The Queen's Journal, Volume 143, Issue 15

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Reports of sexual harassment, verbal abuse in Political Studies V ictoria G ibson Journal Staff

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Apology The Queen’s Journal, in a previous year and volume, published an article about Todd Speck, (ArtSci ’97), in both the print and online versions of the Journal, which contained a seriously defamatory statement about Mr. Speck.

There was no truth to the statement whatsoever.

The Queen’s Journal apologizes unreservedly to Mr. Speck for the publication of the defamatory material and for the harm caused by its publication.

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Commerce student rankings challenged

Originally published online on Nov. 27 After almost a year of silence, reported incidents of verbal, physical and sexual harassment of teaching assistants (TAs) by undergraduate students in Political Studies have been revealed to students.

On Wednesday afternoon, DSC Co-Presidents Cameron McNeill and Connor Casciato emailed undergraduate students in the Department of Political Studies about reports of “credential questioning, verbal abuse, physical intimidation and sexual harassment” of TAs. “To put it in the clearest possible terms: as both human beings and students at Queen’s University, this kind of behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” the co-presidents stated in the email.

According to Rachel Tung, the Departmental Student Council (DSC) representative for Political Studies, the email circulated by DSC co-presidents refers to incidents that took place over the past year.

Tung said she sits on the Political Studies Equity Issues Committee, which was informed of the incidents before the DSC became aware of them.

Multiple incidents of “verbal, physical, and sexual harassment … in tutorials and office hours, for both male and female TA’s [sic]” were brought to the Political Studies Graduate Students Association (PSGSA) last year, she told The Journal via Facebook Messenger.

“The altercations have had an especially adverse effect on more petite female TAs who can more easily be physically overpowered by a larger aggressive student,” Tung, ArtSci ’18, wrote.

When the issues were brought to the department, she said a meeting was immediately called so the Equity Issues Committee could discuss the incidents and provide recommendations.

Knowledge of the incidents were only brought to the attention of the undergraduate Department Student Council at the most recent departmental meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 18.

Four recommendations have since been made by the Equity Issues Committee, Tung said.

First, a January 2016 TA workshop will be held to address the issues and provide See McNeill on page 5

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TECHNOLOGY

New drone technology emerges from Queen’s Human Media Lab BitDrones enable users to construct complex 3D models J onah B uckstein Contributor

complex 3D models that translate to real-time computer designs. Roel Vertegaal, the director of HML and a professor Researchers at the of human-computer Queen’s Human Media interaction in the Lab (HML) have unveiled School of Computing, drone technology says he’s thrilled by the that allows users progress his team to virtually construct threedimensional structures. has made.

HML’s BitDrone system was Vertegaal said BitDrones unveiled earlier this month at the are a first step toward 28th annual ACM Symposium on User developing high-quality, Interface Software and Technology in levitating SUPPLIED BY HUMAN MEDIA LAB Charlotte, North Carolina. programmable The BitDrones system uses self-levitating matter — material capable of being nano-quadcopter drones — drones that bent, curved and reshaped — at a use four small propellers — to create moment’s notice.

“They sort of resemble flying LEGO bricks,” Vertegaal said, with a smile, “but the application goes beyond simple toys.”

BitDrones technology is different than previous virtual reality programs, Vertegaal said. It’s a “real-reality” interface, where users can interact with real material — meaning drones — without being hooked up to a headset or computer device.

HML has developed three types of drones: ShapeDrones, DisplayDrones and PixelDrones. Each drone has reflective markers, allowing the system’s software to track the movement and position of the drones.

Vertegaal added that there are many technical issues that need to be addressed before the team can move forward. Most notably, the ShapeDrone’s relatively bulky See Drones on page 5

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

NEWS

EDITORIALS

OPINIONS

ARTS

Queen’s students and alumni share stories of Paris attacks

The AMS’s referendum decision was a serious blunder

uOttawa yoga classes weren’t cultural appropriation

Student artist explores What happens to your violence against women body during exam stress through realist paintings

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Queen’s accounts of Paris attacks Queen’s students and alumni grapple with the Nov. 13 attacks that took the world by shock V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor For most Queen’s students the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris seemed a world away — but for some students, they were right outside their doors. The Journal messaged students and alumni in France and in Kingston who were, and still are, directly affected by the events of on Nov. 13. These are their stories from that painful night. Extended coverage can be found online at queensjournal.ca Shane Senécal-Tremblay, ArtSci ’13 — Eiffel Tower, Place de la Republique, Paris For Shane Senécal-Tremblay, a Queen’s were killed by gunmen in a coordinated organized at Place de la Republique. alum, a single photograph stands out from terrorist attack.

“I’d never been to anything like that the day of the attacks.

“At one point I stepped out onto my before. The media generally focuses on As a student at the Sciences Po balcony where I could glance at the Eiffel the people crying so I didn’t realize how Paris School of International Affairs, Tower, in a confused hope that by seeing it, it many people there would be laughing, Senécal-Tremblay was heading to a night might help me understand,” he said. conversing, debating.” class on Nov. 13 as the sun was setting.

That night, he remembers how quiet the He said he watched a group of young “It was a nice day, so I rode into school on city felt. artists create the Peace for Paris symbol one of the city’s bike-share ‘Vélibs’, stopping When Senécal-Tremblay left his apartment from candles, which “must have taken them on the way to snap an iPhone photo of the the next morning, he witnessed Parisians two hours”.

Eiffel Tower,” Senécal-Tremblay, ArtSci ’13, refusing to alter their routines and using Afterwards, a rose vendor tore the petals wrote via Facebook Messenger. the phrase “meme pas peur” — “not off his flowers, and scattered them across He said that photograph is now a even scared”. the display. “haunting” reminder of a once-peaceful day.

“I think most people felt both outside of For Senécal-Tremblay, the vigil It wasn’t until he arrived back at his themselves, and distant from others,” he demonstrated the character of the city. apartment that night that he got word of said. In what he believed was an effort to Within their “great sadness”, there came an The photo Senécal-Tremblay took hours the attacks. Across the city, 130 people break this isolation, a Sunday night vigil was “unconquerable strength”, he wrote. before the attacks on Nov. 13.

Signs, flowers and candles were left at Place de la Republique in Paris as a memorial for those who were were killed on Nov. 13.

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Charly Hunter, (Exchange from Saint Etienne) — Kingston

Lilly Sheng, Comm ’17 — HEC School of Management, Paris

For Charly Hunter, thousands of miles CNN,” he said. couldn’t tear his heart from France on For him, the worst moment was hearing Nov. 13. the reporters speak with gunshots in On exchange at Queen’s from Sciences Po the background.

Paris, the Saint Etienne native was exiting a “I knew my cousin was having a party in class and scrolling through Twitter, when he the very area the shootings happened, and the saw news of the attacks. phone network was shot, so she wasn’t able “It was about 20 to communicate minutes after with me until three “I wanted to be with only the beginning of French people, because we all hours after,” he said. the killings, so He said people shared that grief and state of people didn’t really around him shock, and Canadian people know what was were extremely didn’t really understand.” going on,” he told supportive.

He The Journal via received “countless” Facebook Messenger.

— Charly Hunter, messages of support “As the minutes French student on exchange and was pleased to passed, identified at Queen’s see the University’s journalists began commemoration to share news event and official on Twitter, as well as photographs. It was responses, he added. devastating.”

However, he said, he spent the day after Hunter immediately sought the solace of the attacks with other French students. a familiar face.

“I wanted to be with only French “I then remember going to a French friend people, because we all shared that grief and of mine, and crying on the way there. We state of shock, and Canadian people didn’t then sat in front of the French equivalent of really understand.”

“If you’re reading this, happy birthday Mom. Sheng soon learned that a classmate had Love you.” been killed at the Bataclan concert venue So began a blog post the day after the during the attacks. In her message to The attacks by Lilly Sheng, Comm ’17.

Journal, she said she “still [had] goosebumps” Sheng had documented her exchange at writing about it. the HEC School of Management since she “That night, I went to bed genuinely arrived on a blog called “Where On Earth afraid of waking up to another world Is Lilly?” Her Nov. war. Someone kept 14 post, however, saying Word War III took on a heavier would be over quickly “That night, I went to bed tone than usual. genuinely afraid of waking because of nukes, Sheng had been it made me feel up to another world war.” and on a train journey so sick.” from Paris to She said she Marseille while the especially — Lily Sheng, Comm ’17 was attacks occurred. frightened after She didn’t have an watching President Internet connection during the commute, Hollande’s address.

However, so she was informed of events by a hostel she said she believes in the spirit of the employee when she arrived in Marseille.

French people in response to great tragedies.

“I was so confused. And then they told me “I think people are very brave. There is a over a hundred people had died. Borders sense that we cannot let terrorists destroy our were closed. Apparently my train was locked way of life in France,” she said. down for awhile,” she wrote in the post.

“Les méchants sont partout, mais il faut “I couldn’t believe this was happening to vivre quand même,” she said — “the wicked Paris — beautiful, sophisticated Paris,” she are everywhere, but you must live anyway.” told The Journal via Facebook Messenger.

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FEATURE Opposition to Commerce student rankings grows Undergrads report dissatisfaction with ranking system N ick P earce Features Editor Terry Zhang, Comm’ 18, says academic rankings are worth a second look.

Every June, Zhang and a little over 1,400 Queen’s Commerce students check their Commerce Portal — a special School of Business account — to see their ranking. They receive two numbers: their personal ranking and the total number of students.

Recruiters traditionally take more interest in hiring higher-ranked graduates. Ideally, the ranking system provides a simple method for discovering new talent while motivating students to succeed in a competitive environment.

Ranking has spread to a number of competitive programs across Canada, including engineering programs at the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo.

However, some students disagree with the practice, claiming it adds unnecessary stress in an already competitive program.

Despite his high ranking as a student, Terry Zhang has appealed to the Smith School of Business in the hopes of curtailing the practice of ranking students. He said he plans to launch a student survey next week and has begun constructing a case to put forward in the coming months.

“GPA rankings aren’t a true indicator of a student’s ability,” Zhang said.

“Academic rankings [don’t] reflect all the activities you do outside of school, all the startups you’re working on, new skills you’re learning, sports you play.

It’s very inaccurate to categorize students off one aspect of their university life.”

Zhang said rankings reinforce “unhealthy competition” in the program.

“With the ranking system, a lot of people think if I help this person, they might get better and [pass] me. That’s the unhealthy thinking that creeps in. There’s less collaboration,” he said.

Academic rankings take only grades into account. Students’ grades are compiled into an average and then compared to others to create a rank.

“There’s no motivation for you to do better because if you just know your GPA, you could be at a 3.0 and bump it up to 3.2 and

feel good about it. But if you’re [ranked] 400 and you know all your work will only push you up the [rank] 370 or something, what’s the point of working harder?” he said.

“It’s discouraging.”

Zhang said he believes the majority of students agree.

However, there hasn’t been any formal action and he hasn’t yet seen the results of his survey.

“The general sentiment is rankings are unhealthy. A lot of students realize it’s very competitive, very cut-throat.

You can see that [in] general conversations in the classrooms and hallways,” he said.

A 2013 National College Health Assessment (NCHA) survey of Queen’s students reported that 58.4 per cent of respondents believed academic stresses were “traumatic or very difficult to handle.” In response, Queen’s has brought the number of outreach counselors at the university from three in 2012 to eight in 2013.

They have also increased the promotion mental health services and expanded awareness efforts.

Queen’s Health and Wellness psychologists declined to comment on any potential effects of ranking Commerce students, citing patient privacy, although The Journal didn’t inquire about specific students.

Lori Garnier, Executive Director of the Commerce Program, says the Commerce program isn’t out of the ordinary.

Moving foward, Commerce admin is open to considering student suggestions.

“Academic ranking of students is common across the whole university sector, and is commonly referred to as a ‘Dean’s list.’”

“Rankings play a part in a dog-eat-dog world.”

— Allison Cecillio, Comm ’18 She added that admin is open to considering student suggestions.

“We are reviewing this process, in consultation with our students and student leaders.”

As a Dean’s Honour List with Distinction recipient and one of

the highest ranked students in the commerce program, Stephane Gosselin stands by the ranking system.

“Honestly, I don’t think they’re as bad as they’re made to be. I think they’re a great motivator,” Gosselin, Comm ’18, said, adding that his marks improved considerably from high school to university with the extra motivation provided by rankings.

Gosselin said he disagrees that rankings make the program too competitive.

“The temptation would be to say that it would get a lot more competitive and in putting yourself up, you put others down. But the commerce program is structured around collaboration,” he said. “Ranking makes it worth your while to work with people to improve both your rankings.”

He said different students appeal to potential employers in their own ways.

“It all depends on what your objectives are. If your objectives are something where you need that involvement in extracurriculars to get, there’s a lot of jobs out there that focus more on that. Whereas [when] your focus is to get your academics up, the recruiters from the companies are going to look at that the most.”

A high ranking comes with its privileges.

Higher-ranking students can expect to be prioritized while applying for

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international exchange, to potentially be awarded the fourthyear medal for having the highest GPA, and, if a student releases their ranks to employers, they increase their employment chances after graduation over lower-ranked students.

Rankings have been subject to debate in recent years. A 2010 Queen’s Business Review article argued that “there are a number of viable alternatives.”

A suggested alternative in the article was keeping students ignorant about their rankings and making ranks available to recruiters through the career centre. Other suggestions included course awards and an emphasis on group awards.

Speaking with The Journal, Allison Cecilio, Comm ’18, said she was disappointed to receive a rank at the end of first year.

“My GPA was pretty good.

I was very proud of myself.

But when my ranking came out — you try so hard and you realize it wasn’t what you thought.”

She said the system poorly represents students and discourages lower to middle-ranked students.

“Rankings are more beneficial to the top 4.0’s and above. It’s helpful for them to present themselves to recruiters and set themselves apart for a future, for a career,” Cecilio said.

As a Commerce student, she said she noticed that competition between students often leads to negative environments.

“If you live in an all-Commerce house, they sometimes have this negativity towards each other.

They’ll try to not help each other and it’ll get competitive in households and groups. At the back of your head, you’re thinking, ‘they might get a better ranking than me.’”

While Commerce is naturally competitive, Cecilio and other students worry that it harms the program’s sense of community.

She says that became clear in her demanding second-year marketing course.

“People started planning out their marketing groups last year, finding the best of the best. It was really stressful. Some sections have stellar groups and you wonder: how do you compete?” she said.

“It depends who you surround yourself with. But rankings play a part in a dog-eat-dog world.”

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Students give feedback on potential Fall Reading Week Arguments for and against a newly proposed reading week J osh M alm Contributor Over the past month, the AMS has opened the floor for students to voice their opinions on the possible implementation of a Fall Reading Week.

The AMS hosted two Town Hall meetings in Wallace Hall — on Nov. 9 and Nov. 16 — where students were encouraged to pose questions and give feedback on the logistics of implementing a break.

Proponents of a Fall Reading Week say the break would alleviate stress experienced by students during the school year. Opponents, meanwhile, focus on the logistical problems a Fall Reading Week could create.

Although turnout was low, students raised questions about the feasibility of an additional reading week and discussed whether it would benefit students academically.

The recently appointed AMS academic affairs commissioner, Tyler Lively, ArtSci ’16, told the audience at the Nov. 9 meeting that discussions surrounding a fall reading week began in 2012 as one of the recommendations made by the Principal’s Commission on Mental Health.

Students voted against the option in two AMS referenda — once in 2007 and again in 2011 — but the

debate over a fall break has been reignited after various faculties and student-run societies became concerned about student mental health and well-being.

Other Canadian universities, such as Trent University, have implemented Fall Reading Weeks for similar reasons.

However, a report released by the Queen’s Senate Committee on Academic Procedures (SCAP) observed Fall Reading Weeks at PHOTO BY ANNA MARIA LI other universities and found no Tyler Lively addresses the crowd at the Nov. 9 town hall meeting about a Fall Reading Week. conclusive evidence that a fall for the same break”, according to their report students have taken issue with reading week helps curb mental scheduled SCAP’s proposal, which includes week as Thanksgiving. This to Senate. health issues.

In an interview with The Journal, a recommendation to reduce the At the Nov. 9 meeting, Lively means there would be no said a new reading week would classes until Thursday on the Lively said there are credible amount of pre-exam study days arguments both for and against from four days to two days. hopefully reduce student stress, week of Thanksgiving.

“A lot of students have said The four pre-exam study days at implementing a new reading week. especially for first-year students Arguments for a fall reading that [pre-exam] time is a lot more who are often “away from home the end of the semester would also week, he said, revolve around valuable to them and that a break be reduced to two days. for the first time”.

According to Lively, the AMS mental health and stress and the later is more valuable than earlier.”

He added that it’s merely a There have also been concerns proposal and would have to make and other student societies have possibility for out-of-province its way through the SCAP and been conducting seminars with students to return home during about an earlier orientation week, which some students feel the University Senate before it students to gather feedback on a the fall semester.

A fall reading week would also may impact their ability to have potential fall reading week. could be implemented.

SCAP will take a recent online give first years a break during an a summer job or relax after their The fall semester currently has summer job, he added.

59 instructional days — where petition regarding a fall reading often-stressful semester, he said.

Lively said AMS assembly will “Supports for first year students, classes start a week after Labour week into consideration. The Day — with no fall break and four change.org petition — created by as much as the University tries discuss a fall reading week next free study days between the end of Raasil Khan — has gathered over to offer a lot of them, are not Thursday. The student government classes and the start of exam period. 2,000 signatures after it was posted that great, so a lot of first year hasn’t yet come to a conclusion on Under the new proposal, there in the “Queen’s Class of 2019” students say they have difficulty the issue.

“We’ve heard a lot of different with that transition and wouldn’t would be 61 instructional days Facebook group.

The petition was brought to mind having a Fall Reading opinions, and I don’t think we’ve and classes would commence consulted widely enough to immediately after Labour the attention of Senate at their Week,” Lively said.

Arguments against it, meanwhile, really make a decision about that Day on Tuesday. Orientation last meeting on Nov. 3. It will be Week would take place a week included in SCAD’s “deliberations focus on logistics. Lively said some yet,” Lively said. before Labour Day, while a new regarding sessional dates and four-day break would be the development of a Fall term

Survey shows LGBTQ+ students feel marginalized OUSA publishes its largest ever LGBTQ+ student experience survey M ikayla W ronko Assistant News Editor There aren’t enough safe spaces on Ontario campuses, according to a survey published earlier this month by the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA).

The LGBTQ+ Student Experience Survey focused on the satisfaction, safety and inclusion of LGBTQ+ post-secondary students on six Ontario universities — Queen’s, McMaster, Wilfrid Laurier, Waterloo and Brock.

The survey was open to all students who identify under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. The survey opened last November and recorded 311 responses overall.

The survey found that the strongest opinion held by respondents related to the statement “I wish the university employed more full-time staff to run LGBTQ+ groups, events, and

spaces”. OUSA reported that 47 per cent of respondents agree and 37 per cent strongly agree.

Of the 311 respondents, the sample included a mix of sexual orientations and gender identifications. Over 50 per cent of respondents identified as homosexual, while smaller percentages of respondents identified as genderqueer, trans and gender fluid.

The survey found that a

sizeable portion of respondents felt uncomfortable with health care professionals on campus. 34 per cent of students who had used mental health services reported that the counselors and therapists lacked the knowledge necessary to provide good care.

The survey also reported that a majority of LGBTQ+ students felt uncomfortable on campus.

Avery Everhart, MA ’16, a board See OUSA on page 5

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McNeill surprised by report Third, the committee with the PSGSA — discussing recommended that Queen’s professional student conduct guidance for handling add a session in undergraduate and respect. similar situations. orientation activities on Tung said the recommendations Second, the department professional conduct, respect were well-received at the will add another “developed and sexism. departmental meeting, and are in session” focusing on the issue The final recommendation was the process of being brought to during mandatory TA training to add a paragraph on Politics “other bodies” for implementation. in September. syllabi — developed together For Co-President McNeill, ArtSci ’16, the reports came as a surprise.

“It was news to all of us that he email to politics students this was going on. We were all unbecoming of the reputation To Our Political Studies surprised and that email yesterday that our Department has forged Undergraduates, was sort of the first step,” he over the past 120 years. told The Journal in an interview.

As your representatives at At the most recent McNeill said the details of the incidents weren’t discussed in full Departmental meeting, some the Departmental level, we will at the meet––ing. very disturbing revelations be working with our professors “As to what Rachel said, I’m were brought to our and TAs to mitigate the risk of not sure. It was brought to the attention, and we felt that similar problems in the future.

Department last week, and that this was the most appropriate However, the responsibility was the first that the people in the avenue by which to address them. ultimately falls to you, the room had heard of it,” McNeill There have been a number student, to act in a way that told The Journal via Facebook of recent reports from our is acceptable at an institution Messenger after Rachel Tung Teaching Assistants of credential like Queen’s. We recognize that provided a statement. questioning, verbal abuse, the actions of the very small McNeill met with Political physical intimidation and minority are not representative Studies Department Head David sexual harassment on the part of the generally remarkable Haglund on Thursday morning to of Political Studies students. group of students we have in this discuss how to address concerns To put it in the clearest Department, so we hope you moving forward. possible terms: as both human will join us in coming together “The next step, I think, will be beings and students at Queen’s to ensure that these issues don’t figuring out what has been going University, this kind of have to be raised again.

Best of luck with your term on in a more specific sense [in] behaviour is unacceptable and papers and exams. the classes and communicating will not be tolerated. with the TAs on how we can best As the leaders of tomorrow, it Cameron McNeill and prevent this from happening in the is, to be quite honest, remarkably Connor Casciato future,” McNeill said. disheartening to hear that Susan Mumm, the dean of Arts students in our Department Political Studies Departmental and Science, said the University have treated their peers, who Student Council has no tolerance for any type of volunteer their time and were 2015-2016 Co-Presidents harassment or intimidation. in our shoes a couple of years “Queen’s does not tolerate any ago, in a manner that is so form of harassment. We find these

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allegations very troubling, and will be looking into the issues raised,” she wrote in an email to The Journal.

“Queen’s has policies in place that prohibit harassment and discrimination, and there are a number of resources available to those who may have experienced harassment.”

She added that the University is committed to safe and appropriate work environments for all employees.

“Employees can discuss their concerns with their employment supervisor if they believe they have been subjected to harassment in the workplace.”

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size — 2.5 to 5 inches — can cause turbulence that impedes other ShapeDrones and causes them to plummet downwards, he said.

Despite technical issues, Vertegaal said he’s confident they’ll be fixed and he’s looking forward to the future of BitDrones.

“The next step is to scale [the drones] down. This will allow for precise modeling of increasingly complex objects,” he said.

The current BitDrones system can only accommodate 5 to 10 drones at a time, but the HML team aims to make the system capable of supporting thousands of miniscule ShapeDrones in the future.

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OUSA suggests new LGBTQ+ policy Continued from page 4

member of the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre — a gender empowerment advocacy group at Queen’s — said the results were surprising, as Everhart’s experience with LGBTQ+ issues was far more difficult than the survey results suggest. “[The results] were surprising because that’s not my personal experience and that’s also not the experiences we hear about at Levana from a lot of undergraduate students.”

Going forward, Everhart hopes that universities will improve the quantity and quality of the research concerning LGBTQ+ student experience.

“I hope that the primary thing [that universities] do with the results is look at way in which more research is necessary.”

Everhart said universities should recognize that lumping different populations of LGBTQ+ in research isn’t effective for analysing issues that could affect groups differently.

“It might not lead to useful policy change that’s useful across the board for all people that are within the spectre of gender and sexual orientations.”

OUSA, a provincial advocacy organization that represents the collective interests of undergraduate and professional university students, conducts research related to the student experience.

The policy recommendation report released alongside the findings outlined three areas of improvement: resource allocation, policy-making and education.

Spencer Nestico-Semianiw, president of OUSA, stated in the press released that LGBTQ+ students are experts in their own experience, and that OUSA looks forward to using those results to advocate on students’ behalf.

AMS Vice President (University Affairs) Sarah Letersky told The Journal via email that the AMS encouraged Queen’s students to participate in the survey through an email newsletter.

Letersky said because the survey included respondents from other universities, it’s hard to know what the survey means for Queen’s.

“The results of this survey will serve to inform next steps and future considerations when the AMS undertakes initiatives meant to improve the Queen’s community for queer-identified students,” she wrote.

Letersky said the finding that students who identify as LGBTQ+ still feel uncomfortable on many Ontario university campuses shows that there’s still work to be done.

“Making campuses safer and more accessible for all students is something the AMS, in conjunction with Queen’s and other OUSA member schools are continually working towards.”

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EDITORIALS

The Journal’s Perspective

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

AMS referendum decision lacks transparency When they decided to nullify the is perhaps the most important fall referendum results, the AMS service students require from their didn’t just decide the fate of the student government.

So, while it might make for election — student input was a more lively AMS assembly to tossed out the window as well.

The fall referendum results talk about adding more chairs in were nullified by AMS assembly in CoGro or making an app to count a closed door session after it came the number of people using the to light that their Chief Electoral ARC, the AMS and students would Officer (CEO) hadn’t paid her be better served by a shift in focus student fees and was therefore not back to the AMS’s actual purpose.

Student apathy is often blamed a part of the AMS. This isn’t the first time the AMS for low voter turnout during has bungled the election. Technical the referendum, but if the AMS difficulties forced an extension continues to waste students’ time to the election period this year, and money, engagement will sink while concerns in the past include even lower — and it won’t be students being completely left out students’ apathy that’s at fault. and emails being misdirected.

The CEO’s only responsibility is The main role of the AMS is the dealing with elections. Appointing collection and allocation of funds. someone who was ineligible The vast majority of interaction to hold that position — thus between students and the AMS compromising the integrity of involves paying their student fees, the entire election — is a fairly and then getting a say in where regrettable hiring decision.

But what’s more regrettable is those fees end up.

The clubs whose funding is that the AMS didn’t come forward now threatened offer important and explain the mistake, and services to students, and the their decision.

Instead, they had a closed door proper handling of their funding

meeting to which none of the clubs affected by the decision were invited, then informed the clubs of their decision after the fact and told them to keep it confidential.

The decision wasn’t even publicly announced until over a week after it had been made.

The entire decision-making process lacked any transparency.

The possibility of other options, such as only nullifying those results decided by a small margin, was never presented.

Nor was the questionable correlation between the CEO not paying their student fees, and therefore lacking integrity, ever explained.

Legal concerns aside, there was a more open conversation to be had here between the AMS and

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especially after someone is already in a non-programming career.

At no point in an Ontario education is it required that a student learn the basics of computer science. A simple solution to motivate individuals of all genders would be making computer science a compulsory credit in high school education.

The more people are exposed to it, the less scary and overwhelming it becomes.

Interest in programming will only grow and the gender inequality in technology will then be diminished.

Programming shouldn’t send women running in the opposite direction. Everyone needs the chance to understand, and potentially thrive, in the industry.

It’s 2015, after all.

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as programming, are seen as challenging to people who’ve never tried, and are generally viewed as a man’s area of expertise because of the industry’s demographics.

I don’t agree with this perception.

Yes, technology and programming can be very complicated. However, technology is and will always be the future.

Now more than ever, women need to understand it and not be afraid to dig into its backbone – code.

This idea that coding must be left to the experts needs to stop. Men are dominating the industry for no reason, other than that programming is viewed as a scary skill to master and men are statistically more likely to take chances.

But where does this “scary skill” mentality come from?

The opportunities to learn to program are relatively inaccessible,

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Technology will always be the future, and women need to learn to be a part of it.

The technology industry is a man’s world. The idea that programming should be left to the “experts” has statistically left women in the dust, with 70 per cent of the U.S. technology workforce being made up of men.

Even though the majority of undergraduate degrees are earned by women, only 18 per cent of Computer Science degrees are received by female students.

There’s clearly a lack of female interest in the fast-growing field.

As a woman with a passion for technology and a dream to work in the industry, I’m here to give you the inside scoop: programming isn’t an expert game.

When I tell people that I can program or that I want to work in technology, they’re almost always surprised, even impressed. Technical skills, such

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What’s done is done, but hopefully the AMS can take a lesson from this and be more open with students in the future.

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the student body they represent.

But instead of focusing on how this decision would impact students, the AMS unilaterally decided to let their bureaucratic blunder get in the way of student well-being.

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it easier to bounce back from a lot of injuries, that’s not the case in all circumstances.

Concussions can have long-term effects on athletes’ physical and mental health. For students balancing athletics with education, concussions can present difficult obstacles to overcome within the classroom.

Preventative measures, like UBC’s sensors, could prove to be We owe it to student athletes to a valuable method of minimizing look out for their health, and injuries, as it’s unlikely that battling concussions is a step in the we’ll stop playing contact sports anytime soon. right direction.

Educating athletes as well as This year, football players at the University of British Columbia spectators about head injuries can wore sensors behind their ears only be achieved by knowing the to measure the severity of the realities of concussions and how hits they received to the head. they affect brain functions.

The Queen’s Concussion Researchers hope that the data collected will help them study Awareness Committee works to the link between brain activity provide such education by raising awareness about the long-term and concussions.

Being concussed isn’t like effects of concussions.

Whether Queen’s follows breaking a bone. Concussions can be difficult to diagnose and UBC’s example or not, considering often people don’t even realize the importance of student athletes they’ve had one. As a result, to the long and proud athletic sometimes athletes are unaware of tradition at Queen’s, they warrant the damage done and continue the support needed to succeed both to play, endangering their on and off the field. well-being further.

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uOttawa’s

it seems that “an...individual with

yoga class isn’t cultural appropriation

the intention of helping others ... has been shut down due to misguided charges of cultural insensitivity.

The suspension of the free service was entirely misguided

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Murphy, TA for Yoga in India and the West, rejects the notion that uOttawa’s free yoga class was problematic.

Sarah Murphy, PhD Candidate The recent cancellation of a free yoga class through the Centre for Students with Disabilities at the University of Ottawa has raised a number of issues in the media and within the yoga community.

Issues such as the legacy of colonialism, oppression, cultural appropriation, cultural sensitivity, capitalism, religious authenticity, accessibility and the limits of political correctness have been evoked in debates surrounding this case.

In discussions of modern yoga practice, investigations into these issues are certainly warranted. However, cultural appropriation and insensitivity are non-issues when it comes to the free class that was suspended at uOttawa.

Modern yoga has a complex and nuanced cross-cultural history. As a result, context should inform our discussions.

Modern scholars and yoga historians have challenged the commonly held notion

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that modern yoga practices are derived from Those who raise the question of who a thousands-of-years-old Indian Spiritual owns yoga, or who has the right to practice Tradition dating back to the Vedas. yoga, need to acknowledge that Indian Gurus Hindu scholar Meera Nanda intentionally shared yoga with the West and describes the link between ancient Indian some have capitalized on the dissemination tradition and modern yoga practice as a of their spiritual teachings.

“Nationalistic Myth”, while the work of Critiques of the cultural insensitivity Mark Singleton shows that modern and capitalistic nature of Western yoga postural yoga is an amalgamation of Indian practices are certainly valid. Yoga is a practices with Western bodybuilding and multi million dollar industry in North gymnastic techniques.

America. We’re correct to question the The idea that yoga as we know it mass production of $100 yoga pants, and here in Canada is something that’s been the appropriation of Hindu imagery in the appropriated directly from ancient Hinduism name of corporate profit. is questionable.

The lack of accessibility to yoga classes The origins of these practices aside, it’s should be a major concern for yoga important to acknowledge that Indian Gurus enthusiasts interested in social justice. As came to the West with the intention of it stands, yoga classes, workshops and spreading the teachings of yoga. Yogi Bhajan, retreats are dominated by white middle- and the master of Kundalini Yoga is one of many upper-class women. We should be asking why examples. As the story goes, Yogi Bhajan this is the case and how we can make yoga came to Toronto in 1969, to train teachers more accessible.

In the particular case of the Centre and to spread the practices and values of his for Disabled Students’ free yoga class, brand of yoga.

oppression, social justice and a lack of cultural sensitivity shouldn’t be issues.

The class instructor, Jen Scharf, isn’t lululemon. She isn’t appropriating the culture of another for her own personal gain, and she isn’t claiming to teach spirituality.

In response to accusations of cultural insensitivity, she offered to change the name of her class from yoga to Mindful Stretching.

In this case, it seems that an individual with the intention of helping others to manage stress and feel better in their bodies in an accessible and politically correct way, has been shut down due to misguided charges of cultural insensitivity.

Sarah Murphy is a PhD candidate in the School of Cultural Studies, specializing in yoga and mental health. Sarah has taught and assisted with the course Yoga in India and the West at Queen’s University. She has been teaching yoga since 2006.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR RE: Castle’s future in question I’ve spent four terms at the castle, it was a secrecy doesn’t breed trust. You don’t need second home. Family includes best friends, higher education to get that. My questions mentors and special people of all walks are, is there a way to defend and strengthen of life, so the article on the castle’s future the BISC without breaking confidentiality? was disheartening to read. Every name I Could we please not leave leadership in the know — among them the sharpest and hands of those “very confused about what to most intellectual minds that made the castle do with the castle”? Where are you looking what it was: a magical place of learning and for talent? Is there a committee in place to discovery. You know what else? They got the carry out the necessary tasks? If not, could castle; they cared for the place; they loved there be one? the students.

I recently worked in Jimi Hendrix’s The castle gave me the best education I old apartment in New York. He once said, ever had. There, we weren’t just Tricolour, “when the power of love overcomes the love we were international. We were educated of power, there will be peace.” It’s true for with a different mindset — the epitome the state of world affairs today, and it is true of a liberal arts experience. The castle is a for the state of affairs at our Alma Mater. gift — everyone wants to play with it, but its operations are an enigma — not everyone Xiren Wang knows how to solve it. Something so magical BISC alumna, ‘06-07, ‘08, ‘09 needs to be handled accordingly — currently, ArtSci ’11, BAH + INTS Music. Chancellor’s Scholar it doesn’t seem to be the case.

There will always be narratives that will never see the light of day; there will always be cases never made public, because of “privacy”, because that’s just proper HR practices, or “higher diplomacy”. We keep it in house; we keep it hush-hush. I’ve gotten nearly fired from my Foreign Affairs job for being vocal, so I know the risks. But

The “Castle’s future in question” piece raised a crucial point about a management structure that needs further examination.

The Executive Director’s removal left a managerial triumvirate overseeing all academic and operational matters at the BISC, resulting in at least the impression of a lack of overall, unified direction on that campus. This, combined with the whittling down of faculty and staff, also leads to a more incidious problem: conflicts of interest.

Without an Executive Director or anything resembling a Human Resources or Personnel department, the Academic Director is de facto overseer of academic and non-academic management. If any staff or faculty has any issue — managerial or otherwise — they wish to raise with upper management, they essentially bring it to a final arbiter.

If that arbiter’s handling of the matter is alleged as unfair, there is no higher level at the BISC to move the complaint to. The complainant must either remain silent or bring that issue of unfair treatment back to the manager or arbiter that allegedly treated them unfairly.

Take into account that this final arbiter is best friends with one of the department

managers, even serving as best man in the latter’s wedding party, and illusions of bias and favouritism towards certain factions quickly arise.

On the academic side, students challenging the appropriateness of a grade received in one department face a similar structure. Their primary option is to resubmit the work to the spouse of the professor that may have given the student the original mark. This is not to suggest that these academics have acted with impropriety, or anything less than the highest degree of integrity; however, the optics of this process are an issue.

In any university setting, the illusion of bias can be as harmful to the community as the real thing. No student should feel that their grades are being affected by external bias, just as no faculty or staff member should feel that decisions affecting them are reached through skewed deliberation.

An institution that promises in its own Charter to maintain responsible leadership must do a better job of not fostering such illusions.

Nick Papageorge, ArtSci ’14

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ARTS DANCE

Spirit of India comes to Kingston Indian dance group performs for a packed audience at The Grand Theatre The Bollywood Masala Orchestra and Dancers of India performed to a full house at The Grand Theatre on Wednesday night.

J ustine L ittle -T rent Contributor With stunning moves and jaw-dropping feats, Bollywood Masala Orchestra and Dancers of India brought the rich dancing culture of India to downtown Kingston.

Appearing in front of a full house at The Grand Theatre on Wednesday evening, the dance and music performance group from India celebrated the rich tradition of North Indian and Rajasthani culture through music and dance.

Bollywood Masala Orchestra presents a new vision of Northern Indian music and dance, tracing a musical journey from Rajasthan to Mumbai. The company, comprised of 17 artists, musicians, vocalists, dancers and acrobats, is led by artistic director Rahis Bharti.

The northwestern state of Rajasthan holds a rich tradition of art and culture grounded in folk culture from the surrounding villages. Traditional music and dance remain at the forefront of Rajasthani culture and is often used to communicate religious or devotional songs, heroic feats and love stories.

Bharti, born in Rajasthan, India, comes from seven generations of musical legacy. Bharti is the founder, artistic director and tabla musician for the performance. Working alongside his three brothers and a tight-knit troupe of dancers from the Rajasthan community, they strive to present the beauty and intricacy of Indian culture to North American audiences.

The performance combines the traditional and contemporary music of India. It incorporates Indian orchestral instruments like the tabla hand drum, the khartal and the shruti box. The khartal is a hand-held percussion instrument while the shruti box, an instrument related to the harmonium, produces a drone-like noise often associated with Indian music.

The traditional North Indian instruments were accompanied by a Western-inspired brass band.

Through a fusion of rich Indian tradition and a contemporary take on Bollywood film, Bollywood

Masala Orchestra adapts a dynamic dance repertoire to an orchestra. Four female dancers executed timeless traditional dances, such as the Kalbeliya, a snake-charming dance that mimics the movements of the cobra through intricate hand movements and the bending of the back. The dancers also adapted choreography from beloved Bollywood films, such as Om Shanti Om, while the orchestra played renditions of Bollywood soundtracks.

To complete the show, a Rajasthani “Dhoad Gypsy” balanced a clay pot atop his head while performing a feat of peril, dancing on a bed of nails and knives. His performance showcased the traditional Bhavai and Chari dance styles of Rajahstan.

The traditional Bhavai and Chari dances held a powerful grasp on the audience. The audience was encouraged to take part, instructed in the language of the tabla and the mnemonic “bol” — a term used to describe the language of the tabla drum and corresponding spoken song.

Clapping along and repeating the spoken bol language in unison with the orchestra, the audience embarked on their own journey through Northern India.

The performers of Bollywood Masala Orchestra are known as cultural ambassadors of the Rajasthan in North India.

“They have performed for the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, the President of France François Hollande, Queen Elizabeth at the Diamond Jubilee Celebration in London and even Mick Jagger,” Bharti said.

The international reception to the performance has been positive, Bharti added.

“Everywhere we go we are happy to perform. This is our life.

We share the joy, and the happiness, and we celebrate with the people,” Bharti said.

In attendance was Kingston Immigration Partnerships facilitator Sunita Gupta, who spoke on the significance of hosting the event.

“Works such as this start to make people feel like they are part of the community and are able to

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A member of The Bollywood Masala Orchestra and Dancers of India on stage during a previous performance.

share this sense of community with others,” Gupta said.

The troupe is on the final leg of their European and North

American tour that will see them play 50 concerts in two months and 10 days across the USA and Canada. Following their Kingston

performance, the tour will end with three sold out Toronto area dates this weekend.

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STUDENT ARTIST PROFILE

Social issues on canvas

Fine Arts student weaves her social opinions into paintings

Mackenzie Higgins’ series of six paintings about domestic violence.

A runa A undhia Contributor Aspiring arts conservationist Mackenzie Higgins, BFA ’17, uses realistic painting to speak out about social issues that are important to her.

At the end of her second year, Higgins completed her “Six Paintings in Six Weeks” series focusing on violence against women. The artist wanted to encompass all aspects of violence against women, including emotional and verbal abuse.

She began painting at an early age, and has found ways to incorporate her personal interest in social issues into her artwork for the Fine Arts program.

“After high school, my focus shifted to painting about issues that were close to my heart,” she said.

The “Six Paintings in Six Weeks” series is composed of six paintings she completed as part of a project. Each of them features female figures against deep, black backgrounds. One of them portrays a woman with her hair down and no shirt, leaving her shoulders and chest bare. A gash on one side of her mouth is still bleeding.

The woman’s eyes look directly at the viewer. The jarring piece leaves the viewer with more to think about than when they first approached it.

Higgins, who’s currently completing chemistry courses at Queen’s, is working towards a career in art conservation.

“Ideally, I’d like to be restoring old artworks to their original state,” Higgins said.

Growing up in Collingwood, Ontario, Higgins distinctly

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remembers painting family photos from an early age.

“A lot of my early art was family portraits that I had found in my family photo cabinet. That was my base that I worked off of,” she said.

She says even as early as kindergarten, her teachers recognized her inclination towards visual art and encouraged her to pursue her passion.

“My teacher said I had these skills and was able to draw little animals and things,” she said.

Mackenzie Higgins painting a piece of rocker Kurt Cobain.

The painter recollects her parents encouraging her to continue her passion for creating artwork and regards her father as being one of her biggest inspirations.

“My father has always been really supportive of my art. He saw early on that I had these fine motor skills and he later enrolled me in an arts school alongside high school.”

Higgins — who’s currently in the Fine Arts program — focuses

her artwork on particular social issues that speak personally to her.

The artist said painting is a gateway to expressing her opinions on these issues.

At only 10 years of age, Higgins decided to become a vegetarian.

Her most recent work focuses on animal rights and overconsumption, and she says it’s proving to be one of her favourite pieces.

ART FAIR

A crafty affair Queen’s Campus Craft Fair provides opportunity for artists to sell S tephanie N ijhuis Photo Editor The Queen’s Campus Craft Fair has returned to campus for its second year to exhibit beautiful handmade crafts fashioned

by Queen’s students and local Kingstonians.

Walking through McLaughlin Hall, visitors could find anything from handmade, illustrated holiday cards to extravagant jewellery to baked goods.

Krishna Patel’s artwork, which appeared at the fair on Tuesday, includes beautifully intricate and colourful pieces featuring animals, patterns and various other abstract objects. Patel, ArtSci ’16, became involved in the craft fair during its inaugural year in 2014-15 and stepped up to organize it this year.

Patel said the craft fair is an “alternative to Free and For Sale” — referring to the Facebook group for Queen’s students — and allows

students to display their work in a comfortable setting.

Patel, a political studies major, said her focus is politics, but she creates art as a stress reliever and a side hobby.

“I don’t want there to be that pressure if I don’t make a piece, I might not be able to pay rent,” she said.

“I want to be able to make pieces and love it. And then if that happens to bring in some extra spending money then that’s great, but if not, I still get to make my artwork.”

Aside from her own artwork, Patel said the craft fair is important for bridging the gap between student’s artistic endeavours and larger-scale community craft fairs.

“There’s a lot of students that haven’t been able to break into the local markets. This is a stepping stone up to that,” Patel said.

The success of the fair has provided students such as

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A rack of handmade tie-dyed t-shirts beside a booth selling original prints.

Courtney Lang, ArtSci ’16, an opportunity to showcase and sell their artwork and creative projects.

Lang crafts beautiful and dainty jewellery out of high-end supplies.

“I’ve always loved jewellery and most jewellery you buy in stores is cheap quality and never really lasts long,” Lang said. “I wanted to make my own.”

This year’s Campus Craft Fair was the first time she’s sold her jewellery after she began crafting it this past spring.

The Queen’s Campus Craft Fair was founded by recent graduate Laura Stemp, ArtSci ’15, in her final year at Queen’s.

“My idea for the Campus Craft Fair began in first year when I started crocheting custom order holiday gifts for family and friends,” Stemp said.

After looking into other craft fairs and artist markets around Kingston, Stemp says she was disgruntled by high costs to rent booths and their extensive

Art prints for sale at organizer Krishna Patel’s booth.

requirements for artists, including signage, professional tags and even reference letters from other craft fairs.

Stemp’s dream came to fruition last year after weeks of planning.

“I noticed that a lot of other students had cool crafty

hobbies,” she said. “So, I started asking around [about the craft fair] and other students seemed interested”.

Many of the vendors, including Patel’s artwork brand Westridge Art, will be making their second appearance at the next Queen’s Campus Craft Fair in February.

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COMMUNITY

“Little free libraries” pop up in Kingston Literacy project brings the magic of reading to your doorstep A nastasiya B oika Copy Editor If you aren’t feeling up to a trip to your local library, the Little Free Libraries project may be just what you need.

Since the movement began in 2009 with one man and a little box of books in Wisconsin, little libraries have grown in popularity worldwide.

As described on the project’s website littlefreelibrary.org, the premise of the movement is to promote a passion for literacy and encourage community building through free book exchanges.

Anyone can set up a box of books in front of their home with a sign designating it a ‘free library’.

Members of the community can then take books to read and return, or exchange them for others. This process allows people to discover literature they otherwise wouldn’t have found and gives neighbors more opportunities to engage with each other.

Kingston resident Nancy Jones, a former librarian who has had her own little free library for over a year, said the community has enjoyed having access to the variety

of books she provides.

“People are delighted. They’re really happy to have it here, they say thank you all the time,” she said.

Another little free librarian, Lyn Gallagher, said she has encountered people from all walks of life through her library. Her book box is a re-purposed heater set up in her front yard at 407 Division St. “From the bag lady to the business woman walking home from work, everybody checks in there, everybody’s got an interest.”

Although the feedback I received on my quest to find local little free libraries and their owners was generally positive, the project hasn’t always gone smoothly.

Some of the boxes experience vandalism, while others aren’t replenished by users. Gallagher’s original library box was broken, while Jones said she adds as many as 10 books a week to keep her library stocked.

So, whether you pass by a little free library on your way to campus or you’re on the lookout for book box, add a book when you take one. That way, we’ll keep this community movement up and From top (clockwise): the little book libraries at 8 Redan St., 242 Rideau St. running for years to come. and 407 Division St.

The Little Free Library locations north of Princess St.

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ART WORKSHOP

Sharing grandfather teachings through art Acclaimed Aboriginal artist Eric Voice leads 13-week art workshop Getting to Know Father Sky N ina R icciarelli Contributor Honesty, humility, love, wisdom, bravery, respect, and truth — these are the seven grandfather teachings that guide the conscience of the First Nations people.

They are also the foundation of Eric Voice’s 13-week art workshop, Getting to Know Father Sky, which runs until Dec. 12 at the H’art School.

Voice, who has had a distinguished career as an Aboriginal musician, said he doesn’t like the word “teaching” to refer to the workshops. The four-time Canadian and American Native Music Award nominee has toured Ontario several times.

“Teaching is what elders do,” he said. “When someone says teaching, it puts you in a student position. Sharing invites perspective.”

In the workshops, participants are encouraged to do whatever feels most comfortable to them, whether it’s visual art, poetry, music or movement.

Throughout the sessions, Voice is a wonderful guide in the process of digging deep into the soul to find artistic expression.

Many of the participants in the workshops are youth with developmental delays or disabilities who express themselves through poetry and art.

Among their work were drawings that illustrated the participants’ love for their families and things that are most important to them.

They were encouraged to incorporate symbolism from Aboriginal culture into their art and movements.

Two young men at a workshop I visited showed me their artwork.

One of the participants showed

me a picture that he had drawn of a wolf print. Within each finger was the name of someone important to him.

Another participant let me read a poem he wrote on the seven grandfather teachings and said he planned to represent the teachings on stage through group movement.

Participants were encouraged to use their bodies to represent the naturalistic elements that are quintessential to the First Nations mythos, such as the standing family, water family, and flying family — trees, marine life, and birds, respectively.

The name of the workshop is a reference to Father Sky, who stands as the counterpart to Mother Earth and is joined by Grandfather Sun and Grandmother Moon.

Voice said the workshops are a way for people to learn more about First Nations culture through the lens of self-reflection.

“Our culture is always learning about self,” Voice said.

Voice, a registered nurse who now works as a caregiver for youth with disabilities, believes every person should have the ability to share the feelings within themselves in a creative way, even if it’s out of their comfort zone.

“Every single person that walks on the earth is creative and it’s our job to figure out how they’re creative,” he said.

His method of sharing, rather than teaching, reflects what he’s trying to achieve from hosting this workshop. It is his hope, he said, that every person walks out of the workshop feeling as

Workshop facilitator and artist Eric Voice.

if they have accomplished and created something that’s an authentic representation of themselves.

In its entirety, Getting to Know Father Sky is about building community.

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“It’s about coming together as a community and creating something,” Voice said. “You don’t have to be able to see or hear or be good at art. It’s what’s created when you come together.”

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SPORTS

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Dakic presiding over Ontario’s courts Law student Marko Dakic makes case as one of OUA’s best in first Queen’s season PHOTO BY MATHIESON SMITH

In his first year for the Gaels, Marko Dakic leads the OUA in both kills per set and hitting percentage.

C ameron N ewell Staff Writer After playing four years of volleyball as an undergrad at York, Marko Dakic, now a first-year law student, can only play for the Gaels for one season before his eligibility ends.

But in his first year at Queen’s, Dakic has been on fire, climbing to the top spot in the OUA in both kills per set and hitting percentage.

“It’s perfect timing for a new player to be ‘plugged in’ for just a year, especially when considering the strength of our team,” Dakic said.

While he’ll only be with the Gaels for one season, Dakic said that hasn’t affected his cohesion with the team.

“They’ve been incredibly receptive as teammates and friends,” he said. “I came in at a good time, joining three other starters in their graduating year.”

The team has found its rhythm

as of late, winning six consecutive games and sitting in second place in the OUA with a 7-1 record.

During his third year at the Schulich School of Business, Dakic realized his time in university was quickly drawing to a close. He looked to extend it in a place that was fitting both on and off the court, ultimately deciding on Queen’s School of Law. “I always had an interest in learning law, and decided that applying would be a good idea,” he said.

While volleyball was part of his decision to come to Queen’s, Dakic says he doesn’t allow it to get in the way of his main goal.

“My career is my number one priority, although I did want to play my fifth year of eligibility somewhere too,” he said. “Queen’s was on my mind all year during my last year at York. The different student experience and the quality of the law school are the factors that really drew me in, apart from

the volleyball team.”

Dakic grew up in Mississauga, where he attended Glenforest Secondary School. He’s one of the few Gaels who didn’t play club volleyball in high school, opting to only play for his high school team.

“I played for my high school team starting in grade 10,” he said.

“Although it wasn’t necessarily by choice. I wanted to start in grade 9, but I didn’t make the cut.”

Though his high school teams didn’t have any notable success, Dakic proved himself to be a skilled player as a member of Team Ontario at the 2013 Canada Summer Games and at the National Team Challenge Cup in 2012.

He made the team as a walk-on for the York Lions, helping them win the OUA bronze medal last season.

When asked about the team’s recent success, he believes simple strategies and enjoyment of the game have been two major contributing factors.

“I think we’ve been shutting off our brains and playing instinctively,” he said. “We have fun during matches and that’s what has been making us successful.”

Dakic has confidence in a squad that has its sights set high.

“Our goal is to finish top three and go to nationals,” he said. “It’s a very realistic goal.”

His teammates have been just as happy with Dakic joining the team.

“A lot of us have played with him [Marko] in the past during the summers,” Mike Tomlinson, a fifth-year starter, said. “He has brought the same high-energy to this team as he has to every other.”

Tomlinson believes that Dakic’s arrival from an OUA rival in York has been a huge benefit for the Gaels.

“Marko has already made enormous on-court contributions this season,” he said. “He’s done an excellent job in keeping the

team moving forward and securing a 7-1 record during the recent slew of injuries.”

Tomlinson added that coming from an OUA opponent in particular has been an asset for the team.

“It is always useful to see how other teams game plan and execute during a season,” he said.

The Gaels will face their toughest test yet this weekend, when the number one nationally ranked McMaster Marauders visit the ARC to take on the Gaels on Friday, Nov. 27.

The Marauders haven’t lost a set since their opening match against Waterloo. The Gaels follow that game with a visit to RMC on Saturday to play the Paladins.

For Tomlinson, Dakic’s experience will be key in moving forward in these games and for the rest of the season.

“It gives us all a greater perspective on changes that we should be making,” he said.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Coming back from slow start Team returns to .500 winning percentage J oshua F inkelstein Staff Writer After a 0-3 start to the year, women’s volleyball has begun to turn their season around.

“It feels like we’re really settling in more as a team and are coming together,” fourth-year Shannon Neville said.

The Gaels won their second game in a row on Saturday, defeating the Guelph Gryphons 3-1 in sets. Queen’s dropped the first set of the match 25-21, but proceeded to take the next three 25-23, 25-20 and 25-19.

After opening the season with three straight losses, the Gaels are now 4-4.

“In terms of preparation over the past few weeks. We’ve really upped our intensity in practice,” she said.

It looked as though Queen’s would need to overcome a 2-0 deficit, after a Guelph run that gave the visitors a 22-19 lead near

the end of the tightly contested second set.

The Gaels regained the serve to make the score 22-20, though the ensuing serve from secondyear Makayla Keith was initially ruled out.

However, after consulting with the other officials, the ref overturned his decision, determining that prior to landing out of play the ball had deflected off of the unsuspecting head of a Gryphons’ backcourt player. Gifted with a second chance, the Gaels made no mistake, taking the set following an exchange of timeouts.

The Gaels were in charge the rest of the match, winning the third set riding a six-point run. The team finished off the comeback in the fourth after getting out to a 16-10 lead and not letting up.

Neville led the Gaels with 16 of the team’s 51 kills, adding 20 digs on the return.

“After the first set we kind of recognized that we were almost

trying too hard — trying to make every pass too perfect and every hit perfect,” Neville said. “In the second, third and fourth set, we turned it on and our game became a little scrappier, getting more touches on balls we weren’t getting in the first set.”

Neville said the team’s efforts in practice have finally started to translate into positive results.

“We always have both sides battling to win every point and really put the pressure on ourselves in practice to make the dig and get the kill when it matters the most,” she said. “It seems to be clearly paying off with our stats over the past few games.”

This weekend the team has a set of home matches against the McMaster Marauders and Waterloo Warriors.

“We’re really excited to play McMaster and Waterloo this weekend and end off the first half of the season with a bang,” Neville said.

Shannon Neville (#6) is having a strong start to the season, leading the team with 95 kills.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Gaels shock Brock Nationally-ranked Badgers upset on Kingston visit J oseph C attana Assistant Sports Editor

PHOTOS BY KENDRA PIERROZ With their 87-81 win over Brock, the Gaels beat a top 10 team in the nation for the first time since 2012.

When it looked like the game was lost for the second night in a row, men’s basketball Head Coach Stephen Barrie called for a time out.

Down 45-31 to the Brock Badgers — the fourth ranked team in nation — the time out came with 2:23 remaining in the second quarter.

“It looked like we weren’t giving it our all and weren’t putting a 100 per cent effort — which we weren’t, to be fair,” third-year guard Sukhpreet Singh said.

For Singh, who scored 18 points in the victory, the time out was a turning point in the contest. “[Coach] made us understand that if we want to be good, we cannot let those things happen.”

Barrie spoke to his team about

Mark Placibar had a strong showing on the night, scoring 10 points and providing six assists.

their poor rebounding in the first half. Less than halfway through thegame, the team allowed nine offensive rebounds. For the Gaels to be successful, Barrie knew his team would need to change their intensity.

Barrie’s words worked wonders for the weakened team, as they came back to win 87-81.

From the time out on, Queen’s looked like a different team. They ended the quarter on an 8-2 run, bringing the deficit down to single digits heading into the break. In the second quarter the Gaels were efficient on offence, shooting over 70 per cent compared to Brock’s 42.

Domination would come in the third period, with the Gaels winning the quarter 21-13. They pressured the Badgers, forcing them to shoot only 24 per cent from the field, turning the ball over eight times compared to the Gaels five.

To pull away from Brock in the fourth quarter, Singh was helped by forwards Patrick Street and Tanner Graham.

In back-to-back plays, these two Gaels hit consecutive jump shots, putting the Gaels ahead by five — their largest lead of the game — and driving their hometown fans into a frenzy.

Clutch free throw shooting down the stretch would secure the Gaels their biggest win of the season.

Mark Placibar played strong for Queen’s, scoring 10 points and providing six assists in his 31 minutes of action.

On the night, the Gaels were led offensively by Graham, Singh and Street, scoring 51 of the Gaels’

81 points.

Combined with his 21-point and five-block performance against McMaster, Graham was named the OUA male athlete of the week.

To Singh, a major part of the team’s early success is due to Graham’s growth during his second year. In his rookie campaign, Graham was known mostly for his three-point ability. With this updated arsenal, he’s quickly becoming one of the most feared players in the OUA. “He can really get to the rack and he can guard a whole bunch of different positions,” Singh said.

“For him to step up like that for us is huge for the team.”

One of the Gaels’ biggest changes from previous years is their interior defence. Graham has played a major role in this, stifling opponents at the rim. He currently leads the OUA with 2.2 blocks per game.

Saturday’s victory was the Gaels’ first against a CIS Top 10 team since their 2012 victory against the seventh-ranked Lakehead Thunderwolves.

While this latest win gives them a lot of confidence, Singh knows the season is still young.

“We still have so much to prove,” he said. “It’s great that we won that game, but it doesn’t mean anything if we don’t win these two games this weekend.”

The Gaels head to Waterloo for a pair of matches against the Laurier Golden Hawks on Friday and the Waterloo Warriors on Saturday.

MEN’S HOCKEY

Fundraising game set in honour of late student “Puck Cancer” game played in memory of Carley Allison A dam L askaris Sports Editor This story originally appeared online Nov. 25.

When Jordan Coccimiglio and the men’s hockey team take the ice against McGill this Saturday, they’ll be doing so in memory of a former Queen’s student.

Carley Allison passed away earlier this year after a lengthy battle with clear cell sarcoma.

The second annual men’s hockey charity game this Saturday takes on a more somber tone than the contest last season, which was held in support of her ongoing treatment. Allison sang the national anthem that night.

The Carley’s Angels Foundation created in her memory provides financial support for families with terminally ill children who need assistance paying hospital bills and other expenses. This season, Allison’s anthem from her

appearance at a Toronto Maple Leafs game on Hockey Night in Canada will be played in her honour.

Coccimiglio, a third-year forward, and Meaghan Taylor, ArtSci ’16, are the two main student organizers of the second Puck Cancer fundraising game.

Coccimiglio and Taylor have been working on the game since June, with proceeds going to the Carley’s Angels Foundation and Princess Margaret Hospital’s research initiatives.

Although Carley is certainly the focus of the event, the organizers are hoping their reach is as wide as possible.

“We want to make it a community event, attracting anyone that’s ever had cancer of all types,” Coccimiglio said. “We don’t want it … [to be] about one form of cancer. We want everyone on campus coming together.”

The Gaels come into the game with an 8-3 record while McGill is

ranked first in the country at 12-2.

As one of the team’s biggest rivals, Coccimiglio knows firsthand the importance of a victory in the contest. The Redmen knocked Queen’s out in the second round of the playoffs last year while also beating them twice in the regular season. However, Coccimiglio believes the team has improved enough to bring the Gaels closer to defeating their rivals.

“We have a competitive team this year,” he said. “It should be a good game.”

With a goal of raising $10,000, Coccimiglio and Taylor have their work cut out for them. But they’re not in it alone.

“It’s been a long process, but everyone’s been very helpful,” Coccimiglio said. He praised his teammates, men’s hockey head coach Brett Gibson and sponsors for their involvement in the process.

As students get into the game for free, the organizers have found creative ways to fundraise through

PHOTO BY STEPHANIE NIJHUIS From left: Meaghan Taylor, Holly Mathias and Jordan Coccimiglio have been working on the game since June.

sponsorships, with the hope of drawing students to the game through a number of giveaways and contests.

Corporate sponsors have been in abundance, the most notable being Air Canada, which has offered two free tickets anywhere in Canada to the winner of an in-game paper plane toss. Boston Pizza has also donated a pizza a month for a year to the winner of the raffle.

On top of their offers, Head Coach Gibson sent in Ottawa Senators tickets four rows behind

the bench for the Dec. 27 game against Boston Bruins as part of the raffle as well.

Though Carley’s story is known only to a few, the cancer that took her life is familiar to many.

“Cancer’s touched everyone directly or indirectly,” Taylor said.

“Carley has touched thousands of people’s lives through her singing and her positive outlook on life.

It’s not only a personal game in her memory, but it’s a personal game for everyone on the ice and in the audience.”

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POWER RANKINGS

Ranking the fall varsity teams The Journal’s Sports section debates the highs and lows of a memorable fall 2015

J oseph C attana A dam L askaris Journal Staff

With three OUA championships and two national silver medals, the 2015 fall season at Queen’s was one to remember.

As none of the teams had losing seasons, The Journal had a tough time deciding the final rankings.

all-stars — Matt Beukeboom, Mark Charette, Jeff MacDonald and Brendan Blaikie — the Gaels finished the regular season tied with Guelph with a 7-1 record, sitting just below them in the final standings.

The Gaels then defeated the Western Mustangs 37-8 in the OUA semifinal, earning their place in the championship game.

1. Men’s rugby

2. Women’s soccer

If there’s one word that describes the men’s rugby team over the past four years, it’s dominance.

Capturing their fourth consecutive OUA title with a win over Guelph in the final, the Gaels earned their 22nd men’s rugby provincial title.

The team’s lone loss this year came in the season opener to Guelph, but the team reeled off 10-straight victories to end the season. This dominance earned the team a slight edge in the overall rankings over women’s soccer.

Led by OUA MVP Lucas Rumball and four other

While they didn’t reach the top spot in our rankings, the women’s soccer team has plenty to be proud of this year.

Plagued by an inability to score early on in the year, the Gaels struggled at first. To keep themselves close in match-ups, the women’s soccer team relied heavily on their defence.

From October on, the Gaels became one of the most difficult teams to play against in the OUA. In their next eight contests, Queens’ went undefeated (4-0-4).

Midfielder Jessie de Boer was

and

the lone Queen’s player named to be a first-team OUA all-star, while fellow midfielder Lidia Bradau, defender Michah Vermeer and forward Jenny Wolever represented the Gaels on the second team.

Ranked fifth in the OUA East, there aren’t many who would’ve predicted that the Gaels would advance far into the playoffs. After four tight games against Toronto, Laurentian, York and Laurier — all decided by one goal — the Gaels were crowned OUA champions.

At the national championships, the Gaels continued to play in tight games. After losing in the first round to Sherbrooke, the Gaels won their following two games against Calgary and Cape Breton, finishing the year fifth in the nation.

3. Women’s rugby After defeating the defending OUA champions McMaster Marauders 15-14, the Gaels opened the season ranked second in Canada — matching their See Gridiron, page 16

MEN’S HOCKEY

Up-and-down road trip Gaels take one of two against OUA rivals M att C hristie Contributor Men’s hockey defenceman Spencer Abraham had mixed thoughts on his team’s performance this past weekend.

“The Western game and the Guelph game were complete polar opposites,” he said, referring to the team’s 4-3 win over the Western Mustangs on Thursday followed by a 4-2 loss on Friday night to the Guelph Gryphons.

Entering their first game against the Mustangs, the Gaels were confident, even though Western was sitting in first place in the West Division.

“We walked in with our heads held high from the last few wins and we were ready to play,” Abraham said.

Queen’s third-year starting goalie Kevin Bailie gave the Mustangs a front row seat to his superb play. One of the top goalies in the CIS this season, Bailie entered the game with two shutouts in his last three games, and he continued his hot streak as he stopped 43 shots on the night.

Darcy Greenaway scored the game winner for the Gaels halfway into the third period, after the Mustangs tied the game at 3-3.

The Mustangs had a hard-fought battle, but Bailie stopped Western in their tracks, making 18 saves in the period.

“We went in communicating on the ice, skating hard and playing aggressively. That allowed us to secure the win over Western,” Abraham said.

Ryan Bloom scored for the first time this season on Thursday, with goals also coming from

Peter Angelopoulos and forward Patrick McGillis late in the second to lift the Gaels to a 4-3 win over the Mustangs.

On Friday night, Jacob Brennan stopped 25 shots for Queen’s, but it wasn’t enough with the Gryphons coming out superior.

“They outskated us, our communication wasn’t there, and we just didn’t go out playing our game,” Abraham said.

Guelph set the tone early in the first period with a goal from Carlos Amestoy. With five minutes left in the first, Patrick McGillis took advantage of a power play for the Gaels, and scored to equalized the game.

“When we went to Guelph, we knew we were going up against last year’s national champions, which immediately set a tone,” Abraham said.

Although the power play goal

lifted the Gaels to a tie, it didn’t help their momentum in the second. They suffered two goals to the Gryphons, one of which came off of a power play break for Guelph.

Abraham scored his fifth of the season — assisted by Eric Ming and Slater Doggett — bringing the game to 3-2 with seven minutes left in the third. However it wasn’t enough, as the Gryphons scored an empty netter to secure the game at 4-2.

The Gaels are now 8-3-0, and will be at home on Saturday to play the McGill Redmen, who sit first in the East Division.

“McGill is the best offensive team in the country, and we’re one of the best defensive teams,” Abraham said. “We’re going to need to hold McGill back … and make them play our game.”

Darcy Greenaway scored the winning goal in Thursday’s game.

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Lauren McEwen was named a tournament all-star for her play at the CIS National Rugby Championship.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Tables turned

Gaels briefly hold top spot before being upended A dam L askaris Sports Editor Less than 24 hours after they claimed the top spot in the OUA, women’s hockey saw themselves humbled with a loss. The Gaels fell 4-1 to the Western Mustangs on Saturday, a night after picking up a 4-1 win over the Windsor Lancers.

The Gaels were outmatched on Saturday night against Western, falling behind 3-0 after two periods and mustering a lone goal in the third off the stick of Katrina Manoukarakis.

The bright spot of the weekend was Friday’s win, though Holmberg felt there was still work that could’ve been done over a lesser opponent.

“I wasn’t really happy with our first two periods,” he said. The Gaels were only up 1-0 after 40 minutes of play against the Lancers, who came into the game with a single victory on the year.

“I wasn’t feeling like we brought the same

intensity we brought last weekend.”

Eventually in the third period, Addi Halladay, Taryn Pilon and Nadia Larocca found the back of the net, putting the Gaels in the driver’s seat for the remainder of the game.

“We were just going to the net however we could,” Holmberg said.

He praised Queen’s goaltender Caitlyn Lahonen for her work on the night, as she made 33 saves in the win. “[She] was there to keep us in the game until we were able to find our offence,” he said. “It was a tight one. I give everyone credit for working hard.”

The Gaels have the chance to redeem themselves this weekend as they travel to Western on Friday before playing at Windsor on Saturday. While the Gaels were unsuccessful in their first game against the Mustangs, Holmberg is looking for a stronger performance this weekend.

“There will be plenty of internal motivation,” he said.

Western defeated Queen’s 4-1 on Saturday night.

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After splitting the weekend games against McMaster and Brock, the Gaels are at the top of the OUA East with a 4-1 record.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

First taste of defeat Four-game winning streak ended after 69-50 loss E ric G allo -M iscevich Staff Writer After a hot start to the year, women’s basketball lost their first game of the season this weekend, putting their record at 4-1.

A night after winning 60-53 against the McMaster Marauders, Queen’s was swept clean 69-50 by the Brock Badgers.

While the Gaels’ clutch performance resulted in a Friday night victory, that hustle and intensity wouldn’t carry over to a win on Saturday night against the sixth nationally-ranked Brock Badgers.

“I think we showed a bit of lethargy … both physically and emotionally, and you can’t afford to do that with a good team like Brock,” head coach Dave Wilson said after the loss.

Going into halftime with the score tied at 24, both teams went into the third quarter with a clean slate. However, the Badgers took control over the momentum of the game, going into the fourth with a comfortable lead of 54-37.

Despite Wilson’s emphasis on shot making in practices, there was an inability to hit shots on the night. As a result, the Gaels were unable to get stops in the fourth period and lost the game by 19.

Knowing they had difficulty finding the basket, the Gaels tried to alter their defence in the hopes of providing better chances for easier buckets.

“We changed the defence up to the front court … because at that point the shots were not falling, despite the fact that we had open looks,” Wilson said.

On Friday, the Gaels had an inconsistent first half against the Marauders. While they finished the first quarter ahead 14-9, they scored only five points in the second quarter. Going into half time, they were down 22-19.

Although the Gaels started to turn things around coming out of halftime, they finished the third quarter with a 36-33 lead.

With five lead changes in the quarter, this was a back-and-forth performance that had

the audience on the edge of their seats.

“Our whole focus has been on getting our team to believe that they can shoot the basketball,” Wilson said. “In the first half we actually shot the ball better from the three point line than we did from inside … so we said, ‘you know what, take more threes.”

“We had a really good week of practice,” he said. “We shot the ball really well during the week, and that’s where we’ve been struggling the most.”

In addition to bringing a refined shooting performance, the Gaels changed up their defence to match the Marauders’ tactical play.

“What was really important about this game was that we brought a defence in this week that McMaster hasn’t seen before, and our goal was to take their best player out of the game,” Wilson said.

With this increase in defensive pressure, Robyn Pearson snagged three steals while Emily Hazlett added two of her own. One of Hazlett’s steals resulted in a three-pointer from Abby Dixon, which put the Gaels ahead by 13 with 6:53 to go.

“She’s a real competitor,” Wilson said.

“She’s a kid that plays her best when the chips are down, and that’s what you saw out of her in the fourth quarter.”

Hazlett said she’s always been more of a defensive player and she likes to play with her opponents’ heads.

“I play around with them and wait,” Hazlett said, “until they kind of leave the ball out for me at the end of the game.

Instead of trying to get it at the start, [I] play around with their mind.”

To solidify their win, Robyn Pearson hit a jump shot with under 20 seconds to go, putting the Gaels ahead by seven.

Pearson stole the ball with 15 seconds to go, destroying the chances of a Marauder come back.

After the split performance, the Gaels travel to Waterloo this weekend to take on the Waterloo Warriors and Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks.

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Matteo del Brocco and the football team were eliminated in the first round of the OUA playoffs.

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Gridiron Gaels fail to impress Continued from page 14

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highest position in school history.

From there, women’s rugby reeled off three more wins, dominating their opponents 201-10 over the three games.

During the regular season, the team was led by OUA All-Star Emma Chown, whose 12 tries propelled her to fourth in OUA scoring on the year.

Her efforts were matched by teammates from all different positions on the field. Blindside flanker Gill Pegg, centre Lauren McEwen and hooker Pippi McKay joined Chown on the All-Star team.

Unfortunately, the Gaels hit a rough patch at the close of their provincial campaign, winning only two of their next five games, finishing their OUA season in just fourth place.

While most teams qualify for the national championships by being top in their division, the Gaels only earned their bid by being the host team.

Led by McEwen, the Gaels pulled off two upsets against Acadia and Concordia, eventually falling to McMaster in the final.

For her efforts, McEwen was awarded a tournament all star.

With half of their team being first years, valuable experience was gained during the national championship run, the Gaels

look poised to build off this year’s success.

4. Cross Country Cross country saw a pair of star individual performances at the OUA level, however, the success was not replicated at the national stage. Though still commendable, both teams finished outside of the national and Journal fall sports podiums.

Alex Wilkie won the OUA men’s championship by just one second, while Julie-Anne Staehli finished second in the women’s race. While the men’s team finished outside of the medals with a fourth-place finish, a fifth-place race by Claire Sumner helped to push the women’s team to second on the overall team podium.

At the national level, the women’s team pushed for a fourth-place finish, with Staehli finishing fifth and Sumner finishing in eighth. The men’s team finished eighth at the CIS event.

5. Rowing Larkin Davenport Huyer’s second place finish at the national championships was the pinnacle of rowing at Queen’s this year.

At the OUA level, the women’s team captured silver in the double, 4+ and 8+ events. They also

earned bronze medals in the lightweight 4+ and lightweight 8+ races, to finishing second in the overall rankings. The men took bronze in the lightweight single for their lone OUA medal. The women’s team finished second at the OUA in the overall standings, while the men’s team finished fourth.

6. Men’s soccer After compiling a 10-win season last year, the men’s soccer team looked to take the next step in contending for an OUA Championship.

Early on in the year, second-year Jacob Schroeter was in form, scoring in five straight games. Holding teams to just over one goal a game, the Gaels had one of the best defensive records in all of Ontario.

After it was all said and done, the Gaels would have an identical record from last year, finishing 9-2-5.

Schroeter was met by defenders Kristian Zannette and Sam Aberbathy, and midfielder Oliver Coren on the OUA East Second All-Star team for their strong efforts this year.

Unfortunately for the Gaels, they didn’t make it past the second round of the OUA playoffs for the third year in a row, losing in a heartbreaking 1-0 game to Toronto.

With the majority of the team returning, the men’s soccer team looks ready to advance into the OUA Final Four next year.

7. Football Last in our rankings, the Queen’s football team can have what can only be described as an up-anddown year.

The Gaels’ shining moment came in a 23-15 upset victory over eventual Ontario champion Guelph, one year removed from a 66-0 loss to the same team.

A 5-3 record and a fourth-place OUA finish in the regular season had the Gaels poised to make a potential deep playoff run.

However, the Gaels saw themselves outmatched in the first round of the OUA playoffs, losing 39-8 to the Carleton Ravens in what was their final home game at the current Richardson Stadium.

As the only Queen’s team to not advance past the first round of their playoffs this fall, football sits in last place for the second year in a row.

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LIFESTYLE POP CULTURE

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show: not so angelic C harlotte S anders Contributor While December marks the beginnings of the Holiday season, it also celebrates the airing of the much-anticipated Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the show racked in over 9.1 million viewers last year. This year’s show will air on Dec. 8 at 10 p.m. and will likely earn an even greater viewership, with “It Girls” Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner taking the stage for the first time.

For those of you who’ve somehow escaped the hype surrounding the event, it’s a fashion show of exclusively lingerie, featuring designs that are as whimsical as they’re revealing.

Being chosen to model in the show is one of the most coveted jobs in the modeling industry.

The desire for girls everywhere to be “like an Angel” is evident with a quick internet search, which immediately retrieves videos such as “How to Get Legs Like a Victoria’s Secret Angel Model” or articles such as “This is what Victoria’s Secret Angels eat for breakfast”.

Victoria’s Secret knows about this desire to be “like an Angel” and uses it to their advantage.

The store offers tank tops and sweatpants with the word “Angel” plastered over them, Angel body lotion and perfume and even an Angel rewards card designed to entice the most loyal customers into spending even more. The company also capitalizes on the hype by promoting workout routines, such as “Train Like an Angel”, which teaches women to have an Angel-like body.

Many girls and women seek to emulate the lifestyles of these beautiful and slim models in the hopes that they too might become

Last year, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was watched by over 9 million people.

more beautiful and slim, assuming this will make them happy. But at what cost?

The bodies that we see saunter down the catwalk are the result of rigorous exercise and restrictive meal plans, aided by professional trainers and dieticians. This diligent lifestyle isn’t feasible for the majority of women whose careers don’t revolve around their physical appearance.

Yet when women see these models without fully understanding the level of hard work necessary to maintain such a figure, the effects can be tremendously damaging to their self-worth. These effects are likely worsened when models such as Cara Delevingne brag to news outlets about eating McDonald’s and pizza the night before the fashion show.

This presents the false idea that

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little work goes into achieving their figures and that the average woman is perhaps lesser for not being able to binge on fast food and maintain a perfectly flat stomach.

It feels like it’s become almost cliché to ask for more diverse representations of the female body in the media, but it’s still as necessary as ever, evidenced by uniform body present in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

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The models appear at times interchangeable, each as leggy and ample chested as the one before her. If a model is even slightly curvier than her fellow Victoria’s Secret models, she stands out and is singled out online.

During the show, Twitter is flooded with self-deprecating tweets such as, “Working out and crying during the commercials #VSFashionShow” and “You hear that? That’s the sound of a million teenage girls purging #VSFashionShow.”

It’s this level of self-hate that Victoria’s Secret cashes in on, hoping that these girls will head right for their stores to buy products that will hopefully bring them a little closer to Angel status.

The danger of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show also lies in its implications concerning the role of women in society. By having an event that encourages spectatorship of these women, it grossly objectifies them by presenting these women as objects for society’s gaze rather than as people.

In fact, Independent, a UK news source, said they were banned by the Victoria’s Secret PR team from asking questions pertaining to objectification backstage at the show. Instead, they permitted questions regarding their favourite outfit. The show turns these women into hypersexualized fantasies and reinforces the idea that women are commodities for consumption, not individuals.

Ultimately, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is just another form of mass media that promotes both an impossible beauty standard and the objectification of women.

Yet due to its magnitude, not to mention its apparent lack of purpose other than cashing on the insecurities of women, this event seems particularly harmful. may be familiar with. But what does cortisol actually do in your body? It tells your body to increase its blood sugar levels by interfering with your insulin.

While this might be a great function to have when stress is related to starvation, nowadays, a prolonged release of cortisol often results in weight gain.

Muscle tension, headaches, heart palpitations, trouble sleeping — the physical symptoms of stress are familiar to far too many university students. But what we’re often unaware of are the underlying physiological processes that contribute to stress.

Stress, in biological terms, is Sickness and infections when an organism (that’s us), fails to respond appropriately to a threat Cortisol also blocks what are called T cells, which play a crucial role in (that’s your exam).

In small doses, stress can be your immune system. This means beneficial. It can compel us to be individuals exposed to persistent productive, motivate us to manage stress are more susceptible our time and, for some lucky to infections. people, it even brings out their Anyone who’s ever noticed a best performance. correlation between exam period and time spent sick can rest Weight gain assured that there’s likely a causal relationship there.

Cortisol, also known as the stress hormone, is a buzzword that you See How on page 19

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EXCHANGE DIARIES

Ni hao, Shanghai S tephanie S olty Contributor A friend once told me that when you visit China for a week you feel as though you can write an entire novel about it.

Stay a month, and you might be able to sum up your adventures in a blog post. Live here for any longer and you’ll find yourself staring at a blank page for hours.

This holds true, as I’ve spent three months studying at Fudan University in Shanghai and don’t even know where to begin

summing up the experience I’ve had.

I chose Shanghai for my semester abroad on a whim, with little expectations of it actually coming to fruition.

Looking back now, I couldn’t be more pleased that I did. While experiencing a new culture and learning a once (okay, still) seemingly impossible language, I’ve also been fortunate enough to travel to some of the most beautiful places in the world.

In places like the mountainous regions of Guilin and Huangshan, which I might have otherwise

dismissed from my travel bucket list, I’ve created some of my fondest memories while in China. From biking around the picturesque countryside in Guilin to sleeping at the peak of Mount Huangshan, both trips have offered me experiences I will never forget.

My first month in China was a whirlwind of emotional ups and downs. Although I tried to mentally prep myself, my first few days in Shanghai made me quickly realize there was virtually no way I could have prepared myself for the culture shock.

While settling into my new

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home, even the simplest of tasks, like ordering food at a restaurant or asking for directions, suddenly seemed daunting.

My lack of proficiency in Mandarin forced me to become creative with my styles of communication, forcing me to rely on using makeshift sign language when interacting with waiters or cab drivers.

To my dismay, even hand gestures seem to get lost in translation here in China. As it turns out, even the 10 fingers on my own two hands couldn’t help me count to the number 10 like I can back home. Rather, numbers are replaced by hand gestures. For instance, six is replaced by what is commonly known as the shaka or hang loose sign.

While my inability to hold basic conversations could be extremely frustrating at times, looking back now, I can easily find humour in situations that had once seemed

impossible to overcome.

After I got my bearings and I started to grasp some “survival Chinese” from my Mandarin class, each day became astonishingly easier.

With each person I met and each new cultural understanding I gained, the virtues of this experience started to become much more noticeable, and before I knew it Shanghai felt like home.

This semester, my eyes have been opened to a whole new world of opportunity, I’ve experienced an astonishing amount of personal development, and I’ve had the time of my life along the way.

For anyone that’s on the fence about participating in a cultural exchange, I urge you to take advantage of Queen’s Experience the Future program. It’s programs like this that have the ability to redefine the boundaries of our comfort zones, which makes for a remarkable experience abroad.

busy schedule.

cabbage. This may seem limited, but once I started researching recipes, I realized that this gave me plenty to work with.

Understand that it’s a relationship

For farm-fresh produce, check out the farmer’s market on campus every Wednesday.

C hloe B eisheim Contributor While there’s a clear financial and health benefit to preparing your own meals, the biggest benefit of farm-to-table dining is the awareness of what’s in the food you’re eating and where it comes from.

Eating farm-to-table means building a relationship with food that you don’t get with processed or take-out options.

The farm-to-table concept involves creating meals where most or all of the ingredients are fresh, in-season and locally sourced. Not only do in-season ingredients taste better, they’re also cheaper and

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more sustainably sourced. Another added benefit: local ingredients are often organic or naturally raised.

But is this really practical for students?

I’ll take you through my process of making a healthy, multi-day meal with local ingredients without having to compromise my

The first step to farm-to-table Pick a recipe dining is recognizing your relationship with food.

Like all strong relationships, I settled on a vegan roasted it requires time and effort, but vegetable salad made with red it’s worth it. Your relationship beets, sweet potatoes and butternut WITH food has the power to squash, all purchased from the add years to your life and to take produce vendor on campus. years away.

This roasted vegetable dish is Investing in the relationship also perfect as a side to cooked helps you know what’s actually chicken breast.

Farm-to-table doesn’t mean you in the food you’re eating and how to fuel your body with nutritious, have to be limited to vegan or unprocessed ingredients. It’s also vegetarian options. Pig & Olive, an investment in food sustainability a downtown Kingston meat shop, through supporting the farmers in carries locally sourced and naturally your region. raised meat made available all year round. Grocery Checkout Know what’s in season carries some of their products, which is perfectly accessible Farm-to-table cooking involves to students. a backwards approach to typical cooking. Instead of starting with Enjoy the recipe, start by finding out what local ingredients are available. Cooking and eating should involve It’s easy to find out what’s in quality time spent with food and season by visiting the campus your body. The reality is that we’re farmer’s market (Wednesdays developing a relationship with outside the JDUC) or by food that we will take with us into searching online. the next stages of life.

Now that we’re heading into No matter where you’re winter, in-season produce is mainly starting from, there’s always sweet potatoes, squash, beets, room to make more local cauliflower, carrots, apples and and healthy choices.

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Short-term memory loss Scientists have also proven that cortisol can hinder the memory process. The area of your brain in charge of memory processing and storage, the hippocampus, has a significant number of cortisol receptors. Elevated amounts of cortisol can overwhelm these receptors, causing damage to the hippocampus.

But don’t fret too much about your university stress haunting you into old age — most of the damage is reversible upon the removal of chronic stress. But it’s not great news if you have an exam that’s memory-based.

While coffee and all-nighters are often considered ways of dealing with exam-stress, these practices are almost

guaranteed to boost your cortisol production In fact, one Dartmouth study showed that cortisol levels may be increased by up to 45 per cent after an all-nighter.

If you’re a regular coffee drinker, having your usual amount on the day of an exam shouldn’t cause you any trouble. If you’re compensating for a lack of sleep with caffeine though, that’s another story.

As we approach the December exam season, make school a priority, but also prioritize taking care of yourself. Get enough sleep, eat healthy, clear your mind with a workout or tea with a friend.

Keep those cortisol levels in check and show those exams, final papers or assignments who’s boss.

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An attempt at a one-week juice cleanse Z elia B ukhari Contributor It’s a warm November morning and I’m staying in bed as long as possible to avoid my first of multiple juices that I will be solely sipping on for the next week.

As I drink my beet, apple, carrot, ginger liquid breakfast, I reflect on why I keep falling for health trends and put myself through this misery. Since I can remember, I’ve always worried about my health.

I have this weird dynamic where the constant feed of health fads and “treat yo self” come together to form what my diet usually is — not healthy.

We all struggle with our health growing up; I think it’s a vital part of accepting yourself. So here’s the story of how my newest venture went and whether I think it’s worth it for you to follow this path.

Juice cleanses: they’ve been around for a long time in comparison to other health trends that die out in a couple years.

Even our little Kingston has multiple juice shops. If people are making a living off of this, there must be something there, right?

The diet consists of a person limiting themselves to only liquids such as fresh fruit and vegetable juice, and water. This essentially detoxifies your body, flushing the toxins out and rebooting your system.

The reason why I became intrigued by juice cleanses in the first place was because of the perks I heard were possible to gain between the fifth and tenth day. Your body goes into starvation mode, as it hasn’t gotten protein, fat or insoluble fibre. I know that sounds unhealthy, but if you drink six-plus juices, you’ll hit your daily calorie intake and nutrition. Because your body is in starvation mode, it heightens all

If you’re set on doing a juice felt so proud I had gotten through wanted to sleep. So I ate. your senses. cleanse, try it when you don’t have Many years ago when we most of the day. I had made my to focus on school or anything Day 4 hunted for our meals, every mind up for a juice-only week so pressing. Your body and mind will sense had to be extremely sharp. breaking it sent me into a bit of a Apparently our bodies haven’t lost downward spiral. I felt extremely By day four, I was slowly moving need time to adjust and this added the ability to do this, and juicing sick, physically and mentally. away from a juice cleanse. I was stress shouldn’t be taken on while is a way to deceive our bodies Luckily, I was doing my juice incorporating a lot of juice into my you’re burdened by the workload cleanse with a friend and she lifted diet and then eating during the late of university courses. into it.

Research, test and find the juices I chose to juice at home. I figured my spirits. It’s important to have ends of the day. After much debate, I came to the conclusion you love because that can make this would cut the cost that juicing all my meals a big difference. When your taste of how expensive it is wasn’t for me. As much buds are excited, you’ll be excited. to buy unpasteurized Coming to the acceptance that you’ll as a part of me wanted Honestly, if you don’t have the juices. They can be not be chewing anything all day is to discover what it would time to invest in making your upwards of $200 for pretty depressing. be like to have own juices, buying them premade only three days of heightened senses, I in packages, though extremely juicing and I wasn’t willing to pay that kind of money people who support you around couldn’t get through the first five expensive, might be worth it. at all times. I couldn’t have done it brutal days, and to be honest I You’ll be sure to enjoy them as for juice. didn’t feel like it was even worth it. they’re perfected recipes and it’s so From lugging bags of produce all without her.

I was angry all the time (that’s much simpler. the way from Metro to how messy Your strength will come from an understatement). I felt miserable Day 2 the juicing process can get, juicing and to be honest juicing as meals the people who encourage you. at home was a lot more work than I thought it would be. I had to allot The second day was a lot easier. didn’t satisfy me. It just didn’t Be sure to surround yourself with a one-hour time slot before bed to I’d prepared for it better and make sense for me to keep doing positivity and those who want to see you motivated pre-make all my six juices for the knew what to expect. no matter what their next day. A lot of time and energy I allowed myself some personal opinion is. wiggle room and ate went into just the prep work.

Research, test and find the juices you If you’re really into In a short period of time, I soup and applesauce, love because that can make a big trying something new, went from an eat-everything diet just to calm my mind. difference. When your taste buds are your friends should be to a strict juice cleanse. That was a Getting in the right state excited, you’ll be excited. happy and helpful. would have to be the big mistake.

When it comes to hardest part. Coming health fads, I’ve been to accept that you’ll not Day 1 be chewing anything all day is it. I reckon I just need healthy fats, there and I’ve done it all. In the end, protein and fibre daily. When your there’s no easy way. No matter The first day was cruel. Life truly pretty depressing. body craves these healthy things how much juice you drink, or how felt nasty, brutish and short. My you shouldn’t deprive yourself of many super foods you include in Day 3 juices kept me pretty full all day, your daily diet, it’s necessary to such nourishment. but all I could think about was Juicing in a sense, helped me be in the right mindset. At the food. I wasn’t even hungry but the On the third day, my head hurt thought of eating something solid and I felt like juice cleansing was get back on track with what I ate. end of the day, if you treat your satanic. Nothing could surpass Suddenly when you’re so hungry, body well, your body will feel was so appealing.

I had school the whole day this evil that I brought onto you crave even the healthiest of good, and more importantly, you’ll so being around so many food myself. This is apparently the foods. This aided me in balancing feel amazing. options was a tease, which game-changing day. If you get my diet after I was done juicing. I eventually made me cheat. It all through the third day, no matter realized I enjoyed drinking juices happened when I got invited to how long you continue for, the rest too. I just didn’t want that to be have dinner. The thought of having will be a lot easier. For the life of the only thing going into my body.

I think bringing juices into a to sit there and watch others eat me I couldn’t do it. I swear I tried, while I sip on some juice drove but the juices just made my insides well-proportioned dietary lifestyle me to it. Granted I only had one churn and all my mind could is great. It’s an easy way to get thing, sweet potato fries, but I have focus on was food. The thought all your fruits and veggies, plus of my teeth sinking into food was it’s fun coming up with different probably never felt so bad.

I think it was partly because I distracting me from school and just juice combos.