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What’s got us all riled up in the office this week?

111111 is National Corduroy Day! Because it looks like the ridges in our favourite fabric. Also it makes a really satisfying squealing sound when you rub your pant legs together.

Matt Stutzman recently set a world record for archery.

He also has no arms!

Cartoon Justin Bieber OMG

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Death of a man sale

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n 2010 Old Spice launched their “Smell Like A Man, Man” ad campaign. Featuring Isaiah Mustafa transitioning smoothly through a variety of environments and costume changes in a single, uninterrupted shot, the ads were an instant success. The humour appealed to both men and women and it served to completely re-brand Old Spice and distance them from the high school-hallway-clouding Axe body spray. The ad agency (Wieden+Kennedy) understood exactly what they were doing and recruited the best writers and actors to see their vision through. Once the campaign launched Old Spice’s sales went up 107 per cent in one month.

Not only did everybody and their mom become masters of deadpan “random” jokes, TV ads for all kinds of products mimicked the “manliness” portrayed in the Old Spice ads. Pizza Hut is now “a guy thing,” Dr. Pepper 10 is “not for women,” Dairy Queen is whacking open piñatas with female gymnasts inside them, and Sleeman beer is boasting their bad-boy past full of pirates and gangsters.

But why settle for ironic sexism when you can have the real thing?

Dodge Charger points out how incredibly demasculinizing it is for a man to be in a relationship with a woman. When walking the dog, eating fruit, shaving, cleaning up after yourself, going to work, doing chores, and having conversations with your girlfriend (and holding her lip gloss) get to be too much, you, The Man, can escape to your Dodge, which is “the car you want to drive.”

A pulled Got Milk campaign also focused on the suffering of straight men in relationships. Some research suggests that the calcium and vitamin D in milk can help alleviate the symptoms of PMS, which led to the “Everything I Do is Wrong” campaign. The ads encouraged men to get their girlfriends to drink more milk in order to prevent their “crazy” PMS behaviour. The campaign was too blatantly sexist, though, and as a result they pulled the ads and shut down the companion website after much negative response.

However, gender stereotyping in advertising did not begin with these examples. For decades men have been the “dopey husband” who can’t cook without Boston Pizza, and women are always Swiffering or plugging in a Glade to cover up that musky odour. In this current trend reversal, with refined Moogs and caricatured Midriffs, men and

with JJ Brewis Look for the Voicebox on Tuesday afternoons in the Birch cafeteria, to anonymously “voice” your “opinion” on any “topic.” Introverted alternatives include emailing your opinion to voicebox@capilanocourier.com, or texting (778) 886-5070.

Probably not. Children aren’t the same that they used to be like when you and I were young. When I was seven, I freaked the fuck out because I looked under my mom’s bed and saw that she had bought me a TRAIN SET. I asked her about it and she got kinda mad and told me I shouldn’t snoop, especially around the holidays (fair enough). Then she told me the set was for my cousin Kevin (what?), and on Christmas day when Santa gave me the same exact train set, well, childhood was over.

“FUCK!!! I just shaved off my moist ache without thinking. What will the November people think of me?!!”

A lot of people have a problem with the word “moist”. I, luckily, am not one of those people. But a moist ache sounds exceptionally problematic. I think you should get on down to the doc, because once it’s the end of the month, the December people are going to be even more irate.

It sucks being a lady at the gym.

But where else am I supposed to pick up the beef?

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The Voicebox

“Will there be a Tickle-Me-Elmo this year?”

Also, KD Lang says that Justin Bieber is a hot lesbian. Like duh!

women have never been so funny … or so unlike each other.

These extreme depictions are reinforcing gender roles and widening the divide between men and women, as well as promoting sexist ideals to viewers. According to T.V., real men are tall, fearless, handsome, arrogant and emotionless. They like cars, beer, chicken wings, football and boobies, and they have no trouble confidently navigating their way through any situation. While these things may represent some men, they by no means define masculinity, nor are they traits that women cannot possess. Contrary to these stereotypes, some men are born short, some men start balding at 19, some men are vegetarians, some men like to kiss other men, some men ride bikes instead of cars, and some men are shy. Obviously, that’s O.K. Breaking down gender barriers allows for individuality and freedom of expression, while tightening the binary leads to conformity, intolerance, and low-self-esteem. Instead of breaking humans into two marketing groups, with women being skinny and blond and men being big and hungry, we need to focus on realistic depictions of individuals. Objectification in any form is harmful. While parodying gender stereotypes had comedic potential, the joke has been milked for so long it’s curdled.

“What do you think of Elle Woods’ bend and snap technique?”

I got really excited for a moment because I thought you were talking about Elle Fanning, and then I didn’t know if that would be very appropriate considering she’s technically a kid. But then again, maybe if it was Elle Fanning, her technique would be about applying a cute headband. At any

rate, she’s way cuter than her sister. Dakota’s out like pumpkin spice latte.

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“The Black Eyed Peas are breaking up. I like that one song about partying!”

This is actually really bad, because now we will have simultaneous bad songs released at one time. I’d definitely rather have only one bad group Black Eyed Peas song to avoid than a drippy Fergie ballad, a robot-sounding will.i.am solo release (likely featuring Jessie J or Kelly Rowland - yuck), and … oh, I guess that’s it, cause it’s not like that creepy one who looks like Kevin Sorbo does anything.

“Well, the thing about Thriller is…”

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Three’s a Crowd Independent candidates in municipal elections

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By Claire Vulliamy // arts editor

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nyone, even a peanut, can run for mayor. In 1974, Vincent Trasov ran in the Vancouver municipal election as the Planter’s mascot, Mr. Peanut, and ended up with 2,685 votes in total.

To run in the municipal elections, one must be a Canadian citizen of 18 years of age or older who has resided in BC for at least six months before “the relevant time.” In filing nomination documents, there is a fee of $100, which is refunded after filling out a campaign financing disclosure statement, to be submitted four months after the election.

Beyond that, there are no limits. And why not?

Good ideas are not limited to a handful of wellestablished politicians.

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of a mental health advocate, as reported in the Georgia Straight.

They have also argued over incident specific topics such as the Stanley Cup Riots, with Anton saying, “City council spent more time talking about homeless chickens than public safety around the hockey live sites or the final game of the series,” as reported by the CBC. So far, this election has been particularly lively.

On Oct. 25, another debate between Robertson and Anton was held, sponsored by the Board of Trade. It was interrupted by protesters., which culminated with Darrell “Saxmaniac” Zimmerman, one of the ten mayoral candidates, getting on stage to protest his exclusion from the debate, saying, “I’m a real candidate, I’m on the ballot, I’m as legitimate as they are,” while brandishing a stuffed lobster.

The lobster, which he said represented “political greed and avarice and gluttony,” was an attempt to satire Coun. Heather Deal’s tweets of a leftover lobster dinner from a Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting. He criticized the use of taxpayer money for feeding politicians when he says he is “struggling to feed” his fiveyear-old son.

Zimmerman is just one of the many other candidates in Vancouver who receive less media attention because they are running outside of conventional party lines. While not every candidate takes it upon themselves to actively get up on the debate platform, they are all seeking to have their voices heard in various ways.

Vancouver’s municipal election takes place every three years, and sees the election of one mayor and ten councillors. The incumbent Mayor is Gregor Robertson of Vision Vancouver, a party which also currently holds most of the council seats.

This year’s mayoral race has been characterized as a competition between the centre-left Vision-COPE coalition, headed by Robertson, and the Non-Partisan Association (NPA), led by Councillor Suzanne Anton. Robertson and Anton most recently debated homelessTHE POLITICAL PARTIES ness at St Andrew’s-Wesley church. While they disagreed on issues such how to create more affordable housing, in a yes-or-no question Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable period both answered “yes” to the Downtown Vancouver (NSV) Eastside being maintained as primarily a lowincome neighbourhood and “no” to the hiring Randy Helten, founder of the civic watchdog

websites cityhallwatch.com and metrovanwatch. com, is the mayoral candidate representing the political party Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV). NSV wants to ensure that neighbourhoods across the city have all have their unique voices represented.

Terry Martin, who is running for council with NSV, says that what they found in “dealing with city hall in the last several years is that the decisions seemed to be made even before we go to speak to council.” He feels that the “council is supposed to serve the public, not rule the city.”

He makes it clear, however, that NSV is interested in finding alternatives. “People in Vancouver aren’t opposed to densification, it’s the pace and scale that it happens in,” he says.

Martin says that neighbourhoods in Vancouver have drafted community plans to find solutions for population growth. “The city spent over a million dollars on those studies, and now they’re completely ignoring them.” Moreover, Martin says, “they [the city] keep waiving the requirement for affordable housing units, and it’s something that Vancouver desperately needs right now” “Vancouver spends more money on a civic campaign than any city in Canada, and I think that the money that goes into campaigns creates a conflict of interest for council,” Martin says.

“When they receive money from the people they regulate, they cannot possibly make an arm’s length decision.”

Randy Helten says in a video on their campaign website that NSV “does not take large campaign contributions from large interests” but that they will accept small donations “in order to remain independent.”

Party (WLP), which ran in 2005, and most recently in 2008 with a full slate including mayoral candidate Betty Krawczyc. At the time, Krawczyc came in third, after Robertson and Ladner. This year, De-Growth has three candidates running for City Council: Ian Gregson, Chris Masson, and Chris Shaw.

Shaw, who also ran for council in 2008, explains the decision to call themselves the De-growth Party: “We wanted a term that would be very difficult to corrupt.”

He adds that the party’s main principles line up with environmental causes: “Green has been so co-opted as a term.” Shaw says when economic growth happens under the “green” umbrella, it entails “continuing what we’re doing and just bandaging it a little differently.”

One of the ways Shaw believes that Vancouver could stand to be more sustainable is to grow more of its own food. “Vancouver grows a tiny fraction of its food compared to a place like Hong Kong that grows a huge fraction of its food,” he explains.

De-Growth, like NSV, believe in more specific community representation. “Democracy, at least in our minds, is a grassroots process. It moves upwards via the downwards.” He believes that an election every three years with low voter turnout is not enough. He understands that people who vote strategically often bypass smaller candidates, but adds, “I’m no longer voting for the lesser evil, because at the end of the day you still get evil.”

INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES

While small political parties struggle to receive as much attention as their larger counterparts, De-Growth Vancouver running as an independent presents even more De-Growth Vancouver grew out of the Work Less of challenge.

N e ws voting in the upcoming municipal election to not put their vote into the hands of developers, and they do that by voting for Vision or the NPA,” he says.

“We need a moratorium on condo development in the DTES, and we need to house the people that live within the city.”

NORTH VANCOUVER North Vancouver’s municipal elections also take place every three years. On Nov. 19, one mayor and six councillors will be elected. The incumbent mayor Darrell Mussato has been in the mayor’s office for two terms, since 2005. In his first year, he won by approximately 500 votes over Rod Clark, and in his second year he won by acclamation.

The North Shore News reported in an editorial on Nov. 6 that there was “no credible threat” to Darrell Mussato in the current elections. In response, mayoral candidate Ron Polly wrote a letter to the newspaper.

“When I threw my hat into the ring, the first official email I received was from the North Shore News detailing your advertising rates,” he wrote.

“It would seem that credibility only lies with those who have the biggest war chest to finance their campaign.”

Chris ‘Kit’ Nichols Kit Nichols is a student of the Business Administration program at Capilano University. He runs his own business, a home design and drafting service, and is running for mayor in the upcoming North Vancouver election. He ran for council in Burnaby in 2002, and at that time, “being an independent, you’re pretty much considered nobody,” though he did manage 4,200 votes in spite of this.

Nichols feels that Capilano University has great potential for development. “In 20 years, this college could be double the population.” He believes that investing in infrastructure such as a pool, a residence, a fitness centre, and an expanded gymnasium would not only develop the university community, but the local residents as well.

Nichols is also interested in the possibility of a streetcar system stretching from Lynn Valley to Park Royal Mall, saying that it would be “a great opportunity for something that’s just North Shore.”

He envisions that Lonsdale could be the “new Granville,” that is, an area with more focus on buses and pedestrians: “Maybe for three blocks, no cars at all.”

He also wants to support small business and “create that locked-in little community” so that people don’t feel the need to come and go from the city as much.

Nichols is also a strong proponent of urban gardening, and feels that there is plenty of space for gardens around this city. “You don’t need an acreage to feed a whack of people. My wife has only got a little plot … we’ve had fresh vegetables all season.”

Overall, Nichols says, “I’m not expecting to particularly win. I’m expecting to make Darrell fight for his job.”

resentation. “ I believe that the current council doesn’t really care about the youth, and that really angers me, because we will eventually be the one’s living here … the ones owning businesses, having jobs; why don’t we matter?”

“The North Shore is a great place to live, but on a Friday night, there’s not really much to do.” Polly wants to see more local music venues: “I want to make it a place where young people don’t have to go Downtown in order to enjoy themselves.”

In terms of housing, he says that there is “definitely a bias against younger people.”

“I know plenty of people who’ve wanted to get an apartment,” he explains, “and they’ve always had to have, like, four months rent pay in advance because the person who’s renting out believes that young people can’t be trusted.”

Ron Polly Ron Polly, who is running for mayor, has lived in North Vancouver his entire life. He has four dogs, and is a strong supporter of animal welfare.

Polly takes task with the way real estate development happens on the North Shore, saying, “What I would like to see is more amenities before we put in population. We always put the cart in front of the horse. We put in a project, and then we go, ‘Oh gee, we have to put in a playground now’.”

He says that campaign contributions play a large part, pointing out that a sizable portion of Mussato’s donors are part of the development community. Therefore, “when they [developers] come for a project … they don’t put in enough for amenities, so we have to catch it later on.”

Ron Polly says that he “will not take a contribution from anyone who will profit from a decision if I’m in office.”

“There’s a move to put a slate on our council … to have people who are going to vote the same way for the next three years.” Ron Polly says while it happens in Vancouver, “that does not work in local politics. It should be seven individuals, all with their own talents working for the best of the community.”

Polly highlights the importance of voting. He says that if everyone at Capilano University “pledged that they were going to go out and vote … they would change the elections on the North Shore.”

Furthermore, he says, it would give more power to the student voice. “It would make everyone stand up and look … The people who contribute to these politicians would fall by the wayside, they’d give their money, but they wouldn’t control the elections.”

He concludes, “The only way we’re going to get that is if people vote.”

VOTING

In 2008, voter turn out in Vancouver’s municipal elections was 30.78 per cent of the eligible population, in North Vancouver the rate was even lower, at 17.67 per cent. This year, elections take place on Nov. 19, with advance voting days for Vancouver from 13 to the 16.

In North Vancouver, advance voting opportunities stretch until election day. Residents who wish to vote must ensure their name is on the votCarson Polly ers’ list and that they have their “Where to Vote” Carson Polly studies at Capilano University in card, or bring two pieces of ID. the Arts and Sciences program, and is running The North Shore Outlook recently ran an edifor councillor. His father, Ron Polly, is running for torial about the ways in which the City of North Mayor in the election, but Carson Polly says that Vancouver is trying to engage voters in creathis decision to run came “really separately.” ing a Civic Engagement Task Force. They con“I’ve always had an interest in politics,” he cluded with, “Truth is, it’s never been easier to says, “[and I] decided I might as well put that get informed about the issues and candidates. into motion.”

So there really is no excuse not to make your Carson Polly wants to increase youth rep- vote count.”

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11/11/11 Strikes a Cord Nov. 11 marked not only Remembrance Day, but also National Corduroy Day. Corduroy lovers chose this day to celebrate their passion due to the fact that the numerical form of the date, 11/11/11, closely resembles their favoured garment. The Corduroy Club, an organization which seeks to create a “sense of fellowship rooted in the historic and culturally significant fabric known as corduroy,” held a sold-out event in New York. “I had a pair of corduroy pants when I was younger. They were white and hideous,” says Celina Kurz, the Courier’s resident fashionista. JJ Brewis, resident fashionisto, begs to differ. His view on corduroy?

“Into it!” Read more about JJ’s fashion likes in his article in this issue’s Courier!

By Gurpreet Kambo // News Editor CANDIDATES SENT TO WTF The CSU executive passed a motion to send delegates to the policy roundtable for the Where’s the Funding (WTF) campaign at their meeting on Nov. 9. The roundtable will occur on Nov. 23, at the University of Victoria campus. The WTF campaign is calling on the provincial government to increase funding to post-secondary education, and is the product of a coalition of the University of Victoria Students’ Society, Camosun College Students’ Society, SFU Students’ Society, the UBC Alma Mater Society, and the CSU. The CSU will be sending four delegates to this event, at which CSU executive chairperson David Clarkson approximated would cost in the ballpark of $245 per delegate.

INTERIM QUEER REP. APPOINTED The CSU executive decided to appoint an interim Queer Students’ Representative, as no one ran for the position in the Fall elections. The discussion preceding the decision expressed concern about whether or not someone who did not identify as queer could fairly sit in the position, because originally, the representative would also be holding meetings for the queer collective.

Kelsey Didlick, Senate representative to the CSU, expressed concern about appointing someone to run meetings who did not identify as queer because the students would continue to not be represented.

David Clarkson, however, stated that he felt that that someone who wasn’t a part of the community could still represent the community, and that he was concerned about the deficit in the board and wanted the queer community to have political representation.

Dolly Reno, First Nation’s representative, disagreed, and said that someone who didn’t identify, couldn’t properly represent the queer community, adding that unless you self-identified with what you’re representing, you’re not actually representing.

After a lengthy debate about what the responsibilities of the representative would be, Alysia Livesey, Women’s representative, volunteered for the position. Livesey will be responsible for checking the representative’s email and communicate with any students interested in joining the collective.

By Samantha Thompson // Editor-in-Chief

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One name only Dubgee is a single dad, youth mentor, and musician living in East Vancouver who has decided to run for mayor because he is tired of the current state of affairs.

Like the people involved in Occupy Vancouver, Dubgee says that he is “really frustrated with the distribution of wealth” and government spending overall.

“I’ve got a son in elementary school, and his school all of got shut down during the Olympics,” he explains.

Dubgee believes in improving transit by adding additional express routes, and opposes the construction of fare gates. “It doesn’t make any fiscal sense to be installing fare gates at $170 million when we’re only saving $5 million a year.” He says that with maintenance to boot, the fare gates “won’t be paid off for 40 or 50 years.”

As for the current election, Dubgee says, “I find that rather odd about Vancouver politics right now: a good idea isn’t a good idea unless it’s your idea.“ Sandy Garossino is a former Crown prosecutor who has been heavily involved in Vancouver’s arts community, and additionally, co-founded Vancouver Not Vegas, an organization which successfully opposed the expansion of Edgewater Casino at BC Place.

“I think that there are a lot of advantages to running as an independent, especially in today’s era,” she says. “With social media being such a powerful driver, it’s really possible for a strong independent candidate to differentiate themselves from the pack,” Garrossino recently told the Vancouver Observer.

Amy Fox, who is a finance director for web design company Sublime Conception, is running as a supervillain. “My hope is by coming across as a clown, I’ll be non-threatening, and people will actually take those ideas and run them … [so that] they won’t view them as the politics of the enemy,” she explains.

Despite her adopting a humorous persona, she emphasizes that “every policy that I have on my candidate profile is something that I really strongly believe in, and I not only believe in, I can think of a precedent.”

Something that troubles her is the lack of participation and general ignorance in municipal elections. “If we care enough to vote, but don’t care enough to be informed, that’s really scary,” she says. “I hope to run to at least get people to remember that municipal elections exist.

The affordability of housing is also of concern to her. In particular, “people who have specific needs regarding housing,” such as accessibility by mobility devices, “are often really out of luck,” she says.

Similarly, and like most in Vancouver, councilor candidate Aaron Spires agrees that the “Rent Is Crazy High”. In fact, that’s the name of a collective, R.I.C.H., which he is part of, along with other council candidate Lauren Gill.

“In most major cities, [and] Vancouver is no exception, we’re facing an affordability crisis,” he says.

Spires lives in East Vancouver and believes that what is happening in the area is that “tax breaks [are being] given to developers in order to build up condominiums that end up remaining vacant.” He adds, “It’s the direct result of policies that were started by the NPA and carried out

by Vision.”

Spires brings up the STIR Program, an initiative which aims to increase the amount of rental units in the city. Spires believes this program is problematic because, once the units exist, “there’s no cap on the amount that developers can charge.”

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We Got Da Blues Deck the halls with basketballs

By Evelyn Cranston // staff writer

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lthough the presence of athletics on campus tends to fall under the radar of many arts students, there’s a lot going on down in the Sportsplex building: Ryan Lenarduzzi, athletic events and sports development coordinator at Capilano, notes that varsity basketball has been around since the inception of the institution, or almost forty years.

This year, the varsity men’s team, the Capilano Blues, is, according to Lenarduzzi, ranked ninth out of hundreds of teams across the country. Because Capilano has recently gained University status, this ranking is a big deal to the athletes involved. The league operates in such a way that Capilano, referred to by Lenarduzzi as being in a “formation period,” still competes against smaller colleges, such as Langara and Douglas, but also against larger schools such as the University of the Fraser Valley and Simon Fraser University.

Lenarduzzi says, “We sort of fit in the middle, and it makes it tough to compete against schools which are four year schools.” At a four year school, athletes can come together, grow, develop and play as a unit for the length of their entire degree. Capilano, on the other hand, develops players to send them off to larger institutions.

Lenarduzzi says this is good, in a way, but it’s also “frustrating to see a guy you had two years ago kicking the crap out of you. “ However, Capilano has been looking into a four year Human Kinetics program. There’s a strong correlation between athletes and students interested in the discipline, as Lenarduzzi

explains, so “when you get a human kinetics program that lasts four years, you tend to get athletes that stay four years.”

Though many of the athletes are taking human kinetics, there’s a range of faculties represented on the court. Lenarduzzi says, “We’ve had students in business programs, in the arts and so on.

I wish we had more arts students; I would love to have more of a connection.”

As for the state of student support for the team on campus, he says, “We find the largest amount of support from human kinetics students, but outside of that we receive minimal support.”

Being a varsity basketball player is not all about fun and games, however. In order to stay part of the team in a season that spans two semesters, students must pass a certain amount of courses from the first semester. Luckily though, according to Lenarduzzi, a student failing the first semester and getting cut from the team is rare. “Usually, once we get our team together, they work as a unit all year.”

To be a part of the team, hopeful basketball stars have to be ready for an intense screening process. Recruiting starts as soon as the previous season finishes. Lenarduzzi says, “Over the summer, we run training and open gym. That’s where we get an idea of the next year’s guys and start narrowing the groups.” Following that, tryouts are generally mid-September. Though open tryouts are held, it’s rare for an athlete to make it onto the team so late. Lenarduzzi explains, “All the players on our team are a pretty high level, and people don’t always understand that.”

Once the team is set, it often forms to be a close-knit, supportive community of student

athletes. Lenarduzzi says that the players GPAs over the past few years have been outstanding, hovering around a 3.4. Because athletes spend from 15 to over 30 hours a week together, there’s a tendency for the older players to tutor and mentor the rookies, ensuring academic success and stability for the team.

One main issue surrounding basketball at Capilano concerns the facility itself, which hasn’t seen renovation or upgrade since it was first built. From what Lenarduzzi understands, the Sportsplex is next on the list of priorities for the University, after the completion of the new film building. He states, “We’d like to develop this facility, not even just for the benefits of the athlete, but for the general health and wellness of the students.”

An upgraded facility would come with a hefty price tag; however, Lenarduzzi explains that Capilano has a unique financial situation regarding the project. “Almost every school across Canada has an athletic fee in tuition. It’s small, like $5 a semester, so most students wouldn’t even see it on their radar. Because we don’t have that, we can’t provide things like really good intramurals programs or developing more options for aerobics or yoga or new equipment.”

When students ask him about the shortcomings of the Sportsplex, he has to explain that the funds simply don’t exist. He says, “I think that if students were willing to put that extra $5 in, they wouldn’t realize the amount of stuff we could provide for them. It’s a shame we don’t have it, because I have so many great ideas that we could do for students, but we can’t do it without the fee.”

Though the women’s varsity team is also excel-

// Natahsha Prakash ling this year, it has tended to shy away from the spotlight. Though they aren’t ranked nationally, they did win provincials last year. Lenarduzzi says, “Women’s basketball is not as popular of a sport; there’s just not as many people playing it.”

However, Melanda Danenhower, Global Stewardship student and basketball enthusiast, states, “I like basketball because I like playing with the team but I think Capilano could have a [women’s recreational] basketball league. There’s a [recreational] men’s league, and I guess women can play for it, but there’s no just-for-fun, rec league for women. It’s just drop-in, and as a girl, I don’t get to play at drop-in unless I bring a friend because nobody asks me to play with them.”

Drop-in basketball runs Tuesdays and Fridays from 11:30-1:00, and intramurals are free to all Capilano students. As well, soccer runs on Mondays and Wednesdays. The next big weekend for the men’s varsity basketball will be Nov. 18 and 19, where they will be playing Kwantlen and Langara. All proceeds from the games will go towards Capilano’s annual fundraiser for the United Way .

Capilano welcomes a new degree Bachelor of Performing Arts to be offered in May 2012

By Claire McGillivray // writer

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apilano University is entering into new territory: partnering with Langara College, Douglas College, and Vancouver Community College, Capilano will now offer a new Bachelor of Performing Arts degree program (BPA). This jointly offered program, due to launch in May of 2012, is the first of its kind in Canada.

Artistic Director of Neworld Theatre and the BPA’s newly appointed program coordinator, Marcus Youssef, thinks the program addresses a serious gap in most performing arts education: “[The program] gives serious consideration to how folks are going to make use of these skills once they graduate.”

The BPA is designed as a nine-month program for students who have already have a diploma in the performing arts. Recent grads and even longtime working professionals are now able to take their two or three years worth of diploma study and turn it into a Bachelor of Performing Arts degree, something which may help students stand out in a competitive field. Prescribed learning outcomes include a strong emphasis on artistic collaboration and the ability to market oneself as an employable artist. This includes the art of creating work for oneself where there is none.

The program requires students to work in a highly collaborative environment. This includes,

over the course of the nine months, creating, fundraising, producing, and marketing a show together.

“I come from an indie-arts background, collaboration is second nature to us. That’s what we do, that’s how we survive,” says Youssef. “We’re in a pretty poor industry, and in a sense, that’s the challenge for us. We have to collaborate, and those of us that do … tend to survive the longest.”

Marcus believes that his intensely collaborative work as the Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre was likely a strong contributing factor to the University’s decision to appoint him to the position of BPA program coordinator.

In terms of the collaboration between the four schools, Youssef notes, “Big institutions are a bit different. [They] kind of create their own little worlds and [do] not look outside of them. I think it would be fantastic if more institutions looked at working collaboratively. It’s really challenging for them, and frankly, in a good way. I think big institutions need to find ways to make themselves more flexible.”

Current Capilano Acting for Stage and Screen (ASAS) students have some interesting things to say about this new opportunity they are presented with. First-year Ridley Wallace notes, “As an actor, we need to have just one more trick up our sleeve to get us just one more step ahead of the game. The performing arts degree really underlines that aspect.”

Evan Kascak, also a first-year ASAS student,

believes that “the BPA program is a great opportunity for those who want to go a little further with their education.” He does, however, point out a potential deterrent for those interested in the program: “Sadly, in this career, a BPA won’t really do anything for me. [It will] just cost me more money.”

As a long-time theatre professional, Youssef has some personal insight into this matter.

“When you’re going out and auditioning as an actor, no one cares whether you have a degree or not; it doesn’t matter at all. What matters is the work you’re doing in the moment and whether people respond to it,” he says.

“The very common experience for people having been five or ten years out of the business … [is that] they get told that their three-year diploma is worth, like, a year of university,” he explains.

This occurs because certain post-secondary theatre courses don’t translate accurately as transfer credits at the university level. Students who complete their first year of the Acting for Stage and Screen at Capilano might have 30 credits of Theatre Studies, but upon applying to UBC or SFU, they will likely be told that the majority of their courses are duplicates. Individuals in this position are ideal candidates to benefit from the availability of the Bachelor of Performing Arts program, as they will be able to upgrade their diploma in nine months, as opposed to doing so over the course of several years.

Youssef sympathizes with the difficult position

that many artists find themselves in. “Suddenly, you’re on the hook for three more years of school and all the expense and time involved, when really, in many ways, you’re pretty much close to being qualified [for a bachelor’s degree]. … A really important gap that this program addresses is now there is a nine month program where you can get the degree and it will open up your options.” Such options might include further graduate studies, masters programs, teacher’s college or education abroad.

Capilano’s joint educational initiative aims to improve the prospects for Canadian artists by giving them accessible means to furthering their education, something the program creators believe is much sought after by working artists. As Youssef puts it, “Evidence of those applying so far suggests that we are right. We have applicants who are in their 30s and 40s that have been working in the business for ten or 15 years. We have one applicant that is in his mid-60s and is a really successful film and [television] actor.”

The first cohort for the new Bachelor of Arts degree completion program is set to begin in May of 2012. The implementation of the degree is in line with Capilano’s long-term plans since it became a University in 2008. Since that time, several other programs have been introduced, including The North American Business Management Post Baccalaureate Diploma, Bachelor of Communication Studies, and the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies Degree.

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HELLO, I LOVE YOU, WOULD YOU TELL ME YOUR NAME? Playing the online dating game Fleming, who juggles a full course load and a part-time job, was also attracted to the speed and // The fulcrum (university of ottawa) convenience of online dating. “Everyone is there TTAWA (CUP)—According to the stan- for more or less the same reasons, so it gives you dards set by romantic comedies, we’re the opportunity to quickly scroll through people,” all supposed to experience love at first she explains. “The only problem is it takes away sight while we stand in the produce aisle of the some of the humanity of meeting someone in the grocery store or check out a book in the library. traditional way.”

But let’s face it: we’re not going to meet anyone Meaningful connections? with headphones in our ears at the supermarket, and most of us compromise our personal According to Pacom, it is possible to make a hygiene for studying at the library. So what’s a meaningful connection with someone else over person to do when their Hollywood romance the internet. “Some people are already very comhas yet to arrive? Is it time to abandon ship and fortable with this type of technology and they are get on board with Internet dating? capable of somehow seeing the divide between what’s genuine conversation and what’s not,” Giving it a try she says.

Where would we be without the almighty interJohnson disagrees, stating the internet is a net? If we need directions, we use Google. If we’re tool to help “broaden your horizons,” not to form hungry, we order pizza online. If we’re shopping deep bonds. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong for the friend who has everything, we try eBay. with internet dating as long as you don’t expect Perhaps turning to the internet to find a signifi- too much of it and as long as you accept that it cant other is the natural progression for such a is simply a way of superficially connecting with technology-dependent generation. somebody,” she said.

Diane Pacom, a sociology professor at the Rose Ekins, a U of O student currently workUniversity of Ottawa, agrees. “We live in a transi- ing toward her second degree, tried online dattional moment in history – we are transitioning ing and found it to be “mediocre” and superficial. between traditional dating and internet dating,” “The responses I received had absolutely nothing she said. “For some people, online dating is natu- to do with any of the ‘About Me’ sections I had ral. It’s part and parcel of relating to technology carefully written, but were all about my photos,” and it’s a part of their reality.” she says.

Stephanie Langis, a recent Lambton College Johnson notes that people conversing online graduate, is one such person. “I’ve always been cannot connect in a very important way: physivery hands-on with the internet, so [online dat- cally. “When you meet somebody, there’s an ing] wasn’t something that was totally out of my enormous amount of information you pick up comfort zone,” she says. that’s nonverbal,” she says. “You listen to someFor some people, online dating is attractive be- one’s tone of voice, you look at the way they look cause it soothes the pain of rejection. It’s much at you, and you watch their body.” Johnson thinks easier to walk away unscathed from a cyber ro- people should regard anyone they meet online mance than it is to be shot down in person. as a “fantasy person” because “all of these cues we “Computers give us the illusion that we’re in pick up to decide if we can trust someone can’t control,” says Susan Johnson, U of O psychology be picked up through a line of text.” professor and author of Hold Me Tight: Seven Honesty is the best policy Conversations for a Lifetime of Love. “We can turn computers off and we can turn them on. It makes Perhaps the only way to make any connection us feel like we’re in charge of the universe. The at all over the Internet is to create an honest perfact that you’re not in the room with [the person sonal profile. Almost all online dating websites you’re talking to] gives you a sense of safety, but request their users to include pictures and stathe tricky part is there’s a lot of fantasy and illu- tistics about their appearance, such as height, sion that goes on.” weight, body type, and hair colour. A 2008 study According to Johnson, the lure of online dat- conducted by researchers at Cornell University ing may be particularly strong for students living and Michigan State University found that nine away from home for the first time. out of ten online daters lied about at least one of “They lose their sense of comfort and commu- these attributes, although most of the fabricated nity,” she says. “The danger is that they go on the numbers and descriptions were fairly close to Internet and all of their longings to be liked and the truth. reassured and feel safe – that all gets channeled Langis reported that she told the truth in into this one-dimensional space.” her profile but was wary others would not do A 2008 study by researchers at the University the same. of Melbourne found most people who try online “I was fairly honest as I wanted the people dating do so because they’ve moved to a new reading my profile to message me because they city, work long hours, or have recently experi- liked me and what I was truly interested in,” she enced something traumatic or upsetting in their says, “but I am very skeptical of other profiles. romantic lives.

If I’m skeptical but still interested, I try to catch Laura Fleming, a fourth-year U of O student them in a lie before going too far.” studying English and biology, was looking for a Fleming’s profile includes several current change after a series of breakups and decided to pictures of herself and a brief but accurate deturn to online dating. “I’d just gone through a lot scription of her interests and daily life. She exof emotionally intense relationships, so I thought, pects anyone she corresponds with to be honest ‘Why not try it?’” she said. as well.

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“If someone lies in their profile, you’ll never be able to trust them,” she says. “Clearly, they’re a liar and they’re not comfortable with themselves.”

Fleming cautions online daters to be wary of profiles that are “too good to be true”: “Sometimes it [is] obvious that a person has read up on the stereotypical female or male likes and dislikes and is trying to embody those things,” Fleming says.

“The trouble is, we forget that with the internet you have a slice of somebody,” says Johnson.

“People will present themselves as somebody absolutely delicious, and in fact they’re just a regular person. People find ways of presenting themselves attractively. A lot of it is marketing.”

My place, my time, my choice If you happen to hit it off with someone online, you’ll naturally be interested in taking your relationship to the next step: meeting in person.

Johnson reminds daters new to the online world that the decision to move a relationship from the realms of cyberspace to the real world should not be taken lightly.

“If you connect with somebody [on] the internet, you are meeting a stranger and you have to remember that,” she said. “You don’t meet strangers in their apartments. You meet strangers in a coffee shop downtown and you meet them that way quite a few times until they’re not strangers anymore.”

Some online daters mistakenly believe all other users on the site are harmless people looking for love, but that’s not always the case. Safety often becomes a priority after two people have decided to meet in person, but including revealing personal information in your profile can be dangerous, too.

“I didn’t give away too much personal information about myself on my profile,” said Langis. “Once I got talking to a person and got a feel for what kind of guy he was, then I’d start releasing more personal information. It was very rare that I’d give out my cell phone number. I wouldn’t even let someone know where I worked.”

Keeping personal information out of online profiles and meeting in public places are not the only ways to stay safe. Before a date, tell a friend where you’re going and when you intend on returning home. Don’t accept a ride with the

// Katie So person you’re seeing; instead, get yourself there and make sure to carry cab fare or a bus pass in case you decide to duck out early.

It also never hurts to do a little investigative work prior to meeting someone in person.

Googling a prospective significant other may be considered a dating faux pas, but why not make use of your resources?

“I definitely check out their background before meeting anyone,” says Langis. “I creep their Facebook to see if we have mutual friends, and if we do, I ask them questions.”

Keeping it on the down-low Even though Pacom calls online dating a part of our generation’s “reality,” many young people are not willing to admit they first met their significant other through the Internet.

Langis, who met her current boyfriend online, said her parents and many of her friends do not know the truth about the origin of her relationship. “I don’t normally tell people I’m not close with because it’s not really socially accepted just yet and people are judgmental of those who use [online dating],” she says.

Fleming believes the stigma exists because of our elders’ attitudes toward the Internet. “Our parents’ generation, the people who saw the internet emerge, definitely have the idea that dating online is wrong,” she says.

Pacom explains we are currently stuck between two dating paradigms and are simply carrying a former society’s values into our beliefs today. “We associate people who date on the internet as being people who have no social life,” she said. “This is a huge mistake because it is a misunderstanding between the generations.

There is a technophobia, but – given the speed of events today – I don’t think the stereotypes are going to last. The more we integrate this technology into our world, the less it’s going to be problematic.”

Logging off Johnson encourages students interested in online dating to forge onward, but hopes they will bear in mind the realities of the cyber love.

“It’s not a real relationship – it’s almost like an audition for a relationship,” she says. “But if you do it under the right circumstances and you’re careful, why not?”

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NOT AS OFFAL AS YOU THINK Eating internal organs of animals is on an upward trend

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grows wider, there is a need to preserve foods to ensure it is still edible.”

As people are increasingly separated from the slaughter of the animals they consume, the heavily industrialized food industry ends up playing a central role in what is available for consumers in grocery stores. Alternatively, if you buy your meat from a local butcher, you may have better luck tracking down some offal.

Demand also plays a large role in the common scarcity of offal. Typically, the average consumer does not want to buy a whole pig head, or a heart, and bring it home to cook for dinner. But the average consumer does not account for everyone, and there is a growing trend of people who are getting increasingly interested in animal organs for culinary purposes.

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If you’re an omnivore, and you feel ethically compelled to eat the whole hog, how do you learn how to if you didn’t grow up eating offal?

Fergus Henderson’s book The Whole Beast is a great place to start. Henderson is a British chef and founder of St. John, a restaurant in London that serves offal and was instrumental in reinspiring chefs all over the world to cook these internal animal organs.

In the introduction, Anthony Bourdain (chef

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Grilled Marinated Calf's Heart (from The Whole Beast by Fergus Henderson) To serve four This is a wonderfully simple dish, the heart not, as you might imagine, tough as old boots because of all the work it does, but in fact firm and meaty, but giving.

Ingredients 1 calf's heart a healthy splash of balsamic vinegar coarse sea salt freshly ground black pepper chopped fresh thyme, leaves only Trim the heart of anything that looks like sinew (this is easy enough to spot) and excess fat (which tends to be around the open top of the heart), and remove any blood clots lurking in the ventricles.

Slice the heart open so you lay it flat and complete the cleaning process. Then cut it into pieces 1 inch square, up to ¼ inch thick; if the flesh suddenly gets thick, simply slice it horizontally through the meat.

Toss the pieces of heart in the balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, and thyme. Leave to marinate 24 hours.

Now for cooking you need a cast-iron grill pan or a barbecue. Get it very hot and apply the heart: it will take about three minutes each side. Serve with a spirited salad of your choice, e.g. Watercress, shallot and bean, or raw leek.

and host of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations) describes Warm Pig’s Head as “a dish so wonderful, so Goddamn amazing that it borders on religious epiphany.” Also quoting Bourdain: “After eating the Roast Bone Marrow and Parsley Salad (page 35) at St. John, I declared it my always and forever choice for my Death Row Meal, the last meal I’d choose to put in my mouth before they turned up the juice.”

Recipes from Henderson’s book range from “Pig’s Trotters Stuffed with Potato” to “Rolled Pig’s Spleen”, going as far as “Lamb’s Tongue, Turnips, and Bacon” and even “Cold Lamb’s Brain on Toast”.

If you decide to brave a recipe like this, or perhaps something a little more humble, you’ll need to lay hands on some actual offal. Some people express concern about eating organ meats, especially liver, as it plays a role in detoxifying the blood, and toxins can accumulate in the tissue.

With most of the meat in our country coming from animals that live and die in atrocious conditions, as is the case in factory farms, these concerns do have some sense.

There are, however, alternatives, such as the pigs from Sloping Hill Farm that are raised on vegetables, quality grains, and pasture, and are not injected with any antibiotics or hormones.

Pasture to Plate, a butcher shop on Commercial Drive, also offers certified organic, grass-fed beef, pork, lamb, and poultry sourced from BC. They currently also have beef hearts, livers, and tongues (all frozen). Another source is Big Lou’s, which stocks a variety of speciality meats, as well as facilitating special orders. Check out Italian and Chinese butchers as well, which sometimes stock offal as the demand for traditional offal dishes is still present in these and other ethnic communities.

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ave you ever eaten lungs? How about stomach? Intestines? These, along with all other internal organs and entrails that are found in butchered animals, are referred to as offal. The etymology comes from the words “off fall”, because they literally fall out of a butchered carcass. They are also referred to as organ meats and variety meats.

In mainstream North American media, eating offal has become the stuff of extreme eating TV shows, Man vs. Wild, and jokes about chicken feet and haggis. When was the last time you ate organs? Did a parental figure in your childhood ever make you sit at the table until you ate your liver? Do the words “It’s good for you!” conjure The Fifth Quarter up nightmarish evenings staring at dry grey bits of cold unidentifiable innards?

On Nov. 9, Vancouver’s Campagnolo Roma restaurant is making offal the centre of attention.

Fat of the Land This special evening is called Quinto Quarto, In many societies, offal is not something as Italian for “fifth quarter” (of the animal), and is extreme or traumatizing as it is in our own. comprised of six dishes featuring a variety of offal Rather, it is a very regular part of some diets, including heart, intestine, tripe, brain, and snout. and has been so since prehistoric times. Homo For dessert: blood pudding. sapiens, or humans, have evolved from hunterTed Anderson is the Chef de Cuisine at Camgatherers – traditionally eating all edible parts pagnolo Roma, and has also cooked at Refuel of killed animals, and finding uses for all non- and Campagnolo, all three being sister restauedible parts such as sinew and hides. There is rants under the ownership of Robert Belcham evidence at archaeological digs that shows early and Tom Doughty. Anderson is a big fan of humans intentionally opened bones to get at the nose-to-tail eating: “I’ve always been intrigued by nutritious marrow. it, but lately it’s been something I’ve been really Protein and fat from hunted animals (as well pumped up for.” as insects) provided valuable nutrition for the caHe’s also very specific about the source of the loric needs of an active lifestyle and the new trait offal: the pigs come from Sloping Hill Farm on of walking upright. Organ meats are “incredibly Vancouver Island, run by Dirk and Bee Keller. nutritious,” says Gillian Crowther, professor of an- Along with Campagnolo Roma, Refuel and Camthropology at Capilano University. Loaded with pagnolo all regularly receive pigs they use in their protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals, they are very dishes straight from the farm. nutritionally dense, and were an excellent food Anderson says that “the quality of the pork was for early humans. One simply cannot afford to be amazing. Now we use about eight pigs a month squeamish when every calorie counts. for all three restaurants, and all the gear,” gear “The Inuit, like the Netsilik, used to eat a referring to the offal. He estimates that only five seal’s liver at the kill site as a mark of respect to per cent of the pigs goes unused; this is mostly the animal, and as a nutritious delicacy,” says glands that are apparently not so tasty. Bones are Crowther. “Sadly, the livers of seals are now made into stock, heads are the source of brain laced with toxins, making this act of reverence a and cheeks, and the fat is both rendered and used dangerous practice.” in sausages.

Describing the preparation of caribou by First Nations people, 18th century explorer Samuel Hearne writes this in his journal: “Of all the dishes cooked by the Indians, a beeatee, as it is called in their language, is certainly the most delicious that can be prepared from caribou only, without any other ingredient. It is a kind of haggis, made with the blood, a good quantity of fat shred small, some of the tenderest of the flesh, together with the heart and lungs cut, or more commonly torn into small shivers; all of which is put into the stomach and toasted by being suspended before the fire on a string.”

Hearne refers to the Scottish haggis: a sheep’s heart, liver, and lungs cooked in its stomach.

The French make foie gras from poultry liver, people from Norway make smalahove which is essentially a whole sheep’s head, tacos de ojo (eyes) are served in Mexico, and finally, in China, pork intestines are common street food.

The list goes on, and includes all cultures where people have been eating animals for thousands of years.

So why the move away from offal? Why don’t we see brains proudly displayed in freezers at the supermarket? Crowther explains that “as the distance from food production to food consumption

“Generally, it’s a really hard thing to commit to 200 lbs of animal that you need to use in a fairly short time. You don’t hang pigs like you hang beef. You can hang beef for three, four, five, six days depending on your tastes. But pigs you need to use within a day or two of receiving them, so within four or five days of slaughter, before they start to get a little funny. So, it’s a lot of work to deal with them, and you need to have the right sort of infrastructure in place if you want to go about preserving things like making fermented sausage and bacon and such. There’s not a lot of places doing this … I think some people are getting back to how restaurants used to roll. But it’s a tough climate to be able to do that as well. You have to lay out a fair amount of money to purchase said animals and wait for a while to recoup the costs,” Anderson explains.

Crowther says, “It is now ironic that offal has become a trendy food of gourmet restaurants, the once inferior, but highly nutritious, food … is now chosen by the wealthier adventurous diner.” That being said, Anderson hopes that the culinary uses of offal will have a lasting impact on what the common households of the neighbourhood are buying and cooking. “I’d like to think that this generation – the younger generation – that it [offal] is something that they’re picking up on and embracing, but there’s definitely some trendiness involved as well.”

Anderson says that his favourite organ of late is spleen, and speaks highly of testicles, describing them as “creamy.” For the less adventurous, however, he recommends heart. “You can cook it like a steak; all you have to do is clean it and then cook it medium rare and slice it … It’s lean, [contains] lots of iron, [and is] cheap.”

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acation destinations are meant to give us a break from our day-to-day lives, no matter what the opportunity brings.

Recently I took a trip that came as a surprise to many of my colleagues: I took a week to head to Orlando, Florida to scope out the theme park culture that has given the city its reputation.

Theme parks, particularly the ones I visited, are well-advertised, and efficiently run machines.

You literally can’t travel more than ten paces inside one without an available park attendant to help you locate the nearest washroom, food stand, or poncho kiosk. My week at three Disney parks and the two Universal ones was a great testament to the child inside of me who always wanted to visit, but ended up both questioning and satiating my adult tendencies in their own right.

For those braving theme parks, particularly several parks in a short time period like most tourists, you need the right mindset to get your-

self through it. It may sound silly to have to “brace yourself” for a place filled with fun and adventure, but the reality behind theme parks is that there are many small pitfalls that could easily discourage the average visitor.

As I waited in line to pay for my gate admission to Disney’s Magic Kingdom, the man in front of me was complaining to his wife about the cost.

It is true that everything is expensive at these places, but the alternative is to walk back to the car and leave. Everything is expensive, but aside from gate admission, you really don’t have to spend a dime to enjoy yourself. For those willing to bring their own food, and skip the frills of taking home merchandise and buying photos of themselves on each ride, the experience could potentially be quite cost-effective as far as vacations go. However, temptation awaits around every corner at these places, and by the time I’d arrived back home, my Visa bill met me with the nasty reality of just how expensive fun can be.

Your time is likely to be as indulgent and decadent if you’re willing.

Despite many amenities available, one of the major lacking points was food within the actual parks, particularly of nutritional value. Though some of the treats are irresistible, being both classic and tasty, such as the ten-inch-long cinnamon churro, other options are limited, and come at a high cost. At The Magic Kingdom, my only sit-down meal was at Pinocchio’s, a childthemed European-motif cafeteria. For $7, I had a sloppy plate of white pasta with a dull tomato sauce, greasily seeping into the depths of the paper plate it was served on. Over at Universal, the Harry Potter standby pub The Three Broomsticks had a wide range of food offerings, but not many vegetarian options. I ended up with a corn on the cob (complete with husk), a handful of potato nuggets, and a plate of iceberg lettuce.

Despite the lackluster food, it’s hard to not enjoy yourself, though – you are surrounded by an

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atmosphere that entirely replicates the movies and brings out the youthful energy for anyone willing to let their imagination run. Though the park food is a far cry from decent, the atmosphere of say, Hogwarts’ Three Broomsticks Inn, is so charming that it doesn’t feel so bad to pay $5 for a butter beer (which is somewhere between butterscotch and cream soda with an ice cream top). The alcoholic equivalent of the Hog’s Head Brew is available next door: a slight reprieve for parents at the wit’s end with their over-excited, butter beer-fuelled children.

The thing to realize when planning a visit is that everything in these places is artificial. This works both as a selling feature and a deterrent: the cafe workers that you know are earning minimum wage greet you with friendly smiles that only come off as realistic; garbage is never taken away by hand, instead riding in an expensive and wasteful underground tubing system to not defer from the ‘magic’ of your experience.

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oriented than the Magic Kingdom. With the services open later than other parks, guests are encouraged to take their time, and, naturally, drop their cash. Many choose to “drink around the world”, which I managed to do to an extent, having margaritas in Mexico, wine in France, and German beer. But even in the more adult section of the park, I managed to get involved in the “all-ages child’s activity”, in which guests colour a template of Disney’s newest mascot, “Duffy Bear”, and get their art stamped at each country’s rest stop.

You may walk into the park as yourself, but as I found, daily problems vanish as soon as you wait in line to hug Wonderland’s White Rabbit. Spending $6 on a pineapple soft serve doesn’t seem so painful after you conquer the 60-foot-tall Swiss Family Treehouse.

Disney’s Epcot Center is a paradise for those interested in technology and the wonders of tomorrow. Inside the massive Spaceship Earth, the globe-shaped icon of the park, guests travel through a Judi Dench-narrated history of technology, ending with an in-ride ethics questionnaire that shows you a cartoon mock-up of your own face in a “sustainable world of tomorrow” that is both adorable and heartening.

Even history is made available, such as in Disney’s Hall of Presidents, an animatronic display of all 44 American presidents, including a specially recorded speech by President Obama.

The variety of attractions, from a Disney’s electrical parade, to the Hogwarts bullfrog choir, appeal to interests of every angle. It was actually more of a challenge of not letting my OCD run rampant when I told myself I would see every last feature – it simply is not something a week’s visit can accomplish.

Downtown Orlando itself is not too far removed from the parks, but the city appears to be nothing more than an extension of the synthetic world found at the parks. While the charm of movie-themed magic works in the context of the parks, having rows upon rows of imported palm trees lining the toll-boothed highways is both misleading to visitors and irritating to local taxpayers. Hotels and restaurants have the air conditioning cranked on as a selling feature for guests, because the outside temperatures are unbearable, particularly with Florida’s constant wall of humidity.

Everything is available to you in these places, which is a huge part of what makes them so magical. Certain aspects of theme culture don’t matter to guests of any age. Waiting 60 minutes in line to get inside the Hogwarts castle to ride The Forbidden Journey makes people of any age groan. But getting to the finish line is the ultimate prize, particularly when you get to simulate your way through the eyes of a wizard, and get personally thanked by Dumbledore.

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The parks can do what’s in their control to make attendees have a magical and memorable time, but the one thing they can’t control is the behaviour of their crowds. While waiting in line for a showing of a live play, I overheard someone interrupt a park attendant speaking in Spanish by saying, “You’re in America. Speak English.”

I also momentarily had my magic cut short while in line buying a souvenir when a large, intimidating guest came up to me and insisted I’d budged in front of his wife. Believe me, the last thing I envisioned Disney World to be about was getting clocked out while buying a stuffed Mickey Mouse.

Outdoor park rides are shut down each day due to Central Florida’s midday rain storms, which break up an otherwise scorching day with a torrential downpour that range from one to three hours. With the threat of potential lightning strikes for massive metal-based attractions like roller coasters, parks keep the attractions down for what feels like forever, re-setting the clock at each thunder roll, and re-opening rides only once a minimum of 30 minutes have passed since the last alert. But even these rainstorms were a nice reminder just how far away from home I was, and as most tourists cowered under each nearby awning, my friend and I quite literally danced in the pouring rain, soaked head to toe, while tourists snapped our photo from every angle.

The parks are essentially what you make of them. I would challenge anyone to go to these places and not have a good time. Some of my best moments came unexpectedly, such as the altogether out-dated and cheesy Jaws ride at Universal, which was made palatable by our “skipper” Corey, an obviously over-excited theatre student spending his summer as an intern at the parks.

On one night, my friend and I treated ourselves to dinner at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville, which is stationed in the admission-free City Walk, sandwiched between the two Universal parks.

The entire experience was certainly a departure from a hometown sushi meal, with pirate waitresses blowing balloon animals on stilts, and triple-shot beverages removing any ounce of a childlike thread from my experience.

For those seeking the thrill of rides, theme parks are a natural hotspot. The rides at the Disney parks are naturally aimed at various age levels, ranging anywhere from the charming boat ride in Peter Pan’s Flight, to the somewhat terrifying Space Mountain, an indoor in-the-dark roller coaster with very little light components. Universal’s offerings are more high-octane, including an Incredible Hulk coaster than goes underwater, and The Revenge of the Mummy, which has more than a few unexpected turns, including a sudden backwards drop out of nowhere that nearly made me, as an adult, felt like I was living my last moments.

Of course, each attraction is based more around an entertainment franchise than the concept of the ride’s motion itself. Enjoyment, I found, was based ultimately on the experience and the personal attachment to the ride’s source material. On the E.T. Adventure, ride-goers take a seat on an airbound bicycle on a mission to “save E.T.’s planet from destruction.” Though the ride was created almost 20 years ago, my sentimental attachment to the film made me that much more excited to see animatronic aliens bouncing about as I glided through the air.

At the World Showcase at Disney’s Epcot Center, an 11-country pavilion circled around the walkway of a massive man-made lagoon.

The amenities at each country’s pavilion include corresponding restaurants, shops, bars, and attractions. The World Showcase, like the Future World section of Epcot, is definitely more adult-

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o one needs to tell you that it’s getting colder out. Like trends, weather has a big impact on how we dress. Winter in particular takes a lot of wardrobe adjustment, and many guys have a hard time bundling up without compromising their look.

Nereida Valles, who runs a blog called Urbane Menswear, says, “Definitely keep in mind how you layer your clothes. It’s always fun to do but sometimes men can get too bulky while attempting it.” While it’s true that more layers are sometimes necessary, there are ways to dress for all aspects of the season that can look just as fresh as the milder months.

A few seasonal staples will go a long way. Australian streetwear photographer Giuseppe Santamaria of Meninthistown.com says that choosing where to spend more, and where to cut back, is key. “Invest in good boots and a nice coat,” he says. “During the winter, they’re the main part of an outfit and you want them to be good quality to keep you warm and look good at the same time.”

This season, the Letterman or “varsity” jacket is a great look, popularized by stars such as Drake and Kanye West. For those wanting that extra touch, finding a vintage Letterman is going to get you a few more cool points than popping down to the mall and finding the same jacket all your classmates will be sporting.

Alternates to this are plentiful for those not wanting to jump on the bandwagon. A nice army green or camouflage print coat is a strong look, as is a denim coat with fur lining. For weather at its worst, a winter standard is the longer togglefastened coat, a look which comes at many price points and styles. For milder days, a Cowichan sweater is a local favourite, provided you get a nice one, not one of the Roots knockoffs.

Boots are already in all the local shops, both new and second hand. “They never go out of style, especially for the fall and winter,” says Valles.

“They keep your feet warm and dry while looking good.” The great thing about boots becoming more of a fashion staple is that many looks are now available. Even a really utilitarian look, such as a hiking boot, can work its way into an outfit depending on which pieces you pair it with.

Not all of us, especially on a student budget, have a lot of money to go around. But many basic staples have become surprisingly affordable, including t-shirts and socks. A winter must-have is the Dollar Giant sock, which is a nice warm investment for the price of pocket change. Plain white t-shirts are also a necessity in most guys’ wardrobes, adding a classic throwback to James Dean and Marlon Brando. While designer stores are going to have them available for upwards of $30, you’re going to find essentially the same thing at most big box grocery stores or department stores for as low as $5. Saving on items such as these may help ease the blow when looking at an investment piece such as an expensive coat or pair of boots.

A good look that works on almost everyone is a toque, available at most retailers. This is something that you shouldn’t be afraid to skimp on.

They’re available at Army Navy for a solid $1, and will give the same effect as the $30 equivalents.

“Keep it neat and simple. Don’t overdo it,” says Santamaria. This rule is key, but males

often have fewer options in terms of personalizing their wardrobe than females. For those trying to define their look, bolder, patterned accessories are a great way to go.

“Colour in the winter is a great way to set yourself apart,” Valles says. “A default during the cooler times is to wear a lot of dark colors; however, adding some brights could make you stand out in a good way.” A neutral palette can look sophisticated, but adding pops of colour in the forms of scarves, gloves, and socks completes the look. A colourful sock, for instance, looks great sandwiched between subdued black jeans and dark footwear, while a patterned scarf goes well with a monochrome coat.

For those willing to give colour more of a chance, coloured corduroy is everywhere this season. A slightly warmer alternative to denim, corduroy is a classic look that has been rejuvenated with some new hues. A bold red or forest green are a nice switch, but traditionalists will be able to find browns and greys as well.

As always with fashion, it’s the details that make the outfit: pay attention to fit, particularly in

staple items like collared shirts. “For some reason men tend to go for a bigger fit in their clothing,” Valles says. “When done consciously, it can work, but normally it doesn’t.”

Though seen as more about function, watches and wallets are still part of your outfit. Finding pieces that show your character is important, but sticking to a mature and classic choice will pay off; you’ll be less likely to get sick of a plain leather wallet than a zany one.

“Accessories are great to set you apart. A great bag always does the trick,” Santamaria says.

Many different bags are available to not only customize your look, but also add functionality to your lifestyle. Backpacks are great on campus, but for everyday life, something like a side satchel or a briefcase is a good option, and less formal than you’d think.

So no matter what your budget or style is, winter gives a lot of leg room in terms of personalizing your look. Just stick to what’s in your closet, pair carefully, add in a few strong seasonal pieces, and you’ll be ready to brave the flurry of winter in Vancouver. Avoiding frostbite has never looked better.

The Field The Electric Owl – November 5 It’s hard for a musician to reach out to a crowd without vocals, but with DJ equipment and synthesizers in tow, Sweden’s Alex Willner did just that, and to an appreciative packed house, no less.

Despite a lack of lyrics, with a live drummer, Willner’s techno-house beats are that much better. The bearded DJ barely left his kit, and was very quickly drenched in his own sweat.

The instrumental-based tunes managed to create the perfect arc of the evening: starting with up-tempo Saturday night-ready sounds, Willner moved on to a calmer portion of the set halfway through.

The booze-fuelled crowd seemed to meld into a giant heap during the calmer stretch of songs, but just as last call was being announced, the drums kicked in full blast, and Willner let the keyboards and samples wail even louder than the opener.

Holy Ghost!

Fortune Sound Club – November 8 American electro duo of Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel took Fortune by storm with a generous set heavy on hooks. As a live outfit, the two-piece expanded to six, allowing the low-fi trendsetters to fill the room with their music. The NYC outfit’s self-titled album was released in April on DFA Records, a label run by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy.

In the context of one of Vancouver’s hippest nightclubs, the leather-clad lads lead the pack of the electropop genre. Stage presence is everything these days, and lead vocalist Frankel is well aware of this fact. Though the group have a live drummer stationed throughout their set, Frankel wields an unruly drumstick on a second kit stationed at the front of the stage.

As an entire live outlet, Holy Ghost! proved to the sold out crowd that they have more than a few tricks up their sleeve. Though they’ve been remixing for the past half-decade, their debut LP will hopefully be the first of many.

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Studio Space Erased Eastside Culture Crawl is forced to switch gears

By Natahsha Prakash // Writer

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n a real estate capital like Vancouver, studio space is a luxury. In spite of this, the cultural community soldiers on.

Since 1997, the Eastside Culture Crawl has developed from 45 to over 300 participating artists every year, and now one of the biggest art events in Vancouver, attracting more than 10,000 people annually. Spanning three days beginning on Nov. 18, the Culture Crawl allows members of the general public to visit East Vancouver artists in their workspaces. Painters, jewelers, sculptors, furniture makers, musicians, weavers, potters, writers, printmakers, and even photographers are all included in the mix. However, the event has a very specific format: artists may not sublet or rent out their studios for the event; the participants must be in their own studios in order to participate.

“The Eastside Culture Crawl is focused exclusively on artists in their studios,” said Jeffrey Boone, executive director of the Eastside Culture Crawl. “The only criteria is that artists have their studio space within boundaries, and that their work is handmade.”

These studios, however, are very difficult to come by. In the past, artists, including Eri Ishii, have fought for their studios, taking it to City Hall to save the coveted creative spaces.

“If we lose this and any more buildings like this, we’re going to be like just another North American suburb,” said Ishii in an interview with

the Georgia Straight. “If this happens, the whole city will be dead.”

Boone did note that the increasing pressure space in the East Side neighborhood have caused artists to drop out of the event. “A number of buildings and houses have been sold in the past couple of years,” he notes. These buildings were previously rented by artists for studios, and are now rented out for commercial and residential use.

One such space is 901 Main St. near the Georgia Viaduct, a building that, in the past, provided studio space to 30 artists, including Sarah Mousseau. “Soon, events like the Culture Crawl, they won’t even be around because there won’t be spaces anymore,” she said during an interview with the Vancouver Courier in 2007. Real estate advisor, Dwanye Launt had been working on preserving the studio spaces in East Side Vancouver for over a decade, hosting a petition called “Save Artists of 910 Main Street”.

Unfortunately, in 2009, Amacon Developments pushed out the artists of 901 Main Street, wanting to develop the industrial space into highend apartments. After a 70 per cent increase on rent, artists were left with no choice but to leave the space.

In a recent interview by the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson explained that the Vision Vancouver council was seeking to amend current zoning in order for artists to gain work space; in other words, they’re “looking at space in the city and enabling artists to use that existing space more effectively than its current use.”

In the past, the artist occupation of 910 Main

// Camille Segur Street was illegal, but now there is dialogue about space. “Over the past number of years, there has changing the policies that made that so. Jane been more interest in the having the organizaWolsak, one of the artists evicted, told the Van- tion help in a larger sense,” says Boone. “So we’re couver Sun, “It’s a start. Vancouver is a very ex- initiating a process toward developing a building pensive city and artists find it hard to work here.” of non-profit owned and operated studios.”

There are many artists that work from home, Currently, the project is in its early term, with but the Crawl is meant to bring artists and the a phased process. The Culture Crawl team has public together in spaces that are dedicated to established a scope of possibilities and is now their art. Due to limited studio space, Boone not- working in making those ideas a reality. The first ed that a separate event may need to be created step was leasing an office, a first for the Vancoufor showcasing work in a gallery setting. Further- ver event. Boone is happy with the new direcmore, being the largest art event in Vancouver, tion. “We are subleasing space so we learn how and with the emphasis on studio space, the East- to manage property. It’s an amazing opportunity side Culture Crawl directors have been asked to and growth process for everyone involved. It’s a facilitate connections for artists to find studio very exciting time.”

From Stranger to Neighbour South Hill Inside Stories opens up a community

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Nasrin Jamalzadah, an Afghani refugee and supportive mother of the first female AfghaniCanadian pop star, Mozhdah Jamalzadah.

Inside Stories explores the past, but also focuses on the present. At the event, they shared the stage with their neighbouring community arts groups, such as Instant Coffee, an art group that rallied businesses to let them decorate a vacant alley with bold neon pink and black stripes.

Other community initiatives include the creation of a vibrant mural by artist Renée Van Halm, faciliated by Barbara Cole at the VPL South Hill branch.

Wild had two requests for audience members at the Inside Stories showcase. The first is simple: “It would be wonderful to see the stories on our website and in the park reach 1,500.” The site is being continually built upon and is open to contribution from residents of all Vancouver neighbourhoods. Wild explains the format of submissions: “You fill out a postcard … according to your country of origin and what neighbourhood you’re in now. There is a slider at the bottom where you put where your home is in your heart.”

Wild then speaks to the greater picture: the importance of creativity and fostering community. “The second request I have for you as you head out into the night,” she says, “is go forth and make art.”

// Kailey Patton yards, but you know if you could just open those doors there’d be extraordinary high-stakes driven dramas, you know it.”

The resulting design is a virtual street that gives the viewer an opportunity to open those doors.

Scrolling a computer cursor down the street, the names of individuals will pop up in front of certain buildings: their homes, their businesses, or other public spaces. Clicking on any of the names will bring up a link to their story.

The individual’s narration, arranged by Wild, is accompanied by poignant black and white photographs of themselves and their environment, taken by Shannon Mendes. Each story represents a different history, composing the multitude of connections that make up a neighbourhood Stories showcased at VPL event included those of Erwin Cornelson, retired Mennonite pastor and German immigrant; Sherry Loof, a language buff who exchanges English tutoring for Mandarin Chinese classes with her friends; Hardeep Singh, a struggling high school student The South Hill Inside Stories project can be who overcame bullying; Jinder Johal, a VPL em- viewed at http://www.southhillcommunity.ca/ ployee who struggled with family issues; and insidestories/

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magine if you knew all of your neighbours by name. Now, imagine if you knew their life story. South Hill Inside Stories is a project that was created to showcase personal anecdotes from residents of Vancouver’s South Hill neighbourhood, which spans across Fraser St. from around 33rd Ave. down to Marine Drive.

The project was partially inspired by active community member Susan Faendrich-Findlay and brought to life by award winning documentary filmmaker Shannon Wild, with the talented brother-sister team of web designer Jeremy Mendes and photographer Shannon Mendes.

The project aims to address a challenge which had been put to them as artists, which was, as Wild puts it, “How are you going to break down barriers between neighbours in South Hill?”

The answer to this question came in the form of candid and emotional story-telling from the residents of South Hill, as featured on a multimedia website.

In her opening remarks at a special screening of these videos on Nov. 3 at the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, Wild quoted a gentlemen who regretfully refused the offer to be included in the collective. His words were as follows: “Fear sits right here on my shoulder, everyday. I’m not afraid of what will happen to me here in Canada, but I am afraid of the long arm of the country and the government from where I came from, and I

am afraid of what will happen to my family. It makes me a conservative Canadian. I will never speak out against anything here.” Wild highlights this as “a real moment of insight” for her.

Wild describes her sadness at the loss of a story, reasoning that the loss in most cases was “because of fear … I was so sad to lose that story because I thought it gave tremendous insight into what some people feel is a kind of conservative thread that runs through immigrant communities.”

Guiding individuals to a place of vulnerability was no small challenge for the team, especially when it came to the work of photographer Shannon Mendes. During the discussion on Nov. 3, she noted one of her greatest obstacles: “There is definitely something inherently scary about the camera and when it’s pulled up and it’s pointed at you … The first hurdle in the way that I approach my work is to try to diminish that … the wall that goes up when the camera goes up.”

To create a sense of comfort, both Mendes and Wild made a point of getting to know their story-tellers on a personal level before introducing the camera or the audio recorder. “We made the point of meeting with our brave participants,” says Mendes.

For web designer Jeremy Mendes, the challenge was in the creation of an interactive space that did the storytellers justice. The visual layout for Inside Stories’ webpage, represents “that idea when you drive down a Vancouver street and all the doors are closed and there’s nobody in the

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Japanese animations to haunt your dreams

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kind of kawaii, usually associated with fictional characters. The show Puella Magi Madoka Magica is an example of combining moe with dark subject matter. It tells the story of a group of magical girls, much like Sailor Moon, that have to battle murderous witches.

The animations featured in Cute to Kill 2, however, are a little more experimental. For example, the most compelling short of the night was Mizue’s JAM. It started off simple, linear,

nimation has the ability to be a window into the animator’s mind, however dark it may be. On Oct. 28 in celebration of Halloween, Blim, in conjunction with the Powell Street Festival Society, put on an animation screening called Cute to Kill 2, a showcase of Japanese animators who explore morbid subject matter through deceptively cute animations.

Cute to Kill 2 was put together by animator Asa Mori and Yuriko Iga of Blim. Asa Mori was born in Nagano, Japan and obtained a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and works on media installation and animation. Her animation was a surreal claymation about bunny men, inspired by her rabbit who died a week after she got him. Yuriko Iga is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design and her current project is called Blim. Blim is a community-based art resource center and retail space located in the heart of Chinatown, which provides studio space, supplies, and workshops.

The submissions for Cute to Kill 2 come from local, national, and international artists of Japanese descent. The short films used minimal dialogue, and instead tell their stories through action.

Among the collection of adorably depraved shorts was Mirai Mizue’s JAM and MODERN, which use minimalist abstract animation using linear figures.

Hand Soap by Kei Oyama is a story about a family of social outcasts that climaxes with a dancing frog. Oyama uses a realistic style by using a collage of photographs shot in close-up to form his characters.

The most unique short was Dark Matter by Sachiyo Takahashi. She tells the story of a lost lamb through microscopic live cinema-theatre. Get money get paid // This style is presented live by using a video camera to record miniatures on a set. The story is told through paper speech bubbles, filters, ambient music, and the use of zoom to establish a shot.

Yuriko Iga considers the event to be a success: “I was happy with the turnout and the programming. I love this genre.”

This event was just one of many that celebrate Japanese culture in Vancouver. The Sakura Days Japan Fair celebrates the blooming of cherry blossoms with tea ceremonies, sake tasting, and performances. The Powell Street Festival is the largest event of its kind in Canada and the longest running community arts festival in the Lower Mainland.

Yuriko Iga states, “Vancouver is the closest city to Asia across the water. I think that needs to be recognized. We are neighbours to Asia. Also, there is a large population of Japanese who have been living in BC for a long time now and are certified Canadians.”

“Cuteness” has been a staple in Japanese pop culture since the 70s, replacing the traditional aesthetic of beauty and refinement. One of the most evident examples of cuteness, or kawaii, as it’s known in Japan, is the popularity of Hello Kitty. Founded in 1974, Hello Kitty has become an international phenomenon and can be found on school supplies, plushies, video games, and more.

Another common use of kawaii is the art style of super-deformed characters, commonly known as chibi.

The term moe is used to describe a specific

slow, and monochromatic, and slowly evolved into aesthetic chaos.

All of the shorts revelled in the surreal and provoked thought. If you missed this showing, then don’t worry: according to Iga there will be a Cute to Kill 3. “We are hoping to make this an annual event in conjunction with the Powell Street Festival,” she exaplains. The screening is a unique event that blurs the line between cute and scary, or kawaii and kowaii.

Michael Jackson: the immortal world tour

by Cirque du Soleil Rogers Arena – November 6 One person’s impact is often hard to gauge. But for Michael Jackson, the mark he has made on his fans and peers is clear. In Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour, Cirque du Soleil captured Jackson’s enigmatic spirit and used it as the platform for the ultimate spectacle.

With a live band performing, as well as a capella versions of the late King of Pop’s catalogue, the on-stage performers had the ultimate inspiration with their routines. The backbone of the performance was a group of five “fanatics” all dressed in costumes based on classic MJ looks, such as one suit made entirely of sparkled gloves.

The group danced all the way to the large adorned gates of Jackson’s famed Neverland ranch, performing a few Jackson 5 cuts along the way. Shortly before the intermission, the entire stage was transformed into an entirely realistic cemetery, with the dancers emerging from the dead as ghouls and mummies throughout the classic “Thriller.”

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Unlike other Cirque shows, the majority of the performance here was dance; not too surprising given Jackson’s famous moves. However, the inair moments, such as the moving aerial act for “Human Nature” or the two-person “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”, were untouchable. The latter featured two performers balanced mid-air holding a rope, and supporting each other’s frames with nothing more than each other’s teeth or bare arms.

It was certainly the variety that made the show fun: whether is be the basketball choreography in “Jam” or the two dozen strong LED-imprinted oversized robot army in “They Don’t Care About Us”. One of Jackson’s childhood singles “Ben” showcased his love of animals with a pair of majestic multi-person elephant costumes that paraded the catwalk.

The performance took a dark turn during “Smooth Criminal” with a film noir twist seeing the dancers precociously dangling off of eerie looking street lamps. However, the loudest reaction of the night was for a solo pole dancer during the contortionist performance of “Dangerous” that had the audience literally gasping repeatedly.

At the end, the “fanatics” finally made it through the gates of Neverland as the entire cast reunited on stage for “Man In The Mirror” which celebrated Jackson’s life and legacy with a video tribute.

Though many of the gimmicky acts, like the oversized glove and shoes the “fanatics” donned during “Beat It”, were incredible, the finale was truly touching and left the crowd with a great memory of just what a passionate entertainer Jackson really was.

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World of Violence

Occupy Vancouver preoccupies city hall

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s it is used to attain desired ends, violence is “neither beastly nor irrational,” says political theorist Hannah Arendt.

Rather, violence is instrumental, and it has proven to be a capable tool within politics. This is what Clausewitz meant in his famous dictum that war is politics by other means: when you fail to persuade your political opponent with words, you can still persuade them with force. Today, a similar use of violence is taking place in the petty politics of our upcoming election.

Since Occupy Vancouver first began a month ago, NPA leader Suzanne Anton has urged Gregor Robertson to take action. On Oct. 26, she even proposed a basic three-step plan on her party’s website outlining how to remove the demonstrators (ironically, the plan was not unlike the one used in Oakland a couple weeks ago). She went so far as to say that she is “confident that the tent city can be ended peacefully.”

We should in no way take her seriously. She is merely baiting Robertson into a violent confrontation with the demonstrators, and into the political crisis that will follow.

The consequences of ending the Occupy Vancouver demonstration are obvious enough.

We already have examples from the various American municipal governments that have attempted to evacuate their encampments. When the Oakland police enforced a notice to vacate, the large group of demonstrators rightfully challenged the authorities.

Since that incident, the movement has grown and has even executed a general strike, leaving Oakland’s mayor, Jean Quan, politically hapless. If similar violence were to erupt just days away from the night that Vancouverites choose their local government, Vision Vancouver would certainly not be rewarded for “allowing” a second riot.

It appears that this is the defect of the zero-

sum game played out in all our democratic institutions: crises always benefit the opposition.

Although OV still stands, Anton’s prodding has not been entirely fruitless. She – along with a handful of other officials – have succeeded in shifting the discourse from a discussion on the legal status of OV to how the City can end OV. It appears an agreement has already been reached: the demonstrators must go. Robertson told reporters just this past weekend that he has “directed the city manager to expedite the appropriate steps to end the encampment as soon as possible.”

Remarkably, the City has directed their focus to the practical problem of how to end OV, despite Vancouverites still remaining divided on the issue. An Ipsos Reid poll from Nov. 3 reports that, of those surveyed, 44 per cent support OV, while another 48 per cent oppose it. Despite these figures, 80 per cent of our democratically elected representatives on the City Council seek an end to the demonstrations.

The gap between the views of our City Councillors and their constituents is no doubt alarming, but there exists another, underlying, gap. In the discussion surrounding the demonstration, OV has taken on a meaning beyond the physical encampment, constituting a violent severance from reality. This simply makes room for exaggerated and speculative debate.

Language, by its very nature, is violent. As it reduces the designated thing to a single feature, divorcing it from reality, and inserting it into a field of meaning independent of it, language violently changes the way in which the designated thing appears.

“Reality in itself, in its stupid existence, is never intolerable: it is language, its symbolization, which makes it such,” explains the philosopher Slavoj Žižek. To use a crude racist example, what encourages someone to tighten their grip on

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their purse in the presence of a black man is not the immediate reality of the black man, but, rather, the image of the black man stereotypically represented in society as a “thief”, “hoodlum”, etc.

Not only is there a distinction between language/ symbolization and reality, but it is also these representations that govern reality.

In the same light, the way in which OV has been represented and discussed at City Hall and in the media, one could easily conclude that their demonstration has affected the lives of, well, 48 per cent of Vancouver. But the immediate reality of the OV demonstrations – that physical encampment located downtown – is not what Suzanne Anton and half of Vancouver are opposed to. Rather, they are opposed to the OV that has been represented by City Hall and the media.

To prove this, let us look at the immediate effects of OV on Vancouver in relation to what has been said. Thus far, Vancouverites have been inconvenienced only slightly. Aside from occasional disruptions of traffic due to

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marches, the re-routing of the Rogers Santa Claus Parade, and, of course, the appropriation of a public space, the interruption for Vancouverites has been minimal. In fact, all three of these examples can be perceived as positive developments for the movement.

But OV, as it has been represented, has been blamed for far more inconveniences than rerouting traffic. Within two weeks of the occupation, the Province newspaper, Suzanne Anton, and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association had claimed that the demonstration had become rat-infested, posing a threat to local businesses. Although Vancouver Coastal Health responded immediately saying that OV poses “no health concerns,” the issue of rats has already become a fixture in the debate.

The myth that the occupation is costing the public is unfounded. Yes, during the first week, an extra $440,000 was incurred by the VPD and RCMP for overtime and additional units after their initial misreading of the occupation as potentially violent. But since then, the City reports, that there have been “no incremental costs resulting from the protests.”

This violent separation between the occupation’s representation and its reality pose a threat to the movement itself. If City Hall does not readjust their clouded gaze on the occupation, they may provoke the peaceful demonstrators into violence. And this time, Gregor Robertson and his Councillors will have no one to blame but themselves.

Dexter Fergie is a previous Cap student, now studying at UBC. His insights into current events and politics have been gracing the pages of the Courier for two years. In his column this term he is exploring the various forms that violence takes within our world.

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It’s all just a game

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political food chain you go, the dirtier it becomes, and the more it gets to be a “game” in which the Faust-like participant must compromise their goals and values to obtain and maintain power.

My experience as a former student politician also showed me that the “political game” infects student organizations as well, though some more than others. The level of the political game depends on the culture of the organization, and tone of the political engagement on campus.

There are two different areas worth considering in evaluation of how political gamesmanship works.

The first and most obvious of these is elections.

If, as a politician, you have some scruples about the political game, and your opponent does not, your opponent immediately has an advantage if they do not have a problem saying what people want to hear instead of revealing their true intentions. There are countless examples of this, including the HST debacle in previous provincial election, in which the BC Liberals lied about their intentions to bring the HST to BC, and immediately after the election brought it in anyway.

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Student politics is often plagued with similar issues, though with lower stakes.

When I was a student at Kwantlen, I made the unfortunate mistake of running in the election with the now-disgraced Reduce All Fees (RAF) Party. During the election campaign, the party candidates (myself included) did everything but engage students in a critical debate on democracy and student representation. We gave away free food and candy for votes, made promises we knew we couldn’t fulfil, and made frivolous electoral complaints against other candidates. If there was a dirty trick we didn’t pull, we probably failed to think of it at the time. Consequently, we won many of the positions, though the whole slate ended up disqualified. In the next election, the RAF party swept the election (without me of course), because their unscrupulous nature gave them a huge advantage in campaigning.

Unrelated to elections, but similar, most student organizations as a whole will also publicly present themselves as being enormously productive and valuable to the student body. Some of them are, some fail to be, but they will all mask

the fractious debate and conflict that often occurs internally, and present a happier face publicly.

This is the way that the political gamesmanship works in terms of an electoral candidates engagement with potential voters, or as a matter of the organization engaging with its membership as a whole.

The second area in which political gamesmanship is an important factor is behind the scenes, largely in the way that elected officials work within the internal decision-making mechanisms of the organizations, but also in the backroom wheeling and dealing that occurs during election campaigns. As a note – student union staff and non-elected students – may also be factors in the politicization of these mechanisms; however, it is generally inadvisable for staff to be involved in this capacity, and individual non-elected students are usually so insignificant in most such organizations as to not have an effect in this area.

In regard to this style of backroom politics, the CSU has had its ups and downs, but as a whole (in the past few years) has appeared to

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oliticians as a group don’t have the greatest of reputations. They are stereotyped as conniving, two-faced power brokers who will smile at your face and then stab you in the back when you turn around.

Though perhaps a little over-the-top, in general there is some level of truth in this perspective. A majority of people are mostly honest, but still occasionally tell lies (for whatever reason). Most people would also get eaten alive in the highest levels of the political arena.

Regardless of the level of politics, backroom wheeling-and-dealing must occur, and you must partake in this process if you have any hope in attaining and holding onto power. Although this may not be the original intention of someone who enters into politics, often they are forced to consider compromising their values if they hope to “win” the political game.

These ideas are also applicable to student politics. While my experience in electoral politics is limited to campus student organizations, my impression, from years of following many different levels of politics is that the higher up on the

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avoid the strident politicization of its decision-making mechanisms. Hypothetically speaking, the system is set up so that the executives work collaboratively in consultation with membership to examine the pros and cons of each item of consideration, and then make an informed decision.

Unfortunately, this isn’t always how it plays out. Typically, if you want something to pass that may be contentious, you must lobby other voting members to be on your side before the meeting in which the decision is made, and do it before the your opponent makes those same phone calls. You also need to make sure

your backers are actually in attendance at that meeting, and know what arguments will enhance your proposed outcome and minimize any drawbacks.

Your personal popularity is also a factor in these situations. Typically, on such contentious issues, many people have already made up their minds before the meeting in which the ‘official’ decision is made, because those discussions have already happened privately.

My experience with the Canadian Federation of Students, a national student organization that many schools are part of, was particularly instructive in how people “win” in a decision-

making environment that is highly politicized.

The CFS is an organization that inspires extremely strong feelings on both sides, either a fanatical devotion or a fanatical hatred. Most of the member schools have permanent staff members who are sent as part of their delegations and are long-time loyalists to the CFS. Often, when it comes to making decisions, staff members do much of the talking and advocating during sessions. First time student representatives may simply follow along with what these staff members say, as staff members know what they’re talking about, and have the trust of their student executives. In addition, those

who dissent from the established line are frequently marginalized by accusations of being “right-wingers”.

I will admit that I myself played the political game myself sometimes – and I’d like to think I was decent at it, or I wouldn’t have stuck around so long. However I’d also hope that my own style of it included a higher level of integrity and honesty than perhaps the vocation has a reputation for. Most politicians don’t enter politics to become “politicians”; they enter to make a difference, but the system forces them to play the game, and if they don’t, they lose, because everyone else is playing it.

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West Vancouver boys Do you fuck on the first date?

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h … I think so?

That’s not a good answer, but the whole concept of going on first dates is pretty whack I guess. It’s like you’re interviewing someone for the position of vagina-filler.

Awkward! Anyway, I’ve only ever gone all the way on a first date once. I think. You’re all reading this for the raunchy story anyway, so here it is: It was a beautiful afternoon in 2010 and I was preparing to attend my friend Carl’s annual Cinco de Mayo party. I was looking forward to nothing more than getting loco when my friend Tylene called me desperately, asking for a favour.

“Of course,” I said cautiously, thinking that she needed a ride somewhere or to borrow money.

“I need you to come on a double date with me,” she said.

I immediately tried to weasel out of the situation. Not only are double dates usually suicidally boring, but Tylene has even worse taste in men than me.

“You’ll like them,” she said wheedlingly.

“They’re athletes.”

“Lame! I don’t want to hang out with a bunch of stupid jock straps when I could be livin’ la vida Lohan,” I said stubbornly.

“Ho, you haven’t been on a date in months,” she said mercilessly. “Anyways, we can go to the stupid Cinco de Mayo thing afterwards. It’ll still be early. And I promise that you won’t have to pay for anything. These guys are from West Van!” If there’s one thing I’m powerless to resist, it’s the lure of anything free. And everyone who reads this column knows that I have a sick fascination with putting myself into awkward social situations for the sake of a good LOL. Tylene extracted from me a promise to meet at seven at Milestones.

An hour later, I cruised into the restaurant wearing a themed Mexican poncho. Tylene was already at a table with two guys straight out of an American Eagle catalogue. Her date, Ryan, had hair so severely spiked it looked like it could be snapped off by a strong breeze. Mine was wearing camo shorts and a white polo shirt, although, to his credit, the collar wasn’t popped. I was completely unsurprised to learn that his name was Brody.

“Like a real bro!” I said, already planning the hilarious story I would recount later at the party.

“What frat are you guys in?”

“Alpha Delta Phi,” they said, in unison. I gave Tylene a long, meaningful look across the table, but she was enraptured with Ryan’s admittedly

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it and heaved up everything I’d consumed that day, as well as two internal organs.

I must have fallen into some kind of swoon, because the next thing I knew, I was lying on the carpet. Someone was calling my name. I couldn’t tell if it had been minutes or hours since I’d made my vile offering.

Brody’s feet came into view, swaying unsteadily. He saw me lying limply on the ground and fell to his knees beside me, cradling my upper body like a NATO peace worker with an incredibly wasted war child. “Are you all right?” he cried dramatically.

His head, lit from behind, looked like a sexy, buff angel. I was overcome by a powerful urge to do something regrettable. The next thing I knew, we were making out, rolling around on the floor of Ryan’s dad’s office.

He didn’t comment at all about my vomit// Katie So breath, though I suspected he’d just thrown very chiselled visage and had totally forgotten Looking back, I have to mentally high-five him up himself. about my existence. for his flawlessly smooth operation. The whole You know that point of intoxication when any I was prepared to spend the next few hours point of bringing Brody and I was to encourage a attempt at physical performance is defeated by hating Brody, but he shocked me by displaying a festive and relaxed party atmosphere that would the weak state of your body? We were both at level of self-awareness that I’d never before seen make Tylene feel comfortable enough to loosen that point. It was like trying to pick a lock with a in a Hollister model. “I had no idea that Ryan up and drink. Weaselling in a tour of his parent’s wet noodle. Gross! was going to make this into some kind of weird awesome house would impress the shit out of After much frustration, I blacked out for a secdouble date,” he said conspiratorially. “So let’s just her, and of course, the heated deck was totally ond time. When I opened my eyes, I could hear get smashed and make them feel really stupid for romantic, featuring a majestic view of the city someone calling my name again. This time, it was dragging us along.” He then ordered a round of lights far below us. And of course, the best part, Tylene’s feet that appeared in my field of vision. tequila shots. I stopped hating him at once. sunken into the wooden floor …

“Cheetah! What the hell did you do?”

An hour, many shots, and one greasy quesa“A hot tub!” shrieked Tylene. “Oh my god, can I sat up and looked around groggily. Brody dilla later, Brody and I had become reasonably we go in?” lay face down next to me in the puddle that had good bros, although I was still counting down the “Cinco de mayo!” I said, suddenly anxious. As seeped from the overturned garbage can. He was minutes until we could leave. Tylene and Ryan much as I thought Brody was cool, there was no completely pantsless, and I was wearing only my seemed to be doing well as they eye-fucked each way that I wanted to be forced into a regrettable Mexican poncho. other over a series of increasingly fruity drinks. hot tub orgy.

“Cheetah, did you have sex with him?” Tylene “Dude!” I shouted into Tylene’s besotted face.

“Don’t be a wiener, Cheet,” she said, already asked incredulously.

“We should totally bring these bros to the party. stripped down to her underwear. “We still have “Not in the eyes of the Lord,” I said uncertainly, It’ll be LOL.” lots of time.” trying to locate my clothes. “I mean, look at him.”

She hadn’t downed enough liquid courage to I settled for dangling my legs in the searing “True. Well, Ryan was a total joke. I gave him a take Ryan home and jump on his huevos at that water and tried to relax, but something was defi- blowjob for like, 20 minutes, and then he just fell point, so she agreed. However, I could see an nitely off. The combination of prolonged expo- asleep! Well, are we going to that party or what? expression of craftiness seep into Ryan’s expres- sure to tequila, the horrible Milestones food, and It’s only 11:30.” sion like the Grinch. “Only if we stop at my house the smell of chlorine was making the city lights “Ha ha ha! Oh man, we’re such whores.” first,” he said. “It’s still early, and I have some really glow feverishly. My face grew sweaty and started We high-fived over Brody’s prone body, empgood tequila that I want you guys to try.” to swell like an ugly balloon. Brody was talking to tied the liquor cabinet of as much alcohol as we Ryan was definitely hoping for a little pre- me but it sounded like he sounded very far away. could carry, and hit the Cinco de Mayo party party action, but Tylene was too drunk/in love “If you will all excuse me,” I said with great dig- with the best story of the night. to realise, and Brody and I were just too drunk. nity, “I must vomit now.”

And that was the time that I put out on the We all piled into a cab and shot off to a huge and I got up and ran back into the house. In that first date. ultra-modern house that looked straight out of a moment I cursed the architect and my own Beverly Hills reality TV show. drunken self, because for some reason I was Cheetah has worked on the graphics end of the In the massive kitchen, Ryan poured out a unable to find any bathroom. The hideous bile Courier for nearly four years, but this is her first sampling of drinks with the air of a pope bestow- started to fill my mouth, and I found myself in ever column. She will answer all your burning, ing the sacred wine. “We should go out and enjoy what seemed to be an office, in the corner of itching, scabby sex questions, via text at 778-859these on the heated deck,” he said smugly. which was a garbage can. I flung myself towards 6036 or by emailing cheetahpowers@gmail.com.

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IT’s getting better Rick Mercer’s challenge heartfelt but unfair

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n Oct. 14, 2011 Ottawan Jamie Hubley was found dead by his own hand. He was 15 years old and openly gay. Lately, a great deal of public awareness has been devoted to the phenomenon of teen suicide and its invariable link to bullying. Kids have always found ways to torment each other – it stands as a means of self-affirmation. At an age where knowledge of self is fraught with uncertainty, group identification can be among the only means of identity, and sexual orientation can be visible and divisive.

According to many, Jamie Hubley was a victim of such ostracizing torment.

Driven by the news of Hubley’s death, political satirist and television personality Rick Mercer delivered a “rant” in a segment of his CBC-TV program Rick Mercer Report.

“It’s no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it’s going to get better …

Every teacher, every student, every adult has to step up to the plate … I know gay cops, soldiers, athletes, [and] cabinet ministers … So if you’re gay and you’re in public life, you can’t be invisible. Not anymore,” Mercer proclaimed.

Mercer is an openly gay figure and was justifiably moved by the tragedy. Though his desire to end the injustices and embrace our differences is appropriately shared by many, it was his challenge to all public figures that has instigated debate. It is of immense comfort to vulnerable young people that cultural leaders and social figureheads acknowledge their right to be who they are; moreover, for kids to look up to the admired and see themselves can be a beacon of reassurance. However, it’s not Mercer’s encouragement that’s being interpreted

and questioned, but his challenge – a challenge to all public figures to identify their private selves publicly.

Later that week, the Globe and Mail published an editorial disputing Mercer’s assertion that all public figures bear a responsibility to outwardly announce and identify themselves. The Globe suggests that such an imposition falls exclusively on gay people, creating an ironic twist on the sanctity of a person’s right to privacy and openness. In years past, gay people have been compelled to keep their lives secret in the face of cultural expectations; should they now be forced to reveal themselves? Even more substantially, by issuing such a challenge, Mercer is burdening all privately gay figures with a staggering moral responsibility – he is burdening them with the lives of gay youths.

Advocacy for the recognition of gay rights (legally, socially and culturally) has swelled as of late, most notably with the growing fight for legal recognition of same-sex marriage. The growth and pervasion of liberalism in the developed world has lowered public resistance to outwardly acknowledged homosexuality: even being repulsed by homosexuality can be seen as ignorant. Already, many public figures have used their status to elevate the awareness and acceptance of the LGBT lifestyle, and have come out proudly and shown that it’s all good.

However, the forced outing of anybody, regardless of his or her visibility, is unethical. Coming out is very significant milestone in a gay person’s life and as individuals everyone is entitled to choosing when and the manner with which it happens. It is important that public figures continue to use their standing to further positive cause, but in no way should they bear the onus of a movement’s losses.

If an individual’s coming-out is being prevented due to what that person perceives as “circumstance”, that can be changed. For example, if a politician is reticent to publicly acknowledge who they are because of the party with which they are affiliated, maybe they should rethink their registration. Everyone deserves their right to privacy, but they should never immerse themselves in a world that doesn’t embrace who they are.

Mercer’s comments must be considered in their context. First of all, he’s impassioned. He no doubt feels sincere empathy, and the annual cost of young lives deeply troubling – according to a Parliamentary Research Report, nearly 300 youth in Canada choose to take their own life every year (though it must be noted that for every suicide completed, there are between ten and 100 attempted). Due to the very personal nature of bul-

// Kira Campbell lying, it’s impossible to link every circumstance with sexual orientation, but as we have seen, the issue is of considerable presence.

We must also consider that Mercer is a comedian and a satirist. It’s not that his words have no meaning – quite the opposite – it’s that he’s liberal with them. Perhaps he is using a grandly-drawn perspective to illustrate the subtleties of what really matters: that it is upon all of us to create a better world of understanding, encouragement and inclusion.

Ideally, one’s sexual orientation shouldn’t be seen as a defining characteristic; it should be a non-issue. And as well-intentioned as this debate may be, it still perpetuates the status of sexual identity as a talking point. Though until it’s no longer a talking point, we’re doing the best thing we can – talking about it.

Fighting in hockey is accepted by the public because people are drawn to the violence, and purists believe it is a tradition and part of the sport; however, if people want to watch a fight, UFC and MMA are more legitimate forms of competitive combat. The hockey traditionalists need to accept that things have to change to become better. Generations of children are brought up thinking that hitting someone on the ice is a good thing, and carry this ideal throughout their lives.

Hockey teams have decided to deal with violence by fighting fire with fire. One or two players on each team are given the role of enforcer, or “goon”, as they are sometimes called.

No other sport has an equivalent position to the enforcer. These players are drafted not due to their skill, but because of their size. It is their job to protect the smaller players on their team and hinder the opposition. The goons are usually forwards, because this way, they only play a few minutes per game and let the talented players have more time on the ice. These goons rarely get any ice time during important games such as the play-offs. Not a single enforcer has played centre, a position played only by the best of the team.

It is a shame when these hired bullies injure legitimate players. Such was the case when hockey prodigy Sidney Crosby sustained two head injuries in the span of four days, resulting in the Pittsburgh Penguins floundering in the play-offs. Only time will tell if Crosby’s short and successful career is over. In today’s league, enforcers are a necessary evil, and act as guardians, protecting the smaller players from being bullied by other goons. A team without an enforcer would be crushed unless the league removes the need for the position by implementing safer rules.

Despite the roughhousing, hockey is still a great sport. The amazing plays, incredible saves, and the tension are far more exciting than any fight. One of the greatest players of all time, Wayne Gretzkey, never got into a single fight during his 21-year career.

Physical contact and penalties are unavoidable, but a line has to be drawn. The NHL should install harsher penalties to discourage violence and ensure the safety of its players.

If things don`t change, in the future we’ll be saying, “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.”

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hat do you get when you cross Chuck Liddell with Elvis Stojko?

Violence in ice hockey has been a controversial topic between sports fans. Some believe it takes away from the sport, while others think that the violence is the most exciting part of the game. If a player was to hit another outside the rink, he would be charged. So why is it all right on the ice?

Violence is something that appeals to our primitive nature. If our lifestyle is mundane and routine, a little chaos that upsets the established order can be exhilarating.

Hockey celebrity Don Cherry is rather vocal about his love for violence on the ice. The Coaches’ Corner star stated, “It’s a tough sport, fans like it, I still like it.”

These players are paid millions of dollars to entertain us, and fighting is certainly entertaining to many viewers. Fans compile “Top 10” hits and fight videos, and love it when an opposing player gets their just desserts. In the words of celebrity Canuck fans the Green Men, “Did

anyone else enjoy Volpatti churning Carcillo into a human punching bag as much as we did?” Fighting isn’t exciting just to the fans, but also the players. The rink is a place where society’s rules don’t apply, and you can brawl with little consequences.

Violence has always been a part of hockey.

With huge players moving quickly across the ice, accidents are unavoidable. It is when anger rises and fists start flying that people become concerned. Some cases of violence on the ice have been so severe that a player has been expelled or even convicted. In the early 20th century, players were dying on the rink.

Owen McCourt was the first hockey player to die from an on ice injury, after being struck in the head by another player’s stick in 1907.

There have been several other incidents of severe violence such as the brawl Billy Coutu started, or Eddie Shore’s hit on Ace Bailey. The latest player to be charged was Todd Bertuzzi in 2004. The former Canuck sucker-punched Steve Moore in the back of the head, resulting in the end of Moore’s professional career. Bertuzzi received a 20-game suspension and was given a conditional discharge.

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Facebook sucks Social networking provides low quality interactions

By Natahsha Prakash // web editor

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nstead of kids going out and making their own moments, they’re just taking these images and living vicariously through other people’s moments … They don’t actually embody any of those things. They just emulate.”

So ranted popular singer/songwriter Drake in a blog post addressing Tumblr. The issue with social networking sites (SNS) does not lie with social networking itself, but more so on the fastpaced glossing over of issues and the importance of self-image. Facebook is an outlet, supposedly aiding the social lives of millions – but is it really?

Is your real identity being compromised for mere online popularity, and what impact is our addiction to social networking having on society?

Traditional online forums are discussionbased, linking individuals to virtual communities that share the same interests. Forum users can be elitist and intimidating, and the topics can have a narrow focus, one of the many reasons why people are more likely to interact over social networking sites. Social networking is far more accessible, which explains the wide range of online services that are available, including thousands of Facebook applications and multinetwork posting applications.

Forums and SNSs also diverge when it comes to the virtual avatar. An avatar on a discussion forum is secondary to the insight the user has

to offer the discussion. SNSs, like Facebook, put the importance on the user, merging the self and the avatar. Users portray idealized versions of themselves – a person who is more confident, intelligent, artistic or attractive – whether there is substance to these portrayals or not. People interact in a similar fashion: political views and opinions are extensions of the self, degenerating a deeper understanding of an issue into a “like” of someone’s 100-character interpretation.

People are allowing social networking to control their views. As an alternative to researching, many people base their judgements and knowledge on the opinions of their online peers.

Hitwise analyst Heather Hopkins notes, “Facebook has become the fourth largest source of traffic for media; behind Google, Yahoo and MSN. The moment there is breaking news, i.e., Michael Jackson’s death in 2009, swine flu, the Blackberry breakdown, or even the first snowfall – your Facebook page is littered with the same information.”

Farhad Manjoo, author of True Enough agrees: “Facts can’t find us anymore – instead, we find our own political ‘facts’ in the corners of the Internet, like our friends’ Facebook feeds.”

Alice Mathias from the New York Times wrote, “Facebook is yet another form of escapism … the site is popular largely because it enables us to indulge our gazes anonymously.” Studies are unable to find what it is exactly that is so addicting about the use of social media and why it appeals so strongly to the University student

demographic – but the impact is significant.

A study published in Cyberpsychology entitled “Behaviour and Social Networking” revealed that two-thirds of reported students used electronic media while in class, studying, or doing homework, which had negative effects on their GPA – “reducing it between 0.05 and 0.07 points.”

In the Time article, “What Facebook Users Share: Lower Grades”, Aryn Karpinski reveals, “Maybe [Facebook users] are just prone to distraction. Maybe they are just procrastinators.”

It is the 17-24 age group, dubbed “generation next”, that have been reported to have addictive tendencies to SNS. However, researchers from the University of Melbourne believe “it’s in the hands of students, in consultation with parents,

// Chris Dedinsky to define priorities and decide how to spend their time.” Mathias states, “Facebook did not become popular because it was a functional tool … Instead, we log into the Web site because it’s entertaining.” There is no formal use for Facebook; it’s for entertainment.

Social networking is at the fingertips of 2,095,006,005 connected people. Fast-paced online networking opens up horizons and new opportunities for individuals to engage their word.

The Internet, as well as Facebook, should be a tool to connect, not to replace, reality. It is used for friendships, but also to connect to the world, information, and ideas. The fact that Facebook doesn’t breed a smarter, more connected generation is tragic.

Window Shopper Chainsaw Massacre Vintage clothing store faces vintage criticism

By Ben Spieler // writer

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ancouver-based vintage store Mintage stirred up controversy with their mid-October Halloween preparations: a small bed drenched in thick red blood. The leftovers of a murdered child, perhaps? Maybe a petite woman? Regardless, this poor soul had been torn apart and left this mortal coil in a bout of terror, their last sight being their own blood sprayed all over the glass surrounding their … shop display?

The display in question depicted a bloodsoaked bed, an axe on the ground and more blood splattered liberally on the windows and walls, but no physical remains.

This caught the ire of Kathy Parsons, who believed the display depicted violence against women. Parsons began protesting the storefront display with a sign that read, “This window display is harmful to our community.”

Parsons picketed outside the store for more than two hours. Evidently she spoke with “around 45 people” who were also offended about the displays’ subject matter, but didn’t necessarily agree that it was promoting violence.

The co-owners of the store, Skylar Stock and Carly Lenarduzzi, disagreed that it was promoting violence and simply thought it was all fun and games in the spirit of Halloween.

The store may have offended a few locals, but it also received support from others in the community. Some even went so far as to stage an antiprotest directly beside Kathy Parson’s protest in

an attempt to get her to drop the issue; however, it didn’t work.

The situation seemed to be at a bit of an impasse, with neither side budging, until a few nights later when a group of unknown vandals covered the store windows with pictures of missing women and copious amounts of glue. Many negative comments were scrawled on the walls and the sidewalk.

In a statement to the Metro, Skylar Stock is reported to have said, “I can deal with somebody being upset with the window. If somebody wants to talk to me about it, then that’s fine. But this kind of pushed it a little too far.”

Deciding that it was too much of a risk for his employees and the community, Stock began dismantling the display and cleaning up the vandalized window. According to CNEWS, Stocks said, “As I was cleaning it off [the vandalized display], there were people yelling at me calling me a typical f---ing male.” He says that Mintage stands by their window display, but felt the need to take it down for the safety of their neighbourhood and employees.

Following the clean-up and display dismantling, Mintage posted an apology to the community in their window: “We recognize that some people have been offended and this was certainly not our intention,” the letter reads. “Since putting up the display, we have had many people provide positive comments in the spirit of Halloween, but this act of vandalism takes what was intended in the spirit of Halloween to a whole new level.’

Kathy Parsons says she is thankful the display has been taken down, but adds, “The

// Arin Ringwald unfortunate thing is with the letter, the reasoning that they’re saying for taking it down is that they were vandalized, which is a little ludicrous in my opinion.”

Mintage is known for putting up a Halloween display every year, and this isn’t the first time they’ve drawn negative attention from the neighborhood. In 2007, Mintage had a display featuring a hatchet-wielding female mannequin wearing a Michael Myers mask, bound and dismembered female mannequins, a decrepit wheelchair and an old-fashioned meat-grinder filled with limbs and gore. Local residents claimed it was promoting violence against women.

It is normal for vintage shops to have a larger number of female mannequins because they are generally targeted toward women, or at the very least have a wide range of ladies’ clothing.

One can argue that the display from 2007 was depicting violence towards women , but the fact that the killer was also a female mannequin lends more credibility to the idea that they simply had more female mannequins to use. As for the 2011 display, there seems to be very little to support the violence against women angle. If anything, the display depicts a child’s bed covered in blood; no gender suggestions at all.

This still leaves us with the level of realism: was the display too scary for halloween? From the point of view of concerned parents, it was bit over the top; but for many Halloween fans, it was a breath of fresh gore. Perhaps putting a creepy black curtain around the display would have been more suitable. People would have been able to view it at their leisure, or simply go about their day; it might have even added to the eeriness.

It is normal for companies to strive for media attention, and shock value sells. Stock learned how much business their controversial 2007 display pulled in and may have staged a repeat to drum up more business. However, the “violence against women” interpretation of the advertisement doesn’t have much basis, and the attention received was probably just good luck. It seems more likely that the Mintage staff was just enjoying what they were doing, and went a little crazy with the fake blood.

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Edi tor // KEvin Murray // c abo o s e . c apc o uri e r@ gmai l . c o m

poetry for men

By Kevin Murray // Writer

every story is a jesus fable a common complaint to food aid cut the feeding tube where does that money funnel? no trust, no money, no feed life. method. die agenda takes precedence over priority work an idea then juxtapose something unrelated. pray for context BEEP. volta like that. better to snowball another propaganda piece meta journalism social cue. sneeze bless you! encore there’s a hinge linking them from general to specific // Tiaré Jung …he’s heavy for a 16 year old… Indian descent …try and drop 50 pounds… Natives support what Hitler did… …thought he was white, too… Mr. White? Jesus

Murd4r (Lento)

compound nationalist socialist shock the music that’s what happened all those gadgets from the future is this is Canada strange this. what is is what. we know symbols of death and torture so totally banal thanksgiving dinner from an ethnographic standpoint how is hierarchy . become totally bizarre perspective . changed juxtapose / 10 minute \ documentary making

updated my Facebook profile picture to show a portrait painting caught a camera flash looked like a mirror mirror my face, look looks like I’m glowing to solve a murder changed my status said not momma’s art party then thought better than this is Main street and your father’s plaid shirt could be so lol is not meme enough for my wall

a waiter a watcher on weekends double rainbows disguised as what does it mean on your wall when your baby falls or your monday run had puddles and your quotes inspire murder cellular capture and freed on your wall you are unimpressed

to solve a murder

// Thomas Ward

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posted a link to the Hong Kong Mambo so I could show you how meta it gets

stopped in for a burger it was 3.99 see that green tea don’t do nothin for me, I’m up all night, anyway

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Public habits

Nosepicking Marco Ferreira

Tummy Gurgles Tiare Jung

Farts Beni Spieler

Nailbite Kevin Murray

As a child I would pick my nose incessantly. The act of scooping my nostrils clean and enjoying a good suck of air through the uninhibited passage delighted me as my mother waited in bank lines, or my dad shopped for boat equipment.

It was a worthy, and sometimes tasty, escape from the doldrums of everyday childhood. As I grew older, the adults in my life let me know that picking one’s nose incessantly would keep me from social acceptance. What was once a great friend became a formidable enemy. I grew older.

I stopped being home-schooled in order to start elementary school. Shit got real. No more nose picking for me, aside from when I really wasn’t paying attention. To this day, while riding the bus or helping a customer at work, I’ll catch myself knuckle deep in my own nostril, with nowhere to take my finger but out. I even may have done it as I wrote this review. The one you’re reading.

Right now.

GLLLUUUUURoop LOOOOGA LOOOGa LOOOoga LOooga Looooorouuuuug … Oh, stomach. You punctuate a conversation with the eloquence of a drowning wombat. GLLUUURP Gaaal-LOMP guuuzzleeee guzzzaloo zeeeoop …

You penetrate the quiet of an intimate snuggle like a balloon let loose during a moment of silent prayer in a chapel with vaulted tiers and amplified acoustics. Fear not, for though I try to ignore you, I have not forgotten you. That would be impossible. You never stop talking and demanding attention. Perhaps it is because you feel a tinge of jealousy, a stirring of green gastric juices, a twitch of the small intestine, when my lover slips her hand over my stomach skin; but fret not, for you are always the closest to my heart – about 9.3 inches away from it, in fact. If you have ever doubted this I have three words for you.

Vegan double-fudge brownies. GLLLEEEUURoom GLOOOO glooo glooo gooom galloooooooo zum!

I dunno about you, but I love to bottom burp, float an air biscuit, or step on a duck from time to time. It’s so satisfying. Everyone does it, and we each have our own style when it comes to farting in public. We’ve all squirmed and squished a certain way to pass the gas without making an ass of ourselves with our ass, like the silent squeakers or the angel’s whispers. One time, I was standing on a bus, and all of my techniques failed; I let out this giant, wet monstrosity. Not a shart, mind you, but just a wee bit trombone-ish. I was mortified, but before I could properly blush or even react, I heard an even louder and more destructive French Horn of a hoot to my right. I looked over and there was this old man that could’ve been Mr. Magoo. He just winked at me, grinned and looked away, saying, “I am Fartacus.”

I was walking into the Icon club in Ottawa all cool and aloof, alone, and slightly stoned. I was also gnawing on my nails. Jerry, the eunuch-esque yet predatory coatcheck boy, was eyeing me up and down, trying to decide if I should walk in or pay tonight. He noticed the nibble. “You shouldn’t bite your nails, you know,” he drawled in an effeminate, downtown drawl. He winked. I was taken aback. “I wasn’t!” I doth protested, too much. “Well, you shouldn’t bite your skin, then,” he retorted. “Oh, Jerry,” I said. Go on. ... Later that week we would end up making out at Stereo in Montreal, stoned once again, and I would use my carefully pared pointers to push his stubbly chin away, suddenly completely certain that his scratchy face would get no closer to my carefully groomed appendages. That, in fact, was how public nailbiting led to my realization that I am not gay. I guess I’m just a sucker for a dude who plays daddy.

Muppets crossword

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