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The return to island life A look forward to the 15th annual Wolfe Island Music Festival PAGE 21

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Your guide to navigating first-year as campus life approaches PAGE 10

A letter A threat

Should there be a drinking age?

Our point/counterpoint debates its merits PAGE 11

Hockey among locals

Personal and pro encounters with the sport PAGE 24

KCVI On the chopping block?

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An outcry

A professor and her family face homophobic hate

Making the change

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At the tail end of a business deal, campus moves from TD to CIBC PAGE 2

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CIBC replaces TD University contracts new bank for campus B y Vincent B en M atak News Editor

NEWS Students who don’t bank with CIBC may be surcharged with the installation of new ATMs.

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crime

Hate letters spark support Queen’s professor Karen Dubinsky victim of “hate crime,” police say B y J anina E nrile Editor in Chief 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.”

It’s not the first time that homophobia has affected the queer community in Kingston.

On May 31, anti-gay posters were put up downtown to coincide with the city’s flag-raising ceremony, the opening of Pride Month.

At this year’s Pride Parade, a woman blocked the procession and refused to move when asked by police.

For Dubinsky, however, this is the first time she’s faced homophobic behaviour on a personal level.

The second letter, addressed to “lesbos”, began by describing a meeting the group had “on how to best deal with [Dubinsky

and Belyea].”

“Some of our younger members want to have fun chasing some “lesbos,” the letter read. “We have brought them BB guns and today they are doing target practice, so that they can hunt you down.”

According to Steven Koopman, Kingston Police media relations officer, the case has been assigned to the major crimes unit.

Koopman couldn’t comment on the details of the investigation since the police report was filed last Wednesday, but said the police have “multiple avenues of investigation.”

“We are doing both old school detective work in regards to tips and comments and anything that may come in terms of statements and follow-ups to be made, and we’re also looking into the more forensic and scientific aspect of it.”

According to Koopman, the individual or group responsible for the letters could face up to ten years for criminal harassment and up to five years for uttering threats.

The hate crime is defined as such because of its target: a samesex couple that’s part of a larger demographic.

“The complainants … have stated publically that they are gay, they are a lesbian couple, and we feel this is hate-based towards them and towards the gay community,” Koopman said.

The second letter Karen Dubinsky received in the mail on Wednesday, July 17.

It was an obvious connection that Dubinsky made once she opened the letter.

“All of a sudden, I realize I’m reading a hate letter,” she said.

“I’m reading a hate letter that’s about me.”

Dubinsky’s tone becomes more incredulous here, like she can’t fully grasp what’s happened — even days after the fact.

She describes the tone as “mimicking Hollywood speak or a bad TV movie.”

Dubinsky relates it to the letters, whose author(s) claim they “are primarily non-violent, but use violence surgically to persuade people”, making them ludicrous and unbelievable.

“And yet … the threats were clearly very real at the same time,” Dubinsky said.

The danger, a difficult truth, is not lost on her family.

While Dubinsky continues to try to prepare for the upcoming academic year, people like her son, a 13-year-old adopted from Guatemala as a six-month-old baby, are acutely aware of the danger.

“We talk about it a lot,” she said. “He’s taken to bringing up his mattress up and sleeping in our room, which he hasn’t done for two years.”

He’s savvy kid, Dubinsky says.

“He’s got a framework for

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included pricing, experience and qualifications, service programming and technical requirements. The The University has signed a contract committee was overseen by the with CIBC to replace all existing University’s strategic procurement TD bank machines on campus services. beginning the week of Aug. 12.

The criteria, which were The switch comes nearly two weighted on a 100-point months after its 2006 contract scale, credited experience and agreement with TD expired, qualifications with 5 points, pushing campus building technical requirements with 15, stakeholders to send out a Request service programming with 30 and for Proposals in order to secure an pricing, or revenue provided to the alternative option as dictated in University, with 50 points.

Ontario’s procurement law.

Caroline Davis, vice-principal of The agreement, decided finance, declined to comment on upon by an evaluation the details of the revenue provided committee ­— consisting of the by CIBC to the University as a AMS, EngSoc and the University — result of the contract, but said chose CIBC based on criteria which CIBC offered to funnel funds See SLC on page 5

Susan Belyea, left, and Karen Dubinsky, right, posing for the Kingston Loves the Queer Community Facebook page.

understanding this. This is not the first time he’s learned that people hate gay people,” she said.

In the wake of the letters being published on social media, people have moved to support Dubinsky and Belyea.

Kingston Loves the Queer Community, a Facebook group made in response to the letters, has garnered over 4,500 likes since its creation on July 20.

The group features photos of Kingston community members holding large cut-out hearts in solidarity with the queer community. The effort has spread to other social media avenues, such as Twitter.

It’s a response that she describes as a part of a large wake-up call.

“It can be easy to forget, I suppose, to be lulled into a false sense of security,” Dubinsky said.

“Everybody knows homophobia is out there … it’s only when we all get kind of collectively whomped … like this that everybody goes, ‘Wow. That

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still exists.’”

And as a professor who’s been at Queen’s for just under 20 years, students have been reaching out to Dubinsky as well. Some have written letters and emails.

Some have taken to sharing their own stories. “[A former student wrote], ‘you may not have known this, but I was struggling with my sexuality when I was taking your class and you provided such a positive role model in terms of being an out gay professor,’” she said. “That’s always music to a teacher’s ears, in any situation.”

Still, there are a lot of unanswered questions with the case, ones that still sit with her, yet to be answered by the ongoing police investigation.

“I don’t know why we were targeted. I don’t know why anybody would or wouldn’t be,” Dubinsky said.

— With files from Sebastian Leck

EDITORS’ note Effective this September, the Journal will be reducing its print production to one issue a week.

Our 40-issue production schedule will remain, however, as we’ll be publishing a digital release every Tuesday in place of our print

edition. The print edition will now be published on Fridays only.

While this decision was made due to long-term financial concerns, we’re using it as an opportunity to grow into the future. We remain committed to providing

students with the most reliable and up-to-date campus news, and providing our staff the opportunity to develop as young journalists.

At the same time, we’re looking out for the financial sustainability of the paper as the world of

journalism changes.

Our Tuesday releases won’t simply be a digital version of our print edition. Instead, we hope to use this opportunity to expand our use of visual and interactive content while training our reporters to be

multimedia journalists. Our aim is to integrate more videos, photo galleries and alternative story forms to our website to keep it as cutting-edge as possible.

Visit queensjournal.ca starting Sept. 10 to get a glimpse.

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KCVI’s closing controversy Ontario’s oldest public school may be closing; Kingstonians rally to keep doors open B y R achel H erscovici Features Editor Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute (KCVI), a historic Kingston landmark and neighbour to Queen’s, has been no stranger to controversy and quandary throughout the years. Now, it 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. “Trustees focused on several key areas including programming, student success and fiscal sustainability.”

Since the construction of a new school is contingent on provincial funding, though, the plan can’t yet be finalized. Should this not be possible, the Board plans to keep KCVI and LCVI open while repurposing QECVI as an educational centre.

The Board is now working on submitting a business case for funding the new school, which will be submitted by the end of October, and a final decision regarding the funding will be made in the spring of 2014.

Yet, not everyone is happy with this decision.

Many of those with the loudest voices are students, alumni and parents from KCVI. One of the arguments, among many, for keeping the status quo is the rich history the school embodies.

The school is the alma mater of Canada’s first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and many other well-known Kingstonians, such as triathlete Simon Whitfield, politician Peter Miliken and Tragically Hip member Rob Baker.

Carl Bray, a parent representative and adjunct professor at Queen’s said the school has been starved of renovation funds for several years.

Bray said that the school receieves just enough to fund emergency maintenance. He said the heating system and windows could use an upgrade, and a roof repair is needed.

“Essentially, the building

is sound but has suffered from decades of deferred maintenance,” he said. “A phased, innovative program of upgrades is a feasible and financially responsible process for addressing this issue.”

KCVI is flourishing with full enrolment, French immersion and IB programs, a grand auditorium and more, Bray added. He feels there are all kinds of reasons to keep the school open.

“It’s an amazing school. It’s the most urban of all the high schools in Kingston. It’s right downtown, it’s very much integrated within the neighbourhood, it’s close to all the major employers and downtown,” he said.

KCVI also has the highest standardized testing results in the city, which has been brought up by parents during recent deliberations and has become a point of contention.

It’s not just the parents, though, who are concerned.

Bray’s son, who is an incoming grade 12 student at KCVI joined the battle to save his school when he organized a walk-out on June 14.

James Gibson-Bray’s family has attended KCVI for five generations, and he’s made it clear he will not back down. He organized the protest after he felt misrepresented by a student representative at a meeting.

He said that at the meeting, the representative stated that students didn’t care about the building.

Gibson-Bray disagrees.

“We love our school, building and all. It has some of the best attributes of any school in Kingston, whether it be location or facilities and opportunities,” he told the Journal via email.

The protest was scheduled four days before exams, yet over 100 students showed up.

“It was very stressful, but we needed to show the trustees that even in a stressful time we would not going to give up that easily,” he said.

The students marched from KCVI to the Board’s offices on Portsmouth Ave. This protest is reminiscent of a past outcries when the school was threatened with closure.

In the 1980s, similar to today’s struggle, the school was threatened with closure because of a decrease in enrolment.

Like today, many people of the community banded together and kept the school open.

The devastating loss of a historical downtown school was an important aspect for Gibson-Bray.

As a part of his protest, he had students from Peterborough Collegiate, a historical school in Peterborough that was shut down last year, write letters detailing how the closure affected them.

Gibson-Bray also expressed how unfair he felt the deliberation process has been — how it was designed to turn students from different Kingston schools against

Feature KCVI is the alma mater of Sir John A. Macdonald and The Tragically Hip’s Rob Baker

each other.

“The debate created about ‘which school should be closed’ turned into ‘this school is better than the other’, and students start to fight with each other and defend their school and put down other schools,” he said.

He said he believes this drama is welcomed by Board officials, which distracts those fighting and allows the Board to close whatever school they choose on its own terms.

Gibson-Bray felt that KCVI’s fate had already been decided before the process started — 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.

While the motion passed on June 19 isn’t what the Gibson-Bray and many other students want, they have the determination to keep going.

Moving forward, he’s hoping the Board doesn’t receive the funding it needs to take away KCVI and LCVI and build a new school.

“The process might be over for the summer, but they ain’t seen nothing yet,” he said. “We’re going to keep fighting, we’re not going to let KCVI close.”

Christine Sypnowich, a Queen’s professor and a parent of a recent KCVI graduate, finds the school to be an exceptionally special and a welcoming environment for every type of student.

She remembered a holiday assembly a few years ago when every student was encouraged for their talents, no matter how unusual they were.

She recalls a large crowd of students gathered in the school auditorium, cheering on a group of students from the yo-yo club, a group Sypnowitch felt could have been dismissed as “nerds” at another school.

“I just thought, ‘wow, this is quite a special school, I couldn’t imagine that anywhere else,’ ” she said. “Everyone embraces ... kids from all kinds of backgrounds.”

Sypnowich is also a primary organizer for efforts to keep Kingston schools open.

“I’ve always been involved in heritage issues in the city and I really just thought that closing KCVI was unthinkable,” she said.

“It’s also been really crucial to the vitality of the downtown because it’s the only school that

photo by Sam Koebrich

A History Lesson 1792: Reverend John Stuart, a notable Kingston clergyman, founded Kingston Grammar School with the help of a 100 pound annual grant from Governor Henry Hope of the Province of Quebec.

1807: Grammar School Act divides Upper Canada into seven districts, each requiring a grammar school and an annual legislative grant of 100 pounds.

1811: Reverend Stuart dies.

1812: The War of 1812 brings soldiers near the school.

Students and teachers were evicted three times so soldiers could be lodged temporarily. Shortly after, the school is renamed The Royal Grammar School after the headmaster began receiving special royal grants of 250 pounds annually.

1828: The school loses royal funds and many children withdraw due to the declining state of the school.

1849: The old original structure is no longer in use and students are taught in the Principal’s residence at Queen’s while the new school is being built.

Mid-1853: The school was reopened in a ‘limestone gothic-revival’ design, moved to a new location on Barrie St. and renamed Kingston County Grammar School.

1872: The school’s enrolment increases to 60 boys. It’s renamed Kingston Collegiate Institute.

1876: A fire destroys the second floor and the school is closed for repairs, forcing students to study in Kingston City Hall.

1877: The school is reopened and women are admitted for the first time.

1885: Overcrowding forces the school board to expand and build a new school at Earl and Frontenac Streets to house 250 students — many expansions would be made on this site during the years to come.

1931: The school is renamed as it’s known today: Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute.

1968: Addition of the gymnasium off of Earl St. 1987: School board tries to shut down KCVI because of a decrease in enrolment. They were unsuccessful after people protested the closure.

2017: KCVI’s 225th birthday.

really is a downtown school,” she said.

Even Queen’s faculty and students will become affected by the closure of KCVI. “It’s been able to draw on the resources at Queen’s and I think for Queen’s professors, one of the attractions of teaching at Queen’s is that school,” Sypnowich said.

Sypnowich said she’ll work

to persuade the government not to allocate resources for the new school.

“Why spend the money on something people don’t want?

Why not instead look at the existing schools and think of more innovated ways to save money that way?”

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Student race car stolen Police dust for fingerprints after project goes missing B y VincEnt B En M atak News Editor On Saturday, July 6, an off-road racing car was reported stolen from a workshop in the back of McLaughlin Hall, located at 130 Stuart St. The Queen’s Baja team had designed and constructed the car, resembling a dune buggy, to participate in the Baja Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) race at Tennessee Technical University earlier in April.

The team also participated in two other off-road competitions in June and July.

Kingston Police are currently investigating the theft. Officers swept the shop, which faces toward the main parking lot at Kingston General Hospital, for prints last Monday and are encouraging the public to come forward with any tips.

The custom-built black and blue race car has a Briggs & Stratton 10-horsepower Intek engine, provided by the Baja SAE, and runs at a maximum speed of approximately 50 km/h. The project cost over $10,000 to craft, an expense mostly covered by sponsors and designated club funding.

According to police, the thief had broken into a window that connected the shop to a graduate student lab in McLaughlin Hall.

The University has subsequently installed alarms in the shop, and is looking into placing security cameras around the area.

The missing car marks a major blow to Luke Damron and the rest his team, comprising approximately 15 mechanical engineering students, Damron, the team’s manager said.

Each member put in upward of 50 — sometimes even 100 — hours per week crafting the design and manufacturing the

custom parts that first began last September, he added.

“We put our blood, sweat and tears into it,” Damron, Sci ’13, said. “To see it disappear like that makes it really hard.”

The shop where the car was stolen also housed a custom-engineered truck and another off-road race care built by graduate students, making the theft even more puzzling to team members.

The car doesn’t have a reverse option and its custom-built parts aren’t salvageable, meaning the car has little value on the black market, he said, adding that it’s difficult to get into the car without assistance.

“I don’t know what would incentivize someone to do it. It’s not as if it’s as good as an ATV,” he said. “It’s a student-built project that has more value to us than anybody else which makes it that much more frustrating.”

According to Baja SAE rules, the team is allowed to recycle parts of previously-built cars so long as the car placed out of the top 10 category.

The team had banked on reusing parts of the car to save costs and time, given next year’s team’s relative inexperience with the project.

Damron, who has been part of the team since his second year, said the theft could negatively impede the upcoming team’s performance at the annual races.

“They were going to reuse a lot of the vehicle because they have a very small and inexperienced team coming up to this next season,” he said. “I feel awful for them.”

Chris Carrick, who first reported the car missing, said his team next year is going to be “in pretty bad shape.”

“At first I thought someone at the team had just taken it out for a spin and forgot to tell us See It’s on page 8

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University releases new budget breakdown The 2013-2014 budget model will attempt to fix financial constraints by promoting new sources of revenue B y A bby A ndrew Assistant News Editor

significant portion of Queen’s operating revenues, and such a dependency, especially during The Provost is spearheading a new periods of fiscal difficulty, is a major budget model in order to address risk,” Harrison said.

He said the provincial the University’s unsustainable government is spending less money financial state.

Approximately $9.3 million on universities in order to balance in reserve funds were used their budget, resulting in Queen’s to balance the University’s receiving fewer grants per student.

If enrolment increases $445.9 million operating budget, compared to $10.3 throughout Ontario, the school million in reserve funds for 2012-13 could risk relying on diminishing government grants, he added, and $11 million in 2011-12.

The budget, which outlines forcing the University to spend operating costs for the 2013- more of its reserve funds to cover 14 academic year, will address operating costs.

“All of this helps to explain significant decreases in government grants given to the University to why it is crucial to diversify cover its operational expenses in revenue sources, which will make order to ensure future budgets us less reliant on government are financially sustainable, Provost funding, and hence less at risk,” and Vice-Principal (Academic) Harrison said.

Alan Harrison told the Journal via email.

The report explained that AMS government grants represent 44 per cent of budgeted operated revenues in 2013-14.

The government of Ontario is reducing per-student operating grants and is expected to fund 600 graduate places for 2013-14.

The University is expected to see B y Vincent B en M atak an approximately decrease of $1.6 News Editor million in government grants this year, and a permanent reduction of The AMS is undertaking an $3.3 million in 2014-15. overhaul of Alfie’s, renovating the “Government grants form a 37-year-old nightclub and

With the new budget model, of funding allotted to each faculty the University is hoping to create and school, additional funding is a new chances for revenue, giving possibility for new activities, while faculties and schools the chance those that produce less revenue to initiate new revenue-generating may receive less funding. activities, and create their “The faculty will … have more own budgets. to spend if it engages in an activity With the new budget model, that will generate new revenue,” revenue that faculties and he said. schools create through areas The chance at receiving a larger such as enrolment will flow budget for a valuable activity may directly to them, decreasing motivate faculties and schools to generate more revenue, he said. government dependency.

The new budget model “Faculties and schools … are in integrates activity-based budgeting the best position to ensure they are which provides faculties and aligning their resources with their schools the opportunity to academic priorities,” Harrison said. receive funding in order to Unless interest rates and generate revenue. investment returns increase before Activity-based budgeting funds next summer, the school will have university initiatives based on to make annual solvency payments the revenue they are expected to of $35 million in the fall of 2015. generate. Instead of a set amount The school’s pension plan faces

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into the University’s Student Initiative Fund.

“Our new contract with CIBC will provide more revenue than we had in the past,” Davis told the Journal via e-mail. “Out of respect for both our previous contract with TD and our current contract with CIBC, I am unable to be more specific in terms of the dollar amount.”

Davis also declined to list other bank contenders who put in proposals to the University, but mentioned the process included seven proposals.

“We wanted to make sure that whichever company we picked, would be able to provide reliable machines and they would keep them in service and we would get some good revenue, and CIBC had the strongest score,” she said in an interview, adding the decision was made unanimously by the evaluation committee.

“Ideally you do it before they expire so you’re ready for the new one the day after,” she added. “But it should be okay.”

The AMS and the SGPS are also set to garner revenue from the switch — additional revenue will be funneled to the Student Life Centre (SLC) per each machine, Nicola Plummer, AMS vicepresident of operations, said.

The SLC has two ATMs, housed in the JDUC and the Queen’s Centre, and is governed by the AMS, SGPS and the University.

Plummer couldn’t specify on the exact amount of revenue the

societies would receive, but said she sympathizes with student frustration following the decision.

“I switched to TD when I came to Queen’s, so I definitely understand the frustration there,” she said. “It definitely is frustrating as there is only one campus bank and [students] are charged for it.”

Despite this, she added CIBC was offering the best value.

“From my own perspective it was clear [it was] best value for students and I am a TD user,” she said.

According to Benedict Chang, gear manager for the Queen’s Outdoors Club, students should have been notified prior to the switch.

“I think it’s a move to make the University more money, but it wasn’t necessarily a move for the betterment of the students because I know a lot of my friends were always with TD, and I’m not too sure how many people are with CIBC,” Chang said. “I am guessing it’s probably not a majority.”

The club’s executives, who handle cash for club activities, switched to TD for convenience and cost-saving.

“We deal with ATMs on a day-to-day basis because we deal with a lot of incoming and outgoing money,” he added.

“We just switched all our incoming executives over to TD and that was a strenuous process.”

rebranding it as “The Underground,” the most recent attempt to address the club’s continuing financial losses.

The Journal was notified of the project early Monday afternoon by an AMS employee, who requested to remain anonymous.

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.

The newly-redesigned club is set to open its doors for the first time on the week of Sept. 2, although the exact date has yet to be determined.

The original idea for the change was initiated by AMS hospitality and safety services director Justin Reekie in May, and was brought forward by The AMS Pub Services (TAPS) head manager Stephanie Johnson.

For the 2012-13 academic year, TAPS is projected to have run a $30,000 deficit, although the figure has yet to be audited. In February of last year, TAPS had a $67,000 deficit at that month’s end.

In 2011-12, the Journal reported that TAPS had a projected

deficit of $90,000 coming out of the summer months.

Deficits incurred by Alfie’s are subsidized by the Queen’s Pub, which sees higher profits and is more consistently attended.

The project isn’t the first attempt to spark new life into the student-run club — last summer, team JDL spent upwards of $11,000 on new paint, furniture and lighting to attract more students and garner more revenue, giving the space a more “industrial look.”

The previous academic year, the AMS installed $7,650 worth of gates over the club’s bars to provide greater security of its inventory, following a theft.

In 2004, $27,000 was spent on giving Alfie’s velvety couches and chaise lounge chairs, in hopes of improving its revenue stream, following a $100,000 loss the year before.

Previously in 2001, the AMS undertook a $285,000 renovation to improve sales and attendance — increasing the club’s lighting and providing more space for students.

The Journal reported at that time that Alfie’s had been experiencing trouble drawing crowds, with the exception of Thursday nights, since the late 80s when it first began to lose profits.

According to Nicola Plummer, AMS vice-president of

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The AMS projects The Underground will bring increased revenues.

concerns, Harrison added.

“Our financial projections for 2015-16 contain an unallocated amount of projected revenue that is sufficient to cover the solvency payments,” Harrison said.

The $35 million necessary to pay these solvency fees will come out of a contingency fund, which is money put aside for emergencies and unexpected economic pressures.

“If the contingency funds were used in this way, the budgets available to faculties and schools net of these solvency payments would probably be unchanged from 2013-14 levels, which would make financial management very challenging,” he added.

operations, the new renovations and rebranding would cost “less than $50,000,” a number she declined to specify given that it was passed in closed session.

“The financial performance of Alfie’s has been questioned by AMS Board of Directors for the past decade,” she said. “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.”

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 feature graffiti painted across the club’s walls inside.

“The context of it is that it wasn’t the most expensive capital expenditure we had this summer,” she said, adding the figure would be depreciated.

TAPS is projected to make up for the cost of the revamp through a projected increase in revenue brought on by higher attendance.

She also said TAPS will increase prices for wine bottles from $14 to up to $17.

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.

She added any form of direct polling would have brought divided opinions, and isn’t common in corporate decision-making.

The name change comes as a result of concerns raised by students that the club negatively reflected on the memory of Alfie Pierce, Plummer said.

Pierce, widely considered to be a Queen’s legend, was the son of a runaway slave and became a celebrated figure for his contributions to Queen’s athletics.

“It’s also a much easier brand and name to work with than Alfie’s — you can do any kind of theme with The Underground,” she said. “I would say also because it’s a non-offensive name … it’s an honest name that reflects [the venue].”

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Tuition covered for Crown wards

New program will ensure that post-secondary education is covered for those leaving foster care B y O livia B owden Assistant News Editor

Youth Services, Children’s Aid wasn’t working out. And that was eliminate a financial burden, it’s can care for children, support just the best decision [becoming also easier to concentrate on the their families, or put the child up a Crown ward] for both me and schooling in front of me and not my mom,” she said. “A lot of kids have to worry about the financial A new program will bear most for adoption.

The University will fund their usually don’t stay in the same side,” she said. of the financial burden for Woodcox believes that the marginalized students looking to contribution to the program home for a long period of time, but by taking a small amount of I just had a really good relationship program will not only help current come to Queen’s.

The Ontario government has the university’s bursary money, [with mine] so I was able to stay students, but future ones.

“Anything that can help will not partnered with the University in the said John Metcalfe, Queen’s there for 10 years.”

Woodcox received an entrance only benefit people that are in 100 per cent Tuition Aid for Youth University registrar.

“Even if it’s only about 10-12 scholarship to Queen’s last year school, but it might make kids who Leaving Care grant, a program that will cover up to $11,000 per year students in this category [at last year for exceptional grades, but are holding back from school more Queen’s], the intention is that financing her education was still a able to apply. It will sound more in tuition and living expenses. appealing to them,” she said.

The grant will provide eligible they receive this help because they major concern.

“The program does not only Steve Woodman, executive students who are leaving the care have been marginalized, and are of Children’s Aid, or are former fighting an uphill battle given their Crown wards, with a maximum of background,” Metcalfe said.

The program was created in $6,000 each year for tuition fees as well at $500 per month of study to January, in response to concerns raised by Crown ward youth help cover living costs.

The Ontario government will be that post-secondary education covering 50 per cent of the tuition was financially inaccessible, said costs for these students during their Alvin Tedjo, senior policy advisor time of study, while the University of post-secondary education at the Ministry of Training, will cover the rest of the fees.

The program will fund roughly Colleges and Universities.

According to Tedio, former 500 qualifying students across 29 Crown wards enroll in education institutions in Ontario.

A “Crown ward” is a child post-secondary education at within Ontario who is now under approximately half the rate of the legal responsibility of the their peers.

“The program helps remove a government. In Ontario, children 16 and under can qualify as Crown critical financial barrier for those wards, according to the Canadian who wish to pursue postsecondary education,” he said.

Child Welfare website.

Leah Woodcox, ArtSci ’16, Children’s Aid societies are independent organizations that became a Crown ward at age investigate cases of possible neglect, eight and was immediately placed and then take action to protect into foster care by Children’s children who face abuse. According Aid in Kingston.

“The situation with my family Children’s Services in Kingston, where Leah Woodcox received care. to the Ministry of Children and

director of Family and Children’s Services of Frontenac, Lennox, and Addington is well aware of the disadvantages that those in Children’s Aid face.

“This will be a big benefit for kids in care. They face many challenges going to university that their peers do not,” he said. “This will really help them get a great start towards a goal that we all share — post-secondary education.”

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Student science group sets malaria trap Queen’s Genetically Engineered Machine Team believes Malaria prevention lies in foot odour B y n ick FariS Sports Editor An undergraduate science initiative is practicing the art of deception.

Set to compete against schools from around the world, Queen’s Genetically Engineered Machine team (QGEM) is targeting malarial mosquitos — a strand of mosquito that identifies its human targets through foot odour.

QGEM plans to create a trap based on bacterial compounds — one that will emit natural human odour to lure infected mosquitos. Their two-pronged solution also involves developing bacteria to remove those odours from human feet.

According to QGEM team manager Henry Barron, the plan hinges on the tendency of mosquitos to naturally develop

resistance to all scientific solutions.

Americas East regionals, before progressing make synthetic biology an even bigger thing at Queen’s.”

“It’s the idea that mosquitos have to find to the international competition.

The club relies on the University their hosts somewhere, and the way they This year, IGEM has amalgamated two do that is primarily through odour,” said regional rounds into a single continental and several academic departments Barron, ArtSci ’15. “If they were to develop championship in October, pitting for funding. They’ve begun seeking resistance to the compounds [through which Queen’s against rival schools from across corporate sponsorships and are using RocketHub — an offshoot of Kickstarter — they] find us, then they wouldn’t be able to North America.

“We’ve historically been one of the top in the hopes of accruing public donations. find us anymore, because they would stop So far, they’ve raised around $20,000 teams in Canada. It’s a point of pride for smelling them.”

The club, comprised of 10 students across Queen’s,” Barron said. “It’s going to give us through grants and sponsorships — multiple undergraduate faculties, is gearing a chance to show our stripes and show that $5,000 short of their approximate overall up for a series of interuniversity summits we can compete with some of the big-name required amount.

“It’s very expensive to run a research team, this fall, working through the summer Ivy League schools.” to complete their project. They’re in the Should they qualify for the IGEM as we found out very quickly,” Barron said. developmental stage of creating their bacteria, international championship — a feat the “We’re not for profit, but that doesn’t mean with tests to measure its effectiveness club has accomplished each year since we don’t still use a lot of money.”

More time, experience and funding still to come. their inception in 2009 — Barron and his Traditionally, QGEM would present teammates will travel to Massachusetts would be necessary for any research group to their summer findings at the International Institute of Technology in early November, create tangible change, but QGEM members Genetically Engineered Machine (IGEM) along with 3,000 undergraduate students still benefit from the chance to brainstorm solutions to real problems, according to from around the world.

IGEM projects are centered in synthetic its manager.

They’re not banking on a scientific biology, an emerging field based on the manipulation of natural genes. QGEM breakthrough, Barron said, but looking to mulled over a variety of ideas before foster collaboration and innovation at the settling on foot odour and malarial university level.

“What we’re trying to do this summer mosquitos — an issue international in scope, with the potential to eradicate a is not to cure malaria, but to prove that synthetic biology can be a reasonable or significant disease.

“Some of the research that’s done, albeit new, innovative solution to an old problem,” by undergraduates, is making a splash in he said.

“A lot of the time, that’s what IGEN is. It’s the scientific world and is the basis for bigger-scale research over a number of showing that this new field of science can years,” Barron said. “We want to try to offer an innovative solution.”

CAMPUS CALEnDAR QGEM’s strategy stems from common foot odour.

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Aug. 22-25 The Limestone City Blues Festival Downtown Kingston Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays Kingston By The Fork Food Tours Downtown Kingston Wednesdays/Fridays at 1:30 p.m.

Thursdays and Saturdays at 12 p.m.

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and then I called up everybody and realized that it was actually stolen,” Carrick, Sci ’14, said. “It’s kind of like a big slap in the face to us … we put all this time and effort into the car and somebody just comes and takes it

because they just wanted it.”

“Once the people get bored of the car or it breaks on them they’re just going to dump it somewhere. Hopefully they’ll dump it somewhere and someone finds it,” he added.

Queen’s Baja Team’s car was stolen from a shop at McLaughlin Hall earlier this month.

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Rolling Stone relays radicalization This April, the city of Boston was the of political journalism and social target of day-long series of terrorist commentary. Political figures attacks that left five people dead and individuals noted for their and hundreds injured. In a move criminality have been on its cover that was bound to spark controversy, before, so this particular cover Rolling Stone magazine put one shouldn’t be too shocking.

The crux of Rolling Stone’s of the alleged perpetrators of the attacks — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — story on Dzhokhar was that he on the front cover of a recent issue. was a normal young adult who was Ultimately, Rolling Stone was slowly radicalized into someone right to publish this cover as the willing to carry out acts of terrorism. image the magazine chose gets to The picture chosen for the cover is the heart of the issue at hand — a the perfect symbol of this reality. seemingly normal young American Perhaps this is partly what draws who ended up carrying out horrible the ire of the cover’s detractors. acts of violence.

Dzhokhar does not fit the terrorist In the direct aftermath of any stereotype — instead, he looks like tragedy, our thoughts should the boy next door. be with the victims and their Victims and perpetrators families, and anything less would should both be remembered as social media not be properly empathetic. their experiences are important However, this reaction and informative. It is disquieting should not come with a to think about victims and their simultaneous demonization families having to see the face of the of the alleged perpetrators. person who allegedly caused their When Dalhousie University Doing so dehumanizes them and misfortune. That said, this cover recently asked their failing clouds our judgment when we has put an uncomfortable truth engineering students why they eventually come around to dealing front and centre and will hopefully were having so much trouble, with the underlying problems provoke a valuable debate about many of them pointed to social that may have encouraged their the root causes of violence. media, and Facebook in particular, actions. Moreover, in our society, as the culprit for their poor guilt is not assumed but has to be — Journal Editorial Board academic performance. established in a court of law.

Put simply, these students need Rolling Stone has a long history to grow up. While social media is a new and unique distraction, it’s not an insurmountable one. Facebook I didn’t even realize at that is a convenient scapegoat for the point how little my friends knew human inclination towards laziness about me. and procrastination.

Today, our culture is more Social media is hard to escape inclusive of sexual diversity than if you’re a young person who ever, but are we allowing our hopes to maintain a robust social incent en sexual identities to take over who life. Instead of calling or texting a new friend or acquaintance, the we are? atak Earlier this month, VICE expectation is that you’ll add each Magazine ran an article that other on Facebook and take things posed the question: is Canada being run by a gay mafia?

The article tried to support just guilty of incredibly shoddy the claim by weeding out the journalism.

He’s actively “gay shenanigans of Prime perpetuating the stereotypes Minister Stephen Harper's that most gay communities Sexuality doesn’t define a person. cabinet, which seems about support: a one-dimensional When I came out to my best as straight as an episode framework of personhood friend in first year, I was worried of Glee.” based on what makes you about how she’d take it. Six months The author speculated sexually aroused. later, I was surrounded by a group about the sexuality of notable A few gay friends that I of friends who loved me. people in federal politics, know, as well as myself, have at However, every time I even accusing Harper’s wife, one point completely was introduced by one of Laureen, of being a lesbian based disregarded themselves or my friends, it seemed to go on her alleged nickname in Ottawa: their principles in order like this: “This is my friend Vince. the L-word. to conform to social expectations He’s gay.”

The author, a gay man, isn’t based on their sexual

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from there. Facebook is also a great tool for common interest groups and extracurricular clubs.

Young people’s interaction with these new platforms sometimes manifests in behaviours that resemble addiction. Some will spend hours on Facebook browsing profiles or anticipating “likes” or notifications. Facebook and Twitter follow users everywhere as these sites have applications that are easily downloaded onto smartphones.

However, while social media is omnipresent, it shouldn’t be held up as an insurmountable barrier to achievement.

There have always been distractions.

Young people, especially those who have made the decision to go to university or college, are capable adults who

have strategies at their disposal to minimize the time they spend on social media. Programs and applications can be downloaded that monitor or limit your time on Facebook. In addition, email notifications can be minimized and social media apps can be deleted off of smartphones.

Those students who cite social media as a catchall for their academic failure may not have been prepared for post-secondary education in the first place. The ability to prioritize and delay meaningless gratification is an important test of adult maturity.

Now, close that Facebook tab and get to work.

orientation — common stereotypes that most agree are unfounded.

But the idea of a “gay community” itself perpetuates the notion that we’re nothing more than our sexual orientations. The concept is purely sexual and, subsequently, one-dimensional.

I am not saying that LGBTQ communities are negative spaces in the least. In July, I attended Toronto Pride for my first time and I’ve never felt more accepted.

However, communities can’t be truly inclusive

if they strip individuals of qualities aside from their sexual orientation, placing them in categories that range from “L”, “G”, “B”, “T” to “Q.” Sexual identity is only one small facet of being a human. My sexual identity doesn’t define me.

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What was your favourite part of first year?

Drinking can be an important part of student life and our contributors debate how it should be regulated.

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Point/counterpoint — Drinking Age

At lagerheads over the drinking age

“Seeing purple people.”

Marie Barnes, MSC ’15

CAMH recently recommended raising the drinking age, but our contributors disagree

Tyler Lively, ArtSci ’ 16

take the moral responsibility for their children’s well-being instead of offloading it to lawmakers.

Rather than having the government enforce a ban on the sale to alcohol to minors with violence, as all laws ultimately are, we should be teaching our children responsible drinking and the dangers of alcohol.

Alcohol as a substance is extremely dangerous, and can have devastating effects on the user — and others — when drunk in excess.

Despite the possible negative When your head is consequences of drinking, pounding the morning there’s no question that after drinking, you we have the right to be able to purchase and consume have the ability to alcohol at any age. Alcohol use your reason to prohibtion is wrong on a moral determine whether the level and, as any Queen’s positive outweighs the student can attest, simply does negative and to live not work. your decision.

As humans, our nature with dictates that we ought to be free.

From my own experiences We’re born with the ability to judge and make decisions: as a Queen’s student and an to learn, and to grow. We’ve adolescent in general, I have been gifted with reason, seen the very simple something that makes our solutions to getting around nature quite different from that of the legal drinking age: get a common beast. a friend to buy the liquor or Using this reason, we can use a fake ID; the drinking age determine whether or not we is ignored. own our own bodies. If we Even university drinking do own our own bodies, it stands regulations are subverted on a that, on principle, forcing us to regular basis.

I can’t abide by a legal drinking age count the number of is immoral. my peers who drank during Frosh Being owned by all the other Week, despite the ban. humans in the world is absurd.

Fundamentally, natural law No one would be able to and a reason-based approach act without the permission of to human nature is not about others, something that is what we are and what is, practically impossible. but what we can be.

Moreover, ownership by a Government imposed laws select few is not moral in the won’t — and shouldn’t try slightest. It assumes that some to — protect us from ourselves. are above others, that a group If we as human beings want is inferior to another and to be free to choose, we must deserves to be exploited. Taken to establish ownership of our its extreme, this logic leads to bodies, revel in the idea of tyranny and oppression. taking individual responsibility Part of human nature is taking and realize that liberty comes ownership over our bodies, as a package deal and learning from our mistakes not à-la-carte. and building on our success.

When your head is pounding the morning after drinking, The Centre for Addiction and Mental you have the ability to use Health (CAMH) released your reason to determine whether a report in June the positive outweighs the recommending changes negative and to live with to Ontario’s alcohol your decision. policy to help I’m certain there are reduce the cost of those who would object by alcohol use. One of the saying that a child’s judgement recommendations was isn’t sufficiently developed to raising the drinking age make these decisions. They to 21. would probably be right. It’s up to friends and family to

always be people who abuse alcohol.

However, it’s much easier to give people with unhealthy drinking habits the help they need when the system is set up to acknowledge that they exist.

For instance, Queen’s has a pub Chloe Sobel, ArtSci ’ 14 on campus as well as resources for The drinking age should remain 18 people who have consumed too or 19 as opposed to being either much. These resources tend not raised or abolished. I can safely say to be readily available at colleges that a nationwide drinking age is in the US. This is not to argue that beneficial, as an American who drinking age should turned 18 in England and 19 in the necessarily be lowered or Ontario, but isn’t yet 21.

In Europe, all but two countries abolished — while teenagers have the drinking age set at 18 will always find a way drink, that shouldn’t or below. What I’ve noticed to among my European friends is a be facilitated.

Legal regulation is important much healthier attitude towards drinking than the common in order to encourage responsible American attitude. While many drinking. With alcohol under people still binge drink, alcohol the purview of government, it’s is not a forbidden substance for easier to institute public campaigns and regulate the general sale European teenagers.

Underage drinking in the US has of alcohol. an element of risk to it that makes The brain is still developing alcohol much more attractive during the teenage years and for people who might normally excessive consumption of alcohol damages that development. While moderate their consumption.

Because of its illegality, teenagers brain health has likely never are more likely to engage in stopped anyone from drinking, dangerous behaviour, such as knowing the long-term effects driving drunk or binge drinking, may encourage more responsible due to the fear of being discovered consumption of alcohol.

Research suggests that drinking underage.

Almost 2,000 American college teenage drinking undermines students die every year from the neurological capacities that accidental alcohol-related injuries, normally protect someone from and it’s been estimated that over alcoholism — 47 per cent of people three million students drive drunk. who start drinking before age 14 Assault rates, both physical become alcoholics, as opposed to and sexual, are high as well, and nine per cent who wait until they’re victims of sexual assault are 21, regardless of genetic tendency frequently told they were “asking towards alcoholism. for it” by either drinking or being around people who were.

Legal regulation The United States in particular is important in has always had an uneasy order to encourage relationship with alcohol, and the drinking. legal drinking age being 21 is an responsible expression of that.

Alcohol should not be free The US once banned the sale, production and transportation for anyone to buy regardless of of alcohol and, even today, over age. Teenagers should learn about 500 municipalities remain dry. This drinking responsibly at home and is not a sign of a healthy relationship in school so that when they’re with alcohol; this is a legacy able to buy alcohol legally they’ll of the puritanical culture that has know the consequences of haunted the US since its founding. their actions.

These laws and the continuing A drinking age in the late demonization of alcohol teens enables a culture in which consumption have made alcohol alcohol is treated with respect and into a forbidden fruit. caution. If it’s too high, people Teenagers who want to drink will view alcohol as an exciting will do it — but when their parents risk, and if it’s nonexistent and culture demonize them for people won’t receive the public drinking, they’re less likely to ask health education they need about for help if they feel a situation is its effects. getting out of hand.

Wherever you go, there will

“Facing challenges that force you to grow up.”

Aarzoo Singh, MA ’14

“When it’s warm and everyone is outside.”

Erik Wright, ArtSci ’16

“Meeting a wide range of people and personalities.”

Jasmin Ma, MSC ’14

“The Queen’s community was very accepting and it was an easy transition.”

Oleg Vinokurov, Sci ’13

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Change major.

B y S EBASTiAN l ECK Assistant News Editor Approximately 200 students at Queen’s switch faculties each year, but not everyone who wants to is permitted to do so.

According to Stuart Pinchin, associate university registrar, spaces for transfer students are limited due to the Universtiy’s high retention rates.

For those who do make the switch though, the progress made in another faculty will not be lost. Pinchin said that courses taken at other faculties will stay on a transcript after a student switches faculties. “[They] will count toward the degree requirements where applicable,” he said.

Mackenzie Lovsin, Comm ’14, transferred from the Faculty of Arts and Science to Commerce after his first year.

He decided to apply to Queen’s Commerce in November of his first year after finding he enjoyed his economics elective more than his core science classes.

Lovsin said transferring into the Commerce program is probably the most difficult transfer at Queen’s.

“It’s harder to get in after university than after high school,” he said.

“They don’t care about your high school grades — they judge your application on your first-year GPA and a personal statement of experience.”

To transfer into the Commerce program, the School of Business looks for well-rounded students with a minimum average of B+ in See Hundreds on page 19

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Women continue to dominate university enrolment; three out of five Queen’s undergraduate students are female.

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Higher expectations, higher education Female students prevail in numbers at Canadian universities B y r ACHEl H ErSCOViCi Features Editor Women have been dominating undergraduate enrolment in university.

A 2011 survey of Queen’s reported that 59 per cent of full-time students are female.

In 1950, only 21.6 per cent of Canadian undergraduates were women, according to Statistics Canada.

Data compiled in the Statistics Canada archives show a constant increase in women’s enrolment in university over the years. More recently, female enrolment numbers have plateaued, but they still surpass men’s enrolment.

Queen’s sociology professor

Cynthia Levine-Rasky said it’s hard to determine the exact reason behind this.

“I think the women’s movement has a lot to do with it, and its effects have trickled down from mothers to daughters,” she said.

“Young women take the desire to be financially independent very seriously, and they take their lives seriously — they plan, they study, they focus. Not all, of course, but many do, perhaps a larger proportion of them do than young men.”

In the past, an increase of female enrollment in university programs has caused controversy.

Some believed new reforms in the education system lead to teachers being unable to support

male students and producing stronger female students, Levine-Rasky said.

“Feminists reject this argument as sexist. That argument is advanced by men who feel threatened by strong, educated, independent women,” she said.

While women represent a majority of students enrolled in undergraduate programs in Canada, they’re not the majority in every program.

The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada report that women represent a smaller percentage of students enrolled in computer science and engineering-related programs.

At Queen’s, 25 per cent of students in the Faculty of

Engineering and Applied Science are women, as are 35 per cent of Computer Science students.

“Women need to be encouraged to enter those disciplines that remain male-dominated, especially engineering, natural sciences, business, as well as college and vocational programs like the skilled trades,” Levine-Rasky said.

Overall, she believes the higher amount of female enrolment is a positive step.

“It also hopefully encourages young men to step up their efforts in order to compete,” she said. “In the past, male privilege went unchallenged.”

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Treat yourself to a taste of Kingston A tantalizing tour for your taste buds in the heart of the Limestone City B y E mily M iller Features Editor

Brunch If you’re anything like me, you’re a fan of brunch — the mid-morning meal without which no weekend is complete. Luckily, Kingston has every option to start your day the best way.

Geneva CrÊpe Bistro 97 Princess St. Fluffy, paper-thin crepes served sweet or savoury, all day long. Walk no further than Princess and Clergy Streets to indulge in these light delicacies at Geneva Crêpe Bistro.

Morrison’s Restaurant 318 King St. East Morison’s is the greasiest spoon around, with value that can’t be beat. The restaurant is a long-time favourite of Queen’s students and locals alike, with bacon and eggs served within minutes of your order.

Pan Chancho 44 Princess St. For the best French toast of your life, head to this charming limestone bakery. Serving breakfast daily from 7 to 11 a.m., and an unparalleled weekend brunch, Pan Chancho also offers the freshest pastries in town and desserts that are almost too beautiful to eat. Almost.

Tommy’s 377 Princess St. You’ll never miss brunch at Tommy’s, which serves up classic diner breakfast ‘round the clock. The Deluxe, with eggs your way, choice of bacon, ham or sausage, hash browns, baked beans, toast and two pancakes (no, it doesn’t all fit onto one plate), comes in under ten dollars, leaving just enough change for the juke box.

Windmills Casual Fine Dining 184 Princess St. Lineups are no rarity for Sunday brunch at Windmills, but the perogies and frittatas are well worth the wait. Brunch is kindly served until 3p.m., so there’s no need to rush out of bed for your beloved eggs benedict.

Dinner For nights when the cafeteria isn’t an option and you’ve exhausted your capacity for the Lazy Scholar, Kingston offers irresistible eateries.

Atomica Gourmet Pizza & Wine Bar 71 Brock St. For top-notch pastas and pizzas and one

cool cocktail list, it doesn’t get better than Atomica. With its astral décor and intimate setting, this is one of the neatest places to dine in Kingston.

Casa Domenico 35 Brock St. With truly gourmet pastas and entrées, and utterly delectable desserts, Casa is an asset to the city. The restaurant sits at a higher price point, so it may be one to try when the parents come to visit. But be careful — after they’ve experienced Casa, they may never want to leave.

Chez Piggy 68 Princess St. If your parents once Oil-Thighed themselves, they’ll remember this one, but they’ll be pleasantly surprised by the updated menu, featuring diverse appetizers and dangerously addictive frites.

The Copper Penny 240 Princess St. A landmark for comfort food, the Copper Penny’s family-sized appetizers are made to be shared, as are this laid back spot’s first-rate French fries.

Grecos 167 Princess St. If you love Greek food, you’ll want to visit Grecos. Everything from the shrimpschetta to the souvlaki is so scrumptious, it’s often difficult to snag a table here, so reservations are recommended.

Harper’s Burger Bar 93 Princess St. This local joint will change the way you think about burgers. The Bull’s Eye is a famous choice, with Monterey Jack cheese, bacon, fried egg, jalapeño peppers and barbeque sauce, but vegetarian and vegan burgers are also featured. Spiked milkshakes and root beer floats complete your meal.

Mango Thai & Pan-Asian Cuisine 161 Princess St. Try Mango’s pad thai just once, and there’s no doubt you’ll be back for more. Widely adored, Mango offers an array of stir-fries, curries and noodles at its quaint Princess St. location.

Megalos 226 Princess St. If there’s a range of palettes dining with you, Megalos is the place to choose, serving everything from crab ravioli to fish and chips.

Great for large groups, online reservations can be made at OpenTable.com.

Mekong Restaurant 394 Princess St. For the best in Vietnamese cuisine, head to Mekong. Service is quick and food is beyond tasty, every time. Be sure to order their

revered spring rolls — no meal is complete without them.

Late-Night Snacks

Olivea 39 Brock St. With a more contemporary take on Italian fare, Olivea offers modern twists on traditional pastas. Enjoy their gourmet lasagna with a side of live jazz on Tuesdays, but always save room for the crème brûlée.

It’s no secret there are some late nights ahead of you. Whether you’re up studying into the lofty hours of the night, in dire need of brain-fuel, or out on the town craving some eats, here’s where you won’t want to miss.

Sima Sushi 66 Princess St. I never expected to find my favourite sushi in Kingston, but one visit to Sima had me hooked. This hot spot is so popular, it recently opened a second location at 296 Princess Street. The Crispy Crunch Maki is a common favourite, but there’s nothing on the menu to be denounced.

Taj Curry House 125 Princess St. Delicious curries and warm naan bread are always served with a smile at Taj Curry House. While some dishes will clear anyone’s sinuses, you can choose from several flavours, from smoky to sweet.

Woodenheads Gourmet Pizza 192 Ontario St. One bite of Woodenheads’ wood-fired pizza and you’ll be happy you’ve settled in Kingston.

From the Del Bosco to the Luminoso, there’s a pizza suited to everyone’s liking, waiting to be enjoyed on the toasty patio. Reservations are a must — it’s that good.

Coffee If you don’t already, chances are you’ll appreciate a smooth cup of joe by the end of your Queen’s career. Whether beginning or continuing your java journey, we’re spilling the beans on the stops you’ll want to make along the way.

Coffeeco 322 King St. East A prized Kingston possession, with a slew of organic blends and notoriously well-made cappuccino, Coffeeco no longer sits conveniently at Johnson and Division streets, but its drip is well worth the stroll to King and Brock streets. The brand also boasts a second location further from campus, at the Kingston Centre.

Sipps 33 Brock St. Sipps offers phenomenal coffee and espresso beverages, with a stunning view of City Hall and Market Square. Enjoy one of their sweet treats or a sizzling panini with your java jolt.

Bubba’s Pizza 401 Princess Street; 349 King Street East Bubba’s is always a crowd-pleaser, and with two downtown locations, you can pick up your pies or have them delivered to your door.

MLT DWN 292 Princess St. Eagerly welcomed to Kingston’s food scene, MLT DWN offers a spectrum of grilled cheese sandwiches, from Mac ‘n’ Cheese (that’s right, two cheesy favourites in one) to beef brisket. Can’t decide? Make a custom order.

Mr. Donair 163 Division St. I’ll confess I’d never eaten poutine prior to attending university; however, I certainly made up for lost time after discovering Mr. Donair. Its poutine with toppings is the ultimate late-night snack, and its donairs are whipped up before your eyes.

Something Sweet Life is just too short to skip dessert. Indulge your sweet tooth at these Kingston favourites.

Limestone City Cupcakery 326 Princess St. Upgraded to a new location on Princess St., Limestone City Cupcakery offers luscious cupcakes baked daily, in a plethora of flavours. Try the delicately sweet Lavender cupcake, the summery “S’more Please!”, or the Maple Bacon cupcake (yes, you read that right).

Mio Yogi 344 Johnson St. Located hazardously close to campus, Mio Yogi gives Menchie’s a run for its money.

The rotation of its show-stopping flavours simplifies your selection process, but that’s before you arrive at the endless spread of toppings for your fro-yo and soft-served gelato. Its sister location, Mio Gelato, is at 178 Ontario St. Wolfe Island Bakery 311 Queen St. While its name suggests otherwise, we’re lucky to have this bakery’s flagship location on mainland. This Kingston staple offers an assortment of taste-tantalizing desserts and masterfully baked bread.

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The minor difference Choosing to add a minor to your major can increase your chances of future employment B y A BBy A NDrEW Assistant News Editor When choosing your classes, adding a minor to your major can increase your chances of future employment, according to Career Services.

Debbie Mundell, career information coordinator at Career Services, believes in the value of taking a minor in addition to a major.

“A minor could make you more marketable in your job search and a prospective employer might look at your minor as added value that shows you have greater depth,” Mundell told the Journal via email.

With a competitive job market, anything that brings you above the masses is valuable.

“A minor can be viewed as additional expertise that could enhance your major,” Mundell said. “[It] can also show potential employers that you are versatile and well-rounded.”

Mundell said she recommends choosing

a minor that naturally compliments your major while making sure it doesn’t overlap too much.

For example, if a student decides to major in drama, adding a minor in film would be complimentary to a drama degree, she said “Many job postings recommend ‘familiarity with’ certain areas, and if an applicant has a ‘minor’ in a subject that happens to be important for the role … a potential employer may look at that favourably,” she said. For example, a minor in a second language is often valuable in international relations.

Sylvia Stead, the public editor at The Globe and Mail who did a large amount of hiring when she was the paper’s Executive Editor, believes that having a minor can be advantageous.

“A minor or major in a field which is both needed and in short supply certainly makes you stand out more in applications of hundreds of resumes,” she told the Journal via email.

Adding a minor can help students explore a secondary interest.

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Campus Life

Venturing out A recent alumnus reminisces on his undergraduate years on campus

D aniel B odirsky ArtSci ’13 There is no one-size-fits-all advice for new university students. I hope though, that as a recent university graduate, I can offer you a sliver of guidance for the four years that lie ahead of you.

In the interest of full disclosure, my time at Queen’s was fairly run-of-the-mill. I enjoyed the time I spent earning my undergraduate degree, but I wasn’t one to bleed school spirit, nor was I ever featured prominently in the school’s spotlight.

One piece of advice that did make a difference during my years as an undergrad, however, was to try and step outside of my comfort zone.

The university experience, especially at Queen’s, is very much about this concept. This doesn’t mean partying every other day (though if that’s what you’re into, go for it), but rather, venturing out and simply trying new things.

Beyond acclimatising to a new life in Kingston, there are a few simple things you can do to launch yourself into experiencing Queen’s

for all it has to offer.

Start networking early. Too many students simply coast through undergrad without ever really putting themselves out there and meeting new people.

Queen’s won’t throw jobs at you, but it does offer opportunities.

Interesting speaker session coming up? Go and introduce yourself to the speaker. Internship fair? Put on something nice and shake some people’s hands. You’ll find that opportunities most often arise from what may seem like random encounters.

This also goes for academic connections. Queen’s is plagued with budget cuts, resulting in fewer small-scale seminars with professors in upper years. Speaking from experience, trying to cultivate an academic relationship in search of a reference letter in fourth year isn’t much fun. Lay the foundations for this by reaching out to professors early on.

Seeking new experiences shouldn’t be relegated to campus activities either. If you have the chance, go on exchange. Queen’s is partnered with more than 85 universities in 24 different countries, affording you the opportunity to study nearly anywhere you choose.

Furthermore, the vast majority of exchanges are extremely affordable — my semester in Germany actually cost less than a semester at Queen’s.

Bodirsky said he appreciates the value of open-mindedness as he looks back on his four years at Queen’s.

Many students embark on an exchange during third year — a time by which people have usually carved out a niche for themselves with a steady group of friends, routines and habits. While it may be tempting to dismiss the opportunity to study elsewhere when you’re comfortable in Kingston, you’re no less of a Queen’s student for spending a semester or two abroad.

In addition to being (extremely) fun, studying abroad enhances your adaptability and overall openness to experience, something that has proven invaluable to me post-graduation.

Upon returning from my exchange, I developed a crushing

fear of missing out, as I realized my time at Queen’s would soon be ending.

Fortunately, this realization helped spur my involvement in a number of extracurricular activities. Just two weeks after showing up to a Model United Nations meeting where I’d known no one, I was certain I’d found a group that would allow me to thrive, exploring my passion for international affairs.

If I had the chance to do it again (and oh how I wish I do), I would have started getting involved earlier.

My involvement with the Queen’s International Affairs Association provided me with some of the

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best friends and experiences of my past four years. I only wish now I had a bit more time to enjoy these fortunes.

In short, there’s no specific way to experience this school, but don’t close yourself off to new experiences. In trying new things, you may discover a hidden passion for cooking, dancing, debating, writing, swimming, international politics or even something you had never known existed.

Time goes by quickly, so make the most of your years at Queen’s — however you choose to do so.

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What can $8.75 buy?

How to optimize your Queen’s meal plan B y a nisa r awhani Copy Editor Every first-year meal plan at Queen’s comes with 200 meal equivalencies — meals that can be traded for up to $8.75 worth of tax-exempt food items at campus food retailers.

When used effectively, meal equivalencies can go a long way.

However, when you spend an equivalency, every penny of that $8.75 that goes unspent in your transaction is discarded, as opposed to being banked for future transactions. For example, if you use a meal equivalency to buy $6 worth of food, $2.75 is wasted and can never be regained.

To help you make the most of your meal plan, and avoid wasting valuable dollars in meal equivalencies, we’re showing you just how much $8.75 can buy.

The Canadian Grilling Company Mackintosh-Corry Hall’s MC Square • Classic burger + cheese of your choice = $8.00 • Old school milkshake + sweet potato fries or small salad = $8.25 or $8.50, respectively • Poutine + pop = $8.70 Garden Street Café Botterell Hall Must-try: All-day breakfast on Thursdays

• Chicken caesar salad + large Java Java gourmet blends coffee + bagel = $8.72 Lazy Scholar Victoria Hall • Two-piece chicken snacker + Lazy Riser + apple = $8.33 Pita Pit Queen’s Centre and Mackintosh-Corry Hall’s MC Square • 6” chicken souvlaki pita + bottled drink = $8.69 Pizza Pizza Queen’s Centre and MackintoshCorry Hall’s MC Square • Two slices of pizza + one bag of chips + one 20oz fountain pop + one dipping sauce = $8.78 Starbucks Goodes Hall • Breakfast sandwich or wrap + venti Tazo tea latte = $8.60 Library Café Stauffer Library • Large london fog + chocolate brownie + butter croissant = $8.69 Tim Hurtons Queen’s Centre, JDUC and the Biosciences Complex • Breakfast Bagel BELT Combo (includes a small coffee and

a donut or muffin) + classic bagel with cream cheese + danish or croissant = $8.74 • BLT Soup Combo (sandwich + soup + coffee) + danish or croissant = $8.75 To compare, here’s what $8.75 can buy you at Common Ground Coffeehouse (CoGro), the on-campus, student-run coffee shop which does not accept meal equivalencies: Common Ground Coffeehouse Queen’s Centre • Bruschetta Bagel + Exam (large) coffee = $8.65 (after tax) On-campus dining pro tips: • Tim Hortons’ low prices make it the perfect place to optimize your meal equivalencies.

If you have a day with back-to-back classes, consider hitting up Tim Hortons in the morning to get both your breakfast and lunch, all at the cost of one meal equivalency.

Also consider trading off with a friend: one of you takes care of breakfast, while the other takes care of lunch — in end, you’ve only spent one meal equivalency each.

• It’s not always possible to achieve a perfect $8.75 combination. If you ever

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find that you’re a little over, consider paying the additional cost with your flex dollars.

Flex dollars are an extra pool of money that comes with all first-year meal plans. They’re ideal for when your meal equivalency’s total slightly exceeds $8.75, or you simply want a coffee on the go.

• If you run out of flex dollars, you can always pay differences in cash. Additional flex dollars, however, are available for

purchase through Queen’s Hospitality Services.

• All meals, meal equivalencies and flex dollars expire unconditionally after April 30 of each school year. If you purchase “dining dollars”, which are taxable funds that can be used at any campus food retailer, they don’t expire.

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Homecoming

A new home-coming Queen’s welcomes home Gaels, both new and old B y O livia B owden Assistant News Editor It’s hard to predict what the homecoming weekends this fall will look like.

The annual event is scheduled to return to campus over two separate weekends: Oct. 4-6 and Oct. 18-20.

Homecoming had been banned from 2009 until last year due to highly-publicized cases of unruly behaviour.

Parties during the 2005 homecoming weekend resulted in a flipped car in flames on Aberdeen St., while the 2008 celebration saw 140 arrests, 700 liquor charges and 20 students sent to the hospital due to over-consumption of alcohol.

In December 2012, however, the University announced it would be reinstating the tradition, with safety as a major concern.

Residence guest restrictions will be in place during the homecoming weekends, as is the case during Frosh Week and St. Patrick’s Day weekend in March. Campus residents may not host non-Queen’s students in their residences during the weekends, and overnight guests from other campus residences must be signed in and out.

During that time, the University will be running the Campus Observation Room (COR), which is located in Victoria Hall and has volunteers helping those who have over-consumed alcohol.

“We continue to provide a safe place and resources, for example, residence dons and the COR as options for students to seek support and guidance during the weekend,” said Chauncey Kennedy, manager of Residence Life at Queen’s.

Tom Harris, the University’s vice-principal of advancement, said that security on campus will increase on both weekends, but students can be make decisions to ensure their own safety as well.

“If there is unsanctioned behaviour or a large student gathering, the best advice for students is to not be a part of that activity,” he said.

Harris said he believes students will behave well this year.

“We believe that over the past few years, students have chosen to behave in a much more respectful

manner and that the escalating cycle of inappropriate behaviour has been broken,” Harris said.

“We hope students and visitors will enjoy Homecoming in respectful and appropriate ways.”

Nathan Stevenson, Sci ’17, isn’t too sure about what homecoming weekend will actually entail.

“All that I know is that it got cancelled because it was pretty nuts,” he said Stevenson said if Queen’s provided alternative, dry events at night for those who wish to abstain from drinking, he’d partake.

There will be two dry evening events during the celebrations. On Oct. 4 and 18 in Market Square downtown, students and alumni can enjoy films shown at sunset.

“I have a few friends who are going to Queen’s and who don’t drink; it would exclude them if everything was centered on drinking,” he said.

Kaila Raimondo, ArtSci ’17, said she’d be happy to see some Homecoming events specifically geared towards first years.

“I think it’s going to be a lot of fun, a good way to meet new people and make new friends,” she said.

She also said she plans not to focus on drinking during Homecoming.

“I don’t think I’m worried about [drinking]. If I want to participate, I will; if not, I can do something with journal file photo a couple of friends,” she said. “It’s Justin Chapdelaine greets an unofficial homecoming not a big deal to me.” crowd during last year’s game against the Western Mustangs.

Campus life

Opportunities beyond the books Weighing the pros and cons of extracurricular activities on campus B y M egan S carth Copy Editor By now, you’ve probably heard of the numerous extracurricular activities you can be a part of at Queen’s. But with over 450 to choose from — how do you know which ones you’ll enjoy?

To help you decide, here’s the ups and downs of joining some of campus’ most popular extracurricular activities.

Varsity teams and clubs Pros: • Queen’s offers an array of varsity sports teams and clubs, from soccer to rowing to volleyball. You’re sure to find one you’re interested in.

• Lots of travel opportunities: “Even though I wasn’t a top recruit, I still got to travel a number of times,” said Leo Burns Scully, PheKin ’16, of the track and field team. “I went to Toronto twice, as well as Montreal and Ottawa.”

Cons: • Early morning practices can be tough, especially when you’ve got 8:30 a.m. classes. Rowers,

for example, are out on the water before sunrise.

Intramural sports

Pros: • Much lower time commitment than varsity sports. Just show up and play — no drills, practices or experience required.

• Laid-back social setting is a great way to meet people Cons: • Not as much of a cohesive team feeling.

Queen’s Debating Union Pros: • Travel opportunities: “I went to McGill twice, which is great, because I love Montreal,” Kaitlyn Meloche, ArtSci ’16 said.“I even got to go to upstate New York, a place I’d never thought to visit, but was beautiful.”

Cons: • “It takes a lot of your time,” said Meloche. “Debate is not just going to practice; you have to keep up on the news and learn a lot of historical-political content.”

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Pros: • Get paid — it’s minimum wage, but it will still make a difference.

• Great opportunity to meet new people.

Cons: • The working hours: expect to work well past midnight.

• Gets significantly less fun when the weather starts to turn cold.

AMS first-year internships Pros: • Can provide valuable job experience.

• With internships ranging from media and communications to sustainability and the environment, there’s something for everybody.

Cons: • Can be quite competitive, as there are typically a lot of applicants.

CFRC (campus radio station) Pros: • Potentially host your own show.

• Great way to meet people within both the Queen’s and Kingston community.

Cons: • Can be difficult to get your own show, as the slots are usually already filled up.

• All volunteers must go through 10 hours of mandatory training.

Off-campus opportunities Pros: • Break out of the “Queen’s Bubble”, like Hannah Shirtlief, ArtSci ’16: “During first year, I realized that without attending St. Mark’s (Lutheran Church), I would never have interacted with people who weren’t aged 18 to 25,” she said. “I really appreciated the conversations I’d have with adults and seniors every Sunday after church. I also found out a lot more about local politics than I would have otherwise.”

Cons: • May be a longer commute.

• Hours might not be as compatible with your class schedule.

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their university courses.

Lovsin will still be able to graduate in four years, since his first year courses transferred as elective credits, but he won’t be able to travel on exchange.

“It’s hard to be a transfer student, an accounting student and an exchange student,” he said.

“You kind of have to pick two of the three.”

He said students interested in transferring to commerce should also look at transferring schools.

He applied to the commerce program at the University of Ottawa in case his application to

Queen’s Commerce was rejected.

“You need to ask yourself how badly you want it. For me, studying Commerce was more important than being at Queen’s,” he said.

Karen Campbell, Sci ’14, switched from physics to mechanical engineering in the middle of her third year.

Although she’ll be staying at Queen’s for an extra year and a half, she said she’s happy she made the change.

She said she wishes she had been more aggressive while researching a transfer.

“You can’t be afraid of making the change,” Campbell said.

She initially thought she’d

endure her courses and graduate on time, but changed her mind in her third year.

“I’m not just getting through a program … I’m here to do something I want to do.”

Program changes within faculties is also common at Queen’s.

Changing majors within the Faculty of Arts and Science is more common than inter-faculty transfers, since courses tend to be more transferable.

According to Cindy Butts, the registration coordinator and academic advisor for the Faculty of Arts, more than 900 arts and science students requested to change their program last year.

Most students switch programs because they find themselves interested in another area of study, she said, although others change programs to open up new career options.

“We often find that some students come in thinking they know exactly which major they want to pursue, but by Christmas that often changes,” she said.

She advises students to take a broad range of courses in their first year to avoid ending up in a major they dislike.

Erica MacLachan, ArtsSci ’14, changed her degree focus from a history and political science medial to history and religious studies after

her second year.

She made the decision while taking a first-year religious studies course in the summer after her second year. MacLachan said she’ll still be graduating on time, since she’s taken summer courses to catch up with her requirements.

She took economics and calculus in her first year in anticipation of pursuing a business career. She said she later decided that she wasn’t interested in following that path.

“It’s important to pay attention to what you’re interested in, not just what society expects of you,” she said.

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Juxtaposing still-life landscape and the human body, Sarah Fuller’s display inspires a shift in perspective on human action and the environment.

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Minimalism with some substance Five artists use photography and video in their explorations of human existence and solitude B y S am K oebrich Assistant Photo Editor (Video) Empty but refined, solitary yet comforting — Wish You Were Here: Interventions into Landscape, at the Union Gallery, blends minimalism with substance.

Five artists contribute to the multi-faceted exhibit, which, as the exhibit’s program puts it, is meant to explore the “modes of engaging with our surroundings through the tourist’s gaze.”

All the pieces, from photography to video, seem to portray an individual’s impact on their surroundings.

Perhaps this is best exhibited

by Susan Dobson’s large, minimalistic prints.

Each photo depicts a gateway to an unidentifiable warehouse.

Images of industrial smog and labour might be the beholder’s first thought.

After a glance, however, the images seem to depict anything but that. They begin to show comfort in the simple and predictable.

The warehouse wall towers over an accent flowerpot or lawn chair, with only an empty parking lot and a blue sky there to complement them. We’re meant to focus

specifically on the quintessential root of the subject rather then its surroundings.

Ben Darrah’s painting seems eerily similar to Dobson’s photography. A printed lawn chair sits in front of a landscape. This simplicity asserts the observer’s perspective as a subject rather than as a distracting entity.

Maria Whiteman’s Hiking Through the Suburbs series is interesting, though the weakest of the show.

The photos, depicting a figure exploring what remains of the natural world in a series of cookie-cutter houses and planned developments, lack clarity or simplicity.

The tourist-y take on human construction seems desperate to appeal to minimalism, but ultimately fails to carry any weight in its execution.

Sarah Fuller’s Experiments into Landscape series redeems the show.

Her work features two monitors each displaying a mountainous landscape in still, as a young but unidentifiable woman performs handstands that mirror the height of the landscape.

The sound of crunching snow as the actor walks in and out of frame,

compared to the vastness of the peaks, is inspiring.

The artist convincingly demonstrates that while no human will manage to create anything as monumental as a mountain, our actions can stand just as tall if viewed from the right perspective.

Susi Brister’s photo J and Horses in Snow in Snow is perhaps the most notable single photo of the show.

Depicted is what’s presumably a person beneath a blanket embossed with horses running through a snowy field. The subject huddles upon similarly contrasting ground.

Only their figure, and a tip of hair, is distinguishable.

The piece represents loneliness with a subtle hint of sarcasm — perhaps the artists’ own thoughts on the feeling.

Raw in form but refined in message, perhaps the Pink Floydinspired naming of Wish You Were Here is meant to depict just that — humanity’s existence, experienced through the loneliness within the surroundings.

The exhibit will be on display at Union Gallery until Sept. 20.

Wolfe Island Music Festival

A testament to talent

The festival is bringing back its veterans for another star-filled weekend B y K ate S hao and M eaghan Wray Journal Staff What began as a dock party 14 years ago has now become one of the top Canadian music festivals.

Wolfe Island Music Festival (WIMF) has hosted an eclectic mix of great Canadian musicians — from Sam Roberts to Stars and from former Queen’s student Jill Barber to this year’s headliner Joel Plaskett.

Despite a busy festival season for

next month’s line up, we chatted with a few performers about outdoor festivals, the Kingston art scene, potential memoirs and the nostalgia of returning to the Limestone City.

Joel Plaskett, frontman of the Emergency, works with his head down.

But while his head has been down, his career has been soaring upwards. He’s headlined shows across the globe and was handpicked to be the opening act for Paul McCartney’s Halifax

concert in 2009.

“Every once in a while I look up and go ‘hey, there’s cool stuff happening’ and then I think [about] the fact that we’re able to come and headline a festival like Wolfe Island,” he said. “[It’s] a testament to the fact that we’ve worked hard as a band.”

As someone very connected to his Canadian roots, Plaskett gets nostalgic when reminiscing about time spent in Kingston.

“I remember sitting on the porch of [WIMF artistic director

Joel Plaskett, this year’s Wolfe Island Music Festival headliner, reminisced about his long history in Kingston.

and co-founder Virginia Clark]’s house singing songs with Jill Barber the last time I was there, on the way back from making my record La Dee Da,” he said. “Now that it’s all coming back to me, I’m picturing myself there.”

Kingston is an audience that is continuously growing and changing, he said. It reminds him of Halifax — though it’s in Ontario, Kingston’s a small slice of his Nova Scotia home.

“I really feel like it’s always been a huge supportive city for us and the band,” Plaskett said. “So we just keep coming back because it sort of has yet to let us down.”

Plaskett said he prefers to take

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his opportunities as they come, rather than planning for success.

“If you expect one thing to lead you to another, often you run the risk of being disappointed,” he said.

You have to find success in the moment, Plaskett said, and not in a tentative, unsure future.

Part of his great success is his ability to engage the crowd and tell meaningful stories.

It’s not just about expression, but also about entertainment.

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getting something back is really important,” Plaskett said. “I like getting up and putting on a show, whether that’s dancing or talking or telling stories or having a laugh.”

Despite being a part of a variety of bands since the ‘90s, Emergency, comprised of Plaskett, Dave Marsh and Tim Brennan, has been the longest standing.

However, he likes to dabble between performing shows with his band, performing solo and a combination of the two. He doesn’t want to be cast as one or the other.

“The transition has always been pretty natural,” he said. “When I’m playing solo, it becomes a little bit more introspective and the story telling becomes a bigger part of the show.”

As an avid storyteller and thoughtful writer, Plaskett joked about one day writing a memoir.

“Maybe when I’m 50 or 60 and have 40 years on the road then I’ll have a few tall tales to tell,” Plaskett said.

He sings

about the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton and has a twang in his voice that’s uniquely born from the East Coast. Qualities like these are what have won him countless East Coast Music Awards, Juno nominations and admiration from Canadian music enthusiasts here and abroad.

Wherever he goes, Plaskett said Canadians seem to pop out of the woodwork. As such, he likes to celebrate home with his music.

“I feel a real connection to where I’m from,” he said. “I’ve been here my whole life; I’ve never lived anywhere else.”

Joel Plaskett Emergency will be performing on Aug. 10 at 9:45 p.m.

He’s a full-time Ruffian, occasional solo artist and now a model. Born Ruffians frontman, Luke Lalonde, seems to do it all and more.

Lalonde, who played with the band at WIMF before, said the small size and unique location create the desirable atmosphere that’s bringing them back this year.

“I like playing [outdoor festivals] because it’s different than just showing up [and] playing a show at a club or regular venue,” Lalonde said. “There’s more of

Luke Lalonde, frontman of the Toronto-based band Born Ruffians, released his debut solo album, Rythymnals, in 2012.

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an atmosphere.”

The Toronto-based band formed in the early 2000s, joining together Lalonde, Mitch DeRosier, Steve Hamelin and, more recently, Andy Lloyd. They released their first fulllength album, Red, Yellow & Blue, in 2008 and two others since then.

the idea of communicating “something to people and getting something back is really important.

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— Joel Plaskett

With their latest record Birthmarks released earlier this year, it’s easy to notice a slight shift in their sound.

“It’s mostly just changed in [us] becoming more interested in other sounds, listening to other kinds of music that generally shape and create who you are as a person,” he said.

Lalonde said he listened to a lot of electronic when creating Birthmarks. David Bowie, Talking Heads and James Holden were some influences.

The musician has been expanding his craft lately, dabbling in production and even releasing his debut solo album, Rythymnals.

Following his interest in production, Lalonde brought his technical experience to the table with his solo album and the Ruffians’ Birthmarks.

“Technically I’ve gotten more interested in production, like what I want in the studio, and more interested in using the studio as an instrument,” he said.

Lalonde said he completed Rythymnals, released last year, largely by himself.

“I started to accumulate songs that I basically just wanted to finish on my own,” he said.

A musician and a producer, it’s not surprising his resume now also includes modeling. He landed a spot in H&M’s spring catalogue this year. And if that’s not enough, the Ruffians begin their European tour in September.

But first, Lalonde and the band will hit Wolfe Island.

When asked what the audience should expect from the Ruffians at the festival, the multi-talent hesitated a bit.

“I don’t know,” he said. “Music?”

The Born Ruffians will be performing on Aug. 10 at 8:30 p.m.

Perhaps a testament to his prairie upbringing, Gavin Gardiner, lead singer of The Wooden Sky, gives off a sense of sincere humility when it comes to the band’s work.

Beyond the passion and the acknowledgment, Gardiner attributes his love for shows to simply enjoying himself.

“There’s something very conducive about the environment to having a good time,” Gardiner said. “The fact that it’s on an island makes it completely different and really special.”

He grew up in Morden, Manitoba and moved to Toronto to attend Ryerson University After meeting other musicians in the city, Gardiner formed a band which is now made of himself, Andrew Wyatt, Simon Walker, Andrew Kekewich and Edwin Huizinga.

They released their first LP,

The Wooden Sky first played at Wolfe Island Music Festival in 2011.

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The line up each year is hand picked by festival organizer Virginia Clark, who filled us in on how each artist brings something unique to the table.

When Lost at Sea, in 2008 and never looked back.

The group has toured Kingston several times and described Brian’s Record Option and the farmer’s market as some of their local

favourites. They’re returning to WIMF this year, after their last island performance in 2011.

When it comes to playing festivals, Gardiner gushed over the special moments that he and the

audience get to experience during a show. When the atmosphere is bountiful with different artists, he said cool collaborations occur.

Gardiner recalls a moment at this past Toronto Urban Roots

Festival (TURF).

He was in the audience watching Canadian band The Sadies perform when Kurt Vile, an American musician best known for his work with the band The War on Drugs, jumped onstage.

There’s something “very conducive about the environment to having a good time.

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— Gavin Gardiner, frontman of The Wooden Sky

“I know for me, when I’m in the audience, [and] a singer from another band jumps up on stage with my favourite band and just sings along … it creates some kind of a special

moment,” he said.

These kinds of happenings, for Gardiner, are what make a show unique, whether he’s performing or just watching.

“It’s easy to forget when you’re playing 200 shows in a year, how special those moments are for the audience,” he said.

Gardiner said he has a newfound appreciation for using music as a form of expression, though it can be cliché.

“I don’t necessarily deal with those emotions and things in my life,” he said. “Music allows me a way to do that.”

The Wooden Sky will be performing on Aug. 10 at 6 p.m.

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FOOTBALL

Gridiron grads go to the pros Former Queen’s quartet entrenched in CFL B y J osh B urton Staff Writer

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Toronto Maple Leafs centre Jay McClement (above, left) works out at Nixon Field last week.

McClement, a graduate of the Junior A Kingston Voyageurs, has played eight NHL seasons with three teams.

Accommodating the pair of homegrown pros was natural for Queen’s head coach Brett Gibson — a Gananoque native that grew up with McClement and played with Erskine on the 1999-2000 London Knights.

“By the end of [the fall], it was just fabulous to see John and

Roughriders, starting with Bagg in 2007.

His breakout 2009 campaign saw him amass 807 receiving yards and five touchdowns, impressing Saskatchewan management enough to roll the dice on successive Gaels.

“I would say that Shomari and Rob Bagg did their best to sell the Queen’s ideal out there,” said Gaels head coach Pat Sheahan. “Both those kids are really well-respected in Saskatchewan.”

That pro pedigree continues to help the current Gaels squad.

Despite traditionally tough academic standards, Queen’s has kept pace with CIS football factories like the universities of Calgary and Laval in the quality of its players.

High academic standards haven’t hurt Sheahan’s recruiting abilities, though it causes Queen’s on-field success to be more cyclical.

“There’s no question that the academic standards we boast here make it somewhat difficult to be in the winner’s circle every year,” Sheahan said. “The model here is we tend to get a group and we build it up and take a shot at [a championship], and that group graduates and you sort of start all over again, rebuilding and loading up for another run.”

All four current pros starred for the Gaels throughout the 2000s, with Williams and O’Donnell

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Former Queen’s players have made a name for themselves in pro football — especially in Saskatchewan.

With only four Gaels alums currently playing in the Canadian Football League, it could be seen as a bit of a down year for the school, if not for the quality of its graduates.

Leading the group is defensive end and 2010 first overall pick Shomari Williams, joined by receiver Rob Bagg, long snapper Kevin Scott and offensive lineman Matt O’Donnell.

All four players began their pro careers with the Saskatchewan

HOCKEY

A town, a game, a legacy Generations of players, coaches and fans have forged Kingston’s hockey heritage B y N ick Faris Sports Editor 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.

McClement, a centre for the Toronto Maple Leafs, has skated alongside or against a number of his Kingston-bred peers from junior hockey onwards, including Phoenix Coyotes netminder Mike Smith, Anaheim Ducks defenceman Bryan Allen and Washington Capitals blueliner John Erskine.

“It’s fun seeing those guys — all of us are still really good friends,” McClement said. “A lot of us train together. It’s fun to see everyone put the work in together and then go off.”

That off-season work has paid off handsomely for McClement, who signed a two-year, $3 million contract with the Leafs last summer.

Recently anointed by The Hockey News as the NHL’s top penalty killer, McClement’s career began with more offensive flair.

He finished second in scoring on the 1998-99 Kingston Voyageurs, facing players up to five years his senior as a 15-year-old.

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Now, at 30, he’s an alternate captain for one of hockey’s oldest franchises, a three-hour westward drive from his old stomping grounds. “[Kingston’s] our home base, what we call home,” he said.

“Especially being in Toronto, it’s a little simpler playing so close to home. It’s been a nice change.”

Facing a longer off-season than usual in 2012 due to the NHL lockout, McClement leaned on his home-ice advantage.

He and 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.

QUEEN’S ATHLETICS

Initiative donations dawdle With major Campaign projects stalled, department searches for lead donor B y S ean S utherland Assistant Sports Editor Athletics and Recreation isn’t worried that they’re still far from their goal for the University’s most recent fundraising campaign.

Queen’s began the Initiative Campaign in 2006 with an overall goal of raising $500 million for the University, spread out over 12 priorities. The Athletics department is looking to raise $32 million before the end of the Campaign in 2016.

When donors give to the Campaign, they choose which priority their gift goes to.

So far, the overall Campaign has received 72 per cent of its goal.

Athletics, on the other hand, has raised less than a quarter of their financial objective, which is the lowest among all areas.

Though the numbers may look bad, the department doesn’t see a cause for concern just yet.

Meg Einarson, senior development officer at the Office of Advancement, said one of the major reasons Athletics is behind is that they can’t move forward yet on their major plans: a multi-purpose field house and extra turf fields on West Campus.

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The lot at Union and Division Streets has lied empty since Jock Harty Arena, Queen’s old on-campus hockey rink, was torn down in 2007. Queen’s Athletics plans to build a new arena on West Campus.

“Those are the two major capital projects that we have that have not been funded,” she said, adding that other priorities, such as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Business, have already seen their major projects kickstarted.

Full funding must be in place to begin the next phase of development, according to University rules. Until a lead donor can be found, the department must wait before starting on their goals.

“Once that has actually been done, that’s where you’ll see a number of other donors who want to be involved in the [project] at various different giving levels,” Einarson said.

If Athletics fails to meet their financial goal, the department plans to keep their current priorities as an important part of their fundraising efforts.

“I’m hoping we don’t have to talk about that [possibility],” Einarson said. “Realistically, these are funding priorities

that are necessary for Athletics and Recreation.

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Inside SOCCER Kingston’s lone professional sports team excels with Gaels on board.

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SOCCER

Revival on the pitch One year removed from four-win season, Kingston FC sits at the top of the league table with a radically revamped roster B y J erry Z heng Staff Writer In its second season of play, Kingston FC has enjoyed a complete reversal of fortunes.

The pro soccer team, which features four current and former Gaels players, sits first in the Canadian Soccer League (CSL) at 9-3-1, past the season’s midway point.

They’ve already doubled their point total from 2012 — the club’s first-ever season, which yielded just four wins in 22 games.

Two additions to this year’s squad are amateur defenders Joe Zupo and David Tom, who play for Queen’s during the school year. Two former Gaels, midfielders Jordan Brooks and Nathan Klemencic, are on professional contracts.

Zupo said he signed on with Kingston FC to develop as a player alongside his regular centre back partner at Queen’s.

“I came here to improve my abilities for the Gaels,” he said, “but at the same time form a good partnership with David Tom ... so that when we return to Queen’s, we have a better relationship than we did before.”

Zupo is a fixture in Kingston’s starting lineup, appearing in all 13 games so far. He scored his first goal of the season on July 13, in a 2-2 draw against the Windsor Stars.

Tom has mostly played with Kingston’s reserve side — a developmental team that plays in the CSL’s Second Division, primarily composed of players aged 23 and younger.

He said having a taste of professional sports has helped him hone his skills against greater competition.

Striker Guillaume Surot leads the CSL with 15 goals, headlining Kingston’s league-best offensive attack.

“I like to think that we’re definitely more skilled now,” Tom said. “Training at a really high level all summer obviously helps keep your touch really good and makes you a better player.”

According to head coach Colm Muldoon, the import of quality international and university players explains the team’s turnaround.

“Queen’s has been a good source of players,” Muldoon said.

“Both David and Joe have brought great spirit to the whole group and great work ethics, making us stronger.”

Kingston will be without Zupo and Tom’s services come September, when the Gaels’ season begins. Muldoon said losing them

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will make the team weaker.

Kingston currently leads the CSL in scoring with 42 goals, with striker Guillaume Surot netting a league-best 15. Although Surot was sidelined for the team’s most recent home game on July 20, his teammates raced to a 6-0 blowout win.

“I’m very happy with the team.

The players are giving everything,” Muldoon said. “It’s clear we’re one of the better teams [in the CSL].”

As the club enters the second half of their season, Muldoon said for his team to maintain their high calibre play, they “need to continue to have a constant search for improvement and not rest on [their] laurels.”

Basketball unveils recruiting classes

Rugby trio reigns in England

Tessier, Pedlow compete in Kazan

Men and women’s basketball are both bringing in fresh faces in an effort to build on promising seasons.

The men’s team recruited centre Mike Shoveller of Arnprior, ON and Mike Mullins, a guard from Burlington.

Shoveller led the Arnprior Redmen to their first Ontario provincial championships in four decades, earning team MVP honours four times in high school.

At 6’11, he’ll be the tallest player on the Gaels’ roster.

Mullins, who is 6’2, hails from Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School, where he averaged 15 points and 12 rebounds a game en route to an OFSSAA silver medal in 2012.

The women’s team added four top recruits: post Andrea Priamo from Guelph, guard Sarah Saftich from Markham, guard Abby Dixon from Vancouver and wing Amy Cotton, a Kingston native.

For three women’s rugby players, an overseas excursion ended in international gold.

Reigning OUA rookie of the year Nadia Popov joined third-year Gaels Lauren McEwen and Jordyn Rowntree with Team Canada’s entry into the U20 Rugby Nations Cup earlier this month.

Canada rode a spotless 4-0 showing to the gold medal in England — the country’s first-ever women’s U20 championship.

After blanking South Africa 37-0 in their final preliminary fixture, Canada topped the United States 27-3 to clinch gold. They’d previously beaten the Americans 25-15 in the tournament opener.

Popov scored a try in Canada’s first victory over the United States.

She finished third in the OUA in scoring last season, tallying six tries and 52 individual points.

All three Gaels internationals will return to Queen’s next season, along with nearly every other impact player on the roster.

Two former Gaels represented Canada at the 2013 FISU Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia earlier this month, making notable contributions despite seeing their teams fall short.

Jackie Tessier, a former striker on Queen’s women’s soccer team, scored three times in six games for Canada at the world university championships, including a second-minute goal in the team’s 4-0 round-robin win over China.

After finishing third in Pool B behind Mexico and Ireland, Canada won a pair of consolation matches before losing 2-1 to the host Russians.

Men’s volleyball alum Sam Pedlow competed in pairs beach volleyball in Kazan, winning six of eight matches with partner Grant O’Gorman before falling to the USA in the quarterfinals.

Queen’s athletic therapist Vicky Wiltshire also travelled to Kazan as part of Canada’s official medical staff.

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to be room for improvement after the Campaign as well.”

Associate Director of Athletics, Business Development and Facilities Jeff Downie said Athletics is optimistic they’ll be able to reach their goal, especially with recent changes made in the department.

One factor that slowed the rate at which Athletics received donations was a lack of focus on reaching out to alumni. Downie said Athletics didn’t have any alumni advancement staff until last year.

“It’s been one of our internal, departmental strategies and strategic priorities to place alumni and our relationships with them at the forefront,” he said.

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According to Downie, the removal of the lower bleachers at Richardson Stadium could be another positive move for Athletics, since the stadium’s revitalization is a major goal for the department.

“It’s bringing more attention to the issues that we have,” he said.

“Is that going to encourage people to get involved? I hope so.”

With many of the department’s goals being long-term, Downie said that a better understanding of the Campaign’s outcome will be had in 2016.

“I don’t think anyone is too concerned about where we’re at in comparison to other faculties, because there’s different projects at different points in the process.”

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starting on opposite sides of the line of scrimmage during Queen’s 2009 Vanier Cup run.

“To take on a dual role in competitive athletics in the sport of football is really, really challenging,” Sheahan said. “Our guys have done extremely well and it bodes well for them [in the CFL].”

This success has coincided with top Canadian talent being taken early and often in the CFL draft.

In previous years, CIS players were generally deemed to be less CFL-ready than their American counterparts.

“In general, teams seem to believe that guys coming out of the CIS tend to be a little more raw, and take maybe a little more time to develop than guys who have played regularly at some of the top NCAA schools,” said Andrew Bucholtz, ArtSci ’09 and editor of Yahoo Canada’s 55 Yard Line CFL blog.

“There is a growing recognition in the CFL that the CIS calibre of play is getting better,” he added. “You’re seeing a lot more full-time coaches on a lot of the big CIS program staffs.”

Draft eligibility has made CIS prospects more attractive to CFL management. Since it can be difficult to gauge the NFL’s interest in American players, CFL clubs may be more likely to opt for the safer choice from a Canadian school rather than risk losing a valuable draft pick.

Top-level coaching and the overall development of the CIS product bode well for current Gaels in their future attempts at the CFL. “It obviously helps the stock of players from Calgary and Laval … when those programs are winning,” said Bucholtz, a former Journal sports editor. “In my mind, [Queen’s is] one of the solid second tier schools in terms of how many players they’re producing at the moment.”

Gaels CFLers Rob Bagg, Saskatchewan Hindered by knee injuries in recent years, the slot receiver has hauled in 11 career touchdown passes.

He’s the only current Gaels pro to stick with the Roughriders throughout his career.

Matt O’Donnell, Edmonton At 6’11” and 340 lb., O’Donnell’s physical attributes earned him a basketball tryout with the Boston Celtics in 2011. Twice named a First-Team All-Canadian at Queen’s, the offensive lineman had a brief NFL stint with the Cincinnati Bengals.

Kevin Scott, Hamilton Undrafted out of the CIS, Scott signed with Saskatchewan as a rookie in 2008. He’s played sporadically as a long snapper and on special teams through five CFL seasons.

Shomari Williams, Hamilton After Saskatchewan made him the first pick of the 2010 CFL Draft, the defensive end joined Scott with the Ti-Cats as a free agent in February. A Toronto native, Williams transferred to Queen’s after playing three collegiate seasons at the University of Houston.

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In the years after Queen’s celebrated their 2009 Vanier Cup win (above), linemen Shomari Williams and Matt O’Donnell joined two other former Gaels in the CFL.

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‘Kingston’s left its mark’ players, staying in game shape is a 12-month pursuit, and Angel has become their point Jay pulling some of my guys aside and man for out-of-season development.

“We’re continuing to grow as a teaching them places to put their stick, or how to angle,” said Gibson, who’s entering community, and there’s an abundance of local talent that’s now trained the proper his eighth season as the Gaels’ bench boss.

“It was a great opportunity for not only way,” Angel said.

Recently retired from a pro career them to stay in shape, but for us to have our guys really see what it’s like to be an that saw him play for nine minor-league teams, Angel has quickly adapted to a NHL player.”

Before coming to Queen’s, Gibson mentorship role.

In addition to the smattering of NHLers enjoyed a productive junior career with three OHL teams, netting 88 points in 67 games seeking summer guidance, FineLine trains one season with the North Bay Centennials. more than 700 local players annually, He kickstarted his career in Kingston with according to Angel. Just like Gibson, the Junior A Voyageurs, finishing second in cultivating young talent has become a focal team scoring as a rookie, just like McClement point of his job.

“A kid like Scott Harrington, I worked would three years later.

“To give a 15-year-old kid the opportunity with since he was about 10 years old,” to play in his hometown … I developed Angel said, referring to the now 20-year-old a lot, and got friendships and coaching Pittsburgh Penguins prospect.

“To see how successful he’s been in the last mentors from those guys,” Gibson said.

“The Kingston Voyageurs mean everything couple years — being drafted to Pittsburgh and playing in the World Juniors and things to me.”

Gibson graduated from the Voyageurs like that — that’s the most rewarding part in 1996, one year before the arrival of for someone like myself.”

While Harrington and other players forge 15-year-old defenceman Brett Angel. After completing his season-long stint with the Kingston’s NHL future, one local historian is Vees, Angel followed Gibson to North Bay intent on celebrating the city’s hockey past.

Bill Fitsell, the former president of and London, and, in roundabout fashion, all Kingston’s International Hockey Hall of the way back to Kingston.

Fame (IHHOF) and an author of four hockey books, believes the city’s central It was a great location helped spread the game throughout opportunity ... for us to have Canada and the northern United States at the our guys really see what it’s turn of the 20th century. like to be an NHL player.

“When you look at it, Kingston has been involved in every aspect of the game: — Brett Gibson, players, managers, coaches, referees, officials, Queen’s men’s hockey coach administrators,” Fitsell said. “Kingston’s left its mark on the game.”

When the IHHOF asked Fitsell to research Angel now owns FineLine Conditioning, a fitness and training service in Kingston that the original rules of hockey in the 1960s, his counts dozens of NHL, minor league and first stop was Douglas Library on campus. It’s junior hockey players as clients. For these one of innumerable contributions Queen’s Continued from page 24

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The author of five books, Bill Fitsell is currently collecting examples of hockey poetry, dating back to the formative years of the game.

has made to the game over the years.

Fitsell’s first hockey tome features a photo of the 1903 Queen’s hockey team playing in Pittsburgh in front of 4,500 fans. Seventeen years earlier, Queen’s and Royal Military College (RMC) had faced off for the first time, sparking hockey’s oldest rivalry.

When you look at it, “Kingston has been involved in every aspect of the game. ”

— Bill Fitsell, local hockey historian

Each year, the Gaels and RMC Paladins men’s hockey squads contend for the Carr-Harris Cup — an annual challenge Fitsell helped organize in 1986 to celebrate the rivalry’s centennial anniversary.

“Both institutions grabbed it along with the support of the Hall of Fame, and it’s been

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going ever since,” he said. “Even though it’s sort of a lopsided rivalry, that’s what makes it great. It’s almost David and Goliath, and RMC sticks in there.”

While Fitsell laments that Queen’s commitment to hockey has diminished in recent years — coinciding with the demolition of Jock Harty Arena in 2007 — he’s quick to correlate the Gaels’ early success with the development of Kingston’s fervent fan base.

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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For the love of busking Street performers flooded downtown Kingston for festival B y K atie G randin Postscript Editor Love came in leaps and bounds to the 25th anniversary of the Kingston Buskers Rendezvous, July 11 to 14.

Twenty-five years ago, the Kingston buskers festival started as a part of the Sidewalk Sale, an initiative to bring business to the downtown area. The busking, however, proved to be popular on its own.

“We thought it would be a great way to spice up a summer weekend in downtown Kingston so we decided to make it its own event twenty-five years ago,” Jan MacDonald, projects manager-marketing at Downtown Kingston BIA, said. “Buskers has grown to be the huge success that it is from that.”

With acts ranging from musical performances and acrobatics to comedy and magic, Kingston hosts both performers and festival goers from around the world.

It was evident among the performers that it was a love for performing and busking that fueled their travels to the Kingston Buskers Rendezvous.

However, it appeared that some of the performers that I spoke to had a different kind of love on their minds.

Kilted Colin As I waited to meet with Colin Campbell, a variety entertainer from Boston, Massachusetts, I watched as he stopped a young woman on the street and, after much flirtation, successfully obtained her phone number.

Traveling with his show, Campbell said he’s rarely settled in one place very long.

“I kind of like being a nomad and just exploring,” he said.

“Having my kit on my back and just setting up on some street corner,

and making my way through wherever I need to go.”

Campbell’s variety entertainment act includes a combination of bagpipes, unicycling, acrobatics and comedy, among other unique skills.

“When I was a kid I went to bagpipe camp, and when I was in high school I got into unicycling and I just figured these two probably go together like bread and butter,” he said.

After touring with his act around the United States, Canada, Australia and Scotland, the Kingston Buskers Rendezvous is Campbell’s first street performance festival.

“It has been the best time, I couldn’t have imagined it being anything like this,” he said. “I feel like a celebrity when I’m here.”

Victor Rubilar “I’m single,” Victor Rubilar, a football freestyler from Argentina, said in over six languages.

“Everybody gets to know that.”

After a night out with his fellow buskers, Rubilar meets me wearing his sunglasses indoors with a cup of coffee in hand.

Performing his unique football freestyle at the Kingston Buskers Rendezvous, Rubilar’s show consists of noteworthy soccer ball handling and juggling tricks with which he has broken four Guinness World Records eight times.

“I use my technique to entertain, but it’s a comedy show about me being single,” Rubilar said about the show he brought to Kingston.

“I play a lot with the audience.

I feel like my skills are just an excuse to have fun.”

Touring non-stop, Rubilar said that he’s only home four months of the year, but just for a few days at a time.

“It’s a lot of coffee and Red Bull,” he said, explaining that the most complicated part of traveling

Habibi of the The Flying Tortillas flips over five people in the show’s finale.

so much is the jet lag.

“When I travel I meet all the friends. Once you travel enough, wherever you go you’re going to meet somebody,” he said.

David Eliot When I stopped to watch 15-year-old Kingston native David Eliot’s magic show, he called me up to help him with his favourite trick — deck in the pocket.

After picking my card, Eliot asked me to write my name and number on the card, which I sportingly did, then placed back in the deck. Eliot said that it’s become a joke with his friends that he possesses a box of phone Photo By Sam Koebrich number cards.

The Street Circus wows audiences with daring stunts.

With the help of a little magic, Emmanuel said that his risky only find in Canadian crowds. the entire deck ended up in Eliot’s pocket with only my card left in decision turned out to be a “Everyone’s looking for great one as he toured thirteen Canadian girlfriends,” Dash, the his hand.

When I ask about the trick, countries in Europe last year, comic of the group, said.

Eliot said, “[The Magician’s Code] followed around by a documentary actually is a real thing, believe it film crew.

The Street Circus “This is a very extreme or not.”

Eliot first began performing experience because you get filmed Daniel and Kimberly Craig magic three and a half years ago on and the most attractive stuff for of The Street Circus brought the film is the worst for yourself,” their act, featuring acrobatics, a ski trip with his school.

“I think every kid has this magic he said. fire juggling and contortion stunts, Emmanuel never asks for a from Winnipeg to Kingston. phase where they do a trick and it’s just like so cool,” he said. “I think permit to perform his trademark Awing audiences with I’m just one of those kids who had hotel window shows, from the their hand-to-hand acrobatics, this thing, but just never stopped balcony of a hotel room to the street Kimberly stands on Daniel’s below, which have led him to a few head during the finale of having it.”

For Eliot, the Kingston Buskers police encounters. their show.

However, Emmanuel refused to Rendezvous is his first big festival, “You’re paralyzed with fear and a step away from performing perform his trademark show for when it starts,” Kimberly said. “I on street corners and towards the Kingston buskers festival. just have to be as tight and strong “I won’t do it because it’s a and still as possible.” building his career. festival already. You have to find The Street Circus act would crowded spots in the cities and I be impossible without an immense Georg Viktor Emmanuel like to do it when no one expects amount of trust between Daniel Austrian musician Georg Viktor it,” he said. and Kimberly.

Emmanuel began performing “No matter what is going on The Flying Tortillas live looping dub rock as a way to between us, or in our lives ... you’ve perform a live show by himself. got to check that baggage at the “I gave up everything in Austria The Flying Tortillas, a group of four door, cause once you’re standing last year. I had a regular job, I friends from California, brought on somebody’s head, there’s no had my flat and everything,” their freestyle acrobatics show room for error,” Daniel said.

Emmanuel said. “I always to Kingston.

The couple enjoyed their time “None of us really planned to in Kingston exploring downtown. wanted to travel the world and do any of this, it just kind of make music.”

“We had pizza at Atomica happened. We all had a little bit yesterday, and — [while] we of experience street performing have been all over the world, so we decided to do our own we’ve been to Italy, we’ve eaten show,” Kiki, taking lead of the pizza all over — this is maybe conversation, said. some of the best pizza we’ve With different backgrounds and ever had,” Kimberly said. styles, each member of the group brings a sense of individuality to *** the show.

“Bottom line is this is what As I squeezed my way through makes us happy,” Tjay, who the hoards of people crowding has been with the group the Ontario St. and Market Square, longest, said.

I caught a glimpse of a street While their passion comes performance around every corner across in their show, it also has a I turned. serious undertone.

Despite the heat, excitement “There’s a message in the and anticipation radiated through middle of our show that’s for the the crowd, stemming from the kids — don’t mess with drugs or unique character of each performer alcohol. I want to live in peace as they put themselves on the line and love, and I want to spread and jumped through hoops for this message to the whole world,” Kingston’s love.

Habibi, who performs the most daring stunts, said.

For the Journal’s coverage of the The Flying Tortillas said they Kingston Buskers Rendezvous, visit Photo illustration By Sam Koebrich appreciate the energy that they www.queensjournal.ca/video.