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ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK DIVIDES QUEEN’S CLUBS

ASUS and PHEKSA talk merger Suspension of Phys Ed program has spurred conversations

PERFORMING ARTS

Students struggle to access Isabel

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Students run a mock Israeli checkpoint at University Ave. and Union St.

Palestinian and Israeli groups on campus at odds over week’s demonstrations V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor At the corner of University Ave. and Union St. on Tuesday, “soldiers” patted down students in a demonstration designed to imitate checkpoints run by Israeli defense forces.

Students in opposition to the event, meanwhile, stood to the side to explain their discomfort and concerns.

The demonstration was part of the Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) organized

by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), a student club on campus.

It was one of several public demonstrations throughout the week, such as an apartheid wall and a “Die-In” in CoGro’s fireside lounge on Monday. While members of SPHR say the demonstrations are intended to educate students on racism towards Palestinians, members of Israeli

groups believe the events oversimplify complex issues.

At Tuesday’s checkpoint, students at the intersection were asked to go on their knees before they were patted down, questioned and finally allowed to go through a set-up barrier.

According to a statement provided to The Journal by SPHR, the week “seeks to raise awareness about Israeli apartheid and encourage support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.”

“It is important to emphasize that this is not a religious issue but a political issue between the Nation State of Israel and the colonized, Stateless Indigenous people of Palestine,” it reads.

“Palestinians are not victims, but vital and productive people who just want to live their lives and prosper like anyone else, but have See Israel on page 4

Students attempting to use spaces at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts often face large fees — at times hundreds of dollars — despite the centre’s mandate to enhance students’ skills in the arts.

The Isabel was intended as a learning space to foster the creativity of students in fine arts, film, drama and music. But those same students can encounter financial barriers when attempting to use the centre.

Stephen Trivieri, ArtSci ’16, is a film student who has worked on projects such as To The Isabel, a film that explores the move into the Isabel. When Trivieri asked to screen his film this year in the Isabel’s screening room, which seats 92 people and features a state-of-the-art digital projector, he was asked to hand over $120.

He discovered that the room’s availability is controlled by the Isabel rather than the Film Department.

“That’s a classroom. I have classes in there. But if I want to use it, the [Isabel] would have to bill the Film department, who then in turn wanted to bill me,” he said.

The Film Department eventually agreed to front any costs that Trivieri was unable to raise through at-the-door charges. Even so, he said, the arrangement then affected the Film Department’s own yearly spending.

“This is ridiculous! You know, they have a budget to maintain too,” he said.

It wasn’t the first time he’s been asked for a large fee. In 2014,

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V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor

M ikayla W ronko Assistant News Editor Shortly after an announcement that admissions to the Physical and Health Education program will be suspended, talks have begun concerning a potential merger between the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) and the Physical & Health Education and Kinesiology Student Association (PHEKSA).

Were a merger to occur, PHEKSA would become a sibling society of ASUS — meaning students who belong to PHEKSA would also belong to ASUS and would enjoy the benefits of both societies.

The most recent version of the agenda for today’s ASUS Assembly contains a motion to add PHEKSA as a sibling society under the ASUS constitution.

While ASUS student leaders acknowledge the impact of the suspension, they say the idea arose from pre-existing conversations.

ASUS President Brandon Jamieson confirmed to The Journal via an email statement that ASUS initiated conversations with the current and incoming PHEKSA executive about ways to reintroduce PHEKSA as a sibling society.

PHEKSA separated from ASUS three years ago after a referendum vote. Physical & Health Education and Kinesiology (PHE/Kin) students cited a perceived lack of value in the student fee they paid each year as motivation for the split.

Barriers to the merger include reinstating the ASUS fee and the timeline

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News in Brief Federal budget alters funding to post-secondary institutions

post-secondary institutional research in over a decade.

The budget, among other things, imposes several changes to Canada Student Grants.

A total of $1.53 billion will be dedicated to The new federal budget will bring significant increases in Canada Student Grants over the changes for post-secondary students in the next five years.

2016-17 academic year.

Low- and middle-income families will The 2016 budget dedicates a total see a 50 per cent increase in student grant of $2 billion to be invested in colleges amounts per year, with low-income family and universities over the next three years grants rising from $2,000 per year to $3,000 through the Post-Secondary Institutions and middle-income family grants rising from Strategic Investment Fund. Finance Minister $800 per year to $1,200.

Bill Morneau announced the budget in the Part-time students will also experience a House of Commons on Tuesday.

50 per cent increase in grants, which will rise “The 2016 budget includes important new from $1,200 per year to $1,800 per year. investments in the post-secondary sector, And instead of considering a student’s including financial assistance for students, financial assets and income to determine funding for fundamental research, and eligibility for Canada Student Loans and infrastructure renewal,” Principal Daniel Grants, students will pay a flat amount each Woolf wrote in the Queen’s Gazette. year to pay for their education.

The new fund will support infrastructure The budget will also eliminate some projects for university and college research supports for students, however — it will and training facilities. remove the education and textbook tax An extra $95 million each year will be credits that students have been able to claim provided to Canada’s three granting councils in the past. for research. The new funding, which will be ongoing, is the highest amount of — Maureen O’Reilly annual funding that has been dedicated to

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Trivieri was asked to pay $500 per hour to film a project in the Isabel’s rehearsal hall.

“It’s very confusing because as a film student, I want to use a lot of the spaces, [but] in the past it’s just like pulling a tooth to get there,” he said.

“You’d think it would be a little bit easier, especially if you are a Queen’s student and that is your faculty building.”

Trivieri said a lot of the confusion comes from the joint ownership and jurisdiction over the centre between the City and the University.

While Queen’s has some claim over the Isabel, it’s also intended for use by Kingston community groups — meaning that Queen’s doesn’t have full jurisdiction over its operations.

He wasn’t the only student to express frustration. Mathew Kahansky, ArtSci ’16, was in charge of logistics for the AMS Live Music Committee.

According to Kahansky, the committee began with a budget of “roughly $10,000” to put on their “Live at the Isabel” event.

However, their available budget was “lowered at least two or three times because of more and more additional fees unexpectedly being thrown at us by the Isabel.”

Some of the student bands, including

The Isabel’s grand opening on Sept. 20, 2014.

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of the initiative, Jamieson said. In the event of an ASUS/PHEKSA merger, PHE/Kin students would be subject to the ASUS membership fee. The fee is currently set at $25.49 each year.

“We want students to be educated on the reintroduction of the fee and aware of it. We’re going to continue to do our best to educate and engage students in the process, while being conscious of the timing,” he wrote.

Jamieson added that though elements of the merger discussion were sparked by the recent suspension of admissions to the Physical and Health Education program, it’s not the sole or overarching reason.

“We believe that [PHEKSA’s] decision to leave in the first place was short sighted.

Not only did it restrict ASUS’ ability to work in collaboration with PHEKSA on advocacy issues, it prohibited any PHE/Kin student from volunteering or working at ASUS,” he wrote.

Jamieson said the topic has already been discussed at both the ASUS and

The Wilderness, had a 15 per cent cut of their band merchandise revenue given to the Isabel even though the event organizers had paid to use the space.

“When the budgeting issues were ongoing, some of us had half the mind to tell the Isabel to stuff it and just throw a sweet show at the Underground,” Kahansky said.

The Journal reached out to Tricia Baldwin, director of the Isabel Bader Centre, and Danielle Kimmerly, the AMS Campus Affairs Commissioner, who provided a joint email statement in response.

“Queen’s still charges residence fees for the ongoing costs of operating the residence,” they wrote, including operation costs and the salaries of ushers, box office staff and operators.

They didn’t provide an ownership breakdown of the Isabel, as had been requested, but said the benefactors included Queen’s, Alfred and Isabel Bader, the City of Kingston and others.

They instead provided a collective figure of $72 million in contributions as a whole, which they said does not include ongoing operation and event costs associated with the building.

According to the Kingston Whig-Standard, The Isabel’s state-of-the-art screening room. the breakdown included $31 million from the Baders, $15 million from the provincial government, and the remaining federal government, $15 million from the from other benefactors.

Charges for the ongoing costs of operating the Isabel include fees such as the one charged for Trivieri’s film screening as well as AMS-sanctioned events like Live at the Isabel.

The latter event raised money for the AMS Isabel Bader fund — a fund intended to help students cut down costs for front of house, box office, production personnel and rental at the Isabel.

According to the statement from Baldwin and Kimmerly, the relationship between the AMS and the Isabel is “positive and cooperative.”

They said the use of space for academic purposes in drama, music and film is booked through the School of Drama and Music or the Department of Film and Media.

“There is no rental cost associated with these academic course-based bookings,” they wrote.

Outside of strictly course-assigned work, JOURNAL FILE PHOTO charges depend on the hours of usage,

PHEKSA Assemblies.

“We’re currently looking at the timeline for the rest of the year to see what is feasible, and what isn’t.”

“If our ultimate goal as a society is to better the lives of students, there is no reason we shouldn’t be working together, rather than apart.”

Lindsay Toth, PHEKSA President, told The Journal via Facebook messenger that “PHEKSA council recognizes the benefits of an ASUS-PHEKSA merger”. In her statement, however, she said discussions surrounding the merger were too short notice for the PHEKSA council.

“But after great discussion and deliberation, the council felt our students would deserve a referendum on the matter which we are unable to conduct in this short period of time, as this proposal was brought to us within the past three weeks,” she wrote.

The meeting agenda for today’s ASUS Assembly contains a motion that would make PHEKSA a sibling society under the ASUS constitution. The constitution specifies that “Any Society seeking recognition as a sibling society of ASUS shall do so in writing to the ASUS Assembly”.

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the number of spaces used and the production complexity of the event, according to the statement.

Trivieri, however, says the system doesn’t foster the creativity that he’d have liked to see from the Isabel.

“If a student wants to film something in a room and nobody’s using it — that should be encouraged. There shouldn’t be a process, we shouldn’t have to get permission from six different people.”

CORRECTIONS Theatre for change in Indigenous communities MARCH 18, 2016 Six Nations is the largest First Nations reserve in Canada, not the largest Six Nations reserve in Canada. The Journal regrets the error.

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FEATURE SUSTAINABILITY

As campus goes green, food waste lingers Non-profits divert waste from Queen’s food outlets While the recently unveiled Climate Action Plan has set goals for a more sustainable campus, food waste efforts aren’t making headlines.

Since Principal Woolf’s 2010 commitment that Queen’s would become carbon neutral by 2040, the University has diverted more resources to sustainability.

These efforts include this year’s $10.7 million contract with Honeywell — an engineering firm that’s guaranteed $946,000 in annual savings along with an offset carbon footprint.

However, food waste hasn’t received the same widespread attention.

Food waste is any food left unconsumed. Food thrown out of could otherwise be composted or donated to local shelters.

In 2012-13, Queen’s produced 1,097.11 tons of landfill waste, 45 per cent of the total waste on campus. Bruce Griffiths, executive director of Housing and Ancillary Services said Queen’s diverted 260 million tons from the landfill over 2014-15.

“Through the use of ECorect [waste management] machines at Ban Righ and Leonard Dining Halls, waste volume is reduced by 9-to-1 [93 per cent],” he said.

As the campus gets greener, Diana Yoon, AMS deputy commissioner of Environment and Sustainability, says there’s still room for improvement when limiting food waste.

Yoon, ArtSci ’17, is the Deputy Commissioner of Student Engagement. Most of her duties involve student outreach among the various environmental clubs

an environmental science PhD and food waste researcher, food waste makes up one third of all produced food. He added that waste occurs 30,000 at every level of the supply chain.

“Everywhere from the farm 50,000 to the table and beyond, they all contribute to food waste,” he said.

40,000 After a 2011 audit that found that 70 per cent of campus 10,000 waste was organic and could be saved, the Queen’s Sustainability 20,000 Office kickstarted a campaign to place 64 green bins in campus 10,000 offices, diverting a reported 200 kg from going to the landfill.

Meanwhile, back-of-house food 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Total Adjusted waste and compost collection Emissions 57,716 48,126 50,672 43,931 45,383 45,711 47,6794 was implemented in campus 14,182 12,451 15,973 12,221 12,305 09,136 09,310 Scope 1 dining halls.

Soul Food, a campus club Scope 1 2 (adjusted) 43,532 35,675 34,700 37,710 33,077 36,575 38,384 founded in 2007, delivers Scope 1 emissions arise directly from Queen’s; Scope 2 is from Queen’s unconsumed food from campus electricity consumption. cafeterias to local shelters, while Everyday, campus food outlets McColam says Loving Spoonful Enactus Queen’s has spearheaded composting in university residences still receives large amounts of set aside unused food to be surplus food from Queen’s, and reclaimed by volunteers. in the past year.

“It’s been incredible,” she said.

Soul Food and Loving Spoonful, even collects during summers with Yoon says it’s a matter of where Yoon worked as a volunteer, lower volume donations. However, “Students are great volunteers and convenience for most students to both divert food outlet waste from Queen’s food manager Sodexo I look forward to doing more.” properly dispose of their food. She campus food outlets. When unused does not allow the numbers to added that clear signs and visibility kitchen food would otherwise be be published.

All Graphics by Ashley Quan Mara Shaw, director of Loving thrown out, the food is left in can improve efforts.

Sources: Queen’s University Waste “People will recycle a water bins at the back of the cafeteria Spoonful, agrees, saying Queen’s and Recycling Report 2012-13, 2012 bottle but not necessarily carry for volunteers to deliver it to local students and food outlets have Green Energy Report, 2013 Waste been a valuable support for the an orange peel until they find shelters and soup kitchens.

Reduction Plan, Conservation and Retired Queen’s Professor non-profit group. a compost.”

Demand Management Plan 2014-19 Commissioner of the and former Loving Spoonful Environment and Sustainability Chair of the Board of Directors Peter Liberty agrees. He said the Mary McCollam says the two only front-of-house compost non-profits have had a productive bins are managed by the Student relationship. Soul Food focuses on campus cafeterias while Loving Life Centre.

“Many of the garbage cans Spoonful covers for the lack of around campus don’t have student volunteers at the end of accompanying recycling bins, terms and during the summer.

Additionally, Loving Spoonful meaning students often have to throw their recycling or compost diverts food from campus outlets like Lazy Scholar and Canadian into the garbage,” he said.

According to Scott Lougheed, Grilling Company.

on campus.

Based off her time with non-profits such as Loving Spoonful, Yoon says Kingston community efforts to provide accessible landfill alternatives have been more successful than campus endeavours. Loving Spoonful, a volunteer-based organization, collects and distributes food to shelters, meal programs and drop-in centres. The group distributed 47,000 lbs of fresh food in 2014.

“I don’t see the same kind of advocacy or even programming on campus,” she said. “There are compost bins in the Student Life Centre and in Mac-Corry, but not in a lot of other buildings.”

ELECTRONICS LEAF & YARD

- 2% TOTAL WASTE - TONNAGE: 41.53

QUEEN’S ANNUAL CARBON FOOTPRINT

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OTHER

- 4%TOTAL WASTE

- 3% TOTAL WASTE - TONNAGE: 73.23

ORGANIC TOTERS

WASTE

- 4% TOTAL WASTE - TONNAGE: 88.52

- 45% TOTAL WASTE - TONNAGE: 1,097.11

MIXED FIBRE

- 22% TOTAL WASTE - TONNAGE: 540.92

CANS, GLASS & PLASTIC - 13% TOTAL WASTE - TONNAGE: 323.26

GROUNDS WASTE DURABLES

- 4% TOTAL WASTE - TONNAGE: 101.69

- 3% TOTAL WASTE - TONNAGE: 80.13

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PHOTO BY ARWIN CHAN

Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights’ wall on the corner of University Ave.

Israel on Campus group concerned with “theatricality” Continued from front page

little to no control over their lives as subjects to a racist settler-colonial Nation state.”

In the statement, the group wrote that while many people enter discussions with misinformation and racial prejudice, the recognition of Palestinian human rights is a good starting point for conversation.

“The world must wake up to the threat of apartheid and all of its manifestations, no matter where they surface. Apartheid is a recognized offence to international law. It is a crime.”

They cited statistics from April 2015, when 96 fixed checkpoints were in the West Bank, including 57 internal checkpoints and 361 surprise flying checkpoints.

“For the year 2014, OCHA [the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs] counted an average of 358 physical obstructions a month. The obstructions prevent the crossing of any vehicles, even in emergencies,” they wrote.

Adi Rittenberg of Israel on Campus (IOC) says the week has turned into a demonization of Israel that doesn’t recognize of the other side’s faults.

Rittenberg, ArtSci ’16, said the IOC first learned about the week when SPHR posted details about the week’s events on Facebook.

After the IOC ensured that the concerns of the Jewish community were met, including ensuring safety at potentially inflammatory demonstrations, she said IOC turned its focus towards establishing a counter-narrative.

“We knew that we didn’t want the week cancelled. We wanted them to have their voice and we wanted them to be able to express their opinions,” she said.

Their main concerns were misrepresentation, oversimplification of

complex issues and unnecessary theatricality, she said.

“A lot of students were coming up to me, and I saw some students crying, because you kind of feel powerless,” she said.

She said many students felt that if they corrected information they believed to be incorrect “you’re seen to be sabotaging or you’re limiting [the demonstrators’] freedom of speech.”

Rittenberg added that she’s “happy to admit” that Israel isn’t perfect, so long as SPHR acknowledges that the issue isn’t one-sided.

“If it’s just a screaming match, it’s just a screaming match. Nothing’s going to come out of it, that’s all it’s going to be.”

She said the IOC found support and help in the AMS, particularly through Clubs Manager Jennifer Williams. A member of the Clubs Office has been present at all events to ensure safety.

Williams confirmed to The Journal that the AMS sanctioned the SPHR events and spoke with IOC to ensure that events complied with their clubs policy and the Student Code of Conduct.

The AMS also worked with the SPHR to reduce the disruption caused by events.

For example, they positioned the mock checkpoint far enough from the sidewalk to allow students to pass by freely if they didn’t wish to engage.

“The use of real or fake weapons was not permitted at any time. Modifications were also made to the “Die-In” activity in the Fireside Lounge, such as restricting the demonstration area,” Williams wrote in an email.

Williams added that any student wishing to voice concerns about the week was welcome to visit the Clubs Office for the remainder of the week and afterwards.

Students reenact Israeli-Palestinian checkpoints.

Left: Educational segments of the SPHR display in the Fireside Lounge. Right: Simulations of dead bodies line the floor of the lounge by CoGro.

PHOTO BY AUSTON CHHOR

PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE NIJHUIS

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EDITORIALS Sexual assault policy: Are we there yet?

The Journal’s Perspective

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These necessary services aren’t without their price tag, which makes the report’s statement that “The policy itself has no financial implications” particularly worrying. Given the University’s strapped financial situation, an administrative unwillingness to put money where its mouth is could be a potential barrier to this policy’s implementation and effectiveness.

Another major loophole is that the Bader International Study Centre isn’t mentioned at all. Students at Queen’s Herstmonceux, England campus may require just as much support, but they won’t have access to the sexual violence coordinator — once they’re hired.

The first step is for the University to put this new legislated support in place.

But, an equally important step is for the University to make the promised support accessible to survivors of sexual assault.

This means advertising those resources in a clear, non-threatening manner. Some of the worst words for survivors to hear are “policy” or “procedure.” We need a system that encourages reporting and provides ongoing support.

In doing this, we need to keep in mind that college-age women are the most likely to be assaulted.

This means there’s no need for us to assume that reported incidents of sexual assault mean Queen’s is a particularly immoral school.

However, what does reflect poorly on Queen’s is a failure to address the issue adequately.

At the moment, our sexual assault policy has the same impact as a university degree — it’s a nice piece of paper to hang on the wall, but it doesn’t mean anything unless it lives up to its promises.

has been tasked with putting students about procedure, the understand the current proposal, together a proposal for a break AMS’s recently announced motion and yet they’re still asking for more. that will please everyone. to block the fall break proposal, The current proposal — a in favour of more student Mikayla is one of The Journal’s Assistant News Editors. She’s a product of three years of consultation is also a problem. consultation — will be put Any more consultation on second-year Economics major. forward as a motion for approval the SCAP proposal would be at upcoming the April Senate. redundant backpedaling. After It proposes that Move-In three years of consultation, we’ve ikayla ronko Day take place on the Saturday learned that there’s no perfect immediately before Labour Day, proposal that would make every with classes beginning on the student happy.

Wednesday after. With the proposal, Creating a fall break isn’t as easy Orientation Week wouldn’t occur as adding a couple extra days to on consecutive days. the school year. SCAP has created After a change.org petition a proposal that conforms with was created entitled “A call for all existing policy — work that’s better procedure regarding underappreciated. I commend a fall reading week at Queen’s Jordan Morelli, the chair of SCAP, Personal Interest Credits could University” — which has for his dedication and dealing ease pressure on student’s GPAs, gathered almost 2,500 with the backlash in creating leading to a better education and signatures — misdirected students the proposal. an escape from their comfort zone. have been targeting the University The AMS and faculty Beginning in September, Senate with emails. societies need to take a definite Arts and Science students can I’m not surprised that these stance with the current propo designate up to six credits as 2,500 students don’t know what sal and decide whether a fall pass/fail — which means their If you want to write an angry the proposal actually is: it’s just a break is worth losing consecutive final grade won’t appear on their letter about how important suggested set of sessional days by Orientation days. transcript or affect their GPA if Orientation Week is to you, you SCAP for the faculties to consider If the AMS is concerned they get above a D- in the course. should be writing to your faculty, when setting their calendars.

While pass/fail credits may not with student wellness, they need not Senate.

Ultimately, it’s the faculties to be asking how to make new entirely relieve the pressure for Since the Principal’s that choose whether or not to and current resources accessible a perfect GPA, this option will Commission on Mental implement the dates suggested to students instead of making a allow students to take courses Health released a report by SCAP, including the length of filibuster out of fall break. they’re interested in outside their recommending a fall term break Orientation Week.

While I’ve heard that “students discipline, without having to risk in 2012, the Senate Committee While it’s an issue that the know what’s best for them”, there’s their future prospects. on Academic Procedures (SCAP) ill-targeted petition is misleading little evidence that students even If the purpose of education is

creating well-rounded individuals, this is a worthwhile objective. While one course may not make a degree, it can change your perspective or offer an alternative educational path.

Regardless of whether you think the point of university is to get a good job, or just a good education, there isn’t much to disagree with regarding this change.

And hopefully, other faculties will jump on the bandwagon.

The pass/fail option was spearheaded by Arts and Science Undergraduate Society President Brandon Jamieson and Vice President Andrew DiCapua, who promised it during their campaign last year. It’s admirable to see student politicians stick to their guns and accomplish the goals they set out at the beginning of the year, especially goals with a lasting impact.

Hopefully ArtSci students will take advantage of this chance and go outside their normal area of expertise — learn a new language, stargaze in astronomy class, tackle basic physics, or join political discussions that you might not agree with.

When you only have to pass. there’s a lot more room to fail.

eneralizations and vague promises are inadequate responses to sexual assault.

On March 4, the Board of Trustees approved Queen’s sexual violence policy, just days before provincial legislation was released requiring all schools to have a standalone policy by January 2017.

After a Toronto Star investigation in November 2014 found that Queen’s was failing sexual assault survivors, the University began a journey through working groups, implementation teams, recommendations, drafts, interim protocols and student feedback periods — all leading up to the approval of a final policy.

And it still needs work.

There are definite positives to this policy, besides the bare minimum that it finally exists.

Definitions of sexual assault and consent provide much-needed clarification and justification for victims who may be hesitant to report.

Creating the Office of Sexual Violence Education and Support

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as a central contact will also be critical to providing survivors with the resources they need.

But the policy tip-toes around how this will practically be accomplished.

While the policy has a long list of responsibilities for the Office, that Office is non-existent, and we don’t have a timeline for when it will be a reality. Given how long it took to create a policy, who knows how long an Office will take to set up.

The only resource mentioned for the Office is a c o o r d i n a t o r.

But it will take more than the one coordinator to run an office that’s been tasked with providing counseling, reporting

advice, academic accommodations and preventative education.

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Pass/fail courses pass

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I came to university to get away from my parents… not to get new ones Exchange students experience residence as paternalistic and patronizing PHOTO BY EMMA SEWELL

Some residence policies that benefit first-year students make less sense for exchange students, Tom Connolly writes.

Tom Connolly, University of Aberdeen, German and Political Studies ’19 This time last year, when I found out I was going to go on exchange to Queen’s, I was over the moon. I couldn’t wait to head to Canada and experience university in North America.

That anticipation was well founded — I’ve met amazing people, seen beautiful scenery and experienced things I never could have imagined. The past six months have probably been the most enjoyable of my life.

However, one thing has been bugging me throughout the year: it feels like the University is trying to be my parents.

I’m from the UK, where you’d think the culture would be very similar — both western, capitalist, English-speaking countries who share the connections afforded by the British Empire. However, that didn’t seem to be the case.

When I was applying to Queen’s for exchange, I noticed international students could apply to live in residence. When I applied I was told that, if successful, I’d be living in Harkness International Hall

along with other exchange and international over the legal drinking age, on a floor where Teaching that they have to drink away from students. More importantly, Harkness is on everyone was invited. any sort of supervision is dangerous — it When I spoke to dons about how they encourages unsafe drinking and that’s good the edge of campus and near the University planned activities for their residents and for nobody.

District, where the action seems to happen.

It turns out Queen’s didn’t want to keep how they were judged by their management, Once you go to university, you’re an that promise, and we were allocated West I was worried. These are students too and adult and you have to take responsibility Campus, and not even in Phase 1 of Jean it’s not surprising that many of them are for the consequences of your actions. The Royce Hall. We were even farther: west stressed from both academics and their actual punishment that some of my pals of west. Not the most welcoming introduction “home lives” in residence, which includes were given after my friend’s birthday was to Canada, but we all took it on the chin — I patrolling corridors at night. to write an essay about how “bad” drinking I accept these responsibilities are is. To be fair, some of my friends opted to was here to experience things and this was an something dons take on when they apply make educational posters instead. These experience in itself.

It wasn’t until a few weeks in that I for the job, and that they can be a source types of punishments aren’t just paternalistic, realized the uni wanted to be mum (yes, of support for students. However, it’s my they’re frankly patronizing and won’t it’s mum not mom) and dad. I found the choice to seek out this support, not to actually change anyone’s mind about their have it forced on me. Moreover, dons’ drinking habits. mollycoddling suffocating.

A few weeks ago, one of my friends responsibilities to both discipline and Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had the time was turning 22. She’s from the UK — that support students distances them from of my life here at Queen’s and I’m truly means she’s been able to legally drink for students, making it hard to adequately thankful for the experiences I’ve had here. the past four years — and, as you would provide either. In my opinion, the role of But the University is doing its residents a expect, we were celebrating. We decided the don should only encompass support, not disservice by not allowing them to live the to have a few drinks at home, before we being a police officer within the residence. adult life that university is there to prepare In my experience, UK universities allow them for. headed out (in some amazing fancy dress might I add). But apparently we weren’t students to be more open about drinking. allowed to have a few quiet drinks This which allows them to have at least some Tom Connolly is a second-year exchange together in the common room before going supervision, rather than what I’ve seen with student from the University of Aberdeen in out. This was in a residence house that’s the first years in my residence, who hide Aberdeen, Scotland. exclusively exchange students, who are all their drinking and do so in an unsafe way.

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Letters to the Editor Re: Queen’s Alive has no place on campus

The discussions my social work peers, professors and I had were a highlight of my university career.

Though on opposite ends of the abortion debate, we valued each other’s contributions. Isn’t that what education is about?

Not according to Kyle Curlew, who is appalled whenever he crosses paths with pro-life clubs and believes they shouldn’t be permitted on campus at all. I’m sure we’re all appalled about On Fall Reading Week Students from across faculties agree that the greatest cost to a Fall Reading Week is the orientation experience. I stand with my peers that have been involved as leaders or organizers, and completely agree that a smooth transition to Queen’s is tied to a robust student-run orientation.

However, I am writing this letter to address the elephant in the room: the implications of this break on student mental health.

RE: BDS has no place in student government Editors, I’m writing as a student journalist at McGill to highlight the fearmongering and unethical journalistic practices behind the editorial published on March 11 about the passing of a BDS motion at the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) General Assembly (GA).

First, it is painfully clear that no attempt was made by the editor to research the opinions of the On Israeli Apartheid Week The “counter narrative” provided by members of Israel on Campus at a demonstration put on by Israeli Apartheid Week — that the Israeli separation barrier is needed to prevent “many suicide bombings” — presents two equally repulsive optics.

First, that Queen’s Israel on

certain ideas others hold, but most of us believe we should challenge, not muzzle them.

Free speech is already limited by the Criminal Code. Promotion of genocide, for instance, is illegal.

Pro-life speech is legal and does not promote hatred towards those who have (had) abortions. Interestingly, the pro-life organization I work for employs two times as many females as males.

Nonetheless, Kyle insists on banning pro-life groups; first, because the stigma resulting

from their public presence is potentially triggering. What then about a Palestinian Solidarity club triggering a Jewish student whose Israeli relatives were killed by a Palestinian extremist? It can be difficult to come across groups that raise an issue you’re affected by, but does that justify silencing them?

Kyle’s second reason is that pro-life groups allegedly advocate for the removal of human rights.

So does the Canadian Charter include a right to abortion? Patricia Maloney dismantles this claim on

her blog.

The third reason is pro-lifers’ alleged “spreading [of] misinformation, logical fallacies and distracting red herrings to bully and shame people into supporting them.” Kyle does not refute the scientific fact that the pre-born are genetically-distinct human beings from fertilization and that abortion directly ends their lives.

Thankfully, Kyle acknowledges that “a university is a bastion for legitimate knowledge that’s been crafted through rigorous methods

and real debate.” If he truly believes this, I respectfully challenge Kyle to a formal debate. If the pro-life position I defend is as flawed as he asserts, it will stand no chance in the court of public opinion.

Kyle, I hope that your commitment to real debate will lead you to rebut the ideas you believe are worth silencing.

May the best arguments win.

Most supporters of the current Fall Reading Week proposal have cited student mental health and stress as issues that can be addressed through a weeklong break.

There is still no evidence that a weeklong break does anything to improve student wellness. Dr. Mike Condra, former director of Health Counselling & Disability Services, has been on the record questioning the usefulness of a Fall Reading Week in improving student mental health outcomes or reducing stress.

So where is this push for a week coming from? The only recommendation regarding a Fall Reading Week from the Principal’s Commission on Mental Health was that they should consider accommodating such a week at Queen’s. There are, however, two strong recommendations from the report which demand action, which are not being addressed.

First, the Commission recommended that courses should avoid large amounts of content in the first few weeks, and avoid

overwhelming students with content and assignments too close to exams. More uniform assessment distribution allows students to progress through a course at a manageable pace.

The second recommendation was that exams be spaced out.

Compressed exams can cause high stress levels, particularly for first-year students.

These two recommendations can create positive outcomes for students today, and the University should put them into practice. At

a decentralized university like ours, reforms such as these are hard to implement across faculties, but difficulty should be no excuse to ignore the real solutions.

If the desired outcome is positive student mental health, then the two action items here should be the ones going to Senate, not a proposal that compromises the transition to Queen’s. Sure, implementing a Fall Reading Week is easier, but is it the right thing to do?

motion’s supporters, numbering over 2,000 at McGill. While calling for “‘neutrality”,’ this editorial ignores the marginalization of Palestinian students at McGill, echoing the erasure of Palestinian students in the so-called news article from the Gazette, which Streisfeld quotes. In fact, the word Palestinian is mentioned once in the entire editorial. Editorials are for expressing opinions, but it is lazy journalism to ignore a crucial side to the story before forming your opinion.

Streisfield states that “there’s no

place for intolerance … in student government, where neutrality should be upheld.” In fact, SSMU’s constitution clearly states its commitment to “demonstrating leadership in matters of human rights, social justice and environmental protection.” In other words, SSMU is explicitly not neutral. Either the editorial is misleadingly implying that SSMU is contradicting some imaginary universal mandate that commands all student governments to be apolitical, or this is bad fact checking.

The editorial further mischaracterizes BDS as intolerant toward individuals, claiming it would marginalize students, but does not mention that the BDS motion at McGill, like the broader BDS movement, targeted institutions, not individuals.

The editorial concludes on the ominous note that motions that are “intolerant and divisive” in nature “shouldn’t be brought to the table in the first place.” This kind of argument relies on the word “intolerant” to provoke a kneejerk reaction, frightening

readers enough to keep them from thinking critically about what BDS is actually intolerant of. Indeed, some things should not be tolerated; for example, SSMU should not tolerate acts of anti-Semitism. Similarly, as the BDS motion suggested, students and SSMU should not tolerate hate, racism, and settler-colonialism, all of which are inherent to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and to the corporations who profit from it.

Campus will defend Israel, Zionism attacks in Brussels is opportunistic and the policies of Netanyahu in the most disgusting fashion. without exception — which I This is not to say that blame know to not be true. This is not does not lie on the organizers AIPAC (the American Israel Public of Israeli Apartheid Week Affairs Committee) nor should we either — kudos for provoking pretend it is. a dialogue, but such a gaudy Second, it exoticizes Arabs, dramatization is unproductive.

Palestinians and Muslims as After all, how many IDF barbaric terrorists. To hint at such soldier have man buns, and to Islamophobia not hours after the ask “where is your school?”

while on Queen’s campus is somewhat laughable.

Both sides could stand to grow up and meet in the middle.

Why not host a panel discussion instead? Discuss solutions to the problem, or at the least, possible trust-building exercises? After everything that happened at McGill how refreshing would it be to hear both groups jointly condemn both

illegal settlements and Hamas in an academic setting?

If Israel on Campus insists on maintaining their “counter narrative,” at the very least they ought to question what motivates a would-be suicide bomber in the first place — and how can those structural ailments be repaired.

Maaike Rosendal, Campus Outreach Director at the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform

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ARTS WIMF 2016 cancelled

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Bahamas performing at the Wolfe Island Music Festival in 2014.

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ith heavy hearts, artistic director and local music powerhouse Virginia Clark and her team say they decided to cancel this summer’s Wolfe Island Music Festival (WIMF).

The festival will be cancelled temporarily for the coming summer as the WIMF team focuses on raising enough money to restore it to its full glory next year.

The decision to cancel the festival was made public through a

formal statement on their Facebook page on March 21.

This summer would have been the festival’s 18th year showcasing up-and-coming bands and providing a venue for new indie musicians to make their festival debut.

In a post on the WIMF Facebook page, Clark wrote that the festival was being cancelled because of “a financial hit due to a interruption in our ferry boat service last year and the overabundance of festivals in the area.”

In an interview with The

Journal, Clark said it was a difficult decision.

“I had some really dark moments when I was having hard time getting fundraising to happen,” she said. “I just decided it would be irresponsible to move on. We’re saving the festival by pausing.”

Aside from her role as the artistic director, Clark is also the festival’s co-founder and coordinator. She said planning and executing the increasingly large event year after year has composed a majority of her adult life, which made the

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Staging gruesome with grace commonplacetheatre’s two-person play tackles pain and the strength of human connection

Erica Hill (top) and Zach Closs (bottom) performing in Gruesome Playground Injuries.

D ana M itchell Contributor Gruesome Playground Injuries, a commonplacetheatre production, provides an in-depth look at pain and the ways it strengthens human connections.

Written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Rajiv Joseph,

Gruesome Playground Injuries tells the story of two unlikely friends.

Doug, played by Zach Closs, ArtSci ’17, is a charismatic daredevil prone to extreme accidents. Kayleen, played by Erica Hill, ArtSci ’16, is sad and self-destructive despite her strong-willed exterior. It’s their pain — both physical and mental — that draws them together throughout

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their lives.

It’s the second production this year for commonplacetheatre, a not-for-profit local theatre company. It follows the success of 4.48 Psychosis, which ran in October 2015.

Artistic director and founder Chantel Martin says the beauty and complexity of the story drew

decision even harder.

The growing number of alternative music festivals since the festival began factored into the decision, according to Clark.

“The landscape of the festivals changed a lot, there are always new festivals popping up everywhere.

When we started this kind of alternative music festival, that kind of lineup wasn’t out there 18 years ago,” she said.

“We just have to rethink and regroup after taking the hit last summer. We just need to take a step back and re-evaluate, but it’s temporary.”

Clark says she and the rest of the WIMF team has been overwhelmed with a rush of support from fans of the festival, including those from the Queen’s community.

“WIMF has had such a close tie with Queen’s,” Clark said.

“CFRC and The Journal have been such a big part of it since the beginning. We’re always indebted to that community.”

The Kingston music scene won’t be completely bare this summer.

To fundraise for WIMF 2017, Clark said she and the rest of the WIMF team are arranging a concert series for the summer featuring some of Kingston’s local music gems.

By taking a step back and focusing on gaining back their momentum, the WIMF team hopes to maintain their focus on homegrown, accessible music.

“We don’t want to be that festival that charges $300 ... to charge for a weekend of music.

So that’s what we support — that accessibility of good music,” Clark said.

her to the production.

“The show is very challenging from both a design perspective and an acting perspective,” Martin said.

“The actors have to bounce back and forth between ages and we had to create a fluid world that weaves between all these ages.”

The story is broken into eight non-sequential encounters between Doug and Kayleen. Each scene follows an interlude during which the actors change costumes and apply fake injuries, taken from boxes labelled with ages ranging from eight to 38.

Doug and Kayleen meet in their school nurse’s office when they’re eight years old. Kayleen likes the quiet, while Doug is being treated after he rides a bike off a roof.

They are endearingly rude to one another — Kayleen is disgusted

by Doug’s stupidity — and they become curious and fidgety in each other’s presence.

The narrative moves back and forth between the few moments Doug and Kayleen have shared. As they get older, Kayleen and Doug remain playful and rude, but their tone becomes increasingly serious.

Their emotions are underlined with desire despite the suffering that keeps them apart.

Using boxes was an inventive way to set up the play’s many sections. The actors’ ability

to transform their tone and body language on command made the jumps between scenes feel effortless.

Sitting in The Box at H’art Centre, the audience becomes part of the intimate world of the characters.

The small space lined with black curtains pulls you into private and painful moments that feel almost uncomfortably authentic.

Eerie music and dramatic lighting highlight intense emotions of loss and longing, and it’s impossible to look away.

“Audiences should watch the show and reflect on the relationships that they’ve had,” Martin said. “Where they’ve gone wrong, where they’ve gone right and where they’ve misconnected.”

The back curtain is pulled away in the final scene, revealing a wall of mirrors. As Doug and Kayleen sit facing the mirrors, the audience watches their reflections and see themselves in the background.

For the first time, the spectators are given a chance to reflect on their lives along with the characters, giving the play a meaningful and personal tone.

Gruesome Playground Injuries was a heartbreaking and compelling production exploring the wounds we inflict upon ourselves, and the bonds that can heal them.

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We won’t get fooled again

How “liberal” music gets co-opted by conservative forces to appeal to youthful masses Contemporary pop superstar Adele recently called out presidential hopeful Donald Trump for using her song at one of his rallies.

A lec M ac N eil Contributor Conservative politicians in the U.S. have been co-opting liberal music for their own purposes for decades.

But the implications are more than just political.

Adele is the most recent in a string of artists urging Donald Trump to stop using their music as part of his political campaign.

Her complaints follow those of Neil Young, REM’s Michael Stipe and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, who have each spoken out against the Trump’s use of their music.

Outside of the political madhouse that’s Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, this is nothing new. Countless Republicans have used liberal music (or music written by liberals) in political demonstrations, often disregarding the artists’ wishes.

Not only does this misconstrue the original intent of the songs, it implies a connection between the politician and the music — a link that is simply not there.

When Ronald Reagan ran for

president in the mid-80s, he said Americans should aspire to emulate Bruce Springsteen.

“America’s future rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young Americans admire, New Jersey’s Bruce Springsteen,” he said in a rally in Hammonton, New Jersey on Sept. 19, 1984.

No doubt attempting to inspire nationalistic sentiment using American music’s working-class hero as bait, Reagan failed to grasp that Springsteen’s music in no way aligned with his politics.

“Born in the U.S.A.” is widely misunderstood as American jingoism, but it’s actually a protest against the treatment of veterans of the Vietnam War — the same war Reagan deemed a “noble cause” in a speech delivered on August 18, 1980 in Chicago at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention.

Some, like Politico’s Marc Dolan, even suggest Springsteen’s liberal tendencies are a direct reaction against Reagan’s use of his image.

Immediately, skeptics asked Reagan whether he had even heard a Springsteen song

before — Springsteen included.

In an interview for Rolling Stone published in December 1984, the musician addressed Reagan’s use of his music and distanced himself from Reagan’s political campaign.

“I think people got a need to feel good about the country they live in.

But what’s happening, I think, is that that need — which is a good thing — is gettin’ manipulated and exploited.”

More recently, Alaskan Governor and outspoken Republican Sarah Palin attempted to use Heart’s “Barracuda” as her theme song many times throughout her vice-presidential campaign with John McCain in 2008. The band later sent a cease and desist letter to the Republican Party, claiming that Palin’s politics didn’t represent them as American women.

Beyond this, they claimed the Republicans never asked permission to use their song. The campaign, however, continued to use the song despite the band’s wishes.

After Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker walked out to Dropkick Murphy’s “I’m Shipping Up to

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Boston” at a 2015 event in Iowa, the band Tweeted: “@ScottWalker @GovWalker please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you!!! Love, Dropkick Murphys.”

The insistence on using liberal music for Conservative political events is a clear attempt by Republicans to appeal to a younger, less traditional demographic.

That’s a necessary aspect of American politics and part of a good marketing strategy.

What’s contemptible, however, is the desperation Republican politicians display when they insist on using music by artists who clearly want nothing to do with them. Critics like Michael T. Spencer in “Rockin’ the Right-wing Blogosphere: John J. Miller’s Conservative Song Lists and Popular Culture after 9/11” argue that these actions constitute cultural colonization.

By associating themselves with music that does not belong to them, conservatives redefine the areas in life — like art and musical expression — that matter to people. From then on, those

areas are associated (consciously or subconsciously) with conservatism and garner those images when we interact with music and other forms of cultural expression.

Rather than simply colonizing the past by reimagining the music of yesterday, Conservatives are now attempting to colonize the present by claiming the music of today as their own.

If Donald Trump is successful in co-opting the music of hugely successful pop artists, the negative consequences could quickly become apparent. By appealing to a less traditionally conservative demographic, his voter base may grow even wider, and considering the weight Americans place on the support of celebrities, including musicians, aligning with these celebrities can only fuel Trump’s campaign — a campaign driven by the politics of fear and hate.

Making America great again should not involve misappropriating pop music, but rather letting Americans decide who best represents their interests.

Give their music back to them.

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with abortion.

“There’s a lot of controversy around [abortion] and there’s a lot of grey area … that will never be solved if people don’t talk about it,” Co-President of Inquire Polly Zhang said.

“I’m hoping [the event] opens up the discussion on abortion a little more,” Zhang, ArtSci ’17, added.

Hush producer Joses Martin, who comes from a pro-life background, partnered with pro-choice director Punam Kumar Gill to create the film. He said his and Kumar Gill’s opposing views on abortion made it possible to assess the subject for purely informational purposes.

“We had to put aside our opinions of the subject — you know the morality, or right and wrong of the subject — to just look at the information and to come to some real conclusions together,” Martin said.

The film investigates the long-term effects of physical abortion with a focus on whether there’s a connection between abortion and breast cancer, premature birth and mental health.

For over two years, the team

There are few subjects as divisive as abortion. On one side, pro-life activists seek to protect human life in all its stages. On the other, pro-choice advocates promote abortion accessibility and a woman’s right to choose.

At least, that’s the simple version.

It’s a controversy made murkier by politics, religion and morality — all factors one documentary team has sought to set aside to look at abortion as honestly as possible.

Hush, a documentary on abortion, has been screening on campuses across Canada since International Women’s Day. It will screen at Queen’s on March 30.

Earlier this month, the University of Winnipeg canceled the film’s screening on their campus, citing the demands of hosting the event.

A Hush tour coordinator, however, said they received an e-mail from the university stating that the cancellation was due to the film’s content.

The Queen’s screening will be hosted by Inquire Publication and followed by a panel discussion with women who have either personal or professional experience

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Indigenous filmmaker tells her family’s complex history Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ films tackle issues as diverse as their style

Filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers was featured at last Tuesday’s event.

C harlotte S anders Staff Writer From a mockumentary to fictional revenge fantasy to a personal documentary, no two films by Indigenous filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers are alike.

Tailfeathers’ films were screened on campus in the first event of the “Conversations in Indigenous Arts” series.

The series addressed questions from

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the ethics of making a film about your parents’ marriage to curating an exhibition that brings up painful memories from a community’s past.

The series featured two events — the screening of Tailfeathers’ films and a panel discussion on writing, research and curation using Indigenous methodologies. At the first event last Tuesday, audience members gathered in the screening room of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

Tailfeathers, who’s a member of Kainai First National (Blood Tribe) and part Sámi from Norway, screened five of her short films at the event. Her films have been screened at festivals around the world, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Seattle International Film Festival and the TIFF Top Ten Festival.

All five films — Bloodland (2011), A Red Girl’s Reasoning (2012), Colonial Gaze Sámi Artists’ Collective (2012), Bihttos (2014) and Mavericks (2015) — dealt with Indigenous themes, and each film was unique while retaining the director’s distinct vision.

Bihttos stood out most. The film, which explored how past injustices faced by the Tailfeathers’ parents contributed to the breakdown of their marriage, was touching and deeply personal. It used animation and re-enactments using actors to tell her family’s story in an unconventional way.

The following day’s event, a panel of visiting Indigenous speakers, was held at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Presenters included Tailfeathers, Karyn Recollet, assistant professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto; Eve Tuck, associate professor in Critical Race and Indigenous Studies at OISE University of Toronto; and Jordan Wilson, curator at the Museum of Anthropology at the University

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The talk focused on the speakers’ use and understanding of indigenous methodology in their practice, although the importance of community was the biggest talking point of the afternoon.

During a Q&A following the panel event, a member of the audience asked the presenters to what they credited their success.

“I’m quite uncomfortable using the word ‘success,’” Tailfeathers said. “I just consider myself to be continuing the work that my grandparents did.”

She credited the work of her grandparents and parents — all of whom were firm advocates for Indigenous rights — for her generation’s ability to “engage in the way that they have.”

Jordan Wilson highlighted his experience as a co-curator for the exhibit c̓ əsnaʔəm, the city before the city at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. The exhibit, which highlighted the Musqueam’s landscape and living culture, was particularly meaningful for Wilson as a member of the Musqueam community.

“While working on the exhibit, I knew I had to be careful because I felt a strong sense of accountability to my extended family and community,” he said.

Wilson credited the “support and welcoming of his community” for what he has been able to accomplish.

The series was organized by Dylan Robinson, assistant professor in Indigenous Arts and the Canada research chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. Both events opened with an introduction by Janice Hill, a member of the Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation and the director of the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre at Queen’s.

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researched, filmed, interviewed and edited the film, with much of the time spent traveling throughout the US. and Canada. With such a controversial topic, it comes as no surprise that it was difficult to find professionals willing to share their experiences and research.

“Because the issue is so polarized, it meant people only seem willing to talk about it if they’re on one of the two extremes: either saying there are all these really bad things about abortion, or denying that there’s

anything to worry about,” Martin said.

Those who are more moderate in their views, meanwhile, were unwilling to be interviewed because it’s too political.

Even major health organizations — who Martin said have released claims that there’s no relationship between abortion and breast cancer — denied requests for interviews.

The unwillingness to share research stems from fears of swaying the debate one way or the other, Martin said. Pro-choice individuals are often unwilling to admit the potential dangers of abortion, while pro-life advocates don’t want to accept that some

supposed risks are unfounded.

For Martin, his motivation to investigate abortion came from the disparity in information he’d encountered.

While women he knew who’d had an abortion spoke out about the ways it harmed them personally, health organizations said otherwise.

When people first hear an abortion film is screening, there’s always some backlash because many assume the documentary will have a slant, Martin said. But whatever their

position, he said any reservations disappear once they’ve seen the film.

“It’s really worked a kind of miracle to break down some walls between extremes where only animosity has existed.”

While the documentary can’t answer all of the questions and emotions that arise from abortion, Martin said he hopes that at the very least it will start a healthy conversation.

Hush screens on Wednesday, March 30 from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Biosciences Complex in Room 1103.

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Queen’s MAST club creates (mostly) autonomous sailboats S arah O’F laherty Contributor

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hen Evan Chou was in high school, he didn’t know he’d find a club that combined two of his greatest passions: sailing and robotics.

Now, Chou, Sci ’15, is captain of Queen’s Mostly Autonomous Sailboat Team (MAST).

MAST consists of 25 students who design, build and compete with robotically-engineered sailboats in yearly international competitions.

Chou was introduced to the team through an engineering class project, where he had to help MAST members mount a GoPro to their sailboat that could be remotely controlled.

Being a part of MAST provides an experience different than anything else for Chou.

“Cars are cool, but you don’t always have an opportunity to work with sailboats,” he said.

It takes the members of MAST a full school year to design and construct the sailboat so it’s competition-ready.

First, the team builds the physical sailboat, which involves

constructing the hull, the fiberglass work, and designing the sails. From there, they focus on the electrical components, which control the rudders and sails that take input from sensors.

The final step is the software component, where the team members write the code that tells the boat how to sail and how to react in the water.

While the process of constructing the sailboats might seem complex, Chou said that it’s a great way to learn and provides an opportunity for older students to pass on knowledge to younger MAST members.

“When you’re working with first or second-year students and they learn something that they’ve never heard of before or considered … that’s really rewarding,” he said.

This year, MAST has been building a new, two-metre long boat.

“We’re thinking it’s going to be a very high quality, good looking boat,” he said.

Last year’s sailboat was fully autonomous — a first in the club’s 10-year history.

“You could just give it any GPS coordinate and it should be able to

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Veterans guide recruits’ choices

get there by itself,” Chou explained.

The team is currently looking forward to their upcoming June 4 competition at the International Robotic Sailboat Regatta. Last year’s competition took place in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and was a smaller affair. This year, MAST is hosting the competition from June 4 to 11, at the Kingston Yacht club. 12 schools are currently slated to attend including Memorial University, Cornell and Yale.

There are five standard challenges that occur at the International Robotic Sailboat Regatta.

The newest challenge introduced this year uses computer vision technology. Here, teams attach a webcam on the boat to scan the surrounding waters and detect a hidden object.

“Computer vision is a challenging thing for our computer programmers … but they’re excited and I think they are getting more confident in us being able to do it,” Chou said.

An integral part to the MAST team is their 35 cent opt-out fee, which contributes to 40 per cent of their income. When students opt-out, it becomes harder for MAST to work on their sailboats.

Despite this, Chou said one of the most enjoyable things about the

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MAST’s sailboat is semi-autonomous.

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experience is how unique it is.

“You get some hands on experience outside the classroom,

which you might not have access to otherwise,” he said. “It’s a pretty niche thing.”

Peer mentors attract future teammates

A dam L askaris Sports Editor For every potential recruit there are certain similarities — a standard campus visit, a meeting with coaches and an exchange of highlight tapes between player and coach.

But for many Gaels, what draws them into committing to the program are the veterans they meet.

When Mike Shoveller was in his first few weeks at Queen’s, he met with former Gael Matt Kerkhoff.

“He was always open to talk, and to this day, is still one of the nicest guys I know,” said Shoveller, now in his third year on the men’s basketball team.

These introductions often happen on players’ first visit as a recruit, he said.

His early friendship with Kerkhoff, who was in his second year at the time, helped him get accustomed to the program. Both men hail from sparsely populated places — Shoveller from Arnprior, Ontario, and Kerkoff from Moosomin, Saskatchewan — the two were friends instantly, with Kerkoff serving in a mentor role.

“It was a pretty easy choice,” Shoveller said about picking Queen’s, praising the school’s academic and athletic personal fit as the biggest factor for his commitment.

Last year, Shoveller was asked to return that favour. He was

Mike Shoveller was 9th in the OUA in blocks.

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Slater Doggett (#16) was heavily influenced by Gaels Darcy Greenaway and Warren Steele.

tasked with taking in Vincent Wood — who ended up playing in this past season — on his recruiting tour. Shoveller said athletes are paired with players the coaching staff thinks would fit well with each other.

For others, playing for Queen’s athletics was always on their mind and the draw of playing with past teammates was the push they needed.

Since his time with the OHL’s Kingston Frontenacs, men’s hockey’s Slater Doggett has planned to come play for Queen’s.

He began taking first-year courses part-time in 2013 to acclimatize himself to the university — two years before he’d begin playing for the men’s hockey team.

Doggett’s former junior teammates and current Gaels Darcy Greenaway and Warren Steele played a big part in giving him the finer details of the program. This system of giving advice continues to this day.

The Gaels’ coaching staff often

asks current players to figure out which players they think he should target, such as former teammates and opponents.

“Our guys are pretty honest on whether they think a guy should be a recruit or not,” Doggett said.

Doggett said monthly chats with the coaching staff and his future teammates convinced him to commit to Queen’s during his final junior season.

He said hockey is unique to other sports in terms of recruiting at the university level. Most players come in at age 20 or older, and typically don’t have the experience of living in university residence and go straight into student housing.

Because of this, the incoming recruits often are well-associated with their teammates before the season starts.

Football linebacker Michael Moore had a different experience than most — coming to Queen’s from Andover, Maryland, where he completed his final year of high school.

Moore settled in nicely, becoming a team leader in his first season. After earning a starting role as a rookie in the 2014-15 season with the Gaels, Moore was selected as a team captain this past season as he was fifth on the team with 33 tackles — which ranked 15th in the OUA. This year Moore’s been tasked with having recruits occasionally stay at his house in an attempt to draw them to the school. One player he hosted has already unofficially committed to Queen’s for next season.

“I’ve hosted a few recruits, it’s fun,” he said. “That’s when they find out if they want to be here or not.”

He added that the varsity athlete lifestyle can only really truly be shown by someone who’s living it.

“Coaches can only do so much,” Moore said. “It’s important that a recruit meets players on the team because they kind of give you a different perspective of what coaches can’t really show you.”

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Adam Laskaris Sports Editor

I once witnessed a Queen’s student getting caught for sneaking beers into a Queen’s hockey game. This sight isn’t too uncommon, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

A large portion of Queen’s students like to drink on Friday and Saturday nights. A large portion of Queen’s students also don’t attend university sporting events on those days.

Alcohol currently isn’t sold at any campus sporting events, but it should be.

The only Queen’s-affiliated sporting events that sells alcohol are select football games, but only in certain areas that are restricted from student access. For most Queen’s sports, home game attendance often hovers in the low hundreds, with crowds of even 1,000 for non-football events a rare sight.

There are a few reasons why alcohol sales would ultimately benefit the Queen’s athletic community.

A lot of students like to drink alcohol, and people who are drinking often like to get loud.

A home team with a loud rowdy crowd is more likely to win.

That’s not to say alcohol is going to be the deciding factor in every game. But rowdy crowds can develop an atmosphere at an often empty ARC or Memorial Centre.

If a few hundred more students show up to games, it can help create a place where road teams don’t want to come for fear of being intimidated by the home crowds.

So while it may take time for a large body like Queen’s Athletics to get a liquor license, the benefits would outweigh the negatives.

A main concern is that the alcohol will lead to poor crowd behavior and affect the family-friendly atmosphere. But by including security and designating student sections, Athletics can combat intermingling and families can still feel welcomed.

Underage drinking would be no more of a problem here than anywhere else on campus. With proper training of staff (who would likely be StuCons), it’s easy to properly ID patrons, especially when a student card is involved.

While alcohol would lead to added security costs, university sports have never been real money-making opportunities in Canada, unlike college sports in the U.S. At the very least the move should be put into place as to bring in as many students as possible to home games.

The CIS doesn’t currently have a public policy against the sale of alcohol, stating only in official policy that: “Any sponsorship of alcohol must be accompanied by an educational piece, ensuring participants are fully aware of alcohol abuse.”

If you can buy alcohol across the street at QP, or at a Frontenacs game, which advertises a family-friendly atmosphere, there’s no reason Queen’s shouldn’t be selling alcohol at games in the ARC.

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SHOULD QUEEN’S SELL ALCOHOL AT SPORTING EVENTS?

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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Auf Wiedersehen (for now) Franzi Wilhelm concludes year-long exchange J oshua F inkelstein Staff Writer

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eturning home to Germany, Franzi Wilhelm will be leaving behind the women’s volleyball team, but she hopes it won’t be the last time she gets a chance to play for the Gaels.

Initially coming to Queen’s on exchange, Wilhelm only expected to stay one semester to study business and potentially have the chance to practice with the women’s volleyball team.

However, as luck would have it, she ended up being a key player for the Gaels, picking up an incredible amount of assists throughout the season as the starting setter — including 35 assists in their playoff match against Ryerson.

Wilhelm’s path from exchange student to varsity athlete was what she likes to call a “funny story”.

She originally only wanted to see if she could practice with the Gaels to stay in game shape before returning to her home team.

While attending the tryouts, Wilhelm realized she had a good shot of making the team. The

coaching staff realized the same and offered her a spot, along with an athletic scholarship that would allow her to extend her exchange into the winter term.

For Wilhelm, the difference between volleyball at Queen’s and in Germany was mostly the quality and organization of the team.

“In Canada, I felt much more professional than in Germany, given the level that we play,” she said. “The practices here are more intense, well organized, and playing in general is more analytical.”

A part of the change in pace for Wilhelm was the great difference in time commitment.

Her home team would only practice twice a week, for two hours at a time, unlike the Gaels, who have far more practice time, along with a strength and conditioning program.

Adding in the 16-hour roundtrip bus rides to certain games and crossing a province nearly three times the size of Germany, the time commitment at Queen’s has been a significant change for Wilhelm.

The added stress of being a varsity athlete while adjusting to life in another country could cause

Wilhelm (#13) saw her playing time increase steadily throughout the year.

issues for most student. Yet Wilhelm viewed her time with the volleyball team as an opportunity to help her settle into life abroad.

“Volleyball meant here not only to have a huge commitment, but a chance as well — the chance to get to know great people, a unique community and a university sports spirit that is rarely lived like that in many other countries,” she said.

“I am amazed that I can feel at home somewhere I basically have no family.”

Volleyball has helped Wilhelm become so well adjusted, she admits she even feels like she is a Canadian at times, despite having to return to Germany for next semester. She said there’s a chance she may return to the Gaels in future, this time as a Masters student.

Amidst the sadness of having to leave what she considers “the best seven months of my life,” Wilhelm said she’s excited to continue playing with her team in Germany.

“May it be the good or bad, all together my time here has created this amazing experience. It sounds cheesy, and it probably is even, but it’s true.”

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Joseph Cattana Assistant Sports Editor

An alternate reality to consider: Queen’s home games are packed with the loudest student section in Canada, making the ARC, Nixon Field and Richardson Stadium some of the toughest places to play in the country.

Unfortunately, game attendance is rarely in the hundreds.

As a student I understand the appeal of selling alcohol at games, but the drinking culture present at universities across Canada leaves me very hesitant.

With most colleges and universities across North America struggling with underage drinking on campus, it’s frowned upon to sell beer at their stadiums.

I’ve seen too many nights where students stagger through the streets of Kingston at a barely functioning level. The ARC doesn’t need this kind of hassle.

Alcohol consumption at sporting events is linked to injuries, altercations, harassment and inappropriate public behaviour.

From my own experience of reporting, I’ve seen many families brought to Queen’s events. But the actions of drunken university students would put them off.

Those who aren’t non-Queen’s students actually have to pay for games, and they generate a small profit for the University in regards to ticket sales.

If there was a rise in alcohol consumption at the games, there’s a greater chance many patrons would turn away from an environment they no longer deem family-friendly.

At the University of Colorado Boulder, the school has banned beer sales at sporting events since 1996. The university cited many incidents of violence linked to drunken fans. This type of ban isn’t uncommon around the country.

At a school like Queen’s, with a long history of incidents linked to drunk students, the community doesn’t need another opportunity to get in the news for all the wrong reasons.

It’s difficult to compare, but only about 30 of the 120 largest American schools allow sales of beer or other forms of alcohol inside their stadiums.

Even then, they limit sales to select areas of the stadium — often keeping them away from the student section.

There are many places around to buy alcohol, but student athletic venues don’t need to be one of them.

Queen’s sports shouldn’t be exclusionary, as in many cases, they’re the highest level of that sport in the area.

By promoting alcohol sales, some people will be pushed away.

While I’d enjoy the experience of being able to watch the game with a beer, it doesn’t seem to be worth the headaches it would cause.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

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LIFESTYLE The graduation bucket list 11 things to do before you say goodbye to Queen’s

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A nisa R awhani Editor in Chief

go for a tour and stargaze in a dome on Ellis Hall’s roof. The next open house will be on April 9 from 8 to 9:30 p.m.

5. Karaoke at Tir Nan Nog.

The Irish pub is known for their Thursday Karaoke night. This is your chance to shine. Grab a friend and sing your hearts out, because 3. Jump off the pier. you made it, baby. WE ARE THE A time-honored Queen’s tradition, CHAMPIONS, MY FRIENDS. jumping off the pier has become a Queen’s rite of passage. I avoided 6. Try starting an essay more than 1. Trivia Night at Clark Hall Pub. it during Frosh Week and every two days before the deadline. year after, but with the weather Every Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. warming up, and my graduation Please, just try. students gather at Clark, get into goggles on, it might be time for 7. Fulfill all of your nom desires. teams and answer trivia questions a swim. in categories ranging from pop Grab a lazy riser from Lazy Scholar, culture to space: the final frontier. 4. Watch a movie at the Sunday brunch at Leonard Hall, a The whole thing lasts about two Screening Room. hours, and according to my friend who’s a diehard fan, it’s a whole I don’t have the money or time to lot of fun. make it out to a large theatre in Kingston. And frankly, I’d much rather visit the cozy Screening 2. Visit Queen’s Observatory.

Room. The Screening Room may The second Saturday of every not have as many films on their month, the observatory has an roster at a given time, but the films open house, where the public can they do have are always prime.

K ayla T homson and M ikayla W ronko Journal Staff

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y undergrad is drawing to a close and I’m already feeling nostalgic. Before you part ways with Queen’s at the end of April, here are 11 things to try out in the next few weeks.

grilled cheese sandwich from MLT nice meal at a local restaurant.

DWN and a crepe from Geneva Crêpe Café. Be sure to also develop 9. Check out a live band at the a gluten allergy from eating too Grad Club, the Brooklyn and/or much bread from Pan Chancho. the Mansion.

This is probably the only thing on this bucket list that I’m 100 per 10. Take some selfies by the water cent sure I’m going to do. or at the Isabel because frankly you’ll never look this good again.

8. Hop on a ferry to Wolfe Island and explore the area.

RIP youth.

After a year of sitting at a desk, 11. Go to the damn gym.

Wolfe Island gives you a chance to reconnect with nature. Take a I’ve paid over $1,000 over the past walk by the Big Sandy Bay, wander five years, and have nothing to along the various trails and reward show for it. At least try to get your yourself for adventuring with a moneys worth.

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Rob Ford’s Toronto

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Toronto was mainly known as the was also known for passionate debates at Council meetings bottom for Drake.

After the video scandal broke, where he championed the cause of Toronto was at the centre of the strict spending.

He was especially passionate This past Tuesday, the infamous world (regardless of what kind of former mayor of Toronto, Rob attention it was receiving). Most about football, having acted as notably, comedians Jon Stewart the couch for Don Bosco Catholic Ford, passed away from cancer.

Ford was voted into office in and Jimmy Kimmel, to name a few, Secondary School from 2001 to 2010. After a string of scandalous took the opportunity to poke fun 2013. After he was ousted as a drug addict, Ford went to rehab to events in the media in 2013, at Ford’s interviews.

Regardless, of the negative get over his addiction. And when Toronto City Council reduced his mayoral power to a ceremonial attention, Ford kept pressing he was diagnosed with cancer, he basis after his numerous rejections forward, attending interviews and withdrew from the 2014 mayor meeting with media outlets to race to get better and come back to requests that he resign.

These events began when emphasize that he wants people to fighting harder than ever. Ford loved Toronto, and although he Gawker and the Toronto Star understand how great Toronto is.

Even further, Ford inspired was a flawed human being he only reported on a mysterious video of Ford smoking crack. The coverage conversation among non-Toronto wanted to support his city and went international, bringing Ford citizens. Although the conversation its citizens. and Toronto under major scrutiny was negative, people were talking He brought conservatism back and mockery from every major about Toronto and looking into the to Toronto. culture of the city. media outlet you can imagine.

Thanks to Ford, Toronto was However, the notorious crack-smoking mayor’s death has brought into the media world Before Ford, Mayor David Miller brought about kind memories and and is becoming more of a was mayor of Toronto and was associated with the NDP. Before praise of his passion for the city. Say cultural epicentre. that, Mel Lastman was associated what you will about him, but Rob with the Liberals.

He worked hard to come back Ford loved his community.

John Tory, who currently and serve his city.

With that in mind, here’s a list holds the mayoral office, led the of Ford’s top three successes in his As far as politician genuineness goes, Conservative Party of Ontario political career.

Ford was the cream of the crop. His until 2009. Following Rob Ford, work as a City Councillor for Ward the city of Toronto is becoming He made Toronto relevant in the 2 Etobicoke North earned him a more conservative, a trend international sphere. reputation as a passionate and he inspired. That’s arguably Toronto is a major city, one of the dedicated politician for the people. the biggest success of his largest in North America. However Though he had a reputation for political career. until Ford received media attention, controversial comments, Ford

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It’s simple to incorporate androgynous style into your wardrobe.

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Gender bend your wardrobe Z elia B ukhari Contributor From David Bowie’s blouses to Kurt Cobain rocking dresses, gender bending clothing is breaking down exclusivity in fashion. The fashion industry is letting go of traditional approaches towards design, campaigns and models, and with gender bending clothing the possibilities are unlimited.

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Pants Jeans are a good choice, as they come in many different shapes. Women in boyfriend jeans and men wearing tighter fitting jeans are common trends. Personally, I regularly wear what some like to label “dad jeans”, because I think they’re more comfortable, not as tight and have a slightly higher waistline. You can choose to adjust the proportions of you See Androgynous on page 15

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Androgynous fashion Continued from page 14

outfit as well, either by tucking in a shirt, and wearing a longer blazer, or buttoning up a flannel all the way, but not tucking it in.

Shoes Canvas sneakers are unisex, and men and women can both equally rock a pair of Vans or Converse.

Oxford shoes are also great for both genders and can be paired with more formal outfits.

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like floral and flannel can blur the line between gendered dresses and create a cool androgynous look.

My personality doesn’t directly reflect the encouraged sense of masculinity or femininity, which means there’s no point for me to present myself as something that I’m not.

Fashion should never be exclusive to one set of people and adding a binary system makes clothing way more complex than it should ever be.

Androgynous style is whatever Colours and patterns you want it to be; it’s specific to Colours and patterns are a great your emotions and experiences. way to incorporate androgynous As long as you feel good, those style into your wardrobe. Mixing vibrations will flow through and matching gendered colours, you and express confidence and such as pink and blue, and patterns self-assurance.

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