner happy.

damental values. CPCs are known to disseminate false medical information. Some of this information is based on decades-old studies that have been discredited by more research, while others have no foundation in reality. I would like to provide some examples of the misrepresentations of the truth told by CPCs to prevent women from exploring abortion as an option. I have included the truth about such claims in square brackets to prevent disseminating misinformation to the public.

• Abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. [Cancer research centres such as the National Cancer Institute have found no links between abortion and breast cancer.]

• Abortion is more dangerous than carrying a child to term. [Childbirth is in fact substantially more dangerous, with complication rates that are 11 to 12 times higher than abortion complication rates.]

• Abortions pose a risk to future fertility, or can result in infertility. [Abortions carried out within the first trimester using abortion techniques practiced in Canada and the US have no effect on future fertility.]

• “Post-abortion syndrome” - that women who undergo abortions experience post-traumatic stress disorder. [Fabricated in 1981 by a pro-life advocate with no medical or scientific evidence. It is not recognised as an actual diagnosis by either the American Psychological Association or the American Psychiatric Association.

It is not included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders produced by the American Psychiatric Association, nor in the International Classification of Diseases produced by the World Health Organization. Stress levels between women who carry a pregnancy to term has not been shown to be different from those who abort their pregnancy.]

Not only are the practices of these groups dishonest but they are also distinctly anti-woman. They routinely use guilt and scare tactics to convince women not to consider abortion. They place women

in a room with anti-choice films while they wait unnecessarily prolonged periods of time for the results of a pregnancy test. The recruitment process and training manuals for most CPCs have the express purpose of dissuading women from considering abortion, with policies along the lines of “Never abortion, no matter what.” Most have no trained or medically supervised personnel, and are staffed by volunteers.

As representatives of the student body for UNB, it is your duty to be concerned for the well-being of the student population. By providing funding to, and even recognizing this group, you are endorsing and providing legitimacy to their message, which is fundamentally anti-equality. I urge you to re-evaluate your decision to recognize and fund this group that supports such harassment, discrimination and violence against women. This is not about policing morality; it is about ensuring that our university is a safe space for academic and personal development.

To those reading this letter with questions about your options regarding any topics of sexuality, I urge you to visit the UNB Sexuality Centre (Room 203 of the Student Union Building). The UNB Sexuality Centre is an official University of New Brunswick group mandated to providing the most up-to-date, unbiased and accurate information possible in a confidential and supportive environment [they can also be contacted at sexuality@ unb.ca]. The University Women Centre (Room 129 of the Student Union Building) is also a wonderful resource for anyone looking for information about birth control, pregnancy and other women’s issues provided in a similar environment [they can also be contacted at women@ unb.ca].

All my relations, Jason Retallick, a concerned member of the UNB community

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What would it take to get more students involved on campus?

Let everyone know what’s on your mind.

Rebecca Loubert

Sean Garrity

Scott MacMillan

Chris Bertin

“Liquor, cheap liquor.”

“Promotion.”

“Awareness.”

“More events.”

Bert Stillwell

Tareq Khammash

Eric Finn

Omar Daher

“SUB events.”

“Use the UNB Portal to get interest.”

“Advertise to off-campus students.”

“Advertising.”

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The mini movement: From gallery walls to card boxes

Haley Ryan Arts Reporter Tiny hotdogs and hamburgers are cute appetizers for a party. Everyone loves little tropical umbrellas in a drink, even if they pretend otherwise.

Miniature food and drink have become a novelty many people can’t get enough of - but what about mini art?

This Friday, Gallery Connexion is hosting a special event where emerging and professional artists will gather to trade small versions of their work.

Ashley Theriault, local photographer and NBCCD student, organized the event and assembled 48 artists who will be displaying their tiny wares at their own tables. This is only the second annual trading card event, and Theriault said she wanted to keep it going after the original organizer moved away because it was so much fun.

The actual trading starts with each artist at their own table, where 50 of their mini works of art are on display.

Some people make each business-card sized piece unique, which is quite timeconsuming, so many artists do multiples of a certain design.

“It can be any medium, any thickness, so last year there were people who did ceramics for instance ... there’s fabric, photography, all sorts,” Theriault said.

After everyone participating in the event has had a chance to take a look around, the artists will walk to a different table every 45 seconds and choose a piece of mini art from that person’s table. When they hear the music stop, they move on to the next table to pick up their favourite in that spot.

“It’s sort of like musical chairs, but no one’s out,” Theriault said. “You don’t have a lot of time to think about what card, kind of thing, so you just grab one.”

By the end of the night, everyone will have their own personal deck of art, as well as one of their own cards to keep.

The gallery has its own deck as well, and Theriault said while they’re not planning on displaying the pieces yet, over the next couple of years the centre will add to their collection and showcase them later.

Mike Erb will be participating in this week’s artist trading card event at Gallery Connexion on Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. Tim Lingley / The Brunswickan The only condition of the event is becoming a member of the gallery, which Theriault says is a great way for younger artists to network, and they could later have the option of using the gallery to display their work.

This year will also be a bit of a fundraiser for the gallery, with the proceeds of a cash bar going towards the artistrun centre. Although the public doesn’t participate in the trading, Theriault said

those who are interested in joining next year’s event can come and see what it’s like, but just need to stand out of the way of the tables.

Theriault said she’s excited to see how this year turns out, and has been getting a lot of feedback from artists who have done it in the past and can’t wait to do it again. For her own small pieces, Theriault is doing a series of photos she took this summer of the Fundy Bay off

St. Andrews, while in a boat.

Mike Erb, local photographer and Theriault’s boyfriend, is taking a step back from more traditional pictures, and is making his art with stencils and spray-paint.

The appeal of these small samples of creativity, Theriault said, seems to be that it makes art more accessible to those on a budget.

“It’s hard to go out and buy art from 48

other artists in the community, as much as everyone would like to … it would get a little bit pricey,” Theriault said.

“It’s a really cheap way, and a really fun way, to collect art.”

The artist trading card event takes place Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. at Gallery Connexion on York St., and admission is free.

You can watch local artists swap mini-art, and have some drinks and food to support the gallery.

for Distractions, Greg Klassen, who said there are many levels of tension in the photos.

“The main tension is motion versus stillness. That is the core of the whole issue with the series,” Klassen said.

The photos feature a sense of stillness in the crosses and a sense of movement in the blurred vehicles, leaving the viewer wondering what is the true distraction. The crosses?

The cars?

Or, perhaps, both are distractions.

While Klassen does hold a personal opinion of what the distraction is, he finds telling others this answer is its own distraction. It’s up to the viewer to decide.

“I have a strong, very philosophical inclination and the very fact you can take those questions and keep going with them is what, to me, is important about these kinds of images. Not just these, but all the images that I do, is that the surface of the image is only a starting point for me,” Klassen said.

“It’s the stories that you develop and narratives that you develop when you look at them, it’s the lines that you follow, both intellectual and emotional. That, to me, is actually what you’re looking at in a sense.”

The exhibit as a whole plays on the tension between stillness and motion, warm and cooler colours, creating a contrast across the room and between the images.

Standing in the middle of the exhibit, it almost feels like the room is moving around the viewer.

A lifelong photographer, K lassen started his Distractions series more than two and a half years ago.

Klassen began taking professional photographs in 2006 and had been a biologist for 30 years prior.

The series came about when Klassen woke up one morning to CBC Radio featuring a piece on roadside memorials, and that many municipalities across the country were discussing getting rid of the memorials. The argument was that the memorials are distracting and therefore a hazard.

His first response was akin to if the memorials are a distraction, then perhaps we need more of them. Later, Klassen realized this was a superficial response and that the arguments on both sides had valid points.

“Like everything else, it’s not black and white. And that’s when I really got interested; it’s that in-between space,” Klassen said.

“Whether this is the distraction or that is the distraction, ultimately that’s not the important thing.”

“It’s that you realize that once you go back-and-forth between those, there’s that space between them.

That’s the interesting place for me.”

The exhibits will be in the UNB Art Centre in Memorial Hall until Feb. 24.

What are you distracted by?

The Distractions exhibit will be in on display at the UNB Art Centre in Memorial Hall until Feb. 24.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Heather Uhl The Brunswickan Art lovers searching for an interesting pastime on campus can satisfy their cravings at the UNB Art Centre.

The two new exhibits are Acquisi-

tion, of the New Brunswick Art Bank, and Distractions, which features photography of roadside memorials throughout New Brunswick, by photographer Greg Klassen.

The Acquisitions exhibit demonstrates New Brunswick’s talent in

the visual arts, and has quite a bit of tongue-in-cheek humour, and Distractions is emotionally gripping.

The eight photographs in Distractions focus on roadside memorials in relation with motion. The Brunswickan spoke with the photographer

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The dying breed of dive bars Mercedes Sharpe-Zayas The McGill Daily (McGill University) MONTREAL (CUP) — It was one of those cold nights in the city, the kind that leaves your eyes with a tearful glaze.

Frustrated with the bitter wind, I dipped into the warm refuge of Bar Primetime for a quick kick to keep me going. Drifting past the clattering echoes of the pool table, I settled down amidst the ranks of older men lining the wooden bar and ordered what I considered a classic — rye and ginger.

“What the hell is rye?” the bleary-eyed waitress laughed, staring at the liquors behind the bar in utter stupor. Evidently, drinks were not their specialty.

Finally, a bearded gentleman lifted his gaunt finger from the weathered pages of a book to point out a hidden bottle. “It’s the rye content that gives the whiskey its name,” he muttered as he tucked his head back down. Anita, the waitress, prepared the drink, asking what brought a young girl to the bar by herself. Upon mentioning my interest in dive bars, she took one quick glance around the room and winked, “Well, honey, you came to the right place.”

The topic of dive bars elicits a multitude of reactions, most drenched in mild apathy. “Oh, the greasy spoon of bars,” remarked Rebecca Borkowsky, a McGill English literature student, “Yeah, I don’t do those.” While some students would never step foot into the dark depths of an elusive dive, others praise them for their eclectic atmosphere, cheap beer, and impressive collection of nineties rock.

“I’ve revealed some of my deepest secrets over a pitcher at this place, usually to the soundtrack of a soft-rock ballad,” recounted Aaron Vansintjan, a philosophy and environmental studies student and former McGill Daily design and production editor, during a night out in the dim wooden tavern of Aux Verres Stérilisés.

The quintessential image of rustic grit associated with a neighbourhood dive can be either appealing or appalling, depending on perspective. For some, these residual spaces are seen as archaic and anarchic in contrast to the postmodern veneer of gentrified brandscapes. For others, these misconcep-

tions of blight are folded into a portrait of urban authenticity, inspiring nostalgia for an unspoken history.

As I took a sip of my drink back at Primetime, a young guy by the name of Neal Wilder jostled up next to me wearing a suit and tie, asking for a pen. Having grown up in the area, he gave me a brief history of the street, “All of Parc used to be owned by the Greeks, with parts of it being bought out by the Jewish communities. It wasn’t until the past 10 or 15 years, though, that you began to notice a real change.” As the rents were driven up and storeowners could no longer afford their units, a wave of traditional shops closed down. Primetime was one of the few bars that managed to resist the postmodern push of gentrification. “If you’re looking for an authentic experience, this is it,” Wilder insisted. “One of the few places that stayed true to the authentic spirit of Parc.”

What puts these dives on the “cuttingedge” of the fast-paced, post-industrial barscene is, ironically enough, their resistance to the forefront of change. These alternative nightlife spaces aren’t the work of designers or expert mixologists. Rather, they’re socially constructed and collectively imagined by a marginal voice — those members of the community who may elsewhere feel isolated, but here, feel at home — evoking a strong sense of place beyond their gritty façades. When Wilder returned to his game of pool, the well-dressed man sitting beside him picked up where the conversation left off.

He went by the name of Marco, and claimed to be a “secret partner” of Primetime. “It’s the politics of dive bars that give them their character,” he explained, “these face-to-face interactions between the patron and the owner create authenticity.” Anyone who has spent a night out at Plage Montenegro (formerly Miami) can relate to this, with the owner’s infamous reputation for pouring free drinks to keep the conversation flowing.

And it’s these conversant proprietors who are our city’s true historians, scattering obscured chronicles of drinking cultures across the city. Back in the day, the advent of advanced dishware sanitation was a major attraction for drinking establishments in Montreal. Taverns in the 1930s and 1940s would hang large billboards boasting

According to Urban Dictionary, a dive bar is a well-worn, unglamorous bar, often serving a cheap, simple selection of drinks to a regular clientele. David M* / FLickr CC “Verres Stérilisés” to all who walked the streets. Yet as the years moved on, these taverns were torn down, one by one, until only the façade of “Aux Verres Stérilisés” remained on the corner of St. Hubert and Rachel. “This bar has been open since the 1940s, passed down from grandfather to father to son,” the bartender explained in broken English, as he placed a single white rose on the cash register. “People are gathering from the neighbourhood, they’re drawn by the conversations and the cheap drinks.”

When I ventured out to St. Henri, a similar trend towards neighbourhood identity

was taking place. The dolled-up waitress at Le Black Jack Bar would go back and forth between answering my questions and fact-checking with the regulars, creating an unconventional sense of community.

This is not meant to glorify dive bars as the last saving grace of community spirit.

While these bars might stand in solidarity against the problem of public alienation, they are not always doing so in legal terms.

The limited profits accrued from VLTs, jukeboxes, pool matches and inexpensive drinks often suggest alternative means of income to sustain business. “It’s a controlled environment, but it’s corrupt,”

Wilder hinted. Fortunately for the dives, dystopian representations of the urban city often entice the younger crowds in search for a cheap thrill. “The real problem arises when you reach a certain carrying capacity,” Marco warned. “If too many students started coming to Primetime, it would no longer be true to itself. It would kill the spirit.” As a result, these holes in the wall must limit their advertising schemes to word of mouth and unassuming awnings.

It’s a strategic game of survival, maintained by an age-old cautionary tale: With any public declaration of authenticity, an obituary is soon to follow.

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Sardines: The new superfood

Sardine fishermen pull in their nets in the Bay of Fundy. The Last Sardine Outpost will air on Jan. 22 on CBC. Latonia Hartery / Submitted Lee Thomas The Brunswickan Sardines are so much more than fish in a can.

They’re a natural superfood, rich with omega-3 fatty acids and essential vitamins; a member of the herring family, Clupeidae; a delicious – or disgusting, depending on your preferences – addition to many recipes. But many people may not know that sardines are also a symbol of Canadian pride and ingenuity.

In her documentary The Last Sardine Outpost, director Latonia Hartery explores the story of Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, home to Connors Bros. cannery – North America’s last remaining sardine cannery. The half hour-length film addresses some of the many challenges faced by this small, but resourceful Maritime community.

Hartery, who holds a PhD in archaeology, believes the 120-year-old cannery to be “part of our national pride.” However, this Canadian gem is facing numerous challenges as competitive products from countries like Asia and South America become increasingly prevalent in local marketplaces. In 2010, such pressures forced the closure of the last U.S. sardine cannery, leaving the Connors Bros. cannery as both North America’s only and the world’s largest sardine processing plant.

However, Hartery maintains that the foreign products, though less expensive, cannot hold a candle to their local counterparts in terms of quality.

“It’s a wonderful top notch product, very good quality, coming out of Blacks Harbour,” she said in a telephone interview.

“Lots of times people process and catch and can the fish in Blacks Har-

bour using traditional methods. But tradition doesn’t need to be associated with things that are antiquated.

They are traditional methods because they work, and it is a really honourable way to fish.”

Blacks Harbour, which has been hailed as the sardine capital of the world, has a population of a mere 950 people. Yet, what this town lacks in size it makes up for tenfold in heart, as the community has pulled together on countless occasions to ensure the survival of their cannery and way of life. Hartery said that she found the village residents’ perseverance “very impressive.”

“The people on the ground in the town really are working hard to make it work, to work with the changes that recently happened.”

The Connors Bros. cannery was recently sold to a collective of venture capitalists, which casts further uncertainty on the future of the cannery.

Hartery explained that the impact of a closure would be a tremendous loss for both the community and the nation as a whole.

“I’m really interested in how people make a living and how it’s tied to their identity, and this is the perfect story for that,” said Hartery, who grew up in a rural fishing village in Newfoundland.

“People go to work every day; they’re not just going to a job. They’re going to a way of life that they believe in and that shapes their identity. If that ever were to disappear from a place like Blacks Harbour, that really would be a shame.”

The documentar y w ill air at 12 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 22, on CBC. It can also be viewed online after the original broadcast time at www.cbc.ca/landandsea.

brunswickanarts The Big “No-Banging” Theory waiting for the right partner and the right The New relationship.

More proof that young people aren’t Position just a bunch of sex crazed maniacs! Okay, Sarah that might not be true, but at least they’re Vannier a bunch of sex crazed maniacs who are waiting until it feels right. Once we find that person/relationship, roommates and I write about sex. Some of the topics I’ve sanitized library chairs be damned!

Also topping the list of reasons to wait covered so far this year include casual sex, faking orgasms and oral sex. And sure, was the fear or pregnancy/ STIs and not all of that stuff is interesting and fun to feeling ready. Religious beliefs landed read about (if I do say so myself), but it right in the middle of the list (seven on a doesn’t paint a complete picture of our list of 13). The least common reason for sex lives. This week’s column is going to not having had sex was not feeling any desire for sex. be all about not having sex.

There were a few differences beSometimes, and especially in university, it feels like everyone is having sex tween the men and women in this but you. You show up in first year and survey. More men than women said you just know that everyone is doing it. they were virgins because their partner They’re having sex at parties, in dorm wasn’t willing to have sex, and more rooms where roommates are trying to women said they were worried their sleep and in dark corners of the library. parents would find out.

Because there can be a (completely Although this might be true for some people, it definitely doesn’t apply to ridiculous) stigma associated with everyone. (Side note: Just in case, I don’t being a virgin, the researchers were suggest ever sitting in those comfy chairs also interested in asking the students in the red room on the fourth floor of how they felt about their virginity.

Women were most likely to feel proud the HIL. Ick.) The average age of first intercourse in and happy, although many also said Canada is 16.5, and by the time people they felt anxious. Men were a little show up in university a little over half of less positive about being virgins, and them had had sex. Of course this number many reported feeling anxious and increases over time, and 65 per cent of 18 embarrassed, but still some reported to 19-year-olds have had sex. But, that being proud. This might be because means that roughly 1 in 3 first and second there were more men than women who said they were virgins not by year university students are virgins.

That’s a solid chunk of people who are choice, but because they hadn’t met a waiting to have sex. So, why do people de- willing partner.

I don’t know about you, but I love how cide to wait? Susan Sprecher and Pamela Regan, two American researchers, asked this research paints a picture of young college students (between the ages of 18 people who are making informed deciand 21) who had never had sex about sions about what works best for them and the reasons they were virgins. The most their sexuality. And, really, what is better common reason both women and men than healthy sexual decision making? gave for being a virgin was that they were Besides sneaky library sex of course…

Goat cheese stuffed chicken The Garlic Press with Alex Kress

Have a free evening to experiment with something really flavourful? This one is perfect for impressing a date. It’s not a great one to make for a group unless you’re really ambitious (and have a lot of spare cash). So choose a night where you’re not rushed and have a bit of time to relax, have a glass of wine while you cook and put on some music.

I asked my boyfriend what his favourite dish was that I ever made for him, and as it happens, it hasn’t made its way into The Garlic Press just yet! I made it a few times last year and forgot about it, quite honestly. This is not to say it’s forgettable (clearly it wasn’t if I haven’t made it in a year and it was the first one that came to my boyfriend’s mind!), but it does take some concentration. Believe me, though, it’s damned impressive when it’s finished and so rich with flavour.

Ingredients: Goat cheese and pine nut stuffed chicken (for 2) 1 large chicken breast, halved 1 package of 125 gram Fine Herbed Goat Cheese from Sobey’s 3 tablespoons pine nuts 2 leaves basil, sliced 1 clove garlic, minced 1/2 spanish onion, chopped 6 toothpicks 1 teaspoon olive oil Amaretto green beans 2 servings of green beans (or more, for leftovers) 1 tablespoon Amaretto liqueur (if not making more than 2 servings) 2 tablespoons slivered almonds 1/2 tablespoon butter

nsdis / Flickr CC The Recipe: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Take two halves of chicken breast and make a horizontal slit through the middle of each one, being careful not to cut all the way through on any side.

You’re making a pouch to hold the goodies, so use caution.

Mix the goat cheese, onion, garlic, basil, pine nuts, and olive oil in a bowl until the mixture is even. Then, divide it in half and insert it into the pouches in the chicken. Take three toothpicks for each chicken breast half and stick them through the top to fasten the breast shut. Bake on an oiled baking sheet for 30 to 40 minutes (test after 30 minutes to make sure chicken is cooked through, and leave longer if needed).

For the beans, heat butter in a skillet until slightly browned, and then add beans and let cook for about three minutes.

Then, add the Amaretto liqueur and cook for three more minutes, stirring until beans are tender. When finished, sprinkle almonds on top and serve with chicken and whole grain rice (follow box instructions). Enjoy!

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Women’s basketball split weekend, move into final playoff spot

Josh Fleck The Brunswickan Coming off a weekend where they dropped their first game to StFX and followed that loss with a nice win against the same X-Women, the Varsity Reds were looking to build off that win last weekend against the UPEI Panthers and Acadia Axewomen.

UPEI sits dead last in the AUS standings, but they showed the Currie Center on Friday night that there are no easy games in the AUS. The Panthers jumped all over the Reds in the first quarter, holding a 2418 lead by quarter’s end.

The Reds jumped back into the game in the second quarter thanks in most part to the strong play of Claire Colborne who poured in 22 in the first half, two more than her average for the season in an entire game.

“I was really disappointed with our effort and I was really disappointed with what I thought was selfish basketball being played,” coach Jeff Speedy said. “I thought emotionally and mentally we were really terrible in the first half”.

The second half, much to Speedy’s delight, was much better, as the Reds hankered down on the defensive end, forcing UPEI into several jump shots from the perimeter and keeping them to 20 per cent (6-30) and 9.1 per cent (1-11) from 3-point land.

Colborne continued to pour in points, finishing the game with 35 points on 14-19 shooting to go along with nine rebounds and four assists.

As Colborne was attacking the rim, it opened up the wings for players like Jordanne Holstein. The fourth-year player connected three times from downtown and had 11 points in the 83-61 victory.

“We did all the core things we needed to do, which was rebounding, playing together, boxing out, defence, and we got the victory,” Colborne said.

The win over the Panthers gave the Reds consecutive wins for the first time this season.

A tougher opponent was left waiting in the wings on Saturday night, as the Acadia Axewomen were left to play.

The Axewomen boast an impressive 4

Acadia’s Kristy Moore drives to the hoop over Varsity Red point guard Megan Corby during Saturday action at the Currie Center.

Tim Lingley / The Brunswickan players in the top 12 in scoring in the AUS, as well as a 6-1 record coming into the game.

Points were much harder to come by in this game, and it was evident from the get go that UNB may have been a little drained from the night before.

Acadia jumped out to an early 12-0

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lead and pushed it to 22-18 by the end of the quarter.

The Reds were not helping themselves out early, committing a number of turnovers that Acadia would turn into points. UNB committed an astounding 22 turnovers in the game.

The lead was pushed to 38-31 at half-

time. UNB was money from beyond the arc in the half, going 5-12 from outside for 41 per cent, but if you take those shots out of the equation, they only shot 6-28 from inside the arc for 21 per cent.

The third quarter was awful for the Reds, as they were outscored 20-9.

How will the men’s volleyball team fare this weekend as they host the RSEQ division for an Interlock tournament?

K. Bryannah James

Christopher Cameron

Josh Fleck

Even though the guys have two key players out, I don’t think that will hinder them this weekend. They’ve built depth on the bench and with that they should be able to hold their own on the court and come out with three wins.

Although they won both matches at MUN this past weekend they struggled in the second match against a team that is always third in the AUS. That gives me cause for concern and concern I have. That means that I will have to say that the men’s volleyball team will finish the weekend 1-2. Sorry boys, but you need the top players to beat Sherbrooke.

The guys have the ability to take all three matches this weekend. In the previous two Interlocks, they’ve rolled through Sherbrooke and Montreal, but haven’t been able to get by Laval.

In UNB’s defense, Laval is the fourthranked team in the country. With that being said UNB will come in and take two of three matches. Anything less than that result will be a huge disappointment.

Sports Editor

A furious fourth quarter rally which saw the Reds outscore Acadia 23-13, but they came up short with the Reds falling 71-63.

The eight-point defeat came despite great efforts from Colborne (17 points), Holstein (17 points) and Emma Russell (17 rebounds).

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Heather Uhl Sports Writer

It’s hard to say how our boys will do in the Interlock. Normally, I’d say we’d come out mostly smelling like roses, losing to Laval, but winning against Montreal and Sherbrooke.

With White and Sweet injured, I think there might be a loss against Sherbrooke. I can only cross my fingers for all the players to be ready to play by the weekend if the V-Reds are to stand a chance against the RSEQ division.

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Daley always leaves in all on the court Bronté James Staff Writer Matt Daley has become an integral piece to the Varsity Reds men’s basketball team.

“I got an athletic scholarship, and a few academic scholarships. The coach was interested and it seemed like a good fit for my academic choice [of Kinesiology],” Daley said.

Daley said athletics have been an integral part of his life for many, many years. In addition to basketball, he played soccer and volleyball in high school, and received the Male Athlete of the Year award in grades 11 and 12.

Growing up in a family of basketball players, first-year player Matt Daley, from Belledune, NB, can’t remember a time when he wasn’t playing basketball.

“I’ve been playing since forever.

When I was born, my family was a basketball family, so pretty much all my life,” Daley said.

With both of his brothers having played high school basketball, one of which went on to play at Holland College, Daley was constantly being pushed to better both himself, and his skill.

“Well my brothers were a big impact on me playing basketball,” Daley said.

“I played against them all my life and they were both a really big impact on me.”

Not only did he play for his high school team at Bathurst High, Daley also travelled to PEI to attend the 2010 Canada Summer Games as a member of the U17 PEI Provincial team.

Head coach of the PEI team, Josh Whitty, was quoted in Crown Magazine, in an article written by Jason Gairey, as saying, “Matt [Daley] had a great showing at Nationals. He’s a player that will make everyone on the floor better.”

In the same article, head coach of Bathurst High, Alan Doucet, is quoted saying “we’re really happy to have Matt [Daley] transfer over here to Bathurst [H.S]. He brings that competitive edge and toughness that will rub off on a team.”

Studying Kinesiology at the University of New Brunswick, Daley knows the importance of a healthy lifestyle to keep up with the physical strain of university athletics. A part

Matt Daley is in his first year with the UNB men’s basketball team but is already making a major impact. Bronté James / The Brunswickan of his pre-game ritual is a healthy meal to give him the push he needs to meet the physical expectations of the Varsity Reds.

“We practice pretty much every day, and every week. We practice on the mornings of game day, so it’s pretty intense,” Daley said.

“We need to have a weight room everyday too. I’m short, standing 5’8”, so it’s pretty hardcore. I have to really work harder than everyone else, and figure out the game in a different style.”

A healthy meal is not Daley’s only pre-game routine, though.

“I have a bracelet that I put in my left shoe before every game. It’s just a red Right to Play bracelet,” he said.

Daley has been placing the Right to Play bracelet in his left shoe since his first game as Varsity Reds player as starting point guard. Although Daley does not necessarily believe in

athletic superstitions, he sees this to be a good luck charm.

Daley says he is treated like every other rookie on the team, but so far hasn’t had any initiation process. He believes he is “accepting his role well, and playing pretty good.”

Daley said winning provincials last year with his high school team was a really big moment for him and his friends. Playing high school, and currently playing at the university level, Daley aspires to continue to play basketball post-graduation.

“Hopefully I will play some professional basketball in Canada, or overseas,” Daley said.

“I am just hoping to keep playing.”

After receiving advice when he was younger, Daley lives his basketball life with one thought.

“Play hard out every time. Play every game like it’s your last.”

Stay committed to your new year’s resolutions Tova Payne The Brunswickan It is such a common phenomenon that people make resolutions they can’t keep that its almost the stereotypical article, to write about: How to stay committed to your resolutions!

There are a multitude of factors to look at, and for this article we are strictly talking health-related resolutions.

You may have decided that this is the year to get in shape. If you make such a broad resolution, it is much harder to stick to it than if you make a specific and concrete resolution. Research has shown that when you make a resolution that is specific, manageable, in a specific time frame and for internal reasons, you are way more likely to succeed.

So let’s look at all these ingredients to honouring your resolution. If you already made a broad statement the other week on your resolution, it’s not too late to define it a little better.

Instead of saying you want to be healthy, think about a specific goal, such as you will make sure to eat a fruit as part of your breakfast meal. This should be manageable, more so than if you were to resolve to have six servings of fruit a day if previously you had none.

Moving along, think about adding this extra fruit as an experiment for the month. At that point, if you were successful, re-commit to it for another month, and every month, consciously re-commit to your goal, you may even decide to be sure to add at least two fruits to your morning meal or snack. When you decide to increase your original goal, again, make sure it is something you can manage and fit into your life. Moreover, if you really want your goal to stick it can’t be for anyone else or just because your group of friends have decided to do it.

For example, if a group of your friends decide to hit the gym four days a week, and all of a sudden they slack off, will you too? It is imperative to be autonomous in your ability to start and maintain healthy habits. It doesn’t mean you are not allowed a work-out buddy; it just means if they don’t go one day, you still have to intrinsically motivate yourself to go.

One last important point – as the semester progresses and your courses become more intense, it is imperative not to allow your health goals and habits to slide.

For example, as the workload piles up you may feel like there is no time

for the gym – how on earth will you get there five days a week?

Well, you may not have five days, but you can probably still find three or even two. Remember it is better to keep a good habit going than to lose it altogether. So as the semester continues and things intensify with your schoolwork, remember that the health habits of your new year’s resolution can be maintained, and they will help you fight off stress and work more efficiently.

Remember your resolution regarding health is cultivating healthy habits for life, which means, that when life gets a little heavy, you can still negotiate a healthy balance between taking care of your health and doing your course work. As times get tough remember that what you may consider “half a workout,” such as 20 minutes instead of 40 is still a huge benefit for your body’s muscles, bones, heart, lungs, and emotional well-being.

Get out of thinking that if you can’t do it all, it’s over. Start shifting into a more holistic mindset where you recognize that eating well and exercising, even under limited time, still gives major benefits to your physical and psychological well being.

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Men’s volleyball sweep Sea-Hawks, host Interlock this weekend

Heather Uhl Staff Reporter The V-Reds’ men’s volleyball team defeated Memorial University last Saturday and again on Sunday.

“Although we did not play our sharpest volleyball, we ended up getting the job done,” coach Dan McMorran said.

“We’ve got a couple of players who are injured that are regulars in our lineup. So it was a good opportunity to experiment a little bit with the lineup and some guys got playing time when they normally don’t get a lot of playing time.”

Despite the games not being the team’s ‘sharpest,’ the weekend saw the Varsity Reds win both of their matches against the Sea-Hawks. Saturday’s win was 3-0 (25-18, 25-21, 25-21) while Sunday’s was 3-1 (25-18, 22-25, 25-21, 25-19).

“Memorial’s a stronger team then they have been in years past,” coach McMorran said.

“Some credit to Memorial as well on Sunday, they forced our guys to have to come up and grit out a win. That could have easily been a five-set match and in a five-set match anything can happen.”

The V-Reds flew to St. John’s on Friday,

allowing nearly a day of rest before the match. Even with the rest though, there is a difference between home games and away games.

“But there’s no excuses whatsoever,” McMorran said.

The team had to make some changes to the lineup due to injuries, creating opportunity for some of the rookies to take to the court.

“We got Logan Keoughan, who’s normally one of our middle blockers, who spent some minutes in the right-side this weekend,” McMorran said.

“We had Matt Sweet, who is our team captain and one of our better left-side hitters, who played libero [defensive player who receives serves] for most of the weekend because he’s not able to jump currently with an injury he has.”

“We had Marc White, who had been filling as a left-side for the last week, but he’s got a bit of an injury that forced him to not be able to play on Sunday. So we had a young rookie, Justin Corey, go in there and play some minutes on Sunday.”

“A lot of guys got a chance to get in there and play a different position then they normally do. That hopefully will make us stronger in the long run.”

Sweet was injured in a fluke accident at the gym prior to the matches while White was pulled on Sunday to prevent aggravating his injury before the up-coming Interlock.

With the two wins from the weekend, the Varsity Reds propel into first place in the AUS league. Though the men’s volleyball conference only holds three teams officially in the AUS division of CIS, the AUS teams play the RSEQ division three times a year.

Matches against teams from RSEQ count towards AUS standings.

UNB is hosting the upcoming Interlock this weekend, with some games at the Currie Center and others at the Beaverbrook Gym. The major concern for the Varsity Reds is undefeated Laval, a team that ranks fourth nationally.

“Laval is a tough team,” McMorran said. “Do I think we’re ready to play them?

I think we’re definitely ready to play them.

We’ve played some good volleyball against them this year.”

The Interlock begins Jan. 20 and ends Jan. 21. UNB’s first game is against Sherbrooke at 8:00 pm on Friday in the Currie Center.

Men’s basketball split weekend at home

The UNB men’s basketball team split their weekend at home and are one spot back of the final playoff spot in the AUS. Tim Lingley / The Brunswickan Josh Fleck The Brunswickan Coming into the weekend games against the UPEI Panthers and the Acadia Axemen, UNB held a record of 2-6, good for second last in the AUS standings behind Dalhousie, UPEI and Saint Mary’s.

The Panthers started the season at a torrid pace, opening it with six straight wins, but have fallen off of late, with two straight losses coming into the game against UNB. The Reds were again without leading scorer Daniel Quirion, so it was going to be a team effort in order to win. Filling in during Quirion’s absence is f irst year point guard Matt Daley.

The game started out as many would have thought, with both teams getting a feel for what the other was going to bring to the table.

UPEI held a slight advantage after the opening quarter, 17-14.

The second quarter was a different story. UNB came out on fire and shot the lights out, taking over the lead going into the half holding a 41-30 lead.

In the third quarter UPEI started to chip away at the UNB lead. They cut away five points from the UNB lead, bringing it to within six heading into the fourth and final quarter.

The game was well within reach for the Panthers in the final minutes as they started to foul the Reds, hoping they would fold under the pressure, and miss some free throws in order to sneak back into the game and possibly steal a win.

However, the Reds hit their free throws in the clutch and came away with an 80-77 win. Leading the way for UNB was Alex DesRoches with 20 points and 14 rebounds.

“The guys have improved in that area,” head coach Brent Baker said, referring to his team’s performance from the free throw line. “Our assistant coach, Don MacNeil, has been a stickler for that. He makes them take their free throws and records them.”

A tougher test was in the wings for the Reds as they faced the Acadia Axemen and their star big man Owen Klassen.

During the warm ups it looked as if it was a dunk contest as Acadia was throwing down windmills and 360s.

But everyone knows athleticism will only take you so far.

UNB got out of the gate quick and got Klassen into foul trouble early as he got a quick pair of fouls and found himself on the bench. UNB took full advantage and held a 15-13 lead after one quarter.

The second quarter found Klassen on the floor a bit more and Acadia fought back to hold a two-point advantage at half, 35-33.

To say the Reds were cold in the third quarter would be an understatement. As cold as it was outside, the Reds were colder, scoring a total of six points in the quarter, and letting the Axemen take a large lead into the fourth.

“That was not the way we wanted to start the third quarter, whether it was lack of legs from the night before, or lack of maturity on our part,” Baker said. “This league is about the grind, and we weren’t ready to grind tonight.”

Frustration boiled over as veterans Will McFee and DesRoches both received technical fouls in the game as Acadia rolled to a 95-60 win.

Matt Sweet had to fill a different role this weekend due to an injury.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

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Former St. John’s Ice Caps forward joins Varsity Reds hockey program K. Bryannah James Sports Editor The stick slams against the ice, connects with the puck and swooshes into the back of the net. The sound comes off the ice and bounces off the walls and ceiling of the Aitken Centre.

As it continues to ring throughout the building, Shayne Wiebe lounges casually in one of the many seats Varsity Red fans occupy when they come here to watch their championship team.

But he’s not on the ice today, instead he’s in a pair of shorts, and wearing his Ice Caps sweater, before he heads down for a workout. Not many people recognize him yet, but he’s the Reds newest addition to their affluent hockey program.

At 5’10”, 185 pounds he’s agile on ice. Not quite as big as some of the other giants on skates the Reds produce, but just as talented and strong with the puck. However, like most of the Varsity Reds, the native of Brandon, Manitoba, has had a love of the game from an early age.

“My dad probably introduced me to hockey when I was around three years old,” said Wiebe, “So pretty young.”

The young Wiebe started his hockey debut on the outdoor rink his father made him in front of their house. Although he may have had trouble getting a feel for his skates at first, it developed a quick and passionate love of the game.

“It teaches you a lot of life lessons that people don’t really see from the outside. You have your discipline, your respect and a lot of things like that that you gain from playing hockey.”

By the age of five, Wiebe became involved in organized hockey. When

he stared playing in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. He developed a love for the Vancouver Canucks, his favorite hockey team.

“That’s when I started recognizing hockey teams more and I was near Vancouver, “ said Wiebe, “I really liked Pavel Bure, when I was younger.”

After taking off his training skates and lacing-up the competitive skates that would further take him in hockey later in life, Wiebe began showing signs of a strong hockey player.

W hen Wiebe was younger he played on rep teams by the age of 10, where he grew up playing with a lot of the same players until the age of 16.

By the time he was 15, he was drafted to the Kamloops Blazers, where he “went back to his roots,” as he says, and began his career in the Major Juniors.

Wiebe spent from 2006-2010 with the WHL team in the interior of British Columbia and then in 2010 he went back to his hometown in Manitoba, to play for the Brandon Wheat Kings in regular season from 2010-2011.

During his time with the Blazers he had two shots at the playoffs in both the 2008 and 2009 seasons as well as making playoffs in 2010 and 2011 with the Kings. In his last year with the Wheat Kings, he played in the Memorial Cup and was also named team captain.

By the end of his WHL career he had averaged 197 points, having played 276 games, scoring 108 goals and helping with 89 assists.

“I guess as a little kid your dreams is to always play in the NHL, it’s always there, it’s always that goal and dream,” said Wiebe. “The more you play, the more you realize a part of your life it is.”

Shayne Wiebe played for the St. John’s Ice Caps before the second half of the AUS season, but has joined the Varsity Reds with hopes of helping them win another CIS championship. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan “[You] might as well try to make a living out of it. You’ve done it for how many years, it’s almost like going to school for it.”

By the summer he was a free agent, which, with a streak of luck, landed him a position with the Winnipeg Jet’s AHL team, the St. John’s Ice Caps.

“I wanted to at least give the pro life a go and see how it goes. I knew I had my schooling still, which was an option and a very good option at that.”

Wiebe spent three and a half months with the Ice Caps, but after a while, Wiebe changed a stick for a pen and the ice for a classroom- but it isn’t the end of his hockey aspirations, evident in the Varsity Red jersey he has happily exchanged his Ice Caps one for.

“I’ve always done quite well with school, and I mean when you get your degree and stuff like that, it’s something that can’t get taken away and you always have it. I think it’s a

really smart route to go.”

Although he’s a Prairie boy, Wiebe looked toward the Maritimes to further his education, and UNB fell on his radar. Here, not only will he skate alongside his CIS championship teammates, he’ll also start his business degree, zoning in on finance or accounting.

“With UNB there’s a lot of opportunity, and there’s a great program out here. They do a great job with developing players,” said Wiebe.

“My dream is definitely not done; to keep my hockey going and this seemed like one of the best opportunities to keep that going.”

Head coach Gardiner MacDougall had been in contact with Wiebe over the summer, which had helped with Wiebe’s decision to make the AHLCIS transaction.

Although he’s coming in second semester, the former AHL’s offensive talents are noticeable on ice and as he says, a no-quit attitude.

“I think [I can] bring some energy

to the team and have that no quit attitude and try, even though I’m a younger guy, [to] some-what lead by example on the ice. “ One of the things that Wiebe has noticed in his short weeks as a Varsity Red and the few games he’s played is the camaraderie of the team.

“They’re a really tight-nit group.

They all seem to get a long really well, and you can tell on and off the ice,” said Wiebe. “It defiantly makes it easier to jump in half way through the season being the new guy, it’s really nice to see.”

T he ro ok ie a l so k now s t he strength of the team he’s joined, and although he “fell short,” as he says with the Memorial Cup title, he sees redemption on the horizon, with the CIS championships a few short months away.

“I guess in a way, in a sense, it’s almost like a second chance but with a different national title and I’m defiantly very excited for the opportunity that it brings.”

UNB ski and board club back on campus Christopher Cameron Editor-In-Chief After a few years without the UNB Ski and Board club, Cole Fawcett and Jordan Cheney are bringing the club back to campus.

“It was a great program when we were there as undergrads and to say it doesn’t exist anymore is kind of a shame,” Cheney said. “We both wanted it to happen and I think it’s just a way to get people out and relax a bit.”

Already the club is receiving great feedback as the membership size is larger already then it was when Fawcett and Cheney were students.

“The membership size was anywhere from 20-30 people and already we have over 50 members signed up (this year). We’re already getting close to double the people we had when we left it a few years again before it went on hiatus.”

They travel to Crabbe every Wednesday night and are looking at potentially planning a weekend trip to Maine or another ski hill away from Fredericton.

Although this winter has not seen much snow in Fredericton, Cheney says there is enough to hit the hill and this is a question that is always asked when he does interviews.

“We have had enough cold weath-

If this photo interests you the UNB Ski and Board club is probably for you.You can find out more about them by visiting them on Facebook. Submitted er,” he said. “We don’t need a lot of snow as long as we have cold enough weather to make it.”

“We rely a lot on social media, so our social media side of things are huge and always keeping a constant presence that things are fine up here (enough snow at Crabbe). We’ve had many news interviews this year and this always tends to be the question.”

Cheney and Fawcett are both

registered ski instructors and say that even if you have never been on the hill before, do not be discouraged.

“If anybody did want to get out and wasn’t sure how confident they were and wanted to get out and give it a go we are more than willing to look after that,” Cheney said.

For more information on the club visit them on Facebook by searching UNB Ski and Board Club.

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