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Homecoming deemed a success Police say poor weather led to improved behaviour J acob R osen News Editor

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The crowd in the stands of Richardson Stadium prepare to storm the field at half time.

TINDALL FIELD

Company that installed Queen’s turf sued in US for defects

FieldTurf states that Canadian fields weren’t affected, although Queen’s was unaware of possible defects

V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor FieldTurf — the company that installed the artificial turf on Tindall Field — has been named in over 160 lawsuits for defective and malfunctioning products installed between 2006 and 2009.

Though the company admits that the Queen’s field is made out of the same material — Duraspine — they maintain that they’ve had no complaints about their Canadian fields.

Tindall Field, which cost Queen’s $21 million, was built in 2007 and opened for use in 2008.

Student user fees paid for the costs of the project.

Suits filed by school boards and universities, including Chino Valley Unified School District and New Braunfels Independent School District, claimed that their synthetic turf surfaces broke apart prematurely.

Legal documentation filed for the lawsuits alleges that the

breakdown occurred because the polyethylene polymer material used for the fields had been improperly stabilized against UV radiation.

Polyethylene polymer is used to create the synthetic grass blades.

In cases where fields have shown defects, FieldTurf has offered to upgrade the fields at a reduced price of $175,000 US. Queen’s Recreation and Services website, which calls Tindall “Kingston’s first full-sized, artificial multi-season playing field”, states that construction began on the field in July 2007.

The field was opened for use and dedicated to WWII veteran and Queen’s former football and basketball coach, Frank Tindall, on Sept. 27, 2008.

At this same time, countless fields — which would later be declared defective — were installed with the same material as Tindall Field across the United States.

Port Neches-Groves Independent School District in Port

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After returning to Queen’s in 2013 following a five-year hiatus, this year’s Homecoming weekend has been deemed successful

by Kingston Police (KP) from a public safety perspective.

According to an Oct. 26 KP press release, “there were no illegal street parties, no unanticipated road closures, minimal property damage and no reports of major injuries.”

“The combination of detailed planning by many organizations, officer presence, respect and responsibility by the majority of students and revelers, and even inclement weather all assisted in a weekend that resulted in expected enforcement numbers,” KP Staff Sergeant Greg Sands stated in the release.

The total number of Homecoming-related charges has increased over the past three years by roughly 20 charges each year. But Const. Steve Koopman, KP media relations officer, told The Journal that these are only minor increases compared to the statistics on arrests and charges recorded in 2007 and 2008 prior to the cancellation of Homecoming.

The Journal reported 54 Homecoming-related arrests over the weekend in 2007 and 138 arrests in 2008. Since returning to Queen’s in 2013, Homecoming-related arrests have never been over 25.

Koopman attributed some of the increase in tickets to the poor weather. Because students were less inclined to stay on the streets for long, he said, officers could prioritize law enforcement instead of maintaining order and blocking off streets.

“The fact that [street parties weren’t] occurring potentially gave the officers that ability to then go into an enforcement mode, where they’re ensuring that people are enjoying themselves but doing so responsibly but legally,” Koopman said.

Most of the charges made by officers were alcohol related — specifically, tickets for open alcohol.

According to the KP press release, the average age of persons charged over the weekend was 20 years old, the majority of whom were self-identified students of Queen’s.

Koopman added that, based on anecdotes from officers, the vast majority of students and party-goers were respectful and understood the role of police in maintaining peace and safety.

“That’s wonderful to hear,” Koopman said.

“The fact that there’s a little bit of self-policing happening, See Principal, page 5

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

PHOTOS

EDITORIALS

ARTS

SPORTS

POSTSCIPT

Highlights from Homecoming weekend

An algorithm for love and dating

Arkells’ ReUnion performance a hit despite rain

Rugby rookies vital to team’s success

An account of strange and unique phobias

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STARTUP

Alumnus makes pitch on Dragons’ Den spinoff Jawwad Siddiqui, creator of SharpScholar, returns to Next Gen Den after rejection last year M ikayla W ronko Assistant News Editor Few entrepreneurs would turn down a $100,000 capital investment for their startup.

But for Jawwad Siddiqui, Queen’s alumnus and CEO and founder of SharpScholar, it wasn’t enough.

Siddiqui, Comm ’15, appeared Wednesday on Next Gen Den — a web-formatted spinoff of the Dragons’ Den television franchise focused on entrepreneurial pitches related to e-commerce.

His company, SharpScholar, is an educational software tool created in 2013

by Siddiqui in collaboration with Amin Nikdel, CompSci ’14 and Tejas Mehta, a University of Toronto graduate, in 2013.

Sharp Scholar, a web-based application, aims to enhance student-professor communications by providing information on student exercises and pre-class preparation. SharpScholar also has a real-time component where students and instructors can interact during the lesson using features such as in-class polling.

Each user pays a subscription fee for the service, which allows the company to remain profitable. Siddiqui says he currently values the company at $5 million.

Siddiqui had initially pitched $100,000 for five per cent of the company to the

“Dragons”: Harvey Finkelstein, chief platform officer for Shopify, BlueCat Networks’ Michael Hyatt and Nicole Verkindt, the founder of the Offset Market Exchange.

After haggling with the Dragons, Siddiqui rejected Verkindt’s offer for 15 per cent of SharpScholar. Siddiqui said he and his company didn’t take the proposed deal because they were more concerned with getting feedback from the Dragons than selling shares. He added that SharpScholar had also received more lucrative offers from other investors.

“We really just went [on Next Gen Den] to see if we could get a deal or not. It’s like a business validation, it’s like seeing if you have the credit limit to buy something,” Siddiqui said.

Siddiqui told The Journal that he and his co-creators had pitched SharpScholar to Next Gen Den last year, but had been rejected. This motivated Siddiqui to recuperate and get on the show for the following season.

“Once we got on Next Gen this season, we told a better story, we had better numbers, we had sales to actually prove what we’re doing is worth it,” Siddiqui said.

Since graduating, Siddiqui and his colleagues have been managing SharpScholar from their Toronto based office with “more than five” employees.

Siddiqui said the company is planning to hire

Jawwad Siddiqui, Comm ’15, was featured on an episode of Next Gen Den, which aired online Wednesday.

more employees to accommodate a growing number of users.

“The numbers of student [users] have been increasing because we’re legitimately operating as a company in Toronto”, he said.

Within the last year, SharpScholar’s user base has almost doubled from 65 to 120 teachers. The program is now used at a number of post-secondary institutions, including Queen’s, U of T, Ryerson, Wilfrid Laurier, Waterloo, OCAD and St. Lawrence College.

Along with managing the company, Siddiqui and his team say they’re researching

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education and learning strategies in order to incorporate into their product.

“Sometimes we take off our entrepreneurial hats and go to teachers and educators and work with them to conduct research,” he said.

Siddiqui added that the most valuable feedback he received from Next Gen Den was that entrepreneurs must champion their ideas.

“If you really believe in a certain problem, be ready to take a lot of no’s, but at the same time, learn why people are saying no so you can make that no into a yes.”

MENTAL HEALTH

Queen’s collaborates with St. Lawrence to develop mental health resources Resources will assist students to get accommodations at secondary school T arini P ahwa Assistant News Editor In a collaborative effort between Queen’s and St. Lawrence College, a new set of mental health resources are now available to accommodate students at post-secondary schools across Ontario.

Researchers released a list of recommendations along with videos and an information and resource handbook.

According to The Queen’s Gazette, the project has been in the works for three years. It aims to develop province-wide standards and guidelines for students seeking academic accommodations.

The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities funded the joint research project through the ministry’s Mental Health Innovation Fund.

Dr. Mike Condra — who retired this summer — spearheaded the research from the Queen’s side in his capacity as Director, Health, Counselling and Disability Services (now known as Student Wellness Services).

“There’s probably a good deal more work that needs to be done in the area of mental health and we’re hoping the government — the provincial government — will continue,” he said.

To get the project going, Condra said

issues can be a little precarious, as there’s a he looked into strategies for ensuring that students with mental health disabilities.

Moving forward, Condra said, he hopes stigma surrounding the topic in our culture. guidelines for academic accommodation this project will have a future at universities “When we start to talk about would be successful. accommodation for students with mental “The question is what kind of across the province.

“It does involve colleges and universities health problems, it’s wise to put them documentation do students need in order get accommodations, what kind of looking at their practices in the area of under the umbrella for accommodations for students with disabilities, rather than accommodations are appropriate and how accommodating [students],” he said.

Condra said discussing mental health single them out in a group.” we decide?” Condra said.

The project had three parts: a set of recommendations on providing mental health accommodations, eight videos about the accommodation process and an informational handbook.

The eight videos provide information on mental health accommodations for students and faculties that may need more information. They also give examples of situations that students and professors may need to address, such as what the accommodation letter looks like and what a professor needs to know to make the process run smoothly.

The information and resource handbook, meanwhile, acts as a guide to academic accommodations and mental health on campus. It will be available both in English and French.

The project’s organizers also hope to train students, faculty, disability advisors SUPPLIED BY QUEEN’S and counsellors, student leaders and Mike Condra (center), former Director of HCDS, at his retirement administrators on how best to accommodate party earlier this year.

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FEATURE ACADEMICS

A new home away from home

For transfer students, changing schools leads to both trials and successes

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S ean S utherland Features Editor Kevin Rush, a former Wilfrid Laurier student, says transferring to Queen’s wasn’t as simple as it sounds.

When Rush transferred to Queen’s after the 2013-14 academic year, some of his courses didn’t line up properly. As a result, he was forced to take another year.

“I was in computer science and business at Laurier, but Queen’s has their Commerce business school,” Rush, CompSci ’17, said. “So all my business credits just counted as electives. But if I wanted to go into Commerce, I don’t think Queen’s would accept them as commerce credits.”

Because his Laurier courses didn’t cover some of his required courses at Queen’s, he’ll have to take an extra year — or more — to complete his degree.

Rush says he decided to transfer after realizing he wasn’t enjoying the courses he was taking at Laurier. He chose Queen’s because the school “always felt like home,” he said.

Like all transfer students, Rush faced obstacles in switching to a new university, both in terms of credits and in adapting to a new campus, the challenges started before he arrived.

One of the requirements in transferring to Queen’s is meeting a certain grade point average. In Rush’s case, that was a 2.6 GPA

in Computer Science. His GPA was too low after his first year at Laurier, so he delayed his plans for a year in order to improve his grades.

“I was like one GPA or half a GPA under the thing, so I was like ‘Darn, I didn’t get in,’” he said. “So, I took a year and got my grades up and then got in.”

For an upper-year student — anyone who has attempted at least 24 credits at another university — trying to transfer to Queen’s, the academic requirements shift based on what they’re planning on studying.

While the majority of disciplines in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences only require a 2.6 GPA to transfer into them, some require a higher minimum GPA. The highest GPA required for a transfer into a program is a 3.7 GPA, equivalent to an A- average, in the Environmental Science program.

Upper-year transfer students like Rush are becoming an increased focus for Queen’s. The 2014-15 Enrolment Report from the University Senate noted that in the 2013-14 academic year — the same year Rush transferred to Queen’s — the University underwent “new targeted recruitment and outreach activities” in an attempt to bring in more transfer students.

While data from this school year wasn’t available, the 2014-15 Report contains data on the number of upper-year transfer

students. It was the first annual report to include those figures, due to the new-found focus on recruiting transfer students.

Of the new students at the beginning of that academic year, 136 had come from other universities, a rise of 48 per cent from the 2013-2014 school year.

The Journal contacted Queen’s Communications for comment on transfer students, but did not receive a response by deadline.

Rush said transfer students can face some unique difficulties.

Instead of entering into the same environment as first-year students, transfer students, especially those who apply later, are put into difficult situations in terms of finding housing.

He added that his membership in the men’s rugby team helped ease the transition, since it gave him a group of people to socialize with.

“The thing that helped me was rugby, so if as a transfer student you can have a group of people that can be a good foundation, that can help you be social, be active and interact at Queen’s,” Rush said. “That’s what I think is the most important thing for a transfer student, because it’s very easy to shy away.”

Kurt Dunn, meanwhile, found his transition much easier.

It’s been three years since he transferred out of Queen’s after his first year of university. Now a fourth-year music student at Brock, Dunn said his experience

changing schools was a reasonably easy one.

“It was pretty well out of my hands, which was nice,” he said. “I still kind of checked in to see how my status was doing, but for the most part it was kind of up to the universities to do their own things through communicating with each other.”

But he said he didn’t get the same level of support from an academic advisor at Queen’s. After his first semester, Dunn began to consider leaving the university and met with an academic advisor.

“It was kind of funny because I went to an academic advisor or something like that at Queen’s, and when I asked them about transferring, they kind of said, ‘We don’t really want you to transfer out from the school,’” Dunn said.

“So that wasn’t too helpful for me.

I had to go and ask [Brock] what I had to do to go about that.”

Dunn said his reasons for leaving Queen’s had nothing to do with the school. The St. Catharines native chose to transfer to Brock to cut down on travel costs, since he had often gone home during the course of his first year.

“I loved the atmosphere at Queen’s. I thought it was a great school,” Dunn said. “It was more for my own reasons that I just needed to be closer to home.”

Like Rush, Dunn was concerned that credits from his first year wouldn’t necessarily align with the courses he planned on

taking at Brock. Luckily, he said, there weren’t too many issues on that front.

“For me, I was lucky most of my credits lined up,” he said. “I know a lot of people, [where] once they’re transferring, they have to take almost a whole other year to match up what their credits should be.”

Oren Redinger, who is now a Commerce student at Queen’s, went through the same process as Dunn and Rush. In his case, gaining admission to Queen’s was his original goal, but he made a quick detour to the University of Guelph for his first year of university.

“Right when I got into Guelph, I knew that I wanted to leave,” Redinger, Comm ’17, said. “So right away I just started pushing for better grades for the transfer [application].”

After successfully reaching the threshold required by the School of Business, Redinger enrolled in Queen’s for his second year of university. For him, it was a goal he already had in mind.

“It has a really good reputation for commerce,” he said. “Just getting into Queens is a big accomplishment and bit of a wow factor.”

Redinger put in his transfer application to the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre, alongside a pair of Personal Statement of Experiences, on Feb. 1.

He had to wait to receive confirmation of whether or not he’d be attending Queen’s in the fall.

“Every day, seeing ‘your [application] has been submitted,’” he said. “Until July 28 or something and it was ‘you’ve been accepted.’”

“I was like, ‘oh my god.’”

While he ended up in the program he had been hoping for since he started at university, Rendinger said the speed at which transfer students find out about their acceptance could be improved.

“Finding a house and setting everything up in Kingston in July is a pain in the ass,” he said. “Just going back and forth, back and forth, then straight into school.

[Being accepted] earlier on would have been much easier.”

— With files from Nick Pearce

Queen’s has implemented “targeted recruitment and outreach activities” in hopes of bringing in more transfer students to the school.

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Campus catch-up

Student paper exposes unequal toilet paper distribution at Ryerson

students from WLU. Two of the injuries were relatively insignificant. One woman sustained a minor injury to her collarbone while another sustained a slight injury to her wrist. However, the pellets caused a serious eye injury to a third woman, which has required ongoing medical treatment.

Pavlasek, who has been released on bail for $5,000, is set to appear in court next on Dec. 17. Pavlasek is currently under house arrest in his residence in Toronto and isn`t allowed to enter the Waterloo region as a condition of his bail.

Controversy reared its head at Ryerson when The Eyeopener — the university`s student newspaper — discovered an unfair distribution of two-ply toilet paper on Campus.

While student washrooms are almost exclusively stocked with one-ply toilet paper, The Eyeopener confirmed that the 13th and 14th floors of Jorgenson Hall carry two-ply toilet paper. The 13th floor of the building contains the offices — Mikayla Wronko of administrative personnel, including the offices of the president, alumni relations, the U of A preparing for vice-president of research and innovation student-organized orgy and research services, while the 14th floor is occupied by meeting rooms.

Although a two-ply bathroom is a couple A student-organized orgy is in the works steps from his office, Sheldon Levy, the for University of Alberta students, with a President of Ryerson, told The Eyeopener tentative date of Nov. 13. The orgy will be that he finds the unequal toilet paper open to any U of A student who’s willing to distribution “shocking” and “embarrassing”. be screened by organizers.

Janice Winton, Ryerson’s vice-president U of A student and one of the orgy of administration and finance, says the organizers Matthew James Hardy said he university has explored what it would take intends on keeping the gender and sexuality to convert to a two-ply campus. She told ratios as equal as possible to ensure that no The Eyeopener that the change would cost participant feels outnumbered or the university an additional $80,000 per year. left out. Hardy added that keeping the number of participants from all groups — Mikayla Wronko equal is important for the overall comfort of participants.

The orgy will start at 7 p.m. and end Laurier student charged in around midnight. Organizers haven`t pellet gun shooting confirmed whether alcohol will be permitted and complete details regarding the orgy will Charges have been laid against Nick be finalized closer to the date of the event.

Hardy outlined three guidelines for Pavlasek, a 20-year-old student from Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), after his the orgy: consent must be given for all involvement in three incidents of shooting interactions, participants must follow orgy etiquette and participants must wipe up pedestrians with a pellet gun.

The charges resulted following shootings bodily fluids and dispose of contraceptives. that took place on Sept. 7 this year, when — Mikayla Wronko Pavlasek shot a pellet gun at three female

Friday, October 30, 2015

News in brief

New fitness facility on West Campus

Queen’s Athletics and Recreation announced on Monday that Jean Royce Hall has opened a new fitness facility in the West Campus residence.

The Jean Royce Fitness Facility includes yoga mats, step boxes, an elliptical machine and a stationary bike.

In the release, Residence Life Coordinator Carmen Law states that the initiative began based off of feedback from students living on West Campus.

“We wanted to make sure West Campus students are offered services to best support their health and wellbeing, while being a successful student,” she stated in the release.

The Jean Royce Fitness Facility is now open daily from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. for students living in residence on West Campus.

— Mikayla Wronko

NAD committee members announced Queen’s has announced the members of the advisory committee set to review the University’s Non-Academic Discipline system this fall.

According to The Queen’s Gazette, the Advisory Committee on Non-Academic Misconduct will discuss relevant concerns surrounding the safety, health and wellness of students.

The committee will consult with stakeholders, including students, at the university.

These consultations began during a session of AMS Assembly on Oct. 22, where student representatives voiced their concerns about the review to Principal Daniel Woolf and Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Alan Harrison.

Queen’s has stated that opportunities will be available for all external stakeholders to voice their concerns. According to The Queen’s Gazette, Woolf recognizes the “strongly held views on all sides”.

Woolf will bring the committee’s recommended policies and procedures

— including a “recommended student code of conduct”, according to The Gazette release — for approval from the Board of Trustees no later than May 2016.

— Victoria Gibson

Masturbating man approaches female Campus Security and Emergency Services issued an alert on Monday, Oct. 26 after an indecent act was reported to them on Sunday night.

According to the alert, an unidentified male driver engaged a female pedestrian in a conversation at approximately 8:30 p.m. She then noticed that the man was masturbating in the vehicle.

The female reported that the unidentified male was driving an older model dark, four door sedan of.

The Kingston Police have asked that anyone with information on the incident, or who has experienced a similar incident involving the described suspect, contact them at 613-549-4660. Students can also call the AMS Walkhome Service for accompanied walks at 613-533-9255 (613-533-WALK).

— Mikayla Wronko

Dean Reznick wins Lifetime Achievement Award Dr. Richard Reznick, the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University, is set to receive the Medicine Alumni Global Award for Lifetime Achievement from his alma mater, McGill University.

The award will recognize Dr. Reznick for his over 30 year career in medical education and his leadership in the field of surgical education. Reznick has won several other awards in the past, including the Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education in 2010.

— Mikayla Wronko

Queen’s General Bursary Deadline: October 31, 2015

Queen’s General Bursary is a non-­‐‑repayable grant directed to those students with the greatest financial need and the fewest options to fully finance their education. This financial assistance is offered in addition to your government student loans and grants for the academic year.

APPLY NOW on SOLUS! Just click the ‘Queen’s General Bursary Application’ link in the Financial Aid section.

Check SOLUS at the end of December for decisions and disbursement details.

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and that we witness that, I think [it] speaks well to the fact that we really don’t want it to be an ‘us vs. them’ mentality.”

Koopman reiterated that KP was only one piece of the puzzle.

He said the success of Homecoming was a team effort on the part of a number of community partners, including Queen’s administration, the AMS, Kingston emergency responders, KGH, Hotel Dieu, the COR and campus security.

He also gave credit to the AMS ReUnion Street Festival, which he said appears to have been “successful and popular for students, alumni and guests” and took pressure off officers patrolling Aberdeen St. Principal Woolf also said he was pleased with the success of Homecoming weekend.

“It was, for the most part, a safe

and respectful celebration of the Queen’s spirit,” he wrote in an email statement.

“The AMS’s ReUnion Street Festival was a well-attended event that provided a sanctioned venue for students and alumni to gather and celebrate. While we still saw some unsanctioned activity in the near-campus neighbourhood, particularly earlier in the day, I am hopeful that the behaviour displayed by the vast majority of our students signals a trend that will continue in the years to come.”

Like Koopman, Woolf thanked all partners involved, including KP, for ensuring that Homecoming was a safe and successful event.

Sarah Letersky, vice president (university affairs), ArtSci ’16, also thanked KP and the City of Kingston for their part in the weekend’s success. She said she wanted to acknowledge “the

many dedicated students who participated in our community clean-up, which covered the entire off-campus area of the University District.”

“This past weekend, Queen’s Homecoming was a safer and more respectful celebration than it has ever been before. We’ve made great progress over the past couple of years” she wrote in an email.

Carolyn Dunk, the AMS ReUnion Street Festival Coordinator, was also very pleased with the outcome.

“Attendance substantially increased from last year and was consistent from the beginning of the event until the end of the night,” Dunk, ArtSci ’15, wrote in an email.

“We’re especially glad to have seen so many students and alumni coming together and the feedback we have received from all guests has been highly positive.”

Principal Woolf (left) and Chancellor Jim Leech (right) celebrating Homecoming during the football game.

“We have not had any issues,” says Queen’s Athletics

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supplier — Royal TenCate — to interruption,” Gill wrote.

“We have the financial ability to cover the costs of replacing the do the right thing for our clients.

Neches, Texas, had their defective fields.

FieldTurf ’s lawsuit against We do not hide the fact that we field installed on July 31, 2008. According to their TenCate stated that at least 167 have stepped up and replaced complaint, which was filed on May other fields installed between 2006 numerous fields.”

The email also stated that 24, 2012, the district discovered and 2009 have failed.

FieldTurf, however, maintains FieldTurf had resolved its legal that the turf was defective on May 26, 2010, two years into an that those fields make up a small battle with TenCate, and had portion of the fields they’ve built. stopped using the “earlier eight-year warranty.

Their suit stated that the According to a statement the generation ‘Duraspine’ company had used substandard company provided to Forbes in monofilament fields” that had materials in their artificial 2014, those 167 fields make up caused issues. only three per cent of the “more turf product.

In a later interview with The “Said wear, degradation and than 5,000” fields they’ve installed Journal, Gill confirmed that Tindall failure consists of, but is not limited across the United States.

Field had been constructed using Queen’s Sports Information the same Duraspine fiber used in to, fraying and separation of turf fibers, significant washing away of Officer Shawn MacDonald said he fields later found to be defective. turf fibers due to rain and wearing was unaware of the lawsuits against However, he said it hasn’t and thinning of the turf throughout FieldTurf when he was contacted exhibited any signs of defects. the playing surface,” the by The Journal on Monday, “The Tindall field is entering its Oct. 19. document reads. eighth year of use, and is well on During the call, he requested its way to surpassing its eight year The suit, however, was dismissed in February 2013. The time to coordinate an interview warranty period,” he said. “I’ve order stated the parties had filed an with The Journal. Two days later, personally visited the field and it is on Oct. 21, MacDonald declined not exhibiting any signs of failure agreed motion for dismissal.

Father Ryan High School in to comment. seen on Duraspine fields in high “We won’t have anyone UV scenarios.”

Nashville, Tennessee, filed a similar suit in 2009, which included an available for an interview on this.

“We have not replaced a single allegation that FieldTurf installed If you would like you can use Duraspine field in Canada,” a defective field after they’d the following statement from the he added. become aware of issues affecting department: We have not had any Other Duraspine fields in issues,” he wrote in an email. other artificial turfs.

Canada include an artificial turf at MacDonald later provided The the University of Windsor, which The school also named Hardaway Construction and Journal with an email response opened in September 2008.

Precision Sports Fields, who he received from Darren Gill, Gill said he encourages students assisted in the construction. They vice-president of Marketing, to “take a walk on Tindall, and see filed a suit against FieldTurf and Innovation and Customer Service the field for yourself”.

Hardaway on four separate for FieldTurf, on Oct. 26.

“The field fiber, which is the “FieldTurf has always been nature of your questions, is in counts, including breach of contract, breach of warranty, committed and well placed to excellent condition for a field of its honor our warranties, remediate age,” he said. misrepresentation and negligence.

In response to the lawsuits, where applicable any customer Queen’s Athletics hasn’t FieldTurf entered a legal battle issues to this end and continue indicated to The Journal whether with their turf material to operate its business without they plan to investigate further.

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HOMECOMING HIGHLIGHTS PHOTOS BY VICTORIA GIBSON, MITCHELL GLEASON, STEPHANIE NIJHUIS AND KENDRA PIERROZ

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AMS fall referendum statements The Journal provides this free space for parties on the ballot.

All statements are unedited.

TRIENNIAL REVIEW QUEEN’S HALF THE SKY Queen’s Half the Sky is an on-campus club whose main objective is to create awareness of particular issues affecting women globally, nationally, and locally.

More specifically QHTS focuses on women’s education, maternal and reproductive rights, ending sex trafficking, and economic empowerment for women.

QHTS recognizes the need to address these various issues domestically and in our own communities, which is why each year we select multiple local charities to donate to.

This year we have selected the HIV/AIDS Regional Services and the Dawn House as the local organizations to receive our donations.

Not only locally, but internationally we support organizations that align strongly with our vision; this year we will be supporting Girls Not Brides; an organization dedicated to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfill their potential.

The revenue from a student fee will make a huge difference for QHTS. Additional funds will allow us to run awareness campaigns, organize events, and ultimately create a space where students who are interested in our vision can come together, take collective action, and have a hand in making a difference or women on a local and international level. The student fee works to allow us the resources we need to run a more successful club, hosting larger events and educating more students on issues that women face everyday. QHTS caters to a niche subject; the student fee helps us to increase our presence on campus via events such as speaker series, club nights, and clothing drives throughout the year.

QUEEN’S HEALTH OUTREACH Queen’s Health Outreach (QHO) prides itself in being a student run, non-profit organization dedicated to health awareness.

QHO is continuously evolving alongside of partnering communities on intuitive, through a needs-based peer educator system.

QHO aims to enhance the organization’s sustainability by partnering with like-minded organizations both locally and internationally.

In past years QHO has used the money received from the student fee to fund the resources required to deliver engaging and effective lessons to grade-school aged students. This includes resources for classrooms and outreach events that unite the students with their communities. The money has also been used to assist with the total cost of a Peer Educator on initiative. QHO is an equal opportunity organization who strives to allow all students the opportunity to apply for the position of being a Peer Educator without worrying about financing the program. Through the student fee, all students as Queen’s are assisting in making a positive difference for youth both locally and abroad.

STUDENTS FOR WISHES Students for Wishes® Queen’s University is the Kingston volunteer branch of MakeA-Wish® Eastern Ontario. We are the first and only entirely student-run branch of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Canada, and part of the largest wish granting organization in the world! We are dedicated to improving the lives of children in our community, and 100% of our fundraising proceeds go towards wish granting and raising awareness about the Make-A-Wish Foundation both on and off campus. As the Kingston volunteer

branch of Make-A-Wish, we are responsible for all local fundraising as well as granting the wishes in Kingston. Through granting the wishes of local Kingston children with life threatening medical conditions, we seek to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy.

Any funding received will go toward offsetting a small amount of costs associated with hosting and raising awareness for our annual events. All left-over funds go directly toward granting the wishes of local Kingston children with life-threatening medical conditions. To provide a more tangible figure ­­— fees raised from Queen’s University students help grant one child’s entire wish (whether that be to see their favourite celebrity or to take a trip with their whole family!)

SHRC Vote yes…yes…YES! (to the continuation of the SHRC’s fee, that is) The Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC) is a confidential, non-judgmental, feminist, pro choice, queer-positive, non-heterosexist, and sex positive information and referral service for all things sex, sexuality and sexual health. We operate out of JDUC 223 selling safer sex products and toys at cost, lending books out of out sexual health library, and providing information and referrals to clients. We are also active in the broader community, distributing condoms through on-campus dispensers and at local events , and presenting sexual health workshops to campus residences and other groups.

Additionally, we provide accompaniment services to the Women’s Clinic for clients accessing abortion services and the Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Unit for clients who have been sexually assaulted. We are an active contributor to the community and truly a one-stop shop for all your sex and sexual health needs!

The SHRC is a completely volunteer-run and not-for-profit organization, and has been serving Queen’s and the surrounding community for forty years. We have had a mandatory fee since 2004, which has helped us to greatly improve the quality and accessibility of our services. The mandatory fee allows us to train volunteers, maintain condom dispensers, provide teach-ins for thousands of participants, and expand our product selection and service offerings. We are seeking continued financial support from the Queen’s community this year, and urge you to vote YES in favour of maintaining our $1.00 fee. Gaels and Kingstonians alike are grateful for your support!

UNITED WAY The Queen’s United Way Committee is composed of 10-15 members (plus an additional 10-15 volunteers) and serves to fundraise for the United Way Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox, and Addington (KFL&A) branch, as well as raise awareness about the United Way and the United Way’s agencies on campus. The Queen’s United Way Committee focuses on three pillars: fundraising, outreach, and awareness. On this basis, we create events — such as the United Way Kick Off BBQ and the Annual Food and Clothing Drive — that raise money and resources necessary to provide support to members of the Kingston community.

The Queen’s United Way Committee is particularity proud of fundraising for agencies the directly support student wellness, making our committee an integral part of the Queen’s student experience. The student

fee itself has been used to support United Way funded agencies in providing services that enhance the wellness, experience, and functioning of the Kingston community and its members. The student fee is used by the United Way KFL&A to support a broad range of organizations that aim to strengthen the Kingston by providing vital services such as counselling, mental health support, a sexual assault centre and food security among many others. Overall, the student fee gives the United Way KFL&A the opportunity to provide essential, high quality and accessible services to the community and students, while simultaneously creating student leaders and positively changing the way the public perceives Queen’s students.

QUEEN’S SOUL FOOD Soul Food is a non-for-profit organization that is dedicated to addressing issues surrounding poverty and food security.

Hunger is one of the most easily solvable issues as there are enough resources for everyone. One of our major initiatives that we do utilizing the student fee is our cafeteria run. Everyday after dinner, we send volunteers who pick up the unused, leftover cafeteria food and deliver them to shelters around Kingston. In the past we have regularly delivered food to Dawnhouse, Kingston Youth Shelter, In from the Cold, and Ryandale. Usually there is one volunteer per cafeteria (Ban Righ, Leonard, and Jean Royce) that has access to a car so they drive to and from the shelters from the cafeterias. However, there are times when we are unable to locate a driver and rather than abandoning the run that night, we tell the volunteers to use a taxi. A major expense for us is taxi usage to ensure that the shelters have food. Queen’s Soul Food also hosts events that promote awareness about poverty and food security such as speaker events and awareness on campus. We raise awareness in the cafeterias about food waste as well with posters and pamphlets. All the activities that we have undertaken were to promote awareness for poverty and food security.

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BEST BUDDIES Queen’s University Best Buddies is a campus affiliate of Best Buddies Canada, an organization that aims to provide people with intellectual/developmental disabilities the chance to have experiences that many people take for granted. Queen’s University Best Buddies facilitates and supports friendships between students and individuals with intellectual disabilities in the Kingston community. Students are paired with a buddy and are responsible for contacting their buddy regularly and meeting their buddy biweekly for a one-on-one activity. These friendships are intended to be similar to any other friendships and time spent together may include going for coffee, watching movies, going to the mall, attending a local sporting event, engaging in physical activity, or another mutually enjoyable activity. At least once a month, we host chapter-wide group events where everyone is invited to socialize with other buddy pairs and enjoy refreshments, crafts, dancing, and various other activities.

In the past, we have funded our activities through opt-outable student fees, which we hope we will continue to do in the future.

We receive the majority of our funding from student fees and, in past years, this money has been sufficient to cover all our expenses.

The money we receive from student

fees pays for food/catering, decorations, equipment/room rentals, craft/activity supplies, and miscellaneous other costs associated with running our numerous chapter-wide events held throughout the year. This year (2015-2106), we have the following events planned: October is a Halloween Party, November is the Kingston Santa Claus Parade, December is a Christmas Movie, January is a Kingston Frontenacs hockey game, February is a Valentines Party, March is an Easter Party and April is a Spring Fling/End-of-Year Party.

QUEEN’S SOCIAL INVESTMENT INITIATIVE The Queen’s Social Investment Initiative (“QS2I”) is the first university-based impact investing organization in Canada. We engage and assist local development groups in low-income markets that have the potential to create employment/growth capacity for their communities. Our investment fund is sourced from annual student opt-out fees, which is in turn used to make business loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries through our local field partners.

Our local field partners currently include Peter Morrin, a Queen’s Engineering Alumnus, and Educate!, a Clinton Global Initiative recognized NGO that provides entrepreneurship training to high school students across Uganda. Through investments, QS2I’s goal is to increase the access to capital for young, educated entrepreneurs, reducing youth unemployment and assisting in breaking the cycle of poverty for future generations. Through education, QS2I’s goal is to increase awareness and knowledge on campus about impact investing, microfinance and social entrepreneurship. We also seek to connect passionate students to organizations and individuals who work in the field for learning and career opportunities. We do this predominantly through two annual events, the Queen’s Microcredit Competition and a Symposium on Economic Development, as well as other smaller events.

STUDENTS FOR LITERACY Queen’s Students for Literacy was established as a branch of Frontier College, a Canada wide literacy organization in 1899. Queen’s Students for Literacy runs three different programs, Literacy Outreach, Prison Literacy Initiative and Read for Fun. Each program focuses its efforts on helping different groups in the Kingston community build their literacy skills and foster a love of reading and writing. Our read for fun program, consisting of over 100 tutors, services over 100 elementary school students in the Kingston community, building their reading, writing, and numeracy abilities. Often these children utilize our free one-on-one tutoring program to build upon what is learned in the classroom, and to provide additional assistance and customized learning not available at school.

Our Literacy Outreach program works with children and adults staying at Lily’s Place and Interval House shelters in the Kingston community. Building a love of reading and providing additional academic and mentorship support for these kids is our primary objective, while providing child supervision for parents in the process. Our Prison Literacy Initiative program consists of more than thirty tutors who work with inmates at Joyceville minimum, Collins bay minimum, medium and maximum security prisons. Tutoring sessions aim to work on individual projects, skill development and group learning sessions, all with the goal

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Friday, October 30, 2015 of providing these people with the tools for success in life after their time in prison, with the goal of reducing recidivism. Funds acquired through our student opt-out fee are essential to providing our tutors with transportation to the 14 locations in the Kingston community where our tutoring takes place. Without our student fee we would be unable to provide transportation for our tutors, lack the funding required to cover recruitment, hiring, club administration and miscellaneous classroom supply costs.

QUEEN’S FOR OOCH Queen’s for OOCH aims to raise funds and awareness for Camp Oochigeas. Camp Oochigeas is a non-profit camp for children with cancer whose goal is to allow these children to be children once again. They also run programs for children affected by cancer (bereaved siblings), day camps, and activities in Downtown Toronto. Many students at Queen’s are familiar with OOCH and the work that it does, and our organization provides a community for people who believe in summer camp for all. In the past, we use our student fee to purchase goods for our events, so that all the money that we raise can be donated to Camp Oochigeas.

SUSTAINABILITY ACTION FUND The Sustainability Action Fund (SAF) is a grant operated out of the Commission of the Environment and Sustainability (CES) that awards money to groups looking to either run new sustainability themed projects on campus or to improve their existing operations. For example, in the past couple granting periods, we’ve funded the first ever Queen’s Sustainability Conference, a campus greenhouse (in progress), the Queen’s Solar Design Team’s incredible solar-powered house, local food for the AMS Food Bank, and lots more!

Any individual, club, organization, or service is eligible to submit an application for student-run projects that increase campus energy efficiency, reduce waste, educate the Queen’s community on sustainability-related issues, or any other environmentally friendly initiative that will impact students. This student fee is extremely beneficial for the Queen’s community, as it provides more opportunities for students to get involved in environmentalism and

NEW OR ALTERING FEES MEDLIFE MEDLIFE is an international NGO that provides access to medicine, education, and development in impoverished communities, with the ultimate goal of sustainably improving quality of life. MEDLIFE develops relationships with residents of the areas they work in to ensure that aid remains continuous and projects are geared towards each community’s unique needs. With the help of student volunteers, medical professionals hired in Peru, Ecuador, and Tanzania set up mobile clinics in low-income areas. At Queen’s, our club has two main purposes.

The first is to recruit and prepare students for volunteer service trips to Peru, Ecuador, and Tanzania. The second is to raise money for the MEDLIFE Fund, which supports follow-up medical care and community development projects. In addition, we work to raise awareness about issues of global health and development. With the student fee our chapter will be able to expand it’s efforts on campus and reach a larger proportion of the Queen’s community. In hosting fundraising events for the MEDLIFE fund including a conference, global health seminars, academic tutorials and a benefit concert our chapter will be able to expand and increase the volume of these events. In having a larger budget to operate with our chapter will have the opportunity to create new initiatives for students to get involved and take part in – while raising funds for the MEDLIFE fund. In promoting MEDLIFE’s name on campus more students will be

actively encourages the implementation of more sustainable projects at our university.

QUEEN’S LEGAL AID Queen’s Legal Aid has been helping people in the Queen’s and Kingston communities for over 40 years. Those of you who have been to Queen’s Legal Aid will know that we provide free legal services in a number of areas of the law. Queen’s students currently pay a mandatory $5.00 student fee to Queen’s Legal Aid. As a result of this fee, Queen’s students automatically qualify for our legal services without having to meet our financial criteria.

If you have a landlord who is trying to evict you, or refuses to do needed repairs, Queen’s Legal Aid may be able to help. We may be able to assist if you had too much fun one night, got into trouble with the police, and were charged with a minor criminal offence such as drug possession, assault or shoplifting. We may also be able to go to Small Claims Court when your deadbeat housemate will not pay any of the bills.

Specifically for students, we offer assistance with the Ontario Student Assistance Plan problems, or when facing the AMS judicial prosecutor. We also provide Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths services to certify documents and commission Statutory Declarations.

Your $5.00 levy also helps support the work we do for low-income Kingston area residents. Not only do we provide a valuable service for our students, we help to achieve access to justice for our community.

We hope that you never have to use our services, but many have needed us and found it extremely helpful. Your $5.00 helps us help you.

If you have a legal question you’d like some help with, or for more information, please drop by our office at the Queen’s Law Clinics, 5th Floor, 303 Bagot Street (La Salle Mews building) or call us at 613-533-2102.

Everything is confidential.

Thank you for your support.

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BLOOD TEAM The Queen’s University Blood Team works with Canadian Blood Services to raise awareness about blood donation on campus.

We work to reduce the stigma associated made aware of the opportunities MEDLIFE can provide to them, such as taking part in a mobile clinic trip. In embarking on a MEDLIFE trip over reading break or summer break students are given the opportunity to make a global impact. Upon returning home MEDLIFE strongly encourages students to continue their involvement within their local community. The Queen’s Chapter strongly values this principal and with the student fee we hope to incorporate OPIRG The Ontario Public Interest Research Group — Kingston at Queen’s University (OPIRG) is Queen’s campus based centre for community-based research, education, and action supporting social and environmental justice. We believe we cannot address problems in isolation, but that issues must be examined and challenged through an intersectional approach.

OPIRG is unique in that we do not just do research or education or strive to create change, but we unite those three actions into one organization. Not only do we inspire and support critical research, we use that research to develop educational campaigns and to create lasting change. OPIRG is student driven and directed; our Board of Directors, research projects, and educational campaigns are all student-lead.

A great example of our work is our latest campaign: We Believe In A Campus Free of Sexual Violence. This campaign was started by Queen’s students working on an OPIRG research project. By examining the best practices of university

with blood donation on campus and in the Kingston community through education.

As well as providing an accessible, easy, comfortable and safe spaces for donating blood on campus. Our team facilitates on campus blood clinics once a month in either the BioScience Complex or the Athletics and Recreation Center (ARC). We also run a LifeBus bi-weekly that brings students from campus to the Kingston Blood Clinic to donate blood. To promote our LifeBus, we run a booth twice a week in the ARC to allow students to sign up for blood donation appointments. Additionally, the Queen’s University Blood Team runs Special Events throughout the year including several large OneMatch Get Swabbed events. OneMatch is Canada’s Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Registry and through these events we add interested students into the registry. We believe that through encouraging students to donate when they are in school, we create life long donors who will save hundreds of lives.

VOGUE CHARITY FASHION SHOW Vogue Charity Fashion Show (VCFS) is the largest student-run fashion show at Queen’s. Every year we strive to combine charity work with the arts in a creative and innovative way to catch the attention of the Queen’s Community. Throughout the year we put on various events which culminate with an annual fashion show in the Spring.

All of the proceeds are donated to a different local charity at the end of the academic year. Our show combines the talents of models, dancers, musicians, choreographers, designers, makeup artists and many others.

VCFS strives to put to use the amazing talent found here at Queen’s in order to improve the community that we are all a part of.

Further, we hope each year to promote our charities with enough success that they are able to maintain a strong presence on campus after our formal partnership concludes.

Last year VCFS donated $43, 000 to Jack.org to help raises awareness for issues related to mental health and fund their “Bounce Back” program here at Queen’s.

This year VCFS is supporting the Happy Soul Project, an amazing initiative that aims to remove the stigmas attached to differences with the end goal of having everyone embrace their differences with pride. We will be helping to fund their “Kick-it Capes” campuses across Canada this research has created recommendations on how Queen’s University can become the first campus to end sexual violence. OPIRG is now leading a campaign to make these recommendations a reality on our campus. The optional student fee that we are requesting will go to campaigns like the one above. It will fund guest lecturers, events, campaign materials, volunteer committees, and help eliminate financial barriers for students who would like to participate.

We are seeking a $3 optional student fee. It will allow us to enhance the support and resources we make available to Queen’s University students who participate in our educational campaigns and our research projects. During our 23 years at Queen’s University, our research and educational campaigns have made an undeniable mark on our campus, and all our work has been made possible with the dedication of Queen’s University students.

QUEEN’S SPACE ENGINEERING TEAM The Queen’s Space Engineering Team (QSET) is designing and building a Mars Rover for competition in the University Rover Challenge (URC) in late May 2016, hosted by the Mars Rover Society in Utah and the European Rover Challenge (ERC) in early September 2016, hosted by the European Space Foundation in Poland. QSET’s mission is to provide an environment where students can develop industry transferable skills, while providing the flexibility and freedom required for successfully planning,

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initiative which sends capes to children in need, allowing them to be their own heroes in their time of need. The funds collected will be used to help us throw events that will raise awareness for the Happy Soul Project and any leftover will be donated to the charity at the end of year.

QBACC Queen’s Backing Action on Climate Change (QBACC) is a student-run environmental activism group that seeks to respond to the seriousness of climate change and other prominent environmental issues. As such, we hope to engage the Queen’s and Kingston communities with the environmental problems faced by current and future generations. QBACC is part of a growing movement of global citizens concerned about the future of our planet, and aims to send a strong message to other institutions and to all levels of government that action on climate change is an urgent priority.

We also hope to motivate and empower students to make greater efforts to be sustainable — challenging them to think beyond recycling and ecofriendly consumerism. Hence, we provide opportunities to adapt a more sustainable lifestyle. Keeping this objective in mind, this year on October 22nd, we have put together a career networking event in the renewable energy industry to help students embody sustainability in their futures.

It is important that we foster a sustainable relationship with our environment. Likewise, at QBACC we believe in the right to a healthy environment. As a result, we have decided to participate in the Blue Dot movement, a project of the David Suzuki Foundation, to ensure that clean water, fresh air, and healthy foods are recognized as human rights in Canada.

For our actions to bring about true change, we recognize the need to provide everyone with the opportunity to engage with these issues. Consequently, QBACC is always seeking new members, including students, faculty, staff, and other members of our community. If you are interested in getting involved please email us at queensbacc@gmail.com.

researching, and implementing solutions to open ended design problems. During competition teams operate their rovers from designated command and control stations.

These stations are metal trailer units or tents with tarp walls restricting visibility of the course. The rover is judged based on 5 tasks: Sample Return, Astronaut Assistance, Equipment Servicing, Terrain Traversing, & Presentation. Our goal is to continue using the funds from the student fees and apply them directly to the costs of covering our materials for the competition.

USCC The Queen's branch of the Undergraduate Ontario Science Case Competition allows undergraduate students to apply case based learning to a challenging, educational, and fun research oriented problem. It was founded on the principle that science is much more than memorizing pieces of information and regurgitating them during an exam.

It’s about curiosity, it’s about exploration, and it’s about taking risks. The competition involves developing an original research idea in the form of a grant proposal which is aimed at tackling a real-world challenge, and back up the idea with current scientific research. The competition has two phases: a local phase which is involves only students here at Queen’s, and a provincial phase based out of Western University, which involves students from across Ontario.

Annually, over 200 undergraduate students participate in the competition, many of which advance to the provincial round. As such, transporting students to Western can

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LEVANA Levana Gender Advocacy Centre is a Queen’s University organization committed to creating and nurturing a radical community of Queen’s students devoted to fighting gender oppression and advocating for broad ideas of gender empowerment

(for those of any or no gender). Levana operates on an anti-oppressive framework and therefore is committed to confronting all forms of oppression and working to dismantle oppressive systems and hierarchies including patriarchy, white privilege, colonialism, classism, cis privilege (non-trans privilege), heterosexual privilege, and able-bodied privilege.

Levana hosts events, workshops, and programming throughout the year that are intended to spark conversation and build community. We have different working groups (Lunchtime Chat Series, Feminist Film

Series, Feminist Book Club, Trans Student Issues Working Group, Conferences and Panels Working Group) in which Queen’s students can get involved as participants or as volunteers. We also provide funding for projects and initiatives that align with our mandate. Last year alone we provided than $1,400 to student-led initiatives! We have an alternative resources lending library with over 800 individual book titles and an always-growing collection of ‘zines for Queen’s students to borrow.

We hold regular office hours (come visit us in the Grey House!) and provide support,

Friday, October 30, 2015 referrals, and advocacy for Queen’s students on issues relating to our mandate. We strive to create a safe space on campus and to work towards building a Queen’s community that is passionate, connected, and engaged.

If we acquire a student fee, we will use this funding to enrich our programming, host trainings and workshops for students, sponsor stimulating conferences and events, and continue to financially support student initiatives through grants and volunteer opportunities.

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The Journal’s Perspective

STUDENT ISSUES

Wesleyan’s budget cuts miss the mark In a superbly bureaucratic and short-sighted move, Wesleyan University’s student government is cutting off their student newspaperat the knees without even the decency of saying why.

The Wesleyan Argus, an undergraduate student newspaper that’s published since 1868, will lose a dramatic amount of their funding due to a resolution passed by their student government last Sunday.

This decision follows the publishing of a controversial op-ed in September that criticized the Black Lives Matter movement.

The student government cited the reduction of paper waste, and a desire to give more attention

to other publications, as the reasons for reallocating over half of The Argus’ current budget. This funding will instead be distributed among other publications based on their popularity on social media.

When this decision follows so closely after an op-ed that sparked outrage and demands among activists for action by the student government, it’s hard to believe that this budget cut has nothing to do with the article.

Putting aside the obvious flaws of the opinion, disagreeing with the views of one staff writer is no reason to take action against the entire publication.

Everyone benefits from having a space where facts and

CANADA

on pedestals has never been a priority.

A lineup of party leaders is hardly representative of Canada’s current identity, nor of its past. Canadian history is much more than its politics, so presenting our political heads as representing our history is misleading.

For better or worse, these men — and one woman — did far less than many other men and women of diverse races and backgrounds to shape the country we know today.

But we often feel uncomfortable celebrating those individuals because they’re evidence of a history punctuated by colonialism, racism and cultural genocide.

National pride requires a collective identity we can all agree to be proud of.

This identity is grounded within the historical context of our relationship to the people who lived here before us — an understanding that’s still forming.

A significant anniversary provides the opportunity to look back and consider history, to talk about it and investigate the reasons why we can’t seem to look our own past in the eye.

So instead of assembling statues, Laurier can take a moment to assemble a new idea, one the community obviously desires, about how we can celebrate Canadian nationalism without misrepresenting what it’s founded upon.

Laurier statues out of place Larger than life bronze statues of all 22 prime ministers is a bit much for a country accustomed to avoiding national pride like an ex-wife at a dinner party — there’s just too much history there.

Wilfrid Laurier University might have to revise its plan to erect statues of the country’s leaders in honour of Canada’s 150th anniversary after receiving considerable backlash.

The proposed project garnered opposition from many community members who said it sends the wrong message to fill a supposedly inclusive space with images of politicians who passed discriminatory policies against First Nations peoples.

Statues are an inherently worshipful form of art. In a country where we vote for parties and their ideologies — and more often vote against what we don’t like than for what we do — placing politicians

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expected to give more straightforwardly make the space to a diverse range of argument that the op-ed revealed staff — which they’ve said they’re editorial untrustworthiness at The committed to doing — the loss Argus, there would be merit to in revenue will make it difficult that discussion. to take on staff from a range of But the student government socioeconomic backgrounds. has changed the problem so their The student government’s resolution fails to address what’s action sets a dangerous precedent. really at stake.

It sends a message that’s far — Journal Editorial Board more detrimental than the op-ed itself — that difficult discourse isn’t welcome. If they wanted to

Holographic hook-ups? Swipes for Canadians owned a smartphone, sex? Technology is changing the 62 per cent more than the way we build love and relationships year prior, according to the Canadian Radio-television and in the modern world.

Technology is often thought Telecommunications Commission.

Despite the negative attitude to dehumanize relationships, ironically making people more towards the infiltration of disconnected through its lack of technology into everyday life, there are 30 million users of dating apps face-to-face interaction.

In my opinion, technology is a like Tinder, Happn and thousands means to modify the way we go of other “love applications”. This about fulfilling our basic needs, but user rate, along with Tinder’s it can’t fundamentally change them. prospective $75 million revenue for For instance, dating apps don’t this year, overwhelmingly suggests create new data about us. They that there must be something good simply use preexisting information about the mobile love industry.

While it’s hard to say for in a new way.

Developments in technology sure, I think technology is slowly have made modern life easier, becoming more of a bridge more efficient and effective, between the digital and real worlds particularly when it comes to the — with the intent to enrich human internet and smartphones. Along experiences rather than take away with this, technology’s integration from them.

Happn, an app that matches into society is skyrocketing.

In 2014, 67 per cent of you to people you’ve physically — Journal Editorial Board

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opinions can be freely expressed and circulated without the fear of threats. When those opinions are wrong we can openly decide their illegitimacy, instead of surreptitiously avoiding the topic altogether.

But making funding dependent on popularity mistakes the entire purpose of a student newspaper, which is a place that’s editorially separate from its financial status.

And if the paper is

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crossed paths with, aims at doing just that by “bringing the real world into the dating space”, according to the CEO of Happn, Didier Rappaport.

The success of applications, like Happn, doesn’t strictly rely on the use of devices themselves, but rather on how data about us is created and utilized.

Love applications sift through this data (our location, what we like or dislike, how we define ourselves) to find the “formula of love” and apply it in a simple manner such as mobile applications.

At the end of the day, “x” still needs to be solved — maybe technology is just our new algorithm for doing it.

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HOMECOMING

Coming home in 2015: a weekend for everyone What makes the tradition valuable and why we should protect it Although Homecoming has special meaning for the football team, the weekend has something to offer every member of the Queen’s community.

Dillon Wamsley, ArtSci ’16 Queen’s Homecoming is an important and meaningful tradition not only for the football team and alumni, but also for the community as a whole.

It’s a special opportunity to take part in a celebration with distinctive traditions and rituals that display the spirit of the university. As such, Homecoming is an event that we, as Queen’s students, should cherish.

Over the last decade, the Homecoming experience has been somewhat tainted by the reckless behaviour of some students. In recent years, however, Queen’s has reintroduced Homecoming with reasonable success. This year, Kingston police had 66 fewer city-wide calls for service than last year and made five fewer arrests.

Given the significance of Homecoming celebrations to many different groups of people, it’s my hope that students continue to have respect for the Kingston community while they celebrate,

so this special event can endure and small communities across the for many generations to come, and country, Homecoming is often we, as future Queen’s alumni, can the pinnacle of the regular season return to partake in the festivities. — one of the few times in which we Homecoming is one of the few can compete with the support of events that includes all members of what feels like an entire university the Queen’s community, whether behind us. Moreover, for the fans, they’re students, alumni or Homecoming football games are supporters, all at one venue. The often quite entertaining to watch.

I’ve been fortunate enough to Queen’s pipe band plays in the background after the team scores, take part in numerous exciting students in tricolour regalia fill the Homecoming games throughout stands — at least, for the first half my football career, from Queen’s of the game — and engineering victory over Western in its students storm the field at unofficial 2012 Homecoming to halftime to thump their jackets on the last-second victory over Laurier Richardson field. It’s a unique and, in 2013.

To the coaches and supporters admittedly, a rather odd sight to of Queen’s football, Homecoming witness for first-timers.

Homecoming is a significant is an opportunity to greet familiar event to many different groups faces and a time to showcase the of people. As a member of the hard work that so many people Gaels football team since 2012, I devote to the program.

Perhaps most significantly, can attest to the significance of Homecoming for the players on Homecoming is an important the team and, more broadly, for the event for Queen’s alumni. It’s especially uplifting when you Queen’s football community.

For the members of the team, witness alumni, football affiliated a diverse group hailing from big and otherwise, return to their alma

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mater and relive the experiences of future Homecoming celebrations their recent — or not so recent — at Queen’s. past. You can feel the excitement in The new and highly-anticipated the air when people of all ages revisit stadium, in addition to providing a university that changed their lives, a more comfortable viewing visit old friends, roommates and experience and allow Queen’s teammates and wear their Queen’s to join the rest of the football jackets with pride. community across the country with Whether you’re part of a refurbished stadium and turf field. the football community or As Richardson Stadium is slowly not, Homecoming is a time of dismantled, the many years and celebration that everyone can enjoy. memories of an era gone by, a part It allows Queen’s affiliates, old and of me, and I’m sure many others, young, to introduce themselves will miss it. Despite its run-down and chat over a beer (or several) stands and shabby appearance, and appreciate the good fortune Richardson has a certain they’ve had to be a part of such a charm to it, which contributes tightly-knit and storied university. to the unique experience at Those who attended this year’s Queen’s Homecoming. game witnessed an historic event: It’s my hope that, along with the last Homecoming football a new stadium, Homecoming game played at Richardson celebrations at Queen’s will also Stadium in its current state — a be rejuvenated and its unique time-honoured, if decrepit, emblem traditions preserved. of Queen’s football tradition.

It’s an exciting time for the Dillon Wamsley is the varsity university, and the stadium’s football team’s kicker and punter revitalization could have and a fourth-year History major and important implications for Political Studies minor.

Talking heads ... around campus

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Should some Halloween costumes be off-limits?

“There should be boundaries around sensitive topics.”

“I think Halloween’s a time when things should be taken lightly.”

“Boundaries in some places yes, in others, no.”

“As long as you’re reasonable and not unseemly or rude.”

Suzanne Breen, ConEd ’18

Meagan Norris, ArtSci ’17

Calum Mortimer, Sci ’16

Austin Wild, ArtSci ’19

LETTER TO THE EDITOR The new government has some real work to do, but so do we.

The Liberals have made the incredible promise to renew the relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples. As Machiavelli insinuated, campaign promises are made to be broken, and repairing Canada’s history of cultural and socioeconomic discrimination against our Aboriginal population is a tall order.

But in the face of all the gleeful negativity on our new government’s ability to pull through on their promises, I’m going to be optimistic. I believe that the Liberal government is approaching Aboriginal reconciliation in the right way.

I respect the Liberal’s aboriginal policy for two reasons: recognizing the need for a framework of collaboration between federal

government and Aboriginal leaders, Aboriginal women is a crucial and the focus on improving public action in federal policy, which the awareness. The Liberals are Liberals understand. But when proposing institutional changes, but many Canadians experience their proposed Public Education uncertainty about the politically program is making Aboriginal correct terminology to use, and reconciliation our responsibility outright ignorance about our too. This way, fostering equality shared past and present, Liberals is not left in the hands of are right to make public education the government. part of their policy. Sweeping this Ordering an immediate inquiry dirty situation out from under the into missing and murdered proverbial rug is a crucial first step

in reconciliation.

This gives me hope, but we can’t wait for education to be handed to us. If we support the initiative of the Liberal government, individual involvement is required. Canada’s relationship with Aboriginal people is built on individual relationships just as much as it is federal policy.

Debrah Zemanek, ArtSci ’16

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ARTS

CONCERT

Arkells take Homecoming by storm Hamilton band puts on an unforgettable show despite heavy rain L auren L uchenski Assistant Arts Editor Arkells felt right at home at Queen’s Homecoming.

The AMS held its second annual ReUnion Street Festival on Saturday night, which brought food, music and dancing to students and alumni on Union St. This year, the AMS hosted Hamilton rock-band Arkells for an unforgettable performance at the festival. The band performed at a large stage set up in the parking lot next to the Kinesiology and Heath Studies building.

Their energetic show featured a lineup of upbeat singles from their most recent album, High Noon.

Arkells opened the show with “Come to Light”, an upbeat sing along anthem, and closed with “Leather Jacket” — a song the band said was appropriate to play at Queen’s due to the signature faculty leather jackets sported by students and alumni.

The band has experienced explosive success after releasing their first EP in 2008. Since then, they’ve released three albums and received three Juno Awards. But Arkells remain humble.

“We’ve definitely been spoiled with the way things have been going for us,” Arkells’ lead singer and guitarist Max Kerman said.

Kerman said the band enjoys playing for students, and it felt like a natural fit to play a concert in a university setting.

“When we get asked to do these we’re pretty excited about it. And Queen’s is a legendary homecoming. I’ve never been to one,” Kerman said. “I love college towns. I love being around campus.

I think that it keeps us young.”

Kerman added that he recognizes how much students and student organizers appreciate their shows. From the first song to the last, the crowd of 10,000 students and alumni jumped and threw their fists in the air to the sounds of hard-hitting drumbeats.

Hundreds of people screamed and

sang along to the band’s lyrics.

The crowd also showed their dedication to Arkells from the start when many of them sang along to Arkells first-ever single from their 2008 album, Jackson Square, “Oh, the Boss is Coming!”.

During the performance, Kerman told the audience that he remembers playing the song during the band’s first Queen’s show at Clark Hall Pub in 2009.

He said he feels lucky to have fans that connect to all their songs — not just the singles.

“It’s a measure of people being invested in the band,” Kerman said. “We’re lucky that we can play a bunch of songs, especially non -single songs, and people still sing along to them.”

It’s unsurprising that so many students adore Arkells’ music, given that the band’s youth and experiences at school inspired many of their songs.

Their 2008 song “Pullin’ Punches”, for example, mentions Kingston in the lyrics. Kerman said the song is about something students know too well — taking a four-hour Greyhound bus ride home from school.

Kerman also told the crowd that the song “Book Club” was a tribute to Canadian summers, and to conversations had with friends while driving in a parent’s car.

Arkells’ performance was almost cinematic, complete with pouring rain, Queen’s-tailored lyrics and

“I love being around campus. I think it keeps us young.”

— Max Kerman, Arkells lead

singer and guitarist

song dedications. To top it all off, the band began performing their single “11:11” at exactly 11:11 p.m.

The band gave an unexpected shout-out to the Queen’s Women’s

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Purview artist talks at Modern Fuel Defining art through human experience J ustine L ittle -T rent Contributor The Purview artist talks offered Kingston artists a think-tank

setting for to share new ideas and criticism on their projects and future endeavours.

During the talks, Kingston artists Tara Lynn MacDougall

Arkells on stage during their performance at the ReUnion Street Festival.

Arkells lead singer Max Kerman on stage.

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Hockey Team, who won a game against Nippissing early in the day.

They also invited Riley Morris, Sci ’14, on sta`ge during their cover of Michael Jackson’s song, “Black or White”, to perform a rap in the song. Morris, who flawlessly rapped Jackson’s lyrics, was met with a roaring applause.

On Oct. 22, Arkells sent out a tweet asking if there was anyone who knew the rap to Jackson’s song. When Morris replied saying he did, the band asked him to send a video as proof.

“When you cover Michael

Jackson’s Black or White, you have to nail the rap verse. We put out a call on Twitter, and Riley from Queen’s U delivered,” the band posted on their Facebook page along with the video of Morris’ performance.

Kerman said he relishes creating moments that are meaningful for fans.

“I love those kinds of things.

That’s the fun of being in this band,” Kerman said. “That’s a memory that I’ll have forever that not a lot of people get to have.”

Arkells graduated from

McMaster with the ambition to pursue their music, but Kerman said he never thought the band would garner so much recognition.

“We started the band in school and never really assumed that we would get this far. We started to see how far we could take it, and knew that we would have to get real jobs eventually.”

Even now, Kerman said, their success seems surreal.

“We’re still waiting for the phone call saying: ‘Go get a real job, you lazy assholes’.”

and Andrew Rabyniuk spoke to an audience of artists from the Kingston community about their recent projects in painting, sculpture and performance art. The event was held at Modern Fuel Artist Cooperative and Gallery on Oct. 27.

The talks, organized by Modern Fuel’s artistic director Kevin Rodgers, aimed to generate conversation within the Kingston artist community. Since his

emergence on the arts scene in 2013, Rodgers has worked to stimulate the program by focusing on broad themes and questions about what it means to be an emerging artist.

“It is a place for artists who might not be comfortable speaking about their work to give it a try — to learn and just talk about what concerns them working in the city,” Rodgers said.

“What I do is pair a couple

of artists each time who might complement one another or who might contrast, in the hopes that some discussion might emerge.”

Tara Lynn MacDougall opened the evening. She began her talk with a print from her series entitled “Home is Where the Art is”, a series that documents the progression of human history, family life and its place within history. Using a collection of documents left See Artists, page 15

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THEATRE

Staging human vulnerability A powerfully provoking adaptation of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis A bbey L ee H allett Contributor As audience members entered the Reading Room with seat numbers in hand, I felt I was mentally prepared for Sarah Kane’s inevitably intense 4.48 Psychosis. I was wildly mistaken.

As a member of the audience, my seat was one of many fragments of Sarah’s mind. While initially appearing randomized, the jagged seating arrangement transformed into a representation of complex networks of the brain. Paired with the rising and falling of sinister sounds, the audience was forced to the center of Sarah Kane’s depression.

“We had a big brainstorming session about how we could give the audience the experience of being inside someone’s head,” director and Commonplace Theatre founder Chantel Martin said. “We decided that if we throw

[the audience] everywhere and actually surround them … they could feel like they were part of the world that we created.”

The world of the play became all the more spellbinding as actors Kennedy Wilson and Zach Closs emerged as two aspects of Sarah’s consciousness.

Although the two parts of Sarah’s mind understood each other’s pain, they continued to torment each other.

As one aspect grasped a brief glimmer of hope, the other snuffed it out. Closs and Wilson demonstrated a breathtaking display of the ways depression destroys self-support.

Kennedy Wilson succeeded in the difficult task of conveying simultaneous hope and hopelessness. As she fought with her demons of depression, while trying to “remember the light” — as she says throughout — Wilson created the pinnacle of

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Superstitions make for diverse stories Students tell Halloween tales at Viva Voce

S ydney U rbanek Contributor Dozens of students turned out to share spooky stories and dress up at Tuesday’s Viva Voce coffeehouse event “Superstitions.”

The Viva Voce program, held at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL) in partnership with theatre company Blue Canoe Theatrical Productions, is a coffeehouse-style evening of storytelling featuring youth in the Kingston community.

Viva Voce — a Latin phrase that translates to “with living voice” — provides an outlet for young

Storyteller Jessica Rossiter, ArtSci ‘17, at “Superstitions”.

people to take part in the historically and cross-culturally significant practice of oral tradition and hear stories from youth across Kingston.

The event was organized by co-curators Melissa Prince and Stephanie McColm, both ArtSci ’17.

In the spirit of Halloween, the venue was decorated with pumpkins, fake skulls and a smoke machine. Many of the organizers and storytellers wore costumes to celebrate Halloween.

The theme drew in a diverse set of stories – some were personal and others were fictional, but all somehow related to myths

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Zach Closs in Commonplace Theatre’s production of 4.48 Psychosis.

human vulnerability.

Zach Closs was fantastically unpredictable, eliciting compassion from the audience even as his character experienced extreme bouts of rage. His character’s twisted physique served as a powerful demonstration of the depression’s impact: the pain of the illness atop the sting of judgment from those with sound minds.

As Sarah’s doctor, Shalon Webber-Heffernan constantly veered from a role as a cold-cut clinician to compassionate character and back again. and superstitions.

Performers told tales about ghosts, spirits, luck and voodoo, eliciting laughter and even tears during more emotional stories.

Viva Voce storytellers are allowed to tell their stories in whichever fashion they prefer — whether it’s through spoken word, song, dance or otherwise.

They may also read their stories, rather than memorizing them, if it makes them more comfortable.

“They’re at liberty to perform whichever way they want, and that relieves some of the pressure,” McColm said. She said Viva Voce is a safe space to try your hand at performing in front of a crowd.

Jessica Rossiter, ArtSci ’17, was one of the storytellers of the night.

“It was really exciting, and slightly terrifying,” Rossiter said.

Despite her fears, her tale about hauntings in her childhood home kept the crowd laughing from start to finish.

“Though I am a wimp, I love spooky stories,” she said.

Rossiter was dressed as Elsa from Disney’s animated film Frozen.

Turnout was impressive, considering the event took place during a busy time for Queen’s students.

“We were nervous, but everyone pulled through and we had a great crowd,” Prince said. She added that they “appreciate the storytellers’ commitment” to Viva Voce during fall midterms.

The next Viva Voce event, titled “Stars”, takes place on Dec. 2 at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library.

Webber-Heffernan projected a caring, empathetic demeanour, even while her character told Sarah to take responsibility for her self-harm. The intention was clear: caring for those with mental illness isn’t the same as knowing how to react in the face of it.

A sharp lighting scheme made the show even more powerful.

Designed by Kevin Tanner, the sequence turned on a dime from faint flickers of the mind into the bright, harsh light of Sarah’s reality.

“That was really neat to us … sort of like these synapses going off in Sarah’s brain,” Martin said,

adding that the lighting put the audience at the centre of Sarah’s tortured thoughts. “Which is uncomfortable, when people are that close!”

4.48 Psychosis was a challenge: a challenge to watch, and a challenge to walk away from.

Hopefully, the impact of this unique show will encourage even more confrontational theatre from student directors. Judging from 4.48 Psychosis, it’s clear that commonplace theatre provokes rather than placates.

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Feminist paintings critique current politics Artist Margaret Sutherland’s exhibition at Studio 22 depicts frustration with political landscape V ishmaaya J eyamoorthy Copy Editor Who would paint a nude portrait of Stephen Harper? Kingston artist Margaret Sutherland would.

Sutherland is best known for her portrait of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Emperor Haute Couture, which shows Harper reclining on a sofa nude with a dog, surrounded by faceless men in suits.

One woman in the portrait hands him what looks like a Tim Hortons cup on a silver platter.

The artist does a lot more than paint naked leaders however, as evidenced by her new gallery show, Roller Derby, Politics and Other Blood Sports. The show, hosted at Studio 22, opens Oct. 27.

The exhibition features oil paintings such as Peace, a portrait depicting Prime Minister-delegate Justin Trudeau, NDP leader Tom Mulcair, and Stephen Harper fighting as Parliament burned down around them. Sutherland said the massive response to Emperor Haute Couture had been unexpected.

“When you hit a nerve it’s both gratifying, but it cuts both ways. You’re suddenly being

Sutherland’s oil painting Peace.

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disheartening to look at.”

According to Sutherland, Peace was an attempt to portray her disillusionment. “[The election] was just about a power struggle,” she said.

Despite that, Sutherland said she’s “cautiously optimistic” about incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The exhibition also featured portraits of women in roller derby. Sutherland, an outspoken feminist, said she “was really attracted to it [because] of the athleticism”.

“It also had a very feminine side, and it sort of made me think ‘this is a new feminism because they’re kind of sexy; they’re definitely feminine; they have all of these suggestive names; this is a really good combination.’”

One of her portraits, Annie, shows a blonde woman on a roller derby track.

“You have a woman who’s a referee, but she’s also wearing a tutu and fishnet stockings ... but they’re also very athletic and there’s a lot of strategy involved.

It’s beautiful and graceful.”

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noticed and scrutinized,” she said.

“You don’t always get the best response, which is probably a good thing because they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but it means you’re actually stating something important.”

The portrait was meant to show her “fear and apprehension” about the direction that Canadian politics had headed, she said.

Sutherland has always painted portraits, but they weren’t always so politically charged.

“The original portraiture was just trying to learn my craft,” she said. “I’d always been a bit political but I was just painting what I was interested in. It wasn’t a conscious decision.”

She said she feels politics in Canada were becoming “polarized”. “[During] the last election, all you were getting were these sound bites that were not about substantive issues, [because] they were getting their [voter] base out,” she said.

“The difficult, complex issues were pushed aside and you ended up with ‘the niqab’.

It was frighteningly shallow. It’s

Rabyniuk created a two-piece, large-scale sculpture entitled, “Edging” and “Boundary” respectively. Both parts of the sculpture are composed entirely of ripped, crumpled paper.

The intent of this work was to explore texture as an aspect of social experience, Rabyniuk said.

The two sculptures “Edging” and “Boundary” occupy the majority of the gallery space, which restricts the available circulation space for the spectators. In this way, Rabyniuk says his work considers how objects inhabit space and the effects of limiting available space within the gallery.

“What I was trying to do was

behind by her deceased father, MacDougall mapped his personal history to draw attention to family lineage and human existence within Canadian social history.

“This project was based on my interest in documenting an aspect of someone’s life, and my fascination with celebrity culture,” MacDougall said. “That if you die young [like my father] you sometimes become more famous.”

MacDougall also presented another series titled “Same as it Never Was”. The research-based project unites both her experiences as an autoworker with her experiences as an artist.

During the project, MacDougall asked current and former autoworkers to rewrite one of Chrysler’s marketing slogans on sheets of paper to demonstrate the ways in which context alters the meaning of language.

“Removed from their slick marketing aesthetics, the slogans become vague and open to broad interpretations,” her personal website states.

The second speaker of the evening was Queen’s Masters student Andrew Rabyniuk. Andrew, who specializes in Cultural Studies, addressed several of the art projects he has been working on over the past few years.

One of Rabyniuk’s early works included in the exhibition, “Material Correspondence: Circulation,” focused on human interaction and its effects on the environment. For this project, Artist Andrew Rabyniuk during the talk.

limit the amount of circulation space that was available to people to walk in the gallery,” Rabyniuk said.

Rabyniuk also spoke about a series of small sculptures focused on knotting. Most recently, he embarked on a surveying project called “Site Survey”, which uses land surveyors’ tape to install knot sculptures in abandoned lots around Kingston.

He said the project is meant to consider ways in which space can be measured using units of time. This also reclaims abandoned space in Kingston by incorporating artwork into spaces that are often overlooked, he said.

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SPORTS MEN’S SOCCER

Emphatic win first step in playoff run Queen’s enters second round with two early goals A dam L askaris Sports Editor

“It’s definitely not ideal, but we had a good game plan going in.”

Queen’s travels to Toronto this weekend On a cold Wednesday afternoon, the men’s to take on the second-ranked Varsity Blues soccer team scored two goals 15 minutes into for a single elimination quarterfinal.

“It’s a cliché, we all say it, but it’s a whole the game’s kickoff, granting them a spot in new season in the playoffs,” Abernathy said. the OUA quarterfinals.

The Gaels prevailed 2-1 with a victory in “Every team can win on any given day. the first round of the playoffs over the UOIT There’s a really good atmosphere within Ridgebacks. The goals were scored by Chris the team — we’re just taking it one game at a time.”

Wellsman and Sam Abernathy.

The Gaels lost 3-0 at home earlier in “We knew with the conditions, we were going to be able to go at them in a much more the season against Toronto, but came away direct way,” third-year defender Abernathy with a 2-1 victory on the road against said of the Gaels’ early goals. “We were able the Varsity Blues.

“We’re a very offensive-minded team,” to go right at them right off the bat.”

However, he gave the Ridgebacks credit Abernathy said, as the Gaels finished sixth in the OUA with 29 goals on the season. “We for their ability to fight back.

“They were very fast and powerful,” know the goals will come, and we’re looking Abernathy said. “They gave us a lot of to break them down at all times.”

In the other OUA East quarterfinals, problems at the back.”

For goaltender Taylor Reynolds, this Carleton will take on Ryerson, while York hosts Guelph and Windsor hosts McMaster After defeating UOIT 2-1, the Gaels will battle the University of Toronto PHOTO BY STEPHANIE NIJUIS meant he made five saves in the victory.

After the Gaels took a 2-0 lead, on the West division side. The victors of these for the final spot in the OUA final four.

Ridgebacks midfielder Erik Petrovic put his four match-ups will meet next weekend for the OUA Final Four tournament to be hosted team within one goal in the 26th minute.

“The rest of the game, as we knew it by the highest remaining West Division side. WOMEN’S SOCCER The Gaels will be looking to avenge a was going to be, was just a battle, back and forth. There were a couple chances for both quarterfinal loss from last season against the same Varsity Blues team. teams,” Abernathy said.

“It’s definitely a really good motivator,” Queen’s came into the playoff game fresh off a win and a draw on Homecoming Abernathy said. “I don’t think anyone that weekend with Nipissing and Laurentian. was there last year is going to forget it very The four points the Gaels picked up on the easily. One thing that’s very important is that weekend propelled them into the third place we don’t let our emotions get the better of spot, with Rohan Sarna leading the team us. We know how low we were after that loss, and we know how high we can be if with a goal in each game.

“We had Monday off from practicing, we show how we can play, and get the win meaning we only had one full practice before this weekend.”

During the match, the team clinched a J oshua F inkelstein the game on Wednesday,” Abernathy said. post-season berth with a 3-1 victory in Staff Writer blustery conditions. Less than 24 hours later, Women’s soccer reached the OUA the Gaels followed that victory with a 0-0 quarterfinals this Wednesday night following draw to the Laurentian Voyageurs, in which a dramatic overtime victory over the they didn’t allow a single shot against. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues. The tie increased their point streak to eight games Gaels left Varsity Field triumphant, owing heading into the playoffs.

Speaking before the match on Wednesday their success to Tara Bartram’s extraordinary winner in the 115th minute — the only goal night, midfielder Laura Callender, the game-winning goal scorer in Queen’s of the match.

The 1-0 victory extends the team’s point playoff-clinching victory on Saturday afternoon, spoke about the importance of the streak to nine straight games.

Queen’s and U of T both ended the team’s point streak heading into the playoffs.

“We have gained a lot of confidence,” season with 28 points, with home advantage being awarded to U of T due to their very she said. “Going undefeated and allowing only a few goals has been encouraging.” slight edge in the standings tiebreaker.

Callender also discussed the improvements The Gaels will need to keep their streak alive for one more game in order to qualify in the team as a whole, from their slow start for the OUA Final Four. They play another in the first half of the season, up to the end of knockout match this Sunday afternoon in the incredibly successful past eight matches.

“We have honed our team defending,” their quarterfinal match against Laurentian she said. “This has contributed to our in Sudbury.

The extreme parity of the teams was improvement in playing more as a visible throughout, neither side being able connected unit.”

Callender added that the next step to to gain any ground on their opponent. The only separation between the teams would overall success for them in the playoffs would come with just five minutes remaining before simply be scoring more goals.

“For us … the last piece will be being penalties, when midfielder Tara Bartram squared up a bouncing ball off a throw-in, decisive in the final third of the field and and half-volleyed it over the outstretched finishing our chances often, because we know arm of the Varsity Blues keeper into the during the playoffs it’s a defensive battle.”

“We may only get a few opportunities, top-left corner.

Bartram’s brilliant effort couldn’t be so when we do, we need to make it count,” matched, as the Gaels closed out the final she added.

Knowing that all of the work from the five minutes of their stunning victory and past two months had led up to that one eliminated U of T from the OUA playoffs.

Prior to the triumph in Toronto, the game, and hopefully further into the playoffs, Gaels enjoyed a hectic five days, beginning Callender said her team’s desires are clear.

PHOTO BY with their Homecoming match against “We are hungry to keep our undefeated After winning 1-0 in extra time, the women’s soccer team will face off against MITCHELL GLEASON the Nipissing Lakers Saturday afternoon. streak going.” the Laurentian Voyageurs in the quarterfinals of the OUA playoffs.

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FOOTBALL

Rematch with Ravens Playoff match-up set for Saturday at 1 p.m.

A dam L askaris Sports Editor Coming off an uninspired 49-26 Homecoming loss to the Laurier Golden Hawks, the Queen’s Gaels football team is looking to rebound this week with their first round home playoff match-up against the Carleton Ravens.

“We lost our momentum, we lost control for a bit,” Gaels receiver Doug Corby said on Saturday following the loss.

“It’s tough. The offence gave up 14 points,” he said in reference to the Golden Hawks’ two defensive touchdowns.

The defeat to end the regular season and put the Gaels at a 5-3 record. The loss left a sour taste in many of the players’ mouths.

“It added fuel to the fire,” defensive end Luke Ball said. “It upset a lot of the boys. It’s good to get that out of the way, and we’ve got to keep moving forward.”

But for Saturday’s match-up, defensive back Frederic Kinkead knows the Gaels must look past their previous missteps if they want do well.

“The entire year, we’ve had our ups and downs,” he said. “It’s important to come out strong against Carleton, a team we’ve played before. We’ve played them three times in our past 10 games going back to last season, so we know them really well.”

Carleton comes in with the same 5-3 record as Queen’s, having dropped a contest to the Gaels 34-24 in the season opener. Kinkead knows a quick start will be imperative to a strong performance.

“We’ve had success this year, especially defensively, we’ve come out strong and shut them down early,” he said. “The coaches have put out a great game plan for us. We just have to go out there and execute.”

Head coach Pat Sheahan is working to

strategize against a familiar foe and beat them for the third time in as many tries over the past two seasons.

“At this point, there’s not too many secrets,” he said. “You can see different patterns transpire throughout the season and take advantage of certain things that are happening.”

Sheahan noted the teams will have similar game plans. He pointed to Ryan Bechmanis, PHOTO BY the Ravens’ defensive coordinator and a Quarterback Nate Hobbs (#5) lost one fumble and threw three interceptions MITCHELL GLEASON former player and coach for Queen’s, as in the Gaels Homecoming loss to the Laurier Golden Hawks. having influence from his days as a Gael.

“It’s going to be an interesting chess match. Our guys are going to need to be physical. Of course, there are some calculated risks you have to take because they know you as well,” Sheahan said.

One of the keys to the Gaels defense will be shutting down Ravens running back Jahvari Bennett, who registered 1,008 rushing yards this season, ranked third in the OUA. “You’re not going to shut a kid like that down,” Sheahan said. “But you do have to slow him down a little bit to make sure he doesn’t take over the ball game.”

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WOMEN’S RUGBY

Working for glory on home soil Potential for four games in eight days at OUA and CIS levels J oseph C attana Assistant Sports Editor Starting this weekend, the women’s rugby team are looking to write their names in the history books of Queen’s Athletics.

This Saturday, the Gaels will battle the Western Mustangs in the OUA bronze medal game.

Following that game, the team will spend the week prepping to host the CIS Women’s Rugby Championship — a first in Queen’s history.

While they’re in different divisions of the OUA, the Mustangs are a familiar foe for the Gaels. During a preseason exhibition tournament earlier this year, Queen’s dominated their rivals 73-14.

While most would peg the Gaels as heavy favourites for this match-up, the team remembers last year’s two games against Western.

In their last game of the regular season, the Gaels defeated the Mustangs 50-19. After losing to Guelph in the semi-final, Queen’s was set to play against Western once more for the bronze. But Western’s physical presence was too much for the Gaels to handle, as they lost 22-19. After they won the OUA Championship and finished third at the CIS level in 2013, the Gaels remained without a medal.

For third-year winger Lauren Murray, last year’s defeat won’t

influence this week’s performance.

“We are going to keep [last year’s game] in the back of our mind, but it isn’t our focus,” Murray said.

“Our focus is on what we do and executing our game plan. We are aware that Western is going to come out and battle too, but we are going to play Queen’s rugby.”

Over the course of eight days, the Gaels will potentially play in four games. During the OUA season, teams only play once a week, but this upcoming schedule will be a heavy strain on athletes’ bodies.

“It is obviously going to hurt,” Murray said concerning the finals.

“We are all experienced rugby players. We have been through this before, so when it comes down to it. we are going to be ready for those four games.”

The CIS situation, where three games are played over four days, isn’t ideal for any athlete.

The only teams that have more than a week’s rest prior to the tournament are Lethbridge and Victoria from the Canada West Division. The teams settled their final last week, giving them two weeks off coming into this championship.

In other leagues, the qualifiers from the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) and Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) will be decided on Friday and Saturday respectfully, putting them in a

similar breakless situation as the OUA teams, such as McMaster, Guelph and Queen’s.

For head coach Beth Barz, this system isn’t ideal, and needs a few changes.

“My preference would be to take out the quarterfinal and potentially give a first round bye for the athletes.”

Barz also suggested that the National Championship should be pushed back another week, giving teams from the OUA, AUS and RSEQ another week off. But unfortunately, the CIS is focusing their efforts on hosting men’s and women’s soccer nationals the following weekend.

“We have a contact sport — why are we not taking the extra week?” Barz said.

In an attempt to push for reform, Barz sits on the CIS’s Sport Technical Sub-Committee. The committee’s goal is to discuss how to best seed the teams for the tournament, as well as how to run the championship in the best interest of athletes health.

While Barz knows the system isn’t ideal, she knows her athletes’ previous experience will help them prepare for the upcoming week.

“They have played four or five games in six days. Again, not ideal, but they have done it, which is half the battle.”

While prioritizing the OUA

PHOTO BY STEPHANIE NIJHUIS The Gaels have the potential to win the OUA bronze medal and CIS National Championship, all at home.

bronze medal game and hosting the National Championship is a tall order, Barz has found a way to balance both.

“We didn’t practice [on Monday], we just talked about CIS,” Barz said. “‘Now we’re done, and closing the book on that. The focus right now is all bronze medal.”

Barz’ year of leave from her teaching job at Sydenham High School has allowed her to focus on the event. As this is the first time the school has hosted the women’s rugby national championship, Barz has been in weekly meetings gearing up for the event.

Because teams usually play within their own league, the Gaels

haven’t seen these opponents in a while. To prepare, Barz has watched a lot of game footage, and spoken to coaches across the league, trying to compile scouting reports for the other seven teams.

“We will do a little bit of planning that is specific to opponents, but realistically we have to look over what we are doing; we can’t control their game.”

For Barz, who’s been involved with the program for 18 years, this next week is a special one for women’s rugby at Queen’s.

“It is probably the first and only time that we are going to host it while I’m around.”

“This opportunity is once in a lifetime.”

Rookies provide backbone

Women’s rugby fields six newcomers in starting lineup J oseph C attana Assistant Sports Editor

Kara Gani went from being unsure if she would make the women’s rugby team to being a starter in her first year.

Dominique Rumball (centre) has been a major factor in propelling the women’s rugby team to the OUA bronze medal game.

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For the women’s rugby team, the sidelines are no place for a rookie.

After losing half of the players from last year’s team, the Gaels were forced to rely heavily on first-year players up and down their lineup.

For head coach Beth Barz, the risk has paid off. Currently, the Gaels sit at 5-2 on the year. In the upcoming weekend, the team will play against the Western Mustangs for the OUA bronze medal, and will follow that with hosting the CIS National Championship from Nov. 5 to 8.

“They played big and beyond their years,” Barz said about her first year’s performance against McMaster. “There have been a few times where I have looked around and gone, ‘yeah, that’s pretty good’.”

Coming into the team’s training camp prior to the start of the school year, Barz said most of the first years were not only unsure if they’d get to play this year, but also if they’d even make the team.

In their first regular season game of the year, the team faced off against the McMaster Marauders.

Last year, McMaster was the OUA champion, finishing second at the national championships.

In a sport dominated by upper-year athletes, the Gaels

started five rookies — an uncommon feat in the OUA. By the time the final whistle had gone, the Gaels won 15-14, and earned the number two ranking in the CIS standings.

Barz believes this was just one of many big moments for the first years so far this year.

Prior to coming to Queen’s, the 2015 recruiting class had a lot of rugby experience. Most of them have played on the under18 Ontario women’s rugby team, with some even longlisted to the national team.

First-year fly-half Genevieve Kasa-Vubu — who ’s spent most of her first season on the sidelines due to an injury — spent her September at the 2015 Youth Commonwealth Games for Canada.

Pippi McKay also proved to be a star rookie. She was the lone first-year Queen’s student athlete selected to the Russell Division All-Star team.

Even with all of this experience, Barz said her first years are humble.

That, mixed with a desire to improve, has made this year a lot easier, she said.

“Their rugby IQ is great,” she said. “In terms of decision-making and scenarios, we might have not gotten to it that early on in the year, and they have figured it out.”

While the coaching staff can only do so much to improve athletes, Barz said she’s found that

a lot of the older players have taken the younger players under their wings. With a team filled with perennial OUA and CIS All-Stars like Lauren McEwen, Miranda Seifert and Gillian Pegg, the first years have learned more than most.

“We have had a real will from the upper years to look at the first years and say, ‘Damn, these guys are good.’ They want to do what they can to make sure the rookies perform,” Barz said.

To be successful in a sport like rugby, team cohesion is key. With 15 players on the pitch, it’s important to have everyone on the same page.

To build this team chemistry, first years were paired with their future upper-year teammates during training camp. For two weeks, these student athletes lived and played together.

First-year scrum-half Dominique Rumball said this experience created a special bond with the team.

“Coming into university, they are kind of like your second parents. They are always there for you, and you don’t always get that everywhere.”

Rumball said her experience at Queen’s has been uncommon.

With this in mind, she knows that hard work will help the team finish strong.

“At the end of the day, it comes down to you,” Rumball said. “It See Fantastic Page 19

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Gaels keep streak alive Team yet to suffer regulation loss through six regular season games S ean S utherland Features Editor Women’s hockey eked out an overtime victory in their second contest of the weekend to keep their hot start going.

The Gaels blanked the Laurentian Lady Vees 2-0 on Friday night before storming back to snare a 3-2 overtime win from the Nipissing Lakers the following night. Winger Taryn Pilon proved to be the hero against the Lakers, netting the winning tally 42 seconds into the extra frame.

With the pair of victories, Queen’s moves to 4-0-1-1 on the year and sits one point back of the league-leading Toronto Varsity Blues with 15 points. The Gaels have yet to drop a game in regulation this season.

Netminder Caitlyn Lahonen played a key role in keeping the Gaels atop the standings. The fifth-year turned aside 61 of 63 shots she faced over the two games.

“I want to win,” she said. “I want to play my best to give my team a chance to win.”

Lahonen has yet to allow more than two goals in any game and boasts a .977 save percentage and 0.65 goals against average over six starts.

By stymieing the Laurentian offence, she gave the Gaels offence a chance to shine.

Rookie Katrina Manoukarakis gave Queen’s an early second period lead, netting the first goal in the tricolour uniform. Forward Nadia Larocca increased the lead with 27 seconds left in the period, ripping a power play goal past the Lady Vees goalie.

Manoukarakis continued to light up the scoreboard the next night, opening the scoring with a power play marker in the second period. Nipissing scored twice before the period ended, putting the Gaels in position to come from behind.

Manoukarakis came through in

the clutch, tying the game with less than 30 seconds left in regulation, setting the stage for Pilon’s overtime tally.

Head coach Matt Holmberg pointed to the Gaels penalty kill as an area of improvement on the season. Last season, Queen’s sat last in the OUA in penalty kill percentage. This season, Queen’s has killed off all 18 short-handed situations, half of which came on the weekend.

“I’ve got to say candidly, we were last in the OUA in the PK [penalty kill] last year and then we lost [centres] Shawna Griffin, Fiona Lester and Chelsey Verbeek who were three of our top PKers,” Holmberg said. “We’ve really had a couple players step up — including some rookies — into the PK role.”

The Gaels are in action again this weekend when they travel to take on the Waterloo Warriors and Guelph Gryphons.

Caitlyn Lahonen made 61 of 63 saves last week, extending the Gaels unbeaten streak to six.

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Sports in Brief Men’s hockey sweeps Lakehead on road Last weekend, the men’s hockey team swept the Lakehead Thunderwolves, taking two games from them on the road.

In their first match-up, the Gaels were in tough against the Thunder Bay squad. After falling down 1-0 early, the Gaels began to pick up the pressure, leading to Queen’s forward Eric Ming tying the game at the 12:44 mark of the first period.

In a slow second period, the Gaels would only register eight shots compared to Lakehead’s 12.

This would come back to haunt the them, as the Thunderwolves would capitalize on their opportunities, leading 2-1 going into the game’s last stanza.

After drawing a penalty less than a minute after play resumed, the Gaels went on the attack.

Ming addedd his second of the game during the power play, tying it at two only 2:48 into

the third period.

It would take the Gaels less than 30 seconds to pounce again, as Jordan Coccimiglio would score.

Strong defence down the stretch allowed the Gaels to hold on for the 3-2 win.

On the following night, the Gaels completed the sweep of Lakehead, winning 4-1. Forward Patrick McGillis scored two goals for Queen’s. Forwards Braden Mercier and Shawn Boudreau would add goals of their own, extending the Gaels record to 4-1-0.

Throughout the weekend, goaltender Kevin Bailie remained solid, making 54 saves over the two games.

Currently the Gaels sit fourth in the OUA East, and will spend next weekend on the road against the Carleton Ravens, who are currently third in the division.

The Gaels played the Ravens twice last season, dropping both games.

— Joseph Cattana

After losing their first game of the year, men’s rugby has reeled off six straight wins.

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MEN’S RUGBY

Men’s rugby rolls into final week

Gaels cruise to Homecoming victory A dam L askaris Sports Editor In front of a sizeable Homecoming crowd, men’s rugby eased to an 83-5 victory on Saturday over the University of Toronto Varsity Blues.

“The bench was strong coming on, and we just kept it going for 80 minutes,” head coach Gary Gilks said. “That’s definitely the best U of T team we’ve seen, and they did not give up. They tested us straight to the end.”

Up 38-5 at halftime, Gilks told his players he wanted to keep the performance going for the remainder of the game. The previous week, the Gaels saw themselves up 50-5 over Laurier, yet stumbled in the second half, getting outscored 15-10, for a final score of 60-20.

“It’s not quite night and day from last week,” Gilks said. “But [we] definitely improved in the second half. We talked about it in the dressing room; we talked about it all week that the second 40 had to be strong, and it was.”

Gilks drew attention to a pair of performers on his team who stood out on the high scoring day.

“Kai Lloyd put on a clinic on the wing there for the fans. It’s great because that’s going to build his

confidence,” he said about Lloyd leading the Gaels with five tries.

“Alex Colborne had a great game not just kicking converts but getting around the field, making tackles and executing open plays,” he said, as Colborne added a try of his own.

Gilks thought the team prepared well during the days leading up to the game. “[Watching film] on Monday nights, we set the tempo for the rest of the week,” he said. “We had a great week of training.

They’re great athletes, they know what they wanted to achieve and they went out and did it. It’s probably the best game they’ve put together in a while.”

The Gaels host their final regular season game of the year this Saturday at 1 p.m. at Nixon Field against the McMaster Marauders.

“We don’t necessarily look at the team we’re playing, we just look at what we’ve got to do,” Gilks said. “We’ve got to stick to our structure, try to get the guys on the same page all week.

But honestly, we just need to stay focused and have a great week of training and we’ll be ready for Mac.”

Women’s volleyball drops opener to Ottawa

Fantastic frosh

Last weekend, the Gaels travelled to Ottawa to face off against their OUA East rivals, the Ottawa Gee-Gees.

The Gaels lost all three matches up in their season opener (25-22, 25-14, 25-14).

In the first game, outside hitter Shannon Hopkins recorded a match-high 10 kills alongside 12 total points in the loss. In addition, the fifth-year made few mistakes, as she only committing five errors.

Outside hitter Shannon Neville matched Hopkins’ efforts, picking up seven kills in match one alone.

Next weekend, the team will hope to grab their first win of the year. They have their home opener against Ryerson and Toronto on Friday and Saturday, both at 6 p.m.

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— Joseph Cattana

is a combination of a good group of girls who work hard coming in, and a group of coaches that give you the tools and facilities to succeed.”

Fellow rookie Sadie Stephenson said she was also unsure of what to expect from this year.

“I was pretty nervous,” Stephenson said. “I had high expectations for myself. Once I came in and saw the amount of skill on the team, it really pushed me to work harder to have one of those starting positions.”

After securing a starting position versus McMaster, Stephenson has become one of the Gaels’ most influential players. Through seven games, she’s scored three tries.

To Stephenson, the team’s veterans have been one of the most crucial elements in making the transition from high school to university athletics as smooth

as possible.

“Everyone is so supportive — people are always there for you. The bond that this team has is really unique, and its different than any other team I’ve been on,” Stephenson said.

First-year fly-half Kara Gani echoed her fellow teammates.

“I knew it was definitely going to be a big transition, and it was for sure,” Gani said. “The caliber of rugby was so much higher than anything I have ever experienced before. The veterans were really welcoming for all the rookies, and it was definitely a smooth transition to come into the Queen’s program.”

When asked about the future of the rugby team, Gani knows the team has a lot of potential.

“The future is looking bright.

I’m excited.”

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HOMECOMING

Grandfather & granddaughter reunite for Homecoming John Greenberg and his granddaughter, Dayna Zunder, enjoying Clark Hall Pub’s patio Ritual.

E rika S treisfield Lifestyle Editor

Greenberg sporting his Sci ‘49 jacket bought for him by his family.

Other engineering alumni celebrating Homecoming and Ritual.

Kingston. He returned home to upgrade the Lasalle Causeway.

Looking back on his time at Originally published online Oct. 28 Queen’s, Greenberg said he was always a hardworking student.

“I didn’t party a lot,” Greenberg Sixty-six years following his graduation from Queen’s, John said. “I had a good buddy who was Greenberg, Sci ’49, rejoined really a lot of fun. His name was his family and friends for a Bill and he was a fun guy.”

Bill was the troublemaker Homecoming to remember.

Originally from Ottawa, of their rat pack. According to Greenberg came to Queen’s to Greenberg, he caused quite a study mechanical engineering. ruckus in the streets of Kingston.

“What he used to do was insane,” When he arrived, computers were in their infancy and the Greenberg said.

For Greenberg, Queen’s is like modern ballpoint pen had just a second home, and he’s kept close become widespread.

“Those were interesting times,” ties with the university.

“Queen’s was so liberal in its he said.

After finishing his degree, attitudes, particularly at that time, Greenberg went on to work many and so welcoming,” he said.

Two generations later, his jobs, including a time serving as an inspector for the Royal grandchildren share similar feelings.

Of his 13 grandchildren, three Military College.

In 1951, Greenberg moved attended Queen’s.

Dayna Zunder, Sci’18, followed back to Ottawa and opened The Mastercraft Group of Companies, in her grandfather’s footsteps as a an investment developer Queen’s engineering and applied group that built thousands of science student.

Zunder said having her homes, apartment buildings and grandfather back at Queen’s has condominiums across Canada.

But in the midst of all his success, been a special experience. There’s Greenberg never lost touch with nothing quite like sharing beers

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with your soon-to-be 90-year-old grandfather at Ritual, a Queen’s engineering tradition on Fridays at Clark Hall Pub. “I’m geological [engineering] 2018. I’ll graduate 69 years after him. Hopefully, he’ll be the one to swear me in at the Iron Ring ceremony,” Zunder said.

According to Greenberg’s daughter, Karen Zunder, when Greenberg returned to campus last year with his Sci ’49 jacket, he had “rock-star status”.

“He was stopped numerous times by well-wishers. Even when we went out for dinner, I watched people stare and point as we took our seats at our table,” she said.

Greenberg’s story inspires students like me to take advantage of the time we have here. Soon, we’ll be alumni returning to campus to reminisce about our glory days here at school.

“My experience at Queen’s was great. I loved it. When I look back, it was probably a turning point in my life,” Greenberg said. “I have some very warm feelings about Queen’s.”

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ALCOHOL

Cheers to healthier drinking How to enjoy the perks of university without damaging your body C aela F enton Staff Writer

label. Those that do are often the lighter versions of beer or spirits.

Though the U.S. has begun to With the peak drinking season introduce nutrition labeling on upon us — Homecoming and alcoholic beverages, Canada is still Halloween are a week apart — our lagging behind.

In this case, ignorance isn’t livers aren’t in the best condition.

But, it doesn’t have to be bliss. A rum and coke (2 oz and 12 oz) contains around the same that way.

There’s this amazing thing number of calories as a blueberry called “balance”, which we muffin, a piña colada equals out to students should look for in our a piece of chocolate cake and some academic and social lives. It allows frozen margarita mixes are the you to engage in awesome things, equivalent of a full cheeseburger. like having an alcoholic drink or You know the dreaded freshman 15 two, without feeling like a sloth the that everyone blames on cafeteria food? More often than not, it’s next morning.

Be smarter when you drink alcohol related.

If you’re looking for with the following guide to lower-calorie booze options, stick healthier boozing. with clear spirits like vodka or gin, mixed with club soda. You can Be responsible for your also turn your glass of wine into own alcohol a spritzer to dilute the mounting This doesn’t mean just bringing calorie count. your own booze if the party is Eat smart beforehand BYOB. Being responsible for your own alcohol means knowing how much you can handle. The best You may have read the above thing is to have a plan, before you paragraph and gone, “shoot, I’ll start drinking, of how much you’re just eat less before I go out to going to consume. Then, take only make sure I’m not over-consuming calories!” — but this is not a good take that much with you. idea. The simple carbohydrates of cocktails will lead you to spike Know the nutrition and then crash, making you more Currently, very few alcoholic ravenous than ever. Also, as I hope beverages come with a nutrition we all know at this point, you’re

much more likely to get sick if you drink on an empty stomach.

Stay hydrated For every alcoholic drink you consume, have a glass of water in between. To be honest, once it’s in a red cup, no one knows what it is anyways. Staying hydrated while consuming alcohol is the number one way to prevent a next-day hangover.

Only time sobers you up Contrary to popular belief, having a coffee, taking a cold shower or eating carbs doesn’t make you sober up faster. Only time allows alcohol to work itself out of your system. If you have a friend who’s getting too tipsy, switch them to water and let their buzz wear off.

Ladies, don’t try to keep up with the guys.

Even if a girl and a guy weigh the same amount and the girl has a high alcohol tolerance, she’s still more likely to get drunk faster when drinking the same amount.

This is because men have a think it’s time to switch to water. higher percentage of water within You would want them to do the their bodies, as well as higher same for you. It’s never a good levels of the enzyme alcohol idea to leave a drink unattended, dehydrogenase, which leads to so this way you also have a go-to increased metabolization of alcohol. person to hand yours to while you hit the bathroom.

Take care of yourself the Opting out is always okay morning after Make your go-to morning breakfast scrambled eggs and a banana. Eggs contain taurine, which has been shown to help reverse the damage alcohol does to your liver. Bananas contain potassium that helps you replenish your electrolyte stores.

If you’re feeling nauseous, try ginger tea. It’s a renowned natural treatment for upset stomachs and has been proven to reduce inflammation — a leading cause of hangover symptoms.

The definition of being social isn’t being drunk. If you don’t feel like drinking on a particular night, that’s totally cool. If your friends make you believe otherwise, it may be time to re-evaluate the type of friend they are. Don’t do anything you don’t want to do. Moreover, don’t give into peer pressure. It’s your body after all.

Stick together Even if you go to a party with a group of friends, partner up so you each have one person you know you’re keeping an eye on. Don’t be afraid to tell your friend that you

On nights out, choose your alcohol wisely and avoid mixing liquors.

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HEALTH

Fill up that menstrual cup A nisa R awhani Editor in Chief

Taking it out a tunnel that leads to your cervix.

Your cervix is where blood is You want to empty and wash your dispensed from.

Here’s the thing, while every menstrual cup at least twice a day.

I got my period on the fourth Now, removing your cup may of July when I was 11. Happy vagina has these parts, everyone is Independence Day to my uterus, different. It’s important before you be tricky the first few times. You try the cup that you understand usually can’t just pull out a cup, I guess.

Since then, I’ve spent hundreds your own shape and where your because it’s most likely suctioned to your cervix. of dollars on pads, panty liners and cervix lies.

On the one hand, suction is The easiest way to do this is tampons. I accepted these costs as to feel around. Inside your vagina good because it means things are an unquestionable obligation.

That was until this summer, you’ll feel a protruding nub or sealed up nicely and there’s no when there was a movement cylinder. This is your cervix, where leakage. But suction also means against the taxation of menstrual the blood comes from, and this is if you tug on the cup to remove it, you’ll likely feel as if you’re products in Canada. While talks of where you want your cup to be. giving birth. abolishing the tax were underway, After you’ve washed your hands, In she goes more and more women were pinch the base of the cup to release talking about something called the Because menstrual cups are made some of that suction. While holding menstrual cup.

A menstrual cup is essentially a of silicone, they’re relatively your pinch, slowly wiggle the cup bell-shaped blood catcher, made flexible. The basic process of using back and forth and slide it out.

As the cup slowly comes out, of a medical grade silicone, that’s a cup is: folding it up, sliding it worn inside the vagina during those inside and then, if you’re done you want to pinch higher and special days. Many eco websites your job properly, it unfolds and higher along the cup towards the rim, eventually making it into a claim that one cup could last 10 collects blood.

You fold the cup because the rim “C-fold”. Throughout this process The menstrual cup will need to be folded to insert years. The basic idea is you fill it you want to tilt the rim of the cup the vagina. up with menstrual blood, and then is too wide for a vagina.

There are a number of ways to towards your spine, rather than you pour it out.

At first, the idea of it all grossed fold a cup, the most common of forward toward your urethrae, which is the “C-fold”, which I’m which is the sweet spot for pain. me out.

While this description was But between the cost of tampons, personally not a fan of.

A common alternative to the somewhat long and complex, the environmental concerns and the very real threat of Toxic Shock “C-fold” is the “punch-down fold”. process takes less than a minute Syndrome — which caused model With this fold you use a finger and just takes a little bit of practice.

Lauren Wasser to lose a leg and to push the cup’s rim down into Before you even know it, you’ll be a professional Diva Cup wearer. nearly her life — I figured it was the cup.

A quick Google search can Say goodbye to costly tampons, worth a shot and I bought myself a provide you with a number of and an arsenal of pads and toxic DivaCup from Shoppers. different folds. If one doesn’t work shock syndrome. In the end, a I’m so glad I did.

The cup is straight up for you, try another. You’ll soon menstrual cup is honestly worth it. revolutionary, and I suggest you find the right one. buy one. But before you do, there are a few important things to know.

Get to know your vagina

During a conversation about the menstrual cup, my friend said she was worried it would just fill with pee. This is impossible, but since sex ed was a while ago — and was frankly often lacking — now’s a good time to quickly refresh ourselves on the female anatomy.

My fellow uterus-havers, you’ve got two holes — well, actually three, but we’re not talking about your butt right now. Your first hole is your urethra, which is where you pee from. The second hole is your vagina, which is essentially

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CAMPUS COOKING

A wicked treat K iera L iblik Staff Writer We all have that friend who shows up to a potluck with an extravagantly decorated masterpiece that puts your Pillsbury Halloween cookies to shame.

With the spookiest and sweetest holiday of the year just around the corner, it’s time you swap that pre-made Pillsbury cookie dough for a wicked new treat, the Nutella fudge brownie with a Halloween twist.

These brownies require only three ingredients, one of them being Nutella. There’s literally no way to do the recipe wrong — short of eating all of the batter before you can put it in the oven.

Heads-up: this batter includes eggs so stick to spooning Nutella out of the jar. These brownies are chewy and the chocolate glaze used to decorate them with spider-webs add that festive touch.

Ingredients: Brownies: 1 cup of Nutella 2 large eggs ¾ cups of all-purpose flour Icing: 11 oz bag of semisweet chocolate chips 1/8 cup of whipping cream 1/2 cup of white icing

Instructions: Brownies: 1. Preheat oven to 340 degrees 2. Mix brownie ingredients together in a bowl 3. Pour into 8x8 cake pan or muffin tin 4. Bake for 30 minutes in the cake pan or 20 in the muffin tin or until edges are brown Icing: 1. After letting your brownies cool for 15 to 20 minutes cut them into small squares Glaze the brownies with a mixture of whip cream and chocolate chips or circles 2. Melt whipping cream and chocolate chips in the microwave 20 seconds at a time, stirring the mixture every 20 seconds until smooth 3. Glaze the brownies with the whip cream mixture 4. Put ½ cup of the white icing in a bowl and microwave for 10 seconds and stir 5. Put the white icing in corner of a Ziploc bag and cut off the corner 6. Draw a spiral on your brownie 7. With a sharp-tipped knife draw lines from the center of your brownie to the edges to resemble a spider web Enjoy!

Add that festive touch with white icing and a sharp-tipped knife.

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LIFESTYLE

Friday, October 30, 2015

PHOTO BY ANNA LI MARIA

POSTSCRIPT

Are you afraid of the dark?

Some fears take a turn for the unusual K ailun Z hang Assistant Lifestyle Editor Growing up, I thought I was crazy.

I used to believe the squirmy feeling I frequently got was a brain glitch caused by a loose wire in my head. Sometimes when I’d try to fall asleep as a kid, I’d make out images of it in the colours and shapes of my closed eyes. I couldn’t describe exactly what I was imagining, but it made me feel uncomfortable and nauseous.

I was in middle school when I realized I wasn’t nuts. Before that, I hadn’t really tried to explain my weird tick to anyone, because it sounded absurd. Basically, I was afraid of things that featured a pattern of multiple holes in close proximity to each other. It wasn’t until a friend and I bonded in eighth grade over how horrifying a honeycomb looked that I did further research and learned that, as weird of a fear as it was, I wasn’t alone. In fact, it even had a name — tripophobia.

Phobias are defined by the Canadian Psychological Association as an excessive or persistent fear of a situation or object.

While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) provides an official, medically-recognized list of them, it’s not exhaustive of all possible fears. Tripophobia, for example, isn’t recognized in the DSM, but thousands of people reportedly experience it. Aside

from my friend, I’ve discovered seem, can still trigger feelings of skin is something that makes her more squeamish than most. that my sister and housemate also unreasonable dread.

“It’s not like I can’t touch paper Often, these feelings are so find the holey images and objects strong that people don’t even but it’s just, once I start thinking extremely discomforting.

People tend to be afraid of have to directly face their fears to about it, then it freaks me out a many things. Some fears seem experience the trepidation — just little bit,” Lin said.

The paper-inflicted wound isn’t quite intuitive, like fear of heights, thinking about it can be enough.

For Sandler, the anxiety from the end of her fears either. needles or the dark. Even my fear “I just don’t like sharp things in of patterned holes is something her phobia stuck with her even in general,” she explained. “I think it that at least partially stems from the strangest of places.

“I remember being little,” might be because when I was really, how it visually reminds me of disease. However, fears also often Sandler said. “I was on the top really little, I got this giant splinter come from personal experiences, bunk of a bunk bed and I remember and I had to go to the hospital.”

Lin remarked that while she which give rise to more lying there — I don’t know if I dreamt this or I just thought of it. realizes it’s a small fear, when abnormal phobias.

Gabi Sandler, ArtSci ’17, I was like, what if I turn right now people start waving paper around developed an unusual fear after and there’s just an ostrich standing at her upon learning about it, she “usually [has] to leave the room.” coming face-to-face with an ostrich right there.”

Another student, Sharon Hui, Sandler ended up having to during an annual family trip to South Africa. When she was five or switch to the bottom bunk after ArtSci ’18, has a fear of buttons.

“The bigger they are and six, the tall bird stuck its head into psyching herself out with the idea. her family vehicle during a visit to She uses a similar avoidance tactic the uglier they are, the more when she’s visits South Africa uncomfortable I get,” she said. a game reserve.

Hui isn’t sure where or why it “You can imagine when you’re every year.

“I’ve gotta sit next to someone. started, but the mere thought of a little kid, that’s really scary,” she said. “I instantly became scared of Someone’s gotta hold my hand,” the small brooches is enough to make her shudder. it — petrified. The fact that I can she said.

“I can [stand buttons] say the word ostrich if they’re like, small now is a big step for and clear. But I have to me. I used to not say “I remember being little ... I was like, barely look at them or the word. Probably what if I turn right now and there’s just touch them.” until I was like 15 an ostrich standing right there.”

For people who or 16, I would call it don’t experience them, the o-word.” an unusual phobia can The interesting part of phobias is how — Gabi Sandler seem extremely bizarre.

Strange fears have been seemingly irrational featured in television they can be. Spiders, Amanda Lin, ArtSci ’18, has an shows like The Maury Povich Show, for example, aren’t as harmful as as well as Fear Factor. people make them out to be, but odd fret as well.

There’s an opportunity for Lin wouldn’t quite agree with arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias out there. A fear, the phrase “it’s just a papercut” as entertainment in forcing people to no matter how nonsensical it may the small, but painful, nick of the face what frightens them, it seems.

A quick search of the phobia segment of Maury on YouTube produces numerous clips, such as a woman with a fear of cotton being chased around by a tall figure completely covered in a fleecy layer of cotton balls.

Hui, too, has had her fair share of playful taunting.

“I remember my friend … put a button inside one of my [birthday] presents. And I was like, traumatized for the next couple of

“[M]y friend ... put a button inside one of my [birthday] presents ... I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t want to cry in front of her.”

— Sharon Hui hours. I didn’t know what to do,” she said. “I didn’t want to cry in front of her.”

She stays lighthearted, though.

When asked about whether her ideal choice of clothing fastener is something more like a zipper, Hui laughs.

“Yeah, or Velcro.”

So whether it’s creepy crawlies or clusters of holes, your fear may not be as crazy as it makes you feel.

And hey — you’re probably not alone in it either.

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