The Queen's Journal, Volume 141, Issue 40

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The Editors’ last words

Reflecting on an eventful year at Queen’s

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Winter exec review Berkok, Pritchard and Plummer discuss progress on platform B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN AND C HLOE S OBEL Journal Staff

With less than a month left in their term, this year’s AMS executive hope that they have better prepared the AMS for the future.

The current executive, made up of Eril Berkok, president, Thomas Pritchard, vice-president (university affairs), and Nicola Plummer, vice-president (operations), have released their AMS State of the Union report.

The Journal sat down with Berkok, CompSci ’12, Pritchard, ArtSci ’12, and Plummer, Comm ’13, to discuss their report, and whether platform points that were made last year were able to come to fruition.

The year in review

Our annual special insert features the best stories of the year, as determined by our staff.

From the history of Homecoming football to the debate on men’s issues, take a look at what made the campus pulse.

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University District-wide Wi-Fi The project to spread Wi-Fi to the University District was intended to be a partnership between the AMS and Queen’s IT Services (ITS), but did not materialize after a key vendor decided not to participate in the process, said Berkok.

“There was a vendor we were expecting to engage with this process that did not, and that’s really completely out of our control,” Berkok said.

He said he didn’t know why the vendor pulled out.

Berkok added that in the meantime, IT Services is working to improve Wi-Fi coverage throughout campus.

“In the future this project could be revisited. There’s nothing stopping that from happening,” he said. “If the AMS wants to take it up again, then they certainly are welcome to then, there is now precedent to have the conversation.”

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Sports

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Malicious blue light activations decrease The 2012-13 academic year saw 37 activations B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN Assistant News Editor Malicious blue light activations have reduced since last year, according to Campus Security.

More campaigns raising awareness about the danger caused by activating a blue light in a non-emergency situation could have contributed to the reduction, said Apollonia Karetos, AMS judicial affairs director.

“This year there was a campaign spearheaded by the Municipal Affairs Commission, perhaps those numbers can be attributed to the efforts I would say that students are trying to make in decreasing these numbers,” Karetos, ArtSci ’14, said.

The blue lights exist on campus to aid students who are facing an emergency situation on campus.

Pressing a button on a blue light will alert Campus Security, which is mandated to respond to every call.

In the 2012-13 school years, there were 37 reported incidents of “mischief” activations of the blue lights.

One-hundred fifty-three cases were of “no cause” and 63 were “accidental”.

This year, there were 28 incidents of “mischief”, 118 cases of “no cause” and 70 were accidental.

“Mischief ” activation indicates that Campus Security was able to determine that someone had activated the light maliciously.

“No cause” indicates that Campus Security could not determine why the blue light was pushed.

“It’s pretty much a learning experience, and maybe students don’t realize how dangerous how directly this affects their peer community by doing these malicious blue light activations,” Karetos said.

The most widespread install of the blue lights was in 1992 after a safety audit on campus, which increased emergency services on campus.

Concern arose last year after malicious

blue light activations had gone up since 2008.

There had been incidents of students using the blue lights in order to attain a “Blue Light” or “True Blue” bar for their faculty jackets.

Students earn the bar after shot-gunning a beer at every blue light on campus.

Malicious activations occur when students press the blue light button in a non-emergency.

Principal Woolf wrote on his blog in December 2012 “the Blue Light bar is, frankly, a badge of shame.”

Campus Security notifies Kristen Olver, the commissioner of internal affairs, when there has been a malicious activation, as the activation is a violation of the AMS Student Code of Conduct.

The AMS places sanctions on students who are guilty of a malicious activation. Olver, ArtSci ’15, said she could not share specific incidents, as they are confidential.

She said it’s possible campus culture has shifted, leading to the decrease in activations.

“To give context, two years ago there Campus Security is alerted after a blue light is activated on campus. were over 300 complaints [from Campus Security],” she said.

This year, posters discouraging mischievous blue light activity have been placed in each campus building, Olver added The posters say slogans such as “Blue Light ‘pranks’ put your friends at risk.”

“This is a positive step over the 20122013 term,” said David Patterson, director of Campus Security.

“Awareness is key; we view the AMS’s campaign to bring this issue to the attention of fellow students as a positive initiative in reducing malicious activations,” Patterson told the Journal via email.

He said there still remains work to be done on the issue.

“146 unaccounted activations are still high and we will continue to work towards bringing that number down,” he said.

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Restaurant takeover With more places to dine per capita than almost any other city in Canada, the bar is set high for Kingston’s independent eateries B y E mily M iller Features Editor It’s hard to ignore your cravings in downtown Kingston.

Take a walk down Princess St. and your dining options will seem endless. According to Tourism Kingston, the Limestone City is host to more restaurants per capita than almost any other city in Canada. This is thanks to one of the fastest growing tourism markets in the country and the city’s close proximity to Prince Edward County, one of Canada’s most buzzed-about wine-growing districts.

According to Statistics Canada, the city saw an eight per cent increase in tourism demand between 2004-07, beating out Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal with this growth rate, and employment in Kingston’s food services sector grew 60 per cent between 1997 and 2007.

When it comes to dining out though, it’s not only tourists enjoying the tastes of Kingston — it’s the locals too.

In 2011, the Toronto Sun reported that Kingston is “practically recession-proof” due to employment in the penal system, the Canadian Armed Forces and at Queen’s.

Gokhan Cifci, owner and operating manager of Tango Nuevo on King St. is well aware of these facts. Shortly after moving here from Istanbul, Cifci surveyed Kingston’s restaurant market for five years as a server, and decided it was the perfect place to open his own restaurant.

While he was its general manager, Cifci purchased Tango from its previous owners in 2013. After a few months of renovations, he reopened the same location as Tango Nuevo, with a tapas menu rooted in a variety of Mediterranean cuisines.

While the old Tango served tapas on its menu, Cifci said the restaurant hadn’t asserted a specific identity.

“That’s very important in the restaurant business — your

identity,” Cifci said.

For Tango Nuevo, it’s tapas.

“Tapas in Spain are these very, very small delicious finger foods, but we are in North America so you cannot do that — it’s too small,” Cifci said.

Tango serves a plethora of sharing plates, equivalent to or slightly smaller than the size of an appetizer. All these plates leave no room for smartphones on the table.

“You’re tasting from the same plates,” he said. “Automatically, it’s a conversation-starter.”

While he’s proud of his tapas-only menu, the food is only the beginning for Cifci.

“A restaurant is not just a place to come and eat food. A restaurant is a place that people come [to] for an experience,” he said.

Cifci noted the challenge this presents to restaurateurs.

“Kingston is not an easy market.

In the last three years, I can count six or seven restaurants or pubs in the downtown that failed and shut down,” he said.

According to Cifci, there are four ingredients for running a successful restaurant: prime location, great food, attentive service and inviting ambiance. If one of these ingredients is absent, the recipe won’t measure up.

Spill some cold weather in and it’s much less likely diners will dig in.

According to Tim Pater, owner of Brock St.’s Le Chien Noir Bistro and Atomica Pizza and Wine Bar, the winter season is never a restaurant owner’s favourite time of year.

“Since we opened Chien Noir in 2000, there’s probably an additional 2,000 dining seats downtown,” Pater said, referring to Kingston’s downtown core. “In the wintertime, there’s not enough people to fill those seats.”

Despite efforts to remain competitive, many local, fresh ingredients are simply unavailable during the winter, according to Pater, who also owns Harper’s Burger Bar on Princess St. and Ontario St.’s Dianne’s Fish Bar. Come summer, it’s a

different story.

“We know all the farmers by name,” Pater said. “Some of them grow specific crops for our menus, so the chefs will get together in the early spring and talk about what they’re planning for that year.”

A Kingston native, Pater has worked in restaurants in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa.

“For a mid-sized Canadian city, I think what differentiates Kingston is the vibrancy of its downtown,” Pater said. “It’s rare that in a city this size, you see this active a downtown. Usually it’s what they calls a ‘donut-city’ where the downtown is desolate and it’s boxed in, surrounded by stores.”

Pater said he knew he wanted to return to Kingston, and following his passion meant opening his first restaurant, Chien Noir.

“I got bitten by the food bug when I was 18. I was lucky enough to do my last year of high school in France,” Pater said. “I lived with a French family and that really got me into the whole thing. I was able to open Chien Noir, mind you on a real shoestring, but we got it open and the rest is history.”

For Pater, one restaurant was only the beginning.

In 2003, right next to Chien, Pater opened Atomica, a traditional Italian restaurant that he said had trouble taking off at first.

“The issue there was we opened with a really, really authentic Italian menu,” Pater said. “It was just too out there for Kingston, so we refigured it and made it have more of a mass-appeal.”

Seven years after the birth of Atomica, Pater introduced Harper’s Burger Bar to Princess St. and, last summer, the fourth addition to Pater’s restaurants arrived on Ontario St., Dianne’s Fish Bar, serving a hybrid menu of East Coast seafood and Mexican cuisine.

Pater’s not the only Kingston restaurant owner inspired by his travels.

Stev George, head chef and owner of Olivea, at the corner of King and Brock Streets serves what he calls “rustic Italian cuisine”.

In 2008, George and his wife, Deanna Harrington, opened Olivea, a traditional Italian trattoria, opposite Market Square.

Opening in this prime location at the height of summer tourist season didn’t come without its challenges, however.

“We didn’t even advertise our opening. We just unlocked the door and people started coming in,” George said. “Everything didn’t always go smoothly but it was a lot of fun.”

George said his and Harrington’s initial goal was a casual but quality restaurant.

“Everything’s made here — it’s true to [what] I think the Italian food values [are]: buy the best-possible food ingredients and then do as little to them as possible before you serve them. Keep the integrity of the food.”

It’s a passion for what he does as a chef and entrepreneur that keeps George enthralled with his work.

“I don’t like to call it work,” he said. “It’s not work; it’s my life. It’s what I love to do.”

After learning the tricks of the trade at Stratford Chefs School in Stratford, Ontario, George furthered his culinary education where Kingston’s restaurant romance began: Chez Piggy.

restaurant is “notAjust a place to

come and eat food. A restaurant is a place that people come [to] for an experience.

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“It was a huge inspiration for me,” George said.

Zoe Yanovsky, current owner of both Chez Piggy and Pan Chancho Bakery said she remembers how curious Kingston was when her parents opened Chez Piggy in 1979.

“People didn’t dine in the way that Chez Piggy offered, in those days,” she said. “My parents were avid foodies, they were avid travellers, and they wanted a place in Kingston that they would like to hang out at and eat at.”

Yanovksy’s father, Canadian rock musician, Zal Yanovsky, opened the restaurant with his wife Rose Richardson, intent on delivering ethnically diverse entrees made from local ingredients.

In 1994, Zal and Rose opened a small bakery to bring fresh bread to the tables of Chez Piggy. Originally located in a coach house at King and Johnston Streets, it’s now a

10,000 square foot landmark on lower Princess St. — Pan Chancho.

Thirty-five years later, Chez Piggy remains a destination for diners and tourists alike, according to Yanovsky, who is celebrating Pan Chancho’s 20th anniversary this year.

“We have grown and thrived and survived solely on word of mouth. I certainly don’t take any of our reputation and the years that we’ve had as a cornerstone in Kingston, for granted,” she said.

“You have to work at it every single day.”

After the sudden loss of her father in 2002, Yanovsky took over as operating owner of both Chez Piggy and Pan Chancho.

Since then, she’s seen Kingston’s downtown restaurant industry change considerably, welcoming both more independent restaurants and chain franchises.

While staying true to her parents’ passion for quality food, Yanovsky said it’s important to respond to consumer demands.

“Celiac [disease] is very real and Wheat Belly is a massive trend,” she said. “I don’t like all of it because our heart and soul is in bread.”

Nevertheless, Pan Chancho has recently developed a completely gluten-free bread line.

“You have to change a little bit and stick to your guns,” Yanovsky said.

These efforts are rewarded, she said, when she hears glowing reviews from customers.

Nick Waterfield has been Chez Piggy’s general manager for over 30 years, and has been part of the restaurant since its inception, also managing the evolution of Pan Chancho.

“Thirty-five years ago, there was no tourist business here,” he said. “We used to count tourists in the tens of thousands … now it’s in the millions. There’s a huge interest in eating in this town; a huge appreciation for food — for good food.”

Waterfield mentioned just how strong an appreciation for good food can be.

“We had a phone call last night at 5:30,” he said. “A gentleman was in Toronto, delayed, couldn’t get to Kingston until 8:30 and all he could think about having for dinner was the Pan Chancho roast beef sandwich.”

Waterfield added that neither establishment would exist today without its patrons.

“I think that we’re a talking point,” he said. Waterfield noted, however, that he’s aware that reputations can come and go like the wind.

“You’re only as good as your last meal.”

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Off-campus blue lights

Plummer said.

“Now that they know that it is a space that students want to frequent, they can invest a little bit more in it.”

Plummer said even though Common Ground, located in the Queen’s Centre, and The Brew have run surpluses this year, it won’t have an effect on next year’s spending.

“I have no idea what next year’s team intends to put in but I would imagine they wouldn’t go over $10,000, which to me is incredibly reasonable and to anyone looking at this it would be reasonable,” she said.

The Brew falls under the same budgetary projections as Common Ground. Common Ground is projected to have a net surplus of $63,181 by the end of the year, according to information presented at the Corporate General Meeting.

While blue lights weren’t installed off-campus this year, the executive said they’re confident that they have pushed the process in the right direction.

The executive said they originally intended to have blue lights installed in City Park and Victoria Park over the summer months, but leadership change in the Kingston Police made this difficult.

“We needed a lot of stakeholders to get involved, so we were working with both the University and Campus Security and meeting with the City,” Pritchard said.

Pritchard added that there were many levels of City bureaucracy to go through, but he was confident that the process wouldn’t take as long as the three-year University District signage project.

Pritchard and Berkok both said that funding was no longer an issue for blue light expansion. Berkok cited rollover from an exclusivity contract the University holds with Coca-Cola that grants money every year for safety initiatives.

Individual blue lights cost roughly $10,000 per light, they said.

“I would expect with it going through the committees and just kind of the amount of approval that’s involved, you would earliest be looking at next spring,” Pritchard said of the timeline for the blue light installation.

The team originally intended to launch a marketing survey in order to tailor the plan to student needs.

Though changes did not occur, the AMS pushed a communications campaign that would help students engage with the plan.

“More people are engaging with the plan than they ever have before,” Plummer said.

The plan saw loss ratios of over 100, indicating that people accessed it at a one-to-one ratio — an increase in student engagement since past years.

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Team BGP ran on a promise to turn Common Ground Express into The Upper Crust and offer grilled cheese and soup.

The Brew, located on the second floor of the JDUC, doesn’t offer grilled cheese, but it offers soup.

“I think next year’s team just has the intention of holding strong with The Brew and then obviously making some infrastructure changes, so with the lighting, perhaps kind of different seating,”

The policy for the Board was passed last spring, before the executive began their term.

“Different students from different faculties face different challenges … so the group is … meant to better inform our lobbying,” Pritchard said.

He said the purpose of the Board was to allow different faculties to come together and understand the different issues each faculty faces, as well as to share solutions

The AMS Health and Dental Plan

to problems. “[I’m] happy with where it is,” he said, adding that he thought incoming Rector Mike Young was a “great chair”.

Division and Union Streets crosswalk This aspect of the platform coincided with the University constructing and finalizing its Campus Master Plan, which lays out a framework for development over the next 10 to 15 years. The crosswalk at Division and Union Streets was included in the plan.

“We’ll continue to help push for these things but it is something that the University’s taking on and they have significantly more resources to accomplish these kinds of things, and it is within their short-term plan,” Berkok said.

“Probably within the next year or two … there will be progress on the crosswalk.”

The executive said the crosswalk would be of no cost for the AMS. Next generation web presence Plummer said the executive had looked into whether an online pop-up shop for Tricolour Outlet would be feasible for the winter holiday season She said after speaking with consulting group Creole Solutions, they determined an online store wasn’t necessary.

“We couldn’t get a good read that the demand was there, that’s something we’ll be looking towards next year,” Plummer said.

Evaluating the executive’s progress.

She said the target market for the store would be alumni and parents, and it was difficult to determine whether the need was there.

Homecoming Berkok said he was pleased Homecoming was successful, although he would like to see more programming in the future that would connect students and alumni in a casual environment.

“We really want to see, and hope to see in the future more large-scale programming,” he said.

The issue of “liability and risk” prevented the University from approving that kind of programing, he said.

He said the executive wanted to introduce the “Tricolour Run” — an event, which was slated for the first Homecoming weekend.

It would be similar to events such as “Run or Dye” where coloured cornstarch would be dropped on participants as they run.

The City believed it would be a liability and wouldn’t allow it, Pritchard said.

Plummer noted that it’s important for the student body to understand that this year’s success doesn’t guarantee next year will be the same.

In sum, the Alumni Reunion, Let’s Not Fuck It Up video and SMART clean-up cost the AMS less than $5,000. Other events that were hosted did not cost the AMS anything, according to the executive.

Bikes and Boards The original bike shop was located in MacGillivray-Brown Hall, with a flight of stairs leading down to the shop. Bikes and Boards is now located in the Lower JDUC, where QTV’s old location was.

“The bike shop has been very successful this year,” Pritchard said. “[Bikes and Boards] is very visible, they are located where a lot of other student services are.”

Along with bike repairs, the shop features long boards painted by students. The AMS provides the tracks and the wheels for the long boards.

Currently, it costs $50,000 a year to run MacGillivray-Brown Hall, said Plummer.

Athletics and Recreation signed a contract last year with Tristan Lee, the previous vice-president of operations, to pay one-third of the $50,000 cost.

“I suspect maybe they would pay a little bit less than one-third next year,” she said. “They will still pay some sort of contribution that’s somehow related to their usage.”

Bikes and Board’s budgeting operating cost for the year was $4,505. Plummer told the Journal via email that they were budgeted to bring in $2,400 worth of revenue, with the rest to be covered by their Assembly allocation.

She said the shop has brought in more sales than previously anticipated, and will end with a surplus.

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Bikes & Boards has been more successful since moving to the JDUC.

Plummer said that Alfie’s had into spending”, but the executive The executive’s State of the we think it will really help to kind of shape the advocacy that we can Union report stated that the AMS faced a deficit last year, and the has since altered their vision.

“There’s actually some insurance commissions switched to project rebrand was implement in order to The policy to create an AMS Arts do for arts-based groups.”

“The University yesterday sent accounting, making their finances create a brand that students could money that has collected on Council was passed in February at the one million since we got it,” identify with. an email to us about the Provost more transparent.

AMS Assembly.

“Nothing changed, so next he said.

Pritchard said the group had creating a committee about the “We took that and we’ve actually year … I think it’s up to the students The Underground been formed since the fall, and that arts,” Pritchard added. “This to decide if they want a campus signed with a local architectural the council itself created its own will allow the Campus Activities policy. The council had currently Commissioner, most likely, to Plummer said last summer’s nightclub,” Plummer said. “If they firm who will be developing sort of a vision for the whole building organized the Umbrella Arts sit on that committee from the rebrand of what was formerly don’t we’ll just shut it down.” which will include as a subset how nightclub was a AMS and really push forward Alfie’s Festival on campus. to spend the one million dollars.”

JDUC “much-needed change.” “[Umbrella Arts Festival] was put the information.”

The firm has created some Despite efforts to engage in place because the [Exposure students with the new brand of Though the JDUC revitalization initial sketches that Berkok said he AMS Infrastructure Arts] Festival, which used to be the club, the Underground will process needs to begin before April hopes to see soon.

Re-evaluation funded by the University, no longer “First and foremost, we want to face a deficit by the end of the 2015, it likely won’t start before was in existence,” Pritchard said. make sure that the end product “[The festival] make[s] sure there’s Team BGP’s original platform year, she said. The projected deficit, the executive leaves office.

The revitalization fund has over is good as opposed to signing it a focus on the appreciation of stated that the team planned to shift which was presented at this year’s the arts.” the AMS to a culture of long-term Annual Corporate General meeting, $1 million in it, none of which has off as a checkmark in our term, because we want to treat the AMS been spent.

Pritchard added the council has planning, and to undertake a full was $135,467.

“Knowing how fickle buildings as a continuum rather than ‘it’s our “Obviously it was unfortunate. developed a $1,000 student arts structural review, as well as ensure All the clubs across the city saw and development can be, it was thing we did’,” Berkok said. initiative fund that students can more financial accountability.

“The JDUC’s been a hub of “This year we undertook a review a decrease in attendance and a really important that the million apply for if they are looking to dollars was spent in a way that was student life for many, many years, in order to change around some of decrease in sales,” Plummer said. showcase art at Queen’s.

“Our problems were consistent with a certain vision,” it’s very important to get it right, “If they’re looking to put on a the full-time student staff and the so we want to commit to doing the show or something like that … it’s permanent staff interactions with that students just weren’t Berkok said.

He said that their initial goal best we can.” a new way to engage students in one another, and how the positions interested in going to a campus was to “incorporate student input nightclub anymore.” the arts,” he said. “In the future, are structured,” Plummer said.

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Ten-year enrolment strategy approved Framework outlines current situations and goals for future, including the changes to academic programs B y S ebastian L eck Assistant News Editor

Journal via email.

Harrison sits on the Strategic Enrolment Management Queen’s Senate approved a paper Group (SEMG), which designed last week outlining its guiding the framework.

He said the group principles for enrolment plans for developed the framework based the next 10 years.

The Strategic Enrolment on consultations held throughout Management Framework lays the past year.

The Senate Enrolment out five principles that will guide all enrolment planning Management Group (SEMG) goals and actions, according to includes AMS President Eril Berkok, Vice-Provost and Dean the report.

The first principle stipulates of Graduate Studies Brenda Deputy Provost that the University should Brouwer, align enrolment with its Laeeque Daneshmend, and other values and traditions, while Queen’s administrators and the second states that the faculty heads.

The administration released University must consider the resources available to a White Paper on long-term enrolment last September, Queen’s when making plans.

The third states that Queen’s which laid out the University’s should consider “emerging plans for public discussion.

It was used for consultations PSE [post-secondary education] markets”, the fourth states held on campus, such as two that plans support student town hall meetings, a Board of success and the fifth says that Trustees-Senate session and a 2013 Queen’s consider the impact University Council meeting.

The enrolment policy paper of enrolment plans on the released by the AMS, “The broader community.

The framework includes actions Rising Tide”, was also considered, that should be taken to support according to the framework.

“All of this feedback was each principle.

It also outlines enrolment used in the drafting of the demographics over the Strategic Enrolment Framework, also, of course, past two years, but doesn’t which include projections into the future. reflects considerable discussion The suggested actions include at the Strategic Enrolment Group,” expanding partnerships with Management other universities, opening the Harrison added.

The report also details the two new residences and increasing distance and online current situation at Queen’s.

It contains an “environmental course offerings. “[The principles] are not scan” section, which lists the expected to change over university’s strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities, time, although the specific threats goals and actions that support and a section on changes them are expected to evolve,” in student demographics over the Alan Harrison, the provost and last two years.

This year, the university vice-principal (academic), told the

experienced a two per cent increase in applications overall, while Queen’s Arts program applications dropped by five per cent.

International student enrolment has increased 6.7 per cent since 2012.

Currently, the class entry average is 88.9 per cent, and around 50 per cent of the entering class receives an admission scholarship or a needs-based award, according to the report.

The strengths cited by the report include a high retention rate, an attractive campus and high student satisfaction at Queen’s.

The list of weaknesses includes “marketing regarding the value of a Queen’s Arts degree”, capacity of student services, the conversion of common rooms to bedrooms in residences and “historically decentralized operations”.

Harrison said the last weakness

refers to planning done by faculties and schools independently from each other, which was common in the past.

“Queen’s has moved to more integrated planning processes, including enrolment planning, to meet demand and needs for services and programs that best serve students,” he said.

town-gown

KCVI and QECVI to close New high school could open by 2016, School Board says Despite protest from the community, Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute (KCVI) will be closing down, along with Queen Elizabeth Collegiate and Vocational Institute (QECVI).

KCVI, Ontario’s oldest public school, and QECVI will not close until a new school can be opened.

According to Laurie French, chair of the Limestone District School Board, the soonest a new school can open is fall of 2016.

French said that the benefits of opening a new school are

accessibility for individuals with “physical limitations”, environmental efficiency and the ability to offer programming environments that the older buildings housing KCVI and QEVCI cannot.

“Not only the physical environment, but the increased number of students by consolidating the two groups of students into a larger number, also offers for a much broader range of programming than they can currently access in the two individual schools,”

she said.

KCVI is located in downtown Kingston, but according to French, only 25 per cent of the students who attend KCVI live in the downtown area.

“Those students will have the opportunity to attend a new school within a couple of kilometres of the downtown … that Princess St. corridor is the region we’re looking at, so this will not be far away for them,” she said.

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UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS

“Things are slowly going to go downwards.”

The layoffs took CUPE by surprise.

“We meet once a month with Queen’s … there was no indication that there was any layoffs coming,” Cummings said.

The future is still after a harsh winter that uncertain for other CUPE has seen custodial staff take employees. Cummings said he on extra responsibilities. doesn’t know if there “They’re going to be changing will be more layoffs in the amount of cleaning they the future. do, the frequency of the CUPE is now planning a cleaning they do … washrooms campaign to raise awareness might not get cleaned as of the effect that these often, garbage won’t be layoffs will have on campus getting picked up as often life and highlight the because you don’t have negative effects of the workforce to do it,” casualizing the workforce, Cummings said. particularly on students.

Custodial jobs thrown out Physical Plant Services lays off 17 custodial union members B Y C HLOE S OBEL Assistant News Editor Two weeks ago, the University, citing budget cuts, laid off 17 members of custodial staff and reduced hours for six others, generating an angry response from members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 229.

Seventeen people with non-continuing appointments will not have these contracts renewed, leaving them without jobs after they end. Non-continuing appointments are typically renewed year to year.

Six workers are being moved to a department with nearly 17 less hours per week, going from 37.5 to 20 hours per week.

The University intends to replace the workers who were laid off with part-time casual employees, who lack job security.

CUPE has warned that the increasing casualization of employment at Queen’s will have a negative impact on the university, including on students.

CUPE 229 represents several hundred maintenance, cleaning and food workers at Queen’s.

The workers affected by layoffs have “non-continuing appointments”, which allow them to join the union and obtain

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better pay and benefits. These employees typically work throughout the academic year, or for eight months.

Pat Cummings, president of Local 229, said these employees no longer have any guarantees for their future.

“They’ve been working towards a full-time position, there’s no longer full-time positions, and they go back down to 12 dollars an hour plus four per cent vacation pay,” he said.

“What happens is you end up casualizing the workforce, so you end up with a lot of turnover and nobody can survive … on 12 dollars an hour.”

In “casualizing” the workforce, jobs that are full-time or have job security are eliminated in favour of temporary work with lower pay and no access to benefits. Casual workers are unable to join unions.

Cummings said that Queen’s told CUPE that budget cuts were the reason for the layoffs. John Witjes, the engineering and operations director at Physical Plant Services, gave the employees notice just over two weeks ago.

Queen’s administration was unable to comment by deadline.

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“Everybody here likes going to a safe and healthy place to work. The only reason we’re here in Physical Plant Services, or anybody at this university, is to support the students. I mean, without the students, there’s no reason for us to be here,” Cummings said.

He said he wished that there had been consultation between the University and Local 229.

“We recognize there could have been other avenues that could have been taken, but the dialogue wasn’t there,” Cummings said.

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Sebastian Leck

Men’s Issues group poisons debate: If the Men’s Student media wins at the Annual General Issues Awareness Society hoped to foster intellectual Meeting (AGM): The Journal, Queen’s TV and CFRC dialogue on gender issues, they failed. The speaker each won fee votes at AGM. The drawn-out evening MIAS invited, Janice Fiamengo, misrepresented was a victory for the student experience. feminism and only served to polarize debate and inflame tensions.

Scott Mason’s reaction to his alleged identity theft: Scott Mason reacted admirably when his name The Underground rebrand: The Underground was dragged through the mud during AMS elections. rebrand has failed. The AMS didn’t consult students, It’s a shame that students have to deal with these only introducing a student survey after changes were dirty tactics; they only turn people off student politics. made. It’s unclear why the AMS thought a superficial Those responsible should be ashamed. rebrand would be effective when one had already been attempted the year before.

Our beloved Rector: Nick Francis made the Rector position relevant to students and brought a Men’s rugby team of the year snub: A sense of professionalism that was necessary after the five-person panel voted to give men’s rugby the Jim Nick Day chaos. His approachability and focus on Tait Trophy for varsity team of the year, but Queen’s mental health endeared him to students. Mike Young Athletics then struck a new panel, naming women’s has big shoes to fill. rugby the winner. Despite their claims, Athletics hasn’t been transparent about why this happened. $10 million promised for Richardson Stadium: Funding for Richardson Stadium was necessary.

Low turnout for Fall Referendum: The Queen’s football is a central part of our tradition and miserable 16 per cent turnout for the Fall Referendum this investment will carry the program into the future. speaks to a lazy and apathetic campus. Worthwhile Some more wealthy alumni need to step up and help publications missed out on a fee, meaning that Queen’s build a hockey arena. students won’t get the most out of their extracurricular activities. The AMS, the student body and the clubs Homecoming 2013: This year’s Homecoming should do more to promote student involvement. went off with few hitches, despite the protestations of Kingston’s Mayor. The football game was the Queen’s plan to pay the City of Kingston for most exciting of the year and saw the Gaels eke out a Homecoming costs: Queen’s administration set a bad thrilling overtime win. The weekend was capped off precedent when they agreed to cover Homecoming with another team effort as students cleaned Aberdeen policing costs. This decision was made in the aftermath St. from top to bottom on Sunday morning. of a comparatively tame weekend, making it all the more bizarre.

Ontario Municipal Board appeal: The City of Kingston’s dastardly attempt to discount students Union Gallery loses fee: Fine Arts students from census data and rob them of representation in consistently get the short end of the stick at Queen’s. municipal government was thwarted by the efforts of The Union Gallery’s reduced budget means that the AMS, the SGPS, the Sydenham District Association Queen’s most creative will have fewer opportunities to and Kevin Wiener. Student leadership put their necks display their work. It’s a shame most students don’t see on the line for their constituents and demonstrated that the potential in this institution. political apathy is foolhardy.

Queen’s professor receives hateful threats: In July, Queen’s history professor Karen Dubinsky and her partner received a letter threatening them with violence simply because they are a gay couple. What happened next put the cowards who sent the letter to shame: Kingston’s gay community and their allies rallied around the couple and restored our faith in humanity.

New Indigenous Studies minor: The new minor is a timely addition. First Nations people are determined to have their voices heard and conscientious educational institutions should equip students to understand contemporary issues.

PSAC’s victory: Queen’s post-doctoral fellows and those who organize them should give themselves a pat on the back. Post-docs deserved more Kingston’s two-bit Mayor: Mark Gerretsen’s compensation and benefits and we can count on the social media missteps include false assertions about union’s leadership to advocate for its members. student apathy and outright sexism. Gerretsen’s “not good” commentary was unnecessary. Kingston’s mayor The AMS Commission of the Environment doesn’t mind alienating students as long as it makes for & Sustainability’s (CES) efforts to green campus: good politics.

The CES has undertaken many worthwhile initiatives this year. From tree planting and composting to Long winter of our discontent: This year’s organizing lectures and discussions, the commission winter was compounded by the City of Kingston’s has done its part to inform students and keep our halting attempts to keep streets clear. Queen’s was university sustainable. similarly negligent as campus walkways remained treacherous for too long. These conditions are genuine Sodexo staff: Queen’s has some of the best threats to students with disabilities. food options of any Canadian university and we are privileged to interact with the hard-working people Increasing enrolment: Queen’s students should who keep our bellies full. Rumors about “prison food” be wary about increases in enrolment. It’s not clear the should cease; they stigmatize Sodexo staff. administration is handling the coming influx with the interests of students in mind.

The debate between feminists and men’s issues groups has been extremely toxic these last two weeks.

The Men’s Issues Awareness Society (MIAS) ran an event last Thursday featuring speaker Janice Fiamengo, who argued that modern-day feminism is “totalitarian” and prevents men’s problems from being discussed or addressed.

The event was overshadowed, however, by the assault of a Queen’s student who was reportedly involved in opposition to the event The MIAS president appears to have good intentions. If the club keeps its promises and actually facilitates discussion on the health and well-being of men and boys, I’ll support them.

However, I resent the MIAS for hosting such a toxic event.

Fiamengo offered only divisive language and ideological talking points and the event has spread fear among students.

Discourse surrounding the event has been hostile, and in some cases downright horrifying, preventing students on either side from speaking out. If you want evidence, look to the comments accusing women of faking injuries and lying about sexual assault on the Journal’s “Student assaulted” article, Fiamengo’s description of feminist strategies as “Stalinist”, audience heckling during Fiamengo’s talk or the email threats the assaulted student received before she was attacked.

It’s hard to engage in rational discussion when you know you’re going to be personally attacked, insulted and threatened by strangers.

Fear paralyzes us and encourages us to close ourselves off. We stop listening to each other and start to view our ideas as fortresses to be defended.

To truly listen to someone requires opening ourselves up.

The fact that these men’s issues groups exist at all, and are so readily defended, indicates there are real anxieties underlying them.

However, we need to discuss their concerns in a non-combative manner. If both sides continue to coach their ideas using aggressive, condescending language, conversation will be futile.

Fiamengo said modern-day feminism and men’s rights groups can’t coexist. I disagree. Feminist groups already work on men’s issues, and there’s a tremendous amount of room for cooperation and mutual support.

I believe a men’s issues club could be a healthy and positive place for students to discuss challenges facing men.

But that will only happen if it disentangles itself from Fiamengo and her ilk — who see this as an ideological battle — and becomes a constructive, rather than destructive, influence on campus.

Sebastian is one of the Journal’s Assistant News Editors. He’s a third-year history student.

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What was the best part of this year?

Trust at risk

The outgoing AMS executive share their thoughts on the road future student leaders must take

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“Pastries at Sunday Ed Board.”

EMILY MILLER, VOL. 141 FEATURES EDITOR

“Getting to try trampolining — it made all my dreams come true.”

KATIE GRANDIN, VOL. 141 POSTSCRIPT EDITOR

“The camaraderie, man.”

DAVID HADWEN, VOL. 141 EDITORIALS EDITOR

“Working in the local arts scene.”

JUSTIN SANTELLI, VOL. 141 ASSISTANT ARTS EDITOR

“Shooting backstage at the Wolfe Island Music Festival.”

CHARLOTTE GAGNIER, VOL. 141 PHOTOS EDITOR

“Meeting people I wouldn’t have met otherwise.”

MEGAN SCARTH, VOL. 141 COPY EDITOR

ERIL BERKOK, COMPSCI ’12, NICOLA PLUMMER, COMM ’13, THOMAS PRITCHARD, ARTSCI ’12 Our Queen’s experience begins with an orientation week planned and run by students — we’re immediately greeted with the message that students are the movers and shapers of this institution.

This theme underpins our entire Queen’s experience, and manifests itself through the programs and services students provide for one another.

While our University once embraced the idea of genuine student autonomy, the current administration is not only losing trust in student leadership, but is actively working to curtail this proud tradition.

Queen’s has built a brand and enjoyed particular success through enabling the students that took a risk and dared to move and shape. We’re simultaneously the professors and the students of the “Faculty of Broader Learning.”

The university benefits from this spirit of student initiative in multiple ways. They recruit applicants on the basis of this student involvement, and named their most recent capital fundraising campaign — the Initiative Campaign — after it.

With the rise of social media and a growing scrutiny from traditional media, all eyes are on Queen’s. We have entered an era where the threat of reputational damage is more prevalent, and where parents are acutely concerned with what their sons and daughters are doing at university. This changing mentality is pushing Queen’s away from the culture of student engagement that enabled the growth of our unique broader learning environment.

The University administration had a choice, but instead of resisting these pressures in order to preserve our distinguishing factor, they’ve submitted to them. This has manifested itself in an institutional preoccupation with risk — not necessarily risk to student health, wellness and safety — but rather risk to the university’s reputation or the risk of not fulfilling legal obligations. A type of aversion that is better characterized as being liability averse.

“Hearing the stories of local business owners.”

JESSICA CHONG, VOL. 141 BLOGS EDITOR

In an increasingly litigious environment it’s understandable that the University places a growing focus on mitigating liabilities. Student leaders across the university have consistently met this charge with strategies that reduce liabilities while preserving the student experience through specific training, policies and services. We ask that administration recognize these actions, and adopt a similar approach.

However, the University’s preoccupation with liability has bordered on obsession, as evidenced on a large scale by challenges to our non-academic discipline system, our orientation week and our campus bars, percolating all the way down to something as trivial as the use of coloured powder in events.

Earlier this year, the Division of Student Affairs contacted a number of students to arrange for interviews with University staff members as part of a “fact-finding mission” to gather information on alleged hazing incidents.

The students weren’t informed of their rights, as enshrined in the Student Code of Conduct.

Moreover, this constituted a circumvention of due process and the role that students play in holding each other accountable, a role we’ve played since 1898 through our non-academic discipline (NAD) system.

This “fact-finding mission” should have been referred to the student-run NAD system as it was outside of the jurisdiction of Student Affairs. This represented the latest of several challenges to student-run discipline since the release of the Coroner’s Report in 2011.

Throughout the year, this administration has continued to encroach on the student autonomy of Orientation Week planning. This year saw subtle but far-reaching attempts of administrative members of the Senate Orientation Activities Review Board (SOARB) to expand and elevate the authority of deans in the orientation planning process.

This is coupled with these members’ frequent attempts to be in control of the risk management

“Talking Heads walks on nice days.”

ERIN SYLVESTER, VOL. 141 OPINIONS EDITOR

process, despite the fact that students have developed a comprehensive risk analysis strategy.

This level of encroachment is particularly alarming given the University’s philosophy towards student events and programming: if given the option between cancelling an event or looking to mitigate liability, it appears that they’ll always choose to cancel. We owe a great deal to the student members of SOARB for consistently advocating against the efforts of administrators to erode student autonomy over Orientation Week.

Two years ago, the campus alcohol policy review sought to introduce significant restrictions to how on-campus licensed establishments could serve alcohol.

While these changes would have reduced the liability to the University, our venues — which were and continue to be the safest places in the city to consume alcohol thanks to our harm reduction strategies — would have been unable to compete with downtown establishments, resulting in students drinking in less safe environments. With a review of the policy upcoming, we must once again prepare to defend our student-run bars.

If we aren’t trusting students to hold each other accountable or to provide each other with a safe and enjoyable campus experience, are we adequately preparing them for life after graduation? Are we providing an environment where students grow as individuals, connect with their campus experience and become passionately involved alumni?

At what point will we start to see student leaders and students who simply cease to care about this place?

Trust in students is being lost.

Our ability to offer programming and services to one another and to act as stewards for the broader learning environment is increasingly burdened. We believe this trust is what has allowed us to thrive until now. What happens when that trust disappears?

In spite of this changing environment, you’ll still find students engaged on campus.

They are serving each other coffee or tea, providing enjoyable and

“Working with all the different sections at the Journal.”

JONAH EISEN, VOL. 141 GRAPHICS EDITOR

safe drinking establishments or getting each other home safely.

Students are responsible for keeping the University District clean, broadcasting athletic games to proud parents, volunteering time to serve the greater Kingston community and so much more.

However, this culture of liability aversion isn’t going away, and there are likely more examples to come.

Now, we wonder how future generations of students can reconcile this reality with our unique broader learning environment.

This year we have committed to engaging those who disagree with us, researching our solutions and striving to take into account both financial and risk impacts of our stances. This level of engagement must continue through future student leaders.

You don’t have to bleed tricolour, know all the words to the Oil Thigh or proudly wear your tam to be a true Gael.

What makes us Gaels is our unrelenting attempts to challenge this institution to be better for us — to make it our own. However, as student leaders, we have seen that the challenges are far greater than they used to be, and the sense of ownership we once enjoyed is being threatened.

What we do next is critical.

Students must continue asking our administration to remember what makes us special and to incorporate it into their everyday decision-making.

So here’s our call to action to you, to all students, to all alumni, to all in the Queen’s community: get involved in university governance or join the discussion on student autonomy on campus. Reach out to the current administration: our Principal, our Provost, our Dean of Student Affairs and our Chair of the Board of Trustees.

We proudly sing this battle cry all the time, but now is the time to impress it — cha gheill, no surrender. Let’s not surrender this student autonomy, this defining characteristic that makes this university the quintessential balanced academy. We cannot surrender it because it’s the best thing we do.

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Something doesn’t fit Union Gallery’s most memorable exhibit of the year is on now B y M aggie H eathcote Staff Writer Emily Zielke, BFA ’14, presents a view of the unsettled psyche in her exhibit, Wednesday of the Week.

“The Doctor is [Out],” reads the sign at the bottom of the cardboard-constructed booth that foregrounds Zielke’s installation.

The booth, located at the entrance of the exhibit, resembles the sort of lemonade stand many of us can recall from our youth.

This one, however, is offering psychiatric help at five cents.

Its placement denies the viewer physical entrance into the space. You’re now in the position of customer and consumer. It immediately demands a connection

between the viewer and the piece itself.

This is definitely not a work of art that one can dismiss easily.

My initial reaction to the exhibit is an overwhelming feeling of apprehension. Discernible voices and instrumental music overlap each other in a continuous, but sporadic track.

The visual elements of the piece seem just as unsettled. There is a pile of boxes in the back corner of the room that have faces painted on them. A rope is laid over them in a somewhat-threatening way.

The works’ facial expressions are relatively neutral outside of their eyes, which give an impression of uneasiness. Both anxious and dissatisfied in their attitudes, these

imposing stares deny the viewer a comfortable, distanced experience of the exhibit.

Zielke uses a lot of neutral tones in her work, with complementary bright colours. Black, grey and white are used in her painting, and the structures are made of brown cardboard. Pieces of red and green tape are then used as details throughout.

A clothesline serves as a background to the exhibit, and various clothing items are strayed throughout the room. One shirt is tied with rope at its sleeves; another is suffocated in a plastic bag.

One puzzling element of the piece is found on the backrest of the large cardboard couch, where the See An on page 13

Zielke’s exhibit doesn’t skimp on the details.

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Pippin pics The Blue Canoe production of Pippin continues at the Baby Grand Theatre until April 12 Photos by Charlotte Gagnier

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Classic hunt for grail still holds wine QMT’s production of Spamalot brings the wit and humour the Monty Python dynasty is known for B y M atthew Woodley Contributor Are you feeling in the dumps from the crushing load of upcoming exams? Spoil yourself with a hilarious musical treat and go see QMT’s rendition of Spamalot, which will surely help you look on the bright side of life.

This upbeat musical, set against the backdrop of medieval Britain, opens tonight at Theological Hall.

The production is “lovingly ripped off” from the extremely successful 70s film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, according to the play’s description. It follows

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Musical numbers draw from several different Python works.

King Arthur and his knights of the round table in their comical quest to find the grail of Biblical lore, as they always manage to sing and dance their way in and out of trouble.

With limited resources at their disposal, director Fiona Douglas, ArtSci ’14, and producer Antony Discenza, Comm ’14, were able to pull together a formidable cast and crew which makes for a spectacular show for all of the senses.

King Arthur, played by Jeff Adams, ArtSci ’14, commanded the stage with his booming voice and straightforward delivery.

Subtle glimpses of comedic gapes

capped off a strong performance for Adams. His “horse” Patsy, played by Erica Hill, ArtSci ’16, also gave a commendable performance as the beloved coconut-wielding character from the movie.

The knights of the round table, which consisted of Ryan Cowl, ConEd ’16, as Sir Robin, local high school student Will Gouett as Sir Lancelot , Sebastien Darcel-Sinclair, ArtSci ’14, as Sir Galahad, and Eric Lazure, ArtSci ’16, as Sir Bedevere were a comedic super team that were a pleasure to watch.

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Moving on from their campus haunt Clark Hall house band Friends of Genghis release debut EP ‘Stuck in the Clouds’ as tenure expires B Y K ASHMALA O MAR Contributor It’s difficult to believe that Friends of Genghis only recently began to receive more recognition within the community.

The group’s debut EP album Stuck in the Clouds was released on iTunes this past week, making the Clark Hall Pub band’s tunes available to those who don’t frequent the campus hotspot for bingo night.

Stuck in the Clouds is successful in coming off as a cohesive, creative

whole. The single “Blue Skies” will remind listeners of the band’s main influences: the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Jimi Hendrix, with smooth guitar solos that add an old-style feel to a song that goes well with the lead singer’s throaty, soulful vocals. “Blue Skies” captures the overall tone of the album and the band’s style.

Prior to winning a battle of the bands competition this past September, after which they became the Clark Hall Pub house band, the group built up their musical repertoire to form an alternative

Three Sci ‘14 students make up Friends of Genghis.

rock sound, with electronic and blues elements.

Friends of Genghis consists of three Sci ’14 students: lead vocalist Jordan Shew, bassist Andrew “Brown Magic” Gagnon-Nandram, and drummer Fred Bowen. Shew and Gagnon-Nandram met during first year and quickly began playing music together in residence. Bowen joined soon after. Over the next two years, the trio worked on covers and wrote original songs.

It’s clear that Friends of Genghis aren’t afraid to stray from their familiar approach and

experiment with adding elements of electric pop/rock and blues to their music in order to create a refreshing sound.

My personal favourite on the album, “One Last Time”, stands out because of this.

The song captured my attention and also induced some confusion; the music is electronic and whimsical while also incorporative of the band’s fundamental rock style, which impressed me. It’s distinct, as it includes both the old-school, rock feel that the band exudes while smoothly blending in a new-wave pop sound.

Despite the notable display of musical versatility, the album can lack what seems to come naturally to the band — mellow, soulful sound while still identifying as rock, by seemingly forcing the rock aspect at points. “Change My Mind” reflects this, although it should be known that the guitar/ drumming solos played together by Bowen and Gagnon-Nandram are near-perfect.

However, put together with the lyrical melodies, I wasn’t buying

the sound that they went for. There seems to be a more forced “rocker sound” being approached, heard through the abrupt lyrical breaks and harsher music.

The imaginative and mellow elements seen in the other songs aren’t fully present here, although with a few tweaks, the song has full potential to be on par with the others.

The debut EP album Stuck in the Clouds is an impressive collection of songs that contain thought-provoking lyrics and remarkable instrumentals that work together as one powerful unit.

Though at times the album doesn’t quite perfect the sound being reached for, the band is musically multifaceted — apparent in an album full of versatility and unexpected musical twists.

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Kingston arts scene: best of the best Journal staff members recount three standout arts events that took place in the city this year Concert Dan Bejar’s solo set was a beautiful thing to witness, absence of drum machines and saxophones be

damned. The setlist spanned his whole career, from his earliest output in the 90s all the way through to his most recent release, the Five Spanish Songs EP. For once,

the Grad Club audience was dead silent, allowing his cryptic lyrics and truly overwhelming voice to fill the room.

— Justin Santelli Gallery

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Emily Zielke’s installation, Wednesday of the Week, was the most provoking piece I saw this year, as well as being one of the most successfully executed.

Her work engulfs you, while keeping you at a distance from it. Zielke, BFA ’14, enables the viewer to contemplate the state Theatre of the mind, which establishes the strength of her work.

Young Frankenstein is an affectionate It is as though you are interacting musical parody of film adaptations of Mary Shelley`s Frankenstein. with the subconscious.

Dr. Frankenstein journeys from — Maggie Heathcote his modern life in New York to take on the old family business of

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It was the perfect blend of inappropriate singing, dancing, innuendo and dark humor.

Everyone was doing the “Transylvania Mania”.

— Janine Abuluyan

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An unsettling and puzzling art display My eye is drawn back to the exhibit’s entrance. On the stand there is a rusted drinking glass with in a single coin in it.

The lid of a mason jar sits beside it. The irony of this is somehow both amusing and heart-wrenching.

Zielke achieves a strong visceral experience for the viewer through her work.

It breaks you out of your comfort zone as a mere bystander, to create a powerful effect.

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artist has scrawled something. It seems to read “Thesis” — which would establish an interesting meta-element within the exhibit.

However, an item of clothing is hanging over some of the lettering, leaving room for the viewer’s guesswork.

The detail of Zielke’s work is impressive.

Tiny metal hooks pierce a corner of the couch, and dangling wiring from lamps are hung down from the ceiling. Both could easily go unnoticed by the inattentive viewer, but undoubtedly add to the piece’s overall effect.

Wednesday of the Week will be on display in the Project Room at Union Gallery until April 16. photo by arwin chan

QMT finds their grail in Spamalot Continued from page 10

twisting our funny bones with each entertaining joke made. Nowhere was this more evident than in the song “Knights of the Round Table,” when the cast showed us their singing prowess.

A special shout-out goes to Gouett for an especially strong performance as Sir Lancelot but also for giving the best rendition of Tim the Sorcerer that I have

ever seen.

As good as the performances from the main characters were, unfortunately they were all just playing for second.

The Lady of the Lake, played by Alysha Natalie, ArtSci ’15, stole the show with her angelic voice and brilliant acting.

On multiple occasions during the play she stepped into the crowd to deliver her lines, which added an interactive dimension to her performance.

The songs “Find your Grail” and “Whatever Happened to my Part?” in particular were stirring performances where Natalie got to show off her incredible range.

The ensemble added creative dance moves, playing every role from “Laker Girls” to French guards who taunt Arthur’s knights, to “The Knights who say Ni”.

They are lead by the fantastic choreographer Rebecca Hall, ArtSci ’14.

Musical director Jaclyn Stephenson,

ArtSci ’14, guided a solid performance for the orchestra which added range and depth to the musical numbers.

The talent of QMT’s Spamalot is top-notch and the entire cast will surely help you “find your grail”... if your grail is a good laugh.

QMT’s Spamalot plays from April 3-13 at Theological Hall.

music

Cousins conquer against all odds Halifax duo Cousins will be rolling through Kingston this month despite troubles on the road B y O livia L oncar -B artolini Contributor This year, up-and-coming Halifax band Cousins are bringing their Maritime sound all across the country. They’ve played shows in major cities such as Toronto, Montreal and New York — all before setting their sights on Kingston.

The band consists of drummer Leigh Dotey and guitarist Aaron Mangle, who both contribute vocals. The music of Cousins is soothing, with a grunge-based synth-pop feel .

A great example of this would be their song “River,” which starts out slow and smooth then gets louder and more aggressive towards the end — a classic alternative rock structure.

Leigh Dotey, drummer and vocalist, said one of their biggest influences is life on the road, which she describes as a struggle.

When looking at their videos on Vimeo, which mostly feature their tour van, it’s easy

Cousins is Leigh Dotey and Aaron Mangle.

to see how the touring lifestyle is influential to their music.

“You don’t really make money on that. It can be stressful. You drive for 10 hours and arrive at a show where no one shows up,” she said.

The band recently faced a challenge when their tour van broke down. “[It] led to a bit of personal breakdown,” she said. “But the tour needs to continue.”

Although life on the road has proven to be difficult, Dotey said she believes it’s worth it.

“You get stronger. You get tough,” she said. “You figure it out.”

Throughout the many challenges and triumphs, Cousins is continuing to navigate the Canadian music landscape. But the group is also critical of the scene, and Dotey believes that there is always room for improvement.

“Bands could have a ton more support from everyone,” she said. “Although, there’s a lot of great things happening.”

Cousins will continue to tour

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across Canada and has shows lined up throughout the rest of the year, which is an accomplishment for the band.

Dotey said the greatest achievement for herself thus far was learning how to

overcome stage fright.

“I’m not scared anymore,” she said. “I still get nervous, but I can deal with it.”

Cousins plays the Grad Club on April 12.

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Teaching in style The Queen’s Journal style nominations are in and we’ve got our contenders. From computing to English professors, our on line Q&A features six stylish professors and one dean.

They talked to us about their style influences and their thoughts on student style in the lecture halls. Given that style is a pretty subjective concept, we saw varied outfits from bold animal patterns to your classic tailored suit. Here’s what some professors, Alan Mcleod, Wayne Cox and Asha Varadharajan, have to say about their prof style:

Q: How would you describe your style?

McLeod: Oh, pretty casual. Comfortable and warm.

Cox: I kind of dress up a little bit. Mostly, I want to give the students the impression to take class seriously.

Varadharajan: Both attitude and irony.

There’s a boldness and chutzpah.

Q: Who is your style influence?

McLeod: My boss – my wife. She makes these, so that helps and she buys me my t-shirts and stuff.

Cox: Nobody, really. I just go shopping and if something looks kind of cool then I buy it.

Varadharajan: Celebrities I’ve always wanted to be: Patty Smith and Tina Turner.

Q: How would you describe student style?

McLeod: At 8:30? Well students usually dress pretty casually. It often depends what sort of major they’re in so Commerce students sometimes dress up more, and med students tend to dress up a little more. It’s usually pretty casual [and] comfortable.

Cox: Pretty varied. Well, that’s not true.

Pretty varied, except they all conform to this kind of Queen’s undergraduate, Queen’s jacket kind of thing. They should be maybe a little more independent.

Varadharajan: I think I notice a range of different effects and so some look shy and curious, others look immediately quirky or different because they have bright hair or mixed socks.

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As Queen’s 2013-14 athletic year draws to a close, the Journal’s sports team reflects on two pressing issues — and what actions should be taken

Sports journalism is still journalism B y N ick Faris Sports Editor “With so much to celebrate, it is hard to comprehend why you and the Journal chose to sensationalize versus to recognize.”

In last Friday’s issue, we ran a story outlining this year’s Colour Awards voting process — specifically, how men’s rugby was initially named best varsity team, before women’s rugby won an ensuing revote.

Our facts were correct, but the backlash was immediate. On Saturday, we received a letter from Jeff Downie, associate director at Queen’s Athletics, condemning our decision to publish the story.

Printed on official Athletics letterhead, Downie’s response didn’t dispute the accuracy of our report, but criticized us for not considering the impact it might have on the women’s rugby team. Essentially, they’re upset we didn’t protect their players from

When we attend games, we are representatives of the school, so when you act like a fool at a game, you’re making the university look awful.

the truth.

The above quote is a telling portion of Athletics’ letter to us. I believe their criticism is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of what our job — and the purpose of journalism — actually is.

Journalism exists to report the truth, to convey information to readers that they otherwise wouldn’t have known. It’s a public service that keeps organizations and individuals accountable, particularly when their actions and decisions could affect a lot of people.

The perception from some corners, though, is that sports should be exempt from this type of coverage and scrutiny. As sportswriters, the thinking goes, we should celebrate the achievements of the athletes we cover and ignore all else.

This, unfortunately, is a woeful delusion of our relationship. We relay information in an accessible and engaging way; it’s not our job to cheerlead if a Gaels team wins, or fixate solely on the positives if they lose.

As for Athletics, we cover them like the Journal covers other campus organizations.

Think of it this way: should our news section exist to celebrate the achievements of Queen’s student politicians and University administrators?

No. It should report the news and relevant information, whether it’s good or bad. The same applies to the Sports section. We work to inform the student body, not safeguard the interests of the athletic department.

Judging by Downie’s letter, Athletics expects us to toe the company line of a company we don’t work for. We find this troubling, and so should our readers. What’s the point of a campus newspaper that acts as a de facto public relations firm?

In his letter, Downie chided us for disrespecting women’s rugby and their championship season. On-field performance was never the issue, though. Rather, the issue is the bureaucratic skullduggery apparently at play behind the scenes of the athletic department.

Calling out a news organization for reporting the truth is shooting the messenger.

Still, in light of our story, Athletics says they’re “reevaluating” their relationship with the Journal.

In the meantime, we’ll continue to demand better of Athletics. As students, alumni and community members with a vested interest in Queen’s sports, I encourage you to do the same.

Their criticism is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of what our job — and the purpose of journalism — actually is.

Crowd behaviour must be addressed B y S ean S utherland Assistant Sports Editor You wouldn’t scream obscenities at a person on the street, so what makes it acceptable to do it to someone wearing another school’s jersey?

This is a problem we’ve been seeing in the stands at Queen’s games and university sports in general over the last few years.

There’s a point when school spirit crosses into abusive territory.

The line is crossed when the crowd starts calling someone the c-word or threatening their mother with rape, just because they play for the other team.

Those are just some of the things I’ve heard in the stands or from other schools’ athletes.

And it’s not just one or two individuals doing

these sorts of things, either. Queen’s has one of the most abusive crowds I’ve seen at a sporting event.

Think for a second about how this reflects on Queen’s. When we attend games, we are representatives of the school, so when you act like a fool at a game, you’re making the university look awful.

Yet Queen’s isn’t the only school with this problem. It’s become a serious epidemic at the university level.

At a road game I attended this year, Queen’s athletes were berated and harassed by the other team’s students. In all my years of going to games, it was the worst crowd I had ever seen.

In this case, it was made worse because the students in question were members of the home school’s varsity teams. They used the treatment they received at Queen’s games to justify their actions.

It’s completely unfair to the athletes. As their peers, a large part of the responsibility for putting a stop to this behaviour falls on our shoulders.

It’s not easy to change, as abusing the other team has become ingrained in our sporting culture. Better judgment has to be exercised by spectators to ensure they’re cheering on their school, not attacking another person.

Part of what makes university sports so amazing is that the athletes are our peers — even the ones on the opposing team. That football player you just yelled at might have a sister at Queen’s.

That hockey player you just called something unprintable went to your high school.

Think about that next time you’re leaning over the railings, yelling at someone.

If students refuse to stop, administrators will have to step in and do something.

Events staff should monitor the crowd to make sure students are crossing the line, and that those who do are escorted from the event. If someone gets kicked out of more than one game in a school year, give them a ban.

At the end of the day, we should know better. This harassment needs to stop.

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Student clubs hindered Inefficiency, lack of space hurts groups under Athletics and Rec B y N ick Faris Sports Editor Student clubs under Athletics and Recreation may not be getting the support they need.

This year, there are 27 sanctioned recreational clubs under A&R, along with the 13 varsity teams and 20 varsity clubs that compete for Queen’s in interuniversity play.

For students running rec clubs, considerable legwork goes into spearheading trips and coordinating members. Athletics and Recreation is the overarching support system for these clubs, but some students say the department can be more of a hindrance than help.

Luke Morrissey is the president of the Outdoors Club, a student group that runs up to three trips per weekend throughout the school year.

The club has camped, canoed, skied, sledded and backpacked across Ontario, Quebec and the United States. For Morrissey, though, the toughest challenge can be convincing A&R to act on his club’s requests.

“There are a lot of hoops we have to jump through bureaucratically to get stuff to happen,” said Morrissey, Sci ’14.

“They say they support us in what we want to do, but if you want to help us become a successful club and expand, you’re not doing that. You’re making it harder.”

There are certain benefits of

operating as a rec club under A&R. Clubs can book up to four hours of free facility use per week, have designated storage space for their equipment and receive liability coverage for every trip.

Those benefits, though, come at the cost of bureaucratic stagnation and a lack of communication, according to Morrissey. These two factors coalesced earlier this year, when the Outdoors Club was unable to run any trips until after Thanksgiving.

As a “high-risk” student group, Morrissey said the Outdoors Club has to file a particular set of forms with A&R before embarking on any trip.

This year, he said, A&R began to enforce a hard three-week deadline, forcing clubs to finalize their itinerary and participant list 21 days before departure.

The imposition of the deadline negatively affected the Outdoors Club as a whole this year. Instead of kickstarting their weekend trips immediately in September, Morrissey said, the club had to wait for A&R to retrain a student executive member in how to fill out trip forms.

That session, Morrissey said, was set up two weeks into the fall semester. The club then collected trip sign-ups and sweated out the three-week grace period. It was well into October before they could truly venture outdoors.

“They kind of change the

rules, but never fully inform you of everything and all the implications until you’re breaking that rule,” Morrissey said. “That creates friction.”

In between trips, Morrissey said two small rooms in the ARC are allocated to the club to store their equipment: sleeping bags, tents, life jackets, paddles, skis and more.

The club moved from the PEC to the ARC when the latter opened in 2010, but hasn’t seen their storage space increase, according to Morrissey, despite a demonstrated need.

At present, there isn’t enough space to store their equipment properly, Morrissey said, meaning gear that might typically last over a decade is good for just seven or eight years.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot, because it’s technically all their equipment,” he said. “[Because] we’re storing them in such inefficient manners, they’re getting destroyed much earlier.”

As the president of Queen’s recreational Climbing Club (QCC), Jeremy Waugh faces a similar equipment conundrum.

Most climbing ropes, he said, must be retired after a few years for safety reasons — but due to A&R policy, the club isn’t allowed to dispose of them.

“There’s lockers and lockers [at the ARC] filling up with retired gear, and it just sits there over the years,” said Waugh, CompSci ’14.

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Luke Morrissey said the Outdoors Club expected more storage space when they moved to the ARC in 2010.

“If the club purchases equipment with their money from members, there are some regulations with that equipment. We can buy it, we can use it, but we can’t throw it out.”

Waugh’s a three-year member of the Climbing Club, which operates primarily out of the Boiler Room Climbing Gym on Cataraqui St. and organizes around five to six out-of-city weekend climbing excursions per year.

As A&R has increased their regulations in recent years, Waugh said, the number of trips outside Kingston has dwindled.

“The number of official trips run by the QCC is fewer because of the logistical nightmare of filling out these forms and running official club trips,” he said.

“What happens in most cases is members will run trips privately, outside of the umbrella of the club and the ARC, to avoid the paperwork and the logistical issues

of running trips.”

Just as trip participants must be locked down 21 days in advance, so too must the club’s destination.

This poses problems for the Climbing Club’s outdoor outings.

Since climbing in the rain isn’t safe, the club can be left in the lurch when confronted with untimely weather.

“You have to know where you’re going exactly almost a month before it’s happening,” Waugh said. “When that day comes, if the weather is bad, we can cancel the trip, but we can’t change the location of the trip.

“If it was just you and a couple of friends, you’d have a few locations in mind — you’d always have a backup location,” he added.

“There really isn’t an option to do that with the ARC right now … If there was more leniency, it would make running trips easier.”

Athletics and Recreation did not respond to a request for comment.

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Steady hand at the helm In nearly three decades at Queen’s, Brenda Willis has built men’s volleyball into a perennial contender B y S ean S utherland Assistant Sports Editor Men’s volleyball head coach Brenda Willis has seen a lot since taking the helm back in 1987.

Willis wrapped up her 27th season with the Gaels this year, and while she’s taking her career on a year-by-year basis, she doesn’t see herself putting her clipboard away just yet.

Although the six-time OUA champion has seen many players come and go during her time at Queen’s, Willis said they still keep in contact, adding that she’s “been to a lot of weddings.”

Willis, who will be inducted into the Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame on May 2, spoke with the Journal this week about her career and the team going forward.

[2010] with that group, probably should have won in [2011]. We won again in 2012 and finished fourth in the country. That was our peak group, the best group we’ve probably had. I think we’ve won with some groups that probably shouldn’t win, but clearly that group should have won and did.

You’ve also been named OUA Coach of the Year five times.

What does it mean to receive that sort of recognition?

I’ve always believed those awards are a compliment not just to me, but to the entire coaching staff and the team. I guess the first time was special — especially being the opposite gender to all of my peers.

It was recognition from my peers that they’re respecting what I do is as credible as what any of them do.

Now, it’s just I do my job and if I get recognized, great. If not, someone else does and that’s great too. I don’t put a lot of stock in those awards, but it’s always nice to be recognized, for sure.

You will be inducted into the Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame. What does this recognition mean to you?

I was pretty overwhelmed and flattered by that. I think it’s an acknowledgment of the overall contribution. I don’t believe I deserve to be in the Kingston Sports Hall of Fame for my 27 years of coaching at Queen’s, because there’s a lot of great coaches that have long careers at universities, across the river and here. We’re

For you, what was the highlight of the past 27 years?

No question for me, without even stopping to think, the highlight was hosting the CIS championship [in 2012] and beating a top Canada West team in the first round. That was a huge highlight.

I think another highlight was getting the job. I think at the time I got it there were a lot of schools that wouldn’t even consider a female for a men’s team and to the credit of Bob Carnegie, who was the person who hired me at the beginning — he’s about four Athletic Directors ago — he took a chance on me. I outlasted him by a long, long time.

Over the 27 years you’ve been head coach, you’ve won six OUA titles. How do they compare to each other?

Well, I think every one is completely different. It’s really been with three or four different generations of players. It takes two or three years in a cycle to develop the trust among athletes and the timing and confidence to build a contender.

I think with the group we had that finished in 2012 — we won in

doing our jobs and I don’t think that’s a reason to be honoured at that level.

I’ve had a lot of involvements outside of the University. Between coach education — which I’ve done over 100 certification clinics for coaches — and being involved in provincial teams. I was the president of Ontario Volleyball for 10 years. I’ve been involved with national programs and hosting national championships.

I think this recognition is because of those pieces, as much as the accomplishments at Queen’s.

Brenda Willis has led the Gaels to six OUA championships in her 27 years as head coach.

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Final Four fixation Continued from page 19

What would you consider your coaching style to be?

I guess I’d say I try to be a democratic coach most of the time. I like to have some dialogue with my assistant coaches and captains, so we try to come to consensus on most things.

I’m willing to give on some things and then there’s the odd things that [are] just not negotiable.

I’m not a screamer by any means. I hate losing. I’m very driven to be the best I can be, and I guess I operate on a philosophy that you should really never let an opponent outwork you.

How much of an emphasis do you place on building a team over several years at Queen’s? Or is it less of a cycle and more trying to win every year?

No, I think it’s definitely cyclical. You set yourself up for failure if you think you can win every single year. You definitely need seasoned leadership, you definitely need physical strength, that takes a couple of years to develop.

It’s not easy to come in as a rookie and play against 22-year-olds who have been training for four years. So I will say being young is a reality — it isn’t an excuse, you’re still trying to be the best you can be. But you have to have realistic expectations.

The last two seasons, you’ve been bumped out of the playoffs in the first round. How does that shape your desire for a title next season?

I think it’s a reminder that every match is important. How does it shape my desire? I don’t think it changes anything. I think what it does for the players is that it makes them

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SPORTS IN BRIEF Aprile signs with Hamilton

extra hungry to break into the final four.

The goal for next year is to get not only to Another Queen’s wide receiver has signed on the final four, but three [OUA] teams go on with a professional club. to nationals next year and we’re bound and Following Justin Chapdelaine’s signing determined to be one of the three. with the CFL’s Ottawa RedBlacks last month, leading Gaels wideout Giovanni Aprile has You are the only female men’s volleyball reached a deal with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats coach in the CIS. What does it mean to you — the second pro team of his young career. to be a trailblazer in that sense?

Aprile was drafted by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2012, where they had plans I didn’t set out to do that. I try not to focus to transition him into the defensive side of on that. I think the athletes who are here, for the squad. the last 25 years at least, knew who I was and As a three-time OUA All-Star who scored knew I was female before they came. So to 20 touchdowns in his Gaels career, it’s their credit, gender’s not an issue for them, expected that Aprile will retain his usual they’re accepting of it. position of receiver in Hamilton. The Tiger-Cats traded for him back in January Have you ever come across problems being and officially signed him last week. a female coach in a men’s sport?

Aprile spent the final years of his Queen’s career under offensive co-ordinator Ryan No, to be honest I haven’t. I think the Sheahan, a former running back coach with disadvantages are no different than the Tiger-Cats. Sheahan will join the Team [women’s basketball coach] Dave Ontario Coaching Staff in preparation for the Wilson … or whenever you’re coaching 2014 Football Canada Cup in July. the opposite gender.

— Alex Pickering In the past, a lot of the media have turned the angle of the article towards me and the whole gender thing. I want them to ask ‘what’s your win-loss record? What have you accomplished?’ as opposed to the whole gender issue. It’s been a distraction more than anything.

Queen’s pairs win pair of national debating crowns On March 23, Julia Kirby and Michelle Polster became the first all-female team to win the Canadian national debating championships since 1982, becoming only the second all-woman team to do so.

The Queen’s duo beat out over 30 teams to win the national title.

Polster says the win was a “massive shock,” adding that Kirby was much more confident going in to the tournament.

Leading up to the tournament, Polster said she tried to tell Kirby to lower her expectations but realized as the tournament went on that a win was possible.

A Queen’s team also won the Canadian novice championship, with Mitchell Dorbyk and Will Maidment claiming the title for first-year debaters.

According to Polster, it’s rare for a first-year team to make it into the top 18 teams at nationals, which Dorbyk and Maidment did “handily.”

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Lots. You like to think that as a coach, you’ve had quite a big impact on people’s lives. I can think of quite a few people whose lives I’ve possibly changed in a positive way.

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lAST Words B y J anina E nrile Editor in Chief It’s fitting that my last words will read like a eulogy.

My time at the Journal, may it rest in peace, was filled with laughs, heartaches and unadulterated joy. It was a friend to me when I needed one, and a tired routine when I did least.

I loved it, either way. Even when I hated it, I loved it. I’m not lying. I think.

It’s only Journal kids, as I so affectionately call us cynics and wordsmiths, who understand how you can feel such pain and ecstasy about a place.

The Journal saw a lot of changes this year. We made nearly half of our production digital, with two landmark features coming out of it. Both qjhomecoming.com and qjsotu.com showed our readers what could be done with some forward-thinking minds and a hell of a lot of hard work.

And it was our staff’s hard work — from covering Homecoming’s return to the campus uproar surrounding last week’s men’s issues talk — that really made the difference. Their belief in strong journalism was clear when they rallied to support a Journal fee increase which, starting next year, will go towards the paper’s next steps.

In my first year here, I spent many nights sitting in the chill of the 190 University Ave. porch. The campus gets really quiet in the late nights we produce the paper but, my, how we know the opposite end of that spectrum.

That noise, that movement, wouldn’t be possible without some incredibly dedicated people.

To our editorial staff, who helped Alison and I keep our heads during every mess and every triumph of the year. Your unwavering tenacity and courage are why this place is alive.

To Jacob and the business staff, I still marvel at how lucky we are to have you. And to Gen and Kevin, thank you for everything you’ve done for this place.

To my family and to Rosie, you’ve both put up with a lot — I’ve been a bad friend, a bad daughter and a bad sister. Thank you for your infinite patience and support.

To Gabe, your constant advice and support have been nothing but helpful. I am grateful.

To those of you, and you know who you are, who have been so kind and forgiving We want to thank the volunteers who contributed to Volume 141.

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these past three years. I can’t thank you enough for being that stable point in a year full of uncertainty.

Jake and Clare, thanks for taking a chance on me, and teaching me what it means to be a real journalist. To Katherine and Labiba, you helped me see the kind of writer I want to become. You’ve all had such faith in me as my editors — thank you.

To Nick and Vince, I leave this place a little less anxious because of you. You’re going to do so well, and I can’t wait to see how you shape the year ahead.

And to Alison, one of my best friends, you understood every single thing I’ve felt this year. I’m constantly amazed by your drive, and I’m glad that we did this together. I’m so sad it’s over.

To you, dear reader, you pushed us in so many ways this year, and I thank you for it.

When we did something well, you noticed.

And when we did something wrong, you sometimes more vehemently noticed. Thank you for both, and we’re sorry for when we did get those things wrong.

They say the printed word is dead, that we student journalists have little to look forward to. So, though my last words sound like a eulogy, I’ll tell you this — we’re not dead. We’re not even dying. We’re looking to the next place, the next thing to write about, the next way this campus can move.

And hopefully you’ll still be there with the Journal, watching. I know I will be.

Janina still, somehow, wants to keep writing.

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B y A lison S houldice Editor in Chief Running a campus newspaper in today’s world is exhilarating and terrifying.

There are so many opportunities to shine, yet so many ways to fall. When Janina and I made the decision to cut our twice-weekly print issues last summer — replacing one with an online edition — I was scared we were making a mistake.

It turns out I had nothing to worry about.

Our staff worked hard this year to ensure we weren’t left in the dust. We leapt into the world of digital storytelling with our first-ever major web projects: a Homecoming multimedia feature and a seven-part series on the state of the University.

No matter what form it takes, campus journalism will remain relevant; there will always be a need for trusted news organizations to keep students informed and leaders accountable.

When people find out I work at the Journal, a common complaint I hear is that we’re too negative and fail to boost morale.

But that’s not what we’re here for. Like any newspaper, we relay the truth to readers and act as a forum for discussion.

To the students who understand the importance of campus media and supported our fee increase last month: we won’t let you down. These extra funds will allow us to expand and improve our coverage.

It also means we can provide a better experience for student journalists.

This year’s Journal staff are an incredible bunch. I imagine there are few other places on campus you’ll find students that share their passion. Many of them knowingly allow their GPAs to plummet, their free time to vanish and their waistlines to expand in the name of journalism.

Dedication like this is what’s kept this place relevant for 140 years.

To those that led the way in the last few years, I owe you everything.

Katherine and Labiba, you hired me as an awkward newbie. Thank you for bringing me on board — the opportunities you gave me won’t be forgotten. Jake and Clare, I’m eternally grateful for all the help and advice you gave us this year.

I’m the first Journal editor who didn’t work on staff with the paper’s retired administrative assistant, Gabriele King, but she’s remained supportive. Gabe, a huge thank you for that.

Without ads, we have no paper. So to our Business Manager, Jacob, thank you for keeping us breathing, and for doing so with such professionalism. Gen and Kevin, we haven’t forgotten the hard work you put in earlier this year.

To my parents, Carol and Lee: you put up with a year’s worth of my Queen’s-themed rants and genuinely cared.

It’s meant the world to me. Rosie, I’m pretty sure you kept me stable this year.

To next year’s editors, Nick and Vince: the amount of passion you both hold for this place and for journalism is remarkable.

I know you’ll produce incredible work next year, and I can’t wait to see it.

Janina, we’ve joked about running away together, but I’m glad we stuck it out.

It’s been an absolute pleasure being your co-editor. You’re the person I spent most of my waking hours with this year, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way.

There are so many people to thank, but it’s you, the readers, who are the most important. You keep us accountable and push us to be better.

If you lauded or loathed our coverage, called our office, tweeted at us, commented online or wrote a letter: thank you. Without curious, passionate and questioning readers, a newspaper is nothing.

And with that, it’s all over. Thanks for keeping the conversation going.

Alison is ready to cut down on coffee.

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Underwear art stripped down JUNE 24, 2013 The University has sparked before the event had begun.

“They told me that they wanted controversy after it banned a student’s artwork at a high-profile work that was going to be inviting — something nice to look at for a donor event.

On May 29, David Woodward, nice background,” Woodward said.

BFA ’13, was invited to display “They said the work needed to be his artwork at a donor event in taken down and I needed to leave Goodes Hall, but was later told by extension.”

After the event, Woodward to take down his display after some organizers deemed it said he emailed Lisa Menard, the event’s organizer, after the event too “inappropriate.”

The event was held for the Grant to express his disappointment.

Hall Society, which is comprised Menard then contacted Tom Harris, of donors who have contributed vice-principal of advancement, $1,000 or more to the University who deals with alumni relations within the past year. Woodward’s and fundraising.

Harris apologized to Woodward piece, which is entitled All I Am is What I’ve Felt, consists of 10 pairs soon after the incident occurred. of men’s underwear pinned onto a Woodward said he was satisfied white board. Woodward and one with Harris’ apology and his efforts other BFA student were at the event to remedy the situation.

Principal Woolf also apologized to display their art. Woodward said none of the organizers had to Woodward during the Bachelor expressed any concerns with his of Fine Arts convocation ceremony in June. work beforehand.

He said he was told to take — Olivia Bowden down his artwork 20 minutes

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Alfie’s goes Underground JULY 30, 2013

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The AMS is undertaking an overhaul of Alfie’s, renovating the 37-year-old nightclub and re-branding it as “The Underground,” the most recent attempt to address the club’s continuing financial losses.

The nightclub was previously named “The Underground” when it first opened in 1976, and changed to “Alfie’s” in 1979.

The upcoming overhaul was brought to AMS Board of Directors the weekend of June 7 and passed in closed session, in response to a steady decline in revenue and overall poor financial performance over the past six years.

“It was essentially wasting student dollars in its current form because it didn’t have a brand students were connecting to and a brand

our management team could work with,” said Nicola Plummer.

Over the past 12 years, the AMS has spent upwards of $330,000 on renovations, excluding the most recent endeavour and funds used to balance its overarching deficits.

The most recent project will feature better lighting, increased booth space and student artwork, which will showcase graffiti painted across the club’s walls inside.

Students weren’t directly consulted for the project, Plummer added, but she said the AMS “[constantly] consults” students indirectly via attendance and revenue figures, which she said indicated students didn’t identify with the club, as it stood.

— Vincent Ben Matak

Hate mail sent to professor JULY 30, 2013 All Karen Dubinsky is worried about are two pieces of paper and the threats they carry with them.

The letters were found in a pile of mail waiting for Dubinsky, a Queen’s professor, and her partner Susan Belyea after a family getaway to the cottage that ended July 17.

Labelled by the Kingston Police as a “hate crime”, the letters contain physical threats towards the couple, telling them to move out of Kingston or be subject to “deadly serious action.”

The letters claimed affiliation with a Christian group based in the “Deep South.”

The second letter, addressed couldn’t comment on the details to “lesbos”, began by describing of the investigation, but said the a meeting the group had “on police have “multiple avenues how to best deal with [Dubinsky of investigation.” and Belyea].”

According to Koopman, the “Some of our younger members individual or group responsible want to have fun chasing some for the letters could face up to ‘lesbos,’” the letter read. “We 10 years for criminal harassment have brought them BB guns and up to five years for and today they are doing target uttering threats. practice, so that they can hunt In the wake of the letters being you down.” published on social media, people According to Steven Koopman, have moved to support Dubinsky Kingston Police media relations and Belyea. officer, the case has been assigned to the major crimes unit.

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Homecoming returns OCT. 5, 2013

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Kingston police were out in full force on Oct. 5, deploying up to 80 officers on Aberdeen St. and the surrounding area for the return of Homecoming.

Officers, who were seen driving a paddy wagon around the Student Ghetto, arrested 10 students for public intoxication and disrupting public peace by 12:30 a.m., out of approximately 700 traversing the area.

A female student, who was hit with a beer bottle near Johnson and Aberdeen Streets, was taken away by an ambulance at around midnight.

For the first official Homecoming since 2008, Aberdeen St. was visibly calmer given the heavy police presence, alumni said.

Kingston police attempted to keep students off the sidewalk and big crowds moving, while patrolling social media to prevent potential misconduct.

In 2008, 138 arrests were made

over the weekend, 105 of which were made on Saturday night.

“We let you guys take it one year … that was a very bad choice,” an on-duty police officer told a student on Aberdeen St. By 1 a.m., most party-goers had dispersed from Aberdeen St. The night, though, wasn’t without hiccups.

Kingston Fire and Rescue shut down a house party at 39 Aberdeen St. because of too many people populating the house’s front balcony.

Students were also seen vomiting, breaking beer bottles and lighting fireworks along the street.

“It’s controlled chaos right now,” Mike Lief, ArtSci ’98, said. “[But] it’s very tame this year, and I hope it’s because people know they will lose [Homecoming] if it gets out of hand.”

— Vincent Ben Matak

Muslim students subject to hate crime OCT. 10, 2013 Six Queen’s students are the victims of a hate crime that took place on Sunday, according to Kingston police.

The male students, who self-identify as Muslim, were walking home from Empire Theatres near Division St. and Highway 401 at approximately 1:30 a.m. when they were assaulted by four Caucasian males. The assault itself happened closer to the downtown core, at Fraser and Patrick Streets.

The Kingston Police Force arrested three of the people suspected to have been involved in the attacks.

The first two accused arrested

were Kenneth J. Murphy, 19-years-old, and Clayton R. Lee, 18-years-old.

The third assailant, a 20-year-old Kingston male, was arrested to be formally charged with Assault with a Weapon, Uttering Threats and Breach of Probation.

Police are still looking to identify, arrest and charge the fourth assailant.

The group approached the students on bicycles, yelling hate-based profanities and racial slurs while wielding a baseball bat.

One of the victims of the attack said they were approached by

Queen’s pays City for policing party NOV. 21, 2013 The University announced on Nov. 20 that it would pay $100,000 to the City of Kingston for three years, to help cover policing costs associated with Homecoming and the general student population.

Principal Woolf met with Kingston Mayor Mark Gerretsen and other stakeholders leading up to the agreement, after Gerretsen said in October that Queen’s should contribute to the extra policing costs.

This year, the City of Kingston spent $104,000 on policing during Homecoming celebrations.

Principal Woolf stated in a press release that the unsanctioned street party put an unnecessary strain on the City’s resources.

The money given will also contribute to policing as well as “outreach and engagement” work.

Principal Woolf told the Journal the reasons for the agreement

the males, who were drunk and offering to sell them drugs.

“These four guys started chasing [us] who are all Muslim and they started screaming out … foul

languages and racial hate speeches,” Police have classified as a hate the student said. They hit one of crime, left one student with the students with the baseball bat minor injuries. in the biceps and thigh area, he said.

The attack, which Kingston — Vincent Ben Matak

AMS, SGPS win OMB appeal NOV. 7, 2013 The AMS, the Sydenham District Association (SDA) and law student Kevin Wiener successfully appealed City Council’s electoral boundary realignment bylaw.

In a decision dated Nov. 6, the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) ruled that City Council “acted unreasonably” in adopting the realignment structure that it did.

On April 23, City Council passed its proposed “Option 1” with a 7-6 vote. This option didn’t include students in its population count and would eliminate Sydenham District, meaning that students would be represented by

three city councillors instead of the current four.

The AMS, the SDA and Wiener all filed separate appeals in June, arguing that the realignment would provide less representation for students. The SGPS was also involved, acting as a participant to the AMS appeal.

This week’s OMB decision ruled in favour of “Preferred Revised Option 4” replacing Option 1, meaning that Sydenham District will be preserved and students will be included in the total population tally.

The decision notes that though

students may be temporary residents, they contribute to the community and have issues to bring to municipal government.

At the hearing, the City noted that no other municipality with post-secondary education institutions include students in their population counts, the Board didn’t view this as a valid argument.

The City of Kingston released a statement on Nov. 8, noting that this decision will “influence all municipalities with colleges and universities.”

— Alison Shouldice

come from the need for extra policing in the student areas throughout the year, and during certain unsanctioned celebrations, such as Homecoming and St. Patrick’s Day. “We [are] making this as a contribution to cover anything that would occur year round … and in general to keep students safe and secure,” Woolf said. “[Safety] is a very high priority.”

Mayor Gerretsen said he’s happy with the results of his talks with Woolf.

“It’s up to the University to decide how they come up with the $100,000,” he said.

“I’m just thrilled that the University … recognizes a need to be a contributing partner.”

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Dons dissent, discuss unionization NOV. 28, 2013 Residence dons are rallying against changes made to their workloads, with talks of unionizing in the future. Some have even threatened to walk off the job.

The Journal first learned of the possibility of dons unionizing — a move being spearheaded by senior residence dons — in September.

A don, who requested to remain anonymous, said increased responsibilities this semester are making dons feel like they’re being taken advantage of.

Fear of losing their jobs has led any dissent to remain under wraps, the don said.

While not paid a salary, dons receive free room and board as well as a meal plan.

“They put us in a very vulnerable state because they’re not just our bosses — we rely on them for our housing,” the don said.

In August, dons were told by members of Residence

Life — the body that oversees residence services at Queen’s — that they would have to complete eight programs, rather than four.

Two weeks ago, dons said they were told they would have to work on-call 24/7 in December, a job that’s traditionally the responsibility of Residence Life Coordinators.

The changes, which were allegedly introduced by Chauncey Kennedy, Residence Life manager, weren’t stipulated in the work contracts signed by dons following their hiring last March.

Chauncey Kennedy did not respond to interview requests from the Journal.

The don declined to provide further detail regarding their plans to unionize. Providing further detail could jeopardize the plans, she said.

— Vincent Ben Matak

University District recognized by City FEB. 7, 2014 City Council passed a motion in February in support of an AMS project to erect “University District” signs throughout the student housing area.

Street signs will include the term “University District” atop of street names, in either blue or green colours.

The signs are part of an effort to rename the student housing area previously known as the “Student Ghetto” and as the “Student Village”.

“We found that ‘Student Village’ didn’t catch on,” Catherine Wright, AMS municipal affairs commissioner, told the Journal in November. “We will straight up admit to that.”

The overall aim, according to Wright, is to eliminate the politically incorrect use of the term “ghetto”, increase liveability and promote beautification of the area.

The project will cost approximately $10,000, which will be evenly split between the City and the AMS. The project was first presented

by AMS Municipal Affairs Commissioner Catherine Wright to the Near Campus Neighbourhoods Advisory Committee (NCNAC), before it was taken to Council.

Both bodies voted unanimously in favour of the project.

— Sebastian Leck

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Identity theft investigated OCT. 5 2013 Team SMH presidential candidate Scott Mason has filed a police report regarding an alleged identity theft in the ownership of four elections-related websites.

The websites — “votewrl.com”, “votewlr.com”, “voteajp.com” and “voteapj.com” — were purchased by someone claiming to be Mason, ArtSci ’14, early in December, according to the websites’ registrant information.

His election opponent, Team WRL, whose website is at teamwrl. com, was prevented from purchasing any of the four domains, as it appeared they were owned

by Mason.

The AMS elections team later determined that Mason was not guilty of any wrongdoing in the situation.

Team WRL’s campaign manager, Troy Sherman, ArtSci ’14, filed a report with the AMS elections team after they made the discovery on Dec. 18. An official investigation was launched on Dec. 20.

Mason, who was contacted by the AMS elections team as part of the investigation on Jan. 1, had no prior knowledge of his name

Media services secure funds at Annual General Meeting MARCH 21, 2014 The AMS Annual General Meeting (AGM) Tuesday night saw three 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.

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 Devin McDonald.

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

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.

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

attached to the sites, he told the Journal. After contacting the abuse hotline of the domain’s parent site “godaddy.com”, Mason filed a police report, claiming to be the victim of identity theft.

The domains were linked to “scottjmason@hotmail.com”, an email Mason said he doesn’t own.

“I was offended by this harassment and it did cause a big kerfuffle for my family,” he said.

Chris Parker, AMS chief returning officer, said a ruling from the investigation was difficult to make, as there was no way to externally confirm the ownership of the domains.

“It’s something we don’t have the ability to control because it could be external to the Queen’s community,” he said.

— Vincent Ben Matak

Union Gallery loses fee increase FEB. 28, 2014 The Union Gallery unsuccessfully sought a mandatory fee on Feb. 13 at AMS Assembly, throwing the student-run gallery into further financial uncertainty.

The gallery opened in 1994 and operated for 18 years with a mandatory fee. In November 2012, the gallery lost its three-year mandatory fee of $3.71 by a margin of 28 votes in a referendum.

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

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

The presenters said that without a fee, the gallery would only be able to open one and a half days

per week. They would no longer be able to provide internship or volunteer opportunities.

The Union Gallery planned to approach the AMS Board of Directors to find out what recourses for appeal to the Assembly ruling are available.

During Assembly, Mark Asfar, the proxy for an ASUS representative, argued against the gallery receiving a fee through Assembly.

“We have to take caution in creating votes in implementing mandatory fees outside of the referendum process,” Asfar, ArtSci ’14, said.

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

the Journal motion,” Donaldson, ArtSci ’15, said.

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.

“Procedural policy is so crucial in ensuring open debate and discussion,” he added.

— Chloe Sobel

— Chloe Sobel

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KCVI’s closing controversy JUL. 30, 2013

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An orchard of options SEPT. 13, 2013 Mail survey.

“It’s not an all-you-care-to-eat because, as a nutritionist, I would argue that it encourages students to overeat,” said Anne Zok, nutrition manager at Western’s Hospitality Services.

Sandra Leduc, a registered dietician at Hotel Dieu Hospital in adult mental health, believes students should be conscious of what their bodies need in terms of nutrition but shouldn’t get hung up on the numbers.

“If you do follow Canada’s Food Guide and more of the serving sizes and try not to look at the calories, I think that would be more helpful because then you don’t have to worry about numbers,” she said.

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In 2012, a survey done by the Globe and Mail ranked Queen’s second in overall student satisfaction with on-campus dining. The University of Guelph ranked first, with schools like Western falling not far behind in the top 10.

“What we’ve really noticed is that there are students that have different requirements in terms of their dietary needs,” said Joli Manson, general manager of Sodexo at Queen’s.

Unlike Queen’s, the University of Guelph runs its own dining facilities without a contractor like Sodexo. The Student Nutrition Awareness Program (SNAP) is an on-campus program at Guelph

that award students with free food after 10 purchases of healthy food items.

Western University Hospitality Services ranked eighth in overall food satisfaction in the Globe and

Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute (KCVI), a historic Kingston landmark and neighbour to Queen’s, may be shutting its doors for good.

The school, which is the oldest publicly-funded high school in Ontario, is caught in the middle of a funding deficit the local school board is facing due to decreasing enrolment.

Since 2011, deliberations and consultations have taken place about the future of the three downtown-area high schools: KCVI, Loyalist Collegiate (LCVI) and Queen Elizabeth Collegiate (QECVI).

The process is now slowly coming to a close, and it’s looking likely that KCVI will be closing down.

In a meeting on June 19, trustees for the Limestone District School Board (LDSB) approved a motion to close both KCVI and QECVI in

order to build a new school. This outcome would keep LCVI open.

“Trustees carefully considered more than two years of consultation, input and review before making their decision,” said Karen Smith, communications officer for the LDSB. James Gibson-Bray’s family has attended KCVI for five generations.

He organized a protest against KVCI’s closing, scheduled four days before exams, yet over 100 students showed up.

He expressed how unfair he felt the deliberation process has been — how it was designed to turn students from different Kingston schools against each other.

To him, it appeared they only went through the process just to make it “official”.

“There’s some crooked stuff going on there,” he said.

— Rachel Herscovici

Information overloaded, Syrian conflict not decoded SEPT. 17, 2013

The world has seen red. But redness can be blinding. According to experts, the public struggles to recognize Syria’s crisis as anything but black and white.

Christian Leuprecht, a professor of political science at Royal Military College and the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s, said — Rachel Herscovici that public confusion surrounding the Syrian civil war hinges on the failure to contextualize its cumulative conflicts.

“We decontextualize these conflicts, and so when we see the violence, we really want to put an end to it ...We dramatically over-simplify the dynamics on the ground, especially when we’re so far away and we’re so unfamiliar with the region,” Leuprecht said.

It’s difficult, according to Leuprecht, for a population so far removed from the conflict PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY COLIN TOMCHICK in question to

fully understand the dimensions of a situation that has gradually intensified.

“As individuals, I think we’re not necessarily particularly informed, but I think that as a collective, we do a lot better than we give ourselves credit for,” he added.

Digvijay Mehra, ArtSci ’14, president of the Queen’s International Affairs Association (QIAA), said Canadians should strive to be as informed as possible on any issue that implicates Canada’s population, as this one does.

To say that one is informed at all, however, may be a far cry from reality.

According to Queen’s professor of sociology, Richard Day, one shouldn’t assume it’s a good thing to become expressly educated on all issues.

“I’m never sure of whether one is doing more damage by participating or ignoring these kinds of spectacular events, because for us here, Syria is a spectacle,” he said. “Not for the people on the ground there. For them, it’s life or death. For us, it’s spectacle. And that’s a sad thing.”

— Emily Miller

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On the outside looking in NOV. 22, 2013 Eleven years ago, Scott fell off a 12-storey roof.

Since his fall, Scott has been homeless on four occasions. He now lives in a meager apartment in Kingston, and while his experience is somewhat stable for the moment, it’s hardly unique in town.

For Scott and Kingston’s homeless, survival is a daily endeavour. *** According to the City of Kingston, 818 individuals spent time in local shelters in 2012. The City’s goal is to eliminate long-term homelessness — and to do it soon.

Perhaps the most notable change is an immediate ideological shift — one that seeks to eradicate homelessness, rather than simply

manage it.

“Managing [means] that we’re offering services that are going towards those that are homeless, but they’re not getting at the root causes of a person’s homelessness,” said Sheldon Laidman, the director of the City’s housing department. *** Tattoos and prison. The two have been entwined in Scott’s life since adolescence, from his first conviction at 12 years old to a month-long jail stint last June.

He’s 44 now, and estimates he’s spent half his life behind bars.

“When I was 21, I got a tattoo in the penitentiary and I watched the guy build his homemade [tattoo] gun. When I built my own homemade gun, I started

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tattooing myself.”

After Scott purchased a professional tattoo set 12 years ago, he began offering his services to others.

“Kingston has pretty cool people,” Scott said. As he speaks, an older woman stops on the sidewalk. She bends down, pets his dog Kon on the head and pulls out

a toonie.

The coin clangs in the dog bowl as she smiles and walks away.

“Sometimes, a smile and a conversation is worth more than a dollar.”

— Nick Faris

Up in smoke JAN. 10, 2013

negative biases and the egalitarian values that they believe in.

These individuals then engage in behavioural correction processes, where they actively ensure they’re not allowing their biases to influence their interactions with minority members.

“But they’re not always correct in their judgement of how big the bias is, so they can engage in an overcorrection process, which, ironically, would then lead them to be more friendly to the minority member than others.”

My time with the hijab — after 20 years without — was educational, but the short experiment by no means gave me all the answers. In order to gain a better insight, I also interviewed three Queen’s students who cover.

What was supposed to be a relaxing study break turned out to be anything but for Taylor McDowall.

McDowall, Comm ’15, went online on the afternoon of Dec. 17, only to notice there were flames engulfing the construction site at 663 Princess St., the location of a new student housing development

by Patry Inc. Just a week prior, she and two friends had signed a lease for a unit in the building.

The five-alarm fire forced dozens to evacuate their homes and businesses. For about an hour, a worker was trapped on a crane above the blaze, unable to escape, before he was rescued by a military helicopter.

Fortunately, no life-threatening injuries resulted from the disaster, but concerns about leased apartments at 663 Princess St. were ignited.

In cases where the Frustration Contracts Act applies, parties are dismissed from their contract and those who made deposits should receive reimbursement.

Ann Tierney, vice-provost and dean of Student Affairs, said the University’s emergency response group provided food and refuge in the ARC for students affected by the fire.

The fire singed more than the lives of students.

Allan Ward was among the 44 residents forced to evacuate their homes at the Legion Villa, just next door to the fire site.

“It was the worst Christmas I’ve ever had in my life,” Ward said.

“I’m 70 years old, so I’ve had a few of them. It was the worst one.”

Emotions were amplified, as only months ago, Legion Villa residents voiced their opinions against the construction of the complex at 663 Princess St. “To be perfectly honest, we did everything in our power to try to stop it,” Darlene Lightfoot, the Legion’s administrator, said.

— Anisa Rawhani

— Emily Miller

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Overt to covert MAR. 14, 2014 In January, I wore a hijab for 18 days. I’m a non-Muslim woman, but I wanted to conduct a social experiment to experience what it’s like to cover on a daily basis.

Beginning Jan. 6, I started

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what would be two-and-a-half weeks of covering at all times — to class, work, in malls, around the city and even in my home.

When my housemates — who knew about my experiment — would ask me for updates the only unusual thing I could think to mention was, if anything, people were being nicer.

Much nicer.

Leandre Fabrigar, an associate professor in the department of psychology at Queen’s, cited “impression management” as a possible explanation for my experience.

Fabrigar said that sometimes individuals realize that they harbour biases, or other unwanted influences on their behaviour. Then, when interacting with members of minority groups, they experience an internal conflict between their

Editorials

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City soils relations with students JUNE 25, 2013

Coping spread OCT. 29, 2013

illustration by Katherine Boxall

The vote to exclude students from census data has aggravated an already tenuous relationship between Queen’s students and the City of Kingston.

While the vast majority of Queen’s students don’t live in Kingston full-time, the actions taken by Kingston’s City Council encourage students to completely disregard their responsibilities to the City of Kingston.

Mayor Mark Gerretsen’s immature exchanges on Twitter haven’t helped matters. If the Mayor wants to reach out to students on social media then he should put his best foot forward.

The Mayor’s false assertion that he knew that the AMS executive

didn’t vote in the last municipal election (which he’s since apologized for) is representative of an overall dismissive attitude from the City.

In this situation, the AMS is partly responsible for student inaction. Student leadership should have made an issue over Council’s efforts to exclude students long before they did.

The issue is compounded, as student say in municipal politics will be greatly reduced if Council gets their way. Nobody likes student apathy, and these boundary changes will surely perpetuate it.

Katherine is the Journal’s Editorial Illustrator. She’s a third-year Fine Arts student.

— Journal Editorial Board

Tartan needs kick in the ASUS MARCH 7, 2014 Despite this year’s hurdles, whoever ends up managing the Tartan next year should work hard to fulfill the publication’s potential as a campus institution.

If the Tartan gets up and running, it will represent healthy competition for the Journal and other media organizations on campus.

Competition will improve media content and could result in a wider variety of perspectives on campus issues.

While the Tartan has become notorious in certain circles for its lack of content, this notoriety doesn’t extend beyond the student media and student government “bubbles”. For this reason, ASUS Assembly’s decision to keep the Tartan’s current name was correct as its brand hasn’t been tarnished in the eyes of most students.

The way forward for the Tartan

When faced with stress, I find refuge by staying organized with a disciplined routine as well as a few coping mechanisms.

Last spring, an important term project had me working day and night under tremendous pressure.

Every night I would reward myself with toast and peanut butter for my long day’s work.

But one night, I couldn’t find my jar of peanut butter.

Heart racing, I frantically rummaged through my kitchen desperate to find my ‘fix.’ To my horror, I found the jar empty in the recycling bin, and my world shattering.

I immediately stormed into my

housemate’s room and launched the empty peanut butter jar at her. I screamed at her for ruining, what at the time felt like my entire life. The absence of toast, my unconscious stress-coping mechanism, exposed my true, out-of-control emotions.

By failing to reduce my stress properly, I sentenced myself to a breakdown by way of a peanut butter craving.

I realize this sounds overdramatic, and it is, but what I’m trying to iterate is that we shouldn’t be afraid to break out of our regimented routines, question our rituals and face our underlying issues head-on.

We live in a society that glorifies being busy, overly-caffeinated and exercised as proper methods of coping with everything else we’re expected to accomplish. What if abusing your methods of coping caused more stress than they served to manage?

Habits are normal. However, it’s critical to be aware of their power and remind ourselves what our true priorities are if we want to achieve personal satisfaction. We should challenge ourselves to find refuge by facing our real stressors, instead of reaching for a jar of tasty spread.

lies in developing a clear mandate, as well as structures, policies and a hiring process conducive to long-term success. The Journal benefits from an “institutional memory” derived from 140 years of existence. Crucially, the Journal’s Editors in Chief are elected rather than hired, a key element of its editorial autonomy.

Editorial autonomy continues to be an outstanding issue for the Tartan. It can’t claim to be autonomous if it continues to hire former ASUS executives as editors. If editorial autonomy is the intention, it should be carried out in practice.

Last Thursday, ASUS Assembly saved the Tartan from disappearing completely. Now, the publication needs diligent oversight.

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.

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Not a hard sell for WRL JAN. 28, 2014

The Journal’s Editorial Board in comparison to WRL’s clinical by their breadth of knowledge believes that WRL is the best and corporate style. This fact, in and experience within the AMS, executive team to lead the AMS combination with platform points WRL was successful in portraying that cater to minority groups like this “insider” status as a great next year.

As a team, WRL is cohesive. introducing kosher and halal food benefit. In any event, a perceived They communicate well and at Common Ground, might be “outsider” team is unlikely seem to have confidence in appealing to students who feel left to create a great paradigm shift each other’s abilities. They were out of student politics. within the AMS, as Queen’s well-prepared and responded Unfortunately, while SMH students found out last year in the well to virtually every question might be the less intimidating case of BGP (now BPP). asked of them. They really are option, they seemed disjointed As high-level managers in the quintessential “insider” team and disorganized as a team when their positions for only one responding to questions from the year, the AMS executive has of professionals.

While this identity is mostly Editorial Board. They sometimes to be effective quickly and a positive thing because it struck a sarcastic and oppositional command the respect of their implies competence, it could tone, which didn’t seem conducive employees and volunteers. WRL’s be alienating to students to a successful year leading the competence and professionalism who want a more approachable AMS. To an extent, their answers put them in the best position to AMS executive. showed a lack of long-term fulfill this mandate.

Approachability is perhaps focus on important issues like — Journal Editorial Board — Journal Editorial Board SMH’s greatest asset as a team. increasing enrolment.

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Talking heads ... the year’s best Photos By Erin Sylvester

Are you worried about enrolment increasement at Queen’s?

“Having more people would increase funding for research.”

Trapper Stevens, ArtSci ’14

What business do you want to see on Princess St.?

Tourism traps downtown Kingston SEPT. 20, 2013

A lexander R adcliffe , S ci ’14 The recent closure of downtown staples have brought issues about the area’s urban design to the attention of many — yet this isn’t a new problem for the community.

Growing up in Kingston, I’ve seen this cycle repeated time and time again, with stores that cater to people living and working downtown closing and being replaced with restaurants and attractions aimed primarily at the tourist market.

An excessive focus on these

policies is harmful to the long-term health of the city in several ways.

The tourist season is only one part of the economic cycle of the city. During the rest of the year, the health of the downtown core depends on locals and university students.

Kingston isn’t a city well-designed for people to commute downtown.

A large part of the problem appears to be the taxation that downtown businesses endure. The central region of the city pays a municipal property tax rate that

is proportionally five to seven per cent higher than the rates for the other regions in the city. In addition, downtown businesses pay the business improvement area levy.

Additionally, the old buildings and infrastructure downtown can make the prospect of a new building in other neighbourhoods more appealing.

The continued migration of businesses shows that the City has failed to implement policies of sufficient strength aimed at refocusing day-to-day commercial

activities in this part of town.

This will limit the impact of the construction of new apartments and housing.

Without an environment that lets businesses operate profitably, downtown inhabitants will still be faced with long commutes to reach commonly-accessed services.

If the City wishes to create a truly liveable downtown core, it needs to be willing to alter its taxation policy and restrict the development of remote commercial land.

International sporting events bring fame or shame FEB. 11, 2014

J ordan C athcart , A rt S ci ’14

“A pet store where I can pet kittens.”

Kelly Donovan, ArtSci ’14

Would you take a naked yoga class?

“No, because naked yoga is for the bedroom.”

Alex Kelly, ArtSci ’15

Should Leonardo DiCaprio win an Oscar this year?

The build-up to these winter games caused a media firestorm across the globe as Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown disapproval towards the LGBT community within his country and as participants in the Olympic Games.

Isolated incidents of hate have occurred at the Olympics.

For example, during the Summer Olympics of 1972 in Munich, Germany, 11 Israeli Olympians were killed by a Palestinian terrorist group. The rest of those games became a celebration of the lives of the lost athletes as the power of sport helped show support for Israel.

As the Olympics and the World Cup continue to branch out to different places, the chosen locations are bound to have varied societies and cultures. This was the case when the World Cup was hosted in South Africa in 2010.

South Africa has a well-documented history of racial segregation, but the event went off without a hitch.

The event was a spectacle celebrating native South African culture with dancers on the pitch in between halves and the unforgettable vuvuzelas buzzing in the stadium.

To see the true beauty in the Olympics and other large-scale sporting events, you have to see the spirit of sport and not the politics that overshadow the events.

As for these Winter Olympics, take a step back from the hate-spewing politics that are going on in Russia and try to witness the beauty of sport. Go ahead and cheer for your country, but remember the true spirit of sport is the celebration of culture and the unity that sport can bring to the world.

Taylor M ann , A rt S ci ’14 The Olympic Games are now, more than ever, an honour filled with pomp and spectacle, and one that carries a very high price tag.

We have to ask if the billions we’re spending on celebrating the human spirit could go further in actually improving the lives of millions.

Examples of poorly planned Olympic infrastructure are plentiful. The Bird’s Nest in China ran so over budget that it will take over 30 years to repay, even after government subsidies.

Of the 22 major venues used in the 2004 Athens Olympics, 21 are now abandoned or condemned.

The underlying problem with this mismanagement is simple: it represents a huge opportunity cost to the host nation.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in Sochi. One need only look at the state of Russian social services

Pain in campaign FEB. 28, 2014

M ark A sfar , A rt S ci ’14

“Fuck yeah he should win it!”

Sonja Monoz, ArtSci ’14

Should last call at bars be pushed to 4 a.m.?

“Yeah, because there would be more time to be on the dance floor.”

Jackie Pare, Comm ’14

The AMS election campaign period was a learning experience unlike any other.

However, I was surprised to discover that the elections process is flawed due to issues of accessibility and some serious barriers to participation.

At the start of the campaign, every team is informed by the AMS that they’ll have a strict budget to pay for campaign materials.

The problem is that the system doesn’t account for personal costs like clothing, food and tickets.

Students who are already struggling to pay for tuition and rent are going to

struggle to pay for the incidentals of campaigning.

A strong campaign manager and team of volunteers will help to manage the strain, but the work is still tremendous and adds up to anywhere between 50 and 60 additional hours a week.

A student who needs to maintain a strong GPA for graduate school or for other applications would have to seriously consider the threat an AMS campaign could pose to their future plans.

Waking up at 7 a.m. for a full day of class talks, getting home after midnight from a strategy meeting, eating when you can and running around in the cold will

quickly exhaust even the healthiest person.

This creeping exhaustion was accompanied by mental and emotional drain.

The hard work and dedication of our volunteers inspired us to make it through the campaign, and I’m grateful to every person who helped us.

Something needs to change if we want to continue to say that the AMS is a democratic and equal-opportunity organization that represents the diverse students at Queen’s University.

Mark was the Vice-President (Operations) candidate for Team SMH.

The opinion pieces and letter that appear here have been condensed for reprinting. Please see queensjournal.ca/opinions for the full stories.

and ask, “what could the state have done with $46 billion?” The answer? A lot.

We can look to the preparations currently underway in Brazil to see a similar scene unfolding. The government is spending billions on stadiums and hastily constructed infrastructure ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Games, while Brazil’s schools crumble and their hospitals provide subpar care. Citizens in that country have taken note, and it has led to massive political upheaval over the past six months.

Of course, the Olympics are sometimes worth it. Vancouver and London are both examples of cities that used proper planning to mitigate the impact of hosting the Olympics.

For countries such as Russia, it’s hard to see how any celebration of sport can be worth such cost while millions of its citizens live in squalor.

Letters to the editor: Year in Review Facing O ur C omplicity SEPT. 13, 2013 I admit, I might have given a chuckle to the “Dads: Winter isn’t the only thing coming” sign.

I might have pointed out, like so many others, that there was no intention to offend.

But these days, I found myself pausing at these moments. Sexism, racism and other prejudices are so much more insidious in our times because the intention to offend is frequently absent.

The debate goes beyond PC squabbling when such a gendered declaration of domination is announced. Why we feel justified in telling women to be on alarm, to watch out “cause we’re out there,” and to expect sexual advances.

Thomas Simmons ArtSci ’08

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Harnessing tragedy JUNE 25, 2013 It takes a certain type of person to make a serious head injury positive. Jon Davis, a Montreal-based singer-songwriter and artist, did just that.

In 2006, after two years as the lead role in a Canadian musical theatre production Till We Meet Again, Davis suffered an accident that left him unable to grace the stage.

He spent six months of intensive recovery putting together

his debut album Golden Hue which features a song inspired by the event itself, “Traumatic Head Injury”.

Davis said he’d been struggling with a hard decision between remaining in a successful musical theatre career or pursuing music, which was where his passions truly were.

“I started working on my album, which is what I really wanted to do anyways,” Davis said. “It forced

me to do it because it was the only thing I could do.”

The emotional depth in his music makes it clear why his personal musical muses are Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake.

For this musician, assembling an album is much like the composition of a painting, in which the colours and textures work off each other, not unlike the songs that make an album.

“I was taught to look at

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It’s party time SEPT. 10, 2013 Initially playing in separate Toronto-based band Jane’s Party found their sound within diversity. bands, which ranged in style from These proud Torontonians add hip hop to jazz to funk, guitarist a bit of weight to their alternative Ionescu credits the band’s sound pop-rock sound, taking inspiration development to each member’s from the classics, while venturing eclectic musical origins.

Jane’s Party has been greatly into new territory.

The four members, Jeff Giles, influenced by their musical peers.

Tom Ionescu, Devon Richardson Toronto’s music scene exposed and Zach Sutton, met at York them to bands that did not University where they were all compromise originality for a nod towards tradition. music students.

music when I started doing music.”

— Meaghan Wray “The thing that really motivated us … was seeing some of the bands around town that were able to use those influences and inspire their own music with them,” Ionescu said.

This isn’t the first time the Party has come to Kingston, owing their return to the strong sense of community that brings them back.

“Every single time we come we see people we’ve met the time before,” he said. “There’s like a little family, a fan-base, there, so it’s really great to come back and see those people again.”

— Maggie Heathcote

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SEPT. 26, 2013 The living room doubles as a stage, art gallery and soon-to-be yoga studio.

Located at the corner of Queen and Sydenham Streets, The Artel functions as an artistic meeting ground for members of the Queen’s and Kingston communities.

Annie Dunsford, ArtSci ’14, has been a member of the collective for over a year and assists in organizing the venue’s music events and exhibitions.

Although this art-filled environment may seem intimidating at first, she said students should give it a chance before they make prejudgments.

“I feel that The Artel has this perception of having an insular space — that people have to be this tall and this cool to come to,” Dunsford said. “I really don’t think it’s like that.”

A collective comprised of nine artists, six of whom currently live in the building, operates The Artel. The venue acts as a safe space — its members actively resist forms of oppression, such as misogyny, ableism, racism and homophobia.

Graham Juneau, ArtSci ’12 and current tenant, originally came across the venue as a performer participating in a noise show. As

a tenant, Juneau enjoys living among other artists and doesn’t mind having his home used as a public venue.

“It’s an amazing thing to have an amazing show [here] two or three times a week,” he said.

The Artel has broken down the barrier between performers and audience members, said Juneau.

“It’s a form of expression that is communal and broad based,” Juneau said. “It really changed my perception of what a venue could be.”

— Kate Shao

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Writer in res OCT. 1, 2013 You do it for the love of it.

Award and is internationally Or at least that’s what recognized as one of the leading current writer-in-residence, Tim contemporary writers of complex Wynne-Jones, says to aspiring young adult fiction. writers at Queen’s.

As a mentor, Wynne-Jones For one term each year, the reads excerpts, offers constructive department of English welcomes feedback and is a link between the a writer who participates in art and the business of writing. various literary events and offers In terms of making it as an mentorship to students involved in author, Wynne-Jones, whose past creative writing. students have published their own Tim Wynne-Jones is an Officer of work, had some thoughtful advice. the Order of Canada and two-time “Don’t follow trends,” he said. winner of the Governor General’s “Write the best story that’s in

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you — the story that you want to Wynne-Jones stayed to answer write, [that] has a far better chance audience questions, one of which of catching the eye of an editor.” was about where he finds the After giving a brief reading at ideas, motivation and energy after his welcome reception last Friday, so many years of writing and

published work under his belt.

“You go on writing because of the love of writing,” he said.

— Janine Abuluyan

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Honest roots JAN. 24, 2014 Vogt’s own brand of light-hearted low vocals of Middle Eastern music, comedy shines in their second Shaifta tells the story of a famous installment of the year, Vogt poet who fell in love with a popular and beloved courtesan from the Biographies.

These four one-act plays, Voice Sapphire Palace.

Despite having a less dramatic of an Angel, Shaifta, The Ballad of Afife Jale and Beco[me], explore plot than the other plays, this story the stories of people from different stands out visually with authentic cultures worldwide, from Turkey and colourful costumes in the country’s traditional style. to Kingston.

Afife Jale tackles themes of Three times a year, Vogt Studios puts on a series of one-act plays. discrimination and escapism with photo by sophie barkham Each play has been conceptualized, heart-wrenching wordplay.

The final piece of this installment, directed, written and produced by Queen’s students with the help of Beco[me], is a cabaret created with overlapping monologues, in which the drama department.

Sean Meldrum’s Voice is full the students play themselves.

In recent years, Vogt has focused of provocative language, drugs and vastly different characters. on comedy.

With this new series, however, The scene opens with a talentless writer, Max, bringing home a Vogt seems to be moving in a vivid characters with their prostitute. What ensues is a series more experimental and emotional of delightfully funny attempts at direction — back to its roots. animated performances.

Musical highlights were the seduction and forwardness.

— Diana Anton Opening with the traditional soul-saddening “Unworthy of Your Love” and the vividly performed “Something Just Broke”.

The harsh reality that we live in a world of deep inequality and despair, which is hidden by the false illusion of freedom and democracy, especially resonates throughout the musical.

Killer end to semester NOV. 28, 2013 With an aim to capture the fallacy of the American Dream, and a culture of violence that pervades society, Assassins hits the nail on the head.

Assassins is a dark and daring comical musical based on the idea of Charles Gilbert Jr., music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman.

It’s a stunning musical performance that exposes the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or attempted to assassinate a president of the United States over

the years.

Directed by Dylan On and produced by Tessa Burnside, the musical opened with a spectacular performance by the gun salesman, who provides the characters with their weapons at the beginning of the show.

The talented cast included a memorable performance by Luke Brown as the Proprietor, with his cunning looks and the gargantuan moustache to go with them. John Wilkes Booth and Sam Byck were two of the most strikingly

— Filza Naveed

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Up in a cloud Slam JAN. 28, 2014

Montreal-based visual artist recreate this idea of the sky world Hannah Claus has brought the sky and what walking through that to Kingston. space might be like.”

Her sculptural installation The logistics of an installation cloudscape, currently housed at this intricate boggles the mind.

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre “[The clouds are] modeled with located at Queen and Ontario a 3D program first, then it’s put Streets, is made up of countless into another program where we paper ovals strung from the put them in spheres, then he [the ceiling and arranged into several programmer] takes a screenshot amorphous, cloud-like shapes. row by row,” Claus said.

When analyzed up close, the The result of all this work is sculptures may appear to be simply a truly transportive piece — a pretty. When viewed with enough small world of large becalmed distance, unmistakably deliberate clouds, changing with one’s own and elegant forms become visible. physical perspective.

The effect is stunning.

“Depending on your angle it can cloudscape is inspired by the look like complete chaos,” she said.

Haudenosaunee creation story, “I want people to walk through wherein a woman from a world it and be surrounded by it, and above came down to Earth and destabilized a little by it.” made the land and everything that grows on it.

— Justin Santelli “For me, clouds are creation and creativity,” Claus said. “I wanted to

for youth FEB. 7, 2014 Community outreach met creative expression Monday Feb. 10 with an international affairs-themed poetry slam.

Queen’s International Affairs Association (QIAA), has teamed up with Queen’s Slam Poetry (QSP) for a fundraiser in support of a local youth charity.

Cody Dauphinee, ArtSci ’14, is one of QIAA’s community outreach co-directors and initially looked to host a model United Nations conference for local high schoolers when he attended a poetry slam in the fall.

“I’d never even heard of the concept of a poetry slam before

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that. I thought it was awesome,” Dauphinee said.

The idea for an internationally themed slam came soon after.

“I thought it would be a very nice, creative way to fulfill our mandate of encouraging dialogue on international affairs,” he said.

The event is an opportunity for QIAA to work with Kingston Youth Diversion, a local charity that provides structured activities for young people in the area.

To help run the event, Dauphinee enlisted Danielle d’Entremont

of Queen’s Poetry Slam.

“They reached out to me and I’m a new club — it was awesome,” d’Entremont, ArtSci ’14, said.

For those brave enough to perform, d’Entremont and Dauphinee promise a safe space for expression.

“For me that means a non-judgmental zone where everyone is free to be themselves and say what they’re really feeling,” d’Entremont said.

— Brent Moore

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A town, a game, a legacy JULY 30, 2013

Jay McClement is the poster boy for Kingston’s NHLers.

The Limestone City is known for raising a decorated crop of hockey stars through the years — names like Gilmour, Muller, Linseman and the incomparable Don Cherry.

Lately, the city’s NHL players have been a grittier bunch: a dependable, if not flashy group of stay-at-home forwards, defencemen and goaltenders that return home each off-season.

Facing a longer off-season than usual in 2012 due to the NHL lockout, McClement leaned on his home-ice advantage.

He and veteran defenceman John Erskine spent the bulk of the fall practicing with Queen’s men’s hockey team, braving early-morning skates at the Memorial Centre before the labour impasse was resolved.

“By the end of [the fall], it was just fabulous to see John and Jay pulling some of my guys aside

and teaching them places to put their stick, or how to angle,” said head coach Brett Gibson, who’s entering his eighth season as the Gaels’ bench boss.

Before coming to Queen’s, Gibson enjoyed a productive junior

career with three OHL teams. He kickstarted his career in Kingston with the Junior A Voyageurs, finishing second in team scoring as a rookie, just like McClement would three years later.

While young players forge

Kingston’s NHL future, one local historian is intent on celebrating the city’s hockey past.

When the International Hockey Hall of Fame (IHHOF) asked Bill Fitsell to research the original rules of hockey in the 1960s, his first stop was Douglas Library on campus. It’s one of innumerable contributions Queen’s has made to the game over the years.

Ever since Queen’s alum Marty Walsh scored 10 goals in a 1911 Stanley Cup game, the school, city and sport have been intertwined.

From Gilmour to Gibson, Cherry to McClement, the passion has stayed the same.

“It raises our expectations,” Fitsell said. “We produce so many good players and officials, we set the bar pretty high.

“There’s hardly a season that goes by where there wasn’t a Kingston player at the forefront of the game.”

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— Nick Faris

Queen’s College Colours We Are Wearing Once Again OCT. 1, 2013 among 25 or so spectators on Sandy Campbell was stunned.

It was October 1977, and the Carleton side of the stadium, her husband, a PhD candidate at watching the team stumble to a Carleton University, had taken her 40-1 defeat.

Still, the lopsided loss was to Ravens Field in Ottawa to see the Carleton football team face his secondary that day. Ravens Field alma mater. Though he preferred had transformed from its titular basketball to football, Duncan purpose to the furthest thing from McDowall developed an affinity home-field advantage.

“The Queen’s side was packed,” for the gridiron game during his undergraduate days at Queen’s. said McDowall, ArtSci ’72, He’d jumped at the chance to recalling the busloads of students see the powerful Golden Gaels and faculty that had arrived en masse from Kingston. “My wife, in action.

McDowall and his wife sat who didn’t go to Queen’s, couldn’t

believe this. She said, ‘what’s going on here? This isn’t much of a football game, yet these people are going mad on the other side.’”

Though he didn’t become Queen’s official Historian until 2011 — a position he holds today — McDowall’s reply showed an essential grasp of the school’s fixation on football.

“This is the Queen’s tradition,” he said.

One of a few key traditions, at least, for the Carleton game was a microcosm of Queen’s biggest

ritual: the annual convergence of players, students and alumni at Richardson Stadium, toasting the latter’s return to campus and its natural intersection with Gaels football.

“I didn’t say this at the time,” McDowall said, “but it’s the same thing you would see at a reunion weekend — the same kind of exuberant behaviour.”

— Nick Faris See qjhomecoming.com for full story.

Hungry like the wolf shark

Playing the long ball SEPT. 13, 2013

After three seasons as men’s soccer captain, Joe Zupo has an opportunity to go pro.

The fourth-year defender spent the summer on an amateur contract with Kingston FC of the Canadian Soccer League (CSL), and now plans on going to England after the Gaels’ season to possibly get try-outs with professional clubs overseas.

Heading into his time with Kingston FC, Zupo wasn’t expecting a prominent role with the squad, but ended up seizing the opportunity given to him, appearing in 14 games and often starting at centre back.

“When an opportunity comes around for any player, it’s a matter of taking it and trying to do the best they can with it,” Zupo said. “I think I did that this season.”

The added pressure of the CSL wasn’t completely foreign to the three-time OUA All-Star.

His appointment to captain in his second year at Queen’s had made him one of the youngest men’s soccer captains in school history.

“At the time, we were going through a building phase, so we felt it would be a good idea to name him captain because he was playing such an important position,” said Gaels head coach Chris Gencarelli.

Zupo’s time as captain has coincided with a revival of the men’s soccer program. The team had a breakout year in 2012, capturing the OUA East regular season title and advancing to the OUA Final Four for the first time in five years. They conceded just eight goals along the way.

With another solid season, Zupo could easily put himself in the position to gain more experience — this time, abroad.

-— Sean Sutherland

OCT. 10, 2013 The wolf and the shark unite at Richardson Stadium.

Both apex predators come together to form the “wolf shark,” an accurate symbol for the Queen’s Gaels’ secondary.

Visualized on-field by the “fins up” gesture — extending an elbow and bringing the hand to the forehead — the Gaels’ defensive backs are a hungry group who look to make the big, impact play whenever possible.

“We characterize our play around a pack mentality,” said defensive back Andrew Lue. “We’re out there hunting all game.

“When the ball’s in the air, it’s our ball and we’re not afraid to rough up the opposing team.”

A veteran pack, much of the secondary’s success hinges on knowing each other’s tendencies and predicting how teammates will react in specific situations.

New additions have no difficulties fitting into a group that can already read minds. “Across the board, there’s some good

chemistry,” Lue said. “We do everything together.”

With a stout run defence in the front seven, the secondary can play aggressively and take risks in passing situations.

One would think they’d have little time for other games, but they’re all fans, of course, of the Madden NFL video game franchise.

Across the board, their go-to move was the right-side rollout with quarterback Michael Vick.

With three-quarters of the OUA season completed and the playoffs looming, the secondary knows it’s their time to step up and make the plays expected of them.

Seeing a packed house and hearing the crowd roar on a big defensive play, a common sight at Richardson Stadium, only increases the wolf sharks’ appetite.

“We appreciate the support and all the fanfare behind [the team],” Lue said. “And always keep those fins up.”

— Josh Burton

Photo by SAM KOEBRICH

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Sports

A leader’s legacy JAN. 10, 2014

Photo by TIFFANY LAM

Even with her equipment in the Hockey Hall of Fame and an OUA MVP award, Morgan McHaffie’s greatest feat isn’t an individual one.

Her stick and jersey went to the Hall of Fame after scoring the winning goal in the longest collegiate hockey game of all time — a six-overtime thriller in the first game of the 2011 OUA final against Guelph. Despite that, the fifth-year women’s hockey captain points towards her two OUA titles as her biggest accomplishment with the Gaels.

The choice is indicative of McHaffie’s attitude off the ice and her play on it, where she constantly puts the team ahead of herself.

Gaels head coach Matt Holmberg was an assistant coach when the McHaffie twins were originally recruited.

Over the years, he’s seen

a number of remarkable performances from Morgan — last year’s playoffs being one of them.

Playing on an injured knee that forced her to miss one game, McHaffie came back to total 11 points in the team’s six other games, including a five-point performance that helped eliminate the Windsor Lancers.

McHaffie injured her other knee in the nationals championships against the Calgary Dinos, but stayed on the ice long enough to pot a goal.

“When you think about gutsy performances, that whole playoff run last year was pretty remarkable,” Holmberg said.

With her time at Queen’s coming to an end, McHaffie has a chance to add a scoring title, an OUA record and another provincial championship to her

For Gaels guards, hardwood harmony JAN. 24, 2014 From the playground in the second grade to the pinnacle of high school basketball, Roshane Roberts and Cy Samuels have followed the same journey.

The friendship between the second-year Gaels guards goes back to the days of recess and Velcro shoes, when they first started playing basketball at their elementary school. Fast-forward just over a decade and you can find the two endlessly practicing their game at the ARC. The natives of Vaughan, Ont., were clear when they were being recruited to Queen’s that they were a package deal.

“I based my decision on his decision,” said Roberts, who’s averaging 11.2 points per game as the Gaels’ starting shooting guard.

“If Queen’s was going to get us, it was going to be a double deal.”

Winning seems to come naturally for the former high school teammates.

Roberts and Samuels won back-to-back Ontario championships at Vaughan Secondary School, playing on the country’s top-ranked team two years running.

They also played alongside some of the top talent in Canada, including current Kansas Jayhawks forward Andrew Wiggins, the world’s number one college recruit this year.

Coming from the mecca of high school hoops to a Queen’s team that just went 2-20 in 2011-12 was a big step for Roberts and Samuels.

Newly hired head coach Steph Barrie told the pair he was essentially cleaning house, and planned to move forward with a rookie-heavy roster.

“I knew it wasn’t a strong basketball program,” Samuels said.

“Coach told us he was clearing out most of the team and going with eight recruits and we will see where this goes … it was the perfect situation for us.”

— Jordan Cathcart

Photo by Sam Koebrich

Blood, sweat and fears FEB. 13, 2014 It’s Tuesday evening and my fight is on Saturday.

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

Jab-jab-cross-roll-hook-hook.

My muscles jerk in unison.

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

Ten workouts per week and a strict diet have left me a lean, hostile shell of myself. The 25 pounds I’ve lost puts me three pounds under my 178-pound

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

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

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

As I pull up to the gym, I think to myself that, with the fight in four days, this will likely be a light session. I’m dead wrong.

After delaying for 45 minutes, I finally get called over to the floor, where a friend is ready to pummel me for six three-minute rounds. All I can

do is protect myself and move around, not throwing even a single punch.

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

Three hours after my departure, I return home to find my housemates going out for a drink.

I’m in no mood to join them and can’t drink this week, anyway.

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

I hate this sport.

— Dylan Glancy

on-ice accolades, but Holmberg sees a greater legacy outside of the rink.

“She will always, always, always put her teammates and the team and school ahead of herself,” he said.

“I think that attitude and that personality, long after she’s done playing on the ice, will continue to resonate with the players that are still playing.”

-— Sean Sutherland

Inside the war room JAN. 28, 2014

Hunkered down in a Goodes Hall breakout room, the Houston Rockets have $21 million to spend.

“Simulation Saturday,” the first in Queen’s Sports Industry Conference’s nine-year history, saw delegates split into the roles of player, agent or team executive and told to embark on a veritable free agent frenzy.

Brad Shafran and Danielle Amirault rise from their chairs and enter the atrium, which has been suddenly thrust into chaos. Twenty minutes in, several signings have apparently been arranged, with teams and agents juking through the fracas to find each other.

The announcement comes through the microphone: the Rockets have signed Mario Chalmers for $5.15 million. There’s no word on Johnson; Amirault tears off in pursuit of his agent, while the delegate playing Chalmers signs his name at the podium.

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

Terms are hammered out within minutes, and Pierce becomes the third Houston Rocket to sign.

Shafran and Amirault pose at the podium and return to room 149.

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

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

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

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

— Nick Faris

Postscript

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Monkeying around SEPT. 10, 2013

Let’s talk about sex JAN. 17, 2014 I’m a 20-something living with an invisability and yes, I have sex.

Arthritis is commonly viewed as an “old person’s disease”, but that’s not the case for many young people out there. While it affects every aspect of your day-to-day life, sex oftentimes gets left out of the discussion.

When I started having sex, I was lost, like many people are, except I didn’t have a resource to turn to that wasn’t dedicated

to an older population with stale scientific diagrams.

I soon realized that sex didn’t have to be so serious just because I had arthritis — in fact, it was really fun.

Amy Hanes, ArtSci ’14, was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 12. Ten years later, she finds herself unable to have an intimate relationship.

“I think a lot of people identify me first and foremost as having

Photo by Sophie Barkham

Zach McIver doesn’t play video games. Instead, he uses the world as his playground.

As I arrived at my first parkour session, led by 16-year-old Kingston native Zach McIver, the playful attitudes of the group were clear. Watching the warm ups and conditioning, I couldn’t decide if the practitioners reminded me more of monkeys or ninjas.

“Parkour is a form of staying active and a way of improving yourself physically, mentally and spiritually,” McIver said. “It requires a lot of physical strength, but mentally it can help you to apply that idea of overcoming obstacles and being creative and finding new ways to tackle problems … to other Photo by Sam Koebrich places in life.”

McIver began practicing parkour five years ago and has epilepsy, so it’s sort of a risk if you been primarily self-taught in the get too involved with somebody and seeing them as their condition,” Hanes said.

“I think [epilepsy] has acted as a barrier to a really serious relationship,” she said.

Hanes also finds that there aren’t many resources about sex and open discussion when it comes to sex and epilepsy for someone her age.

Justine Fehr, ArtSci ’13, is using her invisablity to spice up her I’m not sure what truly motivated me to get my first Brazilian wax. sex life.

The pain I endured the day of Fehr is living with a pain disorder caused by a nerve block from a my first Brazilian wax, laying on surgery gone wrong in Texas when top of what felt like an operating she was 15, and subsequently table, far outweighed any awkward leg positions I had to perform. developed colitis.

When I told friends I’d signed “I think the biggest thing for me is having an understanding partner.” myself up for a Brazilian, I was Conversation and a blunt and often asked why this was necessary sarcastic approach to her invisability if I wasn’t currently in an intimate relationship. My feminist eye is key for Fehr.

“For me, casual sex would have was twitching.

Sabrina Mack, an esthetician been just a daunting thing,” she said. “Even in first year of candidate at St. Lawrence College, university, all my roommates said hair removal has been a female are going out and trying to pick tradition for centuries and follows up guys … but [my invisability] is trends like any other fashion.

Meredith Dault, MA ’11, not a conversation I’m going to have at 2 a.m. on the way home began a blog in 2010 called The Last Triangle. from Ale.” My own feelings towards hair, Having realistic expectations is also important to having as yet another burden on my back a functional sex life with an simply for being female, resonated with other women Dault has invisability.

People with invisabilities have spoken with.

“They had internalized these sex. There, we said it. What’s messages that hair is gross and dirty your story? and to be clean and sexy meant — Rachel Herscovici to not have hair,” Dault said. “It’s a complicated issue, like how do

discipline, although he said he’s been doing it all his life.

“I think everyone does parkour when they’re a kid, all kids jump and climb, so it’s kind of like thinking ‘why do people stop playing?’” he said. “They start taking themselves too seriously … so the idea is to kind of keep that childlike idea in your head.”

While McIver prepared to do a side flip over a set of concrete stairs, I found it hard to suppress my sense of concern.

“With parkour you don’t try something unless you’re 100 per cent sure you can make it. That fear is there to help you and to keep you safe,” McIver said. “Overcoming the fear is necessary but it doesn’t mean you don’t know you’re ready.”

— Katie Grandin

Wax on, wax off FEB. 7, 2014 people learn that?”

Feminism, for Dault, expands much further than the realm of aesthetics.

“Feminism is about equality and it has nothing to do with whether you remove your hair or not, it’s not as specific as that,” she said. “[It] is about having a choice and having the ability to make decisions that are right for them.”

For Anne Yang, ArtSci ’16, nothing about her hair removal choices stem from societal pressures.

“Being a feminist to me is doing what I want with my body, that’s why I don’t like labeling myself as a feminist, even though I believe in egalitarian kind of lifestyle,” she said. “[Sometimes] feminists don’t shave because they want to prove something. I like being smooth but I also like having equal rights.”

To me, it’s simple — it makes me feel sexy.

If that’s not a feminist ideal, then I don’t know what is.

— Meaghan Wray

Silently starving for support FEB. 28, 2014 If you were diagnosed with a stigma. By remaining silent about potentially life-threatening illness, the subject, I was just as accountable as anyone else. would you tell anyone?

Dr. Brad MacNeil, a speaker While most people wouldn’t willingly choose to suffer alone at the Queen’s Mental Health over the loving support of family Awareness Committee’s (MHAC) and friends, I was suffering alone speaker series presentation on for many years. My illness is eating disorders, confirmed anorexia nervosa. that my fear of disclosure was My family knew, as did a few perfectly normal. friends or acquaintances, but those “Many people struggle alone closest to me were shut out. It with their eating disorder in part was them who I was most scared due to the secrecy and stigma surrounding eating disorders of disappointing.

One barrier in particular that and also due to the nature of prevented me from sharing my the illness itself,” MacNeil, a experience earlier is the dreaded clinical psychologist at Hotel s-word associated with mental Dieu Hospital’s Adult Eating illness — stigma.

Disorder Clinic, told the Journal It occurred to me recently that via email.

I was helping to perpetuate this For Jenn Thunem, ArtSci ’15,

speaking out about her eating disorder has been an extremely liberating experience.

Once she started opening up, however, she said she realized that a lot of people were going through something similar.

“It was just this big epiphany that everyone has a story and no one likes to talk about it,” she said.

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

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

— Chloë Grande

Photo Illustration by Charlotte Gagnier

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JOURNAL YEAR IN REVIEW

Sweet potato brownies

BLOGS

20-minute cheese bread

Campus Cooking

Lettuce wraps

chocolate peanut butter toffee

STUDENT LIFE

More than a coffeehouse Common Ground (CoGro) is more than a one-stop coffeehouse. CoGro in the Queen’s Centre and the newly refurbished JDUC location, The Brew, offers students an alternative selection of menu items, different from your typical coffee chains.

CoGro has definitely changed over the years, expanding their menu, and having cheeky marketing campaigns such as their ‘Treat Yo Self menu’, where they re-define Valentine’s or their ads that read ‘proud sponsor of Food Therapy’. CoGro has

certainly been there for a lot of student moments, like a post-essay slice of cake or a morning pick-me-up. Just last month a marriage proposal took place after hours at The Brew, where the couple first met.

Check out our Storify and online Q&A with the CoGro manager Camilla James to hear what students have to say about their own on-campus coffeehouse.

— Michael Green

PHOTOS BY JOURNAL STAFF

COLUMN

FASHION

Are you sitting as you’re reading this? If you are, stand up, take a lap around the room, and then get back to reading.

New research suggests that “sitting is the new smoking”, with excessive sitting being linked to increased risk of disability, depression, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, weight gain, some cancers and premature death.

What’s ironic is that sitting is a practice engrained in our culture. We’re accustomed to using phrases such as ‘take a seat’ and ‘sitting on the fence’. Sitting is also associated with status; in ancient Egypt, chairs were symbols of high status. Today, politicians often win a seat, and monarchies sit on a throne.

Canadian physical activity guidelines recommend that adults get 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity on a daily basis, but some scientists are saying this isn’t enough. The idea isn’t to constantly engage in vigorous physical activity, but to periodically interrupt sitting.

This change in posture preserves our biology and constantly challenges our homeostasis.

The more variation incorporated into daily posture, the greater the health benefits.

From automatic hair curlers to colour adaptive lip gloss and blush, our list of beauty innovations rounds up the best of products to make your morning routine that much easier. Beauty products have developed in strides, especially in the last year, to offer a range of techology advancements. If you’ve always wanted that instant French manicure look or an always sharp eyeliner then check out the full list online to see which products topped our list.

QJScience New beauty

— Jessica Chong

— Vanessa Hrvatin PHOTO BY JESSICA CHONG

LOCAL BUSINESS

The talk of the town

PHOTOS BY JESSICA CHONG

This year our Gems of Kingston series featured local businesses around the city, including Bread and Butter Bakery, Card’s Bakery, Kingston Olive Oil Company, Days on Front Restaurant, Minotaur, The Screening Room and Geneva Crepe Cafe.

Sharing the stories of each business — often a family venture — was a rewarding privilege and offers a glimpse of how taking a chance and pursuing your

dreams can pay off. For many, starting their business in Kingston was the undeniable solution to doing what they loved best in the city they’ve come to call home. Check out our series online to hear about their most cherished experiences, the reasons they chose to open their respective businesses and how they’ve been thriving in Kingston.

— Jessica Chong

Days on Front Restaurant Geneva Crepe Cafe

Card’s Bakery

Bread and Butter Bakery

Kingston Olive Oil Company