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CSA denounces mandate for Freedom of Speech Policy POLICY CHALLENGES STUDENT’S AUTONOMY, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, AND RIGHT TO PEACEFUL PROTEST E L L A H A RV E Y

ON OCT. 4, the Central Student Association (CSA) Board of Directors released a statement in response to the Ontario government’s mandate that all Ontario universities and colleges develop a Freedom of Speech policy. The statement revealed that the CSA will publish a motion at their Oct. 24 board meeting to officially condemn the government’s mandate.

T h e C S A’s s t a t e m e n t i s addressed to Premier Ford and reads: “We oppose this directive of your government, and we view this as a challenge to our autonomy, as an initiative meant to interfere with students’ freedom

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of expression and right to peacefully protest.”

The government’s mandate, released on Aug. 30, requires universities and colleges to develop, implement, and comply with a free speech policy by Jan. 1, 2019.

These free speech policies apply to faculty, students, staff, management, and guests, and they must meet a minimum standard outlined by the government.

According to the government’s mandate, these policies will both protect free speech and “ensure that hate speech, discrimination, and other illegal forms of speech are not allowed on campus.”

A key element of the mandate is that colleges and universities must produce annual reports on their progress to the government, and that non-compliant institutions will lose government funding. In addition, students that do not comply with their institution’s policy will be subject to disciplinary measures.

Compliance includes refraining from “disruptive protesting that significantly interferes with the ability of an event to proceed.”

The CSA at U of G is not the only organization that has challenged the mandate. Dr. Jim Turk, the director of the Centre for Free Expression at Ryerson University, told the Globe and Mail that elements of the government’s mandate were “a direct violation of the notions of free expression.”

Indeed, according t o CBC News, there are some worries that

this mandate may “blur the line between free speech and hate speech.” However, there are others who welcome this mandate, claiming that it is not the university’s responsibility to censor the discussion of controversial topics.

The short timeline is also a concern for the CSA, as it precludes “students’ ability to provide meaningful recommendations” on the developing free speech policy, according to the statement.

The University of Guelph has already circulated draft statements regarding the development of a Freedom of Expression Policy,

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Where do you go?

You’re nowhere near prepared for the midterm and now that the library’s about to close, you’ve got nowhere reliable to study. The alarm continues to blare, interrupting your train of thought as you try to come to a decision. If you don’t pass this midterm, it means that you will probably have to retake the class.

Home – go to page 4 Look for another spot to study on campus – go to page 8

A direct violation of the notions of free expression.

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The midterm mystery Oct. 31, 1:45 a.m. — BEEEEP! BEEEEP! BEEEEP! You’ve just been rudely awoken by the closing time alarm at McLaughlin Library. You groggily wipe the drool off your face as you look around to regain your bearings.

The second floor of the library is empty and it looks like you’ve fallen asleep in the midst of studying for your important midterm in the morning.

and feedback was gathered from students on Friday, Oct. 5. This feedback was discussed at a Student Town Hall on Oct. 10.

COMPILED BY MATTEO CIMELLARO U OF G PROF ON LEAVE FOLLOWING ASSAULT CHARGES Fine Arts professor John Kissick has been put on leave until university officials review the situation. Kissick’s ex-girlfriend Talia Yeo posted a video on her personal Instagram and Facebook pages allegedly involving Kissick, noting that it wasn’t a “one-off incident.”

Nearly 70 former and current students issued a statement in support of Yeo. Kissick is facing two charges of assault and one charge of assault with a weapon.

UN REPORT ON DEADLY EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE On Sunday, Oct. 7, Nobel Prizewinning intergovernmental panel on climate change released their report urging governments to act fast on climate change or face irreversible, deadly consequences.

In their report, the scientists state the world has a decade to hold the global temperature at 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the Globe and Mail. Further, the report states that the pace we have set leads the world to the tipping point of two degrees Celsius, which would cause severe natural disasters, mass floodings, disease, and food and water shortages in the near future.

BRAZIL’S FAR-RIGHT CANDIDATE WINS FIRST ROUND Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil’s elections on Sunday, Oct. 7. Bolsonaro — who is known for his previous support of a military dictatorship, loosening environmental laws, deregulation, austerity, and his anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric — has won the first round with 46 per cent of the votes; if he had had 50 per cent or over he would have won the election outright. On Oct. 28, Bolsonaro will enter the second round with Fernando Haddad, Sao Paul’s former mayor.

FACEBOOK‘S NEW VIDEO CHAT HARDWARE Facebook ’s new gadget is a camera designed for video chatting that will follow your movements. Portal, which has a 10-inch screen, will cost $199, and the 15-inch screened Portal Plus will run for $349. The New York Times reports that the announcement could not come at a worse time for Facebook as the public is already sceptical of the tech company following two years of scandals.

KAVANAUGH CONFIRMED TO SUPREME COURT On Monday, Oct. 9, after a controversial hearing and a weeklong FBI investigation, Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice.

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Better Ballot Guelph champions issues-based campaigns GUELPH-BASED CAMPAIGN HOPES TO CHANGE POLITICAL CONVERSATION A R T I C L E BY M AT T E O C I M E L L A R O & I N T E RV I E W C O N D U C T E D BY B R A N D O N A R AUJ O

GROWING OUT OF the GuelphWellington Women’s Campaign School, Better Ballot Guelph (BBG) is confronting the polarizing and divisive political climate through their campaign that is intended to keep voters and candidates issues-focused. BBG kickstarted on Sept. 11, 2018 ahead of the Oct. 22 municipal elections. Through voter and candidate pledges, the campaign hopes to keep citizens centered on the policies and issues that matter.

The Ontarion caught up with BBG organizer Vivian Webb to discuss the campaign.

Brandon Araujo: What is the BBG all about?

Vivian Webb: It’s about working with voters and candidates to change the political conversation.

What we’re asking is [for citizens to sign the pledge]. We have the candidate’s pledge and the voter’s pledge. So what we’re asking people to do, whether you’re a voter or candidate is to say: • I affirm that I will support positive issues-based campaigns.

• [I will] refrain from resorting to personal attacks on any

candidate or citizen in any interactions particularly on social media.

• [I will] publicly disassociate myself from people or organizations who attack any candidate with comments based on gender, race, or status.

• [I will] lead by example by engaging in constructive political discussion and encouraging others to do the same.

Essentially, we don’t want to be distracted by ad hominem attacks or nasty campaigning, or lies, or misdirection. We want to have political conversations about the issues — about the things that really matter.

BA: What is important for voters to know about BBG? V W: It’s important to know that it allows voters to express themselves; to talk to candidates and say: “I only want to listen to candidates or politicians that want to talk to me about the issues, who don’t want to run other people down or have a negative campaign.” This is the way for voters to stand up and say what they want.

BA: What does it mean to take the pledge?

VW: It means taking a stand and making your voice heard. We live in a very polarized political climate right now. You see it on the news every day. Some of it’s entertaining, but it can be very disheartening — very discouraging when all you hear is politicians attacking other people, other politicians, other voters, anybody. That’s not the kind of society we want.

It’s enough. Candidates want your vote. [All voters should get up and say]: “No, I’ll [only] listen to your positive campaign. If you want to talk about issues talk to me, but let’s not run down the other guy.”

That’s what we’re about.

For more information on the BBG visit www.thebetterballot.ca.

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We don’t want to be distracted by ad hominem attacks or nasty campaigning, or lies, or misdirection.

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You know that you won’t be able to get any studying done when you’re this tired. You decide to go home, take a short nap, and get up a few hours early to study before the 8:30 a.m. midterm. However, you forget to set an alarm and miss going to write your midterm.

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Historic trade agreement ignores environmental impacts “NEW NAFTA” FAILS TO PROTECT ENVIRONMENT E L L A H A RV E Y

ON OCT. 1, Canada woke up to Trudeau’s signing of the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Trade A g reement , a mic ably referred to as the new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), or NAFTA 2.0. Now, whether or not “new” also means “improved” is open to debate, but not for Donald Trump. Early that morning, the POTUS was already crowing to his Twitter followers that this “great deal” fixes the mistakes made in NAFTA and will help North America be more globally competitive. Similarly, Justin Trudeau took to Twitter to announce that the USMCA Agreement is good for the middle class and creates more jobs and opportunities for Canadians.

What both leaders failed to comment on in their tweets was how USMCA completely disregards how the trade agreement relates to climate change, a factor that is rapidly changing the trade landscape in North America and across the world. According to EcoWatch, USMCA not only benefits the fossil fuel industry, but also severely limits the ability of the government to enforce environmental protections. The director of economic policy at Friends of the Earth, Doug Norlen, told the Huffington Post that “ this agreement is an attack on our ability to hold Big Oil and Gas accountable for the damage they cause to our communities.”

In case you need a refresher:

NAF TA is a 1994 agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico to remove trade barriers between these countries.

The removal of these barriers (largely tariffs on imported goods) fostered investment across borders and generally improved the countries’ economies. However, Donald Trump promised to scrap NAFTA during his presidential campaign, as the post-NAFTA economy saw the loss of approximately 800,000 American jobs to Mexico, according to CNN Business. Ironically, this “loss” was implicit in the goals of the agreement, as under NAFTA, U.S. and Canadian citizens and industries benefit greatly from cheap labour and goods produced in Mexico.

Regardless of why the trade deal renegotiation was instigated, this opened the door for discussions around how the fossil fuel industries that benefit from NAFTA contribute to global climate change. Instead of incorporating provisions that would limit fossil fuel output, USMCA makes no mention of climate change.

Instead, like NAFTA, USMCA still allows corporations to challenge environmental regulations through the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) process.

Through ISDS, foreign companies can sue a government for alleged discriminatory practices.

This means that if the Canadian government were to pass legislation that protects the Canadian

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environment at the expense of a U.S. or Mexican corporation with vested interests in Canada, that foreign corporation can sue the Canadian government for discrimination. According to a 2015 study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canada was liable for over $6 billion and had already paid out over $172 million in alleged damage through ISDS claims. Although the ISDS process has been highly criticized for years, USMCA will continue to allow U.S. oil and gas companies to sue the Mexican government, even though they can no longer sue the Canadian government.

In addition, although USMCA acknowledges that air pollution is a public health concern, as Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune told the National Observer, USMCA also “fails to include a single binding rule to reduce the air pollution that NAFTA has exacerbated.”

One good outcome of this

agreement is that under the terms of USMCA, Canada is no longer required to export a designated percentage of its energy production to the United States. For a long time, this export requirement impeded Canada’s ability to move away from reliance on fossil fuels in order to meet the export quota. However, USMCA still needs to be ratified by all three countries, so the earliest it can come into force is 2020.

Naturally, I was disappointed with the lack of environmental responsibility demonstrated by USMCA signatories, especially in light of the recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This report claims that based on current levels of greenhouse gas emissions, the planet will likely reach the critical 1.5 degree Celsius threshold set in the Paris Agreement in the next 12 years. The report also highlights how surpassing

this threshold would dramatically worsen the impact of natural disasters, including extreme drought, wildfires, floods, and food shortages. Trade agreements that ignore climate change and their contribution to it will only compromise our ability to reach these targets as a society, and will inevitably cause more harm than good.

Writer’s note and disclaimer: My name is Ella; I’m a U of G alumna, and I intern for Elizabeth May — MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands and the leader of the Green Party of Canada (GPC). As Ms. May’s intern, I attend parliamentary committees, correspond with constituents, attend legislative affairs, and work closely with her legislative assistants. The catch is, I have no prior experience with or knowledge of politics. This column details my experiences learning about the political culture and proceedings on Parliament Hill. My views are my own, and do not represent those of the GPC or of The Honourable Elizabeth May, MP.

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A brief history of Guelph’s five most THE ROYAL CITY’S SPOOKIEST TALES | STORY & PHOTOS BY SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN HALLOWEEN IS A TIME to celebrate all things ghoulish with costumes, candy, fake blood, and creepy decorations. Those traditions take on a new meaning when you

consider chilling historical events. I was surprised to find that the city of Guelph has a very real, scary, and ghostly past.

1. THE UNION CEMETERY FIASCO Cemeteries are often common locations for suspected paranormal activity, which can spark a higher than average number of alleged ghost sightings. This is certainly the case in Guelph, where residents have had more than their fair share of graveside encounters. One site, known as The Union Cemetery, was located in the heart of downtown Guelph, where the Baker Street parking lot is today. This cemetery was used as a public burial site by lower-class citizens who could not afford a proper burial.

In 1853, a town bylaw was passed that banned human burials within town limits in an effort to reduce the overpopulation of certain cemeteries. The Union Cemetery was forced to relocate to the Woodlawn Cemetery; bodies were dug up for reburial. Due to the speed at which this was done, as well as the number of remains that needed to be transported, this process was extremely disorganized, causing several remains to be left behind.

Three times since the 1853 relocation — in

2005, 2010, and 2016 — remains have been found under the Baker Street parking lot; revealed by either sinkholes or construction.

Multiple Guelph residents have claimed to hear the sound of children playing in the street, even when none are present. Bodies found were also relocated to Woodlawn Cemetery, but as Greg Taylor from Ghost Walk Guelph mentions, those who claim to have encountered them tend to blame the movement for their restlessness in the afterlife.

2. THE WELLINGTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE Erected in 1837, the Wellington County Courthouse, known today as the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, is Guelph’s oldest public building and has seen its fair share of horrific incidents. Although built to be both a courthouse and jail, before capital punishment was abolished in Canada in 1976, this was also the site of public executions. Prisoners sentenced to deaths were hanged by the gallows located just outside the building.

It was here that some of Canada’s most

notorious court cases were brought to trial, including the case of Charles Coghlin. Court documents dating back to the 1840s reveal Coghlin to be a young Catholic man who was sentenced to death for stabbing Richard Oliver, his protestant neighbour, in March of 1847. Coghlin himself claimed to be innocent, saying that he was acting in selfdefence during a squabble between the two. It is said that Coghlin can still be seen walking the grounds or looking out of windows, beckoning for the justice he never received.

3. THE GUELPH ARMOURY As the host of thousands of troops throughout the First World War, Guelph’s armoury has become an important part of the city’s history. Built in 1908, the building served as a training base for military members before they headed to Europe.

Today, the heavily ornamented brick building is home to the 11th Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery. Many soldiers training within the building have said that the troops of the past can still be felt within its walls. Stories

include hearing the clicking of horse hooves on the concrete floors, the marching of an entire battalion, and even sightings of the ghost of famed Guelph local John McCrae. Several members of the infantry claim to have seen an officer with a handlebar moustache walking around several floors inside. Whatever the truth about the building, it is clear that as one of the oldest buildings in the city, the Armoury clearly has a history that someone, or something, is trying to reveal.

4. THE ALBION HOTEL As far as ghost stories in Guelph go, the one behind the Albion is perhaps the most infamous in the Royal City, and yet the hardest for some to believe.

The hotel first opened its doors to the public in 1856, then known as Stell’s Tavern. A popular spot for locals, the hotel began to gain popularity outside of the city as it became a location used to smuggle beer for American bootleggers during prohibition. This caught

the attention of famed mob boss Al Capone, who became a frequent visitor to Guelph.

Capone supposedly used The Albion as a meet-up spot with his mistress. However, after ending things, the young girl is said to have gone into hysterics, put on a white dress, and died due to suicide on the top floor of the hotel. Her spirit is still believed to haunt the location, with many patrons convinced they have seen her walking around late at night.

5. THE OLD GUELPH JAILHOUSE

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Otherwise known as the Ontario Reformatory, the Guelph Correctional Centre was the location of Ontario’s first rehabilitation-based jailhouse. It was here that prisoners first worked in the hopes of reforming them into functioning members of society. Initially seen as extremely successful, the prison population grew rapidly, and by 1921 the reformatory grew to be the largest prison in Canada.

Its early success would come to a violent

halt in 1952, when the largest prison riot in Ontario history broke out. As the Toronto Daily Star reported on July 7, 1952, the riot involved an estimated 600 of the 931 resident inmates.

Although no one was killed in the riot, the passive nature of the facility was brought to an end, and the reformatory was turned into a full-fledged prison. Two unnatural deaths would occur following this change, as more dangerous offenders were brought to the prison.

Security guards still stationed on the grounds claim that the men who were killed are still walking around the property today, and can be seen in inmate clothing late at night.

Today the building is closed to the public due to mould, but what truths are locked in the seemingly vacant cells remain a mystery.

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GLT turns spotlight on mental health ORDINARY PEOPLE TACKLES LOSS AND GRIEF IN COMING-OF-AGE PRODUCTION

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“THINGS GET COMPLICATED when you keep it all in your brain,” says Conrad Jarrett, played

by Quaid Dale, protagonist of Ordinary People, who knows all too well the hardships of living with mental illness.

Guelph Little Theatre’s (GLT) latest production, Ordinary People, follows 17-year-old Conrad as he struggles to cope with his brother’s sudden death. The play explores the complex reactions of his family as they fall apart and strive to rebuild their lives. Based on the

novel and subsequent movie of the same name, this raw, riveting, and heart-wrenching drama does not shy away from difficult topics such as survivor’s guilt, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicide.

“It is kind of a period piece,” shares Roberta Belfry, the play’s director, who has been involved with GLT for eight years. Written in 1978, Ordinary People clearly reflects attitudes of the past and makes us cognizant of how far we have come over the past 40 years in understanding and treating mental health.

Ordinary People demonstrates the hardships of living with a mental illness.

With the show opening just a few days after Mental Illness Awareness Week, there is no better time to bring these sensitive topics to light. Given that mental illness will affect approximately half of the Canadian population by age 40, it is something that needs to be talked about openly to reduce stigmatization and isolation. Doing so in the theatre makes it all the more accessible.

The cast members, a diverse group of high school students a nd adult s, under st a nd the importance of their roles in normalizing mental health issues.

They expertly switch off their light-hearted, pre-rehearsal selves and delve into this intensely poignant story. Doing so is no easy task, however.

“It’s such an emotional show,” shares cast member Piper Distel, who plays Conrad’s girlfriend Jeannine. “To convey [that emotion] when you’re just standing on a bare stage, not in front of anybody, is really difficult.”

Not only is it difficult on an individual level, putting together such a production requires much time, commitment, and collective effort. “A challenge is always to figure out the role, to try and get everyone to see the same vision,” says Belfry. “Both the challenge and the asset is that you have to work together to get to the same spot.”

The actors have been working towards this goal for the past two months, rehearsing four times a week. The production of the show itself, however, began long before this, around a year and a half ago.

Sitting in the audience and watching these cast members from all walks of life transform into their characters is nothing short of incredible. Their ability to portray each character’s battle so honestly reflects the universality of struggling with mental health.

It is something to which everyone — from actors onstage to viewers in the audience — can relate.

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AFTER YEARS of label issues, legal battles, and anticipation, Tha Carter V has finally been released after a six-year wait. The album is an ode to Lil Wayne’s discography. He reflects on his success, his downfalls, his family, and his life. The album features an array of artists, including Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, the late XXXTentacion and even Lil Wayne’s daughter, Reginae Carter. The album starts off with a message from Lil Wayne’s mother, Jacida Carter. She congratulates him on his success and thanks him for the person he has become, despite the issues he faced. It’s a heartwarming way to introduce listeners to the album, but it sets the tone.

Lil Wayne retains his trap routes in songs such as “Open Safe” and “Mona Lisa,” but Wayne also introduces a somber tone to Tha Carter V. On the track “Open Letter,” Wayne discusses his place in this world and his fears while on the track “Let It All Work Out,” he shares his experience with suicide at a young age. Tracks such as “Mona Lisa” and “Dedicate” prove that Lil Wayne can still make a solid hip-hop track.

With stellar production from the likes of Metro Boomin, DJ Mustard, Zaytoven, and others, Lil Wayne has created an album that is worthy of “Tha Carter” series.

Lil Wayne invites the world into the life of Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., and he welcomes us all with open arms. His careful selections make for an album that pleases fans of all sorts. Let’s just hope we won’t have to wait another eternity for new music from Lil Wayne.

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Erikson’s novel critiques capitalism’s impact on environment REJOICE, A KNIFE TO THE HEART CUTS TO THE HEART OF PLANET EARTH S TO RY & P H OTO S BY M I TC H E L L G R AC I E

THERE ARE PLENTY of university classes that will teach you to identify and explore power structures, where they exist in the world, and how their ubiquity is maintained by either a threat of violence or actual violence.

However, short of enrolling in the creative writing class you’ve promised yourself that you’ll take one day, most of us do not get to ruminate on and imagine what life on our planet would be without power as we know it. Enter Canadian author Steven Erikson and his most recent book, Rejoice, A Knife to the Heart.

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Erikson is a New York Times bestselling author living in Victoria, B.C. and is best known for his continent-spanning, 10-book fantasy series, Malazan Book of the Fallen. Educated as an anthropologist and archaeologist in both the classroom and field, he left it all for the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he specialized in short stories. Incidentally, he’s not one to shy away from social issues in his novels or novellas. Erikson pulls no punches in Malazan and refuses to start in Rejoice.

As a first contact novel, Rejoice begins with letting the reader know that this version of Earth is

very much not alone: a prologue shows us shiny, SUV-sized objects buzzing around Mars’s moons.

A sequence of scenes in the first chapter shows us that a sciencefiction author has been abducted from the streets of Victoria, B.C. Samantha, the abductee, wakes up craving a cigarette and finds herself chatting with an extraterrestrial artificial intelligence, named Adam, aboard a vessel orbiting Earth. She’s informed that Adam’s creators have initiated an intervention protocol without the consent of humans — we’ve proven to be poor stewards, apparently — so that Earth’s biome may be saved. Instead, Samantha is there to witness the totality of the intervention and be humanity’s spokesperson throughout each stage of its progress. Turns out, Adam’s extraterrestrial programmers admire Samantha’s work as a science-fiction author and blogger.

Using his own streng th in writing plots as if they are short stories, Erikson weaves several points of view around much of his fictional Earth, in his continentspanning style, so the reader may witness the alien’s invisible force fields push humans and their footprint out of areas of oil drilling, deforestation, ancient migrational grounds, and overfished waters — among others. However, these new zones are still permeable to wildlife and uncontacted peoples.

Soon after, the same invisible force fields render nearly all physical violence between humans nonexistent: bullets stop hitting centres of mass, knives no longer stab flesh, and nukes cease to fall.

All of this takes place as the abducted science fiction author and extraterrestrial AI orbit Earth and participate in Socratic

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WITCH PROPHET* The Golden Octave (88 Days Of Fortune)

JESSICA MOSS* Entanglement (Constellation)

JERRY PAPER Like a Baby (Stones Throw)

INNES WILSON** Seaview EP (Out Of Sound)

RAE SPOON* bodiesofwater (Coax)

JOCK TEARS* Bad Boys (Inky)

OBUXUM* H.E.R. (Urbnet)

Twelve of Erikson’s novels: his complete Malazan series and two published prequels.

back-and-forth conversations that reveal deep, problematic trends in our current trajectory here on our own non-fictional Earth — a trajectory that happens to be without a deus ex machina and therefore requires real, massive, collective efforts to change.

Erikson’s novel poses many big questions. What happens when humans no longer possess a monopoly on their own violence?

Can capitalism be sustained in a world without violence? Can a government continue to enforce its laws without violence? If resources and knowledge are forced to be shared between nations, do borders cease to make sense? And, can those borders even exist if they can no longer be violently held?

Using his characters’ conversations and internal thoughts as a mirror to be held up to the world and thereby challenge the reader has never been outside Erikson’s scope, nor is challenging capitalism and its dependency on violence.

Rejoice is a milestone work for Erikson for both of these endeavours.

Campy at times, Rejoice is able to bring a small smile and a little hope to the reader between the harder ethical conundrums that can be draining on minds and spirits. In spite of the recent trend in film and television towards dystopian futures

after everything falls apart, Erikson cuts out the middleman and uses the first contact subgenre to take on some of today’s biggest problems directly and without the allegory. We get to see the fall as it takes place: the tragedy, the pessimism, and the optimism.

Be it Dona ld Tr ump, climate volatility, or land claims in Canada, Erikson offers empathy as a way forward in his post-violence world. To understand that we got here due to violence, but can witness one another without participating in that violence. That is, we can avoid the bleak future altogether. No intervention protocol from extraterrestrials necessary.

For some, the book might be too confrontational or heavy-handed.

For others, its philosophical tangents may be slow to get to the point. But, at a time when life can be stranger than fiction, in Rejoice, A Knife to the Heart readers will find a novel that cuts into the heart of the matter and finds the hope we all need to keep going. I can’t help but think that we are lucky to have authors like Erikson who decided to actually take that creative writing class so many of us say we will; someone who can help us think through even the worst of situations and imagine something better.

Rej oice, A Kn ife to th e Hea rt wa s rel ea sed o n Oct. 16.

Rejoice is able to bring a small smile and a little hope to the reader…

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You decide to try to pull an all-nighter and find somewhere else to study on campus. You exit the library and head in the direction of the University Centre. As you’re walking past The Cannon, a shiver overwhelms you, causing you to stop in your tracks and accidentally drop your bag. Dead leaves rustle violently, blown off of their branches by a

sudden breeze. After a moment, you recollect yourself, brushing off the uneasiness by pushing it to the back of your mind. You have to focus on studying. However, when you look down to pick up your bag, it’s gone. Faint footsteps can be heard running towards the MacNaughton building.

DILLY DALLY* Heaven (Dine Alone)

REMPIS/STADHOUDERS/ROSALY ICOCI (Aerophonic)

THE ENNIS SISTERS* Keeping Time (Self-Released) *Canadian Artist **Local Artist

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Samhain Soraya Thorne-Smith Don’t go out tonight My grandmother said to me, Samhain is a time of fear, But especially when in the trees.

One had gone missing already And children must be kept in doors, For spirits roam the grounds at night, But those are all but lores.

I was foolish to dismiss her words And venture into the wood, No one could hear me that night, They could only see my blood.

Now I roam the trees on Samhain nights, Where I wait for two children in the dark, To take them away from the light.

run while you can Soraya Thorne-Smith run, run, I fall, but I can’t stop.

Run, Run, Trees grab me, trying to keep me.

RUN, RUN, I try to find the edge of the forest, please let me go. RUN, RUN, It’s catching up, but I don’t want to die, please. ...nowhere to run now.

Halloween Happenings Adam Maue Feel a vampire looking at you, but there’s no reflection in the mirror in front of you.

But just then a bat starts to run and flies out the window to outrun the sun.

Turn into a werewolf in the middle of a show, but everyone is too polite to let you know.

And dinner is ready as you grab a plate, but the silver burns your hand, so you let go and say you already ate.

Notice Grandma’s broom is out tonight and that Grandma might be a witch alright. ’Cause her hat and green hair and bubbling cauldron seem to go with her everywhere.

Meet a scarecrow bring it home for tea and in from the cold to talk about the things you see.

Yes, ’cause it’s Halloween and a black cat is at your door with a bag for trick-or-treating, but ends up sleeping on your floor.

Oh yes, you can roll a pumpkin down the road then make a pie and put in a toad. ’Cause the right side up is the other way and the normal is strange today.

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Praying to a Corpse Fatima Buela There are moments when I’d miss you And my heart stops I forget how to breathe My body aches I’d long for our youth My first real heartbreak My first true loss For I could never get you back I’m not sure if there is a God But there was you So I’d find your tombstone Pray to your corpse I’d pray that you’re in a better place That you’re at peace That you’re watching us from above And I’d pray to tell you how sorry I am That I’m surviving and you didn’t Wishing you hadn’t left How things would be easier if you were here To tell me to believe in myself To not give up To keep pushing forward And so I live For the both of us To carry on your brilliant spirit Your vibrant soul In this cruel world I’ll carry a piece of you And guard it with my life Hoping I will feel your rebirth When angels inhabit Earth again

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Halloween movies and television series for scaredy-cats A GUIDE FOR THE FAINT-OF-HEART H A N N A H S T E WA R T

YOU CAN’T GO WRONG with a movie night on Halloween. For those who love psychological thrillers or gory violence, there is a seemingly never-ending selection of what to watch. Fun and goofy Halloween shows, on the other hand, are a lot harder to come by.

Over the years I have developed a collection of tried-and-true movies and television shows that I consistently revisit during the Halloween season. If you’re like me, and the trailer for a horror movie is enough to keep you from sleeping for a week, this list is for you.

1. BEETLEJUICE

3. HOCUS POCUS

4. PRACTICAL MAGIC

When an unsuspecting teenager moves to a new town, he makes the mistake of lighting the black-wick candle on All Hallows’ Eve, unleashing three witches. The witches embark on a mission to capture the town’s children and use their lifeforces to return themselves to their former power. This would pose significantly more of a threat if the witches were a little bit less incompetent. Rather than striking fear through the hearts of the townspeople, the witches lead them in a rousing rendition of “I Put a Spell on You,” flirt with a local bus driver, and are trapped in a classroom. Their level of menace may have come a long way from the witches of Macbeth’s time, but these witches are certainly good for a few laughs.

While this is a fairly popular movie, a less widely known fact is that Practical Magic was based on a novel by Alice Hoffman.

Hoffman’s novels have a unique way of capturing that which lies just under the surface of reality. She distorts reality in a way such that nothing is explicitly stated, and everything is possible. This movie captures the essence of Hoffman’s writing beautifully, as it tells the story of the complicated loves and lives of the women of the Owens family — a family gifted with extraordinary gifts which have earned them the title of witches.

2. THE WIZARD OF OZ

Beetlejuice is ridiculous in a way that only an ’80s movies can be. As two clueless ghosts attempt to scare away the family who has recently purchased their home, they enlist the help of the highly opportunistic and perverse Beetlejuice. While this movie may have scared me as a kid, it’s far more bizarre than genuinely frightening.

I’m sure there’s nothing that I can say about this movie that hasn’t been said before, but it’s certainly undeniable that it is famous for a reason. The Wizard of Oz is the pinnacle of childhood dreams and imagination. Wild colours, friendly munchkins, and witches, both good and bad; how could you go wrong?

5. GHOSTBUSTERS

6. HALLOWEENTOWN

7. STRANGER THINGS

8. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Who ya gonna call? Thanks to the Ghostbusters, that question will never again be the same. The world would never have thought that the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man could make such a good adversary, but thanks to Ghostbusters, his true sinister nature has been revealed. The Ghostbusters are iconic Halloween emblems — the season wouldn’t be complete without watching this movie at least once. Just forget that the second movie ever happened.

Family channel original movies may not be the pinnacle of cinematography, but there are most definitely a few gems in there, and Halloweentown is one of them. There are at least three movies in this series, and I’m pretty sure you could watch them in whatever order you wanted and still enjoy them, but in my opinion, the first is the best.

When a teenage girl discovers that she is a witch, she travels with her grandmother to Halloweentown — a city populated by a widely varied cast of mythical creatures.

From here, spectacular adventures ensue.

Stranger Things has really taken off in the last couple of years, so I highly doubt that there are many people who have yet to hear about it. However, if for some reason or another you’ve been holding off on watching it, I must urge you: WATCH IT NOW. Settle down with a bowl of Halloween candy and an especially warm blanket, and be prepared to finish an entire season in one sitting, because this show is unbelievably addictive.

While it may seem cheesy at the beginning (and, admittedly, remain this way throughout the majority of the show) the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a place in which I have spent many of my hours.

If you’re looking for excellently choreographed fight scenes, dreamy vampires who don’t sparkle, and a considerable helping of teenage angst, Buffy the Vampire Slayer may be your next guilty pleasure.

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“I”M PRETTY SURE the whole point of feminism is choice,” said Sam Maggs, in a Q+A about her latest book, Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History.

Throughout the evening she drew attention to this important shared perspective with characteristic wit: “shockingly, women in fact are uniquely different people” — prompting knowing laughter in the audience, which was comprised of an engaged all-ages group.

After publishing two successful feminist books, Maggs’ now iconic role as a determined, female, comedic historian is a welcome, encouraging alternative to feminism as bra-burning, man-hating outrage. Girl Squads is a heavily researched compilation of lived experiences, supported by superb illustrations throughout by Jenn Woodall to bring these untold stories of everyday heroines to life.

“I want new stories, fresh voices,” stated Maggs when asked if stories of female superhero icons should be retold by women. “We all win with a new story [to identify with].”

Intersectional feminism, Maggs argues, is an emerging opportunity to be visible and heroic in everyday situations, and in pursuit of lifelong dreams for success often dismissed by stigma, policy, and tradition. In modern globalized reality especially, a headscarf, formal gown, baggy jeans, bikini, pant-suit, mini-skirt, and sports jersey can all be considered part of the feminist identity, if the femaleidentifying person chooses to wear it. Career and lifestyle decisions are similar. In some cultures portrayed in Maggs’ book, the pursuit to be a literate female is radical.

Her process of researching was impacted by how little written documentation exists about many female role models throughout cultural trends of silencing women, purposefully, or in many cases simply not encouraging their biographies in the same way as prominent male figures.

When an audience member asked who her personal girl squad is, Maggs was quick to praise her own online nerd community. Through collaborative dialog ue and creative gameplay, they welcome each other to express honestly about anxieties within the awesome moments of being a comic-con cosplayer, or fan fiction fantasy author, or in Maggs’ case, all this and a video game screenwriter eager to find a male character written from a woman’s perspective.

During the event, Maggs discussed how media intrinsically encourages girls to cross-identify with to appreciate male protagonists telling stories that could, perhaps, be written and portrayed by women. Many shows feature a sole female surrounded by men (a.k.a. the “Smurfette phenomenon”), encouraging women of all demographics to be competitive, looking for divisions rather than similarities, afraid another female might take the lead instead.

Paternalistic history has provided textbooks with token female examples (such as Marie Curie or Roberta Bondar) who are maintained as emblematic success stories, rather than seeking out diverse, perhaps more intricate examples of women pursuing complex dreams against all odds.

Sam Maggs reads an excerpt about the Japanese Olympic volleyball team from her latest work, Girl Squads, with engaging inflection and witty charm at Guelph’s eBar on Oct. 9.

While women often internalize successes of privileged men as they are credited with major events, such as writing the confederation or winning Nobel Prizes, this ‘independent woman’ expectation is an unrealistic burden when we learn that even legendary Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg relied on camaraderie with fellow SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Regardless of their political differences, their friendship was valuable support in order to be effective, assertive leaders in a room otherwise filled with men.

Maggs’ impetus to write this third publication was fuelled by a discovery made while she wrote Wonder Women, a female-focused researchdriven profile of impactful ladies blazing their own trail in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) careers. Through discovering two cross-Atlantic pen pals who became besties, Maggs was enamoured by how many exceptional stories of women rising

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Your laptop, wallet, and phone were in that bag! You chase after the footsteps with what you believe to be the speed of an Olympic athlete. You wind up exhausted as you reach the lobby of the MacNaughton building, and just manage to catch

sight of the door to the stairs closing. You catch your breath for a moment as you try to muster up the strength to continue. You notice the elevator and wonder if it would be faster than taking the stairs.

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up against expectations almost always had support from other exceptional females in their daily lives. According to Maggs, our best selves emerge when we collaborate with other gal pals to get things done.

So, the focus for this recent book moved from individually wonderful women, to supportive squads of empowered ladies — a reminder that all around the world there are examples of women helping women, in profoundly cool ways! For Maggs, the commitment to representation of diversity was crucial. Each squad is from a unique cultural context by literary design, with storytelling presenting profound examples of bravery rooted in struggle.

If this hour spent with Sam Maggs has granted any wisdom, it’s to support women pursuing big dreams rather than giving into any initial feelings of jealousy. It is also important to acknowledge privilege through intersectional issues of class and race, which will further strengthen your squad. Go forth and empower!

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Famous last words TEN FINAL IMPRESSIONS ENTERED INTO THE PAGES OF HISTORY

OUR LAST WORDS allow us to leave a final lasting impression on the world. Sometimes they’re insightful, other times they’re downright hysterical. Here are the famous last words of 10 people.

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“I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel room and, goddamnit, dying in a hotel room.”

—Eugene O’Neill “That’s obvious.”

“Yes, and I fear seriously.”

—John F. Kennedy

—General Albert Sidney Johnston

1917-1963

In response to Mrs. Connally saying, “Mr. President, you can’t say that Dallas doesn’t love you.”

1803-1862

After serving in three armies, the general was asked if he was wounded and replied as such.

1888-1953

Nobel and Pulitzer-Prize winning American playwright with an apparent passion for hotel rooms.

“Tape Seinfeld for me.”

“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”

“A party! Let’s have a party.”

—General John Sedgwick

—Margaret Sanger

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1879-1966

The teacher and career military officer was dismissing the battalion of Confederate troops when shot and killed.

Nurse, birth control activist, sex educator, and writer who founded the organization that would evolve into Planned Parenthood. Clearly a badass.

—Harvey Korman 1927-2008

Actor, comedian, and lover of Seinfeld, which had been off the air for 10 years at the time of his death.

“Pardonnez-moi, monsieur.”

—Marie Antoinette 1755-1793

The Queen of France and lover of cake accidently stepped on her executioner’s foot and used her last words to apologize.

“I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former, I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings, and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks, and apostles.”

—Niccolò Machiavelli 1469-1527

Philosopher who wrote The Prince, from which we get the term Machiavellian, and major jokester.

“I’ve never forgiven that smart-alecky reporter who named me Butterfingers. To me, it’s not funny.”

—Thomas Moran 1897-1971

The famous pickpocket who reportedly stole from over 50,000 victims and disliked his nickname.

“Good people are always so sure they’re right.”

—Barbara Graham 1923-1955

Murderer, executed in a gas chamber, who tried to avoid death by holding her breath, which she did — for 60 seconds.

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Still heaving from your short run, you step into the elevator and push the button for the highest floor. The doors close behind you with a disturbing metal screech, and the elevator begins rising in worrying lurches. You’re not so sure about your decision. Wait a minute! You don’t even know what floor you’re supposed to get out on. You panic and repeatedly push the buttons for the other floors or for

the door to open. Nothing seems to happen as the elevator continues to rise. Now you try to hit the emergency exit button, which causes the elevator to grind to a halt. You can’t tell what floor you’re on, and the emergency button doesn’t seem to have alerted someone to come help you.

You wait for hours until a maintenance worker finally lets you out in the morning. You ask him for the time — it’s

8:35 a.m. You thank him as you run to your classroom to write your midterm, but your mind is blank and you can’t seem to remember any of the answers. Instead, you only hear the faint reverberations of the mocking laugh that haunted you while you were stuck in the elevator all night.

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The not-so-sweet truth about sugar THE REAL LIFE HORROR MOVIE MONSTER WREAKING HAVOC ON YOUR INSIDES | ARIANA LONGLEY THERE’S A MONSTER lurking inside your home. Slowly destroying you from within while you unknowingly go about your day.

That monster is sugar. The product that Willy Wonka centred his entire business model around. This innocently sweet substance is responsible for countless health problems plaguing our society today.

Sugar exists in many different forms. Table sugar (the most recognizable version of sugar) is known as sucrose. Sucrose is a combination of two smaller types of sugar: glucose and fructose.

And fructose is where we find most of our problem.

While glucose is used by the entire body, fructose can only be processed in the liver. If the liver doesn’t need as much fructose as you’re putting in, it turns into fat. However, since your body is a super highway of interconnected veins and arteries, these fats don’t stay in the liver. They seep into your bloodstream.

Excess fats in your blood, along with heightened blood sugar, can do a lot of damage. Together, they can block arteries, reduce the amount of fat that your body burns, and lead to resistance against insulin (the hormone responsible for dealing with blood sugar) and leptin (the hormone that tells you when you’re full).

This can lead to health issues like hypertension, angina, diabetes, kidney disease, and obesity.

You might think that all these health problems only happen when you eat candy, but nope.

Fruits also have fructose, but the thing is that fruits also have fibre and other nutrients. The fibre makes you full so you stop eating, giving your body time in between meals to process the sugar. However, candy and other sugary foods don’t contain any fibre, so your body never feels full and you feel the need to constantly eat those sugary foods.

I know this all sounds bleak, but sugar itself isn’t the problem.

We need sugar to help fuel our cells; the problem is that we eat too much of it. According to Statistics Canada, the average Canadian consumes 110 grams of sugar a day. That’s the equivalent of shovelling 26 teaspoons of white sugar straight into your face hole.

On the surface, it may seem unbelievable that the average person consumes that much sugar.

But it’s not so unbelievable when you realize that beverages make

when someone does drugs like cocaine or inhales nicotine.

After a while, your brain starts to build a resistance to dopamine if you eat too much sugar because dopamine is constantly released.

When that happens, you need to eat more sugar to keep your brain at the same level of happy. That is how addiction forms. And if you don’t get your sugar fix, you can experience withdrawal systems.

Researchers at John Carroll University showed evidence of these withdrawal systems in rats who were fed a high sugar diet.

Once sugar was removed from their diet, the rats started to act anxious, their teeth chattered, their tiny furry bodies shook, and their core body temperatures dropped. These withdrawal symptoms aren’t exclusive to rats; sugar withdrawal side effects have also been documented in humans.

So, next time you’re thinking of having a pop or eating that strawberry yogurt, stop and think about the fate of that sugar in your body. Because to me, the idea of willingly poisoning myself is a lot scarier than any monster that may be hiding under the bed.

up a large chunk of this sugar intake, with 35 per cent of adult daily sugar coming from drinks like juice and pop.

And if you’re thinking to yourself, “I don’t drink juice or pop, I must not be eating that much sugar,” think again. Sugar is added to almost every packaged food, including sauces, cereal, yogurt — the list goes on. According to a study by Rachel B. Acton at the University of Waterloo, 66 per cent of packaged food contains at least one gram of added sugar per serving.

If all this information has made you want to cut out added sugar, I must warn you that it’s a little more complicated than just choosing foods with no added sugar and only drinking water.

First, after the word got out that sugar isn’t great for you, companies decided to take some liberties with how they refer to added sugars.

According to the University of

Waterloo research, the word sugar is the most common term used for showing added sugar in ingredients lists on food packaging. However, also listed are terms like fruit juice concentrate, molasses, sucrose (the scientific name for white sugar), and glucose-fructose (another way of saying sucrose).

By breaking down added sugar into these categories, companies hide behind a mask of confusing jargon the average consumer might not understand and may mistake for a healthier version of sugar.

The second reason it’s hard to avoid sugar is because your brain might not let you. Sugar is addictive. When you eat sugar, your brain releases a chemical called dopamine. This rush of dopamine lights up the pathways in your brain responsible for making you feel happy. This euphoria-inducing pathway that dopamine stimulates is similar to the one activated

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HALLOWEEN COSTUMES AND CULTURAL APPROPRIAT

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he thought “What am I going to be for Halloween?” begins plaguing undecided minds by mid-October. As a child, selecting costumes was much easier than it is when you become an adult who is aware of the absurdities, inequalities, and injustices that are commonplace in the world today.

As a child, I happily dressed up as a princess year after year before realizing that I could wear a nice dress any time, but could only be a witch or a bunch of grapes or a fortune-teller once a year.

Children don’t analyse how popular culture depictions of princesses position women as passive characters who are forced to wait for princes to save them, so they can start their ‘real’ lives together.

Children don’t think about why idealized mothers in fairy tales are usually absent while ‘evil’ stepmothers work to keep princesses and princes apart (read: good matriarchy is dead, all other matriarchies are evil). Children don’t interpret happily ever after as a celebration of maintaining the patriarchy through yet another successful transfer of the virgin from the father to the husband. I certainly didn’t think of these things as a child, and children shouldn’t have to worry about the ways in which their costumes might be problematic; that is a job for the adults in their lives.

Ideally, adults have the critical thinking skills needed to be more mindful about their own Halloween costume selections. Not because adults aren’t allowed to have fun on Halloween and express themselves — unless you’re trying to express yourself through hate

speech and propaganda, in which case the Criminal Code says you’re not allowed. The point is that what you choose to dress up as says something about you and you should be aware of what you’re saying. It is important for adults to understand how their costumes will be interpreted by others, so that they can avoid unintentionally being sexist, racist, homophobic, or anything else.

You would think that the stores would help you out with this by simply not selling any costumes that are outright offensive, but stores are going to stock what will make them money, and more importantly, what is offensive for one person to wear may not be problematic for another person to wear. We’ll loop back to this later.

As with most holidays, the further removed we get from how they started and their significance, the more easily we are swept away by marketing trends. To get a better idea of how to pick an appropriate Halloween costume, I thought it would be helpful to consider how Halloween originated and what costumes people were wearing and why those costumes were significant.

The Celts — who lived roughly 2,500 years ago in various groups around most of western Europe — wore costumes “typically consisting of animal heads and skins” on Oct. 31 as they celebrated Samhain (pronounced sowin), according to the website History. Samhain marked “the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death.” Samhain was celebrated on the eve of the Celtic new year — Nov. 1.

In 1000 A.D., Nov. 2 was deemed by the church as a day to honour the dead; it was called All Souls’ Day. “It’s widely believed today that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related church-sanctioned holiday,” reads History. “All Souls’ Day was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels, and devils.”

All Saints’ Day, celebrated on Nov. 1, was later called All-hallows or All-hallowmas “and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-Hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween,” according to History.

The tradition of Celts wearing costumes and masks, hundreds of years ago to avoid being recognized by ghosts — or so ghosts would mistake people as other spirits — was slowly turned into the secular holiday Halloween as various European ethnic groups brought Halloween to North America. The superstitious and religious

Halloween has come a long way from the horrifying homemade costumes of the 1800s.

aspects of Halloween were mostly lost by the 1900s; this included its frightening and grotesque aspects.

Rather than dressing up as ghosts and witches and demons (aspects that were more commonly seen even during my own childhood) Halloween has become increasingly commercialized. Today, Halloween costumes are more informed by popular culture (read: capitalism). As movie franchise culture booms, people are encouraged to wear the latest costumes, from the most recent popular films and TV shows (perhaps partly because this means you definitely can’t use the same costume again next year).

This “what’s popular now?” approach to Halloween costumes becomes problematic when what’s popular to wear this year isn’t necessarily what’s appropriate for you to dress up as for Halloween — possibly ever. For example, given the popularity of movies like Moana and Black Panther in the last couple of years, you will see Halloween costumes of characters from these films. Some will argue that they are being a particular character, and they bought the costume from a store, and all their friends are doing it, so it’s not racist or culturally insensitive because their intent is not to be racist or culturally insensitive — really they admire the characters and the culture they come from and are therefore celebrating that culture by dressing up; to them, it’s a compliment.

Well, at what point does a costume cease being a compliment and start being offensive? Is it okay for people who aren’t black to dress up as Prince T’Challa, because they’re just clothes and Black Panther is a fantasy film? Is it okay for people to do Prince T’Challa’s accent to go with the costume, because that’s just commitment to the character? Is it okay for people to then darken their skin with tanning lotion to be more “authentic,” because everyone in Wakanda is black? Is it okay for people to do full blackface to really embody the character of Prince T’Challa?

Understanding the notion of cultural appropriation isn’t to hinder someone from having a good time, it’s to keep them from doing things that harm other people’s opportunity to have a good time. Understanding cultural appropriation is important because it prevents people from doing things that are outright racist and culturally insensitive in the present, even if they may not see that until decades into the future (e.g. a lot of actors did blackface, but failed to see how offensive it was until much later).

So, in that vein, let us try to understand what cultural appropriation means. Cultural appropriation occurs when members of the dominant culture unknowingly or knowingly adopt elements of a minority culture without understanding or respecting those elements or their significance in the cultures from which they are taken, copied, or commodified.

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Often, the most criticized examples of cultural appropriation have to do with elements that are in some way significant to the cultural or religious traditions of a minority culture being used superficially for the purposes of fashion or entertainment.

Popular examples of cultural appropriation are non-Natives wearing Native headdresses and nonIndians wearing bindis at music festivals.

There is an ongoing debate that questions the negativity associated with cultural appropriation and argues to allow for cross-cultural exchange. The term exchange, however, implies that two or more parties are choosing to trade their cultural goods with each other. In other words, for cultural exchange to take place the consent of the minority culture must be acquired. Cultural appropriation, in contrast, does not require the minority culture’s consent. In fact, cultural appropriation has often occurred despite members of the minority group from which the cultural elements were taken stating outright that they do not want those elements to be appropriated by the dominant culture; that those elements are meaningful to them and that they do not condone their use by people who do not understand their significance or are desecrating what they view as sacred.

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festivals or events and misappropriation. For example, there is a difference between you wearing a sari to an Indian wedding and you dressing up as an Indian woman for Halloween with a copy of the Kama Sutra from Indigo under your arm.

Dressing up as a stereotypical caricature for your own entertainment and with little regard for someone else’s culture or religion is not okay. There are simply some things that certain people are not supposed to do, and feeling like you’re above that is a feeling that should be examined more closely.

So, now that costume-picking season has arrived, remember to ask yourself: “Who might this costume offend and is it worth offending an entire group of people who deal with oppression and discrimination on a daily basis, because I think this costume would be cute, funny, or edgy?” Even just starting to think about the answer to that question means that this Halloween you’re going to be an adult who is more socially aware of your choices; you’re going to be an adult who has greater empathy for people different from yourself; you’re going to be an adult who strives to be a better citizen of the world — and that’s something to be very proud of, because the world could use a lot more of those types of adults right now.

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Dressing up as a stereotypical caricature for your own entertainment and with little regard for someone else’s culture or religion is not okay.

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Simply gourd-geous roasted seeds & side dish recipes PUMPKIN OR SQUASH — BUTTERNUT, DELICATA, ACORN, AND BUTTERCUP ARE ALL IDEAL FOR ROASTING! S TO RY & P H OTO S BY J U D E K E E F E

AUTUMN IS IN the air and pumpkins are mounded up outside every storefront as a reminder to carve a silly (or spooky) face in time for Halloween. Use these tips to make the most of your pumpkin carving experience, so you can get maximum value from your decoration and increase the nutritional value of your Halloween snacks. If you want to keep the gourd intact for a perfect design, try scooping out the seeds from a hole at the top of your pumpkin rather than halving it.

This process is how I handle squash year round — as preparation for soup, baking, or as a side dish while meal prepping for a week’s lunches. Roasting with a bit of olive oil keeps the moisture locked in.

Once the halves are cooked, they can be easily frozen for use later, or immediately served with your next meal.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 butternut squash or similar • Olive oil • Preferred seasonings, to taste • Maple syrup (optional)

RECIPE 1. Preheat

oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Select a baking pan of appropriate size that will hold both halves of the gourd you’re baking. Prepare the pan by lining it with a sheet of parchment paper — this will save needing to do any dishes!

3. Chop off the stem and then cut the gourd in half, lengthwise (from the stem to the bottom).

4. Scoop out the seeds with a spoon then clean them in a bowl of water. Set the seeds aside on a clean dish cloth or paper towels, so they begin to dry prior to roasting.

5. Drizzle each half of the gourd with olive oil, season with preferred autumnal spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, etc. — I used Chinese Five Spice.

6. Bake for two hours. Check if done using a fork in the deepest part of the gourd. If it is softening around the cut edges you’ll know it’s getting close.

7. Drizzle the dried seeds with

olive oil and spices in a small bowl while squash is baking.

8. When you have about 30 minutes of cook time left, add the seeds to a parchment paper lined pan.

9. Bake until seeds are golden brown. Oven temperatures will vary, but in general the maximum time needed is half an hour; check back frequently to avoid burned seeds!

10. If the oven can be turned off, leave items in residual heat to remain warm and to keep

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cooking without fear of overcooking the seeds (if after 30 minutes they still aren’t crispy enough for your liking).

11. Once the seeds are cooled, add to a travel sized snack container for on-the-go snacking!

To use the cooked gourd in baking, scoop out the insides from skin and add in similar proportions as canned in a recipe of your choice. Savoury breads, muffins, and, yes, pies are all possible! Just ask the Internet. You can also freeze

any left overs for use at a later time.

To serve as a side, mash the squash with a fork either in the skin or scoop it out with a spoon and then mash it in a bowl.

Drizzle maple syrup and add any further preferred seasonings to cooked squash prior to serving.

You can even use the hollowed out section to hold another item, such as a dip or other vegetables — you’ll be reusing, reducing, and wowing your guests at the next potluck you attend.

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The importance of being ridiculous MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH INTRAMURAL SPORTS I SHOULD PROBABLY start by stating one key fact: I suck at team sports. In elementary school gym classes, my teammates knew to keep their distance or risk sustaining considerable injuries. In high school, my grade in Phys Ed. was embarrassingly low. I have no understanding of strategy, I can’t throw to save my life, and I still maintain the core belief that if a ball is flying towards me, the smartest thing to do is duck. Somehow, despite all of this, I decided at the beginning of the semester that joining an intramural sport sounded like an amazing idea… and it turned out that I was right!

While sports have not generally been known to fill me with any degree of confidence or excitement, I am of the opinion that just about anything that involves water has the potential to be fun.

I suppose this is what drew me to innertube water polo.

Being a first year, I have taken

quite a lot of tours in the past few months. On one such tour we happened to make a stop at the fitness centre — at which point our tour guide began to tell the group about intramural sports.

The guide explained that there was such a thing as a ‘fun league’ of intramurals. As the name might suggest, the entire purpose of this league is to have fun — not a terrible concept at all. Then the guide proceeded to list off some of the popular teams that existed. I am sure this list was very long, but all I heard was innertube water polo. As soon as these words met my ears, my head was filled with images of a bunch of people in oversized kids’ floaties, paddling around a pool like idiots. I immediately thought to myself: I too could be one of those idiots.

So I paid my 10-dollar fee and joined the Piranhas — a team composed of four people. My first game arrived on an extremely

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rainy Sunday, which was admittedly not a very encouraging omen.

As great as this idea had sounded upon conception, I couldn’t help but be a little bit nervous.

“I’ve had to do plenty of new things since starting university,” I thought, “why on Earth do I need to choose to expose myself to more? I don’t even know how to find the pool!”

Despite my doubts, I ended up on the pool deck (early) and surrounded by a group of equally confused and inexperienced students. The thing is, a fun league is a particularly wonderful environment because everyone really is there just to have fun. No one else had any idea what they were doing, and no one really seemed to be concerned by this fact. We all swiftly discovered that the game was a lot harder than we had expected.

Turns out that when your butt is stuck in a flotation device, you have to rely pretty heavily on your arms, which is a lot of work.

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R ather than diminish our efforts, however, our apparent lack of abilities encouraged us to make up for what we lacked in skill with enthusiasm. I don’t know if we were competing to win the game, or if the competition revolved around who could look the most ridiculous. If it was in fact the latter, I’m pretty sure that I won.

The pool was a flurry of splashes, limbs, and shouted apologies as we muddled our way back and forth between opposing nets.

When I talk to friends about the extracurriculars that they have

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joined in the past month, most of them tell me about activities that will help them ‘gain experiences’ or ‘develop skills’ for somethingor-other. I commend my friends for their practicality, but I have to say that I think I’m gaining just as much as I flail through the water.

Never underestimate the importance of being ridiculous every once in a while — it’s a skill that is not practised nearly often enough.

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Halloween isn’t the only time you can dress up and be naughty THE SCIENCE AND STATS BEHIND ROLEPLAYING IN THE BEDROOM | TASHA FALCONER HALLOWEEN IS A time when you get to dress up as any character you want, but Halloween parties are not the only place where you can choose to be someone else. If interested, you can also be someone else in the bedroom.

Sasha, a writer for Psych and Sex, states that roleplay includes anything that allows you to explore ways to express yourself sexually, which can include different personalities or temperaments.

Roleplay is meant to heighten sexual arousal through re-enacting scenarios. Roleplay is about acting out your fantasies. In a survey by Psych and Sex, 40 per cent of people said that roleplay means playing pretend.

T h e rol e p l ay s u r vey a l s o fou n d t h at:

• 63 per cent of people have done roleplay before • 50 per cent of people incorporate roleplay into their sex life a couple times a year or occasionally • 13 per cent incorporate roleplay at least once a month

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Esther Perel, a sex and relationships expert based in New York City, states that when bringing up the idea of roleplay to your partner it is good to reassure your partner that you enjoy what you have, as wanting to roleplay does not mean your partner is inadequate, and to ease into the conversation of trying roleplay.

Perel notes that using a third item, such as a movie or book, that has something you want to try is a good way to get inspiration and to bring up the idea of roleplay to your partner. A report by Bustle on a survey done by LifeStyle condoms found that 12 per cent of millennials have found inspiration

from 50 Shades of Grey and that 17 per cent of women prefer to act out the characters from 50 Shades of Grey as a roleplay above all else.

It can be difficult to tell your partner about your fantasies, but talking to your partner about what turns you on can help them better understand what you like and dislike sexually, which in turn helps your sexual satisfaction.

What roleplay to take on is all about what you and your partner find a turn on. The survey done

by LifeStyle condoms found that 17 per cent of people said roleplaying as strangers is their favourite roleplay, which is also the roleplay 20 per cent of women prefer over all else. Eighteen percent of heterosexual men prefer their partner is a school girl, which is also the second most common character. The most common character for a female to dress up as was a stripper.

Roleplay does not need to have elaborate costumes or props. Halloween costumes can be a great way to start.

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1. CLINT MALARCHUK’S SLICED JUGULAR

2. KEVIN WARE SNAPS SHIN DURING MARCH MADNESS

On March 22, 1989, Buffalo Sabres goalie Clint Malarchuk was accidently kicked in the neck by Blues rookie Steve Tuttle. Tuttle’s skate cut open Malarchuk’s carotid artery, leading to massive blood loss on the ice. Amazingly, Malarchuk received 300 stitches and returned to the ice just 11 days later.

Kevin Ware of the Louisville men’s basketball team suffered a horrific injury to his right leg during the 2013 March Madness tournament. Ware landed awkwardly while attempting to block a three pointer and snapped his shin, leaving the bone protruding out of the skin. Ware went into surgery immediately and was forced to take almost a year off before returning to college basketball.

6. DJIRBRIL CISSÉ BREAKS LEG ON THE PITCH

Cissé suffered a hellacious injury while playing for Liverpool in 2004. While challenging for the ball, his foot caught the turf and broke both his tibia and fibula. This cut off the blood supply to his foot, which required immediate surgery or it would’ve had to be amputated. Despite this, Cissé continued his professional career, retiring in 2015.

3. SALIM SDIRI HIT BY JAVELIN

On July 13, 2007, French long jumper Salim Sdiri was hit by a stray javelin while warming up for his even at a competition in Rome.

The javelin penetrated 10 inches, puncturing both his liver and kidney. However, after months of rehabilitation Sdiri returned to the sport, placing fourth at the World Indoor Championships.

7. AKIL MITCHELL’S EYE POPS OUT

8. RASHAD JOHNSON LOSES TIP OF FINGER IN HIS GLOVE

On Jan. 26, 2017, while playing for the New Zealand Breakers, Akil Mitchell had one of the most cringe-worthy injuries in basketball. He was poked in the face while jumping for a rebound, immediately dislodging his eye from the socket. His eye was reinserted at a local hospital and he continued his career, eventually playing for the Brooklyn Nets.

In 2013, Arizona Cardinals safety Rashad Johnson lost the top of his middle finger during a game against the New Orleans Saints. Unbothered by the injury, Johnson didn’t even realize until he took his glove off after the game. Doctors had to shave the bone down to the knuckle to close the wound. Johnson took it well, tweeting a picture and playing again the next Sunday.

4. SHAUN LIVINGSTON RUPTURES TENDONS IN KNEE

In 2007, Shaun Livingston’s basketball career came to a dramatic pause. Playing for the LA Clippers, he landed awkwardly on a fast break, rupturing his ACL, PCL, MCL, lateral meniscus, and dislocating his patella. Livingston took more than a year and a half to recover and today, he is a three-time NBA champion with the Golden State Warriors.

9. LEE TREVINO AND JERRY HEARD STRUCK BY LIGHTNING ON PGA TOUR

While on the PGA tour in 1975, Lee Trevino and Jerry Heard were struck by lightning at the Western Open in Illinois. Both men were severely injured, Lee even being knocked unconscious. Ironically, a few weeks earlier, Trevino recalled the incident saying: “Not even God can hit a 1 iron.” Both men returned to the PGA, with Trevino becoming one of the topranked golfers in the sport.

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You silently curse yourself and make a mental note to visit the gym more often. You steel yourself and follow the footsteps up to the seventh floor and outside to the rooftop. Your bag has been unceremoniously dumped on the ground. You kneel down to rummage through its contents, relieved to see that all of its contents are still there, save for a granola bar and other snacks. You look around to see if you can spot the thief. Strange — the observatory door is open and the telescope is pointed toward the stars. You’re curious to see what’s inside, but you also feel perturbed.

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5. ANDERSON SILVA SHATTERS LEG AT UFC 168

Once undefeated, Anderson Silva hoped to continue his reign in 2013, when he faced Chris Weidman at UFC 168. Late in the second round, Silva attempted to kick Weidman, but unintentionally connected with Weidman’s shin. This shattered Silva’s fibula and tibia, requiring him to have several screws inserted into the bone. Silva eventually rebounded from the incident, returning to MMA a year later.

10. MIKE TYSON BITES EVANDER HOLYFIELD’S EAR

On June 28, 1997, Holyfield and Tyson were set for an emotionfilled heavyweight rematch. After Holyfield dominated the first three rounds, Tyson bit a one-inch piece of cartilage from Holyfield’s right ear. Tyson was fined $3 million and suspended from boxing for 15 months. Holyfield had his ear reattached after the fight and he became the first boxer to win four heavyweight titles.

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Cannibal-killers, ethical cannibalism, and self-cannibalism A FOOD TREND THAT’S PROBABLY NOT GOING TO CATCH ON SYDNEY REEVES

PARK YOUR BROOMS and sit for a spell, this Halloween let us delve into humanity’s most unappetizing taboo: cannibalism.

Kate Wong, senior editor for Scientific American, writes that the act of eating a fellow human being may have been a pretty common ritual during prehistoric times, but humans have since adapted to less disagreeable options for sustenance. Despite these options, there have still been examples of cannibalism in recent history. So, what pushes people to cannibalism?

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Jeffrey Dahmer, arguably one of the most infamous cannibal-killers, was known for brutally murdering, and consuming his victims in America beginning in 1978. He was eventually killed by a fellow inmate in 1994 after being imprisoned for the murder of 17 individuals, according to his biography.

Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who ate a woman while living in France in 1981, still walks free today due to a mishap with the French government. Sagawa waited two years in France for his trial, before a judge declared him legally insane, making him unfit for trial. He was then sent back

to Japan, and the judge dropped the charges, believing he would spend the rest of his life in a mental institution. Unfortunately, this was not the case — the doctors declared him sane, but because the charges were dropped, the Japanese authorities could no longer access the files, leaving Sagawa without any consequences for the murder of his victim.

There was also the story of Gwen van der Zwan from the Netherlands who, in 2014 decided to make blood sausage from her own blood. The woman asked readers of her post detailing the process on Motherboard: “Why is my idea considered disgusting, but doing the same thing with pigs’ blood isn’t?” In the end she claimed the sausage had a nice texture and a good level of spice, though she had gone a bit heavy on the soy sauce.

Believe it or not, cannibalism is completely legal in the United States according to the Wex Legal Dictionary (except in Idaho, sorry to any Idahoans interested in a ‘manwich’ or a ‘foot fajita’).

Cannibalism is also legal in the Netherlands, as reported by the

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Independent, which is how van der Zwan was able to go through with making her sausage. The fact that murder or the purchase of human meat will get you in some legal trouble is usually what lands convicted cannibals some serious jail time.

A particularly fascinating case was a more recent one. A 38-yearold, unnamed motorcyclist and 10 of his close friends had the oppor tunit y t o t ast e human flesh when the young man was involved in a motorcycle accident in 2016. The incident left doctors with no other choice than to amputate his foot. Following the surgery, the man asked: “Can I keep it?” For him, cannibalism was a way to seek closure over the loss of his limb, but he also said they would likely never see a situation like this again.

A few weeks after the operation, he invited 11 friends over to taste a cut of meat taken from the amputated limb — 10 of them agreed to the proposed meal. A chef who was dating one of the invited friends ultimately ended up preparing the meal for the group. After the event, he posted the recipe online on the photo sharing website Imgur, detailing the ingredients and preparation of his “Human Shin Fajitas.”

The final recipe was as follows, as shared by the chef online: • 3 oz. of human calf muscle • 1/2 cup julienned onions • 1/2 cup red bell peppers • 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil • 1 lime • 1 bunch of cilantro • Salt and pepper to taste The chef marinated the meat overnight and served it on corn tortillas with sauce at brunch.

The 38-year-old biker posted on Reddit that he tasted “like buffalo, but chewier” and that one of his

friends even had to spit “him” out into a napkin.

When asked by Reddit user Mr_Eggs if he would eat his other foot if lost, he answered: “Probably to keep with tradition, but I sure hope I don’t get that chance.” All jokes aside, he said the experience changed his view on cannibalism, mentioning that it has a stigma associated with uncivilized cultures. “I think you can ethically be a cannibal in certain situations,” the man told VICE in an interview. “I don’t have some hunger to go hunt people down and gnaw off their faces.” He also said it gave him some closure over the accident and that the experience allowed him to give the lost limb a proper send-off.

While these examples seem to vary widely, psychologists have managed to split motives for cannibalism into a few solid categories.

Although some were affected by psychotic illnesses, such as Richard Trenton Chase who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, many other cannibals knew exactly what they were doing, according to Deborah Schurman-Kauflin — a retired criminal profiler who previously worked with the United States police force before writing for Psychology Today. In fact, it was

common for known cannibals, including Sagawa and Dahmer, to derive sexual pleasure from the act of cannibalizing their victims.

In t he pa st , s ome p e ople believed that people could gain the power of their victim if they ate them, according to History Today. But in more recent years, some people — like Gwen van der Zwan and the unnamed motorcyclist — have been drawn to the idea of ethical-cannibalism by morbid curiosity. While some may relate to the curiosity, it is unlikely that any of us will ever feel the need to feed that curiosity.

This begs the question: Would any of you eat a part of your own body if presented with the chance?

According to the social media poll The Ontarion ran online, the answer isn’t unanimous!

Eat, drink, and be scary — Happy Halloween!

Q & A WITH G U E LPH :

Do you think eating your own flesh can be considered vegan?

Yes, I consented to it: 55%

No, cannibalism is wrong: 45%

Adrian Harder: Veganism, while it may be done through the morality of concept, is ultimately the choice to not eat animal products or byproducts. If a cow moo’d “yes” to being milked, drinking that milk would still not be vegan. Same goes with human beings. If you eat yourself, congrats, you’ve consented, but you’re still eating an animal product. The reason for the choice of veganism and what veganism actually is are not the same.

Googling “Vegan” gives this definition: veg·an noun noun: vegan; plural noun: vegans 1. a person who does not eat or use animal products.

“I’m a strict vegan” Consent isn’t a factor to what the diet is.

Richard Schwarting: I can make an informed choice, so yes, whereas animals are not afforded that luxury.

Celeste Lopreiato: Yes because I can consent. Non-human animals are not able to consent through language with humans.

Jenaya Elizabeth: Veganism is about non-human animals, so I find questions like these irrelevant.

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How to scare a vet student FIVE THINGS THAT’LL HAVE US QUAKING IN OUR (RUBBER) BOOTS! C A R L E I G H C AT H C A R T

on the species and state of health, these cells are shaped, coloured, numbered, and even named differently. No pressure.

4. SOUL-SUCKING FINALS

THIS HALLOWE’EN WILL SEE the usual suspects out in full force: ghouls and goblins around every corner, waiting to inject fright into any victim that may pass. Yet when it comes to scaring vet students, there is no need for fake fangs or costly costumes. If you really want to get us tachycardic — er, get our hearts beating fast — then look no further. Here are five things that will have us jumping out of our skin faster than a shedding snake.

2. BATS

1. GHOSTS OF SUBJECTS PAST

3. BLOOD SMEARS

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While we don’t have an issue with the actual blood itself, all you need to do is remind us that we must evaluate the white and red blood cells of the animals we study.

Sure, it doesn’t sound too bad — until you know that depending

Well, not bats specifically, but what they — and racoons, mosquitos, birds, livestock, etc. — have the potential to spread to humans.

Dangerous diseases such as malaria, rabies, swine influenza, and dozens of others can be contracted by humans via animals in a variety of ways. Vets have a responsibility to both human and animal health in minimizing these risks, and it starts here in school. Yikes!

To be fair, finals are a bit of a horror show for most university students. At OVC — where there are twice the number of exams as there are in undergrad and they span at least three weeks — it’s easy to feel like you’re being cooked alive under the pressure. Throw in our practicals where someone is literally evaluating our every move, and our zombie-like appearance starts to make a lot of sense.

5. IMPOSTER SYNDROME

Perhaps the scariest of all, this demon is real and powerful.

Imposter syndrome is the feeling of doubting your own accomplishments, and the impending fear that you will be exposed as a fraud. It seems to be very common among vet students and other

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intensive professional programs.

Having experienced its haunting first hand, I would say Imposter

Syndrome deserves a specially trained exorcist.

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Rosie loves singing with her flock, which include birds that chirp on TV! Recently she hurt her leg and needed an X-ray, but it hasn’t slowed her down!

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My phobia experience THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FEAR AND A PHOBIA JULIA WIGDOR

For as long as I can remember, I have been living with a phobia. Nobody in my family can explain how it came about or why, all anyone knows is that I have been phobic of animals forever. My most prevalent phobia is that of dogs and cats, but I have been categorizing it as animals that can come out of cages since I was little. This includes both furry friends and more coldblooded ones; to my brain, every animal is the same and triggers the natural fight or flight instinct no matter the circumstance.

Most people I explain my phobia to don’t understand it, since people generally assume a phobia is the same as a fear. This is by far the biggest misconception I have come across when explaining my phobia, as the term ‘fear’ does not fully define or describe a phobia. Phobias are classified by your subconscious reactions.

For me, this is an increased heart rate, shaky limbs, and the need to be far away from the animal; due to these reactions, my entire life

is dictated by my phobia.

A fear, to the general public, is something you are scared of or afraid of. You can logically justify the fear in your mind, and those around you can understand it.

This differs from phobias as they are completely illogical, and those who have phobias know they are illogical too. For me, this is the fact that I love dogs, yes, I know it’s hard to believe, but I genuinely love dogs. I think they are adorable, and silly, and the cutest. I follow many dogs on Instagram and from far distances admire them — even the pups in training we see on campus! But the minute I am near a dog, especially if it is off a leash, that is when the illogical part of my brain starts firing and my subconscious takes over with fight or flight instincts. Yes, logically I know most dogs won’t hurt me, but it’s hard to tell that to your subconscious mind, which doesn’t really like to interact with your conscious mind and thoughts.

Because of this my entire life and everything I do is controlled

by my phobia. I have to know in advance if the party host has a pet, I can’t walk through parks because there will more likely than not be someone walking a dog, and if a dog is walking down the sidewalk towards me, I have to find a way to cross the street so I can avoid being near the dog.

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Curiosity killed the cat, you remind yourself. You decide it’s not worth the trouble and walk back home. You try your best to study all night and when you get hungry, you reach into your bag to find a golden apple. You don’t remember receiving this apple, but upon olfactory inspection, you decide to take a bite.

When you receive your midterm back, you’re happy to see that you got a 72. On the back of your midterm, there are strange runes drawn in pencil. You ask the TA who marked your exam about it, but he says that you were the one who drew them.

You tell him that it couldn’t have been you — that you’ve never seen this type of writing anywhere before. He turns the page over to the front and points at where you wrote your name — the same type of runes are there. You feel horrified — even more so when your TA smiles at your terror.

These have been constants in my life that I don’t even notice anymore, and those around me don’t notice it either because I’ve gotten so good at hiding it.

T hrough the years I have tried more treatments than can be counted, to try and overcome my phobia. I have done hypnosis,

therapy, CBD, exposure therapy, and the latest medications.

Though some have worked better than others, I am still here, 21 years later, fighting the same fight with my inner mind that refuses to listen.

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You duck into the observatory. The only source of light is a glowing, red lamp. You don’t see anyone — or anything — there. You decide to take a look through the telescope, since it seems to be pointed towards

something. You peer through the eyepiece and see a planet. It’s blue and green, with wispy clouds hovering in its atmosphere. Hold on — it looks a lot like Earth! You step back in shock and blink a few times.

C H E RY L V E R S C H U E R E N

WHEN I WAS in high school I had strange, conflicting opinions about my own sexuality.

On one hand, I thought that I looked good and had matured well, but on the other hand I felt like everybody was trying to shame me for it. The kids I worked with told me I looked ugly without makeup and my friends told me I looked weird with makeup. I felt like my femininity was a bad thing no matter how I sliced it, and whenever I felt attractive I was shamed for it.

This all reached a height when a guy who I thought was my friend told me that he was tired of me “seducing” him all the time without ever putting out. This prompted him to nickname me “The Succubus.” I had no idea what to think. Did this mean that he found me attractive? For a self-conscious 17-year-old, I felt kind of flattered, but he was basically calling me a monster, and saying that my sexuality was threatening to him — just as female sexuality has scared men for years.

A succubus is a made-up female monster that preys on sleeping men in their dreams and feeds off their sexual energies causing men to physically and sexually deteriorate.

In the past, succubi were repulsive creatures that barely resembled humans. Today, they are often portrayed as beautiful, scantilydressed seductresses with perfect bodies. I wonder which one that guy was referring to when he gave me that nickname.

This all got me thinking about female monsters and the demonization of female sexuality in the past. For the life of me, I can’t think of a single female monster that isn’t gross or sexually twisted or just downright sexist. Female monsters are few and far between in the first place and many of them are seductresses.

In Greek mythology, for example, Sirens sat on rocks and lured men to their deaths.

One of Odysseus’ girlfriends, Circe, was a witch/nymph seductress who was impressed with Odysseus for being able to resist her sorcery and sexuality.

Then there’s the persecution of witches in the 1400s. Women who didn’t conform to their roles at the time were accused of being witches and burned at the stake.

Some women were considered too beautiful or too ugly, and therefore believed to be witches. If a woman was smart, she was also accused of witchcraft. And to this day we dress up as ugly green hags for Halloween and say we look like witches.

These sexist portrayals of women continue to this day. I don’t watch many horror movies, but I feel the need to bring up Jennifer’s Body. I used to love this movie, and not just because I love Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox. The movie’s about a possessed teenager who seduces her male classmates then murders them during sex. The movie was made for entertainment purposes, but the literal demonization of the high school slut grosses me out now that I’ve grown up.

Now, I’m not trying to dampen the fun or stop anyone from dressing how they want for Halloween, but I think it’s important to be aware of this problematic history. The truth of the matter is that sexism kind of ruined monsters for me. There just aren’t many unproblematic female monsters.

So, seductress or not, I eventually reclaimed my appearance. If being confident and attractive scares people, I say let them be scared. I know that looking good doesn’t mean I owe anyone anything, and I know there’s nothing wrong with that. Female monsters may be demonised for their sexuality, but all that really means is that there is nothing scarier to the patriarchy than strong women who are comfortable in their own skin.

Can you really believe your eyes?

Yes, but I think I’ve seen too much – go to page 21 No, look again – go to page 25

Megan Fox in Jennifer’s Body. | Photo courtesy of YouTube.

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AMID SEXUAL ASSAULT allegations and cringe-worthy testimony, and despite the prevalence of the #MeToo movement, Brett Kavanaugh became a Supreme Court justice. These events demonstrate that we live in a society where women can be sexually assaulted and the men who assault them are given freedom, power, authority and free reign over not just the situation but over other people as well. This injustice confirms how important it is to better understand the connection between white, heterosexual, male privilege and sexual assault.

Over the last couple of weeks, there has been a list circulating the Internet that brings to light the difference between how men and women live in relation to the fear of sexual assault. A survey conducted by social researcher Jackson Katz asked both men and women what they did on a daily basis to avoid being sexually assaulted. The differences between the two lists are really shocking.

Personally, I find it scary to live in a world where us women have to take it upon ourselves, each and every day, to prevent men from sexually assaulting us.

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Instead of placing all the responsibility for preventing sexual assault on girls and women, why aren’t boys and men taught — as they are growing up, in schools, and by their families and communities — how to be decent people who do not assault others? Recognizing that assault is bad is just the minimum and not assaulting someone is also a minimum expectation. With every assault case there are hundreds of events that may not lead to violent crimes, but still scare the shit out of women on an everyday basis. There is a constant fear that if a woman lets her guard down for even one of those situations, it could turn out that she is wrong and it will lead to assault. It’s ridiculous that it is a woman’s fault for letting her guard down rather than the fault

This list by Jackson Katz demonstrates the privilege of men. | Photo obtained via Twitter.

of the man who assaulted her. (Or, you know, the fault of the beer he likes, because it couldn’t possibly be his own fault).

This problem isn’t just a “women’s issue,” it must be tackled by everyone. Wouldn’t you agree that it’s a sad world where one half of the population has to live in constant fear of being sexually assaulted? Shouldn’t most people agree with that? And yet, it doesn’t seem that’s actually the case. It seems that women’s safety is never guaranteed and is never a priority.

Boys should be taught how to not make a woman feel uncomfortable — for example, not staring at a woman’s body, trying to avoid walking behind women who are walking alone at night, and not catcalling a woman from a vehicle or on the street. Men should recognize that they should respect a woman’s space — if a man is working in a woman’s house for a service call or online sale, respect that woman’s space. These are small changes that can be built on over time and can go a long way to help women feel safer in their own spaces and in public spaces.

This list opens your eyes to what male privilege is in today’s world. The ever growing women’s side of the list supports the victimblaming narrative of rape culture: “If you only had done [insert literally anything here], maybe you wouldn’t have been raped.”

This mentality HAS to STOP. Women SHOULD NOT have to go through life putting themselves — physically, emotionally, and mentally — in fortresses while men roam the world free, without any concern of what their freedom costs others. Imagine what the world would be like if women could say what the men have said in this list. Will we ever get there?

This problem isn’t just a ‘women’s issue,’ it must be tackled by everyone.

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Ordinary People A play about mental health by Judith Guest 8 p.m. or 2 p.m. Guelph Little Theatre

Epistemologies of the moon 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Art Gallery of Guelph Guided tour at 11 a.m.

Beyond Graduation Educational Opportunities Fair Canadian, American, and international post-grad options 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. UC Courtyard

Oct. 17

12th Annual Giant Book Sale A fundraiser for the Guelph Public Library Various times, 69 Huron St.

Writing the African City A conversation with Angolan novelist Ondjaki 7 p.m. The Bookshelf

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Gryphons Football Vs. Waterloo Warriors 1 p.m. Alumni Stadium

Decolonizing Body Positivity Queer Identities Week workshop, free food 12 p.m. UC 334

Cannabis Legalization day

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Keeping Semaa Sacred A learning circle on tobacco 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Aboriginal Resource Centre Sounds of the Nation An evening of performance and food 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Peter Clark Hall

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Use the word list created on page five to create your story.

If you haven’t done so already, flip the page now and fill out the word list — it’s more fun if you don’t look at the story first!

Three steps to make your Mad Libs ghost story: 1. Turn

to the list of words you created on page five.

2. Use that list to fill in the blanks of the story below.

Number one on the list goes in the first blank of the story and so on.

3. Read your spooky story to a spirit in the dead of night and cackle to your heart’s delight.

Oct. 19 to 21

Women’s Hockey Vs. Waterloo Warriors 7:30 p.m. Gryphon Centre

Oct. 22 Guelph Municipal Elections Remember to vote and that your employer has to give you three hours to vote 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Various locations

Oct. 25 Sexy Bingo Part of Queer Identities Week 7 p.m. Brass Taps

Oct. 26 Ladies Night - Ghost Walk with Greg Taylor Haunted tour with historian 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. University of Guelph

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Halloween Party Live DJ, photobooth, candy and drinks 7 p.m. to 11:45 p.m.

The Fifth: GSA Rooftop Patio Lounge

Oct. 31

Happy Halloween!

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Continue only if you meant to read this next part and don’t care about spoilers. You’ve stumbled into the middle of your adventure!

To start at the beginning go to Pg. 3.

When you look through the telescope to confirm your sighting, the “Earth” is gone. You try to adjust the settings on the telescope to try to find the planet again, without success. After an hour, you leave, dejected. As you exit the observatory, you turn to take one more look at the night sky. All of a sudden, a flying object, roughly the size of a small car, zooms right over your head. Was that the strangest bird I’ve ever seen? A UFO? Or just someone’s crazy idea of a prank somehow? you wonder. Either way, there’s nothing you can do about it now. You slowly take the stairs down to the ground floor as you process what just happened to you. On the way to leave, you pass by your TA’s office — the light is on. You haven’t seen a single soul all night and you think even talking to your

TA would calm you down a bit. You knock on the door.

There’s no reply. You knock again, more forcefully this time. The door creaks open. The office is empty. The room is furnished with only the bare essentials of a desk and office chair. There are no textbooks or notes — only a sheet of paper lays on the desk. Upon closer inspection, it looks like the paper is the answer key to your midterm in the morning!

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Steal the answers – go to page 26 Close the door, go home, and forget what happened – go to 27

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You pick up the answer key. You scan the paper to memorize as much as you can, but it’s indecipherable. In fact, everything is written in runes. WHAM! The door to the office abruptly slams shut and the lights turn off. You feel your stomach drop.

A pair of stony, grey hands with elongated fingers reaches at you. You are frozen in fear as the creature steps into the moonlight. You are never seen on Earth again.

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It’s been quite a whirlwind of a night, but you would never stoop so low as to cheat on an exam. You leave the MacNaughton building, walking briskly to the safety of the UC. You pull off the all-nighter and walk into your midterm feeling confident in your knowledge. Afterwards, you take the bus back home and immediately fall into a dreamless sleep for the entire day.

Weeks later, when you receive your midterm mark back, you’re pleased to see that you’ve earned a grade of 94. Your TA congratulates you as he hands you your midterm, and gifts you an aromatic golden apple as a job well done.

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