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She of the Mountains: Modern love meets Hindu mythology P.13

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Jan. 26–Feb. 8, 2015

Giving students positive tools for change GBC students can attend free workshops courtesy of a new partnership MAVERICK SMITH STAFF REPORTER

In 2014, The Student Association (SA) of George Brown College (GBC) became community partners with Tools for Change, a highly sought after, well-connected, and established activist training program in Toronto.

The Tools for Change program was founded in 2010 and has since evolved into “an efficient, sustainable, practical, stable, very useful, one-of-a-kind training program committed to strengthening social movements and campaigns across the Toronto region,” according to their website.

Funded by a variety of contributors, it provides low-cost, affordable, high quality, and comprehensive training for people. Such training allows them to “develop skills to champion social, economic and environmental justice.”

Because the SA is now a community partner, it has a representative who sits on the program’s co-ordinating committee.

With that comes the opportunity to help grow one of the few education programs in Canada that is geared towards empowering students and community members to take political action for social change.

A major part of Tools For Change is hosting workshops, and as a community partner the SA helps to determine the topics for the over 20 workshops they organize per year.

The SA has contributed $3,000 to become a community partner for the year which allows for all GBC students to attend the workshops for free, according to the website.

“GBC students are also able to register

for our certificate for social change program, which recognizes their commitment to acquiring new and improving their existing social change skills,” said co-ordinator Demetria Jackson on the benefits of this partnership.

“In order to participate in the program they must register, attend eight Tools for Change workshops within a two year period and then contact us when they have completed their eight workshops. Once we confirm their attendance at eight different workshops, we will mail them a certificate of completion.”

Michelle Pettis, the Community Action Centre co-ordinator, said, “interest in the certificate has been high since its launch and given GBC’s connection to community service drive programs, it would complement those studies in very tangible ways and would still have wide applicability for all students.”

Given the increasing cost of post-secondary education, Pettis also says that “it’s a unique offering to showcase alternative and more accessible education.”

However, due to the way the program operates, it will not be known how many workshop attendees actually identified themselves as GBC students until the Tools for Change year in review, according to to Jackson. ”What I can tell you is that the majority of attendees are not coming from George Brown, but from our long-standing and founding organizations,” said Jackson. “This is not uncommon as the Student Association has only been a member for six months. We look forward to seeing more attendees from George Brown at our events.“ As the program offers GBC students an opportunity for personal and professional growth, Jackson says that students should “grab it while it’s available to them.”

For more information students can visit www.toolsforchange.net.

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DAILY CHECK UP Jan. 26–Feb. 8, 2015

January 26–February 6, 2015 MONDAY

TUESDAY

26 FFWD Advertising & Marketing Week 2015 Begins See advertisingweek.ca for detailed schedule TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W

27 Lecture: Transgender Rights in Canada 1 p.m.

Reference Library, 789 Yonge St.

2 Oware Make and Take Workshop 10 a.m.

Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington Rd. Family-friendly workshop: make and play an African game!

3 “Abyss” begins previews at the Tarragon Theatre 8 p.m.

Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, 30 Bridgman Ave. Previews $23–$27 Regular tickets $29–$55

WEDNESDAY 28 Yoga Club @ Waterfront 6 p.m.

Studio Room 016, Waterfront Campus (Repeats every Wednesday)

4 Glenn Gould School Concerto Competition Finals 10 a.m.

Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W

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Yoga Club @ St. James 6 p.m.

Career Centre B155, St. James campus (Repeats every Thursday)

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I.L.E.M. (I Love Electronic Music) Kings Lounge, St. James campus Advance tickets $5 (only available from Jan 6th – Jan 9th). Door price is $10 for GBC students and $15 for guests.

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Last day to withdraw from a course/program or opt out of Student Health Insurance Kings Lounge Comedy Night 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Kings Lounge, St. James campus

PLAR submission deadline for Spring 2015 term Desi Night 7 p.m.–midnight Kings Lounge, St. James campus

Photo of the issue Premier Kathleen Wynne gets a cooking lesson with Tim Miles and Chef Jason Inniss during her visit to George Brown on Jan. 14.

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Biko Beauttah’s journey to freedom of self-expression The SA’s new women and trans* person rep shares her personal strength TINA TODARO ASSISTANT EDITOR

Feeling comfortable in your own skin can be a struggle for many, but for Biko Beauttah, knowing who she is and finding true self-acceptance has helped her through the country-wide rejection she faced before coming to Canada.

Beauttah explains how in Kenya, her birthplace, many are unable to accept oth-

ers based on their preferred gender orientation: “The law states that it’s illegal to be gay and that those who identified openly could be imprisoned for up to 14 years.”

Now in Toronto, Beauttah is the Student Association’s newly-elected women and trans* person representative, talking openly about being a transwoman she says, “I think the word transgender is an umbrella term used to identify people who maybe feel that for whatever reason they were born in the wrong body, and how they see themselves is not the gender they were assigned at birth.”

She doesn’t limit her conception of trans people to those who choose to pursue medical changes or hormone therapy because,

“some people never pursue anything and continue living in their assigned body.”

Unable to reveal her true identity, Beauttah travelled to the United States to pursue studies in medicine. But she says that there were still many challenges that prevented her from being true to herself.

Being unable to express herself in Kenya and while studying in the medical field, Beauttah decided to seek refuge in Canada in 2006, explaining that she “didn’t want to live in a place that would limit my freedom of expression, limit who I am, and from living my life,” something she says she is entitled to just as much as anyone else.

Claiming asylum when she arrived at Pear-

Like all immigrants, we don’t make it here because we are weak people, it’s because we are strong

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son airport, she was released into the country with only a paper that said refugee and had all her documentation taken from her.

“They took all my documentation at the airport and they released me into the country with just a paper that said refugee, so it was hard to get a landlord to rent for you (with only that paper),” said Beauttah. “I feel like refugees are discriminated against, or new immigrants in places of employment and some people might stereotype people from certain parts of the world as being undesirable.”

Her arrival was followed by six months in a refugee shelter, and it was in the days she spent there that she says she found the most joy.

“Like all immigrants, we don’t make it here because we are weak people, it’s because we’re strong,” said Beauttah who remembers looking around the room at all the people in the shelter and realizing that many of them had escaped war-torn areas and unimaginable lifestyles to those born and raised in Canada.

“The thing that I took away from that place was I literally felt like it was heaven on earth,” she said. “There were people from Afghanistan, Iran, the Congo, various parts of Africa, even South America and the Middle East, and I remember the first day I went to eat (thinking negative things beforehand) and then looking around, surrounded by people who came from such hardships, conflict zones and horrible situations.”

Describing the shelter as being the first place these people had felt safe in a long time, 10 years or more, Beauttah says they were in a place “where they didn’t have to worry about being killed by rebels, about being attacked by animals in the middle of the night, or being raped by soldiers. They had a roof over their head, food to eat, and clean drinking water.”

Everyone’s feelings of happiness, joy and gratitude were infectious, she says. “The word today is like a jungle, but I was in this bubble where everyone was just so happy. I had never experienced that in my whole life.”

Now she has not only found the comfort she deserves in a country that welcomes freedom of expression, she has also found a passion for jewellery as a jewellery arts student at George Brown College.

The positivity she received from jewellery arts students and professors, who she describes as embracing, encouraging and accepting, she says the “positive energy doesn’t need to be limited to the jewellery department,” that other areas of the campus need the same positive energy.

“All I can do is be myself,” says Beauttah, who is not ashamed of who she is. “I am a transwoman and I am open about who I am.”

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Jan. 26–Feb. 8, 2015

Let’s talk mental health

Crime near campus TINA TODARO ASSISTANT EDITOR

ASSISTANT EDITOR

On Jan. 28, Bell Let’s Talk Day 2015, spokesperson Clara Hughes is inviting you to join the conversation on mental health.

Reaching its fifth successful year, the conversation continues with Michael Landsberg, Howie Mandel and Mary Walsh joining Hughes, Michel Mpambara and Stefie Shock on the Bell Let’s Talk Team, according to the Bell Let’s Talk website.

The team is encouraging everyone to “talk, text, tweet and share to help grow Bell’s funding for Canadian mental health,” with Bell donating five cents for every text message, wireless and long distance call made

by Bell Canada and Bell Aliant customers, every tweet using #BellLetsTalk, and every Facebook share of that day’s Bell Let’s Talk Day image at Facebook.com/BellLetsTalk.

The project covers four pillars: anti-stigma, care and access, workplace health and research. It aims to jump over the hurdles associated with mental health problems, and teaches that anyone can help end stigma with five simple considerations: Language Matters: The words you use can have a major impact on the lives of those with mental health problems, so try to avoid using harsh or judgemental language about anyone around you.

Educate yourself: As you would educate yourself on any other subject or personal interest, mental illness is something you should familiarize yourself with. Mental health is easy to get around if we all try to be aware of the reality of the people dealing with it.

Be kind to yourself and people around you: Stop judging! You never know what someone else is going through or the struggles they may face day to day.

Listen and ask: You can learn a lot by listening and when you listen to someone else, you can have a positive impact and can contribute to that person’s health. Be calm, because it may be very hard for that person to talk about their mental illness.

Talk about it: Let’s all continue to create and spread awareness. By letting a person know you are there to stand by them, you can comfort them and join the effort to help end stigma.

Let’s reach out and continue to talk about mental health in our communities.

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Ontario increasing financial assistance for students Students will see an increase in their loan and another repayment option TINA TODARO ASSISTANT EDITOR

Ontario’s continued development of post-secondary loan and debt reduction strategies have resulted in a loan increase and an additional loan repayment option for students.

Helping post-secondary students repay their loans is part of the government of Ontario’s economic plan, according to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) in a press release on Dec. 8.

The Ontario Student Assistance Program will increase the student loan limit by $5 for the 2015-16 school year, to $155 per week for full-time students depending on their marital status.

While Ontario is adjusting student aid amounts to compensate for inflation, in the 2015-16 school year the province will cap student debts to no more than $7,400 for a two-term academic year.

“Ontario is committed to making postsecondary education accessible based on a student’s ability to learn, not their ability to pay. By taking important steps to increase the amount of financial aid available to students, improve flexibility in the repayment process and tie debt caps to inflation, our government is ensuring that our student assistance programs remain sustainable and can continue to help all qualified students attend college

or university, regardless of their income,” according to MTCU Minister Reza Moridi.

The debt caps will also increase with inflation each year with repayable debt remaining at 60 per cent of the maximum amount of financial aid available to the students.

“By indexing Ontario’s maximum student aid levels annually to inflation, this will provide students with more information to help plan for their post-secondary expenses,” said Matthew Stewart, president of the College Student Alliance. “At the same time, the Ontario Student Loan Rehabilitation Program will allow past borrowers to restore credit levels to good standing.”

According to MTCU, the 30 Per Cent Off Tuition Grant helped almost 230,000 students save $1,780 in the 2013-14 school year.

The grant is only applicable to students applying to college, university or a private college directly from high school, with special eligibility exceptions for people with disabilities or for fourth or fifth year co-op students.

Ontario also introduced the new Ontario Student Loan Rehabilitation Program this month, which will help students who have defaulted on prior loans, bring their loans back into good standing.

“We are pleased that Ontario has joined the other provinces in offering a debt rehabilitation program for students, which is especially helpful for students who are returning to school after being in the workforce, providing a clearer path into higher education.” said Jen Carter, president of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance.

Verbal and physical altercation at Ryerson On Tuesday Dec. 23, 2014 around 11:30 p.m., Ryerson University (RU) security and Emergency Services (ES) came across the following incident: A victim appeared to be surrounded by three subjects in a verbal and physical altercation on the south sidewalk of Gerrard Street near Church Street, at the north west corner of the Monetary Times building.

RU security and ES attended, contacted and requested the assistance of Toronto Police Service and Toronto Paramedic Services, who provided medical care to the victim.

The subjects continued to shout and direct profane language at the victim as they walked westbound on the north sidewalk of Gerrard Street towards Yonge Street.

Both RU security and ES were made aware that the subjects stated that the victim had wanted to fight them after one of the subjects bumped into the victim using his shoulder. After conducting a patrol of the area, RU security and ES located three people matching the description of the subjects. The victim, a Ryerson community member did not want to pursue charges against the subjects.

The victim was then transported to hospital. The subjects were last seen entering a restaurant on the east side of Yonge Street, south of and near Gerrard Street.

Hair pulled, spun around and struck with an open hand On Sunday Dec. 28, 2014 around 10:50 p.m., a victim was approached by the subject at the intersection of Yonge and Dundas Street while walking northbound on the east sidewalk of Yonge Street.

It was reported that the victim didn’t say anything to provoke the subject. When the subject used profane language and asked the victim to repeat what she had just said, the victim didn’t respond.

As the victim walked past the subject, the subject grabbed her by her hair, pulled and spun her around guiding her to the ground, and struck her with an opened hand an unknown number of times before leaving the area in an unknown direction.

Toronto Police took over the investigation.

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SPORTS Jan. 26–Feb. 8, 2015

Huskies volleyball: New year, new players

Wolfpack Ticker Women’s Basketball Centennial 65–George Brown 35 Georgian 69–George Brown 60 Durham 58–George Brown 44 Huskies are 8th in OCAA East (1 win–10 losses)

New player Heather Lochhead (#18) may be a new player, but her game on the court is fierce.

Men’s Basketball George Brown Holiday Classic Tournament George Brown 74–Sault 62 George Brown 75–Durham 72 (Final) Mohawk 101–George Brown 72 Morris selected on tournament all-star team Regular Season George Brown 74–Centennial 71 Georgian 76–George Brown 65 George Brown 93–Canadore 77 Durham 99–George Brown 90 Huskies are 7th in OCAA East (7 wins–7 losses) Women’s Volleyball Canadore 3–George Brown 0 (18-25, 19-25, 14-25) Trent 3–George Brown 0 (18-25, 18-25, 19-25) George Brown 3–Fleming 0 (25-18, 25-13, 25-16) Huskies are 8th in OCAA East (4 wins 8 losses)

The women’s volleyball team welcomes two new players to the Husky pack BRITTANY BARBER STAFF REPORTER

The women’s volleyball team resumed their season after the Christmas hiatus with two new players on the court.

Joining the team is Heather Lochhead, 21, a setter and first-year student in the sports and event marketing program, and Ginesha Graham-Armstrong, 20, a middle-hitter with the goal of becoming a dietician in the future.

Bringing her enthusiasm and experience to the court for the Jan. 11 game against the Canadore Panthers, Lochhead helped carry the team through the ups and downs with her pump-up attitude and by keeping a watchful eye on mistakes.

“If it gets me going and the rest of the team going, then I think it’s a positive thing,” said Lochhead. “I love volleyball, I love winning and I’m very competitive.”

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leyball. I’m learning all these things that help me out in the real world with trying to be better and being more aware.”

With high school and club experience, Graham-Armstrong is hoping to see the Huskies reach playoffs this season to heighten her overall experiences. She intended on waiting one year to join the volleyball team, but when the opportunity arose for tryouts over the break, she couldn’t pass up the offer.

“I like winning,” said Graham-Armstrong.

“Being a part of a team, having that environment and so many people driven to do the same thing, that’s what keeps me motivated.”

Joining halfway through the volleyball season might have been troublesome and challenging, but not for this duo who participated in the Durham College Tournament on Jan. 2, working on team bonding and getting a firm grasp on the way head coach Dana Cooke runs her court.

“Bringing on new players gives a real fresh set of eyes and kind of reinvigorates our team and reestablishes our goals,” said Cooke. “It changes a little bit of the starting mix that we have and I think all for the better. We got lucky to have new players.”

Regular Season Canadore 3–George Brown 2 (25-18, 22-25, 25-23, 24-26, 15-7) Trent 3–George Brown 1 (14-25, 21-25, 26-24, 21-25) Fleming 3–George Brown 2 (19-25, 25-23, 25-18, 20-25, 12-15) Huskies are 8th in OCAA East (3 wins–9 losses)

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head than knowing that she is exactly where she wants to be. Having already completed her undergraduate degree at Western University in kinesiology, she also took courses on volleyball and volleyball coaching. Lochhead intends on powering through her one-year program in sports and event marketing to focus on the “business side of things” and playing on the varsity volleyball is the icing on the cake.

“When I didn’t make the volleyball team (at Western), I was pretty upset,” said Lochhead.

“Now I just feel like everything is set in place.

I’m playing volleyball and I’m doing a program that I’m interested in.”

Genisha Graham-Armstrong joined the Husky volleyball team in hopes of working on making herself a better player and student overall.

“I’m big on fitness and staying healthy and active, and volleyball is helping me out with those goals,” said Graham-Armstrong.

This first-year culinary management and nutrition student is using her knowledge on and off the court saying, “I’m gaining knowledge from my actual program in terms of what I can do to be healthier and more active, what’s good for me to eat and then vol-

Men’s Volleyball Niagara Tournament Fanshawe 3–George Brown 0 Durham 3–George Brown 0 George Brown 3–St. Clair 2 George Brown 3–Trent 1 Huskies finish 5th in Tournament

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Any hope for the Huskies?

Recent scores may have the Huskies passing up on the playoffs BRITTANY BARBER STAFF REPORTER

Over the Christmas break, athletes had many opportunities to regain focus and get a firm hold on their mentality coming into the winter season. While for some teams the hiatus was much needed, for others spending time on the court could have been useful.

The George Brown College (GBC) Huskies men’s basketball team played in the Fanshawe Tournament on Dec. 29-30, and who by the skin of their teeth managed to win 85-84 against Humber College.

The two remaining games ended in a loss against Fanshawe, 81-57, and to Sheridan, 78-56.

At the George Brown Holiday Tournament on Jan. 2-3, GBC was able to start fresh with a 2-1 lead on the court.

While facing Durham College, GBC won the game by three points, 75-72 and kept that winning state-of-mind throughout the game against the Sault College Cougars, beating them 74-62.

That was the end of any winning streak the Huskies had in the tournament.

When facing the Mohawk College, the men’s team kept their scores at the lowseventies mark but were trampled when Mohawk’s Mountaineers scored over 100 points, ending the game 101-72.

The Huskies volleyball teams played in two separate tournaments over the break.

The women’s team attended the Durham College Tournament and left empty-handed.

For a total of five games, the women tied two matches, 1-1, with both Durham and Sheridan College and lost three matches, 2-0, against St. Clair, Algonquin and Conestoga.

The men’s volleyball team left the Niagara Falls Tournament with higher spirits, winning two matches against St. Clair, 3-2, and Trent University, 3-1. Unfortunately the remaining two matches resulted in a 3-0 loss against Fanshawe and Durham College.

The regular season for all Huskies athletes began around mid-January, with the basketball teams starting off the new year.

On Jan. 7, the men’s and women’s basketball teams travelled to Centennial College to begin the year on a better, faster foot.

It didn’t work out as well for the women’s team, who suffered a 65-35 loss. The men worked for every point, proving their hard-working mindset with a 74-71 win against Centennial.

That mentality comes and goes for the basketball teams as seen in their games

against Georgian on Jan. 14 losing 76-65, and Durham College on Jan. 20, where they lost 99-90 to a team they had recently beaten in the tournament.

On a better note, the men’s basketball team were able to pride themselves on a tremendous win, 93-77, against the Canadore College Panthers.

Despite the roller-coaster of wins and losses, GBC’s men’s basketball team was crowned Ontario College Athletic Association’s (OCAA) team of the week, while their point guard Akai Nettey placed 14th on the OCAA leaderboards for averaging 18.4 points per game (PPG), along with women’s basketball player Jessica Ramkeesoon, a 6-foot tall forward, placing 27th on the leaderboards for a mean of 10.9 PPG. Although the Huskies are facing more losses than wins, the OCAA leaderboards are focusing on players that have earned their spots.

Brittney Gee, a left-side hitter for the women’s volleyball team managed an astounding 115 digs this season placing 14th on the leaderboards and Stephen Duong, an outside hitter for the men’s volleyball team, placed 10th with 98 total digs and 20th for averaging 2.62 kills per set.

While being noticed for an individuals’ hard work is important, the teams have been less capable of winning, as both the men’s and the women’s teams lost all but one game in the three games against Canadore, Fleming and Trent University; the men broke the pattern of a duplicate season against Fleming College winning a five-set game, 3-2.

Looking into the Huskies’ future, there may be less hope for a chance in the playoffs or championships, but there is always room to improve on the individual skill sets within the team.

Brandon Goin-Bailey and his teammates play hard. But can they play hard enough to make it to the playoffs?

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Advisory: This article features descriptions of sexual assault and harassment and may be triggering to some readers.

Have you ever been dancing in a club or at a bar when you felt a pair of hands unexpectedly groping your body?

Now, what if it happened at your school?

Samantha Brown, the aboriginal representative for the Student Association (SA) at George Brown College (GBC) knows what it’s like. “I’ve been to several pub nights and I’ve been sexually assaulted,” said Brown. “I’ve had students come and just grab my ass, and that’s inappropriate because I’ve never given them permission, I don’t know who they are, sometimes I don’t even know what they look like. I don’t know how that’s supposed to be appropriate in a place that’s supposed to be safe.”

The SA, who runs the Kings Lounge where Brown says she was sexually assaulted, has no stand-alone sexual assault policy, and neither does the college.

In the wake of an investigation by the Toronto Star that found only nine colleges or universities in Canada had a separate sexual assault policy, Colleges Ontario, the umbrella organization of the 24 public colleges in the province, says they are developing one.

According to Jodi Serwatuk, a spokesperson for GBC, a report from the Sexual Assault Task Force has been developed and will be reviewed by all of the presidents of Ontario colleges. She says that this is the first step in the development of a policy.

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tons to raise awareness and including one page in the day-planner that is given out to 15,000 students every year.

When asked about what she would like to see in a sexual assault policy, Brown said, “belief would be really nice. Actually believing the victim, the person who experienced that because there’s a lot of, ‘Oh well, that didn’t happen. That’s not that bad’. Especially with aboriginal people, we are dismissed very easily.”

Brittany Ellis, a support staff at the SA’s Community Action Centre would also like to see more action around sexual assault and consent.

“I would love to be in a space where something like that happens at a pub night at school but everyone around says ‘Hey, hands off ! What’s your problem?’ instead of it always having to be the person with the hands on them,” says Ellis.

Another survivor of sexual assault, who asked that we not publish her name, was triggered when she says her professor made a reference to the high-profile case of former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi who has been charged with a string of violent sexual assaults.

She says she was in class preparing for her final exam in December when they got to what she thought would be a routine re-view of business law, when the professor, whom she has asked not be named, started talking about the sexual assaults Ghomeshi has been charged with.

“At that point my mind shut off, I was like ‘we’re going to go into meltdown in 5,4,3…’ ” she said. “I had an episode, I didn’t feel safe suddenly, I became hyper-aware that I was one woman in a room filled with men and I panicked. I felt like the walls were closing in on me.”

She had to leave the classroom and went to a washroom and cried. “I was mad at myself for not being able to handle that conversation, I was mad at him for bringing it up, I felt guilty that something like that happened to me before, I felt disappointed that the whole thing happened. The whole episode could have been avoided,” she said.

The next day she went to a her program co-ordinator Steven Konvalinka and told him what happened.

“He said that everything I said was abso-lutely right, that there was no place for it, I was right in coming to him,” she said. “He didn’t want me to feel that I had no reason to be upset, he wanted to reassure me that I was taken seriously and he would communicate with me every step of the way.”

Konvalinka then walked with her to see Tony Priolo, the chair of the school of work and college preparation, who also cleared his schedule that day to talk with her. She asked that faculty be more sensitive to the probability that they could be teaching a survivor of sexual violence.

Samantha Brown, aboriginal representative for the Student Association, says she was sexually assaulted at a pub night in the Kings Lounge at St. James campus.

Priolo says he is going to schedule training on responding to trauma from an organization called Come and Sit Together at an upcoming professional development day that would be attended by all faculty from the department. Priolo also arranged one-on-one tutoring for the class she missed before the exam.

Mandy Bonisteel is the co-ordinator of the assaulted women’s and children’s counsellor advocate (AWCCA) program at GBC and has taught at the college and worked in the anti-violence movement for over 20 years. She knows how important it is for survivors to be believed when they report.

“We know statistically that the response a survivor gets when they tell what happens to them has a great weight in the future of how they heal from that,” said Bonisteel.

“That means that awareness and education among those that might hear from a survivor that they experienced sexual violence is your biggest challenge.”

The irony that George Brown College, which boasts an innovative and unique program filled with experts on preventing and handling cases of sexual violence, does not have a sexual assault policy is not lost on her.

“It’s unbelievable to me that this place doesn’t have a co-ordinated plan of education and response that both encourages the response but also makes us more prepared to respond,” says Bonisteel.

In fact, Bonisteel had even participated in the development of the Resource Guide for Ontario’s Colleges and Universities, a 46-page document that was published by the Ontario Women’s Directorate with the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities (MTCU) in 2013.

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“There was a number of consultations across the province with student associations and teachers, human rights officers at education institutions and university reps and MTCU,” said Bonisteel. “So this guide came out and then—nobody acted.”

It’s unbelievable to me that this place doesn’t have a co-ordinated plan of education and response that both encourages the response but also makes us more prepared to respond.

—Mandy Bonisteel Co-ordinator of the assaulted women’s and children’s counsellor advocate program.

Bonisteel’s call for a co-ordinated response is reflected in the guide that outlines a six-point plan on how colleges and universities could better respond to sexual assault.

The guide suggests that each institution

should have a sexual violence response team with people who have experience working with survivors or knowledge of sexual violence at its core and would be drawn from a variety of areas of the institution and student organizations.

The guide puts a particular emphasis on student leaders or representatives of student associations, saying that they “are an important link to the concerns of the broader student population.”

“We’ll have a new policy, that’s great, but we still don’t have places for the students to go,” says Ellis who mentions that part-time students can’t access counselling at the college. “Everyone has to work together to make this work and I feel that quite often we’re passing the buck.”

The day that she was triggered, the student wound up eating lunch with her father across the street from the St. James campus when she noticed a group of women with protest signs outside with slogans against gendered violence. They were students in the AW-CCA program who were raising awareness in the lead-up to the annual National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on Dec. 6. She walked across the street and joined them.

“I thought it was so coincidental that hap-pened the same day,” she said. “It made me feel a lot better to find other people on campus who were saying this is a really important issue, I feel like I made friends.”

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OPINION

EDITORIAL

Jan. 26–Feb. 8, 2015

Smoke-Free Ontario: Non-smoker vs. smoker Non-smoker As of Jan. 1, 2015, the government of Ontario added to their Smoke-Free Ontario law, further limiting smoking areas.

It will be illegal to smoke on and around children’s playgrounds and publicly owned sports fields and surfaces, on all bar and restaurant patios (with an exemption for uncovered patios established by the Royal Canadian Legion before Nov. 18, 2013), and to sell tobacco on university or college campuses owned or leased by the institution or student union.

Upon reading about this new law, I sighed with relief. I am a non-smoker with personal reasons as to why I detest smoke around me.

This law was long overdue and I appreciate the government of Ontario boldly coming out with smoking bans at most places in the province. Though after much thought, I realized the reality faced by smokers in Ontario‚ as I have some close friends who smoke and some who use it to relieve stress.

Even while I agree with this new law, a strong imposition of it without good social support systems or smoking-cessation plans in action is ridiculous.

Thinking about my smoker friends and other smokers in Ontario, I feel this new law restricting tobacco sales in certain places where the people who would purchase them are of legal age is also ridiculous.

First, I would strongly support the Ontario government putting into action smokingcessation plans and other forms of support for smokers, along with the imposition of banning tobacco sales on college campus.

Most of the smokers I know have their reasons to use smoking in order to seek relief, especially youth at college campuses.

It’s like snatching away the crutches from an injured or disabled person and asking that person to walk or run. If such a law is to be imposed by the Ontario government, a major component would be to promote smoking-cessation programs that would help in the long run.

Secondly, the Ontario government should plan, execute and analyse major lifestyle change programs on college campuses to help promote stress relief using healthier methods.

Therefore, in opinion of a non-smoker, this outlandish law is more distressing than the stress of having smokers around.

-Deepti Batra

Smoker In 2006, Smoke-Free Ontario developed a strategy combining education, policies and legislation. The strategy was designed to “help smokers to quit, protect non-smokers from exposure to second-hand smoke, and encourage young people to never start.”

This strategy included prohibiting smoking in enclosed public spaces, motor vehicles when children under 16 were present, in the workplace, and prohibiting the display of tobacco and selling of flavoured cigarillos. All of these were justified, gave non-smokers breathing room, and made tobacco products invisible to minors.

As a smoker I know the associated health risks, but it is a chance I’ve chosen to take, partly out of stupidity and partly out of addiction. While the ability to understand the health risks has allowed me to cut down, there is still the addiction part that acts as a stress reliever during tough times, so having to abide by a new smoking law that prohibits smoking from almost anywhere makes me feel pressured to quit, which in turn causes me to be more stressed than I already am knowing I should quit for my health.

This new smoking law makes no sense because the government went from making tobacco products invisible to continuing to sell them with no place to smoke them, and prohibiting retailers to sell them in postsecondary institutions where the majority of students are of legal age to purchase them.

To smoke, an individual must be 19 years of age or older, and by 18 people are considered adults, so why are adults telling other adults how to live their lives and when they should put down the cigarette? Because nonsmokers feel it’s the right time?

I wouldn’t be surprised if the people making these stupid decisions were all nonsmokers, as I really don’t believe a smoker would ban smoking everywhere without having some designated smoking areas for the people who may not want to quit.

This is not logical and I believe it will cause more headaches. I also feel as though it is not non-smokers’ choice, though they seem to have all the power.

Also, why allow legal-aged individuals to purchase cigarettes but ban smoking everywhere with no current intentions of shutting down cigarette companies?

If the government decided to shut down these big cigarette corporations and ban any store from selling them, then this law would make more sense.

More warming centres should be open sooner We are barely half way into winter and Mother Nature is already telling us that it’s going to be a long, miserable and bitter-cold season.

Winter technically didn’t start until Dec. 21, however, to some it has felt like winter for a lot longer with the frigid temperatures that the city has been experiencing.

Most of us are lucky enough to be able to cope with the bitter cold by dressing appropriately for the weather or doing something as simple as drinking hot chocolate, but if you’re one of over 5,000 homeless people living in Toronto, coping with the cold in these ways just isn’t possible.

The city issues an extreme cold weather alert only on days when the temperature is expected to reach -15 degrees or lower.

Only then does the city open warming stations, typically open for 24 to 48 hours, and add additional beds in shelters.

However, some say this is simply not enough and that an extreme cold weather alert should be issued earlier to inform the city’s homeless population so the proper steps can be taken to give them temporary shelter.

But one has to wonder, how exactly does a homeless person become informed of an extreme cold weather alert with no access to television or internet?

Three homeless people have died recently due to the extreme cold temperatures in the city. One man died seeking shelter

from the cold in a bus shelter wearing only a t-shirt and jeans, while another man died seeking shelter in a delivery truck.

How could they have known about the extreme cold weather alert? Did they know the locations of any shelters?

As mentioned, the city typically doesn’t issue an extreme cold weather alert until the temperature is expected to reach or exceeds -15 degrees, so If warming centres had been opened sooner would these three men still be alive?

The City of Toronto has already seen five extreme cold weather alerts, all of which were this month. As Canadian winters can get very cold, it is mind-boggling that the city waits until the temperature reaches a bone chilling -15 before even considering alerting the city or opening extra beds in shelters.

Cold weather alerts need to be issued as soon as winter arrives, and more shelter beds need to be opened immediately. They should also stay open for longer than 48 hours as the frigid temperatures come and go.

Gestures such as providing the homeless with socks, blankets, giving them a TTC token so they can get to a shelter or buying them a hot beverage on a cold day can make all the difference.

However, although the sad reality is that unless shelters and warming centres open sooner, homeless people will continue to die on our streets.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Jan. 26–Feb. 8, 2015

Need a Career Coach?

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Making decisions while you’re asleep Research shows the brain has access to the conscious mind while asleep VALERIE FRANKLIN THE CASCADE

ABBOTSFORD (CUP) — Ever get the feeling you can’t shut your mind off ? That’s because you can’t. The brain is constantly working — and now scientists have begun to map the amazing things it can do even while the conscious mind has gone to sleep.

According to previous studies, a portion of the brain continues to stay alert while the body sleeps, in case of danger. However, a recent study from France’s École Normale Supérieure de Paris took that idea further: What if our sleeping brains not only remain alert, but are capable of processing ideas and making decisions without the conscious mind’s awareness?

In the experiment led by cognitive neuroscientist Sid Kouider and PhD student Thomas Andrillon and published online in Current Biology researchers hooked 18

participants up to an electroencephalogram (EEG), then instructed them to categorize words by pressing a button as they were falling asleep.

The subjects listened to a list of words and pressed either a left or right button to sort them into categories: first selecting words for animals or objects from the list, and then sorting real words like “hammer” from pseudo-words like“fabu.”

Once the subjects fell asleep, researchers repeated the experiment with a new set of words — with fascinating results. Despite the subjects being completely asleep, the EEG showed that their brains were still able to understand and categorize the new words just as accurately as they had when they were awake.

It took two to three times longer for the subjects to process the information than it had when they were awake. However, even the electrical activity that would have caused their fingers to press the left or right button was still present—although because they were asleep, their hands remained physically motionless. “[The study shows] that the sleeping brain can be far more active in sleep than

one would think,” Kouider said to BBC. “This explains some everyday life experiences such as our sensitivity to our name in our sleep, or to the specific sound of our alarm clock, compared to equally loud but less relevant sounds.”

Even more fascinating is that when they woke up, the subjects had no memory of the tests that had occurred while they were asleep. That means that not only did they process and sort the information while asleep, but their brains did it entirely automatically, without any guidance from their conscious minds.

What does this mean for the average sleeper? Nothing yet — but it could pave the way to a future where you can wake up smarter than you were when you went to bed. Kouider told the Christian Science Monitor there’s a lot of interest in harnessing the unconscious brain’s power to learn while we sleep.

“I don’t think it’s science fiction,” he said. “I think that’s where we’re going.”

This story was originally printed in The Cascade.

G e o rg e B row n C o l l e g e ( G B C ) h a s launched a new online “Career Coach” to help prospective and current students make wiser and more informed decisions about their post-secondary education.

“We’re launching this because we think students are making very critical decisions about their post-secondary education, and it also requires a full range of information to make it wisely,” said Robert Luke, vice president of applied research and innovation at GBC. “This is a big expense, of time and money.”

Career Coach is a website designed to “show students what to expect when they enter the job market, and it provides the latest data on industry trends including salaries and job openings,” said Luke.

Career Coach will help potential students prepare for the workforce, and will give them the ability to search more thoroughly about their chosen program and field of study.

Provided by Economic Modeling Specialists International (EMSI) the data found on Career Coach is based on Statistics Canada sources and updated twice a year. Job postings are also provided by EMSI, pulled from Indeed.com and updated every 24 hours.

While the data reflects the demand side of the labour market, it will not look at the number of people qualified to work in each occupation.

“There is a lot of information or discussion about the lack of labour market information and the kind of information that students need in order to make good planning decisions around education and careers,” said Luke. “This was a product that we saw really fit the need, that would help us in our vision to understand employment and really help students find the optimal education and career path.”

Accompanied by a video tutorial, it will take students through a step-by-step search of the Greater Toronto Area’s labour market and provide information on jobs including salaries, employment growth projections and job opportunities.

To make informed and educated career decisions, potential and current students should take a look at Career Coach at cc.georgebrown. ca or visit career services at the St. James, Casa Loma or Waterfront campus.

With files from Tina Todaro

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Community Action Centre holds ‘zine workshops ‘Zine workshops support CAC’s vision for student communities MAVERICK SMITH STAFF REPORTER

With the rise of the internet, use of online writing platforms has become commonplace. However, there is still room in the world for print media like books, magazines and newspapers.

The Community Action Centre (CAC) at George Brown College (GBC) demonstrates this with their decision to hold monthly ‘zine-making workshops.

For those who are unfamiliar with the ‘zine concept, Siva-Jeevini Sivarajah, the CAC assistant, compares them to traditional print media saying, “the word ‘zine comes from the word magazine. However, unlike magazines, ‘zines are independently

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published and are the grassroots and are community based. ‘Zines are a do it yourself, do it together culture which helps harvest community among marginalized people who are seeking radical change to oppressive social norms.”

Comparing this type of publication process to the usual magazine process, she says that “mainstream publishing is often inaccessible, and the dominant voices in them do not reflect oppressed individuals and our communities. ‘Zines are a radical way to get our voices heard and represent ourselves in ways that are true to our spirit.”

Holding ‘zine-making workshops is not a new phenomenon at the college and past ‘zine workshops have resulted in the creation of a ‘zine library.

Established in 2013, the CAC holds a space to support and showcase the work of ‘zinesters, and their ‘zine library is also an accessible way for students to acquire knowledge that is often left out of mainstream edu-

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cational institutions and publications.

Facilitators for these workshops share a passion for ‘zines, and like Sivarajah, upcoming facilitator Clementine Morrigan, an artist, writer, essayist and community organizer, sees ‘zines as an important form of expression that for her can’t be replaced by another form.

When asked to facilitate a ‘zine workshop for a second time, Morrigan accepted saying, “I am always happy to share my knowledge of ‘zines because I think it’s a great form of expression.”

She also encourages everyone to tell their own stories in whatever way feels comfortable to them, and believes in the power of art and storytelling as a way to build community and create change.

Sivarajah explains that monthly ‘zine workshops fit with the CAC’s vision, and says that they are, “a great way to build radical student communities within GBC, and it is also a way to share stories, knowledge

and skills with one another that is often left out of mainstream educational institutions.

It can also act as a supportive healing space for students who otherwise don’t have access to such a space on campus.”

The next ‘zine workshop we be held on Jan. 27 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in room 165B at the St James campus.

(Zines are) a great way to build radical student communities within GBC, and it is also a way to share stories, knowledge and skills with one another that is often left out of mainstream educational institutions.

ARTS & LIFE

Jan. 26–Feb. 8, 2015

Recipe: Preserved Pears in Syrup Ingredients 8 Pears 2 1/2 cups water 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup lemon juice 2 teaspoons vanilla paste 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Instructions

Modern love meets Hindu mythology Vivek Shraya shares the inspiration behind his new book She of the Mountains TINA TODARO ASSISTANT EDITOR

Two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist Vivek Shraya has done it again with his newest book She of the Mountains.

Personal experiences bring strength to this story. Using contemporary love with passionate stories from Hindu mythology, Vivek Shraya, the author and human rights advisor at George Brown College (GBC), brings power and light to the importance of hatred, love and self-acceptance.

“I have experienced a lot of bi-phobia, discrimination that bisexuals essentially face. It exists outside the community like homophobia, but what’s interesting and challenging about biphobia is that it exists within the queer and trans communities,” said Shraya. “There’s this idea that if you’re bi it’s not a real identity, you’re closeted, you’re confused, there’s even jokes like ‘bi now, gay later,’ it’s not really seen as an identity.”

“After years of experiencing this kind of discrimination, I really wanted to create a project that would speak to it so I thought why not write a story, a bi-queer love story that would kind of challenge readers,” said Shraya.

Shraya wants readers to fall in love first with the characters and their stories, and then realize the subconscious biases they have, challenging their assumptions about love and who a person can love or be with.

She of the Mountains describes the journey through struggles of love and hate in relationships. In Shraya’s own experiences, he found that hate had prevented him from receiving love from others. He sought to explore hate and how it can embed itself in the body and prevent someone from experiencing love, and he realized that he couldn’t write a love story without exploring how the experience of hate is so embedded in the ideology of love.

“Sometimes in relationships, we have a tendency to take each other for granted,” and, “especially when you live with someone, even if you work hard at not doing this, you assume the other persons in the room at all times and sometimes I think you need to lose someone to remember their value.”

“Without loss there’s no value,” says Shraya.

He also tells the story using Hindu mythology and its “interesting, strange and passionate stories of embodiment...that ended up being an interesting counterpoint to the love story,” said Shraya.

She of the Mountains has thus far been a success, and Shraya says that it is now available in certain parts of the United States. His books, including What I Love About Being Queer and God Loves Hair have also been adopted as textbooks in post-secondary schools across Canada, according to his official website.

On writing a book, Shraya says, “the hardest thing about writing, is writing.” He strongly believes in exercising the “muscle” he describes writing to be, something that can be built up like a bicep through working out.

He tells writers and future writers that finding a daily writing practice is important. Speaking on his own current writing endeavours, Shraya says he has started writing again and keeps a journal for those times when he is not focused on his next book as a way to keep him writing.

With the success of She of the Mountains, readers can be sure to expect nothing but quality writing from him in the future.

This recipe was provided by Wai Mei Wong a student in the culinary skills chef training program.

PHOTO: ZACHARY AYOTTE

Peel off the skin of the pears, and cut them in half lengthwise. Using a melon baller or teaspoon-sized measuring spoon, remove their cores and stems.

In a large, shallow, non-stick pan, add the pears with the flat surfaces face down.

Add water, brown sugar, vanilla paste, spices, and lemon juice.

Bring it to a boil over high heat.

Reduce the heat to simmer, letting it cook until the liquid reduces by half.

Gently turn over each pear with a spatula, and let them cook until the liquid reduces by half again.

Turn off the heat and transfer the pears and the syrup into a bowl. Allow the pears and syrup to cool completely.

To store, you can place the pears with the syrup in a mason jar or any clean glass container. The pears can be kept for up to six months in the fridge.

PHOTO: WAI MEI WONG

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LOVE & SEX Trying to figure out a resolution for 2015?

Try these five sex resolutions for a better sex life this year ANEESA MUSTAPHA The start of every year is the perfect time to make a resolution, whether it be shedding extra weight, kicking an old habit or trying something new for the first time.

Most people don’t think about their sex lives when making their new year resolutions, but these resolutions can help spice up your sex life and hopefully have you stick to them for longer than a month.

Be more adventurous This could mean anything, whether it’s incorporating new toys, new outfits or new positions into the mix. Spice things up and get you and your partner out of that standard, boring missionary sex routine you have late at night when you’re both too tired.

Act out a fantasy We all have fantasies. Maybe it’s something you saw while watching porn, some weird kinky role playing or doing it in a new location, in public maybe?

Make a conscious effort to try one of your fantasies every so often. Don’t forget to be open-minded.

Go Wild You’re only young once, so what’s a better time to create crazy sex stories that you’ll be telling to your buddies when you’re old and grey? This could be anything from threesomes to orgies or sex parties and strip clubs. You’re young, you’re hot and you have the energy for it now.

Have Better Sex Don’t just have more sex, have better sex this year. Make time to have sex, communicate with your partner about your likes and dislikes, and make sure it’s spontaneous.

Maybe you’d be able to skip going to the gym as one of your resolutions if you had more sex. It is cardio, after all!

Get Tested It’s something we all know we’re supposed to do but it so often is forgotten. Make it a date for you and your partner to go get tested together this year, and don’t forget to use condoms even if you’re in a relationship.

Protect yourself from STIs. It’s time to stop making excuses and embrace a super sex life. If you’re single or in a relationship, move intimacy to the top of your list for resolutions this year.

Sex is a great way to burn calories, it doesn’t cost a cent and it’s a lot of fun.

It’s the ultimate resolution for 2015.

The sex resolutions in this article are intended to be fun and done in safe ways. In no way are they intending to promote dangerous, risky, or thoughtless behaviour.

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