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Fall Campaign Period Begins Vandals target break Sir John survey A. event divides organizer Team LWT and CSG nominated as AMS Exec candidates

M ikayla W ronko Assistant News Editor

V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor

On Thursday, the AMS executive released the results of the fall reading week break survey to members of AMS Assembly.

Commissioner of Academic Affairs Tyler Lively, ArtSci ’16, told the assembly that the AMS found that the results were evenly split between those in favour of the reading week and those opposed.

The fall reading week presented in the survey would consist of a two-day break attached to a weekend. The tentative timing for a fall break is during Week 9, the week of Remembrance Day (Nov. 11).

This would place Move-In Day and the beginning of Orientation Week on the Saturday before Labour Day and the start of classes

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IN THIS ISSUE FEATURES Integrating Arts and Science studies

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EDITORIALS John A. doesn’t belong on a pedestal or a noose

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OPINIONS Your diet can help the environment

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ARTS Crowdfunding a way to escape record labels

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From top: Team LWT and Team CSG were ratified last night.

M ikayla W ronko Assistant News Editor AMS assembly ratified five Rector candidates and two AMS executive teams on Thursday night: Team CSG headed by Colin Zarzour and Team LWT headed by Tyler Lively.

Team CSG is made up of Colin Zarzour for president, Sarah Anderson for vice president (operations) and Gregory Radisic for vice president (university affairs). Team LWT, meanwhile, is made up of Tyler Lively for president, Dave Walker for vice president (operations) and Carolyn Thompson for vice president (university affairs).

Campaigning begins today and the voting period starts on Jan. 26 and lasts until Jan. 27.

The assembly, which took place at 6:30 p.m. in Macdonald Hall, lasted for over four hours.

During the assembly, student representatives also discussed the results of the fall reading week survey conducted by the AMS and a proposed restructuring of the Commission of Internal Affairs.

A motion was passed in the fourth hour to extend assembly another half hour. Around this

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time, the two executive teams came winter referendum ballet to the front of the room to answer (see a list of the approved “strictly personal questions”: questions at queensjournal.

If you had to pick two animals ca). Questions from and combine them to represent the nullified fall you identity, what would they referendum — which be? If you had to pick one of had already been the following, what would you ratified — will also be pick and why? (The options were included on the winter Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake or referendum ballet.

Justin Trudeau.)

Assembly also Motions to ratify five Rector approved a $1 candidates were struck down by increase for Queen’s members of Assembly, because Student Constable there’s no requirement in AMS (QSC) that Kyle policy to ratify the Rector Beaudry, VP candidates. The AMS doesn’t of Operations, have exclusive jurisdiction over had proposed. the election, as it’s shared with Beaudry said the Society of Graduate and QSC hadn’t had Professional Students. Instead, the a fee increase SGPS and AMS elections teams since 2011 and ratified the Rector candidates. needs one The following five candidates, in to combat alphabetical order, are running for training costs the position of University Rector and higher in the 2016 election: Zac Baum, wage rates CompSci ’17; Liam Dowling, to attract ConEd ’18; Julia Fulton, ArtSci s t u d e n t ’17; Rigers Rukaj, Sci ’17; and hires.

Cam Yung, ArtSci ’16.

Members of AMS Assembly unanimously passed all motions approving questions regarding student fees appearing on the

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“I’m calmer now that I’m chain smoking,” Arthur Milnes said, puffing on a small section of a cigarette.

Mere hours earlier on Monday, Milnes — who had organized a birthday tribute to Sir John A. Macdonald — was targeted in an act of vandalism alongside Kingston MP Mark Gerretsen.

Both Gerretsen and Milnes’ cars were doused in red paint, while Milnes’ tires had been slashed and police found a burned Canadian flag underneath the vehicle.

The tribute to the first prime minister, which went ahead as planned later in the day, was protested by the Indigenous activism group Idle No More. The group burned an effigy of Macdonald in protest of celebrating the figure.

The group, which hasn’t been linked to the events, denounced the acts of vandalism in a comment to The Journal.

The group “object[s] to all forms of violence as an ethic,” Idle No More media representative Natasha Stirrett told The Journal via Facebook Messenger. The group protested the tribute with the intention of raising awareness of MacDonald’s contribution to Indigenous colonization in Canada.

Milnes — a journalist, speechwriter and historian — says the vandalism was an unpleasant early morning surprise.

He had woken up early, he said, when he noticed an unread message from Gerretsen he had received during the night.

In the message, Gerretsen told Milnes that an unknown person had dumped red paint over his car while it was parked in front of his family’s home.

As the minutes passed, Milnes began to wonder how a vandal found Gerretsen’s address, and considered his own, unlisted address. He realized he may be next.

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Queen’s professor awarded $4 million green energy grant NSERC funding meant to aid research team in developing green technology J osh M alm Staff Writer

Jerkiewicz said the grant will help his team develop the next generation of A renewable energy research nickel-based materials. project headed by Queen’s aa“This grant facilitates researcher Gregory Jerkiewicz has collaboration. This grant gives received a $4-million Discovery us money to hire new graduate Frontiers Project grant to develop students. I have brilliant ideas, clean energy technology. but we need graduate students to Jerkiewicz leads the conduct research,” he said.

Engineered Nickel Catalysts for The grant will enable further Electrochemical Energy Research research into the development of (Ni electro team), which will be the nanostructured nickel materials, first Queen’s-based research team which are chemical structures to receive the grant. The grant, measurable on a nanoscale (a provided by the Natural Sciences nanometer is one-billionth of and Engineering Research Council a meter). of Canada (NSERC), is given to The main objective of the one project every two years. team’s research is to break water The award granted to into hydrogen and oxygen, Jerkiewicz’s team is the third which is then used in fuel cells to such award awarded to a generate electricity.

Canadian university.

While hydrogen is an ideal “We are making the first steps source of fuel, its cost is significantly into a new era … the beginning higher than other forms of energy, of the hydrogen economy,” according to Jerkiewicz. His Jerkiewicz said. research aims to produce tools The project will involve that make hydrogen production 14 researchers, including and alkaline fuel cheaper than they Jerkiewicz, from seven Canadian are currently. universities, nine foreign academic The fuel doesn’t generate CO2 collaborators from seven foreign because energy is generated from academic institutions and renewable resources like water, industrial partners in Canada and Jerkiewicz said — water is broken other nations. down into hydrogen and oxygen

before it generates electricity in an alkaline fuel cell. When those elements are chemically recombined to generate electricity, the after-product is pure H2O. “Where does it go? Exactly where we took it from in the first place,” he said.

Jerkiewicz’s vision is to eventually move away from greenhouse gases as sources of electricity. The emitting of greenhouse gases — such as carbon dioxide — contributes to the warming of the earth through their effects on the planet’s atmosphere.

“This is not carbon, this is not oil, this is not natural gas. This is hydrogen. And when we combust hydrogen electrochemically in a fuel cell, we electrochemically recombine hydrogen and oxygen into water and generate electricity, plus actual heat at the same time.”

Jerkiewicz added that it’s important to maintain a historical perspective when discussing issues like the appropriate response to climate change.

He believes converting to renewable, environmentallyfriendly energy sources will be a long process, and current research into green energy is merely a first step in moving away

from our past of non-renewable resource consumption.

“At one point, the cavemen stopped being cavemen.

Throughout civilization there was the Stone Age, the copper age, the steel age, and the 20th century can be thought of as the carbon

age, in the sense that we’re using carbon-containing fuels for making goods.”

“We want to get into the era of hydrogen economy. We want to take from nature what we need and we want to return to nature what we take from it.”

Gregory Jerkiewicz (left) took Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science (right) on a tour of his lab which was just rewarded a $4-million grant.

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The Art of Science Professors, students and alumni discuss Queen’s lack of cross-disciplinary requirements Nursing students are often sent to the Agnes to gain a new perspective.

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he world of art instills creativity. The world of science — methods. Combining the two provides an opportunity for ingenuity. However, at Queen’s, the combination is rare.

Queen’s is among only a handful of Ontario universities that don’t require undergraduate students to take a mandatory cross-disciplinary credit. The absence of a required course persists, despite a recommendation made in favour of such a requirement nearly 16 years ago.

However, while taking a course outside of a student’s primary discipline remains a choice, both students and professors have built interdisciplinary options into their university experience.

Why doesn’t Queen’s have a mandatory breadth credit?

“We are one of very few universities that maintain this stance,” Assistant Dean (Studies) for Arts and Science Sue Blake told The Journal in an email.

According to Queen’s administration, the institution’s position against a mandatory “breadth requirement” gives students more leniency and choice in their course selection.

In 2000, the Faculty of Arts and Science conducted a curriculum review and made a series of recommendations to benefit the academics of Queen’s students.

One of these recommendations proposed a mandatory distributional credit system, where all courses would be categorized as either humanities, social sciences or natural/physical sciences. The recommendation would require students to take one or more courses from each of the disciplines before graduating.

“In looking at the recommendation, the Faculty reviewed thousands of student transcripts,” Blake wrote. The review found that most Arts and Science students were already taking courses outside of their primary discipline, without being mandated to do so.

She added that the Faculty had many interdisciplinary courses that would be difficult to categorize and which already “meet the spirit of the recommendation.”

Based on the data they acquired, the Faculty encouraged students to use the flexibility of course selection,

starting with the university’s major/ students become frustrated when minor system. This system allows they’re unsure how to technically students to mix their studies in implement their idea. arts and sciences without restrictive Conversely, he said, bureaucratic hurdles, according science-based students were to Blake. too accustomed to prescriptive Despite the benefits of fewer formulas and memorization, requirements, some professors appearing to lack practice in believe students are choosing to stay outside-the-box thinking and within limiting faculty boundaries conceptual invention. during their studies — and it’s damaging to “I find that appalling, damning their academic growth.

to different streams of thought.

“We think we might be interested in global development, or lower intestinal sub-glandular biochemistry, or about learning what exactly a ‘mol’ of something is in chemistry,” he wrote.

“But, we simply don’t know.”

He added that individuals will be indoctrinated into a certain way of thinking, no matter what discipline they are and enrolled in. Stepping outside your own world infantilizing ... If we keep them Combining arts and gives the necessary twist to in their little bubble or cocoon, I science breeds invention your perspective. think that’s detrimental.”

At the very least, he The goal of postsaid, it’s important to be secondary education able to engage in a variety — Dr. Roel Vertegaal, Professor of of conversations. shouldn’t be memorization Human-Computer Interaction of the past, but rather an “You [shouldn’t be] original creation — or so that person whose life says Dr. Roel Vertegaal, revolves [around] polymer Professor of Human-Computer “Engineers, if you give them extraction, which is a buzz killer at Interaction and the Director of a nail, they’re always going to parties,” he said. the Human Media Lab (HML) at hammer it in, because that’s what You should also have an Queen’s. they’re trained to do. This is the opinion of Foucault’s “potentially Vertegaal says such a pursuit is whole cookie cutter teaching androcentric views” of feminism, impossible without combining art mentality,” he said. he said — “but again, it’s and science, and his work reflects “If you don’t want a bridge your money.” that. Along with his commitment to collapse, fine. But if you want at the HML, Vertegaal teaches the something completely different, A healthy balance: nursing and Computing and the Creative Arts you need some open mindedness.” the Arts at Queen’s (COCA) program, which integrates computer science with elements An alumnus’ The School of Nursing may of drama, music, multimedia and cross-disciplinary decisions project an image of sterile lab visual art. coats and medical precision, Arts and science are critical Some students, like but at Queen’s nursing students influences on each other, but the Zachery Wells, ArtSci ’14, have can be found in an unexpected system in place at Queen’s allows adopted Vertegaal’s open-minded place — the Agnes Etherington students to avoid uncomfortable mentality by choice. Wells said this Art Centre. or unfamiliar material, he said. In mentality has been integral to his Both the Director of Nursing, doing so, he said the university is development at Queen’s, Dr. Jennifer Medves, and Assistant creating what he calls a dangerous but he’s still wary of Professor Dr. Rosemary Wilson “handholding” atmosphere, where mandatory requirements. use the Agnes Etherington Art students opt for the safety of “I have never been an advocate Centre as a learning tool for their isolated disciplines. for mandatory cross-disciplinary graduate nursing programs.

“I find that appalling, damning course requirements,” alumnus Medves says she often sends and infantilizing,” he said. “If we Wells told The Journal via nursing students with a science keep them in their little bubble or Facebook Messenger. It’s heavy background to the art cocoon, I think that’s detrimental.” important that students are given gallery for a simple For Vertegaal, the combination freedom of choice, especially of artistic and scientific mindsets “is considering the massive expense what invention is all about”. of a university degree, he said. “[Leonardo] da Vinci realized He believes that the that if he wanted to draw an arm decision to cross disciplines correctly, he needed to study is an intelligent choice, anatomy, so he needed to do but shouldn’t be forced cadavers. Really, what he was doing upon students by was 3D graphics, 3D projections, an administration. trying to make it as realistic When he attended as possible.”

Queen’s, Wells used He added that a lack of the major-minor cross-disciplinary education often system to cross presents hurdles for COCA disciplines, completing students, who enter courses with a major in biology and a an understanding of one approach. minor in gender studies.

“In terms of the arts students, In first year, he found he was they often have more radical ideas unaware of the myriad of options about what they want to do,” he available, and may have limited said. However, he said he’s seen himself without proper exposure

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purpose: to spend time just observing.

“They’re usually very busy.

So, when they’re asking people questions, they’re needing answers.

Just even learning to sit and observe is actually quite a different skill that you can learn.”

The gallery is an excellent training ground for participant observation skills, Medves said.

“They don’t have any context about why the pictures are hanging there, because we sent them as a ‘tabula rasa’ ... without any context.”

Medves says this teaches students to use senses other than critical thinking skills and scientific logic, which they’ve been conditioned to use every day.

She believes nursing is both an art and a science, although the art perspective is often ignored.

Nursing is subjective because individuals respond uniquely to their healthcare options, she said.

“You can’t put a science model on everything,” she said, as a patient’s disease or disability can provoke unexpected reactions that cannot be taught in a lab.

Dr. Wilson, meanwhile, said it’s particularly difficult for Masters students in nursing programs to break from the scientific mold of learning.

“We’re asking them to be more abstract, and really reach out to the edges of the human experience, and it’s hard for them sometimes.”

Challenging students with interdisciplinarity forces them to consider alternate perspectives, and creates a more compassionate and human approach when they interact with patients, she added.

“It gave an idea of the lens: of how you observe something.

If you’re looking at it from left or from right, from far away or up close, the context of something changes.”

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JDUC revitalization to break ground on Monday $1.2-million fund may cover fourth project, AMS says V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor

various construction companies to the summer months can be bid on the job. The companies’ used as a buffer if there’s any kind proposals were then reviewed by of delay.

The long-awaited $1.2-million Nirali Patel, the SLC Managing “The last thing we’d want is JDUC revitalization project is Director, to choose a company to start anywhere near a scenario set to begin construction this for the project with cost-efficiency that would leave September upcoming Monday. in mind. exposed to construction in this Last year, the AMS surveyed Although the original building,” Beaudry said. students on which project designs construction date was scheduled So far, Beaudry says the project were the most appealing. Three for Jan. 11, so far no physical is coming in “under budget,” project designs were chosen — a work has been done to the which is “a good and bad thing.” skylight in the upper ceilidh, a JDUC. However construction He says although there’s money restoration of Wallace Hall and workers have been on-site since left over for a potential fourth an elevated walkway in the Jan. 11 planning logistics, with project, they’re not yet sure upper ceilidh. physical construction set to begin how much.

Picking up from where last Jan. 18.

“We just received that news, year’s AMS executive left off, Patel said the three projects like really, really recently,” he said.

Vice President (Operations) Kyle will be done simultaneously. “There’s a couple things built in Beaudry said the current team They’re projected to be completed there before we just go ‘okay, we has focused on moving forward by the end of June. They won’t have more money, we’re going to with construction. obstruct the flow of students try to do more with that’.”

During the summer the through the building.

Before moving forward with executive put together a Request Beaudry added that this early a possible fourth project, any For Proposal (RFP), which allows start date was intentional, because potential unforeseen costs have to

be calculated, and the AMS would have to seek the same amount of student input that the AMS sought for the original project choices last year.

“If you pick [a new project] a month down the road, you might realize that you have a 50-100 thousand dollar issue you have to fix in one of the original three, which is the last thing you want.” “[That’s why we’re] moving a little bit slower on that, in order to be absolutely certain that we’re spending the money responsibly,” Beaudry said.

The $1.2 million comes from student fees that were meant to go towards funding a new student centre for the three-phase Queen’s Centre project. In 2011, when it was clear that phases two and three of the Queen’s Centre weren’t

going to be completed, the AMS cancelled the $141 fee.

At that time, the AMS entered a contractual obligation with Queen’s to sign away this portion of fees for a revitalization of a student space. The chosen location was the JDUC. The University, who signed original contract with the AMS, has been kept in the loop on the projected timeline for a potential fourth project.

“They’re kind of lockstep with us in what’s going to happen in the next few months,” Beaudry said.

In the interim, a kickoff meeting has been held between all involved parties to discuss the details of construction and parts of the JDUC have been blocked off to prepare for Monday.

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SGPS addresses Queen’s signs a concerns about $10.7-million energy restructuring contract with Honeywell Graduate society council discusses recent issues of accountability

Contract is the next step in the University’s Energy Matters project to reduce carbon footprint

V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor

J ordana G oldman Assistant News Editor

The Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) council passed a motion on Tuesday to look into the society’s hiring practices after students raised concerns about the council’s restructuring of the society’s commissions.

Graduate students raised concerns last week about a vote by council in October to restructure the society’s commissioner positions.

The restructuring eliminated internal re-hires, added another commissioner position and resulted in the removal of two commissioners following a rehiring process that turned their positions over to new candidates.

The SGPS executive intended to improve efficiency and eliminate a “vaguely nepotistic” system where individuals could hold their positions for long terms, according to an email from SGPS Vice President (Professional) Mark Asfar.

However, outgoing commissioners and coordinators said the decision lacked transparency and was made without any formal consultation with SGPS members.

During Tuesday’s meeting, which addressed those concerns, the SGPS council passed a motion to look into hiring policy and bylaws to improve the society’s human resources practices.

Asfar says he addressed concerns about the restructuring in his oral report to council, although his comments weren’t included in his report to council (he said the report was due to SGPS council before students had raised concerns about transparency).

In an email, Asfar wrote that there was a brief discussion in Tuesday’s council concerning the issue, which was handled in a “very respectful” manner.

“All in all, a success,” he wrote.

Jhordan Layne, however, who originally contacted The Journal with concerns about the process, said he felt that Asfar’s commentary at the beginning of the meeting was “inflammatory”. “[Asfar] chastised our involvement in the publishing of ‘SGPS transparency called into question’ in The Journal,” Layne wrote in an email to The Journal.

Neither Layne nor Ciara Bracken-Roche, who spoke about their concerns in the original article, “found it necessary to respond to the VPP’s comments at the beginning of the meeting”, Layne added.

Layne believes the council meeting itself “went about as well as it could”, as their main aim was passing the motion.

“Our motion was supported by a considerable council majority, its spirit was defended by the Speaker, and the VPP even spoke in support of the motion.”

Bracken-Roche wrote in an email that she was “rather upset initially”, and that many of Asfar’s statements were “one-sided” and “factually incorrect”. However, Bracken-Roche wrote that neither she nor Layne felt it was appropriate to address Asfar’s comments during council. “[U]ltimately, the motion passed, and our aims for clarity in position responsibilities and hiring processes in the future for Commissioners will (hopefully) be met.”

Ball said. for those specifically identified Changes outlined in the news buildings and project solutions,” release include the following: the Ball said.

On Dec. 16, Queen’s announced a installation of low-flow fixtures The project is currently in its new energy performance contract to reduce water usage, upgraded third phase: the construction and with Honeywell that promises lighting and climate controls to implementation phase. more than 170 energy conservation reduce energy consumption and Honeywell has been on campus, measures to be implemented in 66 heat recovery systems. but Ball expects that another campus buildings.

Ball said it took around two month or two will be needed for Honeywell has guaranteed an years for Queen’s to select a partner. further planning. annual utility savings of $946,000, “We put a public tender out, Since the opening of the which will pay back the $10.7 received bids from a number Sustainability Office in 2008 as million cost of the project in of different companies in the part of Physical Plant Services, 12 years. field that provide these types of various projects and initiatives The initiative is the next step services, and then through a have been implemented to make in the University’s Energy Matters competitive process … we ended campus more sustainable. project, “which aims to reduce the up selecting Honeywell.”

“The big difference here is that university’s carbon footprint and Honeywell began with a we are taking a large crosscut of the generate annual savings in its utility high-level energy audit of the campus and doing it in one go, one bill,” according to a Dec. 16 news entire university campus to effort,” Ball said. release by Queen’s Gazette. produce a general picture of The most recent greenhouse gas According to Aaron Ball, the campus while also assessing inventory of Queen’s was around sustainability manager at Queen’s, individual buildings.

47,000 metric tons of greenhouse the campus as a whole spends After an assessment of the gas emissions, according to Ball. roughly $20 million per year data, the University compiled a “This project is targeting a 2,800 on utilities. list of buildings and projects for annual carbon reduction,” Ball said.

“It’s not a project where the Honeywell to pursue.

When the project is completed, University has to raise its own “[Honeywell] then spent another, Queen’s expects a reduction in the capital or invest its own capital. We goodness, six to eight months university’s emissions by about 26 essentially pay for the upgrades doing a bit more detailed to 27 per cent. out of our own operating budget,” engineering and design work Annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is expected to be 2,800 MTCO2e — the equivalent ANNUAL REDUCTION IN of taking 944 mid-sized cars off GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS of Canadian roads — while the 2800 MTCP2e AS A WHOLE annual reduction in water usage is E Q U I VA L E N T O F TA K I N G SPENDS ROUGHLY equivalent to 84 Queen’s Centre MID-SIZED CARS swimming pools.

OFF THE CANADIAN ROADS PER YEAR “[The project] demonstrates that ON UTILITIES we [Queen’s University] are serious about making progress on climate H O N E Y W E L L H A S G UA R A N T E E D A N ANNUAL REDUCTION IN WATER USAGE ANNUAL UTILITY SAVINGS change and controlling our costs as OF EQUIVALENT well,” Ball said.

QUEEN’S CENTRE TO The construction process SWIMMING is estimated to take about 18 POOLS months from start to finish, with an expected completion date in GRAPHIC BY ASHLEY QUAN September 2017.

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AMS joins alliance for tuition freezes Academic Affairs Commission hold event to raise awareness for provincial-wide “Time Out” Tuition campaign J ordana G oldman Assistant News Editor

and gain support for the initiative on Queen’s campus.

“Being able to afford a university The AMS has joined the education is obviously a big issue in provincial-wide “Time Out” Ontario,” said Daniel McKeown, Tuition campaign to freeze tuition external advocacy coordinator of in Ontario. the Academic Affairs Commission.

The campaign was initiated “Getting this message out to the by the Ontario Undergraduate government is very important and Student Alliance (OUSA), which that’s what we are trying to do represents over 140,000 students here today.” from seven student associations The campaign (#timeoutON) across Ontario. is part of OUSA’s provinceThe Academic Affairs wide campaign to freeze tuition Commission ran a booth in the in 2016-17.

Queen’s Centre on Jan. 13 and 14 The organization is calling on to raise awareness of the campaign students to lobby the provincial

government for a freeze on the annual tuition increase. A fully-funded freeze would mean that students pay the same tuition each year.

“Especially for students that pay their full way through their undergraduate degree, the tuition freeze would give some students a peace of mind just to know that tuition won’t be rising” McKeown, ArtSci ’16, said.

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Ontario tuition rises faster than inflation rate Continued from page 5

Event organizers, Joyce Wai (left) and Daniel McKeown (right), ArtSci ’16.

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much money would you save if a tuition freeze was implemented?

What would you do with that money?

The average tuition increase is between three to five per cent each year, according to an OUSA’s press release. The release stated that tuition in Ontario is rising faster than inflation and government contributions, making it less affordable for students each year.

Deputy Commissioner of Policy of the Academic Affairs Commission Joyce Wai, ArtSci ’16, said the purpose of the campaign is to make waves with the government so they’re aware of the affordability

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Upon their arrival, police this MacDonald stuff, then they’re discovered that a Canadian flag going for me,” he said. had been burned and tossed Opening his front door, underneath Milnes’ car.

Milnes was confronted with a “Think about a burning flag dramatic scene. Crimson paint under a car full of gasoline on my dripped over his car, and the tires driveway. That brought us back of his vehicle had been slashed. an hour later [emotionally] to He woke up his wife, a primary where we started the day,” he said. school choir director. Her choir Milnes says he doesn’t believe group had intended to sing at any members of the First Nations the tribute, but had backed out due community were involved. to safety concerns about the Sir The Idle No More protest was John A. effigy. peaceful and respectful, he said.

“Imagine waking your spouse “Kingston actually showed up, telling them that,” Milnes a really mature, proper way to said. After a brief conversation, handle disagreement at the [Sir the couple — who had calmed John A.] ceremony — to disagree, slightly, he said — called the without being disagreeable, Kingston Police (KP). and to exercise your

constitutional rights.”

He believes that the goal for Idle No More is simply to draw attention to the ways Canada has mistreated its Indigenous population — a cause he said he agrees with.

“The sad part is that now somebody — who is very colonial-like, in that they’re trying

to appropriate Idle No More’s just concerns and objectives — can cause this fear,” he said.

“I don’t care if they’re caught criminally. I just hope they get some help, because if that’s how they approach discussion on complicated issues, then they need help, and they should talk to somebody.”

issues facing students, particularly concerning rising tuition.

Within the span of 20 years, tuition as a source of operating revenue grew from 18 per cent in 1988 to 37 per cent in 2008, according to OUSA’s “Tuition Brief” report.

The report stated that tuition alone made up 45 per cent of universities’ operating budgets in 2014.

“As tuition continues to increase, students are pressured into increasing their working hours and their debt load,” the OUSA report stated.

“While changes have been made to increase OSAP funding, changes to financial air are not keeping up with rising costs.”

The press release stated that quality of education wouldn’t be impacted, as the loss in tuition would be fully subsidized by increased provincial investment in universities.

OUSA asks that for every dollar that students pay, the federal and provincial governments contribute two.

CORRECTIONS SGPS transparency called into question Jan. 9, 2016 Graduate students posted Facebook comments about the restructuring after a regular council meeting in December, not after the special council meeting in October.

Danitte Kozai is a graduate student in education, not computing.

Making magic on the sidelines Tsang’s surname was misspelled in the original article.

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While The Journal was unable to reach Dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Science Susan Mumm and the department heads for Sociology, Global Development Studies, Political Studies, English Language and Literature and Gender Studies for comment, those individuals weren’t contacted directly. Instead, Queen’s Communications — which received the initial request — passed the request to the Faculty of Arts and Science, which was unable to respond by deadline.

This article misspelled the last name of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her name is Mumm, not Munn.

The Journal regrets the errors.

Inaccurate information appeared in the Jan. 8 edition of The Journal.

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Faculties split on break and science voted in favour of the proposal.

The Queen’s Engineering Society on the Thursday after Labour Day. Faculty (EngSoc) took an official stance against the Orientation Week activities would resume proposed fall reading week on Wednesday in on the following Saturday, shortening the a statement released on their Facebook page.

Orientation by a day.

According to their statement, The survey also found that around 82 per representatives of EngSoc council collectively cent of survey respondents replied that they agreed to take a public stance. would rather sacrifice a day of University “The Engineering Society and its members Orientation rather than their Faculty discourage the adoption of any changes to Orientation if they had to choose. the academic schedule that would reduce Lively said respondents who voted the potential number of pre-exam days and/ against the proposal indicated that they or change the current Orientation Week didn’t want the proposal to interfere with schedule,” the statement read.

Orientation Week. Respondents voted “A significant number of Engineering in favour of the proposal, on the other students responded to the survey, indicating hand, cited reasons concerning student that they do not want a Fall Reading mental health.

Break with consequential impact on The results of the survey indicate Orientation Week.” that there’s support for the possibility of EngSoc’s statement identified several a fall reading week, Lively said. During items as top priorities for engineering Thursday’s assembly session, student students when considering a fall break: the society representatives agreed that the AMS preservation of a Faculty Orientation Week, executive should prepare a motion to the pre-exam period, changes to tuition and establish a working group moving forward, student fees, the federal accreditation of which will look into the possibility of the Engineering and Applied Science degree establishing a fall reading week. and the effects of any proposed break on Survey results showed a divided university and student-run services. response from students in different faculties.

The society also stated that they’re Only 15 per cent of engineering student working with the AMS to ensure that both respondents voted in favour of the proposed societies are aligned to advocate on behalf fall reading week, while 63 per cent of arts of students.

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EDITORIALS

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SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD

Vandalism isn’t the solution, but Kingston’s love affair with Travelling (not so) Canada’s founder needs to end

Jordana Goldman

alone

Everyone should travel alone at least once.

I wouldn’t say that I was completely sheltered growing up, but my family definitely raised me to believe that my home was the safest place. Meanwhile, I’d see horrifying headlines above gruesome and disturbing images in newspapers.

Naturally, I began forming a certain view of the world and human nature as corrupt and evil.

Travelling alone defied it all.

I spent a semester of my third year abroad in the Netherlands. I planned to backpack with friends from exchange, but I soon realized that everyone’s plans differed too greatly and would prevent me from going where I wanted. With some hesitation, I ended up jumping between friends and found myself travelling alone at times.

It’s funny how the moment you step away from the safety of your home into a world that pushes your boundaries and comfort zone, you feel the safest.

I was never mugged, attacked or harassed. I may have gotten lost a few times, but I always found my way, usually with the kindness of strangers.

People said, “You were just lucky that nothing bad happened to you.” I think it’s sad that our predispositions about the world and its people have led us to believe the only way to come back unscathed is through “luck.”

These predispositions, and the consequent anxiety to leave your own front door alone, are more dangerous than anything outside.

While acting with caution is always important, living in fear is debilitating.

I saw the goodness in people and learned that more strangers are good and kind than the alternative.

Everywhere I went there were more people, in the same place, at the same moment in time, doing the same thing as me. It was those moments where I thought I was completely alone that I felt the furthest from it.

The number of people who reached out to me along the way surprised and moved me.

The stories behind the people left me inspired. They were the best part, because each story was so unique.

Travelling alone gave me some semblance of hope and faith in humanity, and proved to me that despite the occasional ugliness of human nature, there’s always more beauty if you’re open to looking for it.

Jordana is one of The Journal’s Assistant News Editors. She’s a fourth-year English Major.

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wo wrongs don’t make a right — ignoring the real legacy of Canada’s first Prime Minister doesn’t justify vandalism, but neither is vandalism an excuse to continue to celebrate his birthday.

On Monday, hours before the annual celebration of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birthday, red paint was dumped on MP Mark Gerretsen and event organizer Arthur Milnes’ cars. The latter’s tires were also slashed and a burned Canadian flag was found beneath the car.

Idle No More, an Indigenous activist group, protested the celebration — which took place despite the vandalism — by burning an effigy of Macdonald at the event. During his tenure as Prime Minister, Macdonald commissioned the residential school system.

Apart from being criminal, the vandalism leaves an unfavourable impression. Whatever the vandals’ intentions, their actions did more to threaten the integrity of Idle No More’s protest than further its cause.

Burning a Canadian flag is especially upsetting, as it makes a personal attack on all Canadians, not just Macdonald himself.

The greater concern is that the Kingston community might look at the actions of anonymous vandals and blame Idle No More. We need to be careful that we don’t allow ourselves or others to jump to that conclusion, as there’s no factual basis for it.

When marginalized groups protest, mainstream discourse has a tendency to focus on how they say something, not what they’re saying. It’s a sad truth that without the

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vandalism angle, people probably wouldn’t be talking about the Idle No More protest at all.

But, in light of the earlier vandalism, the group’s burning effigy of a human body took on a more violent tone. Rather than provide a strong image to make a point, it made people scared for their safety, most notably the choir that cancelled its appearance.

Meanwhile, the organizers of the event continued the celebration with a show of bravado.

While the group’s public impression is important to their cause, we should remember that the validity of an oppressed group’s protest isn’t dependent on their good behaviour.

This isn’t an opportunity to equate vandalism with the Idle No More movement, but to instead look at the deeper root causes of why they’re protesting

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Macdonald’s birthday celebration.

There are few words more dreaded than: “We need to talk.”

But we really need to talk about Kingston’s obsession with Sir John A. Macdonald.

Things have changed since the 19th century when Macdonald was Prime Minister. His policies are no longer supportable and by honouring his contribution to Canada we’re continuing to uphold a legacy that’s outlived any semblance of legitimacy.

So why hasn’t Kingston taken Macdonald off his pedestal? The statues, roads and schools named after Macdonald unilaterally tell his story as a founding hero, albeit one with a drinking problem. It makes sense for Kingston in particular to celebrate him because he brings in the crowds.

But we don’t have to look at Macdonald like a founding saint simply because that’s the way it’s always been done.

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Kingston should want to be known for something more than a man whose legacy is inextricably tied to cultural genocide.

No politician who values their career is going to say they don’t care about Aboriginal issues. But it’s easy to say you care, it’s easy to appear at community events, take a photo or shake a hand. The hard part is being willing to let go of tradition when it becomes the right thing to do.

Until we stop parading our colonial history, decolonization will remain something that is talked about everywhere, and acted upon nowhere.

It’s time for Kingston to blow out the birthday candles and stand on the right side of history.

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OPINIONS

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Less meat per day keeps emissions at bay Reducing your meat consumption is the simplest way to improve your environmental impact

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Taken together, the small choices you make every day about your food can have a big environmental impact.

and you can see how much waste is produced. Factory farms now dominate Western livestock and poultry industries, and a single farm can generate as much waste as a city.

To deal with this huge quantity of waste, bovine manure and urine is funneled into massive lagoons sometimes holding as many as 40 million gallons. These cesspools often break, leak or overflow with catastrophic effects, polluting underground water supplies and rivers with nitrogen, phosphorus and nitrates.

Our North American animal farming economy is based on oil because every step in bringing meat to the table demands electricity — from the production of the fertilizer put on the land to grow the animal feed, to pumping the water they need from rivers or wells, to the fuel needed to transport the meat in giant refrigerated ships on the journey to supermarket shelves. According to some studies, as much as one-third of all fossil fuels produced in the United States now go towards animal agriculture.

From greenhouse gas emissions to habitat loss, eating large quantities of meat is unsustainable, but there is hope. Incorporating meat-free meals into your diet is super simple, whether you’re going out to eat or preparing a meal.

I’ve never been to a restaurant that didn’t have at least one thing I could eat — whether it’s

a veggie burger, pasta, a falafel wrap or a salad. Websites like thugkitchen.com are full of awesome and easy recipes to make at home. Even deciding to not eat meat at breakfast, or to only eat meat on weekends could significantly improve your environmental impact.

Climate change is a big, scary problem, but part of the solution lies in the simple, everyday

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down to enjoy our third hamburger of the week is the incredibly hen you’re deciding whether wasteful system of farming that or not to shell out an extra depends on fossil fuels, pollutes dollar to add bacon to your burger, our waterways and air, destroys you’re making a choice that forests and is largely responsible for affects more than just your wallet. climate change.

In 2006, the UN released a You’re deciding whether or not to support a system that systematically report that stated that livestock production generates 18 per cent of destroys our ecosystems.

Now stick with me. I know a the globe’s emissions. That’s more lot of you are turned off right now than all forms of transportation, because you think I’m going to including cars and planes, put come at you with a guilt-trip, but together. Think about that for I’ll do my best to present you with a second.

One of the most problematic some facts about the environmental impacts of food production and factors in meat consumption is that the animals we raise also leave shame out of this.

Overhunting, habitat loss and need food and water. One billion degradation, invasive species, people go hungry every day, but pollution and climate change livestock now consumes the are the five biggest threats to majority of the world’s crops. biodiversity and the health of the According to a 2002 study, nearly world’s ecosystem, according to 30 per cent of the planet’s available the International Union for the ice-free surface is now being used Conservation of Nature. All five by livestock or for growing food threats can be addressed directly for these animals.

Eat a chicken breast or a pork by making a conscious effort to eat chop and you’re effectively also less meat.

2015 saw over 190 countries consuming the water that animal come together to discuss climate needed to live and grow. The change at the Paris Climate same can be said for plant foods, Conference, or COP21. With but while a pound of potatoes all the media attention the event requires 27 litres of water to received, many of us have started produce, a pound of beef needs thinking of how our actions affect around 9,000.

A cow excretes around 40 global warming. If you really want to reduce your impact on kilograms of manure for every the environment, the simplest and kilogram of edible beef it puts on. cheapest thing you can do is to eat Now times that by the thousands of cattle that are typically kept on less meat.

What we don’t see when we sit a single industrial-scale operation Kathleen Houlahan Chayer, ArtSci ’16

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decisions we make around food.

A conscious effort to reduce your meat consumption is one easy way to affect a lot more of the world than what’s on your plate.

Kathleen Houlahan Chayer is a fourth-year Environmental Science major and the Chair of Sustainability for the Society of Conservation Biology, Kingston Chapter.

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ARTS Lead vocalist and guitar player of The Wildnerness, Jonas Lewis-Anthony, whose band chose to crowdfund to raise money for their first album.

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Crowdfunding for creative freedom An increasing number of Indie musicians choose to ask for financial support from their fans S tephanie N ijhuis Photo Editor

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lmost all Indie bands aspire for two things — financial freedom and creative freedom — and independent crowdfunding has made both readily available.

In the current music landscape, many musicians neither want to rely on record companies and producers to fund their albums, nor invest the funds themselves due to the financial risk involved.

Instead, they reach out to their fans and use online fundraising platforms to provide the money they need.

This technique — called crowdfunding — has been picked up by a number of indie artists throughout North America, including Kingston-based band The Wilderness. In 2015, The

Wilderness looked to these newfound platforms to raise money to record their debut album.

“We didn’t want to just wait around for the opportunity to come around,” said Jonas Lewis-Anthony, the lead vocalist and guitar player for The Wilderness. “We had all these songs and the motivation to do it. We could be waiting around forever for a record label to come around and say ‘hey, we want to record an album.’”

Fortunately for them, Kingston’s live music scene has a plethora of potential fans, and the band has built a local fan base through live shows. Now, those fans want a full-length album and they’re willing to send money to make it happen.

Over the last 15 years, multiple websites that provide platforms

CAN-LIT REVIEW

Shakespeare meets sci-fi

Station 11 is a theatrical spin to the post-apocalyptic narrative A nastasiya B oika Features Editor I rarely delve into the realm of science fiction, but Emily St. John-Mandel’s novel Station 11 has given me reason to reconsider.

Mandel’s work is both beautiful and unique — a result of her writing style, the masterful way in which she oscillates between the past and present in her storytelling and the novel’s setting on the author’s home soil, Canada.

The story begins with the outbreak of a disease which kills the majority of the population across the globe. Due to the devastation of the so-called ‘Georgian Flu’, there are no more phones, no Internet, no car or air travel, no electricity — just people reverting to the basics to survive.

The novel follows the story of the Travelling Symphony, which traverses the sparselyset communities that have emerged along the shores of Lake Huron following the outbreak performing Shakespearean plays for its residents.

While the narrative begins with the death of an individual character — a 51-year-old actor whose death precedes the pandemic by mere hours — it transforms into a web of story lines that remain interwoven through the characters’ multifaceted relationships with that first casualty.

Although I like to think of myself as an optimist who doesn’t like to dwell on the apocalypse, Mandel’s suspenseful writing had me completely hooked. She uses characters dwelling in the

for independent fundraising campaigns have emerged. It began with ArtistShare in 2003 and continued to today’s popular sites, such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Gofundme.

The most attractive part of these campaigns for bands is the freedom it affords them. A crowdfunded band can create their album without the pressure of meeting a record company’s expectation. When fans donate money, they’re placing trust in the band and their creative process to produce something strong — they aren’t giving money to become an investor and give themselves a say in the album’s production.

“I have friends in bands with record labels and they say that there are a lot of interference with record labels to change your sound,” Lewis-Anthony said.

“They don’t have the kind of freedom to say these are the songs and this is how we want to play them.”

Despite the creative control given to the band through independent fundraising, they can also choose to work with a

producer. This lets the band capture the sound that they want, while also having a second professional opinion on the matter. However — unlike in record label albums — this choice is at the creative discretion of the band.

Producer or not, giving bands their own creative control has been proved successful for a number of projects. ArtistShare provides a long list of projects from their site that have won Grammys for their work, including Maria Schneider, American composer and big-band-leader who has used ArtistShare for multiple projects.

Three jazz ensembles have also received nominations for this coming year’s award ceremonies, according to the site. But the process also has its limitations — musicians must find ways to balance their artistic work with the process of fundraising and publicizing themselves.

“We were jamming every night and writing every night. Once practice was done we would go home and spam Facebook and Twitter. So it didn’t interfere too

worst-case scenario to elucidate the disparity between survival and living.

The characters’ attempt to recreate a society where nothing can be taken for granted explores the tension between those seeking equality and community, and those looking to gain power at all costs.

Interactions between the familial Travelling Symphony and some of the towns they visit, where people either follow the rules set by a not-so-democratic leader or are banished into the wilderness, show the stark disparity between these interests.

Station 11 is both a credit to the science fiction genre — it won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Station 11, the Canadian science fiction Award — and a show of force for novel with a fantastical twist.

Canadian literature.

Canadian novels tend to gain international success is her novel’s more local than global recognition, ability to make us consider who we but the success of Mandel’s are as people giving us a new and work has extended beyond somewhat jarring, perspective on the world as we know it. national borders.

Having put down Station 11, I believe a major reason for this

much at all,” Lewis-Anthony said.

American singer-songwriter Terre Roche, however, found that balance difficult.

“E-mailing people and checking for contributions quickly became my main job. Songwriting and music practice went onto the backburner,” she wrote in an Op-Ed for The New York Times.

Terre Roche was also less successful in her ventures. She attributes this to the age group and demographic interested in her music.

Aside from these small challenges, crowdfunding has proven successful for many artists.

Would The Wilderness do it again? Probably not, Lewis-Anthony said.

“I don’t want to always be asking people for money … after we release this album, I hope we’re going to have the funds to record another album down the road within a different studio,” he said. “So, this is probably a one time thing, but I would recommend it to anyone.”

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painfully aware that I had just read the final pages and the story was now over, the Travelling Symphony’s motto continued to resonate in my mind — survival is insufficient.

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FILM FESTIVAL

Darkness and grit at this year’s Reelout This year’s film lineup features a new, darker mood

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A still from the film Velociraptor, directed by Chucho E. Quintero, premiering at the Reelout Queer Film Festival.

J osh M alm Staff Writer In roughly two weeks’ time, Kingston’s Reelout Film Festival will premiere its opening feature — the start of a week-long festival that promises to be markedly darker and grittier than previous years.

The festival, which will be held at The Screening Room on Princess St., aims to raise the profile and visibility of the LGBTQ community in Kingston. The festival celebrates and exhibits queer media arts focusing on challenging issues such as sexuality, race, culture, gender and age.

The first screening on Jan. 29 kicks off Kingston’s 17th annual Reelout Queer Film Festival.

Reelout is typically home to many different genres, but the films in this year’s lineup deal with considerably darker subject matter than in past festivals. Even some of the purported comedies have taken on darker, more complex themes.

“Don’t expect multi-coloured, rainbow-tinted queer films this year. The force has awakened Reelout’s dark side,” Reelout Arts Project Inc. executive director Matt Salton wrote in a recent press release for the festival.

The film entries this year explore

“It had its opening premiere reservation life in Northern Ontario, class warfare in South Africa, at TIFF this year and critics have emotional paralysis and lesbian warmly received it,” Salton said. romances between sex workers and “It’s such a great Canadian film that we wanted to give it a great their clients.

Salton said he and the rest of the spot for our opening.”

“It’s one of those stories about Reelout team have embraced this increased focus on darker subject people who we don’t hear enough matter by designating this year’s about, so I think it’s part of our presenting sponsor: job to shine our projector light on festival as “Reelout in the Dark.”

“This year we found out that these stories.” a lot of our submissions were very dark in tone, theme or about characters or situations that needed to be illuminated,” Salton said.

“We thought we would give the festival a theme, so we are marketing it as ‘Reelout in the Dark.’ ” Reelout’s opening gala at the Isabel Bader And it is — the Reelout Film Centre on the evening of Jan. 29 will feature a premiere of Festival’s mission statement homegrown film talent with the is to tell stories that have gone unheard. Reelout incorporated in critical darling Fire Song.

The film, which concerns 2004 as a non-profit organization the lives of youths living on a few years after its start as an reservations in Northern Ontario, OPIRG group conceived and has generated buzz from critics cultivated at Queen’s in the since its release earlier last year. The late 1990s.

“We still have very strong ties film’s director Adam Garnet Jones, and other cast and crewmembers to the Queen’s community,” Salton will be in attendance on said. “Most of our volunteers are opening night.

Queen’s students and many of

the departments within Queen’s sponsor films in the festival throughout the year.”

In contrast with this year’s darker theme, Reelout has included a section of the festival’s itinerary entitled “Salsa Saturday” due to the larger number of Latin entries in the festival this year.

There will be an entire day on Saturday, Jan. 30, dedicated to Spanish language films, culminating in a party at downtown Mexican restaurant La Hacienda.

“We’re pretty excited about that. When you’re feeling down in the dumps and you have snow squalls around you can escape to The Screening Room for the day and bask in cinematic sunshine,” Salton said.

Salton went on to discuss some other highlights he is excited about, including Screening Room parties at the Grad Club and Mansion as well as an impressive lineup of surprise guests.

The directors of the closing gala film, Portrait of a Serial Monogamist, John Mitchell and Christina Zeidler will be coming to the festival.

Salton said former Queen’s

A still from the film Beautiful Something, directed by Joseph Graham, world premiering at the Reelout Queer Film Festival.

student Lauren Hortie, ArtSci ’06, who directed a short film to be screened before the closing gala film, will also make an appearance.

Deciding on which of the 50 plus films to be screened at the festival this year will surely be a difficult task for prospective audiences. Luckily the executive director himself offered some recommendations. Salton says to check out the world premiere of what he considers the cream of this year’s crop, Beautiful Something, which features an actor from an episode of the television series, Fear of the Walking Dead. He also recommends the horror-comedy You’re Killing Me if you desire a “totally gross, but entertaining experience.”

If you’re curious about educating yourself about LGBTQ topics, or you simply enjoy a good flick, the Reelout Queer Film Festival is sure to be a valuable source of entertainment and learning for all.

The festival begins Jan. 29 and ends Feb. 6. Visit Reelout.ca or the Reelout Lending Library at 82 Sydenham St. for more information.

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Getting to know “Rebounding Rob” The Journal sits down with basketball star Robyn Pearson V ishmayaa J eyamoorthy Copy Editor This story originally appeared online on Jan. 12.

Pearson (right) sits first in the OUA in rebounds per game.

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While she’s been a staple on Queen’s basketball court for the past few seasons, people didn’t always believe Robyn Pearson would make it to the university level.

“I never really had high aspirations,” she said. “Everyone told me ‘yeah, you probably aren’t good enough to play in the OUA.’” Pearson’s basketball journey started a little later in the game.

She didn’t choose to focus on the sport until high school, as she loved all of the sports she was playing too much to give any up.

“Knowing that I wasn’t highly sought after makes me want to prove that I should be,” she

said. “[It’s] been pretty cool to see how this journey has unfolded from a scared rookie to a pretty confident veteran.

“I’m happy that I chose the path that I did, I don’t think I would have been happy settling too early or focusing too early.”

Today, Pearson’s high school moniker of “Rebounding Rob” has stuck, as she’s known for her rebounding skills on the court, and is ranked first in the OUA with 11.4 rebounds a game.

“When [head coach Dave Wilson] talks about me, he’s always kind of like, ‘Yup, I picked her up because she rebounds well,’” she said.

And while she may not have initially been planning on being a varsity athlete, Pearson didn’t shy away from setting her sights high for the remainder of the season.

“Ideally, our goal is to get to

nationals,” she said. “We went two years ago … We were a pretty phenomenal group going there and we still have a pretty strong group this year.”

Queen’s currently sits tied for the OUA lead with a 6-1 record.

“I think we’ll make it, but it’s one thing to say it and one thing to do it — that’s what our coach always says.”

But arguably as important as her skill as a rebounder is her ability to lead. Pearson cites her years of experience on the team as the reason.

“Something I’ve definitely learned being a veteran player is that understanding the game better, and being able to share your knowledge, is the probably the easiest way to be a leader on a sports team,” she said. She also says the close-knit athletics See Pearson’s page 15

A push to cut out concussions Allen Champagne key cog of research project to make youth football safer J oseph C attana Assistant Sports Editor Queen’s defensive end Allen Champagne has watched his fair share of friends recover from concussions, so he’s working to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else.

As a part of his research for his master’s degree in neurosciences, Champagne, along with the help of Professors D.J. Cook and Clarisse Mark launched the Concussion Education, Safety and Awareness Program (CESAP).

CESAP is dedicated to concussion awareness, and teaches young football players how to play safely. Champagne’s average day begins at 5:30 a.m., and he’s often in the lab within an hour. He then spreads his time throughout the day looking at brain scans, studying for the MCAT, doing his football workouts.

While many leaders in concussion research haven’t played a snap of football, Champagne offers a different side to field research. For him, a big focus is teaching proper tackling fundamentals and taking helmet-based tackles out of the game all together — as they’re the most direct source for head trauma.

“I understand what it feels like to be on the field and exposed to

[concussions],” Champagne said. “I also understand that when you are injured you also want to go back because football is also kind of a lifestyle — it’s part of you.”

Champagne first combined his love of science with football in a first-year English class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where he was on a full football scholarship.

Students were instructed to write a paper on research being conducted at UNC. After reading multiple articles on concussions, Champagne decided to write on the subject.

To get the best mark as possible, Champagne knew there was only one person to contact — UNC Professor Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz.

“I kept seeing Dr. Guskiewicz pop up on every single paper,” he said. “I wanted to hang out with the best and work with the best.”

From there, Champagne balanced his time at UNC between the gridiron and in Guskiewicz’s lab doing concussion-based research.

Working under Guskiewicz’s supervision, Champagne studied behavioral modification programs and their potential impact on athletes.

By the end of his time at UNC, Champagne became one of the most coveted players for

Champagne transferred to Queen’s last fall after a four-year football career at UNC.

CIS programs as he was looking to pursue a graduate degree in Canada.

It was Queen’s Dr. Mark’s work in the field of concussions that truly swayed him to come to Kingston.

“Dr. Mark brought in major funding opportunities, major grants to the program. She has worked very hard to get stuff going here.

Queen’s seemed like the best fit.”

After talking to Dr. Mark and Dr. Cook, as well as head football coach Pat Sheahan, Champagne found that Queen’s matched his priorities — research first, football second.

One of Champagne’s favourite field studies while at UNC involved going to a local high school to teach young football players about concussions and how to avoid them. Now, a part of CESAP’s work will be running a new and free one-day educational clinic for youth football teams.

“What we are trying to do is make the injury more recognizable so when the guys are in the huddle, they can take more care of each other,” Champagne said.

In the first part of the camp,

CESAP will provide an educational section on concussion symptoms, and how to identify the injury.

Then, athletes will head out to the field where they’ll learn how to properly tackle and work on technique — all without helmets.

On offense, they stress how to properly block, and on defense they work on tackling.

But what makes Champagne’s program different from most is the room it makes for parents to come and learn about concussions.

“I have had a lot of friends go through the process of a concussion, it is hard on the parents to see their kids in that position,” Champagne said. “They don’t really understand what is going on and they don’t understand what the injury is about. We offer to educate the parent on the sport and the injuries.”

While their research has received praise, they’ve heard some backlash.

“People have been telling me that one session would not be enough — well, that’s the idea,” Champagne said. “If I can be in there and teach them drills, then

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they have those sets of tools to repeat them over and over once I’m gone.”

By offering safer techniques, many think that concussion researchers are taking away from the game. For Champagne — someone who has dedicated his life to football — he believes he’s helping develop the sport.

“We are not bad people. People that do concussion research are just passionate about the idea to help,” Champagne said.

“Football is football, it’s a beautiful game and our program doesn’t want to impede the game.

I want to give it to the kids and allow them to play a little safer and make better decisions once they are injured.”

Despite making great strides in the Canadian concussion community, Champagne knows there’s more work to do.

“It keeps me up at night. I wouldn’t want to do anything else,” Champagne said. “There are people doing greater things than I am, so I’m just trying to find my niche in the society and really give it all I can.”

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A tale of two Crouses

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The Crouse family (left-right): Kyla, Mike, Lawson, Kristen and Sara at the 2015 NHL Draft.

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hile Queen’s forward Kyla Crouse’s home rink sits at Kingston’s Memorial Centre, another Crouse sibling is skating just over two kilometres away for the town’s beloved Frontenacs junior team.

Now in her third year with the Gaels, Kyla’s play as a defensive forward for the women’s hockey team has been an integral factor in their success. This year, they’ve won nine of their 13 games, and they’re pushing for their first OUA title since 2013.

Taken 11th overall in the 2015 NHL draft by the Florida Panthers, Kyla’s 18-year-old younger brother Lawson serves as assistant captain for a team with the league’s third best record.

Lawson’s recognition as a member of Canada’s World Junior team over the past two seasons — including the 2015 edition as the team’s youngest player on a gold medal-winning side — brought his name into the forefront as one of the country’s most well-known teenage hockey players.

The NHL draft was undoubtedly a life-changing moment for the Crouses. But it’s perhaps the story of the OHL draft two years earlier that’s the most unique part in the family’s hockey history. With the fifth pick in the OHL draft, Kingston selected Lawson — meaning Lawson and Kyla would compete for different teams in the same city.

The siblings are similar on paper: a hunger for the puck, strong physical play and presence on the penalty kill fits scouting reports for either Crouse sibling. Their solid defensive play as forwards likely has a direct relation to the fact both used to be defenders before switching positions.

Kyla recognizes the different dreams of her and her brother -— while she was always focused on going to the university route, Lawson’s ambitions were to play in the NHL. “I’ve never felt overshadowed by him,” she said.

Kyla’s journey into hockey started like so many other young

Canadians — but like her brother, her career path is one that few will ever experience.

Growing up in the community of Mt. Brydges — near London, On. — the current Gaels forward picked up the game after watching her brother and older sister, Sara, play.

A few months before Lawson was drafted to the OHL, a campus visit with Queen’s women’s hockey coach Matt Holmberg changed Kyla’s university ambitions. Plans of studying for admission tests and fielding offers from American NCAA schools went out the window as Kyla fell in love with the Queen’s community.

“I wanted to commit right then and there,” she said.

Today, she couldn’t be happier with her choice of school.

“If I wasn’t playing hockey, I don’t know what I’d be doing,” she said.

“Obviously, the streams of hockey for men and women are very different,” coach Holmberg wrote in an email. “Kyla has been every bit as successful as her brother in reaching the highest levels within their respective sports.”

Kyla spent her first year of university living in residence, while Lawson spent his grade 11 year as most other OHL rookies do, billeting locally with a host family.

“Even though they were two

years apart, we lost them both at the same time. We were a bit of early empty nesters,” their mother Kristen said of the pair’s departure in 2013, as Sara was also away at school.

“If I wasn’t playing hockey, I don’t know what I’d be doing.”

— Kyla Crouse “I was thinking they’d see each other all the time,” Kristen said.

Conflicting schedules, different social groups and housing situations complicated the idea of this vision. But while the two weren’t necessarily connected at the hip, they kept their closeness.

They’ve never skated on the same ice in any formal fashion, but off-ice workouts at the same gym have been common during past summers at home.

Although it’s their third season together in the same city, the luck and convenience of having two of her three children playing high-level hockey in the same city isn’t lost on Kristen.

“You can see two or three games in the weekend,” she said, adding that she and Mike, Kyla and Lawson’s father, visit Kingston several times a year.

While conflicts still occur — such as games played

Kyla Crouse has picked up six points in 13 games.

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at the same time or in different cities — both Kyla and Lawson make multiple appearances in each other’s arenas throughout the year.

Kyla’s likely to finish her competitive hockey career off with the university game while earning a degree in Physical Education.

She’ll then look for employment in physiotherapy or sport medicine, while Lawson’s projected to make the jump to professional hockey next year, making a new home in

Sunrise, Florida.

And while it’s any parent’s wish to see their child achieve their biggest dreams, there’s one downside for Kristen. Her son will likely play in the world’s best league next year, but it’ll be in a city over 2,000 kilometres away from his sister in Kingston.

“It would make our trips [to go see both their games] a little harder,” Kristen said.

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Wintle (centre) is in his eighth year of fencing at Queen’s.

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A sport with a point Queen’s team in final month of training before Ontario Championship V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor In the eighth year of his fencing career at Queen’s, Captain Jimmy Wintle — weapon in hand — is a force to be reckoned with.

But after competing for nearly a decade, Wintle may be ready for a whole new sort of force.

“I think if [the team] were given lightsabers, we could definitely hold our own,” he said.

He said that while stylistically, fencing is more linear and asymmetrical than a lightsaber duel, the team would be up for the challenge. First, however, they face the test of the OUA provincial championships.

In their final month of practice before vying for the Ontario title, Wintle says the team is gearing up strong. The men’s and women’s competitions book-end the weekends of reading

week, respectively.

While the women’s team is defending a two-year winning streak, the men’s team has fallen short over the past two years after Carleton usurped them from a three-year hold in 2014.

This year, Wintle says they’ve look to win the title back, and with a new team.

“Each year we obviously lose a few people, and we gain some new people,” he said. “This year we’ve been really lucky to gain some fantastic fencers who come with lots of experience.”

The majority of the fencing team, however, had never picked up a weapon — any of the three: foil, épée or sabre — prior to their university careers.

“There’s definitely people who start fencing when they’re kids … and we have people who just started fencing this year.”

Speaking to the draw of the sport, Wintle talked about the

excitement of swashbuckling sword fights in television shows and movies.

He said that many people, despite never fencing themselves, probably grew up watching similar activities on-screen.

“If you’ve seen any [movies] like Three Musketeers type stuff, there’s always that allure of fighting with a sword in your hand,” he said.

While sword fighting and fencing are very different pursuits, due to the rules and techniques of the latter, Wintle believes the draw is the same.

“There is that appeal. You get to hit somebody with a metal blade.

Especially for students that are stressed out. Come during exam

time! We’ll let you hit somebody,” he said with a laugh.

For the newcomers, he said the chance to compete in smaller lead-up competitions prior to the championships is a better learning environment than their four weekly practices. This season has included competitions at Queen’s, Brock, Royal Military College and Carleton.

“It gives you that opportunity to put everything together into that bout scenario where it really does count and everything just sort of clicks.”

However, he said that click isn’t always immediate, as was the case with his own first competition where he placed second-last. He later used the defeat to narrow his

focus in subsequent training time, and it’s also helped Wintle when it comes to guiding new fencers.

The sport isn’t difficult to teach, he said, but it takes people a while to understand the rules without previous exposure.

“It’s using movements that people generally aren’t used to.”

Teaching someone to move their hands independently of their feet can take some, time he said.

But while there’s a lot to learn, Wintle says that the track-record of this season’s competitions have been motivating.

“There’s a pride that comes with knowing that somebody, who had never fenced before starting at Queen’s, has gone on to medal.”

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Pearson (right) has earned a repuation for two-way play.

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community makes everyone cares about their teammates.

“We always joke that one of our team goals is “honour thy squad”, so we just talk about regardless of what happens on or off the floor, we always have each other’s backs ... It’s definitely a community and family that if I didn’t have, I’d probably miss it.”

Pearson is also a leader off the court: she is one of the co-coordinators of Get Real Queen’s.

“We’re a group of students who talk to high-schoolers about unlearning homophobic and transphobic language, so we do awareness campaigns, we go into schools and do presentations for them,” she said. “Our main mantra to build awareness.”

Pearson and the Gaels get back into action this weekend with a two-game road trip in Toronto against the University of Toronto and Ryerson.

“I think we have that potential [to finish on top],” she said. “We just need to tap into it.”

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STUDENT LIFE

A lex P alermo Contributor

I woke up like this

T

he morning after is often a sensitive time for a woman.

It can be hard enough to look your best when you wake up in your own home, where you have everything you need. But if you’re waking up somewhere else, there are a few essentials that you can pack away in your purse, so you’ll look and feel beautiful in the morning. Do what you must to appear flawless, just like Annie from Bridesmaids.

Mints

Morning breath? Mints have got you covered. So now you have minty breath, a new friend (probably) and you didn’t even have to brush your teeth.

Seven essentials to pack away for a sleepover Hair elastic Never go anywhere without one of these. You can easily turn the nest on top of your head into a fashionable half bun in less than a minute.

A small tube of Vaseline This sounds disgusting but Vaseline is the cheapest and most versatile beauty product. It instantly adds volume/length to eyelashes, you can use it to tame eyebrows and

remove smudged eye makeup. A tiny, travel tube of it will easily fit in a coat pocket.

Tinted moisturizer This is pretty self-explanatory: not only does it moisturize your skin but it also covers up blemishes and gives you a morning glow.

A “detox” eye roller You roll this under your eye and suddenly you look like you got a

solid eight hours. Might consider using this every day, especially during exam time when sleep is an afterthought.

whatever you smelled like before.

Baby powder Baby powder is the poor man’s (or woman’s) dry shampoo. It works to add volume and soak up any grease. Just rub it into your scalp. Do it properly though, or you’ll look like you have really fine dandruff.

All jokes aside, the only thing that will truly save you the morning after isn’t a product you can buy or find in anyone’s medicine cabinet.

Deodorant Confidence is key. If you want While you might not be able to appear cool and casual, all you to tote this around in a small have to do is act cool and casual. purse, deodorant can be a lifesaver. Of course you meant to sleep here.

You can probably find some Messy buns are in style. Your breath wherever you’re waking up. He’ll smells like that naturally. And you’re running out the door because you never know that you used it.

More importantly, you’ll smell obviously have somewhere like a mountain stream instead of important to be.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Global warming: a worldwide concern

The time to deal with climate change is now.

B lake C anning Staff Writer Just over a month ago, world leaders gathered in Paris to take a hard look at one of the most pressing threats humanity has ever faced.

For many of us, terms like “climate change” and “global warming” are issues too far in the future to worry about. But while many have held this view, the global temperature has continued to rise rapidly over the past half century.

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2016 is set to be one of the hottest years ever recorded globally, and it’s for this reason that goals have been set for the 187 countries that signed up for their Intended National Determined Contributions (INDCs).

The question on a lot of people’s

minds is, “will it really work?”

Well, it’s been projected that even if every country who signed up meets their INDC, that would only keep the planet’s warming to 2.7° C. To put this in context, the goal of the Paris Agreement was to prevent our world from increasing the global temperature more than 2°C, after which point we’d begin to see dangerous and irreversible changes not only to our geography, but to the way we live.

But wait, there’s more! Instead of imposing legally-binding INDCs on each country according to their emissions, every participating nation has been allowed to choose their own goal, however large or small they like.

The real gist of all these boring statistics and figures is this: developed countries, like Canada and the United States, need to start making great strides in reducing emissions now, or we may be personally responsible for the deaths of millions of people. It sounds harsh, but this is primarily because climate change was left unattended for so long

that we’ve reached a point of no return.

You may be wondering why this issue wasn’t widely presented to the Western public before the climate conference in Paris. In truth, it’s because most of us in the global north will not have to worry about climate implications for another decade or so.

However, countries without the infrastructure or measures to withstand the increasingly violent climatic events — tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and floods — will be thrown into chaos in the coming years.

Here’s the rub. The top 10 emitter countries, eight of which are considered “first world” nations, including Canada, make up 68.2 per cent of the world’s total CO2 emissions. Seeing how there’s a grand total of 196 countries in the world today, we really can’t keep saying, “it’s not my problem.” Climate change is a result of our actions. People are already suffering. Take an interest, and start making this the next thing we talk about on the Internet.

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Rotten to the core: Donald Trump

According to Green, Trump is a bad apple.

M ichael G reen Staff Writer

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our housemate’s rotting groceries are an embodiment of Donald Trump in the Republican Primaries. No one is willing to touch either and we have a problem.

I came to this realization over the

winter holidays in my hometown of Blackstock — a beautiful, rural idyll in the middle of Ontario that, to my constant horror, lacks high-speed internet. My inability to watch American Netflix forced me to leave my room and seek food. To my shock, my family put our fresh clementines next to our apples.

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As you may know, apples emit ethylene gas — an odourless, colourless substance that causes other fruit to ripen quickly. Left unchecked, the gas corrupts and destroys everything that’s nourishing about other fruit. That’s when it hit me: America has an apple problem.

They’ve named this bad apple

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“Donald Trump” and it’s gotten too close to the Republican (GOP) clementines. I quickly ate all of my family’s clementines to bravely save them from corruption, and then ran to my room to write this article to save us all.

What, specifically, makes Trump a bad apple? Instead of ethylene gas, Trump spews a more nefarious gas in the form of racism, xenophobia, ableism, sexism and Islamophobia. Trump’s gas isn’t odourless or colourless; it’s on TV for the world to see, but it might as well be invisible. Trump faces zero repercussions for emitting his gas.

Instead, he thrives off of it.

When Trump called for a ban on the entire Muslim community in the United States, he started polling 11 points higher. The other Republican clementines raised alarm against Trump, but in the last CNN debate, each clementine tried to emit the same level of noxious fumes about Muslims to mimic Trump’s ability to spew and rise.

Even if Trump collapses in the polls tomorrow, and is promptly removed from the fruit bowl, his damage is done. In five years time, the next wave of GOP nominees will all be apples. They’re currently watching how well the bad apple does in the polls. The xenophobic gas is an inspiration, as CNN never fails to tell us, and it’s working well as a political strategy.

“Okay, but I’m not American. Stop boring me with American problems.”

My friend, look at our border. Kingston, Ontario, sits uncomfortably close to the fruit basket of America. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been side-eyeing Lake Ontario ever since Trump announced he was going to run for president. I have nightmares of my neighbours letting the

K elly P epall Contributor 2016 fashion started off with a bang as Jaden Smith was announced the new face of Louis Vuitton womenswear.

Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton, revealed the campaign involving the 17-year-old celebrity, and son of Jada Pinkett and Will Smith, in an Instagram post on Jan. 2.

Wearing a pleated skirt, embroidered fringed top and black leather jacket, Smith represents a new age in fashion. He highlights a skirt as simply an article of clothing that doesn’t define him or his gender.

As one of GQ’s 20 Most Stylish Men Alive, Smith is known for his androgynous fashion choices.

He’s often photographed wearing dresses for shirts, and his unique personal style and age is what makes him so fitting for this liberal campaign.

The concept of gender- Louis Vuitton in Hong Kong, China. neutral fashion isn’t an entirely new phenomenon, as Rick to create fashion free from gender Owens, Rad Hourani and classification, a concept that’s other radical and progressive relatively new to Louis Vuitton.

With this new ad, Vuitton designers have already embraced gender fluidity throughout their blurs the lines between labels. These brands have strived male and female fashion, stepping

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away from years of traditional and ‘safe’ ad campaigns. This cutting-edge collaboration with Jaden Smith has successfully separated Louis Vuitton from other luxury brands, generating immense

exposure and making them one of the most talked about brands at the moment.

If their intentions are to make the brand more current among their consumers, they’ve certainly

gas coming out of Trump into their homes, their res rooms and their classrooms.

If we let Trump spew his gas into our city without fanning the toxic substance away, we risk our Canadian fruit basket going bad.

Our campus, our traditions and our happiness are at risk.

We especially need to protect our conservative clementines on campus. We need to save them like I saved my clementines.

This isn’t a call to arms to eat the Republicans. I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy to eat each Republican nominee.

Nor should we eat the conservatives in Kingston to save them. Please don’t repeat my brilliant actions with the clementines. Instead, let’s focus on keeping Trump’s gas out of Kingston.

Let’s hire StuCons to keep Trump supporters off the Kingston ferry. Let’s hire engineers to turn the Wolfe Island wind turbines around to fan the noxious gasses of Trump back into America. Let’s ask CompSci students to replace every online video of Trump with 30 seconds of a tricolour squirrel giving us a thumbs-up.

I know, I know: this plan doesn’t seem practical, effective or cost-efficient. But when has that stopped Queen’s University?

My plan is easily as realistic as most projects undertaken by our student government.

Queen’s students, we have to consider the natural consequences of letting the apples live so close to our city. I’m not saying we should ban Republican apples like Trump from our city and campus forever — just until our country’s representatives can figure out what’s going on and how we can deal with the gases at home.

succeeded. Smith is laughing in the face of stereotypes, and while in the past people would likely find a campaign like this surprising, in this day and age, maybe not so much.

2015 was a breakthrough year for the trans rights movement, and gender-free clothing is a rising theme in fashion. While this particular ad campaign isn’t trans-related, it does provoke a discussion regarding gender and dress, a conversation that appears to seamlessly follow those raised in 2015.

Now, fashion is driving that conversation as this campaign has led Louis Vuitton to appear edgy and progressive in the eyes of its forward-thinking consumers.

Fashion is always changing, and we change with it. Ultimately, clothes are clothes, and no article of clothing is exclusively assigned to one gender.

Moving on from the traditional boundaries surrounding menswear and womenswear, we’re slowly but surely entering an age where it’ll be socially acceptable to wear whatever you like. This campaign demonstrates gender fluidity in fashion, something I think we can expect to see much more of in the years to come.

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the managers would come up to we paid for the last two. Not so whoever was serving or in the easy when you don’t know the kitchen. They would leave for accounts and the back office is the night and assign managerial locked. Doesn’t that also seem like worked at one of Kingston’s duties to those who were there. something you should tell your most infamous restaurants, Sometimes there were a few of staff before you leave for the night? known for its tasty treats and above us, but for the most part, two Needless to say, I woke up my all, its terrible management. teenagers were left in charge manager with a phone call and In my second year at Queen’s, of a whole two floors of told him to come right away to pay I found myself in an uncomfortable the delivery. a restaurant. situation. Between rent, utilities, On other occasions, I was yelled While it was hard to manage Internet and overall living this great responsibility, it was at because the counters were streaky. expenses, I felt the anxieties of a nice not having anyone breathe How am I supposed to avoid slim student budget. down our necks. We were our own making streaks when they refuse to I made the decision to find bosses and we may have also eaten buy soap? a job and finally put my head When I left to go home for a waffle or two — a BIG no-no and stomach at ease. Having only the summer, I wanted to secure when the bosses were around. camp councilling and babysitting One night, things got busier a job when I returned. When I experience, I marched up and than usual. And did that stop them asked them if I could get my job down Princess St. one September from leaving? No. On their way out back, their response was, “If we’re afternoon, determined to win the door, they mumbled something still here.” someone over with my confidence When I came back to Kingston and charm. about putting a cake in the fridge after letting it thaw. in September with even more The café I worked Between serving, cleaning waitressing experience from at served the people of and running the joint, I the summer, I had a newfound Kingston for four years, “I’m the first to admit that I completely forgot about the confidence and hope that this year bringing mouth-watering should have seen the warning cake. It was hidden away would be better than the last.

Instagram photos of desserts, signs from the beginning. Part behind the bar and I didn’t I debated getting another homemade waffles and of me did, but I swept it under waitressing job, but I figured see it in my closing duties. elaborate espresso drinks.

When I got to work the why spend time getting to know In my year and a half the rug as I was in dying next day, they told me how another restaurant when I already there, I saw everything need of cash.” disappointed they were in knew this one? One night, two from awkward first me. They explained to me older gentlemen asked me how dates, to late night study that they lost $70 from that long I had been working at the sessions, parents visiting their children, and even a One of my co-workers, who cake and I would have to pay them restaurant. They were shocked to marriage proposal. had been employed there for a back. At the end of the day, we find out I was a part-time waitress It also brought me my first year and a half had yet to receive negotiated me handing over my looking for some cash. They said I experience in the service industry. her training pay. The training was training pay, which I had yet to looked like I was running the place.

Within a week, I knew how to complicated to say the least. It receive. To be honest, I was never I just laughed and said, “You have no idea”. make a cappuccino, how to make consisted of barking orders and expecting to get it anyway.

The café was also food look appetizing and even high expectations. how to charm my way to the It was my first weekend on the infamous for never being highest tip amount. job when I got a call saying that the fully stocked. If we had “Everything that could go But I also learned that your girl who was supposed to train me 20 cakes on the menu, we wrong did. The back fridges bosses can make your life tough. was “sick” — that’s code for “quit.” would only have five in weren’t stocked. The head I worked for two older That night I took a whole stock. If someone ordered a office had shut down. And, Middle-Eastern men, who were seven-hour shift, and I also closed waffle, I would have to tell brothers, or cousins, or uncle down the place all by myself. I was them to replace one or two we ran out of toilet paper.” and nephew — honestly, I the new girl and already, there was of the toppings because we still don’t really know; they a ton of responsibility placed on didn’t have it. I once made never explained. a pregnant woman cry when I told Then I started to reach my my shoulders.

Regardless, it’s important to I would like to say that I rose her we were out of our molten breaking point. Everything that note that they spoke very minimal to the challenge and I knocked chocolate chip cookies. could go wrong did. The back fridges English. I can’t tell you how my managers off their feet, but it But if you really want to weren’t stocked. The head office many times I would get in trouble wasn’t pretty. know the truth, you weren’t had shut down. And, we ran out of for doing something “wrong,” Soon enough, I was not only missing much. Those “homemade toilet paper. when in reality the task wasn’t expected to work the restaurant, brownies” were actually crumbled Just when I was reaching my explained properly. but run it. up store-bought brownies. wits’ end, the inevitable happened.

On one occasion, I left the air Given this responsibility, These guys were cheaper I started hearing rumors that they conditioning on when I was closing I’d like to pretend that I was than cheap. were shutting down and decided I the restaurant. The next day, my the chosen one of all the new One night after they’d left, the would ask. I told them I would stay managers were furious with me girls, but I quickly realized that ice cream delivery people came loyal and stick it out until the end.

I asked for them to let me know for letting it go all night. I recall there was a common pattern in (finally). I was excited to have stock, only to be told that we when they were closing, so I could them explicitly telling me to make the restaurant. sure it’s on.

Every night at about 8 p.m., could have our next order only if find another job. They reassured

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Turns out they mixed up the words “on” and “off.” They yelled at me and explained that it was because they didn’t speak English well enough.

I’m the first to admit that I should have seen the warning signs from the beginning. Part of me did, but I swept it under the rug as I was in dying need of cash.

Only a couple days into my job did more unfortunate events occur.

The first thing I noticed was that the managers withheld my training pay. They informed me that I would train for eight hours at minimum wage. They also explained that not everyone lasted up to three months, so they would not pay us until we made it to that mark — sketchy.

me that the restaurant was going strong. A week later, there was a note in the back room stating that the restaurant would be shutting down in two weeks. It was at that moment when I realized my misery was over, however, now I had to find a new job.

But the café wasn’t the only restaurant in town with shocking management.

Erica Altomare, ConEd ’16, had a horrible experience working at a local restaurant and bar. She applied for a server position only to be demoted a couple weeks later — likely because the place was overstaffed.

Shortly into her job, Altomare noticed that she wasn’t scheduled for three consecutive weeks. When she demanded an answer from management, they told her she was not the place’s “material.”

“Being [the restaurant’s] material was about having a party-girl magnetic style,” Altomare said.

Altomare’s workplace was a very superficial environment.

“If you’re not looking your best, they can tell you to go to the washroom. They have straighteners in there and perfume. One of my friends went in and was told she looked like she was coming from the party, not going to the party,” Altomare said.

There was even a strict dress code of how to wear your hair, how many pieces of jewelry to have, and there was a $65 Lululemon skirt that all servers had to purchase.

“I probably lost more money working at this place than I did making it.”

Of course, most people see that work is a chore and start to feel animosity towards their bosses, but these two examples are the icing on the cake.

As I search for my next job, I want an employer who takes into account my best interests as well as wholeheartedly believes that the customers are as happy as the servers.

I want to know more about my rights and be informed of what the Labour Board entitles me to as an employee. These experiences have given me a newfound mentality of where and when to draw the line.

20 •queensjournal.ca

Friday, January 15, 2016

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