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University applicants decline Canadian universities project dramatic decrease following demographic changes B Y C HLOE S OBEL Assistant News Editor

executive director of OUAC. Granger declined to speculate.

In 2010, the number of “One question will be whether 18-year-olds in Ontario was the demographics and the number Secondary student applications to 180,200. This year, there were of students in the system begins Ontario universities have declined 175,800. This number is expected to increase in the years ahead,” to continue falling through 2020, he said. “Some people think at for the first time since 2004.

The Ontario Universities’ with an 8.2 per cent drop over least a couple years from now that will happen.”

Application Centre(OUAC)released a decade. its preliminary Undergraduate The decline in 18-year-olds Despite this, the number of Application Statistics on Jan. is not limited to Ontario. All people applying to university has 20, revealing a 0.8 per cent provinces will be affected over the also decreased, he added. drop in overall applications. next several years, with Quebec, “That’s been [decreasing] steadily A press release from the Council Nova Scotia and Prince Edward over the last ten years [and] we of Ontario Universities points out a Island (P.E.I.) seeing the most think that’ll probably continue, but it’s virtually impossible to look 10.5 per cent increase in the number dramatic decrease. of non-high school applicants, and P.E.I. will be the worst affected ahead several years and speculate states that the drop in secondary with a projected fall of 23.8 per on it.” student applications was expected cent. In contrast, Ontario will be Despite an overall decrease in based on demographic changes. second only to British Columbia in secondary student applications, “Primarily, I think it’s a reduction its lack of significant change.

Queen’s received 20,757 in the number of students in the Whether applications would applications in January 2013 and system,” said George Granger, continue to fall in the future 21,182 in January 2014 — a two

per cent overall increase.

As a first and second program choice, it has fallen by 5.5 and 2.8 per cent, respectively.

Amir Eftekarpour, president of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance and vice-president (external) at University of Western Ontario’s University Students’ Council, sees the demographic change as a good thing.

“Historically, at least in Ontario … we’ve [been] negatively incentivized to grow through enrolment growth,” he said. “If the university wants more money, for the past little while the best way to do that was just to get more students,” he said.

Instead, he said OUSA advocates a corridor model of funding.

See Enrolment on page 5

Inside this issue: News

The University responds to animal rights activists page 2

Feature

A look at the history of the AMS page 3

Arts

Behind the scenes of Modern Fuel’s cloudscape page 13

Postscript

What makes Limestone City Cupcakery so delicious page 19

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Research animals’ rights defended Rights group rallies against scientific experiments on animals held on campus B y O livia B owden Assistant News Editor The use of animals for research at Queen’s has come under scrutiny by a recent Queen’s Animal Defence (QAD) campaign.

Created in September 2013, QAD aims to inform the community about the use of animals in Queen’s laboratories, and the treatment they receive as research or educational subjects.

Last November, QAD launched two poster campaigns on campus, one labeled “The Other Queen’s Community”, and the other “Notable Alumni”.

QAD’s main executive consists of seven people, as well as 35 volunteers, who organized the poster campaign.

“The Other Queen’s Community” presents a picture of an animal, along with the question “Are we members of the Queen’s community?”

The posters are structured like Queen’s University Alumni Association posters. Instead, they feature animals, and an experiment they were involved in at Queen’s.

Zipporah Weisberg, strategic coordinator and outreach coordinator for QAD, said the University hasn’t provided the community with full disclosure regarding experiments involving animals.

“We do consider animals in laboratories to be members of the Queen’s community,” Weisberg said. “The fact that there’s no transparency about what’s happening to these animals is a real problem.”

She said that QAD finds their information from the U.S National Library of Medicine database, called PubMed, which includes information about testing at Queen’s over the last 10 years.

On Jan. 23, Steven Liss, vice-principal (research), released a statement regarding the campaign, stating that Queen’s adheres to guidelines regarding the ethical treatment of animals used for research.

In response to comments from Liss, Weisberg said that current provincial guidelines, outlined by the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC), leave room for interpretation. “[The CCAC] only provide guidelines, which means they are not binding to researchers,” she said. “The guidelines they do provide effectively give the green light to the most torturous forms of experiments imaginable.”

She said the Animals for Research Act only contains one regulation that is truly binding.

“The only regulation that it states is that anesthetic must be provided to animals if a procedure will cause unnecessary pain … that leaves open what exactly is necessary,” she said.

The posters in QAD’s campaign outline current abuses that they found in PubMed’s database, which include rhesus macaque, a species of monkey, that was subject to painful injections, cats whose spinal cords were removed as well as a beagle who was killed for tissue harvesting.

Weisberg said the organization’s A poster put up by Queen’s Animal Defence on campus. short-term goals are to reveal the abuses that have been occurring, this month, addressing QAD’s comprising research experts, veterinarians and as well as to advocate for a shift campaign, he said that Queen’s licensed from animal research models researchers adhere to standards set community representatives,” Liss out by the CCAC, as well as follow said in the statement. to alternatives.

He added that the University Long term, she said the provincial legislation given by the organization hopes to create a Ontario Ministry of Agriculture takes ethical considerations very new regulatory framework for and Food, and the Animals for seriously, and that discussions Research Act. regarding testing should biomedical research.

“All proposed research projects be encouraged.

Liss was unable to give comment involving animals are closely “The use of animals for research, to the Journal by deadline.

In the statement released earlier reviewed by ethics committees teaching and testing comes

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with important responsibilities, and the University takes those responsibilities very seriously,” he said.

“The University recognizes that this is often an emotional subject, but must take into account the significant outcomes and benefits of this research to all Canadians.”

Advocacy

Library camp-out calls for action Live-in for Literacy, in its ninth year this week, features Harry Potter-themed events B y S ebastian L eck Assistant News Editor In another life, Amelia Zheng says she would have been a child in need of a literacy program.

It’s her family background that motivated her to camp out in the Stauffer Library lobby for Live-In for Literacy, a fundraising effort for the literacy organization Room to Read.

“My grandparents were farmers in rural China, so I’d probably have benefitted from a program like this before I immigrated here,” she said.

As a second-generation university student, she now feels removed from the Chinese countryside, she said, but literacy is still a cause that resonates with her.

Queen’s Discovering the Reality of Educating All Minds (DREAM)

started their Live-In for Literacy actually, and the ground feels campaign in 2005, when two harder every day,” she said.

Queen’s students camped out in a However, the lobby is coldest car outside Stauffer for a week. during the day, and becomes much This year, Zheng, ArtSci ’15, warmer at night, she added. and Emily Falhgren, ArtSci ’15, Unlike past years, the event members of Queen’s DREAM, will now features daily events and live in a tent in the Stauffer lobby will be Harry Potter-themed. for a week.

The daily events include a According to Queen’s DREAM, raffle, a photocampaign and a the international organization movie screening.

Room for Reading funds the Falgren said students will vote construction of schools and to decide which Harry Potter libraries, publishes children’s books movie will be screened in the lobby in various languages and holds on Wednesday night. literacy workshops.

The event has spread to York The organization operates in 10 University, the University of Ottawa countries across Southern Africa, and the Scarborough campus of the South Asia and South East Asia.

University of Toronto, which are Zheng said sleeping in Stauffer also running Live-In for Literacy isn’t too uncomfortable, although events this month.

She added that she and Zheng it has affected her sleep schedule.

“We wake up at really odd hours, will be taking breaks to attend their

Emily Falhgren, Teresa Liu and Amelia Zheng in front of their tent.

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classes, but otherwise will be at the tent for the entire week.

The club hopes to break $1,000 this year, she said. The event made approximately $500 last year.

The raffle, where prizes include a Harry Potter film set and gift cards, will take place at the end of the week. Their donation system, she said, is based on the Hogwarts houses.

“At the end of the week what we’ll do is the house with the most donations, those raffle tickets in that house will be entered to win the movie set and other gifts,” she said.

Teresa Liu, one of the co-chairs for Queen’s DREAM, said the event has changed greatly since the first time.

“They actually didn’t have that much cooperation with the libraries,” Liu, ArtSci ’15, said.

“They had a van, parked it in front of Stauffer, and that’s what they did for the first live-in.”

Since then, the group has coordinated with the library to run the event indoors.

For her, literacy is important because of the freedom and opportunities it brings, especially for girls in Southern Asia and Africa.

“Often their families will decide for them who they will get married to, marry them off and their lives are just bringing up kids,” Liu said.

Just being able to read helps them access numerous resources that remain off-limits otherwise, she said.

“Even if they just finish high school, they can read and access a lot of government resources, help their families, keep them healthy, that kind of stuff,” Liu said.

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Dedicated decades for students’ sovereignty The AMS goes beyond student politics seen today — it reminds students of the power they have to affect change C ompiled B y R achel H erscovici Features Editor The Queen’s Alma Mater Society outdates Canada and has outlived other products of its era.

The AMS was born out of the Dialectic Society — now known as Queen’s Debating Union — in the 1850s, the same decade the penny was minted.

The penny’s now gone, but the AMS persists.

While this year’s AMS executive candidates gear up for election night, they’re not the first to compete for these influential leadership roles. The AMS has been advocating on behalf students for years, and it hasn’t always been easy.

“We drink from wells we did not dig,” said Greg McKellar, information officer at the AMS. “If you look at the history of Queen’s, and the AMS, it reveals that students have never been just passive consumers of an education.

They’ve been builders and shapers of this University, and there’s a lot of information to support that.”

Eril Berkok, current AMS president, believes that the Society still upholds the original values of its Debating Union past.

“Defending students’ rights, promoting and encouraging learning and furthering the general interests of the University, which ideally are all one and the same, are still objectives we continue to adhere to quite explicitly,” he said.

A historical concept important to Berkok, entrenched in everything he does, is the “unparalleled” autonomy and responsibility that the AMS has fought for over the years.

“I think it’s important for students to know the history of their impact on the University, to

get a better sense of what makes this school more than just a place to earn a degree, and certainly to learn what makes it unparalleled among its peers in terms of student engagement,” he said.

The 1800s

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- The four original objectives of the Society were to maintain and defend students’ rights, to facilitate discussion and dialogue, to promote and encourage learning and to further the general interests of the University.

- Until the late 1800s, the AMS continued primarily as a debating society while their two important goals were to secure a study week prior to exams and secure space for athletic activites.

- 1877: The AMS rewrote their constitution, emphasizing the importance of preserving and maintaining the bond between alumni and the University.

- 1898: The society was officially named and the constitution shifted again to focus more on campus constituencies and away from an emphasis on alumni.

- The development of the unique Non-Academic Discipline (NAD) system. At the time the AMS Judicial Committee was called the “AMS Court” — previously, these responsibilities were held by the university Senate.

The 1920s - 1928: The famous student strike. Queen’s administration had been pushing the AMS President to be stricter with student discipline — the president at the time saw them as interfering. It lasted 23 hours before respected alumni stepped in to mediate between the University and

The “AMS Court” , the precursor to Non-Academic Discipline, meets in Theological Hall.

the students.

The 1960s

The 1990s

The 1930s

- 1968: The first ever election for AMS executives took place — executives were previously appointed by senior faculty leaders.

- 1969: The first time the Society was in charge of their own finances without any university oversight. They became “Alma Mater Society of Queen’s University Incorporated”. Today, the AMS is approximately a $16 million business solely in the hands of students.

- 1968: Student representation at the University Senate was won.

- 1969: The AMS appointed the first student elected Rector.

- 1991: The Journal was granted their own house on Earl St. after longstanding requests and their proximity being seen as an irritant to the AMS. - 1993: The AMS advocated for the best interests of students when the University tried to introduce a significantly increased Student Assistance Levy. The AMS President at the time brought the proposed fees down by half.

- 1995: The Municipal Affairs Commission undertook the first safety audit of the student housing area.

- 1936-37: The AMS introduced the student constable system, an extension of their NAD philosophy.

- The AMS Colour Night was an example of non-academic achievements being awarded, for students, by students. It exists in the form of the Tricolour Award today.

The 1940s - 1942: Dorothy Wardle became the first female President of the AMS. - 1948: There was a parallel AMS government for war veterans, as they were an older group of students.

- 1946-47: A vote preventing political clubs on campus led to the AMS demonstrating the student interest in politics by holding a mock parliament, now known as Queen’s Model Parliament.

- “Tricolour”, is an AMS invention. For its first 40 years, Queen’s had no official colours until the AMS President chaired a committee to select the iconic red, gold and blue.

- 1948: Today, the AMS is seen as students working for students, but it wasn’t until now that the constitution required its president to be a student.

The 1950s - 1951: The AMS appointed a committee to explore institutional changes regarding an increase in tutorials and seminars, a reduction in lectures, a reduction in compulsory courses and increased standard and important texts in the library. They also called for more national scholarships to improve academic levels at Queen’s.

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The all-male AMS Executive team of 1888 gather for a classic portrait.

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The 1970s - 1968: The establishment of the AMS Housing Service, which oversaw 56 housing units until it dissolved in 1982. The AMS dropped the service because they didn’t want to be seen as the “bad-guy” landlord and wanted to resume their role as student advocates.

- Mid-1970s: Alfie’s, now the Underground, and the Quiet Pub — now the Queen’s Pub — opened.

- 1974: The AMS held a referendum on whether marijuana should be legalized with 58 per cent of voters saying yes.

1977: The Food Centre was founded when due to increasing recognition that not all students attending university came from affluent backgrounds.

The 1980s - 1981: The Graduate Students’ Society voted to withdraw from the AMS, shifting the AMS to a solely undergraduate government.

- 1980s: Marked the inception of many services we know today including QTV, the P&CC and Walkhome.

The 2000s - The AMS conducted a review of the central philosophical and strategic issues related to their finances and governance. The current AMS Mission and Operating Statements were crafted based on this review.

- 2000: The Academic Affairs Commission (AAC) produced a paper on the lack of attention given to hiring and training for Teaching Assistants.

- 2002: The AAC produced a proposal for an Academic Grievance Centre, which still operates today.

- March 2005: The AMS executive-engineered Queen’s Centre fee was passed at the society’s Annual General Meeting.

- The AMS recruited and sponsored an AMS member to run for City Council. While unsuccessful students have run in the past, this was the single time the AMS was involved.

- 2006: The Municipal Affairs Commission created a subcommittee of the AMS Assembly dedicated to endorsing mayoral and city council candidates.

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Political panel discusses scandals Professionals and undergraduate students converge to deliberate media coverage of politicians

B y N ick Faris and S am K oebrich Journal Staff

is a student-led academic Jonathan Rose and Elizabeth the American media is more willing journal that looks to foster and Goodyear-Grant and fifth-year to challenge politicians.

Rose linked this phenomenon facilitate political studies writing politics major Taylor Mann. and discussion.

Aptly entitled Dirty Laundry, the to Canada’s relatively stringent Canada needs more of a watchdog Approximately 80 people panel reflected on a turbulent year libel laws, referencing a news media, according to a visiting attended the segment in Dunning in Canadian politics, which saw story written by Greg McArthur, a CBC anchor.

Hall, which also featured associate a plethora of prominent scandals former Journal Editor in Chief that Adrian Harewood, a television political studies professors — most notably, the ongoing saga now works as a national reporter for the Globe and Mail. of Toronto mayor Rob Ford.

McArthur’s coverage of the According to Harewood, Canadian media outlets don’t Brian Multroney airbus affair in currently devote enough resources 2007 was screened extensively by the Globe’s lawyers, according to to uncovering political scandals.

“We need more Rose, while McArthur’s American counterparts assured him their investigative journalism.

“We want a media that’s going to organizations could publish the reveal more about the truth of our story immediately.

Rose said moral transgressions institutions,” Harewood said.

The ability of news outlets to are the crux of political scandals, provide quality coverage correlates later adding that journalists should to the amount of money and challenge the precarious gap other resources they’re willing to between power and privacy in certain cases. dedicate, Harewood continued.

“The media have an obligation “If we want a media that reveals the truth about our institutions, to investigate the personal lives of politicians if there’s something that requires investment,” he said.

Journalists influence news hypocritical about it,” Rose said.

While the resumes of Harewood, coverage on an individual basis, Rose and Goodyear-Grant Harewood added.

In his role as an anchor for trumped that of Mann, ArtSci ’13, CBC, he was recently forced to the undergraduate student held his photo by Sam Koebrich drop one of two news stories own right alongside them.

Jonathan Rose, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant and Taylor Mann spoke at the event.

Mann, a manager at Common before a rapidly approaching broadcast: a Rob Ford update or Ground, emphasized the role the arrival of the deadly pig virus in of new forms of media in an ever-shifting journalistic eastern Ontario.

Although Harewood ultimately landscape, adding that traditional chose to cut Ford and include news outlets are prone to Eftekarpour, who is working he said. the spread of the virus in sensationalizing scandals.

Continued from page 1 with AMS Academic Affairs Eftekarpour said he the newscast, he said many “I think they tend to be their “Instead of just funding per student Commissioner Allison Williams to supports a combination of the media outlets would likely own worst enemy by distracting … there’s essentially a target for develop the model, also mentioned corridor model of funding and choose otherwise. from bigger issues,” Mann said. enrolment performance funding, which enrolment per university, and the Queen’s-specific Despite this overabundance “In order to sell to advertisers, awards funding based on certain the media needs stories that are in scandal coverage, Mann said government will fund them plus or growth concerns. “[Enrolment growth] has major performance indicators. minus three per cent of achieving many Canadians only have a sexy,” he said.

“Let’s take this opportunity … that target,” he said. “So if you implications for things like class Much of the panel discussion passive interest in Canadian politics enroll way too many students, then sizes, the quality of our education, to really look at how we can more centred around the apparent — but this doesn’t have to be you’re actually not going to get how many students we can effectively fund [universities],” disparity between scandal coverage the case. comfortably fit in [residence],” he said. that money.”

“If you give citizens the ability in Canada and the United States.

Harewood said Canadian to be journalists, I think they can journalists seemingly have a tacit do wonders,” Mann said.

“We’re just not there yet.” agreement with politicians to not pry into their private lives, while host for CBC News Ottawa, was one of four panelists to debate the nature of scandals in Canadian politics at last night’s panel discussion, the second of four to be hosted by Politicus this semester.

Founded in 2013, Politicus

Enrolment model in process

News in Brief Queen’s angers neighbours

Despite the projected decrease in applicants, Queen’s has seen an increase since 2013.

photo by Charlotte Gagnier AND SAM KOEBRICH

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In trying to obtain an exemption from noise bylaws for West Campus sporting events, Queen’s has angered local residents.

The University is seeking an exemption from a bylaw that prohibits individuals from making noise audible to people in private properties between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m.

Locals living near Richardson Stadium have had issues with noise since the new artificial turf field was built three years ago. They complain that programming on the fields has extended until 10:30 p.m., interfering with sleep and violating the noise bylaw.

Area resident Tom Moynihan believes that Queen’s hasn’t looked into other avenues for preventing excessive noise.

“They could look at noise absorbing walls, they could look at building a dome … It’s unrealistic to expect with the noise exemption in hand that Queen’s will actually spend any money on noise

absorption,” he said.

Children, who typically go to sleep before 9 p.m., are also a concern for families living close to the field.

Residents have complained to campus security about the noise at athletic events, but have seen little action.

“One thing we haven’t talked about it, and it is a separate but connected issue, but the prevalent use of amplified sound and music … to rev up the crowd which is something that traditionally wasn’t done,” Moynihan said.

The City of Kingston is currently undertaking an investigation of the bylaw infractions, details of which aren’t being released, according to Cindie Ashton, City of Kingston communications officer.

The University has allegedly been contacted by the City regarding charges for the violations.

For the full story, see Friday’s issue of the Journal.

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AMS winter referendum statements The Journal provides this free space for parties on the ballot. All statements are unedited.

Enactus Enactus is an international organization that aims to use business to positively impact the local community. At Queen’s, Enactus currently organizes 7 community outreach projects that target youth, disadvantaged groups, and the environment. We aim to help these groups through financial literacy, entrepreneurship and personal and professional development. Our projects include: Project Envision which mentors youth to start their own entrepreneurial ventures; Project Fresh Start, a financial literacy program at local prisons to teach soon-to-be released inmates about the basics of budgeting, banking and investments; and Sustainable Consulting which provides consulting services for local businesses to help them reduce energy waste. Last year, our 36 executive member team and over 50 volunteers impacted over 1500 people in the local community.

Recently, Enactus Queen’s has made the decision to move from the Queen’s Commerce Society to allow students from all faculties to get involved with Enactus. By voting for this student fee, you are ensuring that Enactus Queen’s will be financially stable next year allowing us to continue our incredible impact on the community.

At the same time, students from all faculties that have an interest in impacting the community in a meaningful way will be given the opportunity to get involved with Enactus. The student fee will go directly to the operations of Enactus’ community projects with left-over funds used to support Enactus Queen’s at Regional, National and International Expositions. Please check out www.enactus.org and www.enactusqueens.com . If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the co-chairs James King (0jhwk@queensu.ca) and Ara Dungca (11ad58@queensu.ca).

Queen’s Helping Haiti Queen’s Helping Haiti is a new organization that was established to support the larger Kingstonbased organization, Helping Haiti.

Helping Haiti was founded by Tammy Babcock, and aims to raise funds and awareness to support communities in Cite Soleil. Tammy works with local members of the community to carry out projects, such as the building of a water tower and medical clinic, as well as run programs such as first aid training and self-defence. Helping Haiti is particularly focused on reducing the amount of gang violence that is so prevalent in the region. It does so by bringing members of the community together in safe environments to build healthy relationships and eliminate conflict between groups.

Queen’s Helping Haiti has teamed up with Tammy and her organization to support the building of a community centre, as well as help raise funds for

future projects.

The newly designed community centre will feature sheltered playing surfaces where community members will have the opportunity to engage in sporting activities. The centre will be surrounded by security walls to ensure the safety of the individuals inside. The centre will also be used as a space to run more programs that the Cite Soleil community seek.

Queen’s Helping Haiti hopes to run events on campus to raise awareness of the violence and poverty in Cite Soleil, as well as raise funds to help its mother organization carry out projects for the betterment of the community.

Golden Words Golden Words is the only student-run weekly humour newspaper in Canada. Printing 5000 copies each week, Golden Words is distributed each Wednesday for students all across campus. Golden Words is run by the Engineering Society, however volunteers from all faculties are welcome, and assist in producing the paper every Sunday during PressNite™. New volunteers are always welcome. Additionally, Golden Words runs annual events, such as the popular Science Fair, drawing students from all faculties to experience live Golden Words humour.

The $2 mandatory student fee greatly helps Golden Words print the weekly issues, since advertising alone does not provide enough.

With the continuation of this small fee Golden Words can continue to print issues for students all over campus for the next three years.

World Wildlife FundQueen’s The World Wildlife Fund has been working to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment since 1967, and has since evolved into one of the world’s largest conservation organizations.

WWF - Queen’s provides students with the opportunity to engage and learn about the work of WWF and the challenges that they face.

Today, WWF continues to work towards conserving and protecting all species of life by influencing policy and mobilizing millions of people to take action and show support for climate change. Our goal at WWF - Queen’s is to aid in these efforts through annual awareness and fundraising campaigns here at Queen’s University, ultimately making our campus a more environmentally conscious and sustainable place. As WWF-Canada’s official on-campus representative, we are the direct link for students who are already familiar with the World Wildlife Fund’s initiatives and are looking to get more involved with their work.

Specifically, we will raise funds and awareness for WWF via bake sales, bottle drives, the annual “Panda Ball”, speaker nights, and

by selling admission tickets to an awareness film night. We will also partake in the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, National Sweater Day and Earth Hour.

The $0.50 fee subject to individual opt-out will be used to cover start-up costs for venue bookings, supplies, speaker transportation, advertising ect. Any surplus will be donated directly to the World Wildlife Fund Canada in order to contribute to their global efforts of environmental sustainability and wildlife protection.

of the Atlantic Ocean. MAST has represented both Queen’s and Canada at International conferences and competitions where they have earned many awards for their performance. Students from all faculties and years are welcome to join and require no previous experience.

MAST is the only educational initiative on campus that teaches marine architecture and one of the few teams that focuses on systems engineering.

Members are also exposed to real-world problems, hands-on construction and project management experience, all of The Empress which are instrumental in finding employment after graduation.

The Empress is Queen’s Some of the beneficial applications only bilingual and multicultural of the technology MAST develops publication. Established in 1994, include alternatives to large-scale The Empress serves the Queen’s oceanographic research vessels, community by being a platform handicapped sailor assistance, for diverse voices that otherwise sailor training, sailing safety, ocean would not have been heard. surveillance and carbon emissionWe provide the latest news and neutral transportation. perspectives from North America MAST is asking to continue and Asia, foster communication an optional $0.30 fee that is between the different student subject to individual opt-out. Your groups, and transmit affairs support will help MAST continue relevant to student’s life and to be successful and allow them to learning at Queen’s. Ultimately, represent Queen’s internationally.

The Empress aims to raise cultural Allocated funds will be used for awareness, promote literature, and materials, software, transportation facilitate exchange of ideas within to competitions and building the Queen’s community. equipment.

The Empress publishes bi-annually during the school year. Current editions are found Queen’s Aero Design Team on newsstands in all public places across campus, as well as online Since 1994, the Queen’s Aero @ theempressqueens.tumblr.com. Design Team has designed and Future print editions are contingent built R/C aircraft for the SAE Aero upon funding.

Design Competition held annually In February 2014, The Empress in the spring in the Southern United will be releasing a 20th Anniversary States. The team has remained a special edition – Reminiscent steadfast opportunity for budding Edition to review the major engineers to follow their passion changes that have occurred within of designing and building small and beyond the publication over aircraft while at Queen’s, and learn the past two decades. Further, The vital engineering and design skills.

Empress plans to initiate a bilingual Last year, the team placed 5th campus resource guide for all overall, and the year previously, incoming students (including first- placed 2nd in design, out of sixty year undergraduate and graduate, plus teams each year. The Queen’s international and exchange Aero Design is looking to build students) that facilitates their access on this success, and continue the to various resources available at tradition of excellence that the team Queen’s. is renowned for. For the upcoming The Empress is a thriving competition, the Queen’s Aero medium, a symposium of ideas, Design Team is entering airplanes and a friendly meeting place for in two classes, the advanced class everyone. With renewed support, and the micro class, for the SAE we will accomplish the above and Aero Design West Competition, many other projects to better serve held during March 28-31, 2014, the Queen’s community. in Fort Worth, Texas. The Queen’s Aero Design Team prides itself on creating designs that in a small part Queen’s Mostly help innovate the aircraft industry.

Autonomous Sailboat Team With recent announcements from Amazon of the intent to use drones Queen’s Mostly Autonomous to deliver packages, the increased Sailboat Team (MAST) is a unique use of military drones by the US undergraduate student team that government, and the use of UAV designs and constructs robotic to photograph terrain by Google sailing vessels for competition in its ever growing quest to map at an international level. During the Earth, the understanding of competition the boat steers, small scale aircraft is becoming hoists and trims the sails based an increasingly relevant subject for on wind, GPS and water speed graduating engineers who wish to measurements without human enter the aeronautical industry, or intervention. Currently, MAST work for technology giants such as is working on the MicroTransat Google and Amazon. All funding competition and hopes to earn the from the AMS opt-out fee goes first unmanned sailboat crossing to the purchasing of construction

materials and electronics for the aircraft, and to bringing it to the competition. The Queen’s Aero Design Team thanks all those who opt-in in September, and encourages all AMS members to vote on January 28th and 29th!

Queen’s International Affairs Association: The Queen’s International Affairs Association, abbreviated as ‘Q.I.A.A.’ and pronounced ‘Key-Ah’, is one of the largest student organizations at Queen’s University. It is an umbrella organization of nine different initiatives and serves as a hub for students, faculty and members of the Kingston community who are interested in engaging in debate and dialogue about current events, foreign affairs, global politics and international issues in general. In the past three years QIAA has grown substantially, both in terms of its membership base, as well as dramatically increasing the scope of its operations. Each year QIAA elects or recruits over 150 student volunteers to manage its operations.

QIAA hosts two conferences: the Queen’s Model United Nations Invitational (QMUNi) in the fall and the Queen’s Interactive Crisis Simulation (QICSim) in the Winter.

QIAA is the home of the Queen’s Model United Nations Team which is ranked within the top 30 in North America and travels to MUN and International Affairs conferences across North America.

QIAA also runs the Global Passport Internship Program which includes both the annual internship fair which is held early in Winter semester and the online database at www.theglobalpassport.org.

QIAA’s media operations include the publishing of a quarterly international affairs magazine, the Queen’s International Observer (QIO) and the hosting of Right of Reply, a bi-weekly radio show on CFRC 101.9FM. QIAA also hosts a monthly Speakers Series which attracts world renowned speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds. This year QIAA has also introduced a brand new Community Outreach Program, as well as becoming the first and only club to operate at both the Kingston and Herstmonceux Castle campuses. Beyond these regular initiatives, QIAA members meet frequently to discuss and debate international affairs in both formal weekly meetings as well as frequent socials and mixers. With your support QIAA’s operations can continue to expand, evolve, and serve the Queen’s student body.

Camp Outlook Camp Outlook is a registered Ontario charity devoted to providing youths from the Kingston Area between 13 and 17 with an opportunity to experience wilderness camping. Outlook was started in 1970 by Ron Kimberley, a Queen’s University Medical Student, who was a camping

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enthusiast and believer of the students, with a particular focus it saves food from landfills and therapeutic value of the wilderness. on post-secondary students. Funds gives it to people in need. What For over 40 years of operation, from opt-out fees would also could be better than that?”

Outlook has provided summer be applied towards increasing - Deb Greer, Executive and winter camping services to awareness at Queen’s University Director of St. Vincent de Paul for youth free of charge through of issues in the eastern-region 10 years the generosity of volunteer staff, of the DR Congo. Our annual private donors, and fundraising fundraising event that has in the Loving Spoonful is a local, nondrives. past been held at Clark Hall Pub profit charity dedicated to making Nine to fifteen day canoe trips and The Underground, would be fresh, healthy, local food available in Algonquin Park are conducted reinvigorated with increased funds. to those in need. It works to in the summer, involving a total Small fundraisers and awareness combat hunger and to promote of 130 to 140 campers each events at Queen’s including movie environmental sustainability and year. Volunteer staff members screenings and bake sales would healthy food. Loving Spoonful’s take groups of four to six youths be expanded. This would ensure Food Reclamation Program is not on routes that can inspire an greater collective consciousness supported by grants or government appreciation of the outdoors and amongst the Queen’s community funding, so private donations are a sense of accomplishment in of development issues, particularly needed in order for it to continue. learning camping and social skills. those concerning education and Loving Spoonful volunteers In fall and winter, Outlook conducts youth. pick up surplus food from local weekend trips as an additional restaurants, caterers, farmers and camping experiences which include bakeries and deliver it directly to hiking, snowshoeing and shelter Oxfam Queen’s over 20 Kingston social service building, and maintaining and agencies that feed the homeless, building upon summer contacts Oxfam Queen’s is an expanding women escaping abuse, youth with campers. social justice club, and a campus and the hungry. Many of Loving Almost all of our campers branch of Oxfam Canada, a Spoonful’s volunteers are Queen’s are initially referred to us by a member of an international students, staff and faculty, and social agency or school. Our confederation working to end Loving Spoonful collaborates with recruiting seeks both male and global poverty. Oxfam Queen’s Soul Food, a Queen’s student female candidates who could works in three campaigns: Make group with similar goals. Many especially benefit from a wilderness Trade Fair, Food Security, and Stop Queen’s organizations help out by camping experience, either Harming, Start Helping, focusing donating surplus food: because of problems at home or on women’s rights and climate All of the Queen’s Centre Food at school, or simply because they change. Through its campaigns Outlets could not otherwise afford to go on and a large pool of dedicated Lazy Scholar such a trip. Many campers qualify members, Oxfam Queen’s holds Canadian Grilling Company under more than one criterion. events to create awareness about Donald Gordon Centre All money from opt-out global injustice and raise money Queen’s Cafeterias at the end of fees would be used to pay for social justice causes locally and terms and/or during the summer for park fees, trip expenses globally.

Over 130,000 pounds of fresh, (food, equipment, etc.), staff The largest event is the annual healthy food has been collected training fees, transportation costs, Hunger Banquet. The formal and distributed by Loving Spoonful and insurance. As a registered dinner includes speakers on since 2008! charity all money goes directly into issues of global food security, a Loving Spoonful also runs our program. simulation to direct attention numerous other programs, for to injustice in the food system, instance: and a three course local, organic, Educating Children about fair trade (LOFT) meal. One of Community and the Environment: Nyantende Foundation the main reasons Oxfam is seeking Grade 5 GROW program and an increase in Student Activity Fee summer programs The Nyantende Foundation Funding, from $0.35 to $0.75, is to Increasing Food Skills: is an organization founded in accommodate greater attendance Community Kitchen and Preserve 2010 by two Queen’s University at this popular event.

Reserves Programs students and a native of Nyantende, Oxfam Queen’s Fair Trade Supporting Community DR Congo. The Nyantende Snack Bar is growing in its presence, Gardens Foundation currently enrolls offering ethical products on campus, Enhancing Access to Healthy 223 youth in elementary, secondary, including chocolate, coffee, and Food: Grow A Row program and post-secondary schools. seasonal specials. The co-operative The Foundation’s mission is to is run by student volunteers, and empower Congolese sells a variety of Fair Trade brands Kingston Canadian Film youth living in the greater at cost (non-profit), Monday to Festival Nyantende area

by Friday from 11:30am to 4:30pm subsidizing the cost of their in the Walkhome Booth. There The Kingston Canadian Film education.

As government has also been interest from Sodexo Festival is the globe’s largest institutions are largely absent in working in partnership to bring standalone showcase of Canadian in the Congo’s Eastern region, Fair Trade products to prominent film and media and is in its families are forced to pay monthly locations such as the Lazy Scholar. fourteenth season. The not-forfees to enroll their children in local Sales have climbed over the past profit, annual festival is being held schools. However, as a significant few years, and Oxfam is seeking to February 27-Marhc 2 this year. percentage of the adult population increase our buying capacity and Founded in 2001 by a Queen’s is without stable income, youth hours. film student- Alex Jansen- the often remain on the streets Finally, as interest in social justice KCFF now showcases 50+ feature with no means to pursue an on continues to gain momentum, and short length films, a French education. By removing the Oxfam Queen’s would like to host Film program, workshops, career burden of monthly school fees, a Grassroots Activist Conference. events, receptions, and numerous the Nyantende Foundation gives This event would feature speakers networking opportunities.

Congolese youth the means to and interactive sessions to connect The mission of KCFF is improve their capacities thereby students with their voice for global grounded in the belief that possessing the freedom to change, and would bring students Canadian film and filmmakers are pursue lives with increased from other Universities to our distinctive and vital to our country’s opportunities.

To ensure campus to work together for social culture. We seek to develop an accountability, in 2011 we set justice. audience for our natural cinema up an administrative bureau in by promoting, celebrating and Nyantende where we employ two showcasing Canadian film and local Congolese, who with the Kingston Loving Spoonful by supporting and encouraging help of two volunteers act as our Charity Canadian film production. liaisons ensuring each youth In partnership with the Queen’s is accounted for on a Did you know that over 30% University Department of Film & monthly basis. of Canada’s food is wasted? $27 Media, the KCDD offers plenty for If the Nyantende Foundation billion every year! the Queen’s community, including: successfully obtains the resulting Food Reclamation: Reducing internships for credit, paid work income from Queen’s opt-out fees, Food Waste and Feeding People study positions, a Local Shorts these funds will be directly applied Program that features student to improving the lives of youth “Loving Spoonful’s Food films during the festival, volunteer in Nyantende. Student enrollment Reclamation program is one of the positions, free workshops, a free will be increased beyond 223 best programs in Kingston because career event with 20-30 industry

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guests in attendance, and “2 for aim to provide an environment 1” rates on all screenings. In 2014, at Queen’s conducive to positive the KCFF aims to make all events learning for students within the (including screenings) free of framework of a working theatre charge to students. company. QMT invites students The KCFF partners with from all faculties at Queen’s to get many Queen’s businesses, clubs, involved in a musical theatre at all and groups during the festival to levels of production. mutually promote one another to Queen’s Chapter- West the Queen’s and greater Kingston Africa AIDs Foundation community. For the 2014 festival, partners include: the Publishing The West Africa AIDS and Copy Center, the Queen’s Journal, CFRC 101.9, Queen’s Foundation is a not-for-profit TV, QueensEvents.ca, the Queen’s clinic located in Accra, Ghana. We Business Law Clinic, the Queen’s are the student chapter of this University Film Society, and foundation and our aim is to the Queen’s Commerce Film support WAAF through our fundraising efforts and mitigate the Committee.

Many KCFF interns and impacts of AIDS/HIV in Western work students have gone on to Africa as well as in the local work for organizations like the Kingston community. WAAF Toronto International Film Festival, support several local and rural the Vancouver International communities by providing AIDS/ Film Festival, CTV, and many HIV services and providing other prominent film and media educational opportunities for companies throughout North children whose families are impacted by AIDS/HIV. America.

WAAF supports several local projects in the rural communities in Ghana. One Tea Room such project is the Almond The Team Room was established Tree, which employs the artisan in 2006 and is an environmentally skills of AIDS/HIV patients to friendly and socially soncious café make and sell accessories located in Beamish-Munro Hall. and articles of clothing. The The Tea Room operates based profits help subsidize the on three pillars: environmental patients treatments. Further, responsibility, education, and fiscal through the Orphans and sustainability. The Tea Room’s Vulnerable Children Project, vision and mission statements WAAF provides an opportunity illustrate their commitment to for many children to receive a better education and gain access to upholding these pillars.

The Tea Room is hoping to some basic academic resources. establish a $1.00 student fee, subject It is our firm belief that every to individual opt-out, to support child should be given the its environmental responsibility opportunity to receive a and education pillars. With the basic level of education. Our introduction of a student fee, the fundraising efforts help support Tea Room would implement these projects.

Arguably the most difficult numerous innovative sustainability initiatives that would otherwise not part of our job is to mitigate the be possible. Additionally, the Tea stigma attached to AIDS/HIV. In Room would have a renewed focus order to battle the stigma, every on using its operational practices to summer we send a few students educate the Queen’s and Kingston to Ghana and through awareness campaigns educate people about communities.

The funds generated from a the disease, offer free HIV tests student fee would only be put and encourage contraceptive towards environmental and use in an effort to diminish this educational initiatives, and stigma. Locally, our goals would have no effect on the are to mitigate the stigma manner in which the Tea Room attached to AIDS/HIV and educate regularly operates. The Tea the Queen’s community about Room is committed to providing AIDS/HIV. To this end, we host students with an affordable an annual panel discussion in service, which is the major reason partnership with HARS, the local that the Tea Room does not AIDS/HIV service in Kingston, in want to simply raise its order to raise awareness about the prices in order to generate impacts of AIDS/HIV. Please support us so we can additional funds.

While building on its reputation continue to support in the battle as the only zero consumer against AIDS/HIV. waste business of its kind, the Tea Room is dedicated to Queen’s Baja SAE Design changing the hearts, minds, and Team practices of our community one cup at a time. The The Queen’s Baja SAE Design establishment of an optional student fee for the Tea Room would Team is a group of dedicated provide immeasurable benefits engineering students who work for a wide variety of stakeholders, together to build a small offby ensuring that Tea room’s road racing vehicle to compete message of sustainability in the North American Baja SAE will continue to be the focal competition series. The series is international in scope and holds point throughout its endeavors.

3 competitions annually in May, June, and July. The team has been competing for the last 30 years, Queen’s Musical Theatre and has been very competitive Queen’s Musical Theatre is a since then, recently finishing; 1st student run organization formed overall in 2008, 4th overall in 2011 in 1969 that stages two musical and 7th overall in 2012. The team productions per year along with designs the vehicle using CAD holding events such as cabaret nights software, then manufactures and and training sessions. In addition assembles the car using facilities in to striving for professionalism, we McLaughlin Hall.

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University Rector Descriptions - Winter 2014 The Journal provides this free space for parties on the ballot. All statements are unedited.

Mike Young Mike Young is a 3rd year Concurrent Education student majoring in Gender Studies with a minor in Global Development. He is in the Primary/Junior teaching division and hopes to teach grades 4-6 after he graduates. After visiting campus and hearing his father, Bio ’84, and his brother, Con-Ed ’12, rave about Queen’s in all of its glory, Mike knew his first choice for Marcus Threndyle Now a second year Biology student, I came to Queen’s last year full of excitement. The brief year and a half that I have spent as a member of this community has been nothing short of remarkable.

Every day I am enthralled with the vibrancy and life of campus, and the incredible passion and drive that students put into their work here.

Aman Partap I’m not going to lie. I don’t have the same experience as some of the other candidates running for this position.

I’m in my first year here at Queen’s and I absolutely love it. Some people may take my age and tell me that

post-secondary education. Women’s Worth Week have Queen’s has exceeded every all provided opportunities to expectation he brought work with many different students. with him, and his time at Though issues of student Queen’s has been the best autonomy and long-term years of his life so far. The planning will be foregrounded student experience that for the next Rector and Queen’s students are offered, must be addressed in his opinion, is profoundly properly and diligently, unique and deserves to especially as they pertain to be preserved.

His own Orientation Week, Non-Academic experiences in initiatives Discipline, and enrollment such as Orientation Week, growth, the ideas Mike has Concurrent Education about mental health and Students’ Association, and equity at Queen’s are what

set his platform apart. Mike has had an intimate relationship with and is very passionate about these issues. He has seen what depression, anxiety, and different manifestations of ill mental health can do to someone you love and to those around that person. Queen’s must continue to be a leader and Mike will be an ongoing advocate and will work toward better service for our community. He has

also seen what it can be like for someone to be discriminated against due to their sexual orientation or gender identity and has seen that result in suicide and tragedy. His platform also addresses student autonomy, the future of our campus and programming, and the accessibility of the Rector’s office.

I hope to have the opportunity to mirror this dedication in the role of Rector.

A Rector must be a true connector open to working with anyone and everyone. I see Rector as an opportunity to bring together diverse groups with common interests, developing purpose and direction with the chief goal of making Queen’s a better place for all. The Rector

must be a strong advocate for students – I pledge to hold our interests above all else. My platform outlines a number of initiatives that I believe are worthy and stand to make this University a more welcoming, comfortable, and functional place for students.

Developing a comprehensive student-driven student health and wellness plan would be my first order of business.

From there I plan to preserve our beloved traditions by defending orientation week activities and developing better student-focussed Homecoming programming.

I will defend students by working with faculty and graduate students to create a student-supervisor code of conduct, and will work with our Dons to ensure that resources are developed to guarantee them fair treatment in their jobs. And I will

work to develop Queen’s, reviving past initiatives to make gender neutral washrooms a campus wide reality improving the accessibility of our school.

The role of Rector is one that is only made better by increased student input – I’d love to hear from you!

Let’s make Queen’s better together.

I’m far too young and that I’m naïve for even thinking of running to be the Rector of Queen’s University.

Haha, it sounds daunting when you put it like that. What I want to tell them is this: I’m not as jaded or as well versed with the Queen’s experience as some of

the older candidates. What I am is a clean slate. A slate that is free from etches of the past. A slate that can be written upon and molded by the students. I’ve been looking into the position of the Rector for the past couple of years. From what I’ve garnered, it’s not one that

needs any specific ‘qualifications.’

What you need is passion and a drive for positive change. I want to empower students to get involved and help them to succeed. I want to show them that each and every one of them has the power and ability to do great things. The university

experience is something that we all have in common.

By giving me opportunity to enhance this experience, I hope to make Queen’s a greater and better place than it’s ever been.

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Dialogue Ams elections

The Journal’s Editorial Board believes that WRL is the best executive team to lead the AMS next year.

Presidential candidate Allison Williams, vice-president of operations candidate Justin Reekie and vice-president of university affairs candidate Philip Lloyd have projected expertise, competence, professionalism and group cohesion throughout their campaign and during their meeting with the Journal’s Editorial Board.

After meeting with both teams, board members cast 12 votes in favour of Team WRL, one vote in favour of Team SMH and seven abstentions. The reasons for abstaining varied. Some editorial board members have personal relationships with candidates and campaign staff, while others lacked confidence in either team, or in the endorsement process.

Team WRL has been working on their campaign for months whereas it seems SMH — comprised of presidential candidate Scott Mason, vice-president of operations candidate Mark Asfar and vice-president of university affairs candidate Hasina Daya — came together much later in the game.

Ultimately, WRL’s extra preparation and internal experience make them the stronger team.

While the teams fit into the typical “insider” versus “outsider” narrative — WRL has more AMS experience whereas SMH team members have a more external perspective — the team’s platforms were fairly similar. Due to this likeness, the bulk of the Journal’s Editorial Board was swayed by qualities like managerial potential, professionalism, experience, team composition and team cohesion.

These qualities were epitomized

by WRL’s Reekie, who fielded questions with aplomb. Williams was similarly striking in her breadth of knowledge as she talked at length about topics ranging from software updates to the challenges that increased enrolment will bring to our campus.

WRL’s Philip Lloyd was the least

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Not a hard sell for Team WRL

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Editorials — The Journal’s Perspective

Chloe Sobel

Stomp steroids New York Yankees player Alex Rodriguez’s most recent doping scandal has drawn an unprecedented amount of controversy.

The Biogenesis scandal broke early last season, implicating a number of players in the purchase

illustration by Anisa rAWHANI

notable of his teammates. However, struck a sarcastic and oppositional goals. Alternatively, team WRL he had a good answer when asked tone, which didn’t seem conducive consistently talked about how how his academic experiences to a successful year leading the they’ve been consulting with have influenced his perspective as AMS. To an extent, their answers figures in the administration showed a lack of long-term about academic issues, and a student politician.

As a team, WRL is cohesive. focus on important issues like those experienced in the bar and restaurant industry about their They communicate well and seem increasing enrolment.

In some ways, SMH’s Daya is plans for The Underground and to have confidence in each other’s abilities. They were well-prepared representative of the team as a whole. Common Ground.

Instead of being constrained by and responded well to virtually She had a great answer when asked every question asked of them. about the struggles facing “Castle their breadth of knowledge and They really are the quintessential kids” like herself, who arrive to experience within the AMS, WRL Queen’s in second year. There was was successful in portraying this “insider” team of professionals.

While this identity is mostly a nothing on this subject, however, in “insider” status as a great benefit. In any event, a perceived “outsider” positive thing because it implies SMH’s platform.

Asfar wasn’t wholly convincing team is unlikely to create a great competence, it could be alienating to students who want a more when attempting to justify why paradigm shift within the AMS, as kosher alternatives were a feasible Queen’s students found out last approachable AMS executive. year in the case of BGP (now BPP).

Approachability is perhaps option at Common Ground.

As high-level managers in If there’s one shining star on SMH’s greatest asset as a team.

Their shtick is more down-to-earth team SMH, it’s presidential their positions for only one year, in comparison to WRL’s clinical candidate Mason. He was the AMS executive has to be and corporate style. This fact, in convincing when asked about effective quickly and command combination with platform points team SMH’s controversial plan the respect of their employees and that cater to minority groups like to endorse a mayoral candidate. volunteers. WRL’s competence and introducing kosher and halal food His explanation of the AMS’s professionalism put them in the at Common Ground, might be relationship with the City of best position to fulfill this mandate. appealing to students who feel left Kingston was the sort of in-depth Their thick platform was not just guide to AMS responsibilities a gimmick — they’ve done their out of student politics.

Unfortunately, while SMH that is the norm when talking to research and have demonstrated the ability to follow through. might be the less intimidating team WRL. Compounding their overall option, they seemed disjointed and disorganized as a team when middling answers was SMH’s — Journal Editorial Board responding to questions from the overreliance on anecdotes when Editorial Board. They sometimes justifying their platform and and use of performance-enhancing substances through the Biogenesis of America health clinic.

Despite the controversy, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig was right to pursue a harsh sentence for players implicated. Doping in baseball needs to be heavily cracked down on, and this is the place to start.

In July 2013, 13 players were suspended for 50 or more games, with Rodriguez receiving a suspension through the end of the 2014 season and postseason. He was the only player to appeal.

In early January, an arbitrator upheld the suspension, though the 49 games Rodriguez played while his appeal was pending effectively reduced the sentence.

Baseball fans are bitterly divided about this. Almost no one doubts that Rodriguez is guilty of doping — the main issue is the way MLB

went about the investigation.

MLB came under fire for purchasing Biogenesis documents from a former clinic employee.

An uncooperative witness was threatened with a lawsuit. It’s been alleged that players were strong-armed into accepting their suspensions, and asserted that Rodriguez’s sentence damages the authority of the players’ union.

MLB’s investigative team deserves criticism for how it handled the Biogenesis investigation. However, Selig shouldn’t be attacked for cracking down on doping.

Many have criticized him for encouraging the steroid era by not enforcing a ban on performance-enhancing drugs until 12 years after it had been put in place. Despite his past mistakes, he’s doing the right thing now.

Former player Jose Canseco

argues that doping in baseball shouldn’t be a big deal. If they’re all doing it, why not let them? Baseball has a history of amphetamine abuse; what makes steroids any different?

The argument that “they’re all doing it” is disrespectful to players who don’t use steroids. Doping makes the playing field uneven, and players who stay clean are unfairly compared to players who dope.

Rodriguez and his litany of scandals are symptoms of a greater problem. He deserves his 2014 suspension — but it’s now up to MLB to ensure that no one is put in a position where they need to take steroids to compete.

Chloe is an assistant news editor at the Journal. She’s a fourth-year history major.

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OPINIONS — YOUR PERSPECTIVE

ELECTIONS

Don’t hate, more involvement is great Having fewer candidates doesn’t reflect student apathy; it’s a symptom of the vitriol directed at students

TYLER HENNICK, COMM ’14

uncontested elections. Providing students with the opportunity to choose not only allows representatives to better embody the diversity of the student body, but also pushes candidates to better develop their platforms and connect with more students in order to earn the respect and votes of their constituents. Furthermore, winning a contested election legitimizes candidates’ platforms in a formal way that allows them to pursue promises with the support of the students.

So why, at a school with such a strong student government system and culture, do we see so much apathy towards public leadership positions?

Running a campaign was the scariest thing I’ve done in my four years at Queen’s.

Just a month before the vote, I almost gave up on running the campaign that led to my election as the current Commerce Society (ComSoc) President. I knew that running would open me up to criticism, both to my face and behind my back. I also knew at the time that I’d have an opponent running against me.

If it wasn’t for the support of my friends, I would have quit. I was uplifted by their confidence in me and, ultimately, ComSoc had its first contested election in three years.

This year, executive elections across campus are unfortunately The candidates for COMPSA run separately, but all are uncontested. being characterized by a lack of There are a lot of good reasons candidates.

Candidates in the Arts and Science (ASUS), why even the most ambitious and Commerce (ComSoc), Computing passionate students don’t run in (COMPSA) and ConEd (CESA) elections. Students can be put societies are only being faced off by the large time commitment with a vote of confidence from of the role itself or may even the students, as Nursing (NSS) recognize and support a better candidates were in the Fall. Even leader that they would the AMS election, which often sees otherwise have to three teams, only has two. run against. They may also pursue One thing most of us can agree other leadership opportunities on is that contested elections through hired roles or outside are better The opportunity to than

choose ... pushes candidates to ... connect with more students in order to earn the respect and votes of their onstituents.

Adam Grotsky and Blake Butler are running for ASUS uncontested.

of student government altogether.

These reasons are all completely personalities, social circles and support them in whatever legitimate and will persist, non-student government related endeavours they undertake. especially in smaller, tight-knit activities, you discourage others To anyone reading this who faculty societies. However, there from running in the future. is contemplating running in an If you want more students to election in the future, I offer you a are two key reasons why students don’t run that the Queen’s run for elected positions, support selection of my favourite personal community can curb: a fear of them — don’t bully them. proverbs: “all success comes Debate ideas and facts, not first from being vulnerable” and criticism and fear of failure.

What we need to remember “no things come to those who is that we’re all students and it’s The unfortunately ironic wait”. If you are cancerous to our student groups element of this is that passionate that some individuals believe about it’s likely the that student politicians should who endure the same cutthroat, students passionate political environment that many are professional politicians do. about student This manifests itself in the governance attacks that many student leaders who are face in elections. Any student watching #AMSVotes on attacking the Twitter will know that this c a n d i d a t e s AMS campaign period w i t h o u t JOURNAL FILE PHOTOS kicked off with nasty, public recognizing ComSoc team BNL is running uncontested. and typically anonymous inherent comments made towards several the Queen’s, your faculty candidates on both teams, harm ... you society or student governance, don’t as well as purely malicious discourage others from let fear stop you from acts by non-competing parties. running in the future. pursuing that.

Fortunately this subsided Essentially, I ask everyone as the campaign period personalities and rumours. Be to approach elections with a progressed, but much constructive, not destructive. beloved movie quote in mind: It takes incredible courage to “be excellent to each other”. Be of the damage was already done.

There’s value in understanding put yourself in a situation where critical of platforms and make an the personalities of the candidates, your peers and closest friends can informed decision based on the watch you work hard f o r positive and negative attributes but slanderous and unsubstantiated hearsay only serves to demoralize of candidates, but remember candidates and develop that there’s no place on a culture of fear. This is this campus for the negativity something that candidates we’ve seen over the past in national elections have few years, especially directed to handle, but that towards individuals that doesn’t mean are extremely passionate it belongs on about Queen’s and about our campus. serving students.

Remember, we vote for and elect If you want more “student politicians”, CESA team BACK is running uncontested. students to run for elected not “politicians who positions, support them are students”; there’s a something, only to come up major distinction between short. The emotional strain ... Debate ideas and facts, of investing your heart into not personalities and the two. something that may fail is rumours. Be constructive, Slanderous and incredibly scary. not destructive.

Fear of failure can be curbed unsubstantiated hearsay a candidate’s attitude, but If we shifted from negative only serves to demoralize by also through peer encouragement. to positive support, we candidates.

It’s important that prospective would see more candidates, candidates know they have more productive debates, and, The unfortunately ironic friends to support them in and ultimately, the power for Queen’s element of this is that it’s likely out of the campaign. Candidates students to choose leaders that reflect the students who are passionate who win will see major changes their interests and diversity. about student governance who to their Queen’s careers, but I think that’s something we that don’t all want. are attacking the candidates candidates to know that without recognizing the inherent need harm: by critiquing candidates’ their friends will continue to Tyler is the president of ComSoc.

Talking heads ... around campus PHOTOS BY ERIN SYLVESTER

Do you know what the Rector does?

“He’s the one that represents the students and gets paid for it. ” MARYSIA BULANOWSKY, CONED, MUS, ’16

“I don’t know what a Rector is because it’s not well advertised.”

HEATHER KELLY, ARTSCI ’14

“No, because it’s not at the forefront of students’ minds.”

JOE LO, ARTSCI ’15

“He seems to go to a lot of important meetings and banquets and graduation.”

LULU CHOY, CONED ’15

“I’ve seen people come into classes, but I have no idea what they’re going to do.”

MARK VITA, ARTSCI ’17

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Letters to the editor Accomodate, don’t hate Re: “Unaccomadating at York” Dear Journal Editorial Board, The Supreme Court of Canada has been clear in rejecting the creation of a “hierarchy of rights” and suggesting Charter principles dictate that a balance be reached that gives equal importance to both rights (Dagenais v CBC).

In a setting where exemptions are made for students based on health, scheduling or geographic reasons, denying accommodation for an honestly held religious belief is an unjust outcome.

Protection for religious freedom exists precisely because there is a risk for tyranny of the majority. Where religious practices are unpopular but sincerely

held by a minority group, it is incumbent on the majority to allow it to continue inhibited to protect religious freedom as an ideal.

Anything less comes dangerously close to a civilizing mission that passes judgement on which beliefs can and cannot be validly held by a minority group.

Your editorial discussed principles, and not allowing the request for accommodation as a matter of precedent. However, I think you missed that rejecting the request also set a principle — that religious beliefs can rightly be subject to value judgements from outsiders.

Rohit Jha Artci ’10

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Arts Hannah Claus has shown her pieces featured in cloudspace across Canada, from Montreal to Whitehorse. They are currently on display at Modern Fuel for her exhibit cloudspace.

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Clouds up close Hannah Claus’ cloudscape comes to Modern Fuel ARC B y J ustin S antelli Assistant Arts Editor Montreal-based visual artist Hannah Claus has brought the sky to Kingston.

Her sculptural installation cloudscape, currently housed at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre located at Queen and Ontario Streets, is made up of countless paper ovals strung from the ceiling and arranged into several amorphous, cloud-like shapes.

When analyzed up close, the sculptures may appear to be simply pretty. When viewed with enough distance, unmistakably deliberate and elegant forms become visible.

The effect is stunning. cloudscape is inspired by the Haudenosaunee creation story, wherein a woman from a world above — sometimes referred to by the name Sky-Woman — came down to Earth and made the land and everything that grows on it.

Claus said cloudscape is her attempt at imagining what the world in the sky that Sky-Woman originated from might have looked like.

“For me, clouds are creation and creativity,” she said. “I wanted

to recreate this idea of the sky world and what walking through that space might be like.”

An installation this intricate boggles the mind when the logistics of how it comes to be are considered. Claus outlined an elaborate process.

“I worked with someone who does 3D animation. [The clouds are] modeled with a 3D program first, then it’s put into another program where we put them in spheres, then he takes a screenshot row by row,” Claus said.

“This way an actual template is generated from the process.”

These templates are then put on her wall. She strings up each row and places the spheres where they were marked on her template.

“To put up one of the clouds it takes about three people at a time,” she said. “It’s a lot of work to install and I have to plan it out as best as possible when I plan to show it.”

Because the nature of the piece requires extra hands to assist with its assembly, Claus and Modern Fuel put out a call for volunteers.

They targeted Kingston’s arts community, as well as Queen’s Fine Arts students.

Claus said she was overwhelmed

by the positive response.

“It worked out really well and the volunteers that came were super dedicated. They didn’t just come to help out for two hours, they came every day for two hours, which was what I needed,” she said. “It was really fantastic.”

The result of all this work is a truly transportive piece — a small world of large becalmed clouds, changing with one’s own physical perspective.

More than anything else, the installation inspires a feeling of peaceful awe. It’s a simple idea expressed through complicated methods that successfully transcends any gimmickry such methods can inspire.

Put simply, it is an incredibly unique piece, and it deserves your attention.

“Depending on your angle it can look like complete chaos,” she said. “I want people to walk through it and be surrounded by it, and destabilized a little by it.” cloudscape will be showing at Modern Fuel until Feb. 22.

Joanna Shi’s woodcut print Koi (2012) is one piece that will be featured at the event.

Fundraiser

Closet collection Arts fundraiser returns this year and hopes to spread awareness B y F ilza N aveed Staff Writer

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Involvement is key to an artist’s success in this community.

Held annually at Ban Righ Hall, Cezanne’s Closet consists of innovative artistic pieces donated by students, graduates, local artists and professors.

Community members are invited to purchase tickets, which will allow them the chance at claiming a piece of art.

Ticket numbers are put inside a box and then drawn from the box at the event. When a number is called out, the person holding this ticket has a few seconds to claim a work of art.

The evening proves to be exciting for all art-lovers as they compete for their favourite pieces and mingle with artists.

Joanna Bo Han Shi, treasurer of the Union Gallery operating board, decided to get involved in her third year with the gallery, and in her fourth year, became treasurer of the gallery’s annual fundraising gala,

Cezanne’s Closet.

“It’s an excellent opportunity to network with fellow artists, as well as to gain exposure in the Kingston art community,” Shi, ArtSci ’14, said.

She said the issues facing the BFA program, however, will affect the fundraiser this year.

“We are a bit apprehensive about how the turnout will be this year.

Most of the artwork is submitted by fine arts students, particularly fourth-years,” Shi said.

“The suspension of the Fine Arts program two years ago at Queen’s will definitely affect the number of people who will show up, as the majority of exposure about this event came from these students.”

The event helps to raise the profile of struggling student artists.

“Most people don’t realize that this is an excellent opportunity to network with fellow students, professors and established local artists,” Shi said.

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Warmth of the Arctic Kathleen Margaret Graham’s Arctic is pretty in pink at AEAC B y J anine A buluyan Staff Writer “Hovering between landscape and abstraction,” the pamphlet reads, “Sovereignty in Pink challenges traditional perceptions of the North as a land of ice and snow.”

Kathleen Margaret Graham’s painting Arctic I: Sovereignty in Pink is currently on display at the Samuel J. Zacks Gallery of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (AEAC). It’s part of a larger exhibition by the same title which includes Arctic-inspired pieces by fellow artists Lucy Qinnuayuak, Alan Collier and Joyce Wieland.

Completed in 1971 and gifted to the AEAC in 1993, the painting is more abstract than landscape.

The Arctic, however, is rather pretty in pink.

Confusion excluded, the combination of acrylic and pastel on canvas makes one feel the unexpected beauty of the Arctic colours while forgetting its bitter climate.

Graham’s inspiration came during her first visit to Cape Dorset in 1971. She spoke, in the

pamphlet, of the “strange haunting pink” of low-lying Arctic willow by the airport and the surrounding mountain contours and rock striations.

The painting itself has vibrant pink smoky borders. On the inner portion is a background of mustard yellow decorated by black, red, white and yellow rectangles of variable size, in regular intervals.

It was easier to appreciate the painting having experienced the world with impaired vision, where the colours matter more than the definite shapes of objects.

In contrast, the exhibit’s other pieces are less abstract.

Cape Dorset Inuit graphic artist Qinnuayuak used family history to develop her impressions of her home. Her work Spring Camp depicts animals, a bear pelt and fish left out to dry in the sun, as well as people inside their homes.

Alan Collier’s photographs were taken in 1972 when he travelled as an invited artist on the Canadian Coast Guard’s D’Iberville which was on its regular tour of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

At the time Graham painted Sovereignty in Pink, issues of

territorial claims in the North were not new, but they were relevant.

This was especially evident when the Canadian government reinforced authority over Arctic waters after American tanker Manhattan attempted a voyage in the Northwest Passage.

In a spirited display of Canadian patriotism, Joyce Wieland’s “O Canada” (1971) marks the era’s “burgeoning nationalism.” The lithograph shows imprints of Wieland’s lipsticked mouth singing the national anthem.

Interestingly, the shade of lipstick is a passionate pink similar to that in Graham’s Sovereignty in Pink.

The exhibit left a generally welcome feeling of warmth and colour, both of which are too easily forgotten in the dead of winter in southeastern Canada.

The Arctic I exhibition is a must for art lovers dying for a world with at least a little warmth and a lot of vibrant pink.

Arctic I: Sovereignty in Pink can be viewed at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre until April 6.

Arts Calendar Music Fire Moss, Matt Rogalsky, Image Repertoire and Liam Fenton The Artel Feb. 1 at 8:00 p.m.

Fools Like You/Vorasek/The Stone Throws The Mansion Thursday, Jan. 30 9:00 p.m.

Art Rembrandt’s Circle: Making History and Context and Meaning

Agnes Etherington Arts Centre Feb. 1 to Nov. 30 Visual Bloom: Cumulative Fragments Union Gallery Opens Feb. 4 Theatre Hair The Grand Theatre Opens Jan. 28 Red The Grand Theatre Opens Jan. 29

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Joanna Shi’s piece “Untitled” (2013) will also be auctioned.

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has received 30 to 40 works of innovative art, on top of many pieces from students.

“We are particularly excited to feature the art of Professor Otis Tamasauskas, who is very well known for his contemporary printmaking and his innovative artistic style,” she said.

The types of pieces that usually go into the silent auction are oil paintings, woodcut prints, screen printing, lithography,

copper etchings and occasionally some sculpture.

“There is always something for everybody. I am particularly excited to showcase some of my pieces at the silent auction,” Shi said. “One is an oil painting, and the other is a fine piece of woodcut print.”

The fundraiser usually raises about $5,000. The money enables the Union Gallery to keep running, allowing innovative student artists to gain exposure.

“We usually sell about 60-70 tickets at about $150 per ticket.

This year’s fundraiser is different because we need to raise more money,” she said.

“We had to go through a lot of cuts in our funding. We are doing our best with what we have and so the burden of our usual workload now falls more onto the support of this annual fundraiser.”

The Cezanne’s Closet fundraising event will take place on Feb. 8 at Ban Righ Hall. Tickets are $150.

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Mock free agency period illuminates the art of negotiation B Y N ICK FARIS Sports Editor Hunkered down in a Goodes Hall breakout room, the Houston Rockets have $21 million to spend.

Four team executives huddled around a table last Saturday, knowing their basketball club had an hour to fulfill four objectives: finding a point guard, a power forward, a top defensive player and a veteran leader. The names

and attributes of NBA stars, each a newly-minted free agent, were printed on the stack of papers before them.

The executives weren’t seeking real players, of course, and the money on hand was purely theoretical. The Rockets brass was a group of student delegates at the Queen’s Sports Industry Conference (QSIC), each of them guinea pigs in an innovative sporting experiment.

“Simulation Saturday,” the first in QSIC’s nine-year history, saw the conference’s delegates split into PHOTOS BY CHARLOTTE GAGNIER the roles of player, agent or team In Saturday’s free agency simulation, QSIC executive and told to embark on a student delegates assumed the roles of players, agents and team executives veritable free agent frenzy. and negotiated mock million-dollar contracts.

By negotiating and signing contracts, each group sought to achieve a specific set of criteria — making the most money, luring the best players, and so on — as part of an overarching peek into a mysterious corner of is too expensive. Shafran has his WOMEN’S the sports industry.

Four Queen’s Commerce sights set on David Lee: the veteran VOLLEYBALL students and a Journal reporter All-Star could be a leader, but holed up in room 149, with a his current salary of $12 million Rockets logo printed onto loose is hefty.

“David Lee’s a good player, but leaf and plastered to the door.

After a brief tutorial, marketing the Amir Johnson is so much more Rockets to the players they wanted athletic and energetic,” Shafran said. “I’m honestly not sure.” was up to them.

Just outside the door, the QSIC Brad Shafran peruses a stat sheet at the head of the table; to his right, executive have set up a podium Danielle Amirault logs into the and backdrop, waiting for players, team’s personalized Gmail account. agents and teams to convene in the Across Goodes, 11 other teams atrium and confirm the contracts are competing for 22 players, each they had arranged.

Early on, though, the lobby stays represented by an agent. In room quiet, and the Rockets continue to B Y S EAN L IEBICH 149, the Rockets deliberated.

First, they talked about power talk. Point guard Mario Chalmers Staff Writer forwards. Several quality options is a decent player and wouldn’t cost are available, but nearly every one See Contracts on page 18 Eyeing the final playoff spot in the OUA East, women’s volleyball scored a massive upset win on the road.

The team was away from the ARC for a second consecutive weekend, but pulled off two key victories against the Nipissing Lakers (0-15) and the nationally seventh-ranked York Lions (12-3).

The Gaels (9-6) made quick work of the Lakers on Saturday, sweeping them in three straight sets: 25-22, 25-23, 25-10.

Fourth-year right side hitter Kelsey Bishop led the Gaels’ attack with 18 points, 16 of which

SPORTS

Swept aside

Spotless against best, worst in OUA East

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Senior sendoff Three points in final weekend homestand B Y J AEHOON K IM Staff Writer Women’s hockey took advantage of familiar surroundings in their final home games of the regular season.

The nationally fifth-ranked Gaels earned three points in their games against the Waterloo Warriors (7-9-4) and Laurier Golden Hawks (15-2-3) at home last weekend. Of particular importance was Saturday’s overtime loss against the nationally fourth-ranked Golden Hawks, as Queen’s is just one point behind them for first place in the OUA. “The momentum went back and forth all game. I’m disappointed with the loss but I thought our team played very well,” said Gaels head coach Matt Holmberg. “We know they’re a quick team and they have some players to watch but I thought we

did a decent job of stopping them.

“These are the types of games that will help you get ready for the playoffs and I think we’ll be well prepared for them next time.”

The Gaels won in convincing fashion against the eighth-placed Warriors on Friday night, earning a 3-1 victory.

Taking advantage of defender Danielle Girard’s power play marker late in the first period, Queen’s never trailed en route to the win. Rookie forward Nadia Larocca and second-year winger Courtenay Jacklin had the other two goals for the home side.

Three senior Gaels players — defender Marlee Fisher, goaltender Mel Dodd-Moher and captain Morgan McHaffie — were recognized prior to the Laurier game for their contributions to the Queen’s program.

“It’s been great that we had a lot of rookies who got to learn

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INSIDE Third-year forward Courtenay Jacklin had two points in Queen’s win over Waterloo on Friday.

from them for at least one year,” Holmberg said. “They’ll be missed for sure.”

Dodd-Moher had to be sharp early on to keep the game scoreless, as Gaels turnovers and crisp Laurier passing led to several scoring chances for the Hawks.

After weathering the early storm, it was the Gaels who scored first at the 8:19 mark of

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the first period. Rookie forward Jessica Wakefield had a high-energy shift, getting three quality shots on net before eventually rifling one in from the high slot off an assist from McHaffie.

The Gaels added another marker later in the period thanks to McHaffie. Blueliner Alisha Sealey wristed a shot in from the point, See Hawks on page 18

MEN’S HOCKEY

Despite recent slump, Gaels still have confidence.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Damaging loss to Nipissing sets up winless weekend.

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BASKETBALL

Men fall twice in Ottawa to country’s top teams, but women snag two points.

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Fourth loss in last six games Gaels not fazed after falling to Carleton B y A dam L askaris Staff Writer Looking strictly at the box scores, it appears men’s hockey has gone through a January rough patch.

The Gaels have won just two of their past six outings, with their latest defeat coming at the hands of the Carleton Ravens in a 3-2 road loss on Friday night. To make matters worse, Queen’s has since fallen from first place to fourth in the OUA East division, as they’re now ranked behind McGill, UQTR and Carleton.

Team captain Corey Bureau, however, believes he and his teammates can still contend for home-ice advantage in the playoffs, after starting 12-0-5 this year.

“There isn’t any problems with our systems,” Bureau said. “It’s just a matter of executing and paying attention to detail, and getting that one goal can be the difference in these games.”

Bureau, who scored the game’s opening goal on Friday, emphasized the importance of looking at the quality of opponents they’ve lost to in the brief skid they’ve experienced.

All four losses came to teams ranked top 10 in the country, and three of four came by just one goal.

Captain Corey Bureau scored a goal in the Gaels’ 3-2 loss to Carleton on Friday.

“Eventually though, we’re going to have to start winning and stop being satisfied with just being close,” Bureau said.

After Bureau’s goal on Friday, the Ravens scored a pair of power play goals to go up 2-1, before Gaels forward Joey Derochie tied things up with his third of the season.

Carleton’s Joey West then put his team up for good late in the second period, scoring the game winner.

Gaels head coach Brett Gibson said he’s content with the way

his team has been playing of late and believes they’re still among the OUA’s elite.

“I don’t think we’re on any bit of a slide,” Gibson said. “We’ve given up just five goals in our past four games.”

Much of that has to do with first-year goaltender Kevin Bailie, who was solid as usual for the Gaels, making 22 saves on 25 shots.

The Gaels outshot Carleton 26-25, but were stymied by the impressive performance of Ravens netminder Francis Dupuis.

The Gaels get back in action this

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Friday night in Montreal against the Concordia Stingers and at home against the Nipissing Lakers on Saturday. The Gaels registered 4-0 and 6-4 wins against those teams earlier this season.

Playing familiar opponents will be key for restoring confidence, Gibson said.

“We’ve beat Concordia recently,” he said. “But it’s been a while since we’ve played Nipissing.

Over the rest of the season, we’re looking to accumulate as many points as we can and go into the playoffs strong.”

men’s VOLLEYBALL

Mistakes lead to defeat Several regulars sit out as volleyball falls to lowly Nipissing B y B rent M oore Staff Writer The Gaels got caught sleeping up north last weekend, before scaring a top club in Toronto.

Last Saturday’s game up north ended quickly with Queen’s losing 17-25, 23-25, 26-28 against a surprisingly capable Nipissing Lakers (4-12) squad.

Looking to turn things around in Sunday’s match, the men stormed into Toronto but were unable to maintain their enthusiasm for all four sets, falling 31-33, 22-25, 27-25, 21-25 to the York Lions (12-4).

A series of lineup changes marked the men’s first contest of the weekend. Head coach Brenda Willis made adjustments according to how they had performed in practice the previous week.

She also rested players on

Saturday in anticipation of the next day’s match against York. Outside hitters Philippe Goyer and Will Sidgwick, libero Ivo Dramov and setter Jamie Wright all sat out against the Lakers.

“As a coach, you live and die with those choices,” Willis said.

Saturday’s opening set was the Gaels’ worst of the day. With as many kills as errors, the set was over before the men had a chance to compose themselves.

Scoring picked up from there, but Nipissing went on to win two subsequent sets.

“We played with too comfortable a mindset,” Willis said.

Hitters Mike Tomlinson and Markus Trence had 18 and eight kills, respectively. Middle Scott Brunet posted four blocks and libero Jacob Glantz contributed 11 digs.

The game Queen’s had rested

Queen’s sits seventh in the OUA with four games remaining in the season.

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for came against fourth-place York. Saturday’s loss sparked a strong opening, which went back and forth well past the usual 25-point mark.

At 31-33, the Gaels were finally subdued. Willis said if they prevailed in the opening frame, the boost of confidence would have altered the subsequent sets.

Serving was key once again for the squad, who couldn’t maintain a high level of consistency and turned over a number of service errors.

“We started out serving aggressively, but you can’t hand over almost an entire set,” Willis said.

Errors would be the men’s demise in the fourth and final set, when the team produced just 11 kills to 10 errors.

What isn’t to be overlooked is the Gaels’ ability to rise to challenges. Goyer was leaned on and responded in spades, leading the team with 19 kills, seven digs and two blocks.

In the high-scoring contest, Tomlinson and Sidgwick produced 15 and eight kills, respectively.

Dramov had 11 digs and Wright put up 48 assists.

The Gaels have four games, all at home, remaining in the regular season. This weekend’s games will challenge the men in different ways, as they take on both the highest and lowest ranked teams in the province.

The top-seeded McMaster Mauraders (15-1) will be in the ARC Saturday at 3 p.m., while the Gaels will travel across the bridge to take on the RMC Paladins (0-16) on Sunday at 4 p.m.

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Winless in Ottawa Defence falters in pair of losses to the nation’s best B y J ordan C athcart Staff Writer On the toughest road trip possible in CIS play, the Gaels dropped two decisions.

In Ottawa last Friday, the Gaels lost 104-65 to the top-ranked team in the country, the Carleton Ravens, and were on the losing end again Saturday night as the nationally second-ranked Ottawa Gee-Gees topped them 100-79.

The results from the road trip don’t come as a surprise, as the Ravens and Gee-Gees have established themselves as perennial top programs in CIS hoops.

Undefeated Carleton proved their powerhouse status to the Gaels Friday night at the Ravens’ Nest. The Nest was rocking, with over 600 Ravens fans showing up to give Carleton the home court advantage.

The Gaels’ defence had trouble containing the Ravens all night, especially the nation’s best player, Phil Scrubb, who torched Queen’s for 23 points. The Ravens couldn’t seem to miss, shooting an off-the-charts 60 per cent from beyond the three-point arc.

Forward Patrick Street led the Gaels’ scoring charge with 14 points, while guard Greg Faulkner added 11 in the loss.

Gaels head coach Steph Barrie had only positive things to say about the performance of his squad versus the Ravens.

“Winning on the road in our league is tough,” Barrie said. “Our players don’t react too high or too low to the results, so they’re ready to play these teams we’ve lost to again.

“This was the toughest road trip you could possibly put together,” Barrie added.

“We knew going in it was going to be a

challenge and it certainly lived up to that.”

The Gaels gave up triple digits once again as they lost to the Gee-Gees the next night.

There seemed to be a lid on the hoop as the Gaels hit only five of 26 three point attempts.

Gee-Gees forward Terry Thomas had a career-high 42 points. Guards Sukhpreet Singh and Roshane Roberts led the Gaels with 17 and 16 points, respectively.

Barrie knew going in that the Gee-Gees were hungry for a win after they suffered a loss to the Ravens earlier in the week.

“The fact that Ottawa had lost to Carleton early in the week made them want to get their act together,” Barrie said. “It was tough enough playing a number one team, but almost even tougher playing a number two looking to get themselves back on track.”

Forward Nikola Misljencevic refused to dwell on the weekend’s results and is already looking forward to next weekend’s games at the ARC. “We can’t get down on ourselves after this weekend,” Misljencevic said. “After being on the road the [past] two weekends, we’re excited to have a home stint, which should boost our confidence.”

Currently, the Gaels are on a four-game slide, but sit just one game back of the York Lions for fifth in the OUA East.

Although times are tough for the Gaels,

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Outside hitter Kelsey Bishop tallied eight kills in Queen’s four-set win over York on Sunday.

Misljencevic said the team has to stay focused on their goal of making the playoffs.

“We show the ability to play great at time, but we can go the other way as well,” he said. “We have to remain together and fight to improve in order to succeed down the stretch.”

The Gaels will look for some revenge this weekend at the ARC as they play host to the Algoma Thunderbirds (4-12) and the Laurentian Voyageurs (10-6), both of whom they lost to earlier this month.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Pressure showings Squad ends up on both sides of close games

Despite two losses over the weekend, the Gaels hold a three-game lead over the Toronto Varsity Blues for the final playoff spot in the OUA East.

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Gee-Gees to their poorest shooting game of the season at 25 per cent en route to the overtime victory. Last year, Ottawa eliminated the Gaels from the post-season.

The last time the Gaels beat the Gee-Gees was nearly four years ago, on Feb. 21, 2010.

Wilson said it was the Gaels’ best defensive game of the season.

“We pressured Ottawa the whole game,” Wilson said, adding that the pressure was intended to tire out the Gee-Gees guards to hurt Ottawa’s chances of making late-game shots.

In the last minute of the fourth quarter, the Gee-Gees were down by three points.

After a timeout, Ottawa’s Sarah Besselink made a three-pointer, tying the game and ultimately sending it into overtime.

The Gaels limited the Gee-Gees to one made shot in the extra frame, while scoring 14 points of their own, eight of which came from wing Jenny Wright.

Boag rebounded from a poor shooting night against Carleton, ending the Ottawa game with 15 points. Robyn Pearson notched a double-double with 10 points and 14 rebounds.

The Gaels will return home this weekend to face the Algoma Thunderbirds and the Laurentian Voyageurs for the second time this season. Queen’s came out on top against both teams in their previous meeting earlier this month.

A fourth-quarter collapse stole a perfect weekend away from the Gaels against two perennial playoff teams.

The Gaels lost 57-55 to the Carleton Ravens Friday, before beating the nationally 10th-ranked Ottawa Gee-Gees 57-46 in overtime on Saturday.

The Gaels had an eight-point lead against Carleton going into the fourth quarter, but a nine-point scoring run midway through the frame by the Ravens tied the game at 51-51 with 3:14 left to play.

Gemma Bullard committed a shooting foul on Lindsay Shotbolt of the Ravens in the final seconds, giving Carleton a two-point lead after two made free throws.

The game ended when a last-second heave by Gaels guard Liz Boag failed to connect.

“We just watched [the lead] dwindle away in the whole fourth quarter, and that’s the part I was most disappointed,” said head coach Dave Wilson. “The game seemed to change and we didn’t change with it.”

Bullard had a strong shooting night, finishing with 19 points, including three made three pointers. She also made all eight of her free throw attempts.

Boag was only 3-16 from the field, but dished out five assists to go along with her eight points.

Against Ottawa, the Gaels held the

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were kills. Third-year middle Emilie Normand chipped in 15 points of her own in the winning effort.

Sunday was the true test for Queen’s, as they faced York, who bested the Gaels 3-1 in their previous meeting on Nov. 8.

The Gaels lost the first set of the match 25-21, but the team recovered from the early deficit and won three straight frames: 26-24, 30-28, 25-14.

“The first set started off really slow, and we were actually down 11-3,” said Gaels head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane. “We fought our way back and outplayed them through the first set and kept getting better throughout the match.”

Second-year left side hitter Brett Hagarty put on a show, collecting 26 points, 22 kills and 33 digs, all of which were team- and game-highs.

“Through the second and third [sets] and leading into the fourth, she really lit it up for us,” Christian-Macfarlane said.

Second-year libero Becky Wilson posted six digs in her return to the lineup. She missed the last two games with an injury, having played in all of the team’s games up until the point she was hurt.

Fellow second-year Ali Shamie continued her strong play as setter, contributing 38 assists against Nipissing and 45 against York.

The Lions, who started the season on an 8-0 run, sit in a three-way tie for first place in the OUA East along with the Toronto Varsity Blues and the Ottawa Gee-Gees.

Queen’s will close off their season over the next two weeks, with matches this weekend against the McMaster Marauders (10-5) and the RMC Paladins (4-11).

On Feb. 8 and 9, they’ll face the fourth-place Ryerson Rams (11-4) and first-place Toronto (12-3).

All four remaining games will be played in Kingston, three at Queen’s and one at RMC, and they’re all must-wins. The Gaels must overtake Ryerson for fourth to clinch a playoff berth.

“You can’t control the uncontrollable, so all we’re going to do is focus on the things we have control over,” Christian-Macfarlane said.

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much. Tony Allen would be nice to get, but he’d be highly sought after as an inexpensive lockdown defender. Forward Rudy Gay? “Honestly, he sucks,” Shafran said.

The decision is made to target Lee, despite his elevated price tag, and Chalmers, a relative bargain that could satisfy two of Houston’s four objectives.

Amirault, Comm ’14, begins drafting an email to Lee’s agents, determined to woo the power forward from his current team.

“It’s so hard to lure him away from Golden State,” Shafran said.

“They’re a similar team, but they do everything better than us.”

As Amirault presses “send”, the focus suddenly shifts. An email has arrived from Amir Johnson’s agency, expressing the power forward’s willingness to sign with Houston.

Shafran and Amirault rise from their chairs and enter the atrium, which has been suddenly thrust into chaos. Twenty minutes in, several signings have apparently been arranged, with teams and

agents juking through the fracas to find each other.

The announcement comes through the microphone: the Rockets have signed Mario Chalmers for $5.15 million.

There’s no word on Johnson; Amirault tears off in pursuit of his agent, while the delegate playing Chalmers signs his name at the podium.

Back in the Rockets breakout room, Shafran works the laptop.

Another email pops up. “Let’s talk about Paul Pierce,” Shafran reads from the screen. “Let’s not,” he replies aloud.

Practically on cue, Pierce’s agent bursts through the door and lays out an aggressive pitch. He wants a team for his client, an aging small forward, and hopes he can convince Shafran to agree to terms on the spot.

Amirault returns with news: they’ve signed Amir Johnson for $6 million. Pierce’s agent is chased out as the Rockets calculate their remaining cap space.

Two new players are under contract; with just under $10 million left to work with, the

Rockets want another. Rudy Gay’s agent enters the room to make his pitch, but he’s more timid than Pierce’s representative, and his requests are quickly dismissed.

In the corner of the atrium, Shafran is deep in conversation with — of all people — Pierce’s agent. Several minutes after deriding his declining productivity, the market has shifted, and the Rockets are suddenly in on the veteran forward.

Terms are hammered out within minutes, and Pierce becomes the PHOTOS BY CHARLOTTE GAGNIER third Houston Rocket to sign. Delegates emerged from breakout rooms and Shafran and Amirault pose at the convened in the Goodes atrium to sign their unofficial contracts. podium and return to room 149.

Rudy Gay’s agent wanders by, desperate to pawn his client off for whatever sum, but he’s told that the Rockets are done for the day.

Houston has spent $21.4 million on three players, with Pierce’s contract pushing them slightly over their salary limit.

Later, they’ll learn that their free agent haul placed them third overall in the team standings. For now, though, the executives sit in limbo, reflecting on their crash course in the art of negotiation.

“If we’d gone at the very expensive players right away, we probably could have gotten some stellar deals on them, in retrospect,” Shafran said. “We ended up going with a little bit cheaper talent, but still quality players.”

He glances to his right; just outside the door, clusters of delegates continue to mill, consummating the weekend’s final mock deals.

“There was a lot of brotherhood, honestly. Everybody’s running around for their team,” Shafran said. “Even though nobody really knows how you win this simulation, everybody’s trying to win.”

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which Laurier goalie Amanda Smith had trouble handling. The puck trickled to McHaffie, who made no mistake from up close.

Laurier regrouped and scored two goals just 63 seconds into the second period to even up the game. Both goals were scored by fourth-year winger Laura Brooker, who finished the game with a PHOTO BY SAM KOEBRICH hat trick.

With four games left in the season, the third-place Gaels Gaels centre Shawna Griffin sit two points behind Guelph and one point behind Laurier. finally restored the Queen’s lead with five minutes left in the period, create chances, the Gaels played McHaffie said, who moved within scoring off a hard pass from Clare gritty hockey, blocking multiple six points of Elizabeth Chiasson's Queen's and OUA points record.

McKellar in the corner. shots to keep the game tied.

“Personally, I’ve faced Laurier A resilient Laurier team came Though the Gaels fought hard out strong in the third period, with in overtime, even killing off a a few times in the playoffs and we winger Devon Skeats scoring her penalty, Brooker finished scored know that if we face them again, 10th of the season to even the score her third goal with 43.5 seconds it’s going to count for everything.” left in the extra period on a The Gaels will now play their at 3-3.

Jacklin missed a glorious two-player breakaway, ending the final four regular season games on the road, starting with games opportunity to score on a game at 4-3.

“We know that come playoff against Brock (8-11-1) and Guelph two-on-one, hitting the crossbar as the game remained tied. While the time, things are always very (16-3-0) next weekend.

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Let them eat cupcakes The Limestone City Cupcakery brings flavour to downtown B y R achel H erscovici Features Editor

from the Cupcakery and it will forever hold a place in my heart.

Brown sugar based cupcakes The sun hadn’t yet risen but the are McEver’s favourites, like the cupcakes were well on their way. salted caramel, cookie dough When I arrived at the Limestone or toffee. Despite working in a City Cupcakery at Princess bakery, McEver said she doesn’t and Clergy Streets, I heard have a huge sweet tooth, which Lindsay McEver’s music playing surprises a lot of people. as the warmth of the oven “I never eat cupcakes. And if I surrounded me. The smell do, we offer minis, so it’s like, if of cupcakes made me wish it you want to try a flavour just eat a was acceptable to start my day mini,” she said. with treats.

At this point in the interview, McEver usually starts her McEver is gracefully icing the days at 4 a.m. baking the day’s birthday cake cupcakes and cupcake orders. sprinkling them lightly with Honestly, I was thrilled multicoloured sprinkles. to be awake at this point, but The icing swirl is the hardest it seems exhausting to have an part, said McEver. early and unusual schedule “It’s all muscle memory — trying like McEver’s. to remember how hard I have “You think you’d get used to it, to squeeze it, and each type of but you don’t,” she said. “I will icing has a different consistency never be an early bird. It’s hard so you’ve got to learn with the every single day to get up.” icings too,” she said.

McEver’s been working “I’ve really turned into such a here for nine months, since she perfectionist. I never thought I landed this dream job right out of would be, but now I’m looking culinary school. at every single one of these Her hands move easily from cupcakes, wishing I had done bowl to tin as she gracefully and a better job.” methodically scoops the batter into They really did all look perfect perfect cupcakes. to eat, though.

About 18 to 20 dozen cupcakes When the store first opened, are baked in the oven and passed Katherine Lussier, the founder along to customers in a day. and owner of the Cupcakery, did However, with large orders everything on her own. thrown in the mix, the process “For the first year and a half, if doesn’t always run smoothly. you had purchased a cupcake, I McEver said that once a would have baked, decorated it customer asked for 1,500 mini and everything.” Lussier said. cupcakes and the Cupcakery’s Lussier started her business after mixer broke. she moved to Kingston with her Another time, she dropped fiancé Colin, while he was doing three dozen cupcakes on a day of his Masters at Queen’s. a wedding.

“When I got here there wasn’t “I almost cried, it was the worst. a cupcake store, so I opened one,” I just made it happen, you just rush. she said.

I don’t even think I told my boss,” She studied biology and geology she said. during her undergraduate degree Cupcake flavours are switched at Carleton, but took her passion up daily and new flavours are taken for baking and turned it into a away and introduced every season or successful business. holiday to keep the inventory fresh “Everything I learned about and exciting. opening a business I learned from One of the Cupcakery’s Google,” Lussier said. “I literally best-sellers is their red velvet just looked up everything like cupcake. And for the record, how to open a business: step one, their red velvet has chocolate in step two, step three ... and did all it — about an eighth of a cup of that.” for a whole batch of cupcakes, to Founded in October 2011, be exact.

Lussier opened her business Back in the day, the vinegar with the help of a loan from her used in the recipe sparked a generous uncles who are also chemical reaction with the independent business owners. cocoa, leading to the flavour’s Because of her student loans, distinct red colour. Nowadays, no bank would touch her case. cocoa is too processed so Government loan programs also bakers have to add the red seemed like too tedious of a process food colouring. for the eager Lussier.

“Red velvet is one of those things Lussier said she never had any that Canadians find is the best formal baking training either and thing ever — same with carrot honed her skills on her own. cake. There’s nothing too amazing “I started baking cakes when I about it,” she said. “I really like was really little,” she said. our carrot cake though — that Inspired by a children’s is like the best carrot cake ever.” television show, Lamb Chop’s The rosewater cupcake, a Play-Along, where they made a vanilla cupcake iced with a subtle rabbit-shaped cake, Lussier began botanical infusiuon, however, her baking career at the age was the first kind I ever tried of eight.

“I made literally 100 rabbit cakes when I was eight,” she said, “until somebody was eventually telling me that you can’t make a rabbit for Christmas and then I started making other cakes and when I was in university, I baked for all my friends.”

In the store’s recipe book, you can see both handwritten and typed recipes that Lussier has collected from old family recipes and cookbooks over the years.

Lussier said the store’s recent move from the original Ontario St. location to the Princess St. location has made their business more accessible to students and drawn in a larger crowd.

Weddings are also a big part of the Cupcakery’s orders, doing up to two or three a weekend starting in April until the end of October.

Lussier recently hired a cake decorator to keep up with the demand. A small cake topper is also included in a wedding cupcake order.

The Cupcakery and Lussier’s staff will even be catering her own wedding.

“We’re having like a whole bar of dessert,” she said. “People have high expectations when they’re coming to my wedding. If I go anywhere without cupcakes people are offended.”

Cookie Dough, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and the standard Chocolate Obsession are Lussier’s top favourites in her inventory.

With wide interests, Lussier is always looking for her next exciting goal. In addition to the Cupcakery, Lussier also works full-time at Lululemon.

The future of the cupcake shop has endless possibilities for Lussier.

A Redbull cupcake is in the works for exam season.

“For some reason if you take away the carbonation of the Redbull, it tastes flowery or fruity,” she said.

Her fiancé seems like a big fan of the idea — and McEver is on board with experimenting too.

Although it was really difficult at first, Lussier said, the best part of owning her own Cupcakery is the ability to affect and direct change in her business.

“I feel like we’re getting to a place in Kingston, where the downtown is either being taken over by bigger companies or empty spaces and what Kingston really needs is for people to power through the bigger corporation stuff and start your small business,” she said.

“If anybody that reads this is thinking about opening a business: you should, you really should.”

— With files from Emily Miller McEver at work in the Cupcakery’s kitchen.

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