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Queen’s group helps refugees settle in Kingston

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R onen G oldfarb Contributor As thousands of Syrian refugees enter Canada, four third-year Queen’s Law students have been integral in helping refugees adjust to life in Kingston.

In September, Rosa Stall, Lauren Wilson, Jess Spindler and Kaisha Thompson founded the Queen’s Law Refugee Support Program.

The group said they saw a need for the program when they heard about law students and lawyers in Ottawa working together to guide clients through the process of sponsoring refugees in Canada.

“I was reading about that in the paper and reached out to Jess, Lauren and Kaisha and said this is something we could do in Kingston,” Stall said.

The student group focuses on assisting private sponsors with the legal work required to bring Syrian refugees to Canada.

Taking in Syrian refugees was one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s campaign promises during his campaign last year. Since he took office in November, Canada has promised to take in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February, with Kingston set to be one of the communities that will welcome government-assisted refugees.

The students set up a Tilt campaign — a fundraising phone and web app — for one refugee, Peter.

“On Tilt we had set a goal of $5,000.

It’s about one third the cost of Peter’s sponsorship application. That’s a cost that his sponsors, who are all Queen’s professors, have incurred,” Thompson said. The fund has raised $1,793 on Tilt and $550 offline so far, bringing them to almost half their projected goal.

Assistance for Peter isn’t strictly financial.

The group also helped him to find work in the community.

“We reached out to different employers when we found out that Peter had strong language skills,” Spindler said.

“We knew he’d been a hairdresser in Syria and in Lebanon. And so we reached out to a couple different salons and were able to very quickly find him a job placement right away.

After hours of discussion and questions, the Journal Editorial Board endorses one team for the AMS Executive.

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New Biotech program combines college and university education

Don’t be afraid to change your degree

Podcasting through hard times

Communally experiencing the worst movie ever made

Meet the student who runs a barber shop in residence

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Smith School of Business to open new Customer Analytics Centre in Goodes

The new centre will be dedicated to Scotiabank in recognition of $2.2 million donation J ordana G oldman Assistant News Editor The Smith School of Business is opening a new Customer Analytics Centre in Goodes Hall this February to provide new research opportunities for students and faculty.

The centre, which was announced on Jan. 12 through the Queen’s Gazette, was created using a $2.2 million donation from Scotiabank. The centre

will be dedicated to the bank in customized pricing and bundling.

Levin said there will also recognition of its pledge.

The Centre will be led by be internship opportunities The funding will be used to Yuri Levin, Chaired Professor for Smith’s PhD, Masters of support research in customer of Operations Management Science, Master of Management analytics for postdoctoral fellow and Director of the Master of Analytics and MBA students. The and graduate students at Smith.

Management Analytics program, number of student opportunities Research topics will include and Mikhail Nediak, Associate (postdoctoral, internships and case personnel performance monitoring Professor and Toller Family Fellow competitions) is still being finalized. and incentive optimization, of Operations Management.

The Centre officially opens valuation of risk taken by the Faculty members from the Queen’s on Feb. 22 in the East Wing of traders, social media and network School of Computing and other Goodes Hall off of the atrium, effect on customer behaviour, departments in the Smith School and is expected to be operational customer lifetime value models of Business will also be involved in shortly after opening, according for the banking industry and the project. to Levin.

“Queen’s and Smith have had a long standing relationship with Scotiabank,” Levin told The Journal via email, “based on Smith’s faculty expertise in the area of analytics, Scotiabank chose Smith as an academic partner.”

The new Scotiabank Customer Analytics Centre will open on Feb. 22 in the East Wing of Goodes Hall.

Smith professors and students with Scotiabank personnel will collaborate on research, which Levin said is mutually beneficial to both parties.

“Scotiabank gets access to faculty thought leaders and student researchers in the area of analytics to develop applied research that they can use to create innovative customer solutions. Smith gets access to a leading industry partner, including proprietary data sets from Scotiabank and deep practical insight from its experts,” he wrote.

The Centre will primarily provide opportunities for Smith students, but Levin said there may be opportunities for students from other programs going forward.

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Nursing Society re-elects last year’s president Palmeri began her second term this January V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor

during that period,” Palmeri said.

The society developed the NSS calendar-year model to avoid While most faculty societies are those conflicts. preparing for elections this week, Although the NSS allows nursing students have already candidates to serve two terms if elected their student society’s re-elected, Palmeri said she’s the executive — with their President first person to her knowledge to returning for an unprecedented serve two years back-to-back. second year in office.

Palmeri has been involved in the The uncontested election, NSS since she arrived on campus. which took place in late November, Before she began her first year saw the re-election of previous at Queen’s in 2013, she applied Nursing Science Society (NSS) for a position as the society’s first President Alexandra Palmeri and internal operations intern — and new Vice-President (University was hired for it.

Affairs) Courtney Middegaal, both “It was a transformative Nurs ’17. experience. I fell in love with NSS, In the NSS, executive teams I fell in love with my program, serve a term from January to and just so inspired ... that’s December rather than a term that lasts for an academic year.

They use this model due to scheduling conflicts caused by the fourth-year nursing consolidation placement program.

In the consolidation program, students work in a job placement during the second semester of their final year. The placement is full-time and students are often placed at medical facilities outside of Kingston.

“It would be physically impossible for anyone to do anything outside of consolidation

when I knew this was what I wanted to do, for as long as I could at least,” she said.

Palmeri said she’s immensely proud of the transparency and involvement of the NSS during her term in 2015, a sentiment she says has been echoed by students, faculty and alumni in feedback SUPPLIED BY consultations. Highlights of the President Palmeri (left) and Vice-President Middegaal ALEXANDRA PALMERI past year included the creation of (right) are the NSS executive for the 2016 calendar year. a peer tutoring system for first-year students and a National Nursing Middegaal served as Head approaching,” Palmeri said.

Students’ Week focused on Cape — the head of Nursing Palmeri said the pair have self-care, she said.

Orientation Week — for the 2015- exciting plans in the works for the Palmeri added that while 2016 school year.

2016 term. she’s continuing in her role as “She has a great deal of “With my whole heart, I know president, she’s looking forward professionalism, but is also very it will be our most impactful to working with her new warm. She is the smiling face year yet.” vice-president, Middegaal. that you do feel comfortable

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FEATURE AMS & SGPS

Student government: then and now Outgoing executives outline lessons learned for election hopefuls

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tudent government has struggled to maintain a balance between legacy building projects and day-to-day work since its inception on the Queen’s campus in the 1850s.

Continuing shifts in student government, accompanied with changes in student needs and interests, has required a constant need to re-balance between the core objectives of student governance and projects geared towards dramatic improvements on campus.

“Many student leaders get interested in their roles because they have the impression that they understand student issues and want to solve them. This attitude is dangerous, because some leaders may get so focused on solving the problems that they are aware of that they forget that there exist many problems on campus they may not face personally,” Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) President Chris Cochrane said during a recent interview with The Journal.

Both the SGPS and the AMS contend with finding a middle ground between the projects they envision going into their positions and the reality of student government. A tendency to focus too strongly on one or the other — daily work or projects that live on beyond their term — has been a problem for both groups in the past.

“We’ve had a lot of great, big moments, from building Grant Hall, which the AMS was at the forefront of –– students were at the forefront of –– to creating the Oil Thigh, to creating Tricolour.

These are all great moments that I think we’re all proud of and we remember,” current AMS President Kanivanan Chinniah said.

“I think one of the pitfalls that many AMS [governments] do is sometimes they chase those moments. They want those

moments to be replicated year over year, and I think that’s wrong.”

The AMS began in 1858, when it transformed from an on-campus debating society into a student court system. By the 1960s, it had undergone another shift and began to focus on providing social activities for students on campus.

Even before the society became a corporation in 1969, the AMS was involved in major projects on campus, including the selection of what would become the Queen’s Tricolour colours and the establishment of AMS Housing Services in 1968.

As the AMS’s priorities shifted towards student advocacy, the University acknowledged its new roles by providing opportunities for students to engage in decisions made by the Queen’s administration. Students were given the opportunity to elect representatives to speak for their interests in the Senate and the Board of Trustees, setting the AMS up as a liaison between the administration and the students.

However, while the AMS continued to expand and evolve, so did the student body. Increasing enrolment was accompanied by growing interest in graduate studies, and the differing needs of undergraduate and graduate students caused student government to split up into the AMS and the SGPS in 1981.

In the battle for voter turnout and student involvement in campus politics, student governments have had to constantly demonstrate their relevance to constituents — that is, to students. While marketable projects focused on sustainability and refurbishment of university services make for good election promises, they’re not always in the best interests of the student body.

“Each year, a team comes out, or a new individual wants to get in the job, and they think of five or 10 different ways for things to be kind of expanded upon or [to] do more, or I can change this because this way is going to be

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better for students,” Vice President student leadership, and second, we (Operations) Kyle Beaudry said in can’t be everything to everyone an interview of the AMS executive and third, we can’t try to chase moments year over year.”

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SGPS president Chris Cochrane “But in actuality … what we’ve come to learn is that the institution agreed, adding that a student that is the AMS needs to remain government’s central goals revolve stable going forward and that these around essential services and shifts every year — they don’t serve student engagement.

“The most personally rewarding us well when we try to advocate accomplishments that I’ve had in for students.”

That’s why the current AMS my term are in assisting individuals executive says they’ve done to get things done,” Cochrane said.

He said helping students who their best to open up channels of communication between came to him with problems was themselves and their constituents, one of his most positive experiences which creates a forum for feedback on the SGPS executive. He used for projects that the executive his strong relationship with the has prioritized. They said this administration to address difficult resulted in both the delivery of problems facing students, Cochrane necessary student services, such said, and found himself on the ground level of as the increase student advocacy. in walk-in clinic He added that hours through initiatives such the Student as the Graduate Wellness Center, Student Advisor and the creation program are of a bank exceptionally of statistical beneficial to data that students and future student — Kanivanan Chinniah, governments AMS President meet the primary objective of can use to better graduate student address students’ government –– the provision of major concerns.

The AMS executive listed core services which directly benefit this year’s ReUnion Festival, graduate students.

Lorne Beswick, Vice President the clearing of sidewalks in the University District and the of Campaigns and Community ongoing conversation surrounding Affairs for the SGPS, has been with a potential Fall Reading the SGPS for two terms. He said Break as some of their major setting realistic goals and addressing solvable issues is what made his positive contributions.

“It’s about making sure that we second term more rewarding than continue engaging students every the first.

“The first year I got elected, day,” Chinniah said.

“And you do that not by having and I think everyone does this a laundry list of the things that when they first get involved in you want to do, but it’s about student government, but I came constantly re-engaging with in with these high-minded ideals. students by acknowledging that And all of my plans were really first, we don’t have monopoly on well-meaning but almost entirely

“It’s about making sure we engage with students every day.”

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The Principal and Senate decide to transfer NonAcademic Discipline to the AMS Court. Law students are recruited to handle NAD cases.

1843 The Dialectic society is formed.

1800 1858

1920 The AMS is formed from the Dialectic Society.

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1930 A student strike concerning student discipline lasts 23 hours before alumni step in to mediate.

1968 Constitution changes to require every AMS president be a student.

1940 The student constable system is introduced.

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The first election for AMS executives, replacing executives appointed by senior faculty leaders.

1960 Grad studies faculty is founded to accommodate influx of students.

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Student representation at the University Senate is won.

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The Graduate Students’ Society splits from the AMS.

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AMS is now completely in charge of their own finances.

The first student Rector is appointed.

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unfeasible considering the resources available,” he said.

Beswick said he found it difficult during his first term at the SGPS to address some of the broadly defined, overarching problems he faced.

“Quite a few of the things were very vague or abstract, kind of like ‘improve and increase the profile of mental health on this campus’.

Which is a laudable task, but I don’t know how I could necessarily measure that.”

Coming into his second term, he said he found it useful to look at the issues and find realistic ways to address these types of issues by focusing on smaller, achievable solutions to existing problems.

Some of the initiatives he’s seen through this past year include the creation of a parenting room on campus, a ‘Drop and Shop’ initiative to encourage the re-distribution of items during move out and a collaborative project with AMS Social Issues Commissioner Alex Cheung on an out-of-city medical bursary.

The role of student government on campus is bound to shift further in the coming years. But both the AMS and SGPS executive agreed that the interests of the student body need to remain at the forefront of student politics, and that there’s an inherent interest in setting up a system that encourages student engagement on pressing issues.

“It’s about prioritizing talking to [students], and making sure they buy into the initiatives that we want,” AMS President Kanivanan Chinniah said. “Because we’re playing the long game that delivers the practical and achievable results that students want, day after day.”

Academic Grievance Centre.

1990 Law Students acrimoniously split from the AMS.

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An AMS SGPS member begins to runs for restructure its City Council commissions. with AMS support.

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St. Lawrence and Queen’s announce new joint program Collaborative Biotechnology Specialization Plan offers theoretical and practical education J udah B atist Contributor Queen’s has announced a new collaborative biotechnology program with St. Lawrence College, which will allow students from both institutions to enroll in a five-year, hands-on degree.

The joint Bachelor of Science (Honours) Collaborative Biotechnology Program, which was announced earlier this month, is one of the first of its kind. It will be offered beginning next September.

The program allows students enrolled at either Queen’s University or St. Lawrence College to earn credit towards their degree from either institution.

The program, which is designed to produce career-ready graduates to work in the emerging field of biotechnology — the use of living organisms to develop new technology — requires only five years of study.

Previously, a similar program would take seven years to complete (four years for a university diploma and three years to acquire a college certificate).

Queen’s biology professor Dr. Sharon Regan spearheaded the initiative. She says the collaboration will offer Queen’s students the opportunity to receive practical lab work to prepare them for future employment in biotechnology.

“College training and university training teach different parts of the brain. But having the students exposed to both, and having students from both backgrounds, may create some very interesting dialogue in the classrooms,” Regan said.

“At Queen’s, we teach the theoretical [aspects of biotechnology], but it is not until fourth year that our students have any sort of practical exposure.”

For students at St. Lawrence, the program provides an opportunity to study at a university level.

“It will most certainly give these students a novel opportunity to study at Queen’s,” she said.

In the end, students from both institutions will come out of the program with two sets of credentials — theoretical and practical.

Students can begin their studies towards the specialized degree/diploma at either institution. They’ll spend between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half years at Queen’s and the rest of the program at St. Lawrence.

A Bachelor of Science (Honours) Biotechnology Specialization Program will also be offered as a stand-alone, four-year degree program to Queen’s students. It received approval at the same time as the new joint program.

According to Dr. Regan, both Queen’s and St. Lawrence will offer courses on the ethical and societal implications of biotechnology.

“It’s so critical to think about the impacts,” Dr. Regan said.

Courses include the study of drug discovery and applied biotechnology, where students will learn how to culture yeast and fungi. Other courses will feature a scaling up process, where students will devise, build and modify structures for biotechnological procedures.

Dr. Regan said the program will prepare students for a multitude and variety of professions, ranging from pharmaceuticals, biotech companies, government agencies, patent law and conservation initiatives.

It’s unclear at the moment how many students will enter the program in its inaugural year. However, both schools have expressed interest in expanding their programs if need be, Regan said.

“Right now, we are predicting 20-25 students per year, but if students realize this will make them more marketable, this may really take off,” she said.

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Students see sidewalk-clearing prioritized by City J ordana G oldman Assistant News Editor

“Now here we are with increased priority for some major sidewalks in the University District,” he said.

With the first snowfall earlier this month, According to a Facebook post by the sidewalks in the Queen’s area have been AMS-run University District page on Jan. given priority snow removal under the new 13, students can “expect an accumulation winter control plan. of no more than 2.5 cm of snow and Matt Kussin, AMS Municipal Affairs plowing within 24 hours of a storm along Commissioner, met with City of Kingston these routes.” officials earlier this year to ensure that the Kussin said groundwork was already in City implemented changes made to its snow place before he took office and his work clearing policies. was a matter of ensuring that the City stuck “Snow removal has always been an to the accepted winter control plan. important municipal issue for students,” “I think it’s also important to remember Kussin said. that we can’t take it for granted that Kussin, ArtSci ’15, said his predecessor Kingston is one of the few municipalities worked with Kingston staff and in Canada that does do snow removal on City councilors last year to prioritize sidewalks,” he said. snow removal on sidewalks in the Due to the lack of snow in University District.

November and December, the new The motion passed at the committee winter control plan hasn’t yet been tested. council in December 2014, but changes Kussin says he hopes that students will in the winter plan weren’t officially begin to see improvements now that implemented until this past fall there’s snow on campus. when Kussin met with the City to ensure that the changes would be applied around — With files from Jacob Rosen the City.

Strong student support for refugee aid Continued from front page

So he’s already started working and that’s huge in terms of community integration as well.”

So far, the group has received support from both the Queen’s community and the Kingston community at large.

Dean of Law William Flanagan has been especially supportive of the program and has contributed financially to fundraising efforts.

The Queen’s Law Refugee Support Program isn’t the only campus group focused on assisting incoming refugees.

Other student groups, such as We for Refugee, have also sprung up on campus to assist the influx of refugees.

“My belief was that students have a great role to play here in the community and there is sort of a void right now where we’re not doing that when it comes to the refugee crisis,” We for Refugee group organizer Adam Grotsky said. Grotsky served as president of the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society last year.

The student group is dedicated to fundraising and awareness efforts related to supporting Syrian refugees that settle in Kingston. Grotsky, ArtSci ’16, said he figured it would be a good place to start.

The group officially launched last week and has since gained 35 student volunteers. In light of the group’s early success, Grotsky said he believes assisting refugees immigrating to Canada is an issue that Queen’s students are interested in supporting.

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The Journal’s Perspective

AMS ENDORSEMENT

CSG’s passion pulls through A

big vision is better than playing it safe.

In a 12-0 vote with four abstentions, the Journal Editorial Board elected to endorse Team CSG for this year’s AMS Executive.

Team LWT’s platform describes a decline in the Queen’s experience and offers improvements to the AMS and its services as a solution. Though smaller in scope, LWT’s platform has a greater degree of feasibility than CSG’s platform promises.

However, while LWT’s promises are achievable, the Journal Board considers CSG’s objectives to better address the realities of campus life.

While LWT’s objectives seek to reestablish the AMS as the center of student life, CSG’s vision sees the AMS operate more as a support (Operations) for the rich student life that takes Vice-President candidate Anderson displays place outside the AMS. drive and diligence CSG’s attention to combating the a culture of homogeneity and needed to succeed in a exclusivity in the student body in detail-oriented and exacting general, not just in the internal position, and her experience structure of the AMS, is promising. working in marketing in the AMS Their overly-ambitious platform will prove valuable. Vice-President is too large an undertaking for (University Affairs) candidate them to deliver all points in their Radisic — who’s currently the term alone, but it aims in the president of the Residence Society and deals a great deal with first right direction.

CSG’s candidates — Colin years — appears approachable Zarzour, Sarah Anderson and Greg and in touch with the concerns Radisic — are collectively far more of students.

CSG has a level of sincerity and suited to each of the roles they’re running for than their counterparts cohesion that’s somewhat lacking in the makeup of their opponent’s on LWT. Presidential candidate Zarzour dynamic. VP (University Affairs) shows the ability to be a leader with candidate Carolyn Thompson is a vision and passion for student life. knowledgeable and approachable,

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and, in the belief of the Journal that he’s ill-equipped to handle Editorial Board, would make an the demands of the position he’s running for. excellent president.

CSG’s individual strengths, on In the question period with The Journal and in the debate, LWT the other hand, will better equip struggled to appear as a cohesive the team to handle internal conflict unit, especially in comparison to or disagreements.

Their attention to data the other team.

Presidential candidate Tyler collection, especially in the area of Lively has more knowledge sexual assault policy development, of the internal workings of will serve the team well. When the AMS than any of the other serious issues arise, having an candidates. However, based on AMS team whose tendency is to the direction of LWT’s platform, seek the opinions of students will as president Lively will operate make them more accountable to the same way the AMS usually their constituents.

CSG’s focus on equity and does — often out of touch with their acknowledgement of their students’ concerns.

As for VP (Operations) own privilege is a promising sign candidate Dave Walker, his limited of their ability to do what both input during the campaign implies teams are pledging by opening up

Ramna Safeer

and actors who dream of one day reaching that scale of recognition but feel as though there’s no point in trying.

With social media in an uproar, several personalities publicly committed to boycotting the awards, including actress I started writing — poetry, Jada Pinkett Smith and director prose and more relevantly, Spike Lee. screenplays — many years ago. To Following this news, just when succeed and be recognized, not it seemed the Oscars golden statue only as a female artist but as a had permanently been painted female artist of colour, has proven white, the Academy released a time and time again to be no statement that promised a more easy feat. colourful future.

So, when the Academy “A sweeping series of substantive publicized and broadcasted their changes designed to make celebration of over 20 performers Academy’s membership, its and all of them just happen to be governing bodies, and its voting white, it suddenly became personal members significantly more Why? Because it silences diverse” will be implemented. The non-white aspiring filmmakers Academy says it will commit to

More colour needed at the Oscars I’d need more than two hands to count how many times I’ve been discouraged by the white-dominant nature of the arts world.

Two weeks ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced an all-white cast of nominees for the 88th Academy Awards in the categories of Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

Responsible for highlighting excellence in cinema, it seemed the Academy believes — for the second

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consecutive year — that non-white people aren’t deserving of the title.

Since the nominations were announced, I couldn’t help but get into those essay-long, frustration-fuelled arguments that fill up Facebook threads.

Even though this is the second time in a row this has happened.

Even though I really shouldn’t be surprised.

And yet, the lack of non-white representation on the largest cinematic stage in the world stung just as much as it did last year.

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the AMS to a greater diversity of students.

While LWT looks good on paper, CSG’s vision and passion will carry them through the demands of an AMS executive position.

But CSG should be careful that they don’t fall into the trap of promising too much and succeeding in little. Without prioritization and tangible goals, they will not be able to accomplish everything they’re promising. Moreover, it will be damaging to the student body if they fall into the pattern of tossing out everything their predecessors did and starting over.

In the end, CSG will bring valuable change, so long as they aren’t doing it just for the sake of change.

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Our Process

The Journal’s vote of confidence took into consideration platforms, interviews, debates and a private questioning period between each team and the Journal’s Editorial Board.

The interview included a list of seven predetermined questions and open questioning period for over an hour.

While the private questioning period was taken into account, it was only a small part of a greater process of consideration.

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doubling the amount of women and non-white voting members by 2020.

It’s refreshing that the Academy is finally coming to terms with its history of upholding white, male supremacy, and allowing itself to be held accountable if their recent promises aren’t kept.

Because they will be held accountable.

Regardless of reoccurring arguments to not take these awards shows so seriously, or that it was just a “coincidence” that the best films of the year feature only white people, the Academy is slowly learning to be less passive to the stories of non-white artists.

I say it’s about time.

Ramna is The Journal’s Arts Editor.

She’s a second-year English major. expressed in The Journal are the sole responsibility of The Queen’s Journal Editorial Board, and are not necessarily those of the University, the AMS or their officers.

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OPINIONS

Your Perspective

Make your program work for you How rethinking your academic path might save your GPA PHOTO BY STEPHANIE NIJHUIS

Nicole Costa advocates evaluating your strengths and weaknesses as student and adjusting your course load accordingly.

Nicole Costa, ArtSci ’16

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ometimes, the most difficult path to follow is your own.

“One size fits all” systems of education are designed to benefit as many people as possible. However, certain students in post-secondary schools who have a difficult time learning or staying mentally healthy may benefit from the exact opposite.

Instead of nixing certain career paths because things aren’t working out in first year, we can find a way to keep doors open for students through a little bit of problem solving.

But it requires us to find the courage to take charge of our education and follow our own, unique path — even if we’ve already started in a different direction.The first step: make your education profit from your strengths and not suffer your weaknesses.

In post-secondary institutions like ours, the default way to learn is through note-taking during lectures. However, this method doesn’t work for everybody. To

and my ambition to become a MD, even if I failed first year.

Taking your education into your own hands teaches maturity, patience and problem-solving skills you might not gain otherwise and certainly wouldn’t learn in a first-year lecture.

In the end, these skills are much more useful for any career than the half-understood knowledge you might garner by struggling in the back of a lecture hall.

Your education doesn’t have to look like everyone else’s, or even how you thought it would look when you started. It’s merely a matter of finding the will to find your way.

Taking your first year to learn your strengths and weaknesses will ensure you get a chance to build your confidence as a student, which is an important part of feeling ready to tackle a challenging major.

Learning how to become disciplined in your studies is far more useful than struggling in prerequisite courses for certain professional schools.

Many students considering law or med school might have more options than they realize.

Even if first year feels like a distant memory, it’s still not too late to save your GPA. For example, most people don’t realize that all majors are “pre-med”. Only half of Canadian medical schools require prerequisite courses and none require prerequisite majors.

That means that you can take those difficult prerequisites at a later date, when you feel ready, online at Athabasca University, or not take them at all and study for the MCAT on your own.

I was never a particularly disciplined student until I started taking control of my education.

Knowing that you’ve committed to a new program that better meets your needs and caters to your interests can be a real source of motivation.

Now that I realize that I have a say in how and when I learn, I’m able to stay on top of my grades

“For a general volunteer it’s just as much time as I want.”

“For the candidates it’s massive.

They spend all week running around doing class talks.”

“During this campaign, nothing is too much, because it’s for Cam.”

“There’s a large time commitment involved, but it’s worth it.”

Tom Connolly, ArtSci ’18

John Gardiner, ArtSci ’17

Ellen Rowe, ArtSci ’17

Orion Boverhof, ArtSci ’19

discover a learning style that suited me, I went to multiple Queen’s Learning Commons workshops and scoured YouTube for study tips and tricks.

Once you identify what’s made you successful or held you back in the past, don’t just stay on your path. Look for a major or classes that play to your strengths.

If you’re still in first year, here’s a little secret that nobody tells you: If you know you’re going to do badly in a full-year course, you can still salvage your GPA by appealing to drop it after you take the final in April. You will then be able to choose a major because all courses, even electives, count.

The required courses for your major don’t have to be taken in first year, which helps if your study habits haven’t yet lined up with your learning style — all the more reason to balance your course load with subjects you’re comfortable with, which will help you determine how you learn best,

develop your intellectual maturity and ability to focus for longer periods of time.

This might mean you’ll have to graduate late or take summer courses to fulfill elective requirements, but it’ll be worth it in the long run.

Once you identify what’s made you successful or held you back in the past, don’t just stay on your path, look for a major or classes that play to your strengths.

Nicole Costa is a third-year English major.

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ARTS The Ways of Reading exhibition will be at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre this winter semester.

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Reading as an act of performance Curator Kevin Rodgers explores the sentimental value behind artists’ books A runa A undhia and L auren L uchenski Contributor and Assistant Arts Editor The Agnes’ exhibition With You and Others features art in the form of books.

The Agnes is currently home to an exhibition of vintage artists’ books — self-published books taking various forms — which aims to portray the sentimentality behind the books and their multiple identities as text, image and object.

The vintage artists’ books

are presented in different styles, including foldout pages or loose-leaf page additions and a combination of text and images.

The exhibition, With You and Others, is part of the Agnes’ winter exhibition. Throughout the winter season, the exhibition will be accompanied by a series of talks with featured artists.

This Saturday, the first talk of the series, titled Acts of Reading, featured the exhibition’s curator Kevin Rodgers.

Rodgers studied at Western University and holds a PhD in

Art and Visual Culture. He was the Artistic Director of Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre in Kingston, which showcases work by artists within a 100-kilometre radius of the centre.

The event gave attendees the chance to admire artist books, which are essentially pieces of art themselves, as well as speak with Rodgers about the exhibition.

“With You and Other alludes to a subject in relation [to something else] — I am with you and we are with others. It’s a reflective practice and in this context that practice is

MUSIC

A concert with a cause MEDLIFE Queen’s raises money with music

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need across the world. All of the proceeds from the concert will go towards the MEDLIFE fund.

The concert ran from 9 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. and featured three performers: local acts Elspeth Poulson and Curfew and Toronto band Sun K. Clark Hall provided an intimate setting for the event.

Alex Mladen, co-vice president of fundraising for MEDLIFE, came up with the idea for the “Concert for Change” last year. She says she’s

pleased to see how it has grown.

“The turnout improved a lot from last year,” Mladen said. “We decided to raise the stakes a bit by hiring a bigger act from Toronto rather than just having local acts.”

Elspeth Poulson, an indie performer and third-year Queen’s student, performed an acoustic set featuring covers as the first act.

Her cover of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” had the crowd clapping and singing along.

Kingston-based band Curfew performed at MEDLIFE’s concert this weekend.

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Campus pub Clark Hall was packed Saturday night for MEDLIFE’s second annual “Concert for Change,” which featured a mix of local bands and out-of-town talent.

The Queen’s chapter of MEDLIFE helps students make visible contributions to the delivery of first aid health care to people in

one of reading and within reading, suggests a passage of time,” Rodgers said during the talk.

According to the Agnes website, the exhibition “contemplates reading as a performative and personal act.”

Rodgers chose specific books from his With You and Others exhibition that featured themes of time and human relationships in context with reading.

“It isn’t uncommon to say that you read someone’s face or read their emotion. We read texts, we read images and objects and each other,” Rodgers said.

Rodgers said these particular books help artists understand themselves and others, and connect them with a different type of art, especially through format.

“In this exhibition, some of the books are purely typographic,” he

said. “Others are combinations of texts and image. Some rely completely on images. Despite the range, the conventions are what connect them. The books challenge literary conventions.”

In response to a question from an attendee, Rodgers discussed new technology and the new age of reading.

We’ve changed not only what we read, but also how we read, he said — for example, there are now many different formats for artists to work in, such as video.

He wasn’t convinced, however, that new inventions that provide written content through a screen can replace books as an artistic format — and neither was the audience.

“You develop a relationship with an actual text or book,” a member of the audience said.

Next up was Curfew, a band comprised of Queen’s students Annie Brebner, ArtSci ’16, Spencer Swayze, ArtSci ’16, Owen Saar, ArtSci ’16, Nate Stevenson, Sci ’17, and Johnnie Cox, ArtSci ’16. They describe their sound as “alternative pop.”

Curfew, which formed only this year, is quickly becoming a staple in the Queen’s music scene. Their upbeat sound and bubbly lead singer got the crowd on their feet and dancing.

“It’s always fun to play at an event that helps others,” Curfew lead singer Annie Brebner said during the performance.

“Particularly if it goes towards helping Queen’s students have such beneficial experiences.”

Toronto-based folk-rock band Sun K was the closing act. The four-member band began playing together in 2013 and released their first album Northern Lies last March.

The band’s sound drew inspiration from folk and rock

icons, including Bob Dylan and The Band. Their original songs, such as crowd-pleaser “New York City Blues,” kept the crowd on their feet throughout their entire set. Their full sound served as a perfect end note to an electrifying evening.

Mladen said the event usually raises “a ton of money” and awareness about the MEDLIFE Queen’s chapter. MEDLIFE is an international NGO that works to provide free healthcare, education, and community development for low-income families in Ecuador, Peru and Tanzania.

Conor Blayney, co-vice president of fundraising, explained the concert’s usefulness for the group.

“The concert is the perfect opportunity to grow MEDLIFE’s name on campus and to hopefully bring in more volunteers for mobile clinics, as well as hit the fundraising goals we set at the beginning of the year.”

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The Serial podcast, which follows complicated crimes in its developments and various aspects, is often credited as sparking the resurgence of podcasts.

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Podcasts for the keen listener

With the recent resurgence of podcasts, here are some for routine laughs, insight and inspiration K ate M eagher Opinions Editor Two years ago, I spent my summer as a solitary barn worker caring for 30 horses. My days were 10 hours long and devoid of human company.

To this day, I attribute what sanity I maintained to the great podcasts I listened to while mucking stalls and filling buckets of grain.

Podcasts are a great option for thought-provoking listening material while you’re running errands or getting ready in the morning. They’ve also recently seen a surge in popularity. Here are my picks for a few shows everyone should give a listen: Serial From the creators of This American Life (a perennial classic), this show is often and rightly credited with the resurgence of the podcast.

A non-fiction, in-depth story told an hour at a time, Serial investigates complex, sometimes unanswerable questions about human action and culpability.

The first season looks at Adnan Syed, who was found guilty of

murdering his ex-girlfriend at 19 years old. This year’s season focuses on Bowe Berghdal, an American soldier who was held by the Taliban for five years after walking away from his post.

If you do well with moderation, cherish each episode as it’s released every two weeks. If good stories consume you until they’re told in full, wait for the release of the whole season and enjoy a 10-hour bender.

The Vinyl Café The Vinyl Café is a touring live show that’s recorded and broadcasted on CBC Radio, and then released as a podcast.

Because every show is held in a different Canadian town, Stuart McLean begins each episode by describing his experience in the respective town.

Stuart then introduces a Canadian musical act and reads a story submitted by a listener. The show really shines, though, when Stuart tells his short stories.

These stories recount the exploits of his fictional couple Dave and Morley and their children and their neighbours — and the stories

are always laugh-out-loud hilarious.

This show has aired on radio for more than 20 years and charmed the hearts of listeners beyond Canadian borders.

With its wholesomely humorous anecdotes of a small-town Canadian family, it’ll make you feel more Canadian than a moose in a maple syrup factory.

The Tim Ferriss Show Tim Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour Workweek and perhaps the world’s most famous human guinea pig, hosts this show.

In each episode, he interviews top-performers in diverse fields from entertainment to business to professional sport.

Although guests come from all walks of life, they’ve all found great success.

Ferriss explores how these individuals push themselves to perform so well and how listeners can implement these strategies in their own endeavours.

The show’s a great listen, whether you’re working towards a goal and looking for tips or just looking for a regular dose Sarah Koenig, American journalist and radio of inspiration. broadcaster, narrates and produces Serial.

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SPORTS ATHLETICS

ARC home to athlete workers Varsity athletes share their experiences in cushy campus jobs

S ebastian B ron Contributor Flirting with the idea of juggling academics and a job is demanding enough for most students. But mix in the schedule of being a varsity athlete, and it’s a whole different ballgame.

With games, practices, offseason training and academics, it’s often overlooked just how busy varsity athletes really are. With a lack of full athletic scholarships in Canada and little potential to go professional, finding a job to support themselves during the year is a must for many student-athletes.

Men’s soccer midfielder Chris Wellsman is one of many athletes who opted to stay close to their roots, finding work as a weight room supervisor at the ARC. The ARC’s jobs come aplenty, though many can be pretty mundane in nature, with a repetitive workday. A regular starter on the soccer team, Wellsman said that working at the ARC goes hand-in-hand with his active lifestyle.

“I’m here so often doing my

own workouts with the team and overseeing other people as the weight room supervisor … it just seemed like a natural fit.”

Being a constant part of athletics — both in the competitive and recreational realms — is common for Queen’s athletes, but the job’s appeal comes from its security and flexible hours.

“It’s only three hours per shift,” Wellsman said. “You basically get a weekly calendar view of all the hours the facility is open and you just tick off the individual hours that you’re available to work from Mondays through Sundays.”

As a weight room supervisor, workers alternate throughout their shifts from the Lifting Zone to the Main Upstairs Gym, overseeing any problems regular gym goers may experience. Equipped as a go-to guy for helping customers with issues and being informed, the job is relatively easygoing.

Wellsman, who also serves as an intern in the Strength and Conditioning field, credited the ARC for encouraging many employees to adopt an active lifestyle.

ARC employees work one three-hour shift a week.

“I think, for anyone, just having a job in that environment helps you get acclimated with the whole gym culture.”

A fellow weight room supervisor, football player Stewart Anoya said he enjoys the simple responsibilities of the job. One of the key jobs they do is performing counts on a tablet of the availability and usage of the various machines on the floor every half-hour.

Gord Meacher, manager of Facilities and Operations at the

ARC, mentioned that the data is a necessary part of determining which new equipment to bring to the gym and where to put it.

“Gyms always do counts,” Meacher said. “It helps us become better and with these stats we can hopefully improve every student’s workout.”

Even with a mere three hours per shift, when the school year starts picking up, at times it seems impossible to maintain a job for athletes — which is where Anoya

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finds the flexibility most useful.

“There are times when I know I’m not going to be there an hour before I work and I’ll post my shift up on Facebook and somebody will pick it up for me,” Anoya said, who started working at the ARC this past fall.

Though the job seems tailored towards varsity athletes, Anoya believes that anyone can fill the role.

“It’s probably the most relaxing job I’ve ever had.”

MEN’S HOCKEY

Road warriors, again Gaels improve to league-best 9-1 away from home Courtenay Jacklin tallied four point against Laurier.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Back to winning Power play helps Gaels defeat Laurier S ean S utherland Staff Writer After starting their weekend homestand with a fourth loss in five games, the women’s hockey team was primed for a statement game.

The Gaels did just that on Saturday night, topping the visiting Laurier Golden Hawks 5-2, one night after falling to the Waterloo Warriors 3-1. The victory over Laurier marked Queen’s second victory since Nov. 21, ending a stretch in which the Gaels only managed to snag four of a possible 15 points.

According to head coach Matt

Holmberg, “puck luck” ended up playing a role in changing Queen’s fortunes.

“We’ve had a lot of great chances in the previous two games and nothing went in for us,” he said. “I think the team has been working so hard they deserved some of that [puck luck] finally.”

Fourth-year Courtenay Jacklin had a big night for the Gaels. The veteran winger racked up four points against Laurier, including the game’s final goal. Jacklin’s linemates Taryn Pilon and Katrina Maoukarakis combined for a further five points on the weekend.

Holmberg credited Jacklin, See Converting, page 11

A dam L askaris Sports Editor There’s no place like the road for the men’s hockey team.

Despite holding just a 4-6 home record, the team upped their road record to 9-1 this past weekend after travelling to northwestern Ontario for a pair of games against the Laurentian Voyageurs and Nipissing Lakers.

Head coach Brett Gibson said the team’s mentality while away from home has been crucial in earning the league’s top record on the road.

“It’s kind of like a business trip,” he said, noting there are few distractions when the team’s stuck together for a few days.

Friday’s matchup against the Voyageurs saw a shot sneak past goaltender Kevin Bailie 1:46 into the first period.

“We fell behind on a fluke goal,” Gibson said. “[Bailie] stops that nine times out of 10.”

The Gaels traded second period goals to fall behind 2-1, before Spencer Abraham tied up the game again late in the second frame.

With under eight minutes to go, Darcy Greenaway’s scored his sixth of the season and sealed the two points for the Gaels in a 3-2 victory.

The next night was a similar narrative, as the Gaels fell down on a goal in the game’s sixth minute.

However, the Gaels rebounded with three straight goals over the next two periods, with Patrick McGillis tying the game before fellow foward Eric Ming scored twice to put the game at a 3-1 score.

Gibson, who described the two games as must-wins, looks ahead to a Friday matchup with Carleton Ravens back at the Kingston Memorial Centre.

“We’re a top team and you want that to be your measuring stick,” he said, as Carleton sits two spots above Queen’s in the standings.

The two teams have split the season series 1-1 so far, defeating Carleton in Ottawa earlier this year, but losing just over a week ago at home.

“We’ve got to bring [the mentality from the road] back

home,” Gibson said.

The next night, the Gaels head to Montreal to take on McGill, before playing three games in four nights the following weekend. With so many games in a short period of time, the team’s looking to focus more on recovery periods and being properly conditioned, rather than having intense practices.

Greenaway echoed his coach’s sentiments.

“Every guy likes playing games [instead of practicing],” he said of the busy schedule.

Greenaway and the Gaels are currently focused on making up for a poor start against Carleton on Jan. 19, where they fell 3-2.

“It’s nice to have that redemption matchup,” he said.

And while the team’s been successful on the road, their ambitions are still to be among the OUA’s East’s best come the postseason. If they manage to finish in the top four, they’re road games will be far more limited.

“We’re looking to get home ice advantage in the playoffs,” Greenaway said.

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Sports in Brief Singh dominates the Lions After dropping two games last weekend, the men’s basketball team looked to bounce back against the York Lions on the road.

The Gaels battled back and forth with the Lions, with no team grabbing more than a seven-point lead.

The defining moment in the low-scoring game came from guard Sukhpreet Singh.

The fourth year scored eight-straight points for the Gaels down the stretch, leading the way with 22 points. It was the sixth time this season that Singh has scored more than 20 points in a game.

27% Singh scores 20.6 of the Gaels 76 points per game

In a switch from years past, the Gaels have continued their focus on defence, holding the Lions to 34 per cent from the field and 14 per cent from downtown.

Big men Ryall Stroud and Mike Shoveller protected the rim, recording all three of the Gaels blocks.

Two free throws down the stretch from Mark Paclibar iced the game, with the Gaels winning 62-59.

With the win, the Gaels held onto second in the OUA East, two points behind the Ryerson Rams.

The Gaels will be in tough next weekend in Ottawa, playing both the Ottawa Gee-Gees and Carleton Ravens, the top two teams in Canada.

— Joseph Cattana

Women’s volleyball streak at four The women’s volleyball team took another step in establishing themselves as a playoff team this weekend after dropping both the York Lions and the Nipissing Lakers and extending their winning streak to four games.

In the first set the Gaels dominated the Lions offensively, with outside hitter Shannon Hopkins scoring seven of her game high 16 kills in a 25-15 first set victory.

Despite losing the second set 26-24, the Gaels managed to turn things around, winning sets three and four 25-14 and 25-20.

The biggest difference in stats between the two teams appeared in the Gaels offensive power, as they out smashed the Lions 60-34 in kills over the four sets.

Makayla Keith, Caroline Livingston and Shannon Neville joined Hopkins with double-digit kills each, separating themselves from the Lions.

Keith and Livingston also provided a spark for the Gaels with three aces apiece.

In their second game of the weekend, the Gaels outplayed the Nipissing Lakers, winning in straight sets.

In the first set, the Gaels controlled the matchup, committing only two errors and taking the set 25-11.

While the second set was closer with a 25-23 result, the Gaels proved to be too much for the Lakers.

Led by Shannon Neville’s 12 kills, they extended their winning streak to four, with a 5-1 record in their last six games.

Rookie Franzi Wilhelm had a key role to play against the Lakers, contributing 35 assists, nine digs and four aces.

Next weekend the Gaels will travel down the 401 to play the University of Toronto Varsity Blues and Ryerson Rams.

— Joseph Cattana

Volleyball Guide

Men’s

Women’s

Record: 10-3 (20 points) 2nd in the OUA

Record: 8-5 (16 points) Third in the OUA East

Key Player:

Key Player:

Marko Dakic is third in the OUA in hitting percentage (.350)

Shannon Neville is fifth in the OUA in kills per set (3.32)

Key Player:

Key Player:

Shawn Burnet is third in the OUA in blocks per set (1.00)

Women’s basketball topple lowly Lions The women’s basketball team extended their season-high winning streak to five games following their 87-75 win over the York Lions.

After falling down 24-14 in the first quarter, the Gaels looked to get back into the game.

Nine first-half turnovers made it difficult for Queen’s to cut into the lead, but a strong shooting performance allowed the team to be down by only 37-32 at the half.

In the third quarter, the game became a back-and-forth affair, with the lead changing hands five times. Eight second chance points

separated the Gael from the Lions, winning the quarter 22-21.

The Gaels dominated the fourth-quarter, pulling away from the OUA East bottom Lions, taking a 33-17 advantage. Robyn Pearson led the Gaels in the quarter and on the night in scoring seven of her team high 15 in the fourth.

A 43 per cent field goal percentage proved to be the key for the Gaels on the night, as they hit the 80-point mark for the third time this season.

Next weekend the Gaels will look to hold onto their spot atop the OUA East with road games against the Ottawa Gee-Gees and Carleton Ravens.

— Joseph Cattana

OUA Leaders

1st 2nd 4th

Women’s basketball

Robyn Pearson leads the OUA with 12 rebounds per game.

The Gaels commit the second fewest turnovers in the OUA Queen’s is one of the best at protecting the rim with 2.7 blocks per game

Men’s volleyball undefeated homestand Last weekend, the men’s volleyball team didn’t drop a single set against the York Lions and Nipissing Lakers at home.

In their first matchup against the Lions, the Gaels battled through a difficult opening set. With a narrow lead at technical timeout, first-year Chris Brunet, registered three crucial kills, providing the spark needed to lift the home side to a 25-20 lead.

In the second set, defence was key for the Gaels with 10 blocks registered on the night — more than double their opponent’s.

Strong play down the stretch by Mike Tomlinson and Marko Dakic was key for the Gaels, winning both sets by 26-24 and 25-20 respectively.

Overall on the night the Gaels were led

by Tomlinson, who registered 13 kills, six

digs and an overall .400 hitting percentage.

Dakic also had a strong performance playing against his former team, the Lions, registering 11 kills and picking seven digs.

In their second matchup of the weekend, the Gaels looked to build off the previous night’s performance. Tomlinson continued his strong play, dropping the Lakers in three sets with his efficient .462 hitting percentage and 16 kills.

Over the three sets, the Gaels were largely efficient, led by Brunet’s .692 hitting percentage and 10 kills.

Setter Jamie Wright also had a strong weekend, collecting 66 assists over the two games.

Next weekend the Gaels will head to Toronto where they’ll play the University of Toronto Varsity Blues and tenth-ranked Ryerson Rams.

— Joseph Cattana

Becky Wilson is fourth in the OUA in digs per set (4.32)

Marko Dakic (centre) is third in the OUA in hitting percentage.

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Converting chances Continued from page 9

Pilon and their fellow veterans in helping the team bounce back from their previous results.

“Court and Taryn really stepped up their games tonight,” he said.

“The two of them have been playing together for four years and you could just see they wanted it for the team.”

While the victory over Laurier was vital for keeping pace with the OUA’s top teams, the loss to Waterloo kept the Gaels out of the league’s top four squads for the time being. Queen’s currently sits fifth in the province, though they hold games in hand on all four schools ahead of them.

The Gaels’ lone goal against the Warriors was notable, as rookie Emily Jukosky netted the first tally of her CIS career. While the marker gave Queen’s the lead after one frame, they couldn’t maintain it, losing to a Waterloo team they’re

currently trailing in the OUA playoff picture.

Against the Golden Hawks, Queen’s fell behind when Jessica Prevette beat goaltender Caitlyn Lahonen just under two minutes into the contest. The Gaels rallied back to hold a 3-1 advantage at the end of the first period.

Two of the goals came from Queen’s league-leading power play, as both Manoukarakis and Pilon took advantage of Laurier’s undisciplined play and found the net.

“Laurier plays a physical game, and every so often that leads to penalties and we were hoping we could get some opportunities that way,” Holmberg said.

The Golden Hawks cut the lead to one late in the second period, but 73 seconds later defenceman Micaela Smith swung the momentum firmly towards

Addi Halladay (#12) takes the puck in the offensive zone against Laurier.

Queen’s with a tally of her own.

Jacklin finished off her impressive night by adding an insurance marker seven minutes into the third period.

The Gaels find themselves in the midst of a logjam in the OUA standings, with just six points separating the third and

eighth-place teams. Queen’s takes on two opponents at opposite ends of the spectrum this weekend, hosting the country’s top team, the Guelph Gryphons and the province’ssecond-worstsquadinthe UOIT Ridgebacks.

Holmberg said the Gaels’ victory to end the weekend has put

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them on the right track for taking on a top-tier team like Guelph.

“We’ll be treating them with a lot of respect, but we don’t fear them,” he said. “We’ll need a good week in practice and I think coming off this win, the team should be feeling pretty good about itself.

We’re excited for next weekend.”

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MOVIE REVIEW

The Room: the worst movie of all time A rwin C han Production Manager

Room, accompanied by an no idea what he’s doing. I imagine Uninitiated Companion, who that the cast and crew got so (save for a YouTube clip in high frustrated with him that they just hen you attend a live school) had no any idea what she gave up putting any effort into it. screening of The Room, you was getting into, nor why she The acting’s not only atrocious, but embark on a communal journey had a bunch of plastic spoons in there’s a hint that everyone’s pretty through the wholly unapologetic her hand. much half-assing the whole thing. and self-indulgent brainchild of Ask a ‘film buff’ what the Well, except for Wiseau, who’s got Tommy Wiseau. worst movie is, and chances are it cranked way past 11.

This is a participatory experience. they’ll mention The Room. Its The film’s filled with There will be inside jokes that you critical failure isn’t only infamous, unimaginative cinematography, will learn and accept — with some but balanced by its entertainment terrible editing and a whole slew of them literally and dangerously value. Tommy Wiseau is the writer, tossed in your direction. There producer, director and lead actor will be dialogue and moments of The Room, which pretty much simultaneously so forced and gives you an insight into the inner absurd you’ll question whether or workings of his mind with zero not this is some abomination of accountability, and a whole group satire. But it’s not: It’s simply a of people being dragged along beautiful disaster. with it.

I was in there, at The Screening Here’s the thing: Wiseau’s got

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of technical errors. The design of the apartment (where most of the film is set) was so unenthusiastically built that the picture frames haven’t even had their placeholders swapped out, so the apartment features framed photos of spoons.

There’s quiet murmur and plastic tinkling throughout the theatre; most of us were studying the stacking properties of our spoons. Uninitiated Companion

was able to balance one on her nose longer than I could. It’s a sold out show, and an announcer arrived to brief us and subsequently moderate a short Tommy Wiesau impression contest.

The first lines of dialogue immediately give you an idea of how horrible this is going to be.

It’s not upsetting though. It’s all living up to the entertainment See Getting on page 15

STUDENT LIFE

Barber in residence

A dam L askaris Sports Editor

Facebook appointment booking system and the hours — my cut took place on 9 p.m. on a Tuesday When I told my mom I was getting night, about four hours after most a haircut in a university residence, salons close.

Aliu, Sci ’19, is the proud owner she was taken aback.

Seated on a standard residence of his own barber business. Having chair instead of a professional learned hairstyling techniques barber’s, I got my hair cut in a through self-experimentation and common room by a first-year watching hours of tutorials in student. All the barber had in hand grade 11, Aliu’s haircutting practice was a lone razor and a variety of has gained recognition around clipper attachments, leaving me campus since it launched at the nervous, yet willing to test out a beginning of the winter semester.

But like my mother, it isn’t new hairstyle.

A half an hour into my cut, the altogether uncommon for experience was over. I left with customers to be concerned at first. a new hair, while Bolu Aliu had “The main thing is just making yet another satisfied customer. It the person feeling comfortable,” was just like any other haircutting Aliu said. experience, chatting back and “I play the music they enjoy, they forth about anything and talk to me. I’ve made a lot of everything, except for the obvious friends through it.” differences: the location, the But initial hesitation doesn’t

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stop students from stopping by his residence room for a cut, as Aliu said he averages about one client a day.

“A good haircut is a good haircut,” Aliu said.

For $10 a cut, he’s trying to compete with Kingston’s coiffures with a cheaper fee.

A lot of his large clientele hear about him through word-of-mouth

and posted images on Facebook groups, such as Overheard at Queen’s. He’s also picked up gigs through people simply asking their friends where they got their latest fade.

Aliu’s hope is to keep up his side business for the next few months, until he exports his clientele to his new home in the University District.

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While he said he’s enjoying the exposure of working for himself, he’s not shying away from the real reason he picked Queen’s.

“The main goal will always be engineering,” he said. “[But running the business] is perfect because it not only allows me to do my hobby which I enjoy, but it allows me to make a little money on the side.”

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MENTAL HEALTH

Embrace your depression J ae M oon Contributor

accompanied this mental growth, I Some people believe it’s in the leads to your cognitive self as it realized that it’s okay to be who I genes, that epigenetic changes is now.

I think it’s certainly more am. Regardless of how I feel about can be passed down to offspring, myself, I shouldn’t resist who I leaving them more predisposed. useful to treat depression A version of this piece was experience-based and am. Why wouldn’t I want to be But this isn’t always why people as originally published on Principal what I am made for? I was treating become depressed; it’s rather just a environmental — at least when Woolf’s blog on Nov. 19, 2015. myself the way I was treated by factor involved in making it more dealing with patients with depression. What I’ve come others when I was a child; they likely to occur. eath is a cure, I tell myself, Depression is an effect, and to realize during my time in persuasively changed the image of as I drag one leg over the my selfhood. I realized that every environmental input is often the ditches is that everything ledge. It hangs there lifelessly while person has the opportunity the cause. In other words, I happens for a reason. I think my other foot grasps the to bring something new to think depression is largely a unhappiness is a physio-emotional concrete roof with little circumstantial effect and based symptom that signals to cerebral the table. friction. The wind is icy One doesn’t escape or recover The reason why a purely on individual experiences. organisms such as humans that and forceful; it numbs my from depression. One just face and freezes my tears. successfully integrates it into their particular species is deemed Genes merely provide a template the behavioural patterns (lifestyle, successful is because of the of behaviours and personality traits routine, etc.) are detrimental to The night sky is open and psyche and consciousness. level of genetic variability that can be modified throughout the organism. It means that clean. The height of the something in that person’s life has or uniqueness they bring. life with external input. building brings me closer To make concepts more to change. So behavioural Genetic variability — since to the stars and farther The defining quality of myself we can’t predict the environment mechanical and verifiable, take dampening by depression could away from light pollution. I feel serenaded by ancient cosmic that helped me integrate my — is a safety net for the chance of the weather as an example: there be seen as a natural sensory energy and think to myself: ‘what depression is my ability to let my the species responding adaptively has been enough research to deprivation to allow full a night to die’. For whatever reason mind run. This was mostly done to the environment. Thus, diagnose individuals with Seasonal processing of information — such however, I cannot muster up the through meditation. I began to variability allows species to survive Affective Disorders (SADs). I as one’s value system. In this constitution to give myself up to psychoanalyze my own thoughts a wider breadth of environmental get a case of the SADs too, sense, we could define depression gravity. Exhausted, I go home at 2 (meta-thinking, as they say) and challenges. This line of reasoning sometimes — all it takes is a as an effect of cumulative break down the subconscious made me think that it’s okay to dark, cloudy day. So, I bought a unhappiness or a higher a.m. and fall asleep.

There have been many nights reasoning behind my emotions. I be different because it means that SunTouch light lamp as an artificial punishment to reward ratio. The I pondered the rationale of became the woodpecker of my you have that much more you can substitute for sunlight. This has deprivation can leave the person helped me maintain a more thinking about what life needs to dying — of why it would be a own psyche — I dig and dig until I bring to the table.

I think society views depression stable mood for that day. This is an be for them to be happy, and simple solution and solve all of my find the worm.

For example, when I react with negatively because of its immediate example of how the environment can motivate them to mobilizing problems. Oftentimes, I used to think it was selfish to do so. I don’t anger to some seemingly negligible symptoms. But this is only in the can influence our mood and those changes.

Overall, it’s been a very rough anymore. It wasn’t my choice to event, I now stop to think why. short term. In the long term, there cognition (whether it is done in ride. That being said, I don’t be born, but it should only be my If others see my action as an are huge opportunities for self- this order, I don’t know). think I would want to choice to die. I have been living in overreaction, then it’s a question growth and for opening change any of it. As dark a society that emphasizes the need of sensitivity and exaggeration. If one’s mind. In other words, as I felt, the things that to be happy, all the while feeling so, is the emotion itself rational? the brain in ‘depression As dark as I felt, the things that I’ve learned about life and is sacrificing clouded and darker. It was evident What does the topic represent to mode’ I’ve learned about life and myself are so valuable to to me that I didn’t belong. I felt me that it would bring out this side short-term capacity for myself are so valuable to me me that it paints the whole like a burden being the walking of me? So then what psychological long-term planning. I find that it paints the whole experience positively. need am I trying to indulge by the emphasis on happiness antithesis of everyone’s joy. experience positively.

I still feel down from time This all changed the summer reacting in such a way? The way I a little paradoxical because to time and my view of death see it, every reaction is a window in a state of constant and of 2015. has become more spiritual consistent happiness, would One doesn’t escape or recover to my subconscious.

Now, imagine the influence and mechanistic. Every organism This applies to other people as it even be called happiness? It from depression. One just successfully integrates it into their well; I think a judgmental person’s would just be the norm. My point of parental input. As offspring that has ever lived has died — psyche and consciousness. My first spoken words describe more is that without the lows you don’t you have to have complete there’s an energetic need that has to trust in your parents. I mean, be fulfilled by coming into existence step on the ‘road to revelations’ about themselves than they do even notice the highs. biological organism (i.e. being born), like a chemical Throughout the past four what was when I fully accepted that I the person being judged. This sort was depressed. I began to let myself of meta-thinking was the catalyst years I couldn’t help but think would forsake the direction of reaction… but I digress. If there’s feel the full force of the symptoms to my mental growth. Through about why an organism becomes their genetic counterparts? But a piece of advice I can give anyone in terms of dysphoria, lifelessness, my growing self-awareness and depressed. Is there an inherently then, what are your parents who is or has been struggling emptiness and loneliness — by far mindfulness, I realized how my adaptive function? Or is it rather influenced by? Culture, society, with mental health: Embrace it. the worst aspect of it. All this past affected me and how it was an effect of a suboptimal cause? physical environment, culturally Depression is an effect and it needs helped me grasp depression as a mirrored through my attitude More relevantly put to myself, I significant events and so on. The to be understood. And that can think depression is a relic of a point is the past provides a rich only come from within. reality. I still remember being in my and perspective.

With the clarity of thought that troubled past of traumatic events. context of interacting variables that dark room, on a dark day, staring

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blankly at the ceiling, lifelessly. I would scream with my face buried in the pillows and clench my chest. I told myself, “acceptance is always the first step.” It was a lot of emotional distress, but I always remembered that the next days would bring me clarity of thought — and to some extent, peace.

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A how-to on budgeting for the starving student E ily S haw Contributor

find someone selling second semester books for cheap just to get them off their hands.

With a reputation for having an affluent student body, it may seem like you’re the only one at Queen’s trying to live within a budget. Fear not. Here are some simple ways to save those hard-earned dollars and keep your budget in check.

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Whenever possible cook your own food.

Most supermarkets in Kingston, such as Metro, have a student discount day where you’ll score your groceries more 10 per cent off or more.

This is the single most important part of your student budget. Lots of scholarships are available through Queen’s and through third Transportation parties; scouring the Internet will be your best bet. Pro tip: certain Queen’s bursaries are available every year — they’re not just As heartless as it sounds, if you’re trying to save money, go home less. But if you’re the entrance scholarships.

Plus, lots of scholarships through websites a normal human and like to visit your like yconic are offered outside of the typical parents once in a while, the Facebook group August-October range so keep your eyes “RIDESHARE Queen’s University” is a great peeled! OSAP, which most Ontario students place to start for an inexpensive ride home. are eligible for, offers 30 per cent off tuition Bus tickets are also cheaper if you buy them grants every year — meaning you don’t have as far in advance as you can. to pay them back when you graduate.

Entertainment Housing Let’s be real, a university student’s budget Moving out of residence after first year isn’t complete until some money is allocated presents you with one of your biggest for a night out. Consider that when you opportunities to save money. Typically living drink, not only are you paying for alcohol, with more people rather than less, and but usually also cover for whichever club living as far from campus as you’re willing or bar you end up at, overpriced and to, will lower your rent. Moving into an watered-down drinks from the bar and upper-year residence is always an option, but drunk snacks to end your night.

If you’re not too picky, LCBO tends to bear in mind that this may not be the most carry lesser known brands of popular liquor economical choice. for much less than the brands you’re used to buying.

Textbooks and supplies We all know how expensive textbooks can be. I’ll state the obvious: whenever you can, buy used versions of your books. Better yet, consider sharing a textbook with a friend. If you’re willing to share custody of a book you can effectively cut your costs in half. You’ll save even more if you do the same thing with a loose-leaf version or the e-book. Also keep a close watch on textbook-selling Facebook groups, especially in September — you may

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Depending on what your deficit is, you’ll have to find different ways of being frugal.

Living within your means can be incredibly difficult during the four years that are supposed to be “the best time of your life”, but following simple steps to keep track of your finances and not spending every dollar in your pocket, no matter how tempting, will save you and your wallet a lot of pain in the future.

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Getting showered by plastic spoons and bad plot devices the rear, as the spoons from the back don’t have enough aerodynamic trajectory to reach the screen itself.

Eventually, the front rowers responded by throwing the amassed cutlery back behind them. On top of that, the film’s football throwing is like the male cast’s primary social lubricant.

Every time this happened in the film, the audience tossed around foam footballs in the theatre. One unassuming patron took one to the face, which seemed to dampen the rest of this experience.

These are only a few of the screening rituals.

Basically, the take-home message is you’ve really got to go see this thing. Those context-less YouTube clips don’t do it justice. It’s a huge mess and there’s an endless stream of weird little moments to keep things interesting.

But in the end, Wiseau did what many of us are too afraid to really do — express our ideas without self-consciousness. At the very least, Uninitiated C. and I left with a gold mine’s worth of inside jokes.

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value that previous watchers rave about — and thank goodness too; I was getting worried that I overhyped the whole ordeal to Uninitiated C. It is nonsensical banality that develops later into nonsensical melodrama: Plot devices go nowhere, actors get replaced and Wiseau’s left screaming.

It’s incredible.

Audience commentary is prevalent. It’s a semi-anonymous chance to test out your wit if feel up to it, though not all are successful. Case: there’s a point where a character mentions she has (spoiler) breast cancer (not brought up again), which opened up some pretty horrible and offensive remarks.

The sex scenes notably dragged on well past the point where any poignant commentary could be made, so we pretty much just sat there, watching Tommy boy flex every rose-petalled muscle on his body.

The on-screen appearance of the framed spoon prompts the audience to throw their plastic utensils at the screen. Uninitiated C. and I strategically chose to sit at Chan and Uninitiated C. prepping to throw plastic spoons in honour of the film.

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The Room will return to The Screening Room on Feb. 12 and March 18.

CAMPUS COOKING

Easy-to-make baked mac and cheese E llen R owe Contributor

cheese and mix until cheese has and crisp. heat. Add butter or margarine, cheese mix and butter/margarine).

There you have it: a very easy milk and flour to the pot. Mix well. 3. Add salt, pepper and melted and combined with noodles.

6. Pour into an oven safe pan. and delicious ultimate mac and Add all of the cheddar cheese and cayenne pepper.

What’s better than mac and cheese? ½ of the Gruyère cheese (the rest 4. Add half of crushed Ritz Sprinkle remaining crackers and cheese recipe that will impress (1/4 cup) and cheese on top. everyone who eats it. will be used for the topping). crackers Try baked mac and cheese.

To follow are recipes that will Add salt and pepper and stir until mix until well combined. 7. Bake for 15 minutes and then 5. Add 1/2 cup of the shredded broil until the topping is golden cure stressful days, make your almost all the cheese has melted. mouth water and keep you coming 4. Return pasta to the pot and mix until the pasta has an even back for more.

I’ve put together two recipes: coat of sauce. Add half (1/4 cup) one from scratch and another, a of the crushed Ritz crackers to student hack made with Kraft the pasta and stir until combined.

Dinner. Both make about four Add the cayenne pepper and servings or less depending on seasonings. Mix well. how much you eat in one sitting. 5. Transfer pasta mix from pot Store in the fridge or divide into to an oven safe pan. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup of crushed Ritz portions and freeze for later. on mixture. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup of shredded Gruyère cheese on From Scratch top of everything.

6. Bake in oven for 15 minutes Ingredients then broil until the top is golden.

7. Serve and enjoy!

3 cups macaroni noodles 3 tbsp butter/margarine Student hack 1/4 cup flour 2 cups milk (any type) Ingredients 1/4 tsp each of salt and pepper 1 pinch of cayenne pepper (or more if desired) 1 box of Kraft Dinner 1 1/2 cups shredded Gruyère 3 tbsp butter/margarine 1/2 cup milk (any type) cheese 1/4 tsp each of salt and pepper 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese 1 pinch of cayenne pepper (or 1/2 cup of crushed Ritz crackers more if desired) 1 cup of shredded Cheddar cheese Steps 1/2 cup of crushed Ritz crackers 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Steps 2. Boil macaroni until soft, about 7 minutes. Drain water and keep 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. pasta separate until sauce is ready.

3. Return empty pot to burner 2. Make Kraft Dinner, following and turn stove on low to medium the directions on the box (milk, PHOTO BY ELLEN ROWE Rowe’s baked mac and cheese — a warm comfort food you can make right at home.

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