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Give sex assault victims a voice pages 6-7

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Durham's silent crisis

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Learning to love yourself Photograph by Toby VanWeston

UOIT celebrates the hardware

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DC journalism students look at Durham College and UOIT, and beyond, by the numbers and with their cameras

Welcome to Canada, Somayeh!

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Canada boasts a population of more than 35 million, and now Somayeh Yarahmadi (holding the poster) joins the ranks. Yarahmadi recently obtained her Canadian citizenship after living here for nearly six years. The day after her test, she brought in a box of Timbits to share her excitement and to thank her Durham College classmates for welcoming her. To further the celebration, her friend Karen Albin got their Communicatons for Design class to sign a print.

No ordinary hole in the wall Art is popping up all over campus. Especially in the C wing at Durham College, where one clever artist has installed a piece that makes it seem like the wall is breaking away to reveal outer space.

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It's time for the SA to split Cartoon by Toby VanWeston

Durham College (DC) and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), share a gymnasium, a library, residence buildings and a student association. The Student Association (SA) is an association of students who represent and serve the interests of full-time students at both the college and the university.

DC was established in 1967 and had its own SA. After some time Trent University starting offering classes at DC, although DC still ran the SA until 2003 when UOIT was established it meant all three schools were under the same SA until Trent moved to its own campus in 2010 and established its own SA. But UOIT remains both on campus and as part of the SA shared with the college.

Currently, there are too many

controversies in the SA causing both schools to suffer for the action of one SA. Not only is the SA is serving too many students, there are not enough DC representatives.

It is time for DC and UOIT to separate the SA and create one SA for the college and one SA for the university.

Since the last election in May, the SA has had two presidents. According to Vianney Nengue, the vice president and interim president, the elected president Reem Dabbuous sent alleged emails to the athletic department promising a new soccer field.

This resulted in her disqualification as president. Another controversy is two SA members under investigation for harassment. One of the SA members involved was the replacement president, Cerise Wil-

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son, while the other was another SA member. The investigation has left the SA with some vacant seats, including the presidential seat, leaving Nengue to take the position.

The controversies solely reside with UOIT students and if there was a split, DC would no longer suffer for their actions.

The SA has not had enough representation from DC since the two associations merged in 2003. In the past 14 years, the SA has had one elected president on the executive team from DC. DC has 2,000 more students than UOIT, which should be reflected in the SA membership. Yet only two out of six representatives are from DC. According to Ryan LePage, a former president of the SA, the majority of votes come from UOIT students each year. With

few DC students representing the two schools, DC students feel less involved and therefore not inspired to vote. If the two schools split SAs, then DC students would be able to represent their own school. This will encourage more voters to participate in the SA elections.

DC has more than 12,000 students while UOIT has more than 10,000 students. The SA is now serving a community of more than 20,000. It’s too many students for the SA to handle.

Both Trent University’s Durham campus and UOIT did not have this many students back in 2003 so it made sense for them all to share one SA. UOIT and DC are separate schools serving separate communities and the SA should reflect that. Trent University in Durham has its own SA and has nearly 1,000 students, DC has 12

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With the controversies, the lack of DC representatives and the number of full-time students, it is clear the time has come for DC and UOIT to part ways and have their own SAs. This will help limit the number of controversies and inspire students to vote leading to a fair number of representatives to adequately hear then voice the concerns of students. It would split the population of students the SA has to serve nearly in half.

This divide is the best option. It is time to make this change.

Students should attend the SA’s next meeting in January and voice their opinion for a separation of the two SAs. Dean Daley and Jenn Amaro

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Opinion Reptiles are great pets for owners Reptiles are not as scary as people think In August 2013 an African rock python escaped from its enclosure at a pet store in New Brunswick and tragically killed two young boys.

This even brought international attention to reptile keeping and portrayed reptile owners, zoos, and the reptile community as a whole, in a negative way.

Although this horrific event involved a snake killing two young kids, it happened because of irresponsible pet ownership, not because of the pet.

Jean-Claude Savoie, owner of the pet store and loft where the attack happened, was recently found not guilty of criminal negligence causing death.

He had removed the vent in the snake’s enclosure without replacing it which allowed the snake to escape into the loft above where the two boys were sleeping. The snake also had no sort of stimulation in its enclosure which can lead to stress and aggression, according to an article by the National Post.

If Savoie had taken proper care of the snake and given it a proper living space, this tragic event would

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have never taken place.

According to the Humane Society of the United States, there have been 17 constrictor snake related deaths in the US since 1978.

Although this can seem like a high number, according to the Centre for Disease Control there are an average of 20-30 dog attack deaths in the US every year.

Even with more dogs in the US than pet reptiles, these numbers clearly show that dogs are the more dangerous pet, yet they are feared less than reptiles which are portrayed as cold-blooded killers.

In recent years there have been laws put in place that restrict responsible reptile ownership.

The Lacey Act in the United States, which was put in place by the Fish and Wildlife Services after the Burmese python issue in the everglades, restricts the shipping of certain species over state lines.

This has put a huge strain on

Dudley living happily in his well-kept habitat. businesses and has taken away rights of pet owners.

In May 2015 the United States Association of Reptile Keepers was successful in their fight in suspending the ban of some species in the Lacey Act, but the fight still continues for USARK. Canada’s own version of

USARK, CanHerp, fights for responsible reptile ownership in Canada, and is working with municipalities across Canada to ensure fair laws and bylaws for reptile owners.

With groups like USARK, CanHerp, and radio shows such as Urban Jungles Radio fighting

Photograph by Dan Koehler

the negative stigma around reptiles, there is a huge future for responsible reptile ownership and exotic animal ownership all together.

When we educate ourselves about these unique creatures, then take care of them accordingly, they can be harmless and make wonderful pets.

Job cuts in newsrooms leaves industry in jeopardy Readers aren’t getting the right facts from social media Canadians need information to make important decisions. Democracy depends on people knowing what they are voting for or protesting against.

There are many newsrooms in Canada facing job cuts and fewer journalists reporting the news.

According to Torstar chair John Honderich, this means democracy is at risk due to the lack of information reaching Canadians.

South of the border, both newsroom cuts and an abundance of

Laura Metcalfe misinformation spread over social media played a part in the election of Donald Trump.

People need to get their news from sites that are fact checked by trained journalists. This is the key to democracy.

The key to good news writing is getting to the heart of the issues, being fair, balanced and accurate.

Journalists need to dig deep in order to find out the facts.

Fewer journalists in the newsroom means there isn’t enough investigative journalism being done. If there are fewer journalists, newsrooms might not get the information to the people who are directly affected.

Political and community news suffer as a result of downsized newsrooms. With fewer reporters, there are not enough feet on the ground to cover everything and get multiple perspectives.

In a recent article published on the Toronto Star website, Honderich says fewer journalists in the newsroom means not enough investigative journalism is being done.

Newsrooms rely on reporters to provide a wide variety of stories and features, but as more newspapers build content online, print subscribers are forced to adjust to news both online and in mobile form.

This might be natural for a generation raised on technology, but for the readers who like to hold and flip through the news over the breakfast table, this is an adjustment. The more people cross over to digital, the more papers lose revenue because the news revenue

model has been based on print advertising.

Those advertising dollars have moved to online platforms like Facebook, sucking revenue from newspapers.

This has led news organizations to close down.

Maclean’s has changed from a weekly publication to monthly.

According to the Huffington Post, more than 40 staff members have been laid off due to the decline in print advertising.

This results in more journalists losing jobs and less coverage on the ground. During the U.S election there were many posts made on Facebook that included misinformation or were fake news in general.

People see these posts and ‘like’ or ‘share’ and the fake news is spread to more people without filters.

News outlets are constantly updating their online and mobile plat-

forms, leading print newspapers to become obsolete over time.

Newspapers need to accept the changing world of fast-paced news.

By the time papers are printed and distributed, the stories are no longer considered ‘fresh’ news. Advertisement is being invested online where there is more traffic.

Print is now struggling to keep afloat with what little ad and subscription revenue they have. This would not be a big issue if the industry could come up with new revenue models to compensate for the loss, but they have not yet.

Citizens need real news after it has been fact checked and verified for its validity.

People can’t always believe what they see on the Internet and this is the case for news.

Democracy depends on people finding reliable, fair, balanced, accurate information and basing their decisions on those facts.

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Why couldn’t it be Clinton?

How is it Donald Trump is president?

The morning after the election, the world changed. Not for the better.

Americans were speechless with the results of the 2016 presidential election.

On that historical evening, America voted a former reality star to be the leader of their country.

President-elect Donald J. Trump is one of the most well-recognized billionaires in the world, but by no means has the experience to be the leader of the free world. And although his business savvy has earned him his notorious reputation, it doesn’t secure the prosperity of an entire nation.

Jared Williams Named one of the most powerful women on the planet, former first lady of America, and Secretary of the State for Barack Obama – Hillary Clinton should have been the clear winner of the 2016 American presidential election.

When comparing Clinton to Trump, it is apparent she is welcoming to immigrants in America, swept Trump in the popular vote, and represents equality for women around the world.

If Clinton won, she would have gone down in history as the first female President of the United States of America.

In order for a candidate to win

the election, they need to win 270 of the electoral vote. Each state has a certain number of electoral vote based on the population of the state.

Because of the American Electoral College, dictated by the American constitution, the result of the vote can be different to who actually ends up as president.

Trump won the presidency due to winning the majority of the electoral college.

However, Clinton won the popular vote by over 1.2 million vote.

Throughout his campaign, Trump was accused been proven of making, racist, sexist and bias comments directed towards people of the Muslim faith and Latinos.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Trump says as president he plans to build a wall on the border of Mexico and America, and plans to send Mexico the bill in the name

of ‘Making America Great Again’.

Trump said too many people coming into America from the lower border and he used terms like “killers and rapists” to describe the Mexican and Latino community.

As Secretary of State, senator of New York, and former first lady, Clinton’s political knowledge and experience surpasses Trump in areas like foreign policies and world climate change.Similar to President Barack Obama, Clinton could have represented how far forward thinking America has come.

From fighting for women’s rights and equal pay, supporting low income family by giving them free college enrollment, even to increase minimum wages to $15/hr, Clinton was fighting to earn more for the everyday middle class American.

With health care being so expensive in the America, Clinton spoke of keeping ObamaCare for

the those who can’t afford regular healthcare, whereas Trump spoke of tearing down the only healthcare millions of Americans depend on.

Hillary Clinton once led her country as first lady and always aspired to become more. American seemed to have just began to taking a liking to President Obama, and she planned take that similar course a step further.

In the event of Clinton winning the election, she would have giving the similar hope to the nation that President Obama did becoming the first black president.

By popular vote Hillary Clinton should have rightful been winner of the 2016 presidential election.

Donald Trump has no experience in leading a nation. And although he did not win by popular vote, Donald Trump earned the opportunity to prove to the world he can run the nation.

Mac will take the Fat shaming needs prize over PCs to be a thing of the The battle past in today’s society between Asim

Bullying someone about their weight can lead to serious consequences Weight discrimination is a never-ending topic. But this is not surprising since well-known people like president-elect Donald Trump fat shame people on national television.

Trump publicly fat shamed former Miss Universe during a Republican debate on September 27th, by referring to her as “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.”

Fat shaming is not a form of encouragement for people to lose weight, it is bullying.

Telling overweight people to exercise in order to lose weight is not positive advice; in fact it can have a negative impact.

Taunting or making fun of people’s weight can lead to depression and other health issues.

Just because a person is overweight, it does not give anyone the right to interpret how and why a body is the way it is.

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Statistics Canada reports 54 per cent of the Canadian population has self-reported as overweight and obese.

Obesity is a complicated issue, which cannot be resolved with some type of weight loss pill or temporary fix with surgery.

Steven Nissen, MD, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, says simplified methods of weight loss, such as the weight loss pill, may not be safe since the elements used to make the pill are unknown.

According to PLOS One journal on Perceived Weight Discrimination and Obesity, fat shaming actually leads to people withdrawing from social and physical activities, and engaging in behaviours that encourage obesity.

According to the PLOS One journal, fat shaming leads to both psychological and physical harm.

Depression, eating disorders, reduced self-esteem, and other chronic diseases are effects that go beyond weight gain.

A research journal on obesity found people who are discriminated against because of their weight

are 2.7 times likely to go into depression.

An outcome of depression is suicide.

An analysis done by the Centre for Advancing Health reveals fat shaming is a leading cause to attempted suicides.

Prison Break star Wentworth Miller was a target for a fat shaming meme, which featured an image of him when he was in the lowest point of his adult life.

Miller later went on Facebook to announce he was suicidal and suffered from depression.

Another common misinterpretation about people who are overweight is that they eat whatever they want.

Although unusual dietary habits are a factor, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) says health conditions such as underactive thyroid, hormone problems, and Cushing’s syndrome lead to obesity.

Other causes include gene/ family history, environment, inactive lifestyle, lack of energy balance, medicine, smoking, age, pregnancy, lack of sleep, and emotional factors such as eating when bored.

Fat shaming needs to come to end, but until high profiled people like Trump filter their thoughts, the end seems to be far into the distance.

the best operating system continues

There is always a debate about what is the best car, best musician, best smart phone, best athlete and … best computer. Is it Mac or PC? PC is the more common laptop because they are more affordable.

But that extra money you’re spending on a Mac is worth every dollar.

Even though Apple sold 4 to 8 per cent fewer computers in the second quarter of 2016, there is no doubt Macs are the best laptops on the market right now.

Mac laptops can run everything a PC can. For instance, Macs can run the same operating system as PC Windows legally.

The main operating system on a Mac is OS X. Boot Camp is a parallel OS which allows you to run other operating systems rather than the main Mac OS X. With Boot Camp, you are able to download and use Windows on a Mac. After Boot Camp is installed, you are given an option to start it up with OS X or Windows.

It’s basically like owning two laptops put into one. On the other hand on PC, you can only run one operating system.

Macs also have a much more organized looking desktop. The

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average PC user has many icons.

On a Mac, apps you frequently use can be found in the dock, the dock gives a Mac a simple, yet clean and organized look.

Finding a file with Mac’s Finder tool is much faster than looking for a file on a PC. Transferring files to a USB is also much faster on a Mac than on a PC. On a PC, transferring files may take several minutes.

Macs have more of a reputation for not crashing.

Macs also have Retina Display, which makes the resolution on the screen much higher.

The Retina Display gives the Mac desktop a rich and classy look.

To top it all off, Macs are more durable. Macs are usually thinner with a sleek design, which makes them lighter and makes them easy to carry around in your backpack.

The MacBook weighs a little more than 2 pounds.

The MacBook Air weighs almost 3 pounds and the MacBook Pro weighs the most at about 3 and a half pounds.

Macs have really organized layouts, and it is easy to locate an app you regularly use because they appear in your dock.

The Mac laptop is also less likely to crash, and has an extremely high quality screen display. Sorry PC, looks like Macs are the kings of the computer world.

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Do we need a

BROCK TURNER every time one of our

rape victims wants to be heard?

Stanford case shines light on sexual assault Noor Ibrahim The Chronicle

There it is again, that churning feeling in the pit of your stomach when you see the name Brock Turner in the news.

When Brock Turner began making rounds in the news back in May, every article reeked of white privilege. Male athlete. Stanford student. Excellent swimmer.

The middle-class suburban teen raped a 22-year-old unconscious woman after a frat party in 2015.

He got off with three months in jail and a three year probation.

Articles from CNN, Time, Washington Post, USA Today, and Associated Press detailed Turner’s crimes but also included his swim records. He was not referred to as a ‘criminal’ by Time magazine, but rather a ‘star swimmer’. News outlets such as CNN, Sports Illustrated and USA Today called Turner the ‘former Stanford student’. Not perpetrator. Not pervert. Not rapist. Turner’s coverage in the media had all the factors that scare victims away from reporting a crime.

Mary Joe’s case isn’t any different.

Mary Joe was a Durham College student. She was working on her diploma in Environmental Technology, nursing a baby and volunteering at the on-campus women’s centre. But most importantly, she was enduring physical, verbal, and sexual assault by an abusive partner. The abuse lasted nine years.

After Joe decided to pull the plug on her relationship in 2012, she pressed charges. Her perpetrator’s punishment? House arrest and probation.

Just like Turner’s victim, Emily Doe, Joe was ready for this minimal sentence.

“I was prepped by the counselors I was seeing and through victim-witness services at the courthouse that these kind of cases very often are dropped or there’s no conviction. So I was prepared for him

to get off with nothing else… I was prepared for my case to be let go.”

Joe’s story is one of many.

There are 460,000 sexual assaults per year. According to a 2012 report by Sexual Assault Centre Hamilton (SACHA), out of every 1,000 sexual assaults in Canada, 33 are reported every year, and only 3 lead to a conviction.

But these reports don’t get public interest the same way Turner’s story did. Statistics don’t spread on social media. They don’t gain sympathy. The victims behind these numbers become just that: numbers. Maybe they will show up in student research papers or newspaper articles. Maybe they won’t.

But something about Turner’s case was compelling. Even people who don’t watch the news pulled up page after page of his statements, his trial dates, and his sentencing.

Maybe it was his, as the victim Emily Doe, called it, “poorly written young adult novel” version of events. Maybe it was his dad’s letter to the judge begging to lessen Brock’s sentence because he couldn’t enjoy steak for dinner anymore. Maybe it was his mother’s plea to the judge saying she couldn’t decorate her new house because of how sad she was. Maybe it was his Judge Aaron Persky who was lenient on yet another student athlete, Keenan Smith, after battering his girlfriend. Or maybe it was Brock’s plans to start university tours to educate students on “drinking and promiscuity.”

But perhaps the most compelling part of Turner’s case was the 12-page victim impact statement penned by the now 23-year-old woman Turner raped behind a dumpster.

Her statement, posted on Buzzfeed, has been viewed 1.11 million times. The statement addresses Brock Turner directly, and details Doe’s memories the night of her assault, the following morning, and the agonizing months after.

Photograph by Noor Ibrahim

Posters from the "Yes Means Yes" campaign remind students about the meaning of consent.

She describes how she found out about the details of her assault from a news article, one that included Turner’s swim times. She recounts how Turner didn’t just strip her of her clothes that night, but of her worth, her privacy, her intimacy, her safety, her energy, her time, her confidence and her voice.

Doe’s statement was raw. It was real. Just like a good narrative, it transported the reader to the scene of the crime: to that dumpster she was assaulted behind, to the hospital room she woke up in, to the courtroom where she faced her

rapist. But Doe’s statement is not a work of fiction.

Neither is Mary Joe’s story. But her statements remain unheard.

Like many survivors, her words are not plastered in capital letters on social media. She is just trying to get by. Despite the nine-year abusive relationship, Joe was able to find strength at Durham College during her ordeal.

“I think my time at school was how I survived,” said Joe. “I excelled at my studies. I had scholarships. It gave me a life that existed outside of my home, which helped

me persevere.”

Joe cannot imagine what women who have endured on-campus rape have to go through. “If the person who had assaulted me was actually a student on campus and I had to know that they were going to be there, that would be completely different. If something like that happens [to me], like a sexual assault on campus, I’d maybe like drop out.

Because I couldn’t imagine having to look back if something like that happened at school.”

Joe was right. According to the American College Health Association, 1.3 per cent of students reported sexual assault negatively impacted or disrupted their academic performance at college. But that number is the tip of the iceberg.

Sometimes staying quiet is better than having your story dismissed and your perpetrator applauded.

Michelle Moody is the chair of the Social Action Committee of Durham and part of the executive committee of the annual Shine the Light campaign for Women Abuse Prevention month in Durham Region. Moody says there’s a lot of anger and distrust by victims. Nonetheless, on average, the Durham Region Police responded to 13 domestic calls per day in 2015. That amounts to almost 5,000 domestic abuse calls last year. But Moody says mistrust means many women do not report abuse or assault.

“An incident like the Brock Turner one,” says Moody, “is going to reinforce women’s perception that there’s no point in reporting, because they’re only going to be re-victimized by the media, the social media, and the justice system.”

According to the 2012 Sexual Assault Centre Hamilton (SACHA) report, 53 per cent of survivors did not report their sexual assault because they were not confident in the police.

According to a 2014 CBC article, two out of three survivors said they were not confident in the criminal justice and court system in general.

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The fear of rape The lack of understanding about sexual consent is why rapists like Brock Turner continue to deny their crimes in court. Despite the posters stapled around campus that say “My dress is not a yes”, the Brock Turners of the world do not realize that a lack of a ‘yes’ constitutes rape. Brock Turner is a reminder that rape culture exists on campus and in society.

According to a 2015 Globe and Mail article, less than 10 per cent of sexual assault complaints on campus are resolved through a formal investigation. At some institutions, that number is less than one per cent. The article was one of many responding to harassment and assault cases at Brock University, the University of Victoria, Dalhousie University and the University of British Columbia. These cases, along with Brock Turner’s case, shone a light on the fear of sexual assault felt on campus. “[The fear of sexual assault] may not stop you from going to college or university,” says Alison E. King, a UOIT expert in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, “but it may impact where you go.”

King conducts research in women’s history and the student experience. She says students from small towns or communities might choose not to go to colleges whose campuses are somewhat bigger or secluded because of fear for safety.

Students, says King, might choose a more private campus close to home.

“In general, students do better when they feel like they are part of a community. And being part of a community is that you feel safe,”

says King. “So if you’re not feeling safe, that undermines that sense of community and the sense that you can be on campus and take part in activities and walk around campus safely. " King also says that if a sexual assault victim’s perpetrator were on campus, the victim would feel like campus was a dangerous place. Because of that fear, the student would be suspicious of the people around them.

I think it's a very real fear.

That is exactly was Joe thinks.

“I think [the fear of sexual assault] is so ingrained in our society that women don’t really know it on a conscious level,” said Joe. “But I think there’s a lot of anxiety. I think there’s a lot of awareness, even on campuses or walking around at night anywhere. I think it’s a very real fear.”

That fear is not going unnoticed. In 2015, Kathleen Wynne's government announced a provincial action plan to deal with sexual violence. Over $40 million dollars will go into the three year plan, which defines sexual violence as

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More than 444,000 sexual assault victims remain silent every single year.

From page 6 through after they report an assault. Victims report inquiries about their outfit at the time of the attack, their sexual history, their relationship status, and their alcohol consumption. Reliving the experience just isn’t worth it.

Rape court cases often become a version of he said, she said. Brock Turner’s was not. He was caught at the scene. There were witnesses.

They testified. His victim’s DNA was on found his fingers. Yet Turner walks free. He lives at his parents' house. He makes plans to do speaking tours.

It makes sense women on college campuses are scared. In a Canadian study conducted by the American College Health Association (ACHA), only 37.3 per cent of college students reported feeling very safe on their college campuses at night, 27 per cent of those surveyed were women.

According to the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), one in five women experience sexual assault at college. Let that sink in for a minute. There are 5,035 female students currently enrolled at Durham College. If one in five experiences sexual assault, that means by the end of the year over 1,000 women will experience sexual assault right here on campus.

At his trial, Turner’s childhood friend Leslie Rasmussen wrote a letter to Judge Aaron Persky urging him to spare Turner because, according to the letter, rapists are people who kidnap and rape women in parking lots as they walk to their cars, not intoxicated teenagers who sexually assault unconscious women at parties. Even though Rasmussen is from the States, her statement underscores the fact that, like Rasmussen, only one in three Canadians understand what sexual consent means.

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“any sexual act or act targeting a person’s sexuality, gender identity or gender expression, whether the act is physical or psychological in nature, that is committed, threatened or attempted against a person without the person’s consent, and includes sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, indecent exposure, voyeurism and sexual exploitation.”

With the introduction of Bill 132, the Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act, in March this year, faculty at Durham College and UOIT are required to take online sexual violence modules. These modules are designed to help recognize sexual violence and create a safe space.

All employees must complete the modules by Dec. 1. The modules provide precise definitions of sexual assault and violence, set clear standards for reporting and responding to disclosures of sexual violence, and provide resources both on campus and within the community to support individuals affected by sexual violence.

DC and UOIT also provide oncampus support services through the Office of Campus Safety, Campus Health Centre, Access and Support Centre, Good2Talk, and the Outreach Services run by the Student Association. The institutions also provide connections to off-campus services, such as Durham Rape Crisis Centre and Sexual Assault Care Centre at Lakeridge Health.

Stanford offers similar services requiring faculty and staff to complete training that addresses sexual harassment and sexual misconduct. This raises the question: for

Turner, what change did faculty training make?

But Brock Turner’s case itself made a change. It ripped off the veil of rape culture.

The details of Brock Turner’s story fascinated yet enraged many.

Facebook posts emerged with a picture of Turner in a suit captioned: “here is the guy you don’t want in the bathroom with your daughter.” #BrockTurner garnered more than half a million tweets.

Tweets, Facebook posts and memes leave a digital trail all over the web as a reminder that rape culture exists, and continues to be ignored by many on campus and in society.

Brock Turner is a reminder that we still teach people to avoid getting raped, not to avoid raping. He is reminder of how we don’t want men in our Canadian society to be.

He is a reminder that every year college students could be walking away from the college of their dreams for fear of meeting a Brock Turner on campus. He is a reminder that rapists are not always perverts lurking in the corners of dingy alleyways waiting for the next miniskirt to pass by. Sometimes, they are men like Brock Turner: educated, privileged, and as we’re reminded in every media report, good at swimming.

Brock may have stolen Emily Doe’s integrity, but he gave her, and thousands of others, a voice.

Mary Joe is one voice at Durham College. She is not the first and will not be the last victim of sexual assault on campus. Brock Turner is not and will not be the last rapist to attend a college or university.

But hopefully a dialogue has started, one that will replace the churning feeling in the pit of your stomach when you see the name Brock Turner in the news.

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'Tis the season for giving Organizers urge campus community to donate to the holiday food drive Sam Odrowski The Chronicle

The annual Holiday Food Drive at Durham College and UOIT says it needs support from the campus now more than ever. There has been a 60 per cent increase in need from students for the food bank last year.

In 2015, the food drive helped 274 DC and UOIT students as well as about three hundred of their children.

Last year, the drive raised $45,000 but due to increased need it fell a little short in donations, according to the dean of Interdisciplinary Studies, Kevin Dougherty.

“It is growing exponentially,” he says. “We really don’t know how many students are going to access it.”

Dougherty says non-perishable food items are great but cash do- A family of volunteers help pack hampers for the less fortunate. nations can make an even bigger impact.

“If we can get a dozen cans of students find the cupboards are years. Russell says Christmas could soup that’s terrific. But if we can get bare by the end of the semester and have been pretty bleak for many the money that bought those dozen the food drive offers the support families if these supports did not cans of soup that’s great because we they need to help them through the exist. can probably get 16,” he says. holidays.

She can relate to students who Organizers have partnered with “We get a fair number of notes need a little extra financial support a local Kinsmen Club that has a and letters back from students, while in school. connection to a grocery retailer so notes of appreciation just being “At one point I was a single mom food can be bought at lower prices. dumbfounded at the support we’ve in school as well, and I remember Dougherty has helped organize provided,” says Dougherty. reaching out to a program and the past 12 food drives and has seen Lori Russell, who works in the thinking maybe there is other firsthand the impact it has on stu- financial aid office, also sees the people that deserve it more, maybe dents this time of the year. impact on students. She has helped this isn’t something I should be doAccording to Dougherty, many with the food drive for the past 10 ing,” she says, “and the women who

Photograph courtesy of the Campus Food Bank

I met with said at one point in our lives we always need help and one day you will be able to provide help to other people.”

Russell says people shouldn’t be hesitant about accessing the food bank because it is a great resource that was created for the students.

“It is a great assistance that people should want to be able to receive and not feel stigmatized because they're getting help,” she says.

Poinsettias, Christmas cacti, and

cyclamen are being sold for $5 each until Dec.16. Candy Canes are also being sold to raise money.

Hamper packing day is Dec. 18.

Volunteers are welcome to help sort, pack, and deliver the hampers.

Donating non-perishable food items is great but Russell says the food drive does not receive many diapers, baby food, and toiletries, which are also much needed for students with young families.

The food drive’s goal for this year is to raise $50,000.

Local charities helping over the holiday season Charities need young volunteers and funding Alex Debets The Chronicle

The holiday season is quickly approaching. With the semester ending and the snow beginning to fall, it’s almost time to kick back and take a break from school.

Not everyone has a relaxing holiday season though. While numbers for the Durham Region are hard to locate, Covenant House, Canada’s largest homeless youth agency, estimates up to 2,000 youth are homeless in Toronto on any given night.

That number jumps up to 7,000 when including the entire country.

Youth shelters such as Joanne’s House in Ajax specialize in finding housing options for young people who are homeless. A resident can stay up to 30 days in the shelter. During their stay the youth, who are between the ages of 16 and 24, are pushed to find jobs and full-time housing.

The difficulty is that the shelter, and others like it, are often full.

Joanne’s House can host up to 13people at one time, which meant they turned away more than 30 kids in October.

Still, the holiday season is a special time for most people, and Joanne’s House is no different.

Community organizations, such as churches and charities, help make the holidays a special time by organizing special dinners and creating gifts for the residents.

“We try to make the holidays as important for these kids as it would be for anybody else,” says shelter

manager Adrianna Vanderneut.

Just down the street from Joanne’s House another organization is also trying to make the holidays better for everyone.

The Salvation Army is at the corner of Exeter Road and King Crescent, which is only a tenminute walk from Joanne’s House.

While the Salvation Army doesn’t specifically target youth, it does work with young people in multiple ways.

In turn, their captain, Jason Sabourin, says they are in they are trying to turn hopelessness into hopefulness.

“The goal is basically to relieve suffering for people, and help people through the difficult times they’re finding themselves in,” says Sabourin.

The small bungalow next to the headquarters is also owned by the Salvation Army.

On the main floor, hot meals

are served and people can use the food bank. The amount is based on income, but Sabourin ensures that no one leaves without at least one item.

The basement has been converted into their food bank for the area. It is a small, unfinished area lined with shelves full of food ready to go out for the holiday season. Around this time of year, the food bank is filled with donations mostly from food drives around the province.

The food bank is mostly operated by older people, many of whom are starting to have troubles lifting boxes and moving things around.

The deposit area is a small basement window covered by a piece of plywood, with a wooden ramp leading down into the deposit room.

The basement is cold, and cramped, with every employee hard at work in their own area of

the basement. Both organizations face challenges: lack of finances to pay for employees and simply not enough volunteers. There is also an awareness issue. Above all, Vanderneut wants people to know that Joanne’s House exists.

“I think the biggest thing for us is just raising the awareness that Joanne’s House is here,” she says.

“Despite the fact that we are full often, there are a lot of people who don’t necessarily know that we are here and what we do.”

Sabourin needs people’s time.

With aging volunteers, the Salvation Army needs new workers, and stronger funding.

“Monetary resources is our number one priority, to operate, to heat the place, to keep the lights on, also to pay salaries is very expensive,” says Sabourin.

“To have specialized help, the cost of that is rising very, very much.”

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Fiscal doubt for young GM workers Today’s generation of workers face financial uncertainty due to weak job security Nicole O’Brien The Chronicle

Chris Matthews, an assembly line worker at General Motors in Oshawa, checked the “yes” box when he voted on the deal struck between the Canadian union Unifor and the automotive giant last month, though he admits he doesn’t feel it will change how he feels about his job security.

“There’s talk about (the job) being long term, but the reality of it in this industry, you could be pulled out tomorrow,” says Matthews who at 21 has been working at the GM Oshawa plant since 2014.

Matthews’ job security was tested in mid-September during GM’s negotiations with the Canadian union Unifor. Both had to agree on a new contract for its workers.

His assembly line partner, Samantha Francis, thought the plant was on its way out of Oshawa.

“I thought it was going down to be honest,” says Francis, who left the retail industry for GM after yearning for a better hourly pay than minimum wage.

Francis says the worst part was not knowing right up until the very last minute.

Unifor, which represents around 4,000 workers at GM plants in Ontario, struck a new four-year deal with GM just after the midnight deadline on Sept., 19.

Positive changes to the deal include a commitment for Oshawa’s flex line with a $400 million investment, increased wages for employees, and better pension security for long time employees. This is great news for Oshawa, as GM has been the city’s largest employer since it opened in 1907.

“From all the small jobs its provides, all the imports. It brings all kinds of things into Oshawa,” says Matthews.

But not everyone will be happy with the new contract, especially those just hired and those looking to apply.

The deal is indicative of what millennials have to look forward too: a future with little job security.

This is the future of the millennial generation, a term used to describe those born between the early 1980s and to the early 2000s.

“In the older generations, you know if you started at General Motors, there was always this car, and this car, and that wasn’t going anywhere,” Matthews, a Durham College Electrical Techniques graduate, explains.

Photograph by Nicole O’Brien

Chris Matthews (left) and Sam Francis (right) are both assembly line workers at Oshawa’s General Motors.

“The place used to have 20, 000 workers, and now it’s down to too 3,000,” says Matthews.

This leaves a growing pool of well-qualified twenty-somethings scrapping it out for a limited number of positions.

GM announced all new employees will be switched to a defined contribution pension plan while longtime workers, those who have been there for 11 years or more, will remain under the defined benefit pension plan.

Jenn Cowie has been an assembly line worker at GM in Oshawa for 14 years. She says the deal has caused a split between the hires and the long-time workers.

“It’s created another division,” says Cowie. “Maybe not with status but with wage.”

“The pension is what stands out to me,” says Francis, who at 23 has just passed her one-year mark at the plant in April.

This may be because General Motors has become like many employers in Canada.

By cutting back pension benefits to compete with the globalized markets, new employees face shriveling pensions.

While pension plans for long time workers and new hires may sound the same, they couldn’t be more different.

These pensions are considered Ontario’s two main occupational pension plans.

From the perspective of an employee, the defined contribution plan is superior. This plan promises to pay a certain annual retirement income for life and is based on a formula that usually considers earnings and years of service with the employer.

Both the employer and employee contribute to the plan and if there is a shortfall in the money needed, the employer would be the one to pay up.

Cowie falls under the defined contribution plan and was not personally affected by the deal. She says General Motors doesn’t care about its workers. They just know workers need to make money.

“Unfortunately it is hard to find

work,” says Cowie, who has also worked for Chrysler and Ford.

“It’s not people’s dream job. But it’s a money trap, that is what keeps people there.”

But new hires at GM will not have the luxury of a defined contribution pension plan.

In this plan, contributions are still guaranteed, but retirement income is not. Like an RRSP, the employee is responsible for investing all contributions to grow savings.

Unfortunately for new employees at GM, the amount available at retirement depends completely on the total contributions made to the account and the investment returns the money earned.

It’s not people’s dream job. But it’s a money trap, that is what keeps people there.

While new hires will see a slight increase in wages on their pay cheques, they will have to work a lot longer than they thought in order for their wage levels to increase to what the long-term employees are getting.

This directly affects young workers like Matthews and Francis.

“It went in one direction for new hires, new people within the last two, three years where we are starting at zero. One direction for someone who has ten years and now they’re working another ten years to be able to get where they want. And for people with like fifteen years it’s pretty much stayed the same for them,” says Matthews.

According to the new deal, Matthews will have to work another

eleven years to be able to get on the same level as those receiving the defined benefits plan and he will have to work a total of thirteen years before he finishes his probationary period.

While some say the deal is completely screwing over the young workers just starting out, others, like Clair Cornish, program coordinator of both the Trades Fundamental program and the Mechanical Technician program at Durham College, believe millennials shouldn’t give up on the trades.

“The trades are a wonderful opportunity for our Ontario youth to find rewarding careers that are good paying jobs and have a lot of self-satisfaction,” says Cornish, who also teaches in both the programs he coordinates.

According to the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program, 40 per cent of all occupations by 2025 will be skilled trades in fields such as construction, mechanics, engineering, and more.

Along with Matthews, Francis also voted yes at the ratification held the weekend after the contract was agreed upon. One thing they didn’t vote on: job security.

“I think it’s better than working at other places,” says Matthews.

Francis looks at her friend reluctantly and says, “But do you feel secure though?”

Almost at the exact same time, both reply, “No.” According to a 2016 report from the Royal Bank of Canada, millennials are doing better than ever. Canadian millennials have “inherited a labour environment in many ways better than that of their parents.”

More millennial women are participating in the workforce compared to previous generations, and they hold a majority of degrees in science and technology, according to the report written by RBC economist Laura Cooper.

And while that is great news, the report left out other information which suggests the economy is much tougher on millennials than it was on their parents. The report

skimmed over important issues such as weak job security and the cost of housing.

According to Statistics Canada, millennials are facing an unemployment rate of 13.3 per cent.

Not only are their fewer jobs for young people, but job security is very weak.

Cooper also suggests that in 2015 there was a rise in contract employment for millennials, which accounted for 12.8 per cent of all youth employment. But growing contract employment is just another way of saying job security for the younger generation is very weak in Canada.

The report shows contracts are often all that is offered. General Motors proves this, as they only negotiate contracts lasting for a four-year period.

In 2013, 42 per cent of Canadians aged 20 to 29 reported they were still living at home. Housing prices in Canada has caused a major struggle for millennials who want to leave the house and put down their roots.

“The cost of living keeps rising and wages don’t,” says Cowie.

The average price of a detached home in Toronto is nearly $1.2 million, and semi-detached costs more than $800 000. About 71.4 per cent of household is needed to cover the cost of the average family in the GTA. And that doesn’t stop when it comes to housing in Durham Region.

According to the Durham Region Association of Realtors, prices were up in Durham by 15.8 per cent compared to last year.

The strong combination of the lack of jobs and rising housing prices is discouraging millions of prospects from the millennial generation across Canada.

In early October, the Oshawa GM plant announced they will be hiring over 100 new employees for early 2017. But Matthews says he wouldn’t recommend anyone he knows to apply any time soon.

“I wouldn’t tell someone who has a decent job to leave that job to come here, not a chance,” says Matthews.

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Easing the burden of student debt Travis Fortnum The Chronicle

The Canadian government recently announced a new rule that will make student debt repayment a little easier.

But Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Whitby MP, thinks her Liberal government can do more.

This new rule means graduates won’t have to start repaying their student loans until they are earning at least $25,000 a year.

“I think anybody who is making $25,000 a year is living in poverty,” Caesar-Chavannes says.

I think anybody who is making $25,000 a year is living in poverty.

“I think it’s great that you don’t have to pay it until you’re making over that, because honestly if you’re

making less than that the last thing you want to do is pay back your student loans.”

It used to be that individuals had to begin repaying their loans once they were making more than $20,000, so this small change could be significant to many graduates struggling to balance their daily finances and debt repayment.

Chris Rocha, director of financial aid and awards at Durham College, believes the change will benefit students who will soon be heading off in to the working world.

“Increasing the income threshold for student loan repayment will assist recent graduates when it comes time to start repaying their loan debt,” he says. “It is just one of the many measures being put in place by the government to improve financial aid in Ontario and Canada.”

According to Statistics Canada, tuition in Canada today is 45 per cent higher than it was 10 years ago.

In 2013, StatsCan also noted that 43 per cent of graduating college students relied on student loans, owing an average of about $15,000.

University students graduating with either a bachelor or master’s degree claimed an average debt of more than $26,000 and those graduating with a doctorate owed about $41,000.

According to the Government of Canada Student Loans website, students who are struggling to make their monthly student loan payments have the option to apply for help through the Repayment

Photograph by Travis Fortnum

Whitby MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes says her Liberal government can do more for graduates with debt.

Assistance Plan.

To qualify, you must live in Canada, meet income requirements and also re-apply for the plan every six months.

In recent years, there has been an outcry amongst millennials against the high price of tuition.

Earlier this month in Halifax, the Canadian Federation of Students, a network of student governments with four chapters across the GTA alone, organized a protest of the country’s rising cost of education.

Members of the federation say Canada can afford to cover the cost

of tuition for students.

Caesar-Chavannes knows that the repayment revisions are a start but also notes that millennials, in addition to this debt, will have to overcome challenges created by baby boomers.

“I think that we’ve taken a nice first step for students,” says Caesar-Chavannes, “but you guys are a generation that are real superheroes. My generation has done a really good job messing things up.”

In the meantime, the ease of the burden of debt granted to low-income graduates is a welcome

change and has many Canadians feeling hopeful for what the future might hold when it comes to government relief of student debt.In the meantime, many alternative options remain available to students in the country.

“I think the government should always be looking at ways to make post-secondary school affordable and accessible for all students,” Rocha says. “Your financial aid office is here to assist you in developing the financial skills you need, as well as provide you with options to fund your education.”

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It's a small world after all Whether you're in Canada or abroad, college life is pretty similar Travis Fortnum The Chronicle

The morning sunrise peeks over the horizon, its glow waking the world with the indication of a new day. Yobert Montillo Guzmán has just arrived home from his parttime job but must wake and begin preparing for another day of school.

Guzmán is studying cooking while living away from home. He rents a room in the city and in order to afford rent, he spends his evenings working into the wee hours.

A familiar story, perhaps? Chances are you can relate. Statistics Canada says just under half of postsecondary students have jobs.

But the city Guzmán is living and studying in is Trujillo, Peru, nearly 6,000 km away from Oshawa.

One might not think someone who lives on a different continent could live a lifestyle comparable to theirs, as cultural and geographical borders separate us. However, it’s true what they say: it’s a small world, and given advancements in technology and communication, it gets smaller every day. Thanks to cellphones, Facebook, Skype and countless other tools, globalization is more prominent than ever before.

Globalization is an important part of Durham College’s plans moving forward. Elaine Popp, the school’s Vice-President of Academic, has been working to forge mutually-beneficial partnerships, including one with Centro Experimental de Formación Profesional (CEFOP) in Trujillo, where Guzmán studies.

“I’m so glad that we are in a position where we’re able to share what we’ve learned as an institution here in Canada,” says Popp, “to help them strengthen their programs and create better opportunities, and then that improves their economy.”

Popp believes Durham College’s experience can affect their students and their economy. “The social conditions even,” says Popp, “because if you get an education, stats

Photograph by Travis Fortnum

Claudia Cubas Quiroz says the biggest difference since moving from Peru to Whitby has been the flow of traffic.

show, you’re likely to be healthier, more socially and financially affluent.”

Financial affluence is not something that immediately comes second nature to most college students, which is why so many have jobs.

Aside from working exhausting hours to make some extra cash, Guzmán deals with countless other factors students across the globe can relate to, such as parental pressure.

Originally, Guzmán’s parents were not supportive of him studying the culinary arts.

“They really encouraged me to do a different career and to go into medicine,” Guzmán says, “I didn’t really like that. I left and decided to go for what I’ve always been so passionate about and what I loved.”

Don’t be surprised if this hits close to home. According to the John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, over 85 per cent of parents report being very involved or somewhat involved in their children’s education.

Although his parents were not supportive at first, Guzmán’s passion was ingrained in him at a young age.

“Really it was my grandmother that motivated me,” says Guzmán.

“When I was younger I would always see her cooking. I could tell she had a love for what she was doing so I would ask her to show me.

She would walk me through step by step and allow me to taste things.”

Guzmán was praised for his skill in the kitchen and pushed to pursue it by friends: similar to how the lucky ones among us are lead to a postsecondary program that teaches us how to turn our passions into a career.

It’s circumstances like these that confirm the student experience is fundamentally universal.

Student life in today’s world leaps across borders and oceans. The experience isn’t the only thing shared with those in foreign countries; it’s possible we share classmates as well.

Claudia Cubas Quiroz is a second-year student in the Human Resources Management program at Durham College. She too is Peruvian, from a small mountainous city northwest of Trujillo, where Guzmán lives.

Like Guzmán, Quiroz’s parents wanted her to study medicine close to home.

“My mom always wanted a doctor,” says Quiroz, “I always wanted to leave but my parents were like, ‘are you sure you want to? You’re our only daughter’. So I started university in Peru but I came here for a vacation to visit my family and see Canada, and I didn’t go back.”

Quiroz now lives with her aunt, uncle and cousin in Whitby. She says the biggest change she had to adapt to in Canada was the flow of traffic.

In Peru, drivers zip in and out of lanes at high speeds, slamming on the brakes when a stop is necessary.

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Yobert Montillo Guzmán speaks to DC's Katie Boone during her recent trip to Trujillo, Peru.

The sound of car horns fills the air.

In Peru, the horn is used differently than in Canada, becoming white noise to locals.

“When I was coming to Whitby from the airport,” says Quiroz, “all the people were respecting the traffic signs. I was like… okay, this is a very different country.”

For the past 14 years, the United Nations has named Canada one of the top ten countries in which to live. Durham College alone has 627 international students enrolled this semester from 54 different countries. This is up from 523 students last year from 48 countries.

was watching [Durham students] engage with the Peruvian students,” says Boone.

“I think that it allows you to build skills that are critical to personal and professional life, that are good stepping stones to build on, regardless of whether your career brings you to another international setting or not.”

Elaine Popp recently joined Boone in Trujillo, and has experienced the evolution of academics through globalization.

“Internationalization is embedded in our culture now,” Popp says, “and not only have we grown the

The world is a lot more interconnected now.

Katie Boone is the project coordinator with the college’s international office. She travels to countries around the world to visit the school’s international partners and oversee progress on foreign campuses. Recently, Boone visited CEFOP in Trujillo to touch base on progress made through their partnership with Durham College.

“There are four projects that I manage,” Boone says. “There’s Peru, a project in Guyana that focuses on automotive and electronics, a project in Vietnam which is focusing on food and pharmaceuticals, and then there’s a project in Barbados which is [focused on] leadership and change management.”

While working in the international office at Durham College, Boone crosses paths with much of the international student population. She also works with Durham students abroad. She has seen firsthand the progress the world has made towards globalization, and believes this is a great advancement for future generations.

“The best experience I’ve had

numbers of international students coming to campus, but we’ve also grown our efforts to embrace internationalization in its full capacity.”

“The world is a lot more interconnected now and the chance that our graduates are going to interact with individuals that don’t just live in Canada or were born in Canada is much greater than it used to be.”

Popp has recently spoken to 11 international students as part of a process to renew the college’s strategic plan. She says similarities between students from around the world are undeniable. Perhaps most prominent is the question of what comes next.

“That almost anxiety or the fear of the unknown, that is something that I think you see in all students regardless of where they’re from.”

Mark Herringer, Dean of International Education at Durham College, hopes the adaptation to internationalization can see no student left behind.

“What we’re working on with our institutional team,” Herringer says, “is to determine how can we figure out how to get students

who aren’t able to travel an international experience while they’re at Durham College.”

This goal has seen the increase in the use of a global classroom, which uses technology to link students at the Oshawa campus to experts and guests from around the world.

Globalization has entered a new phase. The Internet is credited with the breaking of borders, with more than 900 million people making international connections through social media.

Facebook alone boasts 1.79 billion active users in a month, according to Statista. A study by staff at Kent State University says 82 per cent of international students use it to keep in touch while abroad.

Facebook has become so ubiquitous we seem to take for granted the connections it facilitates.

For Quiroz, traveling abroad has led to the discovery of a new home.

“I miss Canada when I’m in Peru,” she says. After graduating from Durham College in the spring she hopes to further her human resources education at UOIT. Back in Peru, Guzmán looks forward to the opportunities presented by this globalized world.

“My dream job would be working on a cruise ship,” he says.

“When I graduate I want to focus on studying some English so I can achieve that.”

Whether traveling to another continent or just another city, the changing face of interaction and integration between people around the world means never having to be far from home.

Despite location, the student experience is a common one. No matter where your campus is, the experience includes the desire to turn a passion into a career, the uncertainty of where your studies will take you and the fear of what your future will entail.

The world can be a scary place when you think about your place in it. But with advancements in technology coupled with personal experience and education, we grow.

And the world gets smaller.

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Travis Fortnum The Chronicle

The electric car community on campus is in shock after learning that access to their usual park and charge spots would be lost – at least temporarily.

It used to be that Johnny Paty could drive his 2012 Chevy Volt onto campus and park in one of two specialized electric vehicle spots in the Student Services Building (SSB) lot.

Those two spots featured charging podiums which supplied free power to the vehicles as their drivers attended class or whatever business brought them to campus.

Paty is a student studying in Durham College’s one-year Project Management grad certificate program.

Recently, he and others who park in the SSB lot were notified that it would be closed off due to construction of the Centre for Collaborative Education (to replace the Simcoe building), leaving him and other electric car owners without access to the power their vehicles require.

“I initially contacted the parking office to find out if they had any plans in place to extend their amount of electric vehicle parking spots on campus,” Paty says. “[They] got back to me saying ‘Bad news, Johnny! Actually we’re getting rid of all of the spots altogether.’ So instead of providing access to more electric vehicles, they’re completely taking them away.”

Paty says there are at least five drivers on campus with electric vehicles. Given that there were only two spots, the arrangement was already tight.

“There [was] kind of an unspoken thing where we’ll park to the outside of the left and right spots and a third vehicle can park in the middle,” says Paty. “If you’re there after those three people you’re kind of too late.”

Paty feels if he hadn’t reached out to parking employees about this matter, he would have been even more caught off guard by the closing of the SSB lot, as the others in

the community were shocked when Paty relayed this information.

“None of them had any idea this was going on,” says Paty. “After [I talked to them] one of the parking officials came up to each of the cars that pulled in to the parking lot and gave them a little slip of paper that said ‘this lot is going to be closed.’ And that’s the extent of the information.”

School officials began notifying those who utilize the lot two weeks before finally closing it Nov. 21.

When Paty began his search for answers, he was put in contact with Ross Carnwith, manager of ancillary services on campus, who indicated work was being done to relocate the spots and charging podiums to the pay and display area of the Commencement One lot.

“I have a quote out now to move the units physically,” Carnwith says. “So right now the spots are painted out and we’re physically going to move them as quickly as possible.”

Carnwith hopes to have the spots up and running by the end of the month.

Paty says that this means he’ll have to buy a parking pass for the same annual fee of $650 other drivers pay, something he believed wasn’t necessary for electric vehicle owners.

“Upon researching this college and my choice of vehicle I was under the impression that I was going to have access to free parking as well as electrical utilities,” Paty says.

Free parking on a college campus? It’s something that Carnwith says was never official.

“I did check with other campuses,” Carnwith says, “what they do is charge standard parking rates, but the electricity is free. And that’s where we’re headed. Standard parking rates but the electricity is free.”

“I don’t mind the changes over a course of time if we still have access to charging and designated parking spots,” Paty says. “I get that.

But to spring this on someone who’s a 29-year-old student who’s got a

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Clinton Sharpe (left) and Andrew Walker of Space Age Electric work to install the power podiums for the newly relocated electric car parking.

baby on the way and to take it away with less than a week’s warning…

go through the process of change.

I researched this. I was told that I

was going to get free parking, now that’s being ripped from me.”

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More support needed for LGBTQ community Brandi Washington The Chronicle

The sun was heating up the pavement of Church Street the afternoon of June 30th in 2014. Flags and floats from countries like Jamaica, Georgia, Argentina, and the Philippines came down the street. The flags ruffled for hours but one dominated: Pride parade’s symbolic red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Red trucks roared past onlookers pressed up against steel fences.

Signs saying “I AM LGBTQ AND GOD LOVES ME” could be seen from several feet away. According to the Toronto Star, an estimated 12,000 people attended Toronto Pride festival in 2014.

Jessica Vanderhyden was one of 12,000 people shuffling through rainbow banners, sparkly floats, and dancers in latex underwear.

For the first time in her life, Jessica was able to witness the yearly event.

But something else about that day was special to Vanderhyden. As she squeezed past the screaming onlookers, she met her current partner, Hailee Gallaher.

Vanderhyden remembers that day in 2014. Seeing Gallaher for the first time and noticing her upper arm. She saw an Alexisonfire fire tattoo. Vanderhyden said this is one of her favorite bands.

So she knew Gallaher had good taste in music which is one quality she loves in a significant other.

“She looked a little intimidating but not in a bad way,” said Vanderhyden. “She had this dark straight hair, she was very nice, she was very polite.”

According to Stats Canada, there are over 60,000 same-sex couples across Canada. That is 27,380 families more than there were in 2006.

Homosexuality was decriminalized in Canada just 47 years ago.

In 1967, Pierre Trudeau introduced the Criminal Law Amendment Act which liberalized law on issues such as homosexuality. His statement “no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation” went down in history.

With the growing numbers of LGBTQ families, and growing acceptance of same sex couples you would think coming out would be a lot easier than it was fifty years ago.

But this is not the case. According to Pickering lesbian couple Hailee Gallaher and Jessica Vanderhyden, agree there is still work to be done with the acceptance of the gay community in 2016.

Gallaher says, “I eventually want to see society where there is not a divide. You wouldn’t give a second look to a heterosexual couple, don’t give a second look to a gay couple.”

In 2015, 1.7 per cent of Canadians ages 18 to 59 considered themselves to be homosexual. But 12 per cent of gay women and 5 per cent of gay men still feel the need to keep their identities a secret. According to Stats Canada, in 2013, there were 186 police-reported hate crime incidents motivated by sexual orientation. Canadian police services reported 1,167 hate crimes in 2013.

This statistic may just be a num-

Photograph by Brandi Washington

Pickering couple Hailee Gallaher and Jessica Vanderhyden are all smiles.

ber for some but it represents a moment in Vanderhyden’s life.

“I was minding my own business one day, just walking in my neighbourhood, when someone attacked me verbally,” says Vanderhyden.

What she heard shocked her. A group of guys spotted her and one of them called her a ‘nigger faggot.’ “I kept walking, no point in engaging with stupidity,” she says.

Taking aim at race or ethnicity is a big issue not just in the Durham region, but all across Canada.

According to a 2013 article in The National Post, the three main motivations for hate-related crimes are race or ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

Race or ethnicity accounts for 51 per cent of hate-related crimes, followed by religion at 28 per cent, and sexual orientation at 16 per cent.

Add to this an increase in bullying and there is a recipe for hate-related bullying. According to a 2009 report by Statistics Canada, Ontario has the second highest rate of bullying in Canada. And 20 per cent of bullies are a friend to the victim.

Over Christmas break in Grade 10, Gallaher’s female friend bullied her on social media. Two more people joined in via Twitter. Vanderhyden wants bullies to know the how much harder they make people’s lives.

“If they really did give it a chance they would see that we’re just like everybody else, we’re just people trying to make it through life. It’s made a little bit harder when people can’t just accept us for who we are,” says Vanderhyden.

The first step, according to Vanderhyden, is to accept yourself. “When you’re not out, you’re isolated and you’re scared to tell anyone,” says Vanderhyden. “You have to find yourself and talk to someone. Once you finally figure it out it is so much better.”

Two years after Vanderhyden and Gallaher first met at Pride in Toronto, Vanderhyden ended up at a local Pickering bar called The

Bear for a friend’s birthday. To her surprise, Gallaher was there. The girls hit it off.

Hailee Gallaher is 20-years-old and an Assistant Manager at McDonald’s. Her mother is from Newfoundland and her father is from Ontario. She moved to Pickering when she was three years old and has been in Durham ever since.

Jessica Vanderhyden just turned 25-years-old. Her mother is of Jamaican descent and her father is Guyanese. She moved to Pickering when she was four years old, and also still lives in the region.

Ever since she was 13, Gallaher says she knew she was bisexual. She came out to her friends and then in Grade 10, she came out to both friends and family as a lesbian.

When you’re not out, you’re isolated.

But her father already knew. He had no problem with her sexuality. Her mom was a different story.

While she never had an actual problem with her daughter’s sexuality, she told Gallaher it was just a phase.

Now, Gallaher says her mother is supportive. She admits she is fortunate because not very many people have a supportive family when coming out.

Vanderhyden’s story is similar.

She said she always knew there was something different about her. Her family is Anglican, and she went to Sunday school and attended church all the time.

Grade 4 was the year Vanderhyden realized there was something different about her. That year, she met an older girl in her

church and liked her more than “she liked anything else.” At that time however, she didn’t know it was a crush.

Since Vanderhyden was raised Christian everything around her was telling her she was supposed to be with a man. She tried. She dated men, but it didn’t feel right.

Then in high school, she had her first kiss with a girl. Vanderhyden said that kiss was unexpected and felt different… but different in a good way. A little while after, she came out as bisexual.

Vanderhyden said she thinks most gay people first come out as bisexual because they’re not sure what they are. They don’t know if they’re completely into men or women, which is what she wasn’t sure of at the time too.

She then started dating more girls than guys in high school. After that, she realized she probably was not into guys at all. Vanderhyden said near the end of high school she finally realized, “Okay, I’m definitely gay.”

But Vanderhyden still needed a push.

When she was 19-years-old, she dated a girl from Toronto who was in the process of coming out to her friends and family. That girl gave her courage to do the same.

Vanderhyden told her dad first.

But just like Gallaher, Vanderhyden’s dad knew there was always something different about her. Her dad accepted her. Vanderhyden’s mother didn’t.

In the beginning, Vanderhyden said her mother needed time to think the situation through and to come to terms with it.

Over the years, Vanderhyden admits her mother has taken time to learn different gay terminologies and even attended her first Toronto Pride festival this year.

“It means so much to me,” she said. “She asks about Hailee all the time.”

Gallaher said the same thing: her mother asks about Vanderhyden all the time.

Vanderhyden said her first gay

relationship was her “testing the waters” when she was not fully out as gay. It was an online relationship. She never met the girl in person.

Her first real relationship with a female did not go well, but she said it felt right. After that, she experimented with women and thought one day she would find the right girl.

Just like Vanderhyden, Gallaher’s first relationship was terrible. Gallaher’s girlfriend was very unsure of herself. The relationship was very bad, according to Gallaher, and she doesn’t even consider it as her official first relationship.

But she admits it was a good learning experience because it showed her what it was like to date a girl.

Gallaher says her first real relationship was with a girl in the United States. She took a plane all alone for the first time to meet her. She thought she was in love at the time, and as a result, they got matching tattoos.

From being in these messy relationships, the girls are now a happy couple.

Vanderhyden says, “I hope a lot of people become a lot more open and optimistic about just letting people be who they want to be.”

But how?

Vanderhyden said places like coffee shops, and other places in Durham Region can help out by showing their support. A little sticker saying “they support or they’re proud of the LGBTQ” community on the wall would be nice to see, she says.

The girls both remember looking through high school textbooks and names like James and Kelly. Gallaher said she would love to see high school textbooks with same sex couple names. It does not always have to be a man and a woman to use for a math equation example.

Gallaher says she saw an Ikea commercial with a same sex couple.

She loved how this commercial was different than other ones. Same sex couples are what people need to see, says Gallaher. It helps people feel safe to see themselves represented in the media.

In January 2014, Disney premiered their first lesbian couple in a TV series called Good Luck Charlie.

Gallaher said she remembers this was a very controversial topic in the media.

The girls agree they would love to see the first Disney princess lesbian couple. Gallaher added she wants to see “Elsa be gay” in the Disney movie Frozen 2.

“I think at the end of the day we really need to become a community. Just one community. Not the straight community and the LGBTQ community. That unity is what people really need. We can support it, but why still create that divide?” said Gallaher. “We’re all just people at the end of the day. I think people are just really focused on finding an answer and they need a label.”

The girls can’t wait until pride 2017, to celebrate who they have become.

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Students meet with elder Asim Pervez The Chronicle

An elder plays an important role in the First Nations community. The elder is someone can speak to for advice and guidance.

Shirley Williams is the elder here at Durham College. She often makes visits to the Aboriginal Student Centre, located in the Simcoe Building. Williams was born in and raised in Wikwemikong. She is a part of the Birdclan Clan of the Ojibway and Odawa First Nations.

She was a Native Studies professor at Trent University. She is now retired and lives in Peterborough but makes time for students at Durham College. She says students come and talk to her about their troubles going on in their everyday lives.

Students may speak to an elder for “many different things,” she says, including counselling, school work, problems with the school, or cultural things. Sometimes they also want “to find the different meanings of things in the room here.” She points out a dreamcatcher on the purple wall before her.

“Dreamcatchers are used to dream for the babies. When they are born, you put up the dreamcatcher. (They) are used when the

children have nightmares,” she said.“The holes in the (dreamcatcher) are where the good dreams come through for the babies.

Dreamcatchers have significance, other than dream.

You might set what your career

is, what you want to become and you will always have that spirit to walk with you. The spirit is the one who guards your life that helps you and gives directions.”

James Guajie is a student worker at the Aboriginal Student Centre.

He says anyone can gain knowledge by speaking to an elder.

An elder can share advice or experience that guides people to deal with their problems.

“They seem to have a practice of being non-judgmental and they

are very open to discussing almost anything, so it’s often quite a pleasure to talk with them,” Guajie says.

Elder Shirley Williams’ next scheduled visit to the Aboriginal Student Centre will be on Nov. 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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This cat has a story to tell Dan Koehler The Chronicle

The cat came back, just not the very next day.

This was the case for the McDonald family, who lost their family cat only to have it returned to them four years later.

The cat Puff, renamed to Waffles upon being returned, went missing from the family’s Chatsworth Crescent home in Whitby one night in 2012.

“She was an outside cat, and very tough, so we didn’t worry too much in the beginning,” said Donna McDonald, Waffles’ owner.

As time went by she realized that Waffles might not be coming back.

With coyotes in the area, a common predator to stray cats, the family feared the worst but put up signs around the neighbourhood and posted an ad online.

“We just assumed she was eaten by a larger animal,” said McDonald. “We played it down with the kids until she had been gone a few weeks.”

It wasn’t until over four years later they were contacted by someone who thought they might have found Waffles.

“We were contacted online by someone who saw her face on a lost and found website for pets,” said McDonald. “We were all pretty excited.”

The McDonald family wasn’t alone in their struggle to find their missing cat and even though Waffles was returned home, this is not the case for many unfortunate pet owners.

According the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, in 2014 over 80,000 cats were brought in to shelters across the country, and 53 per cent of them were strays.

Out of the 40,000 strays that were brought in, only 4.5 per cent actually returned to their guardians.

The United States shares a similar scenario with 70 million stray cats living in the country.

When a cat goes missing in the Durham Region, they sometimes end up at the Whitby Animal Services Centre. The centre posts photos of all the animals brought into their care on their website. To retrieve a lost pet the owner must have proof of ownership, pay the pick-up fees and any pound fees, and must verify proof of an I.D. tag and up-to-date rabies vaccination.

For the McDonald family, they are just happy to have their beloved pet home.

“She is very affectionate so it is nice, said McDonald. “Bentley (the family’s other cat) does his own thing and doesn’t really require any attention, it’s a nice change.”

McDonald also said Waffles days of freedom outside are now ‘totally over’.

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Rachel Switalski, daughter of Donna McDonald, holding the family cat Waffles in the kitcken of their home.

Gamers unite at DC, UOIT’s LANWAR X Dean Daley The Chronicle

Posters of all kinds can be found in the hallways of UOIT and Durham College.

But of all the posters, one stands out to any gamer: LANWAR X. The poster has pictures of all sorts of characters from games such as: Super Mario, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone and more. LANWAR X took place Nov. 25-27, but the question remains: What exactly, is it?

UOIT’s Local Area Network (LAN) WAR X is a gaming event that has occurred biannually since 2011. It’s where students and alumni can get together and play all sorts of games for fun, or competitively. Hundreds of fans come to watch and play in several tournaments which started Friday night around midnight steadily until Sunday afternoon at 5 p.m. The event was held in the UA Science building at UOIT. According to Tyler Messenger– Lehmann, a second year UOIT student in the Computer Science program, an organizer and ticket seller for the event, LANWAR started after Tony Tran, dubbed as one of the founders of LANWAR and some friends wanted to play games and hang out after mid-terms.

This was the fifth time Kyle Beckmann, an UOIT mechatronics engineering student, attended the LANWAR event. He says the event has a board game area,

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Tyler Messenger-Lehmann, a second-year UOIT student in the Computer Science program, an organizer and ticket seller, selling tickets for the LANWAR event. vendors to visit, plenty of people to play with, and raffles to be won throughout the weekend.

“I keep going to LANWAR events because it’s a great way to socialize with other gamers and have a fun, de-stressing weekend in time for exams,” Beckmann says.

This was the 12th LANWAR event UOIT hosted and offered six major gaming events, six side tournaments and one tournament held by Duelist, one of the sponsors of the event. The six major tournaments are from iconic games such as Counter Strike Global Offensive (CS

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GO), StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and Super Smash Brothers for Wii U. Prizes for the major tournaments ranged from $500 to $1,500. The prize money comes from a mixture of sponsors, ticket sales and the Student Association.

Messenger–Lehmann is not only an organizer and ticket seller for LANWAR X, but has also been a competitor.

Messenger-Lehmann says last year he competed in Hearthstone and Magic The Gathering. He says he made it to the semifinal round of Hearthstone before becoming too

sick to play. Messenger–Lehmann calls himself a hardcore gamer with more than 4,000 hours in League of Legends and 1,000 hours in CS GO. However, even with that many hours under his belt he says he still wouldn’t compete in those games.

According to Messenger–Lehmann, professional players, who regularly compete for money, attend LANWAR X to play games like CS GO and League of Legends.

Messenger–Lehmann said he thought he would have more of a chance with Hearthstone.

Beckmann says he usually only

plays in the smaller tournaments, in games such as Mario Kart, League of Legends and King of Games. King of Games is a round-by-round tournament where each round has different games such as Super Smash Brothers, Donkey Kong and even indie games such as Nidhogg.

According to Beckmann, within the few weeks leading up to LANWAR he starts playing a few rounds in the games he competes in “for the purpose of regaining memory of the controls and the game mechanics.”

Messenger–Lehmann takes a different approach. Last year when competing for Hearthstone, he did a lot of research into the game.

He found out about the meta, the current strongest strategies used in the game and researched ways to challenge and defeat it.

Although Beckmann doesn’t compete in the major tournaments, he says he enjoys being a spectator.

“A lot of games are fun to spectate. Especially when the players involved are invested in the game and are well matched against each other,” Beckmann says. “I can see things getting pretty tense and it’ll definitely be entertaining to watch.”

Beckmann was most interested this year in watching Overwatch, as it’s the game he’s most actively playing.

Messenger-Lehmann was also the organizer for the tournament for Hearthstone and was excited for the King of Games tournament.

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Blood, it’s in you to give Canadian Blood Services comes to DC and UOIT Noor Ibrahim The Chronicle

The gym at Durham College and UOIT is usually bustling with students playing basketball. However, recently it was home to the Canadian Blood Services donor clinic.

Canadian Blood Services comes to campus twice a year, with one donor clinic per semester. The most recent clinic was held on Nov. 8th.

The clinics give the students a chance to donate blood without leaving campus. They receive about 60 donations per campus clinic.

According to event coordinator, Laura Ashton, almost half of the donors on campus were first timers.

While that is a high number of new donors, Ashton says it is not unusual for a college campus.

“Most students don’t get the opportunity to donate blood until they’re in college,” said Ashton.

“The legal age to donate blood is 17, so that is why many students come out.”

The campus clinics are one of 14,000 across Canada every year.

They collect blood for a wide range of uses – from people who require blood transfusions following car accidents to those who require blood as part of cancer treatment. They also aid in organ transplants. Last year, Canadian Blood Services received more than 850,000 donations.

Donors go through a five-step process. First, they register and present ID. Then they answer a confidential questionnaire about their physical and sexual health.

Next, they get interviewed by staff for follow up questions. Then finally, students can donate blood.

The last step? Sitting back for snacks and refreshments.

Gerry Lynch is a member of the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal organization that focuses on charity. He volunteers at the campus clinic twice a year.

“We really enjoy it,” says Lynch, “because having the young crowd come out and give blood, it’s always an interesting scenario.”

The blood collected has a journey of its own. At the clinic, it is packaged in special trays to maintain its temperature.

The blood is then shipped to Brampton, where it is tested for diseases, sorted into blood types, and distributed to different hospitals.

The blood is separated into red blood cells, plasma, and platelets, which is a blood component that helps blood to clot.

Students can also donate stem cells at the clinic if they are between ages 17 to 35. Stem cells are immature cells that, with time, can develop to any cell in the blood stream.

Students sign up for a form and a swab is inserted into their mouth.

The swabs are then packaged and sent to Ottawa where they are processed.

According to CBS customer service representative, Melanie McEachrem, the blood type in most demand is O negative, since it’s a universal donor. It is used in emergencies when there’s no time to check for blood type. Highly demanded blood types also include O positive and A positive.

McEachrem says blood is in most demand during holiday weekends and Christmas due to high traffic and possible accidents. Donors are also needed in summer, when most people are out of town and cannot donate.

Canadian Blood Services will host another blood donor clinic on campus next semester. They also have plans to host a stem cell-only clinic.

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James Skelton giving blood at Durham College and UOIT.

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Innovation motivation at Durham Rebecca Calzavara The Chronicle

It’s time to congratulate Durham College (DC). It has been ranked one of Canada’s top 50 research colleges for the fourth consecutive year.

According to Research Infosource Inc. Durham College is ranked 45th this year. Last year it was ranked 36th and the previous two years it was 25th.

The annual list is determined by data on research income, research intensity and research partnerships and projects at colleges across the country.

The top college this year was CEGEP de Saint-Hyacinthe College in Quebec.

Debbie McKee Demczyk, dean, Office of Research Services, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ORSIE) at Durham College, said being in the top 50 is good for Durham College, given that there are more institutions being ranked each year.

“Being apart of the top 50 is an honour,” McKee Demczyk said, “the point is to celebrate college applied research every year.”

According to McKee Demczyk, applied research is doing small projects which are incremental in nature.

“We take our very practical skills that we learn in programs and we

are applying them to industry,” McKee Demczyk explained. “Getting involved with applied research is a great way to enhance skills.

Things that you learn in the class help solve real problems. It’s a great opportunity to develop teamwork skills and problem solving skills.”

Durham College continues to initiate and support a variety of research projects. Some of these projects include: Gaming Suit Control System Imagine a wearable suit that totally immerses users into the reality of their virtual game.

There are sensors all over the suit so that there are realistic impacts in the video games and has all surround sound.

According to DC, Inventing Future Technology Inc. (IFTech) is a high-tech company with a focus on Immersive Wearable Technologies and its product ‘As Real As It Gets’ (ARAIG) can change your game experience completely.

IFTech worked with DC to improve the controller with a wireless communications protocol.

According to McKee Demczyk, father and son games, came up with the idea and approached DC for help with a proto type they built and “didn’t know how to get where he wanted to go with it.”

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Debbie McKee Demczyk, dean, Office of Research Services, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ORSIE) at Durham College.

“They were sitting on the couch one day playing a video game and they felt like they were missing out on something and they thought the market needed something to make this more an immersive experience,” McKee Demczyk explained.

The Drone Project McKee Demczyk explained that DC is trying to do more research to do more for the agricultural community.

Woodleigh Farms Ltd. an agricultural crop producer, approached DC to get help with software that allows the drones to give farmers them high resolution images of their crops.

“The drones go over farm land and takes pictures. By taking pic-

tures they can start to see from the sky where areas of the crops aren’t growing as well,” McKee Demczyk explained.

McKee Demczyk said the farmer who has the drones now has a competitive advantage over other farmers because the software can show where crops are failing to grow and show if there there are pests causing problems.

Imagine an app that is able to connect someone with their doctor at any given time of the day.

According to DC, ForaHealthyMe.com, a clinically-validated web and mobile platform approached DC for help with getting its app up and running.

McKee Demczyk explained it is an interface between patients and their caregivers and doctors.

The app gives people the ability to communicate and share information with doctors.

The app is now ‘live’ and has helped health care institutions improve quality of care while enhancing the capacity for remote monitoring she said.According to McKee Demczyk, projects done with Durham College’s ORSIE program are novel and creative.

Many students get hired by the companies that approach Durham College’s ORSIE program for help and come back for a second time to work on another project.

“Some of the projects we do are fun and cool,” McKee Demczyk said.

so that’s why I came to this today,” Makker said.

Day explained that an application form must be filled out online only, accurately and completely.

“No matter what kind of visa you are applying for you want to make sure you fill out the application completely,” Day said.

According to Day, always plan ahead and apply early for a visa so that there are no complications.

After the application is filled out, a fee must be paid of $160 to $200, depending on the visa, and an interview must be scheduled.

Day explained you must have a valid passport before you decide to fill out an application or go on vacation.

“A passport valid six months after travel date is a big one,” Day explained, “you want to make sure your passport has a proper validity before you even go for your interview.”

According to Day, supporting documentations, like a resume, should be brought to the interview, but it is better to be over prepared then under prepared.

“I might ask you for your resume or your transcript, if you are a student,” Day said “Sometimes

people don’t even get asked for any documents.” Every interview is face to face.

According to Day there are many types of visas that are available, including petition-based visas.

“Somebody in the United States has to say ‘hey I want this person to come over and work for me’,” Day explained.

According to the U.S. Department of State – Bureau of Consular Affairs, travellers going to the United States for tourism or business for less than 90 days may be eligible to travel without a visa if they meet the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) requirements.

Day said there are visitor’s visas that most people get for vacations or to visit their family. There is a student visa which allows you to go to the United States to study and go to school.

There is also an internship visa for any student that receives an internship opportunity in the United States.

“Every applicant situation is unique. That’s really important because one of you may go and get it in five days and one of you may go and get it in two weeks,” Day explained.

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Students, get your visas to enter the U.S. Rebecca Calzavara The Chronicle

Each year tens of thousands of foreign student studying in Ontario visit the United States (U.S.) for vacations, to shop, or to visit friends and family.

Frankie Day from the U.S. Consulate General in Toronto and Althea Brathwaite, supervisory visa specialist, talked to Durham College and UOIT international students about the process of getting a visa recently.

This is not the first time the presentation had been done at Durham College and UOIT, they have held similar events in past years. There were about 20 people who attended the U.S. visa presentation.

Day said a visa is good for 10 years but that doesn’t mean you can stay in the U.S. for that long, it depends on the purpose of the trip and tourist visitors could stay for as little as a few hours up to several months.

Day explained that having a visa does not guarantee entry into the United States.

Once at the border with a visa, customs and border control get to say ‘yes you can come in’ and

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Frankie Day (right) with students at the U.S. visa presentation at Durham College and UOIT.

will determine the length of time for entry and stamp the passport, Day explained.

According to Day, the main reason of the presentation is to get citizens from a foreign country aware of what they need to do if they want to have a temporary or extended visit or live permanently in the United States.

The students were given advice and information on getting a visa from Day. Day explained that many visa applicants each year are seeking

to study or participate in exchange programs in the U.S. Generally, students applying for visas are going for short trips to the United States for vacation, to shop, or to visit friends and family Day added.

Divyam Makker, a fitness and health promotion student at Durham College, who attended the meeting and said it was very informative.

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A blown transformer caused the outage, which affected more than 18,000 people in Oshawa Devarsh Oza The Chronicle

A supermoon evening turned into the darkest evening of the year for people in Oshawa.

A power outage affecting most of the city’s north end left everything dark and stopped activity for several hours Nov. 14.

Durham College and UOIT cancelled classes and events. UOIT student Rohan Katara said it was frustrating.

“It is really a worst thing to have.

We were hosting an event and we were almost done and the power was gone. So we had to miss many things,” said Katara.

A transformer blew at Taunton Road and Mary Street, according to Oshawa PUC Networks, the utility that provides power to the city.

The company says “defective equipment” was to blame.

Live wires fell down onto the road. No one was injured.

The police and fire department responded to the incident in North Oshawa.

There was a big flash of light and then completely dark.

The transformer affected more than 18,500 people. Power was restored to the final customers late in the evening.

Many people at Durham College and UOIT left the campus.

This caused a traffic jam on Simcoe Street North from the campus to Taunton Road. The result was also visible in Durham Region. All buses leaving campus were packed.

Durham College and UOIT also cancelled every event, including medical appointments. Laura Hence, a mother of two, came to the campus for her son’s appointment.

“We were on our way for oc-

cupational therapy appointments when the power was gone. There was a big flash of light and then completely dark. It was hard to get

out from here and then we found the appointment was cancelled,” says Hence.

For many it was an inconven-

ience. For Durham College photography students it was a great chance to shoot the giant “supermoon” on a dark evening.

Lavaljeet Singh he didn’t care about the power outage. For him, it was an opportunity to shoot the giant moon.

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Students ride in honour of André Boothe

Barbara Howe The Chronicle

Students at Sinclair Secondary School in Whitby raised more than $23,000 in honour of former Durham College (DC) student and one of their own. They held an ‘Inside-Ride’ for their second Coast to Coast Against Cancer Foundation (CTCACF) fundraising event.

The money raised was dedicated to André Boothe, a three-time cancer survivor and former student, who died Sept. 22 of medical complications following cancer treatment.

Almost 250 students and teach-

Provided by Sinclair Secondary School

André Boothe

ers participated at the event. The high school gym was filled with stationary bikes, and teams of six, all dressed in fancy costumes.

Each team took 10-minute turns to ride the bikes in a friendly competition and team-building atmosphere.

Boothe had battled with neuroblastoma, a cancer which attacks the nervous system, since the age of six. He later developed leukemia, a cancer of the blood and the bone marrow, which required a bone marrow transplant. This procedure was unsuccessful and Boothe needed a double lung transplant.

Boothe, who was 24, was one of the children who CTCACF helped transition to higher education by supporting the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) Special Academic and Vocational Training Initiative (SAVTI).

This program supports teens who have to leave school for cancer treatment and facilitates a smoother transition from high school to college.

Boothe was registered in the Community Services and Child Studies Foundations program at DC in September of 2013.

“This is an amazing event, very inspirational,” said Marlene Boothe, André’s mother. She and André’s aunt, Malvia Davis, said they were honoured to be there.

Photograph by Barbara Howe

Sinclair Secondary School Grade 11 students (from left) Khushi Pandey, Claire Koch, Rochelle Bernal, Alex Rudkins and Jasmine Kurtz team up to raise funds for CTCACF. In a moving video on the POGO Facebook page, Boothe said his life goals were “to do something with kids who have experienced a serious illness like me. I feel I have an experience to share, something that could benefit them.”

Unfortunately, Boothe did not live long enough to fulfill his dream but he did inspire students, teachers and volunteers to get back in the saddle and raise awareness

and money for the cause.

The indoor cycling ‘party with a purpose’ required the participants to raise a minimum of $50 to attend. Forty-one road bikes were mounted and mileage and speed were measured on odometers.

“André was extremely brave, he never complained and always thought of others,” said Nicole Hardy, a teacher at Sinclair Secondary School. “He worked hard

to reach his goals. He wanted to help inspire other young people with critical illnesses to maintain hope.”

CTCACF is Canada’s leading charity for fighting childhood cancer. Their objective, according to their website, is to direct 100 per cent of the funds they raise to programs and charities that improve the survival rates and quality of life of children and their families living with and beyond cancer.

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Bullying still happens at college It can be online, physical or verbal in nature Asim Pervez The Chronicle

Bullying is something you may hear less about at the college or university level.

There are many forms of bullying: online, physical or verbal.

Allison Hector-Alexander, director of the office of Student Diversity, doesn’t take bullying lightly.

“When these concerns come to us, we take them very seriously,” she says. “We respond to both the person who feels like they are being treated different, bullied and we do (respond) to the person who is perpetrating the behavior.

“It could be somebody in class, it could be a fellow student, it could be staff, it could be faculty, whoever it is, we have measures that we put in place to respond to it.”

On campus, the mental health hotline Aspiria is open 24 hours, seven days a week for students who

want to speak with a counsellor same as we did in public school(s) Students can visit the Mental If they prefer not to speak face to confidentially. and high school, people need to be Health Services if they would like face, they are free to call Aspiria at According to Aspiria’s clinical safe here,” he said. to speak to someone confidentially. 1-877-234-5327. director, Eric Rubel, post-secondary schools have paid more attention to bullying awareness in recent years.

He says bullying isn’t something that should go unaddressed, as a victim can be hurt emotionally and physically.

“It can be traumatizing depending on the type of bullying. It can certainly affect ones emotional mental health well-being,” he says.

“It can certainly impact someone later on in life as well if you don’t address the issues sooner. Bullying can effect one’s well-being, mentally and physically.

Shannon Podehl, is a Social Services student. She says that post-secondary schools should do a better job of promoting bullying issues, or should have anti-bullying awareness days and weeks.

“Just putting more awareness around the school, poster and stuff, maybe having, just like you would in high school, days where there is bullying awareness days, or an anti bullying week,” she said.

Derrick Peterson, a Business Operations Management student, says bullying awareness received a lot more attention in elementary school and high school.

“I think we should treat it the

I think we should treat it the same way we did in public school.

Photograph by Asim Pervez

Mental health education is available on campus.

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Durham opens its doors to future students Laura Metcalfe The Chronicle

Durham College opened its doors to prospective students and their families earlier this month. Future students and their families had a chance to see the programs offered by Durham College as well as academic supports available on campus.

Labs and classrooms were open for future students to see the different experiential learning environments the college offers. Faculty, staff, current and former students were also available to give advice and answer questions.

“If you don’t procrastinate and have really good dedication, you will achieve and excel in this program,” said Hailey Boumhour, a first year dental hygiene student.

The public also had a chance to see inside labs such as the dental clinic, as well as paramedic simulations and broadcasting equipment.

Staff members from the Student Academic Learning Services (SALS) were available to talk about academic concerns.

Kathy Bryers, a receptionist with

SALS, says she spoke with many students who are worried about workload and time management.

She assured the students they are capable of doing the work and there will be people to help. According to Bryers, the key to success is getting help early on to avoid feeling overwhelmed and frustrated.

“I had a student who her second week of college came in and said ‘that’s it I’m quitting, I’ve had enough, I can’t do this.’ I spoke to her, got her calmed down. She got the support she needed from SALS and at convocation she was the highest ranking grad in her program. That is my biggest achievement I feel,” said Bryers Durham College president Don Lovisa also met with future students and offered his advice for applying to college.

“Narrow it down to a couple or three programs, then go on a tour.

Go look at the labs. Look at the learning environment,” Lovisa said.

The Open House attracted hundreds of people. A new feature this year was a camera booth where students could have their picture taken with the Durham College logo.

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Take a bite into bliss

Taste what Dalise Bernett is cooking and take a bite into her Caribbean background Jared Williams The Chronicle

While roommates in university, Melissa Maestre, remembers Dalise Bernett’s corn soup filling the hallways with its delicious aroma.

Much different from the western cream corn, Caribbean corn soup is a savory beef or vegetable broth based soup. Friends and fellow classmates who also lived in residence would follow their nose and knock on Bernett’s door to find out what was cooking.

“When she cooked, she would make enough for everyone,” Maestre says.

Corn soup is often made for Caribbean parties or functions.

“Everybody goes crazy for it – my friends tell me it’s better than the corn soup man at the Soca or Die fetes,” Bernett says.

Bernett’s cooking draws from her Jamaican and Trinidadian background and her well-rounded knowledge of traditional Caribbean flavours.

With the population of ethnic cultures increasing in Durham Region, cities like Oshawa have an opportunity to try many types of foods, including West Indian cuisine. Stew chicken, curry goat, rice and peas, salt fish and fried bakes have found an audience with a

growing appetite for foods from all over the world.

Bernett says she has always been fascinated with what goes on in the kitchen. Growing up, she says her house was filled with smells from corn soup, jerk chicken, and on Sundays, traditional West Indian meals like ackee and salt fish.

“In the back of my mind I always wanted to do something with food,” says Bernett.

Bernett founded Blxssful Bites, a made-to-order catering company, in 2014.

Through familiar and foreign flavours, packaged in miniature portions, Bernett sells both north American and Caribbean-inspired meals to her community.

From spaghetti and meatballs to jerk pork and of course dessert favourites like black cake and current rolls, Bernett’s unique touch is in the bite-sized variations of traditional western and Trinidadian food.

“I like to do bite size – take something and make it smaller. It’s kind of a craft thing of mine,” Bernett says.

“I like appetizers. I’m more into small meals than big meals. I’m trying to work on spaghetti and meatball cups. It’s been trial and error so far.”

As for desserts, Bernett says cheesecake is her weakness. “I love

Photograph courtesy of Dalise Bernett

Mouth-watering Trinidadian pepper shrimp served with fried rice on a rice noodle basket.

doing cheesecake.”

But cheesecake isn’t the only type of cake Bernett is familiar experimenting with. Recently she has been taking a traditional Caribbean dessert called black cake, and rolling it up into cake pops.

“Black cake a is a dark spiced, fruit cake made with rum or wine.

My granny uses port wine, it makes it look black essentially,” says Bernett.

Traditional cake pops call for fondant and cake crumbles rolled into a ball. The ingredients are then dipped in chocolate. Bernett

says she had to find a way to make the cake light enough to hold on the stick. Black cake is so dense Bernett says she didn’t know how it was going to hold. “I made the batter, I put it in the cake pop machine, and then I used liquid fondant. That’s how I got it to stick,” she explains.

The black cake pops were a hit.

Bernett says she is an avid user of social media to help spread word of her business in the local community of Bowmanville, where she is set up.

On the business side of things, Leshaun Bernett, Dalise’s younger brother, lends a helping hand.

When asked if he thought if there was a market for West Indian flavours in Durham Region he says, yes.

“People are always looking for something new – something different to try,” Leshaun says.

So one blissful bite at a time Dalise Bernett shares her culture’s favourite foods in hopes to show people how big flavour can come in all shapes and sizes.

“I just want people to bite into something that’s out of the norm– think outside of the box,” says Dalise.“Small meals can be fun.”

Backyard veggies grow close to campus Laura Metcalfe The Chronicle

Jennifer Whyte loves the feeling of earth beneath her feet as she walks through her backyard garden, the garden that is her livelihood. Her business is Barefoot Veggies.

Durham College helped her start the company when she was a student in the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Program at Durham College. She used FastStart, an on-campus resource that helps students start up their businesses.

“Through FastStart they helped me with things like my logos, marketing materials, figuring out all the little details involved with getting a business going,” says Whyte, who already had the idea but wasn’t sure where to start.

Whyte is sensitive to the chemicals used by farms to keep pests from destroying crops. She likes her vegetables to be grown in a “pure” environment, meaning no pesticides or other harmful chemicals used in the growth process.

“You can’t beat the freshness ‘cause you literally pick it out of the ground when you’re here,” says Whyte. Her garden consists

Photograph by Laura Metcalfe

Jennifer Whyte checking the progress of her hanging herbs in her drying shed. of boxes of dirt and compost, which includes coffee grinds, as well as a shed where she hang dries herbs.

Jay Fisher, a professor with the school of Business, IT and Management, taught Whyte for

two years and helped develop her branding and networking skills.

Fisher spends part of his time with the FastStart program. Through FastStart, he has helped develop all types of business ideas.

Whyte says he wouldn’t just give her the answers she wanted, he made her work for it. She appreciates this approach now because it gave her the skills to find solutions after she graduated.

Whyte has created a Facebook page for her business and posts regularly about the progress of her crop. She also has a website in development, which she hopes to have running by the end of winter.

This is the first year Whyte has not been in school since starting her business, so this winter she will focus on expanding her business so she can have a reliable income.

“I’ve been doing a lot of canning and stuff so a lot of my herbs I save,” says Whyte, who is learning how to make jams so she can sell them to caterers or other businesses.

“I dry (herbs) and I’m jarring them all and bag them and divvy them up and sell them that way cause a lot of people want the herbs still,” says Whyte. She is also thinking about making candles and essential oils from her herbs but admits it takes a lot of product to make the oils.

She says this year is about expanding her customer base, creating networking opportunities, and thinking of new products she can make with surplus product. She hopes to add candles, potpourri, and jams to her brand. Clients have asked her to create gardens for their backyards too.

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First Nations vote on new education system Indigenous students are top priority Angela Lavallee The Chronicle

Thirty-nine Ontario First Nation communities are voting on putting their own education system in place. The vote, which ends Dec. 2, is the final step in a lengthy process.

Negotiations with the federal government began in 1995 and a deal was reached in July, 2015.

Since the creation of the Indian Act in 1887, the government has controlled the education of Indigenous students and Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee said in a public statement that the Union of Ontario Indians (UOI), which governs the 39 First Nations in Ontario, couldn’t allow the Indian Act to determine the success of children any longer.

“Right now as it stands, our First Nation children are not very successful in the provincial school system and we have a plan to fix that and give our children the same advantage as other students in Ontario,” said Madahbee.

‘Say Yes to AES’ (Anishnabek Education System) is the slogan supporters are using to get the message out to the voting communities. Kinoomaadzwin Education Body (KEB) will be the governing board to which the federal government will distribute $110 million. The KEB will then distribute funds to each First Nation community which ratifies the vote, according to the UOI. Madahbee says the new system is for the future success of Ontario

First Nation students from junior kindergarten to Grade 12 and onto post-secondary education.

The UOI agrees there will be learning curves and it will take time for the new education system to take full setting in Ontario, but according to the Grand Chief the children will be better off and will get top notch education in traditional learning such as language and cultural teachings.

Currently there are about 27,000 students under the UOI umbrella - roughly 22,000 of these live in urban areas.

Another 2,400 live on the reserve, but attend schools off reserve and 2,100 attend schools on the reserve.

Each of the 39 First Nations are holding a vote which started Nov. 28 and ends Dec. 2, with results to be announced early in 2017.

Twelve First Nations must ratify in order for the new education system to be implemented. The UOI says they want the new education system implemented by April, 2018.

In a live stream of the fall assembly in Rama First Nation, Chief Mahadbee announced that 30 communities have indicated an interest in the new education system. He also stated that any First Nation which is not ready can come on board at a later date.

“This is a no-brainer people,” said Mahadbee. “We cannot fear change, remember our people are reislient and smart.”

Dave Shawana, who is part of the education working group at the UOI, said the new education system was a collaborative effort.

“We are moving in the right direction with this and our children are worth it,” said Shawana.

Mahadbee added, “let’s be champions in our children’s educational future, this is one

of the most important things we will ever do for our children.”

Julie Pigeon, aboriginal student advisor at Durham College, respects the enormous amount of

time and effort to develop such a system, but says the AES will only help those who are under the UOI umbrella.

“My band Cape Croker is not

part of the UOI, and I’ve only read parts of the new system and therefore I cannot comment on what the new system is about,” said Pigeon.

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Needles are often used to inject fentanyl and other illicit opioids.

Fentanyl: A silent epidemic Tommy Morais Toby Van Weston The Chronicle

Recreational drug users in Durham have something new to worry about. Durham Regional Police Services warn users the drugs they are consuming may now contain traces of the deadly opioid fentanyl.

The drug has slowly tightened its grasp on the region and is beginning to garner attention and raise eyebrows. It is the same drug that took the life of pop legend Prince earlier this year.

The American National Institute on Drug Abuse defines the drug as a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.

It is typically used to treat patients with severe pain or to manage pain after surgery.

Fentanyl takes multiple forms.

Lozenges, dissolving tablets, spray and patches are just a few them.

It can be smoked, eaten and taken intravenously among other methods of consumption.

Max—not his real name— an

Oshawa resident, witnessed his friend’s near-death experience in his own home. Max’s friend started using Percocet he obtained on the black market recreationally. He progressively experimented and moved up to harder drugs until he used heroin that was laced with fentanyl.

An evening of recreational drug use took a drastic turn. Max’s friend almost didn’t survive the night.

“It was an extremely traumatic experience seeing someone you love whose lips are literally blue not responding to anything,” says Max. “I’ll never forget the sound of air leaving his lungs as my friend was trying to revive him. It was a horrible sound. I’m traumatized by that and I have dreams about it.

I’m very cautious about spending time with this person who was once historically close to me.”

Stories like these are becoming increasingly common. The Durham Region Police Service (DRPS) has taken notice of fentanyl’s growing prominence in the recreational drug scene.

I’m traumatized by that and I have dreams about it.

“We’re certainly seeing fentanyl appear on our streets. We started to see incidences of it in 2014 in connection to other drugs,” says David Selby, director of corporate communications for the DRPS. Recreational users are often unaware the drugs they are using are laced with fentanyl, says Selby. In some cases, it’s a mix that can prove fatal.

“There’s a trend continuing today where you’ll have fentanyl sprinkled into some others drugs and the user doesn’t know. They think it’s heroin or some OxyContin. What they realize afterwards is that fentanyl was laced,” explains Selby. “It’s an incredibly powerful

drug, one that can certainly kill you.”

A fentanyl overdose can be difficult to differentiate from other drug overdoses. It takes time and testing before conclusions can be drawn.

“We’ve had numerous deaths and overdoses in Durham Region.

We later find out after the laboratory tests are done and screened that fentanyl was found in the heroin, oxy pills or misused patches even,” Selby says.

Despite the efforts of DRPS, users are still finding ways of getting their high in Durham.

The Pinewood Centre of Lakeridge Health in Oshawa is responsible for the treatment of those trying to kick their fentanyl habits.

According to Cindy Kwok, clinical coordinator at the Pinewood Centre, there is no 12-step program when addicts try to quit fentanyl and opioids. Kwok describes fentanyl as “euphoric.”

Lakeridge Health encourages its patients not to try to quit cold turkey to overcome addiction.

“That is the worst thing to do,” stresses Kwok. “Unless they taper

it, with support and the proper medication.”

Kwok says a growing number of the population is becoming addicted because they are being prescribed fentanyl for pain relief.

For some, prescription is where the addiction takes root.

But as with Max’s story, the dangers are not just limited to those who take the drug. It also affects the user’s environment, including friends and family.

Although help is available, Max is still worried about his friend and the relapses are real.

“My one friend has stepped in to get clean on multiple occasions.

It works for a period of time but he eventually makes his way back to it,” says Max. The road to recovery sometimes requires multiple attempts.

“Addiction happens on all walks of life. They were on substances and they decide to change their lifestyle”, says Cindy Kwok. “They want to have a regular life, keep their job, not have to steal money to buy drugs and families to take care of.”

If you or someone you know is affected by fentanyl help is available at each of Pinewood’s five locations:

Source: Durham Region Health

300 Centre St. Oshawa 905-723-8195 ext. 221

180 Mary St. Port Perry 905-985-4721

419 King St. W. Oshawa 905-571-3344 ext. 110

95 Bayly St. Ajax 905-683-5950 ext. 224

200 King St. E. Bowmanville 905-697-2746

For general inquiries: 905-723-8195 1-888-881-8878

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Oshawa’s spy camp and secret agent Erin Williams The Chronicle

When she was only three years old, Jacqueline Bieler’s father, Gustave (Guy) Bieler, went off to war and never returned home. It was September 1, 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland and started the war against Germany. Two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany. On September 10, 1939, Canada agreed to join and support Britain’s declaration of war. Many Canadian soldiers fought in the war, and by the time it was over in 1945, over 45,000 Canadians had died.

Major Bieler was sent to France to become part of the French Resistance. He organized bombings of Nazi railroads and factories.

In 1944, he was caught, severely tortured, and eventually sent to a concentration camp in Germany, where he was executed.

By the time it was over in 1945, over 45,000 Canadians had died.

Jacqueline Bieler lives in Ottawa. She wanted to learn about the father she never knew. In 1957, seventeen years after her father had left home, she went looking for answers. She was twenty years old and it had only been twelve years since the war had ended.

“I talked to soldiers he had

trained with and wrote notes and notes of what I had learned,” says Bieler. “I had never intended to write. I had made many notes over the years and just put them together to tell my father’s story … I have grandkids, it’s important for them to know about their history also.”

Bieler wrote the book, Out of Night and Fog: The Story of Guy Bieler, Special Operations Executive Published by Cef Books in January 2008.

Like Major Guy Bieler, many other Canadians were trained to be secret agents during the war.

Many trained at Camp X on the border between the city of Oshawa and Whitby.

Major Bieler was one of 25 Canadians recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was trained for high-risk situations and secret operations on the shores of Lake Ontario. His training included weapon handling, unarmed combat, silent killing, sabotage, explosives, and Morse Code.

Bieler is considered one the greatest and bravest heroes out of the Canadian agents, according to Lynn Philip Hodgson, author of the book Inside Camp X. Hodgson says Bieler’s effective strategies and personality gave him an advantage. Even after several, brutal torture sessions Bieler never released any information to the enemy, not even his real name.

Hodgson has been researching Camp X for more than four decades. “I could talk about Camp X for hours and hours and hours,” says Hodgson. “The training that happened here was so intense … the agents selected were warned they only had about a 50 per cent chance of making it through their missions alive.”

Hodgson gives tours of Camp X for the annual Doors Open Oshawa event. Every year for the past ten years, history buffs, families, locals,

Photograph by Erin Williams

Jacqueline Bieler holding a photograph of her father, Gustave Bieler, who was a secret agent. and out-of-towners join Hodgson on a tour of the area where Camp X was situated before it was bulldozed into Lake Ontario in 1969.

Photograph by Erin Williams

The Camp X war memorial in Whitby.

The only thing that remains on the site is a red stone poking up from the ground.

The entire area has been leveled, leaving no indication the spy camp ever existed. All that remains is Intrepid Park on the border of Whitby-Oshawa and a monument that reads, “On this site British Security Co-ordination operated Special Training School No. 103 and Hydra. S.T.S. 103 trained allied agents in the techniques of secret warfare for the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) Branch of the British Intelligence Service.”

Joseph Bouchard is an Oshawa resident who took the Doors Open tour for the first time this year. He liked hearing the details of the camp from Hodgson, leading the tour. “It’s crazy how so many people just don’t know about it,” Bouchard says.

“I wish I had a chance to take this tour during high school and learn this history about the town I live in before today. It’s a part of our history. Kids today might take a stronger interest in history if they knew this camp was here.”

According to Inside Camp X, the Camp’s location was chosen for many reasons but mainly because the shoreline was thirty miles straight across the lake from the United States: ideal for bouncing radio signals from Europe and South American headquarters. During World War II, HAM radios or amateur radios were used to communicate wire-

lessly around the world. HAM Operators at were stationed in the communications facility at Camp X and used transmitters to send and receive coded messages from Britain behind enemy lines.

The trainees at Camp X were unaware of the missions that were heading their way until after their training was complete. After ten weeks of training, many ‘special agents’ were sent over to Britain and France to become a part of the SOE, just like Major Bieler.

Back in Ottawa, Bieler’s daughter Jacqueline has just returned from Paris, France where she gave a speech in honour of her father.

This year, 23 Canadians were recognized for their bravery, including her father. Bieler says she was happy to see friends and grandchildren of the soldiers were present to learn about their family members.

“It was great to see people come to honour and remember that group.

May it be their parent, friend, or distant family, a lot of Canadians were there and recognized for being a big part of our history,” says Bieler. “I was honoured and more than happy to write and read my speech for them.” Bieler continues to share the story of her father to her grandchildren, and to anyone who interested in learning about the special agents of World War II. “They are secret agents,” says Bieler. “They don’t like to be called spies but they were skilled and trained to kill at a moment’s notice.”

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New group for autistic students Students who join are given the chance to socialize while developing life skills Tyler Searle The Chronicle

Students on the autism spectrum looking for an excuse to socialize might enjoy a new program provided by the Access and Support Centre at Durham College.

The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Living Learning Community was established at the beginning of the fall semester.

It was formed as another way to accommodate the growing ASD community at Durham College and UOIT over the last several years.

“I think it’s important to let students on the spectrum know that they are not alone, especially first year students.” said Ashley Ludlow, head of the ASD Living Learning Community, and accessibility coach at the Access and Support Centre.

In 2009, Ludlow said there were fewer than 20 students on the autism spectrum who registered with the support centre. By 2015, that number had grown to more than 100 members.

The Living Learning Community meets every Wednesday evening from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. The overall purpose of the group is to help develop social networking skills, baking skills in the South Village residence kitchen, and general wellness through stress relief and social interactions in a patient and reassuring environment.

Student Academic Learning Services (SALS) also works with any

group members who wish to develop college-related skills, such as time management and academics.

“I think a lot of students need to know when to ask for help,” said Ludlow. “It doesn’t make you a bad student... be prepared and be proactive, know when to ask for help and know how to access it.”

Currently six students regularly attend every group meeting, though there are others who attend if the subject matter interests them.

“I look for a lot of feedback from the group to see what they want,” said Ludlow. “If they want stress relief then we’ll make activities around stress relief. If they want social interaction, we’ll play games and watch Netflix.”

Ludlow explained that people with autism can suffer from a number of social issues, including repetitive behaviour and impacted behaviour skills.

Because of this, it can be a stressful time for them to complete their school work and socialize with others.

“Some of us have a specific area or topic we are most comfortable talking about, but often have trouble knowing when to stop talking about it, or if the other people aren’t interested,” said a student who attends the ASD group, who requested anonymity. “Also approaching people - even just for school-related stuff at times - can be hard, and this group helps, as we are doing things together and can talk at our own paces on top of learning skills.”

Because the Living Learning Community is open to any ASD student, it can serve as both a transitional environment for new students jumping into post-secondary, and a networking platform where students from different programs can congregate.

Many of the skills developed through the group are also geared to helping students live on their own, regardless if they are currently in residence or living with their families.

In the end, Ludlow encourages her attendees to use the group however they see fit and at their own pace.

“The important thing is to work with each student,” said Ludlow.

“Not every student on the spectrum has the same needs.”

Any students interested in joining must register through the Access and Support Centre for Durham College, or the Student Access-

ibility Services for UOIT.

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Fire drills a new concept for some For international students at Durham College, fire drills were unexpected Devarsh Oza The Chronicle

It was very surprising to have a fire drill for Dhiren Tandel, an international student from India.

Tandel thought his first fire drill was a fake fire alarm. “ Well, this is something I have never had back in my country. It was more shocking and weird to me,” said Tandel.

According to Rick Bowler, a fire fighter professor at Durham College, fire drills are very important for every school. Bowler says fire drills prepare students and faculty for real fires. “ Fire drills provide training for staff, who are required to activate an alarm. They also train fire fighters to know where the faculty and students are to be located,” said Bowler.

This fire drill was not only surprising for Tandel but also for many international students at Durham College who have never experienced a fire drill in their home country. The majority of DC international students come from India followed by China, Pakistan and Nigeria.

There are several reasons for not having fire drills in these countries. This includes lack of funds in schools, lack of awareness about fires and fewer cases of fires.

According to the Canadian Bureau of International Education, most international students are from developing countries such as India, Brazil, Nigeria and Mexico.

In most of these nations, schools as well as people lack basic needs.

People don’t have enough food, education and even water. Schools don’t have electricity, teachers and sometimes even buildings.

“No, for my school in India it is really expensive to have fire alarms and fire drills,” said Aju Jojo, an international student from Kerala in India.

Lack of basic education is also a big problem. Many students from Pakistan, Nigeria and Bangladesh study in Canada, according to The Canadian Bureau of International Education. According to UNESCO, literacy rates in those countries are under 65 per cent.

Most of the international students in Canada are from China, followed by India and South Korea.

According to UNESCO, the lit-

eracy rate in India is only 71.4 per cent, which means almost 30 per cent of the population in India cannot read and write. That is almost 290 million people.

It is hard to find people who are aware of fire safety in developing countries such as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Fire stations in villages are very unusual. Increasing the literacy rate is quite challenging and as a result, fire drills are rarely discussed.

Schools as well as people lack basic needs.

The situation is almost the same in South America. According to 2013 article in the Washington Times, Peruvian fire departments are ill-equipped. This means fire departments in Peru don’t even

Durham, DCDSB sign international education agreement James Bauman The Chronice

Helping international students studying in Canada make a seamless transition from high school to college is the premise behind a new deal between Durham College (DC) and the Durham Catholic District School Board (DCDSB).

The two sides signed a five-year deal on Nov. 2 which creates and strengthens educational and professional opportunities for international students.

Current and future DCDSB international students now have assistance in transferring from one of the local Catholic high schools to DC. This agreement serves many purposes including, providing transfer opportunities, strengthening cultural ties, and the possible creation of a peer mentoring program exclusive to international students, according to Michael Gray, a DCDSB superintendent.

The peer mentoring program would see a current DC international student paired with an international student from the DCDSB, giving insight to those secondary school students about what life as an international student is like at the college. It would also ideally continue once the international student reaches DC, acting as a buffer for the transition to post-secondary student life.

“Durham College prides itself on offering international students a high quality college education and we’re proud to be working with the Durham Catholic District School Board to offer international high school students the opportunity to further their studies in Canada, and with Durham College in

particular,” DC president Don Lovisa said in a news release.

Gray believes the agreement has the potential to benefit the 24 current international students at their schools, but he also thinks the agreement adds another reason for parents of potential international students to send their sons and daughters to a DCDSB school. Aiming to boost international student enrolment numbers at DCDSB schools is just one outcome the school board would like to see from the agreement.

According to Gray, the agreement came about unanimously and without any difficulties.

“I have to say in all sincerity that is was a very collaborative, collegial process. Where there were issues both parties were able to speak freely. When there were any concerns or areas of need we worked through them in a very collaborative manner. I honestly couldn’t have asked for a better process,” said Gray.

In a press release Anne O’Brien, DCDSB director of education said, “we are pleased to partner with Durham College as we encourage international students to discover the numerous pathways that are available through our Durham Catholic secondary schools into our local college programs.”

DC is already home to nearly 11,000 fulltime post-secondary students, including 600 international students. Through this agreement the college hopes to bolster those numbers further by co-operating with the DCDSB using the newly-signed deal as a platform for recruiting international students and as a springboard for further things to come.

have the latest equipment, such as fire alarms and smoke detectors.

At the same time, most of the people in South America have not attended college, according to UNESCO. For example, only about 2 million people in Peru attended high school, which is less than half of the total population of Peru.

“In Peru, people don’t care about the fire,” said Claudia Cubas Quiroz, an international student from Peru at Durham College.

According to a report of International Association of Fire and Rescue Service India, Pakistan and China do not have a lot of fires per year.

The raw material used to build houses in India, Pakistan and Nigeria is different from the materials used in Canada. The houses and buildings in most of those countries are made of cement and concrete, while most of the houses in North America are made of wood. Concrete does not capture or spread fire as fast as wood does.

For many international students, houses made of wood are something they had never seen before coming to Canada.

“In India, our houses are made of bricks … and in Canada they put wood in the houses, and wood catches the fire faster than the bricks,” said Saju Sam, an international student from Kerala,

India.

That is one of the reasons why fire drills and fire alarms are not discussed a lot in India as well as Pakistan, China and Nigeria.

Durham College makes special arrangements to inform international students about Canadian house fires.

“For international students we have the local fire department in orientation to speak about how to live safe in Canadian houses,” said Larissa Strong, the international adviser at Durham College.

Houses made of wood are something they had never seen.

Due to lack of education, awareness and fewer cases of fires, many international students such as Dhiren Tandel feel surprised when they hear fire drills in North American colleges.

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Nintendo’s latest products, the NES Classic Edition and NES Controller, have been sold out across North America.

NES shortage angers consumers

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Gamers’ frustration with Nintendo continues to build as the company struggles to keep up with consumer demand for its latest product.

The NES Classic Edition, a miniature version of Nintendo’s first home console which comes with 30 built-in games, sold out at every store in Durham Region within minutes.

The lack of stock is forcing gamers to travel between sellers in the area, with hopes of snagging the $80 throwback item.

Lucas Ristoff, a second-year business student at Durham College and avid video game fan, spent an entire morning looking for the NES Classic Edition and controller, but ended the day empty-handed.

“I went to six different places but couldn’t find one,” he said.

The closest Ristoff got was at the first store he visited.

“The third person in front of me was the last person to get it,” Ristoff

said. “I was so close, yet so far.”

He expressed frustration with that location, which was the Walmart on Harmony Road in Oshawa, because it was allowing those in line to purchase multiple

units. This is unlike the policy of one per person at every other seller in the region.

According to a series of tweets from Nintendo of Canada, the company is trying to restock stores before Christmas.

Dylan Morgan, an employee at EB Games on Baldwin Street in Whitby, says they expect to get a shipment three to five units per week, but receive more than 40 inquiries about stock per day.

Additionally, it’s unclear how many they and other stores will actually get, as Nintendo isn’t telling them “anything at all.”

Retailers across the continent have been sold out since day one.

This includes online stores such as Amazon, Target.com, and Bestbuy. com.

Second-hand sellers have

capitalized on the hysteria, with some units being offered for sale on eBay for up to $3,000. However, it’s not confirmed if any have been sold at that price.

Many believe Nintendo understocks to create hype and buzz about its products. Although the company has never confirmed this marketing strategy, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé has implied the goal is to make releases as glamourous as possible.

Nintendo’s slow manufacturing and distribution process has affected the launch of the Wii, Wii U, amiibo, and now NES Classic Edition, which leaves some consumers pessimistic about the availability of the company’s upcoming hybrid-console, the Nintendo Switch, in March, 2017.

console, they must begin listening to fan outcry.

Games aside, Nintendo supporters are on low battery after trying to find their systems in stores. A lack of production and distribution of its products has been a trend for the company, with many

consumers left to wonder if the shortages of the Wii in 2006, Wii U in 2013, as well as amiibo and NES Classic Edition this past year are schemes to manufacture hype.

Nintendo has not confirmed the validity of these claims, but whether the lack of product is deliberate or coincidental, consumers are now pessimistic about the launch and availability of the Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo must learn from the commercial failure of the Wii U. The company mislead its audience with false information about the release of highly-anticipated games, refused to develop desired projects, and could not keep up with retail demand.

If Nintendo continues to show a lack of respect for its loyal supporters, it risks further alienating consumers who decide if the Nintendo Switch will be a c o m m e r c i a l failure.

Nintendo must listen to fans for Switch to succeed Nintendo is synonymous with positive childhood memories, family connectivity, and wholesome fun.

But despite its mainstream image, it’s also known to some diehard fans as a disrespectful money machine.

The poor performance of the Wii U, which is the company’s biggest console failure with only 13 million units sold worldwide, was a direct result of its lack of respect for consumers; misleading information, bastardization of beloved series, and withholding stock are reasons why some may look to cut ties with the Japanese-based company. For its next product, the Nintendo Switch, to succeed, Nintendo must develop and demonstrate a heightened level of respect for fans.

In an industry with many moving parts, unmet release dates for games are a common outcome.

Finishing projects is a strenuous process, and leeway is often given

Tyler Hodgkinson for both major and independent developers. However, Nintendo has abused the compassion of gamers and mislead them with false release dates to extend the “consumer contract.”

The “Big-N” revealed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (then untitled) in January 2013 with the project scheduled to arrive on Wii U two years later. Those who purchased the console specifically for the game have yet to be rewarded.

Many have hit forums and social media to express their anger with not only the unreleased game, but with the revealed upgraded version set to arrive on their next console

less than a year after – whenever that may be. Although there was never an official date given, Nintendo must earn back consumers’ trust if they want elevate the sales of the Nintendo Switch.

For years, fans of the company have expressed a deep desire for certain franchises to return, but historically, Nintendo’s response has been to take a half-measure approach. This is most evident with the community’s desire for Metroid on Wii U. Instead, Nintendo released Metroid Prime: Federation Force on 3DS. Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Amié told online news outlet Game Rant the spinoff title was something gamers would be pleasantly surprised with, however, the audience did the talking with under 4,000 copies sold after its initial Japanese launch in August. If Nintendo expects those gamers to make the jump to its next

Nintendo must learn from the

commercial failure of the Wii U.

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From animation at Durham to Disney DC grads proud of work on new movie ‘Moana’

and build for the animators to actually pose, move the characters to bring them to life. I work closely with the look department and modelling and animations. So we work together to create this character. We have team meetings often - we get together and touch base to make sure everything is going smoothly.

Jessica Stoiku They’ve made the leap from Durham College to Disney.

Husband and wife Celeste and Chris Pedersen graduated from Durham’s animation pro-gram a year apart in 2007 and 2008. Although they’ve been working on different time-lines, the couple found their way from Durham Region to California, and have been work-ing for Walt Disney Studios since 2013. Their passion and dedication has led them to working on Disney’s latest film, Moana, which opened in theatres Nov. 23.

The Chronicle conducted a phone interview with the Pedersens about their journey.

What has been your favourite part about working on the film?

Celeste: Just working at Disney for me has been like a dream since I was little. Being here and working with some of the people I’ve looked up to is just incredible. To see the stuff you’ve been working on actually on screen is incredible.

Chris: I second that. It’s pretty incredible working with the people that have been working at the studio for as long as I remember watching movies growing up. A lot of those people are still working here. It’s pretty incredible. I like being challenged a lot. They’re always pushing the envelope here to make the best quality films. I love just the challenge of that.

What is the day in the life like for you at the studio?

Celeste: I guess it starts the same. We live pretty close to the studio so we drive in the morning or sometimes we walk, which is great because California is beautiful and sunny. My work is shot-based, so we’ll have meetings with my department. We’ll have shots assigned to us. So again reviewing the work that we’ve done.

Chris: While Celeste is more of the shot side of production, I’m more of the character side. So I’m more rigorous. I create the controls

Have you ever had something you were working on go completely wrong?

Chris: There are always little challenges here and there. I wouldn’t say there was any-thing that went sort of completely wrong.

Story changes. Sometimes characters come and go, so we adapt to those changes. We do our best to foresee those things…and work to-gether to troubleshoot them.

Celeste: We’re [in] a very collaborative environment. People come together really quick to try and work through it.

How has Durham College helped you get to where you are today?

Celeste: I’ve always wanted to work for Disney. Going to school at Durham helped prepare me to get into this field.

Chris: Growing up I always loved watching the Disney movies, but animation was never something as a child I kind of thought myself getting into. I always found myself leaning toward engineering. I loved Lego and building and creating things. That’s similar to what I do now. My job is very technical.

There’s a lot of building, inventing and coming up creative solutions, which I really like.

emotion. These moments don’t necessarily add to the film itself. Moments such as Nat’s dream sequences, while symbolic of his struggle, don’t contribute to the film’s message, but take away from it instead.

The film stars Aja Naomi King as Cherry Turner, Nate Parker as Nat Turner and Armie Hammer as Samuel Turner, the man who owns Nat. Hammer has a powerful performance as the conflicted slave owner who doesn’t like what he does or what he sees but stands by and does nothing. This results in his character’s death at the hands of his own slave, Nat. The message Hammer tried to send with the character of Samuel Turner is that you can’t just stand by when others are being hurt. This film is about the anger that black men and women felt in 1831. That anger still resonates today in the Black Lives Matter movement.

However, on top of the anger that Parker, who also directed the film, wishes to convey, it is a welldirected, well-acted and well-written film about the fight for equality and the anger and resentment that motivates it.

Every shot in the film shows the struggles of slaves of that time.

Often this leaves the viewer feeling as though the film were trying too hard to be artistic. But the conviction the film shows more than makes up for any narrative flaws.

The Birth of a Nation is a film built the anger of a repressed group of people. With whispers of an Oscar nomination before the film was even released, it’s clear the message of this film was being heard. As Chris Rock said at last year’s Academy Awards when no black men or women won an Oscar, “people went mad.” The Birth of a Nation looks to change that this awards season.

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DC alumni Christoffer Pedersen (left) and wife Celeste work at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Who inspired you along the way during your time when you were a student at Durham College?

Celeste: All the teachers were incredible at Durham. They were all very supportive, very encouraging. I always doubt myself. Am I good enough to do that? You get discouraged sometimes, but the teachers are always there to support you and tell you, ‘you can do it.’ They’re the ones that got me my first job outside of school, and I was very appreciative of that.

Chris: They’re always so super supportive. One moment though that sort of stood out for me was in third year animation class. I re-

member working on an animation shot. I just re-member something clicking for me with animation and all of a sudden I understood it and that was sort of a milestone point for me with my student career. I feel that sort of launched me into feeling confident with animation. Getting my first job was really dependant on Durham and the teachers. The fact that the course was so well rounded it allowed me personally going into a more technical path.

It also gave me the base knowledge to pursue that.

This story was edited for style, length and clarity.

Birth of a Nation a powerful film Check out Oshawa band Chris Jones The Chronicle

The Birth of a Nation is a film that can be summed up in a single word: anger. It’s a film entirely built around emotion and it has a powerful message. While the cinematography is well done, this is not a film about style, but substance.

It’s about the story of Nat Turner and his rebellion, igniting the raw emotion of the fight for equality.

While watching the story of Nat Turner and his rebellion, it is hard to not feel the anger the film wishes to convey. There are several scenes in the film that stand out. The moment when Nat’s wife, Cherry Turner, is beaten by a group of white men for leaving her owner’s property without a pass, despite only being on the edge of the premises, is one such moment.

However, the film feels like a series of moments meant to convey

Crown Lands - in this Chronicle audio feature Alex Debets The Chronicle

Music is unavoidable.

We hear music everywhere, whether it is Shawn Mendes at the grocery store or Passion Pit on a Taco Bell Commercial.

Music is a soundtrack to our lives but who are these musicians?

They are all around us, your neighbour, your family members.

They are not necessarily the ones you hear on the radio and see on the cover of music magazines.

They are just like you or I, humans, with emotions, feelings, and bills to pay.

Being a musician is definitely not

cheap. There’s the cost of instruments, equipment, tour vans, studio time … the list goes on and on.

Most musicians start out independent, meaning they pay for themselves. They book shows by themselves, and work by themselves.

This is true for the working class duo, Crown Lands, an Oshawa band - Fronted by Kevin Comeau and Cody Bowles.Both members work hard, balancing school and jobs, to keep their musical dream alive.

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Movie meets the expectations of thriller book Jenn Amaro The Chronicle

When a reader picks up a book and can’t put it down, the movie adaptation needs to meet high expectations. In the case of The Girl on the Train, written by Paula Hawkins, the film was released under two years after the book came out.

When contrasting the book and the movie, it is apparent the director of the movie, Tate Taylor, wanted to stay close to the novel and bring the author’s ideas to screen.

By analyzing the storyline, the narration, the characters and the setting, it becomes apparent Taylor captured every aspect the novel offers.

The most important thing the movie does is stay true to the storyline.

The novel is about Rachel, a downward spiralling alcoholic reliving her former life with her adulterous ex-husband, Tom. Rachel yearns to go back to the days before she found out about his affair. She fantasizes about a ‘perfect’ couple she views from the train. They live in a house near Rachel’s former home.

The woman in the couple is one of the other narrators in the novel, Megan. The Girl on the Train is narrated by three women: Rachel,

Anna and Megan.

The narration jumps between these three women, and from past to present time. While reading the novel, it takes a few transitions between the characters and the time frame to get used to what Hawkins is trying to portray.

But the reader adapts to the flow, and while the switches become the norm, they slow the pace of the book.

In contrast, Taylor captured these transitions in his film without confusing the viewer.

Seeing physical characters on screen, it is easy to follow the swapping around between narrators as well as time.

The viewer needs to pay attention to the dates on screen, but it is not confusing. With these transitions, the two-hour movie is fast paced.

In contrast, the book albeit is gripping, feels like a long read.

The plot accelerates when Rachel sees Megan with a man other than her husband. The torture Rachel felt when her husband cheated on her stirs within her. The story follows Rachel who becomes tied in with the murder of Megan.

Rachel knows she was in Megan’s neighbourhood that night, angry with Megan for cheating on her husband.

But Rachel, suffering from her drinking blackouts, tries to figure out exactly what happened the night of Megan’s death, and whether or not Rachel was involved.

The movie followed the book’s story line essentially scene by scene.

The only major difference is the scene when Rachel begins to figure out the psychological twist of the story.

In the book, a psychiatrist tells Rachel to use her senses, such as touch and smells, that would help her recall what happens on the nights she can’t remember.

When Rachel narrates the novel, she tells the reader everything she is thinking. This would have been difficult to display in the movie, so the scene is altered.

In the movie, another character reveals a hint to Rachel, which helps Rachel piece together the missing parts of her blackouts.

The movie then recreates previous scenes to show the audience what Rachel recalls from her blackouts.

Taylor also adds one extra scene to the movie. Reading the novel, Rachel’s thoughts make it clear she is nearing a psychological breaking point. In the movie, a scene showing Rachel’s violent breakdown in a bathroom is added.

In the movie, Rachel, Anna and

Megan are similar to their description in the novel.

The main difference is Rachel’s appearance. In the book, she is described as a woman who has put on weight since her divorce.

In the movie, Rachel is played

by Emily Blunt, a very thin actress.

According to an interview with IMDb, Blunt did a great deal of research into addiction to get into the character of Rachel. Taylor said during an interview with Entertainment Tonight, there were other ways to display a woman who has let herself go, and that does not necessarily have to do with weight.

Instead of Blunt needing to gain weight for the role, Blunt had swollen, red eyes, untamed hair and old clothing, to reflect a woman who no longer cares about her appearance.

For an attractive woman, Blunt looked run down and unattractive for the scenes which portrayed Rachel’s lowest point.

Anna, played by Rebecca Ferguson, is Rachel’s ex-husband’s mistress. Rachel’s ex later marries Anna and they have a baby. Anna’s character is also close to w hat is portrayed in the book.

From the novel’s description Anna is a beautiful blond. In the movie, Ferguson fits the book’s description of a blond mistress.

Megan, the woman Rachel

daydreams about, is supposed to look similar to Anna.

This is vital to the storyline.

Haley Bennet, plays Megan and Ferguson, who plays Anna, have similar features. This makes it easy for the viewer to mistake one for the other. Both actresses capture the characters Hawkins described in the novel.

One difference between the movie and book is the setting.

The book is set in London, England, where it is cloudy and rainy.

The location mirrors Rachel’s gloomy, downward spiral.

However, Taylor decided to shoot the movie in Manhattan.

While this does not change the storyline, it is a bit of a shock.

Rainy scenes in New York illustrate Rachel’s depression and do not take anything away from the film.

A dark and gripping story can be difficult to capture on screen. But through Hawkins’ detailed description in the novel, Taylor was able to bring her thoughts of the storyline, narration, characters and setting into physical form.

The novel has readers turning pages and the movie has viewers feeling anxious from the first page of the book to the last minute of the film.

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Not open to more open worlds James Jackson The Chronicle

The video game industry has become fascinated with open-world games. An open-world game has large open spaces the player can explore. The player has the freedom to do what they want, when they want to in open-world games.

But the video game industry is currently too invested in the concept of the open-world game.

Making the open-world can take away from story and gameplay.

Open-worlds are not very innovative and the market is flooded with them. The industry is in danger of killing of the genre completely.

There have been many openworld games released in the past few years. Ubisoft’s Farcry and Assassins Creed series and Bethesda’s Skyrim and Fallout are some example of openworld games which haven’t benefited from the open-world concept.

The increased focus on openworlds has led to a lack of focus on story and gameplay. To make things even worse, most of the open-world aspects of the games are the same in every game and included only to pad the runtime of the game.

Making a fully fleshed-out openworld requires a lot of work and sometimes, to get the open-world the developers envisioned, cutbacks have to be made.

An example of this is the game Homefront: The Revolution, the sequel to a linear military shooter. In the

sequel, the game changed to an open-world game and ended up completely ignoring the first game.

The sequel even tells a completely different story.

There is a large number of openworld games released every month.

For example, 12 open-world games were released on Steam between November 1st and 15th. Almost every role-playing game is an open-world game, which is where the open-world genre got its start.

One of the reasons why openworld games became more prevalent is Minecraft. Minecraft is an open-world sandbox where the player is free to do what they want with the world.

Since its beta release in late 2010, many people have tried to emulate the feeling of Minecraft. The games that come from Minecraft rarely try to innovate.

The worst thing with open-world games is the activities are repetitive and is done in many other games.

This is so prevalent that an entire genre called “Grand Theft Auto Clone” or “GTA Clone” has been created because of it.

“GTA Clone” games revolve around driving a car, usually illegally, and performing criminal actions.

One of the biggest offenders of being a “GTA Clone” is Mafia 3.

In Mafia 2, the “open-world” was there to set the scene for missions that required a lot of driving.

Mafia 3, however, has so much to do in the open-world, like rob-

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Fallout 4 is a perfect example of an ‘open world’.

bing stores, killing random gang members for money, and gathering near-useless collectables.

Another one of these “GTA Clones” was the first two Saints Row games, which copied the formula almost exactly. However, Saints Row had a more unrealistic story.

Developer Volition decided to take their game away from “GTA

Clone” territory by turning the game series into a parody of itself.

The main character even becomes president of the United States (changed saints) and a galactic conqueror.

Too many games are using the concept of an open-world. The result? The games become procedural and it becomes difficult to tell

one game from another.

The game industry needs to take a rest from the open-world, and go back to more linear story-driven games.

The open-world can’t replace gameplay or story development or the industry is in danger over-saturating the market and ruining the genre for years.

The Moustache Club may not be the Air Canada Centre or any other global arena. But for the HIGHS band, performing at small clubs in different cities means building an audience one show at a time.

The band performed to a welcoming crowd at the Oshawa club in early November.

“We are at a point right now where we will play and it will be our show, others are opening up for us,” says Doug Haynes, the lead singer of the band.

The band came together at Queen’s University in Kingston.

They consider themselves a small family, much like another, more famous Kingston band, the Tragically Hip. The band consists of five members who have been performing

together for three years.

Karrie Douglas, the only female member of the band, had the idea to get the band together. From an early age, she always wanted to be part of a band.

Eventually, she was able to bring different musicians together and HIGHS was started.

“We didn’t start the band until we all graduated and left Kingston.

We were all in different cities and had to travel to practice and travel back home. It was a big ordeal,” says Haynes.

Haynes, who grew up in Whitby, says he has played in Oshawa a few times and managed to create a fan base there.

“It’s nice that we are at that point in Oshawa,” he says.

Being in the music industry today always comes with a challenge, and HIGHS is no exception.

Though they are performing and

touring, band members also have regular jobs. Being away from family and friends can sometimes be a bit stressful, though they say they can always lean on each other for support.

Despite the difficulties, the band has overcome these challenges and is proud of where they are at right now.

HIGHS recently released its first full album, Dazzled Camouflage, and is doing a cross-Canadian tour to promote the album.

A European tour is also in the works.

“We will never leave, we are here for good,” says Haynes.

Even though the band is having some success and intends to get bigger and better, members intend to remember their humble beginnings.

“We will never be too big for Oshawa,” says Haynes.

new ones.

The energy level was palpable.

Roughly a thousand people sang the words and jumped until the floor bounced with them. Some people even crowd-surfed. Campbell hyped up the crowd and brought out the energy in people.

Emotions ran high as the band sung some of their heavier songs such as “Cigarettes & Saints.”

Many in the audience had tears running down faces, with their voices breaking. Feelings showed.

“They’ve always been there for me in the rough times, so seeing

them live is amazing,” said one fan.

The six-member band was created in 2005. They are currently signed to Hopeless Records and have released five albums and several EPs. Their Albums The Upsides, Suburbia, I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing, and The Greatest Generation are a trilogy.

They deal with issues such as anxiety, depression and self-doubt, while their latest album examines personal loss and social justice issues such as prescription drug problems, corruption and shootings – issues that resonate with Millen-

nials today.

The group has a solid following and some of those fans were lucky enough to get VIP tickets.

That gave them an intimate concert experience with The Wonder Years as they played fan-requested songs such as “The Living Room Song.” The band also signed autographs and took a group photo.

“I feel like we’re all kind of outcasts in our own way, and I feel like we can all fit in here and bond over our mutual love of music,” said one fan after the performance of “My Last Semester.”

The HIGHS building a following one gig at a time Euvilla Thomas The Chronicle

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Whitby born Doug Haynes and his band performing.

The Wonder Years bring pop, punk to the Phoenix Allison Beach The Chronicle

Hundreds of fans flocked to Toronto’s Phoenix Concert Theatre to enjoy a concert experience given by one of the biggest names in pop-punk, The Wonder Years, with some coming from as far as Thunder Bay. “It’s hard to keep track of how many times we’ve circled the world, how many times we’ve crossed the border and been to Toronto. But I’ll tell you what,” yelled lead singer Dan “Soupy” Campbell, “we’re go-

ing to remember this, because you guys are f-----g killing it, Toronto!”

The lineup included Toronto band Seaway, Moose Blood, Knuckle Puck, Real Friends and the Philadelphia-based headliners, The Wonder Years.

They’re on tour to promote the band’s latest album, No Closer to Heaven. The Wonder Years played 19 songs. They opened with title track and closed with “Came Out Swinging,” off of 2011’s, Suburbia, I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing. They played several songs off of their older albums, as well as

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From DC to the Hall of Fame Tommy Morais The Chronicle

If you see the Stanley Cup somewhere, chances are Philip Pritchard is close by. Countless hockey greats have raised the Stanley Cup over their head, but only the man with the white gloves has the privilege of taking the trophy home night after night.

For more than 28 years Pritchard has been an integral part of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto serving as both curator and keeper of the Stanley Cup. A Durham College alumnus, Pritchard graduated from DC’s Sports Management program in 1985.

Pritchard takes great joy in pointing just how many hockey fans there are, including the Queen of England.

“I’m always thrilled that everyone’s a hockey fan, it makes it special,” he says. “I got the opportunity to meet Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The Queen is a hockey fan. She has a huge collection. When she comes to Canada she gets many pucks and souvenirs that she keeps.”

He began his journey to the cup with a diploma in administration before crossing over to sports.

“I started by taking accounting at Sheridan College in Oakville.

From then I took the accounting over to the sports side of things and went to Durham College,” says the Oakville native.

It was the placements opportunities provided by Durham College that allowed Pritchard to work his way up to a job at the Hockey Hall of Fame.

“The great thing about Durham is the co-op program that they offer placement. It gives stu-

dents a chance to gain practical experience,” he explains. “My placement was with the Ontario Hockey League. I then ended up working at the Canadian Hockey League and from there I went to the Hockey Hall of Fame where I’ve been since ‘88.”

Pritchard managed to land what many would acknowledge is a dream job by building his network and creating connections, a skill he deems essential.

“You can never stress it enough but in the sports world it’s a small community. Everybody knows everybody. The more people you know and respect, the better it works out,” he says.

A little bit of luck and good timing also helps.

'I'm ... thrilled that everyone's a hockey fan.'

“If you talk to my wife she would say I was in a wrong place at the wrong time, I would say I was at the right place at the right time,” says Pritchard with a laugh.

A typical week for Pritchard involves promoting hockey, eIther on the road or at the Hall of Fame in Toronto.

“Being the curator, I look after all things hockey at the hall; the displays, artifacts, archives and trophies including the Stanley Cup. Amazingly hockey seems to run 12

Photograph courtesy of the Hockey Hall of Fame

Philip Pritchard (right) and a Hockey Hall of Fame official present the Stanley Cup. months a year now. The focus is always on promoting and preserving the sport,” he says.

Lord Stanley’s trophy is on the road most of the year, as such, the keeper of the cup spends a good chunk of the year travelling.

“This past year we’ve travelled in five countries. [The cup] is on the road close to 300 days a year.

We get probably 700-800 requests for the cup in a year, from chari-

Photograph courtesy of the Hockey Hall of Fame

Philip Pritchard has been synonymous with the Stanley Cup for almost 30 years.

ties to peewee teams. There’s always somebody on the road with the cup. We understand that not everyone can come to the hall, sometimes we go to them.”

What does that mean for the team that wins the cup each year?

“The winning team gets the cup for 100 days during the summer from the day they win the cup to the beginning of the next season in October.

During that time each player and staff gets to take it to their hometown, families and friends,” he says.

Outrageous tales of NHLers spending a day with the cup are plenty, but players tend to be respectful of the trophy’s history and tradition, says the keeper of the cup.

“Once you hear what they want to do with it… It all has something to do with their culture. They all have such respect for it. They’re all different but it all means so much to the guys,” he says.

Other than taking a sip from the cup once at the conclusion of the 1997 Stanley Cup finals, Pritchard has always treated handling the trophy with respect.

“I don’t want to get involved with a conflict of interest. Sure, I have friends and family that have seen it, but at the end of the day it is one of Canada’s greatest icons,” says Pritchard.

Pritchard offers final advice to students and sports fans.

“If you love your job you never work a day in your life. I’m one of those people.”

UOIT celebrates Joshua Nelson The Chronicle

Players, students, and coaches gathered to celebrate the UOIT women’s soccer team on its first Ontario championship victory and its first medal in U Sports (formerly Canadian Intercollegiate Athletics) national competition.

After UOIT’s historic run in the Ontario Universities Athletics (OUA) final four, beating the Windsor Lancers 3-1 and the Queen’s Golden Gaels 1-0 in the OUA championship, the team advanced to the national championship in Wolfville, Nova Scotia Nov. 10-13.

The Ridgebacks played three games, beating the Trinity Western Spartans 1-0, losing to Laval Rouge 2-1, and then winning their first medal in school history on the national stage, beating the Golden Gaels once again in the bronze medal game 1-0.

The team celebrated its OUA championship in the UA Atrium Nov. 23 with an opening speech conducted by UOIT President Tim McTiernan and afterwards students took pictures and celebrated with refreshments and teammates.

The banner commemorating the OUA championship wins will be raised at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre.

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A true DC leader and all-star

Brown named to Ontario Colleges Athletics Association all-star team as a pitcher Christopher Jones The Chronicle

Often baseball players sitting on the bench quietly joke around with teammates and do not really pay too much attention to the game.

However, there are also players like Alec Brown who move from player to player joking or giving advice to other players on the team and making sure the team remains focused. These players are leaders, and that’s exactly what Alec Brown is: a leader.

Coming off of an injury to his arm last season, Alec Brown was recently named an Ontario Colleges Athletics Association (OCAA) all-star as a pitcher. Over the 20162017 baseball season, Brown maintained a 1.42 earned run average (ERA) over 29.2 innings pitched.

He allowed a total of six earned runs and had 21 strikeouts.

On top of his accomplishments as a pitcher, Brown was also successful at the plate with a .474 batting average.

Brown says he started playing baseball when he was around four or five years-old with his dad in their front yard. Brown said his biggest influence in the game of baseball would have to be his dad.

On being named an all-star, Brown said, “It’s pretty awesome.

Every game I go out there with my team they’ve given me a lead

to work with, and just having the opportunity to go out into a game with a lead is just fantastic.”

Brown was quick to give the credit to his teammates. “Our defense was playing incredible behind me all year. I’m not a strikeout pitcher, I need my defense.”

Head coach and Durham Lords OCAA baseball coach-of-the-year Sam Dempster said that Brown is both a talented player as well as a leader on and off the field.

It’s his job to make sure his teammates are focused...

Photograph by Christopher Jones

Alec Brown was an all-star for the Durham Lords during the baseball season.

Fellow all-star Michael Chilvers said, “Alec is a player that brings a number of different qualities.

He is a five tool player, which is something you don’t see often from players.”

Chilvers also said, “as a teammate, Alec is an all-around great guy, and an even better teammate.

He always leaves it all out on the field, which is something that you will always appreciate out of a teammate.”

Chilvers and Brown have actually known each other since they were children playing on the same team together. Since they were kids, Chilvers says Brown has changed a lot. “He’s grown as a

the top,” he said.

The Lords continued their pre-season troubles heading into the conference season, losing backto-back games against the St. Lawrence Vikings 7-1, and the Algonquin Thunder 3-0.

After posting a 1-0 win over the Loyalist Lancers, Durham went on to lose three more straight games.

Durham forward Taylor Ford believes that communication was lacking at critical times.

“We have a lot of communication off the field but when we come on the field there’s nothing…we need to come together more on the field and talk to each other,” she said.

The Lords looked poised for another disappointing season, until a coaching change in early October.

Bianchi, assistant coach for the Durham men’s soccer team, was named head coach of the women’s side, replacing Ramon McIntosh,

who had been the head coach since 2013.

“Whenever you’re taking a team over like that just kind of partway through, you’re like, ‘well what kind of changes can I make’, to make a difference. I saw a group that maybe their passion was just a little down…we changed the formation, told them what we expected from them, and you know what, I was excited about the opportunity,” said Bianchi.

With Bianchi as head coach the Lords won three out of their four last games to qualify for the playoffs.

Energy and hard work are essential for a winning team, he said.

“I think a level of energy (is important), people who know me know that I’m passionate, I think the girls saw that because…when you’re practising all the time, there I am with the boys, and if we weren’t doing what we’re supposed

player and changed himself from a young kid to a man,” says Chilvers.

“It helped him become the exciting player that he is today.”

Brown says as a leader on the baseball team, he feels it’s his job to make sure his teammates are focused and in the game.

Aside from baseball, Alec is in the Sports Administration program

and hopes to get into an athletics business, referencing companies such as Nike and Under Armour.

Although they lost in the semifinal round of the Canadian Colleges National Baseball Invitational to end their season, Brown remains positive and is looking to next season when he hopes to maintain the success of this past season.

Women’s soccer team has very serious changes ahead Soccer season wraps up on high note Joshua Nelson The Chronicle

The Durham Lords women’s soccer team finished the season with a 5-7 record, but don’t let numbers fool you.

A sub-.500 record may not seem successful, but considering their position at the beginning of the year, it’s an impressive feat.

The Lords’ pre-season - scoring just one goal in six games - was an indication of the struggles that would plague the Lords throughout the conference season.

Alex Bianchi, head coach, believes that the Lords have what it takes to be a champion in 2017.

“There is a lot of talent on this girls’ team, we just have to get it to

Photograph courtesy of Scott Dennis

Durham’s women’s soccer players pose for a team shot. to do…then we’re going to work hard to get it right,” said Bianchi.

Bianchi is focused on improving the team throughout this winter and recruiting more players due to the nature of college program lengths and sports.

“We will recruit extremely

Games in your backyard

Men’s Basketball: Dec. 2, Durham vs. Women’s Volleyball: Dec. 1, Durham Fleming, 7:30 p.m., Campus Recreation vs. Centennial, 6 p.m., CRWC and Wellness Centre (CRWC) Men’s Hockey: Dec. 2, UOIT vs.

Men’s Volleyball: Dec. 1, Durham vs.

Concordia, 7:30 p.m., Campus Ice Centennial, 8 p.m., CRWC Centre Dec. 3, UOIT vs. RMC, 7:30 p.m., Campus Ice Centre

heavy this winter, that’s one of my strengths, I know the coaches in the area I know the teams in the area… will we be bringing in players? Yes, but we’ll be making the existing players better over the winter program and they will play a part moving forward,” said Bianchi.

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