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Tanzanian President visits U of G

Leggings in Iran

With the election of Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, many hoped that campaign promises of moderation would usher in a new era of tolerance, especially with respect to women’s rights.

But a divisive new fashion trend appears to be quite literally stretching the limits of the conservative ideal.

Tehran’s morality police have taken to picking up women wearing leggings, which are typically worn so as to peek through long coats. Given that the skin is still covered, women argue that they are satisfying the criteria of “good hijab;” though many see the fashion as a step too far.

According to The Economist, conservative websites have poured scorn on this latest “cultural onslaught” from the West.

One warns against a “lustful atmosphere” infecting society.

Leggings, it is said, have led to a “violation of the mental and physiological peace” of Iran’s youth. “Under these circumstances I do not think that even old men can maintain their moral health.”

A Facebook page called “I hate leggings” has attracted some 3,000 likes, but, perhaps as an indication of where the court of public opinion lies on this matter, a rival page called “I love leggings” has over 112,000.

High-Speed Rail in China

Just five-years after China opened its high-speed rail system, high-speed trains now carry twice as many passengers as China’s domestic airline industry. The rapid expansion of rail service in China is credited by many for helping to sustain the country’s dramatic rate of economic growth.

China has succeeded in keeping rail fares low for blue-collar workers; and businessmen are attracted to the speed at which they, and their clients, are able to move across the country.

“We always used to have go down south to Guangzhou to meet with European clients, but now they come up to Changsha more often,” Hwang Yin, a sales executive, told The New York Times.

Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang has publicly endorsed further expansion of the 5,900mile high-speed rail. He said the country would invest $100 billion a year in its train system for years to come.

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President Kikwete received honourary degree and spoke about agricultural initiatives Namrata Tilokani

Crowds of students, teachers and faculty gathered inside War Memorial Hall just before 4 p.m. on Friday Sept. 20 to catch a glimpse of the President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete, and his first lady Salma Kikwete. The Tanzanian President was greeted with a traditional procession on the red carpet, followed by the Tanzanian national anthem.

Kikwete, who received an honour for his work as a humanitarian and a politician, declared at the end of his speech that “if [he] could make the lives of those in Tanzania better, then [his] work had been completed.” The statement was followed by applause, upon which he addressed questions from the crowd regarding food and agricultural production.

President Kikwete devoted much time to addressing food security and agricultural issues in Tanzania. For the most part, farmers this country do not have access to high yielding seeds, of which only 25 per cent of which are produced domestically. In addition to seed usage, limited use of fertilizers affects both the viability and the affordability of agriculture. Combine this with a limited use of pesticides and not enough support resources, and the agricultural sector suddenly becomes vulnerable and in need of a rapid transformation.

“The food situation is precarious despite the potential of having a surplus,” said Kikwete after he finished addressing the need for

PHOTO BY NAMRATA TILOKANI

Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete speaks about his country’s agricultural development to a full house inside War Memorial Hall. The president was in town to receive an honourary degree from the university. an agricultural transformation.

While Tanzania is a country of potential, there are certain longstanding problems, such as the underutilization of the private sector, that leave the country falling short. While addressing the private sector, Kikwete informed the crowd that “there was minimal involvement of the private sector, even in instances where the private sector was better.”

While food security is an issue, Kikwete was keen to discuss

solutions to these problems that his government is working on implementing. Among these are subsidy programs for small-scale farmers, an incentive for the private sector to produce seeds domestically, a project to bring electricity to rural areas, an initiative to develop infrastructure for roads, and a revitalization of agricultural research. Additionally, 300 research scientists have been trained and equipment has been purchased for their benefit.

President Kikwete, who favourably spoke of the University of Guelph as a “powerhouse,” will be connecting with the Guelph East Africa Institute, which is to be located in Tanzania. The institute, which is predicted to bring together faculty, students, NGOs, governmental organizations, and businesses alike, will be supporting research in various fields such as nutrition, food security, health, sanitation, and genderbased issues in East Africa.

CUPE 1334 negotiations on last leg

Contract renewal negotiations warn of impending strike Kelsey Coughlin

Negotiations between the University of Guelph and Local 1334 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is causing a stir as the deadline for a collective agreement is fast approaching.

The union has been in negotiations with the university since last spring and, as of their most recent meeting on Sept. 11, has not reached even a tentative agreement. This was despite the university’s offer of a wage increase and steps to sustain the university’s pension plan without effecting core pension benefits already in place.

As a result of the lack of

consensus, the university requested a ‘no board’ report from the Ministry of Labour, which now means that CUPE 1334, which represents approximately 235 trades, custodial, and maintenance workers, could be in a legal strike position as of 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 3.

Charles Cunningham, Assistant Vice-President of Communications and Public Affairs, explained that “in the event of a strike, plans are being developed to minimize the risk of significant interruptions to operations, and the university will remain open and all classes will proceed as scheduled.”

The negotiations are coming at a time when the university is dealing with a projected $32 million operating shortfall. Cunningham cautioned that the university is doing everything in its power

to reduce the risk to jobs and that “contrary to misinformation [I have] seen, the university has no intention of locking out employees.”

However, not everyone is as convinced that the contract with CUPE 1334 will go over smoothly.

Janice Folk-Dawson, President of CUPE 1334, stated that, “[our] intention is to remain at the table as long as necessary to achieve a collective agreement that is fair to all parties and that protects quality post-secondary education at the university.”

According to union representatives, heavy workloads caused by the university’s refusal to fill vacant positions and employment security remain key issues.

Further negotiations are scheduled to take place with a provincially appointed mediator on Oct. 1. The outcome of

this mediation will likely dictate whether a strike is a plausible course of action.

As Folk-Dawson pointed out, “[our] members will not be intimidated into accepting a contract that harms quality postsecondary education and decent jobs that are so vital to making Guelph a great place to live.”

At the same time, the University of Guelph is focusing on achieving a fair and reasonable negotiated agreement, recognizing the contributions of employees while taking into consideration the significant short and long-term fiscal challenges currently being faced.

The University is maintaining the stance that, if a strike were to occur, students would face minimal disruption. The Guelph community will be updated on the status of negotiations as details become available in early October.

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Branion Plaza officially reopened

U of G and United Way use occasion to kick-off charity drive Michael Long

On the afternoon of Sept. 24, the newly redesigned Branion Plaza was put to good use by kicking-off the annual University of Guelph United Way Campaign. University President Alastair Summerlee was on hand to reveal the target for this year. The goal, this year, is “a very, very aggressive” $590,000, announced Summerlee.

Members of the United Way were in attendance selling hot dogs, a band was playing on the new stage-cumseating area, and students watched as members of the planning committee charged through a banner to “formally” begin the campaign.

Branion Plaza, the courtyard in front of the University Centre, has been under construction since the beginning of the school year. Its redesign features a large, ovalshaped open space where students can congregate, surrounded by short concrete walls intended for seating. The bicycle racks have

been relocated to improve drainage at the base of the hill, and a grassy knoll has been constructed in front of Old Jeremiah.

The redesign was intended to be as economical as possible, both in terms of cost and construction.

“You know, this site is about the size of the one in front of City Hall and it cost four per cent of the project in front of City Hall,” said Don O’Leary, Vice-President of Finance and Administration.

“That speaks to how people really worked to make sure that every dollar is spent really diligently.”

The cost of the renovation was just over $300,000.

Maurice Nelischer, professor emeritus in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, undertook the redesign of the plaza, and spearheaded the project along with members from Physical Resources. He was pleased to see that people were already beginning to make the space their own.

“The design isn’t important, so much as it’s a place for people to make the design wonderful and beautiful,” said Nelischer.

“We’ll be doing a couple of other areas over the next few months,”

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Alastair Summerlee (centre) and members of the Guelph United Way ceremoniously break through the banner used to reveal the fundraising target for the university’s annual United Way campaign. The target this year is $590,000. added O’Leary. “The fiftieth anniversary is coming up and we want to have this place looking really great for next spring.”

Other anniversary-related projects include a pathway spanning Johnston Green, a new welcome sign/green space by the Gordon-Stone Road intersection, and a refresh of the space in front

of War Memorial Hall.

With its subtle, albeit rather clever design – there are, for example, power outlets embedded in the concrete seating, which has itself been specially coated to protect it from reckless painters – the redesign went over well with students.

“I think it’s absolutely gorgeous,” said Victoria Coles, a

studio art major. “I love the little seating area. I just think its great.”

“It’s definitely different,” said Stephanie Bysma, an applied human nutrition major. “Guelph has a lot of really diverse people and it’s kind of cool just sit and peoplewatch and get to talk to people you don’t normally talk to. It’s a lot better for that kind of thing.”

The art of simple living University of Guelph grad designs and constructs container home in downtown Guelph Ryan Matheson This is a story about the joys of simplicity, about wanting less, not more.

Since childhood, and especially through adolescence, most of us are primed to strive for more than our material needs, never allowing ourselves to wonder whether all of these things we acquire will really lead us to a higher, happier existence, and never allowing ourselves to think that we already have enough. After years of following this overindulgent doctrine, many come to realize that it is not truly leading to a significant, sustainable increase in happiness.

Breaking free from this cycle of consumption can be daunting, but is not impossible.

Christoph Kesting, a 32-year old University of Guelph grad, has invested the better part of the past six years of his life advocating simple living. Kesting’s most recent project is a shipping container nestled behind the community workshop, DIYode Makers Club, on Wyndham Street, south of Wellington in Guelph. Kesting purchased the container in Kitchener/Waterloo for the reasonable price of $1,500 but has since invested a considerable amount more in time and energy. The container is 20 feet long by 8 feet wide, and now houses what Kesting believes are all the necessary amenities for life in our modern world. The home is solar-powered and can easily be equipped with power outlets for appliances, charging phones or running laptop computers.

Other features include a composting

toilet with a urine-diversion system, recycled insulation which surpasses city code, a full second storey with living space, a green-roof patio and a Rocket Mass heater.

Heating even a small space like the container home can be a challenge, but Kesting stands by his choice to use the 6,000 pound Rocket Mass thermal heating system.

“It’s the most efficient way to go. It uses the least amount of wood, and since it’s so hyperefficient it burns off all the smoke,” said Kesting. The heater is made of Cobb, a mixture of clay, sand, straw and water, doubles as a self-warming bench/bed, is equipped with a stovetop, is about four to five times more efficient than a conventional wood-burning heater and creates almost zero exhaust.

Apart from a few naturally inspired design elements such as Georgian Bay rocks, and faux-support Birch trees, there are very few unnecessary features in the home.

However, as in all projects, there are some things that Kesting said he would do differently if he were to begin the process over again. Generally he says, “I would make it simpler.” One thing he would not change about this particular home is the location.

“Downtown Guelph has been really important because it has furthered the conversation on [the container home]. That’s what it’s about. It’s not about a box, or me having something that I can sell, it’s about the idea – the idea of simple living,” said Kesting.

Guelph bylaws require Kesting to remove the container home from city property by Sept. 27 and, as of now, there are no plans for its future. Kesting is not bitter about this nor does he blame the city. For him it was about the journey, and getting his message across. He is still excited for the next step, whatever that may be.

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Guelph professor receives $2.5M grant

Braeden Etienne

In the past few weeks, University of Guelph English professor Ajay Heble has launched the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation.

The initiative is a new research institute at the university that is backed by a generous 2.5 million dollar grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The institute was launched during Guelph’s Jazz Festival with a “World Percussion Summit,” and was representative of what the initiative hopes to achieve; the use of improvisation as an agent for bringing different cultural and musical experiences together to create cross-cultural communication, creativity, and understanding.

Heble’s interest in improvisation stems from a longstanding involvement with the Guelph Jazz Festival as its founder and artistic director of 25 years. Heble was interested in the way that performers from different cultures and countries who didn’t even speak a common language, or prearrange any musical direction, were able to come together and make music. “There’s something going on in that moment

when musicians improvise,” says Heble; “There are lessons to be learned here, lessons on how best we can get along in a globalized world…In an era when diverse peoples and communities of interest struggle to forge historically new forms of affiliation across cultural divides, it seems to me that the civic and participatory virtues of dialogue, respect, engagement and trust that get inculcated through improvisation take on a real urgency.”

Heble is entering the last year of an equally generous seven-year SSHRC grant that funded Heble’s Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice program (ICASP).

ICASP has been working closely with communities in Guelph and across Canada using musical improvisation as a tool for developing transcultural understanding, as well as the understanding of pedagogy, media, and a range of social dynamics, politics and aesthetics.

ICASP has also played a role in the implementation of improvisation programs for marginalized and atrisk youth across Canada, and has trained the equivalent of two hundred graduate students through such programs. ICASP has also been able to publish its own peerreviewed journal and a book series

on the innovative research.

Through the Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation research initiative (which will be headquartered here at Guelph), Heble’s research team aims to expand on the work that’s already been done through ICASP. Heble’s new institute was ranked number one among peer reviewers, and was one of 20 grants awarded nationwide by the SSHRC. The awarding of a second grant is perhaps representative of both the faith and respect that Heble’s research has garnered in both academic and local communities.

With the new institute, Heble hopes to develop new graduate

programs for studies in musical improvisation (other schools involved include McGill, UBC, Memorial, and The University of Regina), which will be the first programs of their kind and will hopefully build some sustainability within the program. The new initiative is marked by a large range of institutional and community partners with a wide range of expertise in different areas. Heble’s new project has researchers with expertise on theatre, drama, dance and law, and even includes a surgeon.

“Music was a point of departure,” says Heble, this increased range of knowledge will allow for

“more opportunities for research to move in new directions.”

The new initiative will focus around three main areas of research: practice-based research, which focuses on an artist’s performance as a type of research; the creation of experimental technology and media, such as technology that would allow people with limited mobility to play music; and community and social practice, which uses improvisation to inspire social change. “What we’re doing is unique in the world. We’ve propelled Guelph into a world centre for improvisational music as a form of social practice – an engine for change.”

PHOTO BY THOMAS KING

The project team from the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) stands for a photo. The group, which recently received a $2.5m grant from the SSHRC, was founded by the University of Guelph’s Ajay Heble.

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Project Safe Semester enters 2 year nd

Crime stats reveal that project is finding success Kimberly Northcote

Those who have been downtown on weekend nights may have noticed some changes.

From 11 p.m. onward, Macdonell Street and part of Wyndham Street are closed to traffic as part of Guelph’s Safe Semester Project. This project has been implemented to handle the most common problems that occur in busy areas of downtown, as well as neighbourhoods with a high proportion of students.

The Macdonnell and Wyndham intersection has been closed to vehicles in order to reduce the number of pedestrians and cars in one area. Portable washrooms have been added to Guelph Central Station and the parking lot on Macdonell Street in an effort to decrease the instances of public urination, and a taxi stand has been placed on the Carden Street and Macdonell intersection. The Guelph Fire Department and the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario have also been involved; ensuring bars are following the code

for maximum capacities and fire safety regulations.

The Safe Semester Project is intended to be proactive rather than reactive, and by aiming to prevent violations it has the potential to save money and time spent on administration of fines.

As the project nears the end of its second year, the Guelph Police Service has released statistics comparing the number of incidents reported in 2012 and 2013. The evidence suggests a decrease in incidences of almost all offences since the projects implementation. The offences measured include various types of property damage, public urination, assaults, noise disturbances, impaired driving, intoxicated persons taken into custody, and liquor complaints.

One of the few noticeable increases was under the category of liquor complaints for licensed and non-licensed establishments and a significant increase in noise complaints during one week, which went up from 48 to 101 in 2013. This could reflect an increased willingness to report noise complaints to the police, or it

PHOTO BY WENDY SHEPHERD

As the Safe Semester Projects nears the end of its second year, new statistics released by the Guelph Police Service suggest that the program may be responsible for a sharp decrease in most nightlife-related crime. could imply that noise is more of an issue this year than last.

To follow long-term trends, students can stay up to date by

checking the City of Guelph website. While the project has aspects that may seem extreme at first glance, early results

appear to indicate that the program is making an important difference in the safety and well being of the Guelph population.

Ontario government wants universities to specialize

Schools are being forced to specialize in programs and the impact on the University of Guelph Gagan Batra

Recently, the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities has taken up a new initiative to reform post-secondary education. In a Globe and Mail article titled “Specialize or risk losing funding, Ontario tells universities and colleges,” James Bradshaw writes that Ontario’s government is pressuring post-secondary schools to better manage their resources by pushing for schools to choose specific programs to focus on or specialize in. The premise behind these changes is that there is less need for two institutions in the same region to provide the same courses when it is sufficient for just one to do so.

Bradshaw reports that Ontario is trying to get out of its record deficit, and without these efforts to differentiate schools, the sustainability of post-secondary education would be at risk. These reforms would give the government more control over the way colleges and universities operate. While the institutions would ultimately have freedom over their courses, the province would have greater influence in terms of funding, allocation of extra student spaces, and approval for new programs.

The drive for these changes is mostly financial, but they are also meant to raise competitiveness between schools and boost their quality. This initiative is intended to give colleges and universities the opportunity to be autonomous, and choose their identities. Laurentian University in Sudbury is an example of a school that has already implemented some of these changes by

choosing to focus on nine areas between mining innovation and northern children’s health.

Other institutions may be more susceptible to negative impact from the directive, but it creates opportunities for this institution.

- Dr. Rene Van Acker, Associate Dean of External Relations for the Ontario Agricultural College

There is, of course, some concern related to the specialization of post-secondary institutions.

Dr. Max Blouw, president of Wilfred Laurier University and chair of the Council of Ontario Universities, warns against schools allowing their “histories to

become their destinies.”

However, the University of Guelph is unusual given that it is already quite specialized – in agriculture specifically. Dr. Rene Van Acker, Associate Dean of External Relations for the Ontario Agricultural College, explained why U of G will likely not fall victim to any of the negative effects of the proposed change.

“The University of Guelph recognizes [its] strength in food and agriculture and the long tradition,” said Dr. Van Acker. When asked whether this proposed change might be positive or negative in the long run, Dr. Van Acker explained that there is no way of predicting the effects these changes will have on the university, but since the university is already somewhat differentiated, it is perhaps a model of where the government would want other universities to go.

“Other institutions may be more susceptible to negative impact from

the directive, but it creates opportunities for this institution.”

When asked whether or not he has noticed any of these efforts being put into action, Dr. Van Acker stated: “The intention of the provost office is to have informed planning…The key thing is to have an informed planning process, and that’s what the provost set up so we have as much information as possible.”

In terms of the actual steps that have been taken to put this new initiative into action, Dr. Van Acker said there was assurance that “any evolution will be considered evolution and not ad hoc or radical.”

While there is less concern for the University of Guelph, there may still be serious impacts on schools that are less differentiated. Where the autonomy of colleges and universities are concerned, they have some difficult choices to make about the future of their institutions.

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The Happy Making Project

Jessica Avolio

Improvising music, without any regard for the general rules or on the capability of the musician involved, can induce happiness according to the Guelph “Happy Making Project.”

This project is based within the Guelph community and includes the positioning of many pianos throughout the city. The idea matured due to a collaboration between Coun. Ian Findlay and the Downtown Guelph Business Association, after Findlay had a positive experience when placing a piano outside his office on Baker Street.

What pushed this project to actualization was the hypothesis that coming across a piano in public and engaging with it would induce emotions of happiness.

The idea may seem silly, but perhaps many would agree that they experienced their own positive outcome after sitting down at one of these pianos. But is there science to back up the idea that happiness can result from impromptu piano playing?

“Flow” is defined as the experience of a person performing who becomes fully immersed in a feeling

of energized focus, involvement and enjoyment of the activity at hand.

A study conducted on the “flow” of piano playing found that pianists who played enough piano to induce a state of “flow” actually showed decreased heart rate, decreased blood pressure, and experienced an overall relaxation of the body, especially in the major facial muscles. Physically, playing piano had the ability to alter one’s self in a positive way.

A study completed by the School of Psychology at Keele University had shown that, on the emotional side, playing music could evoke a state of authentic happiness.

These researchers found that live or unexpected musical events correlated with strong experiences in university students. In a study titled “Music therapy for depression,” researchers noticed that music made others more willing to engage in an activity giving them an increased social, pleasurable and meaningful experience.

Not only could playing piano, or music in general, evoke an increased sense of positivity in both body and mind, but the act of taking part in a low-challenge situation that was surpassed by skill was also

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PHOTO BY WENDY SHEPHERD

Guelph’s “Happy Making Project” featured several donated pianos which were scattered across the community throughout the month of September. This interactive project invited those who would pass by to take part in improvised music in hopes of leaving them with a bit of happiness. associated by feelings of enjoyment, relaxation and happiness, as demonstrated in a study conducted by the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

So when Guelphites pass by these pianos and decide to freely improvise with music, they place more emphasis on their mood over the technicalities of melody,

harmony and rhythm.

The power of music and improvisation to evoke a state of happiness is clear when examining people’s reaction to the project and when examining studies on this subject.

But once these pianos are gone at the end of September, how else will Guelph residents cope? As

residents of the community, we should seize the opportunity to create improvisational music on our own in the streets of Guelph, because as demonstrated by this project, the happiness is infectious.

The Happy Making Project will run throughout the month of September and is planned to be an annual occurrence in Guelph.

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A to Zavitz

Balmore Gamez

From Sept. 16 to Sept. 20, Zavitz gallery held the exhibition Architectonic by Jazmyn Pettigrew. The exhibition illustrated a conversation between modern architecture and spatial and sculptural photography. Abstract folds were created within each photograph to negotiate the terrain between fiction and representation, illusion and abstraction.

The exhibition invited the viewer to look deeper into the images as the works extended traditional photographs beyond their two-dimensional surfaces to provide the audience with a different experience of photography in art.

Each photograph is abstracted through folding, mirroring and cutting in order to visually alter the essence of time. Pettigrew used the elements that existed within architecture to create three-dimensional illustrations in photographs. They offered a natural presence and view to an image that is traditionally viewed as two-dimensional. The works came to life through the use of the folds, chosen by curvature and lines that already existed, to emphasize the positive and negative space.

When you entered the gallery space, you were faced with two images on the back wall. The image on the left represented a reference to architecture of buildings, where each fold was carefully made to distinctly separate each floor from one another. The image on the right, titled Waterfall, was a photograph of the outer infrastructure of the Guelph University’s water tower.

In this image, Pettigrew reemphasized the structure by

creating folds in the areas where the metal was already folded.

The wall on the left held two untitled works, each placed distinctly in their position. On the corner of the wall, a photograph of the underside structure of an unfinished bridge laid on the floor with a mirror held against it. The image provided a strong presence of the mass and complex architecture involved in the design. The use of perspective elevated the relation of space and the structure. The image on the right side of the wall contained many folds and produced no particular clear image, but took the form of blinds in a mix of mediums such as sculpture and photography.

The image in the corner was a more extreme photographic piece of underneath a bridge, and here Pettigrew manipulated positive and negative folds. The shape progressed with each fold and allowed for the entire photograph to become more abstract.

The other piece was subtler with a more elegant soft fold. The image content was a curved highway road covered in snow with a cold dark blue sky and fold in the bottom right corner that was symmetrical to the direction of the road – all in harmony with one another.

“I’ve always been drawn to large scale architecture and repetitive forms within architecture,” Said Pettigrew, “So I think it was that aesthetic appeal that I can see before taking the photograph and I wanted to manipulate the image that I had in my mind.”

Pettigrew will be continuing this exploration of the dialogue between modern architecture and spatial and sculptural photography throughout the upcoming semester.

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PHOTO BY FRANCISCO GAMEZ

Architectonic by Jazmyn Pettigrew focused on the relation between modern architecture and photography, featuring photos that were folded and distorted to occupy three-dimensional space.

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Poetry slam at eBar Adrien Potvin Downtown Guelph’s eBar hosted Guelph Spoken Word’s September edition of their poetry slam on Saturday night. A celebration of words, theatrics and social progression, a number of local poets performed their work competing for a $100 prize, and as is custom for the Guelph Poetry Slam, the night featured a special guest performance (this night’s being The P.O.E., or Politically Oriented Entity).

Poets were judged on a number scale from 1 to 10, and their totals were added at the end of each of two rounds, with the highest and lowest scores dropped to give a score out of 30 per round. Judges were randomly selected audience volunteers who judged according to the rules – no props, instruments or musical accompaniment, and only three minutes to perform, having half a point deducted for every ten seconds over the time limit. Poets were judged

by the quality of their words and rhythms, but also on a level of audience engagement and emotional depth – be it through witty rhyme schemes or striking personal stories.

An open mic started the evening, with many of the rules waived for a free and open performance. True opened with a strange and integrative performance art piece, and followed with a lo-fi and heartfelt acoustic set.

Following these performers, the amiable and energetic host Livingston LaCroix started the competition proper by reiterating the rules and doing a reading as the “sacrificial poet” to calibrate the judges. Eight poets – Beth-Anne Fisher, Zubin Gandhi, Tommy Buick, Fannon, Bassam, M-Phatic G, Dan (a.k.a. Dan Murray a.k.a. Dan) and Athena – performed, and four would go on to the slam’s second round.

The poet’s stories told through finely tuned cadence and electrifying rhythms, covered a breadth of material from

Lebanese apartheid to high school cruelty and the hypocrisies of “white guilt.”

The night’s featured poet, The P.O.E., performed five works as an intermission between the two rounds. Currently touring the area, P.O.E. performed one “dad” piece for each stop on the tour, the material being a harrowing portrait of parental abuse. Another feature of this set was a humorous but powerful recount of his boss calling the work “a little poem,” a statement to which was retorted with guileful wordplay and intense delivery.

The four finalists of the second round competed following a short break, and the last performance of the evening consisted of an exciting team piece about falsely romanticized heroism

by Tommy Buick and Bassam.

In closing, Lacroix announced the finalists in order – Bassam in 4 th place, Tommy Buick in 3 rd, Dan (a.k.a. Dan Murray a.k.a.

Dan) in 2 nd, and Fannon placing 1st and winning the $100 prize.

Jenn Grant and Jim Bryson

Above The Bookshelf Jonathan Webster

At 10 p.m. on Thursday Sept.

19, the eBar was filled to the brim with anticipation. The lights were dim; couples young and old occupied the booths lining the walls of the bar. The floor in front of the main stage was cleared, and the atmosphere felt thick with raw emotion.

At quarter after ten, Jim Bryson took the stage wearing a checkered shirt and baseball cap. Bryson succeeded in charming the crowd with heartfelt tunes and playful anecdotes. At one point Bryson encouraged the crowd to come closer to the stage and sit on the floor, and at another called his friend’s daughter onto the stage to help him play a song. Jim finished his set list with a stunning folk cover of Jay-Z’s song “Holy Grail.”

Jenn Grant came on stage at

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quarter after eleven, accompanied by her band including Jim Bryson on acoustic guitar. Grant’s sound had an extravagant mix of folk and rock sensibilities, and managed to completely and utterly energize the crowd. Grant played a few old songs and three new songs with the band before they set down their instruments and then continued the rest of the set solo.

The evening had an electric atmosphere, as anyone that attended the show could attest.

PHOTO BY CLARE WARK

eBar hosted Guelph Spoken Word poetry slam last Saturday night, which included vibrant and powerfully moving performances. The photo above is of the night’s second place winner, Dan Murray.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: DIDN’T IT RAIN

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Jim Bryson opened for the remarkably talented Jenn Grant, who provided an evening filled with an electric atmosphere at eBar. Grant brought a mixture of folk and rock to the stage.

Hugh Laurie’s Didn’t it Rain is a jazz/blues mix, and the byproduct of an already famous man, better known as Dr. House from the TV show “House”, playing music just for the hell of playing music. His 14-track album is mostly reinterpretations of classic blues tracks of the past with a unique Laurie spin to them. The British actor/musician does a kick-ass job submersing himself into a genre that, growing up in Oxford, England, he should know very little about (a few Rolling Stones songs notwithstanding). He does the blues justice and if you’re looking for a funky mix of guitars, harmonicas, drums and saxophones, this album is for you.

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Bring on the Borscht

Rachel Kopacki

While most students were celebrating homecoming this past Saturday afternoon, the borschtloving community was packed into the basement of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church on York Road. People were gathered for the annual ‘Mama’s Borscht Festival’ to take in the cultural experience of Ukrainian food, dance and entertainment.

For those of you who don’t know, borscht is a traditional Ukrainian soup consisting mainly of beetroot and a variety of other vegetables.

This deep-red soup may look startling to those unfamiliar with it, but it is super delicious, hitting the spot with the sweetness of beets.

It tastes best with a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkle of dill.

At the festival you could enjoy perohy, schnitzel, and a variety of Ukrainian treats, as well as borscht. While enjoying your meal, you could watch dancing, instrumental acts, and even a set by the celebrity comedian Luba Goy. There was quite the buzz going around the festival for the

arrival of Luba. As one of Canada’s most famous Ukrainians, it was quite exciting that this Royal Canadian Air Farce star was to make an appearance at the festival. She was even given the privilege to judge the ‘Borscht Contest.’

Members of the community had the chance to make their very own batch of borscht and submit it into the festival’s borscht contest. A table was filled with slow cookers of different variations of borscht lined up for tasting. For a mere two dollars, the public had the chance to try each different batch of borscht, and then vote for their favourite batch. From the vegan borscht to the hearty winter borscht, none of the soups disappointed and it was hard to make a final decision.

This contest gave the community a chance to swap recipes and to enjoy tradition and heritage.

As you left the festival, you were warm not only from the soup but from the hearty experience. If you weren’t able to catch the festival this year, get excited to come next year. And as it is beet season, pick up some beets and try making some soup for yourself!

STYLE PICK OF THE WEEK: JESSICA T.

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Community members gathered to enjoy borscht, a traditional Ukrainian beet soup, in St.Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church on York Road.

Book Review:

A House in the Sky

A book by Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbet Andrea Connell

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Jessica’s outfit showed how to make a patterned dress transition from summer into fall. By accessorizing properly, a light weighted dress looks appropriate for autumn weather. Jessica has paired the dress with a pair of military inspired boots and dark tights, which gives a dramatic element to a delicate piece.

Canadian Amanda Lindhout didn’t expect to be taken hostage and held for ransom on the fourth day of her journalistic foray into Somalia. But the unimaginable happened and for the next 460 days her fate would be in the hands of a group of male captors, the youngest of which was only 14-years-old. This is harrowing true story of youthful adventure and unbelievable spirit.

A house in the sky was an imaginary place the 27-yearold Amanda would visit in her mind during the toughest times in captivity.

As a child, Amanda devoured National Geographic magazines to escape from a fractious childhood, and soon developed a desire to visit far-off places, maybe even as a journalist.

Amanda eventually visited many places in her adulthood including South America, Laos, India, Syria and Pakistan.

Her travels brought her into

contact with writers and photographers who made it look easy to make a living doing both jobs.

The promise of adventure was so alluring that Amanda decided to try and break into the very competitive field of journalism.

Astonishingly, Amanda made it to war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan, and managed to obtain a job as a television reporter for an Iraqi station.

Arguably, this “stroke of luck” gave her a false sense of bravery and led her to make a grossly irrational decision to fly to Somalia with Nigel Brennan, a photographer, to track down stories. Amanda and Nigel had met in Ethiopia and had been lovers, but it was a shared desire for adventure that kept their friendship alive.

In August of 2008, the two of them landed in a country boiling over with civil war.

Lindhout wrote; “I’d like to say that I hesitated before heading into Somalia, but I didn’t. If anything, my experiences had taught me that while terror and strife hogged the international headlines, there was always – really, truly always – something

more hopeful and humane running alongside it.”

Lindhout wasn’t referring to herself, but ironically it was her who remained hopeful and humane throughout the ordeal.

During her time in captivity Amanda would be beaten, shackled, and tortured, and yet remained unbreakable. As a captive, Nigel didn’t have the best time, but he was treated better than Amanda. The men continually referred to her as “a problem.” One captor even admitted they were supposed to have kidnapped two men, not a woman and a man.

Lindhout’s intelligence and endless amount of personal courage got her through this incredibly difficult time. Her craftiness pushed her to convert to Islam in order to try to understand her kidnappers and negotiate better treatment for herself.

Co-authored with New York Times writer Sara Corbett, the story was not always easy to read, but was beautifully written. A House in the Sky was endlessly hopeful, devoid of hatred and an unbelievable triumph of the human spirit.

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Guelph move to 4-0 after home Torrential downpour didn’t stop players or fans from making most of homecoming festivities

Senior running back, Rob Farquharson, returned from a hamstring injury and in his first game of the year, picked up where he left off averaging 6.6 yards-per-carry.

Andrew Donovan

Calm before the storm: In one of the rare rainless moments of the game, the Gryphon offence lines up against the McMaster defence.

In his 28th year with the Gryphon football program, defensive line coach, Brian Cluff, motivates a defensive line that has produced outstanding numbers early in this 4-0 season.

As I trekked through rain and mud on my way to Varsity Stadium, I could hear the building up of anticipation from the fans inside.

Any premonitions I had that Gryphons fans would stay inside to avoid the incessant rain was quickly dispelled as the bodies with painted faces and craftily cut T-shirts filed into the stadium in typical rowdy homecoming fashion.

Inside, the 6th ranked Guelph Gryphons bested the 9th ranked McMaster Marauders 24-22 after a Marauders pass attempt on a two-point conversion was tipped incomplete, and the remainder of

the 12,000 original fans sang “Na Na Hey Hey” to the 2-3 McMaster side.

The first quarter was relatively uneventful as both evenly matched teams exchanged field goals, making it 3-3 at the end of the first. Scoring picked up in the second though. After a Tyler Crapigna field goal put the Marauders up 6-3, Jazz Lindsey hooked up with go-to receiver Alexander Charette for 27 yards and a score, putting Guelph back into the driver’s seat up 10-6.

The score flipped back in favour of the Marauders with less than a minute left in the first half when Daniel Vandervoort received an 8-yard pass from Marshall Ferguson to bring the score to 13-10 for McMaster.

It was business as usual for the Gryphons defence as they forced a number of two and outs to start the third quarter, and a Taylor Palmer interception gave

Rain is a good thing: Despite the weather, Guelph Jazz Lindsey went 17-for-27 for 173 yards and a rushing touchdown.

Taylor Palmer, 20, was named O interceptions on McMaster quar

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ecoming win versus McMaster Guelph an important field position on the McMaster 9-yard line. Lindsey scrambled around the pocket, avoiding a near sack, and took off on his feet running it in for a major and a 17-13 Gryphon lead.

Palmer, the veteran safety from Niagara Falls, was arguably the biggest nuisance for a potent McMaster offence when he intercepted his second Ferguson pass on the day, setting the Gryphons up at the 47-yard line.

Farquharson added to his 119 total yards with a big run to move the Gryphons deep into McMaster territory. After a couple of passes to Charette and a pass interference call on the Marauders, Farquharson ran the ball in for a one-yard score, his first of the OUA season, putting the Gryphons up 24-13 Though the freshman combo of Bryson Wishloff-Dobush

and Johnny Augustine had provided a very positive outlook for the future of Guelph’s running game, there was no doubting the importance of having the veteran workhorse Farquharson back in the starting lineup for the Gryphons, as he averaged an outstanding 6.6 yards per carry.

The game was far from over though as Crapigna made good on a 43-yard field goal attempt late in the fourth quarter bringing McMaster within eight points of Guelph. Then, as the drama-laden sport of football would have it, the Marauders scored a touchdown on a slew of deep passes to come within two points Guelph. As the collective of Guelph players and fans got loud for the last high drama moments of the game, a Ferguson pass was knocked incomplete.

Guelph got revenge for its 31-13 loss to McMaster in last year’s Yate’s Cup by winning 24-22.

OUA defensive player of the week after he made two rterback Marshall Ferguson

Usual Suspects: Guelph’s top wide-receiver, Alex Charette, and defensive back, Taylor Palmer, both produced big numbers for the Gryphons on Saturday.

Welcome back, Rob: Jakob Piotrowski, 58, and Jeff Finley, 91, showing love for their newly returned running back.

As fans poured into the seats, Gryphon football players poured out of them. The 12,000 fans proved to give the Gryphons the edge they needed for a 24-22 win over McMaster.

Guelph receiver, Alex Charette, catches a 27-yard Jazz Lindsey pass in the end zone.

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Gryphons nationally ranked

Proving size has nothing to do with heart Stephanie Coratti

As of Sept. 20, the University of Guelph had four teams ranked amongst the top ten of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national standings, an accomplishment that ten years ago, would have been unheard of.

Gryphon football was standing strong in sixth place among Canadian universities with a 3-0 record. However a strong homecoming comeback on Sept. 21 versus McMaster gave way to an improved 4-0, putting Guelph just two points behind rival Western in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) division.

In 2005, it was a very different outlook for the red, gold and black. Gryphon football was sixth in the OUA division with just seven points on the season.

Now a force to be reckoned with, the team is coming off their best season yet.

“In [the 2012-13 season] we achieved a best ever Guelph league record of 7 and 1. This result demonstrates we are on the right path, but one year does not qualify as ‘sustained,’” Head Coach Stuart Lang explains of last season’s success, “We are never complacent and we are always looking for ways to improve.”

Men’s soccer mirrors the attitude and success of the football team, as they too have their cleats planted firmly in sixth place of the CIS rankings. Just

four years ago the team was sixth out of eight teams in the OUA division with just 19 points.

This is a big turn around for a squad, as they are now contending amongst the biggest schools in Canada. The University of Montreal, with an undergraduate enrollment of 42,684 is sitting just two spots ahead of the “mid-sized” University of Guelph (undergraduate enrollment of 17,436).

The success continues straight through to Gryphons women’s soccer as they found themselves ranked tenth in Canada. After suffering a loss on Sept. 21, their top ten ranking may slide from their grasp, but still remaining in contention is a huge feat that requires recognition. In 2009, women’s soccer was seventh out

of eight teams in the OUA division with just eight points. Now being in the battle for the top ten in Canada is a huge testament to the continuous development of Gryphon athletics on a whole.

Possibly the biggest accomplishment of them all, women’s rugby was ranked first in all of Canada for the second week in a row. The University of Alberta, with an undergraduate enrollment of 30,460 (13,000 more than the University of Guelph) sits in second. Head coach (and Gryphon rugby alumni) Colette McAuley believes “respect, trust and honesty” to be the upmost important values for a team, while focusing on development and winning.

Tom Kendall, the Director of Athletics at the University of

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Guelph, attests success not to school enrollment size, but to the dedication of those involved. “The current success of our fall sports is a testament to the commitment of the athletes and coaches who prepare thoroughly to compete at the highest level of performance,” Kendall explains, “Everyone feels that they have the opportunity, and the resources to succeed.”

The University of Guelph is competing among some of the biggest names in Canada, and may be viewed as the underdog by some.

No matter the size or historically acclaimed names, Gryphon athletes are thriving and proving they are here to compete. It seems that while some are busy measuring the size of the competition, they often forget to measure the size of the Gryphon heart.

Guelph Storm win 4-3 in OT

Zac Leslie buries overtime winner to start the season off with a win for Guelph Matthew Azevedo

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Defenceman, Ben Harpur, battles for the puck. The Guelph Storm edged the Erie Otters 4-3 in overtime.

GRYPHONS BATTLE THE RAVENS

PHOTO BY PABLO VADONE

Guelph women’s hockey kicked off their first of two home preseason games against the Carleton Ravens. Leigh Shilton, Kelly Gribbons and Jessica Pinkerton scored for the Gryphons.

On a warm and muggy September evening, the Guelph Storm battled right through to overtime, needing a mere thirteen extra seconds to defeat the visiting Erie Otters and start their 2013-14 season with a win. Elated fans were greeted at the exit gates by torrential rain and lightning, perhaps Mother Nature’s own celebration of a hard fought victory over a strong Erie side.

Playing for a near capacity crowd, the first ten minutes saw each skater attack the play with the hunger that only a summer away from the game can bring.

Bodies leapt and lunged, collided and careened around the ice with a reckless abandon. Each side scored two goals and a slew of penalties in the first period, with flashes of brilliance from Guelph’s left-winger Brock McGinn and defenseman Zac Leslie.

Erie’s Stephen Harper opened the scoring four and half minutes into the game with an aggressive forecheck that forced a loose puck, which he quickly sent under the pads and into the back of the net of Storm starting goalie Justin Nichols. After a quick fight (Guelph’s Justin Augur connected on a few, but lost to Dane Fox), Guelph stormed back with a Robby Fabri in tight rebound in the top corner, blocker side. Reclaiming the lead, Erie’s Michael Curtis delivered

an untidy rebound to the back of the net off a power-play performance typifying the game’s divide in special teams play. Though Erie controlled most of the first period, Guelph hung on through sheer will and reeled the Otters in with a 4-on-4 and a shot that eluded Erie goaltender Oscar Dansk in the dying seconds of the first.

It was an energetic first period that pitted Guelph`s free flowing, if slightly sloppy, counter-attack offense against a polished Erie attack. More than a few Guelph defensive zone turnovers left fans gasping in exasperation, but the intermission seemed to help settle nerves. This was the Storm debut for second-year starting goaltender Justin Nichols who was recently acquired from the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds for a third round draft pick, as well as for rookies Adam Craievich (RW), Garrett McFadden (D) and Swiss International Pius Suter (C).

After a decent first period, Nichols finished the game admirably, keeping Guelph in the game with more than a few key saves. Nichols almost held Erie scoreless for the rest of the game, but the Otters snuck in yet another goahead goal with minutes left in the second period. As penalties continued to pile on throughout the game, Guelph’s power play finally clicked on a beautiful Tyler Bertuzzi one-time slap shot that found mesh halfway through the third. It was the spark Guelph needed to kick their game into a final gear, pressing hard to the end of the third. Riding a wave of momentum, Zac Leslie’s overtime goal sealed the deal on a hard fought Storm win.

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Men win 5-1 while women lose 2-1 to Ridgebacks Andrew Donovan

Guelph’s men’s soccer team has certainly made their mark on the OUA this season as the Gryphons dominated the University of Ontario Institute of Technology 5-1 on Saturday, despite surrendering the first goal of the game.

Unfortunately, for the women’s

side, the Ridgebacks proved to be much improved from years past as they defeated the women’s team by a goal. Guelph’s women side have now dropped their past two of three games, placing them third of three teams holding 15 points atop the OUA West standings.

On the men’s side of the ball, it was all Gryphons after surrendering an early 18th mintue goal off a free kick for the Ridgebacks.

Despite controlling the ball for a good majority of the first half, a

goal did not come for the Gryphons until the 35th minute mark when Justin Springer headed Paul Manchisi’s cross for his first goal of the campaign. It wasn’t long after that Robert Murphy, Guelph’s leading scorer and the second leading scorer in the OUA, buried a free kick from just outside the box to put Guelph up 2-1 going into half.

It was much of the same from the men’s side in the second half as Murphy added two more in minute

71st and 90th minute to complete his hat-trick, while Tim Flynn scored a header in minute 86:00 for his third goal of the season.

For the women, their bright spot came early in the first half as Gryphon midfielder Courtney Whiteside opened the scoring on a kick from just outside the box.

Shortly thereafter, the Ridgebacks caught a break when the Gryphons got penalized for a handball in the box. UOIT made good on their penalty kick and the score was

tied. The loss keeps the Gryphons strong at 15 points on the season but unfortunately with a goal differential of only four. Guelph sits third behind Western and Laurier, who each have 15 points as well.

The men also sit third in their division behind York, 21 points, and McMaster, 19 points, through eight games.

Both the men and women will host the Waterloo Warriors on Wednesday who, interestingly enough, have not won a game in either league.

Welcome the fall without falling ill

Tips to avoid getting sick at school Katherine Chabot

With October approaching, it can be pretty exciting trying to decide what giant wool sweater you are going to be wearing for the next month, the amount of hot chocolate and coffee you plan on consuming, or what costume you want to wear for Halloween. However, another important issue you should start to consider and prepare for is how you can avoid getting sick, and how you can also prevent everyone else from

catching your germs as well.

Maintaining a healthy, balanced lifestyle is a challenge for everyone, and even more of a challenge for new students living in close proximity of a lot of people within their dorm rooms. Here are five things you should keep in mind: Wash Your Hands. This is the most obvious tip, however it is always the most effective. Washing your hands after using the washroom goes without saying, so start to consider increasing your good hygiene a step further than this. Leave a bottle of hand sanitizer in your backpack or purse, and make an effort to use it after touching common surfaces

and before you eat.

Avoid Touching Peoples Devices as much as Possible. When was the last time you cleaned your cell phone, or your keyboard on your laptop? If it has been more than a month, you should start to consider making this a regular habit.

It might seem harmless to bring your phone into the public washroom or let all your friends look through your pictures, but it is increasing your chances of getting sick. Start to become consciously aware of how dirty your, and everyone else’s, belongings are.

Avoid Sharing Drinks and Food.

Even if your friend does not look

Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week Laura Castellani Each day, Canadians search for the optimal blend of ingredients to keep energized. Cups of coffee counter heavy eyelids, while shakes and supplements work to ward off painful workouts. Yet, as Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week 2013 came to a close, it was clear that for some, the feat of fuelling up is not quite so simple.

Currently, at least one in sixthousand Canadians is living with Mitochondrial Disease, a term used to classify the debilitating disorders which arise when mitochondria fail to function.

Mitochondria, the tiny structures found in almost every cell in the body, are responsible for converting the nutrients gained from foods to a form of energy that can be used by the cell. Without mitochondria to produce energy, the function of the cell is limited.

Depending on the degree of dysfunction, and which tissues are affected, a variety of symptoms may appear including migraines and headaches, breathing complications, seizures, and serious cognitive and

physical developmental delays.

Given that all cells (except red blood cells) contain hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, it is a disease which can limit the function of nearly all systems in the body.

While current treatments are working to restore mitochondrial function in affected individuals, there is no cure for the often terminal disease, which compromises the quality of life of both children and adults. Mitochondrial Disease is considered to be a genetic condition, which is present at birth. In more severe instances symptoms will begin to appear early, while milder cases may not surface until later in life.

Organizations fighting back against Mitochondrial Disease feel that awareness is a key component in conquering the conditions affecting so many lives. In support of Mitochondrial Awareness Week 2013, MitoCanada, a non-profit Canadian organization supporting the patients, families and researchers working with mitochondrial disease, hosted a series of events.

From Sept. 15 to Sept. 21, the

organization connected communities across Canada to raise funds, awareness and hope for the patients, families and friends whose lives have been touched by Mitochondrial Disease. To kick off the week, charity “walk, run and roll” events were celebrated in Hamilton and Ottawa. Both the Hamilton event “Running on Empty,” and the Ottawa occasion “Walk Your Own Way,” raised funds for future research and featured a chance to rejuvenate the spirits and hope of all those affected by the disease.

The colour green was used to represent solidarity with individuals affected by mitochondrial disease and was a feature theme of the awareness events. Homeowners turned their porch lights green, while global awareness groups labelled Sept. 17 as “Green Day,” and encouraged everyone to dress in green and wear green ribbons.

The week-long campaign not only raised awareness for the specifics of the disease, but marked the milestones made by individuals who find the power to face Mitochondrial disease despite their empty energy stores.

sick or shows zero symptoms, you never know what bacteria could be on their hands, or if your immune system is weaker than theirs. When going out for lunch, or when you’re at a party, do your friends a favour and let them know if you’ve been feeling a little ill. Make the effort to not share food and just be a spectator at Beer Pong for the night.

Eat for Health. The University of Guelph Hospitality services have been ranked number one in Canada for campus food eight years in a row. Healthy options for breakfast lunch and dinner are all within your reach, so start to fill your plate with more

vegetables, fruits and lean meats to help your body fight off any germs and bacteria.

Stay at home if you feel sick. If you have been dealing with the flu or a contagious illness such as bronchitis, sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is concentrate on your health and miss class. Missing a day of classes and resting could help you to avoid missing more class and getting your classmates sick. Before you make this decision, contact your professors and peers so you can catch up on your readings and notes, and take advantage of the Health Clinic on campus.

GRYPHONS VS. BISONS

PHOTO BY MATTHEW AZEVEDO

In Guelph’s second exhibition game in two days, the Manitoba Bisons travelled to Guelph. The Gryphons won 1-0 on a Kelly Gribbons goal.

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Aperture, shutter speed and ISO triangle Wendy Shepherd Picking up a DSLR camera for the first time can be intimidating – unless you flip the switch straight to “auto” and never look back; but what fun is that? Gaining control and discovering how to create what you want to see is one of the most exciting parts of photography. It is also getting easier to gain this kind of control with point-and-shoot cameras; so even if you don’t own a DSLR, you can still gain a lot from this article.

The “auto” setting is not recommended for control. Control requires an understanding of three key aspects: aperture, shutter speed and ISO. One of the larger goals in capturing a great photo is accurate exposure (resulting in an image that is not too bright or dark), and the auto mode is a way of making your camera guess how to accurately adjust the settings for any situation. If you have any experience with technology, you know the auto setting is not always great at guessing correctly.

Aperture: If you happened to catch my column last week, you know all about aperture and how to control the amount of available light reaching your camera’s

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sensor. Setting the aperture to a low f-stop (e.g. f/2.8) will allow higher levels of available light to enter your camera and reach the sensor compared to using a higher f-stop (e.g. f/10).

Shutter speed: The shutter speed refers to how long the camera shutter will stay open, measured in fractions of a second.

For example, a quick shutter speed may be 1/8000 (one eightthousandth of a second).

ISO: ISO refers to your camera sensor’s sensitivity to available light. The sensitivity of the sensor is lower at lower ISO levels. This will, in most cases, cause the photo to appear darker than if the ISO is set to a higher value.

Aperture, shutter speed and ISO are like a technological triangle.

They all need to get along with each other for you to create what you desire. Like anything, this comes with practice, but your camera is designed to help.

This triangle is best illustrated by description of two settings that give the photographer more control while maintaining guidance from the camera and sensor. These are the “aperture priority” and “shutter priority” modes. In aperture priority mode, the shooter can choose how open the aperture is (by means of the f-stop setting). The camera then will choose the shutter speed that best accompanies that

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Comparison of aperture and shutter priority modes. On the left, aperture priority mode is utilized, with an aperture set to f/2.8. The shutter was automatically set by the camera to 1/300s to effectively capture each water droplet. On the left, the shutter is set to 1/60s to allow for a blurred motion effect made possible by the camera’s aperture setting at f/20. particular aperture, based on how much light is available. If the environment is darker, the shutter will stay open much longer than it would in a lighter environment to gather all the light information it can. The opposite happens in shutter priority mode: the photographer chooses how long the shutter is open and the camera chooses the appropriate f-stop for the aperture. Basically,

the wider the aperture, the more light allowed to reach the sensor, and the shorter the shutter speed needs to be to get sharp images.

Blurry, underexposed or overexposed images happen when aperture and shutter speed don’t “get along,” and ISO comes in handy here. Increasing the ISO will reduce the camera’s sensitivity to light. This will help compensate for

the natural shake of a camera when taking a photo (causing blur), while lowering the ISO can compensate for the lack of available light coming in through the aperture (avoiding underexposure). But be careful: if the ISO is set too high, a photo may be overexposed. ISO is a great tool, but if it is not used wisely it can significantly downgrade the quality of your photographs.

Downtown Guelph’s spooky stories

Ghost walks give creepy perspective on Guelph history Stacey Aspinall

Do you believe in ghosts?

Because some of Guelph’s most colourful inhabitants refuse to leave the Royal City, even in death.

The undead are said to maintain a ghostly presence in some of the city’s best-known sites, and also lurk in some unexpected places.

On an appropriately chilly Friday night, a group of “ghost watchers” gathered to be led on a ghost tour of the city. Greg Taylor, a former history major and current Guelph resident, started leading the tours in February and has been continuing them once or twice a month since then.

“They’re a mix of finding out a little about the city’s history by stopping and noticing the buildings you walk by everyday, [and] sharing the haunting stories that come out of these locations,” said Taylor. Taylor researched Guelph’s history and pieced together stories from interviews, books and newspaper articles.

The tour departed from the

Guelph train station and continued through downtown.

The first stop was the Guelph Armoury, which Taylor described as the “creepiest looking” building in Guelph. At this former site of military training for World War I, there have been sightings of a man with a distinct handlebar mustache, dressed in military uniform, whose heavy boots echo through otherwise empty hallways at night. This ghost is believed to be Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, soldier and writer of the famous war poem, “In Flanders Fields.”

The next stop was a building with a less menacing exterior. The Albion Hotel is more than just a fixture of Guelph’s nightlife; it holds the second-oldest liquor license granted in Ontario. Legendary gangster Al Capone was said to have visited the Albion when he was passing through town. One night, he met a woman at the bar who became his mistress, and she took up residence on the third floor. However, after she was found dead in her room under mysterious circumstances, her restless spirit never left the hotel. To this day, employees report that her spirit can be felt in the form of an inexplicable nudge

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The city of Guelph is known for being inhabited by the undead with old buildings such as the Albion Hotel and the Guelph Armoury maintaining a ghostly presence. on the shoulder accompanied by a rush of cold air, with the sharp click of high-heeled shoes.

These stories, and many others, highlight some of the darker, though intriguing, aspects of Guelph’s rich history. Taylor

explained that ghost stories speak to human curiosity; while there is no definitive answer as to whether ghosts exist or not, this mystery is part of the appeal. “But, there are too many stories out there to think it’s all coincidence,” said Taylor.

Though the past inhabitants may be dead and gone, their spirits and their stories remain alive.

Taylor will soon be delving into U of G’s own history and leading ghost tours on campus in October, just in time for Halloween.

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Academic misconduct common

Study says cheating occurs most among first year students Stacey Aspinall

Cheaters never prosper - but they may get away with it.

University administrations focus extensive time and energy on discouraging students from cheating in order to maintain academic integrity, and penalties for academic misconduct are often severe. However, these consequences don’t always deter students from cheating.

Julia Christensen Hughes, Dean of University of Guelph’s College of Management and Economics, published a study on the prevalence of academic misconduct in post secondary education in 2006 in the Canadian Journal for Higher Education. Hughes recently told CBC news that the pressure to win at all costs may push students to cheat, while technology makes it easier to plagiarize work. According to Hughes’ research, almost 60 per cent of first-year students had cheated on tests in high school, and few of these students said they were worried they would get caught, or receive penalty if they were.

The Harvard Crimson reported a summary of a survey administered to the incoming class of first-year students in 2013. According to the self-reports of 1,300 of the incoming freshman, 10 per cent had previously cheated on an exam, 17 per cent had cheated on a paper or take home exam, while a substantial 42 per cent admitted that they had cheated on a homework assignment.

Harvard University was at the centre of a cheating controversy in February, in which almost half of the students in an introductory course were suspended for cheating on a take-home exam.

In light of statistics such as these, some critics have emphasized the shortcomings of the education system. The Boston Globe published an article titled “How college classes encourage cheating,” which aimed to illuminate broader issues within academia, shifted the blame from students to focus on a larger issue of learning environments that do not successfully foster student engagement.

Some issues included budget cuts, large class sizes, the role of technology and the shift to online learning, which have led to a decline in the quality of education students receive. This may lead to reduced “intrinsic motivation” in

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Cheating is on the rise, and many students believe they are able to get away with academic misconduct. But it begs the question “Are students cheating the system, or is the system cheating them?” students – in other words, students are less motivated to excel in courses structured this way, and may be more likely to cheat.

While it’s important to note that cheating does occur at institutions of higher learning, the

issue cannot be reduced to a singular cause. Some students will make the conscious decision to cheat while in school, leading to a diminished quality of education.

However, it’s important to note that the recent cheating scandals

and startling statistics indicate that conditions in educational institutions allow a large number of students to believe they can get away with academic misconduct.

Are students cheating the system, or is the system cheating them?

Nurturing and career oriented women

Is it possible to be both?

Emily Jones

A recent study by of the University of Guelph, Ryerson University and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand states that women who are more nurturing are less likely to be competitive in the workforce. There are many ways to look at this research and there are many contributing factors that must be kept in mind when investigating this topic.

Firstly, does it mean the same thing to each woman when she describes herself as “nurturing” or “caring?” Secondly, being competitive in the workplace is different for each profession, and while choosing to be a stay-at-home mother

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is not a paid profession, and the home is not considered a workplace – although it really ought to be – it would fall under the “nurture” category.

With the new “norm” and necessity, in many cases, of a dual income-earning household, women are in the work place full force and are competing against many people for positions in companies around the world. Society has always needed to place people into categories rather than just accepting them for who they are as people; so women have been given a clear cut stereotype of a nurturer to fall into.

This study looks at how stereotypes have influenced the way different women act in the workplace, and asserts that those who see themselves as gentle,

nurturing types do not compete to advance as much as other career driven women do. It is necessary to bring up that this is not necessarily true for all women.

Many women who have stable, highly rewarding (and paying) careers are also caring, loving mothers and partners, and will still push their way to the top without blinking an eye. Anyone is capable of working their way up in the job force if they want to. Not everyone wants that for themselves, and either choice is completely acceptable and reasonable.

Although women have often been thought of, and in many cases have proven to be the nurturing sex, the stereotypical roles are beginning to blur and morph into a new way of being human.

Not only are women becoming

more active in the work force, if they choose to be, but men are taking on new roles that would not have been acceptable within society in a different time. The traditional role of a woman to be a homemaker and of a man to be the breadwinner of the family has almost completely vanished, and it is becoming more acceptable for housework and non- housework

to be divided evenly.

What is comes down to is that whatever a woman wants, a woman can have. If she chooses to not compete in the workplace, and if this is because she believes she is more of a nurturer, then so be it. If she wants to be both a nurturer and a powerful figure in the work place, then good for her. If she chooses to just compete, that’s OK too.

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We don’t do that here

Stephanie Bishop

On a sunny O-week afternoon as I was walking towards the bus stop on campus I heard behind me, at the kind of decibel and tone that begged for attention, “Wow – look at that ass.” My mind immediately started to flip through the stack of life lessons that have been instilled in me over the years: just ignore them and they’ll leave you alone; they just want attention so don’t give it to them; people like that aren’t worth your time; it’s just the way guys are, so don’t let it get to you.

I had a hundred reasons not to tell this guy that his comments made me feel dirty and uneasy.

To my delight, his friend warned him, “You better be careful man, one of these times someone’s going to turn around and tell you off.”

This friend’s comment meant many things to me. Obviously I was not the first girl – probably not even the first girl today – to be subjected to this guy’s belligerent comments. The friend sounded like he had some moral grounding and knew that his friend was making others feel objectified, and that even if for no reason more than self-preservation, he should ask him to stop.

I was so happy with this response that I took it as an

opportunity to prove him right. Usually standing up to someone like this is unnerving but I felt like I had a supportive audience and I could tell him that his comments were not welcome. When I turned, I realized that it was not just a couple guys walking behind me, but a group of about ten dressed in matching collegiate gear. I couldn’t even tell which one had made the comments, until I noticed that one was particularly shifty, trying to hide his face behind another guy’s shoulder, too drunk to disguise his culpability well. I confidently told him, “You should really listen to your friend. We don’t do that here.”

I turned back around, expecting that this would be the end of it, and continued on my way to catch my bus. The friends within this little mob started making excuses for him and told me that he was drunk, quite directly stating this as an excuse for his behaviour. Of course I had gotten myself into the situation at this point and there was no backing down, so I told them that being drunk is no excuse for talking to people like that, and if he can’t handle being respectful he should stay home.

They didn’t like that.

The guys went on to defend their friend, saying that because

I’m sober I shouldn’t expect any kind of decency from him (though of course not in these words). One guy said “Okay, you’ve said your piece, so go away and leave it alone.” The main antagonist of our story said, in the most condescending tone that he could conjure up, that he was trying to pay me a compliment.

Where exactly was I supposed to go to get away from the situation when we were heading in the same direction? How could “Wow look at that ass” be considered a compliment?

Even if that were an acceptable thing to say to a person, making this comment around me instead of to me is a distinct way to exert power and state “We’re watching you.”

Telling me “You’ve said your piece” is saying “We control the situation.” Most disturbingly, telling me to “Go away” says “We own this space, so you can accept the way we are or you can leave.”

One final comment, “You’re making a scene,” was thrown my way. Although I thought I had kept my cool pretty well considering the advantage of numbers that these guys had over me. I arrived at my platform, faced the street and stared ahead, being sure not to look their way again. The bus came soon thereafter and I eagerly got on, relieved that

they weren’t taking the same bus, although a good number of the spectators were.

Towards the end of the altercation, my body betrayed me and I started to shake. As soon as I sat on the bus and caught my breath I realized my physical reaction occurred because I was embarrassed. I regretted my actions because no one around me supported me, and so I was shamed into thinking that I was wrong to say anything. Should I have thanked him instead? I was mad that I had worn those Levi’s cut offs that I love so much. I was mad that at my own beautiful school, I should feel so vulnerable in a crowd.

Thankfully, I texted a loved one while on the bus, and he responded quickly, showing not only sympathy, but anger towards the guys, and confidence that I had done the right thing. It shouldn’t have taken this much to make me feel safe and dignified.

It can be incredibly difficult to stand up to someone who is publicly exerting power over you and making you what they want you to be. To think that I, an outspoken student of political science with plenty of experience in public speaking and advocacy for the injustice committed against others, should feel so uncomfortable standing up for such a basic

principle makes me question much more than myself.

I know that if I had not said anything this guy would have taken it as consent and continued on to the next girl. I only hope that he felt some of the embarrassment that I did, and that some part of him will hold him back from acting like that again.

I know that most people out there, especially the ones that are students of a great institution like the one I attend, do not agree with this kind of behaviour; but silence is a powerful thing in a situation like this.

I am thankful that this situation did not escalate any further and that I was able to leave it, but I fear for other girls who run into guys like this, and people that don’t care enough to get involved.

This is the kind of every day injustice that we can change in society with very little effort.

All you have to do is say that it’s not “OK,” and that you’re not impressed by their show of machismo. If you’re not an extrovert and think this is too much to ask, at least show your solidarity to the victim after the incident by going over and saying a quick, “Good for you,” so they know that they aren’t completely alone in the fight.

A community is only as good as the people in it.

Unreasonable tuition fees Lightning JC Costs associated with bedding your favourite partner are rising as we speak, and “hooker prices” have reached the moon.

As for tuition, the national average for post-secondary was $6,350 last year, with Ontario the most expensive at $8,400, and Newfoundland and Labrador the cheapest at $2,870. To paraphrase Horace Greeley, “Go east, young man, go east.”

The outlook is grim. In the past five years, tuition has climbed by 20 per cent, and another 17 per cent increase is forecast by 2016-17. If you’re one of the lucky ones landing a part-time job, ask your employer for a 17 per cent raise. If they agree, I’ll eat the next copy of the Ontarion – with ketchup, of course.

Sadly, we have little sympathy for students who protest in other

provinces, particularly Quebecers, who pay less than we do. But that’s irrelevant. It’s like dreaming about Trinidad when you’re up to your ass in snow.

Forget about Newfoundland and the tropics because for the time being because Guelph is where we live and study. One solution to exorbitant tuition fees is having sex with a sugar daddy or rich cougar; another option is to drop out of university altogether before you’re saddled with a huge debt-load.

There was a time when one could erase tuition debts by declaring personal bankruptcy, but this is no longer the case – they simply changed the rules.

As you know, banks are all about profit, and they’re not afraid of student protests.

My suggestion, though, is to commission a massive sculpture in St. George’s Square,

depicting dozens of bank CEOs and politicians, their limbs entwined on a huge bed – not for group sex, but to scratch each other’s backs.

A more serious suggestion is to vote online in next year’s municipal election. Most people can’t be bothered going to the polls because of laziness or disinterest. In the last municipal election, there wasn’t even a polling station on campus. But to the chagrin of at least four city councilors, a bylaw has since been approved in favour of local online balloting. Prior to October 2014, let’s nominate a few of our students or non-students for Guelph City Council, and then vote for them online on Election Day. If this were done by a majority of U of G’s 22,000 students, the results would be nothing short of mind-boggling. I mean, can you imagine

politicians actually interested in reducing the cost of student accommodation and tuition?

It could even lead to a price freeze on food and gasoline, but don’t count on it. Every week, there’s an increase in the cost of foodstuff. For instance, I recently noticed that a container of peanuts had gone up by two bucks, and a tin of tomato-clam juice, by one – but I digress.

My main hope is that you’ve chosen a career about which you feel passionate, and that is also a top moneymaker. On the other hand, if you’re enrolled in courses that you hate in hopes of getting a well-paying job, forget about it. Trading passion for pay-cheques means a future shitload of remorse. Besides which, the work market is mostly unpredictable. For example, there

was a time when a high school diploma opened every door, but nowadays, a master’s degree is almost a basic requirement.

Here’s one final consideration: Canadian university and college graduates earn less than half the median average, and their unemployment rates are only slightly lower than those of high school grads, according to a recent CIBC report.

But enough of doom and gloom because the sun’s shining and life is beautiful, so get up and do something pleasurable. Or go back to bed with your friend(s) and enjoy.

The views represented in the opinion section do not necessarily reflect the views of The Ontarion nor its staff.

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Antisocial society

Is technology hindering social interaction?

Emily Jones

Those who are experiencing life in the twenty first century have seen a great deal of progress, including the invention of the Internet, personal computers and the ever-popular smart phone.

As intriguing and fascinating as these tools are, it is necessary to contemplate whether or not they are bringing people together or tearing the social dynamic apart. Growing up in eighties and early nineties was a lot different than growing up in the late nineties and two thousands. Back then, home phones were a necessary commodity and time was spent playing with friends outside, while polite inperson interaction with others was a cultural norm.

Life is much different now because social interaction has changed; technology that was meant to bring people together has distanced people from interacting with anyone outside of their My10, 600 Facebook friends, or followers on any other “social” networking site. It used to be that when the school or workday was over, it was time to interact with family and friends on a face-toface level. Now it is difficult to leave the house without a smart phone or to leave work without constantly checking new emails.

Family dinners that used to be a daily or weekly routine have constant interruptions from incoming calls and text messages. The closeness of family ties in many cases is dwindling, and parents wanting to be involved in the lives of their children are having a hard time. While perhaps getting a hold of loved ones is easier in this tech-loving age, actually connecting with them is a different matter.

Staring down at a laptop, tablet or phone has seemingly robbed society of the more simplistic way of creating happiness. When was the last time you said “hello” to the person walking past you on the sidewalk, held a door open for someone, or thanked the bus driver who drove you to school?

Some people still do this, but an awful lot of people in our technological generation have lost the ability to be courteous to those around them.

It’s time to appreciate life and the people and things that create it, and to stop acting like machines ourselves.

As humans we are innately social beings, but does having 600 friends on Facebook and making regular status updates make you social? How many people on these sites are close

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With these so-called “social” networks, has technology really allowed us to become more social? Of course everyone is seemingly glued to some sort of technological device, one must question how far this is removing us from real-life social interaction. enough to really be called friends? Sure, social networking sites and online dating may make it supposedly easier to meet people, but when left as a main source of communication, we must ask ourselves how beneficial is the convenience of it all?

Now, it isn’t all that bad. The further people live away from their loved ones, the more lonesome they can become, and having an easy way of connecting “face-to-face” via webcams and cameras is better than the alternative of not seeing a loved one at all. It’s when daily interactions with those close to you are limited because of the distraction of being constantly “logged on.”

When the home phone was once the main source of communication, you would have to be present to receive a call, and if you weren’t home you could return the call when you found time. There wasn’t a pressure involving whether or not a text message was seen, or if the email was read because a response did not require immediate attention.

Our use and development of technology may have significantly altered our ability to progress as a society, but why has progress been looked at

with so much admiration? Has this surplus of connectivity disconnected society? Hopefully we can catch ourselves before we fall too deeply into the arms of progress, so we can begin to make genuine connections with each other again.

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