The Queen's Journal, Volume 141, Issue 35

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The Principal’s perspective on university education F R I D AY , F E B R U A R Y 2 8 , 2 0 1 4 — I S S U E 3 5

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Tough future for Union Gallery

After a year of extensive cutbacks, the campus gallery lost out again ASUS

Year society VP avoids impeachment First-year representative emerges unscathed from closed session at last night’s Assembly B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN Assistant News Editor

that the member, Kole Renwick, Assembly took place,” he was not impeached following a vote. said. “I had not been informed At the meeting, Davis specified by my peers about when it was ASUS Assembly discussed Thursday that after two absences a member taking place, and what it was.” night whether to impeach one of would be given a written warning.

He said he missed a meeting their members, on the basis that Three or more would lead to the on Nov. 28, as he became he had been absent for more than member’s expulsion from ASUS. distracted while studying; he three Assemblies.

Renwick, vice-president of the later admitted that he had been Speaker Trevor Davis 2017 year society, must represent drinking scotch. He missed a introduced the topic, stating the society at ASUS Assembly. meeting on Jan. 7, admitting he that member Kole Renwick, During his opportunity to had no reasonable excuse for his ArtSci ’17, would be facing speak, Renwick gave several actions. He subsequently missed possible impeachment due to explanations for different another meeting on Feb. 6, after his failure to attend assembly. absences throughout the year. contracting food poisoning, he said.

The Journal was told after the “On the Assembly on October Renwick claims ASUS meeting went into closed session 31st, I was unaware when the didn’t follow procedure by

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failing to give him a written warning after two absences.

“I received no written warning.

I only received warning that I would be summoned here last night at 9:06 pm. For the record, I had no prior knowledge of this up until last night,” he said.

Renwick was put to question

by Isabelle Duchaine, student senate caucus chair, about the nature of his absences.

She asked Renwick if he did research on the terms of his position.

Renwick responded that See Three on page 8

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The Union Gallery unsuccessfully sought a mandatory fee on Feb. 13 at AMS Assembly, throwing the student-run gallery into further financial uncertainty.

The gallery opened in 1994 and operated for 18 years with a mandatory fee. In November 2012, the gallery lost its threeyear mandatory fee of $3.71 by a margin of 28 votes in a referendum. The loss of the fee came into effect in the 2013-14 school year.

In their presentation to AMS Assembly, the Union Gallery asked for a three-year mandatory fee of $3.75, a four cent increase.

The presenters stated that the student fee had provided half of the gallery’s funding, and that without the fee, Union Gallery wouldn’t be able to operate as a professional gallery or make contact with professional artists.

The gallery dropped its hours from five days a week to three after losing the fee.

The presenters said that without a fee, the gallery would only be able to open one and a half days per week. They would no longer be able to provide internship or volunteer opportunities.

At Assembly, Tyler Lively, the proxy for an ASUS representative, suggested that the motion be amended so that the fee would be a one-year fee, and then be voted on in the next winter referendum. The motion to amend carried, but the gallery still lost the final vote.

Camilo Montoya-Guevara, the gallery’s development chair, was one of the presenters on behalf of the gallery.

Montoya-Guevara, ArtSci ’14, first became involved with the Union Gallery in second year after coming across the gallery’s table at the ASUS Sidewalk Sale.

He said that Union Gallery likely See It’s on page 8

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City job market ranks among worst Data conducted by a UK job search site places Kingston 44 out of 50 Canadian cities for availability of jobs B y O livia B owden Assistant News Editor

Williams currently works “What the job search is going to look like for any individual is very at Common Ground, as much based on the kind of work well as a Orientation Assistant for Job search site Adzuna has released they’re looking for. And that differs Queen’s through SWEP (Student Work Experience Program). a report ranking Kingston as one person to person,” she said.

She said it’s difficult to find Keates said many jobs are of the most difficult cities to find found through networking, and employment outside of Queen’s. employment in Canada.

The United Kingdom-based site these jobs may not necessarily be She added a difficult job market in Toronto led her to stay in has Kingston placed 44 out of 50 posted online.

She said Career Services helps Kingston for work.

Canadian cities that were ranked “In Toronto you have three based on number of job seekers per students find these networks through fairs such as the Live and campuses, plus a bunch of colleges, online job listing. plus all those students who On average, Kingston had 16.7 Work in Kingston career fair.

Seventy different businesses went abroad for university are people seeking a job per listing.

The average salary in Kingston attended the most recent fair back in the core, competing on Feb. 11, including Kingston against a huge amount of students,” was $50,013.

The top five cities in the ranking General Hospital, Sun Life and she said.

Offers for job interviews were were all from Alberta, with Grande INVISTA Company.

According to Keates, Career not given to her until after the Prairie topping the ranking with 1.38 job seekers per listing. Toronto Services helps students to discover summer had already started, she said. placed 10 out of 50, the highest and market their strengths.

She said Career Services helped It also helps students research ranked city in Ontario. her find a job in Kingston through Cathy Keates, director of the fields they’re interested in.

“I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily workshops, job fairs and learning Queen’s Career Services said the methodology of Adzuna’s difficult to find employment, but how to build her resume.

Stephanie Jackson, ArtSci doesn’t give a complete picture it is a lot of work,” she said. “It of the employment climate takes time to sort out who you are, ’14, managed to get two jobs in your key interest … to do all the Kingston’s downtown core. in Kingston.

She said perseverance is key “I’m not sure that number of research and talk to people.”

Networking with businesses when sending out applications, as applicants to posted jobs necessarily indicates how difficult a particular and speaking with those already well as optimism.

“Then it happened to be that I labour market is,” she said. “It’s so in the field make a difference, said was in a situation where they were Jennifer Williams, ArtSci ’16. much more complex than that.”

“That personal one-on one looking for employees,” she said.

She said the accessibility of “It’s just timing, and jobs within a city is based on the interaction, chatting with the kind of job a person is searching for. manager and making a good being persistent.”

“The whole premise of the article impression, that’s how you get a Queen’s Career Services helps students secure jobs job,” she said. is challenging,” she said. despite the city’s dry job climate.

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major city in North America since it hadn’t been important for his election.

“Nobody in Calgary cared about those things,” he said. “It says a lot about Canada.”

He also said the theatre and music scenes in Calgary have grown said, and is a major centre for in the last few years, and provided finance in the energy industry. examples of arts organizations in “People interested in finance the city, such as the One Yellow have huge opportunities there,” Rabbit theatre company. he said.

After the talk, he ran a question Nenshi added that Calgary is a session, where he spoke about the tolerant and accepting community. Albertan provincial government He was surprised to find himself the Parti Quebecois’ proposed featured in major media outlets Charter of Values and his views on as the first Muslim mayor of a municipal politics.

Nenshi talks Calgary Albertan mayor pays visit to Queen’s to promote city to students B y S ebastian L eck Assistant News Editor

Canadian cities, Calgary actually suffers a chronic labour shortage, and needs more young workers to move into the city to fill jobs.

“I’m lucky to be a mayor whose biggest problem is not youth unemployment,” Nenshi said.

Additionally, Calgary has the largest number of technology startups per capita in Canada, he

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi came to campus yesterday to promote Calgary as a place for Queen’s students to live and work after graduation.

The event, which was held in the Biosciences Complex, was attended by approximately 100 Queen’s students and faculty.

AIESEC Queen’s coordinated the event with the mayor. He visited Kingston between his visits to Ottawa and Toronto as part of a tour of Ontario.

During the talk, Nenshi focused on the sense of community in Calgary as well as the city’s strong economy and growing arts scene.

He displayed photographs of the floods that struck Calgary last year at the start of the presentation.

“It was the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history,” he said.

The human cost was also enormous, he added, as thousands of people lost their belongings and were displaced from their homes.

However, the volunteer response was also huge. Thousands of people responded to calls for volunteers, and organized themselves to help in any way they could.

He said that unlike most Naheed Nenshi spoke to a crowd of approximately 100 people yesterday.

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The Charter of Values is a proposed bill that will forbid the wearing of religious items and garments for most public sector workers.

He said the Charter of Values could be called “the Charter of Racism” and that it clashes with the ideal of pluralism upheld by the rest of Canada.

The Charter is a “crass political maneuver” by the Quebec premier and it was meant to create division between Quebec and the rest of Canada, Nenshi said.

He added that he opposes party politics in municipal elections, and although he could have run a slate of like-minded councillors, he decided against it.

“I like the thought that my ideas get stress tested,” he said.

In response to a question on cuts to education in Alberta, Nenshi said the Albertan government’s treatment of education has been short-sighted. However, he added, universities are also somewhat at fault.

“We have made it much too easy to pick on universities,” he said.

Nenshi said universities should do a better job in explaining the value they provide to their communities.

He also spoke on building culture in a city like Calgary, and said the focus should be on investing in improving the quality of life.

“It needs to be somewhere people want to live. Culture begets culture.”

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Education principals The Journal sits down with Principal Woolf to discuss the value of a university education and how to keep our graduates relevant B y R achel H erscovici Features Editor Just like coffee and textbooks, uncertainty isn’t hard to find on Canadian university campuses.

The National Post recently ran an article naming Canada as the number one country for university and college enrolment, but we’re also the top country for university graduates who live in poverty.

It reported that the advantage higher educated people hold over high school graduates is narrowing in a crowded and overeducated job market. And it’s no news to university students that finding a job is difficult right now.

The value of a university degree has inevitably shifted with higher enrolment. An undergraduate degree was once noteworthy, and now everyone has one.

But getting your Master’s degree, according to the Post, might not help either. Furthermore, some feel that the trades — where there are more jobs — face a social stigma: many students and parents turn their noses up to the thought of a college degree or apprenticeship.

In the midst of these issues, it’s hard to know where our education stands.

The Journal sat down with Principal Daniel Woolf to get his take on the purpose of a university education and what Queen’s is doing to stand out.

Q: These days, what do you think the value of a university education is?

A: I think a university education can offer several things. There is obviously the sheer educative value in the sense of creating people who are culturally literate, have good critical thinking skills, can write and communicate well — all of which are indispensable tools in

any workplace.

I think also that there is a maturation process that goes on in a university education process that has always been part of its goal certainly going back to the period of history I’m interested in, [which is] the 16th and 17th centuries. [This is] when people started sending young men (it wasn’t women for quite some time) to university to become educated to assume a role in society, and that’s a little different from how it was in the Middle Ages when it was very specific training for a career. So, we’re building on about 200 years of tradition of universities educating the young for future roles in society but also advancing scholarship in their own right, and that’s a model that was put down in early 19th century Germany.

Q: What is the difference between a university education and a college education?

A: There is a difference and I don’t think it’s better or worse. I think they’re complementary. They also overlap. I think gone is the day when they were two solitudes and it’s no accident that we are actually doing more in concert with colleges. Queen’s, for example, has an MOU [Memorandum of Understanding] with St. Lawrence College and, in fact, we just approved a joint program in music between the two institutions.

That being said, they do have different foci. Colleges are indeed very specific skill training centers; you can go and do woodworking and culinary arts and plumbing … just as you can also do through the apprenticeship system.

We don’t do that at university, it’s more an all-around education.

Some of our faculties are a little more focused in particular areas such as engineering, medicine [and]

business, but even there it’s not necessarily the case that people are going into particular jobs.

A whole bunch of our engineering grads don’t actually do engineering — they go into areas like the financial sector, because that degree gives you an all-around good set of quantitative process thinking skills. Similarly, an arts or science degree gives you lots of transferable skills.

Q: Do you think university is about education or job training?

A: I think that’s a slightly unfair dichotomy. And it’s a little bit almost anachronistic. Clearly we want our students to have jobs and we would be acting irresponsibly if we did not do everything possible to facilitate their meaningful careers and lives. Certainly it is about education primarily and job training, in the sense of a specific job, only secondarily.

That being said, it is a very competitive economy out there.

Students and parents are paying tuition. We do get some support for the programs from government so it behooves us to pay some attention to the needs of students out in the workforce. That being said, we still have to defend the traditional education because what it does for students.

I’d also say this hasn’t changed over the last 30 to 40 years. There’s more students but it was no truer in 1980, when I graduated, than now that you could get into a job related to your discipline right out of university. I had no more chance of doing history with a history BA than I do now. I had to go to graduate school ... I think it’s entirely false to look at graduate outcomes based on “well I’m not using what I learned in my sociology course or what I learned in my English course”.

The fact of the matter is that you

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Woolf says he believes in education over job training at university.

probably are using [what you learned]. You might not be using the very specific knowledge but you certainly are using the research sills, the thinking skills and the communication ability.

Q: Given the current issue with university graduates facing poverty, how are we helping out students?

A: We are doing stuff ... our strategic framework and our academic plan both call for a significantly increased pursuit of what I would call experiential education. That means programs like the Queen’s Innovation Connector, external programs like the Next 36, it means internships and job placements where it makes sense and where we can do them.

I don’t think we’ll ever go in a sort of Waterloo-style co-op way.

I think the nature of the Queen’s experience is such that you would lose a certain amount of the cohort cohesiveness which is part of the special sauce that keep this place together ... That being said, we do have some very successful internships and placements so ... we’d like to increase those sorts of activities, and I know student governments including the AMS [are] very keen on this.

Q: How do we get our students to appeal more to the workforce?

A: Well, certainly students are helped by the fact that they have a Queen’s degree. It does open doors partly because of the high quality of students we let in in the first place and the fact that so many of our students finish on time. We have by far the highest graduate and retention rate of any university in the country.

[But] one can’t rest on one’s laurels and the more we can do to prepare students to enter the workplace, the better. I think the chief challenge for your generation, that my generation didn’t have to face, is, first of all, there’s a huge amount of economic and technological change so there are entire jobs that didn’t exist before.

Secondly, there are far more of you than there were in my day and that is a bit of an issue in terms of competing for a narrower field of jobs. One of the things we are recognizing is that many students will indeed need a second credential moving on, as we’re seeing a lot of students going onto college after university. So, apart from the experiential education, we’re also going to be investing more in our own second credential

delivery whether it’s Masters degrees, or certificates or diplomas that one can get on top of one’s BA or BSc. Q: How do you think increased enrolment will affect the quality of education?

A: It presents its challenges. There’s no question about it. Queen’s is twice the size it was when I was a student here. Classes are larger, seminars have evolved into lecture discussions and so forth.

That being said, I’m actually teaching a course this term — the same course I taught when I was a postdoc — and I’d say the quality of the students is absolutely as good as it was 28 years ago, and my class is about the same size as it was.

First and second year classes certainly have swelled and it’s partly because of two things: one is that there is just a lot more students in the system, [but] Queen’s is actually taking [a] fewer … proportion than it used to. We used to have about seven per cent of the Ontario system and now we’re down to five per cent, so we’ve grown but we haven’t grown nearly as much as our peer institutions.

The other reason, of course, is that the research expectations for a university of our size and prestige are considerably higher than they were a generation ago, so workload has been redistributed a little bit so professors are teaching fewer courses or course sections than they taught a few years ago.

Q: Why do you think students choose to attend Queen’s and what do you think we have that other universities don’t?

A: We’re one of the three or four schools across the country with a very national and longstanding reputation. I think most of all, the strength of our faculty, the rigor of admission and graduation, the fact that it is tough to get into, but … once you’re in, we really try to take care of you. And the fact that we just have so much [of] a community residential feel and that ineffable thing that we call spirit that is really hard to analyze.

But, we know when we have [spirit] and we know when we don’t — and we’ve got it.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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CFRC held its 9th annual on-air funding drive two weeks ago, raising 86 per cent of their funding goal of $25,000.

The drive, which ran from Feb. 7 to 16, raised just over $21,000.

The goal was to buy a new digital broadcasting console, which would replace the station’s current analog console, a relic of the 1980s.

The purchase of the new console is part of the station’s revitalization plan, presented at AMS Assembly on Jan. 30.

At Assembly, CFRC proposed an increase to their mandatory fee from $5.07 to $7.50. The proposal was passed, and is subject to approval at the AMS Annual General Meeting on March 18.

CFRC will become financially autonomous on May 1. The University plans to implement a new budget model where faculties pay rent for space, and CFRC will begin paying rent under this model in 2017. Because of this financial situation, CFRC is seeking to raise enough money over the next three years to cushion the blow of paying rent.

Although the on-air part of the funding drive ended without reaching its goal, Kristiana

Clemens, the station’s Operations Officer, said she remained “cautiously optimistic”.

“There’s always a number of donors who send in their contributions after the on-air portion of the campaign has ended and whatnot, so it looks like we’re on track,” she said.

She also said the station doesn’t know yet the exact numbers of donations, and won’t for up to six weeks.

Regardless of whether they reach their goal, fundraising will remain important to CFRC’s future.

“What we are looking at now … is to focus our capital revitalization and our HR revitalization plans in this three-year grace period that we have, so that by the time we get to 2017 we’re not facing a huge number of costs to replace obsolete and broken equipment, and so that our operation can be streamlined a bit to help reduce our staffing costs,” Clemens said.

“We’re not going to become any less dependent on the support of the community moving forward, and we’re anticipating a steady and sustainable level of support in the form of donations as part of our plan for revitalization and fiscal sustainability.”

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Student fees, which come from both the AMS and the SGPS, make up 50 per cent of the station’s operating budget. Fifteen to 20 per cent comes from grants, and another 15 to 20 comes from commercial activities including equipment or studio rentals.

Listener donations, the bulk of which Clemens said come during the funding drive, make up the remaining 15 per cent.

Whether or not CFRC eventually meets their fundraising goal — the station is planning further events — the broadcasting console will be replaced, although by a used analog console instead of a new digital one.

Clemens has been involved with CFRC since before the decision to transition to financial autonomy was made, and by 2017 will have seen the station through a number of major changes.

“CFRC is so special as the first and longest-running campus broadcaster in the world … I have a real love for history and connecting to the past, and CFRC is a place that brings that history alive, especially in an area that I am extremely passionate about,” she said.

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The Tartan to live on Despite criticism over its infrequent publishing, ASUS Assembly voted in favour of keeping the online publication operating into next year B y O livia B owden C hloe S obel Journal Staff

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The Tartan’s existence was debated Thursday night at the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) Assembly, with Assembly voting in favour of keeping the Tartan running for another year.

ASUS President Scott Mason brought forward a motion to cut the Tartan as an ultimatum before the hiring period concludes.

The motion had not been included in the provided Assembly package.

The Tartan was created in 2012 by ASUS as a faculty-run publication to rival other campus media services, such as the Journal.

The Tartan has a website but hasn’t released an article since early fall, which is when its Twitter page was also last updated.

Adam Grotsky, ASUS academics commissioner and incoming president, was one of the representatives who supported the Tartan continuing as a publication.

“To look forward to the Tartan, we have to look back as to why this was first created: to offer a fresh perspective of news.

“We can’t judge what’s happened to it in its first few steps,” Grotsky, ArtSci ’15, said.

“Students still want that fresh perspective.

“It’s a thing on campus. Perhaps it might be funny at the start, but if we start hammering out some great articles it will turn into a solid publication.”

Former editor Nikolas Lopez acknowledged that, for many of the students who have heard of the Tartan, the publication is widely derided as a “joke.”

Lopez recently resigned from his position at the publication.

“I don’t think it was a success this year.

“It’s at the point now where I think we would be no different if we were completely new.

“The issue is the brand is a joke,” Lopez, ArtSci ’14, said.

“To start a completely new news source might be better.”

Isabelle Duchaine, student senate caucus chair, disagreed with Lopez’s assessment of the

improved without dropping the publication entirely.

“There is a precedent for it to happen.

“Homecoming was seen as a crazy party … [the administration] wanted to call it ‘fall reunion’ … [but] in the last couple of months the administration said they

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Tartan’s situation.

“If the hiring process for the Tartan was competitive last year, we can open it again with another team,” Duchaine, ArtSci ’14, said.

“If we already have the money invested in it, it doesn’t make sense to [cut] it.

“It’s a solid name. A brand could exist there.”

Rector Nick Francis agreed with Duchaine that the brand could be

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would continue with Homecoming and try to rebrand Homecoming.

“That’s an example of something that was extremely negative, and it was brought back,” Francis said.

“I don’t believe that the group of us who have a negative perception are going to influence the thousands of students who don’t know about the Tartan or who are not even here yet.”

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Students develop research software Susie Pan, Comm ‘14, launches beta version of data processing program to expedite scientific analyses B y S tyna Tao Staff Writer A Queen’s undergraduate student is playing her part in creating new software for research scientists.

Bombe Inc., a student-led company founded by Susie Pan, Comm ’14, alongside two other students from the University of Waterloo, released a beta version of the software Feb. 17. The software, which is cloud-based, helps to create graphics for data collection for scientific research.

The goal is to create a user-friendly and visual tool that will shorten the process from data importing to data analysis to graph exporting.

The idea for Bombe came from Pan’s fellow co-founders, Edward Kim and Jack Gao, who attend Waterloo, who have both done work and scientific research for organizations like the Canadian Light Source and found current softwares for scientists lacking.

“Bombe uses a visual interface that allows anyone to use the platform without any training and able to process their data in a matter of clicks,” Pan said.

“In the end, we want to help scientists save time and Bombe is our avenue to do so.”

Bombe is currently targeted towards scientists using spectroscopy or similar techniques because that’s the area in which the co-founders have the most expertise, but Pan says they’re definitely not limiting the scope of potential users.

“Bombe is first made for scientists, in the broadest sense,” said Pan. “This refers to anyone who does experiments and processes data.”

The venture is backed up by the Next 36, a program for entrepreneurial Canadian undergraduate students. All three co-founders are part of the program, where candidates work in teams to start their own company and are given economic, educational and mentorship resources along the way.

Bombe launched its open-beta period last Monday, where anyone interested in science or engaged in experimental research and analysis is welcome to test the product.

“We launched it in beta to get feedback from users in order to continuously improve

the product,” Pan said.

“This will definitely help science and She said that overall, the open beta was engineering students as the product is very intuitive and easy to use for simple data a success.

“We had a significant number of beta users within the first 24 hours after launch, getting the highest traffic we’ve ever gotten,” Pan said.

“To be honest, we didn’t know what to expect.”

Pan said she has also been passionate about science for a long time. Her main achievement is the founding of Science Expo, an organization that empowers youth to pursue studies in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Science Expo runs a flagship annual conference for high school students interested in STEM. There has been support and participation from the Queen’s community, Pan added.

She said that a number of faculty and grad students have signed up as beta users.

There may be future benefits for students as well, according to Pan. Susie Pan co-founded Bombe Inc.

analysis for a lab or a project experiment,” she said.

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campus catch-up Suspects arrested in missing persons case

as she was leaving his apartment to collect $700 in overdue rent from Henneberry and Leggette.

The couple is scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court on Friday.

The RCMP has charged two people for the murder of Halifax university student Loretta Saunders after finding her body on Wednesday.

— Sebastian Leck Police have charged Victoria Henneberry, 28, and her boyfriend Blake Legette, 25, with UBC releases report on first degree murder. They were originally sexual assault arrested for the theft of Saunder’s car, which was found near Windsor last week.

The body of the 26-year-old Inuk student The University of Brtish Columbia has been was discovered at 4:30 p.m. on the side of criticized by students for an interim report a highway near Salisbury, New Brunswick. recommending safety measures to prevent Salisbury is about a three-hour drive sexual assault.

The report recommends better from Halifax. more security cameras Saunders, a student at Saint Mary’s lighting, University in Halifax, was seen last on the and a mobile safety application morning of Feb. 13. She was three months for smartphones.

The City of Vancouver has also installed pregnant when she disappeared.

The couple had been subletting Saunders’ voice recordings on city buses reminding apartment while she lived with her boyfriend, students to call Safewalk to escort them home. Safewalk is a service that provides free who was the last person to see her alive.

According to CTV News, he last saw her escorts for walks home.

Laura Fukumoto, who recently graduated from UBC, told Maclean’s On Campus that the bus recording is a “band-aid solution”.

She added that many of the recommendations of the report won’t be effective, since more lights and cameras won’t prevent the majority of sexual assaults, which aren’t committed by strangers.

Fukumoto organized a “Take Back the Night” march last fall in protest of victim-blaming, where the responsibility is placed on victims to prevent sexual assault.

Louise Cowin, the administrator in charge of the report, said the university has considered the criticisms, but the administration believes safety is also a priority.

“I believe our responsibility as administrators when the attacks were happening was to put out a sustained message,” she said.

“And that [was] ‘stay safe and don’t walk alone.’”

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lost at last year’s referendum due to the lack of student awareness about the space.

[It also] had to do mainly with the lack of support … that a lot of the AMS representatives feel for the arts, and the concern that the gallery … isn’t relevant to their constituents,” he said, “but at the same time, a lot of the on-campus groups that receive a mandatory fee wouldn’t

necessarily be considered “It’s in the mandate that a for appeal, Montoya-Guevara said relevant to the whole representative for the gallery they will explore alternate ways student population.” will be included every year, so to mobilize people in support of He cited the Ban Righ Centre as the gallery has a place within the the gallery. an example of a service receiving a AMS … so I think the fact that “Our services are open mandatory fee that isn’t necessarily it’s been included shows that it is to everyone, and then we relevant to the campus as a whole. considered valuable by the students, directly … boost and affect the “It’s still a positive and a the student body.” reputation that Queen’s has as an very valued institution on campus, The Union Gallery is institution that encourages the arts,” which I think can be paralleled just now planning to approach he said. as well to the Union Gallery.” the AMS Board of Directors to During Assembly, Mark Montoya-Guevara is also on find out what recourses for appeal Asfar, the proxy for an ASUS the AMS Arts Council as part of to the Assembly ruling are available. representative, argued against his position.

If there are no opportunities the gallery receiving a fee through Assembly.

“We have to take caution in creating votes in implementing mandatory fees outside of the referendum process,”

Three others may also face threat of impeachment find the information.

Shortly after this, ASUS member he was informed that he would be John Stanley commented that the representing the 2017 year society process was becoming “adversarial” on ASUS assembly. and a different method should be “Aside from that I had no idea introduced to move forward with about what my participation the discussion. at Assembly would entail,” “I’m worried this is going Renwick said. to turn into an adversarial Renwick added that he checked environment. Is there an alternative the ASUS website and he could not method of procedure?” he said.

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Asfar, ArtSci ’14, said, adding that the slim margin of loss showed that the Union Gallery hadn’t done enough to engage students during the voting process.

Other members of Assembly agreed that the Union Gallery should have gone back to referendum, rather than try to get a fee through Assembly.

“If you aren’t willing to engage students, I don’t think you deserve the fee … it’s not the place of this body to give you the fee, turning its back on the results,” ASUS representative Kanivanan Chinniah, ArtSci ’15, said.

Davis said the only alternative would be a closed session. Stanley put forward the motion to move into closed assembly, and Assembly members approved it.

Davis also mentioned that other assembly members such as Colin Zarzour, Scott Clark and Jessalynn Tsang may face the threat of impeachment as well if they miss another meeting.

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In an ideal world, the 18-year-old Duke University student who has chosen to perform in pornography wouldn’t be judged for her personal choices. However, it’s inevitable that judgement will happen, and seen in a wider societal context, her choices do deserve some criticism.

The freshman student at the North Carolina university has been “outed” as a porn performer. The student in question claims that she entered the business to pay tuition.

She asserts that her experiences in the industry have been empowering and that she’s a feminist.

Humans should be able to make decisions that do not directly harm others. When someone undertakes an action that passes that test, they shouldn’t face the coercive judgment that many are heaping upon this woman. This is why those who “outed” the woman are misguided.

While one individual’s choice shouldn’t be up for debate, the context that surrounds that choice should always be examined.

Sex work — like performing in pornography, stripping and typical sectors of employment.

Porn performers have to prostitution — is often undertaken by those with limited options for contend with the fact that images decent pay, or any employment of them engaging in sex acts will whatsoever. Needless to say, no be available forever. Moreover, the one should feel immense pressure production of pornography is often very misogynistic in nature and to enter these fields.

While just about everybody is female performers are frequently coerced by economic circumstance pressured into doing extreme in one way or another, the sex acts.

This is what makes the woman’s experiences of those doing sex work warrant extra attention as claim that her actions are in line they are likely worse than the with feminism somewhat suspect. experiences of those in more While her personal choice to enter

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“She asserts that her experiences in the industry have been empowering and that she’s a feminist.”

Duke porn star is ahead of her time

Mark Asfar Robert Gow

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Patriot love

As the Olympics came to a close last weekend, I started thinking about what it all meant. Specifically, I thought about the emotions that the games elicit and whether or not they’re significant. Why do people obsess over the Olympics?

With Team Canada’s exhilarating victories in both men and women’s hockey, it seemed as though every Canadian watching here at home felt at least a little bit of excitement.

But beyond the excitement one feels when watching an action movie, the Olympics seemed to inspire a kind of patriotism — a sense of immense national pride.

When the athletes emerged during the opening ceremonies in Sochi, the Olympic Games suddenly acquired significance beyond that of athletic competition. The games became an outlet of patriotic fervour for people around the world.

These emotions aren’t difficult to explain. People feel as though

the athletes who represent their country are in some way “one of them”. Even athletes who aren’t well-known prior to the games are revered and placed on a pedestal as representatives of the country. We seem to share an identity.

These emotions can even be explained from a physiological point of view: studies show that watching someone excel at a sport triggers a release of hormones similar those that are released while actually participating in the sport.

One fact that I’m less sure of is the authenticity of the pride people feel for their country. Will this patriotism endure beyond the short two weeks of the Olympics or does it subside quickly once the games are over? Will Canadians years from now remember our Olympic success with pride or will it all be forgotten?

While for some, it may be the latter, I prefer to think that for most people, the Olympics serve more as a reinforcement of a national pride that’s rooted in something much more enduring than the two weeks of competition.

Essentially, the athletes and the medals they win are a tangible reminder of our drive to succeed.

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porn is completely fine, tying her choice to the wider feminist movement may not be valid, as some feminists have been critical of the pornography industry.

Overall, the young woman is undoubtedly somewhat naïve about what she has undertaken. When asked about how her pornographic performances will affect her prospects for employment, she insists that she “wouldn’t want to work for someone who discriminates against sex workers”.

These could be the words of a young person who hasn’t fully considered the ramifications of her actions.

The sad truth is that while in

an ideal world, people wouldn’t judge those who perform in pornography, judgement is the norm. Unfortunately, this social climate means that performing in pornography isn’t a pragmatic choice for a young person who probably has other options.

While individual porn performers shouldn’t be held up and ridiculed as social pariahs, the wider context that informs their choice is ripe for criticism. A discerning person would probably avoid performing in pornography, as our society isn’t ready to accept it.

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immigration

Newcomers thrive It’s not surprising that the children of immigrants are attending university at higher rates than children from families that have been in Canada for many generations. This fact, however, shouldn’t kick off a rush to defund programs that help new immigrants.

A Statistics Canada study has shown that Canadians from immigrant backgrounds are significantly more likely to attend university than students whose parents were both born in Canada.

This reality can probably be attributed to the values that immigrant parents have in regards to education. Many of these parents are hyper-aware of what their home country lacked and consequently, they encourage their children to take advantage of the possibilities afforded to them in a place like Canada.

These parents are more likely to encourage their children to study in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. This is in contrast to the mentality of more longstanding Canadian

families, who tend to have a more lax approach to education that sometimes centres on a “do what makes you happy” type of attitude.

While immigrants and their children are obviously seeing success and many new immigrants to Canada are well-off compared to other Canadians, government programs and initiatives that help immigrants shouldn’t end. Immigrants arrive in Canada without connections and with significant cultural and linguistic barriers in their way. For people in this vulnerable position, government programs are necessary.

All Canadians should embrace the success of relative newcomers to our country as it means we’re a country where people from different identities and social classes can be successful. Non-immigrant parents should consider adopting the education-focused attitudes that see children from immigrant backgrounds thrive.

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Should Leonardo DiCaprio win an Oscar this year?

The teams running for AMS executive, as Teams SMH and WRL did this year, often face difficulties during the campaign period.

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Putting the pain in campaign

“Yes, because he has been in so many movies that have won Oscars, so it’s his time.”

Rebekah van Hoof, Sci ’14

There are significant barriers for students who want to be elected as the AMS executive $100. This doesn’t include beforehand to write a platform emotional drain. Students can getting a pizza for your campaign and strategize. be very passionate about AMS A strong campaign manager politics and elections, but it can booth or a case of beer to share at a volunteer meeting, which and team of volunteers will become overwhelming. Aggressive help to manage the strain, but questioning can quickly turn into was another $80.

Just when you think you’re the work is still tremendous and demoralizing accusations and done, you realize you need adds up to anywhere between personal attacks. to buy tickets to major events 50 and 60 additional hours Mark Asfar, ArtSci ‘14 This year, I saw some fairly crude like the Oxfam Hunger a week. When the priority attacks over social media levelled It’s been about a month since the Banquet and Queen’s Indian is campaigning and filling at my teammates, volunteers end of the AMS elections and my Students’ Association’s Formal to every second with class talks, and even some of my friends. time running as the Vice-President create a public presence. It was booth time and meetings, a An anonymous blogger smeared academics are my team and someone framed us of fantastic, but candidate’s (Operations) candidate for $70 completely forgotten. expensive, events.

Team SMH. for a tasteless website that insulted As far as I know, every candidate, our competitors.

All of these small costs add The campaign period was a learning experience unlike any up to a formidable price tag in myself included, skipped every other. However, I was surprised the area of $400 by the end of class they could. I barely managed The physical and campaign, and this to skim the readings for my four mental demands take a to discover that the elections the process is flawed due to issues doesn’t include the additional classes and didn’t have adequate toll on every candidate time to prepare myself for an of accessibility and some serious opportunity costs. volunteer ...

By campaigning, I important seminar presentation. and barriers to participation. [campaigning] will At the start of the campaign, missed out on two weeks of I fell behind in my classes and my every team is informed by the AMS full-time pay — approximately GPA suffered. quickly exhaust even the I’m lucky that the academic healthiest person. that they’ll have a strict budget $600 — that could have helped to pay for campaign materials cover my growing expenses. strain I experienced won’t impact like volunteer shirts, banners, Altogether, the campaign cost me my post-graduation goals and that These strains can easily my flexible schedule will allow break a person down. There posters and so on. This an estimated $1,000.

These costs favour students me to recover my losses. were moments when I seriously budget is in place to ensure that students aren’t limited who have access to money, or who However, a student who needs considered quitting, and I nearly by their finances or given an have secure and well-paid to maintain a strong GPA for had a panic attack before one employment. In my case, I’m graduate school or for other of unfair advantage. my classes when I would have felt overwhelmed.

The problem is that the system lucky to belong to the latter applications doesn’t account for personal category. AMS jobs like mine pay to seriously consider the My team and I struggled, costs like clothing, food and a decent amount, and are flexible threat an AMS campaign but we were lucky to have an tickets. Students who are already enough to allow individuals to could pose to their future plans. incredibly strong support network.

The physical and mental The hard work and dedication struggling to pay for tuition take off the two weeks needed demands take a toll on every of our volunteers inspired and rent are going to struggle for campaigning. candidate and volunteer. us to make it through the to pay for the incidentals of campaigning.

By campaigning, I missed Waking up at 7 a.m. for a full campaign, and I’m grateful to every During SMH’s campaign, the out on two weeks of day of class talks, getting home person who helped us. after midnight from a strategy costs crept up on me. I had to For an exciting two weeks, full-time pay ... that meeting, eating when you can I had the incredible opportunity get coloured clothing to match have helped and running around in the cold to learn about the AMS the campaign colour scheme, could cover my growing will quickly exhaust and interact with the student including a few shirts, a nice the healthiest community on a new level, and sweater and something business expenses. Altogether the even appropriate for the debates campaign cost me an person. Halfway through this I learned a tremendous amount. year’s election period, both Unfortunately, I was only able to which totalled $120 (I literally estimated $1,000. teams had candidates with bad have this experience because my didn’t own a single piece of I fully acknowledge the colds and fevers who couldn’t privileged position allowed me to green clothing). privilege of my situation, but afford to rest. overcome the numerous barriers to participation.

The problem is that the I honestly wonder how a The average student faces some system doesn’t account student with limited finances or These costs favour an off-campus job would be students who have access serious obstacles if they want to for personal costs like able to participate in the run for AMS executive, and clothing, food and tickets. campaigning process. A month to money, or who have any sort of financial, academic Students who are already later, I’m still trying to secure and well-paid or health concerns can make it struggling ... are going get my finances back employment ... I honestly impossible for them to do so.

Something needs to change if wonder how a student to struggle to pay in order.

Then there’s the problem with limited finances we want to continue to say that for the incidentals of finding time for academics. the AMS is a democratic and or an off-campus equal-opportunity of campaigning.

Campaigning is basically a organization full-time job. Candidates need to job would be able that represents the diverse students Being on campus for be on campus from 8 a.m. to to partcipate in the at Queen’s University.

10+ hours a day meant having 6 p.m. every day, at minimum, campaigning process. to buy breakfast, lunch, dinner for the 10-day campaign Mark was the Vice-President This creeping exhaustion was (Operations) candidate for Team SMH. and coffee in order to keep going, period. That doesn’t include the which totalled approximately weeks of preparation needed accompanied by mental and

“Throw him a bone.”

Isabella Mira, ArtSci ’16

“Yeah, because he has been very consistent for a long time.”

Adreon Murphy, Sci ’16

“Fuck yeah he should win it!”

Sonja Monoz, ArtSci ’14

“Sure — I like Leo.” Joseph Lee, ConEd ’17

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Oceania, reimagined Colliding Scopes takes on Orwell’s nightmare B y J anine A buluyan Staff Writer

Colliding Scopes transforms three floors of Jeffery Hall into the Ministries of Love, Peace, Truth and Plenty for The Condition, an adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Co-Director/Production Manager Evelyn Popiel, ArtSci ’14, said that the “oppressing, gritty feel” of Orwell’s well-known novel made it “really interesting to explore aesthetically” as opposed to other dystopias, most notably the false utopia of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

The Condition is set in Nineteen Eighty-Four’s world of Oceania, mixing familiar characters with new ones who instigate further scenarios and insight.

“The story of Nineteen Eighty-Four closely follows the character of Winston [but] we completely deviated from his narrative and we’ve created several other characters for our audience to follow,” Popiel said.

The condition referred to in the production’s title is the social condition experienced by the citizens of Oceania. As Popiel noted, the title of Orwell’s novel is not representative of a year but the social condition “created by an all-powerful authority” which demands the sacrifice of the personal for the sake of the collective. “[In Oceania,] everyone devotes all of their time working for Big Brother and upholding the three mantras of Big Brother:

Ignorance is strength, Freedom is slavery and War is peace,” said Popiel.

All private and personal life, from public communication to intimate relationships, is monitored and censored by Big Brother.

The cast and crew of The Condition began working on the adaptation in October with designated writer Jesse Gazic, ArtSci ’16, incorporating everyone’s ideas into the script.

The theatre company Colliding Scopes promises “experimental, environmental, and immersive retellings of the stories you’ve always loved”. Past productions include adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray and Peter Pan. “It’s always exciting to see how our audience interacts with the show … they get to interact with the characters and they’re given tasks to do,” Popiel said.

“The show changes every night depending on what our audience does. I’m really interested in the kinds of choices our audiences [will] make and how that will change our show.”

The Condition will play in Jeffery Hall from Friday 7 p.m. to Sunday, March 9 at 9 a.m. Tickets will be available at the doors and from Tricolour Outlet.

Audience members can anticipate participation, a fair amount of walking, close and potentially frightening contact with actors as well as violence.

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The condition is a social one that affects nearly every citizen of Oceania.

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Theatre on the radio CFRC program a mix of theatre talk and tunes

Small cast of Problem Child focuses audience’s attention B y R obert G ow Contributor Problem Child is a play that asks its audience to empathize with characters that exist in a moral grey area.

Its drama revolves around two degenerates who have had their baby taken away. RJ, played by Galen Watts, ArtSci ’14, has just got out of jail and Denise, played by Felicia Myronyk ArtSci ‘16, used to be a prostitute and drug addict.

They are trying to get their lives back on track so that a social service worker, played by Mary Spray, ArtSci ’17, will return their baby.

The play is constantly evolving and the

B y B rent M oore characters are beautifully realized. With a cast Arts Editor of four actors, none of the performances feel two-dimensional.

Theatre is thriving in Kingston, but remains inaccessible for many.

I’m hoping that when they For those who still associate the stage with stale, Victorian snoozers, the solution may lie leave the show, they think in a refurbished setlist. about cycles of behaviour.

Just Hit Play, a new CFRC show hosted

by Felicia Latour, ArtSci ’14, pairs classic — Holly Molaski, director plays with catchy playlists to inspire the unknowing theatre-lover.

Problem Child was written in 1997 by The idea came last summer when Latour Canadian playwright George F. Walker as attended a performance of Oscar Wilde’s part of a six-play collection. Each play takes Lady Windermere’s Fan, directed by Peter Hinton, at the Shaw Festival, an acclaimed place in the same run down hotel room.

Director Holly Molaski, ArtSci ’15, read theatre festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

See Despicable on page 14 “[The play] is very Victorian England,

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a little dry for some,” she said, “but they had songs from Rufus Wainwright and Velvet Underground and I thought that was amazing.”

Latour’s show builds from this idea — aiming to make classic plays more accessible through interviews with cast and crewmembers, intermixed with recognizable tunes.

“I love the idea of mixing old, sort-of inaccessible plays with contemporary music,” she said.

“Sometimes I ask the guests if they have song suggestions — mostly it’s songs that I find either thematically or stylistically relevant.” Each episode begins with local theatre announcements and often includes See I on page 14

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Weekend film project to show at KCFF

Writer/director Jonny Klynkramer drew from his experience at a meditation course in northern India B y F ilza N aveed Staff Writer Travelling and self-exploration can lead to artistic inspiration.

That’s how Jonathan

Klynkramer, ArtSci ’14, describes the idea for the script that won his short film The Path “Best Picture” and “Best Editing” awards at the 2014 Focus Film Festival. It will be shown next month at the Kingston

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Canadian Film Festival.

The Focus Film Festival is a Queen’s-based event that allows students from all faculties to cultivate their filmmaking talent and learn from each other.

Students are divided into teams of five and given a previously unreleased topic on which to make a film.

“It’s really intense and exciting,” he said.

Random groups are assigned Thursday night with a deadline of midnight on Sunday.

“The theme for this year was seven virtues and seven vices, and we were assigned to make a film on the virtue of temperance,” he said.

Following the film’s debut at Focus, the group submitted it to the Kingston Canadian Film Festival as a local short. It will play before the feature length film The Pin. Klynkramer said he felt a bit alienated at first when he was assigned to a random group for Focus. He spent the previous academic year on exchange in India and, unlike many other students, had not participated in the Festival

the year before.

“We gelled very well though, and my trip to India helped me come up with the element of meditation in the film,” he said.

“I took a meditation course in India towards the end of my trip.

I had prayer mats and shawls lying around and I wrote the script with input from the group. It matched the theme of temperance and we were all contemplating going with some kind of American horror story initially.”

Directed by Klynkramer, The Path is a five-minute story about the journey of a wandering woman in search of happiness, played by Chelsea Marie O’Hara, ArtSci ’14. She is guided by a master, and has to ignore the seduction of a temptress on her journey.

The rest of the team was made up of fellow Queen’s students Chantelle Ng, ArtSci ’14, Hilary Smith, ArtSci ’14, Malcolm McKenzie, ArtSci ’17.

Klynkramer picked a location he was familiar with.

“It was shot at my grandparents’

house just outside of Kingston.

They have a cabin in the woods near the lake. I wanted to use that as a location in the film for a while so we wrote the script with all that in mind,” Klynkramer said.

He said that teamwork was key in making the short film.

“Having a director who has a vision is essential. But it’s important to accept input from everyone in the group and to learn from each other,” he said.

Klynkramer said that whether someone has film experience or not, Focus Film Festival is a worthwhile experience.

“My advice to aspiring filmmakers is that they shouldn’t limit themselves to just class projects. Go out, make things on your own, and produce work.

Whether it’s good or bad, it doesn’t matter. You learn from everything you work on,” he said.

The Path will be shown Mar. 1 at the Baby Grand and Mar. 2 at the Screening Room before feature length entry The Pin.

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Klynkramer spent spent his third year studying in Mumbai, India.

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Big city opportunity close to home Student work populates Kingston Canadian Film Festival lineup B y J ustin S antelli Assistant Arts Editor The Kingston Canadian Film Festival (KCFF) is back, and students are becoming more important to it than ever.

The festival serves as an example of Kingston’s thriving arts community while

doubling as a way for students to get involved and gain valuable insight into a difficult industry.

“Essentially, [it’s] the only all-Canadian film festival in the world,” said Hilary Smith, the festival’s hospitality and volunteer co-ordinator.

KCFF has been an annual event for 14

years now.

“Alex Jansen, the founder, created the festival as a way to showcase his friends’ projects as well as others that would never get attention on a greater scale,” Smith said.

“Now we pay that tradition forward.

“Basically, our purpose is to show great Canadian content that wouldn’t otherwise get shown.”

Smith is just one of many students who are leaping at the chance to gain real-world film industry experience and connections in a relatively small town that doesn’t have the advantage of international recognition.

“We bring the film industry to Kingston for a weekend,” Smith said. “It brings up

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opportunities for students to network that we wouldn’t otherwise have. Especially speaking as a student that’s not from the GTA, it’s hard to make contact with anyone in the industry. The festival really makes it accessible.”

The film industry can seem completely opaque to those who aren’t currently entrenched in it, and being located away from a big city for university can only reinforce that.

This can be frightening for students who find themselves in love with their chosen topic of study, but unaware of how to make a living within it. Getting involved with KCFF can help, as Queen’s student and KCFF production intern Shayna Markowitz says.

“It’s something outside of the Queen’s community and it’s a taste of the film industry and the different ways to work within it and what it takes to make a film festival,” Markowitz, ArtSci ’14, said.

KCFF provides those curious about a career in the film industry with a student-friendly opportunity to gain realworld experience and build relationships through networking before graduation.

Tellingly described by Markowitz as “a boutique festival,” the relatively small size of the festival, combined with its localized, accessible quality, gives volunteers responsibilities they likely wouldn’t get while interning for another company.

For example, Markowitz and KCFF’s other production intern for 2014, Spencer Brown, ArtSci ’14, ended up in charge of creating a television commercial for the festival.

Every production role, from camera work to makeup, was filled by Queen’s students.

The commercial was eventually shown on Cogeco during Olympics broadcasts.

“It’s the perfect opportunity in Kingston,” Markowitz said. “It magnifies film for you.”

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Despicable characters elicit our sympathy Continued from page 11

the play in high school and thought it was a great opportunity to direct a Canadian play.

“Problem Child has a lot of interesting themes that relate to the Kingston community,” she said. “It’s about a class struggle.”

One of the standout actors was Myronyk.

As junkie prostitute Denise, Myronyk has an intangible kind of charisma. It’s hard to describe because she never plays the character sympathetically. There’s no Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts type of charm. She’s just a screw-up who desperately loves her baby, and it’s so compelling that it roots the performance.

Despite the despicable nature of her character, Myronyk plays her so that the audience always understands how much she loves her family.

“I’m hoping that when they leave the show, they think about cycles of behaviour, class struggles and modes of class production,” she said. “It’s interesting how people get stuck in their own ways and develop habits.”

These conventionally deplorable characters are able to elicit sympathy.

“The characters deconstruct while they are trying to fit into a certain role, but in the end they break down,” she said. “[It’s] about how much someone can really change over a period of time.”

Everyone in the cast gives a wonderful performance. The show really breathes.

Nothing ever felt faked or phony. As the play starts to heat up, you can feel the actors feeding off of one another’s energy.

Fifth Company Lane’s production of Problem Child runs until Mar. 1 at The Box in the H’art Centre.

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interviews with members of the Queen’s and Kingston theatre community.

But Latour’s favourite interview so far was with French Canadian playwright Michel Marc Bouchard, whose play Lilies originally premiered in 1987, and was recently put on by the Queen’s drama department.

“I actually interviewed him in French,” she said. “Then I had to go back, translate it, and have a friend come in and do the English dub of Bouchard’s part.”

Latour’s involvement in Kingston theatre spans her four years at Queen’s.

She is currently involved in two theatre projects: directing Queen’s Vagabond’s Julius Caesar and designing sets for 5th Company

Lane’s Problem Child.

Last year she played Captain Hook in Colliding Scopes Theatre’s take on Peter Pan, An Awfully Big Adventure. She was the assistant director for Queen’s drama department’s Blood Relations, was involved in Blue Canoe’s The Drowsy Chaperone and Vogt A, as well as working as assistant stage manager for Theatre Kingston’s Virgil.

“That was my first professional theatre gig. It was lots of fun,” she said.

Latour had other aspirations before getting immersed in Kingston’s theatre scene.

“I was bent on becoming a pediatrician,” she said.

She originally enrolled as a science student, but that only lasted two months, according to Latour.

Since then, she has transferred to a drama

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major and English minor.

“I love Queen’s drama because they really encourage you to do everything [through both acting and producing],” she said.

It was through Queen’s that she was able to take classes at the Shaw Festival.

Latour looks back fondly on her time at Shaw, but wasn’t sold on the city of Niagara-on-the-Lake.

“The city itself feels very Stepford Wives — lots of pretentious cafes,” she said. “But Shaw, what a treasure trove of Canadian theatre and arts.”

Latour said she tries to bring those high expectations to her time on the airwaves.

“I feel like I’ve set a standard for myself where I need to play good contemporary music,” she said. “The Lilies episode I finished with a U2 song. I love U2 but I got all worked up thinking — I’m gonna lose my street cred.”

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On the edge of glory For the third time in four years, Gaels can clinch OUA at home B y S ean S utherland Assistant Sports Editor When Jessica Wakefield scored in overtime on Wednesday night, she gave Queen’s a heart-stopping flashback to three years ago.

The rookie was the hero of Queen’s 2-1 road win over the Laurier Golden Hawks in game one of the OUA final, scoring to put women’s hockey one win from another provincial championship.

They can clinch the title with a win this afternoon at the Memorial Centre.

Just as the Gaels went to overtime in all five of their playoff games in 2011, Wednesday’s game marked the fourth time they’ve gone to extra time in this year’s playoffs. Their two regulation victories so far were both decided by a single goal.

While all the overtime

madness evokes memories of 2011 — Queen’s first OUA championship team — head coach Matt Holmberg said this year’s squad has a very different style of play.

“There certainly could be some comparisons made. The teams we played, all three of them are the same, overtime games and that,” Holmberg said. “But over the course of three or four years, rosters change quite a bit. Other than [the opponents], things are pretty different.”

While the string of overtime games is similar to Queen’s first championship, the first two rounds of these playoffs were heavily reminiscent of last season’s title run.

In the opening round, the Gaels swept the Windsor Lancers, the same team they dispatched in the 2013 quarterfinals.

Queen’s had a tougher road in the semi-finals, splitting the first two games of their series with the top-seeded Guelph Gryphons. In game three, the Gaels held on for a 2-1 victory.

On Wednesday, Wakefield’s goal against Laurier concluded a defensive battle that almost didn’t make it to overtime.

With six seconds remaining in regulation and the Gaels up by After Laurier tied Game One with six seconds left, Queen’s See Single on page 19

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scored on an overtime power play to take a series lead back to Kingston.

Women’s Basketball

Title bout at home

Women’s Hockey OUA Championship Game 1 — Feb. 26

Game 3* — Mar. 2

Queen’s Gaels 2 [OT] Laurier Golden Hawks 1

Gaels @ Laurier, 7:30 p.m. — Waterloo (Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex)

Division banner, nationals berth on the line tomorrow

*If necessary

B y J erry Z heng Staff Writer

Game 2 — Feb. 28 Gaels vs. Laurier, 3 p.m. — Kingston (Memorial Centre)

Gaels lead series 1-0.

Last year, women’s hockey swept the Western Mustangs to capture the OUA championship on home ice.

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Men’s Hockey

Last gasp after milestone win Men sweep Ottawa in first round, but face must-win game after big loss to Carleton Men’s Hockey OUA East Round 2 Schedule Game 1 — Feb. 26 Carleton Ravens 6 Queen’s Gaels 2

B y A dam L askaris Staff Writer Riding high after a playoff series win, men’s hockey is now on the brink of elimination.

The Gaels fell 6-2 to the Carleton Ravens in Ottawa on Wednesday night in the first game of their best-of-three second-round matchup.

The loss came just five days after Queen’s swept the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the first round — the Gaels’ first series victory since 2004 and the first of head coach Brett Gibson’s CIS career.

Gibson and his team will look to rebound tonight against Carleton in game two. Gibson said starting goaltender Kevin Bailie must improve after allowing six goals,

Game 2 — Feb. 28 Gaels vs. Carleton, 8 p.m. — Kingston (Memorial Centre) Game 3* — Mar. 2 Gaels @ Carleton, 7:30 p.m. — Ottawa (The Ice House) *If necessary Carleton leads series 1-0.

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The Gaels pulled out their first-ever playoff series victory under head coach Brett Gibson with a sweep of Ottawa last week.

the most he’s given up this season.

“Our best players have to be our best players,” Gibson said.

Carleton has been the Gaels’ toughest foe this season, knocking them off in two regular season games in addition to their first playoff contest. Despite being on the brink of elimination, Gibson doesn’t see his team as the underdog.

“It’s not an eighth seed against a first seed,” he said. “We’re a fourth seed playing a first seed.

There are four great teams in the OUA East and I think we’re one of those teams.”

Despite Wednesday’s lopsided result, Gibson said his club played well against the country’s fifth-ranked team.

“Look at the shots after the second period,” he said. “They were only 16-12 for Carleton and we were down 4-1. That’s not typical. “[Carleton is] built to win a national championship,” he added.

“They’re deep in all positions.”

The Gaels’ two markers on the night came from defenceman See Two on page 19

Tomorrow night, women’s basketball will play in their first division final in over a decade.

After beating the Toronto Varsity Blues 67-56 at the ARC last Saturday in the OUA East semi-final, Queen’s is set for a championship showdown.

Home court advantage in the division final favours the Gaels.

Since Queen’s was the East’s top seed after the regular season, they’ll host the Carleton Ravens, who defeated the Ottawa Gee-Gees 57-39 in their semi-final.

The Gaels and Ravens split their regular season meetings. Queen’s narrowly lost 57-55 in their first matchup, but came away with a 63-58 win on Feb. 8.

Gaels head coach Dave Wilson believes the playoff inexperience of the Ravens’ first-year starters will be a factor tomorrow.

“There’s obviously going to be nerves … for the younger players who haven’t experienced this,” Wilson said. “We’ll have some of the same issues. We’ll see who manages them better.”

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Women’s Basketball Playoff Results OUA East Semi-final — Feb. 22 Queen’s Gaels 67 Toronto Varsity Blues 56

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Progress on the court Men’s basketball matches last year’s record, but refines game B y J ordan C athcart Staff Writer Don’t let this year’s record fool you: the Gaels improved significantly from last season.

Even though the season for Queen’s men’s basketball ended with practically identical results to last year — 10 wins and a first round playoff exit — the young squad showed promise against stellar competition.

The Gaels’ season ended last Wednesday in Toronto with an 86-76 playoff loss to the Ryerson Rams. The week prior, Queen’s dropped a regular season decision to the Rams by 10 points as well.

These results were impressive, considering Ryerson has been ranked no lower than eighth in the country all season.

The unfortunate part for Queen’s is that even though they improved, so did most of the OUA East, which already boasts three CIS superpowers: Ryerson, the Carleton Ravens and the Ottawa Gee-Gees.

The Laurentian Voyageurs and York Lions both posted better records than last year, giving the Gaels one of the most grueling schedules in the nation.

Head coach Steph Barrie realized the East was going to provide a challenge and was happy with the Gaels’ performance in the country’s toughest division.

“You have to look at it in a big picture kind of way,” Barrie said.

“We played in a conference where six teams got better, including ourselves. We would not have maintained getting 10 wins if we did not improve.”

Queen’s bench boss believes the final two games of the season against Ryerson spoke to his squad’s character.

“I think we’ve had this type of personality all year,” Barrie said.

“We were a team that never quit, never gave up, and never quit playing games.

“That’s a really important foundation piece to have.”

Fourth-year forward Nikola Misljencevic echoed his coach’s sentiments.

“Ryerson is a tough team — we knew that we had to bring our best efforts to each game,” said the graduating Gael. “We have always had a never-quit mindset, which will help this program develop in the future.

“It’s a shame that your success in this league is measured [and] determined by wins and losses,” he added. “Not only did we improve as a team, but each individual became a stronger overall basketball player.”

With almost the entire team returning next year — Misljencevic and fifth-year forward Mackenzie Simpson are the exceptions — it’s clear the Gaels have nowhere to go but up.

Men’s Basketball Playoff Results OUA East Quarterfinal — Feb. 19 Ryerson Rams 86 Queen’s Gaels 76

East on the line Continued from page 15

The Gaels’ flexibility in scoring will be to their advantage against the Ravens.

Queen’s and the Regina Cougars are the only two teams in the country that have more than three scorers who average double-digits.

The Gaels shot an average of 37 per cent from three-point range against the Ravens during the regular season.

Wilson said his team will be psychologically prepared to face Carleton in the East final after defeating Toronto on Saturday. Up until last week, no player on the Gaels’ roster had ever beaten the Varsity Blues.

The last time the Gaels had won against their Toronto rival was on Jan. 8, 2010 at home. This year, they prevailed on the back of their aggressive defence, forcing the Blues to commit 22 turnovers.

Although the Gaels led throughout the contest, the Varsity Blues refused to go away, as they never trailed by double digits in the first three quarters.

After guard Liz Boag hit a three-pointer in the third quarter to give Queen’s a nine-point lead, Toronto’s Jill Stratton responded by nailing back-to-back threes in transition, shortening the Gaels’

lead to three heading into the fourth quarter.

The Gaels began to distance themselves with their fast-paced offence and stifling defence, holding the Blues to only six points in the final frame.

Gaels wing Jenny Wright contributed in every facet of the game with 16 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and two steals. Half of her points came in the second quarter.

Wright said Queen’s win against the Varsity Blues proves they are confident in their own abilities.

“We have started to believe that we are number one for a reason,” she said.

Boag, who scored a game-high 21 points against Toronto, said this year’s playoff run feels differently than in the past because they no longer feel they are underdogs going in.

For many players on the Gaels’ roster, Saturday’s game was a long time coming.

“In the past, it was like ‘we have nothing to lose,’” Boag said.

“Now, it feels like ‘no, we are the better team.’”

The Laurier Golden Hawks and Windsor Lancers will also face off tomorrow in the OUA West final.

The division champions will play next week for the OUA title.

With a nucleus of second-year players and the return of star guard Greg Faulkner for his fifth year, they’ll look to contend for at least the next two seasons.

Second-year guard Roshane Roberts led his team with 20 points in the playoff loss to Ryerson. He’ll be at the helm of the Gaels’ future success, as he plans on competing with the best of the CIS for years to come.

“I’m looking forward to the development of my game and my teammates’ game,” Roberts said.

“I hope we can make some strides next year and become a top-10 team in the CIS, and I also hope we can get to a championship game next season.”

With the promise that many of these young Gaels have shown on the floor, don’t be surprised to see men’s basketball in the CIS Top 10 in the next couple years.

“We’re still young and have a lot Men’s basketball fell short in the first round of the playoffs JOURNAL FILE PHOTO to improve,” Roberts said. for the second year in a row. They lost 86-76 to Ryerson last weekend.

Men’s Volleyball

Dry spells prove costly Seeded sixth in the OUA, Queen’s stumbles in first playoff round B y S ean S utherland Assistant Sports Editor Battling injuries and long losing streaks, men’s volleyball was unable to recreate last year’s top-four finish and bowed out in the first round of the playoffs.

In a season that saw them consistently struggle to stay in the win column, the Gaels rallied to capture their final three regular season games. They finished the season at 9-11, snagging the sixth and final OUA playoff spot and a first-round matchup with the Waterloo Warriors.

Despite falling to the nationally ninth-ranked Warriors in four sets, the Gaels were impressive in defeat, taking the opening set and coming just shy of extending the match to five.

The end-of-season turnaround was a result of the Gaels getting healthy and starting to find their rhythm offensively.

After coming out on top in three of their first four games, Queen’s floundered in the early part of the season, losing five consecutive matches.

“We struggled early on to find a rhythm with our offence and [with] our inability to keep our middle hitters active,” head coach Brenda Willis told the Journal via email.

“These elements are very critical to team success and made it very tough on our outside hitters.”

One additional problem the Gaels faced during the losing streak was the absence of outside hitter Mike Tomlinson, who was out of the lineup until Nov. 22 with a torn ACL. Fellow hitters Stephen Holmes and Tyler Scheerhoorn replaced Tomlinson on the right side of the lineup.

The team benefited from a winter trip to Bulgaria, where rookie Jamie Wright established himself as the Gaels’ primary

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The Gaels suffered through four- and five-game losing streaks this season, but snagged the OUA’s final playoff spot.

setter, replacing the graduated Jackson Dakin.

Queen’s came back stronger after the break, and despite another losing skid, the squad began to improve, due in part to their depth.

“I can think of many times and in many situations where a player was able to come off the bench and make a huge difference in a match,” Willis said.

While Queen’s used strong team play to propel them forward, there were several players whose individual campaigns stood out.

Tomlinson returned from injury in November and was named an OUA second-team All-Star. He also led the league in points per game, while his 183 kills sat 10th in the OUA, despite him missing nearly half the season.

Willis said Tomlinson stood out because of his production on the court and for his dedication to rehabbing his injury.

Second-year libero Ivo Dramov built on last year’s OUA All-Rookie campaign, once again establishing himself as an important defensive player for the Gaels and finishing second in the OUA with 201 digs.

Men’s Volleyball Playoff Results OUA Quarterfinal — Feb. 19 Waterloo Warriors 3 Queen’s Gaels 1 Wright showed strong play as a rookie, sitting third in the league in assists per game.

Willis said that while the outlook for next season is encouraging, there’s still work to be done in several areas.

“Collectively, our block [and] defence coordination and trust need to be better, if we are to challenge at the top,” she said. “I also want us to take our serving to a new level.”

With all but one player — team captain and fourth-year libero Jacob Glantz — returning next year, it seems likely the Gaels will be able to build on this season going forward.

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Single win away Continued from page 15

one, Golden Hawks defenceman Blair Connelly put the puck past Queen’s netminder Mel Dodd-Moher, tying the game and forcing the extra period.

Connelly’s goal was the third time this postseason the Gaels allowed a tying goal with less than 90 seconds remaining.

For the first 50 minutes of the game, neither team was able to break through offensively.

That changed midway through the third period, when Gaels winger Taryn Pilon took a pass from captain Morgan McHaffie on a two-on-one before beating Laurier goalie Amanda Smith.

After Laurier forced overtime, Golden Hawks forward Dollee Meigs was penalized for tripping, setting the stage for Wakefield’s winner. McHaffie and defenceman Alisha Sealey added assists

Women’s Hockey Quarterfinal Results

on the goal.

Wakefield and fellow rookie Kyla Crouse have both potted key overtime goals in the playoffs, while the Gaels have benefited from the veteran presence of McHaffie, Dodd-Moher and forward Shawna Griffin.

“They’re leading by example on the ice. All three have stepped their game up during the playoffs,” Holmberg said. “Both off the ice and the ice, all three of them have been incredible leaders on this run.”

A major key to the Gaels’ success this year has been DoddMoher’s rock-solid play. The fifth-year netminder has posted an OUA-best .955 save percentage and hasn’t allowed more than two goals

Women’s Hockey Semifinal Results Game 1 — Feb. 19 Queen’s Gaels 2 [3OT] Guelph Gryphons 1

Game 1 — Feb. 13

Game 2 — Feb. 21

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Guelph Gryphons 2 Queen’s Gaels 1 [2OT]

Game 2 — Feb. 15

Game 3 — Feb. 23

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Men’s Hockey Round 1 Results Game 1 — Feb. 19 Queen’s Gaels 3 Ottawa Gee-Gees 2 Game 2 — Feb. 21 Queen’s Gaels 2 Ottawa Gee-Gees 1

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Stephane Chabot and centre Taylor Clements, cutting the Ravens’ lead to 3-1 and 5-2, respectively.

Queen’s first round matchup with Ottawa had no shortage of dramatic moments. Both games saw a different hero emerge for the Gaels, who won 3-2 and 2-1.

in a game.

Holmberg said the Gaels need to continue playing a similar game to knock off Laurier in game two, which Queen’s hosts today at 3 p.m.

A victory would give Queen’s their third provincial title in four seasons and a berth to CIS nationals.

“I think we want to make sure we’re targeting a bit better and burying our chances,” Holmberg said.

“Beyond that, there’s no need to change what’s been working Queen’s must win JOURNAL FILE PHOTO for us.” tonight at the Memorial Centre to keep the playoff hopes alive.

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“We learned how to win in that first series,” Gibson said.

Centre Braeden Corbeth scored the winner for game two on a wrap-around goal with 23 seconds remaining in the third period, clinching the series. Two days earlier, Chris Van Laren scored two third-period power play goals less than four minutes apart, first tying the game and then scoring the winner.

As the Gaels haven’t had much playoff success in recent history, Gibson said his most experienced players may actually be the newest to the program.

Many of the Queen’s 10 first-year players experienced success in junior hockey, and Gibson is looking to these players to be leaders moving forward.

“The playoffs are totally different than the regular season,” he said. “You can’t really describe it until you’ve been there. It’s all new to these guys.”

Game two against Carleton is tonight at 8 p.m. at the Memorial Centre. A Gaels’ win would keep their season alive and force a third and final game to be played Sunday in Ottawa.

“If that’s not enough motivation,” Gibson said, “I don’t know what is.”

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mental health

Silently starving for more support Eating disorders leave people feeling isolated as a result of the mental illness, but more support can erase stigma B y C hloë G rande Staff Writer If you were diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness, would you tell anyone?

While most people wouldn’t willingly choose to suffer alone over the loving support of family and friends, I was suffering alone for many years. My illness is anorexia nervosa.

The symptoms began when I was in grade 10. Preoccupation with food, denial of hunger, intense fear of gaining weight — the clinical symptoms were all there.

Underneath the behaviour, however, were the emotional effects.

Social withdrawal, depressed mood and irritability all took full reign.

At the time, I was competing in high school gymnastics. My coaches suspected something was wrong and approached me.

An appointment with my family doctor followed, then a referral to the McMaster Children’s Hospital Eating Disorder Program where I was officially diagnosed.

I would no longer be able to compete in gymnastics or engage in any physical activity at all.

Monitored meals and weekly appointments at the Eating Disorder Clinic replaced gymnastics practices. I was even prescribed Prozac to combat anxiety.

While all this took place, I didn’t tell a soul. The fear of judgement from others, especially people I saw on a daily basis, was paralyzing.

My family knew, as did a few friends or acquaintances, but those closest to me were shut out. It was them who I was most scared of disappointing.

Secrets work against their intent, I soon discovered. I felt completely and utterly alone. My eating disorder became a dark cloud hanging above me. And whenever that cloud darkened, I’d shut myself up even more.

I wish I could say that recovery

was an easy process. It wasn’t. Even five years later, I still have difficulty finding the words to describe my ongoing struggle.

One barrier in particular that prevented me from sharing my experience earlier is the dreaded s-word associated with mental illness — stigma.

It occurred to me recently that I was helping to perpetuate this stigma. By remaining silent about the subject, I was just as accountable as anyone else.

My inspiration came after attending the Queen’s Mental Health Awareness Committee’s (MHAC) speaker series presentation on eating disorders.

As I walked into the jam-packed room I did a double take. A quick headcount confirmed an attendance of over 50 students, both male and female.

This flicked a switch inside my mind: I wasn’t alone. Evidently, there were others out there dealing with similar mental health problems.

Dr. Brad MacNeil, a speaker at the event, confirmed that my fear of disclosure was perfectly normal.

“Many people struggle alone with their eating disorder in part due to the secrecy and stigma surrounding eating disorders and also due to the nature of the illness itself,” MacNeil, a clinical psychologist at Hotel Dieu Hospital’s Adult Eating Disorder Clinic, told the Journal via email.

“A support system is very important in the treatment of eating disorders,” he said. “Eating disorders do not occur in isolation and affect spouses, partners and family members of the person who is struggling with the illness.”

My main issue was that my support system — my family, particularly my parents — was hundreds of kilometres away. I was seeking professional help in Kingston, but that wasn’t the same as having a close friend or family member to confide in.

Yet I knew there had to be Support Centre (PSC), Health others like me at Queen’s. At an Counselling and Disability Services institution renowned for academic and MHAC, a campaign such as excellence, the characteristics of Dove’s Real Beauty would help eating disorders — perfectionism, foster a supportive environment, high achievement and a drive to she said.

“One of the scariest things succeed — had to be abundant.

The added stress of transitioning about struggling with an eating from high school to university disorder is that you absolutely feel also plays a significant role in 110 per cent alone and there’s triggering symptoms. If a university no one there for you and no one environment is the perfect will understand,” Warren said. breeding place for eating disorders, “That’s important in terms of why was it so hard to find others any mental illness, knowing that there is a compassionate like me?

MacNeil said the University of community waiting for you to help North Carolina has an organization you through.”

For Jenn Thunem, ArtSci ’15, called Embody Carolina dedicated to educating students about speaking out about her eating disorder has been an extremely eating disorders. liberating experience.

Many people struggle “I went to therapy with alone with their eating the intentions of not telling … and having this big disorder in part due to anyone skeleton in my closet that no the secrecy and stigma one would ever know about,” surrounding eating Thunem said.

Once she started opening up, disorders and also due however, she said she realized that to the nature of the a lot of people were going through illness itself. something similar.

“It was just this big epiphany that — Dr. Brad MacNeil, everyone has a story and no one clinical psychologist at Hotel likes to talk about it,” she said.

Dieu Hospital Like me, Thunem’s disordered eating spiralled out of control in “Like campus awareness groups, first year. It began with her Embody recognizes that there is involvement in high performance no replacement for professional sport in high school. Once she treatment of disorders and in no moved to Queen’s and quit kayaking, she way seeks to provide treatment,” competitive he said. “What is offered is a said the symptoms became student-led training that helps increasingly worse.

“In first year I definitely felt like students identify the signs of eating disorders, learn to approach there was — I don’t want to say a friends with sensitivity to their lack of support in the sense that it’s struggles and compassion, how Queen’s fault — but I didn’t reach to find professional help in the out,” she said.

Thunem added that although community and serve as allies in the there were resources like the PSC, recovery process.”

Haley Warren, ArtSci ’14 it was hard to find specific support and co-chair of the MHAC, for eating disorders.

“I definitely think there’s space said she believes Queen’s could benefit from a positive body for something like that [Embody Carolina] at Queen’s and not only image campaign.

In addition to the resources is there space for it, but there’s a already available, such as the Peer need for it,” she said.

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Thunem said she believes there are far more students struggling than we think.

“Taking a voice away from the eating disorder and giving it to a body of people who are fighting this would be really valuable.”

Separating the illness from the person suffering is a crucial step in the recovery process. The illness isn’t a representation of the person, but rather an entity all to itself.

Taking a voice “away from the eating

disorder and giving it to a body of people who are fighting this would be really valuable.

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— Jenn Thunem, ArtSci ’15 For me, recovery wouldn’t have been possible had my gymnastics coaches not intervened. An intervention is a daunting feat — it’s frightening for both sides. Ultimately, it’s an act done out of concern because someone cares.

“It’s important to remember that if you’re received with rejection when you approach them, it’s the eating disorder rejecting you, not your friend,” Thunem said.

She added the importance of making sure the illness remains a topic of conversation.

“Although it was one of the scariest things walking into the therapist’s office for the first time, it’s completely changed my life and I would never, ever take that back,” Thunem said.

Recovery doesn’t happen overnight, but most importantly, it doesn’t happen alone.