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Student safety audit stalled NAD policy Municipal Affairs Commission says year-old security project never brought to City passed B Y S EBASTIAN L ECK Assistant News Editor

AMS Assembly passes sanctions for groups B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN S EBASTIAN L ECK Journal Staff

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The AMS passed the NonAcademic Group Discipline policy yesterday, amid some ambivalence at Assembly on the details of the policy.

Internal Affairs Commissioner Kristen Olver moved the policy to Assembly. In introducing the policy, she noted that it will be complaint-based and that sanctions will be given out by a third-party committee.

“We would never go after somebody,” she said.

The sanctions also can’t be so severe that they cause a group to disband, she said.

Olver received support from the AMS executive, with Vice-President (University Affairs) Thomas Pritchard taking a prominent role in the debate.

If the student group is a faculty society organization, Olver said, four representatives from that faculty, including the faculty society President, will be on the committee to ensure fairness.

Like individual non-academic discipline, she said, everyone running the program will be students, which is preferable to an outside body.

“It’s not an administrator breathing down your neck and telling you that you did something wrong,” she said.

“Sanctions are positive. It’s not See Pritchard on page 7

Nearly a year since the AMS launched a safety audit of the housing areas surrounding the University, the Municipal Affairs

Commission has yet to make changes to reflect audit results.

The safety audits, which were a joint project between the Municipal Affairs Commission and Campus Security, were to investigate physical aspects of the

areas around campus that may affect the safety of students.

Through a series of stages, the area to be covered extended from Earl St. to Mack St., to Ontario St. on the east and Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd. on

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SPORTS

Top-tier tournament

Nation’s best face off in exhibition play this weekend in Kingston B Y S EAN S UTHERLAND Assistant Sports Editor Women’s hockey will be facing stiff competition when they host the inaugural Queen’s Invitational tournament this weekend.

The tournament, which starts today, will be played at the Invista

Offensive consistency key to Gael success

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Centre and features a four-team round robin — with all teams playing each other once.

Competing alongside the Gaels are the defending national champions, the Montreal Carabins, the CIS bronze medalists St. Francis Xavier X-Women and OUA regular season champ Laurier

Inside this issue: Bye bye to Miss America lies

Deconstructing the racist backlash on Twitter

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Golden Hawks.

For head coach Matt Holmberg, getting three powerhouse teams coming to Kingston was important for the Gaels, as a team and also as a selling point for their opponents.

Both the X-Women and the Carabins expressed a willingness

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the west.

The audits, which ran throughout September and October of last year, noted safety hazards that included poor lighting, overgrown bushes and high hedges surrounding student housing and frequented passageways According to Troy Sherman, last year’s municipal affairs commissioner, the goal of the audit, which was to send a full report to the to the Quality of Life Working Group and the Property Standards Division of the City, was never realized.

“Just because of the sheer quantity of data, that didn’t end up happening,” he said. “We were unable to do so because we had one [Campus Security] staff member going through all that data and trying to put out a report.”

Sherman said the enormous amount of papers, together with the complexity of the documents, made it challenging to fulfill.

“Each security officer wrote it differently. So you are trying to decode that,” he said. “Campus Security has a finite amount of resources.”

Since no full report was issued, Sherman added, there were no steps were taken by the City of Kingston as a result of the audit, although it did create discussion around the issue of safety.

Sherman said the City of Kingston installed white LED lights on streets in the audited area, which are brighter than its original streetlights. However, he said the City was already planning to install them before the audit.

“We didn’t have to lobby about something the City was already doing,” he said.

The white LED lights were installed on University Ave. and streets north of Johnson St. in See Safety on page 6

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ENROLMENT

Town hall meeting sparks spirited debate University hosts two consultative meetings this week to garner input on a long-term enrolment plan B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN Assistant News Editor

trustee, said at the meeting. “[But] there are an interesting thing to consider. But that the students who attended. a lot of ways that we can innovate.” being said, the undergraduate experience is “[Enrolment] is something that’s going to Introducing more blended teaching something that’s a part of the University,” he affect all of us here. It’s going to very much change that Queen’s experience that we Students made their opinions known about methods would facilitate a better said. “I don’t want to see that damaged.”

Aulthouse said that helping the University have,” he said university enrolment growth at two town environment when dealing with large classes, Aulthouse, ArtSci ’15, added. plan for long-term enrolment is a process Coutinho said that Queen’s already hall meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Blended teaching involves that all students should try to participate in. has congestion issues because of its The meetings, organized by the Strategic an interactive online “A lot of the work we’re doing now, we student population.

Enrolment Management Group (SEMG), including will never get to see as students.

He said that he agreed with the concept were held to consult campus stakeholders on element to courses.

He said one of the most interesting ideas You can say, ‘oh, this doesn’t affect me’... of increasing graduate student enrolment, a possible long-term plan for the University suggested on Wednesday was increasing the but we’ll all be Queen’s alumni,” he said. instead of undergraduate. to expand enrolment.

“You already wait in line at the cafeteria for The original proposal for a long-term plan number of graduate students enrolled instead “I do think there is that investment that students should have in this process...we a very long time. was passed at Senate last April, following the of undergraduates.

The idea hadn’t been officially posed to want it to be a Queen’s that we can come “All my classes don’t even have tutorials 2013-15 enrolment report. back to, and be proud of.” anymore because we don’t have the capacity The SEMG released a white paper on the Queen’s community before. “[Graduate students are] definitely Jonny Coutinho, ConEd ’16, was one of to do it,” he said.

Long-term Enrolment Planning this month in order take the first steps towards a long -term plan. A “white paper” is a blanket term referring to a report that outlines a specific issue and asks for potential solutions.

The group, which is made up of Queen’s faculty, stated in their white paper that the creation of a long-term plan would be beneficial for future enrolment numbers at the University.

The meeting focused on issues put forward in the white paper, like space restrictions, resource shortages and growing class sizes, that an enrolment increase would bring.

Deputy Provost Laeeque Daneshmend, member of the SEMG, said at the meeting that larger class sizes wouldn’t necessarily PHOTO BY COLIN TOMCHICK lead to a poorer learning experience.

Town hall meeting held in Richardson Hall on Wednesday.

“It is important to try different style of teaching to fit with various types of classes.

C L A R I F I C AT I O N Students learn in different ways and it is important to try and meet a variety of Students in Norman Perreault’s POLS 241 class were discouraged from contacting their TAs, not explicitly prohibited from doing so. learning styles within courses,” he said. “[Larger classes] are not ideal for learning,” Unclear information appeared in the Sept. 20 issue of the Journal.

Andrew Aulthouse, undergraduate student The Journal regrets the error.

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When the bear arrived in the 1920s, Boo Hoo became quite the spectacle on campus. He usually led crowds of cheerleaders and supporters to cheer on the Gaels.

Campus Culture

Making of a mascot The bare minimum of Boo Hoo’s mysterious history revealed B y R achel H erscovici Features Editor The legend of Boo Hoo the Bear is boundless, and has puzzled university archivists and historians alike.

There are many mysteries and discrepancies about the infamous mascot for the Queen’s Golden Gaels football team.

One thing that is known, though, is that Boo Hoo the Bear wasn’t always the jovial plush character we see bouncing around at Richardson Stadium today.

The original Boo Hoo was a live bear mascot from the 1920s to the 1950s.

The problem with Boo Hoo’s history is that there are little paper records of the bear’s existence.

Deirdre Bryden, an archivist at the Queen’s Archives, has made it a project of hers to delve into the lost history of Boo Hoo. It’s certain that there were at least five Boo Hoos, she said, each succeeding one after the other.

“I haven’t been able to figure out exactly what happened to each Boo Hoo,” she said. “It never seems they kept Boo Hoo to full-size.”

Although there are inconsistencies in its minimal history, the bear was believed to have first been the pet of Billy Hughes, a Golden Gaels football trainer during the 1920s.

How the bear really took root as a mascot, though, isn’t certain.

The bear started showing up to football practices and then games, according to Bryden, and people took a liking to him.

“I guess then they just loved having a bear mascot and were known for it so they just kept getting others,” she said.

On Nov. 27, 1922, the Ottawa Journal reported on what was one of Boo Hoo’s first appearances — when the Golden Gaels played the University of Toronto’s football team.

The bear is said to have conducted itself in a “queenly demeanor”, while easily putting Toronto’s collie mascot in its place.

Eventually, the AMS took over caring for the bear.

“I haven’t been able to track how [bears] one and two went,

but I do know by three and four — which was the late 30s early 40s — the AMS was in charge of [the bear],” she said.

Its meager paper trail makes putting its true history together very difficult, and there are many reasons for this lack of documentation.

“It’s a little hard to trace the bear because under my impression, they didn’t take very good care of the bear,” Duncan McDowall, the University’s historian, said.

“Especially out of football season.”

One of the many Boo Hoos is believed to have been kept in the old vivarium, otherwise known as “animal house”, on Barrie St. in the off-season.

“I guess they would feed him peanut butter sandwiches or whatever inappropriate things, so he was kept there,” McDowall said. “That underlines the problem about where you keep a live bear.”

Other theories suggest Boo Hoo was kept at Richardson stadium, or that he lived with Alfred Pierce in the boiler room of Jock Harty arena — once located at Union and Division Streets.

A live bear on campus did cause quite the spectacle. Drama and outrageous urban legends — true or not — obviously followed.

It’s rumored that in 1928, a group of student football spectators brought their homemade whisky to the game and fed it to the first Boo Hoo, causing the bear to go into cardiac arrest and die.

Some tales say that Boo Hoo was let loose in Algonquin Provincial Park after its time at Queen’s, and others say that Boo Hoo was originally from the Park.

Others say the bear was exiled to an island.

In 1926, Kathleen Ryan, an Arts graduate, gave a speech where she described Boo Hoo roaming the campus, freely sitting atop Ontario Hall’s windows during early morning lecture hours.

“I think the point of all this is that Boo Hoo lived a kind of ephemeral life, not really attached to anything and sort of came and went in people’s lives. So there’s no paper records of him,” McDowall said.

The importance of a university

mascot lies in the values a team or group wants to display and champion, McDowall added.

Different mascots are chosen because they are perceived to represent different values or emotions, like ferocity or heroism.

“It becomes a kind of code or symbol for a broader set of values so that you don’t have to talk about the broader sense of values, they’re just evident in the mascot,” McDowall said. “[But this] begs the question: Why a bear and why Queen’s?”

There are many coincidences relating to bears around the time that Boo Hoo was introduced to the Queen’s community.

Winnie the Pooh, a fictional character based on a real Winnipeg

brigade’s mascot during WWII, was coming into fame when A.A. Milne’s son fell in love with him while he was being kept at the London Zoo. The term “teddy bear” had also recently been coined, named after U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who refused to shoot a baby bear cub while hunting on the campaign trail in 1908.

But, McDowall suspects that Boo Hoo wasn’t purposefully made a mascot.

“I don’t know if it really projects any Queen’s values or heritage or anything,” he said. “Where the name came from, I don’t know.”

By the 1950s, it was either the practical challenges or the changing social views towards animals that saw the end of a live Boo Hoo. Yet, Boo Hoo is still around today, albeit in different form. In the 1980s, Queen’s Bands officially brought the famous mascot back as the character we know today.

Now, the bear is a part of the Tricolour Queen’s spirit that many students are a part of.

Trainer Billy Hughes poses alongside the original Boo Hoo the Bear.

Supplied by Queen’s Archives

Claire Frye, ArtSci ’15, played the character of Boo Hoo, in a suit for Queen’s Bands, from September to December last year.

“It was amazing. The unconditional love that people had for whoever personified the bear both inside and outside of the suit was really encouraging and sweet,” she told the Journal via email.

Bands has been connected to the bear since the 1920s, when cheerleaders would escort him from games. To Bands, Frye said, Boo Hoo means history and tradition.

She also believes that Boo Hoo is a symbol for school spirit, promoting student happiness.

“All our teams are labeled ‘The Golden Gaels’,” she said. “But, if you ask me, that’s not a very relatable or fun figure to look to for encouragement during a game.”

“This is why I think Boo Hoo, or any animal-type mascot, is particularly important for the Queen’s community.”

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

ALUMNI

Accessibility focus for homecoming festivities Sixteen students selected to undergo extensive training to improve access for next week’s events B Y A BBY A NDREW Assistant News Editor With the four-year ban coming to an end next week, organizers are pulling everything together for this year’s Homecoming celebration.

It’s split up into two weekends, Oct. 5 and 19, each date celebrating different classes. The first weekend is highlighting the 25th reunion of the Class of ’88, and the second the Class of ’63, celebrating their 60th reunion.

Over 1,700 people have registered in total for both weekends, according to Sarah Indewey, the manager of volunteer relations and reunions at Queen’s Alumni Relations.

“We work towards cost recovery ... so that it’s cost neutral,” she said, adding the that funding for events are covered by the registration fees for both weekends.

The school is neither losing money, nor profiting, Indeway confirmed.

Training for the 328 student volunteers will focus on accessibility and event logistics, she said.

According to Indewey, Homecoming will be accessible for those with various disabilities, including mobility impairments.

“In addition to the volunteers, we have the ‘accessibility champions’ who will have that specialized training,” she said.

“We also ensure that we ask alumni when they register if they have anything they want to self-identify.”

The accessibility champions are available to help alumni participate in activities that may have otherwise been difficult, including traveling throughout campus.

For the first time, the accessibility champions will be comprised of 16 students from the Occupational Therapy program,

rather than undergraduate students in all faculties.

Homecoming is becoming more accessible with the use of golf carts to assist alumni from one event to another and around the track during the half-time parade.

Heidi Penning, the school’s equity advisor, said she’s pushing for the event to be much more focused on accessibility.

Penning led an Accessibility Standard for Customer Service training program for the group, which was customized for homecoming. The program took place on Wednesday night in preparation for the occasion and was mandatory.

This year, Penning said it’s important that volunteers are appropriately trained in accessibility as it’s such a huge event for Queen’s.

“We are part of something that’s never been done before,” she said at the training session. “We are here to help our alum.”

While accessibility training is in motion, one of the most anticipated events has been cut — the 3K Tricolour Run is no longer taking place, Gareth Savage, AMS campus activities commissioner, said.

“The city raised a lot of concerns about the event and we tried as much as we could to address each concern one by one,” he said.

The activity organizers were working with Run or Dye, an external company, which was helping them to organize the event. “[The city’s] biggest concern was about the use of the dye in the event ... in terms of cleanup,” Savage said.

Run or Dye offered clean up options, but unfortunately the plug was pulled on the event, he added. The City felt that more time was needed to address the concerns.

As an addition, AMS has organized a

Pancake Pep Rally on both Saturday mornings in which alumni and students can attend a free breakfast and watch student club performances at Agnes Benedickson Field.

A tree-planting initiative will also take place on both Sundays, which is being

organized by the AMS Commission of the Environment and Sustainability.

Community members, alumni and students will be planting ten trees over the course of the two weekends on University Ave. between Clergy and Johnson Streets.

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Sustainability Week seeks student relevance This year’s organizers aim to increase participation by changing date of five-day campaign B y S tyna Tao Staff Writer

All campus organizations was too [focused] and we wanted to open it up to all students.” involved in Sustainability Week He said that awareness of will be present at a sustainability With Sustainability Week set to sustainability brings more than information fair on Friday, Oct. 4.

Robinson said he hopes that launch on Queen’s campus on just environmental benefits; it also Sept. 30, organizers want students has social and economic effects as this initiative will drive home to know that environmentalism simple as saving on electricity bills, the relevance of sustainability, as students often don’t think it is much more relevant than for example.

Throughout the week, impacts them. they think.

“One of the things that we’re The initiative is a joint effort different events will be hosted by between the AMS, SGPS, Queen’s multiple clubs and committees to trying to do this year is also to show Sustainability Office and various showcase the many dimensions students the role that sustainability other clubs and committees on of sustainability. Events will run will play in their careers, no matter what they’re majoring in,” he said. campus to bring attention to until Oct. 4.

Robinson added that organizers Planning for Sustainability Week sustainability efforts on campus and demonstrate its impact on began in the spring of last year. have reached out to include The majority of the $500 budget interdisciplinary organizations students’ lives.

“This is a growing trend,” Colin was donated, and has been used to such as Enactus, Queen’s Oxfam, Robinson, AMS commissioner fund speakers and advertising for the Commerce and Engineering Environmental Conference of the environment and the events.

On Wednesday in Goodes Hall, (CEEC), QBACC and the Tea sustainability, said.

“Large institutions are a presentation titled Investing in Room, to reach out to students in increasingly aware of the impact of Our Future, will focus on building various faculties.

“The thing I’m most excited to sustainability on performance and a portfolio of ethical investments. how it factors into their decisions.” The talk will be hosted by Queen’s see is a coordination of all these Originally known as GreenFest, School of Business professor organizations,” Robinson said. organizers decided to change Steven Moore, and David Hahn “They’re all pursuing sustainability, the name and time of the event of the Wintergreen Renewable coming together in one place under one unanimous initiative.” to reach out to more students, Energy Co-op.

Wednesday will also see the Robinson added.

“This is not just for people who Earth Centre holding a clothing For a full list of activities, see are interested in the environment,” swap, while a documentary www.queensu.ca/sustainability/ on food security will be events/sustainweek.html.

Robinson said.

Colin Robinson, AMS commissioner of “We felt that the name GreenFest screened on Thursday. environment and sustainability

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Sexual and Gender Fair promotes diversity AMS VPUA Thomas Pritchard gives speech, shares story on gender reassignment surgery B y A bby A ndrew Assistant News Editor

Queen’s Pride were some of the organizations represented at the event.

Last night, student-run group Thomas Pritchard, AMS viceEducation on Queer Issues president of university affairs and Project (EQuIP) held a Sexual and Arig Girgrah, assistant dean of Gender Diversity Resource Fair in student affairs, spoke at the event.

Grant Hall, welcoming students Both talked about their and community members of personal involvement dealing with all identities. accessibility and inclusivity in the More than 20 groups were set LGBTQ and feminist communities up at tables, ranging from health at the University. and wellness organizations to Pritchard spoke to his own social groups. personal experience undergoing The Reelout Arts Project, hormone replacement therapy, Men Who Like Feminism and as well as a surgery which he

underwent three weeks ago.

“I wanted to link my experience to barriers which I, and many others, have faced both in the education systems as well as in the healthcare system,” he said.

Ashley Ratcliffe, a member of the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre, helped to organize the event.

This student-funded Queen’s organization is devoted to fighting gender oppression and advocating broad ideas of gender empowerment.

“It can be extremely intimidating

EQuIP educates students at the Sexual and Gender Diversity Fair, held at Grant Hall on Thursday.

to independently reach out to LGBTQ [and] feminist groups and allies,” she said.

“This fair was about breaking down the logistical boundaries associated with accessing information, while creating a single, supportive environment of sharing and connecting.”

The Reelout Arts Project, a Kingston LGBTQ film festival, had a booth and promoted their resource library located at Sydenham Street United Church.

“We run a resource library with books and movies on sexual and

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gender diversity that is open to the entire community, for ten dollars a year,” Matt Salton, the executive director of Reelout, said.

Salton said the fair is important, especially for undergraduate students.

“Students who are new to the area may be questioning their gender or sexual orientation, and may be overwhelmed [with] where to go for help or maybe feeling hindered to ask for help,” he said.

Men Who Like Feminism, a group dedicated to increasing awareness about healthy masculinity on campus, was also present at the fair.

Dan Vena, a representative for the group and a Masters student in gender studies, shared the goals of the group.

“Just like TK [Thomas Pritchard] was saying that he doesn’t have a space to talk about trans identities, and we have some trans members as well, myself included, so we want to open up the dialogue to everyone,” he said.

Another member of the group, Matt Ventresca, added his goals and plans in the near future regarding awareness of masculinity issues on campus. “[We want to] figure out ways ways that we can promote healthy, inclusive and anti-oppressive masculinities,” he said.

Ventresca said that they will be holding a series of events throughout the year with speakers to open up discussion regarding these issues.

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Safety audit data still of use, MAC says Continued from page 1

the Student Ghetto, as well as throughout the downtown area.

Despite this, Sherman said the audit was still useful for bringing up discussion about student safety and ensuring that there were no major safety issues in the area.

“There are no major red flags,” he said.

“Nothing that made us go, ‘wow, we never saw that before’ …. if there was, you can guarantee that Campus Security would have said ‘We need to fix this right now.’”

Catherine Wright, the current municipal affairs commissioner, said the data is being used to contact landlords who need to improve their properties.

She said the City of Kingston has agreed to send landlords emails through the

Building and Property Standards Division email notification system.

According to Wright, landlords will be emailed with recommendations on how to improve their properties.

The main concerns were poor lighting and overgrown bushes, she said, adding that overgrown bushes affect lighting, while large hedges make it easier to hide and attack a person walking through an alleyway.

She said the data won’t be processed into a report nor sent to the Quality of Life Working Group and the Building and Property Standards Division of the City as originally planned, as it will only be used on a case-by-case basis to offer advice to landlords.

“The original plan was mailing them to all the landlords, which would take too long,” she said.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

NEWS IN BRIEF City Council approves new residences Plans for two new campus residences have been approved by City Council.

The residences are scheduled to begin construction by the end of this year on Stuart and Albert Streets. The project had planned to begin earlier, but was slowed by opposition from the surrounding Kingston community, arguing the buildings would be too large for the area.

The City passed amendments for zoning by-laws, which allowed the buildings to be placed in that area. One building, to be placed on Stuart St., will be five storeys high and house 272 students.

Albert St.’s residence will be nine storeys high, housing 274 future students.

In a press release, Vice-Provost (Academic) Alan Harrison stated he is happy with the City’s decision to allow the buildings’ construction, adding it will give the University more flexibility in terms of where to place students from all academic levels.

The Board of Trustees approved plans in March of this year to ensure that these residences contain accessibility features to accommodate all students.

Features such as wheelchair access throughout the buildings, visual alarms to accommodate deaf students and genderneutral washrooms are set to be built.

For the full story, see Tuesday’s digital issue of the Journal.

— Olivia Bowden Funds for accessible taxis approved

A safety audit of the Student Ghetto won’t be fulfilled as planned.

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The Kingston Area Taxi Commission’s request for a loan from the City has been approved. $60,000 will go towards a local taxi company to introduce three accessible taxis on roads in order to accommodate Kingston residents.

Some councillors were concerned about

the loan as it gives public funding to a private company; however, most agreed that the City should ensure everyone in the community equal access to public transportation.

The money will be taken out of parking fines paid to the city for people who parked in handicapped spots.

Although the City of Kingston does fund accessible busing, the bus won’t be available at all times of day or night.

Mayor Mark Gerretsen told media that if the taxis are not purchased according to the agreement, the loan will be withdrawn. He did not specify a timeframe for the taxis to be purchased.

Kingston must offer the service in order to follow the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, which states that municipalities must continuously keep transit available for all members of the community.

— Olivia Bowden Renovated Ellis Hall spaces Construction has begun to convert three classrooms in Ellis Hall into designated spaces for active learning.

The classrooms — rooms 319, 333 and 321 — were designed to facilitate discussion and active collaboration between students.

They will each be configured differently.

The first room will feature moveable seating, the second will include round tables and interactive display boards per table and the third will also house monitors for each table, which will seat eight.

Funds used to cover the cost of the renovations were provided through the Initiative Campaign, in order to boost interactive learning on campus.

The classrooms are expected to be completed by Jan. 2014.

— Vincent Ben Matak

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like we’re saying you’re never going to exist again. The sanctions are not detrimental, they are educational. We’re here to learn from our mistakes,” Olver said.

Vice-president of the Nursing Science Society, Hannah Yassine, attempted to pass an amendment to change the definition of hazing in the document. She said it was too vague and could pose as a threat to frosh week activities.

The document currently defines hazing as “any activity expected of someone joining a group (or to maintain full status in a group) that humiliates, degrades or risks emotional and/or physical harm, regardless of the person’s consent to participate.”

Yassine‘s amendment would have changed the word “expected” to “required” in the document, since fairly harmless frosh events could be considered humiliating despite being optional.

Yassine’s proposed amendment failed to pass.

Alex Marshall, president of the Concurrent Education Student’s Association, addressed the AMS executive by stating that perhaps more conversation was needed about policy.

He stated that the “room was not comfortable with it” and that the policy “possibly requires reform.”

Thomas Pritchard, vice-president (university affairs), stated to Assembly that last year’s team looked at the policy extensively, and it should have been passed earlier.

“It needs to go forward tonight,” he said.

“We agreed to do group discipline … it was deemed necessary.”

Some students have claimed it violates

individual rights by placing blame on a group in its entirety, possibly leading to guilt by association.

Assembly debated on whether an appeal process should be implemented so groups can possibly contest their guilt.

Olver said she wouldn’t be opposed to allowing student groups to appeal NAD’s disciplinary action.

“We would have to create a new body in order for students to appeal this process.

It’s definitely feasible, it would just take a good amount of time,” she said.

Olver said that by stating that it’s possible for groups to contest NAD’s sanctions without the AMS creating an appeal board.

This would be done by attending an open hearing to state their case.

She said that sanctions against a student group shouldn’t be viewed as entirely negative.

Member-at-large Brendan Goodman, ArtSci ’16, said the policy shouldn’t be passed until an appeal body is implemented.

“This can’t be passed tonight if we aren’t completely comfortable with it.

If change is going to take a long time why don’t we get it right the first time?” he said.

CAMPUS CATCH-UP Student starts suit A McGill PhD student, Jakub Dzamba, has launched a claim that his former teammates have stolen his intellectual property.

The Hult Prize involves groups solving social challenges, such as world hunger, using social business as a method.

Dzamba’s former teammates won a $1 million prize given out by former U.S President Bill Clinton. Dzamba claims that the team, which submitted a nutrition project, won the semi-finals of the competition by using one of his presentation slides.

Dzamba, who was previously removed from the team, said he should be compensated for his contribution. A team of associate deans at McGill had decided that the teammates should give $5,300 to Dzamba.

However, due to confusion involving a release statement, the deans never signed the order.

The statement read that they didn’t use anything Dzamba had created as of March 2013, and agreed he should be compensated for work he completed earlier on, but that the final project

does not contain anything Dzambia had produced.

Indian social activist awarded

Anna Hazare has been honoured with the $100,000 inagural Allard Prize for International Integrity by the University of British Columbia.

Bus drivers refuse to pick up drunk The award is recognized around the students world and acknowledges efforts to combat Students who attend the University corruption and promote human rights.

Hazare led movements to raise of Sherbrooke in Quebec will no longer be allowed to ride the bus while awareness surrounding the importance of rural development as well as increasing visibly intoxicated.

University towns often have the problem government transparency.

Maclean’s On Campus reported that of drunken students wreaking havoc inside the bus, causing a disturbance to other Hazare turned in evidence to officials patrons and the bus driver, Maclean’s On involving a scam by forest officers, in which they collected state funds for nothing in Campus reported.

Sherbrooke’s Student Federation has return.

This experience led to the creation of disputed the policy claiming that this is the People’s Movement Against Corruption, discrimination against students.

A possible solution could be what occurred which he launched in 1991.

It is a national anti-corruption movement. at the University of Gueph, the article says, Hazare continued by launching India where they implemented a ‘magic bus.’

This bus runs through Guelph late at Against Corruption in 2011, which expanded night, specifically for partying students to into a movement for legislative reform and government accountability. find their way home.

Students pay a levy in order to have the — Abby Andrew and Sebastian Leck buses running.

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Friday, September 27, 2013

Dialogue

Editorials — The Journal’s Perspective

“Projected complacency, insularity and a falling reputation don’t make a good combination.”

education

Queen’s rep gets gut check

Queen’s recently received its poorest ranking ever from the Quacquarelli Symonds’ (QS) World University Rankings. While not a cause for panic, this new low is representative of a general downward trend in international reputation that the school administration is reluctant to acknowledge.

Queen’s standing in the QS rankings has fallen consistently over time and also recently dropped in the Times Higher Education assessment. The fact that multiple rating systems have Queen’s placing worse year after year isn’t a coincidence.

Those who are critical of international ranking systems insist they are mostly meaningless and based on faulty criteria. Predictably, Vice-Provost (International) Jim Lee played down this most recent report, saying that the “reputation” criteria was determined by

individual academics who were asked to list what they believed to be the top universities.

It’s curious that the current administration would be so glib about Queen’s declining reputation, as it doesn’t bode well in relation to its larger plans for internationalization.

Queen’s isn’t an incredibly well-known school internationally.

As such, being able to fall back on a good general reputation in international surveys would be ideal. For better or for worse, university applicants often look at international rankings to get a vague picture of how much a degree from a specific institution is worth.

For the time being, Queen’s will maintain its reputation within Canada as a top-tier university.

However, this fact, coupled with a fairly insular campus culture, can

often lead to complacency about our state of affairs. Needless to say, Queen’s can’t afford to be complacent during a period of globalization and competition.

International rankings will continue to come out and Queen’s will probably continue to decline in standing. The administration will undoubtedly remain guarded about the topic, but this defensiveness won’t help raise our profile.

International rankings are not a catch-all for what makes a university great. Queen’s students are still right to think fairly highly of their university. However, the fact that our administration doesn’t acknowledge the decline isn’t a good sign. Projected complacency, insularity and a falling reputation don’t make a good combination.

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child services

Culture clash over kid’s care Two Winnipeg foster parents will soon learn whether or not they can continue caring for the child who has been with them for two years.

Because the child in question is Métis and the parents are Filipino, the Métis Child and Family Services Authority has attempted to block the adoption in favour of finding the child a “culturally appropriate Métis family”.

While the organization’s general desire to have Métis children raised in Métis homes is somewhat understandable in light of colonialism, the child should be allowed to stay with its current guardians because his best interests are more important than any general cultural concerns.

It was once official government policy to eliminate the culture of First Nations peoples. A related

phenomenon was the “60s scoop”, a practice that occurred in Canada, beginning in the 1960s and continuing through the 1980s, where predominately white families adopted First Nations children.

Many of the adopted children maladjusted to their circumstances and turned to substance abuse.

In light of this history, it makes sense the Métis people would attempt to ensure their cultural survival and be concerned about the threat they perceive to the child in question.

However, in 2013, it would be wrong to make the little boy a symbol of cultural survival. That burden is a lot to bear for a child who simply needs stable and loving parents.

There isn’t any indication that the child’s current guardians are poor parents. The immediate

alternative would be a transition back into family services, which would presumably be traumatic for both parents and child. Ideally, it would be the child’s choice as to where he ends up, but he’s probably still too young to make that judgement.

Whether or not this little boy will eventually become alienated from his childhood cultural experiences is impossible to know. As of now, those making decisions for him should leave overarching historical, cultural and political debates to the side, weigh the odds, and allow him to stay with the couple who has already cared for him for over two years.

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Megan Scarth

Introverts explained What are you doing this Friday night?

As university students, we’re expected to be going out to a party or a club — somewhere with a lot of noise and people.

For extroverts, who are energized by social situations, this sounds like a good time. But for introverts like me, who need to “recharge” at the end of a long day, this prospect can be exhausting.

Though the ratio of introverts to extroverts is around 50/50, few people would admit they’d rather stay in and read a book.

In Western society, it seems like extroverted people are automatically accepted and embraced, while those who prefer to keep their thoughts to themselves are regarded as strange or suspicious.

Last year, I experienced this stigma firsthand during one of my psychology tutorials. The topic that week was personality, and my group had been asked to put different personal characteristics into one of three categories: good, bad or neutral.

I was both surprised and a bit saddened to note that my group members placed traits such as “quiet” or “subdued” in the “bad” category. Why were these traits lumped into the same category as far more destructive ones, such as “violent” or “unstable”?

I believe people with these supposedly bad characteristics are essential to our society.

Introverts require less stimulation than extroverts, meaning they’re highly skilled at focusing on complex problems.

Many people considered to be geniuses — from Newton to Chopin to Einstein — were introverts.

These types of people are typically more deliberate and think things through more carefully.

Relatively unmotivated by wealth and fame, they derive their ambitions from reaching their carefully-planned goals.

Still, many introverts — myself included — tend to feel guilty when we take some time for ourselves.

Yet for us, this biological need is just as necessary as eating or sleeping.

Social events can be fun and open up new opportunities, but there should be no pressure to go out every night if that’s not really your thing.

Introverted or extroverted, take pride in who you are, and live your life in whichever way brings you the most happiness Megan is a Copy Editor at the Journal. She’s a second-year English major.

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ALISON SHOULDICE

Week critique I consider frosh week a highlight of the school year and I’m sure I’m not alone.

Four years ago, my first week on campus was transformative. I made close friends in my frosh group — one of whom became my housemate for two years — and my Gaels helped me feel at home immediately.

Unfortunately, not everyone has this experience, and it’s time more Queen’s students recognized this.

These students had a right to be upset. Smith’s editorial portrayed some of our orientation events unfairly as many of them have significantly changed since his graduation.

When Russell Smith, a former Queen’s student, wrote an op-ed in the Globe and Mail two weeks ago criticizing our school’s Frosh Week and school spirit, many students were up in arms.

These students had a right to be upset.

Smith’s editorial portrayed some of our orientation events unfairly as many of them have significantly changed since his graduation.

Last Friday, Queen’s TV released a video rebuttal to Smith’s anti-Frosh Week

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sentiment, featuring students reciting a scripted response. The clip is addressed to Smith, and rightly points out his factual inaccuracies and unfair assumptions.

What made me cringe, though, was the way that Smith’s personal experience was dismissed in a condescending way.

The article should have started a discussion about inclusivity, alternative frosh events and resources for those who are having a hard time calling Queen’s their home.

“We’re sorry you had an unfortunate Frosh Week,” a group of students say in the clip. The last speaker in the video points out that Frosh Week is optional, “so there’s that.”

Is this really the message we want to send to people who didn’t enjoy their Frosh Week? What if there are people on campus right now who don’t feel at home and silently agree with Smith?

If it were me, I’d feel uncomfortable and even more alienated after watching the video It concerns me that the spirit of the video reflects an unfortunate truth, that the mass of our student body finds it nearly impossible to accept criticism of our university’s traditions and practices.

The article should have started a discussion about inclusivity, alternative frosh events and resources for those who are having a hard time calling Queen’s their home.

Smith deserves to be corrected for his errors and misconceptions, but we should also think seriously about his experience.

We need to start listening to others — even if what they say isn’t what we want to hear.

Alison is one of the Journal’s editors in chief.

She’s a fifth-year political studies major.

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Opinions — Your Perspective

Racism

Bye bye to Miss America lies

Despite growing diversity, some still hold false assumptions about what makes a true American or Canadian

Katherine Singh, ArtSci ’15 In a supposedly progressive era, Western society is harbouring a dirty little secret — we’re not as multicultural and accepting as we pretend to be.

In the past decade, we’ve seen an African-American man elected as President of the U.S., formal apologies issued to the Aboriginal peoples of Canada and serious debate and positive reforms for more accepting immigration laws.

It might appear to many that the West is moving towards a society of acceptance, one in which the lines dividing the ethnic minority from the majority are ceasing to exist. This view of society is utopian and idealist and is, unfortunately, a façade.

The multicultural way of life, so highly praised in the U.S. and Canada, comes with a limit. The majority can be accepting to a certain extent, but as long as it fits within their view of proper societal roles.

This limit becomes increasingly evident when a person of visible minority is put in a position of power and is seen to be stepping out of their “role” as a minority in society. Nowhere has this been more evident than with the recent uproar surrounding the Miss America pageant earlier this month.

The crowning of Nina Davuluri, a native of Syracuse, NY, was influential — she’s the first woman of Indian descent to win the title of Miss America.

This is also remarkable because this year marks 30 years since the crowing of the first

African-American Miss America, Vanessa Williams.

A well-deserved celebration of diversity following Davuluri’s crowing was cut short due to a backlash on social media websites such as Twitter. Racist Twitter rants ranged from calling Davuluri a terrorist, disparaging her for being a Muslim (which she isn’t) to calling her “Miss 7-11,” all remarks based solely on the colour of her skin.

The multicultural way of life ... comes with a limit. The majority can be accepting to a certain extent, but only as long as it fits within their view of proper societal roles.

One particularly disgruntled Twitter user encapsulated the wider issue when they asked, “when will a white woman win Miss America?” Besides irrelevancy, as the majority of Miss America winners are white, this individual drew attention to a fact many of us refuse to acknowledge — that many in the Western world believe to be truly American or Canadian, you must be white.

The colour of an individual’s skin apparently trumps any claim to nationality.

In 2010, 11 per cent of the American population was classified as native-born, meaning that they were born in the U.S., with at least one foreign parent, and immigrant populations rising, the U.S. is on the upswing of diversity.

As reported by a 2012 study from the U.S. Census Bureau, for the first time in American history, ethnic minorities now account for more than half the babies born in the U.S. With figures like these, it seems natural that the former minority are becoming

Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014, launched her Circles of Unity campaign, which celebrates diversity, after being the subject of racist tweets following her pageant win.

the majority, propelling the country forward to a more diverse future.

Davuluri’s win represents not only an evolution in pageant culture itself, but speaks to the evolution of what a true American looks like.

But for some, this is hard to swallow. It’s not all Americans, but select groups may both consciously and unconsciously perpetuate the idea of the “ideal” American.

Reminiscent of the Eurocentric “us” versus “them” mentality — a characteristic of early colonialism — this racial backlash highlights the ever-present societal hierarchy where native-born ethnic minorities are considered American as long as they remain in their “place.”

Racist Twitter rants ranged from calling Davuluri a terrorist, disparaging her for being a Muslim (which she isn’t) to calling her “Miss 7-11,” all remarks based solely on the colour of her skin.

Once an individual steps outside of what others deem their “place” — for example, into a position of power, like

Davuluri, or engaging in an inter-racial relationship — a true American becomes an outsider within their own country, with skin colour as their defining trait.

Many in the Western world believe that to be truly American or Canadian, you must be white. The colour of an individual’s skin apparently trumps any claim to nationality.

The problem is that more and more of those deemed as “outsiders” are moving into their rightful positions of success in the public sphere, engaging in any relationships they please and exercising their rights to practice and proudly display their religion.

As a Canadian born child of a West-Indian father, the issue of nationality and race is especially important to me. While I’ve never experienced racism on the same level as Davuluri, I’ve personally dealt with strangers questioning my heritage.

Several people have found it necessary to ask me where I’m from, and proceed to probe “where I’m originally from” when I tell them I’m Canadian.

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As someone who has struggled with defining my identity, I find it offensive that others try to define it for me, and make the assumption that because of the colour of my skin, I must not be originally Canadian.

While I personally believe a multi-ethnic future is beneficial for the U.S. and Canada in creating a more diversified and progressive countries, I understand that it may take longer for some people to come to a similar realization.

If you look at the progress that’s been made in the past decade in regards to ethnic minorities and acceptance, there’s hope for what we can achieve in the next decade.

This racial backlash highlights the ever-present societal hierarchy where native-born ethnic minorities are considered American as long as they remain in their “place.”

Though we may not attain the completely prejudice-free society we’re hoping for, it will only take a few more Nina Davuluris to prove that the face of a true American or Canadian isn’t just one colour.

Talking heads ... around campus Photos By Erin Sylvester

Do you think that bikes should be treated like cars?

“Bikes should be in bike lines, which there should be more of, and shouldn’t be treated the same as cars.”

Michelle Rozon, ArtSci ’17

“In a city, cars already treat bikes aggressively, so I sympathize with cyclists and I think the ticketing is excessive.”

“There should be separate lanes, but they shouldn’t be subject to the same rules — you don’t need a license to ride a bike.”

“Bicyclists should be treated as drivers; however, they should be given a warning before they get a ticket.”

“No, they shouldn’t be subject to the same rules.”

Brenna Owen, ArtSci ’14

Anoopam Dadiala, Sci ’16

Amaechi Eneh, ArtSci ’14

Eugene Ong, JD ’15

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Arts

Local Art

Diamond in the rough The Artel is a hub for creative expression B y K ate S hao Assistant Arts Editor The living room doubles as a stage, art gallery and soon-to-be yoga studio.

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

It’s a place to live, make art and perform art.

I visited the seemingly inconspicuous art hub this week and was pleasantly surprised with what I found.

As the synth-esque, electronic tunes of the Toronto-based group Doom Squad filled the air, I stood at the back consuming it all.

The place gave off a very distinct vibe. It was somewhere I could imagine the Girls character, Hannah Horvath, hanging out — artsy but not pretentious, dark but not ominous. The audience was comprised of a wide demographic of high school kids, Queen’s students, members of The Artel and Kingstonians.

They all had one thing in common — a passion for the arts.

Annie Dunsford, ArtSci ’14, has been a member of the collective for over a year and organizes the venue’s music events and exhibitions. She believes The Artel has a collaborative definition, and it means something different to everybody.

“The Artel, to me, is a space that

exists to support emerging artists in whatever way we can, artists that maybe wouldn’t otherwise be able to have a show in a gallery or play music,” Dunsford said.

Dunsford played her first show at The Artel with her band, Sleuth Bears, and said she found the atmosphere conducive to fostering emerging performers.

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

You can easily live “your life on Queen’s campus and live in a community that’s so different than the community I live in that’s north of Princess.

”

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

A collective comprised of nine artists, six of whom currently live in the building, operates The Artel.

The venue itself also acts as a safe space, meaning that its

Four of The Artel’s collective members, Emily Zielke, Magdalena Slabosz, Annie Dunsford and Graham Juneau posed after the Doom Squad show.

members actively resist forms of oppression, such as misogyny, ableism, racism and homophobia.

They foster emerging artists and open their doors to all types of artistic expression.

“It’s so empowering to be a young artist, a female artist and a queer artist, to do whatever, and know that people will come,” she said.

After recently receiving a grant from the Kingston Arts Council, The Artel has been able to continue carrying out their mandate by hosting nine exhibitions and several events this year.

“Our attempts to support amateur artists have, in turn, been supported by the city of Kingston, which is wonderful and pretty surprising,” Dunsford said.

Graham Juneau, ArtSci ’12 and current tenant, originally came across the venue as a performer participating in a noise show. He said he appreciates how accessible The Artel is.

“It doesn’t have that upfront cost that other bars, venues or gallery spaces in Kingston have when it comes to actually being

able to play,” Juneau said.

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

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

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

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

A Queen’s grad and local performer, Amanda Balsys, has been a supporter of The Artel for the past six years. Having originally come to Kingston to pursue a Masters in English and Spanish literature, she found herself involved in the art scene and stuck around.

She said she began her ties with the venue as a performer and is currently a member of The Gertrudes, who got their start at The Artel.

Having been involved in both the Queen’s and Kingston

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community, Balsys, MA ’10, said there’s a strong town-gown divide.

“You can easily live your life on Queen’s campus and live in a community that’s so different than the community I live in that’s north of Princess,” Balsys said.

The Artel serves as a common ground and has the potential to bring together lots of ideas and artists, she said.

“Each time that I come to The Artel, there’s newer faces that I see all the time and that wasn’t always the case,” Balsys said. “It’s very promising in that regard.”

With a relatively quick turnover — several of their members have just moved to Montreal — the space is constantly evolving and always encouraging new forms of artistic expression.

With plans to start up guided meditation, yoga and DJ nights, the creative possibilities seem endless.

Freak Heat Waves, Viet Cong and Beached Out will be playing at The Artel on Sunday, Oct. 6. Doors open at 8 p.m.

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STUDENT LIFE

A match made in heaven For Andrea Bandow, the violin just felt right B Y M EAGHAN WRAY Arts Editor The violin chose her — or, perhaps, they found each other.

Andrea Bandow, a political studies major and music minor, plays in three orchestras, a string quartet and a chamber ensemble.

She picked up her first violin at age eight.

“It just always felt like it was right,” Bandow, ArtSci ’14, said. “I never really questioned that I could be wrong— it just felt like this is what’s allowing me to grow in my music.”

Music has always been a big part of her life, she said, thanks to her supportive family and musically-enriched upbringing in Hamilton.

She’ll often hang out with her parents in their basement amongst racks of records dating from the 50s onward.

“From the time I was born there was classical music always playing in my household,” she said. “My parents … supported me in whatever I really wanted to do when I was young. It was my choice.”

Bandow joined the East Hamilton Strings while in elementary school.

Before shutting down, it was a district school board program

that allowed its students to practice their talent.

By age 11, Bandow was teaching her peers how to play the instrument, and continued teaching until she moved for university.

“It’s the most encouraging when you have students who you see in their eyes that they just love the music as much as you do,” she said.

“They just want to try their hardest to be able to produce the music and grow themselves.”

It’s on a more “personal level

now … just the music itself can be a relief if I’ve had a hard day.

”

— Andrea Bandow, ArtSci ’14

Not only is Bandow involved in the campus classical music scene, she’s also in the Kingston Symphony Orchestra, a collective of musical professionals in the Limestone City.

The support for this orchestra, Bandow said, is necessary for it to stay alive.

“You have your regular members and donors who subscribe to the season and without their support I don’t know if it would be able to

Andrea Bandow, ArtSci ‘14, had a connection to music starting young.

have as much of an impact on the community as it does,” she said.

Although so much of her life has been dedicated to pursuing musical progress personally, Bandow doesn’t intend on following violin as a career path. She has aspirations of going to law school.

“Music, I think, will always be there for me,” she said. “Maybe not

in a career role but in a supporting role in my life.”

Since initially being introduced to classical music, the position it holds in her life has changed.

“It’s on a more personal level now … just the music itself can be a relief if I’ve had a hard day,” she said. “I can just go and rehearse something for my own enjoyment

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and it makes me feel better.”

She balances a full course load, dreams of law school and dedication to an instrument — but her music is never a burden.

“It hasn’t really felt like it’s been a hardship for me in any way. It just comes naturally,” she said. “It would be a lot harder if I didn’t love it as much as I do.”

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Concert Preview

Ten years and counting Montreal-based, Plants and Animals, returns to the Grad Club for two shows B y J anine A buluyan Contributor A post-classic rock band from Montreal, Plants and Animals is comprised of guitarists-vocalists Warren Spicer and Nic Basque along with drummer-vocalist Matthew Woodley. The band isn’t new to Kingston.

Nic Basque, the band’s guitarist and vocalist, said he finds it tough to describe their music. In some ways, he said, the natural world is a good way to describe their sound.

“It’s a lot of mountain valleys, it’s a lot of dynamics,” he said. “I think that’s the best description, like being on a ride with sometimes thick mountains, sometimes thick valleys.”

Basque kept it simple when describing the band’s name choice.

“When we were doing an instrumental record, we were trying to find a name for that project and we had a bunch of names with two words related to each other,” he said. “[It has] no spiritual, mystical [or] weird significance.

It’s just that.”

Spicer, Woodley and Basque started out as friends playing together in university. At the same time, Montreal’s vibrant music scene provided them with plenty of opportunities to play for audiences.

Basque recalled the band’s early days when they spent most of their time jamming together and setting up for shows they opened for. Back in those days, he said, they would often show up and improvise for their entire set.

“Basically, that’s how it started,” Basque said. “Through friendship.”

It’s been a decade since Plants and Animals released their first self-titled EP, and they’ve come a long way since.

With their continued rise in popularity and media exposure, the talented trio continues to attract fans of all ages and

musical backgrounds.

Plants and Animals creates attractive syntheses of classic rock and indie music — it has some of the nostalgic olds and the fresh news.

Basque said his musical influences were “all over the place.” Pressed for details, he described the band’s musical influences — one of them being American jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane.

“I remember the first time I heard him play and started to get more into jazz music,” Basque said. “The amount of work he put behind playing his instrument

and constructing songs was pretty impressive.”

Basque said inspiration can come from everywhere and anything.

“We do this all the time so it’s like our full-time job. There are things that can influence you for different reasons,” he said. “It’s always in the back of your mind, playing music, [and] finding ideas.”

As for now, the band is in exploration mode and is giving free reign to their creativity.

Plants and Animals are playing at the Grad Club on Sept. 27 and 28.

The trio met while at university in Montreal.

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CONCERT REVIEW

A childhood dream comes true

Aaron Carter hits Kingston with a handful of throwbacks and a few kisses to the crowd along the way B Y K ATE S HAO Assistant Arts Editor A horde of twenty-something-year-old girls was buzzing as they anxiously waited to fulfill their childhood dream, while I stood in the back of the room watching it all.

Thirty-five minutes of 90s-sounding “hip-hop” later, the infamous Carter brother eventually made a coy, but very belated, entrance as he sauntered to the stage. He opened with the classic hit “I Want Candy” and the girls went unreasonably wild.

Aaron Carter enthusiastically belted out his 13-year-old hit version of the song, originally by The Strangeloves, as if it was just written yesterday — during which he jumped around the stage and even stopped to kiss a few audience members.

It’s unsure whether their excitement was due to Carter’s surprising gesture, or due to seeing a pop idol rise from the proverbial celebrity grave.

The set list consisted of a blend of older hits, covers and tunes off his upcoming album. After “Candy”, Carter transitioned

Aaron Carter reminisced during his sold out show at The Mansion.

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into some newer material with a pop-rock sound — the type of thing you’d imagine a grown-up Aaron singing.

He incorporated several well-known hits into his songs, finishing one of them with a verse of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing”.

It was an easy crowd-pleaser.

The show took a turn when Carter introduced a new song off his soon-to-be-released record. Titled “Let Go”, the singer gave his fans a look into his love life.

The “Aaron’s Party” singer narrated his heartbreak after the girlfriend he cheated on refused to give him a second chance, later admitting that the girl was “Hilary, not Lindsay.”

Despite the hand on his heart, the audience remained unresponsive.

Carter told the audience how eight years later, he’s still hung up on his teenage love, despite her being married and raising a son.

These feelings are depicted in the lyrics, “I gotta let go go go, she let go so long ago.”

After the heartfelt pop tune, Carter tossed on a fedora and broke out into Michael Jackson-inspired dance moves as he began his rendition of Robin Thicke’s

“Blurred Lines”.

The throng of Aaron-fans bobbed their heads in excitement and danced along to the popular song. Carter seemed to enjoy the energy as he grasped the audience members’ hands, danced on stage and threw his sweaty towel into the crowd.

Carter continued to belt out covers, such as Bruno Mars’ “Treasure” and Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” before returning to his own songs. He then changed on stage into an O’Neal jersey for his 2000 track “That’s How I Beat Shaq”.

Carter took a moment to thank his audience and remind them how long he’s been making music for — 18 years. After nearly a decade of not touring, his fans have remained loyal to the childhood star and excitedly gawked when he played “Aaron’s Party”.

The singer closed his sold-out show with a song off his forthcoming record, “Where Do We Begin?”, an upbeat pop tune, and then promised to return to Kingston.

With an upcoming album and loyal fan-girls, Aaron Carter’s next show is sure to be memorable.

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Sports ATHLETE PROFILE

McQueen’s Gaels Last year’s top OUA rookie is back at Nixon — and getting better B y A dam L askaris Contributor Adam McQueen is following in the footsteps of a superstar teammate.

Despite sitting out for Queen’s 30-0 win over RMC last Saturday, the second-year men’s rugby player currently leads the OUA in individual scoring.

His 24 points puts him three up on Gaels back Liam Underwood — a senior national

team player who once made a similarly immediate impact at Queen’s. Both players won the OUA Rookie of the Year award in their first season: Underwood in 2009 and McQueen last year.

While Underwood missed most of Queen’s 2012 campaign due to club commitments, McQueen thrived upon arrival, quickly becoming an integral part of the Gaels’ OUA championship roster.

“I could tell when I came

Queen’s in London — Sept. 28 SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE McQueen and his teammates haven’t allowed a point through three games.

Tomorrow, they’ll face the unbeaten Western Mustangs, who have averaged 31 points per game this season.

LAST MEETING Queen’s hasn’t lost in over a year, with their last defeat coming on Sept. 22, 2012.

Western beat them 22-20 that day on a last-second kick at Nixon Field.

standout stars Seven Gaels sit in the top 16 of the OUA scoring race, led

by McQueen’s 24. Western has three in that upper echelon, including third-year back Mike Turnbull, who’s one point back of McQueen.

here that there was pretty good camaraderie,” McQueen said.

“The guys helped me fit in right away.”

In addition to his rookie exploits, McQueen spent last year as a non-traveling reserve for Canada’s Under-20 squad.

He also splits his time on the pitch with the Prairie Wolf Pack — a Calgary-based club team that competes in the Canadian Rugby Championship through the summer and into September.

Born in England, McQueen started playing rugby at the age of seven, giving him an advantage over many Canadians, who typically start playing in high school.

Queen’s was a natural fit for McQueen, settling for a school with high academic standards and a consistently strong rugby program.

“I had heard great things about head coach Peter Huigenbos and his coaching abilities,” he said. “It was an easy decision.”

The 5’11”, 180-lb McQueen typically starts at fly half — Underwood’s old spot in the lineup — but has the versatility

ROWING

Finding hidden talents Beginner rowers have a place within Queen’s TID program B y N ick Faris Sports Editor Jenna Adams came to Queen’s to play volleyball. Three weeks later, she’s switched from land to water, swapped a ball for an oar — and transformed from veteran to beginner.

She’s one of 36 novice rowers in the Gaels’ Talent Identification (TID) stream, the introductory tier of Queen’s storied rowing program.

While Queen’s varsity boats are heavily composed of recruited and national-calibre athletes, TID relies exclusively on beginners.

Anyone with past experience need not apply.

Acting as both a feeder to the Gaels varsity team and an outlet for students to take up a new sport, TID recruits heavily at the start of the school year, encouraging all comers to try out for the club’s developmental crews.

Occasionally, they’ll attract a transplanted athlete like Adams, a pre-season cut from the women’s volleyball team.

“I was kind of freaking out about the time commitment I’d planned to do for volleyball and what I was going to do with that extra time,” Adams said.

To fill the void, she went through the TID selection process in early September, testing her strength and indoor rowing ability alongside over a hundred other candidates.

From there, the novice team was culled to 18 men and 18 women,

The Gaels have tallied 140 points through three games, led by McQueen’s 24.

to play a number of positions.

Often used as the Gaels’ kicker after tries, his seven conversions this season lead the OUA. While McQueen’s accomplishments have been impressive so far, it may just be the sign of bigger things to come for the 19 year old.

“The main goal is team success. It’d be pretty cool to win back-to-back OUA titles in my first two years here,” he said.

“Once I complete my degree at Queen’s I’d definitely be interested at playing professionally ... it depends on how much I improve my game.”

McQueen’s success comes as no surprise to his coach.

“He’s got a great attitude every day and works hard,” Huigenbos said. “He’s got a lot of gifts on both sides of the ball.”

Huigenbos listed ball-handling and decision-making as two of McQueen’s offensive strengths, while noting his tenacity as his reason for his defensive success.

“He’s never one to back down from any sort of challenge,” Huigenbos said.

Continuing their momentum from last year’s championship season, the Gaels have started the year 3-0, outscoring their opponents 140-0.

McQueen and his teammates will face their biggest test of the year this Saturday in London. Both Queen’s and the Western Mustangs enter their regular-season matchup with unblemished records.

“You never like to lose,” said Huigenbos. “Every week we’re looking to get better and play good rugby.”

Men’s soccer scoreless in Kingston derby

regarded as an easy win.

Last season, Queen’s topped RMC 5-0 and 3-1, eventually winning the OUA East regular season championship by three points. This year, they’re mired in fourth, eight points back of the surging Ryerson Rams.

The Gaels’ defence slowed RMC’s anemic attack on Wednesday. The Paladins have mustered just one goal in their first six games of 2013; their tilt with Queen’s was the fifth consecutive time they’ve been blanked.

Queen’s keeper Dylan Maxwell turned aside all 11 shots he faced, posting his third clean sheet of the young season.

Paladins netminder Tobin Semple matched his counterpart save for save, stopping 13 Gaels attempts to hold them off the board.

The Gaels will look to avoid a similar fate at home tomorrow against the dismal Trent Excalibur (0-6-1). While they’ve managed two goals on the season, Trent has conceded 15 in seven matches.

Queen’s let an opportunity to move up the OUA standings slip through its grasp this week.

The Gaels (3-2-2) played to a 0-0 draw with the RMC Paladins (1-4-1) on Wednesday afternoon, earning just one of three possible points in a matchup traditionally PHOTO BY SAM KOEBRICH

Rowers in the Talent Identification program are limited to one year in the program, as previous rowing experience is not allowed.

split into four boats to compete throughout the TID season.

They’ve moved to the water for their initial weeks of practice: first learning how to row as individuals, then merging those lessons as a team.

“Coming from not knowing anything about rowing, I’ve pretty much learned everything — all the terminology, technique and skill,” Adams said. “They’ll take you and train you and mould you into the athlete you should be to successfully row.”

Because there’s a one-year limit

on TID team membership, Queen’s developmental program targets a wide array of potential prospects each season. It’s quantity over quality, in the hopes that a few may progress to elite university rowing.

Fifth-year rower Jordan Rendall grew up playing competitive lacrosse and a host of other sports, but didn’t row until coming to Queen’s. After receiving the TID recruiting pitch during his first Frosh Week, he attended tryouts and cracked the novice roster.

This season will be his third with See Non-rowers on page 19

PHOTO BY COLIN TOMCHICK

inside SIDELINE COMMENTARY Staff writer Josh Burton sounds off on the first half of Queen’s football regular season.

three downs

Major things to watch for this Saturday in London.

QUOTED

Gaels head coach Pat Sheahan forecasts his squad’s tilt with Western.

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to attend the tournament. Queen’s recent success and the opportunity to play other top-tier teams convinced them to play, he said.

“When you factor in that we were going to be there, I think that was enough to get those teams to commit to coming,” Holmberg said.

When he contacted Laurier, Holmberg used the allure of other successful programs to get the Golden Hawks interested.

“As soon as I told them that St. FX and Montreal were on board,

they quickly agreed,” he said.

“Things fell in place pretty easily.”

Several other university teams that Holmberg contacted were interested, but couldn’t attend the tournament due to budget concerns or scheduling conflicts.

Budget constraints are part of the reason the Gaels decided to host the competition, as limited finances means traveling to face high quality competition isn’t something the team can easily do.

Queen’s had been thinking about hosting a tournament for several years before finally doing so this season.

Queen’s went 1-1 against Laurier last season, winning 4-3 in overtime during their first meeting.

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For Holmberg, the tournament offers benefits that aren’t there when playing single games during the pre-season, especially with the addition of a trophy to the mix.

“Once you throw that added element of competition into it, the teams will raise their level of play that much more,” he said.

The tournament comes at an opportune time for Queen’s. The exhibition season offers the chance for returnees to shake off the rust and for new players to learn the JOURNAL FILE PHOTO Montreal, St. FX and Queen’s all qualified for CIS nationals Gaels’ style.

This year’s pre-season is in March 2013. The Carabins won the national championship. especially important, as the team Despite the defeats, Holmberg Invitational tournament to become has 11 players making their CIS debuts. Introducing rookies to was impressed with the team’s a recurring event on the Gaels’ university hockey is part of the improvement in the two games, schedule, with the potential for reason Holmberg schedules the adding that winning in the other teams to join.

“We hope those teams go back pre-season isn’t as important. opponents he does.

“Ultimately, the games that to their respective conferences and “We try our best to line up exhibition games that are against matter are the ones that happen when they’re talking to coaches teams we know will challenge us,” in February and March,” he said. from other teams say ‘that Queen’s he said. “I want to introduce [new “If we’re successful in reaching tournament was pretty good,’” players] to a high calibre of CIS our potential [then], no one will Holmberg said. “When we try to play as soon as possible so there’s care what the score was back run it next year, if it’s not the same teams, at least other teams have no surprises in the regular season.” in September.”

Holmberg wants the Queen’s heard good things about it.”

Holmberg said he looks for at least five challenging games during the pre-season. To reach that number this year, Queen’s took on Concordia and McGill last weekend, losing both games.

WEEKEND WRAP-UP Football: Queen’s 36, Ottawa 21

Women’s rugby: Queen’s 36, Trent 5

Men’s soccer: Home loss and win

Bad weather in the nation’s capital didn’t stop Queen’s from remaining undefeated this season.

Battling heavy rain that limited their aerial attack, the Gaels leaned on their defence and running backs as they downed the Ottawa Gee-Gees 36-21 on Saturday.

Queen’s now sits at 4-0, joining the Western Mustangs and the Guelph Gryphons as the OUA’s only teams with perfect records.

Gaels running back Jesse Andrews received the majority of the first-half carries against Ottawa, accumulating 92 yards and two touchdowns before yielding to the speedier Ryan Granberg in the second half.

Not to be outdone, Granberg rushed for a score on his first offensive series and helped the Gaels with 72 rushing yards of his own.

“I thought that Jesse’s yards were hard-earned yards that came in the first half that helped us set the tone and be physical,” said Gaels head coach Pat Sheahan. “It’s always good to be able to bring in a quality ball-carrier in halfway through the third quarter when the defence is getting tired.”

Quarterback Billy McPhee struggled to connect with his receivers early in the game, missing a few open throws and watching receivers slip on the wet turf. He recovered well after halftime, completing several big-gain plays, including an 85-yard catch-and-run touchdown to third-year wideout Aaron Gazendam.

“We went into the game hoping that the weather was not going to be a deterrent to the way we play football,” Sheahan said.

“Unfortunately, we allowed it to get the better of us at times.”

A second-half scoring explosion drove women’s rugby to victory on Friday.

Queen’s topped the upset-minded Trent Excalibur 36-5 on the road, improving their record to an unblemished 3-0.

For the first time this season, the Gaels didn’t hold a halftime lead, with the two teams even at 5-5 after 40 minutes of play. The stalemate continued until the last 17 minutes of the game, when the Gaels exploded for 31 unanswered points, including two tries from second-year winger Caitie Ryan.

“The last 20 minutes were quite good in that we did exactly what we wanted to do, but we waited 60 minutes to get started,” said Gaels head coach Beth Barz.

“In terms of our methodology, how we got the five points was not very good,” she said.

The Gaels got on the board first when second-year centre Miranda Seifert broke through Trent’s defence to give Queen’s a 5-0 advantage after 34 minutes of play.

The Excalibur responded right before halftime with a try of their own. By tightening up defensively, Trent didn’t allow Queen’s to score for another 23 minutes after the intermission.

Queen’s finally retook the lead late in the second half by scoring five tries within a 15-minute span.

Fourth-year forward Kayla Roote and rookies Maddie Monaghan and Karley Heyman all added tries to go alongside Ryan’s pair, while Bronwyn Corrigan and Emily Martin combined to kick three converts.

Men’s soccer’s fortunes mirrored the weather this weekend at West Campus.

Playing in a downpour on Saturday, Queen’s was unable to get any momentum going, falling 2-1 to the Ryerson Rams.

The squad recovered quickly, though, defeating the visiting Toronto Varsity Blues 3-1 on Sunday in more favourable conditions.

Head coach Chris Gencarelli said the team didn’t make many adjustments between games.

“We played more of a 90-minute game,” Gencarelli said after the Toronto game. “[Against Ryerson], we played a great second half, but today we played 60 or 70 minutes really well.”

The Gaels’ struggles in the first half against Ryerson cost them, as the Rams took an early advantage by netting a goal in the sixth minute from midfielder Alexander Braletic.

Though Queen’s defender David Tom tied things up later in the first half, the Gaels still trailed at the half, as Ryerson midfielder Martin Dabrowski put one past keeper Dylan Maxwell in the 32nd minute.

Despite an increase in urgency and pressure, the Gaels were unable to tie the game in the second half.

The Gaels dictated tempo much better in Sunday’s clash against Toronto, a major reason for the team’s victory.

“We showed we wanted it more today,” Gencarelli said. “We were much more physical. We weren’t letting the opposition impose their style of play on us.”

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No. 3 Queen’s @ No. 2 Western: The Fight for First

Sterling defence has Gaels in the running for Ontario title

J osh B urton Staff Writer It’s said defence wins championships, but a little offensive consistency doesn’t hurt either.

Halfway into the OUA regular season, one thing is clear about the Queen’s Gaels — they have a game-changing defence that can carry the team to victory should the offence falter. A prime example is Queen’s 31-24 victory over the McMaster Marauders on Sept. 2, a game that featured two pick-six touchdowns from the defence.

The Gaels’ defensive backs are masters of high-impact plays. The defence is currently tied for first in the OUA in touchdowns allowed and interceptions, while a miniscule 6.44 yards allowed per pass speaks volumes to other teams’ respect for their secondary.

Although the Gaels sit tied

for second in the OUA at 4-0, it remains to be seen when their offence will reach its potential. A lack of consistent offensive pressure has allowed opponents to stick around late into games that should have long been over.

Come playoffs, letting a team hang around can mean an early end to the season.

Head coach Pat Sheahan has stressed that the only piece missing from his team is offensive consistency, which is an easier fix than lack of talent.

Boasting one of the deepest receiving corps in the country, including deep threat Giovanni Aprile, the dependable Justin Chapdelaine and towering Scott Macdonell, quarterback Billy McPhee has endless options to target.

McPhee’s deep ball is second to none, and he has the accuracy to make short-to-medium yardage throws as well. His only real knock has been a tendency to throw far too many interceptions, a problem he’s mostly solved this year,

tossing just two picks to his seven touchdown passes.

The offence’s bread and butter has been long, explosive plays, which have occurred in every game and don’t appear to be going anywhere. The Gaels downed the pesky Windsor Lancers 49-34 on Sept. 7 with touchdowns of passes of 52, 40 and 35 yards.

Moving forward, however, Sheahan wants them to focus on long, sustained drives that will improve time of possession and keep his defence well-rested.

The long-bomb plays must become the Gaels’ icing on the cake, not their go-to method of scoring points.

To stop opposing defences from teeing off on the Gaels’ skilled passing attack, a lot of pressure has been put on Queen’s multi-pronged rushing attack.

Fifth-year running back Ryan Granberg was somewhat stuck in the mud until last Saturday’s victory over Ottawa, coming in halfway through the game and demoralizing the Gee-Gees with non-stop positive gains.

The Gaels’ standout back in 2013 has been third-year Jesse Andrews, a power runner who

OUA Football Standings 1.Western [5-0] T2. Guelph [4-0] T2. Queen’s [4-0] 4. Windsor [3-2] 5. York [2-2] T6. McMaster [2-3] T6. Ottawa [2-3] 8. Waterloo [1-3] T9. Laurier [1-4] Queen’s leads the OUA with 24 takeaways, and sits tied for first with 10 interceptions.

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T9. Toronto [1-4] 11. Carleton [0-4]

The Gaels defeated Western 18-11 when they met in Kingston last September.

gains consistent and hard-fought yardage on every carry.

Queen’s most difficult test in their quest for perfection will come tomorrow in London against their archrival, the Western Mustangs.

Marking Western’s 100th Homecoming, the Mustangs are looking for revenge after Queen’s defence shut them down in an 18-11 victory at Richardson Stadium last season.

This is a different Mustangs team. Second-year quarterback Will Finch has taken the OUA by storm, passing for an impressive 1884 yards and 15 touchdowns in just five games.

Laurier held Western to “only” 45 points last weekend, their lowest total of the season, but the Gaels defence poses a new threat. With first place in the OUA on the line, look to see a low-scoring, physical contest that’ll likely be decided by one or two plays.

Fireworks always fly when gold plays purple, and expect this matchup to be no different.

If Queen’s can overcome the Mustangs, there will be little standing between them and home-field advantage, all the way to the Yates Cup.

Quoted Pat Sheahan on...

CIS Top 10 Football Rankings 1.Laval Rouge et Or 2. Western Mustangs 3. Queen’s Gaels 4. Montreal Carabins 5. Calgary Dinos 6. Guelph Gryphons 7. Saskatchewan Huskies 8. Bishop’s Gaiters 9. McMaster Marauders 10. Manitoba Bisons

THREE DOWNS TOP PROSPECTS Between Queen’s and Western, the four top OUA prospects for the 2014 CFL draft will be taking part in the game. Western linebacker Beau Landry was the sixth-ranked prospect, while the Gaels’ Andrew Lue, Sam Sabourin and Derek Wiggan were all named to the CFL Scouting Bureau’s top 15 list.

HIGH HIsTORY

western’s attack

Western and Queen’s currently sit second and third in the CIS top 10 rankings. Before now, the highest the two teams have been ranked before meeting was in 2008, when the Gaels and Mustangs ranked fourth and second, respectively.

Queen’s prevailed 43-16 in that contest.

“They’ve got a tremendous offence. It’s highly productive, and seems to be almost scoring at will. They’ve got lots of weapons — it’s a big challenge for our defence.”

the need to score “If at the end of this game, the only thing we’re talking about is the Queen’s defence, then it probably wasn’t a successful afternoon.”

YATES IMPLICATIONS With the Gaels, Mustangs and Guelph Gryphons tied atop the OUA standings, this game will have a major impact on Queen’s playoff chances. Since Guelph and Western don’t play each other this season, the Gaels must win this game if they want a chance to host the Yates Cup.

hitting the road “It’s their 100th Homecoming — they’ve brought in extra seats ...

Those environments are fun to play in. It should be a great college football atmosphere.”

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Queen’s defeated Western 43-39 to win the 2009 Yates Cup in Kingston.

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the Gaels varsity team.

“I think the novice program is really good for introducing the sport. Taking it to varsity comes down to the person,” Rendall said. “The novice program just introduces [rowing] and allows you to gauge whether you want to take it further.”

Rendall is an anomaly among his current teammates, becoming a rare varsity veteran to emerge from the TID program. Most of the men’s varsity team was recruited directly out of high school, and while 36 beginners join the club each year, Rendall said not many last beyond their initial season.

Still, developmental rowing programs have gained prominence at schools around the country. With the TID boats set to race at Trent and Brock in October, they’ll face the same opposing colours as their varsity counterparts.

“Every race that the TIDs will be in this fall, they’re racing the other school’s TID program,” Rendall said. “Every school pretty much needs it if they want to develop new varsity athletes.”

This year, of any, demonstrates the value of developmental rowing at Queen’s. Three female rowers moved to varsity in 2013 after their novice seasons — including Robyn Finley, a rugby player that converted to rowing at Queen’s.

Finley said the Gaels’ TID program is modelled after a Rowing Canada initiative, which targets athletes in other sports with a suitable build and athleticism to make the switch.

While physical skills are essential to progressing through the ranks, the success of Queen’s novice program is predicated on sheer dedication.

“It comes down to commitment of every single athlete in the boat to be there,” Finley

said. “Everybody’s learning everything at the exact same rate — no one comes into it with any experience.

“Feeling like you’re learning these skills really quickly, with a bunch of people who are literally in the same boat as you, is really cool.”

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ON DECK CIRCLE FOOTBALL

MEN’S SOCCER

Saturday, Sept. 28, 1 p.m.: Gaels (4-0) @ Western Mustangs (5-0).

Saturday, Sept. 28, 3:15 p.m.: Gaels (3-2-2) vs. Trent Excalibur (0-6-1).

MEN’S RUGBY

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Saturday, Sept. 28, 7 p.m.: Gaels (3-0) @ Western Mustangs (3-0).

Saturday, Sept. 28, 1 p.m.: Gaels (4-1-3) vs. Trent Excalibur (0-9-0).

WOMEN’S RUGBY

ULTIMATE

Saturday Sept. 28, 1 p.m.: Gaels (3-0) vs. Toronto Varsity Blues (0-3).

Sept. 28-29, 8 a.m.: Gaels @ Canadian Eastern University Ultimate Championships (Woodbine Park).

ACROSS

1. SPRITE 4. “CHAMPAGNE MUSIC” MAN 8. PLEADS 12. BALL-BEARING PROP 13. VICINITY 14. ONE 15. GRIPE 17. PRIMA DONNA 18. TROUBLES 19. MILK DISPENSER? 20. CASH 22. WHIP 24. MET MELODY 25. BUDDY 29. SCALE NOTES 30. PRAISE 31. ALWAYS, IN VERSE 32. BACH OR BRAHMS 34. EXPERTS 35. BOUNDS 36. GLORIFY 37. STREAM 40. SURROUNDED BY 41. WHEELS OF FORTUNE? 42. INTACT 46. DUEL TOOL 47. HELP A HOOD 48. PROMPTLY 49. SAY IT ISN’T SO 50. WEE 51. PIROUETTE PIVOT

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1. LIST-ENDING ABBR. 2. WRITER BUSCAGLIA 3. FRIEDAN’S CAUSE 4. BEAVER’S BROTHER 5. HISTORIC TIMES 6. MAINLANDER’S MEMENTO 7. NEB. NEIGHBOR 8. THE ENLIGHTENED ONE 9. OKLAHOMA CITY 10. BE PHILANTHROPIC 11. LUMINARY 16. “NOT GUILTY,” E.G.

19. SNAIL MAIL ORG. 20. COHN OR CHAGALL 21. SANDWICH TREAT 22. RICH VEINS 23. CUPID’S SPECIALTY 25. POINT 26. SELF-INDULGENT 27. SPOOL 28. FORMERLY, FORMERLY 30. ECCENTRIC ONE 33. “NUTS!” 34. BOTANICAL ANGLE 36. BARREN 37. EVIDENCED A WOUND 38. MATURE 39. PORTENT 40. PRAYER ENDING 42. GARFIELD, E.G. 43. JAPANESE SASH 44. OVERLY 45. RAM’S MATE

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postscript Athletics

Up in the air The Kingston Aeros Trampoline Club takes gymnastics to another level B y K atie G randin Postscript Editor

as an adult, you almost have to regress to a childhood state and just have fun with it,” Cockburn said.

As I climbed up onto the I’m told most competitive trampolinists aspire to be like their trampoline and Cockburn coached Olympian idols. After just an hour me through my first moves, I could feel my stomach lurch with of the basics, so do I. It was hard to contain my excitement through every jump. excitement when I arrived at the The regulation trampolines proved Kingston Aeros Trampoline Club, to be exponentially bouncier than located uptown at the Kingston any backyard trampoline.

“There’s kind of ... some Gospel Temple along Princess St., to see the competitive team misconceptions about the sport flipping and jumping high into the because people hear the word trampoline and they think ceiling rafters.

The relatively new sport has backyard trampoline; they think gained popularity since it became scary, dangerous,” Cockburn an Olympic event in 2000, and said. “There’s obviously risks with increased with Canada’s success at any sport.”

Although my many fumbles the games.

“The sport’s been around have landed me with bruises and forever, I guess this club started rug burn scrapes on my hands, in 1973 in the basement of knees and elbows, I’m not Queen’s,” Melinda Cockburn, the deterred from picking myself back Aeros head recreational coach, up, propelled by the elation the said. “Trampoline in Kingston jumping’s given me.

While she’s coaching me on started then, [but] the sport had been around another 20 years the basics, Cockburn occasionally calls out to the competitive team before that.”

Team Canada’s coach, David practicing behind me. She explains The Kingston Aeros competitve team spends up to 12 hours a week practicing.

Ross, ArtSci ’73, brought that they usually coach the athletes a “seat drop,” landing in a seated just you’re jumping, you’re having trampoline to Queen’s and the by joking with them.

“They push each other in a position, a “front drop” which felt fun, you don’t notice it. But you Kingston community when he was good way ... it’s very supportive in like a belly flop, and a “back drop” spend half an hour on a trampoline a physics student at the University.

He coached trampolinist Rosie terms of athlete interaction,” she landing on my back — while all and it’s about the equivalent of running ten miles, so it’s really, MacLennan, the only Canadian said. “As for disappointment retuning to a standing position.

By the end of an hour spent on really good cardio.” athlete to bring home a gold from with athletes ... they set goals Huffman said that the sport for themselves that are a little bit the trampoline, I’ve learned how the 2012 London games.

Cockburn said that too high, but we help them to nearly consistently perform and is 75 per cent mental and only that.

The mental land “swivel hips,” a “seat drop” 25 per cent physical once an MacLennan’s gold medal inspired with so many young athletes that the well-being of our athletes is with a twist in the air to land seated athlete’s established a physical in the opposite direction. I’ve also base — coaching is for primarily very important to us.” club’s enrolment tripled last year. positive reinforcement.

With her encouragement, managed to work up a sweat.

Having only ever jumped on a “As far as I’m concerned if you’re “It’s a great way to burn calories,” backyard trampoline, I was antsy Cockburn teaches me through progressions how to perform a Graeme Huffman, the Aeros not having fun with doing this, to learn some basics of the sport.

“To start trampoline, especially “twist jump” which turns in the air, competitive head coach, said. “It’s then you shouldn’t be doing it,” he said. “It’s not something like hockey where there’s a whole ton of money out there to be made ... There’s something wrong with it if you can’t be 20 feet up in the air having fun.”

The Kingston Aeros Trampoline Club is transferring to a new location near the Kingston Centre at Princess St. and Bath Rd. in a week’s time. Huffman said he hopes this will propel trampoline into a larger role in the community.

“We’ve run a Queen’s trampoline club until about two years ago when we came to this facility and we couldn’t do it, but we’re hoping to start that again next year when we’re in the new gym,” he said.

“Queen’s hasn’t had the opportunity to jump while we’ve been in this facility, but when we move, hopefully Queen’s can jump there and I’d like to be a part of that,” Sean Ho, Sci ’14, said.

Ho has been competing with the Kingston Aeros for nine years, and has kept up his involvement while completing his engineering physics degree. He said he hopes to eventually pursue a career with a circus like Cirque du Soleil.

Photo by Charlotte Gagnier Trampoline is a sport that can accomodate athletes of all ages.

“I didn’t actually like [trampoline]

Photo by Charlotte Gagnier

at first, but Graeme convinced me to stay on and now I’m kind of addicted to it,” Ho said.

Ho said the flexible trampoline schedule allows for him to balance competitive athletics with his studies.

“I can skip it when I need to study.

[During] midterms I’m not here very often,” he said, “but it keeps me in shape, it’s a really good time to get away from everything, so I think it works out very well.”

As the youngest national judge in Canada, Ho said that trampoline has had a large impact on his life, as he’s involved in all aspects of the sport including training, coaching and judging.

Ho said he’s been judging since he was 16 years old, and received his national certification this summer.

“It’s very fulfilling letting coaches and athletes know what they can do to improve and I think ... being a judge helps you develop these athletes even better than just developing your own kids in your club,” he said.

While judging for sports like figure skating and gymnastics can be controversial, Ho said that judging for trampoline is regulated to keep it objective.

“The community’s really tightly knit I can go to pretty much any city in Ontario and have a place to stay which is nice,” he said. “It helps that way, and I’m really glad that I joined trampoline. I don’t see myself ever really not being a part of the community, at least not for the next couple decades.”

For the Journal’s video coverage of the Aeros Trampoline Club, visit www.queensjournal.ca/video.