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Victory for LWT

Team LWT wins by narrow margin in second round of ballot counting

From left: Thompson, Walker and Lively celebrate with supporters after it was announced that they won the AMS executive election.

New medical training at Queen’s M ikayla W ronko Assistant News Editor Queen’s University has committed to an innovative new style of training, education and promotion in its medical school — making it the first Canadian university to adopt the new system.

The Faculty of Medicine is set to transition their resident education programs from a time-based training system to competency-based medical education (CBME).

The CBME system, an initiative by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, promotes medical residents once they’ve demonstrated the required competency level instead of completing a prescribed timeline of education.

Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences Richard Reznick said CBME starts with the principle that students should be trained until they’re properly prepared and confident in their skills.

This contrasts with the usual

J acob R osen News Editor A version of this article was published online on Jan. 28 Team LWT has officially been elected as the new AMS executive for the 2016-17 school year by a close margin.

AMS officials made the announcement at roughly 11:20 p.m. on Wednesday night. Team LWT consists of Tyler Lively for president, David Walker for vice president (operations) and Carolyn Thompson for vice president (university affairs).

“I’m speechless. I don’t know — I honestly don’t know how I feel,” Thompson said after the announcement.

In the first round of the AMS Executive elections, Team LWT received 45.6 per cent (2,996) of

the vote, Team CSG received 45.2 per cent (2,968) of the vote, and none of the above received 9.2 per cent (601) of the vote, according to an AMS press release.

Because neither team got a majority, voting went to a second round where the preferences of the none-of-the-above voters were re-distributed to each team. Voters could give each option — Team CSG, Team LWT or “None of the Above” — a ranking between one and three to indicate their preference. Voters who indicated that “None of the Above” was their first choice had their second choice votes distributed to each of the teams.

After those votes were re-distributed, Team LWT won with 50.3 per cent (3,180) of the vote and Team CSG received 49.7 per cent (3,139). 3.3 per cent (246) of the ballots were

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“We ran the most innovative campaign that has ever been run.

We brought the conversation to students. We talked to athletes, we talked to clubs, we talked to students that just go to Ale and Stages every week,” Lively told a crowd of supporters.

“That’s what this election is about. The mainstream media said we couldn’t do it. The establishment tried to stop us from doing it. But at the end of the day, we did it. Together, we’re going to make the AMS great again!”

“Every single one of you guys believed in us at times when we didn’t believe in ourselves. You made us get through. Thank you!”

Walker said in his speech.

The mood was somber at Team CSG’s party, but the team still gave See CSG on page 11

IN THIS ISSUE FEATURES Female professors paid less at Queen’s

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EDITORIALS Catcalling culture crosses the line

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SPORTS High school teammates; university rivals

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AMS VOTES

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Along with the exhilaration of AMS executive and Rector elections came an unfortunate announcement for Student

Constables and Golden Words staff.

StuCons had sought an increase in their the group was very pleased with the result.

“Although having to campaign again The Queen’s Student Constable (StuCon) mandatory fee from $10.53 to $11.53. service and Golden Words were the Chief Constable Matt Vrbanac, ArtSci was not ideal especially after winning the only two groups on this year’s winter ’15, said that the group is “certainly [nullified referendum] it’s been incredible to see such an outpouring of support from referendum to have their proposed fee disappointed” about the result. increases voted down.

“Student groups are mandated to use our our volunteers and supporters,” she said.

“Now that our referendum campaigning service when they host large-scale events and it would’ve meant a lot to them if it had is finally over, we’re excited to get back to what’s important: inspiring research, passed,” he told The Journal via email.

“However, we are still dedicated education, and action on social and to finding ways in which to make the environmental justice.”

For MUSE, who had lost the referendum Student Constables more accessible to all students so that we can better serve the vote for the past three years, the victory was even sweeter. The magazine had Queen’s community.”

Golden Words co-Editor-in-Chief Sam been struggling financially, Editor-in-Chief Codrington, Sci ’17, said he was equally Abigail Conners said.

“Finally establishing a student fee this disappointed by the results.

“It’s especially frustrating given it was year is so huge for us. We were nervous such a modest amount and much-needed going into it, but we worked really hard, for our newspaper to remain solvent in the and we’re proud of the campaign effort we put forth,” Conners, ArtSci ’16, said. long term,” he said.

She said the win was a weight off of He says during next year’s referendum the humour publication will be better at MUSE’s shoulders, as they’ll now have communicating why they need to raise the financial security to improve funds and the fiscal efficiency of the the quality of the publication and increase circulation without charging students for newspaper’s operations.

“However, we will continue doing our each copy.

Conners added that campaign rules this best to be as funny and entertaining as we can be, and hopefully there will be a different year were beneficial to clubs vying for a fee, as they were allowed to generate awareness result next year.”

Meanwhile, all other fees were approved, both on campus and on social media.

“The future of MUSE looks including OPIRG and MUSE Magazine, which have both had their fees voted down bright — I’m excited to watch the club grow after I graduate. I really feel like we’re in the past.

OPIRG’s Program and Outreach on the upward swing,” she said.

Coordinator Emily Wong, ArtSci ’15, said

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FEATURE GENDER EQUITY

Pay scales tipped against female professors Wage gap remains a problem on Queen’s campus J ane W illsie Editorials Editor

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ender inequity at Queen’s isn’t a thing of the past.

Out of the top hundred earners at Queen’s University in 2014, only 26 were women, according to the Ontario Sunshine List –– a legally-mandated list of employees at publicly-funded organizations who earn over $100,000 a year.

While women are represented almost equally at the rank of adjunct (contracted) professor, only around a third of full professors at Queen’s are women. Female representation also varies widely by faculty. Women are prominent in lower-paid faculties but difficult to find in higher-paid disciplines. “[Gender pay equity] is something that you would think that in 2016 ... it would just go without saying,” said Kathleen Lahey, a Law professor at Queen’s who specializes in law and gender equity.

“But Canada has a gender equality problem. It has been going backwards on gender equality issues for at least 20 years now and there aren’t going to be any quick fixes.”

Gender inequity affects both staff and students at the university.

For students who self-identify as women, seeing other women being passed over for jobs or simply absent from their academic setting can be discouraging.

“When women are not, I would say, a full 50 per cent of a discipline, it’s very, very easy for gender hierarchies to make it more difficult for women to feel confident in the classroom, in their studies, in job interviews, in forming their aspirations, just generally how they feel about themselves,” Lahey said.

Queen’s has struggled in the past to incorporate diversity into its faculty and student body.

According to the Henry Report –– a report on systemic racism at Queen’s presented to the Senate in 2006 –– the academic environment of the University was pervaded by “myths and erroneous assumptions [that] … serve to reproduce the invisible power and privilege of Whiteness and maleness within the cultural values and norms of the system.”

And while the University has made vast strides since the report was released, there’s still a long way to go.

In 2011, the University Senate approved an Academic Plan for Queen’s. The plan, drafted by a Senate Task Force that spent 10 months examining the state of the University, provided recommendations for the university’s future.

The final plan states that, “women are … underrepresented in academic leadership positions.

In addition, women’s median salaries remain below those of their male colleagues.”

Female academics regularly earn less than their male counterparts at Queen’s.

While the plan was finalized in 2011, few of its recommendations have received the attention they deserve, according to one of its authors, Dr. Petra Fachinger.

Fachinger is an English professor and the Equity Representative on the Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA).

Speaking in an email to The Journal, Fachinger wrote that “female faculty members continue to be underrepresented on senior search committees and receive less internal and external recognition for their research.”

“Canada has a gender equity problem.

It has been going backwards on gender equity issues for at least 20 years now and there aren’t going to be quick fixes.”

— Law Professor Kathleen Lahey Achieving gender pay equity is by no means a straightforward endeavor. Discrimination in the workplace can occur in many forms other than simple representation rates.

According to Professor Lahey, the issue of pay equity includes three different aspects of workplace discrimination. The first aspect is the ability to get a job without being discriminated against.

Ensuring equal hiring practices comes down to having an employment equity program in place to eliminate discriminatory criteria and collect data on the representation of designated under-represented groups.

Because Queen’s has more than 3,600 employees and receives nearly $59 million from the government each year, it must abide by the Federal Contractor’s

Program (FCP).

Under the FCP’s mandate, Queen’s must collect and analyze workforce data related to equity.

This responsibility falls to the Equity Office, which then reports to the federal government and the University administration.

However, “there is less direct hard and fast legal regulation of employment and hiring practices at universities under the FCP now then there was before 2012,” Lahey said.

The FCP focuses largely on the representation rates of designated groups, not pay equity data. It’s less effective at monitoring the second and third aspects of pay equity — equal pay for equal work and equal pay for work of equal or comparable value, according to Lahey.

The 2014 Equity Office Annual Report indicates that between 2013 and 2014 the representation of women in academic positions decreased from 40.4 per cent to 38.4 per cent. According to a statement from the Provost Alan Harrison, it’s currently at 37.4 per cent, while the census representation rate is 43.3 per cent.

To address this gap, the Equity Office has developed a new Employment Equity Framework, a report on which will be available in three years time.

Underrepresentation in numbers, however, doesn’t take into account whether women are being promoted and rewarded equally.

Speaking in terms of a general trend, Lahey said universities “have a problem in that the higher you go up in the academic ranks, the more male-concentrated the positions are.”

Hiring or promotion decisions at Queen’s are made by a committee of peers who’ve received equity training and an equity representative. The equity representative on the committee is the only one who knows whether the faculty is underrepresented

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in a certain group, and whether applicants have self-identified as part of an underrepresented group.

Applicants’ self-identification as a member of a designated group then becomes a factor only when deciding between applicants of equal standing.

This ensures that there’s no potential for backlash against a candidate who other employees may suspect has been hired simply to fill an equity quota.

The number of faculties that follow this process has increased over the last decade. Of the faculty hired in 2014, 79 per cent were compliant in completing the equity reporting process for new faculty hires and 91.8 per cent were compliant for continuing appointments, renewal, tenure and promotion.

“The higher you go up the academic ranks, the more male concentrated the positions are.”

— Professor Lahey Nevertheless, there remains a gender imbalance among the top academic positions in the faculty.

48.2 per cent of adjunct professors at Queen’s are women.

However, adjunct professors work on contract, are paid significantly less than professors and make up only 21.2 per cent of overall academic positions at Queen’s.

Meanwhile, 54.2 per cent of academic positions are professors, who are paid more and have greater job security. Only 33.2 per cent of professors at Queen’s are women.

Even if women are well-represented in general across university faculties, they are less likely to occupy higher-paid, more secure positions than their male counterparts.

“I know that there are faculty members who feel very strongly that there may be some real bias when it comes to women and promotions,” Queen’s University Advisor on Equity and Human Rights Irene Bujara said.

“Likely, women are tenured at probably the same rate. The question is: are there are as many women to get tenured? And no, there aren’t,” she said.

Equity-aware hiring processes ensure that discriminatory criteria — for instance whether a woman took longer to reach a certain point in her career due to having a child — isn’t used against applicants. But it only works if there are enough applicants from designated groups put forward as applicants in the first place.

“The fact is that many times, in a particular discipline, the women are not actually available in that discipline at the rate of university professors,” Bujara said.

But while a lack of applicants to choose from explains part of the underrepresentation, it doesn’t explain all of it.

“I’m not sugarcoating it. There are faculties that would need to make a real push to make sure they are represented at the level at which the actual representation for the discipline exists,” Bujara said.

Regardless of disparity in faculty ranks, underrepresentation in different faculties becomes a pay equity concern when women are statistically underrepresented in traditionally higher-paid disciplines.

“Faculty in the humanities are paid far less than faculty in the sciences, for example,” Eleanor Macdonald, a professor of Political Studies at Queen’s, told The Journal in an email.

“This leads to significant gender differences in salary; the humanities have proportionately the highest percentage of women faculty and the sciences have the lowest.”

But equal representation in academics isn’t just about equitable hiring practices, and it’s not just about everyone getting paid the same. Inequity among professors makes inequity among their students as well.

Dr. Karen Dubinsky, a professor of History and Global Development Studies, said a male history professor once told one of her students that he shouldn’t go into history because it was too female dominated. This remark was made at a time when she was one of three female professors in an otherwise male faculty.

She said there’s hope to be found in students noticing the problems of underrepresentation in academia.

“When young white males of this undergrad generation walk into a room that is dominated by young white males with very few people of colour, or very few women, I think they notice that,” she said.

“I think more of them notice that, and think about being a part of the solution.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF IT items to be sold at the Campus Bookstore With the closing of the Campus Computer Store at the end of April, the Campus Bookstore will be expanding their selection of personal IT items.

The University made the announcement in October that they would be closing the store.

The Gazette has now reported that personal IT items will be available at the Campus Bookstore.

Items available will include headphones, phone cases, ink, toner, cables, routers and portable storage, according to the Gazette.

During the 2014-15 school year, the University conducted a review of the Campus Computer Store.

“The review recommended closing the store by April 29, 2016, with retail services being discontinued and core services that support the academic and business requirements of the university transitioning to existing shared services,” the Gazette’s January release stated.

— Jordana Goldman

Feedback sought on drafted sexual assault policy Following the release of the updated draft of Queen’s sexual assault policy, the University is seeking feedback on its planned course of action regarding sexual violence, prevention and response.

An interim sexual assault

response policy was first drafted in January 2015 following a front-page feature story by The Toronto Star released the previous November. The story stated that universities were “failing sex assault victims” and included an account from a former Queen’s student, who said the University’s lack of support after she was assaulted damaged her mental health severely.

Since then, the drafted permanent policy has been in the works. The first draft was released in June 2015 by the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Working Group (SAPRWG).

This year, SAPRWG has been working on a new draft, which was released last week. The latest draft has been modified to align with new provincial legislation and policies announced in October.

The University says their policy addresses the issue of sexual violence on campus and outlines the support offered to survivors along with steps for awareness, education, training and reporting of sexual assault on campus.

By aligning itself with Ontario legislation, the updated draft now uses the same set of criteria as other educational institutions across Ontario.

Queen’s also announced the creation of a Queen’s Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Coordinator position in December.

The position will be another step in a string of smaller improvements that include sexual violence education programming during Orientation Week and updated educational resources.

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Possible electric vehicle charging station on campus When Queen’s alum Fraser Horn, Sci ’89, experienced difficulty charging his electric Tesla Model S in Kingston, he decided to propose a new initiative to add to campus.

For the past two Homecomings, Horn has driven from Toronto to Kingston. However, he’s struggled to get back home as there’s no charging station near Queen’s University.

Horn wrote to Principal Woolf after last Homecoming suggesting that the University install an electric car charger on campus. Woolf directed Horn to the Queen’s Sustainability Office.

Horn, an electrical engineer and stay-at-home father, made an initial $4,000 pledge to install a charger on campus, according to the Gazette.

There are currently electric car charging stations near Hwy. 401 at Division St., one on Princess St. at the Best Western, and another at St. Lawrence College. It can take hours to charge a vehicle, so these locations aren’t practical for someone driving to the university and back each day.

The cost to install two chargers on campus is $30,000, according to the Gazette. Queen’s University is seeking further donations to purchase these chargers.

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medical education model, where residents are trained for a predetermined number of years and complete a mandatory number of hours.

Reznick said when someone finishes medical school in the traditional system they must complete two to seven years of extra training to become a specialist or family physician.

“Those training programs have been fairly traditional for probably 50 or more years, and haven’t changed all that much, certainly in their basic architecture,” he said.

Instead of introducing CBME specialty by specialty in its School of Medicine, Queen’s application for all its 29 specialties to adopt CBME at once was approved by the Royal College in November.

Reznick said the need for CBME arose from “four drivers”: training programs producing professionals that society needs, a shift in trainee work hours, an emphasis on patient safety and rapidly evolving technology.

When he was trained 30 years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for Reznick to spend 100 hours at the hospital each week, he said. Since then, the status quo has changed, but the system has not.

“Now, in every country in the world, there are regulations that limit the number of hours of work.

In Canada it’s roughly 72 hours Reznick says there’s 18 months a week.” of hard work to do to get the Reznick said the method program in gear. of testing medical residents has “Assessment tools have to be built become dependent on infrequent of every programs. Workshops exams, and daily or weekly need to be held for every faculty assessments are no longer a part of member. Curriculum needs to be the medical education culture. looked at in every program.”

In the new system, he says, the In terms of support, Reznick number of assessments will be said the Royal College will be increased “by sixfold”. involved in the implementation of “You could imagine if you’re the CBME model. getting constant checks, both “[The Royal College] will be you — a student — and the teacher, donating some of their expertise are more confident you’re reaching and time, and Queen’s School of those milestones,” he said.

Medicine will be putting some of Reznick added that faculty their resources behind it,” he said. development will be an essential Despite the “bundles of piece in the transition to CBME. work to do”, Reznick said he’s “Our surgeons, cardiologists and confident that the program — the anesthesiologists aren’t necessarily first of its kind in the country born educators, so we need to invest — will make Queen’s a leader in a lot into faculty development.” medical education.

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STREET HARASSMENT

Call out the catcallers

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ot all catcalls, whistling and hollering is punishable by law. But there’s something very wrong when a girl walking alone is afraid for her safety.

The issue of street harassment generall has two sides to it — what’s illegal and what isn’t.

Having someone follow you home, for instance, would justify calling the police, but someone yelling “I want to fuck you” wouldn’t.

The problem is that harassment is so normalized that even when an incident falls within the range of a criminal offence, it often goes unreported.

Many people are unaware of where the line lies between criminal harassment and someone being offensive, which means serious incidents get lumped in with everyday occurrences Instead, the responsibility is on of harassment and are then harassment have occurred.

Whether it’s to the police all of us. When you see it happen, shrugged off.

But none of us should be or Campus Security, we should or are told after the fact, don’t be reporting harassment more, stand by. Be aware and active in shrugging any of this off.

When behaviour is only because until there are numbers, not letting unacceptable behaviour pass unremarked. considered unethical when it’s there isn’t a problem.

The acceptance of street However, we often place too illegal, a lot of unacceptable social much of the onus on victims to harassment is a cultural norm, conduct slips through the cracks.

You’d be hard pressed to find a report or stand up to perpetrators. making it difficult to identify, let female Queen’s student who hasn’t When confronted with a group alone correct.

And it’s naïve to say we can experienced street harassment. of men at night, or a comment But neither Kingston Police nor flung out the window of a moving entirely educate it out of people.

Campus Security have clear records vehicle, there’s only so much one An environment where men feel entitled and even pressured on how many incidents of street woman can do.

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to harass female passersby is the product of deeply-rooted social conceptions of femininity and hypermasculinity that should be questioned by both genders.

But gradually we can build a culture where people are more conscious of the consequences of what they do or say.

A culture where, hopefully, it’s not okay to harass a girl walking down the street.

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Put student apathy in perspective

Apathy about student politics may be concerning, but it isn’t a good the AMS can do for them — but a lack of interest in the student way to judge overall apathy.

The AMS elections didn’t attract government doesn’t indicate an as many readers as I expected. A apathy epidemic.

It’s possible to be a piece on how “strong isn’t the new skinny” received almost 50 times highly-engaged student who as much readership as The Journal’s doesn’t care a whole lot about coverage of the AMS debate, and student politics. I know because our AMS news coverage was on par I’ve met them. They’re involved with articles on the environmental in engineering design teams, benefits of eating less meat and commerce conferences, social advocacy groups, campus poor workplaces in Kingston.

Of course, it’s our mandate to publications — the list goes provide students with information on — but not in the AMS. It’s also possible to like, and even about the elections, regardless of interest. And plenty of students work for, a service like Queen’s were interested.

However, Pub but not particularly care who it’s confirmed for me that runs it. The AMS doesn’t pave student politics are generally of our streets or change local laws. interest to only a core group of It’s an advocacy body that runs politically-minded students — and wonderful services and supports other campus organizations, there’s nothing wrong with that.

Student apathy has been talked but aspiring to high office in the to death, almost to the point of AMS isn’t the pinnacle of the a full-blown neurosis. Combatting student experience.

The AMS is well-suited to apathy is a key part of most campaigns and it’s always a topic students with an interest in at AMS debates. Yet the central governance and public service. mission of the AMS is to advocate It’s a place for students with for students and provide good particular advocacy concerns services, not to make students care and a resource for student clubs.

But it’s not an organization that about it.

Many student readers appear needs the full attention of all to care deeply about workplace students all the time.

Putting such immense pressure standards, the environment and racism, but less so about the AMS. on the AMS to deal with apathy That’s OK. They’re allowed not is unfair. The onus is on the AMS to care and even not to vote, if it to make students aware of its comes to that. I’d encourage them services and the student elections, to vote — because there’s a lot but there’s an equal responsibility

on the shoulders of students to go to the AMS when they want something done.

Students who want our student societies to take a particular stance can always get involved and vote for the teams they support. That’s a privilege we have.

But if some students choose not to participate, that doesn’t mean we’re in a state of crisis. Let’s try to remember that — for the sake of everyone’s blood pressure.

Sebastian is one of The Journal’s Editors in Chief. He’s a fifth-year History major.

JOINT PROGRAMS

Sharing is caring Bridging the divide between university and college brings benefits to both sides.

Earlier this month, Queen’s and St. Lawrence announced a joint degree program in biotechnology that will be offered next September. It will allow students from either school to take courses from the

other, bringing together a highly theoretical university education and a practical, hands-on college program.

This program is largely a win-win scenario for students and the University.

For students, the benefits of receiving theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience makes them both better prepared and more employable. It also provides a fast track into the workforce, while saving money that would have been spent on extra schooling.

By sharing resources, St. Lawrence and Queen’s both lower their costs to offer a highly-specialized program that would otherwise require investing in costly equipment, space and teaching staff.

At the same time, let’s not get too carried away with outsourcing our education.

While there are several programs that could benefit from this model, we should be cautious when offering experimental degrees, as they may not be recognized by employers. This may not be a concern for a niche field like biotechnology, but, in some fields an employer may shy away from an unfamiliar qualification.

Nor should universities allow cost-saving methods to impact the quality of education students are paying for.

That being said, with university budget cuts and increased competition in the job market, the prestige of a university degree combined with employable skills of a college education is the best of both worlds.

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Student Activism: Student protestors storm a Queen’s Senate meeting in 1970.

A thing of the past?

A 1989 pro-choice rally at Queen’s.

Nathan Bateman, ArtSci ’19 During the 60s and 70s, Ontario experienced a boom of student activism. Whether they were advocating for the environment, LGBTQ rights or against racism, many important social changes were incurred as a result of student involvement.

But today, students are more likely to tweet their stance than shout it through a megaphone, which can’t have the same impact.

Canada’s history of activism include rallies in opposition to the Vietnam War in Toronto, the famous anti-nuclear protests held at a nuclear test zone by Greenpeace in 1971, and many smaller protests and rallies that sprung movements that are still

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creating an impact to this very day.

One thing all North American counter-culture movements had in common was a strong student involvement. They were the ones that did the legwork, provided the donations and attended the rallies that would eventually create tangible change.

This is the kind of action we need to see again. Originally made up of students attending the University of Toronto, Pollution Probe quickly blossomed into the foremost environmental non-government organization in Canada.

Through a combination of high profile stunts, involvement in government policy and grassroots volunteerism, Pollution Probe takes much of the credit for making “pollution” and “environmentalism” household words. They coined the now ubiquitous slogan “reduce, reuse, recycle” and inspired the creation of a variety of other activist groups.

Recent student activism in

Canada has, for the most part, been reduced to ineffectual rallies and the occasional furious bout of #activism — where awareness is spread about an important issue using social media. While this isn’t a bad thing and has resulted in some tangible, positive change, #activism has never reached the same heights as more traditional methods. #activism can often reduce the willingness of students to engage in creating tangible change, due to the ease of simply sharing a status. This clears our conscious and creates the illusion of direct help, without the effort required to join, assist or create a movement.

In some cases, such as the ice bucket challenge, spreading of awareness can be extremely helpful.

However, for the most part, it spreads awareness without creating a real impetus for action.

Some examples, such as the Quebec 2012 student protests, did occur in recent times, but they lack the deliberate, concerted

approach of earlier organizations of an organization supported by like Pollution Probe and are students that’s greatly useful in creating research on important rare occurrences.

What, then, is the difference issues, as was seen with their recent between activism then and now? report, “We Believe In A Campus Primarily, it’s a lack of cohesion Free of Sexual Violence.”

However, the student body as and centralization.

Student activism nowadays a whole is characterized by apathy, takes the form of a nebulous where the vast majority engage in network of connected groups little more than #activism, rather and people without central than real student activism.

Students are just as capable leadership to accomplish real objectives — many movements, of creating social change as hashtags and campaigns exist with anyone else. All that’s required the intent of spreading awareness is taking a look at precedents set or educating the masses without by generations that came before striving to create change at and attempting to follow in their footsteps. an institutional level.

By taking initiative, setting The success of organizations in the 1960s stems from their solid goals and creating strong insistence on having an impact leadership, the volume of change on governmental policy. More seen before can be seen again. All people are aware and motivated that has to happen is for a student, than ever before, but there are no any student, to take that first step. solid leaders to guide students to That student could be you. make change.

Queen’s has many organizations Nathan Bateman is a first-year that do a great deal to improve our history major. society. OPIRG Kingston comes to mind as a shining example

LETTER TO THE EDITOR An Open Letter to The Queen’s Journal: We are writing to you as Queen’s students and supporters of the important work of The Queen’s Journal. We are also writing as law students and members of the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS).

We must express our profound disappointment in The Queen’s Journal’s coverage choices.

Whereas The Queen’s Journal provides active, attentive and necessary coverage of undergraduate elections at Queen’s, the elections of graduate and professional students receive far less attention.

This attention deficit can be

seen in The Queen’s Journal graduate and professional student Student Election homepage. AMS, society elections receive no such Rector, ASUS, ResSoc, CompSA, coverage. And, as we noted above, ComSoc, EngSoc and CESA there is a dearth of coverage of the elections are represented; yet SGPS elections. strangely absent is any reference An active Fourth Estate is to the elections of the SGPS or essential to a vibrant democracy. any of the other bodies devoted to Without news coverage, platforms graduate and professional students. and candidates avoid much needed A simple search of The Queen’s scrutiny and electors cannot Journal website also reveals the properly investigate their options. stark difference in coverage. There This is particularly concerning have been some 590 pages devoted given the SGPS represents nearly to AMS elections and only 72 four thousand full-time graduate addressing SGPS elections. students who pay fees to support As law students, we are The Queen’s Journal. fortunate that the elections of the In the winter 2015 elections, Queen’s Law Students’ Society a referendum to increase the fee are covered by Juris Diction, the paid by graduate and professional Queen’s Law newspaper. But this is students for The Queen’s Journal a very recent development. Many failed. This happened while other

levy increases — for Bus-It and Student Advisors — easily passed.

The failure of The Queen’s Journal fee increase is emblematic of the broader disconnect between The Journal and graduate and professional students. The Journal needs to provide coverage which is meaningful and relevant to graduate and professional students. This is particularly true at election time.

If The Journal doesn’t provide this coverage, it fails graduate and professional students, and the broader Queen’s community.

Michael Scott, LAW ’16, is Vice-President Finance of the Law Students’ Society.

Meagan Berlin, LAW ’16, is President

of the Law Students’ Society.

Chris Cochrane, PhD Student ’17, is President of the Society of Graduate and Professional Students.

Lorne Beswick, PhD Candidate ’16, is Vice-President Campaigns and Community Affairs of the Society of Graduate and Professional Students.

Christina Huber, LAW ’16, is Vice-President Finance and Services of the Society of Graduate and Professional Students.

Mark Kellenberger, PhD Candidate ’16, is Vice-President Graduate of the Society of Graduate and Professional Students.

Mark Asfar, LAW ’17, is Vice-President Professional of the Society of Graduate and Professional Students.

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Starting creative conversations with a lasting impact L auren L uchenski Assistant Arts Editor Kingston Arts Council’s latest initiative expands Kingston’s arts scene beyond the city’s borders.

Kingston Arts Council (KAC), a regional arts organization, has developed a new method of engaging the community with its own lively arts scene.

KAC’s newest program, KAC in Conversation, is a series of talks, podcasts and blog posts that highlight Kingston’s diverse and unique artists.

The series strives to encourage members of Kingston’s community and beyond to explore and discuss the art that the city has to offer.

KAC Executive Director Bebhinn Jennings said Kingston’s arts community offers a unique experience of interdisciplinary arts. “[It’s a] vibrant, active community that’s interested in cross-disciplinary exploration,” Jennings said.

“There are actors that are interested in visual arts and crafts people interested in performance.

There’s a real melding of ideas.”

Jenning said arts education plays a role in strengthening and maintaining a strong arts

community like Kingston’s.

While KAC has always filled that role for the community, KAC in Conversation aims to create a lasting influence about the possibilities of community art.

“I felt … that there were some artists in the city doing work that had regional, provincial, national and international impact. I wanted to really highlight the community arts aspect and the work that can be done and leave a lasting impact on our community,” Jennings said.

KAC has ensured that their series is as accessible as possible — in the physical sense and with an online presence.

The first event in the series, KAC in Conversation: Activators, took place on Jan. 28 in a storefront at 209 Wellington St., an accessible ground-floor location.

Jennings said hosting the events downtown also allows artists to recognize and engage with the spaces of Kingston’s downtown.

By creating a podcast series of the artist talks and blog posts, people from outside the Kingston community can learn about arts in the city.

“It’s important that our information can get out past the city boundaries and bring people to

Kingston,” Jennings said.

“The arts and culture play a huge part of the economic strategy of the City so getting the word out about the amazing people here is our job.”

The first event, KAC in Conversation: Activators, featured the book launch of Dreamscape Interviews by Irina Skvortsova.

The book contains a collection of interviews from her time as Cultural Animator with artists and people working in Kingston’s community arts scene. Skvortsova is also featured in KAC in Conversation’s first blog post.

The event welcomed a line-up of featured speakers including visual artist Heather Haynes, whose work is inspired by her travels in Uganda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo; and Jeff Mann, a Kingston-based artist who creates sculptures and paintings from car parts.

KAC in Conversation next event will take place in the fall, but they will upload a podcast of their first event in February and continue to upload blog posts to KAC’s website.

Mark Reinhart of the Kingston Arts Council sets up for the KAC in Conversation event.

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LITERATURE

Compiling community art Artist Irina Skvortsova collects her interactions with local artists in an inspiring book N ina R icciarelli Staff Writer In her two years working for the Kingston Arts Council as the Cultural Animator, Irina Skvortsova has met many artists working in Kingston.

The author’s interactions inspired her to compile the accounts of artists into a book titled Dreamscape Interviews. The book features interviews with 18 local artists along with discussions of their work.

The book, published by the Ontario Arts Council, was developed by Skvortsova as a reflection of her time as the Cultural Animator. Only 23 copies will be printed.

The Journal sat down with Skvortsova to get insights into the Dreamscape Interviews from the author herself, as it’s meant to be more of a gift to the artists featured in the book, Skvortsova said.

What types of artists are these?

Skvortsova: I was working with local artists who wanted to work collaboratively with the community and I was helping them apply for funding through the Ontario Arts Council.

It was through this job that I got to talk to artists and I had

these amazing conversations. I interviewed 17 people. I am the 18th person.

I interviewed people about their community art practice.

Community art is a certain artistic discipline were the artist works with other artists or a group of non-artists to create a collective work. The content of the work is informed by voices of participants.

It’s quite different from work done by artists who work mainly independently in studio.

What kind of impact do you want this book to have on the community?

Skvortsova: So there’s two levels.

On the first level, it’s for the artists to feel that they’ve been listened to and appreciated and their stories recorded and archived.

It’s also to inspire artists to read other artists’ stories and want to collaborate.

One of the questions was “If we had an ideal society what would be your ideal role in that ideal society?” Another question was “Why do you make art?” And another — “What does community art mean to you?”

The book is called Dreamscape Interviews because I wanted the artists to dream with me. I think that we often sacrifice our dreams.

In this project I wanted to talk to artists about … “What is it really that you want?” “What do you dream of doing and making?”

The focus really is on community activation and connection. I hope that the book will be inspiring and encouraging for artists.

On the second level, it’s for the other members of the community.

It could act as an introduction to community arts in Kingston. We are lucky in Kingston to have so many artists. But not everyone works in community arts or knows about community art.

In your journey collecting stories, was there any particular one that stood out?

Dreamscape Interviews was officially released on Jan. 28.

Skvortsova: I want to say no. I spent a good amount of time talking with these artists. Some interviews lasted one-and-a-half hours, some four or five hours. Every person was able to say something really thought -provoking and interesting in their own way.

It was really intellectually stimulating for me. I like listening to people. There’s a multiplicity to the answers to all of these questions that is very rich.

There were some people that spoke almost like poetry.

Irina Skvortsova preparing for her book launch on Jan. 28.

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ARTIST PROFILE

An insight into the eye behind MUSE Editor-in-Chief Abigail Conners shares her best moments working for MUSE Magazine R amna S afeer Arts Editor When I first met Abigail Conners, she greeted me with a wide smile — and I understood why so many students feel comfortable sharing their personal stories in her magazine.

Conners, ArtSci ’16, has been with MUSE, a vibrant lifestyle publication, since her first year at Queen’s. She began as a first-year representative for the magazine.

“A friend suggested the magazine to me. I emailed them right away, got an interview, and got the job,” she said.

Everything associated with MUSE — including articles, models, videos, and editorials in print and online — are done by creative students here at Queen’s.

The magazine is published online twice a year, while a limited number of copies are published in print.

Ever since she joined, the magazine has grown over the years.

In her second year, Conners began investing more and more time into what was then a small-scale passion project.

“I was hired as the online editor and I grew the readership by about four times,” she said. “I worked really hard at it, so my position became online director, just because I was so involved.”

When I sat down with Conners, she offered to grab me a coffee. As soon as we began to talk, I noticed the approachable personality that makes students come forward to share their stories with MUSE. “It’s been constantly inspiring to be with the rest of the team at MUSE,” she said. “They really push me to be more creative and put my heart and soul into the projects we work on.”

It’s no secret that MUSE was a seminal part of Conners’ university experience, who will graduate this year. The fourth-year student said she can’t imagine her years at Queen’s without it.

“By the time I graduate, I will

Under Conners’ direction, MUSE recently released their 11th issue, called “Coming of Age”.

have helped make eight issues,” she said, laughing. “That’s so many!

I always joke that my major is in MUSE.” She’s come to a few realizations through MUSE, she added. In her second year at the magazine, Conners wrote an article about an accident she experienced as a teenager. She had been self-conscious about the experience, so writing the article allowed for a much-needed catharsis.

“It was about an accident that I was in when I was 14 and it left a very severe scar on my leg,” she said. “By telling my story about something that was so personal, an experience that was so unique to me and terrified me to talk about, putting it on MUSE was completely therapeutic.”

The article, titled “Stripped”,

was published eighth issue.

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in

MUSE’s

“By the time I graduate, I will have helped make eight issues ... I always joke that my major is in MUSE.” — Abigail Conners, Editor-in-Chief of MUSE “I always felt like I had a secret; like I had something that I needed to hide from the world,” she wrote. “My personal demons were exposed on my own body, for everyone to see and know and judge.”

Conners said she still marvels that she was afraid to talk about the

Abigail Conners has been with MUSE since her first year at Queen’s.

experience and yet had the piece published in 500 copies of MUSE. It was when she realized the power of the publication.

“After that, I felt like I could do anything,” she said. “If I could do the one thing that scared me the most, I could do anything.”

Since then, she said, contributors have felt increasingly comfortable telling more personal stories to MUSE — which is exactly what she hoped to achieve.

Queen’s has several publications, so I asked Conners what set MUSE apart.

“I always tell our editors to not think of us as fitting under any

tight category,” she said. “We’re a voice for the student body, that’s it. And the student body is wide and large and diverse. Our job is to reflect that.”

Conners credited MUSE’s growth in the past few years to students who have contribute and submitted their stories in the hopes of having their voices heard.

“It’s so rewarding to see people submit to the magazine and see their work accepted and realize that it was because of something we did,” she said.

“It’s always amazing to think, ‘I made that happen’.”

Theatre technicians, not theatre rejects It’s time to realize that productions would be nowhere without theatre technicians behind them V ishmayaa J eyamoorthy Copy Editor Technicians are all failed actors — or at least that’s what I keep hearing.

There’s an idea that acting is the be-all and end-all of the film and theatre industry. But while acting can lead to a fulfilling career, I don’t want to be one.

Technicians and designers are just as important as the actors, but it can feel like the world is saying otherwise. I understand why audiences might think that — after all, they only see the actors, not the people backstage — but the stereotype that technicians are technicians only because they couldn’t be actors is a harmful one.

The idea that technicians are

See Techs on page 9 The tech team preparing for Macbeth, year’s School of Drama and Music Winter Major, at the Isabel Bader Centre.

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Techs and actors are equal parts in a collaborative team Continued from page 8

failed actors is also, quite frankly, offensive. There are many people backstage who are extremely talented.

Technicians work incredibly hard because they want to be there, not because they couldn’t get anything better.

That said, I only discovered I didn’t want to be an actor after I went to a couple of auditions, got rejected and moved on.

I thought acting was the easiest way to get involved in the theatre world, and when an injury took me out of the dance world, I was determined to keep performing one way or another. I thought acting was a good fit.

I quickly learned that while I was a good dancer, I definitely wasn’t a good actor. I just didn’t enjoy it.

It wasn’t the same as dance, and I needed the creative learning opportunities that came with being a technician.

Now, I’ve dabbled in all sort of jobs backstage. I’ve stage-managed and choreographed. I’ve worked with lights and written plays, and even tried my hand at being a production manager.

I proudly call myself a theatre technician, even if I’m an inexperienced one. I’ve never been

on stage as an actor, because it’s just not for me. I’m a technician because I want to be.

That being said, technicians can balance their love of the technical stuff with their love of performing if they so choose.

The Drama Department is filled with technicians who are actors and actors who are technicians.

For example, take Kiersten Forkes, ConEd ’16.

She worked her way up from being a lighting operator to a lighting designer with seven shows under her belt, including Macbeth, this year’s School of Drama and Music Winter Major.

I’ve never been on stage as an actor, because it’s just not for me. I’m a technician because I want to be.

No one can deny that she’s a talented and experienced lighting designer. But Forkes is also an actress. Her talents aren’t singular, so she doesn’t see the need for actors and technicians to be two mutually exclusive groups.

“I don’t think it’s necessary to label your loves as one thing,” she said. “Lots of great actresses and actors can do tech, and vice versa.”

She’s not wrong — some of the people I admire most in the Drama Department have long lists of shows they’ve acted in and equally long lists of shows they’ve worked backstage.

They take pride in their roles as an actor and as a technician; for them, the opportunity to work backstage is as fulfilling as acting on stage.

If theatre is anything, it’s collaborative. Actors play a small part in a big machine — they act out lines written by a playwright and act on stages built by carpenters. Audiences see and hear them because lighting and sound technicians make sure they can.

But audiences don’t go to see a show because there’s a cool lighting display — they go because they want to see actors make a story come to life.

Technical work is often “invisible”, so people think that it’s not as necessary, and because it’s not as necessary, no one wants to do it. This is false.

There’s nothing wrong with being an actor and there’s nothing wrong with being a technician.

Either way, you’re contributing to a project that’s bigger than your individual role. So let’s stop pretending that theatre technicians are only there because it was their best option.

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QJ ELECTIO EXECUTIVE

Quotes of the night: “Together, we’re going to make the AMS great again!” — Tyler Lively, president-elect “I’m speechless. I don’t know — I honestly don’t know how I feel.” — Carolyn Thompson, vice president (university affairs)-elect “Every single one of you guys believed in us at times when we didn’t believe in ourselves. You made us get through.” — Dave Walker, vice president (operations)-elect

RECTOR

Cam Yung, ArtSci ’ 16 Queen’s 35th Rector

WINNER

Julia Fulton, ArtSci ’17

Rigers Rukaj, Sci ’17

“Everyone ran a fantastic campaign and worked hard ... I loved every moment and I’m so excited to work for Queen’s”.

Liam Dowling, ConEd ’18

Cam Yung continues the Y(o)ung Rector legacy

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my family — the support was absolutely amazing,” Yung told The Journal.

“Everyone ran a fantastic Cam Yung had difficulty finding campaign and worked hard ... I the right words to address his loved every moment and I’m so crowd of supporters after current excited to work for Queen’s”.

Rector Mike Young announced Current rector Mike Young that he had won the election as made an appearance at the party the 35th Queen’s Rector. to congratulate his successor.

“I want to thank all of you — all “Cam, you make me proud to of you for everything because this be associated with the Rector’s has been amazing,” Yung, ArtSci Office,” Young said. ’16, yelled over the sounds of his “I’m very proud that Cam is my supporters’ laughter and applause. successor. He’s going to uphold “This has been — this has the integrity and values our office been — incredible!” stands for”.

According to an AMS press “Congrats to Rector Elect Cam release, Yung won on the third Yung. You have big shoes to fill ballot with 3,694 votes — 58.4 in @mikeyoungmusic. Looking per cent of the votes — while forward to meeting you,” Principal Julia Fulton, ArtSci ’17, came in Daniel Woolf tweeted from his a close second place with 2,641 account on Wednesday night. votes — 42.6 per cent.

Fulton, who came second “I couldn’t have done this place, anxiously awaited results without the team — my friends, with volunteers and co-workers and

from TAPS. two candidates — Rigers Rukaj, “Either way I’m really proud of Sci ’17 and Liam Dowling, ConEd what we did … we had so much ’18 — have not been released by fun,” Fulton said before the results the AMS and SGPS. were announced.

“I have total confidence At roughly 10:50 p.m., Fulton in the winner. Everyone on retreated into her room with her the slate, amazing people. I’ll campaign managers. Minutes later, make myself available, if they AMS officials announced that ever need anything from me, as Yung had been elected as the a resource. I’ll be there for them next Rector. and I’m sure they’ll do a great Fulton returned to her party to job,” Rukaj said after the results deliver a speech to her supporters. were announced.

“Obviously it didn’t go my way “I’m very pleased with the this time and that’s OK,” she results. All of the candidates told them. worked extremely hard and “I ran and lost and that’s brought into light some of the fine because it was awesome. most important issues facing From top: It’s not the worst thing to run students. That’s what elections Rector candidate, Julia Fulton, gives a toast to and lose. I can think of so many are about, bringing attention to results. Fulton placed second. things I want to do next year and students’ concerns,” Dowling told so many things that I’ve learned, The Journal via email.

Current AMS executives celebrate LWT’s electi and so many awesome people per tradition. that I have met,” she told The – With files from Michelle Allan, Journal later.

Nathan Bateman and Current Rector Mike Young helps Rector-elect Election results for the other Mikayla Wronko robe for the first time.

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N WRAP-UP FACULTY SOCIETIES CESA

ASUS

Executive Team GPS

President: Darrean Baga, ArtSci ’17

President: Jacob Gardhouse, ConEd ’17

Vice President: Brian Mackay, ArtSci ’17 Senator (two-year term): Brandon Jamieson, ArtSci ’17

Vice President External: Sherri Patterson, ConEd ’17

WINNERS Current president, Brandon Jamieson (left), and current VP, Andrew Dicapua (right), with ASUS exec-elect (middle).

Vice President Internal: Carma Steenkamp, ConEd ’17

COMPSA

ENGSOC

President: Aniqah Mair, ComSci ’18

President: Taylor Sawadsky, Sci ’17

WINNERS From left: Patterson, Gardhouse and Steenkamp.

Vice President Operations: Tyler Bennett, Sci ’17

Vice President Operations: Vinith Suriyakumar, ComSci ’18

Vice President Student Affairs: Evan Dressel, Sci ’18

WINNERS From left: Mair and Suriyakumar.

Senator: Kevin Corey, Sci ’19

COMSOC

RESSOC

WINNERS From left: Dressel, Sawadsky, Bennett and Corey.

President: Chance Spencer, ArtSci ’17

Results to be released on Friday Morning

Vice President Judicial Affairs: Varman Jeyaseelan, ArtSci ’17 Vice President Residence Affairs: Michelle Chu, ArtSci ’17

WINNERS From left: Jeyaseelan, Spencer and Chu.

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ELECTION NUMBERS CSG thanks Candidate Gender Distribution

26 Men

13 Women Total candidates this year (Rector, AMS and Faculty executives):

her supporters after finding out the election

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Cam Yung put on the Rector’s traditional

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JOURNAL ENDORSED?

2015

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2013

59.7%

2012

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supporters after electoral defeat

a speech to their supporters.

“A disappointment for us all, but we appreciate everyone’s support not just throughout the campaign, but particularly for coming out tonight,” Sarah Anderson told supporters at the CSG party.

“We made the other team address sexual assault; we made the other team address diversity; we made the other team address environmentalism, etc. etc. and the list goes on. So, regardless of outcome, we can be very proud of the campaign that we ran.”

Elections Team report: sanctions and warnings issued during campaigns Chief Returning Officer Rebecca Herweyer, ArtSci ’16, and the Chief Electoral Officer Simone Markus, Sci ’16, told The Journal via email that the Elections Team has issued sanctions or warnings throughout the campaign period.

Herweyer and Markus didn’t specify how many sanctions were issued or who was given sanctions

and warnings.

They did confirm, however, that Commerce Society President Ana Lopez’s involvement with the LWT campaign came with certain restrictions to avoid conflict with elections policy.

According to the Herweyer and Markus, as President of the Commerce Society Lopez was bound by AMS Policy — specifically, Manual 1, Section 4 Part B, subsection 5: R — which states that “individuals who hold AMS positions or any elected leadership position in its member societies, and who are serving as campaign managers, advisors or individuals otherwise closely associated with a team’s campaign … may require an individual to assume either altered responsibilities or take a leave of absence”.

Herweyer and Markus said the issue was communicated to Lopez and she was told that no advantages afforded to her by her position were to be used for campaigning.

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Pro dreams, and a career cut short Ex-teammates Doug Corby and Will Finch head down differing paths after OUA careers

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Corby (left) and Finch pictured at the 2011 Golden Horseshoe Bowl, which they won by a 37-0 score.

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n 2011, Nelson Lords football teammates Doug Corby and Will Finch were the talk of Ontario high school football as the “next big thing”.

The Burlington-based Lords were dubbed the number one team in Canada by CanadaFootballChat.com, and Finch and Corby formed a formidable quarterback-wide receiver partnership.

“It was awesome to be able to catch passes from a guy of that calibre,” Corby said, as Finch entered his final season as one of the top prospects in Canada.

The 2011 Nelson team boasted an undefeated 12-0 record and were champions of the Golden Horseshoe region, culminating their season with a dominant 37-0 victory in the championship game.

“It was one of the best teams I’d ever been a part of,” Corby said. “We hung out with each other 24 hours a day. We had fun working in practice, we had fun working out, we had fun running at the end of practices.”

A transfer from basketball, Corby played just two years of football at Nelson, but it was clear from his speed and raw athleticism that he’d make an impact at the next level.

“After the season, a few guys from our team had a talk as to where we were headed the next year,” Corby said.

While Corby and his teammates would’ve liked to stay together, he said they understood different options made sense for each individual. Finch showed some interest in the Gaels program, but it was another Burlington quarterback — Billy McPhee — who held the starter’s job at Queen’s.

Finch chose Western instead, where he’d slot into the first-string quarterback role midway through his rookie season. And while the Mustangs showed interest in Corby and his Nelson coaches tried to tip his hand to staying with Finch, he had his heart set on heading to Kingston.

Four-and-a-half years later, while Corby and Finch both had exceptional university careers, the two have stepped down ultimately different paths.

Corby, who’s ranked among the top 20 prospects in the 2016 CFL draft, is currently

training for the CFL combine in March.

Finch’s career, on the other hand, will remain very much a what-if scenario in Canadian football lore.

After an injury-plagued four-year career at Western, Finch announced last week his retirement from playing football, largely due to lingering concussion issues that cut short both his 2014 and 2015 campaigns.

“It’s sad to see it happen [to a guy like that],” Corby said.

The recipient of the 2013 and 2015 OUA MVP awards, Finch and his Western offence were a cut above their Ontario peers during much of his career, setting CIS records in total offensive points and touchdowns this past year. Finch also set OUA single-season marks in passing yards and completion percentage his 2013 year.

In offseasons back in Burlington, Finch, Corby and other teammates would often meet up and train together, toss around a football and reminisce about Nelson while talking about their CFL dreams.

In September 2013, the pair met for their first match, both in starting roles for their university teams. Western bested Queen’s 51-30 in the regular season and again in November in the Ontario Yates Cup final by a 51-22 score.

“That was a rough one,” Corby said of the OUA final. He finished with 82 receiving yards and a touchdown on the day. Finch threw for 252 yards and three touchdowns, while also running for 77 yards.

It would end up being the most important game the two would play against each other for the rest of their careers.

At the time of the win, Western was ranked first in the country. It looked like Finch was going to lead Western to their first national title since 1994.

Corby was carving his role amongst a receiving corps that featured Giovanni Aprile, Alex Carroll and Scott Macdonnell — team vets at the time and current CFL players.

In a CFL that hasn’t seen a Canadian starting quarterback in over two decades, some thought Finch would be the one to break through. Finch’s first OUA title appeared to be the beginning of his career, but looking back, it may have been the peak.

It wasn’t a concussion, though, that cost Finch his first legitimate chance at a Vanier

Finch (centre) evades the Gaels in the 2013 Yates Cup.

Cup, but a poor team performance in the 2013 Mitchell Bowl national semi-final. A slight hip injury to Finch, a snow-covered field and poor defending resulted in a 44-3 loss to third-ranked Calgary.

The Mustangs came into the following season ranked third nationally as Ontario’s top-ranked team.

While Western jumped out to a 4-0 start in 2014, everything went wrong for Queen’s. Forfeiting a win over Windsor due to use of an ineligible player and losing the next week to Ottawa, Queen’s was pummelled 43-12 in Finch’s first visit to Richardson Stadium as a starting quarterback in week three of the season.

Two more losses later and Queen’s saw themselves in a 0-5 hole. Three wins to end the season wouldn’t erase the poor start, as Queen’s sat out of the playoffs just a year after finishing second in Ontario.

Corby was a rare bright spot, making the OUA second all-star team for the first time.

And while Western’s first half of the season couldn’t have gone much better, disaster for the Mustangs struck in their fifth game. Finch suffered his first reported concussion at the university level in a 32-29 loss to McMaster. Just two weeks later, he was playing again, and the move appeared rushed for a serious head injury. However, Finch threw three touchdowns and 258 yards, but still lost against Guelph, who finished the season 7-1.

Finch played the final regular season game the following week against Windsor, where he again suffered a concussion that sidelined him for the remainder of the 2014 season. Without Finch at the helm, Western fell to Guelph in the OUA semi-final by a 51-26 score. After the year, Finch announced that he’d end his career if he suffered another concussion, but began the road to recovery.

In May of 2015, the offseason East-West bowl All-Star game saw the former Lords meet up again. Neither knew it would be the last time they’d face off against one another, but Corby picked up MVP honours with 131 receiving yards and two touchdowns for the East. Finch had 97 passing yards for the West.

In 2015, Corby missed three games in the middle of the season due to injury, including the Western matchup in London in week four, where the Mustangs came out

on top.

Despite his injuries, Corby led the OUA in yards per reception with 19.7 and averaged 118 yards a game.

Finch led Western to an 8-0 record, a #2 national rank and another MVP performance in an offence that averaged 62 points a game.

Queen’s finished fourth in the OUA, and fell in the first round of the playoffs.

The Mustangs earned a bye into the OUA semi-final — this would be Finch’s final football game.

Hit by Laurier defender Scott Hutter in the third quarter, Finch was carted off the field with another concussion.

Western went through to the OUA final against Guelph, though the team wasn’t exactly the same dual-threat offence without Finch. The Gryphons won by a 23-17 score, which wasn’t overly surprising with backup Stevenson Bone making his first start of the year.

And that was it. There was no storybook ending for Will Finch. True to his offseason proclamation, Finch retired from the sport he loved this past week.

The two former teammates leave their programs in different places. The Mustangs are a perennial powerhouse looking to adapt to life after Finch. Queen’s, on the other hand, boasts a rather young roster looking to re-emerge as one of Ontario’s top teams, and win their first Ontario title since a victory over Western in 2009.

Currently training in Florida, Corby sets his sights on playing in the CFL this upcoming summer and finishing his degree in the winter semester of 2017. While he does have another year of eligibility left at the university level, he’s hoping to stick wherever he’s drafted.

Gaels Head coach Pat Sheahan praised Corby’s speed and big-play ability. Having put a number of receivers into the CFL in the past, Sheahan believes Corby’s the next in line.

Finch’s involvement in the game isn’t over, either, though it’s in an altered role.

He’s looking to get involved in training and coaching, while graduating this year with a social science degree.

“You can’t bring a guy like that away from football,” Corby said. “He loves the game too much.”

Corby (right) makes a dive for a ball in the 2013 Yates Cup.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Sophomore Graham thrives in increased role Kingston native key cog in program’s resurgence K ate M eagher Opinions Editor When Greg Faulkner left the Queen’s basketball program last year, it looked like there would be a gaping hole where he’d once been. Faulkner was the Gaels’ leading scorer and played well despite the team’s poor performance.

In his absence, others on the team have stepped up to take his place, Tanner Graham among them.

Upping his contributions from last year, when he averaged 7.9 points per game to now 12.8, Graham has established himself as crucial to the team’s 7-3 record.

At 6’7”, Graham might seem like he was born to play basketball. But ask him what sports he played as a child and the list ranges from soccer, to hockey to baseball.

Ultimately, a combination of natural talent

and family swayed him to basketball.

“My mom played when she was growing up and was really good at basketball, so that influenced me.”

Perhaps that family history also impacted Graham’s twin brother, Jesse. He also plays for the Queen’s team, coming off the bench most nights in a forward role.

Having a family member on the roster has helped ease the transition to university athletics.

“We’ve played together since we were little,” Graham said. “All throughout high school we played together, so it’s someone you’re used to playing with. It’s nice to have him on the court with you.”

For team leader Sukhpreet Singh, Graham’s transition as a player hasn’t Amber (left) and Alisha Sealey have a combined 47 points in their gone unnoticed. careers for the Gaels.

“Tanner has been great for us,” Singh said.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Sealing a sibling success Sealey sisters star simultaneously S ean S utherland Staff Writer

Kingston native Tanner Graham (right) has become a key player for the Gaels..

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offensively-minded,” she said. “Now we’ve kind of merged to be fairly similar.”

Raised on a farm in the small town of As Amber Sealey stood at the Queen’s bench Fergus, Ontario — about 25 kilometres after scoring her first career goal last season, north of Guelph — Alisha and Amber her sister Alisha wrapped an arm around her. have been nearly identical in their paths to The gesture was quick, barely perceptible Queen’s. Both spent time playing for the to the 100 or so spectators at the Memorial Kitchener-Waterloo Rangers of the Provincial Centre that evening, but when it comes Women’s Hockey League (PWHL), including to the Sealeys, it’s one of many small a year as teammates.

They also took the same path off-ice moments where you realize how close the sisters — and defenders on the on their way to becoming Gaels. Alisha received the Chernoff Family Award — one women’s hockey team — are.

For Alisha — a fourth-year Gael and of the top academic scholarships at the two years older than her sister — different University — when she entered Queen’s emotions come about when playing with in 2012. Two years later, Amber was also a recipient. her sister.

Academics play a large role in the Sealeys’ “When she scored her first goal, I wanted to cry,” the elder Sealey said. “There’s the lives, as the two engineering students were positives, like the good moments where she named Academic All-Stars by the University scores. I’m more excited than I would be last year. According to Alisha, it’s been a for other members of the team. At the same focus for the two sisters for years.

“We’ve been preparing for this all our time, if she gets hurt or something it really lives,” she said. “I think I can speak for both affects me too. It goes both ways.”

It makes sense that Alisha would have the of us when I say we’re students first, but emotions. She doesn’t hesitate to call Amber obviously there are times where sports come her best friend growing up, adding that they first, when we have to miss classes and stuff.”

One of those times was during the Gaels’ still are today. trip to the 2013 CIS Talk to the pair tournament, one of for 15 minutes and “There’s the positives, like the few experiences it instantly becomes Alisha has in the apparent how close the good moments where they are — and how she scores. I’m more excited uniform without her sister.

Those similar.Both humble than I would be for other games at nationals and quiet, and in members of the team. At the helped sell Amber moments between responding to same time, if she gets hurt or on joining her sister Queen’s. She had questions they something it really affects me at already been pretty look at each other too. It goes both ways.” certain, but as Alisha and laugh. puts it: “[the On ice, it’s the same story.

— Alisha Sealey tournament] helped build our case, for Both sisters are sure.” blessed with keen While Alisha was on the ice, Amber recalls hockey senses and exceptional awareness, relying on their positioning and being in the stands, wearing her older sister’s understanding of the game to make jersey and wanting to join her at Queen’s.

“It was pretty exciting. I mean, I wasn’t plays at both ends of the rink. As two of the taller Gaels, the Sealeys use their playing but still I was like, ‘Wow, Alisha’s at reach advantage to break up plays with nationals. I could maybe do this too in two years,’” she said. “Just kind of made me see stick-checks while defending the rush.

While the two play the same style now, in the future I could be doing this with Alisha, Alisha said that wasn’t the case when they instead of just watching.”

She added that as soon as Alisha went off were in minor hockey.

“Amber started as a forward, actually, and to Kingston, she wanted to head to Queen’s I was a D[efence], so I’ve always thought as well.

Amber said she looked to Alisha as a that I was more defensively-minded and Amber, when she came to D, was more See Sister duo page 14

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Jamie Wright is one of 18 varsity athletes from Kingston.

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VARSITY

What’s in a Gael?

A look at the demographics of varsity athletes

J oseph C attana Assistant Sports Editor

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Roman Christoforou worked on his craft of futbol in Barcelona just miles from Lionel Messi before coming to play for the men’s Many people think of Queen’s students as soccer team. On the men’s rugby team, just a bunch of kids from Toronto.

Christian Futschik is from one of the more But when it comes to the Gaels varsity obscure places for the Gaels, growing up in teams, there’s more diversity than some Dubai, while teammate Alex Colborne began would think, though they do feature a large playing in Bristol, England. number of athletes from Ontario’s capital.

Though many teams are led by veteran With data compiled by The Journal, athletes, Queen’s is dominated by young Toronto comes in as the most common home talent. 121 of the Gaels are in first year, town with 24 of 202 men’s varsity athletes (79 men’s, 42 women’s) making the overall and 8 of 115 for female players. year successful for varsity sports even Perhaps it’s no surprise that Canada’s more spectacular. largest city has the highest recruitment, with Women’s rugby — with 14 of 34 athletes an overwhelming majority of student-athletes in their first year — had their most successful hailing from Ontario. season in team history, coming second at the 72 per cent of Gaels are National Championships.

Meanwhile, eight male recruited in-province, with British athletes returned for a fifth Columbia coming year of play, while nine in second with women did the same.

12 per cent of Men’s soccer the athletes. midfielder Briam A major Jimenez-Lopez makes reason for him the shortest this comes male athlete at just with the 5’6”, while women’s of varsity athletes are funding of rugby hooker Pippi from Ontario McKay is the female sports in these two provinces, counterpart at 5’1”, as Ontario and though she landed a spot British Columbia on the OUA All-Star team annually invest the in her first year.

And while Niki Slikboer’s most amount of money into amateur athletics.

6’3” presence on the women’s Queen’s is also well aware of the volleyball court makes her the tallest talent close to home, as 21 varsity athletes are Queen’s athlete of her gender, she’ll find from the Kingston-Gananoque area. herself overshadowed by a trio of 6’11” With a growing international reputation, male athletes: Will Hoey (volleyball), the Gaels have also branched out and Mike Shoveller (basketball), and Nick recruited athletes from across the globe. Romanchuk (football).

Both Franzi Wihelm and Christiane Vinck from the women’s volleyball team grew up Data compiled from GoGaelsGo.com from the in Germany, while men’s volleyball libero Ivo basketball, football, hockey, rugby, soccer and volleyball teams.

Dramov hails from Bulgaria.

mentor growing up. Whenever she tried something new, her sister was the one she went to for advice and tips.

It also gives her someone to look up to on the ice. Like Alisha in 2012-13, Amber was named to the OUA All-Rookie Team last season, after notching seven points in her first year with the Gaels and making the quick jump to the CIS level.

Like Alisha, she’s also garnered a reputation for disciplined play. In 129 games at Queen’s, the two have combined for just 22 penalty minutes.

“I always feel like I let the team down, if I cause us to play a person short for two minutes,” she said. “I always just try to be aggressive as possible without crossing that line and getting a penalty.”

It’s one of the reasons their coach, Matt Holmberg, brought the pair to Queen’s.

Originally scouting Alisha when she was in grade 12, he said Amber’s play in her first year in the PWHL had put her on the school’s radar as well.

When he first met with the Sealey family about the possibility of Alisha coming to Queen’s, he came away from the conversation impressed by more than just her play.

“We obviously were really liking what we saw on the ice, but at the same [time] really liking what I was learning about her and her character and her make-up off the ice,” Holmberg said. “It wasn’t long after that that we extended a commitment to Alisha and, thankfully, she accepted.”

When it came to Amber, Holmberg said while it was nice to keep the sisters together, the decision was ultimately about bringing in a strong hockey player.

“We brought Amber in because we wanted Amber Sealey to be here,” he said.

“We didn’t need to make a sister connection,

but it’s been great having that.”

Since coming to Queen’s, both have taken on larger roles, including time on the power play and penalty kill. While the sisters have natural chemistry, they’re rarely on the ice at the same time.

But while they aren’t patrolling the blue line together, the two still have on-ice moments where they have understandings that come from being sisters. In his vantage point as their coach, Holmberg gets to see these moments more than most.

“A lot of their little sister moments can be nothing more than a glance or a quick little fist bump or tap on the shin pads,” he said. “While that may not seem out of the ordinary, knowing the two as I do, there’s deeper meaning behind it.”

When Queen’s season wraps up this year, it will also mark the final time Alisha pulls on a Gaels’ sweater. In her four years on the team, she’s developed as both a leader and a player, Holmberg said.

He named her one of the assistant captains this season and said her lead-by-example style on the ice has benefitted the Gaels. He called her one of the “most consistent [defenders] we’ve had for years.”

“In my mind she has been an OUA All-Star for the last three years,” Holmberg said. “Obviously those that vote might think differently or only look at points perhaps, but the impact she’s had on our team on and off the ice for the last four years has been huge.”

He added that Alisha will be doing anything to take home another OUA banner and earn another berth at the national championships before she graduates.

If Alisha Sealey does eventually bookend her Gaels career with appearances in the CIS tournament, she’ll be sharing it with the sister who wore her jersey and cheered her on three years ago — this time as teammates.

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“He is really emerging as quite the player in this league and he is only in his second year. [In] first year he was only a three-point shooter and now he has really added a lot to his game.”

“He can get to the rack … he is great defensively, he can guard a whole bunch of different positions. He is really putting the ball in the hole for us and we really need that.

We need a bunch of scorers. For him to step up like that for us, it’s huge for the team.”

When it comes to his personal development, Graham claims to dislike setting goals for himself, but a look at his performance confirms that he has no trouble addressing his weaknesses.

“One of my goals was to improve my rebounding because we talked about it over the break and I was averaging less than five rebounds. So, definitely five is a bare minimum of what I want to be averaging.”

At an average of 7.5 per game, Graham

now stands at ninth in the OUA for rebounds. He is also second overall for blocks, with 16.

Despite the team’s best start in recent history, Graham insists they can do better.

“We are winning games, but I think we could win by more,” he said. “All our games are so close. I just want to break out of that.”

To make that possible, the team has focused on foundational skills in practice.

“Our game against York, that was a three-point game,” Graham said of Queen’s win this past weekend by a 62-59 score. “We feel it should have been a lot less close. We just turned the ball over too much.”

With only three losses this year — two to nationally-ranked teams — the team has plenty to celebrate.

“We think we can go really far this year,” Graham said. “Our goal is to make Final Four in the OUA ... If you make the top four you have a very good chance of going to nationals, so that’s our goal.”

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LIFESTYLE CYBERSPACE

Check yourself before you wreck yourself A guide to a strategic social media game

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he initial vision of the Internet was to build a community of anonymity: a place where you could reinvent yourself. For the most part, this vision collapsed with the advent of social media.

As people became fixated on constructing profile pages on Myspace and Facebook, visibility became the new law of the Internet.

Whether this visibility is narcissistic or empowering isn’t quite the topic of this article. With such a fixation on visibility, we post streams of intimate details about

our lives that are visible to more ever, many questions arise. Should than just our family and friends. we censor ourselves? And is there Today, employers, university anything in cyberspace that we administration, selection should be worried about? committees, authorities and To media scholar Donna strangers can look up your drunken Boyd, social media is a nights and shenanigans. “mediated public” which has In fact, Daniel Trottier, in his four characteristics: persistence, research on privacy and Facebook, searchability, replicability and documented an invasive and an invisible audience. These under-the-table use of Facebook characteristics will help us explore profiles. University administration self-censorship online. in an unnamed university in Eastern Ontario were conducting Persistence surveillance on students to gather information on misdeeds and Everything you post will persist frosh parties. for a very long time. Yes, even With more online users than your stupid Facebook and Twitter

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Searchability Not only do the things you post persist over time, but they can be conjured up by a simple Google search. Remember that angsty teenage LiveJournal? Yes, it’s probably still there and anyone can find it.

Replicability After an embarrassing personal tidbit is found through a search engine it can be copied countless times and taken out of its original context. Something you said in a heated Twitter debate can be removed from its fiery context and make you look bad. nude for a brown girl like me.

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But often, on an ordinary school day, I find myself searching for the perfect nude lip to play-up my casual outfit.

Sadly, in a world where items marketed as “nude” are actually made for white people, it takes some desperate digging through racks of lipsticks to find the right

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Although it seems darker on the Maybelline website, it’s two or three shades darker than my tan, olive skin, with a really flattering pink undertone.This is the only lipstick I’ve ever finished completely, because its moisturizing soft finish makes it just that easy to throw on as an everyday lipstick. As an added bonus, it retails at just $8. Clearly, there’s no going wrong with this one.

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Invisible Audience Anything you posted between just a second ago and a decade ago has the potential to be seen by countless strangers. Much of the content we post is publicly available — particularly if you use #hashtags, which allows a larger community of users to have access to your life stories.

The Internet is a mediated public. It’s not a private bedroom or a diary. Nor is it a dystopic Big Brother trying to spoil your life chances. But it does require a different way of socializing.

You need to be cognizant of its characteristics or you’ll run the risk of embarrassment or a difficult time finding employment.

In the end, social media is here to stay — we just need to learn to live with it.

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If a bold red lip is the right match for the first date, this colour is the one for round two.

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A healthier alternative to store-bought protein bars.

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Homemade protein bars K iera L iblik Staff Writer New year, new you. You’ve figured out how to swipe your student card at the ARC and you’re braving the treadmill line. You might even consider opening the petrifying doors to the lifting zone.

But while you might be working off that winter weight, your muscles need an adequate protein supply to recover from your new routine.

Instead of buying a high-calorie, chemical and sugar-filled protein bar, consider making your own.

If you’re like me, you wake up with just enough time to get to class and don’t have time to put together a healthy breakfast. Then, you get hungry 10 minutes into your first lecture. The great thing about these recipes is that they double as an energy-packed snack to get you through the morning.

food processor They’re filling, rich and extremely tasty. Feel free to add 2. Stir in chocolate chips dried fruit, chocolate chips and nut 3. Roll into 2 centimetre balls 4. Refrigerate for 30 minutes butters for additional protein.

And, if you don’t have a food *Can be refrigerated for one month processor at home, feel free to Cinnamon Drizzle Protein Bar use a blender or magic bullet as an alternative.

Ingredients • 1 cup sunflower seeds Chocolate Raspberry Brownie • 1 cup pitted dates Protein Balls • ½ cup protein powder (vanilla-flavoured powder works Ingredients well for this recipe) • 1 cup raspberries • ½ cup oats • ½ cup cocoa powder • 1 tablespoon milk (I like to use • ½ cup protein powder coconut or almond) (chocolate-flavoured powder • ½ teaspoon of cinnamon works well) • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions • ¼ cup dark chocolate chips 1. Combine sunflower seeds and • ½ cup oats dates in a food processor until a sticky ball forms Directions 1. Combine all ingredients 2. Add protein powder, oats and except chocolate chips in a See A healthy on page 18

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S tyna T ao Contributor Instead of grimacing at the bitterness of beer or cringing at the thought of vodka, students looking to take the edge off are turning to wine as their drink of choice.

Not only is wine associated with the idea of sophistication, but there may also be health benefits that come from drinking red wine in moderation, including protection from heart disease.

Browsing the aisles of LCBO or Wine Rack is always a treat and a challenge. There are so many choices to consider: white or red? Canadian or French? Chardonnay, Pinot Noir or Cabernet Sauvignon?

Of course, on a student budget, price is the most pressing issue at hand. To help you on your next wine excursion, below is a list of six wines that won’t break the bank and are still an excellent complement to your wine and cheese night or casual dinner.

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Yellow Tail Chardonnay $10.95/750 mL Our friends Down Under have much more to offer than kangaroos and the Hemsworth brothers, they also happen to produce great wine.

When you want a change from trusty Canadian wine, try this full-bodied Chardonnay from Australia that contains apple and pear flavours mixed with aromas of butterscotch and vanilla. Basically, your favourite apple pie in a wine. You can’t go wrong with that.

Girls’ Night Out Rosé VQA $12.95/750 mL

This salmon colour rosé reminds me of strawberry jam in flavour with a dry, sweet This aromatic wine is full of dark fruit finish. As someone who isn’t a usual rosé flavours like cherry and berries, but without drinker, this easy-going fruity wine pairs being too acidic. It’s medium-bodied and well with cupcakes and fruit pies, making smooth so it doesn’t come off too rich and it a great choice for a casual get together, leave you bloated like other red wines might. especially as a dessert wine.

This wine is perfect for a wine and cheese Strut Risqué Rosé night with friends to pair with brie cheese, $12.00/750 mL candied pecans and dried fruit.

Passion of Portugal Red: Alentejo $8.45/750 mL This wine is a clear example of how price isn’t indicative of quality. At $8.45 for a 750 mL bottle, the Passion of Portugal Red wine brings the essence of Portuguese wine straight to your home.

The wine is well-balanced: not too dry and not too acidic. It has strong cherry and plum flavours with a touch of spice notes, which pair wonderfully with desserts like chocolate cake or gingerbread.

Jackson-Triggs Pinot Grigio $17.95/1500 mL This Ontario white wine is light and crisp, which makes it a student favourite. It can be served alongside chicken and pasta for date night or be a go-to alternative to beer for

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When exes stay friends Some couples don’t come out of breakups bitter and spiteful, but find a way to keep a friendly and platonic relationship.

L iam G utman and T iffany T elford Contributors

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Leonard or Ban Righ for once. in our lives. We were a major as many exes are after parting ways. a mutual friend that was able to Don’t get us wrong — the food is source of support to each other; After our break up, there was keep things smooth between us. good there, but a change is always we spent the majority of our time next to no communication for a Considering she shares a house with me and is close nice. Then we ordered Tiffany’s together either watching friends with Tiffany, it Transitioning from being a couple favourite Italian dessert, tiramisu. movies or studying. We to strictly platonic friends can Afterwards, we walked back to developed a strong bond “Time heals all wounds, and you’d be made things a little tricky at first. But she helped be unusual for exes. Thankfully, residence and spent the rest of our that has not died since we surprised how easy it is to each of us see the other we found a way to maintain our night watching a movie and having broke up. become friends with someone who person’s perspective and Tiffany: The break deep conversations. unique friendship post-break up. you already cultivated feelings. In a sense, our Tiffany: While we were up made things rocky Who said exes can’t be friends? a strong friendship with.” friend was a mediator Liam: It all began in first year together we travelled to Israel. I between us for a few without specifically when we were at the Lazy Scholar met his extended family from there months, as everything we — Liam Gutman being labelled as one. on Halloween. I met Tiffany and from Denmark. We also took thought and knew was It wasn’t the most through a friend of hers who small trips to each other’s homes shattered. However, back comfortable of situations, happened to be gay. I was talking to spend time together. Liam lives in our second year at to him for some time. Meanwhile in Guelph while I’m from a small Queen’s we decided to get coffee month as we tried to carry on with but in the end it helped as rekindle our friendship.

Tiffany was hoping I was straight, town called Frankford (it has and talk about what happened and our lives.

Tiffany: Today, Liam and We went about second year on as we both discussed our floral roughly 2,500 people, with one where we wanted to go from there. tops while standing in-line for a set of stop lights). Those are the We decided we could try being our own paths and those paths I maintain a good friendship. four-piece. Lucky for us, she memories that brought us closer, friends, but with a gradual start to rarely crossed. A month later, we Occasionally, we’ll meet for coffee texted and agreed to meet up to at the Common Ground and avoid confusion. and also farther, apart. was right.

Liam: Being apart was speak face-to-face as friends and catch each other up on the Tiffany: I was with a rough time. Tiffany get more closure. It was the first happenings of our lives. It’s two of my friends that broke up with me due time we had spoken since before not easy to move from a heated evening when we met.

“The break up made things rocky to our irreconcilable our break up, as our relationship relationship to a strictly platonic We were celebrating the between us for a few months, as differences. During this came to an end over a text message. one, but we’ve figured out a way end of our midterms everything we thought and knew When something ends in a way to do it. time, I wasn’t myself. with a few social drinks. were shattered.”

Liam: Advice from us would My friends got slightly with little true communication, I was very tipsy and frustrated with me over there are lots of loose ends hanging be to give yourself plenty of time trying to act “normal” while waiting in line for — Tiffany Telford the break up, but they in the air left unsettled. Speaking before seeing your ex again. Once had my back nonetheless. was a way to reintroduce each words are spoken in the heat of the classic four piece They encouraged me to other as friends and say goodbye the moment they can’t be taken from Lazy, when Liam, back. It’s important to give yourself When you’re around someone get out of my love funk and back to the past year together. turned around — we locked eyes Tiffany: We continued to keep and the person you’re ending your — and he said hello. I instantly so much, you get thrown into so on the playing field.

Tiffany: Liam is still someone I our distance for another month, relationship with time to grasp the fell for his eyes. We introduced many different scenarios together; ourselves. At first, he thought I was sometimes you’re not ready to consider to be a great friend. We and both met new people. Liam situation at hand.

Tiffany: It’s also important not in Commerce like him, since he handle the outcomes. One incident still keep each other updated about entered a new relationship, while I saw me all the time, but could not that pushed us apart was when our lives, what we’re doing, who spent most of my time experiencing to seek out your ex if you or him place where. That’s how we found we got into a car accident in the we’re seeing and so on. We even being unattached. In the end, we experience mixed feelings. You will country side during a summer trip meet for coffee every so often. We both found new people who made only be causing each other more out we lived in the same building. recognized that just because our us happy, and who we’re now grief that can be easily avoided.

Liam: I wanted to treat Tiffany to Liam’s cottage.

Liam: To all of the guys out Luckily, nothing bad happened relationship didn’t work doesn’t “Facebook official” with. While it to a romantic night out for our very first date. Since we both have a love to us, but it was something that mean we couldn’t still keep in may be an unusual situation for there who can’t see why they for jazz music, I took her to the upset me. Once, we smoothed touch. I still care deeply for him, exes to remain friends, especially would want to befriend someone Olivea’s Tuesday Jazz night. Our things over we realized that some not as my lover, but someone who to our significant others, it’s a who left them, give it some time.

Time heals all wounds, and completely platonic friendship that first date was Nov. 11. We walked parts of our relationship were I cherish and care for. you’d be surprised how easy it is to Liam: Considering how our has grown between us. in and sat down; sharing more moving too quickly.

Liam: During the transition become friends with someone who about ourselves, our hobbies and Liam: We’ve been through relationship came to its end, you other small talk topics. We ordered so much together that it would would think we wouldn’t even be period of not seeing, or barely you’ve already cultivated a strong our food, happy that it wasn’t from feel alien to not have one another on speaking terms with one another speaking to one another, we have friendship with.

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