The Queen's Journal, Volume 141, Issue 38

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SPORTS

Stadium funds in the works Queen’s in talks with unnamed donor to kickstart development of new facility B Y N ICK FARIS Sports Editor

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AMS

Men’s group contested Students accuse men’s issues club of propagating rape culture B Y VINCENT B EN M ATAK News Editor A motion to de-ratify the Queen’s Men’s Issues Awareness Society failed last night at AMS Assembly.

The motion, which was brought forward by Amal Nawal and Ashley Burnie, attempted to delegitimize the club on the grounds that it

further perpetuated rape culture and female oppression on campus.

The club’s mandate, according to the AMS clubs website, is “to facilitate an inclusive and rational public conversation focused on certain areas of gender which are being understudied in contemporary culture, especially the status, health and well-being of

boys and men.”

Mohammed Albaghdadi, the society’s president, said he started the club to raise awareness of men’s issues on campus, particularly related to false accusations of sexual assault.

“This is an academic institution where such discussion needs to take place,” Albaghdadi,

Queen’s could soon take a major step towards replacing Richardson Stadium.

The University is currently negotiating a major financial contribution to the development of a new football facility, according to Paul Hand, the co-chair of Queen’s Fields & Stadium Campaign Cabinet.

Constructing a permanent stadium has been a top priority for Athletics and Recreation for years, but no concrete steps have been achieved to date.

Last year, significant portions of the current Richardson bleachers were deemed unsafe and replaced with temporary metal stands.

Hand declined to identify the potential lead donor that Queen’s is ArtSci ’17, said.

“If it doesn’t take place at a university, where else does it take place?”

The club is set to host a men’s issues talk next week, which intends to discuss “feminism’s double standards,” according to the Facebook event. The event would be the first the society has hosted

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working with, but said he’s hopeful the deal will be finalized this spring.

“There’s a lot of details, a lot of things that have to be negotiated,” Hand said. “Frankly, until someone signs, I’ve learned that you never say anything.”

According to Hand, ArtSci ’69, the total cost of Queen’s Fields & Stadium Campaign could eventually exceed $50 million, including $8-9 million already raised for Tindall, Nixon and the West Campus turf fields.

Roughly $25 million will be earmarked for a new stadium. Tom Hewitt, chief development officer at the Office of Advancement, confirmed the University is working with a potential lead donor and told the Journal via email that over $1 million in donations has been amassed so far.

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since it was ratified earlier this year.

The talk is set to feature Janice Fiamengo, a University of Ottawa English professor, who has contested the existence of rape culture at Canadian university campuses.

Fiamengo has actively criticized the “Don’t Be That Guy” See Tahiri on page 8

Inside this issue:

Campus media services succeed at gaining student fee changes for upcoming year B Y C HLOE S OBEL Assistant News Editor The AMS A n n u a l General Meeting ( A G M ) Tu e s d a y night saw t h r e e Queen’s media services fight

for funding from the student body.

CFRC, Queen’s TV (QTV) and the Queen’s Journal all sought, and obtained, fee changes after being approved by AMS Assembly.

CFRC asked for its mandatory fee to be increased from $5.07 to $7.50, an increase of $2.43.

Queen’s TV asked for its $3.00 fee to no longer be opt-outable. The Journal sought a $1.20 increase in its mandatory fee, bringing it from $6.96 to $8.16.

CFRC volunteers Brenna Owen, ArtSci ’14, and Eric McElroy, Sci ’16, gave a presentation

on why CFRC needed a fee increase and what it would do with added funds. They were accompanied by Media Services Director Devin McDonald, ArtSci ’13, who presented on CFRC’s financial situation.

CFRC got its fee increase, and the meeting moved on to the QTV fee.

Executive Producer Travis Rhee, ArtSci ’16, and Business Manager Mohammad Kasraee, ArtSci ’14, also gave a presentation on why QTV’s $3.00 opt-out fee should become a mandatory fee.

McDonald said his support was conditional on a service proving that they needed an increase, and that QTV had shown him they did.

Before Tuesday, QTV was the only campus media service without a mandatory fee.

Journal Editors in Chief Alison Shouldice and Janina Enrile gave a presentation on why the Journal needed a fee increase, accompanied by another presentation on financials from McDonald.

After 60 minutes of debate, a vote was held on whether to

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St. Patrick’s day

St. Patrick’s parties drizzled out Aberdeen St. sees fewer tickets, no arrests and smaller crowds thanks to cold weather B y J acquelyn P latis Contributor This past Monday, the streets were filled with shivering students dressed in green for the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Unlike last year, the St. Patrick’s Day festivities diddn’t span over a two-day period. During the day, police served 62 open liquortickets,five tickets for underagedrinking, six public intoxication tickets and one Highway Traffic Act offence throughout the city.

However, no arrests or injuries occurred.

“It is a little hard to compare because last year’s was a weekend St. Patrick’s Day … I believe it was warmer weather additionally,” said Constable Steve Koopman, media relations officer of the Kingston Police Force.

Crowds did not begin to form on Aberdeen St. until mid-afternoon on Monday.

The weekend and the weather made it more convenient last year for partygoers, not only in terms of their jobs or studies but also that it stretched over two days, said Koopman.

“I was actually downtown in the University District myself on Aberdeen, to assist for a few hours on Monday and the cold wind did make it a little bitter,” Koopman said.

“You could see people shivering and they didn’t want to stay outside for too long,” Last year the police weren’t expecting the almost 1,000 people that filled Aberdeen St. This year, however, officers were solely dedicated to offset any calls for service that appeared to be related to St. Patrick’s Day festivities.

The day was busy, according to Koopman, but seemed to be overall manageable due to students’ cooperation and correspondence.

Fines for alcohol violations range between $65-125 and can easily be avoided by celebrating responsibly, Koopman said.

“We want people to enjoy themselves.

They just have to do so responsibly,” Koopman said. “Our purpose there is not to lay as many tickets as we can or make as many arrests as possible. It is there to simply keep the peace and make sure everyone is doing so safely.”

Interactions with the police on duty varied from student to student.

“My experience with the police on St. Patrick’s Day was limited. However, the times I did talk to them they were respectful,” Tristan Oginbene, Sci ’17, said.

Kayla Ironside, ArtSci ’14, also said her experiences with police were positive.

“The police this year were great. They were taking pictures for people, being reasonable and allowing the students to have a good time,” Ironside said.

She said this year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration was much quieter than last year.

“There weren’t as many people out and about, I felt a bit guilty for partying on a Monday, especially so close to the end of the year.”

However, David Cohen, ArtSci ’16, said he felt the police were “a bit excessive” and “abusive”.

“The police do need to take precautions to ensure they don’t have a repeat from several years ago, but I don’t think it’s right to justify random tickets to students,” he said.

Cohen said he found that the streets’ physical conditions less than favourable.

“The ice outside made for difficult walking conditions, seen bystudents helplessly falling all day long,” Cohen said.

Despite this, Cohen added, the day still went well.

“I think most students all had work in the back of their minds, but that was quickly forgotten and we all managed to have a great time,” he said.

Students celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on Aberdeen St.

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Arts

Outcry over Isabel Bader Centre Students protest lack of crosswalk, food options B y O livia B owden Assistant News Editor Arts students who will be attending classes at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in the fall have called into question Queen’s administration’s ability to meet student needs.

A protest, staged by a group of students, was held last Friday as a walk from the BioSciences Complex on main campus to the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

It was done to express their concerns about the opening of the new building.

The Centre’s construction began in 2009.

It sits between King St. and Lake Ontario.

The Centre has cost a total of $63 million to build.

The Queen’s Film and Media Society organized the protest, titled “Artists on the Run”.

Students attending the protest held up signs with phrases such as “Feed Me! I don’t want to go to class hungry” and “We want food and transportation”.

The flyer for the protest outlines four main concerns about the Centre’s opening in the fall: limited food on site, unreliable transportation, lack of parking and the absence of a crosswalk, stop sign or traffic light.

“Part of the reason why we had to have this protest in the first place was that these issues were addressed in meetings between faculty and the people responsible for organizing the new Bader Centre,” said David Simon, co-chair of the Film DSC. “[Issues] were brought up again and again … and left to the side and never properly addressed,” Simon, ArtSci ’15, said.

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Feature Student life

Selling to students, for students Advertisers flock to campuses to capture a target market; some feel students reap the rewards B y R achel H erscovici Features Editor The media follows us everywhere — even into our campus buildings.

In Mackintosh-Corry Hall, students must walk by a handful of ads to get into class, and there are several throughout our student life buildings we may not notice as we pass by.

Each of us are subject to thousands of marketing messages directed at us every day. In 2013, advertisers worldwide spent $5.6 billion on YouTube ads alone. Ads last for just a few seconds — be it on television, social media or billboards — but multiply all those tiny seconds by thousands and that’s a lot of time taken up.

It’s unclear whether campus ads are helping or hurting students.

Jacob Brower, assistant professor of marketing at the Queen’s School of Business, said campuses are an attractive space for advertisers to reach a fragmented student market.

“The big issue is just fragmentation of markets,” he said.

“So the groups you’re trying to talk to [as a marketer] are getting really fragmented in terms of their media usage, so gaining access to people is becoming more and more difficult.”

Brower isn’t sure students even notice all the advertising on campus.

“We’ve gotten really good at ignoring advertising because we see so many messages a day,” he said.

In the age of blogs, social media and Netflix, there isn’t a central place for students to gather, except on campuses.

“I think that the fact that [ads] are already there sort of makes the question of whether it should be allowed or not a bit moot,” he said. “It’s really a question of whether or not it should be allowed to continue and to what degree.”

Brower talked about overt and covert advertising. Overt

advertising, for example, could be the billboards we see, or televisions in US schools that children watch as part of their curriculum with advertising contained in the networking.

Covert advertising, he said, can be a bit more conspicuous in schools and draw questions of ethics. For example, if Dell were to provide schools with new technology, they’d also be getting their brand promoted.

Donating to a program or a project to get your company name on a building is still ultimately a form of advertising, according to Brower. This even happens on Queen’s campus, he added.

Advertising can be overwhelming on campuses sometimes, especially in the U.S. “The University of Oregon is almost the University of Nike at this point,” Brower said. “They’re almost a merchandising source.”

He believes advertising at Queen’s is rather tame compared to schools in the U.S. With ads being placed in schools, it’s been debated that elementary and high school students might not be well-equipped to deal with the stream of information they get through ads. But in the case of university students, they tend to have more experience dealing with persuasive ads and know how to think critically, Brower said.

At the core of this debate, Brower believes, is a debate on the identity of a university.

“I almost think that how we think about advertising on campus is part of a bigger question of ‘are universities designed to make a profit or are they meant to be a centre of knowledge?’” he said. “I think those boundaries are starting to blur a bit.”

With budget cuts and debts, universities are now looking to other sources of revenue.

“There’s a certain sanctity of academia, at least in peoples’sminds, and this credibility that academia

has, and as soon as you start selling out the image of your school to the highest bidder, what sort of credibility does that keep for the institution?” he said.

Personally, Brower doesn’t want ads to interfere with education or be seen in the classroom.

“I don’t want to get to the point someday where at the beginning of my class I have to say ‘today’s session on advertising is sponsored

by Doritos.’”

In light of concerns like these, Queen’s has begun to look at developing policy on campus advertising, according to Alan Harrison, Queen’s provost and vice-principal (academic).

“We do not currently have an advertising policy, but work on developing this policy is underway.

Following the procedures for developing a new policy, a cross-campus working group — the Advertising Working Group — was established to discuss a policy, its content and the approval process,” he told the Journal via email.

Ads at Queen’s can be found in some Student Life Centre (SLC) buildings. Annie Orvis, AMS Student Centre Officer, said that advertising helps keep the valuable services of the SLC alive.

The SLC, in affiliation with the AMS, the University and the SGPS, oversees spaces like the Mac-Corry student street, the non-athletic sections of the Queen’s Centre and the JDUC. Many of these places are filled with advertising geared towards students.

Orvis said they have two advertising agreements. The first is with Rouge Campus, which places ads in the form of banners or vinyl prints on the floor.

“We get revenue based on how much space they used and when they’re not using space they give [AMS ads] the space,” she said.

The other agreement is with NewAd, which makes the ads in the bathrooms and some of the

backlit ads in the stairwell by the JDUC loading dock. When they don’t sell space, they try to fill the frames with student art.

Each company will sell ad spaces to companies like Rogers and look to Orvis to approve their ads to go up in the agreed-upon space.

“The SLC budget is quite different from other [AMS] services’ budgets,” she said. “It’s not student-supported, it’s supported by all our commercial activities. We’re totally commercial.”

“We get revenue from commercial leases in the building as well as these advertising contracts, we get money from CIBC for letting them have their bank machines in here.”

Orvis said the SLC expects to get about $20,000 in revenue from advertisement contracts this year, among other sources of revenue.

“All these activities support what we do here at the SLC, including paying our staff,” she said.

“Ads are everywhere so if we can get the revenue from the advertising contracts to support our activities, I think that’s important.”

Brendon Basile, director of media operations at OnCampus Advertising, a US-based college media services company, believes that since we’re bombarded with so many ads a day, it’s best to be surrounded by ones that are tailored to students and might actually be useful.

“It’s the right message to the right audience,” he said.

As an agency, they target students on campuses across the U.S. and Canada.

“I think [ads on campus] are a good thing in the sense that ... [they’re] usually relevant and useful information for students whether it’s a product that students, might like or occasionally we’ll do recruitment advertising,” he said.

He noted the funds that ads bring often support student activities.

Furthermore, it’s more efficient to hone in on an audience instead of putting out useless information towards a non-targeted group.

“The benefit for the advertisers is that they know where they need to be to reach students, the benefit for students is just that it’s more useful information for them,” he said.

Alison Fox, Nurs ’15, has found the advertising scene on campus much more calming than that of Hong Kong, where she used to live. She doesn’t have a major issue with advertising on campus.

“I think as long as it’s not disrupting our education or you’re walking through billboards in the main street or something, I think it’s fine,” she said.

Fox ignores the larger ads and notices more local ads than commercial ones on campus.

She said she’d love to see more advertisements for events or music gigs.

Patrick RoDee, CompSci ’14, is always looking up at the big corporate ads.

“The ads that always caught my eye were the big ones; the posters for Nuva Ring that they had in the ARC and in Mac-Corry, and I think they had them up even after [a] class action lawsuit was filed against them,” he said. “I was like, wow, they’re still advertising that and there’s a class action lawsuit against them?”

RoDee also wants to see more local ads and said he doesn’t see an inherent problem with advertising on campus.

“I don’t see a problem with it per se. I may not agree with it all the time, but I don’t see any reason to stop it,” he said.

“There’s no reason to limit the advertising here.”

“Just because it’s an educational setting doesn’t mean it’s devoid of consumerism.”

— With files from Emily Miller

photo By Charlotte Gagnier

We live in a culture so desensitized to advertisements that students may not even notice how many advertisements they pass by on their way to activities, or class, said Brower.

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CULTURE

First Nations rally blocks VIA rail lines Protestors look to raise awareness about missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Belleville B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN Assistant News Editor

trying to curve the way people look at it, so they’re not looking at us but they’re looking at the issue,” she said.

Karahkwinehtha added that many of VIA Rail’s train services between Kingston and Belleville were disrupted on Wednesday those attending were non-indigenous.

“We had non-indigenous women there, after a group of activists stood on the tracks to raise public awareness about missing or we had non-indigenous men, simply to support the issue and that was exactly what murdered First Nations women.

Many of the organizers were from we were looking for,” she said.

She said she was invited to participate the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in through a “call to action” from an Southern Ontario. individual she wouldn’t name.

The blockage was organized in “We have support from Amnesty Maryville, ON, which sits between Belleville International, we have support from and Kingston. the United Nations, we have support from Protestors began to gather in the area around 9:30 pm on Tuesday, and coast to coast and worldwide,” she said.

“Support can come in so many forms. remained there until Wednesday evening, This was the action we chose to use today, according to the Ontario Provincial Police.

The rally aimed to draw attention but that doesn’t mean it’s going to stop information, exchanging to Canadian Aboriginal women who sharing have been murdered or have gone missing in information and sharing whatever we have,” she added. recent years.

The federal government has faced On March 7, the report from the MPs who sit on the Special Committee several requests for an inquiry into those on Violence Against Indigenous missing, or murdered. Most recently the Women didn’t require the federal murder of 26-year-old Loretta Saunders, an government to head a specific inquiry on Inuk women from Saint Mary’s University, has brought attention to the issue. the disappearances.

Several train travelers were disgruntled Tyendinaga resident Karahkwinehtha attended the protest on Wednesday, an event when their trains were either delayed or canceled. VIA Rail sent several buses she labeled a “call to action”.

“We were hoping to raise awareness and to pick up passengers and take them to support,” she said. “We wanted to make their destinations.

CBC reported that some passengers sure the issue of [missing First Nation said they were “inconvenienced and women] was heard.”

She said their main goal was to bring uncomfortable” due to their bus ride.

Luke Reaume, ArtSci ’14, said he more attention to the issue, and not to had planned to take a train to Toronto, create a “protest”.

“The word protest sometimes comes but was forced to take a bus instead due to with such negativity, and we’re just really the blockade. However, he said he isn’t on

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“It was obviously an inconvenience for me, along with the hundreds of people who were coming from as far as Montreal, some of which were on the

bus I had to take to get around the blockage,” Reaume said.

“However, there are always two sides to every story and that has to be considered by those who complain about such events.”

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Union Gallery stages AGM protest Students gather outside AMS Annual General Meeting to protest the loss of the gallery’s student fee B y C hloe S obel Assistant News Editor

At AMS Assembly on Feb. 13, the Union Gallery asked for, but did not receive, a three-year The Union Gallery staged a protest mandatory fee of $3.75.

The presenters at the at the AMS Annual General Assembly, Camilo Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday to AMS raise awareness about the loss of Montoya-Guevara and Lindsey Wilson, said that the Gallery would their student fee.

The protest began at the Gallery have to cut its hours further — to in Stauffer Library, and supporters one and a half days — if it didn’t marched to the AGM at Humphrey receive a fee.

Members of the operating Hall holding signs and examples of board looked for ways to student artwork.

For 18 years, from 1994 to appeal Assembly’s decision, but 2012, the Gallery received a found none. three-year mandatory fee of $3.71.

Montoya-Guevara, ArtSci ’14, The fee was lost in the November said the protest was a last resort.

“It’s been an option for a while 2012 referendum by a margin of but it was something that we didn’t 28 votes.

The fee loss came into effect want to have to come to … it was photo by Sam Koebrich in the 2013-14 school year. The sort of the last recourse that we Students and Kingston residents protest the loss of the Union Gallery fee.

Gallery was forced to cut its hours had,” he said.

Montoya-Guevara is the had been preparing for February’s portfolios — it’s been an amazing to write to administration and from five days a week to three after Gallery’s development chair, and Assembly presentation for a experience in terms of professional student government figures losing the fee. development for me, and in terms such as Principal Daniel Woolf, month beforehand.

ASUS President Scott Mason, Wilson, ArtSci ’15, was also of my artwork as well.”

Jocelyn Purdie, the Gallery’s AMS President Eril Berkok and present at the protest, where she held a screenprint she had created. director, organized the protest via Faculty of Arts and Science Dean Susan Mumm.

“Hopefully people can see that social media and word of mouth.

Purdie said in the letter that the Purdie said the protest isn’t the it’s such an important organization Gallery’s new objective is to “to for students on campus, for end of Union Gallery’s fight.

“We’ve already started a letter secure bridge funding for the next everyone,” Wilson said.

“I think art is such an important writing campaign to get our alumni two years to develop a strategic part of the cultural landscape here … and other supporters and donors direction for the gallery that will to write to the Principal and the help it to become more sustainable at Queen’s.”

Wilson is the vice-president of various deans … to say … help into the future.”

“We believe in ensuring that needs to be forthcoming,” she said. the operating board.

“We’re also trying to convince organizations such as the Union “It’s been an incredible experience for me, working with the AMS to actually go to bat for Gallery remain vital in the cultural landscape of the University and us too.” the Gallery,” she said.

In the letter Purdie wrote, indeed in the broader context of “Seeing what goes into deciding what shows happen, looking at posted on the Union Gallery’s society, ” she said. photo by Sam Koebrich resumes, that kind of thing, and website, she urged supporters Protestors at the AMS Annual General Meeting.

equity

Fair promotes diversity Gender and Sexual Diversity Resource Fair returns to campus B y J essica C hong Blogs Editor This past Tuesday evening saw the return of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Resource Fair in Grant Hall.

The event, organized by student group Queen’s Pride, welcomed all students on and off campus to engage with LGBTTIQQ2SA and feminist-related groups.

There were about a dozen groups in attendance with tables set up, ranging from event planning to advocacy and awareness groups.

The two guest speakers included the founder of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN), Jessica Danforth, and board-certified sexologist Den Temin.

Temin is also active with Pride Toronto as a transsexual pride co-team lead.

Last fall’s speakers included Thomas Pritchard, AMS vice-president of university affairs, and Arig Girgrah, assistant dean of student affairs. Girgrah was invited back to emcee the winter resource fair.

Tess Hopkins, ArtSci ’14, said

she was excited to hear Danforth speak, as she’s well-known for her feminist publication, Feminism For Real.

Hopkins, who is a collective member of the student-funded group Levana Gender Advocacy Centre, added she also looked forward to having Girgrah emcee.

“I think it’s a really big deal for someone that involved with the Queen’s administration to be in support, but also be at the event,” she said.

Girgrah, who often collaborates with on-campus groups for educational events, said these resource fairs should be of interest to the entire student body because they help foster a positive and tight-knit community.

She added that she sees the necessity of repeating these events to create an inclusive culture.

“The visibility of support for such groups is critically important for students who might identify with some of these populations,” she said.

“It also sends a message to the broader community that … there’s openness and there’s

room for the diversity of students on this campus.”

The Queen’s Native Student Association (QNSA) and Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre (FDASC) also had a booth.

Leah Combs, ArtSci ’16, a QNSA volunteer said students may be unaware that all QNSA and FDASC events are for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students.

“Four Directions is about diversity and it’s about welcoming people of other backgrounds and cultures and sexual and gender identities,” she said, “so I think it perfectly fits in with that whole diversity idea.”

Combs added that the QNSA biweekly wellness circles, hosted at FDASC and often facilitated by an elder, are a safe, welcoming space for anyone. photo by chloe sobel Men Who Like Feminism, a Booths at the Gender and Sexual Diversity Fair. group dedicated to promoting healthy masculinity, also returned Issues Awareness Society],” she said. these preconceived notions,” to the resource fair.

Kot added that the Men she said.

Given that the same sort Megan Kot, ArtSci ’14, said they Who Like Feminism group, had a sign at their table to ensure which was founded two years ago, of familiar faces attend these there was no confusion between sees conversations of feminism resource fairs, Kot said the groups their group and the nearby and masculinity as compatible and are working to reach a larger that one doesn’t undermine Queen’s demographic.

Men’s Issues Awareness Society.

“I would say more often “I would basically say it seems the other.

“It’s basically to open up your than not, the reaction has been like there’s a more apparent need for Men Who Like Feminism now, perspective to things, because I positive,” she said. given the antagonisms of [Men’s find some people come in with

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municipal Election

SGPS elections begins with debate

Candidates promise to tackle Time to Completion policy and graduate student mental health B y S ebastian L eck Assistant News Editor The Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) executive elections began on Tuesday with a debate on each candidate’s platform.

The debates were held in Wallace Hall. The debate focused on the Time to Completion policy that was passed by School of Graduate Studies Executive Council last year, as well as graduate student mental health.

Kevin Wiener, a Faculty of Law student, and Sean Field, a PhD

candidate in the department of geography, are both competing for president of the SGPS. Wiener is running as part of the Renew SGPS team, which includes four Faculty of Law students: Wiener, Tyrel Taylor, Patrick Gajos and Thompson Hamilton.

Renew SGPS is running on a platform of “renewed engagement, renewed transparency, renewed services.”

“We felt that the best way to bring the changes to the way the SGPS operates is bring a team of people who all have the same beliefs about the SGPS,”

Wiener said.

In his opening statement at the debate, Wiener said his team will focus on engaging professional students with the SGPS and advocate for an official policy on academic harassment.

“The administration, even in the latest collective agreement with the union, set up a policy for the harassment of faculty by students,” he said.

“But there is nothing in place to deal with the harassment of graduate students by supervisors.”

Field said he will focus on expanding academic advocacy

Presidential candidate Kevin Wiener speaks during the SGPS debates on Tuesday.

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and creating a campus childcare strategy for the university.

“We’ve seen that the academic advisors have been a smash success,” he said.

“However, at certain times of year there’s a lot of demand and we expect demand will increase.”

He also said that childcare is an issue that affects many graduate students, especially international students, and so he wants to develop a strategy to help students deal with the costs of childcare.

“Childcare costs up to $12,000 per month,” he said. “In Kingston the waiting list is about two years.”

James MacLeod, a PhD candidate in the School of Medicine, said the most pressing financial issue for the university is the pension plan fund solvency deficit. He is running for Board of Trustees representative.

Mark Syer, MacLeod’s competitor, said he is focusing on monitoring the new budget model of the university and making sure that financial considerations don’t “affect the quality of teaching and learning.”

Tyrel Taylor, the Renew SGPS candidate for vice-president of campaigns & community affairs (VPCCA), said he will advocate for students on a municipal level, both to secure election registration and to protect students from unethical landlords.

Lorne Beswick is running against him. He said he will focus on health and wellness for graduate

students, and will reach out to community groups, like the Loving Spoonful and Levana Gender Advocacy Group, to strengthen their ties with the SGPS. Patrick Gajos, the Renew SGPS candidate for Vice President Finance and Services, and Dinah Janesen, the candidate for Vice President Graduate, are both running unopposed.

Thompson Hamilton, the Renew SGPS candidate for vice president professional (VPP), said he has extensive experience with the Office of Advancement, and aims to create a permanent Professional Student Social Committee.

The other VPP candidate, Jason Paquette, said he isn’t running on particular campaign points, but wants to “increase the dialogue between student groups”.

Eric Rapos, a computer science PhD student running for Graduate Senator, said he will run student town halls prior to Senate meetings to inform students, and review SGPS policies and bylaws.

His opponent, Stephen Smith, said he will focus on raising awareness on the funding needs of graduate students as well as ensuring that recommendations that “relieve the burden” of the Time to Completion policy are implemented.

Online voting for SGPS elections will take place on March 26 and 27.

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Stroud to run for Sydenham District Peter Stroud announced earlier this month that he intends to run in the upcoming municipal election B y E rin S ylvester Opinions Editor

community where he was raising his children after his son was born in 2008.

“I went from the big picture to Peter Stroud says he was inspired to run for City Council after the smaller and smaller and now the November OMB decision I can’t imagine doing anything that ensured that his district but very local things,” Stroud —Sydenham — would continue said. “That’s what I love about this campaign, I can have an effect on to exist.

Stroud said he made the my very own neighbourhood.”

Stroud said he sees improved decision to run the day after the OMB appeal because it made him student-resident relations as think about what would happen the “holy grail in the history of if his home district ceased to exist. downtown Kingston.”

He also appreciates the “I was motivated to the appeal for self-defence or self- movement within the AMS, preservation and now I feel like especially the Municipal Affairs what’s happening is a movement Commission (MAC), to move has begun,” Stroud said, “A towards a more positive attitude in movement where permanent the community. residents and students are working “They’ve basically got a great together for the first time in culture of activism there at the AMS ... I’m not the only on the my lifetime.”

Stroud said his connection with permanent resident side of the fence that’s noticing,” he said.

Sydenham District runs deep.

Stroud said that there He was born in the district — his mother walked to the hospital, have always been students which he says is foreshadowing acting out when they go to university, but that the negative of his activism for walkable and coming bike-able neighbourhoods — and discourse the politicians he attended Queen’s during his from and residents has grown in undergraduate years.

Stroud said that he started recent years.

Hesaidhebelievesthatthechange considering the future of the

in attitude and relationship between candidate is elected as the councillor, he students and residents Sydenham hopes that he or she has a student needs to happen mandate to bring to the table. at a grassroots level, he said.

The “student bashing rhetoric” at “I don’t see the generational divisions CityCouncilwouldbeharderifthere was a councillor with a student as being important,” Stroud said.

“What I see is a common cause mandate in the room, he said. and that is harmony in the district, harmony in the neighbourhood and an end to the name calling and the fighting and the disrespect coming from both sides.”

Many of the issues that students feelthecityisn’taddressing,including snow ploughing in the university district, the one bag limit on garbage and safe ways to access the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts area affect permanent residents as well, he said.

Stroud said he keeps up with student issues by reading online media and speaking with student groups.

According to him, he has a list of clubs and student groups that he is planning to contact to speak with students about their issues and his campaign.

He added that whatever Peter Stroud.

“Civic responsibility is one of the most important things [students] can possibly learn,” he said.

“Engage students, you have the chance to fix the city. If you don’t engage students we keep going down this circular path bashing each other.”

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He said that it was difficult to maximize there are more substantial opportunities for outreach, but was ultimately satisfied that development there.

“The Campus Master Plan doesn’t have CMPAC had done a good job.

He added that the CMPAC had seen The new Campus Master Plan has been recommendations for specific building approved after almost a year and a half of projects. Rather, it’s providing us guidelines “very active participation from student and frameworks within which we can representatives” in developing the plan, consultation and development.

The Board of Trustees approved the plan evaluate new projects that are brought including AMS President Eril Berkok, who sat on the committee. forward,” Daneshmend said. at a meeting on March 7.

“There’s student representation both at “Its value for us as an institution is going The plan, which sets out a framework for the physical landscape of the University, to be that we will now have a well-defined, the Campus Planning Advisory Committee was developed by the Campus Master well-documented framework within which and at QUPC,” Daneshmend said.

Representatives from Physical Plan Advisory Committee (CMPAC) in to evaluate new project proposals.”

The CMPAC reports to the Queen’s Plant Services, Campus Planning and partnership with Urban Strategies Inc., the University’s primary planning consultant, University Planning Committee (QUPC), a Communications participated in the process beginning in December 2012. It replaces the joint Board of Trustees-Senate committee. of developing the plan.

The City also took part in the development The Board of Trustees must approve projects previous plan created in 2002. of the plan.

Laeeque Daneshmend, deputy provost before they can proceed.

Daneshmend stressed the effort that the and chair of the CMPAC, said that the new plan responds to the ways the University has CMPAC had put into contacting everyone with a stake in the plan. changed in the last 12 years.

“We put in a lot of effort … to really “The University as a whole has changed in the past decade and a half, and so this reflects engage with all of the stakeholders, and that’s both changes in the institution and changes all the varied segments of the on-campus in terms of design practices and thinking,” community as well as the off-campus community,” he said. he said.

“Yet even towards the latter stages of the The plan includes recommendations on issues such as redevelopment, transit process, we were still finding people both between campuses and landscaping. The on and off campus … who had a perception plan takes a closer look at West Campus at as that they hadn’t been consulted.”

“In certain aspects of the Campus Master Plan, the City was consulted very heavily, for example, on the transportation links between main and West Campuses,” Daneshmend said.

He said that both the Engineering Department of the City and Planning & Development were involved.

Ultimately, Daneshmend said he sees the Campus Master Plan as important to the future of the University.

“The Campus Master Plan is going to become an integral part of the overall decision-making process of the University around capital projects,” he said.

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City not sleeping on shelter issue

A public notice released by the City of Kingston announced that it will cut available beds by 19 B y J enna Z ucker Contributor

people into long-term housing.

The changes in strategy are being made in response to the number In order to reduce homelessness of people using emergency shelters and focus on permanent housing, for long periods of time, rather the City of Kingston is cutting than just for urgent situations.

In the past, the City required shelter beds.

On March 14, the City released that homeless people with a public notice stating their plan disabilities, addictions or other to reduce homelessness through conditions receive treatment before the implementation of a 10-Year being placed in homes.

Rapid Re-Housing and Housing Housing and Homelessness Plan.

Over the next three years, First focus on getting people out shelters will go from having 74 of shelters and into homes without any preconditions, City-funded beds to 55.

The City will take a new Owran said.

Housing case management approach, dubbed “Housing First”, in order to rapidly re-house support will be offered to those with addiction or mental health homeless people.

Leesa Owran, Kingston’s issues that destabilize their housing, housing administrator, said the but it won’t be mandatory. “[The tenants] just have to meet method will be beneficial. ”[As] housing increases, our need the demands of being a tenant,” Owran said, “which is paying for shelter beds decreases.”

“Until people are housed and your rent on time, not interfering feel safe and secure, they’re with the reasonable enjoyment of not going to address any other your neighbours and damaging your apartment.” issues,” Owran said.

Case management and The City will reallocate money from shelters to the Housing housing must be in place before a mass amount of beds can be First program.

Owran said that the City has removed. Therefore, the process decided to reallocate funds since will be implemented gradually.

“The difference between Rapid shelters, while always necessary, Re-Housing and Housing First is are not an alternative to housing.

“It’s about ending homelessness, really one of intensity,” she said.

The cases of Rapid not managing homelessness,” Re-Housing tend to be less she said.

Housing First and Rapid severe, and usually only need Re-Housing, a similar but less housing case management support intensive program, are two parts for under a year.

People with severe disabilities of a larger plan to get homeless

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continue discussion or move to question. Moving to question won out, leaving several students still on the speakers’ list, and the Journal won its fee increase.

Next, Good Times Diner received an opt-out fee of $0.50.

Additionally, the AMS received an increase of $9.26 to its Specific Fee, bringing it from $70.74 to $80.00 and enabling it to support a deficit for the next two years.

After the Good Times Diner motion had passed, member at large Forrest Donaldson moved to reconsider Motion 6 — the motion on the Journal’s fee increase.

“The move to reconsider wasn’t because I disagree with the Journal motion, it was actually a bizarre attempt to help protect the Journal motion,” Donaldson, ArtSci ’15, said, though he added that he was disappointed with the body’s decision to move to question rather than continue debate on Motion 6.

Donaldson had observed a group of students discussing plans to wait until the Journal supporters had left the meeting, at which time they would move to reconsider Motion 6.

“Politics at its finest,” Donaldson said.

He said he went to the doors and tried to stop as many people as he could from leaving. A

are considered to need Housing First most, and will receive long-term support services.

Housing First’s waitlist is based on intensity of the problems.

“We know affordable housing’s an issue across the city and there’s lots of people that need housing, but this program is focused on the support side of housing,” Owran said.

Two Kingston shelters said they

are on board with the City’s plan.

A representative from the Ryandale Shelter told the Journal that shelters can’t be the final solution to the homelessness issue.

Tom Greening, the executive director of family shelter Lily’s Place Shelter, under Kingston Home Base Housing, was also interested in a new approach.

“When the City first rolled out this plan they said it was going to be bold and a bit of a departure for how we have all done business in the past,” he said.

“I certainly think that we should try and do things differently than we have in the past — whether or not we’ll be successful, only time will tell.”

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poster campaign, which puts the responsibility on men not to rape, rather than women not to get raped.

According to Albaghdadi, Fiamengo is paying for her travel and accommodation expenses, and reached out to the society to speak at the event.

“We wanted to have a different discussion about some issues that men face which will be in this event,” he told the Journal.

In 2013, Fiamengo wrote in FrontPage Magazine that the campaign is “unsettling for its insistence that no matter what a woman does — no matter how careless and irresponsible — she is always innocent.”

Amal Nawal, who put forward the motion, said that Fiamengo actively promotes anti-feminist propaganda and denies the prevalence of rape culture.

“We claim that the falsifying of rape culture, which says that certain people are disproportionately attacked and are rape victims, and

number of the students who had come specifically to support the media services had begun to leave.

Donaldson spoke to Taylor Mann, who told him that, according to AMS policy, a motion can only be reconsidered once.

Mann, ArtSci ’14, suggested that Donaldson move to reconsider the motion sooner rather than later, before the Journal’s supporters could leave the meeting.

There was some confusion over procedure after Donaldson moved to reconsider; the speaker initially thought that a motion to reconsider could only be used Continued from page 2 immediately following the motion it affected. been implemented.

This was not the case, “We just want a solution so that according to procedural policy. the thousands of students daily A motion can be who will be using the place, as well reconsidered at any time as guests, staff and faculty, will be during that assembly or a able to eat there,” he said. subsequent one.

These goals are achievable, The motion to reconsider he said, but the University has failed, which Donaldson said he been uncooperative. had hoped would happen due to “[The University] released a the number of Journal supporters statement that … there will be no remaining at the meeting. food and that we’re going to have “Procedural policy is so to wait it out for a year and see crucial in ensuring open how it goes,” Simon said. debate and discussion,” The statement released on Feb. Donaldson said.

13 from Alan Harrison, provost “We really do need to be and vice-principal (academic), and respectful and knowledgeable of Susan Mumm, dean of the Faculty those procedures.” of Arts and Science, said the walk to the Centre is “comparable to other distances between buildings”

whether intentionally or not, is harmful,” Nawal, ArtSci ’14, told the Journal.

She also said that Fiamengo doesn’t have the appropriate educational background to promote a critique of rape culture.

“She is an English professor; she has no background in feminism,” she told the Journal. “She has no background in political studies and she has no background in women and gender studies.”

At Assembly, members argued that it would set a dangerous precedent to de-ratify a club on ideological grounds, while others argued that it would be premature to de-ratify the club based on future actions. Votes for or against the motion were cast in a secret ballot.

“If we see hate speech happen, then we can [de-ratify],” ASUS Vice-President Irfan Tahiri, ArtSci ’14, said at Assembly.

“I’m scared of the precedent this will set.”

The AMS has only de-ratified two clubs in its history, which were related to insurance-policy violations, according to Kristen

Olver, AMS commissioner of internal affairs. According to Olver, ArtSci ’15, no club has been de-ratified in AMS history based on its ideology.

De-ratification would have disqualified the club from access to AMS resources, such as being eligible for club grants and spacing for events.

A club can only be de-ratified through the AMS Judicial Affairs Committee, the AMS executive or AMS Assembly.

“Ratification does not mean we endorse the views of the club but they align with the policies of the AMS and are not in violation of our constitution,” Olver stated at Assembly.

Following the motion’s failure, co-organizer of the opposition group Ashley Burnie said she was disappointed in the AMS, accusing it of acting in accordance with “systemic oppression.”

“It’s built into the institution itself, so it’s not surprising,” she said.

“It’s not outside of that oppression.”

University to make special arrangements, Provost says and they are currently trying to “Food will only be provided negotiate a crosswalk with the City. … for other members of the public The City of Kingston didn’t who are coming into the building respond to interview requests in [for events], but not for the time for deadline. students who have paid for it with Simon said he’s frustrated, as their tuition,” he said. the film department has tried all Harrison told the Journal methods of attempting to solve the via email that concerns about issues prior to the protest. making class on time will He said he acknowledges be addressed. criticism surrounding the protest.

“The Registrar’s Office has “My understanding of the already committed to making criticism has been … we should special arrangements to identify suck it up and accept that we have any affected students, and to take this great gift,” Simon said. into account of the need for these “We absolutely acknowledge that students to be assured of additional people are going to have to make time between classes,” he said. sacrifices daily. But the position Harrison said the administration we’re in is that the University has is working with the City to address forced thousands of people to other concerns, such as a crosswalk make these sacrifices.” on King St., which had been Simon said another concern is noted in the statement released the hypocrisy of the administration. in February.

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“All things considered, the protest’s tone was entitled.”

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Small-time complaints unwarranted

The Queen’s students and faculty who protested in order to express displeasure with conditions at the soon-to-be-opened Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts need to give it a rest.

Last Friday, a group of Queen’s students held a protest hoping to pressure Queen’s administration into creating a better transportation plan for the Bader Centre, which is located beyond main campus.

The students also voiced concerns about the lack of food options at the new building and the need for a new crosswalk and traffic lights on King St. outside of the location.

Most of the online comments on the Kingston Whig-Standard article about the protest suggest that the students are whiners.

While the grouchy grinders who frequent the Whig’s comment boards tend to hyperbolize, they’re correct in that no one should be overly sympathetic to the concerns of these students.

The protestors would have been better off continuing to sit down and consult with Queen’s and the City of Kingston rather than overplaying their hand.

These scholars are on the verge of reaping the benefits of a $60 million investment dedicated to their pursuits. All things considered, the protest’s tone was entitled.

Signs that protest participants carried which read “starving artist” and “feed me” were particularly misguided. Despite the absence of a food outlet at the Bader Centre, students are free to bring their own snacks to tide themselves over while they are away from main campus. In the context of this non-predicament, allusions to starvation trivialize the experience of those actually going hungry.

The group does have some

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reasonable demands. More direct transportation should be arranged so that students aren’t late for their classes. Yet we need to keep in mind that some students already have classes on West Campus that don’t seem to cause major issues.

The group’s complaints about the safety of the location are their most valid. Queen’s administration and the City of Kingston should work towards rectifying these concerns by installing traffic lights or a crosswalk on King St. to ensure student safety.

The Queen’s students who protested on Friday made a tactical error and played into the worst stereotypes of entitled students. A more consultative approach would likely be more effective.

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Campaign is tired

While the message it conveys is important, the recent “I, too, am Oxford” photo series is just another in a seemingly endless string of quickly-forgotten whiteboard campaigns.

This campaign was inspired by a similar effort called “I, too, am Harvard”. Both campaigns are photo-series which feature pictures of non-white students holding up whiteboards explaining racist “micro-aggressions” they’ve faced on campus.

“I, too, am Oxford” is a trenchant essay as it gets at the subtle racism many people face. This racism is particularly insidious at elite white-dominated educational institutions like Oxford, Harvard and even Queen’s.

Notions of who belongs at these universities and what constitutes a “typical” student at these schools can be fraught with racial and cultural expectations.

Like most white board campaigns, “I, too, am Oxford” attempts to humanize an abstract societal issue. By

giving those on the receiving end of casual racism an emotive face, the viewer must think about the consequences of their words and actions.

While the benefits of such a whiteboard campaign are obvious, its drawbacks are equally apparent.

Quite frankly, whiteboard campaigns are played out. It’s a familiar cycle: a Buzzfeed listicle or series of Tumblr posts showcase the campaign, a thinkpiece gets written and a couple parodies are made. Before you know it, everyone’s forgotten the whole thing even happened.

Campus activists should be lauded for trying to highlight the undercurrent of racism that still infects our daily interactions.

But they need to come up with ways to continue conversations and initiate activism around social issues for longer than the Internet news cycle.

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David Hadwen

With eyes open Less than half of Canadian parents think their children will have higher living standards than they do.

Analyses of these ill-feelings about the future often attempt to frame them in strictly economic terms. But when asked about their “deepest concerns” regarding what lies ahead, Canadians rank both “decline of democratic institutions” and “a severely environmentally degraded future” above “a diminished economy for the next generation”.

Sadly, Canadian’s profound concerns about democracy and the environment are not unfounded.

Climate change is already happening and will accelerate out of control if humans don’t take significant action to reduce carbon emissions.

As far as Canada’s democratic vitality is concerned, the reality is only slightly more heartening. Citing things like declining voter turnout and increasingly cynical politics, commentators from a variety of ideological backgrounds — everyone from Andrew Coyne to Elizabeth May — wonder aloud if Canada is still a democracy.

It’s worth noting that we aren’t alone in this stagnation — all Western democracies are facing similar issues. Voter turnout and political party membership are down across the board and there’s widespread dissatisfaction with institutions and

nominally democratic outcomes.

There’s only one plausible overarching cause for these problems. Corporate globalization and related increases in inequality, particularly the rise of the 0.1 per cent, have disempowered the average citizen. In Canada, virtually all the income gains over the last 30 years have gone to the top 10 per cent of earners, heavily concentrated in the top 0.01 per cent.

In the United States, political science scholars have demonstrated that those in the bottom 70 per cent of the income scale have practically no effect on government policy. If you are politically irrelevant, why bother voting?

One notable attempt to undermine the current political quagmire in Western democracies is Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing. It remains to be seen if there will be a substantial backlash in response to what he’s revealed. The exact role ubiquitous surveillance plays in defending political regimes is equally unclear.

What’s apparent is the huge prioritization of state surveillance.

In some cases, it verges on parody.

For instance, at some point this year, construction will be completed on Canada’s electronic spy agency’s new headquarters.

Dubbed the “spy palace” by critics, its price tag of over a $1 billion will make it Canada’s most expensive public building ever.

The current political moment may seem hopeless on the surface, but nothing is inevitable.

Apathy is something of a fallacy, at least in the long term.

Given the circumstances, you’ll be forced to act eventually in some capacity. You might as well start now with both eyes open.

David is the Journal’s Editorials Editor.

He’s a fifth-year history major.

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GMO a no show; make it a no go

Have you ever been to the Union Gallery?

We may be eating toxic chemicals and genetically-modified foods without even knowing it

“Yes, I’ve been twice and it was nice. I think the majority of traffic is people coming by and not anticipating doing so and therefore wouldn’t declare themselves interested if polled.”

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JUSTIN ANDREWS During my time in culinary school at St. Lawrence College, my eyes have been opened to aspects of our food system that I’m unhappy about.

When I started to hear about genetically-modified foods and the lack of current regulations we have in place, I was appalled.

The terrors farmers have to deal with is heartbreaking, and it isn’t something many people are aware of.

What I write about is far from the full picture, but instead a small piece of a very complex story I encourage everyone to read into.

Picture this. You’re staring at the apples in the produce section of the grocery store: 99 cents a pound.

Then you turn to the organic apples, which seem the same, but come at a higher cost: $2.99 a pound.

The cheaper option may be more favourable, but do you really know what you’re buying?

GMOs (also known as genetically-modified food, or genetically-modified organisms) are defined by the World Health Organization as organisms whose DNA has been changed in an unnatural way.

If something you were about to eat had its DNA altered in some way, wouldn’t you want to know?

Right now there are no labelling laws in place in Canada to tell us what has been done to our food.

Recently, there has been some concern about the safety of consuming GMOs. While some research has linked the consumption of GMOs to health complications, the true long-term health effects are unknown, because these foods are relatively new.

However, most GMOs are sprayed with a variety of toxic pesticides. Many crops grown today have been genetically modified to remain unaffected by pesticides, leaving them to thrive while all weeds and insects die.

Although the long-term dangers of GMOs are still up for debate, we do know that many of the pesticides used today are toxic, and rinsing our produce under the tap doesn’t remove them.

GMOs are also leaving their mark on our already struggling environment.

Unforeseen ecological risks are coming to light, such as soil deterioration and adverse effects on other crops or wildlife.

The pesticides and chemical fertilizers are damaging the soil, hurting natural bacterium necessary for healthy plants. Soon, we won’t be able to grow crops in it without the use of chemical fertilizers.

There are also concerns about cross contamination. If one farmer is growing an organic crop, and a neighbouring farmer chooses to grow a genetically-modified version, the organic crop, through cross-contamination, can also become genetically modified.

This has led to several international export bans on large amounts of food, where the buyer didn’t ask for a GMO crop, but got one. In many

instances, the farmer selling the crop had originally planted an organic crop, which was later found to be contaminated by GMOs. In addition, research has suggested the use of pesticides and cross-pollination from GMOs have contributed to the declining bee population. The large decline we’re seeing could have dramatic impacts on our food system in further years.

Without bees and other insects, we don’t have pollination, and therefore don’t have crops. This is a bigger problem than many realize. Bees and other pollinating insects are a necessary part of our ecosystem and, without them, our food system will suffer.

There are clearly issues surrounding GMOs, as 26 countries have banned them.

There are also 62 countries that have made labels mandatory on anything genetically-modified or with genetically-modified ingredients. Unfortunately, Canada isn’t on these lists.

Here in Canada, it seems our government is strongly supportive of them. In 2011, Bill C-474, which would require the Canadian government to study the harm of GMO crops before exporting, went before Parliament and was voted down by the Conservative government before it could even be discussed. It was put forward in the hopes that our farmers wouldn’t face export bans due to potentially harmful GMO crops.

During a campaign speech in 2007, American President Barack Obama said he supported non-GMO and GMO labelling activists, and promised to push legislation on labelling GMOs. This

promise was never kept, and seven years later, the fight continues.

Last year, a US Federal Farm Bill (Bill S. 954, which would have helped states pass new laws to have GMO labelling) was voted down by the Senate. Bill S. 954 would have made it easier for bills like California’s Proposition 37 to pass.

Proposition 37, which didn’t pass, would have required food producers and retailers to label any and all products containing GMO ingredients.

I encourage everyone to be more mindful of what they’re eating, and where their food is coming from. If enough people demand GMOs be removed from shelves, our government will have no choice but to take them away.

Buy organic whenever possible.

Every time you buy GMO food, you’re telling the grocery store to continue stocking that item.

On the flipside, every time you buy organic, you’re voting for change — for a system that supports organics.

With over two dozen countries banning GMOs, why haven’t we?

If our government won’t get rid of GMOs, why won’t they at least label them, and grant us the right to know?

Until enough people come together to fight for the removal of GMOs, all we can do is buy organic and vote with our fork, one person at a time.

Justin is a second-year Culinary Management student at St. Lawrence College.

GRÉGOIRE CAILLEUX, COMM ’15

“No, I’ve seen it open but I’ve never been sure who it’s open to.”

VAISHALI DOGUPARTY, ARTSCI ’14

“No, I’m in geology so I’ve never been to Stauffer.”

ZACH FITTERER, ARTSCI ’14

“No, because I just never made a point of going.”

MICHELLE LOUIE, SCI ’15

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TRACK AND FIELD LEFT IN THE DUST Hello, I am a first-year cross-country and track and field athlete, and frequent reader of the Journal, but I am writing to you today with regards to my massive disappointment and frustration with the latest issue of the Queen’s Journal (March 14th).

It is clear that no single person cared to follow up as to what happened at the CIS Track and Field championships in Edmonton, AB last weekend, because there was no article in the sports section this week, and nothing on the Journal website, so I will gladly provide the updates.

Women’s 3000m Julie-Anne Staehli 1st place 9:32.91 Victoria Coates 5th place 9:40.98 Women’s 1500m Julie-Anne Staehli 5th 4:28.97 Men’s 3000m Alex Wilkie 9th 8:30.40 David Cashin 12th 8:38.59

horn — while I am proud of my season, I feel if anything, a simple mention of the results of my teammates and I would suffice.

Instead, a full two pages were dedicated to women’s basketball — who, don’t get me wrong, have had a stellar year, but how can the Queen’s Journal call itself a comprehensive student paper when it leaves out some of the biggest individual achievements of the year.

Frankly, it takes a pretty ignorant person to disregard the achievements of Julie-Anne Staehli and Victoria Coates especially in the 2013-2014 year, who will be headed to the World University Championships next week in Uganda.

I love everything about Queen’s and hope to become Track/XC captain someday.

I am incredibly proud at the results on the trails and tracks this season, but the latest performance from the Queen’s Journal is embarrassing to say the least.

I am in no way trying to toot my own

UNION GALLERY FEE IS KEY Dear Editor,

The Union Art Gallery, which is supported mainly by a student levy, and exhibits mostly student work, will likely be shuttered because it has been repeatedly denied a $3.75 levy by a referendum of the AMS students, ostensibly because they do not feel it’s money well spent.

This art gallery, in providing an exhibition and a vernissage for Queen’s artists, forms a critical role in the professional development of our BFA students. Is there any faculty that has their co-op element dependent on the approval of and funding by the student body at large?

In the meantime, St Patrick’s Day this year was another embarrassment. By lunchtime, the residences were completely blotto and the outside campus areas were filled with Sincerely, swarming groups of drunken Alex Wilkie, children outfitted in lime green ArtSci ’17 Dollarama and Giant Tiger

novelty fashions.

The grown ups of the SGPS can be relied upon to approve their subsidy in referendum, but without the contribution of the much larger student body represented by the AMS, not much can be done.

Funding for the Union Art Gallery should be made secure and reliable by being sourced by the University, the faculty, or the AMS itself, and let’s do away with endless referendums to placate penny-pinchers.

It’s obvious that because of the priorities of so many of our undergraduates, we can’t have nice things on this campus.

The amount of the levy requested by the Union Art Gallery is $3.75.

That’s half a beer, braa, or the same amount you spent on your leprechaun hat that you wore for three hours and then threw in the gutter outside Ale. Steven Meece, Ed ’12

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Tribe does the ARC

A Tribe Called Red played a campus show on Wednesday as part of Queen’s Native Students Association’s Aboriginal Awareness Week.

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music

Savage Pack returns to Kingston Juno-nominated bookworms let their love for literature influence their latest release ‘Do Not Engage’ B y L auren L uchenski Contributor Literature’s influence is prominent in the music of duo The Pack A.D. Drummer Maya Miller quickly brings up her favourite authors when asked about the artists who inspire her.

“Books shape a lot of things for me … they definitely influence the lyrics that I write and I know they do for [bandmate] Becky [Black] as well, she’s a bit of a reader too so I think they definitely play a big part,” Miller said.

For Miller and singer-guitarist Black, a lot of their songwriting has been influenced by authors such as Raymond Chandler and George Orwell.

The pair read consistently while on tour and in studio. During the second half of recording 2014’s Do Not Engage, Miller was immersed in a Stephen King novel.

About half the songs on that album are heavily influence by literature, including “Creepin’ Jenny”, “The Flight” and “Animals.”

Having recently signed with a bigger label, Nettwerk Records, Miller said the Vancouver-based band’s sound hasn’t changed in the slightest.

“We really can’t do anything but be ourselves,” she said.

The band has been known for

The duo has worked with Detroit producer Jim Diamond.

their combination of punk, rock, garage and blues sounds.

Critics have compared the duo to Jack White and his various projects, but that connection seems almost too easy to jump to — both groups recorded with Detroit producer Jim Diamond.

Miller and Black met through

mutual friends and formed the band in 2006.

Since 2008, they have put out five albums including Unpersons, which earned a 2011 Juno nomination for Best Breakthrough Group of the Year.

The word “unpersons” comes from Orwell, and one of the songs,

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“Positronic”, comes from author Isaac Asimov.

As much as the group is influenced by what they read, they have no interest in sounding like their musical influences.

The group is extremely passionate about getting the chance to make and play original music.

“You really just focus on making music that works and makes you happy,” Miller said.

The Pack A.D. have toured all over North America. Miller said it gives them a sense of always moving forward, despite doing similar things each day.

“You’re driving and playing a show but you know you’re going to a new place all the time, so it feels like you’re accomplishing something just by moving forward to the next city,” Miller said.

Their last visit to Kingston had them played at The Mansion.

Miller said it was an interesting place to play and recalled dragging their amps up a number of stairs.

This time, The Pack A.D. is bringing their loud, fun punk rock to the Grad Club — a single floor venue.

The duo has been known for playing fast and high-energy shows.

They said they hope that the Grad Club audience will have fun, dance around, get sweaty and rock out.

“I’m glad that we’re getting the opportunity to [play to a university crowd],” Miller said. “It seems like it’s the place where we should be playing so I’m pretty stoked.”

The Pack A.D. play the Grad Club March 22 with Pkew Pkew Pkew.

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Vagabond debuts new take on Caesar Queen’s Vagabond attempts ambitious take on Shakespeare to mixed results despite notable acting B Y J USTIN S ANTELLI Assistant Arts Editor Queen’s Vagabond’s production of Julius Caesar, while capably performed, stands as an unfortunate example of ambition outweighing affect.

One way to tackle Shakespeare in the modern and post-modern eras has been to set the stories against a backdrop of 20th century history. The new Queen’s Vagabond production of Julius Caesar is set in 1940 Vichy France, when the nation was under the rule of Nazi Germany.

Reminiscent of Orson Welles’ famous 1937 Broadway production of Caesar, which was set in Nazi Germany itself, the idea is a compelling one. This, taken with director Jacob Millar’s notes in the program, make it clear that this production is intended to cast Julius Caesar as an epic anti-violence parable of some sort.

“It is my sincerest belief that we cannot hope to achieve a meaningful and lasting peace through violence. Sic Semper Tyrannis is never as simple as we would hope. I hope this show affects you as it affects me every night,” he said in the notes.

The intention is there but is undercut by the slight execution.

The set, with its barbed-wire lined walls, aims to recreate the claustrophobic terror of living under a fascist regime, but unfortunately said walls are about three or four feet too short for this purpose.

When Caesar and Mark Antony first take to their podium in one of the play’s opening scenes and the tops of their heads reach a foot above these supposedly menacing walls, the effect is somewhat unintentionally comical. This problem perhaps could have been solved with some starker, more inventive lighting, but alas, this too is a weak spot in the production.

Where the show excels, however, is in the performances.

Fraser Miller, ArtSci ’14, gives a commanding portrayal of central character Brutus, playing him as the calculating man of considerable charisma that he is. Miller’s greatest success is to convincingly portray an intensely serious man attempting to make sense of intensely serious burdens, and Miller manages to convey this even when he is silent.

Zach Closs, ArtSci ’17, is a decent Caesar but an excellent Octavian, and Charlotte Boyer, ArtSci ’14, plays Cassius with appropriate cutthroat vigor.

Charlotte Anderson, ArtSci ’14, makes an impression in the small role of Cicero, remade here into a sort of Aryan ice queen, and you end up wishing she had a little more to do than glower and light up cigarettes every time she takes the stage.

Leonard Wang, ArtSci ’15, however, is an unmissable standout as Mark Antony, giving an incredibly magnetic performance.

Mark Antony’s blind passion leads to violence wrongly intended as a corrective to violence, and Wang makes that earnest lust for

vengeance believably human and frightening. His performance serves as a hint to what this production wanted to be and could have been.

Julius Caesar houses some fine performances, and it’s a small shame that its underwhelming aesthetics couldn’t support them.

Julius Caesar is playing at the Domino Theatre until March 22. Tickets are available at Tricolour Outlet or at the door.

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Husband-wife duo ponder signing Vancouver’s Dear Rouge to drop first full-length album after getting radio play as independent act B y J anina E nrile B ethany K napp Journal Staff

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Things are accelerating quickly for

Dear Rouge.

The Vancouver-based husband and wife duo, Drew and Danielle McTaggart, have been getting radio play across the country, despite

remaining unsigned and without a full-length album release.

“It’s coming out hopefully before summer,” Drew McTaggart said. “Since we’ve been getting radio play, all these big players are talking to us about releasing it.”

The attention hasn’t led to any rash decisions.

“We’re just kind of in limbo deciding if we’re going to do it independently or if we’re going to pair up with a label,” he said.

With the exception of a handful of hired staff members — an agent, a publicist and radio promoters — the McTaggarts currently handle the business themselves.

“Right now, Danielle and I are able to do full-time music and that right there is kind of one of my life goals,” McTaggart said. “I’m really satisfied by doing it by ourselves”.

Having only released two EPs, their music has reached a large audience.

NHL.com used their song “I Heard I Had”, an energetic synth-rock tune from the 2012 EP Kids Wanna Know for a ‘Plays of the Week’ video in November 2013.

“I Heard I Had” has also been featured in the Canadian Top 10 charts in both alternative and rock genres.

“A rare feat,” their official website states, “especially for a band that had no previous charting history.”

McTaggart said he feels as though releasing the album independently allows for more creative control.

“A lot of friends are with labels,” he said. “You’ll write these songs you like and want to release and they can say no [if] they don’t think it’s going to do well financially”.

Dear Rouge’s independence stems largely from placing first

at PEAK Performance Project in 2012.

PEAK Performance Project is a yearly contest and training program developed by Music BC and 102.7 The PEAK FM. In addition to cash prizes, it provides workshops and mentorship for emerging artists to develop skills in performance, business, song-writing and promotion.

On the other hand, working with established producers has allowed Dear Rouge to improve both the quality and quantity of their work.

“We worked with some the big producers in Canada on our record,” McTaggart said. “It really sounded a little more deeper and a little more bold.”

The band sees their upcoming full-length album as an opportunity.

“Because we’re doing a full album, we’re able to put songs on there that we wouldn’t necessarily put on the EP,” McTaggart said.

McTaggart said he feels the new album will be more aggressive and expansive than their previous EPs. “The way [they were] recorded and produced wasn’t as captivating as our new stuff,” McTaggart said.

They aim to carry this captivation into their live shows.

“We do a lot of rock stuff early on and the ‘spectator songs,’” McTaggart said, “and then we put the participation songs — the dance songs — at the end of our set”.

Dear Rouge plays The Mansion March 26.

Their rock music mixes synth and dance tunes.

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Cross-cultural rock comes to Clark Former students returns to campus with an overhauled approach after traveling to Tanzania B y R obert G ow Contributor This Saturday, the anthemic rock of Toronto-based band Highs will be concentrated within the beer-soaked walls of Clark Hall Pub. It’s not the band’s first time at this campus watering hole, though, having played here last school year.

The band members, Doug Haynes and Joel Harrower on guitar, Karrie Douglas on keyboard and Kevin Douglas Ledlow on drums, have all passed through Queen’s Concurrent Education program.

Haynes said he still has fond memories of the school.

“While there, I fell in love with Queen’s and Kingston. There’s a great arts community. We have a great relationship to the people around town, like Clark Hall Pub,” he said. “We always book shows that we look forward to.”

While touring, Highs has fostered quite a relationship with the Kingston community. After a tour in Canada and America, Clark Hall Pub and The Mansion remain their favorite places to perform.

“It’s always packed. It warms our spirits. The second we get into town, we can feel the energy,”

They’re based out of Toronto, but don’t feel pressured by big-city competition.

Haynes said.

Toronto, with its highly-populated music scene, can be seen as an overwhelming place for new bands. Haynes said he believes the contrary, that the city

can be quite nurturing to artists.

“I would go against the idea that the Toronto scene is claustrophobic,” he said.

“The bands create a great sense of community.”

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Highs’ song “Nomads” was recently used in a trailer of the film Adult World, starring Emma Roberts and John Cusack. The song, which features an anthemic indie pop aesthetic layered with

male-female vocal harmonies, has led to a surge of popularity for the band.

Despite the newfound attention, they currently have the song up for free downloading on their site highsmusic.com The highlight of Highs self-titled EP is the song “Summer Dress,” an upbeat African-influenced pop song. The complex harmonies between the band members add a spiritual quality to the track.

Haynes, who travelled to Tanzania with a group from Queen’s to engage in cross-cultural educational experiences, said the sounds and rhythms of the country lent to the Afrobeat undertones in their latest songs.

It’s not the only thing he picked up from extensive traveling.

“You get to look at things critically, whether it’s your relationship with yourself, your environment, sense of home, loved ones, partner,” Haynes said.

“When you return back, there’s a culture shock. I started looking critically at everything in my life.

The way I engage with that is writing music.”

Highs play Clark Hall Pub on March 22.

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Striking hard and changing colours Toronto-based band returns to Kingston riding the strength of sophomore effort ‘...On The Heart’ B y B rent M oore Arts Editor For Dean Povinsky, of Toronto-based band Wildlife, Kingston is familiar ground.

As a Queen’s alumnus, he knows all about the Limestone City music scene and can look back to a number of great shows.

“I definitely spent a lot of time at the Toucan,” Povinsky, BFA ’05, said. “That was probably my favourite bar.”

Povinsky also attended shows at the Grad Club, the venue Wildlife played in the fall and will be playing again next week.

“I saw tons of really cool shows at the Grad Club — it was a fun place to be,” he said. “That [last Grad Club show] was the best Kingston show yet I’d say.”

The bands origins extend to Povinsky’s time at Queen’s, where he played with classmate Darryl Smith. After graduation, the pair moved to Glasgow where they played shows and recorded.

“We did that for 10 months and did lots of travelling but ultimately decided that we liked Ontario better,” Povinsky said.

The move coincided with personnel changes. Povinsky is now joined by Graham Plant on guitar, Derek Bosomworth on bass and Dwayne Christie on drums. Smith is still involved and often tours with the group.

“Last time we were at the Grad Club we were doing a four-man tour, but we work better as a five piece I think,” he said.

The release of 2010’s Strike Hard, Young Diamond received

Wildlife played Wolfe Island last summer.

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a positive review from Exclaim!, calling the five song EP “bold, full of angst and to the point”.

Mainstream recognition came when Corona used their single “Lightning Tent” for their Live Mas Fina marketing campaign.

“I think they were trying to rebrand a bit and get away from the lazy couple on the beach,” said Povinsky.

Their early work on Strike Hard sounds like an homage to the passions of youth, something Povinsky describes on the band’s website. “[It’s] an observation on letting go ... We used themes of adventure, exploration and vitality to explain jumping into the dark, deep water, not knowing or caring where you come up for air,” he said in the statement.

It’s these themes that connect Wildlife with young listeners and attracted the Corona marketing execs.

“We had all these songs and we felt they really represented this general feeling of being young and naïve and youthful and adventurous and what was going on in our lives for a while.”

Their most recent album, …On the Heart, released in March 2013, is the logical continuation of these themes. “[It’s about] coming to terms with growing up and not being some wild, crazy maniac all the time anymore,” he said.

The group has been dabbling

with new material, but won’t be back in the studio in the near future.

“We’ve been able to do a lot of different stuff with […On the Heart], so we’re not in too much of a rush to put out a new record,” he said. “We want to do more travelling with it.”

The upcoming tour will see the band continue to don their trademark armbands, which each member of the band wears on their left bicep while performing.

“We like to get involved in the visual aesthetic of being in a band,” he said.

The colour of the armband changed from turquoise to gold with the newest album and recent tours.

“It came about because we were just sick of being a bunch of dudes wearing plaid onstage.”

Wildlife plays the Grad Club March 29 with Sweet Jets.

Singer Dean Povinsky graduated from Queen’s in 2005.

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Testing season Stalwart defenders to represent Gaels at CFL Combine B y J osh B urton Staff Writer

It will take roughly $25 million to kickstart the development of a replacement facility for the 43-year-old Richardson Stadium.

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Gift could be announced this spring Continued from page 1

While Queen’s ongoing Initiative Campaign debuted in 2006, Hand said a group of former football players have informally sought to raise stadium funds over the last 15 years.

“We went through some moments where we had a lot of inertia sitting there,” he said. “[Richardson Stadium] was operable and serviceable, and the bottom line is they had to raise the money.

“A lot of things coalesced as we’ve gone through here the last few years,” he added. “The need is apparent with things falling down.”

Hand played football for Queen’s from 1970-73; his career spanned the transition from the original Richardson Stadium, once located at the site of Mackintosh-Corry Hall, to the current football complex on West Campus.

Opened as a temporary facility in 1971, safety concerns have finally sprung up in the last year.

After Richardson’s upper seating tiers were deemed unfit for use in May 2013, Queen’s removed those bleachers and installed a series of temporary stands, effectively reducing seating capacity by over a thousand.

The Gaels football team played out the 2013 season in the hastily renovated stadium, but Hand said raising funds for a new facility is an immediate priority.

“Given the condition of the facility, I think the Principal would like to raise all the money by the fall,” Hand said.

“Is that a doable target?

Optimistically, yes, depending on the size of the gift and what the gap is and how quickly people fund it.

I do think that it will gain a lot of momentum.”

Athletics Director Leslie Dal Cin told the Journal in July that Queen’s ability to move forward with a new stadium was dependent on the interest of potential donors.

Now, she’s optimistic that a deal could be on the horizon.

“Once you have a lead donor,

that’s a catalyst for future action, and really sets up the opportunity for other conversations,” Dal Cin said. “We’re in a positive place in that framework.”

All funding must be in place before planning for a new facility can begin. That means the current Richardson Stadium will remain in use for at least the 2014 collegiate football season, with an indefinite timeline after that.

Dal Cin said any new complex would be built on the site of the current stadium at West Campus,

adding that construction would have to be performed out of season.

“There has to be no disruption in our football programming,” she said. “It’s not like we can take our football program and head off to another stadium somewhere within Kingston.”

Several rival Ontario schools have built or revamped their football stadiums over the past two decades. Queen’s lost the 2013 Yates Cup to Western at London’s TD Stadium, an artificial turf field that cost $10.5 million to construct

in 2000.

At this point, Dal Cin said, Richardson simply isn’t sufficient.

“It’s coming to the end of its lifespan, basically. It’s not at the standard that current venues are at across our league,” she said.

“When you compare it to U of T’s or Mac’s or Western’s venues, ours is far behind that.

“I think [Richardson is] a grand old lady. I think it’s served us well, but we need a newer edition.”

The road to the 2014 CFL draft will heat up this weekend for two top Gaels prospects.

Starting today, Toronto is playing host to the national CFL Combine, open to the top 40 draft-eligible players as ranked by the teams and league office. It’s a time for the CFL’s most promising prospects to prove their ability and for teams to get a first-hand look at potential draft options.

Athletes compete in a series of physical tests, including Combine staples like the bench press and 40-yard dash, and newer events like the three-cone drill.

Two Queen’s fourth-year players looking to impress in the lead-up to the May 13 draft are defensive back Andrew Lue and defensive lineman Derek Wiggan.

Ranked eighth and 15th in the CFL Scouting Bureau’s list of prospects, Lue and Wiggan are ready to break into the pros after standout careers at Queen’s.

See Draft on page 19

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Two and out

OUA East champion Gaels lose leads at nationals, but build for future title runs B y J erry Z heng Staff Writer A pair of losses at the national championships couldn’t dampen the success women’s basketball achieved this year.

The Gaels’ 2013-14 season officially ended with losses to the Saskatchewan Huskies and Alberta Pandas in the CIS championships in Windsor last weekend.

Queen’s fell 61-52 to Saskatchewan in their tournament opener, after blowing a six-point lead they held heading into the final quarter. The next day, their season ended with a 67-55 loss to Alberta.

Despite having lost by 35 points to Saskatchewan in the pre-season, the Gaels traded leads with the Huskies up until the fourth quarter.

Queen’s held a six-point lead heading into the final frame, but a 10-2 run by the Huskies quickly evaporated the Gaels’ lead with four minutes left to play. Saskatchewan rode this momentum to pull ahead comfortably for the win.

Guards Liz Boag and Jenny Wright led Queen’s in scoring with 18 and 12 points, respectively, but

post Robyn Pearson was unable to convert many shots, shooting 2-16 from the field.

The Gaels sizzled in the first quarter against the Pandas, building an 11-point lead, but poor performances in the second and third quarters led to the loss. Queen’s was also hurt by a disadvantage in height and were outrebounded 51-35.

Boag carried her team in the losing effort, netting 27 points, including six three-pointers.

Saskatchewan was seeded third in the CIS tournament, while the Pandas were the seventh-ranked team, one spot behind the Gaels.

Despite being a lower seed, Wright said Queen’s didn’t see themselves as underdogs going in.

“We have confidence in ourselves and in each other that we can play with these teams and we can beat these teams,” she said.

“We like to go into games trying to prove ourselves as alpha dogs.”

With their performance during the regular season, the Gaels proved they belonged with the country’s elite.

Queen’s finished the regular season first in the OUA East and

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Guard Liz Boag led all Queen’s scorers during the CIS championships with 45 points in losses to Saskatchewan and Alberta.

defeated the perennial East finalist Carleton Ravens to be crowned division champions. The Gaels ultimately lost to the eventual national champion, the Windsor Lancers, in the OUA title game.

Coming off a season in which they had a 7-13 regular season

record, the Gaels won nine more games, good for first in the OUA East — a feat the program had never achieved before.

Head coach Dave Wilson lauded the acquisition of assistant coach James Bambury, who joined See Core on page 19

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POWER RANKINGS

Women lead way in winter Hoops, hockey reach OUA finals and top seasonal hierarchy of varsity teams B Y N ICK FARIS Journal Staff

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1. Women’s basketball

Capturing the OUA East title and a spot at nationals this season, women’s basketball was the choice for top spot in our winter rankings.

A 16-6 regular season — buoyed by a seven-game win streak to wrap up the year — helped propel the Gaels into first place in the East. Including playoffs, the streak would reach nine games, after Queen’s held on in overtime to top the Carleton Ravens in the division championship.

Though a loss to Windsor in the OUA final snapped the streak, the Gaels still qualified for nationals. They couldn’t beat Saskatchewan and Alberta at the CIS tournament, but the Gaels’ year was impressive nonetheless.

Queen’s had the East’s top offence, putting up 63.6 points per game. Guards Liz Boag and Jenny Wright and forward Gemma Bullard made up the East’s only trio of teammates averaging double-digit figures this season.

Boag and Wright’s play this year earned them spots on the OUA East first All-Star team, while Bullard was a member of the second team. Rookie centre Andrea Priamo wrapped the team’s awards, being named to the division’s All-Rookie squad.

They couldn’t bring home OUA or CIS gold, but an impressive turnaround from an 7-13 season in 2012-13 put the Gaels back among the elite of the OUA East.

— Sean Sutherland

While the departure of McHaffie and fellow veterans Mel Dodd-Moher and Marlee Fisher will hurt the Gaels next year, the youth they brought in will keep the team strong moving forward.

— Sean Sutherland 3. Men’s hockey

Seeded dead last in last year’s power rankings, men’s hockey turned the ship around.

In front of goaltender and OUA East MVP Kevin Bailie, Queen’s defence was the province’s best, conceding 10 less regular season goals than any other Ontario team.

They rode this sterling play to the East’s fourth seed and a milestone playoff win.

Bailie’s arrival from the major junior ranks buoyed the Gaels’ rise, but a slew of other youngsters also played a part. Chris Van Laren, Patrick McGillis and Jordan Coccimiglio all assumed major offensive roles in their first full seasons.

There were small stumbling blocks along the way. Carleton and McGill dealt Queen’s three straight losses in mid-January — their first regulation defeats of the season — and RMC goaltender Evan Deviller stopped 52 Gaels shots on Feb. 6 to steal the coveted Carr-Harris Cup. While the first half of the Gaels’ season was a mark of consistency, the latter portion was defined by resiliency. Queen’s split two games with UQTR to end the regular season, then swept Ottawa from the first round of the playoffs.

It was the Gaels’ first-ever series win under bench boss Brett Gibson, but they weren’t quite done there. Clawing back after a humbling 6-2 loss to Carleton, Queen’s forced a deciding game three, before finally bowing out deep into the second round.

Seventeen games without a regulation loss is the largest takeaway from this season.

Heading forward, Gibson has built a team that will be judged solely on wins.

— Nick Faris 4. Men’s basketball

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Jenny Wright was one of three Gaels to average double digits in points.

2. Women’s hockey

Finishing one win shy of becoming repeat OUA champions in a rebuilding year made for an impressive women’s hockey campaign.

A pair of 2-0 losses to the Laurier Golden Hawks in the OUA finals kept the Gaels from capturing the title they won last year.

Earlier in the playoffs, Queen’s played several overtime games in a row, en route to dispatching the Windsor Lancers and the top-seeded Guelph Gryphons.

The loss of 11 members from last year’s squad made it remarkable that Queen’s came so close to winning it all once again.

Head coach Matt Holmberg brought in a full cohort to replace his departed players.

Among the rookies to contribute this season was forward Clare McKellar, whose 20 points ranked second among all first-years in the province.

Captain Morgan McHaffie finished her final year at Queen’s with 31 points and her fourth appearance on the OUA All-Star team, helping the Gaels to a fourth-place finish during the regular season.

Though Queen’s held steady, the OUA East unfolded as it always should have.

After a year in which the Gaels added eight new recruits and tallied eight extra wins, rising further in the country’s toughest division wasn’t going to be easy.

Queen’s finished with the same amount of victories and an identical playoff result to 2012-13 — but the potential is there for larger gains down the road.

Six of Queen’s 12 losses came against the national champion Carleton Ravens, the CIS runner-up Ottawa Gee-Gees and the perennially stingy Ryerson Rams, who also bounced the Gaels 86-76 in the first round of the post-season.

Upsetting one of the top dogs is an achievable goal for the near future. Roshane Roberts and Sukhpreet Singh established themselves as a dangerous second-year backcourt, while Greg Faulkner carried the offensive load before missing the tail end of the season due to injury.

Faulkner will be back for a final year in 2014-15, while sophomores Patrick Street and Ryall Stroud should continue to develop into productive players. Both appeared in every game this season and led Queen’s bench in minutes and scoring.

With all but two players returning to next year’s lineup, a playoff win is a likely next step for this developing bunch.

— Nick Faris 5. Men’s volleyball

They were injured, inconsistent and

indisputably ordinary.

An uneven OUA campaign left Queen’s smack in the middle of the pack. Two years removed from a provincial banner, the rebuilding process has been a work in progress for legendary head coach Brenda Willis.

Outside hitter Mike Tomlinson made the second OUA All-Star team, but his presence — or lack thereof — was felt most at the outset. He missed the start of the year to fully recover from ACL surgery and didn’t return to full force until winter.

A 3-1 opening record was quickly derailed; the Gaels lost five straight matches Mary Coughlin and the Gaels JOURNAL FILE PHOTO in November and didn’t surpass .500 for the fell just short in the OUA final against Laurier. rest of the campaign.

Only once did Queen’s beat a club that 2012-13 competed for four playoff spots in finished higher than them in the standings. A the OUA East. While a 10-9 record was solid, late-season sweep of the fifth-place Ryerson it wasn’t enough to net the final berth.

Rams helped secure the OUA’s final playoff The Gaels went 3-5 against the East’s spot, but the Gaels were edged out by the playoff teams in the regular season; when Waterloo Warriors upon reaching that stage. coupled with a late-season loss to sixth-place Contributions from rookie setter Jamie RMC, Queen’s found themselves just outside Wright were a positive sign in the second the playoff chase. half of the season, while Tomlinson’s rapid The team was snake-bitten with injuries. return to top form bodes well heading into Several starters missed time in the second half the off-season. of the season, a major reason the Gaels lost Better luck could mean a few more wins three of their final four games. in 2014-15, and a hopeful step towards the There were a few bright spots for OUA’s ruling class. the team, though, as sisters Brett and Katie Hagarty were both named OUA — Nick Faris Second-Team All-Stars. First-year setter Gabrielle Down was also honoured, being 6. Women’s volleyball named to the All-Rookie team.

Even with the individual strength they As the only Gaels team to miss the playoffs had, the combination of injuries, a tough this year, women’s volleyball had a division and late-season struggles kept disappointing season.

Queen’s from making the playoffs for the The OUA’s move to a two-division setup first time in eight seasons. for women’s volleyball put the Gaels at a disadvantage, as the five top teams from — Sean Sutherland

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Core to return intact Continued from page 16

Andrew Lue recorded six interceptions over four years with the Gaels.

Photo by Charlotte Gagnier

Draft hopefuls ready Continued from page 16

Lue operated as the Gaels’ primary shutdown cornerback, lining up against the opposition’s top wide receiver week after week. His stats have never jumped off the page, but this speaks volumes to how much quarterbacks avoid targeting his assignment.

Wiggan has anchored the Gaels’ defensive front throughout his collegiate stint, bringing a scary combination of brains and brawn that helped him accumulate 14.5 sacks during his four years as a Gael.

Prior to their departure, the Journal talked to Lue and Wiggan to assess their strengths, ponder their futures and remember their experiences in tricolour.

Andrew Lue

Position: Defensive lineman Height: 6’1” Weight: 255 lbs.

High school: St. Brother Andre Catholic School.

High school: St. Michael’s College.

2013 stats: 27 tackles, two interceptions, three pass breakups.

Career idol: Deion Sanders Describe your game: Physical, smart and relentless on the field.

CFL ambition: Lue wants to be given an opportunity in the CFL. He said his game will speak for itself; he wants to contribute to a winning team.

Favourite Queen’s memory: His television interview with Sportsnet after being named Player of the Game against Guelph in October 2013; all his teammates crashed it.

The Gaels were so happy to “just take back what was ours,” Lue said.

Favourite sports moment: The miracle at Homecoming — Aaron Gazendam’s game-winning touchdown last fall. Lue didn’t even see it: he had his head down, but he heard the crowd’s celebratory roar.

Quote to future Queen’s Gaels: “Work hard, play hard.”

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Derek Wiggan

Position: Defensive back Height: 6’2” Weight: 213 lbs.

Positions played: running back, slot back, wide receiver, defensive back, safety, halfback, defensive end and a bit of quarterback.

the Gaels’ program last year. Bambury’s full-time commitment allowed the rest of the coaching staff to do more than they otherwise could have.

Boag, Wright and forward Gemma Bullard were selected as OUA East All-Stars, while centre Andrea Priamo was selected to be a part of the All-Rookie team.

Wilson was also honoured, winning the OUA East Coach of the Year award for the third time in his Queen’s career.

With the team’s core remaining intact, Jenny Wright was named SUPPLIED BY EDWIN TAM Bullard said the Gaels’ focus is to return to to the OUA first All-Star team this year. nationals next season.

“I think we left the nationals with a search for more,” she said. “We had a taste of what it was like, and we’re [thinking] next year could be ours … we are kind of licking our lips a little bit.”

Positions played: defensive lineman, linebacker, fullback and offensive lineman.

2013 stats: 28 tackles, 5.5 sacks, two forced fumbles, three pass breakups.

Career idol: James Harrison Describe your game: Wiggan said he’s versatile, relentless and passionate. He can play all four spots on the line, rush from the inside or outside and doesn’t stop until the ball carrier is tackled.

CFL ambition: He said he’s just happy to play.

Favourite Queen’s memory: The 2013 Homecoming victory in overtime. It was a special, come-from-behind win, and Wiggan said he’s never won a game like that before.

Favourite sports moment: He’s a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, so Wiggan said James Harrison’s 100-yard interception return in Super Bowl XLV, and Santonio Holmes’ toe-tapping catch in the end zone in the same Super Bowl.

Quote to future Queen’s Gaels: “I was proud to put on a jersey every Saturday. I put pride and effort into being a Gael. Future generations: play with pride, because this an experience unlike any other.”

ACROSS

1. Sportscaster Collinsworth 5. Winery vessel 8. Eye layer 12. “Java” musician 13. Past 14. DEA worker 15. Movie lab assistant 16. Felonious flight 17. Nastase of tennis fame 18. Envelope paper 20. Washed 22. Moving vehicle 23. Shell game need 24. Not prerecorded 27. Bedspread 32. Oklahoma city 33. A Gabor sister 34. Zodiac cat 35. Ginormous 38. Auction 39. Pond carp 40. Mischievous tyke 42. “Annus Mirabilis” poet 45. Casino employee 49. Count counterpart 50. “Eureka!”

52. “Arrivederci —” 53. Soft cheese 54. Speck 55. Rewrite, maybe 56. Golf gadgets 57. Shock partner 58. Collections

DOWN

1. “Mary Poppins” song start 2. Latvia’s capital 3. Press 4. Try hard 5. Window treatments 6. Khan title 7. Pyramid, maybe

Derek Wiggan is ranked 15th among prospects for the 2014 CFL draft.

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8. Divider’s foe 9. Odin’s place 10. Pennsylvania port 11. Scored 100 on 19. Scale member 21. Mimic 24. Varnish ingredient 25. “— not choose to run” 26. 9-Down maiden 28. Eggs 29. Verify 30. Wet wriggler 31. Pirouette pivot 36. A lot 37. “Sprechen — Deutsch?”

38. Extras 41. Yours truly 42. Credit card result 43. Exceptional 44. Zilch 46. Source of wealth 47. Send forth 48. “Phooey!”

51. Explanation

Last Issue’s Answers

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postscript A taste of sustainability Chef Michael Smith of Food Network Canada visits Queen’s

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B y O livia B owden K atie G randin Journal Staff

just a buzzword, it’s what I do,” Smith said.

Smith said that his insight on healthy cooking and sustainable Food Network Canada’s Chef food changed when it came Michael Smith’s sustainable to cooking for his family, approach to food might reach realizing its impact and importance to his career as well. more locally than you think.

“You genuinely, in your heart The host of Food Network Canada’s Chef Michael’s of hearts ... you care. And that Kitchen, Chef Abroad, Chef at has affected my work as professional chef, it’s Home and Chef at Large, Chef a Michael Smith paid a visit to directly affected the work we’re Queen’s this past Wednesday doing right here,” he said.

While Smith described for the event A Taste of Home.

The event, presented by the A Taste of Home event as Queen’s Hospitality Services an opportunity to show students and Sodexo, featured recipes a genuine concern for their submitted by students and well-being, it’s not his first initiative to bring healthy and local food prepared by Chef Michael Smith.

“What it really comes down to Queen’s.

The Canadian Grilling Company, to is ... food is moral. Food can make you feel good. Food can which opened on campus in make all that bad stuff that Mackintosh-Corry Hall in 2012, is happened today go away,” the first restaurant created by Chef Smith said. “By reaching out to Michael Smith.

Smith said that he jumped the community of students here and actively engaging them at the opportunity to open the in our menu process, our goal is Canadian Grilling Company to really bring you a taste when it was presented to him four years ago. of home.”

“One of the biggest challenges For anyone considering a career in food or who holds a passion of our industry is jumping into for cooking, Smith said it’s the issues of sustainability, and important to understand that making a difference. And this is your primary relationship is our opportunity to do that, to learn from this experience,” he said. with food.

With an emphasis on “Once you understand what that means then you get to have sustainability and supporting local a relationship with cooking. It’s Canadian farmers, the Canadian two different things. There Grilling Company is the first [are] too many people out Canadian university restaurant there who are great cooks, offering local, organic and awesome cooks, but that had no traceable food.

Smith said he isn’t concerned real relationship with food,” with being better than competing he said.

Smith explained that his companies, but that the focus approach to food has drastically remains on contributing to the evolved over the course of sustainable food movement. his career as a professional “We’re all in this together. We’re chef, which began when he all genuinely reactive to our clients. was in university and sought a You guys are the clients, you guys job at a restaurant to pay for his have higher expectations than new car. ever before, in history. You’ve “The first, say, 20 years got food you can believe in,” of my career was all about he said.

Smith said that local and organic cooking food for anonymous strangers and driving the value movements have had a tremendous influence on his cooking, and that equation,” he said.

It was when his son was born an important aspect of that is that Smith said his outlook on becoming more connected to the origins of your food. food and cooking changed.

“In today’s world we are distant “I realized that health is not and

from our food. We don’t know the people that produce our food.

You back up 50 years, and that’s not very long ago ... We knew the farmers; we knew the fisherman, the artisans and the cheese makers,” he said.

Our food systems have changed and become more impersonal, Smith said, with less thought dedicated to where the food comes from and was produced, and the family that was engaged in it.

“That family deserves to live on a farm that doesn’t have all the inputs and all the deadly chemicals floating around,” he said. “My family matters to me, but I should care about the family that produces my food as well.”

Aside from cooking in a professional environment, Smith said that he fills the role of his family cook — cooking and experimenting daily for his family.

“I go through phases,” he said. “At the moment, I’m cooking a lot of chicken wings, ... just playing around with my chicken wing recipes.

My kids ... magically love my ... [wings] made with Thai fish sauce.”