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Zombies on Gordon St?!

Students dressed as the undead to send a strong message about tuition prices NICOLE ELSASSER

Rashaad Bhamjee

Students rallied on the Day of Action, a Canadian Federation of Student initiative, to lower tuition fees and end poverty in Ontario. Many dressed as zombie’s while others carried tombstones; the theme of the demonstration being “the death of affordable education”.

Truscott initiative launched Panel discussion addresses issues in the legal system DANIEL BITONTI When Steven Truscott walked out of prison in 1969, part of his parole agreement was to live with his prison chaplain’s family. Mac Steinberg remembers the parole board’s decision coming much later than everyone suspected. It was until late October when Truscott walked out of prison. Steinberg took Truscott up to the family’s cottage just north of Kingston. While there, the two headed to Steinburg’s mother-inlaw’s house. But she wasn’t home.

So the two jimmied a window to the basement and let themselves in.

While walking up the stairs to the main floor something dawned on Steinburg. He turned to Truscott.

“You’ve been out one day and you already got me in on a B and E,”he said.

Steinburg’s story was one of many that had people laughing this past Friday night at a panel

discussion held at the University of Guelph, marking the official launch of the Truscott Initiative, an ongoing criminal Justice and public policy fundraising effort at the University of Guelph to support public lectures, scholarships, and ultimately a new Knowledge Exchange Chair that will be held by a succession of experts. Along with Steinberg, the panel included Hersch Wolch, a member of Mr. Truscott’s legal team, Irwin Cotler, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, as well as Steven Truscott his wife Marlene and their son Ryan.

But while some of the old anecdotes lightened the mood, the panel discussion was intended to draw attention to the serious issues that rose from Mr. Truscott’s wrongful conviction, many of the issues that the new initiative hopes to address.

According to Professor Alun Joseph, dean of the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, “the Truscott case is symbolic >

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The weather on Thursday Nov. 6 was terribly strange; the sun shining one moment, grey another, then hail, a little snow and back again.

The citizens were perplexed by these eerie weather conditions and then suddenly it all made sense. From the University of Guelph, descending upon the downtown was a hoard of zombies, demanding this time, not human flesh, but lowered tuition fees.

University of Guelph students, as well as prospective university students still in high school, painted their faces to resemble the undead and walked in this supernatural procession to rally for reduced tuition costs on The Day of Action, a Canadian Federation of Students campaign.

According to CSA External Commissioner, Momina Mir, this demonstration was in response to some news that students are finding truly frightening.

“We’ve just been officially granted

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the title of paying the highest tuition in the country. That effects a lot of students, undergraduate students that obviously have to take out loans to go to school at Guelph, or their parents take out loans so that they can send their children to Guelph,” said Mir. Mir explained that the timing of the demonstration was crucial because the provincial government will be reconsidering its funding priorities, which could drastically affect the cost of education among other things.

“This is the ideal opportunity to put pressure on the government to listen to students concerns and keep that in mind when negotiating a new funding framework,” said Mir. “This campaign wasn’t just talking about funding cuts to post-secondary education, they were also talking about funding cuts to other social sectors like childcare for example or healthcare.”

As for the rally itself, Mir said that its strength was in the diversity of people who came to show their support be they current university students or those soon to be.

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Former child soldier speaks of his life’s tragedies but offers hope

Cheap plastic surgery from “mostly” trained doctors

NICOLE ELSASSER

The Holy Trinity Health Spa in Ghana is capitalizing on Westerners’ obsession with their appearance.

As well as offering most typical spa treatments, you can have a nose job or liposuction thrown in at a surprisingly cheap price. Attracting hundreds of foreign visitors a year, tourists can take advantage of procedures which may not be offered back home, from doctors that have “mostly” been trained at Western institutions. In Ghana, most people have difficulty accessing even basic health care, but according to the spa, the tourist dollars that are coming in will benefit the entire country.

On Tuesday Nov. 10, former child soldier and current peace activist, Michel Chickwanine, spoke in Peter Clark Hall at The University of Guelph of his experiences growing up during conflict in Africa as a part Peace Week. Chickwanine told his story on behalf of the organizations Me to We and Free the Children.

When speaking about his childhood, Chickwanine told of a day when he was five years old that changed his life forever. He explained that he had been taken by rebel soldiers from his village while playing soccer with friends and was forced to become a child-soldier.

He described that initiation process which involved rebel soldier’s cutting his wrist and rubbing a mixture of cocaine and gunpowder into the wound to induce insanity.

“A rebel soldier came up and he had a blindfold in his hand. He blindfolded me and handed me a gun but at five years old, the AK-47 was so heavy that I dropped it on the ground. The rebel soldier came behind me, picked up the gun, he put my finger on the trigger and he started yelling at me…so I pulled the trigger,” said Chickwanine.

“When he took off the blindfold, I looked at my hands and my hands were shaking and they had blood

dripping from them…when I looked on the ground, my best friend Kevin was lying there in a pool of his own blood. At five years old, I was forced to kill my best friend.”

Chickwanine continued to describe the painful events of his time in Africa like the rape of his mother and sisters by rebel soldiers, his time in a refugee camp in Uganda, and the murder of his father and sister for their political beliefs. Despite these tragedies, Chickwanine emphasized the beauty of Africa and his love for his homeland.

“I always felt that Africa is like a paradox. Two stories that always contradict each other,” said Chickwanine.

After living in a refugee camp, Chickwanine was able to immigrate to Canada where he attended high school in Ottawa. He explained that he enjoyed attending school in Canada but noticed something disconcerting about his fellow high school students.

“The one thing I noticed going through high school is how people complained every single day,” said Chickwanine. “What angered me the most was how everybody would say ‘I hate my school. I hate my teacher. I hate my math class.’ Here I am, an uncle of six with many of them back in Uganda. And everyday

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Michel Chickwanine, a former child solider, shared his experiences to students at the University of Guelph as part of Peace Week.

I give them a call, try to get in touch with them. And everyday they ask me ‘Can you send us a little bit of money to go to school.’ My friends had school for free and they are complaining about school.”

According to Chickwanine, one of the most important things to do

H1N1 vaccination update The risk of getting sick is not the same as the risk of succumbing FRASER PENNIE Last week the Ontarian reported that due to an unexpected shortage of the H1N1 vaccine, vaccinations on campus would only be available to people in certain high risk categories: pregnant women, children between six months and five years of age, healthcare workers, caretakers of

Unfortunately when a large proportion of the population is infected with a virus, you get the rare, rare case were someone young and healthy dies Dr. Tom Szakacs

infectious disease specialist

high-risk individuals unable to get the vaccine, people under 65 with chronic conditions, and residents of remote and isolated communities.

The general public would be able to receive the shot once the Ontario Ministry of Health gave Public Health clinics the green light to do so.

In light of this announcement, students are feeling on edge as they are bombarded by news stories about the deaths of a handful of healthy

individuals. One might even ask if it makes sense to vaccinate only certain individuals if so many people in the general public are getting sick.

According to infectious disease specialist Dr. Tom Szakacs, most people who are admitted to hospitals and succumbing to the disease are in fact in the designated high-risk groups.

“It looks as if a large portion of the population is getting sick, but the majority of people are not going to hospital,” said Szakacs.

“Most physicians are not feeling that [H1N1] is a worse influenza.

There isn’t much difference from the regular seasonal flu except that it is a new virus. Because of that, you are seeing more people affected by the virus.”

The unfortunate and rare instance in which a healthy person dies from the influenza virus may be attributed to the sheer number of people who become sick.

“Unfortunately, when a large proportion of the population is infected with a virus, you get the rare, rare case where someone young and healthy dies” said Szakacs.

“University students are at just as much risk of getting sick as some of the high risk groups that we have identified, but are not at significant risk of having complications from being sick.”

Given the current shortage of the vaccine, the Director of Student Health Services, Lynda Davenport, as well as Szakacs, both agreed that those most at risk of getting seriously ill must be targeted first.

to help is to educate oneself about these issues. This, he say, should bring about an attitude change.

“One lesson my father taught me was always appreciate what you have,” said Chickwanine. “Never show it off. Appreciate it because you never know when you’ll lose it.”

Day of Action “We have to pick out groups that we think pose the most risk of not necessarily getting sick, but of having complications from getting sick,” said Szakacs.

As it currently stands, University of Guelph Student Health Services has scheduled vaccination clinics until Dec. 1. These clinics will be available to those who fit the eligibility criteria defined by the Ministry of Ontario. According to Davenport, it is likely that the general public will become eligible to receive the shot during this time, although no definite date has been set.

“As soon as the ministry says we have an adequate supply and we can open the vaccine up to the general population, that is what we will do,” said Davenport.

In the absence of widespread vaccination, education and awareness have become the primary mitigation strategy of Student Health Services, says Davenport. “We are trying to teach and educate people as much as we can about how to look after themselves.”

In spite of discouraging news stories concerning H1N1, Davenport, who attributes media sensationalism to the public’s fears, believes the real story is one of success.

“When I think that in six months we’ve identified a disease that has put people at risk, first we learned how to manage it and contain it to some degree and now we have a vaccine to prevent it… I think that’s very impressive,” said Davenport.

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students so …you can actually put a face to an issue, you can localize it,” said Mir. “The point of the campaign is not just to lobby for current students but to lobby for students coming in later on which will be worse off than us. They’re going to be effected even more so by these policies that will be put in.”

And why zombies?

“We wanted to mark the death of affordable education now that we pay the highest tuition in the country,” said Mir. “That was the theme behind [dressing up like zombies] so we also had tombstones and if you read the messages on the tombstones it was that people died because of high tuition and we don’t want education to be a death sentence.”

Overall, Mir said she was pleased with the rally and emphasized that students can get involved with the price of their tuition in many ways even if they missed the opportunity to do it in costume.

“The Day of Action [was] just one channel out of many for students to voice their concerns,” said Mir. “The fact that we reached out to not only current students but also to prospective students was a huge success.”

Elvis is still one of the world’s biggest money-makers. A strand of his hair is up for auction on Nov. 14, and is expected to bring in over five hundred American dollars. Presley’s former barber gave the strand to its current owner in 2002. The barber apparently would dye Presley’s hair black, cut it, and then save the clippings. He has been selling them off strand by strand since Presley’s death in 1977. The strand currently up for auction comes with a certificate of authenticity, as well as a framed photo of the beloved singer.

Coffee is good for you again, but only a few cups a day Researchers at Harvard Medical School have found evidence to suggest that coffee could have many more health benefits than originally thought. The researchers say that coffee can help to prevent diseases such as cancer, type-II diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and heart disease. Although most well-known for its caffeine content, coffee actually contains a variety of other vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.

However, doctors still warn that this is not a licence to drink as much as you want. Enjoy in moderation, that is, a few cups a day.

A new ocean?

The world is seeing the beginning of a new ocean. In 2005, a huge 35mile rift opened in the middle of the desert in Ethiopia. Within days, the rift was over twenty feet wide.

At the time, geologists speculated that it was a new ocean forming, as two parts of Africa pulled apart.

Several other scientists, who found that the volcanic processes at work in the Ethiopian desert are nearly identical to those on the ocean floor, have now confirmed this phenomenon. They believe that this is indeed the beginning of a new sea.

It has provided scientists with new information on sea rifts and how they behave, which is difficult to do at the bottom of the ocean.

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Young blood in the fields Younger generations’ farm life put off by costs and the chaotic market TOM BEEDHAM Less young people are getting into farming, and the Minister of State (Agriculture) is touring Canada to have roundtable discussions with groups of young farmers, students, teachers, and stakeholders to find out why.

On Monday morning, Minister of State (Agriculture) Jean-Pierre stopped by Johnston Hall at the University of Guelph to meet with three groups.

One of the obstacles seen as contributing to the ominous nature of getting a farm started is the difficulty of obtaining loans. Joe Dickenson, a beef and organic cash crop farmer from Oil Springs, Ont., recalled that when he graduated from the University of Guelph in 2003, and set out to work as a farmer full-time, “The first cost was the cow,” estimating the price of the cow at about $800. He went on to say that he took a loan on a baler that set him back $16,000. That was before the Canadian Agricultural Loans Act was in effect. Dickenson was, however, still able to obtain a loan because he had grown up on a farm.

Heather Smith, the Director General of Policy Planning and Integration Directorate for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), said that currently “Any farmer has the

right to go to a bank and ask for a loan and get the guarantee under the Canadian Agricultural Loans Act.” The Canadian Agricultural Loans Act (CALA) is a program that allows for maximum loans

Calling it “swine flu” makes people scared that if they consume pork products, they’re going to contract the virus—which is not possible—and it has had a very serious impact on pork markets.

Joe Dickenson to any one farmer of $500,000 (which Blackburn says is “double” what used to be offered) including existing farmers, beginning/startup farmers that have less than six years of farming experience, farmers taking over their family farms, as well as agricultural cooperatives with majority farmer memberships. Smith says that in the past, people “had to have a track record as a farmer before [they] could get this loan.”

Minister Blackburn suggested that prospective farmers pursue this option, as well as the options of Farm Credit Canada’s many services and Growing Forward.

Becoming a farmer is one thing, but becoming a successful farmer is an entirely different chore. A farmer’s success is ultimately determined by reception and purchasing in the marketplace, which is another variable all on its own. According to Joe Dickenson, there’s a major issue with trade.

He said that Canada’s problem is the “incredibly high standards for its producers,” while imported goods do not need to meet those standards.” This is a problem that he suggested leads people to “buying the cheapest good, which generally means that it’s produced at the lowest standards and shipped into Canada at the lowest price,” or farmers trying “to meet the lowest price, which generally doesn’t meet their cost of production.”

Blackburn said he hasn’t been approached about the recession in his roundtable meetings.

However, farmers have a lot of chagrin reserved for that other evil spirit of 2009, the H1N1 pandemic. Calling it “H1N1” might have circles giggling about some bizarre Star Wars droid, but Joe Dickenson says the reason H1N1 has impacted farmers so much has a lot to do with the connotations of the term “swine flu.” ‘“Swine flu” is a complete misnomer of the H1N1 flu,’” Dickenson said, adding, “it would have been called ‘Mexican flu’ but Mexican authorities were concerned that [the label] might affect tourists, so they blamed the pig.”

Dickenson claimed that this label has resulted in a fear that is grounded in anything but reality, regretfully noting “calling it ‘swine flu’ makes people scared that if they consume pork products, they’re going to contract the virus which is not possible. It has had a very serious impact on pork markets,” he said.

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Rashaad Bhamjee

Alexandra Delmonte reads a letter written by John Playford Hales, a Guelph resident and OAC graduate during World War I, at the University of Guelph’s Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11. The ceremony, held at War Memorial Hall, included speakers and veterans from both on and off campus and was well attended by students, staff and community members.

In the midst of Peace Week The University of Guelph takes one week to focus on peace with food for thought to last SAM MERRIFIELD It happens to be Peace Week at the University of Guelph and from November 8 to the 15 a variety of events will be on the campus calendar relating to the theme of peace. According to Bethany Klapwyk, a student organizer who is also a member of the Multi-Faith Resource Team, this includes both local

and global issues. She stressed that while the global context is important, the local one is often overlooked.

“Peace needs to start locally,” said Klapwyk, adding that there was a lack of awareness concerning local issues. “Hate crimes on campus for example… [they] occur a lot but a lot of people don’t know about them.”

According to Klapwyk, this wide focus comes with some drawbacks.

“I think it’s hard for people to understand that the different events that are going on are all part of [Peace Week],” said Klapwyk. “So it’s hard to create

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cohesion.”

Despite this, Klapwyk said that Peace Week has been receiving a great reaction from around campus. As she explained this, a group of excited students came over to join in some of the peace related artwork being created. Their enthusiasm was a tesament that Peace Week was succeeding; not only in getting students involved, but also in making sure everyone had a great time. “[We want] to get people talking about it, to get people thinking about it, [but while] having a fun time too,” said Klapwyk.

The events on offer included a talk given by Michel Chikwanine, a former child soldier who grew up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There were also numerous film screenings, a hate crimes vigil, a peace themed open mike, the University’s Remembrance Day ceremony, a lecture about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and a facilitated discussion about domestic abuse called “Peace at Home”. Furthermore, there will be a talk given by Jim Loney, a hostage survivor from the war in Iraq, on Thursday at 7 pm in room 103 of the University Centre. Then on Sunday at 8:30 am, a tour will be offered of a

Catholic Church, a Sikh Temple and a Jewish Synagogue. The tour will be meeting in front of the University Centre, by the bus loop.

Peace Week is being organized by a variety of University and student-run groups including the Multi-Faith Resource Team, the Central Students Association, the Jewish Student ‘s Organization, Student Housing Services and the Guelph Resource Centre for Gender Empowerment and Diversity.

“All [these] different people have become involved,” said Klapwyk. “That’s the coolest thing about it.”

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of the failings of the criminal justice system,” adding that the “Truscott Initiative is symbolic of this college’s commitment to programming and research that engage with fundamental questions in the field of justice studies.”

In 1959, Steven Truscott was wrongfully convicted of murdering his schoolmate Lynne Harper and was sentenced to hang. Truscott was only 14. His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment and in 1969 Truscott was paroled. Well before than, however, people had raised questions about the conviction.

It wasn’t until 2007, however, that forensic evidence finally trumped any last doubts that lingered regarding Truscott’s innocence. He was finally cleared of all charges.

In 2004 as Minister of Justice, Cotler was the one who decided that Mr. Truscott’s case needed to be looked at again, concluding in his own mind that a miscarriage of justice had taken place.

But Cotler was honest at the panel discussion about his goals when he took his portfolio.

“If you had asked me when I

became minister of justice what were my priorities, I would not have included the issue of wrongful conviction as being one of them,” he said. “In part because I was a

If you had asked me when I became minister of justice what were my priorities were, I would not have included the issue of wrongful conviction as being one of them.

Irwin Cotler former Minster of Justice and Attorney General of Canada by-product of a legal education programming that did not address the wrongful conviction issue when I was a law student.”

During the discussion, Cotler highlighted many of the issues surrounding wrongful convictions, issues he argues still lead to miscarriages of justice in Canada.

These include things like tunnel vision on the part of police, as well as the less frequently discussed issue of what Cotler called the “noble pursuit” where police and investigators engage in questionable

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The Truscott Initiative panel discussion held at Rozanski Hall last Friday night. and short-sighted techniques, justifying their work by saying it’s for a noble cause.

It was three weeks ago that Ryan Unger was finally acquitted in a Manitoba courtroom of the murder of 16-year-old Brigitte Grenier.

Unger spent 14 years in a B.C. prison for the sexual assault and killing.

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Truscott and Unger case that highlights the issues the initiative hopes to tackle.

The Knowledge Exchange Chair, for example, the ultimate goal of the initiative, would be held by a succession of experts including academics, legal practitioners, judges, forensic scientists or community activists who would tackle emerging

issues in the field of justice studies.

“The goal is for their research to result in policy options that will improve the operation of the legal system,” said Professor Byron Sheldrick, chair of the Department of Political Science, in a press release.

“And ensure that those who come in contact with it experience a system of justice.”

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A chat with The Most Serene Republic The indie band from Milton make it back to the Albion JOEY CZIKK Coming from a small high school in Milton, I never thought a few guys I passed in the halls everyday would make it big in the indie music scene. This all changed when Ryan Lenssen, Adrian Jewett, Nick Greaves and the rest of The Most Serene Republic were signed to the Arts & Crafts label following their debut release in 2004. Since then, the group has seen a steady progression to their current sound, just releasing their third album entitled …And the Ever Expanding Universe. I got a chance to sit down with the guys at the Albion before their show last Friday night to shed some light on the new album as well as their recent tour.

This past April marked the release of …And the Ever Expanding Universe, the first album which was not produced by Lenssen after the band recruited the producing talents of David Newfeld, most notable for his work with Broken Social Scene.

The new album seems to revolve around the theme of acceptance, this was evident in a more relaxed recording process. Jewett, the groups lead vocalist, had his take: “It was a lot more relaxed,” he said, “some days we wouldn’t get started until four o’ clock in the afternoon.”

Evidently, this relaxed atmosphere gave way to a successful record with a wide variation of sounds including songs like “No One Likes a Nihilist.” The song was performed live at the Albion on Friday night, reaffirming my opinion that it is one of the most beautiful tracks I’ve ever heard.

Mixed reviews saw some critics raving about the creativity and the multifaceted sound the band was able to create. Others

weren’t so kind, citing vocals and the wide range of instrumentation as lacking to fulfill a pure sound.

I asked Greaves how the band has approached some of these critiques.

“There’s always those people that love us and the people that hate us and that’s just the way it is,” said Greaves, “but we’re still around and nothing is going to stop us.”

Jewitt. Lenssen added: “We hit the hard stuff already. Now our teeth are sharp and we can bite into any steak we feel like.”

That being said, I inquired into what the future holds for this group of seven. Style-wise it seems that the direction the band will take may even surprise them.

“We can never really tell,” said Jewitt.

But in terms of more concrete

We know that we trust ourselves; whatever we do comes from an honest place Adrian Jewitt Among other subjects we touched upon, I made a point to ask Lenssen about the group’s song writing process. In a previous interview a few years ago with XM Radio’s The Verge, Lenssen commented that “Sometimes a song exists before we get there … that’s pretty much how our writing process goes. Depending on how good that one part is, maybe we’ll just switch the whole thing out, and often times the beginning track is vastly different from the end track. I like it that way. For us it’s a constant sense of discovery all the way through to the final product.”

With five solid years of song writing and producing under their belt, Lenssen and Jewitt have matured in their respective realms of producing music, putting yesterday’s barriers behind them. “We know that we trust ourselves; whatever we do comes from an honest place” mused

plans, the band does plan on releasing a new EP within the next few months, with style similar to Moody Blues, Supertramp and Yes, according to Lenssen.

After performing an up-beat version of “Present of Future End” as the expected last song of the night, an enthusiastic ovation from the crowd at the Albion saw the band come back for an encore performance of “You’re Not an Astronaut” before they headed out.

With their touring set wrapping up at the end of the month, as well as the release of their upcoming LP, the band is expected to continually reach new heights. Their live performance is really where all of their energy and talent as individual musicians is evident. Having said this, I will be awaiting their next arrival in the Royal City with open arms and open ears.

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Most Serene Republic frontman Adrian Jewitt performing songs from the band’s new album ...And The Ever Expanding Universe

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The graphic novel bike opera Le Cyc to play at Dublin Street United Church ZACK MACRAE “I would get up in the morning and pour a cup of coffee for myself and one for the project. And then pour a cup of wine for myself and one for the project,” he said.

Visual artist Dave Willekes commented on the process of using coffee and wine to paint 380 slides that visually represent the storyline of the graphic novel bike opera called Le Cyc. If you’re not exactly sure what a graphic novel bike opera is,

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The story of Le Cyc chronicles a bike-powered utopia turned rotten by the comically villainous dictator, Mis de Berm.

I would get up in the morning and pour a cup of coffee for myself and one for the project. And then pour a cup of wine for myself and one for the project.

Dave Willekes saxophone and clarinet player Martin Eckart who performs alongside Willekes’ visuals explains: “Dave’s hand drawn images that tell the story are projected onto a large screen and performed in tandem through lyrics and song.”

The idea came to vocalist and vibraphonist Andra Zommers and composer Eihab Boraie out of

necessity in the summer of 2006 when all of their friends were out of town. “Eihab would come up with these ideas and bring them to myself and then to Dave,” said Zommers.

“From there, Dave would help shape the formation of the story with his drawings; then we would toss those ideas to the other band members to work with.”

The six-piece band, accompanied

by Willekes’ dramatic images will be featured at the Dublin Street United Church on Nov. 20, a venue that the collective is excited to play.

Le Cyc was originally supposed to be a CD with a graphic novel booklet, but as Zommers states, “I think people started to get excited when they saw Dave’s images.” The

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project quickly blossomed into a full on opera: “Le Cyc fits into the operatic paradigm,” told Eckart.

“Where instead of having people on stage that are singing, acting and creating the picture for you, we have a physical image that is creating an image for you.”

The 380 images that Willekes created for the group, were drawn, for the most part during the bands rehearsals, creating a fully cohesive visual narrative that runs alongside the sound. The medium that Willekes used, coffee and day old wine served as fuel for both the artist and his work.

“I got into using coffee because I really enjoyed the tone that it delivered,” said Willekes. “And

I thought the wine was a good compliment to the coffee.”

As for the process of writing the music to further narrate the story of this intricate and crowded bicycle dystopia, nothing was actually ever written down. Each member of the band brought their own ideas that, through much rehearsal became a comprehensive opera. “It was almost like playing hot potato,” said Zommers, referring to the

jam-like rehearsals where band member threw ideas back and forth to one another. The group has been tweaking the sound of the opera for quite some time, but has arrived at a sound that they are all happy with.

Le Cyc has shown all over Southern Ontario, the show at Dublin Street will be their last of the tour, putting the opera away for a later date as they concentrate on a new project.

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Cinema and social justice: GFoMM ZACK MACRAE & IRIS HODGSON “Getting out of your comfort zone and connecting with the world as a whole is fabulous. I felt so inspired watching the films and hearing the experts talk,” he said.

Tom Dowd, owner of Alma Gallery, reflects on the Guelph Festival of Moving Media that happened this past weekend in his and several other galleries around town.

“I think it’s fantastic for Guelph to have a festival of this sort,” said Dowd, who voluntarily lent out

the space in his gallery for the screening of four films. The festival ran all weekend, showing 15 films that raised questions and brought people together.

The festival is unique in that it is run almost entirely by volunteers such as Dowd. Carolyn Meili, venue and communications coordinator for the event, was one of only three part time staff working with the festival.

“We have about 40 volunteers who do incredible work,” said Meili. “Without them, we would not be able to function. We have

incredible volunteers that give their enthusiasm and talent throughout the entire weekend.”

For Dowd, letting the festival present films in his gallery gives him the opportunity to play a role in the community, and to provide people with a space to have meaningful discussion.

The films in the festival were the catalyst for much discussion over the weekend. Following every screening, a representative either from the film, or someone involved in the issue addressed, was available to talk and further the ideas

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presented in each screening.

This unique interaction created a discourse that took the viewer out of the usual passive role, placing him/her in a more active position – making the festival about more then just observing.

The subject matter of the films was not something you would see watching the CBC. Instead, each film placed the viewer into a position where they were likely to gain a different perspective.

This is precisely how the festival was able to localize international topics, making them relevant and

interesting to anyone with an open mind.

The reaction Meili has received from festivalgoers was overwhelmingly positive.

“People are saying that every film they see, they come away with something that has changed the way they look at the world,” she said.

In a society that is constantly becoming more connected, the festival recognized the importance of gaining varied perspectives, and placed an emphasis on humanity and unification.

Strangest Dream

Nollywood Babylon

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Strangest Dream

Nollywood Babylon

Picture yourself racing down one of the steepest hills in North Vancouver, the grey pavement under you, and the trees and homes on either side pulling away faster and faster. You reach a top speed of 70km per hour, with eyes squinting and hair blown back. As you pass pedestrians, for some reason they give you a funny look – they aren’t used to seeing a shopping cart move so fast.

In Carts of Darkness, director Murray Siple depicts the extreme lives of several homeless men who have adapted a sport into a lifestyle. Siple, who requires a wheelchair as a result of a car accident which left him partially paralyzed, attempts to document the lives of these homeless men as they collect bottles and cans on the streets of Vancouver in order to survive.

The film comments on the cycle of homelessness in Vancouver, with first hand accounts of the conditions of homeless shelters and the effects of homelessness, including criminal activity and alcoholism.

The freedom these men find in racing down impossible hills, in carts that would usually hold eggs and bananas, is inspirational to the few who seem to notice. Some of the values that these vagrant men carry are at the essence of human existence. These men are not “prisoners of the economic system” - they are free from obligation.

The film focuses on the struggle these peaceful yet adrenalin-seeking men have on a daily basis, with hilarious footage and completely candid conversation. I will never look at a shopping cart the same way again.

The world of The Strangest Dream is one of absurd scientific ambition. The urgency of scientists to build the atomic bomb for the Allies becomes the rush to build bigger, faster, and more effective atomic weapons- seemingly without considering the humanitarian, health-related, or environmental consequences. In this world, Joseph Rotblat is alone in his understanding that science becomes politics.

He asserts that scientists must seriously check their thirst for knowledge in a discipline that whets military and political powers’ thirst for bloodshed.

The film relies heavily on archival footage to show the atrocities of nuclear war – and the misguided optimism of the scientists who produce these weapons. Bombs explode, seemingly in slow motion. A group of fishermen, inadvertently too close to a test site, develop burns on their body days after exposure to radiation. American soldiers watching nuclear tests have “fallout particles” brushed off their uniforms with giant brooms.

As a response to this incredible reality, Rotblat founded the Pugwash Conferences in Pugwash Nova Scotia. In this small maritime town, Rotblat brought together a revolutionary group of internationally-based scientists to strategize for nuclear disarmament.

Though their countries were at war with one another, individual Pugwash members worked – and still work - for peace. The organization is now in its 52nd year, and is avidly working to pressure Obama to make good on his promises of increased nuclear disarmament.

The actors are budget, the camera gear cheap and the storylines impossible, but in the bustling streets and television sets of the Nigerian city of Lagos, Nollywood is telling the stories of traditional Nigerian oral histories.

Nollywood, the third largest national cinema in the world is growing rapidly and is giving voice to Nigerians who are proud that they are hearing their own stories, not the ones told by elitists in Hollywood.

The film focuses on and refers back to Nollywood director Lancelot as he bangs out his 157th film in a few short weeks.

Through telling the story of Lancelot, the film brings up many issues that surround the people of Lagos, namely the adoption of Christianity into an economically deprived country.

A growing trend in Lagos, Christian churches have infiltrated the traditional beliefs of the people and are promising prosperity and success while draining the wallets of a majority of the population.

Nollywood Babylon is an eye opening look into a world that the viewer may not have otherwise heard about, and provides a meaningful commentary on the struggle between tradition and modernity.

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Making time for tea

NICOLE ELSASSER KAREN O AND THE KIDS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE OST

WEEZER RADITUDE

Karen O, most famous for her role as singer/song writer in the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who also released an album titled It’s Blitz earlier this year, has now found a second career in movie soundtracks.

While It’s Blitz is Yeah Yeah Yeah’s most electro-rock album, Wher the Wild Things Are is almost entirely acoustic and very mellow.

On the Where the Wild Things Are original soundtrack, Karen O is joined by a plethora of famous people, among the most notable being, the rest of Yeah Yeah Yeahs line up, Bradford Cox (Deerhunter/ Atlas Sound), Aaron Hemphill (Liars) and (I’m assuming) a mob of kids.

I may be biased from the movie trailer, in which The Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” is used, but Where the Wild Things Are resembles the critically acclaimed Funeral.

However Where the Wild Things Are almost seems like a working copy with three reprises, “Rumpus Reprise”, “Building All is Love” and “Sailing Home”. In consequence, it leaves something to be desired. On first hearing the album, Wher the Wild Things Are sounds refreshing and youthful. However, on repeat it starts to bore. Originally, I thought about giving this album to my eight-year-old nephew, but with the exception of “All is Love” it really isn’t a kid’s album. This may or may not come as a surprise given that the movie is suppose to be for kids, but then again, what kid now-a-days remembers reading the book.

Over the past 15 years, Weezer has managed to isolate their fans into select groups. There are the die-hard Blue Album (1994) and Pinkerton (1996) fans who enjoy endless debates not unlike trekkies’ epic Picard vs. Kirk arguments.

Now with their 7th Studio album, Raditude, and the aid of touring with Blink 182 and Fall Out Boy this past summer, I wouldn’t be surprised if Weezer started to pick up a new pre-teen fan base.

The real disappointment with Raditude that most people will have is listening to it with the expectations that it will be a return to form.

Arguably, somewhere between Maladroit and Make Believe, Weezer made the conscious decision to forget about their alt. rock success and in turn, began on a track towards a more pop-rock sound. Perhaps the lyrics “Timberland knows the way to the top of the charts…” from the track Beverly Hills, foreshadowed Weezer’s new collaboration with producer Jermaine Dupri and Lil Wayne. YES! That’s right, it’s Weezer and it’s Weezy.

Unfortunately, Chamillionaire will have to sub in for live occasions, as Lil Wayne was recently arrested for gun possession.

Raditude doesn’t play all that well as an album, but has some great party singles that will no doubt be found next to Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA” in an iTunes playlist somewhere. Stay tuned for Cuomo’s solo collaboration with Lady Gaga (not joking).

Notable Tracks: “All is love”, “Rumpus”

Notable Tracks: “Cant Stop Partying”, “(If you’re wondering if I want you to) I want you to”

Recommended if you like: The Arcade Fire: Funeral, The Antlers: In the Attic of the Universe, Feist: The Reminder

Recommended if you like: The Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D., Taylor Swift: Fearless, Lil’ Wayne: The Carter III,

As an undergraduate in the throws of a late-semester academic romp, I can rarely find time to take a moment and be civilized. By the latter half of November, when taking time for a proper meal becomes an impossibility, what with group meetings, final papers and studying for midterms, I find myself standing up in my kitchen eating Lucky Charms and Fruit Loops for every meal of the day.

The picture I painted may be bleak but I am not alone in my end of semester dysfunction. Whatever your poison, be it cereal or otherwise, it is hard not to give in to the chaos of the semester’s end, and harder still to make time for simple gastronomic pleasures.

My answer to this dilemma invokes an age-old tradition, the epitome of leisure, and a delicious way to take a proper study break with friends.

Teatime.

In many places, but most notably in Britain, there is a wonderful, almost mandatory time of the day where one is called to do nothing but sit down with a hot tea and something sweet to simply unwind.

While in most student homes this tradition is generally not observed, there is something to be said for introducing some leisure to the pandemonium.

While using any tea is acceptable, if authenticity is what you crave, an orange pekoe like Red Rose is the best bet.

You’ll find no shortage of foods to enjoy with your hot tea and if you find yourself scrapped for time, there is no shame in picking up some shortbread cookies or scones from

the store beforehand. This being said, scones fresh out of the oven are unbelievable and they are so simple to prepare that it would be worth it to try your hand at baking them just once.

Something worth noting on the topic of scones is that, while they can be delicious eaten as they are, there is a ritual to eating them that really adds to the experience. If you find it possible to come across a jar of Devon Double Cream, buy it with this in mind. Split your warm scone in half and smooth a dollop of the thick cream on each half. Top the cream with some strawberry or raspberry jam. And then enjoy.

After you’ve eaten a scone this way, I would venture to say that you’ll be hooked.

Expect teatime to take about an hour, but it will work wonders for making a dysfunctional student, if only for a short time, feel like a “civilized” lady or gentleman.

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Recipe for scones INGREDIENTS 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 cup white sugar 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1/4-cup butter cut into oneinch pieces (room temp.)

1 cup milk

DIRECTIONS Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Grease a baking tray or line it with wax paper to cut down on clean up. Combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.

Combine the butter with the dry mixture by using a pastry cutter or fingertips until it looks like fine breadcrumbs. Add the milk and mix to form a smooth dough, it may be sticky but not to worry. Knead on a floured surface for about ten

seconds but try not to handle the dough too much as it will become tough. Cut into dough with a cup to form the proper scone shape and place on the baking sheet. Bake for approximately 12 minutes or until the scones are just slightly browned. Enjoy as you see fit.

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Citizen Journalism: when the audience becomes the reporter

by Daniel Bitonti Joseph Samardzich isn’t a professional photojournalist. He sometimes does weddings.

But he figured that since he only lives a couple of blocks from the Carlu, the exclusive Toronto venue where Prince Charles and Camilla were arriving for a reception last Wednesday night, there was no harm in seeing whether a good photo op would present itself. Fearless, with his Panasonic Lumix firmly in his grasp, Samardzich casually blended in with the corps of professional photographers stationed in front of the entrance.

“I wasn’t nervous,” Samardzich recalled. “I just went right in there and started shooting.”

Mind you, most of the men and women he was now in company with were either staffers or freelancers for major publications like the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, or websites like CBC.ca.

Within hours of capturing the royal couple, Samardzich’s photos were uploaded onto mybreakingnews.ca, a CablePulse 24 website.

They certainly weren’t the most spectacular images captured by a camera, but they were of royalty nonetheless, and Samardzich could say he took them.

There was one of Prince Charles, dressed in a pinstriped navy blue suit, looking straight into Samardzich’s lense.

He also snapped one of Camilla, wearing a pearl necklace with a purple ruby in the middle that was seemingly as large as the British Isles.

Samardzich is a citizen journalist.

And he was probably one of many in the crowd that night in front of the Carlu.

Citizen journalism made headlines two weeks ago when arguably the best-known Canadian example of the craft was honoured.

On Oct. 27, Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression honored British Columbia native Paul Pritchard with a citizen journalism award for videotaping RCMP officers tasering to death Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport. The footage was eventually released to major media outlets and an investigation into the RCMP ensued.

While a debate exists on the exact meaning of citizen journalism, mainstream and alternative media outlets across the continent have honed in on the potential of having a large citizenry armed with high definition cameras, ready to upload images and videos.

But snapping photos and uploading video is just one form of citizen journalism. Innovative reporting techniques continue to shed light on the power of enlisting ordinary people in the news reporting process. Websites, far from the mainstream fold, have also sprung up, encouraging people

the GTA. As with the storm, content is sometimes even aired on television. to break the story themselves.

And a quick visit to the site shows that citizens are reporting The audience becomes the on everything from fires to road reporter accidents to coyote sightings. Andre Ozegylani, an airport baggage August 20, 2009 is a date that handler and pilot, sent in pictures will go down in infamy in the of a “freak ice storm” at Pearson Greater Toronto Area. Early in the International Airport last Tuesday, evening, a super-cell storm hit the telling the Ontarion that “he takes pictures like that every day at work.”

“You’d be daft to pretend that it doesn’t exist and that it doesn’t help you,” said St. Germaine. “It’s the access to places we wouldn’t normally be able to cover due to things like restrictions.

Paul Sullivan manpower Right now, we have former editor-in-chief of Orato.com hundreds of thousands of people walking around who are potential GTA with massive lightning strikes reporters, for any given story at any and a tornado that ripped through given time.”

The rise in citizen reporting is the city of Vaughan, demolishing homes and leading to the death of a a result of what Dan Gillmor calls six-year-old boy. It was also a night the “democratization of the tools of that will go down in the history media creation and media access.” books at CP24, a Toronto cable Gillmor is the author of We the television specialty news channel. A Media, a 2004 book chronicling total of 1.2 million viewers watched how the Internet is helping CP24’s breaking news coverage of independent journalists combat the the storm. Never had the station had consolidation of traditional media. such a large audience between the The former San Jose Mercury News 7pm and 11:30pm time slot, up 150 technology writer is considered per cent over an average summer weeknight.

“We had one of the greatest days on television during the tornado and that was due to the fact that we got over 1, 500 viewer submissions of videos and photos that we were sharing live on air as the story was unfolding,” said Perry St. Germaine, the supervising web producer of CP24.com.

“When it first happened, we had a couple of photos come in. But once the viewers saw that we were showing videos and pictures of the storm and the tornado, the floodgates opened.”

But then it evolved into the audience sending in video and photos of the damage of the storm.

“People went around after the fact, sending us damage photos. While we had crews on the ground, the crews couldn’t hop Paul Pritchard’s 2007 video of Robert over fences into people’s Dziekanski being tasered by RCMP. back yards to show us what happened. It was citizens who by many to be citizen journalism’s felt compelled to share this with us.” biggest advocate.

“There was a Pulitzer Prize Mybreakingnews.com is a relatively new addition to the given in the 1930s for a compelling CP24 media lineup. But the site is photograph of a car hanging over very much in sync with what some the edge of a bridge, caught by analysts call the changing media someone who was not a professional ecosystem. Launched last year, the photographer,” Gillmor told the site is intended to exclusively display Ontarion. “We’ve come from that user-generated content from around being a remarkable event to capture

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Having former sex-trade workers in the courtroom sovering it simply gave a perspective you couldn’t get anywhere else.

Joseph Samardzich’s photos of Prince Charles and Camill, Duchess of Cornwall at the Carlu in downtown Toronto. in the 1930s because having a camera was not that common, to the day coming when most people will be walking around with high definition video capturing devices all the time.”

Gillmor points to several key moments in recent history that highlight the potential of citizens engaging in journalism. During the London subway bombing in 2005, photos taken by commuter Alexander Chadwick on his cell phone were distributed by the Associate Press and appeared on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post. After hurricane Katrina hit the southern United States, Richard Chacón, the ombudsman for The Boston Globe, brought up a dilemma in an editorial.

“Assigning too many people for what might turn out to be a smaller storm is a loss of valuable resources in a time of tightening news budget,” said Chacón. “But not having enough reporters and photographers on scene when tragedy breaks leaves readers feeling underserved.”

Citizens stepped in to reconcile this very problem. Both cnn.com and msnbc.com set up forums where citizens could share their stories.

On msnbc.com, Tara Madison was able to share her compelling story with readers, a story that couldn’t have been relayed by traditional journalists given her situation.

“I went to Bogalusa, La., which is 90 miles NE of New Orleans, on Friday to spend time with my husband and his family to help them move,” she wrote. “By the time we realized that Katrina was headed our way it was too late. He has elderly grandparents who need oxygen, insulin, and is in a wheelchair and we could not leave. I was forced to remain in Bogalusa to ride out the storm. New Orleans is not the only affected area in Louisiana. Bogalusa was torn to shreds.”

An emerging medium Successes in citizen journalism during events like Hurricane Katrina led CNN to launch their ‘iReport’ website in August of 2006.

Like mybreakingnews.com, citizens simply upload videos and images.

During the April 2007 shootings that killed 32 at Virginia Tech

University, the network used a cell phone video of police and audio of gunfire that was posted by a graduate student, Jamal Albarghouti, once again giving proponents of citizen journalism another shining example to point to.

And there continues to be a slow but evident shift into more participatory journalism by other mainstream news outlets.

Early this year, the Washington Times, a D.C. daily newspaper with a circulation of roughly 85,000, introduced a citizen journalist’s page in their A-section as an additional page of Metro coverage. Each citizen journalist is provided a set of rules for their reporting and news writing, as well as copies of the Times’ policies governing ethics, anonymous sources and other journalistic standards.

North of the border, CBC News Vancouver has recently added an addition to their website called ‘Tell your Story,’ which asks citizens to literally tell their stories.

“Witness breaking news? What’s happening where you live? What’s important to you? What counts in your community?” the CBC asks.

CBC Edmonton’s ‘youCast’ allows viewers to submit story ideas and footage in all stages of production.

You can submit the story “ready to go” or “simply pitch us your story.”

Segments air each Monday during the six o’clock news.

Whatever the approach mainstream outlets are taking, Gillmor thinks that not enough is being done to truly sap citizen journalism’s potential in the digital age.

“I think it should be a standard part of the journalism tool kit,” he said. “My only question is, will it be too late by the time most traditional media companies get around to figuring it out?”

What excites him are some of the lower profile projects that some outlets have actually gotten around to figuring out. He talks particularly highly of the journalistic tool of crowd sourcing.

In 2006, the Fort Myer NewsPress, the daily newspaper in Fort Myers, Fl., was following a story that began with a complaint familiar in both big and small towns: there was mismanagement in local government. Certain Cape Coral residents were being asked to pay as

com would be moving away from citizen journalism and back to the traditional model paid professional journalism, Sullivan said that when he had the reigns, his whole take on it was to “aggregate in an interesting way, citizen journalism, ideas, reports and stories.”

Under Sullivan, contributors on orato.com were pretty much free to post as they wished. Excessively restricting the presentation form of user content was something Sullivan was opposed to. There were of course, simple rules, “rules of the sandbox,” as Sullivan likes to put it.

“We would say, if you follow these rules, which were pretty general and pretty open and made common sense, you can post your story on the site,” Sullivan said. “You should have seen our filters. There was a vast array of euphemisms for ‘go f--- yourself ’ that I had never dreamed were possible. But our filters would flag that stuff and kick it back.”

According to Sullivan, users would clean up their work because they wanted to participate in the processes.

“We took all comers and it was pretty successful.

We had surprisingly high visits per month and we got twenty to thirty stories every day,” he added.

Orato.com is just one example of a usercitizen David Hazinski generated journalism website in the journalism professor at Grady College alternative media world.

Dozens are popping up all over the web, engaging showed all the potholes in the city. in activities that range from citizens In both examples, Gillmor argues, uploading video, writing stories, not one single journalist could to engaging in crowd sourcing have undertaken such an enormous projects like the one in Fort Myers. project. He says the potential to Take nowpublic.com for example, do a cross-national investigative a Vancouver-based website where piece is now very real when citizen users are given all the tools needed to publish a story. In fact, there are journalists are added to the mix.

“Crowd sourcing can range ‘how-to’ tutorials on creating slide from asking people to ask one single shows. Like orato.com, the website question and then figuring out the has all the basics covered: there is a results mean, or getting anecdotes section for local news, world news, or getting facts for a single story,” culture, the environment, health, Gillmor said. “But not much of this style and sports. Contributors can is taking place in traditional media. get involved at any level. One story But tons of it is taking place outside by a citizen journalist, “Afghanistan: Allies uncover cache of bomb of it.” making materials,” is nothing more “We took all comers and it than a one sentence synopsis of a story coupled by a long quote from was pretty successful” a New York Times article. In only For Paul Sullivan, what it all seven hours, it had 60 views and comes down to is breaking down the nine comments. traditional barriers that mainstream But it is not so much articles media has imposed. And mind like these that Gillmor argues you, this is coming from a guy readers and mainstream media who served as western editor of the should look to for inspiration. It’s Globe and Mail, managing editor of the local bloggers, or place bloggers, the Vancouver Sun and editor-in- who write detailed accounts about chief of the Winnipeg Free Press. the places where they live and the Up until recently, Sullivan was experiences they have that are of the editor-in-chief of orato.com, the greatest value. In his estimation, a news website where the majority people should look to the alternative of the content is generated by media for unique perspectives that everyday citizens who are witnesses people can provide to certain stories to the events they cover, and – even if it’s not as professional. sometimes even the protagonists When orato.com provided a in their own stories. While it was unique perspective to a story in recently announced that orato. 2007, the story became a story in much as $28,000 when public utility (water, sewer, irrigation) lines were installed in front of their houses.

Instead of doing months of investigation and then delivering ‘final’ answers, the Fort Myers newspaper asked readers in both print and online forums whether they had seen or experienced mismanagement themselves.

Reader response shocked newspaper editors. Readers phoned in with their stories; some took the investigation into the newspaper’s online forum. Some even posted public documents. Others simply shared stories with one another. The result: an unearthing of several layers of evidence of city corruption. City officials were subsequently forced to answer citizen’s questions in a town hall meeting and address the issue raised by the investigative piece.

Gillmor also points to the less controversial crowd sourcing project that the Bakersfield Californian newspaper website undertook.

Readers there generated an elaborate and detailed map that

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To say I am a journalist because I call myself one is to say I am a citizen surgeon becuase I have a knife.

itself. The website decided to hire two former sex workers to cover the trial of Robert Pickton, a B.C. farmer who was charged with killing 26 women, many of them prostitutes and drug users from Vancouver’s East End. Understandably, there was harsh criticism from the mainstream media. Sullivan, the editor-in-chief at the time, defended his move.

“You’ve got 300 people accredited to this trial. There’s going to be a surfeit of coverage,” he said. “Every dimension of the trial is going to be covered. We have to think about it in the context of that fact, that we’re a dimension of coverage.”

Nearly three years later, Sullivan feels the same way. These hired citizens journalists were women from very similar situations to those that Pickton targeted, he explained.

Their perspectives on issues that came out of the trial were unique, and certainly there was value in their interpretation.

“It became very infamous,” he said. “But having former sex-trade workers in the courtroom covering [the trial] simply gave a perspective you couldn’t get anywhere else,” said Sullivan.

plummeted.

“There are always things you need to be suspicious of…whether or not this is really happening, or whether or not these are real shots.

People sometimes like to play with the media because we are a really big target,” said St. Germain, about mybreakingnews. He said one way the site protects itself is by trying to distance itself from the user content by having users sign an agreement that says what they submit is their own work. When CNN relaunched iReport last year, they took a highly controversial route, only monitoring the content once its was uploaded. CNN proudly

profession is.”

His primary concern is with new outlets, like CNN, not thoroughly checking the information that comes from citizen contributors, a procedure he says happens regularly with paid professions. He turns to a specific Canadian example that highlights the potential dangers.

In 2007 an amateur YouTube video of a ferry battling rough seas was incorrectly identified as a Marine Atlantic ferry battling the Cabot Straight between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Parts of the clip were shown on Newfoundland’s NTV, Global’s station in Halifax, CTV’s Canada AM and several

Answering the critics Social networking certainly has a very important place in the citizen journalism discussion.

Facebook claims to connect over 250 million people, while some estimates claim18 million people will be tweeting by the end of 2009.

Twitter users broke the news of the U.S Airways plane that crashed into the Hudson River, about 15 minutes before the mainstream media alerted viewers and readers to the crash. The first recorded tweet about the crash came from Jim Hanrahan, know in twitterdom as Manolantern, four minutes after the plane went down. “I just watched a plane crash into the hudson riv [sic] in manhattan.”

But critics are turning to the recent Fort Hood shooting as an example of citizen journalism going terribly wrong. Last Thursday, when an armed officer shot 13 people at the army base in Texas, the first news of the shooting didn’t come from a mainstream media outlet, but from the Twitter account of a solider stationed at the base. With the base in lock-down, mainstream news reporters were getting little, if any, information. But the soldier inside the base was tweeting away.

In one of her tweets she reported that the gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, had died.

Turns out she was wrong. He was later captured alive.

And all along, this soldier was encouraging people to send her information to mainstream media sources.

This was not the first high profile case of a citizen journalist getting it wrong. A fake report on CNN’s iReport last October claimed Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack. Apple stock subsequently

The misidentified Marine Atlantic ferry battling the Cabot Strait. The video turned out to be of a ferry in New Zealand. says on its website that stories in the section are not edited, factchecked or screened before they are posted. Only those stories with the CNN badge have been edited for content.

“To say I am a journalist because I call myself one is to say I am a citizen surgeon because I have a knife,” said David Hazinski, a journalism professor at Grady College at the University of Georgia and a former international correspondent with NBC. In 2007, Hazinski wrote an op-ed piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that became a cause celebre for the passionate advocates of citizen journalism.

“Education, skill and standards are really what make people into trusted professionals. Information without journalistic standards is called gossip,” he wrote.

Hazinski said he ended up with death threats because of what he wrote. He also said he now realizes that there are a group of people right now who don’t know what journalism is, who don’t know the tenets of journalism, but yet they want to call themselves journalists.

“In other words, they don’t want editors or two source confirmation.

They don’t want first party verification,” he told the Ontarion in an interview. “They just want to say whatever they want and call themselves journalists. I’m sorry I just don’t think that’s what the

local CTV news broadcasts around the country. As a result of the incident, several passengers cancelled their bookings.

But Sullivan sees risks of misinformation occurring all the time, regardless of whether it’s citizen journalism or professional journalism.

“I think saying it’s true still doesn’t make it true,” Sullivan said.

“I can put together a blog and make it look authoritative, but I could be talking through my hat. But it’s the same old story. Don’t believe everything you read in print. Don’t believe everything you read on a blog.”

Sullivan sees resistance to the changing media ecosystem as an attempt to preserve a traditional order that has long had its day – a traditional model that sees paid journalists and major media outlets as the “gatekeepers” of information.

“I’m glad it is to a certain degree that role is compromised through all of this. I don’t think we should have gatekeepers of information,” Sullivan said. “We should have standards of information. And when we give all of the power to professionals or to mainstream media, to the people who take advertising, to what degree is that a compromise of the truth?”

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Young Gryphons off to rough start Rookie-laden team suffers a pair of weekend defeats RYAN CUNNINGHAM It was by no means the ideal start for the 2009-10 Gryphon men’s basketball team.

The Gryphons hosted a pair of weekend games to open their 2009-10 season, and the results were less than favourable. They dropped a pair of losses against the two schools from the nation’s capital, Carleton and Ottawa.

Despite the losses, the team can at least look at Friday’s home opener against Carleton as a game that was just stolen from them, losing 75-74 in the last seconds of the game. Carleton came into the game ranked number one in the country, having won two consecutive national titles. “[On Friday], we played with a tremendous amount of heart and we made everything happen that we needed to,” said head coach Chris O’Rourke of the Carleton defeat. “[On Saturday], we just played very, very passive and we just weren’t focused and disciplined enough.”

The first half of Friday’s game remained fairly even. With the score deadlocked at 18 after the first quarter, the Ravens went into halftime with a 38-30 lead. The second half remained close as the Ravens lead never exceeded eight points and the fourth quarter kept fans on the edge of their seat as Gryphon rookie Drew Morris and veteran Jay Mott drilled a pair of key three-pointers, bringing the Gryphons within one point of the Ravens. Michael Petrella, who had a team-leading 22 points, gave the Gryphons their first lead

with a driving lay-up with just five minutes to play.

With 11 seconds left, leading by one, the Gryphons gave up a costly turnover on an errant inbound pass, and worsened the situation by committing a foul, sending the Ravens’ Kyle Smednziuk to the line. Smednziuk hit both free throws to give the Ravens the lead.

The Gryphons could not respond on their final possession when Morris’s last-second shot attempt fell short.

Gryphons soccer awards First-year striker Rob Murphy has been named OUA Rookie of the Year. Murphy scored five goals in 12 games to lead the Gryphons.

Murphy was also named as a first team all-star, along with defender Ben Ragan. It was Ragan’s third allstar nomination but the first time he’s been named to the first team.

Midfielders Ignacio Lagos and Steve Johnstone were named second team all-stars, the first such award received

by Lagos and second nomination for Johnstone. The Gryphons fell 3-2 in a shootout to the McMaster Marauders in the opening round of the OUA playoffs.

Every one of these rookies stand out.

They have all been thrown in the games, and all of them have played really well.

Jay Mott

Player of the Year

Gryphon forward Saturday’s game simply didn’t possess the intensity of Friday’s match-up. Mott led the team in scoring with 12 points, but was fouled out early in the third quarter after being assessed a technical foul for arguing a call. No other Gryphons were able to step up in his absence as Mott remained the only Gryphon to reach double figures in scoring. Nick Walters did play well off the bench, scoring eight points and bringing some much-needed energy.

A lack of offence and a mediocre defensive effort resulted in an 80-53 loss to the Gee Gee’s.

Guelph was outscored in every quarter except the second and shot only 32.7 per cent from the field.

“It’s a young team and there are a lot of positives when guys are

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Gryphons rookie forward John Brutto (left) has his shot defended by Carleton’s Cole Hobin. working hard – you can’t expect much more than that,” said Mott.

“Every one of these rookies stand out. They have all been thrown in the games, and all of them have played really well.”

Probably the most significant

thing to note about this year’s Gryphons is that they are young.

Really young. The departures of star players Duncan Milne and Nick Pankerichan, as well as Chris Scott, Jimmy Seymour, and Charles Agyemang, make this season a huge turnover year.

“We are young,” O’Rourke said. “We have one fifth-year guy (Mott) and everybody else is in their third year or younger. It’s a lot of turnover, and sometimes when that happens, it takes time [to find] chemistry.

“We have lots of good rookies with a lot of potential,” O’Rourke continued. “All of them can bring something to the table. With the injuries (to Dan McCarthy and Jon Moscatelli), [the rookies] are trying to figure out what roles are best for them. The learning curve is going to be tough for some of them.”

These standout rookies include guards, Adrian Achonwa, Morris and Grace Lokole, forward Matt Howlett, and centres John Brutto and Colton Hood, who brings a massive six-foot-ten frame to the floor.

The Gryphons are a young team that has shown promise, having taken the number one Ravens right to the last second.

Despite needing the time to find themselves and establish team chemistry, the Gryphons will be an interesting team to watch as they continue to grow.

Brienne Stairs of the Gryphons field hockey team has been named CIS Player of the Year. Stairs led the league with 30 goals in 14 games, besting her mark of 22 goals that led the league in 2008. Stairs was also named as an OUA first team all-star and was joined by teammate Kristine Wishart on the first team, the fifth such nominations for Wishart. Fellow Gryphon Angela Lancaster was named a second team all-star.

Henry wins bronze at nationals Representing his home province of Ontario, Gryphon rower Mark Henry won a bronze medal at the Canadian national rowing championships, held at Lake Fanshawe in London, ON. Henry’s victory came in the Lightweight Men’s Single Sculls race. Henry was one of the top Gryphon rowers throughout the season, taking victories in numerous singles and doubles races, including a silver medal at the OUA championships in the Lightweight Doubles race with teammate Jakub Kwiecinski.

H1N1 cancels women’s games, men split games with Lancers The Gryphon women’s hockey team had their two weekend games against York and U of T postponed due to confirmed cases of H1N1 among Gryphon players. In accordance with OUA policy, they will be rescheduled for a later date.

On the men’s side, the Gryphons (2-5-2) split a pair of matches with the Windsor Lancers, defeating the home side 2-1 on Friday, only to lose by the same score on Saturday night. Jake Lalonde, Jon Thomas Macdonald and Ed Gale were the Gryphon goal scorers.

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Back on the podium Gryphons capture third consecutive bronze medal at national championships MIKE TREADGOLD For the third consecutive year, the Guelph Gryphons women’s rugby team has finished among the top three schools in the country.

Following a 15-10 victory over the Concordia Stingers on Sunday, the Gryphons finished the CIS national tournament in third place, bringing home yet another bronze medal.

The round-robin portion of the tournament, beginning on Friday, put the Gryphons in tough.

A 5-0 win over the host UBC Thunderbirds got the Gryphs off to a great start; however, a 10-10 tie against St. Francis Xavier forced the Gryphons into a semi-final match against the defending champion Lethbridge Pronghorns, the team that held the top national ranking throughout the season.

“The Lethbridge team was really strong, as were all the teams out west,” said third-year 8-man, Jacey Murphy, on the level of competition.

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Brittany Benn (left) led the country in scoring this year with 13 tries and 12 converts in just five games.

“There’s a couple of players that really stood out and Lethbridge had a lot of speed in their back three.”

The Pronghorns had their way with the Gryphons en route to a 25-0 victory, the first loss suffered by

the Gryphons this season.

“It was definitely different,” said Murphy. “But we had to get right back into it and accept the loss, because we had to turn around and play again soon.”

OUA all-star and the league’s leading scorer, Brittany Benn, scored both tries and accounted for all of the Gryphons points in the round-robin, while Jane Kirby notched a pair of scores against Concordia. “[Concordia] scored a try and a convert late in the game so we were really just hanging on until the end,” said Murphy of the bronze medal finale. “But it’s always nice to be in a situation where you get to bring home some hardware.”

Benn certainly made a name for herself in the tournament’s opening games, having been snubbed by the OUA for Most Valuable Player honours just a week earlier. Brittany Sammut, the Gryphons fourthleading scorer during the regular season, was the other try scorer in the bronze medal game.

Despite failing to reach the tournament final, the 2009 season was a remarkable success for the OUA’s most dominant team. Having gone undefeated and virtually unchallenged in conference play, the Gryphons proved, once again, that they are the class of Ontario and deserve to be named among the nation’s best.

Benn and Murphy were both deservedly named CIS AllCanadians and were also featured on the OUA all-star team alongside teammates Catherine Wilson, Caitlin Beaton and Michelle Joslin.

“It’s my first time (being named) and I really didn’t expect it,” said a very humble Murphy of her AllCanadian nomination. “There are so many other great athletes in all the other conferences.”

While Sunday’s victory over Concordia may have been somewhat bittersweet, the women’s rugby team has left their mark on Gryphons athletics. The program, given its string of remarkable achievements, continues to be one of the most sustained successes on this campus.

You will never meet a more hardworking, modest, and team-oriented group of women than the Gryphons rugby team. Despite their abundance of individual talent, there is a clear understanding that resonates from the veteran all-stars down to the observant rookies: being a part of this team requires a commitment to development and team-building.

As Murphy alluded to, they win as a team and they lose as a team. That’s always the Gryphon way.

A near miss at nationals MIKE TREADGOLD After being undefeated in 14 regular season games, followed by two more wins in the OUA playoffs, the Guelph Gryphons field hockey team finally met their match in the national championships, falling to the University of Victoria Vikes, 2-1, in the bronze medal game.

The CIS championship tournament provided an entirely new test for the OUA champion Gryphons, who came into the tournament as the top-ranked team in the country. In the four round-robin games, the Gryphons compiled a record of 1-1-2, setting the tone for the bronze medal match against the host Vikes.

The Gryphons, who flew out on Tuesday, just two days after their OUA championship victory, played five games in four days.

Their western counterparts had already had a full week off since their conference championships and furthermore, the Gryphons were also playing on a water-based Astroturf surface that they were unfamiliar with. In conference play, the Gryphons were accustomed to turf-grass.

“It’s a very different game. You can slide to make tackles and score goals on Astroturf, whereas in Ontario, on turf-grass, your body won’t do that,” said head coach Michelle Turley. “It took time to adjust to that kind of surface that [western teams] were already accustomed to.”

In Sunday’s bronze medal game, the Gryphon hopes were crushed when Angela Buttress of the Vikes scored with just 12 minutes to play, propelling the Vikes onto the podium for the 25th time in 27 CIS appearances.

Throughout the tournament, the Gryphon offence struggled to establish the same scoring prowess that had propelled them to their conference title, scoring just nine goals in their five games played, while giving up ten. Furthermore, out west, the Gryphon players had to contend with the rigours of their academic obligations.

“Being on a semestered school system is tough,” said Turley.

“I administered exams for five different kids while we were out here too. They’re trying to study for their exams and prepare for games

at the same time.”

Despite their struggles out west, 2009 was nothing short of a banner year for the Gryphons.

“I am extremely proud. The group I had this year will leave a legacy,” said Turley, who has four players graduating from this team.

“The graduating players have gone to the national championships four times now and Guelph had never been there before (those girls went).”

The team cruised to a 12-0-2 regular season record, capturing the OUA championship with a 1-0 victory over the U of T Varsity Blues, the team that had defeated the Gryphons in the OUA championship game in 2008.

Brienne Stairs was named CIS and OUA Player of the Year, leading the league with 30 goals scored, her second consecutive scoring title. Stairs’ younger sister, Tegan, was named OUA Rookie of the Year in her inaugural season, giving the Gryphons a dynamic offensive duo that will play at least one more season together.

Brienne Stairs was joined also named to the CIS All-Canadian

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The ideal spread

Fast-food goers opting for an alternative to a traditional side JUSTINE BASKEY Sweet potatoes are not a new invention; they were not a concept invented in a laboratory to supplement any other type of food. They are one of Mother Nature’s gifts. What is new with sweet potatoes, however, is the number of places you can now go to get sweet potato fries as a substitute for regular fries. Many fast food chains offer them, and conveniently enough, the University of Guelph offers them in Hospitality Services as well.

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of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke,” when consumed at high levels. To its credit, however, butter is a source of vitamins A, D, E and K, and is also rich in trace minerals, especially selenium, a powerful antioxidant.

And as for margarine?

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What’s so sweet about ‘em?

ELIZABETH MCLEOD In the realm of all things spreadable, there exists an ageold battle. Depending on your perspective, this may be a battle of taste, health, ease of spread, or simply a choice between two evils.

But regardless of your issue, the butter versus margarine debate is one that has gripped toast and bagel lovers for years. In order to fully understand it, there are many factors to take into account, including taste, convenience, and of course, nutrition.

Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread, condiment, or as a cooking or baking ingredient. Recorded use of butter can be dated back to 2000 BCE and has been used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes as well as for eating.

In terms of health content, butter contains approximately 100 kilocalories (kcal) and 11g of fat per one tablespoon serving. Butter contains saturated fats which, as the Heart and Stroke Foundation explains, “can cause an unhealthy imbalance and increase your risk

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It is important to first distinguish between hard and soft margarine.

“Hard margarines, and those made with partially-hydrogenated oils, have lots of trans fats and should be avoided like the plague,” said registered dietician Mary Anne Dick. “Trans fats not only increase one’s LDL (bad cholesterol levels) but they also decrease one’s HDL (good cholesterol) levels.”

Soft margarines, however, such as Becel and Canola Harvest NonHydrogenated, have increased levels of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats – the socalled ‘good’ fats. When compared to the saturated fats in butter, these soft margarines may offer heart-protective benefits. The caloric content of margarine is approximately 70kcal per one tablespoon and fat content ranges from four to eight grams in a light version. Margarine does not, however, have the natural vitamins and minerals of butter, as it is a manmade product containing chemicals, all of which are approved by the Food and Drug Administration in Canada.

Nutrition facts aside, there are a number of additional factors which enter into the debate.

Ease of spreading is often touted as an important deciding factor in the battle, and generally soft margarine will take the cake in this aspect. The growing popularity of spreadable butter, however, is certainly making headway in the spread market.

In the world of cooking and baking, one option does appear victorious.

“Cooking and baking with butter makes for far more flavourful and aromatic dishes,” said Kayla McConnery, a U of G student and culinary enthusiast. “I swear by it when making my favourite recipe: a chocolate caramel truffle torte.”

In the everlasting battle between butter and margarine, there may not be a clear victor.

Does the taste and natural quality of butter defeat the healthconscious choice of soft margarine?

That’s for you to decide.

I do notice that people choose sweet potato fries more often, and perhaps they believe that they are a healthier choice.

Erin Armitage campus registered dietician

A large pull towards these new French fries is the fact that they boast lower levels of fat than regular fries. According to Reader’s Digest, sweet potato fries have more than eight times less fat than their traditional counterparts.

“I do notice that people choose sweet potato fries more often, and perhaps they believe that they are a healthier choice,” said Erin Armitage, registered dietician at the University of Guelph. “This is mainly due to the bad reputation that potatoes have gotten with our fear of

[carbohydrates].”

Sweet potato fries are not necessarily what you would call a replacement for french fries; they have distinctly different tastes, textures and colours. Armitage pointed out that there are many differences between the two types of fries. The colour difference alone exemplifies that.

“Sweet potatoes are lower in the glycemic index. They turn into sugar in our bodies slower than baking potatoes,” said Armitage.

“Their different colours indicate different nutritional content.

(Regular) potatoes are higher in vitamin C, whereas sweet potatoes are higher in vitamin A.” Many students may choose sweet potato fries over the originals because they believe they are a healthier option. However, upon deep-frying these sweet alternatives, the healthy parts essentially disappear.

“Suddenly you are adding more fat into the mix,” said Armitage.

“Deep fried foods may have more trans fats …the kind that lower your good cholesterol and raise your bad cholesterol.”

For many students though, there are other reasons they choose to go with the sweet substitute.

Bethany Klapwyk, a University of Guelph undergraduate student, chooses sweet potato fries essentially because she has to.

“I love sweet potato fries because I am allergic to regular fries. I have stomach sensitivity to a lot of food,” explained Klapwyk.

“It’s because I have low stomach acid, but my stomach can digest sweet potato fries.”

Other students just love the taste of sweet potato fries in comparison.

“I think they taste better,” admitted U of G undergrad Warren Dodd.

Preferring the taste, or replacing another food product that you can’t otherwise eat is a justifiable reason for enjoying and choosing sweet potato fries. But as Armitage explained, the health benefits should not be the reason that students choose them ahead of other options.

“I don’t believe that one is a ‘healthier’ choice over the other, whether they are baked and plain or battered and deep fried,” she said.

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MIKE TREADGOLD On Friday night, the Gryphons men’s basketball team opened their regular season against the Carleton Ravens. A quick glance at the schedule, rosters and team histories suggested that this was going to be a blowout – one not in favour of the Gryphons. The Gryphons were without two of their top players, as both Dan McCarthy and Jon Moscatelli watched from the sidelines with injuries and the Ravens, despite losing three OUA all-stars to graduation, were fresh off their second consecutive national championship, their fifth title in the last eight years.

Safe to say, the Ravens are a perennial powerhouse, while the Gryphons were left with two returning starters in Jay Mott and Mike Petrella, a handful of backups, and a slew of no fewer than six rookies.

If other Gryphon fans weren’t shuddering at the potential for a bloodbath in this game, I sure was.

Lo and behold, the new-look and undermanned Gryphons showed me up, and showed the entire league that despite all the unfamiliar names, the new kids on the block were here to play. The Gryphons fell 75-74 to the Ravens after a last-second shot attempt fell short, but nevertheless, the performance was incredible, in what was probably the most exciting basketball game that this campus has seen in years.

Mott and Petrella did their usual

thing, scoring 22 and 19 points respectively, with Petrella adding ten assists while Mott drilled five threepointers. It was the performances of the rookies, however, that kept the Gryphons close, particularly down the stretch.

Start with the bigs.

John Brutto, one of the topranked centres in Canada coming into university, sports a wingspan that is no less than seven feet wide. He was inserted directly into the starting lineup and made an immediate impact at the defensive end. In 16 minutes, Brutto grabbed four rebounds and two steals, despite drawing the toughest defensive matchup of the game, trying to guard against the Ravens’ Kevin McCleary.

Brutto was joined in the frontcourt by six-foot-ten Colton Hood, who played sparsely, but

showed a knack for attacking the basket and using his size effectively.

Matt Howlett was the third Gryphon forward to make an impact, scoring nine points in 19 minutes off the bench. He did a great job of bouncing back after struggling with his shots in the first half.

Now look at the guards, Adrian Achonwa and Drew Morris.

Achonwa was placed in the starting lineup for his first ever university game, and did not look out of place. His tenacity on defence and ability to drive and penetrate in the lane was definitely a welcome sign.

It seems that once again, head coach Chris O’Rourke has successfully recruited an outstanding local talent; Achonwa played high school basketball at Centennial C.V.I., the same high school where last year’s rookie standout, McCarthy, came

from.

Morris, a smallish point guard, was the rookie who really stole the show. With 12 points in 22 minutes, Morris received critical playing time from O’Rourke down the stretch, making big shots time after time, while protecting the ball, and even grabbed a pair of huge offensive rebounds, keeping drives alive despite his lack of size.

If you were to just look at the stat sheet, the performances of these players might look ordinary and uninteresting; however, on Friday night, their showings were far from the norm.

They came out and showed they belonged.

Speak into the Mike is a weekly column written by Mike Treadgold, taking an in-depth look at Gryphons athletics.

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Eat something sexy NATALIE MALTZ “Eat me, baby” takes on a whole new meaning when you mix food and sex. Whatever you have in the fridge can make your sex life so much tastier. While almost any food can be sexy, some are more traditionally erotic than others.

But the question remains: can you eat your way to better sex? Yes, but not if you’re the FDA. In 1989, the FDA turned a cold shower on the whole idea of aphrodisiacs, dismissing 5,000 years of belief as pure folklore. But who needs science? Let’s see how different foods can still maintain their status as aphrodisiacs.

Every culture dedicates some of its folklore to the subject of sexuality. Of course, the Ancient Greeks were no different; they had many different gods and goddesses who inspired love, desire and passion. The interest in aphrodisiac foods began when Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, rose from the sea on an oyster and then gave birth to Eros.

Here, the first aphrodisiac food was born. It is from Aphrodite’s name and legacy that we have aphrodisiacs: foods and other substances that are thought to increase sexual desire.

Apart from the food itself, increasing sexual desire hormonally (this is what the FDA is interested in) by using food during foreplay or while having sex stimulates some couples. For example, you and your partner can lick cream, or strawberries and cream, off of each other, as strawberries bear some similarity to both nipples and the head of a penis, while ice cream can represent semen or breast milk. We can now see that the FDA cannot rule out aphrodisiacs altogether; only when considering the credibility of aphrodisiacs as hormonal stimulants does

the FDA have any clout. This means that the FDA’s assessment of aphrodisiacs only includes, and thus is only credible, when considering aphrodisiacs in terms of chemical interactions within a person that increases sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone. The preferences of different partners and individual preferences of what a person deems erotic are left untouched by the FDA. Aphrodisiacs can be suggestive, rather than cause a physical sexual reaction.

Aphrodisiacs can increase

There is no doubt that foods themselves are extremely erotic, many of them resemble different parts of the human anatomy. and stimulate sexual desire and performance by the suggestive nature of the food, the way the food is presented and any thoughts associated with the food. That’s why for George, on Seinfeld, a pastrami sandwich was so hot! Though many foods have proven qualities, they also make us believe that they’ll raise our sexual desires…and chances are, they’ll work.

There is no doubt that foods themselves are extremely erotic, many of them resemble different parts of the human anatomy. For example, eggs and caviar remind us of the reproductive system.

Asparagus, bananas, onions, carrots and oysters, also remind us of sex organs, and therefore, have been categorized in many cultures as erogenous foods.

Food can stimulate us in different ways: through touch, taste or smell. Of course, different ways that we relate to food are very important for releasing its erotic qualities. Imagine asparagus, dripping with hot butter and eased into your partner’s mouth with your fingers; eating sushi off of your partner’s body; even spanking your partner with liquorice!

Now that you’re ready to experiment with food and sex it is important that you take note of your partner’s allergies and intolerances before you head to the kitchen. Keep in mind that when playing with food, the food will come into contact with supersensitive erogenous zones. Though a mild allergic reaction might cause an uncomfortable rash, a more serious allergic reaction

could lead to anaphylactic shock or even death. To be safe, avoid using foods that you or your partner has reacted to negatively.

If you are prone to, or concerned about possible irritation or infection, use a lubed condom over whatever food you will be using. If food is to be passed between orifices, an alternate food or a new lubed condom is needed.

People need to avoid reusing foods for different or subsequent foodsex play sessions.

Oily and sugary products are not to be used below the belt. Oil breaks down latex condoms, traps bacteria and irritants close to the skin, and washes off with difficulty.

In warm, moist environments, sugar encourages growth of yeast and bacteria. As a result, keep the sweetened whipped cream, jellies,

fruit, and sugary beverages on the outside of the tender private parts.

Chocolate and champagne are other ingestibles that people often use to set a romantic mood, but are not to be used inside/on the tender parts of the genitals. For safer substitutes, consider visiting sexuality specialty shops in person or on-line. They often stock sugar – and glycerin-free edibles that could be used in food-sex play.

Food cannot create passion where none exists. The only way that food can get you more in the mood for sex is if you use food as if it’s a sex toy or in a sexually suggestive way. Serve and savor it in a seductive way. Feed each other; eat sensually; use it to try to change the way your bodies taste or lick food off of each other’s bodies.

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Lest we forget A tribute to those who gave their lives DAN O’KEEFE Every November, poppies appear on the lapels of Canadians, just as they did in Flanders Fields over 90 years ago. It happens suddenly, sparingly at first, but quickly all over, in reflection and in memory. Those bright red flowers are small and simple, yet carry a significance that is enormous and complex.

To say that Remembrance Day is important is an understatement.

But for many, it is just another day of the year. Schools and businesses, which close for Family Day, Civic Holiday, and Labour Day, remain open for Remembrance Day. This day commemorates the sacrifices made to preserve peace, relieve oppression, and protect freedom.

Canadians have been fighting for Canada since before Confederation.

Our sense of national pride was so incredible that in the War of 1812, men fought to protect a nation that did not even exist at the time. That patriotism was only strengthened

by Confederation. Near the turn of the 20th century, over 7, 000

Canadians fought the Boers in South Africa. Less than two decades later, Canadians again answered the call of duty when Europe was consumed by armed conflict. From a nation of barely

They didn’t do it because it was the right thing to do, but because it was the only thing to do. They didn’t do it because it could be done, but because it had to be done.

8 million people, over 600,000 people enlisted to fight in the Great War. Here, on the battlefields of Europe, the Canadian identity was born. A nation of immigrants from all over the world pulled

together to change the tide of the war. In the words of Paul Stanway, “they went to war Scottish, Polish, Ukrainian, Irish - and came home Canadian.” Our national identity was forged in battle, paid for in bravery and blood, in places like Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and Passchendaele. Nearly 60,000 young Canadians paid the ultimate price and never came home.

Over 1 million answered the call when World War II broke out. Canadians took to the skies in the battle of Britain, fought in the streets and rubble of Italy, and stormed the beaches at Juno.

Victory came at the cost of over 40,000 Canadian lives. Another 25,000 went to Korea, where the war took the lives of 516 Canadian soldiers. Since the materialization of Lester B. Pearson’s idea of a peacekeeping force, 100,000 of our family members, friends, and neighbours have gone around the world to end fighting, restore peace, and restructure countries in shambles. Since Korea, more than 250 Canadians have lost their lives in the attempt to bring peace to volatile regions of the world.

Presently, young men and women from across Canada serve in Afghanistan, relieving the

inhabitants from the oppressive Taliban regime that threatens peace, equality, and freedom.

In many of these wars, young Canadians, barely adults, only 18 or 19, put their lives on hold.

They had just completed school or chosen their careers. Some of them were already married and starting their families. They had their entire lives ahead of them.

Others were only 16 or 17, and lied about their age to get in. It wasn’t their war to fight.

But when neutral countries were attacked, cities and towns destroyed, and civilians killed, they knew it was time. It was time to step up, to put their lives on the line, to do what they knew was right. In no way was it easy, to leave behind their families, friends, and loved ones, but in every way, it had to be done. They took to the air and the sea, and charged onto the battlefield. Their efforts liberated cities, emancipated civilians, and freed captured lands from their conquerors. These young Canadians put themselves through hell for future generations they would never know. They didn’t do it because it was the right thing to do, but because it was the only thing to do. They didn’t do

it because it could be done, but because it had to be done.

Though many died, memories faded away, and trenches filled in, these individuals will live on forever, immortalized by their actions. We would not be here today if it wasn’t for the selflessness and courage of our soldiers. All that many of them have to show for this is a small white gravestone in a foreign land. Some don’t even have that. But every single man and woman who has donned the uniform for Canada has my respect, gratitude, and admiration.

We can never repay these men and women for their bravery, honour, and valour. For their actions, heroics, and sacrifice. For going above and beyond the call of duty and responsibility of citizenship.

Though they died years ago, they will live on forever in the hearts of Canadians everywhere.

I salute, honour, and remember their contributions every day. I encourage everyone to recognize the importance of Remembrance Day and wear their poppy with pride every November. Take two minutes to remember the cost of the freedom you enjoy every day, and to think of how much so many have given to protect it.

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I’ll take boring over freak show PETE NORTON It bothered me to see our leadership move away from the climate issue this week, without deciding anything, and back into what I would think to be more superfluous politics as usual.

Neither the finger pointing and hyperboles over who is responsible for the H1N1 vaccine debacle, the surprise by-election upset in favour of the Conservatives in a riding formerly held by the Bloc Quebecois, or the long gun registry bill really struck me as overly important in spite of the media scrutiny they have all received.

Though there wasn’t an awful lot to be worked up, it was kind of nice.

When you stop to look around in times of calm, it can offer some much needed perspective.

You don’t have to look far.

South of the border, it’s a different political world. The United States Congress narrowly passed a noticeably less comprehensive

version of the public healthcare bill. The bill, and the valid arguments for and against it, were overshadowed by the trademark theatrics and trash talk I have come to expect from American representatives. While something can be said for the entertainment factor in American politics, when it comes to a matter like health care, I would rather have a lackluster news week that leaves me medically insured than a whole train load of hilarious spectacles like a congressman trying to use a baby (allegedly his granddaughter) as a hand puppet to make a point on debt accumulation that in the end leaves me uninsured. I think it would be less funny if I was one of the millions of Americans with no health coverage.

In contrast, Canada’s controversial legislation of the week doesn’t quite stir the blood so much. The long gun registry is up for rejection on parliament

hill. Liberal members defected to vote with Conservatives to see the dismantling of legislation that has been called a waste of tax money and an intrusion into the privacy of gun owners. I don’t see it as a very compelling issue but I do agree with the position that hand guns, far more than long guns, are the real danger. The controversy really lies in the blatantly strategic political agenda. Our federal ridings are drawn up in such a way as to over represent the rural vote, and most of the long gun owners who want the registry done away with are rural voters. I wonder if any MP, from any party, who voted against the registry did so with their constituents’ best interests in mind.

The gun registry is an important measure for gun control. The RCMP has defended it as a helpful service in crime investigation. The case isn’t as strong for the long gun registry, and if it goes, I doubt it

will make much difference in the way many of us live our lives. But you have to be grateful that we live in a country where there is such a thing as gun control and where civil discussion can be held on the matter. In the U.S., such a proposal would be decried as a constitutional aff ront. People would draw Hitler moustaches on pictures of the President. Babies would be brought before Congress to somehow make a point regarding the future and sanctity of gun ownership. Our gun debate may have been boring, and a little bit greasy, but at least it wasn’t a complete farce.

I don’t usually like to compare Canada to the United States because it’s too easy: we can’t help but look good beside them. We blow a budget by billions of dollars; they blow theirs by trillions. We don’t know how to solve the crisis of an aging population and the inevitable stress that will fall on our

pension and health care budgets; they still haven’t got a budget for health care, and if they ever do, they’ll be lucky if they can still see the sun from over that mountain of debt. Though still incomplete, our rebound from the global financial crisis was swift because we have the soundest banking system in the industrial world; their banking system precipitated said crisis. We have a marginally controversial reworking of the gun registry; they have a constitutional endorsement for a culture of violence.

Our problems inevitably appear small relative to our neighbour.

Indeed, we have our big fat share of problems. I’ll probably discuss one or two next week. I don’t like copping out and saying that it’s not as bad as the problems you see in America. But I will because that’s the truth. At least if I get shot in Canada I won’t have to worry about how much the treatment will cost me.

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The paradox of war GREG BENETEAU By the time this column publishes, Remembrance Day will have come and gone. It is so fleetingly short: a single minute of silence to honour the fallen and contemplate the things that are gained and lost through conflict.

I encourage people to give the subject more thought, as Guelph is well situated to explore some of the terrible dilemmas of war.

This city is home to the 11th Field Artillery Regiment, whose members have served multiple tours in Afghanistan. It’s also a centre of the anti-war movement, which claims our soldiers would be best served by bringing them home.

Guelph’s famous son, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, served as both a doctor and a soldier during World War I – tasked with causing death to some and healing others.

From his experiences, McCrae was inspired to give voice to the

dead by writing In Flanders Fields.

The poem acknowledges the senseless tragedy of losing loved ones who “lived, felt dawn, saw

That makes the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform all the more inspiring. They serve their country regardless of polls or popular opinion, not because they enjoy it, but because they have to. sunset glow,” but also asks those left behind to “take up our quarrel with the foe,” which in truth is one of the more senseless reasons why wars propagate.

More than 27,000 Canadian soldiers have served in Afghanistan in the past eight years and 130 have died, bringing to the forefront the

issue of how we treat new veterans returning home from wars of the 21st century.

At a recent fundraiser for military veterans and their families, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the conflict was responsible for solidifying Canadians’ support for its armed forces.

“Public appreciation for our military may be higher today than at any time since the Second World War,” he claimed.

I believe our Prime Minister’s heart was in the right place, though I find his statement disheartening in a way. Canada’s appreciation for its military during World War II was, in part, driven by the shared hardship of sending tens of thousands of its husbands, wives, brothers, sisters and children overseas to participate in a bloody conflict. No doubt, nations on both sides of the conflict, due to treaty, colonial rule or the decree of despots, told their soldiers they

were off to do glorious things and honoured accordingly.

Appreciation of service tends to go hand-in-hand with mourning of loss. The soldiers of WWII fought and died so that appreciation for armed combat would never again reach a fevered pitch.

Thanks to their sacrifices, that dream has largely been realized.

The staggering death toll of recent conflicts, together with the frightening efficiency of modernday weaponry, has made it too costly to employ direct war between countries. In its place, a new kind of conflict has become more common: smaller proxy wars, waged by stateless entities and their supporters.

Genocide. Terrorism.

These small-scale battles don’t threaten the world entirely, but nevertheless, force countries to make a choice: do we intervene?

Regardless of your answer, what shouldn’t be questioned is that all

Canadians have a duty to make sure that all veterans are treated with respect and dignity. Policy can be debated, but the men and women who obey orders and carry out the policy should never be treated as pawns in a game.

I doubt many soldiers serving in the Armed Forces today consider their job to be glorious. It is impossible to maintain a rosecoloured view of war in a world saturated with media testifying to its horrific toll.

That makes the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform all the more inspiring. They serve their country regardless of polls or popular opinion, not because they enjoy it, but because they have to. They fight in the hopes that one day, there will be no more reason to fight. It is just another terrible dilemma of war.

Greg Beneteau is the editor-in-chief of thecannon.ca

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Drop Fees: Right message, wrong method

To the Editor, I just want to express my gratitude that somebody is finally paying attention to the (winning) women’s athletics on campus. I just wanted to comment on the fact that the field hockey team does not have their own home playing field.

And I think this is sad. How does the athletic department expect to generate interest in what is a tough, difficult, sport (being a former player myself ) when there is not a home field for them to play on. Also, the women’s rugby team has been forced to play on the multi-purpose field as their won field gets torn up by both the men’s and women’s team in

Last Thursday, as part of the province-wide Day of Action, the Guelph faction of the Drop Fees rally took to the streets, organizing at the University Centre and marching down Gordon St. into St. George’s Square, downtown. The group protested increasing levels of poverty and called for an end to the annual tuition increases, which have increased between four and eight per cent in the past five years since the McGuinty government enacted its Reaching Higher platform in 2005. Reaching Higher replaced the mandated tuition freeze from 2003.

Sounds like a noble and worthy cause, no?

Ontario tuition fees are the second highest in the country and close to $1000 above the national average. According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, in the past 15 years, 40 per cent fewer students from low-income families attended the University of Guelph.

With university education already restricted to approximately 30 per cent of Canadians, further tuition increases run the risk of alienating the higher education-seeking population even further.

Unfortunately, the appalling nature in which the rally was organized effectively marginalized the message to look like little more than a (small) group of friends out for a midday walk.

The rally, which sought to include both university and high school students, peaked at somewhere around 100 participants, of which only half remained at its conclusion in the downtown square.

Participants looked uninterested and unengaged, a far cry from the groups that congregated for the same issue in Queen’s Park in Toronto.

Bypassers observed the protest with looks of disgust, while offering sarcastic comments about predictable ‘woe-is-me’ student protestors. Certain protestors demanded concessions, such as costfree post-secondary education, a pleasant thought, yet also a virtually unrealistic demand that probably did nothing to help the legitimacy of the movement.

Without any sense of real enthusiasm, it was hard to take the rally, if you could even call it that, seriously.

Let’s make one thing clear.

Drop Fees is a noble cause. We must also recognize, however, that

in order to continue to obtain the educational quality that is among the best in the world, that privilege comes with a price.

The question that must be asked is, who should bear the brunt of that cost? Students in the system, or taxpayers, of which 70 per cent have no affiliation with the universities? Students appeared solely concerned with their personal disposable income, but did anyone care to remind them that if the cheque is passed on to taxpayers, those same students will end up footing the bill for the higher education of others when they are no longer in the system?

Universities themselves are already critically concerned with their own bottom lines, mired in multimillion dollar debts. The provincial government, in light of the ongoing recession, is looking at an impending deficit in the neighbourhood of $25 billion. Those seemingly limitless transfer payments, afforded to universities by governments during the boom years of the early 2000s, are no longer an option to offset student commitments.

While the tuition system is certainly in need of reform, it is not the only financial area with respect to university education that could use an overhaul.

Consider the student loan program in Ontario.

While students are still attending post-secondary institutions, their student loans remain interest-free, requiring very minimal minimum payments in order to continue the availability of the loan.

Six months after the same student graduates, however, interest rates kick in and financial institutions reap the benefits of their cash-strapped clients.

Considering that youth unemployment rates are already at their highest since the 1970s, many university graduates are leaving university with tens of thousands of accumulating debt, lacking the means to pay it back.

Interest-free student loans, regardless of the student’s academic and/or employment standing, would somewhat alleviate the student debt problem and at the very least, prevent students from having to pay back more than they actually used to receive their education.

Now that sounds like a more cohesive rally worth gathering for.

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practice as well at the football team.

How is it fair that both rugby teams have their home field torn up due to the football team practicing on it? Is there a reason they are not on their own field? Perhaps they do not want to ruin their home field.

If so, is it really fair that they get to ruin the home field for two other teams? Now that I’m done my rant I again want to reiterate how appreciative I am that someone is paying attention to women’s athletics on campus. Let’s hope it can make a difference. But I honestly do not think it will.

Your most devoted reader, Jen Peebles

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