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City of Kingston

New Council hired

Glover backs out Councillor criticizes City and Mayor

Team WRL hires commissioners and directors

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B y S ebastian L eck Assistant News Editor The incoming AMS executive team WRL hired its new council on Sunday.

The six AMS commissioners lead the student government half of the AMS. The commissions organize campus events, advocate for students and coordinate certain AMS operations.

The three service directors manage AMS services, including TAPS, Common Ground, QTV and Walkhome.

Team WRL chose their commissioners and directors after considering 48 applications and two rounds of interviews, according to the team.

The Journal sat down with the new AMS council on Wednesday to hear their plans for the upcoming year.

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Social Issues Commissioner Emily Wong, ArtSci ’15, said she’s been involved in social justice groups both at Queen’s and in the City of Kingston.

She was a Queen’s Education on Queer Issues Project (EQuIP) co-chair last year, and currently is the education deputy commissioner for the SIC. “Anti-oppression is something I’ve taken a personal interest in,” she said. “I’m pushing for a more inclusive community, one that is more accepting and tolerant of the people in it.”

Campus Activities Commission Michele Charlton, ArtSci ’14, said she’s spent a lot of time in the drama department, although it’s usually been on the technical side of stagecraft, like sets, lighting and logistics.

She said she’s helped produce shows for the drama department, Queen’s Musical Theatre and Blue Canoe Productions.

Charlton said she wants to focus on keeping campus events up-to-date with the changing student body, Charlton added.

“Every year we gain one fourth and lose one fourth of our student body. It’s about really looking to make sure we’re serving the current See Executive on page 5

Sydenham District Councillor Bill Glover has announced that he won’t run in the upcoming municipal election.

The announcement came Monday in a letter written to campaign supporters. Glover blamed a “right-wing” shift in attitude among Council members as the primary reason to not run.

He also criticized Mayor Mark Gerretsen, citing him as a major reason for his decision.

“To put it simplistically, the only thing worse than being defeated in the next byelection ... would be to be elected to the same council,” he said.

“When you look at the ongoing comments that some members of council have been saying subsequent to the [OMB] decision, tell me why bigotry and hatred are not appropriate terms [to describe them],” he said.

Glover has served as Sydenham District councillor since 2006, prior to which he served as an elected member for the Sydenham District Association.

Glover has recently come under fire by City Council following his actions during an OMB process in the Fall, which saw the OMB overturn a City ruling to dissolve Sydenham District as an official City district. The initial ruling passed by the City would have also excluded students from the population count.

“Look at what [Council] said about students,” he said. “It seems to be alright for them that an identifiable portion of qualified electors can be diminished and See The on page 6

Inside this issue: News

First enrolment plan draft released page 4

Opinion

On Black History Month page 9

Arts

Re-interpreting the Canadian landscape page 12

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student fees

AMS looks to increase specific fee Assembly will vote on Thursday to increase the AMS mandatory fee by $9.26, set to stabilize operations B y C hloe S obel Assistant News Editor The AMS is seeking to raise their mandatory specific fee by $9.26.

The specific fee funds the commissions and offices of the AMS, encompassing all lobbying and advocacy work in addition to student-run programming and government services.

The specific fee is currently $70.74. The increase would bring it up to $80 plus additions from the Ontario Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures inflation. CPI would determine yearly adjustments.

Nicola Plummer, AMS vice-president (operations), said that the fee is reassessed every four to five years.

“The AMS Specific Fee is levied on students to support their Alma Mater Society in fulfilling its mission of serving and representing the diversity of students at Queen’s University,” Plummer, Comm ’13, told the Journal via email.

The fee increase will be voted on at AMS Assembly on Feb. 13.

The motion will be moved by Rico Garcia, chair of the AMS Board of Directors.

Garcia, ArtSci ’13, originally proposed the fee increase in order to raise full-time salaries and make AMS jobs more attractive to students. The AMS president, making $24,423 per year, is one of the lowest-paid student government presidents in the country.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced last month that the Ontario minimum wage will be raised to $11 an hour, effective June 1.

This will cost the AMS

approximately $81,000.

Plummer said that the wage increase is a “supporting factor” in the decision to raise the fee.

When the minimum wage increase was announced, Plummer told the Journal that the Board of Directors had determined the new salary grid earlier in the year after a “comprehensive review.”

She said they met after the increase was announced and had determined that there was no need for a change in the new salaries.

“The specific fee … needs to be raised in order to ensure the level of programming, advocacy and service students currently provide through the operations of the AMS can be maintained,” Plummer said.

“Examples of this type of work include academic lobbying … club administration and outreach, conferences such as Queen’s Model Parliament along with support for students to work with the University administration in order to better the student experience.”

She sees the primary benefits to the fee increase as two-fold.

“The AMS and its member societies can continue to The fee increase will be used to maintain the operations of AMS services. provide an exceptional and unrivaled experience in the faculty of broader learning that is currently not offered anywhere else on campus,” Plummer said.

“The fee provides a stable operating environment for the corporate student services to take risks and improve their level of customer service both in terms of quality and quantity.”

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The changing look of love While Queen’s has always been a perfect environment for flourishing romances, the landscape is changing with technology B y F ilza N aveed Staff Writer Queen’s brings hearts together, even after graduation.

For Martin Gerwin, ArtSci ’62, and his wife, Judith Rutledge, ArtSci ’62, a letter of condolence was the tool that allowed them to revive their old friendship.

“I knew Judith during my undergraduate years at Queen’s as we were both taking honours philosophy. Class sizes at that time were so small that it wasn’t hard to get to know each person quite well,” Gerwin said.

After graduating, they both ended up marrying different people and moving on with their lives, leaving Queen’s behind.

“My wife passed away later, and Judith got divorced. Judith’s sister … unintentionally brought the two of us together,” he said.

“She heard about my wife passing away, and urged Judith to write a letter of condolence to me.”

The letter led to more communication, and to a reunion of the class of ’62 in August 2002, which Gerwin fondly recalls as his first date with Judith. In the spring of 2003, they were both married.

They agree that their Queen’s connection played a huge role in bringing them together, as they were both aware of each other’s personality due to the small class sizes.

As class sizes at Queen’s have expanded, online dating has replaced letters as a means of communication for romantic relationships.

For Ingrid Gagnon, ArtSci ’99, MA ’02, and her husband Edward Thomas, Sci ’06, MASc ’12, if it hadn’t been for online dating, they would probably have never met.

They first met in 2007 through the online dating website eHarmony.

Gagnon didn’t know Thomas during her undergraduate years at Queen’s. Since she had pursued her undergraduate degree at the age of 24, she mostly spent time with graduate students who were her age, and was focused on her studies. Dating was the last thing on her mind.

It was after she pursued two degrees from Queen’s and was working on campus that she met Thomas. “eHarmony really does match you up with someone you’re compatible with to a large extent,

at least in my case. After our second date, both Edward and I felt that we had a lot in common and that we didn’t want to see other people.”

Gagnon and Thomas were both in their mid-30s and were looking for a meaningful relationship. At a canoeing trip in 2009, Thomas proposed to Gagnon on a cliff overlooking the sunset, and they married in later that year.

They were married at the University Club, located on campus on Stuart St. “It seemed like the perfect place to get married because of our shared Queen’s connection,” Gagnon said.

Twenty-eight per cent of U.S. marriages began as relationships in college, according to a new Facebook study. And, the landscape of student romance is digitizing from what it once was.

For Gagnon, Queen’s has a special place in her heart as she met so many of her friends there, many of whom also chose to get married at Queen’s.

“Thinking about all of this really makes me believe that online dating worked out perfectly for us,” she said.

Gagnon and her friends aren’t the only ones with emotional attachments towards Queen’s, according to Queen’s Event Services Manager Jennifer Pete.

“Many Queen’s alumni have fond memories connected with Queen’s University which is a place where they studied for so long and met so many of their friends. As a result, many of them choose to get married on Queen’s campus,” she said.

It’s not only alumni who wish to solidify their marriages at Queen’s. Many staff and faculty, along with friends and family of alumni, choose campus as their location for tying the knot.

“For staff and faculty, it’s mostly pride in their employment at such a prestigious university … Of course, the fact that Queen’s is located amidst a gorgeous backdrop in picturesque Kingston definitely helps,” Pete said.

The most popular wedding venues on Queen’s campus include the University Club and the Donald Gordon Conference Centre near West Campus. Both hold wedding receptions throughout the year.

“For the venues that fall under the jurisdiction of Queen’s Events,

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need to engage in sexual activities in order to get the limited resource — which is the male.”

She also emphasized that even though most literature dealing with hookup culture and relationships focuses on heterosexual couples, LGBT communities also participate in hookup culture.

Hookup culture doesn’t always mean casual and meaningless relationships, said Gordon. Some of the people who indulge in hookup culture are actually hoping to find something meaningful.

“When we are talking about online dating, and Tinder in particular, there is this notion that Tinder is the new heterosexual app for hookups,” she said. “But, Tinder also gives one a chance to get to talk to another person while sober, and really get to know them.”

Tinder is a new dating app that matches users with people based on location, leaving them to select pictures of those who catch their eye. If both people “like” each other, it’s a match and they can start chatting.

Gordon noted that whatever your relationship status, we all need social interaction and intimacy.

“You get more sex and better sex from a meaningful relationship rather than a casual hookup, and

it ultimately boils down to how most people crave the emotional intimacy along with the physical intimacy,” she said.

Gordon agreed that online dating and communication is something today’s generation is more comfortable with, and doesn’t discount it in any form.

“Tinder for example, really bridges the gap between meaningful relationships and hook-up culture,” she said.

The student population seems to have their own opinions about hookup culture and hot topic dating apps.

Hasina Daya, ArtSci ’14, believes that hookup culture at universities stems from people’s desire for instant gratification.

“My advice to people is to take their time and to not rush into any relationship impulsively. It’s also important to love yourself before you can love anybody else,” she said.

Efficiency is what’s driving students to search online for their significant others, according to Amal Nawal, ArtSci ’14.

“I think online dating sites are an excellent way to meet someone casually,” she said.

“People are resorting to it because it’s just so much easier.”

the Ban Righ Dining Hall and Grant Hall are the most popular,” Pete added. “We also have a partnership with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre for wedding receptions, as well as Wallace Hall [in the JDUC], which we share with the Student Life Centre.”

There have been quite a few creative weddings held on campus, Pete said. One in particular was a reception based on dragons and unicorns, with the bride and groom enjoying thrones as their seating.

It’s unclear, however, if the current generation shares this same passion for finding a meaningful relationship while studying at Queen’s.

The prevalence of hookup culture at most postsecondary institutions might suggest otherwise.

Shanlea Gordon, ArtSci ’11 and MA ’13, began pursuing qualitative research on hookup culture at Queen’s, which ultimately became her master’s thesis. After writing an undergraduate paper on dating violence and changes in courtship, she wanted to understand the changing dating rules and norms.

“There were dating rules and specific courtship behaviours in the early 19th century. It seems we don’t have many rules when it comes to pursuing romantic relationships anymore,” she said.

She stressed that even though most relationships on university campuses involve hookups, there’s ambiguity in literature regarding what “hookup culture” really is.

“In general, hookup culture can be defined as a heterosexual male and female engaging in drinking, meeting up at a party or a bar and engaging in sexual behaviour after.

That can range from making out to sexual intercourse, to anything in between,” Gordon said.

According to her, some scholars believe that hookup culture became prevalent around the mid-1980s after the second feminist movement, but there hasn’t been much academic research done on it.

“I think it’s so prevalent because of the split gender ratio,” she said.

“We have more females coming into undergraduate programs on campus as opposed to males,” she said.

“If you look at it from an evolutionary perspective, some scholars would claim that because of this divide, females feel the Looking at the statistics of a modern romance.

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Enrolment group releases first draft

Report provides planning up to 2024, with specific goals for 2016

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also held two town hall meetings to hear feedback from the community.

Alan Harrison, provost and The Strategic Enrolment vice principal (academic) and Management Group (SEMG) member of SEMG, said the released their first draft framework draft serves as only a guide for on Monday, which contains the University.

“The aim of the framework long-term enrolment projections for is to ensure that our the University.

The draft looks into planning as enrolment-related plans and actions far as 2024, but only gives specific further the university’s mission, goals up to 2016, as concrete encourage student success and information for the future can be support our financial sustainability,” hard to determine. According to Harrison said in a press release.

“It’s a tool to guide the university’s the draft, enrolment has increased 35 per cent between 2001 academic, administrative and support units as they work towards and 2012.

The draft’s main points our enrolment goals.”

Harrison didn’t respond to include ensuring students are supported outside of the classroom, multiple interview requests from budgeting to maintain successful the Journal.

AMS President Eril Berkok is student services and making sure that the institution meets also a member of SEMG. Berkok and AMS Academic enrolment goals that align with Affairs Commissioner Allison revenue targets.

Proposals for a long-term Williams worked on an AMS report enrolment plan were originally which provided recommendations to SEMG for enrolment. passed at Senate in April last year.

The report addresses factors Students and other stakeholders such as the University Council to consider when looking were asked to put forward their at enrolment planning, such student life, finances, feedback for a long-term plan as academics and the impact on the in September.

The Senate Committee on surrounding community.

Williams said she was Academic Development (SCAD)

satisfied overall with the draft, but would have liked to see a stricter framework.

“I guess right now it’s cited as being a framework, which to me suggests it would have a series of metrics and considerations that you could vet any enrolment plan by,” she said. “I didn’t find that it was as structured as I would have liked in that sense.”

She also said she wished the University began planning earlier.

“I think that it was unfortunate that the only time that that level of planning went into [enrolment] was when we knew there was a major expansion coming,” she said.

“There are so many considerations when you look at enrolment … the kinds of students you’re attracting, the kinds of programs you’re attracting them into … [which] should be made every year,” she said.

Williams added that the SEMG is integral to the university as broader planning is vital. “[SEMG] is a great venue to really carefully look at our enrolment numbers and ensure that we do have a cohesive long-term plan that is University wide,” she said.

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Executive team chooses council from 48 applicants was drawn to the Academic Affairs that I continue the good work Commission because of its potential [current Media Services Director] Devin [McDonald] has done, and to directly impact students. student body,” she said.

He’s been an academic it’s all about talking to people and Commissioner of the Environment advocate before, he said, as an making sure we’re responding to academics representative to the students,” he said. and Sustainability Arts and Science Undergraduate Hospitality and Safety As a second year, Leah Kelley, Society (ASUS) and President Services Director ArtSci ‘16, is one of the youngest of the Philosophy department members of the group. Despite student council.

“I love the idea of engaging with Alex Marshall, ConEd ’14, said the this, she said she’s had a variety of and learning from the student first thing he’ll do as Hospitality experiences at Queen’s so far.

“This summer I was in Nepal for body,” he said. “I’m very excited to and Safety Services Director is sit down with student managers a couple months, teaching English meet the rest of the team.” at TAPS, Common Ground and and doing some trekking and Student Constables.

Internal Affairs Commissioner I’m also involved with St. John’s “It’ll definitely be sitting down Ambulance,” she said.

She’s currently the Deputy Claire Cathro, the new Internal and getting to know everyone, Commissioner of Advocacy Affairs Commissioner, lived at and working on building those and Education for the CES, she Herstmonceux Castle in England relationships with student managers, added. As the Commissioner of for her first year at Queen’s. She which are built on trust,” he said.

He said he applied for the Environment and Sustainability, she was surprised when she came said, she’ll focus on getting students to Kingston in her second year, position because he wanted a challenge that was different from he said. interested in environmental issues.

“When I arrived on campus, his work at Concurrent Education “First off, I want to see what students want from the it was amazing to see just how Students’ Association (CESA). He’s commission and figure out how to engaged, spirited and ambitious currently the President of CESA. “I wasn’t quite ready to leave our community is,” Cathro, ArtSci engage them.”

Queen’s, and I felt this was an area ’15, said via email.

Since then, she has been I wanted to work on,” he said.

Municipal Affairs Commissioner involved with undergraduate Retail and Design Ariel Aguilar Gonzalez, said he research journal Politicus, Queen’s Services Director had already worked with local city Model Parliament and the AMS groups, such as a poverty reduction Judicial Affairs Office, where she Dylan Trebels, ArtSci ’15, said commission and the educational works as a deputy.

She’ll be looking at strengthening his greatest challenge will be charity Youth Diversion, before the Non-Academic Discipline integrating Yearbook and Design being hired.

“I love how the Municipal Affairs system and expanding the Clubs Services into the retail services. The service, which was under media Commission is at the intersection Office, she said. portfolio this year, will now be of the AMS, Queen’s and the city,” under his purview.

Campus Services Director Gonzalez, ArtSci ’16, said. “There’s Trebels was the Marketing potential for collaboration.”

As Municipal Affairs Kanivanan Chinniah, ArtSci ’15, Manager for Tricolour Outlet last Commissioner, Gonzalez said said he’s been involved in student year, and currently sits on the AMS he’ll be trying to live up to the politics since he arrived at Queen’s. Board of Directors.

Trebels, also an athlete, “I’m been involved in the legacy of current commissioner Queen’s Debating Union for a long competed with the Queen’s Catherine Wright.

“There’s definitely a few time, and I’ve been part of QIAA wrestling team at the 2012 Ontario University Athletics major events coming up, like the for long time as well,” he said.

This year he became an ASUS (OUA) Championship. municipal election, so I want to do “I’m looking forward to taking representative to the AMS, he her proud,” he said. added. Above all else, he said, he all those experiences, from wants to prioritize communication Athletics, residences and the AMS Academic Affairs Commissioner and applying it to my job,” he said. as Campus Services Director.

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Political studies

Students propose internship credits Isabelle Duchaine, ArtSci ’14, to lobby politics department B y C hloe S obel Assistant News Editor Political studies students are pushing for external political work to be recognized by the University.

At Tuesday’s Political Studies Undergraduate Committee meeting, Isabelle Duchaine, Co-Chair of the politics Department Student Council, outlined her proposal for a POLS internship course.

The course would allow outside internships to be counted as academic work. A faculty member whose specialization is relevant to the internship would be assigned to oversee the student’s work.

At the end of the term, the student would submit an assignment detailing what they did throughout their internship.

The course would be graded on a pass or fail basis.

If implemented, political studies would follow in the footsteps of many other equivalent programs in Canada, including those at University of Waterloo, University of Ottawa and Carleton University.

The department of global development studies has a similar work-study program, and FILM 395 also allows students to receive official credit for internships.

“It is rare for students to propose the addition of courses at Queen’s,” Duchaine, ArtSci ’14, said.

“It’s usually quite a long process, so in that sense it can be very intimidating, and there’s a lot of bureaucracy surrounding it,” she said.

She added the course has been approved by the Political Studies Undergraduate Committee, and now will need the approval of the political studies department, after which it will be finalized by the Faculty of Arts and Science.

Because of how long this process takes, Duchaine said she doesn’t foresee the course — if approved — beginning until sometime in 2015.

“The people I’ve spoken to at the department of political studies as well as the Faculty of Arts and Science have been very supportive of the idea,” she said.

Many universities in Ontario have equivalent internship programs.

“There’s a provincial impetus to implement more of these courses,” she said.

“It’s a direction that Queen’s

Isabelle Duchaine says external credits are necessary.

has pointed out in their Strategic Enrolment Management Group that they really want to move in.”

Duchaine said she was inspired to propose the course based on personal experience working full-time for the AMS, as well as the experiences of others.

“I dropped a 400-level seminar on political communications because I was spending … the entire month of March, when I was supposed to be having class, in Toronto meeting with MPPs,” Duchaine said.

“I can see how relevant some of the material in class is … when you’re in a meeting and you’re like, oh my gosh, that’s just like what we talked about in this reading that I did.”

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Committee meeting on Feb. 21, where she will make the draft proposal, Duchaine said she will gather the stories of current students and alumni, asking about their internship experiences.

She will also develop the learning hours — courses are required to have 120 to 140 learning hours, including class time, assignments, and readings — and consult professors.

“The students are asking for it in a way that I don’t think they would have 10 or 15 years ago,” Duchaine said.

“There’s so many more students attending university, you kind of need something to differentiate you.”

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Bill Glover criticizes City Council for its right-wing attitude.

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to be alright for them that an identifiable portion of qualified electors can be diminished and discredited ... go to the dictionary to ‘bigot’ and tell me how this definition does not apply.”

As part of the investigation, the City hired an independent integrity commissioner to determine if Glover displayed a conflict of interest in participating in the

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Despite this, Glover said the investigation had nothing to do with his decision to not re-run.

“The investigation is a symptom of the problem,” he said.

“Close-minded,non-analytical people who voted for the investigation are all the people who voted get rid of Sydenham District including, of course, the Mayor.”

The “right-wing” attitudinal shift is largely attributed to a self-interested corporate-driven culture, Glover added.

“Buy something today and don’t think about when you’re going to pay for it ... [people] just spend, spend, spend,” Glover said.

“Overtime that creates the idea of self-entitlement and of course it won’t change, it will take time to change.”

He said lobbying for improvements to the Kingston transit system is an initiative he’s proud of during his time as councillor.

“If you don’t have a bus service then you have to provide parking for everyone as they move back and forth on street system ... and you have to think of the environmental consequences,” Glover said.

He said whoever decides to run for Sydenham District in the upcoming byelection will need to have an open mind.

“Every district needs somebody with an open mind with the intellectual capacity to understand issues and analyze information and the independence of thought to follow what they genuinely believe to be the best course of actions,” Glover said.

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“Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Reddit AMA was a failure. ”

politics

Wynne flops Reddit AMA Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s her backers were simply arrogant an email to supporters.

While our standards Reddit AMA was a failure. It enough to believe that there isn’t clear whether arrogance, would be no backlash against her for politicians and political incompetence or a combination of actions. If this is the case, then campaigning have lowered over it’s good that their condescending time, politics should be more both produced this result.

Last Tuesday, Kathleen Wynne mentality collided full force with than simply public relations and made herself available to answer the unregulated and anonymous marketing. This is what makes Reddit’s backlash so positive — it questions on Reddit, an Internet politicos of the internet.

In general, people know when proves there are still places that aggregator and comment board.

Reddit often plays host to “Ask Me they are being marketed to or politicians will be held to a higher Anything” threads (AMAs), where otherwise used for the purposes intellectual standard.

Wynne and her team failed to celebrities, experts and politicians of a political stunt. This, in combination with Reddit’s famed factor in common sense and account field questions from Reddit users.

Wynne and her staff should “hive mind” mentality, resulted in a for historical precedent when they undertook a Reddit AMA. have foreseen that only answering huge backlash against Wynne.

While it’s true that no one who This entire situation is symbolic ten questions in the space of less than an hour and ignoring all but does an AMA is required to answer of the large divide between the the least critical queries wouldn’t critical questions, and Wynne unregulated debate of the Internet be well received. In the past, those couldn’t have satisfied many of her and the carefully orchestrated who used an AMA to self-promote critics even if she had answered, theatre of party politics. were treated mercilessly by the taking this route effectively renders an AMA pointless as there’s — Journal Editorial Board Reddit community.

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Neknominations are flawed While it’s true that the Neknomination trend encourages binge drinking and other dangerous behaviour to a small degree, more importantly, it raises other questions about the priorities of those who participate.

Neknomination participants post a video of an alcohol-related stunt to social media and then nominate people to repeat the process within 24 hours. The trend originated in Australia and has quickly spread across Europe and North America.

While some Neknomination videos are extreme and feature incredible feats of binge drinking, young people were already doing lots of that anyways. Those who see these acts as harmless fun fueling camaraderie amongst friends are

right, to a point. Like with any widespread phenomena, however, deeper analysis is necessary.

Neknominations could be seen as an extension of a hyper-masculine “bro culture” which prizes extreme behaviours that are ultimately pointless. The game is certainly exclusionary to a certain degree as not everyone drinks and many of those who do don’t binge drink at the drop of a hat.

Those who have asserted that Neknominations ramp up “peer pressure” to drink are correct.

Rather than simply being egged on at a social gathering, those who receive Neknominations have the attention of thousands of social media users.

Still more questions are raised by

the fact that Neknominations take place on social media. Are people really doing it out of exuberance or are they motivated by likes, views and shares?

A final consideration for those undertaking Neknominations: think long and hard about the consequences of posting a hard-drinking video to the internet.

Our digital footprints are eternal.

You don’t have control over the things you post to Facebook and they could easily come back to haunt you in some way.

Neknominations seem fairly benign on the surface, but once their underlying motivations and problems are examined, the practice seems less appealing.

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Olivia Bowden

Mental training

Helping a friend battle a mental illness is easier said than done.

You’ve gone through all the motions that every anti-stigma campaign has encouraged you to do.

This friend now feels comfortable enough to tell you that they are having a difficult time — they might even say they don’t want to live anymore.

Once you know a friend is suffering, what’s the next step?

Trying to convince someone that their situation isn’t permanent, and that it’s possible to handle their mental illness is a difficult task. You can be left feeling helpless.

As Queen’s continues to make mental health a priority, there needs to be more guidance here for those who want to help others.

As a campus, it seems we’ve decided collectively to support those with mental illness. During the Bell Let’s Talk campaign, I saw virtually everyone on Facebook or Twitter participate.

We’ve also done a great job of tackling stigma. Groups such as the Queen’s Mental Health Awareness Committee (MHAC) and the Jack Project have done an admirable job of erasing stigma about mental illness and working towards ensuring we’ll never have a string of deaths like Queen’s saw in the 2010-11 school year.

Mike Condra, director of Health, Counseling and Disability Services (HCDS) said there’s been over 6,000 Queen’s community members in the past six years who came in for counseling.

Now that we’ve tackled stigma, we need to learn how to actually help when someone asks for support. HCDS recommends listening to those suffering from mental illness and to refer them to a counselor.

However, in my experience, simply hearing someone out and telling them to seek help isn’t enough. Attempting to comfort through words of care and concern isn’t enough either. It’s just a small first step.

Just as someone working at a suicide hotline is trained on how to talk someone down from a suicide attempt, we all need to know tangible ways to respond to our friends seeking help.

If that extra effort isn’t made, those suffering will be discouraged from opening up. Saying “it’s ok”, or “I know how you feel” won’t always be what they need from you.

Supporting a friend who is suffering requires a lot more attention and investment then an anti-stigma campaign can provide.

We need to be taught how to help.

Olivia is an Assistant News Editor at the Journal. She’s a third-year history student.

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JUSTIN SANTELLI

In defence of feelings I firmly believe that art should be able to break you.

Art should have enough power over you that it’s totally possible for it to ruin your life a little bit. Every once in a while, you should experience something so intense that you feel terrible after it happens, because it allows you to discover something about yourself you might not have realized previously.

One of the greatest things about art is that it can provide a no-consequences trigger for you to have that experience. Recently, I saw something that got me thinking about how we relate to art as we age. It’s a YouTube video titled “Jackson crying at A Great Big World’s ‘Say Something’ feat. Christina Aguilera,” and it’s the single most inspiring thing I’ve ever seen.

Every once in a while, you should experience something so intense that you feel terrible after it happens, because it allows you to discover something about yourself you might not have realized previously.

I’ve never heard the song “Say Something”.

The small portion I heard in the video

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doesn’t stimulate any feelings within me aside from a slightly nagging desire to listen to something else. But here, a four-year-old child feels this song so intensely that he’s moved to tears, and somehow again, at the age of four has the emotional and intellectual wherewithal to know that he is going through something important.

So, when his dad repeatedly asks him if he’d rather listen to something else something, perhaps, less emotionally devastating for him he shakes his head and boldly continues to feel, dammit. I can respect that.

Do you know how rarely I break into full-on sobbing when a song comes on? I almost never do. Granted, I’m a 21-year-old man, but should I really let that stop me?

The small portion I heard in the video doesn’t stimulate any feelings within me aside from a slightly nagging desire to listen to something else.

As we age, we get desensitized to everything, but especially to art and especially now. Art has become so easily attainable for free and with little effort. We’ve made it disposable and, consequently, we’ve walled ourselves off from spontaneously connecting with it in any way that is meaningful. Who wants to open themselves up to something or somebody they don’t even value?

I’m not claiming to be the first person to make this observation. It’s the year 2014, and I’m fully aware of that. Even the word “Internet” sounds dated in 2014.

But this is why Jackson is amazing, and why I’m a little bit jealous of him .

Comparatively new to this world, he’s yet to have his feelings spoiled. He doesn’t know that they’re no longer in vogue. He just heard a song one day and it moved him. So he cried.

Justin is the Journal’s Assisstant Arts Editor. He’s a fourth-year film and media major.

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Black History Month kicked off at the beginning of February with speeches in Wallace Hall.

Black History Month

‘Roots’ of Queen’s: black won’t crack

Queen’s students should be more familiar with the whole history of the university, not just one narrative

Stephanie Jackson, ArtSci ’14 This past summer, I learned that my ancestors spoke Gaelic.

While this might not seem like something worth mentioning since there are probably many other Queen’s students whose ancestors spoke Gaelic, this is why it’s important: I’m black.

My father is black. My mother’s family, the side from which my ancestors spoke Gaelic, is black.

We’re black and we’re Canadian, and we’ve been in Canada for many generations. My ancestors, who were Canadian blacks, who lived and thrived in Truro, Nova Scotia, spoke Gaelic.

This newfound information was revelatory to me in several ways, the most glaring one being that I attend Queen’s where the Gaelic language and culture has shaped the university into what it is. It seemed even more fitting that this school has a prominent history of black people shaping its institution.

It seemed as though things were figuratively coming full circle.

The intersection of ancestry and my present situation has been one of the more striking moments of coincidence I’ve had in my life. Taking

the time to pause and reflect, I know now that if I had learned this information as a prospective student, it wouldn’t have influenced my decision to choose Queen’s over other universities.

Even though every Queen’s student proudly chants the Oil Thigh whenever the opportunity arises, the way in which the Gaelic language permeates this school wouldn’t have made me want to go here.

Even though my family, black people who spoke this language which was unprecedented to their race and the time, it would not have made Queen’s more endearing to me.

What would have attracted me as a prospective black student would have been to know that black people, notable alumni as well as distinguished persons, have played quite a significant role in shaping this school into what it is.

There are probably many other Queen’s students whose ancestors spoke Gaelic [but] this is why it’s important: I’m black.

As a black student here at Queen’s I feel as if this history is not one we all share and take pride in. We share amongst us a collective identity of what we believe Queen’s to be, and being able to authentically

represent this school requires more than just donning your tam.

To authentically represent this school, it requires educating yourself about its history and its people.

It’s always during February — Black History Month — when I find myself revelling in the fact that so very few people know that black people have played an important part in Queen’s history. What’s even more unsettling is that even fewer are interested in learning about it.

As a black student here at Queen’s I feel as if this history is not one we all share and take pride in ... to authentically represent this school, it requires educating yourself about its history and its people.

Black History Month is not just for black people. It’s here at Queen’s where this rings especially true.

Black history, fellow Queen’s students, is our history.

There’s the legacy of Alfred “Alfie” Pierce or the remarkable Robert Sutherland and how he saved Queen’s, to name just a few of the many black Queen’s notables. This history is one that all Queen’s students ought to share in, commemorate and

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pass on.

Black History Month is the opportunity to recognize the achievements made by people who have been oppressed physically, mentally and socially. Despite these odds, black people have made lasting impacts that can be felt right here, on this campus, today.

As Queen’s students, we ought to fully engage with every aspect of our history and understand that the undertakings of black people have shaped the collective identity of Queen’s. Knowing this can contextualize the idea that black history is not just something for black people. Queen’s history is black history.

What would have attracted me [to Queen’s] as a prospective black student would have to have been to know that black people, notable alumni as well as distinguished persons, have played quite a significant role in shaping this school into what it is.

It seems hypocritical for me to press the issue that black people have been integral to what Queen’s is without giving

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information as to who these people were or what they did.

There’s no individual or collective who is responsible for educating others about a shared past.

This school has all the resources that permit anyone to teach themselves about black history.

Seeking out this information isn’t difficult, but it’s wanting others to care about this history that’s another aspect entirely.

The information is there, but it takes people who care enough to want to know that Queen’s is more than just its shades of Tricolour.

“I’m buying roses for my little sister.”

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A visceral response

Montreal’s Seoul returns to Kingston with ambient tunes C HARLOTTE G AGNIER Photo Editor Next Friday’s show at the Grad Club will be a homecoming for Seoul.

The Montreal ambient pop aggregate of multi-instrumentalists Julian Flavin, Dexter Garcia and Nigel Ward spoke over Skype about their sound and upcoming gigs.

Flavin and Ward grew up in Kingston before moving to Montreal in 2008. In their formative years, the pair made regular visits to the Grad Club. “[It] was definitely kind of a magical spot for us, we discovered a lot of music there and had our first exciting live experiences watching people we look up to play there,” Flavin said.

The band is headed to Texas in March to play at famed arts festival SXSW, something they’re excited about.

“I think it’s just cool to feel like you’re participating in the global clusterfuck as it were of all these musicians,” Flavin said. “We’re going to eat pulled pork all day every day.”

The group is influenced by ambient music. In their live shows, there’s an attempt to elicit a visceral response.

“We’re just trying to hit good

moments that feel right in some kind of higher way that’s not as confined to a genre but … feels like a convergence of a lot of sounds,” he said.

Although the group has only one song released to their name, a crowd gathered for their performance at Pop Montreal this past September.

think it’s just cool “toI feel like you’re

participating in the global clusterfuck, as it were, of all these musicians.

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—Julian Flavin, on playing SXSW

“We’ve always been playing in bands around the city so I think shows are generally well-attended by fellow musicians,” Flavin said.

“Stay with Us”, the first track off their new album, glimmers to a muted pulse — its dark blues and dry snares are perfect for a calm night with your headphones on and volume turned up. The experience is other-worldly.

The band is currently completely independent, managing themselves as well as recording and engineering

their music in their own space. This gave them a degree of freedom when recording their upcoming LP. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be independent forever.

“We’re building the kind of connections towards having [the record] released with somebody we like,” Flavin said.

He said that art comes as the reaction to a situation where creating a cohesive statement is a large undertaking.

“I feel that one of the nicest things about making a record is it can be such a transcription of a big period in your life,” he said.

“Our record was a slow creative process and as a result incorporated a lot of life moments — it is a diverse record for sure and we hope that it’s a world … that you can live in and experience as this full thing,” Flavin said.

For a band where each member regularly takes up vocal duties, the writing process is a communal one.

“Every idea that everyone comes up with by the finished product will be fully collaborative,” Garcia said, “where its identity changes from one person to sort of like three minds put on it.”

Seoul will be playing the Grad Club Feb. 21 with Sea Oleena and the Kells.

The group recorded the album at their own studio.

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Thursday, February 13, 2014 B y F ilza N aveed Staff Writer Teagan McLaren is taking the music world by storm through her sweet country vocals and soulful lyrics.

Born and raised in Kingston, McLaren has always felt that songwriting was her true calling, but didn’t embark into the world of singing until recently.

“I actually have been singing my whole life, but only around family and close friends.

I just started singing in public last March, and it was an exhilarating experience,” McLaren, BMus ’14, said.

She said she also feels that songwriting is an especially deep process for her, and allows her to bare her soul .

“My songs are about things that happened to me and I always thought it would be very hard for me to share my experiences with the rest of the world. But I actually like sharing my life with the public this way,” she said.

People have always been trying to get McLaren to sing during open mic nights and at coffeehouses, she said.

“I quickly realized that it’s actually very addictive being on stage. I feel very comfortable surprisingly and I feel the passion to share my music with an audience.”

She added that playing guitar on stage while singing really helps her get into the groove of her songs, and she always wants to take her guitar with her for that added confidence.

“I remember I once auditioned without a guitar, and I just felt so awkward. It really helps me to get into my music, and really feel it,” she said.

“I’ve always written songs, and I have

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been writing them since I was eight but I never really played them until now,” she said In 2012, McLaren attended a Country Music Association of Ontario seminar

where her song “Will You Dance With Me” received positive feedback from the judges, who included country artists Charlie Major and Wendell Ferguson.

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It also happens to be McLaren’s personal favourite.

“There is a personal story behind ‘Will You Dance With Me’ which affected me a lot. I don’t think I can explain it because it’s complicated but most people who listen to it really like it because they can relate to it,” she said.

McLaren said she feels that her songwriting has been inspired by many influential songwriters such as Kacey Musgraves, Serena Ryder and Josh Kear.

“I’m particularly drawn to the powerful lyrics of Josh Kear, who has also written for big names such as Carrie Underwood and Lady Antebellum,” she said.

However, her inspiration is also drawn from her family, who have been a constant source of motivation, encouragement and creativity.

“My whole family is into music. If I didn’t come from a musical family, I wouldn’t be into music as much. My entire family writes songs, and that’s where my passion for songwriting comes from,” she said.

McLaren’s goal right now is to pursue singing and songwriting as a career, and she’s still trying to get her name out there.

“I really want to focus all my energies into becoming a songwriter. My advice to all aspiring musicians is to do whatever they are most passionate about. If they sing, they should do open mics and gauge people’s responses. If you’re good, people will come up to you and tell you how talented you are,” she said.

Teagan McLaren plays the Mansion on Feb. 16.

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A collaborative effort Joel Plaskett-produced album is a step up B y J ustin S antelli Assistant Arts Editor Nova Scotian singer-songwriter Old Man Luedecke’s latest release, the three-song EP I Never Sang Before I Met You, finds him collaborating with Canadian musician Joel Plaskett to great effect.

The collection marks an interesting departure for Luedecke, as it finds him stepping away from his traditional folk instrumentation and melodies.

melody. Meanwhile, Plaskett contributes a chugging rock and roll guitar part and that aforementioned drum machine. When Luedecke’s own banjo does eventually show up, it almost sounds out of place in this environment.

While “Baby, We’d Be Rich” is by far the biggest and most notable sonic departure on I Never Sang Before I Met You, the two songs that follow explore equally new areas for Luedecke, though in comparatively subtle fashion.

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QJSOTU.COM Luedecke moved to the east coast from Toronto to enjoy a slower pace of life.

Rather than violins and double bass, Luedecke is accompanied by Plaskett himself on electric guitar, bass, organ and even a drum machine; for those familiar with the more pastoral feel of Luedecke’s earlier records, this could seem like a fairly radical turnaround.

The evolution extends from the instrumentation to the actual songs themselves, starting with the joyfully sunny “Baby, We’d Be Rich,” which finds Luedecke experimenting with a straightforward pop

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“Time Alone” finds Luedecke’s collaboration with Plaskett resulting in him sounding like, well, Joel Plaskett, or perhaps Blitzen Trapper circa-Furr. It’s a sing-song-y faux roots-rock type thing — typical of Canadian indie-pop that’s perhaps a bit too cute for its own good — and the weakest track on the EP by far. It’s still an attempt at something new for Luedecke though, so the failure is at least an interesting one.

Then, there’s “Sorry If I Let You Down,” perhaps the best song on I Never Sang.

Here, Luedecke’s traditional folk leanings and Plaskett’s irrepressible pop instincts merge seamlessly, resulting in a modest Tom Petty-esque anthem that grows more endearing on every listen.

Ultimately, I Never Sang Before I Met You is an incredibly fruitful experiment

— a transitional release that feels like a sign of different possible futures for Old Man Luedecke.

Old Man Luedecke’s I Never Sang Before I Met You is available now. Catch him live at the Grad Club on Feb. 22.

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A battle for identity Ipseity analyzes the concept of gender B y Vincent B en M atak News Editor In the attempt to define ourselves, we also restrict ourselves.

Socially constructed concepts of gender and sex are often inextricably linked to self-identity, but true self-discovery shouldn’t be bound by meaningless dichotomies.

Ipseity, the latest installation at Union Gallery, analyzes the relationship between gender, sex and identity; even more so, however, it attempts to portray the struggle to separate identity from gender and sex. It’s a battle between the self and society, characterized by anxiety, alienation and confusion.

The goal is self-regeneration, but the road isn’t easy.

Two life-sized paintings, each depicting a male and female, dominate the foreground of the gallery. The subjects of both works, titled “Untitled” and created by Joanna Bo Han Shi, BFA ’14, mirror each other in stance.

Both paintings can be interpreted to represent gender archetypes. In a holistic view, they can also be seen to represent the initial step to self-identification: a viewer walks in and is forced to digest both subjects, male and female, in the same way a child first perceives gender — traditionally through the mother and father.

Indeed, concepts of dominance and submission characterize the

piece. The female subject’s passivity is highlighted mainly through her dress and the soft, watery accents that flush behind her. The dragon painted on the nude male denotes a primal aggression reinforced by a near-cold blackness surrounding his figure. Both subjects display a look of indignation.

It’s a clear dichotomy echoed and dissected in the surrounding works.

On the left side of the gallery, Anna Speyer, BFA ’14, presents “Anna Libre Rides Again”.

Consisting of three separate works, each painting features the same androgynous figure hidden beneath a red, white and blue wrestling mask, featuring an elaborate crucifix on top.

The first subject looks downward; the left eye gazes forward, as if to provoke confrontation. The right eye is purposefully hidden in shadow, similarly featured in the ensuing two pieces.

Identity, as interpreted to be determined by a gendered dichotomy, is literally worn as a mask external of the androgynous subject. Regardless, the hidden left eye suggests this identity fails to fully capture the true identity of the subject.

Dichotomy becomes a hyper-focus of the work: the dominant red and white colours of the mask, the eyes, one of which is open and expressive and the

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other hidden, seems to further accentuate a gendered system of self-identification. The evocative expression of the subject’s right eye, in all three pieces, seems to suggest the system as a source of inexpressible pain and confusion.

Speyer’s collective works are the most evocative of the installation.

Nevertheless, Sylvia Lesniewski’s lithograph pieces provide an interesting layer to the nature of gender and identity.

The works, which were created using copper etchings and lithographs, further develops gender as a multi-faceted concept.

Aggression and submission are key themes.

In one piece, Lesniewski, BFA ’14, uses mythological symbols of femininity and reproduction, like flowers, and portrays them alongside nymphs. The form of the work itself suggests these concepts are more complicated

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than they appear – their natures are the result of a deeply systemic social problem.

Ipseity runs in the Main Space at Union Gallery until Mar. 7.

Student Art

Both rough and calming Student show at Union Gallery captures Canadian landscape B y M aggie H eathcote Staff Writer Visual Bloom: Cumulative Fragmentation brings together the work of artists Brian Hoad and James Puffer to present an expansive view of Canada through a collection of photographic collages.

The pieces of Hoad, BFA ’15, and Puffer, BFA ’14, share a lot of similarities that allow for such a cohesive exhibit. Both in their individual and collaborative works, the two artists layer series of photographs to create a broader perspective and a sense of depth behind their captured landscapes.

In one of Puffer’s collages entitled “Tripping in the Moira: Skootamatta Bound,” a series of photographs are lined up to create a panoramic view of a lake. In “Kingston Mills”, Puffer overlaps the photographs in a descending pattern, evoking the feeling of falling. This method of presentation plays with the sensations of the viewer and how they experience the landscapes.

Within this cohesion, there’s a sense of the Canadian landscape being defined by juxtaposing certain elements. This view of Canada is

both calming and rugged, mixing the natural with the man-made.

Hoad incorporates other mediums into several of his collages. As backgrounds to the photographs, blunt strokes of paint are used in some, cut and pasted coloured paper in others.

“Meaghan (Enter Sumac)” incorporates a chalk etching of leaves along with the photographs.

These different mediums add texture to Hoad’s work, creating a feeling of roughness against the shiny, artificial finish of the images.

Hoad and Puffer’s collaborative piece “Bridge to U.S.A.” also incorporates texture in a striking way. The photographs have been painted over with transparent paint, leaving brush strokes that are visible when viewed from different angles. At first glance these strokes look like scratches on the surface of the photographs, and this provides an interesting complement to the metal structure of the bridge.

The artificiality of the bridge is then offset by the natural setting of the surrounding frozen lake.

This contrast creates a beautiful yet haunting scene.

In most of the pieces there is a lack of human presence. The settings aren’t defined by the

people that inhabit them, but by the spaces themselves. We can see the traces of car tracks left or distant figures in the background, but they are subordinate to the landscape. The settings we see aren’t the destinations, but the places that people pass through to get where they’re going, which is very fitting to the majority of Canadian land.

The Project Room is fairly small and closed off from the Main Room of Union Gallery. This makes for an interesting space for an exhibit that focuses on the vastness of our country. Standing alone in the gallery is surreal.

The exhibit offers something to anyone who has ever experienced the Canadian landscape. Hoad and Puffer’s collection present a blurred state of the beautifully calming presence of Canadian landscape, with its rougher, sometimes challenging nature that we all can relate to. I imagine it would be difficult to find someone who could not connect to at least one of the pieces, or to be inspired to capture their own surroundings in a similar way.

Visual Bloom is in the Project Room of Union Gallery until Mar. 7.

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Time of the season After their best year in decades, Queen’s real test comes now B Y A DAM L ASKARIS Staff Writer Men’s hockey is looking to turn their fortunes around from a history of post-season heartbreak.

The Gaels are looking to win their first playoff series in recent memory, as a string of first-round exits has been the tale of the tape for Queen’s hockey in recent seasons.

They’ve been swept out of their last three series and haven’t won a post-season game since 2010 — but the team will have home-ice advantage when playoffs start on Feb. 19.

Their regular season finishes off this Saturday in TroisRivières, Québec, as the Gaels take on the nationally seventhranked UQTR Patriotes. Queen’s is fresh off beating the same squad — who was previously slotted fifth in the country — 4-2 at home last Saturday.

Earlier this week, the Journal

sat down with top Gaels scorer and fifth-year forward Joey Derochie, team goals leader and second-year forward Patrick McGillis and captain and third-year forward Corey Bureau to talk about how they foresee the upcoming playoff run.

UQTR, it’s given us an extra boost too. If we can knock them off again, I think it’ll give us the added advantage coming into the playoffs.

How have things changed from last year to this year to make you more successful and geared up heading into the playoffs?

See First on page 18

Bureau: Compared to last year, it feels like every game compared to last year we’re going to win, whereas last year we had a bit of

MEN’S HOCKEY

Behind the league’s best defence, two junior converts thrive

Derochie: I think we’re a lot more confident this year, especially having the home-ice advantage in the playoffs now. After beating

Strokes behind Gaels not yet up to speed in the pool While the school’s swimmers are improving, Queen’s is lengths behind the top programs in the nation.

The Gaels’ men and women both finished 10th of 11 teams at last weekend’s OUA championships, far behind the province’s best, the Toronto Varsity Blues.

Queen’s is at a disadvantage in the pool due in part to the team’s varsity club status. Other schools, with varsity teams, are able to give out more scholarships to attract top-tier athletes.

While the lack of finances for scholarships is a disadvantage, Gaels head coach Ken Anderson

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Backbone in the goal

McGillis: I think we have an opportunity to go a bit deeper in the playoffs, especially with two teams from Ontario getting a shot at the national championship this year. It’s a big opportunity for the program and everybody on the team wants to head in B Y A DAM L ASKARIS that direction.

Staff Writer

They’re one of sports’ rarest contradictions: experienced rookies.

The first-year goaltender pair

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One half of the Gaels goaltending tandem, Kevin Bailie’s .934 save percentage ranks third in the OUA.

said the support Queen’s offers in other areas helps develop the program.

“Other teams are in a better position to offer scholarships, so the initial athletes we get might not be the same level as the top three teams,” Anderson said. “But we certainly have the resources and the pool time to make the kids get significantly faster.”

In his three years at the helm of the team, Anderson said there’s been a shift in the way his athletes operate in the water.

“It’s become significantly less recreational and the focus is gradually shifting to performance as opposed to participation,” he said.

One Gael benefitting from this See Performance on page 18

Boxing The worst sport in the world

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of 22-year-old Kevin Bailie and 20-year-old Chris Clarke has led Queen’s men’s hockey to a program-best 17 wins so far this season. With one regular season game left, they boast the lowest combined goals against average in the OUA. They’re also on pace to give up just 56 goals, which would be the lowest total of any OUA team in the past six seasons.

Even though Bailie has played the majority of the Gaels’ games, head coach Brett Gibson has stressed that this hasn’t cemented his place as the starter for the four-year period he’ll be at Queen’s.

Bailie isn’t arguing. The pair’s greatest strength, he said, lies in their partnership.

“It’s tough to say anything bad about Clarke,” Bailie said. “If he’s going in net, I cheer for him to win; if I’m in net, he does the same for me. It’s nice to have a goalie tandem where you’re not focused on or distracted by who’s in net and just focused on wins.”

Bailie and Clarke’s stories are strikingly similar and radically different, Both played on Memorial Cup bound-teams in the Canadian Hockey League last season, both bounced around the Canadian junior ranks and both played behind some of hockey’s top young stars during their junior careers.

Last year, the Belleville-born

Bailie appeared to have settled into a groove in his fourth Ontario Hockey League season, posting an 18-4-1 record and a .921 save percentage with the London Knights. Still, he was cut mid-season in favour of Philadelphia Flyers draft pick Anthony Stolarz, who led the Knights to a league championship.

Bailie then took his talents down to Junior A hockey, taking the Summerside Western Capitals of the Maritime Junior Hockey League to a berth in the RBC Cup national championship game.

Clarke, meanwhile, backed up one of the top goaltending prospects in the country on the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Halifax Mooseheads.

He won the Memorial Cup with one of the most dominant junior teams in recent memory, featuring World Junior goaltender Zach Fucale, current NHL star Nathan MacKinnon and highly touted prospect Jonathan Drouin.

Combined, they played on six junior teams before coming to Queen’s. Bailie said moving constantly provides a healthy dose of adversity.

“It makes you a better person and a better player,” he said.

While getting the number of starts that would suggest he’s a backup goaltender, Clarke’s play See From on page 17

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After training in boxing for over two years, Queen’s student Dylan Glancy fought for the first time on Feb. 1. Here, he argues that boxing is the worst sport in the world — and that everyone should try it.

BOXING

Blood, sweat and fears Immortal Technique and Mos Def. The primitive killer instinct that teachers and parents have taught me to keep inside all my life will be let out on Saturday. That will be the first time as an adult that I will hit another person as hard as I can.

After training in boxing for over two years, I know those hits will be damaging.

B Y D YLAN G LANCY Contributor It’s Tuesday evening and my fight is on Saturday.

As I make my daily drive across town to the boxing gym through yet another snowstorm, my mind, as it always seems to lately, goes through my combinations.

Jab-jab-cross-roll-hook-hook. My muscles jerk in unison.

The small part of my mind left concentrating on the road is frustrated with me. The last two weeks have been filled with an exhaustive cycle of aggression, hunger and tiredness, in that order, repeating every four hours. All attempts to put focus into school have been futile.

Ten workouts per week and a strict diet have left me a lean, hostile shell of myself.

The 25 pounds I’ve lost puts me three pounds under my 178-pound weight class.

I know this because I weigh myself three times a day; I’m constantly anxious about my weight.

Even stranger than my sudden weight loss is my uncharacteristically aggressive behaviour. Never before have I walked around campus thinking about knocking out random passersby.

Even my music tastes have changed, from Lupe Fiasco and Shad to the harsh stylings of

*** As I pull up to the gym, I think to myself that, with the fight in four days, this will likely be a light session. I’m dead wrong. I walk in and hear the two words no boxer ever wants to hear: working defence.

After delaying for 45 minutes, I finally get called over to the floor, where a friend is ready to pummel me for six three-minute rounds. All I can do is protect myself and move around, not throwing even a single punch.

After my coach yells at me for all my bad habits, I leave the training session with bruises on my arms, a bruised and bloody nose, a cut on my eyebrow and sore ribs and abs.

Three hours after my departure, I return home to find my housemates going out for a drink. I’m in no mood to join them and can’t drink this week, anyway.

Instead, I lie in bed, unable to sleep, thinking about how much it will hurt to get punched by someone my own weight.

I hate this sport.

It’s Thursday, now, and I’m doing 40 hard minutes of cardio. I’ve developed uneven muscle growth from training mostly in orthodox stance, with my left foot forward.

The resulting lower back pain and shin splints prevent me from running, so I get on a stationary bike.

Five minutes into my workout, I look up at the TV, where the worst possible show is playing: the 50 greatest televised knockouts.

It’s surprising that combat sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts are even allowed to continue in a society like Canada’s. The potential long-term effects of repetitive brain trauma include dementia pugilistica (the charmingly named “punch drunk syndrome”), Parkinson’s disease and depression.

The short-term effects can be even more devastating. Twenty-three-year-old professional Mexican featherweight Oscar Gonzalez fought in Mexico City on the same day as my bout.

He was knocked out in the 10th round and died of his injuries days later.

The thought of being knocked out or knocking someone else out makes me ill. It keeps me up at night. There’s no reason that we should cheer when it happens; there’s no reason it should be televised again and again.

This is a horrendously dangerous sport. *** On Saturday night, my mom drives me to the fight at a Canadian Legion Hall in

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Etobicoke. I show up two hours early to register and weigh in, warm up and work with my coach.

I have to tell my mom to go home because she’s getting hysterical and asking questions like “which of these scary looking people are you fighting?”

She’s right, though: the boxing crowd isn’t the upper-middle class collegiate ilk I’ve been exposed to. Many are the type of toothless, rough guys that seem to appear in Toronto only for monster truck events at the Rogers Centre.

You can tell the experienced fighters from the newer ones by their cold, empty stares — the consequence of felling grown men with their strikes.

The guy I’m fighting comes in overweight, so this has to be an exhibition fight — a glorified sparring match in front of the crowd without a winner. The pressure and trepidation are lifted.

Boxing is a chess game with the brutality of war. The average spectator sees violence and savagery, but every boxer knows a well thought out strategy will generally triumph over brute force.

That element of strategy is what keeps me from giving it up. Boxing put me in the best shape of my life, and I would recommend fighting once to anyone.

Would I do it again? I doubt it. The risks far outweigh the benefits.

Then again, as Mike Tyson once said, “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face”.

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Injuries derail push for playoffs Strong play at season’s end shows future potential B Y S EAN L IEBICH Staff Writer After struggling through an injury-plagued campaign, women’s volleyball capped the year off with an inspiring performance against the OUA’s top team.

A fifth-place finish in the OUA East and a 10-9 record means the Gaels won’t be making the trip to the post-season this year for the first time in head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane’s seven-year tenure.

“It was a season of ups and downs,” Christian-Macfarlane said. “The highs were high and the lows were low, in terms of wins and losses.”

Queen’s started off the season hot, wining five of their first seven games, but dropped both matches against Ottawa and Toronto — two of the top teams in the OUA East — in the final two games before the winter break.

With the pair of losses, the Gaels went into the holidays with a 5-4 record, only a few points out of a playoff spot.

The team started to heat up again when action resumed in January, winning four of

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Queen’s finished 10-9 on the season, fifth in the OUA East.

six games. Unfortunately, the team ran into injury troubles, losing their starting setter, libero and left side hitter to injuries after the holiday break.

Despite having a win percentage above .500, the Gaels were unable to catch the top four teams in their division and snag the final playoff spot.

Faced with an inevitable early off-season, the team began to perform up to their potential.

In each of their last four games, the Gaels took their opponents to five sets. Their 1-3 record over this span doesn’t accurately portray the growth the team experienced over this stretch.

Not only did they play better each game, they faced tougher competition each match.

Three out of the four teams they played were ahead of them in the standings.

Playing the tougher teams at the end is something the Gaels are used to and relish in.

“It’s nice to play the toughest teams at the end because I think it prepares us for playoffs,” Christian-Macfarlane said.

The run culminated in a 3-2 victory over the OUA-leading Toronto Varsity Blues, who finished the year with a 15-4 record.

The game showcased the Gaels’ true potential as they battled down to the last point, capturing the fifth set to go out on a high note.

Outside hitter Kelsey Bishop and left side Brett Hagarty had notable years.

Bishop placed in the top five in the OUA in points, kills and blocks, while Hagarty finished in the top 10 in points and proved her defensive worth by finishing third in digs.

With the season now over, Christian-Macfarlane’s focus shifts to filling the roles that will be vacated by three graduating players.

Fifth-year Shannon Walsh will definitely not be back in the fall. Leading scorer Kelsey Bishop and captain Katie Hagarty are both in their fourth years and also aren’t expected to return.

With the departures of the graduating

Outside hitter Kelsey Bishop recorded 222 kills during the season, fourth most in the OUA. She also tallied a career-best 287 points.

players, second-years Brett Hagarty, Becky Wilson and Ali Shamie are expected be major components of the Gaels’ young core.

The trio all played pivotal roles on the court this year.

“We all knew each other coming in,” Brett Hagarty said. “I’m really looking forward to next year because it’s so much fun to play with your best friends.”

The team’s setting will be in good hands next year as Shamie and rookie Gabrielle Down both gained valuable experience and

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showed flashes of brilliance this season.

The pair, who possess greatly different skill sets, will provide the Gaels with a number of different looks, offensively and defensively.

The team is only losing two of their starting six players to graduation, so the young core will have plenty of time to develop over the next two years.

“I’m confident that we have the players to step in and take on those roles,” Hagarty said.

From the CHL to the CIS Continued from page 13

with Queen’s has been anything but. He has a 5-1 record in seven games played and leads the league in save percentage at .941.

Bailie sits third at .934, going along with an 11-9 record.

Six of Bailie’s losses came on nights where he gave up three goals or less, showing how he and Clarke give the Gaels a chance to compete each and every night.

Bailie knew when he came to Queen’s that the men’s hockey program wasn’t a national or provincial powerhouse, but liked the underdog appeal and potential the program had.

“While I could have gone to a school that had been competing for a national championship every year, anyone can do that,” he said. “That’s not unique. I wanted to help build the program.

“Hopefully some success will show new recruits an added attraction about Queen’s.”

While both Bailie and Clarke were successful in the junior ranks, their first year in the OUA has been when they’ve really blossomed into stars. Among other factors, Bailie credits a strong team unit as instrumental in the goaltenders’ strong performances.

“There’s not any guys moving around in trades or guys coming and going in drafts, so we’re all really close,” he said. “Everyone knows at this point that the sense of team is the most important thing.”

Their strong play suggests Clarke and Bailie may break the trend of the OUA being the end of the road for hockey players; both could potentially play higher levels of hockey once their Queen’s days are done.

That said, Bailie insists he’s only got one thing on his mind.

“I’m not focusing on what will happen after I move on,” he said. “I want to win a championship here.”

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Performance focus Continued from page 13

renewed focus on performance is fifth-year Margo Bacher, who will be Queen’s sole representative at the CIS championships in Toronto next week.

Bacher is set to take part in the women’s 50m and 200m breaststroke, marking her third CIS trip. She previously competed in 2011 and 2013.

“She’s swam very consistently,” Anderson said. “She should be able to find some speed in the 50, and if things go well, she’ll have a second swim.”

Anderson sees the change in the team’s mentality as a necessary step in the continuation of the program, since he feeels swimming is the sport OUA members are improving the quickest in.

Last season, the Varsity Blues became the first Ontario team to capture the men’s national title since 1994.

Toronto is part of a trio of schools — along with the Western Mustangs and McMaster Marauders — that Queen’s is trying to catch up with. Anderson

said the Gaels still need to improve a great deal to contend with these teams, despite the strides they’ve made over the last couple of years.

To compete with the titans of their sport, Queen’s will need to SUPPLIED BY GREG BLACK focus on developing the talent they The Gaels have as opposed to recruiting the finished 10th at provincials this year. best high school swimmers.

“We had some issues with a “You’re not going to get those kids in first year that are very, heating coil and we had some very fast,” Anderson said. “We’re issues with some lights,” he said. just going to have to develop “Unfortunately, the lights shutdown them while they are here, which came in our final preparation for OUAs. There’s not a lot that can be is possible.”

Anderson said that while the done — it’s very random.”

Minor maintenance issues are Gaels can’t compete yet with the top OUA teams, they can move a small concern for the Gaels into a higher position in the compared to the advantage that other schools have with larger 11-team standings.

One hurdle the team has to scholarship funds and being able to overcome is the problems with its recruit the best swimmers.

Even with the difficulties facilities. While Anderson said the pool at the ARC features ample faced by the swim program, lane space for the swimmers, there there’s confidence it will continue have been some minor hitches with to develop and rebuild to a higher level. it this year.

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doubt with some of the top teams, like Carleton in the playoffs last year. This year, we know we can win every game we go into.

Your team has been successful all year despite not really having a clear-cut offensive leader. How have you been able to keep up the level of play you have so far?

McGillis: Even though we don’t have a lot of standout players, I think [we go] four lines deep.

We’re good defensively and we don’t need to go score five or six goals a game if we’re only going to give up one or two.

Derochie: We have no standout players really — we all just work hard. We don’t really lean on any one line. It’s nice to know that everyone’s there every game.

Building on that last point, how do you guys look to play a solid defensive game every night?

Derochie: There’s always things you can improve on. We’d like to limit our turnovers and try and decrease our shots against.

We don’t want to rely too much on our goaltending, it’s always nice to pot some offence so we don’t have to worry about letting in an extra goal or two.

Bureau: You’re not going to have any blowout games in the playoffs.

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The biggest thing is being able to play with a lead, which starts with getting the lead. For us, we’ve been in the situation a lot of times on both ends. We’ve learned from it all year and we’ll be able to finish off the close games.

Even though the future looks bright for the team, how important is it to have a strong playoff run now?

McGillis: Not many people get the opportunity to play on a team that’s had a season like ours, so especially for the older guys that are moving on, it’s a little fire to help the guys have a last good season and end it the right way for them.

Some of these guys will never play hockey again, so you want to send them off on the right foot.

Derochie: This being my final season in hockey, I think this year’s been a lot of fun, and there’s no reason why we can’t go far in the playoffs. There’d be no better way to end a hockey career than to make a run for the national championship.

Bureau: I’ve still got more time, but playing for some of the older guys that are done, you just want to play as hard as you can because you know they’re not going to get the chance again.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Valentine’s Day for one To find the best Valentine’s date, look no further than yourself B y R achel H erscovici Features Editor Valentine’s Day is all about celebrating love, so this year why not celebrate your love

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Photo By Olivia Whittaker

Charming chocolate cake Nothing says “I love me” more than treating yourself to a decadent chocolate cake. Ain’t nobody got time to make an entire one, so this recipe makes just two cupcakes or one mini cake in a small casserole dish. With some easy vanilla frosting on top, dyed pink if you wish, it’s the perfect amount of sweetness to finish off your perfect evening with yourself.

Ingredients for cake: 3 tbsp. of flour 2 tbsp. of granulated sugar 2 tbsp. of cocoa powder 1/8 tsp. of baking soda A pinch of salt 2 tbsp., or so, of milk 1 tbsp. melted salted butter A dash of vanilla extract Directions: 1.

In a small to medium bowl, melt the butter and add the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt,

milk and vanilla.

Stir rigorously until all combined.

It should seem thicker and slightly fudgey.

Ingredients for frosting: 1 tbsp. room temperature salted butter 4 tbsp. sifted confectioners sugar A dash of vanilla A splash of milk

2. Put the batter into your cupcake wrappers or your small cake pan and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for Directions: 20 to 25 minutes. While you wait, I recommend 1. Mix together the butter, prepping the frosting, icing sugar, vanilla and milk but you can also rigorously until it’s smooth. begin your Netflix binge-watching session.

2. Once the cake is cooled, top it with the frosting and enjoy.

Photo By Charlotte Gagnier