Issue 26, Vol 145, The Brunswickan

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heartbreak.

“His legacy will live on here as long as anyone in that dressing room is still playing,” said Gardiner MacDougall about team captain Kyle Bailey. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan K. Bryannah James Sports Editor He’s staring off into the mass of reporters. He clutches the white towel between his hands and alternates between resting his chin on the bundled-up cloth, and burying his face in it.

His eyes are rimmed in red.

“I don’t know,” says Kyle Bailey, captain of the UNB hockey team.

To his right, Luke Gallant grabs the top of his nose with his thumb and forefinger. He closes his eyes.

His tears have yet to fall.

“You develop friendships here, I mean looking around the room it hurts,” Gallant says. “You expect to win here and when you don’t, it’s, you haven’t completed your objective.”

To Gallant’s right sits Jordan Clendenning.

He doesn’t speak. He just stares into the space in front of him.

Coach Gardiner MacDougall is sitting to the left of Bailey.

“We still fully believe, going into the third period, it [the third period] has been our best period all year and it was tonight,” MacDougall says. “We just needed another 30 seconds or we just needed something else to go our way.”

The Zamboni driver pumps water onto the ice. He goes around and around. Some children watch, some people head back to their seats after grabbing a beer or a bag of skittles.

Others wait, silently.

Patiently.

It’s the third period in the University Cup semifinal between the Western University Mustangs and the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds.

The Zamboni driver is still going around. He has one spot left to smooth.

You’d never know 40 minutes of play had taken place.

In those 40 minutes the Reds suffered as the Mustangs handed them three goals.

The Zamboni driver finishes clearing the past.

He goes toward the west end of the rink, and the maintenance crew closes the door.

The teams are waiting in the bottom of the rink. The fans sit atop.

There’s the traditional stick banging you catch a glimpse of from the stands, as the team comes through the tunnel, led by the goalie.

He’s mentally prepping himself, he’s getting amped up.

He’s going to lead them, he’s going to do anything to win.

They come out into the clear, icy surface. You can hear the crunch of the ice as they push themselves lower to its centre. They’re cutting it, getting ready for the final period.

The final push.

The final hurrah for both teams.

Who is going to make it to the championships tomorrow, is the question passing through all of the fans’ and players’ minds.

Us – the Mustangs believe.

Redemption - the Reds feel.

It’s bold, in red font and texture, a beacon of their accomplishments as a team, it’s the Varsity Reds logo painted neatly in the centre of the ice. Every player skates over it. They’re one of the pinnacles of hockey in the CIS, one which reached its zenith last year as the best in the country.

Now, in the third and final period, the zenith will turn to positioning.

The puck drops.

“We’ve had an unbelievably positive experience and if you go enough times you’re going to have some heartbreaks,” MacDougall says. “That’s life in the CIS hockey.”

The four of them remain still.

Clendenning hasn’t spoken.

Gallant mimics Clendenning’s position; he is also staring off into a world in front of him.

A world probably in a haze, a fog of

disbelief.

“They’ve done everything we’ve asked of them, on the ice, at practice, at school, and in the community, and I can’t say enough about them,” MacDougall says. “The legacy and the expectation here at UNB is to win your last game and that’s the high performance level of expectation here.”

Bailey is resting his chin on the towel.

The Varsity Reds are cheered on by the crowd. These are their boys.

These are the men they come to watch at the Aitken Centre on Friday and Saturday nights when work is over or class is done.

The first 10 minutes of the third remain the same as the last 40. They’re unable to capitalize, unable of putting that solid, black, frozen piece of plastic victoriously into the back of the thin,

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Where have all the voters gone? Tackling voter apathy Heather Uhl Staff Reporter The sixth talk in UNB’s Ideas That Matter series will bring two professors together to discuss what’s been plaguing Canadian politics – voter apathy.

The talk, titled ‘Where Have All the Voters Gone?: The Death of Politics and Citizen Engagement’, will be presented by UNB professors Paul Howe and Thom Workman.

“It’s focusing on questions relating to voter disengagement and then trying to understand the deeper implications of that in terms of the role of the citizen in the modern democracy and what it should look like,” Howe said on his part of the talk.

“We’ll talk about the decline in voter participation and we’ll just look at a few of the numbers and sort of get into asking questions about why this is happening and what does it mean for the state of modern politics.”

One aspect Howe plans to address is the fall of voter turnout in the younger generations as part of the trends and patterns of voter disengagement.

“I think there’s some more longterm patterns and trends underlining this,” Howe said.

“One of them, which we’ll get into, is the fact that there’s a lower

level of voting among younger generations. So that’s kind of pulling the turnout levels down as we go forward in time.”

When it comes to voter turnout, improvements are worth celebrating.

Of course, the ideal voter turnout is 100 per cent.

The other half of the talk, presented by Workman, will discuss the ‘death of politics.’ The problem presented, Workman said is low voter turnout, particularly among the youth. A little over half to two-thirds of voters in North America vote.

“To some of us though, it’s remarkable that it’s that high, for two different reasons,” Workman said.

“The first reason is that a lot people, with a lot of wisdom, through life experience, t hrough obser ving political things over the last several decades, have come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter what party is in power; the policies are always going to be the same.”

In the past 40 years, or the NeoLiberal era, public policy has not changed, even with changes of government, Workman explained. It doesn’t matter how you vote; policy will still be the same.

“The second reason that I’m shocked it’s [voter turnout] even that high is because politics has become spectacle. No one really believes politics any longer associates with rational discourse.”

Professor Paul Howe (above) and Thom Workman present tonight. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan On the matter of student engagement with politics, Workman doesn’t believe students are lazy. “I think, contrary to popular belief, students come to the world with what the philosopher Antonio Gramsci called a fairly sophisticated world philoso-

phy.”

“A nd students, as strongly as anybody else, intuit where the real power structures lie in society and that their response to political participation is guided by that.”

The Ideas That Matter series began

last February with associate professor Susan Blair and her discussion on ‘Rewriting New Brunswick’s Past.’

Professors Howe and Workman will present Mar. 28, at 7 p.m. in the ballroom of the Student Union Building.

UNB researcher takes on bullying study Derek Ness The Brunswickan Despite numerous awareness campaigns, bullying continues to take place each and every day in a variety of forms and in many locations.

At the University of New Brunswick, bullying has become a topic of concern. Not only is bullying an issue amongst students, but it is the focus of several awareness campaigns that the university participates in.

Bullying is the focus of a Master of Nursing research study, in its beginning stages at UNB. Serena Jones Charbachi identifies workplace bullying as “any negative behaviour that tends to persist over time and it includes anything from very subtle comments, remarks, or gestures, to aggression.”

The study does not focus on the stereotypical form of bullying - bullying amongst students; rather, it focuses on bullying in the workplace.

She said workplace bullying is generally “unwanted, negative, and [it] affects health and dignity.”

Workplace bullying affects 38.5 per cent of the working population.

“It does not matter the race, gender, ethnicity, social or seniority status of the victim” Jones Charbachi said.

She has had a variety of educational and workplace experiences before coming to UNB Fredericton to pursue her Master of Nursing.

After graduating from Belleisle Regional High School in 1998, Jones Charbachi pursued both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Nursing in Saint John, before

moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

It was during her work as a nurse in Winnipeg that Jones Charbachi first learned about the experiences of a victim of workplace bullying.

“A colleague and friend of mine who came to Canada from Asia experienced some fairly unexpected workplace bullying while working in a Winnipeg hospital,” she explained.

Interested in elaborating on previously published research on workplace bullying, Jones Charbachi decided to focus her Master’s Thesis on that same subject. She would not, however, dwell on general workplace bullying; instead, the stories her colleague had told her inspired her to study the experiences of newcomers to New Brunswick.

Jones Charbachi will be conducting interviews with newcomers to the province who have experienced bullying in the workplace. She’ll be asking them about their bullying experiences, how it affected their health and how it impacted their participation in workplace activities.

“I’m hoping that I can learn [through my research] how newcomers deal with bullying and stress in the workplace and that I may, additionally, be able to establish how people who have experienced [workplace bullying] have addressed it,” she said.

“Workplace bullying does not just happen in any one particular type of workplace; I think it can happen in almost any workplace,” she said.

Individuals interested in participating in Jones Charbachi’s study can contact her by e-mail wpbstudy@gmail.com or by phone 451-6831.

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The Currie Fee is a necessity, says university president Alanah Duffy News Reporter Un iversit y of New Br u ns w ick president Eddy Campbell believes the $150 Facilities Access Fee is essential for students to have to pay.

“From my point of view, it’s really pretty simple. We have no interest at all in charging our students unnecessary fees. This one looks like it’s necessary,” Campbell said in a phone interview with the Brunswickan.

The $150 fee is charged yearly to all UNB students automatically, regardless of whether they use the facility. The fee is commonly referred to as the “Currie fee” due to its introduction this year, the first year that the Richard J. Currie Center has been operational.

Though available for public access on Mar. 14, 2011, the Currie Center officially had its opening in

October. The building cost $62.5 million to build.

Campbell said the $150 fee is needed to cover the operating costs of the building, which he estimated to be about $1.6 million per year.

However, Campbell said that number is a rough estimate because the building hasn’t been fully operational for a year. The revenue generated by the student fee is about $750,000 per year.

“We have to pay for the operating costs of the Currie Center in some way, and virtually all universities across the country do it in exactly the way that UNB is doing it at present,” Campbell said.

“But, on the other hand, we do have this letter from our Student Union, which has held a referendum suggesting that the Currie Center fee be done away with and we are therefore obliged to take that matter

seriously.”

A referendum was held during the UNB Student Union’s general elections at the beginning of March.

The question asked whether students agreed with paying the $150 fee.

About 66 per cent of the 1,141 voters said they were opposed to the fee.

After those results, the Student Union sent a letter to Campbell, which stated the results of the referendum and suggested the university reconsider the fee.

Campbell said the letter will be given to the University Management Committee (UMC), which will then make a recommendation that will go forward to the Board of Governors.

The board will then consider the letter and decide whether to act on it at its next meeting, which will be held in April.

“From my perspective of trying

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number of people who use the Currie Center

number of people who have one-month memberships

to run the university, I’m certainly open to any other way that we could find to replace the $750,000 that we’re generating through the fee,” Campbell said.

“The difficulty from my perspective is that I don’t know of any obvious source for that funding that wouldn’t require us making cuts to other parts of the university to support it.”

Campbell added that most Canadian universities charge a similar fee for access to athletic facilities. He gave figures showing that Memorial University of Newfoundland’s fee is $104 for each full-time student a year; Dalhousie University’s fee is $174 for each full-time student a year; and, Acadia University’s fee is $274 for each full-time student a year.

Campbell also said that athletic facilities like the Currie Center are

a factor in attracting perspective students to a university.

“I believe that we’re one of the lower fees for what I have to say is a facility that is one of the very best anywhere in the world,” Campbell said.

“It’s part of what we do; it’s part of our obligation and responsibility to our students to provide them with the very best facilities we can.”

The remaining funds to operate the Currie Center are allocated in the university’s budget. Outside memberships to the facility are used as a source of revenue as well.

The university’s Communications and Marketing Department say that 798 people use the Currie Center, 295 of whom are one-month membership holders. It is estimated that outside memberships to the Currie Center generate about $280,000 a year.

$750,000 the total amount generated by “Currie Fee” revenue

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Liberal leadership race heating up

Brian Gallant. c/o briangallantnb.ca Cherise Letson The Bruswickan

Annual General Meeting

Sunday April 15 2:00 p.m.

Location: In the bar

Members Only

The New Brunswick Liberal Party has a new guy on the block.

Twenty-nine-year-old Brian Gallant is running for the party’s leadership.

Gallant said because he is younger than other candidates, he will be able to present New Brunswickers with a new way of looking at politics.

“I’ll be able to bring some new ideas, a fresh outlook, and really, when I go around the province, I have a sense that’s what Liberals and New Brunswickers want. They want to turn the page on government, or the politics of the past, I should say. They want politics to go in another direction. So I think I’m in a great position to be able to do that,” Gallant said.

As Liberal leader, Gallant said he would focus on “changing the way politics is done,” as well as tackling the province’s

financial situation. The third major issue he would focus on is education.

“For me, it’s education and training.

It’s research and innovation. Not only is it the best economic investment we could possibly make, it’s also the best social equalizer,” Gallant said.

When it comes to post-secondary education, Gallant said he wants to eliminate parental contribution when calculating student loans. He said this was an issue for him when he was in school. When Gallant was 18, his parents made $300 over the required amount for him to get a loan. He said the fact his parents were also helping out his older siblings was not taken into account.

“So for me, it’s a very archaic way of deciding who should get loans and who shouldn’t,” Gallant said.

Gallant said he also wants to re-examine the current PSE initiatives the government already has. He said some of the programs are not effective, and he would like to use

the money in ways that will help students get to university, stay in university, and help them after they graduate.

Gallant also has ideas for linking students with jobs.

“One of the things that I’d like to see happen with students is matching the students in our educational systems a lot more with the private sector,” Gallant said.

How it would work is employers would help pay for a student’s education. Then, at the end of the student’s schooling, they would work for the employer. If the student changes his or her mind and doesn’t want to work for the employer anymore, it would just turn into a loan.

“So it’s win-win in the sense that some employers will have a good shot at getting some good people right when they’re out of university. It can also help them [students] get jobs during the summer while they’re going through university. It gives capital to the students, but at the same time they have kind of an exit strategy if they want to go another way. Those are some programs I think we should look into,” Gallant said.

Gallant said it’s important for politicians to address the issues that affect young people in the province. He also said, however, that it’s important for students to get involved, to get their concerns heard, even if it’s just voting in an informed way. He said that when young people get involved in politics, people start to listen.

“If we’re not talking about some of the issues they care about, in a civil, respectable, transparent way, they’re [young people] going to tune out. And if they tune out, we’re going to talk less and less about their issues. So it’s the chicken or the egg, which one’s supposed to come first?” Gallant said.

Other politicians vying for the leadership spot include former Liberal cabinet minister Kelly Lamrock, former health minister Michael Murphy and Nick Duivenvoorden, former mayor of Belledune.

Councillors with poor attendance given reprieve Hilary Paige Smith News Editor Three members of UNB Student Union council who have missed a vast percentage of meetings were given a reprieve at Sunday’s meeting.

Babatude Kukoyi, current and returning international representative, missed nine meetings of council. Mostafa Shaker, current residence liaison and incoming vice-president internal, missed eight meetings of council. Oliver GormanAsal, current and returning law representative, missed six meetings of council. There have been 15 meetings of council thus far this year, with only one remaining.

UNBSU by-laws state that any member who misses more than three meetings of council can be dismissed from their

position. By-laws also state that anyone who has been dismissed from council is ineligible to run for another council position for five years.

After lengthy debate, council moved not to dismiss the councillors. Kukoyi, Shaker and Gorman-Asal will be allowed to continue in their positions next year, despite failing to fulfill their job descriptions.

Of the three, only Gorman-Asal showed up to the meeting to defend himself.

President Jordan Thompson said dismissing the councillors would just be a political move to keep those councillors from continuing on council next year.

There is only one meeting of council left and the by-laws don’t include anything about dismissed councillors who have already been elected.

“You’re councillors. It’s your job to know by-laws and you should have known that months ago,” Thompson said, arguing that concerned representatives should have brought this up prior to the election.

Education representative Sarah Chamberlain-Boyle agreed with Thompson, saying it would be a “catty and back-handed move.”

Student senator Cassie MacKinlay who read the motion to dismiss the councillors stressed that it wasn’t a political attack, but rather something council will have to keep in mind next year.

“There is a concern [the representatives] may not do their jobs effectively next year,” she said, saying by not attending council they aren’t properly representing their constituents.

Landing a blow against landmines

UNB Law student Jayne Veinotte (red) faces off against Jess Melanson in the Law faculty’s annual fundraiser Knocking Out Landmines.The event raised over $3800. Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan

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UNBSU councillors consider leaving NB lobbying group

Hilary Paige Smith News Editor The future of the UNB Student Union in the New Brunswick Student Alliance (NBSA) consumed another vast portion of council discussion. The discussion comes after La Fédération des étudiants et étudiantes du Centre universitaire de Moncton has expressed their intentions to leave the NBSA. The debate was heated, with an obvious divide among councillors.

I n it ia l ly, i ncom i ng U N BSU president Andrew Martel motioned for council to strike an ad hoc committee for next year’s council to review the UNBSU’s membership in the provincial student lobby group. The 2010/2011 council motioned something similar the year prior.

Later in the evening, Chris Pelkey, engineering representative, motioned for the UNBSU to drop its membership to associate member status.

Members looking to leave the NBSA are required to hold associate member status for a year. This means they do not have a vote within the organization. Pelkey, along with arts representative Cody Jack and science representative Adam Melanson, was a firm opponent of keeping full member status with the NBSA. In the end, only those three representatives voted in favour of dropping down to associate membership.

President Jordan Thompson, also

treasurer of the NBSA, and vicepresident external Joey O’Kane, also president of the NBSA, were staunch in their support of the lobby organization. “[Leaving] would inhibit our ability to make decisions. It sends a message that says, ‘Let’s drop down because someone else did’,” Thompson said.

“Even if Moncton leaves, it’s important to have people under this banner.”

O’Kane said dropping down would be a “weak move.”

“It gives discredit to this organization itself,” he said, of the UNBSU. Opponents of keeping full membership with the NBSA argued that little has changed at the organization in the past few years and strides haven’t been made.

“We did this last year and it didn’t do anything,” Melanson said of striking another committee to review the NBSA. Jack agreed, saying it could be a waste of time.

“It may have to fall apart so it can be built up again,” he said, adding that because of the NBSA’s constitution, it is unable to adopt any reforms that may make it more effective and responsive to lobbying needs of students.

O’Kane argued that it could hurt lobbying efforts in the province if the UNBSU dropped out of the NBSA. He said the NBSA has a brand that politicians recognize and the NBSA

Dean of Law injured in car crash Alanah Duffy News Reporter Ian Peach, the dean of the University of New Brunswick’s law school, is recovering after a car crash last week.

On Tuesday, March 20, UNB president Eddy Campbell sent out an e-mail to inform students, faculty and staff of the accident, which happened on Saturday, Mar. 17. The e-mail said Peach had been traveling when his car was struck by another vehicle.

Though the accident happened in Fredericton, Peach was treated at the Saint John Regional Hospital’s intensive care unit. He regained consciousness last Wednesday.

Peach’s wife, Leslie, has been traveling to Saint John every day to visit with him. The couple have a 12-year-old daughter.

Clea Ward, director of career development and external relations at the law school, said arrangements are being made to help out Peach’s family during this time.

“We have been in contact with his wife almost every day to see how things are going,” Ward said. “We’re going to be doing what we can to make it a little bit easier during this really hard time.”

Ward said some of the students are arranging for cards to be signed and sent to Peach, and meals will be delivered to Peach’s family. As well, Ward said there will likely be a collection to raise gas money for Leslie.

Peach, a Nova Scot ia nat ive, received his Bachelor of Arts from Dalhousie University and both his Bachelor and Master of Laws from Queen’s University.

He has worked at the House of Commons and at the Department of Intergovernmental Relations in Saskatchewan. He came to UNB in August of 2010.

One of Peach’s areas of expertise is

Aboriginal law; Ward said he was actively involved in organizing the law school’s first moot about Aboriginal treaties, called the Kawasakihmon moot. A moot is a competitive mock court.

Ward said before Peach’s arrival, the law school had traditionally participated in the same six moots, either criminal law-based or constitutional law-based.

“When Dean Peach arrived, he expressed an interest in opening up the moots that we compete in to tailor it more to student interests, as well as faculty interests,” Ward said.

“He pitched an aboriginal moot and I think that it was really exciting for us to participate in that moot for the first time, and he was instrumental in making that happen.”

In the first semester, Peach taught constitutional law to first-year law students. Ward said he has an excellent relationship with his students.

“By all accounts, he is really engaging because of his extensive background in constitutional law. He was able to really add some colour into what can sometimes be dense and complicated,” she said.

Aaron Mintz is a third-year law student who worked as Peach’s student researcher last year and during the summer. He spoke highly of Peach’s demeanour.

“He’s really friendly; very lowkey. He’s really invested in all of his students and is concerned with how we’re doing. He’s really willing to go out on a limb with us,” Mintz said.

As of press time on Monday, Peach was conscious, but still at the Saint John Regional Hospital.

Ward said the law school is wishing the dean a good recovery.

“We want him to get better as quickly as possible,” she said. “We miss him and look forward to having him back very, very much.”

Adam Melanson and Cody Jack were vocal about the UNBSU dropping to associate member status.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan has been able to meet with the postsecondary education minister and the premier because of this.

Jack argued that the NBSA means nothing to the average person on campus.

“The brand is students themselves and not the NBSA,” he said.

“You don’t need brand recognition.

You need principled thinking and action,” Melanson added, saying the UNBSU will still be able to meet with

government. Melanson is the incoming vice-president external.

The debate lasted for over an hour and a half before council finally agreed to maintain the UNBSU’s full membership in the NBSA.

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You may not think about it, but athletes are still humans To the Point

Christopher Cameron

He played 27 of 28 regular season games. He scored 16 goals with 33 points in those 27 games.

He scored one goal with one assist at the 2012 University Cup. He has a name and it’s Kyle Bailey.

He’s a human being, but sometimes I forget that part. I’ve forgotten this fact with other individuals, too, covering other stories and events.

I have covered Varsity Reds sports for four years and I like to think I can rhyme off stats from those years pretty well. Even if I’m not working, I am at games as a spectator because I love watching live sports.

Even after all that time, it took until Saturday night at the post-game press conference after UNB lost to Western to realize that these players are just normal people.

To see three grown men in tears is what it took to realize that. On that day they played the best they could.

For four years I looked at stats sheets, interviewed nearly every player, watched UNB lose in the AUS semifinal to StFX two years ago and watched them win a national championship at home last year.

Taking in that much hockey, I began to treat the Varsity Reds like professionals. Winning was a requirement or everyone jumped on them. Not only did they expect to be victorious, but I expected it, the media expected it, the community expected it.

This past weekend I realized how much this affects people. You hear about how players are crushed after losing in a championship or playoff game, but I had never witnessed it in person.

You hear discussion around events like the World Junior Men’s Hockey Championships about putting too

You can only do so much every day as an athlete. Sometimes the result does not match the goal. Putting pressure on student-athletes as fans or viewers to succeed on the ice can mentally drain them, when the larger goal for their time at a university should be succeeding in the classroom.They may make mistakes when competing, but they are just human, they aren’t perfect. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan much pressure on the players, that they’re just kids and that Canadians need to stop jumping on their backs if they don’t win a gold medal.

But it still happened this past weekend at UNB. The Fredericton community seemed to believe the only thing the team could do was win a national championship.

When that didn’t happen the men on that team did not know how to respond. They were broken. They let down themselves, their coach, their school, and their city.

Fortunately the sun does come up

They may play on the national stage at tournaments like the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, but few curlers, both male and female do not it for a living. Pressure from Canadians to be successful on the world stage can be too much. Stephen Desroches / Flickr CC

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after something like this, it just comes up a little slower.

With that sun coming up, those who placed such high expectations on the team should start anew as well. Realizing that having such expectations can lead to a sour taste in the mouths of fans should be enough of a reason to lower those expectations slightly.

Maybe UNB would have been more successful if that pressure was not there.

I could continue to play the “what if” game all day with regards to whether they would have won without the pressure, but we will never know.

That really is not the point anyways.

The point is that athletes are humans and they make mistakes. They can prepare mentally all season, but on the day they need it most, that preparation may not have been enough.

Mistakes can happen.

This same situation of too much pressure being placed on athletes can also be shown by the World Women’s Curling Championships that took place last week in Alberta.

Canada is always expected to win gold at the national level; curling is “our game” so to speak.

In case you didn’t know, Canada didn’t win on Sunday. They were not even in the final. They won bronze.

Last time I checked, winning a bronze medal at a world championship is something worth getting excited

about.

Instead Heather Nedohin had curling fans, myself included, saying the final was not worth watching. I also had friends say that it’s embarrassing they couldn’t even make the final, that she was a poor representative for Canada, amongst many other things.

These players are not full-time athletes. They all work jobs away from the curling rink. They are mothers. They are wives. How can a spectator look at these players and put so much on their shoulders.

I regret saying what I did about the final. I did not watch it, but on Saturday I said that I wouldn’t enjoy the University Cup final on Sunday night.

Man was I wrong.

Not only did I witness a historical victory by the McGill Redmen, but that was the best all-around hockey game I have personally witnessed in the Aitken Centre.

Yes, it didn’t have the same atmosphere the University Cup final saw a year ago, but we witnessed two evenly-matched teams battling for a national title.

The same can be said about the World Junior Men’s Hockey Championships. Many fans do not watch the final if Canada is not in it.

I think that as sports fans we are cheating ourselves out of some great games. I know I need to wake up and

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smell the flowers more often than not or so I’ve come to realize.

More importantly, the next time you want to jump on a team’s back for not performing at the level you think they should, think about the fact that they are people.

If these athletes spent every moment of their lives working at these sports it would be one thing, but should the pressure put on them not be directed away from the court, ice surface or field?

If there is any pressure on studentathletes, should it not be that they graduate and give back to society with their degrees? For the players at the World Juniors should it not be that they ensure they get their high school degree in case their hockey career does not pan out?

Although they are athletes most people think they should be able to handle the pressure and to an extent they should, but mentally it is near impossible for amateur athletes or younger ones to handle the pressure of a city or in some cases, a country.

It’s great that we believe in our varsity athletes, but it’s important to remember, they’re not superhuman.

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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Brady Tighe The Navigator (Vancouver Island) NANAIMO, B.C. (CUP) — Slacktivism is now a threat to my sanity. It’s probably the first time those who take part in it have ever affected anything, so I guess some congratulations are in order. Who knows? If they keep up their annoying online snobbish trash, I might organize a counter-activism group to protest the shitty, lazy activism that’s driving me up the wall.

So, what is “slacktivism?”

It’s the behaviour of those who act involved in the protest or championing of a certain issue, but do little or nothing to actually change said issue. Here’s a step-by-step guide to being a slacktivist.

Think of any kind of tragedy gripping the world right now; it can be starving children, ethnic genocide, financial ruin in other countries, or a domestic issue that is somehow comparable to those foreign tragedies.

Post to Facebook about the issue.

Write that everyone should rally together and do more about it, and act all pissed off and offended that everyone isn’t

aware of this issue.

You’ve now done fuck-all to fix the world, but feel like you’re a tried and true activist, and that you’ve done your part to raise awareness — Ghandi with an Internet connection. Congrats! You’ve just participated in slacktavism.

Do me a favour: go to Africa, find a starving child, then take that kid’s picture with your cellphone and say, “Dude, don’t worry. I’m tweeting the shit out of this.” See if he feels any better. Sure, you’ll feel better, confident that you’ve done “what you could,” but you’ve really done nothing.

It seems like I’m stating the obvious, but this is what is happening all over the Internet. One glance at Facebook shows an outpouring of can-do attitude for any number of global problems; however, all those people had to do to act like they were participating was string together a sentence beginning with, “This is really serious, guys,” and then click the share button.

This is bullshit. Sharing a YouTube video, putting a sticker on the back of your car, making a poster, tweeting, telling your friends or writing long diatribes

Making this your Facebook banner won’t do much to change the world. Eric Schwartzman / Flickr CC on your blog will do nothing to save anyone. It only succeeds in making you feel better about yourself, knowing that you somehow contributed to something that needs real solutions.

Even if you go and talk to your local politicians, you’re still doing nothing.

Of course these government officials say, “Something like this cannot go on,” and “We the government will do everything in our power to make sure that we do what we can.”

I’m sorry for how you will feel after reading this

The Graham James story examined Mike Davies The Omega (Thompson Rivers) KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CUP) — On March 20, Graham James was sentenced for his guilty plea — filed in December — for numerous and repeated sexual assaults against children.

I will repeat this, just so there’s no confusion about the actual facts. James pleaded guilty to numerous and repeated sexual assaults against children.

Still reading? Not disgusted enough yet?

I’ll try harder — not that I’ll have to.

He received a sentence of two years per victim, to be served concurrently, and his name and DNA will be added to the national sex-offender database.

Todd Holt, one of James’ victims, spoke at a press conference after the sentencing hearing, bravely fighting back tears and answering questions from those gathered.

“My life can go on today,” he said, acknowledging that, “I don’t think there’s a sentence out there that’s suitable for this type of abuse, for any type of abuse.” He is attempting to be done with anger, although when asked about his feelings regarding James’ rehabilitation, he replied, “I believe in my heart that Graham James will offend again,” and referred a point in the hearing when James’ made the admission that “he still prefers young men.”

It’s a long-standing preference: James pleaded guilty in 2007 to sexually assaulting

a child and was sentenced to three-and-ahalf years in jail. While serving that sentence, he was charged and pleaded guilty to another sexual assault on a 14-year-old boy, which occurred in 1971. The sentence for that charge? Six months — to be served concurrently with his previous sentence.

He was released after serving a total of 18 months and issued a lifetime ban from coaching in Canada by the Canadian Hockey Association.

Did you just puke a little?

Are you revolted because James was these children’s hockey coach, in parts of Canada where hockey is very seriously considered a way out, and these children’s hopes and dreams for the future were tied directly to the sport in which James was their leader, mentor and role model?

Are you appalled that he served a mere 18 months in jail for sexually abusing children?

Or are you disgusted because so much time passed between the atrocities and the public being made aware of them?

Do you suspect many other deplorable things may have happened over the years — things that no one besides the victims will ever know about?

There was at least one.

An anonymous victim filed a civil lawsuit against James in 2003, and the case was settled out of court.

Oh, by the way: upon being released from prison in 2000 after serving 18

months of his sentence for raping children, since he couldn’t coach hockey in Canada, he went to Spain. He continued to coach young boys, including the country’s national team.

Are you seriously able to keep reading this? I’m having trouble writing it, but I’ll fight through it as long as you’ll stay with me.

In 2007, James applied for and was granted a pardon by the National Parole Board of Canada.

Go ahead and read that last line again.

I’ll wait.

This pardon was not disclosed to the media or the public. It prompted outrage and parole reform when it came to light years later.

Even so, on March 19, the day before James’s sentence was handed down, the Canadian Press published an article that opened with the following: “A Manitoba judge says allowing cameras to broadcast the sentencing of disgraced former hockey coach Graham James for sexual abuse would turn the highly charged case into a spectacle and could violate the sex offender’s privacy.”

Oh, thank you, Judge Catherine Carlson! We’d hate to have this man’s privacy violated, wouldn’t we?

If you’ll all excuse me now, I have to go get this taste out of my mouth.

I hope you do too.

letters to the editor tell us what you think

Commentary Dear Brunswickan, Something you printed in the March 14th 2012 issue in the Student Viewpoint section of the Bruns offended me twice.

The first time was not your fault because it was content that you did not in fact write yourself. However, you chose to print the offence content, which certainly was in your control.

To the question “what would you dye green for Saint Patrick’s day?” a one “The Andrew Fairweather” answered “tits.” As a tit-bearing human I am offended by this answer. What Sir Fairweather’s answer implies is that A) part of the purpose of

female body parts is to amuse [simple minded and misogynistic] men and B) it is appropriate to treat female body parts as isolated from the individual females to which they belong. These two implications merge here: The idea that female body parts exist partially so that straight men can dress them up like Christmas trees or sports cars and gawk at their appearance (implication A) rips away the dignity of the actual human beings to whom the body parts belong by treating those body parts like inanimate objects (implication B).

I know, Brunswickan, that Mr. Fairweather’s inappropriate, uneducated, low class, distasteful, and sexist comment was not something you asked for. I am also not

shocked at his answer (it is unsurprising that that young men are sitting in university pubs drinking beer pondering ways to transform the female body to suit their mood or the current holiday). However, you printed his answer. You printed an answer that perpetuates inequality. You printed an answer that perpetuates sexism. You printed an answer that is a direct insult to the dignity female bodies deserve, not because they arouse straight men but because they belong to human beings with minds, thoughts, feelings, etc. You printed an answer that is unprogressive, disrespectful, and downright trashy.

I accept your apology.

Sincerely, Tits

What do you expect them to say?

“No, we’re going to do nothing, because we’re busy doing other things, and we don’t really give a shit.”

People have donated billions of dollars to help solve certain problems, and those problems still exist. Your Facebook status/online campaign is ineffective, and it’s a Western idea of how to fix problems people in the developed world can’t begin to understand with their fancy Internet machines and bullshit

self-righteousness.

Chances are, sharing and viewing the living hell out of the YouTube videos these campaigns fire out does nothing but stuff advertising dollars into the pockets of those who made the videos.

That goes beyond slacktivism — that’s profiting off tragedy, and all you needed to do was edit sad images to sad music and occasionally flash the words, “We can make a difference” on the screen.

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Student

Viewpoint.

What is on your Fredericton bucket list?

Let everyone know what’s on your mind.

Brady Gaudette

Andrew Martel

Caleb Nunn

D.J. Wilson

“Climb onto the roof of the SUB.”

“Just dance.”

“Get a job.”

“Have a GPA above 3.8.”

Kevin Beets

Matt Grant

Matt Lenihan

Melanie Saulnier

“Nothing that should be printed in the paper.”

“Somehow contributing positively to my home town.”

“Make the UNB hockey team.”

“Go to the Brewtique.”

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Hey Rosetta!’s Seeds planted in Fredericton

Sarah Campbell The Brunswickan People young and old crammed into the Boyce Farmers Market Saturday to join in on the fun that was Hey Rosetta!

The building made for a perfect complement to this down to earth, Newfoundland-based band, and the people clearly enjoyed the atmosphere.

They played songs from their new album Seeds, as well as classics from their previous beloved albums. Seeds has now been shortlisted for the famous Polaris Music Prize, and the band has since been touring worldwide to promote it. Fredericton could not have been happier to be one of the chosen cities.

The spacious grounds were full to the brim as the band lit up the stage.

Girls and boys alike were fighting to get on the shoulders of others, just to get a better look of the band as they played. This didn’t go unnoticed by the artists either. Between loud claps and showy arm gestures, one could tell they were having just as much fun as the crowd was.

Even though what they were saying in between songs was for the most part inaudible, compliments to the crowd like, “You guys are the coolest!” still rang through the market loud and clear. With smoke machines and an impressive light show, the atmosphere was nothing short of mind-blowing.

To top it off, confetti was shot through the building as their last song came to an end. This sent a frenzy through the crowd, leaving everyone wanting more.

You can’t beat the atmosphere here,” said Scott Gibbons, when asked about how the concert was going.

Hey Rosetta! played to a packed house at the Boyce Farmers Market on Mar. 24. Tim Lingley / The Brunswickan “I came last year and it was the same thing. Hey Rosetta! is simply awesome.”

The awesomeness continued when the band threw a string and sparklers into the audience. The string was passed throughout the space, making it seem like everyone was connected to the performance. Even though people got

a little tangled after about five minutes, the participation was there and left nothing but good feelings with every knot.

The crowd from then on was locked into every lyric that Hey Rosetta! sang.

There were points in the performance that the band was only barely heard above the crowd, and the cheers

between songs echoed throughout Fredericton.

The artists did not disappoint vocally, either. The lead singer sounded better than the recordings, and the instruments were there for him every step of the way. It was refreshing to hear such talent from so close to home. The

Maritime spirit was a definite theme of the performance.

The concertgoers left the Boyce Farmers Market on Saturday with smiles on their faces and bits of string and confetti stuck in their hair. A little bit of Hey Rosetta! was taken home with everyone.

Clouds cover the sun Haley Ryan Arts Reporter

Halifax emcee Classified brought students out for a performance with Scratch Bastid Monday night in the SUB cafeteria for the first of two concerts put on by the UNBSU this week.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

The popular Sunseekers Ball Music & Arts Festival in Chance Harbour won’t be happening this summer.

After the festival lost money last year when dozens of people snuck into the concert without tickets, organizer Marc Doucet realized it wasn’t possible to put on a full-scale show this summer.

Doucet, who was always interested in the type of music that’s hard to find in New Brunswick, started the festival about seven years ago with a few friends.

After hitch-hiking around the U.S. to watch the Grateful Dead perform, Doucet realized he wanted to have a venue close to home that still had the family atmosphere and great music of a large festival.

The project grew into the Sunseekers Ball, which in recent years has been held on a huge property with wooded areas and lakes, drawing crowds of more than 1,000 people to see bands from all over the world perform.

“With all that comes a lot more organization,” Doucet said over the phone. “And of course, there’s a lot more money involved.”

Sunseekers 2011 was the longest one yet, with music starting around noon on the Thursday and finishing early in the morning on Monday.

“Maybe when some people were there on day two, day three, they just couldn’t control themselves,” Doucet suggested, when talking about concertgoers who partied a little too hard and damaged property.

“But if you get the stats on what happens at Magnetic Hill concerts, I’m sure they have much more problems than we did.”

An issue Doucet did have at last year’s festival, however, was keeping security tight.

The man who handled security for

The Sunseekers Ball has been cancelled because several people snuck in last year. Submitted the last five Sunseekers wasn’t available for the week leading up to, and during, the music festival, which left Doucet to juggle duties he wasn’t used to while running the concert.

With security a little looser than usual, people managed to sneak through the woods and into the music site for free.

“I started seeing people posting videos to Facebook saying how to get in, like ‘take this path and jump down here,’ you know. I thought, ‘that’s not good’.”

Manda Kernighan of Black’s Harbour is a long-time Sunseekers fan.

She’s never missed a festival besides the very first one, when she was in high school.

She said she noticed a difference in some people at the festival last year too.

“There were a lot of drunk people causing a ruckus,” Kernighan said.

“Over the years the more people heard about it, they wanted to go just for a party.”

Kernighan said she’s always loved going because of the music and atmosphere. Her favourite groups, like Slow-

coaster and The Jimmy Swift band, usually play and tend to stick around to meet people afterwards.

“There’s also all these little shops that get set up,” she said.

“I still have a ring from there made out of the back of a spoon. It’s nice for a small town because it brings in culture.”

While Doucet said he’s frustrated so many people took advantage of the local festival, he acknowledged a new full-time job and possibility of travel this summer were also factors for him in deciding to take a break in 2012.

“But if we had made that money, I could have hired someone to help with the organizing,” he added.

Although there won’t be a show this year, Doucet is looking around for a permanent location for Sunseekers: land he can own and build a lodge on, with room for a meal hall and washrooms for concert goers.

“I appreciate everyone who’s supported us in the past,” Doucet said, and added with a laugh “I’m not going to lose my house... Sunseekers is not dead.”

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Pinterest and the photographer’s plight Linking arts communities province-wide

Lee Thomas The Brunswickan

Social media has undermined the value of photographers’ work, making it tough for them to pay the bills. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan Haley Ryan Arts Reporter When you go to the dentist, you don’t ask for a free teeth cleaning.

At your favourite restaurant, the chef can’t give you a free cheesecake to take home.

And for a wedding or fashion show, the photographer can’t just give you free photos – but many forget that.

Professional photographers have many great, and not-so-great, points about their job, just like everyone else - but a lack of education and the advent of social media have led to many of us taking them for granted.

Likely, many of the people you know take pictures for fun, and it can often seem like a good idea to take that hobby and get paid for it.

But for Ashley Theriault and Mike Erb, photography isn’t just a hobby. It’s how they pay the rent on their new apartment, buy groceries, or pay for a cab to take them to a photo shoot.

Both former Brunswickan photographers, Theriault and Erb moved to Montreal a month ago to pursue careers in photography.

Although they agree they’re lucky to be working a job they love, they said it’s hard to explain to people why what they do is so different from what an amateur with a nice lens can achieve.

“It’s not just the two hours you spend shooting,” Theriault said in a Skype interview. “Every hour you shoot is an hour editing. So when you come back from a 10-hour wedding, that’s another 10 hours you spend on the computer.”

“I don’t charge for the correspondence either, or scoping out a location, which takes

time,” Erb added.

“There’s so much work involved that isn’t in the shoot.”

Theriault, who went to the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD) for photography, said she understands that people don’t want to pay a huge amount of money for portraits or wedding photos, so they may turn her down in favour of someone with less experience offering lower prices.

“There’s someone always willing to do it cheaper,” Theriault said with a sigh. “It’s definitely frustrating ... but I try and give a quality product to people.”

Since the Internet has made photography so accessible (anyone can start a blog and promote their artwork), people in the photo business can sell pictures all over the world, but also run the risk of losing control of their images.

Although you can take precautions like putting meta-data in your pictures, or making your blog’s photos secure so people can’t save them on their own computers, sites like Facebook and Pinterest have loop-holes.

“Facebook literally owns your image as soon as you put it up there,” Erb said, who has a day job at a restaurant. “But you can’t beat the exposure, because everyone uses it.”

He tries to protect himself by only using really low-resolution pictures on Facebook, so if anyone printed it out to use on their own, it would look horrible.

Pinterest, the newest social media platform where you can “pin” images to your profile, is a little trickier.

Theriault uses Pinterest, but said she doesn’t see much of a problem yet with copyright on the website.

“When I click on something, it brings me to the original website of the artist, or whoever. I kind of think it could be good exposure,” she said.

While that’s true of most people who pin, the issue is Pinterest doesn’t require you to attribute something. You could blatantly steal an image, post it, and the site won’t notice.

That’s because of the way they have it in their Terms of Service; if any copyrights are found to be broken, you’d be in trouble – not them.

Jeremy Smith wrote in Wake Forest University’s Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law, “Pinterest has cleverly skirted responsibility by complying with the minimum requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)... The company provides a platform for copyright holders to report infringements, thus potentially cancelling out its own culpability.”

Also, many people don’t realize all of the photos uploaded to the Pinterest server are stripped of their meta-data, which is a big deal.

Meta-data is like an invisible safety code on your photo; if someone opens up the information about the picture, they would see you owned it. Without it, people around the world could be using it for whatever they feel like, and you would never get credit.

Theriault and Erb don’t use Pinterest for their photos yet, and are focusing on getting their names out in Montreal as professionals who can be relied on for good work.

“People see it as ‘oh they love it, they must want to do it all the time,’ but we’re not just doing this on the side,” Erb said ruefully.

“I don’t want to be working in a kitchen for the rest of my life.”

ArtsLink NB is hosting a series of meetings this month, and you’re invited.

The organization is holding public events to discuss issues relevant to members of the local art community, as part of their stated mission “to advance the arts in New Brunswick by linking and unifying artists and arts organizations and promoting their value to the community.”

“We’re really trying to go into specific communities, get people out who are artists themselves or who are involved in the community in some way and get them linked into a wider community so they can have a bit more support than they do at the moment,” said ArtsLink NB executive director Sara Griffin.

ArtsLink NB provides services to both emerging and professional Anglophone artists across all artistic disciplines, as well as various arts organizations, stakeholders, and supporters. The meetings will provide opportunities to discuss issues pertinent to local artists, as well as a brief overview of ArtsLink NB’s current and upcoming projects and initiatives.

“We’re trying to get a feel for what’s going on in each community and what challenges they’re finding. But we’re also just helping artists get together, talk about their practices, to find out other programs that people have done, and do some basic networking and communication,” Grif-

fin said.

“Eventually, as an organization, we would like to be a centre-point for artists to come to us for information on different grants or different things going on, but also to stay connected to people in their communities and the bigger provincial picture as well.”

The series of local meetings will take place throughout the month of April in various locations across New Brunswick.

Griffin says the discussions will help provide a basis for the organization’s annual general meeting and provincial Anglophone arts forum, which are taking place in Dieppe on Apr. 20 and 21.

It’s important for young adults and university students to be involved in events like these, Griffin said, because “they’re the up and coming members of the community. I think they’re the people who believe in the power of culture and believe in the power of art, and who see it as an important and healthy thing not only for themselves but their community.”

“It’s a really good way to get connected to things that are going on in the province culturally, and just being a part of people who want to improve the lifestyle in New Brunswick.”

The Fredericton event will be taking place at 7 p.m. Apr. 5 at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. For more information about the local meetings or provincial forum, go to www.artslinknb.com.

ArtsLink NB is encouraging public participation with a series of forums. kruemi / Flickr CC

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brunswickanarts Be...Without Water: Documentary gets personal with hydro-fracking debate

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Elizabeth Creelman The Brunswickan We’ve all seen them outside the market or on the front steps of the legislature building – protestors of shale gas, the puns on their signs ranging from witty to groan-worthy.

Be... Without Water, a documentary by filmmaker Rob Turgeon, digs deeper than the political mess that surrounds the hydro-fracking debate and demonstrates how the issue has affected actual citizens in our province.

Turgeon’s documentary follows the Concerned Citizens of Penobsquis in their protests of the hydraulic fracturing, which has drained about 60 family wells in their area. Protesters on the screen chant and brandish the above mentioned signs. One group of older women activists, the Raging Grannies, sing about their frustrations while wearing deliberately wacky hats.

The most effective scenes of the film, however, are not of the protests, nor are they of the town meetings with corporate and government officials. The most striking clips are those which portray the concerned and angered citizens one-on-one with the camera. The documentary does a particularly good job of representing every sector of the population of Penobsquis, from the old to the young.

“I think I’ve paid enough taxes in my time that I shouldn’t have to sign a contract now so that I can have a glass of water,” one senior citizen said in the film.

The anxiety of the younger generation is summed up by a middle school-aged boy.

“I’d like to live pretty much anywhere that isn’t as polluted and as industrialized as Penobsquis,” he tells the camera.

Since the town was formerly so agriculturally-centred that it smelled like cow dung when you drove by in the spring, the image of Penobsquis as an industrialized area is, quite frankly, disturbing.

Equally disturbing is a slideshow included in the film of houses whose wells were affected by the hydro-fracking. Many are large homesteads or farm houses – places owned by normal middle-class families.

Another shot shows a map on which stars have been pasted, marking the sites of the wells which have gone dry. There are so many that the stars overlap in many places.

One sign shown in the film made a stab at illustrating the general sentiments of the citizens of Penobsquis, but perhaps it went too far.

“Welcome to Penobsquis – the third world,” the sign read. It’s clear that these people feel stripped of their rights as Canadian citizens, but comparing themselves to countries that literally have no hope of getting safe drinking water seemed a little dramatic.

That being said, the film does a good job of showing how an entire community is being uprooted. Farms that have been passed down for up to nine generations are going under because the citizens of Penobsquis weren’t consulted regarding issues that affect their own lands. All the community of Penobsquis really wants is to be compensated by the government – bought out and allowed to move. But, it’s a shame they have to move at all.

More than some abstract outcry against corporate greed or the taking for granted of natural resources, Be... Without Water is a portrait of the impact of hydro-fracking on a real community. The Concerned Citizens

Bruce Northrup (left), minister of natural resources, speaks with the Concerned Citizens of Penobsquis in the documentar Be.. Without Water. Screenshot of Penobsquis are calling themselves “canaries in a coal mine”: a cautionary tale for the rest of New Brunswick about what might happen if the message of this documentary, and others like it, is ignored.

More information on the Concerned Citizens of Penobsquis can be found at http://www.penobsquis.ca/.

The Overlooked: Leonardo DiCaprio Ethan Pierce The Brunswickan This column – The Overlooked – is about those older movies you may not have heard of, or just simply didn’t give a fair chance.

Leonardo DiCaprio started acting at a young age. He has played many different roles in various film genres. You may know him best from films such as Catch Me If You Can (2002) or Titanic (1997).

DiCaprio is a well-accomplished actor and some say that some of his best films are the ones based on true stories. Some true stories are harsh, but life can be harsh, and sometimes the unlucky have to face harsh times, but still find ways to come out on top.

This Boy’s Life (1993) is a film based on the memoirs of Tobias Wolff. The story is based in the late 1950s, when Tobias

(DiCaprio) and his mother Caroline (Ellen Barkin) lead a nomadic life, until they settle down in Seattle and meet what seems to be a good and honest man named Dwight Hansen (Robert De Niro). Caroline and Dwight marry and Tobias and his mother move to Concrete, Washington to live with Dwight and his children from his last marriage. But Dwight does not take long to show his darker side. After experiencing this, Tobias wants to leave and go live with his older brother Geoffrey at Princeton, but has no money to get there or support himself. He devises a plan to forge his school transcript and apply for a full-scholarship. In the meantime, he’s stuck in Concrete with Dwight and must continue to protect his mother.

The Basketball Diaries (1995) is a film based on the 1978 memoir of Jim Carroll.

The film is set in New York in the mid

1960s, and Jim (DiCaprio) is a high school basketball player who dreams of becoming a basketball star. Jim begins to fall onto the wrong path as he is overwhelmed by adverse circumstances such as a dying best friend suffering from leukemia, a basketball coach who makes sexual advances on the players, and a downward spiral into heroin addiction. Jim and his friends start out casually getting stoned but soon end up on the streets. Jim soon finds himself homeless, stealing, and worse, to feed his addiction. With of the help of an old neighbourhood friend named Reggie (Ernie Hudson), Jim is able to begin to process of overcoming his addiction and getting his life together.

Both of these films show the true human hardship that some endure in life and the determination of those who made the best of their situation and rose up.

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This included surveys, ultrasounds, biopsies, and physical examinations of women. The authors concluded Sarah

that although there may be a sensi Vannier tive area in the vagina, there is no evidence for a specif ic, distinct Have you ever wondered how to find physical structure called the g-spot.

Other research has found that the g-spot? Well, I’m about to tell women who are extraverted, open you! Sort of.

The g-spot is named after Dr. to new experiences, happy in their Ernst Gräfenberg, a German doc- relationships, and have a positive tor credited with being the f irst view of sexuality, were more likely to describe an especially sensitive to report having a g-spot. This had area inside the vagina. The g-spot led some people to conclude that is often branded as the holy grail of the existence of the g-spot is more female sexual pleasure. Supposedly, psychological than physical.

Response to this research has been stimulating this magical area can cause earth-shattering orgasms, the pretty vocal. Get a group of women oh-so-elusive vaginal orgasm, and, together and ask them if they think the g-spot is a real thing and you’ll on occasion, female ejaculation.

The g-spot is described as an area probably f ind that several insist, roughly the size of a quarter, about rather passionately, that it is real two inches inside the vagina. There (and you’ll also learn a little bit more is debate about what the g-spot about your female friends!).

The g-spot is probably more sensireally is. Some people describe it as a group of sensitive structures like the tive for some women than for others urethra or the Skene’s glands (similar and not all women may like, or be into the prostate glands). Others sug- terested in, g-spot stimulation. But, gest it is the tail end of the clitoris if you or your partner are interested, being stimulated through the wall here are a few things you can try out.

For you hetero folk, g-spot-friendof the vagina.

Although a lot of women swear ly sex positions included doggy style, they have a g-spot (between 55 per missionary (with a pillow under the cent and 74 per cent, depending on woman’s butt to move her hips up), who and how you ask) the medical and women on top (while leaning community has struggled for years a little bit back). Pretty much anyto find physical evidence that it ac- thing that ups the amount of contact between the penis and the front of tually exists.

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aroused (lots of g-spot foreplay ftw!) slide one or two fingers about 2 inches in the vagina. Ladies, if you are doing this to yourself (and I strongly encourage you to do so) your hand is probably already in the right position. If you have a partner taking the lead on this one, and you are lying on your back, their palm should be facing up. Next, you want to start rubbing your fingers along the top wall of the vagina. This is the side closest to the belly button. You might want to curl your fingers just a little bit, almost as if you are telling someone to “come here” (sexual puns ALWAYS intended).

Some people say the g-spot feels a little more rough or textured than the rest of the vagina, but this might not be the case for everyone. Some women say they like firm pressure on the g-spot, but start off gently and work your way up. The important thing is to listen to your/your partner’s body and go with whatever feels good.

There are also a lot of sex toys on the market aimed at stimulating the g-spot. Usually they have a bit of a bend at the end so you can angle them just right.

Keep in mind that the g-spot is not some magical button that you can hit and cause waves of sexual pleasure.

It’s just one more part of our bodies that some people like having stimulated. If the g-spot does nothing for you, don’t worry about it. Move on and find something that does!

NBCCD’s photography exhibit: Not From Concentrate

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Larry Holder is one of several NBCCD students showcasing photography at the Charlotte Glencross Gallery. Tim Lingley / The Brunswickan Brandon Hicks The Brunswickan Searching locally is the best way to find fruit juice that’s uncompromised, fresh, and most assuredly not from concentrate. Who would have guessed that the same could be said for art?

For the next month, The Charlotte Glencross Gallery, located in the Charlotte Street Art Centre, will be host to the “Not From Concentrate” photography exhibit.

The exhibit is not in a single area of the building, rather, it’s spread out across most of the centre’s hallways. This is an advantage that The Charlotte Glencross Gallery has over most. Instead of making the artwork a destination in itself, it makes it more decretive. This in no way diminishes the effect of these works, in fact, it enhances it, giving the photographs a wider audience, as those who enter the building for

whatever reason are unable to miss it.

The artists are all graduating students of the photography program at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD). They include Chelsea Stevens, Anne-Marie Rolfe, Emily Jackson, Robyn Guptill, Larry Holder, Cheyenne Williams, Erin Colwell, Annapurna Moffatt, and Roger Flanagan.

“All the artworks are extremely well presented,” said Stephen May, an onlooker.

“Great composition such as this seems to be a trade mark of artists that attend design schools. It’s very clear that they’ve been taught how to avoid sloppiness.”

Their education and using photography as a medium for art are quite possibly the only thing that these artists all have in common.

The diversity of the works is striking, covering several different themes and ideas.

All of the works have a base in

photography. Though some, such as the lumen prints by Erin Colwell, and Holder’s Monotony experiment with mixed media and alternative process.

From the concept of “identity” being explored in f.a.c.e.l.e.s.s, to the slightly autobiographical Pieces in Guptill’s A Full Day’s Work, much artistic ground can be covered with a short walk through the building.

Next to the work of each artist there is a short description of either the piece, or the artist, and often both. Interestingly, next to Flanagan’s three photographs, there is a QR code linking to an online portfolio of other portraits and artistic work he has done.

The works in “Not From Concentrate” will be displayed at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in the Charlotte Glencross Gallery until Apr. 30 at 732 Charlotte St.

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Education Under Fire

Alex Kress Arts Editor

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The 3,000 word essays. The early classes.

The all-nighters we pull for midterms, and the belly-aching that comes with all of it.

Sometimes, we hate school – but at least we have the option of going.

The same can’t be said for members of the Bahá’í community in Iran. Almost a year ago, the Iranian government attacked the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) and raided homes, stealing computers and detaining several of BIHE’s professors and administrators; some are still in prison.

Education Under Fire (EUF), a campaign aiming to raise awareness about the Iranian government’s decision to deny the Bahá’í right to education, is making itself known on the STU and UNB campuses.

On Friday, Mar. 30, and Wednesday, Apr. 4, the Education Under Fire documentary will be shown at STU and UNB respectively. The film is backed and co-presented by Amnesty International, who has openly supported the campaign by encouraging the public to “take action to urge the Iranian government to uphold its obligations under international law and to end the persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran, to release all prisoners of conscience, and to cease depriving Iranians of the right to education on ideological and religious grounds.”

According to a press release from Education Under Fire, The New York Times describes the BIHE as “an elaborate act of communal self-preservation”. It was founded in 1987, and is the only place for Iranian Bahá’ís to access post-secondary education.

The Iranian government has also banned students from accessing higher education, for expressing opinions or associating with organizations that are considered critical of the government.

“The requirement has been for them to denounce their faith,” said Kimberley Poley, a spokesperson for the EUF Task Force.

“If they denounce their faith, they’ll allow them. But the Bahá’ís are not ready to do that.”

Poley said EUF is trying to gather enough public support to admonish the Iranian authorities to curb its prejudice toward the Bahá’ís.

“I think the documentary itself is wonderful because it not only profiles the Bahá’ís and the things that have been happening, but also there are many Muslims who have been trying to help the Bahá’ís as well,” she said.

“I think it’s timely and it’s a human rights issue. It’s something that we all should be concerned about whether we’re in Iran or whether we’re in Canada. It can happen anywhere, really.”

In an opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen, Senator Roméo Dallaire calls the issue an “ideological genocide”.

“I’ve seen this story before and it does not end well. In 1991, Kangura – the Hutuowned tabloid in Rwanda – published an image of a machete on its front page with the question, ‘What weapons shall we use to conquer the cockroaches once and for all?’”

In his article, Dallaire urges us all to not close our doors to Bahá’ís and other Iranian human rights activists seeking refugee status in Canada.

“Over the past 50 years we have established a reputation of openness to those who are facing persecution worldwide,” Dallaire said.

“We should offer less to the Bahá’ís of Iran.”

The documentary will be shown at STU on Mar. 30, and Apr. 4 at UNB. For more information, visit www.educationunderfire. com, or email unbcabs@hotmail.com or info@educationunderfire.com.

Little Scream makes big noise through her music

Get Social

Little Scream is a Montreal-based singer/songwriter who pursues social activism through music.

Submitted “The best social justice style is just good status of permanent resident, and is workLucas Milroy ing towards her Canadian citizenship. This art. Period,” she says. “If you make good The Nexus (Camosun College) art that moves people’s hearts in a certain is a big win for Canada.

When she’s not busy writing and creat- way, that’s what helps inspire people to VICTORIA (CUP) — She’s an American citizen. She was born in Iowa and grew up ing music, Spengelmeyer spends her time be more conscious and to change. It’s along the Mississippi River. Years ago, in painting. Evidence of said skill can be seen not necessarily because you tell them to an act of romance, she moved to Montreal adorning the front of her latest album, The do that in your lyrics. It’s a tricky balance. On the next batch of stuff that I’m and assumed the moniker Little Scream. Golden Record.

Spengelmeyer isn’t just a pretty face with working on, that will be more consciously Who is this mystery woman? Is she a spy?

No, it’s nothing that dramatic. Little a catchy tune. Upon moving to Montreal, acknowledged.”

So what comes next for this soon-to-beScream is the stage name of Montreal- she attended Concordia University’s design based folk singer/songwriter Laurel program, which she hoped would help Canadian? A lot. Spengelmeyer has a life plan, and if her success so far says anything Spengelmeyer. Although if it was up to apply to her social-activist tendencies.

“At that time I was way more involved about her character, don’t bet against her her, the name Little Scream would, like her American residency, be a thing of the past. with social activism, which is why I thought achieving these goals.

“I have this bigger-picture outline “I kind of wish I could change the name design was more applicable,” she says.

Spengelmeyer was never a huge fan where I have another two records that I now, to be honest, but that is just how it goes once you get out there and do some- of spending hours staring at a computer know I want to make, so that is the focus thing under a certain name: you get stuck screen and chose to pursue her social activ- of my life until I get those next couple ism through her music instead. While she records out,” she says. “After that, I’m not with it,” she says. “So be careful.”

While she’s no longer able to change her admits her latest album has her social views sure, exactly. I miss working with people, stage name, Spengelmeyer is working on presented in a more distant echo, she also being more actively involved in social juschanging something else: her citizenship. assures that her upcoming album will put tice, and even teaching. I know that that is in my future.”

So far Spengelmeyer has acquired the a greater focus on the issues.

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McGill wins University Cup for first time in CIS history

K. Bryannah James Sports Editor It’s been a journey from start to finish for the McGill Redmen. Last year they suffered a loss at the hands of the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds, who claimed the national title.

But this year, the tables have turned.

In a nail-biting overtime victory, the Redmen won their first CIS title in 136 years.

“The rest is history,” said the overtime goal scorer and captain of the McGill Redmen, Evan Vossen.

Vossen, who is in his final year at McGill and finishing his last year as a member of the Redmen, couldn’t have asked for a better ending to his time at university.

“It’s like a storybook ending,” said Vossen, “Overtime, my last game, national championship, it doesn’t really get any better than that. I couldn’t have asked for more, and I’m very grateful for that.”

The game didn’t start in the Redmen’s favour however, and it almost looked as if they were going to repeat last year’s performance.

Western was the first to score. On the powerplay, Keaton Turkiewicz tucked one into the net, with assists from Harnden and Baker, to lead the Redmen 1-0 at 8:38.

But that didn’t stop McGill, the team who had yet to win a CIS championship in their history, and who placed second the year before. This year they came back.

McGill put the pressure on in Mustang territory, and at 15:38 they saw their first goal.

Benoit Lévesque threw the puck past Western’s goalie Josh Unice, for a 1-1 game.

The first period would end with the tie.

“We just stepped up our routine and just stayed solid. And I mean we didn’t change our game plan at all,” said Vossen.

The second period saw back-andforth play. That came after McGill scored 48 seconds into the period.

Lévesque got his second goal, with

The McGill Redmen claimed their first University Cup in CIS history on Sunday, defeating the Western Mustangs 4-3 in overtime.

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan an assist by Marc-André Daneau and Marc-Olivier Vachon.

Western came back at 13:49 to even the score 2-2, thanks to Mustang Kevin Baker, with assists from Killing and Aarssen.

McGill struck again at 15:27.

Nicolas Biniek scored with assists from Francis Verreault-Paul, who would later be named tournament MVP, and Longpré-Poirier, to finish the second with a lead over Western.

After two periods it was a 3-2 game.

Midway through the period the Redmen were looking like they were ready to take the national championship.

Verreault-Paul would take a charging penalty at 12:46 after running Unice.

The Mustangs scored on the ex-

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tended powerplay after the controversial running of the goalie. It became a tied 3-3 game.

The clock ticked down to the last seconds of the third period.

They needed overtime.

“A championship game in overtime, you can’t make any mistakes,” said assistant captain to the Redmen, Maxime Langelier-Parent, “So when they came on that rush, 3-2, came up with a big save and got kind of lucky.”

Six minutes into the 10-minute overtime, McGill captain Vossen would score.

“He made a good play over the blue line,” said Unice. “My guys, they battled so hard. You know, I just tried to do what I’m supposed to do. In the end, there’s a couple things I wish I could have done differently.”

“I owe it to the team. We came out, we battled hard, we never gave up, all the way to the last second. It’s all said and done though, it sucks. But we had a great year, we did a lot of things this year that no one thought we could have.”

Although the goal went through Unice’s five hole, Western head coach Clark Singer is proud of his goalie, who held firm and consistent through the season and the tournament.

“I said, hey without you, we wouldn’t have been here,” said Singer.

The Redmen dogpiled Vossen and hoisted the University Cup over their heads.

“We got a break, and we scored,” said Langelier-Parent.

Langelier-Parent would also share this victory with his younger brother

What do you think was a leading factor in UNB’s loss against the Western Mustangs?

K. Bryannah James

Christopher Cameron

Josh Fleck

UNB wasn’t firing on all cylinders for the first 40 minutes. They did have some good chances on net and tried to capitalize on it, but they came up against a brick wall known as Josh Unice. In my opinion he was the best goalie all tournament. In the last 15 minutes of the third UNB brought their A game, but the A game should have been there before the third period. It just didn’t seem like the team was gelling as a whole against Western, and Western took advantage of it.

I believe the biggest problem was not that UNB did not put their best foot forward . Western just was the team that knew exactly how to shut down what had been successful for this team all year. The shots that were getting through did not because the Mustangs knew what to expect. It just so happened that the tweaking of their game plan did not make a significant enough difference.

UNB didn’t do anything wrong in their game against Western. They ran into a hot goalie in Josh Unice, who in my opinion is the best goalie in the CIS. Unice has grown up playing on the National Development team in the US with Patrick Kane, James Van Riemsdyk and Kevin Shattenkirk. Western took UNB’s game, which is being physical along the boards and pouncing on opportunities, and shoved it right back at them. Western is a fast team with a lot of skill. When they matched UNB’s physicality it looked as though UNB was taken off their game.

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on the team, and finish his last season as a Redmen with a championship title.

“We were 100 per cent all game long and I think, I don’t know, I’m out of words,” said Parent.

“This is amazing.”

For McGill head coach Kelly Nobes, this is his first CIS championship with the team, after only two seasons of being their head coach.

“I’m just so proud of our guys and pleased for our program,” said Nobes, “You know, this is for all our alumni, our former Redmen and our friends of McGill hockey. It’s just such a great feeling.”

This is the first time in CIS history that the McGill Redmen have won the University Cup.

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Nick Murray Sports Writer

Gardiner MacDougall said that they played their best third period of the season. Unfortunately it was too little too late. But one factor in their loss that’s worth noting is when they scored their second goal. They had great momentum, until the delay from the broken glass beside the Western bench. That delay unfortunately brought the momentum to a halt in a situation where UNB had the Mustangs against the ropes.

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Origins of a runner: Taylor Lamarche

Josh Fleck The Brunswickan

Growing up, you learn to crawl, then you walk, then you run. While we all know how to run, some people know how to run better than others.

Taylor Lamarche is one of those people.

Lamarche is a first-year Kinesiology Science student from Porcupine, Ontario, which is just outside of Timmins.

Like many other runners at high levels, Lamarche didn’t start out with running exclusively. There were many other sports in his life that ultimately lead him to running.

“I had always been into hockey and basketball, so I was always running,” Lamarche said about his athletic background. “I naturally excelled in running, so I just went with it.”

Starting when he was in grade 5, at the ripe age of 11, Lamarche got into long-distance running for his elementary school, Whitney Public School. Once he hit grades 7 and 8, the sports he played were down to running and hockey, and by the time he hit high school, running became his focus.

“It got to the point where I was progressing really well in running, and after my grade 11 season, I got former Olympian Kevin Sullivan’s

brother Colin as a coach, and that helped a lot.”

After his senior season in high school, there were three choices of schools: University of Windsor, Brock University and University of New Brunswick. Windsor came in strong with a scholarship offer, but UNB’s coach Tim Randall said Lamarche would have the ability to train and race in his first year.

His first year running at UNB was a bumpy ride to say the least.

In late August, before the start of the season, Lamarche rolled his ankle running a half-marathon and started school on crutches. Between the ankle injury and a knee injury, Lamarche ran in only three of the team’s six races.

The end of the season left a sour taste in his mouth, as his injuries kept him sidelined from training and he didn’t get the results he wanted for himself in the last two races.

Outside of running, Lamarche considers himself a country boy.

“I like to be outside a lot, fishing, camping, snowmobiling, four wheeling. I used to be big into pedal biking too, dirt jumping and all that.”

After graduation, Lamarche is hoping to go to medical school or become a chiropractor. Regardless of what he does, he will no doubt pick it up and run with it.

Ten minutes is all you need Tova Payne The Brunswickan Every step counts when it comes to your health. Often people feel if they don’t do a “proper” workout (or a long workout), there’s no point in doing it at all. However, research has shown how three 10-minute bouts of exercise are just as effective and beneficial as one 30-minute exercise program.

So, if you’re short on time, slide in 10 minutes throughout your day and recognize the benefits to your health will pay off. Furthermore, often a 10-minute walk, run or yoga session will energize you to carry on with the many tasks of your day.

With the nicer weather approaching, taking a 10-minute walk around campus between classes is feasible, and a simple way to get movement in and clear your head between studies.

When you’re at home studying, you can do a 10-minute cardio-video or yoga-video routine.

There are many free videos on YouTube, yogajournal.com, and Google, just by searching the type of exercise video you are looking for. You’ll be surprised how easy it is to find things you can do fast and simply in your own home.

You may not always have the time to go out to a class, but 10 minutes here and there, even of making up your own exercise routine is not only a great way to take care of your body, but it will give you a break between studying, and help sharpen your mind to continue studying.

Studies have proven that exercise enhances cognitive abilities; so taking 10 minutes to exercise between studying will help you mentally and physically.

For a simple routine you can try this at home: 1. Stand tall, legs shoulder- or hipwidth distance. Roll your shoulders back a few times. Raise your arms overhead, and bring them down to your side. Do this five times.

2. Squat your butt down as if you were sitting in a chair, and reach your arms out in front of you or up alongside your ears. Hold it for a deep breath and return to standing.

Start with 10 and move your way up to 20. This is chair position.

3. Still standing, practice lateral side-bending. Reach both arms up high, bend to the right and hold for about three breaths, and then bend to the left, holding for three breaths.

Practice five times.

From standing, reach your arms overhead, and hinging from your hips come into a forward bend. As you bend forward, bend your knees a little and hold your stomach firm to protect your lower back. Relax your head and neck completely. Take about one breath.

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Reds lose 3-2 to Mustangs

One point kept the Varsity Reds from making the championship game. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

FROM HOCKEY PAGE 1 white netting.

But then, a glimmer of hope peaks through the sea of players.

Kyle Bailey slaps the puck from in between the faceoff circles - breaking his stick in the process. The puck slides to the left of the crease and Jonathan Harty has the puck on his stick sliding it past the Mustangs’ Josh Unice.

The score is now 3-1.

“We needed a goal, you need a spark and the spark was the goal,” MacDougall says. “We just didn’t get that spark soon enough.”

Gallant and Clendenning stare blankly into the space between their water bottles.

“You develop this expectancy, and I’m sure there’s however many teams right now that are dancing around happy that we lost, right now,” Bailey says. “But in our dressing room, it’s an expectation that we’re, we’re expected to win.”

“We expect to win in our locker room. Didn’t happen today, it’s…”

“I’m sorry, I wish I could give a better answer.”

But that’s not good enough for the

Reds.

No. This third period team now has adrenalin.

Momentum.

Movement. One is good, two is better.

The second goal comes from captain Kyle Bailey.

We’re close, they think.

It’s now a 3-2 game.

We can do this. We’ve done it before.

The clock continues to tick down.

The crowd is on its feet.

The loss is getting closer.

The questions are winding down.

The cameras have stopped clicking.

“His legacy will live on here as long as anyone in that dressing room is still playing,” MacDougall says about Bailey.

“We’ve got a room full here of people who care about CIS, a lot of them here care about UNB hockey and our dressing room is full of special people,” MacDougall says about his players. “The toughest day in sport will be tomorrow.”

Clendenning is quiet.

Gallant is still staring into the void in front of him.

“We’ve got such a special group. It’s very difficult for these three guys to be

here, because they care so much.”

“They’ve been outstanding for us.”

Unice is stable in his net. He’s grounded and he’s ready.

The players come back to the ice after a TV timeout. The clock begins to countdown again. The Reds get the puck into Mustang territory. They push and shove and take a shot on the net.

The clock has 30 seconds left on it.

The Reds try, they push, they pass, they shoot and they prod.

One more goal and they’re in this.

The clock ticks to 10 and then finally settles on zero.

The fans are quiet and the Mustangs are loud. The zenith, in which the Varsity Reds peaked, fades away.

It’s quiet when everyone leaves, as there’s no cheering now. The players step back into the tunnel from which they came, and people fade from the stands.

Maintenance workers come out, and tidy up the fallen popcorn and debris from wishful cheering, and the Zamboni driver starts his motor. The slate is being wiped clean.

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Melissa Foster will travel to Africa for Right to Play Bronté James The Brunswickan

Foster will travel to Lilongwe, Malawai, in Africa for Right to Play. Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan

Crossing the ocean on a 33-hour plane ride, Melissa Foster is travelling to Lilongwe, Malawi, in hopes of improving nutrition and sport in the small village of Kuma, Africa.

Foster will be travelling to Africa through the Centre for Property Studies on UNB campus, and will be working with the Active Youth Organization.

“Our main goals are to organize a soccer tournament for the whole community, and working on gender equality to try and get the girls and boys to participate together,” Foster says.

“We will be working a lot on nutrition, have a community cooking class, eating healthier and have energy-efficient stoves.”

Foster and the other interns will not only discuss proper nutrition, but will also be travelling to schools to help educate about HIV/AIDS, as well as alcohol-abuse and other forms of substance abuse.

“I’m just interested to see what goes on during a daily basis, especially child-related because I feel like it’s going to be so different from here.”

“The kids here are used to going to school Monday through Friday and in a community-based child care [system], it is going to be completely different.”

Going on a three month long internship, Foster said she is excited to be surrounded by an entirely new culture.

“I’m looking forward to being in another culture and being immersed in it, and just learning a totally different perspective and new experiences. Hopefully I’ll be able to share some of my experiences with them.”

Having heard about the program from a girl who had been on the nine-month internship, and working with the Centre for Property Studies through Right to Play, Foster says one thing just led to the next and she was accepted into the internship.

With three groups spread out in Malawi, Luangwa and Mizzou, Foster says people are placed based on how they responded to their application.

“We can specify what we’d like to do.

I said that I’d like to be with kids, and involved in sports and physical activity,” Foster says.

“Depending on what you want to do they place you in a specific spot and I was placed in Malawi.”

Getting three vaccinations - including one for Yellow Fever - and taking Malaria pills to prepare for the trip, interns are expected to take every precaution necessary for foreign travel.

Interns have to prepare physically and mentally, too. A three-day course in April will teach them the community’s religion, culture and everyday routines. As well, Foster says she is required to take online courses and read modules before her trip.

With limited communication available, Foster says she is nervous about the distance she has to travel away from home.

“I mean, if you’re homesick it’s not like you can just pick up the phone and call home. I’m a little nervous about the whole experience in general, but I know that Malawi is a really safe country and I’m going to be in a group which will help too.”

At the end of her trip, Foster will be travelling to Rwanda for 10 days for a Global Youth Summit.

Having helped organize the Right to Play fundraising, Foster says she is looking forward to be being able to travel to these places and seeing first-hand the poverty, and knowing she is helping to make a difference.

“Youth from all over the world will be going to the conference in Kigali, Rwanda, so I’m very excited.”

“We’re going to learn about sport for development and basically we’re going to be looking at what Right to Play actually does in the field. We’re going to facilitate a play day and see how they actually use their tools and their sports and their games to teach kids.”

Although Foster originally wanted to practice medicine, her prospects have changed. Since she became involved in athletic organizations whose goal is to help underprivileged children, Foster is starting to focus on International Development.

“This will definitely allow me to see if I enjoy it, and if it is something I want to pursue.”

Foster says she can read and prepare herself to an extent, but things may be completely different once she gets there.

“I do know a lot of people who have been on the trip, and hearing their stories has helped; it’s already been a little eye opening.”

“I think it’s one of those things that you can try to prepare for, but no matter how much you prepare it’s still going to hit really hard once you get there.”