The Ontarion - Issue #176.7

Thursday, February 26, 2015

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Issue 176.7 • Thursday, February 26, 2015

Empty cabinet for Harper government A look at the flux of the Conservative Party of Canada ETHAN PANKHURST With recent news of foreign affairs minister John Baird resigning and Eve Adams crossing the floor to the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party is once again trying to minimize the impact of its members leaving the House of Commons. For the Conservatives, this is no new task: since the 2011 federal election, numerous members have left their seats for a number of reasons, including scandal, health, and disappointment with the current government.

The first of many Conservative

members to leave their seat was Bev Oda, who resigned in 2012 after an expense scandal that revolved around her charging taxpayers $16 for orange juice and upgrading to a more expensive hotel on a trip to London. Oda was the Minister of International Co-operation prior to her resignation – which she purported to be her decision, as she had planned to retire for some time.

Following Oda was Aboriginal affairs minister John Duncan, who resigned from his position in 2013 after sending a letter to the Tax Court of Canada on behalf of a constituent. After his resignation as Aboriginal affairs minister, Duncan continued to sit as a Member of Parliament (MP).

The next to resign in a cloud of scandal was Peter Penashue, also in 2013, who had taken 28 ineligible election contributions worth over $40,000, including over $18,000

from Provincial Airlines. The scandal lead Penashue to resign from his position as intergovernmental affairs minister and his seat as MP. Though Penashue attempted to regain his seat in the following by-election, he lost.

Brent Rathgeber also resigned in 2013 as backbench MP. Rathgeber became irritated by the lack of freedom he had in the party, and told reporters that he left to better represent his constituents in a way he could not as a Conservative Party member, where he was “told how to vote; told what to speak.”

For a short time after 2013, the Conservatives appeared to have better management of their MPs, and no members resigned – that is, until one of the biggest resignations in the history of Canadian federal politics, when finance minister Jim Flaherty resigned in 2014 due to sudden health concerns. Flaherty was a key player in federal and Conservative

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politics, and was responsible for steering Canada through the economic recession of 2008. A month after his resignation, Flaherty passed away from a heart attack.

Earlier this year, veterans affairs minister Julian Fantino was moved out of his position, following outcry from opposition members and the public over the lack of support for veterans with mental illness and the closing of regional offices. Fantino now sits as Associate Minister of Defence, with retired Royal Canadian Air Force officer Erin O’Toole taking the Veterans Affairs seat.

After Fantino, the Conservatives were dealt another major blow when Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird resigned. Baird has yet to officially provide a specific reason for his resignation, but some sources report that he is following opportunities in the private sector. Baird became a common name after the series of

international crises in the summer of 2014, including the conflicts in Ukraine and the surge of ISIS conflict. Many considered Baird to be Harper’s top lieutenant, and his resignation came as a surprise.

The most recent political hit for the Conservatives came when Eve Adams, a Conservative MP who has been followed by a series of questionable acts, crossed the floor and joined the Liberal Party. Adams notes to have made this decision after some “soul searching” and long-term distaste with the Harper government.

As the series of resignations – especially of those higher up in the party – continue, many are starting to question the credibility of a Conservative Party that can’t hold onto their own caucus. The Conservatives still have time, however, to recover before the next election, which is currently set to take place in October of this year.

Three Muslim students killed in Chapel Hill shooting A closer look at media coverage of the tragedy RACHEL VAN ZEUMEREN On Feb. 10, three Muslim students were shot and killed in an apartment building near the University of North Carolina (UNC). The victims – Deah Barakat, 23, his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and Yusor’s 19-year-old sister, Razan Abu-Salha – were often described as role models, and were active volunteers in their community.

Barakat was a dental student, with to travel to Turkey in the summer of 2015 to provide dental care to children who have become refugees due to the ongoing Syrian Civil War. Yusor had

recently graduated from North Carolina State University (NCSU), with a degree in biological sciences and plans to begin dental studies in Chapel Hill this fall. Razan had just enrolled in UNC’s architecture program.

The shooter, Craig Hicks, 46, was arrested after he turned himself in, charged with first-degree murder. A quick glance at Hicks’s Facebook profile reveals extremist views regarding religious affiliation. Hicks described himself as a “gun-toting atheist,” and his neighbours said he was often angry and confrontational. Yusor had mentioned to her father that Hicks was “hateful,” and that she thought the hatefulness was because of her religion.

After the tragic shooting, media coverage left a lot to be desired. Very little news coverage was provided shortly after, and it took national news outlets up to 15 hours to publish stories

regarding the shooting. When stories started to appear, they were less-thansatisfactory, sparking the trending of “#MuslimLivesMatter” on twitter.

Tweets quickly pointed out that the presented motive for the shooting was a “parking dispute” between the neighbours. Social media users also took issue with the fact that media coverage referred to Hicks as “a man” and purported that the students died, not that they were murdered. Hicks’s religious affiliations were rarely mentioned, and those on social media quickly demanded answers. Many questioned: If the shooter had been Muslim, and the victims white, how would the coverage of this story be different?

Aaron Wannamaker, a communications assistant with the Muslim Association of Canada, recently spoke with CBC News regarding the issue.

“Had it been the other way around

– one Muslim gunman killing three people,” Wannamaker noted, “everyone would have been all over it.”

Mohammad Abu-Salha, the father of Yusor and Razan, does not believe his daughters were murdered because of a parking space, but rather because of growing anti-Muslim sentiments in America.

“It was execution style, a bullet in every head,” he said to the News and Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina.

“This was not a dispute over a parking space this was a hate crime. This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple times before.”

Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue responded to allegations of hate crime said in the department’s official statement.

“We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated,” said Blue, “and we will exhaust

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every lead to determine if that is the case.”

With a rising anti-Muslim rhetoric prevalent in social discourse, accuracy in reporting stories such as these is of the utmost importance. Many members of the Muslim community – and the community at large – remain disappointed in regards to how this story was handled.

A UNC professor, in a open letter released following the shooting, called on the campus student community to push for change in society rhetoric.

“Your job is to make change, like Deah and Yusor and Razan,” the professor wrote. “That’s the only way I can think […] to make sense of their murders; that’s what I encourage you to begin today, to begin the change that will make such things so much less likely to happen in the future.”

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Ontario reveals revisions to sex-ed curriculum The Government of Ontario announced plans to revise their existing sexual education curriculums on Monday, Feb. 23. The revision marks the first major update since 1998, and the curriculum now includes lesson on everything from sexting to consent, masturbation, and anal sex.

“Ontario elementary schools strive to support high-quality learning while giving every student the opportunity to learn in the way that is best suited to his or her individual strengths and needs,” explained an excerpt from the health and physical education packet for grades one through eight.

Students will begin to learn the new curriculum in the first grade, with new information taught to students each year until the final year of secondary school.

While much of the content from grades one through three are similar to that of the old curriculum, students in grade four and onwards are expected to learn the new curriculum, which features discussions of personal and private space, as well as anonymity online.

“Today, we live in a digital and interconnected world where information is literally at our fingertips around the clock,” said Minister of Education Liz Sandals in a news conference at Queens Park on Feb. 23. “Students have instant access to quite explicit information from unreliable, inaccurate, and often offensive sources. This is why it’s so important to ensure that our children have the right information.”

The curriculum revisions come almost five years after delays – as a result of pressure from religious groups – prevented Sandals from revising lesson plans.

“I was disappointed [the revisions] didn’t happen,” said Sandals. “But you can rest assured that I will make sure [they happen] now.”

The new curriculum will take effect in September, 2015.

The revised policy was released and published online, and any interested parties can access the curriculum by visiting the Government of Ontario website.

-Compiled by Sameer Chhabra

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#askhermore New campaign receives widespread support on 2015 red carpet ALYSSA OTTEMA At the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards, Cate Blanchette called attention to an increasing prevalent social issue, on the red carpet and off. As she was interviewed by E!’s Giuliana Rancic, Blanchette noticed the camera slowly panning her body. Bending down to put her face back in focus, Blanchette said seven simple but powerful words.

“Do you do that to the guys?”

Launched by the Representation Project, the #AskHerMore campaign calls on reporters to bring more thought and quality to the questions asked of women in interviews.

“There’s nothing wrong with loving fashion and being interested in what they wear,” said Representation Project communications director Cristina Escobar in a statement. “But the problem is, that’s the only thing we talk about with women. Men are allowed to be their whole selves: they’re asked about their interests and passions […] It reinforces a message that women are valued for youth and

appearance and men are valued for their accomplishments.”

Though the campaign began with the Representation Project, it recently caught on with several other media outlets, most notably Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, a website founded by Meredith Walker and Amy Poehler to provide inspiration to young girls and women.

In a new video starring Heather Morris of Glee, Smart Girls blogger Dara Laine mocked traditional red carpet interviews. In several clips of Laine asking Morris “traditional” questions about “who” she’s wearing, what’s in her “clutch”, and how she likes her hair, Morris responds with mock seriousness to highlight the inanity.

“If we only ask women whether or not they’re hiding a baby bump,” Laine wrote in an article accompanying the video, “then how would we ever find out about Julianne Moore’s humanitarian work with the Save the Children organization? What about the production company Reese Witherspoon created because she wasn’t seeing enough great female characters for her and her peers to play?”

Witherspoon was notably vocal with her support of the campaign, posting to social media before the 87th Academy Awards, which took place Sunday, Feb. 22, and asking red carpet interviewers to ask more interesting and engaging questions of Hollywood’s female population.

“We’re more than just our dresses,” Witherspoon said on the red carpet.

Eve Adams crosses floor Former Conservative MP to join Liberal Party JOANNE PEARCE Former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Eve Adams announced her decision to join the Liberal Party in a press conference two weeks ago in Ottawa, alongside Liberal leader Justin Trudeau. Adams’s defection from the Conservatives to the Liberals also had her slamming Prime Minister Stephen Harper, remarking that she could no longer support “meanspirited leadership that divides people instead of bringing them together.”

Adams, 41, who formerly represented the riding of MississaugaBrampton South and has served as MP since 2011, said in a prepared statement that she had joined the Conservatives to improve the lives of

Canadians, but instead was let down.

Adams noted that the Conservative government is “about to roll out policies like income splitting, which will devour the surplus without benefiting many Canadian families, or creating a single job.” Adams also mentioned a woman’s right to choose is another issue upon which she did not agree with the Conservative stance.

The Conservative Party’s response to her defection was almost immediate, part of their response coming from Conservative Party President John Walsh, who stated how he had previously refused to let Adams run for the party again.

“I informed her in writing on Jan. 29 that she would not be permitted to run for our Party in the next election due to the misconduct from the Oakville North-Burlington nomination race,” Walsh said in a statement.

Walsh here refers to Adam’s controversial failed bid to win the Conservative nomination in the new riding. The race is thought to have been flawed, as allegations were made of dirty tricks being used back and

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The #AskHerMore campaign has been sweeping the red carpet at this year’s Hollywood awards ceremonies.

“We are so happy to be here and talk about the work that we’ve done.”

Witherspoon’s sentiments were shared by 2015 Best Supporting Actress winner Patricia Arquette, who addressed the issue in her interview with Ryan Seacrest when he asked about E!’s Mani Cam, absent from the red carpet this year.

“It’s pretty funny, there’s this silly mani-cam business going on and I was supposed to get a manicure this morning,” Arquette said. “But instead I was working on […] one of our projects with GiveLove.org, where we do ecological sanitation work in the neediest communities around the world.”

Arquette continued to draw attention to prevalent gender issues in the final words of her acceptance speech.

“To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights,” Arquette concluded. “It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women.”

Arquette’s words met resounding applause, with Meryl Streep among her biggest supporters. Streep emphatically clapped and pointed to the Arquette on stage, all the while enthusiastically shouting, “Yes!”

forth between herself and her rival, Natalia Lishchyna.

Questions have also been raised as to how Adams’s decision to switch went over with her partner, Dimitri Soudas, the former senior aide and one-time communications director to Harper. Soudas also served as director of the Conservative Party in 2013.

“My entire family is 100 per cent supportive,” Adams noted on the afternoon of Feb. 9, while Soudas tweeted that he “fully supports” Adams’s decision.

When pressed to address her wellpublicized difficulties in securing her Conservative nominations in two separate ridings, Adams did not respond. Trudeau has said that he is not concerned with Soudas’s Conservative ties.

There has been criticism from Liberal opponents, however, with this recent switch.

“Once again, an elected official is thinking of their own career ahead of the constituents that elected her,” NDP MP Charlie Angus said in a statement. “The Liberal Party

of Canada is giving us yet another example of cynicism by accepting in their ranks a Conservative MP that has fallen out of favour of the prime minister.”

Conservatives have said they are happy to see Adams leave, pointing to an apparent track record of multiple small, but embarrassing, controversies for the Conservatives, including her attempts claim hair and nail salon treatments as campaign expenses in the 2011 election.

Harper has refused to comment on the switch, but has suggested Adams’s choice as tied to her rejection as a candidate in the next election. Liberal MPs, however, seem to be welcoming Adams to their party.

“We’re only 35 [MPs in caucus].

We’re glad to have another person,” Marc Garneau, the Montreal MP, commented to CBC News.

Adams has announced her intent to seek nominations on behalf of the Liberal Party for the Toronto riding of Eglinton-Lawrence in the next election.

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U of G hosts 10th annual World Hunger Summit University launches summit with two-hour discussion SAMEER CHHABRA The University of Guelph proudly hosted the 10th annual Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH) summit from Feb. 20 to Feb. 22. The three-day event featured a host of international educators, economists, and leaders in the food industry, including former University of Guelph President Alastair Summerlee, who served as the summit’s co-coordinator.

The summit kicked-off with a speech from President Franco Vaccarino, who introduced guests by delivering his welcome in Rozanski Hall. Following President Vaccarino’s brief introduction, Summerlee led a roundtable discussion about the past, present, and future of world food security.

Summerlee was joined by the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Ajay Markanday, the Ontario Agricultural College’s (OAC) Dr. Brady Deaton Jr., Food Banks Canada’s Executive Director Katharine Schmidt, Chancellor Emeritus of Missouri University Dr. Brady Deaton Sr., and the College of Business and Economics’ (CBE) Dr. Sylvain Charlebois.

The two-hour long discussion was preluded, and informed, by a brief 10-minute documentary, 55,000 for Breakfast, that chronicled the 1949

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meeting of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) in Guelph. Using the documentary as a jumping-off point, Summerlee led the conversation, touching on topics of sustainability, the future of food production, emerging markets, and the prospect of feeding nine billion members of planet Earth.

“65 years ago, we sat here and said we would solve this,” said Summerlee. “Why haven’t we?”

Over the course of the two-hourlong discussion, speakers repeatedly brought up the belief that the fastest way to securing world peace is through eliminating hunger. Deacon Jr. clung to the notion that solving hunger is a matter of allowing second- and third-world nations – less financially-developed countries – more opportunities to produce and purchase food.

“...food production is certainly an issue of community...”

Markanday raised the notion that, although we have efforts in place to fight the growing hunger crisis, certain organizations have not kept pace with growing demands.

According to Schmidt, whose work makes her an expert on hunger in Canada, approximately 2.5 per cent of Canadians rely on food banks every month.

“I think some things have changed,” said Schmidt. “The dialogue has shifted…the second [question] is: why in a country as

prosperous as ours are we still seeing people go hungry?”

As the speakers grew more comfortable with another – and the discussion grew more heated – Summerlee confidently kept control over the individuals present. What began as a conversation among colleagues quickly grew into a discussion between deeply concerned and educated individuals.

Though the discussion was situated around food production, each speaker – at one point – mentioned the need to revisit and revise existing policy to increase cooperation and production. The growing issue of food production is certainly an issue of community, but speakers like Charlebois raised the point that food security is closely related to foreign policy.

“I’m a big believer that we’re empowering regions to develop agriculturally,” said Charlebois. “[However], immigration and labour laws must be looked at. If we have a skilled labour force [that is skilled in one area], it can become unskilled very quickly.” “[We should] liberalize systems to share human capital.”

Despite steering the discussion in several directions, speakers like Markanday were quick to state that their concerns were less with production, and more with distribution.

“I don’t believe in the [production] crisis,” said Markanday. “We’ve got more than enough…to feed the population.”

The UFWH first began in 2004, when U.S. Auburn University partnered with the UN’s World Food Programme. Since then, it has grown into a cross-country event, attracting leaders from all sectors of food production.

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The 10th annual Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH) summit, hosted at the university from Feb. 20 to Feb. 22, featured several international educators and leaders from the global food industry.

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Jam Space: musings on sound and culture A primer on afro-futurism, liberation and mythology ADRIEN POTVIN The Feb. 24 release of THEESatisfaction’s latest LP, EarthEE, sparked me to think of the tradition it operates in – perhaps more than the album itself.

With spacey, transcendent textures, underscored by complex, polyrhythmic percussives, and socially-charged lyrics, the excellent experimental hiphop album is an apt starting example for discussing a concept that has

informed and permeated black arts for the better part of the 20th Century. Supported also by recent musical efforts from Shabazz Palaces (2014’s Lese Majesty) and Janelle Monae (2010’s The Archandroid and 2013’s The Electric Lady), to name a few, “Afro-futurism” – a blending of historical fiction, liberation ideology, and futuristic thought within a cohesively afro-diasporic context – is very much prescient and vital, most specifically in the age of digital capitalism in which the Western world finds itself.

Since humankind progressed from mere survival to awareness of its place on earth and the universe, human beings have looked to the stars and the future, often through strictly ideological lenses. Creation myths, abstractions of nature and time cycles, and narratives

THEESatisfaction – EarthEE Seattle artrap mavericks release sophomore LP ADRIEN POTVIN Since its earliest inceptions, hip-hop has always been a forward-looking cultural medium – in style, substance, and delivery – though perhaps not as obviously at all times. Repurposing timbres of the past (recent or distant) into new aesthetic forms, discourses on society and remedying its injustices, and so forth, are all staples of hip-hop’s aesthetic and political existence.

Some groups, like the Seattle-based THEESatisfaction (made up of rappers Stasia “Stas” Irons and Catherine “Cat” Harris-White) take futurology to new heights (pun intended – I’ll show myself out), and their second LP, EarthEE, is a case-in-point example of hip-hop’s transcendent potential.

“Prophetic Perfection,” EarthEE’s opening track, opens the record with a pulsing snare and bass groove, detailed by sparse synthesizer riffs. Things kick up with “No GMO,” a trebly, lead-synth heavy track not entirely dissimilar to an Odd Future production, though more conscious and transcendent in its execution. “Blandland” utilizes a heavier groove sensibility, with a lulling, deep bass pattern punctuated with a guest appearance by Ishmael Butler, the visionary behind THEESatisfaction’s Seattle contemporaries Shabazz Palaces, as well as the seminal New York trio Digable Planets.

“Nature’s Candy” maintains, perhaps, the most straight-ahead hip-hop beat form, but it is again made distinctive with its powerfully feminine delivery, wispy vocal textures, and rhythmic complexities subtly informing the production’s background.

There is a lot going on in each beat on the album, really, but they refrain from overwhelming themselves with their intricacy.

“EarthEE,” the title track, is, probably ironically, the least hip-hop oriented track. With mostly sung lyrics, a production that is essentially synth-pop, and a guest appearance by rapper Blu, it’s not a great centerpiece for what the album gets across, but it’s a solid track nonetheless. “Post Black Anyway” is even less hip-hop proper in its sparse, surreal lyrics and brooding, ambient production style – as is the following track, “Universal Perspective,” which operates as a sort of mission statement for Irons and Harris-White’s musical dialogue. The album’s second-last track, “Recognition,” is a sort of sound poem, set to thumb piano and percussion instrumentation, and interrupted by more latent synthesizer accompaniment. This stylistic gesture also works as a powerful summation of the duo’s aesthetic praxis – the ancient sounds of the thumb piano and percussion are mediated by the forward-looking electronic production and ethereal positivity in its message.

Structurally, it seems as though the listener is able to develop with the album’s progression, at least as far as its social praxis is concerned. The album gets stronger as it progresses, without a visible plateau, offering the listener the same reflective space that Irons and Harris-White offer themselves.

in which humanity transcends earthly bondage have informed cultures and philosophies since the birth of thought and ideas; their archetypes have pervaded countless thought frameworks in countless aspects.

But what does one make of positing futuristic imaginations to a massively implicating history of oppression and brutality – specifically, in the context of the devastation of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and subsequent diasporic identity formations? These mediations of future and past indeed become subversive within the framework of diasporic thought – taking on its liberation ideology in the forms of music, visual art, conceptual art, and literature.

While the term Afro-futurism itself may be somewhat redundant (coined by subculture theorist Mark Dery in

the 1990s), its facets are visionary and important as a cultural current. The fiction writing of Samuel R. Delaney (Nova), Octavia Butler (Kindred), and Nalo Hopkinson (Midnight Robber), among others, has integrated ancient mythologies, from Yoruban and Egyptian traditions, among others, into science fiction to fascinating and illuminating degrees. Jazz composer and philosopher Sun Ra’s transgressive preoccupation with “returning” to the universe has proved foundational, inspiring the socially urgent funk of George Clinton, Parliament-Funkadelic, and Alice Coltrane’s avant-garde jazz. The perceived formal cynicism of the postmodern is certainly at play in the works of these artists, but it is overshadowed by a more cohesive discourse of liberation by way of formal

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experimentation.

These notions of liberation through mythoi, technoculture, and experimentalism operate in a reciprocal correspondence between the archetypes of the past, the urgency of the present, and the potential for subversion in the future. While many important liberation-centered movements in black arts have been largely localized (early hip-hop’s Zulu Nation in the Bronx, contemporary Caribbean and West African literatures’ consolidation with Yoruban and vodou mythoi, etc.), the universality of futurism’s goal in its pan-African, diasporic situating, envisions a future more broad reaching, more challenging of the demands of cultural production, and more radically dissociative of the colonial narrative.

Rare Kerouac work to be published Quebec publishing house to release in 2016 ALYSSA OTTEMA Les Editions du Boreal, a publishing house based in Quebec, recently signed a deal to publish rare, unseen works from Jack Kerouac’s estate, written entirely in his native French.

Kerouac, who was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, in a FrenchAmerican community, spoke only French until the age of six. Though he spent the majority of his life within American borders, Montreal author and journalist Gabriel Anctil traced Kerouc’s heritage back to the farmlands of Quebec in the mid-to-late 1800s. Kerouac’s parents themselves were born in Quebec, making the Canadian publication of his original French works particularly fitting.

As he rose to fame on the American literary scene, Kerouac continued to write in his native tongue. Kerouac even told former girlfriend, author Joyce Johnston, that his writing almost always began as French thoughts that he translated to English. Despite this, most of Kerouac’s French works have sat unpublished for 50 years.

The collection, to be titled La vie est d’hommage, is set to include a novella entitled Sur le chemin – in English: On The Road. Though the short novel shares a name with Kerouac’s 1957 novel, the novella diverges greatly from the autobiographical road trip, according to the publishers.

The collection will also include the beginning of La Nuit est ma femme,

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Did you know that Jack Kerouac was a native French speaker?

Les Editions du Boreal, a Quebec-based publishing company, is set to release Kerouac’s previously-unseen French works. an unfinished longer novel.

The stories, preserved by Kerouac’s brother-in-law John Sampas, were released to the publishing house in a deal signed to the state.

The Library of America, a nonprofit organization, will also publish the collection in English under University of Pennsylvania professor Jean-Christophe Cloutier, in efforts to show readers further depth of the famed author. Les Editions du Boreal hopes to accomplish the same reveal for French readers across North America.

“Above all, [readers] will discover the extraordinary sensitivity of Kerouac when he wrote in his native language,” the publishing house revealed in a translated statement.

Kerouac had a strained relationship with the Quebec population after an awkward appearance on Radio-Canada’s Sel de la semaine – during which he felt the audience was mocking the quality of his French. However, the publication of Kerouac’s French work, Anctil noted in an interview with The Toronto Star, may serve to reconnect the author’s history with his ancestry.

Anctil also believes that the works will open up the understanding of Kerouac’s broader collection of work to the French population.

“It’s […] important as a Quebecer to know that such a great writer wrote in our language,” Anctil concluded.

La vie est d’hommage is expected to be released in both languages in the spring of 2016.

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Cover to cover Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck ALYSSA OTTEMA Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, at only 37, has made quite a splash on the global literary scene. In 2011, The Times Literary Supplement hailed as the “most prominent” of a long list of young authors working to attract “a new generation of readers to African literature.”

Adichie, herself from Nigeria, won more than a dozen accolades - including the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant – before 30.

With two master’s degrees and three Ivy League fellowships under her belt, Adichie can also count an Orange Prize nomination, a Booker Prize nomination, and a 10 Best Books of 2013 selection amongst her accomplishments.

The Thing Around Your Neck, published in 2009, may not be Adichie’s most decorated work, but the 12 short stories may be some of her most important. In a New York Times review of the collection, Jess Row notes that Adichie masters a “tricky balance,” in this work more than any other, by “exposing, while also at times playing on, her audience’s prejudices.”

The stories, for the most part, focus on the lives of Nigerian women and their experiences with displacement, loneliness, violence, disappointment, and tragedy.

Adichie is expert at presenting both a realistic representation of the African female experience and a characterization with which a wide range of audiences can identify.

Particular standouts include “The American Embassy,” an emotionally grueling look at the broken experiences of a woman whose child has died at the hands of political thugs, and the uncomfortable, yet eye-opening, “On Monday of Last Week,” which explores the life of a highly-educated Nigerian woman who must work as “the help” for a wealthy American family in order to make ends meet. “Ghosts,” the only male-narrated story of the collection, is also moving and nostalgic, reminiscent of Adichie’s previous novelistic work.

Perhaps the strongest moment of tension comes in “Jumping

The Weekly Scene: Shrek (2001) 3 Surprisinglyrestrainedhigh-riskgambles out of 4 SAMEER CHHABRA Hollywood rumour has it that the vision for Shrek came to fruition after Jeffrey Katzenberg had a vicious falling out with other executives at Walt Disney Studios. After serving as chairman for 10 years, Katzenberg left the Disney media conglomeration to co-found and lead DreamsWorks, a company that would spend its entire life – up to, and including, the present – fighting Disney for American animation supremacy.

It’s almost comedic in a Shakespearean manner to think that the movie that launched DreamWorks served as a simultaneous criticism of both Disney movies and The Walt Disney Company itself. Far be it from being the only movie ever made due its creator’s spite for a person, place, or thing, Shrek might be one of the only movies that’s amazing solely because its creator hated something. Make no mistake, however, my brief history of animated film is in no way meant to criticize this exemplary feature.

There’s simply a completely logical reason why Shrek hates fairy tale creatures, and there’s

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a reason why the film’s primary antagonist is a bloated caricature of a ruler who spends the entire film subjugating otherwise harmless fairy tale creatures. There’s a reason why the film’s premise revolves around an ugly, green, Scottish, Mike Myers-voiced ogre trying to rescue a princess so she can rule a parody of Disneyland.

There’s a reason for the film’s deconstruction of the damselin-distress trope, there’s a reason why Shrek hates the John Lithgow-voiced Lord Farquaad, and there’s a perfectly good reason why none of the fairy tale creatures like Duloc. In short, that reason is Jeffrey Katzenberg’s almost titanic animosity for his former employer, Disney.

Shrek tells the story of the eponymous ogre, based on a picture book character written by William Steig. Whereas Steig’s story featured the ogre leaving

his home to explore the world, the Shrek in directors Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson’s film is more than content to be left alone in his swamp. After being harassed by an Eddie Murphyvoiced donkey as a result of Lord Farquaad’s attempts to cleanse the kingdom of fairy tale creatures, Shrek embarks on an adventure to rescue Princess Fiona (voiced

by Cameron Diaz in a role that parodied her on-screen persona at the time) so Farquaad will simply leave the ogre alone.

Shrek’s simple premise makes the film accessible for children, while also leaving adults very much entertained. However, I’d argue that the film is less for children and more for adults, simply based on the complex comedy and dialogue that results from the tight script written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H. Schulman. What surprises me about the film is precisely how funny the comedy is. Visual works alongside physical, and though Shrek’s appalling scent is made light of frequently, the film is thankfully light on toilet humour. For a film about a scary, ugly, smelly, green ogre, the film is incredibly restrained and subtle.

In many ways, Shrek is a film firmly rooted in the cinematic past of the early oughts. Not content with merely referencing popular culture – like many present day affairs choose to do – Shrek plays with pop culture with tongue-firmly-pressed-againstcheek. Other than a blatant The

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Monkey Hill,” which details the eventful conflicts of a writers’ retreat in Cape Town. Noted by Adichie to be the “most autobiographical” of the stories,

Matrix gag, most of the film’s pop culture references are of the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it variety.

In fact, most of the film’s references come from the many fairy tale creatures either directly onscreen or hidden away, only to be found for the keen and observant.

Though the film’s inception resulted from one man’s vendetta against Walt Disney and everything his descendants stood for, Shrek serves as a sign that great animation can be found without wishing upon a star. In 2001, when the Disney renaissance had already ended, and the studio was churning out differentbut-still-safe films, Shrek and DreamWorks came out of the gate to show the world what can really happen when filmmakers

“Jumping Monkey Hill” highlights the reality of a violent gender war. The tension comes to a head when the retired professor running the workshop calls out a particular story – featuring a female Nigerian bank clerk asked to trade sexual favours for a new client’s business – as “agenda writing.”

“Women are never victims in that sort of crude way,” the professor asserts, only to be met with objection from the author herself, a young woman who mentions that the story came, in fact, from her own experience.

Adichie’s entire collection is saturated in important tensions such as these: between expectations and experience, between fiction and truth, and between the prejudices of those outside and the reality of those inside.

and animators takes a highly unfavourable gamble. That it was able to beat out Monsters, Inc., the Disney-Pixar film of 2001, for Best Animated Feature, was – and still is – proof that there are strong alternatives to the House of Mouse.

Shrek not only stands the test of time, but its irreverent sense of humour and down-withDisney attitude only accentuate its positive qualities. Audiences expecting a cartoonish, childfriendly affair akin to the Disney movies of the time will be sorely disappointed. Those who stay past the opening credits will be rewarded for their decision to embrace the film’s downright brutal treatment of fairy tale lore.

Upcoming events Feb. 26: Incline/Decline presents Dories/Foam/ Wolfcow. ANAF, 9 p.m. Legion hall – no hats allowed.

Feb. 27: Kazoo! Presents Horsey Craze (Neil Young covers) and Tramps Like Us (Springsteen cover band) – eBar, 9:30 p.m.

Feb. 27: The Making Box presents Head Liners, ft.

Sandra Battaglini. Making Box Theatre (40 Baker St), 8 p.m Feb. 27: Literary potluck with the English Student’s Society – bring your favourite book and share a passage or two. Brass Taps Keg Lounge, 12 to 2 p.m.

March 3: Curtain Call Productions presents ‘Spring Awakening’, 8 p.m. in War Memorial Hall.

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Album Review: CCAIP2 EP – Aphex Twin Aphex Twin release an EP of more experimental material CADEN MCCANN With a sprawling discography spanning everything from beatdriven ambient tracks to industrial noise, Richard D. James has been

a perennial figure in the world of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) over the past 20 years. On Jan. 23, the artist dropped his latest release under the Aphex Twin moniker with the Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt. 2 EP. Coming off of last year’s critically acclaimed Syro album, the EP sees James making music in a decidedly more experimental vein, with a series of off-kilter electro-acoustic tracks.

CCAIPII commences with “Diskhat ALL prepared1mixed 13,” a track where James combines resonant, low piano notes and a haunting metronome to create something akin to dark ambient,

with drums entering at the one-minute mark to give the piece a propulsive, rhythmic kick. After a brief interlude, James follows this opening with another standout, “diskhat 1,” a groovy, beat-oriented track made from stuttering programmed drums, caveman-like piano clanging, and cymbal clashes.

After carrying us through a series of sonic experiments under the twominute mark during the album’s middle patch, James again experiments with longer-form music making with “disk prep calrec2 barn dance [slo].”

Clocking in at just over four minutes, the track is among the sparsest and most minimal of the tracks collected,

Better Call Saul starts on AMC Vince Gilligan and co. do a spinoff the right way ZOEY ROSS Do you miss your favorite sleazy criminal lawyer from Breaking Bad? Then you’d better watch Better Call Saul.

It’s four episodes deep, and already the show has brought the tension so often provided by director Vince Gilligan and his creative team. This story is held together by Bob Odenkirk – who reprises his role as James McGill, originally known as Saul Goodman in the Breaking Bad series. The framework of the story is told as a prequel to the events in Breaking Bad, but the series also shows glimpses of life after Breaking Bad and before the beginning of Better Call Saul. This allows for multiple plot lines, all revolving around

McGill, but at different times in his life.

Throughout Breaking Bad, Saul provided so much shady information without addressing where he gained his unconventional skills. The character Jesse Pinkman, from Breaking Bad, once spoke regarding Saul and his methodology very succinctly: “You don’t need a criminal lawyer.

You need a criminal lawyer.” This is the now-famous quote that was used to convince Walter White to hire Saul Goodman.

The nature of the screenplay, and the writers’ love of non-linear story telling, allows McGill to really be explored as a character. The show shines light on his life growing up, his introduction to law, and the post-Walter White era.

The writing team seemingly began at the farthest end of the timeline, which shows what happened when Saul Goodman had to leave town.

The time after Breaking Bad is shown in the first scene of the pilot.

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A fearful, sad, and skittish Saul Goodman is shown working at a Cinnabon in Omaha. This was previously joked about in reference to Saul’s contingency if things went sour in Breaking Bad. Well, as anyone who watched the series to the end knows, things got the sourest, and Saul had to leave town.

This knowledge really leaves a spot of tragedy on the whole story – no matter what victories he makes, he will still end up fearing for his life working at a mall in Omaha.

Actor Jonathon Banks has returned to his role as Mike Ehrmantraut.

In Better Call Saul, Mike was first shown as a hardcore parking official who reined lawful good in his parking booth, approving validation. The

featuring nothing more than a series of low piano notes and an ominous cymbal noise. Subsequently, on “diskrept1,” James, in a typically trollish gesture, isolates a bassline – vaguely reminiscent of Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” – and surrounds it with the sounds of xylophones, cymbals, and damper pedal piano.

With the final suite of tracks, James moves in directions that stray from the album’s sound up to this point. On the penultimate track, “piano un10 it happened,” he switches things up with a beautiful and elegiac piano ballad.

Meanwhile, on album closer “hatsc 0001 rec-4,” James gives us a jazzy and

experimental track, consisting of shuffling drum beats, resonant timbres, and Eastern-sounding instrumentation.

With its off-kilter and dissonant sound, “accessible” isn’t the first word one would use to describe the music on CCAIP2, and accordingly, it’s probably not the release you’d point new Aphex Twin listeners towards. Still, for seasoned fans, the release offers another glimpse into James’s inspired and crazed genius. Taking unconventional sounds and construing them into interesting beat-oriented compositions, CCAIP2 is – at the very least – another testament to James’s immense musical creativity. 3.5/5.

contrast between intense private investigator, which he played in Breaking Bad, and parking official really stays true to the dark comedy which Better Call Saul aspires to. Banks also plays Buzz Hickey in the TV comedy Community, which adds to the humour factor.

Considering that actor Bob Odenkirk was once a writer and actor for Saturday Night Live, he often flexes his comedic muscles throughout the show.

Every time he gives a speech, it’s laced with comedic undertones. Working as a defence attorney, Odenkirk’s character has to represent the worst people for little pay. Watching him try to defend three young corpse defilers is tragically hilarious. He was never set to win the

case, and his legal defence was “Boys will be boys.” Eventually, the prosecution showed the video to the jury, and it all went downhill.

Spoilers ahead Amongst all the character development and change from honest lawyer to the Saul we know and love, there has been one key development. Tuco Salamanca, from Breaking Bad, is back, and he’s got some new friends.

Through his juvenile and fraudulent actions McGill, has managed to cross paths with some of the most dangerous gangsters in town. It would not be surprising to see a partnership formed here, but you never know – with what we know about the Salamanca family, the relationship might just go bad.

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THE SMITHS - Hatful of Hollow (1984) However brief their stint in the 80s, The Smiths became authorities in balancing acquiescence and rebelliousness.

Though lead vocalist Morrissey is possibly one of the most intolerable men in music, he was an unwavering original, an asexual and introvert in the midst of binging stardom. Having learned to be comfortable in his awkwardness from a young age, his cynicism translates more as relatable criticism than faddish pessimism. Cutting to the heart of the teenage psyche with diary ramblings and direct poetry, his lyrics hit both male and female perspectives; ambiguous and moldable to the listener, perfectly coupled with guitarist Johnny Marr’s vibrant pop riffs to make whiney melodies listenable. If you identify with the pains of life as a true eccentric, listen. Every line in Hatful of Hollow is a satisfying relationship, a beautifully dramatic and comforting rant, a reminder of humanity, and the lonely one’s friend.

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Gryphons skate to silver Guelph takes second at OUA Championship STEPHANIE CORATTI

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The Guelph Gryphons men’s hockey team earned a spot in the West Division Finals against the defending OUA Champions in the Windsor Lancers after downing the Toronto Varsity Blues 5-2 in Game Three of the OUA Semi-Finals on Feb. 22.

Gryphons push through to West Finals Guelph eyes nationals as proven underdog

STEPHANIE CORATTI Grabbing a mere three victories out of the opening 16 games of the 2014-15 campaign, the Guelph Gryphons men’s hockey team looked to be quickly en route to a long off season.

However, redefining themselves as proven underdogs, the Gryphons have rightfully earned a spot in the OUA West finals against the defending OUA Champion in the Windsor Lancers – a series that began on Feb. 25 in Windsor for Game One. Finishing sixth in the Western Conference on the season, the Gryphons overcame the lack of home ice advantage in both the opening series against the Ryerson Rams and the semi-finals versus the Toronto Varsity Blues. Guelph fell in both Game One’s, yet, went on to record a 4-0 record when facing elimination in the best-ofthree series format, coming out victorious in the pair of win-orgo-home Game Two and Three’s so far these playoffs.

To add to the underdog story, it’s been almost 20 years since the Gryphons made it this far into the postseason, with the 1998-99 squad

the last roster to reach the feat as they lost in the East Division final to the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres (UQTR).

To credit for the surprising to some, yet earned to most, success of Guelph thus far, former goaltender of the OHL’s Peterborough Petes and freshman for the Gryphons Andrew D’Agostini leads the way carrying a significant portion of the load. In Game Three of the opening round, the Scarborough, Ontario native turned aside a remarkable 38 saves to help get his team to the semi-finals against the Varsity Blues. Rarely faltering between the pipes, D’Agostini continued his strong play in a dominant 5-2 victory over the Blues on Feb. 22 – the win that would ultimately advance the Gryphons to the West finals.

Leading the offensive prowess, veteran forward Nick Huard has been a pillar for Guelph, while Carlos Amestoy and Robert De Fulviis hold the ability to be game changers, and only continue to prove so.

A large contrast to that of their West final opponents in the Windsor Lancers, the Gryphons have a notable number of freshmen on the roster, each making a statement for the red, gold, and black. Former Guelph Storm defenceman Mac Nichol leads all Gryphon blue liners in points, while Scott Simmonds was named Gryphons Male Athlete of the Week for the week ending Feb. 22 for compiling four points (two

goals, two assists) in the last two contests against the Varsity Blues in the semi-finals.

Holding the biggest conference in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), the OUA is awarded three spots in the national championships. The two teams (West Division Champion and East Division Champion) go head-tohead to battle for the OUA title; however, both squads receive a birth to compete in the CIS Championships held in Halifax.

For the third remaining spot, the West Division finalist and East Division finalist are given a oneoff match-up, with the winner getting the bid.

Nevertheless, Halifax and the potential it holds isn’t the focus for the Gryphons right now. Instead, it’s in the defending OUA Champions, the Windsor Lancers, and the West Final series that stands in their way of a chance to compete for the 2015 OUA title.

Game One of the series was played on Feb. 25 in Windsor, while Game Two is scheduled for Feb. 27 at the Gryphon Centre.

Puck drop is slated for 7:30 p.m.

Game Three, if necessary, will have the teams return to Windsor on Feb. 28 for a second consecutive 7:30 p.m. game time.

The OUA Championships will feature the winner of the West Division final in either the Lancers or the Gryphons, and the team that advances out of the East Division in either McGill or UQTR.

Hosting the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Championships on Feb. 17 and 18 at the Gryphon Centre, the Guelph Gryphons wouldn’t repeat as champions after taking the title in 2014. Instead, the Gryphons would follow up with a silver performance of 60 points.

The Western Mustangs took home their fourth title in the last five years, winning gold with an impressive 73 points for first place.

The Ryerson Rams, who have never won an OUA Figure Skating Championship, finished third with 57 points – three points back of the host Gryphons. The Rams have now won back-to-back bronze medals, after taking third place in the 2014 event.

Members of the 2014 Championship squad include Kelsey Sobkowich and Leeann Duncan of Guelph – who were also skaters honoured as OUA All-Stars – put forth an impeccable performance in the Senior Similar Pairs, winning gold in the event in front of Korie Paquette and Lisa Makeeva of second-place Ryerson, and

bronze medalists Margaret Purdy and Christina Liao of Western.

That would be one of three medals for Duncan, who also won gold along with Sobkowich once again, as well as Mackenzie Wilson and Julia Cenedese – both named OUA All-Stars – in the Pairs Four event. Duncan’s third medal came in the Gold STARSkate event, as the Gryphon finished with silver.

Katie Graham and Kathleen Harris would place in the Junior Silver Similar Dance, taking the silver in the event between Western’s golden pair of Clarissa Luo and Nicole Lawson and third place Elspeth Mathau and Kaitlyn Liu of Toronto.

Erin Campbell won bronze for the Gryphons in the Senior Silver STARSkate, finishing behind Amy McMillan of the Mustangs and gold medalist Riley Alison of the McMaster Marauders.

In the Open Men’s STARSkate, fourth year veteran Francis Adamo was nothing short of perfect, finishing with the sought after gold in the event. The gold medal would allow Adamo to repeat as the champion of the event after placing first in 2014. Vincent Chan of the Waterloo Warriors wasn’t too far behind with a silver-winning performance, with Liam Fawcett of the Carleton Ravens placing third for the bronze.

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The Ontarion Inc. Annual General Meeting Tuesday March 5th, 2015, 6:30 pm in UC103 AGENDA 1 CALL TO ORDER 2 INTRODUCTION OF BOARD AND STAFF 3 APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA 4 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM THE AGM OF NOV 5, 2013.

5 ITEMS OF INFORMATION ~ REPORTS 5.1 PRESIDENT 5.2 TREASURER 5.2.1 ACCEPTANCE OF YEAR END FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF APRIL 30, 2014 5.3 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 6 BOARD ELECTIONS 6.1 OUTLINING OF BOARD RESPONSIBILITIES 6.2 ELECTION OF NEW BOARD MEMBERS 7 ITEMS FOR ACTION 7.1 APPROVE AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION ARTICLES 4.2.2, 4.2.3 AND 4.2.5 8 NEW BUSINESS 9 ADJOURNMENT

Arsenault, Connor Aspinall, Stacey Avolio, Jessica Azevedo, Matthew Bibanovic, Zina Bohdanowicz, Michael Cathcart, Carleigh Chhabra, Sameer Coratti, Stephanie Coughlin, Kelsey Dickert, Gabrielle Donovan, Andrew Fuendling, Lucas Ghloum, Emilio Gibson, Ian Grant, Alexandra Green, Eric Gresswell, Cody Harding, Eve Hewson, Connor Hinds, Jack Jehn, Anthony Jenkins, Carly Jones, Emily Jordan, Harrison Kenigsberg-Bentov, Gilad Kurzeja, Diana Ladha, Al Lawson, Matt Lefebvre, Alex

Lefebvre, Stephanie Long, Michael Luz, Heather Manuel, Patrice McCann, Caden Melebari, Mohammad Moran, Salvador Oberle, Tom Odesse, Sasha Ott, Michael Ottema, Alyssa Pearce, Joanne Potvin, Adrien Priddle, Ryan Rahmaty, Sohrab Roibas, Alex Ross, Zoey Shepherd, Wendy Spruit, Rudi Street, Ashley Subject, Danielle Sutherland, Patrick Szulc, Bronek Taylor, Lorrie Thomson, Justin Tignanelli, Vanessa Vadone, Pablo Van Zeumeren, Rachel Wellington, Will Yan, Melissa

PERSONAL WELLBEING ZONE

This is a different kind of wellness – I am taking about taking care of yourself in a personal and mental resp up with everything else going on around us that we forget to think about ourselves. Ask yourself this – wh some time to do something you really wanted to do that was outside of your normal schedule? How long evening away from everything – everybody else – and spent it doing something that you enjoy, such as re bubble bath? If you can’t quite remember when it was – or you don’t partake in activities like this often – y greatest care of your personal wellbeing.

We are all busy, but we need to make time for what really matters – ourselves. We need to allow ourselves ourselves and indulge in the things we love to do. If we don’t, we will never be able to reach our full poten our personal lives. Personal wellness, and acts of leisure, are things that are often taken for granted from d at times to pull ourselves away from some work that needs to get done, or to say no to a social gathering attend with them. But, the truth of the matter is this: if you don’t make time for yourself, you’ll never feel f world.

Setting time aside to spend time with yourself is one of the greatest tools you can carry with you througho that doesn’t come naturally to you, try this for starters – take at least a half-hour a day for yourself. Spend of technology and focus your energy on doing something that will relieve you of stress; refresh your mind you get used to this, try to take an hour a day. It can be anything from journaling, to going for a walk, to ta Just find something that you love doing, and treat yourself to some “me time.”

SCHOOL ZONE After reading week is over, it can be extremely difficult to get your studies back on track. While assignments and studying are typically on your to-do list during the break, it’s easy to postpone all of your work until the week is finished. Procrastination during reading week drastically increases, making it all the more difficult to return to school once it is time to return to classes.

Whether you were productive over the break or not is far from the focus now. Instead, there should be a strong sense of urgency to perform extremely well for the rest of the semester. Especially as you near exams, it is crucial to maintain and cultivate long-lasting habits while you still can.

One of the simplest ways of accomplishing a successful study routine is to set attainable goals for yourself. If you are anticipating a hectic week filled with assignments and tests, it is important to create a plan that will organize and divide your tasks into manageable portions. While you don’t have to plan out every hour of your day meticulously, setting aside, for example, an hour of studying for each class or an enduring five-hour library session can help you work harder and more efficiently.

Another great strategy towards succeeding in your studies is physical commitment. If you are struggling to get up for a morning class, or have trouble staying awake during long study sessions, what remains most important is that you are physically on-campus. Staying on-campus for long periods of time can help you get into the zone by keeping you in an academic space filled with a variety of resources. At home, there are multiple distractions, and, sometimes, living with rowdy roommates can be overwhelmingly stressful. By committing to staying on-campus when you have intense studying to do, you avoid dealing with any unnecessary stress that can alter your academic performance.

The success of the rest of your semester is dependant on how you push forward after reading week. Being able to stay on track with your studies, while establishing a focused and organized work ethic, can help you shake off the bad habits you may have gained from break and, ultimately, grow as an individual.

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NUTRITION & FITNESS ZONE This one is surely more easily said than done, especially when a busy schedule is something that you are confronted with every day of the week. I am hoping to help you with this. I am busier than ever before in my life, but what I have realized is that staying healthy comes down to planning how to most effectively utilize your time. Building healthy habits that stick is something that everyone needs to develop – there is no better time than now to do so!

Plan meals in advance, and go grocery shopping once a week once you have planned your meals. Or, be sure to at least know what you need to make healthy dishes that are satisfying. Do this on a day that you are not as busy; a Saturday morning – or a Sunday – is typically when I have free time to get this sort of thing done for the week.

Buy lots of veggies and be sure to eat them so they don’t go to waste!

When you are making your meals, be sure that you have at least some kind of vegetable ingredient – the more the better! You need a healthy, balanced diet for your body and mind to keep up with your busy lifestyle. It is always best to stay away from pre-packaged and premade food – they typically have a ton of preservatives and are lacking in nutritional value.

Drink enough water – be sure to include plenty of water in your diet, and try to stay away from sugary drinks. It’d be a shame for all of your hard work with meal prepping to go to waste by washing it down with a pop, or a juice that is high in sugar!

Fitness wise, I think it is incredibly important to find a schedule that works for you – and to actually create a schedule. Recently, I have created a fitness schedule that works for me. It consists of three days a week from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m., as well as a couple other days too.

It is so important to get away from everything else in life and focus on helping yourself get healthy.

Our bodies are often not treated properly, because we are too busy taking care of other things. We have to remember that, to do our best in life, we need to properly take care of ourselves and give our body the care it deserves from the inside, and out.

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San Antonio Spurs head coach celebrated Pop joins the millennium club MARC BERNARDO San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich entered yet another level of coaching greatness, following his team’s away victory against the Indiana Pacers on Feb. 9. The road victory marked the 1000th win of Popovich’s NBA career – all of which were for the San Antonio Spurs.

Gregg Popovich’s career as a head coach began with the San Antonio Spurs in the 1996 season, where he finished with a losing record for the first and last time in his coaching career, when he took over halfway through the season. In his first full season as head coach, the Spurs were able to draft power forward Tim Duncan with the first overall selection.

Since the arrival of Duncan, the Spurs have won five NBA championships and eleven division titles under Popovich’s helm. With 16 50 win seasons, Coach Pop is just one behind legendary record holders Phil Jackson and Pat Riley for the NBA record.

The only season in which Popovich amassed fewer than 50 wins was 1998-99, where a lockout shortened the season to only 50 games. In the 50 game season, Popovich’s Spurs won 37 games and the NBA championship.

Under Popovich, the Spurs have played a unique brand of team

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Gregg Popovich earned the 1000th victory of his NBA coaching career on Feb. 9 with a road win over the Indiana Pacers. All of Popovich’s victories have come with the San Antonio Spurs. basketball to accomplish their goals.

The current core of the team remains Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, and Duncan. Popovich’s “defence-first” style of coaching, and a focus on teamwork over the individual player has lead to the consistent success of the Spurs. Popovich’s ability to manage the minutes of his best players, while developing the players around the core group of three, has lead to sustainable success of the team over his

head-coaching career.

The San Antonio Spurs’ run of success under Popovich displays a level of excellence in which the demonstration of consistency, player development, and hard work reign supreme. General Manager R.C. Buford has been able to draft effectively, while acquiring players who mesh well within Gregg Popovich’s style of coaching.

Buford, Popovich and team executives have created a model of consistent

performance that is envied by any professional sports franchise.

The run for a sixth Key injuries to starters Tony Parker and Kawhi Leonard this season resulted in a slow start for the Spurs.

However, now healthy, the Spurs have a full-fledged opportunity to repeat as NBA champions this season. The road ahead is troublesome, however. With only the top four seeds in the Western

Conference securing home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs, the Spurs will need to continue rolling.

San Antonio must stay focused to secure a playoff spot in this year’s challenging Western Conference.

Memphis and Golden State currently headline one of the most star-studded, competitive conferences in recent memory. It is expected that all eight playoff teams in the West will have a legitimate shot at championship contention, making the task for the Spurs that much more troublesome. It would not be a surprise to any NBA fanatic if the Spurs are to repeat as champions, and their style of play, mixed with a wealth of playoff experience, is a tremendous asset, even if they clinch a playoff spot without the home court advantage the AT&T Center provides.

To emerge from the West, the Spurs will likely have to overtake the conference leading Golden State Warriors.

The Warriors are lead by MVP candidate Stephen Curry and sharpshooting Klay Thompson, who have emerged as arguably the best backcourt combination in the NBA. Popovich’s Spurs have proven to fans that they are still able to beat the best teams in the NBA. The question remains that, if San Antonio stays healthy, will Gregg Popovich be able to guide them to a second straight NBA title? One thing is for certain, Popovich and his players are more concerned about title hopes than they are about Popovich’s magnificent millennium wins mark in the regular season.

A morning energy booster Healthy breakfast ideas to energize your day DIANA KURZEJA It may be cliché and it’s something we have all heard for years, but breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. Before you rush out your door in the morning to get to class without eating something, remember that skipping breakfast can set you up for overeating in the day. To get an energizing start to your day, it’s important to fuel your body with whole grains, lean protein, and plenty of vitamins that will keep you going. Here’s a look at the top foods that boost energy and that are perfect for an energizing breakfast: Greek yogurt Greek-style yogurt is full of protein and flavour, providing a

quick-and-easy way to get your day started. If you make smoothies in the morning, try adding Greek yogurt to your mix for a boost of energy. If simple yogurt is a little too plain, try adding honey, fruit, or low-sugar jam for added sweetness.

Eggs A more substantial, and filling, meal is one with eggs. Eggs are a great source of iron, folate, protein, vitamin A, and omega-3 fatty acids, which all help keep energy levels up. They also contain lutein, which is a brain-building choline. Adding spinach, vegetables, or low-sodium turkey can boost your meal with additional nutrition and energy.

Coconut water For those who like to work out in the mornings, coconut water is a great way to stay hydrated after exercise.

Coconut water is an easy way to get the potassium and natural electrolytes needed to stay energized throughout the day.

Oatmeal Oats contain beta-glucan, a type of fiber that help lower cholesterol

when eaten regularly. They are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, folate, as well as potassium. They’re easy to cook, and can be sweetened with milk, honey, or fruit, as the sweetened oats contain an overload of sugar.

Peanut butter There are many benefits to peanut butter, and high energy is one of those.

An all-natural peanut butter is full of protein, and helps make you feel fuller for longer. Peanut butter contains more unsaturated fat than saturated fat, keeping the unhealthy fats at bay.

Grapefruit Grapefruits are full of vitamin C, which is a major antioxidant that helps fight infection, and can even help shorten the duration of colds.

Pink grapefruit offers about 35 per cent more of the antioxidant vitamin C than its paler counterparts. Grapefruit juice is a great alternative to those who aren’t a fan of the fruit, but still want to enjoy the many health benefits that come with the fruit.

Banana Bananas are another great way to feel full throughout the day since they

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Beginning your day with a nutritious breakfast could be the most important decision you make all day. are a great source of resistant starch – a carbohydrate that keeps you feeling full longer. Bananas also contain potassium, which helps lower blood

pressure naturally. Added to cereal, smoothies, or oatmeal, bananas are a healthy and natural sweetener to your breakfast.

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Rumors intensify as trade deadline approaches Annual rumour mill spins as March 2 closes in WESLEY OSTREGA As the March 2 trade deadline nears, trade talks are dominating the schedule of the leagues general managers, who are trying to set their teams up for a bright future. Some teams have given up their playoff hopes and will be focused on trading away pending unrestricted free agents for picks and prospects. Others will try to add a few players to pad their team for a playoff run. The teams outside the playoff picture are selling their assets hoping to build towards future success.

The Toronto Maple Leafs certainly fall under the category of sellers, as they have gone 4-20-3 in their last 27 games, and have fallen to 26th in the league. Any success they have now is counterproductive, as the mathematical possibility of making the playoffs is down to 0.1 per cent according to sources. We take a look at some of the potential moves hanging around Leaf-land as the trade deadline nears.

Phil Kessel If the Leafs could make a blockbuster trade to get rid of Kessel now, they probably would. The issue remains that he has a list of only eight teams he can be traded to, and his $8 million cap hit-perseason is difficult for most teams to accommodate. The common belief is that trades of this magnitude are better left for the draft when there are less variables and a fresh season to look ahead to.

Teams rumored to be interested The Florida Panthers have been mentioned frequently in trade rumors lately, but have said that they will not sacrifice their young

core players, such as Aleksander Barkov, Jonathan Huberdeau, Aaron Ekblad, and Nick Bjugstad. The Panthers are one point out of the playoffs and could give up a few less valuable prospects and a few draft picks to acquire Kessel to help push the team to their first playoffs since 2012.

Dion Phaneuf It is unclear if Toronto will make a push to trade Phaneuf before the deadline or if they believe Phaneuf can be a part of their future.

If the Leafs are going young next season, they may want to keep a veteran in the system to help prospect development, but Phaneuf has been rumoured to be on the way out with the market’s demand in defencemen.

Teams rumored to be interested The Los Angeles Kings are desperate for a defenceman ever since Slava Voynov fell into legal trouble earlier this season. For this trade to work, Toronto would have to either retain a part of Phaneuf ’s salary or take additional players back to clear LA’s cap space.

Ryan O’Reilly O’Reilly of the Colorado Avalanche has one more year left on his contract with a cap hit of $6 million per season before becoming an unrestricted free agent.

This trade is made complicated, because acquiring him would take many valuable assets, and there is no certainty that he will resign with whichever team acquires him.

Teams rumored to be interested The Buffalo Sabres, fresh off back-to-back deals including the blockbuster Tyler Myers-Evander Kane trade, have been said to be very interested in O’Reilly. Buffalo traded one of their three first round picks this summer to Winnipeg for Kane, but can afford to trade another to acquire O’Reilly.

Keith Yandle Yandle of the Arizona Coyotes is

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As the Mar. 2 NHL trade deadline approaches, rumours surrounded the Toronto Maple Leafs star in Phil Kessel and captain, Dion Phaneuf. another defenceman that would bring huge returns to his team in a trade. The Coyotes are in on the Connor McDavid race and could use a Yandle trade not only to increase their chances, but also stock up on young players

and draft picks to help with the rebuild. Arizona may hold off on this one until the summer, as they are already 28th in the league, and can use an asset like pending unrestricted free agent Antoine Vermette as trade bait.

Teams rumored to be interested The Detroit Red Wings and the Boston Bruins are two teams that are high up on the list of rosters that can afford to spend big on a defenceman.

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On this day...

Date: February 26th, 1998 ALEXANDRA GRANT

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On this day with SHAC, a health panel in Oregon ruled that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides. Under Oregon’s law permitting physician-assisted suicide, the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) – previously called the Oregon Health Division (OHD) – required to collect information, review a sample of cases, and publish a yearly statistical report. Since the law, called the “Death with Dignity Act,” went into effect in 1997, 10 official reports have been published.

However, due to major flaws in the law and the state’s reporting system, there is no way to know precisely how many patients – under which circumstances – have died from physician-assisted suicide.

In 1998, the panel that convened discussed the costs and situations that had been previously raised, emerging with the consensus that this law, and these actions, were not to be subsidized by the public through taxes.

This moment in history relates to current events in Canada, where Justin Trudeau’s Liberals want to outline a new law governing doctor-assisted dying by mid-summer – before Canadians head to the polls in October.

Though the Liberal Party is not specifically asking for tax money from taxpayers, this will inevitably come out of the provincial and federal healthcare budgets that are funded, in part, by taxpayers.

Interestingly enough, that means that, barring Trudeau gets his way, OHIP will now include physician assisted suicide and healthcare.

Simply authentic: diary of a local foodie

Warm-up with a scrumptious chorizo chili EMILY JONES The past few weeks have been blistery and cold, and with the cold comes the perfect opportunity to heat things up in the kitchen. For years I have been making chili, but usually it is of the vegetarian, or original beef, variety.

This time, I decided to try out chorizo sausage as a new way to spice things up. Cooking chili may seem like a serious undertaking as there are so many ingredients, but once you begin to smell the aroma, you’ll surely agree that it is well worth the effort!

Let’s begin by talking about the preparation. First, you want to chop up your aromatic staples. These include: three or four cloves of garlic, one medium cooking onion, and one jalapeño (with, or without the seeds), depending on your need for heat. By preparing this first, it allows for a smoother cooking process – if you are slower moving in the kitchen, you may want to prep all of your veggies first.

Next, get out a large saucepan and heat two tablespoons of olive oil on medium heat. Then, add the onion, garlic, and jalapeño, and stir often to ensure the mixture does not burn.

Shopping list: -Chorizo sausage -Onion -Garlic -Red bell pepper -Spinach -JalapeNo -Cremini mushrooms -Diced tomatoes -Tomato paste -Chili powder -Cayenne pepper -Chili flakes -Fresh cilantro -Six-bean blend -Black beans -Kosher salt -Lime -Black pepper Next, add in the sausage that has been removed from the casing, and break it apart to allow for even cooking. Turn the stove to medium-low, and allow to cook, stirring occasionally. Measure

out two tablespoons of chili powder, 1/2 a tablespoon of cayenne pepper, and 1/2 a teaspoon of chili flakes and add to the mixture. While the sausage and the aromatic elements are cooking and fusing their flavours together, it is time to prepare the rest of the ingredients.

Rinse and cut up one red bell pepper into 1/2 inch cubes, then rinse and chop four cremini mushrooms; add these veggies into the saucepan and stir. Next, rinse two handfuls of spinach and add to the saucepan as well.

Then, it is time for the beans – rinse a can of six-bean blend and a can of black beans. Once the beans are rinsed, add them to the saucepan so they can begin to soften.

Next add two cans of diced tomatoes (with their juices), and two tablespoons of tomato paste. The final step is adding a handful of fresh cilantro, chopped roughly. Stir all of the ingredients together, add some kosher salt-and-pepper, and reduce to a low-simmer. Allow the chili to cook for 45-minutes to an hour for all the flavours to blend well. Lastly, squeeze half a lime into the chili – it adds a zesty touch.

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This chorizo chili is an excellent meal to warm you up on a chilly winter night.

I served this chili with shredded old white cheddar, slices of avocado, and some fresh cilantro, with crisp garlic toast on the side. This is one meal that can surely heat you up on one of the coldest days of the year.

Enjoy!

You’ve probably seen this on Pinterest Signs you’re crushing your 20s (even if it doesn’t feel like it) ALYSSA OTTEMA While procrastinating my work (what?

Marking papers?) and my readings (what even are books?), I found a wonderful pin from Hello Giggles.

This pin, in all its kind glory, assured me that my wasting my time pinning pictures of outfits which will allow me to wear leggings, instead of real pants, does not indicate adult failure.

The following list, compiled from the original article by Becca Rose, made me feel a lot better about my one-week-post-reading-week life. I hope it can do the same for you.

1. You maybe, almost know what you’re passionate about “You don’t have to have your entire career plan mapped out,” Rose writes (THANK GOODNESS), “but maybe you have some thoughts on what you’re interested in pursuing in a perfect world. It doesn’t need to be clearly defined, it doesn’t need to be a twelve-step plan – it just has to be an idea.”

2. You’re almost, sort of adaptable to change “This is the decade of figuring things out, which means it’s also a time of constant change,” Rose notes. “If you can see change coming and feel confident you can deal with it, you’re doing fine. If you need a few sleepless nights to worry your way through it, that’s okay, too.”

3. You make (lots of ) mistakes, and you survive them “You’ll fail, you’ll screw up, you’ll hurt people’s feelings: this is inevitable and part of the nature of our existence,” Rose says encouragingly.

“Owning up to those faults and doing what you can to make things right is a sign that you’re moving on to knowing what counts.”

4. You’re sort of, kind of trying (read: TRYING) to keep a budget “It’s alright if you don’t have a 401k or life insurance,” Rose assures, “but if you at least have a savings account, this totally counts (even if it only has fifty bucks in it).”

5. You almost know who you are – maybe “The twenty-something years are the moments that we discover who we’ve been all along, and develop who we want to be,” writes Rose.

REMY MARLATT

Caring and getting involved with “some cause on this big Earth,” Rose tells us, is a great way to know that you’re making your 20s count, “you rock star, you.”

“If you have spent any amount of effort delving into your personality and the things you want to be, it’s significant.”

6. You care. Period.

“Taking part in hashtag campaigns, educating yourself on

causes you believe in, and volunteering when you can,” Rose points out, “if there’s some cause on this big earth that you care about and are fighting for, you should be super proud. You’re making your 20s count in the best way possible, you rock star, you.”

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Science Avenue: Male Pattern Baldness A thickening problem of thinning proportions SAMEER CHHABRA What is Male Pattern Baldness?

Every now and then, Science Avenue likes to veer away from the doom-and-gloom researching of topics like palm oil, to focus on something lighthearted that affects people in often strange and fascinating ways. However, before I continue, I’d like to dissuade any notion that male pattern baldness, insofar as it relates to male body image, is not an important issue in today’s society. Confidence is rooted in all physical characteristics, but hair, perhaps more than any other visible physical trait carries presence, character, and personality.

Male pattern baldness (MPB) – and its counterpart in women: female pattern baldness – is comedic, but the science behind the affliction is not a laughing matter. The best part about science is the fact that the most inane concepts have fascinating underlying principles. For those interested in finding the reasons for things, science makes it possible to find wonders in even the most mundane of topics.

What, then, is male pattern baldness? Also known as androgenic alopecia, MPB is a genetic disorder that results in hair loss – or hair thinning – as a result of hair follicles becoming susceptible to the reduction of androgens as individuals age.

“..hair, perhaps more than any other visible physical trait carries presence, character, and personality.”

How does Male Pattern Baldness work?

Complex organic species grow to maturity thanks to the activation of certain hormones. In mammals, androgens – hormones that induce

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the development of primary and secondary male sex characteristics – are responsible for the development of the basic sexual organs like the penis and testes. Androgens are also present in females, though not in levels as high as in males.

MPB is the result of the reduction of androgenic activation, and most

“Excluding the option of a toupee or wig, there are now medical alternatives to hair loss.” hair loss occurs because hair follicles – the mammalian organ responsible for the production of hair – are susceptible to reduced androgen production. In short, for men and women, hair loss primarily occurs due to the reduced production of the “male” sex hormones. It’s important to recognize that androgens are an umbrella term that refer to all hormones that induce the development of male sex characteristics.

Testosterone – quite possibly the second-most well-known hormone, after estrogen – is an androgen.

It’s also important to note that MPB is a genetic disorder, which means that individuals with families with no history of the affliction are less likely to show signs of hair loss.

If fathers or grandfathers – mothers or grandmothers – show signs of MPB, then it is far more likely for successive generations to carry the genetic potential for androgenic alopecia.

Why is Male Pattern Baldness important?

MPB is one of those afflictions that simultaneously induce giggles and mild panic in most people. The notion that a man – or woman – can lose his – or her – hair is terrifying and often emasculating. Men are defined by certain socially-appropriated characteristics. According to the media, men are big and strong – they provide for their families. Most importantly, men have a full head of luscious hair. For most men suffering from MPB, the affliction is one they would love to live without.

However, MPB is more than just an emasculating illness that results from hormonal imbalances – it is a result of a reduction of the hormones responsible for activating male sex characteristics. Of course,

MATHEW BRADY

Male pattern baldness is a genetic disorder that afflicts both men and women – in spite of its common name. There are medical solutions, but instead of embracing pharmacology so readily, perhaps we should come to terms with our own social selves first. its presence is merely an indication that the hair follicles are suffering from androgenic miniaturization.

What is the future of Male Pattern Baldness?

Luckily, the human race has been working on possible cures for MPB since the first man noticed he just didn’t look the way he used to when he was young. Excluding the option

of a toupee or wig, there are now medical alternatives to hair loss.

Drugs like minoxidil – branded as Rogaine – allow those suffering from hair loss to slow down their affliction.

Other options include costlier solutions like hair transplants.

In the case of male pattern baldness, there are few more absurd options than simply accepting that hair thins, skin sags, and individuals grow old.

Whether a result of genetics or bad luck, the body changes – for better or worse – and accepting that it is natural for humans to look older once they grow older should be the standard. Of course, I still have a complete head of hair, so maybe my words come from a lack of experience. Perhaps hair loss is every bit the disastrous, damaging, and damning affliction that society claims it to be.

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Learning from classes you don’t like

presentations will help you in the future. It might not make things more enjoyable, but you will have a goal. The content of the class itself doesn’t even have to be a factor. If you need to take a class, try to combine it with something you love. You love the idea of researching, or becoming a doctor, or working in child care – “this class” is necessary for that goal. When you look at it that way, hopefully you will get more out of the experience.

How to get the most of every class JOANNE PEARCE Ideally, you set yourself up so that you do the things you enjoy.

Life is short, so why bother doing things you dislike, or wasting time on topics, places, or people you don’t like? Realistically, it’s not so easy — we all encounter things that we don’t like, or find difficult to do. The trick is to try and take away from the experience. What do you take away from a class you don’t like?

“What’s key is to keep an open mind and stay optimistic.”

It’s so much easier said than done, I know. For some people, no matter what I say, earnestly, or otherwise, the problem won’t change. That statistics/biochemistry/history/English class will still suck. What’s key is to keep an open mind and stay optimistic. Approaching the class with the tired attitude of, “this sucks, why should I bother?” doesn’t help anyone. You’ve already put yourself in a position that makes it incredibly hard to motivate yourself, and that lack of motivation does not breed success.

I already seem to sound like a broken record — the bright

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While you may not enjoy specific classes, the ability to learn valuable lessons and become active in your education is a crucial experience. enthusiastic advice I am telling you sounds so cliché. I’m not saying that you should view unenjoyable classes as good classes.

Hate classes all you want. What reeks like a rotten potato doesn’t suddenly smell like roses. If you find yourself having to work on something you don’t like, why would you expect to suddenly start enjoying yourself? However, maintaining that mindset is not productive at all.

There are two methods that I use to learn from a class I don’t enjoy: trick myself into liking it, or work hard at it with long-term gains in mind.

When I say that I trick myself, I don’t mean to say it’s as simple as trying to get someone to drink their tea with salt instead of sugar. What I am saying is that,

to enjoy a task you dislike, you should slowly try to convince yourself that what you’re doing is relevant or interesting. This can be hard, especially when it’s all just numbers on a page, but small steps and setting up rewards can be really helpful. Try to keep in mind exactly what you’re learning and why your professor is taking the time to teach you this.

Also, work on the subject in small chunks. Throwing yourself into readings you’ve been avoiding will not help you stay engaged.

What I also find is that, sometimes, what I dislike are principles that I don’t understand or do poorly in. Work with friends who are enthusiastic about the subject, or who can help you understand the topic. Do you ever find that having a professor who is not

enthusiastic about the subject makes it hard to listen? The same thing happens in classes you hate, even with impassioned professors. Working together with someone who enjoys the material can make the experience more enjoyable by association. Keep the groups small, so you don’t get lost. Discuss the readings you have to do, or the definitions that you have to memorize. When you see progress in class, you’ll start to feel more positive too.

But what if you can’t get yourself to enjoy the class — or maybe it isn’t a case of you doing poorly, but simply not finding content interesting? In that case, what I can only think to suggest is to stop looking at the material in short-term. Consider the longterm benefits, like how public

Life 101: setting goals and making plans There is a difference but both are necessary EMILY JONES Setting goals means nothing without having a plan in place. I have always been a plan-maker – constantly thinking about my future and how I can reach the goals that I have in place. It struck me

in discussing matters of achievement with others that in order to reach our goals in life, we need to make plans as to how to get there. Everything is achievable if we really put our minds to it and actively make plans to work towards where we want to be.

Making goals is an extremely important part of life – especially when it comes to our education and career aspirations. Something I think many people are lacking is plan-setting skills – they assume that their goals will be reached magically, and are sorely mistaken and disillusioned when life

doesn’t work out in their favour.

I want you all to think really clearly here – set goals for yourself that are achievable, but are not easily accomplished – challenge yourself a bit. Once you have your goal set out, think critically about what steps you can take to actually get there. What kind of groups should you reach out to? Where can you volunteer?

How can you build a network for support? Will there be things you need to change in your life or switch in your schedule to allow you to work hard towards this goal? All of these things matter.

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They are, among other things, what will allow you to excel or cause you to get sidetracked.

Once you have answered questions of the like, it is time to make mini-goals and plans to help you reach the bigger goals.

Take the time to re-evaluate your plans and your goals every couple of months, to make sure that you are staying on track. I know we all have busy schedules, and setting time aside may sound like a waste of time, but it will actually help you get where you want to be quicker than you thought!

If you take anything away from

“Life, as amazing as it is, will always have you encounter obstacles that you don’t enjoy.”

If this still doesn’t help, at least know that you will learn from the class precisely because you don’t like it. Life, as amazing as it is, will always have you encounter obstacles that you don’t enjoy.

You will, perhaps, have bosses you can’t stand, projects you find tiring, or research that you find mind-numbingly boring. Hopefully, you will not force yourself to stay in a place you hate — but you will nonetheless encounter them. Knowing how to keep an open mind about the things you dislike will help you decide what to do next and how to work towards those things that you do love — and that is all that matters.

this article, please take this - goals are absolutely nothing without a plan. They are like empty words – they may help you stay focused, but without a plan, it will take you far longer to achieve what you want in life. The time to start planning is now – this is a positive leap into your future, and will help you with many things along the way.

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FEATURE

Fifth annual Writers Workshop captures the essence of writing Coming together for the sake of improving writing EMILIO GHLOUM Hosted at the University of Guelph’s McLaughlin Library, the annual Writers Workshop is an event that provides writing advice on a variety of topics. Growing every year in attendance, the Writers Workshop has seen large amounts of participation, drawing all levels of writers.

Taking place during reading week on the University of Guelph campus, the Writers Workshop holds a series of workshops, delivered by multiple presenters, aiming to provide a unique and refreshing introduction to topics surrounding the discipline of writing.

While the Writers Workshop seemingly targets students, that is far from the truth. In fact, the Workshop aims to include people from all levels of writing.

Whether you are a first-year student, or a local business owner, the Writers Workshop provides skills that can be transferred to a multitude of disciplines and benefit the participant in a variety of unique ways. In recent years, the Writers Workshop has striven to establish a productive learning environment which does not restrict the participants towards one specific route.

The diverse amount of presentations provided those who attended with a refreshing take on many facets of writing. With everything from learning to write for radio broadcasts to creating animated videos, the Writers Workshop is far from the ordinary workshop experience.

Covering academics, creative

writing, writing for the internet, and many other styles, the inclusive range of subjects provided by multiple presenters creates an organized and all-encompassing learning environment which people can engage in.

Jodie Salter, the coordinator of the Writers Workshop, spoke to The Ontarion about the overall experience of running the workshop. Since taking leadership over the Writers Workshop threeyears-ago, Salter critically aims to provide a service, to the public, by cultivating strong writing habits and effective communication skills.

“I’m setting out to bring together the community and the university for a space to network and collaborate,” Salter said, when asked about what the Writers Workshop seeks to accomplish.

“Most of the community comes from creative writing, but I like to have a social media stream, academic writing, and publishing. This year we had a bit more diversity in our academics.”

By featuring presentations with titles such as “Dream of Being a Travel Writer?” or “Joining the Conversation: Fundamentals of Social Media,” it is evident that the Writers Workshop has evolved to become not only a hub for creative writers, but rather an engagement of multi-disciplinary lessons. The skills learned from these presentations can be applied to many facets of academic or non-academic lifestyles.

For example, a business owner who attended the “Pitch Camp: Techniques and Strategies to Move Others” presentation may have learned how to sell an idea to a potential client on the fly, while a graduate student who attended the same workshop may have begun to think about pitching a thesis to a professor. Implicit value can be found in unique ways by each type of individual who attends the workshops.

There are more to these workshops than one assumes. Many

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The Fifth annual Writers Workshop brought together elements of writing and networking to create an inclusive environment for all participants to enjoy. people have the impression that the presentations are similar to a class lecture, where the speakers are talking the entire time. However, the Writers Workshop aims to stray from this format.

“A lot of the workshops are discussion-based and involve group work, so there is a lot of networking that happens that way,” said Salter. “And there is also a lot of time afterwards to talk with the presenters, so it is definitely a space for meeting and sharing and networking.”

Where else can somebody learn about crafting a bestseller, writing a screenplay for animated television, and grammar all in the same day? The wealth and depth of knowledge provided by the Writers Workshop is undeniable.

The workshop is a unique service provided by the University of Guelph to help engage all members of the Guelph community in a meaningful way. Yet, over the course of its five years, the Writers Workshop has seen fundamental changes that have been crucial contributions to the overall success of the event.

Since taking over the Writers Workshop, Salter implemented several changes that have changed the overall perception and reception of the event.

“The first key change for me was [making the workshop] free to the public, free to everybody,” said Salter. “That was the first thing I did. The second thing was putting it all on the third floor [of the library].”

By making these changes to the overall structure of the Writers Workshop, the results of its success has been visible and made apparent by the overall atmosphere of the event itself. With the Writers Workshop being held entirely on the third floor of the Mclaughlin Library, a shared environment is created by everybody who has attended. Not only can people see the wide spectrum of workshops being presented, but also the open space calls for an engaging environment which allows people to communicate and network.

“People can sit over here and write, they can talk, and they can see all the different sessions and

registration,” said Salter.

The open concept of the workshop allows for participants to have the ability to communicate with others in a more meaningful way. This recent addition to the program is crucial to the overall mission of the workshop itself – by creating an environment which encourages communication and networking between participants.

What remains consistent throughout the five years of the Writing Workshop is the common goal of helping people become better writers. Whether you are new to writing, or a veteran looking to improve your craft, this event provides a variety of tools to help you achieve your writing goals.

“People can get tips on how to find inspiration, or how to structure, or to try a different voice,” concluded Salter. “There is a lot of hands-on and practical exercises in the workshops, so the skills and strategies that people come away with are new things to try out, things they may have not thought of, or even just practicing and getting started again.”

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Issue 176.7 • Thursday, February 26, 2015

The Truth Inquiry Does god convict us of thought crimes?

TOM OBERLE Some atheists, most predominantly the late Christopher Hitchens, have expressed disgust and indignation with the god of the bible, who seems to convict and condemn us not only for our actions, but also our innermost thoughts and desires. In an acceptance speech in 2007, Hitchens said, “Who, but someone servile and stupid and pathetic, wants it to be true that they can be convicted of thought-crime at any minute of the day, or night as they’re sleeping, for thinking the wrong thing?”

Hitchens is correct in stating that the god of the bible holds us accountable for our thoughts and intentions. Matthew 5:28 tells us that even looking lustfully at a woman is on par with committing adultery. Similarly, Mathew 5:22 states that anyone who is

angry with their brother or sister will be subject to judgement.

Jesus clearly taught that moral values and duties apply not only to our actions, but our thoughts and intentions as well.

Are these complaints from Hitchens, and others, legitimate?

It is important to keep in mind that these ideas are just that: complaints and nothing more.

Such rhetoric serves to distract from the real philosophical questions of god’s existence, and does nothing to invalidate the alleged divinity of Christ, nor disprove the existence of god. At best, these ideas establish that the arguer does not like the idea of the Christian god.

However, if god does exist, would it be immoral and despotic for him to hold us accountable for our innermost thoughts and desires? To answer this question, we need to determine whether there are sufficient reasons for god to do so, and whether moral values and duties apply to our mental life in reality. There are at least two reasons for thinking the moral realm is not limited to our physical actions, but applies to

OPINION our thought-life as well.

First, if the behavioural outcome of certain thoughts and intentions is a morally wrong action, then that person can be held morally responsible for developing and entertaining those thoughts and intentions.

Criminal law already intuitively recognizes this inherent moral value to our mental life. For example, one can be arrested and convicted on charges of conspiring to murder – that is, one can be held morally responsible for intending to murder a person prior to having actually committed the crime.

The person being convicted has not done anything wrong physically or behaviourally. If law enforcement officials somehow became aware that the individual was planning to murder someone on a certain date and witnessed the individual purchasing firearms, or overheard their conversation about the intended murder, these acts conversing, purchasing firearms etc. would not be morally wrong actions in themselves. The individual is not arrested for conversing about the

topic of murder or for purchasing firearms. Rather, the moral wrongness is a direct property of the individual’s private, subjective, mental life – namely, the individual’s intention to murder, thereby demonstrating the inherent applicability of moral value to one’s thought-life.

Second, your inner thoughts and intentions may not force you to commit an immoral act, but they may prevent you from making a moral act. In a sense, this would be a sin of omission. The atheist could argue that there is nothing inherently wrong with thinking thoughts of intentional murder or hatred toward another person, so long as those thoughts in no way manifest themselves as behaviour or actions towards another person. Moral rightness or wrongness is therefore applicable only to the actions, not the thoughts. This is somewhat true, a person could live with hatred for someone, yet never express their hatred outwardly. But does that entail that a person’s hatred would have absolutely no behavioural manifestations?

A person who is genuinely filled with hatred and loathing for another person, will not go

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out of their way to be kind and loving to that person. There exist many moral obligations and duties, which are crucial for the proper functioning of a morally healthy society. Charity (not necessarily financial charity) and cooperation are two examples. A hate-filled person will have no desire to be charitable or cooperative with the person he hates. By allowing one’s self to hate another person, one may not act directly on this hatred, but one is more likely to refrain from fulfilling certain moral obligations he has to others, which, on a large scale, could result in moral, social, and even economic decline in a society.

So, our thoughts and intentions can result in morally wrong actions towards others, and also the omission of moral obligations and duties we have to others. For these reasons it seems reasonable, if not acutely practical, that god, if he exists, has sufficient grounds for holding us accountable for our thought-life in addition to our actions, and is, therefore, acting in accordance with his perfect, moral nature by doing so.

Transitioning from college to university The challenge of making the switch ZOEY ROSS I’ve got a confession to make: I’ve been in postsecondary since 2008.

Three schools, seven programs but only one university. That’s longer then Van Wilder, or Chris Farley in Black Sheep. Luckily, I’ve gained some credentials and learned a lot about postsecondary life along the way.

Since we are being honest here, I never went to Nippising University, I went to Canadore College.

They are attached, but not the same, and I don’t even know what concurrent education implies.

Instead of learning the ways of Uta Hagen in theatre school, I was using my poor acting to pose as a university student. The sheer fact that I felt the need to play university student speaks volumes as to which system is better.

Plus people can be uppity when it comes to college versus university

standing.

After one year at Candadore, and a self-realization trip across the country, I started a six-year stint at Conestoga College. In my time there, I was involved with as much as I could be and made great friends. The end came quickly though. When both the Dean of the School of Media and the College President himself gave me a nudge, I felt it was time to go.

Being in university (for real this time) has created a stark comparison. Everything from student services to the quality of educators has improved. Nowhere is perfect though – for example, why the jail-like dormitories? At least in community college you get your own bedroom and can fry an egg in a semi-kitchen.

At the University of Guelph, you can get something to eat in half the buildings. At Conestoga, you have to wait in line for a half-hour to get a cup of coffee. At the University of Guelph people actually do things. In college, you have to bribe students with shiny objects or co-curricular record status. Let’s also confirm the ruling that states community college

is mostly dudes and university is the opposite – totally true. The anecdotal ratio theory actually adds up, at least on the surface. The fact that there is an imbalance of men who go to postsecondary – and even fewer who go to university – is concerning. Being surrounded by one sex in college and another in university is a dynamic change. Through my eyes, I see more social awareness at the University of Guelph than I did at Canadore or Conestoga.

School spirit is alive, regardless of the many doubters on-campus. In the summer, The Cannon gets a new coat daily, and our clubs are alive. If you went from university to college looking for booming spirit and student life, you would be sorely upset.

Many colleges, like Conestoga, are commuter schools and people just want to do their time and leave. It doesn’t help when the infrastructure just isn’t there to help build a student social scene. Imagine a Guelph without student-run media or their own bar!

I feel like people just care so much more and drink so much less. Not just academically, but also culturally and about their own personal interests and interest

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In this article, Ross discusses the transition from college to university and what makes U of G so special. of their communities. The University of Guelph gamers club games harder, the sports teams play fiercer, and the debate teams bring the fury all the way to Jeff

Winger-status.

I would never disregard all the friendships I made at College, but Gryphons eat Condors for breakfast. Fact.

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OPINION

Letter to Changing the Subject: 50 Shades of Grey the Editor

Hi Emily, I was truly astonished to see the quality of content and presentation in your newspaper. It’s not common for me to read through an entire issue of The Ontarion – the University of Guelph’s Independent Student Newspaper. One of my daughters did go to U of G 15 years ago, but my own experience from 45-years-ago in an American University was to experience hippy style nonsense and nothing more.

Reading through The Ontarion, I feel you cater to an audience that could be any part of community in Guelph, be it a student or not. Before putting [the paper] into the recyclables blue box, I decided to cut out some of the material for leisurely reading afterwards.

The issue I am referring to is the one of Thursday, February 12, 2015. I ended up with pages 21 to 30, encompassing Sports & Health, Life, Feature, Opinion and Editorial, in addition to “the health benefits of chocolate” (a nutritious guilty pleasure).

Although I admire the young generation of today for their activist approach to life, an urge to put it in writing as I am doing today doesn’t come easy. I felt a big heartfelt compliment was in order to you and your accomplished staff for carrying on such a fine job. Happy Valentine’s.

Sincerely, Gopal Krishna Dujari MBA CLU CFP

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Controversy surrounding the film DANIELLE SUBJECT

For anyone who spends at least a few minutes a day browsing the web, it is no secret that the recent release of the 50 Shades of Grey movie has stirred quite a controversy.

Before I dive into the criticism behind the film and first novel, I’d like to point out a good thing about 50 Shades of Grey.

The novel and film encourages female sexual pleasure, and this is important. In the novel, Ana has multiple and descriptive orgasms.

This is a great thing to encourage – sex that is mutually satisfying.

A female orgasm is a lot harder to achieve than a male orgasm – about 15 per cent of women may never experience one, and close to 80 per cent of women never achieve orgasm from intercourse alone. It is great to see something in the media that encourages foreplay and attentiveness; Grey even pays attention

to Ana’s signs of arousal – without even touching her he turns her on.

He pays attention to what she likes and to her body. One of the greatest aspects of the film was that it showed Grey performing oral sex on Ana – something that is not shown enough in Hollywood sex scenes. This act represents a shift from the male gaze to the female gaze – it is a liberating act, something that is purely focused on the satisfaction of the female. Fellatio is not shown in the film, which makes this scene that much more rare – it wasn’t an “I’ll do you and you do me” moment. However, the story would have been significantly different if Ana weren’t a virgin that needed to be “dealt with” by Grey, because her character could have played a large role in bringing her own sexual wisdom to the table (as a lot of experienced BDSMers are also female).

One problem I have with the film is its lack of reinforcement of birth control. I am talking about the film in particular, because more people were likely exposed to the film than the novel. There are a few scenes where Grey puts on a condom, but for the most part, birth control is

a responsibility that is left to Ana. Part of the “conditions” is that Ana takes the pill. I find this disturbing in the sense that safe sex should be a mutual responsibility – Grey could have at least ensured Ana that he is STD free, considering the pill does not protect against STDs. Being a widely viewed erotica film that is also available to young adults online, the least they could have done was throw in some realistic facts about birth control.

What turned me off from the first novel was Grey’s disturbing predatory tendencies toward Ana. It wasn’t the sex that threw me off, but the stuff that came with it. Much like Edward Cullen (this series is viewed as “Twilight porn” for a reason), Grey weasels his way into controlling every aspect of Ana’s life – he tells her what to eat, what to wear, what car to drive, how and when to work out, and where to go after work. All of this is part of their “contract.” He also shows up to her house uninvited and tells her he can’t stay away from her. He’s extremely possessive, to the point that if the relationship were in real life, Ana

would either begin to suffer from emotional trauma, or, hopefully, get a restraining order.

Though Grey’s character does encourage Ana to say “no,” he still does not seem to respect the amount of pain Ana is willing to endure. This is most obvious during a very disturbing scene near the end of the film that depicts sexual violence. Grey ruthlessly beats Ana, although it is clear to the audience that the pain is unwanted by Ana, and Ana is shown crying and blatantly suffering. Overall, the film and the novel make it unclear as to what they are encouraging, there are blurred lines surrounding consent and mutual sexual respect. It’s not the kinky sex that’s the problem, if BDSM is your thing, cool – as long as there is willed consent from both parties.

The fact that the film made these aspects unclear is problematic, as at least half of the women in this country have experienced some form of sexual violence (and that is only what has been reported) – the last thing the media needs is a franchise that confuses the line between consensual sex and sexual abuse.

Assisted suicide: is choice a problem?

Euthanasia in Canada RACHEL VAN ZEUMEREN Assisted suicide has been a hotly debated topic for as long as I can remember, and the discussion has been brought closer to home this month, as assisted suicide is now legal in Canada. For me, the question of assisted suicide is not a question of whether assisted suicide should be legal or not, but a question of personal choice.

Studies have found that less than one per cent of people living in countries where assisted suicide is legal actually choose to end their lives with prescribed drugs. If the numbers are anywhere near the same in Canada, more people in will die per year from smoking (one in every five deaths) than assisted suicide. I do not think it is a discussion of death, but rather a discussion of choice. I believe people should have the right to choose, even if I don’t agree with their choice.

For me, dying with dignity comes from realizing that another person’s suffering is intensely

personal, and, therefore, not for an outsider to have much of an opinion or use for it. A person has the right to die because it is their body and their life. Sue Rodriguez was a proponent of assisted suicide in Canada in the early 1990s, and she said, “If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?” Sue suffered from ALS, and thought that the ban on assisted suicide violated the constitution by curbing her rights of personal liberty and autonomy guaranteed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The court thought that the obligation to preserve life and protect vulnerable lives was more important. Sue lost her case, but sparked discussion on the topic.

She ended her own life with the help of an anonymous physician in 1994.

In 2014, in the United States, Brittany Maynard fought a similar battle to Sue Rodriguez, bringing huge amounts of attention to the subject again. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor and was given six months to live. The suggested treatments would have had terrible side effects and the palliative care options presented issues for Brittany. She could have

developed a morphine resistance, suffered personality changes, as well as loss of her motor skills and memory. Brittany was young and the rest of her body was healthy, so she most likely would have suffered in a hospice for several months, and she did not want her family to witness that.

She said, “I would not tell anyone else that he or she should choose death with dignity. My question is: who has the right to tell me that I don’t deserve this choice? That I deserve to suffer for weeks or months in tremendous amounts of physical and emotional pain? Why should anyone have the right to make that choice for me?”

Brittany chose to end her life on her terms, surrounded by her friends and family. Her mother spoke out after, saying, “My 29 year-old daughter’s choice to die gently rather than suffer physical and mental degradation and intense pain does not deserve to be labeled as reprehensible by strangers a continent away who do not know her or the particulars of her situation.”

Brittany Maynard was an advocate for choice, who found immense comfort in having the

right to die with dignity, supported by her loved ones.

Charles Darwin said that sympathy was the strongest part of human nature. In instances of others’ suffering, I do not see any incredible beauty, or anything to be gained. I only feel overwhelming sympathy, and an understanding that I cannot understand what others are going through. I don’t want to support my argument with any unrelated premises, assumptions, the supposed meaning of life, or quotes from fictional characters. I want to suggest the importance of choice, compassion, and sympathy in extremely nuanced situations, because, in the end, that decision is theirs, and theirs alone.

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

Issue 176.7 • Thursday, February 26, 2015

LETTER from the EDITOR

A lesson in how to communicate effectively Aggressiveness vs. assertiveness EMILY JONES Every moment of every day, we are given the opportunity to voice our opinions and our concerns about issues that are sometimes of a sensitive nature. We have likely all, at some point, been confronted by someone who has differing views. It is completely okay for people to think differently, to have differing opinions, and to raise their concerns if they feel that they have been wronged in any way. What is most important is to understand how to productively deal with situations and communicate our thoughts effectively in an assertive, rather than aggressive, tone.

Being assertive is very different – and much more professional – than dealing with matters aggressively. It’s natural for people to disagree and to read into matters differently. If that happens, it is most productive and positive to deal with these matters in an assertive way. Being assertive means to communicate one’s thoughts in a way that is not accusatory in nature – getting a point across without slandering any person’s position.

Acting in an aggressive manner does not do any good – all this accomplishes is further spreading negative messages, only giving them new light. It is not professional, nor is it effective.

Recently, members of the editorial staff were approached regarding an article that some members of the University of Guelph community did not agree with. These concerned students believed this article to be supporting the problematic notion of victim shaming. This, of course, was not in any way the purpose behind the article, nor would the editorial staff support any such injustice. However, these concerned students were more than right to bring such a contentious issue to our attention, and as per our editorial policies, the students were invited to compose a letter to the editor or opinion piece on the conflict. Despite these suggestions, the aggressive manner in which the issue was raised was particularly disruptive.

The article in question was written as coverage of the recent sexual assault cases in the city of

Guelph, both of which occurred in a taxi-cab. The last half of the article, which admittedly diverged from traditional news format, was meant to inform students, or any member of society, of helpful safety tips in terms of cabbing – in Guelph or the world at large – at any time of the day and in any state of mind. The tips included the importance of making sure the car you enter is a real cab, to try to always sit in the backseat, to keep conversations with drivers on a professional level, to have your house keys ready (a common tip shared in self-defence classes), to keep someone informed of your whereabouts (a friend, a family member, a partner), to try not to be alone (while explicitly noting that this is often difficult), and to always listen to your gut. The author of the article was simply trying to express to students and community members things to keep in mind when trying to get home safely.

“Acting in an aggressive manner does not do any good – all this accomplishes is further spreading negative messages, only giving them new light.”

It is the opinion of the approached members of the editorial staff that none of these tips are attempts at victim shaming; irrefutably, beyond any misconstruance of the author’s words, this was definitely not the aim of the article. However, just as these editorial staff members have the right to express this opinion in a respectful manner, the concerned party was more than welcome to bring this conflict to our attention. We welcome the use of The Ontarion as a forum for student and community opinions and concerns.

The way in which the editorial staff members were approached regarding this issue, however, was quite aggressive, and when the upset voices were told that they were more than welcome to write a letter to the editor or an opinion piece on victim shaming, they did not respond. Later in the day, however, a copy of the article in question was returned, having been taken out of the recent issue of the paper and edited to reflect what a concerned party deemed wrong with the article.

When the Editor-in-Chief asked for the article to be handed to her directly, the article was instead left on the desk of the author, openly shaming their work. The inappropriateness of the way this situation was dealt with, on behalf of those who took issue with the article, was problematic.

What we really want people to be aware of is that there is a way to deal with differences in opinion, contentious issues, and personal offence in an appropriate and professional manner.

Communication should always be clear, open, and two-sided, and the affected editorial staff members wholeheartedly welcome community members to bring forward to us their passion for their beliefs. However, we also wonder: when does passion go too far? Does anything productive come from negatively dealing with a situation in an aggressive manner, rather than being assertive and speaking up in a positive way?

We think there is a big difference in the amount of impact someone can have if their thoughts are expressed in an effective manner, rather than aggressively. Does it make sense to fight for something you believe in if you are, in turn, hurting another? We don’t think that it does. We simply find no benefit in being aggressive towards someone with whom you disagree.

We understand that there are several sensitivities as a part of society which we need to be aware of, and that we have the right – and, perhaps, duty – to stand up for that in which we believe. We also think, however, that there are times during which we can look too deeply into an issue, to the point where people interpret meaning from something when hidden meaning is not actually there.

The article in question was merely trying to present helpful tips in regards to cab safety after a very unfortunate event – there was no intention towards victim

blaming in any way. The intent of this article was solely meant to help the citizens of the university and the community at large – to give them tools they may not have had before.

“Text leaves room for interpretation, and the written word cannot always fully embody the intentions of its creator. ” However, as with any contentious use of the freedom of speech, words are not always read in their intended manner.

Text leaves room for interpretation, and the written word cannot always fully embody the intentions of its creator. While this article was not intended to insult anyone, nor was it meant to place blame on any victim of sexual assault in any way, it has been read that way. This reading, just as any other reading, is more than valid. Herein lies the allimportant issue.

What we are trying to say is that it is important to remember the role of assertiveness in expressing these valid readings, opinions, and arguments – and, we feel, this importance is only amplified in responding to the words of someone else. You will often not know who sits on the other side of those words. You often cannot know whom you are attacking when you bring aggression to the table. You often do not know the intention of the words you have read. Though you can interpret them in any manner you so choose, you must also treat the person, their words, and their intent with the respect you would expect to receive in return. Assertive discourse can affect change.

Assertiveness, not aggressiveness, can move mountains.

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Across 1- WWII battle site 5- Blunted blade 9- Get hitched quick 14- Legal claim 15- Scottish loch, home to a monster!

16- Put off, as an agenda item 17- Again 18- Service station 20- Kind of party 22- Not ‘neath 23- Catch a view of 24- Hindu music 26- High time 28- Interfering 32- Visions 36- “___ Ventura” was played by Jim Carrey 37- Keyboard key 39- Good point 40- Labor 42- Bottled spirit 44- Ad word 45- Spanish hero 47- 18th letter of the Greek alphabet 49- Comparative suffix 50- Marijuana cigarette 52- Progeny 54- Actor Stoltz

56- Boris Godunov, for one 57- Track shape 60- ___ in Charlie 62- Grab 66- State in the W United States 69- Picasso contemporary 70- Japanese poem 71- Teri of “Tootsie” 72- “So be it” 73- Ancient 74- Grand Ole ___ 75- Go after

Down 1- Smack 2- Ike’s ex 3- Actor Cobb 4- Forth 5- Pleasing 6- Green shade 7- Canadian gas brand 8- Ruhr city 9- JFK posting 10- Tardiness 11- Kimono ties 12- Alka-Seltzer sound 13- Start of a counting rhyme 19- Walked 21- Boy or man

25- Pays to play 27- Man-mouse connector 28- Alma ___ 29- French school 30- Free of frost 31- Photo finish?

33- Light ___ 34- Scuffle 35- Severe 38- Appropriate 41- Simulating real life 43- Delegate 46- ___ Rosenkavalier 48- King of comedy 51- Puerto ___ 53- Stage plays 55- Freight 57- Cuatro doubled 58- South African river 59- Put ___ on it!

61- Ginger cookie 63- Duration 64- Algonquian language 65- Cry of a goose 67- Amusement 68- Discount rack abbr.

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