The Queen's Journal, Volume 144, Issue 18

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Exception made for Lockridge prior to final Assembly decision

Secretariat Martinez explains unprecedented process for constitution change Victoria Gibson News Editor For AMS Secretariat Miguel Martinez, an unprecedented decision in AMS Assembly was preceded weeks in advance, by a conversation behind office doors. For him, the decision came down to the placement of a comma.

On Jan. 19 in AMS Assembly, a second reading was passed to allow a change to AMS Constitution validating the Speaker of Assembly to run for AMS Executive in the upcoming election. The discussion around the eligibility of current Speaker, Palmer Lockridge, at the last Assembly on Dec. 1 mostly centered around the 2013 split of the Speaker and Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) role.

“When you look at the constitution itself, all the positions that are restricted are separated by a comma however the CEO and the Speaker were separated by a slash,” Martinez said.

However, the decision was not an impersonal conversation of policy.

The Dec. 1 assembly was dominated by heated debate over whether the decision was internally influenced. Every precedent set See Policy on page 3

A motion to dissolve Commission of Environmental Affairs was passed during AMS Assembly on Jan. 19

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AMS executive disband Commission on Environmental Affairs PHOTO BY JULIA BALAKRISHNAN

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A motion to dissolve the Commission of Environmental Affairs was passed during AMS Assembly on Jan. 19.

In a 41-page agenda released before Assembly, one paragraph was included in Vice President (University Affairs) Carolyn Thompson’s report, noting the sudden dissolution of the Commission of Environmental Affairs (CEA).

The news, which came along with a 9-page plan, was a surprise to anyone who wasn’t involved in the team of planners and executives consulted within the AMS, namely many students currently working in the CEA’s many sub-groups.

When The Journal attempted to contact CEA Commissioner Liam Dowling — whose position will be dissolved once he leaves office on May 1 — AMS Communications responded that Dowling was unable to comment, as he was currently taking a leave of absence from his position to run unopposed for President of the Concurrent Education Students Association (CESA).

Dowling’s report to Assembly, where the

motion to dissolve the commission will be voted on, included his regular updates on upcoming CEA events, but no mention of the disbanding of his commission.

In lieu of Dowling, AMS Communications offered a conversation with the Executive team in explanation.

“What we’re going to be doing is distributing the elements of the CEA in to different pockets of the AMS,” VP Thompson explained on Wednesday evening.

A common issue Vice President (Operations) Dave Walker, President Tyler Lively and herself had seen in the CEA was a lack of collaboration. Ideas related to sustainability were often siloed into one office.

“What the goal is, is to strengthen the AMS’s commitment to sustainability throughout the AMS,” she said.

While some of the groups within the CEA that were previously listed as AMS clubs will return to that status, other committees like student housing consultant Greenovations will become part of the Municipal Affairs Commission starting next academic year, if the motion passes at Assembly.

Explaining the decision-making process

behind the move, AMS President Tyler Lively was frank.

“I think what happened there was an example of us trying to put too many things under one roof,” he said. “Where we’re trying to run services, do advocacy, education, outreach, and make the AMS more sustainable, and we’ve got all these things under one commission.”

With the proposed format, the groups advocating for sustainability within the AMS will be able to advocate from directly within various commissions as opposed to acting as their own group.

“For the past couple years, people have been noting that the commission hasn’t been living up to expectations,” Lively said. “But I think they haven’t wanted to tackle the issue because it can become an emotional issue at times. I think we’ll see that with this change, but I think we’ve got a plan and we’re going to keep pushing that.”

The AMS Executive were in agreement that despite the change, they haven’t heard a lot of direct concerns with what they deemed to be their “comprehensive plan” for the future of the CEA. While the agenda and See Voices on page 4

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AMS website infected with virus Queen’s ups cyber security while student government site cleansed of Ukrainian hack

The AMS website displayed a potential hacking warning most of Wednesday and Thursday.

Victoria Gibson News Editor

Dr. Allison Sherman in Venice, where she directs the art history summer school for Queen’s.

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Professor diagnosed with breast cancer seeks specialized treatment Students, friends and family of Allison Sherman contribute to GiveForward campaign Morgan Dodson Assistant News Editor In the 19 months since her dear friend Allison — known to Queen’s Art History department as Professor Sherman — was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer, Jill Weinreich has rallied the Queen’s community together through a Giveforward platform, to fund Sherman’s fight for her life.

Sherman was a Queen’s BAH, Queen’s MA and then an SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, who stayed on afterwards as a full-time Adjunct Professor, Director of the Venice Summer School and Chair of the Graduate Program — all in the Department of Art History.

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Adjuncts aren’t paid the same as full-time members of faculty. They are actually paid far less.

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— Jill Weinreich

“Being ill is expensive,” Weinreich said.

“Adjuncts aren’t paid the same as full-time members of faculty,” Weinreich said.

“They’re actually paid far less.” Sherman also doesn’t have access to health insurance through Queen’s, according to Weinreich.

The GiveForward page, which was established when Sherman was diagnosed in 2015, posted a new update last week.

“I am opening this fundraiser again to let you know that our brave and strong Allie is facing the most important fight of her life with the recurrence of the tumors in her liver,” Weinreich wrote on Jan. 11.

When all treatment options in Canada had been exhausted by Sherman’s medical team, they consulted with “a variety of experts,” Weinreich wrote, to settle on a hospital in Germany offering new options to fight metastatic breast cancer.

Sherman will be spending over six months oversees undergoing treatment.

“The entire cost for this treatment must be paid for out of pocket and the cost is staggering,” Weinreich wrote.

In the days following, the post gained traction within the department, with the Art History Department Student Council pledging their support and promising further updates on financial support for Sherman’s treatment.

“The wonderful thing about a fundraiser like this, is that every donation makes a huge difference,” Weinreich told The Journal. “No donation is too small and every penny raised goes to helping Allie cover her treatment bills.”

Currently over $45,000 has been raised online, with donations coming in from recognisable names within the Queen’s art community, like Fine Art Undergraduate Chair, Rebecca Anweiler.

According to Weinreich, many of Sherman’s students have also reached out and donated, which she sees as a testament to Sherman’s thoughtful teaching — for which she’s been nominated for both the Frank Knox and Charles Baillie awards for excellence at Queen’s.

“She is the most selfless person I have ever known and one of the kindest, most open-hearted, and most generous human beings to ever walk this planet.”

Weinreich said.

“She is one of my most cherished treasures, a friend I love deeply and someone whose presence in my life continues to make me a better person each day.”

Although Weinreich is running the fundraiser, she credits every person who has donated, sent a message of support or shared the link to the fundraiser as “just as involved.”

While Sherman continues her treatment in Europe, Weinreich plans to continually update the fundraising page. “If the tables were reversed for anyone in her life, she would be out there doing just what I am doing now.”

On Jan. 18, an anonymous hack originating in the Ukraine was successful in infecting virus information into the AMS website, at myams.org.

The hack was confirmed by AMS Director of Information and Technology Michael Judd during a phone call with The Journal on Thursday afternoon.

“They were successful in, not getting onto the site, but putting something into the site,” Judd explained. While he often gets notifications from their security system that a hacking attempt was made, all the other attempts he’s aware of have been unsuccessful prior to Wednesday.

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They were successful in, not getting onto the site, but putting something into the site.

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— Michael Judd, AMS Director Information and Technology

“I don’t think it was any kind of personal attack,” he added. “I think it was some kind of hacker that just infects websites with whatever they can.”

The AMS website was the sole platform affected, as their internal information servers are hosted separately by Queen’s.

The website has its own security plan through the AMS’s content management system, meaning any information saved onto the student government servers remained protected.

Judd believes the intended outcome of the hack was to place a link of sorts on the AMS site, which would re-locate users

to another page with the capacity to steal user information.

“Nothing too harmful for the average user, but just kind of annoying to have on a website,” he said. “We’ve hired someone to fix it and hopefully it will be all clean and ready for, hopefully, today ... I guess I’ll get a

Concerns about cyber “ security are mounting across

the country, and like other institutions, Queen’s is taking steps to mitigate risks.

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— Bo Wandshneider, Chief Information Officer

report soon.”

After the hack was noted, the AMS site underwent a backup, which would have re-directed users to a Wordpress page during a window of time on Wednesday afternoon.

Queen’s own servers, which host the AMS documents and information that remained unaffected by the hack, have been upping their cyber security this week.

On Jan. 16, an email was sent out to the university community from Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice-Principal (Information Technology Services) Bo Wandschneider.

“Concerns about cybersecurity are mounting across the country, and like other institutions, Queen’s is taking steps to mitigate risks,” it read.

“Effective today, all Queen’s students and employees will be required to update their NetID password annually.”

Individuals failing to change their password within the allotted timeframe will be locked out of their accounts, needing to change the password to regain access with a delay of up to 30 minutes.

News in Brief

Queen’s Senate vacancies posted On Jan. 16, an email was sent out to the Queen’s student body from the office of the Associate Secretary of the University, outlining new vacancies on Senate committees.

While some positions are reserved for faculty and staff, other positions are available for students in groups such as the Advisory Research Committee and the Orientation Activities Review Board.

The application deadline for all positions listed on the vacancies page is Feb. 13 2017.

The terms are often two years in length and would begin at the start of the next academic year.

Any students interested in applying for a Senate committee position can access the vacancies page at http://www.queensu.ca/ secretariat/senate/committees/committeevacancies-apply-now or e-mail senate@ queensu.ca with questions.

— Victoria Gibson

CORRECTIONS

“Advocacy starts young,” published Jan. 13, 2017 A statistic that 12/15 of the author’s classmates graduated high school was incorrect. 12/15 didn’t graduate.

“Graphic: Elections” published Jan. 13, 2017 The Undergraduate Student Trustee debate is on Jan. 26 and the AMS Executive debate is on Jan. 24. The dates were switched in the

graphic published.

“Video: Queen’s Journal Student Election Coverage,” published Jan. 17, 2017 Student fees don’t go towards funding retail services like TAPS and Common Ground. The AMS fee goes towards funding programming in AMS commissions, and service-specific fees only.

The Journal regrets the errors.

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SGPS to forgo signing of non-academic misconduct agency agreement According to society VP, records of past cases were “patchwork job, poorly taken or didn’t exist”

Morgan Dodson Assistant News Editor After pushing off signing an agency agreement — which would allow the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) to execute their jurisdiction over non-academic misconduct cases — in favour of an internal review, the society has decided to forgo signing for the foreseeable future.

Vice President (Finance and Services) Stuart Clark was responsible for conducting the review, for which a report has yet to be publicly released. On Thursday, Clark spoke with The Journal to discuss his findings about the society in its finance, staffing and decision making.

In terms of non-academic misconduct, he began by requesting information.

“We asked our staff to go back and pull records for the number of cases or the number of incidents,” Clark said. “A lot of the records

were either a patchwork job, badly taken, or didn’t exist.”

The SGPS had been slated to sign the agreement at the start of this academic year, but elected to conduct their review first, as the society had only handled an estimated five cases in 10 years.

lot of the records “ A were either a

patchwork job, badly taken, or didn’t exist.

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— Stuart Clark, SGPS Vice President (Finance and Services)

When making the final decision, Clark said “we needed a firm answer of what this burden would look like on an SGPS system.”

With no ability to determine a clear answer, the SGPS decided to forgo signing their agency agreement for the remainder of the year, with

no clear intention to sign in the future.

The agency agreement would have allowed the SGPS to implement and execute their jurisdiction over non-academic misconduct cases involving SGPS members.

Non-academic misconduct aside, the goal of the review as a whole was to investigate the different wings of the SGPS from its permanent staff, to commissioners, to financial decision making.

“My role has really been to see, how does the SGPS come to make certain decisions when it’s spending an amount of money or [hiring] certain people? And see if we can tighten up, improve, and write down a lot of these processes,” Clark said.

Clark emphasised that the SGPS doesn’t have the same level of institutional memory as the AMS, meaning any decision involves much more research. One of the most important issues that needed to be addressed was to

understand how money was being spent within the SGPS. “The great thing we were able to do with this is actually create an executive proposal document, which is kind of like a spreadsheet almost where you fill out the different components of who’s asking for money and the item,” Clark said.

Clark explained that this will help individuals to justify their spending and for their successors to be able to look back at past financial reports.

To find the answers to some of his questions, the Executive had to sit down together and discuss what the SGPS does well and what they do poorly.

“One of the most important things we can do as student

government officials is to critically evaluate how we come to decisions and also have an honest eye for what the organization needs to improve at,” he said.

Many of the Executive, he added, have no prior experience with student government. Many felt they didn’t have the opportunity to learn coming into their position.

“We came from a huge and diverse set of backgrounds and experience levels when it came to managing student government,” Clark said.

The project was given to him to build “knowledge spaces” that allow the Executive to make better decisions in the future.

“I looked into decisions, made it more accountable, and forced people to write stuff down,” he said in summary.

Policy manual disregarded for Lockridge executive bid Continued from front

by Assembly meant that changes to any aspect of an AMS role would only come into effect in the following hiring period.

For Lockridge, the precedent was put aside and the motion passed. Some of the individuals who voted in favour of Lockridge’s eligibility have since emerged as members of his campaign team, as he bids for AMS Executive with Team JPB — with outgoing undergraduate student trustee Jennifer Li and outgoing ASUS Vice President Brian MacKay. “To my understanding and to my knowledge, most of his campaign team wasn’t established until after that [Dec. 1] Assembly,” Martinez said. “At that time, most of the members of Assembly who may or may not be helping Palmer’s campaign didn’t know whether they’d be helping.”

The trio has been collecting signatures for the last week, which were due on Jan. 18.

Their ability to collect a nomination package alone violates a section of AMS Policy Manual 1. The CRO is mandated under the Eligibility clause to ensure the eligibility of anyone who picks up the package, which Martinez says was disregarded for Lockridge.

“It definitely was not ignored,” he said. “The Chief Electoral Officer made a ruling on the first day back, January 9, which was tentative. His ruling was to allow Palmer to go through the nomination period and the ruling was tentative on the final reading being approved.”

Martinez revealed that Lockridge had requested special

permission from himself and the AMS CEO to do so. The two sat down with the rest of the AMS elections team — which is the group of students responsible for dictating and enforcing the rules of AMS elections — then sought advice from the current AMS Executive.

“The conversations that they had with us behind closed doors was more me getting the approval from them to get the final approval of our interpretation of policy. Mainly mine,” Martinez said.

The conversations “that they had with

us behind closed doors was more me getting the approval from them to get the final approval of our interpretation of policy.

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— Miguel Martinez, AMS Secretariat

“[AMS President] Tyler Lively has had the position of Chief Returning Officer and several positions in the AMS. I can probably say he knows policy more than anyone in the AMS.” In public, though, the Executive team has been mum on the issue.

They’ve elected not to vote or comment at either Assembly on their stance regarding Lockridge or his bid for Executive.

The malleability of policy came to light again during the second reading, when Assembly initially failed to reach quorum.

Martinez was prepared to move forward under a precedent called the “Speaker’s Ruling,” set down by Sam Anderson, current Student Life Centre Managing Director, during his time as Speaker in 2015-16. The rule dictates that decisions can be made even without quorum in special circumstances.

The day the rule was established in March 2016, the rulings of Assembly were allowed to be ratified at a later date. On Thursday, the first vote was done Palmer Lockridge, current AMS Speaker. with the presence of proxies, and came out unanimous with the current Executive team abstaining from the vote.

Even member-at-large Alexander Prescott, who was the most verbal proponent against Lockridge’s eligibility in the Dec. 1 Assembly, voted in favour of the constitutional change.

As for the proxies, though, Martinez said their votes don’t actually count for much.

“Although they do vote, just to more symbolically represent the actual vote itself, their votes at the end of the day don’t really count,” he said.

Latecomers to Assembly brought the count to a valid quorum number, allowing the motions to be passed at the end in one fell swoop.

Though Martinez maintains that a negative vote would’ve rendered Lockridge ineligible regardless of his completed nomination package, Team JBP is now officially eligible to proceed.

Assembly members cast their votes on Jan. 19.

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INNOVATION

Queen’s unveils renewed nano-tech labratory NanoFabrication Kingston adds new equipment, hopes to attract wider range of users Iain Sherriff-Scott Staff Writer A short drive north of campus, Queen’s Innovation Park houses facilities for research and development. On Jan. 19, in a media-focused tour, they revealed a revamp and rebrand for their nano-technology lab.

The lab originally dates back to 2015, when Innovation Park partnered with CMC Microsystems.

The facility provides a space for students to access the necessary equipment to create the tiniest tech around.

“What we want to emphasize with the rebrand is that we’re not just a lab, we do research, we are

The tiny technology involves big equipment.

Prototype technology developed at CMC. PHOTOS BY IAIN SHERRIFF-SCOTT

Researchers lead members of the media around the revamped lab space.

developing and discovering new things,” Associate Professor Rob Knobel explained during the tour.

“But we are also here to help the community to make and characterize new devices.”

Standing in front of the roughly $8-million lab, Knobel explained that the facility has many functions. “Technologies like computer chips, lasers and airbag sensors all rely on fabrication and characterization in labs like this,” he said.

A wide variety of devices, from smartphones to cameras, use technology developed in nano-fabrication labs similar to the one here in Kingston, he added.

“This is a resource to Kingston

and Eastern Ontario, it’s the only facility like this for a couple hundred kilometres that’s open to anyone,” Knobel said. “There’s expertise here, the people you see around you can help people get up to speed and realize their innovations and devices.”

One of those people is Graham Gibson, a CMC employee and the operations manager at NanoFabrication Kingston. Gibson oversees daily operations in the facility, but is also there to train, oversee and coordinate usage of the lab.

“With our new deposition tool, you can deposit less than a nano-meter of material on a

Voices raised in AMS Assembly proper steps have been taken. “If we wanted to get rid of one of the plan were distributed to The those mandates, stop providing Journal upon request, they weren’t these services or environmental posted on the AMS website as of education, then definitely we Thursday afternoon. would be going to students, talking “One of the concerns that people to them about that, but this is a have brought up is around case of doing those things better,” consultation,” Lively said. While he said. students had voiced issue with At Thursday night’s busy the lack of consultation, he noted Assembly meeting, the proposal that the move won’t change was met with some questions and what the AMS is doing. It would debate regarding the logistics of simply restructure the way those the project, but overall support of responsibilities are fulfilled, the motion was passed with only a he said. handful of representatives voting Diana Yoon, former deputy of in opposition. student engagement for the CEA The most vocal denouncing and current co-chair of Queen’s of this proposal came from Backing Action on Climate Change, a group of students seated in is disappointed in how LWT the gallery. While some were handled the dissolution. able to voice their concerns “This motion seems to be throughout the discussion on rushed through to meet a the motion, the proxy Speaker timeline for the next hiring eventually implemented a oneperiod, instead of genuinely minute cap on questions and understanding environmental commentary directed towards the sustainability or consulting with AMS Executive. the students who care about This proved difficult for one environmentalism on this campus,” student, who continued to speak she said. after he was told his time had “The senior volunteers of expired. Voices were raised on the CEA were not informed or both sides as the proxy Speaker aware of this decision until the attempted to gain control of start of the winter term this the situation.

January, the other volunteers did After a lengthy discussion not hear until last week. If the on the topic, the motion was process was thought-out and called to question and with researched carefully, it should hands still raised by members of have taken several months.” the gallery, the motion was voted Lively, however, believes the on by members of Assembly.

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After this, the troupe of students assembled at the back of the room immediately gathered their things and exited Wallace Hall without waiting for the rest of assembly to adjourn.

Among those quickly leaving the premises after the vote was cast was current CEA Commissioner Liam Dowling.

Due to Dowling’s current leave of absence from his position, he was unable to speak with The Journal after the meeting had ended.

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Commissioner of Environmental Affairs Liam Dowling outside of AMS Assembly, after the vote.

surface,” Gibson said. “To the point where there will be atoms of metal that aren’t completely joined together yet, creating almost a single layer. From there you can make it as thick as 50 micro-meters.”

To put those measurements in perspective, Gibson explained that a single hair is about 100 micro-meters thick.

All three new pieces of equipment, including the deposition tool, were installed this fall, as the lab approached its rebranding. The new equipment was purchased with a $1-million grant, given to Queen’s for researchers working on devices that’ll help with medical diagnostics.

Knobel has worked closely with CMC and Queen’s for decades, explaining that CMC grew

out of the electrical engineering department at Queen’s in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

“What CMC did at the time was put together a consortium of university researchers from across Canada. It has grown and now CMC is the premier not-for-profit corporation that works between government, university researchers and corporations to further micro research,” he said.

The lab is primarily used by graduate students, however both Knobel and Gibson expressed their hope that the facility would be used by a wider range of individuals and start-up companies in the future.

“CMC’s job is to help ideas be successful, to encourage spin-offs and help companies create jobs and prosperity for Canada,” Knobel said.

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IN-DEPTH STORIES FROM AROUND CAMPUS AND IN THE COMMUNITY

Agnes Etherington — born Richardson — and her brothers “George and James Richardson, each left an indelible mark on

Queen’s. The three siblings could easily stake a claim as Queen’s ‘first family’, but the legacy they left expanded further.

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HISTORY

The ‘first family’ of Queen’s

Three siblings who built a school’s cultural and athletic legacy Sean Sutherland Staff Writer

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et’s take a walk around campus.

We’ll start at Richardson Stadium, the football stadium over on West Campus.

From there, walk east towards main campus.

Take a right when you reach University Ave. and you’ll soon find Richardson Hall, an imposing stone building that’s home to the principal’s office and most of Queen’s administration.

Keep heading south until you reach the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the final stop on the walk and the on-campus art gallery.

Three buildings, each playing different roles in diverse aspects of Queen’s culture.

Three buildings named for three siblings, all members of what’s easily the most influential family in the University’s history.

Agnes Etherington — born Richardson — and her brothers George and James Richardson, each left an indelible mark on Queen’s. The three siblings could easily stake a claim as Queen’s ‘first family’, but the legacy they left expands further.

The Richardson family’s wealth originated with the siblings’ grandfather, an Irish immigrant to Canada in the 1820s who made his fortune in the grain trade. The family remains one of Canada’s wealthiest and the connection between them and Queen’s continues to this day.

In April of 2014, the Richardson Foundation donated $5 million towards the revitalization of Richardson Stadium, the latest in a long history of donations to the school. While other donors have given larger gifts to the school, none have the historical relationship the Richardson family has.

“The Richardsons have been connected with Queen’s for three, nearly four generations now, so that’s a wonderful affiliation between them and the University,” said University Historian, Duncan McDowall.

It all starts with James, Agnes and George, three siblings who were more than just the scions of a Kingston businessman and more than just plaques and donations to Queen’s.

George was an athlete, a solider and a beloved man on Queen’s campus. Agnes was a patron of the arts, while James succeeded

in business and administration. All three left separate stories that help tell the tale of their family’s history with the University.

George Richardson was the youngest of the three children, born 13 months after James. While he left his name on the school’s football stadium, he was also famous for his skills on the ice.

brother’s memory. The stadium is now in its third iteration, but still bears the name it did 96 years ago.

What the stadium represents Queen’s athletic side, the gift from George’s sister can be said to hold the same level of reverence in the artistic community.

Agnes Etherington was a patron of

an athlete, a solider and a beloved man on Queen’s “ George was campus. Agnes was a patron of the arts, while James succeeded in business and administration.

All three left separate stories that help tell the tale of their family’s history with the University.

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In stories about him, George was known for his sportsmanship. In one anecdote, according to Queen’s Encyclopedia, the only penalty he ever received was mistakenly awarded, nevertheless George accepted it, along with an apology later from the embarrassed referee. “[He was] a big guy on the gridiron,” McDowall said of George. “You see the pictures of him and he looks like Rupert Brooke.”

A science student, he graduated in 1909.

In 1906, the Queen’s men’s hockey team challenged the Ottawa Silver Seven for the Stanley Cup. While his team was trounced in the two-game series, Richardson — a left winger on the squad — was among the few Queen’s players to receive praise.

With the advent of World War I, Richardson enlisted, serving as lieutenant and later a captain. On February 9, 1916, while serving in Belgium, he was shot three times. According to his official death certificate, the bullets broke both his hips, and left him with a wound in his abdomen.

George Richardson died at the age of 29.

A few days later, The Journal’s front page featured the news of his death, stating that “no man at college was so widely known and so thoroughly liked.”

From George’s death came one of the family’s first major gifts to the school. In 1920, James Richardson donated $50,000 to build a football stadium named in his

the arts throughout her life and upon her death in 1954, the house she lived in on University Avenue was donated to the school. In 1957, it opened as the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. “[The Richardsons] have a cultural vision for Queen’s,” McDowall said. “They don’t want it to just be a school, they want it to be a cultural place.”

Even today, the red brick building she once lived in remains part of the gallery that bears Agnes’ name.

Agnes’ husband, Frederick Etherington, also played a part in the Richardson dynasty at the school, serving as the Dean of Medicine during the 1930s and 1940s and is the namesake of Etherington Hall.

While George left his legacy in sports and Agnes in arts, their older brother’s contribution to Queen’s stands in a legacy of governance and advocacy.

James Richardson became Chancellor in 1929, helping steer Queen’s through the years of the Great Depression. He had an active role in the hiring of Principal Robert Wallace in 1936 — who helped keep Queen’s afloat during the Depression.

According to McDowall, this level of active participation set a standard for future Chancellors, who still chair the committee selecting the school’s principal. A Queen’s graduate himself, James maintained an affinity for the school during his time in charge. According to an anecdote McDowall

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relayed from James’ daughter, Agnes Benidickson, as a child she would often hear her father humming Queen’s songs while shaving.

James remained Chancellor until his death in 1939. After his passing, his widow Muriel, son James, as well as Benidickson all served stints on the school’s Board of Trustees.

Just over 50 years after her father took up the position, Agnes became Queen’s first and only female Chancellor in 1980. She remains the only second-generation Chancellor in the school’s history.

Like her father, Benidickson took an active role in her position, becoming a key advocate for fundraising, according to McDowall. She spearheaded work to restore Summerhill and, in 2010, three years after her death, the University renamed the east wing of the building in her honour.

Like her father before her, Benidickson took great pride in her alma mater. McDowall shared a personal story of running into her when both lived in Ottawa.

it’s safe to say that “noI think other family has been so intimately associated with Queen’s as the Richardsons.

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“I used to play squash at the Westin Hotel and whenever I parked in the garage there was a car there and it had custom plates on it saying ‘Queen’s number one,’” he recalled.

“One day I was coming down and Agnes Benidickson came out and I realized [the car] was Agnes Benidickson’s.”

“I think it’s safe to say that no other family has been so intimately associated with Queen’s as the Richardsons,” McDowall said. “This family has been here all along.

They’re a very significant family here — with deep roots.”

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A comparison between Canadian and American universities invites the bad and the good Comparing Canadian universities schools are on a completely U of T, the school with the highest to America’s Ivy League different playing field than endowment in Canada, hit 1.6 institutions is like comparing Canadian universities — and not billion dollars in 2012 according apples and oranges — it’s an necessarily a better one. Harvard to Maclean’s. Harvard, on the other invalid comparison as well and its Ivy League companions hand, had 31 billion. as unnecessary. have a social elitism attached to Not only is the comparison an When Justin Trudeau stopped them that stretches beyond the invalid one to make, but it may in London, ON last week as part quality of education. not carry the best connotations. of his cross-country tour, he told It’s not always the degree itself Like Queen’s, Harvard made a roomful of Western students that gets Harvard graduates a job recent headlines for their lack of that the school was the “Harvard when they leave — it’s the name. diversity, as well as their prevalent of Canada”. rape culture. Ivy League And while he’s not the universities are often Prime Minister, Principal founded on tradition Daniel Woolf has been In this case, though, American and it seems this same known to set Queen’s to schools are on a completely different value can hold them the same standard. In back with institutions playing field than Canadian a letter leaked in 2011 like often male-only and universities and not necessarily a discussing the University’s highly exclusive final better one. Harvard and its Ivy League clubs. In what sense then reputation, Woolf wrote, companions have a social elitism “the distinctive small-town should we be proud to be attached to them that stretches Ivy League experience like Harvard? beyond the quality of education. of a Queen’s education Canadian universities … should be embraced.” that try to be like elite The tendency to American schools may compare seems natural — we’re And while our system isn’t without carry over more than just the good always comparing what we its own elitism, the significance stuff — we’re associating ourselves have in Canada to its American placed on reputation in the with the negative aspects of these counterpart, from political leaders United States creates a difficulty institutions as well. to healthcare systems, and in accessing these prestigious When we compare Canadian even universities. schools. The result is a hierarchical universities with glorified Ivy In this case, though, American and exclusive system — one that League schools, we shouldn’t maintains the status quo. be blinded to what the name Differences in funding also connotes, but think critically about lessen the ability to make a the role model we’re following. valid comparison.

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Maureen O’Reilly

Seasonal Affective Disorder deserves a separate conversation foolish for letting it affect me.

But talking about SAD with my peers in that grade eleven classroom made me realize that my symptoms were common and easily conquerable.

I’m not alone — as a Canadian university student, I know I’m not the only one who feels this way.

It can be a confusing condition, since conversations surrounding After winter break, as temperatures mental health focus on depression drop and days become shorter, as a constant state — a student students often experience a parallel suffering from SAD may not decline in spirits. Sometimes, it’s understand why their symptoms not just a case of “winter blues” are temporary.

— it’s a form of depression that needs to be addressed by students and professors alike.

I’m not alone — as According to Canada’s Centre a Canadian university for Addiction and Mental student, I know I’m not Health, Seasonal Affective the only one who feel Disorder (SAD) is a form of this way. depression characterized by feelings of hopelessness, lethargy, oversleeping and increases in Moreover, a student coping appetite and weight gain. The with other mental illnesses and onset of SAD is triggered by a stressors may not understand why change in season, most commonly their condition worsens with the in late fall and early winter. arrival of winter.

When I first learned about SAD Starting conversations on in my grade eleven psychology campus, in the classroom and class, the “winter blues” that I’d beyond, can legitimize their experienced every year of my feelings and help them cope. adolescence finally started to If professors were to take a make sense. few minutes to discuss SAD at the For many years, I thought I was beginning of their first winter term being too sensitive, that it was lectures, students could begin to all in my head. How could I be identify symptoms in themselves depressed some months and not and others, which would clear up others? Depression doesn’t work some of the confusion surrounding like that, right? this condition.

With this knowledge, professors can understand that for some For many years, I students, extra encouragement thought I was being too may be required for them to to their usual standard. sensitive, that it was all perform Student leaders and employers in my head. How could need to acknowledge the I be depressed some widespread reach of SAD and offer months and not others? extra support to their peers who are struggling to come into work Depression doesn’t or participate in class. work like that, right?

To anyone grappling with the confusing effects of SAD, winter Without understanding why, feels icier in their minds than I began to feel isolated from my it does outside — and simply friends and unmotivated to do acknowledging this can go a the things I loved, and I couldn’t long way. account for my uncharacteristic behaviour and low energy.

Maureen is one of The Journal’s Years later, the arrival of a frigid Assistant News Editors. She’s a Canadian winter still weighs me third-year English major. down, and sometimes I still feel

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A one-year suspension of your “license is not proportionate to the

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potential harm you can cause while driving under the influence.

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Harsher punishments, safer streets Dissuade young drivers from getting behind the wheel while impaired

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Serious repercussions for driving while intoxicated need to be enforced upon first offence, writes Sonia Chase.

Sonia Chase, ArtSci '17 In September of 2012, I received a phone call I never thought I would get.

My cousin had been in a car accident and was in critical condition. It was one of those experiences where you remember strange details but not anything particularly important.

We learned the details when we met his mother at the hospital. He’d been drinking, but was the passenger and wasn’t wearing a seatbelt while the driver, who was also impaired, was operating the vehicle. It took him months to recover from his injuries whereas the driver left the accident with only minor injuries.

We’ve all grown up with the message that drinking and driving isn’t okay, that it’s dangerous.

We had assemblies in school and Mothers Against Drunk Driving commercials played on TV. Yet, young adults, between the ages of 20-24 have the highest impaired driving rates.

If this proves anything, it’s that real prevention of drunk driving lies in issuing very real punishments when someone makes that potentially lethal decision.

My cousin was 26-years-old and the driver was even younger and only with a G2 license. I’m not intending to assign blame, but he almost took something from my family that we could never get back. My cousin was in the ICU in another country while the driver was at home with his family, physically unharmed.

The driver was speeding down a side street and flipped the vehicle, sending my cousin through the windshield onto the ground metres from the vehicle.

He broke the majority of his ribs, his pelvis and his collarbone. The worst of his injuries, however, was

his heart: he’d torn his aorta.

Upon arriving at the hospital in Windsor, he was transferred to the trauma hospital in Detroit. During he had to be resuscitated in the ambulance.

I remember the phone call and being in the back of the car as we drove down to Windsor in the middle of the night to meet my family at a hospital in Detroit.

Upon arrival in Detroit, he was rushed immediately into open heart surgery to stop the bleeding from his rupture.

The next few months were a very hard for my cousin but he was lucky enough to have made a good recovery and was able to make it back home, something a lot of victims of impaired driving are sadly not able to do.

The driver had a clean driving record, he’d never been charged or convicted of impaired driving before.

According to the Ministry of Transportation Ontario, had no one been harmed in the accident, he would’ve been subject to a mandatory education program, a one-year minimum license suspension, as well as a one-year minimum of driving with an ignition interlock system.

Because there was harm caused, sentencing was up to the discretion of the judge with no minimum requirement and up to a maximum of 10 years in prison.

This form of sentencing is appropriate because the amount of bodily harm caused in different cases can vary so much.

However, for those who’re caught with a DUI and thankfully don’t harm anyone, the punishments aren’t strong enough.

A one-year suspension of your license isn’t proportionate to the potential harm you can cause

while driving under the influence.

Statistics Canada’s 2015 report on impaired driving states that “one in six persons accused in an impaired driving court case in 2014/15 had been previously accused in another impaired driving case during the preceding 10 years.” It’s clear that people are repeatedly offending, signifying that the consequences they receive aren’t strong enough the first time around.

There’s a perception that you won’t get caught or can get away with it with repercussions akin to a slap on the wrist.

I’ve been in situations where after a party I’ve taken away someone’s keys because they believed that their driving capabilities were strong enough to surpass a risk they didn’t deem legitimate.

People aren’t scared of a one-year license suspension.

Mandatory reparations are needed and jail time and/or community service would be more effective than just a license suspension. Especially because the highest rate of offenders are university-aged students it’s important to deter impaired driving at this age so the behaviour doesn’t continue into the future.

If people fear tangible consequences more than moral consequences, we need to make sentencing for impaired driving more impactful for first time offenders. That way we can prevent families from going through the emotional trauma that comes from impaired driving.

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LETTER TO T H E E D I T O R THE ‘TEN-HOUR RULE’ NEEDS TO BE ABOLISHED In the 1990s the Ontario Government sought support from the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies (OCGS) for something called the ‘10-Hour Rule,’ which states that graduate students are not allowed to work more than an average of 10 hours per week on-campus. The OCGS adopted the rule, binding all Ontario universities to comply.

However, in 2014 the government realized their mistake and struck the rule from all their policies, while at the same

time the OCGS reiterated their support for the rule.

The ‘10-Hour Rule’ is archaic and antiquated: tuition is significantly more expensive, rent is noticeably more expensive, food is more expensive, more ancillary fees are levied on students, and real wages have remained stagnant. This rule has placed a hard cap on the in-study earning potential of graduate students and needs to be abolished.

Students should have the right to try and earn as much as they need to pay for their education. The rule was created because of the concern that students who work too

much will fall behind in their studies. While the principle of the policy is a fair one, the practice of the policy is categorically unfair.

The rule attempts to target a very specific subset of students; those who work more than 10 hours a week, fall behind in their studies, and who fall behind specifically because of their work. Despite this, the rule applies to all students, even those willing and able to handle more work hours When a hard ceiling is built over a student’s earning potential they are forced to subvert the system by finding lower paying off-campus opportunities, by taking

out more loans, or by forcing themselves into a lower standard of living, cutting corners on utilities and food.

This week, the OCGS is meeting to debate the ‘10-Hour Rule’ and you have a chance to change their mind. If you believe this rule needs to be rescinded, contact Brenda Brouwer, your Dean, and let her know that universities shouldn’t restrict how much students should be able to earn and that you support having this rule rescinded.

Luke Dotto, Executive Director, Ontario Graduate Students’ Alliance

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REVIEW

There’s life outside of your student home

Queen’s Musical Theatre serves up gags and life lessons in Avenue Q Clayton Tomlinson Staff Writer As I sat across from the mock block of houses representing Avenue Q in Rotunda Theatre, I noticed the numbers on the doors: 64, 66, and 68. The second six in 66 had fallen ever so slightly, and now read 69.

This hilariously on-the-nose metaphor sums up Queen’s Musical Theatre’s (QMT) vivacious, racy and humanistic performance. Avenue Q is a coming-ofage story that addresses and satirizes the anxieties surrounding adulthood. With songs like, ‘Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist’, ‘I’m Not Wearing Underwear Today’ and ‘The Internet is for Porn’ — there’s a little something for everyone.

It’s a sort of adult rendition of Sesame Street, though the similarities end at puppets and being located on a street. Much of the content of Avenue Q deals with the idea that things in life happen for a reason, often to lead us on an unexpected, yet great adventure.

The show opens with Princeton, played

by Bennett Penner, ArtSci ’19, arriving to Avenue Q to rent a room, as he can’t afford any better. A recent university graduate — in English Lit just like this reviewer — he’s

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QMT`s production of Avenue Q packed the punches with racy scenes, and vivacious characters.

AGNES

In the deep mid-winter, the Agnes froze over Agnes launches three new exhibitions Alex Palermo Assistant Arts Editor

Art works from the Agnes’ new contemporary study space.

PHOTO BY AUSTON CHHOR

PHOTOS BY JULIA BALAKRISHNAN

Mann was a stone box of fish skeletons. #4 Hematoma: Violet/Red would suit a cool band name, but the artwork consisted of two massive panels in slightly contrasting shades of brown.

The room also doubles as a study space and is full of comfy-looking couches, however the emptiness of it seemed to be highlighted by the few works of art decorating its space.

My feelings about the new exhibitions saw a minor reprieve when I noticed a Picasso in the back room. Untitled (1956) is a clear display of Pablo Picasso’s repugnance for the accepted artistic standard in 1950s Paris.

The drawing is a childlike depiction of a plant growing from the earth and was a welcome addition to this room that was decorated with anti-anarchist-themed papers framed on the walls and scattered on a table, forming Luis Jacob’s Anarchist Free School Minutes, The hold: studies in the contemporary 1999. Picasso’s painting breathed life into the barren space. collection

Snow, Arthabaska (1919), depicts a snowy landscape inspired by the rural Quebec winters experienced by the artist, Marc-Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote, after his return from Europe. An infrared scan of the painting shows the artist’s first traces and the grid pattern used as a starting point — a hallmark of Suzor-Cote’s work.

A smaller painting, The Farm on the Mountain, Winter (1910), looked to me like the exact same painting but scaled down, three times. The oil on wood painting was used as a study when Suzor-Cote was painting his later work Wet Snow, Arthabaska.

The final work, While Baby Sleeps (1888) stood out to me as a favourite because of its dark, mysterious and peaceful scene of a sleeping mother and child, indoors on a seemingly cold day.

There’s something cold about the Agnes Etherington Art Centre this winter, and it doesn’t have to do with the chilly weather outside.

Upon entering the familiar space on Tuesday morning, I was struck by the stark white walls and the noticeable absence of a From then on, the rooms became less cohesive theme. appealing to me. The next section, an Key Works Unlocked: Peel expansive space with high ceilings, was home to a mismatched group of contemporary and Suzor-Cote sculptures and paintings.

Champs (1993) by Martha Fleming and The saving grace of the new exhibits was the first room, Lyne Lapointe hung suspended from clear Key Works Unlocked: Peel and cables, creating a floating illusion. The Suzor-Cote, which was home hanging window frame, glass included, had to a display that combined a white silhouette painted on one side and chemistry and art. The room various flowers and objects painted on the featured three paintings, all of other. Produced for Les Anciennes Archives which were studied using a type de la Seine exhibition in Paris, the piece was of energy-dispersive X-ray to the most visually interesting in the room. reveal the chemical composition The coloured flowers contrasted sharply of the paints — a technique with the clear glass and the opaque outlined that can be used to date pieces figure. Kudos to the Agnes for their choice of and determine which materials Champs in this room, it set the bar high in terms of visual impact. were used.

That being said, the thing I noticed about The paint chips on display weren’t visible to the human eye The hold was that the majority of the pieces and were suspended on what weren’t visually appealing, but more familiar looked like contact lenses under in shape.

Megaphone (1993), although inspired by a glass casing — lest anyone try the shape of Toronto architecture, to me most to swipe them.

The largest painting, Wet resembled an Ikea cupboard. Tim Whiten’s

Picturing Arctic Modernity: North Baffin Drawings from 1964

The last room I went in was Picturing Arctic Modernity: North Baffin Drawings from 1964, which encompassed a massive collection of drawings gathered by Terry Ryan from the Inuit people of the Baffin Bay communities of Kanngiqtugaapik, Mittimatalik and Ikpiarjuk. The men and women were instructed to draw scenes of their daily lives, memories they had or moments in history. The drawings, all graphite on paper, were beautiful but numerous and frankly indistinguishable from one another. The sheer mass of drawings on display made it impossible to look at every single one with a fresh eye.

While the Agnes season launch seemed to be all over the map in terms of theme — the physical analysis of the winter landscapes slightly redeemed it. Even though I was slightly bored throughout, at least I learned a little chemistry.

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THEATRE REVIEW

A final goodbye to Mata Hari Madeline Wright Contributor On Tuesday night, a crowd gathered at the Isabel Bader Center for Performing Arts to witness the final days of Mata Hari before her execution at the Prison Saint-Lazare in Paris, France. Infamously known as a deceitful femme fatale, Hari tells her story one last time before she’s sent off to her untimely death.

Although the actual event occurred a century ago in 1917, audiences were still able to witness this performance in the musical One Last Night with Mata Hari that opened at the Isabel on Patricia O’Callaghan (left) as Mata Hari and Gregory Oh (right) as Dr. Bazinet.

Jan. 12. putting on a final show for her inmates The cabaret-style stage production by discards them.”

Although many believe they know who where she vows to tell the true story of her Craig Walker reimagines the life of Mata Hari who was infamous for her role as a the real Mata Hari was, One Last Night, tells escapades. She starts from when she was a little girl and discusses the first time she ever double agent in the WWI. Born Margaretha her story like you’ve never seen it before.

The setting is simplistic with only a piano seduced a man, her headmaster.

Zelle, Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer and Hari describes the encounter as both courtesan, who was executed for treason by and chair encompassing the stage. The a French firing squad on suspicion of being backdrop is projected onto a blank wall, with thrilling and shameful, but ultimately she’s the images continuously changing along with drawn to the power she obtained. Little a German spy. did she know that her seduction was what Zelle invented her new persona around the storyline.

Canadian singer Patricia O’Callaghan would lead to her demise. the male fantasies of the Eastern woman.

O’Callaghan is captivating as Hari, able Her racially-ambiguous background allowed plays the role of Hari and effortlessly carries her to borrow from other cultures to create the show throughout, performing the to appropriately tackle the heaviness of her story. She unequivocally embodies both the an alluring new woman whom history majority of the dialogue.

Gregory Oh accompanies O’Callaghan on powerful seductress, but also beautifully remembers as Mata Hari.

Walker describes Hari as a mythological the piano, portraying the role of Dr. Bizard, displays the vulnerability of the character. figure “an exotic, treacherous femme a fictional character who aides in telling her O’Callaghan stunningly portrays Hari as she deals with her abusive husband, the betrayal fatale who seduces men, drains them of life story.

The musical starts with Hari in prison of her lover and the loss of her child. information, then ruthlessly betrays and

While the majority of the songs were equally well done, there were two individual songs that stood out among the rest.

The most riveting scene takes place during ‘You’ll Be My Son’, a song dedicated to her dying child.

The song highlights O’Callaghan’s chilling vocals in a beautiful dedication to her late son. Additionally, the final performance ‘The Passion of Mata Hari’, is a solemn goodbye before she is summoned to her execution.

One Last Night, is an insightful story that SUPPLIED BY TIM FORT allows a more accurate portrayal of the life of Hari. The performance depicts her not only as the destructive, ruthless woman that she’s historically portrayed as, but as a loving, hopeful and ultimately human woman.

Walker’s decision to shed new light on her name created a fascinating tale of a woman trying to figure out the confusion of living during a war. Although she was rightly convicted of treason, you can’t help but feel for the woman who was only trying to live a peaceful life.

The production is captivating in itself, but O’Callaghan’s performance is certainly one to see. It’s hauntingly beautiful, as well as charming and made this audience member wish that perhaps Hari had one more night.

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Exploring the museological narrative

Agnes’ Conversations in Indigenous Art features speakers Natalie Alvarez and Kelsey Wrightson Emily Sanders Contributor It’s hard for people to take interest in, let alone come to terms with their past mistakes.

On Monday night, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre hosted a forum entitled “Contrasting Narratives: Indigenous Histories in the Museum”, the first event of this year in the Agnes’ Conversations in Indigenous Art series that confronts colonial narratives and discourses.

People of all ages gathered to learn about and discuss the objectivity of museums in educating the public on the historical expropriation of Indigenous peoples.

The forum was spearheaded by two speakers who discussed the sensitivity of Indigenous narratives and museums’ role in telling these stories. The first speaker, Natalie Alvarez chronicled her own immersive experience with the First Nation reserve, Shoal Lake 40 through dark tourism.

Alvarez visited the Canadian Museum of Human Rights’ ‘living museum’ at Shoal Lake 40 to witness firsthand the injustices that occurred there. In describing the interactive tour she was taken on, Alvarez engaged the audience in a retelling of how the Indigenous people of Shoal Lake 40 were displaced from their homes for the construction of an aqueduct.

Because of the aqueduct, the residents of Shoal Lake 40 haven’t had access to clean water for close to two decades. The area has since been sequestered due to a diversion canal, situating the Shoal Lake 40 on a man-made island.

Alvarez’s speech drew on a parallel between how the community was isolated physically, and how Indigenous communities

masking the meta-narrative by means of individualized selections of the tour and arbitrary highlighting of different stations,” Alvarez said, during a follow-up period later in the evening.

The next speaker, Kelsey Wrightson weighed the costs of museological learning, outlining the potential limits to the neutrality of the historical narrative within museums.

She discussed the future-oriented focus of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, which she says depicts the Canadian heroism of the present rather than highlighting the Canadian hypocrisy of the past, leaving the country on what she calls an “ethical high note”.

She also expressed the semantic importance of acknowledging these human rights violations as genocide.

“Audiences like feeling smart and hearing stories they already know, they don’t always want to learn something new. Museums aren’t intended to make people feel smart, but to put an onus of responsibility on the spectator,” Wrightson said.

An overarching issue addressed by the forum was how settlers benefit, through intellectual or financial pursuits, off of the subjugation and exploitation of Indigenous communities. Indigenous and human rights museums take on the difficult task of educating sometimes-ignorant settlers about an often tragic history.

The evening provided me, as an outsider, a PHOTO BY AUSTON CHHOR much better understanding of the social and The Agnes’ home to many pieces of Indigenous art. political issues at hand, as well as a greater museums isn’t to advance Canadian interest in the inherent biases of museums. in general are trivialized socially.

An interesting issue Alvarez addressed scholarship or to absolve past sins, but was that of the pseudo-interest and naïve to open up a discourse about our shared empathy expressed by settlers. Alvarez colonial history, Canadian civility and human explained that, despite her own intellectual rights in general. interest in the topic, the purpose of these “Museums can be quite effective in

Avenue Q dispelled my preconceptions

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attempting to make his way in life, until he gets fired before his first day of work.

Princeton meets Kate Monster — played

by Courtney Day, ArtSci ’19 — with whom he falls in love. They both have dreams to pursue, but also want to be together.

Many of the musical pieces in the performance are reflections by characters on how and why their daily lives don’t match what they’d dreamed of when younger.

The power of the constant lamentations is that the characters are united in this disappointment.

It’s very easy to dream of things which may come in life and ignore what we already have around us. As Princeton shows when he breaks it off with Kate Monster, it can be very foolish to end thing’s in one’s life for the sake of fulfilling goals.

Of all the social justice issues examined by the musical, including poverty, loans, marriage and homosexuality, the one that will strike a cord with many Queen’s students is racism. It sort of smacked me in the face how much I enjoyed a take on ethnicity that used both human and puppets to symbolize racial difference. In Avenue Q’s puppet world, there’s a race known as ‘monsters’, who’re subjected to slights and assumptions about character based on preconceptions which exist in the musical’s world.

I must admit that my experience with musicals is very limited. That being said, I never thought I’d leave a play dissatisfied because I wanted more.

I hesitate to single out any one performer

as I feel that would be a disservice to the rest. The puppets were never overburdened by their masters, which allowed them to become the object of sympathy, disgust and solidarity.

For example, Nicky, played by Callum Lurie, ArtSci ’17, is a character who ends up homeless. It’s not as though Lurie wore dishevelled clothing — he wore the same muted black as the rest of the puppeteers — but when some emotion was needed that the script didn’t provide, you could rely on him to make it felt through puppetry.

Each actor was able to make their puppet the star of the show in a realistic way. This further achieved the effect of commenting upon the duality of human interaction — in this case interactions occurred in both a puppet and a live action world — which I found intriguing and one of the best features of the production.

Each one of the characters in the musical has a strong notion that some part of themselves is deficient. They’re all so preoccupied with what others might think of them that they opt instead to bottle their true selves inside. The play manages to capture this masking we do so brilliantly as students by having the characters exist both as puppets and as the puppeteers.

Avenue Q taught me about insanity of preconceptions. It’s so easy to get caught up in some idea, some hopeful purpose and let that cloud your view of everything else, including the world and people around you.

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Sports STUDENT ATHLETES

Queen’s athletes use January to talk about mental health PHOTO BY CHRISTIAN SMITH

65 per cent of male students at Queen’s don’t know where to find help for mental health issues, according to QFTB.

Varsity athletes take part in Bell Let’s Talk and other mental health initiative Sarah O’Flaherty Assistant Sports Editor While student athletes often see January as the start to the second half to their OUA season, it also becomes a time to speak about mental health.

For the month of January, Queen’s Athletics has taken part in the Bell Let’s Talk campaign.

With their new campaign #OneTeamForMentalHealth, student athletes are focusing on mental health.

In the United States, athletic departments have begun to tackle stigma and Ontario universities are following suit. The NCAA’s website states that student athletes have an increased risk for mental health issues. Student athletes aren’t only exposed to the risk factors that the average university student faces — such as substance abuse,

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peer pressure and academic stress — but are also exposed to an additional set of risk factors, such as performance pressures and time demands.

Nina Dauvergne, the president of the Queen’s triathlon team, believes that the increased risks student athletes face warrant increased discussion in the athletics community. “Mental health is such a broad topic. I think certain things are easy to talk about and then other things rarely get addressed,” Dauvergne said.

Dauvergne particularly noted the occurrences of eating disorders in athletes that are rarely addressed. “A lot of athletes struggle with eating disorders and that can range in so many spectrums from being super regimented about your food, to not putting certain things in your body and going just a little too far with that and that’s never really addressed.”

Dauvergne says that while Queen’s Athletics and Recreation does provide resources, they aren’t actively discussed throughout the season. “They do tell everyone who has eligibility all the different resources that are available to

them, but it never really gets touched on again,” Dauvergne said.

“Sometimes it’s hard to find those resources and they’re limited. As much as there’s tutors and as much as there’s counsellors, you get your little piece of the cake and that’s it.”

Dauvergne says that the mentality of athletes can also be damaging. “As an athlete, you want to be the best in your sport, you want to be the best in the classroom.”

“It can be hard to look in the mirror and say ‘I need a day off, or a week off.’ It’s hard to give yourself that as an athlete when you’re trying to hold yourself to that standard.”

Will McArthur, a second-year Engineering student on the men’s rugby team, agreed that athletes tend to put a lot of stress on themselves to perform to their absolute best. “We expect a lot of ourselves, and that puts a lot of stress on ourselves to begin with.”

McArthur also says that the spectator nature of sports at Queen’s can be stressful. “When we have a Homecoming game, we have 100 to 200 people in the stands, we get big crowds. When

you drop a ball, miss a pass or just mess up, it’s tough.”

“I know people on our team who’ll mess up and be talking about it for two-three days after and I can’t imagine what that does to them school-wise, relationship-wise, or socially. You can see how it affects someone.”

In McArthur’s experience, it takes his male peers a long time to feel comfortable opening up about mental health issues. “One of my best friends, a regular dude, really smart, really athletic, I’d call him a tough guy … it took him a year and a bit to tell me something really important that he’s been going through.”

In recent years, the founders

of Queen’s for the Boys (QFTB) have been working to make mental health a topic that’s more widely discussed on campus and help promote resources available to students when they notice a friend’s unwillingness to open up about mental health issues. QFTB originally sprung out of Movember initiatives and therefore focused on men’s mental health more than women’s, before they evolved to include a perspective on women’s mental health as well.

Geordie Knowles, the director of policy of QFTB, explained the shift in the group’s focus from male students to all students was a logical next step. “We realized See QFTB on page 12

Finding herself back in the net After a year on the sideline, Stephanie Pascal is Queen’s starting goalie Matt Scace Staff Writer Stephanie Pascal turns her head.

Head coach Matt Holmberg taps her on the shoulder and tells her that she’s going in. It’s the first game of the season for the women’s hockey team, playing against Nipissing, and it’s early in the third period. The Gaels are down 5-2.

It’s been 377 days since Pascal last stepped into the goalie’s crease during a competitive game, yet that’s the last thing on the third year goaltender’s mind. “Where’s my stick?” she recalls thinking to herself, spotting it at the opposite end of the bench after a short moment of panic.

For the next 18 minutes and 28 seconds, the past year is forgotten, as Pascal stops all seven shots that come her way. And while the Gaels dropped the season opener, the game marked a major turning point for Pascal.

Pascal’s dream to be a goalie began early. From second grade to her senior year in high school, Pascal played for the Sudbury Lady Wolves. Before then, she played in a recreational league that would rotate goalies every week. That was until her team got a starting goaltender, stopping the rotation.

“I was so angry because I wanted to be in net,” she said. Her coach knew how much she loved stopping pucks and recommended it to her parents. Pascal jumped at

the chance. “That’s when I fell in love with it and wanted to keep playing for as long as I could and play at the highest level I could.”

Over the next ten years, Pascal developed her skills and eventually caught the attention of Holmberg.

In December of her senior year in high school, she got a call from Holmberg and accepted a chance to play with the Gaels. In her first year, vying for a spot with a veteran and a fellow rookie, Pascal logged six games, posting a stellar .966 save percentage.

But on October 3, 2015, the final exhibition game before the regular season in her second year, Pascal’s push to become the Gaels starting goalie was halted. Late in the game, Pascal took a point shot

Stephanie Pascal is back in net this season.

to the mask.

“It seemed pretty harmless but I started to get headaches and nauseous in the game,” recalled Pascal, “[I] managed to finish it anyway and told my trainers about it.”

The concussion was more serious than anticipated, keeping her off the ice for more than 11 months. During those months, her future on the ice seemed unsure, but that didn’t stop her from wanting to be back.

As teammates and coaches recall, Pascal’s eternal smile was seen at games and team meetings.

Though being a spectator wasn’t her ideal way to spend a season, Pascal said “it was just kind of a

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day-by-day mentality.”

“My team, coaches, family and friends were super supportive.

They helped me stay positive, telling me ‘you’re going to be back, it’s just a matter of when.’”

When Pascal made her long-awaited return in the third period of the 2016 season opener, her performance secured her the starting job next week. In her first starting appearance since her concussion, she posted a shutout against York, making 31 saves.

She posted another shutout in her next appearance as well a week later against Laurier, making 31 saves again. After sitting out from competitive play for eleven See Pascal on page 12

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Brothers’ connection on and off the ice

Eric and Andrew Ming describe their first experience of organized hockey together Spencer Belyea Staff Writer The last time the Ming brothers played hockey together, it was back home on a neighbours’ frozen-over cow pasture in Williamstown, Ontario. This near-daily routine was a tradition that many Canadian kids find similar. But the Ming brothers had the talent to continue their hockeyplaying days, with both playing in the OHL before coming to Queen’s.

Eric, a third-year Engineering student, and Andrew, a first-year Arts and Science student, are both reveling in the success of the Gaels this season, with the team currently sitting in second place of the OUA’s Eastern Conference, one point behind McGill.

“Everyone seems to be working with more purpose than in previous years and that’s really been paying off. We like winning, obviously, and it’s been fun coming

to the rink everyday,” Eric said.

The brothers, however, play drastically different roles on the team. Coach Brett Gibson described Eric as “an elite player” and this moniker is confirmed with his stats — second on the Queen’s team in goals and points, which places him in the top 15 of the OUA in both categories.

Andrew, on the other hand, hasn’t had consistent ice time this year, largely as a result of being a newcomer on a team filled with talented players. “Andrew’s strength is that he’s a good skater,” Coach Gibson said, “but he’ll have to find a role on this team, and it’s up to him how far he takes that.”

One of the biggest challenges to carving out a role is making the transition to university from playing junior hockey. It’s an experience that Andrew called “different,” but helped by the fact that he’s been away from home,

Eric Ming (left) and Andrew Ming (right) of the men’s hockey team.

playing on other teams before joining the Gaels.

The transition to university is something that Eric is very familiar with. The older Ming called his first year at Queen’s “not pleasant” because of the big adjustment of balancing school and hockey — and then once getting the hang of it, getting tired out from the grind of the season.

“Andrew’s going through the same struggles as I did, adjusting to the different structure, different league — it’s a big adjustment.

Everyone handles it differently” Eric said.

Interestingly enough, and due in large to the age difference between

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Last year both men’s and women’s teams broke a collective 12 school records

James Hynes Contributor The Queen’s varsity swimming team is a prime example of how small-scale goals can lead to continuous success.

On Friday, the Gaels will be in Toronto to compete in the University of Toronto Winter Invitational. As the Gaels prepare for the OUA Championships in February, head coach Ken Anderson feels that his team has worked hard enough to see success this weekend.

“They put in a lot of work in Scarborough at the new Pan Am pool, swimming doubles — two hours in the morning and two hours in the night,” said Anderson, who’s entering his sixth year as the head coach of the Gaels swimming program.

Last year was a defiant record-breaking year for the Gaels. The men’s and the women’s squads each broke six school records; a total of 12 Queen’s swimming records broken in one month.

The list of returning record-holding swimmers for the Gaels is long. From the women’s side, Jenny Zhang, Erin Lee, and Marija Robinson return for the Gaels. From the men’s side, the list of returning record-holders

includes Steven Lee, Chris Anderson, Griffin Fitzhenry, Erik Wainman and Jeffery Turnock.

Coach Anderson believes that this year’s team can witness some improvement in the OUA rankings this year. However, the road to improvement won’t be easy.

“Three years ago we were tenth, then we were ninth, then we were eighth in the OUA,” Anderson said.

“Hopefully, we can come seventh, but it’s going to be a real struggle this year, a couple of teams got some really good recruits. ” Aside from team success in the pool, Gaels’ swimmers are known for their leadership qualities. The Gaels do a significant amount of their training with the Kingston Blue Marlins (KBM) — a swimming club that trains young Kingston athletes. According to Anderson, the Gaels are fantastic role models for the KBM athletes.

“They show them that there is sport after high school, and in some cases at the very high level. You don’t have to get to the Olympics at 16-years-old,” he said.

As for the upcoming meet in Toronto, Anderson is extremely confident going into it.

“Absolutely there will be more records broken,” he said. “We’re going to use this meet to find some speed that we can carry through to OUA Championships in

would expect among brothers no longer exists.

Andrew remembers a time — when he was eight and Eric was 11 — when Eric’s puck handling got him in trouble. “Our oldest brother, who was 13 at the time, couldn’t get the puck off Eric so he just sucker-punched him in the back of the head. We got in a couple of fights as kids but that was probably the biggest one.”

The days of playing till dark on frozen-over cow pastures are gone, but the Ming brothers, together on the same team for the first time, are enjoying the great success of the Gaels team this season.

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Hoping to make strides The swim team will compete this weekend at the U of T Winter Invitational.

them, Eric and Andrew had never played organized hockey on the same team before this year. They ended up together at Queen’s not because of a recruiting pitch, but because of their familiarity and comfort with Kingston and Queen’s reputation.

“I told him what it was about, but let him decide,” Eric said of his recruiting pitch to Andrew. “I didn’t make him come to Queen’s, but I’m glad he did.”

Playing together on the Memorial Centre ice is a far cry from the outdoor rinks the Ming brothers frequented in their childhood, and the different venue means that the roughhousing one

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early February.”

Even if Queen’s doesn’t produce the next Penelope Oleksiak, the Gaels swimmers see their commitment to swimming as something more than just sport.

For fourth-year computer science major Jeffery Turnock, the team mentality is something he’ll never forget. “Many first-year swimmers will be housemates when they move out of the residence. Upper years will run workshops and tutor their teammates.”

In her first year, coming all the way from California, swimmer Brooke Donowho said it’s been a comfortable transition into the swimming program.

“Deciding to join the Queen’s swimming team has been the best decision I’ve made thus far in my life,” Donowho said. “The spirit, support, and motivation of the team has helped me easily adjust my move from California to Canada.”

As for Friday’s meet, the Gaels seem properly prepared to perform at a high level.

“The meet this weekend will be our first time racing since the training camp, so the team is really excited,” Turnock said.

“We’re expecting to see a lot of good races.”

there’s no way to help guys out without helping girls. So the main idea is that it’s students helping students.”

Knowles and others involved with QFTB have also broadened their focus to student athletes as well. Knowles said the decision came from the realization that athletes often need more support than they’re given, specifically referencing the story of Terry Tafford. Tafford — a 20-year-old OHL hockey player at the time — committed suicide after being let go by his team in the middle of the 2014 season.

This year, QFTB partnered with the Varsity Leadership Council (VLC) to help promote resources to student athletes. Knowles stressed how open the VLC has been about talking about mental health and how supportive they were of QFTBs mission.

QFTB has found through their research that 65 per cent of men at Queen’s don’t know where to find help if they ever experience a mental health issue. Knowles wants to see that number drop.

“The message needs to be bombarded upon everyone,” Knowles said. “There’s no difference between mental illness and physical illness besides stigma.

Until it’s fully accepted by everyone, there’s going to be people who are unwilling or nervous to come forward with problems.”

Knowles said he would be happy if QFTB no longer needed to exist. “The long term goal is just that we don’t need to exist anymore. Hopefully, we get to a point eventually where all of us aren’t needed, people know where to go for help, people are willing to talk about it, they can just say ‘hey, I have a problem.’”

“The first step is talking about it,” Knowles said.

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months, Pascal didn’t allow a puck past her for the first 148 minutes of her season.

“The next two games posting a shutout was just … pretty much what you could imagine coming back but never thought it was actually going to happen,” she said.

Since her incredible start, Pascal has assumed the starting

goaltender position and helped lead the team to a 10-6 record, with the Gaels currently riding a six-game winning streak. With eight games remaining and the U Sports Championships approaching, Pascal is rightfully optimistic.

“If everyone’s hitting full stride, which we’re doing right now, and we can keep that going with our work ethic, it’s going to be a great combination.”

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CULTURAL COMMENTARY

A hopeful series of events Newest adaptation of Snicket’s series is anything but unfortunate

Ashley Rhamey Assistant Lifestyle Editor Loyal fans of the Lemony Snicket universe can rest easy with an adaptation that keeps the complicated plot and characters intact. It’s not exactly perfect, but it’s definitely not the (truly) bad beginning we might’ve had.

Spoilers ahead.

When the 2004 film Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events came to theatres I was disappointed for a number of reasons. The neo-gothic sets, costuming and musical score of the movie fit the beloved children’s books I’d grown up with, but severely missed the mark in trying to capture the tone and humour that made them so distinct. More than that, it buried its source material’s purposeful storyline in a nonsensical mash-up of three books in one feature-length film.

Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is able to correct the failings of its predecessor by taking the time needed to really develop its characters and settings as they’re introduced. Each book is captured within two 40-minute episodes, and each episode is bookended — and occasionally interrupted, true to the books — by narration from Patrick Warburton’s hilariously deadpan Lemony Snicket.

The most glaring weakness of the Netflix series for some fans, including myself, is the casting of Neil Patrick Harris as Count Olaf.

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S&M: First time fears

The Count Olaf of the novels is eccentric and comical, but also threatening and sinister. In Harris’ defence, the character of Olaf is probably impossible to portray faithfully thanks to his oxymoronic characterization. But Harris’ Count Olaf is more goofy and bumbling than frightening. Consequently, the series is missing the real sense of dread surrounding him in the books.

Even Jim Carrey’s Olaf, the epitome of goofiness, had more of a chance of inspiring fear.

The few intentional differences between the books and the Netflix series are forgivable for the excitement and context they add to the story of the Baudelaires.

The series explores the secret society of the Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) from

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Meeting Count Olaf for the first time.

I’m a fourth year girl and am still a virgin. I know it’s not a huge deal as I’ve never had a long-term relationship, but I’m tired of being embarrassed by it and am just ready to get it over with. However, I’m scared if I tell a one night stand they’ll be totally freaked out and leave — but I’ve heard it hurts so I have to let them know! Help!

—First Timer Hi First Timer, We’re going to start off by stressing that virginity isn’t as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Sex is a lot of different things for a lot of different people, and

the very beginning, whereas the books only sprinkled sparse clues and nods to it for the first few novels. Thanks to this inclusion, the show is able to keep even the most thorough Lemony Snicket readers fascinated and guessing.

This is where the Netflix series really does Lemony Snicket creator Daniel Handler justice. Even after ending the book series in 2006 with

there’s no one way to define what does or doesn’t make someone a virgin.

That being said, we know that in this context, you’re talking about vaginal intercourse, so allow us to narrow our focus on that specifically for you.

You mentioned embarrassment regarding your virginity, which we need to stop right this second.

There is nothing shameful about waiting to have sex, the number of people you’ve had sex with or the way in which you choose to have sex.

As M likes to say, it’s a lot like getting your driver’s license. Some people get their driver’s license

right away, some wait years before they do and some never get it because they use alternatives like walking or the subway. It’s all about personal choice and what you’re comfortable with.

Whether or not you know how to drive a car has nothing to do with your self worth, just as having sex or not has nothing to do with your character.

But since you’ve asked us for advice on how to actually dive in, let’s dive in.

Sex is a personal thing and it requires a certain degree of trust and maturity. It’s always important that you’re comfortable in a sexual situation no matter what the circumstance. You need to be able to be open with your partner and trust that they’ll be open with you.

Talking about when you were last screened for STIs and HIV or who’s in charge of the birth control — it should probably be a joint task — is of the utmost importance.

It’s also totally okay to “lose it” with a so-called stranger. There’s no rule saying that you need to be in love or in a relationship before you have sex. It just can be a whole lot trickier with a stranger because it can be harder to communicate with them and trust that they’re being honest regarding their sexual health.

All this being said, you are the only one who can decide what’s right for you and your body. If you have considered all of this and still think that a one-night stand is best for you, then we totally

the thirteenth instalment, The End, Handler left his readers with more than a few questions unanswered about the VFD. Choosing to explore the unknown territory of the novels’ universe makes the Netflix series worthwhile to newcomers and fresh and unexpected for seasoned fans of the books. If you aren’t one of those seasoned fans, or haven’t yet finished the series, beware the next paragraph.

The inclusion of Will Arnett and Cobie Smulders as the Mother and Father seen in the very first episode throws a curveball at the hard-core fans with the implication that the Baudelaire’s parents survived the fire. The introduction of hope in this first episode allows the reveal of Arnett and Smulders as the Quagmire parents instead to pack a dramatic and devastating punch in the gut to anyone still holding out for a happy ending — in true Snicket form.

Using this backwards introduction of the Quagmire family, who will eventually play a bigger role in the Baudelaire’s story, the show’s writers prove that they’re able to handle the twists and turns of the books with grace, giving fans everywhere confidence for the second season and a respectful renaissance of Lemony Snicket’s world.

support your decision.

In this case we would suggest that you come prepared with your own birth control — for both of you.

Communication is key if you’re worried about it being awkward or hurting. Sex isn’t necessarily painful the first time but it can be uncomfortable. A partner who isn’t concerned with your comfort can exacerbate this, so it’s probably in your best interests to talk it about it with them.

Don’t get so caught up expecting it to hurt that you forget to enjoy it.

In regards to “freaking out” a one-night stand with your virginity, we can safely say that we don’t think that will be an issue. As we like to loosely quote from Julia Roberts in the movie adaption of Eat Pray Love, if you’re naked in front of partner, it’s highly unlikely they’re going to change their mind about having sex with you, virgin or not. They’ve basically won the lottery.

A partner’s past experience is less important than making sure that he or she really is a consenting partner.

This is a lot to think about so reflect on what we’ve said before making any decisions, and remember: the vagina doesn’t make the woman, the content of her character does.

We’ll be cheering for you from over here, baby!

— S&M ;)

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Johnny’s introduction to the stock market David Hao Contributor Johnny has some extra money lying around. He’s been pondering the idea of putting it into the stock market and having his own money work for him, but Johnny’s not sure how to go about doing that.

He’s heard of investing being compared to gambling — is it a good idea? Luckily for Johnny, he’s stumbled across this edition of Business Basics.

What’s a stock and what’s the stock market?

If you could represent a company as a pie, a company’s stock would be slices of that pie. Simply put, stock is a share in the ownership of

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a public company. The more stock you own, the larger the slice of pie you can claim as your own.

The stock market is the place where shares of public companies can be traded between investors — like trading slices between your siblings so that everyone gets their favourite. The basic mechanics behind the stock market should be quite intuitive to anyone who’s familiar with how supply and demand works: when demand for a certain stock shoots up, so too does its price on the market, and vice versa.

Because the prices of stocks are never static, investors are able to make money by buying low and selling high, capturing the profit

in between.

The price of a stock captures the speculative value that investors see in a particular company. If, for example, Microsoft has done particularly well this year in terms of generating profits and growth, then we can expect its stock price to have risen accordingly.

Therefore, investing in stocks boils down to picking companies that you think will be successful in the future.

What are the risks associated with buying stocks?

Johnny should only buy stocks if he’s certain that he won’t need any of the money he invests in the short-term. While stocks are liquid — they can be converted to cash relatively quickly — the value of stocks aren’t always stable.

In the stock market, like most things in life, the higher the risk, the greater the potential reward.

The chance exists that Johnny may lose his entire investment if all the companies he’s invested in go bankrupt, but this risk can be significantly mitigated by investing in a broad array of companies.

How do I begin investing in stocks?

Before Johnny can even begin

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to fantasize about capital gains, he needs to open a brokerage account. This is easily done. Most banks in Canada offer inexpensive brokerage services that allow investors to take control of their own trades, such as TD’s Direct Investing or CIBC’s Investor’s Edge.

Once you have a brokerage account, it’s a simple matter of transferring funds in and then you’ll be ready to trade.

What stocks should I buy?

Johnny sees the thousands of companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and feels overwhelmed. What should he pick? Unfortunately, there’s no correct answer — if there were, everyone would be rich.

It all depends on what your appetite for risk is and how long you’re willing to hold on to an investment for. As a general rule, a longer time horizon and higher risk mean higher potential returns.

Always do your research before purchasing a stock. Understand how a company makes money and what the key factors behind its growth are. This will help you understand the circumstances required to help your investment grow.

While Johnny can buy the stocks of individual companies, he can also opt to buy shares of an Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF).

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An ETF is a best explained as a bundle of assets comprised of anything from stocks, bonds, gold, foreign currency, etc., which is then divided up and sold as shares to individual investors. Go back to your pie and imagine that instead of having to cut separate slices of blueberry, cherry and pumpkin, someone blended them all together and you can just cut one piece with all three flavours in it.

The iShares S&P/TSX 60 Index Fund (XIU) is one example of an ETF. It consists of the 60 largest stocks on the TSX, granting investors the opportunity to easily diversify without having to handpick stocks of their own. ETFs are great for investors who like to be hands-off with the market.

What’s the bottom line?

The stock market may seem like a scary place, but a well-informed investor has no reason to be afraid. With proper due diligence and a healthy dose of patience, the stock market can become a place of prosperity and fortune.

Historically, the stock market has always trended upward—since 1928, the S&P-500 — an index measuring the performance of the American stock market ‘ has returned, on average, 10 per cent annually.

So step right up! The odds are already in your favor.

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The psychology behind unfulfilled resolutions Don’t get carried away with ‘false hope’

Meghan Bhatia and Monica Mullin Contributors It’s Day 20 of the new year… have you kept your resolutions?

Did they work? Did the turning of the calendar year make any change at all? Here’s the scoop.

Fewer than 10 per cent of people keep their resolutions long-term, according to a Statistics Brain Research Institute survey conducted this year.

But the answer to why it’s so hard to keep your resolution might not be because of you, but because of the goal you’re setting.

The reason so many people fail to succeed at their New Year’s resolutions some scientists call “false hope syndrome,” referring to the cycle of failure and renewed effort at self-change we so often experience each January.

“False hope syndrome” occurs because resolutions

are often unrealistic goals, based on impracticable expectations of their ease and the amount of time necessary to see results.

For example, if you decide to workout from 5 to 7 a.m. every morning for the New Year, get above 95 per cent in all of your classes and have no student debt

by April, the chances of sustaining those changes are slim — although kudos to the people who can sustain that.

It’s not unachievable, but it’s the jump to the extreme changes if you weren’t doing any of these “resolutions” beforehand that makes them fail. It’s false hope.

A more realistic goal could be someone who goes to the gym four times a week aiming to go five to six times in the New Year, and probably at the same time as before. Its just a step up from their current routine.

So with all the negative stats,

why make resolutions at all?

Research shows that people who make resolutions are 10 times more likely to succeed at them than people who have vague intentions — especially if they focus on their behaviour cognitively, instead of emotionally reacting to their resolutions.

Some ways to make effective resolutions are: 1) Link it to a pre-existing habit. “I will drink a bottle of water before I leave for school instead of buying one on campus.”

2) Modify something you already do or pick something easy that’s new. “Instead of starting a whole new workout routine, I’ll modify and expand my old one.”

3) Make it REALLY easy to do for the first week. Often, you need to do something for a week to get into the habit. For the first week, set a reminder on your phone every day to prompt yourself!

Challenge yourself this year

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to set a meaningful resolution.

Whether it be healthy eating or just taking more time for you, breaking bad habits or creating new ones are things we should strive for all year.

Make your New Year’s resolution something more personal that only you can achieve and you might find it a little easier to keep.

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Prime Minister for a long weekend My three-day journey through the House of Commons Joseph Cattana Sports Editor “And now I would like to call on the Right Honourable Prime Minister Joe Cattana.” When you’re 22 years old, you’d never expect to hear that, sitting in our nation’s House of Commons.

For three days, along with 350 other Queen’s students, I stormed into the House of Commons and claimed it as my own.

From January 11 to 13, Queen’s Model Parliament (QMP) experienced what it’s like to be Members of Parliament and debate policy.

QMP is unlike any other conference on campus. For the months leading up to the trip to Ottawa, you spend an hour every week meeting with your party.

After being put into a party, delegates are required to elect a leader. The sole reason why I ran for leadership of the Green Party was because I had done the conference for a few years.

Unlike most leaders, I went down a different path to entice the delegates. After drinking water out of a plant glass to get elected — which was gross — I set out on the path of becoming Prime Minister. For the next two weeks, I pitched people on what made the Green Party so great — which consisted of telling people whatever they wanted to hear like politicians often do.

Including a leadership debate, it was quite the experience to be a leader. With all delegates representing a riding, wherever we decided to pledge their allegiance would form government. After beating the Bloc by three seats, we formed government and began to work on our policy.

By participating in the conference, we as delegates form political parties, draft legislation, engage in debates and take strong, and sometimes satirical, positions on pressing and contemporary issues.

The greatest part of the QMP conference is what you make of it. As a party, we set out from the beginning to make it an inclusive process, with all policy decided through a Google Doc. In the end, our main objects were to rebrand Canada and tackle the future of the environment.

Even though it was my third year at the conference, arriving to Ottawa still excites me every time.

You board a bus outside the JDUC at 6 a.m., sleep most of the way there until you open eyes to the sight of Parliament Hill.

Everyone stumbles into the House of Commons, often still tired and wishing we probably slept a bit longer. As the Prime Minister, I had to prepare a Speech from the Throne, outlining what the next three days would be like. In that speech, I referenced how this Green-government would bring back both Drake’s Tears and his ex-girlfriend, how wind turbines would be placed in Manitoba

Prime Minister Cattana in the House of Commons.

— because does anyone even know what happens there — and that Canada would invade Greenland, strictly for its name.

While I was sitting in the chambers prior to the conference starting, I was greeted by Chris Bittle, the current MP from St. Catherines and a Queen’s alum who was QMP’s Prime Minister 15 years ago. While I was nervous about the conference and if my speech was going to make people laugh, he reminded me of what QMP is all about — having fun and making the best of our time in the House of Commons.

And we did.

For the next three days, students debated and discussed topics ranging from Indigenous education to youth unemployment and even a spinning wheel that would solve foreign policy issues.

Our generation of students aren’t as apathetic to politics as we’re often made out to be. By allowing delegates to go anywhere with their legislation even if it’s sometimes silly some are afforded their first time to engage in the political sphere.

Our generation of “students aren’t as

apathetic to politics as we’re often made out to be.

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When you first sit in the House of Commons, it kind of reminds you of a cathedral. Queen’s is one of the few universities in Canada that gets the opportunity to actually use the House for their conference. I remember the first time I delivered a speech two years ago — it’s a nerve-racking

experience. For a few minutes, your microphone light goes yellow, and everyone’s eyes are glued on you.

The chamber probably hasn’t changed much over the years, with dark wood and green covering the room. When you look up, your eyes are met with stained-glass windows with flowers that represent each of the Provinces.

In a place where debates about conscription, the FLQ crisis and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms took place, where Canada was truly shaped, we try to make our own change. I still get goosebumps thinking about it.

the chance “toHaving sit in the Prime Minister’s chair for three days was something indescribable.

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Having the chance to sit in the Prime Minister’s chair for three days was something indescribable.

When I sat there for the first time, I tried to think about what it meant to the great men and women who sat in this seat before me as the leader of our nation and what they thought about in times of crisis. What did they try to change?

What did they stand for? Why did they put themselves in such an immense pressure situation?

I kept coming back to one idea — the greater good of the Canadian people. Now you and I might not believe in every Prime Minister and we might disagree on the policy they stood for, but one thing is for certain — they stood and argued

for hardworking Canadians on the international stage.

For the third year in a row, we had a Q&A with Prime Minister Trudeau. For 15 minutes everyone was silent, taking in every one of the Prime Minister’s words about his life, his politics and his upbringing.

On the second day in Parliament, the government is afforded one stressful opportunity in the Emergency Bill — a fictitious crisis that the government needs to respond to. In this situation, you are presented the topic 30 minutes before a press conference, and have to take immediate action.

The situation was that an 8000-barrel oil spill was ongoing in the Mackenzie Valley, with the oil making its way to the Arctic Ocean. For us, Canadians had to not only open their hearts but their homes to the people residing in the Mackenzie Valley region.

Having to run a press conference was difficult. Working for The Journal, I’m used to asking the questions, but being on the other side was a welcome change.

With all the delegates eyes on me, I had to tackle this problem, and how to best save Canadian lives. While I was trying to string together a response with a mashup of points from a sheet of paper, the QMP journalists were preparing questions about the future of Canada.

I wish I could say that being put on the spot like that was the most stressful part, but for me, it was Question Period. In real politics, the purpose of Question Period is to seek information from the government, that accounts for their actions. While there’s some of this at QMP, it’s slightly changed, with questions ranging from everything and anything — people have even

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asked for someone else’s number.

This year, the first period grilled the leader of the Bloc Québecois for not being able to speak French.

In the second period it focused more on myself as Prime Minister, with it being my 22nd birthday.

Not all questions were very serious — I was asked how I did my hair in the morning and if I put pineapple on pizza — I don’t — but it was all good fun.

One question stood out to me. I was asked if I could name a previous first lady who, alive or dead, would be mine. So I did as any real Prime Minister would do, stood up, buttoned up my jacket and answered: “What if my first lady is already in the room?”

When I looked back at my girlfriend, she was both appreciative of the answer, and probably a bit embarrassed. While she would’ve probably wanted me to answer with a previous first lady, I couldn’t. It was my parliamentary right to answer with the truth.

Unfortunately, all good things come to an end. When the last bill is debated, and the final Speaker has left the throne, the House calls an end to the conference.

There’s something special about stepping into the House of Commons. People take on another persona, the sounds and sights are all different.

You think about the Prime Ministers before you, the MPs who represent you and the people that support you every day in that House. As delegates, we create madness, but it reminds us of a few things.

Change is possible. Rather than waiting for someone else to create it, QMP reminds our generation that we’re the change we’re looking for.